Star.
London, England, 1805-07-30 00:00:00

DATED ON BOARD THE

M VICTORY, AT IRA, JONt 10.

6 Although I wrote you by the Corlett:, tsth June, a long ac-
count of our purtuing the French and Erma& Fleet (united) from
the Mediterranean out to the Weft Indies, and ferretted them from
illand to Wand, until the turfed cowards took to their heels and
have run back again from u., slam' they were greatly fuperior in
etombem They had four days !tart of us, in their way home.
wards, but we eves, day, war them, and I make no doubt of
catching theft% 'ere they get back, if we do, be affured, you !ball
have a good account of them. At any rate, we have completely
Initiated the purpoles of their voyage to the Weft Indies, and raved
dude Mande from ruin, and drove ads troublefotne vermin bath
into their holes ; to their Otame,and the ridicule of all Eurok. On
starting after thde fellows. laftly from Antigua, we parted with
Geptrtl Mesas and his ftalr, they returned in the NorthuMbei.
lend win itabadoes, and all the refidue of the forces that were ea
board the fleet, eteept a regiment left at Antigua, to enereafe the
forces there. I am much pleated with leaving the Weft Indies fo
Goon, as the little tinge we have been here each Clip loft face men ;
we are now netting for Cape St.Vineent, and if we mils the enemy
we'must get to Gibraltar to /abut and water. On the .Bth,
1 uaday, we fpoke an American °tip ; be had teen the French
Beet fleeting N. E. homeward; of murk we bad neared them two
Jays fall already, to that we arc in high fpirits from the hope that
we ball be 'alga to catch thou before they eau beak thcagtal►es."

Ror.a FAMILr.

WIIYMOUTII, JULY Al.—The ROYAL FAMILY Came
•n lhore yefterday evening about fix o'clock; at feven
went to the Theatre with their ufual attendants.

This morning, about ten o'clock, their Royal
Highneffes the Dukes of CUNIIIRLAND and CAM.
moos went to the camps to attend Divine Service,
which was performed at the drum head of each re-
giment. .

H. MAJZITT will hold a Council at Weymouth
on Saturday, at which Mr. Parr is espeeted to be
prefent.
On Saturday Mr. Parr and a large party dined
with the Printers of WALIS at her feat on Black.
heath:

JAMBI DALY, Efq. is chofen Member for the
town of Galway, in the roorn of Deems Bowes
DALY, Efq. who has accepted the office of Efcheator
of Munfler.

Mr. Jußice Jonwson fet off for Ireland on Wed-
nefday morning.
The commercial advantages of Portfmouth will be
much increafed by the late privilege granted to it, of
warehonfing and bonding foreign goals. A number
of florehoufes are to be built contiguous to the Town
Otto y.
xperiments were made in the courfe of laR week,
to afeertain the dißances at which it will be proper to
place fignal-pofts, in order to form a communication
between Portfmouth and Plymouth. There will be
about 22 points of communication : that is, ten tele-
graphic polls will be added to the twelve already dia.
bliffied. The time for conveying intelligence from
one port to the other will be about half an hour.
Our fejt:adroit employed in the blockade of the op-
pofite line of the French coaft is be confiderably re-
inforced both by large (hips and (mall craft. Yeßer-
day the Dormice and Actsconar joined, and its
operations are, for the future, to be affiffed by fire-
(hips, fix of which are arrived in the Downs.
The Direltors of the Eall India Company have
prcfented to his Majefly two fix-pounder guns, which
were taken at Serangapatam. and brought to Eng-
land by Marquis Coenwat us in the Swallow packet,
commanded by Captain CURTIS. They were call
in the fnunderies of Throes Sumrann, it is fuppoled,
under the direftion of fome Frenchmen who were at
that time in the fervice of that Prince; the ornaments
are far fuperior to any of our pieces, the muzzles
reprefenting tyger's heads. They are to be mounted
on carriages, and we underlland are then to be
placed on each fide of the gun in the Park that was
brought from Egypt.
BILIAD.—This day no Court of Aldermen was
held. The LORD MAYOR, after Infpeding the Re-
turns, ordered the mice of Bread to be railed One
Penny in the Peck Loaf.
On Friday fe'nnight, Major Psuix, nephew of
the late Baron Plum, was thrown from his gig
near Ulverffon, by which his leg was flinchingly
fraitured ; and, notwithßanding the bell furgical af-
(Mance was procured, the wound mortified, and be
died on Sunday.
A letter has been received in Dublin from Botan y
Bay, written by one Andrew Doyle, who was fome
time fince tranfported thither for dealing in forged
Bank-notes. Among other matters, he mentions that
the late well known Barrington died very rich, and
that he has left a valuable legacy to a near relation
in that city, to whom Doyle gives a direction how he
is to apply to get the property.
The Irifh Court of Chancery were engaged two
days laft week, in hearing a cattle where an injunc-
tion was moved for to bar execution on the Donnegal
ellate ; on a joint bond of the Earl of DonstGAL, and
his fither-in-law, Mr. EDWARD MAY, for &hood. at I
the fuit of one Mr. a wealthy Jew. In the
courfe of the difcuffion, the Son of /fro/ frequently
addreffed the Chancellor very impreffively in defence,
of his claim, and was heard by his Lord(hip with
confiderable attention. However, the Chancellor
finally admitted the injunaion, to.prevent the execu-
tion operating againli Lord DOMNROAL, until it ap-
peared that he had derived eaclufively the benefit of
ti loan. His Lordihip added, that baying been
confulted, when at the bar, on the unfortunate affairs
t! that Nobleman, he had no hefitation in declaring,
that, though his elate, inftead of eighty, were
zBo,oool. per annum, if fome mode were not fpeedily
deviled, to dole its accounts with a certain agency,
that the baneful influence which now preyed upon it
would loon abforb the whole"

