PUBLISHED "(wMtVitt''jf
TUESDAY, QCT0BE1V (s, 180J.
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: 5ff rAe 4lA. 0f4gPtf recthcj.at pitrletton, -
. R,ftppamhat all the regiments hare on
' dersto hold the m selves In readiness to inarch.
' Thetwb reginenVt dtiflcjl ,for Trannsylva--Ida
are already on Vheir march, and have
ken with them thcfa recruTtSrwhom they have
lefywhleh VaTBadweis Will be' conveyed in
carnages into' tne; interior oi Austria, pt
' aides the troObVwhicT. Vill be tihited; ift Italy,
4wocUclerWtfc catt1pvwilT be formed fline
' jnearPetttuviia StirSa; ftndthd otheVriear, Wa
jtasd'tn.; Thcy -uilL be dahcd ttnrtl the end
of Autumn. - v ' i-U-'i i .-"'
ASCH AFFENUURGi July'rSO. -
s The Russian General Winxineerode tet
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tnent pf clear weather, I was able to;peretve
to lee ward of the, line a ship carrying Spa
nish colours standing to windward under bet
lower sails and struck top-sails. Near her
were two ships which I perceived to be of the
enemy-, one of which with all her matt car.
r1ed away, and the other three decker dis
masted of het fore-top-mast and Very much
unrigged, both steering with the wind abafu
The dismasted ship appeared to be in great
confusion and hardly to suffice to the. working
of all her pumps." . : ; lliun t.-t,.
, The. thickest fog at this lime covered all
the -yin-guard : of the rearfof. ibr sqwadronl
ad deprived me of the faculty Cgetingnj
nWetnent Executed, and,; ai far at I per
cefrcA.all ihe. advantage of the battle was on
pur ide. . ; f 1 ' '; -
, .There was no clear weather the rest of the
evening . During'the night the two.Jjqua
drons' remained in presence of each other,
' making iheir signals ta keep in company
I thought, however, I perceived tnat Uieene-
,offou ttie.Utb insUfor Peterbburgj after ha- my withdrew I As" soon as day appeared wd
' ting bad, several, conferences with theHmpd
.rial ministers , at y Vienna. if The Austrian
Court invar jaby persist in their pacific ays
lem, nor 'are any hostile dispositions whate
ver remarked on the Russian frontiers, what
ever may be said to the contrary by. the inde
fatigable Gatttfcr of Lemberg, who for
' these thirteen years past appeafs,to iia,vc the
army of Xerxes his oikUm.1' ; '
- - PAR1SV-Ai'gust 12. j
The news ythich we give to-day cannot fail
Ho entjaire the attention df every reader. We
re sorry that the want of room prevents our
adding any thing, to the reflections of the
Bloniteur1. VVhatismostastpnisliing in'this
engagement, is, that its result changes no
thingin the situation of the belligerent pow
ers. The capture of 'iWo Spanish ships,
which were unable to keep up' with the Beet,
it no doubt to be regretted. But' this it a
alight advantage for England, and - very far
from compensating the losses she' has fus
tainedh) her. colonies and her trade. After
ihe long discouragement of the French navy,
it is glorious for this squadron to have carried
ruin and desolation throughout the English
. colonies, to have displayed the Imperial flag
through the European and ' American seas, 1
descried him great way r. to leeward of usrf
All the reports received from the French'
ships. were satisfactory.- Those of Admiral
Grjvina- shewed themselves fully determined
to pursue and again attack the enemy, as
since the weather has cleared up, we did not'!
perceive two Spanish ships, the Firm and the
St. Raphael. "
ordered all the ships to rally, and having
formed the line of battle on the larboard tack,
I bore down upon the enemy. '
. The wind slackened, the sea was high, the
enemy stood away to leeward, and it was im
possible fur me all day to bring him to an en
gagement a I wished.
.1 occupied myself during the night to keep
the fleet in order, so as to be ready to re
commence the engagement at break of day.
' As'sonn as. it appeared) I boie down upon
the enemy, who had attained a great distance
and was crowding sail for the pQrposrof a
voiding a new engagement.
