The Sun.
London, England, 1808-08-01 00:00:00

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The Cormorant Revenue Cutter, Capt. HEARD
has captured and brought into Powey, a French
Lugger Privateer, which he discovered off te,
Lizard, and took after a chace of nine hours. W
this vessel was learnt that no less than eleve°,
other Privateers were 1) iOg ready for sea at St. Oci
loes when she left that port. The above vessel 10..
marten() capture; ; but one of a similar descripti'l'3
took two Brigs on tie 22d instants within sight ° •
Marazion, and was afterwards chased by the 1-:'1°:1
videfice and Dolphin Revenue Cutters, but escaped
from both of them. On the 23d, a small SlooP'
which hail been captured oil' the Mounts-bat
by a French Lugger, was observed close in by Sici
Agnec, (one of rite Scilly Islands) and it appetite het
scarcely her had management, that those on board 'r
scarcely knew what to do with her. That she-
het
not re-taken, was owing to the Pilots mistaking
are.
in too late, fOr one of the many Sloops whicl °I;
in the habit ot coming to those Islands for.P.°rtiot'
toes ; but it was' afterwards believed that she
from Tg,rbay, with groceries for the Fleet otl aul-.
iittiOU, Ii()ELETs, from Falmouth, to St. Re--5f
which had been taken by a French Privateer ne. r,ef
the Land's- End, has been retaken and carriee
into Plymouth. Her crew were takien into the
Privateer, but Captain RosEa'rs remaining in 11i;
Vessel, lias been thus rescued from a French prisnli:
The principal rendezvous of the Enemy's Privateer'
appears to be on the round from St. Ives, by
to the Lizard ; and there, we trust, a good
out will be kept for them.
_Since writing the above we are informed that °°e•
of the Brigs captured on the :22d, was the Nail'
zian, MAxFIELI), ith wheat, malt, &c. ir'':i-
Yarmou:ll to Liverpool; the crew or which, assisted
by some fishermen, rose upon the Frenchmen, re"
took their Vessel and carried her into Newlyn.
• General PALAFox, who commands at.Saragossa,l
one of the three sons ot the old General of
naine. He held a Commis,ion in the Guard I'
Cora,. at Madrid, with the Tank of Major-General'
and has ever been distingqishea for gallantry (11-
enterprize. General CuesA'Ais an Officer of mor`i i
experience, and had a command. in the war againes
France in 1796. General CASTA NOS likewise serve
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in the jute unfortunate canlpaign, and has the rte
Duutiol of
beino. , a good °dicer.
We have received some iiumbers of the Budstihi)
ken, the Norwegian Official Journal, with details °,
the progress of the Norwegian Army down to the
14th lust. At that period the Swedish redoubts neat
Skotzburgh had been carried by assault, after the!
had been three times relieved by fresh detachment':
The Swedes had likewise been driven, with the I°'
of 550 prisoners and many killed, from Freddries;
bold, by Oergebroe, and flout Roedens. From) ,
latter neighbourhood, and froth Kontvinger, tit
Norwegians had mace several petty incursions in,o
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Sweden ; on one occasion they brought Qtf. sgb"_c-(c
.
Hussars, and on another some cattlecotill
MouttvrEtt, colonel GAHN, and other Lwedish
cers, prisoners of war, had been removed 111)':•
Christiana to Skien, where they are to remain t).,
their parole.

The Debts provedunder the Bankruptcy of Sir
KERRiSON and Son, of Nor-4,ich, Bankers, amoui't.
ed on Thursday to 46(3,0601.
A: million of dollars are to,be shipped at Pox'''.
mouth, on board the Eurydice -and Aiinorca, 'l°`
Cadiz.

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THE THEATRE.—The second representation of
--I
new dramatic Piece intitled The Africans, on Satpr;
day last, at the Hayinarket,Theatte, fully establislie:
it in public favour. The house was crowded, and
applause uniform and frequent. Several of the airy
were encored, and the t*rtortners in general "'cr.
warmly applauded, and all exerted themselves
great zeal and powerful ettett. The interest of (11,'
Piet: lias been improved by solue judicious coro",
meats, ~)a,,
•ib this second representation
hung upitit the attention •or cattle tardily off. 0
1,
Allay confidently prediCt a very successful career iiL;
thiS very attesting Drama, particularly as its
41334e5-are so agreeably rcliet.,:ki by datracter,
or an opposite iLatir,,,