I have the honour to be, &c.

J. MACNAMARA. Another letter from fir John Jervis, dated June 8, ftates, that commodore Nelfon, in the Agamemnon, having under him the Diadein, Meleager, Blanche, Peterel, and Speedy, had captured, under a battery, in the bay of Oneglia, a French ketch of three guns, one gun boat, and five transports, laden chiefly with ordnance, ordnance ftores, &c. from Toulon, all intended for the fiege of Mantua.

A letter from admiral Chriftian, dated St. Lucia, May 25, ftates the capture of the French corvette, L'Athenienne, of 14 guns, by capt. Winthrop of the Alba

core.

Alfo, a letter from captain Hamilton, of the Melpomene, ftates the capture of the Revanche French fhip of war of 18

guns.

Downing Street, July 16. A letter, of which the following is an extract, has been received from colonel Graham by the right hon. Lord Grenville, his majefty's principal fecretary of state for foreign affairs, dated Cagliano, June 21, $796.

Early in the morning of the 17th inftant, the enemy attacked the most ad vanced pofts on Monte Baldo toward Ferrara, and obliged the volunteers (the best mark fmen of the different regiments, formed into companies of chaffeurs) to retire; but these uniting, and being fupported by two companies of Croats from Artiglion, quickly drove back the enemy, with fome lofs, and re-occupied their pofts. The Auftrians had one man killed and about thirty wounded.

From the London Gazette, July 19. THIS Gazette contains letters from capt. Alan Hyde Gardner and col. James Stuart, of the furrender of Columbo, in the island of Ceylon. They were brought over land by way of Suez and Alexan

dria.

His majesty's fhip Heroine,
Columbo Road, Feb. 16.

Sir,
Having received directions from fir
George Keith Elphinstone, commander
in chief of his majefty's fhips and vef-
fels in these feas, to take under my or-
ders the fhips of his majefty and those
of the hon. United Eaft India company,
named as underneath †, and to co-operate
with col. Stuart, commander of the land
forces, in the reduction of Columbo, it is
with peculiar fatisfaction I announce to
you the furrender of that fortress, with
the remaining poffeffions under the Dutch
authority, on the island of Ceylon, on
the 15th inft. I have the honor to tranf-
mit herewith the terms on which thefe

places have become part of his majesty's dominions.

The tranfports having been collected off Negambo, an anchorage 18 miles to the northward of this place, on the 5th inft. and that fort having been evacuated by the Barbert on the fame day, and the whole enemy, was taken poffeffion of by major army landed by the evening of the 6th inft.

The inland navigation from Negambo to Columbo not being found adequate to fions, &c. to the ground neceffary for the the purpose of carrying the ftores, proviarmy to occupy previous to the opening our batteries, col. Stuart marched with a part of his force to poffefs himself of a Itrong poft which the enemy opposed to him on the fouth bank of the Matual river, which, from his judicious and able conduct, was happily carried on the inorning of the 12th, with little lofs on our fide, and confiderable to the enemy, who fled for protection under the walls of the his final pofition before Columbo on the fort, and enabled the colonel to take up evening of the fame day.

12th with the fhips of war and tranfports, I allo anchored on the morning of the about two miles from the fortress, in a very favourable fituation for landing the guns, &c. of which there being a fufficient number put on fhore, on the 14th colonel Stuart and myself summoned the fort to furrender.

'. It becomes me, and it is a very pleafing part of my duty, to make known to you, for his majesty's information, the zeal and activity which have actuated every def cription of officers and men employed under my orders; and I am happy to inform you, that three feamen of the

Rattlesnake, Echo, Prince of Wales, Bombay Caftle, Bombay frigate, Drake brig, Queen ketch, Swift,

Swift, wounded, are the only cafualties of the fiege.

First lieut. Davies, of the Heroine, an officer of great merit, who has given me every affiftance on this fervice, which his relative fituation enabled him to do, will have the honor of delivering to you, this difpatch, and I beg leave to recommend him to your favourable notice and protection. I have the honour to be, &c.

