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London, England, 1804-09-04 00:00:00

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ilOitTSMOUtti, SE FT. 3.—Arrived the Majestic
Armed Defence Ship, from the Dawns ; Plato Sloop
' of War, and the Lio* Cutter, from a Cruize.

YARMOUTH, Sr PT. 3. Arrived the Tribune
Armed Ship, and sailed the same day, with the
Champion Cutter ; arrived also the Earl St. Pin-
cent Cutter, Penelope Frigate, and Censor Gun brig.
Sailed the Star, MARYSON, for Liverpool ;
Lotto, for Scotland ; and Inger Helena,
THottsoll, for Soen.

SHEERNEsc, SEPT. x.--Came down the River to
the Norc, the Cleopatra Frigate, of 3z guns, Capt.
LAWRIR,
7 Sailed the Borer Gun-hrig. The Duke of Kent
hired Armed Ship has the Signal flying for Convoy
to Tonningen..
Arrived the Clyde, Lucifer 11,mb, and London
hired Armed Ship.
Came down the River the Deptford Tender,
with impressed men and volunteers for the Fleet.
Ships at this Port—Zealand, Princess of Orange, Magna-
!lime, Cleopatra, Ceres, Clyde, Rartler, Inspeaor; Lucifer
Bomb; Dulcet of Kent, and London hired Armed Ships.

DEAL, • 3.—Arrived the Coriatrice Brig
With Convoy from Plymouth ; Sulphur, Discovery,
and Volcano Bombs, came back agaio'from the Gulls,
and remain; and Diadem Armed Defence Ship
hart Shields.

Sailed the Utile Sloop, and Discovery Bomb, for
Dungeness.
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The Cockettrite has made the Signal of Convoy
to the Westward.
In the Downs—Monarch,lTtrecht, Inflexible, Castor, P re-
vt!yante, Speedy, Scourge; Heron, Sulphur, Volcano, Cocka-
trice, Armed Defence Ships and Transports as before, and
Supply Navy Transport.

:the Fancy, Capt. BARRY. from Madeira, is ar.
rived at Cork. She sailed from thence on the 31st
of July, and brings an account, that on the morning
of the 36th of July, four large ships, apparently
Frigates, appeaied off that Island under American
Colours. On their first appearance they stood to
the Southward, after Wards they stood for the land,
and then stood away to the South-East. On the
following morning nothing could be seen of them.
,Various reports ate in circulation respefting the ap.
Mpearance of the above ships and it was thought at
Madeira, that they were a. French Squadron...—
The Beaulieu Frigate, with the Fleet hound to
tht West Indies, artived on the 12th of July, and
sailed on the 34.11), in company with the Bacchante
Sloop. •
The Diana Frigate, and Lark Sloop, with the
Fleet from Cork, bound to the West•lndies, arrived
on the 20th of July, and sailed on the 24th ; and on
ihe 2Jd, the Culloden Man of War, Sir EDWARD
PELLEW, arrived there with the following out.
watd.bound East Indiamen—Lard Hawke:bury,
Duke of Montrose, Worcester, Baring, "lirly Castle,
United Kingdom, Monarch, Sovereign, and the Alex-
ander, and two vessels bound to the South Seas, and
tailed on the 27th.
The Prevsyante Frigate, from the Mediterranean,
is arrived in the Downs with a Fleet, which are put
under quarantine ; in consequence of which we
have been unable to gain any intelligence from
them.

