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vit.t.st presided. Some spirited Resolutions analo-
gous to the present situation of the Country, and to
the nature of the Contest in which we are involved,
were proposed by the Duke of BuccLEutm and
unanimously adopted. These Resolutions will be
found in another Column of our Paper.
After they had been unanimously adopted,
,Lord
MELvtLLE addressed the Meeting in an admirable
Speech, which we regret our limits to.day will not
permit us to insert, but which we shall certainly
give to our Readers tomorrow. •
We see likewise from the Edinburgh' Papers, that'
the Edinburgh Royal Highland Volunteers have
offered to extend their services to any part of
Great, Britain, and to Ireland, in the event
of d►e Volunteer Force of Great Britain, or any
portion thereof, being deemed necessary for the de.
fence of thatdpart of the United Kingdom, in case of

Invasion.
We have peculiar satisfaction in recording these
traits of Patriotism, the spirit of which seems to
burn with a brighter lustre in the North than it
does at present in the more Southern Districts of
the Island.

In a subsequent part of our Paper will be found
a corral. Abstrad of the Bill for raising a contribu.
tion upon all descriptions of Property, or what is
more generally known byi the name of the Income
Tax Bill, as amended in the Committee. The
Schedules which describe the various specie of Pro.
perty affected by the Tax, and the new Clauses,
which are intended to obviate the necessity of dis.
closing to Commissioners the private afrairi of indi.
viduals, we have given at length.

Saturday morning Hts MAJESTY, the DUKE of
CANtatt tocE, and the PRINCESS SOPHIA, attended
by Generals GWYN and GARTH, MAjors Dssuo..
ROUGH, Lord HENLEY and Lady THYNNE, took
an airing on horseback in Windsor Great Park, and
viewed the haymakers. HER MAJESTY and`the
Princesses AUGUSTA, ELI ZAB ETH, and MARY, at..
tended by Ladies AYLESBURY, CAROLINE DAMER,
Mrs. DR AX, and Mrs. STANHOP E, took an airing
to Frogmore.

After dinner the Royal Party walked to grog_
more and drank tea, and had a select party there.
Earl and Countess Uxaatnce anti Lady HENLEY
were of the company. After tea the Royal Party
walked in the gardens. Her Majesty's .Band at.
tended, and played several Pieces of Music; it was
near ten o'clock before the Royal Party returned to
the Queen's Lodge.

Early yesterday morning two Messengers arrived
at Windsor, with Dispatches to Hts MAJESTY.

About half past so o'clock the ROYAL FAMILY
walked to St. George's Chapel, where an excellent
Sermon was preached by the Rev. Mr.CHAMPNESS,
from the second Epistle to Corinthians, ch. iv, v. 7.
On Saturday Dispatches were received from Ad-
miral CORNWALLIS, dated on Tuesday last.;
At that time nothing had been seen of the Saint
Domingo Fleet, so that we fear the report re.
ceived from Falmouth on Saturday is unfounded.
Admiral CORN wiaLis had detached the Malta,
Canopus, Sceptre, and Conqueror, all of the Line,
to the Mediterranean. Sir EDWARD PELLEW,
with the Tonant, Spartiate, and Mars, continued
cruizing off Rochfort. Admiral CORNWALLis had
with him sixteen Ships of the Line.
The Gazette of Saturday contained a Proclama.
tion, dated the 7th July, for granting the distribu-
tion of Prizes during the present hostilities. It is
similar to former Proclamations on the subjeft,
cepting that it contains a number of regulations
concerning the One Eighth part granted to the Flag
Officer or Officers, who on being appointed to a
command ars not to be entitled to a share of any
Prize taken by the Fleet or Squadron under their
command, until they arrive within the limits of the
station, and have communicated orders to the Flag
Officers previously in command. Flag Officers also
quitting a command, unless upon some urgent ser.
vice, with an intention of returning to it, are not
to be entitled to a share of any prize taken by the
vessels left behind after they have quitted the limits
of their station.

