Lord Nelson landed at Yarmouth from the Baltic; and on the His lordship reached town, and went immedaely to the Admiralty. A most tremendous storm of thunder and Egning, which extended over a great part he southern countries. It was extremely ikeat at Southampton and its vicinity. His Majesty at the time it came on, was taking an aning in his carriage in the New Forest. One of the horses taking fright at the lightning, became so unruly, that His Majesty was pervaded by his attendants to alight and take ticker in a cottage. July. 1. The intercourse between this country and Mr. Merry left town for Paris as British agent there. 3. Their Majesties and the royal family embarked at Christchurch in the royal yachts, and proceeded for Weymouth. A squadron under the command of RearAdmiral Sir James Saumarez, consisting of wn ships of the line, attacked, in Algesiras Bay, a French squadron of three ships of the line and a large frigate, protected by the formidable batteries in the Bay. The attack was made in the true British style; but the Han bel, of 74 guns, going inside of the enemy's ups, unfortunately grounded, and being im mareable, she was of necessity, but not until fer the most gallant defence, abandoned to the enemy. Captain Ferris, and the remainag part of the crew, surrendered themselves ricers of war. 1. The French squadron in Algesiras Bay, reinforced by five Spanish line of battle ships, two of them of 112 guns, a French ship of 74 ts, and three frigates, and an incredible number of gun-boats and other vessels. The combined French and Spanish force, amouating in all to ten sail of the line, put sea from Algesiras Bay. Sir James Saumarez, lying with his squadron at Gibraltar, whither he had gone to repair the damages rutained in the battle of the 6th, immediWey put to sea after them, with five ships of the une, determined to oppose their passage to Cady, whither they seemed bound. At 11 P.M. the Superb, the van ship of the British Luadron, opened her fire upon the enemy Casar, Sir James's flag ship, closely folsing, was about to open upon a threeserker of the enemy, which was perceived to le on fire, and which communicating to a ship of the same force to leeward, both soon blew up with a dreadful explosion. The San Anmeg, of 74 guns, under French colours, struck prize, and anchored there amongst the loudest acclamations of the garrison. This action may certainly vie in activity, enterprise, and gallantry, with any upon record in the proud annals of British glory. In the night between this day and the 224, most daring and gallant enterprize was executed by the boats of a British squadron of frigates stationed in the mouth of Brest Harbour, under the command of Captain Brisbane, of His Majesty's ship Doris. A French national corvette, called La Chevrette, mounting 20 guns, and having 350 men on board, lay in Camaret Bay, in presence of the combined fleets of France and Spain. The boats of the Doris,Beaulieu, and Uranie, manned with vo- ' lunteers, proceeded in to cut her out; in which enterprize, under the direction of Lieutenant Maxwell, of the Beaulieu, they were completely successful. The daring exploit was characterised by Admiral Cornwallis, the commander in chief, as being one of the noblest perhaps ever achieved by British valour, and was received in this country with the highest admiration. 24. The island of Medeira taken possession of by a British regiment, who were received as the friends and allies of Portugal. 27, Vice Admiral Nelson hoisted his flag on board the Unité frigate at Sheerness, his lordship having been appointed to the command of a flying squadron of frigates and gunvessels for the protection of the coast against the threatened invasion of the enemy. 30. Lord Nelson, at day-light, hoisted his flag on board the Leyden of 68 guns, lying in the Downs, aud at eight in the evening shifted it to the Medusa frigate. August. 1. Early this morning Vice-Admiral Lord Nelson sailed from the Downs for the coast of France, with a numerous fleet of gun-brigs, bombs, &c. 4. Lord Nelson made an attack upon a French armament of gun-boats and other vessels, intended for the invasion of this country. His lordship succeeded in destroying and damaging a number of the enemy's vessels. A letter published in the Gazette from Lord Cochrane, giving an account of his having captured, in the Speedy sloop of war, of 14 guns, four-pounders, and 54 men, a Spanish xebeck frigate, of 32 guns, 22 long twelvepounders, 8 nines, and 2 heavy carronades, with 319 men. This action was considered bv naval men as one of the most brilliant which was ever achieved by a single vessel against another. 