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certain sinecure offices were necessary
balled, this measure would assist
doing so with facility ; the roars espet:
might afterwards be a consideration
merit, whether or not it would be proper
those sinecures from their possessor,
their dur.►tion had expired.
The question was then put and carried
mostly, excepting a solitary Negative,
Right Hon. Mr. Dundaa.
Mr. BA NKES shortly after brought
which was read a first time, suit ordered t..
a second on Wednesday next.—Adjourned.

LON DON,
TUESDAY, JAN. ie.

WAR WITH AMERICA.

We may now regard America as
resolved upon war. The threatened _
been laid on in her harbours. The Lady
pocket is arrived at Falmouth, with
New York. The following are extracts
Journal:

" MOllll4l, 22th of December —At tea o'clock,
mired a pilot en ►oard, and slipt front the wharf.
P.M. was beonght.to by one of the pas.bsata,
sachet, on accoaot of the embargo, till Anther
steins, P.M. had permission to proceed to Data.
Thersdny, Jan. 14. in lat. 47. 41. bog 511.
was Warded by His Majesty's ships 411114.01114
each, w ink eight ships wider convoy from St. '
sight of than the next day."

Tha letters by the Lady Ard&Wu
vexed this day. The above intelligence
much bustle and anxiety, yesterday,

There are no farther accounts of
Squadron since it chased the Eurydice.
ratio. of 54 guns, taken by the French
passage from India, is one of the shit
it. The Squadron effected its escape
se'nnight, while the British Squadron,
8.. STRACHAN, was blown off the
Eurydice passed within half gun-shot
enemy, and when she last saw him, he •
N.W. Admiral DUCtwoarm, who was,
suit of the French squadron, thinks that
to the West Indies. L'lmpestiens
on Saturday night, at which time there ,
pearance of troops on board the squadron.
they embarked on Sunday, it is therefore
that there are none. But it may be asked
not Sir RICHARD STRACHAN immediately
the enemy, instead sr sending off the
Admiral DUCKWORTH, with a request
that duty ? It answered no purpose '
•RD STRACHAN to remain at Rocbfort,
squadron was gene, and by detaching
of the Channel fleet, under Admiral
an opportunity might be afforded
fleet to escape as well as the Bochfort
Besides, if, after the loss of so much
Dccuwoacit was left only fourteen leagues
from the enemy, we believe. about
common sailing, there was every chance
RICHARD STRACHAN hail pursued direct,
have overtaken him. The public will
dit that the gallant Admiral could not I.
on account of wind or tide, or accident,
west of provision. The Ministerial '
night do not hesitate so say, with the
froidand complacency, "Sir RICHARL
squadron was not sufficiently victu,
long chase." And why, we ask, was i
all the squadrons in the enemy's ports,
Rochfort squalron been considered
complete state of preparation, and that
,
cateu most plainly an intention to put
the first opportunity ? The shortness of t
of Itoehfort from England, left no pretence
havingthe squadron amply supplied with provisions,
If OD, why was it left in a situation in which it was
incapable of answering the purpose of its mission ?
If the enemy once escaped, it was implausible for
the English Admiral to know whether the chase
would be long or short, and therefore, by beim;
unable to undertake the chase, he was left tots/ tic
helpless and useless. It now appears, that a look-
out frigate, detached from the Channel fleet, to
watch Bochfort, would have been equally efficient,
and answered every purpose of the strong and
gallant squadron of Sir RICHARD STRACHAN.—
We believe that the present Administrat,n
particularly the Admiralty part of it, at leng:h
feel themselves in an aukward situation ; 503
if Lord MurnitAvs could make his retreat into
a good sinecure place, we believe his ticuils
think lie would not have made a bad fight of it..
If Earl SPENCER could be induced fin coalesce 046
the Ministers, and re-assume his place of First
Lord of the Admiralty, it might give a momen-
tary edit :o their feeble but busy tactics.

It is a carious fact, that at the moment when
Mr. CANNtSO, in the House d Commons, na
Monday night, was deprecating, with all his m-
tuous indignation, the atrocity of betraying the
warm of private intelligence from p hich Mito

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the roast. The tii
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aadron. Unless 11
mefore probable. p
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aediately pursue si
the Eurydice to 1
quest to perforu I.
use for Sir Rua- • e
a:Wort, after the 4
iing a large pa*
al Duccwoars.
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'hfurt squadron. I 1
,:.1, time, Admit.'
13 leagues distant !
mat seven hour . I
hence that if Sc
direct, he must i i
will scarcely ere. 1
not pursue, not
ccident, but for 11
al Prints of last
the utmost rang
ARD STRACHAN't
victualled for a
was it not ? ( '
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+arts, has not the
red in the meat
that which ital.-
o put to sea with
as of the distance
pretence for not
J with provitioiN
i in which it was
e of its mission'
is implausible for
Nether the chase
refuse, by brine,
was left toia/tv
urs, that a look-
.lannel fleet, to
equally efficient.
the sitruag and .
tD STRACUAN.---
Adillitiatrat:n ~
of it, at lehglh
situation : 1183
i his retreat into
lieve his fiieuili
bad fight of it.
1 to coalesce with
s place of First
give a snomen•
tactics.
the moment when
lii. Common, on
with all his vi•-
of betraying the
im which Mini..

