The Sun. — London, England, 1801-12-26 00:00:00

THE BRITISH REVIEW; Tile Official Accounts furnished by our Com :narders in the different .Mtions in which they wcre engaged, have been uniformly distinguished by modesty, the inseparable attendant of true He.. roism, and have been highly satisfaftory to the Public; yec there are details which an Official Let.. tet cannot embr4ce, that it is 4ighly interesting ,and even important should be known. To supply this deficiency, Narratives, compiled from Authen tic Dccuments, or written by Persons who were bpon the spot, have been given to the world, which have been read with avidity and applause, and which may furnish the future Historian with many valuable faas calculated to fill and adorn his • !night: t ea page. The 1 1 ,a.tion, at large, are emi :ierst.l yindebted to .chose who thus employ their -talents ; And thougt the Season of War is - happily past, v'ee oerceive,rwith.satisfadion, a recent Publi illustrative of an event which stands con spicuous, eves; amidst the most brilliant atchieve. meets of opt' Navy. The Work to which we al lude, is entitled, " An Authentic Narrative of the " Pm.-ei-3ings of His Majesty's Squadron, under " ;he Command of Rear-Admiral Sir J. SAumA, "tlt EZ, K. B." By an Officer of the Squadron. This Narrative contains a minute detail of the ,two Adions in which Ibis Squadron was engaged, in the krst of which the iiamf;6(//, of 7/. Guns, was io,t, under circumstances Nl:lotting the highest ho. nnur on the British Flag ; and in the second of which, a hrilliant Vi Cory was obtained against a Superiority .of Force, which fills the mind with .as`tonishment, and impresses it with the highest admiration of the enterprize and conduct of the British Admiral, and the Officers and Men tinder .command. From the former services of ,Sir TAMES SAUMARE z, indee,d, every thing , noble and bold was to be expeded from him ; but it would scarcely have entered into the calculation of the tnot sanguine, that five Ships were to take, de stroy, and, disperse Ten; about three times their force' in number of Men, and of Guns, and in weight of Metal. The Narrative of this Aaion is given with a precision, which carries a perfed convidion of its iiccuracy ; and as a favourable Specimen of this lit_ tie V 4 orK, we shall present' an Extrad from it to our ReadCrs. • On the morning of the rzth July, the En.. - tmy's, FLet, consisting of Ten Ships of heavy force, mod cut of Algesiras Bay. The British Squadron that had not yet eompleted its repairs, - after the Battle of the 6th, immediately weighed from Gibraltar. c..‘' The Enemy's ships were obliged to make se veral tack.g before they could weather Cabarita POinr, which afforded our ships pore time to pre pare for action .iind it was the more acceptable, from the hurried state in which they were under the necessity to leave the anchorage. " At half past five, the signal was made to form in line.of_battle, and to prepare to engage the.ene lily, after the close of day. " At half past six, to, observe the Admiral's motions during the night, and for the ships to take .suitable stations, for their' mutual support, and en.. gage the enemy - as they got ,up with them; also to ittack or harross die rear of the enemy. "At sun-set, the Combined Squadron were seen to have cleared Cabarita Point, leaving the Han nibal in charge of a Frigate, to be towed back into .Algesitas Bay. " At five minutes after eight, the British Admi ral bore pp, making the signal for Lilo Squadron to follow his motions ; and, at nine, he hailed the Superb, direaing Captain Keates to kcep between the eats ny and, the Spanish shore, endeavouring to hi ing their rear to aftion. "- This service Captain Keates performed with the greatest alacrity, and in the handsomest. manner. At elevQn he cam,: up with and opened his fire upon, a cluster of the enemy's ships, passing on to the rest ahead. " The Caesar in a few minutes followed up, and was openin'g her fire upon 4 Spanish three-decker, when she was observed to be, in flames ; and. 'Shortly after that, ran on board of another ship of _the. same force, to which the fire communicated with the greatest rapidity. The fire,at first ap peared. confined to a small point s but in an instant tended it elf to the whole _surfaLse cif , the ships, 7:scemiing to the mast-head, and exhibiting one of the most awful sights ever beheld. " The Melancholy situation of these ships ren dered it impossible that they should be of any fur_ them importance in the aetion ; and the violence of The wind was such as precluded thepossibility of ren dering them any assistance. In about half an hour after the Cmsar had passed them, one of the ships blew up, and the other in a few minutes after.