Star.
London, England, 1805-05-08 00:00:00

LONDON.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 8.
PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCEI
Cod°ls, for money, c 8 —fsr May 58U—Omniurn 2:.
Excheq. Bills, par as.prent.
PRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY.
sank &reit 1721 Imp. 3 per Cent.s6ll
3 per Cent. Red. I Imp. Ann. 91 3-16
3 per Ck nt. Corr OR F xcbeq. BOK plr Is. prcra,
4 per C,nt. 734 74 Uranium, 2, 3 prem.
5 per Cent. Navy, WI Evgiatb•l ickets 191.
5 per Cent. 9711 Cnnl. arc. 8*
Long Akin. 161 9-t6ths I 5 per Cent. t 797, to be pain in
India Stock 181:1,1 I Odtoba 991

Juft as this paper was gc,ing to prefs, a report
reached us, that the Breit fleet has put to fea The
latenefs of the hour prevents our afcettaining on what
authority this news refl. ; it however comes to us
through a mod tefpeet;thle channel.
The Weft India Convoy has returned to Falmouth,
having been informed b, Sir Jon N ORDF, of the coal-
!incd fleet being r.t lea.

The official difpatches, which ann^nneed yef
.terday to have been receive.l from the Well. Indies,
were plll3lifted in the Gazet..e e f lati nii;ht. They
confirm generally the accol;nti that have ;:ppeared in
this paper, refpceling the operations of the French
Squadion at Dominica and S. Kitt's. The tofs of
the enemy at Dominica was very confiderahk, and
the fpirited and limed-4u' refit ance of Genera! PRE-
irosr refleCts the crtdit upon him as a brave
and judicious Commander.

The French commanckr belvved fo well at Domi •
nica as to receive the Clanks of General PitsvosT for

his humanity. Some of his fldiers Were Pot by his
orders, in the very aft of plundering. This had the
defired effed ; for, at St. Kitt's, to which be next
proceeded, there was no plundering as at Dominica.
By accounts rec2ived at Liverpool, we are enabled
to lay before our Readers a more correft lift of the
weals taken and dellroycd by the enemy than has
yet been given.
On the 27th of February the enemy quitted Ro-
feau, and arrived at Poim :t Petre, Guadeloupe, on
the t ft of March, with the fallowing prizes, captured
at Dominica, viz.
Slip Alice, Ca;rain Wilfon of L'verpon!, laden with coffee and
fugar ; lhip Alexander, DiAfon, of Liverpool; brig
Apollo, Captain Cummins, of Liverpool ; 1!-.ip Marquis of -,
Atkinf,m, of London, w;th n-dttarce ; fhip Ha-altdbury, Captain
Kerr, of London ; (.ip Proveia Captain Froft, of 1 ondon ; Ihip
Mars, Capt.:in ; fh;p S a art m, Captain Nichnlfon of Li-
verpool; brig Richmond, Captain Warfori of Whit-haven, with
feveral ctiift. The. clip Atr-•ri,C.T•ain l'hillipe, of London,
was burnt by the cr.' n'y in R.•fe::u.

After O.:: enemy had %valeta:, they weighed from
nt. Pore nn the 31, and arrived r, atfreterre Road,
St. Kitt's, nll the sih, ..4.ltr.:c they carried oil-the {hip
Caroline, Captain Hay Fs, of I —ndon, with 3co
fugar on hoard, cn,.? the ;hip Tlmmal. Gni:l:a-
-nal), laden witli cotton ar..l c. f:ce. The %hips Mat-
thew, Captain YouNG, ; Lady Nelfiat,
Captain PONS' R, of Lnndon ; Thetis, Capt. Smi-rti,
1.0n.10n ; and Ofiper, of St. Kitt's, were but nt.
Two chips lying at Sandy Point were not molelled.

On Ole 7th, the fleet failed from I.l.iffeterre, and en
the Bth arrived off Nevis, the ev.erny fent in a frigate
there and obtained 4. t I.y contribution, and burnt
the following veffel, :

SLip Lady Janc Ha!litliy, Capti6ii of 1 ondon ; flaip
Twins, Captaii, Ptak, of Loudon ; (hip Nev.,s CiTtain Currey,
of Brinol; brig :Icily, C'' tam Jonas, of London ; Coop ttlige,
Want! trader, Captain facia.

On tile 9th, enemy left Nevi!, and is generally
funded to have behaved in the like manner at Moni.l
ferrat, but it has never bun afcertained if they were
zdlually at that :nd. On the 14111 the enemy's
Iquadron went into Fort Royal B.ty, Martinico, and
no further intelligence has been received.
CommoJore !.-!.00,1) WAS left in Lit. 15. the 18th of
March, will his pendant on b.)ard the CENTAUR, of
74. guns; the BEAVLIFU, of 40; A:vire:A, of 38;
UNICORN cf 32 ; AM•A'ERDARI. (f 32; GALATEA,
of 32; BARBADOES, Of 28; ALLIC;LiTvIt, Or 28;
HYENA, Of 24; NIMRUP. of 18 ; Cur.'s ux, and ST.
(LI, of 16 guns ; ,A•Lielt is above two thirds the
'wee on the Ration, and the whole of the vaels were

