taken by the Phoenix on the 12th. The frigate is in excellent condition, and in a few days might be got ready for fea, and made a complete cruizer. Sir, I am, &c. ADAM DUNCAN. Pegafus, Texel, S. S. W. diftant 20 Leagues, I HAVE the honour to inform you, that two of the Dutch brigs which we chaced this morning, got clofe in with the land about Bosch, on the coaft or Friezland, and finding by outfailing them, that they had no other means of efcape, run on fhore clofe to us; one of them floated off, but fhe afterwards took the ground, and, having touched it ourfelves, we found it neceffary to ftand off, leaving them with fignals of diftrefs in their fore-top-maft fhrouds, and firing guns. We should have endeavoured to get between them and the land, but could not haul fufficiently up without fhortening a great deal of fail, which would have been the means of letting them fore-reach upon us fo as to get away. My motive for giving this information, is in the event of the fhips a-stern not having been fufficiently near to have afcertained it. As it would have taken fome time to work up to yon, I judged it prudent to proceed in pursuance of the former orders you gave me, which I hope will meet your approbation. Adam Duncan, Efq. &c. &c. &c. I am, &c. ROSS DONNELLY. P.S. We judge the brigs to have been the Echo and Gier. Sir, Phenix, at Sea, May 15, 1796. I HAVE the pleasure to inform you, that a fhort time after I received your orders on the morning of the 12th inftant, we saw five fail on the lee bow in the S. E. quarter, upon a wind on the starboard tack, which we made out to be a frigate, three armed brigs, and a cutter. I immediately made fail, and foon discovered them to be enemies; at the fame time the Pegafus made the fignal for fuch to you. Upon our near approach, the brigs bore up and made fail; the Pegasus and Sylph followed them, who were in chace with me, the frigate apparently undetermined whether to go at large or keep by the wind, as the often changed her pofition during the chace, but at length kept with the wind a-beam. Quarter paft eight, A. M. being clofe on her weather quarter, the hoifted Dutch colours, upon which I ordered a fhot to be fired acrofs her; a few minutes after we were close alongside her to windward, when a fmart action commenced on both fides, which lasted about twenty minutes, when the Dutch frigate Argo, of 36 guns and 237 men, ftruck to his Majefty's fhip Phoenix, under my command. 1 It is with infinite pleafure I affure you of the very fteady and cool behaviour of the officers and fhip's company I have the honour to command, it being fuch as to merit every thing I can fay in their praise. I beg leave to recommend in the strongest manner, through you to their Lordships, Mr. Jofeph Wood, first lieutenant, who, from long experience and steady officer-like conduct, is highly deferving their most particular attention. Our lofs confifts of one man killed, and three wounded; that of the enemy, fix killed and twenty-eight wounded, fome of them dangerously. The fails, ftanding and running rigging, received fome damage, as did the enemy's, but not of fo much confequence but was foon put to rights. The frigate and brigs were from Norway, bound to the Texel; the cutter which we retook is the Duke of York packet, from Yarmouth to the Elbe, taken by them the day before. I have the honour to be, &c. Adam Duncan, Efq. Admiral of the Blue, &c. &c. &c. L. W. HALSTED. From the LONDON GAZETTE, May 28, 1796. Admiralty-Office, May 28. Copy of a Letter from Captain Thomas Fremantle, of his Majefty's Ship Inconftant, to Evan Nepean, Efq. dated off Baftia, April 27, 1796. Sir, I HAVE the honour of inclofing, for the information of their Lordfhips, the copy of a letter from me to Sir John Jervis, Knight of the I am, &c. &c. Bath. Sir, THO. F. FREMANTLE, Inconftant, at Sea, April 23, 1796. I HAVE the honour to inform you, that on the 19th, cruizing near Tunis, I received an account that a French frigate had been feen off Cape Mabera, near Bonn; I therefore made fail for that place, and, on the evening of the 20th perceived a fhip under French colours at anchor on the coaft, which I came to, by, and directed to strike; this was prudently complied with: fhe is called L'Unité, a cov tte, of 34 guns and 218 men. The crew had made an attempt to fet her on fire, but by the exertions of Lieut. Hutchinfon it was foon extinguifhed. Had the fhip been of equal force with the Inconftant, I have every reafon to believe it would have afforded me a further proof of the ipirit and steadiness of every officer and perfon on board the ship I command. I am, &c. &c. THO, F. FREMANTLE. Admiralty Admiralty-Office, May 31, 1796. Copy of a Letter from Captain N. Tomlinson, Commander of bis Majesty's Sloop La Suffifante, to Evan Nepean, Efq. dated off Falmouth, May 28, 1796. Sir, I HAVE the honour to acquaint you, for the information of my Lords Commiffioners of the Admiralty, that being on a cruize, in his Majefty's floop La Suffifante under my command, the Lizard bearing N. N. E. diftance fifteen leagues, early yesterday morning, we difcovered a fail, about fix miles to windward, and immediately ftood for her, and, after a chace of eleven hours, came up with her among the rocks between Ufhant and the Main, the having endeavoured to make her escape to Brest through the paffage Le Four: but I was enabled to cut her off, by the fuperior failing of the Suffifante. We engaged her clofe on board for half an hour, when he ftruck, and proves to be the Revanche brig, Bermudas built, a remarkable faft failer, pierced for fourteen guus, mounting twelve long four-pounders, and eighty-five chofen men, commanded by Monfieur George Henri Diaveman, lieutenant de vaiffeau, an old and experienced feaman. bhe was five days from Havre, bound on a cruize, but had taken nothing. I am particularly obliged to the officers and crew of the Suffifante, for their cool and