The Sun.
London, England, 1801-04-01 00:00:00

HAMBURGH, MARCH 25.

Wrristft a few days Prussian Troops will °map
the Territories of Bremen and Hamburgh. The
will not take possession of the Cities; and we al
,hrrefore under no alarm, . _

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NEWS.
NAVAL eji

Nos i*peristm setwirgue tridentern,
Sed mibi a&rtt datum.

From the LONDON GAZETTE, Ilfzreh 3I .

Admiralty-Office, March 31, 'Sol. •
Copy of a Letter from Admir.7l Lurwidge, Com-
mander in Chief of His Majesty's Ships and Ves-
sels in the Downs, to Evan Nepean, Es'. dated
the 29th of March, 180 I .
,1)1)

have the satisfaftion to inclose to you, for the
ipformation of my Lords Commissioners of the Ad-
miralty, a Letter which I have received from Cap.
tain Cotgrave, of His Majesty's Sloop Gannet,
giving mt an account of his having last night cap.
tired the French Privateer La Vengeance, ef Four.
seen Guns, and Forty-three Men, belonging to
Boulogne, I am, &c.
SKEFF. LUTWIDGE.
Gannet, Downs, March 29, ISol.

SIB
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• •
beg leave to acquaint you, that yestqrday, at
bag past Eight P. M. I discovered a Lugger dose
in with Duagetiess, to whiCh L immediately gave
Chace, and have the pleasdre to Inforni.you,' that •
at half past eleven I came up with and captured her
close in_ with the .French Shore ;.- She proves to. be
La Vengeance, French Lugger, of
.Ten Three ana,
roar 'Two-Rounders, manned with Yorcy-three.lVlen, '
commanded by Nicholas Saillard She-sailed frtim •
Boulogne on the same morning; and had not made
any captures. . .
I have the Honour to be,— &e.
, t. , (signed) ISAAC COTGRAVe
Shtf. La' ftr.vi4e, Esq. tee. fee. .

3r, 1861.
1 •
.t.tiiolleif a 4etter:from Captdid loseph
je...thisAvtifer; vr. His , Majesty's Shp • Hind, 'to
BottliNeteatt,' El,. dated at Spithead, the 27th_

I have inclosed the Copy
,of my Letter to the
Might Hon. Lord Hugh •SeyMour, respetting the:
capture of a small Spanish Packer.
Hind, Halifax Harimr,.
MV LORD, FeLrgaiy 27, iSot.
4 I have to inform your Lordship, that His Ma-
psty's Ship wider my Command captured on the
6th of January, off the West End of Jamaica, a
Si:12111J) Schooner Packet, called El Reyna Louisa,
on
Manuel Palay, Commander, of Two Guns and
Twenty Men, from Trinidada; in the Island of.
Cuba, 'btrand to Carthagena, with a small. cargo of
tobacco and, wax, which I have sent into Provi-
dence : The Mail was destroyed previous to her
capture. I am, &c.
JOSEPH LARCOM.
R;:bt llonouratle Lori Thil h Se_j'mcur,
Egc. &r.

PORTS,IIJUTM, MAR.cil 31.

SAME?, the Ifoerable and Superb Men of War,
xpel:da,/Ibrimi Frigate, with the Fleet under con_
troy for the East Indies, which, owing to the S'verb
getting on the Warren, are brought to :q._;ain.
Sailed tlle
.Sogie Frigate, with the Convoy for
NewfoundlAnd.
Arrived the Kangaroo, Sloop, with a Convoy
trwn the Doi;•ns.

• SHEERNESS,. iViRCH,

.A Court-M4rtia4,wasthis day held on-board His
Malesty's..Sitip:Rs.ty,-at Sheerness (of which
loltairatltk aME was President), for. the..Trial-'
Ittordiabnbfforrvi and the-surviving Officers 'and
6 late Ship. .the le, and
Crcw4tbfklikMajesty'
inquirt-into the Cutts& and circumstances thereof;
when (it heing.roved to' The -Cour t that it was eu_
tirely through the ignorarieeof the Pilot) they were
honourably acquitteJ,

Arrived His :Vlajesty's -Sloop Gannet, of _l6
gnus, Capt. COTGRAVE, froth the DOwns.

YAILVOUTII, IVIARcn 31.

'ARRIVED the Liberty_ Cutter. Aso arrivtd
n d ,th-g Favourite Sloop.

Zhe Ca...s.:ari9it, of Hartley, coal.laclen to Lc.
don, having been on Happisburgh Sands, was run
on shore at Winterton, wtiere slie most probably
will be wrecked.

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JVIIJTEJIM'EN, mAxcli 24.

Tat Jamei Packet, -Capt. 11/ILIN-rasii, which
44W-from hence for Liverpool, about .one o'clock
in.,the.afternoon of Saturday, the. i 4th inst: struck
u°ll a sand bank between the mOuthS of thi"Lutie
and the Ribble, on the Lancashire Coasc, about
seVen,o'clockthe same evening. There were sigh_
teep..mple 0p board, fifteen of whqm unfortunately
peroA!ritwejve of theSe were passengers. Thu
:u Ytvors old` ibis lamentable accident are, the Mate
'edrtte WSW; and two ',citing men (Mariners) be.
kngitig to the town, who had taken passage-in her,
The following sire,ome of the particulars relative
to this Melancholy accident :

I - The games about: half past five. o'clock, after'
! _ from Wh' itehaven, made ..the lower end. of
vtias then Mowing hard, 'with sleet.
Abolit half,past. eight,. Capt. Wltrrosii said they
would lay her to at. that instant she struck upon,
a sand bank, on ;he main," .ihont four miles -from
Lytham.- The stroke knot ked'offher rudder.- They

then let gb the anchors but she Made SO ,roach Water,
that they cut the cables intending to run her up,
but she filled wit}} water and laid down, on the lee
side.! The confusion and alarm .upon'cleck was very
great ; .and six persons were almost instantly wash.
ed off the deck, and no more seen. The remainder
( twelve in number) climbed into the shrouds, but
benumbed by the severity of the weather, nine of
these dropped off one after another ; The surviving
three remained in the rigging till about half past
film o'clock on Sunday morning, when the vessel
ebbed dry, and they got on shore.

The bodies of four men and two women were cast

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up (Friday last) and buried. One of Elie Men Oas'a
porter ,in_this town; the two.cirilaiih eatieWaison,
and one of the name of Cain): iltb belonginttto-the
town. Of the other two, one- hia'Scots boy, and
the other a young man, Mate of iVessel belonging
to Liverpool. The other, sufferers were Mr. David
Evans, Lieutenant and Surgeon in the Montgomery
Militia; Mr. Simpson,
.clerk to Messrs: Sutton and
Hughs, of -Chester; Mr. Alexander:Fleming,. the
boy mentioned above was.his son) from Blackhole,.
in Perthshire two young mend the name of Reid,
from Scotland';' a. wife.; Mr. Mthitosh,'
the Master of the Packet ; 'Mr. Hugginian, 'the.
Steward ; and John Collins, (of Parton) a Seaman
on board her.

The Vessel, on Friday last, was so sanded as to
afford no prospeet of her eret being goi up; a part
of the materials had been saved, and one box, con-
tainirt wearing apparel. , Diligent search
making for the remainder or the bodies.; and care
will be taken of..any property tha.t may .be found
upon them.