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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.

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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

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ratifications thereof have been duly exchanged: in conformity thereunto,
we have thought fit hereby to command that, the fame be publifhed
throughout all our dominions; and we do declare to all our loving fub-
jects our will and pleasure, that the faid treaty of peace and friendship be
obferved inviolably as well by sea as land, and in all places whatsoever;
ftrictly charging and commanding all our loving subjects to take notice
hereof, and to conform themselves thereunto accordingly.

Given at our court at Windfor, the 26th day of April 1802, in
the forty-fecond year of our reign.

GEORGE R.

God fave the King.

By the KING.-A PROCLAMATION,
Declaring the Conclufion of the War.

WHEREAS by an act paffed in the thirty-fourth year of our reign,
intituled, "An Act for the further Encouragement of British Mariners,"
and for other purposes therein mentioned, various provifions are made
which are directed to take effect from and after the expiration of fix
months from the conclufion of the then exifting war, to be notified in
manner therein mentioned; and it is thereby further enacted, that, for
the purposes of the faid act, the conclufion of the faid war fhall be holden
to be from the time that the fame fhall be notified by our royal proclama-
tion, or order in council, to be published in the London Gazette: and
whereas a definitive treaty of peace has been duly ratified between us, the
French republic, his Catholic Majefty, and the Batavian republic; we
have therefore thought fit, by and with the advice of our Privy Council,
for the purposes of the faid act, hereby to notify and declare the conclu-
fion of the faid war, by this our royal proclamation, to be published
in the London Gazette; and we do direct the fame to be published
accordingly.

Given at our court at Windfor, the 26th day of April 1802, in the
forty-fecond year of our reign.
God fave the King.

INDEX.

I N DE X.

ACT of acceffion of the King of Denmark
to the convention of the 17th June,
between England and Ruffia, 576
Ditto of the King of Sweden, 578
Addrefs of the Tribunate to the Confuls,

on the conclufion of peace with the
Emperor of Germany, 89-Of the Le-
giflative Body, upon the fame subject,
90-Of the British commander at
Malta to the inhabitants of that ifland,
92-Of Captain Ball, to the fame, 93-
Of the Senate of the United States, in
anfwer to the address of the Prefident,
257-Of General Murat to the Neapo-
litan and Roman refugees, 263-To
the French, 332-Of Citizen Rutti-
man to the Helvetic Diet at Berne,
369-From the Tribunals of Appeal
at Turin to the Firft Conful, 464-Of
the Committee of Government of the
Italian republic, 546

Algiers, its treaty with France, xxxvi
American Prefident, his fpeech, 96
Amiens, treaty of, liii-Decree, appoint-
ing Jofeph Bonaparté minister to the
Congrefs thereat, 449

Andreoffi, French General, his letter to
the French minifter at war, relative to
the line of demarcation, in confequence
of the armiftice between the French
and Auftrian troops, 68

Armistice between the French and Auf-
trian armies in Italy, 71-Between the
French republic and the King of
Naples, 258

Article, feparate, of the convention of
St. Petersburgh, xiii. Published at the
Hague, relative to the paffage of the
Sound by the English fleet, 284
Articles, additional, to the convention
between England and Ruffia, Ixi
Articles, preliminary, of peace, between
his Britannic Majefty and the French
republic, xxvi--Between France and
the Ottoman Porte, xxxi

Articles, principal, of the Helvetic con-
ftitution, 293-Of the religious pacifi-
cation, 343-Of the new Helvetic
conftitution, 448

Affent of the Elector of Hanover to the
treaty of Luneville, 389
Augereau, his orders to the Batavian
army, 416

B.

Badajos, treaty of, xix

Bailli de Tigne, his declaration, 292
Ball, Captain, his addrefs to the inhabit-
ants of Malta, 93

Batavian republic, its commercial regu-
lations, xxxviii-Its treaty with Eng-
land, &c. figned at Amiens, liii-Its
proclamation, 349--Proclamation of
its Executive Directory, upon a plan
of a new conftitution, 381-Conftitu-
tion of, 441-Proclamation of its con-
ftitution, 450-Speech of the Prefident
of the Legislative Body, on the ratifi-
cation of the definitive treaty with
England, 568

Bavaria, Elector of, his treaty with
France, xxxii-Proclamation publish-
ed by the Electoral Prince, 367-Its
vote at Ratisbon, 394-Declaration of
its Elector, relative to Cologne, 424
Berne, letter from its commune to the
legiflature, 335

