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11,1F.!L lAI ELLIGEATE.

rORTSMOUTN, JAN. 8.
The most Noble Marquis of Wellerley landed
here, this Alt.-rtio,,n, from the Ilev:r frigate, which
arrived lx: 111;;Iit from the East Indies. The Noble
klarquis is in pelleft health ; he is at the George
Inn. He is succeed:d in the Goveinment of India,
by the Marquis ,7ornwallis, who went out in. April
last, in the Medusa frigate, Sir John Gore. 'I he
Nee sainted when he was coming on shore, a: is
the etivoite, being a leptesentative of His Maj •sta.
Nohing has arrived or sailea this div ; e
tecuet gin-brig is appointed convoy to the Fast-
ward.—Wind Westerly.
vas/mourn, is N. 7.
Sailed the interim frigate. of JS gins, Capt.
Parker, on a cr ii.se, and the John 11,111 cutter.
Arrived the Aliseare sloop of war, Capt. Henniker,
from a cruise ; the Ceipeor schooner, and Repid and
Views, gun-brigs.
The ships in Caersand Bay remain as before, nn-
der sailing orders, watching for favourable wind
arid we:fillet.
A loiter horn Admiral Cnllingwood's fleet, off
Cadiz, mention's Flit Majesty's ship 'Fin/sr/rite Laving
captured an immensely rich Spanish ;• fire.
DLAL, JAN. 8.
Arrived the Indispenstlle. Gardner, from the
South Seas; arid remains in tie Downs with His
Majesty's ships, the transports, and ou-ward-bound
vessels as per last —Wind W.S.W. blows hard.
Dove:, JAN. 8.
A yottng man belonging to the ale.w..ipe, who a
a few days since WAS much hint, while assisting in
lowering the ntaq of a gun-boat, preernis to seer
going through it:- 'buidge, is since dead.
This fit: noon, two brigs were take, off here by a
French lugger ; with which she got clear of.
In my last 1 mentioned the chase of A privateer,
by a gun-brig and cutte.. I have since lea ned, the
ketch was recaptured, but that they got safe is
with the brig.
It blew very bard last night, from the S.W. and
towards inn. ming, a heavy tiring was heard, which,
I am told, was by an 10._iarnan for a pilot.
This day the annual dinner given by Messrs
Minet 7ind Fe tor, to which all the foreign Cap-
tains in the harbour Ale usually invited, is to be pro-
vided at the Ship Inn. II they all attend, they will
form 3 very large party ; the Colours are in conse-
quence flying 03 b iard all the foreign ships.
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CII.IIiNOCK'S LIFE OP LORD NELSON.
The following Letters are-extract, d from the Appendix to
" Ciento. IC.; Biogiai.hicat MenoOrs of lAII.I Visi:ount
*no," an intrrestvog %York, fu-t publoheri. fhe Letter
colur:wee in 1777, and ■moaat to roil-eight in nuaiber.
Tuley afford a true pact 4/ C of toe Wild of the Man, an/
Mir* that he Ml, hoof, good, 2::t1 analible in private Life, a
h.! airs reit g'ori,itts Asa P4a.ic Character.
rarmeath-roods, Dec ?.2, 1731.
My DEAN St would have written a line be.
fore tests, but I expeted every montent would have
brought a wind, tit it wool l have sent me to the
Downs. whither I am hound, with a large convoy
tf store ships, for Portsmouth and Plymouth.
I assure you, I have almost been frozen, on the
other side of the water ; here, we find it quite
stammer. We have not met with toy success ; in-
deed there is nothing you can meet, but what is in
force ; the Dutch have not a single merchantman at
sea ; one privateer seas in our fleet, hut it was not
possible to lay hold of him; I chased him an hour,
and came fast up with hint, but was obliged to re-
turn to the fleet. I find since it was the noted Fall,
the pirate. Machride sailed 1T46111 hence yesterday.
with his two Dutch pi ires ; they are pa ivateets,
schooner-rigged, but very different from what you
would suppose, by his letter ; whoever gets them as
fine sloops of war, will he very much disappointed
when they see them. Dickson, in the Sampson, was
our Commander. What fools the Dutch must have
been, not to have taken us into the Testi ! the con.
voy consisted of 'ZOO sail ; they behaved as all cati-
vo)* that ever I saw, did, shamefully parting corn-
patsy every day ; 110 sail are now in the Roads. I
hope to hear you have a ship, at least, that your
health will permit you to take one.
the ittemorle. although you a!rased her at
Woolwich, has some good sailing in her ; the .4egv,
a new 44, we Cali spare a great deal of sail, and I
think we go full a; well as the Ente,prike. If you
write a line to the Downs, I shall get it there, &c.
HORATIO NELSON.

