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London, England, 1803-08-20 00:00:00

LONDON.

SATURDAY, AUGUST so.
PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE 0 CLOCK
3 P Cent. Reduced, 5415 r 54 per Cent. Coda, 54 f
Osmium 6 I 4 011 C.
PRICE OP STOCKS YESTERDAY.
Bank Stock Lit Long Ann. 16
3 Per C. Red. 3454 53 154 Imp. 3 per Cent. is
3 per C COll Est Excheq. Bills, u. a 3a. dIL
4 per Cent. 69 6, f Omniurn 74871 M.
5 per Cent. 83 Englith Tickets 171. 31.
51w C•I
Donau, Atiourr 16.-5 per Cent. (Augult Is) 884
Cowrie of Eubange--Duirlin ou Lonc:en (Auguß 15) 164 a t 7

The intelligence fiat given in this Paper and per-
filled in, though contradieted by almoil all our co-
tempnraries, is now very generally credited, even by
thofe who were molt sceptical. Ruda is certainly
with this country, and the fquadron of twelve fail of
the line which lately failed from the Ruffian ports,
will aOually winter in our harbours. The nezeifary
orders for providing provifions, and every accrimmo•
dation for this force, have been iffued by Govern-
ment, and the (hips are expelted in about fix weeks
at the lateft, from the prefent period.
Captain arra IN sroa s, an officer in the Ruffian
fervice, is to have a command in this fleet. Ile is not
however brother to Lord Ktira as has been Rated,
but be is our countryman, and has been long in his
prefent employ. Letters from this officer (late that
he had for fome time been apprehentive that he
would be obliged to quit the fervice, as he never
would fight againft his country, but that he was now
happily freed from all embarraflment on this point,
as had received orders to proceed with the fleet for
an Englifh harbour.
We can now affert, that it will not be long before
we furnith the enemy with fome other topic to talk
about, than their mighty preparations to invade us.
Sir HON! POP 11•1.4 has been appointed to the chief
command of a ferret expedition, and had yefterday
a long interview with the Admiralty Board on the
bufinefs. To inquire into the nature of the enter-
prize, or to Rate any particulars refpetting it, even
if we knew them, would be improper.
Our Readers will recolleCt, that this able and aelive
Officer was employed by Government in the late war
to fuperintend the embarkation of the Ruffian troops
defined to co-operate with the Britifh forces again('
Holland, and that he afterwards had the command of
the 'weals which carried a Britifh force from the
EaR Indies up the Red Sea, to affiß in driving die
French from Egypt.
Some gun-boats have been ordered to be immedi-
ately completed with men, and the neceffary provi-
fions and Cores at Sheernefs, and to proceed to the
Downs with all poffible difpatch.

The Eaft India Company have made a mon
patriotic offer, which has been accepted by Govern-
ment. They are to furnilh fie thips completely man.
ned for the fervice of the Rate.

This day we received Paris journals to the 16th
inftant inclufive, from which we have made feveral
estrads. Among others our readers will find one
from Brunets, confirming the ftatement given in this
Paper lalt Monday of the fears entertained at Flu&
ing of a vifit from our tars. We (ball not here re-
peat the particulars,but only ()Verve that the prefent
like many other inftances which might be mentioned
fhould ferve as acaution to certain Journalifts not to
be batty in contradifting ftatements given in the Srmt.
• The French Journals are principally occupied with
matters of internal arrangement, no, way interefting
to an Englith reader, and with Brings of invective
and abufe againft the higheß charaders in this coun-
try. Among others, Mr. To ERN EY is honoured with
a nitch in the Monitesar, and is given as the author of
a pitiful anecdote, on which confiderable pains have
been employed, but with no better effect than to ren-
der it fo completely contemptible, that we cannot
even repeat it.
A letter from the Bauks of the Mayne gives Come
particulars refpeding the operations of the French in
the kingdom of Naples, from which it appears they
have not yet taken poffeffion of the capital.
The French have convened the drubbing their
gun boats got at Boulogne, shout a fortnight ago,
into a vidury. They boall of having repulfed our
veffels!

PARIS, A U G UST 15.—The FIRST CONSUL this day
received the Conftituted Authorities at the Pained
the Thuillc ies.

3. CH. Aflronomer of Leip6e, has
received from the Government the title of Fratt4l
Cititeo.—Five per Cents, sa fr. 6o e.
For .a Vendemiaire, year r, p fr. 69 e.

DOULOGIII, AUGUST 9.--Admiral Bevis Rates.
that on the 7th in the morning. an F.nglids brig and
a cutter anchored before the port, at a very great
&dance from the batteries ; on the Sth they Were
joined by a great number of other vcUcls, among

