The Sun. — London, England, 1805-07-27 00:00:00

• • Next Nn*eek wilt be puhttsl d, vrtlE REPORTS from the SELECT ,CO,ll. mil' „rf . iid nousE orCt)IIIMONS, on l'apiirs f;.lAting to the Ittprni . of flit; MajCSty'S Ship the Reorhney end Sensibl , -, while under the Command ot Sir . HONIR I' t:' i All ;: togetker with the Nahum; cif Eviciehee, tAeit the Committee; which will he found itihldy inte resting to evc y Person connethd With the Navy in ;milieu. lar, and to the Pauli( in general. Printed bv Baw.street,'Cuvent-gardeli ; and to be. had or hint,. ancl, ut alt" Booksellets. . it«.&tvrtn —2 Lisbon, I Dublin. Dl/1:-Z flarnbuigh, • fx Gatti.niburgh, 1 Waterford. • • PRI sT 0 CKS • .TnisnAy AT TMILLVF. O'CLOCK. Co 1s a a _Oil Red. Ann. 591 1 Omniurn 41 TLi E SU N. &OLIM QUIS DU 11/1, VALSUNI &UDEAT ? nyrugimy,f JULY• 27, 1805. At the tin this Paper was put to Press no fiirther intelligence had reached the Admiralty respeeting Lord NuLaw , ' or the Combined Pleets, ' Reports lave not been wanting of a decisive viCtory having been obtained by that Noble Lord,, _which we confi den t and-trost will be confirmed by subsequent intelligence. At present, however, from the absence cif akty further authentic intelligence than what we stated yesterday, we are bottud to consider these ru mours as u n foul' ded, although we are sanguine enough to view them as only an anticipation of that of which, ere long, we shall have a more certain ac counti - • , The followilT are' copies of two Letters received in Town yesterday : " aletterstfr, Yu& 25. f' A'gentle;nan 'has just arrived here from !pistol, who says that a Vessei is put in there from the West Indies, the Master of which report e d 111. a au Atlion had taken plaee'be— sween Lord Nl6 LsoN anti the Combined Fleet, in Whish,the utter had been defeated, with the less of several Ships; and tb2.t our pliant Adthiral Wii6 On his way home wills his jf'iiz 3. It will be recollecied, ,that the dcfeattrf the French at Aboukir was received first at . I.tristol, near a mogh . before the .(Alicia! " PzpzANez, ta.y 13. cy You may expra to receive •impottalit intelligence, but I am not able to state what y7 Tile people 'belone,ing to a Bost which arri4iiid •yestrday at a fishing town neat this, from Scilly, state, that they spoke it Ship of War (size not mentioned), off tbe Land's End, which '‘af,ais under a heavy press of sail ; the 9lficers on board declared to . the men, that they had great and good news for Great Britain; but they .would not state the particulari." A very short period, we think, must put an cud to' the public anxiety won thiisubj eet. ACCORDING to private advices from Lisbon, the Carthagena Squadron was decoyed, out .of. Port in consequence of information having been sent there, under a friendly colour, of the sailing and destination of the Expedition under the command of Sir JANIES CRAIG ) before it a&ually sailed from Gibraltar, The Squadron, consisting of six Sail Of. the Line, sailed in the hope of falling in with the .Expedition in con eq., lettee of the information they had received. Sir A D 13;ctcutereN also sailed into the IVlediterra rean with five Sail of the Line, for the purpose of iptercebting the Squadron. If these accounts are to Jae depended upon, we may shortly expel' to hear of a blutitt iii the Mediterranean, of the' result of which there can be no doubt. Private-: tteis• from Paris state; that BO4,,l , Axers' returned from Italy sooner than was exp(gted, on ac- C Y.lll t tit sOnie pretended plots discovered by Vouc "Ili, a ut (libc.(:aitept grruir% the Troi,p3 wt the Cort4t, py was ° , until. the Ist of July, thrce rr ,c ; utbs hand. Thouill several mcarnples of severity hake been shewn, the mutinous dispo'sition eoittittutql, inid instead of abatinz, .This was prtieuhlrly the ease with the Troops' encamped lirest, under the coati - nand of Auoutiti4v.