The Sun.
London, England, 1801-12-21 00:00:00

DEAL, DEC. 20.

HT s Majesty's Ships Chichester_ and froohiliq)
sailed this morning to theßi'ver. - ~ • ,
Remain the Overyssel,Are;nesis, Amazor;;BriMaw,
Arrow,'
.Galgo, Savage, kagewie,and Ei-pre:ii Ad-
vice-boat,

SIIEERNESS, DEC. 20.

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YESTEILDAY. sailed for Chatham to r 'OM off',
Elie Bellipptx, of 64.'gups; Capt. BuLTE EL.
Arrived the Alonzo Sloop, from Yarmouth.

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Tfirs day arrived the Crash and Boxer Gun-brigs,
the fOhbit from the Downs, and the latter frotn the

ThAmes.

A CourT-Martial has bleh held on Peter jonet,
and Robert ih omat (r), Seamen of His Majesty's
Ship Belliquelt.i.*, for having atterripted to break into
the Magazine of The said Ship, and to blow her up ;
when the charges being proved against Jones (but
being found insane);. he was only adjudged to be
confined in such place hs. the Lords Comnii3sioners
of the Admiralty shall mired; and the same not be:
ing proved against Thosia's, he was-acquitted.
A Court-Martial was also held on Mr. John Lisk,
Master of the Daphne, for having behaved in a
manner very unbecoming the Charader of an Officer
and a Gentleman ; when the charges being proved,
he was sentenced to be dismissed His IViajeSi3r's Ser.!
vice, and never to serve therein again, in the capa:
city of an Officer.
Another Court-Martial was also held on Lieut.
Jeremiah Leaver, commanding His IVlajes'ty'stun..
brig 'lentil, for having embezzled a parr of HiS ,
Majesty is Stores entrusted to his charge, and having
wronged the Crew of the said vessel of their provi-
sions, as•set forth in a Letter from the Crew of the
said .vessel ; when the former part of the charges
being " not proved," he was acquitted of them ;
but the latter being " proved" in part, he was
severely reprimanded by the Court.

A tuition:. was circulated on Saturday, of His
Majesty's Ship Delft, commanded by Capt. RED..
MIL, being lost on her passage home with Troops
from Egypt ; but we are happy to learn that ac-
counts have been ieceived of her safe arrival at
Gibraltar‘

Tuesday a Court-Martial was held on hoard the
Gladiator, in Portsmouth Harbour, to try Lieut.
Joseph Murray; of the Guildford Prison-ship, for
thsembezzlement of Stores talso on Mr. friiiitzm
Bell, Carpenter of the Royal William, charged with
the like offence. After a full investigation of the
charges, they were both acquitted.
- The Porguin of 18 guns, in her passage otti tVith
Diiiiatclies. for Sir R. COuris, detained two 'Valu-
able Swedish East Indiamen, and between the Ma_
deira and Canary -Islands', engaged a large Fretich
Corvette; and two Armed Morthantmery;, one of
the latter struck, and the corvette was, nearly
silenced-, When the Penguin's foretop-mast went by
the board, which enabled the Enemy to escape.

The follolving is an extra -a of a Letter from Coin-
modore DALE, who 'commands the small American
Squadron lately sent by the United States into the
Mediterranean :—" I am happy to inform you,
that' Mr. STE R ET, in the SChesoller Evterprize,
of ri guns, and ninety men, fell in with one of
the Tripoline Cruizers off this Island (Malta).—She
mounted 14 guns and So men. He took- her after
an action of three hours, killed twenty. .01.1ter men,
and wounded thirty: Not a man hurt on board the
Schooner. The Bey's Crullers have not taken any
of our merchani vessels as vet."

Extra of A Letter 11.0 m Capt.: Caitiz icnz t,, of
the Ship 1/enly, to his Owners in Liverpool, dated
Kingston; Jamaica, it th Odober, rB6 t:—“ On
the zoth we were attacked by a Spanish feluccaPri.
weer, completely inanned, with One iS.poUnder
and small -arms.
.We immediatey prepared for
action, and at seven in the morning the action Corn-
menCedi during which he kept up a constant fire
with his great gun, and in such a Situation that
prevented three of our quatter:.deck guns from
bearing upoh him. After half ah hour'; engage..
ment he hoiited his flag; and scented resolVed to
carry us by bbaiding ; we were, however,
Mined to defend our vessel to the last, and there-
fore immediately loaded our stern guns. with rbund-
. and grape Shot. As he arprbaehecl our vessel (with-
in (so yards) we filed upon hitn, and must have
killed and wounded many of his crew ; nevertheless
.he tante close along our latboaid, quarter; and,
after discharging, several of his small arms, at-
tempted to board tis The first man that ap-
proached our vessel received a boattling-pike in his
belly, and went to the bottom: This very much
aided in raising the spirits of our people, who
fired upon the enemy with such enterprising reso-
lution, that the Spanish -privateer had his foremast
carried away, and' immediately made off. We had
none either killed or wounded, except a slight
wound which I received in• the mouttvand-, a' cut
in, the hand by a cutlass., which has since healed.
Our rigging, however, was very much ;damaged.:
and the stern of our vessel and a small boat was
very much shattered ; but we. have got all repaired.
The crew of the Henry consisted only of nine men,
four boys, and three riegroes."

A scaffold ereeted in the County-Flall of Chester,
for the purpose 'of finishing the inside if the roof,
gave way on Monday, while several workmen were
on it ; one of them was. killed on the spot, and four
others desperately bruised.