The Sun. — London, England, 1803-10-17 00:00:00

13 1.1 I . 'Harr:burgh t Consols , MAILS. -3 sz j Onmiuni I PRICE OF STOCKS, THIS Ohl' AT (.YE O'CLOCK. T E U N. •ei.su LiUIS Diet)ll Y&LSUM ♦vur►r ? ♦AR IV ID. - lo dig. LONDON, OCTOBER 17, 1803. have . reason to hope and believe, that one at icast,of the French 7q: gun ships which were at Cape cois, has been taken, and carried into Ja_ inaica. On Satu►day a vessel arrived at Plymouth from Honduras, that on her passage fell in with a Merchantman, - from which Jamaica Papers of the 6ih of August were procured, staring the capture and arrival at Port-Royal of A French 74 gun ship; and by the Nerve-York Pipers to the 201 of August, which have reached this Country, we have. an ac. count, by a Vessel arrived at New. York from Cape Francois, that on the zBch of July, off the latter Port, an English Frigate bud, in sight of a great number of spelators on the shore, attacked a French 74 gun ship, and main. tained a running fight with her for some time, when fortunately another Englitih Frigate came up, and pouring a broadside into the }i'renchman, the latter struck. We have no doubt whatever of this Ship hay. ing been captured. It would appear too that another, French Ship of the Line had been at the same time chased by two 'British Ships of War, and as good an account of her was confidently expefled. By the American Papers we have intelligence that General Roc HANIB EAU was determined to hold out to the last extremity, but as that extremity was arrived at least two months ago, we are inclined to hope that - the private accounts from Paris, by the way of Amsterdam, which we gave in our Paper of SatUrday last, respeiing the surrender of the French remaining in Sr. Domingo, may very speedily re. ceive confirmation. The hotneward.hound Jamaica Fleet, under Con voy of the Leviathall, of 74 guns, and Santa Mar. &ireful, may be daily expelled--Some of the Ves. eels have indeed already arrived at different Ports, , Our Letters this day present us with the pleasing account of some valuable Captures, The Arn/eld, BAIRD, from Jamaica, 'arrived at Liverpool, parted from tile Fleet on the z9th Sep.. temt?er in a gale in lat. 45. long„ 28. Several yessels m.t with damage, by the lightning, owning through the Go 4, but none of them were known t)ccept the Robert, DER.6l"bnift ; on the next nv;rning could only ' l,ee r 8 vcs,e'ls from ti e rtt';i)tJlead. On the 22d, spoke the Mfreuey, for 'London, 'one of the Fleet. Early nn''Satorday morning the Duke of YORK arrived-at Wintls , .l from London, ora military busi. ness-with H MAis. J,EVIY. About eleven o"clock fii MAIP..STy, the Duke of YORK, and Ptineess So? Hl's, with a numerous act enclat,ce; rnde on horsebaCk. in Windsor Great Pad:, where'Lord Hit t44.lty met the Royal party, ' who went and 'viewed the Hanoverian Stud, and the ., different improvement's making in the . Park. At- four o'clockthe Dyke of YORK left Windsor, for Oatioutas. Iit;.I ' ;•MAJEsTY, and Princesses AuoulTA, •, It'x9 SJI-I,",arid MARY', Atinic,a'n airing to . Froginore. Princesta Amyt:'lA, attended by :Lady CRANLEr, an, 4tiring by Virginia Wateri Old Windsor, . and FlTlefirid, Green. . Yesterday nmining THEIR MAJ ?STIR s and .ri,, NtE v,l3, and Amendhnt , ,'walked to St. George's Chapel,. where they heard an excellent Sermon preaecd, by the Rev. Dr. ilusuv, the Canon in Rtsidencr; from the Bth•ChapterOf Deuteronomy, and Vet6e. b ewit i e that thou forget not the Lord thy God in 1102 • kcepi..,g CLlnniannn,entJ, and iii:,jtatgatenL, and 1;1: ',.;u - Cut;.:s, which I cuiniceiisid tilte tflt. ddy.“ Afttr Service, incess'AmE. tj r, tot& airing through lirayvvick, Maiden. be . 