The Sun. — London, England, 1801-09-09 00:00:00

:kia I of seve, Gerlend itniatior COZITen PLYMOUTH, Sarr. 7. SA/LED the Louitii Brig, of 14 guns, - Litipt. W. Thust °Tr, wick Dispatches for Capt. BowsN and Cot, CLlziOrr, at Madeira. The. Master and one of the Lieutenants of the Argo, of ++ guns, torn. • manned by Capt. BowEs; are gone out passengers in the ,Lordia. Sailed also the Swift Cutter, of 14. gora, Lieut." 3. SAN . Diii3, for Lisbon, with Dispatches for Mr. FR ERE, His Majesty's Secretary of Legation at that (..:ourt ; and the NE/brook Schooner, of IS guns, Lieut. M. N. STARCZ, with Dispatches for Rear_ Adthiral Sir JAMES SAUMAREZ, off Cadiz. Sailed the Captain, of 74 guns, Capt. BOYLES, Fanny, of 16 guns, Lieut. FRIssELL, and Speed. :well, of 16 guns, Lieut. R. Twit. triso:l, for the Chanel Fleet ; the latter took several ViAuallers tinder convoy, 'laden with supplies of beer, water, and pfovisions, for 'the use of the Fleet. • Sailed The Friendship, Cartel, with Prisoners for • Arrived . the Illeprret, of' r 4 guns, Capt, J. iroirsi, from the Channel Fleet.' PORTSMOUTH, SEPT. S. ARRI4EO His Majestj•'s Ship Anson, from the Downs. Sailed the Vet:nor, Cartel, with French Prisoners for 'Clverbo tug. . . Tte I-1 4e acid Alcadovi Men of War are released trOtna - . YARMOUTH, SEPT. $. I: a I VED . yesterday evening from Cuxhaven, having landed her Mails at Lowestoft, the Prince 'f Wales Packet, Capt. SUTTON. Also this MOM. I ng arrived the Prince of Walei Cipt. DEAN, from Cu xhaven, with Mails she left Cuxhaven on Sun_ d a imotning, and was spoke yesterday by His Ma jesty's Ship Pylacles, cruizing absitit forty leagues Heligoland. Arrived the Conqueror, Etql RSO /9, from Norway. Slecl . the Argo, Scorr, to Liverpool. SHEERNESS, SEPT. 8. 1.4 Dolphia Cutter, Lieut. S•ktzitz.a.r, hisione but of Ilarboar and the Furnace Gun-brig has come int) Harbour. Laurel, a very fine Brig. of IS guns, has tor,m here to ixt. surveyed, for His Majesty's Service : Lieut. LOYD is appointed to the Command of her. DEAL, SEPT. S. o yesterday morning, the Menlo Armed Brig,. with the ontwayLbound under Conioy for Portsmouth. About ten Sail of famaica‘Ships arrived in the Downs this, afternoon, several of which have sailed to . the River. Yesigrclir gening, in a gale of wind, the Exiftsi 1..) • 314 B9 s it pitzted her cables, and sailed to the *estwant a signal frbm Admiral NaLsbg's the 6;:cy . "Jo/end and Sterd , urall Ctitters slipt, l!z:ci:follo'wed to assist her. NAPAI4.COLI,42T—.4.faiRTIAZ. ~‘ ave a. re ygilTn the result . of the -Coati.: Martial held On- Captain Pi - W*ls, the Offiee,rsi C rcw, for the loss of the Harp/Ma i by which Cap. tam Ft 'tit Is, his'OfficerS, Bre; Were most brinoniably acquitted: we are happy in being able to add to it the following interesting Particulars in the Narra tive of Captain Film's : " Mr. President, and Gentlemen of the Court, " In giving a detail of the circumstances which led to the loss of His Majesty's late Ship the Hein tribal, thee under i py, command, I 'am sorry that, owing to my Cleric being - killed,. and whose. re marks were lost, I' cannot - be ,so particular,as to the exalt times of signals l being' made as I otherwise should have been ; but I shall state them to yoU to the best of my recolleftion. " On the morning of the 6th of July last, at or about six o'cloCk, His Majesty's Ships l'enetable, Ponsge,. Audacious, Cesar, Spencer, and Hannibal, under the command of Rear-Admital Sir JAmEs SAIIMAR EZ, being off Cabaretta Point, and stand ing in for Algeziras Bay upon the larboard tack, with the wind westerly, the Admiral made the Sig nal for the Venerable, to know if she could fetch the Enemy's ships then in sight in that Bay, which be.. ing answered in the affirmative, the Admiral made the signal for close Aaion. • "' At •about eight o'clock the Venerable began the AaiOn at a .considerable distance to leeward,-as she could not fetch further into the Bay ;' . and Soon . after the Pomph anchored nearer in shore, and the Audacious a-stern of her. The' 'Admiral, in' -the C.esur, next anchntied a-heattof'the - Audacious;and . " made the signal for:ships to anchor in 'the best pos_ sible manner for their' mutual support. 