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THURSDAY, OCTOBER IS, 1804.

Advices were received this day, stating, that
on the nth instant a Squadron of His MA.'
I !IMP'S Frigates, consisting of the h&j-Litigable,
the Medusa, the Amphion, and the fell
in with four Spanish Frigates, off St. Mary's,
from Rio de la Plata, bound for Cadiz, and
loaded with Treasure. As they resisted the orders
which our Frigates were under for detaining all
Spanish Ships of War till a satisfalory explanation
.
had been given in regard to the present Armaments
in the Ports of Spain, an Engagement took place, in
which, after a few broadsides, one of the Spa-
nish Frigates. blew up, another with a Rear. Ad.
rniral's Flag struck. Irnmidiately after, the
third also struck, and the fourth, in endeavouring
to make her escape, was overtaken by the Lively,
and, after a short attlion, struck to her. She proved
to be the Fama, of 34 guns and 300 men, had 1 2
killed and so wounded. 'She was commanded by
a Commodore.

The Lively arrived yesterday evening at Ports.

mouth.

Capt. MOOR fil of the ladefatiga4lr, was the
Commanding Officer on this occasion.
The whole of the Crew in, the Spanish Frigate
that was blown up, amounting to about 300 men,
we are sorry to say, perished.

The affairs' of Spain, with► regard to this Coup.
try, must now take a decided turn. What the ex.
asperated Emperor may now determine on is diffi.
cult ,to say, but he has certainly experienced a
woeful disappoiotmentill; losing the Treasure which
he has so long been expecting, and after the receipt
of which he would in all, probability have plunged
the unfortunate Country into all the miseries of War.
Notice of this important event was put up at Lloyd's.

YESTERDAY afternoon we received Paris Papers
to the Sib instant, and Dutch Journals to the rsth.
The Corsican Emperor, according to some lac.
Counts, goes by the way of Luxemburgh to Bou.
logne ; but other statements announce that he will
nytt return to the Coast until after his Coronation,
the preparations fig which, it is now said, will not
be finished so early as the 9th of November. It is
also said, that the grand Imperial Parisian Puppet
Sl,cw is lik,Ay to be deprived of one of its principal
4riars,.in consequence of the illness of the Pose,
who is said to have become suddenly indis.
pied, and to have postpoped his journey to the
French Capita 4 There 'can be no doubt that his
holiness is indisposed to go, but if his illness he
only a' pretence, it can as little be doubted that
tIONAPARTE will find the means of compelling him
to make a tour to Pat is. If the Pops is really ill,
we should not be surpriied if the Corsican were to
send his Pkytician to Rome ; and then appoint ano.
tier to fill the vacant Chair of St. Peter, and per
form at Paris in the PantoNime of Ole:Cormaion.,
M. D'Ou nR t t., the Russian CiAgi di Afaires,
has at length, it is stated, quitted the Tcrritorils
of France, after several conferences with TALLEY-
tf AND. That the result of these conferences was.
not so pleasing as some of the Paris Papers venture
to assert, is evident from the departure of the Rus.
sign Minister, nor does it appear that his stay at
Mentz was caused by any other circumstance than
the capricious suspicion of the Corsican, who would
not suffer him to depart until intelligence had been
received of the French Ll,7ation having quitted
gussia. The latter event has now taken place.
Letters' front St. Petershurgh give an account of
i great Vittory obtained by the ttussians over the
rersians.

The KrNo of S%VI prtN was, it is saiti, to con-
tinue at Sitaistuid until the arrival of a Courier from

}t LI Sh ia•

An Eleaoral Association is talked of, for the pin.
pose of preserving the Gettrmnic Constitution; but
bow it is to be preserved, by a few weak States;
(rum tbe fangs of the Corsican Tyrant, we arc not
tit wed,

be 126 v AL FAMILY, as we stated some time
ago, are no lnne;er to bleep at Buckingham House,
but ate to resiot alternately at Kew and Windsor
chiefly at the former place, which has
ern repred with great elegance in the Gothic
style 1.4 their reccpti,,n, in order that HIS M. 1..
t, Tv may more conveniently attend to public bu.
constqueltie of the Itoyal intention to
teNitie in Windsor Castle, many removals, have been
necessary ; but those liervins who have been de.
raved co their apartments in that place, and to
whom On,se apartments were convenient, are to be
ded with others at Hampton Court, or else.
where,

NAVAL NEWS.

DEAL. OCT. 17.—.-Arrived the Leda, 'lecher,
Miax, Mariger, huger, Peleer, Blazer, and Jackal!,
blown off their statium by the tarorg westerly
winds. Put back the Camel Store.bhip, aid re.

mains.

Arrived the P rcleßresr, Cap, EVER IT, of N../.
York, from Virginia, bound to London, and rertrairu.

In the Downs—Monarch, Utrecht, Majestic, Ardent, in-
flexible, Immortalize,' Leda, Castor, Champion, Curlew,
Espiegle, Orestes, Darr, Harpy, it:rm.:ls, Lagenie, Zephyr,
Fury, Sulphur, Devastation, Lucifer, Leda, A Teller,
Manner, Pelter, Biter, Blazer, lackall, Constant, Basilisk,
Bloodhound, Starling, Conniff, Tigress, Armed Defence
Ships and Transports as before; and Camel Sture-suit'.

