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London, England, 1804-10-12 00:00:00

THE BRITISH PRESS.

LON DON,
FRIDAY. Ocroatit 12.

The number of the Charnel Fleet returned to
port amounts to nine sail of :h., line at Torbay, and
one, the 13, itaimis. at Plymouth, swim the Rao;tier
brig, and Nonrod hired cutter. The cause of their
return is still matter of some doubt. It is certain
Coat the fleet encountered a violent gale off Brest
tOr thirty-six hours on Friday and Saturday last,
but it rode out the storm anon its station, and
the Admiral did not boist the signol to bear
away until the wind had abated It was also
fine moderate weather when the ships came into
7orbay, and we do nut understand that :any of them
had sustained any damage. If these be the real cir-
cumstances, and we have heard of none other under
w'aich the gallant Admiral returned to port, it is
obvious that his return has been voluntary. The
ships, immediately upon their arrival, took in water
and provisions with all possible dispatch ; and it
was reported last night. that the Admiral had put
to sea on Tuesday evening, but had been probably
obliged to return to Torbay.the wind being contrary.
This has induced an opinion. that the ships have
only come in to water ; that upon their re-assuming
their station off Brest, those left behind will return
for the same purpose, and that they veil thus con-
tinue to relieve each other during the winter.

A letter from Hansburgh, of the 2Sth ult. states.
that tie spirited note which the King of Swtnen
ordered to be delivered to the French Charge
r,firairet aiStoclatolm, in answer to BC/74•IPArrsial,
libel on the !Zing of Swipes. in the Afelaterr, has
excited such a rage in the Corsican Usurper, that.
in the presence of several German Princes At Mentz,
ne declared, in the most violent terms—s, that
the Soloist( Mos sects should not, in twelve
months, remain a Member of the Germ in Empire;
that the province of Swedish P unerania, which
gives him a vote at Rati.bon, should. in a short tksne.
change its Sovereign; and, if the King of Patina
would not make arrangements, to incorporate it
with Prussian Pomerania. he, Boss , should..
aimself, create and support another Duke of
Pomerania adierisr." These, and similar expres-
sions, he made use of in the presence of all the Ger-
man Princes, and of the Memhers of the Dipinmatic
Corps. In the evening the Prussian Ciserged'Anirove
to the Imperial city of Fran'atort. sent a courier to
his Court, an doubt, with these particulars.
It is reported upon our Exchange, that the
French troops encamped near Luneburg. in Han-
over, are to be encreasnd to 25,000 men, and that
the greater part of them are, before the winter
sets in, to occapy Swedish Pomerania. under the
command of General LEOPOLD &entre*. In
the mean time. the King of SIWZDE4 has ordered
Stralsund, the only strong place in his German
territory, to be put in a state to sustain a siege.
The old fortifications are repairing, and new ones
are added ; and it is said, that an encampment of
12.000 Swedish troops will be formed between
Griepswald and Stralsund. As it is necessary for
the Freesia. before they can arrive on the territory
of the King or Swtozsr, to violate that of Mecklin.
burgh and Prussia. it is supposed that the former
Duchy will be also occupied by diem. Under such
an expeflation, the Dust and his family have re-
moved ait most valuable elca: to Stettin. in
Prussia. A rumour is at the same time current, that
the Emperor of RUSSIA has offered to send 20,000
men as a succour to His SWEDISK NlAJtsrv. but
that the king of Payssi• has remonstraled against
the debarkation of Russian troops upon the German
territory.

A pilot boat from Heiiig land was spoken with last
!'y our bh:ckading the Elbe a::d
the I'Vc!er. By streia of wcath,r, it hall b,en forced
to take shr::.:r at Breeneiley, in th, latter riv:r.
A:ears:it-4 to the reports of the pil t, the suff.aings
of the inhabitants in the Elei-L,rate of Hanover are
stil gteatzr than they have been re;):- e.er.•e-1 the.
newspapers; eat Fte:lch Wick.; t.:Av cm-

