The Sun.
London, England, 1854-05-26 00:00:00

THE BALTIC.

Prince Albert of Prussia and suite arrived at Dantzic
on the 18th. On the following day he inspected the
Gefion frigate, which fired a salute of 31 guns. After
the inspection the Gefion and the Mercury got under
weigh, and performed some evolutions in the roadstead.
M. Schrceler, the captain of the Gefion has been pro-
moted to the rank of Rear-Admiral. On the 20th the
Prince visited the arsenal and the three vessels of war
in the port, the Barbarossa, the Amazon,.and the Hela.
The Prince will remain some days at Dantzic to await
the arrival of the Nile and Salamander steamers from
Stettin, when the whole fleet will go through evolutions
in the Baltic.
SEIZURE OF PRIZES AT LIBAU,

Extract of a letter from her Majesty's ship Amphion-;
off Memel, May 19, 1854 :
" You will.no doubt be pleased to hear of our doings
at Libau. On the 17th, the Amphion, 34, screw, Cap-
tain Astley Key, and Conflict; 8, screw, Captain Arthur
Cumming,. received orders to get up steam and to
anchor about a mile off the town of Libau. At noon,
. Captain Cumming was despatched to summon the town
to surrender at discretion, and deliver up within three
hours the whole of the shipping in the harbour, and on
these conditions the town would be spared. At
three p.m.; an answer was returned, that as the
governor had no means of successfully resisting
an attack from the power biought against them,
he threw himself and the inhabitants on the mercy
of the commander of the British Oqiiiidron. Their ship-
ping was up a very narrow creek; and both sides lined
with houses, from which we might have sustained some
heavy damage ; but they had no forts, and therefore we
could have bombarded the town and shipping. At fire
we manned and armed boats under our respective officers,
commanded by the captains, and fully prepared to guard
against treachery, or anything that might turn up.
However, no impediment was offered, and the boats
pulled up about two miles. The officers and crews left
in the ships waited with extreme anxiety until they ob-
served a movement amongst the enemy's ships, and
right glad were they to perceive them one by one
brought down the creek towards us. At eight
o'clock we were gratified in being surrounded by
eight prizes— quite a little fleet—sorry to say, though,
they were:empty ; one other was partially scuttled.
There were also two vessels on the stacks, and three
aground scuttled. The inhabitants looked on whilst this
cool proceeding was taking place, without expressing
any angry feelings. They took it as a matter of course,
and seemed thankful that their town was not battered
aboti,t their ears ; in fact, they seemed astonished at
our clemency. As to our sailors, it seemed to them a
matter of amusement, and they got the vessels under
weigh with the same coolness' as'if they were going out
of Portsmouth harbour. The following day the Amphion
and Conflict proceeded to Memel with the prizes, each
vessel taking four in tow. Here, although Amphion is
styled one of the " blow coaches," did not she walk
away with her prizes and laugh at Conflict. The Am-
phion has this peculiarity about her after part, that no
weight seems 'o affect her to make any perceptible dif-
ference, whether we had anything in tow or not ; we
beat the Conflict, a full-power steamer, hollow."