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of the brink of England as aforcfald, in the
of MeiTrs.TVomas Courts and compa
ny , private bankers of the said Alexander
Trotter, in his own name, and fubjeft, to
his foie con trend and difpofttion ; All which
cunduft of the said Hear/ Lord Viscount
Melville was contrary to the duty of his of.
tic*, a breach of the high trod repo fed in
Hm, ar.fi .1 violation of the laws and statutes
of ihe realm.
THIRD ARTICLE.
That after (he palling of ihe said aft of
parliament for better regulating, the office of
the T real be r of his majtily 's navy, and after
the Lid io day cf January, 1.786, and
wbllll Henry Lord Vifcmim Melville held
and tnj i/cJ the said (Mice, large sums of nio
rcy yyvrc from lime to time, ifliiccl and paid
to ihe Governor and company of the bank
< f England, and planed on an account railed
in the books of the laid Governor and com.
pins' with the. f.iid Henry Lord Viscount
Melville, entituled, “ right him. Henry
Dumbs afl of a pail i aim-in new account
And the said Alexander'Frotrer, under ar«
hv virtue of the fil’d authority from the said
Henry Lord Viscount Melville, did from the
said 10th da/ of January 1786, during al!
the time the said Henry Lord Viscount ‘Mel
ville afterwards continued to hold and enjoy
the Lid office of treasurer cf ids mu jelly's
navy, draw upon th« said Governor and
company of the bank of England, fur and
on account of the ninnies so ilfued and paid
to them, and placed to the said account so
rnifed.,in.their hooks, with the said Henry
Lord Viscount Melville, as such treasurer as
a fare fa id : and she laid Alexander Trotter
did receive and take large sums of more/ so
drawn by him from the laid Governor and
company of the bunk, of England as aforc
fauV.
That the said Henry Lord Viscount Mel
ville, did, after the said icth day of Janna
ry i;B6, fraudulently snd illegally permit
and iuffer the (aid Alexander Trotter to plate
many cf the said sums of money lo drawn,
received, and taken by him from the Gov.
ernif sni company of iho bank of England
as uibrcfaiil, io the hands of Melfrs. Thomas
Loom tc Co. the private bankers, of the
laid Alexander Trotter, io his own name,
and at his own clilpofai: And the said Alex
ander Trotter did thereupon, with the pri
vity, by the connivance, and with the per
miilion of the said Henry Lord Viscount
Ivldvillc, apply and ufc the said la ft memio.
cd sums of money, or great pnyt thereof, for
purpufes of private advantage or intcrcft,
ptofif and emolument ; and did place the said
ftmw of money, ora gr#at part thereof, in
the hands of the said Meflfrs, Courts & Co.
mixed with and ■ndiltlnguilhed from the
proper monies of the (aid Alexander Trottur,
v whereby the last mentioned Aims of money
were not only applied to and used for purposes
or private advantage or intcreft, profit
and emohimoht, and fdr purposes other than
r. tvy Lrvices, but were also exposed to great
rilk or loss, and were withdrawn from the
controul and disposition of the treasurer of
his majefty’v navy : And the said Henry
Lord Viscount Melville, by so conniving
at and permitting and fuffering the public
money robe withdrawn from the bank of
England, and 11 fed and applied in manner
aforefaid, a (Ted in breach cf the great trust
nnd fonlidcncc repoled in him, in violation
of the Add adt of parliament made for regula
ting his said office, contrary to his duty,
and againll the laws of this realm, and to
thccvtl example of all persons entrulfed in the
great departments of the public service, with
out any controul over the application and ex
penditure of ihe public money.
(To be continued.)
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LATEST EUROPE LV NEW,
Received by the jh)p Independence, CAP
IA I* W ALKER, t/t 38 dItVS frj/j$ Gree
nock,
LONDON, August 5.
An order, we underltand was feat to all
the fome days ago, iqftruiiing our
cruisers to detain all American vcffels which
have on beard property n« the produce of
the United States. Thu ©idcr has been al
ready afted upon, and fcveral flips have
been (lopped.
