The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1806-02-27 00:00:00

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This Messotre. heirse par.ly of a paislic, and : anti'
of a coglfi lential nattier. rh galleries were cie•iel
for sh• rt time, while die latter part WA • read lhe
doors laning, attain oty•neit, the Clerk read the fm met
0.40 ol the M. otgn, relative to 13.-i i‘h aggretainns
on neutral riz,bts. Besid-s these peprra. the VS -
&we ,nelosed malt from Cie Merchants of •
N.vaexiiTk. t.f Islioorurroort . of PhiladAphia. and
rf Charleston, and from the Un.te..3 Insurance Cont 7
nany of Neat-York, from o'w N•wport Insurance
C"rapany, and from the N eolk Marine Inauranca
Cnomany
Mr l'eovi as morel the tele:it/137, of the Mei, ize
to a Committee of tto whole ori the state of the
Union
Mr. Nienotsom nbcerved. that a sobie& inti•'
matelv connefl of with that ill the :tingle.. ho f been
alreidr referred to the Comm:ttee ••f 'Var. mad
Means he tneved the te!erence of he Waage to
that Coiornittee.
".Ir. THC)Ni sc realist, th.at the kle:nor;al from
•he Merchants of the cities of •:e.x.‘to:k and l'hi.
:4,!elphia, "Ti the : aJ been ref.qt-ti to a
Comtnittise of tlw It on Ole- sta.e (if
Vet agneetion of reference to a Carom. •ee *of the
wrole Mimes was whoa, and passed in th • negative.
—Ayes t 9.
Mr. N iC{IO4.4OW then ertrterell to refer t' e mzssage
to the Coimltiree of Teeing a,,,tiVeAns
Mr. Csow.tusotteto said, he mold not ertAdOre
why a reference should be meat: to a COMM*. 4
Ways aid Means. It haJ no 11:041nai00, ar a Vety
mutate cmneElivn. with the rlivenne. Sorely, said
Mr. Crovrninshield. we are nes wing to Wide not
difference on this point by poumis, shillings, iv
pence. He concluded, by =wig; a t•-•4oftb to a
S, lea Committee.
Mr. D 00. a oriserved. that the if rottwacest
two distin4 poilits, one relative M. spiliations obi
our trade, which might gi to -the Consmittee of
Ways ambits:Pans. and the other trlative to the into-
pressmeiit of our seamen, tt WIA411•1 rood
perly be referred to a srl-it Committee.
Mr. N icuoLson varied his Motioa in the w-iy sari.
ge-red by. Mr. Dana.
The House concurtedin his Motio.s, to refer so - -
much of the Messarze as relates to spolixtions. to
the Committee of Ways and Means.—Ayes,
much of the Message as reliefs to the imp,
pres•ment of seamen. was rtfarrad to a Soled CAOLOP.
1114 We of seven Mem'aerr.