1,11, and . . • 1. he, :Westminster Cavalry Volunteers bave orders 1:r, have every ' !hill in readi - nes 4 to marc h: ou t of London . so.ntorrow. 'Their des. tin,iri,in is noryet known • :C01(.1,4" MANouciiii has arrived at Portsmouth to teke the command of the Volunteer COrpoi which : be -ti I pik`.t yesterday at 'o6on on the Glacis. ' The airits , Att • and Fortiaeation were _ never in to C . ' Milleie a state of • defence as at the vt.cserA hour, Mortars of 'a',.large calibre, and .Itowith,rs, .were last week mounted. on the Queen's 13 a i fay, 00,41 if) t) 1 lie r phceS• FOrta MonCklOn an Curnm Jr.c ,Are supplied . with proViSions for zoco !nen , tor 'a month. 'General WniTELocK'S lil ' t'it:SUiefr " of ' precaution, bye even extended '!u. securing, iiitqing-qtrartert! fur Marty thousand, ate.. ; di , ional "rfoops, for which purpose the Parish,Ofp; ' ficep,of i' L irtArnouth and .Partsei, h3VC, in aid of : -cuch.neeeAsities,. - arcurately investigated the ,capabi.: they' (to this cfret) of 'oil wardhouses, stores, gra. : parte:o4c. ;in stitit t, Hitching COW exceed ,i4CS ,:cattt military activity of the past week. • • A (orr. of VOlonteers consisting of ago, - is' sipblut to 1)L10144$1,1 P Pf.tiM,4 ll )lPecilate pro ff. the City, io the evert of 411. the . ()thin., 7.`;904)0 brit% ot4esed away , ftto theftee, . f N4l NEWS. PLYMOUTH, OCT. I s.- 7 Arrived the Ship lienH rirtta, Capt. JAMES POI NODRSTRR, from the Bay . of Honduras, bound to London : sailed thence on the 31st July, and came through the Gulf with His •Maj , 3ty's Ship Shark, Captain S. B. Hit R ING, hound to Jamaica, having been relieved by His Ma. jesty's Ship Port Mahon, Capt. M. NPV ILI. R. On their paasage they fell in with a Merchant Ship, from whence they procured Jamaica Papers,'dated Aug. 6, in which intelligence was contained of the capture of a French Ship of 74 guns, and of her safe arrival at Port Royal, taken by some British Men of War. Capt. POINGDRSTRE does not recoiled the particu. lars, but there had been an A6tion, and another French Ship was shortly expected to arrive, two British Ships being left in chase of her between the Island of Tortudos and the Main. After the arrival of the Port Mahon at Honduras, Capt. NEV ILL R died of the yellow fever, about the 2sth July. Capt. N. bore a. conspicuous part in the gallant en terprize in cutting out the Chevrette French Cor. vette, in Camerec Bay, in the Boats of His Majes. ty's Ship Urania, and for which he was deservedly promoted. About tho middle of September Capt. PotNGDRSTAB fell in with the Maria, of Glasgow, having parted with the homeward-bound Jamaica • , Fleet, under convoy of His Majesty's Ships Levitz. than and Santa Margaretta, some days before, so that they may now be hourly expected. Arrived the Hussar Frigate, from a Cruize ; the Aurora, DANN E a RAG, from Stockholm ; the Maria, GURSAAC, from Porsgrund ; and the Diana, SCHARER., from Memel. FALMOUTH, OCT. 141,—Arrived the American Brig Mary Louisa, Capt. LATIIAM, from Norfolk, in 55 days, with tobacco and cotton, bound to Havre. On the 29th last month she was brought to by His, Majesty's Ship Murderer, of 74 guns, Capt. BED FORD, which, after examining very particularly the ,papers, packages, &c. of seven French Passengers (late Merchants at St. Domingo), recommended Capt. L. to proceed to Falmouth, informing him that Havre was blockaded. The French Passen. gers report, that St. Domingo was nearly deserted by the French, and that at the Cape they had no. thing to subsist on but horse-flesh. Also arrived the Dutch Ship Juliana Maria, Capt. Lynn, from Batavia, six months passage, bound for Amsterdam, boo tons, laden with sugar and coffee, captured the tith August, in lat. 6 deg. South, by the Favourite Letter