Star.
London, England, 1805-09-09 00:00:00

PRISONERS OP WAR.

The following interefling Paper forms part of a
C..rrefoondence which took place with a view to ob-
tain the liberation of the gallant Captain \Valour,
through the intervention of the Spanifh Anthaffatior
at Part,
DECLARATION OF THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT
Refpeclirg the Perfons ftiscd and detained in France, in violation
of the Laws of Nations and of Hofpitality, and Gating the
Terms upon which it will coafent to a general Cartel for the
Exchange of Ptroners of War:
" Sts, Downinz•ftrect, Aug. 41804.

66 I have had the honour to lay before lorciCaM•
den your Letter of the }7th oh. incicling the Copy
of a Letter from Mr. Riviere, written by order of
the French Miniiler of Marine and Colonies, to the
Commiffioners for the Cultody of Prifoners of War,
claiming the releafe of the French crews and garri-
f-o. 'hat "ere made prifoners by his Majetty's lqua-
dron off Cape Francois, in the ifland of St. Domin-
g., on the 3oth of November Jolt, in virtue of the
ad article of the Convention then agreed to by the
Englilh and French Commanders ; and in anfwer
thereto, I am directed to communicate to you his
Lordfhip's fentiments, for the information of the
L4rds Commiffioners of the Admiralty, in order that
they may be tranfmitted, through Mr. Riviere, to the'
French Government. In that Letter, Mr. Riviere
Aces, that the Miailler, under whole orders he aes,
dire 1s him to obferve, 6 That the misfortunes of war
are fufficiently heavy in themfelvess and call particu-
larly on thofe who, by their fltuation on either fide,
are fo powerfully enabled to influence the fate of htt-
rnanity, not to leek occafions reciprocally to aggra-
state thofe misfortunes 11111 more, either by evafions
or diffentions, unworthy of their public charat9er ;'
and he concludes his difpatch by remarking—' That
the Admiralty may be affured of the dired and de-
cided intention of the Government of France, that
none of the duties of humanity (hall be negleded in
favour of prifoners of war.' Toe fentiments thus
avowed are congenial with thofe which are entertain-
ed by his Majetly's Minifters, and however much the
conduit hitherto adopted by the French Government
has differed from thofe fentiments, I am notwithttan.
ding direded by Lord Camden to lay before you
the following flatement, as he cannot, from Mr. Ri-
viere's exprellioas, but entertain the expedation, that
'when the juflice of the cafes which 1 proceed to lay
before you, for his information, (hail be conlidered,
the French Government will afford that fatisfaaion
to this country which the has a right to exped.
" At the very outlet of the war, even before his
Majerty's Ambalfaclor had left France, a very confi-
derable number of his Majerty's lisbjeds, who were
refident in France by the permiffion of the French
Government, and on the faith of the Law of Nations,
or under the prozedion of paffports from the Mini-
flers of France, were, in defiance of the eftablithed
pra&ice of European Nations, detained as prifoners
in France, and have (ince been confined in diltant for-
odes in that counts y. Whilft this flagrant violation
a thole laws and cufloms, by which civilifed nations
bave In long been guided, has taken place in France,
his Majeity's Government have yet allowed all per-
(one who are of the clafs known in the cartel of the
lag war, by the defignatton of .Non Comlattaru, to re-
turn to France, and 5:6 perfons of this defcription
have been adually fent to France, whila only one
perfon of the fame defcription is known by the Tranf-
pert Board to have been fent from France to this
country. Lord Camden conceives that this plain
Ratement fufficiently marks the different principles
which have actuated the conduit of the two nations,
and therefore makes no further comment or obferva-
tion upon it, but direds me to (late to you other cir-
cumltances connefted with this fubjed
" In the month of June, 18°3, a det..Ament of
his Majelty's troops landed on the ifland of Sr. Lu-
s ; and, on terms of capitulation being refuted,
they flormed the chief fortrefs of that ifland, and took
the garrifon prifoners of war; but to far from tiling
the power which a vielory fo obtained might have
al:folded him, his Majelly's Commanding Officer,
though he might have kept the garrifon prifoners in
'he %Vert Indies—though he might have fent them to
England, (tripped of all their private property,there
to be retained in prifon, yet, upof the higheft pzinci•
pie of honour and humanity, he fent then to their'
own country on their parole,with an entire confidence
.4 their being immediately exchanged. No acknow.
Icdginemof this generous condudhas beets made, and
nut a angle Britiffi prifoner has been releated in re-
turn for the garrifon of St. Lucia.
_ _ _ _

