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THURSDAY, AUGUST 11.
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Coat for no. 581

No farther intelligence had been received when this
Paper went to prefi, of the Fleet under the command
of Lord NE :Awe, or of the Combined French and
Spann fleets. A variety of reports, however, were
in circulati, n yeflcrday, none of which teemed de-
(crying of notice ; we !hall not therefore repeat them.

Whatever may be the fate of the Combined French
and Spanith fquadrons, a Monitorr of the sth or 6th
is Paid to have reached town, which contains Tome
curious fpeculations in regard to it. No light is
thrown uptin the ultimate deilination or immediate
operations of that fleet, but enough is fuffered to
efcape to induce aittrong fufpicion, that the French
Government is aware of the poffibility of its being
intercepted, and that fome care is taken to prepare
the public mind for the misfortune which it has ac-
tually fuffered. It is Paid to be Rated "that even if
the Combined Fleet were defeated and captured, Rill
the Naval exertions of France mutt command the
irefpea and excite the admiration of Europe. She will
have redeemed the pledge the made ; the will have
proved that the can fend out naval expeditions when-
ever the !hall pleafe, in fpite of the vigilance and ma-
ritime preponderance of the enemy." Such is raid to
be the tenor of the demi-official obfervations in the
Monitear, but not having fern it ourfelves, we do not
think ourfelves authorifed to make any comments
upon it.

Letters from our fleet off Brea, dated fo late as
Sunday Jail, Rate, that there is not a doubt of the
fquadron feen by the NAIAD, off Uflsant, having been
that which efotped from Rochefort during the ab-
fence of Admiral Srtat.sem. We are forry to add,
that it is faid the enemy have been able to return to
Rochefort.

By the difpatches received yetterday from Admi•
rah Lord KEITH and Douozas, and our own letters
treceived this morning, it does not appear that any of
the enemy's veffels were captured in the late engage-
ment off Boulogne; but from the long continuance
and feverity of the firing, it is probable that they
fuflained confiderable damage. According to our
letters from the coaft, the cannonade proceeded from
the batteries along fhore. Upwards of 300 of the
enemy's belt gun boats had affembled in the Bay,
and from the near approach of a number of our
cruizers, it was fuppofed that an attack upon the
flotilla was on the point of taking place. The whole
line of batteries in that quarter commenced a tre-
mendous fire, which was kept up for a long time ;
we are happy to fay, without any damage to our
veffels. Some of the gun boats which had ventured
too far on the ontfide of the pier, were driven afhore.
On the 1-4.0 of the invafion there is nothing new.
The utmoft adlirity prevails in all parts of the coun-
try in preparations to cover the enemy with difgrace,
if ever he fhould fucceed in landing on our fhores.—
This allivity cannot be carried too far, and we have
only again earneftly to imprefs on the minds of all
orders, that activity is perfcilly compatible with the
txtmoff coolnefs and regularity. Unneceffary alarm
can only create embarraflistent, and embarraffment
can only ferve to augment danger. Let us wait the re-
Cult with calmnefs, and we ihall be the better enabled
to enter on the grand flruggle, if ever it arrive, with
all the fpirit of Freemen, and all the charaeeriftic
courage yofEng lifhmen.

This morning arrived the Hamburgh Mail due on
Sunday lall, and a Gottenburgh Mail. The printed
Journals by thefe mails contain no information what-
aver in regard to the political views of the great
Continental Powers. The French, it is Paid, are
adding confiderable reinforcements to their troops in
Upper Italy, which, including the Italian troops,
amount now to moot) men ; and it is ffated in a
letter firm Vienna, that the Archduke CnaaLas will
fet out in the mirk of this month to make a general
review of the troops.
A letter, dated Rochelle, July 18, which teems to
have been copied from Come of the French Journals,
mentions eight fail of the line and frigates having
failed from the Ilk of Air on the 17th. They took
a foutherly courfe ; bat no hints are given in regard
to their deltination. The articles molt worthy of no-
tice are the following :
ROCHELLE, JULY 18.—Yefterday the fquadron of
the Ilk of Aix, confining of eight (hips of the line
and frigates, under the command of Capt. LALLIS-
WIAiIn, put to fea in order of battle, with a fair wind,
and proceeded on a fouthern courfe. As the wind
continued i vourable, the fquadron by this time mull
have got i confiderable diftance.
BASTIA (in the Ifland of Corfica) JVLY to.—Three
Englifh (hips of war and a frigate, have been cruiling ,
for eight days pall on our coall. They form part
of
lthe Englift fquadron in the Mediterranean. This
divifion forms, with the fquadron of Admiral Cot..
r'ciacwoon which is blockading Cadiz and convoys
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