The Sun.
London, England, 1809-11-29 00:00:00

DG'IDANDS.

lan. Samuel lbbetson, of Ludgate-hill, London, silk-
..rnerceri at ten, at
pec. i 7, William liodson, of Manchester, cotton-manufac-
turer, at eleven, at the Palace Inn, Manchester.
Feb. John Martindale, of aew 13ond,street, Middlesex,
wine-meiciiant, at one, at
lan. 30. Thmna, White, of Southwark. ,Surrey, haber-
- rlAsner, tit twelve, at Guilt:halt, London.
1 es:. 9. Min R-411-111 hattier, and Jon kcJi) Zorrili r, of

DEsTnicTION OF A FRENCH SQUADRON
IN THE MEDITERRANEAN.

WE have the satisfadipn of stating, that the
hopes which we entertained, and have so confident,
ly expressed, of a Naval Viaory in the Mediter,
ranean, are at length happily realized, At an early

hour this morning the Hon. Lieut. WAlJnottays,

of the Philomel, arrived at the Admiralty with Dis-

patches from Lord CoLLlNco,voop. These Dispatchps

state, that a squadron under the 'cornmani of Ad.

min!! IiAUDIN, COMigia4 of the "fiabustri of 139, the

Lion, of 74, ana the Borje, of 74 guns end), four

frigates, and twenty large armed transports, pil-
ed from Toulon for the relief of Wirceloua.-

Admiral, MARTIII, whQ had been detached by

Lord COLLINGWOOD, teil it; with the 1 French

squadron, on the 26th October, and We are h-aptq

to say, that, with the exception of ono frigate, and

one store-ship, they ban .been all destroyed. The

three line-of-battle ships and one frigate were driven

on shore otf Cette, where they were burnt by the
enemy to prevent their falling into our hands. Two
of the frigates and the armed tran.,potts, which had
succeededn getting into the Bay of Rosas,, were at-
tacked there on the tst inst. by the busts of our

squadron, and completely destroyed. Our loss on
this occasion was inconceivably small, - considering

the magnitude of the service, and the force of the

enemy. Our whole loss amounted to fifteen men,

killed, and 55 wounded. Among, the lamer, we

are sorry to,say,. was Lieqt, TATE, of the Videnta;re

frigate. The.whole of .the Toulon Fiee consisted.

of sixteen sail of the line, and 160 transports. They

sailed from Toulon, and chased off our advanced

frigates, but the main body of the Fleet returned to

port in about four hours, and Lord CoLLtNGwoop

was proceeding to blockade them.

Dispatches were last night received at the Ad-

miralty froM Admiral Pußvxs, containing such de-

tails as bad reached him respelling the above glion,

but the importance of these dispatches have been su-

perseded, by those received from Lord CALLING•

WOOD.

Th`e folloAing letter was this morning- sent to the

LORD MAYOR

Admiralty'..officv,., Nov. 29.

" MY Loan,

" I have great satisfaction in acquainting your
Lordship that DiTait:hes have been received from

Lord CoLLIN*4-....wolated he 3011 i ult. and C)th is t•

stating, that a French convoy, destined for Barcelo-

na, consisting of three sad of
_.the line, two large
frigates, and two smaller frigates, with 20 sail of
armed store-ships,-had sailed fromioulon on the 21st
of Ociober, the whole of which (with the exception
of one of the larger, and one of the smaller fri-
,
gates) had been destroyed.; the line-of-battle ships
by being driven .on shore on the 25th, and the

armed store-ships by an attack of the boats of
the Vleet under the command of Lieutenant

TAILOUR, in the Bay of Rosas on the Ist November.
" I regret to add, that the loss sustained in this

gallant and successful enterprize, condueled by this
Officer, amounted to 15 killed and 50 wounded,

f' I have the honour Co be,

" My. Lord,

" Yolit Lordship's most obedient humble Servant,

E' The Right Hon. the Lord Mayor."

