Star.
London, England, 1805-07-08 00:00:00

COPT OP CORK, JUNE 30.,

Having been too late for the Expedition under)
Sir Jams, CRAIG, I embarked at Portfmouth with
•three of the regiments originally &Rifler' to proceed
with Sir EYRE COOTF, upon a Secret Expedition,
which was generally lbppofed to be intended for the
Wei Indies. Thefe three regiments (Bth, 24th and
83d) remain on board the tranfports at Ceve, and'
will probably continue in that fituation fome time.
-,The rumour at prefent is that the original plan
of this Expedition is to be altogether abandoned,
and that Sir EYRE Coors will proceed with a few
regiments to take upon him the Government of J -
mica. But thefe are only vague conjeatires, which
we have here no data to ellimate. Whatever may
become of us ultimately, it is to be regretted that
it thould he found ne.celfary to keep the troops con.
fined on board the tranfports, or even to encamp
them on Spike ifland ; for, nothing being more inju-
rious to the health of foldiers than a monotonous in-
aaivity, we may tape& in a few weeks more a great
deal of ficknefs. There are already about 150 fent
to the General I-lofpital at Cork, from the three re-
giments, betides about 250, principally from one rt.
gimer.t. landed on nall Bowling Eland, it! of the
itch. The difeafes of thofe,fent to the nonlife'', are,
it is true, for the nioit part flight ; but if we thonld
be detained here as long as the troops under Gene-
ral Wityrs in 1795, the difeafes I am confident wilt
by Oaober become equally fi.:vere with tl,ofe wlizeh*
ailed that army. I cannot therefore but think that
it would he a great laving to Government, as well
of morii•y-' as of live, to march thole troops intri
fome healthy part of the interior of Ireland, i. e. with-
in two days march of the place of embark-Lion.

Thurfday fe'nnight, the Nithfdale battalion fired
three rounds at a target for a Silver Medal, given by
the Officers to the belt markfmen of their refpetive
companies; after which the ten belt 'hooters tired for
a Gold Medal, given by the Field Officers; and the
competition for this Medal was fo equal, that Mr.
WHITR, mathematician. was obliged to be fent for to
decide the preference, which was adjudged to a pri.
vate of Sir THOMAS KIRKPATRICK'S company.--4ln
general the firings were clofe and regular, and would
have done credit to any regiment of the line.
By letters from the Tartar, 32, dated Bermuda.
received at Plymouth, is learnt, that the report of
her being wrecked was falfe, as lye was hove down
to repair at that illand.
Saturday a valt number of letters from Jamaica
reached towu, brought by the flee,t atrivcd in the
Downs, but they are of anterior date to thofe re-
ceived fume days ftnce.

The following is an extra& of is letter from a par '
Fenger on board the Putfuit, from Jamaica, dated Of
Falmouth, July 3
" The Liverpool (hips left us three days ago with a fair wind;
we are about five (hips (tort of the number when we lAled from
Port Antonio; and it is apprehended that they went on (bore in
the Crooked gland Paffage; but that is only a furmife, as we
very fair weather about that time."
The merchants of Jamaica have fixed the follow.
ing rates of freight for the .prefent year:—Sugar
9s. 6d. per cwt.—coffee 13s. 6d. ditto—rum i rd. per
gallon--cotton, in lerons, 21d. per lb. in bags 3d. per
lb.—dye woods, fix guineas per ton.
The SPAR mirk, Sir F. LAFOREY, fell in with the
Toulon fleet to windward of Martinique, on the lath
of May ; he, however, only faw three frigates with
the Cyane, but concluding from their movements
that they belonged to a fleet, he did not chace, and
two days after they entered Fort Royal Bay.
Lord SE•FORTH, we are informed, in his letters
to Government, Rates that a great moit.tlity had pre-
vailed on board the French (hips, in confequence of
their crowded Rate, and to this circumilance is im-
puted their delay at Martinique. The fl ig officers
are a Spanifh Admiral and a French Vice and a Rear
Admiral. On the 2zd of May they had flationed fOur
frigates at St. Pierre's; had they been a fortnight
later, a large convoy would have been affembled at
Tortola, in an unprotetted harbour.
General Paavosr had on the xoth withdrawn all
his forces from Rofeau, &c. and concentrated them
at Prince Rupert's, where he had collated abundant
Rotes.

Letters have been received from Holland, dated
on Tuefday ; they mention, in general terms, the ac-
tivity which prevails on board their fleet in the Texel,
but do not allude to any early period for its failing
on the contrary, they report, that M. SCHIMMIL-
Pawmzuc purpofes, during the fummer, to vifit North
Holland, the Helder, the fleet, &c.
The following eftimate of national expenees has
been laid before their High Mightineffes by the Grand
Penfionary, for the feven remaining months of the
pretent year unprovided for, and which, cn the tit
mil. was voted as follows :