of Marque, of London, Capt. PERKY, from London bound on a voyage to the South Sea Whale Fisheiy, which is also arrived here ; both Ships are leaky. Arrived the Argo, Alt.ttowsmurn, from Sander. land; the Palmy, RtcttAßDs, from Cork; and the Provide/ice. Cutter Irani . a Cruize. Sailed the Etirepard Foote, Capt. BR I ELY ) Mar. s gtaret Rose (taken out of Tobago), Bit I it/arto Ito LIG u s and Prince of Wales, TR R 1.117.) LIRA, for London, under convoy of His Majesty's Brig Sea.flower, of 16 guns. The Auckland Packet will sail on Saturday the 22(1 inSt e with two Mails for Lisbon, . Sailed this evening the Gekroode Hoop, MEYER, for Ilatubro', and S.rren, Sliar GA , . for Guernsey. P. S. While the within , American Maria Lomita, was examined by the Thunderer, a large Ship under Danish Colours bore down on them, which the Of ficers of the Thunderer informed Captain LATH AM Was La Bellona French Privateer, 0136 guns, which they had chased for to boors a few days before, but she escaped in the night. The Tbaderer, on leav_ ing the Brig, made all sail possible, and again gave chin;. DEAL, OCT. 16.—The Starling Gun.brig came in last night from a Cruize off Oste► u i and Flush. ing, and sailed this afternoon on the same station'. nihr Blpd-bpund Gun.brig arrived from a Cruiie off Boulogne, and the lynx Sloop from a Cruize off Ostend. His,Majesty'sSitip Druid sailed this morning for Fur csrtiou: h, and the Perieus on a Cruize off Ostend. Came down the Sie t , :asquard liagber East India Ship from the River, and remains. In the Ouwns—.Monarch, Admiral Lord Ke ITH, K.B. Utreeht, FteargAtitniral MON rACr U s , Diatiat luziaertaliti, Squirrel and Ranger Sloops, rm. , V;141 Bomb, .Bloodhound Gun-brig, Sussex Oak Hired Transport, Britannia and Sir . Edivard Hugh es E ast India Ships. Git tkiOClC ) OCT. Lt.—The Leander, Gt from Tobago, the first fruits to . ;this Port, of our late conquests in that quarter, ts arrived alter at passage of 4.6 days': reports, that there is great abundance of produce in the Isl4nd, 14ut of shipping to car r y i t off. a scarcity The Maria, JAMlesoq, the first of th e J amaica Fleet passed to Po rt GLngow List night. She parted from the COI six weeks ago ? so they may reasonably be looked for as 600i1 84 there is any wind to bring tliftp up. Thc 4imuel4 At) Blum N, was at Charleston 'repo hence, 16th August, after a pa ssage o f 6 3 d ays ; ' B3W a French Frigate off Clgarieston Bari, with a Liverpool ship in . company (name . n . 111;6040 her prize. GIBRALTAR, SEPT. 7. H. IN my letter of the zd inst. I informed you of the capture of a Moorish Corvette, by the Ameri can Frigate Philadelphia, which had sent the prize into this place. We have since learnt, that on the intelligence reaching Tangiers on the 4th inst. Mr. StmrsoN, - the American ..onSul, was taken out of his house at eleven o'clock the same night, and dragged to prison. On the following morning all the other Consuls had a meeting to deliberate on the line of conduel they ought to follow on the oc ,casion, and applied to have Mr. SIMPSON liberated. This demand was soon after complied with, on their becoming security for his nor leaving - that Country without the consent of the Emperor, till the affair be settled. In the mean time, the American Fri. gate continues to net agreeably to her instrnetions, and has again sailed from this place in guest of an. other Corsair, known to he cruizing off Cape St. • Vincent. SErTEMBER 10. The causes of the two French Vessels, the Timoiron and Prudent, taken by His Majesty's Ships La Rervolutionnaire and Ritter,,, under the guns of the Spanish Fort, at Cabrita Point, came on for final argument and adjudication in the Vice Admiralty Court at this