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MAILS. Aka xv Lo Harnbtrgh, 2 Waterford. D t:z —3 Dublin, Water:.Ord. PRICE 01. S MCKS, Tills RA Y AT TWELVI, n'ecoci. Rcd. Ann. THE SUN. SOLZM gui DtCRRi FALSUM AUDSAT? .4 0 N p 0 N, SATURDAY,. int FMB ER 22, 1804. Mr. FRERE kis not yet arrived ; and we must caution bur Readers against the v:lrious reports which are in circulation resptaing his return, as we cannot expect any furthCr intelligence from him or the Court of Spain while the present strong easterly winds cocain= to prevail. We are sorry to be under the necessity of an. nouncing the loss of His Majesty's Ship Blonde, an old Frigate, that for some time past had been stationed 'at the Needles. Being driven to sea by the strong easterly gales, she put into Tor. bay, where, after ctating away her masts, she parted a►nd went on shore, not, fir from the place where the Venerable was lost. We are happy to state, that every man has been saved by the exertions of the Brixham craft,the people of that town having caused them to he dragged over land to the place •where the Ship struck ; by. this effort they have in some degree recovered their charafter, which did not exhibit much humanity on the melancholy occasion of the loss of the Venerable. The Frigate, we understand, was of very little use, and fit only to be broken up. A Itamburgh .Mail arrived this morning. The Letters ftipn Madrid brought by this con. veyance are of the same date (the igth ult.) as those in the French Papers, which we gave some days since ; they reiterate the'siaternent of the departure of Mr. Fit ERR, and add, that he had set out, in company with Lord I 101.1. AND, for Lisbon. The contagious distemper at Leghorn is accreas ing in virulence. Their Swedish 1 M jestiei reniaPed at Stralsund on the t ith inst. at„which period there was no talk of their ,rourning to Sto4hohn.. Lord LuAresoN Govait, our Ambassador at St. PCtersborgh, is Stated, in Letters from thence, to have had his audience ,of 'entry,' and also to have had . several conferences with the Russian ,Ministry. Yeiterdayrnorning, ab,ut nine o'clock, Hts MA. jr.sTY left Kew for Windsor. • Yosterti4 the' DUKES of Ktl , 4l`, CnmitalDGl, Wild Sus X, breakfasted with flak MAJ esTy 411 d the PR,IN.C;ftSSES., . move welock tut, mA I .Ty and the rittr4cksbk4 left the Queen's Ft.toe, for Windsor. YotiaitLY, t t'.v, u l ciock, dot Ambas. andur tran.ukte4.l iaHiness at Loyd linttitoWllT'S Ctlieeltir a dot-nide:able time. Y6terdly noon' a (abinet Council was held at L rd fiAttit.awtY'S Office, in -11)Wning-9ircet, at which niost , of the Ministers attended. Sit StpwtrY SI43TH bad ytt f terday a - very long interview 'with the Board of Admiralty soon after which Lor4, t lVls Lvt LLrr fat Town for'. Wimbledon. Rear,Aimital I)ouoLiks has resumed the Oyer. intendatre - of the fitting out of the several Fire. vessels Gunboats at Woolwich, , ' • Captain DototELLY, of the Narcissus' Frigate; recently arrivcd from the • Mediterranean and the ,C4.niSt F.gy i pt; tzinsaard business' for some time 'yesivday at LOH HARM:WHY', dfCice. LiAt night bispatches were sencto Portsmouth, to be forwartled . f-rom thence by the Unicorn Frigate to Afliniral Sir J. MICK worTH, at Jamaica, and CommOdare Sir S. Hoop, at tiarbadoes; containing the Order in Council lot ,laying an embargo on the Spanish Ships in England. Similar direaiOns will alas' be sent by the Mercury Frigate to Lord Na,.. SON, in the Milditerra,nean.. • • • — l4lsltoyal 11;ghriess the PR Isc a of WALss is not ifxritffeti to honour 'flrighton with his presence arty rriwc this season. , r - lts ; Royal Hi g hness the Duke of Sus X leaves town on Monday for Windsor, on A visit to Thor MAJRiTIRs. Ltati Smutty tt.I.P, kaves town on 'Monday for Vorfolk, , for the.holida?S. Lady Rafts, it I MAN:411.48 is quite recovered from tier hot! Lord 'IA t, i.v tt. ,a has a giand dinner party . to. morrow, at hi 4 teat Jr WiMbleal3ll., LordlVlAßlowts,y, we are happy to learn, is re coverin',.4ist firm 1114; accident, Lvird.MotßA's