fo gallantly taken. It is nevertheless fome fatisfaction to know that her vovage must be at least delayed for a confiderable time, if not quite defeated, her masts and yards being fhot through and disabled in many places, and the had received confiderable damage in her hull and rigging. The galJant conduct of the officers and men employed upon this little enterprize, will, I truft, meet with your Lordship's approbation; and it is from a defire of doing juftice. MONTHLY REtrospect of WE believe that we may venture to congratulate our Readers on the pleafing intelligence, that the question which fo lately agitated the Northern Powers of Europe (on the fubject of the right of fearch, in the cafe of neutral veffels fteering for belligerent ports) has been fet at rest on an to their merits that I have been drawn intọ this, otherwife unneceffarily long detail. I have to regret the lofs of two brave fellows killed, and four wounded, upon this occafion. The enemy had above 20 killed, wounded, and drowned. T. ROGERS. Names of the Men killed and wounded. John Gray, feaman; Morgan Davis, marine, killed.-William Haines, Thomas Guillain, William Morris, Henry Mew, wounded. FOREIGN AFFAIRS, July, 180r. equitable and permanent bafis of arrangement between GREAT BRITAIN AND RUSSIA; and to which the Courts of SWEDEN AND DENMARK have been invited to accede *. In less than 20 days after his arrival at St. Petersburg, * Of the Convention concluded on the 17th of June, between the Ruffian miniftry and Lord St. Helen's, the following (fay the Hamburgh papers) are the effential contents: Art, I. There fhall be peace and friendship between the two Powers, and their subjects.-Art. II. Both the high contracting parties engage to abide by their ordinances, prohibing any trade in commodities which are contraband of war, with the enemy against whom one of the two Powers makes war.-Art. III. The ships of the neutral Powers fhall fail, without moleftation, to the harbours and coafts of the belligerent nations; the effects found on-board the ships of neutral Powers, with the exception of fuch as are contraband of war, or the property of the enemy, shall be free: the raw.or manufactured produce of the countries engaged in war, which the fubjects of neutral Powers fhall have purchased, and are bringing away on their own account, shall likewife be free. The articles confidered as contraband of war fhall make no alteration in the particular ftipulations of the treaties with other Powers. The Powers engage to iffue ftrict orders to the Captains of their fhips to conceal no contraband commodities. Art. IV. The right of fear ch fhall be poffeffed only by fhips of war, and not by privateers: A fhip of war belonging to the belligerent Power, which thall require to vifit a merchant fhip convoyed by a hip of war of a neutral nation, fhall remain at the distance of a cannon-fhot, wherever the fea, or the place of meeting, does not render a nearer approach Deceffary. The commander of the ship of war of the belligerent party shall send a boat on-board the convoying ship, partly to ascertain that the is fully empowered to convoy the merchant-ship, with her fpecific lading, to the port for which she is bound, and partly to be certain that the ship of war belongs to the Imperial or Royal fleet. If the papers of the merchant ship are in proper order, and there appears no other ground for fufpicion, no further vifitation fhall take place; but, in the contrary cafe, the convoying fhip fhall detain the convoy the time neceflary for visiting the ship; at which vifitation one or more officers from the convoy fhall be prefent. If the commander of a ship of war fhall think proper to visit a merchant ship, for reafons which appear to him important, he shall fend notice of his intention to the commander of the convoying fhip, who fhall be at liberty to fend an officer on-board, to be prefent at the fearch: the merchant ship fhall be carried into the nearest port of the belligerent Power, and there be fubjected to fearch with all poflible care.-Art. V. The commander of a ship of war of the belligerent parties, who shall detain one or more convoyed thips, thall be anfwerable for the expences and damages; and, in cafe he fhall exceed his inftruction, suffer punishment. On the other hand, a convoying ship thall, under no pretence, forcibly oppose the detention of one or more merchant ships by the fhips of war of the bellige rent party. Art. VI. This article relates to the judicial regulations which both parties engage to obferve.-Art. VII. A fhip is not acknowledged to belong to the nation whose flag it bears, if the Captain, and half of the crew, are not of the fame nation.➡ Art. VIII. The principles and regulations established in this treaty, shall be applied to all naval wars in which one of the two Powers may be engaged, while the other remains neuter. Thefe ftipulations shall therefore be confidered as permanent; and be held as a conftant role to the two nations with respect to commerce.