The Sun. — London, England, 1804-01-14 00:00:00

a•-• L1;17 ray jabsaiers ent15 . 13) el on a aunctay tri I Vorittrig oi bburirig, or any . thihx dune by tun on a Sunday, except what absolute net,esSity required lin' the safety cit the ponds arid cattle% WILLIAM,WHITIIRF.AD, Read over, as it the other cases WI. LUAM ADAM. Mburn 46hcy. Lzth ,So 3. Robert Siiipt - on declares that about the yar 1797, and for seven years preceding that period, Ni well as up to thelime of the decease of the late Duke of Bedford, he was in•the babii or employing. under his inspeCtion a great number of Workmen, and .of carrying on various works for his Grace the • Duke of Bedford, an t paying for the same to the amount. of 1 0 ,0001. per annum ;, during this period he has at various times been much troubled to complete. works in the times Ordered by the late: Duk6:. but - knowing hi;; Grace's reason and moderation, in very few instances ever thought . it site to det a i n a s i ng l e Man on the Sunday to tbrward such Works: never had occasion to retain any number; and to the' besfofhiiknowlcdgc, remembrance, and belief, was never reciuired by hisG.tace to retain or employ any one. • During lifts period; the men were regularly - paid on the Saturday not at a public-house, but at the office. to the year 1 797, and several years previous 'he tizliev.es, no pond was emptied,' or .fished, or • other extraordinary' work clone in 'or about the Park without the same coming under his diredion and superintendance, or having notice from his Grace to pre= pare therefore. On the ieth or'i6th of April, 1797, - received nis Grace's instructions that Cowhill pond should be emptied and ready for fishing on Tuesday, the :Bth. In pursuance of his Grace's instructions, the sluice was set running from the kond on the 15 th i n t h e even i ng , or ' l 6 t h i n toe morning. n examini ng t h e state o f the'pond on Sunday evening 'the 16th, he observed the water was nOt:sunk so much' aS he ex petted, and, on searchiriginto - the canse, fotincl that a'stone or brick had got into the sluice.holge : lie then, being anxious to forward the running otrof the water, exerted himself foran . hour or more with an iron bar, attempting to remove the ob . . 41 acle, but without circa. On the next morning, Monday (hut not at all on the Sunday, which his' accounts of the time and -- pay the then received, will prove) he set MO men, Win. rogarty and j. Gurney, to cut a chasm and let the a bove-ground ; to effea this he. found no time was to he lost , en the subject, was very anxious, and midi. everY .eXectiPn.;-as the wate r became' lower, fresh ello,rts were made, to ,remove the., Obstruelion, w hi c h h e t hi n k s was nut (Ali:deft till the 'Nada), Morning. On this morning his Grace with several Gentle_ nen attended ; when, moth to the mortification Of this be. laohent, the water was not got so low as it should - have been; tt was however soon after lowered and fished, and before.that flay not a lish - waslook out unit:6s clandeStinely. can clear. leg t he sluiee.hole, immense num hers c)t . fish on the Tuesday - Went down the same, .and the -tkrain being in different l p aces 'broke into, was for some distance found literally filled. up wirti small and so m e large.tish :i.part of these were t oo k out (as also some eels- and ,other fish that had colleaed in --the Mond) on the Wednesday morning. H. G 6 Urn, Aug. 'l3, 1810'3. ROBERT SALMON. (4 Coky of the falowing.ient to 117 e. Bow1(s on the sth of No. '' , 'onher--k'v or n the Person's having quitted the Deuce qt . 