The Sun. — London, England, 1801-05-25 00:00:00

1r 7...„?... ...Af "‘ A '' ' ' • If t ctf 1 - ' '••l l ,i,V• i . NAVAL : , 1)-7`..—,4- v NEWS. t- , ile Non illi imperium pelagi c savoinque ilidentent, Sri milli rortedalum. Ftom the LONDON GAZETTE, May - 23, aot. Aftiy 23, iSo t . t t abyt, a ; Letter from ArchiLald Dickson, Esq. Ad . ...mir, l l of the Blue, Egc.` to ErLitin Arepeau, Esq. the Princess of °rause, in l'ar- Pnolithz&mrdijj the loth inst. SIR, • • Enclosed is a Letter which I have received from Lieutenant Lake, commanding His Majesty's hitrd Brig Lady Ann, giving an account of his having taptured the Vidoire French Cutter Privateer afier a Chace and running fight orseventeen bouts. The Lidy .after landing fifty-five Prisoners at tridlington, arrived here this day with her Prize and twenty Prisoners. I am, Sir, &c. &c. &c. _ A. DICKSON; Lady Ann Hired Armed Brig, te' Flay stß, borono.h.Head, May 16, 1801. I have the, honour to acquaint you, that I this 111 ° 11141 g, at eight A. M. , after a chace and run. fling„ fight of seventeen hours, captured the Viaoire ‘- r nrter, French Privateer, mounting fourteen long ' eau r-pounders, and manned with seventy-five men, kran Sevill e , CO mman d er ,'n Li eu t enan t i n the hired Navy, (the Viaoire was late His Majesty's red Cutter the Afive) sailed from Dunkirk six 'ndad's since, and had made no captures ; when I first gave chace to him at three P. M. on the igth inst. close in with Flamborotrgh-Hend, the Cutter was un der a - press of sail after several loaded Ships, which I h ave t h e p l easure to reflect I prevented him from capturing. I cannot speak too highly of the spirited and . good condua of the Lady Ann's Cempany in general : the two Vessels being so crowded with Prisoners, and several of my people being very weak.and sickly, with the wind blow ing strong from the S. W. , I think it my duty to make for the first Port to land the Prisoners, who are l ac. jRO ,n4 i tniexous for our Ship's Company after ul 'fli4nk the Prize ; I trust and hope my conduit.wtli • . fTtet your approbation. Aasl, with great respell, Sir, See. JOHN LAKE. 4)4ibaid Dielson, Esq. Admiral of the Blue, &c. &c. &r. FALMOUTII, MAY 22. YESTERDAY arrived the Duke of Clarence Packet, 26 days from Halifaxt • By het' we learn, that thb Coats belonging. to klis, Majesty's Ships Cleopatra and Andromache, had hacta very severe ACtion with ! bane Spanish Gun-boats laying in the Bayof LeVita, in the Island of Cuba, where they had under their 'convoy about thirty sail of Vessels, very richly laden, which Capt. TJAWR lUi of the Andrometehe) with - commanded the BOais, intended to cut out to the night ; . but the Spaniards ,having leßrnt their intentions, were prepared, and - had moored their boats across the 'bay with springs on their one of whiA was taken by the boats- belong. i 'l,to.the Frigates. She carries 2+ and 36 pounders. The 'onus were nearly all destroyed by their :heavy hre,of grape -shot. The Viisi Lieutenant ( - FAY L'on ), of the c i„p at . rap m id 3 seamen, were killed, and 6 wounded and 2 Midshipmen and 4 seamen l nd to badly wounded, belonging to the Andromache. Yesterday aiso arrived, -the.lValii4afn Packet, m sbon • sae - _Os not ,bring any in t 4 .4 41 - 6O 1 d , . l' i irt icalittelit..L. The. Lady -Arabella was sate arl. ri vettoutlttit4 rtiller T hP l Yi r gc . P 4 2.44lphris Packet sails tomorrow, if F air wind, fOt : Lisbon. sailed this ev enin g , the American ship Herald, s 1 " .. "3 for Rotterdam and the American Brig ' • • ' n erve, ijtßß ltl,t., t - or Hamburg i . Ihe Cleolatra, during her ,Cruize, also. got on rl.ore on the Isl a nd of Abaco, one of the Bahama i sland : , and-Was nearly lost, being obliged to thro‘j her guns and ballast overboard.