stay in town is expeded in.he vet*. ,s hort, Lordship..intendiug to pass the Christmas Holidays with.his amiable Countess, at the family seat in. Leicestershire, Ve4zetttay ,rnitning the. Earl of MOIRA, Mr. Fox, - and Mr. St-t:.it4or, had long audiences at Carletop TTn iae ;. ;rid .dierwarqs - Ained with His. P.oyal PRINQR of I WAtas, together with the I)ut4 ut Ct.nar:l4CF, 14)41 H / 4 1 ,, 0s C. EKSIL IN P., :It'll COlOnei Mii4/4.4,1N,1 W e have grciit isfattion in stating, . that Lord ivi oi it 4 , has teco.tred his rapers, the depred ators jiavitig left them with the box in a field near the ;o wn of Stamford, after they had despi - iiled it r.f several valiales triAets, C r belopfrinii d m - an tes§ a '• , r'• MADRID lisp Chai4:d l ;gairer, , left this city - . The ultim atuiPtthich he gave in part of his Court was not found satisfy Cory by out's. We therefore expel} a War witkEngland. The Tolls, which, on the first intelligence of the capture of our Frigates oft - Cadiz, fell to 52 per cent. discount, afterwards rose again, and were at 4.5 ; but they have now sunk to 48. The return of General BOURNONVII.I,E from Paris is expeCted here in a few days. (ANOTHER LITTER, SAM! DATE.) The day before yesterday Lord HOLLAND, who with his fa:nily has been on an excursion to,Valla. dolid, returned to this City, and yesterday set out 'with the English Charge d' Afairer, Mr. FRAME, For Lisbon. CADIZ. Noy. 16.--Four English Ships of the Line and two Frigates are cruising before our Bay, the arrival of which has much alarmed us with fears of a War, though they have not yet proceeded to hostilities.. The English Merchant Ships here are hastening their departure. • Our situation, should a War break out,' will be extremely distressing, as we have only corn suffi cient to last till the middle of December. The contagious 'distemper, thank God, has en. tirely ceased ; only about ten persons die in a day on an average. Those who have left this city do not, however, yet venture to return. Dec. S. —By order of His Imperial' Majesty, the Imperial Patent of the s tth of August, of the present year, . relative to the assumption of the Hereditary Imperial Dignity of Austria, will be publicly read on the 7th inst. in the principal places of the City and Suburbs, and on the (fay aim., (the Bth) the long announced Festival will be celebrated. His Imperial Majesty has ordered that on this oc. cation free admission to the Theatre shall be granted to every person during three successive, days. Their Imperial 'Majesties will go in solemn Procession from the Burg to the Metropolitan Church of St. Stephen, where Tr Drum will be sung. The Festi. val will in like manner be celebrated by a 7'e Drum at Pragut, throughout Bohemia, and other parts of the Empire. The Festival on the Bth will be announced by the discharge of ta.o pieces of cannon : medals will be presented to particular persona, but none will be thrown among the populace. On the' 9th the Festival will be celebrated in the, two Protestant Churches of this Capital. Accounts have been received from Path, that it it intended to send M. NARBONNi Ambassador to this Court. Within.these few days two Couriers have arrived at Vienna from St. Petersburgh, M 1 LAN, Nov. 26.—0 n the x tlt Lucrrx :130NAPASITH and his Family arrived here from •tome. lie alighted at the house of General TR,EjuLzt, late Minister at War, who iq now at Paris. It is expeded that his stay here will he of some duration, PGACENZA, NOV. 24,—The POPE has presented 'the General in Chief JouttaAN, who came hither 'to pay his respeas to His Holiness, with a beautiful Rotary, a gold,Medal, and some other things of , value. Lrtattouv,, Nov. 23. Thee. number of the dying and sick decrease, thank God, every day. The Committee (if Health now publiih, an Official List of the number of deaths, and per,. sons sick, according to which, from the 12t11 to the 19th, 123 persons died, of whorn 74 were of the fever : yeeterday only 8 persona died, of whom 4. were of the fever. VENIcr, thc. I.