The Sun.
London, England, 1815-01-02 00:00:00

come into this port."

" Tie St. Mary, SnurtuN, one of the West In-
dia fleet, has put back to this port : she lost the
convoy three days since ; and Captain SIMPKIN is
Of opinion that the fleet is gone up Channel."

A Dutch fleet of two sail of the line, two fri-
gate's, and two sloops of war, sailed from the
Texel on the •23d ult. for the Mediterranean.—
By letters from our out-ports, it appears that this
fleet was dispersed in a gale of .wind three days
after sailing ; one of them, a 74, called the Zea-
land, has got into Plymouth ; and one of the fri-
gates, the Aageraad, has got into Torbay, having
lost her, mizcn-mast aud sprung her fore-mast.—
The remainder of this fleet are supposed to be
still beating in the Channel.

FALMOUTH, DEc.,.:3o.—Arrivet! yesterday the
Queensberry packet, with a mail from Halifax, in
17 days ; and .NoctOn packet, with . a mail from
Jamaica, in 44 days.—Arrived to-clay the Louisa
packer, with a mail :rant flalifaN, in 23 (lays; .the
brig. Nancy, BoUSE master, from Malaga, last
:front Cadiz :for London ; was taken .otf Cape Vin-
cent's- on the 2d -instant by the Perry American
privateer, who plundered her of. a .great part of
her carpi and stores, &c. -Ten itinutes after the
vessei strtick , :he pi'ivateer -fired into .her, and
kilted the Captain ; they afterwards gave her up
to the crew, and she arrivethit St. lye's yester-
day.morr.ing.—Put `lack the St. Mary, SIMPSON,
one of-the West India flet.q.—Wind S.S. W.

POlll-i,MOLTTII, JAN. yrived tiffs
ships Cordcii,t and [lope,. from ;
from Ciuxrn.,,ey; :horning .Star, from ;
Sn9annlll, from Water(ord ; and the Camel,' from
Plymonth.—Wind N. N. V.

PLYMOUTH. DEC. 31.—Arrived several ships
from 1-1011 and and other parts of the Continent;
but we have no arrivals to-day likely to bring any
news. Came in his Majesty's'. ship Zealand, 74.
guns ; -a Pore:l,ll'ln of war, from Holland for the
Mediterranea.l,; St. Johannes, from Lisbon, with
Government .stores, last from Newfoundland ;
she sailed in Jalylast for this port, and was taken
by the Grand Turk American privateer, retaken
by the Sabine sloop of war, and -carried into St. Circumstances have transpired which have very
John's. Arrived the Favourite 811(1 Tha.,s stoops T.l_, , - t• - • •
mu eu enanged tne opinion of the ptiblic 'on the
of war front Piirtsmoulit. Sailed the Kangaroo
'sloop of war, and Dolphin, on a cruize.— affair of General D'Excelnians. It is now said,.
Wind IV.that the Government- had intercepted a letter
Toßrixv, DEC. 31.-,—Arrived the Dutch frigates written by this,Qsicer to 7-durtr,•King of Naples,
Aageraad, with loss of inizeti-mast, and fore-utast Wherein the General devoted hiniself to the .set,'
sprung ; she is one of a squzulron of two shit of " .
vtce-of his Btionapartean Majesty, and assured him
the line, two frigates, and two sloops of war, lint.
sailed for the Texel 22(1 instant, and parted in a that he could answer for 20,000 other-brave men,
gale three days since. • as trim to-the cause as himself.- What cause (his
LivEßroor:, Dr.c. 31.--The fleet which sailed was, it is easy to --conjecture.-- Admitting such to
from Cork die 7th Sept. arrived at Barbadoes the
rite tact,
the 1 ..
'- 27th Oct. The Painter's Glory, from It hydland be tne lteasure nt placing. D'Excelmans
for this port, sunk in a suddensquall, last night, on half-pay, and. of subsequently ordering him
. off the point of Ayr. A lady passenger drowned--; to leave Paris,. cannot certainly, be considered as
The sehowter Rhoda, from Bermuda for this port, - •
a harsh exer.ciN.e of authority. The General,
was taken the 291 n inst. off the South Coast of
-in-
Ireland, by an American privateer.—A laige ship, deed, has hauled down his colours,
.having re-
supposed -.,. homeward-hound West Indianian, was cently;.vritten a letter to the King, wherein' he
taken the 2 I.•t iii,t. off 'Crookhaven.—The Wit-
confesses his faultsitrrenders himself a prisoner
liarlia Leece;-Jc•Nbs; that At-as on shore near Lv-
thain,b3s.beent off, and arrived here- to-day. 2— —and supplicates the Royal mercy. It is sup-
The vessels,"that' :Tete Ott shore near Drogheda, j posed that the publiC service will require
.an e...
have also been -got. (4. . .ample more or less severe.
DEAL. J.:,:;.• I.L—Afrived the Griper gun-brig
from th! \Vestwaya, and sailed to,Sheerness, to be DEC. 27.—A courier has this day reached the
paid 'oi-i!' Came dpoat wo ii.the River several sail Duke of Wellington from Ghent, with news that
of out.ware-bound, and sailed, With the whole of' peace was signed between-Great Britain and Ante-
the outward-bound, to alie 'Westward. Also • -.
ma on Saturdity last, the 24th" instant,. The
sailed all the shii-s that came down yesterday.—
N.. terms Th
l'have not yet heatd. .e%French rejoice
Wind , ,
at this event, us it puts an end to the blockade,ot
the American harbours, and opens the United
States to the commerce of France, equally, at
least, with that of England. .

