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London, England, 1803-04-09 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

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PLVIVOUTI49 APRIL g.
1.1E411;0e:1 King's Messenger arrived with Ad-
miralty dispatches express from London, and this
morning, at day-break, the Boadicea, of 44 guns,
Cara. hlaitland, lying in the Sound, got under
weigb, and sailed tinmediately to the Westward.—
The :Skin:, of 74 gram, Capt. Ferrier, is hourly
expeded in Ca‘isand Bay, from the Nore, to join
the squadron of observation forming there, which
alrelay begins to assume a warlike appearance.
Thu French brig from Havre, for Africa, with 2000
stand of arms, Which came in leaky on Sunday, is
narrowly. watched, for feai she has some other view
in coming i oto this port it this critical junilwre, than
merely to step her leaks. Capt. Byng; of this
place, son of t.te Hets. aft. Byng, is appointed to
the Tette!, of 64 gni4,- tube Nore, to be implored
as a flAting battery, 'ha ease of invasion. the
Royal Marines at Statehouse and Mill Barracks,
are alriest al! e:nbarked on beard the men. of war
Eting 14 sea in Hatimaze. There are about 100
rank and file i:ft at quarters. Recruits for this va-
luable and itatitural corps, mostly tine young coun-
try' lads, are marched its daily to head-quarters.
The different detachments of Royal Marines em.
barked from this pert since the bustle, are allowed
by every person to be the finest body of troops ever
seen to embark on any service, both in appearance,
health, discipline, and appointments.
The Spipire, of 24 Funs, Rear-Admiral Dacres,
Captain Keen, is' stripping to go into dock, to have
her bottom examined, as she has had a long run
since her last partial repsirs, about two -years mice.
Rear.Aamira/ Dacres's flag is still on beard her.
't his fret noon the Hedge, of 7 guns, Capt. Skipsey,
made an attempt to get under weigh from Casesand-
Bay, to go into Ram Petal to discharge her pow-
der, peeparatrrry to her going up I lansoaze to be
paid of; but the wind failed, and she came-to
again in the Bay.
fast night there was a very hot ress, and seve-
r a useful hands were picked up. When the !leder,
eif 74 guns, ('apt. Stipsey, is paid off, the crew
will have 'a fortnight or three weeks leave to spend
their money and see their friends; this ship's tom-
r any will Ise a very seasonable supply of seamen
Itli,t4e shirt ruing out here, haring been abroad
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• torristorrn, APCTI. 7.
Orestertiv everthig passed Omelet Spiffiead his-
Milestes-shiP Dori, of 96 gnm, Captain Pearson,
froth the Westward.
The Gdaten, a very fine frigate, of 32 guns, is
taken out of dock and commismoned. .
Captain T. W. Lake is appointed to the cansmand
of his Nist.rst)'s ship La f ,of SIS glllll.
COMlnimicios are recover here appointing Officers
to the following ships:—his Majesty's ship Royal
Sworn/rig, of !lir guns ; lark/snit, of 110 guns,
and Wads*. Cs tk, at yes guns.
Admiral Holloway has shifted his Rag from his
Majesty's skip Paisraat, of 74 guns, Capt. Rowai, t•',
the Gladiator, of 44 guns, lying in the Harbour..
His Majcity's ship Prime of !Yalu is expceted to
he put in commission, and to rec Ave the Hag of.Ad-
mural Sir Robert Calder, Bart.
Rtissain at tipithead his Majesty's ships Dread-
awe, Ruud/. Dia/ImA yam°, Calcutta, Aurora,
diessser, and Sr t 6 i withletord Have, Haigh Inglis,
and Cakarr cha East In , and several revenue
• cutterl. •
At St. Helen's, his Majesty's ship Ainpkisn, and
the /Ve, cutter.--•-Wind J. by E. and moderate.
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sAamorrit, APRIL 7.
Arriietfin the roads the Fanny, John Martin, and
the Pmc, Butcher, both from Lisbon, and are put
under quarantine ; the H rf, of Rochester, master
unknown, sent in by the Badi-er excise-cutter, with
300 tubs uf spirits ; and a. small cutter, with 100
tubs by the Bold gun-brig.
ltemairl in the roads, the Po,clupe and Leda fri-
gates, with the Rtpshe and Ranter cutters, with iin-
pi essed min for Sheerness.
Sir Sidney Smith arrived in Hollesley Bay, on the
Suffolk coast, a few days since, *here a number of
men have been. impressed from the vessels passing,
and from the neighbouring coast, by the boats under
bis conunaud ; he is also employed in taking eb-
servatious and soundings of the coast, and is exped-
ed very shortly in these roads with two fifty-gun
ships and five frigates, fur the siefence of this part
or ule•COlat.
The impress service still continues very .ekve in
this part—a strong gang is gone front hence to Low-
stoft to pick up men. 0
DEAL, APIRIL 7.
Sailed the man of war, Admiral Thornbo-
rough, with the Al iacrva and Hydra frigates, Swal-
low, Lively and Tartar revenue cutters, to the north-
ward...--Wind S.

