The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1806-05-06 00:00:00

FROM TI:L. LEYDIS C:AZEITE.

The latest letters from Paris, whit h ate up
the 27th April, announce the adoption, by the li-
gislative Body, of the law of finances, :md the pre'
sentation of the separate law upon customs. Ae,
thing else that Paris. at present, affords of an) utterer`
in point of news, is confined to the intelligence of +le
return of Prince Murat, from the Duchies of Bc:g
end Cleves, and to that of the arrival of the Batavia)
Commission, recently charged by the Chief N.a-
gistrate of that Republic, to repair to the Court of
France. The last price of the 5 per Cent. Cons:l,s
at Paris, was 62 1. 65. cents. ; that of Bank B &4$
1108 f. and

/SFR! IN. APRIL 422..

Their Majesties set nut yesterday for Potsdam•
where they wi!l remain until the end cf the month.
Count Haugwitz, who has succe, ded Court .r-
-denberg in the trnmediate direction of Foreign '.!•
faim, will net remain alone in that charge 1
King has joined with hint in i.is office Count KVI *.
inrmetly his Envoy to Vienna, and now :-.,;;,Gn.
Third Cabinet Minister. The relatians with
are on the point of being entirely broken off be
departure from this city of the lliisish 1f;7,4' •
the principal of which, Mr. Jackson, has demur
fusspot ts for himself and suite, in con-,0,'•.,:—.
orders received on the bum I.smi at, I ' s'
broiler of that Envoy.

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aae Telt NM is published in time to be sant
to the Country by the early coaches, except upon extraor-
occasions of Parliamentary Debate, and then it is pob-
lolled several hours .a•lier t' an any other Paper Ti.i+
priority is obtained only by extraordinary expenee and ever.
:ions, and we are concerned to find, teat our Readers have
not always the benefit of them. Upon complaint to the
Office, accom-anied with the name of the Newsman who
serves the Paper, we will be enabled to do justice to the pub
lie, and to oiorsl yes.

••• T:te pressure of advertisements obligor to to defer our
critique upon the paintings at Somerset-House, until to-
morrow.

THE BRITISH PRESS.

iliyilt)ti,
TUESDAY. MAY G.

A letter from Bombay, dated lit December,
I scs, gives the following statement of the distribu-
tion of the Naval force in the East lnd es : Sir h.u-
waco Pettsw keeps the following ships, and rakes
the range of the CorumAndel and Malabar Co.ists,
and both the Cul phs, viz. the Culloden, Russell, Tre-
mendous, and Allion, of 74 guns each ; Grampus and
Corneertair, of 50 guns each ; ma, 0: 38 ; Terp-
sichore, of 32 guns ; Duncan, Concords, Dertn:vpuir,
and the Pitt, of J 6 guns ; Velory, Drake, Rattle-
en.ile, and Staillower sloops of war. Sir THOMAS
Tsowaarnoc has the Eastern station, with the fol-
lowing ships, viz. the Blenheim, and Sceptre, of 74
guns ; Lunen:ter, of 61 guns ; Phaeton, Caroline, and
Sir Edsoord Hughes, of 33 guns each ; St Fiorenzo
and In/he/mina, of 36 gulls ; Greyhound and Fox,
of 3! guns each ; Dasher, Harrier, and the 4116atross
sloops of war.
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The Prince of Woks packet, with a Mail from
Lisboa, in eleven days passage, is arrived at Fal-
mouth ; the letters will be delivered this day.

The grateful intelligence of the capture of the
Morello and Balk Poule. was brought to Plymouth
by the Job's Bull cute r. Early cn the morning of
the 13th March, they fell in with Sir J. B. W.sit-
EIN'S squadron, off the Cape de Verill Islands. The
Londun and Amazon being the weathermost ships,
the former soon got within gun-shot of the
when a terrible battle took place, which lasted about
an hour.

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So well directed was the fire of the !Amebas, that
all the Officers and men on the quarter-deck of the
Nfeeep were tither killed, or wounded. Among
the killed was the Captain. Admiral LIROIS held
his leg and thigh fractured. His son is also
wounded. The rest of Sir JosiN WARREN'S squa-
dron, we understand, was too far to leeward to
have any share in the action. Fr, m the following
letter, however, received from an Officer on hoard
the R.:millet, one of the squadron, it would appear
that the Morello struck to that vessel :

Majesty's ship Ramili I, Island of
St. ]ago. 4th Aprd.

" I have to inform you, that corning from the Island of Ma-
degra, to the above Island, on the 13th of March, we fell in
I.lth the French ships Marengo and Belle Poule, know/ward-
bound, from the Mauritius ; we MI in wall tire',, early in the
morning. The London engaged the Mareago ; the Amason
engaged the Belle Poole. We being a good titling ship took
the London's place. I have the honour to say, the Marengo
struck to the shin I belong to. We have ;maned hot, and
fitted her out a. one of our sluadron By information, we are
going a run down the coat of Guinea—three of tire enemy
are lurking about there."

Admiral Ltwots, as we stated yesterday, was
I,:son his retorts to Europe, aster a long and suc-
cessful cruise in the East Indies ; but it is appre.
'waded thAt he had previously trat,nsitted part of
the floWs of it to France, in American bottoms.—
l'he treasure on board the Marengo must, however,
be considerable ; and the ship herself is a great ac-
quisition, as she is said to be the first sailer in the
French or arty other navy. It was dark when LINO:3
fell in with the 3ritish squadron : he attacked the
London, the headmost ship, whilst he sent the Pelle
Penh, to take the other ships, imagining them to be
Indiamen. It was expetted that Limon, who was
known to be upon his return to Europe, would have
fallen into our hands by patting into the Cape, un-
der the idea that it was still in possession of the
Dutch; but a Danish East Indiamius informed him
of its capture by a Bntish force, and he proceeded
tFrea for Europt.. It is the general opinion, that
if he had reached France, he would have had no
reason to rej Ace on his safe return, as his
affair with our Intliarnen, in which he was beaten
off by the gallant Capt. Dance, bad injured him
much in the opinion of Bow &&&&& ; and his
wealth would afford that Chief•, and his Counsellor
TA L L&Y kallo. a temptation to put him out of the
ay. After the aaion, Sir J. B. WA easy put into
l'erto PrAys Bay, in the island of St. Jar, one of
the Cape de Verde Islands, with his-prises, to refit.
•Inpatchrs are dated the froth of April, off that
and will be published in this evening's
f• • •,t. la the mean time, we are enabled to pre-

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seat attr readers with a eorrea List of the killed
and Wounded.
ON DOARO HIS MAJESTY'S SHIP LONDON:
killed-4r. William Rorke, Midshipman; Jar es Murphy,
Seaman; Henry Van Keyler, ditto; John Lay, data; James
Slide, ditto; William Bryan, boy; John Moore, Landsman;
Wi iliam Griffith, William Summers, and Thomas'. Tools, Fri-
sate Marutcs.

Wounded, dangernus'y—vJohn O'Brian, Landsman; Wit-
ham Brow,, ditto; Thomas Witerson, ditto; Francis COS.
o,dinars ; Joseph Skelton, Landsman; John Burdis,
Ordinary; Patrick Fitiyatiick, Quarter-Gunner ; Francis
Sut-
ton, Ordinary; John Dulforcc, Nab; William lirassile, Or-
dinary; William Roberts, 2d. Ordinary. Richard Hodges,
John Hurcombe, John Shepherd, and R. Riley, Privates
Royal marines.
Wounded, slightly...R ;chard Poole, Thomas Cnue,and Wil-
liam Bruce, Rnyal Marii:cs

H. NEALE.