44 In the fame month of June, 1833, the ifland of
Tobago was attacked by a firong Britilh force,
~nd, on being fummoned to furrender, General
Berthier, the Commandant, not being in a fituation
ca make refilance, propofed a capitulation the moil
Favourable to the French garrifon, which co/Ailed of
only 89 rank and file. It was in the power of his
;;Ijelty's Commanding Officer to have forced the
garrifon to furrender at difcretion, yet he humanely
agreed to the capitulation propofcd, and fent the I
'irtrrifon to France at the eapence of Great Britain.
.6 In Oftober, 1803, the French garrifon of Pon-1
1 cherry, cent-riling of 177 perfons, cut oft from all',
potlibility of fupport, were fummoned to furrender,
irir a tirong detachment of his Majefly's forces, when,
PA their propofing a capitulation, the Britith Com.
tnanding Officer, who might have reduced them
.hdlont the danger of lofs, confented to allow them
4re mod favours le and generous conditions : they
.ere to be carried to France, and to receive their full
•i; ty till their arrival, from the Indian Company, and
',..ere only debarred from ferving again fur a year and
day.
" A cartel fhip, named the NI stiltla, was taken
i Ito employment for this fervice, which a few days
kgo arrived in the Channel, and immediately pro.
z.s.eded off Havre. That port being blockaded, the
canal was dircocd to proceed to Fecamp. Upon
its arrival off that port, no notice being taken of the
teveral of the French officers requelted to be al.
iewed to enter the port in a boat. This was pert sit
; but, on advancing near the harbour with a flag
Pi truce, the boat was fo repeatedly fired upon, that
they were obliged to relincprilb the attempt, and the
cartel has arrived in the Downs.

, s Notwilliflanding the& coreuraances, and that
.lie lila public cartel thip was fired upon from Mor-
!.ix, wbicb is pointcd out by the hcnch Go7ern•

anent u the port to which flags of truce are to be'
tent, the cartel has been ordered to proceed to that
port, and to make another attempt to carry the ca-
pitulation entered into at Pondicherry into execution.
" I now proceed to !late individual cafes, to thew
the (pink which a6tuates the Government of France.

" Captain Furien, Commander of the French fri-
gate Francaife, was allowed to go to France, on kir
parole to retina to England in three snonthe, if he could
not procure the exchange of Captain Brenton, of his
Majefty's frigate Minerva. The liberation of Cap-
tain Brenton has been refufed, and the French Go-
vernment have propofed to fubffitutc--tfl, Colonel
Cranford— zdly, Mr. hi:Namara—and, idly, a Co.
fond Smith; the two former of whom being refi-
dent in France at the time of the rupture between
the two countries, were detained as prifoners con-
trary to the law of nations ; and Colonel Smith is
not known to be in the army or navy of this country.
" I am next to advert to the capture and deten-
tion of Lieutenant Dillon :—Lieutenant Dillon, of
his Majedy's frigate l'Africaine, was fent into Hel-
voet on the aoth July, 1803, in a fix oared cutter,
with a flag of truce, and was there feized and de-
tained with his crew. Upon a reprefentation being
made on the fubjecl, a letter was received from the
Officer commanding at the Texel, under date Otto-
ber 16, 1803, to the Officer commanding his Britan•
nic Majefly's (hips off that port, Rating, that orders
had been ilfned by the Council of the Batavian Navy
to the Commanding Officer at Helvoet, on the aoth
of July preceding, for the entire releafe of the Paid
Lieutenant, flag of truce, and equipage ; in confe-
quence wherenf he departed on the fame day, but
he was on Lis return carried back by a. French
a med boat, and tranfported on board the (hip of
the Commandant of a French divifion Rationed at
the fame putt. It appears that remonftrances have
been made by the Batavian Republic to the French
Government for the liberation of Lieutenant Dil-
lon, but notwithßanding thefe circumlfances, Lieu-
tenant Dillon is Rill detained a prifoner in the terri-
tory of France, in open violation of every privilege
in relation to flags of truce, eftablifhed and acknow-
ledged by civilifed nations.
" But the cafe of Captain Wright deferves and
requires more obfervation than even any of the I
have laid before yon : It appears that Capt. Wright,
commanding his Majefly's Sloop El Vincejo (which
was taken off the coati of Brittany on the zoth of
May lag by (I•veral gun boats), inflead of meeting
with that liberal treatment which has uniformly been
experienced by French officers in limilar cafes, was
fent, with circumllances of peculiar indignity and
feverity, to Paris, fubjefted to clofe imprifonment in
the Temple, and obliged to undergo repeated inter-
rogatories before a Court of Juffice, when none of
the leas alledged a,,rrainfl him would, if true, autho-
rize the French Government to confider Captain
Wright in any other light than as a plainer of war,
atld as entitled to every privilege of that fituation.—
Lord Camden finds it difficult to permit me to advert
to a cafe of this flagrant nature in the terms and ex-
preffions to which this communication ought to be
confined ; for he believes that no age has yet pro.
duced an inflance of a gallant officer, who, after de-
fending his (hip to the mmolf, was obliged to fur-
render, and who, thus becoming a prifoner of war,
was entitled to all the refpea which his condua me-
rited, was yet dragged to the capital of the hoftile
country, and interrogated there, in a manner moft
unjullifiable, upon a fubjea which he could not, and
ought not to anfwer. Captain Wright's judgment
and firmnefs appeared to be as confpicuous under
the circumfance, in which he was placed, as his
gallantry in his particular profeffion ; but he yet
remains a dole prifoner in the Temple at Paris, an
example of the honour, the firmnefs, and the fpirit
of the Britith charaCter.

