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MAILS. Mit:, I Waterford. Dug-3 Gc,tttubui;h, Lisbon, IID iin i z Waterford. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCK. Consols . . 62 Omnium - - - - THE SU-N; 11041iM QUIS DICLRE TALSUM AUDIAT LONDON, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1806. OUR Iteade:s will find, in our Plymouth Letter, some further Details of the Capture of the Five FreUch Frigates which we had the satisfa&ion of announcing yesterday. It is not we believe known, with any•degree of certainty, what was the destina tion,of the French Frigates ; but as they had on board such, a, number of Troops,' it is probable that they were going to the West Indies. It has been Conjthured that their obje& was Buenos Ayres, which is certainly not improbabl4. The, Frigate Le President, which 'was captured by Sir Taomas Louis, was not one of the five which en, gaged Sir S. - HOOD ; she was returning home from the Ccaft' of Attica, where she - has been cruizing, with the• Regulus, 'of 86 guns, a long time, and made several captures. It is not known when or where Le President carted from the Regulus; it is, however, probable, that the latter is also endeavour* ing to get • into Tort,' and we trust that she . will, • shortly share the, fate of her Consort:" " • • .The Centaur, Sir . SAmula."l-Toon's' Ship, arrived at Portsmouth ycs!erday with one.of the Prizes, La Gloile; and we are happy to find that that gallant Officer is as, well as can' be expeaed. .He is at pre sent at Ryde, in 'tile Isle of Wight. As the 'followietg Bulletin, ge6tfrorn _the Adini laity to-the- LORD MAYoR, was only - in' a part of our Impressiori yeSterday, we to-day repeat it: • Ocr. 3;1806, ONE P.M. " I have the honour to acquaint your Lordship' that an Officer is just arriVedfroM Sir SAMUF.L HOOD, with an account of his having fallen in with five French : Frigates, four of which 'have been captured by the Squadron under his command, viz. La Gloire, of 46 guns, broad Pendant, L' .Xrinide,,, t EiSfatb o rable • and La illinerve,. of 44 guns each : the above Ships Were full of Troops. " Our loss in killed and wounded 9, - wounded 32. I . am 'sorry to, add, that Sir S.a.muEt HOOD has lost, his right arm. . alc " Accounts are likewise received from Sir T. Louts's Sqoadron, of his having taken the French Frigate the President, of 44 guns. " I haN:e the honour to be, &c. (Signed) ‘"rrios, GRENVII,Lt." " To the Right Honourable the' Lord Mayor." We have made some further extraas from the Mail which arrived yesterday, which are of consider- . able impOrtance. The French Minister at the Court of Berlin, L , '4ORET, has demanded his PaAports ; but it is stated that the Prussian, Government de, ciined granting them until M. KNostESDORFF had received his passports to quit France. - 11 ONAPARTP. has called upon all his Vassal States, ""comprized in the Confederation of the Rhine, to supply their Contingents, and his . requisition must be complied with ; for the Members of the new Confederation have thought proper to subject themselves to ,a Sovereign who will exact Much more implicit obedience than. unfortunately for themselves they. have been accustomed to pay to the Read of the Germanic Empire. . Bavaria, Wurtem burgh, and all the smaller States, are making every possible exertion to obeythe orders which they have received. On the other hand, the Prussian Troops, as we have already stated, are in readiness for the.contest, ,and will soon be joined by a powerful Russian Army; and there can be no doabt of the KING of SWEDEN'S bearty_co , operation against France. It is, we be lieve, true, that the ELECTOR of BESSE has ex pressed a determination to remain neutral dtiring the contest ; but we do not believe that BONAPARTE will consent to his neutrality, for it would, in fatc,t; be as advantageous to Prussia as his alive co-operation; because it would effectually prote& an important part of the Prussian Dominions. Our Readers will perceive by the letter of our intelligent Correspondent in Hanover, that it was