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London, England, 1804-02-01 00:00:00

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"STATE OF TIIE OItDIN.A.R

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The Brad Man of War, of so guns, Captaio
CLARK, sailed from Smyrna on the 20th of Novel
her, with the following ships under convoy, boa
t!, England: 7---queen Charlotte, atul Pito(/'
Capt. Bzu TT() N ; &vet, Her, Starling, Enterprirn
ind Catherine.

The Sovereign, Captain RICHARDSON, from 'jilt
nidad, hound to-London, which sailed under conY""
of the Chichester Man of War, is lost near Youg'
hall, in Ireland. The Captain and 28 of the Crcof
.
ire drowned.

Sunday evening an express reached Sheerness, or'
tiering all the gun vessels there to put to sea with"
out a moment's delay. Similar orders, it is beileVcd°
have been sent to other places.

Some letters from Holland mention a circumstanag
which, being also received from other sources of ;dal
mation, we believe well founded, viz. that Admiry
Ds WINTER has positively refused to take the c 0;
mand of the Expedition against this Country fr°0
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the Dutch Ports. His reason is, that he consiK
it utterly absurd arid imptaCticable. His refusal;
given the greatest offence to the FIRST CONSV4
cause the opinion of an Officer of such-tried ccur3v
and acknowledged ability must have the effeet,,;a
discourage the whole of the Forces, naval and
tary, destined for the enterprize.
Yesterday a Court of DireCtors was held at the
List India House, when several dispatches receive
e
from Bombay by the Experiment were
Court adjourned at six o'cl-;ck till this day.
'Advice, received per Experiment, from Bombay)
state that the ships City of London an,i Adgirf‘
Gardner sailed from Bom!iayr Bengal the 14.tii
July. The Windham and Walpole were to he disl,
patched from Madras for England:. The llexfir
arrived at Madras the 3.1 August ; Calcutta ditt°'
and had sailed fcr Bengal. The Union, extra afrrPh
arrived at Madras the sgth August.; Sir fike;
Inglis, ditto, the rBth ; Preston, ditto, the 191.,
,d;
The Ocean and Henry Addington left Bombay
China the zoth July ; Earl Camden and Both
Castle, ditto, 7th August. The Ceylon arrived
Born'),y the 24th August.
Another of the Jamaica homeward Fleet ha9lr.f..
rived in the Downs, and one at Greenock 41'
former parted company on the +A, with fifteen lat. +6. 46. N. and long. 34. 19. West. 1-0,
latter parted company with thirteen sail of the 0,
voy on the 215 t. The ships have had a very circa
ful passage.
. The Ceres Letter of Marque, Capt. WEBB, roonlit;
ing 20 guns, from Tobago bound to London,
spoken with on the isth inst.: she had thrown
of her guns .overbgard, and was a little leaky- .;
A _ Court of Aldermen was held yesterday' a 4
Guildhall, present the LORD MAYOR, twelve /4:
dermen, Mr. Recorder, Mr. Common Serjeanti,js:---
sheriffs,- and other Officers. a
After the. proceedings of last Court were tea
and confirmed:
The Master and Wardens of the Worshipful C°rie.
pany-ot Bakers, waited on the Court to settle to,
Assize of Bread, which ordered the price to t
tinue at 9d. the Qoartern Loaf, wheaten,. and If
household.
JANISS SAUNDERS, Esq. a Member of the afg
of Common Council, eleFted by the'Coid and Ca.,'
Committee, a Corn Meter in truss for this
was sworn for the due execution of his Office. t,
The Court appointed the Eledion of City /31E,
master, So take place at the next CoUrt of 44,145

men.
Precepts for licensing vktuallers, for .this Ctc~~
svere ordered to issue for the 7th 01 March oo,t'sr,-
The usual Wardtnotc Presei.tinents, made 0" •I,i
Tlynas's day last, by the Inquest of* he seveot
Wards, were referred w the City Solicitor, 10
the Aft of Parliament in force relative thereto. ,•
Wm. BOLLAND, Esq. Barrie. .;,4, at Law, vvage,,,jr
ffi
mitred and sworn into the oee'tf one of the
Common Pleaders of this City, in the room 0p
NRWMAN KNOWL Esq. elected by the
mon Council, C,,mtuon Serjeant of this city., of
. ,Qn Friday nexr, his Lottosurr wiil hold a L'eld
of Common Council to elettt the Irish SocietYr a
appoint Committees for the ensuing year.

