LIST of PRIZE S, continued from Page 160. 1 The fmall fquadron at Gibraltar, confting of one fifty-gun thip, three frigates, and two floops, have already shared one hundred and forty thousand pounds prize money. The Hebe, a French whaler, has been taken by capt. James Fleming, and fent into St. Helen's. The Birmingham, Forfter, from Mary. land to Amfterdam, is taken by the Oporto, Hamilton, of Liverpool. The Flying Fih, floop of war, has taken a French fchooner, and fent, her to New Providence. A French thip laden with oil, &c from the South Sea fishery, or coaft of Brazil, has been taken by the Buftler privateer, The Fox privateer, of Liverpool, capt. Fletcher, has taken and fent into Scilly Le Maitre, a French fhip from Bourdeaux to Nantz, laden with wine, oil, &c. The Philip privateer, capt. Stephens, has re-taken and fent into Liverpool, the Sarah, capt. Grant, from Jamaica to London. The Powerful man of war has brought in the Countefs Trautfmandorf, a French prize of four hundred tons, from Pondicherry, laden with a valuable cargo of bale-goods, &c. She put into St. Helena in diftrefs with only half a butt of water and one day's provifion; he is valued at fixty thousand pounds.-The above prize was, we understand, taken at anchor; in confequence of which a claim is lodged to the prize as a droit of the admiralty. The Apollo letter of marque, captain Fanshaw, belonging to Guernsey, has taken and carried into that place a large French bark, laden with flour, which the fell in with at fea, having only two hands on board; the others had taken to the long-boat, and deferted her. A hip from Martinique, loaden with fugar, coffee, &c. is taken and fent into St. Kitt's, by his Majesty's fchooner Berbice. The Mary privateer, of Liverpool, has taken, within one day's fail of Havre, a hip from Guadaloupe for that place, loaded with fugar, coffee, &c. and carried her into Liverpool. His Majefty's cutter Seaflower, lieut. John Webber, arrived in Carlisle Bay on the 30th of Auguft, and had captured and carried in there La Victoria Indiaman, La Mirabeau Guineaman, and left the Mercury on the coaft. A part of lord Hood's fquadron has taken off Genoa, the Modefte, a French frigate, which had fallied out of that port for the purpofe of making prizes. i His Majefty's floop Rattlefnake, capt. Alexander Mouat, has taken and carried into St. Kitt's, La Jenny from Pont à Petrie, Guadaloupe, to Bayonne, laden with fugar, coffee, cotton, and elephants' teeth, valued at fifteen thousand pounds.—La Jenny is a letter of marque, of ten guns, and had captured a Spanish fhip on the 28th of Auguft, and had her ranfom on board for twenty thousand pieces of eight. The Rattlefnake, in lat. 19. north, long. 63. 28. weft, fell in with the Venus, an American thip; and was going in chace of twenty French fhips that had run out of Martinique. The Gabriel Cherie, Chemen, of Bourdeaux; Hazard, Barnave, of Havre; and Petit Amedée, Andonard, of Honfleur; are taken by the Brothers, Williams, of Briftol, on the coast of Africa. The Crefcent, of thirty-fix guns, capt. Saumarez, has taken the French frigate Re-union, of thirty-fix guns, after an action of more than two hours and a half. This engagement took place on Sunday laft near Cherbourg, at the distance of lefs than a league and a half from the thore. The lofs on board the French frigate was one hundred and eighteen in killed and wounded, and not a fingle man hurt on board the Crefcent by the fire of the enemy; one man unfortunately had his thigh broke by an accident. This extraordinary circumftance must have arifen from the French frigate directing her whole fire against the rigging of the Crefcent. On taking poffeffion of the Re-union, it appeared that the fire from the Crescent had killed and wounded three feamen near the powder-magazine. An immenfe concourfe of perfous who had affembled on the fhore witneffed the engagement, and had the mortification to perceive the triumph of the British flag over their republican colours. The Cre fcent has arrived with her prize at Spit. head. Ships taken by the French. The America French man of war of 74 guns, has taken a fhip from Savannah to Cadiz, and fent her into Boston. A French privateer called the Roland, lately fitted out at