The Sun.
London, England, 1801-01-13 00:00:00

FROIII 7,lfE CAPE T9IVN GAZ,ETTE.

[We save in our Paper of Wednesday,. an Account of it
very gallant ,R ion fought by Capt. Ge DON,. can-,,
manding the Storc-ship!frilly, bound to the Cape of
Good Hope, with Naval and. other Stores, bu account of
Government. We have; since received a Capr Tows
Gazfue, of the 27th SepternbJt, which contains an Ex-
wad from Capt. PORpON'S Jou-rnal of the Actir,
which we ato convinced cannot but prove interesting
and satisfaelory, .more particularly: as.that Aaion add,
to the nuinher of tboie, cluriatr, the present War, wh!cll
'hive raised the Character 'of .British Seamen to such 2
proud pitch of superiority both of courage and skill.
On the gth of Angust, in lat: 22 S. long.
3f W. near- the: earallellof Rio' Janeiro,
.Was
chased by te ; .on her nearer approach,
found she was a heavy Frigate, 'and. I made no,
side: on her gun-Ladtgk, 3
a iv,eliriyt:(?l"g gulps;eniale
he4audiltliandre- naclslj having 13 very lçng, gums øfl
side: on hex gun-dk,a 'hite Female hgllre
head, an 4 a standing.;Uowspricizaaking an angic
0113, •
Aa.the 0. sails •-very henily, knew
it was in vain tt.s- attemet an escape by, Funnin2**
and as... soon 'as. the. Ship. wa:v.clear for Aaiun',
shortened sail,•down studding sails and stay sail:
•in booms- &L. '
T" A-trOiaSiSeV'en7A. M, ho hoiste.3 French
National Colottr4 and 'Fondant,: at the same time
he• fired a gun to leeward, of wluieh we toot 00
notice ,until perfcaly clear -below. At 9A.
hauled-the main-sail up, hoiltel our Colours, and
fired a gun with shot to•windWard, ucti,..;iliting
.them we were sritish,. ancilarl- shot to main.
rain the HonoUr of the Flag- then hoi ted
.
(i As, yet a shot had not Veen.exchinged.,bed
"tureen us, the Enemy keeping light in our, wake,'
as' if intending to board us, his forecastle 'Ana
tops full of men, hiS round-h6use also coveted
with people as' marksmen, who, by their manner
of ramming, seemed to have' rifles.
- g‘ A few minutes ;after we had hoisted oar
Colours, the Enemy fired 'a. rouhd and, grap6-shot
from a bow,gun, one of the 'grape fll on the
gnarte.r-deik, •the: round shot going clear of the
ship a.head. •
‘‘ At half past eight,. finding the Enemy nv‘r
enough fora warm reception, (all our guns being
slimed withround and grape.), 'ordered the helot
tagot rats,
sad oonn saesntth(eilorwouboienotivaientgen beck an
in.dfoli,
vic.owt,detfc;
lake good aim .for the water-line, and return the
fire in round and grape, as fast.ai they could load
and fire; which war soon done, and. I believe with
• good aid, as the topmen bundled down, and
those on the.round,house retired for shelter.
: 4t The Enemy not wishing a repetition -in the
same .direetion, (having received it a raking ,fire),
put, his helm a,port, taking a fair birth a.breasr
of us at pistol-shot distance, hauled. pp boils
cOt#sei together, and a ' warm exchange of fire
Continued until about nine, when finding' the
Enemy not returning the .fire‘so brisk as at first;
thought he meditated boarding us, but soon found
that-he wished to get clear of us. On observing
that was his intention, sent .down orders on the
gun,deck to load with. two round in each guns.
(having no double-headed slog and' aim at his
trialts,sbut didnot succeed ins-this object ; ant}
-hiving got his starboatchicks, oh board with lit.
'damage, knew the:uselessness of a
'

" All half past nine, called at hinds on deck,
aria gave him three cheers doublcd, 'which heiclid
-n6r.'refurn; and on: mcmtering...the crew found,
that not a single soul-on hoard was hurt. -Our
-sails. and rigging' were considerably. dinned
mie..received several shots in the sides, anti °"e
between wind and water, . but did not pos
through.

".tinning several of the ,Enemy's shot on
hoard, found that he carried French r;_pounders,
as the. round., weighs 131bn. English. -
,1, I was ably supported by every Offieer. Sea,'
den, Landsman,, and. P4bsenger on buatd.
hackwardness, no dismay at.the apparent superi-
ority of the Enemy.
!C The•Lascars were animated hy .the examPlc,
of the Europeans, and the Chinamen were AL
tT,hing, Chiog.

