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AAVAL lA7'ELLIGE.VC.A.

PORTSMOUTII, JAN. 2.
Arrived the Aid schooner from a cruise ; and the
Primituge, of 14 guns, Captain Mein, from Oporto,
which place was quiet and in good order alien she
left ; also the Orion. Ireland, front Cadiz for
don, in ten days.
%Vent out of harhaur the Iris frigate, Captain
Tower ; the Daring " Lieut. Ilayes ; the
Defender gun-brig, Lieut. Plowman ; and Nile
lugger, Lieut. C. Symons.
Arrived the Chalknger sloop of war, Captain
Ryder, f the Dowus, having under convoy teas
transports, with three detachments of the Guards
on board, for Spain. The 87th and 88th regiment*
arrived iu the transports yesterday from Rams-
gate; they will all proceed immediately to Spain.
—Wind L.S.E.

DrAf JAN. 2.

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Arrived the Tromporge, Kangaroo, Peruvian,
and the Glonsam, from a cruise ; iiiia remain to tile
Omuta with the blues as per lasi.—Wind E.

FROM Lt D'S UST.

GllAVlCarrin, JA.v. —Pa%sed by, the Ana, Blerett,
fruin tribiAltar, mai ate There Friends, %%illy, from Gotten,-
bun:h.—S.llrd the Aurora, litistieonons, fur Ih•lfutit ; Per-
severance, B itad, fur Op.atu 3 sista tbc .tuna Ilwitt, Blown-
full, fur I.hilioti.
JA e. —Pits.cil by the Fly, Aspinall, from the rope of
Cuud Jtttw•s stud Nl.irviett, Milne; 31ereurius,
(-0,1; Douro, -Iteir.l; !tribute*, (:rimy; Hope, Gray;
Vio:1,1-luoce Stelinatt ; Albiuy, .ilttriti: :net the
Cou:ter, Olstvisa, mu 1.01. iihttextt.—Saac.l the Jolly Bo-
ehelor, Can• Commis; Uusuisesity, Kent, for Italcies ;
Mmoutl, for I:alta meal tile fur

• MOM LAST MC/IT'S CAZETn.

Admiralty-0211m January 3, I 80Y.
Vice-Admiral Lord Collingemod has, with his
letter of the 125th of October last, tretirtnitiesl to
the honourable William Wellesley role a letter
from Captain Pearce, of His Niajesty'w sloop the
halcyon, giving an account of the capture of the
whole of a convoy belonging to the suemy tinder
the town of Diamante, on the Bth of Stptemhev,
by the above sloop, the Weuzle, (Captain Po
cott,) and a Neapolitan galley, with a detachment
of the British army under the •:oui.uand of Lieu-
tenant-Colonel Bryce.
Lord Collingwood commends the zeal and des-
terity of Captains Pearce and Prescott, as also the
ability with which the co-operation of the army
was conducted on the above enterprise, which was
achieved without any loss on our part.
N.B. The particulars of the above affair ere
contained in the letter and inclusurc from Lieute-
nant-General Sir John Stuart, inserted in The Go-
:We of the Itith ultimo.

Copy of a Letter from Captain Thomas Harvey. of Ili.
Mejesty'r 'hip the Standard, dated utf Corfu, Kith June.
mou, to Vice-Admiral Lord ColliuKo"od, Commander-
in Chief in Ike Megliterraneel, and titthan:nett bt the
latter to the Hon. W. W. Pole.
Mr Luitn—At day-light, this morning. I fell in
with I,a Volpe, Italian gun-hout, cuuuuuuded by
Ensign de Vaisseau Miehelt llitui•in, carrying au
iron 4-pounder, with '2O men welarmed. Thy La
Legera, Freneh dispatch boat, with a will-armed
crew of fourteen men, was with La Volpe. At
nine, the wind lailiHg, I sent the pinnace, with
Lieut. Richard Cull, and the eight-eared cutter
with Capt. Nicholls, of the Rural Marines, (both
volunteers), in chase. After two hours rowing, the
weather very hot, they approuched La Volpe, who •
co tttttt cocci' a lire of musketry- on them, which was
retuned with the swivels, and, when near, with
muskets. On the boats approaching each quarter
to board, the gun-boat pulled short round, and
fired ut the cutter both round and grape ; the
boats dashed at hiM, when he struck, and was tukea
possession of by Capt. Nicholls. Lieut. Cull int-
*modiwtely pushed on in chase of La Legere. Some
time previous to this, 1 had dispatched the yawl.
with Liout. John Alexander, to be ready to' cut her
off which atibraing him the importunity of ob-
•liging her to run on shore about four miles north-
ward of Cape St. Mary, the crew formed on the
rocks above her, and endeavoured to prevent the
yawl's approach; but tile was taken possession of
by Lieutenant Alexander. who was immediately
after joined by Lieutenant Cull and Capt. Nicholls;
they towed her out under a lire of musketry from
the shore, which was returned by our marines in
the Meat: with ma, t spirit ; one nem of the Fre t isen
was sera killed. A French Ensign de Vaissrau
was passenger in La Le ;era. I was much gratified
an the return of the boats in leaning we Mid not
sulfered.

In this little afEdr, Cue gattuntry and good con-
duet of the Offic;:rs and men concerned, gave tins
'err grrut satisfaction Loth Captain Nicht)ll, and
Liintettant OM spell( in high terms of the ussist-
once they received frotu Mesoms. Haines end Parker,
Master's Matte of the Standard.
illon.ieur Monier, Ensi,tii de %%disease, on the
Stuff of Gen. Dougelet, of Corfu, was taken in Le
Volpe. I burnt both vessels. 1 remain, Ate.
(Sieved) TiluNtAi HAIL'. 1:1f.
The Inert Hon. Lord roilingwood,
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