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erpedeJ to join in a few days. The Jamaica (hips
which arrived from Cork under convoy of the PRO•
S E LYT E, failed the 18th, under convoy of his Majefly's
bit ig ELK, confining of 75 fail.
Extra& of a letter from Earbadoes, dated March
23.---" It was judged prudent to fend the (hips,
(about itighty fail) for Jamaica, five days fence,
not Icing able to proted them in our open har-
bour ;—but great fears are entertained for their
fafety, as accounts were lan night received
that they were becalmed near to Martinique.—
If the French fliould fall in with them the lofs would
be immenfe. What is very unufual at this feafon,
we have had a dead calm for four days pall, without
the lean appearance of a returning breeze."
Refpeding the deffination of the combined fleets,
nothing further has trardpired ; and we feel no dif-
pofition to teize our readers with idle and unfounded
conjedures. We can only fay, that the opinion that
Items to claim and to deferve the greaten (hare of
belief, :s, that they have proceeded for the Weft In-
dies, particularly for Jamaica.
By accounts from our blockading fquadron off
Bien, we are furry to find that the enemy have ob-
tained pen-en:an of our fignals, which cannot fail to
be prodthclive of fume inconvenience, till a new code
be furnithed to our different veffels, which, however,
will fnon be the cafe. The fubjoined letter is from
an Officer on that Elation :

" Off Ufhant, May t.

r' We joined the fleet this mor::ing, and find here Sir jonts
Osoe and his fquadron (whojoined yefterday), being forced to
vie theirltation off Celia by the Toulon fleet, who furprifed
thent taking on board provifions from tranfports, which they, in
their hurry to clear for action, were obliged to throw overboard.
The French (hips had troops on board, and Could have brought
our Chips to adim had they ',leafed, but that did not appear to he
their ohjed. It is not known whethA. they went into Cadiz or
nor, or where they have gone to. As loon as any information is
received relpeding the rourfe they have taken, or as loon as Lord
GAsnstett receives advices front England, we thall mutt likely be
detached after them. The fleet here confifts of 21 fail of the line.

" The French have our fignals (both private and others), which
they mach. to Sir lornN ORDC.9 fquadron. It appears they got
them out of one of our ihips svideh was loft on the coat of France.
A frigate vas left to vatch the enemy's tips."

'Pre It v sows man of war, lately belonging to
Lord Nctsort's fctuadron, joined Lord GARDNER'S
fleet oft Brett on the rft irritant. She had been de-
tached to convoy a fleet through the Streights, and
on her paffage fell in with the Toulon fleet, confift-
ing of eleven fail of the line, and feven frigates.—
One of the Officerss confirm the account we pnblifhed
a few days fince cf. Lord NELSON having been to
Egypt In fearch of the enemy, and expreffes his fears
that they have once more eluded the vigilance of the
Noble Admiral. Intehigence was alfo teceived at
the India Iloufe )eilerday, that his Lordfhip was
off Alexandria on the 7th of February, from which
he immediately took his departure on finding
that the enemy had not been lien in that direc-
tion. His Lordfhip had of courfe fufficient time
to return to his former nation before the failing
of the enemy from 'Toulon, which did not take place
till the 3oth of March ; and hence it appears by no
means improbable !•iat he may have received time
ly intimation of departure from port. The So-
PHIA flocp, jolt attired from the Mediterranean, was
chafed by the Toulon fleet the day after fhe palled
the Streight, but was not able to obtain any infor-
mation relative to its deflination.

At t o yetlerday aftercrion orders for an
embargo were ilrued at the Cußom-Houfe, and up-
wards cf a Thoufand able leamen are Paid to be al-
ready procured fcr the Navy from on board the (hips
in the River.

We find alfo, by oitr letters from Yarmouth, re-
ceived this morning, that there has been a hot prefs
alopg the Eatt Coall, and we doubt not that the
mealore has been general in the different ports in the
Kin-;dom. This will loon enable Government to
fend to fca a number of 'hips now lying in ordinary,
an A we may cxpet in a ()tort time a confiderable aug-
mentation of our Naval free.

It is univcically fuppore.l and exp,!eted, that the

general embargo, and the aaivity of the profs, are
preludes to the calling out the Levy-en.Maffe, which
bas lately been fpoken of as the refoiution of the
Cabinet.

Yellerday a Cabinet Council was held at Lord
Mnlgi ave's Office, which was attended by Earls
CAMDEN, CHATHAM, and WYSTMORFLAND, and Mr.
Pi Tr. At the riling of the Cabinet a Mellinger was
.!rde.ed to hold !timid( in readinefs to proceed to the
Continent—fo profound a fecret is his deffination,
that he it, not to be acquainted with it till his arrival
at Gottenburgh.
Mr. PITT yeßerday underwent an examination be.
fore the Seleel Committee of the Houfe of Commons,
which continued nearly two hours.—Mr. Loma was
alfo examined. This examination related to the
40,0001. intended for naval fervice, and applied for
another purple, with the applicatioa of which Mr.
PITT in the debate of Bth April Rated himfclf to have
been acquainted. Report lays, the money was fur-
niffied to the houfe of BOYD, Barr cist.n, and Co. to
enable them to make good an initalment of the Impe-
rial Loan, deemed necclfary to maintain the honour
and credit of the country.
There are in 011 end and Dunkirk 400 fchuyts and
boats, which will take advantage of the firft fair wind
to get to Boulogne. In the harbour, and on the cona
of Boulogne, an extrairdinary degree of aaivity pre•
mails, and a large number' of troops have lately re-
inforced the camp at Boulogne.
Lail tight the Royal Family vilited Covent Gar-
den Theatre, to fee, for the fecund time, the new
play of filo Want: a Grinea ? The farce was Peep.
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