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mountains. The guns were spiked, 

 carriages destroyed, two vessels 

 set on fire, their cargoes (which 

 consisted of oil) stove. They with 

 difficulty launched the boats that 

 were swamped, and returned on 

 board. 



" Admiral sir Charles Cotton has 

 transmitted to John Wilson 

 Croker, esq. reports of the fol- 

 lowing captures made by ships 

 under his command, viz. Re- 

 vanche, French schooner priva- 

 teer, of eight guns and fifty- 

 three men ; taken on the 10th of 

 March, by the Eclair sloop. — La 

 Fortune, French letter of marque, 

 of ten guns and fifty-three men ; 

 taken on the 30th of March, by 

 the Pomone. — Le General Oltavy, 

 French brig privateer, of twelve 

 guns and fifty men ; taken on the 

 lOlh April, by the Swallow. — La 

 Stella di Napoleon, Neapolitan 

 privateer, of two guns and forty 

 men ; taken on the 8th of May, 

 by the Sea-Horse.— Du Guay 

 Trouin, French schooner priva- 

 teer, of five guns and 116 men ; 

 taken on the 10th of May, by the 

 Unite. — La Minerve, French cor- 

 vette, pierced for eighteen guns, 

 but only two mounted ; taken on 

 the 17th of May, by the Bustard. 

 —-La Jupiter, zebec of Genoa, of 

 eight guns and sixty-eight men ; 

 taken on the 5th of May, by the 

 boats of the Pomone. 



11. Lieutenant Warrand, com- 

 manding his majesty's gun-brig 

 Bloodhound, the 6th instant cap- 

 tured ofF the North Foreland, the 

 Becassine, French privateer, of 

 two guns and twentj'-six men ; out 

 one day from Calais, without hav- 

 ing made any capture. 



Account from lord Wellington 

 of an attack made by the array of 

 Massena, on the corps of British, 



which formed the advanced guard 

 undergeneral Crawfurd, near Fort 

 Conception, on July 24. The Bri- 

 tish repulsed the French ; but 

 being greatly outnumbered, were 

 obliged to retreat across the river 

 Coa. The loss was considerable. 



li. Letters from captain Max- 

 well, of his majesty's ship Alceste, 

 giving an account of the capture of 

 two vessels in the bay of Martino, 

 in the island of Corsica. 



Captain Wormeley, of the sloop 

 Minorca, captured the Sans Peur, 

 privateer of Genoa. 



Captain Pringle, of the Sparrow 

 Hawk, captured I'lntrepicte, pri- 

 vateer of Marseilles. 



18. The king has been pleased 

 to cause it to be signified by the 

 most noble the marquis Wellesley, 

 his majesty's principal secretary 

 of state for foreign affairs, to the 

 friendly and neutral powers resid- 

 ing at this court, that the neces- 

 sary measures have been taken by 

 his majesty's command, for the 

 blockade of the canal at Corfou. 



The Chevalier de Souza Cout- 

 tinho, heretofore envoy extraordi- 

 narj' and minister plenipotentiary 

 from his Royal Highness the 

 Prince Regent of Portugal, had a 

 private audience of his majesty, to 

 deliver new credentials as ambas- 

 sador extraordinary and plenipo- 

 tentiary. 



23. Court mourning ordered 

 on Sunday next, for the late 

 Queen of Prussia : to go out of 

 mourning, Sunday, Sept. 16. 



25. Lieutenant Templar, com- 

 manding the Earnest gun-brig, 

 has captured a Danish cutter pri- 

 vateer, of two guns and thirteen 

 men, in the Cattegat, on the 28th 

 ult. The boats of the Censor, 

 lieutenant Lucas, cut out a 

 French privateer sloop from the 



