The Sun.
London, England, 1806-11-27 00:00:00

DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZE-MONEY.

To the Officers and Company of His Majesty's Ship San.
to Margarita, for the Capture of the French Ships Formid-
able. Dugssay Trouin. Mont Blanc. and Scipion, on the 4th
Nov. tBe;, the proceeds of the hulls, part of 'the stores, and
heiLd.ntoney, on tlitaflth instant, at Lockyer's Office, Ply.
mouth, and every Tuesday and f ridgy for three months.
To the Cosnmanclers„ Officers, and Companies of the
Hon. United East India Company's Ships Baring and United
'Kingdom, for the Capture of the Batavia Dutch East India-
man, on the Ltd' August., 18.3, the proceeds of the above
Capture, awarded by His Majesty's Royal Grant, at At,
kin's Office, 7, Walbrook, and every Thursday and Satur,
day, froin ten till two.
fo the Officers and Company of His Majesty's Ship Mer-.
lin, the proceeds of the Shepherdess, captured on the zed
July, iBo4, and the Postillion, caotured on the 31st of lc's:,
will be paid on the aSih inst, at No. 13, George-street,Vl,3l.
minister.
To the Officers and Company of His Majesty's Ship
Amazon, for tho following, Captures :--Spanish Brig Mer-
cides, on the uth of Yebruary, iSoc ; Spanish Ship
Chriso de Gros ; Spanish Setee San Isidro, captured oft the
ad of May, 181,5 ; and Spanish Tart= San Josef y los Ane.
mas, captured on the agns of June, the net proceeds
will be made on board the Amazon, on her arrival in Port,
and every Tuesday, for three months, at No. iS, CleMent's.
1 nn.

The Pomona Spanish Frigate, of 3S guns, with
treasure, 4e. on board, captured on the 23a of Au-
gusts to leeward of the Havannah, under a battery of
simteen 36-pounders, by theArethusa Frigate, in com-
pany with the Anson, was assisted by twelve Gun-
boats, each mounting one 24-pounder, and manned
with one hundred men. The Pomona had twenty,
men killed and thirty-wounded ; among the former
the Captain. The iirethusa had two men killed
and thirty wounded ; among the latter was Captain
BRISBANE. The Anson had none killed or wound-
ed. Three of the Gun-boats were blown up,. six
sunk, and the other three wrecked during the ac-
tion. The Pomona arrived at Jamaica on the tsth
of September. Also, the same day, the Baccitante
Sloop of War, with the i3rig Wrinitalt, of four
guns, from Africa for . Liverpool, and two Spanish
Feluccas, cot out of St. Martha, on the Spanish
Main, by three of her boats, manned with thirty
men, under comin:tnd of Lietnenant NAU GLIT)N.
On the attack being made, a creiueivlous fire was
opened from one of tae batteries, mounted with
fifty-five pLeces of Ito idery, .some field-pieces on
the beach, and two Guar•a Costas, which was con-
tinaed without inttrinisslon : only one man was
wounded.

. .
',. Sir JOHN WARREW wilt leave town in a few.days,
to resume the command of the Ships under his or-
ders at Plymouth.
Captain BROMLEY, of the Champion Frigate, is
appointed to the command of the Solebay Frigate,
at Deptford.
Lord VALENTIA'S immense colleEtion of exotics,
&c. will pass the Custom House in a feW days.—
The Conn of Direaors. have given up the usual
charge for freight, &c. ; and Government have ex-
pedited an order to pass the whole free,of every kind
of duty.
Extraordinary Adventure of two Russian Cann-
neers,--M. LivAK4wiTz, Secretary to the Rus-
sian Embassy at London, being in the Russian Fleet
in the Archipelago, when, in t 773, it burned the
Turkish Fleet before Smyrna, witnessed the- fol-
lowing extraordinary event :---The Russian Mini-
. rars Ship took. fate in the anion and blew up; and
two earmoneers, being ciirried into tbeair by the ex-
plosion, fell into the sea, close by a Turkish Vessel.
• They were taken up, made prisoners, and placed
•in irons an the poop. Three nays after, the Turk-
ish Vessel being set on fire in the -Harbour by the
-Kussians, blew up. also, and the. two
.unfortunate
men were again thrown into, the sea near the Rus-
sian Fleet, and taken up ; but having each. of them
legs torn away, from, their being chained by them to
the deck, they underwent amputation below the
knee, and both survived the accident for many years.
M. Du LlY4KEwrrz saw thembcath at the-time and
t long aiierwards.