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London, England, 1804-01-23 00:00:00

OFFICE OF ORDNri.'NrE,

mgminster, yan. 13, 1804.
THE PRINCIPAL OFFICERS of HIS MA-
JESTY s ORDNANCE, do hereby give Notice* That
Proposals will be received at thei, Office, St. Margaret's-weer,
Westminster, on or before Thursday the 26th instant, from such
Persons as may be willing to undertake the SiiPply of ft L METS
and CAPS for the service of the difrent Corps under the direalud
of this Department.
Patterns of the Articles to oe supplied, may. ' viewed, :elan
.application to Mr. Gcast, the Ordnance Storekeeper at 'Woobwiciy,
and the .Terml and Conditions of the C'ontra,:.? In.!)• be kn:rwit at the
Secretary's Qffice in St. Matgaret's-street ajo, esaid, ary day be-
tween the hours of Ten and Four o'clock, where the Proposals ate
to be delivei-ed, 'sealed up and marked on thi outside; " roposa I s
for'ille Supply of HAluels,and.Caps ;" but no ..Proposa7 C. 1711 be
admitted after the laid 26th instant.

By Order of the Board,
R. a CREW: Secrewp.

To WINE and BRANDY MERCHANTS.

AN Oid Establishment in. the Wine Trade to be
disposed of, situated in, one of the most pleasant and
r4pcaabie Cities. at a convenient clistance_from r-oncloa,
tne rropri.;tor being about to r,..,re from business.
For Particulars apply to Messrs. Robert Freebairn and Co.
Abchurch-lane, Lombard-street. ,

GOVERN'MFNT SECT.MITy AGMNST COU.N.

TERFEITS.

None are Genuine, without having " S Aut. SOLOMON,
Liverpool," engraved.in the Stamp : and Ten Founds Re-
ward, for every Bottle sold without • a Stamp; to be paid
on eonvidion. under A 6-1 of Parliament, the 424 Geo. 111 .
Ch. 16, before any Justice of the Peace.
YOU'T'H of either Sex, WO have praaised a se.
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A Saving (If Nine Shillings in Two Guineas. --
The Cordial Balm of Gilead is sold ill Bottles, price Haif-
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saves 9s. including also the Duty ; the Stamp of which bears
the Proprietor's Name and Address, " Samuel Solomon, Li-
verpool," to imitate which is felony.
N. B. The Postage of all Letters must be paid, and a fce
enclosed for advice.

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"SOLOMON's GUIDE TO HEral't! •

Or advice to both sexes,'on female diseaser,
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recommended to young men and boys; has been the lair urof
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consequences of a secret and destruaive vice.
.To Which is
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pendix on the subjcia -of a solitary and destruttive mice; also
an Address to Parents, Gitardians, Tutors, and those who
have the care and education ,of youth. L ikewisc advice for
Bathing, explaining the mode of treatment, in the different
stages of 'the Scurvy, Leprosy, King's Evil, Gout, Rheu-
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(0- The amazing sale of this. Book is the best criterion of
its vast utility.

Otnt Port Letters received :his morning, Etrnish
us with very dit,tressi l dle tails of the damage done
by the., thezfiCul storm v,hich raged on Thutzday
night. By Flymmth Letter, we find that Ad-
miral Coit Nur Fleet was obliged to belr
up, and three of his S i, s have come into Plymouth
with consider.:Ye rest die hicct
rac i.robably in "I L;5:-y. .

WF r7C. 7.;p;i:, a Liai,7.3grsh
with Pdrii ao,l ; kralcr

to the zrth and the lattei to the rsth inst. The.
intelligence they bring respecting the preparations
of the Enemy, is much the same as that We have
received for some time past. In Holland, the Naval
Force is represented as being completely equipped,
and ready to put to sea, as soon as the First Consul
issues his orders, or the -British Commanders grant
permission. It was generally supposed in Holland,
that the First Consul would, in his late tour, have
visited the Ports of that Republic before he re-
turned to Paris ; but:he had probably some strong
prudential reasons to induce him to decline the visit.
We are not inclined to believe that the feelings of
BONAPARTE would be much hurt by the contempla-
tion of the extreme degree of wretchedness to which
he has reduced the People of that once rich and
happy Country—but he might think that the resent.
merit- of a whole Nation driven to despair, might be
roused into action, at the sight of the Author of all
their miseries.

