Dec. 19,1782. At Strafburgh, her royal highness the princefs Chriftina, aunt to the elector of Saxony, and grand abbefs of Remiremont. 26. Henry Home, Efq. Lord Kaimes, judge in the courts of feffion and jufticiary.

28. The princefs Maria Charlotta Antonietta, of Sardinia, fpoufe of his royal highness prince Antony, of Saxony, of the fmall

pox.

Baron Van Affeburg, prince bifhop of Paderbourn, in Germany.

Jan. 3, 1783. Lady Jane Flack, wife of Mr. Flack, attorney, and daughter of the Earl of Wigtown.

4. At Madras, the Hon. George Sempill, brother to Lord Sempill.

9. Rev. Dr. Foley, uncle to Lord Foley, and dean of Worcefter.

10. Lord George Sutton, uncle to his grace the Duke of Rutland.

11. Admiral John Storr. Capt. Charles Fielding, brotherin-law to the Earl of Winchelsea. 12. Lord Stirling.

14. The lady of rear-admiral Fowke.

Lady Anne Stuart, relict of John Stuart, of Blair-hall, Efq. and daughter of the late Francis, Earl of Morey.

16. Lady dowager Vere.
21. Sir George Armytage, Bart.
25. Sir Jarritt Smyth, Bart.
Lady Stafford.

Lady Echlin, relict of Sir Robert Echlin, Bart. fifter to the late Countess of Derby.

27. Mifs Sufannah Howard, daughter of the earl and Countess of Carlisle.

29. In Scotland, Sir James Clerk, Bart. of Pennycuick.

At Lisbon, his eminence Cardinal don John de Cunha, privycounsellor to his majefty, archbishop of Evora, and inquifitorgeneral of the kingdom of Portugal and its dependencies.

William, Earl of Delawar. Feb. 4. The Right Hon. the Countefs of Aylesbury.

The Right Hon. the Earl of Suffolk, without male iffue, and was fucceeded in his titles by Colonel Howard, of the guards.

6. Mrs. Huddlefton, wife of Thomas Huddlefton, of Hatton Garden, Efq. She was the only child of Lady Anne Mackworth, and niece of the Earl of Abercorn.

8. At Bath, the Hon. John Chichefter, Efq. only brother to the Right Hon. the Earl of Donnegall.

10. Lady Ifabella Monck, fifter to the late Duke of Portland, and aunt to the prefent Duke of Portland.

23. Lady Hardres, relict of Sir William Hardres, Bart, of Hardres

Court.

25. The Right Hon. Dowager Lady Carysfort, mother of the prefent lord.

The infant don Giuseppe, their Sicilian majesty's third fon (not quite two years old.)

30. Lady Reeve, relict of Sir Thomas Reeve.

March 2. Lady Mary Weft, fifter to the Earl of Stamford.

Lord George Fitzgerald, brother to the Duke of Leinster.

9. Lady Dowager Walpole. 16. William Egerton, brother to the bishop of Durham.

19. Hon. Dr. Frederick Cornwallis, lord archbishop of Canterbury, primate of all England.

20. The lady of Sir Robert Shafto,

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Account of the Capture of the Solitaire, a French 64 Gun Ship, by the Ruby.

Admiralty-Office, Feb. 2, 1783. ADMIRAL Pigot, commander in chief of his majefty's fhips at Barbadoes and the Leeward Ilands, by his letter to Mr. Stephens, dated at Barbadoes on the 9th of December, gives an ac

count,

That he arrived at that ifland on the 21st of November, with the fquadron under his command, from New York; and that rear Admiral Sir Richard Hughes, joined him on the 8th of December, with the fhips under his orders, accompanied by the Solitaire, a French fhip of war of 64 guns, and a fmall frigate of 24, captured on the 6th, 40 leagues to windward of Barbadoes.

Captain Collins, of his majefty's fhip Ruby, by fuperior failing, got up with the Solitaire, about twelve minutes paft one in the afternoon, and the action continued 41 minutes, when the latter ftruck.

The rear admiral mentions the 'fire of the Ruby to have been greatly fuperior to that of the French fhip, and that the condition of the two fhips proved it fully; the Ruby having two men flightly wounded, with her foremaft, rigging and fails damaged ; and the Solitaire having loft her mizen-maft, being in every respect very much beat (almost a wreck) with 20 or 25 men killed, and about 35 wounded, as near as could be ascertained; among whom were the fecond captain, mafter, and boatfwain. She was commanded by the Chevalier de Borda, and had been ten days from Martinique, cruifing in expectation of falling in with one of our convoys from England.

