The Sun. — London, England, 1804-01-30 00:00:00

't~ stating the capture of the Harmonic Privateer, in Marin Day, by the Ruts of that Ship- and the Drake, under the orders of Captain Ferris ; and the surprize and destrudion of Fort Dunkirk, by the Marines under the command of Lieutenant Beatie. The judici, us manner in which this service was planned, the gallantry and zeal of those Officers who executed it, deserve my warmest encomiums, and I beg leave to give them my strongest ret:numenda_ Lion to the L. , rds Cotnmissioners of the Adinitalty. I have the Honour to be; Scc. SA NI. HOOD. Blenhe;mi'llf Mattilifue, Nov. t 7, 1803. SIR, 'I have the honour to acquaint you, that on the fourteenth instant, the Frenth Privateer Schooner, Li-Harmonic, with a Prize, having put into' the Harbour of Marin in the Bay of St. Ann, Marti. niquP, induced me to suggest a Plan for the capture of this Vessel, more destruaive to Commerce than any other which has appeared in these seas ; and, for this purpose, I attempted, against a strong sea_ breeze and Lee Current, to beat up from off the Diamond Rock to the place where she lay at an. chor. It was not until alie 16:1i in the mornieg that I was able to accomplish it, when, having re- Oonnciitred the Harbour of Marin, together with the Batteries on, each .side of it, and. also one. above tie Town, I determined "on the attempt: I therefore ordered sixty Seamen belonging to His Nlajest : 4 Ship under my command, with Lieutenants Cole and Vurber, and a cleraChinept of sixty Marines of the tattle -Ship, . under the command of Lieutenants • leatie and Boyd, .to carry the Enterprize into ex ecution ; the. former in their boats to attack the privateer, and the latter at the same tirne to ended. your to surprise, or in any event, to storm, Fort Dy n _ kirk, a battery of nine guns on the. starboard side - of the harbour. It was necessary to do so, to cut off the Militia from rendezvousing on Marin Point, which, being immediately. in the track of Coming out, and where doubtless they would have been joined 'by the troops from the Fort, would have much annoyed Abe boats on their "return. The s drake having joined me, and captain Ferris. volun_ teerin g his services, I direaed him to take the cum. hand of the stamen, and to add to them' fcitirteen i:ifton'i the D ra k e. All things being prepared, the "Itiekts , with the seamen towed by the Drake, and Alwmarines in four boats tdw e d by th e Swift hired Ill cur ar te ' r, M,Pt elev en P. . proceeded off the mouth of In HarbOur, and by estimatin take f or t h e b oats to row g the tim e i t w o u ld vessel la up to the privateer which y three miles f rom the P e r n l tranee'of the harbour, botit parties set off so timely as' to coin nence the attac k at the. same•instant 1 and I am happy to add, that about iiiree A. M. on the fol. lowing morning, by very spirited and judous at. tacks, both parties succeeded ; the fort was corn prisoners, fifteen•in number, lilnely surprised,. the. ' taken, and sent on. hoard the et tter, the guns were dismounted and spiked, their carriages totally de stroyed, and the m agaz i ne t, w Dio n up • the barracks were spared, as a large and ripe field of canes ad joining must have :they b een set &re to, inevitabl y b een destroyed had iiThe boats with the seamen ndiscoveted, b passed, one battery ut the privateer was on her guard, and commenced a very heavy fire on them, who nevertheless in the in b0tr4 2 64 ) and :.. , , host prompt and gallant manner Int , were 1,60'71444r Min i uteit Carried her. Two her deck, and fourteen were wound e d ; as don , many of the enem selves int o t h e sea, m y threw them drowned. killed, must have been killed, and t wo lam sort to add that the BI enh eim had on e man wound 1 e y.t , and- the D rake three wounded, one dangerousl ' The