Letters from Flushing state, thas two Battalions
of the asst Regiment had embarked on bo'ard the
Flotilla in that Port, and that they were to be fol.
lowed by the 48th. Whether this is to be con-
sidered as an actual commencement of the Embarka-
tion, a few days will decide. A great part of the
French Troops that were in Hanover, are, it is
said, actually on their march into Holland.—
In Flanders the preparations are going on• with the
same activity : the Camp at Dunkirk is to be re,
inforced by 15,000 men, and 300 bakers are em-
ployed in the neighbourhood of Brussels, in baking
biscuit for the Expedition. .
The differences between the Courts of Vienna and
Munich are again said to be settled, by a Conven.
tion between the two Powers, by which they agree
to a mutual exchange of Territory.
The accounts of a PacifiCatioli between the GRAND
SIGNIOR and the BEYl.Au,Egyit, are confirmed. A
Convention has been agreed upon, by which the
GRAND SIGNIOR will still retain the nominal
Sovereignty of that Country, while the real poWer
is to remain as it was formerly, vested in the Beys.

The accounts of a recent date which have been
received from Spain, confirm the opinion we have
uniformly expressed, that France would force that
Country into a War with Great Britain as soon as
the long accumulated treasures of America were
once secured. The designs of France were too ob-
vious to be mistaken, and the timid temporizing
policy of the British Cabinet has allowed them to be
completely successful. Orders have been issued in
Spain for the equipment of a considerable Naval
Force, and there can be very little doubt but that
it is destined to as against this Country. The
following is an Extraft of a private Letter from
Madrid, Jan. 3, rBo4.

" Von may depend upon this important fan,
that A V'Alt BETWEEN ENGLAND AND SPAIN is
NOV tNqviTABLE! Our Gbiernment atone time
entertained an. opinion, that the relations of amity
and good faith-between Great Britain and ourselves,
as established by the Treaty of Amiens, would have
been maintained. They soon, however, discovered,
that the French had gained such an ascendancy at
our Cant, as to force our Ministers, and even the
People, into a participation .of all the ptojeds of
French Ambition.

44 The PRINCE of PFAcE, who is,. I believe,
favourable to the ineertsts....of Britain, having lost
his former power oveayhe Spanish Cabinet, appears
highly indignant at the' successful intrigues of the
French Minister ; but as he cannot, or dare not,
expose himself .by any &tired attack of the new fa_
vourites, he broods over his disappointments in
sullen silence.

" The arrival of our galleons from New Spain,
with riches scarcely credible, the fruit of ten years
accumulation, was the signal for the more alive and
open preparations in our Naval Departments. The
and the Spanish Islands
completely being safely-
completely prepared, not only for defensive but for
offensive operations, Spain has now begun to equip
and arm her Ships of War, which can only be in.
tended against Great Britain.
" The British Minister, Mr. VRERE, has re-
monstrated against these hostile appearances, but
can obtain no satisfataory assurance of the intentions
of the Spanish Cabinet to maintain the very advan_
tageou%. situation in which the Btitish Government,
by erroneous, if not foolish policy, has placed Spain
since the commencement of the present War.—
The consequence is, and you may rely on the truth
of my assertion, that the Spanish Declaration of War
will in the course of a very few days make its ap.
pearance. Its delay has arisen merely from this fa},
that.the French and Spanish Governments, before this
publication'of their Sentiments, ate anxious that a
sufficient number of Spanish Men of War should be'
ready to escort and cover the French Southern Army
destined for Iceland. The present Plan for the In-
vasion of Btit..in, and which will. he carried into
effeft as soon as the Spanish Government announces
that its Naval Etripments.are cotnpieteti, is, 1 have
good authority ft assuring 'you, as foilows : Theme
are to he three C-tni'tid Arrriie, amounting, on the
first F,xpedition, to at least t70,c):..,0 men, viz.