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Out opinions reseeaing the 'weakness led ins.
policy of the conduel of Ministers towards Spain,
have been so often before the Public, and those opi-
nions are so much confirmed by present appearanCes,
that we cannot help requesting our Readers to re-
eolleet the Remarks which we have ventured to
make from time to time upon the conduct of G,_
vernment as applied to this point. 'What we have
Invariably contended for was, that Spain, circu:n.
stanced as she was with resped to France, could
lot he Neutral-with respeCt to us. She is bound,
by the Treaty of Offensive and Defensive Alliance
concluded in 1796, to furnish France with Fifteen
Sail of the Line and ea.,000 Men. That the pre-
sent War between France and this Nation is a Ca.
sus Fereleris, there can be no doubt ; indeed if there
were, the First Consul would very shortly remove
the doubt. It may suit the purposes of France al
one moment to receive a compensation in Money,
rather than the supply of Ships or of Men ; but the
moment that the Ships and the Men are more de-
sirable than Money, they will be supplied, and the
time chosen will be that which is most disadvan-
tageous to us. But Ministers say it is tic to
keep off a Spanish War as long as
politic
they can. Weak
and timid policy ! This is not the languag
the British Empire would have s e which
poken, unti
fortunately it had to speak by the
mouth ofl un.
Mr. AnozNorox !—To keep off a Spanish War as long
as we can, is to delay it till Spain has got home all
ter treasures, and until she has fortified and secured
all her vulnerable points. A considerable number
°f Troops has been sent from Spain to her Colonies in
the West Indies since the breaking out of the War.
It has been reported also, that part of this Sub-
aY given by -Spain to France, , to enable her to
ke.War upon us, has been actually paid, or is
Paying (as the Portuguese Subsidy was) through this
Country ; so that because France does not
like to
trust the faith of Spain, we assist her to make the
Payment to France with British Credit. '
British Ca
ital l and with
p This is somewhat like the condua
rd. the Dutch, whc, are said to have been so very
commercial, that they adually sold the Powder and
Bali to the Enemy, which were to be expended in
bombarding their own Towns.
Let us not be mistaken 1
jea—We are far from saying
' however, upon this sub.that Ministers ought
at once to have declared War againat Spain, because
as declared against War w
Court of Madrid nst France-e-We believe the
was, and perhaps is,. inclined to
;Neutrality, ifnoteo Friendship, towards us ; and we
know the difference between e willing end a reluc-
tant En 0
enly; but Ministers (upon the ground of the
existel'ee of the Treaty we have mentioned) should
have required security against what we have no doubt
will happen, a little sooner or later, a Spanish War,
at the most inconvenient season it can happen to us.
Lord FlAwicEsauav called for security from Franee
against her supposed views and proje.als respeaaieg
more
there ever a state of things which
lore imperiously demanded security, than the re_
ttve situation of
la ' • ' •
'}'din and Great Britain, at the
breaking out "Or the present War ? We have the
Strohgest reason to believe that Spain would not
Ilave oh'
. , jeEted to giving if sh • ' . us this security. Indeed,
. 1-1-s disposed as she is represented to be, it
ranglitol
The "..e answered her purposes as well as ours.
lectirn7
In our hands might have been a strong
t'Que'd for the
against entestiinig
.prance : Spanish Court to have urged with
into the War against us,
and the advantage
might have given us, might also
e. forfeiture of that security
son why France would nOt h have been a red_
But we are not so foolishly credulous'
ave forced her into it.
any thin • g vtgorous or decisive fa 'Vti A
a 3 to expert
'om --t• "ADDING-
atTON' He will probably ten us shortly '
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war with Spain ; and that we are
hirn when he some People will believe
says ‘1 He could not help
Tnit 0
........---._....,....,-.....
fLog Perz,-,:,:t0.---Last night,
.after the Opera of
rward, under"ille` ' a .new, grand Ballet was brought
composed b , •Le title of Achille et Deidasnie,
beautiful, 3 'ECVILLP. It is a most splendid,
ceivej b._ anda interesting exhibition, and was re-
greatestlir,learnwiled and elegant Audience with the
litY on ehi!
ore D'EGviet E has shewn great abi-
story and in theddel'attalin his general treatment of the
His own performance of Chi_
r4tf was bold and sttil:
the.flero of rile p;_ king' DES HAY ES however was
ablYi The music
r'eci 'a' he
nd acquitted himself most
throughou is ricn, beautiful and appropriate
t, and
W/N.ria. 1,1. a masterly proof of the genius of
eue 13,111e1 i 3 altogether very creditable
to the liberality of the .
dout, •
will be powerfully
Manager,
attractive.
and we have no
A juvenile Cori
chaster - • • ''S
,consisting of Heroes is formed at Man-
of sixty young Gentlemen ; their
Commander, Col. Do *, tipline very remarktbli''°Nthey
their ardour and des_
stand of Colours from e'•
have
.received their
a }Ming Heroine of the same
town, elegantly embroidered. The m
...otto—
" o,a.s spring from leorns."
, Me- TIERNMY'S interference in favour of his
:r,,iecod Colonel. Aecocs it, to .prevent a Duel between
e'
,ar latter and Captaiii GUNSON, manifests a laudable
that ~!.1.. to
.?Aorals end tbe law. What a pity it is
, I,ldun IERNEY did not always think in the
-atee o-
wr respeding iluelli;;I.,

