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FROM LLorlys LLST.

GRAVLSLND, JONES.
Paireti by the Sulr,ll:, - e.. tiAt Cape of Good Hope ;
Favourite, White. and Betsey, Forster, from Sr. Helena
Ruby, Wale., from Grenada ; Ouderveemin:, Pmnt, from
Demerara; Mary' Acme, Smith, from Martmerpic ; Jupiter,
law, and' Oneiala Chief, Kerop, from Now York ; Esther,
James, Belt Barcelona ; Bait e Merchant, Smith, from
_Antigua t Crorbie, Fletcher, from Montserratt ; Hope, Ap-
pleton, Ge, .1 latent, Croshie, ai,d Gen. Wolf, trove
Agullas ; Echo, Wiiliams, from Malaga ; Defiancr, Nickels,
from Oporto ; Parton, Leghorn ; Severn, Way, from
Smyrna ; }fete, Pearson, Ocean, Nohlr, Maria Regina, My-
ers, Cameleon, Seligman, and &Janina, Rubin*, from
Ilambro',

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The Jan Frederick, —, the Meyserg, Berg, and the
Coffe, Baum, from Surinam ; the Jonge,Kakke,
from Oporto ; the Morning Star, and the Jonge &anal, —,
from Lisbon ; Llinpeteux Corvette, from Sierra Leone ; the
Mentor, —, from St. Domingo; the Plug Jacob,
from Venice; the Jeune Caroline, —, from Tobago; La
Merede Famine, from Marieilles ; dr, Neutrality, and
Endraglit, Goot, from Cadiz ; the Sarah Maria —, front
Berhice ; the Venus, Davis, from Muntmse ; the Patrioten,
(roan Noritiopcn ; the Double Alliance, arid the
udeuce, Awing, from Ceue, are taken and sent into Ply-
surnitit.
The De Catherina, from St. Übe+, and the Over-
Mein, De Vries, from Dmierata, are taken and sent Tutu Pm-
since.

The John. Muller, from New Orleans, is taken and saint
into Portsmouth.
Le Dame Adelaide, from Martinique, is taken and
sett,i,to Ealmouth•
La Bonne Pere, 'Lambert, from Martinique, is taken and
sent into Guernsey.
The Economy. Trott, eu1:loadell, has Leen taken by a
French privateer near Cipmtl, avid retaken by the us
Cutter.
The Fame, —, from N(••• Orleans, is taken and sent
into Guenisev by the Kite Sloop War.
rbe Race 1 lersz, Watson, frost, Naples, ix arrived in the
+Creel, abet heating otf a F. ri ch privateer id Dungeness.

AUJISNED.

Off Ismer, the Cora, flutebbas, from Ilaltimoao; Coin-
sneree, kianilford, from Oporto; and John, Ciark, huin }Lun-
d uras.
At Portsmouth, Atlas, Minrave, from eh Ma.
At Cowes, Betsey "Atiloogal, from New York ; and Jenny
and Fancy, Baird, from Havarinah.
Off Brighton, *Waiting, Cox, from Cadia; anctAlfred, Ro-
bertson, from OpPrisi.
At Paola, Wa-rm, Porn Lisbon.
At P4qcomh, 0-phan, Bktilske, from theroartaf Spain.
At Fa! e,46tfy it.ittidsile, Turner, from Cadre; and the Ata-
lanta, Turner, from ealtinsure.
At Liv.ipool; the Camiila, Nubbin, anJ Forty-S.:Lund,
Tyne, from Philadelphia ; Lydia, Haitxuok, front
Loran, Mailv from New York ; Manchester, Bansficl4, and
Liberia, Sands, (rum the Bahamas.
At Bristol, William, Davis, !rum Barcelona.
At Hull, Lydia, Trechrell, from iVilinitigtun.
At Clyde, Britannia, Settch,from Lisbon.
, At Guernsey., Tiro friends, Hushes, from Spain 6
ftem Naples.
At Lisbon. .lathotty and Jacob, from Man; Jur,
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411--se • from Lzith ; Liypscy M`Saggart, from Ltv
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den Tierce, from dull.; Spate, Coctner. audStrallorf
It Aeltia, !rain Dartmouth.
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PAPERS
?RESENTED TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS 11V MA.

