The Sun.
London, England, 1807-02-04 00:00:00

A ..61 FA L NEWS.

From :be LONDOIIIi GAZETTE, Fes. 3, 15,c71

Aamiralty Office) re-truary 3

Copy of a Letter from the Right H 0,,, Lcoil
K. B. Aantiral of the Owe, &c. to trillium
Marsden, Esq, dated gif Runtsgate, the Ist inst.

S IR,

- I transmit, for their Lordships' information, a
Copy of a Letter which I ha% e received from.CapL
Stoddart, of His Majesty's Sloop the Cruiser, ac-
quainting ,me that he had driven on shore, in the
vicinity of Blankenberg, and afterwards brought off,
the French Privateer Le Brave, of sixteen guns;
and also that he had re-captured the 'Leander, of
Shields, and the Guardian, of Bridlington.
Their Lordships will have much satisfa&ion in
observing the judicious management that has been
'manifested by Captain Stoddart on that occasion, al
well as the meritorious conduct of his Officers and
Boats' Crews.

1 have the honour to be, tkc. KEITH.
His Majesty's Sloop Cruizer, at Sea,
Mt LORD, January 28, 1807.

I have the honour to inform your Lordship, that
on the 26th instant, at two A.M. as we were stretch-
ing from the Island of Walchereu towards the Gal-
loper Shoal, and only four leagues from the latter,
a Lugger was seen passing our weather beam on the
.opposite tack ; being both under easy sail, no alte-
ration was made until out of sight, when the.wind
veering o the west, enabled us to fetch into her
wake ; after a long chase, we forced her on shore
three miles to the westward of Blankenber,,, at
which time her Captain and considerable part of her
Crew made their escape. I anchored about half
gun-shot off, to scour the Beach, if necessary,, and
cover the Boats, w bleb were dispatched under the
direction of Lieutenant Pearse, assisted by Mr. Lash,
the Master, and Mr. Moffitt, Master's Mate; through
whose animated exertions the Privateer was got off
without sustaining the smallest damage. During
the performance of this service, the Enemy colleded
otl the sand-hills, and kept up a brisk tire of mus-
ketry without etfee.t. The Lugger is Le Brave, of
Dunkirk, carrying sixteen guns, and is reputed one
of the fastest sailing VesSels of her description ; she.
had captured the Leander, a Gallic!. Brig, of Shields,
and an English Galliot, laden with rum On Govern-
ment account; the Master and Crews of which were
on board of her. The Leander was re-taken by us
that afternoon, as well as the Guardian, of Bridling-
ton, ivlvich had been captured by La Revanche Pri-
vattier, off Flamborough Head, along with four
others,. all from the Baltic.
I have the bOnour to be, &c.
..(Signed) P. STODDART.
Admiral Lord Kcith, K. 8., &c. &c.

Admiralty Office, February 3.
Copy (fa Letter from. ViCe-Admiral Russell to Wil-
liam Marsden, Esq. datt:W on board the Majestic, in
Yarmouth Roads, the 31st of January, 1807,

Herewith I inclose a Letter from Lieutenant Tra,-
cey, of the Princess AugtJ.-.ta hired Cutter, reporting
his having captUred the Jena Privateer, and recap-
tured her prize, a Prussian Ship, laden with timber,
bound to London, which I beg you will lay before
my Lords Commissioners -of the Admiralty.
am, &c. I'. M. RUSSELL.

His Majesty's hired Cutter Princess Augusta,
SIT?, yarmollth. Roads, Jam 3 t, 1807.

• I hQrcwith inclose a-Letter to Admiral the Right
Hou. Lord Keith, K. B.,•Connurulder in Chief, of
which the following is in wbstance a duplicate tbr
your information.
MY LORD,

I hive the honour to inform your Lordship, that
on the 27th inst. Lowestotf.:. bearing west by north
forty-five miles, at half past.eleven, P. M.. 1 fill in
with a French Cutter Privateer, and chaced her to
the S. S. E. until half-past two, A. M. on the !28th,
when having got alongside of her, and firing some
guns and musketry into her, she lowered her sails,
and hailed that she had struck. •

She is called the Jena, commanded by Captain
Francis Capelle, with thirty men, mounting four
guns, and has on board a groat number of small
anus : had .sailed froin Flushing twelve days ago,
and made-two captures ; one of which, a large Prus-
sian. Strip, laden with a ‘'aluable cargo of timb4s,
bound to Loudon, I re-captured on the same morn-

1118.

