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tion, to take it up; and finds itself obliged (withnut
entering into an ample detail for the purpose of re-
futing those opinions) to insist, that your aforesaid
Members, Van Hasselt, and De Lange Van Wyn-
gaarden, be summoned Isy you, to state the savings
they alluded to, not in general expressions, but expli-
citly, and with distinction of the objefls; and to prove
their accusations and insinuations against the Direc-
tory, to enable the State DireCtory, by a disclosure
and notification of the Mini:krill, intrigues in plotting
tv4l4 the enemies of the Stare, to inflid condign punish-
ment on the guilty, if there be any. If they do this, the
said citizens will be indeed men well deserving of their
country : but if they neither can nor will do this,
the Diredory is obliged, far from ranking them
with the true friends of the country, without whose
disinterested zeal and cooperation, all endeavour.
to save it would long since have proved fruitless, to
consider them as belonginglo that class of men, who,
far from loving their country, prefer, on the con-
trary, listening to their own passions and private
views, rather to increase the public danger by their
hazarded, unproved, and undefined accusations and
indications, under the mask of love to their coun-
try, and of zeal for the good of the pedple, than to
contrihnte, by ass hone* co-operation, to its welfare,
and thus to recover that country, by joint exertions
with those to whom it is really dear, from the brink
of ruin.

" If.alth and Respect. " 1. E. BICKEIt.
" By Order of the State Directory. " C. GAIULTINAN."
The above Note is put into the hands of the Mem-
bers Busch, Van Fissoff, Lain, Siderius, and Van-
der Meulen, to be taken into consideration by the
Assembly, how far the same may form a point for
deliberation.

NAVAL INTELLIUEIyCE,

24
Arrived this day, the Si. Ihproritta also a 74 gun
ship, whose name I have not been able to learn.
A Court Martial is now sitting on boariiiiiiis Ma-
jesty's ship San Jose', for the trial of Captain Bligh,
of the Warrior, for charges preferred against him
by one of his late Lieutenants.
Mil XHAM, ?ER. 26.
Arrived last evening, His Majesty's ship Illustrious,
Capt. Sir Charles Hamilton.

OF s 11111.3 NOW IN TORBAY.
0011. (.011.0,16,14er
Ville de Paris llO Admiral Cornwall:..
San .loaf C.4ton.
D.eadnought. 9B Coliosgwood.
Ne;nune 94 eapt.
Windsor Castle 9B - Gould.
Quern Wi • • •
BATICIIf
Tennant BO
Bellerophon 74 Loring.
Colossus ....
Cnorageuz 74 vies.
%Varriiar ....
Hein
Illustnotta.. l4 F!. I.
N ensmis
Charwell D11•111refal
Staunch. 18

The Ciurt Martial on Captain Bligh is still sit-
ting.
Arrived a small Spanish brig, lader. with wine
and flour. Fire to the rettren. 64 guns.

HARWICH. ItIII. 26.

Gr•at apprehensions are entertained respeCting
the Packets on the G.,:tenbtirgh station, as a repurt
prevails that they got entangled in the ice guing up
the river.
By the late arrivals, we understand that the Mail;
from the 13th ult. for Hambro' and Bremen, could
not be conveyed to Husum from Heylig..land, owing
to the severity of the weather ; con,equetitly the
packets that have taken their departure since that
period from Heyligoland, bitiught neither mails nor
passengers on their return.
'lle mails of the 26th, and those of the 22.1, for
Hub= and Gottenburg, are detained here by con-
trary wind.

nt A I,_, 11. 27.

R•main in the Downs. the Slonare4, rtneht, and
Tract., men of war ; Nare;”o:, ea,tor, Jason, Chant.'
pun. and .birvaiew frigates; Arch, Zephs,r,
tic rsaes, Speedy, Alert, Astuntit, Vulture, Harpy,
Orettes, Hosettn, Spy, Helena, and L'.9rgus s!oops of
war ; Prospero, bwifer, Diseor-sy, Palette,'
Exptox.on, Derastalion, and Prey bombs; Fu,tols,
er, Aloffheyt, Lorstst, 7. irk ler , Bo.issk,
Mav!e, 13bia/an/4, Minx, Ryleusett, Archer, fl'ateb-
fisl, Hotorhty, Poosneer, Tygees,;• Sparkier, and se-
veral other gun-brigs, a fleet nt arme.i defence-
ships ; Katy privateer ; Windham and Phenix EASt-
Indiameat ; and a fleet of other outward-titind ves-
sels.
P.S —Sailed the Red sloop of war, and several
gun-brigs, un a cruise. •

BRITISH NAVY. •

STATEMENT of the DISTRIBUTION of the
NAVAL FORCE., to dill Duy.
Line 150 s I Fr,.
6E. 31

BRIASTI

cut Ire,.
90 144

la Port and fitting ... 21
I ;ward 41Iiimi
1.. the 4:nglialt and Irish Channels 24
Un the Dawns an/ North Sea ma.

timis
At ike West ladm and on
the Passage 1
IM theJam:dea 4tAtimi
American alid Newfuund'arta

0
Fat anther, and ae the Peeage. R
Cnest of Africa 0
Spain, Portugal, and Gibraltar l3
Wriiterrancan and on Paer..ge.
With Sealed Ord,r, 0
Hospital and Prison Ships.. 1

Tutal in Comm 105 I 41 1 141 1 410

Receiviqg Ships .
Serviceable alld mpairilig for Serv. 15 1 17 1
to o,dinai 43 12 33 20
15 0I 2J 91