'We then anchored ahead of the Cesar, within hail of her, - and by a sprin&got our broadsides to hear on one of the Enemy's Line of Battle Ships, at about- ten minutes before nine o'clock;. where we kept .up a good fire for _about an hour. • ". At. this time, about ten o'clock, not having . understood some verbal direftions'attempted tO be given from the .C.:esar, I received an order from the Admiral, by an Officer, to go and rake the French -- Admiral. I instantly turned up hands to make sail, cut the 'cable, and cast the Ship'by the spring ; I then cut the spring and, made sail to the North- '- wird, stood in to.a quarteriess-six ; and then tacked for the French Admiral, for the 'purpose I had been ordered to effea. • . " As tapproached hitni L-began to' take in sail in such a manner. aljwoifick ,have enabled: me to have hauled in shoreYatt4drt ,his hawse, and which I preferred to goingiteward under his stern, as that might have subjected me, from the v'ariable _fiaws'ofwind, to have drifted farther to leeward, and consequently without fulfilling, in a manner which I deemed the- most effeelual and decisive, the objett of my orders. Bat, just as I got the --fore clew-garutts manned, in order ni take -in the fore-sail, with an intent to put the helm a-lee, and to-brace the head yards a_box, the Ship, took .the; ground within hail of the Formidable (the FrciiCh Admiral's Ship), and whiCh accident. :alone could have prevented me from putting, my orders into execution. " In this situation I opened my fire on the French Admiral, with as many of my foremost guns as: could be brought' to bear on him, the rest being di, reded, with much effea on the town, hatteties,and,,, gunboats, with winch h was surrounded. BUt the ship aHearing•to.swing a little, I let go the rower anchor, and cut the cable, the stream-cable be,: ing clenched to the Ting of the anchor, ...and. in . at, the gun-room port,- on which I ilitetidect _to , heave a strain, t'.) endeavour to: force' thel-'sbip round, so as to bring her broadside. to hear' on the French Admiral (having - at this time no hope „of getting the ship entirely afloat, the Master having, by my clirettinns, sounded round her, and - found ra. ther less water than where she lay); lens the ' , spring being shot away before it was:Weil. taught, the ship. remained immovable. I. had i by this time, after much et.deavour- (all my signal haul-yards .being shot awl)?), effected making. the signal fot itriking and sticking fast on a,slinal. " I observed soniuOie after Wards all our ships . driVing out of the B.4y,„,the Admiral having previ ously rnacle my signal cigieeall, and sent a boat from the Ceeiar, and anothet from: the Venerable, to my assistance ;' but finding they could afford me none, I sent the Venerable's boat back, and the crew of the Caesar's in one of my own cutters, their pinnace having been sunk by a shot alongside. " About twelve o'clock our ships were . all out of gun_shot of the Enemy, and we had the . ,fire the whole French Squadron, Batteries, and Pun,- boats, to contend with alone against which we' continued to keep up as brisk a fire as could be ex. pelted, even by men in the most sanguine expeaa. tion of vidory, until near two o'clock. " I had