— Last month the Irish Guides attached to that Army preiiented a petition for their pay. to thiS General, and coinplahltA bitterly Of their sufferings, sip p.'r: , ,ons deputed to present ;the Petition were im mediately, shot, and the whole Corps .ordered to be 1...-orkinizect. Same cf the Officers were broken, and others eondetnned to transportation tp Cayenne. Titcy i.yere all succeeded by Frenchmen, with whorn the Irish Go:.des ire Very dissatistitgl. Iwo nleuti of Deaooons and four Battalions of Infantry,, wer - e, Oh account of thoir mutinous dispo: . )ition, sent by AtAnti ELAy to the interier, front whence the. Mi nister, BtarrutEtt;ordered them to Italy. It 'is re polled at Paris, that when, on the 2 Ist of'June, Au. 6'EaL:4u clrtflered .h 4 Army to embark, on hoard the' Fleet ander GANTHEAMIE, the Troops, to a man, ieltised to obey, until their arrears due'to them ware acquitted. This occurrence, the good Parisians are prevented GIANTHEitUNIE frotp - sailing," and combating the inferior Blockading - Squadron, of the English. TALLEYEAND was expeaed back at Paris about the latter end of the present month. They still speak of a Congress during the winter. The Marruis of SALISBURY arriVtitl yeptenlay Itiehouse'in '‘.rliflktort-stfeet, from Bath 1 vie a grand dinner, yester day' to PITT nod a largo party of fashionables, at his courtib • .N4l/ AL NEWS. FALMOtrra, k 24.—Arrived this morning the Auckland Packet, Capt.\ S,CHUY - LER, in fourteen days, and the /Fa/sing/taw Packet, Capt. ROBARTS, in twelve days, with Mails from Lisbon. The former brings an account of the Decade Frigate having arrived at. Lisbon ,from Lord NELsois, with dis patches.' At the time she left hhn he was in close pursuit of the Combined Fleets, which were about 60 leagues a-head of Itim, and, from what informa tion they could cone6l, they Were bound to the Me diterranean. The Waisingltant has brought some Dispatches, said to be of much importance, from Admiral COLLINGWOOD, received at Lagos Bay by an overland express ; the Packet had only six hours notice. On her pas Age she .fell in with ten Sail of the Line, one of hich, the Ajax, brought her to, and gave her Dispatches for any Cruiiers she might fall in with. Nothing further has transpired here. Both dispatches ,were this day forwarded to Lobdon .by express. The Walsinghant saw the Diana Packet near Lisbon. PLYMOUTH, JULY 25.—The /14)/verine, 18 guile, just fitted up, a uew Sloop i of War, is ordered for :a mouth's Cruize to the westward of Cape Clear. The present state of the Line-of-Battle Ships in Cawsand Ray, off Ushant, and stretched across to the latitude of Cape Finisterre, off Rochefort, Fee. rol, and. Cadiz, is as follows : In Cawsand Bay refitting and ready to. sail, 7 Sail of the Line; with ContrwAraas, 21 ditto, off Brest; CALDER, lo ditto, off Ferrol ; • GRAVES, 6 ditto, off Rochefort ; CoLLlNGwoori, 11 ditto, off Cadiz and Streights 'of Gibraltar : total, 55 Sail •of the Line, exchisive of y Frigates and other smaller Vessels, be sides NELSON and COCHRANE'S Squadrons in pur suit of VILLENEUVE. Came in the ilrgo from Oporto, for this Port and Exeter, captured by a Spanish Privateer, re-captured on her voyage to Passage by the Naiad, 38 guns ; she had on board, for this Port and Exeter,. no pipea of wine it is feared one or two more of the Oporto ships are m', ' Ong ; the Privateer escaped the Naiad by night coming on.—Camein large ship from the Westward, supposed Au be a Neutral in great damage, with ' the loss of her bowsprit and masts, towed in by 'a yes el from some port •in Cornwall. YARMOUTH, JULY 2,6.