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70 THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. BlaL.k . RoOks,' 'July 4, 1805. 11. R. EDITOR, Having observed in your taper of the 521st ult. ir! the Speech of a Member of a Great Assembly, that " our•Cruizers were more intent on taking Prizes than watching the motions of the Enemy,' an Officer of a Ship who has been -these last two years watching the motions of the Enenay off Bre,t, begs leave to acquaint that Noble Lord, through your Paper, that his assertion is entirely unfounded, and needs not the Admiralty to confute the state ment. Whatever squabbles exist in the Cabinet, he can osiure the Noble Lord, that none exist in the Squa dron to which he has the :honour to belong ; but •we all unite in one wish to keep the strictest look out on the Enemy, and giVe the•earliest information to. the Commander in Chief. -The Ships that have been'so fortunate in taking Prizes have been ordered on that, service (a very esential one) by the Admiralty, and •it is rather hard to be supposed able to watch the motions of the Enemy. in Brest, Rochefort, Bic. when you are Cruiz 7 - ing across the Atlantic ; and I ;cannot help ob serving, than it is the first time a British Sailor re eciked censitre for capturing the Vessels of 'the Enemies of his Country. If you will have the goodness to insert this in your much react Paper, you will do justice to a number of Men, who are doing all in their power to berve their Country, and confer an obligation on, Sir,,your very humble Servant, AN OLD BLACK ROCK STAGER. MAILS. AltltlVfD-I Dublin, 2 ‘Vaterford. Dit—i,Hamburgh, 1 , 111) in. STOCKS THIS DAY AT,TWiI,VE O s QLOCK. CoiISOIS . 59 (Minium 'l' E SU N. soLF,M QUIS 13;CY.AZ FALsUM AUDEAT? LUND U h ; MONDAY, JULY 15, 1801;. further,intelligence has reached us respeaing Lord NELsorr. We have received neither confirmation nor contra dietion of the report of the capture of the Glor i iso, but we are strongly inclined to believe that It is true. Some doubt has been expressed upon the subject, because the last Letters from Gibraltar do not' mention it . In answer to thig, we have only to observe, that the last Letters from G;braltar are dated the 17th, and the Giorioso did not sail from Cadiz until the 30th of June. General Mout , ,Au has been at the Spanish Camp at St. Roth; examining the lines. It is said he will take a Command in the Army destined to besiege Gibraltar, if ever that. Enterprize should , be undertaken. We have always thought that 130. VAPART woi;'ld not suffer Mon.a..tu to go to Anse.. tica, because he would then be out of his power; and it i 4 not unlikely that he. may be inclined to profit by the acknowledged military skill of I\lolo :AU, by permitting him to take a command in the Svan,bh Army, under proper surveillance. WE arc afra'd that the Public 'N% ill think that the assertions of one Newspaper Writer are as good as those 'of another; and,, therefore, that the mutual eontradiAions bctween The Times and ourselves; mill be equally disregarded, " • but there is a sort of 'evidenee, derived from the prcl)abillty of the circumstances in dispute, which decide the question cf credit to he given to either. fre had ar,serted, that Mr. PITT did not under stand, fio'n his cortversation with Lortl SIDMOUTII, ri Thllr4day et. might, the intention' of the latter to res ig n . 7`,Cis rciel is con`tradiCtea by The Times. 