The Sun.
London, England, 1809-10-31 00:00:00

FROM THE FRENCH PAPERS

N A VAL N EWS.

POIITSMOUTH, OCT. 30.—Arrived his Majesty's '!
ship Leyden, 64 guns, from Flushing.
The Comus cni-ne out of harbour.

PARIS, OCT. 20.-At nine o'clock this morning
the giins'were fired to announce the happy event of
the signature of peace. In the evening this impor-
tant intelligence was, by alder of the Count a the,
Empire, the PlefeB of Police, officially notified at'
the Theatres, amidst acclamations of Long live the
Emperor.!
I M. Briere de Mondetour, Auditor to the Council
of State, set off yesterday evening for his Majesty's
head-quarters.
" On the Ist instant, M. de Chavange gave a grand
entertainment and a ball at his seat at Arigny, upon
the occasion of the recovery of his son-in-law the
Duke of Castiglione (Marshal Augereau) from his
late illness. Mass was performed previous to the
entertainment.

S;3ilcd the William and Mary, .1. L. Libwicit;
Sarah, W.A. ALIMSTJAONG, fur Sunderland : Lau-
rel, THOS. SMITH, fur Gibraltar.

DEAL, OCT. 30.—Sailed
,this morning; the Maria,
Smirn, for Rio Janeiro ; Granger, for the
Cape of GGod Hope. Also his Majesty's ship /sis,
for Flushing ; and Humber armed ship, with a con-
voy to the westward ; among them are the Lord
Adz% —, and Rasjoid, —, for Jamaica, with

