The Sun.
London, England, 1814-03-10 00:00:00

GALLANT ACTION.

Account of a most gallant A'ction bet-.v'een the
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merchant ship Hibernia, of London, Captain
JOHN LENNON, with six guns and twenty-two
men and boys, and the Comet American priva-
teer, of fourteen guns and one hundred and
twenty-five ?nen.

" ST. THOMAS'S, JAN. 27, •1814.-,-Captain
CRABTREE, of the brig Wasp, arrived here the
10th inst. from London. He states, that be fell
in With, a privateer, to the 'Westward of Saba,
,On
the 9th inst. but supposing the Wasp to be a man
of war, made sail from her, upon being chased.
'this privateer has for some time past been erniz-
ing tdrintercept the outward.-bound ships for this
litid St. Croix, and would no doubt have
done much mischief, but for the very gallant con-
duct of Captain LENNON and his ship's company.
The Hibe'rnia fell in with her on the lith, having
only 22 men and boys on board, and 6 guns. The
privateer, we learn from Porto Rico, where,she is
now refitting, is the Comet, of Baltimore, Capt.
BOYLE, mounting 14 twelve-pounders', and 125
men. Against this very superior force, Captain ,
LENNON and his little crew defended the
Hibernia for nine hours, the greatest part of which
time the two vessels.were on board of each other.
The situation of the Hibernia, when she came into
port, sheaved the effects of the tremendous fire
which the enemy must have, kept up ;—not a sail
which was bent escaped the enemy's shot, and
her spars and rigging are, much destroyed. Out
of the small complement of twenty-two, one man
was killed and eleven wounded ; the latter, I ala
happy to say, are all doing well. Too much
praise cannot be given to Captain LENNON for hi 5
conduct during this arduous undertaking. At the
latter part of the action he had.only two or three
men left besides himself at the guns. He has for-
tunately.escaped, 'but has received several contu-
sions, and had two musket balls shot through-his
hat. The Captain 'of the Comet acknowledges
having bad three men killed and eleven wounded,
but it is generally supposed he must have lost
more.

HArtwicti, ]I cu 9.—Arrived the Lord ttZel-
son packet, with wails add passengers, from He-
ligoland ; the Thetis, HoWLLT, with passengers,
froin ditto, and has sailed again for the same des-
tination. Also arrived a Schuyt, with a bag of
letters, from Holland. Sailed the Auckland and
Allies packets, with Mails, for Heligoland.—
Wind South.

DEAL, MARCH 9.—Remains in the Downs,
his Majesty's :ships .111onmouth, Freya,: Griffin,
• Cordelia, Prince, Olympia, and Viper, Nympth,
Folkstone, and Flyingfisb,, hired armed vessels,
and the --John and Mary victualling transports'.—
SAiled,the Leicester and Mercury transports with
Dutch troops for Harwich.

PORTSMOUTH, AIARcu 9.—Arrived to day the
Nancy and Eicnor transports from liollanol his
iNhjesky's ships Fairy and Swift from the Downs.
S:iiled the West India fleet, under cou'voy of his
iNiajesty's ships Benbow, Ulysses, Helicon, and
Serapis.—The Redpole takes convoy to Plymouth.
Wind E.

PLYMOUTH, B.—Sailed the Pheasant
stoop of war .with transports anti merchant:ner
for Passages.—Wind N. E.

FALMOUTH, MARCH 7 —Arrived the Grace
schcioner from Plyinouth, toile a packet.—Wind
Nariablc, with a heavy fall of snow. ,
HULL, MARCH 7.—His Majesty's brig Chanti-
cleer, Captain BLACKER, is arrived in the Hum-
ber, to take charge of such ships as are ready for
the Baltic and proceed first fair wind.—The ves-
sels from the }lumber t6r the Weser, are also to
sail in future with the Baltic convoys.

Ye3terdav 3 Court of Directors was held at the
East India House, when Captain BOYCE, of the
ship Coutts, took bis final leave of the Court, pre-
vious to his departure for China direct. Captain
G. SaresoN was sworn into the command of the
strip Lady Castlereagh, consigned to Bengal di-
rect. The Court adjourned at six o'clock till to=
morrow.

We regret to state the melancholy loss of the
smack Lord Dundas Packet, Lsr.sx, of Aberdeen,
with all on board, on Rattra-head. The crew
consisted of four persons, two of whom have left
helpless young families, for whose relief, we un-
derstand, subscriptions have been opened ; and
there were also on board the wife of a shp-masrer
and her child, passengers; the body of the latter
has been cast ashore.

Yesterday Lord iVir.L.YILLE held x Levee et his
oi&e at the Admiralty, which was'attended by a
number of naval officers among whom were Sir
EDMUND NEAGLg, Captains SsliTli, IVATSINS,
FAWLXNER„BARTHOLOMEW, &C.
• Mr. A'CouRT, the Ambassador, son of Sir Was.
A'CouaT, Bart. of licytesbury House, is expect-
ea.very shortly to take his passage to Port Mahon,
with his Secretary and Family, on board the Royal
Sovereign, of lOU guns, Cat. CAULFIELD.