The Sun.
London, England, 1801-01-09 00:00:00

LEWES, JA:. S.

Tire blowing weather of last week did con-
siderable damage to the shipping on their passage
along our Coast.—On Wednesday, the brigantine
Aid, a Collier, belonging to Sunderland, upwards
of an hundred tons burthen, MACE master, in
ballast, was wrecked near the Pier-head, at New-
haven, in attempting to gain the harbour. All
the Crew fortunately aavedlitelltselvenbY getting
on the Pier. The vessel has since been nearly-
dashed to-pieced by the waves.

The next day the sloop Farmer's Delis; hi,' be-
longing to Hastings, Fowi.Ea..master, from the
isle of Wight, laden with •empty porter casks,
consigned to' Messrs. Me ux and Co. brewers,
London, was stranded on the main, a little-to the
Eastward of ;he above tiler' 'where the sra ,beat'
entirely over her, and rendered the sitti4tioh of
the Crew extremely perilous ; but from .which
they were happily relieved, by the assistance-of
some persons on shore, who, by the help of ropes,
dragged them through the surf, and saved their
lives.

About the same time a vessel foundered off'
Eastbourn, when every soul on board her perished.
Her main-mast appears about ten feet above the
water; but her description is unknown, though
she is conjectured by some to be a sloop laden
with corn, and by others a cutter that belonged
to Government. The tide has not yet thrown up
any of the dead bodies.
—The Masters of the Brigantines Tartar and
dance, and of the Sloop Goodwill, in the coarse
of week made notes of protest,, before a No-
tary Public, in this town, touching the damage
done, during the late boisterous weather, to their
respective cargoes, consisting of flour, barley,
grocery, porter, and other merchandixe.
The wind was extremely boisterous again last
night, from 'the South, the consequence of which,
we fear, will be more disastrous accounts from
the Co3st.

In the night of the 26th ult, the Welcome Mes-
senger, of Newhaven, JAMES, PlVltet• master,
laden with grocery and other merchandize, be-
longing to different tradesmen of this town, was
fired into by a 'Cutter in the service of.Covern.:
ment, off the North Foreland, taken possession
of, arid carried 'into Ramsgate. The Crew alibi
Welcome Messenger supposing the Cutter to be an
Enemy, quitted their vessel in her boat, but were
afterwards taken up by the Cutter neat tht North
Sand head Light.

We arc happy in being able to state that, M.
Vices were yesterday received at the Admiralty
from the Channel Fleet; off Brest, that they had
stoixi the late heavy gales without any damage.

The Ship in which Sir EDWARD BtRRY came
home is not yet paid off.--We betieve she kin
the Medway, either at Sheerness or Chatham,
know not which.

Captain HARDY, who commanded the Afirtbre
Cutter in the memorable Battle of the Nile, goes
with Lord Nzi.sox as Captain.of the Sr. jt!irg,
of r 2. guns.
Commissioner HARTWILL takes his Seat at
the Navy Board next week.
Letters from the Cape of Goa Hoe, dated
the loth of November, mention, that intelligence
had, arrived there of the c,apture of two Preach
Frigates, by two of ours, with, Spanish Dollars
on board, amour ting so Three Millions sterling,
off Cape Frio. These are, no dnubtt the same
Ships taken by the litiliqueux, Capt. Bo t. TIE L
near the Brazils,

The same Letters state the return of Ws Ma-
jesty'A ship Istirer, Captain LOtAC);, from a
eruize of months nil tic Mitllliti44) in a very
litaky cothlitiun, in consequence of a terrible bur.
rime which she encounztred off. Madagascar.

-apt. oTITAM, in the Adamant,
the Mautitius to keep the Enemy's yrivateers is
port.

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was lett as

The Ship Britannia, Capt. 'MomAs BARROW,
arrived at Bombay from Bengal in March last ;
went into dock the i ith of April, and underwent
a thorough repair, and hauled out of dock the 6th
of July. The Britannia was to have been dis•
patched to Canton the t4th September, and to
touch at Goa' with Troops. Captain HAw
proceeds in the above Ship for Amboyna:

The ships Iliebtqle Castle; Capiain j„,LAsso;
Travers, Captain T. SA.tiv Las and Sk‘itoit Cattle,
Captain MATTHEW 'IiACK E, arrived at ate Island
of St. Helena, ..oufward-bound; on the ilia Sep.
tember. ThevabOve ships accidentally separated
from the Laril'ilralsiughavz, Captain T. S'tAt.ts;
E4rl Spincer; Capriin Cif A. RAI r; Terneiterr"l
Ea tairrShi.tpsoti 'l3.kk R, and Hercidia-n, Cap-
tim I o tip Ii Fir Ni. r t 11, on the t ith of Sep.
ieinber: former ships were" .to leave St.
14eletia for Bengal' bn the aBth Septembei.
,
,The I.IPY. jaco.lzus .Zieper, Martins master,
ban, ivlieat and bar-
ley.; ,t
,Hambbigh to lisbon,
with ,tl6 MarthiNlagdalena, from
Copenhagen to The Guinea, laden with
`,14.7nd4t1t ,Y. ; _andvheist the
,haite\iiin
alVisilirecirr4
ed.isonti°ntuU forcttfrilormisit°'
hel
'laic gales of wind, as to be oliligtd to put into
Cowes to repair damages,
By Letters from gOrway we learn, that the
French Privateer Le Pelyagrur, of iht guns, h:/s
raptured two British Vessels in the North Sea.
Four other Privateers, of the same force, left
Dunkirk with Le l'ojagessr, supposed also to be
destined for the Nortb'So•tt.

The three principal. stations for the Russian
Navy, are Croittadt, Revel, and 4r:bawl. In
general the Russian Ships are exceedingly bad,
owing perhaps, to the bad quality or the wood,
and the mode to which they are construded,-.."
However this may be, it is certain that they ne-
ver last ahem: twelve -years. It is not impre•
bable that the freshness of the water in the Ual•
tic, and particularly in the Harbour oreionstadt,
may contribute to render their &tattoo so short.
Those built at' Archangel aro cabsiratie of fir,
and consequently still • worse ; they cost only
'about three-eighths of what those do which '‘'lC
built at Petersburgh,