Finding it impossible to force him to abat
tie, 1 thought it adviseable'not to withdraw
any farther from tbe place of my destination;
and to shape my course to etfect my junc
tion with the squadron off Ferrol, conforma
bly to my instructions." I experienced con
trary winds from N. E. to E. N. E. which
and to have lid.dtfiance tofive different fleets I yesterday blew with the greatest violence.
ft the enemy, by which. it was pursued. It The following are the only tidings 1 have
KturUUi we say-j ior.inis squauron to nave it naa oune i wo snips inisiug trwui uic ay-
so long exercucd its new sailors in so peri
lous an expedition; to have maintained an
ction with at) enemy who may well boast
tf every, advantage of numbers and experi
ence, and to have kept the sea the next day,
without the pretended vanquisher daring to
dispute this honor with it,' and in fine to have
fully accomplished its design. The effect
of this engagement, fr from disce-uraglng
the allies, must animate them to further ex
titions. Such a beginning is the sure gua
rantee of an approaching victory.. '
MINISTRY OF THE MARINE.
On btird lis Imperial Majesty's ship the
ucrntuun, tfit 8A 'l(irmijjr ytar
I 40 Uaruts W. S. W. ot Cat -
. Mor.scigneur I Lave the honor to render
you an account that the combined fleet quit
ted Martinique the 16th Prairial.
On the 20ih Mesidor being of Cape Fi
aisimt, -1 was taken by the E. t. L. and
N. E. winds, blowing with violence. Tbe
Imlomptable carried a way her tniin.top.mast
tod the fleet sustained copsWerble damage
In their yards and tails. The ninds grow,
iig Calm, did not vary, but continued in the
lon, without being able to rise, struggling
agimst contrary winds, until the 3d Thermi.
dor, when I descried twentr-one tall cf the
1 lim.nJtlf drew tip the squadron in line
Cravm nude sin to the Spanish tqua
dron to take the hcd of the line, and placad
himself ahead of the combined aquadron.
The wctthtt wis exeesMuly fogy ; we
iteered towardsthe enemy, who also steered
towards us in a scattered line, with the sp
farett intention of closing the wind upon
our resr guard, and of facing it bet ween t a o
firts, by a counter-march with the wind a
brad. As soon as I taw Mm to leeward of
of our qusttcr I made signal to stand about,
tsck for tack, with the countermart h.
The fog began to thicke'n. At soon is my
igftalUd reached Admiral Gnvina, be his
t ned ioef cute it withrcat resolution, and
succtisivtly followed by all the ahin in
the S4jiadron. Astvm as he, arrived ner
the extreme ship, he commenced the cogsge
r M with some of the enemy's ships, which
kd tlreadf bejrun their movement with il.e
wind ahead. But by this lime the fog b.
tmeslmpeiftraWe, that it Imjosiible
fir rae ta pcrteivt any thing tnre, and eat h
saip had stircclr any thing inort than hir
Itcnnd, , i , .
The ctnnonsie tuccestivcly temmen?fd
W alnxsnbe sviwle Jir.i. V firrd by
the IkW of the ernm's firt. "almost aVwtyt
ttuttcfinvlilov ItMnljewatdatln
tw U U e5sgcnjtt4i b lHft o-
nisb squadron.
Cant. Cosman, commander of his imperial
majesty's ship the I'lutOj'gave me an account
that from the beginning of the action, the
Firm had lost her mizen and mainmasts, that
he had covered snd protected her as long as
he perceived her, by placiug himself between
that shin and the enemy : but that after
wards he lust sight of her in the fog.
With regard to the San Kaphael, it tp
nears certain that she was not dismasted ; but
beinaj a bad sailer, making a great deal of
lee way, must have alien to leeward, as .ws
lost str hi of her the first night
The fotr was so constant and thick- that I
was not able to.dlstinguish the enemy's force.
Ilut the mornimr after the engagement. 1 saw
1 4 ships, 3 of which were three deckers, the?
greater number of which appeared to me to
have sustained great damage ; and if what
the Captnin of la Didon assures me he true,
that he counted 15 sail of enemy's- ships be
fore the action, there is reason to believe that
one of them disappeared in it.
