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LONDON', JANUARY 7, -I 8o

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NOTHING more was known at Deal last night,
when the Post came away, sespeaing the success of
'the Immortalize and Archer,, in their pursuit of the.
Enemy's Flotilla; though -no doubt can .he enter-

tanned of their having taken and destrpyed several
mort.. A Bulletin was yesterday• isstNd by Go.
vernmeni, stating that twenty of :the Eneiny's BOats
had been taken. It does dot appear,. however,
that any more than the five we mentioned yestetday
had arrived in the Downs,; The account received
yesterday at the. Admirarty from Dover. by a Mes.
;elver, probably stated the,nUmber, captured .:upon
calculation, merely, as it is nett likely that Captain
of 'the Immortalize, could transmit a Dis_
patch, as he teas aCtively 'employed in pursuit of
•
the Enemy.

Of the vessels that liatT been Sent into t!;:

Downs: two a:: Gcw.boats cf the 1.4 t carry

ing an I &pounder in the born, and a t 2:pounder
•in the stern. These Boars are very large, be.
ing six►een feet on the beam. They fired twice
at our Ships, but without any effect, while cur shot
Cut their rigging and sails to pieces: They kept

up, however, a .brisk fire of musketry upon our—
BOats, but without any effe.6.l, as not a man was
hurt. The number .of one of the Gun.boats is.
437. There were thirteen Soldiers on board of
her, and thirty dismounted Dragoons- on board a
Schuyt marked No, za. A Galliot, one of the
five, isfitted for. theAecePtion of horses. We save
no douht_tuf several 'more being sent in.

Yestdicijy the rtrinours upon thisiubjea were ex-
ceedingly various : it was confidently affirmed that
twenty.seven.had been taken, whilc.,.other accounts
carried the number -captured up to sixty. Such
exaggerated statements are to be received with cau-
tion : nothing -quite 'certain, we apprehend, can
yet be ascertained, either with respea to the num-
ber of the Enerny's Flotilla, whfch'is stated at be-
tween fifty and sixty, or the proportion of it; de-
stroyed. Of this we may he certain, that every
thing will. be done by our Officers and Men ' that
.skill and bravery can accomplish.

This little rencontre will, we have no doubt, be
attended with"the happiest efkls. While it affords
us the most. convincing proofs that the boasted.pre-
parations of the Enemy are unequal to a combat even
with the smallest portion of our Naval Force, it must
impress them with the most melancholy apprehensions
of what must he their fate, 'should they-dare
.to trust
themselves in their cock-boats even. beyond their
• '; •
itarbourVilMouilis.,--iThat any thing prepared in-any
of the P:Srts of the,Cl.-Inel can stand an -attack- from
.us, it is tidiculOns edluppose ; all, their lioves,"there.
f
fore, of success in their enterprize, if they still'enier-
lain any, must be in skulking over to out Coast:-.
unperceived by our Cruizers, a thing which kis' im-
possible.they should be able to dO.in any considerable
numbers. Had we at the present moment a 'Ailgorbui-.
Administration,we have no doubt that"..weshOuldSoon
chew, the French Army what Invasion is upon their ,
own shores. A well Alarmed and vigorously
cured Enterprizev, might, at such 4 time_as this; lay •
the. question of the Invasion of Great Britain asleep
for ever.

LAST night we received a set of llioniteiiis 'to' the
Zph ult. and at the same time. Letters and
.Papers
from Rotterdam of ,the 3d inst. reached Town.
They furnish us with little that is new relating to-
- the grand subjea. of the Invasion. The preparations
are talked of in the same strain, .but no im-
mediate movement seems to be intended. As
we have already,. upon more than one ;occasion,
remarked, the weather since the late 'storms has
been remarkably favourable for the Enterprize; 'if
• the Chief Cons.ul really means to attempt ir, or if he
were fully prepared for it. That he views different.
ly from 'what he did, the difficulties and risques of his
•Enterprize, no doubt can beentertained ; but that
he should Abe induced by a consideration of these
~wholly to abandon it, it would be rash and im.
.prudent to conclude. . That he. may , relax in
his preparations, merely for.. the ptirpose of re:
newing them at a. time when he thipks we may
be more off Our. gUard than now, we can readily
plan at preSent?-
imagine,And thatgro uth;t'tnotaysube
Lolliies;,
fioms 'his 'not
isehiezrin'gis thk7ne' most fiv'cilu'rable season fOr putting forth
his Flotillapvbickthe• winter can be reasonably ex-
petted to present. A Gentleman who left Holland so
.
, late as Tuesday last,states that considerable relaxation
was manifest in that quarter,and the general belief was,
that'the design for the Invasion of this Country was,
for, the present at least, given up. •The TroopS were
,
even in motion:for 'the interior again". The Dutch
thtre can be no reason to believe ever to have been

