The Sun.
London, England, 1808-10-03 00:00:00

NAVAL NEWS.

PLY MOITTI-1, SEPT. 30.--Sailed the King Gene
and Joseph hired Cutters fur the Channel. Fleet;.
Scorpion Sloop of War for the coast of Spain ; Crgiie
Schooner to the Westward ; and Pilchard Schooncf?
to the Channel Fleet.

OCT. I.—Arrived the Sybille Frigate, Capt. Ur-
TON, from Cork; and _hanger Transport from Tor-
bay. •

Sailed La Loire Frigate, Capt. SCROMBERG, on a

cruize.

DEAL, OCT. 2.—Arrived the Speculator Lugger,
after parting with her Convoy of Transports, with,
the Spanish troops on board, in lat. 49. 31. N. lqpg.-,
4. 48. W. under convoy of the Racoon and Sparrow-
hawk, with a fair wind for Spain ; and the Beticy,
QULNTON, from the River Rio Janeiro.
Sailed the Phcenia,, HILL, for the River.

PORTSMOUTH, OCT. 2.—On Friday arrived the
Bra%en Sloop of War, Captain SUCPHEARD, with a
Convoy of Transports, which have French prisoners*
on board, from Portugal ; and the Cormorant Sloop
of 'War, Cap.tain HUGHE, with the Lord Nel,ion,
Henry Ikellington, Brunswick, and Doris Transports,
and Helena Prize, from the Cape of Good Hope.
Sailed the Lily Sloop of War, with a convoy for
Newfoundland.

Yesterday arrived the Diomede Frigate, Captain
SYKES, from off Cherbourg, and the Dromedary
Store Ship, WILLtAbz SCOTT, Master, from the West

Indies.

Arrived this Day, L'Espiegle Sloop of War from
Cork ; and Indignant Gun Brig from the Downs.

FALMOUTH, OCT. I.—The Princess Elizabea,'_
Packer, Capt. KIDD, with Mails from Malta, &c.
arrived here yesterday evening. She sailed from
Malta 3ith August. His Majesty's Ship Thames, 36
guns, sailed from thence on the ad, with a convoy or
50 Sail for England. On the 15th, spoke his Ma-
jesty's Ship Pylades, 18 guns, on a cruize off Cape
Bon. On the 28th ult. off Cape de Gatte, spoke
his Mlijesty's Ship Pomona, 38 guns, Captain BAtt:-.'
Liz, with 27 sail under convoy, bound to Malta.—
On the 31st, Cape de Gatte bearing N.N.E. 6 miles,
spoke his Majesty's Ships Ocean, Northaniberlan4,,.
Terrible and Excellent, from Gibraltar, bound up.—
Arrived at Gibraltar on the 3d inst. found there his
Majesty's Ships Atlas, Bulwark, Fame, Repulse,
trolontier, and Alacrity. His Majesty's Ship's Cresar
and Alledta, so guns each, arrived there same day,
and sailed again for England on the sth. His Ma-
jesty's Brigs Scout and Grasshopper arrived at Gibral-
tar on the 4th, with Transports, having on board
two battalions of the Royal Veteran Corp.: from off
Lisbon, they bad been at anchor for 3 weeks off the

Tagus.
The Princess Elizabeth Packet sailed from Gib-
raltar on the 6th, and on the 14th, in lat. 38. 28.
long. 18. 25. spoke the Brig Ann, from Madeira,
bound to London ; on the 25th inst. lat. 48. 1. long.:
Ig. 25. spoke the Ship Lion, DAwsoN, from Water-
ford, bound. to Gibraltar, with kiss of main and
wizen-topmast. H. M. Ship Seahorse was refitting,
at Malta. The following are the dimensions of the.
Turkish Frigate Baddin Za.llier, taken by her near
the entrance of the Gulf of Salonica.
Length of gnn-dca 166 ft. gin.
Etrerne'broatn - qt tt. ii in.
had mounted when taken, 52 pieces of brass cannon,
some of them .of very large calibre ; 170 of the crew
were killed, and a great number wounded, and the
hull shot through like a honey-comb.
Sailed the Bideford, -- for London, and
ham, PROPER, for Poole.

