at the Ife of Bas to guard the coaft, and regulate the convoys of ftores, &c. bound to Breft; is a veifel of large dimenfions, he ing 74 feet long, and 24 wide, and perfectly in a condition immmediately to be em ployed. I am, &c. F. MAITLAND. Letter from Rear Admiral Campbell to the Hon. Wm. Cornwallis, Admiral of the Blue, &c. H. M. S. Culloden, June 25. SIR, I have the honour to inform you, the Doris yesterday afternoon captured, in thore, a fmall French privateer of 24 tons, called La Pelagie, mounting four guns, and having on board 37 men, from Nantes on a cruize, and had taking nothing. She came through the Pall ge Du Raz, and intended to have gone through the Paffage Du Four into the channel Captain Pearfon has fcuttled her by my directions. GEO. CAMPBELL. Admiralty-office, July 9. Letter from the Hon. Capt. Paget, of his Majefty's Shp the Endymion, to Sir E. Nepean, dated at Sea the 25th June, 1803. Loire, off L'Ile de Bas, June 28. Sia, I have the pleature of informing you, that, laft night, three of the boats of his Ma Jetty's fhip Loire, commanded by Lieutemants Temple and Bowen, in a most gallant manner boarded, and, after a very fewere conflict of nearly to minutes on her deck, carried the National brig Venteux, bearing four long 18-pounders, and fix 36pound brafs corronades, commanded by Monf. Montfort, Lieutenant de Vaiffeau, lying clofe under the batteries of the Ife of Bas. When it is confidered that the Venteux, perfectly prepared, manned with 82 men, all of whom were upon deck, and covered with very heavy batteries, was oppofed to the crews of two of our boats, (as the third, from rowing heavy, did not get up til the brig was completely taken poffeffion of), I feel confident that you will view it in the light I do, as one of thofe Brilliant exploits which add luftre to the British arms, of which, though fo many inftances occurred during the late war, no one has before been happy enough to have throw in his way during the prefent. The fuccefs of Mr Temple's daring attempt Ipeaks fufficiently of his conduct, and that of every one under his command, to render it fuper duous for me to enter into any eulogium on the prefent occafion. Mr. Bridges has ferved his time and pafted for Lientepant nearly a year; of whose conduct Mr. Temple peaks in the highest terms, together with that of every officer and man under his command. I am very forry to add, that the lofs on our fide is rather heavy, as Mr. M'Guire, the Boatswain, is alfo te. verely wounded as to render him incapable of doing his duty for a confiderable time. Four feamen and a marine are alío badly I am &c. CHARLES PAGET. wounded, two of the feamen, I fear, pait [The Gazette alfo contains a fhort letter recovery. The Venteux had her Second from Capt. Dixon, of the Apollo, menCaptain and two feamen killed; the Captioning the capture of Le Dart, French Natain, with four officers (all the had), and tional brig, from Martinique, with 4 guns eight feamen, wounded. She was ftationed and 45 men.] SIR, Endymion, at Sea, June 25. I have the honour to inform you, at this morning, in lat. 47 deg. 10 mm North, and lung 20 deg. Weft, he Endymo feil in with and captured, a ter a chafe of eight hours, L Bacchante Fench corvette, of 18 twelve pounders, commanded by Licu. tenant de V ffeau Perel, and ha. g on board 200 men. La B cchar te is a remarkable fine fhip, of large dimenfious, quite new, and fails very fast. She was on her return to Breft, having been fent from thence three months ago with difpatches for St. Domingo. The Captain perfifted fo long in his endeavours to escape, that the Endymion's chafe guns killed her Second Captain and feven men, and wounded nine others. I am happy to add, her fire did us no harm. ABSTRACT OF FOREIGN OCCURRENCES. FRANCE. A Decree for preventing communication with France, dated Paris, June 21, enforces that" There fhall not be received in the ports of the Republic any colonial produce from the Englifh colonies, nor any merchandife coming directly or indirectly from England. In confequence, all produce or merchandise coming from the English manufactories or colonies fhall be confifcated: Captains of French or neutral veffels, who do not attend to certain forms of declaration, as to their property on board, will not be fuffered to enter the ports of the Republic. Paris, June 25. Chaptal, Minister of the Interior, has addreffed a letter to the Prefects, of which the following is the fuhftance: In the position in which France is at prefent, and with the kind of ens hies with whom we have to combat, the bravery of the French would remain fruitless on the shores of the ocean, if the means of. reaching their enemy were not furnished them by numerous veffels. It is to the construction of veffels, therefore, that all our efforts efforts ought to be directed: commerce, agriculture, and industry, will fuffer the lefs, the more fpeedy the execution. A flat-bottomed boat of the firft kind, will coft 30,000 franks (12501); one of the fecond, from 18,000 