The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1805-01-30 00:00:00

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' 'dna INTELLIGENCE.
FALIIOOTX, JAN. V.
Arrived yesterday, the Spanish ship AgflaCordorn,
from Carthagena, hound to Ferrol, laden with cot-
ton and fustic, taken on the 18th inst. by His Ma•
jesty's ship Malta, of 84 guns ; she has also on
board a bile quantity of dollars and bars of gold.
GREENOCK, JAN. 25.
A mnre.pstrintic and determined spirit could not
possibly have hoen evinced, than was shes►n by all
ranks, upon the communication of an enemy being
on the coast
Soon after the alarm, the Ist Greenock regiment
mounted guard, and both regiments were put on per-
manent duty, ready on a moment's notice. At three
o'clock a division of tlieSharpshooters, and a number
of eat penters from the yards of Messrs. Scott and
son, Steel, and Carswell, and Morgan. went aboard
the Nrptaver, at Gourock, and about the same time,
a part of therevenock and Port Glasgow regiment,
under the command of Capt. Stewart, embarked in
the St Andres, lying in the roads, the carpenters to
aft as seamen, and the volunteers as marines. The
rest of the Sharpshooters, on Wednesday evening,
were divided between His Majesty's ship the Tour-
trrrlle,-and the privateers. The wind and sea, at the
moment, rendering the entharkation by bob'. some-
what. dangerous, Messrs. James and John Rankin
gave, for that nerpose, their trader the Aftive, ha?f-
bailed for Liverpool.
• About eight 'o'clock yesterday morning, the Tour-
Well, got under weigh, and a little after, the St.
Andrew; the former proceeded downwards, but the
latter lay off and on, for the Mereere, and Mr,'
that they might go in company. At this interesting
moment, when they were just about to set off, an-
other express arrived, informing, that the ship in
the sound of Luing, supposed to be a French ship
of war, is His Majesty's ship the Brilliant, having
charge of the Spanish ship, formerly mentioned, AS
prize to the li-prune. Expresses were instantly sent
after the Tourterelle and privateers, with this intelli-
gence, and reached them before they had made
much progress. Our brave defenders came ashore
in the course of the Mrennon, and were cheered and
hezzaed by their grateful townsmen.
Ilse following is the substance of the statement
transmitted by t7aptain Tatham to the Lards of the
Admiralty :
" On Saturday the lath inst. in a very heavy
gale of wind. two strange ships at seven o'clock
p in. were discovered coming rip the sound of
S'iuna, opposite to Onrpoint or Luing, where they
separated, the one going up on the outside, and the
other, with a light at each mast head, on the inside
of the island of Luing.
" The on on the inside p.meti very close to the
American ship retrrettia, the master of which hailed,
and desired them to keep further off, to which a
short indietinGt answer was returned : The ship on
the outside at the same time firing signal guns.
which led to the belief of their beiag enemy's ships.
On Sunday morning, a man named Alexander Ste-
venson went alongside, but was not permitted to ap-
pr. tch the ship, because a boat had formerly taken
away some of the Beiliant's men; and this boat
being orde'ed to keep off, confirmed the suspicion
that it was an enemy.
" On Monday, Colonel Campbell, of the Craignish
'Volunteers, went OU board the inside ship, and was
informed she was the Brilliant, and the other, the
Spanish prize she had in charge. The prize got into
Tobermorry."

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At ralmouth—..the B Irvin, Howland, (rem Gibraltar; and
the Hind, B.dam, NAPIeI•
At Touettain—th, Neptune, Denning, from Oporto.
At Newport—the ilope, ir-raw., from London for Limerick.
At I.cginen--the Sm ier, , from Baltunore ; and the
Susannah and Sally, Hance, from Lmal .n.
At Vettiee—the Crown PrlllkY, Frederick, from Falmouth ;
the Mid, Bowden, nom Latuadore.