SECRETARY AT VAR, RESPECTING THE MALTI.SP
DEPUTILS, AND M. CHEF v.
No. I.
Copy of a Letter from the Maltese Deputies, to Lord
Hobart, dated Ist March, 1803.
The Deputies sent on the part of the Extraordi-
nary Congresses, at Malta and Gozo, composed
of the Chiefs of the Battalions and Rep:esentatives
of every Casal,"have the honor to place before the
eyes of his I.scellency Lord Hobart, Minister of
his Britannic Majesty for the Department of War,
the following Memoir, conformably to the instruc-
tions which they receiled from their Constituents the
9th November 1801.
My Lord,
It is with the most lively grief, and the utmost
suprise, that the Maltese people have been informed
of the severe and unmerited fate which awaits them,
in the return of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem
to the islands of Malta and Guzo. The defeCtion
and treachery of which diet Order became guilty.
will tOrm an sera in the annals of the world, as
striking. as that which now replaces us under its de-
spotic dominion, notwithstanding that it betrayed
us to an army unfaithful to itspromises and en-
gagements. The judgment which posterity will
pronounce upon this transaetion, will be no pane-
gyric on the age in which we live ; and we antici-
late the complaints and the reproaches which our
atest descendants will dire& against us, if a base
timidity should induce us to be silent before the
just and magnanimous tribunal, at which we have
the benefit 01 appealing.
We refrain from alledg,ing the motives, which
would justify our resentment towards the Order of
St. John of Jerusalem. The blood that has been
shed ; the deaths of twenty thousand of our fellow
citizens, in consequence of the greatest distresses ;
the expences incurred during the first months of
the Revoletion, for the support of our battallions,
and the loss of six millions of crowns, rauliciently
refute the atrocious calumnies with which the au-
thor of the Answer to the Manifesto of the Priory
of Russia has endeavoured to load us. The false-
hood confutes itself; since it was notorious to every
one, that the plan of the invasion of Malta was
projeCted at Paris, and that it was entrusted to tile
tirst Knights of the Order resident at Malta. They
continually received letters written in Cypher,
without exciting any alarm either in the late Grand
Master de Rohan, or in the Grand Master Flom-
pesch.
Alter these irrefragable fags, judge, my Lord,
whether the Maltese people will see, without asto-
nishment, and with indifference, the authors of their
misfortunes returning into their c sentry, to dispose
of their interests ? It we ourselves were willing to
keep ,ilence, the ashes, still warm, of those who died
to free and conquer their native land, would cry out
to as more effedually to defend our rights, and
the cause of truth.

