The Sun.
London, England, 1807-10-16 00:00:00

NAVAL NEWS.

PLYMOUTU, OCT. I4.—Carne in the Deux loth,
French' Lugger, prize to the Martial Gun-prig---
she has captured seven others of the same sort.
Also arrived a Spanish Privateer, of 4 guns and 30
men, captured by the Martial Gun-brig ; and Bel-
lerophon Man Of War and L'iligle Frigate from a
cruize.

Sailed His Majesty's Ship Crew, Sir Iticatatip
STRACIIAN, to join the Channel Fleet.

FALMOUTH, OCT. 13.—Arrived the Walsingham
Packet, Capt. ROBAUTS, with Mails frotn Lisbon,
in eight days. 'She brings intelligence that the
ports' are to be shut against the English on the 20th
inst. His Majesty's Ship Lively was waiting to
bring away the English Ambassador, Lard STA:WC;
roam Also arrived the Prince Adolphus Packet,.
Capt. BouLnßnsoN, from Halifax in 19 days ;11'she"
brings the unpleasant intelligence of a Mutiny on,
board his Majesty's Ship . Jason. The ringleatlers.
were in irons; and a Court Martial was sitting upon
them when the Packet sailed. She left lying at',
Halifax, his Majesty's Ships Ramifies, B,elleisle.:
Rellona, Castor, 11,1ahon, Aoleys, Melampus, Squir-
reit, Nimrod, Cleopatra, and Curieux.

PORTSMOUTH, OCT. 15 —Sailed the Sprightly
Cutter on a cruize.

DE&L, OCT. 13.—Arrived the Osprey Sloop
from Portsmouth ; Challenger and Satellite.,
Sloops from a .cruize ; and the Fu' ions Gun•brig
from off Flushing.
Sailed the Seagull Sloop off Ostend.

The libmouth Store-ship, gimter Armed §hip,
Dispatch and Deptford Transports, with a large
Fleet of Vessels, made an attempt to sail for Ports-
mouth, but it falling calm, they were obliged to
put back.

OCT. 14.—Sailed the Blazer Gun-brig on a

cruize.

OCT. 1'5,..,-.Sailed the Challenger Sloop for the
Nore, and the Osprey Sloop on a cruize.

SHEERNESS, Ocr. 14.—Sailed the 41/e/eager Fri-
gate, of 36 guns, Capt. J. BROUGHTON, for Ports-
mouth.

Arrived the Astrea Frigate, Capt. Duriziat, and a
Danish Gun-brig a Prize. Upwards of 50 Sail `were
under convoy of the Asirea, but parted in a heavy
gale of wind.
OCT. 15.—Sailed the Forrester Sloop
,of War,
Capt. RICHARDS, with a large Fleet of Merchant-
men under convoy, principally Swedes, for the Baltic.
Arrived the Governor Milnes Bomb-tender.

DOVER, OCT. Is.—Carne in the Ship Ckristian
Hciab, of and for Copenhagen, with wine, brandy,
and vinegar, from Bourdeaux, detained off El4ineur
by the Kile Sloop of War, and sent for England,
but arriving off Yarmouth was taken by a French
Privateer on the 6th inst. but recaptured by the Su-
te4lite Sloop of War, and arrived here this morning.

A Vessel has arrived 31 Inverness from CronAndt,
the Master of which relates, that, before he left that
place, the Emperor AGEXANDSII had -three times
visited Cronstadt, for the pttrpose of viewing ixpe.!
riments.madeon.a vessel, at some smalldibtanee,
by the fire from the fortifications, that,- should 'it
British Flzet. appear, the inhabitants might learn'
how far the fort of CronStadt cri ld 'atford protec.:
lion. The Russians
,were highly elated with the
success of theseexperitnents,
,but expressed them.
selves, very. unwilling to go .to war with England
the Merchants, in particular., openly:declared thou
determination to oppose it by, every, means in their,

power.
.By the Eit.eita Sloop, letters have =l4een received=
' from Malta, dated the
.12th of September ; they:
state, that accounts received there from. the Islandi:
of Tenedos represetitthat place to be in the greatest
state of wretchedness s; with. the' Turks on •one•
hand, and the' Russians on die 'Other, not a house,or
cottage of the meanest kind had been left standing ;
they had all been destroyed' by fire, and every male
person found there had been put to the Sword.
A curious occurrence happened at Dover the other
day. It seems s plan ofeconothy has been instituted,
to regulate the expenditure of the Regimental Hos-
. pitals ; and Deputy Inspeaors have been chosen by,
the Chief Inipector to put it into execution. MU)
the patients at Dover Hospital, supposing that thdy
had been- wronged of the allowances (*wine, porter,
beer, and other comforts for the recovering sick,.
resolved to resent it ; and the Deputy Insputor of •
. the Kent district, Mr. li—v, on visiting ,the Hospi-
tal, was immediately surrounded, and had his uni-
form tarred and feathered. In this grotesque figure
he ran up to the Keep, followed by a multitude of.
soldiers and others,- and took shelter in an officer's
room. The ringleaders are confined, and an inves-
tigation of the matter is to take place immediately..
Two Portuguese sailors, some days no quarrelled -
at a public-house in Rattliffe-Inghway, and at list
agreed to settle their dispute by the combatefsnici-
and-snate. Their knives were instantly drawn from
their pockets,' but the company interfering, the
two savages' went into' the street, where, after se-
veral thrusts had,iiassed, in which-one of them had
his cheek cut open, the speetatora again interfered,
and separated them, but not without much difficulty,
aind they were conveyed from the scene of allot),
threatening to renew the congia the first
city, .

Tin . .
TRIAL rf. J. WILSON, alias J. RATFORD.

Minutes of the Proceedings of a. Court-Martial assembkd
and held on board His Majesty'i• Ship lielleisle, in Halifax
Harbour, Nova Scotia, on Wednesday; August t807,..t0
try jenkin Ratford, of His Majesty's Ship Halifax., rpr
Mutiny, Desertion, and Contempt, as act forth in a I.et.;,
ter from her Commander, the Right lion. Lord James.
Townshend. - .