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inserted in the Paris Papers; all tending to that ob-
jel, the attainment of which, iuduenced by that
ignorance of the principles of commerce which
has invariably' marked 'hiS coaduet, he absurdly
imagines would destroy our commercial :Supe-
riority. To one of these articles inserted in
the Publiciste, an answer has been -written, and
circulated in the North of Germany, which will
be found in our subsequent Columns, and 'which
is a complete refutation of the reasoning, or rather
sophistry, advanc&l by the satellites of BONA PARTp.
T 4 the present state of Europe, howey,er,.it is not
to be supposed that such a question can bedecided
by the pen. BO,NAPARTE would issue his orders
regardless as to Nyllich, side had the best of the argu-
Ment ; but in this case we do not imagine that Prussia
will consent to any measure, the objeft of which
.is
to exclude our Commerce froth the North .of Ger-
many,, an objea at the same time which no stretch
of tyranny can Carry into effect..

Yesterday His MAJESTY, the .DUKE of CAM-
BRIDGE, PRINCESSES AUGUSTA, SOPHIA, and AME-
LIA, took at airing on horseback in Windsor Park.
The Dux& of YORK transaeled busipess' with His
MAJESTY on MondaY.
Mondainight Then- MAJItiT;ES had a.seleEt party.
Among the Company were 'Cnlanai 44d Mr.
SNEYD, and Mr. and. Mrs..VILLIEBS.

•
His MAJESTY W a ill hold Privy Council to-mor-
row at the Queen's Palace. •

.General FITZPATRICK attended at the War-Office
on Saturday, for the first time since his appointment.
Yesterday most of the. Foreign Ambassadors- re-
siding at this. Court waited on Mr. Fox,, at his
office, and, had an interview, for the first time,
with that Itight.Hon. Gentleman, since his appoint-
ment as Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.
Mr. CUB RAN, the celebrated Irish orator, is to be
Attorney-General and Counsellor M.Maxotc, bro-
ther to Col. M‘MAtioN, Solicitor-General, in the
room of Mr. P - LUNKET and 'Mr. iiusnE.

Mr. MAY NE, an Irish Barrister of considerable
note, has succeeded Mr. Justice FINUCANE, ars one
of the Puisne Judges of the Irlsh Court of Common
Pleas. •

We are sorry to learn that Mr. BARROW is among
the removals at the Admiralty Department, as his
charaeler is highly respeaable, for knowledge of bit-
siness, attention, and urbanity, as well as for literary
and scientific qualifications of no ordinary rate.
Some friends of Mr: Fox yesterday met at the
Crown' 411c1 AnchOr Tavern, in the Strand, for the
purpose of securing his return for the City of West-
minster at the-ensuing Elea-lion, Mr. Q.ERYEN ad,
dressed the Meeting, observing, that though there
was no likelihood of an Opposition, yet that it would
be proper for the friends of the Right Hon. Candi-
'date to shew their reSpe.C.l for him by a strong mus-
ter before the Hustings on Thursday morning. He
then made a motion to this effect, which was una,
nimoUsly carried.
Mr. BTR Cl 4, of Cornhill, who is always ready to
exert himself in favour of his Country and con-
spicuous merit, deserves very great praise for his en-
deavours 'to procUre, from the first City in the
• .
world, a monument of its esteem and admiration
for the 'greatest and most disinterested Statesman
that the world ever possessed: We trust this mirk
'of postluirhous veneration Will be woithy of that
great City and the illustriOus Character for is bole
honouriit is intended. : •

nis Royal Highnes.l the of PUMBERLANP
gave a grand dinner yesterday to a selea, party
Military Gentlemen, at his house in St. James's,
The Duchess of Dr,voNsulfir had an elegant-Sup-
per party yesterday evenlng, after the-Opera, at De-
vonshire-house. Among the cp piny present were,.
Earl and Countess of RE-SBeitOt.TGH, Lord and Lady
MORPETH, Lady MELBotritANE., Lord :and. Lady DUN-
CANNON, Lord OSSULSTON, &C.

_ .
Miss LONG, the eldest daUghter of the late Sir
JAMES TILNEY LONG, is sole heiresS to the 'filmy
estate,amOunting to 30,0001. per ann. and 200,0001.
in the Funds, making herby far the richest female
Commoner in England. She has just entered her
17th year, • and. naturally draws in -her train most of
our young men of fashion, who find the attractions
of Miss LoNG too powerful to lx..'resisted.

