The Sun. — London, England, 1807-02-04 00:00:00

Ua the Bth inst. Ole Mary spoke the brake Sloop or, W ar —all well. A race was run on Thursday last, oh the Parade at Ann' etwetn Captain M-'s bay mare and Alr • chesnut poney, which afforded very tittle spurt to the amateurs of the turf, but was -= at.. with many serious accidents, and one most lamentable catastrophe. On starting the mare Proved. restive, but the ponei went off in good stYle, and would have distanced the other before t helook the course, had not a negro boy imprudent lY crossed immediately before the poney, by which the rider, a Gentleman named MAIBEN, was tbrown, and the negro had 'his knee luxated; by which the nears had the opportunity of coming up, although ;t still proved a dead heat in favour of the poney. The fall of Mr. MAIBEN being perceived by his fa,ther (a very amiable and respectable man in the Il a'val%Storekeeper's department,) he, with many others, set off in full gallop to his assistance, but in a I.4l°trient) a Gentleman coming in contact with ' 4ll , he was precipitated to the ground, and the horse on him ; bearing his whole pressure on his hest, which instantly deprived him of speech, notwithstanding every medical aid was imme diately afforded, after lingering totally insensible for three bouts, expired without a groan, leaving a l ' cr ttiour and eight children to lament the irreparable l 'lss of a parent, by a death most accidental, but t oost distressing. The unfortunate fall of Mr. MAI kEN was not known, from the immense crowd on t he course, to his son until the second round, which was won by the 'poney with greaf ease, although t he . mare made a pretty good heat of it ; during which another negro got his skull fraEured, and a t entle'man his arm broken. 81 % THOMAS, OCT. 14.—The quick re-establish trlent of the town of St. Thomas had scarcely made t he inhabitants forget the disastrous night of the le2 c l of November, 1804, when a fresh fire has re tlN'ed that painful scene, and consumed a rich quar ter of the town. • • The fire broke out about half past seven its the evenin g of the Ist inst, in a store situated in the Market-place, which is about the centre of the tu wn. Notwithstanding the quick succour which t he civil authorities brought in conjun&ion with t he inhabitants, it was impossible to confine the fl atbes ; they extended in such quickness to a pretty large 'circumference, that scarcely any t hing was saved. The houses of Messrs. Lange and Sutfren, construaed with bricks and not yet.co- Vtred, put a stop to the flames in the eastern pia ley ; and those of Messrs. Murphy and Peneke, the latter being a brick house, and fire proof, happily 7 4 ' 1,4 4ded in the western quarter. A light breeze : rin ging up about o'clock, caused the flames to 3 re * out in the northern quarter and spread them te4es to a c o n s id era bl e ex t ent. Th e ravages did a °t stop in this quarter, but f or _s om e vacant lots Ltd the demolition of some buildings, which being 14 Co nsiderable were soon pulled down. It is sup how that more than a f our th p a rt o f t h e town has "cell consumed.. The two extremities' are' fOrtu altely saved, but the centre, which was newly' and handsomely built, now discovers but the standing -.- /l A's, and a space covered with the ashes of mer chandise, furniture, and precious effeas to a very considerable amount. The fire lasted till about ten kinutes past 12, and was perceived at St. Croix. hThe Officers of the First Regiment e nt e rt a i ne d th e *- l oke of YORK with a sumptuous dinner yesterday; t~Willis's Rooms. Th e b an d o f t h e reg i ment at rided. As a proof of the utility of the Friendly Societies, have to record the following instance that has (:`ctirred in a villJge in Renfrewshire. One of those moieties, established about 19 years ago, has paid :a one of its members, lately deceased, during - a long thies s of 17 years, the sum of 1861. Qs. 6d.— ' l , ll ch a strikin g exa mpl e o f t h e great goo d d one b y e e , 4tahlishment of those benevolent institutions, ()tight strongly to recommend the more frequent Zinption of them among the working class of man ; and it would add much to their stability and `46efulness were the humane and benevolent to en rol t hemselves as honorary members. E 4 rs. LEE, whose name was render e d so memo a°le in the affair of the GORDON'S, g, fort, re 'Port, died soon after the event took place ; but it ~ 1i e . et , •1 1. 