3ed ,t'N's Jervire, his LvaininatiOn could ?lot betake:: Loner). Lintaln's Inn, Nov. s, Ntr. Adam -having' read to Charles Collier the passage in the 45th and,36thpages oft be second edition of Mr. Bowles's Vampiilek gip,t tlitliztte to it, in the p resence o f Mr. Thomas earce Ihowim, of Noliolk street, Strand, 'asked him as to . the truzli of it. Il e de c l are d bott charges to ht absolutely false S that , no v.ucli•thing as paying the men on a Sunday, or, cfiptyilig the fishpond on a. Sunday, ever took place ; that 21e entered into the Puke of:l3edfortt's scrvice its 1788, and continued till Michaelmas tSoa, when he left the,_,service pf the present Duke. He resides now at No. 91, coeett Ann. street, East he Was head gardener in thz pleasure-ground. , Taken down by (Sign Nv it it Ast AP A:\t. ed) • CHA RLLS COLLIER. In the presence.of Titom S PEA O 4 BROWN. nt, . Dulwich C.-onmot,, ;lug. 20, 28*3. • ' h , I have received and desirous the Rapers .which you sentine irl• ‘V • urn - and, of doing justice to the memory 11 (-)te ' without for .7.4 at is thee to mfielf, tlf the'deeased D uke, I propose that an,arttc le shalt be sent to the Anti-jacobin Re view, contal.riug the objettions which have been made to my statement respeding the late Duke, the manner in which I re tcived the in torthittioll on which that Statement was fountdlz toy,et;)er with the documents which I have just received. firs!, points on which my statement is controverted are three :tir t .s , the nonattendance at Church. On this subject indee d i 1 t l 'ther the dectuCtion than the, statement itself that is den ied, ---"/ ar " ex- cge'lnlgi y disposed to give full effed to the cireutn i - ~ stance ot - the repair of the Church by the Noble Duke, an,. : lipie. that had !IL I the , ivine Worthi Grace's life been spated, his attetldauci. p would have been more frequent.—Mito _ tiament of:labourers on. a Sunday; . I am equally . dis- - r v n ltt cl u to all that, in the caSes where this was done, it w? . 5 t thetiilotlllle privity °lbis C race. Respic:ting the emptying the docurnrie; a better course cannot be pursued than to- let nts speak'for they —1 but • mong those doeu- rnents I think the CorresponClies i;:e es be ; tviee; '- i Mr. Agutter and the Parish Clerk must appear . ' the-supposed original source of thy intbrraition : and I must agaih s in candour c)hseive;: Particularly as the latter is that the circumstance of the letter 'teemed- by M.r. Aglitter, a n t urporting to be written 14. , Mr. Minsell, though hi point P ot tact .it was not written by him, is a substantive fa Po i nt Which cannot be suppressed. In the papers last cooltnunicated, an expla ; nat.on of that cll.- cuitalice; ivhether satisfa.tory or not, is contained- Mr. Agnfier also wrote two letters, at the interval of about six ‘veett' or two first or mrintlis betw een then:, to Mr. Mansell, ,the burn. I which was unn o ti c e d. - As these' letters are at Wo ' ot course wilr thaiik You fora' copy,cif them. • The answer, , I can command. Manserl.d en i es ilt:di-c As it does not a pp ear wc . to 4ave tak en , ils tato; the conversation which is stat e d place.between Mr. A ..and him in 197, I think lie should be interrogated on that subjed. inys,tll; I trust it will appear that,. With regard .to, considering the manner, inivhich I recd qi,,e intorrnation on-which my statement i was founded; I dia' - 40. t rashly make that statement.: indeed.: shoiikr qpiit .tiiv'e.,tten otisposed to publish one word re-.. ~,llqting ilie':1:11(041ke,61 Bedford, if I had not felt that the. eqUlitiecl-AuXcigie Which were passed upon him had a tenr;y ~,,e n to corrirpt the public sentiment, by holding forth as a -ve.4e4l character a Nobleman who ; whatever his excellencies Tlght be, was known to be deficient in his attendance on lie Worship. ' I S ir, ' AM, , "Your most obedient Servant, , 101-IN BOWLES.. I need not apprise .you, Sir, that I suppressed my State ?tient on the topic's int question. when I knew that it. was controverted ; and, accordie4;ly, the note respecting the pay , .of lah , tUrers on Sundays, and the emptying of, the l'ond, was omitted in my last edition. PPilliam .641.2 m, Esq. Lin.. n's Inn. --_--,._ SIR', Tavislock, 2g:h o:s7,bcr, tSz.l. , W!'ien I saw you at the Quarter Sessions in Surrey, early 1" this th enth; I told you that I had rec . :cived your letter of the Unh of August, and that I would pyrite to you soon.. it re