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and %zing well marked with judgmmt and decision, he so surprised the Enemy, that he struck the rim. ment the Hippomenes came alongside, after three hours running fight. No doubt the spirited ac.. tion of the Osprey contributed ; of which Captain Shipley speaks in the handsomest terms. I am, &c. &c. SAM. HOOD . IVilliant Marsd en , Esq. Sig, His Majesty's Sl oo p Hi ppomenes, I have the ho nour to March 2 9 , 1 8 0+. tore of acquaint y ou w i t h the cap.. L'Egyptienne French Privateer (formerly a Republican Frigate), mounting thirty-six guns, twelves and nines{ commanded by M. Placiard, and having two hundred and forty men on board, on the evening of the 27th, after an arduous chace of fifty-four hours, and a running fight of three hours and twenty minutes, by Flit Majesty's Sloop under my command, for she struck the moment we fairly got alongside of her. I feel much pleasure in say. ing the Officers and Men behaved with that cool ness and intrepidity inherent in Englishmen ; and had th e E nemy allowed them a tri a l a l ongs id e , I am convi nce d her superior force w ou ld not have avail e d t h em much. H owever, I cannot forbear recomme n di ng to your toteon tenant, for hi s good condpue } on thi s y as Fi onrst L all fur ieu. rner occasions. The slight resistanc e s h e m a de I can only attribute to the fear of being as severely beat as she had been four days previous by the Osprey, who killed eight of her men and wounded nineteen, and whose gallantry astonish e d t h em . Mr. j o h n Lloyd, Master's Mat is the lon hurt on this occasion, and he s e, lightly.only per. I have farther to inform you of the re -capture of the Rtlianceof London taken by the abov F • .te e Fri • i have the Honour to be, &c. Commod ore H ood, ON WAY SHIPLEY. i 1 c.Eec. o &c. Centaur, Carlisle -Bay, Rarbadoes, SIR, Match 31, 180— I herewith inclose Copy of a L etter f rom Lieutenant and of King, of this Ship, a ci ng in Com bl His .Majesty's Sloop Drake, g i v i ng an account of his Naving, with that Slo o p, f e . capture d the Enterprize, of Bideford, loaded with camp equi page, medicines, &c. for the Army ; al so o f two o f his B oats (after having drove an E nemy ' s P r i vateer tinder t h e Batteries of LA H ayes (commanded by t nem the Master), recaptured another Ship, which the y abandoned. I also enclose a Co O'B r i en py of a L etter from Captain of His Majesty's Ship Emerald, Lieutenant Gregory, with the Boats of that Ship, stating having destroyed a Schooner and a Sloop at Port Diable- Martinique. I have the Honour to be, Scc. IV. Marstierz, Esq. SAM. HOOD. Stit, His M ajesty's Sl oop D ra k e; Pao rch /7, 1804. . I have the Honour to acquaint you, on the morn ing of the 14. th inst. off Englishman's Head, Guada loupe, I fell in with a French Privateer Schooner, and a large Ship in company, but could not come up with eer apparently until thip r her prize, on sho re near the Batteries at ith the Haye he I ; end un ed iPoored to cut off the Schooner from the proteCtion Of the Fort, but was prevented doing so by its fall jag calm, and frequent change s of the wind, and having the main-top shot away, and the rigging much cut; another Ship and appeari ng 1 in th e Wi ng, steering, a s if intentionally to run ashore, I made sail after her, leaving two Boats, under the Ziredion of Mr. Robson, the Master, to watch the Ship, having perceived her to be off th e she and to attack her should they come out, which was ob viated by the Enemy's abandoning her at the ap. preach of the Boats, only leaving one of tir rew, who h a d not time to get into their Boats . But I am sorry to add, when in than h a lf an h our, she blew up posse en o f t h e Ship more a Maste r ' s M ate, three Seamen by whi c h acc i dent, ,and one M arine Wert lost; Mr. Robson, the Ma exred few tours after, a n d several others much bru pi a ised. Th name of the Ship I could not learn ; she had eighteene guns mounted, and was a very large S hip. The o t h er S h i p which I re -captured proved to be the Enterprize, of Bideford, taken by the Decide. I have the Honour to be, &c. Sa (Signed) W . KING. t.orne/ Hood, Esq. Commodore, and Com mander in Chief, &c. mac. &c. Nis Majesty's Ship Emerald SIR, Di amon d , off the , March 2.1, 1 8 04. I have th e H onour to inform you, that o n the tirening of the 20th of this month, observing a Sloop and a schooner at Port-au-Diable, Lieutenant Gre gory, with the Bat of this Ship, was direEted to bring them out, which not being able to do, he set fire to and destroyed them. I have the lion . ,,ur to remain. 