SHEERNESS, OCT. t6.—Arrived the let:lief:
Frigate, Capt. Rose, from the Downs ; the Raz•eN,
a fine new Brig mounting t 6 31-pounders and two
long sixes, commanded by Capt. LAYMAN. and the
Saracen, a Brig of the same de,cription, commanded
by Capt. BEAUCHAMP, both from WOOIWICh.
The Rag was this day paid six months wages,
and the Rein Deer bounty and two months advance ;
they will proceed in a few days' to sea. The Py.
lades lus been paid off; and her men turned over to
the Seoul, laid up in ordinary here.

Ships at this Port—Zealsnd, Ruby, Ethalion, Unicorn,
Thisbe, Ceres, Beaver, Autumn, Gals°, Broderachap,
Scout, Rein Deer, Raven and Saracen.

PLYasov•rH, OCT. t6.—Arrived the Naiadirri.
gate, Capt. J. WALLIS, and Plow,. Sloop of War,
Capt. R. J. 1-blcocx, from a Cruize in the Chan.
Del.

Arrived the American Brig, Bare', of Salem,
Capt. KATHAVINE, from Amsterdam, bound. to
Boston, put in by contrary winds, after having been
to the Southward of Ushant.

PORTSMOUTH, OCT. r7.—Arrived the Pluto
Sloop of War from off Havre ; Steady Gun.brig,
Li•vely, and Albacore Sloops of War from the West.
ward ; also a Spanish Frigate with the English
Colours over the Spanish.

Extrad of a Letter from a Naval Officer on board the Fou.
.dioyant, Rear-Admiral Sir Tnota As GK AY
to a Naval Officer at Dundee, dated 7th September last
" I have enclosed a list * of the Enemy's Meet
in !lir Outer Road of Brest. They are extremely
formidaiole, and the finest ships I ever saw.—
They appear to me to be all ready for a start.
I went in in the Sirius Frigate, with Sir TitostAs
GRAVES, to reconnoitre, and the weather being
fine, we had .t very good view indeed. We stood
in so close, that we had the nleaSure of being sa.
luted from both sides of the entrance with shot
and shells, two of the latter nearly fell on board of
the Ftigme. A few days ago, four French soldiers
came °Win a boat ; they belonged' to the.4.th
g:de of Marine Artillery. One is a very Intel.
ligent man indeed, and has been one of the Noblesse.
He would not serve any longer under the tyranny
of Bo NAPAXTE, 'who setmt to be deserted evert by the
Army. The French soldiers have only 3tl. per
dium, and a coarse suit of blue cloth once in three
years. Bread and wine ate very dear in France."
• PLOTTE DL BRE3T.
Cunts Guns.
•
Le Vengeur . tio Le Cossart . 74
I.c Repohlicain Ixo I.r W..tigui 74
I.'l ble Ito Le Brave . 74
Le Veteran - 8o l.e liatave . 74
Le Jean Kart . So I.'Eole . . 74
Le Cooquerant So L'Aquilcn - 74
Le Foudroyant S, I,e Diomede - - 74
L'lmpetueux - So Le PatriotC - 74
L. A niance So La Valereuse
L'Ulisse - - 74 1.; - - 40
I.e Jupiter - 74 La Co,ll,:tte - - qv
lex.ffitire - 74 La Volootaire - 40
Le Tuurville - 74 1-4 /'clinic 40

Convoys will sail from Leith Roads, • for the
Baltic and Tonningen, on the zsth inst. '
Capt. Cot, LIEN. it appointed t►► the comma! d of
the kondir, of go gursq, at Halifax, bearing the
Flag of Sir A. MITCH LILL.
The young Gentleman who shot himself on
Friday last, near' the Jew's "tally was •Lieute-
nant JOHN LACKEY of the Royal Navy. He
was introduced into the Navy by Sir THOMAS
B. THOMPSON, and was serving under the corn.
mand of that • brlive Officer when his kg was
shot off. He was A id.de.Camp to Sir THO MAs on
board the L.ander in the ever memorable battle of
the N►le, and in the subsequent action between the
Leander and the . Genereux, in which engage.
ascot his gallantry was' ao conspicuous, that,
upon, the representation of his Captain, he was
promoted to the wok. of Lieutenant by Lord
Nat.sost, tender whose command be was lately serv.
ing on board the in the Mediterranean, which
desirable situation he was necessitated to relinquish on
account of extreme ill health, produced, as it is said,
by repeated wounds he had received in adion, and
which occasioned the mental derangement that led
him to destroy hituSell: He was a young Gentle.
man of extensive acquirements, and of great pro-
mise.

ItvpiA.llousr.—Yesterday a Court of Direelors
was held; when Capt. WI t. 1.1 AM STANLEY CLARKE
was sworn into the command of this Ship Wexford,
consigned to'Bombay and China.—The Court ad.
journed at six o'clock till to-morrow,
The Wexford was exttetnely leaky in her home.
ward voyage from China, indeed so much so as to
create serious alarm to the Commander. At length,
after many ineffe4tual efForts_to discover the cause,
tAlniallah Seyd, an Arab peatl.diver, a Lascar on
board, undertook to examine her .bottom, fore and
aft, while on her course, which having done, he
found a small space under her bilge, abreast the fore.
chains, where both copper and sheathing were of
for a foot and a halt The plank he de3cribed as
quite rotten, having run his knife completely into
ir. He afterwards, assisted by Raw Sour, a,,ffiber
Lascar, got a piece of deal hoard, with some !car.
nought and tarred oakum on the inner side,
which completely put Ali end to all further appie-
hensium.