Star.
London, England, 1801-03-21 00:00:00

IIdfIITICAL INTELLIGENCE.

This morning we were favoured with the fol-
lowing very intereftiag intelligence from the Medi-
terranean, which is the luta received from thence t
The Princeira, Capt. Lae, arrived in the Downs
the t 9th of March from Smyrna.failed from thence
the 29th of January.
By the laft accounts at that place from Macri,
oppofite Rhodes, Lord KEITH and the troops un.
der General ABERCROMBIE were to fail for Alex.
andria the 28th of January; the force confifted
of about .17,000 men all in good health and fpi.
rite. Lord KEITH had (even fail of the line, be.
fides frigates. The fall divilign of tranfport,,
confilling of about twenty fail, left Smyrna nn
the 28th of January, under convoy of the VIC.
TORIEUSE brig. It is fuppofed they put into Mi-
furnife, near Metelyn, as the wind cor.t!nued
for three or four days to the Southward. The
tranfports left at Smyrna, were expeacd to be
ready the firit week in February, and then to fall
under convoy of the GREYHOUND frigate I they
were part loaded with forage, and the rill fitted
up as horfe and mule !hips.
A report was circulated at Smyrna, that goon
French troops had reached Alexandria, and landed,
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but this was not credited • . others faid, with as
little foundation, they had landed at Bergazzi.
The plague had broke out in the Vizier's Army
(already much reduced by defertion) at Jaffa, and
General KOEHLER and his wife had fallen victims
to it. The French in Egypt had declared that they
would withiland every attack the Englifit might-
make. _

Capt. Lee faw nothing on his way to Mahon;
except a Greek brig from Malta to Patrafs, who
informed hint the ALEXANDE.R man of war and
PENELOPE frigate were at Malta.
On the 16th of February, at four P, M. Knorca
bearing Weil la leagues, faw three frigates to
windward, who made fait after the Princefa, the
wind then at Weft, though nearly calm ; at AM-
let the breeze freflieneci, and Captain lAA, elide*.
voured to get away by varying his courfe from S.
to N. N. E. and N. ; but the moon fhining thry
kept fight of him, and, from their appearance in
the day, judging them to be Englilh, he prefiared
hauling his wind to the N. W. than to run longer
towards Toulon, at,the rate of nine knots, by which
means, at midnight, the hindermoft frigate came
alongfide, and proved to be the Marva ; tha
other two were the PEARL and SANrA Teresa,
bound off Toulon. They told Capt.L ES to look out
for the French fleet arrived in the Mediterranean.
The wind continued to the W. S. W. till the 18th
at qight. The PaiNcessa arrived at five P. M.
that ca at Port Mahon. A few hours after, Sit
J. B. WaireEN, in the RENOWN, with the Gram,
TAR, DRAGON, and Pszleatt, arrived from the
Weft ; the next morning Capt. Lee was informed
that an embargo was laid on all veffels, upon which
he applied to Sir J. B. WARREN, who affured him
he would (peak to the Governor to permit him to
fail, and that he would put his letters on board the
next morning, which he did. The Gs NEREAUX
was manned by the keople of the tranfpnrts, apd
Crew 'of the SANTA DOROTHEA, and formed one
of Sir Joat's fquadron. The HAARLEM arrived
on the 19th from Mika, but having been afhore
there, the was going to heave down at Mahon, and
afterwards to take in her lower deck guns from
the garrifon (tares. Captain La a faired in the
evening, and juti a be patted Fort St. Philip, the
LONDON, Captain Sitar, from Smyrna, anchored,
having come from Maha with the HAAILLFM--•
neither he or Captain BURITON had teen the Tat-
User face they left &in, notrithflanding they
were three weeks at Malta ; but the pilots at Milo
informed Captain Lea they faw her pals the fame
day a the I.oNnow.
:Captain Shaw told him,that on the t Rth lie wat
on board the Cybelle tratifport, Captain GREY,
from Malta to Mahon. She was captured on the
tfith,by the French fleet of eight fail of the line, two
deckers, two frigates, the SUCCESS frigate, and a
cutter, captured from the Englifh ; but finding the
Cybelle had nothing but women on board, they
releafed her.—The fleet afterwards (leered N. N.
E. The evening he failed from Mahon, a frigate,
fuppofed to be the PEARL, was beating off thehaf-
boor; left at Mahon a Dana brig and a cutter
detained. At eight P. M..of the a ift, fell in with
a convoy, apparently ten or twelve fail, under
convoy of two frigates, who made many fi
and fired blue lights and rockets,byt did not rp:ls.
ak
them, having a &eat gale at Well, they (leering
N. E. by N. fuppofed for Mahon.
On the atith of February, in lat. 37. s3.long. a.
E. faw two flips, one a frigate, the other a two-
decker : the latter hoilted French colours, and
had the appearance of a French (hip, but the fri-
gate,'which made private fignals, was certainly
Englifh. Captain LEE heard a report at Gibrl-
tar of three Spruill line of battle limps being cruis•
'ing_off Cape St. Vincent's.
FALMOUTH, MARCH tB.—Yeiterday put back
by contrary wind the Lam; HOBART Packet. Capt.
F.t.zowss. with the Mails of this Month for Hall.
tax and New York; Ow is now waiting a wind to
fail: the AUCKLAND Packet, for the Leeward
Iflands Mail of this month, is ready for lea.
SHEERNESS, MARCH so.--This day his Najd.
ty's fhip his, of 32 guns, Captain &MAC, went
out of harbour m the Nom. being repaired and
fitted for lea. The Maar hired cutter, Lieutenant
MORGAN, came into harbour; and the MANLT
gun brig, Lieutenant Mama., failed with tome
merchantmen under convoy, for Leith.—The AD.
MIRAL MICHELL cutter was this day recommit
&med.

MARRIED.
Tisk Morning, William Mini4h, Efq. Mile End Romeo 0.0
Mn.s Wood, of Great Roar Bedforti-fquare.

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On Therfday morning, in Dean'alird,We (balsam, Lob
Cope, wife of the Rev. Sir Miami Cape, Dies.

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