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THE BRITISH PRESS.

LONDON,
SATURDAY. Aucust 10.

Orders were yesterday recetrel in Were fion(
His Royal Highness the CONI NISS DER in CHI er, for
cusp •nding all furloughs and leave of absence in
she army, and requiring all officers and soldiers
abseil. on leave, to join their respeaive regiments
with all possible dispatch. Government have issued
orders for the immediate inspeCtion of all the Yco.
manry a•.d Volunteers of the Kingdom, together
wite the waggons attached to each Corps. Orders
were also issued in the cow sc of yesterday, and the
day before, to the Commanders of several Volunteer
Corps, and from them to the Officers under their
con:mand for the purpose of ascertaining their effec.
tive force, with a view to their immediate service,
should circumstances render it necessary, or for the
purpose of improving them in their discipline. Among
the cases to which we allude, the brigade of Royal
East India Volunteers are ordered upon permanent
duty this month by alternate regiments. The 2U re-
giment, commanded by Colonel Sir Hyatt Itictts,
is to take the lead, and will mare)), we understand,
Or Chatham Lines, or Chelmsford, next week.
Nell regiment will not remain upon duty longer
tail fourteen days The Loyal Southwark. Volun-
lksirs, with sharp shooters attached, so lately en-
camped at Epsom, are ordered to muster on
Tuesday neat at their head-quarters, with arms,
clothes, and accoutrements, in complete order, to
march immediately for fi .1d exercise. Lieutenant
Colossi Al, COCK., the commander of the regiment.
assignees the reason forrthis sudden call, that "the
situation of the country requires they should be upon
the alert." It is unnecessary re enumerate more ewes
of this ki^d. It was also confidently reported last
rig`•:, that orders will be issued next Monday for
ernbotting the levy en mow; and that a mesaenger
was sent in the course of the day to 'Weymouth,
with the necessary orders for His hifansvv's signa-
ture. These proceedings clearly chew that Gomm.
mast have ground to apprehend an attempt on she
part of the enemy to carry the threat of invasion
into immediate execution. Upon an abstrad view of
the Continent, and looking also to the peculiar cir-
cumstances in which Bon aaaaa s stands in relation
to the several other powers of Europe, this is the very
moment in which the attempt may be expoded.—
But we have something stronger than general rea-
soning. All the communieatioes, public and private.
from Holland, for some time past, concur in stating
that the greatest activity prevails in the Dutch ports,
and that a formidable force is colleited there for the
avowed purpose of invasion. Among the most
recent articles of intelligence upon this subject, is
the following extra& of a letter from an intelligent
Correspondent at Dover, written on Thursday, and
iasened in Tfl G s oat of yesterday :
" An Aa►ericae ship, about 300 tons bunhen, called die
Dispatch, of and belonging to Philadelphia, commanded by
Captain Bannies, came into this harbour with the morning
lid She sailed from the New Diep, in Holland, en Friday
hat, hi a great hurry, in order to avoid the embargo that was
•en inward to be laid on every moment in the Mitch pelts I
use, in the rough weather which has since paraded, she
strict upon the Galloper Sand, and so materially injured her
rudder, as to render it thecesi.ary to put in Item to repair the
damage. She bin ballast, bound to the Wand of Madeira
first, and then to Casten in China for a cargo. The super-
cargo, who is a very intelligent 'ming man, informs me, that
Matt time before they left Holland, 50,000 troops were already
embodied Oil herd transports, for the purpose of invading
this ontimry; and that 25,000 met, were at Utrecht, and the
vicinity, root! for the same purpose.
" The above intelligence is eoahrmed, in every particular,
by a Gentleman who landed yesterday evening from soother
shop, which had made a similar escape from throes.
"1 have Just been informed, from a qu vier that I am as.ur
ed cannot he doubted, that the Em;sernr NA rnui,,s has hewn
at Calais and Boulogne within tin se ten days, as a p.iyare ;cr-
oon ; no reiniciiir were made, guns hied, nor any more•
taken of him than of any other stranger who ..mood there
Compare this wirli the rout and bustle which took place at
bothla-4 year when he appeared there, and it agrees with all
the err nu tonje %Ire; that here.,!!yintends to el ,Ice his des•
perate attempt ; and that he will do it without giving us any
part ruler warning.••

