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the similar imprisonment which he
till when, after four months severe close,
he was allowed the privilege of shew;
and walking about for a stated time
his prison. Wnether Captaia Weight
ployed in the praftice impu ei to him,
say, as it made no part of the question.
of landing enemies, or proscribed per,
ways usual in time of war, and consul
by the colidnet of the French thorns,''
occasion which presented itself. The
vernment, amongst many other
Theohald Wolfe Tone in Ireland ;
soff !red when taken, as A rebel arel a
benly ever thought of treating the
brought him with the rigorous sever-it
he fallen into out hands. I have the
sonally knowing Captain Wright; .
who had not that opportunity of being
with him, most admit that he has A rie
thing that his country can do for him.
may be asked, after all this, what
What is there in our powet to relieve
His answer was, that we should do all
true, that if a man be murdered, we t
him to life, but we punish the offender
to prevent as much as possible the repotitio:
crimes. Such wan the proper law -`
The manifest way would be, if re
affotdecl, to treat all the prisoners of
hands exadtly in the same manner.
Bon gat te, " we will not irritate you .
you may do worse," it would be the same as Clol•
feising him our master—it would be a degrading
confession of our own inferiority, and would not
fail of making that injurious impression on the 'Kende
of the people, and of the officers in our service.
What man could be expeCted to enter
vice of a Power which would not aft r.l bun this
just and reasooable prnettiorg Allegiance ani
protettion were allowed to go band in Jim',
and the principle was the same in militate
service and probath n. But it may be said
that were we to do this, it would be retaliatcd
on the prisoners at Verdun. Ile could see no pre.
ferable distindlion between those hostag's, and host-
ages of star. Of the two, he could see reasons why
they had not so groat a cl nin as those taken in war.
Most of them were there not as a matter of erre lir
or force Some of them went to France for whoal.
ment, for play, or fur lie enjoyment of ventnan's
will, &c. others were takin in their passage front
foreign places; but none of .hem were taken in
service •a their country. 'lhey may be of =aeon-
senteence at home, and have more aequaintances to
feel for them than ordinary prisoners, to whe in
his opinion, they had an inferior clainr.
ghat Bonaparte :night be, and however beynn 1 the
reach of controul and punishment, he was not be-
yond the reach of popular opinion, and particularly
of that of his own army and navy, which wend
scarcely brook to be sulij..Ct to such retaliation,
brought upon them by his injustice, inhuneinity, and
contempt tor the s ights of war, and the laws rine-
hors. lie owned, he said, that this was not the
most seasonable time for propnf;ng any motion on
this subjeCt, a compliance with which hie ht posei-
Lly tend to provoke obstinacy on the pill if the
oppressor, niter so long an interval. durb'g which
he was suffered to do as he thought proper ; hut,
had the measures lie siiirgested been adopted in the
first instance, upon his recommendirion, he be-
lieved it would be successful, as it must be danger-
oils for Bonaparte, that his tyranny would be pro-
d iCtive of such spitited effeets. He would grant,
that something had been dune ns obtain redress;
but, as it was not successful, it w s one duty to re-
taliate. Were he disposed at this ime to offer any
motion, it would be for an acconiit lel what pro-
ceedings bad been taken on this subjeef ; but, as he
did not wish to do so at this period of the •ession, he
should content himself with giving notice, that if
nothing decisive was adopted on that subjeCt, during
the recess, he should think it his duty to take the
earliest opportunity, in the next iession, of bringing
it under the consideration of Parliament.
Adjourned to to-morrow.

••• PICTYaat G , No. VI. To-inotrow.
The Law Intelligence is given In 'he Law Part.

LONDON,
WEDNESDAY. JULY 10.

LORD NELSON and th COMBINED FLEET.
At half-past one o'cio k, p. w. en Sunday, a
sloop of war arrived in Plymouth Sound, under a
press of sail. From the cir..umstances of her not
making her number, bearing a white ensign, and her
crew, who went aloft to furl her sails, being dressed
in white jackets and trowsers, and straw hats, the
people on shore concluded that she must !wee corn.
from Vice Admiral Lord NI,LSON in the West Indies,
or from Rear-Admiral Sir EDW4ID PELLEW, in
the East. The moment the sloop brought to
in the Sound, she put out her boat with an officer
on hoard, who immediately procee‘led up the har-
bour to the Port Admiral. The sloop proved to
be the Cur:cna, of la guns, and the officer, her
commander, Capt. lirrotswoirit, th irged with
dispatches from Vice Admiral Lord NELSON. At
half past five, Capt. BETTESMORTII set of for
London, and yesterday morning at two o'clock a.
he arrived at the Admiralty. The grateful news,
of which he was the beaus, soon transpired, and at
tin o'clock, several copies of the following letter
from Plymouth, containing the substance of the
account given by Captain Bar reswoave during
his stay at that place, received by the M iil, ware
widely circulated in town :
" Plymouth, July 7.
Came in Ls Curlews sloop of war, Capt. B ttesworth,
from the Loeraal !thuds, w.tii tisystchte from Lcil Neso",
vr.m,o she left ma the t9th June, a Ataigua, steering to the
P:',itlota:•!, after t Frunds 44.1 Spawsit Elms, bani-g r••

