The Sun.
London, England, 1806-03-17 00:00:00

NA N E WS.

PrArMouTn, MARCH 15.—Arrived late on Thurs-
day evening, and anchored in Cawsand Bay, the
Hibernia, of 110 guns, Admiral Earl ST. VINCENT;
also the Ville de Paqs, of tlo guns, both from
Portsmouth,

...—The.lkitulsor Castle; of 98 guns, '"arrived here
yesterday &Om the Channel Fleet; also the Minerva
-Frigate from the Eastward, and Harlgquiri-Hired
Armed Ship from Falmouth.

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Sailed the Dispatch Sloop of War on a Cruize.
The .Spqrtiate," of 74 guns, and: Confiance Sloop
of War,' went out of Harbour yesterday. '
• Arrived the Prussian Galliot Welvaart, laden with
wine and brandy, from Bourdeaux, bound to AltOna ;
and 'the Danisl Galliot Enigheit, Capt. OTTiEN,
laden with linen, &c. from Amsterdam, bound ter
Aidgadore, both detained 'by the Lion Private&;
'also the'Danish'Brig keptunus; Capt. SMITH; from
Bourdeaux, bound to Bergen, laden with' wine and
brandy, detained by the ;riper Cutter.
Arrived the American Ship Dragon, Capt. BEACON,
fgomlisbon, • bound to Corunna, laden with provi-
sions, detained by the Colpoys Sloop of War.
Yesterday afternoon a French lugger Privateer
captured, about two leagues . west of the :Bathe Head,
an English Brig and a Sloop, and Carried them off
to the .'Southward.; the Sloop came out of Helford
in the 'morning: neither of the. Vessels'. -names are
knoWn. 'A signal was flying on:the Start Point the
whole of yesterday for an tlemy:s CruiZer being in
sight from thence. = I

• .Arrived the • Amiable 'Germaine- French Chasse
•
Margie,, laden with ,wine and brandy,. from Bonn-
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deautyNunct to Brest, captured on the 6th instant,
off the Penmarks; by the Santa Margarita Frigate,
Sailed '
this evening the Hibernia, of . 1 to guns,
Admiral Earl ST. VINCENT, and .Vile de Paris, of
.110 guns, for their station 'off Brest.

PORTSMOUTH, MARCH' 16.---Ariived the Forward
Gun-vessel, • Lieut. STOREY, from a Cruize off
Havre ; and also about 12 or 14 sail of outvfrard,
bOund West Indiamen.

Sailed the Heron Sloop of War, Captain EDG,
CUMBE, with the Convoy to/Newfoundland, Nova
Scotia, and Halifax ; also the Union, LLOYD, for
London ; Hilton, --, for Guernsey; and Mary,-
How, for Sunderland.

• Should the wind prove -favourable the'Mediterra-
nean and West India Convoys will Sail on Tuesday

next.

On Thursday last Earl ,NRCY arrived at SirCHA.
SAXTON'S, to see his hi-Other, Lbrd ALcizaziorr
PERCY, who belongs to His Majesty Ship .Triburke,
Capt: BENNETT. His Lordship, after viewing the
Dock-Yard, went on board the Tribune with his
brother; .and 'next morning returned to LOnlion.
Captain WILLIAM HELLARD, a zealous, good, arld
indefatigable' Officer, is appointed:to the command,
pro tempore, of the
:Renown. He was First Lieu-
tenant of the Dice, in the adtion off ;Trafalgar.
Capt. Tilici*EssE,.,ii appointed to the -1-lecla ;
Capt. TROLI:OPE, to
,the • Eleaa ; Capt. T. )3ROwli
(1st); is, appointed to *the- Tonnant, at this Port,
which.is fitting for Admiral'E. HARVEY'S Flag, for
the Mediterranean ; Capt. J. AGASSEY, to the Rat-
tler; Capt. PARKINSON, to the Merlin. -

FALTIOUTH,, MARCH 14.—Yesterday arrived 'the
Lord iloi;art Packt, PAwsoN (acting), with Mails?
from Lisbon,. in
.1/3 days. On .the 17th February
arrived at Lisbon the Childers, with fifteen Sail from
England; the Prudence, of Leith, bound to Oporto,
foundered at' sea (crew.saved). Prior to the gale the
Fleet.consisted of 80 Sail, for Lisbon, Oporto, and
Gibraltar, in conipany—the rest having parted. The
Convoy was expected to sail with about 10 Vessels
on the Ist of March. Remains La Topaze as usual.
kriiVed this afternoon His Majesty's Ships Si.
Joseph, 98 guns, Vice,Admiral Sir CHARLES COT-
TON, Princesc Royal, 98, Prince George, 98, Bar-
fleur, , 98, GlorY, 98, and Revenge, 74, froth a Cruiza
off Brest. The /Pindfor Castle is gone up Channel.