Between three and four' o'clock in the afternoon of
Tuefday, a very violent thunder form came on at
Hull. The lightning was uncommonly vivid, and
the thunder tremendous. The former Bruck a houfe
in Leadenball-fquare, palled through the ceiling of
an upper room in which a [cheat is kept, carried
away part of the platter off the, fire-place, and, en-
tering the room below, carried away a confiderable
part of the chimney-piece ; breaking feveral glaffes,
china, &c. Although the fcliool was full of children,
none of them experienced any injury. Mrs. Lamb,
who occupied the lower room, was fitting in the
window leaning againft the cafement, part of which,
a few inches above her head, was broke off by the
lightning, yet fortunately fhe received no injury,
rave from the confufion and alarm which this awful
vifitation occafinned.

During the Pors's late refidence at Paris; the molt
cnnfiant homage was paid him by numerous exhibi-
tions to explain the provers of the ;ireful arts in that
country. One eircumtance, however, but little
known, though unparalleled in the Ands of Printing,
deferves to be recorded : On the ill of February, his
Hounds vifited the Imperial Printing Office. As he
paffed along the galleries, iso preffes furniffied him,
as he puffed, with a !beet each, upon which was given
the Lard's Prayer in tome different language or dia-
led. In Hebrew, Samaritan, Chaff:lee, ancient Sy-
riac, Rabinical, ancient and vulgar Arabic, Anne-
nian Perfian, and alfo all the languages and letters
of the Crimea, of the Malay, of Java, of Indoftan, af
the Mogul Empire, of China, and of Tartary ; in all
forty-fix dialed' of Afia. We cannot enumerate all
the European languagesanddialeds, but they amount-
ed to 75. Africa furniffied is, and America the rf
maining The reputation of the French prefs is
well known, and the conftant attention paid by that
Ration to the Art of Printing, even amid(' their re-
volutionary horrors, enabled them to pats before the
eyes of the Roman Pontiff whatever has been em-
ployed to improve or enrich the noWea and mu& de-
ad art imolai t 9 man. . •

NAUTX4L INTELLIGENCE.

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Tea cur, JULY sB.—This day arrived his Majefty's
fhip Nam a ass, Captain SOUIRRYILLI, from a cruize--
reports that the yellerday pared his Majefty's Mips
Aoiscourr, Zaazous, Darning. GOLIAN, and
Taaataca, who were all bound to the North Seas.

