The Sun.
London, England, 1806-10-13 00:00:00

RETURN O'F LORD LAUDERDALE

YESTEUDAY afternoon, about three o'clock, the
Clyde Frigate, having Lord LAUDERDALE on board,
arrived in the Downs. His Lordship immediately
landed under a salute of 15 guns • from the Clyde,
and very soon after set off for London : he slept at
Canterbury last night,- and arrived in town this
forenoon. When ',Ord LAUDERDALE came on shore
he was surrounded by a great number' of -the in-
.
habitants of Deal, who testified their joy on the
rupture, 'of the Negotiation: Sevetal very, a'cdiurd
reports were circulated on Saturday respeEting Ltird.
LAUDERDALE, evidently for. stock-jobbing pur.:
poses; but they did not produce the desiredefrea.'
It was said that a Courier from Paris had overtaken
his Lordship at 'Amiens, and requested him to re-
turn to Paris for the purpose of resuming the Nego-
Another report. stated, that the French
were so incensed at the attack made on Boulogne on
Wednesday night_, that they had. detained his Lord-
ship as. n Prisoner, &c. &c. A Cabinet Council
was sumrtioned, to meet at two o'clock to-day, in
consequence of the. arrival-Of his Lordship: •

tiation.

IT gives us-'the oscsincere pleasure to find that
the e:iperiment nyade on Wednesday. liist, in the
Harbour of Boelogne, , with the new invented
Rockets, succeeded completely. The Rockets ern,,,
ployed upon- this occasion -were- invented abOnta a ,
year ago, by 'COI. CONGEEVE, and were to, have
been used by Sir SIDNEY, SMITH, in his intended'
attack upon the. Flotilla at the latter end of last au-,
tumn ; but our Readers-will recollect that- the attack
was prevented by a very heavy gale Of wind which
came-on just as the different VesFels were. about to
take their stations. Since that time. a considerab!e
improvement has taken place in the constru&ion
of those liockets, or, as they, are sometimes called, '
Pyrotechnic Arrows. As. soon as •it was dark on
Wednesday evening, twenty-four Boats,. each hay-
ing,on board a 'number of thOse Rockets,' stood into
the Harbour of Boulogne (unperceived by the Ene-
my, who were not in expeaation of an attack), and
having taken their stations, commenced a general-.
diseharge of the Rockets. The surprize add alarm
of the &et:ly, in consequence. of this unexpeEted
attack, must have beeni very great indeed ; for al-
though our Boats continued on their station, coati-.
Dually throwing the Rockets, for upwards of half an
hour, not a shot was fired' frOM any of the French
. .
Batteries ; at length they recovered from their con-
•sternation, and opened .a tremendons,fire ; but our
Boats had by that time got far beyond the rangq. of
their shot, and consequently did not sustain the
slightest damage. The fire, however, from 'the,
French Batteries was kept up, without intermission,
until five o'clock on Thursday morning.- Jt is impds-
sible, of course, to speak with any degree of preci.:••
sion with respe& to the damage done to the Enemy,.
but there is some reason to apprehend that the Boats
took their Station rather nearer to. the shore than
was intended,''and the Reckets being discharged at
the elevation which was calculated for a greater dis-
tance, the consequence was that they went over the
Inner. Harbour and fell on the Town, where they
must have done considerable mischief, as several

conflagrations were seen.

These Pyrotechnic Arrows will fly nearly two
miles and a half, and are cap able of communi-
piing their fire for nearly ten minutes after hav-
ing reached their point. They are prodigionsly\
large, and have an iron-pointed socket at the end,
which sticks in whatever it may be aimed at; Thl3
socket has likewise a tube, for the purpose of
,con-
'billing the inflammable matter, with six holes,
through which it issue in a state of liquefac-
tion. The stick attached to the kocket is. Dearly
twenty feet long. One hundred of these might
te discharged,. within the space of a minute,
from each Vessel ; but we are informed 'only
two were fisred from each Boat, at the same time.
The rockets !'Sre so construaed as to instantane-
ously em 4 on their adhesion to any part of the
vessel,-a liquid throe. The ingrediefits of this de-
stru&ive composition are said to, be of so powerful
and inflammable a nature as almost to defy the
counteraamg effea of 'water, which for some time
seems rather to increase than extinguish the violence
cif its fury.
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Its, proof of their phosphoric properties, a few of
them were last year t,brown •at Dover, by way of
oxperiment, from Archlitre to the Western
HeiglAs,, and immediately set on fire a .stubble
field, in which they chanced to fall, near the cele-
brated Qtff-of Shaltspeare. The fuse with whic:l
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