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The fhip corvette is in the harbour, but fo damaged as to be unfit for fervice.

"The gun-boat remains funk and deftroyed.

"The enemy loft feveral killed and wounded in the two veffels.

"In the fort five foldiers were killed and two guns difmounted, and fome wounded; two or three houfes much fhattered."

We were off Sable d'Olonne on the 26th, and saw the ship in the harbour. [Here follows a return of killed and wounded.]

Extra of another Letter from Commodore Sir John B. Warren, K. B. to the Right Hon. Lord Bridport, dated on board the Pomone at Sea, the 23d of August 1797.

I BEG leave to inform your Lordfhip, that on the 23d inft. I chafed and drove upon the coaft of Ifle Dieu, L'Egalité armed chasse marée, of four fix-pounders and eight fwivels, and which we afterwards got off.

La Pomone, at Sea, Sept. 6, 1797.

MY LORD,

Diable, a very fine veffel, pierced for 19 or 20 guns, and 100 men comple

ment.

The prizes are laden with fhip-timber, rofin, and tar, and were intended to fit out privateers from the enemy's prin cipal ports upon the coaft.

I have the honour to be, &c. (Signed) JOHN WARREN. Right Hon. Lord Bridport, K. B. &c. &c. &c.

[Here follows a Lift of fixteen merchant veffels and one veffel of war captured, and of fix merchant veffels and five veffels of war deftroyed; with a letter from Vice-Admiral Kingfmill, ftating the capture of a French pri vateer.]

Copy of a Letter from Capt. Thomas Wolley, Commander of his Majefly's Ship Areißufa, to Evan Nepean, Efq. dated at Spithead, Sept. 13, 1797.

I AM to acquaint you, that on the 20th of Auguft, being in lat. 30 deg. 49 min. and long. 55 deg. 50 min. hav ing in tow a fhip under Pruffian colours from Surinam, which I have detained, fufpecting her to be Dutch pro

I BEG leave to inform your Lord-perty, we perceived, at day light, three fhip, that I continued fteering for the mouth of the Garonne, and on the 27th ult. being to the fouthward of the river, a number of veffels were seen in the fouth-weft quarter. I made the fignal for a general chace, and continued until night, when, from the Triton being far advanced a-head, and the Jafon to windward, the fhips kept the enemy in fight after the approach of night. Owing to the exertions of Cap. tains Gore and Stirling, five of them were captured.

At two A. M. being near the fhore, a cutter was feen at anchor, that had accompanied the convoy, and one of the boats of this fhip was fent to her; but being ordered to keep off, and fecing the was a veffel of force returned. I flood in after her, and upon our firing a few shot, one of which cut away her maft, fhe flipt her cable, and run among the breakers upon the coaft of Ar. caffon, and into a moft tremendous furf that broke on board her, and muft have ftove her to pieces. She at laft drove through, and I fancy feveral of her crew were drowned, and as the tide left her, she fell over; the remainder of her men, about go in number, got on fhore. She was called Le Petit VOL. XXXII, DEC. 1797.

fail to windward of us, one of which, deceived by our appearance, bore down upon us, under French colours, to within half gun-fhot, when he began than half an hour before the attempted to fire, which the continued for more to escape. We were, however, fortunate enough to have fo difabled her in that time as to render her endeavours be La Gaieté, French corvette, of 20 fruitless. On ftriking the proved to French eight-pounders and 186 men, commanded by M. Guinée, Enfeigne de Vaiffeau. She is a very hand fome hip, and quite new, this being her first voyage. She left France in April laft for Cayenne, which laft place the failed from about four weeks before we fell in with her, in company with the L'Espoir, ward during the action, and food away a brig of 14 guns, who kept to wind

as foon as the faw the fate of La Gaieté.

They had not taken any thing. I am forry to have to add a lift of killed and wounded.

[Here follows a return of the killed

and wounded on board the English and French hips, and a letter from Rear-Admiral Harvey, Rating the capture of one Dutch and two French privateers.]

