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the ships 'broadside ro. About sins it'el.wk a great eaplonion
took place close to the ti•iortiosideb es followed ty two sure.
A brig en live we, stopma by a part of the boom, and af-
terwards a nimbi r el other brigs and, three-masted ship. .4-
vanced its full sail, it. flaws, Which were kept off some brie
by the Room, but tlit-y at length broke through, sad ap-
proached my line. 'I he liist came close to the Regulus, anti
fell on board her starboard aide, while a second, also in
Aaiun, ran on boleti the Ores,. I Lad ordered the trebles to
be slipt, end iu ease of necessity to he rut, to avoid comokte
destruction. So soun as the ire-ship came close to the bow-
sprit, the (keen slipt her cable, but the fire-ship rapidly ap-
proaching as the Ocean drove, though I clapped the mimeo-
top-sail aback, I resealed to cut the cable which I had oat to
the N.W. in order to swing off by the cable to the S.W. which
attottlingly had the desired effect.
" The lire ships followed in succession, and came, in full
sail against the whole o our line, and partitalerly against
the Ocean, title's was lu the centre, and one of them hooked
its the starboard quarter gallery, in spite of all my efforts to
prevent it. It appeared- to be all over with hie Majesty's
ship, as great Ilakca of fire fell upon Ler from stem to stern,
but the bre.ship, having fortunately considerable way, cast
loose. She, nevertheless, booked a second time, but upou
this occasion sire was also got free ; until at length her bow. •
sprit caught guider our cat-head. It nowlseediate necessary to
have rscourse to cutting, lint tht• heat was so violent, that
lie oae for souse time could go near. bet. At length, lime
ever, some brave fellows volunteered their services, jumped
on the. sprit-sail yard and the bows, and bayed the ship,
though the effort cost five of them their hie.
" Scarcely Kee we rescued from a danger so iiensittent,
and thrice repeated, when other vesstis assailed us. I had,
hoot ver, the good footnote to escape also front them.
"The enemy directed agitate* our feel Hine infernal ma-
chioes, sad 33 fir, ships, including lwip, three-masted ves-
sels and sloop's, besides too sail of the hue. All His bilks-
ty's ships and frigatt s owe their escape from the attack of the
fire-ships, entirely to their slipping then cables.
"The Capitaiar dr foegatte l.issiluur, alto eumnianded the
Ocean, in the thsence of Capt. Rolland, and my Aithede-
Camp Perrot' said Guspard, displayed the coolest fortitude.
The officers conducted themselves will, and 4k. Me. %Its
tlaSiughout perfectly orderly. M. Deimos, sabiCutevaissiwy
orate Fleet, never ten the deck. It is it pleasure,, to se lea
have to cosier fuels welhearned praise.
(Signed)' " ALI.F.VA SI D."
The Mariue.erefect has since given notice, that
three ships of the. Ihte,
.end one art‘Wti to flute,
were stritilded hart it bting,litidossible to Ket them
'Qtr, they;i:iire set' fire to after tir,eirevor 'Mel-been
Cataled. The encm)-, by next Otatd fide. moda•
fresh preparations fiat a second rfoick with lija.b
ships • and boinh-lieteili, but tiny wereduirei, ‘.4 •
with great loss, and they wort unable .to
the squadron nom cutuiag. itSiti• repair: its .-
nustres.
Mod), theta, itre the writhe which an • leo
tout It superior in Ilt . wimples. vsrr
nut been iudatined to putiu.execotion! ' .T.lseydid •
not tight, but sent infornid maehinesd'Til
m proclai themselves conquerors, whereas Wiiie
only .iuceitiiittries. v- - .
The Mode of aging Gre-ships is universally
known; but the idea of cowardice attached to
.
the cutploynwist of dicta, him catitnid thenoto he
renounced by ad mations: They 'formed no pert'of
the system of naval warn;' and when, iu the 17th
century. some adventurers made use of them, those
miscreants were disavowed by their finverinnents,
and a ahauiefol death awaited thew if they were
token.
It it well worthy of the present Government of
England to renew the use of ioirc-ships, to odd
thereto imertril machines, to anginent, with uncias
radicle(' rage, means of di struction which a
feeling of general shame hail explolod, tied, dually.
to expend such large • sums iu a disgraceful operas
Wu. the result of which suss so little answered the •
horn ble expectations whicia it hattexcited.—
tear.
• It is estimated, that in !Lipp, booing, powder, gre.
works, ic. Ibts -operauoa must have rost moss thas live
minimal of friars.