4 BILL • 1
. . .
FOP Tl.it PR'',Tre rtON %N Up INnENIFICATION
OF ANIILILICAN ',..11- M4.'.IEN.
Where's, by the T•rity of Amity, C:Menteres . and Satin i•
fm,oll, made between lii. anted."... 1141•Irent std 'he Ualaa4
t tea. at Landurt. so the ;9.:. day ,d Nu...01i0 , 1,'94,, itters • *r'
ft:it •.•••._•e4,l eof 0 '2lca•r, it •a'ai,o.t•d, • r4..A ilt,...ha bon r
lbgets•ibelolsbfts bleSs-a.Wait Prbf-•‘'d • L••• "4
u_111" •
_ '0•15. m ;.,tor •.. }lie ar-tonrrie Pi steavry, hit het's a. ins.
ce...to, .'nt: the iftsita.l Slates of Americ.i . and betimes the*
• fosi, •• .tare to-•nthet. terr:haiWl, Caws, Wilily, and p..isplet op ,
every aleg:...„ erittatlit eXCa:lattOta of po a .n. and olart4.• And
stlisitasi.itf de. cr flotttion of 4.4 rusty, Ila Or.l.on't big-
testy has eztt of to Le •Ihrteesoel um of the ships of Ho. Unilest
Stet** tailing Ott th•hteh• same, dtrers Cilia-1010f sail Vnbed
State.,-aO4 lea can 'oiairi thous s renew, b uta the stabs od
bar o; Ah tau! Br • .no.;i,
M..1.0ty, to visi::tion .1 their libselly, :
tint a. b hatai.4,re...4 ~.,• a el' in A...one o the rollout • .
Waste', of th, G.t ov.- .t.ent of the tfaii•eit States, e. green." sohll
unto., ntacti.a... and ell,. iseaprhoo fit vs/ 11..0110 States ND illtrre'" •
ihs,l by. teat, retains in ios • rimy t Sell .hews tits Uneted
htet.rs are oi.erunl.bo • e t.. I.ontect a. n,* Mau ate Wend.
lii allegio".ce 1. laid U...tad Staa..••„the•efore
" IV" it VnaCie I, by Ili, Senate an.l Illooie of Ilegyeite •notveis
of Ste L:attml 'ztatcy of America or earvess Motet. ea, Th.t
1.•. m and eater the day of Alen, any 'enema .
•r 1...r0me oho shall impress any 'Tamen • r. blunt ant savor'
bearing the flag of the Unii‘d States, upon 1.414 holik 0 sat. • r in
any Tier', haven, basalt, Tie bar, i•h.ler prete,rce or robin, of
a r onnoi-sion (root a ,ir Foreign I' ~. r, sha'J. he crafty aoch
offc..oe, he adj..daed 4 pirate alol • Oaten, hid On frioeletitot
surfer death. Anal In, trial.nl ails .12.11 Case n.ay b. had ether*
the 0i0..4.r is itlyrshendel, or may be fine Wove'.
Sac 2. 6' And be it hither enacted, TS, .t ; t shall* leetrol
for any A.UrI, Kill sea . an, sadoig undo, do P Gag of 1.1.- Un•e.4
Srinst, Ott any pereet on p‘. rt. .n 1 4' V. 111,1 milt to ,in •r.. horn be
feoee tenon rot braid ant reo.el of the. Voided ta.e., upon the
high 'coot to aay tone, swoon or b..y, tor,' e ,th•ft force, bly
oho ems or *homy i.e kith. g sod d.... 0...• i• g th • pe•sole Sr net-
•••••• s•P Attempting to ...tress 11110, 't idi us Si. ene...tiagt-
mem to reslbt, lie . tooled en a boa .7 of tarn build, d Joraia„
la b.: 144 to lihn or hos of Iv, or legal enneresta•toes. sot Tit
any th...ley in toe treasury not ••theronee c•oraoiatiot.
Scc 3 " And h. it firtion ettaard, Th .1 to t in, tresa•ioat
being given to tlic Preside it of vie flog,' St -te., pr.ornti
satisraenrily to hi., that Sir Cairn of the U.sitert S .t..,
Willi ONO Woe horn I otpseosed, et i'..occol, be vidati on ne
threats, Sower on :emit any foreign vessel, shall • offar demi',
Ti? allt other cnrporat pisniContent, h. the erthority ••1 such.
Foreign Paw-r; it dull be la. ful Mr th• P.eode• t of the
lf•titod State, to eaum thrill.,lt. fir...us an I exact rea,llohotl
on any ItlnjeCt of that Gr.serointerst, .host' he is heresy autos..
rised to a:ia.,, an.l take lot eh at putpo...e.