A all events this contest has been an to
nor able one to the arms of the two powers,
and but for the thick fog which continued to
favor the notions and retreat of the enemy,
he would not have escaped the cftwrts-of a
decisive action. ,t
I amatyet Ignorant of thenambrr killed !e
wounded, whoare, howevtr, I In lieve, but few.
I have to regret the loss tt Captain de Per.
rone. f his Majesty's ship L'lntrrp'ule, who
was killed. Captain Holland of the Atlas was
wounded. I shall have the honor to give you
a more detsited account of this cngtgtment
very shortly.
1 intrcat your Excellency to accept my re
spect. V1LLENEUVE.
The Late Naval Engagcjncut.
After stating the particulars of the late e
lion between the British fleet, tinder Ad. Cal
lr, and the I rtnch and Spanish combined
f!crt, which htve spfeartd in this Gautte)
Bell's Messenger of Ihe 4th August, re
marks i .
v' must here be tomewhst technical, In
order to explain to our readers the general
methods of sea rrgigcmenta. Tiuitmt are
sometimes nccsitary, and we hope lo escape
iMicule in stating a self-evident thing, that
II ships must be, as to each olherf windward
or he ward, and in their tacks, either star
board or larboard. A fleet to wind ward hat
Invtiiably borne down in a slanting line on
aiiotLcr to leeward, each ship in a line abreast
of the other, till they 'brought up wiihia a
trtptt distance (or a tlvse rd gmeral en
gftCcwc ot from sn to rtr. A feet to he
ward,t!ertgrc, dctirout totts-id pcveral
jcngmiuen:, bat ytl lUm ta sU talk 1
Windward fleet, during its approach to battle;
fend when the latter has assumed a situation
for close encounter, the former might benr a-r
way at intervals, whilst enveloped with smoke;
orl by making more: sail, might shoot -a-head,
an(l,pour its whole fire into the opposite vahy
as it passed and worein succession to form a
hew line to leeward on the opposite tack,-
, The mystery of the Ereqchtactics was for
meriy no more than this i they never mad;
an attack, but always courted ai leeward situ
ation ; thus they have invariably disabled the
British fleets, in coming down to action,' and,
npon seeing it disaSled, have made sail and
demolished the van in passing, keeping clear
of -close engagement, afidticVer, lying ship a
brtsaston thd other hand, the British, from
an irrcsislable desire of attack, have as con
stantly courted the windward position ; have
had their ships constantly disabled and 'sepa
rated, and have never beta able to close with
the enemy, ot make a capture.
Such was the system by which the Frencji
succeeded from the naval engagement wit'
Admiral Byng in the Mediterranean, I7J6,
to' the rencountef with Admiral Graves off
the Chesapeak, 1781. Tu Admiral Byron's
engagement off Grenada, our fleet bore down
to windward, whilst the enemy bearing away,
prevented an attack upon their rear, or a clore
engagement in the van Our headmost
ships were either disabled in making the at
tack, as they received the whole fire of the e
tiemy's line, as each ship of the latter passed
and wore in succession, in order to form to
leeward upon the opposite tack The French
adhered so closely to this, system, that, .to a
void all chance of close or. general engage
ment, they forbore even to intercept our dis
abled ships, which had necessarily fallen lo
leeward.
Such was the superiority of the enemy's
tactics, that till the year 1782, above thirty
years.passed without any conspicuous naval
victory j ship indeed engaging with ship, the
British always succeeded ; but the advan
tage was never extended to a general engage
ment Rodney set the first example of an
attack to leeward and cutting off the line ;
since then in all general battles, we have uni
formly triumphed.