I have the honour to be, B.:C.
(Signed) 1. TRACEY, Lieut. and Corn.
To. Lice-Admiral Russell, &c. &c.

PLYMOUTH, FEB. 2.—The Tonnant of 80 guns,
went out of Harbour yesterday and anchored in
Cawsand Bay; in going down the -Harbour with a
strong tide and the wind failing, she drifted on
board the Salvador del Mundo, the Flag Ship, by
which the fore-topmast of the latter wa•s carried
away.

Arrived the Seahorse Frigate from Portsmouth ;
the American Brig America, Gaoss, from Alicant,
laden with barilla for Tonningen, detained by the
Acasta Frigate; the Danish Ship Anna Maria,
CLAUSSEN, from Altona, laden with linen, detained
by the Ctesar Privateer; the Alicia, of Poole, FITZ-
GERALD, laden with fish, from Newfoundland ; she
was captured on her passage by a Spanish Privateer,
and retaken by the Amazon Frigate.
Arrived the Brig Castillia, ARMSTRONG, from

Memel, laden with timber and deals, and the Brig
Fumy, BENNET, laden with malt, from Yarmouth ;
the latter, in coming into Harbour, struck on the
Rock of Mount Batten, and knocked a hole in her
bottom, but by timely assi.stance being afforded her,
she was got off and stowed into Sutton Pool, where
her cargo (which is damaged) is now discharging.
Arrived the American Ship John, Faosr, from
Antwerp, bound to Philadelphia, in ballast, put in to
refit, being leaky; also the American Ship-Henrietta,

NIcuoTA, from Le horn, ladeh with marble; toi
London, detairid by. the Jokit Bull Privateer.

Porits,,iou4n, FPB. 3.--Arrived the Roarizt*,
BOWLES, from liantzi'e ; Mary, KEMP, Shellalah,
and Supply, AIocKFORD, from Waterford ;,
BOS ITER; and Brothers, MAY, from London;
Swill, Ey AN S, from Carmarthen ; Friends, -,
from Sunderland ; Mary and .glizaleth, VINE,
/MOW, - fr, and the Tartar, BLIGHT, from ,
•
Guernsey.

Sailed His Majesty's Ship Humber, with a Cott-
voy for the Downs.

FALmouTtr, F. 2.—Sailed the Choice, DUNN,
the Fox, LEGGAT, the John, WRIGHT,. and three
light Vessels, for Oporto, under convoy of the
Grasshopper Sloop of War, of 18 guns, Captain
4ARLE.

Arrived this morning the A/phea Cutter, from
Plymouth, to take the French Prisoners from His
Majesty's Ship Trump.

DEAL, F t 137 3.—Arrived His Majesty's Ships Le-
veret and IPrangler from a Cruize.
down from the River the Remittance, LANE,
for New York, and the Smal4ridge, HUGHES, for
Plymouth, and remain in the Downs with His Ma-
jesty's Ships as per last.

CORK, J. 30.--A Ship whicl, was captured by
a French Privateer, and retaken by the Alcmene; and
arrived at Padstow, fell in with the last outward-
bound convoy three days after their sailing from this
port; they had then got two hundred miles to the
southward.

The most laudable measures are pursuing by Ad,
tuiral Lord.G.tapNea, for the deteEtion of Foreigners
who may be on board Neutral Ships. The search
for this purpose is of the most rigid strianess. Since
the sli/ing of the outward-bound West India Fleet,
ont of which upwards of 30 Foreigners were taken,
16 have been taken from the Vessels which have
arrived for the same destination, but were too late
to proceed with the Convoy.
The impropriety of employing the sailors of those.
Countries at War with Great Britain and Ireland, in
evasion of the law which demand's them as prisoners,
is evident ; the culpability in this instance would
merit correction by penalty. It occurs, we under-
stand, not unfreltiently, that those whom the chances
of war put into our possession in the West Indies,
are seni• knit! in West Indiamen, in order to be
lodgectin-litish prisons.
This intention, however, is not always fulfilled ;
for as sailors under these circumstances will remain
in the merchant service upon much easier terms
than British or Irish seamen, they are retained,
without referring to the authority which sent
them, or that which received them. This prac-
tice Is hi more ways than one dangerous : it
subjeas merchant ships to. the hazard of enterprise
concerted by strangers and enemies mixt up in their
crews, who will vigilantly look out for an oppor-
tunity, and it may be attended with the more im-
portant consequences of their escaping, for there is
little to prevent .them'in harbour, into the country,,
and from thence to France.