Sec. 4. " And be it fsa,tsdtr enacted. That seer/ Amerismat
seaman heretofore or hermits. iso,netsmod, and compelled or
erne ors lewd any (nevi.. sh , or ve,s4l, sh.ll be aoudad to
teceiro as an sodem .t ,cat for ?us sloven. and ha.d.him on
board toe 'lop in which he I. a heon or shall be c . t..a.l'sd to
save. foam she day of his in.p...en ment, the rum of noir doiloss
p-c month, for evert month •:e ha. or shah serest on boald ..4
'hi, or slops; and that thn said marmo. hi. ha.r., •e, totem, ad-
nsini.tristor., or ass.r.r.shall be orst.thnl to roc "ter she same is
Di.trin Court of the Stott in winch tha ion hes, f' tam
which the stomel Cklaxt t f.. timewslace, to w hfelt he oe. taken,
bY au " of .•nri.ate shist sloe from an, C.. 11-11 of the
hooted Ste •!, e any subject ..f that Gnvesno.r..t, s.y whose
subjects he tti.4 s•tiorems-el ; and sums of money,
Si
attached out o(tis r 43.4, .ny shah se • payment
oleo much of Sold dzbt, and unity I.e ploed,l in payment or
dosemuns, to themes...l4A of thacid mon so soothed, •n 4 al taw
roue f add &testimony'. h 111:1Ah •••• al mead as a paymeot
of th,t .•.. I. u°, A hail cad debt. And that so mock
of tho Treaty of Loud's, ist 10th of NiPolinkr. 1794, •II
es..n.. the 'll4 e• ~y . t ....di .a.srAl be !mongrel es the
. at. 00.113.0•.•• t Ior etrmenn hereto authorized, shad ..et (a. fat
• l• noceen.rs is. the mt.-Mahon of this oct only) be nocoslol as
t•Yi: oory Oa the Glovern.a.mt est Caserta of the
Meted 5ta144."

',LW TOM J 4 x. 116.
Captain Pieri, of the Tioctior.i, grow Negspsturn,
informs, that the E,:gli.h :•aU rit!cas s,ul of Ibe inn.
$, hates, in the Indian Ness, who were upon ite
the look-one for tbe French Squadron • 'rbe 15Ie of
Frsour was dimly blockaded by an
dross. -fosilisb aqua-

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FORLIGN IST!. !.I.IGI-.NCE.

, FROM THE (11.:EMAN AND FRENCH PAPE,t3.
13.
The Emperq: has clemaned of the Prcfea of
Police, 14 l6t ,•t All the Swedes resident herr, with A
stateme.,t of the means of subsistence which they

possess.
The Eleaoral Prince of Bade.n, svhn is to marry
a niece o(the Empress, resides here in the Pal ice of
the l'huilleries.
Last Tuesday the Prussian Caliinet Minister.
Count Haugwitz, was in the hot of M. de Talley-
rand, at the opera, when the lionpetor WAS receive)
in such a distingu.shed money.
The Swedish Consul C....racial. M. Signeul. has
suddenly I.ft this cll.

lAvAttiA. Fra. 7.
It is reported. that there ate 84 4ecret articles
annexed to the treaty of Prechure.
Eight hundred pieces of cannon and mortars. rf
the heaviest calibre. finm the arsen tl of Viena, are
how at Braunau. Ou account of the badness of the
made. they could not be conveyed any farther
They will crtn.equently not be removed till the ar-
sival of more favourable weather. I ill the present
tlrtl.. 90 waggons, with money, have passed under
the escort of grns al'arntn, through Bavaria to Stras-
burg.
The present vice•reine of Italy speaks the Italian
lon cage vet y fluently.