DOVER, APRIL 7.
Arrived last night La lietenntazie passage.vessel,
with T-susiger, mentioned yesterday, Capt. Besh-
by, ID Navy, J. M. Stock, F.sq. J. Barbra, and
several other passengers.
. Sailed the Estjtem packet, Capt.. Dill, for Calais,
• with moil and passengers.
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sual9pr.
At HOthks—the ertharme, Sopron*, loos Leghorn.
Liverrnot--Phe thaw, Nuhle;* (rota Holton ; and th.: Ili-
berms, Coulum, from Lamm.
At Cllyile.—tho looduOvi, Irrimins: from Cadiz ; Sfary
Thompson, nom Trlndfidt ind Ufpnisto, —I., Arm Charles!

At Otelt.nebe Active, Strewn. •ei litnladelphia ; imam,
itsta Cada ; Skivers St-ware; Amity, llCCAttliy,
1,01; Lisbon
At a4p, Randle, hens
At (mini.-4he Veldt, Wettest ; wJ Oisire Branch,
WramicAtom Lembo I-,
At M. 1.--don A. 4 Carr, from nun.
AI Rl/4 Maat%n, tint Leaden.
At Meirtica.—dei W, Swim, hose Ltverp.ni
At Ttinshil-.1111 Cori, Ikea, f,nu London • Laurel,
Itaiewit I Gomel 4beterrnhire, Sentb„ horn Aka.
Of Itsaile..:Pbe (hen, °sway, from Grenada, and the•
1110. Utley trip FAR M°
In dW mesi—AM, triers end COsaseree, Ritchie, from,
Off Tagirs. Newlferk.
At
.I.4verptiel—ilatniNsii, awe% from Marbaduee; and
die Diriptas. hiarehol, i.e St. Vincent's. •
At ardem4atik.b&wee. San Lidos's.
At Doems.Osibitti4 Maw, and Issemid, *ma, how
SP".
lIHAP:4Itiw4, Co*, Mai Phgadelphta ; and Cita-
aboaha, leyht, itop Lando!.
calhave,--Seinds, Ugh*, sad Aniance, Ushentood;
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Atelth'-:-Selkinries. kolas Etiptabil. ote
Ludt's& ,• Diadem, Limier; Ooman, Noble arid tesenin
Rebut, Gee*, low London.
At BramakmpAtin, Hart, from London.