—The Third Lieutenant fell overboard; and- vas drowned. PLYMOUTH, MAY 23. AR y the Spanish . ship Sawa Teresa, and 'brig El Rost:Kie r both laden with valuable cargoes :hides and tallow, from Monteviedo, in the River 1, 4 Plata, captured on the 17th ult. to the South= ward of the Canary Islands, by, the renemble• and OW •L ' Cam br i an L (c)ue, of 7 4 guns, and Cam br i an F rigate. . . _ The Ship Port Roserway, South Sea' Whaler, p 4 Pt; - Err] x; one of the Ships which sailed from arts Mouth under convoy of the Lion, of 64 guns, 14 arrived here, and anchored in Cawsand Bay, hay. ing lost the Convoy. • Sailed the Magnificent, of 7+ guns, to join the P leet off Brest. A.rrived-Alte ~ F )os;eiab/e, of :98 guns, from the i et,l'lNl 4 B/imdFfrigate, from the Downs. Arri7ea last night, the extra Ship Ifighlan? Chief, of -on ce l ,.W. G,REE/NAWAY master, from Bengal bound to London, to repair 'damages sustained by running foul of a Frigate in the Channel, by which a-cident her bows were stove in and other damage wtl- Four. ether East India Ships are gone up Chan it .n the above vessel Governpr BLOC= Old Family, laid Mr. MA sett, tame Passengers : the latter is charged With the Disratches, and is set tarot LOndon. . The of Lotidon, J. BAitniN master, from London for St. John's, with staves., was taken by the Sorge French Privateer, and re-taken the isth inst. by the Fisgard Frigate. PORTSMOUTH,' MAY 14: niEti yesterday, HiS Majesty's Ships Mot , - 7 'Verine and Raccon, from the Dovns. Early this morning passed by y the isle O? Fight, His Majesty's Ship Bufalo, Commodore from Botany Bay, with the following Ships under convoy from Bengal, viz. Friendship, Yerona , Minerva, and Highland Chief. The Befitlo met the Lapwing Frigate in the Channel, and delivered the above Ships into her charge, to be seen safe to.the Downs. The Bubb is since arrived at Spi.thead. Left Bengal gth De cember, and St. Helena 56th March. • Also passed by last night, the hontewnrd.hound Lisbon Fleet, under convoy of His Majesty's Ship El:4,111;011i Captain Sir THOMAS WILLI ANIS. Sailed His Majesty's Ship Eurydice, with Convoy for Quebec and Halifax ; also the Hai:ar Frigate for Ireland. Arrived the Carteret Cutter, Lieut. ALT, from Marcou. Dropped down to St. Helen's His Majesty's Ship Hannibal, of 7+ guns, Hydra and deitive Frigates. The Emi s ymion having seen her Convoy safe, is this evening arrived at Spichead. Y A RMOUT , MAY 24. ARRIVED the Prince of Wales Packet, DEANE, from Cuxhaven, with Mails, and a Messenger from Berlin. Sailed in the afternoon the folLo,wipg§ps, under the Command of Admiral Di cKpiol, viz, Alohtim (to which the Admiral has shifted his Flag D from the Princess of Orange), Standard, PrinQ.sofOrange, Brunmick, Texel, Assistance, the Seim/ Fri gate, La Jalouse and Hart Brigs, and Diligent Cutter, to cruize off Goree. The Afonmouib sailed in the forenoon-for Ports mouth, and the Griffin Cutter on a Cruize. SHEERNESS, MAT 24.. YESTERDAY arrived His Majesty's Store.ship Alliance, of +4 guns. Sailed His Majesty's. Sloop Gulp, of 22 guns, Captain H.twic tics, for the Downs., The Irresistible, of 74. guns, Captain WubtANl BLtGH, came down from Chatham to Blackstakes. The Dutch Ships Cue/derlima', of 68 guns, Amphi trite, of 4.4 guns, and Galatea, of IS guns, went out of. Harbour to the Nore. This du the Alliaxce Store-diip went up tlic Thames. • The Ships of• War appointed to' carry out Troops to Egypt, are the AgiUciurt, Madras, Gor4an, Hel der, Pandora, and • The reduetion which. the North . Sea Fleet expe riences, in consequence. of the Agincourt,Alommouth, and Leyden, of 64. guns, and Madras, of 54, being ordered with Troops to Egypt, is to be. made up by the Brunswick, Blenheim, S'tank,4-4 5 itid the Ships. originally intended to reinforeeAttotaltic Fleet. • •),,, On Thursday a Court Martial asw hela an board His Majesty'S Ship Gladiator , in tli,;)idkti'uth Har bour, on Capt. ROB ERT PHILPOT, of the Prompt', for suffering William Oates, a man supposed to be long to the Hermoine, to escape from hts Ship. The Court agreed that the Charge had been proved, • and • adjudged him to be reprimanded. Thirteen