--,.Yeaterday "evening was launched here tic in the Dock-yard of Messrs. STONE and •COTUDICE; a Gun-brig, 'called the Havoc, of 14 guns; and on Monday,next a Sloop of War,, of eo guns, called the Sparrow, will be launched from the' Dock-yard' Of Mr. JOHN PRESTON' POOLE, JULY t? . —Sailed the Coq/Wader Gun brig, Lieutenant VALABRA, OP a Cruize. • The Revenue Officers stationed at Christchurch seized a Boat, laden with 400 tubs of foreign spirits, ,on the shore near Bourn Bottom, which they con veyed to His Majesty's Warehouse at Southampton. PORTSMOUTH, JULY 26,—Sailed His Majesty's Ship Wettzed, Capt. P. Pititti:Ea, • with Convoy for Plym?uth. His Majesty's Gun-brig Locust, Lieut. JOHN LAKE, has sent into Portsmouth, the Ceres, ALDER.' SON, from sea, htclen with iron, &c. GIMENOCK, KELLOCH, late . of the Clyde, of this Port, came passenger in the Co lumhia, his own Ship having been captured by the French Privateer Schooner Matilda, Capt. QRAP. FIN, from Guadaloupe, on the 14th of June, in lat. 29. long. O. W. boned from St. Thomas for Li verpeol. The Privateer was a large Schooner, of near ly 200 tons burthen, had a complement Of 180 men, and is reported to have now teo, and mounts 18 nine and six pounders. The Brio . Marffaret Hmtnyt , ' * arrived here on Sunday from Quebec I . s i tiled t h ence r.).4ta. , tme, in equip atiy with the • Caktionia,Wi tsoN f or (7,1 ) „1,,. ; ." . parted on the 25111, oh Train. Island, in the River §t. 4attrence.- Spoke, on the 'l7th inst. the',.dnn . Phillippa, from Port Glabgow for. Newfoundland, in hit.''6s, 40. N, long. 11,, On the 18th, •ti . as board ed by, His Majesty's Ship Rosiirio, 5b iong. to. and on tilt: t 9tll, off waN boarded by . His Ma : jesty's Ship Tourtei•elle. FOLICSTONS, ALLY theNess Road, the Lecrpard,. .Ad ; re, Erptosion, Wrangici, Monkey, I'o4unteer,' and other vesselsjust corns in front the 'Downs, mimes unknown. The Champion Frig,ate, with two Gun-brigs, tell in With Stitutilmo of French Gun-vpssels.froin the West ward to Boulogno, whiph they axed in under their batierieq, whereby the• Champion WaS damaged in her masts from the fire on shore, ati4 is gone, for Ports mouth to rent._ Wind S. PIIATIIAM ) JULY now Gun-.brigs have ;Arrived here to be coppere4 wlla fitted. The Hind will be taken into dock to-rnoryow .for the Garlic iiurpose, and on Fay the Edgar will be uLutc.u;keA. • . She Laskindergone a large repair, and Is a reiratkable fine 74 ; she is to bavo - the flag of Lord 'Walt home of his Officers are already appointed to her. DL AL, JULY 26,—Sailed the Fury Bomb on a Crtilzt4. Arrived last night the Trompeuse Sloop, of War from Africa ; and remains in the Downs with His Majesty's Ships _ _ - - St. Alban's; Utrecht, Antelope, Trusty, Ves'tat, Renorn. trite, Ariadne, Champion, Hebe, and Arab Frigates; Hermes, Utile, Alert, Autumn, Bonetta,' Calypso, Speedy, Rail. leur, Cygnet, and harlequin Sloops of War ' • ,Diocovety. Lucifer, Vesuvius, Explosion, Hecla, Volcano, Devastation, and Pros Pero Bombs . ; a large Fleet of Gun.brigs and Vim. ships ; Zebra,, with a Signal tier Convoy to the Westward t Euphrates, for the East Indies ; and many other outward. bound Ships. TORDAY A JULY 25. -s—This morning early the Sloop Betsey, , of Dartmouth, Wit.z.t.vm BUFFET Master, came into this Port in distress, Wing lost two anchors'and cables in a gale of wind in Dart mouth Range, split her foresail to pieces; and sprung so serious a leak that the Pilot and Crew could scarce keep her free: she was last from Guernsey, laden with wines and tallow, bound for Plymouth, Bristol,: and Liverpool. EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM AN OFFICER IN LORD NELSON'S FLEET. ley, Antigua, jume 12, 1g425. " We arrived at. Barbadoes the 4th of June, Where: we received the pleasing