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T E S N. eui.k.Al cIUIS FALSUM AUDILAT ? LONDON, OCTOBER r, 1801. WE yesterday received Paris Papers to, the 29th ult. ; and we stopped the Press to notice, their arrival, and the most important part of their con tent's. They are more interesting than most of those which we have lately received, as they bring us General BELLI RD's account Of the CapitUlatiOn Of Cain', and of the motives and events whiCh led to it. This, however, after the publication of our own accolnt, will be read rather as a mater of curiosity than of interest:. The .efforts of the brave Defenders of Pgrio Fer rate have, if we may give any credit 'to the French accounts, been produaive of events of more impoft ' ance than could have been expeaed; A letter from • the French General, WATtiN, dated from Head- Quarters at Lonkano, - gives an account of a landing 'having been,effetaecl'onthatParrof the ISle of Elba,, by 3000 men from Admiral WARREN'S Squadron. These Troops,' the-Trench, he says, compelled to re-imbark;, after an obstinate engagement of six hours, with a loss of itoo killed, drowned, and wounded, and zoo PrisOners„ This event took place= the ta.th. On the preceding slay 'General ;MURAT states 'thlit Zia . yence, on the same Island,, was attacked by zsoo of the Regiment of WADE VILLE, together with numerous detachments of Sailors and some Foreign Troops ;' - and that, at the same moment, the. besieged made a sally, and got possession of a battery belonging to the besiegers. The result of this, attempt was not more fa;'ourtble than that of the former : 209 Englishmen are stated to have been taker, Prisoners, and rood killed. However sceptical we are disposed to feel .our .selves as to all - Statements made by the French, and thougii perfeCtly justified in with:-helding r,ur belief 4roat them in most cases, we think 'it very possible that an attack may have been mac e on the French Forcs in the Isle of E:ba, in which the immediate advantage may not have been on the side of the as ,ailants. We say immediate, because as neither General \VATRIt -nor General I\ll4Ar'say ariy thing of their own loss, it is not possible- to esti pate how fay they may have been weakened, even by their success. But having admitted the possi :of an expedition against the Republicans not ,having been eginpletely successful, we leave it te.. Alur Readers to judge what degree_ of credit-is to be attached to their statement of killed-and-wounded, a point in which they have always been guilty of exaggeration, and in--which the Shame of- frequent dete.ffion does not appear to have produced any amend- Inent. The CorpS employed on this'service must, ,use conceive, be that of Cotin E and theSwis's Troops ; and it is obvious, from the mention of the Regiment of WADEVILLE, consisting of z, Soo men, -that a large proportion of them were foreigners. It is ,therefore probable - that in _the loss which has been sustained, exaggerated as, it is in these letters, we have to regret but v4:ry . few of our own country men. We await however with some anxiety the details, sati.sfied that they will present us with a very different view of the affair front shut Vzhich the Republican Generals -have thought fir ro corn municate. The recognition of the KING of ETRURIA, has riot been confined to the EIvIPEROIt Of ,GERMANY: We find the KING of PittissiA acknowledging the title, and the Port has of course not dared to resist ,such, examples. The Revolution in Hollanti occupies a tirge por_ tion of one of the MG:rite:as: as our Readers are alre,dy in, possession of the main fuels of the late Revolution at the Hague, and a's our Extrafts from the Paris Papers occupy so large a portion of our preceding; Columns, we are under the necessity of postponing both' further , Details, and the obsevva tions to which they give rise, 14;161 to-tnor;ow. The Hamburg Mai, due yesterday arrived last night. It 1123 brought 1.1 scarcely any intelfkgence of which we were not before in possession. The