4oi A. D. 1797. 



deities, now lies interred in a village church-yard * without an infcrip- 

 tion to record his merits, or even his name. 



February 14'" — A Britifh fleet, confifting of fifteen fhips of the line, 

 four frigates, a floop, and a cutter, under the command of Admiral Sir 

 John Jervis, being oflf Cape S^ Vincent, fell in with a Spanilh fleet con- 

 lifling of twenty-feven fail of the line, of which one carried 136 guns 

 on four decks, and was faid to be the largefl veflel in the world, five 

 carried 112 guns each, one 84, and all the others 74. Notwithfl;and- 

 ing fo great a difparity in the number of fhips, the Britifli fleet obtain- 

 ed a complete vidory, and took two fliips of 1 1 2 guns, one of 84, and 

 one of 74. The reft efcaped into Cadiz. And there they were block- 

 ed up by the Britifh admiral, who was immediately created earl of S'. 

 Vincent, the title being taken from the point of land neareft to the 

 battle. And thus was the Ocean left free for the navigation of the 

 Britifii commerce. 



The Spanifli ifland of Trinidad was taken by the Britifh forces under 

 the command of Lieutenant-general Sir Ralph Abercromby and Rear- 

 admiral Harvey, The Britifh fleet having arrived in the Gulf of Paria 

 in the afternoon of the 16"" of February, prepared for landing the 

 troops, and attacking a Spanifh fleet lying at anchor in the bay, next 

 morning. But they were furprifed in the night-time with the fight of 

 the Spanifh fhips all in a blaze : and on the morning they found that 

 the Spaniards had not only abandoned the fliips, but alfo fled from the 

 forts conftruded upon a fmall ifland for defending the fliipping. On 

 the fame day the Spanifh governor furrendered the colony with fcarcely 

 any refiflance. The fhips found burnt confifted of three of 84 and 

 74 guns and one of 36. One fhip of 74 guns was faved from deftruc- 

 tion by the Britifli feamen. 



Trinidad, firuated almoft clofe to the continent of South America 

 and in fight of the ifland of Tobago, is the fifth in magnitude of the 

 Weft-India iflands. It is happily exempted from the hurricanes which 

 in the other iflands often fweep away in one hour the produce of the 

 induftry of many years. Earthquakes are fometimes felt ; but they have 

 never been fatal. Some ridges of mountains, which interfed: the ifland 

 fend forth a great number of rivulets, which might be employed to 

 water the plains, when neccffary, and to work plantation machinery. 

 The Gulf of ParIa, an inland fea formed by the projeding points of 



* Benjeo near Hertford. philanthropy, or intereft, to aA as the gur.rdians 



A relation, whom Mr. Dolignon inftrufted, with of Brhi/h maniifa3ures, to produce beneficial and 



a view to make him his partner and fucceflor in reputable employment to young women, or to im- 



the bufincfi, under/lands the conllruction and ufe prove their own fortunes by a moil profitable branch, 



of the machinery: and there are many young of induftry, to refcue this erpkan mauuJaBure horn 



women now difperfed in fervice or other employ- annihilation, and to nurfe it up to maturity and 



nents, whom iie taught to work on the looms, ftrength, with great benefit to themlelves, and in- 



3t is therefor not yet too late for any, who feel calculable advantages to the commerce, the wealth, 



-tliemfelvss called upon by motives of patriotifro, and the power, of Great EritainY 



