The Sun.
London, England, 1809-10-27 00:00:00

NAVAL NEWS.

FgIiTSMOUTH, OCT. 26.—Came in this day his
Majesty's ship Scasette, of 38 suns from the east;
'ward.

Arrived the Betsey, of Guernsey, MITCHELL, Mast.
ter, from Gibraltar and Seville ; also the Lively,
CLAI4, from Flpshing ; and the Union, FLuciun,
from Newhaven.

Sailed the Thomas 4nd John for Sunderland.

Put back this morning the whole of homeward..
bound Mediterranean fleet, and other merchant
ships which sailed from hence yesterday for the
Downi. •

PLYFOUTII, OCT. 25.—Came in, the Defiance
and rigicint men of war from .a cruise.

The - Two 'Brothers, lighter, laden , with wines,
was driven on shore last evening on ,the Rocks of the
Roe, and will, it is feared, "be lost. The Cargo is

saved.

Arrived, the Property, LE GROS, from Jersey.
This morning, off' the Start, she discovered the
French lugger privateer. so well known on this
coast ; the latter, however, took no notice of her :
the Providence revenue cutter, that arrived here this
morning, chased her for several hours, in the night
of the, 22d instant, but could not come up with her,
she being such a remarkable fast sailer.

'Sailed, the Arrow schooner, in quest of thy; priva-
teer in the Channel..."

Arrived, his Majesty's ships Valiant, and Surveil-
tante, from Flushing and Orestes, from Ports-

mouth.

DEAL, OCT. 24.—Sailed, his Majesty's ship Sal-
sette z with Major-General CAMPBELL on board, for
the Mediterranean.

Sailed, the Speculator lugger, for Flushing, with

dispatches.

Arrived, the Dispatch pilot sloop;of Deal, from a
cruize; Harlequin armed sloop, with a convoy to
the Westward:, •
The whole. of the outward-bound are under

DEAL, OCT. 26.—Arrived his Majesty's ship
Leyden; with detachments of different regiments 9n
board from -Flushing.•
Sailed his 'Majesty's ship Marlborough fdr Flush-
.
. .

FALMOUTH, OCT. 23.—Arrived the Princess Char-
lotte packet, Capt. KERR, with a mail from Lisbon,
in eleven days passage.
FALMOUTIP, OCT. 24.-T-Arrived the Dispatch
packet, 19 days from Cadiz.

HAnwlcH, OCT. i6.—Sailed the Beartfoy packet
for Flushing.

Extraa of a Letter from. Captain St,mstcr,'of the
Lascelles, to his Owners, in Liverpool, datectfa-
lermo, 21st August, 1809: . .
" Stns—lt will now, be proper' to inform you.,
that after seeing many privateers in the .Mediterra-
nean, we at last had one to engage, close under the
Island of Galitor.
.1t was on the 7th instant, about
twelve o'clock at noon, we perCeived a large sail in
the offing, bearing down upon us from -W.N.W.
apparently an enemy, bill, we still continued our
course. At two P.M. coming up with us very fast,
we immediately beat to quarters, arid cleared away •
decks for action. He still coming, up, with a long
pendant at his main, and an' Algerine . flag on :his
rnizen, we shortened sail, ready to engage : we gave
him a -gun, and hoisted Ohr colours, which he irn-
mediately returned with a broadside ; his French
colours hoisted: Then we came to a .genera[ action
within pistol shot,- with our great guns and small
prms... He. fought very ,hard for abotit* an fiour ,
and a half, with his great guns; but we suppose that
by our driving thdeparom their quarters, they be-
took themselves tilescoall arms, which they caitti.-
nued to do until the end of the aeliOn, having all
their sweeps out on both sides, endeavouring to get
away, as fast as po-sihle, we still continuing to keep
up our fire upon them.
" She was a. very large Vessel or ship, and much
longer
,than the Lasceiles, shewed 16 Torts, and
mounted 14 guns, and we:cannot, conceive that she
carried less than 150 men. We hive the pleasure
to say, that we succeeded in beating teroff entirely
and, by a peculiar providence, not one spa of us
lost our lives, but five of us were. most • shockingly
burnt (particularly 'myself and one of the sailors)
who, have suffered in a most excruciating manner,
and are far from being recovered. All: that the ship
could afford in point bl relief was administered to
the injured; and when arrived here, Mr. Gibbs im-
mediately. sent a surgeon or. board to attend us all ;
and now we have great hopes of our recovery.
" My running rigging and sails are very much
shot away ; standing rigging and the hull of the ship
likewise have received many a shot. In the course
of a few days I hope to be so•much better as to be
able to enter into a protest on this account, which I
'ball send you in my next of course."

Liverpool, Oa 21, 1,809.

The foregoing letter was written by Mr. H.' Le
Resche, passenger on board the Lucelles, and dic-
tated to him by Captain Spence, who was disabled by
the a6tion he fought from writing himself, as the,
following letter from Mr. Resche to the Owners of
the Lascelles shews : '

" DEAR SIRS—I wrote you si few lines by a ship,
at sea,'..on the 17th July, viz. La Rose Duncannun, I
belonging to Messrs. Rogers and Bownas. Now
have the pleasure to drop you a few lines :more from:
hence : you see what an awful encounte, we `have
had, and the effeds of it are such that Captain
Spence cannot use his hands, therefore he has beg-
ged of, me to write you as abOve. It is a. great bles-,
sing that we all escaped with our. lives. All the
passengers were equally engaged in the action ; and,
I and Mr. Cougan were employed in. working A Six
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pounder all time ' r