Harmonic was commanded by Citizen t• /\ izen Toyer, had eight carriage guns, and sixt'. si x . attack, forty-four only of whom we m r :n flu a n t d the the time of surrender. The boats and privateer re " passed the - Fort oh the larboard side of the I • i tar iour within musket shot, but happily escaped front a heavy fire unhurt. - • The spirited manner in which C • Captain Ferris led the boats to the attack, and the i all g ,nt con (,I I.tn. 1 of Lieutenants Cole an,' Furber ) the petty Officers, and men, on the occasion, merit my warmest • praise ; nor can Id o ton - . . " much justice to the condua. of Lieu , tena'pt Bettie, . -11-14.t•sa_Li commanding the detachment of Royal .. .Offieers and Privates Boyd, the Non.commissioned ."&tifiiii after beaitess who in the most soldier-like two centinels, andng challenged and .fired upon by and number of tlieriealY ignorant of the nature with, pushed threat !mops they had to contend y 1 010 th e F ' Fort with fixed bayo. nets, When the enemy cried f ' silence with which the Batteurr quarter. By the Y .. veas carried, one hundred Militia of the Fort of Saint Ann's were cut off from the point of rendezv"B, and thus the Pace, . to answe r all Our purposes s , ecured without • the loss of a roan, Enclos dgun; les s eis an account of the rendered use ) and stores destroyed, at Fort Dunkirk. I have the _honour...to he, &c. :dec o 'THOMAS GRAVER. . ), i,tf A A ,v 141 4,,,,i A N l r., ce and Stores destnyed, or rendered useless, 7 1 .1' eloib;,„: - - 1- ‘ Rty,st 11Strines, bellnging .a En's illaiisly' T . i'larti n ., -- ` , at the at ck al Fort Dunkirk an 'the Isidigd ~f Iron oriiii.us' '''‘ e. Ncive,jer, IS- A Thr ee p4uce —Si .Twent - fi, j-. Pouncterq and .Eighteen c,.. parr butt _ • .. . y- ur . .. •, 5".... sartel s b utect, and the Carriages. ot all C art • • Y , 'Ter many filled Cartridges, One Cask the Sea, ' ridges and ' . very many Cannon Shot.thrown into Several Bartel s of Powrl --'.t blown up in the Magazine. nio. GRvAvEs... , tdiarir a hy d a . - 4 , •ce, Jan. 28, 1804. Copy .of another Lette r r-- 4 , Gin Contnmdare Hood, Con. mander in Letter C 4 "-i o f His Majesty 's Ships add Fes. Jekat the Leew . grd Islands, to Szr bv-att Areiwats i -Bart• dated a t Sea, ad December, 180,3• • ,s we lay at anchor in Fort Royal Bay; Marti iiicitie; "close to ,Cape des Salines, xesterday morn. YLtg, reschoO t et. with a sloop in to was working fr° i I P to leeward ;- about eight' o'clock being withn six miles, and perceiving her intention for St. Pierre's, I direaed Captain Maxwell to weigh and give chase, and was not discovered until all sail was set, when the schooner and sloop separated ; I sent the Sarah advice boat, after the sloop, and t he schooner Ma. Sophie, belonging to Guadaloupe, Of eight guns ( w hi c h were thrown overboard in the C , h ace;) and f orty-s i x men, was captured by this titter a run of twenty.four leagues; the, tiluop • Yet y t e , was cut Ott Courland Bay, Tobago, having on board only a few hogsheads of sugar. I have the honour to be, &c.. . (Signed) SAM. HOOD. P. S. Since writing the before-mentioned, tenant Dame:,-in -the Vigilant tender, with the Sarah advice boar, burnt a schooner In Anc't de Serron, of seventy tons, and destroyed the battery Chateau Margot of three eighteen pounders, without any loss on our part.