The Sun. — London, England, 1804-02-06 00:00:00

LONDON, FEBRUARY 6, So¢. Admiral CORNWALL IS sailed on Saturday from Torbay, to resume his Station off Brest. THE Gazette of Saturday did not, as we ex peßed, contain the Official Account of the Suriender of the French Troops in St. Domingo. The reason was, that the regular Dispatches were not received by -Go - vernment till yesterday ; those brought by the kevolutiolzaire were only the Duplicates. The details we have laid before cur Readers respe&ing this important event, will, we believe, be found to be perfeety correft. Roo HAMS EAU finding it impossible any longer to resist the attacks'of the Blacks, and knowing the dreadful consequences that must ensue, if they succeeded in storming Cape Francois, embarked with all his Forces and some of the principal Inhabi tants, and having made an inefieetual attempt to escape the vigilance of the English Blockading Squadron, en tered into a Con ven tiOn with the English Commant!er, by which he and his Army surrendered Prisoners of War, and all the Ships of War and Merchant men were delivered up to the English. The 'Capi tulation will be found in another part of our Paper. It is said that a Negotiation has already been en tered into between the Government of Jamaica and General DESIALiNES and the other Chiefs of the Blacks, in order to settle the terms of the Commercial Intercourse which is in future to sub sist between them. This, however, can only be a riovisional measure, until some definitive arrange ment is made. The Capitulation of the French was signed on the 3oth November last. The French Troops, we learn by the Cheiterfield Packet, were not permitted to land at Jamaica, but were kept on boafd the Ships and Transports, and being very sickly, great numbers of them died. It is said they arc to be sent to France, upon condition of not serving against this Country until regularly exchanged. On Friday last Gen. ROCHAMB EAU; his Officers and Suite, who came home in the Revo/utionaire, landed at Portsmouth under the care of the Officer who has the charge of the French Prisoners at Port chester, and it is supmed they will be suffered to reside somewhere in the ccunty on their parole. WE this day present to our Readers a part of the Correspondence between the hist! CHANCELLOR and Lord Fr NGAL L, which has excited of late much conversation, both in this Country and in Ireland ; and we shall continue it till the whole is laid before our Readers. On Saturday, at twelve o'clock, HFR MArSTY and the PRINCEses, atv.mde..l by the Countess of AYLESBURY and Lady A. Cuz.IBERLAND, took all airing in two coaches and four, with an escort of Light Horse, by Clapham. About one o'clock His MAJESTY, attended by Earl CHESTERFIELD, Generals MANNERS and SPENCER, and Mr. MONTAGUE, rode in the Riding House. Afterwards HI3 MA J ESTY inspected the Hanoverian black Horses in the Queen's Mews, which attraded a great number of persons. The DUKE! of CUM ERLAND, KENT, and CAM BRIDGE dined with THEIR MAJESTIES. Yesterday the ROYAL FAmILY, attended divine service in the privwe chapel. About one o'chcic HER MAtEsTy and PRIN . CEiSEs took an airing by Fulkuri. Scion after two o r ciock His MAjlEs-ry gave an audience to Mr. ADDINGTON, which lasted a con siderable time. Generals Sir C. CitEEN and HUGHES sailed from Spithead on Thursday iN the Fortani , e, for Barbarities. stated in one of the Nev.) York Papers, upon the atithorit! of the Mdster of a Vessel arrived th-s!re from Cayenif,-, that a Squadron of stria!: vesses f rom : h e i, .to place about the middle r f Nos-ea:her, ar; Circe. Fog large Priva:ec!, „11,) •ai•e..l from ;in th e 20 ,h of Novell - 11;i:: tin NAVAL NEWS. 14-om the LONDON GAZETTE, Feb. 4, 1204. Adm;ralty-Offee, February 4., 1804.. Copy of a Letter from Admiral Montagu, Comman der in Chief of His Majesty's Ships and Vessels at Portsmouth, to William Marsden, Esq.. dated the 31st of January, 1804. SIR, Be pleased to inform the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, that His Majesty's ships Tribune and Hydra yesterday fell in with twenty of the enemy's flotilla off' Cape La Hogue, and captured three gun-brigs and a lugger : the three former are arrived ; they are reported new, and