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London, England, 1805-08-26 00:00:00

LONDON.

MONDAY, AUGUST s 6.
'RICE OF STOCKS THIS Co A.Y Az. ONE O'CLOCK:
Confols, for money and account 473-.-Reauced 39f.
Exds. Bills, par is. prern .—ornnium

The Gazette of Saturday night contains another
edition of the account of the noble thuggle of the
BLANCHE frigate in the Wei Indies. See our latl
page.

The Otway, STEWART, from Jamaica, is arrived
at Liverpool : (he failed with the fleet on the 4th of
July, confiffing of about 160 fail, got through the
Gulol about the zstb, -and ;Naiad from them three
weeks (ince in lat. 25, long. 60. Captain STEWART
thinks that one of the fleet (a brig) was captured off
Cayman.

The report circulated fome days ago, of the Dutch
fleet having put to fea, is unfounded. 4 private
letter from Rotterdam, dated the I Bth infl. fays—
" The fleet is (till in the Texel, but according to
an accounts is in reaainefs for lea : the troops em-
barked amount to t 6,500 men ; thcfe at Helvoet
were reviewed on the ith ; they have a numerous
train of artil! v, and it is generally fuppofed are
aellined for the Ea ft Indies. Several frelh battalions
arc on their route from different garrifons for the
camp at Zeill, from which draughts are to be made
to reinforce the army in Hanover.
" BONAPARTE, it is Paid, proceeds from Bruffels to
Luxemburgh, and thence into Alfacc and Lorrain,
to review the troops there. From Plombieres, the
Emprefs, who has been benefited by the waters, ac 7
companies him to Paris.
" An extenfive promotion is about to take place
in the French army.
" The feparate armies of Generals SOULT, Nor

and Davouar, on the coati, have been united into

one corps, under the orders of General Beare a se.—
This army has received a new organization, as well
as the artillery and the cavalry, under BARAGUAY
d'hitcziaas.
" The difcuffions which were carrying on between
TALLEYRAND and Count Cosswrzst. have, we are
Allred by private letters from Paris, affumed a very
angry afped. A war with Auftria and Ruffia is
cnntidered inevitable, and the affernb/ement of troops
on the Rhine and in Savoy befpeak its early com-
tnencement."
Admiral DE[let has been mfpited till December,
when their High Mightinefres meet again.
It is (fated in the Dutch papers, under the date
Corunna, 17th July, that there were there and at
Ferrol ten Spanifh and five French fail of the lime,
kind five fiigates, ready for fea ; au embargo then
prevailed along the Spann coati in that neighbour-
hood.
The account of the defeat of the combined fleet
had excited the moll lively joy throughout Sweden.
The plan of the war ahuut to be commenced by
Rullia has been projeded by the Gran] Duke Com-
srawriss, who is to hay: a diffingii:flied (hare in
the dire&ion of it. The veteran Vow Bev xmosvogw,
G‘ivernor General of Lithuania, has been called
1: um Riga, to Ail: in the difeuffion of this plan, and
to give effeB to it.
Pruffia is bulled adding to the fortifications of
Dantaic, and conffruding new works ova the Viffula.
By private accounts from Peterfburgh we learn,
:;mat war was confidered there as unavoidable, and
rery poaible preparation was making for entering
.to the conteß with promptitude and vigour. Three
gips of the line were about to fail for this country
asel the Mediterranean.
The Mailer of a vegel, kill arrived from Peterf-
.nrgh, which place be left on the ryth ult. reports,
a, when he failed, the Ruffians were making every
iertion to set their (hips of war ready for fea, and
Ia t they were taking up veffels for the purpofe of
'barking an army.

No fartUr intelligence has reached the Admiralty
:Ring, the Combined Fleets. We believe they
lye not *Feu feen fine the evening of the 13th,
..ven they were decried by the late. Their deltic--
.111 is tise objea of much (peculation. Upon the
hole, kowe.ver. the idea teems moil probable which
:fagieffed pa Saturday, of their going to the South-
.rd so being out the four (hips in the harbour of
' -lis..l,aitd, the proceeding to the Mediterranean to
in tigge-arthaglga Beet of eight fail of the line. At
i:,
)uloq. there are alto feveral (hips of the line, fo that
V titkit r a could thus have collated there a fleet of
' tY S'ii (tips of the line.
Wchaveoheard nothing farther of the two neutral
ir• r.ported "on Saturday to have reached Jerky;
a letter from that place. dated the 20th infant

saw-d It is given out in General Orders that the
aai -is in danger,rw officer is all,;wed to abfcnt
C.,f on any acco4.nto and the into ate called in
orb."

• porn, 4UCUST 24.
•
. His Royal Highnefs the Duke of Yoga arrived
laa night, at ten o'clock, at the Ship Inn in this
town, attended by` his Royal Brother the Duke of
CAW ARID° a. General Sir DAVID DIMAS, and feverl
other Military Officers. He this morning vifitti the
Cale and the works carrying on upon the Heights,
and afterwards teviewel the troops Rationed in this
garrifon. After the review his Royal Highnefs pro-
ceeded on to Sandgate, where he Beeps to night, and
to-motrow morning will infped General Sir Jour
Mootes Brigade, encamped on Shorneliff. His
Majefly's thip ARIADNE at tived from off Calais for a
few refrefliments, and failed again this evening for
her Ration.

Atm usr 25.—Put into this harbour the FLY cut-.
ter to refit.—Sailed the Ihip Enigheden, LtallAilt., of
and to Lerwick, in ballail, and feveral coallers, to
the Northward..—The weather has been fo very foggy
all day, that we have not been able to fee the oppo-
fite coati, and no arrival:.—Wind S. W. and blows
(Irons.

