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adjacent coast. The Captains, ojfieers, and ships
companies deserve my warm acknowledgment for
their exertions on this occasion. A few shot in the
hulls and rigging of the ships is the 0111r:damage
done. Captain Duncan informs me, that he gainaci
very materiA and necessary inforniation, respecting
this place; by a-very gallant exploit performed a few
nights ago by Lieutenant Travers„of the Imperieuse,
who st,rmed, with a boat's Crew, a.tawer of gun,
destroying it, and biinging the gUaid
(Signed)- -G. H. L. Durm.as, Captain.
To Captainjkowley, his Majesty!. ship Americas; ,
Senior Officer..
His Majesty's ship Furieisse, at Sea, October 8.
Sift—l beg leave toacquaiht you, that on the 4th
instant, runuing. along „the..coast to, the island of
Ponza, at one observed a..convoy of nine:
teen vessels in the harbour of Marinelo (about six
miles to the eastward Of Civita Vecchia) prOtected
by' two gun-boats, a fort of two long twenty-four
porinders, and a strong fortified castle and•:toWer;'
and, it appearing practicable to cut them out, as the
wind was fair for that purpose, Lieutenants Croker
and Lester, with Lieutenants Whylock and Davies,
of tharines; gallantly volunteered to storm the fort'
on the land side with the whole of the marines And
boats crews, whilst the-ship anchored before it, which,
service waii-tfirotiliiity performed ; and after a few
broadsides, I had*eisatisfaction of seeing the bat-
terf.carried akd guns spiked by our gallant party on
shore. ' * . .
The7enemi retreated; and took the strong positions
of the tower --overlooking the hartgiur;l
where they kept 'up 7a, constant fire of musquetry,
through loop-holes, withwit the possibility of being
di}li)dged ; although. I, wriehed and moved tin, so
that the whole fire of =the ship was directed against
it. Nothing could damp the ardour of the party on
shore, who, togedier` with I.ieutenant Lester in the
boat, lost n.ot a iticimeni in boarding and cutting the
cables Of sixteen vessels, under a most galling fire,'
two of which.were• sunk in the 'entrance of the liarf
boor; and fourteen gOt out.
•'I" have Jo:regret the loss of twelve brave,ineh,'
killed and. wounded; 'whit') is less tharmnight have
been expected, as more than 500 regular troops arri-
ved from Civita Vecchia; but were kept in' check
in coming along, ano forced to. take a circuitous
route, by a *Well-diiected fire from the slip, which
allowed sufficient time for all our men to embark.
It is now a pleasing duty to pay a just tribute of
praise to the very gallant and determined conduct of
114 r. Croker, First 'Lieutenant, whose zeal on this and
on every other occasion, merits my „war/nest COM-
niendation ; and he speaks in 'the highest terms of
adthiration of the determined bravery ofLieuienants
Lester„Wbylock?.apd Davies, the petty bfficers, sea-
men, and royal marines under his c.oinmand. .
The'whole Of this service was most successfully ac:
core: Wished in • three hours, • and loUrteen vessels,
deeply' laden, got clear off, which I wits obliged to
take in ;',ow, as.their sails .had :all been 'unbent, and.
taken on shore, to prove* ottr.gettimg them out. A,
have Sic. MOoNsms, Captain.
- Hord•H. Duncan, Ciatirf fit' -hity'Aitajeity's ship Inif,aricuse.
AM]) W.iONDED..
'l/4 '•:. • 'Jet= .
William Rilkons, Ordit tary Sea. nan.
Marie&
WOUNDED.
klenry-Watibys.Captaintlf -she Fdreeastle very scverily.
William Gtiviv,' captain ct tie For top,:ditto.. •
' Aitbibald Cawlni CaOtaiii of Maiutup, ditto.
William Hatt, t6iainnu,"' dittos-
John -Thompson, i-seatinins di:to.
Joseph Ker9WeriAiellAdAM:
Sansuesßopkets.luariney
Christopher Maiine„,•dangeroiisly.
William Vinnicchub, Scanlan, tiaggcrously: '
Henty'Luke Marine, ditto.- •• (,:gne3)
. -• . 4111. MN:4oex, Ca.tsin. E. k..VX N -Sarteiria.
A J:IST
.ClikarAlS,E.L.s.C.U'lli4ED. • • - , •
GO-boat le *od cal a', cium- brass twenty-four pnuoders.aad:
aitti-boa;•,"-tianse nnknow'n. . 2
Xebec WA:n(IMo, pierced for twehiE guns, two loniaix-piints;
ders mounted; and thirteas.settees, -laden with salt, tobactu,,'
.ivarlAe, and saadriel.. - . -(Signed)
••••,,War. MOUNSEY, Captaig%

