feigne de Vaiffeau and eight feamen wounded, fome of them feverely. The fails and rigging of the Princess Charlotte are much cut, which was evidently the aim of both veffels. She had one man killed and fix wounded, one of them mortally.-I have every reafon to be fatisfied with the officers and fhip's company (at the time above 30 fhort of complement) upon this Occurrence. To Mr. P. Warner, the Ift Lieutenant (whofe exertions I have been deprived of fince he took poffeffion of the Cyane, owing to a fevere bruife he received by the falling of her main-yard); I am much indebted.-The Naiad and Cyane left Martinique on the 29th ult. ftored and victualled for three months, but had made no capture.

I am, &c.

GEORGE TOBIN. Copy of an Enclosure from Vice-Admiral Dacres, Commander-in-Chief at Jamaica, to W. Marsden, Efq.

SIR,

His Majefty's Sloop Rein Deer, off
Cape Mayze, Sept. 20, 1805.

I have the fatisfaction to acquaint you, that, on the 13th inft. after a chafe of upwards of fix hours, I captured the French privateer Renommée, of two 6 pounders and 40 men, belonging to St. Domingo, but laft from Bartacoa, and had not taken any thing.-Much credit is due to the Rein Deer's ship's company, for their Itrong exertions at the fweeps during the whole chafe in a very hot day.

I have the honour to be, &c.
JOHN FYFFE.

ADMIRALTY OFFICE, DEC. 14. Tranfmitted by Admiral Cornwallis. His Majefty's Skip L'Egyptienne, at Sea, the 20th of Nov. 1805.

SIR,

I have the honour to acquaint you, that his Majesty's fhip under my command has this day captured, after a chase of nine hours, the Spanish letter of marque, la Paulina, of 12 guns, eight of which the threw overboard in the chafe. This veffel had failed from Paffages, in Spain, and had stood to the northward to avoid the British cruifers off that coat. I believe The was bound to the West Indies, where the could not have failed to have done great damage to our trade, as he fails remarkably fast.

I have the honour to be, &c. C. FLEMING. Hon. Admiral Cornwallis, &c. &c.

TUESDAY, DEC. 24.

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[This Gazette contains a letter from Rear-Admiral Cochrane, Commander-inChief of his Majefty's fhips and vessels at the Leeward Islands, enclosing a letter from Captain P. W. Champain, of his majesty's fhip Jafon, dated in Carlisle Bay, Barbadoes, Oct. 15, 1805, and of the French National corvette Naiad. nouncing the capture, after a partial action, October, in lat. 14.5 long. 55.48. The The capture took place on the 13th of prize was commanded by M. Hamon, pierced for 22 guns, mounting 16 long 12-pounders, with 4 brafs 2-pound swivels, and had on board 170 men, one of whom was killed in the action. She had been out fifteen days from Martinique, and taken nothing. She had previously escaped from many of our cruizers.

Alfo a letter from Capt. Lobb, of his majefty's fhip Pomone, announcing the capture, on the 5th of November, of the Golondrina Spanish lugger privateer, of 4 guns and 29 men, belonging to Corunna. She was taken clofe in with Guardia, had been out fix weeks, and had taken nothing.

his Majefty's floop Curieux, dated Lisbon, And a letter from Capt. Johnstone, of Dec. 2d, ftating the capture of the Brilliano Spanish lugger privateer, of 5 guns and 35 men, commanded by Don Jofeph Advis. She was taken 13 leagues wett of Cape Selleiro, on the 25th Nov. and two days before had captured the English brig Mary from Lynn with coals bound to Lisbon, and the Nymph brig from Newfoundland, with fish for Vienna.]

ADMIRALTY-OFFICE, DEC. 31. Copy of a Letter from Lieutenant Phillips Crofty Handfield, of His Majefty's Ship the Egyptienne, 10 Admiral Cornwallis. Egyptienne, off Ushant,

SIR,

Dec. 28. I have the bonour to acquaint you with the capture of the French frigate la Libre, on the afternoon of the 24th inftant, off Rochefort, by his Majesty's ships la Loire, Captain F. L, Maitland, and Egyptienne, at prefent under my command, both coming at the fame time, and joining in the attack. La Libre, commanded by Monf. Defcorches, Capitaine de Fregate, mounts 24 18-pounder guns on the main deck, fix 36 pounder carronades, and 10 9pounder guns on the quarter-deck and forecastle, with a complement of 280 men. She fubmitted after an obftinate defence of half an hour, having twenty men killed L 2 and

and wounded, and received fo much damage, that all her mafts went overboard foon after we took poffeffion. She failed from Flushing on the 24th November, in company with a French frigate of 48 guns, from whom the parted in a gale of wind, on the 9th int. on the ccail of Scotland.