expelled that the French would commence' their Operations by taking pos session of Cobourg, which they intended to Make their Head-quarters, and that the Archives and valuable property had been removed. Such a step on the part of the Freech would of course immediately lead 'to the commencement of hostilities, and indeed if the intelligence u\llich has been brought to Harwich by a Neutral Vessel may 'be depended upon, they have already actually com menced. Our Letter from Harwich this morning StAtes, that a Neutral Vessel arrived there from Hol land yesterday, with the intelligence that a Battle had taken place between the Prussians, and French, in which the former were victorious. Neither the date ;tor the place where this battle is supposed to have -been 'fought are mentioned, we are, Iherefere, in elnLd to doubt'the truth of the intchiiience. PRIVATE COIII?ESPONDEYCE. HAtsiOVER, 5EP7.,2.5. Letters are , arrived thismorning. - "from Coburg of the 17th instant, informing, that the Duke had sent off all his public treasury, archives, and other valu ablemoveables, to Dresden, the preceding day, in consequence of information that the Drench were in motion to take possession of his capital, and to esta blish their head-quarters,there. The sane letters say they were to arrive the 18th or igth, and that in a few days hostilities might be expeEted to tom mence,-as the Duke of Banwswiclt's head-quarters was at Gotha, only 45 miles from Coburg, where his Highness intended to have gone. . ,•• The Prussians lave marched of late with'such astonishing rapidity, that some of the best informed areiof opinibn BONAFARTE'S plans have been quite' deranged. They are certainly at this moment pre- pared for adion ;- and I make no doubt would give a gOod account of any of his Armies who would have. the hardiloocd'r to. attack Them. The inroad into-. Saxony by the way of Coburg is certainly a declara tion of the intuitions of France, and I hope will be considered as a declaration of hostilities ; bait vnc~ ther the Duke of BRUNSWICK may think himself authorized to have recourse to them, till .some,far ther information from General KNO4r4snortry Paris, is not easy to determine,. . Many persons here are of opinion, that the great Armies (whiChare upon the march from il.us:sia, and:: the military movements-of Austria 21) lirus:sia) may : perhaps induce BozlittiAßrE - to-give -up strain ot; his pretensions at this junaure 1 for, taking ,the Clop- - ter of Accidents into consideration, the presump-. Lion of viLc.tory is certainly against him ; and a-total defeat might, in one day, reduce.to a4cs that ;nighty fabric which he has been for Sump dint; huiiditig at; the expence of.the German ,Empire, must-pt. - the same time see - , that the-addition of tuenos'Ayres , . the British SettleMents will enable EnVland . to export her naanufadures try great advantage, and onabi - e her to carry on the 'for any length, of tirup, However, his -ambition and thirst for revehg,e may perhaps blind him sp lopk.tal his fickle deity, tired of his importunities, may-he induced. to beatow• her favours on some, other- votary, i;i make a bet, ter_use of them: A friend of mine frornWirtcrohtirgh relates the following anecdote, which 'he assn - es to be true Majesty, soon after .he was taken out of the oven*, desired his fayourite orator, M. V. G. to, preach a sermon from the - 21st Psalm, and 6th and 7th verses, which are----" non bast Made him most " blessed for ever ; 'thou hiet macre 'lam exceeding glad with thy countenance—for . the:King trusted; in the Lord; and thNugh the mercy of the most " High be shall not be moved."