The Sun.
London, England, 1806-09-20 00:00:00

NA VA N E I 8,

J PL.:YX'6I.I TIT, SEPT. 18.—Arrived the liiriypbausen
Treue, P-ATZ EN, froth Alpsterdzni, laden with
bark,S.cc. for tins Port; the Hatribuigh- Brig Mi-
nerva, SILVERS, from .Philadelphia; bothid to lifarn
burgh, laden, with sugar.,-&c: detained by,oe
•4010. ugh Privateer ; Danish Ship Etz,F,
NIES, from St. Ulte's for Copenhagen, laden with
coffee, detained py the Happy Return Privateer.

° This
.rnorning the'Sloopl'riitce Eu'wdril, Cow ,_
-
laden 'with slates; from 'Padstow, in aiming into
missed Stays, and,., was ndriven -on the
NiCholas's Islands; and •it is -expeaect
will receive cOnsiderable damage, thoughPes.are.
entertained that she will be.got off,' n.
,n

•
The Transports,, with the Troops, still remain :
the Royal: George has the Convoy-signal flying; but
the wind having shifted to the S. W. with the ap-
pearance -of blowing a gale, it i 4 hot they will
sail for some days. .
Ariived. Confiance Sloop ,of War frodi
mouth.

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PORTSMOUTH, SETT, 19. —Arrived the Thisbe
Frigate, Capt. SHEPHERD, from Guernsey ; and this
evening- a Gun-brig from Plymouth; also, detained
by 'the Steady Gun-brig, the onerc
Portuguese
Schooner
Jupiter, from Viana, bound to Caen, laden with cot-
.
ton, hides;'apd barilla ; also a Spanish Xepec
Sailed the Atlas, Pheasant, Cracker, and ?aceloi•se
Gun-brigs, on a Cruize;

DOVER, SEPT. ArriVed' and passed by the
American Ship Kingston, LESLIE, from New York ;
WILLIAM Ttmon, Esq. late Minister at Madrid,
Colonel in the American Army, and late Aid-de-
Camp to Major WASHINGTON ; and DAVID HUM-.
•PHREYS, Esq. came Passengers in the above Ship,

SHEERNESS, SEPT. 18.—Arrived the Star ISloop
of War, Captain StmrsoN, from ..Portsmouth, and.
Deptford Tender, Lieut. ANTRAM, from.the River,
with imprest men and volunteers for the Fleet.
SEPT. J 9.—The Zealand Flag-ship is ordered into
the Harbour to undergo some repairs.

LIVERPOOL, SEPT: 18.—It is reported that one
of the Leemard Island Fleet is arrived, and that she
parted from the convoy 20 days ago, but cannot
learn particulzrs, '

DEAL, SEPT. 19.—Arrived the Lucifer Bomb from
Portsmouth with a Convoy, which are sailed for the
River ; the Lucifer remains.
Sailed the Diamond Frigate on a,Cruize off France.

Arrived the Satellite Sloop-of War from a Cruize,..
and Ardent Man of War from Sheerness, and re-
main in the Downs -with the rest of the as'per
last.

GREENOCK, SEPT. 17.—The Menie, GAMELL (2
running Ship) arrived at Port Glasgow yesterday from
St. Vincent's; sailed, thence the loth.August ; spoke
the Brig, Friends, of Bristol, on the 3d i,nst. in lat.
43. long. 40. bound to St. John's, New Brunswick,
out six weeks, all well ; spoke -also,. on the. 14th
August, His Majesty's Sloop !Melv,We., all well,
cruizing off St. Martin's .and artholomew's,
and kept by her two days. The Captain reports,
that Sir RICHARD STRACHAN, with 7 Sail of 'the
Line, arrived at Barbadoes the sth August; and im-
mediately sailed for Martinique. The Brig Reco'
very arrived at St. Vincent's the 26th July, and
was loading for Port-Glasgow before the Menie.

The'Leviathan, JAaKSON, arrived at Plymouth
from Grenada, parted from the Fleet about the 17th
of August, lat. 29. long. 62..—four Sail of the Line
in company.

