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London, England, 1805-11-09 00:00:00

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; LONDON,
-SATURDAY, Novimni n.

We uncletrand that the following is the List of
the Staff Generals appointed for the Expedition :
CWIAIII6I.IDtt
Fiel.l Marshal It s 114.yal Highness the Duke of York.

CAVALRY.
Lieutenant General 11.1%.1.
Lieutenant Generd Lord Pembroke.

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Each Lieutenant-General of I-fanrry is to have
ender him two Ntaj Ira-C.:tau:rat, wh, ea:it com-
mand a Bri :Ade, making twelve Briga,l.s of In-
fantry. The number of Cavalry is not yet settled,
nor are the other departments of the Staff;—,.it the
arranpmentq are in a forward state. Lord V ~,aar
goes as ‘I tjor-Gencral, in command of a Brigade of
Cavalry, or Light Troops. The British force will
not he less than 40,0)0 men.

Sir 110 'CRT CALDER arrived, on Thursday even-
ing, at Portsmouth, in the linnet of Wok!.

It is repotted in the Ministerial Circles, that the
Earl or p„%, is will succeed the Earl of Haan-
WICK( as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.

It was reported, yesterday, in the city, that the
KIKO of Ps Mt A had been poisoned; but we know
not what degree of credit the report deserves, nor by
what channel it was received. Captain Sr A tOLS, we
know, artiv•d in tows, is the course of the day,
fro:n ; but he has not brought any report
to that effea. As Captain STA TOL! was preparing
to sail from Rotterdam, with twenty passengers,
the FRANCIS CONSUL put than under arrest, and
seized their papers. The Captain was permitted,
as a great favour, to der,rt alone.

Some very 1-c .vy firing, off the French coast,
was heard at Darer on Wednesday night. The
Bed gun-brig re-c:sp,ured and sent in the Ceret of
Gottenburgli. which had been taken by a French
privateer Arinth:-. of nar gun-brigs chased * brig
and a lugger in:n rains. Another brig was recap-
tured, and se. l. into R imsgate. to which place she
belongs. with her Cam ti r desperately
The firing. on Wednesday uicht, probably pro-
ceeded from these altions, ani appears to hive oc-
casioned a report of an attack upon Boulogne. The
expedition, supposed to be destined for that pc--
, pose, however, remaine.l yesterday in the reads
It is expelled to sail in a few days. A manoeuvring
took place on Wednesday, by signal from on board
the Usitiente sloop of war, which appears to aft as
Commodore of the squadron cruising off Dover.
A signal was made (or the boats from the brigs in
the roads, to be manned and sent in, when a part
was picked from each boat, to the number of about
40, and sent on board a very fast-sailing cutter.
with four day's provisions. There are only two
sloops of war, and five gun-brigs, immediately off
Dover. The rest of the squadron are lying off
Wilmer. Every thing seems nearly ready. The
brigs, in the Roads, have taken in various kinds of
combustibles. The Diligence sloop takes her's on
board in the Reads. She took her guns in yesterday.

The Meneaaner packet. arrived at Falosouth,
sailed from TortoLs no the 17th September. The
iffricaing frigate, with about ninety sail of vessels,
for Great Britain, left that Island two days before,
accompanied to the Northward by the :4vrehe fri-
gate, and Iflpenonass sloop of war. The ships from
Trinidad did not join the ilea, no convoy having
been sent for them. On toe 31 and 4th ultimo, in
lat. 40.10 n. 40. the packet experienced a heavy g
from the eastward ; and since the lath of (Maher,
till near soundings, experienced nothieg but gales
f:om N E. to S.E. and saw a great number of dis
abled vessels. On the 26th, in lat. 49.10 n. IT. spoke
t'ae disdaciest m.us of war, and the Dryad frigate,
kinking out for the above fleet ; the day before, the
Dryad bad boarded the Warta., Capt. Huscisr !I-
som, from New Providence, for Liverpool.