a I dole this flatement with this cafe ; and I now
proceed to Rate to you, for the information of M.
Riviere, that, in order to 'Oren the evils of war, and
to confute the interetta of humanity, his Majelty has
twice invited the French Government to accede to
the p; inciple r.f a general cartel, founded on the ba-
th s.f that which exifted between the two nations in
the Taft war. The accefilau to thole propofalv
however, been evaded by the French Gave: nment,
by infifting that the Hanoverians are to be confidered
as Britifh prifoners when they cannot be ignorant
that the cafe of the invation of Hanover, and tLe
war with the King of Great Britain, are perfealy
diftina in all their circumltances ; when they know,
that during feveral years of the Taft war, the Eleao-
ral dominions of Hanover were at peace with France,
and that no mention was made of Hanover in the
treaty of the peace at Amiens, as forming in any
manner whatfoever a part of the Britifh empire ;
and when they equally know that no Hanoverian is
a Britifh fubjea ; but, on the contrary, confidered
by the laws of Great Britain as an alien and a fo-
reigner, and over whom there is no controul in this
country.

" Having laid before you this natement, it remains
for me now only to advert to the partiCular ftibjeet
of M. RIVIIRL'S Letter, viz. that thole French pri-
loners which furrendered at Cape Francois, by capi-
tulation, in November 1803, fhould be fent to France
without delay. On this part of the fubjeft, I am, in
the fit ft place, direeted by Lord CAMBhII to refer you
to the inclofed copy of the flatevnent to Vice Admi-
ral DUCKWORTH, by Capt'ain BLIGH, refpeCting the
laid capitulation, in order that, by a communi-
cation thereof to Mr. Itivikes, no pretence may be
made of ignorance with refpeel to all its particulars.
Upon this ttatement of Captain BLIGH, Lord CAM-
EO/1N direfts me to make the following obfervations :
Firft, it appears that in a moment the moil critical
to the French Cortina), all poffibilty of their efcape
cut off, their pofition being futh that their falling a
facrifice to the vengeance of the inhabitants of St.
Domingo was inevitable, no time being allowed for
confideraiion and adjufiment of the terms and nice-
ties of a formal capitulation, a paper of articles ready
prepared by the French Commanding Officer was
prefented to Captain BLIGH, who, atcluated by mo-
tives of generofity and compaffion, immediately con-
tented thereto, with certain modifications, and with
great difficulty, induced General DESSALIIIIIS alfo to
confent to them; which modifications (as there was
not time to reduce them into regular written terms)
the French Commanders, in the pretence of Cain*
&Ica, and three of his Officers, promifed on their
honour to ratify as loon as they fhould arrive at Ja-
maica. Secondly, on the faith of this promife, thus