11ea will givetredit to them for thee truth of their ZlFSerlion, that Lord SID:4OI7II'S conversation with Zr. P;TT V, as intended to cow ey to the Premier his Lord,hip's determination to resign. Upon such a p , iint, the ai.sertion of The Times is, next fo,that of LGrtiship;the hest evidence that can be produced'. The PlAbl 7 .c vi:11 judge whether - Thi Times or 'Tun Su' be more likely to convey a correct idea of the imp,..elision made, by any cpnversation, Upon the CIIWCELLOR Of the EXCIMCLUER. We need scarcely add, that we adhere to our for . rner statements, it is indeed only in that one point to which Nye have alluded that we are contradiadd by the ADDINcTONI4N - Writers. `They adtnit a b y i‘uplication, that their Leader, who is' stated to have quitted office upon the " purest and broadest public principles," and who is held tip as "'the 'sole and central point at which every virtuous Englishman should rally," that this model of ii:clependence, rity, and disinterestedness, had no sooner quittedone Forty, and fost the frVour 'and' confidenceof the Powers thotte,” than he hastened to throw himself into the arms of another, and to join with it in wdr- s bipring " the rising sun." ' It la said that we have been altogether silent uprn the' Inotivg of .1,6i(1 STD,vaunt's resignation. Thii4 is nil(' ; we have traced it to his " love-of I)owter,' unAecimipanieJ by ay great or geinerous j ef iii i v%A.."'" and, certainly,` . fmniioui ' and fdesui tory expositior of his Lordship's motives (in a style charaaeristic of his Party), which appeared in The Times of Friday, will not induce us to retraa our opinion. Upon this Manifesto we shall forbear to remark, until its authors shall condescend' to alight from their prancing Pegasus, and condu& us, at a jog -trot, to a knowledge of some of the fats of their. case. We are encouraged in the hope that the ADDING.; TONS will take our hint upon this occasion, by the attention which they have paid to our friendly ad vice about the Royal reluaance to accept the resig nation ; upon which resignation we again congratu late the Country, as an event that frees the wheels of Government from their heaviest clog. The Earl of EssEx's noble mansion in St. James's PlaCe , has been purchased by Earl MotstA. The price was 18,000 Saturday morning, at six o'clock, the Southwark Volunteers, _about 400 strong, marched from , the Borbugh to their encampment on Epsom Downs, Where the tents haxe been previously.pitched. They arrived at Epsom about one o'clock. A small French Expedition is stated to have sailed from Gadaloupe the middle of May, under - escort of La Gloria , of 44 guns ; it was s p o ken on the 24th of May, in lat. 23. 36. long. 83; 22. by the Brig industry, VAUGHAN, on her passage from Montego Bay, Jamaica, to New-York. There were about 600 troops on board, with a General Officer; their, desti nation was not known. Accounts from Surinam announce the arrival there of the &44)/k and Attentive Transports, with a detachment of the finth. liegimerit, from amaica, wider convoy of the Snake, of 18 guns. A large British Frigate-built Ship, nurse unknown, had, On the 3d June,. been ,carried into' the Havan na!) bya French Privateer. Two Vessels from Bombay -for Bussorah, with Dispatches for the Indian Company, together with numerous other Vessels, have been captured in the Persian Gulph, by the piratical Cruizers of one of the Petty Princes., on the Eastern Coast of . that Sea.— The crews have been either, enSlaved or murdered. Accounts have been received from Batavia, via Salem, to the Q6th Fehrtutryl the Settlement was so • sieldy at that period as to occasion an almost lett& stoppage to*Trada. SeVeral Vessels unable to ob tain cargoes, and alarmed at the ravages of the had sailed in ballast. The Colombia, Drx.e,., of Philadelphia; illargaket,D4s4olCG, and of Baltimore, were amongst the number. Accounts have bean received from Cie Cape of Good Hope to the 27th . of April, and ':root the Isle of France to the 19th of :the same mGoth. - Cor vette' arrived•at the Cape on the !,: . 