ETIPNOS AYRES -y— xtrac t of a Letter from a
young Naval Officer, on board his Majesty's Ship
Leda, to a relative in Sussex, dated River Plata, ;No,.
vemb:r which contains some interesting
particulars, relative to the late meditated attack by
storm on Monte Video, and the taking of Mal-
donado 1—

" Since my last letter, dated in July; I have writ-
ten several times ; but owing to divers events, the
Ships nominated to sail for England have been re-
peatedly detained, even after the packets for letters
were closed ; so that, without doubt, you will re-
ceive the whole of mine at one time by the same
Ship, and consequently among them that which
contains an account of our misfortunes at Buenos
Ayres.—About three weeks since a reinforcement
was sett here from the Cape of Good Hope ; but
although the troops were not provided with the ne-
cessary artillery, &c. an attempt to attack by sea a
fortified garrison at Monte Video, mounting three
or four hundred pieces of cannon, and defended by
near 12,000 men, was resolved op ; and what was
still more against us, the water would not permit the
Line-of-Battle ships to go within -gun-shot, so that
the brunt of the action was to fall on a few armed
Transports, two Gun-brigs and two Frigates, that
were just enabled to play at long bells with them.,
Our soldiers were to be landed immediately after
an impression was made on their works. Previous
to the attack we were Sent to reconnoitre, and
the depth of water within gun-shot. Our Captain,
I firmly believe, has no more the sense of danger
than a block. Conceive for a moment, a single
Ship, placed in such A situation as to be at once ex-
posed to the fire of such a garrison, and also twenty
Sail of Gun-vessels. We stood in quite close at one
tack, so that we could easily distinguish crowds of
people on every house and eminence. The mo-
ment we hove in stays, they began to fire from all
quarters ; we only returned with three guns, as our
object was not to engage them ;• and got off without
any other injury, than that of having our rigging a
little disabled.

" On the :Bth of Oetober, in the morning, a sig-
nal was wade to weigh anchor ; at nine the line
was formed, which we had the honour to Ind, pre-
ceded by a Transport that went a-head to sound,
and seconded by the Medusa Frigate, two Gun-hrigi,

and Trahsports. My duty was to ittend to Signals;
but not having.a pertea knowleclg: of them, I ap-
plied, and got the `command of the three forecastle
guns. The, ball now:opened with such.a clatter on
both sides as tali scarcely be conceived. 'We kept
ranging along the shore, and even approaching the
harbour fast, when the Ship on a sudden touched
the bottom : we now found it 'impossible to suc-
ceed by this mode of attack ; and accordingly, the
wind being favourable, got off. One of the guns at
my quarters had its carriage disabled, and one man
was wounded by the same shot.' This was the
only damage sustained, except in the rigging, which
was mangled.' The Enemy, I believe, fired cWcfiy
at random, or they must.have done us considerable
damage indeed.
" A Council of War was now assembled ; the
result of which was, to proceed and attack another
Settlement about go miles below Monte Video,
called Maldonado. The next day, the 26th, we ar-
rived ; and it being a weak town, disembarked our
troops, amounting to.near a thousand. In the even-
ing they stormed and put to the rout, with much
slaughter, a considerable Army of the Spaniards.—
There was an island aboti(two miles from the Main,
which was well fortified—but the garrison capitu-
lated, and thus sated their, lives.--Yesterday I went
on shore to view the town, when it presented a
scene of desolation that I wish never to witness
avail.). On our soldiers . entering the town, the cry
throughout the Atmy was Remember General
BERESFORD !". and no quarter 'was shewn ; °me
house alone there were t« en ty Spaniards bayoneted:
plunder ensued, and furniture of all descriptions wa,
lying about, quite destroyed."

Extra& of a Letter from an Officer of His Ma-
jesty's Ship Blanche, dated Portsmouth, Feb. 2,
817 : " In consequence of inforniation transmitted
from LLoYp's to the Admiralty, and orders sent in•
consequence to ourselves .and the different Cruizers
on the coast of France, we fortunately fell in, off
Rochefort, on the 15th ult. with- the co;per-bot-
tomed Ship George Waskington (said to be Ameri
can, but is French built), of about bOO tons hurt hen, ,
having on board Capt: CARGAREAU, and the Officers
and Crew, amounting together to 300, and we ex-
peol also, the stores, of the Valeureuse French Fri-
gat,, one of JEROM E BONAPARTE'S Squadron, which
put into the Delaware, and was condemned there.
The French Captain says he chatiered the Vessel,
but we have no doubt of her being a French con
ceru, and will prove a good prize."

