Star.
London, England, 1805-04-05 00:00:00

LONDON.

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FRIDAY, APRIL 5.
Confols, for money, 5,f,--for ate. 57,11-0
Onmium 2i 2i prem.

PiIICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK;
_ _PRICE OF STOCKS YESTFRDAY:

Bank Stock tut
3 per C. Red. Ann. abut
3 per Cent Conf. 5741/1
4 pt:r Cent. Ihut
S p r tcu,t. Navy 894 g.
S i,er Cent. 1797, thut
Long Ann. (hut
Short Ann. IbUt
India Stock °tut /go for opg.

India Bonds ts. a as. diL
Imp. 3 per Cent. t
rime Ann. 9 7. Of,
Old S. S.Ann. 9 7-r64
frith s per Cent. 84} ea. div.
Facheq. Bills par as. pz.
Osmium at 3 21 prcni
siglifb Tickets tSL iSs.
Conf. for ace. 57{}

Intelligence is hourly expelled refpelling the Brett
Fleet, as by the latePt accounts there wasa probability
of a partial aEtion at 'call being brought on between
it and our Channel Fleet.

The accounts received do not agree in every parti.
cular, as our Readers will fee by comparing the fub-
joined letters. They both bring down the intelligence
to thefame date,but the &ft rays our veffels had been
drawn off, while the other Rates, that when the ac.
counts left the fleet, the WINDSOR CASTLE, of 98
guns, the van fhip, was then adlually engaged with
the enemy.

We cannot reconcile there accounts but by fuppol.,
ing, that the latter left the fleet at a later hour
(though on the fame day) than the former. We
ought to add, that our Plymouth letter is from a
Gentleman who has the heft means of being well-in-
f mmed, and whore communications we have gene.
rally found to be pettedly correct.

Extra& of a letter from an Officer on board one of
our frigates, dated the soth ult. off UJbant.

s. I dare fay the Papers have by this time given an account of
the Breit Fleet attempting to come out; the manner I will tell
you. On Sunday morning lalt, a convoy was obfrrved under the
land, apparently bound to Breit, which, after being attacked by
two of our brigs, took flicker under the battery of St. Mau hew.—.
Tuefday, at day-hr..ak, three fail were fee) coming out of harbour,
as if to protcdt them in, when we immediately chaced, and with.
our Nall fquadron, viz. three frigates, and two brigs, made them
alfo cake filcher under the batteries, of which we informed the'
Admiral by a cutter, who fent us two line of battle (kips, the Co-
loffus and Briltruphon, when we .all got under weigh, and Rood
right in, with intent to cut then) out, when the whole Breit Fleet,
viz. twenty-one fad of the line, fiz frigates, and a brig, iine-
diately got under weigh, and flood out. A grander fight you can
hardly imagine. The cutter was again dirpatclud to our fleet,
and at half pail four eighteen fail joined us,and eve ry one ex-retell,
and indeed longed to begin, when the Admiral made a fignal to
haul off. The enemy were at anchor timely within gun mot of
us. They have all returned again into virt."
" PLYMOUTH, APRIL 3.
- - -

This day letters have been received from the
Channel Fleet, cruizing off Brea, by which it ap-
pears, that on Saturday Taft, the French fleet, con-
filing of 21 fail of the line, five of which were three.
deckers, befides feveral very heavy frigates, were
lying at anchor in Bertheaume Road, near Breit, and
that great hopes were entertained that an attion
would be brought on between the two fleets, as the
Britiflt were at that time very near them ; and when
the account came away, the WiNDSOR CASTLE, of
98 guns, Captain GOULD, which was the van lhip of
the fleet, was firing at the French (hips, from both
fides. The wind was at that time (bong weaerly, fo
that if the French were, as anal, difpnfed to be very
thy, they would endeavour to ficulk again into Breit,
as the wind favoured fuch a purpofe. We are hour.

1.. I ..'L; out fl,r further aecourts fro is themat,The
ii.stasta, of 120 guns, and the Ajax, of 8o guns,
hum hence on Monday laft, and, no doubt,
Live reinly:Led the Britifh ere this."