Yes, mv„:Lord, we dare to affirm, thatthe Knights
of St. John of Jerusalem cannot be re-establialed
in Malra, without invading the just rights of the au-
gust descendants of Charles the Fifth, and the rights
of the Maltese, and exposing the latter to new con-
-1 vulsions. The Maltese people, Oistinguished of old
for their fidelity by their ancient Sovereign, have been
equally distinguished in these late times by their ener-
gy and their tote for justice. They easily sacrifice their
resentments, but they require that their sacrifices
shook' beacknowledged. In proof of which, my Lord,
permit us to recall to you, the quiet submission
which the Maltese displayed in the capitulation made
by the English General with Monsieur Vaubois.
Our blood, our labours, our rights, and all our isite.
rests, were either forgotten or despised. We be-
held, with an exemplary calmness, commanding
respc'l in those who witnessed it, the French lay
down their arms non the glacis, only to load them-
selves with the remainder of our spoil; so that the
faithful and virtuo::s Maltese was reduced to a con.
dition to envy the lot of the guilty and rebellious.
Would we could withhold from our descendants,
the knowledge of a capitulation, w Lich wounded
our rights and rendered us unhappy ! It is true,
that the presence and the wisdom of Captain Ball,
to whom we then preferred our complaints, contri-
buted much to the alleviation of our distresses; but
as subsequent events have neither seconded our ex-
peclations or our wants, we cannot conceal from
yon, my Lord, the unfavourable irrpressions which
the Preliminaries of Peace have g,ven us, of a go-
vernment, to which we have always been desirous
to prove our attachment, our fidelity, and our pre-
ference.,
We know, my Lord, that it is not for us to influ-
ence political transailions. Nature has destined
Malta to be determined by relation to its position and
strength, and not to decide on its own arrangements.
But it is neverthelesi, for policy to consider its nu-
merous population. Russia, France, and all the
other Powers of Europe, are too just and too en-
lightened to condemn the conduct of the Maltese, in
their opposition to the re-establishment of an order,
which, by its tyranny, treachery, and corruption, is
for ever incapable of inspiring confidence, or of con-
ciliating the minds of the people.
If therefore, my Lord, the people of Malta are
do'omed by inevitable and imperious circumstances,
to endure the pain and anticline of being separated
from the empire of his Britannic Majesty, and if the
tranquillity of Europe demands that the Islands of
Malta and Gozo should be placed in a condition of
neutrality, we entreat you, my I /ircl,, in the name of
our constituents, and of every thing most dear and
sacred among men, in the name of the rights of na-
tions and of justice, to beseech his Britannic Majes-
ty to vouchsafe to employ his efficacious and power..
ful mediation with the other Powers, in order that
the Islands of Malta and .Gozo may be left in the
enjoyment of their independence, under the mutual
guarantee of Great Britain :Aid France, and not be
treated as a conquered country after that their inha-
bitants have spilt their blood, and exhausted their
substance in its defence.
You must be sensible, my Lord, that, in our
quality of deputies, -we could not nvoid submitting'
to your Excellency the wishes and the intentions of
our nation.. In citing a pa the crimes of
the Order of St. John of ,t ~r em, we have'
not merely sought to' Sivtooto to our feel- 4
ings, but to justify, its-the :. • ~,,,,-he whole lini- '
verse, our eternal oppa.Tth://lti'r,i 'gr t rous resistance
again amidst'
to it, should it ev •
our hearths, / , and vitro
still wet ...
.tip,i appear which it has 1,
er.464
caused to Acw..
Drip, my Lord, to' **icy your, ere at with '

wilt 'mew* ,

his Britannic Majesty, favour of justice, of truth,
of humanity, and of a nation worthy of a different
fate ; and accept, if you please, the homage of the
most respeaful devotion, with which we have the
honour to be, &c.
he Marquis Testaferrata.
L'Abbe Emanuel Ricaud.
I.'Abbe Pierre Mallia.
Ph. Castagna, Lieut. des Villes, ace.
Antoine Mallia, Jtirat du Goze.
Michel Cachia, Representant.
Ist March, 1802.
Upper Berkley-street, No. 7.
No. IL
Translation of a Letter from the Maltese Deputies to
Lord Hobart, dated 21 Apia, 1802.
My Lord,
The 'Deputies of the Islands of Malta and Gozo
have the honor. of presenting to your Excellency
the warmest thanks for all that you have deigned to
do in favour of their Nation. We are not ignorant,
My Lord, of all that you must have had to over-
come, in order to insure the tranquillity and the
happiness of our Country. The defence of it, which
you have been pleased to undertake, is woithy the'
loyalty and magnanimity of your Nation. Being
unable to have the honour of forming a part of
the Empire of his Britannic Majesty, by a faithful
submission, we shall have that of being always
united to it by an affeEtionate gratitude.
In transmitting to our latest descendants the story
of our Revolution, we shall tell them, that, without
the assistance of Great Britain, our ruin must have
been inevitable ; and the date of our happiness will
be the date of the protection with which your Ex-
cellency has honoured us.
We entreat you, my Lord, to permit us, at a sea-
sonable opportunity, to lay before you that, which
would complete the felicity of the Maltese nation;
and to accept, if you please, the homage ef the lively
gratitude and respectful devotion, with which we
have the honour to oe, acc•
(Signed)
Le Marquis Testaferrata,
L'Abhe Mallia, Denote,
L'Abhe tiicatid, Depute,

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Antoine Mania, Depute,
Ph. Castagna, Lieut. B:Depute,
Mich ] Cachia, Depute.
To His Excellency Lord Hobart, Minister
of His Britannic Majesty.
London, 2d April, 1809.