I have much pleafure in communicating to you the good conduct of the Officers and men of the Egyptienne in this affair, and have only to regret that the inferior force of the enemy did not give room for the full extent of their fervices.-Enclofed is a lift of the wounded, and I am forry to add that one is fince dead.-Cap. tain Maitland, of la Loire, has taken charge of the prize, from whom I parted on the 25th, when he had her

in tow.

I have the honour to be, &c.

ADMIRALTY-OFFICE, JAN. 14.

Copies of Letters fent by Vice-Admiral Dacres, Commander in Chief on the Jamaica ftation, to William Marfden, Efq.

SIR,

His Majesty's Sloop Swift, Port Royal, Oct. 27, 1805. In confequence of information I received while on my ftation at Honduras, that a fchooner guarda-coita had taken feveral vellels trading to that fettlement, a.. if not captured was likely to do much more mischief, I was determined to detach Mr. James Smith, Second Lieutenant of the Ship I command, with a party of men, to fe what could be effected; and I take the honour to refer you to a perufal of his letter to me for an account of his fuccefs, which for execution and ora very, has been acknowledged to bid fair for protection and countenance.

La Caridad Perfecta is a very fine new veffel, and, in my opinion, every way fit for His Majelty's fervice. I remain, Sir, &c. (Signed) J. WRIGHT. Rear-Admiral Dacres, &c. Port Royal.

P. C. HANDFIELD, Lieutenant.

ADMIRALTY-OFFICE, JAN. II.

SIR,

Copy of a Letter tranfmitted by Sir Edward Pellow, Bart., Rear-Admiral of the Red, &c., to William Marfden, Efq., dated in brand His Majesty's Ship Culloden, in Madras Roads, June, 27, 1805. His Majesty's Sloop Victory, Bufheer Road, May 23 With pleasure I inform your Excellency, that His Majesty's thip Victor, under my command, on the 7th of this month captured les Amis Réunis, a French privateer of filty tons, two long four-pounders, and marned with 38 men, jult within the entrance of the Pertian Gulf, the Coins bearing E. N. E. five or fix leagues; cut eighty days from the Inle of France; had not taken any thing. I was prompted to destroy her by having the convoy in company, which arrived hither fafe three days fince.

I have the honour to be, &c.
GEORGE BELL,

To Sir Edward Pellew, Bart.,
Commander-in-chief, &c.

SIR,

Marianne Schooner, Balize,
Sep. 4, 1805.

I beg leave to acquaint you, that in purfuance of your orders I proceeded with the fchooner you placed under my command to the fouthward; and, while cruising on that ftation, and off the Island of Bonacca, received information from the Carribean fishermen, that a guarda-cofta was at anchor under the batteries of Truxillo, and that fhe had lately captured and carried into that port the fchooner Admiral Duckworth, of Jamaica, with another veffel, name unknown, from Honduras; Į therefore maturely confidered the incalculable injury fuch a vellel might caufe to the fettlement; and conceiving it a duty incumbent on myself to prevent, if poflible, further depredations, fummoned the people aft, and, on my ating the cafe to them they very readily volunteered to make an attempt to cut her out. Accordingly, on the evening of the 13th ultimo, I ftood over, under cover of the night, for the harbour of Truxillo, and got well into the Bay without being discovered, when I manned two fmall boats, with fix men in each, under charge of Mr. Walker, Boatfwain, in one, and Mr. Bowler, Midshipman, in the other, with directions to pull in clofe along

shore,

hore, and examine if our information was correct, ftanding in, at the fame time, with the fchooner, to cover the boats if occafion required. Shortly after we got in fight of the velfel we were in purfuit of, which was immediately boarded with great bravery, by the boat's crew under charge of Mr. Bowler (the other, from pulling heawy, not being able to get up); and, after fome reliitance from the people on deck, they very gallantly got poffetsion of her, the Captain and others jumping overboard. The note this conteft Occafioned alarmed the Forts, which opened on us a very heavy fire. The cables were then cut, and fail made, the Forts keeping a continual fire on us until out of gun-fhot, which was returned from both velfels: She proves to be la Caridad Perfecta, schooner

rigged, copper-bottomed, and pierced for 16 guns, but mounted only with 12, and had on board but 15 men, the remainder of her complement being on thore at the time. I am happy to add, that in performing this fervice no perfon has been hurt.

I have the honour to be, &c. (Signed) JAMES SMITH. To John Wright, Elj., commanding ifis Majesty's Ship Swift, Honduras.

[This Gazette likewife contains letters from Vice-Admiral Dacres, announcing the capture of the Spanith packet Ei Galgo, by His Majesty's thip Port Mahon; of the General Ferrand, French privateer, by His Majefty's fhip Franchile; and of the recapture of an American ship by the Wolf floop of war.]