111.11
he ezperianak gel V°
lose confineateb% .it or
hewing Iliemrk rd
le in the yard f have
ht had Item eon the,
m, he could not 1
Sigh
on. The praak ..e
persons. Nas 41. on
nstantly justified t'
!selves, ni every '
Ihe l'rencli Cu.
„starers landed
~them
ard, thOugh le • te,
a tr.titor, }et 1,0 aeu
re Caplan., rho
•
l it ies of war, had .1
e pleasure of per. • N'
; but even shoe ' t stati
being acquainted The
4 right to even.
n. The quts,ion 'ricers.
t is to be done tat
ye his sufferin,,,+ to the
tll we can. It 14-1. t'
-e cannot restute
,nder with serh, pad V
•eptition of rie,
w of retaliation. CI
redress WAS not 40114.
I war now intar. d
r. If sid to su'l
al in this for feu
the same as con.
be a degrading
, and would not
lion on the made .1
h•
s i r our servic:.
ter
t ff r.l Inm thin
Allegiance ani 'Alt
band in hand, ".
ne in mditary
may Le said
ld •
Le retaliated r,•.
•
said see no pre.
ttages, and hiss. 1.1. r
see reasons why
rise taken in war.
latter of race
ranee for what!. cldti
rent of ternnu,n's Ida.
:ir passage fume
vere taken in di,
1;:a
be of =Aeon.
a...quaint:tucks to NF
ors, to wbe in br.,l
lain. 1iu.....er
revel. berml the the
he was not be. dist
and particularly
An
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suc
bet
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was
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Inist
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tiyiW,:pt,tntn iAtnoj:hlo;:nedi:...
g
rt the pin 1-f the
al. durid.g which im
:In proper ; hut,
ct
I adopted in the
nd aeion, he he. an
must be danger. ,eat
y would be ten.
fe would grant. re:
obtain redress; Tr,
s oar duty to re. at
me to offer any
bee
what pro-
ije ; but, as he
tf the •ession, he al
ig notice, that if
t subjett, during
ea
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wt Arki.
.
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FNED FLEET. 1
on Sunday, a
Sound, under a
neat of her not
ensign, and her
Is, being dressed

irilltest
0..01 of their heving left Martiapte,
,;ag sowioleven at Trinelad, we any other of the Wind.
srd Islandstring to their trop a being so that it is Sii
et hAre ',TON 3,000 men. Lord Nelson told Cape BAtes •
0,00 to s* • r particular course, which, he said, would givS
sight of the Combiled Fl,et ; he did ao, and yawed
ill% on tho morning of the 19th Julie, 'teeing earn'? the
lulSi they consisted of 17 sail of the line; and Cai.t. B •t•
0.0,th considered Lord Nelson t be a day or a day and a
ooehind them ; they sailed en bad t' at the Le Curiemt
gothem under her topsails. Lord fleet confined
ioair ten sail of the line, "sat not a sick man in the flues, bet
011 would come to quarters ; and he hal every confidence in
ogee, which inda•-ed him to c.Nirl back Adini.al Cochra:ie
Nordiumberland, with the Simulate mum of war, for
0011111. Wind
syr—

The intelligence contained in this letter diffused
toiwsal jiy, particalai 1 y among those int,erested
the tuck of the West Indies, And was confirmed
to the following official communication transmitted
frem the Admiralty, to Lloyd's Coffee House, at
Titclve o'Clock :

1. Admiralty Office, July 9.
4 CP%i:l Bettcsworth, of His M..i.ysty's ship Cu,'.co a, ao;
jeadla4 night with dispatches tram VlCe Admiral Lnrd Net
40. dated An-.qua. 12th June. His Lordship arrived with the
~,sunder his commi.id at Buhadecs on the 4th June.
It airs:am that the combined squadrons passed Antigua
▪ tbellth of Jour, and ..0 the 20th wens seen by the Comm(
▪ lit 33 12. ion 58. %V. steering at firit N. by E. but after.
His Lordship intended to sail again in pursuit
the enemy, the iiimsent the trix.ps taken on board at Bu-
boes feu disembarked.