been beftite this time receiving repeated reports from several of my Officers, of the numbers killed and wounded, and of many of my guns being - rendered unserviceable; and seeing many of rni brave Crew every moment falling at their quarters, and the Ship, in all, respeas, but little better than wrf,clr, I thought ptOrGi to call my Officers toge cher, and asked their opinion whether mute could be done for the preservation of the Ship ? They replied, that they thought it was impossible to do more, and that to, strike the Colours was the only means of preserving the lives of those that re. mained. 11 On these considerations, and from a convic tion of having experienced every possible assistance that the persevering endeavours of zealous and brave Officers and Men could afford me, whose exertions, and those of Lieutenant Hi Lt.'s in par ticular, who did duty . as my First Lieutenant dur ing the AEtion, and for some time, before, I shall ever remember with the greatest gratitude ; and seeing that our hitherto very effective fire 'on the Enemy's ships and batteries was now so slackened as to be nearly useless, I ordered the firing to cease, and the people to shelter t.lrimelves as much as pos sible; and in a little tilje afterwatds I submitted to The painful necessity y orderipg His Majesty's Colours to be hauled dov:n." • TO THE ED - rroß OF THE SUN. Deal, September 8, do SIR, Is the ObleYeuei of Sunday last ; there is a Para_ graph tending to cast a most gross and scandalous odium on the Iftwelop and Boatmen of DeaL— The, Writer asserts, that these People knew of the means takerr• by tho Frortch Co secure with 'ehains their' Flotilla in the Wiad of Boulogne ; but withheld so important an - intelligence froM Lord NELsOrri tinder the fear of being prevented from fnture intercourse with the Enemy's Ports. I ani a- resident at Deal, but- entirely independent of either kloirelors or - Boatmen ; the Public will therefore receive . thc r. t timony of a disinterested man, who denies in 'tot ,",the whole of this asper sion, and is' deiiithii fluncovering the. veil of ci ni falsehood, and litieregy) " ove a disgraceful stigma 'which now nndeservedly rests on - a,very useful body of men, whose loyal. - has in many instances mani fested itself -in . a&sl!'i Public- Service. You, of course, reCollea.; Mr. Editor, that these very men, who are now called Traitors, did, to a man, at the time of the Expedition to Holland;:assist with their Boats to embark tlie Military and Baggage, • for which they refused to receive any pecuniary recom. pense ; and again, when it wasTleemed requisite to bring the Troops away, they volunteered their set.- vices . to go to the Ships on their arrival; and assist in the disembarkation. , If the Writer of this Paragraph had for a moment recolleaed that a British force for -months past had blockaded Boulogne and the other Ports on the Coast of France, he would see the impossibility for , Zeal Boatmen to have - hzid any Intercourse with the Enemy, or be in possession of the intelligence they are now accused of. The Public may rest assured that steps will be taken to bring this Calumniator before a Court of Judicatory-, where it is hoped he will receive a punish menrdue to,his crime, which is the, wish of, Mr. Editor, Yotir . very humble Servant, 13. D. The Duke of York Packet, with the Mails from Ja_ maica,• sailed from ihenceon the 2oth July, leaving there. His Majesty's .Ships Sato -Pareil, Acasto, Lowestoft, Porcupine, Abergag;:enny, Lark, and Catnel. . _ . The Princes; Charlotte Packet,Qapt. KER, from the Leeward Islands . , airived at Barbadoei on:the gth of June, where,- site: found His Majesty's ship Hornet ; reachecl Wfartinique on the lull:of the