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fully and dallinilly given in the pretence of four Bri•
tifh Officers, who certify the fail, the French Garr-.
fon were received under the proteition of his Ma.
jelly's fquadron, and removed from certain immedi-
ate dearuition ; but as foon as by thefe means they
were placed in a (bite of fecurity, they retracted their
promife, and refilled to ratify the very engagements
by which they were Lived.
Lnrd Cannon has thought it necelfary that a
aatement of the tranfaitions which took place at Cape
Francois (hould be detailed to M RIYIERE, in order
' that the French Government may be aware of all the
circumftances of the cafe, and how equitably his Ma-
jelly might be authorifed in ailing conformably
thereto. Still, however, with that fcrupulous adhe-
rence to capitulations and treaties which has ever
difiinguilhed this nation, his Majelly will not infift
upon any point which is not included in the words of
the capitulation of CapeFrancnis, and will be guided
in his conduit by the written inarnment alone. I am
now, therefore, direiled by Lord CAMDEN, to defire
that it may be Rated to M. RIVIERE, that no time
will be loft in carrying into cssecution the capitula-
tion of Cape Francois, whenever his Majefty's Ga.
vernment (hall be enabled, from the conduit of the
French Government, to effeituate that meafure ; and
that, fo Coon as a number of Britilh prifoners, equal
in number and proportionate in rank to the garrifon
of St. Lucia, (hall be fent to England, a proportion
of the garrifon which capitulated at Cape Francois
(hall be fent to France, in order to be exchanged.—
This proportion is made upon the principle of evinc-
ing the molt fcrupulous regard to the capitulations
agreed to by his Majelly's Officers—but Lord CAM-
DEN hopes that the French Government may be in-
duced to ulterior meafures, in which the caufe of
general jullice and humanity is concerned, and which
are calculated to alleviate thofe evils of warfare,
which M. RIVIERA fia truly (late; ought not to he
aggravated.
" I am, therefore, idly, to defire it maw be pro.
poled to M. Itlvi tat, that if the French Govern
men( (hall releafe thofe perfons, natives of Great Ltri-
tails and Ireland, who were refident in France at the
commencement of holtilities by the permit on of the
French Government, or the paffports of their Mini.
(lets, and who have been detained in France captives
contrary to sh; law of nations—and if Lieutenant
DILLON (hall be liberated, and Captain WaiGHT re-
leafed from his confinement, and treated as a prifoner
of war, a general cartel, upon the halls fo properly
agreed to dining the courfe of the laft war, thould be
eltablillizd between the two countries.

It wait be obvious to M. Riviere, and to the
French Minifter of Marine under whom he atts, how
deeply his Majefly mutt be irnprefred by the already
lengthened and uujuft captivity of his fubjekts ; and
by the circum9ances of Lieutenant Dillon's deten-
tion, and Captain Wright's iniprifonment ; and how
reafonable it is to expett an honourable redrefs in
th,ife points, previous to the ellablifhment of a gene.
rat cartel. When this fentiment is conveyed to M.
Riviere, lam direeted to defire that their Lortilhips
may, at the fame time, imprefs upon him the confi-
dent expectation of his Majetty's Government, that if
the French Government thall embrace the meafure of
a general cartel, they will not again impede its pro-
grefs, by requiring terms in which it is known that
it is impoil4ble for his Majelly to acquiefee. I am,
Sec. (Signed) 1! anwatan cooza."
Was. Masideu; Ike. Etc.

