The Sun.
London, England, 1801-02-09 00:00:00

LONDON, YEBRUARY 9, 'Sol.

WE never knew the public mind more agitated
than it was yesterday, when Mr. Prres Resig-
nation becaine generally•known ; and it is surely
a great calamity that, at a crisis like the present,
the country should be deprived of the services of
such men as Mr. PITT, Mr. DI/Nuns, Lord
GRENV LLE, and Lord SPENCER. Although
we' traced to their source many of the reports
which were industriously circulated upon this
subjed for some days past, and ascertained. that
they were destitute of foundation, yet we have

not been without our suspicions, that some dis-
-1 agreement had taken place in the Cabinet, and
upon- a point on which a certain great Personage
was supposed to have supported the opinion of the
Minority.
The delay of the King's Speech, at the open-
ing of the Session, arose, we believe, from this
difference of opinion, and ultimately it was de-
' cided that no reference should be made in the
peecli to the question in dispute, which related
to the present situation of the Catholics.
. • Many of those who countenanced the Union,
supported it solely under the idea that all re-
straints, with regard to Religious Opinions,
might be done away-with safety, after the adop-
tion of that measure; and that-no material benefit
would arise from. it,. unless it was accompanied
by Universal Toleration, which alone, they
thought, could bind to the interests of the Ern-
- vire, so great a proportion of- the Inhabitants of
Ireland. The opinion of others was, that to
give further Indulgeneies to the Catholics, Would
be to endanger the Established Church; and the
Great Personage. to whom we have alluded, is
,opposed to have had an additional objeftion,
viz. that x consent to such a manure would be
to violate his Coronation Oath. Upon this
point of -difference we have only most anxious-
ly and sincerely to lament, that such explana.
tions did not take place as might, possibly,
have led to some compromise, before either
Party had become so pledged as to render it
perhaps dishOnourable to abandon their opi.
nion, Every man must determine for himself, a
question of Conscience. The words of the Co-
ronation. Oath are as follow
"I promise, to.the utmost of my pallier, to main-
'tabs the Limn of God, the true profession of the
Gospel, and the Protestant Reformed Religion,
established by Law ; and I quill preieme unto .
the Bishops and Clergy of this Realm, and to the
Churches committed to their Charge, all such Rights
and Prieleget, as by Law do, or shall appertain
unto them, or any of them.".
To many it may appear, that by a measure
by which none of the Rights 'of the Protes.
tant Church were infringed, or even touched,
this Oath could not possibly be considered as
violated ; and that granting Privileges to Cult°.
lies, unless the use of those Privileges might be-
come -dangerous to the 'Protestant ascendancy,
could in no degree affeet this Oath. This reason-
ing is supported by the argument, that if it were
otherwise, the iadulgencies given to the Catho-
lies in the course of the pmeot Reign, and par-
ticularly those conceded to them in the year
t'/9t, must have been a breach of this Oath, but
which they cannot justly be considered to have
been; and as to.the danger, in the present times, of
allowing Catholics to be eligible, either ' to Seats
in Parliament, or to the High Offices of Slate, no
great danger is apparently to be apprehended
from such a concession. The Catholica'are among
the best friends of Monarchy in the ,King's
Dominions, nor can it be
,reasonably feared that
we can now be, destroyed by the infl:icnce of
the 'Pope. Those Laws which were admirably
adapted to the circumstances of the succession of
King WILL rAm, are inapplicable in the present
day,—and the dangers with which the World is
row threatened, are not .the dangers of this or
that Seat of Chrbrlanity, of. this or that Reli-
gion, but of Irreligion and jaeahillwn.
This is the inclination of our opinion on these
points, and we have been led into a short discus_
Sion upon them, as having given rise to the event
which we so much deplore. No true Friend to
the -Country can contemplate that event without
Anxiety. By the efforts of those, of whose ser.
vices we are• to be deprived, this Country has
hitherto. warded off the blow which Jacobinism
Alas so long aimed for its destruction. We trust_.
gd.that thwe.who Kiid manfully sustained the con.
test. which (with all tfii sacritiCes it has entailed
upon Us) has saved us from utter ruin, would
have concluded that contest to a safe and ho.

