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SATURDAY,. int FMB ER 22, 1804.

Mr. FRERE kis not yet arrived ; and we must
caution bur Readers against the v:lrious reports
which are in circulation resptaing his return, as we
cannot expect any furthCr intelligence from him or
the Court of Spain while the present strong easterly
winds cocain= to prevail.

We are sorry to be under the necessity of an.
nouncing the loss of His Majesty's Ship Blonde,
an old Frigate, that for some time past had been
stationed 'at the Needles. Being driven to sea
by the strong easterly gales, she put into Tor.
bay, where, after ctating away her masts, she
parted a►nd went on shore, not, fir from the place
where the Venerable was lost. We are happy to
state, that every man has been saved by the
exertions of the Brixham craft,the people of that
town having caused them to he dragged over
land to the place •where the Ship struck ; by. this
effort they have in some degree recovered their
charafter, which did not exhibit much humanity on
the melancholy occasion of the loss of the Venerable.
The Frigate, we understand, was of very little
use, and fit only to be broken up.

A Itamburgh .Mail arrived this morning.
The Letters ftipn Madrid brought by this con.
veyance are of the same date (the igth ult.) as those
in the French Papers, which we gave some days
since ; they reiterate the'siaternent of the departure
of Mr. Fit ERR, and add, that he had set out, in
company with Lord I 101.1. AND, for Lisbon.
The contagious distemper at Leghorn is accreas-
ing in virulence.
Their Swedish 1M jestiei reniaPed at Stralsund
on the t ith inst. at„which period there was no talk
of their ,rourning to Sto4hohn..

Lord LuAresoN Govait, our Ambassador at St.
PCtersborgh, is Stated, in Letters from thence, to
have had his audience
,of 'entry,' and also to have
had .several conferences with the Russian ,Ministry.

Yeiterdayrnorning, ab,ut nine o'clock, Hts MA.
jr.sTY left Kew for Windsor. •
Yosterti4 the' DUKES of Ktl,4l`, CnmitalDGl,
Wild Sus X, breakfasted with flak MAJ esTy 411 d
the PR,IN.C;ftSSES., .

move welock tut, mAI.Ty and the
rittr4cksbk4 left the Queen's Ft.toe, for Windsor.
YotiaitLY, t t'.v, ulciock, dot Ambas.
andur tran.ukte4.l iaHiness at Loyd linttitoWllT'S
Ctlieeltir a dot-nide:able time.

Y6terdly noon' a (abinet Council was held at
L rd fiAttit.awtY'S Office, in -11)Wning-9ircet, at
which niost,of the Ministers attended.

Sit StpwtrY SI43TH bad yttfterday a- very long
interview 'with the Board of Admiralty soon after
which Lor4,tlVls Lvt LLrr fat Town for'. Wimbledon.
Rear,Aimital I)ouoLiks has resumed the Oyer.
intendatre- of the fitting out of the several Fire.
vessels Gunboats at Woolwich, , ' •
Captain DototELLY, of the Narcissus' Frigate;
recently arrivcd from the • Mediterranean and the
,C4.niSt F.gyipt; tzinsaard business' for some time
'yesivday at LOH HARM:WHY', dfCice.
LiAt night bispatches were sencto Portsmouth,
to be forwartled
.f-rom thence by the Unicorn Frigate
to Afliniral Sir J. MICK worTH, at Jamaica, and
CommOdare Sir S. Hoop, at tiarbadoes; containing
the Order in Council lot
,laying an embargo on the
Spanish Ships in England. Similar direaiOns will
alas' be sent by the Mercury Frigate to Lord Na,..
SON, in the Milditerra,nean.. • • •
—l4lsltoyal 11;ghriess the PR Isc a of WALss is not
ifxritffeti to honour 'flrighton with his presence arty
rriwc this season. ,