4 that she has come to 1/e again, and has ma -1,1 , e i st ed her existence by a Vindication of her con ""1 io that mysterious transaelien. The dr ea d of the hydrophobia being now so pre valent, it may be interesting to our Readers to be : I,equ a i nted with a remedy believed • infallible in the 21.1thern P rov i nces of Spain, viz. a strong decal* ?I the bark and wood of the celtis australis taken `inwardly. 0 The Sussex A gr i cu l tura l S oc i ety h e l d a M eet i ng 2 1 Thursday l ast , f or t h e purpose of fixing a day for aw ardin g th e premiums, &c. to the industrious Poor, when Monday the 22d 'day of February inst. was "PPointed for that benevolent purpose. t T here are upw ar d s of 10,000 troops now guar ed at Athlone, i n Ireland, it being one of the first ,p ) ots in th e U n i ted Kingdom • and almost all the I gla companies of the Irish Militia are brigaded th ere. (i lls Tho mas Pi nk, a hackney-coachman, was driv, T 6 his coach along Little Queen -street, Lincoln's ia_no-Fields, on S unday evening, he fell from his box, .- t r l ,cousequence of whi c h h e di e d t h e next morning. _t ( l , le horses, without a gu id e, wa lk ed gently to the -ch-stand in Bloonrobury, and fell into the rank!. A . .61 FA L NE WS. From :be LONDO I IIi GAZETTE, Fes. 3, 15,c71 Aamiralty Office ) re-truary 3 Copy of a Letter from the Right H 0, ,, Lcoil K. B. Aantiral of the Owe, &c. to trillium Marsden, Esq, dated gif Runtsgate, the Ist inst. S IR, - I transmit, for their Lordships' information, a Copy of a Letter which I ha% e received from . CapL Stoddart, of His Majesty's Sloop the Cruiser, ac quainting ,me that he had driven on shore, in the vicinity of Blankenberg, and afterwards brought off, the French Privateer Le Brave, of sixteen guns; and also that he had re-captured the 'Leander, of Shields, and the Guardian, of Bridlington. Their Lordships will have much satisfa&ion in observing the judicious management that has been 'manifested by Captain Stoddart on that occasion, a l well as the meritorious conduct of his Officers and Boats' Crews. 1 have the honour to be, tkc. KEITH. His Majesty's Sloop Cruizer, at Sea, Mt LORD, January 28, 1807. I have the honour to inform your Lordship, that on the 26th instant, at two A.M. as we were stretch ing from the Island of Walchereu towards the Gal loper Shoal, and only four leagues from the latter, a Lugger was seen passing our weather beam on the .opposite tack ; being both under easy sail, no alte ration was made until out of sight, when the.wind veering o the west, enabled us to fetch into her wake ; after a long chase, we forced her on shore three miles to the westward of Blankenber ,, , at which time her Captain and considerable part of her Crew made their escape. I anchored about half gun-shot off, to scour the Beach, if necessary,, and cover the Boats, w bleb were dispatched under the direction of Lieutenant Pearse, assisted by Mr. Lash, the Master, and Mr. Moffitt, Master's Mate; through whose animated exertions the Privateer was got off without sustaining the smallest damage. During the performance of this service, the Enemy colleded otl the sand-hills, and kept up a brisk tire of mus ketry without etfee.t. The Lugger is Le Brave, of Dunkirk, carrying sixteen guns, and is reputed one of the fastest sailing VesSels of her description ; she. had captured the Leander, a Gallic!. Brig, of Shields, and an English Galliot, laden with rum On Govern ment account; the Master and Crews of which were on board of her. The Leander was re-taken by us that afternoon, as well as the Guardian, of Bridling ton, ivlvich had been captured by La Revanche Pri vattier, off Flamborough Head, along with four others,. all from the Baltic. I have the bOnour to be, &c. ..(Signed) P. STODDART. Admiral Lord Kcith, K. 8., &c. &c. Admiralty Office, February 3. Copy (fa Letter from. ViCe-Admiral Russell to Wil liam Marsden, Esq. datt:W on board the Majestic, in Yarmouth Roads, the 31st of January, 1807, Herewith I inclose a Letter from Lieutenant Tra , - cey, of the Princess AugtJ.