The Sun.
London, England, 1806-10-28 00:00:00

EXTRACT OF. A. LETTER FROM AN OFFICER ON BOARD

THE PENGUIN.

"To avoid misrepresentations, which are apt to
creep into the public Papers after any disaistrous oc-
.currence ; to ease the minds of some, and satisfy"
the doubts of others, 1.. send you the following nar-
rative, which may be depended upon.
The Ships. named below left Negri! tay, (West
end of JaMaica) on the evening of the 29th of July,
:tinder convoy of the Magicienne, Capt. Mackenzie ;
.Franchise, -Capt. Dashwood and penguin Sloop,
Capt. Smith ; the Veteran, of 64 guns, accompany-
ing-them to a certain distance:

•- On the 14th of Augusta Spanish Line-of-bat-
tle Ship was discovered in the rear of the Convoy,
which the Veteran and Magicienne chased into the
Havannah.

" 19th.—Cleared the Gulph of Florida ; the Fleet
colle6ted, with the exception of the Ship Minorca,
Geo. Wright, Master.

• 4‘ The.e o venin of the 20th, (lat. at noon, 29. 24.
N. long. 78. 3:'W.) the sky looked wild ; the sea
getting up, and every appearance of a gale,. which
• (or rather the tail of an hurricane) came on that
night, or lather in the morning of the 21st. It blew
violently from North to South, and was felt (by
subsequent information on .the passage) in many
parti of America. The daMaaoe done to the Fleet at
this .time is mentioned against 'each Ship's , name
below ,The Filtnchise was seen with the, loss
of ,her foremast, and had separated. The Magi-
cienhe rudder was so much damaged that she could
In at eproceea.

" All the 22d it continued to blow violently.
" On the 23d, sixty-two Merchant Vessels in
company.

" 25 th.—Magicienne parted, in tow of the Veteran,
for Bermuda to refit.

" 27th. The Larkins, Capt. Foster, and faith, of
Lancaster, Capt. Woodhouse, joined; the latter
with loss of foremast and bowsprit. The LaAins
had saved the crew of the Ship Coverdale, Capt.
Thatcher, and part- of them were put on board the
Ship Union, John Bruce, Master, totally dismasted,
ap4cgone for America. The Jane Brig, of London,
Thptnas Copping, Master, being very leaky, parted
foi= .rlierica, with the approbation Of Capt. Macken-
zie, pn the 25th.

" SEPT. 4. The Franchise joined with the Ann,
At . ;
Kent, Wm. Piseley rLune, Robert Young;
Posthumous, Daniel Pea ; John. and Thomas, James
Clarke ; Venus, Pozer ' • and .Neptiine, James Holla-
day--making in all 71 Sail.now colle&ed.

• ."5•Lr-ri 7. The Iroquois Brig (one of thegonclu-la3
Convoy) joined ; had, parteX Majeity's Ship
Ancike, f4lld eleven Sail, near the entrance of the
qt.rph, on the 22d ult. in light winds, • •
On the-9th, in lat. 35. N. long. 63.4. W. bailed
afi AtheriCaii Ship (did not learn her name) 35 days.
,frorn London for Virginia. . •
" 10th.—In lat. 35.x43. long. 62. 15. W. picked
up the- wreck of a Snow's main-mast, with 'the
• lower and topsail yards attached to it : the sails
from the yards evidently had keen burnt ; but could
not discdver any. name, or mark,• to judge of what
Nation she had belonged.
"23d.—Boarded the AipericanShi p IPilliam, from
Philadelphia for Gibraltar, in lat. 40. 36. N. long.
46.53. W. • . • ,
"OCT. I.—pojce, inlat. 44.92. N. long. 30. 43.
W. the Arnerkan Ship. Shepherdesi, 16 days from.
London, for Norfo all well.
" 3d.—ln lat. 45. 13. N. long. 26. 51: w. spoke
the American Ship Ontario, Q 1 days from Lyming-
ton for New Bedford ; all well.
4th.—Lat. 46. 10. N. long. 23. 59.. W. passed
at some distance, a Ship's yald with a sail 'to it, very
black, as if it had been set fire to;; a freSh breeze at the
time, and having a Ship in tow, could not ascertain'
to whafit. had belonged.' •
• " Bth.—Lat. 48. 34:N. long. 17. 03.W.the Fran-
chise spoke an American Ship, 13 days from Liver-
pool, for Portland. She spoke the 3cl instant His
Majesty's Ship Savage, looking for this Fleet;
" loth .—Lat. 50. 03. N. long. 14.54. W: boarded,
the. American Ship Atlantic, 39 days- from Ports-.
mouth, New Hampshire, for London, witir tobacco
and staves; 'all well. ' -
" 15th.-,-Made the Skelligs Rocki, Coast of Ire-
land—eleven weeks from land to land.
" 18th.—The Virago Gun-brip. joined.—Spoke
the Brig Brothers, of, and; for, LiVerpool ; ten
weeks from-Malta, laden. with -sulphur.. Parted'
its Majesty's Frigte. Seakorse and Convoy on the
15th instant, with two other •Ve.ssels for Liverpool.
Some Vessels -of the Jamaica Convoy Convoy bad parted
between this and the 15th from want of water, two
of which we heard had reaehed,Beerhaven. •
igth.His Majesty's Sloop of War Brisk
joined. Find the Elizabeth; Galt, one of the miss-
ing Ships, had arrived at Greenock.