-Art. IX. Denmark and Sweden shall receive back their fhips and colonies when they fhall accede to this Convention-Art, X. This Convention shall be ratified within two months, or fooner if poffible. bad had Lord St. Helen's fo ably cultivated the friendship and good difpofitions of the Emperor Alexander, as to effect the termination of a difpute that had occafioned the most serious alarm in the commercial, as well as the political world; and thus enabled the Boit fh fleet of 25 fail of the line, which had been fent to the Baltic, to return at a mʊft critical hour to defend its own fhores from the threatened invafion of a defperate and fanguinary enemy. SWEDEN is reported to have fignified her concurrence in the Ruffian Convention and it is (carcely to be doubted, that DENMARK will fee that its trueft policy lies in adopting the fame line of conduct. Our conteft in EGYPT has been highly fuccefsful in its late progrefs. On the 9th of May Gen. Hutchinfor attacked a French force pofted at Rhamanich, confifting of 3000 infantry and 800 cavalry; thefe he defeated, and drove them into the fortrefs, which, however, they evacuated the following night, and retired towards Caro, leaving only a fmall garrifon of 110 men in the fort, who, of courte, furrendered to the English on the roth. On the 14th the British troops fell in with a valuable convoy of germs on the Nile, which (not having heard of the furrender of Rhamanich) was coming from Caro, deftined for Alexandria. Several heavy guns, great quantities of cloathing, wine, fpirits, 5000l. in fpecie, and 150 prifoners, on this occafton fell into our hands. On the 17th, 600 of the best troops that the French had in Egypt, together with 550 caniels, were taken. On the fame day two forts (on the Damietta branch of the river, and at Burlos), compriting 700 men, were captured, with four fmall veffels in which they were about to embark, and carried into Aboukir Bay. Thus, from the 9th to the 18th of May, Hear 1600 men of the flower of the French army have become our prifoners. While our army was thus fuccefsful, the Brand Vizier, with the allied force, enouraged by the advantages gained over the French by the British troops, was allo making head against the enemy at Belbeis; where, on the 16th of May, he commenced an attack on the Republicans, whom he engaged for feven hours, defeated, and parfued them for a diftance of feven miles from the place of attack, having killed and wounded between 3 and 400 men. The Mamalukes, under the orders of Olman Bey (fucceffor of Murad Bey), have alfo joined the British army, with 1500 of the beft cavalry in the world; and a Bombay detachment had arrived at Cottire, in the Red Sea, expecting daily to be joined by General Band, with the main body of auxiliaries, to be debarked at Suez, fur co GENT. MAG. July, 1801. ΙΟ operation with the allied British and Turkifh forces. The French fquadron under the command of GANTHEAUME is at laft difcovered to be at Candia, on its way to Egypt with reinforcements; though we truft that Lord Keith will interpofe an effectual bar to his landing them*. We are forry, however, to learn, from the Paris Papers, that he has fallen-in with, and overpowered by fuperior force, his Majefty's fhip Swiftfure, of 74 guns. Off ALGESIRAS, alfo, the French have obtained the novelty of a capture of an English man of war, the Hannibal, of 74 guns, which had boldly run-in between the French thips of Admiral Linois and the Spanish batteries that protected them; but was unfortunately fo hemmed-in at length as to be compelled, on finding every refistance vain, to furrender, to the enemy. [At the moment of writing this, however, we have before us only the French ftatements of the above captures: and there is little room to doubt, that when our official difpatches fhall arrive, the affairs will affume a fomewhat dif ferent complexion.] In the attack upon our good and faithful ally, PORTUGAL, the Spaniards, backed by French power, have been but too fuccefsful; and, after having added to their captures mentioned last month, thofe of Azumere, Alegretta, and Porto Alegre, and obliged the Portugueze to cross the Tagus, the Spanith Commander, it feems, granted terms of Peace to the Portuguese, of which the chief ftipulations were, the exclufion of British shipping from the harbours of Portugal, and the ceffion of the fine province of O livenza to Spain. If we may credit the affertions of the French journalists, how. ever, the terms of this Treaty have by no means fatisfied the Fift Conful, who will certainly withhold his ratification: the treafury of Portugal muft, we prefume, open its locks to the mandate of the DicLator, before that unhappy country can hope to be liberated from the fangs of the Great Republic. An Austrian force, confifting of 5000 men, has