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IVEMBER I.

Letters are laid to have been received in Town
from Lifbon, which ftate, that a report prevailed
there, that Lord NELSON had fucceeded in deftroy-
ing a great part of the combined fleet in the harbour
of Cadiz. We with we cotild add, that there were
grounds for believing this intelligence to be aathen•
tic ; but as no fuch accounts have been received at
the Admiralty, we can hardly give it credit.

No French or Dutch journals with the details of
the great battle on the Danube have yet arrived, and
thofe accounts which have been received in private
letters from Holland, are fo confufed, that little can
be made of them. No doubt is entertained that the
Aufirian army under General Mactr, has been nearly
annihilated. Government have received advices on
this fubjeo, which remove all doubts as to the fa& ;
but whether by letters, or the French official account,
we know not.

The moll ferious of the conflies took place on the
17th, tBth, and rsith ult. and on the eoth General
Me cx, completely defeated, confcnted to a capitula-
tion. The number of !lain, as we have already
Rated, was immenfe on bath tides ; and the Au-
ftrians who furrendered then:laves prifoners amount-
ed to 25,c00. The corps under the command of the
Archduke FERDINAND, which effected its efcape from
Ulm on the 17th, retreated in t •vo divilions, and
having gained the left bank of the Danube, cut off
for a time the communication with France, as (light-
ly hinted in the Moniteur of the eed ; and hence, no
doubt, was occalioned the delay of the official ac-
counts from the Grand Army.
A letter from Holland Rates other particulars re-
ipeCling the corps under the command of the Arch-
duke 'FERDINAND. This force, which confifted of
12,0c0 men, was fo clofely purfucd by the enemy,
that they loon came up with his Higlinefs, whom they
defeated with great (laughter. We have not been
able to find that certain accounts of this event have
been received ; but from the moment that MACK was
defeated, the fituation of the Archduke became fo
perilous, that we can hardly indulge a hope that the
news is unfounded.

There details are extremely afilieting. We with we
could take from the regrets which they mutt uccafion,
by being enabled to vouch for the corretnefs of the
fubjoined fads, fisted in accounts received from Hull.
Captain Jolla sow, of the Clip Venus, arrived at
Grimfby from Tonningcn, reporteJ nn his arrival,
that previoUs to his departure from T,nuingen it was
[hied, that the Pruffian army had been united to
that of Ruffia, which had :narched and joined the
Aufirians ; that the three armies combined had com•
pletely furrounded thofe of France, over whom they
obtained a viaory, and after retaking Ulm, purfued
the enemy with every pt ofpal of further fuccefs.
This report, improbable and extravagant as it is,
was confidered at Hull to be of fuch great conk-
quence, that Captain JOHNSON, who is a man of ap-
proved charafter, was called upon to appear before
the Mayor of that town, and !wear to the report, as
it prevailed at Tonningcn. He immediately did fo,
and his affidavit was yefterday morning received in
Town, from the Collator of the Cuftoms at Hull, by
a Gentleman of the Cullom Houfe at London. For
a (bort time it became the topic of converfation in
the City ; but fo very improbable a ftatement obtain-
ed nn credit whatever in any of the well informed
circles.

By the Gottenburgh Mail of yellerday, we find
that the RolTian and Swedilh armies did not march
from Stralfund till the 16th ult. and we are lorry
to fay there is no certainty of any Pruffian army
h tying yet marched to co-operate with the Allies.—
The united Ruffian and Swedifh Armies arc laid to
b.; declined for Hanover, where, in all probability,
they are intended to be joined by the Britifh troops
now embarked at Ramfgate and Deal.
It is now underitood that this expedition will fail
immediately. The force amounts to about io,ooo
men, confating of the German Legion, with its rifle
Corps, the whole of the Coldfirearn Brigade of
Guards, the 14111 and 43d Regiments of the line.
They are now under orders to fail, without a mo-
ment's delay as loon as tile wind will allow it. They
are to be under convoy of the LICPARD, of 5o guns,
the ALERT and FLY (loops of war, and the PIERCER
gun brig, and t3eir dr,?irxion is the 117 t r.
When our accounts left Deal !all night, the Lto-
PARD had he Etre Peter at the fore-top gallant mall
head, and it was understood that part of the Expedi-
tion would get under weigh the infiant the wind
would fhift, under the command of General Dos,
who had arrived with his fake.
The 52d and another regiment were expeded to
reach Deal as this day, to be under the command of
General Mooax ; and fo great is the anxiety of Go.
•ernment at this moment for the departure of this

Expedition, that freih orders were again kat off 10
Deal lait night to Innen the departure of the trait!
ports. The noted Smuggler Jolt:sow goes with the
Expedition as Pilot.

