The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1806-08-21 00:00:00

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An Officer lately arrived with dispatches from
Admiral the Earl of Lauderdale. The Ofkcer
came last from Boulogne, and states, that at his

departure from the gallant Admiral, the British
and French Fleets were in view of each other, and

had aCtually exchanged some shots. The follow-
ing is a list of the force on each side.—.

Eqiido Reef.
Oceaa . •

Commerce

Comtitutinn

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.Xu,tice

Brit.A Tar
Loyaii.4l
Puff.ndorff

Gong. rrench nat. gums.
. 120 Cotitinent. . . 1044

. IOCI Monopoly

. 74 Revolution .

. 74 Despot

. 74 Opinaisinit

. 74 Conscript

. $4

. 74

. . 74

. 74

. 74
. 74
. 64
. . 60

. 74 Voltigeur .
. 74 Di►turber
• 6+ Abbe Sieges
. 60 Hobbes

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realer, Lyel, and Basilic., ketches.
The Ocean is the Bag-ship of the English Ad-
miral, assisted by Captains Maddison, and Du-
gold Stuart.—The Continent is the Bag-ship of
the French Admiral, M. Talleyrand, formerly
Bishop of Autun, and now Duke of Benevento.
The dispatches were immediately communicated
So Ministers, who observe the most profound silence
respeeting their comma ; but we have been able to
collet the following particulars upon this interesting
suhjea, from the Messenger : Peace, of and
belonging to Europe, a ship of immense value, has
been missing since the commencement of the pre.
sent war, a space of nearly three years, and her
owners have been, in cons, quence, suhjeoft to great
toss, erpence, and other inconvenience. She was
freighted with a great variety ai:cl abundance of
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articles of the first necessity, most of them es..ential
to the health, wealth, and bappinesss of the nations
of Europe.—She has, of course, been sought for
with proportional diligence and zeal, by the parties

interested in twr recovery. The Peace had disap.
pealed pearly in the sure manner at the breaking
our of the French Revolution, and a great percher
of first-rste men of war were sent out upon a toy
age of discovery, in search of her. They got sight
of the Petite, off Luneville ; and, after a long ch4e.t
she was come up with at Amiens. She was found in
a miserable condition. Her rigging was all cut to
pieces. She veered with', every blast of wind, and
refused the helm. Her timbers were all crank ; and
she, who used to carry a fine fall sail, could now
male no way, but rolled and tossed about with the
tide, and threatened to 40 every Minute to the bot-
tom. Indeed, every experienced mariner allowed
that the Peon was not son-worthy, that she bad
not ballast or strength to weather a storm, that she
was unsafe and insecore, anti some even said, it was
a shame to commit the lives and fortunes of His
Majesty's sulsj...fts to so fragile a vessel. In the
first pursuit of the Peace, which could 4 called
little better than a wreck, very great loss was sus-
tained by the Coenbiped Fleet. The Beig:sw, the
8,.ve11, the Pa, rud. the Staid:Lida , and sevt ral other
vessels, were taken by the enemy, foundered, or
went to pieces. 'the Peace having beea lost again
rice the commencement of the present war, similar
me ins have been resorted to for her recovery. The
Ras,ie, Austria, Slurries, and I irtiakni were fitted
cut, and proceeded together in search of her; but
without ,uccesr, and with the loss of two fine fri-
gates, the Naples sod liana:tr. Apprehensions