had been launched only ten days, having been rigged upon the stocks. The soldiers they had on board . were embarked the day after they were launched. Un derneath is a further description of them. I ton, &c. GEO. MONTAGU. No. sr. of too tons, 3 twenty-four pounders, and so men. No. 43. of tco tans, and 3 twenty-four and eighteen poun ders, and 5,, men. • No. 47. of too tons, 3 twenty-four and eighteen pounders, and 6o men. Admiralty-Office, February 4, 1804. Col) , of a Letter from Captain R. H. A. Bennet, Commander of His Majesty's Ship the Tribune, ro William Marsden, Esq. dated at Sea, the 30th of January, 1804. SIR, I beg you will inform the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, that His Majesty's ship Tribune, under my command, fell in with this morning, Cape La Hogue bearing S. S. W. three or four miles, a small fl )tilla from St. Maloes bound to Cherbourg, consisting of three brigs and some smaller boats ; as it blew very hard I could only capture two brigs, of two twenty-four pounders and one eighteen. pounder each, manned with fifty-one seamen, and fifty soldiers of the 3z3 demi-brigade. I have sent them to Portsmouth. His Majesty's ship captured and destroyed a' large boat from La Hogue before she fell io with the flotilla. I beg leave to add, that a frigate, which I take to be the Hydra, captured a lugger, one of the-flutilla,• and I:kft her in chace of . another brig. I am, &c. R. H.. A. BENNET. N. B. Brigs of the rst Class, No. 47 and ,43. • IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF COMMONS. SATURDAY, FEB. 4. THE House met at half-past three, and proceeded to ballot for a Committee to try the merits of a Pe tition complaining of an undue Eleetion for the Bo rough of Midhurst, when the following Gentlemen were chosen : Right Hon. T. Grenville, Hon. G. Watson, Ri4lit Hon. 1. Smith, , Right Hon. N. Bond, Lord H. S. Manners, A. Strahan, Esq. Earl TertfiAe,' E. B. Portman , Esq. Lord - Viro‘ . -inshend, Sir M. Foulkes, Bart. W. Clive, E sq . and j. Blackburn, Esq. A. St. john, Esq. NOMINEES, W. Dickinson, jun. Esqrs. B. Hobhouse, and Adjourned till Monday. pus. lii:nburgh 2 MAILS. •It A IV ID. 0 PRICE OF STOCKS, THIS DAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCK. Consols. -5511 i Red. Ann. - - -55 THE SUN. SOLZU QUIS DICERE TALsum Auor.AT Admiralty-Ofce, Feb. 4., 1804.. Copy of a Letter from Captain George Mundy, Com mander of His idajesty's Ship the Hydra, to Wit- Liam Marsden, Esy. dated at Sea, the 31st januag I.Sc4. SIR, Irg leave to inclose you, for the information of the Lords Commissioners Of the Admiralty, a Copy of my Letter of this day's date, to Rear-Admiral Sir Jones Saomarez, respecting the capture of two of the Enemy's Flotilla. SIR, I am, &c. G. MUNDY. Il . ydra, at Sea, January 31, 1804.. I have the Honour to represent, that being close in with Cherbourgh, yesterday about noon, I dis covered a straggling Convoy under the lend to the Westward, and succeeded in separating two Brigs and a Lugger from it, the latter I captured about two o'clock in the evening, and one of the former about ten at night, within a few leagues of the Isle of Wight ; the other I observed was brought to by a Frigate. to the Westward, both Vessels are per. featly new and well found, and manned and armed as below mentioned ; they left St. Maloes on Sun.. day evening, in company with three other Brigs, and were bound to B,,ulogne. I have the Honour to be, &c. G. MUNDY. Brig No. cr, commanded by lieutenant de vaissen!i, armed with 3 twenty-four ,pounders, ;o men imd officers ; Lieutenant and z 6 of which are of the 32,:i regiment of the line. Lugger No. 41t, commanded by an ensign de vaisseau, armed with r eighteen pounder, 36 men and officers ; a lieutenant and z 6 of are of the same regiment. TORBAY, FEE. 4.