— Thus perished two of the finest ships - in the Spanish navy, of i i z gunS wftose'COrripleinent of men amounted to 2500, including Officers allied to the most noble families in' Spain : out of the whole number 3o only were preserved. ft The Cxsar continued her course to support ihe Superb, now closely engaged With , the St, An toine, of 74 pubs, a ship lately ceded by the Spa niards to the French, and bearing the broad pendant of the Chiefde Division Le Roy, which, upon the approach, struck her colours. After . the firing had ceased, it becatnesso to -4.1a rk that none of the energy's, ships were " The Admiral, however, continued, his course in pursuit, carrying as pinch sail during the night as the violence of the wind would admit. €‘ The morning disclott the French Formidable at no great ditaricefrom the Venerable ; t o w hi c h hip captain Hood immediately gave chace, as did the Casar and the Spencer, now coining up astern. An aftion-close to the shore now commenced, under cir curostunces highly disadvantagedus to the Venera. 4!e, dud wts continued with great spirit by Captain Pond and his crew. W ere . merit always attended by success, the Venerable, would have taken her opponent ; but she had ;nnumerahle difficulties. to encounter iur after having suffered considerably (her main. mast being Ant. away), she struck upon a rock, - and was obliged to' part with her remaining mast to save the ship. " " The Caesar and Spencer, perfedly becalmed, were motionless, as was the Thames ; whilst the Frenchman, with a light land breeze, effeoed his eseape into . 4 . , Sir James Saumarez now found himself, with only two efe4iye ships, in the presence of eight of 'the enemy, viz, flirt of the line and three fri g4tqp who, after making an' appearance of facing our ships, were contented to pursue their raute . to'Cadiz without daring to molest him. :r.t At noon, the Superb joined the Admiral, not having been able to leave her prize in a state of se curity before, and also the Audacious, which un toward circumstances had prevented from getting up sooner. The inconveniency of being embarrassed by a ship so totally disabled as was the venerable, and the extreme fatigue which the Officers and crews of the ships engaged at Algesiras had sustained, fa. tigues better conceived than ctescribed, and which nothing but the ardour and zeal of British seamen could have supported, compelled the Admiral, very reldiantly, to desist from farther pursuit of the erkmy's ships, more especially as they were too near their port to admit of any possil?ility of com ing up with them. "On Tuesday morning, having brought to off Cape Spartell, the Admiral detached the L ouisa Brie with his Dispatches under charge of Mr. Duma.: resq, his Flag Lieutenant ; and the Letters of the Squadron to England. He also - sent by the Carlotta, Duplicates, by way of Lisbon, to be forwArded to England ; Captain Duncan having most readily of to convey them to Faro. " The Spencer apd'Audarious, with the Thames 'Frigate, were left to cruize between Cape St Marys and Cadiz, for the prote&ion of our Trade, an 4 to watch the Enemy, now become too much reduced to attempt putting to sea, and too dispirited from the late events. • ' " The Admiral proceedtd with the remainder of the Squadron, accompanied by the St. Antoine, for Gibraltar, where they arrived that evening, and were welcomed by; the acclamations of all the gar rison. .411 the wounded men. in the hospital, seve ral of whomhad lost both arms, raised their stum ps, and, forgetting their pain, "joined in the gener a l ex ultation...- A brilliant illumination also tool; place over the rock Sir JAMES SAUMAREi issued the following memorandum to the Okficers and Men on the return of the Squadron to Rosia Bay : 7 - ' Ca:sar, Rosia Bay, .716, Is, 1800. " The Adthiral has the happiness to offer his most heart felt dongratulitions to the' Captains; Officers, and Men of the ships he has,the honour to command, on the signal suc c,::ss with which it has pleased Almighty -God to crown their zealous exertions in the service of their country. To the discipline and valour of British Seamen is to be aseribedtheirkreat superiority over the Enemy; who, though more than treble the force of the English Squadron; in num ber of guns - and' weight of metal, have been so singularly de feated.' , • " The Rear-Admiral has not failed to transmit, in his late Dispatches, a report of the unparalleled exertions of all the ORicers and' Men, in refitting His Majesty's ships after the battle of Algesiras (where their conduct and bravery _were equally conspicuous), which