The Sun. — London, England, 1801-02-06 00:00:00

1,- VA L e k i i; , `,:r 2\7` ETr S . ceY4,,, NON illi interim," telagi, ravurngue tridevt,m, Sed ni6l torte datum. PLYMOLIII, Ft 4. ARlttr en the Concorde Frigate, of 36 guns, Capt. R. BARTON, from Lisbon. On the zoth January, 30 leagues from Cape Finisterre, she fell in with a French Squadron, consisting of 'ive Sail of the Line and Two frigate-5 ; with one of the latter she came to Action, which cond. 'wed some time, but the other Frigate bearing down, she was obliged to sheer off; after having five men killed and 13 wounded : the above Squadron are supposed to be destined for the Me diterranean. An Officer landed from the Con corde immediately after her arrival, and set off for Town. The following detained Danish Vessels arrived here this day, viz. Able MaNarctta, from St. Martin's forDrontheim. with salt, detained by the Lord Nelson Cutter. Catharine Margaretta, front-Sevillcto Altona, with fruit, detained by the Telegraph hired Armed Brig. Frovidencia, from Bilhoa, to Hamburgh, with wool, de tained by the Wily Cutter. Christianberg; from Faro to Altona, with salt, detained by the S tiffhiantr. Sloop of War. The Swedish Brig, liedwig 44agdalina from Benecarlo, for Altona; with wine, detained by the Swift Cutter. Arrived the Strwetrro;i'it hired Armed Brig, from a Craize, with tie French Brig . 7 elate' "17fnette, Capt. FAuQcELIP:i froni Cayenne, bound to Bourdeaux, laden with coffee, cotton, and dyewood, which she captured in the Bay. PORTSMOETTII, FEB. 5. Mitiven His Majesty's frigate La lo;re s Capt. NEWMAN, from cruizing an the French Coast. Arrived also, and put under Quarantine, the Earl Siegcer Cutter, Lieutenant LEACH Com. =ander, from a Cruize, with the Swedish Ship Cupirlo, BOTTCHER,naster, from Salo and Belle. ratio, bound to Altona, which she yesterday de. twined off the Isle of Wight. 7ALMOUTH, Fag. j YLSTEIDA:t arrived the Pr;mrt Adolfibui ?aticet, Captain JoNes, in eight days from Lis. bon. The Pr;,fee of Packet, which sailed irons hence in company with her on the Sth ult. arrived at Lisbon on the same day, and was to sail from thence th►e Ist inst. Arrived this day Speedwell Cutter, Captain liforxrtrs, with the. Prussian Brig Neptuaur, Captain J. H. BEIIDEKS, with wine and brandy, `from Bourdcaux fur Altona, which she has de. taincd. Also arrivedae Danish Dogger Stade Altana, Capt. 3. DE 800, from St. Martin's for Altona, laden with hides, sent in by His Majesty's Ship Cumberland, of 74. guns. The Earl Gower Packet, with the Mail of the 7th ult. is still detained by contrary wind. SHEERNESS, FEE. S. ARRIVED His Majesty's Ship Camdla, of 32 guns, Capt. LA.RKAN, from the Downs. EDINBURGH, JAN. 31. TufSDAY arrived at Leith, the indurnyi WM. DICK master,' froM Christiansands in Norway, laden with timber. The master reports, that he sailed from Fleckeroe, in Norway, on Friday the 23d inst. at which dine two French Privateers, belonging to Dunkirk, were lying in that place, the one a lugger of i 6 suns, and the other a schooner of 14. guns ; which last, before she ar. rived at Fleckeroe, had, in a gale of wind, been obliged to throw some of her guns overboard. Captain DICK, before he sailed, requested the Danish Governor to prevent the Privateers sail ing at least twenty-four hours after him, which he accordingly promised to . do ; but it blew so hard when the Industry left Fleckeroe, that Capt. DICK does not believe the Privateers would ven ture out. No intelligence of the Embargo laid on Danish Vessels i►► British Ports had reached Norway when the industry sailed. HALIFAX, NO VA-SCOTIA, Dtc• z 4.. We have been favoured with the following ex. trad of a Letter, dated Liver pool, Olober 17, from Captain GODFREY, o f the armed brig Rover, which contains a very modest relation of a gallant Mlion, that reflais the highest honour on Captain GODFREY ) and the brave Men under his Command. 