The Sun.
London, England, 1806-02-06 00:00:00

NA VA L NE W►.

PORTSMOUTH, FEB. s.—Arrived L'Argu.s. Sloop
of War, 'Capt. KITTOE, from Cork ; Meteor Bomb,
Capt. COLLINS, and Steady, Lieut. STOW, from A
Cruize; also the Frienship, BtreirF, from Lynn
Antwerp, Signo, from St. Michael's ; William and
Mary, fro►n London ; and Brothers,.Btadx,
from Sunderland.

The wind having blown extremely fresh the
whole of the day, and the likelihood of its continu-
ance through the night, there is but little hopes of
the Isabella continuing together till the morning :
her masts are cut away, and a number of the pun-
eheods of rum are saved.

PL.miou'rrt DOCK, FEB. is with pleasure
have to state, that orders have, been received at this
port to fit that beautiful Ship the Bclleisle, of 80
guns, for inimediate commission, and that the same
gallant Captain (HARGoon) who so nobly fought
her in the a&ion off ,Trafalgar is again to command
her. It is'rather a singular circumstance, paying her
Off a few weeks past, as her damage could have been
put to rights at this port in less than a month ; and
from her great superiority hi sailing, and the heavy
iiietal she carries, is a most admirable ship at this
particular moment to be at sea:- It is a circumstance
not geheivally known,: and 'has never been publicly,
Mated, that this Ship's station hi the Lee Line, pre-
yiouSto the above -Aition, was the second one from
the Royal Sovereign, but from her great superiority
of saihng, over Almost every Ship in Adiniral CoL,
LINGWOOD'S Divislo6, he Made them signal a short
time before. the A&ion coniMenced to takethe Ten-
nant's station, and of course she became not only his
second, bUt the second Ship in gtion. She was
the only .Ship that was totally unrigged in the Ac-
tion, havinc, had the whole of her masts, shot away
nearly level with the deck ; her bowsprit and head
were also shot away close,, which gave her the apt
pearance of an useless hulk: in this helpless situa-
tion several of the Enemy's Ships insulted His Ma-
jesty's Colours flying on the stump 'of her mizen,
Mast; by discharging their broadsides en passant.

Came in the Berry, STOCBS, from Dublin ; S'uc-
eeSS, BLEIMTNSON, from Lisbon; and the Azorei,
GILL, from St. Michael's.
PLvmourn, FEB. 4.—Arrived the Prussian Gal-.
hot North Star, laden with salt, from Oleron, bound
to Ewbden, detained by the Lion Privateer,
.of this
port • -
The Kent, of 74 guns, 'Vice-Admiral TttottfT,
)Incuox, now iti Cawsand Bay, `and the Hibernia,
of 110 guns, are hourly expeEted to sail to join the
Channel Fleet.

Letters of about four months date have been re-
ceived from an Officer of the Psyche, of 44 guns,
Captain Wm. WOOLDRIDGE, dated Madras Roads,
stating, that en hislast Cruize, as he was wooding
and watering in a Port on the Coast,a large American:"
South Sea Whaler anchored in the same Roadstead,
and, of course, was boarded by the Guard aoat Of tie
Psyche, with an Officer, to see what she, might he,
as, from her manner of proceeding, there-appeared
some mystery about her, and a suspicion arose in
the Officer's mind of her being, an illicit trader among .
the Country Powers resident on the Coast of
India. • On searching her and examining her Pa-
pers, Captain W. seized her. as a contraband, trader,
and kept her Papers to be examined before the
Court 'of Admiralty, at Madras. She is very valuable,
and has on. board _a number of slaves,
,and a most
rich cargo of European goods fit for the Indian, mar-
ket. The gallant 'Rear-Admiral Sir E. PELLEW,
tart. Ilnd our Fleet were all well at the
,date of the
above letter; and our Crulzers"l.4.o.been very instru-
mental in the preservation of the.trade on the Coast
of Coromandel.

At the particular request of the Hon. Admiral
CoaNwALLts, Commander in Chief of the Channel
Fleet,- Capt. ALDHAM, of this place, made Post
Captain from the Nautilus, of i 8 guns, some months
since, is appointed Captain of the P de Paris, of
110 guns, now off Brest.. He joins her in the .11i;

The weatheris now so hazy, frOrn the great fall of
snow and sleet, that the entrance of the Sound from
sea is quite obscured to the Nautical Amateurs on
the Floe and at Maker Tower.

DEAL, FEB. s.—Arrived the Quebec and Daunt-
less from the Nore, and the Jackall from the back of
the Goodwin Sands.

sailed the Gallant for the Boulogne station.

The Danish Vessel Sophia Analia, which was
ashore On the Goodwin Sands, proceeded this morn-
ing to Dover Harbour, in order to undergo what re-
pairs she-stands in need of.
Passed by a large Fleet of Merchant Vessels'at the
back of the Goodwin, Sands, supposed for the River.

COWES, FEB. s.—Arrived this morning the Arne-
ricaq ship United States, Capt. JOHN BORRADAILE,
from Virginia, la;t from Waterford,' laden with to-
bacco and staves, for orders. Also the. Albion
Transport, Captain Wu:.
,Dove, frQta Oibraltar„

itivahsis, several of whom have died on the gas-
sag-e, the ietriainder are tO be tand-edlyer4 fni(t On_
veyed to the Hospitals of the Ar'my Depot.

- .
Han MCA, FEE. night BeaVay;
Packet, Capt, NORRIs, arrived from Cukhaven with
the Hamburgh and Bremen Mails.
The wind having changed to. the southwards the
Lark Packet, Capt. DELL, galled this morning FM.
Cukhaven, with the HanibUrgh and Brerneri Malls
Of the 31st last mouth; and iitukiediately on tile ar-;
rival 'of the Mails from London, the Auckland
Packet, Capt. BRIDGE, Sailed for the same place,
,and
at the same time the Lady Frances Packets Capt.
FLY N, with two Gottenbirgh Mails.

Sskr ERNRss, FEB. 4.—Arrived the Trompeuse,
rapt.Ln
Yesterday the Fame was paid boutity and twO
monOts'advance, and will sail hi a few days.
Three hundred men, part of the 6th and 98th
Regiments, which were brought over in the Orpheus
Altai Frigate, Which has come over as a Cartel,
Were removed from that Ship to the Transport No.
425, and sailed for Chatham.
All the Schuvts in Holland haveup
been
taken
by the Batavian overnm en t, and are to be imme-
diately fitted out for the purposes Of War.
When the Commerce Cartel quitted the Texel
on Thursday last, and arrived at the 'Note, 'on
'Sunday, the Dutch force consisted of seven Sail of
the Line, one Frigate, and 2. Corvettes.