w,re, in consequence. entertained, that {be Pr,re
had gone to the bottom. and that her recovery was
piless. It happ eed, however, that shortly after
the Treaty of Amiens, the Fur.- one of our first
English first rates, took advantage of re calm to
visit the cods{ of France, and havi• g fallen in with
the Despot, Oppressiot, IhjadatO e, and several other
Fretr7h ships, in whose company the ?rare WAS lost
sight ofwicarted several particulars of her loi mer
course ak destination. With this advantage, and
encouraged by 4 brave, able, and iruelligent crew,
Admiral the Earl of Lauderdale has been sent
with the above force in pursuit of the long lost
Peace. On the morning of Sunday, the 3d inst.
tlie gallant Admiral sailed with his fleet from
the Downs, and scrod over tnr the Fr. nch coast ;
and on Tuesday, the sth, lie go- a sight of the french
Nee under Admiral Talley, and.—He immediat. ly
bore up, with hi; guns all prepared, and ready to
Open a tremendous fitc. The enemy, howeve: :it is
said, declined up engagement, and the French Ad-
tuiral, availing himself cf son.e light 141it3ing Airs,
hauled his wind, and kept aloof with his stern to
the Aritish Admire), aAd clnse.reefed topsails. The
Inter, however, lost not a moment to manoeuvre
for the purpose qforc;ni the enemy to elovie
AetiOn ; he hung out the flag of defiance, and (4,31
a shot at the French Admiral, to bring bins to.—
This took place on tLe morning of the 6th instani.
at which tiue the Ears of lauleed de 1- e 4 neared
is..? enemy ; and when the Peotrr which
' rr.;ght the dispatches t our Government, came
" the two fleets were il7awn ,tp in line of
1 a general 'tngagernei-ic Was hourly tzips,fted.—
..fte *:ssenger spas ire big 4 tapas of the ships

composing the British levee. The Commerce, the
Justice, the British Tar, and the Once, particnlarly,
were in fine condition, sound in every timber, and
remarkably well found.—They carry very weighty
metal, and were considered invincible. The French
ships, on the contrary, appeared to be in a very bad
state ; the crew of Oa Conserilt were said to he un-
der hatches ; and the Comtism:4 which appeared
dreadfully shattered ►y the late gales, and ready to
go to pieces, was in tow of the Dam; The Opm
prenign, and Isjustice were much strained. and, had
all their seams:open ; and the Revs/dries had lost all.
her sails and tackle. The Despot, and someothr,
of the enemy's line Were, however, in good order,
and carried a press of sell, with a favourable wind.
The recovery c.( the Peace would entirely d pend
µpots the success oC the' British force. as she was
distinaly seen in possession of the enemy'. The
erineipal danger to be feared was, tbai as the
Freneh Adniiral was 9,pon Ffis own shore, and bad
the advantage of the wind. he ru'ght avoid, a gene.
rat engagement; or that the English Admiral might
not be able to bring all his ships into aftion.—The
Ocean, the Yds:niter, the d-iri44 Tar, the Ceoaiiu.
tie*, and some other of his heaviest ships, it was
feared, would not be able to bring their guns to
bear upon the comity; and it was probable, that
the whole of the enemy's fleet might come dnwis
upon the Creams and PoPedoelf, in which event,
the latter would be o'ilesse4 or driven upon sbore,
wnich was a dry Ad./.
MELLON:

