Admiral Rainier has sent a frigate to cruise off Trincomale, to intercept one of the three French ships which escaped from Port Louis.

13. Yesterday morning Lieutenant Skynner, of his Majesty's ship Raisonable, of 64 guns, arrived at the Admiralty, with intelligence of the safe arrival of the homeward-bound East India fleet, under convoy of that ship. Several of the pursers arrived at the India House at the same time, and communicated the same pleasing advice. They all have reached Deal, and are as follow:Lord Camden, Henry Dundas, Dover Castle, and Good Hope, from Madras; Busbridge, from Bengal; Melville Castle and Rockingham, from Bombay; Admiral Gardner, from Bencoolen.-Extra ships, Bombay, Anna, from China; Varunna and Atlantic, from Bengal, private ships; Calcutta and Highland Chief, from Bengal; Soleby Castle, froni Bombay; Morse, Elligood, Canada, Whalers.

13. Advice has been received that, on the 28th of January, some of the enemy's ships appeared off Macao, with an intent to capture the Indiamen lying in the Second Bar. They consisted of one Spanish ship of 80 guns, one of 74 guns, and two frigates of 40 guns each, with a French frigate and cor. vette. Fortunately his Majesty's ship Arrogant, of 74 guns, Intrepid. of 64 guns, and the Virginie frigate, were at anchor off Macao. The enemy did not seem inclined to hazard an action, and anchored very near the British ships. At that time it blew very hard from the south east, and both squadrons parted from their cables, and were driven out to sea, On the 31st of January the English squadron regained the river, but the Spaniards were not seen afterwards.

On the 11th of February the homeward bound ships sailed from Canton, with the Arrogant, Intrepid, and Virginie; and on the 27th, the Arrogant and Virginie parted, and sailed for the Prince of Wales's island; the Virginie, however, returned, and on the 8th of March, with the Intrepid, proceeded to Ceylon. The Company's regular ships, Exeter, Brunswick, Bombay Castle, Fort William, Bridgewater, and Airly Castle, with the Barwell extra ship, then formed one division, and parted from the Carron, Surat Castle, Anna of Bombay, and Anna of Bengal, which formed the other division. On the 9th of April, the Anna of Bombay parted company. The Company's ships Walpole, Dublin, Malabar, Caledonian, and Contractor, sailed from Canton for Bengal on the 6th of January.

The following outward bound East India ships have arrived safe at the Cape of Good Hope, viz. the Margaretta Ann, Oak, Hillsborough, Taunton Castle, Carnatic, and Bangalore.

Every thing was quiet at the Cape of Good Hope on the 18th of April. Several small vessels had been sent in there prizes to our cruisers. We are informed, that five ships had been seen out of the Mauritius, and it was generally imagined they were going to the relief of Batavia, which, from various accounts, is said to be in a very deplorable condition, in consequence of not having received for two years past the usual supplies from Europe.

24 A Court of Directors was held at the Fast India House, when John Locke, Esq. received permission to build two ships of 1200 tons for the year 1851, at 151 195. peace freight with kintledge, and 171. 5s without kintledge. War contingencies for the first voyage il.-second, Iol.-third, 91 — and fourth, fifth, and sixth voyages, 81.

Mr. Gilbert Ferguson was appointed surveyor of shipping, in the room of the late Mr. Snodgrass, as was Mr. William Gillett first assistant.

PLYMOUTH REPORT,

FROM JUNE 22 TO JULY 19.

June 22. WIND S. E. Fair. Sailed the Railleur, 20 guns, Captain Rayner,

on a cruise.

23. Wind N. W. Small rain. Letters from a lieutenant of the Argo, 44 guns, Captain Bowen, dated in April last, state, that Minorca was in a most respectable state of defence, and the troops in high spirits. Our cruisers were very successful, and the Argo was then under orders for Algiers with valuable presents for the Dey.