to 20,000; and one of the third, from 4000 to 6000. Two feet of water are fufficient to carry a flat-bottomed boat not armed; there are few towns, therefore, that cannot execute an enter written a letter to all the Naval Officers The army deftined for the invafion of prife of this nature. Thefe boats will be head of the neral Berthier to be at the diftinguished by the names of the towns and the departments which have conftructed them. The Government will accept with fatisfaction from a fhip if each the line down to the fmalleft tranfport. department, and each large town, by a general and rapid movement, put veffels on the ftocks, the French army will foon go and dictate laws to the British government, and establish the repofe of Europe, the liberty and profperity of commerce, on the only bafis by which their duration can he enfured." All the fhip-carpenters and hoat-builders, every where in France, from the age of fifteen to fixty, are put in requifition, to work only for Government. The First Conful is upon his long-projected journey, and has reached Bruffels. The adulation lavished upon the Confular party at the different towns through which they paffed, is greatly difgufting. The Prefect of the Somme concluded his addrefs in the following words: 4 Father of thy Country, continue through our abundant fields, through our embellifhed cities, amidit univerfal joy, thy pacific and triumphant march; but let England tremble! Let the English, abandoned to the feeblenefs and arrogance of its Minifters, to the folly and audacity of its orators, contemplate with affright the hero of France, advancing to punish perjury, to impofe on the pirates of the fea the yoke of peace, and to proclaim on the ruins of Albion the commercial in dependence of France!!" Cambaceres, the virtuous Archbishop of Rouen, in a recent paftoral letter, filed Buonaparte, Le Christ de la Providence," In this there was furely fome little mistake: the miffion of Chrift was pacific. The worthy prelate muft certainly have in-, tended to fay, "The Anti-Chrift." To rival, however, this pitch of impiety, tran fcending almost every thing that could be imagined of even an Atheist Frenchman, the Prefect of the Calais department has face declared, that God created Buonaparte, and refted from his labours!" The preparations for the invafion of England continue with the utmoft activity and Generals Maffena, Angereau, Serrurier, and Lefebvre, are mentioned as the Generals who are to command the four divifions of the army under the fupreme direction of Buonaparte. The French Minifter of Marine has Head Quarters are to be at Compiegne, where the artillery is to be collected. Thefe forces, which are deftined to form an immenfe cordon from the mouth of the Elbe to Rochelle and Rochfort, will be divided into four corps, which will each form a feparate army. The firft will extend from the mouth of the Elbe to Flufhing, and will comprehend the troops difperfed in the Electorate of Hanover and the Batavian Republic; the fecond will be formed by the troops in Belgium, and will extend from Flushing to Dunkirk; the third will extend from Dunkirk to Cherbourg, and will confiit of the troops cantoned in the Departments of the North, the Pas-de-Calais, La Somme, and BaffeLoire; the fourth will extend from Cherbourg to Breft and Rochefort, and comprehend all the troops diftributed in the Departments of the Weft. The force of thefe different corps will be concealed. At a grand dinner lately given by Mengaud, the Commiary at Calais, the fullowing were drank: "To the French Quarter-Mafter who shall first billet bis troops at Dover; and to the Speedy Review of the French Guards in St. James's Park." The Citoyen Francois, a French Paper, which has inferted thefe fentiments, gravely advifes the maffacre of all Englishmen found in arms. The Argus English Newspaper, "now printed in Paris, is conducted by a man of the name of Dutton, formerly y editor of "The Dramatic Cenfor" here, and who wrote a fulfome panegyric on his Majefty, whofe character and government he now vilifies. In confequence of orders from the Go vernment, the Englin confined at Rouen have been conducted to Doullens, fix miles from Amiens. The Ength that were at Calis when Buonaparte vifited that place, have all been fent to Lifle. The Englih prifoners at Bruffels have. been ordered to repair to Valenciennes. The Great Conful, like a politic Shep herd, continually remo es the Pen of his bleating Englith Flock from fpot to fpot; well knowing that the foil will every where be enriched by their temporary refidence. How their wool will look when they return from their fummer pafture is of little confequence! A let. A letter from Paris, dated July 16, fays, You have, no doubt, heard that a Ruffian courier, carrying di patches from St. Pe terfburg to Vienna, was lately murdered on the Auftrian frontiers, It is now reported here, that the affaffin, a Polander, has been arrested, and conteiled by whom he was paid to commit this crime; and