The Sun. — London, England, 1804-10-23 00:00:00

Tu CORRESPONDENTS. If C. D. will :old bit Communication in the shape of a regular A:l've:WTl:vie, it :ball dt imterted. MAI LS. AUATVID. gaff! b„;sth T u t. Ciottctiburg4 : • - _ .. PRICE OF STOCKS, ?Nig 641 . 1 t AT t 4 / 1 1..Vit O'CLOCK: COMOIS • s7i THE SUN. SOLI:4 QUI& DICZRZ TALLUIA A ii.ntAT ? LONDON, TUSiDAY, OCTOBER Z 3, 1804. Wa this morning received the Paris Papers to the t3th inst. The French G9verthnent has at length given an account of !he Experiment at Bou.. logne on the 2d inst. It not unworthy ,of re. mark, that the Official . Details were not published until after the arrival of the English Papers which contained the account, of that Experiment. The .French, of course, describe their loss as extremely trifling; but even they du ,not represent the attack as so absurd and contemptible as our patriotic Eng lish Riper. BONAPARTE has left Mentz, and was expeaeci at Ty‘Vel on the gilt. The Imperial joJephine has arrived at Paris. THE BOULOGNA EXPERIMENT. ADMIRAL. Dp.unt To HIS IMPERIAL mAjEkTy. 1 11 Silts, Gfia6er 3. " I have thelionour to give your Imperial M. 1.• jetty an account, that last night the Enemy made an attempt - to burn, by means of a great number of ftre.ships, the vessels which cons, use our line of anchoragt; but their plan failed. 44 F(Hr two or three days they had considerably reinforced their station. Yesterday it consisted of 52 vessels, as of which .were brigs ur small cutters, which made me sUspea that they :night be fire. ships, ar.d that we should soon be attacked. I was confirmed in that opiniOn, when, in . the course of' the day, I saw a ship of the line, three frigates, two brigs, and several cutters, (Ai! a S. W. position, )C. l ;lle and a half to windward of the fast boat on our left. All these circumstances were favourable for an et terptize of this kip d : a strong W. S. W. lareze cotril.ined with the rapidity of the spring titles, and save them a great facility to send Oct! against us, I consequently tnado my di4positions—l ordered the Military Connlitifi,latit to establish bars before our line, to right, left, and centre. I sent imme. distely — into the harbLatr, under Rear-Adinital LA- Caossa, a great number Of boats, well armed, whichi sitted,by pinnaces with large 110WitZers, wete to torn the tire.shipsaside. The general asoembled all the Captains of the . I s itie, end communicated to each the matiopvres to be pr4tieeil, aceor.ling as cir. cuattancee might ccLur. • The Attack commenced at ball past ten. I was informed of the approach of the Enemy by a warm firing between our van and their pinnaceJ. The Encrny diepatched against the whole front of our line several fire-ships, which they towed to a certain distance. and when they had eioitted them, the wind 'and. tidk hnithcd bringing, then). to us but 'out boats - then opened a passage fur thern, and all blew up the lire , very neat 10 the shore, Eleven of them vltw op' frOrn ten oleluck to (nut in the morning, in the sped comprised between t::e port de l'Heurt and Vrniereaux. 'rwo others, the matches of whjelt were pot out, were Liken near Vimereaux. Tile cannonade was very wain . ), and kgi 4 r 4 i of the Entniy'a boats sunk. 46 We lost but one pinnace with a Pruc,i:in ho. wit,cr, No. 267, the Captain of which, seeing c firc.stiip, which appeared to be towed by a canoe with a *ail, oriivred it to be boarded ; the men leaped on hoatil the c.imie, but no one 'was in'it liartnYl howlverp they cuine neat the •Are.iihip when blew up; the pinnace was destroyed by the egplosion-17 men alone s.iived ihein,eives at Vii• otereao, in the English eating. We lost Officer, '3 Soldiers and 7 Sailors; theme were but men w00 , ,de,1 all the rest Of the Urn, and we expe. Tit c.d no other damagst than itbowsprit, which was c, i tied away by boarding. I have' no certain 4C. injury received by .the Enemy ; but in. •.!ei,i•ntiently of ieveral 4oaillidll of "feu itchio 'were tiLeilitorder which our van übset yeti among the yho. left the, hinltb 11141 towed the lirr.ships, iuces me to think that their Jobs in men - was con.: ai.4etable. • • tl Our gun- boats kept up a very brisk tiro of diary on tiorne English ships of war, stationed b c . 