—A party of the enemy came down ankt fired on them, of which they killed one man, and wounded some others. Admiralty-Ofce, Jan. 28, 1804. S. H. Copy of a Letter from Rear2Admiral Sir johnTko mas Duckworth, K. B. Commander in Chief of His Majesty's Ships and Vessels at Jamaica, to Sir Evan Nepean, dated' at Port Royal, thei9th November, 1803. SIR, Accompanying this I send you, for the informa.. tion of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, a letter from Lieutenant Foley of the Hercule, Com- - manding the Gipsey tender, stating the destruction of a Fce►ich privateer. Captain Roberts of the Snake also sends me an account of a Tench privateer which he had been in cline of the whole day of the loth instant ; a►nd itl endeavouring to avoid him after &ilk, got on shore upon Rocky Point, near the East end of this island. The ptisoners, sixty in number, he has sent in. I have the honour to he, &c. . J. T. DUCKWORTH. His Majesty's Schooner Gipsey, Port Rojo!, SIR, November 4. tBO3. I have the honour 'to inform you, that on the 19th of O&ober last, at - four P.M. Carpe iViaize, bearing Forth, distatit six or seven league~, I chased, and, after a running tight of two hours and forty minutes, drove on shore, and compittely ole srroyed a French privateer schooner, imiuntig two long , yighteen-pounders, and full of men. I should have endeavoured to get her off, but the night being very - dark, and the wind freshening from the S. E. was obliged to make sail for the safety of His Maj , :sty's schooner under my command, and join the PAcket, which ship:lrsavrsafe, agreeable to your orders. I have, ire. K. FO LEY. Sir . . 7", brielvlrih, .k. IL Commander Ch; j;&c. c. Admiralty Office, jan. iB, i 804.. Copy ya Letter from Rear. Admiral rhorithorufb to the Right I-loath - ruble Lord Keith. K. H. Admi - ral . of the Blue, &e. dated oil board Hit Al chesty' 3 shill Rzsly, • alr Tbi• Te.4:11 - , the 17 th ;nitant. MY Lottbi "have thehonot:r td 11't Lot& that Captain Wooldridge, of His Majrsty's Sloop Scourge, returned to die this afternoon off the Texel, having cut out of the We Roads an English ship of four hundred tons bnithen, laden with tire. ber, from Meniel bound to Hul!,, which Alp he hai sent to Yarmouth R, ads'. I beg leave to observe to your LordthiFi that, from the very intricate passage' into the Anchorage at this season of the year, which was planned by Captain Wooldridge himself, decidedly against the opinion of 1113 pilots, and which succeeded in the fullest extent, thereby depriving the enemy of so valuable a cargo, refleas no less credit on him than it dues on Lieutenant Hughes, who conduaed, and the officers and men who executed, so hazardous an enterprize, wilder the fire of the batteries on the island, and so many other disadvantages. I have the honour to be, See. EDW. THORNBOROUGH. Scourge, of the Vile Islaid, SIR, January 11, 1804. I have the honour of informing you, that in exe. cution of your orders of yesterday's date, on my arrival off the Vlie Island, in His Majesty's sloop, I spoke the Prussian, from Amsterdam, who in formed me, that a large ship; , . with prize colours flying, was lying in the Vlidßoads, maiting a wind to proceed up the Passage ;i and that lte understood from the pilots she was an Eirglish:ship, , laden with naval stores ; considering tharlodeprive the enemy of a ship of that description was Of material conse quence, I determined On attempting to cut her out ; for which purpose, after dark, His Majesty's ship was anchored in the State Mile Passage, in four and half fathom water, and within musket-shot of the shore, ready to co-operate with The boats, which were detached about midnight,. under the direction of Lieutenant W. j. Hughes, the senior Officer, and with such good order was the attack condutied by him, that the ship was boarded and brought out, although lying immediately_ under the batteries, and mouraing herself eight guns, without the smallest loss ; and proves to be a Ship from Memel, laden with timber, 400 tons burthen, taken on the rgithof December last, by L'Union Dutch Brig Privateer, of t 8 guns, on the coast of Norway. Mr. William •son, the Purser, Mr. Hepburn, the Boatswain, and Messrs. Dale arid Daly, Midshipmen, who were vo lunteers in the boats, Mr. Hughes speaks 19 the hand somest manner of; indeed the behaviour of every man and Officer in the Ship was so much to my satis fadion, that had the resistance been ever so . great I have little doubt of the success. I am, &c. Wl\l WOOLDRIDGE. Rear-Admiral Tborfrtborough, &c. TORBAY, JAN. 28.