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London, England, 1802-01-08 00:00:00

)NAUTICAL IN9IBLLICRY6t.

good deal of damage; but they are already in a
courfe of repair, and the moft alive difpofitions
are making, in order to caufe the enemy to repent,
(heuld he have any intention of renewing the ac-
tion, with troops fo animated and well condated
as ours and the French have proved themfelves in
the engagement of the 6th."
It will be recollefted that in confequence of the
SpandhCommandant claiming the merit of ferving
the batteries, the French General DEVAUX caned
him publicly at Cadiz. The French troops cer-
tainly kicked the Spaniards out of the batteries.
SHIPWRECK.
" Ayr, December, iS, dot.
" I take this opportunity to acquaint you, that
I arrived here on Saturday night, the 12th init.
in his Majelys cutter PRINCE Aucusrus FRE-
paw, Captain Down:, on this ftation, after be-
ing shipwrecked on Lady Me, near the mouth of
this harbour, and there taken up by him.
" I left Qyebec on the lit of Novemb2r, in the
brig Nancy,loszpi4 REID mailer, bound for this
port, with whom proceeded on the voyage till the
unfortunate accident happened, not without pre.
vious danger and fatigue, which may be learnt
from late fimilar accidents, and fome [fill more
fatal happening on shores not remote from us. We
ftruck on the rocks on the morning of the n I th,
about fix o'clock, in a violent gale of wind, which
fprung up about two the fame morning, with hail,
snow, and thick ithr W- nde td
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MAILS THIS DAY.WIND N. N. E.
ARIITVLD. DUf.
z French, Jon. 3►
o Hamborgh,
I Dublin. Jan. 4,
I Waterford, Jan. 3,
▪ Doanaghadee, Jan. 4.

PLYMOUTH, JAN. 6.—Arrived the Enterprize,
from Baltimore.
PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 7.—This day arrived from
Surinam the fhip Qltecn, Capt. MFGESON, bound
to London; alfo the Swedifh brig Nova Conto,
Capt. NORDSTED, laden with tar, &c. from Stock-
holm.—Sailed the fhip Cybele, Capt. MUNRO, for
the South Seas; Polly, Capt. DARBY, for Trini-
dad ; and Europe, Capt. WHITS, for St. Vincent.
—Went out of harbour the Pomona, Capt.
laden with liquors, bound to Demarara.—Arrived
this day one fhip from the Downs ; more are
hourly expetSted. Yefterday came into harbour
his Majefty's fhip Portland (flop-fhip) to be fitted
to receive conviets. Yefterday and to-day the
trial of a+ of the Mutineers from the Bantry. Bay
fleet commenced on board his Majefty's fhip GLA-
DIATOR.

Dov sa, JANUARY 7.—This morning arrived the
PRINCESS ROYAL packet, Captain HAMMOND, from
Calais, with a mail and feveral paffengers ; among
whom were Mr. BARTRUM, Mr. BURDON, Mr.
CHEREMONT, Mr. and Mrs. TuTHILL, Mr. COURT,
&c. The PRINCE or WALES packet, Captain SUT-
TON, with the mail of the 6th inft. failed this morn-
ing for Calais, having on board Meas. HIOGINS
and Wacsrarra, Meffengers, with difpatches.
DEAL, JAN. 7.—Arrived the following (hips
which remain wind bound :—The Anthony Mou-
gin, Capt. NORMAN ; Eliza, Capt. B. Dom ; Cref-
cent, Capt. WM. CHAPMAN ; Refolve, Capt. R.
SINCLAIR ; Progrefs, Capt. ROBERT FROST.—The
Bremen bark Enterprize, put in on the 4th and
failed again on the sth.
SHEERNESS, JAN. 7.—Arrived the EUCENP brig,
Capt. Sonny:Liz, from the Downs. The OvER-
YSSEL failed this day for Chatham, to be paid off,
being found unfit for fervice. Wind E. N. E.
WHITEHAVEN, DEC. s.—The Thetis, MAwsoN,
arrived here laft Thurfday, after a very hard
paffagc of feven weeks. She was 24. days, from
Cronftadt to Elfinure: fizteen of which the did not
fee the land: and, in all that time, was able to take
only one obfervation! The (bore, when the Thetis
approached it, exhibited a difmal fpe6tacle,—all
Brewed with wrecks : of which, it is hoped, we
have already had the melanchcly details.
FROM LLOYD'S LIST.
DEAL, line. 7.—Sailed the WALMER CASTLE,
THAMES, and CANTON, for India; and feveral
other outward-bound vac's.
GRAVESEND, JAN. 7.—Paffed by the Perfcve-
ranee, —, from Dublin ; Lord Salton, —,
from Cork ; Young John, —, from Dantzig ;
Reinholds, OHLERS, from Hatnburgh ; Jacoba,
—, from t Rotterdam ; Venus, Joan soli, and
Vrow Abigail, Fi SH Ex, from Am fterdam.—Sailed
the Charlotte, Roans, for Dublin.
BATTLE OF ALGESIRAS.

