The Sun.
London, England, 1807-11-20 00:00:00

NAVAL NEWS.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

PORTSMOUTH, NOV. J9.--Arrived this day the
Strenuous. Gun=brig,' Lieut. J. NUGEN'i,, from a
etuize ; and about twenty Sail- of Merchantmen,
from the Downs; among which are the Ranger,
ITALLIN, Caroline, HUDSON, Princeis of !Pules,
WEIINLEY, Nelly, SUGRUE, and Planet, ~.for
the West Indies.'

Came into Harbour thii morning two Danish
Men;of War.

FALMOUTH; Nov. I 7.—His Majesty' s Ship 41azarci
mrived here this morning, to give instraaions to the
Vessels lying here bound .to the West Indies, and
sailed soon after to join the Fleet then off this Port.

SHEERNESS,. Nov. 18.—Sailed his Majesty's
Ships Resolution. and Dithitor for. chatham ; his
Majesty's Ship Nassau, of 64 guns, Capt. R. CAMI -
m:ii., for Portsmouth, to embark Troops for the
Expedition.,

Arrived his Majesty's Ship _Resolution, 74 guns,
Capt. BURLTON, front Yarmouth.
This day a Court Martial was held on board his
Majesty's Ship Itlisindnimea.iii the Harbour, tbr
the trial of Capt:.o'CoNtiott, his (Micas and Ship's
Company, for the loss of his Majesty's late Sloop
Leveret, and the evidence being. maturely and deli-
berately weighed by the Court, they were adjudged 1
to be honourably acquitted.
A Court Martial was; likewise held on board the
Magnanitne, for the trial of Lieut. CASOM, of hiS
Majesty's Sloop Pattlina, fol. insolence, contempt,
and disobedience of Orders. The charge being in
part proved, he was adjudged by the Court to he
dismisrcl,his Ship. \

Arrived the Mariner Gun brig,. from the North

Sea.
Sailed his Majesty's Sloop Vuliure, Capt. PEARCE,
for the Humber.

PENZANCE, Nov. Majesty's Brig Swat-
kw captured, on Sunday last, nine leagues S.W. of

the Lizard, the French Schooner Freidland, with
45 Men,ind pierced for 14' gnus; had. none•on
board, having thrown them overboard in the ch*i
she came out of Moilaix the day before, in company
with two Ltiggers, and had taken nothing...

De AL, Nov. 9.—Carne down- from the River,
and tiaited through the Downs, the Dorothy Thrstiri
SoiNiu IL for Jematett.; with the ifiexandei,
M'LAu ti I IV., for Tobago; Grinada, ItiChAttoAol4,
for Ikquerara and several other outward-bound
Ve4ao S.

Ciindszy, Nov. 18.---Sailed ,thtii day, the .13rinc.
11 ;111,0,n Armed' Ship, for' 'Cl!thAtr), . With (be,
CI O,W S. Of l.)anillt Vessels detilined in , the Humber,
and takes under convoy the Jane Transport, with
pat of the Gent-inn Legion Oil hoard.

The airrii.r. Cutter, Lieut. Atm:, has landed
here '.l) French Prisoners, taken from the ditiive
Privateer, which she captured off the Dogger Bank,
a few days since, kind parted with her in a g'ale,
under charge of a• Prize Master and (3 tuen.—The
Privateer had 32 men, the Currier only 17.

ronK, Nov. 13.---The West India Fleet, con-
sisting of fifty-five Sail, iandrrconveyof the Garland
FtiOte to the West Indies, and Dryad Frigate to
',Wleira, sailed from this Harbour on. Wetliwsday
last, -with the .wind at North, 'blowing fresh.
They Cleared the Ilarboor williout any accident, in
allior6itne alter they had got under weigh

i The James, RICHARD Wti,SoN, from Leith for
Newcastle, with goods; and passengeri, drove from
her archers on the Frolderness Coast, otf Waxholine,
near the Sister Churches; six miles from Tatrington,
10boui three o'clock on Monday morning, in a heavy
gale of wind, and soon afterwards broke to pieces,
an entire wreck. The crew and passengers were
distintaly perceived by the people on shore, at. the
pumps.; but no assistance could possibly be rendered
to them. We are sorry toitate that all on board
have peri-hed. Four of the bodies, a great gurntity
' of wreck, and part of the cargo, had been wn4hed
'ortshore when our accounts left the coast. frier
'Papers and some letters were washed on shore in' a
,nag, by. which it appears that she had been at Ler-
wick, and had taken in goods and passerigem there.