Boston, has taken the Greyhound fchooner. The Prefident, Smith, from Hull to Baltimore, is taken by the Mofelle, French privateer, and fent to Boston. The Thought cutter, Harding Shaw commander, was captured the 3d of September by a frigate of forty-two guns. The Hope privateer, capt. Hall, of Liverpool, is taken by a French lugger. MILITARY MILITARY PROMOTIONS, from the LONDON GAZETTE, of O&t. 19. War-Office, Oct. 18. His Maj fty has been pleafed to appoint Generals Henry Seymour Conway, his Royal Highnef's William Duke of Gloucefter, K. G. and Sir George Howard, K. B. to be FIELD MARSHALS. As likewife Lieutenant-Generals Robert Melville, Marifcoe Frederic, Robert Dalrymple Horn Elphinstone, James Johnfton, James Johnfton, Charles Marquis of Drogheda, K. St. P. Sir William Auguftus Pitt, K. B. Lord Adam Gordon, Hon. Francis Maitland, Archibald Earl of Eglintoune, Hunt Walih, Guy Lord Dorchefter, K. B. Sir Charles Thompfon, Bart. and K. B. Robert Clerk, RoCuninghame, Hon. Sir William Howe, K. B. Lord George Henry Lenox, Henry Fletcher, John Hale, Sir Robert Boyd, K. B. Sir Henry Clinton, K. B. Charles Lord Southampton, Bernard Hale, Francis Craig, Hugh Duke of Northumberland, K. G. Win. Tayler, Charles Marquis Cornwallis, K. G. to be GENERALS. As likewife Major-Generals Sir Thomas Shirley, Bart. Jofeph Brome, Patrick Tonyn, Gabriel Chriftie, John Reid, Charles Rofs, Sir William Green, Bart. George Scott, Charles O'Hara, Robert Sandford, Loftus Anthony Tottenham, William Rowley, Harry Trelawney, Peter Bathurft, Hon. William Gordon, John Maunfell, Stuart Douglas, Robert Prefcott, Hon. William Harcourt, Henry Earl of Carhampton, William Dalrymple, William Picton, Sir Hector Munro, K. B. Hon. Edward Stopford, Hon. William Hervey, Weft Hyde, John Fletcher Campbell, Francis Lafcelles, James Murray, Samuel Townfend, Sir William Medows, K. B. and Thomas Ofbert Mordaunt, to be LIEUTENANT GENERAMS. As likewife Colonels John Lind, William Shireff, William Grinfield, Samuel Hulfe, Albemarle Bertie, Charles Vallancey, Thomas Pigot, Hon. John Thomas De Burgh, Sir James Steuart, Bart. Thomas Carleton, James Marth, Cavendish Lifter, Charles Leigh, James Ogilvie, William Roberts, Robert Kington, Sir Robert Laurie, Bart. John Tupper, William Martin, John Archer, William Edmefton, David Home, Hugh Debbieg, Montgomery Agnew, Thomas Jones, James Stewart, Alexander Earl of Balcarras, Hon. Charles Stuart, Cornelius Cuyler, Thomas Dundas, Charles Earl of Harrington, Hon. Richard Fitzpatrick, Nefbitt Balfour, Edmund Stevens, Thomas Trigge, Francis Earl of Moira, Peter Craig, and Benjamin Stehelin, to be MAJOR-GENERALS. As likewife Lieutenant-Colonels Robert Mafon Lewis, Thomas Glyn, William Colquohoun, Welbore Ellis Doyle, Cha. Horneck, Alexander Rofs, John Whyte, Charles Graham, Andrew John Drummond, Thomas Swanton, John St. Le ger, Chriftopher Maxwell, Henry Bowyer, Richard Bettefworth, Arent Schuyler de Peyster, John William Egerton, Peter Hunter, William Maxwell, George Lord Herbert, John Earl of Chatham, George Campbell, Alexander Campbell, William Viscount Fielding, and Richard Symes, to be COLONELS. To be AIDES DE CAMP to his Majesty, Lieutenant-Colonels William Morthead, Francis Dundas, and Hamilton Maxwell. As likewife Majors William Anftruther, James Stevenfon, Boulter Johnstone, William Swinburne, John Doyle, William Brady, John Dormer Alcock, Patrick Wauchope, James Higginfon, Baldwin Leighton, Arthur Browne, Patrick Sinclair, John Elford, Benjamin Fish, David Campbell, M. B. St. Leger Keating, John Coffin, Hon. George Hanger, Richard Armstrong, John Callandar, Archibald Campbell, fen. and John Murray, to be LIEUTENANT-COLONELS. War-Office, October 19. First regiment of foot guards. Captain the Hon. Edmund Phipps, to be captain of a company, by purchase, vice Talbot, who retires. GARRISONS. Rev. Edward Drewe to be chaplain to the garrifon of Sheernefs, vice Richards, deceased. STAFF. Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Lennox to be quarter-master-general to the forces ferving at Toulon and Provence. Haviland Le Mefurier, gent. to be affiftant commiffary-general of ftores, provifions, and forage, to the forces ferving on the continent under the command of his Royal Highnefs the Duke of York, vice Gould, deceafed. Office of Ordnance, October 17. Royal regiment of artillery. Samuel Baker, gent. to be fecond lieutenant, vice Fead, promoted; Benjamin Fenwick, gent. to be fecond lieutenant, vice WatWatfon, promoted. Howard Corps of royal engineers. Elphinstone, gent. from the royal regi ment of artillery, to be fecond lieutenant, vice Stewart, promoted; Elias Durnford, gent. from the royal regiment of artillery, to be fecond lieutenant, vice Brand, deceased. MEMOIRS OF LOVE AND GALLANTRY. LBOINUS king of Lombardy, mund, a young, beautiful, and accomplished, virgin, the daughter of a neighbouring prince, who was his mortal enemy, he fet on foot every contrivance and intrigue, by means of emiffaries, to get her into his power. But vain were the artifices of thofe employed about her perfon, either by perfuafion, or the more powerful temptation of regal dignity, to prevail upon her to leave her father's court. Filial attachment, and the difgufting reflection of forming an alliance with the enemy of her father's houfe, put a decided negative upon the moft preffing folicitations. Provoked beyond measure with this disappoint ment, Alboinus inftantly made war up. on the Gepidæ, over whom the father of Rofamund reigned as fovereign. Taking him by surprise, he killed him with his own hand, and made a cup of his fkull, out of which he drank at all his public banquets. Many perfons of diftinction in the castle were taken prifoners, and amongst the reft the beauteous Rofamund, whom Alboinus forced to his bed, and afterwards married, making this the fole condition of fparing the lives of her relations. ance: for fhe, knowing that he carried placed herself one night in her bed, and receiving the youth, indulged him, as if she had been his own miftrefs, in his amorous defires; which he had no fooner done, than, difcovering herself to the deceived lover, fhe told him that he must now either put the king to death, or be put to death by him. Helmichild, well apprifed, that, after what he had done, his fafety depended upon the death of the king, engaged in the treafon which he otherwife abhorred. One day, therefore, while Alboinus was repoling in his chamber after dinner, Helmichild, with fome others whom he had made privy to his design, breaking in unexpectedly, fell upon the king with their daggers. Alboinus, ftarting up at their firft coming in, laid hold of his fword, which he had always by him; but having in vain attempted to draw it, the queen having beforehand fastened it to the fcabbard, he defended himself for fome time with a footstool; but was in the end overpow ered, and difpatched with many wounds. Rofamund had promifed to Helmichild, that, as foon as he had dispatched the king, the would marry him, and, with her perfon, beftow upon him the kingdom of the Lombards. The first part of her promife the immediately performed; but was fo far from being able to bestow the crown upon him, that both were obliged to fave themfelves by flight. They fled to Longinus the exarch of Ravenna, taking with them all the jewels and treasure of the late king. Longinus received her with the greatest marks of friendship and kindness, and affured her of his protection. She had not been long in Ravenna, before the exarch, judging that a favourable opportunity now offered of making himself king of Italy by her means, imparted his design to her, and declared his intention to marry her, provided, by fome means or other, the difpatched Helmichild.-Rofamund, highly pleafed with the proposal, refolved to fatisfy her ambition by getting rid of him whom he had married in B b Not long after the celebration of his nuptials, as he was one day feafting at Verona with his chief favourites and principal officers, Alboinus, in the 'height of his mirth, fent for the queen, and, filling the detefted cup, commanded her to drink merrily with her father, Rofamund, ftruck with horror, hurried out of the room; and, highly incenfed against her husband for thus barbaroufly triumphing over the misfortunes of her family, refolved, at all events, to make him pay dear for fuch an inhuman and affronting indignity. Accordingly, the discovered her intention to Helmichild the king's fhield-bearer, a youth of great boldnefs and intrepidity. Helmichild