June 1. Wind variable. Fair. Last night 12 French prisoners escaped from the St. Ysidro French prison ship in Hamoaze, and swam to Tarpoint side. The centinels on the gangway being alarmed, fired, and killed one officer, whose body floated to the Devon side of the Tamer. Mr. Whitford held an inquisition on the body; verdict, accidental death.

2. Wind W. S. W. Showery. Arrived the Spider schooner from sea. An officer set off for town with dispatches. It is rumoured, that the French fleet are gone up the Straits, and that Earl St. Vincent and Lord Keith were preparing to follow them. Letters from Lord Bridport's fleet mention, that he had detached seventeen sail of the line and four frigates, under Sir A. Gardner and Rear Admiral Collingwood.

3. Wind W. S. W. Showery. Letters received from Lord Keith's fleet state, that his Lordship lay to for the French fleet with fourteen sail of the line off Cadiz, the French to windward; but the French Admiral, though so superior, shewed no disposition to bear down and engage. A gale of wind came on which parted the two fleets, and the French were driven through the Straits of Gibraltar.

4. Wind N. N. E. Fair, but blows. Sailed with close orders, to be opened in a certain latitude, the Urania, 44 guns, Captain Towry, Fiorenzo, 40, Captain C. Reynolds, and Unicorn, 36, Captain Wilkinson.

5. Wind variable. Pair. Sailed with a convoy for the Downs, the Hebe frigate, Captain Birchall. Arrived from Cork, the Fishguard frigate, Captain T. B. Martin. Also from the Downs, the Spy sloop of war, Captain Grosvenor.

6. Wind S. W. Cloudy. Arrived in a neutral, from Bourdeaux, Mr. Wright, late surgeon of the Lord Hawke privateer. He made his escape the 17th ult. as an American. With other prisoners he was marched from Passage, in Spain, to Bayonne, and from thence to Bourdeaux; was confined in prison, and paid fifteen sous for his lodging; and allowed to walk in the court yard one hour in the day. La Victoire, which took the Lord Hawke, was manned chiefly with Irish, English, and Spanish seamen.

7. Wind S. W. Cloudy. Arrived the Kangaroo, 18 guns, Captain Brace, from Lord Eridport. She brings an account of sixteen sail of the line, and four frigates, being dispatched to reinforce Earl St. Vincent. Mr. Whitford, coroner, took an inquest on the body of a porter at Dock, who shot himself so dreadfully in the head that he expired instantly; verdict, lunacy. Arrived the Penguin sloop of war from Cork.

8. Wind S W. Cloudy. Arrived the John and Sarah, Way, cartel from Morlaix. Also the Venus French privateer, of 14 guns and 100 men, prize to the Indefatigable, Captain Curzon. She had taken the Clarime, Edwards, from Lisbon to a port (formerly of this place), and four neutral vessels. Sailed on a cruise the Havick and Spitfire sloops of war. Sailed the Penguin sloop of war for Cork-Correct list of the ships detached from Lord Bridport for the Straits: Royal Sovereign 110 guns, Neptune 98, Glory 98, Saint George 98, Formidable 98, Prince 98, impetueux 98, Pompée 84, Casar 84, Triumph 74, Dragon 74, Magnificent 74, Canada 74, Terrible 74, Russei 74, Superb 74, and four frigates. Lord Eridport remains cruising with ten sail of the line and several frigates.

9. Wind E. Fair. Sailed on a cruise the Fishguard, 48 guns, Captain T. B. Martin, and the Spider schooner with a convoy for the Downs. By the latest accounts received from rest it appears, that there are four sail of the line and four frigates ready for sea in the inner and outer road, to co-operate with the Terral squadron, consisting of one ship of 110 guns, two of 84, and two of 74, gone into Rochefort in damage.

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Wind E. Fair. Two Admiralty messengers passed through with dispatches for Vice Admiral S.r T. Paisley. Arrived from Lord Bridport's fleet the Lady Jane cutter.

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Wind E. Fair. Orders came down for all cutters to repair to Forts. outh, to put in force the embargo laid on the outward-bound fleets. The

Windsor Castle, 98 guns, and the San Joseph 110, are ordered to be fitted for

commission.