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This Lady, we understand, has be;n. in the last
Lottery, ane of the favourites of foriumf. We will
not attribUte blindneiS to the Galelt.s on this aces-
silo, for she coald not have bestowed her favour
upon one more deserving. 'The prize obtained by
Miss KmLoa was 10.000'. eon of which she has
presented 1001. to each of the Theatrical Funds,
and.' ;nada liberal presents to several persons, par-
ticularly at liierpook, who were her early'frierula.
but whom the vici.s'itudes of trade bid reduced
from opulence. She hasilso'iindertakin die edu-
cation of some childr. n of poor, but worthy patents.
It is true that Miss Mat. Lon has refused very lu-
crative provincial engagements, this Summer. but
has reamed her engagement at Drury Lane Thea-
tre, foe be years. Me liberality of Miss Met Lon,
aemight be .4 has sehjeEted her to the so-
licisautmea, mid even the threats, of some worthless
=tea see good sense will enable her to
tlampvinn objeAsio the dist;ibutiou of her
bledials v •
weasw=sswessam
LA night. thelliithatfc prove Vii of Spiel it Re.
Sods& was performed at the Haymarket
before a crostfied. and brilliant audience. After
which followed ihefavouiiie caun•;dy of The Dm-
endue, in which Mr. r iiiVFLITT."2II rup;i4 was ea-
tiemely entertainin*, in•tteciting the original
epilogue. received the most unbounded applause. '
Windsor Theatre co4ibmais to go on swimmingly
—there was a very Lie house on Saturday 'even,rw.
to the repeated:play 0 Grow Bars:sell, wh:cs went
off with the moat wahnonied apisrause.' ' '
Mr. Cotta.los• been la:e:y ind;snosed, but his
Muse his not been idle. She hits recently br'-uglit
forth a Faice, wlsicu will, most probably. appear on
the Haymarket Boards helot' the utailusion of the
Season, and afford another specimen of original
whips and plealitatry.
bliss KEL Lao, • Who lately performed at South-
ampion, Portsmou'll, tc• two or three musical dia.:
raaerr, paptitnlarli Xusithe, and has sung at the
screral putlie con:erti with unbounded approba.-
tiOn, ;s scarcely Thirteen years of age. Her voice,
science, and execution, iire•nct mere? y to be considered
as the effort's of an infan'4 lint soar ie all these points
to the highisfpitch perfeltinn. The amateurs of
the science are oropinson, the promises to be
one of the first singers f the vge. She is the
1 daughter of Mr. H Kett, late 61 the Haymarket
Theatre. where she also perfdrrned ; sad at Drury-
-1 Laue was the original Chi/4 in Tie Siiieiter's Dole&
ter ; arcs was even at that period greatly noticed for
her musical abilities. Miss KELLY is the niece of
that much-lamented comedian. Mr. T:
A more brilliant season Vauxhall his not experi-
enced for many years than thy PtOeni: The higher
circles, together w:th the /.,eit *sonde in Rental of
the metropolis, have unceatingly' thicioged, on'every
favourable night, to thiS very superior place of ele.
Sant amusement. he t. Ala 'of last evening' had
to boast also an attendance Of many thousandss and
the very few which remain before the Gardens close
1 for the season, of which' to-morrow night's Gala
one, u`ll, of course, receiyc en additional interest slid
attranion from the critical period.
On S.:ittrday east, the !tight Ilev. Dr. CHAlltill
Waier'ixotr was canceled to arrive in
and no that day, to be enthroned in die Cathedral.
as Lord Bishop of Limet;ck.
'the ebince of gaii.ing a Capital nice was never
before offered to the public upon such lib:trailer's:ls.
Instead of 25,00() Tick as, As heretntore, thefe'are
only 20,000, and more Caeltal Pt Zas to be divided
amongst those 2),000. thin in the last faittery,
which consisted of 2.5,000 'l;ekets.
A Poney Race. for fitly guineas, on which consi-
de; able bets were depending, took place on Monday
evening, on the Harrow Cid. The Ponies Vivre
the properties iif Mr. Dom:tend Mr. less, and the
distance run wps, from the feur-mile, to the two:
mile stone, front Ty butts Ti.ropike. It is suPpmed,
that there were as m any spli4arors to see the flee,
45 i• generally wanes sed on a race clone, and slight
odds were betted'on Mr. Ta as 's Poney, which was
• the smaller one of Ow two, and was rode by an ex-
pert • bay, groom to bird F. ELAuct.seit. The
race was all exceedl7ig good ape. The Ponies being
neck and neck tr.c. greater part of the distance ;
hut; on making the*, sand paid, in the last half-mile,
Alt. Dv rin's Poney stat a-heist, and won the race
by about three leaathr. Poney, it was
supposed, ss,arld have won on turf, the road being
I in several parts coveted with feesb gravel.- All the
sportsmen town were little*:
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