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menati the 20th June, having nu board Don MendiAutt, 141-0
Tre•ny eel manta Fe; able is supposed to have put into Porto.
L leo, mid mss io a bad condition.
Te • TreUdail and Saint Ann are under r.rders to proceed for
Ferrol, half rusereA, in order to remain in that department • in
like 'nutter the Regis', when careioted. These large ships
grounding at !ow water, from the Creek of the Carratca having
ton little water for them in its ;Resent state, is assigned u the
reason.
The six ships which were armed in this department, viz. the
Trinidad, Saint Ann, Terrible, San Raphael, Glorious, and
S rna Sago America, continue, as before, with few roeu on
board, and little exertion towards maiming them.
Th- Bahama and Argonaut, ten of the six which were fitted
at earthagena and came remit here, have their emulate-
••it of men on board, and lay in the upper part of the Bay,
made for service.
They are continuing to overhaul and tra careen the remain-
ing ships in the Carrac,:aer fames they can undertake it. The
number of caulker., carpenters, &c. (Maistranws) actually
emplayed there may he about 2,500. The ships actually iu
dock, and repairing in them, are, the Rayo, San dusts, and So-
areranu. The department Iras a sufficient provision of pitch,
tar, hemp, rope, and cables, and of sail cloth. I do not find
any quantity of Naval soiree keeper:tea from the Baltic this
season, or that thereare any emitracts.
Nies frigates, of which four from Vera Cruz, are expected
soon from thence, lama, &c. Three of them (rem Vera Crua
hid sailed; the Volga:rat, we learn, is strived at Ferrol, or
Vign, with 3,100,000 dollars. The Sabina and Amphitrite,
vole! rfrom Vera Cruz, and having equal sums
ou board, are mid t have put into Teneritfe, and all of them
with reduced crests, from haviiig lain at Vera Cruz daring the
sickly season. They I the Rufisra, which was to have fol-
lowed them the Old of ' . e, and rimy be every day expected.
These fngatea. and the, the:. from Lima, fa. it is computed,
may bring about 24,000,000 of dollars. The Castilla from
Ferrol arrived here Ore lath.
NO 21 ...Elora& of a Leiter from the Hon. Rear-Admiral
Cochrane to Lord Melyil!e, fated the 2s.ld August, 1604.
The gparriard, have put their twelve regiments if marines
upon the same astablidiment as ours. Officers distinel from
the navy arc appointed to them, and they are forme, into three
departments, via. al, Clot:a, and Carthagmia. Three ben-
ched French toddlers ar within a few rims mareh of this, dis-
guised as sultans, from Bayonne. The Spaniards we afraid to
piterfere
LOO. 22 Naval Occurrences at Cadiz, for August, 1801, re-
potted by Mr. DJff. His Majesty's C;onetai at that Place.
Airiest 7.-earailed fur Galicia, the King's urea, or store ship,
the Brutal"
August el.—Sailed rho. urea Santa Joins for Trieste, to
bring quicksilver.
The ship San Leandro, mid the frigate: Amphitrite and
Rufina, which latterly Inve arrived front Vera Cruz and the
blavaairah, are to remain rn this depaitieent.
The ti gate Matilda, which arrived from Carthagena the
11th, is u::d. r orders to proceed for the Havannah in the next
mouth, with stores fat that department, her Commander Don
Antonio Vacure.
The frigate lalagdaleila is continuing to be fitted nut et the
Carraccue to proceed for America.
The frigate Virtigausa,whili arrived latterly from Vera Crua
with money, and the frigate the Nimbi, which has been in
reatlillibi. more time in Galicia, are under orders to prime d
seen for Vera Cour to 1)6.'11 mono,
Hue frigate which remained at Vera Crux is expected soon
witb a similar sum, for the King, as the thee "dices whirl, are
arrived. A v.-.y considerable sum, which, it is julgeol, may
anomie to above five iiiiniont, is expected from the same
place, on account of th, roetcharos, and to come in the mfr
chant ships expected fret. that part hi the coursers( this year.
The frigates expected from Lima arid Bones Ai ass, four or
five in number, and one from Carthagena, are oat yet Arrived;
they may be looked fur in what remains s year, and may
be expense Ito bring in all from eight to ten millions, for ac-
count of the King and of the multiage..
N.B. In the Corriere% thing" earthier., and are going en,
Mach as before ; the old ship itayo, sister ship to the Gib-
raltar, is charigisig into a three decker, her Bloom has been
Found ette7 Soot at this length of time since she has been
built; sines making out this report, 1 am informed 'he regis-
tered seamen from the different ports beloogiug to this ii...part•
ment, viz from that of Aymnarite to that of Algeoras both
inclusive, have been ordered to repair to the Carrara • this
world indicate an retention to man the ships which are 'fitted
out. I will be :teenier to the results, and to know how far it
may be carriud into ellfeft, r,r.d as to the Oiljti2 prop u:ed by it ;
g, vow informatios as to the result.
