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London, England, 1807-06-17 00:00:00

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Inly 7. Charles Thomas Skurry, late of f.lopl!s Coffee-
' licoise, Londoo, but iiow of Kensington, Alichilesex,
uuiler-
wrlteF.

Alexander assaiip of Piccadilly, NI id!ilesex, auaioneer.
iono Wilson, of 4Vrowick:c6uit, Middlesex, coal-
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Wolverhampton, S.tafflrdshire, butchcr.

I. NI; RS HIPS' D15.,01,17tD. •
413tt. 114ieteand Wm. 1-1411, of Canteihury, woolstapiers. ,
!Ponta, Geo. I.endall al.,' Charles tlesketti, of Liverpool,
ccii.ipets. • • • •
TraniAi Caley and William Haigh, jun. of Doncaster, wine-
Ineichatit. •
lohn 13etliwln and Joseph Bethwin,, of Greenwich,
' cheesemon?,e_rs7 _

iosellltinch litre and los. Baskett, of Sheffield, file-maker.
pSeph,Slocornhe and Thom:as-Fir of Bristol, hat-manu-
f.A.W4Fs. ' ' • • . .
parhara 'Dinning and Wm. Dowell Fry, of ,Wapping-wall,
surgeon and 4puthe.:ary.
Toh:i aria Erizabrth Sanson, of .Oldham, Lancaster,
ilinf:rouuders.
teph. Brice and Thus, 114,1illson, of Barnet, leather-cutters.
Diorid'and 'Miran Gwyruo; of Frith-street, Soho, tailors.
clil.ird and fi;seph .Lonsdale, of. Newton fiarns, Northum,
terk.Ul(l. lariners:
D. "OWYnlieUnirChristopher Perkins, of Swansea, tailors.

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THE SUY.

-iSOLEM QUIS lIICEAE IALSIJM AUDEA T

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'WEDNESDAY, JUNG 17, 1807.

. THE Advocates of the late Ministry are endeavour-
ing to throw the blame of the Egyptian Expedition
upon the Commanders, who are accused, in very un-
equivOetli terms,'of having a&ed either without Orders,
or in opposition to their orders: We do not pretend to
be acquainted with the instruaions under which our
Naval and Military Commanders in the Mediterra-
nean have afted, but we -cannot believe that. they
would have undertaken the Expedition against Alex-
andria without orders from home. Mi!iLiry errors
may have been committed alter the landing of our
troops in Egypt, but 'for the Expedition itself we
cannot - consider the • Commanders as responsible
without the most decisive evidence. There can
. „
be no doubt. that this subject' will undergo an ample
investigation. We had in the Mediterranean. ad
army :of above 20,000 men ;—we had an undis-
puted naval superiority ; and what •have we ac-
complished ? Turkey has been thrown into the
arms of France—our Navy has been disgraced by
the • fruitless attempt upon Constantinople—and
the glory we acquired in Egypt, both for valour
and good faith, lust by the ill-concerted attack upon
Alexandria.

ALTHOUGH the Opponents' of the present Admi-
nistration affea to treat 'the,Expedition which is
about to sail from this Country with great Contempt,
it ,appears that our. Enemies contemplate it with
very different sensations. It "is evident that very
serious apprehensions are entertained in Holland 'of
an Invasion from this Country. All the Dutch
Troops that were in Hamburgh and Hanoverhave
been Ordered back to Holland with all possible ex-
pedition. We have strong reason to believe that
the German Legion, which consists of about 17,000.
men, will sail immediately, and they will be speedily
followed by the British Troops.

