The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1805-08-09 00:00:00

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FRIDAY. At oust 9.

Dispatches from Lord NELSON, brought by
Prcile schooner, were yesterday received at the A
miralty. His Lordship, we understand, arrived
Gibraltar, on the 19th last, and anchored, ins
22d, in Tetuan Say, on the African co.tst ;
he took in water and other necessaries. Hari
ascertained, that the combined fleets had not pass
the Streights, and communicated with Ade.;
Cotsattowooo, his Lordship put to sea on t
fe6th, for Cape Saint Vincent, meaning to st
a northerly direetion. Hit Lordship svokild 0.
bably have heard in the course of a fete ,i,,•
of the battle of the t2d ; ands in that event, it
presumed he would form a junaion w.th n..
Goi.i.stiowooo's squadron, and extend a line acr4
the Streights so as to intercept the enemy, in ,•s
they should attempt to enter Cadiz or the Medi•
ranean. The latter have Wady a choice of th•a
courses. Either they have gone aorth about for
'reset, or they have put into Vigo, or they 1)4,1
proceeded for Cape St Vincent, meaning to ps
into Cadiz, or escape into the Mediterranean. '
they have taken the latter course, they have
bably stretched out far into the Atlantic.
they steered directly south, the Lisbon Pickrt
which sailed on the 30th, would probably Elvi
heard or seen something of them. It is thnsi.gy
also that they may have divided, as the Metrthrs,

brig, arrived at PI ymoti th,spoke, off the Land's Erq
a Portuguese, which informed hot, that she SAW fil
uil of French line of buck ships and a fri7ate,coa
ing to intercept the homeward-bound Op • s fee
off Cape Finisterre. The Prrite schooner am ur
a squadron of nearly the same description, in d
same quarter. nn the 3d instant.

The Oporto fleet, which had pot to ies, had
turned, however, to port, upon heariogof the C:
bined fleets being off the Coast.

The Mary-Ann, FORSTER ; an 1 the ffireil
WADE, from Earbadoes, are arrived a.. i:verpciai•
they sailed the 30th June, and h Ate br-idtgb. Liters
and papers up to that date. The fmlln.cing estr
from Thr Itirhadoes Mercury contains soin.!
particulars of the capture oh the Antit,tll cuuthy,
by the Combined Fleet, in the West Indies:
Email from The BariaLes Mere try, dated June
ty
"If is Marity's ships Galatea, Cipt Maxwell; 11111,'.e4
Capt. Ekins; and rings Fisher, Capt Cribb ; arrived h.rct:.l
day. By these we learn, that on the 17th instant the r. cs
Fisher and Osprey fell in with five Froach fr harm,
charge of the Antigua convoy, which had been taken by tie
Combined Fleets, then anent one hondred and Cghty mats
to the north-east of Barbuda. The enemy, 11./(1111100111C
sloops of war, instantly set fire to the whole of the captor.
iressete, and gave chase to the King's Fisher, which indeed
Captain Cr;bh to make signals, t,rd ire *meal guns, is
to some of our ships were a-head. This hat the desired efe",
and the enemy, dreading the approat • /dour /cm, haslet it
with great precipitancy towards the burning meets, tom(
which, a 'schooner, apparently an American, was very ad.o
in removing the people, and encouraging the Aaron. Tlar
King's Ftalvir and ()Trey proceeded to Antigua with Oise:.
count, when Capt. Fahie, of the Anveia, with the Ge.lLass
Beaulieu, and King's Fisher, proceeded ill quest of themes%
but unfortunately erithaut meeting them, or we may wet ,A4s
what would have been the result."

The following are the names of the above erects
which had sailed from Antigua on the 7th Jane,
under convoy of the rft/ey schooner, takes on c:.e
Bth, and destroyed as above : —Emerald, Captata
COOK ; the Nanev. CApt. Coos ; Kiri% Data
DA Le; Prwte qf Woks, lIE ; arr,PiZVl;Rad
the Pwriet. Sties itszsck, for London---Utior.
WALKER, for Dii%)lin; Stezfeen, CitiltSTlessos,fs
Bellsst ; Rom, D %WIWI ; Martha, Jots room ; IV 4
Indias, Dome; and the ffigbisteder, blat.Lut,
LiverpnnL -

We have also extr.teted from the Barbadoes Paper.
the French of account of the siege and capture
of the Diamond Rock, by the combined fleets of
France and Spain. It will be found a carious and
interesting article. Captain Malts Is, of the Pile
grin, who so gallantly defended the place, arrived
yesterd.ty at the Admiralty, with dispatches from
Admiral Coen aAt4 I. He landed at Liverpool, a"
arrived in town at 10 o'clock in the morning. The
dispatches from Admiral COC ti R A PIC state, we a'c
!.!:at all apprehensions with respea to any
attempts of the enemy in that qaarter, have vanish-
ed ; but it was for some time believed, that 46t
combined squadrons were attempting to etude Lord
Nttsores vigiLince, and to returr. to Martinique ;
from whence intelligence had been received =•
Burbadoes, that all the bakers at Saint
and Fort Roy 11 had been pot in requisition to : -
nisi) large quantities of biscuit, by a given t.:, -•
Capt. Motets had been tried by Court Martirl
the surrender of the Diamond 1/sock, previous to ...1