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WS have been favoured wit. h the following Particulars re-
th
speding the Capture of the Venus Freoth Privateer, by
e Union East Indianian.
" On the 22d of August, at day light, the Union
being 8-head of the Sir William Fulton./ and Eliza
Pints, in lat. 48. 20 N. observed a strange sail with
English Colours : she immediately fired several
Apt to. bring, her to ; about seven, the Privateer
having received several shot, hauled down the Effig
lish union, and•hoisted the French Flag. The Union
immediately bore down. upon her with a continued •
fire, and coming alongside, poured in a broadside.
,The adion continued very warm for twenty minutes,
4}' which time, the Eliza /Inn and Sir /Pillion:lW.
leaf, were coming close under the Union's stern,
The Frenchman now hauled down his Colours, but
liceas doubted whether this was not only an orti-
, to induce the Union to come close enough to
be hoardd, as he was seen making preparations
to that effed. To prevent the effusion of blood,
the Captain of the tbriops would not fire another
broadside at that moment, but sent an Officer, with
4to boat
7", On board the Privateer, and prepared
The °P;." them show they m;,ke any resistance.
wer irnmed,„,,,i the Pri-
vat v took possession of
eie:er, and she proved to be La VIM", of Nal".
en "4)4 from Sr. Andrew's, pierced for 16 guns,
hlit having onl-
Y four mounted on deck, two being
!mind in the hold. She had 72 men on board. 'The
Privateer had one man killed and five wounded ;
the Union three seamen wounded.
" flue crew of the Privateer were immediately ,
divided, and put in equal proportions on board the
three ships, two
men and a 11.,,y being
only left on
board the Privateer. An Officer of the Union, who
Ltd been a Lieutenant of the Navy, was put in
eummand of the P'emdr, and she kept company till
the night of the 2gth of Augast,
when she parted
.eumpany to the Westward of Scilly ; she is conse-
quently daily expeCted to arrive.
" The crew of the Union behaved in the most
giallant manner, and the other ships only wanted
Ille opportunity of signalizing themselves in the
same way."

The Thamrs, outward-hound, sailed from St.
Helena the 4th Of July, in company with His Ma.
I.:sty'3 Ships illbion and Sceptre.
The zd of June, the Ceylon spoke the Marquis of
1.)), Lord Nelson, and Maryuis of Wellesley, out-
ward.hound, all well ; they had been separated from
the 21 rn n.“toic .4 in the late gale oft the Cape.
Admiral LINOI3, with the Marengo, Malang'',
rti Belle Pfiules arrived ut the isle of France about

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the rnithile or April. The rejtiy for
sea the Bth of May (the thy the Ship, A.
loinette, sai!ed front thence, which ship arrived at
St. (ielenif the 26th June), but the Frigates were
not-so.

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The Baring,Capt.MEADOWS ; United Kingaom,
PETTY ; Worcester, NV otn); Lord Hatukesbniy,
TIMER! LL ; Airly Castle, MACKINTOSH ; Duke of
Montrose, PATERSON ; Monarch. HAW ES ; Alexan-
der, ?FRANKLIN; Sovert;gn, MoNroil—the three
last extra ships—out ward-bound, arrived at Madeira
the 23d of July, under Convoy ,of His Majesty's
Ship Culloden, and were expected to sail from thence
the 27th of that month.
Letters have been received from Captains CAMP-
BELL and DALRYMPLE, of the extra ships Experi.
ment and Tottenham, dated off Madeira, the 12(11
and 23111 July, which ships were proceeding on their
voyages, outward-bound.
The Princess Elizabeth Packet, arrived from the
Leeward Islands, to windward of Barbadoes fell in
with an Enemy's Privateer, a Schooner, which
stood very boldly for the Packet, but on Captain
KIDD altering his course and steering direelly fur
her, she bore away, crowding all sail, to the N. W.
The Princess Elizabeth chased her several hours,
keeping her to leeward. The Elizabeth arrived at
Barbadoes the 27th June; on the 29(11 sailed for
Dominica ;' 3oth saw a large Man of War to lee-
ward, between the above Island and Martinique ;
the morning of the 31st anchored at Dominica ; Ott
the 3,1 July joined His Majesty's Ship Emerald, and
proceeded for Antigua, where they arrived on the
4th ; the Emerald went to English Harbour, having
it; a squall lost her mizen-mast and main-yard. In
St. John's Road, lay His Majesty's Ship Centaur,
re-fitting'; the Commodore was at sea in the Blen.
hcim ; 6th, the 'Hippomenes, Capt. AYSCOUCH, ar.
rived at St. John's with a prize, a Brig under Ameri.
can colours, with French property from Bordeaux
going, into Guidalf)upe ; some of the seamen of the
Brig, who had been ill-treated on the voyage, lodged
the inform ition against the cargo, &c. On the 9th
the Elizabeth sailed from Antigua, and on the morn-
ing of the loth arrived at Montserrat : was joined
ore the 11th by His Majesty's' Ship Hippomenes, and
sailed in company for Nevis : on the morning of the
12th about four o'clock p. m. landed the Mail, and
proceeded to St, Kirt's, where they anchored in the
evening. The 17th sailed for Tortola ; anchored
there the isih, On the: 19111 art; veil in Tortola
Road His Majesty's Schooner L' Eclair : • orathe zoth
left Tortola tor. England. L' Eclair, escorted die
Packer, Lar. 22. N. and parted company the z. 4.11.
Capt. Kt OD states, that in his many years know_
ledge of the \Vest-Indies, he never experienced
weatker so tempestuous as the whole of July last.—
On her t,meward_bound passage the Elizabeth
spOke with the John and Alice, under American
Colours, from Liverpool to Philadelphia, in Lat.
52.• 9. Long. 14, West the 26th spoke with His
Majesty's Ship qosario, off Cape Clear and on the
-28th with the Lap wing, off Scilly. Paisengers by
the Princess Elizabeth; Messrs. JANtgs FRAZER,
WM. SMITH, WM. LAMAND, JAMES ROnERTsON,
and Capt. DE NNEs, late cf the Duke of Kent Packet,
captured in the West 'lndies by the Sans Pared Pri-
vateer.

