Star.
London, England, 1804-03-19 00:00:00

FLOTILLA OFF aomodivz

DIAL. MARCH tB.—Accounts were received here
7tflerday of an attack made on the Cats:zee tloop of
war, while at anchor off Fluffing, by one heavy
brig and twelve fchooners, but they were repulfed
with eanfiderable lots, and happy to get agiin under
the proteetion of their own batteries. The Jac tau.
vas-brig, which arrived here yefierday, endeavoureJ
to attack a number of the enemy's gun-isnats in Of.
tend Roads, but the batteries opened fo heavy a fire
upon her, that being alone, the was obliged to retreat.
We have had no tiews from Boulogne for Tome days
part, nor has any more firing been heard.
Dorsi', Maio, 17.—8 y a letter received from
our flotilla, off Boulogne, we learn, that the firing
heard for kraal days patt, has been the Freach ex.
ereifing their troops, and thellight ■nd flying artil-
lery ; part of their flotilla has alto been curdled
and manoeuvred in the roads, under their own bat.
teries; our flips lay out of gun toot, and have not
fired fine laa Sunday in anger. The French force
is Rated to be from woo to 'zoo veffels, of all•
deferiptions, among which there are Rated to be
near zoo gun-brigs, and fchooners of large force,
capable of fighting their way through s the Tea are
fmaller craft, with a thirty-two pounder in the bow
only, and a (mail brafs howitzer in the Rem, with
hark boats and tranfports, chiefly fchuits ; they are
fo thick, our correfpondem adds, that their malts re-
ferable the poles (landing in the hop gardens in rum-
mer ; they have made an entire new harbour, to the
Eaftward of Boulogne. Between the latter place and
Ambleteure, it is capable of holding Soo of their
craft, and covered by formidable batteries ; the camp
extends five miles in length, and an immenfe number
of foldiers are daily exercifed in view of our lquadron.
They have alto a large park of flying artillery, and
a depot of military fore. of every defcription.—
Our force at prefent to oppofe this armament, is
three frigates, two floops of war, and a cutter, and
it is a matter of attonithment to the Officers of the
rquadron why they have not attempted daring the
late calm weather, to come out. Reinforcements
are daily going to Boulogne from Fluffing, &e.
—lt is conjeaured that the enemy cannot make all
thefe formidable preparations without intending to
pay us a rift, which we look for from day to day,
and, confidering that they have now two harbours to
come out of, nearly together, they can confequently
get out in one tide double the number hitherto (up-
pored. It is aid that the enemy, if they come out,
will leave a part of their heavy gun-brigs to engage
oar (hips, while the nett purfue their eourfe. Arrived
in the Roads the Two Ft iced', N. bfacat Ls matter,
from Charlelion, and landed the under-mentioned
paffengers—Mr,. JAMB GARDMIR and Wss. WASH.

A letter from Guernfey, brought to Southampton
by the VIGILANT on Friday, elates, that moil .1 the
gun vele!' at St. Mato, Granville, &c. had failed
from thence towards Boulogne, and that the appre-
kenfions at the Wand, of attack, had been greatly
lelTened in confequence.
Accounts from an officer on board the Maeic,-
.iwe, one of Sir S. SMITH'S froadron Rationed at
the mouth of the Scheldt, dated on Wednefday
Rate, that the enemy's fleet at Flufhing is in every
refped ready for fee, and that the Cavalry to be em-
ployed in the invafion have aaually embarked.
Saturday afternoon ,a Gentleman, named Wotss,
arrived in town frac; Rotterdam, which place he
left on Monday IA : he reports, that another move.
resent has taken place amongft the Dutch troops in
North-Holland, drawing nearer to the Helder, for
the purpofe of embarkation ; General Ma It stone, the
new French Commander in Chief in the Batavian Re-
public, had arrived at the Hague.