The admiral adds, that too much could not be faid of the very gallant behaviour of Capt. Collins, his officers, and men, upon that occafion.

Extract of a Letter from Admiras

Pigot to Mr. Stephens, dated the 3d of March, 1783.

CAPTAIN Payne, who I had

appointed to the command of the Leander, and fent to convoy a cartel fhip to the northward of the islands, acquaints me, that he had, on the night of the 18th of January, fallen in with and engaged a large fhip; I have not a doubt of her being at least of 74 guns, having feen and examined feveral of the fhot that were lodged in the Leander. I fhould not do juftice to Captain Payne, his officers and fhip's company, if I did not acquaint their lordships, that, from every enquiry as to the action, it appears to have been

con.

Lady Chadwick, relict of the late Sir Andrew Chadwick.

Lately, on her paffage from Bengal, the Hon. Mrs. Carey, relict of the Hon. Col. Carey, fon of Lord Viscount Falkland

The infant don Carlos Eufebio, only fon of the prince of Afturias. 19. The Hon. Mr. Bateman, brother to Lord Bateman.

28. Lady Middleton, daughter of Lord Pelham.

Rev. James Lewis, dean of Offory, in Ireland.

Lady Pennington, wife of Sir Jofeph Pennington, Bart. elder brother of Lord Muncafter.

July 1. Lady Viscountess Gage. 3. At Edinburgh, the Right Hon. James, Lord Ruthven.

7. At Brighthelmftone, Lady Catharine Bouverie, daughter of the Earl of Dunmore.

16. At Edinburgh, Mr. Hew Dalrymple, fon to Lord Weithall.

26. Sir Thomas Burnet, of Leys, Bart.

Aug. 1. The Right Hon. Lord Vif. Hereford, premier viscount of England. His lordship is fucceeded in his titles and eftates by his only brother, the Hon. George Devereux, Efq. now Lord Vif. Hereford.

The Right Hon. Sir William Osborne, Bart.

3. The Right Hon. Lady Hawley.

7. The lady of Sir John Palmer, Bart. and fifter of Sir Henry Gough, Bart.

8. Sir John Ruffel, Bart. 10. The lady of Sir Noah Thomas.

15. Lieutenant general Evelyn, uncle to Sir Frederick Evelyn, Bart.

18. The Right Hon. Lord Afhburton, chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster.

The Rev. Dr. Benjamin Kennicott, canon of Chrift church.

Thomas Lloyd, of Albertrinant, in the county of Cardigan, Efq. brother-in-law to the Right Hon. the Earl of Lifburne, and the Hon. General Vaughan.

20. In Berkley-fquare, Lady Dowager Gerrard.

22. The Right Hon. Robert Vif. Hampden, Baron Trevor, in the 73d year of his age.

30. Mrs. Perry, relict of William Perry, Efq. of Penhurft, in Kent, niece to John and Jocelyn, late Earls of Leicester.

Sept. 1. The Right Hon. Hugh, Lord Clifford, Baron of Chudleigh.

4. Lady Nicolfon, widow of Sir James Nicolfon, of Glenbervie.

15. The Right Hon. James Grenville, brother to the late Earl Temple, and uncle to the prefent earl."

In the 73d year of his age, of the gout in his ftomach, the Rev. Sir Mark Sykes, Bart. D. D.

16. The Right Hon. Sir John Shelley, Bart. of Michael Grove, in the county of Suffex.

18. Lovell Stanhope, Efq. uncle to the Earl of Chesterfield.

24. Hon. Godfrey Lill, one of the juftices of the Common Pleas in Ireland, father of Lady CaftleStuart.

The Right Hon. Walter Huffey Burgh, lord chief baron of the Exchequer in Ireland.

Sir Robert Pollock. O. 1. The Right Hon. Lady Delaval.

The Hon. Mrs. Law, lady of the

17. The Right Hon. Lady Anne Dufign, wife of Gerrard Dufign, Efq. and fifter to the late Earl of Hyndford.

18. The Rev. Dr. Cuft, Dean of Lincoln.

21. Sir William Hanmer, Bart. 23. The Right Hon. Jofeph Leefon, Earl of Miltown.'

26. The Hon. Mifs Howe, fifter of the late, and aunt to the present Lord Chedworth.

Sir Charles Turner, Bart. 28. Monf. d'Alembert, member of the French academies and the academies of fciences.