intelligence of the Enemy'S Fleet being seen by one of our Frigates off: Marti nique, on the 13th of May, consisting .of 12 French Line-ofbattle Ships, 6 Spanish ditto, s Frigates, Corvettes, and ..Brigs. " They were eXpeded to attack Trinidad on the 7th, which place we arrived at on the morning. of the sth, were disappeinted, not meeting with the Enerdy there, and received information that they - were still at Martinico, for which place we im mediately' made .all t!ossible salt, but to the same effeel, as they had left that place the very day we sailed Air it, and .were seen steering to the N'orth ward, supposed for Tvlontserrat or Antigua ; but it is almest, impossible for us to. know where they arc gone, as they alter their course so very often, sel dom steering the same for more than ten or twelve hours'. o f ‘.‘ On our arrival at Montserrat and Antigua: we found the Enemy had been thine on Sundah, and had made an attempt upon those. two Islands ; but , finding our,GarriSons 'ready to receive them, they re linquished their design, and again sailed to the North Ward. We cannot conceive what can be their intention , some think' they are gone home—others are of opinion they mean to dodge .us till we leave the Country, and then make a general attack upon our Islands. ", We have 2000 Troops on board the different Ships in the Fleet, whom we are now about to land at St. John'S Fort, , Antigua, and.then proceed in chase of the Enemy to the Northward. ". Lord NELSON says, he thinks we ;6611 fall in with them in the course of a very few days. They are by our last accounts in a most deplorable sift*. tion, having 56 or, upwards die ,every, day: their. Commander in Chief is dead, And the second. in corn mane is dangerously ill, if not since dead also. I.lle , command is given to-two others; who differ. so Wide ly, that it gives us great reason to suppose they have net as yet determined upon any particular objea, ex cept just keeping clear of us." • , The following Extraa of a Letter from an iutellt gent Officer, contains a corre& and circumstantial accouut ,of the a&ion with a part of' the French Flotilla off .Fecamp, on Tuesday last : " Champion, in the tlownhluly 25. We arrived in the Downs last evening from the French Coast, where we had a smart n6tion with a divisioe of large Brigs and Luggers of the Enemy% After watching for six weeks the Flotilla of the Ene - my at Fecarnp, it was joined by a reinforcement from. Havre-de-Grace. We saw them at day-light, but were too tar from the land to prevent their funaion. Accordingly, on Tuesday morning, the whole came - out, to the number of thirty-Oar, eleven of them Brigs, and steered towards Boulogne, under the cover of their Flying Artillery and Batteries. We had but two Brigs to assist us. At seven a.m. we brought them to aaion within pistol shot, as close to the beach as the water would permit. The Ship once struck the 4round, from our eagerness to close them, but got .oft without damage we reserved our fire till almost within hail of the rear of their line; the second broadside from tis forced three of them on the beach, , and made great havoc among their Troops, who deserted 2 Of the Luggers; but we found it impossible to take possession without greater loss of men than the obje& was worth, es the Flying Artillery covered the beach. We then closed their van and centre, and engaged them closely from Fe camp to St. Valery, a distance of fifteen miles ; we made great haVoc on board them, as they were full of men, and our grape and musquetry carrying to the beach. Tile wind being along shore, we could not get them out from the beach, as their Coast is so strongly fortified, and they having it always in their power to run on shore. This amusement last e d three