hearty in the scheme of invading this Country,
.=which. they consider as the effea of
frantic folly;
~I.fia Were die" Dutch i roops even driven on board
..,
by the point of French bayonets, it is the general
belief in Holland that their co.operation would not
much aid the Frenth—were they
,ev.en lande'd in
England, it is supposed they would lay down their
...•
arms.

We must not, however, relinquish our measures
of defence upon any information, however respeCta.
bly it may come to us, nor ought we to presume is
•^l.„,
calculate upon. what Ally be the intentions of the
, .
Cis tit Cc:IISUL while"'-he keef)s, his Arniy upon
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the opposite
.Coast. the . information 'that Go.
vernment. receives be worth any thing, Ministers;
about a fortnight ago, expected that the attempt
would certainly be made immediately. We think.it
less. likely ndw than it waa then. It is certain, as we
stated same days ago, that 80. NAPAITE was still at
Paris on the loth, nor was there then any idea of
his speedily quitting it. Of one thing he must
,601.: be convinced, that it .is not by his Flo.
ti;la of Gun. Boats that he .canf hope to make an
impression upon this Country. l-iewiß see, from

tlie =en; instance, thg.a few of our Cruizers woutti

be sufficient to 'destroy his whole Armament. A
conviction of this fad may no doubt go a great way
in opening his eyes to the 'absurdity and immense
-risque of his long projeeted enterprize.
The Aloniteurs appear to have been rendered studi.
-vas!), batten, as they do-not contairsa single article
worthy the slightest notice, unless- vve.-may except
a Miserable fabrication,- stating that .the Crew of
the Shannon lately wrecked on the Coast of:France,
felt them6elves peculiarly happy, in escaping from
the British Service, and filling into the hands of
Frenchmen ! The capture too cf -this Vessel, Which.
it is well known was destrOyed :Ate; she w
fortunately wrecked, is triumphantly boaSted ugly
thelVon;tear. Such an official Paper is worthy of
the Government by which it is supported.
The DOtch:Papers are somewhat more ,communi.
cative, A letter from Bhlssels asserts in positive
terms,: that the rsth of the present month is the
day fixed for the departure of the FIRST CONStIL
froM Paris on his tour to the. Coast.

Accounts from Piewna of the Bth ult. state, that
notwithstanding the Court of Munich had formally
disavciwed the affair of Oberhausen, there still re-
mained a variety of differences of more importance
to arrange; between Auitria and Bavaria, which,
however, it was thought would be amicably settled.

- A Dublin Mail of the 3d, arrived this mornins..
• • ,Mr. WicKHANt,-See'retary for Ireland„ has been
obliged to retire from public business on account of

