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THE pilansm PRESS.

We received last night French Papers to the I ith,
and Dutch Papers to the 18th instant. The account
of our atrem;,t to burn the French flotilla, off Bon-
inzne, is their principal feature. It embraces a varie-
ty of official letters, which will be read with interest.
The naval and military Commanders represent
their loss as not amounting to more than one pin-
nace, and twenty-one men. They account for this
result, by an assurance, that, being aware of the
nature of the attack, they opened their line, and
suffered the English fire-ships to pass through ; by
which manoeuvre, the latter exploded, without doing
any mischief, between the flotilla and the shore.—
But, however small the loss of the enemy may
have been, it is evident, from a perusal of the Of-
ficial Details, f. 'at the attempt hasexcited great alarm
in the French flotilla, and made a great impression.
The catamarans, which have fallen into the pos-
session ..f the Mosquito fleet, appear to have excited
in it as much surprise and curiosity, as that which
the first appearance of an European ship produced
among the inhabitants of Mexico and Peru. It is
also remarkable, that since the attack, the enemy
have not ventured out of Boulogne ; but, while
we think the party writers fairly enough ascribe
this result to that event, we see no reason
for supposing that the French account was held
back until the English report of it had reach-
ed France. The Dutch Journals contain nothing
in confirmation of the late report, of the pro-
bable reconciliation of Russia and France, through
the mediation of Pru!tia. On the contrary, a paper
is circulated in Germany, purporting to be the Rus-
sian declaration of war against BONAPARTE. Ano-
ther Russian squadron is fitting out at. Cronstadt ;
a Russian 2slegoeiator is preparing to come to Eng-
land, and the Russian army is ordered to be aug-
mented. An article in the Dutch Papers, under
the bead of Cadiz, states, that orders had been
sent by the Sp:ll.6h Government to South Ameri-
ca, to hasten the remittance of all the Spanish trea-
sure to Europe.
Box r *RTC arrived at Paris on the 12th, but the
rapers do not say whether he previously visited the
camps upon the coast. The Poet was expeied at
Turin on the 223, when the Governor of that city,
the Mussulman and ItCORgAII4, ARO ALL AN MENOL,
was to compliment hint in the name of his accom-
plice, ALI BONAPARTE.

A very unpleasant report has been in eirculaticn
for several days respelling the capture of four home-
ward lndiamen from Bengal. On inquiry at the
India House, we do not find any truth for this re-
port, as no intelligence has been received there of
any such event. The account is said to have come
by a Dane. We are sorry to say, that apprehen-
sions are, notwithstanding, entertained for the safety
of the expelled fleet, as they were appointed to sail
from Bengal the 25t1t March, and had not arrived
at St. Helena when the last ships left that Island.
Their crews are said to have been considerably re-
duced by the great demand for European seamen
for the Navy in India, who pressed them into the
King's service, leaving the crews of the Indiamen to
be chiefly composed of Lascars and other natives of
India.

The Ca7ette of last night contains the official ac-
cnunt of the engagement with the Spanish squadron,
off Cape St. Mary. It will be urn that the Spa-
niards resisted the wish of the English to detain
them, and tired first upon our frigates.

On Monday eight Mr. LvsLit, the Mes'eager.
se ;f by Ministers to Spain, with dispatches
: th it Court.

A tiring in the dire/lion of Boulogne was heard
at Deal on Monday, occasioned probably by an at-
tempt on the part of the enemy to skulk irons Calais
to Boulogne.
The Spanish frigates at Plymouth, having sick-
ness on board, have been put under quarantine.
A Philadelphia Paper says, that the yellow
fever has broken out at New o;leans. It still conti-
nued a Charleston.
The &Wu, POOL!, of Whitehaven, from POWs-
burp, is on shore on Goshland.
11. e freMehrinsa, —, from Balboa, is put into
Tenby with the loss of =chose and cables.
A convoy was appointed to sail from Hull, on
Sunday, for Tonningen.
Another corm}, is expelled to sail from Hull for
the. Baltic, about the 28th inst.
We are happy to announce the capture of the
F.i.cruire French privateer, mounting 16 guns, and
Lying a great number of men on board. She was
cap:aired by His Majesty's ship L'Alcion, and has
beta carried into the Bay of Gibraltar. This priva-
teer has greatly annoyed our Mediterranean trade
this war, and had taken twi or three valuable ships
from Liverpool, bound ur the Mediterranean.