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INDIA.

CALCIiTTA. GAztrir: EXTn AORDINAItY.
wLDNestii v, •te. 15. 1801.
A dispatch was yesterday received by His Excel-
lency the Most Noble the Governor General in
Council, from the Commissionet at Fort Marlbo-
rough, dated the 28th December, 1803, a French
squadron of one line of battle-ship, and three fri-
gates, appeared -off that Residency.
On the following morning, two of the enemy's
frigates proceeded to Poolo Bay, where they de-
stroyed the ship Ewer, Capt. Richie, and captured
die Elise km, Captain Stephenson. The Note
led the Marlboreazh, commanded by Captains
pandas and Slater, and lying in Palle Bay, were
burned by their crews to prevent their falling into
the bands of the enemy.
The house of the Resident at Poolo Bay. and the
Hon. Company's pepper godowns, were afterwards
burned by the enemy, and about 400 tons of pepper
were destroyed.
On Monday, the dlth December, the enemy sailed
to the Southward, without making any attempt
against the ort.
TI e most active exertions were made by the Com-
missioner, Mr. Ewer, for the defence of the princi-
pal settlement, and the Commissioner was zealously
and ah r assisted by all the inhabitants. and by the
Cri--,,,na lees and clew, of the chips in Poolo Bay.
Tn:• ship Countess of Sutherland, Captain Eggles-
ton, was captured by the enemy, a few days before
their arrival off Fort Marlborough.
Pa:ilklied by Command of His Excellency, the
Most Noble the Governor-General in Council,
J. Lemmas,
Chief Secretary to Government.

)lIIT UILLIAtaI, TEL 15, 18n4.
Dispatches have been this day received by the
Chief Secretnry to the Government, frcm Captain

Page, of His Majesty's ship Caroller. dated the 6th
January. and the 14th of February, 1804, of which
the following extrafts are published for general in-
formation.
EXTRACTS /AGM A 'ATTER. rams CAPTAIN PAGE,
DATI.II 151 E SEII JAN. 1804.
I request you will inform the most Noble the
Governo...General in Council, that I had the good
for.uae to capture the French privateer brig, b..
Freres Unit, of 140 tons, pierced for 16 nine and
six pounders, but with only eight on board, and
having 131, mcn on board, fifteen of whom were
Officers. and forty soldiers, from Bourdeaux, in
July, and from Mauritius the 11th November, going
to cruise off the Sand Heads, and had not made a
ca dture.
• t itacrs TEONI A I.ETTER i!011 CAPTAIN PAGE,
DATED THE [4IH its. 1804.
I request you will inform his Excellency the most
Noble Marquis Wellesley, Governor-General in

Council, that I am arrived at Kedgeree, in His

Majesty's ship, under my comma•ud, with her prize
the French ship, General dr Cato. of 26 guns, and
£OO men, which I captured between the Cocos And
AdAman Isles, on the inst. and before she had
mad, a capture.
This ship was built fora vessel of war, equal to
our twenty gun ships, and carries IS nine-pounders
on her gun-deck. besides those on her quarter-deck
and forecastle, v.likh arc heavy carronades.
FuMislied by Command of his Excellency the
Most Noble the Governor General in Council,

.1 I,vmsnEN,

Chief Secretary to Government

IZTRACT Of ILFTTICR FROM AN 0/IricElit ON *GARD

NI! IMAJVITT'S SHIP CAIOLINI, DATLO ILLDOE-
Pitt. ►es. 14, Islo4.
As you may wish to know the particulars of our
little captures, I beg leave to inform you. that having
convoyed the East India ships into lat. It. 30.
Moth, and long. 111, SO. East. we parted with
them all well, e. m. 4th January, and stood to the
Eastward. Next mornin,-;, at two a. m. we saw,
chased, and in less than four hours, captured Lev
F-ere• rw's. French privateer brig. of Iti guns, and
134 men. She made every attempt to get sway,
and gave us her eight guns as we hailed her, which
cut our boats, 3cc, but hurt only our geese, three of
'which they killed, and wounded two ; odr mus-
quetry wounded one man hadiv. but the rest laid too
41.tt &Iwo to he hurt. Though they meant to board
as, and were well prepared to do so, the dawning
day and our marines deterred them. She had 13
pfficers and 40 soldiers, and snffered much in her
masts and rigging, or we might not have caught her.
lVe got into Penang with her on the VArth January,
where she was sold as she stood, for a cruiser, in
the Cornpaly's service, for 5,300 Spanish dollars, on
the 31st. Our prisoners being equally distributed
b'c'seen the Garrison and tlis Majesty's ships Cos-
ta/4, Vich,r, and Corolla(' we sailed r.n the 23d to
look for more of these gentry, sone of which are
said, by our prisoners, to have sailed with L•s Frerrr
Unit. The Viver left the Br'a'e all w-11 on the bth
January, and got to Penang on the 22d.
On the ,11 February, at eight a. m. we got sight

This Dsy—As.s. SA 1T1Ti.41011.14 at the Public Offices.

