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however, no doubt, Alret when the business is pm perly investigated, it will appear that the Captain of the Leander vas perfectly justified in what he did, and the unfortunate accident which, happened was attributable only to the obstinacy of the Commander of the American Sloop. THE Gazette of last night contains a Notification that the blockade of the Trave, which was nounced to the Ministers of Neutral States on the Bth April, is discontinued.—lt also contains an ac count of tme very gallant actions performed by the Pallas Frigate. Lord COCHRANE, who commanded her, conceiving that it would be very desirable to destroy the Signal-house's on the French Coast, by which the approach of His Majesty's Cruizers was announced, and the French Coasting Trade warned of their danger, landed at several places, completely destroyed the Signal-houses ; and in one instance took a battery of three 36-pounders, which they laid in ruins, after spiking the guns and burning the carriages. The success. which attended these at tempts, tends strongly to confirm the opinion which we always entertained, that small flying Squadrons, with a few Trcops on board ; might be employed with great advantage on the 4nerny's Coast. Yesterday, about " one o'clock, HER MAJESTY, PRINCESSES AUGUSTA qnd ELIZABETH, and the Duchess Of CUMBERLAND honoured Lady C. FINCH: with a visit,. and partook of some refreshment. Yesterday morning },:arl SPENCER and the Duke of -PORTLAND visited HIS 'MAJESTY. Yesterday the DUCHESS of YORK visited the LOYAL FAMILY. 'Yesterday the LORD MAYOR sent the City Water Bailitf to St. - James's Palace, with a fine Sturgeon,. as a present to His MAJESTY. lt was alive, and 'caught‘yesterday morning, at two o'clock, at Bat tersea-bridge,•by a Fisherman. It weighed f t oolb. • Captain COCHRANE, who wrought heme the in telligence of Admiral DocKi.voant's •Vitaory, is 'made Post, and appointed to the Northumberland, Lady BEAUCHAMP gave a Masked Ball onMonday tight, at her house m 'St. James's Square. - The rooms 'were decorated with great elegance and beau-,. ty. A very sumptuous entertainment was provided, consisting of every luxury that the season affords, in . great abundance. There was a very numerous com pany, and many - of the assumed characters were sup -ported with great spirit , A Masquerade took place also, on Monday night, at the 'house in Argyle-street lately occupied by Col. GEEVILLE. A temporary room was• built for the : accommodation of, the Company, who were very numerous. There was a great _diversity of Masks, and though. none - of them displayed much novelty, they gave scope to much humour'and ex cited general eierriment. The scene altogether was beautifUl'and splendid. The PizNel.' of WALES and Iris party had a table peculiarly assigned to them. The, entertainment received a short interruption, which might 'have produced fatal consequences, arising from the zweatance of one of the Chara6ters as a Fireman belonging to the British Fire-office, and another in the chara&er of a ,Drunken Sailor imprudently calling out "fire." The matter, how ever, was fortunately soon explained, and -gaiety fully restored. The supper, and all other refresh ments, were of the best description. The Com pany continued their revelry till a late hour in the inornmg. The WHIG CLUB Ind a meeting yesterday at the London Tavern. Mr. Alderman ComsE took the Chair. Mr. Fox and a large party of his friends wire present. His health was drank with the usual • zeal, and in return he addressed the company, thank .. ing them for theirkind and persevering support, and expressing his regret that he had 'not lately been able. to attend the meetings so often as he wished, but .2.l!edgiug that his absence arose from his public duties. TheconcludingToastcomprizedasentiment in which all parries must cordially unite, viz. " May the men we trust be honest ; and the land we live in be free:" The day passed with festivity.and good humour. Since Mr. WEST so liberally opened his house to the Public, in order to gratify theni with a view of his fine Pidure of the Death of 'NELSON, he has been visited by " all the IPurld and his Wife," and so many of their Rdations are every day flocking for a sight, that the ingenious Artist has found it neces sary to prolong this gr;itiitous indulgence till the close of the present week. Mrs. ASHE, well,known by her own musical ta . lent, as well as'by those of her husband, has been recently at the pint of death, in consequence of a child-bed fever ; but we learn with pleasure, that this charming Performer and meritorious woman is likely to be fully restored to her friends and the publid. - MARK -LANE, JUNE 4.