3d from France with Dispatches,. which had created a considerable degree of bustle. Orders had in consequenee been, isSued; tl . ?ca rattlers. to deliver into the: Public Stores a large (imntity of grain, &e. at stipu lated prices ; and . arrangements N'eero' made,- for the reception and-aw.omur..)litic.lit &a a force from Europe. Several Pri:,es, had. been sent to the *Mauritius' and; among the trunibr . ,.. laiiiant:to find the Coniman-, del, from Chinti, for London, with ~tiooo ,chesti of tea, and a variety of other valuable articles, having been taken by a French Privateer, after an anion of some duration, but, of The particulars of which we are not yet informed. Some mention, is made of Sir .E. PELLEW'S ScilladrOrl ; but we are not certain whether the accounts state he had arrived, or that he Was emieeted of the Isle of 'France, and that an cum bargo had 10 eiinseiptence been imposed on all vessels there. The capettaion under Sir JAMES CRAIG remain ed at Gibraltar on the 17th .ult. paitish gun boats at Algesiras,. it appears, had made some hos tile movements.. The t',?.llbwing' ExtrAet* Mated to the Public : ‘: Gibral,tar Bail , June l }. " The object of our. Expedition seems now to be pretty well known : 'Sir JAmus Ciim'o is to remain at Malta, as Commander hi Chief of the Forces in the Mediterrano:ui, and General Sir J. Sxzw. ART IS to go on with 5,000 men, to take pOssession of Alexandria, to keep the French out of Egypt ; where, however, th tn-e can be no possibility of their going' until their Tlin! hi fleet returns 'to that port again from the N Y (,!st " Our troops are -ill very healthy on board, and there never was an army int higher order, or fitter 'for any kind of service. " We hear General Mortz4t7 has ;trrived nt Al gesiras, and as the ships tilereliave had their eolo9rs hoisted, and all the batteries and ,gun -boats have been saluting to-day, we suppose it is in compliment to him. " Rear Admiral KNTGIIT has his flag hoisted on board the Livelt) frigate within' these few days. " 16.---Ne received orders yesterday for no Officer to go on shore, andflir the b'ents . of the fleet to be ready manned anti 'arm e d, in'coNe (memo of. att-expected atttack• from the Enemy's Flotilla of gun and . inortatt boats, I,v,hith; aecordingly, at six . o'clock in the evening,. we-saw getting under weigh, and rowing towards. us in three divisions ; when within. a Jenne of Us they . brought to, seeing we'had about sixty armed boats read to 'receive thon drawn , up inside of the Tnen of war; and after deliberating about 'half an hour, they returned to Alger,;irai without atteMpting any thing. Ws five .frigates, six sloops of warbr gun-brigs, 'and think 'we shoUld Live. good arcotrot of therm, had they Matte the attempt in day-light, as we; hi tended Co have boarde , l them with all our, armed h`onts. It iw an attac4 iii the night which we dread. The Enemy's Mortar• b(:atft have been throwing live shell 'this afterno'4l it Algesiras; anti making- them bunt in the air by of practice. ' 4 1 Jura , have.•juSt received orders for every pers,nt to rel-4. - on' board, .and'are to sail .this afternoon througlatielltreights, :min to take shelter in a Bay. under Cape 'Sparto, on the Barbary coast, to avoid any -attempts of the Enemy's ,gun-boats .on the shipping, of ,which our Commanders, both of an d seem vt:ry apprehensive, if tt , wethe Navy tilay av judge from the multiplicity of orders acl counter-ordem, whtch we have. 