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BRITISH PRESS.

LON DON,
THURSDAY. Noveussit 1.

Yesterday we received the Monitnsr, and several
other Paris Papers to the 2 uh instant, the following
article, dated Petersburgh, 7th Ottober, is the only
part their contents that deserves notice—
“ The Emperor of Russia, having been informed
that the Count Dr. Lit Ls had quitted Warsaw, and
was going to Russia, where he was to have the con-
ferences announced before hand with persons ex-
peited from England, would not suffer those con-
ferences to take place in his States. He has made
known to the Count De Litt e, that having had re-
lations with the French Government, having signed
with it several treaties, and that Government having
been recognised in Russia since the treaty of 1801,
he would not suffer any thing to take place, which
might induce it to be thought that the Court of
Russia had changed its system and opinion upon the
suhjeti." .
We do not hesitate to ptossoonce this pretended
letter fn m St. Petersburgh, an impudent fabrica-
tion from the Paris manufattory. Can any man,
who sees the present relations between France and
Russia, be weak enough to believe, that the gene.
serous A t rx snot!, who mourns and laments the
fate of the Duke D'ENGHIEN, is eager to insult
the Box:aeons, to gratify the fool and midnight
murderer of that virtuous Prince ? We can
besides state from authority, that the Emperor of
Rcsst♦ offered His Most CHRISTIAN MsJESTY
Vilna, Grodno, or Mittan, for his future residence ;
but that Colmar, in Sweden, had been previously
fixed upon by the Musts ions exile.

A private letter from Paris of the 18th •It. states,
that it was not from any other cause but the non-
arrival of the POPE, that the coronation of the
Corsican adventurer. as an Emperor of the
French, was postponed from the 9th to the 22J
inst. The unfortunate Pontiff has, during these
last eight months, been exposed to all possible
threats, humiliations, and plots of BONAP ART CS
military satellites and political intriguers. Our cor.
respindent informs us, that since last March, Pies
VII. has been informed, that he weer go to France
to perform the sacrilegious ceremony of crowning
an assassin and Atheist, c r resign the Tiara to
(:ardinal FM, and pass the remainder of his days
in a convent. Suspended between his duty as a
Christian Pontiff, and his obligations as a temporal
sovereign, tormented by the pangs of his own con-
science, and dreading the consequences fur his sub-
jesqs, should he listen to its dinates, he has nego-
tiated, offered pecuniary sacrifices and full power
to Cardinal Fesn, to sit on this occasion in his
name and oa Lis part. Nothing, however, would
satisfy the outrageous ambition, and atrocious po-
licy of the barbarous N A rot sou, than to ascend a
throne, seated on the ruins of religion, as well as
of loyalty. From the camp of Bottlogr.e, Last Au-
gust. Bo r., therefore, informed the Pock,
that an immediate assent was required from
him, or before he, Bo a, was crowned
an Emperor, Pius VII. should be reduced to
a Bishop of Rome, and the sub**. of the King
of SARDINIA, to whom the Ecclesiastical States
should be given in indemnity. The melsbers
of the sacred college were then convoked, and it
was determined, 64 that the Chief of the Roman
Church should submit, with Christian humility, to
the degrading circumstances of the times." Know-
ing. however, llostarsa rc's desire to be clowned
on the anniversary of his usurpation, by feigning
illness the Poi. s hoped that this period would pass
Over, and some one else perform the ceremony. Of
this Busara ere did not become the dupe, but or•
dered his Aid-de-Camp, General CArIAII:LLI, to
set out immediately for Rome, and not lose sight
of ths; Port, until h.. had passed the frontiers of
France; informing this videfreadeffit Sovereign at the
same time, that. 4, was his journey postponed until
next summer, from natural or artificial causes, the
corms:aunt ceremony should be also postponed. as
Bos•rAarr: was determined tbat none but the Port
should place the imperial crown on his bead."
We are, however, *assured, by our Paris cone-
spondent, that the health of ries VII. is much

