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' i *'•=={ Admiral Duncan, ]
Venerable - 74 | Captain C. Hope.
+ '(Rear; Adm. Pringle,
Ana - .74 [ Capt. J.M. Dougall.
Calcutta - §4 Captain Bligh.
Leopold - - ~" Capt. Swaffieki
• Jupiter - -%o 'Capt. Lechwre. ^
^ ^ D^dalys ^ ~ ^ Capt. Halket.J
Black Joke Buggtety. r :J
The Ruffian men of war failed #t
the fae time, under Admiral Dun
cit?s command. Thii fleet is going
^Qin ^ueft of the Dutch squadron, said
'be at sea.
zhg. 22. In confirmation of what
we y^fterday fated, refpe&ing the°
f, Dutch fleet being at tea, and the pro
bability of an immediate rupture with
the Uoited Provinces, in confeqrience
of that fleet having chafed fame En
glish vessels, we now have co add the
,the following letter: :
" Harwich, ^g. 20
This afternoon the Nancy, Cap,
Kirkaldie, an hired cutter, arrived it
thii port expreft from Cript. Trollo
pe, of hh Majeftft ffiip Glattoo,
with the following important intelli
gence, which was immediately - for
warded to the admiralty r
-• " That on Tuefday the 18th inst.
about 3 o'clock in the morning, hit
Majefty'a ship Clatton, in company
with the Lion, another line of battle
Ihip, & the above cutter, Goree then
bearing S. S. E. distant ten or eleven
leagues, they descried (even Dutch
line of battle ships, five frigates, 3
brigs and one cutter, bearing towards
^Flulhing ; and chat about 3 o'clock
^ fefterday morning, the Nancy fell in
: with a frigarf and Cutter, under Na
''liooal colours, about four miles to the
Southward of the iOand of Zealand,
;which gave her chafe for seven hours,
when the Nancy, which at firft was
to leeward, came in fight of the En
.,glifh land, and having gained consid
erably to windward of her purfuera,
they gave up the chafe."
~" Porlfmotab, Aeg. 20.
, '' An express reached this
place yesterday from the adrni_
Talty, ordering the Mars of 74
'guns, Capt. Sir Charles Cotton,
and Minotaur, of 74 guns, Capt.
Louis, to fail immediately, and
join Admiral Pringle's squadron
in the North Sea, for the pur
pose of attacking the Dutch fleet,
so that we have little doubt of
its being soon obliged to leek
Shelter in the ports of the Unit
ed Provinces, or of a good ac
count being given of it, if the
Commanders have the temerity
to keep the sea."
The following^ a lift of the Ruffian ships :
Pamet Eftaffi 74(Vice Ad. Pennekoff,
(Capt. Senevine.
Helena , 74(Rear Ad, Mackaroff,
, (Capt. Dreer.
Peter ' 74(Rear Ad. Tett,.
(Capt. Bordoncoff,
Giab 74 , Capt. Trfigner.
Parmeno 66 - Kious.
Parvlfan 66 • • Chechagoff.
'^6 — — Barriffoft.
66 — — Furnichof.
66 — - Rurfcoltizof.
66 — — SQirnov.
Grat Orlof 66 BatevQanoff.
Nichonor 66 — Prince Thoubeifkoi
Venus 52 —±- Badilko,
~ Archangel Michael 44 -—- Brown.
Raffall 44 - Hurlitch.
Reval 40 ——- Colcatchef.
Narva ^, 40 ?— — Trefquin.,
Riga 49 ( Barqueff, at
( Edenpurgh/Q
Cronfadt 40 —— Tcherngavia.
. Archipelago < # 4o — Moller, at Hull.
The Dutch are said to have
taken this decisive ftty, in con
*fequence of their Eaftindiamen
having ^been seized by order of
f government. It is probable al
lo that the Friendfhipof Spain,
secured to them by thatreaty of
,hat kingdom with Fr^ce, may
have had some influence in de
termining the mealies they,
haye^dopted. Jf Spain fh^dd,
by any influence, be brot^ht to
arm against this country, [§ cir-'
cumftancc not impoffible] it will
be found more difficult than it
has hitherto been, to maintain
our superiority at sea ; but Brit
ifn tars will do theirduty.
By these papers we are in
formed, that the French have at
last passed thp Rhine: ; This
they have done, chiefly with a
view to accellerate peace ; for
which purpose also, Rewbell, an
eminent Deputy of the Coaveri•
•tion, is gone to Bafle. ^ 4
Gen. Doyle, we are told, la only
waiting for a fair wind, to fail with
the van of Lord Moira's army, for
the coast of France. Os thil expedi
tion we are at little inclined to make
any mention, „'the Minifterial-print#
are to fpesk of it io lofty and sanguine
language ; fol it will either ultimate
ly prove to be a Tragedy, or coatin'
ue to be a Farce'; a Tragedy like
that Qf Quiberon, if the troops are
landed ; or a Farce like that which
haa been afted these two years, if
they never approach the enemy's
coast. We hope and believe it will
continue to be the latter.
Such has. been, for some time
past, the want of money „ the
Treasury, to defray the ordina
ry expenses, especially the ex
penses of the army, that various
reports have been circulated,
both with refpe& to the caffes
of the deficiency and the mentis
of providing for it. Among;
many other conje&ures, h^^-
been said, that the public money
has been applied to paying the
debts of the Count d'Artois ; &
that the minister has already ne
gotiated a loan of 33 millions.
