The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1803-03-23 00:00:00

GOVERNMENT PROCLAMATION.

diy his Honour Lieutenant General FRANCIS DUND.IS,
Cubit it of hiv Majesty's Scotch Brigade; Governor of Car-
rickfergus, in Irelaud, Lieutenant (;evernor, Annie Gover-
nor, avid Commande►un Chief of leis Majesty's Cavtlejown,
aml Settlement of the Cape of Good Hope, iis South Africa,
ano lit the Territories and Dependencies theveof, and Ordi-
nary and Vice-Admiral of the same.
IV tiereas the circumstances that have lately occurred might
excite in the breasts of the id-dreposed part of the community
opinions and designs prejudicial to the public wehere and re-
poi es ; and whereas any an empts originating from such ()pillions
and sle..igns to interrupt the public puce, call have no other ef-
fect than to produce disorder and confteion, misery and ruin,
thu destruction of families, and a gmeral deslilatioti in the coun-
try s In order to prevent, as far a. possibl-,. 'etch direful cuii•e-
ill:enc.-se I do hereby prohibit, in the Most positive manner, on
pain of prompt execution of military law, which by virtue of
the powers in me vetted, I do hereby proclaim, all a.semh!ages
of armed peaFailisi, or unser inhabitants, of Any deseriieunt
whatsoeser, uniess by ?In authority and co:unwed:, conveyed
in the usual manner to the Laildm:te or other akin.: properly
qualit;_el to issue tar sante. And all the iiihaedants of this
settlement, bound by the oath of allegiance thee have taken
to his Britannic Malery, are tierelsy warned Or IL' raid conse-
quence) that must inevitably ensue to trionselves, their fami-
lies and property, by any deviation from this public order, it
my positive resolution toeidurce a strict asad liter.d obe•
thence to the same.
And seh,reas it is expedient, (hiring the present state of the
settlemedt, that the inhabitants in general, both sit Cape Town
nn I the Country Districts, should nut be permitted to wait their
habit Mons, I do further foi!.ed all persons residing in this
ties n front leaving the same with their families fir the purpose
of changing their plaees of abode, without my special leave and
authority; and those of the Country Districts- without the
knowledge and approbation of the respective Landrists and
Ileeniraadesi. . _ _

Givco wider my hand and veal► at the Castle of Good Hope,
this 2d thy of Jainism., 180.3.
f FRANCIS I.kr4DAs.
By command of his !lotin,. the Lieutenant
awl A.•t mg tvoveru4r,
(S:gniA) A. BARNARD, Sec.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PORTSMOUTH, Nt MICH 21.

Arrived his Maiosty's ship Otpktui, of 32 guns,
Captain Charles ElFhinstone, from the East Indies.
She sailed in company v. ith the Va:orious and Sybeile
frigates.
Remain at Spithead, the Neptune, Venerable,
1114 Calcutta, Alcmene, Aurora, La Deierminie,
and Port Mahon -,-Wind S. E. and moderate.

Rem:tin :a !•,t. ILltns his /lajesty's ships Juno, of
32 guns, and Morgiana, of 16 guns.
Notwithstanding the exertions daily made to get
out of harbour his Majesty's ships Diamond, of 38
guns, and L' tic, of 36 guns, every attempt has
hitherto proved nufifeatud, on account of unfavour-
ble winds ani

Pasted by for' -Jon, the Britannia,
Non/Jan:pion, ; Admired ellpin, ; and
the General Stewart, , front the East Indies.
DOVER, NIARCII (21.
Sailed the Duclyess of 1014 passav vessel, with
passengers for Calais.
Arrived the Rambler Freneh passage vessel ; and
La Renommee, Vaisseur.

H A T.F-P AST MX, P. M.

The
.Tarphine packet, Capt. Lambert, is just ar-
rived with two mails, and a messenger.

DEAL, MARCH 21.

Sailed tie .Fiuddart, Bayley, fur the East Indies,
and the rest 01 tA,e outward-bound vessels. Wind
E. N. E.

FALMOUTH, MARCH 18.

The Lord Charles Speacer, Capt. Robert Cotes-
worth, which arrived yesterday with mails from the
I.J..‘‘ aid lsand.., arrived at Barbadoes on the 21st of
January, and found there his Majesty's ships Bien-
I of 74 guns, Commodore Hood ; Excellent,
of 7 t guns, Capt. Nash ; Emerald, of guns,
Capt. O'Brien; Heureux, of 2G guns, Capt. O'Biand;
Hornet and Cayene sloops. On the 234 of Jann-
ary sailed for Dominica. In passing the island of
Martinique saw a ship of the line and frigate at
anchor in Fort Royal Bay. Arrived at St. Kitts ou
the 4th of February ; found lying there the Castor
frigate and Drake brig. On the 7th of February
sailed fur Tortola • arrived there the same day ;
and on the toth of.t February sailed for England.
On the 11th instant, in lat. 48. 43. long. 19. 45.
spoke the brig Lark, of Poole, from Youghall bound
to Newfoundland, all well. Passengers by the
Lord Cbarles Spencer, Lieut. Colonels Maiden and
Ilislop.
Arrived this day the Leicester packet, Capt. sharp,
with mails from Barbadoes and Jamaica ; 49 days
from the latter. This packet arrived at Barbadoes
on the sth of January ; found there his Majesty's
ships He/dying, of 74 guns ; Centaur, of 74 guns ;
Excellent, of 74 guns ; Thalia, of 3t.; guns ; and Neil,
schooner. Arrived at Jamaica the 13th Jan uary, and
toond there, the Leviathan, of 74 guns ; Bellerophon,
of 74 guns ' • Van:wird, of 74 guns ; Elephant, of 74
guns ; La Desire, of 40 guns ; Shari, Pelican, and
Racoon sloops. His Majesty's ship De Rlivter ar-
rived at Jamaica on the 17th January, with the
87th regiment, from Curacoa ; on the 21st of Ja-
nuary his Majesty's ships Theseus, Cumberland, Go-
I;ath, and Ganges, of 7 4 guns each, from a cruize.
On the 13th instant, in ht. 48. 3. long. 19. west,
spoke the brig Fox, of Boston, from Liverpool,
bound to Boston, out six days, all well. Passen-
gers by the Leicester, Lieut. Colonel Hughes, of
the 87th regiment, (late Governor of Curacoa),
Lieut. Reislitter, and D. N. Kiner, Esq.

_ .
Also arrived the l'riscree Amelia packet, Stevens,
with dispatches from the Cape of Good Hope,
which she left on the 14th of January ; arrived
there the 10th of January. The Priam: Amelia
arrived at the Cape on the 20th January, and sailed
again on the 1 Ith January ; left there his Majesty's
ships I,m:easter, Admiral Curtis ; Tremendoue, Jupi-
ter, Diomede, Hindortan, Braave, and Penguin—also
the Lord Duncan and litnv Addington huliamen,