'ploy art going to move off to a ficsh 4flehoring groilm on the. oast of Barbary •, ' NAVAL NEWS. flow the LONDON.GAZETTE, YatY 13, 1205. Admiralty-Office, July 13,_1805.. Copies of Three Letters from Rear-Admiral Dacres, Commander in Chief of His Majesty's Ships and Vessels at Jamaica, to Win. Marsden; Esq. Hercule, Port Royal, April 21, 1805. Herewith you will receive the 'Copy of a Letter transmitted to me by Mr. -Smith, IVidshipman of the Hercule, commanding the Schooner Gracieuse, Tender to my slag, giving an account of the de strudion of a French National Schooner that had just sailed from St. Domingo. r am, &c. J. R. DACRES. His Majesty's Schooner Gracieuse, April 11, 1805. , SIR, I beg leave to inform you, at one P. M. on the gth inst. I fell in with and captured a large Spanish Schooner, from St. Domingo to Porto Rico, with .Passengers. At six A. M. saw a strange. Sail to the Eastward. She proved to be a Sloop under ,French Colours. I chaced her, firing several shots at her, within gun-shot of ie Forts of St. Domingo. -7. Finding it impossible to take her, I gave chace to a Brig to the Westward. She proved to be an Ame rican. At half-past four 'saw a Schooner standing out of St. Domingo, steering dire& for us. I was informed by the Spaniards on board that she was a French National Schooner. I immediately hauled out with my Prize, that 'I might have sea-room in case she attempted to retreat : this being accom plished,' at eight shortened s:Ail and hove to, with the Prize under the lee-'.1,1,4 , =.1*. At half-past eight the Schooner, windward, caged down within musket-shot, and opened a very heavy fire of mus ketry' and great guns, which was immediately re turned by the Gracieuse under my command. At nine he bore; down with an intention of boarding, but met with so warm a reception, that obliged him to haul his wind; he continued the Engagement. — At 20 minutes past nine made a second attempt to board. Finding it impossible, made all sail, firing his stern chacers and musketry. At eleven he tacked,' and stood in for the land. .1 immediately opened a _very heavy fire of grape and caunister, with small arms, which continued till half-past three, A. M. at which time he run on shore on Point Vizcia, Find- , ing the reef all round him I hove to, within half a mile from the reef, until half-past four. I then saw him going along shore with his sweeps; made all sail iti chace. At half-past seven, observed him haul in for the land. At r a quarter. past - eight run her on shore . on 'Point .de Selina, and landed her crew off the bowsprit. 1 run in, and cane to in four ' fathoms Water, with springs on her cable; out Boat, and sent a hawser on banner, with an'inten&Q. if possible, to get her off; but when I got on board, from the number of shot holes ,between wind and: water, she had completely. filled.. She was as fine . a 'Vessel of her class as eVer I saw,,and would have: done fOr His Majesty's„sersiCe. Her three consisted in a, beautitid Jong brass. tweive-poUnder, mounted, on a circle in midships, which I have got on board ; „two lotl; bras four-}Pounders, and Ibur brass swivelz„ th:,:..,-pouri,:ters; with ninety-six men, armed with dims. Finding it impossible for tile. boats' tci do any thing;:froin the heavy surf on the 'beach, I continued here 'Until morning, and sent the Boats, at' half past three A. M. under the com.nand of Messrs.- Higgins • and: M(Gill, in. order to taltU out t4olong gun., and destroy the' Vessel, Which was ef fectually completed by them. It is impossible to find words sufficient to express the general good and gallant condu& of the Officers and Crew. I feel pleasure in informing you we have not a roan killed; the 'only. persons wounded were Mr: Robert Marley, Midshipman ; Thomas Knox and Joseph I,igo, sea men ; which depriVed me of a truly brave Officer and two. men ; having onboard three sick and three wounded; an. Officer of our seamen on board the Prize. The number. of the Enemy's, killed and wounded is. unknown," hilt must have been con siderable, as I. could plainly see them carrying the wounded in the, bushes. •- - . I have the honour to be, lice. (Signed) T. 4. SMITH. I. R. bows, Esq. Rear. Admiral