" Min-GRAM"

, Many, of the Foreign Papers have recently con,.
tained Mysterious hints of important changes which
are about to take place on the Continent. The
Hamburgh Paper, which is under the direlition ‘of
B .uannotE, and which may therefore in some re-
spas be considered as an official Journal, says, tha(
BUONAPARTE means to, assn.= the title of " Em-
peror •of Germany." We are strongly inclined to
think that he has some plan of this kind'in con.
templation, and that his vassal Princes have been
summoned to Fontainbleau with a view to that ob,
jest. There is another plan which BUONAPARTEiS .
said to ,have formed, but which does not appear
quite so probable. It is Said that he means to pro,
pose a match between the Princess of SA.xeriY and
FERDINAND the With, and to -restore the latter to
the Crown of Spain, on condition of- his ceding .to
Fratace the Provinces as far as the Ebro, _

We last night received Spanish Papers to the
17th inst. extracts from which are given in our sub-
sequent columns,

The Marquis WELLESLRY, reached town yester-
day forenoon. Soon after his arrival, he waited on
the Earl of BATHURST at the Foreign Office, with
whom his Lordship transacted business. The Noble
Marquis will this day be presented at Court, on his
return from his Embassy,. and it is expeled that he
will receive from his Majesty .;the Seals of the Fo,
reign Department. •
Yesterday a Cabinet council was held at the Fo-
reign Office. There were present the Loma CH Als1;.•
CELLOR, the E,rlS of CAmoeN, LivsapooL.,
BA-
TIIURgT, WZSTMOBLAND, and FIAicf,OWBY j Lord
MULGRAVE the CHAsclq.l..ort of the Exclut;tursai
Mr. RIDEI, and Mr. IL S. DONIMi:
Yesterday Sir John OanE tranga.,.ted business
with Los(' MULGIIAVE at the Admiralty.
• Yesterday Sir DAviD 1)u/iota held a public day
at hii Offii:e in the Horse Guards, and gave audiences
to Generals ACIU-AND and WHET44I,4 also to a
number of other Military Officers.
The Dukes of YoRK. and CAMBRIDGE went on a
shooting party, on Monday, in, Windsor Forest.
Yesterday the Duke of CuipaaLAND'took the di,
„version of stag-hunting, at Windsor ; the stag took
course' through Windsor, to Old Windsor and

, We yesterday gave,a variety.of important accounts
from the Hamburgh Papers to the 19th, in addition
to which we find in one of them the following IN-
cree, relative to the commerce of the North ot
.G6r-
many :---'

WROM. THE PROTOCOL OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE.
In our Palace* Fontaililllpau, Oa. 29.:

NAIrCIL4ON, iStc. &C.

•
• On the report of our Ninister of Finance, We have decreed,
and do decree, :as fellows : •

. . .
All.'l. Colonial produCe oushnht he. imported, through' the
French. Custom-house line, the principal station of which is
flamburgh, nor be conveyed out of that city in order to he
transported with.vut the said line. Such proditce as may,
notwithstanding this prohibition, shall be confiscated,. as
well as the vessels, horses, and waggons employed in con-
veying it. . .
Art. 11. Otit Minister of Finance is charged with the exe-
cution of the present Decree.

NAPOLEON.
H, B. MARET, Nlintster of St4to.

•
The David Scott Indianian, from Bombay, is
arrived in the Downs. This ship sailed on the 1:It
June, without any consort, The -Bombay News
papers have reached us by this conveyance, but we.
do not find in them any account of the Embassy td
Persia. They contain some details of a . battle be.
tween the Persians and Russians, in which the lat.-
ter are stated to have been defeated. Some repre-
sentations bad been made by the French Minister
to-- ,tbe Persian Government, but the answer was
postponed until.the British Envoy should be con-
sulted. A considerable number. of French frigates
continued at Fort Napoleon, which could not .sail
for the want of seamen. The English friate Laurel,
prize to the Canogierc, had been fitted and sent-on
a cruize to the straits of Mulacoa.

CUEEIoUs MISTAX.E.---A report lately appeared in
somp of the papers of an adion tried at a' Northern
Assizes respelling Lady Williams, Miss Rachael,
and Miss Tidy, all belonging to the same individual.
and • whom he had sold,
,they being three cows so
named. The Paris papers recently received have
copied this report, and the Editors either not under-
standing or not observing th joke, by which at the
end of the report, these supposed ladies turn out to he
cows, have made them all women, and have thus
given the report of the trial with comments, in which
they remark upon it as a most extraordinary ciicutn-
stance to occur in a civiliied country, that a man
should be allowed to have three wives, and that he
should have its these wives such an absolute property
as' to he allowed to,sell them.

n

NAVAL NEWS.

Fiwtt the LONDON GAZETTE, Nev. a, Iscl.