'h e i r nee..shipa, which they were In protea,—, cannonading did not . ocase 'the Whole night ; jg uccessivt 'Anil incessant along the different of the line Is Was so vitcll t y, $ that the emy's boats, ,which were ordered to tatty in slot fire-shivs, were glad to abandon them. in disorder. The Oh - leers ably Star have given me an Se. count, notwithstanding the darkness of the night, and the frequent and precipitate movements which our vessels were obliged to make, that these movements Were Made with aslegree of precision which prevented all mistake.—Great praise a due to Gen. LACaossa and the Officers eommanding.tht Vessels ix general, shewed skill and froiel.--1 *cannot sufficiently praise the courage and good disposition of the ma. tines and soldiers who mere embarked; they assisted in the manoeuvres with 'as much alacrity as if they were assisting at a fete ; abed every time a fire-ship exploded, the harbour resounded with cries • of "PiveL'Empereur, Five Napoleon."—Several of our Gun.boats were obliged to get under sail, to avoid the Fire.ships, nevertheless,there . was no ap. pearance of confusion. The Enemy employed Fire. Vessels of three different kinds ; the first were Stoops, Cutters, and other Vessels ; the second were a kind of &frets 20 feet 'long and threefeet brOad, without any mast ; the third were a kind of barrels filled with Combustibles, and which, were so contrived as to explode by a piece of mechanism.— , 'The vessels were filled with several pieces otholloW wood, which were filled with inflammable master, and which Was lighted with matches, like bombs but it seems the effi.El was not well calculated, for they did no harm. This event far from having the ;fled which our EneMies hoped, only•served to ma. tacit the courage and cc,nfilence of,our soldiers arid sailors,'as well as the execllent order est ablished for the safety of the port, and city. Every body waist his post, the pumps were prepared, and during the': night the rounds were made willi as Mud! tranoilli., ty as usual: This 111011thig the Enerns Is vessels which were, detached 'to the:" S. , W. joined the rest of the Squadron. o'clock the wind began to blow fresh W. S. W. and every thing anoduriced bad weather. At two o'clock the ~Enemy 'got under weigh fur their own Coast. (Signed) " BRutx, Admiral.", In another Report, orthe same aay, addressed to the Emperor, Gen. ; Soutar, Comrnon4r in chief at Sr, Others, exilesses himself as follows " stet., " The English had conceived the cowardly and hors Ode puska of burning the vessels of the Flotilla which were at anchor in the Road of Boulogne, and last night they endeavoured to accomplish this Nor. rible design. The result is turned to their shame, and is glorious to the arms of your Majesty. I have the honour to giVe you an account' of this important event. Yesterday the English Svadron,', consisting of 52 sail, of which six :were of ebe six frigates, 16 corvettes, or b‘onts. vessels, To brigs; ra cutters, and two loggers, undcr the orders ut Admiral anchored at &root a league and a h a lf from the North to the West of . the . parr. During the day they detached one vessel of the line, two frigates, sevcral brigs, m3st of the' cutters, and. a nu , oher of boats, to eruize in the South West. At awe o'clock: it was ohierved . that the ship of the line and (rives had atieltoredi anti had ordered the small vesseli to, coine to them,, and afterwards they formed in a' line, . These de.: monstrations : Witt ton apparent for us to Mistake the objeet which they hld in view ;. thsrefOre kitnira Betitx. hastened to give the neces sar y or d er i to Cacurzie, who commanded in the Road. The batteries were prepared, ,pi the army held in leadiness to execute any orders which they might receive. " The wind was at west, a fresh lireeze. At ten precisely several shot from