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s;on deduced from it. It %you'd be 1 waste of wordi '
to argue, that if the army has disappearee from the
heights of Boulogne, that is precisely what night itr
expeaed if they were embat ked on board the tt.eilla
fur the purpose of invasion. That part of them have
marched for the interior, our cruisers have ascertain-
ed ; but that a formidable portion of them still re-
mains in Boulogne, or on br.ard the flotilla, is very
probable. Bomar A ITZ will flat expose his flotilla,
which he has been so long ctilleaing, at so great es-
pence and trouble, to the danger of being destroyed
by Sir SIDNEV SMITH and his machines. NVe may
be assured, that there is still a stout army at Bou-
logne, and that they deceive themselves, who be-
lieve that the troops have all marched to the in-
terior, and that only a few sailors remain to
do duty in the fortifications. The condua of some
of our contemporaries, at this particular crisis, is
highly entertaining. Those who were the londest
and most incessant in their menaces of invasion,
appear to have less recolleatott that any such dan-
ger ever threatened us, than those who never
believed in it. Not content with naming the
month and the day, they had repeatedly prediEted
the hour and the minute; but now, the word inva-
sion appears to be obliterated from their vocabulary,
and the very idea of it has vanished from th 7ir me-
mory. We believe, indeed, that the invasion is
aside for the present ; but we must not hastily
presume upon that belief as a certainty, or aEt as
if it were impassible that the danger, though
interrupted, may not be speedily revived. A
precipitate and eager belief of perfe& security,
would betray weakness and. levity, Our Govern-
ment, as we have already stated, will ad with firm-
ness and circumspeuction.

We this day give the conclusion of the Corre-
spondence between the English and French Go-
vernments, respeaing prisoners of war.

We have the pleasure to anassace a fall in the
price of bread yestertlay.

A Cabinet Council was held on Monday at Lord
Mui.oaas is Office, which sat three hours. Its
deliberations were of the highest importance. They
related to the new Continental Confederacy, upon
which subjea an interesting Declaration is shortly
expected to he published. The result was imme-
diately sent off to His M IJIST V, at Weymouth.
Mr. Pirr came to town last evening, to his house
in Downing-srreet,where he was shortly after visited
by the Loan CH AIIetLLOR•
Dispatches were received yesterday from Admi-
ral Cuictsw►Lt.'s. They ate dated Saturday last,
at which time the Brest fleet remained as usual.
• The East India Beet, arrived in the River, is esti.
mated at ten millions sterling in value.
The '1 mite and the Arke,,ienow men of war, stud
the lifeefiettir frigate. with the whole of the fleet
ender convoy Eons the East Indies, are arrived in
the Dcwns.
The Qurra. IlAset.L, from Gibraltar for Lisbon,
the Itith

repottei to be capturel and burned, on t.,
ult. off Cape St. Viment, by the Combined Fleets
is stated to have arrived at Lisbon on the 25th ult.
The Lip, tiNtent, IVrrutas. from Botany Bay,
Sailed from China about six weeks b-tore the last
in company wit!' the °runt, parted off the
Cape, and has not since been heard of.
Tly:re Las been a very useful alt:ration in the
mode of paying the sh.pwri,thts in the Royal Dock-
yard at Plymouth. They are to work two days and
three-go:titers a day in one week, and each artifi-
c:r is to have one guinea per week every Saturday
night.
Sir lloseat StIOR► hitt.lity, late Governor of
Quebec, his family and suite, are come to England
in the (I I Asa The Lord Bishop of Qu case is also

arrived in the Anne.
The East India Fleet will afford a siifficien
simply of stamen. to enable several ships of war,
which Are equipped in
to sea imme newly A great number of hands
were obtained from the West India Fleet.
A letter fiom an Officer nn beard the Inderniipble.
dated To:b iv, 8 h iniewit, says, " We have just
received waled orders, which are not to be opened
until we are north-west of the Salutes. I believe
we are going upon a criiii.e."
Letters from Lisbon, dyed the tOth ult. state, that
the brave Captain Woo*, his Officers, and 70 of
the gallant crew of the late B lan, he, have been landed
from I.n ' bonze, of 44 guns, which took shelter in
ilia Tsgus from the Go/rerb and Organ, of 74
guns. when they chased her into port The British
Consul has taken under bis care, Capt. M. and the
0 Beers, on parole, with the seamen and Royal Ma-
rines. Receipts were given to the French Consul at
Lisbon for the number delivered over, not to set ye,
till regularly exchanged.
I.ist of British armed ves,els taken by the French,
since the commencement at the present war :—The
amount is 14, nnt out of which is of the line, nor
one taken under circumstinces
glorious
to the cap-
tors. the names of the captured are, the Minerva,
42 guns, which ran aground in a thick log near
Cherbourg. and was capttired ; —the Redbridge
schooner, of Ili guns, taken by a squadron of tri-
:.;ates, near Toulon ; the Wolveripe, of It; guns, sur-
rendered
in a sinking state to two French privateers
of 36 guns and 20 guns, alter an anion of three.
quarters of an hour ; the Vincou, of 18 guns, cap-
tured by a sw4rm of gunboats. in a dead calm ;
the evane, of Its guns, taken by the Combined Fleets ;
Cle Li/y. of If; guns. taken after a gallant action;
tile Mallard gun-vessel, ran ashore. and taken ;
the Array, of 30 guns ; and the ifehreon of 8
gems, taken and sunk by two French frigates, after
a long and severe centest ; the Venus caner, taken
by a French squadron in the Mediterranean ; the
Plumper and the Tra.r, , of 14 guns ; the Swift
cutter, of 8 guns ; and the &mar frigate, taken
and burned, after a most gallant resistance against a
French squadron of two frigates and two sloops.