---Arrived the rile de Paris, Dreadnought, end Cdorsus Men of W9c, being blown off their station in a heavy sale of wind yes terday. PL,YMOUtii, JAN. zB.—Sailed. the Print-4 of , g 8 guns, Conqueror, Foudroyaert, and L'ilfnietueux, of 74, guns each, to join the Channel .Pleet ; and tic Santa Marsaritta Frigate, 0/14 Cruize in the Chan- nel. Arrived The Andromarke Frigate from Halifax,: 'sailed thence the 3Qth December, having four Mer. under convoy, which she parted company in a tale of wind. The. Mars Transport, Cvhich arrived here a few days since from Jamaica, cut away her masts this . . . inOrnini; in U3rkt , ater, which enabled hei to ride our the gale tvhich came on last night. Arrived the Swedish Ship Emanuel, CVt.EIiN. . • from Salo FA' C'hristian4: PORTSMOUT.II, JAN. 2 9 .-The Britai7get, of zoo guns, Capt. the Rail of Nt',R 4 :Hcsk, was ordered by Telegraph to join Ole- Channel Fleet. She is, however, detained arfit,Helen's, with the Prinifss kiydl and WindsorCaidr, byontrary winds. His Majesty's Ship Montagiie,. 01 . 74 g ns i Capt. OTWAY, is completely ready for sea, and only waits for a favourable wind--to go out of Harbour. The Leviathan, of : ^74 g4ins, Capt. BAYNII.J2.I, is also ready for sea. The Rua/ Sovere;gn, Capt. MALCOLM, is fit ting at Plymouth, fi,r:the Flag of Sir RICHARD BICKERTON. She takes out twelve Russian Officers to the Flee: in the Mediterranean. FALMOUTH, JAN. 27 ;Sailed this evening, the Ship. Hope, Capt. B NN ETA, for the Spanish Ship Providentia, Captain ANumtt, for Londoh, with wool, for Bilboa ; the Dutch East India Ship :Juliana Maria, Clpt. RANSOM, last from Batavia (Prize to the favour;tc, of London, which she fell in with on her passage to the South Seas), for Lr;n don. Remain in Harbour, the Wah;hzilaiv, Rot murs, and Prince of Wale', To•Do, with four Mails on board for Lisbon ;• the PT;nce Ernest, PETR E, with Mails of the itith inst. for the Leeward Islands ; and the Princess 4rnetio, (Packets), Stsvtlcts, with Mails of the 4th inst.liJr Jxtndica, Barbadacs, and Crooked Island. The' bide of Crtm_berlatil, LAWRANC t, from America, and the %Iv:Aland (Ncicets), Scau“Ek, born Lisbon, may be soon expedd. It is supposed that Hit; Malesty's Brig c;rinnet; of .tB s guns, wijl convoy home the latter Packet, as she was.to wait for 3(3Tle Dispatches said to be of much importance. AlCing's Allisenger arrived at Corr rain's Hotel on, Wednesday last, and will take Atis passage in the Walsitg'hatn Packet for Lisbon. The Pritae . si Cbati6tte Packet, which arrived here tan Wednesday last from the Leeward Islands, brotight tio newt of importance. • The' Lady Araiiella Packer, which was driven on shdre on the i9th inst. , andstranded on the rocks at TEefusls, was this day floated oil by e m p t jr . ii a b fastened to her bottom: she is much injured, and:it is suppled will take two months to repair her da mage. The ship John, which went .on shore at St. Mawea itt the same gale, is got off with little damage. SHEERNESS, JAN. 29. —His Majesty's Slop r;r ginie, Capt. BER.Estoßri, having repaired the da. mage she sustained in her last cruize in the North Sea, has this day sailed for tie Downs. The Leda Frigate, Capt.' HONYMAN, was this day paid six months' wages. • A Tender arrived .this miming at this Dock yard, with -two gangs of Shipwrights, one from Deptford, and the other from Woolwich, to com plete the repairs of the':Favourite'Sloop and Minx Gun-hrig. DEAL, JAN. 29.