Star.
London, England, 1801-06-02 00:00:00

PROM THE PARIS PAPERS.

111aLioa, Arai 22.—The Spann Chebec pri-
vateer the St. Francis de Paule, of four eight poun-
der% Captain Psatz BERRI/ORME, brought into
F thisport on de t7th an Englifh Polacre, called
the ary, mounting 12 cight and fix-pounders.
Thi attle was obibnate, but the Englifh Polacre,
notivithilanding its fuperiority, was taken by
boarding, the Captain and so failors having been
wounded : our Chebeck had only four men Tightly
wounded.
Axossiass, APRIL so.—The privateers, La-
lanche, St. Francis Xavier, and The Myftique de
Gibraltar, brought ldto this part on the 17th, an
Englifh vete! of : o td elve+ound cartonades, com-
manded by Captain Tmostss lbstion.l,laden with
(alt beef, flour, and other provifions for Gibraltar.

Lieutenant R. Foam, of the navy, Who emit-
*landed the LuPCxea hired cutter, has been ac-
quitted by the Court of Inquiry, held upon him in
confequence of the capture of that veal.
Csptain Acsitisiti Minis is appoiritcod to
the command of the MALTA 'mail of war, fitting
fur fesi at Portfmoudit
The Galatea; Hintlit, front London, is re-
ported to be taken tiff Annotta Biy, Jamaica.
The Alfred, MiLiob, froth London for Toba-
go, Which bad been taken, is retaken and arrived
at Barbadocs.
The Duelers of Poitlaad, --I=-•Li from Laiidan
to the South Seas, has been run foul of, and put
into. Gibraltar, with damage, after beating off two
privateers.
The N. S. de las Mercedes, Batas.. froth Cadiz;
is arrived at Vera Crui after throwing part of her
cargeoverboard, to make her efcape:
Minerva, LYXAS, of and fbt. Liverpool,
from Tortola, has been taken, and retaken 13th
infiant, on the Spanifh Coal', by the Dart priva-
teer of Dover, and is brought in there.
The Naiad, Wm, from LA= to Btvordeaux,
e •ptured by the Revenge privateer, and fent
into jerky.
The Albion, Russia; the Speedy, QIIISTIN
frcm London, were well off Norfolk-Ifil. The
former in Nov. and the latter in OR. lag.
The Bon Jefufe e Alma, Coelho, from Cork to
Lifbon, is taken by the French.
The Alfred, —, from London to Tobago;
the Whitwortb, from Brillol aad Madeira

to the Weft Indies; the Amiable Louifa (hip;'
Aitive brig; and two brigs, names unknown,
from Li(bon to Pernambucco, are captured by
the Wyche French privateer. le Amiable Lou.
JCa and A4live are carried into Teneriffe, and the
two brigs burnt. The Alfred and Whitworth
were fent for Teneriffe, but not arrived there the
sad of March.

-The Rebecca (fuppofed) from Botany Bay to
the Cape of Good Hope, is captured by the
French.

The PRIMUS MARY packet, Capt. JAM ES NASH,
which has lately arrived from Bengal, is again
taken up for the purpofe of conveying fibres to the
Bland of St. Helena, after which ibe will proceed
to Bengal for a cargo.
• A letter from Bengal lays, his Majefty's chip
AItROGANT has made fourteen prizes to the Eaft-
ward, among which, we untferftand, are fome of
confuierable Value.

The SIR STEP HEN I.I79HINGTON,LORDHAWKES.
softy, and the reit of the fleet from India, were
well the 17th of April, in lat. 28. N. long. 23. W.
The (hip HOPE, Captain Ross, arrived at Ma.
dras, front the Cape of Good Hope on the sth
November. While at the Cape, he encountered a
very tremendous norm ; all the (hips around her
parted from their cables, hut thole of the Hors,
being of the Coir manufaCture, kept that, fhip in
her pofition in a molt violent fea.
We learn from Bombay, by a late letter received
from that Prefidency, that two American Gentle-
men, Captain CORTI s, of the Navigator, and Mr.
TWYCROSS, Supra Cargo of the faid Skip, arriVed
there in December in the Portuguefe (hip, Balmi-
ano, after encountering great difireffei. The
above Gentlemen failed from America in the Na.
vigatori bound to Madeira and Bombay, and
were wrecked in latitude 23. 27. deg. S. and long.
26. 37. Eaft ; by the help of their boats they land-
ed at the Portuguefe fettlement of Inhambana,
and embarked on board a Ship for Mofarnbique ;
in their paffage, however, they were captured off
Angofhe by a French brig, who landed the crew,
confifting of 7o people, on a defert Eland, with
only 36 gallons of water, and left them their boat,
in which Captain Cu RTIs proceeded to the Conti.
nent, and procured affillance ; after wh:cli they
fortunately got to Mofambique.
Letters from Brett, of the 4th infant, (late that
the marine daily feels the effect of the continental
peace.—Since that event, confiderable (urns have
been ailed for that fervice from the Treafury, and
almoft all arrears have been already paid up.
The St. Andrew, CAMERON, arrived at Clyde
from Berbice, touched at Demerara,from whence
fhe failed the 3d April, in Company with the
Lord Nelfon, ARMSTRONG ; and John, FOTHE-
RINGHAM, for Liverpool; and Tobago, MACHAN,
for London ;—parted with them on the ath, in
lat. tB. long. 53.—!About the t ith inn. (poke the
American Ship Margaret, from New York for
Clyde.
It is reported, that the Hon. Captain LEGGE
has captured one of the Spanifh galleons, for which
he was crnifing.
A Spanifh frigate with two millions of dollars
on board has been cal away on the Coati of Peru;
fifty of the crew periftted, and the dollars loft.
The following is the Monthly Statement of the
Britifh Nival Force. exclufive of the hired armed
veffels, which are chiefly ethployed in proteCting
the crafting trade of Great Britain :
Lime. SO'r Frg. Sp,.
In port and Wag • 19 4 12 69 ao4
Guard (hips - s o a 0 '
in the Englith and Iridt Cbannele 47 0 311 42

5 0 1 59
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