Sept 3 1793 London, August 30. - Cumberland and Westmorland Newspaper Transcriptions

Sept 3 1793 London, August 30.

LONDON, AUGUST 30.

The embarkation of the troops for the West Indies, under the command of SIR
CHARLES GREY, K.B. will very soon take place; their particular destination
is yet not known.

The 64th and 70th regiments have received orders to hold themselves in
readiness for foreign service.

Three new regiments, we understand, are immediately to be raised - one by
LORD PAGET, another by SIR WATKINS WILLIAM WYNNE, and a third by COL.
PARKINSON, in Ireland.

The 37th regiment, commanded by SIR CHARLES ROSS, Bart. has moved from
Ostend to join the army of his Royal Highness the DUKE OF YORK.

Ensign BAILEY, who was wounded in the affair at Lincelles, is in a fair way
of recovery, and so is COLONEL EVANS.

The fire which was reported by the captain of the Ostend Packet to have been
seen at Dunkirk, and which gave occasion to suppose that the town was in
flames, was the burning of the wood of Rossendahl, near that town, by the
allies.

Orders have been sent to Woolwich, that the Minotaur man of war should be
launched immediately. She carries 74 guns, and has been seven years in
building.

Yesterday advice was received at the Admiralty office of the safe arrival in
the Downs of his Majesty's ship the Triton, Admiral PARKER, with the
transports under her convoy, from Ireland.

The West-India fleet, which is now hourly expected, and for the safe arrival
of which the merchants begin to be rather alarmed, consists of one hundred
and twenty eight sail; which, on an average, are estimated at 70,000 l.
sterling each.

The last accounts from the DUKE OF YORK's army left Ostend on Monday night,
when Dunkirk was said to have been entirely surrounded on the land side.
The floating battery, with all ADMIRAL PEYTON's cruizers from the Downs,
were directed to blockade the harbour - hence it is supposed no ships can
escape.

A new alarm is attempted to be raised, respecting the French having
contrived to send a fleet to the East Indies, consisting of nine sail of the
line and eight frigates, so long ago as March last. This intelligence is
made to come by the way of Zurich, in Switzerland, and rests upon the
authority of a renegade Girondist, who has arrived there. It is generally
considered as a paltry forgery.