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PORTSMOUTH. AUG. II
Arrived the Themes transport, Capt. Green, from
Gibraltar, which place she left on the /.3th ult. with
dispatches from Lord Nelson.
• Sailed His Majesty's ships Helder, Peltcr. and
• Havant, en a cruise. Wind S. W.

11, L MOUTI4, AUGUST 6.
Arrived the Diana packet, eight days from Lis-
bon ; left there the Prince of Weer, which arrived
out two days previous to the Din,,a's sailing. On
the 2d inst. in lat. of Cape Fmisterre, long. 10 deg.
2,0 min. the Diane fell in with a quantity of wreck,
such as tables, chairs, bulkheads of cabins, &c.
supposed to be thrown over by men of war clearing
for stlion, and on the follow ing day saw a vast co-
lumn of smoke, to windward about three or four
leagues, which continued to ascend for the space of
two hours; but what it proceeded from cannot tell;
probably from an anion between two hostile ships
oe fleets. or perhaps a vessel on fire. Yesterday
morning she fell in with Admiral Cornwallis's fleet
off Ushaat, all well ; could not give them any in-
telligence respelling the combined fleets since the
engagement. His Majesty's ship Castilla, and fa•
issuPtie sloop of war, which left hence the 12th ult.
with a fleet under convoy for Purtugal and Oporto,
are safe arrived at Lisbon.
Arrived the Moue/erns sloop of war, and sailed
again immediately for Plymouth ; they report that
Lyesterday they fell in with a Portuguese vessel from
ishoe, the Captain of which informed them that
she had been brought to by five French line of battle
ships, cruising off Cape Clear.
The .4vekland packet for Lisbon will sail the first
favourable wind.

PLYMOUTH, AVG. 7.
Accounts are received here from Falmouth,
brought by the Diana packet, from Lisbon, that
near the In. of Cape Finisterre, she passed two
fleets m anion, at some distance, and plainly per-
ceived a line-of-battle ship on fire, to leeward of the
fleet, and two frigates with her ; but whether Eng-
lish or enemy, could not say, and that there was
also one taken.
The above packet also fell in with five line-of-
battle ships to the northward of Cape Finisterre,
'apposed to be the squadron lately escaped from
11tochetort.

Came in the Pickle schooner, with dispatches from
Lord Nelsen • she left the squadron under his corn-
&nand on the 28th uk. of Cape St. Vincent's.
The Freud brig La Ceeilar,--, from Caere, cap-
tured by the Lark aad Squirrel sloops of war; and
the American brig Messenger, from Salem, bound to
Allasterdaim detained by the Fawn' frigate.
Pen back the Piooer sloop of war, with the fleet of
vilnellers alder her convoy.
Yesterday three smugglers were sent off to the
=egg's Bench, having been fined for several oat
taf ling, and could not pay the fine imposed on
dmia. Lest night a boat full of K ing's stores, viz. bags
41fooppor, copper bolts, nails, &c. was seized by the
revenue heat in Catwater, having been seen coming
auddodged from the bows of the Spanish privateer
Holm, of 32 guns, lying in Hainesst. To prevent
any eilltimunicatiou with the sick and wounded Spa-
niards of St. Rafael and Li Firm, they are to be
sent on board hospital and prison ships in Hamoaze,
lend will be attended by our surgeons as well as their
own medical men. Yesterday a French sub-pilot of
the Metempus, of 36 guns, was tried by a court-
martial on board the flag-ship, for insolence to his
commanding officer, and sentenced to receive fifty
lashes on board his own ship.
Dg• MVO. S.
Sailed the Ray man of war for Yarmouth ;
esiester man of war to the westward ; the Calais and
Boulogne squadrons for their respalive cruising
stations.
Arrived the Zephyr sloop of war from off Seaford ;
Diligence East India pilot vessel from the River; and
the L'Eipeiglc sloop of war with a convoy from Ire-
land, which are sailed for the River.

FROM LLOYD'S LIST.
•D, ADO. S.—Sailed the Orion, Evans, for Dulb-
lin ; Alice, Kier', from Cork ; Nereid, Shane, fnr Oporto ;
W 11114401, &yaw, for Newfoundland; Louisa, Thorp, and the
Beta", Foulkes, for Jamaica.

Al',IT'D.
In Stoneham Creek the Emanuel, Ryland, limn CAC:,
bound to London.

At Liverpool--the e.nurce, Moffitt, from Charleston ;
Isaperral, Peterkin; and Four Traders, from Massa-
eh ; Caroline, -•-•.; and the Hope. Robertson, from
tisataic
At Lisbrin.-the Carsilla frigate, from Portsmouth ; Farmer,
Cianisley; Peace, Wishart; and the Bragariza, Cole,, from
London ; Grua, Evans; cod the Brothers, Brice,
from Hull; Viridian-, Derailing; and time Friends, Jones, from
Falmouth; Ceres, Bentley • and the Brigothia, -- from
Liverpool; N. Sta. Crineeteao, fromfromßristol; plops,
flush; and the Soceltela, Segeritunda, fmm Cook,
41014 Calahar—the Prescott, Hopkins. Iran Liverpool.
Alt/porta...4lw Mary, Wade, front Poole; Barbaray, M'Do.
oak!, from Clyde; Harmony, Watson, from Southampton;
Parr. Leggett; and the Hope, from Falmouth; Ann,
4tRlllO, fawn Liverpool ; Zephyr. Millington, fonts Lynn ;
/OM*, NPFsra; Caguas packet, Harrison; and the Lloirra,
,Cogan, from HuN ; Wakefield, Bruce; Hope, Hickulls
nereslass ---•••ot London packet, Blackener; Britannia,
Brown; and the Favourite, Bucttand, from Loudon.

TRURO, Auctuss 3.

Our annual Pilchard fishery has commenced with
'Mich success, as seems to give earnest of a plentiful
season. The quantities caught on Thursday night
lest, as far as we have received accounts, amounted
'to about 1000 hhds. at Meragissey; 240 at Charles-
town; Vie Concerted Seans at Mullion had taken
op about 0300 hhds. At Gunwallcie and Portleaven
large quantities were inclosed, and several hundred
hogsheads taken np. '.4ur other letters do not spe-
cify the quantity, but speak in general terms of
good catches, and better prospeds. The number
of large shoals that appear in the Offing from the
Land's Find, eastward, is beyond what is usual at
this early season. Our Mevagissey correspondent
says, too, that the fish landed there are in general
of a larger size than is usual in their first catches ;
and this is also the case of those caught in the
Mount's lay.
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ne Raieizh ( America) Paper, of May al. says.
" A trernesdous hurricane and hail-storm made con-
siderable ras4ges is Chatham. Granville, and Frank-
lin, sindnnaAtlre-12ch inst. by levelling houses and
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