--However, the poor parson having received the order verbally from his new Monarch, Made a grand mistake;and chose the 6th and 7th verses of, the 22d sa. P I . Lll, ' Which' rtin thus But I am a worm, and no - man ; a re,. " proach of men, and despised of the people, ,All " they that see me laugh me to scorn ; they shoot " out the lip, and shake the head." No movements in Westphalia but what are con, tained in. the Newspapers. * you 9t course 1;now: the fable of BoNAPAR C baking his Kings, A report was circuleted this morning that Gu vernment had rwceived Dispatches from the Medi ten-anean, containing an account of another decisive viaory obtained by the British Troops, in con junaion with the 'Calabrians, over the French Army commanded by General MASSENA. We have not had time to ascertain whether the report be Well founded ; but the recent intelligence which we have received from Italy, through the medium or the Foreign Journals, induces us to give it full credit. Towards the latter end of the :week pare of thp Enemy's Camp at Boulogne broke up. Two or . three thousand men were seen marching . by Out'' Cruizers , towards the Interior, for the purpose, as they supposed, 'of proceeding to the Grand Army in Germany.—We are inclined to think they are rather intended for the proteotion of Holland. The KING has been pleased to' grant a Pension of 1001. to the WidoW of Mt. SCOTT, Secret4y to Lord NELSON, who was in the' celebrated Battle ofTrafalgar, during her life,; and 251: a-year to her three sons, till they become of. age. Consi derable difficulties arose at the Admiralty in 'sanc tioning the application, in consequence of there being no precedent fOr granting Penston , to4 .Se cretary's Widow. His MAsEsTy was pleased to issue another Order of council on 'Wednesday, for encouraging the Trade to Buenos Ayres, and confirming the Order of Coun cil issued, on the 17th ult. assuring those who trade there that no more duty shall he imposed upon goods sent there than what is stated in the- said Order of • the th. The East radia Papers State, that so many Arne rican Ves4els 13;14, within t 114 pv.ceditlg t hr% months, arrived at Mocha, as to render the•incre.,ing trade between America and Arabia an object Tilat re quires the immediate of the BritisA pO - en t. NA V►LL NE MS. PLYMOUTH, OCT. 2.—The French Frigate which arrived here yesterday, as mentioned in my last, is Le President, a very beautitul Frigate, mounting 46 guns, nearly new, with 30 . 0 Men, captured on the 29th ult. off Belleisle,-after a chace of 24 hours, by the Canopus, of 80 guns, Rear-Admiral Louts, and the Dispatch Sloop of War, of 18 g u ns, Capt.,Er#W XINS j the latter got first within gun-shot of the President, and kept up a warm running a&ion with her for nearly two hours, when the Canopus also goetip, and.ranging ter nearly alongside, the Enemy hauled down her Colours. Very great credit is due to Capt. HAWKINS, of the Dispatch, his Officers and Ship's Company, fOr the promptitude and- zeal manifested in their en deavours to bring the Frenchman to aaion. The Dispatch fortunately has pone killed or wounded ; the Enemy had a few 'men wounded,. but none kill gcl. The President wg on her ret am to Trance frOm the Coast . of Africa, 'and Nva one of the Satiadron which. captured the Favourite Sloop of War sorne time ,since, and greatly annoyed the trade on that coast ; 'shoparted"Corripany with the French Ship of the Line Regu/us, of - 80 guns, and a Frigate,, on. the 20th - ult. on their return to France, which informa, .tiou ilcar-Admiral .Lot is is likely to profit by, as he void look out for them, and will `pro- bably give" them a weicome*.salUte. In addition to the above capture, the following Will give greater and additional pleasure to every f-11-10 kading Squadron under.;, the command Of Commodore Sir: S. Flooo - ,.cobsia- ; ing of Ceiztaur, Illonarch, Mars, Rerengre,nta' A ciiii ,t r e, of 74 guns each,. ffincl,or Castle; of gs• gut,• s . • f, and P4...the f24th.ult:. 