A. H. GARDNER. Then follow the terms of capitulation. -The garrifon are allowed the honours of war, and are to be fent to Madras as prifoners of war, and are to be treated with the attention the British government have ever fhewn to those whom the fortune of war has put into its power.

The London Gazette of July 23, contains advices from Mr. Wyndham, the British minifter at Florence, and from Mr. Udny, our conful at Leghorn, ftating that a French army had entered Leghorn on the 27th ultimo; but that the conful having previously convened the principal merchants, all the English veffels (23 in number) with all the English fubjects, the valuable effects in the warehouses, and 240 oxen for the ufe of the navy, had been conveyed off to Corfica, under the protection of capt. Freemantle of the Inconftant frigate.

Extract of a Letter from Vice Admiral Macbride to Mr. Nepean, dated on board his Majesty's Ship Ruffell, in Yarmouth Reads, July 21, 1796. PLEASE to inform my lords commiffioners of the Adiniralty of the arrival of his majesty's fhip Glatton, after having had an action with fix French frigates, a brig, and cutter, off Helvoethuys. Enclofed is a letter from captain Trollope, giving an account of that fpirited affair: I

have ordered her to the Nore to refit.

Extract of a Letter from Capt. Trollope, of his Majesty's Ship the Glatton, to Vice Admiral Macbride, commanding his Majefty's Ships and Veffels in Yarmouth Roads, dated the 21st instant.

I BEG leave to inform you, that, in purfuance of your orders, I failed in his majefty's fhip Glatton on the 15th of July from Yarmouth Roads, in order to join captain Savage and a fquadron under his command and on the 16th at one P.M. we obferved a fquadron about four or five leagues off Helvoet. Owing to light winds and calms it was feven P.M. before we

were near enough to difcover the squadron to confift of fix frigates, one of which, the commodore's fhip, appeared to mount near 50 guns; two others appeared about 36 guns, remarkably fine long frigates; and the other three fmaller, and which mount about twenty-eight guns each. There were also a very fine brig and cutter with them. We foon fufpected, from their fignals, and their not answering our private fignals, that they were enemies, and immediately cleared for action, and bore down to them. From their manoeuvring it was ten at night before we got clofe alongfide the third fhip in the enemy's line, which, from her fize, we fuppofed to be the commodore; when, after hailing her, and finding them to be a French fquadron, I ordered him to strike his colours, which he returned with a broadfide, and, I believe, was well repaid by one from the Glatton within twenty yards; after which the action became general with the enemy's fquadron, the two headmoft of which had tacked, and one of the largest had placed herself alongside, and another on our weather bow, and the sternmoft had placed themselves on our lee quarter and ftern: in this manner we were engaged on both fides for a few minutes, with our yard arms nearly touching those of the enemy on each fide; but I am happy to acquaint you, that in less than twenty minutes the weight of our fire had beat them off on all fides ;- but when we attempted to follow them, we, much to our regret, found it impoffible. I have no doubt, from the apparent confufion the enemy were in, we thould have gained a decifive victory, but unfortunately, in attempting to wear, we found every part of our running rigging totally cut to pieces, and the major part of our ftanding rigging; every ftay, except the mizen, either cut or badly wounded, and our masts and yards confiderably damaged. In this fi exerted themselves to the utmost the whole tuation, although every officer and man night, it was feven in the morning before the fhip was in tolerable order to have renewed the action. The enemy, who appeared in the morning in a clofe line, feemed to have fuffered very little in their rigging, although I am certain they must have much damage in their hulls, at which the whole of our fire was directed. As they did not chufe to come near us again, although they must plainly have feen our difabled ftate, but made the best of their way for Flufhing, and we followed them as clofe as we could ill the 17th at

the citadel. They have likewife detached body (it is faid of 8 or 10,000 men) to Ferrara and Bologna. Their force, there fore, at prefent, near Mantua, is much reduced, and fince the laft fortie, in which their loss was very confiderable, they have kept at a greater distance.