same month; and Dominica on the 16th folloWing, where she found 'the TriArnflivai. Armed trig, which convoyed,hdr.te, , Motliserrltt, where she arrived on the zorh.. sl3e left, A; ~.y .O is, on the 26th, His Ma jesty's ships - Pl:sco;itc Paity, Surinam, and Gipsey schooner. • She 'reached . Grenada - on the 28th, on which day the . Hanle/ and Fairy sailed .With the remainder of the convoy. Sailed from Tortola on the Ist of August. A copy of the . following letter his been gene rally circulated amongst the Clergy : " H'bitehall, !I'fizie 17, dot. " MY LORD, " The correct arid satisfactory information which His Majesty's Government obtained from the Clergy, relative to the state of the last year's crops of grain, induces me to solicit the assistance and ,goad .offices. of your Lordship, and other Prelates of gut-Church, in ;procuring in like -manner; and thro,ugh the same respeaable channel, a statement Of the number of acres of wheat, barley, oats; po tames, turnips; Tape, pease and beans, since the last harvest, in the several parishes of England and Wales. , • , t In order to abridge as much as ,possible the trouble which this reciuist Will impose on such of the. resident clergy in yob.r Didcese as" shall be pre_ vaiiFd upon to undertake it, I inclose, in as sepa rate cover, returns; with Columns teady to be filled u p with the number of acres sown with_each parti cular species of grain, and other crops therein spe, cified. g:lt has occurred to His Majesty's, confidential Servants, that if they couyl be furnished, through the favour andassistatite"6f the clergy, with an annual return tif : ,the..dasofilitiori I have menti9ned, it would be a circlinswce highly beneficial (to the public' interests, is it would form the best criterion .whereby to judge of the effeas which the Provi. sions of Parliament, both in regard to Inclosures and other matters, produce on 'the Agriculture of this Cduntry. " I bye 'the Honour 'to be, " My Lord, - " Your Lordship's most obedient humble Servt. " PELHAM." " The Lord .8 shop of Chichester." , - • • The reign 'of .thig- i roqg which s:about to com mence at our Winter Theatres, forcibly reminds : Us of the words of the . Poet : ' . . . . " Out scene precariously suhsiits too tong • " On Fre/Jell - Translation and iiedian $677gL , -- " Dare to haVe . sxxsz"YOURSELVF.s, assert the Stage; " Be justly warrnid by your ami native rage; " Such Plays alone Should please a British ear; " As CATo's self would not disdain te..ilear," When POPE wrote these lines, there was little probability, that- we ShoUld turn from the lively French to the plodding Germans for. Dramatic Enterta;nments. Italian Music, however, still re tains its ground, and though JoHI4 - .l3uu. does .not' understand it a jot better than he did at that time, yet he is contented to pay for it, .because he is told that it is fine. _ . The emulation between the two Theatres, in an nouncing Mrs. BICLINGTON to the Publie, is some thing like the rival booths at the annual festival in Smithfield, whose Heralds vociferate " The Player: are here P! • Though it his been illiberally asserted that Bar.. tholomew Fair has of late years set the fashion to our Winter Theatres, we can boldly contradict the assertion this year ; ,The " Smithfield Mthes" have been corupletely‘A‘stanced. They have not ventured upon a neW ( OPerla; and must wait till Sep tember rBoz. before therark 'attempt any imitation of Mrs. BlLLiNd•rom. fti,horupipe in the Manner of PAXISOT was the greatest novelty of this ;S'eason. The sporting world will be sorry to learn-that the celebrated racer Diavionii . Who was engaged . :ro rufa at the CuireighSeptetriber-Meeting;'b'roke down in cletcise,ai triat placer ori‘ the evening of fire' 3otli oft. A Dublin - Papef-comrnent?ng .