peremptorily refused to imbrue his hands in the blood of his fovereign, or to be any way acceffary to his death; and in this refolution he perfifted till he was, by a fhameful ftrata gem, forced by the queen to a compliVOL. I. No. 7. order order to gratify her revenge. Accordingly, having prepared a strong poison, the mixed it with wine, and gave it to her husband as he came out of the bath, and called for drink, according to his cuftom. Helmichild had not half emptied the cup, when, by the fudden and ftrange operation which he felt in his bowels, he concluded what it was; and, with his fword pointed at the queen's breaft, compelled her to drink the reft. The poison had the fame effect on both; and they died in a few hours, leaving to mankind a memorable inftance of the retributions of heaven, in punifhing murder and adultery upon each other, folely by the hands of those who were the guilty fugitives. Similar to the above was the fate of Candaules king of Lydia, who loft both his life and his kingdom by the most unpardonable folly. Candaules had a wife whom he paffionately loved, and believed the most beautiful of her sex. He extolled her charms to Gyges his favourite, whom he used to entrust with his most important affairs; and, the more to convince him of her beauty, refolved to fhew her to him quite naked: he accordingly placed him in the porch of the chamber where the queen used to undrefs when the went to bed, ordering him to retire after he fhould have feen her, and take all poffible care not to be obferved. But, notwithstanding all the caution he could ufe, fhe plainly discovered him going out; and, tho' the did not doubt but it was her hufband's contrivance, yet the paffed that night in a feeming tranquillity, fuppreffing her refentment till next morning, when the fent for Gyges, and refolutely told him that he must either by his death atone for the criminal action he had been guilty of, or put to death Candaules the contriver of it, and receive both her and the kingdom of Lydia for his reward. Gyges at first earnestly begged of the queen that the would not drive him to the neceffity of fuch a choice. But, finding that he could not prevail with her, and that he must either kill his master or die himself, he chofe the former part of the alternative. Being led by the queen to the fame place where her husband had posted him the night before, he ftabbed the king while he was afleep, married the queen, and took poffeffion of the kingdom, in which he was confirmed by the answer of the Delphic oracle. The Lydians having taken up arms to revenge the death of their prince, an agreement was made between them and the followers of Gyges, that if the oracle fhould declare him to be lawful king of Lydia he should be permitted to reign, if not, he should refign the crown to the Heraclidæ. The answer of the oracle proving favourable to Gyges, he was univerfally acknowledged for lawful king of Lydia, as having been forced into that fituation by the imprudence of Candaules, who was the fole caufe of the intrigue. In the annals of modern gallantry, the reader would fcarce expect to find, that an act so ridiculous and indelicate as that of Candaules had lately been put in practice. True it is, however, that, only a few years ago, Sir Richard Worfley underwent the fatigue of lifting up a gentleman upon his own fhoulders, to enable him to peep over the fide of a bathing-houfe, to view the fymmetry of lady Worfley entirely naked; merely from the vanity of having it believed that his wife was the fineft woman in the world! The event proved as difhonourable to Sir Richard as the former was fatal to the king of Lydia; and we truft the ill effects of both will prevent fuch indecencies from growing into fashion. SUFFERINGS OF JAMES BRISTOW, BELONGING TO THE BENGAL ARTILLERY, DURING TEN YEARS CAPTIVITY WITH HYDER ALLY AND TIPPO0 SAIB. [Extracted from the "Narrative," just published for the benefit of himself and Family.] SOON after my arrival at Bengal, I accompanied lieutenant Doxat, our quarter-master of artillery, to Pondicherry, for the purpose of destroying the French boats, that M. d'Orves, and a party of Frenchmen for Hyder's fervice, might not effect a landing. We spiked several iron guns which the