of 'tho - Red, &c. &c. &c: llercule, at Sea, May 17, 10.5. .1 have the honour to inclose, for their Lordships' , informatidn, the Copy of a Letter 1 have received from Captain Woolsey, of His Majesty's Sloop Pa pillon, acquainting me of his having, by stratagem, caused one of the Felucca -rigged Privateers to he captured that annoy the Coast of the Island of Ja maica. I am, Scc. • J. R. DACRES. Papillon, Savanna La Mar, April 15, 1805. Having anchored at Savanna La Mar, I gained, intelligence' l'roin the Master of a Drogger, that a Spanish Felticea-rifiged Privateer was off the We:se End ' to the-Very great annoyance of the Coast, -and being very apprehensive bile might make her esdpe Shouid Igo after her in the Papillon, judgedit best to try and' take her by tratagem; I accordingly got one of the Merchant Ships' Shallops, and dispatdhed Lieutenant Prieur, with tWenty-five men, disguising her as a Dragger ; at eight the same evening he fell in.with the Privateer close , under the land ; Lieu tenant Prieur, in a very cool and brave manner, al lowed her to row alongside; and make hersell - fitst before the Enemy discovered his mistake, he then ordered the men from below, fired a volley of mus ketry into, her; and boarded; and I am happy to in form you, in , four minutes she was -completely, in our possession. She proves to be the Conception Spanish Privateer; one brass three-pounder and twenty-five 'men, well armed and equipped, about twenty-five tow; burthen, out five days trotn Man- choreal Harbour, in the Island of Cuba, and had made no captures. The loss of the Enemy was considerable, having had seven men killed and drowned, and eight badly wounded ; we, Lard happy to say,, had only two slightly wounded ; four of her men swam on shore, and have since bee taken up' by the Militia ; the Prisoners I landed here, who were taken charge of by the Militia; the wounded gtre in-Flospital with proper medical' attendance. The conduct of Lieut. Prieur and Mr. J. Christie, Pursr (who voli*teered his' services), the Petty 7 . O leers /Ind - men, on this occas'oa, I argot too highly recommend to your notice. dmliriatalvje t: . e i l ) :oa cro o , ur cw. t .o o ram b rn e ;, ke, e (Signed) , To Rea r-. ' Chief, & c. 8:e. &C. Sul, , Hercule, at Sea, 1111.1171:b,:: 5' : I have the honour to inclose, .for the information of the Lords Commissioners of the Adtniralty, the Copy of a Letter y transm itted to me b the ffon,Capt, Murray,M of His Majesty's Ship Franchise, act nuaint ing me of his h a ving' captured the Tender of he D u tch Frigate Kilen Flashier, w hich is lyiag ill CU ' racoa Harbour , : I am, &c. Ili DACES, His Majesty's Ship La Franchise,of SIR, Curaroa, April 9,5, 180, , I have the honour to inform you, that on nitat' rival - off the Town of this Island, on the Otionst we observed . a Schooner to leeward of us toot,ott, . standing for her she hauled in under the Fort a Port - Maria, and came to an anchorage ;we t° ll ed; and, after about an hour's firiug at the Fort and her, we had the satisfadion to get her out the proved to be a Tender to the. Dutch Frigate .000 Hasshler, now lying at Curaoa, and coonandol by a Lieutenant, with 35 men, :24 of whiC , with the • Lieutenant and Surgeon, were on board with taken possession of, the forrner wounded ; the reit made their escape on shore. We have unfiffiunate, ly . one man very badly wounded, and two slightlp some of our rigging cut, - but pot ateria l! ! . map& .. . , , . I have the honour to he, Scc. JOHN Mtli°".. I'o lames R i c h ar d Dacres. . Esq. H ear- A dn iiral of the Red, Commander in Chief, &c. 4kc„ &c. • Admiralty -0 july 13, 1 8 ° 5 ' , 1 Copy of a Letter from the Honourable llear-ildnol,, , eoekrane,' Commander in Chid' of Ills ill' l j eit i Ships and Vessels at the. Leezord