Star.
London, England, 1801-08-22 00:00:00

IXIRTSII:IOUTH, AUGUST

This day tailed the 131,LLEROPHON, of 74 guns,
Lord Vifcou'nt GAR LI E 2, to join the Channel fleet ;
and Vasuvitis bomb, for the Downs, to join Lord
Isltzsos. Arrived the LORD ST. VINCENT cutter,
from a cruize.

Farther infirdlions were night fent to Lord
NELSON, who Rill remained at Deal.

Yefterday morning Mr. PETERS arrived at the
Admiralty Office with Difpatches from Sir ROGER
Coatis, at the Cape of Good Hope. Mr. PETERS
landed at Torbay on Wednefday from the CAM-
P I ta frigate, the Hon. Capt. LEGG E.

The Hon. Capt. Rosser BARLOW is appointed
to the TRlum pH, of 74 guns, now at Shcernefs.
Lieutenant BINJAMIN PARTY, from the TERRI-
BLE, one of the Channel Fleet, is appointed Fir(}
Lieutenant of the WOW/IRENE.
The CURS, TODD, from London to Bengal,
was (poke on the 3d of April, in lat. 33. 49. S.
long. 6. Eaft, all well. The HIND, from
London to Bengal, parted.on the 27th of March.

The General Keppel privateer, of Liverpool,
has had an engagement with la Mouche French
privateer, and after a revere aftion, beat her off.
The fchooner Macaque, commanded by a Lieu.
tenant de Vaiffeau, with a cargo of wine, brandy,
oil, cheefe, &c. from Bayonne to Cayenne, is
taken, after a short aftion, by the Conti, s privateer
of jerky, and carried into that ifland.

The iIiDEFATIGAILI frigate, Capt. SCOTT, re-
turned to Plymouth on Tnefday, from a cruize on
the coati of France, in which the endeavoured to
cut out of Belleifle Roads a large French frigate
of 44 guns, but the was fo itrongly proteaed by
numerous batteries, that after exchanging feveral
broadfides, the was obliged to defift from the at-
tempt, as the French frigate warped into (hallow
water, and the Imosssriossts drawing a great
deal of water, feared g:tting on fome of the thoals,
A French Admiral, with five fail of the line and
three frigates, (till continue blocked up in Rochfort
by sir E. Pti.Law.

We have received a letter from a gentleman
who is paffenger on board the Company's chip
HENRY Dowoas which Pays, 4e We left the Wand
of Madeira on the Itith May, in company with the
Narrow, under convoy of the AILETHUER ; we
are now (9th June) in latitude t. 00. S. and lon-
gitude 26. Welt, and the Aerial/se is on the point
of leaving us. all well. On the 23d May we had
the misfortune to lore overboard Henry Griffith,
one of the King's troops, and John Moffat, a lea-
man, belonging to the HENRY DUNDEE. Every
affiance was given by our boats, and two of the
Aar usa, but the unfortunate men were drown-
ed. This accident arofe from the quarter matter
at the helm jibing the driver boom, the fore guy
of which having given way, broke, and the boom
fwept the men of the poop."

IXTRACT OF • LETTER. FROM AR OFFICER ON
/WARD HIS MAJESTY'S SHIP TUX woLvsaiss,

DATED OFF HAVES, AUGUST 8.

" As the French fifhing-boats, which were very
numerous on this coaft. have fo fueldastly difap-
pcared in the (pace of this laft week or ten days,
it may be very probably con,jeenred that the filler-
men arc employed in manning the gun-vac's, Bcc.
defined for the Invafion of England. Although
our Government have fo liberally extended their
prate* tion to the fifiermen from an idea of their
indigence, and from a generoftty peculiar to Eng-
liftmen, yet it will appear to you, by the following
llatement, that it is a great nurfery for French fea•
men. This ftatement is upon a very moderate
fcale ; and.the men, only ellimated ten in each
boat, are more numerous—many of the boats,
efpecially, ha►e from ten to thirty,,if not more,
nn board. However, this outline will tend to illu.
orate the pofition I have fet our with, viz. the
prejudice which we may fultaiii from tolerating
the fifnery of the French immediately on their
own coatis. They have likewife the privilege or
opportunity of afting as (pies.

171 Wag Boats.
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