Aidentorte, Cape Pod. 25, 1783.
My situation in Lori Hood's fleet, must be, in
the highest degree, flattering to a young man. He
treats me as if I was his son ; and will, I am con-
vinced, give me any thing I can ask of him ; nor is
my situation with Prince William less flattering.
Lord Hood WAS so kind as to tell him (indeed, I
cannot make use of expressions strong elough to de-
scribe what I felt), that if he wished to ask ques-
tions relative to naval teaks. I could give him as
much information as any officer in the fleet. He
will be, I am certen, an ornament to our service.
He is a seaman, which. perhaps, you would hardly
suppose. Every other qualification you may expea
from hire. A vast deal of notice has been taken of
him at Jamaica ; he has been addressed by the
Council ; and the House of Assembly were to ad-
dtei,s him the day after I sailed. He has his levees
at Spanisk Town ; they are all highly delighted
with him : with the hest temper, and great good
sense, he c innot fail of being pleasing to every one.
G,lraPar, Jase 24,1791-
M v DEAN Fa irNo—W e a►tired here last night
**vim Cadiz, where six sail of the line have beeii to
water. 1 have got tor you a cask ot, 1 hope, good
sherry, which I shall take an early opportunity of
se/04w home, and which I beg of you to accept, as
a proof of my remembrance. We have duos no-
thing, and the same ptospea appears before us : the
French cannot conic out, and we h.tre no means of
getting at them in Toali.n. We are to be joined, off
Barcelona by twenty-one sail of the line. Mpanish ; it
they are no better manned than those at Cadiz,
much service car.ni•t be espeded of them ; although,
'as to ships, 1 nicer saw finer men of war. The leLd
is in a hur: y to get from here ; we Oink he is to
hoist the Uni n. If any thing interesting should
heppeo, you may be assured 1 will let you know it,
for. believe me, ,sith Brea: truth.
Your most obliged sad affeetionate,
Hottartu N 51.106.

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WAR IN INDIA.
suesTaticv ot TWO (ATTLEE raoar 1 .CAVALRY
OEI'IEIE, DATED lEr•a !WWII ?OAR, 27 Elt MARCH