ployed in carrying sway this year's harvest, at,'
disposing of it at llamburgh, Bremen, and even in
llollao.f, so that a famine is inevitable, shouhi
they not be relieved from other countries. All gol:
silver coins have aheady been sent to France
nothing but copper is in circulation; and the peoph
are entirely ruined by the enormous requisitions alit!
contributions extorted by BONAPARTE'S satellites.
Far from pitying these wretched people, the French
commissaries have ordered military execution every
where ; and not only the cattle, but the furni-
ture and kitchen utensils have been seized, and
transported in waggons to Holland, to be sold
there, as no money is left in Hanover for buyers.
Several insurreetions have taken pla.!e ; but they
have ►een of no use, except to procure the French
new opportunities to add murder to plunder.—
Three inhabitants of Neuenhoosen were shot on
Wednesday se'nnight. accused of preaching sedi-
tion. The same day, several of the peasants, at
and near Bremerley, were put into requisition fur
assisting to build a signal tower in the neighbour.
hood ; General BeaNADOTTE having ordered twelve
signal towers to be constraled in twelve different
Bailiwicks of Hanover, and•to be armed with some
guns. to serve as a rallying point for the French
troops, in ease of a general rising of the Hanove-
rian% against their tyrants, or in case the Elelorate
should be invaded by foreign foes. The French
report, that BONAP %RTe intends, in case of a con:
tinental war, to order a conscription of all young
men, from fifteen to twenty-six, in Hanover, and
that they are to be seat to France, and incorporated
with his army upon the coast. A number of young
men. therefore. quit their country, notwithstanding
the severity of BUMAPAR ris police agents and genu
d'armrs, with regard to passes. Three young HAW.
verians were concealed on board the pilot boat. who
intended to go to Husum to enlist in the German Le-
gion in the British service, but who entered into the
marines on board our frigates. Tnese young men de-
clare, that if their countrymen were at liberty to
follow their inclinations, Englaati would in a month
raise an army of 50,000 men among them ; such is
their detestation of the French, and the misery to
which they are reduced. They confir. 'sell the above
particulars, and added, that within a fortnight, se-
veral thousand more French troops had arrived in
Hanover from Holland, together with a numerous
train of artillery. ammunition waggons, Sec. They
say that the French troops on the banks of the Weser,
from the sea to the city of Bremen, amount only
to 700 men, fur the defenee'of Iti strong batteries.

Dispatches received at the Admiralty state. that
the enemy have in the harbour of Dunkirk about
forty sail of armed ships. bearing pendants, some
of them (about nineteen or twenty) are under Dutch
colours. There is likewise a number of small craft.
['he enemy do not at present stew any intention cf
coming out.

Ilte Sdlses Gasette states. that a small Britich
force took possesiou of the town of Mucca, in the
Isl+nJ of Sumatra, ou the l4th of I•,t April, after
shntt conttst. •

YevterLlAy the Er,t transf•rs were made at the
k, in the four per ccr..l snl three p.n r.-
dated.

VetterJay a Court of Dire Ron was held at the
East India House, when the following Captains
were sworn into the command of their respedive
ships,
A'w st, J Wordsworth, for IlUng4.l and Chins;
Henry A td..yron' J Ktrkpatr ck, for tt,,nb kr and China;
Warren H.at‘aga,T.Lokkos, for St. 11C,c3.1, 13.mco4len, and
China.

The Court adjourned at six o'clock, till this di7.
But leer letters are yet in circulation from India,
as the most bulky packets remain on board the ships
till they arrive in the River.
Letters received from tit. Helena state, that tho
Weafefif had sailed from China, on her homeward
voyage, on the ttith of M

I.he :721110701 frigate, a sloop, and several brigs
and cutte s, sailed on Wednesday for the French
coast. Thsre are now fifty rend ants flying in the
lls.iwns; nine or ten of which are line of battle ships.
The Prue, AJoipbrs packet, with a matl from
Jamaica, is arrived at Falmouth ; she sai'esl on the
Si September. The letters will not be delivered tut
this day (Friday.)
!be Otter, Snow's, from Wisbeach, fur Rye, is
lost off the North Foreland.

The sloop Jorers, of Rochester, ladcn with coals,
was driven on shore, near Saithouse, in Norfolk, on
Tuesday.

The Congress of Neit.k, .lowlsosc, of Arbroath,
for Lf,lninn, i► lost near Yarmouth.
The Csrnuallrs, the 11'aubanur,r_•, to the ft
outward-bound East•lndiamen, w:,ich sailed it o:n
12..rtsmouth„ on the Bth May, mitt- convoy of the
fretregeux mm of war, parted from the fleet, tu.:n
:After leaving Madeira. _ _ _

The Lirmie karnity, hound to Bengal, wa‘
all well on the 221 June, in lat. 2 deg. S. Long. '2
deg. W . •
the bon armed ship, with fire tail of vessrls un-
der convoy for the Baltic, sailed from the fore on
Wednesday evening.
The ino Pain, RICHARDSON, f11.7t1 Jamaica
for London. was captured on the sat August, by a
French Erivateer.
The Mao.. GIL•IliTli SI. from Jamaica, for Dub-
lin, foundered at se on the Ist OitAer. 11'.0 rft•\l
and a small part of the cargo saved by the Cra,:..l
frigate.
* he Getter,' Shoe, CaTtaill MORT I.( lt, is at.
rived safe itt the Downs Her Fuser came to the
idia House yesterday, with the packet, ir,mi
the Captain, who is in the Downs: he hat pa:zei
front tho homeward-bound fleet in a gait, whir'
had etc-iced some apprehemioLs so- ha safrty.