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of ſpring was a pauſe awfully foreboding.—⟨Happily⟩ for us the genuine ſtubborn Britiſh ſpirit directed ⟨his⟩ Majeſty’s Miniſters; they allowed no exaggerated repreſentations of our dangers to intimidate them, ⟨or⟩ incline them to crouch with baſe ſubmiſſion to perfidious enemies; but relying on the juſtice of our cauſe and the ſtrength of our arms, on the ſkill of our commanders, and the lion hearts of our ſeamen, they formed a plan, the execution of which fell to the lot ⟨of⟩ the renowned conqueror of Aboukir, that has diſſipated the ſtorm, and eſtabliſhed our ſtrength, juſtice and generoſity on a more exalted level than it ever ſtood; and has laid our enemies under the moſt ſtriking obligations of gratitude for the forbearance ſhewn to them when entirely at our mercy.—A forbearance and generosity unexampled before in the annals of wars.

Follows Sir Hyde Parker’s diſpatches, detailing theſe very important events.

Admiralty Office, April ⟨15th⟩ 1801.

Captain Otway, of his Majesty’s ſhip the London, arrived in town this morning with diſpatches from Admiral Sir Hyde Parker, Commander in Chief of a Squadron of his Majesty’s ſhips, employed on a particular ſervice, to Evan Nepean, Esq. dated on hoard the London, in Copenhagen Roads, the 6th inſt. of which the following are copies.

Sir,

YOU will be pleaſed to acquaint the Lords Commiſſioners of the Admiralty, that ſince my letter of the 23d of March, no opportunity of wind offered for going up the Sound until the 25th, when the wind ſhifted in a moſt violent ſquall from the S. W to the N. W. and North, and blew with ſuch