The Sun.
London, England, 1807-10-27 00:00:00

NAVAL NEWS.

NORTH SHIELDS, OCT. 25, firlf past 7, Morn -
ing.---This moment Mr. LEE, Surgeon of the Eliza
Tender, has landed here from Copenhagen : he left
it on the 12th inst. in company with Admiral STAN-
HOPE, with nine Sail of the Line, several Frigates,
and an immense number of Transports laden with
naval stores, and parted from the Fleet three days
since, all well.

DEAL, OCT. 26.—Arrived yesterday afternoon li is
Majesty's Ship Success, from off Cherbourg, and
sailed again since for the same place.
Arrived his Majesty's Ships Elizabeth and Marl-
borough, of 74 guns each, from the Nore ; the Eli-
zabeth sailed through for Portsmouth ; the Marlbo-
rough got under weigh this morning; but was
obliged to put back, owing to the wind shifting.
His Majesty's Ship Clyde, Commodore OWEN,
sailed on a cruize off Flushing.
The Fleet under convoy of the Trymouth, Hum. 7
Ler, and Speculator Luger, sailed this morning to
the Westward, but have since put back again and
remain.

This morning a Smuggling Vessel, with upwards
of 500 casks of liquor, was driven on shore near
Walmer Castle, and seized by the extra Custom-
house Lugger, R. CURLING Master.
A very fine Prussian Ship, called the Arland:al,
Capt. OLOF E. SUNDBRIIOII, of Memel, from Ports-
mouth, bound up the Baltic, was, on Saturday night
last, driven on shore near his Majesty's Dock Yard
here, but from the great and ready exertions of the
Deal boatmen, she was extricated from her then
very perilous situation, and removed to a good birth
in the Downs.

The Galliet .Itilfrow Melia, LIRLFF STRICKIR,
of and fm. Bremen, from Bayonne, with wine, was
detained and brought into the Downs by his Majes-
ty's Gun Brig Cracker, last night, and still remains
detained in the Downs.

PORTSMOUTLI, OCT. 26.—Arrived the City of
Cork, BLACKERTON, and Two Elizac, DYER, from
Cork.

Sailed the Resolute, Lieut. HARRIES, and Hearty
Gun-brig, Lieut. WICKHAM, on separate crui2es.
Went out of Harbour this afternoon the Linnett
Cutter-brig, after undergoing a partial repair.

FALMOUTH, OCT. 24.—,-Arrived the Grace, BAR-
NETT, from Liverpool, for Malta; and the Sloop Ann,
PULLMAN, from Chepstow for Portsmouth, with
timber, with the loss of saili, &c.

The Diana_,_.Lewts, from Liverpool', passed An,
tigua for St. Domingo 3oth August, after a most
gallant adion with the French Schooner Privateer
La Vengeance, BIAGI', from Guadaloupe, out two
months, mounting 12 nine-pounders and too men,
which the Diana beat off Captain Lewis and
seven men wounded. Joined the Ship Hannah,
from Liverpool, off Antigua;after the action, which
happened on the 28th. .
The Cadit -Packet, CLAYTON, was captured on
the t ath inst. near the TeXel, by the Tilsit French
Lugger, of 17 guns, belonging to Dunkirk, and re-
captured by the Princess Augusta Cutter, and
brought into the Humber.
The following communication was, at a late hour
yesterday, made at Lloyd's ; but as the intelligence
to which it relates has been sometime known through
the French Papers, it created no extraordinary sen6it•
Lion :

" Lreorn, Sept. 3.

" Upon the '29th ult. 3630 French troops entered this
place, and took possession of the tOwn and Tort.' On the
same evening, a Proclamation was issued in the name of the
French General (SI low s), ordering the denunciation and
confiscation of all English goods and property; An Embargo
was; at epe same time, laid on all the Shipping without ex. l

cepti u. 7
To this was annexed the following, from the same
port:
•• septeyder so.
" No goods are permitted to be put on board the Vessels
loading in the port till further orders, nor ;Ire Vessels arriv.
ing•to be unloaded.—Xne Embargo still continues."

Twci Ships, of 74 guns each, are to, be built at
7orthtleet Anti liawich, to be called the ,Gloacesick
and the ScUrboroqh.

Two .meetings of inhabitants of Sheffield were
held last Week at the Tontine lon, to take into con-
sideration the propriety of Sheffield setting an ex-
ample to the other manufacturing towns, of peti,
tioning hikMajesty to exercise his Royal Prerogative
for the speedy restoration of the benefits of Peace.
But, in consequence of strong and repeated objec-
tions, by so.ne amtlemen, that it Would be
tic at the present moment to embolden the enemy,
by such a proceeding, it was determined to postpone
the assembling of a public meeting.,
By a private letter from Ceylon, dated the 9.3 d of
March, we learn, that the scarcity of grain in the
Carnatic has reduced that country to a deplorable
state. The Company bold out great offers to in-.
di%'iduals to import; and the Governor of Ceylon,
to prevent the like calamities there, has prohibited
its exportation. This letter says„ 11 You will per.
hapi-be astonished to hear, that our brandy costs us
but two rix dollars per gallon .(about 4s. std,) and
will probably be cheaper, from the great quantityln
hand. India is stocked with it."

A fevi days ago,, John Dempster, late teller to
the Thistle Bank. of Glasgow, absconded, leaving
a deficiency in his' accounts to. the amount of ten
thousand pounds ; he was, howeVer, pursued to
Portpatrick, where he was apprehended, broeght
back to tillasgow, and lodged in jail.