4.11' in with a French SquadrOn, which sailed from llochefort the day preceding, consisting' of tiVo gates Of the largest class, and ,two corvettes,.having 611' board upwards of 3000 Twoops, destin;A for the West Indies, and after a chace of nearly !00 miles, came up with and captured the Indefatigable, GlcAre,l 41;c1 1.741 - 7nide French Frigates, of 44-g;tini' each ; the other Frigate, : and two Corvettes - made their escap4- The Centaur, ilfoncrek, and Mars, were the only Ships that got up and engaged the Frigates; but it is - tecorded with great regret, that in the encounter Sir SAMUEL Hoon had his 'right arm 'shot off. Thq Monarch has suffered in her hull, having been en gaged singly With three of the Frigates nearly an hour;. four of her czew are also killed. About vino Troops are taken on board the lour Frigates. The Minerve arid L'Arrnide Frigates, *ritb the Centaur, are &arm up Channel for Portsmouth ; the pu4fiztiaa/de and La Gloire arrived here this morn ing, in company with the Monarch, Mars, and Fos lyphemus.• , • • • Arrived th& Dispatch Sloop of War from a cruize3, also the Johanna Elizajeth, Capt. 11.02 E, the Frede rick, Capt. lionsa, and Frow Thrcia, Capt. SCHUI, all from Bourdeaux, laden with Wine and branclyly the filnabet,' DEUS - , &PM ..Main t ; the Deis Fistutal, TRENAD, from Lisbon; and the Pedro Semler; • Hios, from Oporto, all detained by the Hera; Happy Return, and Lion Privateers. • , PcritTSMOUTIII OCT. 3.---" The Centaur, of 74 arrived this day from the Channel Fleet, brings an account of an a&ion having .been .fought on Thurs; day; the 25th.' ultimo, between three British Ships . of the Line, 'viz. the Centaur; Sir S. [loop; Capt. LVKIN.; and tho' Monarch, of 74 guns each; • Capt.. LO,...and five large French Frigates, which has terminated gloriously in favour of the BritiSh arms. Four of the Enemies' Frigates are taken, af ter having fought extremely hard, but the other, the smallest, escaped. Sir SAMUEL Hoop, we are sorry to say, has lost his right arm by a musket shot from the Enemy: The Mars has had six men killed and four. wounded-; and the •Centaur two killed 'and two wunaded,' one of whom has since . died. The Enemy, it appears, were'taking the ad-. vantage of running out of Port during the absence of the British Fleet, which had - been driven off by a gale of 'wind; but regaining /heir former situation sooner than the Enemy expe&ed, cut off their re-. treat to Rochefort, -and seat them safely into : a Bri tish Port instead. Each of the French Ship, has on board war 700 Troops, .and were destined, they say, to Martinique, but mist probably ft# Buenos Ayres : eight Officers .belonging to the Legion of Honow are on board.. — One of the prizes,' called La Gloire, is. arrived, at this Port with the Centaur ; and the other three are . gone into Plymouth. Seven Line of Battle Ships were in sight, but three only had been able ty- get into action. • Sir SAMUEL Hoop is as well as can be expe&ed, and is landed at Ryde, in the Isle_ of Wight. Arrived the pit q uie .Frig4te from the Downs. Sailed the . Conquest Gun-brig tur Guernsey and ; .Tersey, with a Convoy. Itemlvictt, Oct. 3.--:ay a Nentral Vessel arrived this morning from Holland, we learn that a skirmish has already taken place between the Prussian Troops And its Allies and the French; in which it is Keported in Holland that the Prussians were .victorious. A enecal dnd desperate. battle most probably ere Ibis has been fought. The young Prince . of ORANGE is in the Prussian Army. All the Dutch and French Troops areparched from Holland to join the Grand Army. The Dutch already discover symptoms of discontent, and wish for a RevOlution in their Go. vernment. It is said the fortifications at Plusling hare been destroyed, for fear the English might take possession of them in the absence of the Troops. Boys of 12 'years of age are enlisted for the Army. Several Schuytt came doWn the Rhine to Delft, where we u,n4erstand there:. is an -hospital for wounded Dutch ,and'firench soldiers. The Argus: and Hunter Revenue Cutters arrived from acruize, and remain with the Centinel, Asrgre.!- sot, arid Gallant Gun-hries. .• PootE, 06' ; . 3.—A most melancholy accident happened , last 'night : the Hawtho'n Passageboat going from hence deeply laden with corn and other goods, besides 17 passengers on board, by some acs• cident, preSebt 'unknown, 'either upset or sunk ; the latter, from her being . so much laden, is con-,, sidered tObe'the most probable ; when the whole, except li - Mr. gVERrTT, A woman and . were unfortunately drowned. Amongst the number waa the owner .boat, 'Mr. GILLIN(3HAiyI, a man universally respeBed Most of the others were yountwornen that had been here to the market. Arrived His Majesty's Gun-brig Foi ward from a Cruize, yAAMOLITII, OCT. 3.