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SOLtlve QUIZ AUDICAT

We have waited with some degree Of impatienCe
to see in what manner the,Opposition Papers would
announce the sailing of Admiral CORNWALLIS to
resume the command of the Channel Fleet. It can.
not be forgotten, that the moment that gallant Ad.
miral, after an unexampled Cru;ze of fourteen months
off Brest, returned to Port for a few days, the
Papers, particularly that one which takes the lead in'
every species of hostility against Administration,
immediately commenced an attack against•the Ad.
miralty, composed, as most of their attacks are,
of false assertions end malignant insinuation's. Tt
was stated, that Admiral CORNWALLIS had been
re-called„ or that he had been forced, by the con.
dua of the Admiralty, to resign his Command, in
order to make room for some other Officer more fa-
voured by the First Lord of the Admiralty. These
charges and insinuations were repeated, even after
we had contradicted them from authority, and con.
sevently when the writers of them must have
known them to be unfounded. Three (la's ago, how-
ever, the Paper to which we particularly allude,
with the mist perfea sang froid, acquainted its
Readers that " Admiral CORNWLLIS had sailed,
in the Glory, to take the command of the Channel
Fleet," without offering any apology for its igno.
ranee, without expressing any regret for the
falsehood of its assertions, without the slightest
retraaation of its calumnies. In the same spirit of
candour and truth it was asserted, that never were
such valuable Fleets, as those which lately arrived,
left so unprotected; the fan was, as we stated, di.
redly otherwise. We have been too long accus.
tooled to the most wilful perversion of faas in that

quarter, to feel much surprize upon this subject ; hut
we wonder it did not occur to the writer, that, with
regard to the East India Fleet in particular, upon
which so much sires W 44 laid, if blame coul,latt4cll
any where, it could'oot be to the present Board of
Aimiralty.

Yeqterday mnrning MAJESTY antl the PRIN.
cusses Sorni,k*iond AMELIA took an airing in
Windsor' Great Patk. Brat MnjvsTy and the
other I'ILINCL”ES visited the DUTCHES Of YoRK
ai

~'l'ti.etza Ivl,AittritS and the PRINCESiIti left
,t.his thy, on an excursion to Flitupton.
court. Every preparatiiln flab I?eett mule at the
1341.1ce far their reception.

Thursday aftern,ion His Royal Highness the DUKE
of YottK, Paid a 10 TIfFIR MAJESTI F.l at
Winds,l, and altetwatds returned in town. In the
evening she ituy At:FANIILY walked on the Terrace,
which was well attended with company.
Sir.Stntarty SMITH had yesterdly a conference
With'Lord [Vie t E.t.a and the Board of Atltnitalty,
for nearly two hours.
Sir ,VAN NEPEAN left Lmdon for Bridport nn
Timid iy, and on Thursday
.last w.ts re.eleeted a
Repreaentatiye of that Borough.

American Papers to the t6.th nit. arrived yester.
day. Ati4ice.from St. Panting°, received by this
conveyance, state, that the City of that .name,
ivhichliad for smut time been blockaded, was on the
eve of, falling into the hands of the. Brigands., The
only interesting ,atticle Which the Papers contain,
b.,14.1es the above, respeels the death of General
Histikkr.ros, who was to have succeeded the present
American, Aynbassadort at Paris. lie died on the
12th of July, at two in the afternoon, in ctinse..
quence of a wound received in a duel on the morn.,
ing of cite preceding day. His antagonist was Co.
lonel BURR, who fills the office of Vice. President
of the Urittil States. The causes which led to this
unhappy catastrophe are not stated in the American
Vewspapets ; hut they are supposed to have arisen,
out of those political animosities which have pre.
vailed in America, in a greater or less degree, since
the glori6us epoch of, the French Revolution—
Much ti,iference of sentiment obtained on the othir
aide of the Atlantic, respelling the consequences of
that event, and occasional bickeriogi took'place be.
iween the admirers of " that stupendous monument
of human wisdom," .and the Advocates of Liberty
in amore rest Tined form of Givertiment. America
had her jaeoliar as well -24-'oe 'different States of
Europe ; and 'the persona, 41‘o there professed the
printiples of that St 1, were invariably the friends
and panegyrists of France, and the foes and calum.
niator, Great' Britain. ' The occurrence's that
haye'taken jilace in the progress of the Freiteh Re.
irolutiOn, have rapidly contributed to allay and, ini.
tigaie the violence of thefewer'which it spread over
the grirtest part of the civil:zed world. The' Re.
volidsonar.y. disease, alth ugh not quite subdued,
rliiipPearitiii fast. The real friends to Arne.
rica are, the :most zeal.us 'promoteri. of British
cOnneetioti, rind it afrOrds us satisfadion. to declare,
that their number is rapidly increasing. The French
Faaion, however, ' still • strugglesjor Fredinni.
Rance and it was moo' ptolubly some exertion for
tit,

that putp'bse which produced this fatal event. The,
elnduet of Mr. LIVINGSTON, at Paris, was al*Ost:
unive.rsilly.disapproved-,.in America, arid the. Nib...
lic 'voice.. had alrearlyidesignmed Mr.
TOY, as his successpr. Phis choice was not. sup.
posed to be much approved brthe opposite party,'
among whom we believe Mr. Buait was one of the
most zealous. Whatever he the circumstances.
which gave rise to the duel, its consequences seem
/to have produced 'a sensation in America almost as
great as that which was created by the death of
General WASHINGTON.

