Netley, 'Porto, Dec. 22.

My Lord, His majesty's schooner under my command sailed from Lisbon on the 18th ult. and on the 23d captured the St. Antonio y Animas La Fortuna, Spanish lugger privateer, of six guns and 34 men. On the 1st inst. she took the St. Miguel El Volante, of the same description, of two guns and 29 men; and on the 16th, 17th, and 18th, successively took possession of the Speedy brig, from Newfoundland, with cod-fish; a Spanish coaster, laden with wine, &c. and the Spanish schooner privateer St. Pedro y Sen Francisco, of three guns and 39 men.

F. G. BOND. Admiralty-office, 17. This Gazette gives an account of the capture of the Espoir French lugger, of six carriage guns and 23 men, by the Lady Charlotte hired armed brig, capt. Morris.

Admiralty-office, 28. A letter from captain Hills, of the Orpheus, dated La Copong, the Streights of Banca, Oct. 25, 1799, announces his having captured, after an action of a quarter of an hour, the Zeevraght and the Zeelast, two vessels belonging to the Dutch East-India Company, each mounting 22 guns of different calibres, from Mccasses for Ternate, with provisions and stores. The Orpheus had one seaman killed; and the first lieutenant, Hodgkins, of whom capt. Hills speaks in terms of high commendation, and four seamen, wounded; the Zeelast had one man killed; the Zeevraght, six killed, and her captain and six men wounded.

Capt. G. Asle, of La Virginie, in a letter dated Amboyna, May 29, announces the capture of a Dutch prow of four swivels and 16 men; another of two swivels and 15 men; and a third of 14 men; a ship of eight 6-pounders and four swivels and 40

men; one of twelve 6-pounders and 20 men; and a brig of ten 4-pounders and 12 men. The three latter vessels, laden with the annual supplies for the garrison on the island of Ternate, had on board, exclusive of their cargoes, specie to the amount of 17,913 Spanish dollars. Extract of a letter from capt. E. O. Osborne, of H. M. S. Arrogant, to vice-admiral Rainier, commander in chief, &c. dated on board H. M. S. Arrogant, at sea, June 26th.

The difficulty of getting water at Anjer Point induced me to proceed to Mew Bay, where I arrived with the Orpheus, May 5. We captured a small ship from the Isle of France, in ballast, which was burnt. May 16th, sailed with the Arrogant and Orpheus from Mew Bay, and passing to the northward of the islands off Batavia, made the land of Java, May 16th near Point Indramago, and having Bumpkin Island in sight at the same time to the eastward of Batavia; the same day discovered a large ship and a brig at anchor, to whom we gave chase; and who, after having made some signals to each other, made all sail from us in for the land. It was late in the evening before we got near them; when I discovered the ship to be a vessel of force, and having several guns on her lower deck, and the brig also mounting 14 guns: finding they could not escape us, they both ran on shore, at some miles distant from each other, to the westward of Point Indramago. We were soon within random shot of the ship, and anchored as near her as the depth of water would admit, when she began firing at us, which was returned by seve ral guns from each deck. About this time two boats were observed going from her full of men ; and as it grew dark shortly after, some of our boats were sent to prevent the crew of the

ship from landing, and to summons her to surrender, which they could not do till the morning: this, I conclude, was with the design of destroying her, if they could have accomplished landing the crew in the night; but the vigilance of our boats prevented this taking place, as her boats were taken, full of men, the first time the attempt was made. At day-break she surrendered, and was taken possession of, when we found her to be the Hertzoy de Brunswick (armed ship), belonging to the Dutch EastIndia Company, Jan Cornelius Panne commander, mounting 20 guns on the upper decks, and eight guns on the lower deck, and manned with 320 men, part of whom had made their escape on shore. At the time the boats were sent to prevent the men from landing from the ship, boats were sent under the direction of lieut. Blayney to board the brig, which was some miles distant from us. This service he accomplished without loss, and soon after brought her near us; when we found her to be the Dolphin armed brig, commanded by Jan Vauntyes, belonging to the Dutch East-India Company, mounting 14 guns, and having on board 65 men.-May 24, at daybreak in the morning, we captured, close under the land, a small armed brig, of six carriage guns and some swivels, on a cruize from Sumarang, which place she left the preceding day. On the evening of the 25th, we got sight of Japura, and the ship at anchor there; but it fell little wind, and we were obliged to anchor at the distance of 10 or Il miles from it. As they had observed us from the shore, I thought there was no time to be lost; and, therefore, at eight P. M. sent all the boats, well manned and armed, with lieut. Blayney Rice, who got to the ship about midnight; and, though she had been hauled close to the

shore (on seeing us in the evening) under a small battery, yet the surprise was complete, and she was boarded without any loss, many of the crew jumping overboard at the time. The battery fired on them so soon as they discovered her to be in our possession; but, though some of the boats' oars were broken by the shot, no other accident happened; and they effected getting her out before day-light, when she joined us, and we found her to be the Dutch East-India Company's ship Underneming, mounting six carriage guns, and having 80 men on board. After putting the prize in order, May 28, joined the Orpheus off Cheribon, and found that in our absence she had captured a Dutch brig, a sloop, and two prows: the three latter were destroyed. Same day ran into the anchorage to the westward of Point Indramago, where we landed most of the prisoners; some of them being very sickly. The Dolphin brig is a new vessel, well coppered and equipped, and well adapted for service (particularly in shoal water). She mounts 14 guns, and has good room and security at quarters.