paired, and that on this account he Las voluntarily
offered to return to the monastery of the Char-
troese, at Rome, there to await his death, resign-
ing his triple crown to any one chosen by the con-
clave. This, again, has been refused, at ios e, by
the merciless Corsican ; and, when the last letter s
left Rome, preparations were made for His Hotl-
y ess's j itirney to France, though his infirmities,
his grid, the season, and, more than all this, the
unconscious barbarity of his oppressor, will probably
soon relieve him from the torment of inhabiting
the same world that criminals, regicides, and rebels
tyrannise over. This unheard of event, which, in
better times, would have armed all true Christians
and loyal subjeas, like many others, has ceased to
area the volatile sensibility of Europe. In coun-
tries smitten by the revolution, every man thinks
only of supporting his misfortunes, or anticipating
new ones ; elsewhere, pleasures thrive as in the
most fortunate times. This epocha is a carnival to
all that have hitherto escaped France ; here is
weeping, there dancing, but all sympathy for the
sufferings of others is worn out. The degradation
of religion, the humiliation of a Sovereign, the
plunder of subjefts, and the destru.llion of states,
does not interrupt the balls, the routs, the festivals,
or frivolity of their neighbours. European selfish.
ness has long since thrown off the load of pity.
There would have been less inhumanity in deliver.
ing the grey hairs of Pius VII. to the hands of the
executioner, than in Box AAAAA cool and systema-
tic atrocity of studiously profaning the holiness of his
character, loading him wilfully with disgrace and
sorrow., dragging him from his altars into the sacri-
legious temples in France, so lately prostituted to the
adoration of a Goddess of Reason, and in preaching
the tenets of fatality, of atheism. But the abominable
fanaticism of revolutionary akilosophy has, no doubt,
suggested as an addition to the number of martyrs.
trampled upon or immolated at its shrine, the head
of a religion, whose annihilation it has, ever since
1789, been bent upon ! ! !

Metter from our correspondent at Vienna, of
the 12th ult. states, " that most foreign powers and
people have mistaken the motives which determined
the Cabinet of Vienna to advise its Sover.'ign to as-
sume the title of au hereditary Emperor of Au-
►tria. Every one must acknowledge," continua
he, " that Box AAAAA &has reason to be proud of the
success of his political machinations and hatigues ;
that be makes a traffic of every passion of the human
heart, finds out the wants and weaknesses of every
court and of every potentate, and, by playing upon
the common failings of them all, renders every
power, even in its degradation and fall, subservient
to his own gigantic views of ambition and aggran-
disement. Bin this cannot be applied to the re-
cent assumption of the new hereditary dignity by
Estancia 11. ; nor is this measure to be regarded as
a studied imitation of the condud of the upstart,
self-eieded Tyrant of France, or as a sant9ion of his
usurpation. Surely there is a substantive and
obvious difference between the mere change,
of a title from King to Emperor, by a lawful
hereditary Monarch, without the advancement of
any new pretensions, without the exercise of any
additional power $ and the assumption of a tide by
an Usurper. nut only more dignified and elevated
than that which he previously enjoyed, but of a na-
ture totally different, and accompanied with the
usurpation of a despotic and absolute power, eq tally
destructive of that limited authority with which the
people had entrusted hint, and of that constitution
which he was appointed to prated, and which he
had sworn to maintain. In the foe-suer, therefore,
is neither imitation, nor sanction of the latter. It
is the iteerest of Bona arra to have it considered
in this point of view; but it is to be hoped, that his
miserable suphistry will not succeed nr v, as it has
done in so many other instances, in the
;udgment of 'mankind, and in silencing the voice of
common sense. Our Sovereign's motive for the
assumption of this new title is to he looked for in
the known and selfish intentions of His Penns' n
MAJ Lilt V to dispossess the Imperial Family bore
of their present dignity, as Chiefs of the German
Empire ; and in the insidious promises of the Cor-
sican to tran,fer this dignity to the &IX
denhar,g4. El:a:gins 11. is looking forwards to the
time when the growing influence o: France, in
pusillanimous Councils of the Empire, will he
successfully exerted in proem ing for a Prince, mean
enough to be indebted to her interference for
the aggrandisement of his name and the extension
of his power, the title of KINO of the Romans. and
his consequent elevation to the head of the Empire ;
and, unwilling to have an interior raised above his
superior ; a Monarchy of yesterday placed higher on
the regal scale than a Prince descended from a long
line of Royal and illustru...a ancestors, who had
ruled as Emperors for centuries, was willing to
avert the affront of such degradation, by leaving to
his heir, at least, an enlist tide to that which he
enjoys himself. This was a natural and a laudable
desire, and not the offspring of ridiculous pride or

puerile api',ition. Neither Tai
land, nor Sweden, have yet ackr
11. as an hereditary Emperor
the official communication on th
as near as pussible,all2
related to pm, which, instead

ment, are evident signs of nn
of the plans and plots of the 11
from having gained any deci
was never more justly detested
watched by our Cabinet. During
still enjoy, our army continues
blishment ; our arsenals are fil
building, and the old ones repair
sia positively and frankly dui;
sires war or race, we must rem
and on the defensive, having as
Prussia as from France,"

