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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER tf,.
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Our Plymouth Letters confirm the intelligence
communicated by our Jerfey Correfpondent in the
STAY. of Saturd.iy. The force which paired that
Illand on Tuefday haft conned of two large seals,
fuppofcd to be of 5o guns, with (loops and..guts-
boats, amounting in all to about so fail. The pre-
vailing opinion at Jeffry was, that the fquadron was
EnglA, under the command of that gallant °Seer
Sir Jassis Saunas r z, from the hland of Guernfey,
whcre we have for Pone time been colleting a force
to tra•ch the motimis of the enemy, who haJ been
making preparations in the neighbourhood
fvr attacking Jerfey and Cructnk- The sting

' appeared to be at Granville, and we hope loon to
%ear, that the enemy's force in that quarter has beets
deftroyed.
If our flotillas keep thus harafling the enemy in
all their ports, it will be a long time before they can
bring their preparations to foch a Rate as to threaten
us with any very ferious mifchief, even if they fhould
fucceed in now and then getting a few boats fmug-
gled in the dark nights from one port to another, as
we find they did a few nights ago.
• We have already informed our readers, that ac-
counts bad been received of fome of them having
lately evaded our cruisers: we have this day re-
ceived a detail of the particulars.
About eight o'clock on the evening of Wednef
day laft, the fquadron off Boulogne was informed
by the Bloodhound, which ran down from Calais for
that purpofe, that 26 French gun-boats had been ken
off the latter, deftined, as was fuppofed, for Boulogne.
The Britifh fquadron which has been for fome time
Rationed off that port, confining of the Au ru MN,
MARINER, BLOODHOUND and AtCHlllt, immediately
made a prefs of fail to windward, and kept clear for
aelion all night, every moment expeCting the French
flotilla, but to their great mortification did not get
fight of it till day break, at which time one brig, two
fchooners, and feven tuggers, were teen at anchor
dole to Boulogne pier, it being then a pedal calm.
Our little fquadron then anchored, but a breeze
fpringing up foon after, they again got under fail.
The enemy,however, the moment they law our veffels
flirting, weighed anchor and ran into the harbour.
It appears, by letters from our fleet, off Calais,
dated Thurfday la% fix o'clock P. M. that the re-
mainder of the French flotilla had got into Calais,—
Our valets could plainly difcern them in that har-
bour, but could do nothing with them at the time.
The men, however, expeCted to be kept at quarters
all night, to feize on any opportunity that might
prefent itfelf for annoying the enemy.
Our prefent accounts do not fay whence the
enemy's flotilla came, but from the circumftances
Rated, compared with former accounts, it is probable
they were irons Dunkirk, and bound for Boulogne.
In the mean time reinforcements are fending out
to our little fquadrons. We find by our Deal letter.
that another bomb veal has been fent to join thofe
off Calais.

Advices have been reccived,confirming the account
given in this paper of the capture of the Wand of St.
Pierre, or St. Peter's, by his Majefty's (hip Auaota,
of 28 guns, commander! by Captain Masson, who
failed thither from Newfoundland, and on the gosh
of June, made-the ifland, and the weather being hazy
and unfavourable for (landing clofe in, he hoifted out
all his boats, and manning them, fent them in. About
feven o'clock A. M. the boats got into the harbour,
and fortunately fell in with a boat croffing from one
fide of the harbour to the other, in which was the
Commiffary, who aced as Governor, and who was
taken prifoner. The place was thrown into the great-
eft confufion by this event, and the ifland was imme-
diately formally delivered up to Lieutenant DAVI a.
who commanded the Englifh boats. About twenty
(land of arms were delivered up, and about one
hundred more were afterwards found. Captain Mar.-
Bon, in the Auaoaa, entered the harbour in the
courfe of the day, and found a French brig and
fchooner, eleven !mall veffels, and about a hundred
batteauzs. Captain Masao,. brought about 180 pri-
loners to St. John's, Newfoundland.—Several boats
full of people got off from different parts of the ifland,
his force being fo fmall he could not attend to all the
points at once. Great credit is due to Captain Mas-
son, his officers, and (hip's company, for this gallant
and fuccefsful enterprise.

