The Sun.
London, England, 1802-07-21 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX ELECTION.

THIS Contest still lingers on, though from the
small number polled yesterday by Sir , FRANCIS
BURDETT, after. all the boasted exertions made in
his behalf, it evidently appears he has no chance of
success. After all those boasted exertions, the
number polled yesterday by Sir FRANC IS amounted
only to 1c.7, This number gave him a majority of
seven on yesterPy's Poll over Mr. MAI NWAR
Which is, however, of trifling consequence, as there
can be little doubt of the success •of the latter,
though the exertions of Mr. MAINW AR ING'S.
'friends are still necessary to give him that decided
Superidrity on the Poll which he ought to possess.
At the Close of the Poll yesterday, the numbers.
were :

FO[ GEORCE ByriGrEig. 2671
WILLIAM, MAINWAR !Ng., Esq. 2236
Sir FR ANC IS BURDETT, Barr.' 1817

Order was in general preserved throughout the
day. The'only circumstance worthy of notice was,
that of some Voters giving I‘).lumpers for Sir FRAN-
-CIS BURDETT, under the sarmaion of Mr. BING's
colours. Query t Were they ashamed of the colours
of hi t. fur whom they voted ? We do not know
what else could induce them to commit this flagrant
riolation of the etiquete of Eleaions.

His Excellency Monsieur DE LIMA, t!lc. Portu.
guese Ambassador, left his town residenc in Sou ti
Atidley-street last week for Paris.

Lieut. Col.Hoi.LowAy and Major HOPE arrived
at Ratisbon from Egypt, in the beginning of this
month, on their way to England.
The Managers of the Lottery have advertised in
the Gazette, that- they have taken 'the Scotch Cot:
poration-Hall, in Crane court, neet_street, to draw
the new Lotteries in. It is a large spacious room,
and is fitting up with all necessary conveniencies tut
the purpose : many tither places were ofEred, hut.
none accepted, 'this being the most c.trnoclious.—
The Whecis to he made use of, are those made in the
r ign of QUE F 24 ANNE.

A Court of Aldermen was hdd -,yesterday at
Guildbidt; present th :LORD 14 Alder_
me.n, Mr. RECORDER, and Mr. Commmorr SER.

j !ANT.

The:Master and W;lrdens of -Company-- of
I._/.1-atrs attending relative to the Ai§ite
we.re called in, and informed that no altertition wa,
to he made in the Price of Bread.'

:RIi;HARD WELCII, Esq. Citizen and Glover,
and JA..NtEs ALEXANDER, Citizen and Butcher,
Sheriffs eleft, signed bonds of 'boo!. each for •the
due exocution of their office.

. JOHN WILLIAM GALAE IN, and SAMUEL MAR-
rtioT, Esqrs. were sworn into their offices as Upper
anl Under Bridgematters for the ensuing yeas ; and
Mr. JOHN HAMER, Mr. JAMES LYON, GEORGE
TATyoN, BENJAMIN SPENCER, GEORGE SLOAT,
DANIEL OPIE, DHVID WILTON, WILLIAM
CHAPMAN, THOMAS BLACKsTONE, THOMAS SLOAT,
and WlLLima Lori-, were sworn. Rulers of the
Watermeri and Lightermen's' Company fur the year

ensuing.

Th:Court voted their unanimous Thanks' to,the
RECokDER and COMMON SERJEANT, and. ordered
it to be published in all the Morning Papers.
Mr.l)wyEk, the Comedian, is playing at Edin.
"Burgh with great success.
WROUGHTON, it is supposed, will re-assume the
Management of Drury-lane Theatre, as KEMB.Lfiis
not likely to return till March, if so soon.—
Wa.ouowrorr concluded himself with so much good
sense and diligence during his former Management,
that to no other, person in the-Theatre could the di-
rsAion of it be more properly intrusted.

A number of Artists have it seems entered into
a scheme to combine their efforts, in a sort of com-
retition with the Royal Academy. But, what is
most strange, some of the Academic Body themselves
are said to have engaged in this enterprize. .

