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London, England, 1804-12-04 00:00:00

TO'CORRESPONDIMTS.

we have rectlvid a Letter, aigxed " An Observer," often the
nt6fin of the Ship: from the IVlydrtei ranean performing Quaran.
line ; but It would he bigh& improper in as to palish the Fans
eintalned In that Letter, on the authority of an ilnostytnous Cur-
ve:pot:dent.

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LONDON,

'TUESDAY, DICEMBER 4, 1804.

Ir. has been stated in .several of the Public Papers,
Oar Parliament will only meet on the Istli to Vote
the 4cidresses, anti that they will then adjourn over
. to.. the zia. We are enabled to assert, upon the
"Nod gnqueltionahle authority, that this statement is
Completely unfounded. Parliament will certainly
meet on the isth, and will immediately proceed
with business of the greatest importance.

Advices, upon which we place the greatest
reliance, have been , received, stating, that
the French were marching fifty thousand ad.
ditional Troops into Holland, on their way►. to
Swedish Pomerania, which the Corsican Usurper
has absolutely resolved to invade. This intelli-
gene will account fur the Address which the K t rqc
of Sw n t 4 lately made to the States of that Dutchy,
and which the danger of French violence ten.
tiered absolutely necessary. We repeat our full con•
fulence in these adv ices; and this infamous proceeding
of the French Tyrant w ill, ,it is to be hoped, be
Attended with an important result respehing the'
condua of the KING of PRIISBIA, who must
hence feel it his duty and his interest to take part
with Russia,Great Britain, and the Civilized World,

The Hamburgh Mail due on Sunday arrived this

morning.
A Letter from Vienna mentions the receipt of
accounts horn Constantinople, staring that the
French Ambassador, Marshal &true, Ilati deferred
his departure at the request of the Porte, which had
expressed its willingness to acknowledge the French
imperial Dignity, as soon as it had had the .neces.
sary communications With Russia up-1n tie subjen.
This comes so direaly in she teeth of former well.
authenticated accounts, that we must pause before
we grant to is full credit, and wait for further in.
telligence.
Accounts from Rome mention the departure of
his Holiness for Paris on the 31,1 C of ()Acker. He
arrived at Florence on the fill ult.

The King and Queen of Sweden left Stralsund for
Stockholm on the 23(1 ult.

WE understand that Frew") Potts of the 24th
ult. have been received, which state that the Cc.
remony of the Coronation of BONAPARTE has again
been postponed, in consequence of some information
which he has received of another Plot against his
Life.

We inadvertently copied from annther Paper an
article, stating, Out at a Meeting Of General Ofli.
cert, it was reso'ved to make an application for in.
creasing the Pay of the Officers of Infantry. On
inquiry, we find that no such Meeting took place,
rior is any such measure in contemplation.

Sunday morning ►he ROYAL FAMILY Went to
George's Chvel, and heard a Sertnim preached
by Ow Rey, Mr. BUSBY, iron) the 1311) chapter of
IN, mans and 1 2(1) verse.

Yesterday morning His MAitisvr, the Dolce of
CAMBRIDGE. aid PRINCESSES SOPHIA and Auto.
LIA, with several Attendants, rode on horseback
in Windsor Great, Park. They afterwards, with
Vag MAP STY and the other PR INCEstes, honour.
ed Mr. FBA EMANTLIt with a visit, at bit house
upon E,,gictitici Green, where they partook of some
refreshment.
The Rossi/or, PauksiosN, and NEAPOLITAN
AMBASSADORS transatted toriiness yesterday with
Lord finttROVVIIVA at his Office, in Downing-street.
kits MAJ tsve has been pleased, by his Royal
Letters Patent, under the Great Seal of Leland, to
translate the Right BCY. Die NATHANIEL ALEX.
ANDER, Bishop Of KiILSIOE and Kilicnotas to the
United Bibi3Opricks of Down and Connor, vacant by
the death of the Right Rev. Dr. WM. PIXON, late
Lishop. thereof.
INS MAJESTY has also been pleased, by his Royal
Letters Patent, to promote the Reverend Ron a ItT
Torr r N HAM (commonly called Lord Ron tat TOT.
Aar)' to the Bishoprick of Kiltaloe' and Kilfe.
ilOl.l. • - -