-.ta hired Cutter, reporting his having captUred the Jena Privateer, and recap tured her prize, a Prussian Ship, laden with ti m b e r, bound to London, which I beg you will lay before my Lords Commissioners - of the Admiralty. am, &c. I'. M. RUSSELL. His Majesty's hired Cutter Princess Augusta, SIT?, yarmollth. Roads, Jam 3 t, 1807. • I hQrcwith inclose a-Letter to Admiral the Right Hou. Lord Keith, K. B.,•Connurulder in Chief, of which the following is in wbstance a duplicate tbr your information. MY LORD, I hive the honour to inform your Lordship, that on the 27th inst. Lowestotf.:. bearing west by north forty-five miles, at half past.eleven, P. M.. 1 fill in with a French Cutter Privateer, and chaced her to the S. S. E. until half-past two, A. M. on the !28th, when having got alongside of her, and firing some guns and musketry into her, she lowered her sails, and hailed that she had struck. • She is called the Jena, commanded by Captain Francis Capelle, with thirty men, mounting four guns, and has on board a groat number of small anus : had .sailed froin Flushing twelve days ago, and made - two captures ; one of which, a large Prus sian. Strip, laden with a ‘'aluable cargo of timb4s, bound to Loudon, I re-captured on the same morn- 1118. I have the honour to be, B.:C. (Signed) 1. TRACEY, Lieut. and Corn. To . Lice-Admiral Russell, &c. &c. PLYMOUTH, FEB. 2.—The Tonnant of 80 guns, went out of Harbour yesterday and anchored in Cawsand Bay; in going down the - Harbour with a strong tide and the wind failing, she drifted on board the Salvador del Mundo, the Flag Ship, by which the fore-topmast of the latter wa•s carried away. Arrived the Seahorse Frigate from Portsmouth ; the American Brig America, Gaoss, from Alicant, laden with barilla for Tonningen, detained by the Acasta Frigate; the Danish Ship Anna Maria, CLAUSSEN, from Altona, laden with linen, detained by the Ctesar Privateer; the Alicia, of Poole, FITZ GERALD, laden with fish, from Newfoundland ; she was captured on her passage by a Spanish Privateer, and retaken by the Amazon Frigate. Arrived the Brig Castillia, ARMSTRONG, from Memel, laden with timber and deals, and the Brig Fumy, BENNET, laden with malt, from Yarmouth ; the latter, in coming into Harbour, struck on the Rock of Mount Batten, and knocked a hole in her bottom, but by timely assi.stance being afforded her, she was got off and stowed into Sutton Pool, where her cargo (which is damaged) is now discharging. Arrived the American Ship John, Faosr, from Antwerp, bound to Philadelphia, in ballast, put in to refit, being leaky; also the American Ship-Henrietta, NIcuoTA, from Le horn, ladeh with marble; toi London, detairid by . the Jokit Bull Privateer. Porits,,iou4n, FPB. 3.--Arrived the Roarizt*, BOWLES, from liantzi'e ; Mary, KEMP, Shellalah, and Supply, AIocKFORD, from Waterford ;, BOS ITER; and Brothers, MAY, from London; Swill, Ey AN S, from Carmarthen ; Friends, -, from Sunderland ; Mary and .glizaleth, VINE, /MOW, - fr, and the Tartar, BLIGHT, from , • Guernsey. Sailed His Majesty's Ship Humber, with a Cott voy for the Downs. FALmouTtr, F. 2.—Sailed the Choice, DUNN, the Fox, LEGGAT, the John, WRIGHT,. and three light Vessels, for Oporto, under convoy of the Grasshopper Sloop of War, of 18 guns, Captain 4ARLE. Arrived this morning the A/phea Cutter, from Plymouth, to take the French Prisoners from His Majesty's Ship Trump. DEAL, F t 137 3.—Arrived His Majesty's Ships Le veret and IPrangler from a Cruize. down from the River the Remittance, LANE, for New York, and the Smal4ridge, HUGHES, for Plymouth, and remain in the Downs with His Ma jesty's Ships as per last. CORK, J. 30.--A Ship whicl , was captured by a French Privateer, and retaken by the Alcmene; and arrived at Padstow, fell in with the last outward bound convoy three days after their sailing from this port; they had then got two hundred miles to the southward. The most laudable measures are pursuing by Ad, tuiral Lord.G.tapNea, for the deteEtion of Foreigners who may be on board Neutral Ships. The search for this purpose is of the most rigid strianess. Since the sli/ing of the outward-bound West India Fleet, ont of which upwards of 30 Foreigners were taken, 16 have been taken from the Vessels which have arrived for the same destination, but were too late to proceed with the Convoy. The impropriety of employing the sailors of those. Countries at War with Great Britain and Ireland, in evasion of the law which demand's them as prisoners, is evident ; the culpability in this instance would merit correction by penalty. It occurs, we under stand, not unfreltiently, that those whom the chances of war put into our possession in the West Indies, are seni• knit! in West Indiamen, in order to be lodgectin - litish prisons. This intention, however, is not always fulfilled ; for as sailors under these circumstances will remain in the merchant service upon much easier terms than British or Irish seamen, they are retained, without referring to the authority