The Sun.
London, England, 1806-01-07 00:00:00

I,ORI)..IITELSO_4•Z

Notwithstanding the. iminense7.numLer of peo7
plc who visited Greenwich on Stinday, to pay their
tribute of melancholy respect the temporary
shrine of the departed Heto, thousand's of whom
were gratifiedhy.admissioil to the spectacle,,
And many other .01.6nsands,Of, whorn went ay,-.4y un-.
satisfied, as finding- In entrance wholly impratlica-7
ble ; still the concourse there, yesterday. was even
greater than on- Siiiiday "and
•2 from
,the 'first time of
opening the side wickets of the great Western Gate.,
at 'nine in the morning, through-each subsequent
opening, until their close, at.four,in the .afteltoon,
the rushing torrent of the Multitude was so impe
thous, that numbers eXperienced disasters similar w
,
those -which on .Sunda; so numerous, and in
many instances so severely unfortunate : many were'
crushed in a dreadful manner, in the competition for,
entrance through passages. so narrow ; others were
beaten down by the impetuosity of thtiSe who rush-
ed 'forward from behind, and were severely
pled---in•iriany cases almost to pat-
tens,. muffs, tippets, ebat-sleeve3, skirts of- pelices
and gowns;'without ntiniher;*eit--:01epi')i)e(1. iron}
their owners, and,tfaniPleain the inuti and; though
-the:Guards were inorentinerous, •more-liigilant and .
peremp6w3=,..tlizin on Sunday still it was scarcely
sable to check the iriiktuosity_of inultit cis-; . or,'
present the diayances' to the Great 144 frpm being.
carried-by-three; ';'' • = • _

1., Within,_thowel-er,. all was conduced
-the Voliinteerg "postcctlit tll6-'54,1517117:-.'"erel rate. .
saloori; 'round the farther ead of
.which the -sp:efta,
tors,P-assed‘ to view the !Coffin,,eorairittea :iirg4-
onward h,e'inultitude at a quicls. so that pone-.
could indulge. more than a short and sorrowtiii-
glance at that luunrriful: ciz-siet. „Which .ontainecl,..
perhaps, the most brilliant of -alt ttie gems that e-ver
decorated the NaVal Crown of Enu-land.. I '
Aniongst the-visitants of ye§terday were 41.11-11 berg
high rank and fdsllion : her Grace 70f TiEv_or.c.
sHiRE; and many of: her,noble friends, wr.e in the'
_throng: MgCtary Officers,
attended io..;pay their .rast tribUte orrespea to de-
partect,liercgsm,: Ana to.rconttmplateThe ngbiest
mulus to ,galliltit deeds
4‘A grateful.Nati9n:47tzibutary tear _
Pedew theTalleitlrerlP.s-n4:ownful bier, • "
~~Tnile to her name;
•••
With fade.lFss laurOs Crovvii'd; and deatbl4.:sig •fame

• On' Fi-iday la4t alVaterman,.-nfthe name of Ci/es,
was whipped through .the
.streeN nf.. 54 eerness, • for
hiding and. abetting in the desertion. of a Se.arnati.
from His Majesty's Ship ll,.tagnanime.. ,After he.had
receivid MS punishment an 'Officer; with a party of
Marinefi, lanndied him on board of the flag-ship, to
serve His Majesty. •

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One of the workmen employed n making the al=
terations.nt St. Paul's, preparatory-to Lord NELSON'S
burial fell fiorn a scaffojd i'esterday,"and WaS•kiiled
bn.the spot.

A feet clay ago ai-a py; about ten years old, I.?e-
-le-ngirk to.:4;cfairuney-sweeper; was employed in
cleaning afunnel at 13elfast, his maSfeE;4.iOtsue`Jeed-
ing in,Tpak o 4
ing,hini Come dn, 3fteirepefited-oiilerS
to •.hirn ';ta that effe6l,.glthrr.-ed some wet straw;
which ho piact4 in th6:,:chitnney'; Oid then set fire
to. The unforttinate child ).I,'S soon suffocated by
sniotte, and severely; burned, ana was drawn mit
of thechimney quite dead.. A Coroner's Inquest
sat on the body, add brought in a verdi(f—re That.
the deCeased; Win. tiorner, caine, by his death iu
conaqiience' of suffocation,: :occasioned by his mas-
ter,: John Mitchell,, setting. fire to,some wet straW,
which he had placed for that purpose in the chirn-
liey." Mitchell has since absconded.