3"lbi ROM% Esq. Commedi)re, air J. O'BRIEN. CommandeP in Chief, c. fc. `16:7;r41t.y-Offre, May 19, ISO 4. CM" of a Lette r ain 111 E Rear. Admiral Vash.f.'n, t: arlalii"ii s SIR, q. daied .I.2:ith, the 14th inst. You will be pleased to acquaint the Lords Com- Missioners of thP Admiralty, t h at Hi s M a j esty ' s S hip the Ethali on arrived in Leith Roads yesterday after Post; and I herewith inclose a Letter from Captain Stuart, giving au account of the capture of lheh Dutch National B r i g L e U n i on , o f s i xteen guns, wich ht has brough t in with hint. I am, &c, J. VASII6N. I be EgJalion, off Bergem, May to, 18(4. $ to acquaint you, that, last right, after six tic/11ra Chace ; I captured L'Union, a Dutch National 13h ig, fitted out by a Company of Merchants at Am sterdam, carrying sixteen long guns, twelve nine, Ind four six -pounders, and eiglity-one men, cam anded by Captain Cartes Thuenesse ; two days from Bergen. L'U nion i s a remarkable fine Vessel, a b out two u undred and eighty tons, pp coer fastned, and rnY opini on calculated for his Majesty's Service. in I have great satisradion in communicating t hi s Intelligence, as L'U n i on, i n company with L'Es , 'Dutch C'orvette, lately annoyed oar rade ttn thin Station. I have the Horour t, he, &c. CHARLES STUART. toy EL—Arrived here late last night the Facvourite hired Armed CUttcr, which brings inter_ ligence that about 60 Gun.brigQ, Loggers, &c. came Out with an inter.t to attack the gallant Sir SIDNEY SM TII ; but, after a few broadsides frein .e2Mtelope and the other vessels in company, Ille)r were obliged to sheer off. Sir SIDNEY dashed in at'acingst them, regardless of the heavy fire of their Batteries, until his Ship touched ground, when be was compelled to draw off, though not without taking one, sinking seven of the Enemy's Gun-boats, and driVing be tween twenty and thirty ashore; the rest escaped, some into Flushing : and some into Ostend. Nothing but the shallowness of the Coast saved the whole from destrudion. The Cruizer Gun-brig, and three Frigates that were in company with Sir SID NEY, have suffered very much in their rigging. Accounts were received here yesterday, that a very unequal Adion had taken place between seven. teen sail of the Enemy's Gun-boats and the Pincego Gun-brig, when the latter getting becalmed, and having received so many shot from the Enemy that she was on the point of sinking, she was compelled I to strike to the Enemy. A very heavy and steady firing has been heard during the greatest part of yesterday evening, and the whole of this morning, but we know not upon what account : some say it is in celebration of BO NAPARTE'S being made Emperor of France, and others .that it is Sir SIDNEY following up his shot; we expert to hear news every hour. FALMOUTH, MAY I S.—A rrive) this day the Eurydice Sloop of War, of z+ guns, having under Convoy about 25 sail of the outward-bound New foundland and Quebec Fleets, which put in here by contrary wind ; also arrived the Harriet, FORD, from London, to wait convoy for Honduras; the American Ship Eliza, Capt. EvANs, from Norfolk, Virginia, 30 days passage ; called here for orders the Anna Catharina (Swede), Cap►. KttAa E, -from Petersburgh, with hemp and iron, last from Cowes, bound to Oporto, very leaky. Sailed the ship Regulus, IVILT":;GROV E, for London; Alo!her. Aamsry, WI NDALE, for Poole; Atyrile i HARPER, for Lancaster; and Mir:qua, DEtitits, for Bristol. The Princs of Wales Packet is detained by con trary wind, having on board two 'Mails for Lis. bon. The Princess Elizabeth Packet, Ciptairi KIPD, will take out the Mails of the 16:h instant, fur the Leeward islands. The Auck/and Packer, -with Mail from Lisbon, may be soon expeacl PORTSMOUTH, MAY 20.—'Arrived the CV/veils, Lord Eldon, and the Experinent, outward-bound East-Indiamen. SHEERNESS, MAY 20 —Sailed the I?raddich Armed Ship, and Lively Cutter, with a Fleet un der convoy fur the Baltic. DEAL, MAY 20.—Arrived His Majesty's Sloop Scourge from Margate Roads; Sulphur from Sheer ness ; and Bonetta from Hull. Sailed the immortaiite and Tartarus Bomb, off Boulogne ; Charlotte Schooner, with Convoy for Portsmouth ; Basilisk, convoy to the Mackerel Fishery ; Veteran and Scourge, on a cruize to the westward ; Jamaica, Champion, Dart, and Orestes, on a cruize off Calais; and Cv . ffnells East India Ship for Portsmouth. Arrived the Alt:wick Castle, Lord Eldon, and Experiment East India Ships, from the River, and sailed through for Portsmouth. _ In the Downs—Monarch, Utrecht, Illustrious, Ardent, Virginie, Lucifer, Devastation, Fury, Zebra, Sulphur, Lark, Bonetta, Zephyr, Speculator, and Industry. CORN EXCHANGE,' MAY 2T. To-day there is an abundant supply of Wheat come to hand, the Trade is exceeding dull, and cheaper full 3 , . on inferior qualities ; Barley in tolerable quant►ty, and dearer, as is Malt ; ,Pease but few here, which keep their price, and Beans at diff:tence ; there are many arrivals of Oats, and the prices are quoted lower ; Flour very plen. tiful. 