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THE BRITISH PRESS.

I PN PON.
WEDNESDAY, JULY sl.

Qua re•'amar fails credimus, is an old adage, to
which we readily subscribe. Feeling its full inns-
ence, we felt pain in attempting yesterday to re-
strain the unwarrantable eapedation of a battle be-
tween Lord NELSON and the Combined Fleet, which
an Evening Paper of Monday attempted to excite,
upon the authority of an extra& from the log-bork
Of the Ain. America's. arrived last week at Liver-
pool. We are concerned to state, that we have
been but too well founded in discrediting that arti-
cle. Government, we understand, have received
dispatches, which state, that the enemy have effect-
ed th it retreat to Europe, and are now safely
moored in the harbour of Coruna 1. The following
letter from an officer belonging to Admiral CORPS-,
wat ws's lest, is the most authentic article which
we have seen upon the subjea :
" Hi; Majesty's -hip Princess Royal, off Brest,
Thursday, 23!h July.

1i We F. aye been cruising in the Bay of gi+cav for about
three we• ks past, in horse. tt.. fill in with the ►rench Fleet from
the West lushes; but as ay, have got into Corium', in Spain,
we bare resumed our Old station. off Ushant, with twenty one
sail of the line, some frlates and small vessels; the fleet is in
excellent ortler,and I believe very healthy, at Jet I can say for
this ship, that we have not a man confined to bed, nor any ill
of any ditrase,twoaccird-riv, excepted."

The above letter was received yesterday by Dr.
ISaurnsnonc, and is corroborated. not only by the
accounts at the Admiralty. where it is implicitly
believed, but also by several other advice' received
in the course of yesterday, colleeted by our cruisers
is the channel, and all agreeing in this main point.
Among these is the report of a Prussia. ship met off
ledly on Saturday last, which, being boarded by a
him from one of our cruisers, stated, that on the
10th instant she fell in, off the coast of Portugal,
with the Combined French and Spanish Fleets, con-
sisting of nineteen sail of the line, with several fri-
gates and corvettes, making altogether thirty sail.
The Prussian brig was detained for some time by
the Combined Fleet, and hoarded. The officer who
boarded made a thousand inquiries about the Bri-
tish Fleet, and jiwtiewlarly efies Ant ceder the cove.
sena of Lord Nstsow. The fad of the return of
the Combined Fleet to Corunna, being so well au-
thenticated, it would be a waste of time to notice
the varimts other reports of yesterday ; one of which
rated, tl'at a battle was fought in long 43, and
another. that the Combined Fleet had separated
about the 20th of June, and that the Spanish part
of it had proceeded to the Havannah. The chace
has been most disgraceful to the enemy, who Bat-
tered themselves, by this expedition, to strike a blow
which should resound through the universe, and
place the power Of BOMA! sere upon a basis that
could not he shaken. With respea to England,

when we consider the escape of our West India co-
lonies from devastation, and that the enemy had a
full month's start of Lcrd NELSON at the setting
Out from Europe, the result has been as fortunate
as we could reasonably wish, and if any disappoint-
ment ensues, it is because eartettation was raised to
an unwarrantable height. It had been confidently
- reported and generally believed, that every accessi-
ble port outside the Mediterranean was barred
against the enemy, and that, at Corunna particu-
larly, Sir Rouser Caesars had a force fully equal
to contend with them.
Bun AAAAAA is now busily employed in endeavours
to divert the public attention from !kit disgrace in
which the discomfiture of his Wen India expedi-

tion has involved him. The fear of the capture or
destruction of his whole fleet is generally supposed
to have accelerated his return to France, where he
is now busily employed in getting up his favourite
piece " The Invasims of England." We understand
that he is shortly 'eroded at Boulogne, and that Ad-
miral Vtencets, the Officer entrttszed with the fit-
ting act of the expedition in the Dutch ports, has late-
ly been refusedleaveof absence fora longer time than
three days. An unusual aftivity now prevails upon
the whole line of coast. from the fielder to Amble-
tense, and we may expel that the interest lately felt
ensuing month, be
following ex-
Monday, shews
. accordingly :
veering round, so as
their harbours,
Downs and re-
since been rein-
the westward,
remain here on a Emma-