We lament that our limits will not admit of our
giving. all the letters and documents connefted with
them in detail ; and we mull confine ourfelves to a
brief review of their contents. The firit is a letter
from Lord Harrowby to the Chevalier d'Anduaga,
dated July iB, 1804, alluding to the violation of the
rights of nations and the ufages of war, in the treat-
ment obferved towards Captain Wright, who as a
prifoner of war, and entitled to every privilege of that
fituation, had been fithjeded to peculiar indignity and
feverity, dole!), confined in the Temple as a Rate pri-
loner, and obliged to undergo repeated interroga-
tories before a Court of Criminal Judicature, with a
view to eilablifh proof of an alledged crime fuppofed
to have been committed previous to his capture, and
even anterior to the prefent war. Lord Harrowby
adds, that Amid the French Government perfift in
this conduit, his Majelly would very relutiantly be
obliged to treat tome French officer with equal ri-
gour, and hold him as a hollage for the fafety of Cap-
tam Wright.
The Chevalier d'Anduaga, in a letter of the isith
July, announces his having forwarded Lord Han
rowby's letter to Paris ; and in another of Septem-
ber x 4, Hates, that the French Government had con-
rented to liberate Captain Wright, and only waited
to be informed to what port Lord Harrowby wiffied ,
him to be fent. This letter was accompanied by a
Note from M. Talleyrand to the fame effect ; and
attempting to jullify the conduit of France in rela-
tion to this gallant officer, by afferting, that when
taken he was landing on the coaß of Brittany
perfons haile to the French Government. Lord
Harrowby, in reply to the Chevalier d'Anduaga,
appoints Dover as the port where Captain Wtight
might be fent ; or, if the French Government fhould
not prefer that route, that he might be fuffered to re-
I turn to England by way of Embden.
A letter from M. Riviere, in the name of the
French Miniller of Marine, dated Paris, 22 Prairial,
year 12 ( June ii), requires the liberation of the
French Officers, &c. who had funcnclered at St. Do-
mingo, and were detained prifoner; in England, on
the ground that the (pith of their capitulation flipu-
lated for their return to France on their parole, al-
though it was not fo expreffed verbally. The fore-
going letter from Mr. Cooke, is in reply to thi.; ap-
plication, and it is fupported by a letter from Cap
tain Bligh, of the Thefeus (corroborated by two offi-
cers of that 114, and by Captain Perkins, of the Tar-
tar), which ezprefsly Rates, that Captain B. o'ojea-
ed to the zd and sth articles of the capitulation pro-
poled by the French troops ; but that, in confidera-
tion of the imminent danger to which they were ex-
poled from the Blacks, and which was fo preffing as
not to admit of delay, he confented to receive the
articles, upon General Bayer and Captain Barre fo-
lemnly promifing to ratify freth articles correlponding
with his objei9ions; immediately on their arrival at
Jamaica. Thefe Officers, however, as loon as refuted
from the deilruilion which threatened them, refufed
to fubfcribe to the terms upon which that mercy had
been extended to them •

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We are happy to announce that the whole of our
Eaft India fleet have by this time arrived in the
Downs-..not a tingle fhip being miffing. Fr,r their
names, fee our Portfmouth letters. Several o!' t1:-:
Purfers have already reached the India Houte.
With equal pleafure we have to (late that the Do
minica packet, Captain Carratams, arrrived at Li.
verpool from Barbadoes, which place (he left on the
asth July, a tingle fhip—brings intelligence of the
fleet which failed from Falmouth on the 17th May,
under convoy of the ETHALION frigate and Siamr
(loop of war, having arrived at Barbados: on the 7th
July, and of the fleet which failed from Cork on the
6th June, under convoy of the AFILICAINI frigate and
WOLF (loop of war, having arrived there on the 22d
July I alto of ninety fail of vette'', from the Windward
Iflands, having arrived at Tortola on the sth July,
which were to fail from thence for Oreat 13'44, un-
der convoy, cm the aft of Augu(t.

An interefting Correfpondence between the French
aqd Engith Government* refpeaing prifoners of war,
is given in our preceding columns.

The French fquadron which lately chaced the Ms.
Law, us frigate, were fallen in with on the Both ult.
by the Wasp sloop of war and GROWLEIL gon.brig,
who were both chaced, and narrowly cfcaped being
captured by them. The Wasp had a partial anion
with one of {heir frigates, and was obliged to throw
molt of her guns oyerboard to efcape. Admiral &m-
-utts, with Eve fail of the line, was detached in
purfuit of them on the ill infant, on which day we
are lorry to learn, they effdted their retreat into
Rochefort.