r -
lts;Royal Highness the Duke of Sus X leaves
town on Monday for Windsor, on A visit to Thor
MAJRiTIRs.
Ltati Smutty tt.I.P, kaves town on 'Monday for
Vorfolk,, for the.holida?S.
Lady Rafts, it I MAN:411.48 is quite recovered from
tier hot!
Lord 'IA t, i.v tt. ,a has a giand dinner party.to.
morrow, at hi 4 teat Jr WiMbleal3ll.,
LordlVlAßlowts,y, we are happy to learn, is re-
coverin',.4ist firm 1114; accident,
Lvird.MotßA's stay in town is expeded in.he
vet*. ,short, Lordship..intendiug to pass the
Christmas Holidays with.his amiable Countess, at
the family seat in. Leicestershire,
Ve4zetttay
,rnitning the. Earl of MOIRA, Mr.
Fox,- and Mr. St-t:.it4or, had long audiences at
Carletop TTn iae ;. ;rid .dierwarqs- Ained with His.
P.oyal PRINQR of IWAtas, together
with the I)ut4 ut Ct.nar:l4CF, 14)41 H /41,,0s
C. EKSIL IN P., :It'll COlOnei Mii4/4.4,1N,1
We have grciit isfattion in stating, . that Lord
ivioi it 4, has teco.tred his rapers, the depredators
jiavitig left them with the box in a field near the
;own of Stamford, after they had despi-iiled it r.f
several valiales triAets, Cr belopfrinii dm
-antes§ a
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MADRID
lisp Chai4:dl;gairer, , left this city-.
The ultim atuiPtthich he gave in part of his
Court was not found satisfy Cory by out's. We
therefore expel} a War witkEngland. The Tolls,
which, on the first intelligence of the capture of
our Frigates oft-Cadiz, fell to 52 per cent. discount,
afterwards rose again, and were at 4.5 ; but they
have now sunk to 48. The return of General
BOURNONVII.I,E from Paris is expeCted here in a
few days.

(ANOTHER LITTER, SAM! DATE.)

The day before yesterday Lord HOLLAND, who
with his fa:nily has been on an excursion to,Valla.
dolid, returned to this City, and yesterday set out
'with the English Charge d' Afairer, Mr. FRAME,
For Lisbon.

CADIZ. Noy. 16.--Four English Ships of the
Line and two Frigates are cruising before our Bay,
the arrival of which has much alarmed us with
fears of a War, though they have not yet proceeded
to hostilities.. The English Merchant Ships here
are hastening their departure. •
Our situation, should a War break out,' will be
extremely distressing, as we have only corn suffi-
cient to last till the middle of December.
The contagious 'distemper, thank God, has en.
tirely ceased ; only about ten persons die in a day
on an average. Those who have left this city do
not, however, yet venture to return.
Dec. S.—By order of His Imperial'
Majesty, the Imperial Patent of the s tth of August,
of the present year, . relative to the assumption
of the Hereditary Imperial Dignity of Austria, will
be publicly read on the 7th inst. in the principal places
of the City and Suburbs, and on the (fay aim., (the
Bth) the long announced Festival will be celebrated.
His Imperial Majesty has ordered that on this oc.
cation free admission to the Theatre shall be granted
to every person during three successive, days. Their
Imperial 'Majesties will go in solemn Procession
from the Burg to the Metropolitan Church of St.
Stephen, where Tr Drum will be sung. The Festi.
val will in like manner be celebrated by a 7'e Drum
at Pragut, throughout Bohemia, and other parts of
the Empire.
The Festival on the Bth will be announced by
the discharge of ta.o pieces of cannon : medals will
be presented to particular persona, but none will be
thrown among the populace.
On the' 9th the Festival will be celebrated in the,
two Protestant Churches of this Capital.

Accounts have been received from Path, that it
it intended to send M. NARBONNi Ambassador to

this Court.

Within.these few days two Couriers have arrived
at Vienna from St. Petersburgh,

M 1 LAN, Nov. 26.—0 n the xtlt Lucrrx
:130NAPASITH and his Family arrived here from
•tome. lie alighted at the house of General

TR,EjuLzt, late Minister at War, who iq now at
Paris. It is expeded that his stay here will he of

some duration,

PGACENZA, NOV. 24,—The POPE has presented
'the General in Chief JouttaAN, who came hither
'to pay his respeas to His Holiness, with a beautiful

Rotary, a gold,Medal, and some other things of,

value.

Lrtattouv,, Nov. 23. Thee. number of the
dying and sick decrease, thank God, every day.

The Committee (if Health now publiih,

an Official List of the number of deaths, and per,.

sons sick, according to which, from the 12t11 to
the 19th, 123 persons died, of whorn 74 were of

the fever : yeeterday only 8 persona died, of whom
4. were of the fever.

VENIcr, thc. I.—Since the distemper of M.
lags has broke out at Leghorn, many Ships have
arrived here, but all are obliged to perform quaram_
tine, according to the Parts from,,which they ar-
rive, for 45, 72, ,200, or 120 days.

