The Sun.
London, England, 1801-03-05 00:00:00

HULL, MARCH 2.

IT is much to be feared that the folImr;e1r;
ships, coal laden, on their passage ,from . •
to London,- ire lost near Yarmouth, wi:h alt
Lands, as the owners have received several letters

From
that place, iliclosing Indentures, &c. which
have been washed ashore: the Peggy, of How-
den-pans, Capt. Tnomits Aitt.tttßONG ;
4vei•alice, of ditto, Capt. JOHN MANNERS; the
Eliza, Capt. DOWELL) of -Shields; is also lost
at Boston Deeps, Lincolnshire ; crew saved.

The utmost affivity is employed in equipping
the Fleet for the North Seas. Lord NaLsox has
already come round to the Downs with his divi-
sion, and it is expened that the whole will be
ready to sail from Yarmouth in a few days. The,
49th Regiment, and a number of Riflemen, as
well as an unusual number of Marines, are em-
barked on board the ships to be employed. A
great number of Gun-boats, Fire-ships, Arc. &c.
are likewise assembled.

A considerable number of large North Country
ships, have been cut down at the different yards
in the River, and are converted into Gun vessels
for the Naval Expeditions in tile North Seas.—
Many of these vessels will carry eighteen 32_
pounders. .

An order has been received at the Custom-
house of Newcastle, from, the Admiralty-Office,
to prevent Ships which have obtained licenses to
sail without Convoy for liamburgh, from pro-
ceeding for the present.
Earl ST. VINCENT, we understand, does not
mean to make a single addition to the List
either of Post Captains or Commanders, till all
on either List, who are callable of it, are brought
into service. The truth is, that 5431/le of the
best Officers in.the British Navy hare long been
unemployed—Among these we may well reckon
the First Lieutenants of the Squadron under
Lord 1•It LSON, that ateliieved the glorious victory
of the Nile, who were very justly and properly
promoted upon that memorable occasion, but few
or none of whom have since been.able to get into
aaive service.

The Lady !Mart Packet, Capt. DORSET Fr L-
LOWEs, now lying at Falmouth, is appointed to
take out the Halifax and New-York Mail for this
month. She was lately launched at Liverpool,
and is supposed to be the largest and handsomest
Vessel, as well as the most convenient for accom-
modation, that has been built for the service of
Government during the War, and carries 24. and
12:pound carronades.

Letters from on board the Excellent, of 74 guns,
Capt. STOPFORD, dated the 24th ult. offQuiberon,
state, that a Flag of Truce was sent into L'Orient,
where intelligence was received that the Lurch,-
Cutter, of 12 guns, Lieut. FORBES, supposed to
have been wrecked, was taken and carried in
there by a French Lugger Privateer, of z 6 guns.
Lieut. FORBES, his Officers and Crew, were
well.

The Kent East Indiaman, which so bravely
defended herself against 4 -French Frigate, in the
Bay of Bengal, mounted on:v 3o guns in the
whole, and had only a complement of 107 men.
Her musketry consisted of sixty stand of arms.

A Letter from Malmo, in .weticn, of Feb. 6,
says—" Our (Swedish) East India Compaq has
received advice, that two of their ships, viz. the
Gu:ra2•xr, Capt. KERMANSKI ELI), and the West
G;zblaprd, Capt. NissaN, arrived at the Cape in
the latter end of January, homeward-bound. It
i$ much feared that they will fall into the hands
of the English. Our Meichants- suffer much by
the interruption of their trade with England. as
no good,s on English account can he either for-
warded or disposed of."
A Letter from the Greenland Committee to a
Merchant in Hull, mentions, that the Admiralty
have appointed a Frigate to sail from the ;gore
the Ist of this month, as Convoy for the Green-
land and Davis's Streights Ships she will call
and wait one day for the vessels from thence,
who wish for protedion. The Frigate is to pro-
ceed with the Ships for Davis's Streights, anti
wait to proted them during the fishery ; but it
is not thought necessary for those to Greenland,
to have convoy further than Shetland.

The William, of Sunderland, Master's name
noNcArt, was taken try a French privateer on
Friday se'nnight, off the Yorkshire Coast, and
all the people taken out except three, who, with
five Frenchmen, were ordered to steer to: Ham.
burgh. The carpenter, who happened to be one
of the three left on board, found means to choak
the pump, and then persuaded the Frenchmen
that the vessel was sinking, at which the Fiench_
men relinquished the charge of the vessel to 'her
own people, who brought her into Sunderland
Roads on Sunday morning last. The Frenchmen
arc now lodged in Durham gaol.