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teArrricAL INTELLIaENcE.

MAILS THIS DAY.-.Whad S. S. W.
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Tot's; FEU. 9.—The Channel Fleet, under the
command of Admiral CORNWALLIs, confitling of the
following (hips, viz. the VILLE DR PARIS, DREAD
NOUGHT, Bill JOSEPH, BRITANNIA, TEMERAIII.I,
WINDSOR CASTLE, Q.I.IIEN, EAGLE, WARRIOR, Ds-
FIANCE, BELLEROPHON, MARS, and the VETERAN men
of war, are now coming into the Bay. Arrived the
Mary Ann Spanilh (hip, from Sebaflian's for Cadiz,
captured by the DIAMOND ft igat e and remains with
the Ncsts sts frigate.
SOUTHAMPTON, FEL 10.—Arrived the Vigilant,
Comma', from Guernfey ; and the Amflaad,
NER from Bilboa. The Bombay Cattle, the Wex-
ford, the Royal George, and the Henry Addington,
outward-bound Eall Indiamen, put back into Cowes
Roads yeflerday afternoon, having loft the Way
MOUTH frigate their convoy. Wind S. E. fine weather.
DEAL, Fsa. to.—Rear Admiral DOUGLAS arrived
here this morning, and hoitled his flag on board the
LEOPARD man of war in the Downs. Arrived the
Tausrr man of war from Portfmouth, and SPEEDY
and RATLV (loops of war from a cruize. Sailed the
Elphintlone. Hugh Inglis, Elk:, Ann, and Glory
PEati-Indiamen, for the River. Put back the Charle•
ton outward-bound Eall•lndiaman, and remains in
the Downs with the (hips as per hall, and the Wood-
ford homeward-bound EMI Indiaman. Wind S. W.

PENZANCI, Fag. 6,-Since my laa arrived the
Nancy, PILIVATT, from Southampton, for Cork ; his
Majefty's brig Gitmit r, Lieutenant Bass, qnri
Rs-
SOLUTION ; and the excite cutter STOVIPH A ?4, from a
cruize ; but the GANNET is preparing to proceed again
on the look our.

Fan. B.—Since my Taft arrived the Prince of Wales,
TABLUDDR a, from London, WI from Falmouth ; and
Ann, HINCSTON, from Falmouth for Stvaniel, with
copper orc, under convoy of bis Majefly's hircd arm-
ed brig Caroline. Sailed the Nancy, PRFVATT, for
Cork ; and Belmont, WATKINS, for Swanfea.

FROM THE LONDON GAZME. FEB. 9.
ADMIRALTY OFFICE, TER. 9.
_ _

Copy of a Letter from Commodore Sir SAMUEL HOOD, K B.
Commander in Chief of his Marefty's Ships and Veffels at the
Leeward Illanda, to WILLIAM MARSDIINi Elq. dated Ort board
the Se aa rti,at Barbadoes,llee,l6, 1804. -

Sir—l tranftnit,lor the information of the Lords
Commiffioners of the Admiralty, the ct•py of a let-
ter from Captain Nouass, of his Majelly's Ihip BAR-
BADOES, giving an account of the capture of the Heu-
feu: French privateer, of ten guns and eighty men.
I am, &c. (Signed) SAM. HOOD.

