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FROM SATURDAY NiGHTS GAZETTE.

4riesiealtrOfi, e, •r WV 13, 1807.
oe.s of a Letter from Vice-Admiral Dave., Conamander.in-
Chief of His Majesty's Ship. and Vessels at Jamaica to
%Vil.ians Marsden, Esq. dated at Port Royal, March'2o,
11107.
Sta—l inclose to you, for the information of the
Lords C mmissioners of the Admiralty, the Copy
of a Letter I have received from Captain Nicholas,
of the Lark, detailing the particulars of the de-
striation of souse gunsh -beats and small craft, when
one mules on the Spani Main.
I am, Ice. J. R. D•CRIIII.
He Mejesty'ssloop Lark, at Sea, March 10, 1807.
Sta-1 have the honour to report you the pro-
ceedings of His Majesty's sloop I command, daring
her late cruise.
On the 12th of January we fell is with and
chased an enemy's schooner, which carrying a very
heavy press of sail to escape from us, perished, in
a squall, when the whole of her crew be-
fore the Lark remised the spot.
On the 26th, late in the evening, we discovered
two guarda costa schooners under the land, and
by steering a suitable course, to cut them off from
Porte Bello, we, after fourteen horny chasing. on
the 27th captured them both ; they: were El Pos-
tilion, of one twelve-pounder, MR:lig-pounders.
and seventy-six men, and El Carmen, of one
twelve•pounder, four six-pounders, and seventy-
two men, both commanded by Lieutenants of the
Spanish Navy, and ware irons Carthagena, bound
to Porto Bello.
With these vessels in company, on the Ist of Fe-
bruary, a convey of market-boats, proteaed by two
gun-boats, and an armed schooner, were fallen in
with ; the former were driver, on shore, but the
latter took refuge in a creek of Zispata Bay, pro-
teaed by* four-gun battery. I followed them into
the bay. and in a short time silenced the fort; but
not being able to get at the gun-boats with the ship,
the Lark was anchored at a convenient distance,
and with the whole of our crew. (twenty men ex-
cepted, on board the prizes) I proceeded to attack
them.
The Spaniards reared out to meet us, and keep-
ing up a resolute fire, *preached until we closed,
when they fled ; chit-moment was seized to board
the steramost of the enemy, carrying a long twenty-
four pounder and two six-pounders ; she ran on
shore, but was carried, after a desperate resistance,
isswhich, of sixteen men, three were disabled, and
myself wounded. But here jrL success ended ; for,
in following the others up the creek, the Pilot
to the channel, and ran the schooners on shore,
without nay prospea of getting them off ; the aftion
was therefore continued in this situation. until fire
o'clock. when Mr. Pound (the Purser), and two
more men, being added to the list of wounded, I
gave up the attempt. dire/Ring Lieutenant Bull to
set the schooners on fire, and to cover the retreat.
The Carmen blew up, and the Postilion was in
lames, and otherwise so much disabled, that she
mast be lost to the enemy.
The rood coodua of the Lark's Officers and
crew entitle them to my thanks, and I trust their
exertions may be rewarekd by better fortune on a
future occasion. 1 am, tee.
(Signed) ROBUT NICUOLAII.
Ti James Riclkard Decree, kis') V ice. Adunral
of the White, 1m Ike.

SUPPLE.VI:NT
Tu The Laudon Gotetre, of Saturday, June 140

susoay. tufa 14.