Bo NAPAITE has written a letter to the Minister
of the Interior, which has been communicated to
the National Institute, stating, that it is his inten-
tion to propose a prize medal of 3000 francs, for the
best experiment which shall be made every year upon
the galvanic fluid ; and also a-sum of 60,000 francs
to such person as shall promote elcdricity and gal-
vanism in the same degree a6FRANKL IN dild VOLTA
have. advanced these sciences. Foreigners of all
Nations may be competitors.
The famous Chouan, I_,PELLETIER, who was
taken into custody last winter (after having sus.
tamed a kind of siege in a mill near Bernay, from
which the friends of Government dislodged him by
setting fire to his citadel), is now on hiS trial before
the Special Tribunal of l'Eure.. Fifty.two indivi-
duals, most of whom are connected with the first
families of the Department, are implicated in this
busbiess, and as such brought before the same Court..
e h,,ve authority to coot raditt an article which
stated that Mr. Fitzgerald, . who has been adver-
tised as a Swindler, is the same that fought a duel
with Mr. 1-141tv EY ASTON,

Freon the LONDON GAZETTE, 74

Atlin;raity-Pnice, July 20, 1802.

Copy of a Letter from Captain Sir Home Popham,
to Sir Evan Nepean, Bart. dated at CaZtutta, the
18th of November, 1801.
SIR,

I have much pleasure in transmitting you a Copy
of Captain Collier's Letter of the zoth September,
for the information of my Lords Commissioners of
the Admiralty, giving a very detailed account of
his sinking the French National Ship, La Fleche, of
twenty-two guns, and 170_men. •

The resuliof Capt. Coilier's unremitting perse,
verance under every trying circumstance, and his
determined condut in warping the Victor ;into
Mahe HarboUr, is likely to be of very material
service to the Commerce of India, as La Fleche was
unquestionably intended to cruise. in the Bay of
Bengal.
I have the Honour to be, &c. &c. &c.
HOME POPHAM.

His Majrst_y's-Sloop
SIR, Mahe Roads, Sept. 19, tgai.
The state of the crew of His Majesty's Sloop
under my command, after leaving 'the Ikea Sea, in-
duced me to put into the Island, Diego Garcia ; and
after procuring a large •supply of turtle and good
water, I left that Harbour on the '27th of August,
and proceeded on the exectition of the particular
service pointed out in your orders of the 22d July ;
and on the zd instant, in sightolthese Islands,
Majesty's Sloop fell in with a French National,
Corvette, and after a few inefFeaUal manceuvres on
her part, from the superior sailing of the 'Vidor,
when going large, I had the pleasure of bringing
her to a close_ Adion at three quarters past five
P.M. ; the disguised state of the- Victor did not
long deceive. the Enemy, the second broad Side prov-,
ed sufficient, the Corvette • hauling her wind and
endeavouring to ecape, which, in about twenty
minutes, I was sorry to observe, by having almost
solely direeted her fire at our masts and sails, she

had a lair prove& of effecting, for,- on her tacking
under our lee, I endeavoured,towear, with the boye
of 'hoarding on her how; when I had the mortifica.
(ion to find both lower: and topsail braces sh.,t away

on the starboard side, welt as preventer ones and
bowlines, and before whets conid be rove the Cur_
vette was • half a mile to,wirdw:)rii night fast ap_
proaching added to the 1 felt on observing
the Corvette sail better than the, Vidor.on a,mind ;

the chace continued all night, frequently within gun-
shot, And at sun-set the follo,viog *day, front lhC
wind having favoured the Enemy, she was four or,
five miles to windward ; in the night of the 4th
lost sight of the (Juice, when, probably by tacking,
she escaped,
In this affair I had one min wounded .'with . two
musket-balls, and Mr. Midilet,,m, Masteos, Mate,
slightly ; the duinige sustained in the hull trifling,
the foremigt shut through,' and I have to regret our
sail 3 and gigging much cut.
Judging from the course the Corvette was steer-
ing, when first seen, she must be bound to these
lands, I pushed for th,--tn, and towards sun-set of
the sth,' 'she was again seen running in for, 'this
anehorager; I kept .under: easy sail till dark, when
the VicOr was 'anchored ; at 'day-light I had the
satisfaction of seeing the Corvette moored with
springs in the Bason or-Inner Harbour with a red
fi.lg it the fore (which as 1 since learn was in de-,
fiance) ; being unacquainted with the Channel, and,
hiving no Pilot, far. -Crawford, the -Master,'
,
(though lough ill of fever) arid M. Middleton, being
7