20th.—Such of the Liverpool and Bristol
Ships as remained in company parted for their se-
veral destinations, under convoy of the Brisk and
Virago. The whole Fleet much in want of iirovi,
sions and water, and the Men of War not able to
supply them ; the Penguin nearly 1 3 weeks frpm,
Port Royal, at two-thirds allowance of bread, and
.three pints of water a man per diem.—Strong East-
erly windi against us• for-some, days previous to
making the Skelligs Rocks the 15th, and ever since:
Some of the Convoy, which had parted in the hur-
rie.ane, were spoke by the Virago sit days ago--
well, but short of provisions and.water.—Supplied*
by Lieutenant - Hanchett, to the 'extent of his
power. _ •

66 21st.—Lat.4-:-.52. N.long. 8.11.W.-Baw His
Majesty's Ship Minotaur, and another Man of War,
standing up Channel with a Convoy. In the even-
ing spoke the Ariadne Transport, from Gibraltar, for
Portsmouth--all well—had lost Convoy. She kept
Company with us.
" 22d.—In the forenoon His Majesty's Ship
Franchise parted for Plymouth, leaving in charge
of the Penguin thirty-four Sail.—A gale at West.
24th.—The Sheddens yeste,rday boarded the.
American Ship Hope, of, and from, Baltimore, for
Amsterdam, which reported that several Sail of this
Fleet had put into the Delaware and Chesapeak in
distress—theirnames not given."-