—At the new Market (which. was lately built for want of room at the old one) there are not many samples of Grain stirring. The trade for Barley ; is, as of . late, very heavy in sale, and almost daily declining in price. By a Danish Indianian, arrived at Dover from China, we have received a Letter, of which the fol lowing is an extra& : " CANTON, JAN. 3, Ibo6.—The Commander of an American Vessel,' arrived here a few clays ago, states, that seven French Ships of War were lying at Manilla, in expedatiou of being joined by Admi ral HARTSINCK, and three Dutch Ships of 'the Line, from Batavia ; and it was generally believed to be the intention to attack the China Fleet on its way home. " Although this is communicated by an Ameri can, it is generally credited here; as he is known to be a man of undoubted veracity. When we left Malacca Sir EDW. PELLEW had received information of a French fleet having arriv ed in India ; in consequence of which, he had col leeted together the whole of ris Naval Force, and hail sailed from the Malabar side in quest of them. " JAN. 6.--,The Surat Castle parted. with the fleet - the day we left the Straits of Macassar ; the bad weather experienced in the Pacifie Ocean, and her having a scanty supply of water; makes us niore anxious Sor her; it is certain she ails very badly," 'N - AP'll - .L . N ., E WS. ri.anz the LONDON GAZETI:E, June 3, LZ)6: Admiralty-Office, June 2. • Copies . of Letters front Captain Lord Cochiane,taich were addressed to'. .Vice ,Idmiral Thor ntrough, and by him transmitted to Earl St. Vincent. His Majesty's Ship Pallas, Et. Martites, ' Sin, Road; ide Ret', May 10. The French Trade haVing been kept in Port 'of late, in a great measure by their knowledge of the exael situation of His Majesty's Crui4ers, con stantly announced at : the signal posts, it appeared to me to be some obje&, as there was nothing better in view, 'to endeavour to stop this pratlice. 'Accordingly the two Posts at La Pointe de la Roche were,dernoliShed; next that of Caliph; then two in L'Ance de Repos; one of Which Lieutenant Has well and Mr. Hillier, the Ginner, took in a neat style from upwards,of one hundred Militia. ' The Marines' and boats' crows behaved exceed ingly well. All the Flags have been brought off, and the houses built by GoVernmant burnt to the ground. Yesterday, too, the real of Lieutenant Norton, of the Frisk Cutter, and Lient6ant 'Gregory, of the Contest Gun Brig, induced them to volunteer to flank the Battery on 'Point d'Equillon, while we should attack it .by land in the rear ; but it was car ried at once; and one of fifty men, Who were sta tioned to the three thirty-six-pounders, was made prisoner; the rest escaped. The Battery is laid in ruins— guns spiked, carriages burnt, barrack and magaiine blown up, and all the shells thrown into the sea. The Signal Post of Equillon, together with the house, shared the fate of the gun-carriages : the Convoy got into a river beyond our reach. Lieutenant Mappleton, Mr. Sutherland the Mas ter, and Mr. Hillier, were With me, who, as they do oil all occasions, so they did at this time all that was in their power for HIS Majesty's service. The Petty Officers, Seamen, and Marines failed not to justify the opinion that there was before rea son to form.;. yet it would be inexcusable were not the names ' of the Quarter-Masters, Barden and Casey, particularly mentioned, as men highly de serving any favour that 'can be shewn in the line to which they aspire.—l have, Scc. (Signed) COCHRANE, Seamen slightly Wounded.