The Sun.
London, England, 1808-12-09 00:00:00

NAVAL tsi

VALmpurti, bath. 6.—Ariived. this evening the
.2llar/borgrigh Packet, which sailed from hence with
. ,
the Mails of Cktober hit for Madeira and Janeiro :
she sailed from Pr4a4ii-a on the 12th, and was cap-
tured on the 18th; in lat. 24. 10ng.:23. by the
.Frencti.
Privateer La Josephine, of 14 gUns, 24-pounders
the Captain Of winch, afterthrow lug all her guns
and animunition over board, taking on board six of
the crew, and every valuable article they could find,

gave her up to Capt. BULL.
.Also arrived a Mail from Corunna, brought by the
Eliza Packet in four days ; report states, that the
Spaniards were losing grotind. Tho British armies
are said to have formed a jundion. General BLAKE
has been seriously defeated : the Marquis DE
.1k
MANAO with a reinforc7thent of 10,000 men, had
taken the chief command of the whole of BLAKE'S
army : the French, with a force of 130,000 men,
are within 15 leagues of Madrid.
The Cornwallis Packet has alsd arrived in 36
days from Tortola, and the Prince EWiest Packet in
30 days from Jamaica ; spoke a Frigate off Bermudas,
which had parted with the Queen Charlotte, from
Jamaica, for Falmouth, a few days before.—Also
arrived His Majesty's Ship La Loire, from Ports-
mouth, with a Spanish Nobleman, Viscount Da
MATEROSSA j the Mae from the Westward; thid
the Gleaner from Lisbon with dispatches.

SHEERNESS, DEC. 7.—Arrived his Majesty's Ships
Africa, Daphne, and Vixen, from Yarmouth ; and
the Rose, Talbot, and 'Etna Bomb froM the North
Sea.

PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 8.--a-Arrived His Majesty's
Ships Merope and La Coquette from a cruize.

Sailed His ~Majesty's Ship La Bonne Citoyonne
on acruize and the Escort with a convoy for
Guernsey.

DEAL Dec. B.—Arrived and sailed for the River
the' Hero, STEPHENSON, from Qdebec, mid the
Helen, WATSON, from the Brazils.

YAitMOUTH, ,DEC. B.—Arrived the bido, of
Stockholm, to load gin and brandy fcr Stockholm.

The Schooner Neptune, of Wo,dbfidge, is dis-
masted in the 1-13rbour, by getting across hawse.
The Iphrailita, from Dantzig to London,' came
in with loss of an anchor. •

Thirteen Danish Vessels, laden, with iron, deals,
timber, anti sundry goods, sent in as prizes to the
&ailing, C'ruizer, and Daphne Brigs of War, and
Swan Cutter.

A very heavy gale of wind at W. and N.N.W•
No damage heard of yet.

PLYMOUTH, Dac. 7.—Came in his Majesty's
Ship. Primrose, from the Eastward; the Danish Ship
Emanuel, from Drontheim, for Bourdeaux, prize to
his Majesty's Ketch Gleaner.

Sailed his Majesty's Ship Jupiter on a cruize.

Arrived the Brig Dion, WARREN, from .Yar-
mouth, laden with herrings, bound to Messina ;
Portuguese Ship Piedad, MANUEL ANTONIO BAR-
RADIS, Master, from London, in ballast, bound to
the Brazils ; Portuguese Ship Sarah Pagenia, J. Go n-
SAL, Master, from London, bound to Pernambuco,
with sundries; the Polacre Ship Union. J. B.
SCHOMT, from London, bound to Malta, laden with
sugar, &c. the Hamburgh Brig Johanna, J. C. LAR-
SEN, from Oporto, laden with wine, bound to' Li-
merick; and the William and Catharine, HALLETT,
from Poole for Cork, with rye, &c.
Arrived the Esculapius, CAMPBELL ; Lustre,
SMITH; Betsey and Mary, PuGH, from London,
outward-bound; put in by contrary winds.

A Sloop of War, of 18 guns, to be called the
Prince Arthur, has been some time in preparation
at Deptfoi.d, intended as a present to the DEI of
ALGIERS. The cabin is finished in a superb man-
ner. She is to be furnished with stores of every de-
EcriptiOn fit for a vessel of her class. She is mount-
ed with' brass guns.

Yesterday his Excellency General APODACA re-
ceived his appointment as Minister Plenipotentiary
from the Grand Junta to the Court of Great Britain.
A letter, of the 3d of (Maher, from St. Croix,
states, that the French have succeeded in throwing
large supplies into Guadaloupe. The following
Vessels haVe arrived there :—the DU/genie, of 24
g'-pounders and 3t)o men, with a quantity of ammu-
nition, and 400 blrrels of flour ; the Brig Atisus,'
of eighteen 24-pounders and, 220 meri, with 306
barrels of flour ; the Fanfaron, of eighteen 36-pbtin-
ders and 200 men, with 300 barrels of flour; an
'armed Merchant lAgger, with 150 barrek of beef
and 400 firkins of butter ; another Ship, armed en
fiute, carrying twenty-four' 36:pounders, on two
decl6, and tWelcie g-pounders, with 4006 barrels of
f bur and 400 casks of cfaret. This last vessel had
captured. the English. Brig Maria: The Brig carried
only twelve I 8-pounders, with 65 men ;' and of this
little crew tidlessthan 1:5 were killed befoie she *as
taken.

,
Mr. of PhiSblrY-scii.urre, has:been one
Of 1116 most active prOrnoters of the intericied Sutr-
scription in aid'of the Spaniards. This Gentleman
lets three nephews in tire Spanish army, one of
whom. was lately' mentioned in' terrna•Of great praise
for his condat in Catalonia.' •

~,01)e half of.the i 4.111 regiment of Light Dragoon;
ritidrr orders for,Spain, were embarkin transports
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