The Sun.
London, England, 1809-03-30 00:00:00

NAVAL NEW S.

PLYMOUTII, MAncil 28.—Arrived the' French
prig Caroline, pierced for 16 guns, but .(inly:funr,
mounted, and manned with 30 men, from Bayonne,
laden with wine, brandy, and flour, laniand'tO Gatti-
dalOupe, captured on. the 23d inst. by the Amethyst
Frigate, Capt. SEYMOUR; the French Ship Le Ser.'
pent, Louis DUiIEYRAT Commander, armed with
six guns, and manned with 42 men; from Bayonne,
Wen with win; flour, &c. bound to Guadaloupe,
capuireil by the 4methyst Frigate, Capt.SBYMOUR.:
this vessel was formerly the Earl Spencer. Etcher,
belonging ,to Falmouth ; the French
.Schcioner
E.eiventure, of and from Bourdeaux, armed with
two guns, and manned with 10 men, Wean with
wine, flour, and cordage, bound to Guadaloupe,:
captured by the Emerald Fligate, Capt: MAITLAND,,
Sailed the Scorpion Stoop of War,. Capt. STAN.,
FELL, on
.a cruize.

The Cassock Sloop of War has captured to the.
Westward a valuable French East ludiaman, burthen 1
about 500 tons, from the Isle of France, bound to ,1
L'Orient, laden with silk, nankeens, ke.

Sailed the Carnet Sloop of Wit to the Westward.
Arrived the Bonne Citoyenne from the coast-of
Portugal.
• Came down the harbour and anchored in the
Sound the 4-Mack Gun•brit;.

,YI,4MOVV.I, MARCH 29.—Sailed the Bellerophon,
Calypso, and Earnest Gun-bt
Arrived a large Danish Ship, prize to the Tartar
Fiigate, laden with oil, : and the,Chan-
tide& and Kangaroo Sloops.

Keinain in the Read —Roebuck, Aboukir, Priuccss Caro_
line, K,togatho, Richmond, Snipe, Chanticleer, and Saalark
Schooner.

. Lord Duncan Pitoket C 44. 1-IA.1111.7.o:4, put in
leaky.
Passed several Lin,,-of-battle Sbip3 this morning
for the Baltic.

DEAL, MARSH 2g.--Sailed the of Ely
for India. .

SAVERDaSS4 MARCH 4.—The Aymp,Pien was raid
bounty and advance, and sailed to Leith.
Sailed I-jis.Majesty's Ship 'Vetn'grrard.'

The &ryalas's Ship's Company are drafted
into into the Leyden, for thEt pur,puse of manning .the
Gun-boats in the Baltic.- •

Sailed his. ,Nfajsty's 'Ship Drake, t., Yamiouth
and lade and,rungua.ra to YilT 010t11 h. '
Arrived Hii Majesty's Ship Reindeer, from Deal.

,PORTSMOVTR, MARCH 29.—Arrived the. follow-
ing Ships' Downs :—The Scipio, —, for
Madeira; Hero, SreettisNlSON,itbr Qqebec ;
fOr Newfotlndland Tririvirate, Gantt;
for New Brunswick ; al,o about 14' Sail tiin-
wgrd-botind ; Providence, ; Friends, ;
.111elward,---; anJ Liberty, frOtn, London ; and
the Perseverance. troin Deptford. •

CORK. MAncrt 24.—Wednesday ail. Transports
arrived at Cove, which sailed from Lisbon on the
'2.d ult. under convoy of the IVyttpite Frigate, CAI,-
tain PERCY, forming a • part of near fifty nail of
Transport 'and Merchant Vessels. They 'are under,
Stood to bring some of the 0634 baggage which had
belonged to Sir JOHN :noon's army, as'also some
convalescent Soldiers. There are Some sick
men -nn .board one of the Ships, which has caused
the Vessel to bi- placed. under quarantine.. About A,
thousand men, composed of detachMents belonging'
fOrSir Jowl Mootte's army, arrived at.Liibtin before
t be convoy sailed, under the command of .Lient.-Co-
lonels'euisow and BAN/Duni. • „

There - were ht ,Belkm Castle; besides tritisede-
taehments mentioned, also a detachment. of artillery,
the' 14th Light Dragoons, a waggon train, and COnt-
missariar. At Lisbon) there were the 34, 45th, and
§7tb. 'Regiments, and four-battalions of the King's
Gordian Legion.—The cannon have been removed
from all the forts...

The Royal Sovereign armed transport, arrived at
Portsmouth from Gibraltar, has brought- letters froM
that plaice of the 15th instant. The last fleet which
sailed tram Portsmouth for the 'Mediterranean. ar•
rived there in eleven days, It passed' Fattilouth on
the act instant_

EXTRACT OF A LETTER, DATED LEGUoIU, esTa
• _

FEBRUARY, 1809.
The French Governthent in this country, Tus-
cany, and all adjacent territories, have manifested
the most inveterate determination to check, in a
very rigorous manner,. all trade with
.England. Se-
veral prohibitory 'laws have been promulgated in the
course of the preeeding,.montb. One in particular,:
under the most severe restrittions and penalties, .puts
an end :tb.the further exportation of raw materials,
and also of huen rags and' undressed 'Skins in the
hair. •

The Unity, Mary, Mars, Narwall,• and IPung
lYlliain transports, froin,Lishoo, arrivOa at Cork on
the 23d instant. They sailM front LisbOr(Onder'tho
convoy of the Nymph frigate, and about of
transvati, and parted from thCITt OW the itld
in alit. The tranworts have on board a great'quan-,
tity of baggage belonging to 'the. regithents 'that
marched with Sir ToitN Mootts frt;tn Portugal into
,Spani, and all the siCk`troops Were in Lisbon.
Majagi's SIii.WLIZII7I:4 111.ci..ri by
frigake cytmarnire, and tar rieAtill t ►elsleof 'Fr.tticc.
It is st'ateit thit the killed and
the'ecriziidniire anloUnted t,.) I 604; t!;,..! Lwur4-5 4;117
ed and I'4 wounded. 'the cwiloniere 111(1 44
-pound‘l3, the 'Laurel. 22 0-b.),:ol.llcler3:s vita ilLt3 to
tally diinutstCd I;.fore ahC