—Wm. Barden., Quarter-Master %V illiain - Co6urn, Seaman. - • ‘, , - Marine sliglily wounded,—Robert His Majesly's Sltip Pallas; May 14, Sut, gg . the Island of Oleron. This morning,. when, clime to D'Aix, re connoitring the French Squadron, it gave me great joy to find our late opponent, the black Frigate, and her companions, the threeßrigs, getting under sail; we formed high expeetations that the long wished for opportunity was at last arrived. - The Pallas remained under topsails by the wind to await them; at half-past eleven a smart point blank firing cointnent - xd on both sides, which, was severely felt by the Enemy. The • main-topsail yard 'of one of the Brigs was cut throegh, and the Frigate lost her aftersails. The Batteries on Isle d'Aix opened on. the. Pallas, and. a cannonade con tinued, interrupted Qll °fir part only by the nebessi- - ty we were under to make 'various tacks to avoid the .shoals, till one o'clock, when onr endeavours to gain the wind of the Enemy, and get between him and the Batteries, proved successful 5 'an effeCtual dis tance walnow chosen--a few broadsides Were pour ed.in—the Enemy's fire shickened 7 :-I &tiered our's re cease, and direded Mr. sUtherland, the Mater, toirun. the Frigate on board, With intention effed- Wally to prevent her retreat by boarding. The Enemy's side thrust our gun's back into . the pats ; the whole were theti discharged; the 'effect and crash was-dreadftil ; their,decks were deseited i , three' piStol :Alas were the unequal return. • • With confidence I say, that • the Frigate Was lost to'ranee, had not the unequal collision tore away Our ibie-topmast, jib-booth, core and yards, spritsail-yard, bumpkin, cathead, chain-plateS, fore-rigging, foresail, and' bower anchor', %%rich which last I intended to hook on, but all proved-insuf ficient. She Was yet lost to France, had not the French Admiral, seeing his Frigate's fore-yard gone, her rigging ruined, and the danger, she was in, sent two others to her assistance. • The Pallas being a wreck,'w Caine out With what little sail could be . set, and his Majesty's Sloop the ,Kingsfisher afterwards took us in tow. The Offiders and ',Ship's CoMpany behaved as 'Usual ; to the tames Of; Lieutenants Haswell and „Mappleton, whom I have mentioned on other oc casions,' I have to add that of Lieutenant Robins, who has - juSc joined. . _• I have the honour to be, &c. • COCHRANT• Thompson, Marine. Wounded.—Mr. Andrews, Midshipman, very . badly. John Coger, and three other Seamen, - slightly. (Sighed) COCHgANE. Copy of a Letter fro,rk Pietiro Com mander qf the Envy . Prizthteer, to Williams. Mars , den, Esq. dated Gibraltar, April 12, 1806. ' SIR, I beg leave to inform you, that being on a cruize off Cape de Gatt, on the Ilth February last, I fell in with and captured his Catholic Majesty's Gun boat, No. 4, called the Peculo, commanded by Don Antonio Garcea Novarro, Mounting one eighteen pounder and four brass four-pounders ; the Com mander and Master, with three seamen,' were killed during the ation. PLYMOUTH, JUNE 2.—Arrived, the Danish Gal liot Catharina Maria, Captain KEARN, laden with wine and brandy, froth Bourdeaux, bound to Co penhagen, detained by the Indefatigable Privateer ; and the Danish Brig Balthasar, Capt. ASSIN, laden with brandy; from Barcelona, bound to Bremen, detained by the Alcmene Frigate. The Britannia, of 100 guns, is come into harbour to refit. The t'irginia Frigate, having been refitted, is gone oat of harbour and anchored in the Sound, PORTSMOUTH, JUNE 3.—Arrived the Zebra Bomb, Capt. PARKINSON, with a Convoy, from the Dawns 5 also the -.Nancy, EvANs, from Gibraltar. This day. dropped down to St. Helen's the An dra:plat, 'of 80 guns, Vice-Admiral Sir Jot-ti 4 BOR LASE WARREN, •Hero, 74-, RaMilliiK, i,..111.11.01C1011 alid Saracen-Sloops of War. ODE 'FOR [CIS MA frS l rY's BIRTH-DAY, 'BY H. J. i'YE, ESQ.. P. L. . Loy o.did chill Winter's drearylreigP Usurp the promis'd hours of Spring; Long E urns o'er the russet.plain I‘ , lalignant way'd his noisome wing : O'er April's variegated day The frolic zephyrs ..fear'd to play ; ,Th' al teinate change of suns and showers I2all'd not tolife her silken 'flowers • Bur artn'd with whirlwind, frost) and hail. • Winter's ungenial blasts prevail', • And check her vernal powers. Put o'er the renovated plain . . 