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IN TERM.

MIDDLESEX. • LONDON.
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NAVAL NEWS.

Flo ;n the LONDON GAZETTE, Itiql

idrnirtilty-Offii.e, dpri/ 4, 1807.

csopy oCa Letter from Sir Thomas Troubridge, Bart. Rear_
Admiral of the It' hite, to William Marsden, Esq. dated
•on board This Majesty's Ship the Blenheim, Port Corn-
wallis, tigust 20, 1206.

SIR—I inclose to you, for the information of the
Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, the copy of
a letter which I have received from Captain El-
phinStone, of his/Majesty's Ship Greyhound, in the
Java Seas, dated the .27th of,July last, containing an
account of some successful operations .against the
Enemy, performed by that Ship, in company with
his Majesty's Sloop Harrier ; and of his'having,,on
the 25th of that month, fallen in with the Dutch
Republican Frigate Pallas, of 36 guns, and fz.)l7
men, and the William Corvette, of 20 guns and 11.0
men, having,underconvpy the two large armed-Ships
nathed in the margin*, laden with spices, the pro-
duce of the Moluccas ; that, after a smart action of
about 45 minutes, the Pallas and her Convoy strOck.•
to his Majesty's Ships. The Corvette, taking ad-
vantage of the crippled state of the Greyhound and
Harrier, etfetied her escape. •
The encomiums bestowed by Captain Elphinstone
on all his Officers, Petty Officers, SeamenA aryl Ma-
rines; and also upon Capt. Troubridge, the Officers and men of the Rarrier, renders any obserVation I
might be induced to make unnecessary; -
I am happy further to acquaint you, that. the Grey-
hound, 'Harrier, and Prizes, arrived yesterday at Port
Cornwallis. -

I inclose Captain Elphinstone's return of the
killed and wounded. I am, &c.

T. TROLJBRIDGE.
•
His Majesty's Ship Greyhound, 'Java Sea,
• - 27th (illy, 1806, • -

Sit--I have the honour to inform- von,- that his
Majesty's Ships Greyhound and Harrier; after:de;
stroying,on the 4th. of July, under the Fort of Ma-
!. nado, the Dutch Coneipany's Brig Christian Eliza-
beth, armed with eight guns, and having a corn-
-plement of eighty Med, stood across the Molucca
. Sea to the Island ofTidon, when they captured,
the 6th, another of the Enemy's Cruizers, called
the Belgica, armed with twelve guns, and manned
with thirty-two men : from thence proceeding to
the Westward, on the. evening of the 2.sarofJury;
four Sail of Ships were. "descried passing, through
the Straits of Salayer : immediate chace was g;,ven. '-
to them ; and, by nine, I. had the satisfaction of
seeing them lying-to between the small Dutch
~
posts of Bonthean- and Balacomba, at about seven"
'miles distance from the shore. I easily made out
One of them to be a Frigate, and another a Cor-
vette ; but a third had so much the appearance of
a Line of 'Battle Ship, that both Captain Trop- -
bridge and myself deemed it prudent to wait till dap .
• light before we examined them. We accordingly
lay-to during the night, at two miles distance .to
, windward. As:the daybroke, I had the pleasUre.of
finding. the Ship. wliich bad forced us on; cautionary
measures, was a large two decked Ship, -resembling
an English Indiarnar.. • -*