-rhis event obse'rire - s; that Diamond is completely cut up, This 'seeniq - to be a specimen of what 7ra . called the lapidarylapidary ~iflef • ‘• • ' ' - venenci an , hoc ratigre The male y mine* !alio') Is polukt aclurtNl y is to for et re. wheace leaded eat7s. tcell'r e per :ondi, IT , Of a that rived same other op rl, -!* *0 ' 0 1 1 VO2: ;he. .pe re _ andi the . *of rom ing, hat of bc, for has 1, ~,. ~~llw :cn ~.:'• , 1;4 g t" it • r. ; o h ; NAVAL ts; NEWS: Nox illi bnperium pelagi t savusiellie tillasteiN t Sed - tnihi sole - .F i xypt. the - LONDON GAZETTE, Sept. 8. - • • Admira lty-Oirce, Sept. 8, 18 . 01. to)y ;fa Letter from Mr. John Pettigrew, Com mander of the Ship Intrepid, Letter of Marque, tp E , van Nepean, Esq. dated Barbadoes, gth Jul).., 1801. I-have the honour to acquaint you, for the in formation of the Ldrds Commissioners of the Admi. laity, that on the azd day of June, in N. Latitude . 18 deg . . 25 min. W. Longitude, per accompts, 40 -deg. to min. on board the Ship Intrepid, of Liver. • ~ pool, bearing Letters of Marque; under my Cori,. •. • znand,. having in company the Ships Dominica Pac ket and Alfred, I had the good fortune to capture, after a running Engagement of nearly two hours, the Spanish Frigate-built Ship La Galga, command ed by Francisco De .Pascadello, and mounting twenty-four heayy sixes, and seventy.eight men, bound to Cadiz or any-Pqrt in Spain, loaded with 'hides, cocoa, indigo, and copper in bars, the quan tity not yet known ; I am happy to say we sustain. ed no other loss, that) that,of one of my brave men, • and' dur• sails ana- rigging a,good deal cut ; the other Ships have not sustained any damage, except • the Prize, which has suffered considerably in both Bull and masts, and rigging . ;" I 'arrived. here on the 4th of July, with the Prize and above mentioned Ships. I have the Honour to be, &c. JOHN PETTIGREW. P. S. 'Pie_ Galga has beets at different Ports, but *its•last from Rio de Plata. , t•Y , : ....,14. , ;;;-• \ ' Y = ' ..., TORTSHOUTII, THIS morning it seven O'cic..lt, HiS dial . Highness the CO in Cti vcd here; on ivliich occasion. the Royal Standard 'was hoisted; and a Salute of it guns -fired floni - the East aril Grey Batteties. -At nine the Tivops of the Garri son, consisting Of about cooonien, were drawn out on SOuthsea Cogan on, foc HIS Royal HighneSis4 . inspeaion; in the following ordet, froth ii,;hr to left Royal-Artillery, ROyal Flint Fuzileers; Royal North Lincoln Militia; Wilts ditto; rst Sorneriet ditto; id . Scinierset ditto; Durst ditto; WOrcestei 'ditto, and West Norfolk ditto. The ground - way kept by a detachnierii of the t:11 Light Dragoons. When His Royal Highness cattle Upon the groand; the Artillery fired a Royal Salute; the Troops pre: sented arms; and afterwards marched by in slOw and quick time. tie then went to examine the defence of Southsei Castle, Fort Monkton, &c.&c. attended by Generals . ' STEPHENS, DIiNDAS : WH ITE LOCR, TR CGE, and Hi'C'frlTy- Colonels Tviltis, MAIR, PRINGLE, Lord BEE GRAVE, &c. Royal Highn&ss expressed hii high approbation of the appearance and discipline of this respeaable body of internal defence ; and paid Lord Bst,GRAVE, in particular, many cornPliinents on the -appearance of Corps: We understand it is the Commander in Chef' intention to ekatiline the state 6f the Coast froth hence to Deal ; and have it, where required, put into •a proper state for 'resisting the at e nets of a daring and iniidious Enemy shout], thy have the good fortune to pass our Wooden Walls. WEYMOUTH . , SEPT. 7, - • , . HIS MAJESTY last night; accompanied by the tzut rt; PK INCE ADOLPHUS, tt:C PRINCESSES, and PRINCE :3 SOPHIA of