Also arrived the'Dolphin, MOB ELL, from Palermo,

with brimstone.

SHEERNESS,. MARCH :).6.—Arrived the Banettd
Sloop of War, Capt: 14ENRY PULYN, from the Bal-
tic,' and Firm Gun-brig, Lieut. CHARLES COLLETT,
• from the Downs. . .

Sailed several Merchant Vessels coastways.

Yesterday the Valorous Praam, was pia wages.
up to six months, ,and will proceed to sea in a few-
days.

The Winchelsea has the signal flying for convoy.
.to the Baltic, and will continue it until such time as
a Ship is: appointed for that service.. :
Just arrived from the Baltic His Majesty's Gun-
brig Nightingale, Captain WILKINSON, and parted
with Convoy in a gale of-AVind.

Ships at this Port—Zealand, Resolution, Alkmaar, Ante.
lope, Isis, Winchelsea, Ceres, Magnanime, Spitfire, Ferrer,
Sparrow Orestes, Bonetta ,•' Vesuvius,
.and several other
Bomb-vessels; Valordus Praam ;, Archer, Firm, and seve-
ral other Gun-brigs ; Ignition, and several other Fire-ves-
sels ; and a number of Swedish Vessels waiting for Convoy.

Doritu, INIARca 16.—=Passed by for Portsmouth

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3 lag ileet of Ships from the towns, under con
"Y of His Majesty's, 'Ship Trusty ; this Fleet has
been blown back to the Downs.
Arrived the Maria Transport, Captain
CilAxcELLoit,' from the Downs, and the Regard,
of Arundel, with the loss of an anchor and 'cable.:
Came into the Roads the Kite and Musoip
-OPs of War, froto-a cruize off Boulogne.
Arrived the Fancy, of London, Captain DUNCAN,
with tnerchandize for. Honduras.

DEAL, Alt.r,cn .1.0:---Sailed. through the Downs.
Yesterday afternoon to join the convoy, which sailed
this morning to the Westward, the .dlbion,
LINPLA-
roR, for Dominica ; RathMgh, MELVILLE, for Ja-
maica; Anion, HERBERT, and the: 41/bion, FOR-.
'aSTALL, for Antigua, the latter with the loss of her

'tin top. mast.
Sailed the Regulus Man of War for Dungeness. •
Arrived •La Recite Sloop of War from the West-
ward, and remai4is in the Downs with the'Ships as
Per last.

Ent N BuR G acu 14.—,-.Yesterday arrived at
YRith the Sloop Good Intention, of Papenburgh,
'0111.7 MniA,Eti, Master, from Embden, Jaden with
geneva and brandy in ankers and half ankers (sup-
Nsed about 6ao ankers) and some boxes of playing
Farcls; which :Vessel was captured a few days since
111 the North Sea by the Lord Melville Armed Brig,
\vhich, in coMtany with the Pincher Gun- Vessel, ,
r\c''as convoying the-Trade from Leith to Hamburgh.,
t)e of the crew of the Lord Melville fell from the.'
of the mast of the Good intention, and was un-
lt‘rtinately killed 'uy tine accident. .

DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZE-MONEY.
the , •
Officers and Company of His Majesty's Bomb Ex-
°4stoi),.y.oho.w..ere,a6lually present at the Captuie of the
4el)herdess. onthe 2.2 d iuly, tgo4, .will be paid their re.
tikttive pofrions 91,the saki capture on board her, at Sheer:
Itss, or as soon after as she may;arrive. in Port ; or TuesklayS
at 'd
Thursdays for three years to come, at No. 2, Veruian-
iliklings., Gray's lan,