P.tuts, APRIL
A Courier Extraordinary, who arrived at three
o'clock tins afternoon, has hrought a letter to his
Illusti our Highness the Prince, Arch-Chancellor
of the Empe ))))) front the Prince, Vice-Constable
and Major-General of the Army.• The letter it
dated ut noon of the 13d instant, on the held of
.battle near Ratishon.
• " The Emperor," it save, " lets obtained a vic-
tory, greater if itossible, titan that of Jena, over the
army of I'ritice Charles. The battle of Hatishou
}listed three Clays. Prince Charles hats been defeat-
ed at all points, with the loss of colours, 011111(111,
Ivaggiohe, and 30,000 pristmers. Ilia Majesty se iu
good healih."
A letter front Frankfort, dated April 25; says,
" The Kiug of. Wil temberg has taken possess• of
the principality 1.1 Ilergertheim, on account, as
his Majesty says, or the hostile conduct of the Em-
peror of Austria."
The kiug of IVtitplialia is to command the
tenth army itiCennany, which is to be speedily or-
ganised. It will consist of the Westphalian and
Dutch troops, with a few battalion, of Freuch, mud
its destination will be to preserve the peace of (bv-
malty, mid to protect the coast from coy attack on
the hart of the English. 4;eiscrid
who commands the advanced guard, began his
march from Cassel on the gad. with two regitneats
of cavalry mud a battery of !lying artillery.--
hfoxiter r.
•
• tattag, 14.
The consults met Yesterday, at Osten o'clock,
porsoant to au edict of the Prole, Viceroy ; and •
lhlesseirgerof State having be.a introduced into
their Ball of Ammo' lily, presented to them It coal-
us • anion. of oleic', the following-is a
•t• Itradters Af the On ante'-1 bastes to onstiaiat roe,
ihet the Awittisocabiala has ilectaiird war. Whilst we re-
omisA owl the faille sf treatise, wool this vialsistare 4•• 'ow
part was justified by the recoils-to roe ef. die Ofterwal, tif ear
sorereigei moods Austria, that Power hay fur a length of
time, brew palming for a new war. Several of bar soldiers
have aire,iily mark theirappeeranermt the. Retest territory.
e errs tranquil, because to die least monmost we were am
Willie; to credit the iggeogibility of all set of perjury but at
'the present juncture, the French 'ass i Italian arsine are as-
*ridding on the Taxiitiguerito. They einit'svaber the virtu.
ens obtained in past campaigns; and burn with impatience to
.briag home to thrir Ins the war whirl, the latter hors ex.
I riled, and to a ispiry la the midst of Acta a geese of new
trissuplat.
" by my illustrious father to the honour of mon-
Mainline them Lola s, : shall do rimy thing 10 my power to
merit his rokfidevice. Isbell in lista rt street be more at raw,
tag 1 shill hay,- alto at a present to toy mind the moat excelleut
disposition with shirts the potpie of tins kingdom are rom•
onoltly animated; and, ids.., isa I tuteetain a irell-tounilril
•apectu!ton that yea will le able, by vont own example, to
tomiiiiin this disposition, and to chew )tionseirmi 'wits'', um-
tkr the present circ,:m•tatucta,„by • steady sad trawled de-
portment, mf oceans..at; Ilse first rank menus the authorities
of the kingdom of Itaiy. Li: brine the °alit purpose of the
• preexist letter, I pray God, licutleturn of the ConsUltc, to
tak• you nanisrhis Ku!) prohici
• hires at the Ileaduptosters of Campo Formai°, April
It, nasty.
(biped) " ti:GEsE NAPOLEON."