Bernftorff, Danish minifter, his note in

anfwer to the British minifter's, rela-
tive to the Northern Confederacy, 211
Berthier, his proclamation to the inha-

bitants of the Roman States, before
he left Bologna, 70

Bonaparte, Lucien, his fpeech on taking
leave of the court of Naples, 455
Bonaparté, Firft Conful, his reply to the
addrefs of the Legislative Body, in an-
fwer to the meffage upon the conclu-
fion of peace with the Emperor of,
Germany, 90

Bourgoing, French minifter at the court
of Denmark, his fpeech upon his au-
dience previous to his departure, 353
-His fpeech on his firft audience at
the court of Sweden, 447
Britannic Majefty, his convention with
Ruffia,

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Cairo, convention for its evacuation, xiv
Carysfort, Lord, his note to Count Haug-
witz, relative to the occupation of
Cuxhaven by Pruffia, 198-His ditto
to the fame, upon the fame fubject,
199-His note to the Pruffian minifter,
relative to the northern confederacy,
213-His note to Count Haugwitz, on
the fame fubject, 224
Catholic emancipation, fentiments of Mr.
Pitt upon it,, 387
Cobentzel, Lewis, his letter to Count
Stadion, 428

Cologne, proteft delivered by the Elec-
toral Chapter againft the declarations
of Pruffia and Fiance, 420-Declara-
tion of the Elector Palatine of Bavaria,
upon the fame subject, 424-Note
from the Pruffian to the Imperial mi-
nifter, relative to the election of the
Archduke Anthony, 429

Conclufum of the Diet of Ratisbon, 425
Concordat between Bonaparte and the
Pope, 439

Condé, Princes of, the British minifter's
note to them, 85

Confalvi, Cardinal, his letter to General
Murat, 76

Conftitution, of the Batavian republic,

441-Of the Helvetic republic, 448-
Of the Italian republic, 484
Convention, between Great Britain and
Ruffia, viii--For the evacuation of
Egypt, xiv-Between France and the
Pope, xxxix-Articles, additional, to
the convention between Great Britain
and Ruffia, Ixi--Of El-Arith, 56-
Between Sweden, and Ruffia, for the
re-eftablishment of an armed neutrality,
2011 - Swedish regulations relating
thereto, 206-Ratification thereof, 217
-Concluded at Hanover, between the
Regency and Pruffia, 249-For an
armiftice between England and Den-
mark, 251--Subftance of, concluded
between the Ruffian miniftry and
Lord St. Helens, 336-Concluded at
Berlin, 557-Declaration, explanatory
of the 3d article of the Rufian conven-


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tion, 575--Danish act of acceffion
thereto, 576-Swedish ditto, 578
Correfpondence between the English and
French governments, relative to French
prifoners of war, from 1 to 52B-
tween the fame, relative to French
fishing veffels, from 80 to 84-Between
Lord Nelfon and the Prince Royal "of
Denmark, 247-Between the American
and English minifters, from 308 to 311
Craufurd, Sir J. his letter to the Prince
of Heffe, 287.

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Cronstadt, Swedish admiral, his letter to
Admiral Parker, 291-His ditto to the
fame, 304-His letter to Lord Neifon,

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Declaration, of the Emperor of Ruffia,
relative to the northern confederacy,
194-Of the King of Pruffia to the
Elector of Hanover, relative to the
occupation of the electorate, 243-Of
the Ruffian envoy to the depuues of
the Elector of Hanover, 289--Of the
Prince of Heffe to the Senate of Ham-
burgh, 291-Of the King of Denmark,
relative to the maritime convention,
303-Swedish, relative to the paf-
fage of the Sound, 305-Of the Em-
peror of Ruffia, refpecting the Get-
manic conftitution, 348-Of his Im-
perial Majefty to the Diet of Ratibon,
388-Of the Electer of Bavaria, relative
to Cologne, 424-Of the Imperial
commiffary at Ratisbon, 426-Of the
Emperor of Ruffia, relative to Bridfh
property under fequeftration, 438-Of
the Elector of Hanover, relative to the
fecularizations in Germany, 543-Esq
planatory of the 3d article of the con
vention with Ruffia, 575

Decree, of the French government, re-
lative to the Ruffian fleets, 74-Of his
Swedish Majefty, relative to the re-
fumption of a friendly intercourse with
England, 294--Of the Emperor of
Germany, relative to the conclufum of
the Empire, 337 Confular, of the
18th July, 340-Of the fame to the
Diet of the Empire, 362--Confular,
prohibiting importation of British mẹt-
chandife, 365-Appointing Joseph Bo,,
naparté minifter to the Congress at
Amiens, 449-Confular, putting the
fortifications

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