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although defended by 400 Or 590 men, 
and the guns were tpiked; but fach a 
tremendous fire was kept up by the- 
Spaniards fromthe citadel, and houfes at 
the head of the Mole, rhat they could 
met advance, and nearly all were killed, 
or wounded, 
in the mean time, another detachment 
landed to the fouthward of the citadel, | 
but the boats were all ftove by the furf, 
and the ammunition wetted. Notwith- 
ftanding all thefe difadvantages, they 
puthed over the enemy’s line, wali, and 
Patteries, and formed, in the great {quare 
os the town, about 300 men, and march- 
ed againft the citadel, but were unable to 
take it. About day-break they learned, 
‘rom fome prifoners, that there were 
above 8060 men in arms afflembled at th 
entrance of the town, moftly Spaniards, 
with fome French ; and, perceiving the 
Impoflibility of obtaining any afittance 
trom the fhips, Capt. FROUBRIDGE, at 
sewen o’cleck, difpatched Capt. Hoop to 
the governor, with'a meflage, intimating, 
that if he fhould be allowed freely, and 
witheut moleftation, to embark his peo- 
ple at the Mole Head, taking off fuch of 
the Britifh boats as were not ftove, and 
the governor finding other poats to carry 
et the people, the {quadron then before 
the town would not moleft it. The go- 
vernor informed Capt. Hoap he thought 
they ought to fuPrender prifoners of 
war ; to which the Britifh officer replied, 
that Capt. TROUBRIDGE had direéted 
him to fay, that if the terms he had 
ofered were not accepted in five minutes, 
he would fet the town on fire, and attack 
the Spaniards at the point of the bay- 
enet: on which the governor inftantly 
clofed with the terms. Capt. Trovu- 
BRIDGE then, with his party, marched, 
with colours fying, te the Mole, 
where they embarked in fuch Britifh 
boats as were not fteve, the Spani- 
ards finding others to carry them ‘eff to 
the fhips. It would be unjuft’ not to 
notice the noble and generous conduét of 
Bon Juan Antoine Gutierrez, the 
Spanifh governor. The moment the 
terms-were agreed on, he direéted the 
wounded of the Englith to be fupphed 
with the beft provifions whici: could be 
procured, and made it known that: the 
thips were at liberty to fend on fhore, 
and purchafe whatever refrethments 
they might be in want of. Many of our 
brave countrymen fell in this ill- concerted 
expedition: Admiral Neztson loft an 
arm; Capt. Bower’ was killed. The 
Fox cutter, in approaching near the 
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town, was funk by the enemy’s bat- 
teries, and Lieut. GisstN and ninety- 
feven men were drowned. ‘The whole 
lofs, in killed and wounded, has been 
faid to exceed 400 men. r 
The people of Encland, except con- 
tractors and intere‘ted perfons, fo recently 
elated with the hope of a fpeedy peace, 
have, within chefe few days, bean de- 
preffed with 2 melancholy gloom, by the 
return of Lord MALMESBURY, and 
the abrupt breakieg-off of the nego- 
ciations. ‘his important event prefents 
them with a dreary profpect of pros 
longed mifery, ftagnation of trade, addi- 
tional taxes, and all the horrors attend- 
abt upon a ftate—perhaps war! 
The only conclufion that can, at pre- 
fent, be drawn with certainty, is, that 
the minifters, who wantonly plunged the 
nation in the war, are not the men beft 
calculated to make peace. 
FRANCE. | 
While every friend. to order and 
juftice muft lament the irregularities 
lately committed in France, the candid 
enquirer will be careful not to form a 
hafty conclufion, but will ever lend a 
patient ear to the apology of the appa- 
rent aggreffors.—If we may credit their 
own ftatement, the Direétory, placed 
between the danger of beholding the 
Republic perifh by a rigid adherence to 
forms, and that of faying it by outftep- 
ping them, had no time to hefitate, but 
with force and violence they allege they 
fnaiched the Conftirution from inevitable 
deftruction : fince the friends and agents 
of the coalefced kings had become legi- 
flators of the Republic. On the other 
hand, every friend to the liberties of 
mankind fhould be cautious not too haftily 
to applaud a meafure certainly illegal ; 
and the Directory, we think, are bound 
to affign very folid reafons for an act 
which is inconfiftent with every principle 
of general juftice :the tran{portation of the 
accufed reprefentatives, without a trial. 
The 4th of Seprember will form an- 
other remarkable day.in the Republican 
Calendar of France : about three o’clock 
in the morning, the Direétory ordered 
the cannon of alarm to be fired, and 
directed the halls of the two Councils to 
be furrounded, in arder to arreft certain 
confpirators, whofe aim, they alleged, 
was to affaffinate three of the Dz:rediors, 
in order to create a new Directory, that 
fhould open the gates to the emigrants 
and the Pretender. 
General ANGEREAU, charged with 
the execution of this Arré, marched to 
the 
