1800] 
of thofe engagements, after having fubdued 
is opponent, of fuperior force, was fuccefs- 
ful in faving Lord Nelfon, who was in his 
own boat, hard prefledby the enemy; and, 
by His affiftance, captured the aflailants; he 
was alfo employed in placing the bomh-vet- 
fels, whenever fuch fervice was neceffary. 
He was removed to the Thefeus with Lord 
Nelfon. On the expedition againft Tene- 
rifte, at (torming the town of Santa Cruz, he 
was the firft who entered the enemy’s works 
at the Moje; and in forcing his way into the 
town tu-join the other parties, after having 
driven the enemy from thofe works, he nar- 
rowly efcaped, his cloaths being torn, and 
himfelf much bruifed and cut by the ftones 
which the enemy’s fhot threw over him. On 
Lord Nelfon’ setura to England, he continued 
in the command of the Theteus , and was em- 
ployed, as before, in the blocka‘e and bom- 
bardment of Cadiz, and was twice engaged 
with the enemy’s gun boats in Gibraltar Bay. 
He was appointed one: of the fquadron to rein- 
force Lord Nelfon when the, French feet; 
with Ronapart’s army, went up the Mediter- 
yanean. At the battle of the Nile, the firft 
and fecond of Auguit, 1795, he was engaged 
with the van fhips of the enemy until they 
were fubdued, when he took a fecond an- 
chorage in the rear, and affi%ed at the cap- 
ture 5 and afterwards, more particularly, in 
the capture of the Tonant. In the courfe of 
this action he was wounded in the face. His 
was one of the ie having ei of the 


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prizes to Lifbon, and was removed from that 
fituation at the particular requeft of Sir Sid- 
ney Smith, aod ordered by Earl St. Vincent 
to follow that officer up the Mediterranean, 
He was difpatched by Sir Sidney Smith to 
Acre, four days preyious to his own arrival 
there, to confult with and affit Gezhar 
Pacha, in putting the place ih the beft fate 
of defence to refift the attack of Bonaparte, 
who was then advancing to the fiege, and was 
in treaty for the furcender of the garrifon at 
“the moment of Captain Miller’s arrival there, 
which, with the affurances of further fupport 
from Sir Sidney Smith, at once determined 
Gezhar Pacha to defend the place to the ut- 
moft. During the fiege of Acre he was di- 
reed to command the naval force, while Sir 
Sidney was carrying on the 
fhore, and contributed much to defeat the at- 
tacks of the enemy. He was frequently 
handed to aét on fhorein concert with Sir Sid- 
ney Sroith. On the 13th of May he was 
difpatched to intercept a fquadron of French 
frigates, that had failed frem Alexandria to 
Joppa, with ammunition and flores for Buona- 
parte; in performing this fervice he was un- 
fortunately killed by the burfting of fome 
fhelis on board the Thefeus. He has left a 
widow and two daughters, one of eight, the 
other feven, years of age, to lament the lofs 
of an incomparable huiband and father, ‘en- 
nobled by the moft exalted private worth and 
public heroifia.—Port/mouth Telegraph, 

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RCIAL REPORT 
TN a late report we remarked that according to the molt recent accou nts that have been made 
public, it appears that the fur trade, between this country and our remaining colonies im 
MONT THLY COMME 
North America, is of lefs value and importance than is commonly imagined; and that the ine 
habitants of the United States are rapidly obtaining a confiderable tharé therein. We are rae 
ther furprifed, that amidft the avidity whicu has been fhewn during the prefent war for ob- 
taining poficflion of the enemy’s commercial eftablifhments, no at'empt has been made to 
{ccure any paligtign by. which ‘this branch of trade might be protected and extended; efpeci- 
ally as the obje& appears to offer a much more advantageous profpeét than any benefits which 
this country can derive from the capture of an additional fugar ifland, of whicl perhaps we 
poflefs too many already. Was the city of New Orleans, on the entrance of the Miflifippi, 
in the hands of the Englith, it would nor fail to bring Aen the principal part of the fkin 
trade from the vaft extent of country through which that magnificent river flows,’ as the In-~ 
dians would by this means obtain Britilh goods at a much cheaper rate than they can get them, 
through the channels by which they are at prefent fupplied. A vait extent of inland trade 
and navigation might be opened on this river to the banks of the Miffouri on the one-hand, 
_and en the other up the Oho, and thence to the Jakes; and the various tribes of ladigha 
would take off great quantities of coarfe woollens, paints, guns, gunpowder, rum, and Bir- 
mingham and Shefiield goods. It cannot be faid that it would'be an infringement on the 
privileges of the Haufon’s bay Company, as it is well known that thefe privileges have never 
been confirmed by Parliament, and therefore the Company have no legal right whatever to 
an exclufive trace; which, if really beneficial in any cafe, is certainly not fo in the prefent 
ftate of this branch of Commerce. 
At the conclufion of the year, moft manufaCturers being engaged in taking ftock and 
making up their bovks, and foreign trade being generally rather flack, produces a temporary 
fiagnation, both in the demand for manufaCtured goods and in the prices of raw materials; ~ 
though the latter ufually decline a little when not kept up by fpeculatwun or extraordinary 
circumftances. The ftaple article of woot is at prefent very low, and there is a large ftock 
of Spanith wool on hand. Weft Country Superfines are upon the decline, and are about 7% per 
cent. lower than they were a month fiuce. York/hire Narrows have fallen in the fame probors 
tion, chiefly in confequence of the little demand for foreign markets. Norwich Stuffs have 
ately advanced nearly 15 per ceat, 
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