'...Y.es.terday morning at half past eight o'clock,
-HisiMA.4ts-ry:left'Buckilagliain‘flouse for Windsor.
On- his way
,Fits MAjgsTir
.stoppeitat;KAv,ct and
viciited the new palace, . • , ~F, 4,
:-.,;:i+ER MAJESTY and fR INC ESSES f0110vV4,4 about
The DUKES YoRKI_StAM,Pfcg44I
Lady NE.,414, ►.3.44 several others' visited
4-ietc,MAjr.
Tile DUKE Of CAMBRIDGE and PRINCESS
.E L I A it re:, ULM Ch better.
Yesterday di one CLINE, the. At
Mimenger was seni of to His MA) EsTy acWind.
sor with the account of the capture of the dun.
Boats Off Boulogne.... ,
Yesterday. being. the-day of. the Epiphany, the
LORD CHAMBERLAIN, according 10 annual Custom,
presented td the Right Reverend the Bishop of
ti';tioori,. as Dean f His -Majesty'ssClial)el
the usual offerings of frankincense, kc.
- Lady CATHGART leaves London for Ireland in a
few days,.th accompany her Noble I.Ord.
-Earl CHESTERFIELD is very darigeroUsly.irl of a
fever, at his seat in Dernyshire.-
The Hon. ARTHUR 13A G E SOO of .Lord I.Tx,‘
BRIDGE, and His Majesty's Ambassador 40. the
Court of Vienna, was sworn on, Wednesday a,St.:`
James's, a Member of the Privy Council.- •
• 'The Neutral Vessel which brought the Dut.cA and. •
French Papers received laScnight, came into the
'River, so that the Regulation respeaingNeutrals
being confined to Yarmouth .Roads. or di% Dovv_rts,
is virtually abandoned. Thotigh the Frost had nut:
set in very severely to Holland in the beginning of
the week, there can be no doubt.of its having done
so by this time, as it has froze very hard for seve...
ral days.

Philadelphia Papers to the 26th of November are
received. [hey contain an official document, which
plainly evinces, that howev'r certain the transfer of
Louisiana, by the French Government to the Linked
States may he, the Spaniards are by no rn,ans satis-
fied with the measure, and the Americans are making
,• such preparations-toOake possession of the Country,,!a
~ if thgy c:pe.i.cted-soine-degree of resistance on the part
-.1-Spain. It-is evieetit the First Consul had two
objects. in view inflie sale of I.;,uisiana. The first
wa., to get the money which woad be paid Tot.
' . the purchase ;__and tbe:secslnd,- to ptevt:ntas;cbrrif:'
ing into the •p-osstession ot Great B.i-iV
,st,l4 -%, ~...,
Ttvo persons of someresp:24:tability aye been pr.;
prehended, charged with ha v i ag r 6 bbed ,qatTits4;l-titi
of :.New Jersey. The rmtrittatinial vtfeaty-bet-Ween
t
JettoNtr, BOTLiPAR'rt and the 'beautiful and rich
MIS; PATTESOri of Baltimore, has been .fin,dhr
brOken of,-and the Lady's parents have thought it
advisable to send her to lier,friends in Virgini.i.
A letter from Constantinople, of the 9th Novena.;
ber, states that Mr. Dit ummortn, our
,Ambassa-
dor a the Ottoman -Porte, . has been recalled on r;C.
" Count of his perilous state of health, and is succeed-
ed by.Mr.STRATroN, formerlY Secretary to the.F,,,l-
-bass-Y,,under the title of Minister Plenipotentiary.
,
.., Yesterday morning, a der hment of 450 of 1
..Queen's Volunteers tree: in Hyde Park, where il
Went through a variety of mant;c:it:res, *in skipYli
ing and bush.fiting, under the command of Li,
-tenant-Colonel Roamsoiv. At twelve o'clock t L
marched off the ground to Gro;venor,place, a
were dismissed opposite Lord HOBART'S hou.
The report that .HER MAJESTY interßiCtl to vi
the Corps, as the ROYAL FAMILY went to Win
HER. MAJESTY and t
mill (ittl.' leave Buckingham-House y
spt
eoßrrdi,
aN;w.eiursnsstsi
sul
.ICfw;7(euilve o'clock.

Yesterday the Ist Surrey Regiment of Voluntel
Infantry, commanded by Lieut.-Colonel Gi
staLL, paraded at Montpelier Gardens, in7comi,le
marching order, every marl- with eighn rou"
of ball.cartridge, two flints, knapsack, "haversac,
canteen, and military greatcoat. They march
on their route to Kingston ; but having advanc'
six miles, received connter-orders to• returi., ..i
hold themselves in readiness to march at a morueo'
warning.

A serious dissAtisfaaion is said to prevail in •t
mindi of the Members of the Rifle Company of 0,
of the Regiments of Loyal London Volunteers,
consequence of their having' been ordered to' pr
form the duties" of Light Infantry, which they col
ceive incompatible with their engagements as Rifl
men. The request made by that Company to nett
the matter to the decision of Lord HAR4INGTOr'I
is stated to have been relihed by the Colonel at'
Committee of the Regiment.

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