The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1805-07-27 00:00:00

way, close in shore, towards the latter harbour.
The engagement was a very warm one, as our
cruisers, to attack the enemy's craft with any effJ,
are of necessity drawn within the range of the nu-
merous batteries that line the coast, and are exposed
to a dreadful fire. The flotilla was driven back with
considerable loss, but not without some on our
part. The Chapiefriair had two men killed and :e-
-1 veral wounded.

The Imo has captured the Throw/rite, French
privateer, of It; guns and 90 men, and carried her
into Cork. She took her in lat. 48. long. 14 west.
The Hiroo&Pe had taken in her last cruise the Queen
Charlotte packet, after an Attion of an hour and 20
minutes.

We have received New York Papers to the tBth
last. They state that the French fleet sailed from
Martinique to Guadaloupe, and remained there a
few days before it put to sea again, and proceeded,
as was supposed, for Antigua.

Apprehensions arc entertained that the Arabelta
packet, which carried out the Leeward Island Mails,
has been taken by the French and carried into Mar►

...

The Prince of Wales packet, with a Mail from
Falmouth, arrived at Lisbon the 21st of June.
The Auckland packet, arrived at Falmouth from
Lisbon, on the 19th inst. in bit. .50 deg. lung. 35.
saw a large fleet of ships of war, and spoke the
Ajax man of war, and was informed, that they
consisted of 15 sail of the line, two frigates, one
lugger, and a cutter; they were standing to the
S.W. N.B.—Supposed to be the Channel Fleet.
The American ship Clerics, —, from Amster-
dam, for Boston, is d.tained and sent into Dover.
Positive information bad been received at Lisbon,
that the Carthagena Fleet, which had made two or
three short cruises, had finally sailed on the 25th of
June, and that Sir R. BICKIR TON, who had re-
ceived an account of their sailing, had passed the
Streights in hopes of meeting them.
Letters have been received by the Naiad frigate
from Sir ROBERT CALDEI. whom she left with I 1
sail of the line off Ferrol. all well.
A letter from Penzance, dated July 23. says—
i4 You may soon expeetto receive important intelli-
gence ; but I am not able to state what.
. The people belonging to a boat which arrived
yesterday at a fishing-town near this, from Scilly,
state, that they spoke a ship of war (size not men-
tioned) off the Land's End, which was under a
heavy press of sail ; the officers on board declared
to the men, that they had great and good newt for
Great Britain, but he would not state the particu-
lars."
The West India Convoy now at Spithead is to
wait the arrival of 23 vessels from the River. This
fleet, as the request of the Merchants, is to call at

Madeira.
We have authority to state that Colonel D. G
Baown, has not resigned his command in the S.
Mayo regiment. as stated in the Duliin Gezette;
some mistake seems to have originated in the laser-
tion.—(Ceek ihraing Ch►onicle.J
It is with satisfaCtion we have to notice the ap-
pointment of Brigade Major M•Nlanort, to the si-
tuation of Assistant Adjutant General to this Dis-
trill, vacant since the removal of Lieutenant Cul.
BeeKWITHO—(Ib.)
Monday, the last division of the Queen's German
regiment marched out of Cork on their route to
Newcastle.
The Mansion on the south side of the Treasury
Garden, in St. James's Park, which was splendidly
fitted up at the expence of the East India Com-
pany, as a residence for Lord Msnyts.ne, a
short time before he quitted the Board of
Control, but declined by his Lordship, seems to be
still unoccupied. Perhaps were the offer made to the
present Indian Minister, Lord CASTLEREAGH, it
would not be refused, especially, as the entrance
from Downing-street is within a door or two of his
new of :ice of Secretary for the War Department!
The improvements in Old Palace Yard. under
the late AO, are already begun. On the East side,
one end of the Coffee-house, on the left of the
principal entrance to the House of Lords, and
which not long since had been neatly fitted up, is
taken down; and the workmen are ptoceedilig
to demolish those very ancient and unsightly
buildings. of which the old noted chop-house, the
Ship, forms a part. It is proposed to creel a uni-
form range of buildings, parallel with the Court of
Requests (the present House of Lords), which are
to contain suitable apartments for the Loan Csi AA.
CELLOR, an office for the CNA lalal AN of the Co H.
MITTICS. and other accommodations: improve-
menu greatly wanted. and which proceed chiefly
from the laudable attentions of Lord Ave CLAN D.
In consequence of the distressed state of the funds
of the Devon and Exeter Hospital. the Officers,
Non-commissioned Officers, and Privates of the
Exeter Regiment of Volunteers, commanded by
Lieutenant Colonel WRIOHT and of the Tiverton
Regiment, commanded by Lieutenant Colonri Sir
JO/1N Duni es, Bart. have generously subtcribed
one day's pay towards the support of that most ex-
cellent charity.
We hear that Dr. J . . is engaged in coiled-
ing reports from the different States of Elusive, and
from many of the other quarters of the globe, re.
speCtiug the effects of Vaccine Inoculation on the
rnortaisty occasioned hr the Small Pox. In several
of the far gest cities on the Continent, we are inform-
ed that lie has already received the pleasing intelli-
gence of the Small Pox being either nearly or totally
subdued. Among them is Vienna. But how me-
lancholy it the terse Lion, that while the great And
populous city of Vienna, which for tone immemo-
rial hail been subjefted to the incessant savages of
the Small Pox, exhibited two deaths only by that
disease in the year 1804, the city of London should
even at this moment have to depinre the untimely
fate of near fifty persona weekly trey this horrid pes-
tilence; a pestilence which. it is rosy:Qtrs. front this
and other similar examples, might not only he
speedily banished front the metropolis, but from
every part of the British Empire.