—Since the distemper of M. lags has broke out at Leghorn, many Ships have arrived here, but all are obliged to perform quaram_ tine, according to the Parts from,,which they ar rive, for 45, 72, ,200, or 120 days. FRANKFORT,' DEC. B.—The- curonation.day of" the Ettsperor'of the French was celebrated in a very sumptuous momer at Strasburgh, Mentz, &c. At Nancy, on the - 21 December, cis square call. ed '" Square of the People," was named " Na. poleon &rare.", MENTZ, DEC. 7.-- fly an Imperial Decree of the 26th of Brumaire, the follovvii% military places And posts are stipprrstied, viz. ()Ipoilteitn, \Vorms, Aizci, Nct,tadt, Pirmasens, and Dru x-Ponts. STR ALaUND, DEC. i.•---Their Swedish"Majes.; ties arestill here, and tlivre is now no talk of their return to Sweden: Sr. PETEUSDURCH, Nov. 27.—The English Arnbaq,itior, Lad LPvbsoH Gowaa, has already received his audience -of entry,;.and had several conferences with our Ministry. A great nombrr of dealers atientied the' C4;111165 Florbe Show, which conimenced at,Vork on Monday. Good . horses ,sold well; the fa int/argent Onei Was viry' dull, NRTSMOUTH, Dec. 21.—Sailed the kfireury Frigate with a Fleet under convoy for the Mediter. rantan. The Amphitrite Frigate, which was captured by the Dawrepil, Sir RICHARD STRACHAN, was one of the finest Frigatei in the Spanish Navy. She was in company with a Spanish Corvette when the Dotmegal hove in sight. The Donnegal at first took them to be French Ships of War, and immedi ately gave chace ; the Spanish Vessels separated, and steered different courses. The Domegal continued her chace of the Amphitrite for several hours, some. times gaining upon her, and sometimes losing ; at length the Amphitrite, which had every sail set that she could bear, carried away her mizen top-mast, which enabled the Dom/regal to come up with her. A shot was then fired a-head of the Am. phitrite, for the purpose of making her bring to, which she returned by firing into the Donnrgal. A boat was then dispatched by Sir Rionmto, for the purpose of bringing the Spanish Captain on board. Some difficulty arose froth .neither party understanding the language of the other ; at length Sir RICHARD acquainted the Spanish Captain that, in compliance with the orders he had re. ceived from his Admiral, he was under the necessity of conducting the Amphitrite back again to Cadiz, and he allowed the Spanish Captain three minutes to determine whether he would comply without compelling him to have re. Course to force. After waiting six minutes in vain for a favourable answer, the Donnegal fired into the Amphitrite, which was immediately answered 'with a broadside : An engagement then ensued, which lasted about eight minutes, when the Amphitrite struck her Colours. During this short Engagement the Spanish Cap. tain was unfortunately killed by a musket ball. His body was not committed to the deep until every military honour had been paid by both Ships. The English, though they lamented the rashness which had produced such fatal effet9l, could not but admire his courage in venturing to engage a Ship of such very superior force as the Donnegal. The Amphi. trite carried 42 guns. BR I XII AM QUAY ) TORBAY, DEC. am sorry to inform you of His Majesty's Ship La Blonde being on shore on Gunisten Sand (not a quarter of a mile from where the Venerable was wrecked). She was seen to drive about half-past it) A. M. ; the masts were cut away ai eleven ; 3ust at high Water the cables were either cut or slipped, and she came on shore at 4P. M. She was quite dry, and the' people all came sate on shore. 1-I,ASWICK, DEC% 21.—The King George Post. Once Packet, ,Capt. SAUNDERS, arrived from Hu.. sum with theliamburgb.and Bremen Mails and Pas. *engem The nutlvard.bQtind .Packetir are all de. rained by contrary w i nd: Dr AL, Dec, 2 t.