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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.) re:atlHW- nmt.-.v iia-r■ an-rit-.- .«»•>-. rr mmtmtr: MKa 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.