Volti;Treers, were sent, to sound, which service they
corniie telt pe.rfoßtie4-I—r.or--clie---latter Gen tie_
man Lieskt, ciil repeatedly fired at by a Boilt, from
the Corvette. - .

The extreme 'narrowness of the Channel, added
.to the wind nut being very favourable, convened
me rouse warps and the stay-sails (Lily, which ex.
posed the ship to a raki-g fire' for some minutes,
`till, shoaling our water, I was obliged to bring up.
Havipg two springs on the cable our broadside
was soon brought to bear ; and at three quarters
past eleven A. a well-directed . fire was opened, ,
which was kept up incessantly from bOth Vessels till
twenty" minutes- Two," 'wile-El I plainly perceived
the enemy was going.down in'a few thinutes•her
cable was cut, she cast round, and her bow grounded
on a Coral' Reef.

Mr. M'Lean, the First Lieutenant, with a party
of Officers and Men, Were sent to board ; though
scarce had they put off, ere we discovered the
Enemy to be on fire; Lieutenant Smith and other
Officers were then sent:with proper assistance, but
just as they had succeeded in extinguishing the fire,
she fell on her larboard bilge into deeper water and
sunk.

She proves to have been the French National
Corvette La Fleck, mounting twenty long French
eight-pounders, answering to English nines, with
two stern chasers, though it appeared all her guns
ivere not mounted in the first 'attion : was larger
than the Vidor in dimensions, perfectly new, a re-
markable fast sailer, and not four month~ from France,
commanded by Captain Bonatny, Lieutenant De
Vaisseau, with four Lieutenants, and a comple-
ment of one hundred and forty:five Men, some of
whom had been left sick at &trrbon.

From a number of dead and dying men reported
to be found on her forecastle, as well as two along-
side, I am induced to believe the carnage was great,
though only four are acknowledged by the French
Captain.

She had twenty Men to assist at her guns, firming
a part of the Crew of the French Frigate La Chif.
forme, captured here a few days since by His Ma-
jesty's Ship La Sybille, Captain Adam.
The obstinate resistance made by La Fleche was
on the supposition of the Vi6tor being a Privateer.
From the length of time elapsed ere this business
was brought to a close, I have felt it necessary to
be thus 'particular in my detail, and I trust for your
excuse should I dwell longer, as I feel I should do
an injustice to every, Officer and Man on board, did
I negled paying a just tribute to the cool and
tertnined bravery they evinced ; even men labouring
under a lingering fever.(of which I had unfortunately
3o), felt a proportionate zeal.

1 beg leave
to recommend to yllf"- notice Lieu'
tenant IVPLean, as well as to 'solicit your interest
for the confirmation of my Second, Mr. Smith; a 9
also Mr. Hyde, Gunner, observing, tbat whenever,
Mr, Middleton or Mr. Graves (both having passed
for Lieutenants) shall obtain the rank; they will do
equal credit to your patronage.
In this laion I most fortunately had not 2:4120
either killed or wounded ; oiYr hull, rigging, oil
boats have suffered much, besidea having some slior
between. wind and water.
I am, •
GEORGE R. COLLIER.
To Sir Home Popham!, K. M. Captain of
Majestys Skip, Romney, Eec. fig*.

PLYMOUTH, JULY z 9.

ARRItED the Caryfirort Frigate, and ti:e Pcs77i.
Sloop, from a Cruize'; and the Good IfJpe, SALE,
from Rotterdam.
Sailed the Princeua, GADD, for the East Indies.