The Lady Aralclla, Captain PORTEUS, and tile
Windsor Castle, Capt. SUTTON, will carry out the
Mails of the sth of September ; the former for Ha.,
lifax and New York, and the latter for Parbadoei
and Jamaica ; they will sail the 9th inst.

DUNBAR, AUG. 30.—For 'some time past we
had a very considerable Herring Fishing. Abotit
the end of last week, the wind veering round to the
North, caused a great swell in our Bay, and the
fish shifted their ground; the Fishermen were of
opinion that the shoal was gene, and, in consequence
thereof, most of the Boats left us, and only a few
remained to make further trial, and they were suc-
cessful. The Boats are again returned, and last
night they caught an immense quantity, which are
now landing, and putting on board Vessels in our
Harbour, and purchased with great avidity by the
Fish-curers, from tot. to t2s. per Crane, of 650
to 706 per Crane at an average.—We have not had
such a drave since the year t 78s.

CAPT. E. H. COLUMBINII, OP HIS mAjEsry's sun.

ULYSS!S.

STR,

Trinidad,
4714,te 6, t 804.

Tut,. Merchants of Trinidad, sensibly impressed
with the alacrity, zeal, and ability which you have
uniformly displayed, on this important and arduous
station ;, grateful also for the anxious attention yow
have shewn to the Commercial Interests of the Co.
bony, request your acceptance of a Sword, value too
Guineas, which GEORGE BAILLIE, Esq. Landon,
will have the honour to present' you, as a testimony
of their esteem and gratitude. • ,
We are, Sir, your most obedient 'Sersrpnts,
M'Kenaie, Rigby, & Co. Adam Nell,'
Harrison, and Co. Clark and M'lntosh,
Eccles, and Co. - !oho Sewell,
Rivers, Campbell, and Co. A. C. Crookshank,
Neilson and Hunter, ames Harvey,
fhomas Smith, John Roissiere,
Edgar Lyon, and Co. Daniel WC; rad),
Sablick, Hebert, & Sobity, Burns, Sangster, and
Stephen Judkin, Martin,'
G. and kV. Dickson, Edward Conolly,
Win. Browne, and Co. Wye, Grantlett, & Co..

Ulyttet, Tortola, jaw 4, 1804.
GINTLEMEN,

I have received your Letter this morning, an.
nouticing your intention to present me with a Sword,
as a testimony of the satisfadion which my conduel,
during my station ar Trinidad has given you. It
is with great pleasure that r accept this flattering
mark of your esteem, which is the more acceptable,
as coming from the Members of a Colony in whose
welfare I feel so particularly interested.
• I have the Honour to be, •
GENTLEMEN,
Your most obedient Servant,
E. H. COLUMBINE.
To the Merchants of Trinidad.

The report of the French Privateer which violated
the neutrality of Austria, by capturing a British
vessel under the guns of Triest, having been libe-
rated by order of the Emperor, is unfounded : she
has been condemned. The French Commercial
Agent has, howevtr, appealed against the Decree.