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wets joihtel upon their passige by the frigate L'Aw-.
fnitasre from Messina. ' Wten we art seed nn the
10t4"o SIAT imitcrt-the4nrt of Curz.;lar we did-nnt
perceive ii siaWe'llag.itnr an inhabitant Of the ig4eltui
blloftleifteOve percfved . Wile Freilfh centinefs,
anti Wlearried thlt, in theniht of the 26th, fko •
French, :indwell. in seven boats, having landed,
Made • pilsoftek ifit-iiiiv detachment lett by t'aptain
Sarni, and re-occupied the tort. Two of the said
boats had sailed before our arrival ; the re.naining
fire were akin by the frigate L'Aw'roil. I proposed
also to effeet• a landing on• the same day, but a
• violent wind arose and prevented it. In the night-
between the 9th and l 0 h of May, the French em-
barked in different place., upon boats belong.
ing to the people of the Country, and quitted
-OE island, tharing their course for the coati,
'of Ragusa. Oar vessels, with oars, captured
one of these boats, with sixteen soldiers on hoard.
—lu their retreat, the French left behind, those
of our soldiers whom they had made prisoners.
They brought away with them only Lieutenant
Wajeilow. After having taken every measure for
maintaining ourselves in ,possession of Curzola, I
left there the frigate L' Asu:rail, and set sail for
Lesina. Between that Island and Lissa I met the
ship of the line the Ad-, the Commander of which,
Captain Bailli, informed me, that he had arrived
on the 29th of April before the Fort of Lesina, with
the said ship• of the line, Jhe chebeck he He-
*en!, the schooner L'Expeaation, the brig he
LetliN, a trebacalo, and a Corsair. On the
let May, he ereaed a battery upon a small island.
opposite the opening of the Port, to faeb,litate a land-
ing. The French kept op a brisk fire dpun our
workmen, and upon the detachment which was to
prom& them, hut they were soon repulsed, and the
fire of our battery silenced that of the enemy'i
battery. At the sense time, 100 soldiors, come
mended by Capt. Skorobagatow. and. +2 armed
seamen, were landed This detachment, at the
outset, drove back the enemy. and took pos
session of Ott Church-yard of the Catholic t hurch ;
bat having been attacked in its min ts, the
French. who bad col e, all their forces. gist
were aided by the inhabitants, it was tossed to
yield to superiority of number, and to withdraw
inttrely. We had eleven men killed and thirty-
three wounde3 in this affair. The Captain or
the staff. Skorohagatow. and fifty-nine seldi re,
were made prisoners. The enemy also took a row•
boat, with thirty two men, which had run
aground. They, however. suffered a gr,•at loss. as
well in rte anion with the above detachment, as
from the fire from our boats. Cap..iit Bailli has
agreed with the French Commander for rn ex-
change of our wounded and taken p.isoncis, h.r
a like number of French, who had p evi.msly fallen
into our hands. Besides the above-mentioned prizes,
the Venal frigate has also taken, on her way to
Trieste. two vessels belonging to the enemy. On
board nt one of them was a WWII of 33.202 florins.
i in copper money. The other has been sold tar
1,920 Venetian ducats "

THE BRITISH PRESS.

KIN 00N,
SATURDAY, Auotai g.
We rated-yesterday, that Mr,
,Fox bad been
tapped on the preceding day. -far a dropsy.—At
ten o'clock on Wednesday night, an Express arrived
at the Pavilom, Brighton. to apprise his Royal
Highness the Prince of WALLS of the intended
opera ion.—His Royal Highness left Brighton at
halt past six on Thursday morning. and arrived
in town before the important and critical moment.
Mr. F.At bore the operation with a fortitude worthy
of so great a man. We are happy to say, that it
afforded alliaost immediate relief. We have also
the pleasure to add, that it has been ascertained
that there is no tumour upon the hirer, and that his
disorder is considered of the least dangerous species
Mr. Fox had a good night on Thursday, and was
as well as could be possibly espeßed yesterday.—
His Royal Highness the Prince of Watts was in-
cessant in his inquiries on Thursday ; and yes.
terday. at five o'clock. His Royal Highness called,
on horseback. at Mr. Fox's tease. One of the
principal domestics waited upon him, and his re-
port of his master was extremely favourable.

This day, we resume oar tetrads trom the )utch
Papers, which we received on Thursday, in addi-
tion to the contents of a new series to the sth, and of
Paris Papers to the Ist test. The principal feature
in the Paris Papers, is the capture of Gaeta,
which is officially announced in the Mositeer.—
The Articles of Capitulation were settled on the
18dt of July, and the garrison was to embark in
the course of the following day. when the French
were to be put in possession of the works. The
place was well defended. The enemy opened their
fire on the 7th. and it was dot until the 18th. when
a greet part of the town was destroyed, and two
prafticabli breaches erefted, that the garrison
offered to surrender. The Prince of Hesse, who is
said to have been severely wounded, went on board
as English frigate, previous to the surrender of
Gaeta, in consequence of which the adjustment of
the terms devolved upon some Officers of ioferior
oseeideration. It will appear, from the Articles
of Capitulation, that the garrison °banned very
' honourable terms.
' The Afevinsr also contains a long sarcoma of the
raising of the siege of Ragusa. and the Hamborgb,
us well as the Dutch Papers. state, that difficulties
'. here presented themselves to the surrender of Cameo.
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