LONDON,
MONDAY. MAY 8.

DEFEAT OF THE AUSTRIANS.

The firing which took place at Boulogne on the
3oth last, has been at length explained. The
Treasury Jonruals stated, that it was a fesi-deYoie
on the birth of a 6011 of King Louts. We regret
that it was of a much graver nature, and announced
a great victory over the Austrians. This intelli-
gence is contained in the fureigu Joitruals we base
received, consisting of the lenitive: to the ct tith,
flaniburgh papers to the With last, and Dutch to
the 3d instant. It appears that after some
manceuvring and skirmishing which commenced
on the 17th, a geiwrol action took place nit
the 19th, between Newatadt and Rat isbosi,
which lasted three (16, and ended in the COM.
',tete defeat of the Austrians, whose loss is
stated at 39,000 prisoners, /5 stand of colours,
40. pieces of cannon, and :twenty Generals killed
and wounded. Daring the second and third days,
BostAraari: is said to have eibeinenided in person,
, and to have gained the victory by the. Howie uvre of
freaking the cosmy's -Fine, to which he has been so
often indebted[laving penetrated br.
tween the centre and right wing of the. Austrian
army, he completet) uorwhetuied the latter, and
the rest of the Austrian force retreated south
throng!) Bavaria to Freyaing in the directimi of the
I‘lible we do not pretend to contest the
truth of the present asserted victory, which may
eventually be found accurate and consunaut with
feet, we must yet be billowed to say, that so for as
our present lights or authorities go, we must pause
before we credit it to the full eitent stated. "IF or on
what basis dors this victory principally rest? On a te-
legraphic eionintinication trade from Paris to Brus-
sels, and transmitted Crain thence to Rotterdam.
Brevity, we well know, is essential to all telegraphic
news : but it does not, or ought not, to exclude any
mention of such circumstances as are Absolutely ne-
cessary to troves, a general idea of the fact itself.
Now, all these particulars, which coustitide the very
essence of silty piece of intelligence, are here went-
tug. Neither the dee, nar the place, twills Gourds
commanding on either side, nor the killed, are oleo-

gotied. We naturally ask when and where did thi.
battle take place ? For the bulletin affords no ray of
light fog uideourresearches. •Twenty-live thousand
terimbesers" are a great number, and must imply •
fropoitionate number of killed and wounded. It
was net thus, at least, that Nero htosi took care te
inform us of his victory at Austerlitz, at Auerstam,
and at Friedland. However lacouie wt rC the term.
in allieh dime events were couched, they canveye.i
to escry reader a most intelligible tend
idea of the time and place where each battle had
been fought. Here, every particular is omitted.
It may, Ifowever, be said, that these oalis,lons iu
the Telegraphic account are inaoine tot:as:tic sup-
Olaf by the letters, or intelligence trout Amster-
' deli, from the Rower Rhine, or from the Books of
the Meyne. the Lee!., and the Danube. There
sources of i•jorruatiota appear, ue‘ertheless, to ti-,
• to be contradictory, or vague, or obscure, or nide
nite; whether BiIITHIER or LEtEIIiVRE C9rninulidt.i
Ij
oil the tint day of the action, the 19th ; %idolater the '
action, which is called the battle of Ratisleof.,
was rooKlit ah ull: , or Only commenced in I.
of that etty ; Ito I:t.r
JOMN rims-mix WI/ killed, mid
Archduke Joint was wounded f • great simertain-
ty and doubt appear to rest on all these pm.
tieulars. If they do not unitiorise us to call is
question the victory, or victories, gained an the
19th; 20th, and itlat of April, they at least warimit
us in suspending our judgment nu the extent and

eunsegnences to be sviirekeinleci from 64 iitouslpi-
coos cu opening, of the cainiruign. AlssfiEtu,
DAVOUST, and LLEFIIIIRE, Were uniting the fuvul,
rite Generals of Bon sPAR•rs. who appear to have
shared in the uction, end it also ;uppears that the
Busurian Nl' irtemberg contingents were filithfut
to the French standard.