His Majefty's chip BA It sADoss, at Sea, November 1804. I
Sir—l hare the honour to inform you, his Maier.
ty's fhip under my command this day captured I
l'Heureux, a French privateer floop of ten fix poun- '
ders (thrown overboard during the chace) and eighty
men, out nine days from Goadaloupe, and had made
no capture. I have the honour to be, &c.
(Signed) JOSkti4 MOORS,.
Copy of another Letter from Commodore Sir SAMUEL HOOD, K.D.
to W. MARSDR/I. Efq. dated on board the SCRAM, at Barba-
does, Dee t 6, ON.
Sin—l have the fatisfaflion to fend to their Lord-
fhips the copy of a letter from the Honourable Cap-
tain CADOOAN, Commander of his Majefly's floop
Crass, giving an account of the capture of the Bo-
naparte brig privateer of eighteen guns, and one
hundred and fifty men, after a few minutes running
fight, which Captain CADOOAN appears to have exe
cuted with judgment. I have the honour to he, Ltc. '
(Signed) SAM. HOOD.
His Majcity's floop CYAN', off Antigua, Nov. 13
Sir—l have the honour to inform you, that, on the
t Ith infiant, at three A. M. off the ifland of 'Marie-
galante, after a short chace and running fight of 3o
minutes, I had the good fortune to come up with and
capture le Bonaparte, a very fine privateer brig,
pierced for twenty-two guns, mounting eighteen
long French eight pounders, and one hundred and
fifty men. lam happy to add that we have receiv-
ed no material damage in our mans or hull, and
have only a few men hurt, occafioned by the explo-
lion of a cartridge on the main deck. We found
the Bonaparte in a very (battered condition, having
loft her fnremafl, howfprit, and topmalts, in an
action with three Englifh letters of marque three
days previous to her capture. I fbould not do juflice
to my feelings were I to omit exprefling my thorough
fatisfation at the Ready and determined condo& of
all the officers and crew of the CYANI; and al,hough
the Rate of the veil was fuch as not to call forth
any extraordinary exertions on their part, I feel con-
fident that whenever chance may live them an op-
purtunity, they will do ample jufirce to the charader
which in my opinion they fo jufily deferve.
• (Signed) cm. CADOG•H.
Copy of a Letter from Captain Lord MASK Roarer Kraft of
his Majefty's FISOARD, to WILLIAM MASSDEN, rsq:da-
tettat fn, the 24th of December 1804.
Sir—l enclofe for the information of my Lords
Commiffioners of the Admiralty, the copy of a letter
which 'have forwarded to Lord Vifcount NlLsor.
(Signed' M. R. KERR.
His Majtfty's Chip'lltoA ID, at tea, Dce. 22.
My Lord—l beg to inform your, that, according
•o your orders, I proceeded and joined Sir RICHARD
STRACHAN, Bart. off Cape St. Mary',., a;-4 %van by
him fent into Liibon to complete. On my return
from that port to join your Lordfhip, in lat. 37 deg.
N. longitude 53 deg. 4o min. W. I captured a
French (hip letter of marque, le Tigre (formerly the
Angola of Liverpool), from Cayenne to Cadiz,
pierced for fixteen guns, and having foorteen,mounted,
via. twelve eighteen-pound carronades and two brafs
guns, four.pounders (and four in her hold), ballafia
ed in mahogany and dry wood, having on board 40
men. She was out fifty-fix days, and had captured
an Englifh brig from London to St. Michael's ;
whole mailer and crew we found on board.
(Signed) is. R. SILL

The letter of marque Nepttme, Capt. WlC'', tar,
of Greenock, arrived at Charteflon, !articles the Spa-
ni& Chip no in pal-el:Son of the BRILLIANT frigate,
took a valuable Spanifh brig, manned her, and fent
her for Greenock ; but as the has not yet arrived, it
is fiippofed the bag bcen driven to the northward. or
perhaps taken poffeflion of by tome of our Gibritltar
fquadron. Capt. 141.1Ciimair landed all the Firmer,
at the Mod of St. Mary's.

IVAR WV/ SPAIN'.

SUPPLIMINTAItY LIST 07 PAPERS IPLES77TED ST 1113
MIIIISTY'S COMMAND, TO 10TH HOUSIS 07
WILIAM/NT/ IFSBAUARY 41 1805.

