The Sun.
London, England, 1801-01-07 00:00:00

SHEERNESS, JAw. 6.

Atilt rvE D the jamaicai of 3i guns, Cart.
IVIACEPI.LAR, and the Adder Gun-boat,
Sailed the Mary hired Cutter, on a Cruize.

MOST G.l LL ANT ACTION'.

IXTRACT OF A LETTER, DATED CAPE OP GOOD
noßgs.ooT. 22. 1800.

" The Ship.Weliesky, having on hoard provi-
sions, Ste: consigned to the Agent Viaualler at
s place, and Naval Stores for the supply of His
?Jobjesty4a 'Squadron in India, arrived in False
'by On the roth of September. ;The .Brifioleue
being bound to Rio de Taifeiroi she parted from
titat• Ship with the approbation tif-Captain
44tatt..on the 17th of July, being tberF4rl latitude
b. itS.' South, and longitude 27.30. 'West.—
On. the 9th of August, an latitude 30. South,
and longitude 35.30. West, she was. attacked
by a trench Frigate of 36 guns (of which Fri.
late intelligence had before been received here),
loot Captain Goa ox had made such judicious
Reparßeparations for her reception, that she ran from
ations
after an Milan of little more than an hour,
and did not dare to renew the combat, although
abe dogged him for six days afterwards. The
gpeatest praise is due to Captain. Goittioy,
.114
ars, and Ship's Company, and to his rassen-
Itts) for their very gallant condu6 on this occa.
Non lb—and I have no doubt that proper conside.
ittion will-he shcwn to Captain Galt DON, for his
having so bravely defended the Ship and import-
efts Cargo he had in charge, against an Fineniy
of a force So very superior to the Wellesley, the
latter mounting ne more than' i a nine and io
sixtpounders, and manned chiefly with Lascars
and China men."

Commissioner Hop a is appointed the Commis-
sinner at Chatham, in the room of Cornmi4l(inbr
HAttvar LI, who comes' to the Navy Board.
Capt. Clt RL ES LAN r, of the ....V4a Ysidro PH-
Eon Ship, is appointed to the command of the
Cambridge Man of War, the Guard Ship at Ply-
Mouth, in the room of Capt. 'WicitEir, promoted
to'the rank of Vice-Admiral of the Blue.
It gives us pleasure to inform the Public, that
the young Midshipman, Mr. Aucus-rus HAM IL -
'TON, who so gallAntly distinguished himself un
Ll4l4tellAilt Bit 11 trrwri in the Boats of His
Mdesty's Ship Phaeton, when cutting out a 'Spa.
tiish "Vessel of War from under Nlangerole Castle,
near Malaga, is fast recovering from his wound.
Though shot through the thigh whilst in the boat,
he yet intrepidly persisted in boarding, and for..
mutely tut down u Spaniard, who was levelling
his mUsquet at one (Shit comrades. Mr. A. HA-
' MitTo24 sun of Viee;Adrniral HAM I L TON, svho
is first cousin of His Grace the Duke of 1-I.ot
TOR. •

The Danish Company's Ship the Cron l'rinsen,
Holm, who left Canton about the latter end, of
Yanuary, has lost her masts, and been obliged to
put into the Isle of France.
ttistavus Tertius, Kiermanskohl ; and
Wester Gothland, Nisser (Swedish
00' encountering very severe weather) are put
into the CJpe of Good Hope, and would he ready
so sail beginning of January.
The Britannia, Lesse i Wand Atlas, Dempbtet)
of Dartmouth, and a Schooner, from Talniouth,
with hah, for the Mediterranean) are captured
near Gibraltar, and tarried into Algdzi'ras.

COtHAw,s • new Covirody tag herr) read
to tbe Performers who axe to
.b,.(.oticerned in it,
at Covgnt Gsrdtnmu.. ::•Th'cy are all, it
!ttealls Isittily pleased wltli..ittiff P:irt6,auld on..
Iderttly ptediet -.4 most pro:teroOs fati; to• the
fleet. ' • • •

The Cane which ICtrta LE: uses rins, Lear
formerly belonged to the .Csereat Faux)Extol, of
Prussia, 3 Mon-arch who would not so easily have
patted with his Dominions. a,Jiis Dramatic Ma-
,testy. This Cane was purchased along with the
vardiabe of the Prussian Monarth, and that
'wardrobe consisted of little besides taco old blur
coats with brass buttons, two waiswoots, and two
pair of' breeches ofequal Antigatty, all plentifully
decorated with stmf. The head, of the Cane is
. brass gilt, in the form of a sphinx".
In a house in-Paris the tirt froor is devoted to
Gartittg Club ; on the ground floor is a Paula-
, iroier's Shop, and on the second thior a Maier qf
Pinch. The coincidence is curious.
Last night, about flail past six o'clock, a fire
broke out in the premises of a ntop-yarn-sp.pmet,
in Turntnill-street, Clerkenweil, whieh burnt with
such violence that in„a short rime it consumed the
s hole of the work-shop and tiwelliag-house. Its
- further progress, however, •
fortunately pre-
w.ts
iNented by the timely assistande of sevcr.d fug-
tnzines and a good supply of water,

"

PARIS, DEC:

17.

" of the Army of Mine, at 43111 g, A. ,9.
" This Army, at five o'clock this morning,
passed the inn without any lips, The Enemy,
deceived by our counter marches, had left this
point unguarded-. We had not a man wounded.
70,000 k ranch are at :this moment on the right
bank of the lan. They must now sign a Peace,
or .we shall compel them to it under the walls of
Fienna."