The Enemy (for they pvaved.to be a'Dutch squa,
dron) immediately drew out in order of battle on
'the larboard tack; under their -totiails the Fri-
gate taking her station in the van, an armed Ship
astern of her, the large Ship in the centre, and the
Corvette in the rear. Fortunately for us,. the Fri-
gate, by fore-reaching upon her second' stern,
caused a small opening in their litre. It 'was sug-
gested to me by . Mr—Martin, .Master of His Ma-
jesty's Ship Greyhound, that if we could close with
the. Enemy, whilst in that position, our attack might
be made to advantage; accordingly, under French
colours, we bore up, as if with an intention to-speak
the Frigate ; and when within Iliad, all further dis- .
Vise being unnecessary, we shifted our colours, and-
commenced firing, which was instantly returned with
a smartness and spirit that evinced' they were frilly
prepared for the' contest. The Harrier, who had
kept close astern of the Greyhound, on seeing her
engaged, bore round up, and passed between the
Frigate and her second astern, raked them both,
the latter with such effect, that they bore up in
succession to return the fire, thus leaving the
Fri-
gate separated from them. Being resolved to avail
myself of this advantage, and being anxious to be
in a position for supporting the Harrier, now en-
gaged in the centre of the Enemy's Line, I wore
close round the Frigate's bows, raking her severely
while passing ; and when on' - her starboard bow,
by throwing her sails Aback, we fell into the desired
position. ,The cannonade from the Greyhound was
now admirable, while that of the Frigate visibly
slaCkened ; and, at last, after an adtion of forty
m s
n whuoclk, ly ceased. On hailing, to 'know if
theyultleas(l' struck, they answered they had, and Lieu-
tenant Home took immediate possession of her. On
•dire6tin'g her fire on the Ship's stern, they all fol-
lowed, her example except the Corvette, who, from
being in the rear, had suffered little from the ac-
,tion, and now made off towards the shore. Cap-
tain Troubridge immediately' wore in pursuit of her,
sending, at the same time, a, boat to take possession.
of the large Ship (whose fire he had nearly silenced
early iii the aftion). Pereeiving the Corvette sailed
remarkably Well, and that' she could spread more
canvas than the Harrier, her mast and . rigging be-
ing.entire, I recalled the latter from. a chase which
Was likely re be fruitless.

. The Prizes proved to •be the DuiCh Republican
Frigate Pallas, of thirty-six guns, commanded by
N. S. Aalbers; a Captain in the Dutch Navy ' • the.
Vißoria, a two=decked Ship,,of about eight .hun•:
Bred tons, commanded by Klaas Kenkin, senior
Captain in the Dutch Company's Service ; and the
Batavia, a Ship of about five hundred tons; cons.•;

rnanded by William De .Val, a Captain in the,saine
service; both the Company's Ships are armed- fot
the purpose of mar, and richly laden with the
produce of the Moluccas.
. The Ship whicii escaped, I learn from our pri-
soners, was the Republican Corvette William, mount-
ing twenty 24-pounders, and manned with one
hundred and ten men.

The support and assistance I have received from
Capt. Trowbridge on every other occasion (through
a difficult and perilous navigation), I attribute to the
same talents, ability, and zeal, which he so nobly