In letters from Tortola, of the 28th of February,
it is dated, that the Cirk fleet had arrived, and that
part of it had failed for the Leeward Iflands. This
ti,:t 1.,11cd trom Cork on the 37th of January, under
convoy of the l'aostLyrs frigate, and ELK brig. It
confided of one hundred and twenty-three merchant-
men, and eleven tranfports with troops on board.—
A part of the French fquadron having been teen
tr,o,:ng off Barbadoes, on the 28th of February, it
-4 3, tuppored they were looking out for the Cork Beet;
t!,4: Prince of Afturias tranfport was captured by the
c., ,:hment. We are under mach uneafinefs for the
, ~1 this convoy, as we knim that no naval force,
adequate to encounter the trench fquadron, could
reach tl.e Well Indies for a Month after the arrival
cf the enemy in that quarter.
By the extrafis from the Barbadoes Mercury of the
16th February, given in another part of this paper,
it will be teen there are Come reafons for apprehend-
ing that an additional French fquadron has reached
thefe feat. Itappears certain toothat the rumour mull
have been expelled by Tome report given out by the
French themfelves. But how they thould have dif-
doled that circumftance is likewife extraordinary.—
They mull, no doubt, have alluded to the Toulon
fquadron. From the &II notice in the Monileur of the
failing and of the return of the Toulon fleet, which
appeared in the Monitarr of the to March, above a
month after the event, we have entertained doubts
whether that fleet, or at leaft the whole bf It, had
really gone back. The Toulon fleet failed on the 15th
of January. On the 4th of February the Hortenfe
and Incorruptible, two of the frigates, attacked the
Malta convoy, and carried the prifoners intu Cartha-
sena. It is obvious, therefore, that if thefe frigates
bad the fame dellination with the Toulon fleet, of
which they formed part, it mug hare been out of the
Mediterranean, as they had proceeded fo far down-
wards the Gut of Gibraltar. The Toulon fleet might
have paffed the Gut in the night unobroved. A
Dana veffel was three days in company with a fleet
of (even fail of the line and frigates, off Cape St.
Vincent, between the 13th and 17th of February.—
This could not have been a Britith fleet, nor the
Rochefort fquadron, which arrived at Martinique on
the tnth of February. It was this Dane that gave
the information to Sir JOHN Gaol, which was fent LI
the LIIIILY frigate to Admiral COCHR•111. That
feet, if the report of the Dane was corral, might
have been the Toulon fquadron. It will be fortunate
indeed, if the Toulon fleet has returned to port, but
as to the form which drove them back, there never
was any tiling heard of it but in the Afoßiteur. The
two frigates which intercepted the Maltefe convoy,
lead (offered nothing from it. We are indeed hong-
ly inclined to think that the paragraph was intended
to miflead.

This day we received French Jonrnals to the 25th
ult. and Dutch to the 29th ult. From the latter we
have extraned a letter from Madrid, Rating that an
attack is meditated again!' Gibraltar, in which the
Spaniards espett to be aided by a fecret underßand-
ing within the garrifon. Certain it is, that forme men
defined f3m: time ago ; but by our laR accounts,
we had every reaton to hope, that the number in-
cluded all who wer: any way difaffened, and that the
Garrifon in general were Raunch to their duty like
loyal foldiers.

" Madrid, Much 2.

N The plan for getting polttioo of the ftrong fortrefs of Gibral.
tar was farmed at the end of lar. month. The cc •cutimi of it was
to be favoured, it is laid, by a keret utislerftandirg in the place it-
felf, and the attack was to be made by ka and lard at the fame
time. For the former a great nun her of gun boats were already
provided, which were well manned and equipped ; but the vigi-
lance and adtivity of the Engliat, whole fufpicioos were awakened
by the arrival of a remfurcirment of troops, deranged the whole
plan. In the mean ohile,v.e have very !ittle fear for Minorca. The
Eogials (rem to have no deign on that lOand, bccaufc the attack of
it will require lead troop., which they are in want of, and they
eat.ivit at pi debt weakut the garrifon of Malta; of the Swift re.
giment of Roden, which was Rationed at Malaga during the epi-
demical iicknefs, a tie d of the Dacus and toed have perished.'
The French Pipers prefent nothing worth extraa
ing. The following decrees refpelting the Coliomes
which flopieraars means to introduce, mar, howe-
ver, amufe our Readers :