FRANKFORT,' DEC. B.—The- curonation.day
of" the Ettsperor'of the French was celebrated in a
very sumptuous momer at Strasburgh, Mentz, &c.
At Nancy, on the -21 December, cis square call.

ed '" Square of the People," was named " Na.
poleon &rare.",
MENTZ, DEC. 7.-- fly an Imperial Decree of
the 26th of Brumaire, the follovvii% military places

And posts are stipprrstied, viz. ()Ipoilteitn, \Vorms,

Aizci, Nct,tadt, Pirmasens, and

Dru x-Ponts.

STR ALaUND, DEC. i.•---Their Swedish"Majes.;
ties arestill here, and tlivre is now no talk of their

return to Sweden:

Sr. PETEUSDURCH, Nov. 27.—The English
Arnbaq,itior, Lad LPvbsoH Gowaa, has already

received his audience -of entry,;.and had several

conferences with our Ministry.

A great nombrr of dealers atientied the' C4;111165
Florbe Show, which conimenced at,Vork on Monday.
Good
.horses ,sold well; the fa int/argent Onei
Was viry' dull,

NRTSMOUTH, Dec. 21.—Sailed the kfireury
Frigate with a Fleet under convoy for the Mediter.
rantan.

The Amphitrite Frigate, which was captured by
the Dawrepil, Sir RICHARD STRACHAN, was one
of the finest Frigatei in the Spanish Navy. She
was in company with a Spanish Corvette when the
Dotmegal hove in sight. The Donnegal at first
took them to be French Ships of War, and immedi-
ately gave chace ; the Spanish Vessels separated, and
steered different courses. The Domegal continued
her chace of the Amphitrite for several hours, some.
times gaining upon her, and sometimes losing ; at
length the Amphitrite, which had every sail set that
she could bear, carried away her mizen top-mast,
which enabled the Dom/regal to come up with

her. A shot was then fired a-head of the Am.
phitrite, for the purpose of making her bring to,
which she returned by firing into the Donnrgal.
A boat was then dispatched by Sir Rionmto,
for the purpose of bringing the Spanish Captain on
board. Some difficulty arose froth
.neither party
understanding the language of the other ; at length
Sir RICHARD acquainted the Spanish Captain
that, in compliance with the orders he had re.
ceived from his Admiral, he was under the
necessity of conducting the Amphitrite back
again to Cadiz, and he allowed the Spanish
Captain three minutes to determine whether he
would comply without compelling him to have re.
Course to force. After waiting six minutes in vain
for a favourable answer, the Donnegal fired into the
Amphitrite, which was immediately answered 'with
a broadside : An engagement then ensued, which
lasted about eight minutes, when the Amphitrite
struck her Colours.

During this short Engagement the Spanish Cap.

tain was unfortunately killed by a musket ball.
His body was not committed to the deep until every
military honour had been paid by both Ships. The
English, though they lamented the rashness which
had produced such fatal effet9l, could not but admire

his courage in venturing to engage a Ship of such
very superior force as the Donnegal. The Amphi.
trite carried 42 guns.

BR I XII AM QUAY) TORBAY, DEC. am
sorry to inform you of His Majesty's Ship La
Blonde being on shore on Gunisten Sand (not a
quarter of a mile from where the Venerable was
wrecked). She was seen to drive about half-past
it) A. M. ; the masts were cut away ai eleven ;
3ust at high Water the cables were either cut or
slipped, and she came on shore at 4P. M. She
was quite dry, and the' people all came sate on
shore.

1-I,ASWICK, DEC% 21.—The King George Post.
Once Packet, ,Capt. SAUNDERS, arrived from Hu..
sum with theliamburgb.and Bremen Mails and Pas.
*engem The nutlvard.bQtind .Packetir are all de.
rained by contrary wind:

Dr AL, Dec, 2 t.—The American Ship Barmoy,
Caps. WidictiANt, from .Sumatra, that ran on Deal
Beach yesterday, is wrecked ; part of
.the cargo,
consisting of pepper, &c. is saved.