Lot don Gazette Ex Iran d t/t a ry .
July 31st, ISOS.
Admiralty Ofkicb, July 31,
Copy of a letter from the Hon, Admval
Cornwallis, commander In chief of his
Majejlfs /to ps arid <vrj/ils in the Chan- 1
*te!, &c. to William Mars den, efq, da
ted Title de Paris, of Vjhant % 2%ih Ju
ly 1 1805, eight p. m,
Si*.— 1 have the plcafure to enclcfc, for
file information of the lords commilfioners of
the admiralty, a letter from vice-admiral
fir Robert Calder, giving an account of his
fuccds against the combined squadron. of
France and Spain.
1 have the honor to be. Sec.
W. CORNWALLIS.
Prince 0/Wales, July 23, 1805.
Sir— Ycftcrday at noon, lat. 43 deg. 30
min, n. long, n deg. 17 min. vr. 1 was
favored with a view of the combined squad
rons of France and Spain, confiding of twen
ty fail of the line, also three large ihips ar
med cn flute, of about fifty guns each, with
five frigates and three brigs; the force un
der my directions at this time confining of
l
fibi -Jiyr ;'l %'• , '
fifteen fail of the line, two frigafcs, a cut
ter, and a lugger. 1 immediately Hood to
wards the enemy with a ftjuadron, making*
the needful signals for I aitje in doled
order; and, on doling with them, I made
the signal for attacking their centre. When
1 had reached their rear, I tacked the squad
ron in fucccffion ; this brought us «lose up
under (heir lee, and when our headmoft
ships reached rheir centre the enemy were
tacking in fuccdTioa ; this obliged
make again the fame manoevre, by w hich I
brought on an artion which Jaded upwards
of four hours, whan I found it neceflary to
bring to the fqu; iron to cover the two cap.
turcafhips, whole names are in the margin*
I have tocbferv#, the enemy had every ad
vantage of wind and weather during the
whole day. The weather had been foggy,
at tunes, a great part of the morning; and '
very soon after we had brought them to ac
tion, the fog was so very thick at intervals
that we could, with great difficulty, fee the
(hip a-head or a herd of us ; this rend red it
impoffihle to take the advantage of the ene
my by signals I could have wilhed to have
done; h:id the weather been more favora
ble, lam led to believe the victory would
have been more compleatc.
I have very great pleafare in faying eve.
rv Ihip was conduced in mull maflerly tty le;
and I beg leave here publicly to return eve
ry ctptain, officer, and man, whom I had
the honor to command on that day, my mod
grateful thanks, for their confpicioufly gal
lant and very judieious good conduct.
The honorable capt. Gardner, of the
Hero, led the van fqnadron in a mod maf
tejrjy and officer like manner, t# whom I
fed tnyfeP particularly indebted ; as also
to capt. Gumming, fur affiftancc during *u*
‘ aC’tion. r ■ r
Total— 41 killed, 158 wounded,
1 have the honor to be, &c.
ROBERT CALDER.
Honorable Admiral Cornwallis,
At/guji 6.
Extrafl of a letter Jnm an Officer on hoard
the Malta t dated Plymouth , Augufl 3.
“ I amfafe and well, after a fnrart brulh
with the enemy, the particulars of which
you mull have before this. Touur surprise
and mortification, after lollng a glorious op
portunity of completely destroying the com
bined fqnadron, and adding additional ho
nour to the Britilh flag, we have let them
completely escape from us, and our fliip is
arrived at Plymouth. From the hour of the
battle on (he azd. till the 25th, we had the
power in our hands of attacking them again
with every profpert of success. Indeed, so
confident were we of it, that every man in
the Malta, I will swear, panted for the or
der for the frclh attack. It is not for me
to attach blame to a superior officer, much
less a Commander in Chief, on this occafi
cn. He may have reasons, and indeed
orders of such a peculiar nature, that gov
ern bis coadurt and tie up hit hands. But
wherodida better opportunity offer itfelf,
with such a glorious profpert ot virtory ? and
that has been mod clearly loft. Few of our
ships, except the Windsor Castle, have bean
injured, find not a fingie man undaunted in
the fleet, with an enemy evidently in ter
ror and flying before us,
“ After the battle, on the 23d, we con
tinued idle, in fart, doing nothing, till the
enemy Were completely out of fight. It
was the objert of our Admiral mod clearly
to keep them from getting into Corunna or
Ferrol; and we presume, he was daily, e
ven hourly, exporting the fleet of Lord
Nelson. We, therefore, stretched away
forFcnol, where we arrived on,the 29th,
from which place we were dispatched for
England on the 31st, and arrived litre to
day. The combined fleets, we are perfect
ly fatisfied, were bound for Cadiz.