Port, on Mon. day the sth instant, when, after an attentive hearing, the Court was pleased to decree for the re stitution of the said vessels and their cargoes, and ordered that they should be safely conveyed to the Fort under the guns of which the capture took place, and there restored to the Claimant on behalf of the King of Spain, or such other persons as should be duly authorized to receive the same on behalf of His Catholic Majesty. The Swedish Ship . Curtalms 'Adolphus, D. LET TERING, 36 days from Note Copiem, with iron and deals, has been sent in here for examination, by the private Ship of War, Superb.. Amongst the numerous ads of heroism which do honour to the country, we hay* to notice the fol lowing very gallant service lately atchieved by Lieut. Rowan, commanding the Sheerness cutter, on the French coast: • The Sheerne ss chaced two vessels into Douvar nenez.Bay, and the boat, with eight hands, under the orders of a Mate, was sent to take possession of one of them, and succeeded in doing so, while • the Sheerness stood after the other. It 'filling calm, however, 'Lieut. RowED lowered a boat which he carried over the cutter's stern, only eleven feet long and four wide, and in this, with four men, he put off in pursuit of the Chace. - The Enemy, which proved to be a large chasse maree, was at the time four miles distant, and by means of her sweeps suc ceeded in getting under the guns of the battery about nine miles to the Eastward of the Point du Raz, and not more than one hundred yards from the beach, on which a party of thirty soldiers was drawn up to prated her, In this situation; how. ever, Mr. -Row Po and his intrepid party* boarded her on one side, while her crew, comprising nine men, deserted her from the other. The captors hoisted her foresail, but the halliards were instantly shot away, and 49 musket balls lodged in her side ; they then got into their little skiff, and on the flowing of the tide towed off their prize. While .rowing under a shower of bullets, a boat was launched from the shore, and an Officer and nine men (tieing exaaly double the number of our party) put off, armed with mullets, pistols, &c. Mr. Rows . D discontinued towing, and getting on hoard the chasse maree, allowed the Enemy's boat to get along side, when he fired his muskets into her, and, killing two men, obliged her to sheer Off. She afterwards kept up a fire at some distance, but did not dare to renew the attack, and at length thought proper to return. 'The vessel ran so ,close in Shore,' that •thetattery could not depress its guns sufficiently to point them at our people, while in the ad of cutting her out, and although -several shot were afterwards fired, none took . effed. The day was very fine, and several hundred persons were assembled on the.cliffs and in the battery, as spedators of the enterprize. The Sheenier:, during the time, lay becalmed in the offing, about four miles di stant . SoMe mornings after, Lieut. ROWED ,discovered a vessel about 'a quarter , of a mile from the share, in, the Passage du Raz, and' put off with four men to take po ssess i on of bey . It was very d ar k, an d on approaChing her, he fOund,her to be armed, and much larger than he had before imagined ; with a degree of decision and energy, however, consistent with his eharadet, he sprang on board--Theie was a French Officer and 23 men on deck: The issue has .furnished . another splendid instance, thaiNnum bent' can avail nothing when opposed to the steady and 'determined valour of Britons, The French men made a short realstance,. when the Cotnrnander was handed into the boat, and the crew driven down and confined below. The prize, which proves to be L e Pilade, of so tons, h a s arrived - RC Plymouth. Mr. Row PD, who has . so highly distinguished himself on the above occasions, is, if we mistake not, the Officer w h o acqu i red great credit, and was severely wounded, in the exp e di t i on to Holland. . - The Magnificent, Capt. JERv is, and the Defiatme, Capt. De R H AM, of 7+ guns each, have joined Lord GALDNERN Squadron at Cork. The Montague, of 7+ guns, at Portsmouth, is or dered to be immediately forwarded with all possible expedition, Capt. OTWAY will command her. The Eutyaira Frigate, Hon. Capt. BL ACK WOOD, got on shore on Spike Island, in going ointorma Cork, on Tuesday se'nhight , and when our infnt left that place, was not got off. The Assault Gun.brig, sailed on Thursday from Plymouth to join the Squadron off Guernsey. This is, the vessel which, accor di ng to the French ac. counts, was destroyed by the superior fire of their boats and batteries, The Lune, CAlmintesp, from ar Jamaica, ist - rived at Ports mout h. Sh e sailed from Jamai ca on the avh, of July, and did not join the Fleet when off. the Hayannall, saw a large ship with a figure head and quarter galleries, supposed to be one of the Fleet, in company with a Privateer who had captured her. The Gals-9 Sloop of War, with the convoy from Leith, consisting of near ioo Sail, passed Gottenhurg on the Ist inst. for Elsineur. The Venus, Go R DON, of Leith, from Peeersburglt to London, was totally lost on the r zth of Septem ber, on the north end of Gothland, and apparently but a small part of the cargo will be saved. A letter received on Saturday from Amsterdam mentions, that six large Dutch Privtiteers, manned with French sailors, have sailed from Amsterdam on a cruize to the Northward. The Chard, from Jamaica, is arrived at Bristol; she sailed with the Fleet, under convoy of the /f ru/a/ham Man of War, on the 26th of July .; an d parted company on the sth of September. The Spanish Brig Charlotte, from the River La Plata to London, was taken on the ISth of Augusto by the Roebuck Privateer, of London : retaken by the Caroli#e Privateer, of Bourdeaux ; and on the ith of Sept. was captured by the John Bull PriVa' Leer, and is arrived at Jersey. The Si. Pierre, from Newfoundland, is taken and carried into Jersey. The British Tar, from the Baltic bound to Eng land, has been captured in the North Sea by a Pri vateer, and retaken by the Beaver Sloop; she 15 since arrived in the River. • New-York Papers to the 7 th, and Boston Pa p ers to the 30th o f August, are received. The rever continued to rage at New-York with unremirred fury. The following is an extract from the Of ficial Report of the Board of Health, of the number of deaths and 'new cases for the six days preced in g the 25th Aug• IQ— S deaths, 12 11CW cases Av .g.22-7clitto, 21010. 20 - -z6 ditto, 36 ditto. 23 -6 ditto, 2f; ditto. 21-16 ditto, 36 ditto. , • 24-6 ditto, 28111110. Most of the inhabitants . had' removed f rom the City, and t h e f ever was ' increasing when the last advices came a w a y. -It a ppears, that sev eral other parts of A mer i ca are a filift e d with disease. August. 21icse ,iilpiceoa,bfp, rt. laauinin)i:: of iio, A Letter dated Cap Franfoh, July 25, stare s ' that several American Vessels had found a very good matket there, but that Gen. RocitAstaci tu one-third t s l e l i i rzdedi nubinso.dttlitcceeiesrna.cnandrgtohees,rltsli:drrAwuliinic4h nle)sevdlti script ion of a PP egre it t ; be determined to hold out to th e la s t O trelli ,V o . Cap Fraafois was closely blockaded on 104— -f . v ; t f h ro e ' l l n ' Igsrreigatmenuattntbaeckr attacked fri a latdi v ibe e r s o s i : utt l t a irt rr ir i n v ot e cr d iti: ri gie t n ' nc h e r f 1 :toi l o fo r ; a g lish s l p_e r 6 e i n a c t h o r l s 4 , on a n s d h ogre► runningan t n i g fibigr i .it i c n o t n o ti t n h u e ed 74 f7 some tiate, when another - Eng"s' l - ` l. Another French gate of 44. guns, came up, and paurcd a br"dsid. but they crowded all sail, and made off, the Ent(' lish pursuing them. This account se e ms to be C O formation r b ` m l 9 l r a l j e ti t : d o b American to t in the e ‘Pv Governmen t ci s h t n i s i e s i of e. immediately tole h t v c l i r g e v , es r iii y s It i . 