FEANKFORT, OCT. 16.—According to ativices
from Lintz, the division of Lieut. General 'Verrede
has marched from that place for Saltzburg. - e -.
On the 11th, a second detachment of theleni
d'armeiie of the guard arrived at Augsburg; on: their
way from Vienna to France.
Letters from Berlin, of the 7th, mention, that
the Prince of Orange had left that city for the
head•quarters of the Austrian army. It is reported
that he has obtained tire rank of Lieutenant-Field—
Marshal in the Austrian service. His mother and
spouse reside at Schoenhaussen, near Berlin.
PARIS, OcT. 2l.—The Court Marshal at Roche-
fort met for the first time on board the Adinirars
vessel the Ocean, on the 31st of August. The pro-
ceedings against and for the prisoners were continu-
ed on the suceeediiig days, to the Bth of September
inclusive. The Advocate tor the accused was M.
Francois Daniel Faure, of. Rochefort. • '
On the Btb the pleadings, and ell the formalities
prescribed by the Impel-al Decree of. the 2511 d of
July, 1806, Art. 70, being gone through, the Pre-
sident inquired wheteer the Members. of the Court
wished to make any observations ; they unani-
mou-ly answered in the negative ; upon , which, the
spectators and the Advocate for the prisoner* Wiltli-
drew, at the request of the President, and Abel itit-
soners were coo t eyed back to the place train wittLeft
the\ had bc'ett broug 41.
JUDGMENT.—The Court, after deliberating with
cheeti doors, and the vote& being collected according
to Arl. 68, se:lion 4, iii, 3,1, of ,tie above-mention-
ed Det.r e, in presence of the General liapparteur,
unananously declare, that the , lotxedings were re-
gularly coaducted, and found by a majority .of eight
voices to one, that iiie prisoner, Nicholas Clement
NAVAL APPOINTMENTS.— Captain S. BALLARD, tde la Ronciete, was ri t guilty of th© toss of the ship
to the Sceptre; Captain ATKINS, to the intrepid ; Tonnere,,,.vhich he commail fed in toe action of the
Ciptain Tow EX, to the Caracoa; Captain ?ROBY, to 12th of Apt it la-t. They herr'tore acquititeci him
the Iris; and Captain FIFE, to the Cadmus. of the charge brought ag. nisi him, and orciered his
sword to be restor,d to him b. the President.?
The Hawk, M'CULLoCti, arrived in the Clyde;
With respect to l'a . bapihte Lawn, the Court,
sailed from Demerara 14th Sept ; lett eet Sisters,
by a majority of five vox, s to .tour, found him
CAMERON, loaiing for Port Glasgoe : • sail the last
wit •of haver, in a COW.:rdly mairner, anandoned
.priogs in September. The Sir :.2 i)eileur, Ono, g ), "
the Cal cu__it a, in ,he presence til the enemy, 0,1 the
for Greenock- ; and the Cam/., -,,TtiompsoN, for
let h 01 Ae iril. e_..r e) p ihe.eture, p.djudg,.l ium to
Liverpool, both to sail ,_.• :....r I st.—Spoke the :,
suffer death, i.ursu.int to Art 35;. title `.;tl of Marine
ship Frances, PRIG -..... Liverpool, bound to
Penal Code, °I itie 22d AUE;USt, 1790, which was
New York, ie ~. .H .. tong 21. out seven days. ,
- - read -ey the President.
Spoke ti-.., big ..':.,table, CUDD, from Liverpool,
boar'. .0 St. ri,l-ll.olumew, in lat. 55. long. 14. Out : With regard to G,lillaume Marcelin Porteau, the
Court unittinuously aLqui,tt-d hint !it the charge
sei en d,r, -.. brought agaiu.t . him ; but by 'a .majority of five
Comoys will bLeithe appointed to tail from Sentenced Li
voices to tour, Sentenced 10 tioet 11,0,ii? 41i ..,.....-
Roads for Gottenburgh and Heligoland on the Ist fin,:lient ill his Own cimaibrii, ha haviut; set tire to
November. the Indienne with too inech precipitAton, and With..
The following is an instance of courageous cool- out previously ad' ioeg the Admiral ; and this in
ness seldom equalled. it is taken out of a late pursuance of the law ul 1 tie 20to September, 1796,
French Paper in our possession : •• , authorising recourse to the Military Code, with
"On the 15th oh September last, M. LAGELA, regard to otfences not pi-tette:it tor in the Metreee•
a legionary of Acerenza, in the kingdoor of Naples, Code. The Court ordeied Ciwain Froteau's sword
was surprkzed and arrested by six armed banditti. to be resturesi.
He was itninediately intrusted to the care of two of As .0 toe prisoner, Charles Nicolas Lacaille, the
the most ferocious, who had' orders to strip and Court lui.ing iak,:n Into t (insider,' i*a and found by
murder him in a neighbouring wood. He suffered a major, ty of slt v,,i,e, smu „area that he did • not
himself to bt, led without any resistance to the wood, lose toe Tourviiie- ,Ae•ieli lie cotunt.ini:ed.k ti•
t he
and at the moment when the robbers, thinking he sport arreonst) tete, nee tai boaku, t.ver tioorS atter
was already half dead with fear, were preparing care- , chit rite tier, deteridee eel against. the etkernfeAnd
lessly to finish their task,hecoliededall his strength, .' brought her into purl ; adju ,ged him, for having
disarmed t; e first, killed the second, anti taking pos- mornentaii,y q it ed his • . ssei, to the punishment
session of teeir horses, led them, with his prisoner, of two ys.ials'
to Acerenza, where he received (Ike praises and re- merit t hulks l imprisonment wherever the GOYerna
e ; and Lather to have his name struck
wards to which his bravery entitled him !" out of the 11-t ot it e Officers, and to bw degrad-
A letter from Turkey, dated as late as the 24th of i ed from the L• gkon of Houour.
September, contains the following paragr4ph : Toe prisoners Prtite-1, and Lacaille were found
Ismael is besieged by 30,000 Russians. The be- liable in exiences ot process.
sieging army is extremely a&ive in its operations, Toe seekence eas re.t,i to the prisoners at hillf7paSt
in order to reduce the place,. which defends itself two o'clock oil the gilt ; alio immediately aftet, the
stoutly. Besides the Turkish Grand Army, there is President retiree t• an athoining canku,,,s/lerie .he
another .Ottoman detachment at Varna. It seems caused Lacaille to be bi oug A re neto hiti,i-tv4.l. ,e,vr.
as if a great battle would soon be fought between . sideet then saw to hAI ;tun, that having beet ember
them." of the le-give, atel,. being round guilty .ot,fa,hirachf
- _ ... , honour. it was its duty to declare to lyrn, pursuant

several others ; particulars not known.
Arrived the aprey sloop of war, from the east-

~v.ird.

FALMOUTH, OCT. 28.--His Majesty's ship Nar-
cipus, with a fleet of viLitualiers for the ships of
wa ori the French coast, which sailed from hence
yesterday; got tmhayed, and has been obliged to re-
turn to this port.

SHEERNESS, OCT. 30.—Sailed up the river Thames
his Majesty's ship Azinc;,io-t, with the lower and
upper deck beams of a lint-of-bottle ship brought
from Flushing. -

The fog has been so very thick these two days the
ships at the Nore could have no communication with

the shore.

DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZE-MONEY.

To the Crescent, for the capture of the Minerva (the
Lord Keith cutter in company), on the ist of Novetnbe!, at
No. zi. Norihumberland.street, strai,d. and every Wednes..
day and Friday after at the same place.
To the Hyacinth, for the capture of the Zerymph, en the
Ist of November, at No. 21, No. thumberlaod—street, Strand,
and every Wedwi:day and friday at the same place.
To the Pluto ( Libert) brig and Sprightly cutter in corn-
piny) for the capture of the Virginia, American brig, on their
arrival in port, or at No. 26, High-street, Portbmouth, on
the ad of November, and every Monday and Thursday for
three ;nonths at the Salle place.
To the Dapper, for the recapture of the American ship
Alexander, every day after the Ad inst. at No. xi, St. Thu-
mites-Street, Portsmouth.

to Art. 6, of the Istw ut 1!5 Ventost:, year 12; in the
name ot the Leg;on, that he th.eneetortti ceased to be
a tnenmer thereof.
On the gin i t S,.peetuber, at four in .the after-
noon, time pris,ner Latun underwent his sentence,
on board the Admiral's ship ihe Ocean.

Mr. Taos. SHERIDAN left town, on Sunday, for
Portsmouth, on his way to Sicily, for the recovery of
his health ; which is not yet pettedly re-established.
OWEN WYNNE, Esq. is eleded Vice President of
the Farming Society of Ireland, in the room of the
late Marquis of Sew°.
On Saturday evening last, during the fog, a cart,
unattended, loafed with a pipe of Madeira, near the
Saracen's Head, Snow-Hill, was drove away by
d COUNT TRANIPE.—This Nobleman, arrived some
some thieves; the cart was found in Gowen ays ago in ..ndoti, with the view -oi ~eeking redress
.; L.
for the injury he sustained in. his Government of
street, empty. Iceland ; and as the chief conspiratoragnust him is
A Hammersmith coach was overturned near Lon-
now in one of our prisons, it is reported, that, at
don, by which accident several of the passengers were
very severely bruised, and an outside passenger had • the Count's request, be is to be delivered up to the
his thigh broken.—The Portsmouth coach, and a Danish Government, to suffer for his rebellion and
usurpation. This man us,aped the. Government of
Gentleman's carriage, were likewise overturned near .
Iceland for above eight week, when he was given
the same place, and esome of the passengers mate-
' up by the Native Icelanders HI Captain JONES, of
riallv hurt.
Owing to the fog on Saturday night several acci- i the Talbot sloop of war, who brought "liiri ?o E2tig-
land, where lie was soon recognized as4rating de-
dents happened on the Bath Road, near London.— t
A glass coach, belonging to Mr. Jones, in Davies- i serted from his parole. About 18 trro'iltrlYsiago',he
commanded a large Danish 'privateer, to et bijme
street, .Berkeley-square, was. overturned near Ken-
t of our cruizers. Count l'rattipe is a yOuilgi Irian of
sington, and one of the Ladies was cut in a most
I rather elegant appearance, and of good family and
shocking manner by the breaking of the glass.
' Orr Friday evening, about nine o'clock, as Mr. i estate in 1101 stein.
Sanderson, a well-known mathematician in Lou- ; The affair of the Militia soldier, who suffered cor-
don, And a teacher of that science, who hoAs a poreal punishment on board one of the'pr ison ships
,sitnation in the Trinity-house,. was .retui mpg- front in Plymouth Harbour, where he was on duty, 'has,
dining with the gentlemen belonging to that oifiee, we understand, been very warmly taken up by the
'along the Strand, he was followed by two men into Officers of that body. The Colonel of the regiment,
Essex-street, where he was going to call upon Mr. the West Essex, to which the man belonged, has
Neel ; when he lifted op his arm to knock
.at the sent a strong remonstrance to,the Secretary of State
door, the villain: lot ced , his a? n up higher, and ' for the Home Dopartinent on the subjea. The
searched Ins pockets, till, they found a book in the Commanding ()Meer of the ship, as weL as the Port
side pocket of his coat, which they suppo,ing to • Admiral, we hear, jusoty the punishment, biilii by
LI
be his pocket-book, ran oft with 5 but it proved to practice and the naval ins! ructions, which i3ajalOo
be only a scientific book. The villains made their naval discipline every one Aerying Li, or belangirg to
escape. j the fleet.