Do wning ftreet, July 26. A difpatch, of which the following is a copy, has been received om lieutenant-colonel Craufurd, by the right honourable lord Grenville, his majesty's principal fecretary of state for foreign affairs, dated head quarters of his royal highnefs the archduke Charles of Auftria, Ricberg, near Ettlingen, July 6, 1796.

My Lord,

I have the honour to inform your lordfhip, that his royal highness the archduke affembled near Graben on the 3d inftant, the troops with which he was marching againft general Moreau; on the 4th he moved to Mulberg, near Carlfruhe, and on the 5th to Murg, a river that rifes in the Black Foreft, and falls into the Rhine about a league from Rastadt.

On the 4th general De La Tour's adyanced pofts, which had till then occupied Buhl and Stolhoffen, were obliged to fall back toward the Murg, and on the 5th they recroffed that river, after having refifted for many hours an attack that the enemy made upon them, with a very fuperior force, from Odenan, in the Murg valley, quite to the Rhine. The fame evening intelligence was received, that the Wirtemberg troops, and part of the contingent of the circle of Suabia, had abandoned the pafs of Friedenstadt, in the mountains of the Black Foreft, the poffeffion of which enables the enemy to operate against the archduke's left, and to cut off his royal highness' communication with the prince of Condé's army and the corps of Auftrians that was ftationed in the Brifgaw, under the command of general Frolich, at the fame time that it lays open to them the duchy of Wirtemberg and the routes leading to the Auftrian magazines at Willingen and Rothweil.

This circumftance, fo important in its poffible confequences, and fo unexpected, from the pofition which covers the pass of Friedenstadt, being confidered, as in reality it is, almost inattackable, obliged his royal highness to retire toward Ettlingen on the 6th, and to detach a strong corps into the mountains on his left to fecure that flank, and to endeavour to reestablish a communication with the prince of Condé and general Frolich, who will

probably have been obliged to fall back toward Willingen, as their right, and even their rear, muft be endangered if they remained in the Brisgaw after the Suabian troops had retreated.

The enemy's progrefs on the Lower Rhine has also been confiderable. Ac. cording to the laft reports general Jourdain was marching to the Lahn, with that part of his army which had croffed the Rhine at Neuwied ; with the remainder he was manoeuvring against the Austrian corps that was ftationed at Neukirchen, about four leagues from Dillingbourg and it is by no means impoffible that he may foon advance to the Mein, as the Auftrian army of the Rhine has been too much weakened by the very large detachments which it was obliged to fend to Italy in the beginning of June, to be able now effectually to oppofe the enemy's progrefs on all fides at the same time.

Parliament-freet, July 26. A dif patch, of which the following is an extract, has been this day received by the right honourable Henry Dundas, one of his majefty's principal fecretaries of state, from major-general Gordon Forbes, commanding his majefty's troops in the island of St. Domingo, dated Mole St. Nicholas, June 20, 1796.

I Mentioned fome time fince my intentions of taking poffeffion of the parish of Bombarde; accordingly I marched from hence on the 8th inftant, with a confiderable body of troops, against the fort, a diftance of fifteen miles. The only road by which cannon could be tranfported was filled with abbatis, the road broke up, ftone walls built across, and every poffible impediment made ufe of to prevent our approach; added to which, there was not a drop of water to be procured. From all thefe circumstances, and the exceffive heat of the weather, our troops fuffered confiderably, but, by great exertions of both officers and men, all difficulties were removed, and, after we had furrounded the fort, the garrison, consisting of about three hundred whites, furrendered on condition of laying down their arms, and retiring to the next republican territory. I have left a fufficient garrifon to protect the place, and I have no doubt the parish will be productive of great benefit to the garrifon of the Mole, the air being remarkably wholefome, and it affords a great quantity of vegetables and fresh provifions. I have the honour to inclofe a return of the killed, wounded and miffing, on the above ocs. caffon.