le D.auiond Rock has been obliged to surrender from
tam xat.•rr after A gallant resistance, in which the French
i. y men, ani three gun-boats.
is combated squadrans had suffered greatly from s:ck-

▪ fag of Lori NELION'S arrival in the West
ladies, and of his being in close pursuit of the ene-
my, !wing thus es• ablishei, the following observa-
iinn, Arise out of the case, combined with some
• partteulars, which we have been able to col.
left. The Combined Fleet sailed from Cadiz on the
IUS ,of April, and arrived at 717artinique on the
of May, after a passage of 33 days. Lord
NELSON sailed from Lagos Bay on the !Ws of May,
bti3: 3 moods after, and arrived at Barbadoes on
the SI of June, having thus run through an equal
distance in 24 days, or about two-thirds of the tune
relaimi by the Combined Fleet. Upon his arrival
2: Barb tdoes, Lori NEL sow took h a supplyof wat,:r
ani provisions, aad a military force of 2003 troops.
Evening Paper of yesterday states, upon the an.
th)sity of an alleged letter from an officer on
beard the fleet, that " all this was done in the

irce of one day, the 4th, and that his Lordship
immediately proceeded to Trinidad with twelve sail

c,t the tine, being previously joined by the Spartiala
and Noetiotpeeriand, and arrived there on the 6th,
when, finding that the information which he had
received of the combined fleet's having gone against
Trinidad was errnneous, the French not having
been at that island, and no enemy's vessel having,
been seen there, he determine.' t., proceed to St.
Lelia, to get more certain intelligence of the ene-
rn7, and was off Grenada on the 9th."—We are
neither competent nor disposed to assert positively,
that the letter which we have tooted is a fabrica-
tion; but, most assuredly, there never was an ac.
tont involving so many apparent inconsistencies
and improbabilities. That the &set should reach
Trinidad in one day from BA-Isadore, that it
s'7.nuld, on its return, only make Grenada, which
is not half the distance, in three days, and yet,
steering the same course, and passing by Bar-
badoes, St. Lucia, and Martinique, reach An-
tigua, which is five times the distance from Tri-
redid to Grenada, in three days more, are very ex-
traordinary circumstances. The arrival of the Cotn•
band Fleet at Martinique, on the 13th of May,
was known to every man in Bat badoes, on the 21st,
a.,1 the latest accounts fr im that Island, of the
1, represented the enemy as still in Fort Royal,
"Iliad up the bay, the troops being reported in
a sickly state. Now, what reason the people of
Trinidad had to suppose that the Combined Fleet,
which they believed to be snug in Fort Royal on
the :15th, had left Martinique, and, passing them
by, had proceeded to Trinidad and taken it in the
menial, between the lith of May, and the 21 of
June, we are not informed ; nor can we form
any conjedure upon the sulied.—Lord Nitre
scot being assured, as he must have been. On his ar•
lira! at Barbaines, that the enemy remained at
.M utiniqoe, in the North, sin late an the C3th, would
nit be very likely to seek them at Trinidad, in the
upon light grounds.—Having made these
few observations upon the unofficial reports of his
Lordship's voyage, we come now to the communica.
Can from the Admiralty, and our Plymouth letter,
which is cmsidered equally authentic. The intelli-
gence which they Lontain, we ennf.:sit, exceeds our
most sanguine expedations, and promises a victory
not less splendid and glorious than that which im-
mortalised the name of Aboukir, and placed the
British Navy upon the highett pinnacle h the tem-
ple n' Fame. It appears from the former that
Lord NILSON, not finding the enemy at Martinique,
proceeded to Antigua, where he arrived en the Ilth ;

