The Sun.
London, England, 1807-06-03 00:00:00

FOREIGN OFFICE.

A Morning_Paper, which has of late made fre-
quent comments on 'the Pension granted to Mr.
WARD, on his re:iring from the Foreign Office, in
18.06, has some remarks which favour a little more
of z.eal than judginent.
It is said-that- the grant in question would cer-
tainly have been set aside by the late Ministers,
had it not unfortunately been found that the grant,
however unprecedented, both as to the grounds and
• manner of it, was nevertheless within the stria
formalities of the Law."—Now if the Editor would
take the trouble of consulting any person who was
in the Foreign Office, Under Lord GRENVILLE,
he would learn, that, however illegal the grant
might be supposed to be, unprecedented it 'certainly
was not. There was a precedent, in the confi-
dential friend and el&ve of LOrd GRENVILLE, the.'
late Mr. ED\VARD FISHER. This Gentleman was
appointed to the Foreign Office in November or
December, 1800. In the February folloWing, upon
the resignation. Of his Patron, a penSien of six hun-
dred pounds alear .was settled upon Mr. FtstlEit, by
an order of His MAJESTY in Council, for his ser-
vices: as Under Secretary of State !
It h4cl been providea,, some time before, at the
inAanceof the three Secretaries of State, the Duke
Of PORTLAND, Mr. DUNDAS, and Lord GRENVILLE,
that every Under-Secretary who should , lose his si-
tuation, after two clears service, should be:entitled to
a Pension of six hundred,pounds ; but as'Mr. FISHER
had unfortunately served little more than two months,
he would lave been excluded from the benefit of
this provision, had not Lord GRENVILLE advised
and procured .the order to which we have alluded.'

We confess that it does not appear to us that,
upon any fair principke which gave. rise to the ge-
neral 'provision, that Under-Secretaries, after two
years service, shouhi be entitled to a Pension, per-.
Sons compelled to relinquish their situations at an
earlier period should be dismissed .without any pro-
.
visiOn.

.We therefore do not ohjea to Lord GREN-
VILLE'S condua; at the same time, we certainly
contend, that Mr. WARD'S, claim was, at least, as
strong as Mr. Fistier's. We may, perhaps, resume
the subje&, when we are favoured with the details
which the MORNING CHRONICLE promises.

Yesterday`the PRINCE of WALES the DUKES of
YORK, CumBEHLANp, and CAMBRIDGE,
visited THEIR MAJESTIES. HER MAJESTY and the
PRINCESSES visited LADY CHARLOTTE FINCH at her
apartments in St. James's Palace. His MAJESTY
held a private Levee to-day at the Queen's Palace.
Sir JOHN DUCKWORTH is arrived • in Town, and
had yesterday a lung interview with the Board of
Admiralty.

The French General DANICAN, who formerly bad
a command in La Vendee, and who placed. himself
at the head of the Sections of Paris, on the 13th
Vendemiaire, 1796, in om:osition to BONAPARTE,
who commanded the troops of the Directory, re-
turned to this country in one of the last Packet-
boats, from the Continent. He experienced consi-
derable difficulty in efre6ting his -escape from Al-
tona, M. BOURIENNE, the French Minister at
Hamburgh, having made every exertion in his power
to arrest him. ,

The Marchioness of HERTFORD. had a very grand
concert on Monday last, at her house in Manchestcr-i
square. SALOMON led the band, with his accm4om-
ed excellence. NALDI, SIILON2, RovEntNo, and
Madame BIANCHI, were the vocal pertbrmerS...;--
The music was well sele6ted, and- admirably per-
formed. The Prince-of WA I, OS`j the Duke of Yo-i;1",;.,
sand 'a large asSemblage of NQbility, were present.
Mr. ARBUTHNOT, while.he resided at the Court
-of-constantinople, received from the SULTAN the
honour of Knighthood.

NAV AI, NEWS,

Fiona the LONDON GAZETTE, 7une 2, IEO7.

. Admiralty.-Office,. June 2, I p 07..
Copy of -a Letter from Admiral Lord Gardner to
Marsden, Esq. dated in Town, auth
May, 1807. •.
• •,SIR,

I desire you will please to lay before their Lord.-
Ships the inclosed letter, which I received by this
post from Captain Drummond, of the Dryad,
(addressed'.to me as Commander-in-Chief on the
I-ish station) giving an account of the capture, by
His Majesty's- Ship Amethyst, with the Dryad and
Plover Sloop in Company, of 'the French Schooner
Privateer Josephine.
I have the honour to. be, &c.
GARDNER.
DIY LORD, Dryad, at Sea, May 15, 1807.
Being in company with His Majesty's Ships Ame-
thyst and Plover, Scilly bearing E. N. E. twenty
leagues, I made the former Ship's signal to examine
a strange Sail in the N.W. which she captured, and
proved to be, the Josephine, French Schooner Pri-
vateer, mounting four two-pounders, and, a propor-
tion of small . arms, manned with forty-five men,
ten of which were put on board the Jane, Of
Greenock, from. Lisbon, the only capture she had
Made. She sailed from the Isle des Bas on the .e.sth.
of April. I am, &c.
ADAM DRUMMOND,
To the Right Hon. Admiral Lord
.
Gardner, Commander-in-Chief;
&c. at Cove if Cork. .