Nothing can be more abfurdi
The objections made to paying
the debts of the Prince of Wales,
may be considered as proof po
sitive, that no attempt either has
been, or will be, made to pay
the debts of the Count d'Artois,
with money wrung from the
people of England; and if a
fan were already negotiated,
the minister would not avail
himfelf of a single sixpence of
it till functioned by parliament. -
A GOOD FELLOE.
The American ship the Af
trea, with lo§ooo quintals of corn
on board, ^feg taken by an
English friglj&on the 17th of
July, and conducted to Dover,
Daniel Williams the Capt. had
afterwards the hardiness to cut
his cables, and fail for France,
which he reached in fafety.---
This he did fr&n his love of the
Republic, in confequenee of
which, he has been rewarded
by the government with an el
egant sword..
jmforV^nt.
It is confidently thieved in
Paris,a thing of which the com
mittees of government make no
secret, that,terms of Peace are
1
'aimoft agreed upon wiih the
Kings of Sardinia, Naples, and
the , other Italian ftaus, except
thole fubjea to the Emperor.
Part of the troops lately employ
ed against Spain, are begun to
^le off to reinforce Gen. Keller
man's army, and enable him to
attempt the conquest of the Mi
lanese. It is also said that the,
necessary preparations are at
length made for pacing the
Rhine. >
: The squadron intended for
the Weftiridies, under the com
mand of Rear Admiral Christ.
ian, is ordered to be ready for
failing, by the middle of next
month.
, N , AUGUST 24. ;
It is now said to be the inten
tion of ministers to fend 30,000
men to the Weftindies. They
have not this number to fend
at prefect, but they have great
hopes of numerous volunteers
from the fencible corps, in con
sideration of a bounty of five
guineas a man, which an order
will be this day issued for offer
ing. It is not many days since
ministers refufed an offer of 250
volunteers from a fencible corps
to be incorporated in a march
ing, regiment, without costing
the Public a farthing. In their
great attention to economy, they
prefer an equal number of men
at an expenle of 1250 guineas.
te^mccatesb-
AUGUST 25.
The vanguard of Lord^ Moi^
ra's army, as it is termed, did not
fail, as it was prapofed, on Fri
day. This evening is fixed for
Their departure. They are to'
direa their course, it is flijl be
lieved, for the inland of Noir^
montier, to endeavor at a co-op
eration with Charette. The
General, we believe, is indebted
to the ingenious friends of his
cause in England, for his recent
successes. The Paris papers,
which have utterly been prone
to anticipate disaster, do not e
ven allude to any recent move
ment on the part of the Royal
ists.
The orders of admiral Dun
can were unequivocally to fink,
burn, and destroy such of the<
Dutch veficils of war as he might
fall in with, and to make, from
the cannon's mouth, a declara
tion of war, which has for some
months past been virtually car
rying on between this country
and the United States of Hol
land,
pet—
r. AVGUST I6.
The papers, instead of con.
firming the report of Pichcgru's
having been repulsed in an at
tempt to crojs the Rhine, fay
that he was prevented on the
12th; by the swelling of the ri
, "ft ; butthat on the 13th, 14th,
^ind 15th, he carried over fix
columns' of his army. They
neither mention where this op
eration was effected, nor whe
ther any oppotition was qiade
to it by the.Auftrian troops.
I A lettcri om Cleves fair, that 1
a Dutch fqnacPon of-izrfhips of
the line and 18 frigates is to co
operate with a French squadron |
fitting out at Dunkirk.
The alacrity of the Ruffian 1
squadron in failing in quest of
the Dutch squadron, on the firft
notice, has been much infilled
, upon as a proof of the great af
finance our Ruffian alliance is
likely to afford to our naval op
erations. The Lords of the ad
miralty, however, depended so
little upon this assistance, that
they lent out a Britilh force
more than a match for that of
the Dutch. ~
Il uMUCTewii.
RENNES, AUG. 2- ■
Since the defeent of the Emi
grants on the coast of Morbihan,
the retaking of Quiberon, and
the complete victory gained on
the 3d Thermidor, the Chouans
are endeavoring at all points to
unite in amass They give
themselves up to every kind of
excels, and spread every where
terror, devastation and death. 4
Whole cantons, forced by these
wretches, had risen to join them
---but the activity of our troops
and the excellent dispositions of,
our Generals, prevented the
dangerous communication.—-
With more men we should have
destroyed the whole of them,
but on account of the extent of|
the ground which we occupy, \I
we are forced to confine our-,
selves, till the arrival of a rein
forcement of 40,000 men, to
partial operations. A generall
movement, that should a& at all|
partis ia^fypfabfr n ¥ffary,hqJ
and it is troni such a cohtinua
tion of efforts that we can alonel
expe& the termination of hostil
ities in these parts.
The territory of the army of
Brest composes 51 diftridts, and |
2300 municipalities. The ex
tent of the maritime coasts is
more than 400 leagues. One -
hundred thousand mencan.alone
put a speedy termination to the
war.
In Lower Britanny the Chou
ans have levied large contribu
tions. The army of Charette
pursues the fame career. In the
[pace of one decade the Chou-' ;
ans have massacred 150 persons
in our neighborhood. The
head-quarters of the robbers are fl
atGrand Fougeray, on the road
to Nantes.
Every thing seems to an-;f
nounce an attack upon Rennes,
or the adjacent places. Our
garrison, though^feak, is quite
Republican ; it is composed of
a party of the brave conquerors-I
of Quibeton.
< GENOA, JULY 12.
A letter from Pietra, bated the
8(h, llates that the Piedmontefe
and the French have frequent
ikirmifhes, and that the latter
have raised strong fortifications
at Mont St. Esprit, between Le
vano and Albengua. The Auf-(
trian army; encamped oppofitel
tofbat mountain, receives every 4