1

Total return of the killed, wounded and miffing.- -2 officers, ferjeant, 5 rank and file, killed; z officers, 16 rank and file wounded; 4 rank and file, missing; and 5 horfes killed.

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Names of the Officers killed and wounded. Lieutenant Nesbitt and adjutant. Rofs, of the 32d regiment, killed.

Major Thompson, of the royal artillery, and lieut, Crawley, of 32d foot, wounded.

CONTINENTAL ADVICES.

RUSSIA.

Petersburg, June 20.

N official account was published on the 15th, of the capture of the important fortrefs of Derbent, upon the Cafpian fea, by 'the Ruffian general Subow, on the 10th of May, after a bombardment of ten days. Upward of 12,000 privates ⚫ were made prisoners, with the khan that commanded them, and feveral other officers of diftinction. Immenfe magazines, and a great quantity of artillery, were found in the place.

FRANCE AND AUSTRIA.

Paris, July 1. General Moreau, commander in chief of the army of the Rhine and Mofelle, attacked the posts of marshal Wurmfer, in front of Manheim, on the 14th ultimo; and with fuch fuccefs, that the marfhal was obliged, to cross the Rhine, and retire behind Manheim. On the 27th, in confequence of orders from the executive directory, general Moreau croffed the Rhine, and made himself mafter of the entrenchments of fort Kehl, notwithstanding almost incredible obftacles. The general intends to follow up this exploit without lofs of time. One of his expreffions is remarkable: I hope,' fays he, that we fhall foon be in a pofition to extend our right hand to the army of Italy, and our left to that of the Sambre and Meufe.'

Paris, July 2. Letters from general Buonoparte, dated head quarters at Bologna, June 23, mentions the capture of fort Urbino, in the territories of the Pope, and that the artillery he had taken would enable him to form the fiege of Mantua,

THE

Paris, July 5. The army of the Rhine and Mofelle have entered Friburg, in the Bifgaw, after a long and bloody battle, in which, it is faid, the emperor's regiment of cuiraffiers were almost entirely cut to pieces.

Letters from general Buonoparte ftate, that the king of Naples and the Pope had concluded an armistice with the Republic, and that befide Urbino, Ferrara, and Bologna, he had taken the citadel of Ancona, which gave him the command of the gulf of Venice. His agents, it is added, were bufy in felecting, and preparing to send away, from Parma, Milan, Rome, &c. fome of the finest pictures, ftatues, and other masterpieces of art, that are to be found in Italy, in order to enrich the national museum in France.

Paris, July 10. The citadel of Milan furrendered on the 29th ult. and, on the preceeding day, a divifion of our army entered Leghorn. Every thing appears propitious to our arms. the Chouans, every where subdued by the In particular, wife and vigorous measures of general Hoche, have made the most complete fubmiffion, and the war in the west is now entirely ended.

For the victorious progress of the Auftrians on the Lahn, see the London Gazettes. But later advices exhibit a great reverse: the French have returned, in greater force, to the vicinity of that river, and have taken the city of Frankfort; and, on the Upper Rhine, Moreau has obtained a complete victory, near Raftadt, over the Austrians, commanded by the archduke Charles, in person.

HISTORICAL CHRONICLE.

JUNE 30.

fentence on Jofeph Stannart, fhoemaker, convicted, on Tuesday, of having uttered certain feditious expreffons, (See Vol. XCVIII. page 453) was, that he be imprifoned in Clerkenwell. brideweil, fix calender months.

JULY 1.

Mary Nott was tried at the Old Bailey, for the wilful murder of the count de Gref

fiere de Laval, a French emigrant. It appeared in evidence, that he had the care of a houfe, which was let out in lodgings, in Monmouth-court, Whitcomb-ftreet, the front room on the first floor of which was occupied by the count. The lodger in the room adjoining not hearing the count as ufual, had, for several mornings, enquired after him; when the prifoner faid, the fuppofed he was gone into the