has led to the glorious success. • • (Signetl) , JAMES SAUMAREZ." TO THE EDITOR OE THE SUY. SIR, As 'your Paper haS ever - bcen Conspimous ,for noticing what might be useful to your Country, and as every part of the United Kingdom • is now equally interesting to every good Sui)jed, I hope you will not think the following hints urworthy a place in your Paper, where it is more likely. to meet the eye of men who have the power of making use fid act-augments; than'it would in any other. There are in Ireland several thousand English Fencibles, and as amongst those there are numbers of excellent' artizans, ,manufaduirers, and persons well acquainted with . all agricultural pursuits, Would it flat benefit that part of the United King darn, called Ireland; if a list was published through out the KingdoM; of the trade and .calling of every individual in each Regiment, with liberty for each man to obtain his discharge on getting an establish ment in Ireland from some Gentleman, Farmer or Manufa&urer ? By this plan being vursud, I have no doubt but many useful branches of rtraie might be established, agriculture• much- improvei,: and a number of men, accustomed to the use of Arms, left'in the Country to join 'the Yeomanry CorpS, should their Services at'any time be required. am, Sir, your obedient Servant, THE SUN. SOLLNI Q'JIS DICZRI ►ALSUM AUDIAT LONDON, DECEMBER z 6, 18of. NEITHER of the Two IL7l,7turgb MaWs that were due, had arrived when our Paper was put to Press. It is with much pleasure we have to state, that the Delft, armed e4iflute, of 64. guns, Capt. Re DMI is arrived at Spithead, .witlypart of the Coldstream Regiment, under colonel Firzaor, on board. The reason of her, not arriving before, was her being obliged to put into Gibraltar for provisions. The news of her arrival was brought by a letter, sent by the quarantine boat, to General WHITtLOCKE. The weather being hazy, her arrival could not be ascertained at the Signal-house. Colonel FITZROY, Captain MURRAY, and Sir JOHN FRAN4LrN, ihaVe landed at PortsmOuth from Egypt. It.is said that Lord CAM“.FORD intends,to sup_ port Sir SioNr.y SMrill, as the ,Representative of Old Sarum at the next elea.ion.' On Sqnday last the Right Rev. tl:e Lord Bishop of ExETEK held an Ordination in the'chapel of the Bled Virp.in Mary, withm the Fa(aF Exetel 4„ • NAVAL NEWS. PORTSIV9WW • DEC. 25. ARRIVED this day, and were put uncjer Qua rantine at the Motherbank, His Majesty's Ships Druid, Dolpkin, and Wiw•kehea, from Egypt, with Troops. Arrived the cygnet, .0 AMER 2N, from CherbOprg ; and London Mirchew, BY ERS, from Sunderland. Arrived- the `'Nanny and lary, Enx m , from Sailed the Sea Dog, GANDER ON, for Dieppe. The remains of the gallant 4.2 d, or Royal High landers, are arrived at Splthe4d, last from Gibraltar, in good health and high spirits. Colonel JArlEs, STEWART, with three Companies, are on board the Ceres Frigate. Three Companies, under the com mand of Colonel Ai.Ex. STEw,ART, came home about three weeks since in the Resource, and the remainder of the Regiment, under the comm.= of Colonel WM. DICKSON, are also arrived in .he Dolphin Frigate, having touched at Malta tnd Gibraltar. the Ceres and Pol j ohin are put und er quarantine. Four ships, having on board a part of the Toot Guards, and the 28th Regiment of Foot, under th:: command of the Hon. Colonel PAC ET, • saiW at the same time with the Polphi l and Ceres, • pad a few days after, and are not arrived. Lord HUTCH ; NSOI I / 4 2, with the General and Medi cal Staff, and several Regiments, were left in Egypt on the sth of Oftober : the troops in general were healthy, and recovering fast from the fatigues of the lastglorious Campaign. The ;3d and 2gth Regiments of Infantry had landed at Gibraltar, November 18, iin good order, and were doing garrison Outy. The Pensioners of Kilmainham Hospital, 'lreland, are, it is said, to be placed on a .sirnilar,establish ment with those of *Chelsea; in England. The change is to take plate from the Ist of January. The poor old veterans will receive better food by it, and each man a new suit of clothes every year, and a comfortable jockey coat every third year, It is now the fashion in France - for men of pro perty, whether acquired by peculation to which, the Revolution has given rise, whether they be Army Contractors, or Clerks in the Department of Finance, to represent themselves ,as related to the ci-devant Noblesse. If they have riot emigrated themselves, they say, with a shrug, - most of their relations have been forced, by their principles, to quit the Republic. One of the Constituent Assembly, Mr, C-, who was remarkable for his attachment to' the Monar chy, and who makes this observation in a Paris Paper, says = " In former times I was branded with the name of Aristocrat; now I am complimented on the wisdorri of my principles by men who assure me they have always, entertained the same, - and I am frequently obliged co defend the cause of poor cipserted,P hilosofily, against those who were former ly her greatest patrons."