There is not an instance of a more numerous and
respettible Meeting of the Lieutenancy of the
County of Sussex, than took place on Thursday
last at Brighton. The Duke of RICHMOND, the
Lord Lieutenant, presided. The plan sent from
the War Department was generally adopted, except
that part which requires a return of dead stock in
order to its removal, and the proposal that every
25 or so men should form into companies, and
chose a leader. The latter was unanimously re.
jetted, Lord ST. ASAE'II, Lord GAGE, LOrd Stitt.
EMI), Lord ECREMONT, and other considerable
Gentlemen of the County, were named Lieutenants of
Divisions,and are to have Commissions fromtheKing.
Several arrangements were made, preparatory to the
appointment of Inspedors of Districts, Superintend.
ants of Parishes, the mode of Removal, the forming
of Corps of Guides, Pioneers, &c. General Sir
DAyia DVNDAS, Lieut.-General Sir JAMES Put..
TENEY, and Lord PE LH AM, attended.

On Thursday there was a very respeaahle and
numerous Meeting of the Lieutenancy and Magi.
stracy at the Castle of Devon, to consider of the
Defence of the Country. The Lord Lieutenant
opened the business. Proposals from Lord Ho.
UART were read, anti his Plans acceded to, with
some additions. General SitdCOlt recommended
Fortifications on the old system ; likewise intro.
duced a Letter he intended to send to the Bishop,
for the disposal of the Clergy. Lord RoLLt sub.
[flitted the propriety of addressing the Kt No on the
piesent state of the Country. lie moved a ;equi.
sition to the Sheriff' to convene the Coun:y
that purpose, which was seconded by Mr. Cog's.
voRU, and paced unanimously. The High Sheriff
expressed his approhatioa and readiness,

NAVAL.
NEWS.

From the LONDON GAZETTE, yuly 9, 1803.

Admiralty-Office, July g.

Co of a Letter from the Hon. Captain Paget, of His Majesty's
Sip the Lnomion, to Sir Evan Nepean, dated at Sin the 23tb
Jane 1803.
I have the honour to transmit a copy of my Letter to the
Hon. Admiral Cornwallis, for their Lordships' information.
I have the honour to be, &c.
CHARLES PAGET.
•
SIR, Enelymirn, at Sea, June 2s, 5803.
I have the honour to inform you, that this morning, in
lat. 47 deg. to mm. North, and long. to deg. West. the
Endymion fell in with and captured, after a chase of eight
hours La Bacchante French Corvette, of eighteen twelve-
pounuers, commpnded by Lieutenant de Vaisseau Perimel,
and having on board two hundred men. La Bacchante is a
remarkably fine Ship, of large dimensions, quite new, and
sails very fast. She was on her return to Brest, having been
sent from thence three months ago with dispatches for St.
Domingo. -The Captain persisted so long in his endeavours
to escape; that the Endymion's chase guns killed her Second
Captain and Seven Men, and wounded nine others. I am
happy to add her fire did us no harm.
I am, &c. CHARLES PAGET.
Honourable Admiral Cornwallis,
&c. &c. &c. .
'Admiralty-Office, July g, 1803.

Copy of a Letter from Captain Dixon, of Hit Alajettes Ship
,the
Apollo, to Sir Evan Nrptan, Bart. dated at Sea the 29ta of
Yune 1803.

SIR,
I request you will inform their Lordships I fell in with
and captured Le Dart, a French National Brig from Marti.
pique, with four guns and Forty.fiveMen, bound to L' Orient.
She has been employed with several others in carrying
stores to Martinique.
I am, &c. T. W. T. DIXON.

PLYMOUTH, JULY 9.--Arrived the Spanish Ship
Peggy, Co GEOT master, laden with coffee, cotton,
and skins, from New Orleans bound to Havre, de.
tained by the Sally Privateer, of this Port ; the
Spanish Brig, John and Marie, R. GEORC ET
master, from New Orleans bound to Havre, laden
with cotton and logwood, detained by the Catharine
and Mary Privateer, of London • the' French Ship
La Virginie, Capt. CUCNE AU, from St. Domingo
hound to Bourdeaux, laden with coffee, sugar, and
cotton, captured the 3d inst. in tat, 49, 58. long.
54. 32. by the Miranda Privateer, of Falmouth,
and the Minerva Cutter, Tender to His Majesty's
Ship L'hapeteax ; the Brig Plums, of and for Bre.
men, Capt. JoNAsoN, laden with sugar, coffee,
&c. from St. Thomas's, detained by the Ferret
Privateer, of this Port ; the latter has also captured
and sent in here
,the Dutch Brig lirow Henrietta,
Capt. Boss, with sugar, coffee, and cotton, from
Detnerara bound to Amsterdam.
Arrived the Ship Princes: of Wales, of London,
laden with rum and sugar, from Jamaica, captured
on the ad inst. by La Reprisal French Privateer,
and re.taken on the 6th inst. by the Lord Nelson
Privateer, of this Port, commanded by Captain
CROWTE, in company with the Trimmer Cutter,
of Portsmouth ; the Lord Nelson engaged the Prin.
test of Wales an hour, and had one of her crew
wounded.