mow, and thi,_ weather. . e endeavoured to
get her off,hacking fails, and making every other
effort the;Captain and crew had in their power;
but finding them ineffeEtual, the (hip beating vio•
lently againtt the rocks, and receiving much
damage, the tide alto falling, we had to confult
our own fafety with as much expedition as poffi-
ble, and to lave fome of our baggage. The wind
lulling a little, and being on the lee-fide of the
ifland, favoured our endeavours.
" People in fuch circumfances hold themfelves
firil in view. Five men got on fhore, principally
with their own and the relt of the crew's baggage.
While the boat was gone, thofe on board howled
up from the after-hold all the baggage belonging
to the cabin-paffengers and the Captain, which we
piled together on the quarter-deck, ready to throw
into the boat, with ourfelves: on her return. Four
of the paffengers got to town the night before, the
weather being fine and moderate, I then remained
the only paflinger on board. The boat returned
in lefs than an hour for us : by this time the tide
had fallen conliderably, and the lee-fide of the (hip
becoming inacceffible to the boat, The had to take
to the weather fide; the wind alto fpiinging up
frefh and violent, with difficulty was the kept from
clothing to pieces againft the !hip's fide. We had in
this fituation to take to flight without delay; and
in lets than four minutes !hipped ourfelves, aban-
doning our baggage, and unable to hand a Tingle
package into the boat.
" The mailer, overwhelmed with forrow for
his lots, was with difficulty dragged out of the
fhip, and I, in getting out, though I had not hung
half a minute by the (hip's fide, was dragged by
the heels into the boat by the fecond mate, who
had a kilt fenfe of the danger we were in, and the
neceffity of difpatch to fave our lives. In a (port
time we fortunately made the fhore, upon a bar-
ren, uninhabited .ifland, not a houfe, habitation,
or hut upon it, nor fo much (helter as would cover
a eat, blowing a hurricane from the north, with
heavy fhowers of hail beating upon us ' • the
(hovers ceafing at intervals. Had we delayed our
Bight ten minutes, we mutt inevitably have pe.
railed. We made onr landing about nine o'clock.
In this fituation were we from fix in the morning