displayed on this one.
I feel happy in an opportunity for recommending

Victoria and Batavia 4

`I
r• Purl IS frome, First Lieutenant of the Grey-
ilound, a deserving good officer; who proved that
'dilate courage was to be assisted by experience, and
r
reaped the benefit of that which he had acquired
Copenhagen, by the advice and assistance whidlt
pve me. The fire from the main decks, and the
consequences of it, is the best encomium On Lieute-
Aants Atidoe and Whitehead ; but I beg leave to
add, that their conduct haS been as good and -exeM-
pla,-,y on every other occasion. I have had cause to
sPeak of Mr. Martin in the body of this letter, I can
.°IIIY add that he is a credit- to the profession to
Ivilich he belongs. The-behaviour of the Warrant
s and Midshipmen was highly becoming: from
i,''neg the latter, I beg leave to recommend Messrs.
arris, Bray, Grace- and Majoribanks, as young
O~cers deserving of promotion.
The coolness, bra Very, and good condu& of the
petty officers and ship's company was such as would
make it tedious,• difficult,: and perhaps invidious, to
attempt to particularise their individual merits; they
have long; by their excellent behaviour, had a claimou .
my gratitude, and they now have one on my ad-
tendon ; suffice it then to say, that an enthusiastic
courage reigned throughout the ship ; such as,l fans-
eY belongs to Britons alone.
Captain Troubridge speaks in the highest terms of.
i',le Harrier ; he has retpiested, me to make known
Te great assistance he received from Mr. Mitchell,.
4e First Lieutenant, and the very exemplary cop-
sfi of Acing Lieutenant C. Hole, and Ilri R.
wualst, the Master. In expressing his approbation
I)f. the condna of the Warrant and Petty Officers, -he
inentions MesSrs. Coffin antrMitford, Midshipmen,
especially ; and I take- the -liberty of.- adding, that
both of them have served their time.
PorAl other particulars, I beg leave to. refer you
to the inclosed reports, from the perusal of which
you Will perceive how much his Majesty's ships
~37e suffered in their masts and rigging; .but you
loss
participate in the joy which I feel,' that out: ,
40ss has been trifling when compared with that of
the enemy. I have, &c.
(Signed) E. ELPHINSTONg.
Sir T. Troulridge. Rear. Admiral of
the White, &c. zee. &c.
List of trilled and Wounded. on board His 11laiesty's Ships,
in At-lion with a Dutch Squadron on the 26(ti July,
off Macassar.
Creyhound - t killed and,B wounded.
}lamer-3 wounded. Total— t killed and tz wounded.
0 fficer, slightly wounded:
Greyhound— Tames. Wood, Boatswain ; CeergejMaoribanks,
Master's-Mate ; and John Bradford, Clerk.
List of Killed and Wounded on board the Enemy's Ships, in
Action on the =6th of July, 1806 chi' LS r
killed and-32 woundc42..--(TLIC-C.sap-tatn,4l4'ilot, and
four Seamen, since dart)
sVidoria-2
13 •
atavia_
•
z- tu 1 foil. and: 7-wounded. —(The Lieutenant and one
Seaman since dead.) Total —t 2 killed, a wounded.
Officerskilled:
!11a2— Tan Hendrick Resen, Boatswain. •
Batavia-•P. HalSerdio-s„. First Lieutenaat.

. .
11
Officers wound:A: , 11,1s—lT. S. Aalbers, Captain, since dead ; W. Stander,
fecund Lieutenant; E. C. ficrson, Fifth Lieutenant.; B.
Valk, Pilot, since dead; A. Andrisse, Second Pilot; P.
Vander Wagtz, Third Pilot; A. Ldetz, Midshipman ;
,I. Ammban, Clerk.
"atavia— F. H. Marninaul, Lieutenant;- Genit :Frederk ks,
ditto, since-dead. ~.i
(Signal) E. ELPHINSTONE.

/lottxsmoura, An.IL s.—..krrived the Leveret
Sloop of War, Capt. SALT; from the Downs ; e
Sloop
Gun-vessel, Lieut. NOM, from a cruize ;
11,z1 the Orlando, hcxsotir, from the Downs, for St.
`r(itt's.

Sailed
Yesterday. the Diamond Frigate,., Captain
ARGLE3, to join the Squadron off Havre ; Seine Fri-
tate, Capt. ATKINS, •
on a cruise off Cherbourgh ;
1/"etia Sloop, Capt. PEILLrrs, and the zebra Bomb,
Capt. WIIINYATES, with a convoy for the towns.
Caint into the Harbour to-day the Monti/gut., of
74 guns, and thmpelueui-, of same fdrce.

nARWICII, APRIL s.—The Packets with all the
"tYvard•bound Guttenhurgh and Husum Mails
sailed this morning, the wind having changed to
the south-wesi.

The large Fleet for the Baltic, from the Nore,
under Convoy of the Spy Sloop of War, Capt. Htill-
ON.
passed to the northward tlati morning.
Capt. GUNTIIORP, of the Ilculger Excise Cutter,
Captured a few days since, on the Suffolk coast, a
"Itggling Lugger with upwards of zoo.casiss
bra!fidy and Geneva.