A Committee of American Merchants had a con-
ference yesterday with Ministers on the subjcst of
the late Orders of Council.

Letters from 'Rotterdam of the 15th, positive`'
assert that Mr. A itsts-ittoNG, the American Minister.
at Paris, had just written in Urgent terms to the
respetiable merchants of that city concerned in too
American trade, advising; them to hasten, %Othev"l
..possible exertion, the, s.:iling of all 'American tierletters
:ti‘olir).3A.4;ll:tTelldo, NG is said, according to those
insists that' America shall shut her Ports ogali ~b-that
that the French Emperor perempto!l"sYt
British'Shipping, and yease-.all-cornmunication
'• Ps. :"

I A melancholy accident happened on Tuesday; as
the coach from Portsmouth was on it way to town
1 with a number of sailors, by some accident it was
upset near the village of Hindend. The coachman
was killed on the spot. The Guard was so much
hurt as to be left without hopes of life, and st:.i ok‘il of
the poor fellows severely hurt.

[ THE LATE ORDERS IN 'COUNCIL.
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. . the measures recently adopted inlregard to Neu- NAPLRS, OCT. 17.--At Cast.'llamare there Was a
PLvuourit, Xrov; 18.—Arrived .this morning this,
rats ought to be thoroughly canvassed and unders
French Schooner Privateer L' Admiral Du Croix,' 1
stop;!. The questions of Justice and Policy, which
' ' under Captain -BARBARA. In order to accomplish
pieiced for 18 6runs, mounted. with 16 long nine- . this' object, it was necessary to elude the English,
they involve, should be .ftirly and distinelly'Sfated, I ,whet, .sa, pounders,' and oh' men, raptured Yesterday in the
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Channel; after a chace of six hours; by the Surinam as well as the nature etre& of the Orders them- I: and several other small Vessels, were Cruizing iiiith two- Frigates, 15 Gun-boats, a G;lliot,'
.
L the Streight between the Island of Capri and the.
lves• . .
Sloop of War, of 18 guns, Capt. LAKE. The Prise -.* • • - 'l' Continent of Naples With this view, the Com-
-o,t the right which we possessed to retaliate upon m • • ' . vateer had been out only 20 hours from St.Maioes, minder ordered M. CoREALI -to draw offthe ere-.
the enemy the unusually rigorous warfare which be my's attention by a number Of false movements and.
and had made no captures. She is quite new; Viand had adopted, there seems among thinking men in signals, by which means Captain BARBARA, in the
sails remarkably fast.. , -
• • this country little. inclination to doubt. Nor is it night of the ath instant, happily effeCted his voyage.
Sailed the Foudroyant, of 80 guns, to the West- to Salerno. While the English were ineffedtually
_. probable that Neutrals will maintain, that, if by at- pursuing him, a rich Convoy of 36 Vessels' • arrived
ward, suppoied for Cork, to, join Rear-Admiral Sir, • - • .
quzescing in,the hostile system if BUONAPARTE, they in this port, under Captain FREDERIC, which had
SIDNEY SMITH ; and the Hound Sloop-.of War, '. make themselves lIIS INSTRUMENTS in WAR, they hi
escaped front Gaeta, and which the enemy had long
with a convoy, for the Downs. been watching.
1 ~can justly refuse to lend themselves in the same way Since the peice between France and Russia, the
Arrived the Surinam Sloop of War from a cruize., '
to us. The warmest. advocates of Neutral Rights . merchantmen of the latter Power very frequently ar-
Also arrived the Ship America, of Greenock,
. have adopted as a maxim., that while a Netitral gives rise here. They have hitherto met with very little
Capt. COLBURN, from New BrunSwick, laden with __ . - , •- 'opposition froin the English.
no assistance to one Belligerent; which he is not '
mas,ta, for the Dock-yard; and the Mercurius, IkARN, . 'VENICE, OCT. 23.—NUtwithstandini the con-
' efluallY ready and willing to aflbrd to the othi+, nei- tradi&ory information from Paris, we still expeA the
froutMernel, with thither. .
'tiler have any cause of cOmplaint. We 4. not• , Emperor NaroLEoil here in the course of next
state this as a principle to which we giVe full assent, aloofly. Preparatiens have long been making for
an adequate reception of the greatest of all Igo-
but as the utmost limit for which the Writers of narchs. • Everks. hand is now busy in completing