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ADMIRALTY-OFFICE, SEPT. 18, 1797. [This Gazette ftates the capture of one Spanith and one French privateer and thit one French privateer had been funk.]

ADMIRALTY-OFFICE, SEPT. 22, 1797: [This Gazette ftates the capture of one Dutch and two French privateers.] ADMIRALTY-OFFICE, SEPT. 25, 1797.

[This Gazette ftates the capture of two French privateers, and the deftruction of one.]

[ FROM OTHER PAPERS.]

PARIS, NOV. 23.

AT the last review of General Bernadette's divifion, that General thus addrefled the Republicans who compofe it :

"Soldiers! Peate is concluded! In looking at this divifion, one is almoft forry to hear this news; but we shall fcon return to France, to enjoy the fruit of our labours and our triumphs. There you will take fome repofe; and we fhall afterwards march to attack England, when the expedition against the Government of that country thall be ready.

"Soldiers! our Republic must be detroyed, or that power, our most cruel enemy, mult difappear from the face of the Glooe! I rely on you. We shall

crofs the fea, and finally conclude a lafting peace on the banks of the Thames !"* land is created: it is commanded by the PARIS, Nov. 26. The Army of EngConqueror of Italy. After having reitored peace to the Continent, France is at length about to employ all her activity against the tyrants of the feas. Such is even the nature of our pofition, that with our military peace establishment, we may force the English to incur all the expences of a war establishment. Two armies of

fifty thousand men each, ftationed at two different points, may keep them in a con. ftant ftate of alarm. In vain will they blockade the Texel, Breft and Cadiz: their fleets in fuch a predicament are a bad fecurity. This has been proved by Hoche's expedition: it is therefore necellary that they fhould also cover their coafts with two powerful armies. Such are the ridiculous gafconades of the French!

DEC. 8. Lord Grenville is stated on Wednesday to have laid before the King a dfipatch from Lisbon, purporting that the Court of Portugal, in confequence of the turn of affairs, had determined to con clude a Treaty of Peace with the French Republick, and that her Moft Faithful Majefty had fent off to Paris a quantity of diamonds, to the value of near 400,000l. fterling, as an earnest of her fincerity.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE.

DECEMBER 4.

THIS evening Corporal Evans, of the Saturn's marines, and Dickfon, boatswain's yeoman of the fame ship, on whom fentence of death was paffed last July, were conveyed on board the Marlborough, 74 guns, Capt. Eliton, lying in the Sound. The death warrant having arrived on Sunday, with the opinion of the twelve Judges. Tuefday morning at eight o'clock, the yellow flag, fignal for execution, was hoifted on board the Cambridge, and repeated by the Marlborough, when all boats of the fleet, manned and armed, proceeded aftern of the Marlborough. The unhappy men, after fome time spent in prayer, went upon deck, to the platform on the forecastle; kneeling on the platform for fome minutes, the Provoft-Martial hauled their caps over their faces, when at eleven o'clock, mak

ing the fignal by dropping an handkerchief the fatal gun fired, and they were inftantly launched into eternity. The Rev. Mr. Hughes, chaplain to the Dockyard, has attended thefe unhappy men thefe four months, with unremitting allduity and attention. They were very penitent, and harangued yesterday the Cambridge's thip company previous to their leaving her, warniny them of the fad effects of muting and piracy which had brought them to this untimely end. Their bodies, after hanging the ufual time were lowered into their coffins, and conveyed to the Royal Hospital for in

terment.