the left announced that the. Enemy had began his attack ; the fire extended to the centre ; the engagement soon became almoat genera l ; and at this moment the' FruAny latinched his first detachment of fire.ships. Ad the vet: sell of the Flotilla Whith expetted this kind of at. tack, seeing. the incendiaries ' coming, them, and let them pass between them, without any of them being On board; and the Actacionent pa bs ,d the rear of the line. .At half past ten the first blew up, opposite the, battery of the Grensdliers ; it pro. duced an immense colUmn of Are; the wrecks_ were scattered on very sidei but no person was hurt. 7 - The Second blew up opposite the Imperial fiktrery, and produced no limit, Another between. the Ports of Croy and that of Creeehe ; and the fourth near the Battery of the Wanbardiers, without prOducing , any great cited. !' After these first expls:sions,'. the fire slackened for half an hour; Rear-Admiral La.Cttosse profited by this to run along the fine, and cause to return to their rank some vessels, which, to.avtrid the explo. sion, hid cot their cables. At the height of the batterY of Dunes, which the Etat-Major of Admi. ral.Bau Ix mounted, they perceieed- ii b r i g , the ing of which appeared suspicious ; it was itirtnedi. Wely dra . wn aground. Scarcely were they at half pistol shot than the vessel exploded, more strongly than the former onct i but bivily only two sailors were slightly wonnrircl in the hand. The mock was then made on the right three fite-shipa ex ploded immediately at 'the port of Vimeteaux, two others on the left a LwCreeche,two others between Chatillen and the Fort De Llieurt, and the twelfth and, last at the Impetial.Batteny,.bitfrom this there arose .a column much more considerable than the former.; and as it approached.: nearer the land, it produced a commotion so great -that it was felt in Boulogne, and for more than half a league within land. At half past three the fire entirely ceased, and the Vegsels of the Flotilla 'had all returned to the Line ; short, 'at bleak of day e..th was in its rank, ready to combat, and the Enemy might have seen that there slid not exist the least void in the Line. " The . result 9£ all these eXplosions, which shock the coast, and appeared as if they would swallow every thing up was,. that 'we experienced no. loss, except a misfortune which was occasioned by too much boldness arid temerity. The pinnice, No. 267, commanded by "Capt., GRotreT,',.being near the passage of Vimereaux, perceived an English sloop under sail, which appeared to be direaing its course towards the port ; wishing to seize it, he gave orders to board it. MICHAEL A rt QU FT, sailor,. wat.the first who mounted the sloop, five .others folloived, and they extinguish.: Mille fire, but in seeking For the helm,.which had been taken away, they perceived another vessel very long, floating below in the .water, which scarcely presented any surface,. And which tits pinnace accost ed, Hardly had they cut the cable when the fire-ship blew up the pinnace, and swallowed all the men who ,were on board. Same men of the 'Garrison, Who assisted, were saved,. and six sailors who were on board of the sloop. Several boats were sent to their ant, but none could get near. This event . occasion.. ed the loss of aat men ; anti from all the eXplosions the result was, that two marines .and four soldiers only were wounded, one gun.buat lost its bowsprit; but that arose from getting on b:\ard another. It sustained no other damage. 44 • There is every reason to believe that the Eng.. fish have sustained considerable los, by the cs:-ct of " the escplosiOns and the cannonade. The sloop, and two of their boats were taken, two tire.shirs were wrecked, the one to the of .the Canal of Actinic.. tense i•tt l r . he other to the right of Virnereaux ; both are uninjured, In . the former the matches were cx tinguishetit and in. the secard, whlre the tire wits to t..ite (lied by means of a movement rcgolated as a rrildnitlin, which would set off atter a certain number fotir sokli et . % ot the 34 h tonic oth the marches and stopped thf..rendniutn,aLti prevented the 'explosion, which would otherwise have done much .