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London, England, 1801-04-08 00:00:00

Fjulittitirr7, APRIL 3'.

Arrived the'Painca of WALES packet, Captain'
TODD, from Liiboti, with Mails, dated 23d March.
She failed from this place on the t ith of March,
and arrived at Lifbon on the 16th, where the found
his Majefey's !hip Mot:racy, and the Joskrx
cotter ; the latter of which failed for Gibraltar
daring the time the remained in the Tagus.—
She left Lilbon on the 23d of March, at
which time the McnraGne was the only King's
Oil) in the Tagus, and the WALSINGHAM packet.
.--On the ad inftant, in lat. 3a the packet (poke
the American brig Mary, Capt. —, from Liver-
pool, bound to Lillian ; and on the 3d inftant, in
ht. 49. his Majeay's fhip IMMORTALITZ, of 16
guns, Capt. HoTHAM, who had captured a French
cutter. This packet does not bring any particular
news from Lifbon ; the Portuguefe troops Aill
continue to march to the Frontiers, but neither
they nor the Spaniards teem much inclined to come
to blows : the Poituguefe, it is faid, entertain great
hopes of being able to purchafe peace with France.
A Portuguefe.Amballador was expelled to embark
in a few days for France.
_

Arri vcd the brig Fidelity, W LLtAM, from Liver
pool: the Two Brothers, Bass, from Briftol; and
feveral coafters from Wales, with coals for the
Mines.

Sailed yeilerclay the Vrow Elizabeth, Pruifian
doggcr, Cipt. Azzaptexo, for France.—Wind N.

PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 7.

Arrived the GRAND FALCON cutter, from Mar-
: and Dozy His cutter, with a French priva.
tea her prize.

PLYMOUTH, APRIL 6.
Came in the Hercule French brig privateer, of
4 guns, and ra men, taken three days ago by
the ATALANTR, of i 8 guns, Captain GRIFFITHS
ft belongs to St. Maloes, and had been from that
port only three days, without having taken any
thing. The Jonge Conrad, of Pappenburg, Capt.
GILD JOHANNES, from Bourdeaux, bound to
Dublin, laden with brandy and urine; detained by
the DORIS, of 36 guns, Captain MANSPIELD,..-.
Kr. SAND L DILTRATT, a merchant of Briftol„
with his wife, three children, and three krvants,
came pallingers in the Jonge Conrad ; they were
carried into Bourdstux by a French privateer about
eight weeks ago, in the Leander, from Jamaica,
to Brifiol.—The Danifh flip Samuel, Capt. STE.
SISSON, from Nantes, bound to Alton, in Waft ;
detained by the Animus, of 38 guns, Captain
HILBERT, formerly the Samuel, of Liverpool.
Sailed the Sr IT of so guns, Capt. Kat N, on
a cruife. Carne in the ATALANTR, of 18 guns,Capt.
Curtin's, from a cruife; and the G , of
lc guns, Captain HONETKAN, from the coat of
France, with a French brig in tow, now coming
into the Sound.
Came in a French brig, name unknown, from
Nantr, in ballaft, bound to Bourdeaur ; fhe was
raptured on the a4th ult. by l'lnevru tut, of 78
guns; Amnia, of 38 guns; and Sea-flower pri-
vateer, of Jerfey : ten other brigs were captured
at the fame time, but being in ballaft, and of little
value, they were defiroyed. On the t6th ult. the
Am/ LI A chaced upwards of fir hours the Guenier-
French frigate. of 44 guns, bound from L'Orient
lo Rochefort, into which place fhe cfcaped fhe
was &flirted to join a large fquadron fitting out
at that pok.
Came in the Swan, of North Yarmouth, JOHN
10417 AN T, from London, with wheat, for Liver.
Pool, taken by a French privateer, and retaken lay
the GARLAND, of 20 guns,. Captain HONITSIAN
the Hendrick Johannes, of Poppenburg, CLAUS
mafter, from Tramelor, with falt, detain-

ed hy the Lord Nelien privateer, of this port t alto
ti.; *I 4..1c4 er, of Weymouth, Wien with pipe clefs
.-orn Pool, bound to Liverpool, cut out of Cher.
44.1,h, by the boats of the Jason and Larwtmo
kißates ; fhe is now alhore on the call end of
M,uLt Batten, but may get off next flood.

LEWES, APRIL 6.