( Concluded from c!., ;Japer of Friday lafl.)
(Tranflarioo of No. 4.--ML.oranJuna, without Signa,ure or
Pate, from the Chevalier el'Anduaga, received tit September,
'833.
Spain, the ally of France, and at the fame time
a friend of England, finds herfelf at this moment
called upon to fulfil towards each of them the refpec-
Live duties of alliance and of friendthip.
The treaty of alliance concluded with France in
t,96, although termed an offenfive and defenfive al-
liance, being only, properly fpeaking, an alliance
aridly delenfive, according t the tetrour of all Its
articles, and the at ;king t iffe ence which exills be-
tween its engagements, and thofe contained in the
family compadt of 1761, his Catholic Majefty trutis
he can reconcile his engagements to furnifh to France
the fuccours ftipulated by the treaty of 1796, with
his molt ardent defire to maintain his friendly con-
nations with his Britannic Majefty. The perfect
harmony and good underflanding which have fob-
filled between the two Monarchs fince the rrella-
blifhment of the laft peace ; the reciprocal proceed-
ings and the principles of the law of nations•to be
purfued under circumftancrs limiter to thofe in which
Great Britain and Spain are adually placed, are in
many realons, which prove the jutlice and the met f-
fay of the conduit, which his Catholic Majefty pur-
poles to purfite at the prefent moment. Fran& con-
fining. herfelf to the requifition of the ftipulated foe-
coins, and Spain to lurnifhing them to her, but
without allowing herfelf to commit any at of direct
holttlity against England ; his Catholic Majefty can-
not lirr a moment doubt of his Britannic M tj:fty's
difpofition to obferve a like conduit on his part.
By foch a conduit, his Britannic Majeity would,
in the firft inflance, afford to Spain, and to all Eu-
rope, a proof of his juftice, of his wifdom, and of
his impartiality. He would make a ditiindion be-
ewer; a friendly power who did not furnifh fuccours
to his enemies through ambition, refentmenr, any
vicious views, or others inimical to him, but folely
to fulfil general eventual engagements previonfly
contraded, and the power who fhould form connec-
tions inimical to England with her enemy,in the very
moment of war, and with the fame holtile fpirtt
and views as its ally. His Britannic Majelly
would obtain for the people of the United King-
dom of Great Britain and Ireland the great advan-
tage of the continuance of their commerce with Spain,
nibs only during the prefent war, but alfii in all thole
in which neither party having any fubjed of corn-
plaint againft the other, England would remain in
friendlbip with Spain, notwithflanding her being at
war with France. His BritannicMajelty would hefidel
eftablith from this moment the OR idea which fhould
he entertained, efpecrally in England, that a rupture
with France does not neceffarily produce ipfo
and, according to treaties, a rupture with Spain.
His Britannic Majeltt and his Miniliry are too juR
and too enlightened for it to be fuppofed that they
can entertain an opinion contrary to the principles
above (heed, or to the advantages which England
would derive from them, even fhould the agree to the
fyftem of conduk purfued by Spain. So fully con-
vinced is the King of this, that he cannot entertain
the fmalle.R doubt upon the fubjed—and he expeds
with perfea confidence to receive, in the concurrence
of his Britannic Majelly and of his government in the
fyftem of the King's conduit, a new proof of their
reftitude, and of their friendly (entiinents towards
the King and the Spanifb people.
Tranflation of No. s—Memorandum from the Chevalier &Audit-
aga, without Ilgnature or date, received Sept. 1, t 8.3.
The queftion, whether England (hall acknowledge
the neutrality of Spain, appears to be reduced to the
determining whether the treaty of that power with
France of the year 5796, is an offeafive or defenfive
alliance. It is agreesl, that if this treaty merely con-
tains ltipulations oflimited fuecours, it might be con-
fidered as an alliance finely defenfive ; but as it is
(tared in the firtt article of the treaty, " there (hall
mill a perpetual offenfive and defenfive alliance be-
tween the Frenchßepublic and hii Catholic Majelly,"
and moreover, in the fecond article, that if the
Ripu-
lated fuccours were or mould become infacient, the
two powers (tumid put in aEtion the grcatelt forces in
their power ; it is pretended, that by this new obliga.
tion the fuccours become unlimited, and therefore
the alliance takes an offenfive charaiter. With re-
fped to the ell article of the treaty, it is to be obferv-
ed, that the offenfive and defentive alliance fpoken
of is in fait two alliances, each of a different kind ;
and which refer to two different period,. The firft is
that in which the power, whofe ally is threatened or
attacked, ads merely as an auxiliary. The 2d is that
in which both powers fbould declare war by common
confent againft one or more powers. The fi,
period relates to defenfive, the fecond to offenfive al-
liance ; although the firft article embraces the two
periods colleitively, the other articles of the treaty
dittinguilh them in the cleareft manner; and it is evi-
dent that the defenfive alliance takes place in one
cafe, and the offenfive alliance in another—which
latter is merely hypothetical, as it cannot take place,
but when the two allies (hall declare war by com-
mon content ; confequently the defenfive alliance
may ezift, without its becoming an offenfive one, aPcl
without being in contradidion to the firft article,
which fpeaks of the one and the other at the fame
time.

This fame diftinetion of the two alliances, and of
the two periods, ferves equally t., explain the ele-
venth article in its true fettle, and with that julLit.e
which is required by the definition of a duty, on the
nature and extent of which doubts have arifcn. The
Treaty id& fixes and feparates in its articles the two
alliances, and the two periods, in fuch a manner as.
that, on the bare reading of it, one difcovers that the
article 1 2 doles the firft period ; and th4t the fccond
commences at article 53, that is to fay, that article
I r relates to dcfepfive alliance, and article 13 to of.
fenfive alliance, from which it refults, that article 1 t,
as relating to the period of defenfive alliance, thoula
be explained according to the nature of that al-
liance, and according to the analogy which the no-
ceffory condition contained in article 1 t has with
the principal conditions mentioned in the preceding
The nature of defentive alliances is to compel an
auxiliary to furnith to his ally limite.el fuccours; and
this is the cafe in the alliance in %%legion ; for the ea-