hours and a half, when we were obliged to haul off, the masts being entirely disabled ; the rigging and sails cut to pieces ; 26 round and grapeshot in the hull, three of th em under water. The Batteries did us the most mischief, as they fired with great precision; we, however, lost but two men, who were killed out-right, and three wounded—a smallerloss than we expeaed under such heavy fire : it seemed their intention was chiefly to disable the Masts and rigging. Though we seldom succeed in capturing any thing, owing . to their keeping so close to the shore, thesis skirmishes have a good effe&, by shew ing them what, therore xo expel when fighting on their own bottoms, when they make the grand dash so long in contemplation. Their Coast is very con _ veuient,for their protetioo, as they have a port they can put into every few miles', when disabled. Their Commodore and six Luggers put into St. Valery, as they were Much mauled and unable to ,proceed to Boulogne ; we should have continued the aCtion to Boulogne, but the fore and mizen-masts were,exces ilvely damaged, and expeaed momentarily to go over the side, previous to our shortening sail, and the Ship making a foot water an hour,, so you will perceive they gave us a good hareawrins• from the Battmes, ece. and you may be asaureil he Menaure had their share of th? days from f7oetmplilcgaltrtTi nr(avitiliqeMullei.::CtllPNCLl:lll.ls6—J6°e3:veEid'aYin 31T); Troops; rAo9.psres;pet,,:;loeraFoin•egnch Gentleman, who arrival here in , the Brig Traveller, advises, .that the Corn. lined Fleet had g,OOO . French, and 3,000 Spanish Irish Brigade in the ser t v h ice e .laottfefir iv:e'er.''tTiliout.i°cftlit..'e• JESTY. The Fleets Wore at Martiiiique 17 days ago, The objet of this formidable Armament, which, it i 4 said, 'was to . be joined by.six Line of ,Battle Sil'lPs limn Ferrol, appeared only to be known by tile Chiefs Who have the direaion of it. It is said that Admiral GROIN). is Commander in Chief_ of the Naval Force, and that General LAITItisToN commands the Allied Araty. Captain joim linavnv, in the Brig Tarantula, arrived at Boston from I-familial], informs U. that on the 2d June, in lat. 33.-long.vissi°rd4 by a .French Brig of 18 guns, Who informed high that they bore dispatches from the Fleet at the ‘Visti ward Islands for the Fleet that was gone down ta Newfoundland. They. further intbrined, that 30 dap before, in col-113)30v with another French Oil. they had fought an English Corvette, and 1 13(1 °21 , re lavu.nt:nielril'rnhl.°aerurdliodite: egrtiC.iti)atel.iiinsce°Onlfl'iitinilgietbsc:olca.lldilbeCdintd'A;:Wco 111;e14 as c . jpiaurritilsesusntogeers. The last Captain I-faavit saw Privateer . ehe was h int'steeg W. Kt a I Nv..!•foun4filand, and upposes she was w- -- . 1/ AO n..--.Calitain Tiracce, of the prifi - 11 , arrived yesterday from St. Pierre's, lvfarfirliPelfont ..forms us, that the French Fleet had sat'°",i te t 4-4.r.-,tioigue for Guadeloupe, andarrived theta , f' sei remaining at that place a few days, ther r t ' ° )e in _again.. supposed to be bound for Antigua. Cal 'Tau ER farther informs, that two French Frigr;l had arrived at Martinique, which sailed front C!, , 4 in company with a French and Si:elfish Fly 0 with Sail of the Line, Frigates, arid Trans Ports, °,e3 Troops for . Martinique, and that the to Fr i e t a paerteetdcafprotumrettihee,Fßlereitti,iilashair(4.e..w'airl:eofo:gba"`o. 5, ing•ont of Guadeloupe. i F p l ii 0 .