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pregnable, on the firft of April was ef- 
fected ; «and immediately . communicated 
to the world, by that great and gallant 
officer, Sir Hyde Parker. 
WES? INDIES. 
Letters received from one of the Weft- 
India fleet, under the convoy of La To- 
paze, of 32 guns, Captain G. Church, 
dated Funchal. Roads, the 25th of March, 
fiate, that go fail of that fleet had ar- 
rived fafe there, after the gale of the 
. 29th of January, in the Bay ; and that 
Admiral Sir R. Calder’s fqadron, of 
five fail of the line and one frigate, was 
off there lying to. 
AMERICA. 
«Mr. Jefferfon has’ taken his feat as 
‘Prefident of the United States, and has 
addreffed the Congrefs in an animated, 
‘but cautious fpeech, upon the internal 
difputes which have lately prevailed 
throughout many of the Provinces, and- 
upon the alliances of America with the 
different nations of Europe. This fpeech, 
as we have already obferved, is cautious, 
though fpirited: but it ts obvious, never- 
thelefs, that the new Prefident is more 
inclined to French than to Englifh poli- 
tics. The exprefiion, that ‘* during the 
throes and convulfions of ‘the antient 
world, infuriate man has been feeking 
through blood and flaughter his lozg-loft 
liberty; is language which the mem- 
bers of Congreis have not been accuf- 
tomed to hear from the Chair, and fully 
unfolds a difference between the politi- 
cal bias of the prefent Prefident and his 
predeceffor. 
GREAT BRITAIN. 
At midnight on the 15th of April, an 
Extraordinary Gazette was publifhed, an- 
nouncing a complete vittory over theDanes 
by Admiral Sir Hyde Parker. It will 
appear, according to the opinion of Lord 
Nelfon, that the engagement was as fe- 
vere as any one in which his Lordfhip was 
ever engaged. ‘The Danes feemed to have 
made very formidable difpofitions: they 
had aflembled fhips of the line, pontoons, 
gallies, fire-fhips, and gun-boats, which 
were flanked and fupported by extenfive 
batteries, on the two iflands called the 
Crowns , the largeft battery was mounted 
with from fifty to feveniy pieces of can- 
non. Thefe were again commanded by 
two 74’s, two 64’s, and a large frigate. 
‘The Danes were attacked by twelve fail of 
the line and four frigates, commanded by 
Lord Nelfon. ‘The refult was the capture 
or deftruction of eighteen fail of fhips, in- 
State of Public Affairs in April, 18ot. 
[May 1, 
line. Our lofs was confiderable: it con- 
fitted of the death of Captains Mofs and 
Riou, two very brave and gallant officers ; 
Sir Thomas Thompfon had his leg thot off; 
and 94.3 were killed and wounded. After 
the Danifh line had been deftroyed, Lord 
Nelfon approached the city of Copenhagen, 
into which fome bombs were thrown ; but 
the Danes apprehending, and indeed fee- 
ing, that our fleet could with eafe lay the 
whole capital in afhes, fent a flag of truce 
on board Lord Nelfon’s fhip. In confe- 
quence of the propofitions made by the 
Danifh Government, his Lordfhip went ° 
on fhore, and waited upon the Crown- 
Prince. A negociation was immediately 
entered into. Admiral Sir Hyde Parker, 
according to intelligence from Copenha- 
gen, which arrived in England the zoth of 
fipril, has made an armiftice with the 
Danes for fourteen weeks. 
The principal bufinefs of the Imperial 
Parliament fince our laft Number,has been 
as follows : : 
Mi. Grey, on the 26th of March, rofe, 
purfuant to the notice which he had gi- 
ven, to bring forward a motion for the 
Howle to refolve itfelf into’ a Committee 
to confider of the ftate of the nation. In 
doing this it would be necefflary to take a 
copious view of the aéctual fituation of the 
country, as well with refpeét to its foreign 
relations, as to its numerous domeftic 
concerns ; the whole of which, in his opi- 
nion, combined to render the prefent ftate 
of the nation alarming and perilous be- 
yond all precedent. We had, on former 
occafions, been told, that to propofe a ge- 
neral inquiry, was to condemn altogether 
the proceedings of theGovernment; where- - 
as, if any guilt attached to the conduét of 
his Majefty’sMinifters, their crimes fhould 
be made the fubjeét of a diftinét and parti- 
cular charge. It was not at prefent necef- 
fary to notice the numberlefs errors of the 
late Adminiftration, or the manifeft mif- 
fortunes which their condu&t had brought 
upon the nation ; but he would afk, would 
any man ftand up in the face of that Houfe 
and of the Country, and fay that he was 
fatished with the wifdom of their mea- _ 
fures, or the integrity of their principles ? 
Throughout the whole courfe of the war 
every part of their proceedings, as well 
with refpeét to the immediate interefts of 
the country, as to their tranfactions with — 
fereign powers, had been one continued 
{cene of improvidence and impolicy ; and 
if any one could be found really fatisfied 
with fuch proceedings, he could not envy 
cluding in that number feven fail of the « the feelings which would lead him to vote 
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