
™797-] 
Charge will be occahioned by our perfe- 
vering in hoftilities for another year ; but 
when we know, that within thefe two 
years we have added upwards of 
43500,000]. in perpetuity, to the annual 
charge, we.cannot fuppofe it will be lefs 
than two millions per annum.”’ 
On the 3d of March, government re- 
ceived intelligence of an important naval 
_ advantage, obtained by a fuccefsful ma- 
noeuvre of the Britifk fleet, under the 
command of Sir JOHN JERVIs, over a 
Spanith fleet, of much fuperior force, on 
the rath of February, 1797, off Cape St. 
Vincent. ‘he Britifh admiral was 
affured of hig near approach to the Spa- 
nifh fleet, on the evening of the 13th. 
He anxioufly waited the dawn of day, 
when, bemg on the flarboard-tack, Cape 
St. Vincent ‘bearing eaft by north, 
€ight leagues, he had the fatisfaction of 
difcoverine a number of fhips extending 
from fouth-weft to fouth, the wind 
then at weft and by fonth. “At Ze 
Minutes paft ten, the weather being 
extremely hazy, La Bonne Citoyenne 
made a fignal, that the fhips obferved 
were of the line, and twenty-five in 
number. The Britifh fquadron, con- 
fifting of only fifteen dhips of the line, 
then formed in the moft compact order 
of failing, in twolines. By carrying a 
prefs of fail, the Britifh admiral was fo 
fortunate as to get in with the enemy’s. 
fleet at half paft eleven o’clock, before it 
had time to conneét, and form a regular 
order of battle. Such a moment was 
not to be loft; and confident im the fkill, 
valour, and difcipline of the officers and 
men under his command, he felt himfelf 
juftifed in, departing from the regular 
fyftem; and pafling through their feet, 
in a line formed with the utmoit celerity, 
tacked, and feparated one third from the 
main body; after a partial cannonade, 
which prevented the rejunction of the 
enemy till the evening, and by the very 
great exertions of the fhips, which had 
the good fortune to arrive up with the 
enemy on the larboard-tack, he captured 
two fhips of 112 guns, one of 84 guns, 
and one of 74 guns; and the action 
ceafed about five o’clock in the evening. - 
This fortunate refult was gained with . 
the lofs of about three hundred men 
killed and wounded. ‘The lofs on the 
part of the: Spaniards, was more than fix 
hundred in killed and wounded. 
FRANCE. 
In our Jaft retrofpeét of the military 
affairs of France, we left general Buo- 
Vittory of Sir Fohn Fervisy...Funds, é 

es 2 3q 
naparte making a rapid progrefs into the 
dominions of the Pope. 
A part of the French-army paid a 
vifit to the famous city of Loretto, and 
took poffeffion of the celebrated Madona, 
and other fuperftitious relics. 
The French army afterwards conti- 
nued to advance ftill farther into the 
papal territory ; on the 19th February, 
Buonaparte had his head-quarters at 
Tolentino, where he received a letter 
from the Pope, given at Sr. Peters. 
in Rome, the 12th of February. 
His Holinefs, in this letter, exprefled 
his defire to terminate, in an amicable 
manner, the differences which fubfifted 
between him and the French Republic; 
and intunated, that for the effecting of 
it, he had deputed two ecclefiaftics and 
two feculars, tnvefted with full powers 
to concert with the General of the army 
of Italy. 
The terms of peace which the agents 
of the Pope have agreed te, with the 
French Republic, fhall be given in our 
next Number. 

PU: Bl Vere UND Se 
Stock Exchange, March 27, 1797. 
FE price of ftocks have experienced a very 
fingular depretlion during the paft month, 
A fmall and temporary rife took place at the be- - 
ginning of March, which was quickly followed 
by a more rapid decline. At the prefent pe- 
riod, the funds remain in a truly alarming ftate 
of depreffion; and their future fate depends fo 
entirely upon circumftances, not yet developed, 
as to fet conjecture at defiance. 
Banx Stock on the 28th ult. was, 1362, 
at which. price the books fhut for the divi- 
dend. | 
5 PER CENT. ANN. on the 28th ult. were 
772, and, have fince fell to 743, at which price 
they remain. 
4 PER CENT. Cons. were, on the 28th ult, 
at 67, at which price they clofed for the divi- 
dend,. 
PER CENT. CONS. were, on 28th ult, 
at 5223 fell, on 7th of March, to 50 5-8 ; 
rofe on 19th to §1 3-83 but on the arrival of 
-the news of-fome naval fucceffes in the Weft- 
Indies, this ftock fuddenly fellto 50 1-8 ! 
The laft loan, called the Loyalty loan, bears 
a difcount of 142 per cent. 
Marriages /n and near Londen. 
Capt. Holliday, of the navy, to Mifs E. Strat- 
ford, of Piccadilly. 
Sir J. Menzies, bart. of Caftle Menzies, to 
lady C, Murray, eldeft daughter of the duke of 
Athol. 
Mr. J. White, of Fleet-ftreet, bookfeller, te 
Mifs Tahourdin, of Bentley, Hants. a 
Lieut. col. Clinton, to Mifs Lovifa Holroyd, 
daughter of lord Sheffield, 