(Ja Friday afternoon the armed Blig 5 ' 1 ' 14 a rl Polly, from JaMaica, Capt. C 0014011%, was :earl with lightning, which shivered her main-toP; main-top-gallent Mast to pieces, Ali th,? l „ u , a ,, in e ' llli e to the Icelson,. burst the pumpwells'i sllt' t ,"iii () the .urOPs, set her main-top-sail on fire, ali4l L,iieti, damage. . Several persons on board weresttA4 but none materially.,,hurt. .The lightning ad • pei•sons 300 yards from the vessel struck . ccho ot ....841,1•17u0au, JUN! to,---Arrived the 7 ich 6 0 lioinet, from Point Petra, OnathOuri ' 4 ' l 5 ;514 left the ist of June. The French Fleet, con . 4 oFforitsn§cnraili,, 11 B,rigs, and seven rtes)CorVetg . .live ad' NEW- °"), Amp €2.1.,--e have , ... It vices o f the , arrival at Martinique of another. 07c. Stinadron of 14 Sail o f t he Line, Bombs, Br'gs' aniOunting - to 30.45ai1. yisioni Pt The Unsted States, Store -ship, With pr o , boa Pas our little, Squatitkni in the Me,literranoalt, ~„cotiliva captured by, a Spanish Privateer, 'Goveriro be re giVeP orders for a like quantity of stores _ s i n or der to prevent their suffering from the via , n 1 Pared for .t4O use of our bravo tars in that Tattoo : said to "i We have heard a report this be captured. Ti/i frashirgton Feaeralist 0110107:iii 5 0 1 ril b s : vjoi t i. dis: patches of an , unusually anportant natu re mina were received yesterday 1.1 , ° j ut ' What tliciy are has not yet transpire'', roe, 'tslople:l‘lll2fiirgitißh:ciAoulci:lNt'ov.ifiailliarilfreiift:,er:oti.s,Pthltillet°l P‘l37l''!llCl°ll4 ''C OI C ' l l' l r a D Y o:)s t.l that:ldtehr''':t7llSeerpi tr.atft)eBlfilt:iF!lo'°ifergr%li'ditl°ll:l4.lll;B)3l-1.LPi:'Iti;11;:)11113e13fItil • dad; di at ;hey rettifued and llnded the Iten, eta . that when he lett the I;slead, the icioa°:;!,,Jo A diate enterprize Was relinquished. M. tbittr that it was genera' it believed at Sor e f r o 3'4 Combined. Squadrons had not m tho u n. viiec sti,ledyoo,,?6,Touroldopa.ittrk6 joararnad,icant.o that it 0 . 0 1 " pwapaaptWrce,hl-:beanodnruenonothdluanPEcPaedYst-tblndsiitiatFle t e h e e t• ari r Itielegr6f -' ll • l ' Ph • hcrPs / 1 : ' . vi h n : s it is i p ei r v o c h ,ol a itie b rs l r y e t y t o r h e t e . e ht c: i 1 2 8 d i e l e Ye d o. v e b : t ee t fe e l i i i ‘r n T V'd n :l l 3 h o t vi l) : 5; 111' , ..`;vlsl this 1 ; 1' g. , that the. 34,1,6 peal; and carried into the Jsle coBtP!.lll4.rtitetivY;3l):l'l'ptr:r:e '; reason, to hope that this ruinottr N founded. ' l' °4 Antioui, ~, The following Veasels . . we at '' 1 o se Pi 70 a s t e lY ci t t o o . sails, eenbeithnoticdeour ;i June, to4;cili l e y t t i v ii l°l' Patriot. STA AINPAII Kirby, rj.sl4l-5 bined Fleet : • VJacy, c° ° 1„ WO ' ' I'fiFICC Of W„" ' 00 l‘FigAll4.l,llC4g It , , sitlisioo, L tati{:o, Byam, DAwsori . ilninl.,ntief, ss, Martha, ionmson . V bittiA, 4 .West Indian, DANN fle a tile aria of ~ Pr iTvehteerer,77lllagsti' Critrottinrd' e'9l° rilerill'-i.fai:4l)crd:lell:dWftlii° into Cork. She took her in Ilt i 4 er s ,_'!:: 'Perot oc-Al The Hirondelle had taken, in 1 ,ati3,:'_!.‘ o ffitl P w ' Queen Charlotte Packet, after ti 9" rriori, and twenty minutes, , ;l c ,' to 0 ° ;* W° The American Gun-bonts : 11,,a , _tier, ar , ar , , thesingenious, - • • :ma •• .' botor 'iat UtbhtleYdeiprnrsi'Ltoil.lidpi:'couLsattruh°ol:oed°:trlair'tteitrburiticil}r':::.(ll.,/7:ol:l:jettilin'):7l;cai j!iiiior:f, .the of theel'ltegYr:%dillugritti‘l:t.:ll:ll.l;/',.....3'1t15t1t' . on .the Lake Cbamplaine Ll' for t he serc_leot Di ()) Plan of equipping BOO) . o t, `•:, ,c) Goverill!..,'; FenCibieS has been subinf.ttr ..1-05,,c:.1,,b1e v.nlitro, through ;he fneditgo of t:oido dor v. liar The many concuring. testis ,„ the Sep 1 of efifr A rou useful', and loyal a b0.y...,,,?, renderef../westo:, ,should at this • Morsientous Crit!.:loo oi ly #.l:sint 1; tire ipno;fitibbelem, Oatirleti.Octo:6.lloo.l ~ ~.; t i l,,e t i " , : iii t l i ;, 110,10:1_,Qfpio Iti:ilorliiii.; h a ve h e ard of the PIM we lvirter 0rti..,3 PO ,111:1jetlele"a,stiifrF:, otisate.airesou7pt,TiabootleS•o.,igrea, ,alt ~ .