We have this day received letters from our Corn
refpondents at Malta and Gibraltar, the contents of
which are not unimportant.
We were before informed that Sir Jamas Came,
with the expedition under his command, arrived at
the former place, all well, on the 17th of July. Our
prefent letters Rate, that the chief part of the troops,
which went out with Sir Jamas, will be left at Malta,
and that the veteran feafoned regiments compoling
that garrifon will go on with the expedition in their
place.
Sir ARM CRAIG had Cent his chief Aid-de Camp,
Lieut. Colonel &ISIS, to Corfu in the MORGIANA
brig of war, to infpea the Rate of the Ruffian army
affembled there, which our letters Rate at 15,c00
men. It is fuppofed they will co-operate with our
troops, the Raglans being dellined to take paffelfien
of Naples, (if the French be not before hand with
them) while Sicily and Alexandria are to be garri.
Coned by the Britifh.
Thilatter meafure we recommended to he adopted
many months ago, and we are happy to find that it
has been refolved on. The poffeffion of Alexandria
and 'Malta are highly neceffary to the fafety of our
commerce in the Mediterranean during a war. In-
deed we confider the latter as indifpenfible to onrfe-
curity, even in time of peace, and we hope the time
will never arrive in which any Britifh Minißer Ihall
fo far lofe fight of the true interelts of the Empire, as
ever to negotiate for its abandonment.

The conduct of the Spaniards before Gibraltar
feerns extremely mylierious: they are colleCting and
maintaining a much larger army at a great expence,
encamped before that garrifon, than ever can be ra-
quired for defenfive operations, and we can hardly
think that they have any ferious intention of befieging
that place, after the lefon they received the 14 time
they attempted it,-

A rumour has been citeurated that hoflilities hate
aeually commenced in Suabia. It is however esti•
tied to no kind of credit.
We have received4fome additional fets of French
Papers. Though they are not of later dates than
thofe we announced the receipt of on Saturday, they
prefent fome• matter wc,rthy of a perufal. Slow as
the P,arillan Editors have been to admit that the
trantpillity of the Continent was likely to be diflurbed
by any confetqutnces refulting from the annexations
made by France to her territory fence the aft wars
they now admit that hodilities are unavoidable.

They attribute tbe war to three causes : the envi-
ous hatred of the Britith Cabinet ; the terror with
which the geniis of Naroi.toa infpires it ; and the
imprudent pliancy and confidence of Auftiia. The
fury of the literary advocates of BOMAPARTI is di-
reeled, as it might have been meted, againa the
caufc and the inftruncent. Great Britain is a'Sailed
with inveaives, and the Court not Vienna is threatened
with the full weight of French indignation, as our
Readers will ire by the following, extraaed from the
Buikin de l'Aurope of the 3 tit ult. which may be view-
ed as an effuficn of rage from the Cabinet of the
ThuMerics :

4f The fronien ofthe gavire (eon tube mcnaced

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by the movemetts of the Attarian armies. Thirty
Lb viand men are to match from the camps of Bou-
logt“; to the Banks of the Rhine. This intelligence
may Cuprite thole who have even foreleen it.
,‘ Intl, we might forefee that the envioushatred
of the Br halt Cabinet, and the fear with which the
genius of the Emperor NAPOLEON fills it, would In-
duce Mr. PITT to exhau:l all the efforts of intrigue
a;lti corruption, to divide the dangers that menaced
England, and make the Continent (hare them with
her; but we may well be allonifhed that Auflria
!lipoid have fo form forgitten the lefTon of experience,
and that the Ihuuld 11111 give herfeif up to thofc finifier
c which have twice dragged her to the brink
:t a bottorclefs abyfs.

,•Vanquifhed for feveral years fhe had received from
the magrat,imity of the conqueror more advantages
than !Le would have dared to demand after viauries ;
and it is againfi the hero, who, rtfptaing courage
and rn;sri rtune, flopped in his, triumphs, and twice
Paved het by a generous peace, that fhe is going to
rekindle, at the voice of a perfidious ally, a war
which Un her Will have neither legitimate °llea nor
known e-cl.

" B,r, there is in future more than one day of Ma.
T:r f,,t) to France and Auftria.
1 lie Hun arians, the Germans, will perhaps be
tired of Nica,iing their blood to preferve to the Eng-
lith the c•.mm:rcial and naval defpotifm which has
to offer. infulted the Auflrian flag. The French will
:Leer be tired of fighting for the Freedom of the Seas,
ti nm which it is wi(hed to banifh them ; for the de-
fence t f their Property, which it is w ithed to deftroy ;
tOr the profperity of their Ma,nufadures, which it is
walled t.. Rifle ; for the majefly and greatnefs of the
Empire, which wound the pride of their enemies :
they will be faithful to the remembrance of their pall
glory, and to the fentiment of their prefent happi-
nets.—ln the florm of the Revolution, when we were
without Chief, without laws, without union, without
Grw:rnment, and without bread, we made coalefced
Europe rel-peEl the independence of our territor►. The
Resolution is at an end, order is rellored, the State
flourifhing; he who reftored laws, vi dory and honour,
leads on our foldiers, and prcfides over our deflinies.
Half Europe is for us; the other will breathe willies
for our fueeefs, even though k is fighting againft us ;
it is eafy to fee on which fide the danger will bc."

