The other biddings were fo very much below par, that they were not confidered worthy of notice.

Meffrs. Pitt and Co. were of courfe declared the fuccefsful candidates, and are to have the making of the Cabinet.

IT

PLAN OF THE NEW CABINET.

[From the fame.]

T is required to be fair and fquare, and of the best poffible materials, all of British growth, as nothing foreign will, on any account, be admitted into it. The timbers must be all found, and finished in a good plain ftyle, without any French or other foreign ornament. It must be of great capacity, broad bottomed, and impenetrable to all but its Royal Master. In its conftruction, care must be taken that not a fingle fhaving of the tree of liberty fhall be admitted. Rofe wood, though not expreffly prohibited, may be difpenfed with, as alfo Hawthorn and Beech

MATERIALS.

The following are the particular materials that would receive a preference:

The Pitt English Oak-This is a fine tall rampike, with a very lofty head, but no branches. It would be defirable that the head of the Cabinet fhould be made of this piece.

The Grenville Afh-This is a folid fubftantial fpecies of timber. It fometimes runs a little knotty and crofs-grained; but it is ftrong, and would make an excellent fupporter.

The Windham Crab-tree-This is alfo a fpecies of wood that runs rather knotty; but it is durable, and generally found at the heart.

The Temple Stake would cut up well, and help to make out a good broad bottom for the Cabinet.

The

The Hawkesbury Willow-This fpecies of timber being easily bent, might be used in the parts which are a little crooked, and deviate from a right line.

The Sheridan Cedar-This is a moft luxuriant tree, of a beautiful and finely variegated texture, and might be used to advantage, particularly in the ornamental parts of the ftructure.

The Fox Olive-This is alfo a beautiful fort of timber, well feafoned, and of great folidity. It has the smootheft and kindliest grain in the world. If the Pitt rampike be adopted, the Fox olive will be difpenfed with.

The Mafter Carpenter who fhall undertake the above work muft finish it without delay. He must find his own tools, and will be paid handsomely at the Treasury the moment it is completed.

ITS SITE.

It must be placed in an impofing attitude, looking down upon France. It must command a view of the whole world, particularly of the Continent. As it will stand expofed to all winds and weathers, and every one will be at liberty to examine and fcrutinize it, it must be without a flaw, and ftand firm and unfhaken by the ftorms of adverfity.

ADVERTISEMENT EXTRAORDINARY.
[From the Morning Herald.]

NOW, OR NEVER!

TO ALL ASPIRING, GALLANT-MINDED FELLOWS!

A FEW vacancies are ftill open in the Old Corps, newly reviving, called the King's Own, into which, lads of a daring fpirit may now be received, with a certain profpect of fpeedy promotion !-As the Corps will no doubt be foon honourably called upon

to

to ferve in a warm climate, each Recruit will be inoculated for the Yellow Fever, immediately on his enrolment; the veterans have all had a touch of this diforder in the natural way.-North Country Lads will be received in preference.-Apply without lofs of time to Sergeant M'Swallow-all, at his rendezvous at the Dog's Head in Porridge Pot, Old Scotland Yard, Westminster.

N. B. Bringers of Recruits well treated, and liberally rewarded!

May 21.

L'

BRITISH NAVY.

[From the British Prefs.]

IST of the Ministerial Fleet upon the Westminster
Station, under the Command of Admiral Pitt:

With a large flotilla of bombs, cutters, pinnaces, brigs,

and gun-veffels.

The veffels marked thus * were taken from the enemy in the late engagement, in which Admiral Addington was defeated, with the lofs of his whole fleet.

As it is expected that this flee: will foon come into action, and a confiderable degree of intereft attaches to it, the following account of the principal fhips may prove acceptable:

The Premier is a very faft failer, and carries very weighty metal. She is built upon a peculiar

construction,

conftruction, being uncommonly long, confidering her breadth. The Premier's head is much admired for the beauty of the infide. Her pilot is the celebrated" Pilot that weather'd the ftorm." She has feen a great deal of service, but was, for the laft two years, laid up in ordinary at Dover.

The Melville. This veffel is built of Scots fir, and was originally in the Eaft India Company's fervice. Her timbers being old, and fuppofed to be rotten, it was the general opinion that he would have been condemned and broken up accordingly. She has been ftationed as a guard-fhip for fome time in the Frith of Forth, and was lately ufed as a receiving fhip to carry recruits from Scotland to the fleet at Weftminster. Upon this laft trip, however, the performed her voyage with fach expedition, the Admiralty have been induced to take her again into the line. Her guns are all brafs, and her head and bottom are well coppered. The Melville was terribly mauled in the engagement off Ferrol, fince which the has fuck clofe to port. She diftinguished herself principally in her voyages in the Red Sea.

The Hawkesbury has been employed for fome years paft upon foreign ftations.

The Harrowby is not a veffel of great force, but she is very manageable; and being as light and active as a frigate, is expected to make great havoc among the enemy's flotilla of gun-boats.

The Caftlereagh was originally upon the Irish ftation, and lately in the fervice of the Eaft India Company.

The Paymafter was formerly a flave-fhip in the Guinea trade, and was ufed occafionally as the Minifterial dung-barge. In the late war fhe took several prizes in Treafury Bay.

The Treafurer carries a great deal too much fail for her upper works, which are far from being fubftantial.

Her

Her only guns confist of a few pattereroes in her bow; and, being a light fhowy veffel, the has been principally attached to the Admiral as a fort of pleasure-boat. May 22.

IMPORTANT INTELLIGENCE,

RECEIVED BY EXPRESS.

[From the fame.]

DISPATCHES were received at a late hour last night, which ftate, that the Minifterial Fleet, under the command of the Right Honourable William Pitt, Admiral of the Yellow, were left yefterday at four o'clock, P. M. in fight of the enemy's Combined Fleet, under the command of Admiral Fox, and that an engagement was confidered inevitable. The Combined Forces were drawn up in line of battle, in three divifions, in the following order: