The Sun.
London, England, 1808-09-26 00:00:00

NAVAL -EW$.

PORTSMOUTH, SEPT: 25 —4.rriveci the Sprightly
Cutter, Lieutenant GORDON, from a cruize off Tor-
bay.
Sailed the Gannet Sloop- of War for Falmouth.'
Arrived this day the Furious Gun-brig with a
convoy from the Downs.

Yesterday morning the Lavinia, Capt. J. HAN"'
COCK,' arrived here from Admiral THeRNBROUGH'S
Sqeadron,c off Toulon—she is under quarantine.
She left the station off Toulon on the gth ult. where
she has been cruizing 26 weeks as one of the in-shore
Squadron of Frigates. She saw'the Enemy's Fleet
at Toulon every day twice, and sometimes oftener.
They consist of ten Sail of the Line (two of which
are three-deckers) and seven Frigates, in every
Tespe& ready 'for sea. GANTREAUNIE commands
in chief, having under him two Rear Admirals.-2-
Two Russian Line-of-battle Ships got in there
from Porto Fieriara, in the Island of Elba, some
Months since : the Lavinia saw them go in.--
Thep were immediately refitted and made ready
fob sea; but now, from Sortie cause, they are
dismantled, and moved into the Basin. The Spar-
tan; apt. BRENTON, was the in-shore frigate with
the Lavinia. 'The French Line-of-battle ships (the
Hannibal generally one) chased the-in-shore squa-
dron almost every day, but never to any distance
from the harbour. They have lately launched at
Toulon, two Ships of the Line, one of 80 guns, and
the other, called the Austerlitz, of 120 guns. Ad-
miral THORNBROUGU was cruizing about ten leagues
south of Toulon, with 12 Sail of the Line; a Line
of Battle ship was always kept,' day and night, ad-
vanced in-shore, to repeat the signals from the Fri-
gates. . Lord COLLINGWOOD sailed from Gibraltar
on the. 3 Ist Ilk to resume the command off Toulon,
taking with him the Ocean, (flag-ship) Terrible,
74, Lord HARRY PAULET Northumberland, 74,
Capt. llA.acooo ; and the Excellent, 74, Captain
WEST.
The Lavinia spoke nothing on her passage from
Gibraltar, except an the gth inst. the Myrtle Sloop,
Capt. INNEs, 'off Lisbon, by which Ship the Lavi-
nia sent dispatches for Sir C. COTTON, it Lisbon,
which she received from Lord COLLINGWOOD.; and
dispatches from Gen. DRUMMOND, at Gibraltar,ufor
Sir HEW DALItYNIPLE. The Myrtle left St. Vbes
the morning the Lavinia spoke her : the ravages and
exaaions of the Fiench in that neighbourhood, even
after the signing of the. convention, were very great.
A French General of Division had caused exaaions,
amounting to 1,5001. sterling, to be made, which so
exasperated the Portuguese, that a Portuguese Ge-
neral, with.sooo men, had determined to attack'
. .
him on the night the 411yrtle sailed.

PLYMOUTH, SEPT. 21.--Arrived the Brig Eco-
'Only, DAVENPORT, frOnt Quebec, bound to Sheer-
ness, laden with tirpber and masts.

Arrived La Loire Frigate from off Cadiz, and
4/nazon Frigate from Spain.
Sailed the Neptune, of 98 guns, to the Eastward ;
Champion and Confounder Gun-brigs, aud.Snapper
Schooner, on a cruize.

Arrived the Cuckoo Schooner from Gijon, which
Place she left the 19th instant ; Arrow Schooner
from a cruize, and Supply Transport from the East-
Whrd.
Came down the harbour and anchored in Caw-
sand Bay the Caledonia, of 110 guns, Admiral Lord
GAMBIER.

DEAL, SEPT.
Nassau to the 25.—saii,i His Majesty's Ships
Westward, and the Queen to Chatham.
Arrived His Majesty's Ship Trusty, and remain
with the Ships as per last.

SHEERNESS) SEPT.. 23.—Arrived the Ramillies,
of 74 guns, from the Downs, and Priace.
Arined Ship, from the North Sea. •
24.—Sailed the Ramillies,. Capt. YARKER,
for•Chatham, and Nimrod Sloop of 'War, for the
River.. It is expe4ed both will be paid off.
,The Prince IPA= came into Harbour.
The Semiramis was paid bounty.
25.--Sailed the Claudia Cutter for Yar-
Itouth.

An anion is stated to have been lately fought
off Tenedos, between a British Frigate and a num-
ber of Turkish gun-boats, and the Turks are re-.
presented in :1 e German Papers as having, been
victory, we doubt not, will prove
to have been similar to the ono which they expe-
rienced in their conflict with the Seahorse.
_Notices were on Friday posted up in the principal
Brokers' Offices in the City, that 255. per tort would
br,q given to the Charter Transports for the use .of
Government ;. and a tender of these terms was made
inc every direttion on Change.
An ingenious mechanic in Leeds, has, at the re-
Tlest of a 11,1ilitiary. Gentleman, invented an appa-
tatus, which, at k trifling expence, will, by means of
a small balloon, disperse newspapers or other pub-
! lea 6-0 s, in an' eneinyls country, with great faci-
litY• The machine, which does not exceed above.
throe pounds in weight, is so constructed as to drop
41. its progress a thousand papers in the course 'of an
hour. °-

. • •
~Cplonel THORNTON is again amusing the neigh-
bQul-bood of Scarborough with his. pack of beat
and the ersion of hawking.

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PORTUGUESE

COIMBRA, AUG. 29.—[The following is extraaed
from the journal of the operatidns of our army,
ordered to be published by the Government of this
City :—] ' •