The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1805-09-02 00:00:00

THE BRITISH PRESS.

I.(oNsil /N.
MONDAY, Sammie' .

The Mary-Ann cartel, from Cormint, av;ved no
friday at Portsmouth, alter a passage of seven days.
She has brought intelligence, that the Combined
Fleet, consisting of 25 sail of the line, 7 frigates,
and 10 sloops and brigs, ;moulting in the whole to
42 sail, sailed from C“runna, on the 14 h last, to
the Northward. If the reports of the Inc and the
Dray,' noun this subjel, admitted any doubt, Nis
accocnt must hay.: removed them. Ireland being
thus one of the probable points of their destination,
precautionary measures have been taken there
accurafangly. The frigate arrived off Cork
on the 24th last, and sent official dispatches on
'bore, announcing the sailing of the Combined
Fleet from Ferrol, in a Northern direction. The
ships of war at Cork, consisting of the Te.-rs'it of 74
guns; Diadem, 646 Bril.;queus„ 64; Leda, 33, and Nar-
cissus, 32, were, in consequence of this intelligence,
iurarcdiately moored across the mouth of the
harbour, in a line nearly parallel wi'h the bat-
teries on each side. In addition to the above iatelli.
gence, The fieriest', of yeterday, contained the t Blow-
ing extradt of a letter from on bond the Di.aeas,
off Cork, dated the 26th last.—" I have unsealed
my letter to inform you, that we are just reinforced
by two 74 gun ships, and are ordered to moor all
the men of v.-41* And.lndiamen in one common line
of defence, as intelligence is just received, that the
enemy is on the Irish coast: we are now adually
forming-the line." We think it, however, very
probable, that the supposed enemy was one of the
fleets daily espeCled from the West Indies.

Ihe Amason arrived also on the 24th off Cork,
a few hours after the arrival of the Druid. and lay
to for some time in the offing, and soon after a
third frigate hove in sight, and having communi-
cated with the Am zen, proceeded to the Eastward.
About four o'clock on the same day, the Amazon
filled her sails and stood out to sea. The arrival of
three frigates off Cork, from the Channel fleet, in one
day, so close upon the heels of each other, is evi-
dence that Ireland is considered one of the probable
destinations of the enemy.

Three Harahorgh Mails are now due; their ar-
rival is anxiously cape red. ft is stated, upon the
authinity of a private letter from the Hague, that
Bow had suddenly quitted Boulogne.
on the 18th, in consequence of dispatches from
l'Ark ; and that orders had been received in
Holland, to su,pend the embat kation of troops
in the ports of that country. The same con-
veyance that brought a private letter from the
Hague, might have also brought a newspaper of the
same date. Whenever private letters grow up in
the abience of pubic papers, we fear they can
only be considered, in general, as substitutes for real
intelligence.

Several of the c:ews of the Antigua thips, taken
anti destroyed in the West Indies, were nn board
the Combined Fleet in the aftion of the 22J July,
with Sir Rona's- Ca toot. They were landed
at Vigo on the 27th of that month, and some of
them had reached Oporto, before tie sailing of the
Pomona frigate,: Litely arrived from Lisbon