In the London Gazette will be found accounts of
tome other important captures made by our brave
tars in different quarters.

By a Gentleman who left Amfterdarn, in a Prnf-
flan galliot, on Thtufday laR, we learn the following
intereßing particulars of the Rate of that country,
with refpea to the preparations for the Invafion—
There are now in the Tele' sso boats ready for
tea, betides eight fail of the line, and a great many
frigates.—At Fluffing, and the other ports of Hol-
land, there are soo boats, and feveral frigates.—
Thefe boats are 5o feet long, and so broad, calcu•
lated to contain so men, and carry two large car•
ronsdes in their bows. There are, betides, as many
more about to be laid down, and getting forward,
but it does not appear that any of them are calcu-
lated for horfe or artillery. Indeed, at relent, there
are but few of die former in Holland. Four regi-
ments of dragoons are all that are attached to the
French army in that country ; but 4000 Hanoverian
horfes are now on their march to iacreafe their num•
bers.

The Dutch force expelled to be employed nn the
Expedition is sopooo men. Theft are to be
blued in the proportion of one Dutch Regiment to
two French. At prefent there are tB,coo French-
men in Zealand, making, with the proportionate ad.
dition of Dutch, 24,000. The French have complete
pofeffion of the country, and confider the Dutch
Government fornething in the light of Par yb Ofeers,
or Tex Gatherer:. They lately impoied a contribu-
tion of two per cent. on all capital, being a tax equal
to forty per cent. on income. This was tegulasly
levied, and lodged in the Confuter coffer,.

At Mtr'og,two Fter.ca fa igAtss t:,:c port,

end piiiiiiatTois tomb the Invanon are there pro.
fecuted by the French with great fpirit.
Nothing can exceed the indignation with which the
Hest- CONSUL, and his Government is fpoken of in
Holland ; but the poor Dutch are watched with in.
quifitorial jealoufy—their own ports and garrifons
are not in their poll (lion, but under the abfolute con.
troul of French forces.

It is expetied there that the Invalion will be at.
tempted on a grand fcale at once, from all the pot%
ethic points of departure, and be direded against
every affailable paint of our coaft from Scotland to
the Land's End. It was even kid that 40,c00 men
were deflined to Berwick and Newcaftle.

On Monday lall, one of BONAPARTE'S Aid-de.
Camps arrived at Amflerdam from Park, with
pofitite dire Lions, that all the forces, naval and mi.
litary, now in preparation throughout the Batavian
Republic, fhould be ready by the Rad of this month.
Has Aid-dc-Camp alfo declares publicly, that it was
the filed determination of BONAPARTE to embark
himfelf on the expedition, and (hare for good or evil
the fate of his army. If one of his divifions
teacind ()tore, it was all he afked, wifhing no fares
omen of faccek than to be oppofed to
The PrufGan galliot, after the paged Admiral
Tuotwßoaoucu's fquadron off the *rep', was not
hailed by any &ha cruizer till the came dofe in
with the (bore.
In a late communication from one of our cone.
fpondents who reticles on the French coati, we hay,
the following poncript
Onr preparations for invading you are nearly
completed. In el opinion, the embarkation of out
troops will take place very fhortly. There is an un.
ufual buflle along the coati, and we fcarcely find an
individual but contributes either his money er labour
with cheerfulnefs. There are many, I may fay bun.
dreds, who have lately travelled from Paris and the
South, to the Northern Ports, for the purppfe only
of beholding the departure of our armament.—lf cup
fail, eve are ruined; if we faceted, you are no wore a Ratios.
At this hour HEAVEN can alone tell the ifue."