I am, &c. J. HOSEASON, Pro Sec. Captain Osborne, in a letter dated Arrogant, Madras Road, Aug. 11, 1800, mentions his having captured, Aug. 4, after a long chase, L'Uni French privateer, of 32 guns, 16 and 9 pounders, all of which, except six, were thrown overboard during the chase; had on board 216 men also re-captured the Friendship, from Bengal for Madras. The brig Bee, from Madras to Masulipatam, captured by L'Uni, escaped.

'Uni sailed from the Mauritius the 4th of May, and hadcaptured the Har riot, from the Cape of Good Hope, and the Helen, belonging to Bombay.

SIR, Bombay, Sept. 3, 1800. I beg leave to inform you of my arrival here on the 30th of August,

after a passage of 11 days from Mocha. About 50 leagues to the castward of Aden, I fell in with and took the Clarissa French privateer, from the Mauritius, who threw over her guns, and cut away her anchors, with a view to escape. We found 148 men on board her. She is only between two and three years old; built at Nantz. Vice-adm. Rainier, &c.

J. BLANKETT. Lieutenant Mein, of the Netley schooner, announces his having, Jan. 31st, off Oporto, fallen in with four privateers, one of which, the Santa Victoria, of six guns and 26 men, he captured: the rest escaped, the Netley being obliged to rejoin the convoy, some of the ships having made signal for an enemy to windward.

Copy of a letter from lieut. Lloyd, commanding the Nimble cutter, to E. Nepean, esq. dated Feb. 24th. SIR,

I beg you will be pleased to acquaint my lords commissioners of the admiralty, that, at the back of the isle of Wight, yesterday, at two P. M. having the trade from Dartmouth under my convoy for the Downs, I fell in with, and, after a chase of six hours, engaged and captured the Bonaparte cutter privateer, of Cherbourg, of 14 brass guns, of 4 and 6 pounders, and 44 men, two days out of port; she had captured a light collier from Plymouth. I am happy to say, the Nimble had no men killed or wounded; and that Mr. Watts, the master, and all the petty officers and crew, behaved like British seamen. The privateer had two men killed, and the first lieutenant dangerously wounded.

MARCH.

Admiralty-office, 3. Extract of a letter from the hon, captain Stop

ford, of the Excellent, in Quiberon Bay, to earl St. Vincent, Feb. 23. My Lord,

On the night of the 20th inst. I sent the boats of the Excellent to endeavour to bring off a cutter and a sloop, which were at anchor near the Point of Quiberon. Unfortunately, that same evening, after dark, a large chasse marée, with troops on board, going to the island of Belleisle, had taken her station close to the above vessels; the resistance which the boats met with was, consequently, much greater than there was at first reason to expect. This circumstance, however, did not prevent lieut. Church (having the command of the boats) from making the attack upon the chasse marée, in which he gallantly persevered, till, being badly wounded himself, and two men killed in his boat, he was obliged to retire. The other boats, under the command of Messrs. Crawford and Manning (midshipmen), resolutely boarded, and succeeded in bringing off the cutter called L'Arc, an armed vessel, in the service of the republic, commanded by an ensign de vaisseau, and employed as convoy to and from Belleisle; this vessel had also on board a detachment of troops, who were made prisoners, and who made the vessel's force much superior to that of the assailants.

SIR,

Being off the bar of Senegal on the 3d inst. the weather moderate and the surf low, with the concurrence of col. Frazer, I conceived it possible, if we could surprise a brig corvette and an armed schooner, anchored within the bar, to possess ourselves of the battery conimanding the entrance, and by the means of their own vessels, as I had none under my command fit for the purpose, to have finally reduced Senegal. I therefore detached lieut. Dick, with 96 officers and men from the Melpomene, and African corps, in five boats, who left the ship at nine P. M. and were fortunate enough to pass the heavy surf on the bar with the flood-tide without accident, unobserved by the Point battery; but on their approaching within hail of the brig, the alarm was given, and the two bow-guns discharged, by which lieut. Palmer, with seven seamen, was killed, and two boats sunk. Notwithstanding this unfortunate accident, the brig was carried after an obstinate defence of 20 minutes, but which gave the schooner time to cut her cable. Lieut. Dick, finding that the loss of his two best boats and many of his best men, added to a constant fire from the schooner and two batteries, must have rendered any farther attempt abortive, judged it right to make every attempt to get her over the bar; but the ebb tide having made, and being totally unacquainted with the navigation of the river, she got aground; and seeing it impossible ever to get her off, and being hulled by every shot from the Point battery, he found it absolutely necessary to retreat; and, under the many obstacles he had to surmount across a tremendous surf, under a heavy fire of grape and musketry, excites my admiration even more,