which was a large bemb•ve(fel, which threw bombs
at a great difiance ; they fell 500 toifes from us. The
dillance being too great, the Admiral gave orders
to fome gun boats to go out and attack them, but
they were prevented by the ebb•tide. In the mean
time the enemy at the diftance of 350 toifes from the
piles ereaed for the conflruaion of a fort, began to
fire to prevent the continuation of the v.-ark ; but
when they few the gun boats ready to attack them,
tl.ey hove up their anchors, and betook theinfelvel to
flight; our flotilla purfued them two leagues and a
half: an Englifla brig fuftained confiderable damage.
The RaDllIDOt galliot of the King of England,
mounting 14 carronades, twenty-two pounders, and
6o men; and the Caroline brig mounting 6 guns,
' have been taken by a French frigate.—Menitear.
&mutts, Auousr 13.—We are informed from
the frontiers of Holland, that a great buflle prevails
among the French and Batavian troops, which are
proceeding to different delliaations near the coatis, to
occupy camps. Thole defined for Zealand, em-
bark fuccavely 'at Willemaadt and Berg op-Zoom.
Some corps of BatavlAn infantry have filed off alfo
through that city from the camp of Gorfel, on their
way to the environs of Tergoes, on the banks of the
Scheldt, where they will occupy a (mall camp. Se-
veral Dutch battalicns are on their march for the
fame defination. It is in the ifle of Walcberen in
particular, that the moll vigorous difpolitions of de-
fence are making. General MowNIT has caufed Soo
fruit trees, which were before excepted from this
meafure, to be cut down to the diflance of 300 toifes
around Flailing. The total demolition of the houfes
fituated on the fame fpace, are to be finifhed by the
t sth or zoth inf. The value of them has been efi-
mated, and will be reimburfed to the Proprietors.—
Preparations for a keret expedition, which the Bri-
tifh Government are making in the ports of Margate
and Yarmouth, have given rife to thefe means of de-
fence. New batteries and intrenchments are to be
conarnaed to extend the exterior fortifications of the
place. The other Wands of Zealand are alfo put-
ting in a good Date of defence, and particularly
that of Goree, which by its fituation is of great
importance. The number of the Englifh veffels
on the coaft daily inereafes ; thcl lately captured fe-
veral fifhiog beats belonging to the ifle of Walcheren.
All the neceffary preparations are making at Na-
mur, Liege, and Maefiricht, for conaruaing, with
as much expedition as poffible, the flat bottomed
boats, voted by the Departments of the Sambre
and Meufe, l'Ourthe, and the Lower Meufe
feveral will be confruaed alto on the Rhine. Means
will be purfued that thefe labours (hall be in a confi-
derable Rate of advancement in the autumn—a pe•
riod at which thee countries will (Lill enjoy the ad-
vantage of poffeffing the Cat's. Comsat. ; who, after
vifiting the Departments on the left bank of the
Rhine, will come to Bruffels and Ghent, where, ac
cording to every appearance, he will flay fome time.
The works ordered here for repairing the ports of
Antwerp and ()fend, as well as for a baron in the
Polder, capable of containing a fleet of (hips of war,
will alto, it is laid, be in aBivity about the fame time.
BANISOFTHIMAYNS, AUGUST 10.—Letters om
Confantinople f ate, that the revolt of the Atnauts
in Egypt is entirely appeared, as well as the revolt in
Arabia. The plague makes great ravages; at Suez
it has carried off a great many perfons belonging to
Engin flips arrived there from Bombay.
The King of Sweden and the Duke of Mecklen-
bourg•have ratified the Convention concluded by
their Envoys, in regard to the ceflion of the town of
Witmer, and the Bailliwicks of l'rel and Neukloflet,
ceded by the Court of Stockholm to that of Meek-
lenbourg-Schwerin, for the (um of 1,1c0,000 rix
dollars.

BANKS OF Tilt MATAS, AUtIVST 10.—The army
of obfervation in the fouthern parts of Italy under
the command of General St. Cr., is daily receiving
reinforcements. We learn that the troops of thearmy
of Italy which (tallith them, are replaced by an equal
number from other corps, which fucceffively arrive
from the fouthern departments of France, and from
Piedmont. The army of obfervation occupies at
prefent, all that part of the Kingdom of Naples,
which extends from the frontiers of the Rates of the
Church, to Otranto and Tarento. The other half of
the kingdom of Naples will not be occupied, unlefi
circumftances fhould render fuch a meafure acceffary.
The Neapolitan ports in the Mediterranean are ffill
blockaded by the Englifh, but they have not yet oc-
cupied Sicily, as has been tome time reported. A
part of the French divillons, polled between Mantas
and Verona, have received orders from General
MURAT, the Commander in Chief, to trots the
Adige, and to proceed by Ferrara and Ancona to
the Neapolitan territories; only about twelve thou•
land French troops will remain in the environs of
Mantua and along the Außrian frontiers. The
camps intended to be efiablilhed there will not be
formed. This determination is afcribed to the lag
difpatches from Citizen CNAMFAGNY, the French
Ambaltidor at Vienna. We are awed that after
a very long conference with Count Coal arum, the
Miniaer of Foreign Affairs, the latter allured him in
the molt formal manner, that the Court of Vienna
would not fend any more reinforcements to Italy ;
and that it will obferve, as it has hitherto done, the
ftrittell neutrality between France and England.
Hastaosou, AUGUST y.—England has refaced to
accede to the demand of the neutral powns, the

objta of which was, to raife the blockade
Elbe. It affigned necelEty as a reafon for this refufal.
The refiraints to which commerce and navigation are
fnbjeaed by the prefent circumllances, render the
canal of Hoglein of great utility. It is by the Eider
and this canal, that the merchant 'hips of England
and of the North of Germany, communicate with the
interior of the country. They go from Tonningen
to liamburgh in 24 hours.
Ha Nov sa,Auo. 4.—Our army is in the molt fatis,
faaory fituation. Different French detachments have
come to receive the 4000 horfes of the Hanoverian
army : they are fent off• every day—thefe horfes are
very beautiful. We have few difeafes, and few lick.
Our depots have rejoined us. We have fent to Francs
thirty pair of colours taken from the French armies
under the conupand of Mullah RICHEI.tav, D'ET.
as as, and other Generals, in the lalt Hanoverian war.