Ir now appears, that our Government was misinformed with refpe&t to certain fuccoles ftated to have been gained by the allied Armies in Moravia after the battle of Aule litz, on the ad of December; which battle, we find, was decifive in favour of the French, and terminated the conteft.

It appears that previous to the action of the 2d, which the French call the BATTLE OF THE THREE EMPERORS, Buonaparté took meatures to deceive the Allies; and unfortunately his ftratagems proved faccefsful. The

Ruffians had received reinforcements and were eager to meet their enemy. Buonaparté retreated, fortified his pofitions, and made his troops feem afraid of their opponents. In all the affairs of pofts previous to the ad, the Allies were fuccefstul; and the apparent timidity and difmay of the French army converted the natural valour and impetuofity of the Ruffians into cbfolute indifcretion and temerity. Their only object was, to prevent the elcape of the French army; it was no longer a queftion with them whether they could defeat it. Hence their anxiety to turn the right wing of the French; a fatal manœuvre, of which their fkilful adverfary quickly took advantage. The refult was, that the enemy obtained a fignal and decifive victory.

The Moniteur of the 18th contains a Cory of an ARMISTICE figned on the

part of AUSTRIA by PRINCE LICHTENSTEIN, and on the part of FRANCE by General BERTHIER.

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On the morning after the battle, negotiations appear to have menced. The Prince of Lichtenstein came to the French head quarters, where he had a long audience of Buonaparté. On the 4th the interview between the two Emperors took place, when the conditions of the Armi ics, which was formally figned on the 6th, were agreed to, and the principal terms of the Peace we e difcuffed and ar. ranged. The following are the prin cipal lipulation : →

The French army is to preferve its pofitions in Auftria, the Tyrol, in Carinthia, in Bohemia, Hungary, &c. &c.; the Ruffian army is to retire by a route and by marches pointed out to them, beyond Auftrian Poland in 15 days, and Gallicia in a month.

The Audrian Government is not to make any levy of troops in Bohemia or Hungary.

The Armistice is to continue till the conclufion of a feparate Peace between Auftria and France, or till the rupture of the negotiations now carrying on to that effect.

A notice of fifteen days is to be given of the determination to break the Armistice.

The two following events, had they occurred fooner, might have revived

the

the hopes of the Auftrians, and given a very different turn to their affairs.

On the 5th, the day before the figning of the Armistice, the Bavarian corps, under General Wrede, was de feated by the Archduke Ferdinand, with the lofs of upwards of 1,600 men, and 40 officers. Night only faved the Bavarian army from total deltruction. The battle was fought near Iglau, on the confines of Bohemia and Moravia, and his fuccefs enabled the Archduke to occupy Iglau and Stoken with his troops.-The other is, the fuccefs of the gallant Archduke Charles. That fpirited and able General obtained a victory over a part of Marthal Ney's corps, at Farftenfield, about thirty miles east of Gratz. The lois of the French in this action is ftated at 2.000 killed and wounded, 4,000 prifoners, and twelve pieces of cannon.-The victory fecured his retreat. He took poffeffion of Gratz. The way being now open before him to Vienna, he difpatched Colonel Hardeg to fummon that city to furrender, where he arrived on the oth; but returned to the Archduke with the mortifying anfwer, that a fufpenfion of arms had taken place.

The Emperor of Germany is ftated to have dined with Buonaparté on the 10th, in the neighbourhood of Brunn. The Emperor Alexander left Holitfch, on the 4th ult., on his return to Peter burgh, and reached his capital on the 21ft. His arrival was preceded by the publication of a Bulletin, dated from Holitfch; from which it is evident, that he was no party to the Armintice.

More than two thousand pieces of cannon have been fent from Vienna to France. The Emperor has given orders, that there fhall be an apartment prepared for the Napoleon Museum, to receive all the curiofities collected at Vienna. He has ordered the guns and colours, which were taken from Bavaria in 1740, to be restored.

The French Senate met on the t inftant, and decreed a triumph to Buonaparté when he should return to Paris. A triumphal monument is to be raifed to him. The Senate are to meet him in a body; and his letter, in which he makes a prefent to the Senate of forty ftand of colours taken from the Auftrians, is to be engraved on marble tablets in the hall of the Senate,

On the 1st of January, the Elector of Wirtemberg was proclaimed “King of Suabia," and the Elector of Bavaria "King of Bavaria." The first-mentioned Elector, befet on all fides by Auftria and France, wifhed for an armed or fimple neutrality.-Buonaparté at length entered his territories, and infifted upon his co-operation, obferving, He that is not with me is against me." In this pitiable dilemma he declared for France, and in fo doing he obviously yielded to irrefiftible neceffity. The conditions of his treaty with the French were, to furnith 10,000 men and half a million in specie. This we collect from a State Paper, addreffed by the Elector in October laft to the Deputies of his States, and which defcribes the then critical fituation of the Electorate. As events have turned out, had the Elector refuted to fub. fcribe to the French treaty, he would, ere this, have been annihilated as a Prince of the Empire, and his country, most likely, annexed to Baden or Bavaria.