PARIS, DEC. G.

By a litter front Brest of the 22a inst. we are
informed, that :an American privateer
.called the
Siirpfize, of Boston, of 16 guns, and 120 men ;
had arrived there a few day before, after a very
successful crnize of six weeks, having made no - .. ..
fewer than twelve piizes. -
..
eg by the Susan, states that such .was the avidity
. A letter from'Calcatta of the 30th July, receiv--
The Rattler left at Halifax the Superb, of 74,
the Bon. Rear,Admiral Ilon=s.%l; who (his .ship of all classes to avail themselves of the privi-
baying been refitted) ‘'vas about to sail to resinue • lege granted by the.new Charter, that. every ship
his emmaand off New London, with two vessels . in the Ganges which could undertake the voyage,
nhich had been fitted-out as fire-ships ; they were
intended, ihe moment -a chance of ecess Should was
.speedily to he 'laden for Great. Britain-with
tb.rigate Fulton the
offer, to •
, Le • Seat against the American steam A few nights, ago- a Gentleman, a stranger to
Indian manufacture and produce. ,
's.
First, which has been lately the house, came into the Angel-Inn, St. Giles ,
and enquired • for a bed ; he was shewn to one,
. ilt and launched at New -York, upon the most
ing-enimis principles of. destruction. Her sides but not coming down in the.morning to break-
age with fenders of cotton, &c. to render fast, the servant. girl went- up to call hum, but
them impervious to, shot •; she is to fire red-hot finding he did. not answer, opened thisdoor, when
shotii ; and', in the event:of being litiarded, is fur- she 'round Lim with his head hanging over the
asss.i.e.d with engines to throw boding water on 'the bed, the sheet wrapped round - his neck: and' his
aitants. 11 ,
'-s'ut! Spencer, Pomone, Pactolus,.and throat cut. Surgical aid being called in the wound
Narcissus, were left off .New London when Ad- was sewed up, and there is' some hope of his re-
iiiii -al! I.loTnsm,returned to HalifaX. The 'Lean- covery. From papers found; in his pocket, it ap-
er, . unon, (going to Boston Bay), and the Sylph, pears that he is an Attorney, named HAY, and
-3• ere left at
Halifax. .The Niemen had gone to has a son, a Captain in the,navy, who was innne-
amaiza, tor freight of money. Our her re- diately sent for. He-has since been removed to
turn , she would sail with a convoy fur 11n.land, to the hospital, where he now lies in a very pre-
is,
carious state, as he is very corpulent, and in the
The followigg is a correct statement of the Bri- . . . •
tish Navy, in commisshih :the 79th year of h" a""e"
; maue up, to lst , . . .
of January, 1815 : • • 'An Inquisition was taken on Saturday afternoon,
sbips 01 theiitie, effective, 45; shios of 56, awl soperiv at the Middlesex Hospital, on the'body of 'Siilliam
Oass frigates, i3;.largeNt class frigates. 24-poun4ers, 1i ; frt- Mulkey., who was shot in the at:o)f 'robbing a
gates of :13 and 36, 18-pounders, 75i friguiet-uf.32,- ond all •'I • • • •'flu' ' . Iwo tu•LI S shop, on . taut Ml►!.! I. of the '°3a De-
post ships of smaller site, sa; slimps of ,war, bombs, cutters '
schooners, loggers, tke. 235: tr,,,i, ship, o,i ; ~,,,,,t sliip, oi cember. Verdict—JustiFable hoaaucule ; Mr. Arlen
411 sizes, bosPital ships, a:c. 26.--Tutal iu cououissiuu, 451. having shot the deceased lx defence of hisproperty.