The Gazette of Saturday contains an order of his
MAJRSTY. in Council, for proroguing the Par Homes;
from the 6th of Oaober to the 3d of November.
The Gazette of Saturday contains proclamations
direaing a general Lift and humiliation throughout
England and Ireland on Wednefday the ipth of nee;
month ; and in Scotland on the following day.
Dvitz.—On Wednefday evening, at hidf paR five
o'clock, two military officers met to fettle an affair
of honour, attended by their friends, at the Worm-
ley Scrubs, between Harrow and Shepherd's Both,
when, after exchanging fhots, the byline fs wa s adju fled.
Papers to the 6th of Austin, from New York, take
no notice of any fever prevailing there at the time.
Yet the papers give notice of nearly fifty families re-
tiring from New York for the precast. A BMA
frigate, fuppofed to be the Bolton, arrived in Hamp-
ton Roads on the 27th nit. The Britilk frigate
Woodward, is es& away off Cape St. Vincent, after
being out twelve hours from Lifbon. •
A letter from Barbadoes, dated 27th July, Rates
that an expedition was preparing to take poreffioli
of Demerara. " The Dutch Governor, appnfed of
the intention of our Commanders, had ordered all
the Englifh in the fettlement to join the garrifon;
and on their refofal to take up arm* aga.R their
country, he culled them to be imprifoned.
Letters from the Weft Indies contain the follow-
ing Decree :

Is THE NAME OF THE TRENCH 401IFIVIFPWT.
The General in Chief, Captain General of the Co-
lony of St. Domingo, conlidering that the hotlilitice
committed on the coatis of St. Domingo by Englith
(hips do not leave the leaft doubts of a rapture be-
tween France and England : Confidering that it it
abfolutely neceffary to cut off all communication be.
tween the interior and exterior enemy: Confidering
alto that the Colony, fitness& as it is, can and ought
to be governed by a tingle Adminiftratintek under ign-.
mediate orders of the Military Authority-FrDeave%
Att. t. fit.Doisingo la declared in a ftateuf
a. All civil sod judiciary authorides are fife
3. The prefent decree Otall be executed wider the eise of Geliee
cal Thoevenot, Cbief of the Staff o( be Army is the !Dope. ask the
day of tide publication, in the chief places, Wace it ihaS be pew-
ed, Pte. polled up, and infected in the Mill Oosene.
At the head sooners of the Cape, r 7th Meador.
Year to pay 6. slot). Dna. ROCpt otstaigt.
General Secretary of the Colony, FONT/UM
tOth Moor. Year tr. (July 9, 11103)
The General in Cief orders that every peffport foe
the exterior of the Colony be good and valid only
during 1 month from its date. Any one who would
not have made life of it during the faid time, and at-
tempt, notwithfianding this regulation, to make nth
of it, 11011 be arrelled, and punted by eight days ion,
prifonment. This meafure is only for the Cape.
Saws Sou c I.—This favourite place of amufement
opened on Saturolay, with a very powerful patriotic
atriums called BRITONS STIIICS Flows, in which
Mr. Thelma difplayed that firong union of poetical
sod mama talents for which he is fo remarkable.—
Taking his labours in any point of view, it is honor,.
little to (peak too handfornely of them. He has held
out an incitement and a ftimulus to the public duty
of his countrymen in fo winning a manner, that;
though the cireumftance, as a Icahn, is completely
nuneceffary, every man, through fuch a medium,
Miens with fatisladion to a reiteration of his own
heartfelt fent iments. The vehicle of this entertainment
is the humours of a camp, at which a variety of cha-
rade» meet who are tbmwn into many whimfical and
longhair!, fithations. The tongs, though all tending
to that fub)jed fo laudably treated, are greatly diver-
gibed. A Welch, an trills, and a Scotch sung, are haFiv
pity introduced, and the Call e lissecor,the Sollser's Oath
of Alle:imore, and the Sulfiription at Lloyd's, ere full of
animation and effed. Several longs, and hi particu-
lar the Nosey of this year, were loudly encored. Mr,
I)isnia piddles in this exhibition to inculcate the
doarine of union and conciliation, an effort for which
he will be thanked, and of tom fe encourageeby every
lover of his country. Britons Strike Noe was
given Cot for. this evcii:Pg ith the applauk.