„. We have: often expressed our wishes to seethe People of France,, under their present Government, `return to their former modes of computation,. not only with respell to Time, but also to weights arid measures. A circumstance leads us to believe, that with i tesped to the latter, the period is riot far dis tant. The Medical School of Strasburgh has pro posed to apply the new weights and measures to the science of Medicine, and to sweep away at the same time all chemical charaders, and the Latin lan_ guage entirely from prescriptions. Whether the charader of a Physician will be exalted by render ing Learning less essential to it, we leavejo the Strasburgh Society to determine ; but we are quite sure that the myriagramme and bedogramme in ja/ap and opium, will' make all those who escape with life, confoundedly sick of the decimal covuttition. The French Papers state, that Mr. BEHRENDA, Professor at Frankfort, upon Oder, has per formed some astonishing cures, even in the last stages of Hydrophobia. One of his Disciples, Dr. SLARLIG, of Hamburgh, has published a Latin Dissertation updn this subjeet, which deserves to be universally known. The principal remedies he re commends are bathing, blisters, camphire, musk, arid powder of Belladona. MERCIER, Of the National Institute, has pub lished a Work of 700 pageS, in which he attempts to point out the extreme impropriety of playing at dominos in coffee-rooms. When Mr, SHERIDAN, upon a late occasion,. spoke of 46 the Apparition of a Claim," with all his ingenuity, he misapplied the figure ; for it is cer tainly more applicable to Mr. Speare LEWIS, than to Mr. jAcoa FaANco. Judging from the name of the latter, he seems rather connected with " Jacobs the little carpenter," at least in religious opinions, as their names denote a Mosaic persuasion. It must be acknowledged, that though the proposal to send a Ftench Aftor to this country to play English charaders is a severe sarcasm upon the Per formers of our Stage, there are too many 'among them who, in point of education, may give full coun tenance to the satire. COO ICE, the Astor`, it seems, has been taken ill at Bath ; and, incredible as the cause may appear, his indisposition is said to have been occasioned by his arz 7 • ni 7 a • ng ewater ! The Walkers of the present day have excited the emulation of the Hoppers. We find, that a few days ago, at Sheffield, a youth of about r 7 ,years of age, agreed for a wager of a glass-of gin, to eat sixty cakes of gingerbread, hopping on one leg all the while. This he had accomplished most manfully, when an old woman came to the door with pies,— on which the gormandizing hero proposed to devour eight penny pies on the, same footing. This feat, with the assistance of a quart of ale, he also atchiev ed. One of the unfeelingyillains who plundered the property of the ship-wrecked Marinvrs cast ashore near Aherthaw. Glarnorganshire, is. committed to Crcliff gaoli I L .4 ATRE. WE have been favoured with a Copy of the fol. lowing authentic document " On a aucrvey of the Buildings comprising Drury-Lane Theatre, ereaed under the diredion of RENRY HoLL4ND, Esq. and considering the extent of the original Design, annexed to the Deed of Trust, I am of opinion it will require the full Sum of Thirty r seven Thousand Pounds to complete the remainder of the Buildings cettformably to such design; 4 f RICHARD WDODINO, '" Aed Liop,square. (r i9th Deceztther, ISOT, 44. 4373000. " The above is exclusive of completing the Build. ings already ere4cd. b'OTZEBUE, TqR following Anecdotes are extraEled frog/ KoTzEptiE'S account of his Adventures in Russia On the I ith of March, a few hours only before the death of the Emperor, I saw him, and spoke to him for the last time; he returned from riding with Count His temper appeared very caim, met him upowthe parade, near the Statue of Cleopa. Era. He stopped and began to converse with me .on the subject} of the Statue, He boasted of it, and examined,the different species of marble that corn, pose the pedestal, and inquired their names. .Froza thence we passed to the History of that celebrated Queen of Egypt ; he admired her heroic death, but he'smiled when I observed that she. would nt4 so easily have made up her mind to till herself, if AcrousTliq had not despised her charms. He