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London, England, 1801-11-16 00:00:00

CGURT-M,IRTIAL ,

TRIAL OF VICE-ADMIRAL SIR W. PARKER.
At a Court-Martial held on board his Moieties
GLADIATOR, in Portfmouth Harbour, on Fri-
day lafi, the 13th of November, and by adjourn-
ment to the following day—

FRKSIOLST.
Sir TllO/11.11 PA/LEY, Barr. Admiral it the Blue.
141.11111117 OF TUC COURT,

SKEPTINGLON Lit rwtorta, Efq. Admiral of the Blue.
ALEXANDER CRANE, Efq. Via-Admiral of the White.
;MIN HOLLOWAT,Efq. Rear-Admiral of the Red.
MOINES TOTTY, Efq. Rear-Admiral of the Blue.
Captains CUARI es STIRLING. Efq. the Hon. Rosrat STOP..
lORD. PHILIP CLAILLS Du tuAV, Efq. Ca. RI ES
Wl4-
LIAN Pa-reasou, l tq. SAMOLL HooD, Efq. T. Sumer
YORKE. Efq.FaANt SOTUOION, Efq. JAIIICSNEVIIOAN

NEWMA V, Efq.
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Moses GItrETHAM,Efq. Juhe Advocate.
in purfuance of an order from the Right Hon.
the Lords Cummiaioners of the Admiralty, the
Court proceeded to try Sir WILLIAM PARKER,
Bart. Vice Admiral of the White, and late Corn-
mander in Chief of his hiajefty's chips and velTels
employed in the river St. Lawrence, and along
the Cm& of Nova Scotia, &c. &c. &c. on various
charges exhibited again him ; and the Court
having taken the fame into their ferinus conlidera-
lion, and air() what the Vice-Admiral had to offer
in his defence, were agre,d—

" That Vice-Admiral Sir WILLIAM P Bart. was
" jultified in (ending his M:i.jrity's (hips Meta/CA and C sco-
" TATRA to the WeR Indies; and that the Vioe-Admiral was
" indifcreet in having given Inch detailed inftrudtlons to their
" Captains for their return within the limits of their Ration:
" but the general charadter of the Vice-Admiral is lath as to
" preclude the idea that he had hew suLkd by any motive tut-
' emulated with die good of his MAJL‘TY'II fervice, and do
" therefore adjudge hint to be acquitted."
The Plummer, on returning his (word to the
Vice-Admiral, addreffed him thus :

“ Sir WILLIAM P , it is a plowing talk which Manilas
for me to perform—that of ddivcring to yau a fwordwhich
you have worn with fo much honour.'
Tlic principal witneifes examined were, Captains
Fl lisDY and BINGHAM, and the Rev. Mr. Soursi,
Chaplain and Secretary to Sir WILLIAM PARKER.
The bells at Portfmouth rung immediately on
the information ,being conreyed from the GLADIA•
TOR, of the acquittal of this gallant and meritorious
officer, who afterwards landed amitilt the plaudits
and acclamations of all dekriptions of perfoits.

The following is a Copy of the Memorial pre-
anted bw his Serene Ilighnefs the Priace of
ORANGE, to Lord HA% KEISBIJILT, previous to his
leaving this Country:—
" Hampton Court Mice, r 3, trot.
" The Prince of ()Ramos being informed twat
the Rafitcations of the Preliminary Articles of
Peace between his BRITANNIC MA
.It. STY and the
French Republic, figued on the t 4 intl. have been
exchanged on the teth"; and thole Articles, as
publithed by Government, having thus come to his
knowledge, thinks he ought not todelay any longer
in a continiaure fu important to his interefts, and
o,ofe 4 his Houle, to exprefg, without referee;
his fentiments and his wifnes to his MAJESTN.
" The unfortunate circumaances which obliged
the Prince OS-ORANGE and his Family to repair to
England in the year 1795, are too well known to
make it neceffary to renew the ftatement of them
in this place. •
st After having been received by his MAJESTY
with the moll affeelionate kindnefs, the Prince of
ORANGE experienced no leis convincing proofs of
his MAJESI T's goadnefs towards him during his
flay in this country, where he has conaantlylaeen
treated with the moil generous hofpitality. On every
occafion he received unequivocal affurances and
marks af thc unvaried interefl which his MAJESTY
and his Government continued to take, riot only'
in what related to himfelf and to his Family, but
alto to the numerous and faithful adherents of the
Honk 401-Inge, and the ancient Conflitution of
die Republic of the United Provinces. Mae
marks of interelt had fo often been repeated, that
the Prince of ORANGE has not even conceived it
to be neceffary for him to make any formal de.
mand, founded upon the folemn engagements by
which Great Britain guaranteed, in 1788, the
Stadholderate, and the other Dignities hereditary
in his Howe.

