The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1804-09-12 00:00:00

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Ga avrent • Sart .9 —.PAssed by the Aciendina, Williams;
End-aitht, Fred..nck ; and the Vrow Tackalinsa, from
rapperthorgh ; Argus, Andermont, from !lading ; Joioge Eli
&Omni, Weir k, horn Caster)ek ; Two God Brothers,
Vrow Sarah, Smart; and the Vrow Cadmium, Lund, from
Embdene.Sailed the Vestal, Archer for reterskurgh ;
Harper, rm. Unarms. ; John, Bronitt, for Revel Embden
lhaug, Flessesiba and the Jones Maria, Batt, tor ionIIIIICC4I.

CAPIlta OF THE BE H SLOOP OF WAR LILLY.

NORTOLK, JVLY 24.
Sunday morning last, arrived here, part of the
crew of the British sloop of war Lilly, captured on
the 13th. inst. by the French privateer Le Dame
Alaled, Capt. Charles Lemarque, who, the day be-
fore, captured the ship Mn,,, belonging to Liver-
gool. from Africa to Savannah, with a valuable
cargo of slaves, ivory, &c. and a ship from Hon-
duras to London, laden with mahogany. After tak-
ing out the most valuable part of the Maly's cargo,
they gave the crew a "deeds, JO" of her, and put
the /01(s's and the other ship's men on board. They
detained Mr. Ashton (Captain ash, Mary) on board
the privateer, and purpose carrying him to Guada-
loupe, as an evidence for her condemnation.
Tb. fbileimag account of the Capture of the I,:neti.h sloop of
was Lilly, has been given us by Mr. Nu.coek, the rimer—
" I beg leave to acquaint you of my arrival hen.
this day, with the remaining officers and crew of His
Majesty's sloop of war the /.///e. On the 14th
Instant, on or about the hour of two p. m. being then
in iaS '3 21. N. and long. 79 15 W. we observed
two sad so windward, to which we immediately gave
chace. At half past three, perceived the one to be
an armed vessel laying to with French colours fly-
ing, boarding a ship, which we supposed to be Eng-
lish, and continued in that position till dark, when
we lost sight of them. Tacked occasionally, work-
ing to windward during the night ; at half past
eight a. m. observed two sail to the westward, which
we supposed to be the same as yesterday ; made sail
lV chace, and cleared ship for action. At sir, distin-
guished them to be the two ships we saw yesterday,
the one having the other in tow, standing to the
southward and eastward on the starboard tack.—

Half past nine the one hoisted English colours,
which we returned; passed to windward; tacked
on our weather beam, and cast the vessel she had
taken in tow off; three quarters past she edged
away, taking us for a merchant vessel, we sh;ewing
no guns, and having a temporary poop rigged to
decoy her. At twenty-three minutes past ten the
ranged up on our weather quarter, shitted her co-
Liurs to French, and commenced a heavy tire upon
which we immediately retu:ned; the then
dropped astern, and kept up a heavy discharge of
musquetry, musquetoons and cohorns from her tops
and decks, and that of grape and hair age from her
bow-chacers, which cut out braces, bowlines and
running rigging in such a manner as to render the
ship totally unmanageable, and completely defeated
all our exertions to alter our position so as to get
a great gua to bear ; and the only resistance we
were al& 110 make (having no stern chacers) was
&led dlt small arras. It is with the greatest con-
was I Arm to maim the death of Cp. William

Compton, who fen early in the a&ion. She still
kept (taking every advantage of our ungovernable
state) under our stern, raking us fore and aft with
her how Chace guns, and 100 men at musgnetry,
making sundry fruitiess attempts to board, till noon,
when she passed to windward, on which we gave
her the whole of our larboard broadsi,le, and laying
us athwart hause, raked tit sundry times, which I
am sorry to say, deprived us of the assistance of the
whole of the officers on deck ; Lieutenant howler
being the last who fell, giving direitions to strike the
colours ; the ship then laying to a perfeCt log on the
water ; standing, running rigging, and sails, com-
pletely cut to pieces, masts and yards severely
wounded. In this state, the enemy made another
desperate attempt to board, which they effefted on
the bowsprit, with upwards of 10u men, and the
feeble resistance we were then able to make, having
then 18 out of our small number (being only 76 at the
commencement of the aftion) killed and wounded.
It is with the utmost concern I have to add, we
were compelled to strike our colours, and half past
noon were taken possession of by the French ship
privateer La Dame :Wert, of Guadaloupe, mount-
ing fourteen 12-pound carronades, and two long
U's, and having on board 140 men. The Lilly
mounted 16 short 12-pounders merchant guns."