The Sun.
London, England, 1809-08-18 00:00:00

NAVAL NE-WS.

YARmou'rn, APP'usr 17.--4rrived L', spiegle
with Transports, .marks and No, Ipc.:. V. 4. and G.
with troops, said'to be destined for Heligoland, and
sailed again this morning for their destination.

S.:iled tito Constant gun-brig on a cruize.
• Remain in the 'Roads, the Roebuck, ifoiquito,
Acute gun-brigs) and Bermuda sloop.

SHEERNESS, AUG. 17 .—Carney dOwn - the river
Thames his Majesty's sure-ship Cormorant, with
naval store's for Antigua.
Arrived the G/uckstadt and Opparsum from a
cruize.

DEAL;. AVG. 17.—:-Arrived his Majesty's ships
AcgstO, Dolphin, and Purveir brig, with the Con-
voy from Tortola, in six weeks. and three dayl.
The Do/plan has on 'board 400 French prisoners ;
also two transpbrts with prisoners which were taken
at the Saints. The fleet have sailed through for the
River.

The outward-bound, which sailed this morning,
are coming back to OA, Downs, the wind haying
shifted to the S.W.

Atraust.l7:—Pased by for Lond3O--,.

King George, Cotton, from St: Vincent's ; Baltic Mer-
chant, Smith, from 'ditto ; Canada, Dove, from ditto ;
Mercy, Watson, from Barbadoes ; Hopewell, Corry, from
ditto ; Charles Carter, Drysdale, from New-York ; Har-
yey, Redman, from Trinidad ; Ealing. Grove, New, from
Dominica ; and the London, Duncan, from Tobago.

PORTSMOUTIT, AUG. 17.—Arrived the Pallas
RoßrNsOrr,.from New Brdnswick. •

Sailed the SWift, PURDY, for Sunderland ; Hope,
GERMAR, for London ; his Majesty's ship Hawke, of
16 guns, for the coast of Africa; Lark, WniTg-
stnEs ; ifincling, CAMpsorj ;• June, DAVISQN j Betsey,
LooTH • and Eliza, --, for Africa. The whole
of which are brought.up again in Cowes Roads, the
'wind having shifted to the westward.

_Although we do not give implicit credit to the
whole of the details wliich we extraaed yesterday
from the Gibraltar Chronicle, rcsPeeting our suc7
cesses in Italy, yet we have strong reason to believe
that a very considerable portion of Calabria is in our
possession. The french Papers have lately taken
uncommon pains to represent :4\111.0T as being ex,
tremely popular among his subjeas, but the het is
directly. the reverse; the severities which he has
exercised hive made 'him an object of detestation as
well as terrori.particularly in the Southern e4tretnity
of Italy.

FURTHER PARTICULARS RESPECTING TOM

1' ~1N1:.

" A short period before hedied, and while life was
trembling in the socket of time, two Ministers of
the-Gospel, ainopg the most respeCtable of that body
in New-Yolk, from motives of compassion, called
at the house wher, lie lay, and with great difficulty
were admitted into his Lb:miner ; having gained ad-
mitioncc, they ()petted to him the purport of their
usin4 the i indest langiNge-,-language which
has ol.en wiped th., cold sweat trom the brow of suf-
fering ant the sweet acett;s of the Gos-
Oel roused the t atrAl ut his soul to Christianity. re
turned to them, and bid them, " begone, begone
They ationpied to soothe him, but in vain ; rising
(with What little strength he had) in the bed, clench-
ing his fist, he repeated," begone, begone, ;oegone !"
arid they were forced to leave him, without the good
they intended.
• An Ainerican Gentleman-in Amsterdam, hes,writ-
to his friend
.here by the late arrival from Amster-
dam, that .he had received a letter from General
ARMSTRONG, our Minister at Paris, advising hint
to remit his money tu-England or America without.
delay, as the General had finally pade up his mind
to leave Francelmnr:diately and realm to America.
—(A414.2. Yor4 Gazette, July 17.)

The American Senate has confirmed the nomina-
tion by the President of the United States, of JOhn
CI. Adams, as Minister Plenipotentiary to the Court
of St. Petersburgh—Yeas 19—Nays 7..
The following are extrade from the Philadelphia
Papers :---

i
I " BOSTON, JULY 17, 1809.—Captain Smith, who
1
arrived yesterday M 24 days from Cuba, informs us,
. that two days previous to his sailing, a Gentleman
- came to that place from Port-au-Prince, and report-
s '.d drat Petion had collected all his followers in mass,
`.; mounting to about 14,000, of which 2000 were
c, ivalry ;.that of this force 4000. had marched against
• ti ie Cape, under the command of four Colonels,
w, ho, in case of success, were to be promoted 3 and
' Ili` 'imbed with a determination to effect their object,
or, to perish in the attempt, The Gentleman added,
tha t information had been, received of the num-
lc, .ed march of this little army to within twenty
mi. les of the town ; but that the news of their ap-
pt, ,Bach having been gained by the enemy, the troops
att i inhabitants were colleded to defend the place.
RI vas however, conjectured, that their resistance
wot ld be fruitless; and that the town had already
cap't tulated. Petion was encamped about eight miles
from , Port-au-Prince, with the remaining troops,
waits erg the result of this enterprme 3 when it was •'
his is -iteration to join' General le Mein, who cOrn-
wand' , d at the Mole, and attempt the imtnecliate
and t tal annihilation of- Christophe's army.' cAc-
counts had also been received of the destruction of a
part or .christophe.s fieer, and the dispersion of the
remain 4 . er. . .
lila truaionshave been sent to the 'Collectors,,
from th Treasury department, to allow the admis-
sion of 4 nips of war of Great Britain and France, Ps
well as 4 I other nations, without restriEtion." ,
._.

A Cal let Council was held yesterday at the Vo-
feivi