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:On Wednesday laSt, about noon one of the work.;
-Tneti :employed in the iron-.foUridry of .Messrs. Bate....
1 thartatici,Spuratt,, in
~Salforct., waa burnt in. a most
dreadful mariner, by faljink amongst some 'IT! eltirg- -
.ii*tal. ~He was. Immediately conveyed to. the Infir-
"friary;
.with-but faint hopes of hiS'recoVery. •
....,,Bcfx Z,N G. :—A casual rencoutiplace e took recently
•
.
./a4weeh rFirbey. alias theli-cf-27g,,,Riffan., and lied
:ikicer, the elder brciiher of tiienofekLfAruisei of that
Ilan*, .hi Which the hitter was Yiaoribus. •• '' '

. . , . .
m )-Tro the late speech of the:President in the Arne-.
tican-.'oOngresS, the iinited-.States seem much dis-
sat.i.fiect with the Spauias .for capturing their shilis,
The o'o 0 people of..A.fnerica, ho weve:r,. appear anxi-
• .
errs to Capture EngliSh Prizes; having sent tan* or-
Zlers by. their iast.illispLitelies for act;entttres in our
... . -. • ..... •
I)resef4,ll'.e.at-.l4ery-.- ln
.truth,.-osar good .friends
across the AtliAlt:w seeny',to- have forraed a very just
estimate ofthe unparalleled- richness of, the 8c berze,.
and especially of the 'llii:preco'dented advantage of tho
first-drawn.sooo minibeis being attended with sure,
.ora.

LORD NELSON's VICTORY.

SITR:ACT 07 LA' LETTER' WRIIITEN BY AN OFFICER

OF THE BELLEROPIION.

" Be/ !re's; b)a, ff the Start, Dec. 2, ISOS.

