The Sun.
London, England, 1809-02-08 00:00:00

NAVAL NEWS.

Liuw..strent; and publisho.l tty WILLIAM A#I,IIGLS, SCitarPso Sr:mil Median. street, Ciosvenor-uwarag
. ,•. • •

PORTSMOUTH., FEB. 6.--Arrive4 his Maje.iy*i
Ship. Achates, from the West indie.i; also the Daw-
son, from Plymouth.
The Lord Hood, SMITH; and William,- MAIN .%
LAN u, for Spain', put hack leaky ; also the HOPe;
QOODMAN, from LiVerpool; • .

,PLYMOUTII, Fan. the Ilindostan, of 60'
guns, with about Go-Sail of Transports under convoy'.
for Portsmouth, basing onboard part of tire Troops
that arrived here from Corunna.

Arrived here the Clarendon, liAnaus, from New
Brunswick, laden with timber and staves, put in to
refit, having reeei%cd data .ge by strlking on the
rocks at Scilly.

Arrived L'gspiegle Sloop of War from tho \Vol-
ward, having lust her foremast and bowsprit iu
late gales ; and the Emerald Frigate.froui'lorb3y.,
Sailed the- implacable and Elizabeth, of 7.1 guns
each, for Portsmouth. •

A Culter arrived tro►n sea this morning, and wss
driven on shore at the back of St. Nicholas bland,
but is expe3ed to be got off- Her name is not kno"'

YARMOUTH, Fen. :I.—Sailed the Royalist Sloop •
of War, driadne Frigate, 2nd Fury Bomb for the
Nore. -
Arrived, the Ifrangler and Calypso from a cruizc,
and a large French Corve'tte of .22 Guns. and 9°
Alen, la:len with Flour from DUnkirk., bound to
Martinique, taken by
,His Majesty's Ship L'AutiP
We, after a chace of, thirty-four hours.

DEAL, ,FEE. 7.—Came down from the River the
Lord Duncan, Lady Castlereagh, and Baring Edst
Indiamen, and sailed with the Perseverance, Car'
?mac, and Nottingham East Indiarnen, and the rest
of the outward-bound, &c. under convoy of 1/j5
Majesty's Ships Castor, Dolphin, and Humber, roc
Portsmouth.

DISTRIBUTION OF PIt!ZE-MONEY.
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Tom s
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eDanish
e sloop Childers,p rv a
te e present
and
raetctahe lurecapture
o theof tLhoeraF
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err
son, on her next arriving in port, and afterwards at No. °
To the ship Tribune, for the capture of
the' Fanrit 03
Stanhope.streut, Strand.
board at Plymouth on the gab, and every day for Ihrco
Months, at No. rz, Upper T mes.street. '
?

Three more American vessels from New York,
ver-
having broken the embargo, are arrived at "i :fho
poo: ; their cargoes consist chiefly of 'cotton,
ne. -
males of these vest' is are the Union, the PliPtu
• d before
anti the Ann and Francis. They all sailed
thenew
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talc)
ak
te
hai
cn ev,o.en sic.;
iq%kriee na;
rlyeabciryi ticgorlo
:
tnunicatcd. The frequency of these arrivals, 001
the idea of some accommodation with the LTititeu
States, has made a strong impression upon several
articles of the current market,' which are conse•
qttOntly somem hat lowered in price.
The Robert transport, T. TuorlN master, 173'
tons, arrived in the Downs a few days ago 111131'
Calais : the Master reports, that .he sailed 40111
Lisbon gth Dec. 180, with 10 sail of transPerli
in company, under convoy of his Majesty's ship
Myrtle,• with the troops composing Jo NOT'S arrtlY
arrived at Q.liberon Ist Jan. 1809, with 21 soil;
landed the French troops, and while in the ad ofdis'
embarking, tO sail.of transports drove on shore, but
bethinks the best'part will be saved. He stilled froio.,
Quiberon on the. 12th January, with nine cid
Transports, parted company at_ sea, put into tl3'
Scilly Islands .I gth January, sailed again on the Oth'
with heavy gales,. from S. end S. W. and was taken
by a French lugger Privateer off Beady Head,
16 guns, and 60 men, on the 26th January, i!°A
at eleven P.M. ; was carried into Calais on the'4f-
at eight P. M. He was thrown into prison
lais,-and his Ship plundered by the Privatodsole"'
the'next day he made a formal protest to the ,
ruissariat of Marine and Police, whom he 5,
brOught before and examined with his log book an
ship's papers of victualling, &c. a great number °t
which were signed by the Major commanding al°
French troops on board that Transport.—He
next examined by the Prefecl of Boulogne, who or'',
.derpd his release, with his crew. He then static,
his having lost his property on board ; for which ti'e
owners of the Privateer Were obliged to matte hiale
the most ample restitution ; and tha 2d Captain 0,
the Privateer was thrown into prison, to be tried Or
plundering that Transport.
Boxetts.—.lena Belcher is matched against punk
4
Sam, and young Belcher against Cropley. Sam ier
thatched for 500 guineas, and he is two stone PI 0
half lighter titan Belcher. The two Belchenoll
,considera6ly the favourites.

The following has been sent to us for insertion :"*"'
" Although the vcrdid of the Coroner's Ingtl,e-dt
has completely refuted all the shameful reports le
have arisen out of the circumstances of a Ferule
Skeleton having been found interred in a field t',;
parish of Chiswick, we feel it.due to the irreproc,".:
able charader of Mr. B. to repeot, that all the 0i""‘
sions respecting him have proved the most grOt11,11i:
less, and basely calumnious, and trust that every .0';
nourable minded nun will .itse his best endeavor,'
to trace the oriainal .Propagator of, these rcPO6I:
which, though they may have. originated in Rao'
malice, appear now to have been industriously pea
moted by party malevolence."'

BIRTH. Vale°.
On Saturday last, tho Lady of the }kn. bourn
M. I'. of a I)4ughter,

M4RRIED. • -
On Saturday last, at Sr; Martin-in-the-Fields, 8. 11,"1/,';
can,' Esq. of Panton-square, to Mita Jane Gordon, clq:0
daughter of Davul Gordon, Esq. of Willow-walk, "'111"
Town.

DIED. ttiC
On the 16th of November last, on his passage from
West 44.1;c5, Mr. luhn Hall, Surgeon N
on of the Ro)al OY'