5VlKat 26s a 36s a cos od Tick Beans -26 s a 33s od Fine ditto -51 S a 53s od (Lars - 175 a 19$ a 235 od Rye - - -24 s a 275 od Poland dittu 245 a 25s 6d Barley - - 215 a 2.6 s od Rape Seed - - 361 a 391 Malt - - .. .5.0 a 67s od Fine Flour - 395 a 435 od White Pease 365 a 42s od Se,:onds 345 a 39S oct Beans - . 355 a 335 od The Clerk of an eminent merchant in the city, who hitherto bore an excellent eharaaer, and was long in the confidence of his employer, has within these two days past been taken up and lodged in prison, on a charge of embezzling property t o t h e a mount of upwards of moot. On Friday morning a private b in el7 h i i n ci g i e hehas%%/1- Guards,as triedby a Cour t M art i a l, Coldstream si ic a ii o l , l l 7 l l: s t ° , been only chargeti with acts of vagrancy., by be gg i ng i n t h e streets in a disguisA dress, and pretending to be a cr ipple. When apprehended, he %vas taken to the guard-house a nd examined by a surgeon, who re_ ed him lth, anti no 31 3 7) 0 1- 0 : s t ; l ' , n i i c s) e h a diug(i were go oe i t : li n tn ih' e ;a d y the Court f C ° l ‘ e v k a ; ey , c a ed f i t i' e st- r ues, which he was taken to the Military M . AY THE SENATE CONSI3RVATt t tiR TO THE 'FIRST CON SUL OF TiYt RIPUBLIC. " CITIZEN FIRST COIISUk., " The Senate Conservateur repairs in a body to You, to thank you for the comMtnication you have. made to it, the zd of this month, by the Grand Judge, Mintszer of Justice, of the original docu ments and authentic papers, relative to the atrocious plots laid against the State and against you, under cover of a Diplomatic Character, by the Envoy of the KING of ENGtANI) to the Court of Munich. " In examining these Papers, and the Report which the Grand Judge has mule to you of them, the Senate has seen the necessity of supplying for the moment the funtlions of that 'grand National Tribunal, the establishment of which is wanting to our Institutions, A commission of five Members has made to it a Report which the Senate has adopt. ed, and which it comes to present to you. Its publicity is committed to the wisdom of the Go vernment. Our deliberations are essentially secret, and, in political matters, we have for a maxim to let transpire only, what the Government may judge convenient to communicate to Europe. We say to Europe, because it is not France alone that is concerned, her cause is that of the whole world. " However, relatively to France, the circum stances make it a duty for the Senate to explain it self upon two important objefts, which the disco very of those horrible plots appears to it to render worthy of your quickest and most serious Mien. tion. " At the sight of ail these attempts from which Providence has saved a Hero necessary to its de- signs, a first rtfle&ion has struck the Senate. When they meditate your ruin, it is France they mean to injure. The English and the Emi. grants know, that your destiny is that of, the French People. If the execrable ptojelts of the former had succeeded, they little think of the horrible vengeance which that people would have taken of them. Hea ven will preserve the earth from the necessity the French would he in of punishing a crime, the con sequences of which would overturn the whole order of the world. But that crime has been attempted, and it can he go again ; we speak of vengeance, and our Laws have not foreseen it. " Yes, Citizen FIRST coN,eL, the Senate must tell it you. " In organizing our social order, your Superior genius has Made an omission, which honours the ge., nerosity of your charaaer, but which, perhaps, aug. ments yOUr dangers and our fears. AU our Consti. tutions, except that of the year had organized either a High Court, or a National Jury. You have had the confideoce that such a tribunal would not be necessary, and posterity, which must give you credit for all that you have done, will also put to your account all that you would not foresee. But, Citizen Ft !UT CONSUL, you Qwe yourself to the Country. You have not the authority to neglect your existence ; and the Senate, which, in its essence, is