that this political affaffination has been traced to a French Secretary of Legation at one of the Northern Courts. How Ruth will receive this new infult, or revenge this fresh violation of the law of nations, is impoffible to fay; but this infamous tranfaction proves, that France does not poffefs the fecrets of the Ruffian Cabinet, as it does thofe of certain other Courts." [In p. 679 will be found an article which confirms the account, hitherto con ceived to have been fabricated, of the prefent Defpot of France having formally applied to Louis XVIII. to forego his claims to the throne of that country; thus completely acknowledging the right of that unfortunate prince to the high fituation which bimfelf, at prefent, holds by ufurpation. How defpicaple the propofition; how dignified the anfwer! Borne aloft on the wanton gale of fortune, the Confular Aëronaut appears diminished to a black fpeck; while, from the depth of adverfity, the honour of the antient French character beams like a diamond in a mine!] HANOVER. The following is faid to be an exact copy of the letter which the Firft Conful wrote to General Mortier: "I order you to take poffeffion of Hanover as a province of England." Gen, M. anfwered, "Nothing is impoffible to foldiers whom your genius directs. I fhall conquer, fince you order me to do fo." The French Papers, of the 16th, conta the official account of the capitulation of the Hanoverian troops, as well as the correfpondence between Taleyrand and Lord Hawkesbury, which confirms that his Majefty refufed to ratify the Convention of Suhlingen, upon the plea of the character of the King of England being, in a political view, separate from that of the Elector ef Hanover; a principal recognized even by France berfelf in 1795. His Majefty has moreover determined to make his appeal, as Elector of Hanover, to the Powers of Europe who have guaranteed the new German Conftitution. On receipt of this intelligence, General Mortier informed Marthal Walmoden, that a new capitulation was neceffary, which was at length figned in the middle of the Elbe. Its terms are not materially different from thofe of the former. The foldiers are to retire to their homes, and devote themfelves to agriCulture, engaging not to ferve against France till exchanged. The French are to Occupy Lauenburg. A letter from Rotterdam, dated the 17th inftant, informs us, that, on the 6th, the day after the figning of the Hanoverian Capitulation, a British messenger arrived at Lauenburgh with important difpatches to Gen. Walmoden, which, it is ftated, would, had they arrived in time, have prevented the Convention. The terms of this Con vention are more honourable to the Hano verian army than the French have acknow ledged. The Hanoverian arms werd delivered up at Ratzeburgh; not to the French, hut placed en depot. Two Hanoverian and two French battalions are to compofe the garrifon of that place; other Hanoverian corps, to the amount of 4000 men, are to be retained in arms, and are to do duty in different places, together with an equal number of French troops. The following General Order was pub lifhed by General Berthier, at Lauenburgh, on the 13th: "Head Quarters, at Lauenburgh, July 13. "The Commander in Chief informs the army, that the Hanoverian troops have capitulated, after having been abandoned hy England in a dattardly manner. Their cans non, arms, horfes, ammunition, camp effects, all are delivered to the French army, and their foldiers returned home as prifoners of war, and cannot wear the uniform. The Hanoverian army has at all times, given proofs of its valour, and acquired the efteem of the enemy in the laft war. The critical fituation in which they were, has forced them to lay down their arms. French foldiers ought to refpect misfortune. The Commander in Chief forbids all the military, of every rank, to say the leaft thing difagreeable against the Hano verian foldiers who return to their home; and orders that the fame honours be paid to their officers, if they appear in uniform, as the French officers. (Signed) The L. BERTHIER." The French still withhold the publication of the fecond capitulation of the Hanove riaus. Many of them paffed through Hamburgh, on the 15th, on their return home, while others have entered the Danish, Fruffian, and Austrian service. A contribution of 8,co0,000 livres has been impofed on the Electorate of Hanover, Of this fum there has been already paid 2,500,coo. in ready money (110,000l. it.); bendes the pay for the armies, furniture, horses, provifions, ammunition, &c. &c. The timber in the foreft of Hanover, which is fit for fhip-building, is to be immediately felled by order of the French Government. The interior of Hanover has, fince the French conqueft, been as little known to the rest of Europe, as that of Japan. A few letters, however, have efcaped from that place, from which the following farement has been extracted. Ever fince the conqueft, the whole Electorate has been a deavoured to excite the failors and marines