As the Opposition Writers are incessantly at work
'to bring odium upon the. present Ministers, upon
the ground of imputed jobs and prOfuseness in the
expenditure of • public money, in tiro:: to provide
for their dependents, we are requested,' y a Corres-
pondent, to ask the late. Ministers the following
qoestions,: Whether the, late Postmaster-General in
Ireland received 1,6001. a-year compenaticui for
giving up the first CDmmissioncrship of/Excise, and
whether his brother was made a Commhsioner
of Revenue in consequence of the vacancy left
by 'the former ? Whether four additional Com-
missioners of Revenue, at 1,0001. a-year each,
were appointed, besides the filling up a place from
which Mr. LONGFOLD was dismissed, because Co-
lonel LONGFIELD, his father, Member for Cork,
voted-against the men-then in office ? and whether
the place in question was not given to a Gentle-
man of the Roman Catholic persuasion? Whe-.
ther the late Administration divided all the offieel of
•
•Colledors in the Country, and instead of uniting, as
before, the Customs and Excise, two Colledors were
not appointed, at high salaries and compensations ?.
Whether the late Administration increased the ,sala-
ries of two Commissioners of Customs from i 0001.
to 12001. each, and did the same by two Commis-
sioners of Excise ? Whether, in the Treasury, they
increased the salary of the Principal Secretary 5001.
a-year, and that of the Clerk of the Minutes 4001. a-
year—this being an addition tot 0001, a year, and 45001.
a-year, their former salaries ? Whether the late Ad-
ministration added 2001. a year to two Commission-
ers of Accounts ? Whether, though the Adminis-
tration antecedent to the last had ordered, from the
Auditor-General's Office, certain copies of public
accounts to
,be made out, by way of Duplicate, to
remain in the Office in London, for which trouble
payment was made to the Under Clerks, the fate
Administration did not give the Deputy Auditor Ge-
neral 10001. for this duty, which had before been. re-
fused ? Whether, though upon the old Establianent
of the Tellership in Ireland, the Teller was all Owed a
certain salary, and also a considerable sum annually
for Clerks, a small portion of which, it is said, they
received, an additional sum has not been given to,
the Teller of 5.).5p1. for more Clerks, notwithstand-
ing that the Revenues are paid into the Rank, ac-
cording to the regulation introduced

Yesterday morning His MAJESTY, Princesses At:-
GUST/kJ SOPHIA, and ikiriELlA, attended by Count
MUNSTER, Generals SPENCER and GARTH,- and
Colonel TAYLOR; the Hon;
Miss RaEttrroN, in the
Royal 'Pliton, rode in Windsor Oreat Park; and
returned at twelve o'clock.

. .
Her INIAASTY, Princesses ELIZABETH and MARY,
tonis an, airing in fler MAJESTY'S Sociable, ill'lhe
Great Park, and returned by Cranbourli, Szc: 'at oa,e
o'clock.

Apartments arp ?reparill its Kensington `Palace,
fqr the occasional "Te4p;:fiti of the Prini.ess of
WALE(4.

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A Cout.cil o. MAJEsTY'S` Ministers was held
yesterdAy, at the Secretary of State's Office for Fo-
reign Affairs, in gowning street, on the accounts
brought yesterday by the Bus= Mail.
Yesterday the Duke of Your( held a public day:
at his eptfice, in the Horse Guards, which was very
numerously attended. Among those His Royal
Highness gave audiences to were the Duke of
ATHOL, the Marquis of HUNTLEY, Lord PAGET,
and a number of distinguished. 'military charafters.
It was past seven o'clock before they had all obtained
interviews with His Royal Highness.
The Pursers' of the outward-bound East India
-Fleet are at Portsmouth, with the dispatches ; they
will sail immediately, with the two Regiments on
board, when the if arley and Royal George come
round from the Downs.
MR. BYNG.S DlNNER.—Thefriends of Mr. BvNr...;
had a Dinner on Monday, at the Mermaid, Hack-
ney, in order to celebrate his return for the County
Of Middlesex. The Chair was taken by Col. TUFF-
NELL, After. the cloth Was removed, the KING and
the rest of the Royal Family were toasted in soccession.
Mr. GIEBOtis then sung God Save the King, which wAs
accompanied by a military band, and in the chorui
of which the company joined. The Chairman then
arose t-o propose the health of Mr. BYNG, and the
Whig interest of the County of Middlesex. He
bestowed high encomiums. on the public princi-
ples and political consistency of Mr. BYNG, and
proceeded to common-place 'declamation against
the present Administration. When Mr. 1317:w,
in returning thanks to the company, followed the
same track. The Chairman then gave—'f The
Health of the Independent - Freeholders who
voted
~fOr Mr. BYNG," and • " "Mr. BYNG's Com-
mittee:men." The latter toast called up the Chair-
mar. of the Tower Hamlet Committee, whose ha-
rangue ,was not more novel =or brilliant, than the
speeches which preceded, and who finally adverted
to Sir C. BAINES, and poorly alluded to the worthy
Baronet's connection with the East London Water
Works. Other toasts of a similar kind followed,
and, the ,company separated at, an early hour.,
Mr. WILBERFORCE was proceeding to 'execute
the grateful task of making his particular aeknow,
ledgtnents to those Friends to whose aeitive and
liberal services, during the late laborious and --ex-
,pensive Contest, he is more 'peculiarly indebted ;
but such is the-immense number. of 'even:his more
zealous friend's—so difficult woufd it be for him, in
any 'adequate manner, to return,. his thanks' to all ;
and such the obvious danger of giving offence by
omitting any—not, to Mention that the. speedily all-
proaching , Meeting of ParliaMent -Imes him no
leisure for such
.an occupation—that, after much
consideration and consultation, he 'finds hiMsell re-.