Lieutenant WILMOT, of the Loan NRLSOM cutter,
it appeari, has been taken prifoner in Holland. He
landed with a part of a boat's crew on the Hook of
Holland a few days ago, when they proceeded to a
farm houfe and procured refrethments ; after which
the Lieutenant fent off his crew and propofed to fol-
low them to the boat. He, however, did not return ;
and, after an unfuccefsful &arch, they continued row.
ing off fhore till fix o'clock in the morning, when they
were attacked and fired on by a party of light bode.
The LORD Nxi.son arrived on Friday at Dover.
Letters from Bombay to the asith September,
furnifb a complete confutation of the accounts in the
French rapers. which Rated the defeat of the Britifh
Army under the orders of General W v, by
the M.thrattas.
A thong detachment of the PRISHWA'S army is
under orders to march on an expedition againft Nir-
war, on the road to which, at the village of Beercir,
is a valuable mine of iron belonging to Scum or A, and
which he has lately worked to great advantage.—
The fort at this place is the flrongeß in his pullet-
finny and is the place in which his hate pritoncrs are
confined ; it is likewife the grand repofitory of his
treafure, at tillery, ammunition and military (tore:, of
which it is fuppofed dill to contain great quantities.
The following intelligence relpating Ceylon, is
given in a letter from Tanjore, dated the t R of Sept.
—•• Major Dam, Captain Ru "4 LI Y. of his Majefly's
Malay Regiment, and a Captain of the Bengal Ar-
tillery, are the only officers retained as pnfoncrs ;
they are now employed in working on the roads, and
in other degrading effices. Some of the racers'
fervants, I underaand, have been fent to Trincomalee
with their nofes cot off, and otherwife mangled:—
Upwards of 52 officers have died or been killed in
Ceylon, fincc the beginning of the war. 1 firmly
hope, however, that the Candians ail' not glory Inng
in their cruelty, as an army of 6000 men is now
atrenabling in Bengal, deflined, it is (aid, for Ceylon."
Other letters, of the 3d and ath of September Rate,
that the &kith fasces, reduced to a few hundreds,
have been driven into Trincomale, which is befiezed
by upwards of aoßoo Caadiaas.

NAUTICAL INTELLIGENCE•

MAILS THIS DAY...-I.Vind N.
AIR. DUE. •lt. DUE
DuLila os I I lantburgh 5 I
Woo ford 0 5 Cuttemburgh 0 0

PLYMOUTH, MARCH 17.—Came in the Swedifh
(hip Zarkerman, of and from Stockholm, P. C.
)(mamma mafter, for Rochelle, laden with tar,
pitch, iron, and deals, detained by his Majelly's flip
BOADICEA, 0138 guns. Sailed the &At:I'LL, of 18
guns, on a cruise ; alfo the Lady Graves, TIED, for
Waterford, and thence for Newfoundland.
PuLTSMOUTN, MARCH 18.--AI-rived the FALCON
revenue cutter from Poole; Lan jaw" Mao", and
LADY Bottoms Eaft Indiamen, from the Downs.—
Paffed by from London the China American (hip,'
bound to Philadelphia and China. Went out of bar.
hour the CAR YSFORT frigate.
Drat., MARCH tB.—Sailed the Diligence Eaft
India Pilot for the River ; FURY bomb, to join the
fquadron off Boulogne; Narrows Eaft Indianian,
and feveral other outward-bound veffels to the Weft-
ward. Arrived the JacT•et. gun-brig from a cruize,
and remains in the Downs with the raft of his Ma.
jetty's (hips as per laft, Amy' Eaft India Pilot,
Champion and Amity Tranfports.—Wind N.E. blows.
hard with rain.
YARNED%) is, MARCH le.—On Friday P. M. arrived
the CIIISOR gun brig from a cruife.—Yeflerday failed
the MALLARD and CEN sow. gun brigs, and the SWAN
and Hawes cutters, after having been refitted.—
Palled through the Roads a trader from London to
Hull, taken off this coaft by a privateer, and retaken
by the BRAME (loop, and fent to the River. Arrived
a lugger, with difpatchss from Sir SYDNEY SMITH to
Admiral Rosser. Arrived the Sutra gun brig.
from a cruife. The )(Trues', of 64 guns, will fail
this afternoon to join the North Sca Fleet under
Admiral THORN BOROUGH. The &Don cutter will
fail with the trade for Hufnm as loon as the wind is
fair.—Paffed through thefe Roads feversl laden col-
liers, to the Southward. Wind freib breeze at N. E.
Remain in the Roads the In r LI( Xi ILI, one gun brig,
a cutter, and a logger. The Bs floop has fent
in here a Dutch floop,which the captured off the Fly.
Gatanocx, MARCH O.—Cornelia, Hsu., from
Charlefton, failed from thence OD the :6th January.
The Sufannah. WaeTta, failed about five or fix
days before the Cornelia, and the Mary, ST•au It V, in
company with the Cornelia, both fur this port. Capt.
Hies. thinks the Hibernia, STOIC RS. alfo of this port,
had failed about ten days before him.—Left loading
for this port, the Birmingham Packet, POLLARD. The
Brandy•Wine•Miller, COLLIN?, from New York for
this port, is arrived at Lochfwilly. The Lady Nei.
Eton, M'Aersvia, arrived here yefterday from Li(bon
in so days, fpoke on the t Ws ult. in the North Chan-
nel, the (tip Crawford, Jaratzsow. from Virginia
for this port. The (loop Alexander, M'Coastrcnv,
arrived at Londonderry from Clyde, 4th inftant.—
The Tay. &mono, from hence, at Sligo; and
Nelly and Peggy. M.Ft a, of this port, at Dublin, from
Limerick.
FROM LLOYD); LIST.