t AST' INDUS.

BOMBAY, AUG. 16.

Toe War against the King of Candy) is a subjea
on which a w eii . wisher to the British Cause will
not be anxious to dilate. It has nor, as you miy
have heard, been so fortunate as was expeaed. It
is thought that to reinforce the Army. there will be
necessary; Whether any are going from Bengal I
cannot say. At Madras they might spare some
force. In the beginning of the present month two
embarkations of troops were to take place at Calcutta,
but on the spot as well as here, their destination was
a profound secret. Report says, however, that one
of the Expeditions which had sailed was destined
for Balambangour, on the Coast of Borneo. That
Island, which was formerly In our possession, would
be of great importance to us, as affOrding a place of
rendezvous and security in that-circle of Islands.
The °hied of the other is said to be some Island in
the Gulph of Siam, to suppress the Peguins, or fa-
ther the Burmahs.
Extraa of a Letter from Bombay, 6th Sept. 1803.
" You must have heard of the important war in
which we are now engaged, in the neighbourhood of
this Presidency, with the Mahratta Powers under
the celebrated Scindea. At the commencement of
this war the Troops experienced much hard service,
but the result of the contest promises to fulfil our
most sanguine expeaations. We have already cap_
Lured the strong fortress of Alemadnaghur, one of the
most considerable in the territory of Scindea, and
the very key of his dominions. Scindea calculated
with the utmost security that it would have stood
a siege of from three to four months, and in that
time he believed that he should be able to come to
its relief. The vigour and promptitude of our milita-
ry operations, however, completely disconcerted his
lilacs. The place was taken in three days by escalade.
The 74. th and 78th Regiments and a Battalion of
Sepoys particularly distinguished themselves on this .
occasion, and had the principal share in the success.
We have to regret the loss of Captain Humber-
stun, of the 78t11 (son of the Colonel of that name),
and Lieutenant Anderson, who fell fighting bravely
in the attack. I have not heard of any superior Of-
ficers of those Corps killed or wounded dangerously
in this affair. ColUnel Maxwell and M,i.)r Scott I
can name as having been fortunate enough to'escape
unhurt in the arduous business it which they were
engaged.

" The Fortress of Alemadnagbur is of mote im-
portancethan even Genera! Wellesley ILid previous-
ly imagined, and its ea 7:;, capture will have the
happiest effee.l 0-..! future campaign. General
WellesleY Stevenson are now in pursuit
of Scir.,lea. Our Troops have already crossed she
G:::,ivery, and it is expelled that they will soon
re4ch Burhamponr, the place to which the Foe has
retreated.

" The Bengal Army, we understand here, is in
moti3n, under the command of General Lake. It
is said they have passed the Junina. We hear that
the first attack will be upon an important post, where
General Peron has his grand delft. It has been
reported, that General Peron had a design of coming
over to us with a body of 12,000 cavalry, which are
wholly devoted Fo him, and will follow him in any

" A few days ago the news reached us, that the
3,-,int).iy Troops, under the command of Lieutenant_
Colonel Woodington, had taken Baroach, in the
Guzz:.rat.—The details of this affair have not yet
been received; but the only Officer killed is Capt.
Temple, of the 86th Regiment. A great havock
took place ot the Arabs in the fort, as the business
was decided by the bayonet.

" General Wellesley conduels all.operations with
such vigour as must ensure a speedy and successful
termination of the contest. Hitherto Holkar has
kept aloof from Scindea, and it will not be very
difficult to determine him to neutrality by the hope
of sharing in the spoils of his Rival."