We have been favoured with the following ac-
count of the Expedition assembled at this place.
Lieut.-General Sir David Baird, Commander in Chief, Ma.
yor-General Marinitighain, second in command, Major-Ge
neral Warde, Major-General Niackenzie ; Brigacti;:r-Ge-
neral Slade, Brigadier-General Crauford, Col. LPUrban,
Deputy- Adjutant-6 eneral.
ikleclical Staff —Deputy lnspeaor flogg, PhysicianS Moore.
wood and Faulkenor, Stall Surgeons Forbes., Plenderleath,
Emery, Draper, and Cooke, Apothecary Lewes, Deputy-
Purveyor Ernmerson, 'Fen Hospital Nlates.
The troops consist 61 a detachment of Royal Artillery, ditto
of ilorc Artillery, ditto of the Waggon Train, sat batta-
lion ist Foot Guards, 3d-battalion Royals, zd battalion
.14th Foot, zd battalion z3d, or Welch Fuzileers, Ist bat-
talion abtli, 3d battalion 27th, ad battalion 31st, tst bat-
talion 4311, Ist battalion sist, ad battalion styth, ist bum-
lion 75111, 2d battalion h ISt, and tine 95111 regiment com-
piete.

SHEERNESS, OCT. ' I.—The Rzngdove Sloop of
War, Capt. ANDREWS, arrived from the Downs, and
came into harbour to refit.

Went out of harbour to the Little-More the Exer-
tion
Gun-brig, Li —.CUL FORBES. • •

Sailed His Majesty's Ship Ned Elvin Capt.O'CoN-
NOR, with Transports, &c. under convoy to the Baltic.
Arrived His Majesty's Ship Queen.

By the Naval Returns corrected to the Ist. inst.
there appear to be—at Sea, 92 Sail of the Line, 12
from 50 to 44, 130 Frigates, and 334 smaller Vessels:
The total number of Ships, in commission, amounts
to 164 Sail of the Line, 22 from 50 to 44, 179
Frigates, 240 Sloop,, and 233 Gun-brigs. There.
are also, in Ordinary, and Repairing for service, 46
Sail of the Line, 13 from 50 to 44, 56 Frigates, 49
Sloop;, and 15 Gun-brigc, &e,—.and there are'.
Building, 60 Sail of the Line, 15 Frigates, 22 Sloopsi
and 6 Gun-brigq, .3cc. ; making a Grathl Total of.
1121 Vessels of War,

GET7II !ROM Me" oriPlert Ig OUR .1.5.1,A73101:c 07f

Tar COAST OF CATALONIA.
" Roses, August ?6.

cc. Having arrived at Minorca with convoy trout
Messina, we were sent to Majorca with dispatch
to the Governor, requiring assistance for the Cata-
lans:- He had 4000 disposable troops; but he refused
'to- send one of them, ahhough, by su doing, lie
would doubtless have prevented the return of the
French to Barcelona. I have had the pleasure since
to learn that he is to,be superseded in his command,
We have been engaged in carrying stores, &c. from
Minorca to the Continent, and have delivered the
greatee part on board the Magnificent here, Lcid
CoeHaA:la (at whose disposal they were placed)
havingleft the coast.
" Three deserters from an Italian regiment of
cavalry arrived here softie days since from the Freud.)
army- ; they state that the enemy suffered consider-
able foss in a night sortie from Gerona, when the
Patriots drove them -from their entrenchments, and
compelled them to retire,leaving the
,whole of their
:camp ;equipage, &c. behind them—part retired to
•Fig-neras, the rest to Barcelona. The corps, when
united, amounted to Goo men. ..
" The French garrison in Figueras now amounts
to about antk) men; they are successfully occupied
in laying in Stoees of all kinds—they )evy corn front
the neighbouring towns, and buy •the small stock of
pi °visions at one-third more than the market pricey
in order to induce the coontry people to carry pro-
duce to them : the consequence is, that provisions
are rather scarce here, and the market does Ot
produce a fowl, or various other articles- lately abuo-
dant in it. Fine %%ine, five years old, .sells here at
81. per pipe, new wine raiher cheaper. Several
hundred pipes are, I hear, about to be sent to Oporto,
whence they will reach England, under the reduced
duties of Portugal wine. _

The peasants are very zealous in their hostility
..to the French, but some of the higher orders have
appeared to me deficient in patriotisM."
MINORCA, AUG. 12.—A dreadful storm was 0-
perienced here on the I:2th ; during: it, the Satan,
of 74 guns, had nine men 'killed by. lightning, °P
her jib-boom, while they were in the aft of furling
sails ; two of them fell into the water, and limpet/1"
.ately sunk, the others remained in the positions its
which they were struck. .
Great quantities of stores and ammunition have
,been sent from. hence by the "4/aciity, Ilad other
British croizers, to the support of the Patriots in Ca-
talonia. The harvest here haS been very abundant,
-added to which nine vessels, loaded with wheat, ar-
rived here a Jew days ago from Messina—but Irian
the ravages of the-French in. Catalonia, it is 10°-
- bable, that all the provisions we can furnish will be
wanted there. .