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nent station, viz. Goliath, 74 guns, Capt. BARTON ;
Zen/OW, 74, Capt. HARDY; Darcner, 74, Captain
Hone; and afgi;nyeart, 64, Capt. &rocs. We
have now upwards of sixty pendants flying in the
Downs, and, I think, may bid defiance to all the
force the Corsican can send against us. From the
great damage our ships have received in approxima-
ting too closely with the French shore (in the ardour
of British enterprise and valour), an or.ler has been
peremptorily issued, that none of our cruisers, in pur-
suit of the enemy's craft, shall tun so far in as to get
within the range of the French batteries, which have
proved more fatal to our ships, when unfortunately
becalmed, than the whole of the coil •aive Imperial
naval force has ever been able to effea."

A ship bound to Hamburgh from the Mauritius,
was spoken in the Channel by one of our ships last
Saturday. She communicated to her the agreeable
intelligence that the Carotile frigate has captured in
the Indian seas the French frigate Pnsibe.
The Spanish schooner Si. lose y Animas, —,
from St. Andes o, for New Guayana, ar med with fonr
carriage guns, is captured by the Resolution privateer
of Guernsey, and cart ied in there ; she had captured
the Argo, —, and the Atay, from Oporto;
since retaken by the Naiad.
On Saturday, General Sr I)AviD BAlwn, artend•
ed by his Aids-de-Camps Captains TUCKEII and
Gokooo, set out from the tit. tlban's fl gel, for
Portsmouth, where he is immedixi:ly o embark with
some troops, which are to procet.l from the nee to
Cork, where Sir DAVID will take the command of
the troops which have been rolleeted there under
Sir ERE Coors. The objemt of this expeoition is
reported to be the Cape of (God Hope.
GLOSILGZ Syswaar, Esq. commonly called Vis-
coutitGAaLiLs, is returned to serve in Parliament
for the Borough of Cockertnouth, in the room of
JAMES GRAHAM, Esq. who, since his eleaion for
the said borough, has accepted the Office of Steward
of His MAJEATV'S Manor of East liendred in the
County of Berks
is Sir HLtisv, and not Sir WILLIAM, Russsx,
as erroneou,ly stated in some of the papers, who is
likely, as next in seoiority, to succeed to the Chief
Justiceship of Bengal, in case of the retirement of
Sir Jogs A%STIDITIILR. Bart. with whose health,
it is said, the climate dues not agree. 01 course,
this would cause other removals among the Judges
in India.

The KING has been pie-iced to present the Rev:
JOHN tiresvAer to the Church and P trish of Utile
!)unk, ld, in the Presbytery of Dunkekl, and County
of Perth.

The KING has also been pleased to present the
Rev. Di..rieart Rapiers.' to the Church and Parish
of South Knapdale, in the Presbytery of Inver.iry,
and County of Amyl!, vacant by the death of Mr.
DANIEL Hvuomiam. late Minister there.
Also the Rev. lime HIMD[RSOM to the Chtireh
and P.tri.h of Tranent in the Presbytery and County
of Haddington, ',want by she death of Dr.AtrsrKew
Beows, late Minister there

It is questioned by many, whether those Peers
who are to give evidence with resped to the ca'e of
Lord MetvILLE, some of wnorn have been Trea-
surers of the Navy, and in other relevant offirial
situations, as Lords Hit RROWDV. BAYNING, &c.
should deliver the same, itn their worts of h..nolir,
or their oaths. l'here have been instances of both.
But the opinion of Bt.acasrosE, combined with
ce: taro precedents, we think decisive upon the point
That enlightened Lawyer says, " But, when a Peer
is examined u a witness, either in civil or criminal
cases, de newt de raver*; for the respeet which the
law spews to the honour of a Peer does not extend
so far as to overturn a settled maxim, that in Judi-
el.) non credane sal Jesratie." Upon this principle.
the Bishop of OITORD was sworn in the impeach
ment of Lord MACCLIAPIELD, and Lord thus-
MONT. in that of Mr. HASTINGS.