NAUTICAL INTELLIGENCE. Jaii6

MAILS THIS DAY.—WIND S. S.E.
AIM. DVS. Att. DOZ.
Dublin i z Hambargh • 6
Waterford

FROM THE LONDON OA2F.TTE, SEPT. r 7,
ADMIRALTY OFFICI, {CPT. 17.
Copy of a letter from Rear Admiral Sir Jew,. TIIOSIAS Dade-
woarn, K. &Commander in Chief of his Majetty's hips and
wards at Jamaica, to Sir Eve's Neriaw, Bar:. dated at Port
Royal, the 14th of July.
Sin.—Sire my lettas,with the various details et favice, by the
%MON Ca AILOTTS packet, his Majcity's ihip COISSICRLA ND ar•
rived from cruising of St. Domingo with the French frigate Creole,
taken by the lquadrea under Captain BILTNTON, for the particu •
lam of which tranfadioa I Quit refer the Lords Conuniffioners of
the Admiralty to his letter, as alto to Captain Hansa N e's, for the
capture of la Mignonne, mentioned in my letter of the 3d, fince
when the fquadion has fent in the National brig l'Aiguille, of
eight guns, cutter built, and very old ; alto the Vigilant brig, of a 8
guns, new, and a fine veffel ; there are likewife two feltooners, la
Superieure and le PoiLfon Volant, both coppered, and very fine vet-
Ws. lam, Ike. (Signed) . I. T. DUCIWORT n.
His Majelty's 114 Cumberland, between Jean Rebel
• and Cape Nichola Mole, June 30.
. Sir-7Havlag parted with the Convoy, as I had the honour
arming you in my letter of yefterday, I &etched in with the
fquadron, during the night, for St. Domingo; Coon after daylight a
large Ltitwas ken near the Fortugas fleeting down Cape Nichol&
Mole, and from the cut of fails I judged her to bee French lap of
War; the Omni ataxamith the VANOSVAID. veva floe dote sp
tolter, the latter us the starboard fide, and the former on the tar•
board bow; intl4 paid= the received a few mot from the VAII.
mom, and, ismingSsoi one, &ruck to his Majelty's fquadron,
and was immediately taken poffelloo of. She proved to he the
Creek, a remarkably fine National French frigate of forty-tour
rani:airy-Mg eighteen iseatoders, and commanded by Citlzea La
BiII4VAILD, from Cape Francois bound to Port aft Pdnee, at tea one
day,havingOeneral Mom. g. (the fecund in tommand at St. Do-
ssing) and /LA with 330 troops on board, the crew of the frigate
mafifting Only of iso men, teeo of whom were badly westided,--
While we were .caking poffehon of the prise, a /mall National
fehooner, commanded by a Unseen-Y*4 ease Into the fquadron,
pod was taken She came front Cape Fraormis, and bound to
Pert au Prince, having onboard too bloodhounds from Cuba, in-
tended to accompaay the army letting mann the Blacks. I have
the Rem to be, Ste. (Signed) a. w. TTTTT ON.
COLIAN, off Cap; Nkhala Mole, June sL
Sir .In coefe4uence of your permiffion to chafe, I flood In there
to cut off the two laps fan this morning, and was format;
camel to carry up the braze to the Iteruntolt, which had got be-
calmed chafe under Cape Sc. Nicholas; the hauled her colours
down Wit morning a few (hot, and proved to be k Mignonne, a
tepsariable fat failing map corvette, of fleteen long eighteen-
pounders (fix mt which he had landed), commanded by IVlonficur
J. P. Barecaud, Capitaine de ',mate, two days front its Cayes
boned to the Cape in her way to France. She has only eighty
kien..-1 have the honour to be, &c. (Signed) C eat SIAN'.
Commodore BAYNTON.
P. S. Laft night a full fchoona was °braved Itanding into the
Mk*, which Knotting ftipicions, I fent a boat manned and
armed, and found her to be a Frenchman, from St. Jag de Cuba
Posen-Ptinee, with a cargo of kw, ;ad three thoofand four
hundred and kventy-fu dollars in as has three guns and
flue lakels nctoinited.
limnset et a letter from Rear-Admiral Sir Jona Titania s Duca-
