The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1807-02-04 00:00:00

NAVAL INTALLIOSNCE.

roanstoura, res. 2.
The tern of w.tr here. which are of 7. guns, bit:
to he Artel a, t;4 gun ships, being weak ships, are
enderstand to be for the Ileitis. The artificer
work extraordinary time. beside Sundays, to get
them ready. A number of shipwrights, and o'
other cl..sse4 of artifimrs, from Hull and Scotian
h lately been riveted into this yard; there is an
a•idiron or nest h• 100 house carpenters and joiners
The repairs of the navy are increasingly nnr,?erons
The 114trie Pirate, which is to take out his Ex
c 11 icy L rd Nfitro t 3 Bengal, is paid wages. His
Lordship is ;lowly exoetted.
Arrived the B.' inch*, irigite, from off Rochfort,
with an Arneiicasi ship, which she .hat detained :
Swo.rat tv. vpi'l Sir Charles Cotton, front of
Brest ; Defender and k bsti. with SI crew! }trim
Gii-rnsey ; sod the Hearty grin-brig from a Cruise.
—Wind S.W.

visvissotitm vet. I.
Came in a Collier, taken by a Frenc'i privateer
off the Statt-point, and retaken Mid-Channel ever,
by one of eu- rinsiu-igs, a 4 brought into this port.
It is said sever.) nt the Colliers have entered on
beard the privateer ; we liupo, for the honour of
British Seamen, the story is without foundation.
Carne in also, the Betsey privateer, of eight guns
a- •1 forty men, from a cruise in the Channel ; two
days ago she f in with a French logger privateer
of superior force. and very reliantly brJught her to
anion ; after a tew broadsides, the French lugger
ou with her sweeps. and rowed off.
Yesterday the Court Martial ended on Captain
C dqiiitt, of the Primes: frigate, on ten charges, pre-
fell e 1 against him by L. Prake, of the same
set p ; it lasted seven says, when the Court unani.
mously found eight charges to be gross falsehoods,
and founded in malice; one charge was found
against Captain Colquitt, but no culpability attache,)
to it; and one was partly proved, for which Captain
Colquitt was admonished.
PALMOUTIII, Jas. 31.
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Arrived the Huh a/ teat packet, Capt. Lawrence,
with Mails, from Jamaica, in 47 Jays passage ; she
brines an account of the Reistanee frigate, which
sailed from hence in company with His Majesty's
ship Ardenr, for Buenos Ayres, having arrived at Ja-
maica on the 25th November, and sailed again on
the 11th Decem'ier ; she carried information of the
recapture of Buenos Ayres. The inhabitants of
Ciiracoa having repressed themselves willing to
place themselves under the proteßion rif the Britisii
Government, Admiral Dacres dispatched His MA-
jcsty's ships Aret4asa, &Rawl, and Lames, to take
possession of it in I lis Majesty's name. His 51a-
jesty's chip El Pomona, sailed in company with the
packet, but having carried away her fore.top•mast,
and sprung her bowsprit, was obliged to put hack.
Sailed last evening His Majesty's ship tiataher• of
lb 'mu, Capt. Hill, with the Pear Friends, Hosking.
aud'‘Thens, Itaewirell, for I..nlidno. %mac'. convoy ;
the Proper°, Poreedswgrth, for Altona.
Arrived the newt, Cundy ; the Eliza dad Mar-
fare, utd Jaia end —, from Lou-
don ; Lleaeor, Collins, from Swansea.

Majesy's brig Grass4opper, 1S guns, tvi:h
convoy for Portugal, will sail ton favourable wind.
—Wind W.
CIIATFI•3I, tril. 5.
The Pro:ris sloop arrived herr on Friday law.
The Pandora 'Ailed on the 2gtb, and die Irea.
direr on the Slst ult.

DEAL, ►[L. Z.

Sailed, the S,Wifire, sloop of war, on a cruise.
Arrived His Majesty's ships Arrow schooner, and the
Perheer gun-brig, front a cruise, and remain in the
Downs with the rest at the shipss as per last.—Wind
S. W.

COLIC, JAN. fS.

Arrived the Vieego 4nn-btig, Lieut. Hanchett
she fell in no Sunday night last with a very large
French schooner privateer, belonging to Bourdsaux,
which she engaged for twenty-five minutes ; hut,
owing to gummy sailing, the privateer got off
Lieut. Hanciaat is wounded, but not dangerously.
Also arrived His Majesty's ship Eaus, Lord Fitz-
roy, from a 'raise ; M.ry, of and from Liverpool.

fIOM LLOYD'S LIST.
Gm AV MM ro, . I.—Passel by the Marquis of Huntley,
—, hunt Tobago; Adventure, Roper, from St: Luca ; said
Cornelis, Pass, from St. Michael's—Sated the Juno, Fisher,
from Grenada; Portiviri Crawley, from Madera; Remit-
tine', Law. fur Now York ; sad Albicere, Williamson, for
Galway.
Fe a. 2 —Paired by, the Sheldon., MilDessed, for Jamaica ;
Duckworth, Manning, trir Honduras , New Jersey, Al`Cmw,
for Philadelphia : and Put !leafy. Pyle, for Duuitu.