The I ite rztraordinary rise in the price of bread,
on the eve of a most abundant harvest, Affords an
additional proof, that the general sill jal, of which
such a circ•fmstance forms A part, requires the most
serious investigation. One of the remedies sug-
gested by the Earl of Su FFOLI, who means to bring
the sutijen before Parliament early in the neat Ses-
sion, is to enlarge and render more commodious the
present Corn Marhe, which, on its present scale
and plan, is by no means adequate to the purpose ;
and also, the erection of a :rend market in a distant
part of the metropolis. Measures which certainly
would have a beneficial tendency.
A letter from Bristol, dated July 23, says—
". This morning Captain MORRIS, accompanied by
some of his friends, arrived in this city, for the pur-
pose of canvassing the Gloucester Freemen resident
here. It is impossible to describe the enthusiasm
wish which the visitors were received, not cooly 47
the voters, loot by multitudes of the other inhAbit-
aws of nil woks. The horses were taken off, and
the coach was drawn by altual voters nearly two
miles, and through some of the principal streets of
Bristol, pinteeded by streamers, &c. In short, every
demoosemition of respea and regard was paid m the
Canalise,, in honour of his spirited and enorsetic
support of the independency of the ancient city of
Gloucester."

The Gloucester Assizes are postponed from the
7th to the 27th next, on account et the Eledisen.

Colonel TAYLOR, of whom so much has been
sfaid respelling his appointment to be confidential
Secretary to ilis friaatsve, was, when a youth, a
Clerk in the Secretary of State's Office for Foreign
Affairs, in theadministration of Lord GRINVILLx.
lie is son of a respeCtable clergyman near Canter-
bury, and by the interest of 5k father he procured
him a commission in the Militia, having a de-
sire tur a military life. When the Doke of Yone
was going with the F.apcdition to Flanders. he wade
application to he employed upon the expedition; but
no other opportunity offered than his going as un-
der Secretary with General H Keit. MI, to His Royal
Highness, and to which, from his recommendations,
he was pleased to appoint him. He filled this situ-
ation wire so much satisfaCtion to the Dukc, and
credit to himself, that His Royal Highness was
pleased to present him with a commission in the
Dragoons, and afterwards with a Lieutenant Colo.
nel's commission in his own rcgiment, the Second
Regiment of Foot Guards.

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FASHIONS FOR AUGUST.

White satin hats looped iro with si:ver, and an elegant Os-
trich feather, such as were w prevalent at the last Opera, tor
bans, and hair, brown silk caps, with plaits of brown ribbon to
imitate the hair, and ornamented with gold embioidery, an-
tiques, &c. &c. Turbans, at usual, always elegant, fashionable,
and becoming to all ag^s.
BALL DRESSES—White and calonred crape, shent, beauti-
fully appliqued wit!, velvet down the front, awl all d the
dress, plain,shurt sleeves appliqued with velvet also; white crape
hats, the crown open, to spew the hair, applign to correspond
with the dress; the Nun's veils still continue fashionable, both
for dress and undress. L to dresses sprigged and plain, over
sirsnet slips, the sleeves of lace, the trains are alto much wont
trimmed with lace. The morning chemise up to the throat,
insert •d with beautiful work, and no train, long thin sleeves,
and primrose or peach colour handkerchiefs ceased on the
bosom, and fastened with an antique. The long mantles lined;
coloured silks of pale colaur, are much the fashion, and the
slouched bonnet has given way to the lace cap, ornamented
with flow..rs, for the b mptrAe, which is worn e a Francaisr,
with merely a srsl thrown over the head ; the Peasant bonnet
is also much warn, of p, tell colour. primrose, and other pale
colour, trimmed in fronr with a tulle

in the West Indies, will, for the ensuin
tramferted to that quarter. The I
tract of a letter from D: al, dated on M
that Government are taking measures
—" In consequence of the wind veerin,
to be fa;r for the enemy to get out of tl
our Boulogne squadron has left the E
mimed its station. 11,1 t WO have sins
forced by the fo!loaing ships from tl
which, I understrild, arc to retrain heft