vesacoota.ll. 11.
Since the death of the Nlargrave of Anspach, we
And that be continued to pay a great number of
pensions to persons in his former dominion:.
At Maabeem, the Marshal of the Court., Marquis
de Montperny, is extremely busy in preparing the
Palace at that place for the reception of the Elec-
toral Prince of -Baden, and his furore Consort, whom
the Emperor N.:pet:on intends to adopt. and to
elevate to the dig-ity of a Princess of the Empire.
nt Castile q• 8.,,,,yhth says—Part of the
French army, which had already passed through
Wirtemberg, is said to h are hero ordered to return,
and to or .coed through the Tyrol tee Italy.
Within these lex days, several waggons, filled
with living wild boars, for the chases of Pince
Murat, have pass... 4 through Swabia, on their way to
France.
Party orphan children of soldiers are going from
hiunich to Paris, to be educated there at the ex.
pence of the Emnernr.
1 he Electoral Pi inze of Btvaria will probably con-
tinue the whole year at Paris.
• STOCKHOLM, r-a. 4.
The English Admiral, Colliugwood, has written
a letter to the Swedish commercial agent at M.--
laga. airing his protedinn to all the Swedish ships
lying is th I: port, stud promisiog them
,a convoy
as tar as Gibraltar.
nesiovta, res. 11.
Greater harmony cannot exist, than that which
aprevailedtants
ofHanover.
hy Russiane
separatedt troops,
e
,and
with
einu-.
=al feelings of regret. Yesterday the General Ko.
jeao gave a dinner here to Count Munster, and some
of the most distinguished persons, at which reigeeed
reciprocal cordiality. Mr. Peerrepoint, the English
Arnhanador to the Bwsdish Court, was present. In
the genuine English charaeter, he privately teak his
geld aossf.box from his pocket, and gave it unob-
woad by the company to a Russian soldier, who
has Um in the service thirty years, and wore three
aisdala, as tokens of his valour.
viten*, els 3...
Thugtit, who has no! been seen at Vienna
slate his retirement from administration, ha.,
within these few days, suddenly made his appear-
goo again in that city, to the great astonishment
of every one. This astonishment has assumed a
serious character, since a report has been circulated,
that be is about to resume a p'ert of his framer info-
efts. No credit indeed is given to this presumo.
t;on, which, in some is the effed of fear, in others
:sr easy. This Ex-Minister, who before resided at
Presburg, where he remained during the visit of the
hermit, notwithstanding their animosity against
him, gave a ne .v proof of the energy of his charac-
ter. While every one she was anxious to conceal
hienglf, he caused the following in.cription to be
plasealde large letters, on the front of his residence,
'lh ifol,l tf Avon TAr;ut. The French smiled at
it.teuet they could not to. ',ear speaking with esteem
sad commendation of this mark of firmhess.
Prince Valor de Riihan, included among Ow! Ge-
swat Officers who have been pensioned off. has, it is
said, iststified himself from the official charge
brought against him, for not having executed the
orders of the Archduke John. lie has proved, it is
reported, that he never received ose orders, and
that he will, in consequei ce, be immediately em-
pl. hest again. All 1.4 officers, and the French
themselves, bear the most flattering testimony to
his bravery. fee is here t- complete Pis care, from
a wnur.d by a musket ball, which passed through
the abdomen.
veneer, JAN. 16.
Next Sunday wes expesl their Imperial highnesses
the Viceroy and Vicereine of It ely. Great pre-
p:stations are already making for their receptim.
Among others, two large gondolas are equipping to
convey the enlist movie from Mcistre to this place,
over the Lagoons. These gondolas, which are
called Peon., will be lined is toe inside with velvet,
and fringed with gold : the twenty.four rowers
be dressed in win. Several hundreds of gondolas,
some of which will be provided with bands of music.
if the weather prove favourable, will goo) meet the
two Yeah. A guard of honour, of 31 your, nob!.
lity. and merchaeste, whose uniforms are verfsplen-
did, has likewise been fussed, for the service of
their Imperial Hegimesses. Among other festivities,
three wall be a regatta, or rowing-match, with gon-
&Aso, on the great canal, near the Rialto
The !liken, are at we :1-, nigh; and day, making g.Ja
dress!',, seer person Wll be permitted to ap-
pear at Court in froc.3 and waistcoats. Our pre-
sent carnival is more istilliant roan any during the
last twenty sears; in the ri'ace of St. Mark, and in
the streets there is scarcely any thing but masks t
be seen. - Venetians ate Eighty delighted at the
revival of this national amigo ment. Multitudes of

1 ilfAniteri me
II .ciong hi:her trom 12100er Italy;
go, and RAAlet a IlazArd. wlnc:i for.,. avie4ieeflial part
: ... or M“•• cAruie..d. h4re itsr yet been Notirbited '
it,...it: •,:: rieethins 31C to Akin; few a *eve am!
arvr..-;s•tAcc .t:, e ..a.411064 a our • ones celebrated

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LOS DON,

THURSDAY, FtnRuARY 27.

