STATE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS, 
In November, 
( 473 ) 
1805. 
TO 
BRITISH EMPIRE. 
MONG the mott eminent inftances of 
the zeal with which all hearts are 
here united againtt the enemies of the na- 
tioral independence, is the creation of a 
Patriotic Fund at Lloyd’s, to reward ex- 
craordinary deeds ot heroiim, and to relieve 
the {urviving parents or children, perfons 
who bravely fall in the defence of their 
country.— Phe manag-rs of that fund have 
dately done an aét of fignal encourage- 
ment to naval officers, by assigning an 
annuity of gol. a year to the widow of 
the jate Lieutenant Scott, and another of 
aol. a year to his infant fon. Lieute- 
nant Scott fell in a glorious a€tion, which 
he fought, as Commander of the Prince(s 
Auguita, armed cutter, with two Dutch 
privateers. Twohundred pounds tterling 
were alfo prefented to Mr. Themas, who 
acted as matter and commander of the 
cutter in the fame action. | Other fimilar 
compenfations have been, with equal mu- 
nificence, yoted from the fund to others of 
eur gallant naval defenders. 
The force upon the coaiis of Great 
Britain and Ireland has been (iill further 
{ivengthened in the courle of the month 
of November. The garriion at Plymouth 
confiils of net fewer than 13,700. land- 
men, befides 1500 {eamen and marines. 
For the defence of the Humber, one bail 
tery has been lately ereGted at Pasul 
Point, in Hojdernefs ; two othew are to 
be built oppofite to it, in Lincolsthire. 
Officers have been named tu reculate the 
conveyance of the cattle trem the coaf, 
for Pevensey Rape, if the French thouid 
effect a landing there. 
At Glafgow, the ladies have liberally 
contrivuted ter the purchafe of flannel 
wailtcoats for the ule of the volunteers. 
~—At Aberdeen, it has been found, that 
there wasa remaikable deficiency of am. 
munition and military ftores—In Perth- 
fhire, confiderable diflatisfa&tion has been 
lately exprefled, that fo few of the men 
able to bear arms, fhould have been 
aliowed by Government to embody them- 
felves as volunteers.—New aflociations 
have been formcd in Scotland forthe pros 
tection of property, in the event of an 
invafion. The Colonel of the firft bat. 
talion of the Edinburgh Volunteers, feve- 
veral weeks fince, iflued orders, inftruG@- 
ing the gentlemen of the battalion, inde. 
tail, how they thould ;.repare for actual 
fervice, and how aét,under orders, to make 
their fervice the moit effective, if called 
out to opsole an enemy Licut.-General 
Vyfe has, with the greate vigilance and 
activity, jaboured to prepare the whole 
military force in North Britain for the 
moft. prompt, effective, and fteadv fer- 
vice. And, that no advantage of he- 
roiim and generalihip might be wanting 
for the defence of a pare of the ifland, 
which has becn fuppoled to be more efpe« 
cially threatened, the Earl of Moira, 
whom the withes of his country have, of 
late, called to employment with the ut- 
mott earneitneis and impatience, has been 
appointed to the chief command jn Scot- 
land, has already gone to Ldinburgh, is 
on the watch at his poit, and infpir-s, by 
his prefence, new galiantry and confidence 
in the troops, and in the people. “Beacons 
have been put up on the coaits, that they 
may be in readmefs on any alarm. 
At Sea, the naval force and vigilance 
are, at leaft, not {mater than on land. 
One hundred and ninety-three fhips of the 
lize, twenty-five of titty guns each; 217 
frigates, and 230 floops, are the whole 
number of our thips at this time in and 
out of commiifion. Sir Sydney Smith 
is, with a iquadren of five thips of war, 
off the Texel. He lately drove tweive 
armed vefieis of the enemy cn fhore on 
the coait of Holland. Of thefe, three 
were taken. The Dutch complain, inther 
newfoapers, that the, Englith take their 
gun-boats even when theie have been run 
a ground on the fhore ; and that parties 
of Britith tailors, from time to time, land, 
carry off the cattle, and fpread alarm ~ 
through the villages, Many of the Dutch 
fihing-boats are now taken; for, fince 
they are liable to be converted into gun- 
boats and invafion tranfports, it is deem- 
ed improper to fuffer them to pafs with- 
out moleitation. The Frend lugger, Les 
Sept Freres, has been detiroyed off Calais, 
by the boats of the Merlin, commanded by 
Capte 