The apprehensions excited by the concluding pan
of AOmiral Co sussoon's inter, for the safety r‘f
the prises taken in the glorious vi4h-wy off Cape
Trafalgar, have added greatly to the universal
unieety to receive farther accounts from the Fleet
'lle gale of wind still continued on the ‘2slh. When
the Pickle left the fleet. only nine of our ships were
in sight, they having separated in the gale. MAny
the prises were tqL.lly ai%masted, And the re-
mainder bad lost either a fore, main, or mizen-mast

each. The r Lori Nstcoa's ship, lost he-
,,niseia•mast and tore-top-ru.sct ; scvorAl other 01 nui
.hips lost their tOFsmtatts. and une OT IWO their
ITlitell.lllMitli It is said, that eight of the p, ire.
had already been sunk. and that the A.liniral ha. 4

ordered the men to be withdrawn from neirlj ail
the rest, and their masts and rigging to be cut away.
preparatory to sinking them. There was one fine
,hip in the care of the Donne:al and Eu►ydice frigate,
which the Admiral wished to preserve ; these two
ships joined after the anion.

When the signal was made from the VsBsry. for
aftion, each of the British ships was anxious to sig-
nalise herself, by being the first engaged. The altion
began about noon. The Victory did no: fire a sho t
until she was close along-side the Sauthiima Troia.
dada, when the Commander-in-ChiPt ordered her
to be lashed to the enemy. As soon ati the met:
began their works, the Comm .nder of the Sostiu,ma
rintdada desired his men to assist us lashing his ship
to the Victory.
The Belfriac was in the hottest of the action, and
sustained great loss in killed and wounded—she was
totally dismissed. A signal Was made at Maker Tower,
for a vessclunder jury masts, on Wednesday iftern:,on
—she is supposed to be the Brileigit. The Sharp

Shooters from the maintop of the Sanfistima Trd,s-
dada are said to have picked off agreat number ol our
men. Lord NELSON had just been praising the con-
dna of the whole Beet, an 3 particularly Admiral
Coxxi\owono and his division,when he was snuck
by the fatal bell, which terminated the existence of
the most gallant officer this country ever produced.
the killed on board the Vi3ory are said to have
amounted to 136. In this number is Capt. AD•I a,
of the Royal Marines.

The Temersire, of 98, Captain H• ay v, had tw•o

three-deckers on her, from both of which she carried
away the masts, when they struck. The Temeraire
did hot lose a man. The AehiUr, Si (French), blew
up in the anion. Tlie Pricer, 9s. had the Trinidad,,
13u", in tow two days ; but, on account of the gale,
took ont all the people, and scuttled her, when she
sunk. Admiral Geavria• had returned to Cadiz
with thirteen sail of the line, after the action of the
21st ult. but came out to see what crippled ship; of
their own fleet he could pick up. Two were cer-
tainly towed in; bas he returned back to CAI:11Z as
:re came out ; Admiral Cot at NOWOOD having mail.•
the signal for the Br, esn e, 110. Admiral Lord
Novivirtsa, and the best sailors. to chace him, on
which he returned into Cadiz Bay.
The elegonasee, S 4, is tow. was cut adrift, and
went down, people saved ; ISO Spanish prisoners
were saved by the Pickle, 14. and attempted to rise,
out were soon got under. The Pickle saw, the 25th
ult. three prizes at anchor, close in with the shore.
A 1/104'Llg gale, with ix of our slips surrounding
then. It is feared a great any of the prizes went
ashore, an 1 were totally lost ; if so, the account will
stand thus, AS far as tho people of the Pickle saw and
made observations of—

Sane...sins Trin.dads„ (111,..nish), 136 guns, sunk.
.Frenth), 134, blew up.
faro tinannth, 7+s, g beck en CA a.
A rgunauta, (Span6ll),ll4, wank after being taken posessmn

Three Spanish and French Prises, 744, in potunion, and at
anchor.
Twelve Saii of rim's, toppoiod Li have fuLandeml, or pile
atllolo and host.

