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London, England, 1805-05-18 00:00:00

LONDON.

SATURDAY. MAY it
PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONS O•CI.00Rs
Cent for money, 38;—Ditto, May. s3;}—Orardion 3--
Eiclacq. Bills par ts. prg.zu.

It is probable that in a few days we (hall have to
announce the refult of an anion between the fleet nu-
der the command of Lord GARDII IR and tLe French
Brea fleet.

Two tranfports, which left his Lordthip's fleet on
Tuefday evening about (even o'clock, arrived at
Falmouth on Wednefday with intelligence, that a:
the time of their quitting the fleet, 25 French (hips
of the line and rouse frigates were ftandiag out from
Breit harbour for fea, manifefting every appearance
of a determination to attack our fquadron, which then
confifted of 17 Gil of the line and feveral frigates.—
Admiral Lord Goaort se had formed the sine in two
dovifious, and the tranfports were ordered to snake
the Erft port in England with this intelligence.

Account's of a &liar nature have reached town
from Plymouth, but there Rate the enemy', fleet to
contlit of as !lips of the line, and that thcy had come
out of Breit on Saturday or Monday

Another report Rates, that the Nroai, arrived at
Plymouth on Thu rfday in le►enteen hours from Lord
GaapsEr.°S fleet, ha, brought intelligence that the
enemy's fleet was coming out in line of battle, and
that Lord GatorEtt had the lignal flying for a gent-
rid aetion.

Thee accounts, through different channels,
agree as to tlle fa& of the enemy maniteiting an
tendon to put to fea in the face of Lord Galivs k!Ci
fleet, though they d;frer as to the pr,!crfit day.—The
accounts from Falm6nth are the molt .rccife, aol
therefore probably the molt correa.
We entzrtain no apprchenlion as to the ;:rce of the
combat, fhould .he enemy have afforded Admiral

GALL/MEd. an oppiirtunity of totting to anion, whe-
ther their force be 22 or 25 fail:of the line. A. (port
time—poll-1bl), a few houra will bring us intelligence
of the refult—a refult glorious to the country, and
honourable to the brave fellows by whom w.; are de•
fended.

To the above, and to our Falmouth and Plymouth
letters, we have to add, that jull before thi,
went to peels, the contents of difpatches received this
morning from Lord GAILDN ea, were Coffered to tranf•
pine. They are dated off Ufhant; and flatc briefly
as fellows

" 1142,y 14, Half paft Five in the Aftertino!.

" His Mal:fly's fhlp WARRIOR, dt.racho by me
"in Shore, has jut made a fignal that-the enemy's
" Fleet are under way, and coming out of pott."
STAN. OFFICC, HALF PAST 4 o'rLocx.

" Lieutenant ALT has arrived at the Admiralty.
with ditpatches from the Welt Indies, coma nini:
an account that Admiral COCHRANE, Kith tiVc tail
of the line, arrived at Barbadoes on the sth April,
and pr ceeded in porfoit of the Fretich
Manic' t,NNE frigate, with her convoy trom
had arrived at Barbadoes, n d intended to proceed
for Jamaica on the 7th of Aptil. It was repotted at
Barbadoes, that the Ft enth .feet had failed from K.:-
Cnique. Detlination unknoWn."

Yeilerday morning dispatches were received :.t
the Admiralty from Lord Natio*, tranfinitted from
Cot k by Admiral DRURY, one of whole Lieutenant►,
Mr. SCUTT, ITU the hearer of them. They xc►e
forwarded at noon to his Msiksrv, At the seeker 0;
the Royal artillery. In the mean time, the mural.

ansirry of the Gentlemen at LLOYD'S induced them
to write to the Admiralty requefling information on
the fubjeet of there difpatches ; and the anfwer re-
ceived svas—" That Admiral Lord Isltisoli was off
the South end of the ifland of Sardinia, on the t9th
of April, at which time he was apprized of the junc-
tion of the French and Spanifh fquadrons." In ad-
dition to this the following Bulletin was in the coutfe
of the afternoon iffued from the Admiralty :

•' ADMIRALTY, MAY 17, 1805.
" Lord NELSON, on the 19th of laft Month, was
oh' the Ifland of El Toro, S.W. of Sardinia : he had
heard of the French Fleet, and he had with him
Eleven Sail of the Line."

