654 : 
tune to intercept Buonaparte’s battering 
train of artillery on board of his flotilla 
from Alexandria and Damietta ; the whole 
of which to the number of eight fail, while 
they were a great lofs to the French, af- 
forded to the Englifh the moft effectual 
means of annoying them in their ap- 
proaches. | 
The detail of the events of this moft fin- 
gular fiege is very long. Suffice it to fay, 
that the French and Englifh had been 
within a ftone’s throw of each other for 
nearly two months. The French having 
very early made a lodgment on the 
crown of the glacis and mined the tower, 
and having tranfported cannon’ from 
Jaffa, and alfo effeéted a breach on the 
x4th day of the fiege, they attempted to 
fiorm the town and were repulfed; fince 
which time they made no lefs than eleven 
defperate attempts to carry the place by 
affault, in each of which they were unfuc- 
cefsful, and at length obliged to retire 
with the lofs of the flower of their army, 
and eight General Officers killed and 
wounded. 
‘The army of Buonaparte, totally difpi- 
rited and worn down by fatigue and difeafe, 
refufed to mount the breach any more over 
the putrid bodies of their companions. 
They were therefore paraded on the 29th 
of May, and furnifhed with fhees and 
water gourds to enable them to crofs the 
defert again ; Sir Sydney was informed by 
his emiffaries in the French camp, that 
Suez was mentioned there as the object of 
Buonaparte’s fpeculation. It was .to an- 
nounce this intention of Buonaparte to 
the Britith government in India, that Sir 
Sydney wrote to Admiral Blanket. 
The following frigates and armed fhips 
have been taken from the Frénch fince our 
faft account. 
Captain Henry Lidgbird of his Majef- 
_ty’s thip Daedalus, on the oth of Febru- 
ary, in lat. 31 deg. 30 min. fouth, long.33. 
deg. 20 min. aftera {mart action captured 
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La Prudente, a National frigate from the 
Ifle of France, manned with 297 men. 
La Prudente was one of thofe frigates 
which had done-foimuch injury to our trade 
in the Eaft Indies for fome time paft. The 
Dedalus had only one feaman and one ma- 
rine killed, and twelve wounded. ~ La 
Prudente had twenty-{feven men killed, and 
twenty-two wounded. 
Captain Markham, of the Centaur, in 
the Mediterranean, captured three frigates 
on the 19th of June, with two fmaller 
veflels. The frigates were, La Junon, of 
40 guns, and soomen. La Courageux, 
22 guns, 300 men. L’Alcefte, 36 guns 
300 men. The other veflels were, the one 
of 18 guns, amd the other of 24, with 129 
men each. 
This. fquadron was commanded ‘by 
Rear-Admiral Perré, thirty-three days 
from Jaffa, bound to Toulon. » 
His Majefty’s fhip La Sibylle failed 
from Madrafs on the azgth of Febru- 
ary, to cruize after the French frigate 
_La Forte, and fellin with her on the 28th, 
when after an action of one hour and forty 
minutes, during which fhe was totally 
difmafted, with very little comparative lofs 
to his Majefty’s fhip, fhe fruck. Capt. 
Davis, of Lord Mornington’s ftaff, who 
was a volunteer upon this occafion, unfor- 
tunately fell early in the aétion, and Capt. 
Cooke of La Sybille was wounded (and 
it was feared mortally). 5 otos 
It appears by official difpatches from 
Lord Keith, that he was with the Britifh 
fleet off Ferro] on the roth of Auguft, and 
alfo, that on the 13th his Lordfhip had ar- 
rived off Ufhant. . He had fo nearly over- 
taken the combined fleets, that his Ma- 
jefty’s thip the Impetueux, commanded by 
Sir Edward Pellew, which led the van of 
the Britifh fleet, was in fight of the rear of 
the enemy, when they entered Breft. So 
clofe was the purfuit that fix hours 
more at fea muft have brought on a general 
action. 

ALPHABETICAL List of BANKRUPTCIES and DiviDENDS a@unounced betaveenr 
the 20th of Fuly, and the 20th of Augufl, extraded from the London Gazettes. 
BANKRUPTCIES. 
(The Solicitors’ Names are betaeen Parénthefcs ) 
BASLEY, J. He Ipfwich, grocer. (Mr. Luckett, Bafing- 
~  halleftreet). : 
Butterworth, J. Lane Head, Spotland, innkeeper. (Town- 
fend, Staple’s-inn). 
Brooke, J. and M. Webfter, Merley, merchants. 
bert, Hatton-garden). 
(Lum- 
‘Brown, J. Stockport, cotton-fpinner. (Wilkinfon, Gray’s- 
ink). ; 
Ewer, J. Queen Anne-ftreet, Eaft, ftayemaker. (Mre Bol- 
tom, Great Rideér-ftreet, St. James's). — rf 
Goodrich, ©. Leicetter, holier. (Meflrs. Whifhaw and 
Taylor, Gray’s-inn). erste i 
Geaves, R- Dartmouth. merchant, (Wilfon, Union treet, 
Berge js : 
Hielet, J. Tallerton, coal and Iime-merchant. (Mr. Locke 
wood, Earingwold). 4 
yen T. Hollings, carriere 
jin). 
Jardine, A. Haverford-Weft, fhepkeeper. 
kins and James, New-inn). 
Jones, T. Exeter, builder. (Follett, Temple). 
Kirkpatrick, G. Halifax, linen-draper, (Mr. Colthurf, 
Bedford-row). a ; 
Kay, R. Manchefter, hatter. (C.Clements, Liverpool). _ 
Phillips, R. Camomile-itreet, vi€tualler. (Mr. Twycrofs, 
Thayies’-inn). F 
Round, C. J. Wargrave, maltter. (Mefirs. Clevy and Bunt, 
Old P&y-office). ” es 
Stephenfon, A. Newcafle, fhip-owner. (Mr. R. .Wilfon, 
Lincoln’s-inn), F 
(Wordfworth, Staple’s- 
(Mefirs. Jens 
Smith, Re Hedge Nook, drovers (Qwen, Temple). 
DIVIDENDS 
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