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. His bilideity's ship Revtnie, off Pa.la.moo,
..Noveraber 9, I,Bls.
Sm—l bite the honour to inform you, that./ dis.-
covered yesterdaya Kench felucca, privateer, in the
harbOur of .Falaptos,• which Lieutenant Richards,_
setiOr'Lietitenant of this sitip,,handiomely ofrered to
bring out. Upon reconnoitring the place,, I did not
observe injrinsuirnounta_ble impedOents to the en.
terprise consequently‘ halt.palt eight p.
gave him lifeboats of thi's ship, aided by
.Lieutenant
Blakiston, Captain Speerin (and* a detachment of
)toiaMlarities under his command 1,. and Messrs.
Quelch, Rolfe„.lloert hilainwring, Harwood, Mon.,
bee, Yraier,Maawell, Buchanan, and,Ditvey, master's
mates and.rxiidshiptnen i and I ha e, the satisfaction
to State that they cornOptely achieved their object at.
eleven P. m, _without an officer er man being" hurt
and at one4'clookbrooght.alongsicie their.prize;withs
twenty prisoners ofierty.nine,,. the others haying.
jumped overboard 4. and it is a very gralifyingim.
of my duty to inform /rm., that Lieutenant Richards.
liighly iumniends die goad conduct and gallantrysck,
every officer and mat.under his orders.
have the hOnotir to ;be, &c. (Signed)
J. %..79111r0 Captah
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To yice-Nantbil Sir Edsraid Peilevi, Bart. &c.
His Maksty's ship Undaunted, off Port
• Nourtlle, Nov. 9, 1815.
have the honour to report-to you, that the
port of. Nouvelle- was attacked to-day, and the batte-
ries. siorrned in the most, gallant manner tfy Liente-
•nant Hastings and Lieutenant Hunt, of e Marines,
the whole under the command of Lieutenant How-
nain, senior lieutenant, who speaksin great pruise of
the officers and menof this ship, and,those of the Gua-
daloupe, under the ccanmand of Livutenaut Hurst,
, and Mrs Lewis, traster.• •
The vessels-as per margin*, fell into our hands.
I should be 'ranting. iu duty, if I did not express'
my. high sense of the 3iscretistr and.gailant conduct,
of the tifficess. and men orthis ship, 'who in the short
time . she has been ander my "command, have taken
or _destroye4.-princitially in the boati; seventy df
the eneing'swasselsr.iste• with cornparadvely.a very
sniult .
It affords me gressilleatiure to state, thatlmlyase
man was wbunded.—lltate the hotsisew to be, ste. •.-
tnimedr Turmas VisertMaratir
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. TI destreyed, S.'
tiVtard Pellew hu also traps;
Witted to Joha Wilson Croker, tack a letter from

Captain Hamilton, of his Majesty's ships.Rainbowl !
-dated off Via.dalena, the 11th September, stating that
her boats, under Lieutenant Coffin, had captured, in
the Bay of Ajaccio, two 'mettle vessels, one having
on board a Lieutenant and several men of the 2d batr.
of French pioneers ; and the other laden with wheat.
And ono from Captain Hole, of his M•ajesty's sloo
Badger, dated off Port Mahon, the. 30th October,
giving an account of his having captured l'Aven-
ture French privateer, of two guns and 28 men, out
lour days from Barcelona, and .had not taken any
prize.

THIRTT.SECOND BULLETIN OF THE

CROWN PRINCE.

" BEAD-QUARTERS, KIEL, DEC. 26.
• " Some armed, gun-vessels from Hamburgh hav-
ing approached Blackenese, probably with the view .
of capturing some boats that were there, General
Woronzow sent a detachment of troops, with one
piece of cannon, to the bank of the Elbe. On -this-,
an 'action took place with the French vesseli, whiek,
•carried eight cannon : fort.), Ruisian light infantry
Were embarked in boats 'in order to carry the enemy
by fmarding ; but notwithsthanding his snperiority,
he thought proper to make off, favoured by. the wind,
and-was long pursued by, the Russians.. The Com-
mandant of the gun;vessels was killed.
••• '6 Miijor-GeneraT Boye, svho comma:As the troopS
before Ginckstadt, hiving ordered the regiment of
Kronnberg to make itself master of apiece of ground
whichr in advance of the fortress, was defended
battery of heavy artillery; the garrison, at"the
of a gun being fired from the fortress, made a sally
The action was very severe, and the enemy were
arinen back *within his walls with Considerable loss;
• .at
The ground was maintained, and the works upon it
forwarded amidst a heavy fire of grape-shot from the
fortress. The regiment of Krenoberg had several
men killed and wounded in this affair, among whom
ate two Officers.' The batteries will 1)e complete on
the 25th.
66 The King of Denmark having applied for an,
extension of the armistice. it has been prolonged td,'
the 6th of January. This interval is doubtless along.
one ; but however injurious it may be as.far. as re-1
spects the Allies, they_ will not regret it, provided
the basis of peaCe with Denmark is laid before -ilis!j
termination. Advantageous Conditions have been
offered to'that government ill Sweden :—it is to be
hoped, for the general good, and for the advantage
of that government itself, that they will be accepted.
Impartial Europe will know how to appreciate as it,
deserves, the magnanimity of this offer, which con-
veys a new proof of the moderation of Sweden, and-
her upright wishesagaii to restore peace to the North.
Norway was secured to her hi the most sacred and
solemn treaties :—never had any guarantee a mote
majestic • signature,- and • nes* did any nation rely
v.;i1.11 more confidence than • sweden, upon treaties
which deliver the Scandinavian Peninsula from the
ie.fluence and policy of Napoleon. The hopes of peace
have improved the Danish paper money 100 per.cent.
-This-is the thermometer of the opinion of the nation.-
-,-The moment hostile Operations are renewed, the
paper will• no longer have any value.