-Came in yesterday the Immbr :alit/ and Locust Gun-brig, from a Cruize off Bon., logne ; Spirt-el from. Dungeness; the Cyclops from the Nure. Put back the Iralmer Castle East India Came in the ruhaire Sloop, from Dungeness, having lust her anchors ad cables. Put back the Witichelsea and Ghitton East India Ships. • In the DownS—Monarc.h, Utrecht, Immortalit6, Cy:lops, Brilliant, Squirrel, 'Champion, Harpy, Cruizer, .Vulture, Perseus, Zebra,: Speedwell, lackall, Locust, Mariner, Abun dance, stoic-ship, Wainlet Castle, Winchelsea, and Glatt9n East India Ships, with the outward-bound as per last. The Tribune, of 4 guns, Capt. BEIINET ; Pluto, of 36 guns, Capt. FUR BUS; and, the Bury Sloop of War, Capt. CLINCH, Lay( - Sailed / from Portsmouth for the purpose of blockading the port of Cherbourg, and watching the line of coast in that quarter, Capt. But..t.-Es is to have the command of the Sheerness Dock.yard Flotilla, in the room of COnt missioner CokriN and the Botnb-tendets are, in the event of Invasion, to I); placed under his ,direr. fion, . _ CORN AXCH4NGE, JAN , 30. WHEAT has arrived for this day's Market in good supply, hut tnditiY , Of ordinary quality, which is 25: per quarter cheaper ; . .'i : he.prime samples nearly, maintain last pricesi• Barley also in good quantity, and is rather lower; as are 'White Pease and new Beans ; good old ketp their prices; wt have many arrivals of Oats, those of fine quality have better salt, other sorts but little variation; Flour in pienty,and getting cheaper. Wheat 3S' a 441 a 5 25 od Film ditto - i3> a sis act 2U a .31s od - .z9s a 2.. Ts 01 Nktlt . los a s6s Waite Pease 3 6 $ a 435 od ueans its a Tick BUDS 27S a 33s ad Oats - tBs a2is a 2 . 3 s 0,1 Poland ditto 24s a'ass 6(1 Rape Seed - 351 a fri Fine Flout -43 s a 47s c.d Seconds 3b, AN. 24. General NOGUES is arrived at Paris : he left London a few days ago. He was made Pti, sorter at Br. Lucia, ,where he had only 4co men. He was ignorant of the declaration of W.,t. GR INF I ELD disembarked 6000 rri2n. In an assau'a, on one of the lllornet, the were ihree . repulsed with the loss of several men, esp'ecially the Officer who was to be *pointed Governor. The English General granted r.. 1 No au Es a Flag of Mee to convey hint to France, but he was s nt by • the English Cruikers . into England. He was kept a long time in.small towns,, and was astonished to perteive the grossness of the prejudices which are instilled into the people against, the - ,French. Fit 'y never speak of them in any 'other terms bar . as French Dogs. What a diference there. is her weep the vilization of the People of Fcance; Gertriiiiii, and. Italy, and those of EnOanvi 1 jAN'JtI.RY Z. . . . The FIRST CONSUL has reviewed the Advanced Guard of the Italian Troops, who, n e going to St. Omer's.. It is coMposed : of . half a• Brigade of Light Ilfantry, a Svadron of Horse Artillery, a Ccai..anlr of Mine'rs . ,, atd a kekimen t` of flossarN. Afrer the RevieW, the Officers formed a circle, and the - F,IRsT CONSUL delivered theta their Standards. The Viast CONSUL WAS peffedly satisfied With their appear.. mice. JANVAItY 17. E.41 3 ,01i Tio - NO F THE OF THE RErt.lß7 I it:. The Republic has been constrained to change its attitude, but its circumstances, in the itupottant considerations of strength and prospesity, remain unaltered: Every thi►ig ir k the interior is calm Us when hopes of pertmment peace were entertained; and since the jealousy of our 1 - 6etoies has re-illumed The torch of War',. a union cf interests and senti ments clearly shews i;self among all Frenchmen, and public spilit is displayed with energy. In the, new Departments, visited by the First Consul, he haS also heard the accents of true French ; their hatred against the enemies e . of bur prosperity was unequivocal, as, was their' at tachnient to his person, and their devotion, to the destinies of their common Countiv. Thtotighotit the Republic' the Ministers'of Reli_ pion exert