4 4 The Brig Rover, mounting 14 four pounders, was the present year built and fitted for war at Liv,Frpool, in this Province ; she sailed under my comman4-the 4th of June last, on a cruise against the Enemies of Great Britain, being commis. signed for that, purpose by His Excellency Sir JoHN WENTWURTII ) Bart, Our Crew consisted r AIL., muceif and 0 ficers, a►:d w•as prii,cipally composed of Fisher men. " On the 17th of the same month, in the lati tude of 23 N. and longitude 54 W. we fell in with six sail of vessels, whom we soon discovered to be enemies, one -being a Ship with four Brigs and a Schooner : the Schooner showed i 6 guns, one of the Brigs i 6 guns, and another 6 guns; these six vessels drew up close together, apparently with an intention of engaging us. On consulting with my . ship's company, we determined to bear down and attack them, hut so soon as the Enemy perceived our intentions, they, by'signal from the Schooner, dispersed, each taking a different course before we got within gunshot of them. After a chace of a few hours we took possession of the Ship and one of the Brigs ; the Ship proved an American, bound from the South Seas, laden with oil, and the Brig an American, laden with wine from Madeira ; from them we learned that they had been captured some short time before by a French: Privateer, which was the Schooner in company ; that she mounted sixteen guns, two of which were nine pounders, and the rest sixes, and carried Iss men, and that the other three were American Vessels, which she had taken, one of which was from the East Indies ; night coming on, we were prevented from taking any more of them. " On the loth of September, being cruizing near Cape Blanco, on the Spanish Main, we chased a : - •pani,li Schooner on shore, and destroyed her ; being close in with the land and becalmed, we discovered a Schooner and three Gun-boats under Spanish colours, making for us ; a light breeze springing up, we were enabled to get clear of the land, when' it fell calm, which enabled the Schooner and Gun-boats, by the help of a number of oars,• to gain fast upon us, keeping up at the same time a constant fire from their bow guns, which we returned with .. two guns pointed from our stern ; one of the Gun-boats did not advance to attack us ; as the enemy drew near we engaged them with muskets and pistols, keeping with oars the stern of the Rover towards them, and having all our guns well loaded . with great and small shot, ready against we should come to close quarters. Wben we heard the Commander of the Schooner give orders to the two Gun-boats to board us, I waited to see how they meant to attack us, and finding the Schooner intended to board us on our starboard quarter, one of the Gun-boats on our larboard_ bow, and the other on our larboard waist, I suffered theta to advance in that position Until they came within about is yards, still firing on them with small arms and the stern guns ; I then manned the oars on the larboard side, and pulled the ko , ver round so as to bring her starboard broadside to bear athwart the Schooner's bow, and poured into her a whole broadside of great and small shot; which raked her deck fore and aft, while it was full of men ready for boarding. I instantly shifted over on the other side, and raked both Gun-boats in the same manner, which wounded a great ',umbel of must have and those on board of them, • and done great damage to their boats. I then commenced a close atlion with the Schooner, Which lasted three glasses, and having disabled her sails and rigging much, and finding her fire grew slack, I took advantage of a light air of wind to back my head sails, which brought my stern on board of the Schooner, by which we were enabled to board her and carry her, at which time the Gun-boats sheered off, ap parently in a very shattered condition. We found her to be the Santa Nitta, mounting ten six pound ers and two twelve pound caraonades, with 125 men. She was fitted out the day before, by the Governor of Port Cavallo, with the Gun-boats, for the express purpose of taking us ; every Officer on board of her was killed except the Officers who commanded a party of twenty-five soldiers ; there were fourteen men dead on her deck when we boarded her, and seventeen wounded; the priboners, including the wounded, amounted to seventy-one. My ship's company, including Officers and boys, was only 45 in number, and behaved w ith that courage and spirit which British Seamen always shew when fighting the enemies of t heir country. It is with infinite pleasure I add, that I had not a man .hurt ; from the best account I could