The Sun.
London, England, 1808-01-12 00:00:00

NAVAL NEWS.

FALMOUTH, JAN. 9.--,Arrived the Princess Mary
Packet, Pococx, with the Leeward Island Malls,'33
days from Tortola : -ten days'previans to her sailing
from thence a small Convoy had sailed ion Eng&
land. The Duke Of, Kent and Queen. ciictriotid
Packets ha 4 arrived sale at 'llirbadoes, at which place,'
the Princess Mary arrived on the 12th Nov. and
found there His Majesty's Ships Ramifies, tilysc'es;.
Castor, Jason, Camilla, WippOmenes, Favourite,. Net

ley, IVlaerene, and Dart. On the 7th inst.. spoke
His I\l.ljesty's Ship Nemesis, with a Convoy from,
Cork. Arrived also the , Ocean and Fidelity
TranspOrts, with Troops; part of Sir Cu ARLEs CUT-
TON'S Expedition ; the AmeriCan Brig Betsey,
MAssEY, from Boston, detained by the 4c7ive Pri-
vateer of London ; and Hawk Schooner, from Ports-
mOuth, bound to Sr. Domingo, leaky.

Sailed His Majesty's Ship Champion, and Capelin
Schooner on a Cruize.

His Majesty's Ship Minotaur, of 74 guns, Vice-
Admiral Sir CHA IMES COTT' ON, sails to-morrow
morning to, join His Majesty's Ship Hibe rnitz, Sii S.
SMITH, off the TaguS. His Majesty's Ship Antelope,:
of 50 gen, will follow him with the Transports, on
the arrival of those at Portimouth.

PORTSMOUTH, JAN. i I.—Arrived yesterday the
Cywze Sloop of War, Capt. T. STAIN Es, Halifax
Sloop, Capt. Lord J. TOWNSUEND, and Pudiiza
Brig, Capt. Luut.ty, from the Downs ; the Sylvia
Cutter, Lieut. DRURY, and Dapper Gun-brig, Lieut.
GARDINER, from a cruize ; also the Pacific, NfIL-
LER, from Suuderland; and daive Scout, Bnzzst.L,
frdm Guernsey.

Sailed yesterday the Diana Frigate, Capt. MArT-
LAND, on a cruize.

The Nide Frigate, Ctpt. LORING, talces convoy
to the Westward; and the his Frigitte to the East

YARMOUTH, JAN. u.—Arrived the Lark and
acaufoy Packets from Gotteiihurgh, with Mails and
Passengers: Messrs. WAGsT.Irp and Lt,swok.ra,
King's Messengers, Ow over in the Lark.

Two French Privateers are sent in Prizes to the
liingdove, diicidne, arid Sapp la t they hadtaken the
Zephyr, of this Port, Rowurro Master, which they
unified.

A Squadron of Ships, consisting of the Stately,
C'ipt• PARKER, Nassau, Capt. CiOn'BELL, and the
Lynx Sloop, sailed this morning under sealed or-
ders.

DeA"t, ht./. the Undaunted Frigate,
aul Hyacinth and Zarapluta Sloops from the Nore,
and sailed for Portsmouth ; arrived the Proserpine
Frigate, from the Nore, and remains; Blazer Gun-
brig, from a craize off Flushing; and 'Kangaroo,
from Dungeness. •
Sailed the Seagull Sloop on a cruize.'
Arrived the Oberon Sloop ftom Yarmouth.. .
The Tigress. Gun-brig, 'with the convoy under
ber command, put back and remain,
' Arrived in the Downs, the Fort William, Eta-
SONS, from

411ERRNUSS, bat. 10.—r Sailed the Baracouta,
Capt. HARRIS, for Port,mouth, from which place
she will shortly proceed to the East Indies.

JAN. 1,--Arrived the Cygilet, Capt. • lqAup ,
late from the West Indies.

Paid bounty and advance to the Leonidas, Capt.
DuKßAtt, which will proceed for Portsmouth, and
take Admiral ()TWAY'S retinue from this place.
Sailed his Majesty's Ships Cruizer and Cygnet,
to Chatham.

Arrived hii Majesty's Ship Sultan, from Graves-.
end.

DISTRII3UTION OF PRIZE-MONEY.
To the Officers and Crew of Ilk 111,iesty's late Schooner
Renard, for the Capture of La Concezzione and L'immaeu-
lata Concezzione, on the loth 110vciubcr, 0105, will be paid
on the 13th inst. at No. az, Essex-streer, strand, and every
Tuesday and Friday after, at the same. place.
To the Officers and Crew of Nis Majesty's Gun-brig Cen.
sor, for the Capture of the Yonge San Pieter, on tile wit
May, t 133 (in cordpany .with the Grampus, lalouse, and
' Vixen Cain:brig), the proceeds of the same, for three years,
at No. za, Arundel-street, Strand.

A letter has been received it Glasgow from an
Officer, fortherly belonging to the BleApirn an
.of
War. Re, in the end of Sept. tao 6, with 14 itlen
belonging to the Blenheim were fortunately put uti
board the Neptune Chinaman, .by order of Admiral
Tit0111311Ilidl!I to assist in navigating her to China,
and thence to the Cape tit Good klepe,where he was
to join the Admiral. He gives the-same account of
the Blenheim, when last seen, as reported by the
Harrier Sloop of War.—The letter is doted Crook-
haven, Dec. 1807.