ached rne in cot a . September, but Constant employ_ineot then . d Sincell "I t • • an has made it impossible for -me, to reply G It till nc),. It has all al° . Torte., that th.ng-be the ranxionswish Of the nuke of Fl'in the charo ot irxiikl4eation of his Brother's cliarader trout be conducted ‘,.,e,itiTur;ilttwllich You triad:: against him, should that tite Area test cart. utm ost tc , nper and iotettea?nilinng, andl ecoo:rTnuincating the fullest inwfouritn(kal?t7osnliceinwntiensubjeet. Ac . maTITY., when it appeared from your letter of the loth of ; wh ci i i ist_,that you to the al legation in the paper cthattion 1r p o ritive ' r ,t l Ztted to you for publication as.' mar warranting tkelaratiwi E , (because it amounted only to a general occurrence aS,emplt)nke's agents " at the time," that no such and that it rniglit „? . !_li . g the fish-pond on Syn Jay took Pl.ace, m ent ) t / im i m e di a " t :l i v y t• ta i ken place previous to z:licroellitsi.p.leorYed the refutation to be as parelselv::d' that although, I . . 1 " ou would state to me the time at whicl ' s the charge; Yet 1' ii,ve taken pi ac e i i w„,,L, .1 it was alleriged to . r. - , .."' t by eXarnining to that cu te render the ~ font ' 0,1 complete. To this 1 never ' keel received a dired answer ;roin you, and I,onlv discovered rhe :Life - bv your men-tient tr% the year tn.? ineidedt.q.y; this 'en.ibled me . to examine ~,roarrcious persons who had b...:en employed by the Ouke 01. ped-, r I persons year I transmitted the ir narratives to vou, in a Later nfilte ksth'of An ust ; by l .- Iliti poears, that I did tiot eentfrie nay exaniinagtion to:tlwletic '1..; - but carried it year 1, ),, back to a . ' period !on antecedent, and brought it down to a period long subsequent I tou t s upon nie, without hesita tion the burthen of proving the rlegative ~f' your assertion, which was, " ttutt some hundreds. of labourers had been ern • eloye d in emptying the great pond ::• t the Abbey on a Sun. ay ;" and I have p;oved, beyond all questient, that the as sertion. published by you is ter•oiyila' v fvu.tdatiros. }laving thus sat .;desk the (Airy doubt sit4gested by you in Your letter of th....toth of M a 1 Y; 4* consi,tered myself as en. titled to call upon you for a publication of the statement which I sent to you in April. Cit appears however by'your letter of the 25th of August, ontra ou. decline to adopt that plain and simple -mode of dicting the skin ,:r and that you wish to accompany 11 with e xylahatorjr tri,itter to vihdicate the publication, LONDO,.IY, JANUARY z.i.,.1804. THE fixing..heard on Wednesday and Thursday mornings. iii -the. quarter of .Boulogne; proceeded, we find, from the French Batteries .opening upon some of our Vessels which hai stood very close in d a ring the nigh t ,- f or t h e purpose o f i ntercepting ; the Enemy'S craft creeping along shore, and which were becalmed ir; the morning. Notwithstanding a continued and heavy fire, our: Ships sustained no . 1 Other damage than a few shot through, their sails. s' Dutch jot/ruts to the trth hare reached town, which contain Paria news to the 6th instant. The CH tE F Corzstm, it seems, reached 80/ dog''' on the 31st in . the afternoon, so that he irilist have travelled post from Paris. On the .following day he inspeCted his Naval Preparations, and . on the 2d was to review The. Troops. He was afterwards, it was. expeded,. to take. the route of Dairkirk, Bruges, ands OsleNd. Troops are. stated, in. articles from-G/4;74 4isle r and Dunkiri,: to be still joining the Army of England, and the Arsenals and Magazines at Lisle have been nearly emptied by the immense consumption of the Army: on the Coast. AU the accounts lately received, from Holland seem. to concur in stating, that the attempt will certainly be made in the course of the present month. The Italian Troops are on their march to the Northern Coast, as is also said to he. the Army un der General AVG•FRE.II7, that was isEentbled a t Bayonne. BONAPARTE having