The Co►nmot Council of the City of New York,
the 'Merchants and Citizens, the Gentlemen of the
Bar, the Students of the College, the Members of
the different S ,cieties, and the Military Bodies,
all concur in expressing the most poignant regret
for the death of " char great and good man," which
they '' deplore as a.grear public calamity." The
brder of his funer►l procession, which took place
on the 14,th of July, comprehended every person
that was respectitole in New York. He died in the
48th year of his age, and no person, not even the
great founder of American independence, appeals
to have been more sincerely lamented. . .

Considerable alarm was excited, the beginning of
July, in New York, by the report that the yel.
tow fever had broken out at Long Island, opposite
that town, The infedion was said to have been
brought- from St. Domingo, but it has been since
contradicted by the Mayor, on the authority of the
Commissioners of Health, who certify it to have
been only a fever of the common inflammatory kind.
It appears, by a letter from New Orleans, of the
date of June 4, that Spin still hankers alter Lou.
isiana. Mobile is claimed by the United States as
part of the cession of that province from Fiance,
but the Spanish Governor of the Floridas has 'ob.
jeeled to it, and continues to exad the customary
duties. Congress has passed an Ad for the regula.
lion of that part of the province ; against which the
Spanish Governor has remonstrated, and he has
threatened " to resist, with force of arms, every
violation of the Treaty, and to repel unjust en-
croachment." No serious consequences can he
apprehended from ir, but it serves to show the
sense which the Court of Madrid must entertain
of the barefaced imposition that was pradised up.
on it in the progless of that most extraordinary
transfer.

The Boston and Cambrian Frigates were still
cruizing off the Harbour of New. York.

• The Duke of R}CHMOND arrived at Canterbury
nn Tuesday last, and on the following day review.
ed his Regiment, the Royal
.Horse Guards (Blues),
of which His Grace is Colonel, and expressed him.
self much pleased with their appearance. After
the Review the Officers gave His Grace,a dinner, at
their mess.house, in their usual elegant style of
hospitality.
Thursday morning His Grace proceeded to %dim
Downs, in emnpany with General Sir DAv• I I) DUN.
DAS, K. B. to an Inspection, which had been ordered
previous to his ark ival, of the Line of Infantry en.
camped there, together with the whole of the Park of,
Artillery, and the Nottingham Regiment of Militia
which were ordered front the Barracks at Canterbury.
'rile Line was formed by nine o'clock, and made a
very fine and brilliant appearance, and went. through
its m:wetnents much to the batisfanion of the Gene.
tal.--Besides his Grace and Sir DAVID, there were
present Lieutenint.General F. DUNDA,i,, Major.
Generals STAV EL EY and WYNYARD wills their
rt:spettive &airs, and a great portion cf the WI.
tary Officers of the Garrison, &c.

At two o'clock yesterday afternoon the City nt
Westminster Loyal Vulunteersassembled in their
ground, and marched from thence to flockden
hill, in 1-h tie Park, for the purpose of a G..nerJl
spedi„,„ The inspeetion Was very minute, and their
antis and accourrenvnts were declared to be in excel.
lent order, both by Lieut—Col. J ENK tiso N, insped.
ing Officer of the D;stritt, and Major-General the
Earl of BAN URY, who was :tlo present. The Corps
liHrched.p.ist the General in ordinary and quick time,
in the perfamance of Mlle() the Light Company were
remarked to be particularly corm% The whole
Corps then went through all the most usual uninimu.
v res of a sham battle. They commenced the at tack in
4 position near Kensington Garden Gate, and ad.
vanced to the Serpentine, wheeled to tie left, and
fired towards the magazine, from whence they were
supposed to he driven back.. They then retreated
to the posistion which they at first occupied, when
Lieut.-Colonel VA NsITTART receiVeti the thanks of
the General, which he was requested to ColllllltilliedtC
to the Corps,

The Loyal North Britons are to be inspeeted by
win. General PHI rrS, who commands the Brigade
trt which they are at tachedon Wednesday next. They
arc to assemble in Gray's Inn Gardens at half past
three, P. M. and limn thence to proceed to Harley
Fields,near Portland Place, white the InspedingGe.
neral is to meet them. This Corps, though equal in
point of discipline with any other iu the Metropolis,
has hitherto been rather deficient in point of regu.
hr attendance at their stated weekly drills. in.
deed, the great distance by which, in general, the
Members of this Association are removed from each
other, affords many of them a kind of reasonable
excuse for this apparent neglel of their duty. We
are certain, however, that they will be by no
means backward in the defence of their Country
in the hour of danger. They are only to meet, in
future, on the first Wednesday of every month.
The Brigade of Royal East India Volunteers,
now immediately under the command of General
GROSVENOR, has lately been Regimentally inspeCt.
ed by this gallant young Officer. His opinion of
the Brigade, as conveyed in the following General
Order, must have been highly gratifying to the
Corps :
jitt EGADE ORDEN. Augusta, 1804.
" Major-General G sosv,r.NOß is happy in having had an
opportunity of seeing individually the three Royal East India
Regiments; lie cannot but be desirous to express his satis-
ladion of the soldier-like appearance, steadiness, and corred-
ness in the movements' of these Corps. He requests the
Commanding Officers wilt communicate these, his senti-
ments, to their respedive Regiments.

" By Order of Major• General Gitoimoroit,
14 J, CUNNINGIIAMs Majcst of brigAdt."