II

peed ;at in alition- the greatetl force in
Ati pewee, ) *tither caw or ought to he condrued
as if the auxiliary was compelled to make the fame
eff:ots as the ally, bat each one in proportion to the
nature of his fituation. The one puts in aelion all
his forces to defend himfele againd the enemy, or to
do him all poillble injury ; the other adds to the foc-
emirs to be furnifhed any other in his power, to affill
his ally, but always in quality of auxiliary, and in
provrtion to the flipulated fuccours. That expref-
(ion of article is, which appears in the firli indance
to call upon the auxiliary to foritilh ultimately as
much or more to his ally, has, in boa, no other
meaning than this: " the auxiliary fhall make what-
ever addition may be in his power to the flipulated
fuccours ;" and, although the amount of the new fuc-
cours is not fixed in Article r r, it is evident, that it
is beeaufe much cannot be required of the auxiliary,
after having received that which, according to the
nature of-the alliance, the auxiliary was bound to
fornifh. And it is alfo an advantage to the auxiliary,
that Article t i does not fpecify the amount 'to be
added to the fird fuccoors, for, otheroile, the ally
would ;use the power to prefcribe how much the
auxiliary ought to furnifh him in conformity to the
treaty ; inllcad of which, at prefent, it is the auxi
liary himfelf who is to 61 the extent of the fuccours,
according to his pardon and his own interells, but,
however, without failing in his engagements. The
auxiliary being called upon to decide 'upon this point,
can never depart from the rule which he ought to
follow in his proceedings, if he means to preferve his
ctaradler of auxiliary, and to confult his own inte-
reds. One of his Ertl interells is that of preferving
hie cnnne&tions of ft iendfhip and good underflanding
with the power who may be at war with his ally, fince,
if the auxiliary lhould exceed the limits of his duty'
towards the ally by furnifhing confiderable rumors,
he would degenerate into the real enemy of the Paid
power. This c,,nfideration is likewife the cured gna
;mace to that prprzr, that the auxiliary will confine
himtelf within tile boundaries which hfs fituation pre
fctibcs. , It thetefore follows, that, conformably to
Vie rotes of jullice and of equity, and of the pofition
of an auxiliary towards its ally, the proportion offub-.
fidics to be added fhould rather be leffened ; becaufe,
in fixing the line of demarcation between a defenfive
and offenfive alliance, the more one (hall incline to
le latter, the more the auxiliary power would incur
the rift f being forced into a war, and the more
would the deprive herfelf of thofe forces of which the
would Rand in need for her own prefervation, in
cafe (he herfelf fhould have a war to fuftain.

All chi- reafoning is founded upon the Treaty of
1796 itfelf ; becanfe, after having fpoken of the fuc-
c(•urs to he furnifhed in the firli infiance, and after-
wards of putting in altion the greateli force which
b ith powers can bring forward, it is (Wed, in the
13th Article, that, when they declare war by com-
mon content, the " limitations efiablilhed" in the
preceding Articles (ball ceafe to have effart. From
whence it is clear, that even, according to Article ;3,
the additional fuccours are acknowledged to be limit-
ed fuccours.
N 0.6 —Estratt of a Difratch from the Right Hon.l.ord Harrow

by to J. H. Frcre, EN: dated Downing-11-rut, July s, 1804.
As it is the wills of his Majelly to perfevere as long
!is pollible in the fyftern of forbearance which has hi-
therto been purfued towards Spain, and for that pot-
pore to attempt once more to prefs upon the Sp.ulifis
Government the neceffity of making a.. unreserved
communication of its engagements with France, and
of its •iews with refpea to Portugal; it is cvident that
no fuch attempt can be made with any prnfpek of
fuccels, while circum fiances of per fonal irritation pre-
vent any intercourfe between the Britifli Miriifter and
the moll leading perfon in the Spani(h councils.

(Tnwllatlon of No. 7 )
My Lord, Portland Place, Nov. 4, I8:4.
'irtely after the receipt of ailitiatches 11 cm
'le day before yellerday, I called at the
Mieign Affairs, requelling an interview
;xcellency. Having learned from Mr.
that you were unwell, but, notwithfland-
fee me, in cafe I Should abfolutcly re-
Aged it would be indifi.reet to intrude up.
_ontented Triplett' with mentioning to Mr.
the fubjeft of toe converfation I wifhed to
'our Excellency, jequetting Mtn at the
induce your Lotdthip to grant me an
loon as poflible. In the mean time I
'Arm you, that I have received by the lan
Lifban a copy of hh.Frere's nate of the
id of the anfwer of my Court thereto.
•onceal from your Excellency the furprife
:rural of Mr. Frere's letter has occa lion
ccmpared with the II riking contrail dill
noble, frank, and moderate flyle and
the Spanifh Miniller. Mr. Frere, in ton
for granted a ifaa of wlrich he fhould
(ye ascertained the exillence and the pre-
protefls againfl a naval armament pre
-rol. Mr. Frere has been led into an er-
: gave credit to filch an armament, fince
)f a nature to juflify the complaints which
;ht forward in his letter.
:ginning of September, the King, my li
Ight pr.tper to give orders for fome (hips''
it for Bifcay, in order to tranfport troops
tajelly was,unfortunately,buitoo well jut.-
soubles which had jolt broken out there
. liep. Mr. Frere could not be ignorant
tmilance, and confequently ought never
'ruted fuch odious intentions to prepara•
tination of which it was fo eafy to difca
had the Britifh Government any ground
hearing of tbefe preparations, fince the'
igate which brought the accounts of these
imaments, brought alto feaeral letters,
in a pofitive and uniform manner, the
them. I mentioned them myfelf to "lour
in my conferrence of the 2.0 Septem-1
the 26th I had the honour of prefer:Ling
Lieutenant-Colonel of the regiment of
'ho (hewed your Excellency two letters
received from his Colonel, dated sth
nember. Thefe letters, dated from Fer.
by the Commander of a Corps in garri.
id filled with details refpcsfling the defli.
'mops, of which his own regiment itfelf
t part, were convincing tellimonies, and
id to remove the fhadiw of a doubt.
not all :—lf it-were neceffary to fur.
tta, in order to re-eftablifh- confidence
Government, fubliqueut &Lykes from