(
eianuratty -Office, June 2, 1 807.

Copy of a' Letter from Captain Edward Chetltarn,
Commander of His Majesty's Armed Skip Sally,
to William. Marsden, Esq. dated in the Fair Water,
. near Dantzic, April 20, 1807. ,•
SIR,

I have the honour to inclose you, for the infor-
mation of the. Lords Commissioners of the Admi-
ralty, a coy of a letter I have transmitted to Ad-
miral Lord Keith, respeding my proceedings since
quitting- Elsineur,. which I hope will meet their
LJrdships' approbation. •

I have the honour to be, &c.
E. CHETHAM, Commander. _
His, Majesty's Armed Ship Sally, Fair Water,
pear- Dalitzie, April 20, 1807.

MY LORD,

I hare the honour to inform you of my arrival
here With His Majesty's armed Ship Charles, Captain
clepharie,. on the 12th inst. the Falcon Sloop of
War haVing joined us on the same day. His Ex-
cellency General Kalkreuth suspeEting that the
enemy would, be supplied with provisions by sea, I
ordered the 'CharleS to cruize between Rose Hind
and Danttic Bay, to :intercept any such • vessels.
Having suggested to his Excellency the Governor,
the utility of having a Ship in the' Fair Water, a
place of considerable importance, and which had
been freqUently attacked by the enemy,• it' met his
warmest approbation, and I was honoured with his
thanks for having anticipated his wish on this occa-
sion. I accordingly brought my Ship in the Fair
Water on the itith, r.nd 111o:wed her in a flanking.
pojition on an isthmus, which the enemy would be
obliged to pass, in order to make an attack thereon.
On the following day, finding the communication
stopped between Fair Water and the City of Dant-
zic, the enemy having .posted themselves on the
left Bank of the River Vistula, called the Nehrung;
I determined to endeavour to fOrce a communica-
tion, and by great exertions on the part_of my Offi•;.
cers_and Ship's Company, I got the Ship 'lightened
that evening, so as to enable her to heave through.
the sluice, the Mouth of the River Vistula. . •
At hall-past six P.M. nn'..the same day, I. com-
menced action with the Enemy at the Great Hal-
landu, on the' Nehrung, who oppoSed to us a very
strong force of musketry, supposed to be about two
or three thousand men, in their en:tren,.2hments, and
sheltered by the ruins of
_houses lately burnt, with
three pieces. of artillery, assisted ;by a sm.lll battery.
t/ti the right bank of the River called the Legan.
aaion'continned within pi,tol-shot until
.nine
O'cloCk, when seveoal of our gun-breechings being_
shot and'carried away, and having no wind to main-
tain our poSition, I endeavoured to get. the 'star-
board broddside to bear upon the Enemy, but with-
out effeet, the Current Setting down. I theti.haoed:
down the river to resume my position 'at the 'air
Water. Pi The • gallant Condnet of toy Officers and
Seamen Wai such aS ever, charaeterizes British Sea-
men .; and though My efforts were riot cothpletely
successful, from the wind failing us I' have the satis-:
faCtion of saying, that- it, appears to have. a good
effeCt in inspiring the inhabitants here, and at the
city, with additional energy and confidence 'in the
cause which we are engaged in, and I 'have been
honoured with a very handsome and flattering letter
.frOm His Excellency Gen. Kalkreuth, Governor. of.
Dantzic, on this occasion,'in which I am happy to
have anticipated his views: I ath sorry to.add that
my loss has been considerable, having my First Lieu;
tenant and nearly half my Ship's Company wound-
ed by the incessant tire of inu,ketry, mizen-mast
shot through, sails and rigging much cult, and sup-
ward's of a thousand musket shot in the hull.

The loss of the Enemy, by every inforination we
can obtain, is between four and five hundred men in
killed and wounded, besides one piece 'pt.' artillery
completely dismounted, which was also observed
from the ramparts.
I must• beg leave to mention the names of my
Officers whose conduct give me much satislatiion.
Lieutenant Eastman, who was wounded; .L• ieute-
nantNoting, Mr. Ellsworth, .the Master ; Mr. El-
phinstone, a Volunteer, who, on, every occasion,
has athirded inernuch assistance. Captain Sanders,
Mr. Oldfield, First Lieutenant, and Mr. Jemmott,
Purser of His Majesty's Sloop Falcon, handsomely
volunteered their services on this occasion.
have the Honour to be, &c.
(Signed) • E. CHETHAM,
His Majesty's Armed Ship Sally.
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