Colonel Sir JOHN F. LEICESTER, Bart. has received
the PRINCE of WALEs's permission to call his Legion
by the title of The Earl of Chester's Legion.
The Northumberland Militia marched into Can-
terbury on Monday, from Ramsgate and Margate,
and yesterday continued their route for Maidstone.
In consequence of this movement, the whole Of the
Isle of Thanet is left open for the reception of the
troops daily expeded from the Continent.
Letters from Italy state, that General ST. CYR, at
,the head of 40;000 men; has halted on the frontiers
'':of Naples, waiting the arrival of General MAaSENA,
who is on his way, with considerable reinforcements,
to take the chief command. The probability, how-
ever, is, that the eclat of entering Naples in triumph
is reserved for Prince EUGENE who set out from Mu-
nich on the 21st, on his return to Italy, accompa-
nied by his new-married bride, the Princess uf BA-
VARIA.

The following is an accurate List of the Com-
manders who have , been promoted to the Rank of
Post Captain, and of the Lieutenants who have been
advanced to the Rank of Commander :

To be .Post-Captains—Captains Rosenhagen, Ramsey,
Carteret, Vaughan, Rodney, 11,14Leori, Mason, Omthaney,
' J.. Sykes, Impey, Heywood, Kent, H. Laroche, Hancock,
Dufi; Spell,' Duncan, Buslaby, Mackay, J. 1,. Popham,
Watson, Henniker, Pellew, Foster, Johnstone, Curtis,
Lewis, Brown, Carden, Kerr, Shippard, Scott, Henderson,
Smith, Hodgson,, and Bowen.
To be Commanders—Lieutenants Tucker,' Ellis, Pack-
wood, Balfour, Hopkins, Hunt, Balderston, Maxwell, Ste-
venson, 'Bowes, Hon. C. Waldegraye, Valentine, Parker,
Rogers, 13radshaw, Palmer, Stewart, Markland, Charlton,
Perry, Lysaght, Dickinson, Ryder, Cordon, Palmer, Hodge,
Garland, King (I),,Falpole, Forrest, King, Hicks, Hand-
fi4d, Stodart, Honey, Sherpa; 40iye, Hollinworth,
Ivrntes, Warwick, Lake, Raitt, Prowse; and Hope.

• P4lr. Thomas Todd, a respectable farmer at Ki4c-
-14144 in Ciunberland, was unfortunately ,drowned
is the'evening of the ult: in crossing the river
Tyne on his way home. The current eras so' itnie-
tuous, that it took the horse from under

NA VA L. N E trs. -

From: the LONDON GAZETTE, Fc6. tr, ;8(7,6.

Admiralty-Office; Feb: 11, 1806. -
Copy of a Letter from Admiral the Right Hon. Lord
Gardner to Win." Marsden, Esq. dated on board H.
IW. Ship the Dryad, in Cork Harbour, Feb. 5.
1800.

SIR,

His Majesty's Ship Druid arrived here early th's
zr.torning ; and I have the pleasure to inclose, for
their Lordships' infoKmation, copy of a Letter, dated
at Sea, the 2d inst. from Capt. P. B. V. BrOke, giving
an account of his having captured the Frellch Ship
Privateer Prince Murat, having on board 18 13-pound-
ers, and 127 men ; five days at sea from L'Orient,
and had not made any captures.
• I have the honour ;o be, Ere.
GARDNER.
•
MY LORD, Druid, at &a, Feb. 2, 1806.
I have the pleasure to inform you, that his Ma,
jesty's Ship under rny.command captured this morn-
ing, pfte.r. a chace of, go miles, the Prince Murat
Izrench.Ship Privateer, of 18 guns, 6-pounders, and
1.27 men,. commanded. by Mans. Rine Murin, ot,it
five days from L'Orient, and had made no captures ;
she is. a.coppered Ship, and a fast sailer. I have sent
her to Plymouth ; and have, the honour to be, &c.

- P. V. B. BROKE.
The Right Yon. Lord .Gardner, Adthiral,
Oh White, &c.