DENMARK or AMERICA have carried the claim of them.- The illutuinatiotas•of the place of St.l\lark,.
'
Neutrals. They illustrate their position thus : " If," - the bridge of the Rialto, &c. will be magnificentbeyond description. SeVeral thousand gondolas will
they say, " we, being manufaCturers of gunpOwder, ' likewise be fitted up, and provided with orchestras,
allow and encourage its exportation to France, and should the weather be favourable to admit them on
prohibit its being carried into Britain,
' the canals. In the 'Grand Canal there is to he?
we aa par- • regatta.' -A grand triumphal arch is also completed•
tially towards FRANCE, and give just ground of rups ' VIENNA, , OcT. 4 1 ~-.The Archduke. Palatine has
tore to BRITAIN; but as long as there is nothing been here for some days; and in consequenm! of
'
which we do for the one, which we are not, ready to ' some circuinstances that have intervened; the &-
t'
or
of the Emperor for Buda is to be put oft tor
do for the other, we are innocent Neutrals. No mat- some time. k
. , ~„.
ter," they say, "whether the service which we render Fitom Toe MAINE, Nov. 3.--7 The, King of, r):11.-
,_ temburgh's VON cOLLN, is gone tO
to the ,one is such as we cannot compertsate.,,toine, Mernel. Counsellor,
other, it is sufficient that we refuse nothing to ;fitlier,7,:. 7 Their Majesties the King and- Queen of Westpha-
...
If this principle be just, as applied to the ,orditiary7,, hia -are expected'at Stutgardt on the' 2.5 th of this'
• - month
occurrences of war -to the carriage Of military wires,. •' ' •
Coasting
.. .., . : •ihe .revetnoe of the Kingdom 'of Westphalia,
or of the property of a Belligerent—
Belligerent--to the whkh .contains. 2, ,
000,000 of inhabitants, is reckon
and Colonial 'rrade—it will not be thought unsound ed at t6i Millions of florins. '
when applied to the more extensive interference in
t
•. , ly give d new form to the Civic Coo,,titutioti 0 our
Noitouitm, Nov, fi.--Politieal changes V01111'1.04,
the war, into which Neutrals have been led by
.Buo- City; and we shall conscodently be governed by.
NAPARTE's Decrees. . • • ',
. •
Kingdom of Westphalia ; and the
..tulioLerr i? .
If they supply us with timber or staves, they , of- other forms and other laws.' We now,beloiig ti?,tlzi
~
fer the same assistance to France : if they assist .
few days.
passage of troops through this city .Will cease Iti J.
France in ruining our manufaetures, they ought to The. 'new military roads are in future to run
render the same service to us. . . through Saxony. Within the last six moinltiAp;
. . ' war,is of 1.50,000 troops have passed and re-passc"'.
' • The verz foundation olthis argument, it is clear,- . ,
[through this city. ,
obviates the conclusion—that the demands which ' t BENDsBURGH, Nov. 7.—The Post Office of 1,,1:1!!,
we make upon Neutrals are to be exaciliroptSr7- . bec has published the following Notice :
~. t
' " Since, by virtue elan order from the Supretre
tinned to what they yield to our adversary. No such
s
Authorities,. the course of the post to Zealand, -
thing; they have said to him, we,vill do whatever land, Falster, ati( .Nloen, is to be re-establi hed,,so fee ,
you desire; We- will leave. undone whatever you de-
i
as the Enemy's blockade of Belt will permit I al:
site; and Barrs is. has a right' to the same language as, after the reception hereof, Inc Danish Packets w
and conduCt. This principle of genera l c'amplianre, hereby made way
o
made known to the Royal Post otpto, t
f mat iorr
must be that upon. which Neutral Nations justify ' their own'observAion, tis well as fur Ill' inmy . -
of the public. to,Zealand, as formerly, this „irg,.
their dequicieence in BuONAVARTE's Interdictions :
case of a Packet being pursued by the eneely, :in
there is 1-10 possibility of putting' the matter upon unable to-eseitOe,
And, as measures will be taken i: • •
ng, without arguing that those inter- ables overboard, in that case, the public are hereby.
for throwing the money.and.valo
another footi
di&ions were just, and neither more nor less than
informed, that t
just; that he was warranted in doing eimaly what make reparaticip, but the loss Inuit be sustained by,
he' Post Office does not bind itself to
the proprietors. However, attestations of the gds''
