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LONDON,"DffCIEMBER 15, 1803.

YEhTERDAt Captain BASSET, of the Navy, ar.
rived in Town from Lirbn, with Dispatches for
Lord HAWKESBUR I and the Admiralty Board.
The huer were from Sir EDWALIi PILL Ell',
dated off Corunita, on the i7th ult. which con. 111
titin an accurate List of the French Force both
at that Port and at Ferrol. In the latter arc five
Sail,of the Line and one Frigate ; and at Corunna,
One Ship of the bine and two Frigates, none of
which however appeared to ha making preparations
fur Sol. Sir E. PE L L KW'S Squadron consists of the
Tonnant, Malta, Spartiate, Spencer, and Ardent,
Ships of the Line, and the Naiad Frigate.

Mr. Secretary YORKE stated last night' in the
Huuse of Commons, that the total number of the
Royal Army of Reserve raised on ;the 2 tst of No-
.v.ember, the date of last Return, was for Eng-
land 26,602 t of these 6+3 had. been. rejeaed, 70
were dead, and 797 had deserted. The .mimber of
effedive men therefore was 25,093. In •Scotland,
the whole number raised was about 5,500 men, and
in Ireland' above 6,000. According to this State-
ment, the deficiency in the whole of the United
Kingdom, was on 'the day mentioned, betivien 13
and 1 4.,000 meo. L.,

Yesterday a Court of Direaors was held at the
)4'.,:w India Huu.e, when Capt. WM. DONALDSON
was sworn into the command of the AVrptune, des-
tined for China, The Court adjourned at six o'clock
till to-morrow.

Lord ST.. V I NiCy4T came to town on Tuesday,
in cont.equence of an express sent off early in the
morning,' relative to some new measures of naval
defence along the 'Coasts of Norfolk, Lincolnshire,
and Yorkbhire, which are to be carried into irnme.
(hate execution.

Government are about to appoint a Consul to re.
side in Egypt. Mr. Locx, who, has formerly at:.
cal inithat capacity at Naples, it is said, will have
this appointment.
Tuesday afternpon six artillery waggons, loaded
with plate and other valuables, arrived, at Cumber.,
land Lodge, Windsor, from Hanover.

A Prussian ITEMI arrived in the River from Rol-
' land, has brought six or seven Passengers, among
them a Mr. Rein', a Half.pay Officer, his wife and
child, who .had lately made their escape from Va.
lenciennes. The English thereare still very severe-
ly treated, and on a late application to BONAPARTE
for common subsistence as Prisoners, were very
tritely answered, that he considered them as Hos.
tages, and not as Prisoners.
Accounts are said to have been received from
Boulogne, which state, that there bad lately been
, a mutiny among some of the troops there. The
mutineers were not quelled till some lives were
lost. Three officers belonging to the 4zst demi.
brigade are said to have been killed, but whether
in quelling the mutiny) or preViously by the sol-
diers, is not known. •

Upwards of moo 'females have subscribed from
three-pence to two imineas, to Ate support of the
Fund for providing Flannel Dresses for the Birming-
ham Volunteers ; and 164 Ladies have offered their
services to make 5019 dresses, which is upwards of
thirty each.