12. Wind S. W. Fair. Passed up a large convoy, but was too far in the Offing to make them out.

13. Wind S. W. This evening arrived from off Brest the Royal George, 110 guns, Admiral Lord Lridport, Achille 74, Agincourt 64, Clyde 38, Stag 38, and i haeton 38. The Achille, 74 guns, has lost a jury, bowsprit, and foretop mast, having been run foul of by the Cæsar, 84 guns, and received much damage: one of the crew was killed Rear Admiral Berkeley was left off the Isle of Aix blocking up the Ferrol squadron in Rochefort.

14. Wind N. W. Fair. Arrived the Anson, 44 guns, Captain Durham. Also from Gibraltar, with dispatches for Government Also the Childers sloop of war with the original dispatches from Lord Keith respecting the passing of the French and Spanish fleets Arrived the Saint Antonio French brig, prize to the Unicorn frigate. Sailed for Cork, the Tartar cutter, with a convoy for that port.

15. Wind N. E. Fair. By the accounts received from Lord Keith it appears, that in the evening of the 17th ult during the interval of Lord Keith's being blown off his station, the spanish fleet got out of Cadiz, and pushed through the Gut of Gibraltar.

16. Wind N. E. Fair. Came in the Danae, 24 guns, I ord Proby. She landed an officer at the Pier Head, and then stood out to sea

17. Wind N. N. E. Fair. The following is a correct account of the movements of the different squadrons of the enemy and the British fleet, as minuted at Gibraltar :

May 5.
Nineteen sail of French men of war passed through the
Straits of Gibraltar.

II. Sixteen sail of British men of war, with Earl St. Vincent's, passed the Gut.

13. The Cormorant, 24 guns, Lord Mark Kerr, fell in with the above British fleet eight leagues off Cape de Gât with a fine breeze at

west.

17. Seventeen sail of Spanish men of war passed the Gut.

19. Five British men of war under Rear Admiral Whitshed, passed the Gut.

21. The Phoenix frigates, Captain Halsted, passed the Gut to join Rear Admiral Whitshed.

June 4, Nine P. M. off Cape Finesterre. The Cormorant coming home with dispatches spoke Vice Admiral Gardner with seventeen sail of the line and four frigates. He left Cape Clear the 1st inst. to cruise off Cape Finesterre; but on the information given by Lord Mark Kerr immedi ately pushed for the Straits.

18. Wind N. E. Fair. Mr. Whitford, coroner, took an inquest on the body of a seaman of the Saturn, 74 guns, Captain Totty, fitting for sea in Cawsand Bay, who fell from the larboard arm of the main-top-gallant-yard. He pitched on the bayonet of the marine centinel on the gangway which pierced through his eye and head. He languished about six hours, with both thighs broke, and then expired. He is much lamented by Captain Totty and the ship's company as an excellent seaman. Arrived the Atlas, 98 guns. Arrived the Spithre, 2 guns, from a cruise.

19. Wind N. E. Fair. Remain in Cawsand Bay, the Royal George, 110 guns, Admiral Lord Bridport, the Atlas 93, Achille 74, Saturn 74, and Agincourt 64. -In the Sound, the Magnanime 44, Anson 44, Melpemone 44, Fishguard 48, Amelia 44, Clyde 38, Stag 38, Phaeton 38, Spitfire 25, L'Espoir 16, Childers 16, Stag cutter.

20. Wind E N. E. Fair. Orders are just arrived for the Saturn, 74 guns, Captain Totty, and two frigates, to rail this day on a cruise.

21. This morning sailed on a cruise off Brest, the Saturn, 74 guns, Captain Totty, Amelia 44, Hon. Captain Herbert, Magnanime 44, Captain Turton, Telegraph and Spy sloops of war, a lugger, and a cutter,

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APPOINTMENTS.

Captain Oughton, of the Hecla bomb, is appointed to the command of the Sphynx sloop, in the room of Lord Augustus Fitzroy.

Mr. John Odell, made lieutenant the 21st of May 1799.

Mr. Henry Kennett, made lieutenant the 19th of June 1799.

Captain James Wallis, late of the Proserpine, appointed to La Decade frigate, now fitting at Plymouth, the 13th of June 1799.

PRESENTATIONS.

May 29. Admiral Thomas on his promotion, and Captain Lambert, by the Marquis of Bute.

MARRIAGES.

At Fowly Church, near Southampton, Lieut. Col. Driffield, of his Majesty's marine forces, to Miss Anne Caroline Bligh, second daughter of ViceAdmiral Bligh.

June 3. Henry Blackwood, Esq. captain in the royal navy, to Miss Eliza Waghorn, daughter of the late Captain Martin Waghorn.