His Lordfhip's difpatches further Rate, that he
intended immediately palling the Streights of Gib.
raltar, and that he fhould aft as circumflances might
require. His fquadron was in the bell poffible Rate
of equipment, and the officers and feamen in the
highefl fpirits.
Laft night accounts were received from his Lord-
!kip two days later than the above. They were
brought by a Lieutenant of the ACTIVE, fent by Lord
NELSON, with difpatches, but who was forced to put
into Ireland. When he left his Lordfhip on the aril
tilt. the fleet was off Gibraltar, and wailed only, in
the technical phrafe, " for a Ant of wind" to take
them to Cadiz. Our Readers will recolleft, that on
the following day (the aid) the enemy's fquadrons
were in that harbour. Lord NlLsora having neared
them thus unexpeCtedly, will of courfe do his duty
to his country and himfelf. We hope loon to lay be-
fore our Readers the More important refults.

We ought alfo to Rare that the [Hence of the let-
ters of the 23d of April, from Cadiz, refpeitting the
combined fquadrons having returned into that port,
is by fr'me people fuppofed to have arifen from th.,
Spanifh Government having aridly prohibited the
merchant. to communicate a word on the fubje6.—
At tie fame tine, notwithilanding the confident af-
furances of many perfons, the fa& of the return of
the combined fleet to Cadiz, was not geweraily ac-
credited yeflerday in the belt political circles. It is
Aill undcrilood to Rand in need of confirmation, the
number of (hips feen by the WASP not correfpouding,
and it being a common rufrde guerre to hoiß pendlnts
in order to miflead.

A Cork paper of the 13th, Hates, " that the Ac
T:VE frigate arrived at Cork on the 13th inn. from
,Idird NELSON with difpatches, (received in London
yelterday). On the 28th n!t. off Carthagena the law
fix fail of the line, which the kept in fight till the fol-
lowing day, and flippofes they went into the harbour.
4, The ACTIVE frigate left Lord Nixsoit on the
39th ult. off Sardinia, with eleven fail of the line
and feveral frigates."

Lieutenant SCOTT Was to leave town !aft night on
his return to Cork.

We have received fome Dutch and French jour-
nals, which, though net later than thofe which had
before arrived, have enabled us to prefent a few ex-
tra Els in the preceding columns.
An account has been received of the arrival °lit-
mus: Bottavaterß in the Texel, on board a vrffel
from Lifbon, which was immediately moored between
two Dutch men of war. JELL:a-ix was not allowed
to land, and the Pilots who brought the veil in
were thrown into prifon, in irons.
A Hamburgh Mail arrived at a late hour, but
brings nothing of importance.

Yefterday, about t z o'clock, her MAJESTY and the
ritincessES left the Qteen's Houk, for Windfor.
His Majesty's Birth Day will be celebrated at
St. James's Palace, as ufual, on the 4th of June.
Yefterday being the Pt incefs of WALES% birth-day,
her Royal Hightiefs entertained a fele& party, at her
feat on Blackheath. Her Royal Highnefs's tradel=
men had fplendid illuminations in the evening.
On Thurfday, (non after two o'clock, the Hon.
HENRY HA= a was introduced to his MAJL sry by the
LORD CHANCELLOR, at the Q2eett's Houle, bn his
being appointed a Welch Judge.