advanced from Bohemia, cotered the Upper Palatinate, belonging to the Elector of action, and, by force of fuperior numbers, compelled them, after a brave refittance, to retreat, This unexpected aggresion, fo difficult to he accounted for towards a Prince that had himself fought and bled in alliance with the Emperor against France, very naturally excited alarm at the Court of Munich; and couriers were immediately difparched to Berlin and Petersbu.g, itating the cafe, and requesting fuccour. The Paris jurnals reprefent the affair as having been fince adjusted; but we cannot conceive that there can yet have been time for any explanation between the Courts of Vienna and Munich; nor is it even pretended that the Auftrians have retired from the Electoral territory. We, therefore, confider the matter as at prefent in fatu que, and look with a confiderable degree of curiofity to fome public avowal or explanation of the motives by which the Emperor has been actuated. From this petty invafion we turn to the mighty preparations evidently making by FRANCE, with the oftenfible intention of invading this Country. In all the ports of France, Flanders, and Holland, the armaments accumulating are immenfe; but, whatever may be the real defign of the enemy upon these kingdoms, we have great fatisfaction in obferving the inceffant and unabated vigilance and exertions of his Majesty's Minifters; which are most ably and actively aided by the Lords Lieutenants of counnes, and Generals of districts, to meet and repel the enemy, in whatever quarter he may be enabled to make a landing; though there appears litle reafen to fear that the French can in any available force elude the vigilance, or contend with the kill and valour of the British navy, which now blocks up their barbours, and yet has ships" enow left to cruize in every direction, for the purpose of protecting our own fhores against any partial aflaults that may heattempted. During this very alarm of invafion, it is to be obferved, the communications between the two countries, on the fubject of pacific arrangements, have been uninterrupted; and, perhaps, this "dreadful note of preparation" is only adopted, on the principle, that Peace is beft made in a high ftate of prepareduets for the alter native. July 14. The French celebrated their anniverfary in the Champs Elysées. There were during the day fucceffively, in almost every part of the fields, balls, orcheftras, pantomime exhibitions, concerts, afcenfion of balloons, fire-works, and fuperb illuminations. The public expectation was not, in a fingle inftance, difappointed. The temple of Victory, erected in front of the palace of the leg flative body, attracted pe cular attention. This edifice was deco rated with monuments to the memory of In the centre of the temple, on a pedeftal of marble and gold, was difplayed a groupe of three figures; Victory prefenting Peace to France, who was fupported by the god of war. On the outside of the temple was a catalogue of the names of the officers and foldiers who have received brevets of honour; and above these heroic infcriptions the following motto, formed of the branches of palm-trees, was traced in coloffal character:-"Honour to the warlike virtues!" On the front and fries of the bale of the temple was written, "The legiflative body to the armies!" The First Conful received the troops in the morning; and a vast multitude, affembled on the occafion, exprefled therr gratitude and admiration by repeated fhouts of "Long live Bonaparte!" The First Conful gave a fuperb dinner of 240 covers, at which were present the ambatiadors. moft the whole of the population of Paris was prefent at the celebration of the festival. Al A whole family died in Paris on the roth inft. from eating confectionary which was poifoned. When the officer of health arrived to make the neceffary inquiries, he found the father, mother, and two daughters dead: the fon was ftill alive, but died the day after. On examination it was found, the baking-difh was full of verdigris. COUNTRY NEWS. May 24. A handfome new organ, buik by Wright, a pupil of the famous Green, was opened in the church of Raleigh, in Ellex, after a partial repair and beautifying, at the joint expence of the parishioners and rector, Sir John Head. Mr. Dale, the organit, performed, in an astonishing manner, fome of the most felect pieces from the Oratorio of the Meffiah. June 13. During a thunder-ftorm this day, a ball of fire fell at Deal, near the turnpike-houfe, into which fome ladies had just before fled for protection, and who providentially efcaped without injury. June 15. This day the corning-house, at Waltham-abbey, which was under repair, by tome accident took fire, when eight men were burnt; all of whom are doing well.