PLYNTOUTH, FEB. 10.—Airived the Prince Murat
FrenchPrivateet:, of J.§ guns, captured by the Druigt
Frigate, last from Falmouth.:

Arrived the Sally, Capt, LOtIGIIIIRST) laden with
sugar,' &C. from :St. and Tortola, bound to
London, put in to refit, having received damage in
gales of Wind ; sailed from Tortola on the 16th
becember last in company with 80 Sail, under con,-
voy of. La .Sybille Frigate, Capt. WITH4OI', parted
from the Oonvoy on the ttli January in lat. 16.0 irk
a 'gale
.of wind.
The Kent, of 74 guns, Vice-Admiral THORN-.
.BROUGH, came into Harbour this morning to repair
the damage slie received by striking on a rock 14
cawsand Pay in gale of wind.

PORTSMOUTH, FEB. 11. - Arrived the Staunch
Gun-brig, Lieut. ST:IEBT, from Plymouth, with
Prisoners of War ; also the Brilliant, BE LAN, frogf,

Guernsey.

_ propped down to St. Helns La Constance Fii„.
gate.

Sailed His Majesty's Ships Crescent and
to the Westward.

The Transporta which received orders for the
Cape Qf Good iiope.Lave received counter-order:.

Fs t. 11.—sSail0 the Sea-G4ll and Cygnet
Sloops of War; Dauntless Praam, and several Gun.:
brigs, on a Cruize off the French Coast.
_ . _

Arrivel.the Zzpidsion Bomb with a Convoy froth
thelVestWar‘d-,:Which have sailed for the kilver; th
Ezplosion remains in, the Downs, with the rest of
the Ships as per last,

CiLA TiIAM, FE.B. g.—The Resolution sailed from
hence yesterday for Long Reach, where she will
take. 4n her powder and guns, and procee4 to the
Nor e.
The Princess of Orange is arrived at Gillingham
Reach i she will be inlinediately dismantled anti paid

Oovernment have contraete4 with the different
Merchant-builders for 16 Schooners, to be Fogy..
pieced as soon as possible.

F,XTRACT OF A LETTER FROM AN OFFICER ON BOARD
THE CASTLE EDEN EAST. INDIAMANy TO HIS
FRIEND IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF QLOUCES,
TER, DATED /4/41)3144 40.ADSJ AUG. 18.

" On the 7th of August, the weather clearing up
after a squall which lasted all ,day, we descried to
wind Ward three strange Sail hearlng N. E. standing
.towards the Fleet. We were ten Sail of Indiatnen,
under convoy of the Blenheim, of 74. gratis, Admiral
TROUBRIDGE, who immediately made the following
signals in succession, viz. an Enemy in sight-4o
prepare for Battle—the Fleet to make all Sail a-heact,
and to close and steer N. N. E. We instantly cleareti
ship, and piped to quarters. At 6P. M. two of the
strange Sail came up with our rear ; when we de.,
scried them to be the Marengo, of 1. guns, Admiral
LzNozs, and'a large French Frio-ate. An Engage,
meet then commenced, but did centinue long.
A brisk fire, however, was kept up on both
and many of their shot passed over, and some very
near our Ship. The Cumberland, Ganges, and Ad-
miral were the only Vessels that suffered ; the two
latter lost one man each. The Enemy kept to lee-
, ward the whole time, and sheered off in a squall.
They left one Ship a-stern, which we suppose was a
Prize, as she did het come into the .Engagement.,—,
About 9 P. M. we saw them hearing on o\ir lee-
boW, about three miles distant. They kept in that
position till about to, when they crossed our Fleet
to windward, joined the Ship they left a-stern, and
held the same course all night.. At 6 A. M. Ad-
miral TROUBRIDGE ordered the Preston, Devon,.
shirei and 4fornington, to pass within hail of'
him, and prepare fbr battle, as at this time the
Enemy were bearing down. At half-past eight
Lntots hauled his wind, and kept at the distance of
seven or eight miles all day; but during the follow-
ing night he sheered off, and we saw nothing more
of him. 'He-was doubtless not a little' disgusted at-
the, reception he met with, from a Fleet, the im-
mense value of which -he had alone contemplated,
with Out • taking into the calculation the inherent
Valour of Britiih Seamen, whether they are doomed.
tdassert the Navel renqwp, pr to
much defend the com-
mercial property of their loved Country ! The
vihole of the Convoy are now safe i the Roads.",