The accounts of the injury
at Bencoulen, being various ant
official report of it, which is gi
of India, will be found interesti

It has blown very hard for sei
our eastern and southern coast.
squadron was to have sailed yel
mouth, but the v.ind was unfav

The Price William, armed sht
convoy from Elsinore, ate arrive
The Spred;:et, FOOT, of South:,
was lost on the 28th instant, near
and part of the cargo saved.
Yesterday the bidding took
Lottery, to be drawn the 28th
following ate the prices that were

ranicontb, atm
Cop • And Nesbitt
H P
bher,h and Le.
The Lottery %to consist of 25,,
p.tyments to be As under

, and Cu

Nov. 6, D,v,xit

Doc. 29,
Jan. 23,
The Purser of the Lady egrat
India House, yesterday afteroc
is a corset list of the passenger
Bengal :
M. s. Lient..oll Ksd, Chi
Adapt 114.4in,5e.., Licut.,ai.t. Villau
Mr. J. Miasz. F!;aa
%men A Duncan Stun. g. H. Stan
ley. and H. Wine; Mica F. Uwe!
Francis.

Yestet day, a Court of Dire&
East India House, when the ur
were taken up for the ensuing '

N. S. ROO TOW, buittling by
cvn•itned for Coao and Ray.

Wal, clop •20 Tams (early), ditto.
N S. SOO Tuna, building by Messrs.
tu launch in Nr.aub•+, Coast And Eiso-
A llairal Garthhi', 8 a Ca,.l

lay.
N S. PonTims buiMing by Me s,
Pr•Nt.m, VI Tons Ca:ttniat #1 St
Cen lout 111 S TOII4, CWO4 +..1 Bg7.
FAH Hower 871Tot,‘, M. &as

N. S. SOO tuns, bui.theg in the reel'
St. Helena and cierigal.
I.ady 1:.”.,1ef0,gh, 820 Te:te, St.
Cliar.ton, it 1K Ton., Madc.s.
F.. 1,111-, ISM
Win 'Kiln, c .?

N. S. S(H) Toot, b•oitchug l.y Mr. C-
Cagtle Met', M D Tgtsi.,
Eat' 804.4.1

Cum!aer•and, 1,200 T.mi,
Warl.7, I,ti 0 TOW. Odin.
Gant-s, 1,200 Twill, China
Dormi.shire, 1.200 T ,

Omits, 1,400. row, China.
E:eter 1,200 Ton* China

live, 1,200 Torts, China.
N. S. 800 Toys, bnilßii by M-. T 1
Cot of Loudon, WO T.ll. Bomb:
C c 81:1T...‘,. St. iiciena an,
LOW I is 4 H 830 con:, St. Heh
The Court adjourned at 6 o'cl
The. following is a list of t 1
that sailed Irom the Mauritius,
Of December last :
La Ftntilt e,
La Clatisse
tivortal Lk:caen,
11...v04

Tr"i4 Fra-re. um,

_ .
Or the above vessels, four h;
cruisers when the last Accounts

The P•yehe, that captured the
continued her depredations.
three shires; one of which is
Owner, another by the Colony
a third by the crew and Cap%
eltitled to twelve shares of all t
A letter from Dover, of Tf
the armed vessels from Dunk'
.veek attacked by the Immort
Owtx, in their passage for lioi
sion of the Gallo-llatavian fle•
ginning of the present mnnt!i,
where they have Seen blocks.
May. Our cruisers have lat• 1,
hours of Calais, Dunkirk, and
mei, there are but a sew st.i;,l
but at Dunkirk, upwards of
and, at Ostend, nearly the sat
between tw and three itundn
descriptions, in the Canal of
harbour of Ostend ; all, no
th•• general place of r•rndezvoi
Of the four prsons lately
of Carlow, and brought up
Castle, the names of three ar
Imschelr. 'file first a very we
zier second, an err..ent 1
a y man of respelltbili
C 4: iI,W. •I'h other is an i

Paper .4ys, they are lIT' 1.i.. 4'

. .
timatcly connected wit!, an
or French a 4i.tmcc ; and,
tem of assassiguttion of rersui
the State.