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evidence, that the deceased was ac. quainted with the prifoner, and that the had called at her lodgings that morning. Soon after, the mittrefs of the house heard a fcuffle and groaning: the called two neighbours, and, going to the prifoner's door, which was locked, afked what was the matter? the replied, the woman was only in a fit, and that the was getting better. She opened the door a little, when the witnelles faw the was bloody: two persons went for a Doctor, and a third pushing open the door, faw the deceafed bleeding upon the ground-fhe ran down ftairs, crying murder, and, to her great terror, was followed by the wounded woman, who laid hold of her; Mrs. Benfon came down after the deceated was got into the kitchen, where the was when the Surgeons and Beadles came-she was unable to speak, but yet made herself understood by one of the beadles, that she had been thus wounded by the woman up flairs. He went up to the prifoner, who was fitting on the bed, and faid to her, "For God Almighty's fake, what have you done to the woman below? She anfwered, "I don't know; I believe the devil and pallion bewitched me." There was part of a finger and a cafe knife lying upon the table;-he faid, "Is this the knife you did the woman's business with? -She anfwered, Yes."-"Is this your finger?-Yes."-"Did the woman below cut it off? Yes ;" but this the deceafed denied, upon his afterwards queftioning her with it.-The Surgeon defcribed the de cealed to have received five ftabs upon the throat and neck, befides feveral wounds in different parts of the body, and agreed with the Surgeon who afterwards attended her in the Hospital, that thofe wounds were undoubtedly the caule of her death. The day after, the deccafed made a declaration before a Magiftrate, wherein the itated, that she had purchafed of the prifoner a gold watch, and other articles, for which the paid eleven pounds, and then afked for a china coffee-cup, which stood upon the chimney-piece, into the bargain;-the prifoner bid her take one; but, in doing fo, the tabbed her in the neck, and afterwards had her under her hands more than an hour, fhe calling murder all the time, till at last he got her upon the bed, when the faid the would kill her outright, that he might not tell her own story.

The prifoner, in her defence, faid that the decealed wanted to purchafe only part of the things which the wanted to difpofe of, and, upon her refusing to divide them,

she became angry, and faid that the only wanted the money to go to London to be Courtoi's Miftrefs again :-The prifoner replied, that was a lie; for she never had been Courtoi's mistress :-the deceafed retorted, that it had been proved fo at the Old Bailey. She faid, that was a damned lie; and from this they both proceeded to very abufive language, and much violence. There were two knives. laying upon the table; the deceased took up one, and, making a violent blow at the prifoner, cut off one of her fingers. In the heat of her paion, full of pain, and freaming with blood, he stabbed her but folemnly declared the had no recollection of what paffed afterwards, until the found herfelf in her own room, covered with blood. "This," the faid, "was the truth; the deceafed, if alive, muft confefs the had been molt in fault, and that which affected her the most was that he had done her any injury." The landlady where the deceated lived, and another perfon, to whom he was well known, proved that the had a great respect for the prifoner, and had often heard her declare the believed the prifoner had the fame for her. The Jury, after being out twenty minutes, returned a verdict Guilty.

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While Baron Perryn was paffing fentence, Mrs. Phipoe faid, "Speak out, Sir, I am not afraid." When he came to the concluding words, "The Lord have mercy on your foul," the neered apparently in a bitter fpirit, and faid,

She had no confidence in his mercy." On being fearched when taken out of Court, a large bottle of Laudanum was taken from her pocket by Mr. Kirby.

On monday morning the was executed before the debtors door, Newgate, purfuant to her fentence. She behaved with proper decorum, and was attended by a Roman Catholic Priest. She left a guinea for the most deferving debtor in the gaol, aud gave the fame fun to the executioner. After hanging an hour in the view of a great number of spectators, one-third of whom were females, the body was cut down, and delivered to the furgeons for diffe&tion,

8. Sitting before Lord Kenyon and Special Jury.-Williams, v. Faulder.The Plaintiff defcribed himself to be an Author by profeffion; that he had published many much admired works, but in confequence of a publication of the Defendant, who was a bookfeller in Bondftreet, his character had been greatly injured; and, therefore, this action was Liia

brought

brought to recover a compenfation in da

mages.

Mr. Erskine made fome general obfer vations on the nature of libels, and on the value of character and reputation. He complained of the Defendant's publication for ftating, among other things, that Anthony Pafquin (which it feems means the Plaintiff Williams, as he has publifhed feveral works under that name) was loft to every fenfe of decency and foame: and that his acquaintance was infamy, and bis touch poifon.

