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London, England, 1805-03-16 00:00:00

LONDON..

FATIADAY.VARCHI6..
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FRISS OF FTOCKS THIS DAY AT. ON& O'CLOCit:
Cookie, for mows, sl4—(or Ape% siff.-Oskahus 31 4.

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Covernment has seeeived no.accoent•of the failing
of the Dutch Fleet. 'is piquipned yelicr4Y. op the
authority of letters front Dover I lltit we underitaod
that yefiersisy information was received of the. Elate

of the enemy's-preparation:ll both in the Dakckand'
Freseh ports, from wide's** sktipeik tEit oflhi 'thelr
'bleu itSig great exertions to get a confidecable.
force ready for failing—probably to harsfs us with-
, alatlits. Ship carpenters have been feat to the• dif.
tercet ports to haften the equipmeneof the inf-
Po!ts, and Bolosvaava is foen expelled to infpeap
himfelf, the Rate, of the preparations. -
The 11.0jric,an Stip Rebecca, • Captain natio,
which arrived Pll the bowns yeittrday from Leghorn,
In 30 days, on the tith intl. was (poke with in lat.
44. long. 9. by the Mao than of Alfar. 01 company

With 6•e othcr fhips of the line. The Mailer's Mate.

of the Halo informed captain N. tPit the Bre( fleet

was out. The fame day was (poke 140131 a frigate,
who silted him if he bad fen the French fleet.

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It gives us great fatisfeeion to be able to announce
on the authority pf,our regular Correfpondent at
Gibraltar, the only authority that turned out to be
correkrefpating the malignant nature of the Fever
which lately raged there with fo mach violence, that
all fymptotns of that dreadful malady have at' loft
difappeared.
The eller details in his litters, which we, ftsbfoing
are extremely infereiling particularly what relates to
the Preparations of the Spaniard, to alloy and de-
ftroy our men of war and merchant velar. We
need hardly add, that in every infiance in which our
Correfpoident• has ever ventured to fpcak with con-
' fideneet his, information has .turn'eCtast to be MR!
curtail ausl;sherefore, have teifonto espeQ, on
the prefent occasion, that, it Will not be Overlooked by
theft in who& department it lies to coairtetatt Qin
aaval.machinationsof our enemies, who otterelo ba'
met with a force of the fame defeription as their
own, iegularly Manned, and coiftantly in a (late fit
for immediate anion. /Periwig*.
• . GIBRALTAR. JA.I.II.TARY as. .
On the night of the sod), • a tremendous . gale
from the S. W. came on about twelve o'clock,
accompanied with the heaviell lea ever witneffed in
this bay, which by the morning did great tnifchief to
the napping lying off the New Mole and the Ring's
&Rion : upwards of twelve 4=re-rigged veil*
being completely wrecked or funk; and Malay other;
difinafied. The gale to*ardsmorning flew round to
the N. W. and teemed to blow with redoubled fury.
A tranfport, with 300 men of the .57th regiment on
ward; had her Bern completely beat in, and the
men were obliged to be iminediately landed, without
either 111111$ or baggage, al the was hourly expetted
to fointiki. The Nevi Mole Prete:geed a horrid fcene
of diftrefs—five valuable pities driven on (bore, and
Mid water; two large vatic funk, and one large
veil enmpittely overfet; bifides a tag samba' of
cOalling ielrels driven en fore or.tank: • A fine cop-
per-bottomed (hips laden with foga) *AI drives 'on
that. near Ragged Staff, with an ItaglUS and Sire-
diffi brig, ..and a large Greek polittfe eimpletely
wrecked, the dew Paved 11th gresit Meulty.
The damage done is oomputed at 4aii. to *oust
to tom Awn rdthaffaid ?meek, ands yeti "eanfidefaltie
etpence aid labour willbe reirifite to deaf be New
Mole of the wrecks. This melancholy event Iso.
thiongh nicelfity, obliged the cianniancier 'in Chief
to land the troops lying is the Ray, and to admit all
'the trews wholiere bipwreeked, though Otherwife it
was not intended to. have allowed any. one to land
before the Both of this month. As, however, there
has beet no new cafes of fever for thefe left fixteen
days, we have every red= to belieie that the difeafe
has ceafed for this feafon.
Isaias,/ 26.--Yofterday the guards at Lnadport
were reinfiFeed at night, and the Field Officer of the
day ordered to remain there all night, in confiquence,
it is fuppoded, of intelligence received by fame Bpenilh
deferters: •
fsiviat .117.7-1.4& night the Field Officer of the
dittria; with feveral Officers Patroles, remained on
the neutral ground "all night, to watch the motions of
the Spaniaids, who have tately marched a great num•
bcr of troops into their fines in the evenings, as if
they intended to snake fait attempt on the garrifon.
The night being dark and windy, one of the patrole,
was fired upon by miftake by the advanced harries
guard. Fortunately none of the patroles were wounded.
The Maims from Algegtas Bate, that the Spa.

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wards are fitting IP two 6ri-lhipt to deltrop our
!hipping in the Mole.. There are now about feventy
valuable 'effects lying there, 'chiefly Spanith
JAIMAIT 3o.—We &bother dreadful Itortn
night. in whiCh tureen xelfeliof different defcriptionv
**ere completely wrecked,,akd the whole beach is
this morning covered with calm, goodsl malts, and
rigging. The att.croa IoG her foremalt and pow-
Itait.and was very near foundevNg at her anchors.

