624 
for the University of Oxford, in licu of 
-the late Duke of Portland. The num- 
bers stood thus:— 
Lord Grenville . . « 406 
Lord Elder) o> eve =) aa 
Duke of Beaufort . . 253 
The disputes relative to the advanced 
prices at Covent Garden Theatre, have 
been terminated; partly by a compro- 
mise, and partly by the submission, of 
the managers. 
Mr., Wanpir having been again de- 
feated in his attempt to seek justice in 
the Court of King’s Bench, the public 
have taken up his cause as their own, 
and a subscription has been set on foot 
to indemnify him from all losses which 
his private fortune may have sustained in 
consequence of his exposition of the 
abuses in certain dependants of the 
state. 
A sharp contest took place in the 
eourse of the month in the Common 
Council of London, relative to the terms 
of an Address which it was unanimously 
avreed, ought to be presented to his Ma- 
jesty : the following was the form agreed 
en :— 
To the King’s Most Excellent Majesty. 
The Humble, Loyal, and Dutiful, Address 
an¢ Petition of the Lord Mayor, Alder- 
men, and Commons, of the City of Lon- 
don, in Common Council assembled :—= 
Most Gracious SOVEREIGN, 
«¢ We, your Majésty’s most faithful, loyal, 
and faithful, subjects, the Lord Mayor, Al- 
dermen, and Commons of the City of London 
in Common Council assembled, most humbly 
approach your Majesty’s saered person, in the 
perfect assurance that your Majesty will gra- 
ciousiy condescend to receive the suggestions 
ef your faithful and loyal Citizens, on sub- 
jects which seriously and deeply affect their 
interests in common with the rest ef your 
Majesty’s people. 
«« We have witnessed with deep regret the 
@isastrous failure of the late Expedition, as 
the magnitude of its equipment had raised 
the just hopes and expectations of the Coun- 
try to some permanent benefit. 
¢¢ And we cannot avoid expressing to your 
Majesty the sorrow and indignation with 
which we are affected, by the unhappy_dis- 
sensions that have prevailed among your Ma- 
jesty’s Ministers; and our fears that such 
dlissensions. may preve eminently prejudicial 
to the best interests of the Nation. 
«© Your Majesty’s faithful Citizens, ac- 
tuated by loyal attachment to your sacred 
person and illustrious house, and solicitous 
tor the honour of your Majesty’s arms, and 
the dignity and solidity ef your Majesty's 
Cuuncils, are deeply impressed with the ne- 
cessity of an early and strict enquiry into the 
gauses of the failure of the late Expedition ; 
State of Public Affairs in December. 
(Jan. ae 
therefore pray your Majesty will direct en- 
quiry to be forthwith instituted, in order to 
ascertain the causes which have occasioned 
ite : 
To which Address and Petition his 
Majesty was pleased to return the tollow- 
Ing answer :—= 
<I thank you for your expressions of duty 
and attachment to me and to my Family. 
‘6 The recent Expedition to the Schelde 
was directed to several objects of great im- 
portance to the interest of my’ Allies, and to ~ 
the security of my dominions. i 
‘© ] regret that, of these objects, a part 
only has been accomplished. 
‘¢ IT have not judged it to be necessary te 
direct any Military Enquiry into the conduct 
of my Commanders by sea or land, in this 
conjoint service. 
¢¢ It will be for my Parliament, in their 
wisdom, to ask for such information, or to 
take such measures upon this subject as they 
shall judge most conducive to the public 
good.” e 
A French Fleet and convoy have been . 
destroyed or dispersed in the Mediterra- 
nean, by tle British Fleet under Lord 
Collingwood. ‘The particulars are given 
in the following London Gazette Extra- 
ordinary. 
Admiralty Office, Nov. 20. 
The Hon. Lieutenant William Walde- 
grave, of the Ville de Paris, arrived here 
this morning with dispatches from Vice- 
Admiral Lord Collingwood, commander- 
in-chief of his Majesty’s ships and vessels 
in the Mediterranean, addressed to the 
Honourable William Wellesley Pole, of 
which the following are copies. 
Ville de Paris, off St. Sebastian, Oct. 30. 
Str,—By my letter of the 16th of Sep- 
tember, their Lordships would be informed of 
the intelligence I had received relative to the 
intended movements of the French squadron, 
and of my reasons fur changing my station te 
St. Sebastian. 
While on this station, on the night of the 
99d. inst, the Pomone joined, and Captain 
Barrie (who, with indefatigable perseverance, 
had, withthe Alceste, watched the port of | 
Toulon) informed me, that the day before, 
seyeral of the enemy’s squadron had put to 
sea, that others were: coming out when he 
left them, and that there’ was every appear- 
ance of the whole fleet being on the move 
from the harbour. They had a numerous 
convoy with them, and as this movement was 
made with the first of an easterly wind, there 
was little doubt of their being bound to the 
westward. I immediately made the necessary 
sigfals for the squadron to be prepared for 
their reception, and placed the three frigates 
and sloop (Pomone, Hydra, Volontaire, and 
Minstrel,) to windward, to give notice of the 
enemy’s approach, } 
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