'See Maia lead her smiling train • .., Of halcyon hours along; • • While burst from every echoing grove . • Loud strains of harmony and love, • ' Preluding to the.choral song AV hich'oPenitig lune shall votive pour • . To hail with proud acelaim our Monarch's-'natal • " Still must that day, to Britain dear, To -Britons joy impaft ; . . Cloudy or bright, that day .shall wear • The sunshine of the heart. Arid as befvre the fervid ray That genial glows in summer skieS, EWI cloud that veil'd the beam of day • Fht from the azure welkin flies So may each cheerless mist that seems Awhile to cloud our prospects fair, Dispell'd by Hope's enlivening beams, Our brightening ether fly, and melt away in air. Awhile though Fortime adverse frown— By timid friends their cause betray'd, With b,som firm and undismay'd, On force depending all their own, A living - rampire round their parent Lord The British Warriors grasp the avenging sword'{ While youths of royal hope demand the fight, To assert a Monarch and a Father's right. • • United in one patriot band, Vr• , in Albion's, Eri7,fs, Caledonia's WM', Elate in amts indignant shine • l'he kindred Heroes of the Briton line, '• To witelin Invasion 'neat h our circling flood, 'Or stain our verdant fields with Gallia'shostilettlOod. FROM THE FRENCH PAPERS. . . , CONIANTINOFL'E, APRIL JAUBERT, Se cretary and inferpreter to His Majesty the Emperor of the French, well known here from the several missions in which he has been employed, to the Sul tan, had been sent his Sovereign.to *the King of Persia. We had heard nothing of him for up wards of a year, and n doubt was any longer en tertained of his death ; at length, however, we have beet) informed of his situation. His letter to M. RUFFIN, the French Charge d'Affaires, will convey some 'idea of the sufferi,ngs of this interesting young tman. - When , the Sublime Potte was of his mission to 'Persia., they gave him a Finnan to protea his passage . He arrived at the Cdurt of the l'ersian Schah, .whO had dispatched a considerable escort to meet him. • COPY OF A LETTER I . llolt M. JAUBERT TO,M. " From the Camp:of the. Vizier usef Pachx, 60 leagues S. W. -ot Ertz ROltril• March 14, 1606. Stn-- , Divine Providence, that watches over the destinies;of Franc, has permitted me to survive the event which I have the hOnour to relate, and for the publication of which I am rather anxious'. At' the same tittle trequest you Will transmit it to His Majesty's Government. " I left Ertz Roum on the night of July 1., and Continued my journey to the north.east of that place, Wit hont meeting with any dauger,but from two corps of Kurdish cavalry, 'from whom I escaped by the `,swiftness of my horses, and the obsenrity'of the night. The Russians being in the neighbourhood have occasioned these hordes to overrun the whple country south of the Araxus. I traversed this river on *the 4th, and on the following day I arrived at the principal source of the Euphrates, about 54 leagues from Ertz Rolm). " On the evening of the sth I was obliged to stop at Arzab, anArtnenian village, two leagues from 13a.; j'azed; a city where MAHMoUD PACHA resides. This ,Governor, hearing of me at tlwvillage, expressed his wish to :see. me, and sent some horsemen with orders to *condud me to his residence. MAHMOUD is about 32 years of age, and famous in this coun try for his- tyranny, his vexatious spirit, and his riches. Ho received me with great coolness in' his first intervie-,-, and ha'ving separated me froth my . people, questioned them concerning me ; and while he affe&ed a great deal of politeness on my account, he actually, as I was afterwards informed, put my guide to the torture, from whom, having extorted sonic equivocal acknowledgments, be afterwards had the'man secretly assassinated. At the same tithe he , formed the base project of robbing - me, as much to satisfy his avarice, as to make himself' agreeable to .the Russians. You may go; said he to me, to Erwan, which is but, five leagutis from hence, but tail not upon your . return to pass through my Province. I shaltentrust you with .some business at Con