6. Lord Nelson anchored in Margate roads from before Boulogne. His lordship came back to make further preparations for a renewal of the attack on the French force at Boulogne. the Superb. The enemy's squadron was dispersed, and with difficulty found shelter in Cadiz harbour from the ardent and bold pur-12. Intelligence reached this country, (via Conut of the British ships. Sir James Saumarez returned in triumph to Gibraltar with his stantinople), of the capture of Grand Caire by the British and Ottoman army, 14. Lord Nelson again sailed with his squadron for the purpose of renewing the attack on Boulogne harbour. 15. A second attack made by Lord Nelson upon the French flotilla in Boulogne harbour, which had not all the desired success, in consequence of the enemy having taken the precaution, undreamt of by British sailors, of having drawn their vessels ashore. His holiness the Pope addressed a letter to the French bishops, requiring their resignation, into his hands, of their ecclesiastical appointments. 20. Three gun-boats, two launches, and a flat boat, carrying a brass howitzer, taken and destroyed off Estaples by the boats of a small squadron under the command of Captain Rose, of the Jamaica. El Neptuno, a new ship pierced for 20 guns, belonging to the King of Spain, a gunboat, and a merchant ship, cut out of the harbour of Corunna by the boats of the Fis guard, Diamond, and Boadicea frigates, under the direction of Lieut. Pipon, of the former vessel. 23. Lord Nelson sailed a third time with his flotilla from the Downs. 27. Lord Nelson anchored in the Downs. 31. An account received by the French papers of a definitive treaty of peace having been concluded between the Elector of Bavaria and the French republic. September. 2. Alexandria surrendered by capitulation, and taken possession of by the British forces. The garrison consisted of 9,300 men. This great event terminated the campaign in Egypt, a campaign which will be recorded as the most glorious to the British arms that ever was waged in any æra in any quarter of the globe. La Succes and La Bravoure, two French frigates, going from Leghorn with a convoy of provisions for the besieging army before Porto Ferrajo, driven on shore by an English squadron. The former got off by the English, the other destroyed. 4. The Archduke Anthony of Austria, elected Bishop of Munster. 7. The Treaty of peace between Spain and Portugal, signed at Badajos, June 6, received in this country. 9. The ratification of the convention concluded between Russia and this country arrived here. 12. The King of Etruria acknowledged at Vienna, by his title being inserted in the Court Gazette. 22. The Emperor Alexander of Russia crowned at Moscow, with great ceremony and state. 25. Lord Nelson sailed in the Amazon frigate from the Downs for the coast of France, but the wind coming foul returned in the evening. 6. A proclamation published in the Lond Gazette, calling a meeting of Parliament the 29th inst. 8. A treaty of peace between Russia and Fran signed at Paris, by M. Talleyrand and Cou Markoff. 9. A treaty of peace concluded at Paris b tween the French republic and the Porte. 10. General Lauriston, first aid-de-camp the first consul of France, arrived in tow with the ratification of the preliminaries peace, which was soon after exchanged b tween Lord Hawkesbury and M. Otto, the foreign office. This event was immed ately announced by a discharge of the Par and Tower guns. In the evening a gener and brilliant illumination took place in th cities of London and Westminster, in parts which, particularly at the public offices, man appropriate devices were displayed.-This da was the most shameful, the most infamou that England ever saw. A set of brutes i the shape of men, took the horses from th carriage of this Frenchman, the messenger the Corsican, and drew him in triumph from Bond street down St. James's street, alon Pall Mall, to the admiralty, to Downin street, through the horse guards, along th royal road in the mall, &c. &c. &c. It was day of sorrow to every man, except the foolis mob and the miserable ministers, who, b making this peace, preserved places, whic they never ought to have filled.-The vil miscreants, who rejoiced at the peace, brok the windows of those persons, who refused to illuminate. This day likewise Paris Journals of the 6th were received, containing the articles of the preliminary treaty of peace. 