GRAVILII)III,MARCm 01.—Na-ea by the Two Friends, M•Niel,
from Charlatan; Mina Johanna, Barman, from Faro; Good
Hope, Nefbitt, from Norway ; Julius, Lean; Vrow Loma, Par-
ker; Vrow Maria, Lucas; Five Brothers, Rowlands; Vrow
Alida, Escrahl Vrow Anna Marla, —; Two Brothers,
Holmes; crow Rina, -midt; Vrow Ekott, Hacks; Vrow Emit-
ten, Clofs, and Gond Hope, Armtis, from Embden.—Salled the
Ruby, Blake, for the Fait Indira; Mihwa,Allan, fur Demarara;
Generous Friends, Bag, fur Gaernky, anal the Awarteren,
keinders, for Eotbden.

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE.
ADMI •OFFICE, MARCH 17, 1804.
Cep, or • Letter from Commodore Hoot), Commander In Chief
of his MaJclty's China and veffels in the Leeward Iflandt. to
WILLIAM MARIDLII, Eh!. dated at Marti:tire, Jan. 77, ans.
Sir--I fend you herewith, for the information of
the Lord Commifficmers of the Admiralty, copies of
two letters from Captain NOURSE, of hi, Majeily's
(loop CYAN', giving an account of the capture of a
privateer of eight guns and eighty-four men, and
recapture of a valuable Guineaman.
(Signed) SAM. HOOD.
His Majeßy... (loop Cent, Jan. a, 1804.
Sir—l beg leave to inkum you of my having re-
captured the fbip Weitmoreland, from the coati of
Guinea, taken by the General Ernouf privateer, who
was in fight at the time, but efcaped.
(Signed) paten NOVAS,. 11
His Majefty'• hoop CT A• Z. Jan 20.1804.
Sir—l beg leave to acquaint you of his Majedy's
Hoop under my command having, in the latitude of
Barbadoes, fallen in with, and after a chafe of five
hours, captured la Bellone French privateer of eight
guns, and eighty four men, lad from Surinam ; out
(even days, and had taken nothing. Her guns
thrown overboard during the chafe. I am, &c.

(Signed) JOSEPH
Copy of a Letter from the Itlplt Honourable Lord Kt ITN, K. B.
Anmiral of the Blue, he. to WILLIAM MA•DEN, Efq. dAtc..l

off Runfgate. the 13th maim
Sir—Be pleafed to acquaint their Lordfhips, th it
Captain 1-ILywooo, of his Majefty% fl,np the riaarr.
yederday captured and fent into the Downs, the
Penriche French gun-boat of tvio guns and twn Imall
trianfpotts, part of a convoy pr,,cced.ng under hcr
proteßion from CAW% to Boirsgne. (Signed) emit.