FALMOUTH. JULY a7.—The Townfend packet,
Captain Doan, with a mail for Liflron ; and the
Manchefter packet, Captain Davis, with a mail for
the Leeward Mods, which failed from hence on the
evening of the asth int. returned this morning, and
failed again this evening.
PORTSMOUTH, JULY 29. Arrived the Ayiing
fchooner from jerfey ; Euphrates, —, bound to
the Eaft Indies; the Sifters, MANNING, bound to Gi-
braltar from the Downs. Sailed fel.eral cartels with
Spanifh prifoners. Wind S. W.
/NAL, Jor.y 29.—N0 one here remembers ever to
have fees, in the Downs, fo many (hips of war as at
prefent, there being no lets than (even line of battle
114: befides frigates, fifty-gun Mips, Sloops of war,
gun brigs, cutters, loggers, &c. amounting in num-
ber to fourfcore.—Yefterday arrived the-Dense%
GotaArr, and Sums, of 74 guns each; with the
AGINCOURT, of 64. Lord KEITH'S flag (the blue at
the main) is hoifted on the ST. ALBAN'S. Tlle. Ist-
14011.TALITII frigate, the gallant Captain Owes, is
hourly expe&ed from Sheernefs, where (he has been
to refit after the late engagement, and the Ma= the
wind fhifts to E. S. E. will, with her fquadron (of
which the is Commodore) fail on an expedition to the
other fide of the coati. All is hurry and hurtle here.
There is a report very prevalent that a harbour is
inflantly to be cot at Dover, to form a grand naval
arfenal for (hips of war, &c. This morning was
launched, at Dover, a fine new gun brig, of so guns,
name as yet unknown.. Arrived yefterday, after poft,
the AGINCOURT and Za4LOUS man of war, from Ply-
mouth, and remain in the Downs with a large fleet
of Ihips of warand outward bound veffels—Wind S.W.
SH alas EIS, JULY a7.--Sailed the Woolwich ten-
der for the River ; Mary tender for Leith, and the
Elias. tender for Shields. Ships at this port : Zea-
land, l'lmmortalite, I'Unite, Boadicea, Winchelfea,
Ceres, Magnanime, Champion, la Fjeche, Infpator,
Valorous, Combatant, Dauntlefs, Ranger, and Rofi-
INA armed (hips, feveral gun brigs and bomb tenders.
jinx a9.—hire o'clock—Sailed this day for Deal
hisgL r
Majety's lui! p aIIMORTALITS, Capt. Owsq. The
Ranger armed ails will fail on 'Midday to Tonnin.
gen, with convoy. Yellerday arrived the CHAMPION
frigate, Captain &messy, to repair damages.—
' Arrived the Trompeufe from the Coati of Africa.
--,Sailed from the Nore this afternoon the Rofina
armed (hip, with about so fail of vefels under con-
voy for the Baltic.—Wind S. W.

CHATHAM, JULY 29.—Monday the HIND WU on-
docked after being coppered and rigged for commit-
fion. Saturday the EDGAR was undocked and man-
ned by the Monaacit's officers and (hip's company ;
and on Monday dropped alongfide the Dordrecht
receiving (hip to be rigged and pored ; and the KITE
and Imooss (mentioned in our laa) taken into the
famc dock. The acres for the Turns were fent
from our Dock Yard yeaerday, the is to be fitted
with all difpatch. The Aram*, now fitting at
Northfieet, will be ready for fea in a few days.

WORKINGTON, JULY so.—l had yefterday a letter
from Joss PH PR I &STIR AN, of this place (who was cap.
lured in the month of May laft. by the Sylph priva-
teer, and landed loon after in Pelage) dated Limoges,
June 20, and at the requeft of a Mr. Powsa, who
was then with him a fellow prifoner, I write this to
iqform you of his &nation. Captain-Pats:v. wait fays,
they were then all well in health, and expreffes great
fatisfailion at the kind ufage of the French on their
travels. They were to proceed next day, as their
ultimate dellination was Verdun, a diftance of 3v
miles. The names of the other prifoners were Mr.
Buses, Mr. BARLOW, MT. CRUST, of Exeter, Cap-
tains STOR BY, c 1441211, STRIP/MS, RICH•RDION,
and Q_UINTON.

