The New Hampshire Gazette

Of the Invasion.

LONDON, AUGUST 1.

A letter from an officer on board the Jamaica, off Boulogne, dated July 28, says, "I hope the present will serve to quiet the minds of the people of England, who are reported in great agitation at the idea of an invasion at this port. We had been told that 70,000 men were ready for embarkation; but great was my surprise to observe only twenty-eight marquees and tents on the rising ground close to the East side of Boulogne, which appear to be for the accommodation of some artificers, who are throwing up a gun and mortar battery for the defence of the outer road, or harbor."

The French Papers state, that the most alarming desertions daily take place from all the regiments on the coast.

We have received letters from Deal and Dover, which notice the accounts daily sent to those places by our cruisers and boats, of the continual activity which prevails along the enemy's coast. Lord Nelson has at present under his command in the Downs a force composed of no less than 60 vessels, of all descriptions, which are chiefly frigates, sloops, gun-vessels and bomb-ketches. It is expected that very few days will be suffered to elapse before the commencement of offensive operations against some principal points of the French coast. The prohibition of landing passengers at Dover is continued with the strictest care, and there are at this moment a great number of persons waiting at Calais to come to this country. Private accounts received from Cherburg by the way of Calais, state the arrival of eleven thousand troops at the former place, It is asserted upon the same authority, that no less than six thousand of them had been lately conveyed to Calais in flat bottomed boats, armed each with two pounders. Lord Nelson shifted his flag yesterday from the Leyden to the Medusa frigate.