The Wanderer Sloop of War, Capt. CnoETok, is
stationed in the Wallet, for the proteCtion of
,the,
trade and coast.
No arriyals from the Continent.

ilernain the Valorous and Daunticss Praams.

rAtztount, APRIL 3.—Arrived this day His Ma-
3e,
stY's Ship Alkmaar, 50 guns, Capt. DAVEY, from
cjrk ; the Sarah Christiana, Eastindia Ship, from
Bengal, seven months passage ; His Majesty's Gin-
brig Resolute, from Waterford, with Convoy for
1:°1-1clon ; the Lady Camarine, from Plymouth,
tlottud to Jamaica, to wait Convoy.
passed this Port His 'Majesty's Brig Endeavour,
With Convoy for the Eastward, from Wales, &c.
21elhe Ikalsingham Packet will sail on Tuesday
Itt with Mails of the 17th and 3 Ist ult. for Lisbon.

"tNOC,.tt, APRIL 3.—The Fame, REID, arrived
ere this morning from Trinidad after a-passage of
63413'5. On ahe night of the Ith January a
French Sloop of War bore down and fired several
rounds ; but on-finding this hard encounter too heavy
fetal, she made off. The next day following, to
the leeward of Guadaloupe, fell in with a Spanish
S'eh°°"er, and received a' volley of small arms from
her,
when the Fame returned a few shot, and obliged
bier to sheer off.
The Elizabeth, McG-BEGo#, was left loading .for
Clyde, and expeaed to sail in ten days ; spoke, on
the sth ult. in lat. 44: 45. long. 41. 30. W. the
Pacczn, MALcoLm, from Charlestown for this Pert,

• out days.--Came Passrmger Roimar Poscov.,
Es 9; one of MIRANDA'S Lieutenants.
A Ship, supposed to beithe Ocean, MALcotm,
from Charlestown, is inside the Cloch.
ISLANDS OF SCILLY, MARCH eg. Arrived His

Majesty's Frigate Alcmene, Capt. BRISBANE, having

under convoy the Hon. East India Company's Extra
I'' Ship Sarah Christiana, THOMAS MAcxEsoN, Esq.
Commander, from Calcutta and• Bengal (but last
from Cork, in Ireland), bound to London, laden
with kugar, indigo, &c. Also the Ship Duckingfield,
GARDEN DUNBAR Master, from Surinam, bound to
London, with sugar, cotton, and coffee ; ten weeks
out from Surinam, and much in want of provisions.
Passengers and crew all well.

-DEAL, APRIL s.—Passed the back of the Good-
win Sands yesterday evening the Earl Camden and
he Goutts EaSt Indiamen; for Portsmouth.
,Parrie down from the River the Surat Castle East
Indiarnan.

Arrived. His Majesty's Ship Resistance, from Ports-
mouth, and renmini in the Downs with the, Ships
as.per. last.

The Explosion Bomb .has a Signal flying .for a
Convoy to the Westward.

TRURO, SATURDAY) APRIL 4.—As our Express
was lasi night leaving Falniouth, he was told that the
Diana Packet, Capt. GIBBON, from New York (for•
whose sail2ty serious app:vhensions had-been enter-
tained), was then comini.;,into the harbour, togethe
with another Packet, whose name he could poi
learn. • • .

Capt. J. BLIGH is appointed to the Alfred ,CapL
DL'FI, to the Maros ; Capt. 3. EVANS to-the"Vethlr-
ous ;, Capt. Davis to the Sapphiri! ; and Capt. HOL-
LINGSWORTH to the Bowt:Ert, of
the San Joseph, is promoted to a Commander, and'
appointed to the Epervier ; neut. RAMAGE, of the
Hibernia, is promoted to tt Commander Mr. MUN-.
no, Purser of the Emulous, to the Franchise.
Satileday evening, at six o'clock, the Purser of-
the Sarah Chris,tiana arrived at the Indid4louse,
with advice of the arrival of that Ship oa• Fahnouth.
By the Panther, arrived at ,Betigal it) September,
we learn, that an American Ship, called the Essex,,
Capt. CRANE, of Salem, had been cut otf near the
Island -of Comorin, by an Arab Ship (formerly ihe
Pigeon, commanded by Capt. BARBER), belonging
to Sera HA MET AKEL. The Captain and crew
were murdered, and thrown overboard ; the Ship
destroyed, and specie on hoard her, said to _amount
to 200,900 dollars, taken by the Arabs. It was re-
ported that the Arab Ship is armed with Is long
12-pounders, and about 200 men.