4. At Mary-le-bone Church, Captain Matthew Henry Scott, of the royal navy, to Miss Pinnock, eldest daughter of Janies Pinnock, Esq. of Westbury House, Hants.

OBITUARY,

WITH ADDITIONS TO OUR PRECEDING ONES.

LIEUT, HILI., of the royal navy, being on his passage from Sheerness to London, towards the end of April, in the Rose in June vessel, féll overboard, and was drowned.

Extract of a Letter from Barbadees, March 23.

"We received on the 21st, by a letter from Demarara, the melancholy information of the death of Sir C. Lindsay, Bart. commander of the Daphne frigate. He had dined on shore, and, though the night was dark and windy, could not be dissuaded from going off to his vessel in a small boat, and the Daphne at least ten miles out. The consequence was, the boat filled, and the service lost a very fine young officer. Two of the men were washed on shore alive, one of whom died soon after the body of Sir Charles was also washed on shore."

Jan. 24. At Port Royal, Jamaica, aged 24, John Watts, first lieutenant of marines on board his Majesty's ship Brunswick, and son of Mr. John Watts, of Ledbury, in the county of Hereford, who, by permission of his father, engaged in his country's service; when, owing to his great exertions, he fell a victim to the climate. Every military honour was paid him at his funeral, under the direction of Major Steeling, an officer of high rank in the artillery. A great number of his brother officers attended him to the grave, sincerely lamenting his premature end.

At Sheerness, Mr. James Fuller, chief clerk in the master shipwright's office of that dock yard.

Lately, at Chronstadt, in the Soth year of his age, Admiral Wrangel, the first naval officer in the Swedish service.

Lately, John Ross, Esq. of the Navy Pay Office.

May 11. In College-street, Bristol, Captain Mac Taggart, of the royal navy, and nephew of J. Mac Taggart, Esq. in College green. To this officer did the

brave Duncan consign the arduous task of bringing in the Vreyheid, Admiral De Winter's ship, after the vidory over the Dutch fleet off Camperdown; and to the great fatigue of this undertaking, with only a handful of men, is to be attributed an illness which has at length deprived his country of a brave officer.

Lately, at Exeter, of a broken heart, the father of the late mutineer Parker. 12. On board his Majesty's ship Phoebe, at sea, the Honourable Charles Carleton, third son of Lord Dorchester. A fall from the rigging was the cause of his death.

Lieutenant Clarke, late of the Argus frigate, arrived at Plymouth in the last cartel from France. His sudden appearance at his father's house, at Cawsand, so affected his mother, an aged Lady of 75, that she expired from excessive joy, after a few hours illness.

Letters from Stockholm mention the death of Admiral Christiernin, one of the ablest of the Swedish officers, in the prime of life.

June 4. A few days since was thrown up the body of a Lieutenant in his Majesty's Navy, at Crow's Stone, in Essex: the shirt and stockings of the deceased were marked 7. Hill. The coroner's jury sat on the body, but no evidence appeared to the jurors how the deceased came by his death.

At Gibraltar, Lieutenant Browne, commander of his Majesty's vessel the Urchin.

The 21st ult. at Wareham, Dorsetshire, aged fourscore years, Robert Curruthers, Esq. an eminent and very old superannuated surgeon of the royal navy. He sailed with the late ever-memorable Admirals Hawke and Boscawen, and with the present Lord Hood, in the old Thunderer, of 74 guns.

The 8th inst. Joah Bates, Esq. of John-street, King's Road, one of the Com missioners of his Majesty's customs, and a director of Greenwich Hospital. Lately, Mr. F. Hunter, of the Navy Pay Office.