NO Hon. DUPRI, Eal of CALRDoN, has
been cho:sco by a majority of votes to he the Peer
to sit'and voti,in the House of Lords of the United
Kirgdom, in t tc NOM of Ruoßa.T Earl of LE Tit 1/4;
d4l`,4lSeti. •

1.40.0 HARROWDY and a seleft parry of friends
With Mr! fly'r! at 111,5 oeilt 'at

NAY L NEWS.

THE ROMNEY.

Wr have been -favoured with an Extra!' of a
Letter from the Han. Capt. CoLvitt,z, late Com-•
mander of His Majesty's Ship Romney, which was
unfortunately wrecked on the S6uth Haak, off the
Texel, on the t9th ult. end which we insert for
the satisfadion of the friends and relatives of the
Officers and Crew.

EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM THY LION• CAPTAIN

COLVILLE, 'STATING THE CIRCUMSTANCES AT.
TENDING TIME LOSS OF HIS MAJESTY'S SHIP

ROMNEY.

" Helder (North Holland), Nov. 21.

" It is with feelings of the sincerest regret, and
which I feel but little capable of expressing, that I
sit down to discharge the painful duty of acquaint.
ing you with the total loss of His Majesty's Ship
the Romney on Mcinday the 19th instant, 'off the
Haaks, upon the S. W. part of the Sand, owing to
the mistake of the Pilots, although regular sound.
ings had been, taken on our run from Yarmouth,
whence we sailed at nine A. M. on the preceding
day.

" I felt confident, a few minutes before the Ship
struck, that we were still on the edge of the broad
Fourteens, and having then sounded, they proposed
standing in, under the sail then set, 'viz. double
reefed top-sail, and foretop.mast staysail, •with the
wind at S. S. W. until they should be in. ten or
eleven fathoms. To this I objeeled, as, from the
unsettled appearance of the weather, and the thick.
nests oldie fog, I deemed it imprudent to approach
the shore, in quest of Rear. Admiral RUSiIL, to
whom I was proceeding conformably to my order's.
—We were accordingly in the a& of wearing,
when a large Ship, apparently at anchor, was
discovered through the log bearing E. by N. We
then stood tt.ards her, to make her plainly, but
had not proceeded on that course (under the above.
mentioned sail) mare than four or five minutes,
when we perceived her to be a large merchantman
on shore. The Pilots then wished to haul off, on the
larboard tack, but before the Ship could be brought
to the wind, she struck. The wind continued, to
increase, the. fog being again very .great, and a
heavy sea got up ; the Ship struck so herd as to
cause her r, make so much water, that it
short time alb hopes of saving her were at an
end. There then remained but the hope Of
saving to His Majesty's service the Officers and.
Crew. In that hope I have, from a combination of
unfortunate Circumstance. (and more especially from
none of our Cruizers being attracted to us by the
guns we had fittd, which I had flattered myself
would have bee,► the cast yesterday when the wea.
ther was clear), been disappointed.

" That every possible exertion was made to lessen
the calamity, after having struck, I trust will appear
from the Minutes. It will he a great consolation
to myself and Officers to know that they have
that effed. Under the uneasiness of mind which
the loss of the Ship, I had the honour to core.
wand, naturally occasions, I feel some • alkyl.
ation in reflecting upon the xealotts, active, anti
orderly condwtt of my Officers and Crew, in
circtstances the mist trying, and in whiph they
endured the severest hardships with cheerfulness,
and in perfed reliance on Divine Providence,
whose interposition in our behalf
was strongly
evident.

" When the Ship floated a little, she was, by
letting go the bower anchor, brought to swing her
head to the wind, which enabled her to hold ;age-
ther, and so bore through the horrors of the night,
which we certainly should not otherwise 'we stir.
vived.