Thurlday the name of the Earl of Sr. VINCSNT
was withdrawn from the Navy Club, by command
of his Lordfhip.
The Earl of FIFE left Fife-houfe, Whitehall, on
Sunday lag on his way to Scotland.
Yetlerday his May Esrr, accompanied by the Duke
of Yna K and CAMBRIDGE, and a numerous retinue of
Staff Officers, reviewed the train of Royal Artillery
on Woolwich Common, commanded by General
Lord CHATHAM. The number of Artillerymen
drawn out amounted to at !calf three thoufand, and
made a moil relpedahle appearance. The evolutions
were principally confined to the Horle Artillery,
which, from the celerity of their movements, excited
general admiration. They loaded and tired while
at fpeed, and evinced in a great degree their ability
to keep an ereiny in check, or to give immediate af-
fidance where ordnance might on the fpur of the mo-
ment be ufed to advantage. An immenle park of
artillery was alio drawn (ir, and was extremely well
lupplied. The various difcharges were heard for
miles round, and the neighbouring villages (hook
with the claraorons report of war. The review was
attended by an immenfe crowd of fpcdators, and the
Cavalry from the adjacent towns kept the line. Af-
ter the above review had finifhed, his MAJESTY re-
viewed the Greenwich and the Deptford Volunteers
on Blackheath, and exprefred his approbation of their
col red and Heady concha in the field. The Qt2EFN
and Paisicsssys arrived at the Princefs of WALES'S
Houle on the Heath, between two and three o'clock,
and witndred a part of the review. The /Como alto
repaired to the fame place to rcfrefh, from the fa-
tigues of being at lealt fix hours on horleback. The
day was extremely favourable, and the whole was
concluded with great credit to the difeipline of the
tr,-,ops, and without mit-dunce ar accident.

IVAZTIG'diL INTELLIGENCE.

MAILS THIS DAY.—Wind NM.
All. DWI. APR. rave.
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Dublin . : 2 1 Hamburgh 0 2.
lA'aterford : 1 I Got tenburgh 0 I

FALMOUT 11, MAY 15.—Arrived his Majefty's fhip
AVENGER, of it guns, with the Mediterranean fleet
under convoy, among which are the following, the
remainder of the convoy ate now off this harbour,
and will get in on to-morrow morning : the Bloydes,
BUFFER, from Zante, Helena, HARPLEY, from
Palermo, for London ; Ann, &sot, and the Lady
Ann, MARTIN, from Sicily, for Hull; Mary Ann,
PURSA, from Smyrna, Indußry, WICHAD, from Gi-
braltar ; Andromache, SPAIN, from Sicily, Eleanor,
MALLET, from Smyrna ; Alexander (tranfport)
LARREN, the London, WILSON, and Malta, Youwc,
from Malta, .letfey, PATRICK, from Gibraltar,
and the Hercules, BISHOP, from Patrafs, all bcund
to London; Dart, Naomi?, from Cephelonia, for
Hull.—P. S. Jull arrived two tranfports : they left
Admiral Lord GARDNER lag evening about fever]
o'clock ; they were ordered to leave the fleet, and
make the Grit port in England,, in confequence of
one of the forbore fquadron having come out and
made the fignal for the enemy being in motion: foon
after they bore away from the fleet, the fignal was
made by Lord GARDNER. to form the line in two di-
vilions ; the Englifh fleet confilled of t 7 fail of the
line, and the French fleet of 25.

ANOTHER. LFTTFR, SAM; DATl.Artived two
tranfports, which left the Brea fleet laa evening about
fevers o'clock, under command of Lord GARDNER,
confilting of 17 1,1 of the line, and feveral frigates,
at which time the French fleet, 25 fail of the line and
frigates, were !landing out from Breft harbour for
tea ; and as no doubt was entertained but that they
intended to attack our fquadron, Admiral GARDNER
had foi flied the line in two clivifions I the tranfports
were ordered to make the &ft port in England with
this intelligence. Sailed the Thais, Roslwas.L, for
Penzance. Wind N. E.

PLYMOUTH, MAY 16.—Came in the CoisrucT
gun brig, from a cruise ; Merlin tranfport, from Al-
derney; and the Friends, Ls GROSS, from Guern-
tey. Sailed the NIPTUNE man of war, to join the
Channel Fleet ; and the Affittantie, —, fur St.
Andero.—Wind N. W.

