The Sun.
London, England, 1807-10-20 00:00:00

wherever our powere9abjed us to do so: We should
unqueitionably consider, it as a question betw4n..' the
Governments, and should probably consider .the re-
fusal instantly to abandon the obnoxious praaice, as a
commencement of hostilities. We should not in-
stria our Commanders to treat the offending.4ships
of War with the lenity shewn to < the vessels of
Individuals; if we gave any iustruaions, they would
be, to blow the Ship out of the water ; but the more
.legitimate;mode of proceeding would certainly be,
to abstain. from such
,vlolent measures until justice
had been formally 'denied us by the Neutral Govern.
ment. • •

Let us apply these observatinns to the case before
us. The seduaion and detention of our Seamen,
thereby weakening that arm upon which we' most
rely, is a breach of neutrality not unlike the streugth-
ening of our adversary 'by supplying him. with war!
like stores. When, this seduaion is practised by in-
dividuals, we therefore treat them according' to the
same rules. We take out the Men, felting the
Ship go free, as we §hould in the case of Cuntra-
hand, unless the Ship belonged to the same Pro-
prietor.

But when the American Government itself is a
party to this hostile practice--when it employs ;he
Officers of its national kleet to enlist our Deserters
into its national Ships, the offence becomes, as in
the supposed case of contraband, 'much too serious
to'be lelt to the application of ordinary rules. In
such cases we dire& that immediate information
may be given to the Government at home, who
alone ought to be entrusted with the dreadful power
'of PRACE or WAR.

The course which we have pointed out, is that '
which His Majesty's Proclamation dirOets to be pur-
sued. The main luestion, remains at issue between
the two ckivernments we have only cleared it from
that irritation, which naturally, attends the mode
which had been adopted for bringing it to a point.
Should the American Government persist in a line of
condu& esSeutially dangero,us to our vital interests,
we may still have recourse not to these accidental
rencounters, but to decisive and.extended hostility ;
we are confident that the American Government
will. understand the 'Proclamation too well to suffer

it to alter the inclination which we believe it to
entertain for an amicable and perfealy saiisfa'actry
arrangement' with GnaAr }3n Tatx,

The following interesting Narrative of the loss of
His Majesty's Schooner kclir, is given by the only
surviving Man 'of the Crew of that Vessel. It is dated
from Santander, in Spain. the Man is now serv-
ing on board our .Squadron cruizitig More itoche-
fort :

COPY OF HENRY stLAßtis NARRATIVE O 1 THE 1.0:19

OF Hl5 biatitSTY'S' SCIWONER VEL.L.X.
Santander.

#OSOOIED CAPTAIN,
take the liberty or sending you these few lines
to inform you of our misfortune in being cast away
in your Schooner, on the, night of the 2:44-January
last, between twelve arid three in the ,motning,on
the coast- that 'lilt opposite the Fort, at the entrance
of Smtander, where every soul perished but me,
being 79 in number, including nine prisoners that
we got'eschanged, being sent here for them as Car-
tel. We arrived here on the :lath of said month,
got our prisoners on board on the loth after twelve,
when it came on. ro blow
.so Strong right in the har-
bour, that we could not put to sea, being to anchor
under the 'Fort, from which they hailed us, ordering
us to put to sea. We told them we could not, as
the wind was right in the harbour, that if we
-did
we should be in great danger, and the weather look-
ed and the wind rightaead on the shore. They told
us, if we' did not go out itnmediateiy they would, firo
into us, which they did about eight o'clock,.and at
twelve in the night gave us' another shot, at four in
the morning` a third, then blowing a gale, and at
eight in the morning tired again on :us, so was furc'd
to weigh anchor, but it was impOisible to get out,
thewind blowing so strong frem,the N.W. with a
terrible sea, so was obliged to anchor at the entrance
of the bay, the sea breaking. over us every instant,
and *the gale still (nereasing. We rode
,out all that
day. in the greatest danger, was forced to haul down
our Cartel flag, and hoisted the tiglish flag Union
downwards, and fired a number diens in distress
but no assistance attempted to come near us, though
a French Brig, as have since heard, and several Atne.
rican Merchantmen, °tiered to assist. WI, but the
heads of Santander would not permit them to come
near us. We t;,teod in this state all the night of the
toth, the -gale continually increasing : on the 21st
we hove eight gnus overboard, the sea running 110
high that it washed our boat overboard, together
with a great number ofOur hands, no one remaining
nn deck but was lashed to different parts of the ship,
in which we' stood WWI the 22d, not knowing what
to do, the *ea running mountains high, nothing but
death befom our eyes. The Captain, Lieut. Mitcba,
„ •
the Hot, and myself, were all that ,'could be seen
aboard:l the bulwarks being all stove in, we were
lashed to the ring-bolts en the quarter-deck, the sea