add being interned treat Combined Fleet
had passed that island moon the Bth preced-
ing, he immediately prepared to disembark
the troops which he had taken on board at
Birbadocs, for the purpose, no doubt, of strength-
eaing such places as might be threatened by the
enemy ; or, of disl edging them, in case of their
having made a successful landing in any of our
Islands. His Lordship also sent away Admiral
COCHRANE with the NurileumGerland and Spertiate
men of war, to their respthive stations, and next
day dispatched Le Curirscr to Europe, with an ac-
count of his operations, and his intention to continue
the pursuit of the enemy from Antigua, with his
fleet of ten sail of the line. It would appear that
Lord Ner,son, in these proceedings at Antigua, was
ailing under an impression that the Coashined
Fleet had abandoned the object of its visit to the
West Indies, and was bravely running away, covet-
ed with glory, back to France. It was generally
understood from the first arrival of the Conshined
Fleet in the West Indies, that the troops were in a
very sickly state. They ale said to have buried
3000 at Martintrae, and to have lett as many more
sick behind. It appears, also, that after remaining
so long at Mai tinique, they atchieved nothing but the
conquest of the Diamond Rock, a small barren spot,
defended by a garrison of 2.3 men, and within a
mile of Martinique. It sppears, also, that in tead
of running down to Jamaica, or St. Domingo, ss'ith
the trade winds, as they would have done if they
meditated any enterprise in that quarter, they
crossed them in the very direelion wnicl , we
are informed, by nauticil men, a fleet would
steer that wished to catch those westerly gales,
whizh prevail us the more northern latitudes, and
would carry them to Europe. To his great r:aturai
sagacity Lord Ner.sore adds the advantage of muie:
experience in the West Indies. How, or in what
manner he was able to ascertain the course of the
Combined Fleet we cannot pret-nd to say; but it
is evident, from the circumstance of Captain BET-
reswo rw's felling in with them, that his Lordship's
intormation was correct. When first discovered by
Capttin Be rr esworrts they were steering N. N. E.
the direct course for Europe ; and though they af-
terwards changed to N. N. W. that may have
been only in hopes to deceive the Curirwr. Loa-
rade 33. I?. the point in which they were seen,
is the s ime as that of Charlestcevn in North
America, far out of the range of the West In-
dies. Thus, even supposing the ene:ny to escape
tine pursuit of Lord NetsoN, and to return to a
French or Spanish port, of which there is but little
chance, has ended an expedition which was to strike
a blow which should resound through the universe.
After holding Europe in suspense for three months,
and sprealling fear and anxiety through every part
of the British Empire, the Combined Fleet have
fled from the West Indies, leaving the conquest of
a barren rock the only monument of their prowess;
a rock scarcely severed from Martinique, and not
affording even earth sufficient to cover the dead
who remain behind.

The Funds yesterJay rose About a half per Cent.
is consequence of the intelligence from Lord
NaLsorr.

It was reported yesterday, that the Austrian
Minister, Count STARHENISFRG, had set out upon
an important rifss:on to his Court. The report is,
at all events, premature, as Count Sraitusxszac
remained in town last night.

We hive received American Papers: from Charles.
ton to the 2t)th May, from Baltimore to the Sd June,
from New-York to the Ctli, from Philadelphia to
the sth, and from Boston down to the 11th of the
same month. Their contents are not important.

Monday evening His MAJZSTY and the PRIN-
CESSES walked on the Terrace, Windsor.
Yesterday morning His MAJESTY, the Duke of
KENT, Princesses At.ousra, SOPHIA, and AULLIA,
attended by Generals GARTH and FITZROY, and
Colonel DIiSIROW, rode on horseback in Windsor
Great Park.
This day the ROYAL FAIII LT will come to town.
Yesterday the dispatches for Madras and Bengal
by the tb,icet were finally closed at the East India
House, and delivered to the Purser. The following
are the Union's passengers :
Fnr Benga!—.Mr. M. Moore Writer; Rev. Ff. Martyrs,
Cara J. Davidson, Ens.en W. G. Mackenzie, Mr. J. H. de
Rorie ; Messrs. W. S. Ration, W. Rabinron, T. P Moore,
J. Franeklin, G. Moore, T 'Welt, A. Gordon, M. C Paul,
C. M`Donsld, 0. Cluistie, and C. A. Munig ..... erie, Cadets.
For R Stone, Surgeon; Messrs. J. Myers,
ati4 M. C. Hunter, Cadets.
The /in man of war, with the fleet under her
convoy, which sailed from P. irtsmonth on the 22,1
May. are arrived at Newfoundland.
The French Emperor has declared himself
against allowing American Consuls to reside in the
French Colonies.
Mr. LivproszoN, the American Minister, has re-
turned to Paris, from his tour of Switzerland; and
is 'shortly to s.til for the United States. On his
arrival at Paris, he had an interview with the Impe-
rial Bonapaite, and the following day received tl-e
Bmperor's portrait in a gold box, elegantly set in
diamonds, said to cost 45,000 francs (upwards of
8000 dollars), and a flattering letter, written by the
Emperor's order, expressive of his high esteem and

THAATI?L' RO rA
HAYMARKET.
Last night the lively Comedy of The School for
Avi,lice was perfr.rmed, for the first time, at this
Theaf,e, and received loud and continued applause.
Mr. I owrox, in the benevolent Jelv, was in that line
of aging in which he so much excels. Mr. Limn:,
as the keen Yorksi.irern in, Thri Cr-,ottk was ex-
tremely e-tertlininr. Mr. MATTnEWS. in Old Li-
Ayed much comic hum'ur. Mrs. GI so%
Mr.. Ilali owe, indeed all the Performers, exerted
themselves to the utmost. The hors.e overflowed
wdb elegant company ; there was not even standing
room in any part of it.