That from Bayonne, consistirg: of '2o-,OOD French,
and lo,coo S?ainarth,. desrintl for Ireland, and to be
covered by a Spanish E let, gill aul,..,unt to 30,00
Th.:t from lldlLtn,i, tne coast from
the Tex,l to Ost:Nr.l, to be covered by a Dutch f itet,
to - - 50,003
An,l from France, including the hoe of coast
from Punkitk -to Bre,,w, and to be-covered by tlle Er,:zt
kleet, to • -

Total

I ~ U;G"O

" Tit tIlf! tv.o I:st Divisions, ci,e
for sula:l Craft are at Boulogne autt

whence the greatest embarkations are e%peaed to
take place and to sail.
•• This was the last plan agreed upon ; but you
know, as well as every other man of observation,
that BONAFARTE will alter or amend it as the im-
mediate emergency may influence him. This, at'
the same time, is reckoning that the Spanish,
Dutch, and French Fleets,
_are able to escape the
vigilance and alivity of the British Squadrons. But
be this plan as it may, the hostile determination of
Spain is beyond every possibility of a doubt."

The KING, we., are sorry to say, continues 'af_
fliEied with the rh9rhai:sfl3l(.:; the answers to the
numerous inquiries4eiterfray were, "Ms Majesty
had a good n;ght, anl4.er‘as much better."

Saturday morning the DUKES of KENT and CAM-
BRIDGE breakfasted with THEIR MAJESTIES.
PRINCESS AMELIA, attended by Lady C. \VALDE-
GRAVE, took an airing by Hampstead and Highgate.
• In the evening THEIR MAI FsTrEs had a Con-
cert and a selea Party ; among the company were
the Marchioness of SLIGO, Countess of AY LEsEUR Y,
Ladies ELY, PITT, and H. STUART ; Earls HAY.
RINCTON and UXBRIDGE; Lords ST. HELEN'S and
SUDLEY ; Generals MANNERS and SPENCER, and
Mr. A. STANHOPE.

Yesterday the ROYAL FAMILY attended divine
service in the private chapel, which was performed
by Dr."HAMILTON. _

PRINCESSES ELIZABETH and AMEL lA, attended
by Lady T. rrYNNE, took an airing by Kilburn.
Yesterday about one o'clock, Mr. ADDINGTON
had an audience of His MAJESTY.

Saturday a Cabinet Council sat for a considerable
period, at Lord HAVCKESBURY'S Office, in Down.
ing.street ; after which Mr. P4OUDNIAN, the iVis-
Senger, was sent off with Dispatches to Mr. Flt E RE,
the English Minister at Madrid. The.. Messenger
goes by' the way of Lisbon, and has taken Dispatches
to Lord R. FITZGERALD at that Court.

General Sir C. GREEN, a,(l Brigadier-General
HUGHES, arrived at Vort.rnouth on Friday night,
to take their passage to Barbadoes in the Fortunie
Frigate, Capt. VANSITTART, which will sail the
first fair wind.