stantinople, and with JusEF PACHA. : you shall be escorted by my most faithful seryani: When they arrive upon the frontier, they will deliver to you a passport. Your guide will rejoin you this evening.' " 1 suspeEted his treachery, but it was not in my power to avoid it. I left Bajazed with a considerable escort, and under the protection of a Viziey of the • Sublime Porte : I had a "right, thdrefore, to consi der myself in full security ; but you will perceive how my confidence was rewarded. " There is a stream at the fbot of Mount Ararat ' that runs into the Caspian Sea ; this stream is a boundary between the territory of - the Sublime • Porte and that of Persia. I passed it, and finctink i s myself upon the Persian territory, my guides invited me to alight from my horse; but, while I was thanlE ing Heaven for having reached the Persian territory, .at such a distance from thy own country, 1 vas sur rounded, disarmed, and thrown with my face to the ground. At this moment, Heaven is my witness, no unworthy thought °nee entered my mind :—my last Wishes were for die prosperity of my Sovereign's arms. I did not forget that I carried the Imperial Eagle, around which is engraved these words—Ho nour—our Country; the first my only guide, and the latter the object of all my affedions; " Thus surprised and arrested upon the Persian territory, I was dragged away by those persons whose duty it was to defend me from my enemies. In this situation I was left till the evening ; night coming on, I was concluded over frightful precipices, quite out of the beaten road ; and, after a march of three hours, I arrived at a lonely house at sorne distance froth Bajazed, where the PAox A, in disguise r waited my arrival. I complalned bitterly or this wait of good taith,. and in firmness on this oceasipl ray ~cl my life, as well as the lies of those who aecornpa nied tne. This traitor, fearing the cunsequence of his attempt, said, with some embarrassment, that he should write to Constantinople. He then caused me to be stripped .naked, and I was dragged to the cas tle, where there is a subterraneons dungeon ; an in;- vention wOrthy of. such a wretch. • About inikinight I was obliged to descend into this cavern by a ' - rope, the l'ACn,‘ giving orders to the Commandant 'of the:Castle to ,keep me upon a small quantity of bread nd water—to keep my con finement a profound secret—and not to allow me to have any light, for fear people should suspeCt the faa of some.person's being imprisoned there. " I languished in this situation, and in the mean while the Plague raged in the city. The heat of the. weather WaS intolerable. I was without clothes, and without, hopes, of life; still I was in pretty good' health, as were also the three persons who belonged to me. Aboatthe,ist of Vendemiaire, of the yea` 14, the 'Priem was atfetted With the Plane, and in one of the intervals of his malady, lie gave orders to have "he assassinated. This the Commandant of the Castle refused to execute; and this \vas not the only service done me by this venerable Mussulman 'during 'the eight months I was in confinement: , to him I owe my life and liberty. " The Pacha died ; the City • was then divided into two• parties respeaing the choice of_a succes sor. AGHbIET his son, at length earned the cause. To me he seemed more dangerous than his father. One of my horses happened to be recog nized, and he ordered it to be, killed. He also re moved my friend, the Commandant of the Castle, and i seeMed inclined to deprive me of the wretched existence Which his father had spared, just at the. time when he was seized by the plague, and, like his father, carried off. BEY Mil sur vived, ancf seemed more favonrably' inclined than his predecessors ; still he suffered me to remain a captive : he did nothing more than order my place of confinement to be shifted, after the expiration of 34 days. During this interval, I found an oppor tunity of writing a few lines, and sending tie2in into, Persia t I have since received two answers, copies of which I have enclosed, and sent to my Government. " The Vizier JUSEI , BEY having been informed of my history, gave orders for me to attend hith. A