obtain, the Enemy lost 54 men. The Prisoners being too numerous to be - kept on board, on the 14. th ult. I landed them all except eight, taking an obligation from them not to serve against His Majesty until regularly ex changed." We yesterday stated the capture of a French Frigate: by -LTEseau L..r111 , Frigates. She proves to be La Dedaigneuse, and is arrived in ,Torbay. Sir EDWARD BERRY commands the Princess Charlotte, a fine 38-gun Frigate, now refitting at Woolwich. This gallant Officer has seen so much hard and glorious service, that it is time he had an opportunity of 4cquiring a share of fortune in the way of Prize-money, though that must be very large, if it come near the share of glory he has gained. We are glad to find, that the idea of ereaing a NAVAL PILLAR to record the atFhievements of our gallant Seamen is by no means abandoned, but, on the contrary, is to be carried into execu. Lyon with as much speed as may be, consistent with a due regard to the importance of a measure so well calculated to stimulate the national spirit of this Country. This Monument will, we trust, be as honourable to British genius as to British valour, and that such Artists will be employed as may-do as much honour to themselves as to the subjet which so forcibly appeals to their feelings as Englishmen, and to their professional merits. _ _ _ The Zebra, Hathaway, from St. John's to Charleston ; the Greyhound, Wait, from Hali fax to Jamaica ; the John, Davis, from Boston to Cape Francois, are captured by a Spanish Pri vateer from Porto Rico. The Kingston, Sharp, from Quebec to Madeira, is captured )ay the Mouche Privateer, and carried into Tenerife, with the Elizabeth, -, and Defiance. from Liverpool to Demerara. COUIZT OF COll/TMON COUNCIL. THE LORD MAYOR yesterday held a Court.of Comrvon Council at Guildhall, present, besides his Lordship, sevetiAldermen, the Law Officers, Sheriffs, and a considerable number of Comm O n. ers. After the Minutei of last Court were read and confirmed, Mr. Deputy BIRCH,' in a short Speech moved, That an humble and dutiful Address be:presented to the KING by this Court, congratulating him on the important event of the Union of the two Kingdoms. This Motion was seconded by Mr. Deputy LE EKEY. • Mr. WAITHMAN immediately oppose he Motion for the Address, and moved the previous . question, «hick Mr. PHILLIPS seconded ; and after some little Debate on the subject, the pre vious question was put, and his Lorchhip de. claring it to be negatived, a Division W 23 de manded and granted. AGAINST THE QUESTION. TOR THE QUESTION. 7 Aldermen. 48 Conunoners. z Tellers. z Alderman. 33 Commoners. g Tellers. 36--j--Majority 21. The original Question being put, was carried in the affirmative. The Court' then proceeded to appoint a Com mittee to prepare the Address, assisted by the Law Officers, which being done, they withdrew for a few minutes, and having returned to the Court with the same prepared, it was read by the Common Serjeant twice, and agreed to, and or dered to be presented to HIS MAJESTY, sitting on the Throne, by the whole Court, and the Sheriffs, attended by Mr. Retnembrancer were ordered forthwith to wait on His MAJESTY, to know his royal will and pleasure when he will re ceive the said Address. Mr. Alderman CURTIS moved, that his Lord_ ship do give instructions to the City Solicitor to prosecute all Millers Bakers, and others, who shall be conviaed of :idulterating Flour or Bread, to the utmost severity. This motion being se . - conded by Mr. HARPER, was agreed to, and/or dered to be inserted in all the Papers.—[Ser f4ut cf this Paper.] A Petition was presented from the Inhabitants of Portsoken Ward, praying the Court to take into consideration the expediency and . necessity of widening the North end of Somerset street, which being read, was referred to the Committee for Letting the City Lands to consider thereof, and report their opinion thereon to the next Court. _ Several other Petitions for renewal of Leases were presented, and referred to the. same Com mittee to examine and'report their opinion to the next Court. The Thanks of the Court were unanimously voted to his Lordship's Chaplain, the Rev. Dr. GR ROLA Y, for his excellent Sermbn preached at St. Lawrence Church previous to the