II • - ~ ~ -Si - V
CHARLESTON, Septembei 21.
Capt. Van Beuren, of the brig Thomas
Jefferfon, arrived last evening from Leghorn,
coufiims the report of the combined fleets
having got into Vigo ; and the Peace with
the Tripolitans.
REVOLT IN ALGIERS.
A fliort time previous tocapt. Van Beu
ren’s failing from Leghorn, three (hips arri
ved at that port, having on board beewccn
three and four hundred Jews, who had
made their escape from a dreadful massacre
at Algiers. The accounts given by these
unfortunate people, were, that in consequence
of the »carcity of grain and provisions of eve
ry kind, the Janizaries and lower class of
people had revolted—that the Dey, ia the
confufion and tumult, had been dabbed in
fevcral places, and barely escaped with his
life to his castle, he was elofely hem
med in.
In the firft moments of their fury, the
revolters massacred several wealthy Jew
merchants, who had purchafcd from the Dey
the foie privijedge of felling wheat; and who
were fufperted, by monopolizing, or keeping
up the exorbitant price of that article. Not
fatisfied with this, they commenced the in
diferiminate (laughter of every person of that
perfaafion in the city, and upwards of four
hundred men, women, and children, fell
virtims to their savage violence. A great
number took refuge in the hnufes of the A
mcrican and other foreign! cor.fuls, who
* St, Rephtel, 84 gn?is t Firm 74 gum.
by gr»a? exertions prtierved tbeit..U/ts, and
\ succeeded in getting them on .board the (hips
[ in ths» harbour which were already croudcd
with fugitives. Several of these vessels had
arrived at Genoa, Leghorn, &c. Not a (in
gle Jew was fufTered to remain in Algiers.
' September z 6.
Crpt. Sailiman, of the (hip John and
Frances, in 36 days from Bourdea**
Capt. Siliiraan, on the 22d of August, off
CapcOrtugal, was boarded by an Englifn
king's brig, the attack, capt. Swaine, and
was informed by him that the day before
the Eritifh fleet appeared off Ferrol, and
found that the combined fleers of France and
1 Spain had failed on the 2i(t from thence,
their destination not known, but supposed
| for the ,Eaft.lndies* The Briiiih were in
, pursuit of them.
i rargrtf ""
PEACE mm TRIPOLI.
OFFICIAL.
Preliminaries of peace with Tripoli were
figaed on the 3J of June last, and on the
fame day Captain Bainbridge, the officers
and crew of the late frigate Philadelphia,
were liberated.
The following is an extraff of a letter
stem Commodore* Rodgers, to th» secreta
ry of the navy, dated
U. S. Ship Corjlitui 'ion ,
'June 8, i3o£.
