The Sun.
London, England, 1808-11-21 00:00:00

NAVAL NEWS.

Arrived, the Lord Melville, MuNRo, from Lon-
don, bbund to Gibraltar; the Commerce, CREWS,'
from Poole, for Spain; and Unity, TA NI ',rig), from.
Newfoundland, with fi,li and oil; for this port.

A heavys,ale of,wind-has blown fot thelast two
days from the west and- north-weSt, and
consider-
able damage has been done among the shipping,
iii-Sfenehouse Pool, where ,three vessels
have been -driten on shore and mush damaged. One
of the Doats that ply at Mtitton Cove was upiet last
evening, and the Waterman unfortunately drowned. '
On Thursday night between ten and eleven o'clock
a fire was discovered to have taken place in one of
the small detached hemv-houses in the Dock-yard,
which burnt a short time with considerable fury,
but by the prompt exertions Of the Officers of the.
Dock-yard, and the people employed therein, it

was soon got under without much toss. The cause
of the accideut was owing to, the heating. of the

hemp.

Arrived the Revenge, of 74 gong, from a maize.
Sailed flee Rakigh Sloop of War, and Zebra

Bonib, on a.crnize.

Arrived the Brildpnia Viaualler, froth the Wei
ward.

Frigate, Capt. WoLro, --which arrived
here on Wednesday last, reconnoitered Brest-harbour
the 9th instant, and.observed nine Sail of the Line
ready for sea {otle a three-decker) besides three
Frigates, a Brig, t,vc Schooners, and a cutter.

Mr. GP3BONS' , one of the Master's Mates on. board
the Amethyst Frigate, who was wounded in the late
aetion with the Thetis Frigate., died last night.

PORTIIk,OUTH, Ncv. Ao.—The Talbot, Honcura-
ble Captain JONRs, arrived yesterday afternoon from
Lisbon ; General SPENCER, General ACLAND, aid
suites, came home in her. She left Sir C. COTTON
in the. Tagus yesterday sa'nnight. Sir HARRY BuR-
RAI.ID had not left Lisbon. Also arrived the Zebra
Bomb from the Westward.

Sailed his Majesty's Ship Port Mahon on a cruize;
also the Pelter foi- the Downs.

Yesterday came into Stokes Bay from Yarmouth
Roads, the Bark Richard Clark, ---, bound to
Gibraltar, having lost an anchor and cable in a gale
of wind the day before.

SHEERRESS, Nov. 19.-,--Carne down from Chat-
ham His Majesty's Ship Euryalus, Hon. Captain
buNDAS.

Went up to Long Reach to get her gnus and
powder out, His Majesty's Ship Vaneard) Capt.
T. BAKER.

The Bloodhound,Gun-brig has the signal flying for
a'convoy to Gottenburgh.

Sailed from the River to North Fleet the Ship
Thuncier Bomb, Capt. CAULFIELD.

DEAL, Nov. 20.-=-Came• down from Sheerness his
Majesty's Shp Aginpoutt:and remains in the Downs
with a Fleet of
,Ships of Wai and outward-bound

Vessels.

Sailed for the River the hczlella, HENDERSON',
from Oporto ; and the Ralph Nicholson, FINDLAY,
from Lisbon.

FALMOUTH, Nov. 18.—Arrived the Ship -New
Zealand, Capt;ELDER, from London, for the Bra-
Zile; aiso the Transports Lomion,, DOWELL ; and
the Zebra, BROWN, from Lisbon.

Sailed, the Transports Mary, LANGDON; and the
Britannia, DucisEß, from Plymouth.

Three large French Frigates made-their escape out
of Cherbourg, last Saturday week. They had been
Watched for several months by our. Frigates; but it
is quite impraaicable effeaually to blockade that, or
any other port in the Channel or Bay, during the
winter mouths: It is said that one of them is bound
to the East Indies; and two to the West Indies.
On Wednesday, a boy, about eleven years of age,
having in the abSence of his mother, an inhabitant of
• Norwich, obtained access to a cask of gunpowder,
containing three or four pounds, set fire to it, when
the whole blew up with a dreadful explosion, and
so severely burned the youth, that his lite is despair-
ed of. The mother was severely scorched, and the
furniture of the room heady shattered to pieces. A
girl in the same house, under the impulse of terror, j!
Jumped out of an upper window into the street, and
escaped with several bruizcs.

o.—Arr:verl Yesterday the
2kr°72PC.7o/ (liana COTWili2., and 31ticA:79/ef:
Lugier frew St.*-andiro, both -charged with:l4ls::
patches. The latter is stated to have brought iutel
ligence of a desperate aelion having been fought tier
teen the-Army under General BLAKE, and that of
Marshal NEY, in which" thetaiter`has been defeated,
and gooo Troops Filled and wounded, together with
tbeloss of all his artillery.
The Nonpareil is said to have brought accounts
nearly corresponding with the above. An Officer
of the Artillery came pasionger in her, who states
that he travelled fro'in Oporto. to Corunna. by land,
and that the villages through which he came were,
illuminated on the occasion. It is also rumoured,.
that General NET fell in the anion, and that Gene-
ral BLAKE was Worin.ded, but this wants confirrna-
ti,Jn.. The two Vessels bad a rapid passage, he"
Black Joke in three days, and the Nonpareil in four.