gained,the objea for which, that. Army was assembled, via, drawing large supplies from Spain and Portugal, under the pretext of a purchise fur their Neutrality, will now employ that Army in adding to the force to be elm. ployed against us. If these accounts from Holland are to be cre dited, BONAPARTE seems very- seriously to medi tate a speedy essay of his favourite project of In tasion. W e, kncivir that ,all the Military Mne about him speak with enthusiasm on the sub je4—an enthuilasni kindled by hitriself ; but the Naval Men,in his service have very different feel ings orithe subject. .They see nothing but destruc tion before them, the niornent they issUe . froni their Ports. The more sober and experienced judgments, however, we have .no right to suppose that BONA PARTE will regard ; and it is only, probably, by the i.total defeat of his scheme, that he will become con. ,vinced of its folly and absurdity. His present visit to the Coast, we should suppose, - musobe decisive of the execution of his plan—if it is not speedily executed, we shall begin,t9, 2 think that he wavers in his, opi nion respeEting it. A Dutch Admiral, YEAH EUL, has hoisted his Flag at Flushing. He is destined to command, we suppose, that Division of the Armament. Admiral LETOUCTIE TREVILLE is said to be gorie on a secret mission to Brest. •The KING of SPAIN was seized with a fit of apoplexy on the gth of December, and continued in a dangerous way. • The new Dock at Boulogne i said to be coni. pleted, and . the Gunboats lie in it in felled secu rity. .T 4'la - iv - matter of great congratulation with the _French ; but they should recollea afsa; that to keep their Boats in security, they. must let them re_ main in their nefty Pack ! Letters from Vienna of 2..4 / 11 Dec . . say, " Within these. few. .days,.s evera l . Couriers have arrived from Paris to the FienchNinister CHA*MPAGNY. ;:. and it is remarked, that` on each arrival the French Am*- . basSador has immediatelymy long conferences with our Minister for Poreign Affairs,• Count COBENT. ZEL. Our difrdences with the Bavarian Court were _on the point of bs...iog,adjusted,but the le4'tor has just taken possession of SOlDC.Ecclesiastical Dtstri s.— 'Our Minister at the Bavarian Court has received orde6 ia make rep'resentations againot that tranpe tion:" . . The French Funds Were 53. 'So; Four 'Gotteabulb Mails arrived this morning, but the intelligence they•bring has been anticipated by the Dutch , Papers. - The ROYAL FAMILY Leave Windiof foi the Win_ ter season oil. Monday next. , We stated two days ago that Sir EVAN NEFt AN . is to succeed Mr, WICICHikM,as Secretary of State for • Ireland. Mr. A ormidToN, we understand, intended that Office either- for his Brother, - Mr.: HILEY ADDINGTON, 'or his Brother-in-law, Mr. PRAGGE,. but . EirlST. VrNCENT's wish to remove Sir EVAN NEPEAN from the .Admiralty, to make room for his owii over-ruled the Minister's determination, we believe, in this; as it has in many other instances ;.and_in consequence,.we learn, , that .Capt., MARKHAM, .at present one of the Lords of ~the Admiralty, to be appointed First Secretary in the room of Sir EVAN NEPEAN, and Mr. Tucit •Eß, at,' present one..of the, .Commissioners : of the Navy, is to SUCceed. I\ar. IVIARsDEN, the Second SecFetary, who .is li l ise, ,, y4eto retire. The .Navy will much regret the departure of Sir Ey AN NE fEAN from his situatiq' a 4 the, Admiralty. these are changes calculated only to accommocke individuals, and gratify unwarrantable: caprice, and, by which the Public Service is moce likely to suffer than to be benefited in the smallest. degree. • COURT MARTI AL.