• . mischief, is several persons were present'. Two hours after they had t‘ikett,the' intchstikm out of it the' nvivement was 1 0 1. goii‘g Tftis morning the Shore was covered wok tstecks, pteces.of .itoo, and split - at rs of all kind,. Such is the issue of ths r) , w hi c h tit.. English ha AO long meoita and hot. 0.1ii.:11 they construded,with so much secrecy, ;great numbers of vessels up Ott new model: , . I have, at• the beginning of niy letter, 'Called this cowardly and horrible, be. cause it is a !nimble attempt atgainst 6claws ofiwar, by seeking. to destroy nib .Enemy without ex:losi , l theaa.el yes to any ilatiger. I call it cowardly, because the Evemy 's Squadron • which made such an attack, c4tried three times as . twiny guns as our Flotilla which was in the Road. Why did. not Kttrit'itnitate the c. , ),.dat Of" NFLsoN in the year Soo, and fight us hand to hand ? If th,t enterprize had succeeded, it would have tnetited , Ul' tears.— To attack cannon - against cannon, bayonet' against bayonet*, such are the lisNa of , war ; but a nation whiCh only, employs for it& defence, 'pi ignards and flte..ships, has 'fallen from the rank which it pre. tench to occupy: ' History teaches us that nations, whiti they ate capable tit - compering, despise the of. fers of the. Physicians of Fabticius ; and it is only in the moments of Otis fall, that:they employ such perfidious means. •In fine, there is in the position in which we now are, nothingtO fear from the Fire. ships of the English. This. apileariince redoubles the. ardour of our soldiers, who wait with impa. thence for the int‘ment when they are to fight ag a i nst the 4. , f 'Volunteers commanded .by the con. quern , of the Ihmseo'ole and the Helder.',' ON Sunday last, the wins P heing• moderate and south easterly, there attic out of Boulogne Iltrhour about fifteen Brio and five or six Liiggers; but they took care to retire within the Pier before it was dark. ' • Such have been the good efflAs of he late Expe. riment, that, Whatever the Party 'Writers may lay to the contrary, the' - Enemy have no; yet had the e , furtige, and 'we wilt venture to redid, will n 4 hereafter assume the courage. of, coming out of t!w Illtbour in any considerable numbers, lest something mire serious than d 4 l Cxperitnent may be put in praaire ajoinst them. At all evtott, our porpo..e is sufficienly ;In ctr e re,t, by lork:og up .t frail Flotilla in the harb3ur of Bate,o ,, ne there to b rot at tektite. No'CtiEcial account has been received at the. Ad. miraity of the sickness which some' h Day's Papers state to have: broken out in Gibralcir. In answer to the malicious insinuations of a c . v.. tain Morning Print, respefling the late afrtir t,f the eapture of the Spanish Frigates not beiog give in the e t S o a n t l u y rd ,r a e y a ' ion sGazette,.. we have to intOrm t he Party -Writer of : the Paper we allude to , that why no , account appeared in the Officia) Paper of :Government was, that the Government had not received the gence of the transaftionfirnrO the Senior Officer of the Squadron, and that the account giver by Capt. HAmoteP, of the Livelj, very properly stated only that part of the iiaion which regarded the Para. At the same time we ca.nnot help observing, b,tv very prematurely, arid before the arrival of the ht. defarigabh, the Message sent by Captain m'J.joß s and the Answer returned by the Spanish Admi. ral were detailed in some of the PaPers, whe n we know that Capt. RAMON') had no intercourse whatsoever with the brdefatigabie, neither helot nor after the Afti ; and that when she took poi , session of the Fama, not one of the rest of the Squadron were even insight. Capt. MoAtr's ac' count of the affair, which will appear in this,niglatil Gazette, will be read with interest. So much his al ready been said with rega rd to the right and the pli:y of detaining Sirips before any