Sortie hate attributed this alivity in the Dutch
ports, particularly in the 'Feed, to an eepelation,
that the Combined Fleet might probably return to
Furnpe North about, and form a junction with the
ship; in that port. Its attempt to make Ferrol is
a pretty certain proof, that such a course was not a
contingency in the contemplation of the French Go
vernment. That would be a tedious, dangerous,
and desperate voyage. The enemy have no friendly
port in the North sea, no choice of harbours, as on
the coast's of France and Spain. If they could not
snake the Teel. trey would have no place else in
which to skulk front English vengeance. Resides, '
if no accounts had been received of them in due
tints, our Government, calculating from the length
possibly gnu•
enforce our fle.
be perfeal,

aware of all
storied to be
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No further accounts were received yesterday of
our own or the eneiny's fleets. In a moment of
anxious suspence, like the present, conjeNure is al-
ways busy, and, of course, every possible case
within the range of possibility has become the sub-
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jed of speculation. From the great damage which
several ships of the enemy received in the arflion
of the 22d, combined with the course they were
steering when last seen, on the 2.,th, it continues
to be the prevailing opinion that they meant to pro-
ceed for Cadiz ; but it is probable that they may
have separated, and that the damaged ships may
have attempted to put into Vigo. This, however,
as we have already observed, is only one of a thou-
sand conjetures.

The Diana packet, arrived at Falmouth, from
Lisbon, on the.3d inst. in lat. 45, 51.1m5. le, 15.
(
weather hazy ; passed several wane seta provisina
casks, hen-coops, pieces of boards, cabin bulk heads,
tables, and other furniture, to all appearance only
a short time in the water. At seven, a.m. the wea-
ther cleared up, and she saw in the N.W. quarter a
cloud of smoke, apparently from ships engaging.
Such is the report made by the Dmnsa, Moue arrival
we announced yesterday. It is more probable, how-
ever, that the smoke issued from a vessel en fire ;
as it seems extraordinary, had it proceeded from
the firing of guns, that the Diave should not have
heard the report, particularly as she was to leeward,
and passed within three or four leagues of the smoke.