11 'We have experienced from the Dutch
ral Ktxxit RICT, every attention that our distressed
situation made so necessary, and which his dispQsi.
tion seems incarible of with-holding, even frogs an
enemy ; but the wants of my fellOW -SareferB are
great, for not an article of clothing or any thing
else, was saved by any one from the general wreck.
I hope the Dutch Government will be disposed fo
alleviate in some degree their wants, in clothing
particularly, and I have solicited tl►e assistance of.
Rear-Adm. Russs Lt. in obtaining these necessaries.

gi I have reason to believe we shall be sent to
Amsterdam, until exchanged.

" The Crews of the Launch and Jolly.boat,, who
had been found to hear op for the TeNel, joined Me
here this day. The pup was swamped. along.
side ; one Cutter,' in returning from her attempt
to bring to our assistance a (3.311i0t who passed
us, heedless of our dist ress, was driven among
the breakers on the flaalo, and overact. The
other Cutter, equally unsuccessful in an attempt to
bring to us a SChuyt which was in sight
ward, was under the charge of Lientenant BARK s
who, unable to regain the Ship, judged it most intl—
dent to bear up for the Texel, litipe of obtaini,,g
;tsistaice for us, which,: howzirer, the state of die
weather. did not allow of bt:ing affOrdekt that hitht.-

A Lilt of the oYreets and en too and
The Hon. John Colvin, Captain.
john Allison, William Whimper, Thomas Dobbin Barker,
anti John. navies, Lieutenants.
William Kirby, Master:
John Harrison Church, and Alexander Grieve, Lieutenants
of Marines.

George Frederick Rode, Nurser; Rohrrt Riddle, Surgeon;
:Jelin Liming, Boatswain; William White, Carpenter ; John
Brady, Gunner; Richard Haynes, Master's Mate; Charles
Strangways, lohn Flynn, I. R. Webb, Samuel Cuthbert,
lohn Dunn, Charles Stephcsison, and Roger C. Curry, Mid-
shipmen ; Henry I'owsey, Surgeon's Mate ; Richard Gor-
don, Gunner of the Majestic, passenger ; all saved, prisoners
on shore at the Helder.
William Black, Master's. Mate ; W. Hayes, Boatswain's
Mate; Christoper Nord, 'Antonio Silva, 'akin Thomson,
antes Brookes, Wm. Barratt, Wm. Murphy, and Robert
Lloyd, seamen; nine drowned.
Win. Haydn, Midshipman ; Alexander Mills, Quarter-
master ; Thomas Archer, George Ellis, Thomas (drown,
Win. Otto, and Thomas Goodin, seamen; Robert Bunyan,
and Job Steward, marines; Daniel LuCkhurst, John Rying-
ton, and George Carter, boys; John Simmons, seaman ;
missing upon a raft of timber, which left the wreck Nov.
20, 1804.

As a pleasant correnion.of the above statement,
permit me to, inform you, that the t 3 said above to
be missing, are safe on board the Eagle, having
been picked up by one of our Cruizers.

Porrimount, Dsc. 3,—Arrived this evening
several Outward-bound Ships from the Downs ;
amongst them the Grace; TYLER, bound to Ma.
Beira and, Jamaica. One Ship is reported to he on
the Owers, and several are supposed to have over-
shot the Island, and gone to the westward.
The Eurydice Frigate, with Convoy for the Me.
diterranenn and did not leave Cowes Road
till this morning at nine o'clock.

DEAL, DRC. Sailed Pis Majesty's Ship
'Chart:lion, and Starling, Minx and Basilisk Gun.
brigs, on a Cruize off Calais; Lord Nelson Armed
Defence Ship to the Northwird ; Blazer, Mallard,
and Pther Gun.brigs, on a Cruize off Boulogne.
Yesterday morning an American Ship, named the
Out, of Boston, Capt. law' ist, from Rotterdam, in
ballast, bound to Boston, ran on shore on the Good.
win Sands, it being very foggy : the Ship was got
off the Sand; in the night, by a Deal Boat, but mak..
ing so much water could not keep her free, they
were obliged to run her for the main, near the north
end of the town ; and this morning, at low water,
examined her bottom ; at flowing water hove her
afloat, and carried her to Ramsgate Harbour.