Ferrol of the 18th of September, mitt have com-
pletely convinced your Excellency of the entirely
pacific intentions of my Court ; inafmuch as at that
moment his Majefty had allually ordered every pre-
paration to he fu(pended, and the troops delbined to
re-ellablifh tranquillity in Bifcay to be fent by hind.
After this, how is it pon:le that Mr. Frere, in his
note of the 27th September, has not hefitated to treat
as ‘. an hoftile aggreffion," an armament (if it can be
fo called) which had ceafed for leveret days, and
which, by the notoriety of its deftination, could not
hare merited, under any cafe, in extraordinary a de-
nt urination ? How could he reprefent to the King in
fuch utifavoto able and unit& colours a meafure not
lefs foreign to the interells of England than indifpen.
fable for the fuppott of order in a Province of Spain ?
How could he think it neceffary to call the attention
of the Spatilfh Government " to the ferious conk-
quences which mull refulz from their anfwer, left they
humid plunge Spain unnecelfarily into a ruinous war?"
How different from the toneof bitter menace which
pervades the whole of Mr. Frere's letter is the lan-
guage, full a dignity and good faith, of moderation
and of frankness, in which the note of the Spanifh
bor,inilry is expreffed ; lirong in the purity of the
views with which the King's mind has been ever
guided, the Spanifh Isliniftry in their anfwer con-
tent themfelves with the affurance "That his Majef-
ty never entertained an idea of being wanting to his
engagements with the Britilh Government; that they
would continue, as they had hitherto dome, to pre-
vent any armament being fitted nut againit Great'
Britain ; and that every report which might have
reached Mr. Frere contrary to fuch affurance is ab-
folutely void of foundation, and injurious to the re-
putation which the Spann Government fo jultly
poffeffes."
This anfwer, which is in no degree'contradieled by
the information received by the Britifh Miniftry re-
lative to the pretended armament, being perkftly
confonant with the loyal and fyltematic conclua
which my Court has ifivatiably followed fence the
rupture between Great Britain and France, ought to
infpire the Britilb Government with confidence as to
the pacific fentiments which his Majett y has never
ceafed to cherith with regard to England. Moreover,
the King has the welfare of his ptnple too much at
heart ; he attaches ton much interea to what he owes
to other Sovereigns, to permit him, in the micla of
peace, fetting treaties at &fiance, and in oppofttion
to iris molt fulemn aid facred promifes, to venture on
a llep which would thaw down on his kingdoms the
molt cruel of all fcourges, would deal a deadly blow
agrinft his fame, and tear from him that treafure
which hi. Majelly values beyond all others, the telti.
molly of his coufeience.
I emErace this opportunity to renew to your Ex.
cellency the afrurance of the high confederation with
which I have the honour to he, my Lord, your Ex-
cellmcy's moll obedient humble fervant,
(Signed) The Chev. D'Aantraca.
His Excellency My Lord Harrowly, Principal
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.
(Tranflation of No. 8 )