luatantly compelled to abandon his design. 'He
therefore; adopt this ti-iode of making his
grateful acknowledgments to his numerous and
widely -dispersed friends, whu_he. Owls _will give
him credit for feeling a far livelier sense of their
kindness than his pen could have expressed..
CITY BustNESS—Yesterday the LORD MAYOR held
a Cotirt of Aldermen at Guildhall, which was nume-
rously attended. SAMUEL BIRCH, Esq. was swign
A idertnan of the Ward of Candlewick, in the room of
Mr. HANKEY, lately deceased.—The Court, on'exa-
Mining the returns of the Meaiv..eighers, ordered the
price of Bread to be continued as last week, viz. 1 lid.
'the Quattern Loat.—A Dividend of 21 per Cent. to
the Orphans and other Creditors of the City, doe the
sth of July next, was ordered to commence payment
the 14th of the same month.—The Co;.trts of Con-
servancy for Sorrey and Middlesex, ••evhich were to
have been held to-morrow, were put off till Tuesday
next.—The LORD MAYOR will hold a Court of Com-
mon Council to-tporrow, for the greater dispatch of
Business, and to receive ,various Reports trom the
several Committees of the Corporation.
Yesterday se'nnight, a find hOrse, belonging to
Mr. FISHER, an eminent fariner, near Cheltenham,
was struck dead by lightning, which anted with
such violence that his fore foot penetrated some
depth into the earth. •
There is too much reason to fear that the report
of the loss of the Blenheim Man of War is too true.
A letter from an Officer on board the Harrier Sloop
of War, at the Cape of Good Hope, received in
Salisbury, intimates, that both the Blenheim and Java
have perished. The following account is extracted
from this interesting letter, dated Table Bay„,
March 13: ,

" On the lst of February, off Alanritins, in long.
64. 1 i. lat. 20. 21. we experienced most dreadful
weather, which I fear has proved fatal to the Blen-
heim • and Java. Early in the morninc, of
the Ist, it came .on to blow fresh, and ° in-
creased to a hard gale. About 4 o'clock in the after-
noon we lost sight of .the Blenheim and Javq,
which were not more than a mile from us. The
night was, dreadful beyond description. It blew a
perfect hurricane, with a most tremendous sea.—
We shipped a great quantity of water.; every sea
broke direally over the vessel, and she rolled so
much, that it. was with great difficulty the people
could stand on the deck. If we attempted to spew
'an inch of sail, it was blown from the yard.
" One poor fellow was blown over in the after-
noon; we saw him at intervals a long way astern,
struggling with the waves. During the night the
ports were stove in, and washed away, and °uteat
.
quantities of water ran below. A little beforeday-
light, a sea struck her, and immediately after ano-
ther, which laid her dead in the water. • She had

broached to, and was going down a-head. She rc-
mainedYvater-logged for some minutes, and had she
been struck a third time, she must haye g<inP.
" We threw overboard four guns and some Stores,
which lightened her. During the 'time she was
water-logged: the water increased in the xvell, in the
space of three seconds, from 12 to. 32 inches., ,We
had continued bad weather afterwards, but arrived

here on the (28th of February,.and were much dii-
appointed in not finding either the 41014tiw or Java;
and as they have not since been heard of, whilst
other vessels that were in the gale have arrived,
there is now no hope of their safety.
" The .4lenliOni was in a very decayed state,
4nd much lumbered with
,slores•J the .1,4 q badly
manned, and extremely crank. ..Thee Wpre b,e,-
tween seven and eight hundred souls on board the
I)lenheim,s,s,yith many,passengez:s.. Most of the Mid-
shipmen were young men of the first families in
England, aid some very worthy fellows, who
would at' a future time have done hQuour tp theft

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NASVAL NEWS.

