1801.] 
vived the accident eight days. The Sur- 
geon inChief, Berrey, an officer of health 
of great merit, came to Alexandria to am- 
putate the limb. He refufed to fubmit to 
the operation, All his friends were af- 
fembled, and the experienced furgeon faid, 
that he would be anfwerable for its fuc- 
cefs. It could not have put the life of the 
wounded General to hazard, and without 
it there was no poffibility of his furviving. 
Fatigued, at length, by the folicitation of 
his friends—** No! (faid Lanuffe to them) 
I will not furvive that difhonourable day.”’ 
EAST-IJNDIES. 
Our late accounts from India intimate, . 
that a new war is on the eve of breaking 
out in the Myfore Country. No fooner 
was Doondeah, one of Tippoo’sad herents, 
defeated, than Cotione Rajah, by fome 
hoftilities,. claimed the attention of the 
Myforearmy. The conqueft of this Chief 
will be a matter of fome difficulty, owing 
to the natural defences of the country, as 
well as the extenfive preparations made by 
the enemy. 
The intended introduétion of European 
laws into the Myfore Country caufed no 
{mall degree of alarm ; infomuch, that the 
right of fathers and matters .of families, 
according to the Hindoo and Mahomedan 
laws, are recognized by the confent of the 
Britifh Government. The additional re- 
venue of the India Company, by their late 
treaties, amounts to about 25 lacks of 
pagodas, or near one million fterling per 
annum. ‘The military eftablifhment there 
will fhortly be reduced, owing to the con- 
folidation of empire, and the contraStion 
of pofts. The late General is, by order 
of the Government of Madras, fucceeded 
by Col. Urban Vigors in the command of 
the fubfidiary force ferving with the Ni- 
zam, and Col. F. Gowdie fucceeds the 
Jatter in the command of the Northern di- 
vifion of the army. 
GREAT BRITAIN. 
Tt appears that however clofe the con- 
nection may be, both in political fenti- 
ments and private friendfhip, between the 
Jate Minifter and the prefent, we behold 
the latter, in every inftance, acting in dia- 
metrical oppofition to the fyftem purfued 
by the former. We fee him in the North 
of Europe acceding to the maritime code 
which Mr. Pitt haughtily rejected, as ruin- 
ous to the nation, and to refift which he 
plunged it into a bloody and expenfive 
war; and in Egypt courting a convention 
which the late Adminiftration facrificed 
their honour to break, atter it had been 
acceded to intheir names; and to prevent 
a renewal of which, they have drained 
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the country of its beft foldiers and its lat 
cuinea. i 
The prefent Minifters affeét great can- 
dour} and an earneft defire of throwing 4 
veil over all diftin&ions of parties. This 
{pirit is not, however,- carried into any of 
the public offices, except the Admiralty. 
Earl: St. Vincent, like a true feaman, 
knows no parties but the French and Bri- 
tith, and labours moft earneftly and ably 
to crufh the one and exalt the other. His 
thoughts are wholly occupied in promoting 
the welfare and glory of our navy, not in- 
difcovering the politics of officers, that he 
may blaft the hopes, whatever may be the 
merits, of thofe who differ in opinion from 
the Premier—not in diftributing places and 
employments among the voters at rotten 
boroughs, in preference to men of merit 
and juft claims—not in making the navy 
fubfervient to parliamentary intereft! What 
muft have been the indignation of a man 
of fuch generous and independent princi- 
ples, on finding, as we are affured he has 
done, among the papers of his office, a 
memorandum, written by one of his pre- 
deceffors, ‘* Never to employ Admiral 
G—— becaufe he voted for Mr. Fox at 
a Weftminiter election !”” | 
A fecond and more confiderable divifion 
of Lord Nelfon’s force failed from the 
Downs for Boulogne on the zoth of Sep- 
tember. It confifted of the York of 64. 
and Ifis of 50 guns, with feveral other 
fhips of war. His Lordfhip received in- 
telligence the day before, that the enemy’s 
flotilla had moved out of the harbour to 
Boulogne-roads, the winds having abated. 
- Hence a fufpicion arifes of their having a 
defign to put to fea. 
The French Papers fay, that the Lords | 
of the Admiralty and Lord Nelfon have 
afferted, in their official account, that the 
advanced guard of the light flotilla, by 
which Lord Nelfon was beaten on the 15th 
of Auguft, was chained to the land. It 
is faid, alfo, in this account, that the 
Englith were repelled by the land-batteries, 
and that theEnglifh failors were for a long 
time on board of the gun-boats. Both 
thefe affertions, they contend, are com- 
pletely falfe. The advanced guard could 
not be moored to the bank, from which it 
was diftant five hundred toifes. Its an- 
chors were attached by the ordinary cables. 
The Englith tried to board, but they were 
every where repulfed. The land-batteries 
never fired at all. How could they have 
done fo, in the darknefs of the night, 
without running the hazard of firing upon 
the French? The Englifh were repulfed 
by the bayonets of the 42d, 57th, and — 
103th demi-brigades. 
I Satement 