My Lord, Port;and Place, t Ith Nov. 1804.
Your Excellency will doubtlefs have already learn-
ed the arrival at I'ortfmouth of the Spanifh frigate
Mathilde, which was detained on the 23d Oetober,
and carried into the above named port on the Bth
inn, by the Medufa. The circumftances of this new
innance of detention, of which I have been informed
by the Spanifh Captain's report, only render snore
odions the effeets of that order ifrued by the Britilla
Government, which has given rifeao it.
The Spanifh frigate, which left Cadiz on the 22d
of Oaober laft, with all the fccurity naturally in-
fpircd by the completely pacific relations which were
fuppufed fill to fubfift between Spain and England,
having on the following day fallen in with the Dane.
gal, of 84 guns, and the Medufa, of 44; this latter
fbip, after having fired one gun, which, in the ufual
manner, the Mathilde returned, made not the lean
feruple of difcharging at her a whole broadlide.—
The Spanifh Captain, allonifhed at fuch a proceed-
' ing, complained of it to the Commander of the Do-
negal, who having afked him fume quellions with
regard to the time of his departure, and the num-
ber of the lick who were on board the frigate, re-
queued him to fend him a boat. The Spanifh Cap-
t fen; him accordingly the boat with an Officer of
the navy, who fpeaks Englifh, and dire(ted him to
c°nscy to the Erica Commander the expreffion of
all rhae fentiments which naturally arife in fimilar
()mations between officers belonging to two friendly
Governments. Perceiving that the Spanifh officer
WAS detained too long, the Captain of the Mathilde
rcqui.ncti the Englifh commander to fend him back
As filon as ponible, in order that he might be enabled
to eon:irate his voyage. To this the Commander
rcpli:d, that he was occupied in writing a letter,
which was loon after fent to him. The import of
this letter, which was written in Englifh, was, that
the cid'ercnces which had arifen between the two
Courts having obliged that of London to order the
detention of all Spanifh Chips of war. the Commander
was under the neceffity of detaining the Mathilde,
and fummoned the Captain to furrender without
making any refinance, and in the fpace of five mi-
tones, "if be did nO. with to be funk." The Spa-
nith Captain, not undernanding Englifh, direded
the officer who was the bearer of this letter, to ex.
plain to him the fuhjeft of it; but what was his fur-
prife, when the fhip of the line and the frigate began
to lire on the Mathilde, before the above-mentioned
officer could get the contents of the letter. The
Spanifh Captain defended himfelf with courage
againn this unforefeen attack, and did not furrender
ar fn prodigious a fuperiority of force, till after a
refinance as honourable as it was ufelefs, in which
two of his fhip's crew were killed, and feveral others
wounded.

I will Whin from any refleaions on the:manner in
which the Enghill Commander condated himfelf un
this °cc...lion. Proceedings of this nature cannot but
dilhonour thofe who are guilty of them ; they are
too openly repugnant to the laws of honour not to
excite indignation in every mind endowed with the
noble fentiments which it infpires.
think it my duty to obferve to your Excel-
lency, that thi, new violation of the law of nations
can only tend to augment the doubts to which the
unfortunate event of the sth of Delober will ne-
cefiarily have given rife in his Majefly's mind, as to
the fentiments which the Britil Minillry entertains
'towards him ; at the fame time that it will convince
his blajelly of the inutility of the efforts which he

hat Made to maintain his amicable relations with
England.
That the Britith Government fhould have been
alarmed, on learning the first accounts of our pre-
parations at Ferrol, when they weic tianfroitted to
them through cliannels which feemed to take plea-
lure in disfiguring the truth, and in reprefenting it
in a light altogether unfavourable ; that, under the
firf emotion of furprize, to which, nevertbelefi, it
never thouldbavefoeafily yielded, it should have given
that extraordinary order, the unhappy confequences
of which will have ttruck with atioaithment all the
Courts of Eurrpe, was, douhtlefs, a proceeding as
oppofite to the mnft facred principles, as it was un-
expected ft om the relations (unfitting b:.tween the two
Courts ; I.lt it :till left the hope, that, recovering
from its formrt alarms, and after having received
more corrett in!elligence on the nature and the ob•
jeCt of our preparatioff, the &hills Government
would give cxprefs orders to its Helps to refpett hence-
forward the Spanifh flag, and woold await, with
the tranquillity natural to a P.liniftty finccrely (Mir-
ous of the continuance of peace, the itfue of the ne-
' gnciations entered iipon with Slain. •
But when Spain thall perceive that nnthin:,± will
caufe the Britifli Ministry to deli t from its lon ile
meafures ; that neither the imirartiahconduß which
My Court has contlantly tn.mitert..d lice the com-
mencement of hollitities between and Eng-
land, nor the total frifpenfion of :lie preparations at
Ferrol, the only motive alledged by England to juf-
tify the fyltcm which the Icenis to have made it a
rule to adopt for this (*time time pall, nor the frank
and moderate anfwer made to the exaggerated re-
prefentations of the English Charge d'Affaires, re-
tiding at Madrid, can fecure his Majefly from the in-
fults which his flag continually receives, will it no•
warrant a fttpicion that England purports to accu-
mulate on Spain every kind of aggryllion, in order to
bring on a rapture, which the well known fentiments
of his Majefly, and his constant eagertiets to prevent
every fubjeet of reciprocal complaint, ought to ren-
der impollible ? I will confels to you, my lnd, in
franknefs, however animated the King my matter
may be s, ith the fincere &lire to maintain his rela•
tions of tiiendfliip with the Blitiili Government,
however ready he may be to make still more sacri-
fices for the maintenance of peace, if England per.
leveres in the fyilem its Government has
lately devellped, his Majdly will find himself oblig-
ed to Qifle the pacific fentipients (-f his heart, in op-
der to attend only to the interclt which he takes in
th.l• weltare of Lis people, and in tic complete leen•
City of his kingdoms.
It only depends, therefore, on the Erhith Govern-
ment to prevent the difallrous confequences of filch
an event, by putting an end to thole hoflile meafures,
the continuance of which would be an inconteaible
proof in the eyes of all Europe, that it was abfolute-
ly decided up, tl to make war ou Spin.
I avail mvfelf of this cpportunitv, Stc•
(Sighed) THE CHEV.D'4t.DLTAGA.
To bile rieelkncy Lord Ha; rawby.
Secretary of Statc for Forcign C",:c
No. 9—Copy of a Letter fro;: kfarr.lcn, r.fq. to (1, o:7t tr,ni•