Ship'E R IN— John Phillips, lost with the crew. Col. Melle- `.
fortt; 85th Regiment, oh board.
CA Rl4 A RTHEN—'_;eo. Richards, lost with the crew,
Foe ry -SE co a D—Jos. Stephension, r man saved.
A Fere,. N—Ch. Saunders, - Ix men saved.
Brig PALLAs7-lolin Goodwin, t boy .saved.
Ships .AohiLLES—Duncan Douglas. RASHLEICH—WIn.
Melyilie. CovERD ALE —Thos. Thatcher. Crewssaved.
Brigs Colt A—Wth. Coppinger. ANN—Ed. Stuart. Ditto.
Shin 'Dm lON —tohn Bruce, went . tor America (totally •dis-
masted),- with part of the Coverdale's crew.
Brig h —Tiros. Copping, leaky, lost maintop-maft, and
weft-ter- A inc-rica. -
Ships Nu SWELL— [obis Dodds. HERCULEAN—Ch. Sins
mons. Supposed lost ; the former was seen in a sinking
state by the' ohn and Larkins, at a tithe when no assistance
could possibly be rendered:
ANE, John White ; Nal:taus, Jas. Rose; Cumbeiland,
H. Simpson ; Concord, Thos. Read ; Francis, Wm,. -Hall;
Emerald, Jas. Brownley ; Sally; T. Williams ;' Clarets,
don, [as. Drew ; Adeon, lames Gordon ; Fortune, John.
Ried ; Exeter, Alex. Smelling; Elizabeth, [as. Galt,
sincefind is Arrivcdloff Greenock ; Aurora, T. M•Karly ;
. Mary, lohn Oswald ; Hercule's, I. Gaffley ; Pursuit, I:
Montgomery; absent after the Gale, and not since heard of.
M kNORCA=GeO. Wright. Separated before 'entering the
G ulph.
Aziri,.,Foster Bascome, for Philadelphia ; Lady Mitchell,. I.
Rumford ; • Chance, James Pernte ; Sally and Eliza, S:un.
Harris; for .Halifax. Salus, James Moore ; for Philadel-
phia. .H, Livingston ; for Norfolk. • Douglas,
Seth Seeley ;;-tbr 'Quebec. Bound to America, and supposed
to have paite2l after clearing the Gelph.
". RECAPITULATION.
•
Sailed from Jamaica vier; supposed to have parted for
Arrierica'7-102 ; foundered zo—ez ; Nutwell and Herculean
-supposbd 'lest z-9o; Union and lane, went for America a—
.-83 ; MinurCa;-parted without leave 1-87 ; onaccounted for'
ah-71 being the exad number colleded atter the l'•,ranchise_
joined with the 7 Sail on the 4th of September.
-Ships (continded) which sailed from Jamaica and remained
together after the Hurricane, or joined again, with their
Damages
;Thirty-eight mentioned above.
SHEDDENS, James M‘Donald ; Ground tier, sugar, starboard
side washed out.
Loan GA R b Na a, D. Kellock ;' ditto.
WILLIAM DENT, Giles Musson; dittd, supposedso.
ALFRED, Win. Clarke ; a quantity of Rum leaked out.
CH F. S r ER F liLD, J. Mudge; some (Attie sugar supposed to
be washed oui ; a puncheons of Ruin washed overboard.
' ALBION, J.
,Thompson ; sugar washed out the starboard
side.
CA.SAR,' John Fowler ; some of the sugar supposed to be
washed out.
HUNTER, J. Gardner; ditto.
DUKE OF. You:. ; f. Law_,-. some of the sugar washed out.
.MA4RT AND SUSANNAH. Wm. Clark ; guns thrown over.
GENEROUS PLANTER, James Beattie; some Of the sugar
Washed out ; boats lest.
• KINGSTON; Wrn. Benson ; sugars, starboard side wasised
• out ; lost maintop mast. • • •
Fibre cvELL, Chas. Wardar ; all the ground tier supposed,'
to be washed out.
MARTHA BRAE, Wm. Thomas; sugars, starboard side
washed out.
ATLASi; Jos. Stockdale ; some of the sugars washed out, and
bowsprit gone.
DIANA, Wm'. Roxburgh ; ground tier sugars, starboard side'
washed out. •
JOHN. Th. Woodhouse; bowspiit and foremast -gone.
NEST ONE, L. Bouch ; Shifted cargo : lest foretop mast.
NAIAD, Win. Austin; six puncheons Ruin hove over-board.
V F N US, Win. Pozer ; some of the ground tier supposed to
be washed out.
N E PT UN SI 1. Holliday ; maintop mast and head of the main
mast gone.
posTuumou I, Pan. Pea'; four puncheons Rum lost.
imwsLl., of Leith, I. i boats lost; sails split.

,z.loo ear Plaskett; ground tier of sugar supposed
to he walled out. -
BAR z tr.A I, Tilos, Wilmot; leaky, st.me of the ground
tier washed out.
ANN, Wit% Raniey•l, some-of the RuM supposed to be lest:
Sussex, Thos. Hall; verb leaky, chief part of the ground
tier tvashed out.
CAriran roc t, Sim. Cathall ; three guns thrown ovNtoard.
Richard, Jos. Perring ; Princess Charlotte, 'sant. Sun-.
' Mons ; Diana, Thos. Weeks (dead); Mariner, Anal. Cur:is;
Orfait4o;,A;eo: Jackson ; Severn, Tho. Etheridge ;
'Norman-M'lntosh ; Maria, lames Summers.; R :hcrt
Wiley ; Pursuit, M'Kiidev ;` St. George, still-17)rd t'.i
mer ;.Kenr, Wm. Piseley ; 'London, Alex. Agnc-.Av ;
'Hull, lames Lee; Marian,. W. ;
son ; Bostock, I. Dawson ; Stranger; I Hunter ; Lark ibie
Alex.. Foster; Mars, J. Fish; Pomona,
Margaret and Ann, Thot: Wills; Ives, Wm. Aik. ns;oil-;
Magnet, Sandells ; Vicissitude, -Thos. Lupton;
Robert Kerney ; Alfred, Robert „Renton ; Cent orlon, -1.
Gledsdale •i GolCh Grove, And. Wills; Enterprize Th :s.
Rutherford; Lady Forbes, David Gourley; Tutloch 'Castle,
A. Fisher ; David Shaw, r. T.' Hodgsok ; James,' Thos,
Bradshaw ; Margaret, Weir ; Ardent, l)ugald Campb:ll ;
John and Thbmas, las. Clark; Ann, Walter Arki.is ; F-L
vourite, H. Richardson ; Lime, Robt. Yotiug ; Bless in;,
las.- Mackay; Friendship, 1. Thomai ; -Lady St. jaii,i,
joseph Whittle.—Total coy.

EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM AN OFFICER OF-N. M. S.

NEPTUNE, SPITHEAD,,OCT. 25.
His Majesty's Ships Neptune and Minotaur iteft
Lord CoLubmwooti's!fleet off Cadiz on the t:!,7th
ult. wits 22 Sail of,. Merchant-vessels and
Transports, from • Messina and Malta. The Flet t
off Cadiz consists of the following Ships•
Ocean, Lord Cow NG wooD, Queen, Adm. Pußv- is,
Tigre, Orion, Zealous, Ajd x, and Satan. —TIIO
Swiftsure. and Standard joined his Lordship the day
we left it, from a six weeks' Cruize off Lispoit ;
and the Athenienne, Captaiti,GirrAßD, from iNfilta.,
The Active and Niger • Frigates were cruizing close
to Cadiz.. •

• , • _
f`. The Enemy's Fleet consists of twelve Siil of the
Line, amongst which are five Adinita "i hey are,
by every account we received, much fn want of
D
Seamen. Lord COLLINGWOO'S Veet• is in a I; gh
state of health, and good disciptine. 'Another
meeting is devoutly wished for by bOili Officers and
men, which will relieve them-from-a tiresome state'
of blockade. Of the result there can be but one
opinion, from the iron-nerved Admiral, Lord COL-
Llislo.woon.--Capt. CHARLES WATSON, Agent for
Transports, is on board the Monarch. The Squa-
dron at Carthagena are nine Sail of the Line; they
seldom venture to come out of that harbour, , Sir
SIDNEY SMITH, when we last heard from him, was
at Policastro.. The Endymion is gone to Constanti-
nople; a Squadron of five
,Sail .of the Line are
cruiziug in the Adriatic."

;•- DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZE-MONFY.
To the'Officers and Crew. of His Majesty's Sloop Lynx,
for Ow Capture of the Brigs Jonge Jan, and Jacobus Leeper,
on board the said Sloop, at Leith ;. and everyday, f:r three
years; at No. tI, Cecil-street, Strand.
To -the Officers ,and Company of His Majesty's Ship Iris,
and. lane. Lugger, their Shares of the Fortuna and Neptunus,
taken on the 23d April, and 3d June, 1799; at Nu. 22, Arun..
delstreet; on the 3oth inst. •
To the 'Officers and Company of His Majesty's Ship
CxSar, for the,Capture of the French Ships .Formidable,
Mont Blanc, Scipion, and' buguay Trouin, the proc?ed.. of
the hulls, part of the stores, and head-money hills, at Lock.
yea's Office, Plymouth, every :Friday and Tuesday for three
months.

To the. Officers and Company of His Majesty's Ship. Re_
volutionairt,•'. for the Capture of. the French Ships For..
midable, Mont Blanc, Scipion, and Duguay Trouin, the pro.
ceeds Of the Hulls, part of the Stores, and Head-money, on
board, and every Friday and Tuesday for three
Lodger's Office, Plymouth. . •
To the Officers and Company of His Majesty's Ship Am-
buscade, for the Capture of the French Privatter
the Head-money, on the 3oth inst. at Messrs.. Pontain and
Keys, Salter's-hall-court, Cannon-street ; ' and every Mon.
day and Thursday for three years.