24. Wind. S. E. Fair. Two French officers belonging to a prison ship in Hamoaze, escaped in a boat, and hired a post chaise, for seventeen guineas, to carry them to London. They got safe to Honiton, but suspicions arising they were stopped, conveyed to Exeter jail, and conveyed back to this prison. The person who aided them in their escape is in custody, and is to be tried at the Exeter assizes. L'Immortalité, 44 guns, is gone into dock to refit, and the St. Joseph, 110 guns, Spanish prize, went into the Great Dock, which was just large enough to receive her.

25. Wind S. E. Fair. Admiral I ord Bridport and Vice Admiral Pole went on board the Royal George, 110 guns, and made the signal for all officers to sleep on board, preparatory to their sailing on a secret expedition, supposed to be the destruction of the Spanish ships sheltered in the Isle of Aix. Three bomb vessels are hourly expected to join the expedition.

26. Wind variable. Arrived the Aimwell gun vessel, from Bristol, with a convoy; she went into Barnpool to refit. Sailed the Dolly and Lurcher cutters to join the fleet under Rear Admiral Berkeley, off Rochefort. Arrived the Mary, Bartlett, from Lisbon, with fruit, and the Minerva, Carlton, from Pourdeaux to Emden, sent in by the Hecate, gun-vessel, Lieutenant Eurlton. Arrived the Speedwell and Black Joke luggers from a cruise. Lieutenant P, and Mr. J. of the Royal Navy, fought a duel near Mount Edgecumbe, and after discharging two pistols the seconds interfered and the affair was adjusted. The quarrel was of three years standing.

27. Wind S. E. Rain. Went down into the Sound La Loire, 48 guns, Captain Newman. This morning, pursuant to orders from town, Admiral Lord Bridport struck his flag on board the Royal George, and set off for Cricket Lodge in his way to town. Vice Admiral Pole, flag captain of the feet, hoisted his flag as commander at present of the Channel Fleet. In the afternoon she sailed with the Sulphur, Volcano, and Explosion, bomb ketches, with some artillery men on board, to bombard the Spanish fleet near the Isle of Aix.

28. Wind N. N. W. Fair. Arrived the Jupiter, Monk, from Surinam to Copenhagen, with sugar, coffee, &c. supposed Dutch property, detained and sent in by the Spitfire, 20 guns, Captain Seymour. Also the Pallas, from Uddervalla, bound to Nantes, sent in by the Railleur, 20 guns, Captain Rayner. 29. Wind W. N. W. Cloudy. Letters of the 14th May, from La Tigre, 84 guns, Sir S. Smith, state, that with the British and Turks combined an attack had been made by a sortie on Buonaparte's entrenchments before St. John D'Acre; and after a very severe conflict they were forced. Major Oldfield of the marines, and Captain Wilmot, of the Alliance, with several seamen and marines, fell in the action. Went into dock the Aimwell gun brig. 1a Decade, 44 guns, is commissioned, and the command given to Captain Wallis, late of the Proserpine frigate.

30. Wind S. W. Fair. This morning a duel was fought near Stoke between Lieutenant M. and Lieutenant C. of the marines. After two shot, the latter of which passed through the ancle of Lieutenant C. the affair was settled Lieutenant C. had the ball extracted, and is declared out of danger. The

Citoyen Nicolas and Citoyen Delassas,

John brig, Day, master, was brought in yesterday under very suspicious circumstances. She was bound and cleared out from Limerick to London, with provisions, and was fallen in with by the Amelia, 44 guns, Honourable C. Herbert, in the rear of a French convoy steering for Brest. The Amelia succeeded in cutting her off, supposing her to be a French vessel, and has the master in custody on board. The master says he mistook the coast of France for the coast of Wales! During the late war the American and French privateers were victualled in the above way; and the present Earl St. Vincent, then captain of the Foudroyant 84 guns, fell in on the coast of France with several vessels of the above description, and always made a point to put some trusty person on board them, and convoy them to the destined ports for which they were cleared out.