French French had buried in the fand on the beach, and had just broken up and fet fire to all the boats, when the day dawned and forced us to retire, to avoid the firing from the fleet. Our camp was within two miles of the town; but, before we had proceeded half way thither, a prodigious buftle and hurry of people, running confusedly towards Pondicherry, announced a party of Hyder's horfe, which had interpofed between the town and our camp. Waggons overfet, and loads of different articles, proceeding to our bazar, lay fcattered and abandoned on the ground. Lieutenant Doxat, who inftantly mounted his horfe, had barely palled a cross-road when a party of them came fuddenly upon me. I was inftantly feized, and ftripped of every thing I poffelfed. They had alfo ventured near enough to our lines to fnatch up the ferjeant-major of one of the feapoy battalions, who was bathing in the front of the quarter-guard in a tank the name of this unfortunate man was Rickman. My fituation from this inftant became truly deplorable; for, having bound my arms behind me, they hurried me almost naked before Hyder, who was then encamped on the right flank of our army, at about five miles distance. Hyder's tent exhibited nothing very magnificent, except a rich Persian carpet fpread on the ground, and held down by four maffy filver weights at the corners, fomething in form refembling fugar-loaves. Several French officers were prefent; I was interrogated through one of them, who spoke English, with refpect to the strength and deftination of our army; but having replied, that our troops amounted to thirty-five thousand men, with feventy pieces of ordnance, the interpreter briskly told me, "I lied," we had no fuch thing! Hyder was fo exafperated, that he kept me three days without any food, tied to the ground in the rear of his tent, which was the ftation I conftantly occupied during the feven days I remained in his camp. In this miferable fituation, lying bound on the bare fand when halting, and lafhed to Rickman, the ferjeant-major, when marching, expofed to the weather, day and night, without any nourishment, I must inevitably have perished, if the hu manity of my guards had not relieved me with fome food now and then by ftealth. On the fourth day, Hyder hav ing encamped near Cuddelore, where the English army was entrenched, I received a vifit from Mahomed Beg a dubafh, who propofed to me to enter into Hyder's fervice: but, upon my noncompliance, I was lafhed to the ferjeant-major, and removed to Gingee, a finall fort on a rock. On my arrival at Gingee I was hand-cuffed, and from thence, the fucceeding day, removed to Arcot, where my hand-cuffs were exchanged for heavy leg-irons. Prior to my remove from hence my irons were taken off, and the hand-cuffs again replaced, probably because heavy fetters might retard the march to Seringapatam, to which place I was next deftined. On the first of March 1781, this journey commenced, with the melancholy profpect of never revisiting thofe companions from whom the chance of war had fecluded me. As foon as I was out of the fort of Arcot I difcovered three palanquins, containing British officers in the fame predicament with myself, and I foon learnt that they were colonel Baillie, captain Rumley, lieutenant Frazer, and a Mr. Skardon. Mr. Skardon's prifon had, indeed, been contiguous to mine; we had often converfed over the low wall which divided our cells, and this gentleman had affifted me both with money and clothes, but he was as ignorant as myself of the unfortu nate fituation of the before-mentioned officers. On our arrival at Seringapatam, Mr. Skardon was fent to the officers prifon, but lieut. Brumpton and Mr. M'Neal (who were carried from Arcot to Seringapatam at the fame time with us) were lodged with us. The former of thefe two had once escaped from Hyder, and nearly reached Cuddelore before he was retaken; this might probably be his reafon for confining him amongst the foldiers, and treating him with more feverity than the rest of the officers, at leaft I never heard of any other. Colonel Baillie, captain Rumley, and lieutenant Frazer, were confined by themfelves. About three hundred Europeans, moftly taken near Tacoallum, were all hut up in one prifon, confistBbz ing |