The battle lasted four hours, and a dead calm
prevailing the whole of the day, every shot told,
and did some execution; four of our fldet were -o
becalmed, they could not get into action at all.
Admiral Vt it 111 [UV E, and tie Sp knish Admirals,
called a Council of VVar, the 14th ult. and, after 24
hours deliiieration on board 1,1 Burenimgre, 84, it
was agreed, that it was impradticable to fight the
British fleet with any prospeCt of success. Between
the Ilth and 2lst, Lor.l l'slgcsotr detached seven sail
of the line, with Admiral Louis, up the straits, to
blockade Carthagena, and th,,n positive orders came
dogtrot to Cadie. for MT Cnml•ined rem to push
out, and, at all events, fi;ht the British Fleet, and

endeavour to get through the Gut of Gibraltar for
Toulon, to victual, as the whole feet were is want
of bread particular)}.

Yesterday. the Duke of Gt.ouc ear za, Lord Cas-
e Leas A on, an Mr. Pi rt.. had . consultation with
the Duke of YORK, at his Office in the Horse
Gua►ds, from About two o'clock, till near five.

The (lyre. RIMPATH, from Riga for London, is
totally lost on Rip Bar.
The linens. Lorro v, from Patersbnrg for Lou-
don, has foundered off Bornholm.

The Drairrous, NtessoLsom, from Palau for Ply-
mouth, is lost near Dautzic.

The seee,,,/„/ Amy, hound to Liverpoote
was lost near Antigua, on the Stith of August.
Tne AAR wad Vire, —, from St. Lucia for
Liverpool, put into Guadeloupe in distress, and was
captured.
l'he Her Dear, bound to London, is condensed
at Antigua.
The Man*, —, from Barbidoes for Liverpool,
has been on shore near 'Tortola, and was discharging.
The Right Hon. the Logo Marna has signified
Mention of calling an early Court of Common
Council, to Address His MAJ F.S r Y nn the Glorious
and Important Victory over the Combined Meets.

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• ILLIBILINATIONS.

L Ist night, the Public•offices and buildings were
again illuminated in the same intent ode as is:,
Thursday night. The India-hnuse, Mansioli-honse,
Excise-office, Post-office, and Gird DWI, were
glare of the most tasty and splendid devizes : a
very fine plainer bust of the valiant News:
has been added to the latter, with a wreath of
laurel. interspersed with lamps, suspended above, in
hum of a canopy. Several private houses were
also decorated with festoons:, stars, and other devices.
In addition to those of I hnisday, was Fir. Wit_
I.IA us's, the Sw.sn with Two Necks, Ladslane,which
displayed in the fronto large star, formed of voriege,.
ei limps, and along the hOlcany in the yard a festoon
of coloured lamps, which 14-I,e it a very light alt.i
brilliant effect. In Cheapside, a large transu.ooi...
pi (dile of Hit !denser, surrounded wOr I
sves displayed over a Hatter's shop. NI,. s
optician, in Fleet-street, had a remarkable 11.14!
N. formed of lamps. in the centre of a circle of in.,.
liant lamps, which nearly covered the whole
rite streets were crowded to a great degree. If
India House attraaed a great concoarse of spec-
tators. The Minerva Office, in deadenlialdsttee:,
was very brilliant ; it displayed the British Anclos:
in a transparency. on a black ground, and above,
the Wreath of Triumph, in the centre of which,
was the word r' Vi:oree." &oil. on the west side, an
urn, on which was inscribed :
A 14%! Alas! I. is nn more !
Lite it bd. SUL Isef 141.4 In store
T' ne:nr.l the loss we all deeinrw.
MISS Pa r es house, in Pell-M4ll, attraaed much
admiration. It WAS lighted by war-lights, in the
mesa beautiful diamond-cot glass branches, most
tastefully placed. In consequence of squibs, crack-
ers, &c being prohibited, there was nut near se
much riot or noise as the :tight before.