Extra"? of a Letter from a ilfilitary Offle r on bean/
the Atalante French Frigate, dated Pondicherry
Roads, Tiny 12, 1803.

" The .French Squadron arrived in these roads to
day. lam among the passengers on board of the
Atalante, as Lieutenant of one of the RegiAtents of
Sepoys, in the service of France. We saired from
Brest, in Britanny, on the-125th of February. Two
days after our departure, we experienced a severe
gale in the gulph of Gascoyne, when we had been
very nearly lost, but got over it after much trouble
and damage ; almost all my papers, effels, &c. were
either lost or spoilt. My poor companions suffered
equally. I shall leave this with General Montigny,
who is appointed by the First Consul Governor of
Chandcrnagore. I have sailed with this gentlenian;
he is an honest man, and possessed of great abilities
and knowledge.

" Our Squadron was composed of three Ships of
the Line; 5 Frigates, and 4. transports, but the gale
we met with dispersed the whole Squadron. Four
only arrived here, of which one Ship is called the
Marengo, and the Frigates Belle Peale, Se/nil/ante,
and L' Atalante. They wait orders from Calcutta
to put us in possession of Pondicherry. Our General
ea Chef is celled Decaen ; the others, who are under
his orders, are General Wendermasse,, a German,
Binaut, and Darsoavelle ; our Colonel is called Pen.
nemarc Mainville, a native of Pondicherry, formerly
Lieutenant Colonel of the Regiment of Pondicherry.
The Commander of the naval forces is called Rear_
Admiral Linois. The other Ships that composed
the Squadron will arrive in a few days, probably
fifteen."—Boorlay Gazette, Sept. 7.
On Monday evening sailectto,the southward, his
Majesty's Ship Centurion, Vice-Admiral Rainier,
accompanied by the Lancaster, Trident ina,
and Vider Sloop of -
_ _

His Majesty's Sloop of War Rattlesnake, Capt.
G. Cremer, arrived on Tuesday evening.-111adras
Gazette, 44tig.
Advices from Madras mention the arrival of a
French Cutter at Pondicherry. It is said she sailed
from France on the 6th of April. Scion after her
arrival the French Ships that were in Pondicherry
Roads weighed and proceeded to sea.—Bombay
gazette, Ariz. 3.
On Sunday morning, at day-break, minute guns
were fired from the Fort, announcing the death of
his Highness the Niharn of the Decal]; and at twelve