• the mean time, amidst ex sting protestations;
.anAnglo-RusEian and Prussia convoy has been at=
tacked in the Sound, -tiy privateers untILT the Danlh
and „French _flags, and must have • fallen into die'
bands of these pirates, had they not been protected
by Swedkh ships of var. This convoy was laden'
-with. valuable merchandise, and among other things,•
with muskets and military clothing.

" Since the commencement of the armistice
RUssian officer, with dispatches from Frankfort for
Count Wallmoden, having lost his way, came under
the walls of Rendsburg. Being brought before the
Commandant of the fortress, his dispatches were
taken from him, broken open, and iead. Two of them
which were addiessed to the English Minister; have
been kept back by the Commandant." •

FROM THE DUTCH PAPERS.,
THE HAGUE, JANUARY 7.

Yesterday evening Cord Castlercagh; British Se-
cretary of State to Foreign Affairs, arrived here with:
his Lady
..and suite, from Helvoetsluys. His Lord.
ship is lodged at the. house of Mr. Van Schuylenberg
Migt Bomenede. • . •
According to letters from Baron Van Spaen Van
Vuorstonden, our Envoy, dated Freyburg, his Excel.,
lenCy, immediately on his arrival there, had an audi-
ence of the Emperor of Austria •and' his Ministers.
His reception was most gracious, and accompanied
with many expressions of satisfaction on the restora-
tion of his Highness, our Sovereign, and assurances of
assistance and support to a people'who had so brave-
ly, and with their own hands, broken their chains.

' BERNE, DECEMBER 24.
!! Yesterday came hither [he Austrian corps under
'Count Bubna, and to-day entered many other regi-
ments of infantry, cavalry, and artillery, with pon-
toons and bridges; but Prince Lichtenstein, Prince
Cobourg, and probably Count Bubna, are still here.
The whole country is coveted with troops.'
It is said, that 40,000 Colsacks will form the ad-
vanced guard of the Allied Army in France.
Considerable corps are to march through the Aar.
berg, and by the roads at the foot of Mount Jura.--
On,the 23d the Allies Marched tbtough Newenburg,
and,. Bill• is alread* in their possession, the French
douaniers and agents having fled from both places.
The districts which werktorn. from Switzerland will
be:again united to her.
. BASLE, DECEMBA 2.5: •
:051U 20th the •cannon were brought over the
Rhine,, and on, the morning of the 21st the Allied
troops entered here, and passed through the Spalen.
port into Alsace. At the Crossing of the bridge not

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a shot was 'fired from I-Itnsingtten. .It is estimated
that 80,000 men have passed. through.
On the 22d, 22;000 troops lodged here, some hun-
dreds of whom bivouacked,' while' the Bavarians,
• marched thrOugh. On the 21it the Rhine Was, also,
crossed by troops at Bench. On the 244 h lowly
.thousand Austrians,again.possdihrough here. Some
firing was heard in the.night from Humnguen, which,
it is supposed, will soon be attacked. It is estimated
that more than 200,000 Me' haye .already matched
into Alsace ; and the Officers report, that they are to
• advance through Franche Comte.

'MANHEIM, DECEMBER 22.
Opposite .us the French have very few troops, and
the whole line of the Rhine, from Mentz to Hunin-
guen, is very weakly manned. The few troops, who
seem rather fer observation than defence, are chiefly
drawn from Landau, .and other fortresses on the
Rhine, to which, it is said, they have received orders
to withdraw, should the Allies cross. According to'
credible reports, .the principal places were by no
means sufficiently garrisoned ; Mentz had scarcely
1.5,000 men, anti Strasburg 13,000 ; besides, in the
foriner place the garrison was greatly weakened. by
contagions fevers. Large districts on the Upper Rhine
have suffered extremely from this fever, which is al-
most pestilential. Spire, Frankenthal, Worms, Lan-
dau, and Coblentz, have lost numbers of their inha-
bitants by it, and it still continues its ravages.
• BAMBERG, DECEMBER 29.
`, A letter this Moment received from Leipsic,.
I+clgted the 24th, says, h/rhis day Tau surrenderßl
•by capitulation. 'The heavy besieging artillet y• is al-
ready on its way to Wittenberg, which hitherto has
been scarcely blockaded."

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