The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1805-01-18 00:00:00

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NAVAL 11177LLIGRA10E.
Yut I SMOU Ili, JAN. lfi.
Arrived the nt.crlie a frigate from Plymouth.
Sailed the slnnp of war on a cruise.
This merriog, in a hard gale of wind, a mart of
war's bar, alsn a transport's boat, were upset, and
several lives were

tiv,astsss, ass. 15.
Arrive I Last evening from off Bret, under. the
command of Admiral Cornwallis, the fnliowirg
ships : writ, San Jev:f, 13,itannia,7 i mrraire,
DrrlirtorizAl, Ala<, by:Place, Warrior, C•wragraisr,
and Pri;act of Wales; and remain.—Wind,, W.
rcvsmern, JAM. i 5.
CAme in the Ifererv:v, Spanish ship, from Buenos
• Ayres/ detained by the Me ix frigate. Also, the
• Creirent frigate, Resar;o sloop of war, and the
Staunch gun brig, from a cruise.
. Sailed the (4srun man of war on a cruise, anl an
armed ship with a fleet under convoy for the Downs.
Wind, Westerly.

FALMOUTH. JAM. L 4.

Arrived the Trenery, from Londnn ;
Gaoler!, and Lef P(Rdicile b14)01).; of War, from a cruise.
Put hack, by to-urary winds, the Teem-head packet,
Capin Dod wth the Mal for Lisbon, which
sailed from hence on the ltth inst.—Wind S.W.
ISIAL, JAN. ft,.
Arrived the Helder armed ship with a convoy
from the westwari, which are sailed for the River;
the Helder remains.
Arrived LumorlaHe frigatt, Harpy sloop of war,
aid sever:l gun•brigs, &c. from off the French
coast; also several armed ships from Poasmonth ;
and remain in the Downs, wan the rest of the ships,
as per last.

MAL, JAN. 1.5.
A brig cutter crivateer was off Robin Hood's Bay •
nn We•hies.lay last ; and, about the same time, 4
lugger S.-uth of the !lumber, which was seen to taki
a iiieded collier. •
Yesterday the Jol,a awl Saki, Barn, bound from
Shields to Wells,
_put in here riven stress of weather ;
as did also the Feieude Gaotheitt, Richards, bound
from Shields to London, leaky.
011 Saturday last, a very heavy gale came meat
this place, from the E.S E. which continued with
hut little intermission the whole of Sunday, and
until about three o'clock this morning : A sloop,
coal laden, is sunk at South-end As yet we have
rat heird of any further damage being occasioned
t) he shipping at this port; but we are apprehensive
that it has r-ovcd very disastrous to those who had
the misfel-;..._ to encounter it at sea.
saizrot., JAN. 15.
Cama :•- the Alonis, --, from Seville ; Esteopa,
Davis; from the Bay of Honduras ; Grafi, —,
from Quebec ; Indian Lase, —. from ewfotrnd-
. land ; and the. Persei envier, Carvallo, from Lisbon.
At rived, at New York, the Bristol Trader, Phelps;
at Philadelphia, Oceais, Wheelwright, from Bristol;
at Milford, Eliza, Sheppard, from the Bay or. l lon-
duras.
WitITEHAVEN, )AN. 15.
The N;fe, 'Fisher, of this port, from sorinam t:.
London, was well at Dingle, the 21st ult.
The following vessels, belonging to this port, were
all well with the fleet from Cork, bound to the West
Indies (under convoy of His Majesty's frigate Seime,
Captain Atkins), oo the 16th of Novemh, r last, in
2e. le.ng. 23 W. via. Veber/tee, Barwise
Reseution, Peek' ,_Fe.oarite, Richa: ; Asigusia,
Stitt ; leer ; elrleentare, Plaskett ; and
Byant, Dawson.

At Cowes—The Hoot sr, 1)4,04:0rt, from Vireinia--Ehea,
7..ittlermau, from St. Croix—sod the Luithogt,n,
from Boston.
Ar Poole—nt.theei, Duest‘r—the indefatigable,
from IN•wfoxicL.iiiii
At lloylake--Maiishel,l, ftelclivr, from Chariiton
At Liverpoul—Nora, M`Ka,ar, hoot
• too, Vickery, froin St. Kitt,—and the Mount Ve,eviti..,
10, t Vircinta.
At Lvith--Retretiii, Eogli-11, from Rita.
AtJlerhice—Pion, G..eh, from Loudon.
At Ven.er.ira—V,i.i., ditto.

On Friday morning arrived at Leith, the St&al-
/sir packet, Captain Whitt, from London. On*Wed-
nesday morning, between eight and nine, being off
Flamborough Head, a French brig privateer came
close upon her stern, throtiOi a fleet of colliers, and
was %Was pistol-shot, before Capt. White knew she
was an enemy, and s.tw them loading their guns. The
Frenchmen called out repeatedly to " Haul to ;"
and Captain White, ordering down his square sail,
immediately cleared his deck to engage. In the
mean time the Frenchman hauled up his colonis,
halfway up his main-sail, and fired a broadside.
with a VOIIOV 171113411(b ; but being opposed,
with as mnek precision sad regularity as the sud-
denness of the alarm 4dinieted of, with rotted
and grape th .t from the smack's. it-pound car-
ronades, he, a slain time, thonght prope,r to
sheer off to a SAft , distance, keeping up his Ere, but
happily without doing any injury. After some
time, an English nuked ship came down upon the
privateer, and hash:tied her retreat. She kept
hovering about, however, all day, and it is fear-
ed, mav havo taken several vessels is the evening.
Capt. White fought v ith die greatest resolution;
and ' we arc Happy to s:.y, ueither ship or crew sus-
tained any damage. The Sorift packet, Capt. Orr,
was in company. As this short eng.igenient was
quite clOse to Earnborougho l lead, it is much re-
gretted there was not a battery upon it, as a ft
guns might not only prated a w•aole fleet, but have
blow* this privateer to the bottom. She was a black-
sided brig, mounting apparently 14 guns, full of
men ; carrying a white-bnuomell boat over her stern.
On the Inch ir.st. a man offering counterfeit silver
was apprehended at Laurencekirk, passing to the
northward. Ile called himself yehn Brown, but it
appeared from his pocket-book *that his real name
was Ilazh Johnson. He has a pass from Ireland, but
woald seem from his papers to have resided for some
time at Kilmarnock and Paisley. Upon being strip-
ped and searched, 1.44 19s. of base money was found
upon him, of which the greater part wii,s concealed
under his shirt; artfully sewed up in t bag, and
spread upon the lower part of his back, and Ss.
mote bad been previously circulated within the vil-
lage. ' Much prai,e 's due to the Chief Magistrate
at Laoreneetirk for his activity on the occasion, and
In J•blei LAVIIIINCE, the honest old villAgn black-
smith, who was the instrument of detecting and
getting him secured. He wa.; conveyed nexrday
by a party of voluuteers to the.coueity