ten learned the intention of Denmark to unite
with France, Lord HAWKESOURY was openly and
plainly avowing, that they were indebted for it to
" diseected IrisAnten."—We know that Mr. CA/h.
/1 MG had not a very high opinion of the talents
of his Lordship, but still we wish that these two
Minitters had compared notes, if it were only for the
sake of consistency and the appearance of acting in
concert and harmony with each other. Surely dis-
affected Irishmen, or ditaffeeted men of any other
tuition in Europe, can be nu authority, cannot be
! the best spies and informers on behalf of the Go-
vernment to which they are disaffected. Unaf-
fected Irishmen may be very good spies of 130/1/.
PA IVIS. but we should doubt very much their
fidelity and allegiance to Loud Ilswausitiror and
Mr. CANNING. This appears to us not a very ex-
travagant mode of reasoning, but the Ministers do
not hold " disaffected Irishmen" so cheaply. In
their favourite Print of yesterday we find the fol-
lowing pasaage, in support of the extraordinary
' and unprecedented attack of Copenhagen :
" Upon the subject of the Danish Expedition, in-
i dependently of what is stated in our answer to the
Rosman Declaration, and in the Itoo's Speech,
there is one point which was urged by Lord
If.tWEEIBURV, and which is a very strong one—.
The plan of combining the fleets of France, Spain,
Denmark, and Portugal against us, was corrobo-
rated, said his Lordship, "by the testimony of
different persona in Irelond, where, strange to say,
1 all the designs and projects of .the enemy were
most speedily known, and where it was promised
that the combined fleets of Spain, Portugal, and
Denmark, would snake a descent both on Ireland
and this Louutr.y, but the chief one on Ireland...-.
Nay, what is wore, not only were these means
pointed out to the disaffected in Ireland, but they
were moreover made acquainted with the period of
time when the detqpi wins to be carried into execu-
tion." Who could have pertained that Ministers,
to eke out a defence fur their extraordinary and
extravagant attack upon Copenhagen, world
Lase called in the aid of " disaffected Irish-
,- wee as their witnesses and compurgators ? 'We
t. 'sever thought that Ministers could derive any
' benefit from discontent and disaffection in Ire-
land ; but the case, however monstrous, is now
plain. Without the aid of "disaffected Irishmen"
they should he worse than in Egyptian darkness,
with respect to foreign intrigues and machinations.
The information upon these subjects, derived from
"the disaffected lei:alnico," is not only good and
• cheap, but, according to Lord HAWKIIMUILT, "the
/
earliest and best" in the' arket.

A Gatenburgh Mail yesterday, from
which we have made some extracts. They are not
mportant.

We this day resume our extracts from the
Paris Papers to the 2takt.—They are given in the
kit page.

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The following ships have been spoken with at
Sea, SR sell, under convoy of Ilia NIAJESTY'i
ship Liu:—Elpkiustane, Winebilsea, Pharaix,
iValmer Conk, 4sur, Cumberland, lieenrery,
Camperdown, Fly, Pinenic 2, and Cupt.
J. Jackson.
At the close of the Poll on the Third Day
of the county of Donegail Election, the numbers
Mood dim:
Colonel Montgomery
Genera Mast - - - 945

Majority 49
Admiral MURRAY attended the Admiralty yes-
terday, and had an interview with the Board.
Dispatches were received yesterday at the Ad:
miralty, from Jersey.
At a scrutiny for a Common Council for Cord-
miners Wa►d, the votes for Mr. Joy: as and Mr.
}Wing equal, the election was declared
void by Mr. Aldanian SM I,TH u new election will
take place iu a few days.
The John Adams, from Philadelphia for
Amsterdam, is captured and carried into Dun-
kirk.

The Brothers, (an American), from Virginia for
Loudon, is captured and earned into Calais.
The Prosperity, —, from Ireland, for Ame-
rica, has foundered at sea; crew saved by the Pa-
triot French 7.t-gnu ship, which is arrived at the
Isle De Aix, from America,
Government has been offered, (says The Wash-
Sepositur) from "5 to 40,000 stand of arms,
w ich are daily expected from Holland, at 4 dol-
len each. We have seen a sample, which is very
handrome;and well executed.

Saturday night's Gazette contains an Address to
His MunTY, from the Lord Provost, Magistrates,
and Council, of the City of Edinburgh, assuring
Its MAsiorry of their conviction, " That a Peace,
suitable to the interests and dignity of these realms
can only be obtained by persevenog in those mea-
sures, which have given to this country the high
station she now holds."

The Gazette also contains similar Addresses from
the City of Glasgow, and the united towns of Port
Glasgow and Newark.
The reported insurrection at Lisbon, proves, as
we suspected, a fabrication of the American Cap-
tain, by whom it was circulated. 'rhe accounts
from Lisbon are to the ath inst. and from Oporto
four days later ; to that period, every thing re-
mained tranquil. and the French and Spanish
troops in Portugal were so nnmerous as to deter the
starving inhabitants from those measures of venge-
ance to which it is' probable their sufferings and
their resentosests weld otherwise induie them.