—The American Ship Barmoy, Caps. WidictiANt, from .Sumatra, that ran on Deal Beach yesterday, is wrecked ; part of .the cargo, consisting of pepper, &c. is saved. Remain in the Downs—the Monarch, Ardent, Leopard, and Inflexible Men of War; Castor, Champion, AutOope,[autai, ca, anti L'Aimable Frigates ; Harpy, Dart, Curlew, Cyknet, OreStei, Speedy, and La F !eche Sloops of w4ri rfovero, Volcano, Lucifer, fury, Discovery, Vesuvius, Sulphur, and tho Zebra Bombs; a Fleet of Gun-brigs, s and . the Armed Defence Ships. :EXTRAORDINA RY RRNCONTRE..:: " OCT. 21. The ArnerleaoAlmed Ship Leander, Captalit'lLtuils, arrived herelester. day in 3o days from Port-au-Prince, in company with the Armed: Brig Doita, having been previ ously cautioned, that. one or two large French Pri, vateers were expeled to he in wait fOr them. Oil the third day after leaving port, a large Aimed Yetliiti hove in siht, which they orcourse expetted was one of. those Privateers.• She bore down on the Leander toward's' night, and Captain LEWIS wishing to ascertain whether she was Mend' or'Enemy. be. fore dark, fired a gun and hoisted American Co. lours. No signal was given in reply,. bur the Ves. sel continued to approach, lighted her lamps as it became dark, and the crew of the Leardir could clistinaly hear the commands given with t h e t rum . pet, the supped Enemy being now within a,tew fathoms distance': Captain Law 6 believing her intention was to hoard, now poured a , broadside of t 8 pounders into her, which shattered her bow con siderably, cut away her rigging, and killed one man, the Captain of the . maintop, Great confusion ensued, and she fell back, the Leander and the.Dol(y occasionally plyin g h er with grape and round shot, which disc great damage to her rigging. The next morning she came up again, when, to our utter astonishment, she proved to be the British Frigate Fortuna, of 44 guns, Captain. VANSITTAR.T. Our . sUrpiiZe may he imagined, but not described. Nlost fortunatelY for us her guns, in consequence' of the late g ale, were all in th e h o ld when we fi red into her, otherwise our fate may he easily guessed...- , - Cirt.VANSITTART at first 'threatened a little ; but on Captain Lawts explaining the circumstance, he coi,tented 'himself with impressing 26 men from the Leaoder and Daly, and obli g i ng Captain 1.4w1s to pay sod dollars for the wife of the man killed, and k 300 /Lira to repair the.damages. But his cot ouCt Wii3 very gentlemanly, coosilleriri‘ the irrita , tine natgrC Of the ci;c4loo;anc," ~~. n 12 IS DI Ifi 10 1 N n X gale from E. N. E. to East since Monday, and we are fearful much damage has been done, ; hat we have not yet heard of any except the loss of a Dutch Hoy on Hasbro' Sands, and it is feared all bands perished. The Beach, from Caister to this Har hour's mouth, was this morning covered with Spanish nuts, and some oranges, and some bushels have been candled, it is therefore supposed the above unfortunate vessel had a cargo of fruit, but no part of the wreck has yet been seen to lead to any conjecture respelling her name or 'destination. The wind is now due East, but much abated. WOODBRIDGE, Dec. '2o.—Sunday morning the Brig Molnar and Ann, of Aldbr )', THOMAS READ, master, arrived in this river, from Blyth, with coals. About four o'clock in the afternoon, the ,Brig riding at anchor, was seen by a person on shore to be on fire, and as he approached her, he heard the shrieks of a woman and child, and immediately went to the public-house, at Ramsholt, to give the alarm, where he found the Mate and the Crew, who had imprudently left the vessel, with no one on board, except this miserable woman and child, who were passengers. Before the fire was got under the whole of the inside of the cabin, part of the deck, and the whole of the bedding, and apparel of the Masks. and Crew were entirely consumed. — From the account given by the woman, it appears, that the fire was occasioned fram the heat of the cabin stove having communicated to the wood work. At the time of the accident, the M a st f o , -- was at Woodbridge, for the purpose of entering the Ship at the . Custom-house, on the nest morning. INDIA HoUSß.