The Sun.
London, England, 1814-07-11 00:00:00

IiAVM .NEWS;

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ANIERICAN SLOQP of *till 4i ttlisZlS4'. •

i'LymOti+ft; jut.*
ShiP Cdreu de'l3ishoil. from Lis'Odd-to FlaVee.--de.:.
Grac6; hotting on board; the crew of the ship
Orange Boven, Cif tain• •Bibradniz;
mock tdLondiin, Which vessel ii;aS c4tnred
ult. by the American sloop of war Wasp; and de-
Stroyeti. This vessel brings an account; that on
the 28th nit, the Reindeet brig 'of iiar; Captain
MANNERS, NI in With Wasp Anierimin sloop
of war; and engaged her at CloSe quarterS for 25
minutes, and attempted to carry the American
twice by boarding, bat was Overpowered by num-
bers, and at length obliged to Strike, but not un-
til Captain MANNERS, the Parser; and 27- nieri
were. killed, and the First Lieutenant, Master,
two .11,1idsliipmeiii and 41 then wounded. The
Wasp had,l i men . killed, and 19 wounded. 'The
Reindeer was burnt the clay-after the action.
Britis!i Force.... 16 24-ponndeii
') long. 1.2. ditto r 100 men, :55.0 tons.
Ditto ditto'
American Force "..tO 3,--pounders}
173 men, 606 tons.
Ditto ditto -9. 12 ditto
The Wasp had captured six. other British refs-
, sell, and destroyed them ; she is supposed to have
gone to Norway to repair her damage, which is
very great. The action was fought in lat. 48.10.
lon. 11.00.

Came in the American privateer Rattlesnake, of
18 guns and 50 men, captured by his Majesty'S:
ship Hyperion ; she left Rochelle, in company with.
the American ship .DEcatur. She had captured•
the cutter NVasp, from Lisbon, and the brig
Dover, of- London, and burnt them.
Dovea; Juts 10.—Passed by the West India
fleet for the River. Owing to a very heaVy fog:
the Recovery, BEATTIE (nue of them), laden with_
sugar and rum,.got on shore near Falkstone; but,
after lauding part of her cargo, got off,"' and is
tone for the Downs. The Medina, KENNEDY, is
also on shore near Folkstone; has landed part of
her cargo, and is expected to come-off next
Another of the West India fleet is also on shore
under the South Foreland Light-house—particu-
lars unknown.

FALMOUTH, :JULY. B.—Arrived yesterday the
Duke of Kent packet, with a mail from Hour-
deaux ; his Majosty's schooner Vesta, JO guns;
with a mail front Jamaica, in 30 days i and his.
Majesty's ship MisletOe from-PortsMouth. • •
PORTSMOUTH, 10.—Arrived
gent from the We4m-ord. . Sailed his Majesty's
Ship Le Tigre for Bourdeaux; and the Misletoe for
Plyinouth . His Majesty's ship Sparrow• is.ap-
poinfed Convoy for:Spain, Portugal and the Me—
diterranean, iti,tead of the Ranier. Wr; expect
hiS Majesty's ship Achar, with the-fleet for North
America and NeujOundland, will sail the first fair
4ind. Yesterday; after post, arrived a Bea of
transports, under cnvoy of his Majesty's ship
Milford. _ _

DEAL, JULY 10.---Arrived his Majesty's ship
Bartleur from Ports Mouth, bound to the River,
to -be aid. off Arrived yesterdity, his Majesty's
ships "Barham and .Forester, with upwards of 100
sail of the Jamaica fleet 5- chief part of them are
sailed for the River.
CORK, JULY 6.—Arrived this morning his Ma-
jesty's ship Lightning, Capt. RUNNY, having un-
der convoy eleven Transports, having on board
2d or Queen's, 20th, 48th, and 2d battalion of
the 53d, from Bourdeaux for this country. Also
arrived his Majesty's ship Tartarus, Capt. PAscoE,
from Portsmouth. . •
• HALIFAX, Am!, 22.—Arrived on Monday the
Manly gun-brig, Lieut.- HARE, and transport Lord
.Somers, Capt. BROWN, from New Brunswick.•;---
PaSsengcr in the Manly, Lleut.-Col: RonEsTsorr,
2d bait. Bth reg. ; in the Lord Somers, Major
Ptru.LorT, R. A. and Capt. AGNEW, of the Bth
reg. The transport was attacked, -on Sunday
evening, 10 leagues from the Light-house, by an
American privateer schooner, of 14 guns and lOU
men, which, after a sharp action, was compelled
to sheer off; six privates or the Bth were severely
wounded, Captain A. and a Corporal slightly;
the second Mate: of the Somers, A:.NEWLAND,
was unfurf.tnate.ly killed, two seamen mortally
wounded, and. the ship suffered much in her sails
and rigging. The canduct of Captain B. is very
handsbinely spoken of-. The ship mounts, six
18-pounder carronadses, crew 15 men and boys.—
Tuesday, Chesterfield paCket, with February and
March mails from Falmouth, 10th ult.

Extract of a letter from Halifax, dated the 31st
of Maw : •
The convoy under the Spencer, bound to Quebec, on the
14th May, in let. 44. 18. N. lung. 50. 50. W. Nil in *ith.up-
wards of 9.0 large islands of ice, some of which were 80 feet
above th surface of the water, and about two acres in extent.
-In the afternoon of the same dav, the convoy met a field of
ice, computed atiwenty miles extent, about thirty feet above
the Water's level, some parts being considerably higher ; most
happily these islands, and this immense field, were discovered.
ii and in the day time, fruit) which fortuitous
circumstance,
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The Milford; 74, Captain WESTLY PEtICEVAL,
arrived on Saturday at Portsmouth from the Me-
ilear "•cathe
n weather
accident occurred."
diterranean with a convoy, sixty-seven days from
Malta, and twenty-eight from Gibraltar. TWO
Veteran 'Battalions are in the transports. The
family of the late General CAMPBELL is come
home from. Gibraltar..

The Charybdis, IS,' Capt. CLEPHANE, arrived
on Friday at Portsmouth, from Halifax, whence
she sailed on the Gth June, with three vessels.un-
der . convoy. Sir A. COCHRANE had ;;one from
Bermuda to the Chesapeake, whet'e a large force..
was assembling.
All the line-of-battle ships that arrived within
the last week from the Mediterranean are to be
'paid of without delay.

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY ADDRUSS.—Such Mera.
bers as wish to attend are requested to be at Cue
Royal Hotel To-morrow at (Me, O'CLOCK.