July 1. Wind S. W. Fair. Arrived the Plymouth lugger, Lieutenant Eliot, from a cruise. She captured in her late cruise two smugglers, laden with 1200 ankers of spirits. She spoke the Princess Royal packet from the Leeward Islands, out 55 days, very sickly. This morning i ieutenant D. of the navy, and Lieutenant M. of the marines, fought a duel near Stoke. After two fires Lieutenant D. had a bullet in his thigh, when the seconds interfered, and he was conveyed to his lodgings somewhat faint with loss of blood; but hopes are entertained of his recovery.

2. Wind S. W. Rain. Arrived late last night the Cygnet cutter, in six weeks from Jamaica, with the mails, which were landed and forwarded directly to the General Post Office by express. The Cygnet three months since carried out the mails to Jamaica; on her passage she fell in with a large French privateer of superior force, which she gallantly beat off, by which means she carried the mails safe to the island of Jamaica. Sailed the Louisa, 14 guns, Lieutenant Burlton, with dispatches for Earl St. Vincent. Passed up the Vengeance, 74 guns, and the Jamaica fleet, all well. Arrived the Fishguard, 48 guns, Captain Martin, and the George cutter, from a cruise.

3. Wind S. W. Cloudy. Sent in by the Amelia, 44 guns, Captain Herbert, the Thuriston Wortze, from Havre to Mogadore, with sundries. Came in the Two Friends of Waterford for London, with provisions, taken by the Vengeance French privateer from Vigo, and retaken by the Fowey cutter, Lieutenant Derby, 11 leagues S. W. of Cape Finisterrc. The Goodwill, a sloop with butter and lard, was retaken at the same time, just as the wo Friends left the Fowey. Sailed the Melpomene, 44 guns, Phaeton 38, and Doris 58, with several flat-bottomed boats, for the secret expedition fitting out at Portsmouth.

4. Wind S. W. Rain. Arrived the George cutter from the coast of France. 5. Wind S. W. Cloudy. Arrived from Isle Bas the Spitfire, 20 guns, Captain Seymour. Arrived also from Morlaix, which she left on Tuesday, the John cartel, Singleton, master. The municipality were so strict that no person was permitted to land. Arrived a South Sea whaler. Sailed the Swift cutter on a cruise, and the Black Joke lugger, Lieutenant Nicholson, with dispatches for Vice Admiral Pole, off Rochefort.

6. Wind S. Fair. Arrived the Fowey cutter, Lieutenant Derby, from carrying dispatches to Vice Admiral Sir A. Gardner, Bart. He spake the Mars, 74 guns, Rear Admiral Berkeley, all well, last Monday, off the Isle of Aix; besides the two vessels already retaken by the Fowey, she has taken the Tiro, with tin, &c. What is remarkable, on her last voyage she was taken by a French privateer, and retaken by the Railleur, 20 guns, Captain Rayner; her cargo sold, salvage paid, she proceeded to take in tin, and was taken and again retaken by the Fowey, and sent in here.

7. Wind S. Fair. Came in the Sybil of London, Captain Llewellyn, from South Georgia, bound to London with oil and skins; by her is learned that the bark Minerva, Captain Barker, was lost on the coast of Georgia last April. Sailed the Hecate gun-vessel, Captain Burlton, on a cruise.

8. Wind S. W. Hard rain. Sailed the Speedwell schooner, Lieutenant Tomlinson, on a cruise. This day was commissioned the Windsor Castle, 98 guns, by a lieutenant. She is said to be for Captain Manley, of the Mars, now off Rochefort.

10. Wind S. W. Fair. The Sylph, 18 guns, Captain White, came in with dispatches from the Isle of Aix, which were forwarded by Admiral Sir T. Paisley, commander in chief, to the Admiralty. It is said they contain an account of the failure of the expedition against the spanish ships in the isle of Aix, off Rochefort.