nourable conclusion.' They have been placed in
a most arduous situation, in which it was nofa
question, by what means Glory and Advantage
were to be reaped for the Country, but how it.
Alas to be best preserved from Ruin and Destrue•-
tion. They have had many and unexampled dif-
ficulties to struggle with, arising out of the
Times, and we trust their services were not
lightly dispensed with. It is no triging compli-
nient to those who have governed under such cir-
cumstances, that we are able to say with truth,
that we are still entire, while every other neigh-
bouring Nation has yielded to the Artifices or
to the Arms of France.
It is some consolation to us to hear, that in
the change which is about to take place, His
MAJESTY has fixed upon those who arc most
likely to maintain the Principles which have
hitherto secured us from Revolutionary danger.
The Person who is mentioned as Mr. Purr's Suc-
cessor, is a Gentleman who has long filled a very,
high Office, much to his own credit, and in every
respeft to the satisfaelion and advantage of the
Public. It is impossible not to approve the
choice, if a new choice, under the present circum-
stances, is to be made—lt is the best security
to the Public against the introduction of any of
those dangerous Measures, to which the Members
of the present Opposition are so unequivocally
pledged ; and the adoption of any one of which,
we should look upon as the forerunner of all the
Horrors of a Jacobinical Revolution. Mr. AD-
DIt{OTON, we are sure, will unite the wishes of
every good Man for his success, and he will inspire
the confidence and good opinion of the 129blic—
Believing him to be a true friend to the Consti-
. tution, knowing his heart to be pure, and his
mind enlightened, he may depend upon any poor
services we can render him ; and we are con-
vinced,, that in supporting his Administration,
we shall uphold, as we did under that of Mr.
PITT, -the true Interests and Honour of - the
Country.
The rumours yesterday were various with re-
spea to the Persons who were to succeed to the
vacant Offices of the State. On this head, we
believe, little can be with accuracy known, be-
cause little is settled. All the Ministers that
formed the Cabinet retire, with the exception,
we believe, of the LORD CHANCELLOR, the
Duke Of PORTLAND, Lord WESTMORLAND, and
Lord LI VERPOOL. We have heard Lord MACART-
NET mentioned, and with probability, as the
Successor of Mr. DustoAs ; but we do not ima-
gine, that any other Minister, except those al-
ready mentioned, is publicly known. Lord Ho-
DART is to be employed in a high Situation, and
it is supposed he will go as Lord Lieutenant to
Ireland; the Marquis CORNWALLIS retiring
from that Situation upon the samcgrounds as the
Ministers here. Lord CASTLEREAGH has like.
wise retiredfrona his Office of Mipister for Ire-
land.

Sir JoHN MITFORD, the Attorney-General,
will, it is supposed, be elefied Speaker, in the
room of Mr, ADDINGTON.

Mr. PITT will continue, it is imagined, to
discharge the duties of his late office, as Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer, till after the t Bth inst. the
day fixed for the Budget, that no interruption may
be given to the essential business of the country.
We shall endeavour to present our Readers
with such further information on this interesting
übjeft as may come to our knowledge, upon
grounds on which we can rely.

Wt early this morning received, B EXPR ESS
Paris Papers to
.tbe 7th instant. They are
important, . by enabling us to contradia the
intelligence whiCh some of our journalists confi-
dently asserted, and of the truth of which we
expressed our doubts, that the signing of the
Preliminaries of Peace was an event noti-
fied in the Paris -Papers of the 31st ult.—
That event, if it has taken place, has not yet
been deemed ripe for publication, and the only
circumstance which can warrant the supposition
is, the extraordinary rise which took place in
the French Funds on the zd inst. on which day
they were 59; three per cent. higher than on the
3 Ist ultimo.

