Star.
London, England, 1805-10-04 00:00:00

LONDON.

FRIDAY, OC FOUR 4.
PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK:

Congas, for money, Sb s -for OAR. 51q.
Onunum, for money, 3i—for payment sf.
PRICE OF sorocxs YESTERDAY:

3 per C. Conf. Ann. 581-it
5 per Cent. Navy 884 by
India Sonar, as. a 2s. dif.
Imp. Ann. 9

Ext.h. bills, par as. diE
Osnoium 3i pron.
F.nzlith "lickns, spl.l9s.
Cutif ter are.3B

Owing to fome unaccountable accident, the fub-
joined letter from Falmouth, which ought to have
reached us yekerday morning, did not come to hand
till this day : nor were we fingular in this difappoint-
ment. The Makers of Lloyd's Coffee-houfe were
alto yeflerday without their regular letter.
In confequence, we were unwilling to give credit
to the rumour, when it retched us yerterday, and our
Paper was altually at prcfs before we learnt that
Mr. HARVEY, the Gentleman who brought this intel-
ligence, had reached town. The report, as firk Ra-
ted, we knew could not be corral ; for on enquiry,
we found that no accounts had been received at the
incia Houk of any (hips being on the way home from
St. Helena, except the CALCUTTA man of war, and one
(hip, the Indus extra Indiaman. In pernfing the fol-
lowing our Readers will therefore keep this circum-
fiance in their recollation. It may be true that this
French fquadrnn has taken the number of veffels
Rated, but the !hips are not of that value which they
would have been, had they Len ail IEaR Indiamen, as
was fira reported. We know that two South Sea
Whalers and two S‘‘ cries were at S:. Helena, and
there may have been j by other two Whalers,
which would m..!;;; up the number- If, however, the

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two Sweditk sips are among the number,it will prove
a ferious lots to the underwriters, as we underlland
they were principally infured at Lloyd's.

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" FALMOUTH,OCT. I—By a Gentleman (Mr. HAR- I
Visit, late Matter oftheLsicsssett Packet,) which ar- i
rived this morning from Scilly, having come paffen- t
ger. in one of the Leeward Eland Fleet, viz. the i
Williaim, of Newcattle, which parted from the fleet 4
about a month Since, we learn, that on the 23d tilt. 1
they fell in with the HADDOCK fchooner, Lieutenant 1
FOLLY, with a Mail from Jamaica ; the was dif-
patched
from thence in confequence of the captures ;
a Packet, (fuppofed to be the CHESTERFIELD') in i
fight of Jamaica, by a French fchormer privateer,
t%nicl? the fame time engaged. Mr.FleavEy went on
board the HADDOCK, which was then with the CAL
C uTtA man of war, which had feven fail of Eafl India
(hips under her convoy from the Eaft Indies. On
the 2sth ult. in lat. 49. 40. long. it. 4. a Frer.ch
frigate came up, being part of a fquadron of five
fail of the line, and two frigates, then in fight. She
engaged the CALCUTTA for one hour and ten minutes,
and was filenecd ihon atter : one of the line of battle
[hips carne up, and engaged the CALCUTTA, but it
form ended, and he fuppofed the CaLcui re Itruck.
—The French fquadron alfo took the William and
another veirel of the Leeward Hand fleet.—What
became of them or the CALCUTTA'S convoy, is not
known, as it was nine o'clock at night when file
left them. On the arrival of the flannocK at Scilly,
his Majelly's fhip PLOVER failed to give this intelii-
gence to Admiral CORNWALLIS.—Arrived this day,
the ADRIANA cutter, Lieut. Fos BES, front the Channel
Fleet, which the left on Saturday laa, all well. Ad-
miral STIRLING, with five fail of the lire, had been
difpa:ched in purfnit of the Rochefort fquadron, but
had returned trtluceefsful. A fccond fquadron was
then fent. Alfo anivcd the Favourite, Smictctawn,
w!th wines, from Op•Kto ; and the Bettey, Rcsss,
from lirillol.—P. S. Since writing the foregoing the
Jamaica mail is brought to Falmouth, to be fumi.
gated.—Wind E."
The following Letter is from our Plymouth Cor-
refpondent, and came to hand this morning :

" Plymouth, o,gober 2.

" It is reported here that theCaLCUTTA of ga gunr,
together with fix fail of Eaft Indiamen under her
convoy, have been captures by the Rochefort (qua.
dron, and that they have been fince teen by the No-
via, of iS guns, (leering for a Spanifli port ; we can-
not difcnver from whence the report originates, nor
can we afcertain whether the fart be fo or not, but
we hope it may prove to be unfounded."
The Jamaica Mail alluded to in the above Letters
has brought intelligence that the VANGUARD man of
war, and the PAPILLICIN:, brig of war, failed from'
Port Royal, Jamaica, on the 28th July, with fleet
under convoy for Great Britain, and that the fleet
from England had arrived at Jamaica.
Some apptehentions are entertained for the fafety
of the Leeward Ift.ind Fleet, nidcli, it is conceived,
mutt have been neatly in the fame latitude in which
the enemy's fleet ::re deferibed to have been Peen en-
gaging the CALCLI r rA; and it is certainly poffible
that tome of them may have fallen into the hands of
the enemy. It is hardly poflibly, however, that they
can tarty them into a French port.
Our Readers will fee by the fubjnined Official
Notice, that force hopes are entertained that part, at
of the (hips under convoy of the CALCUTTA
may have efcaped :