Admiral Veen cut., who commands the Dutch
Fleet, was, after the Revolution in 1795, attached
to the Prince of ORANGE ; and, previous to the Kit-
pedition at the Helder, in 1799, was employed by
that Prince to go over to Holland, and to engage
two well-known Dutch Captains, nest to Admiral
Soffits, in command, to deliver the Fleet to the
English—as afterwards happened to Admiral
MrrcalLL, is the name of the Prince of OkAllat.
Admiral Vcancut was at that time only Captain-
Lieutenant.
It is with great pleasure we state, that by a pub-
lic document, signed NoLsoti and &GMT', dated
the 27th of July, it appears, that at that time not
a single person belonging to his fleet was confined
to bed, or even indisposed with any complaint
whatever.
The convoy under the Tholligisnix. for India—the
troops under Sir Davi /I BA a ID, for the Mediterra-
nean—and the West-India convoy at Spithead
will sail together, under a detached squadron horn
the Channel Fleet, to a certain latitude.
Captain COLVILLE is appointed to command the
Sea Fencibles at Margate, in the room of Captain
MIDDLETON, made Commissioner of the Navy at
Gibraltar.
The Magee is ordered to be fitted up for It 44
for provisions at Sheerness, to relieve the IrresistiVe.
of 74 guns, ordered to be repaired.
Lieutenant CRAUTUR n, of the 54th t,
died, the 30th Jane, at Gibraltar, of a woad which
he received the preceding day, in a duel with
Lieutenant S—, of the Navy. They had unfor-
tunately quarrelled the preceding evening.
La Cerrile, from Porto Cavallo, for Spain,
is captured by the Janc,rin privateer, Loll Guernsey,
and is arrived there. The Jenverig was medal
on the 25th ult. by a large French privateer (what
convoying the above prize), and had one man kite/ I
and two wounded, after an bouesengagement, after
which, the Frenchman sheered off.
The three brigades of foot guards are ordered to
change their quarters on the 25th inst. as follows:
The fii st brigade, under the command of Major-
General Wl:ramie, from Deal to Chatham; the
2d brigade, commanded by Major-General Force,
from Chatham to Deal; and the 5d brigade, in
London, to change their barracks and quarters, as
usual.
Letters from Gibraltar, of the 7th July, state, that
the garrison is very healthy in general. General
Fox is something better, but has not yet resumed
the command of the troops, which still rests with
Gtneral Daum mown. The Canso/son brig arrived
there on the sth, from off Carthagena. She left
seven mil of the line in that harbour ready for sea,
and one repairing.
Friday evening last, the Honourable Brigadier-
General 'Asti' arrived in Limerick, from Mallow,
tai take the command of that garrison, in the ab-
sence of Major-General PA ymr, who has gone to
the Curragh of Kildare, where he is to remain shar-
ing the encampment, having the command of the
cavalry.
The Spaniards have begun forming two camps
before Gibraltar, about three miles distant : they
have pitched upwards of five hundred tents, and
they seem to have about 3,000 men in their camps.
It is not, however, apprehended that any attempt
will be made from the land side to annoy the place.
The Royal Cornish Millers, under the command
of Admiral LEMON, and the detached working par- ,
ties, from the several Militias, employed on the
Chatham fortifications, are to take possession of the
late Military Hospital, now converted to a Barrack.
On the bill at the back of Chatham, the fortifications
surrounding this Barrack are going on with tonal-
Lhoable alacrity : two Martellu towers, it is said, are
to be ereeled on the brow of the hill, which will
have a compkte command 01 RUChCIDLET and Chat-
ham Reach.

given
this little vehirile
" The space intended for this carriage to run was
the table of the Council of Versailles. It was placed
at the end opposite to where the arm chair of the
King stood. In an instant the carriage set off of
itself, the horses moved their limbs, raised them and
walked forward, like other horses. Arrived at the
other extremity of the table, the coachman, who
held the reins, drew them so as to make them
turn. The carriage proceeded thus the length
of the table, a second time; hut, in turning
round, the coachman made it pass between '
the verateire of the King, and the paper which was
on the table ; he found the spot precisely opposite 1
His Majesty, and then stopped. Immediately the
footman who was behind the carriage, leaped off;
a page, dressed en hussard, alighted—ran to the
door, and opened it ; a lady descended from the
carriage, advanced towards the King, made him a
ieofound reverence, and presented a petition,
mitedly natural and graceful. She waited just
lag enough for an answer; during which inter-
val the little page played with the door, which he
rd and shut alternately. Afietwards the lady
making a second reverence to the King, ascended
.hzr carriage, seating herself on that side from which
she could set his Majesty. The hussord shut the
door. remounted his step, and seated himself as
before; the coachman gave a stroke of the whip to
the horses. The lackey, who had not yet mounted,
ran after the carriage and leaped behind with much
aftivity. The horses turned a third time round the
ecrner of the table, again made a tour, still guided
by the coachman, who whipped them from time to
time. At last the carriage stopped of itself, in the
same spot from which it set out, as if it was about
to eater the coach-house after having finished its
;curacy."

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' • these difficulties, and cannot be pre•
so much agitated by a merely pos
ncy. There in ererefore, *Very xera• •
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lead that the bustle in the Taxer
tior
every possible chance of a Visit
Fleet shall have ceased to exist. The ARM, INkENTIONS,
tiIIIPARTII to England never slambers
e skriqi‘earre of mechanics in the nick-nack
lend is the only rrier between his way, is a carriage, made by Charles Etienne Louis
he empire of the ba
rdsw and, should Canon. Mechanic in Ordinary to Louis XV. and
occur to make the attempt, he will Author of a Work entitled ,s Drowns de Meetnitree."
n want of preparation. The following is a description given by himself of
th;.