The Sun.
London, England, 1806-03-18 00:00:00

NA VA L NEWS.

PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 17.--Arrived about twelve
ef fourteen Sail of outward-bound West Indiamen
from the Downs.—No arrival or sailing of any of
His Majesty's Ships. - •

.FALMOIITH, MARCH 15;.--Arrived the Piince of
Wales Packet, HARRIS, with Mails, from Lisbon,

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in 13 days. s
Sailed .tho Ptiscella CLARK, for Bristol.; Dart,
JERMOND, for Neath ; Fanny,. PittcE, for >renby
Unity, GE-oncs, for Carmarthen ; Belmont, \VAT-
KiNs;\ for. Swatise ; Bee, ELrjST, and Ater!, BLY.,
‘both.for Barry. . •

Also arrived His majesty's Ship Formidable from
a Cruize ; and Humber hired Armed from

ditto.

DEAL, MARCH 1'7.--Remain in the Downs the
following Ships

The Edgar.and Utrecht Men of War, Thames, Ariadne,
and L'lnirnortalite Frigates, Rosario, Seagull, Kangaroo,
Amaranth; Oberon, and Musquito Sloops of War, Daunt-
less Praam, Prospero and Devastation Bombs, Speculator
Lugger, Harmony. Viaualler, and several Gun-brigs.

P. S. No communication with 'the Shifyin-z to

the shore this rUy.

A Madrid Gazette of the j ttli of Febraary states,

that in the course of last sutiiinor sm.rai-lkivato.ers of

considerable force had been iittztd oat at INlontevl(lca.,-
cn the hirer Plate, to cmize again'st the English trade

on the coast of Africa. Two of these art to lave

,had the fullowing success :—«The LaDolores,:of 24
/26() men;'under-the command of D. ESTA-
NISLAO CU RAND, sailed froth Montevideo on the .23d

of June, for the coast of Guinea, whCre, on the ISt of
Septernlidr, she' brought to• close ae-tion the English
Ships thaililive, of g 2, ginis, Clarendon, of 24, and
Rebecca, of 18, with the Brigantine Vu/11n, of 14,.a1l

of them fitted out as letters of marque, and-employed
in the Slave Trade. Th 4 had on board at the time
a considerable number of negroes.. The whsle fohr
_ _

have,been.carried into MonievideO. Their value is

estimated at 200,000 dollars iv specie. The Dolorei
had men killed and 14 wounded in the a&ion,
which was very vigorouslymaintain cdby the Ehemy."
On the same day (.23d of June) sailed from
Montevideo,- the- Dromedario, carrying 1 8 eight-

pounders, and 208 men, under the Con:if-nand 0? D.
HIPOLITO MdIIDELI4. On the 15th and 31st of
August she' fought and captured; off Cape Pardon;
on the COASt.of Africa, the English Ships the Are//y,
of 22 guns, and the Elizabeth, of 20. Both ofthem
reached 'Montevideo on the 12th October. They
were laden with assorted cargoes, suited to the Slave
Trade, and had 142 negroes 'on board:"
Dr. ryowtEl, a Medical Praelitioner well-known
in this,., Metropolis, died yesterday at his house in
Saville-row. He was an eccentric chara&er, but a
man oflearning and abilities; though, too fond of de-,
viating from the beaten track of his profession. He
was, a native of Ireland, and cornmenced his pro-
fessional career aS'a:Surgeou in the Navy- 'After
struggling with great difficulties
,he. at length
became successful, and was in some repute.—
He was one of the most violent opponents of the
Vaccine System of Inoculation, and published a
furious' pamphlet on the subjea; but his doarines -
have ,been so ably refuted,. and he drew so much
ridicule. upon himself by the work in - question,
that his spirits were Much affeaed by .the discom-
fiture he suffered. He was cif a convivial .turn, and

a passionate admirer of music, of which he was no
incompetent ,judge. He was far advanced in lite,
but was of an._ active, Inlstling disposition; and al-
ways exhibited a juvenile vivacity in social circles:
BON'APAII:T.E observes, with much coolness and

seeming indifference, in his address-to his Legisla-
ture, that through the elements he has lost a few
ships in an aelion 'imprudently commenced! It is
nut necessary to observe upon the wanton cruelty
thus manifested to his captive Admiral, as nothing
better could be expe&ed from him Wbd traduced the
unfortunate BayEit after his death. But.a feiv .
ship ! Wt'nat• if the Emperor FRANCIS should have
told his people that he bad, thrOugh bad weather,.
and a few Mistakes of his' General, lost a regiment
or twos in an anion imprudently commenced !
DAtwayAL,
,the .celebrated Ballet Stister, died
lately in France: he turned Politician during the
French Revolution, and beCarne a, furious Jacobin.
His wife was of air:. Lame principles;, and more sa-
vagely furioUs than ,
Bock{, the a&or, who bal long been a favourite
at-Edinburgh, has, it is said, pUrchased Mr:Alexi:4S
share of the Theatre in that City.
" • O. i Wednesdaylas two Troops of the 4th Dragoon
Guards arrived at Lancaster, and proceeded the next
morning for Preston : and yesterday .two more
TroopS arrived at the same place, and are to remain
till further .orders. A child .on one of the bag-.
gage carts belonging to the first division perished
on Shap -Fell; Owing 'to the inclemency, of the
weather. 7 • '
The order for the March of tl:e 1 Ith Light Dra-
goon's from Sandwich and the Isle of Thanet, has
been. countermanded. • •
Mr. NEVILLE, h‘il:er, of Brighton, after spending
a short time at Copper's Gap, about three miles to
the, west of that place,* mounted his hope to return
home.
,On Thursday morning, about eight O'clock,
he \vas found in the snow, about a mile t-i-orn Cop-
per's Gap, frozen to death, and conveyed to the ta-
vern af.Hove. Inthe•pOckets of the deceased were
drafts to the amount of 20Q1. and cash.to the amount
of 571. 15s. He was a man Of unbleniidled charac-
ter, and has left a wife and eight children'to lament
, -
‘ his kiss.

It is somewbatiingular, that on the evening Mr.
NEVILLE lost his life, a "boy about two years oid, his
god:son, as he was at play against a chair, on hearing
the sound of a military trumpet, clapped his finger
to his nose, died I‘. bark and -instantlY dropped
down in a fit, in which "he. expired-. The child was
the.wi of Mr. HOBbEN, jun. who lodged with ?Az'.

NEVILLE. , *
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PUBLICA/FFICB, tiATTON-GARDEN:- i estert‘ay
liprgan „fazes, Watch,house-keeper in St. Martin?s-
.le-Grand, was charged with suffering two PtiFoners
to .escape who were under his care, beiog'suspeete
ofluviPg reteiied a bribe of 501. li-ow one of them.
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