Declaration .of War had taken place, that we shall not trouble our Readers with any farther remarks on the subjeft for the present but we cannot avoid ob. serving, that-the intemperance (4A violent r,irtir 4 P er has betrayed the Writer into such laognage and t s h en e t c im ar e , n i t e r A f s u r ch as (4f6;i c " 1 : 1 7 0 7 ,1 °f 0 n usurper, and ire Englishman will read without feelLng that con 7 hi y te g m h p i t and indig na tion for the author ' whiCh he so merits. But We can eatilY solve the a. i c e a s u t s y e .s o m V i h n l i s s t e i r n s ge wg i oeit l t i ll e yl - 1 ahva e b i e t, e npe n d so ti t t e t in k i l s4 is .the Remonstrance with Spain, as to un:l4 to sure Ships to &et he knew he would have hat the best gro „ crimina; accuse them of a roost unparauttawe and . hi* s p!ro, suffer its Tres/ negira. hatsThisdisappointmeinntto pro voke d Port : In and driven him to seek t,r sidle ;ago to SlieVl VATTCL, PUFFS ((dare,' and GitoTtui , awn which the injustice and impairer of a transa rn W e,o ll t l s Cl i l r c o i rn se tared)) must ai ev e ry man of com mo n sense fa,u,dlauwde.doubt not the. Yesterday morning Re.,c.A;t i oiral Russ c t., Of !he exc 121, dated on bnara dispatches we re received (KO tim Eagle, of 7+ guns-, 'the' 1 s t h inst. They were iarwarded to L rd N 120; tt.t.e, at Wimbledon, Eight Frigates with' sreCie from Lima are daily ne:itlocktiebtrtOl:rir eivr:ieisz'rrshieviPlitkrrese(p)raSgtillifOrld'.lfo°OrkViollui .11'''. of E4lYereatsrerelrhe4l,7.Ywailn; Pr i va t eer , ''unmceuu' i t : i e ng cs td d u t r iu e i) f a tl having a great number of men on ,bo,rit. Sid w 39 captured Liss, His Majesty's Ship L'Alrion, ali.l 101 l been curled into the Bay of Gioraltar. li . lis 1 )1 ' 1 '1; chi, teen Silip , from Liverpool, bound up the MediterraueaN_ The iraq Siaop , just arrived' in the D ~, , vn I; I g l ai r . Lisbon, has brought home a large qiuntilY ‘)1 She 101 ), consigned to several British .viegioncf. of liar ntiT b ihn ein mo r i a ee r i t t as lr in e t , ea l .i t o r pri,,,grarstem,:oc,;.hp,i.f.;:::::: be from Dep(torti, on Sunday, sa i l ed a p t u os r r i e )o s s , e t o u f ev ta i k u in s g to oLb it t i 7 l rd to r l: o e t r i : e g o u n o l g ls o ß re ge . ldicall'crid.°l3:4e of Rth is e H A n o t u t i t ot P , o . u P i l . t s A: g i u s n a i ltpoillied t° ihg CijrniTl3ll3 t4r.Mtnital Dotrot.as has hoisted his fi'g 9(l ' board_ the Iti4r,i4, (It 36 g ,tis, $1 Woolwich. vice, i the titiLLßlos,:flidl;k,,aoPyiiitdcrioißiiigimrhAltas it, Son of the la" it 10 A miral CHILISTOPHIR PARKtR, IS Poll' lte ,“4 - g i the . Jahn Hired Armed ihip, at Leith. f ' j r. :: d ss er th a e nd Pit::c t s heofCW°7l7,o : it! , in town on Sun-lay evening from 11"tv;irig it!,_R o ) 4l Highness paid a visit yetterd4 ti''', l '„ i c, Whitehall. Lady Il4st.sotrari, at they gr i" : filer Mr. PITT left town on Sunday for ‘ 7° * Castle. • , ',V' iilir.lNFßesltisearte,tuirnneßd„tok:hoitrven. yesterday rrc sr° ' A , 0 I C' , The Earl Of HARRINGTON had yestero; to, let dinner parry at hi s h„ use in th e Stahle-Y2 St. James's. ~ . 01° 1 "' The Hun. Mrs. Lola., sister of sh e Earl of j ots MONDILIT, arrived yesterday at HailiptOn from oihie M ls N s Lordship's s*. D s e , ar E i s n q . C i ti s e* s h p i P r o c i n .,"; 2 o by I t ' t A Ecc v"' General for the County of Leicester. i" - , 1 death of the late Colonel CH tistmptts.' 00,10' ea The Popsy tPootitticiasitrfirsi, mutts,it seteomas;;tiTtirerligilloisii,j: and disgrace of a j.lurney to Paris , in wrier 11P1' claim an Atheistical Usurper the /loin" t oe' '• vets. They must know lit ile.of BoNArAlloor 111 0 i ever, who can suppose that he w" 1 1 4 ., 6 „,,h„r, t vanity of having the bead of the PIP , pier'' 1 assist in his Coronation's di . s3'°"l;•cd " i i i t„thi hr ed indisposition. His Hoiiiiesh w e i betor e i knows better, and he muit be ill inde e ' . ~,, lir" th e Cors lc ifat' would hazard the vengeaiice of ...- of , start, and refuse to consecrate tile po" ) priori.