The Sittings of the Tribunate have been dis-
tinguished for some violence of discussion, but
the most prominent article is the news from Italy,
of the operctions of the French Army against the
feeble Enemy which yet remained to be subdued
by them in that quarter. •
A Letter from General BRUNE, dated from
Head-quarters at Verona, on the 22d ult. gives
an account of an Attack upon the Neapolitan
Troops in the States of the PorE, in which the
French, as might be supposed, were completely
successful. To this Letter is subjoined an article
in the journal des &Inas, stating that General
MU R AT, inibrmed of the Attack of the Neapoli•

tans, had, by a skilful movement, forced the
Austrians to enter Ancona, and the Neapolitans
to fly with precipitation into the Roman terri-
.tort'.

Ancona having been surrendered by the Austri-
ans, in compliance with the Terms of the Ar-
mistice, General Mu RAT sent off the Troops of
General .tot. is to join the main Army. Ge-
neral MURAT occupied Tuscany, and General
DAMAS, mentioned in the preceding Letter, had
written to him to demand an Armistice.

General Bn RTH I ER, in.a letter from his Head-
quarters at Florence, of a subsequ.ent date (the
28th Jan.) gives an account of the arrangements
made by General MURAT, subsequent to these
events. In the conclusion of this letter he men-
tions his having that moment received a Courier
from General Mutt AT, announcing that the Nea-
politan Army had retreated under the walls of
Rome, and that a weak advanced guard was all
that was left at Viterbo.
This Letter of General BERT/11ER is accom-
panied by Papers referred 'to in it—a Letter of
MURAT to the POI.E on entering his territory—
the application of General DAMAS for an Armis-
tice—and the reply of MURAT to that applica--
tion. He calls upon the Neapolitan General to
evacuate all the States of the Church and the Castle
of St. Angelo : to cease to claim any benefit from
the Armistice of Treviso, in which no mention is
made of his Sovereign ; and,to entertain no long-
er any hopes from the influence of a power who
must no more protea him. The only Sovereign,
he obserVes, who can afford him any proteaion is
the Emperor of Russ lA, for whom the Chief Consul
has so high a personal esteem. The way to conciliate
the esteem of that Prince, says the French Gene-
ral, is by laying an Embargo on all the Ports in
Sicily and Naples, on the British Ships, in .return
for that which the KING of ENLAND has so un-
justly imposed on the Danes, Swedes, and Rus-
sians. When all this is done, an Arrnistice is
promised as the earnest of an equitable Peace,

Of. the Four Hamburgb Mails which were
due.yesterday, the three of the oldest date ar-
rived in the course of the day. • They bring us
one very important article of intelligence, that of
General TAMARA, the Russian Anibassador at
Constantinople, having, by order °ibis SoVereign"
made a requisition of the Su 13L I.ME PORTE, that no
British Troops should be permitted to disembark
in Egypt, and intimated, that their So' doing.
would be considered by the Cabinet of Peters-
kffrgk, as an aet of hostility on the part of that
of Cow/ant/flop/es This embarrassing Note,
dietated by the policy and the interests. of the
Chief Consul,, has thrown the Divan into the.
greatest perplexity. An extraordinary Assembly
of it was immediately called, but it would, be
found difficult to escape from the serious dilemma
in which it was placed. It must determine 'to
submit, either decidedly to the loss of Egypt, or
to expose the Empire itself to destruftion. Per-
haps both these misfortunes may _await it.
Another article of some interest is brought by
the Mails.-7 The history of the famous Challenge
in the Petersburgh Court Gazette, has not only
been followed by the Dismissal of Baton ROSEN-
CRANTZ, but also by the Recall of the Russian
Minister hiniself at Copenhagen. This measure
has not, however, it is said, prevented the rati-
fication of the Treaty of Neutrality by the latter
Court ; but its embarassment is; we may well
believe, not less than the uneasiness of the Pub-
lic there on the same head.

At Copenbagen, as at Constantinople, they are
placed between the hammer and the anvil. The
cash is nearly the same at Stockholm, where the
young King had arrived on the I.2ch, after having
met with some danger in his voyage.

