The Sun.
London, England, 1809-05-31 00:00:00

NAVAL NEWS.-

PLYMOUTH, May 6g,.... Arrived the ,Resistance
gate, and Plover 4100 p of la sr, from a cruize ; and
the Sir William &oil, Bar.r., from Teneriffe.

The Busy Letter of Marque, froth Plymouth to
Madeira, has been taken by La Mouche privateer,
and re-taken by the Raven sloop of war.

Came in, La Ventura French privateer, of 9 guns,
captured off Madeira in March last, by the Fortunee
frigate : she was from Bourdeaux to Guadaloupe
with provisions.

FALMOUTH, MAY 28.7—Arrived the Queen, PAL'.
MER, from London to Hayti, with loss of main.
yard, &c.
Sailed the Silenia, ANDREWS) for London.

DRAL, MAY, 30,—Arrived the Crocodile . and
Round bombs from the westward ; Crown, Haw-
LAND, for St. Thomas's ; Riga Packet, WHITE, for
the Brazils; and Fingal, DeNxING, from Rio Ja-
iielro his Majesty's ships Alae, with a convey of
merchantmen and transports, the former from Lis-
bort,..the latter from Plymouth—the transports are
chiefly sailed for Ramsgate Pier, the merchantinen
for the River.

PORTSMOUTH, MAY So.—Sailed his Majesty's
ship Proteaor on a cruize ; also his Majesty's ship
Hardy, together with a Convoy, for Cork; and the
Ant schooner with a Convoy to Guernsey.

We are glad to see that Mr. CHOKER his given..
notice of a motion relative to the non-produaion of
some papers called for by Sir JOHN NEWPORT, be-
cause we shall then see how the Right Honourable
Baronet will account for the statements he made on
a former night, relative to the Earl of ANNESLEY
and Mr. B. HILL, namely, that when Mr. HILL'
was Surveyor of Rosscrea, he committed a fraud on
the Revenue to a very large amount. That this
fraud was reported to Lord AN WESLEY, First Com-
missioner of Excise, who, instead of punishing this
offence, suppressed the report of it. To. support
this statement, the Right Hon. Baronet called for
papers, some of which have been produced, and
some not ; but those which have been produced con-
tain, as was stated by Mr. Croker last night, a very
remarkable contradiction of every particular of Sir
Joittv's former allegation, for it appears that not
Mr. HILL, but a Mr. Hnson, was the Excise Offi-
cer in charge when the fraud was committed; that
the report of it was not made to Lord ANNESLEY,
(who was, not then at that Board), but to Lord
DONOUGIIMORE; that the report was not suppressed,
but laid by this Nobleman before the general Board,
and was followed up by the suspension from otlice,
and emoluments of the officers concerned. We are
'therefore not a little curious to know how Sir JOHN
NEWPORT will reconcile his statement wish the tads
contained in the Papers he himself called for, mid if
he cannot do ais, how he will account for having
charged on Lord ANNESLEY such gross detitinetic, ,
when 'he in fact had no part whatsoc%er in the
transaetions, and on the Board of Exciie stir h , ti!pa-
ble negligence, when in effect they mok every step
to correct and punish the offence that had been cons-
mined.

Th.! report of the two French Line-of-battle.-Ships
which escaped Admiril COCHRANE having taken
shelter in Gijad •loope, is unfounded, Tile Spar.
rowitawk Sloop of %Val-, arrived at Portsmouth, has
brought irnelligence that two Ships of that descrip-
tion succeeded-in getting into the port of Cherbourg
on Sunday night. They are, and we • think justly
supposed to be,. the same that escaped from the
Saints. The two Frigates being blockaded in &vise-
. terre roads, Guadaloupe, it is to by hoped they will
share the fate of the Hatapoutt.
ley a letter received from Captain OTTER, of the
Praserpiue, dated the 13th of- April, from Verdun,
we find the fads respeOing the capture of that Ship
are not quite accurately stated in the French Papers.
His account of the transattion is as follows :—" We
were surrounded on the night of the ectli of Fe-
bruary, off Coulon, by a French Squadron, con-
sisting of five Sail of the Line, and three large Fri-
gates, and captured.after a dose action of 40 minutes
with two of the latter. lam happy to say, that the
ship suffered much, principally in her masts and
rigging.. We had only one killed and ten'wounded,
and on the following day it appeared that the last
'were all likely to• do well." The whole of the
crew was with Capt. OTTER) at Verdun, and pro-,
per attention was paid to the education of the younger
part of it.

Yesterday a Court of' Aldermen Was held .at.
Guildhall; which was (Mended by the Lord Mayor,
isatiortuurt, anti the City Officers.
The Court inspeaed . the Beports of the Meal-
,
weighers, and ,Ordered the price .of Bread to be re-
duced one:assize, or Vd. in the peck loaf, to take
place to-morrow when the Unartern Loaf is to be
gold for to. I id. '
and Household is.

The Lord Mayor laid betre the Court a lecterhe
had received from Mr. Alderman Boyden, requesting
to resign his office of Alderman for the Ward of
Cheap ; which was accepted, .and his Lordship was
'desired to issue his Precept for a Wardrnote, for the
eledion of another hi his room.
The Lord Mayor proposed the following Gentle-
men to.the "Court, to be put in nomination to the
Livery, iri Common Hall, an Midsummer-day next,
for their choice of two of them to serve the office of
Sheriffs Of London and Middlesex, for the year en-
suing ; and.-the Common Cryan was direlited to
serve. them with notices therm:ie.—Griffith Jones,
Esq. Citizen and Draper ; George Bridges, Esq.
Citizen and Wheelwright; Richard Sanderson,Esn;
Citizen and Cooper; Sarnuti Baker, Esq. Citizen
and iron-monger; Wm. Cass, Esq. Citizen and
Wheelwright; George Wood, gsii,qtizen and Mer-
chant Tailor; Johngray, Etirti:Citiien and brapgr
Harvey Walklare Ar,lortinter, :sq. Ci4en and For-
tier ; Wm. Lai bent, Esq. Citizen and' Cooper.
Henry parker, Es 9. Clerk, df the Chamber; stir-
repclered that Office, anti' Mr. James Bonder was
adnlitted it} ilia itiorn.' '• '•