Remain in the Downs—the Monarch, Ardent, Leopard, and
Inflexible Men of War; Castor, Champion, AutOope,[autai,
ca, anti L'Aimable Frigates ; Harpy, Dart, Curlew, Cyknet,
OreStei, Speedy, and La F !eche Sloops of w4ri rfovero,
Volcano, Lucifer, fury, Discovery, Vesuvius, Sulphur,
and tho Zebra Bombs; a Fleet of Gun-brigs,sand.the Armed
Defence Ships.

:EXTRAORDINARY RRNCONTRE..::
" OCT. 21. The ArnerleaoAlmed
Ship Leander, Captalit'lLtuils, arrived herelester.
day in 3o days from Port-au-Prince, in company
with the Armed: Brig Doita, having been previ-
ously cautioned, that. one or two large French Pri,
vateers were expeled to he in wait fOr them. Oil
the third day after leaving port, a large Aimed
Yetliiti hove in siht, which they orcourse expetted
was one of. those Privateers.• She bore down on the
Leander toward's' night, and Captain LEWIS wishing
to ascertain whether she was Mend' or'Enemy. be.
fore dark, fired a gun and hoisted American Co.
lours. No signal was given in reply,. bur the Ves.
sel continued to approach, lighted her lamps as it
became dark, and the crew of the Leardir could
clistinaly hear the commands given with the trum.
pet, the supped Enemy being now within a,tew
fathoms distance': Captain Law 6 believing her
intention was to hoard, now poured a, broadside of
t 8 pounders into her, which shattered her bow con-
siderably, cut away her rigging, and killed one
man, the Captain of the. maintop, Great confusion
ensued, and she fell back, the Leander and the.Dol(y
occasionally plying her with grape and round shot,
which disc great damage to her rigging. The next
morning she came up again, when, to our utter
astonishment, she proved to be the British Frigate
Fortuna, of 44 guns, Captain. VANSITTAR.T. Our.
sUrpiiZe may he imagined, but not described. Nlost
fortunatelY for us her guns, in consequence' of the
late gale, were all in the hold when we fired into
her, otherwise our fate may he easily guessed...-,-
Cirt.VANSITTART at first 'threatened a little ; but
on Captain Lawts explaining the circumstance, he
coi,tented 'himself with impressing 26 men from the
Leaoder and Daly, and obliging Captain 1.4w1s to
pay sod dollars for the wife of the man killed, and
k 300 /Lira to repair the.damages. But his cot-
ouCt Wii3 very gentlemanly, coosilleriri‘ the irrita,
tine natgrC Of the ci;c4loo;anc,"

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gale from E. N. E. to East since Monday, and we
are fearful much damage has been done, ; hat we have
not yet heard of any except the loss of a Dutch
Hoy on Hasbro' Sands, and it is feared all bands
perished. The Beach, from Caister to this Har-
hour's mouth, was this morning covered with
Spanish nuts, and some oranges, and some bushels
have been candled, it is therefore supposed the
above unfortunate vessel had a cargo of fruit, but
no part of the wreck has yet been seen to lead to
any conjecture respelling her name or 'destination.
The wind is now due East, but much abated.

WOODBRIDGE, Dec. '2o.—Sunday morning the
Brig Molnar and Ann, of Aldbr )', THOMAS READ,
master, arrived in this river, from Blyth, with
coals. About four o'clock in the afternoon, the
,Brig riding at anchor, was seen by a person on shore
to be on fire, and as he approached her, he heard
the shrieks of a woman and child, and immediately
went to the public-house, at Ramsholt, to give the
alarm, where he found the Mate and the Crew, who
had imprudently left the vessel, with no one on
board, except this miserable woman and child, who
were passengers. Before the fire was got under
the whole of the inside of the cabin, part of the
deck, and the whole of the bedding, and apparel of
the Masks. and Crew were entirely consumed.—
From the account given by the woman, it appears,
that the fire was occasioned fram the heat of the
cabin stove having communicated to the wood-
work. At the time of the accident, the Mastfo, --
was at Woodbridge, for the purpose of entering the
Ship at the. Custom-house, on the nest morning.

INDIA HoUSß.—Yesterday a Court of Direaorit
Was held, when JOHN Bess', Esq. eleeied a Direc.
tor, in the room Of WI•LLIAtt ADAIR JACKSON,
Esq. deceased, took the oaths and his seat, and was
appointed to the COmmittces of Government Troops
and Stores, Private Trade, and Shipping.—Wl
LIAM GRAYnuasT, Esq. was appointed Transfef
Accotintant, in the remm of JOHN PEPPERCORNI,
Esq. deteascd.—The following Captains were sworn
into the command of their resrttive viz.
Captain Anthony Murray, Earl for Miidras; Cap-
tain fohn Stewart, Windham. for Ceylon nnd Madras; Cap-
tain Samuel Landon, City or London, for Bombay.
The Court adjourned at six o'clock, till Friday
next.

