The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1805-04-05 00:00:00

ANSWER OF THE COMMISSIONERS.

Office of Na,!, Inquiry, rarest r,eorge.
street, April 2, I fin).
Mx Los ite.seWe have receiver! your Lordship's Letter of the
21Ith of last ',tooth, be which you intimate that we appear is..t
to have accurate y miderstood the grounds on which you de-
clined answeimg nor questions, and submit to us some obserya-
t.olls ill order to place those grounds in their ilst view ; arid
also express a wish, before you conclude, to cornet an inac-
curacy hi one part of your evidence, nod a readiness to verify by
rotor oath the fat* stated in that letter.
if A he the object of tin: communication, that we should
again require your Lordship's attendance, for the purpose of
being examined, touching these mantis, and that we should
mike a Supplemental Report upon the result or that examina•
turn, and such other exa 1111 l tations as we might thereupon judge
nes-awry, there ran be no disinclination on nor parts tas far
as we are cone-reed in Cie proceeding i to meeting your Lord-
ship's wishes ir appears to us that the enquiry, which is
the sesiect of the Tenth Report, has attained this period,
eilir I it would net become us to Adapt such a measure,
upon thawyaswien of any of the parties, to whose conduct
vial Hew at may relate.
We VlRT.eorcuptett several months it, inteetigat ng the mode
uonducting the business of the office et Treasurer of the
Na.y : those who were examined by us hat the fullest op.
portunity of eating and explaining all things which relates!
so the management of that department, or to the sitar oaten
they yespelirely had in it; and of econecting, at any time,
during the progoes .of the enquiry, any naistakis which
moot utadveitelitly hare been made. Our opinion and tamer-
venous upon the inegularnir s and Owes, which we diemirer-
ed, weft formed anddrawn up with the utmost rue and deli•
lieraton ; and they are Pow submitted to the three branches of
the Legislature, as the art, by which we are appointed,
requires. If it could be made to appear upon a repreamts.
lion to them that an, thing has been omitted on OW part,
that any misunderstanding or error had °returns!. Anil that a
further enquiry is adyiseabl, upon the,c, or any other wound.,
it would be for them to dir,tt ...itch further enquiry, and to de•
cide by whom, and in what mariner, it should be pmeecuted
but, in the present sarcasms/awes, it appcars to us that we can-
aille milk propriety resume it.
We have the honour to he, my Lord,
Tutu LordAtip's most obedient humble Servants,
CH. M. rin.v.,
EWAN LAW,
JOHN PORI),
U. NICHOLLS,
W. MACKWORTH PRAED.

iNTLI.LIGENCE.
PORTSIMUTN, APRIL 5.

Arrived L'Entreprourneetitter. with the Itrzt,,A
Qaerx. ReVal -4frlcen• Aid*, Ann, Wiliiam, Harmony,
and Planter transports, with troops from Plymouth
for the expedition ; Defender and Phtinpergun.btigt
from a cruise—Wind S.W.
PLYMOUTH, APILIL Y.

Arrived the Denver, of and from Poole, for
Liverpool : she was captured on the tOth ult. and
recaptured on the '.l4th by the Decode frigate.
Sailed the Pretty Las, armed ship, with a Aeet
under convoy to tbe Eastward.—Wind W.S.W.
DIAL, APRIL 3.
Early this morning sailed the Bourne sloop of
war, with the :Untied Garth.er and Mete alft East-
Indiamen, and a Rest of other outward-bound yes-
seh, transports, coasters, and colliers, under cow
voy for Port..month.
Arrived and sailed for the River, the F lieetr Spa-
nish privateer, Prize to the KW!, privateer, of Lon-
don.
Sailed the Biter gun-brig, on a cruise.
Remain in the Downs the rest of the ships as per

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ORIST 01, APRIL 2.

Came in the Gallant &Avner, from Su-
: iism ; Heary 0a Mary, and Oftler•
I,•idge. from Cork; rronsheap, trom Norway ;
Eirasierh, from Rotterdam : .lures,
from Amsterdam ; Mermard, Koteler, horn
New York ; Nally, Gilmore, Lord Nelson, Horn, and
Lath/ Fitts:raid I.ong, from Cork.
Arrived, at Cork, Prencr of Welts, V icary, Met-
Weckes, Ntplaor, Coplestune, and Then, Shep-
herd ; at Duhlin, Oral, Hodgson; at Jamaica,
7.4 e Harvey, Ann, Honywell, A'rre, Marychurch,
irrter;sl' s6ip, Thomas, 411 non, Powell, Flora, Baker,
ar.d Zipsyr, Passmore, from Bristol.

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