No. 1.3.--.F.xtrai9 of a Letter from Rear Adinirel Co.:lnane to
Lord Melville, dated :011 li •ptenitter, 1804.
Orden are just arrived to fit out the stripe merithined in the
enclosed hat with all era-oil:de diepatch This, conpled with the
sailing of two three decked ships from Cadre he this port, limbo
toll oval by another, anal the circomstance of the enclosed ships
being ordered to virtual lur three months only (although mid
to be bound tot America), makes me curriacture that their
deems" are nor of the most •,acifit neture. I have therefore or-
dered the Mown. us to proCeesl directly to P;yinouth, without
untie nit Cshaort.
Should the Spaniards have any hostile views against Great
Britain, within • mnnth the fallowing fiance may :se ceder teal
b •---Thre • first :ates from Cadiz; three eeventy.foars fitting
here . five French slii;o; making rii all eleven sad of the line.
The finances of One country att. lee. They easy wait the
arrival of the Breams with trustee to put ou • dill:mint coon-
tename
1 w t conceive that Spain, even if at war with America,
could require set many lin: of battle ships, fire sinnilar orskrs
bre given at Celia and Cardigans. The time that the armas
mein wail b- ready for sea correapending with that of the
f reveft nominal' ; the three fist rates fitted at Cadiz to come
mend here ; all tend to saint that they have mime united ob-
jolt in view. Nwmhers of soldier, for the Freirth are now ar-
rieing at Vernal from France, and many more are now upon
M. envoi
(Ireiosere in No 43. List of the Squadron of Saanish
Shios of War fitting at Ferrol--Neaeurie, 74 :un.; salt Au-
gunin, 74 ; Monarea, 74; Vengeance, 3r; rrue"bo, 40;
11. ng Ia , stormilep ; (triune, 24 (eorente ,; and a brig. Don
Came's° &Met commaaas this force. Frontons', fur three
months.
No 24 ..Extract of a Letter from the Hon. Rear Admiral
t'o•-firarre to Lord Melville, dated the I lth Septembe- 1604.
I hate been (tweed to keep the Illustrious, as there:lms net
remain ael rubs of the hostile intentioru of Spain M, Frere
wall Inform tour LO,illihip that Spain has agreed to the prlille•
Wiens marls by Asmrica; so that there is no pretence for sup-
poeing that the armament is en aer.runt of that country. 'Duos
e-oosaritt men eniltatit from Ileac, lam told that the whole
of the ',hips will he reedy to hove this port in fourteen days.
NO. SX—F.xtr2ct of a Letter from the Hon Rear Admiral
C.elirene. to die lion. Admiral Cornwallis, dated sus board
Hi. Majesty's Ship Northumberland, ulFerrel, the 19th
September, 11404.
I have ordered the Majestic to be completed with water, and,
ebould 'lathing particular happen, she will be ordered to the
Downs agreeable to the Admiralty order. It is impossible to
say what state the Spanish squadron may be in within a few
days; it must certainly depeed upon orders from Court.
1 will delay misting the Garen" and !Huainan to Plymouth
until I receive further orders, as I do riot think the remit •ig
three ships will be safe after their rieparture, should orders ar-
rive Com Madrid to send the Spanish squadron to sea, which
they cats do in twenty four hers, should their object be an
attack upon the squadron reeler my melees.
Nu. 26 .Extract of a Letter from the Hon. Rear Admiral
Cochrane to Lord Mel, ille, dated the 20th Sept. 1804.
I inclose to you copies of papers which 1 transmitted to
Admiral Cornwallis vesteril iy.
I have since receive I an answer from the Captain General
of the Stamm, to my last letter; the eva iye nature of which
must strike your Lordship, as it does me, that the retiring of
the 'quadrat into the arsenal is a mere blind, where they are
musally-ready for sea el when at anchor in the harbour. Most
of their crew live 10 the Vicinity of F ; and they have, it
Is mid, leavegranv,l them mull the 15th of mmitt.
must, however, remark, that they can be assembled at any
time within •fiew home.
First Isieleoure In No. 26 —Copy of t Letter from the lion.
Rear Admiral Cochrane, to the Captain General of Marine,
Faro , deadlier Britannic Majesty's Ship Nerthumberland,
off Fer.ol, 14th Septeinher, 1/1114.
SI R—K eating the seditical situation in which Great Britaiii
soil Spain stood with r.opect to eseh other, I was month astonish-
ed at being :amused, that °idea had bout suit to the different