—S.dled the Ville de Paris, Admiral CORNWALLIS, Drea2'nong.ht and Colossus Men of War, Experiment and Nimrod Cutters, on their stations off Brest. PORTSMOUTH, FEB. 5. —The Outward-bound Mediterranean and West India Fleet have not been able . to sail this day, the wind being about West ; but it having a northerly aspea, they are expetled to get under way in the morning. Arrived His Majesty's Sloop Iflocli;c1;n e , from a Cruize. Sailed the Tribune and Decade Frigates, of 44. guns each, and Ariadne, of 36 guns, on a Cruize; also the Diligence Store-ship for the River. Sailed yesterday, to join the Channel Fleet, the following Ships, viz. Britannia, - - 100 Guns, Capt. Lord NORTHEsx. Windsor Castle, - 9 8 Capt. WELLS. Prince George, - 9 8 Capt. YoRKE. Princess Royal, - 9 8 Capt. VASHON. FALMOUTH, FEB. 3 - . - -Arrived the Swedish Gal liot Treivding, Capt. ROMKE, from London, with bale goods, for St. Bartholomew : sailed from Lon don the Ist January, and his been 14. days off Cape Finisterre, but in the late gales she lost all her sails, and is otherwise much damaged - ; it is supposed she will be obliged to discharge her cargo. Also arrived the. Brigs Pomona, Capt. .PECK-- THORN, and the Endeavour, KILPATRICK, from Liverpool bound to Malta and Trieste ; they have experienced the most dreadful weather either of the Captains remembered : have been out twenty_four days from Liverpool, bound here to wait convoy. Trey tortunarely have not, received any damage. Also arrived this evening the I‘ , :vmph Cutter, pUTTERFIELD, from Plymouth, having on board a Lieutenant with dispatches for Sir R. CAI.. in Bantry Bay. The Chesterfield Packet, which arrived on Wed. nesday evening last, brought over the Aide.du- Camp of General ROCHAMB EAU, who still remains on board. . General ROCHAMB EAU is passenger on board His Majesty's Ship Revolutionaire, which they' parted with 14 days since, which Ship left Jamaica the day after the Packet. There were to,ooo French Troops at Jamaica, the great num ber of which occasioned much uneasiness there; the • ,• greater part weteiin, a ,sickly state. The Chester field left at Jamaica the Leicester Packet, Capt. BELL, which had arrived on the day . she sailed. Sailed the Brig are, Capt. How ARD, for Teign. mouth. His Majesty's Ship Thisbe is hourly expeatd here, to take the Outward-bound - Lisbon and Oporto Fleet under her Convoy. Remain in Carrick Roads, His Majesty's Ship Nimrod, Capt. O'NEIL, and the Outward-bound Packets with Mails. SHEERNESS, FEB. 5. —Came out of Dock the 211116 rook,. Schooner, Lieut. DE:SMACK. Sailed the Unicorn Frigate, Capt. HARDYMAN, on a Cruize off Flushing. HARWICH, FEB. s.—This day sailed the Post. Office Packets, Diana, i\doluriENlAN master, with the Mails and Passengers for Husum ; and the Lady Francis, JOHN MARSH master, for Guttenburgh, with Mails. Remains here, the 5 , N../711orzu Revenue Cutter, , Aiariner, Hecate, and :1'o;/key Gun brigs, and the Romulus Frigate laying in the Rouling Giound3. DEAL, FEB. .5,--Saiied the Immortaliti,_with the Archer 40 L r.st Gan-brigs, for their station off .13)ulogne ; Cydops, Zebra, and Harpy, to join the Squadron at Dungeness. Sailed tl:c rirginie, on a cruize off Flushing and the Squirrel on a cruize, but put back again, and remains. The Daft 51 , ,0p came down from the Noce, and the 11,cia from Dungeness. In the Downs— Monarch, Utrecht; Leda, Brilliant, (2-ham. pion, Squirrel, Arab, Vulture, Curlew, Lark, Petseus, Fury, Dart, Ilecla, faekall, amt Speedwell, .with the outward-bound as per last. The Brig Hope, SPICER master, loaded with,' barley, from Yarmot.th bound to Dublin, ran on shore last night about nine o'clock, abreast of the town, having sprung a leak at sea: the cargo is getting out, very little damaged, and it is thought the Brig will be got off the next high water. NAVAL APPOINTMENTS.—Capt. WHITBY, to the Desiree, vie , ; Ross, who is appointed to La Pipe, in the room of Capt. cumuF,IILAND, posed ; Lieut. M'DONALD, (son of the LORD CHIEF BARON) to the Port Mahon, vice MEV ILL E, de ceased ; Mr. J. SULL I VAN, Purser to the Ambus caa'e; Mr. G. GODFREY, Purser to the Orpheus ; Mr. VANCE, who c;orie home Surgeon of the Rev°, lutioaaire, is appointed Surgeon of the Naval Hos. pital at Baibadoes. The following is the number of Officers in the Navy : Admirals 123, Captains 672, Commanders 4.06, Lieutenants 2447. Captain W. HOPE is to have the command of the Atlas, which has been cut down from 90 to 74, guns, and is the largest of the latter class in the service. Orders have been issued for her immediate equip ment, as well as of the Glory of 98, Veteran, Poly phemus and ./Ipmemlloa, of 64, and some