Fishing Vessels belonging to Harwich, Which went to Norway for Lobsters, in consequence of the Convention with Denmark, have been de tained there. The importation of Grain and, Flour during the last week comprised t7,.2t ; quarters of wheat, 67a of barley, 6,3.18 quarters of oats, and z 4,526 cwt. of flour. One Ship, the Manhatton, from New York, which arrived on niday, brought 6,687 barrels. Several vessels freighted with wheat are daily ex paled from Dantztc. At iNintviicli wheat fell 3s. told. on the average price per bushel c being a redution of 3 is. ad. per quarter. At Norwich, within the present month, flour hasTallen 325. per sack, and the Shilling Loaf has been increased from a lb. B,oz. adrs. to 3 lb. 14.0 z. 6 drs. At Shrewsbury fair on Wednesday fat cattle and sheep felt a considerable depression in price: lean stock and store pigs sold well : cheese, from 655. to Sos. per cwt.; and bacon, from tza. to 13d. per pound. ' At Wisbeach the average price of wheat has fallen from gos. to 775. i od. Oats had agvanzed 4.si per quarter, viz. to 265. ad. On Saturday a Gentleman was conviaed at the Police Office, Worship.street, under' the Armorial Bearing Aft, in th.; mitigated penalty,of 101• for having his crest on his servant's muttons witbout having taken out a certificate; and another Gentle man, similarly circumstanced in regard'to his car riage, paid the like penalty. A baker, wits fined 2i. tos'. for selling fifty loaves which had nut teen baked twenty-four hours. • 111 E if Ail2/11.71( I}l/11,14. COPENHAGEN; tviAlr id; Lotto titttAras,i who goes Andiastacioi, from the Court of London to St. Priekibrerghi rived yesterday In 'oe.r Road; on board the LatOr r ker • Frigate: The Frigate Came tn an anchor, r and his Lordship landed; and had a Conference with the Secretary of State; Count tEItNsTORFF. Itis said that he will proceed on` his voyage to St. Peters_ burgh this day. Lr - rd Sr 1-11 LEN's likel6 . sd chide a visit to M. LtsitKEwiTeg,-.the Russian Envoy, with whom he dined,to.day'.. :On the arrival of the. Latonq, the Commandant, M. BILL!, sent an Of ficer on hoard to compliment his Lordship.. The-English &path-on which arrived here under the command of A4Miral Toiry, sailed - on the 3th inst.' for the Baltic;. and on thd Itth the Fleet of Admiral NELSON was seen off the Island of Borkhohrt. STOCKHOLM, MA Y Tit a following is the Russian Imperial beclara. tion width was sent to Sir HYDE PARKER, the-Ad miral of the British Fleet in the Baltic. .“ By the decease of His Majesty the Emperor PAUL I. of glorious memory, the Sceptre of , the Russian .Empire has descended by-right of birth into: the hands of His Imperial Majesty ALEXANDER.. One of the first events under the government of this MOnarch has been, that he has - accepted the .offer which the BritishCour t had made to his Must riousPre decessor, to terminate the disputes which threatened the speedy breaking out of a War in the North of Europe, by an amicable Convention. Faithful to the engagements which he has entered into 'with the Courts of Stockholm, Berliu, and Copenhn4en, His IMPERIAL MAJESTY has signified to them his resolution, not to ad but in conjunction with his Allies, in whateVer n y. concern the interest of the Neutral Yowers. -- His Imperial Majesty could not have expe6ted that the British Court . would have .undertaken a hostile attack upon Denmark - at the very time when its Envoy at Berlin was authorized anew to' enter into confer ence with the Russian Minister.residing there. The measures taken by His ImPERIAL. E Y • were only a consequenee of his wish for Peace, and the wel fare of mankind, and to avoid a destrudive misun derstanding between the contending Powers. The hostilities co mmenced against Denmark, and the hostile Fleet, would have frustrated the wish.of His IMPERIAL. MAJESTY to maintain Peace, had not' this attack ',upon his Allies been made before his pro posals ,were knOwn to the Court of London. But as the