The construction of the fires clause of the Bill
before the Senate, for the proteftion of the seamen
of the United States, which u e gave yesterday, has
been mistaken by some of this Papers. It states,
that " any person who shall impress 011,4 seaman on
board any vessel bearing the nag of the United
States, shall, for such offence, be adjudged a Pirate
and a Felon, and, on conviaion, suffer death."
The papers to which we allude, contend, that this
dense embraces suhjeCts of any country what-
ever, and is consequently an invitation to sea-
men of all nations to abjure their allegiance, desert
their colours, and enter into the naval service of the
United States. On reference, however, to the pre-
amble of the Bill, it will be seen, that it relates
exclusively, to American seamen, citizens of the
United states. and has nothing to do whatever
with the subje9s of any other country. We are
the more anxious to remove this error, because the
Bill, with the most favourable construftion, and
with every allowance that can be reasonably made
fur human error, is a most ungenerous, angry, and
insulting proceeding towards this country; and
breathes a spirit of ferocity unworthy of that free
and enlightened nation. The second clause author-
ise: the party attempted to be impressed, to kill
the party impressing, and encourages such resist-
ance by a reward of two hundred dollars.—
The third clause enafts, that where an Ameri-
can seaman, impressed, shall suffer death, or any
other punishment. the Pa tstinese of the United
Sates may re.oliate upon any innocent subjeet
of the Governme:st so impressing; and the fifth
and last clause empowers the l't esitl, nt of the
Unite f S. ates to indemnify any American seaman
so impressed, at the rate of sixty dollars a month,
from any debt doe by an American citizen, to any
subjett of the nation offending. This Bill, it

is true, Las only passed the second :ending, end ma";
be modified, or rejeSed, in a Committee, or upon
the third reading. It is scat cell' possible. that it
should pass in its present fc:m ; but that it will
pass, though in a reduced shape, there is little
doubt. It does not amr it to have experienced any
serious opposition in the two ttages through which
i, has passed ; and this hostile spit it of the I.egishs-
tur.: is but to.' well fainvid alid nour.shed by Ptli'l!c
opinion, by the American press, and by the memo-
rials and rernonatrances of the principal commercial
cities. Were this, howevet, tLe sole cause of
complaint or difference between the two coun-
tries, we need not apprehend any serious
consequence. England never claimed or main-
tained a right to impress seamen, Ira.: AI: citizens
of the United States, on hoard American vessels.
But the PRESIDENT, in his -blessage to the Senate
and Representatives of the United States, com-
plains of the introduCtion of new principles, deroga-
tory of the right of neutrals, and unacknowledged
by the usage of nations ; and expressly mentions
England as the nation acting upon those principles.
We have already stated, .hat England lies never
claimed a right to impress seamen, bona fide citizens
of the United States, on board American vessels.
It is not of this alone. but of something more, that
the Americans complain. They complain of the
measures necessarily taken by England, to prevent
the abuses of American neutrality, springing from
the inordinate avarice of fraudulent traders. '.ese
are the new principles and praCtices which have ex-
cited so much rage in the breast of the American
people. The desire of establishing the principle,
that " neutral bottoms make neutral goads," is per-
haps felt by no nation on earth more strongly than
by the United States. nor is there any nation more
deeply interested in I.s establishment ; but we can
scarcely think it possible that they could conceive an
idea of obtaining it by force. That principle, and
every ether which. was insisted upon in 178'2, and
also in the late war, by the Northern Powers, Ame-
rica long since formally disclaimed. She has more
than once resisted the intrigues of France, who
sought to embroil her with this country, by the asser-
tion of such rights, and will scarcely prove the dupe
of them now. A rnerica may arm to defend her own
rights ; but neither her policy nor her interest will
permit her to arm in order to compel a surrender
of the rights of others. A rupture with England
would be infinitellasore prejudicial to her than to
us. It would swaway all her trade, and de-
stroy the great source of her prosperity. If we
wanted any proof of thi., we need only refer
to the financial report presented to Congress
by the Secretary of the Treasury. and inserted
in our paper of the 15th inst. which states
" that the defalcation of revenue that took place in
the year 1802, and the increase in the nest follow-
ing year, sufraciently shew, that no inconsiderable

portion of the revenue, arising from mcrchandize,
is due to the neutrality of the United States, during
the continuance of the war in Europe." The United
States laay vapour about rights and principles, to
which they itave no claim, and complain of our
severity and rigour, in endeavouring to prevmt
praBices, which they should have prevented or pu-
nished ; but they have too much prudence to throw
away such a source of prosperity, as neutrality af-
fords, because England will not permit them to
•hurt it.

