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by tlie Russian government. The 

 captains and crews are marched 

 into the interior of the country, in 

 companies of one captain and ten 

 or twelve seamen. They are dis- 

 tributed in above a hundred difier- 

 ent towns, at one hundred to one 

 thousand miles distance from the 

 capital. The Russian government 

 allows for their subsistence daily 

 five copecks in money (about three 

 halfpence), a small measure of rye 

 flour, and one of buck wheat. 



My brother and some other Bri- 

 tish merchants at St. Petersburgh, 

 advanced about forty thousand 

 rubles (a ruble is about half-a- 

 crown) for their better accommo- 

 dation, from Avhich he furnished 

 every captain with two hundred 

 rubles for theuseof himself and ten 

 men, and bought for every man a 

 sheep's-skin coat, a fur cap, a sash, 

 a pair of gloves, some warm shoes, 

 and two pair of stockings. Kibit- 

 kas, or common carts of the country, 

 are bought for most of the captains 

 and some old men ; the rest walk, 

 and the peasants furnish horses for 

 the bacrgaffe. On the 21st of No- 

 vember, fifty captains and five 

 hundred sailors w^ere thus dis- 

 patched from St. Petersburgh, and 

 the remainder were daily setting 

 off on their melancholy journey. 



Stephen Shairp. 

 consul-general of Russia. 



No. 73, Gower-street, 

 Nov. 17, 1800. 



Note from the Governor of Cadiz to 



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the English Advnrul. 



HE aftiiction which carries ofl, 

 in this city and its environs, 



thousands of victims, and which 

 threatens not to suspend its ravages 

 until it has cut off all who have 

 hitherto escaped, being calculated 

 to excite compassion, it is with sur- 

 prise that I see the squadron, under 

 the command of your excellency, 

 come to augment the consternation 

 of the inhabitants. I have too ex- 

 alted an opinion of the humanity of 

 the English people, and of yours in 

 particular, to think that you would 

 wish to render our condition more 

 deplorable. However, if in con- 

 sequence of the orders your excel- 

 lency has received, you are inclin- 

 ed to draw down upon yourself the 

 execration of all nations, to cover 

 yourself with disgrace in the eyes 

 of the whole universe, by oppres- 

 sing the unfortunate, and attacking 

 those v/ho are supposed to be inca- 

 pable of defence ; I declare to you, 

 that the garrison under my orders, 

 accustomed to behold death with a 

 serene countenance, and to brave 

 dangers much greater than all the 

 perils of war, know how to make 

 resistance, which shall not terminate 

 but with their entire destruction. 

 I hope that the answer of your 

 excellency will inform me, whether 

 I am to speak the language of con- 

 solation to the unfortunate inhabi- 

 tants, or whether I am to rouse 

 them to indignation and vengeance. 

 May God preserve your excel- 

 lency, 



Thomas de Morla. 

 October 5, 1800. 



The vessels employed in the 

 blockade have not, tiU now, pre- 

 vented the fishers from exercising 

 their harmless Industry. It must 

 excite astonishment, that your ex- 

 cellency should deprive us of this 

 small comfort. 