smaller vessels, at Chatham- Capt. GOSSELIN is appointed to command the Ville de Paris, of I to guns, on board of which Ad miral CORNWALLIS'S Flag is ; and left town on Friday for that purpose. Another French Frigate has been captured in the West Indies by one ot . Sir J. T. DUCKWORTH'S Squadron, but we are uninformed of the particulars. The account comes by way of New-York, where the ARive, ARMET, arrived on the 28th of De cember, having on the loth of that month tell in with a British 74 gun ship, having in company a French Frigate, her prize. Capt. HUNT, who commanded the Hornet Sloop, under the orders of Commodore Hoot., in the West Indies, and brought the account of the Surrender of Demerara, &c. to England, has been promoted to die rank of Post Captain. The British Frigate Phaeton, having been repair ed at New-York, dropped down on New. Year's Day 'to Sandy Hook, and was to proceed to sea the first fair wind. It was stated there that the Phaeton was to convoy the Sir Edward Hughes to . the East Indies. The Courageux MAta of War rtn down the Frant/iu, of London, on the 27th of January, and all the crew were drowned. Acccounts from Naples mention, that Captain SCHOMBERG, of His Majesty's Ship the Madras, laying off Malta, as a Pris3p.ship, had fitted out two Tenders to cruize against the Enemy ; but that one of them aftey.a,very brave re,is;ance, had been taken by two„ Privateers, and carried into Civita Vecchia. Mr..WIIP, R , Master's Mare of the Madras, who commanded the tender, with two men, were unfortunately killed in the engagement, and two others died of their wounds after they were A letter received from Capt. SHOUT . , of the 1%011- caster, %hie!' sailed under convoy of the Diana, Capt : , MAL ING, from • Portsmouth, bound to the Mediterranean, dated Jan. 14, says, " I 'arrived here on the 3th instant, af;e: i t rrtnendou:.pass:ige five weeks from Spitizead : only twelve •sail of Convoy' have arrived here, awl nu account has been received of the remainder. We shall p • :Ice ed on ow voyage immediately after getting refitted, under convoy of the Sophia Sloop of War." A letter from Captain CARTER, of the Surpize, bound from Cork to Guernsey, dated Morlaix, Jan, 24., says, "I am sorry to inform you, that I was cap tured on the 7th instant, by a French Privateer be longing to Dunkirk, and brought into this place., with six other Captains, ffn.tr•of whom were captured off the Land's End at the same time as myself. I sailed- from Cove on the gth instant in company _ • with seven sail more, under convoy of the Lair,' . Frigate, which ?:eft the Fleet-on the 6th instant, off • St. lye's. - In the morning, wheo..ove came round • •• the Land's End, we fell in with a French Privateer, who captured us about nine o'clock. We were cruizing in the Channel, on blard the Privateer, eight days after we were taken, before we arrived here ; the Surprize is arrived in some port in France, about 3o miles from this place." The Lady Washngton, PR ICKETS, arrived ,at• New-York from A:Jigua, on the Th of December; in lat. zt. long. 64, saw a Fleet of gz sail, induct iogfourteen or fifteen Ships of War, standing to the' N. N. W. We are happy to have it in our power to c,,ntra did the report of Capt. WALL is being dangerously ill at Plymouth ; that gallant, brave, and adive Officer being so well as to be able -to go again to sea in the fine Frigate the Naiad, which he has com manded.. with Si) much credit to himself these last two years. NAVAL IMP R(WrMENT.—A Lieutenant of the Royal iN vy has t received the thank.; the Right lion. the Lords Commissioners of the Almi raity,- for his excellent plan (which he has commu nicated to their Lordships). for the purpose of keep ing the_ Squadrons of His Majesty's Fleets upon their Stations before the Enemy's Ports in blow. ing weather. The plan is likewise of the utmost utility to prevent a Ship from failing into the trough of the sea ; and, in a gale of wind, .to keep her frotn: the danger.of being drove upon a lee-shore, where: there is no anchorage. It will also be found of; great importance, in case a ship should lose her carry away her masts, lose her rudder, get becalmed after a strong gale in a ,heavy sea, or become other' wise in a distressed