11. Wind S. E. Rain. It appears by letters received from the fleet off the Isle of Aix, that it was impracticable to effect the destruction of the Spanish squadron in those roads, as they were defended by strong mortar batteries, and a cut down 64 gun ship, with heavy metal, at the entrance of the harbour, which was too shallow to admit of heavy ships to attempt working in against so tremendous a fire from the enemy.

12. Wind S. W. Rain. Passed up the Raisonable, 64 guns, Captain Boyle, with twenty sail of homeward-bound East Indiamen, last from the Cape. Also passed up a fleet from Jamaica. Arrived from off the Isle of Aix the Vars, 74 guns, Rear Admiral Berkeley, Captain Manley; Ramilies, 74, Captain Grindall; Ajax, 74, Captain Cochrane; also the Volcano, Explosion, and Sulphur, gun and bomb vessels, with the Speedwell and Bilboa tenders, from the Isle of Aix. Arrived the Galatea, 38 guns, Captain Byng, and Joseph cutter, from a cruise. Came in the Pearl frigate, Captain Ballard, from Portsmouth, and the Joseph cutter, from Lisbon. Came in a cutter from Vice Admiral Sir A. Gardner, Bart. to Admiral Sir T. Paisley, Bart. mentioning his being arrived in soundings, with five sail of Admiral Nelson's prizes. In consequence of which all the King's pilots at this port were ordered to Penlee Point to board and pilot them in. Passed up the Havick sloop of war, with the valuable linen ships from Belfast. The Diana, one of the convoy, with passengers, put into this port

13. Wind S. W. Rain. Arrived this morning from off the Rock of Lisbon, the Royal Sovereign, 110 guns, Vice Admiral Gardner, Bart. Captain W. Bedford; Cæsar, 84, Captain Sir J. Saumarez; Russel, 74, Captain Sawyer; with five of Lord Nelson's prizes, viz. La Tonant 84, Canopus 84, Spatriate 24, Aboukir 74, and Conquerant 74; also the Joseph cutter from a cruise. The Magnificent, 74 guns, Captain Bowater, passed up with the Lisbon fleet for the Downs; the rest parted off Cape Clear, for Cork, Liverpool, and Bristol. Captain Monckton arrived to take the command of the Mars, 74 guns, vice Captain Manley. Letters from Cork state the arrival there of the Goodwill, with lard and butter, captured by the Vengeance, French privateer, and recaptured by the Fowey cutter, Lieutenant Derby. Rear Admiral Berkeley, saluted Vice Admiral Gardner with 10 guns, which was returned.

14. Wind S. W. Blows hard. Arrived the Pearl, 32 guns, Captain Ballard, from Portsmouth, with the Melpomene, 44 guns, Captain S. Hamilton; also the Amiable, 36 guns, Captain Raper, from the Downs. Also from Dublin to Repnin, the Dorset yacht, Captain Sir A. Schomberg, Knt Sailed the Plymouth lugger on a cruise. Remain in Cawsand Bay seven sail of the line; in the sound five of the line and fifteen frigates and sloops, five of the line are French, with five French frigates prizes, and two French sloops of war. Sailed the Sulphur and Explosion bombs to the eastward.

15. Wind S. W. Blows hard. Last night it blew a gale of wind at S. W. but the men of war in Cawsand Bay and the Sound, though it blew for several hours a perfect hurricane, yet the anchorage being good not a ship drove boat upset in the Sound and all hands perished.

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16. Wind N. N. W. Showery. Last night the sloop Trial, Jab, with wines, from Falmouth, which went on shore on the Cobler's Reach, near Michael's Battery,is got off, but lies bilged in the Pool. Came in the Eagle excise cutter, with 300 ankers of spirits. The whole garrison turned out this day, and fired three vollies in honour of the victory obtained over the French General Macdonald by the Russian General Suwarrow. Sailed cn a cruise the Stag, 38 guns, Honourable Captain Yorke; the Fishguard, 48, Captain T. B. Martin; and the Suffisante, 14, Captain Whitman.