-[The imminent danger to which this accident exposed the magazine, has occafioned a meeting of Count Rumford, Sir Jofeph Banks, and others, on the fpot, to confider of the most effe&tual method of preventing fimilar accidents in future; and the office of ordnance have advertised for perfons ro execute the work of re-inftting the buildings. June 30. This day there was a long and violent hunder-ftorm at Southampton, and its neighbourhood. His Majesty was out in the New Forest, when one of the horfes took fright at the lightning, and proved fo unruly, that the King was perfuaded to leave the carriage, and take shelter in a Cottage. July 1. A dreadful fire broke out this morning at the feat of Caprain G. Byng (commanding his Majesty's ship Galatea), fituated on Cardown, near Plymouth; and, owing to the impoffibility of procuring water, the whole building was in a few hours reduced to afhes, together with a quantity of furniture. The Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Byng, who were there on a vifit, and the lady of Capt. Byng, with her infant child, and all her fervants, were with great dif ficulty faved from the fury of the flames: they had only a few minutes' notice to effect their elcape. One of the fervants, from a violent tooth-ache, getting out of bed, first discovered it, or in all probability the whole might have perished. July 2. This day, during a dreadful thunder-ftorm, one of the pinnacles of Corby fteeple was beaten into the body of the church: at the fame time a fulphureous fmell was fo predominant, as almost to prevent refpiration; and two oxen were kified on Bourne Fen by the lightning. The house of Mr. Hill, at Marksbury, near Bath, was ftruck by lightning, and in a fhort time reduced to afhes. Mrs. Hill, with her infant child, and her fifter inlaw, were the only perfons in the houfe ; and, alarmed at the storms, had bolted the doors, and clofed the window-fhutters, and got near the chimney, down which fome ftones fhortly fell, accompanied by sparks of hre, and a strong fulphureous fmell. The fitter-in-law, who food with her back to the fire-place, was ftruck dead, alCough the only marks of injury that afterwards appeared were fome livid fpots on the back of her neck and shoulders. Hill, who fat close by her, ran with her infant into an adjoining room, and famted, The boufe became in a few minutes involved in flames, and, although the fire was immediately difcovered, yet so much time elapled in forcing open the doors, &c. that it was with extreme danger and citi cury that Mrs. Hill and her child could be extricated. Mrs. July 7. A violent thunder-ftorra was fe Glanganfhire. In the parith of Lianuisbian a mate and colt, the property of Mr. W. Howells, of Marcross, near Cowbridge, were killed by the lightning. July 16. This day there was a moft tre mendous ftorm of rain, thunder, and lightning, which extended feveral miles round the town of Bedford. It began about I o'clock, and continued till near 4. The lightning was of the moi forked kind, and the thunder tremendous. During the form:" a fire ball fell-n-Potter-street, in Bedford, which fet fire to a houfe; and the two adjoining houfes were destroyed before the fire could be got under.-At Loughborough the ftorm was violent. Mr. T. Cimandland, farmer, of the Parks, near that place, had a mare and foal killed by the lightning. The upper jaw of the mare was broke in pieces, as though ruck with violence by a bammer: the foal lay in an eafy natural pofture, as if afleep, without any appearance of injury.-Three men, hay making, took fhelter under fome trees in a field hear Sir John Throgmorton's, in Buckland, co. Berks, when two of them were unfortunately truck dead by the lightning -Between 3 and 5 there was a moft violent ftorm of hail at Elmfet, near Hadleigh. The hail-ftones laid the next day near four inches thick on the ground, and many of them meafured two inches and a quarter in circumference. The fame evening a very heavy ftorm of hail fell at Cumner, in the neigh bourhood of Qxford. July 17. A bare, and fome out houses, occupied by Mr Bennett, of Glemsford, was fet on fire by lightning, and entirely confumed, together with fome hay therein. Same afternoon, about z o'clock,‘a man and his fon being at work in a field at So-: bam, co. Cambridgeshire, the former told the latter to take thelter in a draining-mill; which the boy had but just done, when the lightning ftruck the mill, much shattered it, and the child was killed on the spot. A bullock was killed by lightning at Lakenbeath. Working bam, July 18. About 2 this morning, a star of uncommon magnitude was obferved in the Eaft, fome diftance above the horizon. It was remarkably brilliant, and bore the appearance of a cluster of 6 or 7 stars in conjunction, pointed all round, emitting a variety of extraordinary vivid fathes of lattre. An ppearance in the window, like the reflection of the moon, caufed the perfon who first faw it to arife, and awaken his family, fix in number, to behold it, who all viewed it with awful afton thment.Tre fame phænomena