26. Captain Parker, an able and gallant offi-13. A proclamation made in the London Ga cer, who had acted as aid-de-camp to Lord Nelson in his last attack on the French flotilla in Boulogne harbour, and who had suffered zette of the cessation of arms between his Majesty and the French republic, by sea and land. General Lauriston sailed from Dover, on return to France. This day his Majesty went in the usual state the House of Peers, and opened the sesof Parliament with a most gracious speech 1m the throne. Addresses were moved in both houses to Majesty, and passed in both without the maliest opposition. Majesty was this day pleased to appoint Marquis Cornwallis to be his plenipotentiary the congress to be held at Amiens; and Anthony Merry, Esq. to be his Majesty's Secretary at the said congress. November. Marquis Cornwallis and his suite left town, his route to Paris. This day his excellency embarked at Dover, and landed at Calais in the evening, where he received with every mark of respect and tinction becoming his high character. A discussion took place in both houses of anament upon the preliminaries of peace. pon a motion in the house of peers for an ddress to his Majesty, expressive of their ordships' full approbation thereof, which as most ably opposed by Lords Spencer, and Grenville, &c. a division took place, when there peared for the motion 114, and only 10 gainst it, leaving a majority of 104. In the house of commons, upon a similar motion, no divion took place. Marquis Cornwallis reached Paris. Sir Sidney Smith and Colonel Abercromby aded at Portsmouth from Egypt, with the oficial dispatches of the surrender of Alexandria, and the final conquest of that country by the British forces, duplicates of which had before been received. The Marquis Cornwallis had his first audence of the chief consul. A grand féte took place at Paris in celebration of the peace. Intelligence was received that the PrusTan troops had commenced their evacuation of the Honoverian dominions. Accounts were also received of a new revobrion having taken place in the government of Switzerland. The thanks of both houses of parliament were voted to Lord Keith, Sir J. Hutchinson, and the other officers of the army and navy serving in Egypt. The French papers contained a long account of the very splendid fête which took place at Paris on the 9th November, in honour of the peace between Great-Britain and France. They also contained an account of the French having evacuated the kingdom of Naples. The treaty between Great-Britain and Rusfia was discussed in the house of commons. The Gazette of this day contained an account of the surrender of Alexander, and consequently of the complete subjugation of the French in Egypt. For this glorious event no illumination took place, nor did the public offices, which had been so brilliantly illuminated to celebrate the signing of the preliminaries of peace, shew the least mark of joy. The ministers were afraid to do so, lest Buonaparté should be offended. The Gazette also contained an account of the squadron of French frigates cruzing off the Isle of Elba, being attacked by the Phonix, the Pomona, and the Minerva, the result of which was, that two French frigates of 40 guns were taken, and one of equal force destroyed. 24. Prince Augustus Frederick created Duke of Sussex, and Prince Adolphus Frederick created Duke of Cambridge. 25. Great preparations making at Brest for an expedition to St. Domingo. December. 1. Marquis Cornwallis, with his suite, arrived at Amiens from Paris. e 2. In the house of commons, Lord Glenbervie brought in a bill for removing certain straints upon the correspondence by letter between Great-Britain and France. 3. The Hamburgh mail brought the intelligence of the siege of Porto Ferrajo having been raised, after a long and most gallant defence. 5. Dispatches were received from Lord Keith, who had arrived at Malta with a considerable part of his fleet having left Sir Richard Bick-erton with a squadron ar Alexandria. Sir John Parnell, formerly chancellor of the exchequer in Ireland, expired suddenly, as he was sitting at breakfast. 6. M. Otto received his appointment as minister plenipotentiary from the French republic at the court of St. James's. 9. The congress opened at Amiens. 14.. The French fleet, destined for St. Domingo, sailed from Brest. 15. Accounts were received at the admiralty, of some dissatisfaction having appeared in the flect under the command of Vice-Admiral Mitchell, laying in Bantry Bay, in Ireland. Parliament this day adjourned to the 21st. 16. An account received of the suppression of the mutiny in the fleet in Ireland, by the spirited conduct of Rear-Admiral Campbell, anu the officers and marines of the Temeraire and the Formidable, on board of which ships only it had broken out. 18. The intercourse with France opened by packet-boats between Dover and Calais. 21. Parliament this day adjourned for a week. 28. Parliament again adjourned for a week. 29. Vice Admiral Mitchell, with thirteen sail of the line, arrived at Spithead, from Bantray Bay, in Ireland. This day the intercourse with Holland was opened by packets between Harwich and Helvoetsluys. L DIRECTIONS TO THE BINDER. N.B. After this page comes the Register, beginning with page 1, continuing on to page 800. Then comes the Supplement, which be with page 801, and closes with the Index. No. 1.] [ Price 10D. CONTENTS.