- -
" Some of the sick,, hardly able to stand, IV-
peared at quarters. The spirited and able asist.
mcc of the Taksengers, deserves my warmest aCi•
Itnowleclgements. ,
"'.Cornet LOCKER of the Bth Light Dragoons,

fifst inkmAt to vseltonali arms, but finding our,
bung op t-which our chief dependance lay were
weakly manntici,4 "ihey- readily' went to assist
there—, and .with Mr. Do CKET'S' assistant; and
seven Farmers, were Of the most essential 'ser-
vice. Before the .Enerny quitted us, the guns
bad bettriTiwell-s.erved, that -they began to jump,
and break the lireachings. Finding, we did not,

• ....attempt a useless ChaCe, about noon he wore, laid,
his head on .the same direaion. with, us, hauled up
c-r, van his bead-sails, shifted his foretop sail-yard.
:.,.-ver,y briskly, made sail, and nearing us,very fast,
we expected to ;2new,,the fire, but as he came up,:
he edged away., •
" At eleven P. M. by a clear moon, saw him
on the starboard beam about three;Or 'four miles
and although we carried
.steering-sails, and
every sail we could all night to get Southing, he
was, at Sun-rise, top-gallant sails just above the.
Horizon, and thought he had taken leave of us :
but by noon, finding we-gained on him fast, P. M.
found, on raising his hull, that he was laying
with his main-top-sail to the mast ; but finding
we steered right for him, he fillyi, and just kept
us in sight all next day, and Aid Tuesday the
2th, when we lost sight of him-
, .
"On Friday the isth, a large Ship bore down'
upon us, which, from the appearance of her sails,
we supposed to be the same, but on recognizing
us, she took another rout.
" The Wellesley ruoutus' z z nine, and to six-
- rounders, and is manned mostly with Lascars and
Chinamen."

Yesterday Lord NELSON took his final leave of
the. Lords of the Admiralty, and this' morning-
his Lordship was to leave Town to hoist his Vkag.

. _
• Admiral BLANKETT'S squadron in the East In-
dies has taken the Modeste Frigate,
.Of 32 guns,
:which had been-fitted out at Eourdeaux to•eruize
in the Indian Seas.

Captain_ O'git whOslistinguishca nunse.t.
in the .Adion with DE WI tizEtti off Camper-
down,
.by, his gallant conurian7 of the 34-6reitch,
hits b'een..appointea to the Sea Feneible pt:otee-
tion of the Coast of Hants. "f hl.! Naval super-
intend:thee of the Essex Coast is vacant Vy this
prchiloLiop.

. . . . .
. . .
-.....-11.11c:Adiatalty.13oard,.haie. given orders for
Building seveial Sloops of War: They are to be
, .of about '1 o Hundred Tons burden : this is:?
ve,helieves the third Plan of the kicid adopted by
the. present ,Board of Adriiiralty,. neither of -.the.
two forinvi li-:iiing suceeled.

, .
Our Coverienr, it is said,. have prepared a
.very spirited Manifesto, resprding the conduit
of the Emkutts' a of RUSSIA towards our gallant.
Seamen who .have been' so unjustly detained in
his dominions.- That our. Rulers will; take every'
'spealure which the.Nationalklonour may require,
rso unprejudiced mind can doubt:;,—but,
. luckily,
the.eharaeter of that Monarch is of such a kind,.
that we may expeet to hear he has' laid an rm.
Jargo. on. his own feelings, and granted redress
befofe his solicited.

If any credit be due to PrivAre Letters, some of
'those which were yesterday received in Town from
the Capital 41-Hs Prussian Majesty's Dominions,
tepresent .theintentions of that Monarch to be
equally 'adverse, , thriugh from a different motive,
to engaging in any .hostility whatever. It was
understood in that Capital, that the King would
• not depart from the system of Neutrality' which
he had hitherto adopted. We shall be sincerely
happy to.confirto this intelligence. '
On / the 2"th• December, Sir J4Mts CRAW-
_
tutu) arrived at Hamburg!), and resumed his offi-
cial station as His Majesty's Minister to the
Princes and Statesf en. of the Circle of Lower
Saiony. • •
The Petersburgh Court Gazette of the ,tfith
Dec. states, that. Count PANitv is appointed a
Senator; Count KALutCHEF,' Vice• Chancellor ;
Count Gor..ow lc N is appointed President •of the..
Council of... Commerce ; Prince Su'. '
itow I. and General of Cavalry Count Suet)* IL '
are restored to their respedive ranks ; Count
Ll.symousict and Count NEFFELROD, are to be
likewiie reinstated in their former employments.
Letters from Stockholm, received yesterday,
state, that the objeds
.of he King of SW EDEN'S
visit- to. the Em Pitt L,•ere,
peror

t. A Treaty of Armed Neutrality hy Sea.
2.. A Treaty of Commerce between Rnsiia and Sweden.
3. A Convention, by which the F..htrzxott of-Russ rn
and His hi I is'ry iigree-and bind 'themselves always to
adopt tiniforin tneasure, in "their political .relations with
France, Au.ar;a, and England:

