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

SHEERNESS, SEPT. 8.

1.4 Dolphia Cutter, Lieut. S•ktzitz.a.r, hisione
but of Ilarboar and the Furnace Gun-brig has
come int) Harbour.
Laurel, a very fine Brig. of IS guns, has
tor,m here to ixt. surveyed, for His Majesty's Service :
Lieut. LOYD is appointed to the Command of her.

DEAL, SEPT. S.

o yesterday morning, the Menlo Armed
Brig,. with the ontwayLbound under Conioy for
Portsmouth.
About ten Sail of famaica‘Ships arrived in the
Downs this, afternoon, several of which have sailed
to .the River.

Yesigrclir gening, in a gale of wind, the Exiftsi
1..) • 314
B9sit pitzted her cables, and sailed to the
*estwant a signal frbm Admiral NaLsbg's
the 6;:cy. "Jo/end and Sterd,urall Ctitters slipt,
l!z:ci:follo'wed to assist her.

NAPAI4.COLI,42T—.4.faiRTIAZ.
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ave a. re ygilTn the result
.of the -Coati.:
Martial held On- Captain Pi-W*ls, the Offiee,rsi
Crcw, for the loss of the Harp/Mai by which Cap.

tam Ft 'tit Is, his'OfficerS, Bre; Were most brinoniably
acquitted: we are happy in being able to add to it
the following interesting Particulars in the Narra-
tive of Captain Film's :
" Mr. President, and Gentlemen of the Court,

" In giving a detail of the circumstances which
led to the loss of His Majesty's late Ship the Hein-
tribal, thee underipy, command, I 'am sorry that,
owing to my Cleric being-killed,. and whose. re-
marks were lost, I' cannot-be ,so particular,as to the
exalt times of signalsl being' made as I otherwise
should have been ; but I shall state them to yoU to
the best of my recolleftion.
" On the morning of the 6th of July last, at or
about six o'cloCk, His Majesty's Ships l'enetable,
Ponsge,. Audacious, Cesar, Spencer, and Hannibal,
under the command of Rear-Admital Sir JAmEs
SAIIMAR EZ, being off Cabaretta Point, and stand-
ing in for Algeziras Bay upon the larboard tack,
with the wind westerly, the Admiral made the Sig-
nal for the Venerable, to know if she could fetch the
Enemy's ships then in sight in that Bay, which be..
ing answered in the affirmative, the Admiral made
the signal for close Aaion. •
"' At •about eight o'clock the Venerable began
the AaiOn at a .considerable distance to leeward,-as
she could not fetch further into the Bay ;'.and Soon .
after the Pomph anchored nearer in shore, and the
Audacious a-stern of her. The' 'Admiral, in' -the
C.esur, next anchntied a-heattof'the-Audacious;and."
made the signal for:ships to anchor in 'the best pos_
sible manner for their' mutual support. 'We then
anchored ahead of the Cesar, within hail of her, -
and by a sprin&got our broadsides to hear on one
of the Enemy's Line of Battle Ships, at about- ten
minutes before nine o'clock;. where we kept .up a
good fire for _about an hour. •
". At. this time, about ten o'clock, not having .
understood some verbal direftions'attempted tO be
given from the
.C.:esar, I received an order from the
Admiral, by an Officer, to go and rake the French --
Admiral. I instantly turned up hands to make
sail, cut the 'cable, and cast the Ship'by the spring ;
I then cut the spring and, made sail to the North- '-
wird, stood in to.a quarteriess-six; and then tacked
for the French Admiral, for the 'purpose I had been
ordered to effea. • .

" As tapproached hitni L-began to' take in sail
in such a manner. aljwoifick ,have enabled: me to
have hauled in shoreYatt4drt
,his hawse, and which
I preferred to goingiteward under his stern, as
that might have subjected me, from the v'ariable
_fiaws'ofwind, to have drifted farther to leeward,
and consequently without fulfilling, in a manner
which I deemed the- most effeelual and decisive,
the objett of my orders. Bat, just as I got the
--fore clew-garutts manned, in order ni take -in the
fore-sail, with an intent to put the helm a-lee, and
to-brace the head yards a_box, the Ship, took .the;
ground within hail of the Formidable (the FrciiCh
Admiral's Ship), and whiCh accident. :alone could
have prevented me from putting, my orders into
execution.