REPRESENT)trIdrfe TWA MALTESB
TO TILY.-BRILTSIE.pIIMST,RY,.-
aisncTiNo THE EV ACUATIO§i AND RESTORATION
OF THE: ISLAND TO TUE ORDER.
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me,
. oCToREN 21,1801..
I have the honour to iticloseeeu a translation of
.5 paper, containing the sentiments of the principal ,
Maltese, the Locotenenti and representatives, &c. on
the evacuation of this island, and the delivering it
up to the Order. Since the arrival of the french car-
tel, I have had my house full of the most respectable
people in the island ; they are too mach agitated to
sit down and drew op a fuller representation to his
Majesty's Government. The hasty departure of Sir
Alexander Ball dces not allow more time than for
them briefly to State to you their sentiments, and the
desperate resolution they have taken, entreating you
to lay it before his Majesty's Ministry.
I have the honour to be,
Your most obedient and
• Plost humble Servant,
(Signed) Wm. ETON.
TO 41044 Camerov, Et
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flit Majesty', Civil Comlisstener,Ele.Eec.
TR kNSLATION:
The Locotenenti of the cities and boroughs, and
the representatives of the towns, humbly represent,
The sensation produced at Malta by the news that
has been brought by the French Cartel; that the
isl Ind is to be delivered up to the Order, is violent
and universal.
The conduit of the captain and his officer who
landed, in cearin:cating with those who arc no-
torious parizans of the French, give suspicion that
Bonaparte-has consented to restore the island to the
Order, 0e.1.: with a view to meke himself master of
it. The Order has itself bue few partizaiu, who
never have had, since their expulsion, any weight
with the people, farther than by exciting discontent
occasionally Mt various false allegations.
The French are generally detested • and as the
Makese foresee that the putting the Order in pos-
session of the island is tantamount to giving it to
the French, they are determined to resist it.
All those who have heretofore opposed either the
Order itself or the French, look on themselves ess
certain victims; and this description composes the
great body tithe people. In the desperate situation
Jassy will be placed in, we must expel to sec the
Most obstinate resistance ma:, by a .people, whose
bravery and high spirit has been proved ; they began
to taste the advantages, and enjoy the happiness of
his, Majesty's government ; they saw prospects of ass
extensive commerce ; of this island ,becoming the
emporium of the Mediterranean, and arts, sciences,
and manufadures flourishing; they began to feel a
consequence in having become a part of a vast cm.
and every individual found himself elevated
ftcna a state of dejedion to a respectable member of
Society. Whether in future they be under the Order,
or the French, they know, importance only will be
attached to their island as a port and a military post,
and that the people will return to a more abje&
state than they have been in at• any past periods
Every merchant of property has determined to quit
the country, in the apprehension, that under *44
Order their commerce will be cramped, as it was
before, from motives of policy, not to excite the jells
lousy of other powers. Under the French, they well
know that Marseilles and other ports will have every
preference given to them.
The apprehensions of those who took up arms,
and fought with the utmost inveteracy against the
French and the Order, need not be described.
With respell to the ability of the Order to main-
tain itself in independency, and as a neutral power,
they remark,
I st, That the ether nations having taken from the
Order all its revenues, it must be dependent on
France, which will not fail to support its Knights,
and who are much more numerous, as France is in
possession of three langues. Thus, in the very be-
ginning, without any open attack, France will be
mistress of Malta, and whenever it suits her to
throw off the mask, she may hoist her tri-coloured
flag on their impri gnable bulwark.
Idly, The garrison of Malta was formerly com-
posed of Maltese. 'lie Order will not trust them
now. It must, therefore, employ foreign troops,
which there is no doubt will be such as are in the
French interest, let them be of what nation they may.
The French having the garrison in their pay, and
devoted to their interest, will therefore be masters
of the island.
idly, The Maltese may hope to dispossess the
French, as they did before, bat will not the French
lay up timely a store of provisions to hold out a long
siege, and a blockade in winter is almost impossible.
Will they not easily disarm the inhabitants, or turn
them out of their fortresses, and, in general, take
measures to present their being again surprized ?
4thly, Will the Maltese, after being abandoned
, and sacrificed by the English, trust on their-protec•
Lion a second time ? From being our ardent friends,
they will become our most inveterate enemies.
sthly, If it is therefore determined to withdraw
the British troops from Malt,:, they entreat that
tlior may be left to themselves to settle with the
Order. They are determined not to submit tostny
foreign power - but Great Britain ; and. to perish
under the ruins of their cities, ormaintain their li-
berty and independence. After having received us
as friends and Vberitors, after having so cordially
united with us, they have reason to hope that we will
not unite with their enemies in assisting to subdue
them, and deliver these oVer as slaves to other Masa
ters: As yet they cannot suspect us of such condtsd.
They complain heavily of their being sacrificed to
the Capitehttierts of the French, and they were by
the tyranny and insults they experienced lately under
ihihnuy cormnand, so provoked, that they were
on the-point of rising, when the giving them a ciA
government- perfelfr reconciled them : from all
this, the-more enlightened Maltese insist, that the
anger of the body of the people will so awaken, it
being abandoned by us now, that it will ever be mit
of our power, on any future occasion, to re-paella
ourselves of the isleterf:
Wily. They feel the great political important*
of Malta, whoever May bold it. They know that,
in the hands of the likeneh, they may at all times,
reconquer Egypt,- and to Ind with more'
espersence and force before.
They know that. Maisie is at this monseet eager
to see the Order, or *hat is esprivalent, Fraares
hold Malta, (she inercePtei letters prove this ;} thit'
Russia, hel"evet her 'Pleas against l'urkey duty
et' d'irmt"iiiirieltweelreage, welt ever be revived a
and that whoeverlsos Marta has a• sure teems •sgt
smiting with Russia ; and that if France will give
I up the Turks, she may rely on the co-operation of