Fiom the LONDON GAZETTE, Yrtne 16, tgo7.

APniralty-Office, June 16, 1807.

Copy ?fa Letter from Captain Winthrop, of Xlis Ma-
jesty's. Ship Sybille, to In. Marsden. Esq. duted
at Spitheud, June 12, 007.
SIR, ,

•
Inclosed you will receive, for information
my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, a Co-
py of my Letter to Commodore Sir Samuel Hood,
K,. B: of this day's date.

I.
• I am, Sir, &c.'
ROBERT WINTHROP.
His illajestys Ship Sybille, Spithead,l
Sia, June 12, 1807.

I have the honour to inform you, that on the 3d'
of May last, in Latitude 33 Deg. .50 Min. N. and.
Longitude 20 Deg. W. after a long chace, his :Ma-
jesty's Ship Sybille. under' my conimand, ,captured.-
the French Schooner L'Oiseau, Letter of Marque,:
mounting four long six-pounders, 14 clan", from.
13ouriteauk, 'bound to
.Cayenne. • Shehadi'maA
capture, the Perseverance, •tarber Master, 4clip,
Saint Michael's, bound to London: •
I have the honour to be, fico.
(Signed) ji,. WINTHROP.
To Compv)%lore Sir S. Hoock:K. R.

I);.Y:eoura, ..Ttrats I*.--,Arrived the 4lcmere
Frigate from Portsmouth; and the Anne, Captain
SWA ZFIN, from Guernsey, with wheat.

,

PORTS24OV7I4, JUNE 16.—Arrived the Star Slop
of War, from a cruize, and the Venus, CHEFWvIAIi,
from Gottenburgb, with deals for Guernsey,

The iflem.* Frigate is appointed convoy for
Cork, -and tbelncoqstant for Guernsey.
Sailed .the Illutine Gun-brig, Capt. STEWART,
with a convoy for the Downs.
Came into the Harbokufthe Osprey Sloop of War,
Ca'pt. C;.mcn, '

Went out of Harbour the Dragon, of 74 guns,
Capt.. H. NI. SCOTT.

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PEAL, `JUNE N.-,Sailed the Venus Frigate, for
Sheerness.

,
ived.t.he.Desperate Gun-brig, from a cruize.

..Carne clown the Africaine Frigate, from Sheer.
Mess; and the Industry, KIRBY, for Quebec, from

the River, and remain in the Downs, with the
Princess of.. Orange, 4lfrecl, apd Trusty Men of
War; Fury a tad .13:vplosion Bombs ; Dispatch Sloop
of War; .Speculator Lugger; Turbulent, Indignant,
and several other Gun-brigs ; Harmony ;
_Diligence. East India Pilot Vessel ; and several op;
ward-bound Vessels, &c.

Put back the Surinam, fiv:;D:n,, for Surinam.

SHEERNESS, JUNE 1 5.--Arrived the Lynx Sloop of
War, Capt. MARSHALL, from Leith.
Jun —Went out of Harbour to the Great
Nore the Majestic, of 74 guns, Capt. FiAtvr.

The Cherub. Sloop of War is appointed
for the Trade to the Baltic. . .

Sailed the Escort Gun-brig, Lieut.•SMi2K, with
several Merchant Vessels under Convoy for, Ton-..

ninen.

CORK, JUNE 10.—The Brig LAdvely Ridsty arrived
at Cove this morning.—Sailed from Barbadoes the
18th of April last, for Tortola, under Convoy or Hit,
Majesty's Ship Velius,Capt. MATSON, with 11 Sail

of Merchantmen in company ; left Tortola on the
28th of April, with upwards of 200 Sail of Mer-
chantthen,upder Convoy of the Venus, Osprey, aqd
Abundrince Store-,ship ; parted the Fleet in a gale o
wind and thick weather the 24th of M:iy, in lat. 44.
long. 38. On the next-day saw but 4 sail of the Con.
voy With the Abundance, who remained In charge of
them ; parted from her yesterday morning. The
Captain of the AbUndance behaved with great kind-
ness he had in charge. The Vnion,
LANG,
f
N thee Marshland,. Copa4n, are in the
Vieet,- bound to this Harbour.