—Yesterday a Court of Direaorit Was held, when JOHN Bess', Esq. eleeied a Direc. tor, in the room Of WI•LLIAtt ADAIR JACKSON, Esq. deceased, took the oaths and his seat, and was appointed to the COmmittces of Government Troops and Stores, Private Trade, and Shipping.—Wl LIAM GRAYnuasT, Esq. was appointed Transfef Accotintant, in the remm of JOHN PEPPERCORNI, Esq. deteascd.—The following Captains were sworn into the command of their resrttive viz. Captain Anthony Murray, Earl for Miidras; Cap tain fohn Stewart, Windham. for Ceylon nnd Madras; Cap tain Samuel Landon, City or London, for Bombay. The Court adjourned at six o'clock, till Friday next. Yesterday being S. Thomas's My, the different Wards in the City assembled according to a nnual custom, for the choice of Common Councilmen for the year ensuing. The greater part of the Wards were represented by the same Gentlemen as were chosen last year, and others, where vacancies occur ed, were filed without opposition. Those Wards in which opposition prevailed, were Tower and Dricir, the numbers of which, at the close of (110 Poll were al tallow Those market.. " arc new Candidates. BRIDGE. - - 8 Mr. Brown - 8 Jackson, 8 /lova - 8 *Joyner . - 8 Ross 8 Wilde - • - S *Dutton 8 *Lacy . . WARD OF TOWER. Mr. Bartuin Adair Cope Garratt , Wrench Child Chnixh Maltby Roberts• . 7 . 6 - 5 - 4 111YORIL sLR Ls, BART. A Pull was demanded by thefrieruls of Mr. Gx r.- so'N,, at the close of which the numbers wcre as fol. lows ; . Mr. s3muel Dixon 47 Mr. Thomas Fothergill 4% Thomas Dawson 47 Charles Stuart -44 • - Mathias Lucas -47 Samuel Walker ..' 4 2 James Dixon - .16 *Thoma s Bridges 4 2 ',. Sam. Hutchinion 46 'oho H a rtshorne 31 Livid Laing -. 4 6 Lewis Gilson .. -16 Samtiel Wright 46 A sharper contest has not taken place for many r y i e n a c is t 0 . n I t i s supposed that at l e a st 3g ° Eleacus. :will vote. * The Poll will finally clo se o n Monday next, at two . o'clock. There were four vacancies in th e Ward of Far. Within,spew o afnhd.,4fildvse w as Gentlemen far, when e C n a m nd r i: dates. A 1 9,1 sex, of Butcherhall.lane, declined a contest. In the Ward of Viralbrook a Wardruole was held by the Riglit Hoiu the LORD MAYOR (Mr. Alder. man ROWSROFT bei n g . indisposed), when al l the former Members of the C“mmon Council were re' turned except Mr. SFEED, who is retired from thO Ward.; in . whose place was unanimously ,eleog 4 , TFI 0M Ai BELL, Esq. - . . A Duich' L'idy astonished the Cockneys, yester. day, upon the Serpentine River, by her rare ; a il' agility 6 o M t 1 e . iCnostic.maiAti:ig l , ta a s ltphroctiegehe she 3 weighs ofarl c il " : l 31 Yn' new suakfavou t Comedy, ward early in' February. His friends report . 4 4"1"" in to be brought for terms, that Covent.lartien Theatra favourable terms, is' "Pene'd is likely to have a good Draltrath• feisic"' „ e Bgit*Asi:has disposed of hi s S t ings in tue Opera to so much advantage, tha t he may well g ive himself 'fill. Tlie new Amateur Cowart in Tottenham - l as t has no connexion wi t h that which took place log e . 'season at kianovet.square. It is doubtful wheth r the other will be returtied this winter. It "' a " however, a-charit;ing entertainment for the higher circles. Miss num, who is engaged at Drury.loe 'Theatre, may ndst equal young BATTY in attraPi"nl and may Tall much below him in theatrical tnericP but as a Dancer, it is paid, she iv likely to prove a powerful 6011 to little BYRNE. The new P.intorriime preparing at Covent.Garclea Theatre comes from Dr aor : 'the Music is to he sup y p o li u ei s l Bulletin ,pat yesterday rut up on the door of his house, No. 33' Sourhampton. row, -Bloomsbuty ; The Physicians think Master Fit TY is mucli t he s ame this morning as yesterday."' • The immense crowd of inquirers after the heal th of this most interesting yuni,)g Gen'tleman, render ed Wine suck general notice as the'above necessary. AccOrding to the Physician's Report this (OP the symptoms in Master BETTY'S case are s: ther easier to.day ; . but there is still no Alecipiro amendment since Wednesddy. The Fever is Willi ed, a n d must run its course, untkr. restraint aA dircnioni