The Intelligence from Vienna and Germany is
not more interesting than it generally is when
that Country is not the Theatre of War. From
Italy we learn nothing except the report, certai9-
ly very probable, that the Court of Naples is
treating for Peace with the Republic, under the
r.
mediation of Russia.

Several articles brought by the Mail. mention
the disembarkation of r 8,000 of our Troops in
Egypt. According to others, they have merely
landed at Rhodes, after a storm, which had prov-
ed more fatal to the Turkish tfan to our Ships.
The first accounts appears to us partly true : as
we have already stated, our Troops must at least
a fortnight ago haveattempted to disembark on
the land of Egypt. It is sincerely our wish that
they may have been successful, and that they
may be able to maintain themselves there.

Yesterday morning Messrs. Vrox, HUNTER,
and JOHNSTONE, arrived at Lord GRENVILLE'S
Office with Government Dispatches from the
Court of Vienna (being also intrusted with Ad-
vices from the different Northern Powers) through
the medium of the Etnreror of Germany.

PATUS, FP s tt) Y;'6.

Several persons have been taken up, who are
accused of ha viig entered into a conspiracy to give
up Belleisle to the English Fleet. •
A party of Chouans have been surrounded in a
village called Loudenc, in the Department of the
Cotes du Nord. The celebrated leader, GEORGES,
was in one of the hotss;.s ; and some of his party
were killed, but it is said that GEORGES escaped.
An article dateci'Brst, the •zsth of last month,
contains the following. particulars :—" I inform.
ed you by the last post, that the Division under
the command of' Rear.,Admiral GANTHEAUME
had received orders to prepare for sailing. The
same day at six o'clock in the afternoon it got
under sail, and at midnight it procueci,ed on its
,voyage to the Southward, with the wind .at
N. E. We confidently trust, that with the help
of this breeze it will make considerable way.
It is also very probable that it .will escape the
observation of the English, since they were
counted yesterday to, the number of fourteen sail.
" The following are the names of the Ships,
that are employed in this Expedition :
Oums. Ships. Guns.
L'lndivisible, Vic-Adm. a_ Le Dix Aosit - 74
GANTHEAUME SO La Constitution - 74
Le Formidable, Li trois So La Creole - - 4* •
L'lndoinptable - So La BraVoure - 4o
Le Desam - • 74 Le Vauteut - • 14
Le Jean Bart - - 74

General SMIUQU ET, Commander of the Land - '
Forces, and L'EscALL R it, are on hoard tbidi-
,visible. The destination of this Expedition has
not transpired.

GENERAL. BRUNE TO THE MINISTER AT WAR.
" Head-Quarters, Pima*

" CITIZEN MINISTER,

Jig. 22, ISoP.

" A Corps of Neapolitan Troops stationed in the State*
of the Yore, has been threatening Tuscany with an In.
vasjon, and were to he second:Ll by tl:a Austrians and
Tuscans, under the command of M. SrANOCCaI. Thcy
consisted together of 16,000 men, 8000 of whom are Nea-
politans; commanded by Messrs. DAMAS and VENTS..
MIL LE. We bad on the whole 3000 men to oppose to this
mass, and these General Alioxis manoeuvred with, equal
skill and good fortune.

" After having dissipated and,terrifieit by a rapid march
the Austro:Tuscans who had taken possession of.AreiTO
and Cortona, lie again concentrated his force. • The N
politans advanced. The had Posts five miles on this
side of Sienna, of which they were masters. General
MIOL I S attacked, them on the 14th, carried their A 41,..
vanced POsts; drove in the Posts of. Sienna with his artU
lery, and put4ucii them with Indefatigable ardour.

" The daywas remarkable for sixteen hours of rapid
marches and fighting. One column only of the Enemy
supported otir shock : the other, stationed in the fear, tied
precipitately, and could not be overtaken. Mare-thita 20G
Prisoners and three pieces o,f cannon, one of them.a txr
pounder, were taken iron the Enemy, togethar w►th their
WagOlis. Tuscany is entirely free from them.-,- Here
follows the commendation of particular Regiments..
(Signed) BRU E...

