Kii hislorica. 



ard Strachan, who, on- obser- 

 ving the Resolue crofsing her 

 liauses, luffed up, went under 

 her stern, and raked her with 

 considerable damage. 



The Resolue had 25 men 

 killed, and 40 wounded, seve- 

 ral of whom are since dead, and 

 the first captain dangerously 

 wounded. 



The Phoenix had six men 

 killed and eleven wounded, a- 

 mong whom was lieutenant 

 Finley of the hiarines, since 

 dead, and Mr Wilmot, mid- 

 fliipman, wounded. 



By the commodore's orders 

 the French frig;ate was conduc- 

 ted into Mallee roads, and left 

 there, her own officers and sea- 

 men reluslng to do any thing 

 with her, saying the Resolue 

 struck, and was a prize to the 

 Phoenix, and the comr.iodore 

 might dispose of her as he 

 thoughtproper.The comiiiodore 

 answered them, that he must 

 refer the determination of the 

 affair to this nation, being of 

 too much imp^tance for him 

 to settle. 



Commodt)re Cornwallis has 

 fliifted.his broad pendant into 

 the Phcenix. 



Mtfscel/aneous. 

 The war between the Moors 

 and Spaniards is renewed b) the 

 jcrmer in revenge for the afsis- 

 tance afforded by the court of 

 Madrid, to Ben jijser the em- 

 peror's rebel brother. 



The government of St Peter- 

 fburg}^ have lately received the 



/ chronicle. 



agreeable news of the redisco- 

 very of the gold mine, situate 

 between the seas of Ladoga 

 and Onega; 



The Prince Royal of Den- 

 mark has publifhed an arret by 

 which, the slave trade is to 

 cease, and to be for ever abo- 

 lifhed after the year 1803. 



The new King Francis iw of 

 Hungary and Bohemia has ap- 

 pointed count Francis Hollore- 

 dato be his cabinet minister. 



From Constantinople we 

 learn, that the insurrection 

 still continues in Mont, of the 

 Asiatic provinces, and they 

 are equally alarmed with re- 

 gard to the conduct of Mhir 

 Timur Khan, who has left Bag- 

 dat, and is marching towards 

 the Turkifli provinces in that 

 part of the world, with an ar- 

 my of eighty thousand men. 



A dreadful fire happened at 

 Gottenburgh, on the 2d and 3d 

 of March. It broke out at a 

 sugar baker's and raged with 

 such violence, that every at- 

 tempt to extingu'.lTi it proved 

 ineffectual, until it had con- 

 sumed one hundred and twenty 

 houses. — The univf rsity has* 

 escaped, although the buildings 

 immediately surrounding it 

 were destroyed. 



The prince of Brazil, as 

 presumptive heir to the crown, 

 of Portugal, on the icth ult. 

 ifsued a degree, purporting^, 

 that as his mother, from her 

 unhappy state, v.as incapable 

 cf managing the affairs of go- 



