The Sun.
London, England, 1807-08-21 00:00:00

NAVAL NEWS.

FALMOVTI3, Ave. B.—Sailed this' day the Lis*
r•ben;.opOrth,. and Gibraltar Fleets, about 30 Sail,
coder Convoy of His Majesty's Brig Raven, 18 bums,
'rand Diligent Store-ship; the Monte Video Ships,
about 15 Sail, under convoy of His Majesty's Ships
Otter and Laurel, of 20 guns; the Newfoundland,
Halifax, and Quebec. Fleets, under convoy of the
Emulous, 0:2.0 guns.

The Jamaica Fleet, about 70. Sail; under convoy
of thp Elephant, 74, and Cuba Sloop of War, ap!,
?eared off this morning, and proceeded'on fur the
Eastward; as did theAtuerican Ship Martha, Cap-
.thio VIcKERY; from Sm:annah, 34 days passage—no,
news:

Remain hi Carrick Roads the Recruit Brig, la
guns,. with the Ships' 'for the West Indies, waiting
the arrival•here• of His Majesty's Ship filysfes from
Portsmquth, with the remainder of the .Convoy.

PORTSMOUTU, U.--Dropt- down to St.
.Helen: ;ast night the Ulysses, of 44 guns, with tl?fi
following Ships, for the We:4 Indies :—/innatella,
ABERcicouzszs, for Madeira and Tobago; Mentor,
Qusix:r, ,for Madeira; /Vggti/74, BIpWN, for Mar
deira and.Surin3m ; Helen, tind Apollo,
limn-, for Jamaica; .janiilton,
qulcHoo S E for
Jam mica and Antigua ; and Cygnet, BALE, for JA"
, maica and Surinarn4 and Malvena, DENT, for Ja-
maica; Mentor,'STsv4NG, for St. Kitt's; Good
tent,
.SfrkyAzio,. and 4/61, ORL)EY, for Demerara;'
PtSey and Sophia, SHAW, an 4 .111ercury, WILLIAMS,
for
.Suriidar;..and Deception, for. St:Thomas's and
AClerhco3 ria•ate BROML E
• • 4 • -
,011 a Convoy for Cyeernsey, among which aro the
PloracELLloTic atid.Edwar4l, Dwig R ; lout on ac-
count of a thick fog coming, on, neither of the
adore Floets proceded to sea till this morning.

PLYmovTki, AuG. 19.—Arrived the ME4a/as

Transport, PYE, from 4Onte Video,. with siXty7
'Three Spanish Prisonert; sailed under convoy of tba
Lancaster, 'of 04 guns, and 'Howe Frigate, but parted
company nu the passage.
Arrived the Dreadnought, of 98 guns, from.the
Cbdmiel Fleet ; —and the Danish Brig ' E'rnanuel,
BRED; from Drum, with timber far this Port.

SHEERNESS, AUG. Ig.—Arrived the Claudia
Cutter, Lieut." Loitb ; also the Proserpint:,' a tine;
new-built Frigate, of 3g giins, under juryi.timpts, t°
be 4tted at Chatham .
Sailed the Raleigh Sloop of War, Capt. MASK
Ft mp, fut. the:Baltic,
Arrived Uis Majesty's Ship Snake from ghaAll4`”
11
the Little Norte:.

iXTR,S9T OF 4 ;.ETTER Fit 6.4 344;41F9A, p4TICJI F 11.!

.131ttlARY, .1807•

" The Portuguese Ship Indianct, Capt. 4sToost
Jozz DE Viscolo4*.oa, sailed from Manilla tbct'-
7th January,..at whieh-tirne there was a large French
Frigate hove down and repairing. The Frenchnia4
reported that they had engaged two Eogli;liTrigurnfl!
and effeacd their escape, after a severe coniot. iF
was conjeftured that the Fr;, ;te would soon be ready
for sea. Her name- not ,lt.own, but described as'
carryiog 49 gun3.---7The Littillti: Capt. Spam', is
lose Cn t4e coast of Laconia. Capt.SLATER' one
several of the crew, perished."
Three ewes, the property of Emrt-ip Ct.urran-
av6x, Esq. of Minchinhampton,yeaned five lNr
bs:
a fortnight prior to Christmas last, which were kineos
as soon-as fat ; and the same three About
fortnight ago, yenned five more lambs, Which areall
alive, and doing well.
EXTRACT .01> A LETTER nom CAPT. FRIARS, 0-u Tll •
SHIP FORTITUDE, TO HIS OWNERS IN LIVROPO"',
DATRIJ PORT ROYAL, JAMAICA, MAY 17, OW'
" Nothing-occurred after our leavitig'St. Thomas'.
until the morning of the 14th inst. at day-light, the
Port ofJaquemel N W
miles, saw two
schooners close with the land ;at half-past 6'Bl
perceived them to be armed vessels pulling a en""';"
derable quantity of sweeps; as there was not A,
breath ofwind, came up very fast,' just gave tog
tirne,to get in,readiness, to receive them; at
hoisted Frenchcn.ours, and COntituv ping
towards s,te
towards us, and firing their great guns at intervals. -
"At a little before eight commenced our fire
with what guns I could get to bear, which made
them retreat out of gun-shot ;at half-past6git
swept up again on either quarter. to board, In
situation ,strained until ten, keeping constant Pre
at thetas with what gunsl could get to bear; at 3
l quarter past ten, got their boats out and graPPling
up to the square-sail
.yard-arms :at eleven,' claet
me alongside, one on each quarter; as there was jio
wind, I could not work the Ship to get our guns ""
bear as I could wish.
" The lire, believe me, Gentlemen, wag tre•
tnendous; my two aftermost guns, with the olio'
miles, were all the guns of service to me with n'Y
small arms—brit 'alas ! \vhat was my Musketry, to
contend with 186 men, some on one side mid some
,on.another! At meridian, boarded nit, cutting
;every person who could not get out of their waY•
am sorry. to say that my loss is so great, four 'nein
killed, eight dangerously, and four lightly wc.und,eu'
" Every praise is due to my officers and (two;
they behaved- like Englishmen to the last n orneri
am sorry to see so many .suffer, although i Suffer
-most myself, . having 'received, at boarding,
through thethigh, and a dangerous cut on the n
and ear. At six P.M. of the same, was recaptor.e.tt
by his Majesty's Ship fieure4ix, and sent tot this
port, where we arrived this clay. • d
" The following are the names of the killed so
wounded on board the Fortitude:— lames
4* Kin/xi—Mr. Charles M•Ndam; Jun Supercargo 1
.0,
Kirrington, William Williams' Francis Frederay! .se Hugh
" Wounded dangerously—«kobert Frears 4111 CW ;
„noon,
Rogers. Boatswain ; Thomas illiams, __"cl
lacob Peterson; lames Hrmilton, Donald Mark, 14„Ge "1' •
Bunt, seamen. • Edwards,
"%I/minded slightly—Joseph uunn, Joseph Edwa
Tones, John Tyrer, seamen,' "