The Sun.
London, England, 1801-03-09 00:00:00

PORTadidoVTl4 IVIALcAt. 8.

Maly! D His Majesty's Ships D4r.t awl Car
mr4
_from thellowris; Lord Piiucaix, Lord Ilawki.
Wiittlharz;. and Calcutta, outward b 904
Eastinfiia 245:

S;ilcd the 3‘, rincnit'Cuttei on a Cruim

SIiEE-RNESS, MARCH S:

ARRIVED and came into Harbour, the Alello

Fire ship.

• His Majesty's Ship La Desiree has.ggne out
'6f Harbour; having been refitted. -

DEAL, MARCH 8:

SAILED yesterday, His M ijesty's

'limit, Nemesis, and Arrcw Sloop, to .the West-
iyard ; and this morning the Londoffi. of 98 guns,
and Teazer Gun:.brig, for Yarmouth Roacli..
The Harpy Sloop of War arrived this morn-
.,
• ing from Portsmouth, and proceeded through the
Downs immediately to join the North Sea'Fleet.
The American Ship Maria, .IrtroLts, for
Charlestown, came donrhis afteinoon from the
•
River, and remains.

ADMIRALTY COURT, MARCH 7.

NEUTRAL•SHIPS.

Ti-iE following interating Case occurred in th
High Court of Admiralty of. England, before Sir
-lUSISC VOCCLte

The jonge Yrocw Wilbelmina, a Neutral Ves-
r,el, Capt., JAcoßos, commander,. belonging to
Pappenhitrgh, and engaged in a course 'Of trade
on the coast of Holland, perfectly. consonant to
the Laws .of Nations, was stopped and boarded
by the Ajax, a'Guernsey Privateer. The Cap-
rain of the Privateer; through the medium 'of an
interpreter, intimated to Capt. JAcoßus, that he
had good reason to think he was engaged in a
contraband commerce, which the inspettion of
his :Ship's Papers would expose ; but that if he
Would give him a certain tit= of money,' he would
release his ship. The Captain of the Iffiiheinthia,
41artned at the, circumstance- of having his ship
boarded, and apprehensive of his voyage being de-
/ayed readily consented to the demand; in order
to get off, and paid the Captain of the Ajax what
he thought proper to extort. No sooner had this.
transaaion been concluded, than the Ajax made
prize of, the Neutral Ship, and carried her into
Guernsey, where the Prize-Commiisioners con-
demned her. The ground of condemnation was,
that the 'pretence by which the Captain of the
4jax obtained a sum of:money to release the ship,
was an innocent stratagem to make the Captain of
the Neutral Ship confess the truth; and that the
payment of it by the latter, was an absolute ad-
mission of his catiying en an illicit commerce.
The matter was•brought•into the Supe:ior Court,
rind upon taking the depositions of the Neutral
Captain,,'and examining his Papers; it appeared
lie -yeas in the prosecution. of .a legitimate cons-
sverce• • •
To answer this, the Affidavit of the Commis-
-
which appeared to have been irreguligly
rocUred, was produrecl, stating, that they. had
rroceeded on the ground, that the
,stpitagem of
sfiEtaPiain of the rijax_was an innocent one, and
that the, compliance of Captain JAcopus decided'
quesiion of his trading; after hearing
Dr, -NiciioLLs, the;'King's Advocate, fOr the
CiptOrs, and Dr. Lt.irßENCE,for the Neutral
Owners,".

Sir WILLIAM Scott .pronounced 'Judgment.
i-Te expatiated upon the general Laws of Nations,
with regard to' Neut.ra,l Powers; and:then applied
them -to the particular ,case in.question. lie 0t...
pressed him Self in unqualified terms of indigna-
tion at the.ctniduCt, `trot Only of the. Captain of
the GuernseyPrivatcer, bat of the Coinnui'sion.
ers who had sanCtioned it; he feared such practices
-Were but too prevalent ; it was a Speciti.il' Con.:
auCt disgraceful .to the and:FrO, the
INlational'Charader ; he Wished- he' contd.' have
itsed softer tcrins., Vat in spe.:king.of,sl4:hAlia.a,
he could no otherwise describe it, than as!oppres_
live; unjust; and fraadulent an ihir.ction of th'e.
Bights orNeutial *itions ; , 4 disgrace to ;11g,jils,
rice of our own, and, a violation of itsliositive
Laws. The innoceritStratucM, aS it. was.g.;illed,
and the undue a4.,,-.entage attempted to.bc made.Of
were, in his opinion, ads of the highzit
atrocity, and ,deierving the severest
Sion and. punishment. All the satistattion he
,could make to the injured Neutral o\vners, they
should receive at his hands: andi to that effete} he
decreed, that ;he til/behnixa should be restored
to them, and all the loss, damages, e)tliehees, and
costs, occasioned by her detention, fully paid by
the CLiptaittof:the.:Brivateer, or by his Owners.

.tt Is reported that. Governor BROO4, of St.
Helena, having taken out apart. of the carg-nes of
four hornewrcl-hodn'd East Indiamen, had sailed
with them (or the River de la Plata, to seize
upon the•Slianishf Galleons lying there bound to
Europe.. This entetprize, if undertaken as le_
ported, we sincerely hope-will be as successful as
the vilantry of it deserves.

Sortie days ago two Frigates, the, one mounting
guns,,, under "favour of haiy weather„.eluded
the observation.orour Squadron 'off Flushing, and
pUt to sea, ;supposed to be destined,for Dunkirk ;
gin their
.passage, however, they.feli. in with the
tolehay Frigate, of 32 gun,, which obliged.them
to return,• and literally chaced them into Flush-
ing. One Of the Enemy's Ships lost her rudder,
,and was otherwise so. much damaged as, to be
obliged to go into dock. ,We
.have not' heard'
what injury was'sustained by the Solebay.
On Wednesday last one of our Cruizers looked
into Flushing,: and saw one of-those ships, and
• the Pluto of 64 guns,' ready for sea ; .there
'likewise, a Sloop, 'ship-rigged, mounting 1 8 guns;
itivo large Schooner Gun:.bonats, each carrying
two eighieen7pounders forwaid, and two twelve,'
Eunders aft; and a Lugger, formerly? the Growler,,
nglish Gun.vessel3 each of the latter having so:.
men.. About two miles' above the Town there
a
was large Gun-brig, and some' smaller craft;
but nOtriri
The Friends, from Lisbon for Liver-
pool, is taken and carried invi Vigo,