Eight thousand five hundred and fifty pounds
weight of Peruvian bark,, were on Friday entered at
the Custom-house, by license, for Holland ; toge-
ther with various drugs to a considerable amount.
The culture of hemp is rapidly extending in Ca'
nada ; and there is much reason to hope, that in 3
few years we shall, through this medium, be render-
ed independent of the foreign markers.
On Friday night Mr. Frsunit, one of his Majesty's
Messengers, left town with dispatches for Srato• . h
On Saturday evening
Mr' PA-Vicoxs set out w'"
dispatches to the Court of Stockholm.
Yesterday Lieutenant HELL, of his Majesty
Navy, arrived at the Admiralty, with dispatches
from the West Indies.
The Neptune, of 98 guns, Sir THOMAS WILLIAMS'
.and the Poinpje, of 80, Captain CoCKBURN, hat'`"
sailed from Plymouth, for Barbadoes.—lt is under-
stood that they are gone to co-operate in an attack
on the Island (1 Mal iinique.
A very large Medical Statf.is at Plymouth, Pre-
paring to go out to our armies in Portugal and Sp Bite.
Dr. HOOO, Deputy Inspeaor of Hospitals, is at
head of it. He has under him six Physicians, I'l:s'
Staff Surgeons, and six Apothecaries, several Sor"
,veyors, their Deputies, and Clerks; and 24 ki°s`
pital Mates.
A large Conirnissariat Staff is likewise going °tit ;
there are about 1 Commissaries, with a nuatoer f
Deputies, Clerks, &c. all under Messrs. Az lOTT/ 3/1
ERSKINE', Adjutant-Commissaries G neral.
THE THEATRE.—On Saturday, Mr. ELLisrror.4—
for the'first tune perfornied the character of
Rule a if y'e and have a ,Life, at Drury -LAO l tie'
00
tie. It seems to have been supposed, that bcca„
he very successfully exhiLited Aranza, in, The 1161,'11e.
e
'
Moon, that he would •be equally so in Leal-
1
characters, however, are very different. -ara"
never imitates the simpleton, arid in his
rader he is a man with the pride of. high birthe---
Leon, as the only ch:uiee for obtaining a rich wife'
is obliged to appear as little better than a took.
though he is to display something of his real goon
sense and shrewdness under the disguise. Wtherla
he has accomplished his purpose he is not ,t;
manifest the pride of nobility, but to repel "'-
insolence and contempt of those. who consider hi°
as an upstart and an adVenturer, es well as .ttl tr;
Rune the privileges of a husband. Hence, tiien;
two characters are Very different,. anclam Actor ~i~
succeed in the one without displaying equal toe',„l,,
in the other. Such was the case of M. Et,t.to_!:,
It will require more reflection and prae.,lice
pr per Cita-
he can claim the same approbation in Lean,
deservedly obtained in Aranza, though-he certatt"'
was entitled, on the whole, .to a commendatorY
port. In the simple scenes ,of. Lei-m
broad, and perhaps a little "too:coarse ; and
as Leon says, he " casts his' clotlifi,off and,
himself," there was somewhat too much 01
affeded stateliness Which almost invariably c'hor'd:"
.
twixes his ading. The truth is, Mr. ELLIsTos is
ambitious of versatility, :lea
.he hardly allceAs
self time and due consideeation of any of tile vall'Ari,
characters in which he. appeals. Joan %:*; 3L'LI
BANNlsTztrhave 'been seen so often ill
the
.Ctipk.k:Yeaptain, e only..need be",si
played° with their usual spirit and effect.--A
house.

Friday night a man and woman who wereltsieeP,
in a barge laden with bones, off Fickle-
Stairs, bet,Aeen two vesieis, were wiraculoost) slv(ci.
fidtufbeitig drowned, in consequence of toe 01'1,1
dne-of the ihips dreaming that the barge ;LS
.with the people: on board. He awoke at the inst,":;;
hitunped upon "deck, found the barge attuailY
ri'ai,ead.fureliuM;and .was just in time to save, the :11`,'
aißiVonaau.