The Sun.
London, England, 1806-04-30 00:00:00

NAVAL .N E iv 3„

,Frein the LONDON GAZEtTE, Ap,u 180 t.

Admiralty-Office, April 5..)g.

Copy of a Letter from Dice-ildmiral Lord
wood, Commander in chiy. of His. Mrtjesty's
Ships in the Mediterranean, to Win. Marsden,
Esq. dated on board His illidesty's ship Queen,'
01 Cadiz, March 20, 1806. ' '
SIR, ' _ _ _ _ •

I inclOse, for the information Of the Lords Cona,,
missioners 'of the Admiralty, a. Copy pf a Letter
which I have thii day .received from. Liehtenant-
Stocltham, commanding His Majesty's Ship "41*.
Thunderer, giVing an accOunt. of his having :captiir=
ed,. on the tf2th instant, the Spanish •Schdoner Pri-
vateer Santo Christo del Pildo, .of 14. gqqs.anci
men and hisirecapturing a banish on -the
same day, which had previously been detained' by'
the Priirateer. ani,
(Signed). COLLINGWOOD. •
His Majesty's Slip Thunderer, off Cadiz,
March 2u, 1806.

•
MY LOTM, , •
I have the .satisfaelion -to inform your Lordship,
that at dav-light, in the morning 'of the -12th.,
in lat. 41 deg. ,5 :3 min. N. long. It) deg. 27 rbin„W,.
I discovered three strap ;e 8-ail on toy' lee -bow, one
of which appeared suspicious -3 I made 'all -sail pes-,
. sible, and, after five hourg chace, captured
She .pr' ved to be-. a: Spanish —Schooner Privateer,
—mounting 14 long—guns, and 4 four-
pounders, name Santo Christo del Paldo, Jean
-Gonzales Commander, 67 men., from Bayonne, out
15 days., sails fasi,-hull, Vigging„and sails quite new,
'tiftualled for loic,mouths bad_c4Rtured a Swedish
Brig, the Pomone,,Alaenons Sanda,ions Mastcr, ,
be-
longing to 0-ottenburghi last from Gibraltar, bound
to Liverpool with a cargo of currants ; alsb a Gal.-:
name Louisa Jeatte Peter Johnson
Master,j tt. -Hamburg' ," last- from Lisbon,
bOund to. Cherboilrg, laden with' cotton and hides,
and a Danish Brig, Grunstad,. Which -Vessel I re-
captured at seven the same evening; and sent a Petty
Officer in her to England. Her
,cargo was linseed,;
Src. . 2 •
The Privateer is seventy-five tons, Spaniih rnea-
surement. ••

hai'e the honour to be, &c.
- (Signed) ; JOHN STOCKUAM.
,Right Hon. Lord Collingvktod, &c: &c..&c.:

.PLV'MOUTH, APRIL 28.—TArrived the French
Chasse Mare La. Sans Repose, laden with wine and
brandy, captured three weeks since, off Belleisle, by
the Frisk Cutter. •

Arrived the rEntreprenante Cutter, Lieut. You
Commander, with Dispatches from Admiral Lord
COLIANGWOOD : brings no particular news, having
had
.communication only with His Majesty's Ship
Queen. • .

_ :Arnvect the, Ami-riran Brig Ezra and Daniel,
Capt. HALL, laden with coffee and sugar, from Bahl=
more, bound to Amsterdam, detained by His Ma:
jesty's Cltill'onne. Alscith,e Hathburgh' Ship
Lisbon Pocket, Capt..MoNcK, laden with wine, &c.
from Bourdwux, bound to HaMburgh, detained. by
the Caroline Armed Brig ; and the .Reward, Capt.
TYAcK, laden with wine, from Oporto, last from
Falmouth. • - -

Arrived from a Cruize, "and sailed again to the
Eastward, the Lath, . Warren Armed Ship.
The _Martin Sloop of War is, appointed tOntioy
for. the Trade to Newfoundland, N96' Scotia, and
qanada, and will sail hence to-morrow morning..

'PORTS`IOUTH, Amur, 29. Arrived the Howe
Store-ship from the D'owns, bound. to .the Cape of
Good Hope ; and to-day the Avon Sloop-of War,
Captain SNELL, from Lisbon ; the Minerva, HAR
RIS., from. River de la Plata, detained by the Pluto
Sloop of War ; and, the. Fortuna,. BRADLEY, from"
Rotterdam.

Sailed the Meteor and Expiosivi,Zombs for the
Downs ;sand the 'Defender Gun-N-1g
,pn a Cruize.

The Diana Frigate is ,appointed, to convoy the
Lisbpn and Mediterrauean Flee-0, and fill sail,
should the wind prom favourable, the gth May.

-Caw2s, APRIL 2:).—Sailect the Swedish Ship
Regentin, C.ipt. SY:4 AN; for.. G- cfle with salt ; the
Charon, Capt. 1-lor,:AAN, for Gefle, with salt; the
Enighedert, Capt. StyNnmAN, for Christianstadt, with
Galt; the Hoy .Frihetrizi Gapt LELLTA;:-frcmi St.
boon- l to London., -With-fruit ;, the Brig.
Girt/Irina Maria, Capt. WALLTS,
,for Gottenburgh,
With salt; the' Brig ;Vorth Star, Capt. V eSSELOREN,
for Stockholm ; Ship Capt.: CAR LE-
EON, for:Ganelii:taAby ; the Brig .Frederick; Capt.
tYLLENBACK,tfOr Gottenburgh. 5 and the Brig Pc:-
trtmella, Capt: 112:37M1t1IIIRP,' for Gottenblirgh

DEAL, APRIL
.2g'.—Arrived- and 'ailed,.for the

Rives; the. Ship ~4arpra, Gipt. 1 LLLIrS, fiom De,

Inerara,_;last from Ireland ; she ,has sbippeci a,sett,
-• stove in her quarter, threv.• overbbiiiil her guns and
•
part of her cargo; for tile presesi
jaiion of theirilives:

!, Sailed the Scvz Gyll Sloop of Tar,- and the Swift
',East lndia Pilot Vessel, for Yarmouth J also His
.11ajest's Ship the _his,
.for 'Portsmouth,. hut leas
sibce put bacl also La Sibellc Frigate, which sailed
yesterday for Plymouth. -
16...rriv,ed the Helena Sloop of War from' the West-.
vard.

Came down froni_the RR-er :the Thames East In-

diaman.

.ca:ne d9wn frOrnithe.River last :night; - and sailed
/s°'\ through the Downs, the Teigrimouth East:lndia

• 1 •. . .
Packet ; a1;46 the Ifoloe East Indialiiin ; th?,
put.hack this afternoon by contrar3 minds
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sAmißNEtis,siktlx.ll-40.-7-Ariived the of-
-50 'guns; Captain I :BAzELy Gorgon, 4-.44 guns,
Capt. SaVt, of 6 gun's, Capt. 'aiii-I
Hecaie Gun-brig, Lieutenant NORMAN, all from tht
!DOwns and N6tth Sea: -1

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