-7-'lle Trial of Lieut. Colonel - BOYC F., Inspeding Field Officer' of the Marlborough District, commpnced yesterday, at Chelsea; Capt. HUGH - LLOYD, Adjutant of the 'same Distrid, is the Prosecutor, and Geni:BnßßA-it ip;'is President of the . - Court. The charges. - against idle Colonel are : rsr, For employing Non-commissioned Officers, Privates and Recruits, in his domestic •concein : 2d, For 'making talse Returns.. Private information liMng lieeti received by Mr. B oN b., that - Syl. , .:;ester 'Godlia, one of the persons Concerned in the late Krgery on the B.ink of Pcr togaj,. who was sent thither its custody a few -months ago,. with- Gillington and Farrell, against • ivhorn he was a principal witness, had:, escaped" out the prison at Lisbon, and had been seen . in the Tieighbourhooci of Bethnall-green, two of die Offi. cers ~ were yesterday: morning 'sent in search of him, who apprehended - and brought him before Mr. BOND and Sir'SVfi.r.tAm PARSON'3, at Bow street, , when he tnadb:a — lull confession Of the means used for hii - eicaPe out of the prison at Lisbon, which he effe6ted by an 'old nail he found In his cell, and a chair with which he forced up a plank in the floor, and made his way, through,it. to.another: dungeon,Where he found a cutlass, which enabled him• to open a door, and having- previously engaged the sentinel placed near the door in his favour, they both went, off' together that . he was seven, weeks in making the aperture in the floor, as he was forced to a6t with, the greatest caution to elude the obser vation of. the guard that brought him his vietuals ; when putting his cloak OVC.r, the spot, and sweeping the dungeon himself, having ; contrived the piece of the plank cut out to fix in at the time ; he concealed himself in the hOuse of an Englishwoman, at a pllce called BJnisiras, and then went on board the Lord Nelson Privateer, and after cruizing about ten days, was cast away at VigohSpain,; and remained.eight hours in the, sea'. The Cramp taking him, he clung to ,piece of wood, and in that situation, almost senseless, ty.as taken up by a Portuguese vessel, whichalso saved the rest of the crew of the Privateer, except four who were drowned, and who landed them at Vigo. • Undergoing many hardships by land, he got to Bilboa, and from thence to England, 'by a Spanish vessel, bound for Cork, but which, on account of the damage she had sustained at sea, put in at Ma coni!,e, in Devonshire. Lie was committed to Tut hill -fields Bride . that proposal ta nt i o t b t adapted, not is it . 11,441 e t.ks quiesce in the representation. which you have made in your letter of the loth of August. . First. As to the repair of the Church of Woburn by the late Duke of Iledtiird (,y hick was unfit for the reception Of a congregation) in which repair he had provided for his'own at ,renclance it is a fad, which proves his sense of religion and• his intention toattend public wbrship. • .• • • 'Secondly.. As to the payment of labourers on Sunday ; you say that you admit wile& that was done it was without the Duke's knowledge, but the documents Which. I transmitted you prove that it ..is nc,t darre at all.. . . • Thirdly. As the emptying of the pond ; I proposed in 'my letter of the isth of August, that the documents should speak for themselves ; and 'if you will refer to that letter, you wilt find that I proposed that Mr. Agutter's twu letters and Mr. Mansell's answer should form part of the publiCa tion . It was unnecessary therefore fOr you to ask me to send copies, and improper to treat the sulkjed as if that were your suggestion and not my offer. Fourthly. Mr. Mansell, in the account whicl,il sent you on the isth of August, denies, lit ro7cc'the conversation with Mr. Agutter ; he says, " he never said to any one that-the late Duke of Bedford employed hundreds of labourers emptying the greit pond at the Abbey on a Sunday :" and he gives his reason •tor this, viz. " that no such •fact ever exist_ ed ; and that he never could have said so, because it was not true, and whoever said so is a villain for bringing his name up with so infamous a falsehood." • •As you thought ;Nit% Alansell's letter to .Mr. Agutter con tained internal evidence, from its didion, that it was not and therefore to be discredited, I thoUght it right 'to take the very words that he used ; I see no reason after this for