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ay..;
Rtssia to opptirab triCalitidi having
any potter in
the Mediterranean.
They know that gussia, linked with France, may
exclusively enjoy all the commerce of the Levant ;
that Trance twaylse supplied with naval stores from
the Black Sea in all security ; that a Russian army
may march in a few days from their settlements is
the south of the Caspian, to the dominions of Zi-
! man Sha, and put into effea the threats of the late
r -Empress Catharine, to drive us eat*. India.
L In short, as long as they are persuaded that Malta
is the kar of India, and the link that will unite Rus-
sia and France, that will shut us out of the Medi-
terranean, and prevent us for ever from counter-
acting the influence of France in Italy ; that will
create a naval power, which may tux day appear,
and bid us defiance in the Atlantic.
As long as Great Britain possesses Malta, though
every surrounding nation be her enemies, she will
be mistress of the Mediterranean.
With resped to England, they are not ignorant
of the importance' of -this island as a place of com-
merce ; that this would be the great mai ket for
British manufacture,- and Italian, Turkish, and
Russian produeot that in this arsenal every conve-
nience for buil.ling, fitting out, or laying up a fleet,
is to he found; that this might be the granary of
Europe ; that corn, to any amount, might be cob
leeed here, and stored up, from the Black Sea,
from Egypt, and from every port where it was
cheap, to supply every country where it may be
wanted, and Great Britain, itself in time of scarcity.
With respect to the Knights peisonally, they af-
firm they cannot he neutral; wanting internal power
and the proteaioti of neighbouring States. The only
power that can make up their cause, is the power
which has' in view to dispossess them.
They have violated their solemn vow at the alttir,
sealed with the sactament,• in delivering up their
island, or consenting in betraying 'their Grand
Master, and their own religioua and military iasti.
Lotions ; they have xiblated every tie of honour, as
religious, as gentlemen, as soldiers. Can such be
trusted ? A great number entered the regicide ser-
vice, and went. to Egypt. The whole of them,.
with scarcely any exception, behaved in a manner
incompatible with their obligations.
Those only could plead guiltless who were absent
from the island but they behaved in a manner not
less reprehensible ; not one of them came, as their
oath obliged them, to Malta, to help to recover the
ancient seat of the Order: the road to honour was
open to them ; an army of natives were in the field,
and there was the powerful co-operation of allies.
In fine, there is not one single Knight who is not,
according to the statutes of the Order, degraded,
I and has lost all pretence to be of the body; he is
tacitly excluded and dithononred.
The Order therefore does not exist. It is annihi-
/ lated according to its own statutes.
The few despicable mendicants took refuge in
/ Russia, where they were more safe from danger than
in the camp before Valetta, and created, for a piece
of bread, a schism in their Order; which was as
Much a violation of all their obligations, though not
so scandalous a prostitution of honour, as was the
part the more infamous took in opening their gates
to the French. These are our sentiments, until we
can have time to make a formal representation, and
send a national representation to England. You
are entreated to make them known to the King's
Civil Commissioner, and to implore him, by an the
attachment we have to his person, to the British
Government, to honor, virtue, and religion.; by
the attachment we have for our wives, our children,
our paternal island ; by the dignity of man, and by
the, sacred law of justice ; by humanity, generosity,
and gratitude for our sincere attachment, that he
will be pleased to represent our miserable situation
at the foot of his Majesty's throne, praying that it
may stand for ever the bulwark, and the asylum of
Liberty, Fidelity, and Religion.

A private Letter from Paris, dated April 4, con-
tains the following particulars :
" The Grand Parade which was held yesterday at
the Thuilleries, bore no resemblance whatever to
those formerly presented on the Quietidi, where
there were seldom more than 0000 troops and when
the ceremony was over in three quarters of an hour.
The review of yesterday lasted, on the contrary, for
more than. seven hours, and presented to view all
the aflive force of Paris and its environs.
" Not only the inclosed court before the Palace,
but the immense Place of Carrousel, was filled with
troops; and to economise the space as much as pos-
sible, the cavalry were all dismounted.
" Bonaparte reviewed the troops with the utmost
strictness. He addressed himself to almost every
oflicer, and spoke to many of the soldiers. He car-
ried his, scrutiny so far, as to examine into many.of
their knapsacks. This process was continued until
the fall of night put an end to the scene.
" The First Consul, it is evident, from all this
pride, pomp, and circumstance,' meant to inti-
mate to the Parisians the necessity of preparing for
war ; and a the same to impress them with a sense
of his vigilant superintendance. The former of
these purposes was fully answered, as there was
scarcely an individual in the immense crowd of
spectators who did net firmly believe in the imme-
diate approach of warfare. The ultimate decision,
however, rests happily with other judges, and other
grounds.
" Notwithstanding the 'fatiguing attendance of
.the day, curiosity remstined for some time on tiptoe
on the Salle Its Presentations, for the purpose of
drawing some inferences from the countenance or
discourse of the First Consul. It was soon inti-
mated that there would not be a Circle on that even,
ing. It was said that Bonaparte was too much
fatigued to make his appearance."
Hannah Daviv, conviFleil at the Essex Assizes,
some years since, for robbing a drover of 12001. at
the-Three Rabbits near Ilford, by taking his clothes
from ;under his pil&ow is now the principal farramat
Botany Bay : she continues a single woman,. not-
withstanding the Celebrity of her charms, and her
'being the first female conviet landed in that new

World. _
Capt. MACNAMARA, was last night prommiced
out of danger. This Gentleman distinguished him-
self in two -or three anions, as commander or the
Cerium frigate. He served loog on the Cork station,
and lastly was Wait Indies. He was made a poet
captain in 170. He lately returned from tlse, West
Indies, -tna his ship was about two months ago
paid off at Corr-We believe. be emis t the
.eye of tnaseingn.to is ycides lady from Cork, ssis,h
a fortune of 10.0001. He If about 36 years of ages
a strong, bold, aaiee alaa.