The Vitribint French Privatcer, Captain JULIAN,
had captured in the Red Sea a very rich Ship bLlung-,
ing to the Nawaub of Surat, and dispatched her to
the Isle of ,France.

A large Ship with rice (supposed to have been for-
merly the Princess Charlotte Indianian) eluded the
vigilance of our Cruizers, and bad arrived at the Lie'
of France from Batavia.

Letters from Cadiz of the 6th ult: state, that
there were then in that Port six Ships of the Line
getting ready for sea.
The tbllowing is an account of the Dutch Naval
FOre in the Texel :—ln Mars Diep, one Ship of
the Line, one Frigate, two Corvettes, and. one Store
_Ship, with sails bent, all ready. for sea.—ln New
biep, twQ Ships of the Line, . with sails beat ; One
with an Adniirds Flag at the foretop ; ~and four
Ships of the Line with top-masts: struck.

'Saturday Captain RoDwELL,Of the Ship Barnes,
as rived in town from Dant zic, «itb intelligence
from thence to the t 9th ult..at which period no- ac-
counts had reached that city of any attion between
the hoStile armies, subsequent to the affair in the
neighbourhood.of Gutstadt ; in which. the French,
notwithstanding their assertions. to the contrary,
were repulsed with Joss.
Some corps of French troops had appeared before
Dantzic-early in March ; but on the loth of that
month smart aiiair took place, . near the Village of
Rosenburgh, in which the French lost 130 men
Prisoners ; Is Germans, and some Poles were like-
;`wise, taken, and about 100 were killed.
• On the 14th a placard was placed on the Govern-.
Mellt-hOUSe:, announcing, that on the I 2t.Tt the Prus-
. sian troops engaged and defeated a corps of Ma:-
NADOTTL'S division, at Zintern, taking some.
'sutlers, a cannon, and a standard ; the Prussians re-
mained in possession of the town, and also -occupied
Creutzburgh and Eylau.
Reinforcements were daily flocking to. the. Rus-
sian Army ; the • head-quarters were, on the
14th, at' Scheppenpeel, at the inflation of the Guber
and Alle. The left wing occupied the strong
country along the Seeburgh Lake, the right' ex,
tended beyond Landsburgh ; the Cossacks were
posted ca theydssarge and Walsha. .The position
which General BENNIGSEN had taken was particu-
lady strung, and it was supposed he would await
there the expected reintbrcements.--The Russian
light troops in the interior greatly annoyed and
harassed the French army.

A ler!' from Berlin; dated March i 6, says, "That
all the -French troops which were stationed ip this
city and at Potsdam, have been ordered to repair by
forced marches to the Army. The regiment of
Hohenzollern, and about two hundred grenadiers
of the Imperial Horse Guards, are the only troops
here. The Garrisons of IVlngdeburgh, Custrin,
have taken the same route, and are to be replaced'
by the Dutch or German Contingents."
A letter from TOnningen, dated Much 27, says,
" The Prince Royal of Denmark, in reply to over-
tures from the Allies, is state:: to have made a formal
declaration of his determination to observe the strictest
neutrality."

Ensign JONES, of the Staff Corps, stationed at
Hythe, put a period to his existence on Tu_e,.sday
night last, by discharging a p.stol through his he,:d.
Loveis assigned as the cause of this rii4l accident.
He left a letter addressed to a young Lady at Win-
chelsea.