GLOUCF.STER, the Duke Of PORTLAND, Colonels CARTWRIGHT and FITZ ROY, Mr. Alderman CURTIS, Mr. ROSE, and Mr. FAWKENER, walked on the Esplanade. This morning, before breakfast, His MAjtSTT :Ook his accustomed walk. . . The Earl of UXBRIDGE gives a grand Entcr_ ainment at .Mr. STEWARD'S house, to. Morrow, to :he ROYAL FAMILY. . The unfortunate men who suffered by the explo sion on board the Cdershr;fin Frigate, are all in a fair way of recovery. Mr. Surgeon KEATE's ate tEntion has rendered their situation as• comfortable as possible. Last week _the Mayor of Ole C;ry Gloucester • eA'a Jury for 1 • - the . sivointe x amination of weights and m4asnres; who,•on Satutdriy last, in the • hutc!ler.. market, seized 'the steelyards of nine hutc?:rs ; :in the binter-Mariiet, t 34 lb. of batter ',erre ise seized; and distributed amongst the poor, being de_ icient in weight: . At Guildhall yesterday; two Bakerswere conviet ed in the lowest Penalty for selling new Bread. Half of the conviction . mpney .. was directed to be given to the Overseers of the Parish where the offence was:committed. Married on the inst. at Llangadwaladr in the Isle of Anglesea, A.,trcuSitrs ELIOTT FULLERi Esti of ,Ashdown House, SUSSeK, to Miss MEY RICK, daughter of OVEN_ PUTLAND MEYRICKi Esq:. - of Bcidorgan; Anglesei. from Montserrat td The Albion, Robertson, London, is, lost at Tortola. A mosrdesperate attempt to escape was made on Wednesday, by nine Convids at Cumberlanil-Port. They had so far succeeded in their . plan as to have reached the shgre, where they had plunged a .con. sicierable depth into the 111 , A; before they were dis covered. An alarni being immediately given, the Troops of the Garrison Were ordered out in pursuit. The result . was, that one of the Convicts was shot dead, and another desperately 'Wounded. - . On Monday se;nnight a battle was fought ma SOUth SekCorntyton, -between John Betty and Thoh Totten, privates of the zd Somerset Militia,.when: Betty had his neck dislocated by several blows froni his antagonist, and died scion after. The Coroner's Inquest keid oti the botly.gave their vetdid—C.asuai 1-16micide• MANsithi RA - ert Pieki wal charged before - the Lord Mayor, with baring re. turned from Botany Bay before the period for which. he had 'been sentenced Was expired. It ape peared from 'the Journals; that the Prisoner had been eonviaed of a butlary 'in the year In t, and that he had - receiyed His -Majesty 's. pardon; on . cdridi t of being transported for life: He acknowledged that he had returned from Botany Bay, but said he had a free pardon; and had come home servant to .GovernOr Hunter. His certificate, he affirmee, was in the Ilan s of Mr, Townsend, of Bow-street. A Bow-street Officer present said he had seen the Pri s6ner give Townsend a piece of paper, bit was ignorant what it was : he should write to Townsend however, at Weymonth, to learn die particularsa The Prisoner was committed for further examinationi John Pewberthy was charged with uttering a counterfeit halfguinea to Mrs. Pedwell, of Lon don -Wall./ The Prisoner on Ariday night_went into the shop a Mrs. Ped'vell, and having pureh4s. ed a trifling article, tendered. the half.:guinea iri question, fot which she gave change. After lie left the shop, she found it wits a had one. The Prisoner was pursued, and taken in iVioorfield.s.--f Upon being searched, there were found fifteen half: - gu neas .aud several 7s. pieces,, all counterfeits; upon hire. He said that he had token them of e man of the name of Spence. He Vegged to . be sent to serve His Majesty, saying be was a good sailor‘ The Solicitor of the Mint .attendedi and proved the - rm.: neyte , be eourcterfeit: The prisoner was fully coirtg edited to take his triati