" In this situation I opened my fire on the French
Admiral, with as many of my foremost guns as:
could be brought' to bear on him, the rest being di,
reded, with much effea on the town, hatteties,and,,,
gunboats, with winch h was surrounded. BUt the
ship aHearing•to.swing a little, I let go the rower
anchor, and cut the cable, the stream-cable be,:
ing clenched to the Ting of the anchor, ...and. in .
at, the gun-room port,- on which I ilitetidect _to,
heave a strain, t'.) endeavour to: force' thel-'sbip
round, so as to bring her broadside. to hear' on the
French Admiral (having-at this time no hope „of
getting the ship entirely afloat, the Master having,
by my clirettinns, sounded round her, and-found ra.
ther less water than where she lay); lens the ',spring
being shot away before it was:Weil. taught, the ship.
remained immovable. I. hadi by this time, after
much et.deavour- (all my signal haul-yards .being
shot awl)?), effected making. the signal fot itriking
and sticking fast on a,slinal.
" I observed soniuOie after Wards all our ships
.driVing out of the B.4y,„,the Admiral having previ-
ously rnacle my signal cigieeall, and sent a boat from
the Ceeiar, and anothet from: the Venerable, to my
assistance ;' but finding they could afford me none,
I sent the Venerable's boat back, and the crew of
the Caesar's in one of my own cutters, their pinnace
having been sunk by a shot alongside.
" About twelve o'clock our ships were. all out
of gun_shot of the Enemy, and we had the.,fire
the whole French Squadron, Batteries, and Pun,-
boats, to contend with alone against which we'
continued to keep up as brisk a fire as could be ex.
pelted, even by men in the most sanguine expeaa.
tion of vidory, until near two o'clock.
" I had been beftite this time receiving repeated
reports from several of my Officers, of the numbers
killed and wounded, and of many of my guns being

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rendered unserviceable; and seeing many of rni
brave Crew every moment falling at their quarters,
and the Ship, in all, respeas, but little better than
wrf,clr, I thought ptOrGi to call my Officers toge-
cher, and asked their opinion whether mute could
be done for the preservation of the Ship ? They
replied, that they thought it was impossible to do
more, and that to, strike the Colours was the only
means of preserving the lives of those that re.
mained.
11 On these considerations, and from a convic-
tion of having experienced every possible assistance
that the persevering endeavours of zealous and
brave Officers and Men could afford me, whose
exertions, and those of Lieutenant Hi Lt.'s in par-
ticular, who did duty
.as my First Lieutenant dur-
ing the AEtion, and for some time, before, I shall
ever remember with the greatest gratitude ; and
seeing that our hitherto very effective fire 'on the
Enemy's ships and batteries was now so slackened as
to be nearly useless, I ordered the firing to cease,
and the people to shelter t.lrimelves as much as pos-
sible; and in a little tilje afterwatds I submitted
to The painful necessityy orderipg His Majesty's
Colours to be hauled dov:n."

•
TO THE ED-rroß OF THE SUN.
Deal, September 8, do

SIR,

Is the ObleYeuei of Sunday last; there is a Para_
graph tending to cast a most gross and scandalous
odium on the Iftwelop and Boatmen of DeaL—
The, Writer asserts, that these People knew of
the means takerr• by tho Frortch Co secure with

'ehains
their' Flotilla in the Wiad of Boulogne ;
but withheld so important an- intelligence froM
Lord NELsOrri tinder the fear of being prevented
from fnture intercourse with the Enemy's Ports.
I ani a- resident at Deal, but- entirely independent
of either kloirelors or - Boatmen ; the Public will
therefore receive . thcr.t timony of a disinterested
man, who denies in 'tot ,",the whole of this asper-
sion, and is' deiiithii fluncovering the. veil of
cini
falsehood, and litieregy) " ove a disgraceful stigma
'which now nndeservedly rests on-a,very useful body
of men, whose loyal. - has in many instances mani-
fested itself -in
.a&sl!'i Public- Service. You, of
course, reCollea.; Mr. Editor, that these very men,
who are now called Traitors, did, to a man, at the
time of the Expedition to Holland;:assist with their
Boats to embark tlie Military and Baggage, • for
which they refused to receive any pecuniary recom.
pense ; and again, when it wasTleemed requisite to
bring the Troops away, they volunteered their set.-
vices.to go to the Ships on their arrival; and assist
in the disembarkation. ,

If the Writer of this Paragraph had for a moment
recolleaed that a British force for -months past had
blockaded Boulogne and the other Ports on the
Coast of France, he would see the impossibility for
,Zeal Boatmen to have -hzid any Intercourse with the
Enemy, or be in possession of the intelligence they
are now accused of.

The Public may rest assured that steps will be-
taken to bring this Calumniator before a Court of
Judicatory-, where it is hoped he will receive a punish-
menrdue to,his crime, which is the, wish of,
Mr. Editor,
Yotir. very humble Servant,
13. D.