Our private Letters by the Mail, ezpreso
little hopes of an accommodation between Eng.
land. and the Northern Powers, The KING of
SWEDaN, by accepting from the EMPEROR, whey
at Petersburg& the Cross of Malta, has recognized
His IMPERIAL MAJESTY as Grand Master.,

The Kira of PRussiA, according to one of
our Correspondents, has the same objeft in view?
in conjon4tion with Russia, which his Father, in,
the Turkish
,War, had in conjuntlion with
England, that of forcing the contending Parties,
if possible, to a Peace ; and LUCHaiINI is bail
to be now occupied with the same objects at Parisi,
as he effeaed in 1790, at Reichenbash.

The KING on Saturday took the diversion of
huntincr, accompanied by the E of Cu mis ER.
LAND, Earl SANVW ICH, Sir HENRY GOTT, Mr.
VILLIERS, Mr. COLUAN, and? numerous Qom.
pany of Gentlemen Sportsmen. The Deer being
closely pursued through Beaconsfield, at Cook.
ham Ferry crossed the Thames near Marlow ;
the KI No and his Suite were ferried over, and
the animal was taken near Maidenhead Thicket.
HIS MAJ ESTY Was on horseback from half past
nine till four in the afternoon.

Yesterday morning the ROY AL FAMILY, ac,
companied by the DUKE of CUMBERLAND, COI.
WALDE git Ayr,' General GARTH, and their At-
tendants, went to St. Gorge's Chapel,' where
the Right Rev. 'Bishop of Noßw ten preached a
Sermon from the xth Chapter of the Book of
Proverbs, and part ofthe 18th Verse.

" He that uttereth a S Linder is a Fool. "
After Divine Service the ROYAL FAMILY ,re.
turned to the Lodge.

The Loan CIIANC ra..I,C3R. gave agrand dinnet
on Saturday tb a number of Noblemen and Gen,-
tlemen, at his house in Bolton.row.

The LORD CHANC L;.op.'s Levee on Saturday
evening was very fully attended. _

The SPEAKER of the House of Commons last
night held his first Levee for the season, which
was very numerously attended.
Mr. STUR is Motion on the Ferrol Expedl_
tion, which stood for this day, is, we 14n4er,
stood, put off.
Mr. Sit ealoAN's postponed Motion, on the
last intercourse with the French Government on
the Subjed of Peace, stands for to-morrow.

Lieutenant WArt.E arrived at the Admiralty.
Office yesterday, with Dispatches to their Lord.
shies from Admiral DICKSON, Commander in
thwf4.His Majesty's Squadron in the North
Seas..
A considerable number of Letters were on Sa.
turday delivered from the Post-Office, from Lip.
bon and the Mediterranean, brought to Ports,
mouth by the Chi/dol. and her Convoy. The
Mercury Frigate, Captain R 00.4.45, had arrived
-at Gibraltar from the Coast of Egypt ; and
through this channel Letters have been received,
dared Bassa Bay, and off Arab's Tower, Alexan-
dria, Sept. 12,,• 13, 26, and 30. The GRAND
V 1 it ta is stated to he still at Pafft, with to,ooo
men, whom General KOEHLER, with forty-six
British, six Officers included, were inStruaing-.to
march in double line, their Artillery in 'the in-
tervals, and the Cavalry upon the wings.
Numerous works were ercaed about Jaffa, to
render it a place of arms; and Captain,
was employed. in ereeting regular Bastions about
El Arish.

"'Veor
;•Pc
NAVAL;ry NEWS.
cz,\..y.•

Nou ill; impesiunt pelagic sfrvumgue Irides:ow,
Sed miLi zonte datum.

From the LONDON GAZETTE, Feb. 7.

Admiralty-Office, Feb. 7, 1801.

