The Statesman.
London, England, 1809-09-05 00:00:00

GIBRALTAR, duo. 7.
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On the Sth inst. his Majesty's ship Kent, Capt.
Rogers, arrived here, and was immediately put
under rigid quarantine, information having been
received from A licant of her having bee, obliged
to plot in there with 200 of her crew sick with a
pestilential disease, which was caught from some
French prisoners which the Kent had taken out of
a French prize from Bona, on the coast of Africa.
The Kent will be obliged to proceed to England,
as no port in Spain will give her admittance.—
Twelve of her crew have died, and some of them
with the black vomit.

A letter received on Saturday from an Officer
on board his Majesty's ship Bonne Ciloyeune,
contains the report of the capture of the Parieure,
one of the French frigates which escaped from the
Sainte', and afterwards from Guadaloupe. It was
on the 6th of July, after a chace of TO hours, that
the Bonne Citoyenne came sip with, and engaged
the Farierife. The battle, M hich was of the most
furl, ni dcscription, lasted six hours and 49 mi.
nate!, at the expiration of which the Furictice
struck, baying sustained a loss of 33 killed, and
nearly 50 Wounded, amongst which was her Cap-
tain. The 1.10114 e Citoyenne had only one min
killed, and five wounded, two of them badly.
The Bonne Citoyenme is a small vessel of her
class; but the Furieuse is capable of mounting
50 guns. She is about six years old, and ex.
trrmely fit for the King's service. From the short
distance from each other, at which the ships en-
gaged (from twenty to eighty yards), they were,
at the close of the action, complete wrecks. At
the time when our informant wrote (three days
after the action), the Bow Citoyenne, with her
prize, was steering for the Island of St. John's.
Newfoundland; but, from the crippled state of
the ships, some doubts were entertained, whether
they would be able to reach that port. The Fit-
rieurc was bound to Bayonne, with a cargo of su-
gar, coffee, amid a little cocoa.
In a late action in the Bay of Naples, the
Cone, Captain STAINEs, after a very gallant nc-
tion, in company with the Sicilian pen-boats,
took or de'mroyeit nearly the whole (40) of the
enemy's tzuu.b mats. Captain STAINEs had his
right arm carried off by 4 cannon shut towards
the close of 11.• aeihr.

Cart. GoArE, who conveyed his Serene High-
ness the Duke of Br um,wica OELS to England,
in the Mocquitu sloop of wir, is promoted to the
rank of Post-Cal .ain.

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The Zealand, of 01 guns, is preparing at Sheer-
n..ss fur the reception of 300 convicts, who are
daily expected at that plare, for the purpose of
assisting in the erection of a large stone wall, to
prevent the violence of the sea damaging the
Dock-yard, the sad effects of which were severely
felt during the high tides last year.
Orders are said to have been sent off on Sunday
to some of the out-ports, for as many ships as
could be got ready for sea, in the course of three
or four days, to he dispatched without a moment's
loss of time. The orders to Sir It. STRACHAN
announced, that all the ships in the late Expedi-
tion were to have their defects repaired immedi-
ately, arid that they would be completed with
stores and provisions for one mouth longer. The
hero, Revenge, Monarch, Resolution, Dellona,
Illustrious, Alfred, Orion, and Achille (of the
line), which arrived at Portsmouth from the Ex-
pedition 9 are also ordered to be victualled fur five
months, with all possible haste.
The Princess Merry packet, arrived at Fal.
month, kft at Malta the Cornwallis and Prince
Ernest packets—at Cadiz, his Majesty's ship
Donegal, which was to bring home Mr. FRERE
(whose arrival Mrs. Faaaa awaits at Falmouth) ;
also the Atlas, Conqueror, Leviathan, and Duke
cif Montrose packet ; and at Gibraltar, the Kent,
Cambi-i in, and Porcupine. The Townsend packet
had arrived at Gibraltar. On the Bth ult. the
llverion Nailed with convoy for England. The
letters from Nialtas are of the 21st June, and state,
that the merchants had received accounts by the
Thanes frigate, of the French being in possession
of Trieste at that time; and that on their arrival
there they on!, red such a contribution to be levied
on the town as could not possibly be paid. On
failure, they seized amel sent to the army as hos-
tages 40 of the principal English merchants who
had formed establishments there. The American
Consul was also obliged to fly. Every kind of
colonial produce is a mere drug at Malta, owing
to numerous arrivals of American vessels with
West Indian and American cargoes.
The Middleburg Courant of the 31st of Aug.
cowaitis nothing but the protest of (he I'OTE
against BONAPARTE'S usurpation, and an account
of the late paigilistic contest between Maddox and
Richman the black. .

A schooner, which arrived at Portsmouth the
2d inst. left the Li :n man of war, with the home-
ward-bound Chin gee', of the Cape, the Bth of
June I4st, 31 ;Irg. 12 min. South, long. 30. deg.
33 min. The schooner separated in rough
weatk r, at which time only seven of the ships
were iliteght. They had had a gale of wind two
days before, in which they were dispersed, but
all had joined except Os u. The schooner fell in
with itit American on the 1 tth July, eight days
from Helena, where the Ev4ex had arrived.
Orders have been received by the Barrack De-
par:mmt of Plymouth, to stale/ all the Govern.
meet spare ground, and to measure the casements
and barrack-rooms of the citadel, and to report
thereon to the Barrack Office in Loudco, whether
there is space enough fur the accommodation of
11,000 infantry.
One of the sudden showers yesterday pro.
' duced an inundation in the narrow part of the
Strand, et Exeter 'Change. The grate of the
drain having been clogged up, and completely
stopped, the carriage-wa, was soon under water
more than the depth of • It.n.st's fetlock; the
pathway was entirely overflowed, and the water
was with difficulty kept out of the shol.s. In five
Minutes the lawyer Hours would have been under
mat,r, and the inhabitants were doing nothing cf.
fcctual to prev.mt this, when ariblic.spiriteddray-
:nan gut at the drain, and cleared it, called loudly
for gin, which we know uut a healer he rcocived.