Portland gazette and Maine advertiser., 1805-12-30
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LONDON, NOV. 7

Of The A4te G5ri0uS ViElory.
We have received fome further particulars
Of the late glorious naval victory.
Il has been aher ted, that nothing but a
total want of proviiions could have indu-
'ced the combined heet to put to fea. This
was not TO they had received orders to put
to fea the frf opportunity that ihoud be
afforded them by our fleet being weakened
by detachments FROM it, or BY its being for
ced by ftrefs of weather to quit the block
7ade of Cadiz. Their Object was to make for
the Mediterranean, to colled in their paGage
the Corthagena, tqsadron and to proceed 10
Tlslsn, where being joined by the veiTels of.
that port, they would have formed feet
of between 40 and So fail of the line, with
which it was their deGgn to prevent, if pof-
'fble, the falling of any expedition with Bri-
tifh troops from Malta, or any expedition
with RaJTaH troops from Cat7a Such is
faid 70 have been their plan and the courle
they were lteering, and Vice Admiral Cob
finwood's difpatches, jufity US in giving
credir to the aRertion.-The enemy heard
Of .Atlmiral Leuis having been, difpatchcd
with feven fail of the line to Tetgan Bay
FOR proviions and other necefaries, and
they conceive thar our feet had been there
by diminiihed TO about twenty fail of the
line. 1t mutt not be imagined that his
Lordfhip remained directly off CGdiz with
his fleet, or within fight of the port. His
great objee was to induce them to come
out. {" Let tbsm come 0pf,"-he would Of
ten fay" Ny o5ie7 Is nat to induce them BY
TIE djPLsy sf all my.15rce to re@ai.a in Per-.
5ut to do evsry thing in my Po1ver 70 temp item
ia fessle -eat. - ia purluance or this defgn,
he never kept all his feet before Cadiz. =
This was the manner in which he ftatloned
his heet-The EETdiHs frigate was within
half mile of the mouth of the harbour TO
to watch the enemy's movements. and give
them the earlieft intelligence of the har-
bour, bur at greater diRance he had about
fevcn or eight fail of the hne.--He remained
himfelf off Cape St, Mary's with the re-
mainder of his feet and line Of frigates
extended and communicated between him
and the ieven or eight fail off Cadiz.--The
advantage of this plan was that he could re-
ceive fupplies and reinforcements off Cape
St. Mary's without the enemy's being in
formed oft, ,and thus they misunderstanding
ly ignorant of the rea! force under his COM
mand.-But being acquainted, as we have
already faid with, the circumltance of Admi-
fal Louis having been detached with fcven
fail OF the hne, they conceived his force
not 70 amounr 10 more than 20 fail Of the
+ -lme,-Great 'praiie- is due to the Admiral
ty for the active and vigorous exertions they
have made to'place Lord .NeIfoh's force in
the beft pofibie Rate-the combined fleets
at Cadiz 1tszt m more Particular manner
fixed their as,eatien=-they had ,sirong rea-
.f5p 70 luipe4 what rAeir Intentions. we're
int before, they came out of port, his Lord
fhip had been reinforced BY three or four
fail of the line from home-of this, by Lord
MELONS, judicious coadna in itationing his
Reet,- the enemy were uhinforfned. M. -.
HiseEeSdtkip bsd-receivsa- ffom the Ad-
miralty on the'rft Urs'ra~ of o95bsr. fuch
information as induces hiaa to believe that
the enemy would leon put to Tea. He had
arranged, before he left London to aGume
the command Of the feet, plan By which
be would fight thecnemy on new principle
It was We underitspd. extremely iimpls, but