The Duke of York Packet, with the Mails from Ja_
maica,• sailed from ihenceon the 2oth July, leaving
there. His Majesty's .Ships Sato -Pareil, Acasto,
Lowestoft, Porcupine, Abergag;:enny, Lark, and
Catnel.

. _ .
The Princes; Charlotte Packet,Qapt. KER, from
the Leeward Islands., airived at Barbadoei on:the
gth of June, where,- site: found His Majesty's ship
Hornet ; reachecl Wfartinique on the lull:of the same
month; and Dominica on the 16th folloWing, where
she found 'the TriArnflivai. Armed trig, which
convoyed,hdr.te,,Motliserrltt, where she arrived on
the zorh.. sl3e left, A;
~.y.O is, on the 26th, His Ma-
jesty's ships-Pl:sco;itc Paity, Surinam, and Gipsey
schooner. • She 'reached. Grenada -on the 28th, on
which day the. Hanle/ and Fairy sailed .With the
remainder of the convoy. Sailed from Tortola on
the Ist of August.

A copy of the. following letter his been gene-
rally circulated amongst the Clergy :
" H'bitehall, !I'fizie 17, dot.

" MY LORD,

" The correct arid satisfactory information which
His Majesty's Government obtained from the
Clergy, relative to the state of the last year's crops
of grain, induces me to solicit the assistance and
,goad .offices. of your Lordship, and other Prelates
of gut-Church, in ;procuring in like -manner; and
thro,ugh the same respeaable channel, a statement
Of the number of acres of wheat, barley, oats; po-
tames, turnips; Tape, pease and beans, since the last
harvest, in the several parishes of England and
Wales.

, •
,t In order to abridge as much as
,possible the
trouble which this reciuist Will impose on such of
the. resident clergy in yob.r Didcese as" shall be pre_
vaiiFd upon to undertake it, I inclose, in as sepa-
rate cover, returns; with Columns teady to be filled
up with the number of acres sown with_each parti-
cular species of grain, and other crops therein spe,
cified.

g:lt has occurred to His Majesty's, confidential
Servants, that if they couyl be furnished, through
the favour andassistatite"6f the clergy, with an
annual return tif:,the..dasofilitiori I have menti9ned,
it would be a circlinswce highly beneficial (to the
public' interests, is it would form the best criterion
.whereby to judge of the effeas which the Provi.
sions of Parliament, both in regard to Inclosures
and other matters, produce on 'the Agriculture of
this Cduntry.
" I bye 'the Honour 'to be,
" My Lord,-
" Your Lordship's most obedient humble Servt.
" PELHAM."
" The Lord .8 shop of Chichester." , - •

• The reign 'of .thig- i roqg which s:about to com-
mence at our Winter Theatres, forcibly reminds:Us
of the words of the. Poet : ' .

. .
.
" Out scene precariously suhsiits too tong •
" On Fre/Jell-Translation and iiedian $677gL,--
" Dare to haVe.sxxsz"YOURSELVF.s, assert the Stage;
" Be justly warrnid by your ami native rage;
" Such Plays alone Should please a British ear;
" As CATo's self would not disdain te..ilear,"

When POPE wrote these lines, there was little
probability, that- we ShoUld turn from the lively
French to the plodding Germans for. Dramatic
Enterta;nments. Italian Music, however, still re-
tains its ground, and though JoHI4-.l3uu. does .not'
understand it a jot better than he did at that time,
yet he is contented to pay for it, .because he is told
that it is fine.
_ .

The emulation between the two Theatres, in an-
nouncing Mrs. BICLINGTON to the Publie, is some-
thing like the rival booths at the annual festival in
Smithfield, whose Heralds vociferate " The Player:
are here P! •

Though it his been illiberally asserted that Bar..
tholomew Fair has of late years set the fashion to
our Winter Theatres, we can boldly contradict the
assertion this year;
,The " Smithfield Mthes"
have been corupletely‘A‘stanced. They have not
ventured upon a neW(OPerla; and must wait till Sep-
tember rBoz. before therark 'attempt any imitation
of Mrs. BlLLiNd•rom. fti,horupipe in the Manner
of PAXISOT was the greatest novelty of this ;S'eason.

The sporting world will be sorry to learn-that
the celebrated racer Diavionii. Who was engaged.:ro
rufa at the CuireighSeptetriber-Meeting;'b'roke down
in cletcise,ai triat placer ori‘ the evening of fire'
3otli oft. A Dublin - Papef-comrnent?ng .-rhis
event obse'rire-s; that Diamond is completely cut up,
This 'seeniq- to be a specimen of what 7ra.called the
lapidarylapidary ~iflef • ‘• • ' ' -