The publication being proved, Mr. Garrow, for the Defendant, produced a number of books, which he proved were written by the Plaintiff, after which he proceeded to fhew that they were fo immoral and infamous, that their author had no right to come into a Court of Juftice for damages. The Plaintiff had libelled every body, from the Royal Family, down almost to the meanest of their fubjects; and unless he reformed his manners a little, it would be abfolutely necessary to bring him to a fevere punish

ment.

Lord Kenyon interpofed before the Learned Counfel had finished his addrefs, and thought the caufe ought to ftop there. He told the Jury they were to say, whether a man fo exhibited to them, as the Plaintiff had been, had a right to call for damages in a Court of Justice. What right had fuch a fellow to find fault with that publication, when all the libel attached on him as Anthony Pafquin-a name he had put to writings of the most infamous nature. His Lordfhip hoped that fomething might be done that fuch a wretch might not go unbridled in fociety. -Verdi for Defendant.

We understood Mr. Anthony Pafquin hai brought forty Actions against different Bookfellers, laying his damages at oool, in each.-The event of the whole is determined by this one.

PROCESSION TO ST. PAUL'S. 19. Yesterday their Majesties and the Royal Family, accompanied by all the Officers of State, the Houfe of Peers and Commons, the Lord Mayor, Court of Aldermen, and Common Council of the City attended Divine Service at St.Paul's Cathedral.

The feamen and marines began the proceffion with two colours taken from the French, three from the Spaniards, and four from the Dutch; they were carried

on military waggons, and each fet fol. lowed by a party of Lieutenants on foot, who had ferved in the different engage ments in which they had been won.

A very large detachment of marines, with mufic playing, followed.

Admiral Lord Duncan, fifteen other Admirals, and Captain Sir Henry Trol lope, in their carriages, brought up the rear of this part of the proceffion.

Lieutenant-Colonel Burn, fenior Captain of marines in Lord St. Vincent's ac tion, Captain Cuthbert of the Ardent, and ten Naval Lieutenants, on foot.

The Commons, the Speaker with his Mace Bearer and Chaplain, Knights Marshalmen, Clerk of the Crown, Masters of Chancery, the twelve Judges, the Peers according to rank, youngest Baron and Senior Duke in the rear.

Lord High Chancellor.

Soon after ten their Majefties entered their carriage at St. James's, and the proceffion began with the Dukes of Gloucefter, York and Clarence, and their refpective households. Queen's and King's houfehold. Their Majetties. Princefies and attendants.

The Lord Mayor met their Majesties at Temple Bar, and presented the King with the fword of the city, who returned it to him back again.

The two Sheriffs and four of the Common Council preceded the King to the Cathedral.

He was received by the Sheriffs, the Lord Mayor carrying the sword immediately before him. The Common Council, Aldermen, Peers in robes, attended by the King at Arms and other Officers met their Majefties. Gentlemen Penfioners being in waiting, the Sword of State was carried before the King and Queen into the Choir, when under a Canopy they feated themselves on the Throne of State oppofite the altar.

The area was filled with Peers, the ftalls with Commons; upper galleries received the Ladies of her Majesty's Bedchamber, Maids of Honour, &c. and the lower were occupied by the Foreign Ambailadors.

The proceffion returned through the Strand at three o'clock, but not in the order it went, their Majefties preceding the rest of the Royal Family.

The twenty carriages of itate employed 122 horfes. Their Majefties were every where treated with proper refpe&t.

MONTHLY

MONTHLY OBITUARY.

OCTOBER 21.

At Tackley Park, Oxfordshire, Sir John

AT Ticknall, Worcestershire, Francis In- Whalley Smythe Gardiner, bart.

gram, efq. one of the benchers of the

Inner Temple.

Lately, the Rev. William Paddon, rector of Greenford Magna in Middlesex, and formerly fellow of King's College, Cambridge, where he took the degrees of B. A. 1764, and M. A. 1767.

NOVEMBER 9. At Seifton, in Shropshire, aged 33, the Rev. James Woodhoufe, rector of Culmington, and juftice of peace for Shropshire.