Arrived the Catharine and Mac Privateer, of
London, commanded by Capt. GOODALL ; she un.
fortunately missed the English vessels which were
captured by the Reprisal French Privateer, and
which she went in pursuit of, after re.taking the
.Se winger, of Glasgow, as mentioned in our last.
. Sailed the Prwre of Wale:, of g 8 guns, Rear.
Admiral CALDER, to join the Channel Fleet ; the
:Chamell Sloop of War with a Convoy to the West-
ward ; and Hazard Sloop of War, on a Cruize.
Arrived the Neu Kerrison, BARBER, and Bee,
TUCKER, from Cork, with provisions; also the
Culloden, of 7+ guns, from the Channel Fleet.
Arrived the Edgar, of Leith, Capt. IsiaLts,
from Jamaica, seven weeks passage, put in to wait
convoy for London. Left loading at Jamaica, the
304 May, the Neptune, HoPplts, of this Port.
Arrived the French Schooner La Pravidence,
from Rochelle, .laden with guns and naval stores,
bound to Brest, cut out of a Harbour near the
Saintes, on the 6th inst. by the boats of the Naiad
Frigate, after being deserted by her Crew,
Arrived the Ferrel Privateer, from a Cruize.

PORTSMOUTH, JULY 10. —The Outward.bound
East India, Mediterranean, and Lisbon Ships, are
expefted to sail to-morrow, under Convoy of His
Majesty's Frigate Srahorse.
We yesterday had the unfortunate information of
His Majesty's Ship La Minerve having been lost
on the rocks near Cherbourg, but that the Crew
had been saved, but made prisoners. It is since re-
ported, that the Frenchmen gut the Frigate uff ,iga in
with little damage, and that she is now ready for
sea.
Sailed this day, the Cartel Brig, 'Providence,
NE AL, for Cherbourg, with French Prisoners.
His Majesty's Ships Magnificent, Pearl, and
Mercury, are gone out of the Harbour for Spithead.
Arrived the following Ships, detained by His
Majesty's Ship Diana: iVaser, from Baltimore to
Bremen, with tobacco; Herman and Thurnelda,
from Philadelphia to Hamburgh, with tobacco.

FALMOUTH, JULY S.—Arrived this day, the
Dutch Ship De :bilge Johanna Theodore, Capt.
HENRY DORTZEN, from Demerara fur Aulsterd4ol,
laden with cotton, sugar, and cot Tee, and the French
Brig La Courieuse, Capt. J. L. TROUQUIT, of and
for Havre, from Martinique, with coffee, sugar,
indigo, &c, both Prizes to the Cutter • Privateer
Edward and Henry, of Dover, Capt. OLDEN', which
she captured last Sunday ; and on the day following
fell in with a French Ship which she was unable t
take possession of, for want of men. This Cutter
had also taken, in company with the Nile Cutter,
a French Brig from the West Indies.

Arrived also this day, the Mira?lda Cutter, Pri.
meet*, of this port, Capt. WILLIAM SNOW, from
a Cruize, having taken on Sunday last the Ship Le
rerginie, Capt. CriciNaito, 55 days from Sr. Do.
mingo, with coffee, sugar, cotton. mahogany, &c.
bound for Bourdeaux. The Miranda had pre.
viously fell in with a large French- Ship of about
500 tons, which she engaged for three hours, and
would have carried her had not night come on.
A large Dutch Ship is taken by a Privateer, and
carried into Mounts Bay. She is expeEfed here to-
morrow.

Arrived .here this evening, the Privateer Trimmer,
of London, Capt. CLARK, to get men : the Ship
Cretcent) Capt. PERRY) 57 days from St. Kitts, to