72 
We have about 105 sail of the line in 
actual service, beside seven serving as 
guard-ships and store-ships, and five ef- 
fective 50-gun ships.—We have likewise 
about 103 sail of the line in ordinary. 
“The Russian fleet in the Baltic consists 
of thirteen sail of the line with several 
heavy frigates.—The Danes have one'ship 
of the line ; and the Swedes have eleven 
sail,—The Dutch-have agreed, by a re- 
cent treaty, to furnish nine sail of the line 
to France. These are all the ships they 
have, and they will find great difficulty 
in fitting and manning them for active 
service.—France has, in the Scheldt, ten 
vail of the Jine, whose crews, though not 
nearly complete, are composed of va- 
rious. nations. She has also two sail at 
Cherburgh, and in the ports on the Bay 
of Biscay about twelve sail of the line, 
most of which areat Rochefort. France 
has also, in the Mediterranean, thirteen 
effective ships. 
Upon arecapitulation, it therefore ap-. 
pears that the Russian, Swedish, Danish, 
Dutch, and French force, amounts col- 
lectively to only seventy-one sail of the 
line, while there are one hundred and five 
sait_of the British line now in actual 
service. 
SPAIN AND PORTUGAL, 
The Spaniards continue to maintain an 
insurrectional contest with the French ar- 
mies, attended by a melancholy waste of 
human life, and it may be feared, without 
eventual benefit. 
Lord WetiincTon maintains his ground 
and the honours of the British army in 
Portugal, as appears by the following 
letter: 
Since I addressed you on the 22d inst. 
I have received, reports that the enemy’s 
troops, which had retired from Lower 
Beira, in the end of last and the begin- 
ning of this month, had crossed the Coa 
at Almeida on the 15th and 16th inst. and 
had moved into Upper Beira, by the roads 
of Pinhel and Trancoso, and of Alverca 
and Celerico. 
I have not been able to ascertain ex- 
actly the strength of the bedy of troops 
which have entered by this frontier, but 
it is stated to be 16,000 or 17,000 men, 
State of Public Affairs in January. 
[Feb. 1, 
and consists, I should imagine, not only 
of Gardanne’s division, but of some, if 
not the whole of the troops of the 9th 
corps. 
By the last aecounts I have of these 
troops, the advanced guard had arrived 
at Merceira, in the valley of the Monde- 
go, on the 22d, and their progress has 
not been rapid; but if they have con- 
tinued their march, they ought by “this 
time to be in communication with the 
enemy’s post in the neighbourhood of 
Thomar. 
General Silviera had retired with his 
division of troops.to Moimento de Beira, 
but he and General Miller and Colonel 
Wilson were prepared to act across the 
Mondego upon the flanks and rear of the 
enemy's troops, the whole of which it up-» 
pears were marching on the left of that 
river. 
No alteration has been made in the po- 
sition of the enemy’s troops in front of> - 
this army, excepting that a detachment of : 
between two and three thousand cavalry » 
and infantry had moved into Lower Beis - 
ra, across the Zezere towards Castello 
Branco, probably with a view to gain in- 
telligence, * 
By accounts from Estremadura, it ap- 
pears that Generals Mendizabal and, Balla- 
Jasteros have had some success in their ope- 
rations against a French division belong- 
ing to fortier’ s corps, which had been, 
stationed i in Llevena. They have obliged: 
this division to retire from Guadalcanal, 
with some loss. - 
‘AMERICA. 
New York Papers to the 16th ult. have, 
arrived,andthe mostimportantarticle they 
contain is a letter from Mr. Smith to Mr. 
Pinkney, provisionally suspehding the 
latter as minister plenipotentiary at the» 
British court, in case a successor of equal 
rank should not be appointed to the 
United States in the place of Mr. Jack-- 
son, 
WEST INDIES, 
- A Jamaica Mail has brought accounts 
from that island to the 25th of November. 
The differences between the Governorand- 
the House of Assembly are satisfactorily 
terminated. :.jginmieee es | cig 
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