ANOTHER LETTER, SAM! DATE.—Thic morning
arrived the CONFLICT gun brig, of 14 guns, from a
cruize. It is very currently reported here that fhe
brings an account of the French fleet being at fea,
twenty-two fail of the line, and that they failed from
Breft on Saturday 1.0 ; but we rather think if they
are at lea, they mutt have got out on M.,nday, as
the wind then favoured fuch a purpofe. The report
g"es alto to hate, that Admital Lord Gatti:um; was
in fight of them, with feventeen fail of the line ; In
that if an anion could be brought on, we might cal-
culate upon a glorious refult.
A further report is, that the Moat is arrived in
17 hours, from Lord GARDNER, at which time the
Breft fleet was coming out in line of battle, and that
Lord GARDNER had a fignal flying for a general
anion. The NEPTUNE, of 98 guns, is failed this
afternoon, and feven other of the Line in Cawfand
Bay are preparing to fail immediately. All is battle
in the Naval department.
Came in the Merlin tranfport, from Alderney, with
a part of the ad Battalion of the Buffs, bound to Ire-
land; Friends, EDWARD Ls Gans, fromJerfey, for this
port. Sailed the Swedith (hip A(litlantie, Captain
WnAtt, fur St. Anders, with Spaniflt prifoners. Went
up Hamoaze, the RENOWN, of 74 guns, to refit.—
Sailed the Ranger Revenue cutter on a cruize.
PENZANCE, MAT I4.—Lail night the Manchefler,
MOFFATT. failed for Liverppol : the Berry, STOCKS,
and the Sampfon, HARAIS, for Cork ; the Betfy, Jsa-
;rya, for Limerick ; the Ann, Warta I, for St. Ire's,
and the Sifters, Paws, for Swanfea. The Tranflator,
Burns HOLE, failed this morning for Briftol, in cm-
fequence of the embargo, being removed per yeller-
day's port.
DEAL, MAY 17.—Sailed left night the VESTAL
fiigate, for the French coaft. The FlEct.A bomb
has made a fignal for a convoy to the Weftward.—
Wind S. W.

DOVER, MAY 17.—Captain ISAAC FALLING, of the
brigantine Anna Catharina, of Stockholm, from Ali-
cant, faw the French llcet from Toulon, 6th April,
off Carthagena ; law two Spanifh three•deck chips
come and pin them, forming in the whole a fleet of
2 t fail, :7 of the line, 3 frigates, and t brig; and the
12th of April law them off Cadiz, fleeting S. S. W.

BOLIRDEAUX, May z.—The !hip la MArie, Capt.
MAIN I, from New York, laden with fugar, coffee, in-
digo, Etc. is arrived here, and placed under quaran-
tine. She announces that the French fquadron has
captured St. Chriflopher, St. Vincent, Montferrat,
Nevis, Dominica, St. Lucie, and Antigua.

ArroINTMENTS.—Capt. S. H. Linzee, to the Warrior. vice
Capt. W. Bligh who is appointed Governor of Now South Wales
Capt. Lee, to the Courageux Capt. C. Boyles, to the %%Indio!.
Cattle ; Capt. Curry, pre temopore, to the Tribune, vice Bennett,
M. P. I.ieut. Talbot to the Swan cutter; Capt. Puget, who has
been fa often flared to be the agent for prifoncrs of war, is re-ap-
pointed to the Foudroyant. Capt. Kelly to the Ca far. Capt. E.
Crofton to the Goelan. Lieut. M. Douglafb to the Penelope.
Lieut. J. Dillon to the Mnnrn"uth. Capt. J. T. Rood to the Cxfar.
W. Renolds, D. Bryfroe, and J. Trywhot ha‘e been promoted
to the rark of Commanders io his M.jefly's Flea
Mr. Thampfon is appointed private feeretary to Lord Barham.

The VLIt TER, Dutch chip of forty guns, is imme-
diately to be fitted up for the reception of Ccrnmo-
dore Prince of BOUILLON'S broad pendant; and the
Duke's brother, who had the command of the SavrßN
when the was wrecked at Jerfey, is to have the coin-
mild of lwr.