great propriety; but his conduct, and that of his officers and men, was, on two occafions, fo highly creditable to him, that I fend his account of thefe occurrences for their Lordships' information. I am, &c. ROGER CURTIS Extract of a Letter from Mr. William White, Commander of the Chance -private Ship of War, fitted out at the Cape of Good Hope, to Vice-admiral Sir Roger Curtis, Bart. AT four P. M. on the 19th of Auguft, the island St. Lawrence bearing N. E. two leagues, faw a large fhip bearing down towards us: at nine brought her to clofe action, and engaged her within half pistol-fhot for an hour and a half; but finding her metal much heavier than ours, and full of men, boarded her on the starboard quarter, lashing the Chance's bowfprit to her mizen-maft, and after a defperate refiftance of three quarters of an hour, beat them off the upper deck, but they ftill defended from the cabin and lower deck with long pikes in a most gallant manner, till they had 25 men killed, and 28 wounded, of whom the captain was one: getting final poffeffion, she was so close to the island that with much difficulty we got her off fhore, all her braces and rigging being cut to pieces by our grape-fhot. She proved to be the new Spanish fhip Amiable Maria, of about 600 tons, mounting 14 guns, 18, 12, and nine pounders, brafs, and carrying 120 men, from Conception, bound to Lima, laden with corn, wine, bale goods, &c. On this occafion I am much concerned to ftate, Mr. Bennet, a very valuable and brave officer, was fo dangerously wounded that he died three days after the action; the fecond and fourth mates, marine officer, and two feamen badly wounded by pikes, but fince recovered. On the 20th, both fhips being much difabled, and having more prisoners than crew, I ftood close in, and fent 86 on fhore in the large fhip's launch to Lima: we afterwards learned that 17 of the wounded had died. At four A. M. on the 24th September, standing in to cut out from the Roads of Puna, in Guiaquill Bay, a fhip that I had information of, mounting 22 guns, fell in with a large Spanish brig, with a broad pendant at main-topmaft head; at five the commenced her fire on us, but the being at a distance to windward, and defirous to bring her close to action, we received three broadfides before a fhot was returned; at half past five, being yard-arm and yard-arm, commenced our fire with great effect, and after a very fevere action of two hours and three quarters, during the latter part the made every effort to get away, I had the honour to fee the Spanish flag ftruck to the Chance: the proved to be the Spanish man of war brig Limeno, mounting 18 long fix-pound guns, commanded by Commodore Don Philip de Martirez, the fenior officer of the Spanish marine on that coaft, and manned with 140 men, fent from Guiaquill for the express purpose of taking the Chance, and then to proceed to the north to take three English whalers lying in one of their ports. She had 14 men killed and feven wounded; the captain mortally wounded, who died two days after the action: the Chance had two men killed, and one wounded, and had only 50 men at the commencement of the action, mounting 16.guns, 12 and fix pounders. From From the LONDON GAZETTE, April 21, 1802. Extract of a Letter from his Excellency Lord St. Helens to the Right Hom Lord Hawkesbury; dated Mofcow, October 28, 1801. I HAVE the honour to tranfmit to your Lordship, by this meffenger, the additional articles to the convention of the 17-5th June, which have been figned by myself and the plenipotentiaries of this crown; together with an act which I have alfo concluded with the Danish plenipotentiary, containing the acceffion of that court to the faid convention and additional articles, and its acceptance on the part of his Majefty. Extract of a Letter from his Excellency Lord St. Helens to the Right Hon Lord Hawkesbury; dated Petersburgh, April 1802. I HAVE the fatisfaction of tranfmitting to your Lordfhip the Swedish act of acceffion to the convention of the 17-5th June 1801, which was figned (with its duplicate) on the 30th paft, by myself and the Baron de Stedingk; and inftruments of a like tenour were at the fame time interchanged between that minifter and the plenipotentiaries of his Imperial Majefty. I have, moreover, the fatisfaction of being enabled to affure your Lordship that the Swedish ambaffador has been diftinctly informed by the Count de Kotfchoubey, that as the motives which had occafioned the late revival of the fyftem of the armed neutrality were now happily done away, that fyftem is confidered by this court as completely annulled and abandoned, not only as a general code of maritime law, but even in its more limited meaning of a specific engagement between Ruffia and the other confederates. From the LONDON GAZETTE, April 27, 1802. Downing Street, April 21. THIS morning the Honourable Henry Pierrepont, difpatched by Anthony Merry, Efq. his Majefty's minifter plenipotentiary to the French republic, arrived with the ratification of the First Conful of the French republic, of the definitive treaty, figned the 27th of last month; which was exchanged with Mr. Merry against that of his Majefty on the 18th instant, at Paris, by the plenipotentiary of the French republic, Downing Street, April 26. : LAST night one of the King's meffengers, dispatched by Anthony Merry, Efq. his Majefty's minifter plenipotentiary to the French repub lic, arrived with the ratifications by his Catholic Majefty, and by the Batavian government, of the definitive treaty of peace, figned the 27th of last month; which were exchanged with Mr. Merry against thofe of his Majefty, on the 23d inftant, at Paris, by the plenipotentiaries of his Catholic Majefty and of the Batavian republic. By the KING. A PROCLAMATION. GEORGE R.· WHEREAS a definitive treaty of peace and friendship between us, the French republic, his Catholic Majefty, and the Batavian republic, hath been concluded at Amiens on the 27th day of March laft, and the ratifications ratifications thereof have been duly exchanged: in conformity thereunto, Given at our court at Windfor, the 26th day of April 1802, in GEORGE R. God fave the King. By the KING.-A PROCLAMATION, WHEREAS by an act paffed in the thirty-fourth year of our reign, Given at our court at Windfor, the 26th day of April 1802, in the INDEX. I N DE X. ACT of acceffion of the King of Denmark on the conclufion of peace with the Algiers, its treaty with France, xxxvi Andreoffi, French General, his letter to Armistice between the French and Auf- Article, feparate, of the convention of Articles, principal, of the Helvetic con- Affent of the Elector of Hanover to the B. Badajos, treaty of, xix Bailli de Tigne, his declaration, 292 Batavian republic, its commercial regu- Bavaria, Elector of, his treaty with Bernftorff, Danish minifter, his note in anfwer to the British minifter's, rela- bitants of the Roman States, before Bonaparte, Lucien, his fpeech on taking Bourgoing, French minifter at the court Cairo, convention for its evacuation, xiv Cologne, proteft delivered by the Elec- Conclufum of the Diet of Ratisbon, 425 Condé, Princes of, the British minifter's Confalvi, Cardinal, his letter to General Conftitution, of the Batavian republic, 441-Of the Helvetic republic, 448- い tion, 575--Danish act of acceffion Cronstadt, Swedish admiral, his letter to Declaration, of the Emperor of Ruffia, Decree, of the French government, re- |