Downing agree, .1,1),e 15, 1607.
The following intelligence has been received by
Viscount Castlereagh, one of His Majesty's Princi-
pal Secmtares of State, from Majlr-General Alex.
ander M'lleatie Fraser, elms:ending His Majes-
ty's Land Forces Egypt, transmitted in a Letter
from the Right Hon. General Fox, to the Right
Hots. Wm. Windham:
lama of the Copy of a Letter from Mojor•General A. M.
Fraser, to the Itirt Hon. W,Uam WiAdttaro, dated Alex
Aril 6, 11107, tra,trootte I I-. lint by G:netst Fox,
the twig Mil nut having Iwo' mooted
Si it—My letter of the 117th ultimo hits already in-
formed you, that, in consequence of the strong re.
presentation of Major Missett, His Majesty's Rest
dent here. a Copy of which I then transmitted
stating the risk the inhabitants of Alexandria ran
of being starved, unless Rosetta and Rahmanie wee
taken passessii n of by His Majesty's troops, I hau.
with the concurrence of Rear-Admiral Sir Join-
Duckworth, detached the 31st Regiment and Chas-
seers Britanniques, under Major-General Wau
chope, and brigadier-General Meade, for that
put pose.
I am now under the die agreeable necessity o!
acquainting you, that, contrary to all expectation,
this measure not succeed Our troops took
possession of the heights of Abnurmandoor
command the town) withcut any loss; bet, from
cireumstaners as yet 'unexplained, the General,
instead of keeping his post there, unfortaaattly
was tempted to go into the town with his whole
force, without any previous examination of it, ,
when:the troops were so severely handled from the
windows and tops of the houses, without ever
seeing their enemy, that it was thought expe-
dient to retire, more especially as Major General
Watichope was unfortunately killed, and the se-
cond in enromes4, Brigadier-General Meade, se-
verely wounded.
The troops, I understand, though certainly
placed in a most trying and pride's situation, be-
haved extremely well ; and after having suffered.
I am sorry to say, very materially, in killed and
wounded, (as you will see by the annexed returns,)
retired to Aboukir, in good order, without moles-
tation, from whence I directed them to return to
Alexandria.
This has certainly been t very heavy and
unexpected stroke us, more especially as
every lofornsation Irma to conclude, that the
opposition, it my, would be trilling ; and every
precaution was recommended that prudence could
suggest.
Finding, however, by the renewed representation
of Major Missett, corroborated by the personal
application d the Sorbegi, or Chief Magistrate,
in the name of the people at large, that a famine
would be the certain and immediate cothrquence
e ell•WainiAlP at ALaaadfla. witient the

occapatieM of Rosetta, I have, with the conctr- •
renal. advice, and co opermion of Rescr4sdmirat
Sir 'Mourn Louis, (who commands theißivadron
here since the departure of Sir John Buckworth,),
detached another corps, under the command of the
Honourable Btigadier-General Stewart and Colonel
Oswald (as per Margin) to effect this purpose,
without which it appears impossible that the
me-sure proposed by His Majesty's Ministers, of
keeping possession of Alexandria, can be accom-
plished.
Extract of a Dispatch from Wm-General Fraser, to Cameral
the Right Hon. H E. Fon, dated on bria,J His Majts.ty's
ship Canopus, Aboukir Bay, April 24, 1807.
I have the mortification to acquaint you, that the
second attempt that I thought necessary to make
against Rosetta, has failed, owing to a great rein-
forcement of the enemy being sent down the Niel,
from Cairo, which overpowered our troops, and
obliged tt.em to fall hack with the loss, I am grieved
to say, of neatly 1000 men, in killed, wounded and
missing. Among the latter are Lieutenant-Colonel
M'Leod, Major Vogelsang, and Major Mohr. Bri-
gadier-General Stewart, who commanded the troops
on this service, is only now upon his march towards
Alexandria, with the remainder of his force, and has
not yet sent me the details ; but as the Admiral
thinks it necessary to dispatch the Wizard brig im-
mediately from this Bay to Messina, I think it ne-
cessary to give you all the information I am at pre-
sent in possession of, and shall send you the pat ticu.
lars of this unfortunate affair, by His Majesty's ship
Thenderer, which will leave Alexandria very soon;
and as I have not time to acquaint His Majesty's
Ministers of this event, by this opportunity, I must
request you to have the goodness to du it as soon as
possible.
Return of Killed Ind Wounded of the army in the setiou of the
31st of March, 1857, at Rosetta.