o'clock a Watt of ro'neteen gons, on the accession
of his.snecessorelViadrees Gazette., Aug. 18.
Sint' CAL EDOIVIA.--ir is with extreme concern
we have to state the melancholy fate of the ship
Caledonia, Capt. Thomas. The Caledonia left Ba-
lasore Roads on the 18th of May, bound to Bombay,
with- the following passengers on board :—Mrs.
Thomas ; Lieutenant-Colonel -James- Paterson, of
the Bombay Military Establishment; Mr. Rose,
Lieutenant Kennedy, and thirty-seven men of His
Majesty's 78th Regiment, four women and several
children. On their passage they fell in with an
American ship from Prince of Wales's Island, bound
to America. On Friday the 29th ult. they had
struck soundings, and were in about 45 fathoms run-
ning in for the land, blowing exceedingly fresh, and
a heavy sea, running under close reefed topsails and
a foresail, when about eleven o'clock in the fore.
noon,• when Capt. Thomas._was•aft on the poop,
looking out for a double altitude of the sun, not
having had an observation for some days before, a
smoke was observed coming up the fore hatchway,
and a cry of fire. The fire buckets were immedi-
ately filled with water, and every precaution taken ;
but on removing the fore hatch the flames and smoke
broke out so rapidly as is supposed to have suffo-
cated some of the people, and the -flames raged with
such extreme violence as to preclude ahe possibility
of stopping their progress. The ship was kept di-
rektly before-the wind, with a view of preventing the
fire from communicating abaft ; the boats were hOist-
ed out, and people placed in them to prevent the
crew from deserting -the ship, permitting too
many to get on board_ the boats, -so as to endanger
their safety. It was soon diseoveied that- the fire
had communicated generally in the hold, the main
and after hatches having been burst open by the
violence of the flames. It now became necessary to
attend to the preservation of the liVes of as many of
the crew as their means would adMit of. Capt.
Thomas, Mrs. Thomas, .Col. Paterson, Mr. Rose,
Mrs. Joyce, SerjeanteMsjor's wife of the Bengal
Artillery at Tannah, Mrs. Fraser, arid one child,
wife of a private of the 78th, in all fifty-three peo-
ple, embarked in the longboat. In the pinnace,
ten sea cunnies and Itiscars quitted the ship, seven
of whom were unfortunately lost on the rocks when
landing. In the jolly-boat there embarked from the
ship, the gunner and I+ lascars, foor of whom were
dashed to pieces on the surf on Malabar Point in at_
tempting to land. The total number of souls on
board were 157, out of Which only 71 were saved.
We are sorry to add that Lieut. Kennedy, of His
Majesty 's 78th Regiment ; Mr. Thompson, the
chief officer ; Mr. Herring, the 2(1 officer ; Mr.
Collins, the 3d officer ; and Mr. Cranston, the 4th
officer, were left on board the ship, and it is sup.
posed must have perished. The. preservation of
Lieut—Colonel Paterson's life was truly miraculous,
having jumped from the window of the quarter-gal-
lery, at the time the long boat was dropping astern.
The situation of Mrs. Fraser may be easier conceiv-
ed than described, for although she escaped with
her own life and one child, she was under the neces-
sity- of leaving two other helpless infants to fall vic-
tims to the flames, Immediately after the boats
quitted the ship the mainmast .went over the side,
and soon afterwards the ship blew up abaft, having
about r+ barrels of gunpowder on board; in a few
minutes after which slediaappeaxeci.
The fire is supposed to have originated from some
oil having leaked down upon the gunnies in the hold,
and causing a spontaneous ignition.
The following is a list of the people who embark-
ed on board the long boar, and who were landed at
Versovah on Saturday morning last.
Mrs. Thomas—Capt. Geo. Thomas, Commander;
Col. Paterson, Mr. Rose, Mrs, Joyce, Serjeant
Major's. wife of the Bengal Artillery at Tannah ;
Mrs. Fraser, and one child, a private's wife.of the
78th Regiment; James Coats, carpenter; Andrew
Ker, butcher; Donald Mackay, Serjeant ; Finlay
M'Rea, Corporal ; W. Mayo, Donald Fraser,
Robert M'Lean, John Shorthand, George Luke,
Finley Mackenzie, John Bowman, Robert Mac-
querious, John M'lver, Murdock, Fraser, Christian
Constance, Owen Macqaeris, Andrew M'Rea,
Finley Henry, and Alexander Mackay, privates in
His Majesty's 78th Regiment ; Bermanne Alle.
mantle, sea cunny ; Buxo, syrang ; 16 lascars, 2
sepoys, and 17 servants, total 53.

Government immediately dispatched the Wasp,
Lieut. SAM. SNOOK, in quest of the wreck of the
Caledonia, which Vessel is since returned tiller an
ineff:aual Cruize.—Bombay Gazette, Aug. 3.

A private letter from Paris, given in The
Courier de Loneires of last night, says that BONA-
PARTE 'means to make his brother.in.law, MU.
RAT, his Representative at Paris during his ab-
sence; that the Counsellors of State DUMAS, Tll r.
IS AU D EAU, REAL, Botiii; "LHARD,
and FRANCOIS DE NANTZ, are to accompany him
in the Expedition, of which the Bishop of ARRA3,
is named Grand Almoner; that the Committee of
United Irishmen at Paris have had a conference
With CAME ACERES, upon the subjea of the mea.
sures to be adoped in Ireland ; and that Si E ES is
in disgrace with BONAPARTE, because of his con_
,dui when he was sent for to be consulted relative
to the Provisional Constitution to be given to Eng.
land after its conquest by France !
The oratorical powers of Mr. ERSKINE have
long and justly been admired at the Bar, and the
precisicin with which, in his late published opinion
on the Volunteer service, he has explaiued away
all the doubts on
.the nature and principle of that
service, entitle him to, be considered as a great law
authority by the ATTORNEY and SOLICITOR GE-
NIR AL.

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The praCtice of hustling has again been put in
pradlice in the streets. A few nights ago a woman
and three or four men jostled against a Gentleman
in Bow-lane, Cheapside, and in an instant a con-
siderable sum of money was taken from his breeches
pocket. . Among his cast., there was a check upon a
Banker, to whose house he sent early the next
morning an account of the check, and the way in
which he lost it. In a day or two after the check
was presented, and stopped, but the Banker's 'wise
Clerk did not think proper to stop the Bearer also,
though it was almost certain that the latter 11::d been
sent by these who hAd ct;tr.mitted the rob.liet,-)Q