which sent them, or that which received them. This prac tice Is hi more ways than one dangerous : it subjeas merchant ships to. the hazard of enterprise concerted by strangers and enemies mixt up in their crews, who will vigilantly look out for an oppor tunity, and it may be attended with the more im portant consequences of their escaping, for there is little to prevent .them'in harbour, into the country,, and from thence to France. ETIPNOS AYRES -y— xtrac t of a Letter from a young Naval Officer, on board his Majesty's Ship Leda, to a relative in Sussex, dated River Plata, ;No,. vemb:r which contains some interesting particulars, relative to the late meditated attack by storm on Monte Video, and the taking of Mal donado 1— " Since my last letter, dated in July; I have writ ten several times ; but owing to divers events, the Ships nominated to sail for England have been re peatedly detained, even after the packets for letters were closed ; so that, without doubt, you will re ceive the whole of mine at one time by the same Ship, and consequently among them that which contains an account of our misfortunes at Buenos Ayres.—About three weeks since a reinforcement was sett here from the Cape of Good Hope ; but although the troops were not provided with the ne cessary artillery, &c. an attempt to attack by sea a fortified garrison at Monte Video, mounting three or four hundred pieces of cannon, and defended by near 12,000 men, was resolved op ; and what was still more against us, the wate r would not permit the Line-of-Battle ships to go within - gun-shot, so that the brunt of the action was to fall on a few armed Transports, two Gun-brigs and two Frigates, that were just enabled to play at long bells with them., Our soldiers were to be la n d e d i mme di ate l y a f ter an impression was made on their works. Previous to the attack we were Sent to reconnoitre, and the depth of water within gun -shot. Our Captain, I firmly believe, has no more the sense of danger than a block. Conceive for a moment, a single Ship, placed in such A situation as to be at once ex posed to the fire of such a garrison, and also twenty Sail of Gun-vessels. We stood in quite close at one tack, so that we could easily distinguish crowds of people on every house and eminence. The mo ment we hove in stays, they began to fire from all quarters ; we only returned with three guns, as our object was not to engage them ;• and got off without any other injury, than that of having our rigging a little disabled. " On the :Bth of Oetober, in the morning, a sig nal was wade to weigh anchor ; at nine the line was formed, which we had the honour to Ind, pre ceded by a Transport that went a-head to sound, and seconded by the Medusa Frigate, two Gun-hrigi, and Trahsports. My duty was to ittend to Signals; but not having.a pertea knowleclg: of them, I ap plied, and got the `command of the three forecastle guns. The, ball now:opened with such.a clatter on both sides as tali scarcely be conceived. 'We kept ranging along the shore, and even approaching the harbour fast, when the Ship on a sudden touched the bottom : we now found it 'impossible to suc ceed by this mode of attack ; and accordingly, the wind being favourable, got off. One of the guns at my quarters had its carriage disabled, and one man was wounded by the same shot.' This was the only damage sustained, except in the rigging, which was mangled.' The Enemy, I believe, fired cWcfiy at random, or they must.have done us considerable damage indeed. " A Council of War was now assembled ; the result of which was, to proceed and attack another Settlement about go miles below Monte Video, called Maldonado. The next day, the 26th, we ar rived ; and it being a weak town, disembarked our troops, amounting to.near a thousand. In the even ing they stormed and put to the rout, with much slaughter, a considerable Army of the Spaniards.— There was an island aboti(two miles from the Main, which was well fortified—but the garrison capitu lated, and thus sated their, lives.