Yesterday being S. Thomas's My, the different
Wards in the City assembled according to annual
custom, for the choice of Common Councilmen for
the year ensuing. The greater part of the Wards
were represented by the same Gentlemen as were
chosen last year, and others, where vacancies occur-
ed, were filed without opposition. Those Wards
in which opposition prevailed, were Tower and
Dricir, the numbers of which, at the close of (110
Poll were al tallow
Those market.. " arc new Candidates.
BRIDGE.
- - 8 Mr. Brown
- 8 Jackson,
8 /lova
- 8 *Joyner .
- 8 Ross
8 Wilde -
• - S *Dutton
8 *Lacy . .
WARD OF TOWER.

Mr. Bartuin
Adair
Cope
Garratt
, Wrench
Child
Chnixh
Maltby
Roberts•

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111YORIL sLR Ls, BART.
A Pull was demanded by thefrieruls of Mr. Gx r.-
so'N,, at the close of which the numbers wcre as fol.

lows ; .
Mr. s3muel Dixon 47 Mr. Thomas Fothergill 4%
Thomas Dawson 47 Charles Stuart -44
• - Mathias Lucas -47 Samuel Walker ..' 42
James Dixon - .16 *Thomas Bridges 42
',.
Sam. Hutchinion 46 'oho Hartshorne 31
Livid Laing -. 46 Lewis Gilson .. -16
Samtiel Wright 46
A sharper contest has not taken place for many
ryi en acist
0. n I t is supposed that at least 3g° Eleacus.
:will vote. * The Poll will finally close on Monday
next, at two. o'clock.
There were four vacancies in the Ward of Far.
Within,spew o afnhd.,4fildvse was Gentlemen
far, when
eCna
mndri:
dates. A
1 9,1 sex, of Butcherhall.lane, declined a contest.
In the Ward of Viralbrook a Wardruole was held
by the Riglit Hoiu the LORD MAYOR (Mr. Alder.
man ROWSROFT being. indisposed), when all the
former Members of the C“mmon Council were re'
turned except Mr. SFEED, who is retired from thO
Ward.; in . whose place was unanimously ,eleog4,
TFI 0M Ai BELL, Esq. -
.
.
A Duich' L'idy astonished the Cockneys, yester.
day, upon the Serpentine River, by her rare ;ail'
agility 6
oMt 1 e . iCnostic.maiAti:ig l,
ta as
ltphroctiegehe she
3weighsofarlcil":l 31 Yn' new
suakfavout
Comedy, ward
early in' February. His friends report .44"1"" in
to be brought for
terms, that Covent.lartien Theatra
favourable terms, is'
"Pene'd

is likely to have a good Draltrath• feisic"' „e
Bgit*Asi:has disposed of his Stings in tue
Opera to so much advantage, that he may well give
himself 'fill.
Tlie new Amateur Cowart in Tottenham- last
has no connexion with that which took place log
e.
'season at kianovet.square. It is doubtful whethr
the other will be returtied this winter. It "'a"
however, a-charit;ing entertainment for the higher

circles.
Miss num, who is engaged at Drury.loe
'Theatre, may ndst equal young BATTY in attraPi"nl
and may Tall much below him in theatrical tnericP
but as a Dancer, it is paid, she iv likely to prove a
powerful 6011 to little BYRNE.
The new P.intorriime preparing at Covent.Garclea
Theatre comes from Dr aor : 'the Music is to he

supypoliueisl
Bulletin ,pat
yesterday rut up on the door of his house, No. 33'
Sourhampton. row, -Bloomsbuty ;
The Physicians think Master Fit TY is mucli the same
this morning as yesterday."' •
The immense crowd of inquirers after the health
of this most interesting yuni,)g Gen'tleman, render-
ed Wine suck general notice as the'above necessary.
AccOrding to the Physician's Report this (OP
the symptoms in Master BETTY'S case are s:
ther easier to.day ; . but there is still no Alecipiro
amendment since Wednesddy. The Fever is Willi
ed, and must run its course, untkr. restraint
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