A fire broke out last night in the back room of a
house in Craven.buildingq, in consequence of the
curtains of a bed taking tire, as a servant maid was
making it. The flames were extinguished without
much injury; but in the confuson which the fire
excited, three fellows entered the house of Mr.
Norman, the Register-Office, in Wych.-street, and
proceeded to rob it. They were discovered, and at-
tacked by the neighbouring inhabitants, but the
villains made a desperate resistuke,. and, having
fought their way through the crowd, etreCted their
escape.

CEIESTER, FEB. 3.—An awful instance of sudden
death occurred on Tuesday evening.—As Thomas
Jones, Tyler of a Lodge of Freemason's herd at the
Coach and Horses in this city, was eating his sup-
per there; he suddenly fell t.•_ck, and expired in a
few minutes. He was an old man, had borne a
good character through life, and was well respe&ed.
MAIDSTONE, FEB. 3.—The following five persons,
whose united ages make 402 years, lately died in
this town within the course of a fortnight, and who
lived within a hundred rods of each other; viz. Mr.
Jacobson, 87—Mr. Ailingharn, 78—Mrs. Holling-
worth, 8 i Spong, 75—and Mrs. Stewart; 8 I.
Forty stout Privateers, of 400 tons burthen each,
are just built at' Cherburgh, and nearly equipped
for sea.

On Sunday se'nnight a robbery was committed
between 'Salter-Hebble and Halifax. As Mr.
Stamp, a calico-printer from Carlisle, was proceed-
ing to Halifax, he was attacked by two ruffians
about half past nine in the evening, to whom he
offered some resistance ; but at last -gave them three
five-guinea and three one-guinca notes, upon receipt
of ikhich,teing alarmed by the sound of a carriage,
they imsde off. Mr. Stamp had several hundred
pounds in his possession, besides a gold watch.

Thirty Thousand Pound Prize. —.Me Ticket
No. 12,1283, as first-drawn this morning, entitled
to Thirty Thousand Pounds, was sold at Messrs.
HAZARD, Bu RN E„ and Co.'s Office, Royal Exchange,
in one Half and eight Si: teem ; where very Ca-
pital Prize in thepresent Lottery,-except one I 0,0001,
No. 21,295, has been sold in Shares, viz.

No. 12,283
24,490
23,515
846

30,0001.
2u,020:.
10,000:.
SOOOl.

SMITHFIELD 111ARKET, FEB. 2.

This day's market afforded a good supply of prime
Beasts, and the show of Cattle in other respecas was
considerable ; Beef, :Mutton, Veal, and Pork ai
much dearer than our last repoi-t, and the trade in ge-
neral was tolerably brisk.—The sales in the Hay-
market were rather ; Hay- fetched last price
Straw has got up in price since Friday's Market
Clover has dropped in price.—We subjoin a Correa:
statement of the prices and numbers :
To Mak the Offal per stone of 81h.
Beef ss. od. to 6s. od.—Alutton 4s. lod. to ,s. sod.—Vea!
6s. od. to Bs. od.—Lamb os. od. to os. od.--I)rk ss. sod. to
6s. 6d.
Beasts, 2170.—Sheep and Lambs, 12750. Calves, 95.—
Pigs, 350.

SMITHFIELD HAY•MARXET.
iiay2l. /ss. to 51. os.--Clover 41. os. to 51. sS.—Straw
zl. los. to 31. os.

CORN EXCHANGE, FEB. 4.—This day .'heat is
in but middling supply, with few fresh arrivals;
S.ales are made heaviry, and hardly support last
prices; Rye is scarce arid dearer ; Barley and Malt
arrive in abundance, and are very difficult of sale;
Pease and Beans of each kind are at small variation;
the supplies of Oatsare large, and this trade is quote(t
cheaper; Flour plentiful, fine American 465.. to
50s. per barrel.
Wheat scis a 64s a 78. or! I ilemns -42 s a 48S
Fine ditto - Bos a 35: I Lek Beans 34. a 4os ott
Rye - - 425. a .48s o t Oats 2.3, a 25, a 2S. oa
Barley -33 s a 39$ Poland ditto 29s a 3t.
Malt - - 6zs a 70, cc! i JAupe Seri 251. 291.
White Pease Bos a 89s 01 Fine Flour 6i, a ~Lo;
Grey ditto 42S a 47s oa e. ands boa a 65s QJ