resolution of Mcwou,' ;o hold out in the C i arrjkon of Al9-andria, is ,repeateti-.in a Coustautiaa j ile ar. tide Of the zsth of Augut, and probably will be so until the fall of that place. Mr. PAGET had arrived at and was pre. seated to It4PEttiIt.JVIA3EsTr on the'.l6th Wt, by Lord iVliwro, who was to leave Vienna in a feW days, on I;is return to London. This }Warning arrived a tail: from isilr. HUNTER, one of His Majesty's Messengers, • i. • ' riived,yesterd:lr mornine with Pisp r atche4, pm The C om of Perersi?gosh. 4 4 Cr rivet Qouncil was yesterday held 4i Lord 9X•Wlitatl, - Rys• Oate 'n .the Negotiation with , .. 1;41 - 1c - c ; the re:Aat w . , sen t of t o I-4 4 . M A p JEs.. ~:~- ' NAVAL 't ° , NEWS. ~~ lox illi imperium priagl, scevrtmiue triden?em, Sed mibi scr:te ddtam. PORTSMOUTH, SEFT. 30. THIS evening the St,. Antonio, of 74 guns, lately captufed by the Squadron under Command of Sir JAmEs SAUM.II2E Z, arrived at the Motherbank frdm Gibraltar, and is put under quarantine. His Majesty's Ships Venerable ana I:tissal were this morning released from quarantine. Sailed, the Flirt Cutter, with several homeward bound - West India Ships, and other Vessels, under convoy for the Downs, DOPER, SEPT, 30. Flag of Truce which sailed yesterday re.. turned this morning. Some of the Officers who NvN•e taken in the Scw;ft— sure came over her. 1'144' r/-V_P-74, 1.1 -,7;,')/4, • •itti : VA 14 '/ .J.,, FALMOUTH, SEPT.. 28. I,RRTVED the American Ship Ne:tor, Captain WA!TE, from Barcelona, foi orders, forty-two days passage, laden with brandy and wine; she is, gone into qtarantine ; ' and the American Ship Pau line, Capt. iBOR.ItADAILE, from Rotrerdam for Alexandria. Mr. MuItRAT, the American Envoy, is passenger on bcard her. Sailed the America,n Ship Mary, gapt. HorTE, for Rotterdam. Remain by cofltrary winds, the Harlequin Packet, Captain GRAY, with Mail for Lisbon, and the Chesterfield Packet, Captain 13t, t GHT, for 'America. The Penelope Packet . from Jamaica, is hourly e7Feeted. SHEERNESS, SEPT. 30. SAILED His Majesty's Ship Ardent, of 64 guns, Capt, Now ELL, to take her station off, Margate. A m,elancholy accident - happened yesterday be_ tween twelve anti one o'clock, between this and the Nore : as a Boat with seven men and a Midshipman, were coming in from the Borcas at the Tore (to which Ship they belonged), they were in a , very heavy squall of wind, upset, :11(1. all, except one man, who was picked up by a vessel, unfortunately perished. SEF?. 30. ARRIVED this morning, the Prince of Orange Packet, Capt. ER IDC E, from Cuxhaveq, with Mails and Passengers. Arrived the St. Alban's, of 64. guns, Ariadne Sloop, Fame Brig, Lady Aim Brig, , Griffin Cutter. Sailed the Courier Cutter, and Phoenix. Lugger, to Dover ; Agemzenznon, of 64. guns, Hazard Cut ter, .and Phceni.i Lugger, to the Fleet ofF Poree. STATEMENT • - OF THE DisTgum-rioN OF THE BRITISH NAVAL FORCE TO THIS DAY. Exclusive of tbe HIRED ARMED VESSELS, which are chiefly employed in prote6tiug, the Coataing Trade of GREAT 131(1T,A.1N. . , . ~ . Line In Port and fitting - - 7 Guard-ships .. - - - 4 In the English and Irish 42 Chan[ - - On the Downs and North i 4 Sea station- On the Baltic 'Sarvice . . o At theWesz India Islands r and on the Passage 5 On the famitica station 3 American & Newfound land, stations • - o C. of G. Hope, E. Ind. 2 . ' and ors the Passage s • 9 Africa and en Sc.c - Exp. 0 ... .. . ... Prig Sps. 87 On the Lisbon Sttition - • o Spain Lin 4 I - ;ortugal with , but.tne .strait§ I In the Mediterranean - 3 r Hogiial and Prison. S hips a 2. Total in Commission 144 Receiving Ships . - 7 Serviceable and repairing ? • for, Service - - S 9 In ordinary - - 1 4 Building - - 3 Total 197 STATE OF THE ORDINAR Portsmouth - - Plymouth - - Chatham, - _ Sheerness - - Rivqr - - 2 9 I 252 Tot. "4 8 AT E S? I (29 76 124 o I o 3 0 1 43 91 36 t 34 2 1 Bzo 'ORT. 2. „ 1 4 2 , 3 5 0 ACA P Line. so's• Frig Sps. Tot. II o 9 16 36 I 2 o 6 4 22 . 