Mr. M. of Cheapsicle, who some time ago eloped
with a Mrs. t.. and.teok with him considerable pro-
perty belonging to his creditors, Was ;by some Means
induced to take his passage at Gottenburgh on board
Man American Ship; under the impression that she
was bOund to.Atrierica. - On their arrival at the fir6t
.Port they made, the. fugitives found- theinselveS at
Hqrwich, where they were recognized by the tr'-
friendly agents of those WhoM they were tot atm.,
ous to avoid.

--There was no Coort of. Alaerrnenllivid tooty.
„Bread remains as lust w eels.,

PORTSEA, JAN. 11.
WE take the earliest oppOrtunity of presenting to
frlf Readers the fo'llowing Letter, which we this
•
mormug received from Lieut. GILL, late of the
Ansoff Frigate.

- "
eg It is with sorrow, and, suffer 'me to add, with
astonishment, t see you have copied from the Royal
Cornwall Gazette the scandalous_ and infamous ac-
count of the loss of His Majesty's late Ship the
47150 g.. The man. who now addresses you was the.

Senior Officer saved from the wreck of that unfor-
tunate Ship; and, wishing to rescue the memory of

a brava and good Officer from the stigma of inhu-
'manity, I beg you will give my refutation of the
above-mentioned Printer's account an early place in
your Paper ; I should have given it you before, btit
I have been several days on my passagd froal Ply=
mouth.

" The Editor of the Royal Cornwall Gfizetie was
never, direelly or indireclly; informed of the circum-
stances he mentions by any of the Officers of the
Ship ; I may with confidence say so, for I tailed on
him for his authority, and he Meanly equivoCated,
anti. would not give him up. t did this before wit-
nesses ; and I have since queAtioned the Otficeri,
who all deny, in the most solemn manner, having
propagated such an account.

" ro begin with his statement —Speaking of 'the '
Ship, he says, " She nude the Laud's End,
,and
mistook it for the Lizard." These words are in
Italics to make them more remarkable : the land
we made first was: about (Madden Point, deep in
Mount's Bay, and, as we were steering N.N.W.
we must have passed very near the ,Lizard, We
never run to the northward and eastward in any
shape whateverNo man a-head ever saw breakers
—Capt. SutadvArt, a passenger on board the Ship,
was the'first person that saw the land through the
mist the second dine, which was at four o'clock of
the 28th December, and the land seep Was the..
Lizard, a place some little distance from the -Land's
End—?the -hest 'bower did not soon parr in the
hawse ; it rode the Ship eleven hours—the sheet-
'anchor was never let go -at all, but the Ship,. after
pardng the two' bowers, was run on shore ; had we
let go the sheet we should have veered into a sittia;
Lion where none of as could have been saved—Capt.
LYDIARD was never on the mainmast (I l'emark
these' little things to show what a chain
.61 false-
:hoods have been linked together), he tried to get
on shore by a rope from the tnizen-chains---he
never lost his faculties to the last, but was heard 1
singing out, " don't be in. .a hurry, my lads, watch
a favourable opportunity, and get a rope to die
shore—Weakened (by want of rest, and the dread-.
fill sea that was pouring over hint) he certainly was
--•the Methodist Preacher who kindly lent his as- i
siStance was a Mr. ROBERTS, of Helston, a worthy
industrieus tradesman, but certainly no
,Methodist
Preacher. He has forgot to Ineotion a Seaman of
the name of ROBERT HENLY, who went on board,
after he had saved himself, and was the means of
.preserving a Midshipman, two women, and a young
child. Now follows that shocking paragraph :•---
" When a few more men, who for'some erilue had
,been confined .in . irons below, 'emerged front the
wreck.','---Gracious God ! what a heart must that
man be possessed of, who could cruelly gather .to-
gether his types, and compose such a diabolical re-
fleaion, and how must the friends of Capt..LYPIARD
be agonized to see it: a more inhuman falsehood
never issued from the press. One would think the
Editor of a Paper should have known such a circum-
stance could not have been. What ! a British Man
Of War in iniminentidanger for sixteen hours, and
men on board her in irons—the idea is as absurd as '
it is inhuman. But what will you. iy, Sir, when,
I inform you thit this Truro Printer told me, in the ,
presence of Lieut. ORINT, and Mr. YAItWOOD,
I Purser,"Abat he did pot know there was any intm-
.
1 mapity in it. I am sorry to conclude, by stating,
that his account of the loss sustained on this melan-
.
choly occasion is equally false. Seventy dead bodies
had -been washed on shore before I left Helston,'
besides a number of:mangled limbs : let; Setls were
lost ;' and I ant fully convinced there are not more
1 than two of those that are gone, that would' have
'scampered off, as he terms it, had they reached the
shore. Unused to writing letters of this kind, have
1 the goodness to overlook any improprieties you may
see. As to apologi‘es, I make none. lthink the
' Editor of THE SUN would by no means wish to
disseminate any unjust •staternot that would dwell
1 hard on the memory of a' braVe and generous Com-
mander. • . ' ,

• •
'4 I nm,
" Your obe:Uent humble Servant,
" THOMAS GILL."

TI-/P OPERA Housn.—The Marquis of HEAD-
PORT end WM. OGILVIE, Esq. who were chosen
arbitrators ripraing the dispute between Mr. TAY-
Loa and Mr. WATERS, have given their award in
favour of the latter ; but for the sake of the interests
of the- property,- have recommended an amicable
aijustment of all private disputa.