the preserver of the social pat of thirty millions of men, demands on their part, that the Law should explain itself .upon the first object of this preservation. " Citizen Ft itst CoNsot, a grand National bunal will assure on the one side the responsibility of th e Public Functionaries, and. on the other it will offer to Conspirators a tribunal quite ready, entirely invested with the consistence, and with the powers necessary to maintain the safety and existence of a great people, attached to the safety and to the ex. istenc e of its Chief. " But thi's National Jury does not yet suffice to assure, at the same time, both your life and your work, if you do not add to it Institutions so corn !tined as that their system may survive you. You found a new mra ; but you must eternize it. Bril liancy is nothing without duration. " We cannot doubt but this great idea has oc cupied you ; for your plastic genius embraces every thing and forgets nothing. But do not defer. " You are pressed by time, by events, by con. spirators, by ambitious men. You are pressed, in another sense, by an inquietude which agitates all the French. You can chain down time, master events, curb conspirators, disarm the ambitious, and tran quillize all France, by giving it institutions which may cement your edifice, and prolong for your chit dren what you have done fut the fathers. Citizen FIRST CONSUL, be well assured that the Senate speaks to you here in the name of all the Citizens. All admire and love you ; but there are none who do not often think with:anxiety, on what would become of the ship of the Republic, if she had the misfortune to lose her pilot before being safe moored upon immovable anchors. In the Cities, in the Country, if you could "question all the French, one after another, there is nor one of them but would say to you, as well as we, • Gr'lat man, complete your wotk, by rendering it immortal like your glory. You have drawn us from the chaos of the past ; you make us bless the benefits of the present ; guarantee to us the future.' " In foreign Courts, sound policy will hold the same language to you. The repose of France is the secure pledge of the repose of Europe. Such, Citizen FIRST Cortsut., are the observations which the Senate has charged us to lay before you, and has given us also the express mission to repeat to you, •in its name, and in the name of the French People, that in all circumstances, and now more than ever, the Senate and the People make only one with you. (Signed) CAMB AC FRES, Second Consul, President: MoRARD GAL LES and JOSEPH CORNUDET, SECS. Seen and sealed, The Chancellor of the Senate (signed) LAPLACE." Saint Cloud, sth Floreal, year I 2.. MESSAGE. BONArARTE, FIRST CoNsUL OF THE RFPUZLIC, To THE SENATE CONsERYATEUR. SENATORS, " Your Adress of the 6th last Germinal has never ceased to be present to my thoughts. It has been the °hied of my most constant meditation. " You have judged the Hereditary Power of the Supreme Magistracy necessary, in order to shelter the French People cc mpletely from the Plots of our Enemies, and from the agitations which arise ft.tn r ival ambitions. It even appears to you, that Ma' ny of ear instoutions Ongf,t to he irrprovel, try order to seFule for ever the tritmi-.h et Ecoality,. and Public Liberty, aid present to the, Nail in a, r_ to the G.)vernthent the . double gi:ar,antee they are in want of. c' We h a ve been constantly gutled by gra`nd truth, that the stivereigniy, resides in the Frtnch People, in the sense that every thing, without ex. ception, ongbt to be done for its interest, its happi ness, 'and its glory. It. is in order to attain this end, that the Si)preine Magistracy,. the Senate, Ole Council of State, the Legidative Body, 'he Eke. tonal Body, the Electoral Colleges, and the diffe . - rent branches of the Aaministtation, are and ought to he instituted. . , . isy in proportion as I fix m attention upon these great objeet4, T am still More convinced of the verity of those sentiments which have expressed to yoU, and I feel' more and more, that in a' circum stance as new as it is important, the Councils of your wisdom and experience were necessary to enable me to fix my ideas. " I request you then to Make known to me the whole of your thoughts . . " The French People can add nothing to the ho nour and glory with which it has surrounded toe', but the Most sacred duty for me, as it is the dearest to my leart, is to secure to its latest posterity those advantages which it has acquired by a Revolution that has cost it so much, particularly by the satri. fice of