21 C 6 ) I 2 1 6 1 p 2 j 6 3 If , Total 30 ,4 .27 25 I tz6 Private Letters received in Town from an Officer of La Deteuninee Frigate, of z+ guns, Capt. J. C, SEAKLE, state, that that Ship had captured, at the latter end of July, off Alexandria, a French Cor vette, , with a valuable cargo, - and to,oool. in specie, destined for the' payment . of Gen, NlErfou's Troup6. , Yesterday the welcome imerrigence was announced at the East India flot;se, of the safearrivai of the ship Indian Chief, in the Downs, from Bengal, un der convoy of His Majesty's Ship Falcon. She left Bengal the zoth May, and brings 'a very yalgible Cargo of Rice, of the finest quality, consisting of I! Jo begs, chiefly colle4ed. in the Upper PLovinces she has also - i 800 bags of Pepper, 98 bales of Piece Goods, +6 tons of Indigo, and 6 pipes of Wine. She was boarded on the 26th inst. in the chops,- of the Channel by one of our` Frigates, tinder French colours, and before an explanation took.place,. had thrown overboard all'the Company's` Dispatches and Packets. The ladian .Chief sailed froth St. Helena the tg.th of -. August, leaving there 'the following-.hornew:ard 'bound Indiamen : Walsingham, - Sm A Lps. From Earl Spencer, - - fl.japt. K AI TT. Bengal City of Loudon, - - Cipt. G REEN . - , enga" Hawke, - - - Capt. BAKER. Madras & S Ceylon. • EXTRA SHIPS. , • Tellicherry, - Capt. SAisIPEON BAKER Cornwallis, Capt. Itoalißsoli. . Marian, - - lt Capt. P p uaita.. Salamander,( Whaler), - Cajn. Ho rp R . The Sir Eektutretllitees, Capt. UR MSTON, with the Prince William ljenry, Capt. EAsKhri, and castZe Cumm INC, were (tally expetted to come home with the Fleet. -/- , This is the first arrival of the numerous Ships f.o patriotically ,rid humanely permitted by the Com pany to proceed to Bengal., fOr the purpose of fur nishing the United Kingdoms with Rice. • Captain EL P H I NSTp N E • who commanded the Monarch, of 7+ guns, is now Captain of the Fleet under the command of Loht KE roi, in. the Medi terranean., , This Office - r. was his Lordship's Cap fain at the Cape of Good Hope. - Lieutenant ROBERT Mrt.x is appointed to His Majesty's Ship L'iferczile, at Plymouth. An American Frigate has taken a TriPoline Che beck in the Roads of Malta, after a most desperate engagement, in which most ,of the Tripoline Crew, consisting,of 80, were killed or wounded. On • Sunday morning the Nde Lugger and Q ueen atter, having been dispatChed from the Squadron uncles-Capt. So ivi - E Rv r. LE; to examine . more 'parti cularly the Enemy's vessels at anchor in Boulogne Bay, were becalmed about . twelve - o'cloCk, at a short distance from the Batteries : while in this position the French fired a grand ,salute; their horse, in great force,` being drawn'up along the beach, Close to' the water, and the, Infantry behind them, upon signal being made, a 'brig and several luggers, crowded with men, slipped their cables to row out, • after our vessels, who remained for near an hour' quiet spedators of their effort's,. when a breeze springing up which might have enabled them to aft, the French returned to an anchor, thereby frus; trating the designs of ctur Tars, Whp were in hopes to draw 'them without the r.:,ach of their Batteries. The PRINCE of WALES still continues confined to his room atßrighton, in consequence of his fall. There are hopes, however,, that a few' days rest will completely restore him.. • The DUKE of YoRK arrived at Harwich on horse back about half past two on Monday afternoon, from Great ClaCton. His Royal, Highness was ac eompitniedby Marquis Co Rri w ALLI s, Gen.DUND As, the Marquis of WORCESTER, Earl of MANSFIELD, the Duke's Aides-du-Camp, and one or two other, persons of distinaion. After refreshing half an hour, .they proceeded. across 'the water to Landguard Fort,- in the, , ,barge of the - V I eta guaidship. His Royal Highness and his suite returned from .Land guard Fort about two hotirs afterwards, and imene (finely set off for Colchester; and yesterday His Royal Highness reviewed the Brigade of Guards, in the Barricks at Chelmsford. On Tuesday last there