Oa Tuefday everting we! French privateers, a
trite lugger, and.• a brig, took three rr.erchant
in-Hallings Road, about a mile and a half
f'om itore, in fight of a great number of (pea-
..tels. The battery guns kTt up a brilk fire at
gym, but apparently without e#edt. The above
te, Lo doubt, the fame
of
which laft week
14ado faczal captures of Seaford and Newhaven.

FROM THE LONDON a.% zn-rt, APRIL 7.
ADMIRALTY.OFIICE, APRIL 7.
Copy of a letter from Rear-Admiral DuccwosTß, Comman-
der in Chief of his Mijetty's chips and veffers at the Leeward
Minds, to EVAN NE !ZAN, Efq. dated Martinique, Febru-
ary 16, tgot.
Sir—Having learnt, from the arrival of the Cs t-
cu rrs on the 12th ult. that a convoy might be
foon exported, I difpatched all the fquadron with-
in my reach to cruize to windward of Barbadoes
for its protection, which has eventually proved for-
tunate ; for the particulars refpating it I (hall re-
fer you to Captain Basusv's letter of the 6th inft.
herewith tranfmitted ; as alfo to the letters of Cap-
tain. MANGY, of the BOURDELOIS, of the 16th of
January and the 2d of this month, on which he
whites molt fully. I mutt beg you to call the at-
tention of my Lords Commiflioners of the Admi-
ralty CO the meritorious conduit of Mr. Buthsowss,
Commander of the chip JUPITER, bound to Ja-
maica, who, after he had loft convoy, collated
more than fifty fail, and made fuch a difpolition
of the largeft chips for the protection of the whole,
as evidently deterred the fmall fquadron afterwards
brought to aCtion by the 800 RDELOI3, from attack-
ing them ; and by that judicious and public-fpirit-
ed flep, all but thole which branched cff for Suri-
nam, &c. arrived fare at.Barbadoes.
(Signed) J. T. DUCKWORTH.
Estndt of a letter from Captain BEADS?. Commander of his
Msjeßy's Ihip AN D ILO Id EDA,tO Rcar-Admlxal Doc [WO ItTe,
dated Martinique, February 6, doz.
Enclofed are two letters from Captain MAIM
tome, from which the fervice he has rendered to
the different Iflands, by deftroying a fquadron fent
out by VICTOR HUGHES, for the interception of
the outward bound convoy, fpeaks for itfelf.