Buonaparte not only gives the law in the difpofal of kingdoms, but in matrimony; his fon-in-law, Eugene Beauharnois, it feems, is to marry the Princefs Augufta of Bavaria; and Mafter Jerome (already hufband of a living wife), a Princefs of the Houfe of Wirtemberg.

An article in the Hamburgh Correfpondenten of the 10th instant, fates that the King of Pruffia has acknowledged the Sovereignty of the Electors of Wirtemberg and Bavaria. It is generally understood that the Elector of Baden will be added to the list of newly-made Kings.

St. Cyr is on his march from the North of Italy to punish the Neapolitans for the reception given to the English and Ruffians. The Bulletin, which fays this, contains a tirade of the mot violent and abufive nature against the Queen of Naples, who is threaten. ed with being deprived of her throne,

PEACE BETWEEN AUSTRIA AND
FRANCE, &c.

The Conclufion of a SEPARATE PEACE between AUSTRIA and FRANCE took place at Prefburg on the 27th ult.

The Treaty is understood to be definitive. Buonapaté wifhed to cut short the negociations, and to leave no opportunity for future deliberation and difcuffion, The terms are not officially

known;

known; and there are Secret Articles of great importance, which must still remain the fubject of conjecture, after the Treaty is made public in the ufual form. The following are faid to be fome of the Conditions:

"Auftria cedes the Tyrol; in part to Bavaria, part to the kingdom of Italy.

The whole of the Voralberg, the Inverthal, and all the poffe.ions in Suabia and Franconia, together with the City and State of Venice, are ceded, either to the Kingdom of Italy, or to the Allies.

"Auftria pays to France 50,000,000 of Borins."

It is afferted, that Buonaparte wished to include the provinces of Dalmatia and Iftria in the ceffions to be made by Auftria. The firmnefs of the Archduke Charles, however, faved his country from this additional facrifice.

We learn that the Armistice has been extended to the troops in Hanover. The French, it is agreed, shall not cross the Yfel, nor the Allies the Wefer; and it is added, that the British troops are to be allowed to reimbark without moleftation. The Swedish army, it is however ftated, is not included in this Armistice, as it is understood to act entirely under the orders of its own Sovereign. This arrangement has, probably, been agreed upon during the conferences which took place while Count Haugwitz was at the French Head Quarters.

There are rumours that the arrangement for withdrawing our troops from Hanover is but a prelude to a negoci

ation for a General Peace. We do not look upon the fe as founded: our expectation is, that we fhall have foon to contend, fingle-handed, with all the increafed and marshalled power of France, all the inflamed violence of Buonaparté. If it should be fo, we trust to the fpirit of our countrymen, and the vaft refources of the country, for a refult, which will, at least, establith our own fecurity, if it will not effect the deliverance of the world.

The following article we extract from the Vienna Gazette of the 8th :"Thus will the Emperor Napoleon, a third time, give peace, not to France alone, but to the Continent, and more particularly to the Auftrian States. England is at length conquered in her Allies.-How then is this General Peace to be obtained, and rendered fatisfactory to all parties? What remains but that England thould confent to her fhare of facrifices? The Emperor has conquered half of the Austrian Empire-will he furrender it without equivalents-Shall England, fkulking behind her dirty Channel, encourage the Continent to war? Shall the shed the blood, and, as far as in her lies, exhauft the treafury of France, and fuffer nothing in retura?-The Emperor Napo leon will not fuffer this. Shall Auftria alone be the fufferer ?-The Emperor Francis will not fuller this. England muft give something to the common redemption. Her colonies will, doubtlefs, be accepted at their full value, in exchange for the conquered Provinces England must purchase peace as the purchafed war."

DECEMBER 23.

TRIAL OF ADMIRAL SIR R. CALDER.

THE

Court-Martial on Sir Robert Calder commenced on board the Prince of Wales in Portsmouth Harbour. The Court confifted of the following Members :

MONTAGUE. Vice-Admiral JOHN HOLLOWAY, Vice- Admiral BARTHOLOMEW SAMUEL ROWLEY,

Rear-Adiniral EDWARD THORNBO

ROUGH,

Captain JOHN LARMOUR.

The Lords of the Admiralty were the Profecutors, by their Solicitor, Mr. Bicknell.

Mr. Gazclee and Mr. Efkine, jun. were the Counsel or Advisers of Sir Ro

bert