Berkeley and Jefferson intelligencer. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va.) 1802-1810, 1803-11-25

whole viii be little more than 10000
Number not very Formidable we should
think to an armed people. Il may be
possible enough for Bonaparte to bring
them over, but ifthere Is a tolerable dis
tribution Of cur navel force, is there any
probability thar he can assemble his boats
in one spot and take advantage Of IA
vourable opportunity. The wind and
weather win not suit the whole line Of his
coast, and there is always the strongest
probability that our navy will destroy
some part Of the armament. ANY thing
less than so or 20 thousand men in En-
gland would make NO impression whate.
yer, and we are confident that the fate
which awaits even such an advanced
guard as this, viii be such as not to en-.
courage any more Of our besieErrs to
cross the ditch of Dover.
-. October2.
From the account OF a gentleman who
was at Granville when that place was at
lacked by Sir James Saunnarez, and who
arrived ii Plymouth on Thursday, it ap-
pears, that BY the late bomhardment, six
housed werr destroyed, some small YES
sells aud one gun boat sunk, and one of
the insabitanls was killed. There we're,
hosreseF, sixrssa gun boats % Grsnville
ready for sea, eight upon the stocks, and
q vast number Of troops were assembled
m that neighbourhood for the embarklng
on the expedition against this country.
Ihe magnitude Of the preparations
WHICH arc making IN France and Holland,
for the Invasion and conquest Of our
country, exceeds, we are told, every
idea that seems to be entertained of it
here.
This information, apaper Of Saturday
says, has been obtained from a gentle
man now in this city, who left Havre de
Grace SO lately as the 10Th September,
and describes the plan projected by the
Corsiean fyrant for Our subjugation, as
immense beyond conception. He states,
that At Havre only, the number Of vessels
intended for the enterprise, amounted
to several hundred; that each vessel is
one hundred feet long, thirty feet wide
and twenty feet high, and has three keels,
that they are 90 constructed a. not only
to carry 4 large number Of men, but
horses also, for the enbarkation and de-
barkation Of which, folding ports open in
their sides. He further states, that Sc
ul;tar preparations were going on in all
the other ports that il was there gene
rally asserted and believed that the u.
supper intended making he attempt With
four hundred thousand men, calculating
upon the loss afa fourth or greater pro-
portion Of them before they should effect
Alanding; but holding out to his abject
slaves the certainty Of ultimate success
and the plumber Of this abode of real Lii
berty.
The gentleman from whom this infor-
nation comes, is said TO be a person Of
much observation and intelligence, and
whose veFaeity may be relied on. We
have mentioned these circumstances not
20 depress our eountrynen, but rather if
II be possible, still further to encrease
that enthusiasmin the cause oftheir king
and country, which so universally per-
vades all ranks Of people. Thus prepa.
red, with every man at his post, howe.
Yer desperate. may be the attempt against
US, we doubt not but it will terminate in
the shame and defeat Of our enemies,
and in the perpctuation OF British liberty
and independence. :