The Madrid Gazette Extraordinary gives the till haltpall nine at night, (aboard and on fhore)
following account of the battle ofAlgefiras, which expofed to bitter forms, wet, thinly clad, without
has not yet been publinsed in this country: fire, without provifions, without any teeth water
g. Merida, ply so. we could find, no more bread than would serve
" The General Commandant of the Camp de us for a meal, trembling and benumbed; and after
St. Roque, in a difpatch of the 6th infant, trent*• having efcaped the fury of the waves, ready to
perillt from the exceffive inclemency of weather,
mitted by a courier extraordinary, communicates
and without hope, or any profped of relief. But
intelligence of an aftion which has been fought be.
tavern fix fail of the line, and other veffels of war, the BEREFICYNT AUTHOR of all things, unexpec-
tedly to us, gracioufly interpofed in our behalf, and
belonging to the Englifh, and the French fquadron
of three (hips of the line and one frigate, lying at favoured our fafety and efcape from this dreadful
cataflrophe—a relief was rniraculoufly thrown in
anchor in the harbour of Algefiras, and of the glo•
our way, as if calculated to meet us in this pe-
rious refult which has taken place for his Majefty's
rilous fituation.
arms and thofe of the Republic his ally. About
" '
eight in the morning of that day, (viz. the 6th). His Majelty s cutter, Capt. Down, chanced
there were feen coming out ofGibraltar one (hip of to be at lea,
bound to Belfaft, by command of the
84 guns, five of 74, a lugger of 16, and another Board, but was put back by contrary winds, the
of about one o'clock, or before, faw a fail
of to; a polacre of to, two armed gun launches
in diftrefi acrofs the Wand, bore down to fee her
and fourteen boats. Phis force, unlier the corn-
fituation, and thofe who might belong to her, at a
mand of a Rear-Admiral, flood in towards Alge-
hazard to himfelf and his brave men. We law
liras for thepurpofe of attacking the French fqua-
him, and got up as near as poffible to the fpot at
drop then anchored in that port, and which, a.:
which
has been already Rated, confined of three fail of he flood off, expofing ourfelves to his view,
the line and one frigate. The Commanders of made fignal, by waving our bats, of the forlorn
fituation in which we flood ; he returned it ; he
this fquadron bein;; aware of the enemy's inten-
hovered a while as if he had compaffion upon us,
tion, made their difpofitions for defence, placing
and wifhed to give us relief, if pradicable, at any
themfelves as well as they were able wider the rover
hazard : but at this time the fens run to high, and
4' our batteriu and, waiting in this pofition for his
the waves beat fo furioufly upon the fhore, that
approach. The adion commenced at nine. It was
a boat could not live upon the water, nor dare
very obllinate and bloody upon both fides, and
to approach the cult. We faw it, and expeded
likewife upon the part of our batteries, which de-
cided the fate of the day. The adion was conti- no
"relief.
nued until two in the afternoon, at which hour the At the fame time the teas chilled againft the
Englifh drew off with the lofs of one (hip of the (hip, and wafhed her inceffantly from nein to fern,
the teas running top-malt high, which they con-
fine, taking in tow another which was difmafted
and damaged in the hull, and having fultained tinued to do full three hours with the greateft vio-
very great lots and damage in the yea of their vet-
lence, and nearly the fame the whole day. The
fels. Their lots in men mu-ft have been confiderable,
as it is certain that there was a great number of noife of the billows and tempefluous winds, it
would be fuppofed, would filence any report from
killed and wounded on board all the (hips. The the 'hip; but now the black tern pelts from the
French alto have been equal fufferers, the killed and north began to ad upon the fails fet back from
mo burft er, n fome
wounded of their fquadron being eftimated at eight
ruing, they
of them being new, mone afterade reportanoth s greaa terd than
hundred. That of our troops has been lets ; and
heavy cannon fired off, charged to their full corn.
of the whole only the Royal Regiment of Ronda
has loft eleven men. The fire of our batteries WAS element, and were quickly torn to rags.—After
a while, Captain Dowis bore away out of fight,
fo hot and well fupported, that the enemy fuffered
b
molt from them ; and particularly it is to that of but was too anxious for our deliverance not to re.
rn in a ort im ket of us; as if
St. Jago we owe the capture of the Lista (hip ;
tu
to keep usfh in gt e, and
ood heart; he pin fight traverfed a confider-
for her bold maneuvre of attempting to pars be-
able time the bay, and tome fhort time before the
tavernthe French Rear-Admiral's (hip, the For-
approach of night be anchored near the fpot where
midable, and the !bore made her take ground ;
we &ft caw him. Still we were without hope, the
her
and,afloat, notwitit hftanbeingdin found impradicableg the utmoft exertion
to tmogo
ve et
winds continuing to blow furioufly. We little
imagined what was intended for us. A ton of Sir
her, the fire from the battery very loon difinafted
Wm. CumNimoNam, a paffenger bound to Bel-
her, and compelled her to ftrike. The French
Teals and our batteries have likevrife received a fait, commanding a (mall party of the slit regi-

rnent, feconded with great fpirif the Captain's ge-
nerous intentions. When night came on, and die
wind lulled fottcwhat, Capt. Dower himlcli took
to the boat, and braying danger, twice .atempted
a landing but inetkaually, to delierate was the,
form.

At length, between eight and nin' o'clock, a
voice was heard from the tliore, hat led at tile
happy alarm ; the cutter's boat landed, and one
of the men came up, ordering us t'il board four or
five at a time, we eacycd the glad fumnions, and
in three trips we embarked on board the cutter at
half pail nine. The Captain received us with the
utmoft tendernefs and hofpitality, had good fires
prepared for us, with comfortable refrefhment, and
provided beds.
" One of the cutter's crew had almoft 101 l his
life.—The boat at one oldie landings was, by the
violence of the furl, overfet, and one of the men
thrown upon a rock, which could not afterwards
be approached, though the beat was immediately
righted ; he remained in this fituation about three
quarters of an hour, wathed by the waves ; at latt
a rope was thown to him, which he fattened round
his body, and thereby he was dragged though the
water to the boat, as a fifh out of the fea by a net.

" By thefe exertions were the lives o(twelve
perfons happily preferved, who muit inevitably
have perillied."

ARRIVED.

At Virginia—Alexander, Geary, from London.
At Naples—Pluto, Head, from Newfoundland.
At New York.—Allegany, Paddock ; Betfey, Montgomery;
tgle, Connolyi and Flora, Frederick, from Liverpool.

At Philadelphia—Mohawk, 24,0Pnougal, from Liverpool.;
At Wilmington—Elizabeth, Aitkin, from Liverpool.
At Portland—Cornelia, Mq.allan, from Liverpool.
At Savannah—Hercules, Pearce, from Liverpool.
At Portfmouth, New Hatnpthirt.*Atlantic, Tbompfon,
from Liverpool..