17. Wind S. W. Rainy. Arrived the Indefatigable, 44 guns, Captain Curzon, from a cruise; and the Railleur, 20, Captain Rayner, from off

Guernsey. This morning, per signal, the Mars, 74 guns, with the Tonant, Canopus, Spatriate, Aboukir, and Conquerant, French prizes, passed up the harbour. The bands of the marine corps, the Royal Cornwall, and First Wilts, were posted on the headlands, playing Rule Britannia, God save the King, and Britons strike home, accompanied by nine hearty cheers from hundreds of spectators assembled on the joyful occasion. Each ship, as she passed, returned the cheers; the men of war through which the prizes passed manned ship and cheered also. Sailed the Mondovi, 18 guns, with dispatches for Vice Admiral Pole.

18. Wind S. E. Rainy. Arrived the Amelia, 44 guns, Honourable C. Herbert, having sprung her foretop-mast in a gale of wind. Sailed the Nereide, 36 guns, Captain Watkins, for Portsmouth. Sailed the Atlas, 98 guns, Captain Jones, for Admiral Pole.

19. Wind W. Cloudy. Orders came down this day to the contra&or for fresh beef to get ready 50 bullocks to be shipped directly in L'Achille, 74 guns, for the use of the squadron under Vice Admiral Pole. A contract was also entered into this day at the Victualling Office for several tons of hay for the use of the cattle on their passage, at 51. per ton, to be delivered directly.

PORTSMOUTH REPORT,

FROM JULY 3 10 JULY 24.

July 3. The Diamond frigate, Captain Griffiths, has captured and sent into this port a large Spanish ship, laden with brandy. The Diamond, and her convoy of East-India ships, arrived at Madeira in eight days after sailing from this port. Arrived the Phaeton frigate from the westward, and Eugene sloop of war from the eastward, with flat-bottomed boats, for the intended secret expedition.

4. This day sailed the Hebe troop ship, with a convoy for the Downs; the Expedition is also ordered to eastward, with the Experiment, which sailed last night, and her signal is out for sailing; they are to bring troops round to Southampton, intended for the expedition.

9. This day thirty revenue cutters, which are at this port to attend the secret expedition, received orders to embark on board them 3000 troops.

14. Arrived this day at Spithead, the Magnificent, of 74 guns, Captain Bowater, with some merchantmen, from Lisbon. She sailed on the 17th ult. in company with the Royal Sovereign, of 100 guns, Admiral Sir Alan Gardner; Cæsar, of 80, Sir James Saumarez; Russell, of 74, Captain Sawyer ; L'Aimable frigate, a sloop, and five of Lord Nelson's prizes. The Royal Sovereign, Casar, and Russell, with the prizes, put into Plymouth; L'Àimable and the sloop escorted the trade to Liverpool, &c. Yesterday arrived the Diamond frigate, with a French schooner of 18 guns, which she captured a few days since.

24. Arrived at Spithead his Majesty's ships La Suffisante and Haerlem. The Jatter brings accounts, that coming down the Mediterranean from Naples, in company with the Centaur, they fell in with three frigates and two corvettes, which each fired a single shot, and surrendered. Their names are Alceste, with a rear admiral's flag, of 36 guns and 460 men; Juno, of 44 guns and 509 men; Courageaux, of 44 guns and 500 men; two corvettes, of 16 guns each. Two cutters were in sight, ard the fleet within hearing when the above eaptures were made.

The next day they joined Lord Keith, who discovered the combined fleets, and sent the Penelope cutter to reconnoitre, who was attacked by a French brig, which she beat off, but a Spanish frigate coming down she was captured. Lord Keith attacked the rear of the enemy, consisting of 58 ships, the English only 34. The action commenced at seven in the morning, and at two o'clock continued with great fury. The Haerlem's officers could then see only 28 of the enemy, several of which had lost their top-masts. The action was fought

on the 8th instant.