The Sun.
London, England, 1812-01-07 00:00:00

NAVAL NEWS.

PORT'MOUT;T, JAN. s.—Sailed the Pioneer, Edin-
largh, Crane, Cadmus, Thracian, and Port Mahon,
on a cruize ; Virdet for Gtlernsey; and the Doris
tranwort, LAMB, from Lisbon.

Arrived the Royal Oak, San Joseph, and I'ene•
ral•le, Sir HOME PurflAM.

DEAL, JAN. 6.—Arrived his Wes, y's ships Bel-
lerophon and Eltphant from off Flushing, and the
Aluidsitme frig .te from the River.

LEITH, JAN. 4.—Artiged the Egeria sicop of war,
Captain HOLE, bringing in the privateer mentioned
in our last, to be on our, coast; she proves to be the
of 14 guns and 33 men, out three weAs
from Bergen, without having made a single capture.
A. line cf battle ship is now working inro the Roads,
slipposed to be the Zealous from the N9re with
French prisoners of war.

Captain LEWIS SHEPHERD is appointed to -the
command of his Majesty7l ship Yiaory, pro tempore,
Captain DUMA REM being absent on Admiralty
leas:e.

FALMOUTH, JAN. 4.—Arrived the Nanc,y, TON-
KIN, from Bristol; Perseverance, Bunny, for Cotk ;
IVilliam -and Thomas, OwENS, from Pons:mull) ;
Dispatch packet, KIRKNESSI from Cadiz, which
place she left on the 21St tilt. Tilere had sailrd
from thence- on the t oth tilt, his Majesty's ships
Coltinitine and Papillon ; on the 12th, his 11,1ajesty's
ship Basilisk, with a convoy of transports for 'l'a-
; and his Majesty's ship Cossack., with mails
for England. Sht left at Cadiz his Majtsty's ships
Revenge, Alfred, St. Albans, two bombs, and the
Darlington packet.

Sailed the Duke of Montrose packet, BL wart,
for Cadiz and the Mediterranean with mails ; the
Princess Elizabeth, KIDD, with mails for Lisbon ;
his Mjesty's ship Hyacinth, for Lisbon, with trans-
ports under her convoy, which at rived the 2d inst.
from Portsmouth, viz. :-
276 Waclstry, Minerva, 23 Rosegrow, 2 Enterprize,
34 Blessing, 235 Henry, g 2 Wrn. Pitt, 33 2 Antelope, 55
Sarah, 753 Peace, e.,0. Phylleare, B. S. Robert.•

Alio sailed the brig Mercury, ADAMS, for Malta ;
the sloop Venus, ANDREWS, for Lisbon ; Sir P.
Baring, WHITE for Gibralt.tr ; and the Fame, SHER-
WOOD, for Tobago.

The Townshend packet is appointed to sail to.
mw row, with mails of the Ist tin Jamaica.

YARMOUTH.• JAN. s.—The Lively, Captain
Tr ,is arrived from Wing° Sound. She sailed
the 27th ult, under convoy of a frigate, with ab )ot
forty ve*,els, which had put back after the gale into
diErent harbours. The Ardent, ~,and anol her 64
gun ship, were left in Wingo Sound. Captain P.
says, that the fleet cleared the Sleeve the second day
after sailing, and he thinks himself ahead of them ;
bA as the wind is now noctb, they may be expeCied
soon.

The Cossack, lately arrived horn Cadiz,is order-
ed to return with all possible dispatch.
The Duncan, of 74 guns, at Deptford, will be
put into commission in a few days, as well as the
Iphigtnia trigate.
A vesel, arrived fi.om the Dutch coast, hrings in-
telligence that, including ships of war, l 5 vessels
perished off the Texel.
'tear Admiral who, since his return
flout the Bailie, ha, commanded the squadron
which blockades the enemy's fleet in the Texel, is
now actively employed in directing the re-equip-
ment, of all the ships at Shithead,

Mr. DrMOND..--We are extremely sorry to learn
that this Gentlertrin, who had long been Manavr
of the Theme at J3atli, died last week in that coy.
He commencA hi, theatrical career at Drury-Lane
Theatre, under the auspices of the immortal GAR-
RICK, and was an Actor of no inferior merit. He
did not perform long in London, but was soon in-
duced to transfer his talents to the Bath Theente,
where, by his merit as an Actor, and the uniform
propriety of his conduct, he obtained the esteem of
all the inhabitants and frequenters of that city, and
becanie Manager and one of the Proprietors of the
Theatre. His `death is si id to have been occasioned
by an apoplexy.
Lady HAREWOOD'S house, at the'cotner of Sey-
mour7stiect, Portman-square, was broken open on
Sunday night, and robbed of plat; jewels, &c. to
the amount of several hundred pounds; but no-
I i n Lae been traced of the robbers_