ttlle Lord Hobart Packet, Capt. PAVJUON, rrom
4gisbon, arrived at Falmouth, spoke on the 6th inst.
let. 48. 5. long. 14. Llis Majesty's Ship Dryade,
\"ith about i. 50 Sail of Vessels under convoy from
cork,
bound to the West Indies i • and on the 1 rth
night passed through a large Convoy, in lat. 49.
28. long. 8. 3. supposed to be the IL:w. India Fleet.
The Wolfe arrived at Kingston on the 6th of Ja-
nary , from a cruize, having had an engagement,:
124 tniles off St. Sago, with two French Privateers,
cue of which mounted one long 12-pounder, two.
142'pouna carrotiades, and one long 4-pounder, with
men, which she brought in with her, The other
lad one long is-pounder, four 6-pd'unders, and 80
en : she was sunk during the engagement.--The
'llqle had two men killed and four wounded.
It is understood, that three distinCt Squadrons of
the Enemy's Vieet are at sea; and that five British
Squadrons are in quest 'of them, viz.-Sit.). DucK-
'Oßi'U's, Admiral Louis's, Sir 3. B. WAREigN'S,
Sir R. STRA.CHAN'S and Admiral THOINDROUGH'S.
`there exists some danger of the Enemy concentrat-
ing his force at some given point of rendezvous and
falling upon our divided and scattered, Squadrons.—
vie doubt not, however, that the possibility of such
4 measure has been foreseen and guarded against.
The Fleet collecting at Portsmouth for the Me-
diterranean it is supposed will he dispatched about
the Loth inst. under convoy of the Tonnant, 84
guns, Rear-Admiral HARVEY 5' the Ocean, 9.8 ;
‘lnson, 38; and Cerherus, 32.
At the date of the last Dispatches from Sir E:
vtr.LEl.v, the Bay of Bengal and the Coast of Cey-
lon had. been nearly cleared 'of the Enemy's'Cruiz-
trs. The Albion, of 74 guns, and a Frigate, were
truizing off Acheen Head, for the protection of the
Straits; and the Cornwallis and ‘Phaeton Frigates,
With the Dasher Sloop, were cruizing in the Chi-
nese Seas.

Sir E: .I"Eraxw had written to Canton, recorn
fending that all the homeward-bound Ships should-
be Cetained there till the beginning of Dec.. when
be purposed being in that neighbourhood with a .1
force fully competent to their defence.
The Lancaster, of 64 guns, with the Ocean,
Pifldliizm, and Earl Howe Indiamen, sailed on tha
11th of August to join Sir EDWARD HuouEs's Con-
`/oy, either at .Penang or Malacca.
A General Thanksgiving for the late ViEtory off
'Trafalgar took place throughout Jamaica on Friday,
the 17th of January. At St. Sago de la Vega, •on
the preceding evening, a grand and singular Cere-
!bony was performed, as a testimony of respect for
the immortal Hero, which consisted of the burning
of a funeral pile. It was ere&ed on the race-ground,
and consisted of a pyramid 0r1.,,a triangular base, 47
feet each way, and the same in -height, that being
the number of his Lordship's, years. The Militia
termed round it, the vacant space being lighted by
47 flainbeaus. Ar six o'clock the pile Wag,set on
fire, while a Funeral Oration was pronouncing ;
the silence was awful and iMpressive, and the mag-
nificence with which the smoke and flames burst
forth had a sublime effeet., Three artillery guns
Were placed at the angles, and fired 47 rounds, with
47 discharges of musketry between each gun.---
Forty-seven rockets were also thrown up, and the
Whole afforded an affecting speetacle.
By an Order of .Council thirty Pupils are to be
added to the regular number of the present esta-
blishment of the Royal Academy at Portsmouth, for
the education of young Gentlemen, for the Naval
Service.- The First Lord of the Admiralty, for the
time being, is to be Governor .; and a Post Captain,
Lieutenant-Governor ; a , Captain also is to be ap-
-Pointed to regulate the internal part of the buSiness,
assisted by two Lieutenants, a Professor, and Pre-
ceptor. Mr. BAILEY, the present Master of the
%Academy, who has, tor a great number of years,
tiled that situation with so much Ability and gent-
satisfaCtion, is to be superannuated.
On the 19th ult. the impressed Seamen, en board
Ills Majesty's Hired Tender -Friendship; to the
number of 120, broke out ofthe press-raam while
on their passage from LiVerpool to Plymouth, took
the Vessel, and made their, escape on 'shore,
der the. highland of Blackcort, MP. Vakite-
•/lave
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