British Fleet' had sailed for the Sound fore His MAJESTY ascended the Throne, he will wait the measures of the British Court, when it shall be informed of that event: The Undersigned, General of Cavalry, and Minister of State for Ft), reign Affairs, requires, therefore, in the name .of his Illustrioui Sovereign, that the Mmiral in Chief of the Fleet of HIS BRITANNIC MAJESTY, Shall desist from all further hostilities .against the Flags Of the three United Powers, till His Excellency shall have received further direelions from his. Sovereign; otherwise the . Admiral ,must he per. • sunnily responsible for the consequences that niay ensue ftdm the prosecution of the- War. Prepared to repel force With. force, His Imp P RI AL MAJESTY persists his pacific sentiments ; but the justice and moderation of the Cabinet of I..ondon, must enable him to reconcile the demands of humanity with the duties which he owes to the Ho. noun of his Crown and the Interests of his .Alltes. (Signed) g‘ Vox DER PARLEII.'! YIENNik, MAY 9. THE Mikan of the Health of the Aacnbusta CHARLES for this day, states, that His Royal High. ness yesterday sat up for 'several hours, and that the symptoms have almost entirely assumed the charaaer. of perfea recovery. Letters received from several parts of Italy as sert, that the Garrison of Alexandria has surren dered to the English by Capitulation, and been sent in English and Turkish ships to Toulon ; but as no such account has been received from Conitanti. mople, the truth of this report Is doubted. FRONTIERS OF HANOVER. As the affairs of the North appear to incline to pacific accommodation, it is lAlieved the Prussian Troops will soon leave the Hanoverian Territory. FRANKFORT, MAY 12. TH E day before yes ay ,the Troops of the Elec torate of Mentz entered gelid, omosite Mentz, ambi the joyful acclarnmations oldie inilabitants, the ring ing of bells, and a vast concourse of Speaators. Te Drum was sung in the Churches, and in the evening Cassel was illuminated. The Prussian Troops in Franconia are put on the Peaw - Estahlishrnent. The DOM? of WUR TFM. asst* is returned from:Erlangen ro Ludwigsburg. BREMEN; rvi;ti r 9. I'4l bvii of Ot-Diriskitiblii Eiti his ilissiht through Pedbi on his road toPriershirgir, on His PRUSSIAN MAJESTY tha! his butehy :,h*ould be evacuated by the PrtissianS: They Will there• foreleaveOidembrirth on the iad, and the Ikeki.; ment of Prince Lewis FekDINA tc D, NV biCil 11:1S been in garrison since the beginning.of April, will pass through 10e/ran on the i3d, in order to take .pos. session of iterebui and . itey' er, until farther orders. Perhaps, if anything can give iBONAt E UlWe uneasiness than the successes of the Erigli,h in Egypt, it is the secret resistance which Prz.:T.:ia makes Ito giving any. equivalent in Germany to the GRAND DUKE' of TUSCANY. • There ha:, been in circulation since ynstertlay, an nrtiele of news too extraordinary to he believed on light grounds—The KING of PRUSIA is said to have required of the lleavinn Republic, 163 Millions of Florins; and the re-establishinent of the STADTHOLDER, for whom the money is in. tended as an indemnity for What has been taken from him ; that the Batavian Republic hai written to BONAPARTE, who hai returned for Answer, that he took no concern in the business ; and that the Republic has in consequence sent an Ambassadcir to The.Prusiian Officers persist in saying, that they shall not so soon evacuate Bremen and the EleCtorate of /lawyer. Their discipline is in all respects cot. re4l, and we have nothing to aCcuse.them of. THE OAK BliTT.