The Sun.
London, England, 1801-08-18 00:00:00

PORTSMOUTH, Auc. 17.

Hr 6 Majesty's Ships Ganger and &debt!), are ap-
pointed Convoy to Gibraltar, and are to- take charge
of the TranspOrts bound to the Mediterranean..
Came into Harbour, the Vennune and Elizabeth,
detained by His• Majesty's Ship St. .F; _orenzo.
The Ifeaver is appointed CQI)Vby to the West-
ward.

• Arriyed a few.Viauallers and Colliers frOm the
Eastsvard.; Fraitu qoieliel, SEI:ACH, from Riga,
,pki Severn, HAckwoop, from Waterford,.

Wed: the Sroo(Jiq Schooner, for Cherburgh.

,sHEERArEs's, A c. 17.

AterpFD the Manly and Clinker qua.brigs,
vi,th a large_Convqy from the Baltic
Sailed His Majesty's Ship Alliance-1 of 32' guns,
C4p:. MELHUISII, for her station dowq Channel.
The Alteste is gone out of Harbour,

Arrived the Swedish Ship.T;za, Bittiww, with
'cargo of spars, &c. for His Majesty's Service.
A large Fleet tif:Ships are assembled at the Nore,
waiting for convoy to the Baltic.

Our Plymouth Letter of Tester4ay mentioned . a
report of an 'Aftion fought by the Sylph sloop,
which had arrived there from the Coast of spain.
Another Letter from Plymnuth, gives the following
particulars—" Arrived the .54,1)5b,: of., 18 thirty. 7.
two pound• cal-ronades, and- 12.0 . men, Captain
DASHWO'OD, after. a very brilliant and gallant Ac-
tion.with a French frigate, of- 4.4„ guns, and 350
.men, in sight of St, 'Andrro, on
.the 'coast of Spain.
'The Circumstances of this aainn, so highly crait-
able to Capt. DAsHwcion, ,officers, and Crew/
.
are nearly as follow :
" ‘.l The Sylph, v the evening of the 3rst Ult. at
eight We-lock, discovered" a large frigate to.wind- .
Ward, bejtring down upon her. Capt. DASLi SVOOO7
lay to for her from 8 P..M. to P. M. when A
very warm aaion commenced, which was contiaue4
Within pistol shot, with great spirit on both sides,
for'one hour and 2.0 minutes, when the' Frigate's
fire. began to slacken, and she made sail. Tte
Sy/pb was too much sii-sabled to follow her, having
keen htilled by. 58 shot, aid having r az shot holes,
of I 8 pounders, through her fore and aft main sail,
a shot between wind and water, her mitin_mast
badly 'wounded, and making about a foot and half
of water in the hour,

" During the night they got the Ship 3 littic to
rights; and in the morning perceived. die Enemy t°
windward, dist Ant about bIA 'l4avinlx sonic."
what repaired the, Sy/ph"; damages; Capt. DASO-
- made sail after her as Well as his disabled
state would allow, from stn-rise till seven A. IVI;
The Enemy, perceiving this, changed his course, alui
made sail for the land.. The Sylph making much
water, Capt. liAsit woon steered for this purr, an
arrived safe on Thursday last, at eight v. NI.--
-.Though the action was so warm, and lasted so long,
fortunately the S.ylph had only one man killed, silC
.slightly wounded, and three badly, having inst a lei
each. These latter are sent to the Royal Nagat
" it is remarkable that the French Frigate did 11°
slew her colours during the Aeiion. She had Oct,"
ports, including the bridle port, on the ma/in de'
besides the' guns on her quartoi.-deck and forecastle,
From her description, sheLiniist be'Cithej• the Ali,
mise, of 44. Guns, or 11e -quersoti,..of.- 44 03111'
escaped from Rochefort. This moinitig the tittle
• Sylph
.was Warped up Hamoaze, to repair the
fined oa,"
-mages she sustned in the above unelu4l, thouV
very. Ipirited and gallant Aetion,"

The Boats employed in the Attacic made ('`:
Boulogne. by Lord Nn,sorq,- were divided into
four divisions, the first commanded by Captain SQ'
NIERVILLE, of the Eugenie, two others by Captaingt
and the lass by Captain ,P4RxEa ; they were cot
vered by 16 Flat-botiomed Boats, each of whit!'
carried a howitzer or i 2 pound carronacie ; our peoPle-
wOe not suffered to carry, either muskets or ptstols'
only, pikes, cutlasses, or tomahawks : when our pc°.
pie came pretty near, they were saluted by a t reale;
dons fire of grape and round. both from the batren'it
on shore, and the gun_vesseis which had from t5O
,
to 'zoo men each, well covered by.
teries of morrars,:4c. and The shore was covered
troops three deep for three miles in length.
Capt. DCMARESQUE left town on Saturday! t°
join his Commanding Officer, Sir JAMES SALIMAROI
off Gibraltar.
The Ps;nce Adolphus Packet, on the 30th 1114
the day she left Lisbon, passed a Portugueze
gun ship with, a convoy of 30 ships from the Brazils,:
and on•the zzth, in lit. 49. 27. spoke His Majestic;
Ship Santa Margaritta, with the outward bound
.and Fleets, all well.
There was no British Ship left at Oporto on tl4
z;th of July.
The Harpy Brig Cutter, which arrived at F. 147
neur with convoy, on the 6th inst. sailed for the,
North Sea on the 7th„ without taking, any convo,
the hotheward-bound Ships are there for
other convoy before they can proceed. The Aolefri
ricans and other Neutrals, sailed or,. the Bth 111,1
The
.Harpy's convoy, proceeded' .immediately '

Copenhagen and the Baltic.
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An account from Bengal says, the Dutch shill,
the Constance, commanded by • Captain firlle
KAMP, has had the 'misfortune to run opon
Breakers off Madagascar, and ,w4s beat .to pices,
on the Bth day of December ; the wind bolo& vi°;
lent, and the sea running very high, only 011
Duth sailor, two Spaniards, and two PortugtleA'
se'
were saved, out of Iso persops that were on 120411,
The Salamander Privateer, Hopper, has caPgr;
the Spanish Smack St. Jasec Escaboe, off the —Ono
of Brazil; and the Spanish'Brigantine.St. Aro.ieg
da Ballena, Don Manuel Loaces, from Monte;
to Porto Destado.

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A private Letter received by the Lady BIlit';co
lately- arrived ,from Bengal, informs tes that olvids
had been received at that Presidency by a
ship, of the state of the Spanish Settlement of see
nil/a. It appears, that in consequence of spin Go,
cret intelligence having been received by tile n of
vernor from', the Isle of France; the strong
Cairina had been' doubly garrisoned the castle -of
harbour had received several adjitional
cannon. The Spaniards have also seat a con'*:,,a
able reinforcement to Samboangun, and fortluao.
the place. The consternation created throng!' tile
the Phillipine I3lands, on the intelligence
lateexpedition froth India, was very great.. ,1„,
Government are. said to be much agitated at 'the
nilla. Great discontents had prevailed wits
Militia, WllO are represented. to be in tb(..! IPtej
wretched state possible. . Five Frigates ore
Stone
to be at Cavita, but in no respell fit for sea•
Frigate only has her lower masts in ; the °chefs of •
mere hulks. DON AL 1;0 WAS has the diretl°';lo
all the Gun-boats, which amount .to no mute ti of
nine. The Governor's nephew has the commosoi,
at
the Militia.' The various goods in warehoos.cd
'Manilla, are said to amount to '54,0-00,000 °i
Jars, The u w
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