The Sun.
London, England, 1802-01-30 00:00:00

lIIGH COURT OF ADMIRALTY.

DOCTORS COMMONS, JAN. 27.
THIS day the Right Hon. Sir WILLIAM gc°,
proceeded to the adjudication of the follow*
causes :

The Catherina Maria, Romdahl, Mas'et,
This was a case of further proof with respe-',I 11
a very valuable cargo, cominsr, as asserted, 04
Batavia to Copenhagen, ct.;lllbe
as Neutral property.—The Court condemned le,
cargo, but restored the Master's private adventof4s
The Kroon Prinz, Gulk, Master.--n
was a case of the same description, as to destOof
tion and property.-1. -. Court ordered further Pr°
as to ship and cargo.
The Samuel, -----Schwenson, Master, --1,11;5
0,
was a case 'of further proof with respect to the
perry of the ship.—The Court restored the salt
on payment of the Captors' e:xpences.
The Potsdam, Claaeses, Master.--
Court restored the property as claimed in this Os
which consisted of a cargo of timber.

By the Theresa frigate, which arrived on Thu
day -at Portsmouth from Malta, we learn, 00
Lord KEITH was with his fleet at that island cf
the 29th of November. Lord HtyrcuiNsoll haof
reached Malta a few days before. A deputatior,o4°
the priqcipal inhabitants of the island to our is
vernment is arrived on board the Theresa, which
now performing quarantine.
At Chatham, on Tuesday last, a Court of,_/°i;
quire was held on board His Majesty's gun-1)ro;
Mallard, Rear-Admiral ROWLEY President, 141
Lieutenant. JoHN READ, Commander of the
gun-brig-, charged by the Surgeon of her with b 3
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ing refused to give proper necessaries for the 'co
of the Sick on board. The charge being 40
part proved, but malicious and ill-founded,
Court, in consequence of which, after a long ec,
amination of several of the crew, honot;r3blY
quitted Lieute:•mt READ.
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The Leicester Packet, Captain SHARP, wnilo
brought a Mail to Falmouth on Saturday fr9111,-sil,
Leeward islands, sustained in her outward Pas- 91.
a successful contest of two hours and4oimillilt-cl4
Sr. Domingo, with a Spanish Privateer, cl'il'l,lo
four 9-pounders, and 70 or 8o men. AfLer e
Leicester had expended 260 shots, the Privates,
hauled off, and escaped owing to a calm which S
ceeded the aaion. Not a man was either killed
wounded on board the Packet,
tbo
The Ship Ceres, now afloat, is ordered by to
Court of Dire6tors of the East India Company tbe
stay only twenty days at Gravesend ; and ,d
under-mentioned tunes are fixed for the Bruusaigjf
and Cufnells, instead of those formerly appoinr.ei to
The
,Brunswick to be afloat the 27th insr.---53/,03
Gravesend zd of Feb.—stay there thirty days' -/11
be in the Downs the loth of March. The Cieftriti
to be afloat the 4th of March—sail to Graveseo
the 18th—stay there 'thirty days, and be if
Downs the 23d of April.
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The Honourable East India Company's shipsAi, I
Notiirsham, Captain JoHN BAR FOOT ; the en
Captain ANDREW PAI'TONT ; and the Plenty lal`titii;
ton, Captain THomAs \IVA;;EFIELD, received I''the
dispatches from the Bombay Government °l' tile
Bth of August] for china. His Majesty's ship iiii
Suffolk, is appointed to convoy them part Pi -
voyage.
The Lord iftywkesbuty, Captain WI Ll.i Am
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NALDSON ; Fort William, Captain JosErfl 13°1)V
DERSON ; Airly Castle, Capt. ALEXANDER NA;r6
and the Worcester, Captain SEARLEs WooD, "tves
at Bombay on the 16th August, taking in c;al"
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for Europe. -4` sr.,
The Ganges, Captain ALEXANDER GRAY, 'the
expeeted to come out of dock at Bombay, 0°,..00;
24th of August ; and ready to sail for China •a" .
the zoth of September. ith
The Company's ship the Boddam, Capt. J'"•,l4
arrived at Madras on the z6rh of July last ; (1°11"d
her passage, she was so extremely sickly, that I
were obliged to keep all the ports down constar'
for near six weeks. Id
The following ships were to have been dispate 00
from Madras for China, in order to load horrle„!,
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the rsth of August last, viz, the Ifindostan, Care •
MILL ETT ; the Hdpe, Captain HORNCASTLE ; 01,
Boddam, Captain JONES ; the True Britoil, Ca pd
CLARK ; and the Admiral Gardner, Capt. BgA I
FORD. itig
-The storms which prevailed in the Baltic dor A
last autumn occasioned a number of shipwrecks' die
letter from Dantzic, dated Dec. 29, relates stf 1'
following anecdote lespeeting one of the ships I° $ 1
viz.—the Blenheim belonging to Mr. ,P°l.l'Yt'ol
Merchant of that city. The Captain and P"l'irl,
the Crew were lost ; but Count SAINT QII11“1 0
a Captain of Austrian Hussars, who embarke"d
London to join his Regiment in Gallicia, save~
by great efEnts. He clung to the wreoe
of a mast, on which he was driven about by De
waves for the space of forty hours. At last'oce
received assistance near Stolpern. By his pr es e,
of mind he also saved a boy of eleven years °f die 1
He was sinking, and had only one hand above the
water, when he seized him and placed him 011
mast.
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