We have no doubt let our countrymen reach the
fcene of altion when they may, that they will acquit
themfelves in a manner worthy of the name of Bri-
tons; but, the fuccefs already gained by the enemy,
and the latenefs of the feafon, induce us to believe
that the fate of this campaign is already decided.
If BONAPARTE fhould be unable to follow up the
blow by a rapid inroad into Auftria, from the fear
of being furrounded, he will Rill be able to hold the
paffes of the Danube with more obflinacy, againft
any numbers that might *frail him, with double ad-
vantage to what he would have otherwifc enjoyed.
We can take little pleafure, as well-withers to the
great Combination of Europe againft this Oppreffor,
in prefaging difagreeably rcfpeaing the Campaign,
but the Nation has been too fanguine in its hopes
from this Continental Alliance. Our Continental
War fufpends indeed for a moment the thunder-cloud
of invalion, which a few mouths ago teemed ready to
burft over our heads ; it will fufpend it till one of two
things takes place—either till BONAPARTE has bated
and broken the alliance, which is far from being im-
pollible, or till a few conceffions, which, in the event
of misfortunes attending the French arms, he can
with good policy make, (hall have left him to exe-
cute, as the fole fcope of his vengeance, the deftruc.
tion of this country. A Continental war in the hands
of BONAPARTE will not lift long, and a Continental
peace, whenever it thall come, is the fignal of his on.
fet on Britain alone.

The joy that prevailed fo lately, when we felt our
!elves delivered from the immediate ptofpet of war
on our own foil, will then relapfe into the ancient
alarm, and in that (late of alarm, every effort that the
country has made has been imperfeft, and by flans.
While the buzz of expelled invafion prevails, the at-
tendance of the Volunteers is for a week or two more
frequent and due. We read accounts of fome hun
deeds of thoufands who are members of thofe de-
fenfive affemblies. A molt exaggerated eilima-
tion is made in the common mind of what force
could be drawn on the infant to the coati to
crufh an invading enemy. With all the means of
fpeedy conveyance we poffefs, it feems to be forgot.
ten, that with our half million of armed defenders,
we have fome thoufand miles of coati to guard; nei-
ther is it reckoned that inflead of a few hundred thou-
land volunteers, the population of this nation ought
to yield nearly two millions- In the conceit which
we than afforedly have to maintain, in fpite of a thou-
fend continental coalitions, we mu,? not merely seed the
fire of the enemy, we mull overt:4llm it. But it is
pre potlerous to talk of everwhe,'minz the enemy with
a force filch as we now We may fight them
fuecefsfully, but the victory wo-ld not be inflanta-
neous. Arm the people, anti eitory will he as Ipeedy
as fecure. Shall we ext.olo cr..: man who has health
and years for warfare, frf m the duty of learning the
'lle of arms? " But it will impede the indullry of the
country !" hliferable computation of I.fs and gain!
What is the induftry of the country compared to its
falvation ? or is it incompatible with induftry, that
men (hould bellow one hour a day to learn the ma-
nual exercife, and to march in rank and file ?
It has been Paid the Nation cannot be trufted with
arms—and how (hall we meet invafion on any con-
dition, if this be the cafe ? But the affertion is falfe
and ungenerous—we fee it—we feel it—we hear it,
and are allured from the general voice of our Coun-
trymen, that the People are more willing than in.
ilruded to fight ; anal that to give them arms for the
general deferrer, is to bind their Patriotifm by the
lurch pledge.
Every thing will loon be at flake.—Now is the
proper time to fpeak and to prepare againfl Invafion
whiie there is a paufe to do fo—when the alarm is
urgent and every wind watched for a Wile arrival
it is too late. It will not now be laid that we have
not a fufliciency of arms ! We will not even for a
moment believe it poffible, that in any department of
our Government there could have been fuel a crimi-
nal negligenceil negligence which would call loudly
for the vengeance of the country—after the timous
notice we have had of our danger.

A Letter from Newcalne, dated the 29th ultimo,
received in London this morning, Pays—" By a Bri-
Ibip, this moment arrived from the Elbe, which
river ffie left laa Saturday (the 26th), .we have re.
ceived the welcome news that the Ruffians have got
compleat footing in Hanover—they are even faid to
be at Cuxhaven already. This of courfe will entirely
free you from any doubts as to the fecurity of the
Navigation Lt the Elbe."

On Monday laff, the frigates which have for fome
time been Rationed at the Lower Hope, for the de-
fence of the River Thames, were removed to Wool-
wich, E which place they are to be prepared for adive
fer► ice. The plan of having (hips Rationed there is
given up, and the whole of the ttores, &c. have been
removed.

Five tranfports, laden with too ammunition wag-
gons complete, and other fibres, failed from Portf-
mouth on Wednefday afternoon, to join the expedi-
:ion, in the Downs.

In the late eafierly gales, the Dutch have loft their
fineft frigate, the Zce-pard (or Sea Hnrfe), which
having parted from her anchors in the Tucl, drifted
on fhore, and was completely bilg.d.