" DEAR Sin,--I had the pleasure of writing to nay
Aunt trom off Cadiz, on the 21st of September; jut
after the entry of the Combined Fleets into that
pV:ce ; am happy to convey you now the ,
Bence of their entire def9at, which, though I Vvas
confident would take place whemever they. mustered
courage enough to come out, -yet Iscarcely expeaed
they would so soon have given us an opportunity of
again shewing the superiority, of the British Navy.
You will doubtless already.have , seen a much better
account of the action than can possibly give you;
_but as I hope ,what few particulars I have been able
to obtain will not prove -unacceptable to you., 1 sit
down w give you the best account in. my power
The Combined Fleet, after their anion with .Sir Ut
Calder, put into Vigo, and leaving there three of
theit. disabled Ships, sailed'. again for Ferrol, off
which they were joined by 14_S-ail of the and
proceded with the whole of their Fleet, consisting
of -Q9 Sail of the Line, to Cadiz, where they-arrived
on-the 20th August. Admiral exillingwood, with
four Sail of the Line, was cruizing off the Port when
they hove in sight, and would most probably have
been taken had they attempted to pursue him, which;
lucidly they did not. The Bellerophon and three
more Sail of the Line, which were up the Streights,
joined Admiral Colling,woodOnsthe 23d, and Sir'R.,
Caldet'sqliadron on the:3lst. Our Fleet then con-•
sisted of 26 Sail of the Line, and we "immediately
resumed the blockade of Cadiz with the greatest
severity, till Lord Nelson joined and took the Com-
mand on the 29th September;` his plan being to
give the Enemy an,Opportunity of coming out; he
only left a Squadron of 'Frigates cruizing offs the
'harbour, whilst the Fleet continued cruizing to the
N.W. frequently out• of sight of land. .As we knew:
the Enerny,• who-were now 'reinforced by five Sail
of the,tine in Cadiz, had positive orders Wl* to
-SCA, and retrieve 'their character aft& their, 4,9 a
_with Sir R. Calder, we werein momentary expei:-
tation• of their coming out, and every 'Ship that Was
perceived coming froth the. In-shore Squadron' was
-,expeCted to convey the'wekOrne intelligence.- Every
one was in the highest. spititS, and so confident Were
Our people of success; 'that-on the very morning of
the aetion; when-'we were bearing down on a Supe-
rior Fleet, they were 'employed in fixing the number
of their prizes, and pitching upon that which should
fall to the lot of each of our Slaps ; our's, •by the-
calctilatien the
.oldest s'ailOrs pn bthird, eras to
.-leave peen: the -Santissima Trinidad,: the-Spanish four
'4ecket-; And I dare say ive were fat froth being-the
only-Ship i:n• the. Fleet that. had fixed upon her. We
aveteliot *long kept- in'that-State of anxiety and sus-
pease, which you will, naturally suppose every one
must.have felt, for about nine o'clock in.the morn-
ing of the i)th ofoCtober, the-Mars was.observed
firing guns and making- signals for the Enemy's Fleet.
being getting under weigh. The 'Admiral,
ately made signal 'for. a general'chace and to clear
for ataion,- which was nbrled with the:greatest ala
Crity, and in ten Minutes. the whole Fleet *asunder'
all sail, steering-for the' Streights; which was Sup-
posed to be the Enemy's destination,..for the purpose
of forming a junCtion with the Carthagena, and Tou,
lon Squadrons. The Bellerophon;lelleisle,- Levia.
than, Orioli, aid Polyphernus,' soon ihewed their
superiority of sailing, and -got far,S-head of, he rest
of the_Fleet ; .at day-light in the morning we were._
in sight of the Rock of Gibraltar, but,-on.a Frigate's
making signal for the
,Entimy"s 'Fleet ,bearing.N. E.
wOre, and again fotmed the order of sailing ;' the-day
-was unfavourable and-weather Squally, so that we
did not get sight of the EneMy, though our small
Vessels formed'a chain bet Ween them and us. In .
the following night we got so close to them as to
perceive plainly their.signals, and-every one was in
the most anxious stale-of suspense; till,day7light the
next morning (21st), when the 'Enemy was' plainly
discerned about seven miles to leeward of us, and
about five leagues from Cape Trafalgar.- Every ad-
vantage
was on 'their side; they had 33 Sail of the
Line, whilSt we had only 27 obey were full of'sea-
'men and troops, and had a friendly pott under their
lee; whilst we
,liaU to
,beat off shore 'after the ac-
tion, and might certainly have expected some of our
disabled Ships would have drifted on' shore; but no-'
thing-was an obstacle to the Hero of Aboukir, and:
he immediately made signal to bear down upon the.
Enerny in- two coluirms; himself in the Victory lead-
ing_ the starboard division, Admiral Collingwood,
its the Royal Sovereign, the larboard one, in. which.
the Bellerophon was the -fifth Ship; no signal• was.
ever obeyed with more promptitude, one would.
thought that the people were -preparing fot a testi-
rather than a 'combat, and no dissatisfaition
was expressed except at the-state of the weather,
which was caltx4 and ptevented our nearing-, The
Enemy till ten o'Clock, whenn-a light hreeze'spring-
ifig up, we came up with'them'fast.:- They Were in
the' mean time -employed in' forming a' close- and
thciugh, till now,' unexampled order
of bat .but which,
.haci, their plan. of defence becn
.as. well: executed as . it was Contriv;ed, htwe
ruidered our viCfory much more -dearly nought than
it haS- been; they were ,forthed in a, dO4ble
thus—

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French- and Spaniards alteruatly, and it Wastlfeir•
intelition,,on our breaking the line (which inal4tvire.
.they expedted we should, as put in exeoo93l).
astern of, No. 4; ±u Y 9.1.2 to.rnake sail, • 'that the_.
British Ship in hauling up Shaiilv'fai
her, while NO. 5 should boar up and rake her,. and.
;No. i should bring her .brOadside` to bear on her
•!s!arboard boW.7:-Luckily -this -rnalip.-tuvre only ''suc-;-
:u..-ekled with the Tony ant and fielleiophon*,
syere mong
.the Sl4ps•that suifered most._ Al Ce3.ii!
3.nonts before the .adion commencei, Lord
.Nel-,
son-cpnvued the following sentence, by telegrii,
to: the Fleet—" England expeOts every man
his duty the loud and repeated'cliecringwitlfwhi::h
this was received was a convin6n.gproof' that S4cl;.
n injUn6lion was needless.
•• uoOn.preci,ioly the :?6..t ,a 1 coniene'rice.l by the
Foug' eux and Monarea opening tits on 'the, Royal.
ereigri. Now follows an e tr..l frcliil ourlog;
4‘ 1 2 t Roval,Sovereol opened fik.Oti the enemy's