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

N AVAL NEWS.

PORTSMQUTIT, OCT. 9.;-- The Lively Frigate,.
Capt. M‘KINLEY.-.4.is detained and .sent into this
port the
.I(osenette, 'KURNBLCK, IVOMn Leghorn to
Lisbon, with o i, &c.
Arrived the „Diana Frigate, Capt. MEiLING,
from the West Indies ;_ the Supply, KORNLECK;irdm
Sunderland ; Simon ?'aylOr, MEEK, and l'lzamix.;
DOUGLAS (for Jamaica),_ from the Downs.
Sailed the Asc. kenthal, SAN6BERG, for Memel.
The Saralien Sloop of War, this morning, went
out of harbour, after undergoing repair. •
Came info harbour the Moielle Slurp.

DEAL, OCT. t 8.--Arrive,i' the Furious Gun-brig

from a cruize:

Sailed last night His Majesty's Sloop Satellite-tOr
the Westward,. and Blazer Gun-brig to the
ward.

ocT:i9.-:-Lsevdral light Vessels sai!edyesteftby
to the Westward.
Arrived the Skylark Sloop- from a crnize,
Ruselitr Gun -brig (then 'off Flushing, and Phosphorta
Gun-brig.from the Westward.
In the Downs—Canada, Clyde, Weymouth, Skylark,
'Hustler, Furious and Phosphors s; Humber Armed Ship,
Deptford and Dispatch Transport S. . . ,

A Gentleman is arrived in town who left Coven-
hagen ott the 23d ult. tuteer convoy of the ilsirea
Frigate; Captain DUNBAR, with sixty-six.. sail in
company,
of which fourteen were Transports, and
116 Bomb Tencitirs, all Eiden with Naval' Stores,
and forty-five detained Danes. The Bonet& sailed,
two days before with about twenty-three sail more
of detained Danes. The Transports have brought.
to Deptford the materials of two of 'the Danish
Line of Battle
ships, which were taken to pieces.
He.left the Leyden and Texel, and thirty-six srail of
Transports, laden with Naval Stores, and thirty
sail getting ready to be laden. The. whole of the
'Transports lying there are about 366 sail ; the
battering train find been all embarked before he left
the place and the intention' then was to embark .
the Troops on the tst instaut. Ten thousand of
the troops were to embark •in 'the Danish Ships
O'hich were all to be filled with spars and stores)
to help to work them to England. • Nothing but
public property' was toudhed ; a .quantity, of iron
which was lying in the. Duck-yard being claimed
es private property; was given up. There was no
idea of our keeping possession of Zealand
~.whirt;
he left it; the Admiral and ()dicers were us4re„she ,
greatest exertions to leave it at she expirolieit
the six. weeks. Sir SAMUEL HooD corninanqed, .
the Dock-yard, to embark the stores, &c, there
was no interrtiption to our.people going into Co-
penhagen, which they had done for some thne, to
Purchase provisioiis. Mr. COLLIER (brother. to Sir
GEORGE COLLIER) is (he Agent for the whoie of
the Dattish Ships. Three Itu,sian Sail of the Line,
three Frigates, ,and a Store Ship, newly fitted) Irons
Archangel, anchored at Elsineur on the.22d, going
tap the Baltic,
Extr.ia of a'Letter from an Officer in:the Expe-
dition to Copenhagen, to his Friend in Belfast, dated
b'ePt• The eiartions we area now 'making to
fit out the Stops takenhere, and to dismantle our own
batteries ship the ordnance, &c..isb. y•ind concep-
tion. We have already. completed and rigged 13:
Sail of Danish Llue of Battle Ships, exclusive often
Frigates, and shipped almost all the stores. The;
-stores and ordoance which we have captured is in-
taleplable. Fiona evety infOrniation ,which I can
learn; there will be a.sufficieney of the fornier..for
our Navy for seven years, and the ordnance:pox-
eeeds any thing I ever beheld, particularlyudileir
brass guns ;, formuantiay and quality, I atu.iehartnr
ed, no nation could produce the like. I can easily
imagine what you will all be inclined to say, gyres
lug our proceedings iii this part .of the svoilk
believe me.wlien'' I- assure you, that had we net'
taken these steps, Ireland must inevitably have fallen
before qiiristrnas-day next. A shadow of
,doubt
°es ntitreti)ain that BUONAPARTE was to have been
Pur passessieti of the Danish Fleet, storee and
o.dnance, and that 'a Fleet of 60 Sail of the Line;
wins 100,000 men, was to leave'these seas, in Ne-
N.ember for-Ireland. I now leave you to judge,
tin or not we are justifiable in preventing such
'proceedings, and I trust in GOD this bloW will bring
soundk speedy peace. No troops have yet been
permitted to enter Copenhagen, except a few cifi7.'
cots each day, and that very lately,
,with a wri.iten,
passport from Lieutenant,,General BAIRD. Itysit,,
dbeen in for a few hours—it is a very fine city;. but
readfully destroyed by fire, occasioned by our burn-
mg carcases and Shells. Had they flat surrendered,
curry house must have . been consumed in' a few
days. The fall of a most, superb steeple on fire,
as the most awful' sight I ever beheld. The in-
fants naturally were greatly 'exasperated at 'Our
people, but it is astonishincr
the good of dt our
• grb,ineas have made in. purchasing their articles.--;-:
have seen no specie in this country except plated
cP Per; we get `7 shillings for a guinea.—l have
Inmoment-beardthe first division sails.in eight
',.`l„ayss and we expeCt to go with it. I hope, there-
idre, to-have the 'pleasure of seeing you next •
month."
Captain STARK, of the James, of London, ar-
rived at Leith, has deposed before the proper Orti;'-
eers of the Customs at that Port, that some: tigie
previous to his departUre from Liebau, on the filth
of
istAugust.isa report prevailed that'a great mortality
exed at Memel, Pillau, and Konigsburgh occa-
sioned by a diarrhea or flux, 'which carried off
those afflieted with it in three days. In the small
towtt of Pillau alone, it wasreported that fifty. peo-
Ple died daily e and that; to. his knowledge,. mer-
chants who had gone -froth Ueau, to. attend the
annual Fair at Memel, about :the b
Middle of August, returned :without entering the town, when they had,
'procured infermation_ of the mortality in the place.'-,
This
infeetion was .attributed to -the beat of Abe.•
,
the number of the 'wounded Russians, -
nand the graves of those. slain in The late battles-
uot having been made deep enough. -In copse-
j4l.:re'....] of Allis informatien, the Commission4sof
-sk.ans have covs.ol h •
, ts orders Ist t e.:ptoper pl4s i 0
tiers_
he i:dopled•
•
n ;the -case el any easels -arming.
tah atiy th.se ports.,_