-Introduction, 1. King's Speech, 5. Addresses, 7. Votes of Thanks, 10. Portugal, 10, 11, 15. Preliminaries of Peace, 12, 13. French Expedition, 16. Treaty of Luneville, 21. Losses of the Nations of Europe by the War, 26. Works by MArthur, Bowles, Thurgood, Sir F. M. Eden, &c. 29, 30. French Commerce with the Baltic, 31. London, Saturday, 16th January, 1802. 1] TO THE READER. [2 PRESUME, that most of the gentlemen, himself both the labour and the risk of the into whose hands this will fall, are already informed, that I was, some months ago, the proprietor and conductor of The Porcupine, a daily paper which I established in October, 1800, and which after passing into other hands, has been joined with the paper, called the True Briton. The remonstrances, which, from all parts of the kingdom, I have received, since the tone and sentiments of the Porcupine began to change, and more particularly since its junction with the True Briton, point out to me the necessity of explaining, on this occasion, the circumstances attending a transter, in which my character, as a public writer, appears to be somewhat concerned. concern. A legal transfer was, however, from mere want of time, postponed till that gentleman, from the untoward aspect of public affairs, was also induced to wish for a release from the public responsibility, which he had assumed. The property then became his, and from him it passed (on the 23d of November) into the hands of those gentlemen, who have since put it into a stock of partnership with Mr. Heriot, the proprietor of the True Briton. I came to England with an intention of confining myself to the business of bookselling, having already undergone a threeyears slavery as conductor of a daily newspaper. But those tradesmen, with whom I consulted on my arrival, strongly recommended me to begin a daily paper here, where talents were to be found in such abundance and on so moderate terms, that I should find myself totally relieved from the weight, with which a similar establishment pressed me in America. Encouraged by this flattering view of the prospect, to hope, that a newspaper would not materially interfere with the bookselling trade, which I had previously agreed to enter into with my present partner; and stimulated by the Cesire of still contributing something toward the support of a cause, in which I had so long been a zealous labourer, I established the Porcupine. But, to my great mortification, I very soon found, that the labour of conducting a daily paper, in London, was infinitely greater than that attached to a like task in Alberica; and, as to a participation in this labour, I found, that that was not to be purchased with money. To devote my own time to it entirely was incompatible with my engagements to my partner, and, therefore, I was compelled to abandon the undertaking. This junction having brought me numerous and urgent requests to resume, in some way or other, those labours, which, though the importance of them have certainly been greatly over-rated by my friends, Í hope may yet, in some degree, contribute to the preserving of those ancient and holy institutions, those unsophisticated morals and natural manners, that well-tempered love of regulated liberty, and that just sense of public honour, on the preservation of which our national happiness and independence so essentially depend, I have determined on the undertaking the present publication, which, while it will demand no more of my time than I can conveniently set aside from my more important private concerns, is, I am fully persuaded, much better calculated than a daily paper to answer all the purposes I have in view. As a prospectus, the number here presented to the reader, might, perhaps, be sufficient ; yet it may not be amiss, in the outset of the work, to state what will, in general, be the nature of its contents, without confining myself to any particular order in the arrangement, which must always depend upon the time, in which the matter, under the several heads, can be prepared for the press. 1. The proceedings of parliament, given by analysis, or abridgement, retaining, however, the substance of every speech of importance, and every statement and opinion, to which it will be ever necessary to recur. To debates, involving points of great moment, a more ample space will be alMy resolution to adopt this measure hav-lowed; but, in general, a faithful analysis ing been communicated to a gentleman, who is all that any one can wish to preserve. lamented that the paper should be discontiqued, he generously offered to take upon II. An account of the most important proceedings of the government of France, par |