Admiralt rOffice, 28, 1 8 og.
Vice-Minn-al Holloway, Commander in Chief
at Newfoundland, has transmitted to John, Wilso°
CrOker, Esq. a Letter from Captain Graham, of the
Vestal, giving an account of the capture'by ihit ship
on, the 19th instant, of the French privateer brig
L'lntrepido, pierced for twenty-guns, and having 3
complement of one hundred and twenty-five DON
then on her first cruise.

The Vestal had also recaptured the English br.ig
13ellena, from Newfoundland to Jersey, and the
English ship Fortitude from the Brazils to Lisa'
pool.

Admiralty-Office, Nov. 28, 1809.
Captain Brace, of his Majesty's ship Virginie, hog
transmitted ,to John Wilson Crofter, Esq. a Lend
from Captain Sit—William Bolton, --of the Druid,
giving an account of his having captured, on the
13th instant, the French -National brig' Le Basqa,
of sixteen-guns and one hundred and twelve ma)
commanded by Monsieur Liscourt, .Lieutenant da
Vaisseaux, bound . from Bayonne to Guadaloupe,
with flour and other storei.

And also a Lotter from Captain Worth, of 06
Helana Sloop, stating the capture, on the sane dal,
of the, Revenge Ftench Privateer, of St. Atiloes,
piercd for sixteen-guns, and with sixty-one
on board.

. FALIIOUTEI, Nov. ,--Arrived this day the
Princes Augusta packet, Capt.FURZE, with 0036
from Cadiz, 12 days passage, by which we have 0
length the pleasing intelligence of the capture and
deStruLiori of th 6 French squadron in the Mahler'
ranean. • -

*lt .appears that arr.the 25th 06-lober, Lord,Cov
, .
LiNwoop fell in with six sail of the line, eight
frigates, and about 40 transports, the latter having.
on -board 9,500 troops from Toulon, bound to Bar"
eelona: tfic result was, the capture of three sail
of the line, six frigates, and 20, transports,-;-two Sad
of the line driven on shore and. butuk—one sail °f
theline got into Cette,' and two frig4g'S; with aNtit
90 transports, in attempting to escape,..got on 11l
rocks near the ,Bay of RUsas, and
.wereivwlii.i Lost*
with nearly the whole of the troops and
The vessel dispatched by Lord with the
gence to.Engijnd, was unfortunately wrecked near
ceut;i4 ana only one man saved.
The QUeO Chatt9lte pactcet, MUDGE, has
Eit caCia.

Lord WELLINGTQN left Cadiz fQr Lisbon, thO
day previous to packet Railing.

PVIANUTII, NOY° Q7.--Arrived "the brig of
this port., DAVID LEWIS, Nlast,T, from St. iihdrews,-
(e-13-pertca) laden with tintuer, hound to this port;
on the Qutir inst. in lat, 49.. Q. N. Long. 21
W. she spoke the American ship se ittsburoh, flora
Philadelphia, hound to Yonningen, which ship fled
(peen hosidecl on thq pric;dfng
evening,
-.'rencti brig privateer of 10 guns, the l a
Captain air
wineii informed the Master of the American ship'
that he was'cruizing there for the.express purpuso
of intercepting some of our Imueword.-bound Wes;
4rolameti>

•Arrived. the 4.lvonmare, Gortport, from cork, hat
from Falt14110; laden with provisions for this port.
Sailed his Majesty's ship Pluenix, Copt. MvpoS,
to the Eastward/ his Majesty's ship Plover, opt.
1340 w NE, on a cruize in the Channel; ,tic Fors'''
gueze*ship ilinizade, A. V. PALI-unpins, Master. lot
Oporto ; and die Prpsperity, wILLIAms, iur 'OP
terford.

Went up the harbour to be repaired, his Males'
ty's ship Dia,44,

Sailed ibe Vadintit gun-brig, on a truize.
Caine do-wri. the harbour, and anchored in el°
Sound,. his 4L-I:jesty's brig intelligent. •

Arrjvqd the 'Goldfinch sloop of war from off Rah'
fort. - •

4 barge,tfiat sailed from hence yesterday mot"
'Mg for Faltnouth, with a cargo, sunk between Pen'
lee Point and the Ram Head; there were only two
persons on board, one'was drowned, the other saved
himself by getting into the boat.

William Handeock, an out pensioner of Green."
wich Hospital; aged 55; was this . morning found
drowned, on the rocks under the Hoe.

