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SOLIM UVilp UICIAL P&LIWP •UD;•r

LONDON, JULY 6, ißoj.

Ws *ionic days agrt stated, that the intended Plan
of the Minister, of deduding the .Fiva per Can!.
upon the. Dividends at the 'Bank, could not be ear.
Tied into 'execution. We now find that he has ac-
tually abandoned that part of his Plan as impigtica.
ble. : An intiniatiOn to this effe&t. was ye, terday made
in the City, in consequence of :which Otnnium,
which had sunk to .7i, left of at 61. , The gradual.
depression of the Funds is diffetently accounted for
byditierent persons.. It may, as.asserted..l4
partly arise from a scarcity of money, and it may
in some measure have been occasioned by the pro:
posed Tax upon the Dividends, but we think
it proceeds more from the want cif Confidence
which Monied and Mercantile. gelk do not hesitate
very openly to avow in the present. Administration,
for condating the War with ability, vigour, and
While the people of France continutto pour
forth Addrosses to the Chief Consul. on the subj";:ta
of the Wm.,. here the. sane desponding apaihy
scents to prevail, which we.,have. so often had.. oc,
C:4410t1 to remark and todeplore. to God
there were that Commanding Void: in the Senate;
• and in the Cabinet, that would` ;nose the Country'
tO. a sense of its real situation---31 we have again
and again remarked, there wants but that to render
us invincible on cur own Shore, And triumphant in
every quarter of the Globe.

We see, however, with the mot heartfelt sods.
tanion, that a Meeting has been held in Kent by
the LORD LIRUTENebiTs for the purpose of digest.
ing.and adopting such measure's as may be necessary
for providing for the defence and smutty of that
County in case of Invasion ; an example which we
doubt not will promptly he followed by all. the Ma.
ritime Counties in Great Britain. The plan sug.
nested and approved of for Kent, appears to be
most unexceptionable in all its parts ; and it is cer.
tainly no small recommendation to it, that it has
the'sanetion of so admirable an °ricer as Sir as,v ID
DONBAS. •

Colonel T«•t(L of the E•igineere, is at Ttrlghtcra,
matict►k t) the &round fur An goeaukoutit.

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tre:n iLe L& \'l GTIZErTE, 7'/j 5, 1805,

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Ccltr of a Lew,- Molt eldrniral Sir y,bn Cciip,..v, K. B. C,mohil-
efre ta Cb;rj of. His Ships ami' Ves el.- at .F1)•rp.#11),
lc? ..Y14% EvaiuNeleam, Beirt. dated :he tat inslavl.
•
T transmit, tbr the information of the I orris Cornniissioners
of-the Admiralty, a:Letter from Captain Maitland, óf tlis
1%14),tt Ship Loire, giving an account of the Mil:C.:Si which
• has attended an enterprize be sent the Boats of that Ship on,
under the orders of Lieutenants Temple and'llowen. The
good .conduCt.and intrepidity."Of the Officers and • Men em-.
ployed on that service make it unnecessary tiar inc to add any
continent, persuaded that it cannot be lost sight of by their
..,Lordships.
• ' I am, &c. . JNI). COLPOYS.
eta, Loire,• fff L'Ple de Bats Jane zg, 1803.
I have the pleasure Of info.ming you, that last ;right three
of the 'Boats of His Majesty's Ship Loire, commanded by
Lieutenants Temple and Bowen; in a most gallant manner
boarded, and, atter a very severe confliet of nearly ten mt-
nuteon her deck, carried the National Brig Venteux, bear-
log 'lour long eighteen-pounders, and six thirty-six pound
brass earronades, commanded by Mons. Montfort, Lieutenant
de Vaisseau, tying close under the Batteries of the Isle of Bas.
%Viten it is considered that tile Venteux, perleetly prepared,
manned with Eighty-tWo men, all 'of whom were upon
Deck, and covered with very heavy Batteries, was opposed
to the Crews of two of our Boats, (as the third, from rowing
heavy; did not get up till the Brig was completely gained
possession ore), I feel confident that you will view it in the
• light that I do, as one of those brilliant exploits which add
lustre, to the British•Arnis' of which, though so many in-
stances occurred during the late War, no one has before been
happy enough to have thrown in his way during the present.,
41.1CC5,01 Mr Temple's daring attempt speaks selli-
ciently for hilcondraCt,. and that ot every one under his com-
mand, to render it superhtunis for me to enter into any eat-
logium on the present occasion.
Mr. Bridges hatler veil his time and passed fora Lieute.rmr
nearly a year; of whose conduCt Mr. Temple speaks in the
• highest terms, together with that every Officer and Vl4ll
tinder-his command.
lain very sorry. to adds that the loss on our side is rather
heavy; is .Mr; the Boatswain, is. so severely.
wou,...ded as torenthr him incapable of doing his duty for a
considerable time. Four Seanien and a Marine are also badly
wounded, t‘,..0 ache :Seamen, I fear, past recovery.
The Venteux had her Second Captain and two Seamen
killed; the „Captain., with four Officers, all she had, and
eight .Seamen,. wounded. She was blAlolled at Vie Isle ot
Kis to guard the Coast, and regulate the Cor;Voys or Stores,
/Sce.- bound to BreSt t is a Vessel of large dimensions, being
seventy tour feet long and twenty-tour wide, and pertealy
in a
.coilditionimmecliately to be emploied.
• - I have the Honour to be, &c.
'F. MAITLAND.

Sir Co/ply_ ,f B.
de. ere. :gr. •
4.ldmiraky.Offire,• Jury se IFO3.
Copy (a Letter from the Thnourable William L vrtzmall is, Alma.
rat the BP,e, fie. to Slr EV4II "%loran, Bart. the 26th
tflast Nash.
SIX.
Yllll will be pleased to lay Wore the Lords Commissioners
of the Admiraliy the Cll4,lcniel Letter from Rear-Ailmiral
Campbell, informing. me ot rho Doris having, on the 24th
instant, captured 4 small French Privateer ut twenty-lour
called La Pet ,gie, muunting lour guns, having ua
hoard thirty-seven men, troin Nantes, on a Cruiv, ana had
not MICA:II any thing.
I have the Honour to be, kc.
W. CORNWALLIS.
His Majc.o.y's Ship Culloden,
ywne 25, tB;3.
I have the Honour to Inform you, the Doris yesterday
ta aitnoon captured, in shore, a Small French Privateer of
. twenty-tour tons, called La Pelagic, mounting four guns,
anti having on hoard thirty.. Seven men, from Nantes on a
Cruise, anti had taken nothing.
She came. through the Passage Du Raz, and intended to
have gone through the Passage Du Four into tha Channel.
Captain PeArdOil has scuttled her by my directions.
I have Honour to be, dm.
QED. CAMPBELL.
Hen. Admiral Cornwell/lc, &c. &c.

PLYMOUTH, JuLv 4. Arrived the •French
Stoop La Marie Gull/en:tile, laden with salt, from
Croisic bound to Brest, captured by the-Doris Fri.