Lately, Bartholomew Williams, efq. lieutenant-colonel in the army, and major of the Portsmouth divifion of marines, by a fall from his horfe.

12. In his paffage to Lisbon, John Heylin, efq. of Highbury Terrace, Islington.

13. At his feat in the county of Rofcommon, the Right Honourable Edward Earl of Kingston.

At Stockwell, in his 94th year, Caleb Woodinge, efq. formerly of the South Sea House.

14. The Rev. Jofeph Milner, A. M. vicar of the Holy Trinity Church, and 30 years mafter of the Free Grammar School in Hull, in the 53d year of his age. He was the author of "Gibbon's Account of Christianity confidered; together with fome Strictures on Hume's Dialogues concerning Natural Re ligion," Svo. 1781.

15. Marcus Beresford, efq. member of parliament for Dungarvon, one of his majefty's council, and first counsel to the com. miffioners of the revenue in Ireland.

Ar Rye, in Suffex, Mr. John Haddock, merchant, eldest son of Captain Haddock.

16. At Pitstow Lodge, near Rofs, Herbert Abraham Lloyd, efq. of Carthage, in Herefordshire.

17. At Peterborough, in his 87th year, the Rev. William Brown, D. D. archdeacon Northampton, rector of Peakirk with Glinton in Northamptonshire, prebendary of Peterborough cathedral, and one of his maJefty's juftices of peace.

Mr. William Kaye, of Clayton, near Wakefield.

At Leominster, Benjamin Fallowes, efq. attorney at law, and clerk of the peace for the county of Hereford.

Ralph Smith, gent. of Throgmorton near Worcester.

18. At Holywell, in Lincolr fhire, in his 93d year, Samuel Reynardfon, efq. one of the fix clerks of the court of chancery.

At Deal, Capt. Young, late of his majesty's fhip Overyffel.

Mr. Kirk, an eminent artist.

19. Stephen Arundel, efq. of Huntingdon. Lately, at Cork, the Rev. Theodofius Herbert, of the order of St. Francis.

20. In Duke's court, St. Martin's lane, Roger Payne, the celebrated bookbinder. Gerard De Visne, efq. at his feat at Wimbledon, Surry.

At Carrongate, Edinburgh, Captain Alexander Donald, of the 41ft regiment of invalids.

21. At Wisbech, Mr. Richard Moorfom, ship-owner of that place.

22. In Devonshire-street, Portland place, the Rev. Charles Cowley, rector of Goldhanger, Effex.

In Park-ftreet, Edinburgh, Lady Mary Irvine.

At the Nath, near Fownhope, Herefordfhire, John Kidley, M. A. rector of Westbury upon Severn.

Mr. William Scott, banker, at Edinburgh. Lately, at Corby, Lincolnshire, Mr. Thos. Sleigh, about 30 years fteward to Lord Arundel.

23. At Mile-end, Captain John Barford. At Scorton, John Bower, efq.

At Greenock, Mr. Alexander Tait, joint furveyor of the customs.

Mr. Thos. Wright, of Eaton, near Melton Mowbray, in his 82d year. He had for more than half a century compiled Moore's and other almanacks.

24. At Croydon, in Surry, John Thomas Meffage, efq. in the 45th year of his age.

At Bofwarne, near Falmouth, John Boulderfon the elder, aged 82 years, formerly commander of one of the packets.

At Glasgow, in his 96th year, John Bow man, efq, of Afhgrove, late lord provost of that city.

At Whitby, Capt. George Atty, of the Whitby battalion of volunteers.

25. At Whitworth, near Durham, Robert Shafto, efq. formerly member for that county.

At Donnington, the Rev. Thos. Mills, rector of Habberley.

Ifaac Minors, furgeon, of Chancery-lane, Holborn.

In Lower Brook-ftreet, Mifs Ann Walpole, fifter to Lord Walpole.

At Bath, in his 76th year, and 40th of epifcopacy, the Rt, Rev. Charles Walmesley,

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