The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1807-06-18 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

• POITSMOIITH.
The P/antaganet, of 74 guns, from Plymouth, is
come to Spilhead,.aud made the signal to come
into harbour, for repairs. The Jrlia sloop, Capt.
Yorker, from the Downs, artived yesterday after-
noon. The Niabe frigate, Captain Loring. has been
completely refitted ; she will sail shortly for the
Cork station, to which she is appointed, in the room
of the ~'krone.
This day, the Star sloop arrived from a cruise ;
and the Ai/Leine sloop, Capt. St-wart, sailed for the
Dawns. The Newfoundland Convoy sails the 171.1.
ment the wind will permit. The inenneant frigate
is going again to the Guernsey station.

TOS IA V, J%I 15.
This morning the wind sprung up from the Eist.
ward, and Sir James Saumarez ssiled with the MI-
Inwirg ships. to resume his station Off Ushant,
Ifdberalq, 120 guns; U,ealaoaght, fit. George, ani
loovhat, 98 guns each ; Bdiertiphata and Maniseci. 74
wins each ; Chiraproa, 24 guns ; dns, hired at turd
brig ; and the Ntearod, hired armed cutter.

SIILLRNESS, ILHE lh

!tailed from the Nore, early this mom'
r err gun-brig, with the trade for Tonningen, with
t.a
light breeze at West
Ore Bailie co.ivoy. which was to have sailed this
day, is postponed till the 21)(11 inst Has M..j.:sty's
drip Cherub ha% the signal flying.

DLAL• JUNE. la.

o
Came down His MAjeqy's ship boa;
Sheerness ; and the Indatury, Kirby, from the River,
for Quebec.
betted tne Venus frigate, for Sheerness.
Artived the Desperate gun-brig, from a cruise ;
and remains in the I) iwns with the P; ;wry; of
Orange. Alfred, and 'lnlay, men of wtr ; Dispatch,
sloop of war ; Fla I/ and f.sploston bombs ; blurat-
laser lugger t Turbulent, Indignant, and soreral other
guii•brigs ; Harmony, viaualler ; Ddigeive, East In.
dia pilot vess4, twvenal outward-hound vessels, tee.
Put back the Surinam, llynsimam, f rr Su i wain—
, Wind S.W.

tour, Just 10.
The brig Leer 44, Bids/ artived at Cove this morn
ing. Sailed from Barbados on t'oe ',sal of April
last, for Tortola, under convoy of the VCAMS, Capt.
Matson, with eleven sail of merchantmen in com-
pany; left Tortola On the 2a,h April, with upwards
of two hundred sail of ni,:rchantineii, under convoy
of the Venom, Lf.prey, and A !),. manrr store slip;
palled the fleet in a gale et wind 41. d thick weather
the 2-itli May, in lat. 12. king. :“. Ou the next
day saw hat four sail or the coi.voy, with the 'Mug-
tsars., who ternained in charge of Lilein ; parted ner
yesterday in.wning. The Captain of the dikimfaur e
behitved with *treat kindness to the ten' he had in
charge. The L'Hien, Long, and the Marsiland,
Cornish, arc in the fleet bound to this harhour.
Yesterday llis Majesty's ship Sant i 211 a• g :Tr ila.
Captain Rathhone, arrived et Cove from Ply month.
The tiesi4wk brig, Captain Ennis, and EII IIX trans.
part, with troops, came in same d:iy taunt Potts-
motrla.
Admiral Whitslied is arrived at Cove, and has
hoisted ins flag on board Li...! Tr at.

HALIFAX, MAY

The Febrnary Mail has not yet arrived, though
we know it has been a consid:rable time at New
York. The brig Sisters at rived from Livzrpool this
morning, in 47 days. A large ship, the Hope,
sailed from thence on the same day, and has not
yet come; the length of her passage gives us hopes,
that the April p.icket, for whose safety we are under
apprehensions, may yet come ; we ate all most
anxious for her, as our politics are unsettled; we
know not what to think of the New Administration,
or the cause of it. Some short time since we had an
alarm of a French fl et, of five sail of ships of war,
some of them of the line, off our coast, on a very
foggy day. The garrison was under arms, And the
Militia called 01St; in short, it was a day of general
confusion; but the Captain of the vessel who kronght
the account, nit being considered a man of the
widest veracity, the Militia did not assemble in
such force as to please Sir John Wentworth. as you
will see by his Proclamation ; but I assure you their
appearance to me was most respesSable ; they seemed
able young men; and I have no doubt but we should
muster between three and four thousand fighting men,
who would do their duty, so that we should not be a
cheap purchase. However, we must attach some
more credit to it than we did, as a Prize-mast.r, sent
in here with a prize to the .Wriampes, saw in the lati-
tude of New York, steering a course for the Chess-
peak, five ships, answeiing the same description.
and by the dates, at such a period as would allow
them to be the same. We suppose it to be either the
Roehfort squadron, or one slipped out of Brest,
with a view of relieving the French ships blocked
up by Sir Fhonoss Hardy ; and the more so, as the
Patriot, French ship, a few Jays before, came down
and took a view of our ships, and then returner
again, and we are not without our apprehensions fu
the fate of our 'Nips. the Triune* Sir Thomai
Hardy ; the &ileac a very old 74 ; and the MI
leaves. frigate ; the last has sent three prizes i
here. and the Driver has sent in two.
Lilly yesterday morning, Vice-Admiral Berke
ley, in the Leorml. of SO guns. with his Lady am
family, arrived in nine days from Bermuda, as di
the 06v-rata. sloop, Capt. Smith; she intorfir
for New York, hut the westher was so tempestuotit
they were obliged to bear up for this place. W
elpeft the rem.indn of the squadron, viz. Lilt! va:
dr Mden, Sir Robert Laurie ; the Cleetitra,
the Met, urg and the Noiljets, Lord hellei