interrogating him farther, but I have no doubt that .he' is ready to state what he knows and recollects to any person. who may wish to interrogate him. Fifthly; I cannot admit that the manner in which yrod received the information on which your statement is founded,' justified you in the publishing it. . . The principle upon which I controvert this asseition, can not be-better illustrated•than by this very case. • • Upon the hearsay of Mr. Agutter yoir publish, as' fads, matttr to make good, your charge, " that the late Puke of `Bedford not only disregarded the obserVances of religiOn him- - self, but was the means of- preventing many others farm keeping-the Sabbath holy.;" and when that Ltear,4) , is probed tolhe quick,' and the most anxious examination goneitito respedini: it, there appears to have been no foundation for upon'eartb. , Can there, then, be a doubt of the statement having been rashly made, when it rested upon mere be, - 2;-ra 3l ? and should' it not be readily retracled when it is disproved? .Lastly. As to the motive for your publication, it cannot betaken into consideration here; the only objed of My com munication with you, was to vindicate the' Duke pf Bedford's. reputation from the aspersion cast upon it in your pamphlet, and in otber.publicatinns, which have continued to circulate • what yog bi4tan; and if you decline, af t er a ll, to authorize the contradittion by publishing the plain Statement and proofs with which-I have supplied yOu, I shall, agreeably to my tbr mer letters, Isy the whole before the Public. • With resped to your having omitted the note in your last Edition, I do not think that sufficient, or indeedof any avail. It is impossible to remove the impression except by'your simple and unmixed retraction, or by an exhibition of the proof by which thr matter both in your note and id the•teict of your pamphlet is disproved. I sin, Sjr, • Your -- -,-, obedient humble Servant, WILLIAM ADAM. . . Jobs Bowler, Eq. SIR, Dultvirb Commwr; November 9; 1863 I have recently been favoured with two letter's from you ; , in the first of which you decline the proposal contained in my letter of the zoth of last August, to publish she documents • with which you had furnished me on the subject of our Cor respondence, together with a statement of the manner i n . which i received the information which appeared in any pamphlet. • Instead of acceding to the offer, you require from me the publication of the above-mentioned documents unaccompanied with any observations. of „my own ; anu you intimate that if I do not comply with this requisition, you will lay the whole before the Public. NoW, Sir, as my proposal was calculated to give the charader of the • late Duke the full benefit of your inv:stigation, and at the same time to do justice to. myself,. I cannot cousent.to bring the rritter forward in any other way. 'lf you think proper tO ‘ do so, I must claim a right to reply as I may see occasion. am, Sir, Your obedient Servant. jOHN BOWLES. William Adam, Esg. Lincoln': litn.• MAILS our. •nalVtp. Gottenburgh o- - - ----- 4 Hau►burbt► r --- PRICE OF STOCKS; • Tilts DAY AT T'. , VILVE. O'CLOCK. Conk. .54 a ex. div. l Red. Ann. 55 a i o:nniurn - THE SUN: toZ , ENT Qurs DtcERE TALsUIt At•DEAI? NA 1 1 21 L NEWS PLYMObTFI, JAN. 11.—Arrived. the Patch Ship jobantra, Car: ScHurr, laden with a. very yah.. ble cargo of coffee and other goods, to .the arnowit . . of 80,0001. from Batavia, lbound to Amsterdam.. captured'on the rst inst. in endeavouring to after the. Harbour of L'orient, by the , llTajirwei- Curre \ r" . , vateer, of Jersey, - mounting 4. guns. On the 25th inst. the Johanna passed through Sir EDWARD PELe, LE W's Squadron off Ferrol ) but 'it blowing 2a. , tee. mendous gale of wind ) none of the Ships ; . i,7ere ab.'e to take possession of her. Arrived the'Saii Josef, of 113 guns,' Vice.:Adw miral Sir C, COTTON, from the Channel Fleet: PoIttSMOUTH, JAN. I3.—Arriygd His Majesty's Friglres Attlkzscgde and Charon, from the ,Mediter ranean, with several- Sail of Transports and Mer. 