In the Downs-:—Monarch, Utrecht, Inflexible, Castor,
Arab, Spy, Orestes, Prospero, Explosion, Lucifer, Volcano,
Tartarus, Discovery, Vesusiva, Rifleman jackal!. Defender,
Watchful, Haughty, Firm, Mariner, Ancher, Tigress, and
Bloodhound, Armed Defence Ships as belOre, and Deptford
Lighter.

The Unanimity, 13ttu tN, from Wyburg to Lynn,
was captured on the 26th tilt. by L' Hiroldelle
French Privateer, of 16 guns, since retaken by the
Censor Gun.brig, and is arrived in the Humber ; the
Privateer had captured four other Vessels, which
were in !fight.

The. ./t/d-rthr of PetetheadjAmss Sm 'lli, Master,
from Dant= to. London, with Wheat, is put into
Burntisland, having lost her bowsprit and Cable.
Ytc.cerday Dispatches were received at the Ad.
miralty from Admiral RUSSEL, off the Texel,
stating his having received a Flag of Truce from
the Texel, announcing the arrival of Capt. Cot.-
mt., the Officers, and Seamen, of the /6mmey, of
so .gur.s. The Dispatches were forwarded to Lord
Mvt.vl GLE, sit Wimbledon.

. .
'foe world cannor'but be struck with the differ..
ence between the conduCt of the KING of SWEDEN.
the legitimate descendant of a line of illustrious an.
CCstOrSt and that of BoNAPAIttE, an upstart, who
has risen by his crimes to the seat of Sovereignty.
The former addresses his SubjeCts in the States of
Pomerania with dignified condescension, and re.
quires supplies chiefly for their own proteCtions
against a Power that wishes to overwhelm them at
once with ruin. The Corsican Usurper, on the
other hand, though the base offspring of obscurity,
not, only drains the slaves over whom he tyrannizes,
but extends his enormous exactions to other States,
to swell the pomp of luxury, and augment the show
of vain magnificence.
In consequence of a bet of twenty guineas, and a
rump and dozen, a young Gentle.nan lately under..
took to run three miles in zo minutes ; namely, on
the road from the starting post at Tinwald Down
Race Course, to the King's Arms Tavern,. Dum-
fries ; and, to the astonishment of all present, he
won his wager in 19 minutes and one quarter !
In the Southern Counties they have already be-
gun to adopt the use of potatoes in the place 'of
wheat ; a substitute which, if adopted in families at
an early part of the season, may be an effeetual means
of keeping down the price.
Frans a late Charnel iourmal.—" Run away last
night, my wife, Bridget Cools; she is a tight
neat body, and has lost one leg ; she was seen
riding behind the. Priest of the parish through
Fermoy, and as we never was married I will pay
no debt; she does not 'contract she lisps with
one tooth, and is always talking about fairies,
and is of no' use but to the owner.—PHELD4
COOLV."

By the Naval and Military Preparations which
are making at Best,' with mote than usual aaivity,
it might ha thought that ihat BobtAPARTE thinks the
time present is a moment the most favourable._for
an imvarioN, , as all people seem to be wholly.occu.
pied in attending to the Young &Helms.
At the London Sessions,' which commenced yes.
terdity, Mr. G. M. Nletcallf, a Member of the
common Council, was indidad for assaulting Tho.
Warren, a Beadle in the, Ward of Farringilon With.
in. The Jury, after hearing the evidence, and Mr.
GtikN.BY in defenee, found the Defendant Guilty;
who, after making seine compensation to the Prose.
cuter, was fined a shilling and discharged.
'Thursday seitiniglit, as John Hirwell, labourer,
of West.Harptree,' Soeerseti was in the at of bor.
j,ig. gut an old cartridge in a rock, at the quarry at
1-I,frpt`ree, the borer struck fire; which communicated
to 'the ';')Owder, 'threw the stones to a great distance,
arid lithiied the poor' 'pan to such a degree that his
life ig despaired of: the'hammer he held in' his band
was afterwatds found at a great distance.