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

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CitiTillig tier to throw
.• a (hell of 9 ir:ches diameter ;
6 feluccas, armed ;

so xebecs for carrying forts ; •
i a auxiliary boats, for boarding •eQels ;
s boat, with lhipwrights and caulkers ;

r corvette, of t 8 guns, as sr receiving (hip.

FSTABLISHMENT.

. Ten Poa C.aiptains, 40 Lieutenants, :5 Enfign; of
the Navy, t Surgeon, ands Mates, with ano Cellars
and. foldiers, and artillery, tleained folly for the
eaabliniment Of the gun boats. The whole is to be
under the command of Dom Faaxcisco MeneaLL, a
.rooft aaive Officer, who himfelf arrived at Algefiras
with the firs divifien, confining of it gun boats on
the Bth of. January. The. remainder Mre preparing
with.all expedition at Cadia, Barcelona, and earth*.
sena, and are expeaed here •in the courfe of this
mouth. Such a force Will render, it totally impof-
fiblie fat any veil's' to lie even twenty,four hours in the
Mole,..without the utmoa rids of being &Wafted, or
huhu, as the gun boats may repeat their attacks daily
with impunity in calm weather. As a gunboat pie.
lents fo fthall 'an Alai, and is fo low in the water,
'that not QOO mot in a ituudred will hit them from a
drip or a battery on more, whilft they, on the con-
trary, can fire With the. utmoa precinon at to large
an objelt as a IhiP, and the townis completely at ;lei
' mercy whenever they chufe to ileartly it.

Perhaps we cannot more foreilidi exemplify the
truth of the fails. Rated in the above letter, than by
quoting the following extracts (roils Colonel
1,411 bißory of the late liege.
page 107. The gunboats were Arongly built, bbi
ill &lased ; they had a [mall mai inclining forwird
'front the center of the boat, alma} over the bow,
upon which was hoißed a latine yard and fail, which
at aiichor feived as an awning to the men on boaid.
'rimy rowed aßoniihingly (wilt, and each carried
a6spounder in the bow. We never had a good op.
pthlunity of making any fatisfadory obfervatiotis
upon them, litit judged from their Gat that they weie
about 7o feet long, and so broad.

• P. 149.—The gun-boats, on the 18tb, fired agaii
Upon the (hipping and men of war cruising in dr
The Minerva and Monfieur frigates had Ceve-
rat join: dangeroufly wounded, and the Nooruch ha(
a flied Crippled. the navy, after this attack, no
longer ionfideted there boats in the fame defpicable
Ilight as on their &ft entrance into the Bay.
P. 163.;-:The attacks of the gun boats were be-
come fo that we could (liver piomife our.
felves knight'srepofe without diflurbed by
cannollideand their attacki were more vezatim
from the impotEbility of being able to xetaliate,
be-
•caufe they prefented to ne fo minute an (*jai. When-
ever the alarm was given of their approach, which
was generally a little after midnight, the fotitbern
part of the rsc was in immediate commotion. Their
eteas have 'been found Co defironivis that all wer
upon the look out. The troops were ordered from
their tents, to pbres where they were covered from
the Mal but the dells were direiled to the mod
queßered reedits." Such was the terror of the mite.
table inhabitants, that many of theta fled, nearl'
naked, to the remote parts of the rock, and ey(
kere they could Ccarcely deem themfelves lean,
In fhort, no fcene could be more deplorable than
their di&rcfs on theft &teflon*.

The following is an extra& of a letter from
officer who was engaged in, the late unfortunate
II With HOLAA, dated Odtober it, 1804
• Ism one of two Of who Were fared from s whole Sat-

talloo—diefeseed Battalion of the ad Regiment is even aerie, one
only of their Oaken having duped. One Battalion of the is:t-
attier hot* wait over to the y at the beginning of, the battle
- Compsoy of Tiepoys were f its aumple, whet a young
Lieunnam (f don't know his wale) Omni up to the Zemindar (a
Kadirg Oilker), and 4otklmthrough the heart, whichfo much
futprifed and aikeinilbed ea &pays, that they knatediately altered
their intentionoadAwetato follow the Yuba Ligon:sant, which
they after Wards dia.- • Witte is now in fu farce at Hindaa, a
pace about 73 miles from Agra. The Commander in Chief with
all the Civarf and 76th Bqiiment it* Ciwopore for Agra on the
tech Septialiber. All wheeled eanbges on the linc of march are
forbid ; they will have little, thereon. to impede them ; they will
hamfome tight marches, and 1 thinlf it every way Ifhtlytheywill
give a good account of tkengelves, to the difcanatida of the
entail:" •
P 11121002, Magma tz.-=Since mylaU the cOCICI,-
Talcs hired armed brig, put in here from a cruize,
and remains ; alfo a, gpatah brig, laden with *ine
and vinegar, cut oni of one of the Canary Maids by
the boats belonging to the Lord Nelfon privateer, of
Goetitfey. All tins day it has blown a terrible gale
at S. S. W. with a heavy ground fea.

FALMOUTH, MARCH 13.-.ThiS day arrived here
the Spanifh brig Andalufia, Captain Lovo; from'
MoutevidetS, hs the river Plata ; the failed from thence
the 19th No4ember, tSo bentnd for Cadiz. with g
cargo of hides, tallow, and about sOOO dollars, taken
the igth February by the Koebuck privateer. of Lon-
don, CaPtain Bawls. Came in alfo the Spanifk (hip
privateer &kite, of so guns and 170 men, from St.
Aidero, capiured by the Kitty privateer, of Loadon,
Captain Mu tic/lava, near Scilly, after an hour and a
hilf's.engagement, in which the Spaniaid loft for
itien killed and four,teen wounded, and the Kitty had
one Alan killed* and four wounded.—WindS. W. '

• Dona, Mace tsl=-"The report of the Dutch deef
'baying put to fea does not appear certain. Another
vela bas paired, which came out of the Teed on
the fame day with the Fortner one e the mater hatch
that he put to fea in confequence of hearing that' an'
embargo was• immediately to be put on all foreigrl
The Dutch &et had not parte lea, he rays,,
when he ciene,llloajf lint they were all ready, and
likewife about toe trofporta, • which' bad their pro-
wifions all on board: Whether, therefore; they failed
in the night, as before Rated, is not eenafri.• It ap.;
, pears, Waterier? hue bastkaatualttartbataliq was*
,all ready,

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