Staff-.. 11 Major General.
Royal Artillery-42 rank and file.
31st Ritituent--.4 Captain, 3 Serjeants, 3 Druintn,rs. y 9 risk
and hie.
Clisnieuni Britanniques-1 Captain, 1 Lacutenant. 3 Serjeants,
2 Mummers, ry9 r:nk and file.
Total-•-t Major-General, Y capuilli, 1 Lieutenant, 6 Ser•
jeante, S Or usiniett, 170 rank and tne.
Wounded.
Staff-1 llngstlier.General. 1 Brigade. Major.
llnyal Artillery.....to rank and file.
31st Regvnent-1 Captain, 6 iubaltems. 7 Setjeants, Drum-
01.1r, 119 rank and ble
Clias.eurs Brute que.--4 Captains, S Subalterns, 1 Adjutant,
4 Serjeatu, 111 rabk and hie.
Staff CUrpa...4 rank and file.
Tutal—ll Brigadier.Genertl, t B-igade Major, 5 Captains,
1,0 Listutetsanta, 2 &twins, 11 betreants, t Ormolus',
2)1 rank and file.
Nantes of Officers killed.
Major-General Wairehope.
blst Regina ..nt--Captaut John Rerrrtton.
Chasseurs Bittanntques—Captatit it. dr. Serueoutt j Lieutenant
D'Ainiel.
Nantes oft Ace's wounded.
Brigadier-General the lion. !token Meade.
31st Re(iinent-. Capiains LB.igade-Mijaa,) and
Modell ; Lwutenents K. Ku ,e, Felfo,l, -11111611lJt$, Sled
don,a,ad Ryan; Ensign Ruby.
Chassenrs rPttaltitiques—Captatire Duhatitoy,deCombeemont,
de Ciluntae, and de L,afiue ; Lieuten.o.t Moire, J.
Spits, de Sato, and Klinger; Ensign 11...3. it tilt, Adjutant
(Signed) GhOKtak, Al KEY,
Mting 0-pots .kalutatit General
N.B. Most of the wounded csdicera And aura sre
recovering.
• Detachment of the Royal Artillery. Ortachnt rot of the
tOsts Ligbt Dragoons Detachment rat nu, I.igni la.
taste? Battalion, tat !Satiation of 3)th ILI Bat.
uluon of the 71th Regiment, Regiment de it.tl , amount-
ing, in tne whole, to about two thou-and fife hundred
mss.

THE BRITISH PRESS.

LONDON,
MONDAY, Juse 13.

The Telegraph, on Saturday, announced the ar-
rival of the horneward-bound Leeward Wanu
Fleet, off the Isle of Wight. late on Friday night ;
and the greater part of tnern hid arrived yesterday
in the Downs. Fifteen of them arrived at Briv.ol,
on Friday.

The official account of the disasters which have
befallen our little army in Egypt, was published yes-
terday in an Eseraerthnory Citizen'. It appears that
the possession of Rosetta was considered Dec sssss y in
order to procure a supply of provisions for our
army at Alexandria, not because the inhabitants of
that city were unfriendly to our troops, as stated in
the Treasury Journals, but on account of a general
scarcity--" Maim. Musts r having represented to
General Fraser. that the inhabitants of Mesta& i a
ran a risk of being starved, unless ltlatta and Ilah-
manic were taken possession of by His Mal gra Y'S
troops." Out how this se:inky Was occasioned,
whether the inhabitants of the country cut off the
usual supplies. or a general scarcity prevailed in
Egypt, is net mentioned. The Official account nest
proceeds to State, that " General WAtICHOPt, from
circumstances as yet unexplained, instead of keep-
ing his post upon the heigbts of Abourmaudour,
which commanded Rosetta, unfortunately was
tempted to go into the town with his whole force,
without any previous examination of it ; " and Ge-
neral FRAIIIR adds, " that every information led
him to conclude that the opposition► if any, would
be trifling ;" thus candidly admitting that Go.
sera! W aucissores detachment fell into an embus.
code. Unless the late Ministers bad been endowed
with übiquity and prescience, they could not pre-
vent this misfortune ; and as we have not so high
so opinion of them, they stand acquitted of ail
blame in the detail of the expedition ao Egypt.
With respea to the original design, we stated
on Saturday, and now repeat, that the troops
went to that country slut by orders from Eng.
Allads but is cousequeace of n 11416041 -Orders

given to Admiral Dec aworrit ; and we contend,
that to condemn the laic Minister) before the nature
of those orders is known, and it t►aa been ascertained
whether a sound discretion has bees exercised upon
them, is as unjust, preposterous, and absurd, as
it is to abuse them, because General Viai,c noes fell
into an ambuscade at Rosetta. Upon the whole,
then, it appears that Ministers have, on this occa-
sion, aged most ungenerously towards their Pre-
decessors in office. Had they published General
Faassa's letter on the day they received it, and as
it was their duty to have done, their Journals would
not have had the slightest pretence for much of the
calumny and abuse poured last week upon the late
Ministers, upon the garbled accounts furnished from
the Treasury. But delusion is the vital principle of
the present Ministry, and when they shall cease to
delude, they must cease to exist.

The Prince Ening packet is arrived at Falmouth
with a Mail from New York, in 24 days. It
has brought a full account of the destruetion of t!.e
Dutch shipping, at Batavia, given in the first page.

The Etc:lion of the Sixteen Peers of Scotland
took place on Tuesday last, at Holyrood House.
Edinburgh. The particulars are given in the las t

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