The Right Honourable Lord Hawkesbury, &c. &c. &c.
No. 3.
Intelligence arrived from General O'Hara, at Gibraltar.
Arrived by land the crew of the Fortune privateer, consisting of twelve men. They report that last Saturday, between three and four p.m. they saw two three-deckers and three seventy-fours arrive at Cadiz from Ferrol; that the Santissima Trinidad, another Spanish three-decker, is completed and ready in that harbour; and that they are fitting out five other line-of-battle ships at Cadiz, which have their lower-masts in; that, in order to man the said ships, they are detaining all the crews of the French privateers; that those eleven ships are to be commanded by French officers; and they say the five ships in the Caraccas will soon be ready,—that they observed a number of seamen rigging them.—Gibraltar, 29th April 1801.
List of the armament fitting out at Cadiz.
| Guns. | Guns. | ||
| Santissima Trinidada | 140 | San Justo | 74 |
| Atlante | 80 | San Januario | 80 |
| Ferrivel | 80 | Intrepido | 80 |
| San Antonio | 80 | Firme | 80 |
| Suberano | 80 |
The above ships are commanded by French officers, and probably, therefore, are those which are alluded to as having been ceded to France.
| Guns. | Guns. | ||
| A. Real de St. Carlos | 120 | Bergantina St. Andre | 24 |
| St. Hermenegildo | 120 | Balandra Aglina | 14 |
| St. Fernando | 120 | St. Nicalao | 14 |
| St. Agustino | 80 | 4 gun-boats[27] | 2} |
| St. Izidoro | 80 | 20 built by the inhabitants | } |
| Argonauta | 80 | of Cadiz | 1} |
| Fragata Sabina | 44 | 18 gun-boats | 1} |
| Fragata Perula | 40 | 4 burlates |
Cæsar, Cawsand Bay, 9th June 1801.