theitirluence to consecrate these tarieotp mOveMents of the public mind. The deitsts of arrtis whicbdastardly and fugitive Rviy,i. - 0 had formed under ground, have been revealed on t!le fifst-appearance of danger, and their contents deli verrd to the Magistrates, to arm the defenders of . out Country: . The British Government . doubtless attemPt to theory upon our oasts, perhaps it has a.Rady effecqed it, some of those monsters which it has fostered during the Peac.,. in order to desolate the Country which gave them birth. Put tlyse will again e;tperience the fate of thwe. impious, h'ansla which were its instruments on a former occasion they neither. find, that credulity they once abused, nor those which .formerlv.s;i ululated their exertion , , :Übe wisdom: of the I.t.ws, the lenity of ttiefr adintutstrationhas since' conciliated the hearts of All the inhabitat4s. A miserable effort has lately been ,made in`La Vendee— the - COnscri.ptions were. the pretext._ flue: the Citizens, Priests, Soldiers, an rose as' one man, in the common defence ; and those who formerly were the movers of insurreaion came for ward, and offered their arrns.to the Public Authoritiec, tender ing themselveS and their families, as securities for their fidelity and patriotism. The War, however, has not interrupted 'what should be the peculiar avocation of Peace, and Go. vernment has adopted, with perseVerance, every measure which tends to diffuse the- benefits of the Constitution among all the Citizens, thereby ar tachini them more firmly to it, and rendering its duration the object of all their interests and their hopes. Thus the Senate has been placed in that,etnipent situation which befits such an institution, and, re ceived an endowment such as the Constitution had determined, and environing it with a respedable grandeur, • The Legislative Body will be invested with that degree of dignity which the, nature -of its funaions requires. An annual President will regulate its proceedings, and be the organ of its deliberations and wishes, in its relations with the Government. The Eleaoral Caeges are everywhere held with due calmness and deliberation, and which guarantees a proper choice of Representqives. The Legion of Honour, consisting of those ele ments whielf ought to compose it, exhibits a supe rior degree of Organization; but its Members still wait for the final apprortiation of rank and station. The ambition of individuals has revealed numberless traits - of honour, to chew their claims to admission in,to an institution, wherein the treasures of the Republic will recompense patriotism, service, and virtue. , the CouncitOf State, another Institution formed by the Government,• the. heads of all the superior branches :of the Administration, and Judges, will frathe regulations and laws, and will minutely can., sider' - the principles, and maxims of Public Order. Always attended by Magistrates and Witnesses , and frequently employed Cl'important missions,.they will proceed in their functions with the aids of ac tual experience'and persOnal ob.ervation. Lyceums, and Schools of a second order, are every where forming, but not with a rapidity equal to the expectations oldie Citizens. An uniform sys tem of instruction, of disciplil,e, and (d.regulations in all theSe,h will - form generations, which in future days will sustain , the glory of• France by their ta. lents, and her institutions by their principles and their virtues. An Asylum at St. Cyr is open for the children of those who die for their Couutry, whose education will be of a •miliwy nature. A special Military School; at Fontainbleau, contains Many hundreds .who are grounded in every species of dicipline. ArtillerrNßS Engineering are taught in common. The School at Cornpeigne presents the appearance of a vast manufaoory ; SOO young persons are in