Rodney opened a new xra, and'with the ex
ception of the battle of the Nile, where the
French fleet was at anchor, the tame manoeu
vre of attacking to leeward, and cutting the
line have uniformly tucceeded. In Lord
Howe's victory, the signal was given (the
first we believe that was ever given, for Rod
ney's was rather accident than design) for
the imiish Meet to leeward to tack succes
t'rvely and cut the line; the two fleets were
instantly intermixed, - the battle was that of
. ship to ship, and the . event was evidence of
the skill of the attack ; indeed to sensible
were the rrcnen otthe cause ot our victory,
that the convention passed a decree of death
against that captain who should ever suffer
the line to be cut.
Lord St. Vincent, indeed, disregarded tbe
regular system, from laying greater advan
tage in i arying his plan of attack but lord
Duncan in the victory , off Campcrdown, cut
the Dutch line immediately in the centre. .
Such being the approved system of tactics
and the invariable success of adopting ilura,
it is asked, did sir Robert Calder conform to
them 1 had he or had he not the opportunity
of applying them, or did he reject them from
choice! ,
At noon, on the 52d July, our gallant ad
miral discovered the combined fleet to wind
ward ; he immediately concerted hit plan of
attack, iudced, but one plan presented lUelf.
Having made tlgnalt fir the closest order, he
.bore down upon the enemy, and upon closing
with them, made the signal for attacking the
centre When he had reached ihtir rear, he
tacked hit ships in succession, evidently
meaning to intercept them, and bring on a
close cngsgement of ship to ship. It Wat
Impotsible to devise a plan of attack more
promising we venture to pronounce lord
NeUoo would have done the ssme; -lord
Ku Vincent did the same when that il
lustrioMt man perceived the Spanish fleet to
windward, conaisting of 37 tail of the !ine,"hc
insanity cut off a division of it, though he
could notbringon a general engagement, at
me enemy, in great trepidation, chose rather
tofljr, than t'iccour any part of their squa
dron. When 1 had reached their rtarV
say t air Robert, I tacked the tquidron in
succession) this brought me close up under
their Ice, and when oer hesdmost thipt had
reached their centre, the encmv were tack
ing in tuccetiio j this obliged me again to
roske the same manoeuvre, bv which t tro't
on an act ion of four hour hours, when 1 found
it necessary io bring to the tqusdron, to ic
cure the two etptured ahip.
Sir Robert then proceeds to observe, which
it a perfect vindicttion of his not Uing able
lotto more, that the enemy hsd tvetr ad
vantage of wind and weathers that the fg
wat so great that he could rcartelf nerceive
the ship ahead of asUm of h'.m t this rtnJer.
td il Impossible to lake dt rare cf the cne
my by proper ilgnale t M hsd ih westher, he
tonnnoca, been more fsoiriUe, 1 am led
to believe the viitory wocU hart been more
complete.
Jaq-AnycJihe acoerrf.wi hart rrrlvtl
it is positively stated, that the British ships
twice or vhrice by mistake; fired into each o. :
ther, and that five of the enemy were at'opce
upon the "Windsor1- It it thus evident tha
not above two or three ships succeeded ih
passing the line of the enemy ; the rest were t
prevented by not perceiving the tignals, - and
not knowing what' impression the leading
ships were making. - -
i This is evident from the circumstance of
some ships having suffered greatly indibnie?
tiiflingly ; the act is, the lineman scartelybv
said to have been iut at all ; the fleets 'in,
deed passed each other upon opposite tacks
but, from the circumstances of the" weather
and the signals ot being noticed, Jhe British
fleet were never able to form' a new line to
leeward, or, ifl returning on the contrary
tack, to rake the enemy as each ship passed.
Every advantage therefore, of ' cutting the;
line in a leeward attack was lost to sif Robert
Calder, because his ships could not uct under .
his iuperinteiidahce,'or, with that xuianimiiy7
of attack which alone Can lead to decisive
victory, and which must ever depend'" on' it
quick perception, and obedience of iignalt in
each ship, - ". . ' ; ' (
' In respect tb the Admiral's terminating;
the engagement, in order to cover the two
prizes. Lieutenant Nichollsons account is -most
satisfactory- He says, ' the two ship
which had struck were dropping fast to lee
Ward, and the enemy by a successful mlhoeu- " ,
vre, might easily have reebvered possession
of them, if our sqimlmn had nbt bi-ought to
in order to cover therm" '
' GREAT-BRIT AIM "
' " " ' '' "TfaWAcc'.'l.