determined conduct, both in working and fighting the floop, when the utmost exertions were neceflary to prevent the enemy from efcaping, and to avoid the rocks by which we were furrounded on a lee fhore. I am happy to add that there was but one feaman wounded on board the Suffifante. The Revanche had two men killed and seven wounded. I am now proceeding to Plymouth, in company with the prize, and hope we shall arrive there to-night. I am, &c. NICHOLAS TOMLINSON. Admiralty-Office, May 31, 1796. Extract of a Letter from Commodore Sir John Warren to Evan Nepean, Efq. dated La Pomone, at Sea, May 25, 1796. I BEG you will inform their Lordships, that I on this day captured La Fantafie, a Republican privateer, copper-bottomed, mounting 14 guns and 75 men, from Morlaix, on a cruize. She had been only one day from the above port, and had not taken any thing. MILITARY MILITARY EVENTS. OPERATIONS IN SPAIN, ITALY, AND ON THE RHINE. From the LONDON GAZETTE, June 6, 1795. Aranjuez, May 6: THE Spanish army in Catalonia encamped on the 23d ultimo. Genea ral Urrutia's head quarters remained at Gerona. On the 27th the enemy made an attack on the post of Vascara, and were repulfed with lofs. They met with no better iuccefs in an attempt they made, on the fame day, to force the poft of Bafula. From the LONDON GAZETTE, August 8, 1795. Barcelona, May 20. ON the 4th inftant the enemy attacked the Spaniards towards Rivas, and on the 7th near Befalu, but were repulfed in both places with con- : fiderable lofs. On the 14th, at day-light, upon the appearance of fome confiderable bodies of the enemy, the whole Spanish line was got under arms, and quickly after General Urrutia, feeing the advanced posts to: the right and left engaged, paffed the river with the whole center, except. a referve on the bridge just finished at Bifcara. This paffage was op posed by a very smart fire of cannon and howitzers, placed in advantageous fituations, but the enemy were nevertheless attacked and driven from all the pofts they occupied in about two hours, during a violent ftorm of wind, thunder, and rain, and purtued to within musket-shot of their camps. The whole of the Spanish line was formed in battle beyond the Hermitage of Pontos, and then retired and repaffed the river, after having taken all the artillery which the enemy had with them, viza 1 eight-pounder, 1 four and 1 republican two-pounder, 2 fix-pound howitzers, with their respective ammunition carts; the camp kettles and meffes, and a quantity of blankets and hand-barrows. When the greater part of the Spanish troops had repaffed the river, the enemy appeared again, and attacked thofe that were yet on the other fide; upon which a fecond action took place, and was still more obftinately difputed than the former. This fecond action began about one o'clock; at three the French retreated precipitately, but the Spanish light troops purfued and haraffed them till fix, when the whole army retired across the Fluvia. Though no correct statement has been received of the lofs on the fide of the Spaniards, in the action of the 14th, it may be computed, according to the different accounts, to amount to 36 officers and about 700 men killed and wounded. The regiment Fixo de Malaga, is faid to have fuffered much, having borne, with great firmness, the fire of two of the enemy's batteries for a confiderable time. The moft confiderable lofs, on the part of the French, was on the right, where the Spanish cavalry paffed the river, and attacked the divifion of the enemy commanded by General Soret, encamped at Caftillon, confifting of near 6000 men: they were thrown into confufion, and killed in great numbers by the Spanish horfe, who made no prifoners; they left a number of their dead on the roads, but carried off the greater part of their wounded. All the fpies and deferters agree in the report that the enemy loft about 2000 men. According to the officer's report, 25,000 men had, in the evening of the 13th, taken the pofts which they occupied the next morning, in order to protect a general harveft of wheat in Lampourdain; 600 reapers were brought for this purpofe out of Rouffillon, and the troops had orders to keep their pofition to the last extremity. Genoa, June 30. INTELLIGENCE has been received here, that, on the 24th instant, General de Vins had attacked and carried the different pofts of the Madonna del Monte, from which the French, ftationed on the heights be hind Vado, had attempted in vain to diflodge him; that two battalions of Thourn, and a divifion of Croats of Carlstadt, cominanded by, General Cantu and Lieutenant colonel Marquette, had attacked and driven the French from their ftrong entrenchments on the mountain of St. Giacomo; that two companies of the free corps of Julay had alfo carried the French entrenchments on the mountain of Settepani; that General de Vins, having driven the enemy from all thofe pofts, had eftablished himself on the fea-coaft between Savona and Vado; and that, on the night of the 28th, the French had abandoned their entrenchments at Vado, and fallen back upon Finale, leaving behind them thirty pieces of cannon, and two confiderable magazines of provifions and forage. It appears that General Colli, at the head of the Piedmontefe army, has attacked the French on the fide of Ormea, and fucceeded in driving them from feveral very important pofts, particularly from that of Spinarda. From the LONDON GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY, Thursday, Nov. 12, 1795. Downing Street, Nov. 11. DISPATCHES, of which the following are copies, have been received from Lieutenant-colonel Craufurd by the Right Honourable Lord Grenville, his Majefty's principal Secretary of State for the foreign department. My Lord, Head-Quarters, Weilmunfter, O. 18. I HAVE the honour to inform your Lordship, that fince the 13th inftant the advanced guards of the Auftrian army, under Generals Boros, Kray, |