The army did so little wl ilu on the Continent, and
has returned to England with so few difficulties,
that the accounts of the cap .dition furnish nothing
of any intetest. The troops have mostly disem-
barked at Yarmouth, at Ramsgate, or at Ucal. The
heavy stores are ordered chiefly to Portsmouth,
where the store-ships are to unlade; and the Ger-
man Leg:on will shortly sail for Ireland.
The German Legion has returned with nearly
13,000 men; the desertion was by no means so
great as has bean reported, though it was certainly

considerable. he Prussian emir-cries were ex-
tremely busy in persuading the men to desert ;
them they were completely sold, and that it
was intended by England to send them to the West
Indies. This tale naturally made a great imp; es-
skis upon the recruits.

The Du!)lin ?alters to the 23d, arrived yesterday.
We have not been able to discover in them any
traces of the universal clamour for a reval t.f the
Union, which some of the Jacobin Print: lately de-
clared to exist in that country. a► the result of some
observations which fell from Mr. Fox in the House
of Commons. The Corporation of Stationers appears
to have been the only boily that agitated the
quecion, and they agreed to adjourn the questicn,
sine die, o!, the 18th inst. This determination, it is
obvious, was the result of a conwiousness of the
impropriety of their proceeding, and not of Mr.
Fox's explanation, which only took place on
the 17th, the very night before the Corporation of
Stationers agreed to abandon the business.—
We sish dra:e the attim:.nn of the public

to this point, b: cause they may be assured, that
ingenuity of those gentlemen, who some time :
cut down a wood in Ireland to make
place where a wood never grew—and L. 5:!,4
up the l'arlisment Ilonse in Dublin for the receptka
of its ch; inhabitants, on contemplation of an inure.
diatv :..peal of the AEI of Union—is busy at weni.
and will n.ir fail to avail itself of every pretence to
misrepresent the affairs of that country.

Extraa of a letter from Cork, dated the 20$
February The Bret under convoy of His Me.
jesty's ships Mediator and Squirrel, bound to the
West Indies, were ruing under weigh vrben the
latest accounts left Cuve."

We have received some French and Gerrufa
papers. but none of a very recent date. In our pie-'1
vious columns are some extras from them, wl,ich
wall be found not totally destitute of inttie,t.—
Among there is a statistical sketch of the territcriii
alterations occasioned by the Pace ct