were diftinétly feen at Hinckley. July 20. There was a molt terrible ftorm of thunder and lightning at Woolley, near Wakefield, where the ram fell in fuch torrents, as to deftroy feveral cottages, force its way through the gardens, and overflow the low apartments of the man mansion of G. Wentworth, Efq. It alfo Court he was not, as had been unjustly redid other confiderable damage. prefented, the head of any feet or party. It appeared that this man was a crackbrained, half-witted organist, and Court accordingly ordered him to be fient, and mind his own business. A poft-boy belonging to the Crown inn, Wifbech, watering his horfes near Downham-bridge, was hurried into deep water by the tide coming rapidly in, and was drowned, In the fecond fire at Oriel College, three rooms were deftroyed, with all the furni ture and goods, except one fuit of clothes; and the perfon in whofe room it broke our, by a candle-fpark dropping among linen, escaped by a two-pair of stairs window; whence another dropped, and broke his arm. Mr. Cripps, a ftudent of the college, died fince, of a cold caught there. Saturday, June 13. The King v. Spence. This day, in the Court of King's Bench, the defendant, who is a book feller, was brought up to receive judgment upon a conviction for publishing a feditious libel, called "Spence's Restorer of Society," in which he recommends the abolition of all private property in land, and vefting it in parishes, for the benefit of the publick at large. The report of the trial having been read by Lord Kenyon, the defendant addreffed the Court in a fpeech, in which he profeffed he was actuated in writing the libel in queftion by the fame philanthropy which diftinguished the Prophets of former times. He warned their Lordships to regard what history and pofterity would fay of them if they treated him with feverity. He faid, the treatment he received give him but very little encouragement in labouring for the improvement of fociety. Such was t ingratitude of mankind, that he was dered by the world as a madman and a lunatic, and behaved to in prifon worfe than a common felon. He had, however, done nothing but what his own confcience juftified him for doing, and if, notwithAtanding the purity of his intentions, the Cour thould think him an object of punitinent, the caufe in which he fuffered would enable him to bear it with forntude, The At rev-General declined preffing any obfervat on against the defendant. The Court ordered him to be remanded to Newgate, and brought up again on this y fe'nmigi t perfon c-m-forward as friend of the defendant, and allured the Tuesday, June 30, the This afternoon, between 2 and 3, there was experienced in this metropolis, and its neighbourhood, one of the moft violent forms of thunder, accompanied with a moft furious hurricane, and torrents of rain, that was ever known. The thunder was very loud, and the lightning vivid. The wind was most tempestuous; and the rain fell, not in,drops, but in whole sheets. It never was remembered that fo much rain fell in the fame fpace: the fewers could not carry off the water fo faft as it fell, The Strand, in fome places, resembled a canal, and was almoft navigable from fide to fide. The ftorm continued upwards of half an hour to rage with this violence. The Court of Common Pleas, Weftmine fter, was throwu into much confufion, The wind drove the rain with fuch violence against the sky-light, that it broke the glass; and, a torrent of rain descending on the wigs and cravats of the Counsel, they inftantly forfook their feats in terror and difmay. In vain did Lord Alvanley endeavour to rally the flying barristers; all was confufion till the waters fubfided, and the heavens became clear: Learning then refumed its feat, and law proceeded without fears of a ducking.-A ball of electric fire truck the gable end of a houfe in Crab-tree-row, Hoxton, which completely unroofed it, and otherwife did much damage to the dwelling: but the ftorm was peculiarly felt in Great Alie-ftreet, Goodman's-fields. The chimney of Mr. May, No. 7, was blown down; the houfe, No. 6, was in great danger of taking fire from the lightning, which ran along the bellwires, which it destroyed. Two ladies at No. 9, had their clothes fcorched on their backs: a young lady had one of her earrings forced out of her ear by the lightning without materially injuring her. The wainfcot of the room where they fat was perfor ted as if it were done with swan fhot; two women in the house were totally deprived of their hearing for upwards of fix hours. Wednesday, July 8. This afternoon three gentlemen, coming down the Thames in a small skiff, were over fet oppofite the Archbishop's walk, Lambeth. The boat, by force of the tide, having been carried in among fome barges, ore of the gentlemen rofe to shove it off; when fuddenly he gave to the tide, and he fell-in with the lighters, and never after rofe. His name wa Smith. |