mond. E.g. e, do 15, „04.

Sit—l have received Pr.(l common:caltd to my
;Lords Commiffioners of the 11:y, your r
Ito me of yefterday's date, inzl:Sing a copy of c.c.::
from the Chevalier d'Andnaga ; and I Ita.e their
Lordfhip% c .mmands to acquaint yrn, that nn time
!hall be loft in making a itri6t inquiry into the cir•
cumflances therein (fated ; which :Ipl:2ar to them the
more extraordinary, as, in the report ni.rde to them
by the Captain of the Donegal, mcnrian is made only
of a few (hot fired at the expiration cf the time limit•
ed for the fur, coder.

I am, Sce. (Signed) WM. MARSDEN.
No. to—Extra .51 of a Letter from W. Marfden, Ffq. to Gr Ham-
mond, Fig dated Admiralty Oflke, Nov. t 6, t8:"{.
I am commanded by my Lot ds Coinmiffioners of
the Admiralty to tranfmit to you, inclofed, for the
information of Lord Hirrowhy,a copy of a letter from
Carain Gore, of the Meciofa, in anfwer to the fiate•
ment he was called upon to make of the circumltan-
ces attending the furrender of thn Spann frigate
Matilda.

(Inclofure In No. le%)
Meduta, at the Motberbank,
SIR, Nowcmtnr 18,34.
I have received your letter of the r 3th init. and,
in reply thereto, I have to acquaint you, that, during
a very fqually night of the azd 111. the Donegal and
Medufa were fcparated, and, th It on the morning of
the 23d, at halt pall feven a m. we law a fliip in the
N. E. which we judged to bz a rran of war (and rot
the Donegal), I confequently wore, and made fail
towards her. As we approached, I obferved hie. was
evidently a Spanilh frigate, ard making fail to croft'
us. She ping on a wind to the 3. \V. we to the
northward, wind at W. N. W. I conlequently let
two reefs out, and hoided an E,ll:fh St. George's
enlign. Nearly at the fame rnoiaeot, I faw the Do-
negal in the N. W. hull depieflA, boarding a mer-
chant blig, and loon after bear up atal wake fail
towards us.

About half pall nine o'cb-Tk the ltrange (hip
croffed our weather bow abut one mile, under Spa-
ni(h colours and a prefs of f. il. I ordered a (hot t 3
be fired far a head of her, which the, etnrweted by a
gun without a flint, but did not bring to. 1 fired
fecond and third, when She fired (.11:: fill/UGC! ; and,
when the was upon our weather beam, I ordered the
broadfide to be fired over her, and tacked ; the then
brought to. Dmitri:, this time, the Donegal had
clofed, and while I was winking the Medufa up,
fome communication had pafied between Sir Richard
Strachan and the Spanith Captain, and about half
pall ten, Sir Richard fummoned me on board by
lignal (their Lordlhips arc already in poffilGon of
the refult of our detetmination, which was the effeet
of mature delib:ration) ; after vhich, a quarter part
noon, I returned to my (hip, and the face of ten
minutes being elapfed from the time the Spanith
Officer had got on hoard his (hip, Sir Richard made
the Medufa's fignal to wear and engage (I mull here
obferve that tht Medufa was abo.rt pith)) (hot ditiaut
upon the Matilda', lee heam, and the Donegal ad-
vanced upon her weather how), having previoally
urged me to be cautious not to hurt any one on
board the Spani(h frigate, if it was poffible to be
avoided, and to give my orders to fire over her, and,
previous to my quitting the Donegal, I heard Sir
Richard charge his officers to the fame effeEt.
I did fo, and upon our firing our broadfide a head,
a (tern, and over her, the (truck her colours; but the
fituation of the Donegal prevented Sir Richard-