qualification of his Lordship, and the Aldermen, on the t Ith of last month, and he was desired to print it, and cause a Copy to be deliveted to every Mem ber of this Court. The Court broke up at four o'clock. The Adventure, Soutli.sea.man, whose arrival off Dover we yesterday ilnnounced, left Sr. He. lena the zoth of December. She has brought no intelligence of importance. The Cape of Good Hope, we are informed, is plentifully supplied, and the garrison healthy ; a proper understanding subsists with the people in the interior, who have now learnt to respell the English Govern. merit. St. Helena has of late had such abundant sup. plies of stores from this Country, that every thing was in great plenty there. We further learn, that the Whale Fishery in the South Seas has been re markably prodative ; some of the Whalers are stowed fore and aft with their freight. It is in agitation, we hear, to grant permission for boil ing houses to be ereaed on the leeward side of the Island of St. Helena, for the .purpose of giving a convenience to the Ships employed in the Fish ery, by boiling their blubber, and thereby ren dering the stowage considerable and extensive. The Leviathan, fiom the South Seas, was spoke with off the Island of St. Helena on the 18th day of December, having obtained seven fish, besides seals and sea elephants ; she reported that a French privateer had been wrecked near De la Goa Bay ; on the 7th November, and that some of the ships employed in this fishery had given assistance to the crew, which were mostly saved. The Danish Minister, ROSIINGR ANTZ, as we have stated, has been obliged to quit Petersburgh for a jest. In the year 1797, at the. time that the Emperor PAUL proscribed round but:, :he Charge d'Afaires of the KI NG of SARDINIA, indulging himself in raillery at this singular pro scription, said, that such trifles had often been on the point of occasioning seditions in Italy. This was reported to PAUL ) and the Sardinian Charge d'Affaires received orders to quit Peters. burgh in twenty.four hours. The first ships of vast bulk known in England were the Regent, of 'coo tont, burthen, 'and the Harry Grace Diem, of too guns, both built by HENRY Vlll. at Woolwich. The latter was equipped with sails of cloth of gold at the time when HENRY went first on board of it. The Regent was destroyed in the year Ist 2, in an en gagement off the coast of France. The Harry Grace Dieu was, in the first year of the reign of Queen MARY, accidentally burnt in the port in which it had been built. , The ridiculous Decree of the Chief Consul, by which he graciously permits the EMPEROR of Russ lit'S Vessels to navigate the seas without danger of being captured by those of the Great Republic, reminds us of the permission which the Great Chary of Tartary, used to give by Public ProclaMation to all the other Sovereigns of the world to go to dinner. MUSIC. 'rbc second Performance of THE ACADEMY O ANCIENT MUSIC took place last night at the Crown and Anchor Tavern. The Seletlion was made by, Mr.' Std iTH, an old and - iczipe6table Member of the Institution. '''The vocal and' in strumental Pieces were well chosen. HARP ISON last night enriched . the Perform• nee. with his admirable powers in' two AirS . : " A morir se xi condanuai" &c. by FR.Alkl C.IICO 17t MA j o,. and HANDEL'S charming song, " filature thy former ways resigning," Oath cat whiCh he gave, with his usual pure and elegant taste. VAUGHAN, Who we find received his musical education at Norwich, 'sung , " Sigy rise, oh Southern breeze," and Comfort ye my Peo ple," in a very able manner, and with more firm. ness than could. be expeaed Irbin a Performer so little familiar with a London AUdience. Madame BIANCHI was sufficiently recovered to take her seat in the Orchestra, but not to'. do full justice to her own powers. Her " Farewell ye limpid springs and jioods,"-was very sweet, put her " Resta, Ingrato io parto, adio," wanted requisite force, and fire. SALE gave an air by C;LCOT, with gre . at energy and animation. " Let me avander not unseen" was prettily war Wed by Miss TENNANT, who also 'acquitted hers self so well in the duet " My faith' and truth, Oh Sanipson,' preve," 'with Master SMITH, that it was encored. The whole concluded* with The Coronation Anthent, which was sustained with all due accu_ racy and force by the Orchestra. There was a very numerous and elegant Au dience,"and we are glad to understand chat this respeaable assemblage of musical talents is sup ported by an ample Subscription: We have heard' nothing of our Friend Tit:is Oates since the commencement of the present Campaign, thOugh we believe, and hope, the , Ca rvaky Horses are at as, good feed and in as good condition as ever. The origin of theword Preface lids been lately made the subjed of Inquiry. It ha;becn traced to an obsolete French term of saluthtio,n—Poff pour -4crq face.