The Sun.
London, England, 1809-10-07 00:00:00

night till.Thurilay at n
,The pauses thaten-
sued between oil: Mitnernts a6.lions were employed
by both in constantly preparing for a renewal of the
combat, and no sooner had the one Cleared away,
his wreck, than he again manoeuvred, and again re-
newed t he• work of destruclion. At len,ttlf trty, am-
munitiOn got low, and whets we struck there was
flut another shot in the locker. My crew were
worn out hr excessive fatigue,, for none of us could
sleep long during oar extraordinary contest, and we
had little time to spare for food. Besides the loss of
my vessel, I have to lament. the fall of Mr. Aldisson,
my Chief Mate, who was killed on the second day
of the action ; as well as this excellent young roan,
my boatswain, carpenter, gunner, and four valuable
seamen, were also killed in the course of the ac-
tion, and myself and nine of the crew wounded.
When the flag that had, day after day, and night
after ni !lit, bidden defiance to the enemy, was at
length struck, the vessel was anu entire wreck, and
literally kta.cked to pieces; our main-top-mast and
main-yard shot away, all our sails battered to rags,
and not a single shroud left standing.
" The Neptune has been condtunned, and with
ber 1 have lost every thing ; but I hope soon to
make it up again, for I have now, got such inform_
ation of the trade Of this extensive and rich coun-
try, as will be of the utmost benefit to me.
The privateer that took me was once the Vul-
ture, Capt. Christie, of London.; and though ex-
ceedingly well armed and manned, was given up
to a brig of three guns, without firing a shot ; so that
to this circumstance 1 may attribute my capture,
and all that has followed."

On the t oth of April last, arrived at Point de Galle,
the brig Martha, under Acheen colours, Capt. SA-
MUEL STOUT, from Maldiva the 29th March, bound
to Acheen.—Passenger, Mr. W. SFEEDING, late
chief mate of the brig Ceres.—While at the
Maldi-
was, a French National cotvette arrived there from .a
cruize up the Pcrsian Gulo,ll, 'and on the. Malabar
coast, She had made mary captures, among which
was the brig Ceres, belonging to Penang, with a
• valuable cargo on board, bound to Bomay ; the
corvette is called the Entreprenanie Capt, TiouraT
she is a brig, grab built, having
.a poop, very taunt
masted, and shews Arab colours; she left the Mal=
'divas 23d February, and was supposed to be bound
to the Mauritius, as her people were in a mutinous
state.'

Thy four missing ships of the late homeward
bound East India fleet not having yet arrived, 'nor
any account to be relied on respeding them, great
fears are to be entertained for the sakty of most, if
not all orthern=the whole fleet having been expos-
ed to A most tremendous hurricane, in the latitude of
the Mauritius, in which many of the ships, which
afterwards arrived, were for some time in a most
perilous situation ; some of them having seen iipset
by the Violence of the wind, but fortunately. righted
again,

The Calcutta, one of the missing ships, had been
teen
in the greatest distress, all her masts gone, hav-
ing brosched•-to, and the
,sea. making a fair breach
over her.
The Lady Jane Dundas, another of-the missing
Ships, had experienced, as was -supposed., -conslder-
able damage in India, having bteu athore-for some
time in- Coringa Bal.: We . understand, that on
board the Lady Jane DaadaS Werembarked. Gen.
M‘Dow&LL, late Commander in Chief on the Ma-
dras E= ablishment, Lieutenant-Col,:net CAPPER,
late Adj,iiant-General, and Major Bni..Es; A,sistaiit
Adjutant-General, all at wb balbeen su,pended
front their situations by the Governor at,Madras, at
the commencement of the late disputes between
that Government and the inthiary, The two latter
Of these Gentlemen had taken their- pas.4age on
board an American ship as far as Point de &tile, in
Ceylon, where the homeward-bound fleet were to
rendezvous, from which place, it is ascertained, they
again embarked for England on board .t he Lady Jane
Dundas, one of the unfortunate missing ships.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

ARKET FIRST OCTOBER MEETING, [SO9.

FiI,FDAV, OCT. 6. • Lord Crosveivu.'s Eaton, Bst. Elb. beat Mr. Shakes-pear'sHarpocrates,
ilarpocrates, Bst. 361 b, Ab. di. zcogs• h. ft.--7 to 4on
Eaton.
Mr Shakespe,ir's Sir David, Sst. tolb. beat D. of Graf-
ton's Morel, Est. z 1 b. Two-yr. old Course, tongs.—Even.
Mr. Wil_on's C. PIOUS Billy, by Kill Devil, out of purity,
beat a
each. Sir C. Bun Fir stburhaly's C. le.isainy, by Young Whiskey, Bst_
billy.
41 f of Ab. /I. zsgs.-5 to z agst Pious
Mr. Craven's br. R. Brandenburgh, tzst. rolb. beat Mr.
Lloyd's Fun, fist. 31b. First Half of Ab. M. zsgs.—z to 1
on t randenburgii.