The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1805-08-05 00:00:00

A'.l)".lL LYTELLIGENCE.

toturstrotrrit, st:t;
Arrive 3 His WI ijsts ships /?,,/'rice. G .4, an]
L'Alwriabirt, from the assyns ; Brilanni.l cotter front
Guernsey; Piirdant cutter from a cruise; C
48;oe, Ale:wrier, rr,,,eni, and two ot three other
transports, from the West Indies.
Passed by for the Downs, the flervt sln"i of %vat',
with several vessels under convoy, from tie West
Indies.—Wind S. W.
• . AVG 3.
Arrived His Majesty's Alp Z afner;
Sailed His Majesty's ship Defoire, to the West-
ward.

VLlflint'lll. ♦UG. I.

Arrived the Topase frigate, and Gt.Litriee cutter;
.din the Nde lugger, from Sir It. Cmlier's
She brings the unpleasing intelligerce of the enemy,
under favour of tho mist, siding the vigilance of
Sir Robert, and getting into port with his crippled
fleet. 'the Nil. lugger brings letters, dated of
Ferrol, 2titil July (two I have received), one (tom
the Thsvidcre, (describing the aaion), which had
three seamen aid three marines killed, and twelve
wounded; a ie horn the flaisevaMe, stating their loss
to be two killed and ten wounded ; and it is groe-
rally reported, that the combined squadron had six
millions of specie uncler their prineflion, in frigates
and galleons. A person from Falmouth arrived
here to-day, declares, that a crippled ship was tow-
ing into that port yesterday ; but the arrival of the
Nile must prove it unfounded.
According to the various accounts received by
the Nile, theie were three others of the enemy's ships
dismayed and crippled. equal to those Drought in-
to Dock, Flaninaz-, by the Wiwi's.), whose
bray( ry, during sn few hours, never can be excelled.
Sailed the Lady ll'aeren armed ship, Naiad and
I.;Ei;ivptietose frigate., to the Westward.
Came in the Dani;h ship Meri-itrius, Capt. Thomp-
son, from Civita Vecchia, for Lisbon, detained by
the Aro& frigate.
SPILCRNSIS. ACCU.T 2.

Sailed from the Nore the Exertion and I?edhreaag
gnu •essels, with the fleet, under convoy, for fon-
ningen.—Wind S.W.
EIMOVTio, A vat= 2.

Since my last arrived the Smbnunth, Flynn, horn
Plymouth, with slate; Dart, Gregory, irom Dalt-
mouth, with wine and oats ; Ann, Shears. horn Ply-
mooch, with slate ; Piumiitan, Kent, from ditto, with
rigging rtnd store; for a gun-brig buildiiig in this
port, under convoy of the Cheer& gun-66g, Lieut.
klontague ; Fracnds, Peatce, from Bristol, wp
groceries.
Sailed the Ann end 1114,7, Hodder ; and Friend-
ship, Cock, for Plymouth, with timber: &gimp
Slade, for ditto, in b.illast; Liberty, Storey, for ;it.
Petersburgh, in ditto; Iti:nrd, Wallet, for Dant-
zic, in ditto; and a few coal ships in for
Sundetland.

DIAL. ♦uO. 2.
Remain in the Dawns the ships as per last. The
Calais squadron. under the command of the AriarAs
frigate, Hon. Captain King. are returned to the
Downs, after di ing into Calais about 50 sail of the
enemy's flotilla, ciinsisting of schuyts, luggers, &c.
bound to HoulAgne, being the same which a few
days since were di iven into Dunkirk by the Voierrno
bomb. Several of the enemy's ♦cssels were diivcn
on shore and ,rismasred, w:tßt-iiit any damage to the
English squadrcii.—Kind S 14,

Y A RMOUT P. Avn. 2.

A passgoger, by 3 bye boat, yesterdAy, stater that
reports nn the Continent of a serous riliwnderstand.
ing and immediate war between Russia and France
are much circulated and generAlly credited.
Monday morning last, a sloop of war of 20 gnns,
called :he Spfirresr, was lanurired from the Dock
Yard of Mr. John Preston, of this town.

The North Sea squadron is to be strengthened,
in consequence of the late indication sf hostile
movements in the Batavim ports.
The goose jam% Cormilissen, from sea, with
fish and salt, is sent in here by His Majesty's ships
in the North Sea.

The Ann brig has sent in a smuggling lngget
with 163 half ankers of spirits, taken on the coast of
Holland ; this is the first vessel taken under the new
Att of Parliament.