Persian Officer, arrived at the same time from Taurus, to claim me in the name of his sovereign. The Bey caused me to be condueted here, and I cannot suffi ciently praise the reception I have met with. It is still my intention .to deliver the letter (merely' a friendly one) of which I am the bearer, to the King of Persia. The Sublime Porte will feel, presume, that it cannot consistently deny me a passage. It is the interest of the Porte, and, above all, it is that of jus tice, not to abuse its power on my account, or to take an advantage of my weakness. I speak in the name of a Sovereign whose name is revered through the universe. If the Sublime Porte wishes to preserve his friendship, let it give him thisproof of its own amity. I request ybu Will send a Cony of this to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, to whom I have not written, having almost forgotten my native language ; ey.cuse, therefore, the style of this letter. Tell him that he may .assure the Emperor, I Mill not return without fulfilling my mission. -Eight months, pa:ised without my seeing' the light of the sun, ha:e, out abated my zeal. I shall not see Paris till I return from Ispahan with the answer.of the Persian Soh:no " P. AMADLE lALIBL t'l'." • The Adela arrived at New York on the sth of 'May from Cayenne, in 24 days, where she had been embargoed froth, the 25th of March until that time, in consequence of four French Frigates and three Brigs having arrived there from Cadiz. It is not im probable but this Squadron was destined to fbrrn a junction with that of JEROMF:BONAP - ARTE, acid to carry such supplies to his division as it might have had occ'asion for, The combinations amotts the tailors, in • conse quence of women being einployed in this busy sea son of the year,' increase daily. Within the last. ,few days many Masters have been left without a single workman. upwards of fifty Jurne i ymen,. who were employed at a shop in Bond-street, struo on Sa turday. It cannot surely be necessary to suggest to: the Magistrates,that mere imprison men t,inwh ich such offenders are plentifully supported by subscription, is, not a sufficient - puni3hment. Would not hard labour, and bread and water, prove a more effectual cure for the disorder. • , We are assured, on the authority of several Off cers belonging to the Squadron of Sirs.r. B. WAR-. REH; that there was no truth in The Ora graph in sorted in most of the PaperT:, relative to the pretend ed Address of Admiral Ltx . ors to h Officers,*stating . that an Edid of BONAPARTE had reduced all Frencil Naval Officers captured by the English to 1-4th their aelual pay. A few days ago, Mr. LucKug, of Nafferton, and some of his.acquaintance, went t 9 the mansion of Sir CHARLES FL/TRAM, Bart. in South Dalton, 'for the diversion of shooting rooks in the rookery at that place : When, to their great astonisliment one of the young rooks (full fledged) that fell bi' their shots, had fotir legs ;. two of ,which in every repeCt ',rem like the legs of the other birds, but the two extra leg= were of a much lighter colour, and nearer to the tail. Estimafc.of the Charge of the proposed Addition .1 Pensions and :%ilowances to Soldiers : Charge of aya A ugalentat!on to the Out Fension•of. Chelsea and Kilmainhamaospitals, f0r365 days ,C 141,0 e :, Ditto of an Increase of Allowance to Serjeants and - Corporals in the Army, for 365 days - - 35,000 Ditto of the increased Allowance to be granted to Men after certain periods of service, for 365 days 157,0c.0 £ 333,c,cc, Pudittsm, , --An exhibition of the several Profes sors took place yesterday at the Fives Court for thy benefit of the Bch:hers ; after . which four pitcbcd battles, to be fought on Monday next, were agreed upon. About •six yresterday morning, as some, workmen were passing the New River, near Sadler's 'Wells, they heard a splash, and on running to the • spot, observed an unfortunate female struggling in the water. She proved to be an inhabitant ton, and on her return hone, in a state of intoxica tion fell in. She now lies dangere.w4 ill. Died on Sunday last, at Sotithatilptoh, the 'T,stdy of JOSLIINA InzNONGER, Esq. of Wherweti-House, i )to' \ ~#~