FROM LLOYD% LIST.
OBAIMIND, OLT A... Paged by. the Friends, Miller, from
Africa ; Mary, Phillips, from Testeriffe t Mote, Fora and Nor-
way, Secluck, from Norway; Nile, Wifemen ; Taylor,
from Dantzle ; Orion, Johofon ; and Ageottorio, Stone, from
Riga; Refpedt, Wilfon, from Oporto • Henry, Smith; and En-1
deavour, Miller, from Llibon ; William, Nanning. on, front Wa.
tcrford ; John, Ritchie; Adriatic, &reborn ; Venal, Bober; Ef-
fort, Tayler; Transfer, Moore; George, Mafthell ; Rachael,
Cur; Martha, Fofter ; Amazon, Kitchen; and Refolution,
Langley, from PeteriburshrSalled the George, Huttes,for Bar .1
Dodoes ; Alexander, Vole, for New York; Mary Anne, Thrum-
, fon ; Mariner, Church ; and Augultus,Sangiter, for Peteriburgh;
'Livocia, Hindmarlh, for Riga; Stade Oldenhargb, Hanfon, for
Tooningen ; Venus, Ballard; and Jane Reinder, Duro; for,
Stettin.
Jo cr ay.—Paged by the Experiment, Eden, from Rotterdam; '
Hardware, Moduli ; and the William and Mary, Taylor, from
New York. Sailed the Lively, Shire, for Jamaica ; Rebecca,
Simpfon, for Dominica ; Friendibip, Wedge, for Barbados ; Mi-
nerva, Nightingale, for Eaton ; Charlotte Ano, Buxom for Re-
vak; Refolution,Parker ; and the Loulfa, Evans, for Cork.
A itaiveri.—Off Dover, Hardware, Matlock, from Ncw York
—At Briftol, United States, from Boitoo—At Liverpool,
—, from Greenland ; Abeooa. Hobfon, from Cads ;
s tinicredAtafierican, and Young Fodor, Rale, from New
York—At Dumfries, Cinnentino. —, from Oporto—At Cork,
Amphioe, Payne, from Philadelphia—At Tenerife, Ceres, Due-
-1 has, tram Landon—AV Bolton, Ship Carpenter, Meyer, from
1-400 co; Diana, Stoddart; and Kirkham. Oldham, from Liver-
pool—At Virgin* Osl, Baker, from Liverpool—At New York,
fr Perfeversoce, Strain, from tiverpool; and'Enterprize,
om lkiftol.

The Pal and Wel. .--.. Iran Virginia for Bermuda; and
ihe Dim, —, from &tear Jamaica, are captured by a Spa-
flint privateer, and carried ism Bt. A a.
The Arcade, Daie, kom-Loodas, a leak at Jamaica,
usEwt Dear fatly loaded, and wig Ito to unload to repair.
• The Role& and Lady fiaftbAra ken jailetee, lett from the
Deems have arrived at Lat. • • • • * • * *

Lulls Juts, 27. Lail night two large vett-
were working up. the Frith, fuppofed to be the
and another whaler. The Jean, of Dundee, from
Davis's Straits, palled through Aberdeen bay on
Tuefday, with (even Mb. about 1 to tons of oil. Mon.
day arrived in Leith Roads, the BILAVOICIE armed
(hip, from Tonningen, and on Tuefday morning the
SALLY armed (hip, from Elfineur, with convoys.
The Strah and Elizabeth, Captain EwaLuz, ar_
rived at Hull, from the whale fitheries, fell in, on
Monday fe'nnight, off Flambro' Head, with a (mall
lugger privateer, fuppofed to carry to or 12 guns,
which bore round the Sarah and Elizabeth, and then
' hauled her wind and made towards a brig. Captain
EWll4lll[' confideriag that if he attempted to efcape,
or ftiffezed the brig to be captured, the enemy would
undoubtedly next attack him, bore down between the
privateer and the brig. This manoeuvre, and the
warlike appearance of the Sarah and Ea:abet,, had
the defined effeit, and the privateer made all fail to
efcape. Captain Ewa AN z fell in with a Hoop of war
afterwards, and comminicated the intelligence to bet.
The following is an extras of a Letter from llom.
bay, dated the islth of December, 184, by a dow
which arrived there from Maculla the day before ; ••••
" Information has been received that a Sip bad arrived there,
about fix weeks ago, untier Ere& colour% whole cargo appears
to confift of rice, bales of Engin,* cloth, Bengal fdk, and pies*
goods, and without at: European an hnard-4uch a cargo having
ended fulpicion, the Sheick took pareflian of the Chip, and pet
the whole crew into canfinementin oeskquace of which, it
kid, they cantered having murdered the captain and ofSeers, and
to have carried off the lisp ; but at what port they Sett leaded I
have not beard, for ktfaculb leans to have been the retied or third.
. From this detcriptian, we here think thli v 44 muit be the Aim
Teem Glenna, bound hither, and long miffing.*