his he did; and that we may copy his Decrees verbatim, monies, &c.• that way be shipped, will be required at
Out not alter a sentence or a word. - .
..,, , , t the Post Office."
WARSAW, Nov. 25.=-Our King and Grand POI,
This is ritisurd.;': wore his measures then initifiable
- . has forbidden any .public detuonstr.iti(Jus of joy 10,
'upon. general principles ? had , he a right to di A:eTs I consequence of his approaching arrival : but,. oil tho„
his'Enemies by. whatever Mode, reg ardless of the
1.1-
President, Couirt Mm.sowrrz, relative to a conl
effea upon Neutrals ?—or, did 'he violate by ills other hand, a Proclamation has
' button for the benefit of the unfortunate inhabitantit,
•
.
Decrees the Right of Nations,. and the„ long esta- of Pramt who' weds compelled to abandon their 11:1-
been issued by tho
te ~
blished customs of the civilized world ? , . , bitatiOns when the ground was made use of to erv6t.
l'o whichever of these alternatives we lean, the new fortifications.
,effect upon England. is the same ; if he was right ,
Moz-airr's Requiem, in honour of the tremors 4'
HERUBINL, .was perforthed on Saturday-last in tiAs,
we are justified upon the saine principle as he was;--- Church of the Atigtistines, by at band consistingj,
if wrono• we are. justified by the condua of those o,Upwards of tOO persons.
The Magistrates here have taken the oathoffilli"
who have hostilely abetted liini in his. Wrong.
gianco to the King of Saxony.
In giving our abstractof the Orders; we extract- Thu business of the military and commercial roads
ed from the public docuntents of. the late Mullins- between Saxonyand this Grand IXichy is cempli:!ted
. • inste,si of one road oily, as at first intended,tb‘l°
tration so forcihle a recognition of the rig. ht o 'Re- •• P' ' '
II :Ie to be tour; but the goods passing this way * .
taliation, that we deem it quite unnecessary 'to argue not to be subjeCt to any iturinst or duty:
it as a Party Question. It is not thereforetio an- '' : Itasinsaution,. Nov. 7.—By a Royal Order (0.
d Jai
ewer to Tile Alorning Chronicle that these retnarkS' ' '., the 27th ef o:luher ~ the exportation pi timber i b.;
'descriptions to foreign Countries is prohibited, hot,
,i. are intended; but in order to put the Justice of the by
landand - . ' " "`"
sea, under the penalty•ot , contisLa 1
Measure Upon its true, grounds We "have. heard . :Ind a fine equal to the value of the articles.
[loyal, placard, of the same,date; pet ill 1,,
, i 1.4 tild
some well-intentioned persons use, such language as . - A
. ituportation. of provisions from Sleswick and 11"
this :--,-" It is, to be sure, very sheckingthese- stein, to Copenhagen, Zealand, Leland, 110ert,45-d'-
Orders are, contrary :to all Law of Nations and and, .besides, -otters a premium 'upon each 101' °t
" every moral obligation ; but Law. mid . Morality butter,•bacon, salted flesh, &c. • .
, li ed
HANOvER, Nov. s.—The. Hanoverian 'can ,)
are gone ! Might overcomes Iliglit Iluosoi- lately
paper, at Got tenborg handGrubenhaaen, bas' kite..
`` PARTE began, and we must now imitate him. "We received a third stamp with an eagle, and this 10,;.:
" are. committing, great crimes, and. Can only plead seiiption " Boyaume de West phalie, ancien tl
"'necessity." ' , . A. number of Prussian 'soldiers continue lo".,r
retu • - -
.antigre'ii
this stay homewards from the French prisens. ~ .
' :To ill this we stoutly demur; supposing BUONA- .ST. PeTartsinnton, OCT. IC—The British Mint-
PaitTE's Edits to :be every thing that is bad-„anti
Treaty' co
eft r, Lord Gowtta, has repeated his. proposals r(),
Count. Bort:m.l4ow for a renewal of -the' Trea
that we have copied them, We no more imitate his
guilt than those who shoot him—that of a tinkerer.
. _ Cilitrerce ; btaNt‘lry have been r.ejleacd. ,
', I bare sr
It must never be forgotten, that the moot the D
- alSo al-
crees of •France ere to be. condemned, the more cri-
minal is, the'paTtieipation of the Neutrals. i t,: a oon‘;;y expeCted from England have
Dc- i . tired ;it Cronstadt, where several Vessels belongli b
I rived.
A,,,td
Bard to them, therefore, as well as against France, is ; the Sound, and arrived here on 'the 24th, _lr"'
In re- 1 II aLsINGott, OCT. 28.--A Russian EnvoY P,
_rat
our justification coniplete. i 1 whence he occasionally sends dispatches.
.