The Bafhaw, conscious that by a contin
uation of his obstinacy, his town would fall
a facrifice to cur forces, in the coarse of this
Summer, proposed to us terms of peace,
which left us no interest or motive in not
acceding to them, as he acknowledged that
he felt fcmftble our efforts would be (ufficient
to reduce hts town, and oblige him to re
tire to tbe mountains. This acknowledg
ment at once precluded the possibility of ac
quiring any honor by our arms ; but indeed
the reveife, as it would have been perfect
ing an enemy, who, in anticipation of our
vengeance, by his own acknowledgment,
felt himfelt marc than half vanquiffied, and
who perhaps in his savage perturbation,
might have carried his resentment to the fa
crilice of 300 of our unfortunate country
men, whom chance had placed in his pow.
cr,”
“ (Derne) April 28.
t( Sir,
** I have the honor to inform yon, that
at 9 o’clock in the morning of the 27th,
being about ten miles to the eaflward of the
town of Derne, with the Hornet in compa
ny, we ilifeovered the Nautilus at anchor,
very close to the (bore, which led us to sup.
pofc that Capt, Dent had fallen in with
Mr. Eaton’s army, as he had been sent on
fl»ore for that purpefe the day before. We
made all fail for the Nautilus, and at half
past 10, fpeke her, and was informed by
Capt, Dcnr, that he had communication
with Mr. Eaton the night before, and that
he vvilhed the field pieces landed as feon as
he could get possession of them, being then
only about two miles and a half from the
town of Derne, and the enemy having sent
him a challenge. I hoisted out our boats
and sent the field pieces on (bore, with such
supplies as Mr. Eaton wanted ; but on ap.
preaching the fhoro we found it irnpoffibla
to land the guns without hauling them up
on an almolt perpendicular rock 20 feet a
bovo the boat, but with the perfcverauce of
the officers and men sent on this service,
they effected the landing of one of them, by
hauling it flp tho ftcep rock. Mr., Eaton
finding that we should lefe time in landing
the other, he sent it off again, informing
me that he should march for the town, as
soon as he could possibly mount the field
;ji' piece, that he had on shore, I gave lieut.
: Evans orders to flrand clnfc rn Sjorc to OT tci
. the army whilst they were preparing to
march, in case the enemy should come out
against them, as they had alceady made
their appearance in large numbers out fide of
the town, I gave orders for the neceiTary
preparations to be made for the attack bv
Tea upon the town and batteries, and flood
down very close to the town.
At 2 r. m. Mr. Eaton began the at
tack by land, at the fame time the Hornet,
lieut. Evans anchored with springs on her
cables within 100 yards of the battery of S
guns, and commenced a heavy fire upon it*
the Nautilus took her fTtuation to the cafl
ward of the Hornet, abous half a mile from
the (here, and opened upon the town and
batteries; the Argus anchored a little with
out, and to the eaflward of the Nautilus,
and began firing on the town and batteries.
The tort kept up a heavy fire for about an
hour, affer which the (hot flying so thick
about them, they abandoned it, and ran in
to the town and garden* back; the guns of
the rcfiels were then turned on the beach
and kept up a heavy fire upon the enemy,
to clear the way for the few brave Chriili
ans Mr. Eaton had with him, to enter the
fftrt, as they were gaining ground very fafl,
though a heavy fire of mufquetry was con
, ftantly kept upon from behind the
houses and old walls near the (here.
“ About half part 3 we had the fatisfac
tion to lee lieut. C’Bannan, of the marine
* L.ommodore Barron t 01* mg t§ the de
bilitated fate of hts conJhtuiion t was con.
framed to rrfgn the command of tbe squad
ron to Cap:, Robert) on the 22d dap of
Map.
corps, and Mr. Mann, midfiiiprr»n c£ the
Argus, with-a few brave fellows with them
enter the fort, and haul down the enemy’s
flag and planted the American ensign cn the
wallsof the battery. On turning the guns
of the battery on the town, they found that
the caerr.y had left them in great hafle, as
they were primed and loaded at their hands.
Wkilft our men were turning the guns of
the battery on the town, Hzmct Baibaw
had taken pofleffion of the back part of it,
which brought the enemy betwixt two fires,
that soon fikneed them, and at 4. in the as.
ternoon we had complete pcfllllion of the
town and fort, sent all our boats on fitore
for the purpal'e of carrying ammunition to
the foit and bring off ike wounded men, as
soon as puffible, that they might be drefled
Mr, Eaton gave the ncceflary orders at the t
fort and went into the town t» fee every
thing quiet and to make arraignments for
its being well guarded, during the night.