,
His Majefty's Coop BOURDSLOIS, JanUM7l6,
180 z, off Tencriffe.
Sir—On the Bth inflant, off Palma, in a calm,
I difpatched two boats under the orders of Lieute-
nant BARRIE-, in purfuit of a orange fail in the
S. E. ; after a fatiguing row of fourteen hours, Lieu-.
tenant BARRIE, at two P. M. with only one boat
being up with the chace, boarded her with great
gallantry, although oppoled by ten Frenchmen,
who kept up a fmart fire from four four-pounders ;•
the proved to be the Adventure of London, one
of the convoy which had parted company in the
firti gale of wind ; the French prize-mailer was
wounded by a Guilds, the only blood fpilt on the
occafion.
Gaining information from the Adventure, that
on the fame day the was captured by the Mouche
privateer, c Bourdeaux, the Mouche likewife cap-
tured a valuable copper-bottomed fhip, bound to
Earhadoes, and as both veffels had orders to pro-
ceed to Santa Cruz, in Teneriffe, I confidered it
my duty to puth for that port, and by plying hard
with the fweeps all the 9th, I arrived of Santa
Cruz on the morning of the loth, when I had the
pleating fatisfaCtion of refcuing the above-mention-
ed Britith fhip from the hands of the enemy; the
proved to be the Aurora of London. (Signed)
Captain BLADIT, ANDROMEDA. T. MAN BY.
His Majefty's flap Boom's:A:us, Carliac-Bay,
Barbadoes, Fsbniary z, aor.
Sir—Three days ago, being on the nation you
ordered me to cruize for the proteCtion of our (cat-
tered convoy, I acquaint you, for the information
of the Lords Commitlioners of the Admiralty, that
at noon three fail were defcried to windward evi-
dently in chace of us, which I foon difcovered to
be an enemy's fquadron, confining of two large
brigs and a fchooner :—having Shortened fail, en-
abled them to be well up with us at Sun-fet, when
I wore round to give them battle ; at fix I had the
honour of bringing the largeft brig to clofe aftion
at about ten yards diftance, but was not fo fortu-
nate with the other veffels, who fought very thy
on the orcation, on obferving we were enabled
to fight both fides at once ; thirty minutes of
clofe earronade with my near opponent complete-
ly Silenced him, when he hailed that he had (truck,
and lowered his topfails, when his companions
made fail from us : but I think I can fafeiy aver
they ate fufficiently damaged to fpoil their cruize.
—My Firft Lieutenant, Mr. Rosati. BARRII,
on taking poffefticn of the prize, found her to
be a 'remarkable fine French National corvette,
called la Curieufe, pierced for twenty guns, but
only eighteen long
.nine-pounders mounted, one
hundred and fixty-eight men, and commanded by
Captain G. RADELIT ; fent out from Cayenne
twenty-eight days ago, by VICTOR Hoc rs, with
this Iquadron, to intercept the outward-bound
Weft India fleet. With real concern I acquaint
you, that we had one man killed and (even wound-
ed in the aCtion • but from the abilities and atten-
tion of Mr. G. itoDDA 11, my furgeon, I truft the
latter are hid", .to do well: Lieutenant BARRIE
films one bf the number, bdt difdained to quit his
quarters. Mr. J. Jonas, Matter's Mate, and Mr.
J. Limes, Midthipman, are included in this lift.
The killed and wounded in the corvette amount-
cd to nearly fifty, her deck, fore and aft, being
coveredwith the dying and the dead. The French
Captain furvived but a few hours, having loft both
his legs, and many of the priioners were in an
equally pitiable hate.
A melancholy and painful talk is now impofed
on me to relate the fad cataarophe attending this
capture, which, after being more than an hoar in
our poffellion, was found to be rapidly finking, in
confequeOce of her innumerable Shot-holes
.: every
exertion was made to prefcrve her; but, alas I at
eight the foundered dole betide us. I bad, Tome
June previous to this event, ordered every body to
quit her; but Britith Humanity, while ftriving to
extricate the wounded Frenchmen from deftrueion,
weighed fo forcibly with Mr. AILCHISALD Most.
cum ear and twenty brave followers, that they per-
fevered in this meritorious fervice until the veffel
funk under them. The floating wreck, I rejoice
to fay, buoyed up many from de ffruaion; but with
forrow I mention Mr. Fa Srsact and Mr.
AUCKLAND, two promifing young gentlemen, with
five of my gallant crew, unfortunately perifbed.
The delay occafioned by this unhappy event, fe-
' curing one hundred and twenty pnfoners, knot.
ling the rigging, and repairing fails, detained me
until elevetibefare I could purfoe the flying enemy,
which, I affure you, was done withal all alacrity,
bat 'without fusafs, as the g ured glair
itatax•

I cannot conclude ibis account of my proceed.
ins without informing you how highly I approve
or the conduit of Lieutenant RORRI.T BARRIE,
Lieutenant JAMES ALIXANDIR GORDON, Mr.
MACCLIVIRTY the Mailer, and Mr. MONTGOML.
v, my •Aeting Lieutenant.
The proceedings of Warrant and Petty Officers
gave me every latisfa‘rlion ; and I have not words
to offer fufliciently in the praife of the Ship's rom-
pany for their Heady obedience to my orders in not
walling a Tingle shot; I trult it will not be deemed
too alluming in my recommending my Firlt Lieu-
tenant Mr. Roatar BARRIE to the notice of the
Lords Commiffioners of the Admiralty as an Of-
ficer highly worthy of advancement.
(Signed) T. MARRY.
N. B. Allow me to fubjuin the fiatement of the
enemy's force, and to mention, that the only cap-
ture made by this fquadrou was the Sufan brig, of
Halifax, bound to Surinam, which they burnt.

La Curicufe, of 390 tons, i 8 nine-pounders, t6B men, not two
years old, with 34 feet beam, and yo tett keel, commanded
by Captain GaOROL RADE LL

La Mutine, of goo tons, 16 long 6i-pounders, zy6 men, com-
manded by Captain J. R RAUN.
L'Efper.utee fehooner, mounting 6 four-pounders, ss men,
commanded by Captain HATMOND.

J. T. DUCKWORTH.
DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZF-MONEY.

The crew of the EXCELLENT, for the capture of
la Belle Francaife, l'Heureuz, and la Belle Julie,
will be paid their proportions of the proceeds of
Paid prizes on board the laid Ibip at Plymouth,
before fhe proceeds to fea.
The crew of the sloop GiElt, for the re-capture
of the Crown brig, began to be paid their propor-
tions of the Paid falvage, on board, on Tuefday the
3111 of March.