if possible, than the gallant manner in which the brig was carried. I therefore feel it my duty to recom mend lieut. Dick to their lordships' notice, who speaks highly of the officers and men employed under him, both from this ship and the African corps; and we had the satisfaction at day-light to perceive the brig had sunk up to her gunwales in a quick-sand. It appears she was called the Senegal; had been fitted out there at the expense of the republic, and was commanded by citizen Renou, who was on board at the time, and of whose fate we are uncertain. She mounted 18 guns, 12 and 9 pounders, and had nearly sixty men on board, some of whom escaped in a boat; the rest were killed in boarding, except 5 whites and 13 blacks, who are now on board this ship. It was chiefly owing to the alacrity and courage of the latter that we met such resistance.

I am, &c. C. HAMILTON. List of killed and wounded. Killed.-Lieut. William Palmer; lieut. Vyvian, first lieutenant of marines; Mr. Robert Main, midshipman; six seamen, one marine, and one corporal of African corps.

Wounded.-Mr. John Hendrie, master's mate; Mr. Robert Darling, surgeon's mate; 10 seamen, one corporal of marines, four private marines, and lieut. Christie, African corps.

C. HAMILTON.

Col. Frazer, in a letter to Mr. Dundas, dated Gorce, Jan. 5, communicates the above, but is less circumstantial in the detail.

[This Gazette contains likewise an account of the capture of the French lugger privateer, the Bienvenue, of 14 carriage guns, belonging to Calais, by the Cobourg, lieut. Wright commander; and of the capture also of Le Vengeur French privateer, mounting two

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large swivels, carrying a number of small arms, and manned with 17 men, by the Swan cutter, actinglieut. John Luckraft_commander.] 11. His majesty, for some time previous to this day, had been indisposed with a fever. Regular accounts of its progress were published every day, and this day the bulletin of the king's physicians declared, that "His majesty is free from fever, and seems only to require the time always necessary after so severe an illness for the recovery of his usual health and spirits." His majesty dined with his family as usual. Two horses he was accustomed to ride at Windsor were brought to town this day for his taking the air.

12. The king walked in the gardens of the queen's palace, and was engaged for some time in reading dispatches.

It will not be thought uninteresting by the public to be informed of the remedy to which is to be attributed, under Providence, the abatement of the king's fever. Several opiates having been tried without the desired effect, hops were placed under his majesty's head, which, acting as a soporific, produced complete success.

Admiralty-office, 14. This Gazette gives an account of the capture of La Juste French brig privateer, of guns and 78 men, by the Amelia, hon. capt. Herbert.

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Admiralty-office, 17. This Gazette contains accounts of the capture of the following French schooner privateers: L'Optimiste, of 16 gens and 47 men, by the Favourite, captain Westbeach; and Le Général Bessières, of four guns and six swivels, by the Hussar, lord viscount Garlies.

20. We are extremely concerned to state the entire loss of his ma

jesty's ship Invincible, of 74 guns, captain Rennie, which ran aground on the Norfolk coast. The ridge of sand is called the Hamondsburg, or Hippisburg, and is situated about 14 miles from Winterton. The number of lives lost amounts to upwards of 400, including the captain and the greater part of the officers; 195 only, out of the whole of the crew and passengers, having been saved from the wreck. Rear-admiral Totty, who was proceeding in the Invincible to join the North-sea fleet, is happily among the survivors. He arrived in town yesterday afternoon, and immediately waited on the lords of the admiralty.

Of this truly lamentable event we have the following interesting particulars:

Extract of a letter from a midship

man of his majesty's late ship the Invincible, Yarmouth, March 18. "Only two days have elapsed since I last wrote to you, and in that short space the most melancholy accident has happened, namely, the total loss of our ship. We set sail from Yarmouth on Monday morning for the Sound, to join the fleet under the command of admiral sir Hyde Parker; and about two o'clock in the afternoon the ship struck on a sand-bank, where she beat most violently for upwards of two hours, when her masts were cut away, and she immediately got into deep water. Her anchor was then cast, and we all thought ourselves safe; for, notwithstanding she leaked considerably, the water gained but little upon us. Our signals of distress were heard and answered by a cutter, which immediately bore down to Yarmouth, to give intelligence of our distress; and we therefore hoped, with the assistance that should arrive, to be able to save the ship as well as ourselves;

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