This day the port was opened,,And the place de-
dared tree from contagion, and clean hills of health
iiTued. The moll attire meafures are Ilfo adopting
to prevent any return of the difeafe next year.. . '
• Feta war I.—This morning the Asir RION frigate
arrived from *mouth, with the long expeaed at-
taint Of thedtclaration of War againft Spain. The
Amman, brought in with her a very rich prize,
tikcaltst tl)ie LIIITONA, off Cape St. Vinceqt.—lkiow
appears certain, from the acccounts of all the Eng-
lith, and inhabitants who have arrived here from Al-
gefiras since the part was opened, that the Spaniirds,
'for feacralnights, lately marched all their troops in
this neighboarhoodinto their lines,within a mile of the
Gatrifoo--% the', somber is Rated to have been about
70as. Every &sus had i double. ration of brandy
iferad out. to him—and as they had number of fai-
ling ladders, fuppnfed they:lntetided lime attack
upon the Garrifon, and 'p'robably exposed .tome af-
fiftance from, within as &literal of our men
have deferted to the Spaniards. and propagated re•
ports .of Tome of the Reginsciits in the plan being dif-
affeaed ai circumllaitte, however, which the Spa-
niards would have difeovered to their cat,. to have
been count unfounded, if the, had made any atimipt.
FIBRUMIT B.—We art extremely forty to hear the
acenuius of the lots of the Ran's, brig off Cape St.
Mary's on the, night of the 29th of January—the
laving carried away her maims& in. a violent gale
of wind on a lee flare: The accounts froti Spain
mention in the higheß terms the uncommon exertions
made by the captain and crew; both before and after
the veffel (truck. The Ragan was meant (or the 'de-
fence and proieftion of the bay, and her lofs*Rl be
sfeverely felt, as jar Commander was uaiverfidly
elleaned as one of the mull naive and enterprifing
Officers that ever was upon this Ration.
FsIIWAILT 11.—Yefterdsiy afternoon the
Hoop pf war came in with one of the Malta convoy
for this place; which brings the difagreeable
iotelli-
genee, that the Allow hoop of war, and Attar:ow
bomb-ketch, with 36 fail of merchantmen under their
convoy for this place and England, fix days ago,
were met by two large French. Tqgatest off Cape de
.Catt; .whieh attacked the-Aka* and Actaeon at
(even hi the adorning, and ithieh after.a defperate
anion .two boars, obliged them to,furrender,:bnt
both fo Mach flattered, that the Alio* funk- in
three • hours after, and the enemy were oblited
to fire to the Acacia's. The convoy difperfed
whin the anion began, but the brig faw five of them
liken during that; and the foll Owing day, by the
two frigates. . .
Immediately on the above intelligence reaching
this place, the Fisaaao and CHILDiRS made fail to
the Eaftward to pick up and protea the fcattetarre-
mains of the convoy.
The enemy's gun-boats now intercept every veld
that offers to go out or enter thet Bay without tonne.
They this morning carried a large thip into Alp&
ran, .fuppefed to be the George letter of marque; of
16 guns; *bids failed from hence for Mogadore in the
afternoon Of the 9th, and *hick we fay; becalmed
t.indivatkeri by three gunboats off Tariffa;
Nothing is more aßonithing than the negleited
Rate in which this Bay has always been left during a
Spanith war. Lail war the Spanith gun boats were
quietly Coffered to carry Englifli ieffels into :Ararat,
worth upwards of one milltha sad a ball fterling ; al-
though we bad then feveral gun boats. here, yet the
fame thing happened, as at prekni ; no regular crews
were ever appointed to the gun-boats; ainftcpiently
they were never ready when -required ;
,and when
the, were sianned•upon any eztraordiaaty octagon,
it was by inei taken from the titiorports or merchant
/tTjin. woo ware totally enured to the ferrite, and who
eontequend, always fought to the greateß difadvan-

lase.
There are now Ceteral gun boats lying in the New
Mole perfealy ready for feu, but, of court'', quite de-
' Ifs, there not being a tingle man belonging to them.
it is the opinion of the ableft officers here, That
fifteen, or at moft twenty Englifh gun-boats, With
regular crews appointed to them, would defeat, and
drift ont of the Bay, any number of gunboats that
the enemy eves could bring to oppofe them, and if
force Inch ellablithment is not loon formed at this
place, no veffel of any defcription will be able to lie
here with farm, as experience has (hewn that men of
war cannot even prated themfelves is a calm, again&
the attacks of gun-boats ; and ire *have • undoubted
official intelligence, that the Spaniards are determined
to do their uttuoft to Iwirn or force ow. of the Bury,
every Britifh fhip that offers to anchor here.
The following flateinent of the forte deltoid Si
the Spaniards for this purporecoines from unqueftion- '
able authority, and 'may he implicitly relied upon by
our Govern:bent, and if. they neglea .the' warning
ilmas given to them, vioeful will be the confequefices a
42 gun boats, each fitted up wits E grate to beat red
hot fhot ; .

to mortar boats, each cairjlag a large mortar r