The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1805-09-12 00:00:00

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NATAL INTTI.LIGENCE.
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Sailed L'Entreprenante cutter nn 4 cruise.

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Came is the braise, Davey, fia.ns rtAredona,
Grodrr gun-hrig, from the Channel Fic,it arid the
John Bull cutter, from a crnise ; with the following
vessels, which she has detained :—Pal:pertai, N .rei-
chew:, frow New York ; and the Soocca,llcrkendorff,
from Bniirdcanx.
Sailed Nis Nit siesty's ship R tclt, re, of 98 tams. and
L'Ffryptievite. of 44. gni)+, to join th.• 'kennel Fleet.
Passed no Channel the ship —, from
Bombay. hotpot to Hambro'.—Wind S.W.
prat, seer. In.
The Hon. East India Company's s'iips, which
arriv. I yesterday, are sailed 'or (he River.
This morning arrived His Majesty's ships Trident
(V:ce-Admiral Rainier). AleeltAnc and Pifthepienee,
with the Arnittun. Thanct, Alntoick Cattle, Beret,
Peensperlnce,, 'crune, lenett..onve ow, chin, Benga,'„
Lard Catterez?h, Tinnte.t Cattle, Cire,ctster, Lord
Etd,„, Left' Ne nn, Glatten, Wine/re/see, Wollner
Cnette. &lel St. Vincent, Lady Burqrsl, Marriit of
Weleeley, Mnrchtmets of Enettr, and the (keen East
Indiamen vs, Georli
----. and th- Recntect,, ---; Son+ Seamen,
under convoy, from St. Helena, the whole of which
rem(iin in toe Down.. with the test of the ships, as
per last.—Wind S.W.
F RUM Linyris LIST.
ere, A ,e. 10 hr the irrietuls, 110.01;
)Ant' lathe; Clasrneln-, Snot. ; Thm,thy, F•tr,ter and the
Alfred. Hurch•tts, 00111 J ~n4ec4 ; PrW.43tPtil MeV/Alio, from
Tonniegeo ; Ltu, .a. from Memel : -., Helt,
fromLiwitzie ; Neinnont, Patervm ; P,inet Frcd• rick, 3a-
cob-eti ; fide, Ftti-i. Lawson; Nurw .y, Jacobi ; Aim, Smith;
and the Cotailier, M lu.rlls funs Norway. Sailed the Minh r,
Rayne. for Charleston ; IZetmett, AlevAnder, for T,oninren ;
Minerva, and the Nor herrn, W cinders, for Solon.
APIIIVID.
At Liverpool... The Augasta, etetin;ngton, horn Jeenatea ;
Itiehari. ,the. trum Nturtn.acbi-. E-ther, Rote; Thomas,
; and the Alex ittelti, lust Quehets.
At Leith—The Christiana, Fortr,ter, Irmo Qaeb?e.
At lesisiel-.-The Johns, ••••••••• fruit Ditto.

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Jo the IMA n--The Active. Inomps,m. front ditto.
In the t tole-The !theta, Rotbure4 ,•nd th. Johns, non-
can, from Jerrawa ; faun , Brown, from Archangel and the
Two /need., —, from Cr,,e
In th•Cre-k-The Anna Christian,, f.-rn
At Latina-The Qrseen. &bell, from Gibr .Itar
Al Newry-.Thio Dt.ntentia, SAntor, (turn Oporto.
At Aatbado•re-Th • 8enj.10.1.), Collis, horn No found:and
At New Urlearis-..Th, Bowan(, —, from Cl,d, ; TLra,
Cla, horn, and the Thorna:, Wdw,r, from
At St fleiena-Africaine, from the Snuth'Seas;
Weldon, front Madera: and the Calcutta matt of W
for, Portamouth, with • Dutch ship hat prise; and the Lady
Caalareagh, Merry. from
satemitomem
Extra& of 1 ;atter from Mr. JOSEPH WHIDBEY,
late Chief Mate of the Weir indian, Captain DUNN,
to his friends in Liverpool, dated Oporto, 11th Au-
gust, 1805—" It is with much concern I in-
form you of our being captured by the combined
fleets, on the 6th of June last, they being :20 sail of
the line, 7 frigates, and two brigs, the day after we
left Antigua, under convoy of the Netiev schooner,
who escaped the men by seperior sailirg. The
French finding the prizes could not bear up to
Guadeloupe, and fearful of Nttsors overtaking
them, they the next morning dispatched five fri-
gates (having trocsys on board) to destroy them,
ai.d alter %arch land the troops at Guadeloupe,
witch they effeeled, putting my Captain and
°theta on shore with them. It was a distressing
sight to us to see our ships and cargoes burned and
sunk, when tw,. English frigates were bearing down
upon them, I..it toi• late, the five French frigates re-
turning at tine time, to join the fleet. We were
stripped of retry thing but the clothes we had on.
On the 22d July, to the southward of Vign, we fell
in with the British fleet, consisting of 13 sail of the
line, and one frigate; sse were crammed below, at
six in the afternoon, when the British tars gave us
three cheers, which was returned by the cowardly
Frenchmen, and a heavy cannonade commenced on
both sides. I was on board the Bueriltassr, the
French Admiral's ship, of 90 guns ; she, with one
of 80 guns, engaged the English Admiral's ship,
which unluckily get dismasted. A brave 74 going
to engage the ship in our line, a-head of us, sheered
along-side, and poured such a broadside into tis,
that occaoor.ed not a few to be brought to the
dirifti,r (where I was), without arms or legs, and
caused numbers to fall on die decks, headless, and,
no dcubt, cur ruler fellows suffered greatly also.
Two Spanish 71's got dismasted, and were taken;
the French suffered much in their rigging and
penple. At half past nine at night, being very
t sick weather, the filing ceased, and the English
Ileet the next mottling lay en leeward of the French
line ; but the slipper the Frenchmen got that night,
made them afraid of getting a similar breakfast.
The French bravadoed to me, and said they would
bear deem and board the English ; I told them to
g', they were ready to receive them, although the
three-decker of the Englsh was dismasted ; but
thick weather coming on, the French made the bett
of their way to Vigo Bay, where we arrived three
days after, and landed the prisoners, who were
Trenched imo the Portuguese dominions, whir, I
now am, suffi.ari tly distressed''
At a well attended meeting of the Court of
Guardians, Tuesday se'nnight, t' .e worthy Mayor
ef Not wicb urged the propriety of a material alter-
:scion in the medical treatment of the sick in the
lVorkhouse ; he strongly pointed one the necessity
et going away the praaice, which bad lately pre-
',led, of int,rmixing the sick poor with those in
bea.to, and which has such an °below tendency to
accumulate c'isease : and of previcfng separate,
spaciou., clean, and well-ventilated rooms, fir the
reception of persons attacked with any infedious
enrnplaait—and recommended the immediate este.
blisliment of fever-wards, and rooms of reer.very,
from winch web singular advantages have been de-
rived tri the populous towns of M inchester, laver-
ponl, and Chester, as the only means, and those,
humanly speaking, certain ones, of preventing con.
tageous diseases among the lower classes. The
Committee appointed to examine the poor rates of
that city an J hantin% for the prirlinse of obtaining
a more (loaf assessment, made their report ; and
they teeosumend, that the rate in future should be
fahessed on the rack rent; that a general survey
and vat :aim% Anifft:ti immediate!) be made, in con-
oaneerof th.e great alteratioe which has taken
ibpenv, and in the value of land in par-
: :'sr 11116. stencn the last survey