'r A rui l d ,: f e e a l 74 and a Frigate were in con3panfi ~„ F r igates, against their commerce, have o rdered '"" the Congress and Essex, to he fitted for immediate had been b is e p e a n tc r i e le ce s, iv s e uxp in o! service. Ambassador at Madrid. It appears by a Letter from Pour/ea:ix , recei i i al . to the ear of at New-York, that several American Sailors ' h the fekamteorile'ea forfongireMatr.imPrl4r:Nange::- been enticed on board French Ships of War 4 flar offer of large bounties. The circumstance writ..; trials, Marine for their release. Sixteen, Who 'T o il he immediatel t y he ai A ,p r i n ie e d rica t n o Consul at o a m t til D i r s tl s r a d r c yc 7 oo l , board a Frigate, were given up to the Cons u ." h ' c ir are now on their passage to America to take ..0 rican Seamen, who were about entering on b,. l3 :'_ Corsairs, were arrested by the Commissary lice, at the earnest request of the American L'il.,o by way of example. About so othei A l "_.4 stil, and, after a few days confinement, they 1 .,`, 1 distributed on board the different American YeSSe j " and were not allowed to come on shore. if el These Papers state, that the Master of a , 4 ; ' , , 1 , 0 arrived at Philadelphia from Grenada, had . kl,,, i i ot ri ff; information, that the (lay before he sailed, the Al li ‘ ne from Barbadoes had arrived, and brought` an acc` ) „ c ,„ of the French Fleet, from St. Domingo, ith Ge" by rat ROC HAM II EAU on board, having been lak e i n lica the English. Whether the Enemy's lorce. 11 : 3 ":1 in t i i n ie w i r u r nb b u a r n g d i s ) m in a c i t i i , is , w ve ay s i la o ll r i in av t e ha r t g i t i t i m e i n : tce l a l s - etii4i to r 1. .. • • • Martiniquereloiceiahned AGtinwedriaciaonupePacpeifiri continued to sr i ; e - 1,1 .0 c10. „ I , e I in all ailed ; but that the English had been r e P"' ' attack upon the former. By the way of Greenock we have an liceDur' tri o a f t the opening of the Siiecial Cotntuission for o,l° of frisoners in custody fur High Treason, 1° patrick on Mond4y last,, before the TWO. 100 GEORGE, and the Hon. Mr; justice Osiwribe: The Commission under the Great Seal of . lo la 7 oo ri trig read, and the Grand Jury .sworn jot. pf GIORGIV addressed them in a charg e Particulat interesting. T,„. 111;chael 41f 6 Githy was then put c- A i to tile with the crime of High Treason, and was' OrnTid„,a with .1 - a copy of his indictment. J ames Cor ' y ' c re Smith, Pat, Doran, and James Fitzgerald, bv also. indieted for High Treason. • ' The Court adjourned to W-ednesday, ti" n ' e f e i c e at the Court House at D~►wnpatrick, wh en „ ,1 0 s T u h ch oll o a t s he ß r Grand Jury were to tak e into their, con s j dr3.-t ii, raigned for High Treason. , the On t h e 12 th a Proclaniation was issued 1)!, il: - Lord Lieutenant of Ireland; offering rewor-t- l''' apprehensio ili n )Llel o st' f asit thetnw ingsfileit xi o f p l e e t flitnegbd:pS leUrvis010111:::Ccd:CI(1):r:l.4 High Treason, viz. IV. Doandall and :1 ',. . , of Dublin ; W. Flamilton, ofEnlifikallen ; ~►`" '. . ley of Rathcoffey ; Ow . en L)ew , of '"'" a) ,,' i ' • 1. Keegan, c>fCrew Hill; N. Staieds-Of l'iu's-'10"1 S T. _ _$ T. Frost, ,tioreen $ Wilde' and ~,• 111J''nt Dublin, . • ,