Star.
London, England, 1805-01-08 00:00:00

GIBRALTAR, NOVEMBER 19.

" A difpatch boat arrived tlis morning from Lord
NELSON'S fleet, in nine days, but brings nothing new ;
the fleet were then all well off Toulon.

" The fever fill appears to be as malignant and
contagious as ever in the town, of which every day
furni!hes fatal proofs of all who are rant enough to
venture into it from the Somh. A few days ago four
Officers of the Royal Artillery, who had efcaped the
difeafe in camp, were moved into town, they were
all immediately attacked, and by this morning three
of them are dead, viz. Captain Rat.vir LIDGERTOW,
Lieutenants HENRY ELLISORP, and Jamas Wrour
the fourth, Lieutenant Wsr.t.s, is recovering. Mrs.
HUGHES, wife of the Rcv. Mr. Huouss, alfo died
this morning of the fever.
" Deaths up to this day of troops by the fever—Of-
'ricers 44, Soldiers 820, Sick 420.
"Couvalefcent, but not difcharged the hofpital,l 6?,
inhabitants dead 3727. Sick 43.
If any print attempts to allert, that the fever has
abated, either in its malignity or contagion, centre-
diet it in the mofl pofitive terms. The deaths have
nearly ceafed in town amongli the inhabitants, be-
cacfe at leaf 99 in too have had the difeafc. Not one
houfe has efcaped, and you feel the fmet.l of conta-
gion the inaant you enter the walls of the town.

" The mutt extraordinary pains feem to have been
taken to deceive the public ref-peeling the real fitua-
tion of this place. One paper afferts, that on the 4th
of Oaober the deaths had, decreafed to zo, when they,
aCtually amounted on that day to 175, that being the
day of our grcatelt mortality. If yuu want to have
a correa idea of the nature of our difeafe, read Dr.
CME7HM.M's Eflay on the Malignant Pestilential fever
of the Weft Indies, which is exeily our difzafc, fo
correCt in every particular that you would fuppofe
he had written from what he had Peen here.
" NOVEMBER Z 2, 7804..

The principal deaths of the fever yeflerday
were, DoOor BIRD, Phyfician to the Naval licfpital
here; Mr. KUHN, an American Merchant, and Mr.
DICKSON, a refpeCtable Englifh Merchant, who came
out with the hit convoy, and who had remained on
fhip board in the bay till the deaths had chnoft ceafed
in town; when, conceivingthe contagion had alfo
abated, he imprudently came on fhore, immediately
caught tie fever, and died this morning:of a relapfe,
after being nearly recovered.
" It appears that this horrible peftilence is fpread-
ing itfelf is every ciireCtion ! it has (hewn itfelf in Ga-
licia.and on the frontiers of Portugal, and there is
alfo reafon to believe it has broke out in Barbary,
nor can this be wondered at, when it is a notorious
fact, that uptvards of fixty veffels, molt of them
Crowded with paffengers, left this place for cid,: ent
parts of the world at a time when tome hund.-eds
were ill of the difcafe, and the inhabitants were flying
in terror in every direction. Many of there veffels wet e
admitted into different ports, but others returned
.here after being denied fhelrer every where, with the
difeafe raging on board which had broken out at fea.
" Several of theft veals ittap poflibly have failed
for England, as Tome of them continued lying in
the Bay till the ; ith of October, when the Malta.
convoy, for England, palled, with which they failed.
This was at the very height of the 'difeafe, as tht
deaths had on the 3d of Oaober exceeded 150 daily,
yet thefe veffels were all that time permitted to retain
their clean bills of health, and to take fuch paffen-
gas on board as they elide. One Jew paid 7001. for
, the paffage of himfell and family to cfcapc from coa-

retiiun of death, and large (urns were often arcred
fur a paitige in vain.

Mrs. CAarisTes, wife of Capt. CARPENTER,
Paymalter of the loth Regiment, died this morning
of the fever.—Dead of the troops during the night,
four; taken ill of the fever yetterday, only fcven, not
half the usual number."