We understand that the Welt Hnn. Lester Fire.
OE% AL D is to be appointed Master of the 110111, to
Ireland, in the place of Sir Mica oat. SMITH, wiew
retires On a peosion. Mr. FII ZOILIt ACD was for-
merly Prime Serjeant at the li is% liar, and ha
proved himself a too: and incorruptible patrio.
his political condeort.
The report is revived, that Lord Hiorcoorsoe
will be the Commander of ete Forces in Ireland.
The 4th and 23d regiments have rnArehed :s
Woosibiidge. The 9th Fout is at Cants there,
An accounts, we believe, have ar:ivrd ,)1* rte
combined army in Naples, except such as live
transpired in Cite foreign papers. Tr.e fo:ces
loaded, consisted of about 12,000 Rossians,
6000 English. A second division of Rltssi:ins ups
to follow from Corfu. This army had heard of no
surrender of Ulm, before i, marched towards tie
Neapolitan frontiers.
The army under Sir DAVID Hat II D, plll/1,11291.1
great aurnher of horses and a considerable qiiamoy
of vegetables at St. Salvador, before its departure,
rat the 28th of November, for the Cape, iro uopo,ed
destination. It was reported. however, in the al ors,
that the expedition had a double °hp& The troos
were in high health. The force consisted of a de-
tachment of Artillery, a-detachment of the 20;:l
Light Dragoons; the 24th, 38th, 59th. 71st, 7V.,
83d, and 9Sel Regiments.*
On Tuesday, a divisiOn of the lst regiment rf
Dragoons (or Royals)..marched into Bitty St. Lc-
mund's, and will be followed by [heathers in rent.
tion, on their route far Scotland.
An English expedition having arrived a Brarif,
it is now recolle&ed that an Enctlish Captain, of ;he
name of Jorsot to, went in 1803 to Brazil; and toot
surveys of the coasts of that country. He was ta-
ken` into. custody, and senato Lisbon, but was rt
at liberty hin consequence of :AD application front
A Mercer:tie House in the City hae received i
letter from Rotterdam, which contains the 'allow-
ing article r—
e Prei,a,ationt are going forward to ?mune the moettin
arautst krglsod• A. ender I.ta aloe bee . g..r•'n, that ne re
s .n 4 1,111:I L. freightel for the Breen p.m.; and, t ..en told, f.t
the ehreet ccave!ance of letters is snrireh Nan end."
From an account laid helots the House of Com-
mons of the several contraBs for spirits, and t!.e
pikes at which they were made, entered into by
the ViEtualling Board, for the supply of the Royal
Navy, from sth July, 1503, to s:h January, 13A
distinguishing tie quantities of Foreign Brandy, or
British Plantation Rum, delivered, and the respec-
tive ports of delivery, it appears, that the pur-
chases of Foreign Brandy within that interval,
amounted to 898,100 gallons, and of British Kin-
talon Rum to 1,064,0. 0 gallons.
The Bill for taking an account of the populating
of Ireland has been printed. It enaCts, that some
substantial householder, of every parish, towi.s:..p,
and place, be appointed to take an account of tie
number of persons within the limits of such poi,`.
&c. The Justices of Peace for the county of the
city of Dublin, and the Recorder of said city, aad
the Justices of Peace and Assistant Barristers. of I.e
several counties. to nominate said householder at
the Quarter Sessions. Niinisters, Arc. of paris!-eo,
also to take an account, in writing. of persons :3
their limits, and prepare returns. The returns to
be delivered upon oath by the householder. Pees
employed under the A& to be allowed their ex-
ences.
Some letters received is Cork from Barbador.
state sev7ral interesting circumstances of the VCrt
India fleet, which sailed from that port on the 28th
of Oftraber last, inufer convoy of the fi,gard Ire
gate and Was,-rthe sloop of war. The convoy, it
appears, ha' separated on the voyage, and a put
remained with the Weltioine ; they proceeded ham
Madeira on the 27th of Nov. and kept a course toe
then to windward of that ti'.ual:y pursocd, in orderts
avoid the Rochfort squad:on, which they undrtoocd
had captured part of the Ai: tc.,:nt't convoy, aril
were looking out for them. 'll ey experienced ire
interruption until the 7th of December, when the
Wag-prole was observed in chase of a strange sails
and shortly after the Robert, of Lancaster, the wind-
warJrnost ship of the fleet, made the signal of seeing
four sail bearing down on them, three of which ar
peared to be large ships, and the other a brig. Till
Wooveri,e having relinquished her chase and j i'Yea
the fleet, made signals to discover what they were
not being answered, it was immediately
niunicated to the ships, that each was to make for
Barbadoes in the best manner she could. It *AS by
this time ascertained, that the squadron Obse"`"
was art enemy's, consisting of three frigates and
brig, and that they had dispersed in pursuit oft-e
scatered fleet. After a chase which lasted Lc:
hours and a half, they captured the Robert, And oe
.
regret to state, that on board cf her w:re
nerals DAI.IIIdUO:4D, BALFOLia, Ato3
—They then stood for tire body of the fiet'i•
and at night were left in chase. The lorJr
which gives this information, is dated the
of January.

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