The beneficent Earl of CAP LTSt.E has cam-
menced the prevent Century with his aceuitorned
liberality to.the netessitous:iPoor in the neigh-
bourhood,of Castle Firovirafd, by the distribution
of ,the,following ut.eful and seasonable articles;
wherein an example is gtvtn tc, the Nobility of
the ki;igdpm, deservedly worthy of their, imita.
tion viz. 3s ch,lidrons of "coals, r6o stone of
beef, 16 quarters of good wheat, Is quarters of
good barlg,,4ol. in eash,--and ios. 6d. and
'warm eloathing to each poor widow on the estate,
by Lady ; besides other afts of huma-
nity and charity.
On New-Year's Eve, Mr. and Mrs. Bya DON,
of Morperh, humanely 'visited many poor house-
keepers in that neighbourhood, and gave to such
as were needful, bed gowns, petticoats, waist-
Coats, stockings, shoes, and thoney.
Among the Persona apprehended for the late
.attempt on the life of the Chief Consul, is the
infairious MENtzra, the horrible Assassin *of the
Princess de LAstart.iit ; Moses BAY fa, the
PRINCE of IlEssit, and a man of the nitme of
butt..ANtaL, have also been. arrested., The lat-
tex was, it is supposed, the maker of the In.
frrnal, as he proposed a. similar Machine, in
,the
year 1796, to he employed by .:the Armies.,
Central Mr Ron has establishecl an Arabian
Newspaper--it is entitled Tam.byd, which Int-
-Plies the ildvertiier. The Minister of justice
at Cairo is to edit it, assisted by Seid Ismael El
A4aca6, the Grand Archivist of the Divan,.

, St.l2\?-OFFICE;

O'CLOCK, M.

WE stop the Press to. state .the arrival of the
Hambwrgh Hail dut on Sunday last. It brings
us intelligence from Vienna of the;rith ultimo,
when the Convention was known in than Capital.
The Letters from Copenhagen are of the 3d inst.
and from Stockholm of the 22d tilt; they consider
it as probable that the ConVention for the Northern
Coalition is signed.—We receive no fans of im-
portance that have not been anticipated by the
French Papers.

THE ft AAIBUROII MAILS.

VIENNA, Dl:c.-24.

SINCE the arrival of the •ARcuntnci CHARLES
at the Army of the- Danube, the Correspondence
between the Hdad-Quarteri and the Cabinet and
Council of War is' become more alive thin ever.
Several Officers of the Staff and most distill_
guished Generals, have successively appeared be-
fore the EMPEROR) to render him an..account 'of
the situation of affairs, conformably to the ordeis
Of the ARCHDUKE CHARLES. G►en. DEVEAyX,
who appeared at Court on the morning of the 2 zd,
reported, that the Imperialists,had been obliged to
abandon ;Velz on the t9th, and to transport their
Head-quarters to Krems-Munster;
.in Consequence'
of this retrograde movement, the capital of Upper.
Austria would also have been abandoned, but we
are assured that there was time to save the Maga-
zines. Orders have been given by the Council of
War to 'establish the grand bake-house at St.
Polten.. •

These measures. occasioned much uneasiness ;
bqt the agitation increased considerably, when
on the-evening of the 22d, after the arrival of an
Officer dispatched by the ARCHDUKE CH Aitias,
a Conference of State was' held& in which' different
resolutions were taken,-•as well for the defence of
Lower Austria and the Capitalt.as for the safety of
the Imperial Family and the Princes and Prince,ssts
that were here. Thesame evening we learnt that'
the Qv EEN of NAPLES and, her children were
ring to, set out for Moravia ; that the Ai;on.
• DUTCIiESS MAXI-ELIZABETH -WOUld follow:
immediately, as well as th:e ARtIIDUKE FERDI-
NAND of Milan; the. 13,Ltc-rok of COLOGNE
would repair to Vifergo,theik; the, GRANT
saUTCHESS Of TUSCANY to Buda, 'Whither also
the young ARCHDUKES would go, excepting
the ARCHDUXE ANTHONY ; and that Their 'ID-
, perial and Royal MAJESTIES, titMIAND
_Dui< E
of TUSCANY, and Duke MAIER.' city SAXE-
TESCHEN, would remain at Vienna till the last
extremity. All the Inhabitants .of rienda and
the suburbs have received orders to put them.
selves in a state of defence, and provide for their
domestic necessities ; all persons able to bear
arms are to rise in a mass on the first signal, and
the EMPEROR will put himself at their head for
the defence of the .Country.