Of the expeaed Fleet from Jamaica, there are 7
for the Clyde) 19 for Liverpool ; from the Windward
Islands, 35 for Clyde ; 59 for Liverpool; 13 for
Bristol ; 3 for Newfoundland; 2 for QUebec,
This Fleet is too large, being near 300 Sail.
The Mary, ATHOL, arrived here on Saturday from
Archangel; sailed with a Schooner (name unknown)
for Leith. Capt. A. when coming round the North
Cape, fell in with the W.-jive, STIRLING, of and for
Irvine, in company with a number of Vessels that
sailed from Archangel some time befOre the' ?Mary.
The ViaOri, CONNELL, Of this Port, had 'arrived at
Archangel before the Mary came 'away.

INTERESTING PAETICULAKS OF THE LOSS OF THE

KING GEORGE PACKET ON SALISBURY BANK,

NEAR PARK-GATE.

The King George Packet, Capt. WALKER, bound
from Park-gate to Dublin, sailed from Park-gate ex
aelly at twelve o'clock on' Sunday last, with, a flag at
her-top-mast head, full tide, weather hazy, and (fiz-
zling rain,with the wind nearly direa South. At
'half past one o'clock she' struck on the Salisbury
Saud Bank,' and remained nearly four hours dry,
with part of her crew on the Sands,, waiting for.the
next tide. 'No apprehensions Were then entertained
'of her hating received- any injury. ' On the'return
of the tide, the wind veered round -to the West, and
-she received-the 'wind and tide right on her side,
resting against her anchor. As' the . tide came, in,
she filled- rapidly with -water the night was dark,
with. rain. • Her passengers, mostly Irish harvest,
men, above one hundred in-number, who were go
ing• home. with the pittatices of their labours to their

familie:4, were under hatches. 'The *pumps were
soon chocked, and the water came so, fast on the
Irishmen in the held-, that they drew,,their large.
harvest pocket knives, and with a desperation that
a _dread of death alone, inspires, slew one another to
make their way up-an deck. The wind and waves
heating hard upon her side; her cable broke, and
she was drifted, round 'with her head towards the
• tide, and Jay upon-her:side: • They were three miles
frem any vessel, and could. not, Drat :least -did not,
give any signal that was , heard.. 'The. boat was
-lannched, and ten :persons, among whom was the
Captainand an Irish Gentleman, 'got • into it. It.
was nearly full Of water, and death,on all sides stared
them in the face; Her Captain, seeing some of his
~ best sailors still with the'vessel, and falsely hoping
she might remain, the tide, which had an hour and
half to now, went again on. board ;' the Irish Gen-
tleman and three others followed him. -One of the
:sailors in the beat, seeing a pow ,Irish, .sailor boy •
Clinging to the side:Of the vessel, pulled him by the,
hair of the head into the boat, cut the rope that fas-
teried it to the vessel; and the tide drove them away.
At this time great numbers ran screaming IT the
mast ; a woman, With,a child fastened to her back,
was at the :top-mast head ; the mast brbke, the ves-
serbeing•on her side, and they were-all precipitated
into the. waves ! Only five men and the poor Irish,
sailor boy have escaped; the remainder, 125 in
`number, among whom were seven cabin passengers,
perished ! The boat and her little crew were driven
trp by the tide to within a quarter.of a mile of Park-.
gate. They heard the cries of the sufferers-distinftly
for half:an hour.' The ebb tide washed the vessel
down into the deep waters, and shwas seen no more
till thenext tide drove her up; She is ncw fastened
by an anclior'to a sand bank, and lies on her stde,
with her keel towards Park-gate, and her head to the
.welch Coast ; her 'lower mast and rigging out of
water.' Tie King
,Ceorg-g.Packet-belengS to Mr.
Bnow of Liverpool; she was formerly a Privateer, .
and carried 1.1.3 guns; was aftewards employed as, a
'Harwich. Packet. Nene of. the bodies of the stif:.,
'terers haVe yet been found.
Two fishermen froth Chester were• lost on the
Sands the same night, owing to their boats being
drifted by the' tide, while they were in search of.
PreY.