A!41) i7TH APRIL. 1805.
‘Vhcil 1 last wool./ to you, we were in pursuit
of Ahmeer Cason. We followed him fur five days,
by forced marches, artd overtook him on the plains
of Alnelghur, on the 2d of March. The infantry,
400 in number, advaeced on the horse artillery with
the greatest intrepidity, while they were playing up-
on them. When they came withie 100 yards of our
guns, they halted, planted their colours, and all fell
prostrate on the ground, in ye' y litgh grass and
jangle, crawled unperceived along, and to our great
astonishment sprang up almost elder the feet of our
horses, charged and bloke the 2oth dragoons, driv-
ing them upon three troops of the.! 2th native caval-
ry,who were thrown into some contusion; but, as our
guns immediately po'nred in grape, very few of them
neared. A body of horse at the same ii.s ant charged
and broke the 27th dragoons; and but for three
troops of the Ist native cavalry, the loss wowed have
been very serious. The horse artill,ry were proteeted
by Captain Skinner's irregular cavalry, and when the
guns opened upon them they made a precipitate re-
treat. General Smith, instead of pursuing them,
returned to the proteCtion of his baggage, which
was left behind. Thus ended the 21 of March.—
The enemy lost two Sir lars. and 500 men kill, d,
and one of their Chiefs taken prisoner. N ver
before were th.• British cavalry ch urged and dis-
persed by the natives ; and what made it worse,
the 27th dragoons were broken by only 100 of them.
white three troops of the Ist native cavalry drove
hack both their infantry and cavalry. Four dragoon
offieers were wounded, and many of the privates.
On the defeat of Ahmeer lawn, t!.e Rohillas who
had joined him, quitted his army in disgust, and
the Cawn, after pillaging the whole country, escaped
across the Ganges into the Douai). with eight lacks
of rupees in his pocket. Ilis pindarr;es got much
more, and the country suffers.! t, a still greater ex-
' tent. It is utterly impossible that te- Company can
eolten any revenues either from Rnhiicund or the
Douab. The Cawn burnt the Cantonments at
Chandory, and did great mischief in every town.
Mora :abAki was partly burnt; Sionbal and Amroah
were bought off by the inhab,Oanta. The Douab
has also shared the same (ate; in particular, a small
fort into which he was refused entrance was taken,
aal every soul in it murdered. Such is the *present
state of Rehilcund and the Douab. V.'e were ex-
aCtly one m.nth in chirp of Ahmeer Caren, having
crossed the Ganges it the pursuit on the 15th of
February. and recrossing it on the 15th of March.
On the loth, we crossed the Jumna, and j.iined the
grand army.
How can 1 describe one two last failures in the
storm of Bhuttpore, the .20tia and 21st February
On the 20th, the 75th and 74th re3iment., refused to
quit the trenches; upon which the 12th and 1.54 i
battalions of native infantry dashed forward.—
Twenty sepoys of the 12th native battalion, led by
Liethenants Fagan and Grant, escalade ! a L..oion
to the right of the breach, and planted their colours
there; but the Europeans not advancing to support
them, they were compelled to retreat, overwhelmed
by numbrts. Thus failed the attempt on the `oth,
breach was again attempted on the '2lst; but
the troops were repulsed with a dreadful slau'h-
ter. During the 20th and Vat, our loss in killed
and woernied was sixty-three officers, and 2,324
rank and file ; a loss unparalleled in Indea.—
You may conceive how destructive to Europeans this
oar with Holkar has been, when, at present, the
65th. 75tli and 7titb regiments, two flank companies
of the 22d, and the Company's European regiment,
muster only 80f men, though at the commencement
of the war they were 4.450 in number. The loss of
Sepoys is much greater in proportion.—The Rajah
even now offers to pay the expenses of the war, and
to give a handsome donation to the army, if WI
would come to terms ; but Gen. Lake seems deter-
mined to take the place, or to lose every man before it.
However, we are, at present, eerlealy idle, which
may lead to a negociation. &vivre Scindea has
joined us with 1. battalions and 8 guns ; but Dowlut
Koa SCilldea is reported to be advancing towards
us with a large army. Holkar and Ahmeer Caren
are plundering the whole country 24 high as Delhi
The grand army under Lord Lake, consists of three
King's regiments of dragoons, five of native ca-
valry, a sqttadron of Bombay, and 3000 irregular
horse under Skinner, five King's and one Company'.
regiment' of infantry, fifteen Bengal, an .l seven
Bombay battalions of native infantry, with artillery

in proportion to the strength of the army. With
force very inferior, scarcely a f airtla of it, we de-
feated Scindea„ and have now been foiled by a com-
mon dependent Rajah. Wr cannot, in the fi►e re-
pulses, have lost less, in killed and wounded, than
lOU officers and 4000 awn. •
APRIL
At last we have been cornpelled to come to very
disgraceful teensy with the Rajah. ,We restore to
him the fort of I which we had taken. His
son is at present in our camp. Holkar is said
to be with Scindia, and it is most probable we
shall soon be compelled to renew the war with Scin
Zia, as he lies refused to move to a distance from
Colonel Mal tindale's detachment, though positively
required by the Lieneral to do so. The hot winds
are set in, and shouia we npw he ordered to moves
it ninst he with the loss of twenty Europeans a day
even the SepoyN cannot stand the heat of this cpai
ter, in marehieg in the Jay time. Srindia ►sas
large army, and a eery tine park of artillery.

This superb mans;riii, on the east Bile of Russel-
square, which was hiCst, at an immense expence, I
the last Lord BALTI7.IO4e• in 011 !)",giEn'fir.,7 ti
preseist reign ; afterwards inhabited, fir seveii
yens, by the late Duke ut Hotta., subseqaeirti
purchased, by Government, tor the residence of Lori
Uhancelbr Rossisr:l ; has, a second t:me, come
the hammer.
the late Lord St. Jorix was married to a sine.
of Mr. WHITBREAD'S, M. P.t basing no male
i•rue. the Peerage devolves to his brother, the Hurl.
Sr. idirsllkEW ST. JOON. The present Lard Sr.
luNti is a decided partizan of the OH Opposition,
aril ail equent Speaker; aeon:re, he w,ll strengthen
the ranks of that body in the Urp,-r 11 use. Hr
Wai one of the Managers tot cond saing the Ir
peachnsent of Mr. HAST!Seff, and also appoian
oae of those for managing that of Lard Mat vt LI