No. 111.
Minute of the Measures taken respelling M. Chepy.
On the 14th of November, 1802, a letter was
written by Sir George Shec, under Lord Pelham's
d:redion, to General Gordon, commanding at
Guernsey • which stated, that his Majesty sad re-
fuced to-allow any of the persons stiling themselves
“ Ciimrnissaries of Commercial Relations," to ex-
ercise any of the functions appertaining to that
of within his Majesty's dominions. On the sth
of February; 1803, General Gordon was instructed
to represent to M: Chepy, that as none of the
commissaries of commercial relations had been •
permitted to proceed to the places of their desti-
nation, and that some of them had actually returned
to France, it would be advisable for him also to
repair to that country.—On the 9th of March fol-
lowing, General Gordon was directed to order M.
Chepy to quit Guernsey without delay, if he had
not already taken his departure from it.
---- - me .
The New Theatre at Ipswich opened on Thurs-
day evening last, with an appropiiate Ad,:ress
spoken by Mr. Bowl. ES. Nothing has been want-
ing in the construction of the edifice that could ren-
der it convenient and commodious; nothing omitted
in the ornamental department that could conduce to
its elegance. The scenery and decorations are exe-
cuted in a masterly style by Mr. Dixoe. The form
of the audience part of the Theatre is half an oval.
There.are two rows of boxes, supported by light co-
lumns The house is lighted by ten elegant cut-
glass chandeliers, suspended from ornamental brack-
ets. The front above the stage is extremely bril-
liant: the Imperial arms are painted in yellow,
heightened with gold; the supporters as large as life.
The motto, Cenuabie,ue. From the increased size
of the stage, being twenty-six feet by nineteen, full
scope is given for representation. The building has
been executed under the immediate direction of Mr.
HiNay WILKINs, the patentee's son.
A letter from Hamburgh, dated 31st May, con-
tains the following important intelligence.
" HAMBURGH, MAY 31.
" I have but just (trite to inform you, that about ail
hour ago two estafettes reached this pl.ice from Ber:
lin ; the one addressed to tl,e. Prussian Minister, the
other to the Senate cf Hamburgli. The contents of
the dispatches are authentically stated to be that a
convention has been concluded between the mediating
Ministers, having for its object the security of.the
Hanseatic Cities, Lubeck, Bremen, and Hamburgh,
and the rest of the North of Germany, from all
hostile invasion. The Electorate of Hanover seems
to be left to its own fate. The French Minis-
ter Laforet was present at this important nego-
ciation at Magdeburgh ; and the Prussian army,
which is to protect the North of Germany, is now
under review, and encamped about Magdeburgh
and its environs. Its force amounts to 50,000 men,
who will be put under the command of General
Blucher. The Kim; of Prussia has positively de-
clared to France, that the shutting of the Weser 1
and Elbe would give an entire death-blow to the
maritime commerce of his dominions, and that if
matters should even come to such extremity, his
Majesty is determined, if garrisons are to be placed
in the Hanseatic cities, to suffer uone but Prussians." 1
A letter from Plymouth of the sth says, “Among'l
the passengers on board La Franraire, 44 guns'
captured by the Minotaur, 74 guns, on the 28th ult.
is a French General in Chief, from St. Domingo ;
he is lodged at March's Hotel, attended by two gre-
nadiers from the piequet from each regiment for the
day and flight. He talked very confidently of over-
running this district with 10,000 men; but yester-
day 'being his Majesty's birth-day, he had an op-
portunity, from his situation at March's Hotel, of
seeing, four British regiments march in grand stile
from Mill Bay Barracks and Frankfort Barracks
(three of which were militia regiments), on their rout
to the lawn before Govemmen, noose, to form with
the 'Royal 'Artillery, gth and 28th regiments, a lines
and two Amok% to celebrate iii. '',,icsty's bisth-day,.
• they iss*l lie hotel; their mtVtary appearikoce
sit nealimparticularly on being told there
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wf
that were passiug, three militia regit
Wibit
gan/diet! two =oaths, ariit naogiy .frxruits.i
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