Straehan pe7rck.ll,,; ancl as the Spnifii bro,id
pendant was.9il the Donegal fired her guar.
ter deck and poop caercirarki., but riot f:ngle gun
(her lower deck gtros were not run oat), nor cri the
Mednfa fire a Gun a fe,7,Jii time. Only two (hot
Bruck the Matilh ; vie from the D:lneeal entered
her larboard bow i.l t!vz c,irpentcr's flore-rc,oni, and
one from the Medriir entered her fide at tin gan7,way;
and I moil roundly ill it ;I.:10%r •cr or man
was killed or wound.l.l on Lila:All:7, hor!; lrnm our
own knowledge ani the dccl ria!nnt of Captain de
la Guardia, .rid all Iris rr:licets: fur it W.ts the first
queltion ti,ey came on hcat.i the Me-
dui-a ; and tic SpaitiOi C.yrain ha, 1-,.oc.rtetily told
me,' that all our th.rr, c7;r:-:pt two, t;cot r:!:ar of the
Matilda.

And how he con!d deliberately alters, that we had
killed two, and wounded ieverat of ;1k crew, I ant
at a lafs to coliceive, mote NI field 4rly .ic tirnt Etter
was written in my cabin, and I fo:nifhed Lint
data, and ultima:ely fent his letter to the r•, •a,. tt:
Mitiiner, with the dilpatche: to their Lordnne s, on •
the day of our a:rival, which i; the only citcilos-
' fiance in this trarda.lion of which I can charge my-
fdt• with having• iniproprily ; and even here I
:run I can acquit my;elf, for I did it widi the iii(:tive
of befriending Captain d:r la Guardia, hi, Officers
and crew, and of. obtainin; them that relief which
had it not in my power to htfi• w.
TILT f .11nwing copy of Si, Richard Strachan's let-
to Captain de la Gnat dia refutes his a freition, that
the Captain of the 13,..negil recommended him to fur-
render without raitlance (" ne .1,.?uloil fru tire coots
lm.")

SI R, His Majelly's fhip Donegal, aid oet. ISc4.
The negnciatioos which arc pendiog I).:twem out
two Gavel nnicnts wider it my duty to prevent his
Catholic Majety% frigate Matilda, under your com-
mand, from proceeding upon her prelen, voyage, and
that I mull detain It until my Saves eign's pleacure
is farther known.

I therefore req.lefl you will forrender to our wirriee,
and I allow }nu the (pace of Gee minutes to deter-
mine.

I beg leave to call your attention to the very great
fliperiority of force now beline you, anti that any re-
fillence or, your part notr.t he unavailing ;. and I ma.
add, that i 1 his Nlajcay's fhips or fubjetlts receive any
injury, you milli expeet it. to be retaliated severely.
I ha►c, dec. (Sinned)
R.]. STRACHAN.
To the Citvain of the Ep:oi.th Hare M;t:kla.

Fatls fpeaks ftrongly iii thi3 car: ; for, had it been
our intention to have Bruck the I,latilla, fituated as
the Donegal and Medi]fa were, one broadfide frota
each would have am-Al:dated her ; inilead of which,
neither mall, yard, fail, or rope, were touched. Did
it become me to f Mow the example of the Spanifla
Captain, to cenftrve and reprobate the conduet of the
Spanifb Government, the occurrences during the la&
twelve mouth, when I have been entruaed with the
command as fenior Officer of his Majefty's (hips and
ve!Fels on. the Gib:Atm- ftation, afford me ample fti!.
jest f9r the animadverlion ; and Ido not helitate fay-
i.ig, that the open partiality they have marked to-
ds our enemies, ineri7, any chaflifement his Ms.
jt.,.y may Clink r9:%r to I am, &c.
(S;gnrd) JOHN GONE.
WitHarn Marf:.cu,
No. t t.—Extra of a (thitrch from Lord lixorkefbury to J.

,t-tte.; ly w io2•areet, M ky 20,18.73
Sir—Vollr rrcerai di!-n.i,ches to N). 12, inclufivoi,
have been received AI,Zi ;.,;a before the King.
I fend you inclofed, for your information, the espy
of a meffage from his I%l.ijeity to both Houfes of Par-
liament, horn which you will perceive, that the dif-
cufEuns which have fuhfiaed between his Majelly's
Govetntnent and that of France have been brought
to an unfavourable conclolion.

I (ball forward the papers which his Majefly has
deemed it proper to communicate to Parliament, by
a Meffenger, whom I (hall difpatch to you in the
courfe of a few days, Caw the porpofe of furnifhing
you with precifeinfiruEtionslor the regulation of yout
conduct at the prefent important period.
In the mean time, I have to fignify to you his Mar
pleafure, that you take an early opportunity
to afire the Spanifh Government of the King's fin_
cere and anxious defire that the relations 9f peace
and amity v hich have been fo happily re-eQablilbed
bz:wcen him and his Catholic Mojetiy may be pre-
ferved. I am. &c.
•_.

(Signed)

P AW KI ASV RT.

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