those millions of brave Citizens who have died in defence of their Rights. " You desire that I might declare to you, on the z4.th July, in the present year. Fifteen years have past since, by a spontaneous movement you ran to arms, you acquired Liberty, Equality, and .Glory,„ These first blessings of Nations arc now secured to you for ever, are sheltered from every tempes , , they are preserved to you and to your children : institutions ecwceived and began in the midst of the storms of interior and exterior Wars, developed tv ith constancy; are just terminated in the noise of the attempts ai d. plots of our most mortal Enemies, by the adoption of every thing which the experience of centuries and of nations has demonstrated as proper .to guarantee the Rights which the Nation had'judged necessary for its dignity, its liberty, and its happiness. (Signed) BOTIAI;ARTE. " By the . FIRsT CONSUL, " The Secretary of State, (Signed) H. B. MAR ET." EXTRACT OF THE gEGI ST FR S OF.THE SENATE CON.. SERVATEUR OF THE 14TH FLOAEAL-, YEAR. 129 OF THE REPUBLIC. " The Senate Conservateur, assembled to the number of Members prescribed by article XC, of the Constitution ; " Deliberating upon the Message of the FIRST 'CONSUL of the Republic, of the sth of this month ; "After having heard the Repottofits SpeCial Com mission of. ten Members, nominated on the sitting of the 6th instant; " Adopts, by secret scrutiny, and by the also. late majority of suffrages, the projea of reply pre_ sented by its Commission, and t:le Memorial an nexed thereto ; '' Decrees, that both be inserted in the Notes Verbal, and laid before the FIRST CONSUL of the Republic by a Deputation, composed 0 1 t he ihi reats and Members of the Commis.sion." REPLY OF THE SENATE. THE SENATE CONSER.VATFUR TO THE FIRST CONSWL OF THE REPUBLIC. " CITIZEN FIRST CONSUL, " You have, by a memorable Message ) just re_ {,lied in a manner worthy of You, and of the Great N at i on which has appointed you its Chief, to the wishes which the Senate expressed to you, and to the solicitudes inspired in it by the love of the Country. You desire, Citizen FIRST CONSUL, to become acquainted with the opinion of the Serrate, concerning those Institutions of ours, which 'we con ceive should be improved, in order henceforth to se cure the triumph of Equality and Public Liberty, and to present to the Nation and to the G.lvernment, the double guarantee of which !Irv) are in want. 4 . 4 The Senate have assembled together, and carefully compared the results of the meditations of its Members, the fruits of their experience, the ef_ leas of the zeal with which they are animated for the prosperity of the People, whose rights they are appointed to protel. " Having recalled theyast, examined the present,' and cast its looks towaids the future, it now pre. sent' to you the wish imposed on it by the safety of the State. " The French have conquered Liberty ; they wish to preserve their conquest ; they wish to en joy repose after their vidory. ' " For this glorious repose they will be indebted to the hereditary Government, of a single individual, who, elevated above all, invested with great power, surrounded by splendour, glory, and majesty, will defend public Liberty, maintain Equality, and lower his fasces before the Sovereign Will of the People who proclaim him. " It is this Government which the French Nation wished to give itself ir. the happy days of the year 1789, the recolleaion of which will be for ever dear to the friends of the Country, whom the noble en thusiasm which the image alone of this Government created, was involuntarily shared, even by those whose interests were hurt by the Revolution, and against which a perfidious Foreigner dared to lift up from afar his parricide hands, and in which the ex perience of ages, the reason of Statesmen, the genius of Philosophy, and the love of Humanity, inspired. the Representatives whom the Nation had chosen. " It is this Government, limited by the Law which the greatest genius of Greece, the most ctle ' braced Orator of Rome, and the greatest Statesman of the 18th Century, declared to be the best of all. " It is that alone which can put an end to dan gerous rivalities in a Country covered with numerous Armies, and commanded by great Captains. " History holds it up as an invincible obstacle to all the rash efforts of a bloody Anarchy, the violence of an audacious Tyranny which believed itself to b absolved by strength, and to the petfidiou, attempts of a Despotism still'more dangerous, which sorea. 3 . ing in darkness its formidable nets, waited with