weave, IC. B. ammander in Chief of his Mageity's hips and
mak at Jamaica, to Sri EVAN NOUN, Bari dated the ayth
Y. akel•
Bissau., of the Racoon loop, gallant* went Site the
Port of Loogane, and, after an salon of forty feinnies with the
*diet Naiielial brig Lodi, brought ha Mt The peticulan of
which the Lords Commileners of the Admiralty will ham from
that Oicerb itatenamt,traabdued herewith.
RAcno &the daft Endo, Jamaica, !WI July.lBo3.
Simi beg leave to acqtailot yea, that at leaf paff eleven es Men':
day morning the Ink haft. while working todsvan the lland of
duaniba end St. Demingo,l olefeived d French Naked brig lying
at anchor is Leogute Roads, Mad I immediately bore up for her.
On approaching I found them preparing to rood* us with twinge
as thdr alba, Ate. At a quarter before three (P. M.) I socking--
ea with fprinp *(tOa thirty yards of him, and immediately awn•
nmend an edam, whiel was continued do beck lilts for thirty
minutes, when as eat her tibia and began t 6 make off. I in-
fhantly cut and followed her; and, after vixen ten minutes deere
of well &reeled fire, we fo completely unrigged her that the *reek
her colours, and caned out dbl.) had formatted. We were obliged
to anchor again immediately to prevent, driving on tome. She
proves to be k Lodi, pierced for twenty guns, bat had cady tee
mounted, commanded by ht. PISIIIII ISAAC 'Faunae. Caplialne j
de Fregate. Ole fads and rigging are a good deal cut, bat I am
happy to fay I had not a mea tried; nod the only perfon wounded
Is Mr. Taoseas Gat, Malta's Mate, whole ha arm um aniod
of bye tot ; a very worthy pramifing young =Natasha faired
as time in the Navy, and will, if he furkives, do credit to your
patronage. The kb of the enemy is one killed and thirteen or
fourteel wounded, by their account..--The condo& of Mr•Jau a s
A treatuot a GORDON, the Flrft Lieutenant, on this as well
many other recent mations, has Goal highly exampiary and pale-
worthy; and I have much pleafure is informing yob, that the
*bole of the Mars and hip's company behaved folk to my fair-
rattan. (Signed) AUSTIN SISSCLL.
P. S. Enclofed is a Lift of 'Ads taken and deltroyed by his
Majelty's loop under my command Once the itk of July.
July 6th. A rammer at anchor la a bay near Cape Refs ; fook,
• July yth. Schooner k lime, of embalms, carrying troops and
provifione from Port an Prime to Jetaide ; takes.
Sloop retail des Colonies, of twosome; WO.
July soh. A &loaner run on Sore, mad auk in Barradler lay.
July nth. Le Lodi Nakao! Rig, Caputo P. J.Tavnaa.
(Sisal) AI SISSNLL.
Copy et • letter hem tam the Hemsorable C farina-
Ft. a am no.Capitala eflak Ma}eity's lap the dov ninon
to Sir Evan Naffelon.ant, dated at Sea. the lath of Anat.
Sira-4 have the honour to tranfoit you. for the infomtadoo Of I
my Leeds Cemmllleners of the Adaeiraky, a espy of a letter
lave had tbeheeseur of writing to Admiral Coanwatte son else
capture et la Chilleaettc French primmer by kis adeptly's Sip
nada my mermemi. (Signed) ca.tLaMlwO.
His Majelty's alp lioramannes *al 3th
have its Moser to loam you, that his liradty's Sip
ander my amenaml 101 l night captured the Preach remoter la
Calumet, et fauetwra pas and eighty mem las hes him ad
dam film Dembent, rd but captured a keig hasn't's. m Jerky.
from Sum Cruz boned to Hanawrgh, which has bees lam re•
raptured by his blegelly's hip INISTSIION She fails remarkably
I.lt, has hem chafed by fevers! frigates, and once by this alp,— I
When the Calmat( was lb* dikovered, at was le the at of
tr as Englik brig, bin "deed ber on our approach. I have
0.. hewer to be, litc. (Meal) e. &tumults. I