At half past 5 he returned on board, to
his wound drefled, having received a mus
ket ball through his left wrist. On colleft
ing our men wc found one killed and thirteen
wounded, a lift of which is inclofcd.
I have the honor to be Sir,
Your obedient humble servant,
(Signed) ISAAC HULL.”
r,— "
A lift of killed and wounded at the taking
of I) erne.
Joha Wilton, marine, killed. William*
Eaton, Esq. Capt. Lucca, a Greek, Da
vid Thomas and Eernd. O’Brien, marines,
and nine Greek chriftians wounded.
The following are said to be the prelimi
naries of peace lately entered into be
tween the United States and the Bafhaw of
Tripoli;
The 1 ft. article declares that there {hail
be from the conclusion of the Treaty of Peace
to he entered into between the President of
the Unitad States, and the Bafhaw of Trip
oli and the citizens and fubje&s of their re
fpeefive countries, a Arm, everlasting peace
founded upon principles cf reciprocal advan
ce. t
The 2d. article provides, that upon tie
conclusion of the peace, the Baftiaw of Trip
oli (hall deliver up to the American fqu?idroia
■•w cfFTripoli, all the Americans tow in
his pofleffion, and on condition thereof, all
the fnbjefts of the Bafliaw of Tripoli new in
the power of the United States, lhall be de
livered up to him, and as the number of A
rnericans in the pofleffion [of the Bafliaw of
Tripoli, amounts to 500 men more'or less
and the number of Tripoline fubjefls in the
pswer of the Americans, to about t®o, the
Bafliaw of Tripoli (hall receive from the U
nited States the sum ot sixty thousand dol
lars, as a payment for the difference between
the refpeftive prisoners.
The 3d. article declares, that upon the
cor«lnfion of the peace aforefaid, between
the United States, and the regency of Trip
oli, all the forces of the United States,
which have been or may be in heftilities a
gainst the Bafhaw of Tripoli in the province
of Dernc, or elfcwhcre within the dominions
of the said Bafhaw, lhall be withdrawn
thencefrom, and no supplies (hall be given
or in behalf of the United States, during
the continuation of peace, to any of the fub
jedtsof the said Bafhaw, who may be in ho
stilities against him, or any part of his do
minions ; and the Americans shall use all the
means in their power, to petfuade the bro
ther of the said Bafhaw, who has co-opera
ted with them at Dcrne, &c. to withdraw
froni the territory of the Bafhaw of Tripoli,
but they will not ofc any force or improper
means to effeft that object, and in case he
(ball withdraw himfelf as aforefaid, the
In Mm, his
Wife and his Children now in his power.
RICHMOND, (Vir.) Sept, 14,
The following invitation was preftated by
Meriwether 'Jones, Esq. to Capt, Bain
bridge :
A number of your countrymen who have
participated in your misfortunes, and who
felt the mod lively sensations at your glori
ous deliverance from captivity, request the
favor of your company to dine at the Eagle
to-day, at 4 o’clock.
Capt. ridge and his companions re
turned the following reply :
Gentlemen,
Having determined on remaining in Rich
mond one day longer than 1 firfl intended,
enables tnyfelf and officers ro avail ourfelvcs
of your very polite and friendly invitation
to a dinner at the Eagle Tavern. The wel
come reception which our countrymen in
Richmond have given to us after a long cap
tivity, claims our warmest acknowledg
ments, and we tender them, in letutn, ®ut
best wishes for their health and profperty,
Wm: BAINBRIDGE,
t In bthalf es himfelf & officers.
In consequence of these arrangements, an
elegant dinner was given at the Eagle,
where a numerous meeting of all claffcs and
opinions, mingled with unfeigned hilarity.
After dinner, the following appropriate
toafls were drar.k, amid the Hunts and
plaudits' of the joyous company. Dr. W.
Foufhee prefixed as President, and Meriwe
ther Jones, Esq. as Vice.Prefident.
1. The People of the Uf«i:ed States*
2. The President.