'chant ships; Hemrley, HeMILE Y, Acorn, GAR ETT • and Argo, SMITH, from Sunderland. Sailed His Majesty's Ship Diomede, fOr Guernsey, with several Sail of Transports and Traders under. Convoy ; and. the Jane, HYNDMAN: for West Florida, Dovna, JAN. z3.---"The firing heard - here, as mentioned in - my Letter of yesterday, was occa sioned by some of our'Cruizers, who, fearing the Enemy would escape them in the night, \ the wind being fair, and the night dark, had gone in very close, and in the morning 'found themselves be calmed under die Enem'y's Batteries, when the Enemy perceiving them, opened a heavy fire upon them from the Batteries, but we are happy to add ) • did no other damage to them than a few shots going through their sails and rigging. , Arrived here this :forenoon, Le Pierre, French Sloop Transporz, taken by : the Cow:tett of Elgin tired Armed Cutter, Lieuv. and two .Gun-brip in company. She• was boarded, by. the leutter's . Boat off•Etaples. She carne from Dieppe, briund to Boulogne . ; kid on board five men and'a boy, and tvas going, by The Prencli boy's, account () to fetch.tirober, &c.' for building. YARMOUTH; JAN. I -- -AdMirßl RUSSEL' Ilan shifted his Flag to the ileto, the 'don. Capt. CARD NER. Arrived yesterday, the:Pew/ 1 ,4e, Capt.l3RotroFt_ TON ; also theScO:pioit,a`finenew Beig,Froin the'Nore ; the Defence, capt: HOP e, and Adder GUQ-i'eS5Cl, are also in the, Roadi. Instead of, no ice having made its appearallce. in Holland, a vessel sent in, detained by the Princess of Orange on the Ist inst. says, they were eight days froze up at Amsterdam, and at breaking up of the frost, perhaps so vessels Caine down with them, some of them large light Transports, making 40 or 50 of that description now at the Helder. 'No. 51 was perceived in one of their topsails (rather a novel place to "number then)) ;•tonsi. detable bustle has lately been observed in the Text', but ottr..Squadron, under Admiral THORNBOROU6R, are much more than a match for any thing that ran possibly be tliere., From an influx of 'froops, at the Fielder, provisions are mike and dear. Our Pilots have brought on shore from a vessel lately leaving the Texel, some black Or. Conlrnon bread it is in form, and I had almost . said in substance, like, our common building bricks—it, has been thesubjeo of Much curiosity, and some . cOnsolation---Lton'g may the good sense of Englishinen keep it so. The Prince of IVnles Packet, Capt., HEARN, from Gottenburgh, with Mail,, arrived here yes_ terday afternoon. DEAL, JAN. I3.—Carne in, the Immortah:te, .from a Cruize off Boulogne ; and the Alonzo Sloop from Sheerness. • In the,bowns,—Motrarch, Utrecht, Irnmortalit, Perseus, Alokuo, Basilisk. _ By the latest .aceounts from Sir EowARD PEI- 7 LE Ws Sqq dron,-the French. havo,;p. k kferrol foot Sail of th,e Line and one .Frigare, anA at Coruona. one Ship. of the Line and two Frigates. The vi gilance and aftivity of our, Squadron, which. con ststs of five Sail of the Line, a Frigate, a Brig, and a cutter, have never been surpassed. Dispatches were,on Thursday received Itorn Lord GARDNER, on the n 4ish station. Sir THONIAs TRouBRIDGE goes to the East Indies to relieve Adthiral RAINIER in the Clic': Command in, those seat!. Sir Thomas will ! w i lt hi s broad pendant on board the CulL - dett, now lying at Plymouth fitted fur a Flag. The PRINCE Of WALES is said to. have tlken Col. Go arSoN's house at Guildford, for afe months, in consequence of his Regirrient being ord,:ted to that town. Fray cis Smith, who Was corcv . V,led the murder of the bricklayer at Hothth;..rsmith, has been reprieved. Yesterday a Court of Diretors wag held at the East India House, when the following Cutmnanders were sworn into the command of their resne&ive ships :Captain J,kmas. TINIBMILL, United Ki.ig doirr, vice Captain RICHARbsoN CLARKE ; HENR HUGHES, True Briha ; GEORGE RICLIARDSO.II . , ,Daver Castle. The Court acijourn,:,l at 5 o'clock, till Tuesday next,