The Sun.
London, England, 1814-08-09 00:00:00

SAVAL NEW

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EXTRACT OF A LETTER FIWM AN OFFICER OF ONE
NIAJESTITCI-IOOINIERS, DATED JULY IJ,
AT SEAS iv LAT. 31. 10. N. LONG• 65. 40.,' W.

" We encountered, on the 15th• and 16th, a
most violent lirriCane, lagted upwards of
15 hOurs. There was ho possibility of shewing
yard Of canvas ; we -‘''cre hove dowii on our
beam4ndi; and obliged to heave the lee guris
overboard. Had the gale cotitintied;.l" am fearful
both the Duke of Montrose packet and our elves
would have been in a very had way. The direc-
tion in Which the gale blew from the N. N. W.
Veering to West, W..5.W., S.W., South,
-and. ending at' S.E.' nitiTt, in my opinion,- stave
been Mach .More severe with the Jamaica convoy,
which Sailed some days
,previous ; and -should
they have .encountered it in the Gulf, which I
Make no doubt of, the consequences, from ii,nar7
row navigatithi, mitit be great:"
FA6ioirrn, iuc. o.—Arrived the Duke of
Moittroii pa'ckct, with a Mail from 'Jamaica, in 32
days; Diana packet, mail from the Wind-
ward Islands, last front Tdrtola,. in 30• days—
. the Prince Ertiet packet, with a mail for
Lisbon. The .Queensberry' packet, with a mail.
for Halifax, is gone into, the Roads. The Dis-
patch, Bo r Ds, from Bourdeank' for ordefS, arrived
to-da, was cha.sed off Ushant by two large
schooners, supposed to be -Anierican-s.-Wind
N. W.•

DEAL, AVG.. S.—Arrived the► Princess MstriV,
STORY, from Halifax, and sailed for ate ILivei•.--
Wind S. W. .

PottismoUrtr, Ago. B.—Arrived his- Westy's
ship Franchise from the Mediterranean, and is
put under ; his 'Majesty's slip Fer-
vent from the Eastward; Bartock transport, No.
-404.-Wind W.

The Gravesend letter of yesterday's date does
not mention the arrival of any of the East in-
diamen. ,

• • The Valiant, 74, -Capt. iktun'aE, is under orders
for Halitax.

His IthijeSq'S ship Hannibal, &c. with about
70
,sail of merchantmen, left St. Thomas's for
Eng,la:-d on the 3d ultimo, and may be hourly ex-
Oected in flit. Channel.

His Majesty's ships -Leviathan, Ulysses, and
Serapis, sailed front Kingston, Jamaica, on the
30th Of June, with the trade, for England, and
may also be hourly expected. - •
The under-mentioned. ships, outward,bound,
left Madeira on the 10th nit.. under convoy of his
Majesty's ship Cumberland, viz.—Warreo
lugs, Lady Casrlereagh,•Phoenix, Coldstream, liar-
Lady Carrington, Ann, Indus. The Com-
pany's ship Streatham was to leave ;Ingtit. Roads
tie 29th January, for Bata•:ia and Amboyna.—
The extra ship___Batavi't fbp
Ceylon and Bombay the 30th'Jantiars; last. -

The-Naval EstahliShment at llalta is broken op.
Afl LAUGHAIiNg is Cowing hiime in the
swiftsore. • •

The itittlesnake sloop of war has been .captnred
from the Americans by the Leander -frigate, „and
sent int.) flalifalX.

Tile India and China fleets were oir 'the Nore
yesterday morning, %wilting for favourable %viad
and tide to come up the river. AU the 'Pursers,.
except the Purser of the Minerva, had readied
the India House ; and a 'considerable part- of
the letters brought by the fleet were in the
course of delivery. In addition to the- vesselsod-
ready mentioned are the Coromandel, En, fill and
[Tope, from Java, with cargoes of coffee ; Mineeva,
front China, under Rossian colours ; Thindas, frdm
the Cape of Good Hope, with wine ; Baring and
Preston transports, also front the. Cape. The
Norfolk, frinn Bengal, parted company off the
Western Islands. The General Kydd, Vansittart,
and iVellington are new ships.
Government having paid off nearly all the trans.;
ports.etnployed during the late war, the,fnllowing
Notice from the Transport Board is rather unex-
pected

• • " Transport Office, Aug. 6, 1814.
" Wanted, a few coppered ships, from 200 to 403 tons bar-
then, fit tar immediate sersice, to be taken as regular trans-
ports for six months certain, at 25s.per-ton per. month. Ten-
ders to be received immediately." -

~..
, It is reported that these transports are likely to
be required lor the use of the French 6Oyernment,
to carry out French troops to St. Domingo.

The Kerry and Killkenoy regiments of Irish
militia, are embarked on board transports in the
Harbour,•and will Sail the first fair wind. 'The.
2d, or Queen's regiment Of foot, marched into
Hasler Barracks yesterday, from •Chicheptee.—
(Hampshire Chronicle, Aug. 3.) -
Ott Wethwsday last, six troops of the 3d, or
King's Own Dragoons, having lately arrived froni
the Continent, marched into this town to. join the
other part of the regiment, a reduction of
to the peace establishment, is shortly expected to
take place.—(Northampton Mercury.)
The first battalions of the 11th, 28th, 40th,
79th,•and two other Regiments to be completed
to 1000 men, lately arrived in Ireland front France,
are ordered to proceed to Cork, previous to their
immediate embarkation-fur the other shore of the
Atlantic from that city.
The 38th regiment, now lying in the Isle of
Wight, have received orders to embark 'for
America.

lith Regiment of Fool were to arrive in
Wexford on the 2d, August, where they are to be
quartered.
Friday the second Battalion 87th, or Prince of
Wales's Own_lrish, under the command of Lieut.-
Colonel DESi3ARES, arrived in Limerick. from Mal-
low, to duty.
'Die pilchard fishery has commenced on the
Cornish coast, but the catches have hitherto been
small. About thirty hogsheads of, pilchards were
caught in Whitson(' Bay on Wednesday last, by
the boats from Lone, where, five scans, ably
manned, are., nearly ready: - :