The Sun.
London, England, 1808-05-14 00:00:00

NAVAL, NEWS.

PLYMOUTH, MAX 'Q.—Arrived L'Annt.: French
Schooner, laden with wine and-rosin, from lioy r;!
deaux, bound to Quimper : one of her crew (which
consisted of the Master :and five Inert), a Irossian,
soon atter the Vessel sailed from Bourdeaux, knocted
down the Master, and drove the four Frenchmen
below, whom he battened down, and-stood to sea,
in order to fall in with some "English Cruiser, and
soon discovered the Amethyst Frigate, Capt. Sav-,
MUM, in ,the offing, by-which Ship she Was board•
ed, and sent to this Port.
Arrived the Mediator, of 50 gunsofrom the To g us,
with a Fleet of light Vialnallers under convoy ; also
arrived the Scorpion Sloop of War from a Cruize.
The Pau. Frigate is gone out of harbour.-

DEAL, MAY 13.—Arrived and §ailed for the
River the Portuguese Ship. La Princessa Brazilles,
Capt. JERAU, from Vera Cruz ; and
FRAZER, from Jamaica.

ROYAL ACADEMY.

No. 35. A Portrait.—H. THOMSON. R.A.

A vory pleasing Portrait of a Negro Girl, to whom
the Artist has-applied the lines of Porn--"ace the
poor Indian," &c. The attitude is very expressive
of that simple piety which the Poet,describes. She
seems indeed to pay homage to the Supreme, as she
conceives him to exist in the clouds and in the wind.
The Poet had spoken of his Indian as a male, but
the artist perhaps considers such"simplicity of dem.
Lion as more charadteristic of the other sex. He has
however produced very pleasinePiaure, and en-
livened the scene with local embellishments, that
give spirit and propriety to the whole.

No. 31. Portrait of Mrs. T. Hope and Son.—M. Duaosr.
The talents of this Artist 'are best exercised in
small whole lengths. He possesses great mechani.
cal dexterity, but he seems too ambitious of being
distinguiShed for that quality. He has taken such
great pains with the ornamental parts of the, Pic...
ture, that the Lady and her Child seem less to have
been the objets of his attention.
No. 58. Portrait of Mrs. T. Hope.—M, 'A. Stilts, R.A.
Wa have here another portrait of the same Lady, •
and though we are aware rif the proverbial prejudice
against comparative criticism, it would be affettation.
to avoid it on the present occasion. Besides, Wd
have in the present• instance an opportunity of iit•
dulging a patriotic pride, which, we hope, is not al-
lied to any narrow-minded bigotry, for, we con-
ceive, that in comparing this work with the last
we have noticed, the judgment of every man of taste
will be decidedly in favour of our countryman. • As
to the likeness, we are unable to decide, having ne-
ver seen the fair original ; but in the general coin'
position, beauty .of colouring, breadth, and (100
contrast of light and' shade, and choice of a'
cessary embellishments, Mr. Salm, in our opt'
nion, has greatly the advantage. Indeed it hita
been somewhat humourously said, with respeet to:P -
the ornamental parts of these two Pictures, that in
the first we see a room, in which Mr. Hoes has *xi.
ercised his genius in the invention of Furniture, and
that in the onier he has shewn his iaste for the re'
mains of antiquity.
•

The Enemy appear to. be colleaing a great force
of Gun-brigs at 'gushing, which they send up the
.Scheldt as they arrive. A Flotilla of 10 Sail of this
sort of craft, on Pits way for that port from Flush•!
ing, was lately attacked by one bf our Cruizers,
which captured one of then),
,and,, sent her 04
• Thursday into Dover. The rest escaped by keeping
close in shore, which they were able to do, as they
only draw three feet water. The captured butt
carries two g-pounders, bind one la-poundd is the
. bow, is of great width, and capable of carrying
great number/of men.
GIBRALTAR, APRIL s7.—Last night the Phcge
frigate, UswA.l43, arrived from Lord
LINGWOOD'S, Flea,-'which the Plicebe left, off Ali"
norca, twelve,days ago. By the Plicae we learn,
that the Rochefort anu .L'oulti Squadrons, atter
ing etftoted the objet of their e,s,,,e‘iiiion, lit 13.0(1,
iir twelve thousand 'men at Cain and the.Scvell
islands, had, after visiting Minorca, returned to
Toulon.--The Spanish Squadron at MY i norca declined
going to 'I2OtIIOIT along with the French, and they
were at anchor in the harbour of Mahon when the
Phcebe left Minorca. Lord. Cota.iNdwooo intended)
returning to Sicily again, with the Fleet under l?ifi
command. The Eleara Sloop of War. had boo
lost oft Sicily ; the crew saved.
The
(7'./assi"Peri CaVtain SEARL4, this morning
brought in two Spanish prizes hi,ten with Indigo
and Cochineal, bound from Vera Cilaz to U,4.114,
supposed to be worth 30,0001. also two Spanish
Gull-boats, taken off Cadiz.
APRIL 29.—Yesterday afternoon ithe PiVentrare:
Frigate, -and the convoy from England or .fifty .Saii,:
arrived here. The Duke of-6uotANs.landed Irons
the Pelontuire, and was received with a-royal salute
frotn the Garrison and Shipping. •

Pis 'Majesty's Ship Franchise, with part of the
Fleet under her convoy for the \Veit Indies, which'
sailed' from Portsmouth on 21st February, arrived'
at Barbadoes on 31st March. The Ships fingdalen;
London, Jupiter, Trafalgar, and !Richmond, part of
the above Fleet, parted from the convoy, on 26th
February, and- were captured on 29th, off Madeira,
by the Penelope and Tnurnise French Frigates. Thti,
sank the Magdalen, Jupiter, anti fix/mond, and,
burnt the 'London and • liai'ulgar.. They also car
tared the Little Jane; RIDLEY, from London lor.,
the Cape Of Gtod Hope, and sent her for Mar-
tinigne, otr which island she was re-captured by his
Majesty's Ship Hippomenes, and sent into Barba--
does. The itabert, of .Liverpool, it to
taken and sent into Martinique. '

The:Papei called tha INDEPENDENT WHIG, Sind
it etHIIC under the talons of the YtiOth tx, has got ta
sort of scralching which it via boure unused
Mr. 134.1t4Dert cornes tnrward in.a manly way
dGCS livt wish to screen himself behind ail
:mous proWctiorf; but when he wakes an attack.,
upon a political appoile.ol, boldly puts his to'
his strictures. We atiticipate much sulobenieui
•trorg th 4 47/4' side 0t trilS controversy.

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