---Yesterday Lord Mont , Ent arrived, and embarked on board Ow Quebec Frigate, to proceed .to Berlin. SUEERNESs, OPT. 3. Arrived His Majesty's Ship cerj from the Downs ; the Recruit, a new Brig of 2Q guns, from Sandwich ; His Niajesty's Gun-brig .111Qnkey, andNarcissar Frigate, from the Downs ; 4 Tender from the Tower, with impres.s, eci. men and volunteer 4 for glo Fleet ; and H. NI. S, Agarnrmnon. DEAL, OCT. 3..-:-Sailed His Majesty's Ships -War. chsus for Sheerness, and Dauntless on a cruize. Arrived the Bold Gun-brig, from a nruize, and the 'Challenger, from Sheerness. Put back theZekra Bomb with her Convoy for Punsmouth, which sailed 'from the Dowhs (hi the Ist ipst. The Fury Bomb has a signal-tit% fo; a cv gcoy tQ the Westward. THE PIUNC'ESS or Will ES. Her Royal 'Highness the PRINCESS of WALES set out, oryfrhursday afternoon, in her harouche and :six, from her seat at 'Blackheath, to dinp with Mr. loctEs, at his seat at Norbury Park, two miles be ..yond Leatherhead. Her Royal Highness was ac companied by Lady SHEPPLELD and Miss Cnot lIONDELEY, the latter of whom had been, for some days, on a visit to her Royal Highness at Black, heath. The Party proceeded in perfect safety until they approached Leathertiead, when the barouche, in - turning a sharp corner, was unfortunately upset. Her Royal Highness was thrown out with great violence, and received a severe hurt upon her shoul 7 , •'der. It was at first tearedthat it was dislocated, but that is not the - fa Ct. She received some' other bruises; but, we are happy- to say, her Royal High, ness is not dangerously hurt. Lady Surs.rrilit.rs re, cetved no injury except what was occasioned by fright ;. but Miss CHoLNIONDELEY was killed upon the: spot. So .great was, the • violence with which this unfortunate Lady was thrown out of the car, riage, that her head coming in contact with a post, her skull was fraaured, and instant, death was • the consequence, She was immediately .taken to. the Swan Inn, at Leatherhead. Sir,LUCAS PEPYS, who lives in the. neighbourhood,. was immediately sent for. He-pronounced her -Royal Highness's misfor tune such as not - to-enclang-er ber life--no bone was broken or dislocated—but Miss CaoLmoNDELEY was dead ; The blow on her head had occasioned a- Copious discharge of blood .from her nostrils, her mouth, and her eyes ; and she now remains a life- - less corpse at Leatherhead. - • Her Royal-Highness the Princess of WALES, and Lady SHEFFIELD, when recovered a little from their excessive terror, returned in an agony of- grief to Blackheath.. We are happy to state that they were. both, better yesterday, and that no apprehension was entertained that either of them had received any se rious personal injury. The PRINCESS i 5, however, much bruised. Au Express was immediately sent to Lady WILLotIGHBY, to apprise her of the rue. 'lancholy accident, and her Ladyship instantly cdm tunnicated the .dismal tidings .to Earl PERCY, at Northumberland House, through.whom most of her other relatives and friends were made acquainted With the sad story. • Miss CIIOLMONDELEY was daughter of the late Hon. and Reverend ROBERT CHOLNIoNDELEY;, Re for of Hartinford, Bury, and St. Andrew's, Hertford, who was son of the third Earl of Cuos.;.; MoNDELEY; and uncle to the present Earl. Mrs. CHOLNIoNDBLEY, this lamtnted Lady's venerable }K.. rent, is and resides at her house in Jerinyn, - street. from her very advanced age, and precarious 'state 'of health, the triost alarmnui consequeeces 'are expected when she learns the fatal accident.— Lady ISEI.LINGHANI, Wife to Sir Wm. BELLINGHan, - 'Bart. of Castle Bellingham, Ireland, is now her only :Surviving daughter. aNliss cIioLNIONDELEY,waS about 4o years 4.)f age, of the most refi:lLd 41w clCgolli L11.1:4- ners, and beloved by. all who had the honouT of her acquaintance.