—The standing joke iii the sport. ing world at present is the Oak Butt. A few even ings ago a wealthy Nabob and a little Creek yoked to at Billiards, at - a- fashionable house in .St. -James's street; the latter giving this odds to 'the for mer, that he should play only with the butt etd of his queue. But the Indian knew not 'that 1114 antagonist, by long study and much practice, had brou4ht his play was much perfeetion with:this end, as with the other. They played all the early part of the,evening for small sums, the Indian generally winning, till towards one o'clock • the speetatora having all dropped off except two or three of., the Greek's friends, the „challenge was given to the. Hindoo to play deeply. This was accepted, and, in a short time the little Gre,ek won a snug zOOO gui. news, with which the play ended.—Now it happens that. a queue is usually made of oak, • and the over. reached Nabob being beat with the butt end, has been, nick.named the Oak Batt. , 'Mr. ARTHUR YOUNG'S Plan for bettering the condition of'the Poor, and at the same time greatly , lOwering Rates, : is founded on the {aft, that from 401. to 601. 8o1.: &c . Will build a cottage,, buy a • cow, a hog, and find seed,' potatoes, &c. 'for a fa. milt', 'and fence in three or four acres of land :; as Well as in some•soils, Purchase the land itself. This he' Shews. from many cases; Such sums to 'be bor, 'rowed of the Public by :the Parishes, .on• the credit's 'of the faces: Stippose 1001. ibr a family, the in. terest is is: a week l; where:ix'the parish allowance in.the best times is riot less than gi. 64. and to Bs. a week ; and 'in times of scarcity,' it oq. 1 . 28. 15s. Bec. The saving, therefore, would . be very great ;, and such possessions lieirig held . in.property so long as the family' applied fof no °thee parish relief, would ensure 'great industry, frugality; and .so- briety, to preserve them. This Plan teems; of all others, the best calculated to answer this important purpose ; and agrees. in all the material points with Mr. Piresptoposition relative to the Poor, as ex.. plained in his first Speech in the I - louse of . coemlons on that subject. • . • 'A theatrical insurreaioti, ,similar, tia gut" vent Garden Theatre, lately occurred ..in Svcr tit H Ksbau'Ll's Company. The several T . twatfes initte • Manager's circuit have lately bap so unproduaive, that the.lVlantiger found it absolutely necessary to propose a ReduCtion in the Salaries. of the PerfOrm. - er3,, for otherwise he should have. been olAiged to disband the Company, or ruin hinisell i by keeping them together., Nine -of the Aaors, however, who, in imitation of their Reforming predecessori in London, called themselves •t•THE 6i.oa loos • NINE," resented this proposed Reda - lion, and signed .a paper to stand richt ,by each other, and perform detached pieces : in all the towns in which the Company usually exhibited.--The Manager, • with prompt decision, discharged every one of them, chusing • rather to shut The atm till he could procure other Fierformers, than to submit to a combination. The consequence was, that when the day arrived on which they were to emit the Company, they very Wisely applied to the'Manager, and begged to - be restored to their situations. Two men named Hill and Wilhadrs, convia• ed at the late Cardiff Sessions of being concerned in the recent Riots at Mertivr, .were some,days since executed on Cardiff Heath. They admitted the justice of their sentence, and expressed a hope that their fate would deter others from the eommi: , sion of, like offences. A woman named Watkies was to have suffered with them for Sheep-stealing, but on the preceding evening she hung herself in her cell by fastening her neck-handkerchief and a small piece of cord to the bars of the window. A. man was killed by lightning on Sunday even. ing the 17th inst. in a cottage at Spoiforth ; 'his wife and children were sitting opposite him, and happily escaped unhurt. The thatch of the c ot tage was 'set on fire, bur soon extinguished by the heavy rain. Mr. Wilts, of Cateaton-street, was on Frijay evening stopped in a .post chaise on' Kennington. common by two highwaymen, but on his tiring; a pistol, and some people coming up, they rode Olf. The Catherine Slave Ship, was blown up near Bonny-bar, on the Coat of Africa, and only eight of the crew saved,