to revolt, and enter the English fervice. The Government has ordered the fubject to be inveftigated., .a The Dutch Government have, iffued By accounts from Genoa it appears, that feveral additional bodies of troops are on scene of pillage and butchery, which is faid to yield only to the ftate of Switzer land in the Spring of 1798. The French foldiers bave the most unbounded indulgence of their ruling pains, of rapacity, cruelty, and luft. In the city of Han ver, and even in the public freets, women of the highest rank bave been violated by the lowest of bat brutal fel diery, in the prefence of their bufbands and fathers, and fubjected, at the fame time, to fuch additional and undefcribable outrages as the their march from the South of France to favage fury of the violaters, inflamed by drunkennels, could contrive. The names of fome of thefe unfortunate ladies are mentioned, but the honour of their families, and the peace of their own future lives, forbid us to publish them. The Boron de K, a well known partifan of French philofophy and politics, went to the Commandant of reinforce the army of Italy. When the junction of thefe corps is 'effected, this army will amount to from 100 to 110,000 men, divided into three corps: fft, that fationed in Piedmont, under the command of General Dupont Chaumont, Commander in Chief of the fix new departments; Hanover, and claimed his protection as an 2d, the Army of Italy, which at prefent admirer of the French revolution. But he found no more favour in the fight of the Aga of Sultan Bonaparte's janiffaries, than the most loyal nobleman in Hanover. The French officer told him, "All that Jacobinifm is now out of fashion-Go about your bufinefs!" Nor have we heard that the philofophers of Goettingen, the enthufiafts of equality and perfectibility, have been at all better treated. confifts of 50,000 men, divided into feve ral particular corps, which occupy Liguria, Tufcany, the ci-devant Lombardy, &c.; 3d, the Army of Obfervation, under the command of General St. Cyr, which is now in the Neapolitan territories; this army will be augmented to 50,000 men, including the Italians. All the fhips of war belonging to Genoa are immediately to be equipped, and placed at the difpofal of the French.. The French have taken poffeffion of the different ports in the Adriatic; in each of which a Neapolitan garrifon is left, to act conjunction with the Republican forces. The kingdom of Naples has been taken poffeffion of by a part of the French army.. The accounts add, that Lord Nelfon, who was lying-to at Malta, had fent feveral meffengers to the different ports, with information that he would attack them at every point where the fmallest preponde rance appeared in favour of the French intereft. This intelligence had caufed great confternation among the inhabitants. What happens in the great towns, and what befals perfons of rank, are of course better known than the calamities of the body of the people. It is for this reafon only that we have felected them. They are, in fact, a perfectly 'fair fpecimen of the treatment of the whole, miferable people. Every village exhibits the fame fcenes in miniature. The pe.fants, who have more fpirit, patriotifm, and loyalty, than their fuperiors, have already, in feveral parts of the country, been driven into infurrection; many villages have been burnt to the ground, and two diftrics have been delivered over to all the horrors of military execution. The whole Electorate, which is one of the mott profperous countries of the empire, will, by a few, months livres, 3000 men, befides arms and ammuof fuch tyranny, he laid abfolutely waite. nition; but a deputation has been fent to General Murat to inform him that th HOLLAND. State cannot afford this fum. The expences of the King of Etruria's burial amount to gold medals of great value; the corpfe wore 300,000 livres. They put in his coffin two brilliants, and on the king's finger remains fhoes, with a pair of buckles richly fet in a brilliant ring of great value. Hague, June 21. At the fitting of the Legiflative Body, this day, a metlage was read from the Government, announcing, that "this Republic is obliged, as an ally of France, to take part in the war; and it now only remains for us to put our truft in Divine protection, and the juftice of our caufe." It then announces that it has fatisfied the defires of the First Conful, and placed the Batavian army under the order of the French commander. An article in the Bruffels Papers, from the Hague, dared the 23d, ftates that fome difcontented perfons at Rotterdam, and fome other towns of the Republic, had en GENT. MAG. July, 1803.. Letters from Florence ftate, that the French have demanded of the E-rurian Government, the fum of one of the It is allerted, that all the English, who, on a promife of being protected in their have lately been declared prifoners of war, perfons and property, remained at Leghorn, and their property feized as lawful prizes, to a very confiderable amount. Letters