was a very nUmerous.meet ing of the Lieutenantcy of the County of Essex, holden at the Shire-Hall 'in Chclmsford, at which the Lord Lieutenant, LOrd.BLAy.eittixE, presided.. The meeting, , on his Lordship's' motion, unani mously'resolved .to carry into the fullest effea the provisionary statute of the 38th of present Ma jesty, tespeding the internal defence of the King dom, by arrang;ng all the energies of that County, to enable it effeaually to resist the threatened ,In vasion of the Enemy. It is said that intelligence has been received at the' Admiralty; that sixteen Ships • of the Line are ready for sea in Brest Harbour, with 400 men on board each Ship. The Troops'are under the com mand of General HUMBERT, who is on ,board the cisalpine. At'jt.ochefort also, it is said,-that there are eight Ships of the Line ready for sea, with 600 Troops embarked in each Ship ;. so ihat there is an Armament of mote than r r,OOO atuaily embarked, The 'Algerine Ambassador, and Suite, are to sail from Spithead in the Amazon Frigate for his own Country. Yesterday the. LORD MAyoa, accompanied by the LORD MAY 9R Elel, the Aldermen BOYDELL,, COMBE, NEWMAN, Sir W. HERNE, PE RtCHAR .and PRICE, the new Sheriffs, Messrs. RAWI,I,NS and Cox, the RECORDER, COMMON SER JEANT, 7 and the rest of the City Officers, went in procession _gt, one o'clock from Guildhall to the. Three Crown Stairs, where \ they took water, and proceeded to the Exthequer at Westminster, for • the.,purpose of swearing in the new Sheriffs. OrderS were received at Plymouth" on Monday, laSt, from Lieutenant-General SimcoE, ComMander in Chief of the Western'Distria, for the 'Officers of the .Gun.,wharf to get ready immediately two millions of musket-ball cartridges for aatial service. On Tnesdarlast "tile. three Regiments o,f Royal East India Volunteers assembled at their Head_ Quarters in New -street, and 'proceeded•from t_l►ence to the Company's Ground Exercise at Islington, where they had a brigade field-day, for the Aist time this season. Yesterday a Court of Direaors was held at the East India House, which adjourned . at six o'cloefF till Friday next. It is . conAdentlk staredin.thc,Paris Papers of the inst* that the Archtlue \.NIII()NY was chosen "T'leetor of Cologne at' Areniberg on the 17th. • Lady Mt .7.T0 and her children arrived atr Frank-, fort ; 'on the . t7th,ult. on her way to England , . he stopped some hours_at the Red. House,- and then proceeded on her journey to Calais, from whence she syill 94'tc! Dover, Loni MpT9 will f9liow. TFEYIIIQgT IJ, SETT. 2g. TIIF ROYAL FAMILY honoured the iheatre last night with their presence, to see the Comedy (, The Rage, And the. Entertainment of The Deaf L - 'vet-. At the end of the Play Mrs. BICAMW ELL sung the favourite Song of ",The Cottage on the Moor," with, her usual ability: Earl PouLE-rr," and his son Lord litritoN, ar rived here yesterday evening from Somersetshire his Lordship went to the ?!ay, and sat in the King's Box : His NIAJ ESTI" conversed with him for some time, This Morning the ROYAL FAMILY were compli mented by the Nobility at the Lodge,' it being the Anniversary of the Birth of Their Majesties' eldest Daughter, the DI.ITCHESS of WURTEMBURG, W IIO completed the 35th year_of her age, • After breakfast -the Ki No, accompanied by PR Ile CESSES SOtHlAand AMELIA, with ROSSLI%' Lords WALSINGHAM and .Sora ERv E , Lady C. BEI„LASYSg, and the Equerries in Waiting, rode otJ on.horseback on Portland Sands. HER IVikiEsTr and Baroness HoWE, in a phae ton, PRINCESS AUGUSTA in another, accompanie by Mrs. DRAX, and PRINCESSES ELIzABETI 4 and M4R.i-, and PRINCESS SoPHIA Of GLo'sTEgf with Mrs. DltAx GRosvErioß, and Mrs. FREE ..IANTI;E in a sociable, took an excursion on the Dorchester Road. Mr. STLTRA: al - Jived here yesterday in his Yacht, • Tike Frigate, spoke to yesterday by the He , Captain LECGF, of the Cambriaa, is the commanded by Capt, CUNNINGI-lAM : she' ii( - s the Portland Roads. Capt. CUNNING-fAm has beck on sipre,,and was much taken notice of by His ;AA' JESTY, - c .