asked. Me if my description of the Palace of St. 11fichaii was finished ; I . replied in the affirmative, and he then left me, saying, in a friendly mariner, " I are very glad of it." • The other Anecdote is as follows :—A young Russian,,called KtAsNogot.sitt, translated KOTZE BITE's Play called The coach; ?! an of Peter the Third into the Russian language. He was advised to conceal' the - name of the Author, as being a , stispi, cious person. The young man however let the name. remain, and not having an opportunity of pre ,senting- the book to the Emperor, he sent jt by the Post. On the first reading of the Piece . , the Em„ peror was considerably affraed, and ordered a ring of considerable value to be given to the Translator, but fie would not allow it t() he printed,. Some time after, however, he demanded the Manuscript, and ordered it to be printed; he howe ver effaced. some passages, particularly one in which the old coachman is made o say, My Emperor saluteei me—he salutes every man." r We do not know why this passage offended PA.4.—At last however he permitted it to be printed without an y a l ters _ tion. He then said, that he had injured the Author, and that he ought to make him a present as con, siderable as that which was given to the old Coac±- man, which was zoo,ooo Roubles, 4 short time afterwards, KOTZEBUg sent a Me.. mortal from Toboiski, the place of his The Emperor read the Memorial from one end to the other, and ordered an inquiry to be made, whe_ ther there were not some Crown Lands in Esthonia, for the purpose of making him a present of them. ANATOMIC AL CURIOSITY. Tli E Museum of Natural History in Paria will Soon possess a human skeleton which has all the at-, ticulations anchylosed. The unfortunate being from whose body this curious specimen in ostrology has been taken, was named Mar.:ien Simone. He was an Officer of Infantry, and lived eighteen years at - Metz. His disease appears to have had its ori, gin in a kind of gout,' and a venereal taint, and at first he was affected only by rheumatic pains, Alt his bones were successively united by ossification, and in the Litter period.of t his life his tongue was 'the only part that remained moveable, He died at the age of so, on the 18th Floreal of last year,. This skeleton, prepared by the Surgeons of Metz, at the request of the Mayor of that town, is about to be transported to Paris. In the journal der Sfalittlft for the year 1693, there is the description of a skeleton nearly similar to the above. All the vertebrae were anchylosed, so that the whole spine formed only one bone. BEAUCHAMP. The following account of this Astronomer is given by LALANDE: 66 Joseph de Beauchamp was born at Vezoul, in 1732, entered in 1767 into the order of Bernardines, and took his departore for Asia in 1 7 81, with his uncle, who is appointed Bishop of Babylon. In this, his first voyage, he steered his , course, along the Tigris and Euphrates, from Diabekir to the Persian Gulph. He made a colleflion of Medals, Inscriptions, and Designs of-the Montiments of Ancient Babylon, as well as Arabic Manuscripts, which he presented to the Abbe BARTHELEMY. In 1787 he made a se cond Voyage upon the Caspian Sea. He was beaten by robbers, says Citizen LALANDE, ,and contraded a fever, which lasted during eighteen months ; but it did not prevent him from continuing his voyage. It was in the course of this voyage that he observed the most important Eclipse of the Moon of which the History of Astronomy preserves any rmem, brance. In 1795 he made a third voyage, and through the means of Citizen VOLNEY, be was appointed Consul at Mascate, in Arabia, at which place, however, he never arrived, being taken , by the English, with whom he remained three years,, a captive. The Peace having at length given him his liberty; he arrived sick at Nice, where he died on the 19th of November, 180 r, at the moment when the First ConSul had appointed him Commis sary General at Lisbon. - He was one Of those men, continues his Biographer, of whom it may said, that he well employed the short space of his life. BEAUCHAMP possessed every species of tnerir, and of knowledge. The Duties of Religion were not negle6led by this. Philosopher, and the Congre gation of the Propaganda at Rome often testifi e d how much they were satisfied with his apostoli AY Joh; E dr, Wi Thl Joh The 1 . ()11 054 el Ric Ectt Ery Ten Mrs lbiar Mar Sir Phi Her Het, h Mr, john ar Joh! Joni: And Rigl lohl ttim C'ely Jona Law aw Cha .Tots Vi;V lien! larw . thn ~ftod; Art} john Oi john T,At Sc iug Sara Jahr f ohr IVlar; a'ho .Icoal ttr ho ohr Al is: AEI tint Nis] to intr 41 I.E's the• by 1 land Ker depi to p x' '