PORTSMOUTH, Nov'. 28.--Arrived his Ablest?.
ship'll7yrtle, Lard Cultinpv. God, SALZ4ON, from
bon ; Pheenix, -, Elizabeth, SHApthy, frog°
Oporto; -Duvn; GouLD, from Rio Janeiro, With
rice, for Government ; Princess of Wales, IVP,K 1.
L A , from LOndon, bound to the West Indies. •

His Alajestrb:'lip Ant tykes convoy to Guernsey
instead of thei'ariierlon.

The 2 homas and Hannah, HOLMAN master, We'
longing to yortsmouth, from Exeter, bound to Loa'
dun, laden with bale goods, pipe clay, &c. was 0°
down at sea, on the 2.3 d instant, by the Princess of
IIPaIes,,M'KtNLAY master, from London, bound 10
the West Indies: the crew of the sloop were saved
by jumping,On board of the Princess of If ales.

. DISTRIPITTION. Of •PRIZE-MONEY.
Virginia for the rseVt' on 4oarri at Cove, Cork, °"fiOer,
,
after. Occember.Ntv .ftc.lled at. tite lob" I("
Esq. Cove, Cork, on Siturdays and Wodnesday6.
arthian for 'Nouv...lle Girondc,
port ; recalled at No. ti,
on boar .l oil her arm

tEbbNti. EbitiOt4.._

SUN-OFFICE,

THREE O'CLOCK, P. M.

o -.

*ie stop the Press to lay before our Readers the
flowing Bulletin, just issued from the Admiralty,
Intaining the particulars of the of the

reach Squadron in the Mediterranean
Admiralty-o*e, Nov. 2g, 1809.
"Dispatches have.been received at this Office
Om Vice Admiral Lord CoLLINGWooD, dated the
Jth ult. and ist inst.. off C.ipe St. Sebastian, cosn-
tunicating the following intelligence :
" That, on the 21st ult. a Convoy sailed from
'oulon, for the relief of Barcelona, consisting of
tree sail of the line, two frigates, two smaller fri-
ates, and about twenty sail -of armed and store
yips : that on the 23d the British Fleet, of sixteen
til 01 the line, saw the Enemy, whose line of bat-
e ships immediately separated from their Convoy ;
Lie former were chased by our line of battle, and the
titer by Captain Barrie, with the frigates and smaller
easels.

On the evening of the 24th, Rear-Admiral
WAKTI,I4, in the Canopus, in company with the Re-
!own, Tigre, Sultan, Leviathan, and Cumberland,
gain got sight of the enemy. On the morning of the
'sth they Were still in sight, and the Rear-Admiral
:ontinued the chace till he drove the whole ot,them
Lahore, the &thole, 84, Rear-Admiral Bountia, and
he .40/t, 74, off Frontigiaarr; and the .dorce, 74,
tild one of the larger frigates, near Cette.
" it -was impossible to get close enough to attack
the line of battle -ships on shore, near Frontignan,
rtiri in attempting to do so, one of our ships bad but
Eve fathom water, and another less than six ; how-
tver, 4.3 n the itear-Aiinairal's making, next morning,
Preparations for attacking them, the French them-
kelves set fire to those ships.

" One of the smaller trig,ares, and those ships of
the convoy that had escaped Capt. BAItRIE (who on
the evening of the 23d burned five of them) took
Itelter in the Bay of Roses, and were moored un-
der the protection of the Castle of Rosas, of Fort
trinity, and many other newly efeL.i:l Forts. On
29th Of October a detachment of the fleet, un•
der Capt: kist.LowELL., of the Tigre, proceeded
*Atha view to take or destroy those vessels, and on
the ISt .of November the boats Of the Tigre, Came
l'erknd, Voloataire, Apallai Tapaze, and 7 uscan,
under the command of Lieut. Tsmotra, Ist of the
tigi•r, attacked the enemy, and after an obstinate
litlence by the Vessels themselves, by the batteries,
tuttLboatab and musketry from the shore, the Lieu-
tenant succeeded in capturing 1 t sail, seven of which
he burnt and sunk, and tour of which, an off-shore
'Wind springing hp, be was enabled to bring away.
" Nothing could exceed the conduet and gallantry
of this enterprizes 'in which our loss was 16 killed,
and 65 wounded : Lieutenant TAIT, of the Volon-
taire, aad.Mr.CALbwata.,MasteesNate of theTigre,
are the only Officers killed; Lieutenant TAILOUIt
tirnself was among the wounded.
" Of the whole, therefore, of
,tbla Squadron and
onvoyi one only of the larger frigates, which got
loto Marseilles, in the night, and one of the smaller
is store-ship, which has not yet been heard of), have
%kaped."