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London, England, 1804-09-28 00:00:00

SQMIRIWN OFF BOULOGNE.

—sew—
F.xtradl of a I.etter front an Officer on board
,his 41-jolty's
ship leitarirra:its, dassidi:Nrerie;, Sept. 24. .
" We sailed from the Downs the 19th of August,
and got off the French coast the lame day, but no-
thing material Iran:rued until the 24th, when the
flotilla came out into the roads, to the number of
60 brigs, and 48 loggers. with several other small
.craft, and moored in a line. On the 25th, we had
an engagement with eight loggers under the forts of
Ambreteuse and Vimeroux, but luckily Sustained
no damage. On the 26th, we stood in shore in the
forenoon, and were heavily fired at by the forts and
flotilla ; and in the afternoon of the same dap, 14
brigs and nine loggers were s en standing for Vi-
mereux : we immediately crowded all sail after them,
being joined by the Harr y sloop of war, Constitution
cutter, and two gun-brigs, which force the Moretteur
has magnified into a frigate of 44 guns, a ship of
24, and two brigs of 18. We were fortunate enough
to get within point blank shot of them, which put
them into great cool union ; but they were soon as-
sisted by another floti:la, which, seeing their situation,
came to their support ; hut from the nearness of our
position, and the time we were engaged, we have
reason to think the slaughter of the crew must have
been very grew, as we kept a constant fire upon
them for three hours, and perfealy drove them be-
fore us. 'fhe damage we sustained was trifling. We
had four marines wounded slightly, and a spar car-
tied away. The cutter was unfortunately sunk by a
shell, but the whole crew were saved. The Heppe
had one man killed. On the Zth, we bad another
salon of Pollee. with the left wing of the enemy's
flotillas and drove them back with a heavy loss of
men, and their vessels much hulled. On the 30th,
the wind shifting, we stood over for our own coast,
but returned back for Boulogne again on the 91st,
and found in the outer roads 45 brigs, and several
loggers, which all went into the inner harbour on the
2.J. On the 6th we perceived 44 brigs and :7.0 loggers
corn-ng round Cape Grisatea from Ostend, together
with a prams of twenty 34-pounders: we immedi-
ately weighed and stood for them, and fell in with
them between Ambleteuse and Vimerenx, but the
moment we began our fire the wind failed us, C..d
we were unfortunately becalmed under the fire of
their batteries, from which we had one man killed,
one lost his leg, and another part of his shoulder,
and had they been expert gunners we must have
suffered much more. On the WI they greatly en-
creased their number of vessels in the outer roads ;
and on the 12th, 4 brigs let Boulogne for Calais: we
made sail after, but could not get within shot of
them. On the 13th most of their brigs and tuggers
were manoeuvring : we stood towards :hem, and re-
ceived a most tremendous fire from their batteries,
when several shot passed through our sails. On the
18th we made another attack upon them, and got
close in with their Admiral, to whom we gave two
bioadsides with round and grape, and did them con-
siderable damage; as they were returning to the
harbour if Boulogne and Vimereux, we were so
, close in with them, and so many of the shells of their
batteries burst over us, that we were obliged, tor the
safety of the men, to send them from the tipper
&tern on the main deck, as we were more exiii.si d
in this anion to their batteries than in any usher
r since the war began; the wind changing, we sailed
fat the Downs. leaving the flotilla in the oiat,r ;
ter as the equinoxial gales are begun, they must by
this time have made for their harbours."

SCO7 LAND,

CIRCUIT INTELLIGENCE.

MIMI ART, SEPT. 21.
The Circuit Court of Justiciary was openel at
th's place upon Monday the 17th curt. by the Right
Hon. Lord Cut. Len.

The first case that came lverore the Court was an
indittment against yeiia Fie, Archibald RA IMSOV.
drebibald lti.Deagal, Radii-Kb Show,Catheriste Camp-
bell, Anne Campbell, and Ale:ander M.Kreneh, or
Darroch. accused of committing depredations upon
the cargo of a vessel from the Vi est Indies, that Was
wrecked lately amongst the small isles of Jura,
and likewise for assaulting the master of the vessel.
Archibald APDongal, Roak rich Sim, Catharine Camp-
bell, and .4,irse Campbell, were outlawed for not ap-
pearing, and the trial proceeded as to the other
three. The evidence was summed up on the part of
the Crown. by Mr. D•vto Bo v Ls, Advocate-de-
pute, and on the part of the pannels, by Mr.
Rosser CA Yuma.. Advocate; and Lord Cutter
m j having charged uury, they were inclosed at eight
o'clock in the evening. Next morning a verdia was
returned, finding the libel not proven against Archi-
bald Ramsay, Alexander M•Krecch, or &reach, nor
against Jahn 211Tres the other pannel, so far as re-
garded his abstritaing any part of the cargo; but
boding it proven, that he behaved in a eery im-
proper manner to the master of the vessel, when
endeavouring to protect the property of his owners.
The Court found, that the verdsfl was conceived in
such terms, respeifting 31,Fee, as not to find the
pannel guilty of any of the crimes charged in the
libel, and that therefore tn. punishment could follow
upon it. The whole three were therefore assoilzied
roa#ttiter, and dismissed from the bar.
The Court neat proceeded to the trial of DM,,ran
Mee 4rther, Lin pf Niel Mac Arthur, residing at
Dail, in die p.irish of Louth, Knaptoil, and county
of Argyll. who was accused of the murder of Eli-
zabeth Mac Kinnon, his wife, in the month of Oc-
tober last. The dead body had been found in the
morning after the murder, lying on the banks of the
Crinan Ca:•al, with the feet in the canal ; and it was
supposed the murder had been perpetrated by 'trim-
:in amyl on the evviiing preceding, as the deceased
WAS an her way to the village of Lochgalphead, ac-
companied by her husband.
After a very long trial, the evidence on the part of
the Crown was summed up by the Anew:Aso De-
n:Vs ; and by Mr. JAMES L'Astv, Advocate on
we par: et the panne' ;

ft* Jur / w-re charged by Lord Cut.r.rie, and
7nc!,...,1 At .• • .*4.l•lck in the morning, and at ten
0%1..1: j • te,r:ay returned a verdiet, all in one
voice p.i:in:lljgasity of tits war/sr; where-
upon L. w.. ..-.I to be tied npaf bread and
eraser o:.&y, an . '.O carried to the place where
tite r:•••••der wa; morritted, there to be hanged
'Ti' • mit 'her t and his body there-
51t:inr to b.- d:ssrted And anatomised.
Timp culprit afterwards courissad his guilt.