The Sun.
London, England, 1809-10-16 00:00:00

NAVAL NEWS.

PLYMOUTH, OCT. 14.--Yesterday afternoon as
the galliot Atlas, Captain AINIE, bound to Cadiz)
was working out of the Sound, she was ran foul of
by the sloop John and Mary, T*sos. EASTAWAI(f
Master, by which accident the former drifted ashota
on the rocks under the East Hoe, and received con-
siderable damage in her rudder, but was fortunately
got off soon after.

The schooner Conjurer, Capt. Bccicct,
:which
sailed frutu henceabout a month since, with a cargo,
for Gibraltar, is reported to have been captured by
a French. lugger privateer.
Sailed: the Bobert,, C2tA:WL3Y, for Malta and Gi•
braltar; '

Went up into Barnpuol, his\Alajesty's t.hip Aar-

ctssiis.
Arrived the Charlotte hired cutter, ;Lieutenant
BALL, from Guoinsey.

PORTSMOUTH„ OCT. 15.---Arrived .his Majestrs
ship Gosizawle from Cherbourg. •
•Sailed his'Majc ty'i ship's tlexterous.and -Heronean
on a cru zs ; Betsey,MELv IN ; Isatella;ifor
iami 3
and Industry, Ev-E,Atx,r, for Sunderland,

His Dilajesty's slip Pearl give 3 convoy instruaions
to the trade bound to tlid coast of Portugal and:tiles
Mediterranean.

. .
SHEERNESS, OCT. 14.—Sailed his Majesty's ship
Nightingale, with a convoy, for Gotteaburgh. .Also
sailed the Osprey sloop of :war, with tilts trade, for
Heligoland,

I)EAL, OCT. i4.—Came down from the RiVeg
the Coffee Planter, ROIERTS4 for" Jamaica ; Henry,
BENNb'TT, gad thelidert, ATKINSON, for Lisbon;
Polly, PttINOI,E, for :Gibraltar Zephyr, Scorl,
Langley, 14YElts, and the Blachet and .gitiley,listats
for Portsmouth,

YARMOUTH, Ocr..l4.—Sailed the Sprighttycot4
ter, with transports, for Flushing ; and the .40 dish'
Fair cutter, for Lynn, with convoy..
Arrived the Camilla. Sloop of war from a cruize
the North Sea, where she has made s.,rne captures,
Also the Censor gun-brig, from Heligoland, ano bas
brought. over several pasSengc..rs, part of the crews of
the ships lately lost off that isititici. -
Put in, with the loss of her steerage, a large fir
reign bark, a ship laden with timber for orders, mid
two hoys, with silk, from Holland, •

- , -
of war lyre: lioeb4ck, IS&
Oetasor, E,phila, Havoc, atiLi Vixen gua-brig.'
'• No an lk ais

DISTRIBUTION 01' ettIZE.MONEY. •
The Saisekte, 101 the Dorothea. Maria, on ner arrival. a`
Sheerness ; recalled fur threentociths, atNia„ 1, (nines-StreCiP
Adelphi
• The Libeity, for the Welwairen, on the 24th inst,
10. Henrietta-street, -rammeclatr
Qat)fescaiihninr;uh;:e. ss. 7L. petty U
The Rover, for the three ,I),1111411 vessels, Die
Mere Broth-es, and Itiningkcit, on her arrival in port ; recal4r'a!
on Tuesdays and Fridays, at Nu. t 8; element's Ihn. ,
The Aladras, in cthrip.iny with the Agnietirt.„ St,itely,.27;
others, for the .-,gnes, oh inst. at No. 18, (.:012.1"t
Inn; recalled same place on Tuesdays an'tf-Frrilays.
The Aurora, for the Concessione, on the 17th, at No.-211
Essex street, Strand; recalled on Tuesday and Friday:.
• The Melpomene, for several small vesselS, capturect,bod
tween the izth of Isnuary and
.30thor September, iBe2,
the Unite and Weazel, and -fur the Istria and R...chel Eliza" •
bath ; saline time and place and days or recall, • • ,

The Vulture revenue cutter, *arrived at PONS*
mouth on Friday night trona Fiushing, in 31 Ito"
having left it on Thursday,noon. From the prepara*
Lions making, there appeared to be every intentioa
of retaining Walcheren the French and Dutch
ordnance were -dismounting, and English pieces
planting in their stead. The Sickness among our
troops, we are sincerely happy to learn, was de-
creasing : though 3000 sick were embarked, oil
Wedne.sday and Thursday last, to be sent home.
Sir EYRE 'COOTE commands the Island, and Admi-
ral OTWAY, with the ftillowing ships,' the naval
force in the Scheldt, vii.---Ccesar, Blake, Vitiorious,
Audacious, Resolution, Theseus, Aboukir, Revenge,
Danmark, Hero, Marlborough, Impetueux, Cl;y4e,
Fisgard, and Imperieu,se. Commodore OWEN and
Captain BOLTON command a numerous ifoiiiia of
gun-boats in the East and" West Scheldt, fOr the de-
fence of the island.

A melancholy accident occurred on Monday last,
at Woudbridze,. in Suffolk, in the farnily of Captain
Marsh, of that place ; a child of Captain Marsh's.,
about two years old, being indisposed, a servant was
sent to a neighbouring Apothecary's for. a wino
emetic; a quantity of oil of, vitriol,was sent by mis-
take, and unfortunately administered to the infant;
as soon as tlie mistake was discovered, Mrs. Marol
fotced the child to swallow a quantity of oil used to
clean furniture with; this cansed.the child to emit
plentifully from the.stomacb, and-hopes were enter.*
tained of its surviving; it lingered, howeVer, till
Wednesday, when it expired in great agonies.
The next General Quarter Sessions of the Peace
for the County of Middlesex,w ill begin at the-Guilddi
hall, Westminster, on Tuesday the 24th day of Ocd
tuber instant, instead of Wednesday, the 25th in.•
slant, which is the Jubilee Day, and the Sessions
will be held by adjournment, at the Sessions-house,
upon Clerkenwell Green, on Monday, the 30th in-
stant.

Even bets are now laying, that two out of the
Four Twenty Thousand Pounds Prizes; to be Drawn
on Friday next, will be Shored by HORNSRY and
CO. Policies are likewise opened at a premium of
Ten pet Cent. that HORNSBY and CO': sell or share
the Four Twenty Thousands.

4. B. C. D. against the whole.. Alphabet.—The
Cabalists who invented charmed words, never .pre-
tended to produce such _magical etletth as these let-‘,
tors will produce next Friday, on drawing-the
tery, for these letters, being annexed to certain num-
bers, will stand for '200,0001. CARTER, No. ti;
Charing-Cross, respectfully takes the liberty, of re-
questing his friends' to mind their P's and Q's beloie
the drawing, and then perhaps there will be-no
lion for such ckoSe attention to, them afterwards.