Extrafl of a Letter from the Earl of St. Vincent,
K. R. Admiral of the White, &c. to Evan Ne..
. •

pear, Esq. dated in Torbay, the vi inst.

I inclose, for their Lordships' information, a
Letter which I have received from Captain Lu.
kin, of His Majesty's Ship Thames, informing
me of the Capture of L'Aurore French National
Corvette, of Sixteen Guns) charged with Dis-
patches from the Mauritius, and a Letter from
Captain Halliday, of the Doris, giving an ac-
count of the Capture of the Brig La Favorite.
Thamet at Sea, Jan. 19, 18ot.
MY LORD,

I have the honour to acquaint your Lordship,
that on the 18th instant His Majesty's Ship
I command captured the French National Ship
Corvette L'Aurore, of Sixteen Guns, commanded
by antics Girault, Lieutenant de Vaisseau : She
was from the Mauritius, having on board the
Aid de Camp to the Governor of that place,
charged with Dispatches to the French Govern-
ment.

have the Honour to be, &c. &c. &c.
W. LUKIN.
Admiral the Earl of St. Vincent, K. $.

fie.&c.Vc.

Doth, lan. 23, 1801.

MY LORD,
Since the evening of the loth, when I had the
honour of communicating to your Lordship the
fortunate Capture we had made of the French
Ship Le Huron, I have been cruizing agreeably
to my orders, and have this morning captured
the French Brig La Favorite, from L'Orient,
hound to Bourdeaux, laden with Staves, Copper,
and Hides►

I have the Honour to be, &c. &c. &c.
JOHN HALLIDAY.
Tbe Earl of St.Pintent, K. B.

&cw &c. &c.
Admiralo.osce, Feb. 7, ISO!.

Cop of a Letter from the Earl of St► Vincent, K. B.
Admiral of the White, &c. to. Evan Nepean,
dated forheiy, the 3d instant.

SIR)
herewith transmit. a Letter from Captain
Kings of His Majesty's Ship Sirius, giving'an
account of the Capture of -the Charlotta Spanish
;deter of 'Maryle:.
I am, ttCb
Si". VINCENT,
Cape Bath:, jetn. 280801.
4Y LORD,
I beg leave to inform your Lord,shipy His Ma:
aesty's Ship Sirius, under my command, in com-
pany with His Majesty's Ship Amethyst; cap. •
tared the Spattisirl.,etter of Marque Charlotta,
from Ferrol bound to Curacao, out of Fmoi•only
sixteen hours, Cape ,Belem bearing S. by W. six
or seven leagues.

I gym, &c.
RICHARD KING.
Bad of Si. Pilstent, K. B.
&c.E.fe,
Admiralty-o;re, Feb. 7, atn.
,Copy of a Letter from Vire-Admiral Lord Thigh
' Seymour, Commander itt Chief of His Majesty's
Ships and Vessels at lamaica, to 41.,ass bcast,
Ell. dated the 210 Dec. 1800.
SIR, _ -

I beg you will lay before the Lords Commis_
boners of the. Admiralty the inclosed Copy of a
Letter which I yesterday received from Captain
Halkctt, (Allis Majesty's Ship Apollo.
I am, Sir, &c. &c.
, . 11. SEYMOUR.
. •
. His Majesty's Ship Apollo,
MY LOAD), DOember, tB6O.
•
At noon, on the loth ult. in the Gulf of Mexi.
co, in lat. a r deg. North, we gave chace to' a
Xebec to windward of us, but soon after disco.
vering a Brig . dire fly in the wind's eye, we
chaced her, and at two in the morning, got up
and took possession of the Resoltition Spanish
Sloop of War of r 8 guns, and 149 men, com-
manded by Don kranciseo Oarrichena, (formerly
the Resoltrtion Cutter in the British Navy), she
sailed from Vera Cruz three days before.
As soon as her crew were removed to this Ship,
we made all sail, and an hour after day-break got
sight again of the XebeC, and captured her at
three o'clock in the afternoon; she is from Vera
Cruz,
, and was bound to the Havannah.
The Resolution was in general tuwed.by us un-
lit the 27th ult. when her main-mast went by the
board; an attempt was made to rent her, but her
rigging and sails being perfeftly rotten and every
thing belonging .to her in such a miserable con-
slition, it was necessary to destroy her:
On'th'e 7th inst. off Porcine., in the Island of
Cuba, we recaptured the Schooner Sr., Joseph.
I am; my Lord, .&c. •
_ P. HALKETT.
Right Hole Lord Hugh Seymour,
&c. &C.