Islands, t° 1 :. limn Marsden, Esq. dated on board His Mail 0 1. Ship- Narthumberland, at Barbados, the 411/ i /tine, 1805.. I li S e i re it N , vit ' h inc - lose •you, for the ill Lords Commissioners 'of the Admiralty, a Cop) 5 two Letters. I have received • from C'lpt. ouriflbub: His Majesty's Ship Barbadoes, and Captain i td,,r oc h of the Ki f; --ngs_sher, having `Spanish-captute '',,lricir Schooner Privatee: La Desir6e, and r teer Damas. ' 'SAA N ' I am, Eec. . ALEX. CO at SA , - His Majesty's Ship Barbados, SIR, • ' lipril 8, 1805:r. „, , es tyl I beg leave 'to inform your that 11104 or temerity, after being Ship Barbadoes, under my comand, this dpi_ ~,, tured, in sight of the Island of Barhados, Pg;,, siree French Privateer Schooner, of iburteeaGoda• and seventy-one men ; out four days I°rilliad t o formation of rtlioe,, loupe, and had not made any capture i 511 9, of, wl7°ltibnycle‘dvi! l lC l h ia s. v il e odur,illtOsebvee:l: :)tjellsrs to return the fire of seaveralecQYberdoawdistitieris NrilVitithllCaea , ff e:efrhe.orne (Signed). JOSEPO, l'' ',• • TiCtth . e Honotirahie it elir.AtinlirA Cot:hr.:A t,:ommander in Chief,' Scc, I4c , • . 110 -• iiir 0 1 4 ~ . . HU .laiesty's, Sloop. Killi.cl444er7 A v . C ' Two Boats St. Jean, iiprii 1 I, lit,' c ond, '-iwoßoatsfromtheslii-under NV vi"' an d dish ° p under_ the . direaion , of Licutroatm St 3 e l l , he t oo Smith, biought out from the anchorage of d i ibr fat Cape the D a mns Spanish PriN;mecr, Pier c fro icerti guns, Mounting only one 8-pooliderh4,°,esy Ot! with a crew of 57 men. , ThOuiii to ,'',„i oret. some resistance both front the vesse, l .111) v's or e off Deinerary. This is. 'her first .30 lin • ' effort, . . I am, ec. , naatief' was h:Yee,:iticiiipeprdeltfensurdeatyos add i4tt ,Ato‘iiviiatilho,,,,uftolrosivcceiiittle; ° W.. 11, CIIIIII3, vo The. Hon. Admiral Cochnne Coin . James, Pn lYn latter,: a 1 C r in u T Cap t . withl J: i s the JULY s c ~ an 'i d '. tl c e Arr. C I L: 1 ' i t i llei :C e:Pent:l''.:Sii ' lli:' parted) A , listed l i e n theyoc of t ii 45 sailed a il a ueyd. Sail),f r i ii S ON, both flow ()Porto; carai under ConvoY t; two von Sloop of 'War, and Aiiikrook Seb°°Peri.c, afternoon. The Ships for bristoi, from aOporto,sgreatersed. p b a r t y o o t ri f 6 the 9E Fl y t32tsilvl3; ( ,l B t. ; ,, i c i to l te l is, ' Divaool oe Lively, she sa iled, and bore up for Lisbon, but in her' s thither _i ft tee' t fri va was captured . a _ ONV-DO;1 to Three others- of the Fleet wcre ojso tal i, e n b i l er e, same privateer to the. northward of CaPe P i ”,' ~,,," Capt. F.t-h:rt. viz. the, Argo, cant, ....-....,,, hottt.id to 1..,n0vv,, di:,Ysbescinancele °lffealcSyclsl'olYo; °l; I , V s•r . , Sloop bound to.Scotlan, and another.Yesel .04 ann°nY 'Capt. CoviArto , has been six aq519:1,0% from the Fleet, and doubts axe entertained iesilr'- her. Sailed the ireazk. sloop o f War for Portsra°:stob;; JULY 13. "Arrived. the Corroborato, Ma' s ixi o and Trade Soar', fiALL., both from Nora, timber for this Port. 4 gor-A.41 Lctters from the G/01, of 99 141.-4 ,Itohe injral STIRLING, dated the 10th inst. Iron o' d, f o rt,. state her arrival there to. reinforce Sricr4l) s erf' miral Sir' T. GAAN'ES, IC. 13. who has OW of the Line 011 that station: ,ia ajr,,-,-;. cl Yesterclay the various 6;lnpaajcs 3"' 1 ,„ pr Artificers were paid- 5111 n e on svage' 3t t Office, in the Doc:it-yard. .1, or There has been seen far to tile S' l'''' . t : ' 3rc l° stone,m d otr Yu t i . l -5 ~..poe bid, small Ship attending her, but %clot 511 u. l ' , r beifi% Ttohehiliat iarnehere, a verY j`"P' ‘ cooot Pv the Gloriosa. Of 84, o r .I; o '3 J r inwial o ft 4 51°' as ~, : co rs : ( f 1 ' 8 e i . vtri,J): taeil br the Plastrioos, of 74 P 111 5; 11/. 1 32-sl.ins, off Cadiz, . ~