situation. The above intentie is rendered invaluable, by its being at once upon so plain and so easy a principle, that it may he colt' prehcnded in an instant, and two or three:.fainet i can, at,.any time, construct the whole machine in a. few minutes, out of a part of the ship'S without any loss or expence whatever, as the ma' chine (Jter it is done with) can With ease be taken to pieces, and those parts which composed it used again lot their ordinary purposes: A recent regulation has been adiTted in the Navy, the Warrant s e a a r t e o n t o h w e e Oinffircees xtent' fur plied to the specific purposes fur which they had o to s.tear f Ft t o h r e e y s ;had. been been imed. The Commanders of twa Frigates, at Sheerness, having appropriated some stores to other purposes on board their Ships, ,than those for whieb, they were intended to be applied, will, we L AO' stand, be ,compelled to ?av for them. General Rocum , ,lßEAo; and Generals LApoTi l : Boze, PAGrT, DTI VERRIE, with eight OfficC i r 7 of their Staff, and between forty and fifty la fliers, who were taken at Cape Fran9ais,ffu e ., on Friday at G 'sport, horn ihe..Re.voizitioa;/` Frigate, Captain L, cx, horn Jamaica, u n der til e charge of Captain THESIGER, of die Navy, Agel l . for Prisoners at Portchester. It. is supposed they will be so o n or d ere d i nto t h e country on thei r parole. The RevolutioNaire was 32 days on bet• passage from Jamaica, during which a sea s truck her on the stern, which washed away liet.qtl.irt er ' gallery, dead lights, Sze. She bringS affitAincr 3C counts of the mortality at Jamaica : of 38 Midst men who arrived in Prizes at Port Royal, t' l only were livin g w h en the ,Re.voliition.;ire sail e d The Hon. Lieutenant i'VIot:RAY, 2.1 of the Blanc (son of the late Bishop of S. DAvio's), Was . P, ra t ; tooted to be a Commander, an d di e d t h e s econd afterwards! A report was circulated on Saturday, that ati o e ; count had been received" of the French haVirrg W u ' . ed at Duabay, but it of course obtained but lit tle.c ce ' dit. It does appear by accounts from t he Nor th ' , ' that an alarm prevailed on Tue s day laps at 1(el s ': c l. and qn Wed n e s day and Thursd a y at N ev; . east le 3 ' l - • Durham, but the cause is not stated. <kg' The report of an embargo in this C o u n t r y o n I „ s t sets to Spain and Portugal, occasined the grel l 'ip sensation at Jamaica. It was communicated 1 0 ,%, Commander of a Liverpool Guineatnan at j,onoc— by his owners ; with the addition, that an iiinv e ; dime War was inevitable. Sorry- Spanish Vessel` at Kingston ran to sea to avoid seizure, and v` ls , bustle was created in our marine department (he r " ! Letters have been received from the West Indie s ' which announce the death of Captain f-f e ttit l'zt who commanded the Shark Sloop, of t h e yello w Fever. A private letter from France r e l a t es a:c t ' f ot st an ce which may be prAuCtive of consequences t . / . at die instant i n t h e contemp l at i on o f the Fll ts „. CortsttL. A Russian I\l:l: n le a mi t i o n u o r f of h igil scientific eiiarr ' / : cl e and conneaions, w h o , u philosophical enqui r y, h a d visited most parts of t o , Continent, was recently taken up at Boulogne a spy. With all the tranquillity which consci ejt inrcenee might he suppose d to inspire a g r mind, he viewed the accuqttion and the a ccwei looking with confidence to the justice of BO NA" . 0 1 PARTE for liberation and atonement. But he ' l o ' o , calculated on a nonentity—the FIRST CoNstJto, nr being apprized of his arrest, ordered his e xccort ° e. which excited at Boulogne equal surprize Bret, the heroism with which the Russian. sue, nutted to his fate having created a lively and ger',, ral interest in his favour. The letter adds, th lr , c there did not appear any circumstance to crim inat e this Gentleman, his having heel) executed w i?lti even the form of trial, was ex. , e't • 1 to considlll`)., p ete rs , aagment tine displeasure which the Court of 0. nurgh touch CO was known to feel at of the cone B NArAarE. 011 ,1 e A G-airieman in Gallo wa y h as i n vented a s l ~e t t and'expeditioas metnnd o f‘ lo,u-iitz guns, the Lich is to supersede entirely the use of the r mod.