‘ • Sir Joni JAIITH is eXpeatd.tl) Ig,aVe Weymouth to-Morrow. SATE OP THE BRITISH ARMY. GENERAL DISTRIBUTION' OF THE BRITISIoi ARIAY, OCT. 1, 1801. Regular 11 . 1 Tht. -Cat , . Inf. Cap,; III" • Cod' Engla,n4 and-Wales - 23 2 4 -- 3 74 124 4° North Britain - 14 6 Ireland - - -, 7 12 -- 32 51 6 jerseY., -Guernsey, 4 a 6, Gibraltar' 5 -- 4 —, .9 Madeira - - - 4 I --- Minorca and Malta Is, -- I— 'l3 Egypt • - 3 22, 2.5 Canada, Nova Scotia, ezg.--- 5 2 7 West Indies - 1 34 35 --- Cape of 6.;06d Hope - I 7 8 East - - • 4 iS biz On board Sir H. Pophain's•__ I C Squadron - Embarked for FOreign Ser ..._ 3 ___ 3 -- vice ) LIJ IC • On passage from abrO:t.d" 1 Total .41, 149 4.4 86 32,* (a) And Detachments. i. The Company's Troops exclusive. With Dct4chments, i * Tausive of At . til itry ztad . Engineers at home and abroat" Indep4ndent.conlpztni , :s,',Recruittng corps, Voluotzcrs, 64' TH THEATRE.---.A. new. Performer last rii,s ll ‘4 ;if , peareJ at Covent-Garden Theatre, as Cher,-v-, the very pleasant Comedy ~f The Beaux .Vrralage"': She is' an agreeable y. ung woniar:; and' her talct seemed fully adequate to the Character; Her ran' is BEVEgLEY, she is the wife•ofaMr BLvEKLV' who appeared at this Theatre last sea en, and 1 sister of Miss CHAPmAN, whose talents as. an AC: tress arc deservedly respeded. Mrs. IlgvEßLn has something of a Provincial accent, but nothing o , provitieialmummery. The rest of the parts 1,01 supported by the usnal,'Performers. I,Pv'rs a n d MoNDEIr were of course colspictions in A rti's't a Scrub. BRUNToN',Aimuell yi'as "so gentleman' , and spirited,' that -it ought not to'have been fc`' l . l' tiered almost ridiculous by a dress of - anti ;sal finer . y. • • The Corn Market at Mark-lane -was well 5 4 ; plied: with foreign Wheat ye,te'rday. ' 113 5 but little Engli'sh. The prices . .of the diner' , of Grain-were the same as on Monilay, ,n cept Oats, which had a brisk sale,-at an adv-ancc about 25.. flour 755. • r , The following quantities of Grain were inipo r , r ed into Hull last week, viz. ;04.1 quarters Wi lc3 r; 2,707 quarters Oats, 6 quarters Pease, 7 q uart o , Barley, and 58 cwt. - Rice. Last Monday week, the hounds of JosEPH MO . ‘s. n t l l a i r C 4 1 : .° 2 er n a w n a d ll, D. rnk m en severe cliace, and r unning through not less that s ib S r, SARGENT, it a(i 0 g E . fo q x r parishes, was killed. None of,the borsemen were' at the death. The hounds had killed-four hares fore. they started the fox. 4n the Meat of the oloc7' Mr. TR.ELAWNEY, son of the Rev. Sir HA IL , It o TRELAwNEY, Bart. of Trelawney, in Cornwai", , leaping a hedge, plunged with his horse into a ( f ) ; l e,' ry on the other side. From the, quantity' of f` i 1 iti underwood, and brambles, in the quarry, broke --their. the. Gentleman and his hors e !,,: e r rained no other injury, than the face of the for' being terribly scratched and torn. . - 0 1 ' Letters from the Courageux, of 74 guns, C; 1 1,00 SOTHEY, datedoff Rochefort, the igth tilt. the melancholydeath of Master TR ELAW N/ - second son of P. T. TR E B Y, Esq. - of Good° 00 n ear Plymptorr. On the night of the 13th ult.' .0 ship going large before the wind, having. gOt 3 ' t , supposed into the lee main chains, he fell overt° and was drowned. d This morning died, Mr. Moil, E 'IV, , ra ' Tower-street, Apothecary; after a tew hours , th" About two o'clock on Monday morniogi Jr' kilns, and warehouses of Messrs. - 1 - ) KIN and- HiLLs, late DUNKiN and HAYE S 'O O tt GainsfOrd-street, Horsleydown, were. di s covets , . be on fire. Although there was a good sopl 4 4ot, Water, the whole of the premises .we'resooiarv. r, down ; but, with great exertions on,. the . 0 1 the firemen, the house 'of' Mr. HILLs , ao" i to adjoining .buildings, were saved. .It is state' ', have arisen from a flaw in that part o f the 11,4 appropriated to drying pease for ,Splitting. ssre te damage done is very considerable. No lives 1 1. lost, although' the men turning Wheat in an . loft escaped with-tifticultv,