General CAR-rwitiaiii-iin Friday made arrange.
ruents for the reception Of t o,coo additional troops
at Deal ; they are tb be quartered upon the house-
keepers, with their own consent, agreeable to their
respeCtive rates. The extensive Barracks at the
upper end of the town are nearly completed. Those
at Westgate, being ready, were occupied on Toes,
day evening. The batteries at the Fort, West-
brook, and Westgate, are also complete.
The 43d Regiment, on Wednesday, Thursday,
and Friday, marched through Canterbury, on their
route from Guernsey, via Dover, to Ashford Bar.
racks, where they are to take the place of a Brigade
of the Army of Reserve. .
A detachment of the 23d Light Dragoons has
replaced the Enniskillen Regiment at Nottingham.
On Friday Lord CAWDOR'S Troop of Castlemar_
tin Cavalry, and five Companies of the Pembroke-
shire Volunteers, who had been on duty for some
weeks at Bath, were released; and the. Loyal Pem-
broke Independents were ordered to be continued.
Lord ST. VINCENT'S Secretary, Mr. PACKER, is
to succeed Mr. TUCKER as a Commissioner of the
Navy Board. The latter Gentleman was to assume
his new duties at the Admiralty, as Second Secretary,
this day, as was Mr. MARSDEN, as First Secre-
tary to the Board. .
Captain FAlrsnAw, Commissioner
at Plymouth,is to be superannuated, and to be succeeded by Corn-
missicner
whose present situation is to be
filled by
The F Captain GREY.
rench General BOYER is not to be
•
permitted
to go to Paris on his parole, as was reported. The
rumour originated. in.the General's hating ,btai Ped
permission from Ministers to go to Bath for the be-
nefit of his 1,-!altli.

The Guikt of Merchants at Dublin have unani-
mously votedthe Freedom
of that Corporation to
Lord REDESDALE.

, .
It is stated, that notidilistanding
BUR vessels
T's letters, prohibiting Lord HAWKES.
coining from H6l-
land under neutral tritcrws from entering an English
port, except Yarmouth and the Downs, numbers of
ships, Dutch in reality, but carrying the Colours
of other Nations, arrive in the Thames every day
from Rotterdam, and other Dutch ports dire t, and
unlo'ad even at our Custom-house, where several of
them may at this moment be found.

On Saturday we received accounts from Malaga
up to the Both of December, at which time the fever
was entirely subdued. 'The Physicians hnd report.
ed to the Board of Health that the epidemy had en-
tirely subsided on the 16th ult. which report
was immediately sent to the Court of Madrid, from
whence orders were expected, by return of post, for
the Port of Malaga again to be opened, provided all
remained well.

A. Paper of yesterday says,
" An American Gentleman made his escape from-I
-Tolland
last Sunday night, arill.td in London on Tuesday morLing,
and immediately waited on the Minister, to whom he im-
parted the most interesting intellience. lie witnessed the
embarkation of 7.5,000 men at Flushing, and says, that an In-
vasion from that part certainly would take place the first
favourable wind."

There does not appear, however, more reason to be-
lieve :his statement, than many others that have
been made to a similar effect.

Mr. EitsKlNE's declaration respe&ing the nature
of the Volunteer service, is one of the most wr-
spicucus compositions of the kind ever submitted
to the Public. It has all the precision which law
requires, animated by the fervour of genuine. ra.
trtotistn, and embellished with the elegance of li-
teratmc.

So•mucli has been saiti by the friends of General
Fox, and the supporters of Administration, r,:.sped-
ing die important 'Ties:ion Whether the
verntuent were taken by surprize with resiTa to the
mot. einttit of the Rebels, that the subj-ct must
necessarily undergo a tu:l d:scussionin
Jo the mean while, however, as the h:mour of an
Officer who li,rs rendered great se: to court_
try, concerned, it is highly ii,dccei-it in anony-
rn;ql3 Writers to obtrude their sel;:too•9ts upon the
111 order to prtjtkige his e.:161-tcr acid
tiic aLuLci w.

I

NAVAL NEWS.

I,olfr the LONDON GAZETTE, Jan. 2r, r 304.

Adniiralty-ggce,
,'}an. 21 , t 804.
Copy of a Letter from Lieut. William Robertsotto
commanding His Majesty's Brig Speedwell, to Sir
Evan Nepean, Bart. dated of Dungeness the 16th
instant.

• SIR,
I herewith transmit, for the information of mY
Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, a copy of
my letter to Admiral Montagu, acquainting him of
the capture of Le Hazard French Privateer, by the
Brig I command.