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Commissioner Charles Proby, whose death was mentioned in our Fifth Number, had attained the age of 74, on the 22d of March, and had been resident at Chatham between thirty and forty years. Besides other charitable donations, he allowed sol. per annum to the Poor of Chatham. He was a midshipman on board Commodore Anson's ship, on his voyage in the Southern Ocean, and was the person who, at the mast head, first saw the rich prize, taken afterwards by the Centurion. On the 17th of November 1746, he was promoted captain of the Lyme; and in the month of August 1756 was appointed to the Syren frigate, and, before the end of that year, to the Medway of 60 guns, In 1757, he was one of the commanders under Sir E. Hawke in the expedition against Rochfort. In 1760, he commanded the Thunderer, 74 guns. reconnoitring the harbour of Cadiz in July 1761, finding the enemy had put to sea, he pursued them, and coming up with the Achilles on the 17th, captured her, after a severe and gallant action, in which himself, his second and third lieutenants, were wounded. Captain Proby had seventeen men killed, and one hundred and thirteen wounded, of which many afterwards died In 1766, he was appointed to the Yarmouth, a guardship at Chatham and in 1769, he succeeded Commodore Spry in the Mediterranean, as commander in chief, with his broad pendant on board the Pembroke, 6 guns. In 1771, he was made comptroller of the victualling accounts, and before the year elapsed was appointed commissioner at Chatham.-The family of Proby came originally from Wales, and were named Ap Probyn: they also continued for a considerable time in the county of Huntingdon. Charles, the third son of Sir Peter Proby, Knt. who was lord mayor in 1622, was the great grandfather of Commissioner Proby, and Lord Carysfort. Commissioner Froby married Sarah, the daughter of Pownall, Esq by whom he had two sons, and, we believe, one daughter. His sons were both of St. John's College, Cambridge; neither followed their father's profession.

He took charge as pilot of his Majesty's ship the Richmond, and carried her to New York, where Lord Howe took him on board his own ship the Eagle, and in May 1777 appointed him master of the Mermaid, Captain Hawker, which ship was run on shore in July 1778, by Count D'Estaigu's fleet, and the officers and crews made prisoners. October following he was changed and sent to New York, where he went a volunteer on an expedition up the North River, in his Majesty's galley Huzzar, under the direction of vaptain Hyde Parker. November 2 1778, Admiral Gambier gave him a lieutenant's conmission and the command of the Crane galley, stationed up Hudson's river; and, when Sir Henry Clinton made the attack at West Point, he covered the landing. In July 1780, Admiral Arbuthnot appointed him to the command of the rgo brig, of 16 guns, which he held to July 1783 when Admiral Digby was pleased to appoint him agent for transports, in which capacity he arrived in England March 1784, after an absence of ten years. While in America he also received a severe wound in his head, and nearly lost the use of two fingers of his remain. ing hand, having been frost bitten. During his stay in America he was chiefly kept up the river on advanced posts; and in that time a person who had acted as an agent absconded, and he lost all his property; and what little he had realised and sent to England shared the same fate, as his friend, to whose care he committed it, died insolvent. His friends, who expected he would have been promoted to the rank of commander, saw with pain his services neglected till 1794, when the Honourable Board of Admiralty at which arl Chatham presided) gave him a pension. This war he has had the command of a small cutter, and was with Lord Eridport in the action of the 23d of June 1795December following, he sailed with Admiral Christian for the West Indies. and was one of the many obliged to put back, after beating about twenty three days; and, as he had not half his complement of men, was obliged to be constantly on deck, and was twenty-two nights without taking off his clothes. April 10, 1797, he sailed for the West Indies with Admiralty dispatches, and the mails for the different islands, and arrived at Barbadoes in thirty days. June 30 following, in company with the artar, Captain Elphinstone, he cut out a fleet of ships at Port au Plate, under the fire of two forts, which they soon silenced soon after that he was seized with the country fever, and was obliged to return to England, where he had the pleasure to find that Earl Spencer had promoted him to the rank of commander. Though his health remained in a precarious state, as the fever lurked in his constitution, yet he constantly solicited the Admiralty for employ, and to his last hour expected it with pleasure; he thought it wrong for any officer to hold a commmission without offering his services, if capable. The effects of the fever made such havoc in his health as to hasten his dissolution; and, November 11, 1798, put a period to his life. He has left a widow, and an unfortunate brother, to deplore his loss. It may be added, that in the early stages of his life, on his return to port, he constantly placed himself at school to improve in arithmetic and navigation; and what further his contracted finances could spare, he employed to assist his sister, wha had unhappily been placed with a nurse, whose savage husband threw her down stairs, by which means her back was broken, and she became a cripple. When in America, he met with an orphan child, daughter to an English soldier in rags, poverty, and distress; he took her under his protection, and supported her during the remainder of his stay in that country, and brought her with him to England, after that, by the assistance of the humane, he got her into the Asylum, being then about nine years of age: he also took a black boy, who craved his assistance at New York, being almost starving: on his passage to England, he was offered forty guineas if he would part with him, which he refused to do, but brought him to this happy island to give him his liberty. 1792 he lent near all his property upon bad security, and at present there are no hopes of recovering it.

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