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to persons who wish to go to en, ithbnot
passports answering the conditions of IRAs 144:5t7 s.
afiresair Decree ; which •caresses, that passports
for persons going to sea shall contain the oases of
the ship and Captain, the port from whence the
vessel is to sail, and the clear and express name of
its place of destination.
*I Besides the necessary copies of the aforesaid
Decree, an extra& from the present register shall :e
sent t. the Advocate Fiscal General of the King for
sea and land, to the Comtnisaries•Genersl, Substi-
tute Fiscals, and all other officers and servants of
Convoys and Customs.
•• A Copy of this Resolution, and the &hive-
mentioned Decree, shall also be transmitted to the
Council of Judicature for sea and laud, with the
letter hernia contained.
eiissed) •s AR. Secretary-General."

NAVAL INTI:LLIULNCi.

9014'ff/401'M sript. 27.

Arrived the toms! gun-hrig from a cruise, with
the Olio( Branch. Capt. Brent, from Stockholm.
which had been captured by a French privateer,
wh., pelt on hoard nine men, which are arrived in
the f.a..art, who re-captured the Olive Breath; also
arrived the Minerva transport, from Guernsey.
The Leval gun•brig is appointed convoy for the
Downs. _ _ _

Sailed the Redbreast gun-brig, for Guerney.
The Russian ►loop of war Maws, Capt. Go!nein,
is arrived at Spithead, from St. Patersborgh, fitted
for a voyage of discoveries in the North Pacific
Ocean. She i, to touch at the Brazils, from whence
she will proceed round Cape Horn, to the sea of
Karnschatka. The object is to explore that coast
and sea mare to the southward thun the great Cook
went ; where the Russians have lately established
several ports --Wind W.
. .

A number of French prisoners have this week
made their escape from the prison ships in this bar.
hour, both officers and men. Fire at them were
timely deeded leaving the Sqr.a. Four ashen cut
A hole through the ►ides of the Croon. and made
their escape. Three of them were taken.

PLYMOUTN, SIFT. 26.

Came in His Majesty's ships Munarck, Plove►,
Hahagk. and Hap.d from a cruite ; Success, M•Coy.
from Gibraltar ; (Alarm. Nye, horn New Bedford;
Stepheriwoa, from Charleston ; also several
tumid' vesels, cletame by the cruisers.
- -2 -

Sided the naiad Run-l•rig ; and Lied Maud!,.
tender, to the East wiArd.—Wind N.W.

Vat ',MUTH. lemmata t 5.

Arrived this day rtie Prznress Cbarietee packet.
Kerr, with Mails from Jainaicak 37 days passage ;
the fleet for Eng!att.!, sin..ler convoy et His Mafes.
ry's ship Praia or And Priguired; sailed no the 241 h
Pass nizers per the packet: Coloneis Graves
and C.tnway, Ciptain tithes, Mews. Mbyte. Alt-
c.ie and Maci,ei!. f Its Majesty's snip ;:sckatriee
and flied cutt,r, born A ceniset lirrpe, Barrett, from
Gibraltar ; paned with the flea this morning off
the Liz mt. under convoy nt His Majesty's ship Sa-
turn and Sztfritnir; the 1) thish brig !Alta*, Peterson,
fit m S.raa Cruz. snit!, dirfiee, sugar. &c. for Ham-
burgh. detatued by the :Vtisanda privateer, ;if this
port.
The Portuguese brig. Asia, 1)e Sot4a, from
Lishoa, with wine a. d sugar, for Cortiona, detain-
ed by the i'refit,:vir privateer, of Gibraltar.
Arriv..d off this po-t. and proceeded on for Lon-
don, the Ameticna shy Iftimirnj Sites, Captain
Haynes, trona Vitgicia. No news.—%Vind W.

• DFALI Si PT. 27.
Sailed the No►thnmberleml East Intharran. also
the homeward-bound West Indiernen, for the river.

Arrive.' Hi% Marbty's ship 7 rooty. from Ports-
mouth. and sailed tor Sneerness.—Wind S.W.

soissuaam, s‘rt._23.

On the 13th of this month, at Holy Island,
Northumheriand, disembarked trcm on board the
Le,d,ar Parka, undar the command of Lieutenant
Lyster, 7/th regiment', one Serjeartt and lb' men,
for the 4th battalion of Royals, quartered in Ldos•
burgh Castle, and one Seijeant. one Corporal, and
one private, and 70 fine volunteers, from tie Somerset
and Fifeshire regiments of militia, /Or that old and
distinguished corps, the 74th Highlanders, to which
the above officer belongs. The Landm Parka was
Raced hack, by contrary winds, tram Noah Ber-
wick, and suffered a gale on the night of Finlay.
the I I th, the hoops bri, g obliged to remain in the
hold, and the hatchways forced to be covered, along
with the provisions na board getting bad, it was
deemed advisable to disembark them. and to pro-
reed to Berwick, whet, they have waited for routes
Isom Ediubutilh to enable them to proceed to their
regiments.