31. The Right Hon. Earl Spencer, Vifc. Althorp, Baron Spencer. Nov. 5. The Right Hon. Alexander, Lord Blantyre.

7. The Hon. Mafter Willough by de Broke, fon of Lord Willoughby de Broke.

10. James Wallace, Efq. his majefty's attorney-general, king's ferjeant in the duchy court of Lancaster, and ferjeant of the county Palatine of Durham.

Captain John Campbell, nephew to James, the first Duke of Argyl, and coufin to the five fucceeding dukes.

16. Rev. Dr. James Trail, lord bishop of Downe and Connor.

21. The Right Hon. Lady Caryll, confort to Lord Caryll.

At Braunfels, the reigning prince of Solms, Ferdinand William Erneft, in the 68th year of his age.

Dec. 5. At Versailles, mademoifelle.of France, aged five years, only daughter of the French king. 7. Sir John Mitchell, Bart. of Shetland."

8. George Mafon, D. D. lord bishop of Sodor and Mann.

9. Sir George Suttie, of Balgowan, Bart.

10. The Right Hon. Lady Dorothea Inglis, widow of Sir Adam Inglis, Bart. of Cramond, in Scotland,

Sir Robert Smyth, Bart. of Is- · field, in Suffex, and Bury St. Edmund's.

11. Lady Sharp, widow of Sir Alexander Sharp, Bart.

13. Mrs. Cornwall, mother of the speaker of the House of Com

mons.

16. Sir William James, Bart. 19. The Hon. William Parker, youngest fon of the Earl of Macclesfield.

21. In Grofvenor-fquare, Sir Francis Ratcliff, Bart.

23. Mrs. Vernon, fifter to the late Lord Shipbrook, and to General Vernon.

APPENDIX

of the adjacent iflands, to the bleffings of a free government, I undertook this expedition at my own expence, and embarked my men, which did not exceed fixtyfive, and failed for Harbour Island, where I recruited for four or five days; from thence I fet fail for my object, which was the eastern fort on the island of Providence, and which I carried about daylight, with three of their formidable gallies, on the 14th. I immediately fummoned the grand fortress to furrender, which was about a mile from the fort I had taken; his excellency the governor evaded the purport of my flag, by giving me fome trifling informations, which I took in their true light. On the 16th I took poffeffion of two commanding hills, and erected a battery on each of them of twelve pounders. day-light on the 18th, my batteries being complete, the English colours were hoisted on each of them, which were within mufquet-fhot of their grand fortress. His excellency, finding his fhot and fhells of no effect, thought proper to capitulate, as you will fee by the inclofed articles. My force never at any time confifted of more than 220 men, and not above 150 of them had mufquets, not having it in my power to procure them at St. Auguftine.

At

I took on this occafion one fort, confifting of thirteen pieces of cannon, three gallies carrying twenty-four pounders, and about fifty men.

His excelency furrendered four batteries, with about feventy pieces of cannon, and four large gallies (brigs and fnows) which I have fent to the Havannah with

the troops as flags; I therefore ftand in need of your excellency's advice and directions in my prefent fituation, and fhall be exceedingly happy to receive them as foon as poffible.

I had letters written for your excellency on this occafion, fince the middle of the laft month; but the veffel by which they were to have been conveyed, went off and left them; therefore hope your excellency will not think it my neglect, in not having the accounts before this.

I have the honour to be, Your excellency's most obedient and very humble fervant, (Signed) A. DEVEAUX. Colonel commandant of the Royal Forresters, New Providence. June 6, 1783.

Articles entered upon between Don Antonio Claraco y Sanz, Governor of the Bahama Islands,

c. and his Honour Andrew Deveaux, Colonel and Commander in Chief of the Expedition, &c.

I. THE government-house and public ftores to be delivered to hisBritannic majesty.

II. The governor and garrifon under his command to march to the eastern fort, with all the honours of war; emaining with a piece of cannon and two fhots per day, in order to hoift his Catholic majefty's flag. Provifions for the troops, failors, and fick in the hofpital, to be made at his Britannic majesty's expence; as alfo veffels prepared to carry them to the Havannah, particularly a ves. fel to carry the governor to Europe.