The following is a coireft lift of the Staff: regi-
ments, and Field Officers to be employed on the ex.
peelition now at Core, ready to fail at an hour's no-
tice :

Conlin:Mar in Chlef—Major General Sir D. Baird, K. C.
Deputy Adjutant General—Major G. Tucker.
Affifiant do. do.—Captain Munro.
Aid Jr Camp to Sir D Baird—Enfign Gordon, 3d Foot Guards.
Brigadier General.—Ferguffon, Beresford, Sir S. Aughmuty.
Brigade Majors—Weir, Dean, Effingham.
14th Reg.—Lieut. Col. G. Macdonald—Majors Kelly, Hicks.
38th Reg.—Licut Col. Vafat—Majors Borland and Nugent.
tft Reg.—Lieut. Col. Denis Pack—Majors Henry fJ. Rolley
and Robert Campbell.
2 ad Reg —Lieut. CoL C. Grant—Major J. G. P. Tucker.
83d Reg—Lieut. Col. Jofeph Baird—Majors Thomas Beam&
and William R. Trotter.

The new fortifications erecting on the heights at
Dover are almolt completed. The whole is now
nearly encompalkd with a fod parapet and deep ditch,
which, on the We!tern fide, will be extended down
to the town near Bulwark Fort. and breaft-works are
railed along the edge of the Cliff to the foot of Shak-
fpeare's Cliff, to cover the Bay beneath.
Orders are iffued for every line-of-battle thip at
Portfmouth or Plymouth, in condition for felt, to
fail immediately for the Channel Fleet. the Vie-
TORY, Haan, RaruLsa, BRLLOMA; and Sanity, will
be ready at Portfrnouthin a few days and the Su
Josten and Loewe, at Plymouth. 'The ROYAL
SOVIRSION, MALTA, and Come others, vs ilk for-
wardners.

Letters brought from Cochin Chine by a 4panifh
Sip, arrived at Trinquebar, apd which failed from
thence the 13th of January, fay, intelligence has
beep received, that the King bad conquered nearly
the whole of Toaquin.

When the Princefs of Wm. as arrived at Portfmou:h
on Monday lall, her Royal Highnefs and party,
overtaken by a violent form of rain, hail, and thun-
der, took flicker for tome time in the houfe of Mr.
WILRRS, a refpeetable tradefman of that place. In
return for the hafpitable attentions of Mr. WiLass
he was appointed hatter and laceman to her Loyal
Highnefs.
BURR or Convey svra.—Dietl laf night, about
eleven o'clock, his Royal Highnefs Prince Wit.-
Liam Hamar, Duke of Glouceiter and Edinburgh
in Great Britain, Earl of Connaught in Ireland,
&c. Knight of the Garter, Senior Field Marflial
of his Majelly's Forces, and Colonel of the Firft
Regiment of Foot Guards, Chancellor of the Ifni
verfity of Dublin, Ranger and Keeper of Cran-
bourne Chafe, Ranger of Hampton-court Park, War-
den and Keeper of the New Fora, liampfbire. His
Royal Highnefs was born on the 25th of November,
1743, and was created a Duke and Earl by patent,
on the 17th November, 176 4. He was married on
the 6th of September, 1766, to MARIA, Countefs
Dowager of WALDEGRAVE, and daughter of the Hat-
nourable Sir ROBERT WALroLr, Knight of the Bath,
by whom he had three children, viz. Surat* MA-
TILDA, born May 29, 1773; CARGLIKR AUGUSTA
Matte, born June z 4., 1774, and died March 14,
1775; and WILLIAM FREDERICK, born at Rome, Ja-
nuary 15, 1776, a Lieutenant-General in the army,
and Colonel of the 6th Regiment of Font. His Royal
Highnefs was a liberal promoter of charitable and
ufeful inflitutions' He was patron of the Free Ma-1
tons Charity, 'and of the Naval Afylum, and Pre&
dent of the London finfpital. His Royal Highnefs
was the late of the four Princes, who, with the Kiwo,
ccmpofed the male idue of Fainealeo Prince of
Wales. Hi ;oval Highnefa's marriage with the
Dowager Codtitefs of WALDIRGRAVII, occationed the
famous Marriay- Aft, which prevents any of the
Royal Family from intermarrying with a fubje&.
The Duke's conflitution was naturally very deli-
cate fo much fo, that at'an early period of life, he
was compelled to leave hitt native country for the
milder air of Italy, and refide at Rome for feveral
years, where, as we have already fated, Prince WIL-
LIAM now Duke of GLo tic est e e was born. Although
latterly, he was lufficiently recovered to be abre to bear
the climate of England, his health was always in a
very precarious Rate, and be fcarcely krtew brie day's
real healthful enjoyment. The melancholy event of
his diffolution took place-a few minutes before eleven
o'clock, after feveral hours of excruciating pain, which
he bore with unexampled fortitude. Ilis-Royal
nefs received the facrament in the morning, which
was adminillered to him by the Rev. Dr. DUVAL.—
Her Royal Highnefs the Duchefi, Prince WILLIAM
and Princefs SOPHIA, took their final leave of his
Highnefs after he had received the facrament. It is
impoffible to defcribe the agonies and grief into which
their Highnelfes are plunged. He Warfpeeeblefs for
three hours before his death:

His diforder, we underhand, was the (lone. Dur-
ing the evening, numerous enquiries were made ;
the anfwer ro all was, that his Royal Highnefs was
not 'speed to live one hour. An exprefs was wait-
ing to Garry the information to hisrMajetly at Wey-
mouth, which let off cxa(tly at eleven o'clock, In
confequenee of this•event a general mourning will
take place, and the Theatres, ,and 'all other places
of public ornament will be (hut.
Thus has his Majefly furvived his bro‘hers
and may he long (wive them!

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