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Mr. Skelton alfo is engraving a number 
of very fine fubjeét for the Dilitanti So- 
ciety, from the Drawings of Howard and 
Tendi; they are copied from flatues and 
bufts in the coileétions of Lord Egremont 
and Mr. Townley, and comprife fome of 
the fineft antiquities in this country. The 
head of Jupiter, the Silenus, and the’ 
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State of Public Affairs in May, ior. 
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Faun, are in the moft pure flyle of art ; 
and Howard, by the fedulous alténtion he 
paid to fuch ‘fabje&s during his refidence 
in Rome, is perhaps better qualified than 
any of tne young men we now for 
making copies that give a perfect i idea of 
the originals, as they unite purity of taite 
to corre€tnels of outline. 
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In May, 1801. 
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FRANCE, 
N Adjutant from the Firk Gantt 
arrived at Dunkirk about the mid- 
dle of May, with orders to haften the 
equipment of the veffels in that port, fup- 
pofed to be deftined for a defcent on Bnee 
Jand. There are encamped betwee 
Dunkirk ahd Nieuport a body of Dogs 
men, who are to embark in veffels which 
are arming in thofe ports. The flotilla 
which is preparing at Dunkirk, is to 
confit of four frigates, each mounting 44 
guns, ~a number of corvettes, floops,- and 
brigs, and. o:- fix flat-bottomed and gun- 
boats. Thefe and other veffels were 
built three years ago, when there was an 
intention of effecting a defcent on Eng- 
land, and are of a new conftruction. At 
one of the extremities there is a bridge, 
which can be lowered or raifed at pleafure, 
and which is to ferve to facilitate the de- 
barkation of the troops when they ap- 
proach near the coaft.. There are 170 
flat gun-vefiels at Sr. Maloes, which have 
been lying there two years, built on the 
plan of La Bomparde, taken fome time 
fince and brvaght into Plymouth. They 
can carry 160 troops, row 60 oars, and 
are flat-bottomed to ran plump a-fhore. 
Intelligence has arrived from Paris, of 
the advanced- guard of the French army 
having entered Spain, onits march againtt 
Portugal. ‘Chis information is commu- 
nitated in the following letter, from Ge- 
peral Monnet to Ganeval Leclerc, dated 
Burgos, April 28th. ‘© The -advanced- 
guard arrived two days ago at Burgos. 
We have been every where received with 
the moft marked dittin@iion. The troops 
are placed in good quarters—the maga- 
zines are well fupplied for two months, 
and the provifions are of the beft quality, 
We attend mals on Sunday with the re- 
gimental military mufic, a meafure which 
has acquired for us the affections of the 
cee and diffipated all. the prejudices 
2PS, 
entertain. To-morrow the,King of 
Tufcany is to pals through this place, 
and I: fhall receive him with military 
honours.” The Spanifh army is tated 
to be on the fronticrs of Portugal. Iran 
aétion between the advanced po be the 
Portuguefe lof feveral hundred prifoners. 
Intelligence has been receivedfromParis, | 
dated. May 13, ftating, that a circular let 
ter has been fent to shel Magiltrates of the 
Interior, to ufe all diligence in taking up 
_the feamen who may have fled from. the 
fea-port towns, as tse contemplated in- 
vation of England, at all points, can 
only be effected by the help of feamen. 
We underfand from Hamburg. that 
on the 30th of ‘April an agreement was 
concluded ‘between the Prince of Hefle, as - 
Danifh General, Mr. Schultz, the Pruffian 
Envoy, and Sirjames Crawfurd,theBritifh 
Minifter, at the Danish head-quarters, 
near Hamburg, that the Elbe ihall be 
again open to ali-fligs wit nput exceptions 
but that Englith pe fles mult be provided 
for all Greenland veflels from Alona and 
Gluckftadt, and veilels from the Danifla 
harbours on the Elbe, with corn, &¢. for 
Norway. 
The French papers give the following 
as the heads of a pian for! an expedizion 
againft the Britifh Power in laaia, and 
which, itis faid,~has been propofed to the 
French Government: ** That France, 
Rufhia, and Auftria-fhall co-operate in the 
enterprize; that France and Ruffa, in 
conjunction, march an army ‘of 70,000 
men to’ the Banks of the Indus ;. that 
Auttria allow the French troops to march 
through its territories, and affift their de- 
fcent down the Danube to the Black Sea; 
that a Ruffian army of 35,000 nen, fhail, 
with the fame view, affemble at Altracan 5 
25,000. of them being regular troops, 
and 30,000 Cotiacks ; that this body of 
troops fhall be conveyed on the Cafpian 
Sea to Aftrabad, there to wait the arri- 
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