The Sun.
London, England, 1807-04-20 00:00:00

NAVAL NEWS.

PLYMINITH, APRIL t B.—Arrived the Lady War.
ren Armed Ship, from the Downs, and the Schooner
Boston, of Jersey, Capt. REL/LIN, from Pacermo,
laden with brimstone, Ex. ; last ftom Penzance. ,

PORTSMOUTH, APRIL lg.—Arrived yesterday the
Strenuous Gun-brig, Lieutenant NUGENT, frotri a
Cruize; and to-day theSary Bornb., Capt. GIBBON;
and the Childers Sloop of War, Capt. INN Es, with a
Convoy from the DOwni.
Sailed yesterday. the Jupiter, of 50 guns, Capt.
Bartza, with the folloing East indiarnen udder
Convoy :-.-Ceyian, Walpole, Surrey, and Lady
Castlereagh, for Madras and Bengal ; LOrd Haug:es-
bury; and Airley Castle; for St. Helena 'and Bengal ;
Charlton and Devonshire, for Bombay !Taunton
Castle, .Hope, ffooilford, Earl Camden, Colitis, and
-Surat Castle, for China ; and- several Ships for the
Cape of Good Hope ; sailed also the Steady Gun-
vessel, Lieutenant ARTHUR 'STO*,, for .Rio de la
Plata.; and ''the Harbinger, WI LLB, and Ma-
labar,. AscouGw(Transports), under COnvoy; Cro-,
-codice Frigale.;Cßptr: BETTESWORTH ; and the .eft,ert-.
'ger Sloop,, Capt. WHITE,. with A Convoy for Hali-
fax, Quebec, and Newfoundland ; Merlin Sloop of
. .
War, Captain FISHER, with a Convoy for Guernsey
and Jersey ;' and the Magpie Schooner on a Cruize.
Lately lost his-life by 'the taking fire of the Ajax,
Capt. BOYD., of this Division of Royal Marines.
Yesterday the' ProteEtor Sloop, laden 'with 'pota-
toes, foundered at,Spithead,;- providentially no lives,
were lost. -. •

-A Court l'ilartial assem'bled on board- the Gladia
tnr, in this Harbour, on the 16th and 17th inst.
Present —=-Admiral- Alontaa°u, President; 'Rear Ad-
ffi
ruiral Sir. Isaac Con, Bart. Captains Lawford,
S. H. Linzee, Graves, Irwin, Hon. C. Boyle-, J.
Brisbane, FL E. R. Baker, SornerVille, Nesharn,
Bettesworth, and D.- M‘Lcod ; to inquire' into,
the condUO of captain HENRY WHITBY, late-
of His Majesty's Skip Leander, who; by order
of Captain JOHN Poo Btacspoitp, of . His Ma-
jesty's ship Cambrian (about April last), then
Commander in Chief of his Majesty's Ships and
Vessels on the Halifax station, was directed to cruize
off New York, for the purpose of gaining informa-
tion ; and who, by a letter dated the 6th of May last
to Capt. 13EarsFortD, represented that on the 25th of
the preceding _month several vessels were coming
down- from the Light House, near New York, and,
ai they obstinately persisted in not attending to the
first shot fired from the Leander, when closely pur-
sued, several of the said vessels were boarded, and
among the number that did not bring to, was a coast-.
ing sloop, on board of which, it appeared, by various
letters and papers transmitted by Captain BE-
RESFORD to the Admiralty, .an American Seaman
was unfortunately killed by a shot fired from the
Leander, or from some other of his Majesty's-Sjtip,
and Vessels then under the orders of Capt. WntrAsy&
the Court having inquired into the coudu& of !Cap.-
tain WHITBY, on a charge of violating- the. Neu-
trality of a Station m amity ' ;s Majesty,:
and having on the 25th April Ls,. within the
Waters and Jurisdiaions of the United States
of America, 'unlawfully, wilfully, and of his tna:-
lice aforethotight, caused a shot to be fired from
His Majesty's Ship Leander, whereby one John
Pearce, a Citizen of America, was feloniously kill-
ed and murdered; and,havitig heard the evidence in
support of the charge, and by Captain Wurrny, in
his defence, and having maturely considered the
whole, were of opinion, that the charge had not been
proved, and did adjudge Captain WHITBY—to be
acquitted. •

FAI,MOOTH, APRIL 17.—Sailed last evening the
Prince of Wales Packet, TODD, with Mails of the
7th inst. for Lisbon; the Carteret Packet, PAT'F,R..
SON, with Mails" of same date for Gibraltar, Malta,
and Messina ; and the Princess' Amelia Packet,
STEVENS, with Mails of the Ist inst. for Barbadoes,
Crooked Island, and Jamaica.
PASSENGERS PER PRINCE ep WALts-114e.ssrs. Taylor,
Richards, Carpenter, Inkcrsley and Son.. •
PER C ARTI_RET. —Carat. Finlayson, Messrs. Lovell, Mor.
rison, and,Chevalier; the latter Agent for the Packets at
Gibraltar.

PER PRINCESS AMELlA—Messrs. Aruky, Gilboddy, and
11,14Cullum.

SHEERNESS; APRIL 18.•=—Arrived the Malabar,
of 50 guns, from Yarmouth ; also a Tender from
the'River with a number of French Nisoners 'brought
home in the East and West India Fleet, with which
she proceeded to the Prison-ships at Gillingham:
The Astrea Pripte-received her men from the St.Alban's, which re, only lent ; she went out to the
Nore, and Was paid' bounty and two months ad
-
Vance, and sailed for Yarmouth.

The Railleur Sloop of War got under ueigli, with
her convoy, for Tonningen, but the wind shifting to
the Eastward, they returned to the Little Nore.
The Bonetta Sloop of War sti:l continues with
the Baltic Convoy.
APRIL, ig.—Arrtverl the Cruizer Gun-brig.

DEAL,' APRIL ig.=----Sailed from the Downs last
night the Fury Botnb, with the outward-boUnd, &c;
under convoy, for Portsmouth.
Arrived and sailed for the River the Malta, EL-.
I:1 OTT, from Malta.
- Arrived. His Majesty's Ships Leda and Childers,
with a Fleet of Transports under convoy, from Ports
mouth, and remain in the Downs with the rest of
the Ships as per last.