His KisFsTir has been pleated to appoint Field-
Marihal his Royal highnefs FREDLRICIC Duke of
YoRK, K. G. tl be Colonel of the ill Regiment of
Flo! Guards, vice his Royal Highnefs the Duke of
GLc'ucesTFß, deceafed.

His Mai F sirs, has been pleated to appoint Lieute-
sant•General his Royal Highflea ADOLPHUS FRI.
DCRICK Mike of CAMBRIDGE, K. G. to be Colonel of
the CArtiirearn Regiment of Foot Guard►, vice his
Royal Highnefs the Duke of YORK.
His Mai r STY has been pleated to appoint General
his Royal H•ghb.efs EDWARD Duke of Kt r, K. G.
to be Field.MArfhal of the Forces.

The Duke 4 YORK is appointed by his MAJESTY
Warden,and Keeper of the New Foreft, and the Duke
of Kris., Ranger of Hampton• Court Park, vacant
by 'he deeeafe of the late Duke of Gloucssres:
The Sweditis Envoy at Ration has officially no.
tilled to ail the Miniiters at the Dirt, that all diplo-
rna,ie relations between him and the Pruffian Envoy
have ceded.

A new Treaty of Defenfive Alliance is on the
tapis between Pruffia and Denmark. The difpatches
which lately intercepted the Prince Royal on his mi-
litary tour, are now Bated to have announced the
determination of Bonaparte to occupy the Duchies of
Ho!Rein and Schlefwig. and to (hut up the naviga-
ti-n of the Sound, flit•uld B ufla make the North of
Germany the theatre of war.

On Saturday Lord Nst.sos had an interview at the
Admiralty with Lord BAIHAM, and took his final
leave of the Board, previous to his departure from
town. His Lordthip has, we underfland, powers as
unlimited ac ever were entrufted to any Naval Corn-
marder. His inflruilions are, at the fame time, the
molt concife ever delivered. They merely afcertain
hi., command, which is to extend from Cadiz Bay to
the whole of the Mediterranean Seas ; and he is left
at liberty to aft according to any fudden exigency
which may require the exercife of his judgment, as
in his late purfuit of the combined fleets in the Welt
lastics. The extraordinary confidence which is thus
r :-..poccd in this iiltot Anus Commander, is perfectly jut.-
tili,d by the promptitude, fagacity, and judgment,
sx hich nn fo many ; cc4ti,ns he has a-played.
The follo•viag is a correk9 Litt of the Ships and the
OtT.ccrs that art to proceed with Lord NELSON to
tilt bluckadicg aation off Cadiz :
1
Lord NELSON
gu
ICO ns Rear Adm. G. MII/l/tAT
eApt. HA It 0 ir
-.-- BKOWN
••••••••• DU RII AM
4... S. E. BLEW/
.-- Bl.AcitwooD•

Vi4!tory

AiR
Defiance
Agamemnon
Terrtus

74
74
64
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SIDNFY SMITH had on Saturday a long confe•
cc wifh Mr. l'lvr and Lord BARHfttl. it is faid

.......
e is to have a 4a:este command along the oppofite
;oait, in the An:elope, of 50 guns, to which his tw
conftruCled vefecls. the Gemini and Cancer,
are to be attached. The Leopard was the (hip fir It
Atligned to him, but he preferred his old (hip the An
:dope, in which he had his Commodore's flag on the
Coati of Holland. This gallant Officer is to exer-
cifc Lis own dilcretion in the execution of any enter-
prize which be may deem praCticable againft any of
the enemy's flotillLs in port. He will leave town co
Tnefday or Wednefday.

We are happy to announce that the crew of his
Majelly's Chip DILIGENTIA, which was lately put
under quarantine, from an apprehenfion of the yellow
icver being on board, has for fome weeks been in a
.!nr)d :late of health, no appearance whatever of any
malady or contagion having (hewn itfelf fince
2stb of July la, and lo far to the footboard as
• .1) tiorth latitude.