—e! Much good may it do you." The Italians - used the term Profazi;ci, for Buou . pro wi frcc;aa" • An Irish Gentleman, speaking of the #roun Bread, observed, that it disagreed with Wm 40 much, that he must really resort to same other ievergge. An Englishman, of the name of MAnnox, is the Proprietor anti Managek; of the Theatre At Moscow, one of the largest„ which -has been crated in modern times. - A Theatre, Concert.; rooms, a Masquerade.room, are all contained to_ gether in the same eilifice. The Masquerade.. room alone cost 50,060 roubles, and convenient ly receives several thousand persons. •The 'theatre has four rows of boxes, rising - over ore another, two spacious galleries, • two series of benches, besides a considerable vacant space in the pit. The boxes are most stunptuotisly c t le. corated. A box is rented fer the year at from 300 to zOOO roubles.. The price of admittance for a single evening to the pit is a rouble. The pit is generally crowded, and a box seldom re mains unlet. The most eminent Aaors are— AsCHOKI N, for old men in Comedy k PONAMA. *EP, for intriguing servants, officers, intermed dlers, and ridiculous pedants ; POMERANTZEF, in generous fathers; ScitoscHEßlN, for‘ heroes and 19vers ; Mrs. KOLACRIDOVA, among the Actresses, excels in parts similar to those in which we admire Mrs. SIDDONS; NASSOVA, is the Mrs JORDAN of the Russian Theatre ; Slat- EFSKY, now ZAKHAROr, is the favourite re presentative of female lovers. Among the pieces represented are a few Russian originals ; but the greater part are translations from the German and the English. Above all, the translated dramas of KOTZEBUE excite the highest enthusiasm in their exhibition on this'stage. A Piece has been' brought out on the French Theatre, the objet of which is to ridicule the English.—lt is entitled, Milord Gadder". was; however, so dull, that a French Paper oh. serves, the' PUblic.were placed in 'a disagreeable situation between their taste and theirlairictispr. Married on Tuesday the 3d inst. at St. Mary's Church, in Chester, SAMU e L H I 0., Esq. son of the Rev. Katmai' HILL, Sand nephew of Sir RICHARD HILt., Wit. to Miss ANNE FRANCES WRIGHT, eldest daughter of SAMU E L WR I CUT, Esq. of Stanley 'Place, Chester.. LONGEV,ITY. —Lately died, Mr. . JOSHUA HOLE, of Trinslone, near Southmolton, Devon. The longevity of himself, his father., and:three brothers,- was unusal t his father, Vicar-of South, motion, dying aged. r i t years ; his eldest bro. ther, JOHN, gee.tor of Romansleigh and .Wash. ford Pyne, So years ; himself gi years ; LIAM, Archdeacon of Darnstaple, 85 years, ; and NI cHo LAS ) Vicar o£-Burrington, 8o years. Captain BENNET, of theSornersetshi Militia, some days• since riding towards Weymouth to meet a pack of hounds, fell from his horie in an . apoplexy, and instantly expired. Two Pick-pockets were yesterday taken into custody by Townsend, the Bow-street Officer, at St. James's Palace ; and committed to prison by Mr. FoRD. Yesterday Thomas Brown, alias Chalidry, WAS examined before the LORD MAYOR at the Man. sion-house, being apprehended in Smithfield market on Monday last by Robert Rosamond and John Turner, city constables, on suspicion of steal. ing two cows, which he offered for sale. Mr.Wrn. Clialkley, of Tolworth-Court. Farm, at Dittos, appeared at the examination, in consequence of an advertisement, and deposed, that the Cows were his property ; the Prisoner assumed the name of Chalkley, in order to give facility to the sale of the beasts, Mr. Chalkley being a respeEtable,far: tiler at the above place. The Prisoner did not offer to .make any,delence he was folly corn. mitted for trial.