--Yesterday I went on shore to view the town, when it presented a scene of desolation that I wish never to witness avail.). On our soldiers . entering the town, the cry throughout the Atmy was Remember General BERESFORD !". and no quarter 'was shewn ; °me house alone there were t« en ty Spaniards bayoneted: plunder ensued, and furniture of all descriptions wa, lying about, quite destroyed." Extra& of a Letter from an Officer of His Ma jesty's Ship Blanche, dated Portsmouth, Feb. 2, 817 : " In consequence of inforniation transmitted from LLoYp's to the Admiralty, and orders sent in• consequence to ourselves .and the different Cruizers on the coast of France, we fortunately fell in, off Rochefort, on the 15th ult. with- the co;per-bot tomed Ship George Waskington (said to be Ameri can, but is French built), of about bOO tons hurt hen, , having on board Capt: CARGAREAU, and the Officers and Crew, amounting together to 300, and we ex peol also, the stores, of the Valeureuse French Fri gat,, one of JEROM E BONAPARTE'S Squadron, which put into the Delaware, and was condemned there. The French Captain says he chatiered the Vessel, but we have no doubt of her being a French con ceru, and will prove a good prize." A fire broke out last night in the back room of a house in Craven.buildingq, in consequence of the curtains of a bed taking tire, as a servant maid was making it. The flames were extinguished without much injury; but in the confuson which the fire excited, three fellows entered the house of Mr. Norman, the Register-Office, in Wych . -street, and proceeded to rob it. They were discovered, and at tacked by the neighbouring inhabitants, but the villains made a desperate resistuke,. and, having fought their way through the crowd, etreCted their escape. CEIESTER, FEB. 3.—An awful instance of sudden death occurred on Tuesday evening. —As Thomas Jones, Tyler of a Lodge of Freemason's herd at the Coach and Horses in this city, was eating his sup per there; he suddenly fell t.•_ck, and expired in a few minutes. He was an old man , had borne a good character through life, and was well respe&ed. MAIDSTONE, FEB. 3.—The following five persons, whose united ages make 402 years, lately died in this town within the course of a fortnight, and who lived within a hundred rods of each other; viz. Mr. Jacobson, 87—Mr. Ailingharn, 78—Mrs. Holling worth, 8 i Spong, 75—and Mrs. Stewart ; 8 I. Forty stout Privateers, of 400 tons burthen each, are just built at' Cherburgh, and nearly equipped for sea. On Sunday se'nnight a robbery was committed between 'Salter-Hebble and Halifax. As Mr. Stamp, a calico-printer from Carlisle, was proceed ing to Halifax, he was attacked by two ruffians about half past nine in the evening, to whom he offered some resistance ; but at last -gave them three five-guinea and three one-guinca notes, upon receipt of ikhich,teing alarmed by the sound of a carriage, they imsde off. Mr. Stamp had severa l h un d re d pounds in his possession, besides a gold watch. Thirty Thousand Pound Prize. —.Me Ticket No. 12, 1 283, as first-drawn this morning, entitled to Thirty Thousand Pounds, was sold at Messrs. HAZARD, Bu RN E„ and Co.'s Office, Royal Exchange, in one Half and eight Si: teem ; where very Ca pital Prize in thepresent Lottery, - except one I 0,0001, No. 21,295, has been sold in Shares, viz. No. 12,283 2 4,490 23,515 846 30,0001. 2u,020:. 10,000:. SOOOl. SMITHFIELD 111ARKET, FEB. 2. This day's market afforded a good s u pply o f p r i me Beasts, and the show of Cattle in other respecas was considerable ; Beef, :Mutton, Veal, and Pork ai much dearer than our last repoi - t, and the trade in ge neral was tolerably brisk.—The sales in the Hay market were rather ; Hay - fetched last price Straw has got up in price since Friday's Market Clover has dropped in price. —We subjoin a Correa: statement of the prices and numbers : To Mak the Offal per stone of 81h. Beef ss. od. to 6s. od.—Alutton 4s. lod. to ,s. sod.—Vea! 6s. od. to Bs. od.—Lamb os. od. to os. od.--I)rk ss. sod. to 6s. 6d. Beasts, 2170.—Sheep and Lambs, 12750. Calves, 95. — Pigs, 350. SMITHFIELD HAY•MARXET. iiay2l. /ss. to 51. os.--Clover 41. os. to 51. sS.—Straw zl. los. to 31. os. CORN EXCHANGE, FEB. 4.—This day .'heat is in but middling supply, with few fresh arrivals; S . ales are made heavi r y, and hardly support last prices; Rye is scarce arid dearer ; Barley and Malt arrive in abundance, and are very difficult of sale; Pease and Beans of each kind are at small variation; the supplies of Oatsare large, and this trade is quote(t cheaper; Flour plentiful, fine American 465 . . to 50s. per barrel. Wheat scis a 64s a 78. or! I ilemns -42 s a 48S Fine ditto - Bos a 3 5: I Lek Beans 3 4 . a 4os ott Rye - - 4 2 5 . a .48s o t Oats 2.3, a 25, a 2S. oa Barley -33 s a 39$ Poland ditto 2 9 s a 3t. Malt - - 6zs a 70, cc! i JAupe Seri 251. 291. White Pease Bos a 89s 01 Fine Flour 6i, a ~ Lo; Grey ditto 42S a 47s oa e. ands boa a 65s QJ rb ri ;l c)/ 1", 7-