The Sun.
London, England, 1812-01-25 00:00:00

NAVAL NEWS.

PLYMOUTH, JA N. 23.—Went up the -harbour the
Plade frigate, to be docked.
Sailed the Rhin "frigate to the Westward) and the
Clara, FIELD, for Waterford.

The Conqueror man of war takes convoy to the

Downs, and Will sail the moment the wind proves
favourable.

•-• Majesty's
packet-Duke of Kent (1st); TULLOCK, (acting} 15
days pasiage from ListiOn ; brings informat on 'that
Gen. HILL, had again advanced against Merida;' the
British sick troops did not exceed 6000, the greater
part in a lair way of recovery. SUCH ET, it was re-
ported, had strong reinforcements sent him. Tarilfa
is expected to fall ; Valencia had nor fallen on the
gth December; also arrived the Hero, PETTYJOHN,
from Cowes; the Lord Collingwood, TB EUARVAS?
from London ; the Venus, Davis, from Ports-
mouth.

Arrived the Traveller transport C. E. UTtitio,
master, from Lisbon in 15 days, sailed in company
with nine other transports under convoy of a sloop
of war, and parted from 'hem some days since. On
the igth;saw a ship with the head of her main-mast
gone, about ten leagues to the westward-of Scilly ;
another ship. has arrived, sOppo,ed to be one of the
nine transports.

PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 24.-By letters brought by
the Conqueror,- from the Mediterranean, •we
that Vice-Admiral PELLEW, after reconnoitring and
enticing out the enemy's fleet from Toulon, on dr
11th ult. (British 12 sail of the line French 115)p
returned to Mahon Harbour ; as the enemy hugged
their own shores so closely, and it being very fine,
weather; it was impossible to bring them to action,'
TWo sail of the line of the Mediterranean fleet were
come home. The Perlen had dashed into Toulon`
prior to the I lth, and severely handled t:vo of the
enemy's frigates ; but in coming out again,' a French
74 encountered her, and it was only by cutting..
sL ne of the Frenchman's rigging that the Per len -got:
away.

Sailed his Majesty's ship's Furieuse and Zenobiat,„
with the Mediterranean convoy; ,Agincourf ,Tyridn,o
and Lightning on a cruize ; and the Rover for Piy-
month.

This afternoon a serious fire broke out in one of
the interior chaMbers of the Blue Posts Tavern,
OD the Point, which for a while
.threatened the
greatest danger; but by the prompt exertions of the
military and inhabitants it was got under; the da-
mage done is considerable. •

DEAL. JAN. 24.—Came down from tie River the
Earl St. Vincent and Larkins East Icdiamtn ; the
American ship South Carolina for Rio Janeiro; and
his Majesty's ship Nymphen from Chatham, and re-
mains.

YARMOUTH, JAN. 24.—Arrived his Alijesty's
ship Starling from a cruize.
Sailed again the Providence armed ship for Cork.

The Vigilant, STEVENS, from Demerara to Liver-
pool, was taken the 13th• instant by the Brgtois
privateer. On the 191 h she captured the Charlotte,
GE:MTH, from Lisbon to Bristol, and gave her up.
The_ Charlotte arrived at Penzance on Wednesday
last.

HORNE TOOKE, it seems, is still very anxious
that a certain Baronet -should not attend his Parlia-
mentary duties. Considering the part which the
Baronet usually takes in that place, it must be ad-
mitted that the objeCtions of the former seem to be
the result of real friendship.

The Druty-lane Committee have adopted a de-
sign for the Corporate Seal of the Company, pre-
pared by the President of the Royal Academy, and
highly approved 'of by his Royal Highness
the
PRINCE REGENT. The design possesses all the vi-
gour and classical .tastebf M. WEST'S pencil. The
RRGENT is drawn at full length in a Grechin robe,
with one arm resting on the statue of SHAKSPEARE.
In the other hand he holds a ly,e, stretching. it forth
to re-animate the Muses of Tragedy and Comedy,
who are represented in the a& of pr(:tedt ing the bust
of GAEL:Ic4 upon the ruins of the Theatre.
Bit Alt AM is at Kith.in order to assist the Concerts
in that city. The.harmony of his feelings, how-
ever, have been somewhat disturbed by 4 touch of
the Gout.

The various reports relpeaing General SlrzoN
i
have excited a wide and.eager curiosity assto the real
nature of his case. He may be sure of impartial and
liberal justice in this country, which no Englishman
-under similar circumstance 3 'could expett in France;
but if he had really attempted to repay hospitable
and kind protection by ingrati'ude, treachery, and
hostile designs against this country, we earnestly
hope, and so will the public at large, that no false
lenity or weak generosity will exempt hits from the
punishment that he may be found to deserve. If
any of our countrymen, who are so unjustly and so
cruelly detained' in France by a pitiless Usurper,
were to be concerned in any plot against his Go-
vernment,, though to obtain the freedom of which
they have so long and so barbarously been deprived,
they would.prOably be consigned at once to death,
without eyen the mockery of atrial, 'We need say
no mote to prevent all impolitic compassion from
operating in favour of any foreign Traitor, to what-
ever rank he may have been raised by the caprice cf
fortune.