" The Prince of ORANGF. has teen with great
concern the courfe of events lead gradually to a
:late of things very different from • that under
w'tich thofe engagements had bgen formed, and
by which the probability of their being compl,tely
fulfilled was from day to day diminifhing.• Never.
thelefs, as long as the war continued, he never
could prevail upon himfelf to giv: up that hope
entirely; but he waited in filence the KIM of
events. Now that tbs.! Preliminaries cl Peace are
concluded on the Conditions known to the Public,
without the Prince of °taxon haring received any
information that any thing has been tlipulated with
refpeet to hirnfelf, he thirties hit:flied tinder the obli
gallon of b:eaking the filence he had hitherto
thought 6t to obferve, and confiders it as his in-
difpenfible duty to recommend in the fleongeft and
molt preffing manner to the ICING% folickude and
powerful proteCtion, at the • approaching Cote:-
rences for the formation of the Definitive Treaty,
his own interefts, thole of his Houfc, and of a con-
fiderable number of his Countrymen, who are be come the unfortun.:te viCtiinsof their unfliakenssal
for his Perfon and his Catife--of their tried fidelity
' to the ancient Government of their native Coun-
try, and of their attachment to that fvflcm which
h.., fo li,ng and fo uaited the Republic of
the linited Provinces to Great
'lle Prince of ORAVGS thinks it would be in-
jurigp, tlie lings of his M,
_. sry and
his ( 1,, :!us :11 upon therms: vis which 1
ir.i ii hini u. !mike tl.i. reritr:q. Ile has no
doubt r i Lis r tindi7; th7m ill his own
Breath, Itin:ll.:ftl.at the dif-
rofit.ons he Lore. to lOW I'll et; will add
it to 113...i;t: fl cliiigations he owes to the
. :•1 which he wia never lilt the Lratefal

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NAUTICAL INTELLIGENCE. ,

MAILS THIS DAY.—WIND South.
AROIVLD. !VG
0 Hunbutgh,
Dublin
s Wateriord.
s Donnaghadee. 0

FALMOUTH, Nov. i3.—This day failed his Ma-
jelly's Packet PRINCE ERNEST, Captain PETKE,
with a Mail for America of the 4th inftant : this
month, and the three following, the Packets do
not go to Halifax but to New York direet : the
Paffengers are Mr. WHITE, Mr. HEATLEY, and
Mr. and Mrs. STEVEN sox and Child. Should the
wind continue fair the Kinn GEOaOll Packet,
Captain Ysscom az, will fail in the morning for
Lifbon, with the Mail of the t tth inflant.

HARWICH, Nov. IS.—Laft night the Panics
Or ORANGS Packet, Capt. BRIDGR, which failed
on the I ath with the Mails for the Continent of
the toth init. was obliged by contrary winds to
put bivk, but failed again this morning with a
wind at S. W. ; the KING Cloaca Packet, with
the Mail of the 13th, failed at the fame time.
YARMOUTH, Nov. is.--Yefterday failed the
hers [sr BLE, of 7.; guns, Captain DUCH, for Tor-
bay ; and the Eta i or LIECESTER packet, Captaip
THOMPSON, to Harwich, to take the malts for
Cuxhaven on Thurfday nest : the ETPRESS packet,
Captain DELL, is hourly expated to arrive from
Cuxhaven. This day failed the Harmony for Rot-
terdam, with coals ; this is the &(i: (hip cleared
out here (ince the figning of the Preliminaries of
Prace, for Holland. _ _

PORTSMOUTH, Nov. ty.--Yefterday came intp
harbour the ROWCLIEFE armed 'brig—This day
arrived the BOADICEA, of 38 guns, Capt. KE Ars,
from the coaft of France. A frigate is now coin-
ing up to St. Helen's, but theSireather beinghazy,
we cannot learn her name.

FROM LLOYSI's LIST.
DEAL, Nov. ts.—Sailed the Drotingen, Swe-
difh EaII Indiaman, to Sheernefs. • Wind S. S. W.
GIAVESAND, Nov. ts.—Paffed by, the Anna,
---, from Bombay ; Duke of Clarence, THIFT,
from Peteriburgh ; Two Brothers, --, from
Ghent ; Nelfon, BAaamvs ; and the Workington,
Maw K, from Archan;eL—Sailed the Louifa and
Amelia, —, for Lirbon ; Heart of Oak, Jones,
for Dublin ; Hamilton, HroDERsoN, for New Pro-
vidence ; Lord Middleton, —, for St. Kitt's ;
Gratitude, fur Venice; Orphan, —, for
Oporto ; Neptunus, for Calais ; Ruby,
We s, for Martinique ; John and Mary, SHERRY,
,r Faro; Richmond, —,for Gibraltar; Lord
Donnegall, Surrif, for Belfark Minerva, Gs ANT,
for Guernfey ; Charlotte, Barn; err, for Ham-
burgh; 'row Serante, —; and Twe Gebro-
ders, ENGLFMAN, for Amfterdam.

DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZE MONEY.
The Macterzasis will be paid for the Jean
Catherine Arnie, Cagle, Bon Succefs, and Bien
Arnie, on board the raid 'hip, on Thurfday the
t9:h ina.
The ROYAL WILLIAM and the Anvica tender
will be paid at Port finc,uth, this day, their propor-
tions of the prize Stark Embelen.
The (loop Sv tett, for the capture oldie Spanifh
chaflc maree El General Brune, will be paid on
Friday, the zcth inft. in Plymouth.
The AMELIA, for the recapture of the brig
Hawl:e' and capture of the French private fhip of
war la Juile, will be paid on the next arrival of
dr. AMELIA at Plyrnowth.
TIIC ROADIL:EA, for the capture of the following'
velrels, will be paid on the arrival of theßoantera
in port, viz. Cultivator, Favourite, 13Iscenix, la
Revanche, la Gironde, PAlcrte, Jacob, 14 Ran-
ctme El Vivo, la Magici mine, likkie, and Venus. 1
The VFMER•BLE, for the capture of the Spaniflt !
[hip Santa Perefa, and brig Virgin del Rofario
will be paid on board the Paid (hip, on the anti;
inflant.
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