Lord CiANIIIER arrived rt Portsmouth on Friday
afternoon, iu. thy Caledonia, from Basspie
His Lordship landed at night, amidst the dive's
of the tioitiliiee, and set out for Loudon. It is not
isnown when the Court-martial on Admiral
will..i.rommence; %Isis supposed that the ohj.-•
oLhis.tigrdship's visit to town is to make some sr-
.rancemeists cisnnetzted lig, it. His Hag was not
struck...-41e•iitiai:ander-itis f-ordship's ontrts has
been dividect "into three squadrons.—Admiral
STOPIOXT, in the 4.itteir, commands in Bamine
Roads, slid has with liiisk,.the •Reeesige, of 74,
Capt.4-.KKaa; Taltaaat, tiO, 'Captain Astir,
isetingf Medusa, Hon. Ciptain Rot; v Lai E ; ino
bombs, and several aim-brigs. The French min
of war which could Lot be destroyed, bad succeeded
iii getting over tlir Isar. into the Charante.,--The
*hole of. then' are quite dismantled,. and several
of them were ashore in that ricer. The trade to
Rochefort is totally strpprd by the ietirity.' of our
small vessels. Capt. NI. \V MAN, of the /kr*, Corn-
mends one of the squadrons which have been de-
tached on a cruise ; and Captain PULT/461r AIA L•
COLli of the.Dimega/, the other. The ships under
Captain NEWMAN'S orders, are—Hero, Gibraltar,
Valiant, and Miami.—Those under
Captain Mat.colot are---Dosmcgal, Defiance, /le-
solution, and Bellona.

We think it superfluous to make any farther ob-
servations upon Colonel Goanos's Chelsea Con-
tract, as we understand the premises will be taken
back, and appropriated entirely to the Hospital,
of the grounds of which it appears froM the Secre-
tary's letter to 31r. Hiusalssotts ‘6 they originally
formed a part."

The trial of Gt matins before an Assembly or
Diet, convened for the purpose, is not only esroha-
ble in itself, but is sanctioned by two precedents in
the Swedish annals—Cu RlsTlelts the 2d, surnamed,
for his crimes and atrocitivil/2. 4. the NERO of the
North," was declared to be deprived of the Throne
by the States of Sweden, in 1324. Before the close
of the same ceirsury, SlGlSMtiltri, King of Poland
and Sweden, suffered it similar deprivation; and
his uncle, CHARLES, Duke of Sudermauia, was
elevated, first to the Regency, and ultimately to
the Throne, by the mune of CHARLES the 9th.--.
The first of these Princes was deposed for t. runny
and cruelty—the last, for being absent limn the
country, and thereby failing in one of the essent I
duties. IV swell as (uuctiosas of s Sweereign ; that of
residing &among the people over whom lie reigns._
His non-residence was considered as au infarction
of the cinupact virtually contracted between a
march and his subjects. thsTAVUS stand 4 in tie;ther.
of these preshcatnentr. Ile can only be iteeused of
mal-administration, and of thereby gUing rise to
cousequent territorial losses, or national midst-
tunes. But, this has been found to bv, in all ajes,
the most serious crime which a king run ColliNU:.
CHMILLS the Ist perished for HO other, as did thy n•
ARLO the gd, and Euw•au the gd. It is Itleaasr

to be remarked- that Gustavus is is the power
the Swedish Diet—whereas, his two predecessors„
Ctiatsman and Stotsmumo, were both in foreign
countries, where no sentence pro.nitmeed again
them, severer than deposition, conic, isersoustiy 11(..
carried into effect. We du not, however, esiiietive
that His present rolir EbTT is in any danger (runs Lis
subjects, beyond imprisonment and deposition, sin.
less he should attempt re-i.tmce or escape.. Nor
Jo we imnine that the Unite of SUbERMANIt,
ello is childless, elm wish to txdude the i-sue .
his nephew from eventually afeslrriou thy

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