The Sun.
London, England, 1808-04-14 00:00:00

NAVAL NEWS.

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PLYMOUTH, APuiL it.— Arrived the fickle
Schermer froin a cruize.
Sailed the .Eiigar, of •;1, ions, Capt. MICNANIATIA,
for Portsmouth, to join the Squadron destined for
the Baltic.

The4/e2.. Anckia Frigate is gone out of harbour,
having been refitted.
The Nemesis Frigate is hourly expe6led from the
eastward to take the trade under convoy bound to
Newfoundland and North America. •

The Ruse
.Sloop of War went out of harbour last
evening, end sailed to the west card. -

Sailed the Donegal, of 74 giins, to the westward;-
Mediator Store-ship with bullocks for the Squadron
off the Tagus ; and the Endeavour Armed Brig with
men for the. same Squadron.. •

PORTIMOUTII, APRIL, 13.--,Yesterday arrived tli,2,
following outward-bbund Ships, from the Downs,

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General Boyd, Russell. ' Power, Juno; Sims, Addiniton,
Parry, Prosped, Taylor, Adthiral Berkeley; Douro, Ste.
phensoa, Baltic Merl:limit, Bowser, Aim, Nary an, Bruc.
Grove, Sandwell, Young bun, Quebec, Bayley, Germah
Packet, Foster, Britannia, Lamb, Lord Nlelville, and. Vene-
rable, Drat well.

This day arrived the Vulture Sloop of War, Cr.ap
PEARCE, and Lightning. Fire Ship, Capt.. DOYIAs
with a Convoy from the-Downs, among which are
the Vulture, CHRISTIE, for, the South Seas; and
Hope, SHIELDS, for Tobago.
Sailed the Tigre, of 80 guns, Capt. FIALLOWF.LI:,
and Courageux-, 74, Capt. Bissarr, to the Easy.
ward; and Par/inn/tan Brig, Capt. CHAMBERS, on
a cruize.

The Brilliant Frigate takes Contoy to Gaermey
and Jersey.

SHEERNESS, APRIL t I.—Arrived the Bold Gun-
brig, Lieut. thriveus, to repair.
Sailed for the River the Deptford Tender.
The Crescent Fri ate is ordered to ,Wools,vich to
repair.

Capt.CHARLTON is appointed to the Sappho Sloop
of War, for the West Indies.
The Sirius, Capt. PROWSE, is come into harbour.
Passed by for the River MO East India►nen.
Arrived a few Sail of Colliers.

APRIL 12.---Arrived the Calypso Sloop of War,
Capt. BRADBY, from the Dewns, to repair; also
a Tender from thu Ttiwer, with 65 Volunteers and
itnprest men, mostly good seamen, for the Fleet.
Sailed this day his Majesty's Ship Seagull, with.
five Sail under convoy, to Heligoland.
Came clown front the River a Frigate.

NAVAL AI PPINTMENTS.—Eits Excellency Sir E.
Patt.sw has recently mach: the following Promotions ,
in tics Majesty's squadrou : Captain Buct; of .the
Rattlesnake, to the temporary command of his Ma-
jesty's Ship Powerful ; Lieut. &tan% of the Culloden,
to be Commander of the Rattlesnake ; Capt. WELLS,
of the Pit or, to the 'temporary Command of the
Duncun ; Lieut. GROUBE, of the Culloden, to be
Commander of the Trio or ; Lieut. C. OWEN to be
Commander in the Navy, and Governor of Madras
Hospital ; Mr. W. 13. DAsnWonn io be. Lieutenant
of the Culoden ; Mr. C. Potriti• tb be ditto of the
Powerful; Mr. Enw. HiNfiIIADI to be ditto of ditto
,Mr. M. M. KELLY to be ditto of the Pitt ; Mr. J.
G. APLIN to be ditto of the jrrognnt ; Mr.' H. J.
SWEEDLAND to be ditto of the Rattlesnake.

On the day of the departure of Ilk Atijesty's'Fri-
ete for England, on the 29th uit. with.the Right
tiou. Lord Wm. limiustou. and hi; 'family, 'captain
received an or‘Wr frca his tcLllencySir.
Pat.t.t\* to change her name from the Pitt to.
the Sakelte; the. Frigate lately launched .by that
name, at Aotnbay, being altered to the Pitt, now
commanded by C. COLE, EN.

The Cnittycait.olt of the Excittmvzies Bill for
improving the condition of `Caratea'does honour to
his humanity. A measure of this kind has long
been Wanted, and it may be attended with more ad-
vantage than the Mere relief of the. unbeneflced
Clergy—it may animate them to a more at%ve zeal
in discharging their duty, and thereby check the
growth of Methodism, which has prodigiously in-
creased within the hit few years in the extent of its
influence and the abgurdity of its doCtrines,

Zir. WHITBREAD has been particularly unlucky
in all the Motions which he made on the Subjeft
of the Danish, Expedition, as every document he
obtained only served to contradi& what he was en-
deavouring .to establish. But his manner was
rot less unfortunate than his matter, for even his
own party could not think .that ,he ,held forth any
striking example of courtesy, delicacy, and that
deportment which ought to characterize people in.
his rank of life.

.: The investigation of the .Annandale Title and Es-
tates is now before the House of Peers, and will
probably soon. be brought to a hearing. There is a
claimant„General SQUTRII Jo H N SIC N it, whose rights
we are.satiktked will not be overlooked, though he
should be unable to urge therm with all the advan.
taps of legal advice and_forensic eloquence. That
veteran and respeaable Officer, if we are not nlisin•
formed, cgt produce clear and incontrovertible proofs
of his being thene*t heir at law to the itmnense
property and the high title which are now in abey-
ance. .

It .might be conceived that Mr. Witipiram would
have had more delicacy and•taste than to have been
Ckllo of the first to attack Lord CASTLEREAGH'S flew
Military Plan, for, as he had himself brought forward
a System of quite R. Utopian kind, in censuring the
measures of another he might naturally be thought
to burn
"Or with a Rival's or a Eunuch's spite." .

The Lh istol Packet,. By RY, bound for New-York,
was taken January 24, and scanted, by the Penelope
and Thenzesis, French 40-gun Frigates : on the 27th;
t hey captured the Brigs Prient and' Ranzsgate, told
scuttled Them immediately, iu North latitude 46.