... 'wo (v rv el u ?. maina-- T he Moniteur has not published any furtherr details with respe&t to the capture of the Medi- terranean convoy, and it does riot appear that one of the captured ships has reached a French g port. A letter from Falmouth mentions that P nearly half the fleet have escaped. One of them 6 arrived at Falmouth on Friday. When she left Gibraltar seven- more of the fleet had ...

... obip B. Cliff;. The adtual destination of the Rochefort squa- rs dron is still doubtful ; but some advices respec- I ing it were received on Friday. From the 13th ir to the 17th February it was becalmed, and lay. ing-to, zoo leagues to the west of Cape St Vin- n. cent, having madem no inore way since it sailed. ce On the 17th it steered a southwest course.- Such a course, in such a latitude, ...

... ,%ipj iiWe . it The Rochefort squadron his at length emer-g b gcd flor the obscurity with which its destina- c e tion was covered. It arrived at Martinique after v oa passage of 4o days. The force consisted of 5 sail of the line, s frigates, and 2 brigs. The d fleet was commanded by Admital Missiersi, and the land forces by General Lagrange. * On the e loth of February the three-dceker, and ...

... =p Ace Age.l ut The last Gazette cointairns several official ar- iP ticles from our Naval Commanders, among E which is the following: t Curicrix, at Sca, Feb. S. r8s. f Sir-I have to inform you, that this morn- r ing at break of day, Barbadoes bearing west a. f bout twenty leagues, I perceived a large brig on t our lee bow, who immediately bore up and I he made all sail away, and after a chase ...

... 14p i .. YV)0 _ I. Dispatches were on Thursday from Admirl Lord Gardner, off Brest, which state that the enemy had made some rmiveements, that indica- ted an intention of venturing to sea the first fa- vourable opportunity. Tiis expectation had greatly raised the spirits of our gallant couLnt ry. men ; and, should the enemy really venturc out we fondly anticipate a proud and ...

... tIyp Bers. F_ of The Blenheim man of war and Greyhonnd h frigate, with the outward bound East India fleet, sailed on Wednesday ; but as the wind was at S. E. -with thick, hazy, and rainy weather, it ,vas suppolsed they wouldi not attempt to go through the needles that evenhig. o 11 On Tursday afternoon, at 4 p. in. a logger ar- hr rived from the Straights at Plymouth, brought an dispatches ...

... iM)fp B CW5. Wceinesdiy, a coui t of Dirueqora was held at the East-India House, when Captain John Mas- son, of thc ship Anu, took leave of the Court, previous to departing for Madras anc' Bengal. We un(lerstlildl that so sail of line have sailed, or will immediately proceed to reinforce Lord Gardner. 'Ihe lBrest armament appears waiting to put to sea on the first favourable opportunity. It is ...

... 6'B. tV It is with regret we state that the Charleston papers mentionsthe loss of the Vanguard of 74 guns, End the Pi inecss Charlotte Frigate, on the FVoiida grcfs, aqs olW'vs Captain I~ecain, frotn Havannah, infoirms its, that a hieavy gale of wind from the north corn menced uii the j5th instanit, and blew 1svith gieat violence tor three days. It is reported when be sailed, 'that the British ...

... r)ip Iul~ll. . ~~TOUL ON FLEET. we have to announce the arrival of the Prince . of Wales packet from Lisbon, at Falmouth, with an account that the combined French and Spanish squadrons returned to Cadiz on the 2zd last. The packet received this intelligence onx the 4th, from the Orpheus frigate, which had parted from the fleet coirp; sing the secret ex- pedition, that lately sailed from ...

... '4M)ip B clug. TOULON FLEET. No satisfatlory reason for the return of the l combined fleet to Cadiz has yet been assigned; and some persons are of opinion that all we have heard of their return has been founded on some I mistake, and that they are still pursuing their o- riginal destination, whatever that may be. In consequence of a strong of belief in London that thep=ombrned squadrons had ...

... Q I No certain advices have as yet been received concerning the combined Toulon and Cadiz fleets. The Toulon squadron, says the Moniteur,join. I ed the Cadiz on the 9th April, on the roth we, C I out of sight, and no news has beez received fi-sm themn since. it is said, a letter has been received from an officer of the Blenheim, Sir T. Troubridge, stat- ing, that she fell in with the ...

... ssibit to state any thing with ccrtain- ty as to the course and ?? of the com- biotrE fleets. The opinion of such as may be I considered as best isIformed. unool this sobjea, I sectns to point to the East Indics. There is in- t deed one circumstance which strongly warrants this conjedture, that had they gone on in any t other course trhan in a very wide sweep, it would s have been almost ...