A RRIVED _.opal., icet 'data, laden
with a small quantity of iron and canvas, from
Corunna bound to the Havannah, a large Ship of
about 4.00 tons burthen, captured the 27th ult,
by the Sirius and Amethyst Frigates ; also a Danish.
Galliot in ballast, from Altona bound toCroisick,
detained by the Excellent, of 74. guns.
Sailed the Fanny hired Armed Brig, of 14.
guns, with Dispatches for the West Indies.
Arrived the Chapman Armed Ship, from Fal-
mouth ; and the Danish Ship Christianshaven,
laden with wine, from Barcelona bound to Al-
tona, detained by the Amethyst Frigate.
Arrived the Dedaigneux French litigate, of 40
guns, ,and Soo men, from Cayenne bound to
Bourdeaux, having on board a considerable quan-
tity of spices, and other valuable articles, ..cap-
tured by I'Oiseau, Amethyst, Sirius, and l' Im-
mortalite Frigates, after a running Adion of 30
minutes, previous to which tOiscau had chased
her upwards of 4o hours. L' Immortalite was af-
terwards dispatched for the Mediterranean, with
the intelligence to Admiral Lord KEITH, of a
French Squadron being at sea, consisting of Five
Sail of the Line and Two Frigates, the same
which the Concorde Frigate fell in with off Cape
Finisterre on the 26th ult.

A few days since, Le Recnin Sloop of War, cf
12 guns, commanded by Lieutenant S. Fow EL L,
struck on a sunken rock in Quiberon Bay, and
was totally lost: twenty of her Crew escaped to
the shore in the Boat, and were made prisoners
by the French ; the Commander, Officers, and
remainder of the Crcw arrived here last evening
in the Nile Cutter, commanded by Lieutenant
G. ARGLES, who picked them up. A Flag of
Truce was sent on shore for the purpose of
exchanging the twenty men made prisoners, for
twenty Frenchmen on board the Nile, but re-
fused, until the Chief Consul's orders had been
received to sanaion'the measure.

Sailed the Penguin Sloop of War, of 18 guns,
Capt. R. MANSELL, with Dispatches for the East
Indies : she is to touch 1t the Cape of Good Hope.

Sailed the Glory, of 98 guns, for Torbay ;
jurt4, pf 8o guns, to join the Chalinel Fleet ;
and Kangaroo Skin!) of War, on a Cruize.
Arrived l'Oiseau, of 36 guns, Captain H. S.
LINA E E, from Torbay.
The Channel Fleet, under the Command of
Admiral HAR v EY, are said to have arrived this

morning at Torbay.
Arrived the Swedish Ship Daphne, Captain
Bitqav, laden with salt, from Alicanr, bound to
Gottenburgh, detained by the Concorde Frigate ;
and the Swedish Ship Hu, nung;of Wolgast, c. D.
BRANDT master, from Valenci.t, laden with
brandy, bound to Altona, detained by POis,,,u
Frigate.

.77, ' - • - '
1.4
IITIIIIIIIIIIIII"MIMIMMMIM"IIIII.M.IIIMIMMIMIMIMMI
' - • u rt-',.. :like . * 1 Y'L YMOUTII, FED . :
I.
77_ t
~ 4-
#. .
A.
A RR Itr ED the Spanish Packet Cha
~ N AVAL ',i,;7•' ', NEW S.
...:.t. ......, ......,....:t., ...c :......, ft.„l ,