from Florence, of the 25th, ftate, that the English have occupied the port of Mefina. Two English divifions have alfo appeared appeared before the ports of Marfeilles and Toulon. A report has reached the Banks of the Mayne, that the English have feized on the islands of Ifchia and Caprea, and have landed troops in Sicily. SPAIN. His Catholic Majesty is bound to furnish the French with 15 fail of the line, and 24,000 troops, on demand, in cafe of hoftilities. The Spanish Government has ordered a levy of 40,000 men, to reinforce the garrifons of Alicant, Carthagena, Cadiz, Ferrol, and Corunna; the entrance of thefe ports will be fortified with a numerous artillery; and the maritime force of Spain will be augmented with nine fhips of the line, and twelve frigates. Letters from Bayonne, of the 12th, announce the arrival of feveral Spanish fhips at Cadiz, Corunna, and St. Andero, with 12,000,000 dollars on board. PORTUGAL. The Prince Regent of Portugal has iffued a decree relative to the neutrality of that. State; in which he declares, “no privateers of the Belligerent Powers fhall be admitted into the harbours of my states and dominions, nor any prizes taken by them, or any hips of the line, frigates, or other veffels of war, without any exception, except when the laws of hofpitality, common to all nations, render it unavoidable." AUSTRIA. France, it is faid, has peremptorily demanded of the Auftrian Cabinet the fhutting of all its harbours against British veffels; and it is added, that Auftria has indignantly refufed compliance. [If Bonaparte finds his project of Invafron to be impracticable, he will probably force Auftria into a war, to afford a pretext for relinquishing his more dangerous enterprize, and to divert the attention of France, from reflection on the folly or difcomfiture of his plans.] The Emperor of Morocco is faid to have declared war against Auftria. DENMARK. The Danes work day and night to ftrengthen the fortifications at Gluck ftadt and Rendfburgh, and troops and artillery are moving from all parts to thefe points. These measures are itated to have refulted from a demand by the French of the tem porary occupation by Gluckstadt, with a view to the more effectually fhutting the British from the navigation of the Elbe. RUSSIA. It appears, that the Ruffian Mediation merely referred to that part of our difpute with France which related to Malta. On this fubject the Emperor propofed fix antiticles: -The firit stipulated that no foreign Order of Knights fhould be introduced, but the Order to remain as it was before the war; 2d. That the right fief of the Order of Malta fhould remain to the King of Naples, as before the war; 3d. Malta to be recognized as neutral in all-future wars between England and France; the 4th, 5th, and 6th articles ftipulated, that the Grand Matter be immediately invefted with the government of the Ifland, which, until it was capable of forming an army adequate to its defence, fhould be garri foned by Neapolitans, to be paid and fubfifted by England and France equally ;the different Powers of the Continent to be invited to guarantee its independence, &c. A divifion of the Ruffian fleet has failed from Cronstadt to cruize in the Baltic, and was hourly expected at Copenhagen, iptended, it is faid, for the protection of the Sound. A Ruffian fhip of the line and feveral frigates have arrived at Lubeck. TURKEY. A Letter from Conftantinople, of the 7th June, contains a detailed account of the infurrection of the Albanians at Cairo. The Pafha had been compelled to fly to Manfurija, a town 30 hours journey from Cairo, and 20 from Damietta. The Porte has confirmed his difmittal, and ordered Ali Pafha, the brother of Seid Ali, to Cairo in his place. Ali Pasha is warmly attached to the English, and is ftated to have lately tranfmitted, through the house of Lee at Smyrna, 18,000l. to be depofited in our Bank. He was to fail for Alexandria about the middle of June, in the fleet commanded by Judjebey Mahomet; the Pacha of. Cairo is to affume the Government of Salonica. The palace of Elfibey, at Cairo, which was occupied by the Pacha at the time of the revolt, has been nearly deftroyed, in confequence of Taker, the Chief of the Albanians, having found means to get into the caftle, from whence he threw fhells into the palace. The fiege of Medina has been raifed, in confequence of the victory which the Turks have obtained over the Wahabis. A Letter from Conftantinople, written, we believe, early in June, mentions that the French Minifter, Gen. Brune, had made feveral extraordinary proposals and demands, efpecially with regard to Egypt, which, however, had been rejected by the Porte. Several perfous in the Ambaflador's fuite were returning to France. The French were bufy in eftablishing Agents on the fhores of the Black Sea. Manaf Ibrahim, who bears the title of Lieutenant of the Pacha of Widdin, has pillaged and burnt the town of Tutukai, between Seletria and Rofcluck, on the right bank of the Danube. INDIA. |