THE QUEEN CHARLOTTE' PACKET.
WE have, in a former paper, noticed the
French account of the contest which preceded
the loss of the Queen Charlotte packet, capt.
Mudge,on the 16th of May Iast,on her passage
from Halifax to Falmouth." We ljave now
an opportunity of laying before our readers a
more circumstantial detail Of that action, r o
honorable to tapt. Mudge, his officers and
men, with which we have been favored by an
officer of that ship, at folio wt t
u At 7 in' the morning, of the Hth of
May, U05,in lat. 8, 00, N. Ion. 1 1,30,' W.'
we discovered a sail on the leebow, standing
to the N. W. She fetched to near tis( that we
ould plainly perceive her to be a brig cruiser,
and that of an enemy. At 9 the tacked, and -stood
after us ; at noon she got to near thai
it was thought best to shorten tail, and bring
her to action ; with a view of cutting away
her mastt, or rigging, previous arrangement!'
for that purpose, having been made. A few
minutes after, we got very near to each other;
when an exceedingly hot fire commenced
on both sides with round, grape k musketry,
k was continued lor I hour k 55 rrtinutcs, the
whole time not out of the range of pistol shot.
The Queen Charlotte being now a perfect
wreck, and quite ungovernable, we were
under the painful necessity of sinking the
mail, and striking oar colors, to the privateer
brig - of War . L'HIrondellc, of, Dunkirk
roountiug 14 long carriage guri and a crew
of 1 10 men, cspt. Atlcmss. The damage wt
sustained before wa turrehrtered wat at
follows i 3 guns rt the tide engaged disabled,
I frertv shot, and the 1 other .1, which were
carronadee, tnd vry ' bad gunt in action,
recoiling, they being very tadly constructed
jibstay, halyards and oct-htuler foretopmaat.
staysail, ttav and halyardt j fore aod' foretop
bowlines, foretacks and theet, foot cf the
foretail In two pliers, foretopgtfiant and
toretopsail tics, 1 fore and 1 furetopttit
brace, and I sheet, t m tin brace, both topvtil
braces and bowlines, I main bra ee,-both-topsail
braces and bowline, topgallant lye,
crwtt jackbracet and bowlines, ' perk
htlyarat and both lopping- lifts, all the
bobstass 3 fore throodt on the engaging
aide, all the topmsit throuds,snd I back-ttty,
I lopmtttthroudand I backstay on the other
tide, 3 main shrouds and I of the tcpmtst
shrouds, and all the backstays on the en.
gtging tide, and on the other, 1 lower shroud
and 3 topmsit shroud, the mi it n rigging
much cut, the foremast hsd $ round Ihot ,uit
through H and tricking in it, the msin-msit
much darfttgvdkthe mirieamsr.muth more
to with vcvcral that which itrutlhcr tnil.
The privsteer hsd several thot in her hull,
and Ihe fore tnttt bsdly wounded, stilt in j
MnTSf rrTf much cut, but nurse tlieir
hesd sails came downt she hsdf pHnch.r
cfTkersnn board and Si capet iencrd toldicrt
It trotll arms. The cspttin of her, kthe crew
most psrt, are firming, who, I tmder
stand, htve been employed In thcimupgling
trade. The Queen Chtrloite hsd on board
34 ether own crew, one distressed suhject,
ind 14 Invalids from Hal. fat, debilitated
csraliiis, Ige ind long terricc, but their
hearts were good, and they btr.ived with
true Englih courfgc Our csptsio wit
will ffupportcd by his officers and the men
behaved vtry well. The Queen Chtrloite
had 1 mtn kilWd t 4 slightly woumled.-w
L'lUrondcIlchtd the pilot and 3 othm kit
led, and S Very bsdly end 4 sightly wtinded.
Her dsmsgs is aueh, that il wtil ecravofi her
some time to rtmaia In port and Cu TKa
French cactatfcdri'M1!: hiseflU
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