The Sun.
London, England, 1805-01-03 00:00:00

N l VA. NEWS.

POETSMOUTH,Jtit~i.3.--Sailed out of Harbour,
his Mdjeity'l Ship Prima of /{Vales, for Shithead ;
Duke of IVorfolk, DYER, for Arundel ; Harriot,
PARSON, Mary, ELLIOTT, and ado, T
for, Sunderland ; and Pearl, KRA*, for London.
The Mo./nth- Armed Defence Ship it expefted
to sail in the morning with alt the upward-bound
Ships under convoy.

LlARwrcir, jmv. 2.—The Brig /rata Orelfni of
and from Stockholm, L. GEORGE HIRRTA Mas.
ter, bound to Dublin, laden with iron, deal•, pitch,
and tar, is on shore..on the Main, near the Naze
Tower : the Ship is full of water, but the cargo,
most probably, if the weather continues moderate,
will be saved.

The outward.bound Packets, with the Hanahro',
Bremen, and Gottenburgh Mails, arc yet detained.

CASTLETOWN (BANTRY BAY), DEC. 24.—0 n
the zoth inst. His Majesty's Ship Thunderer, Capt.
PIDFORD, arrived in this Bay about 8 A. M. and
drove on shore on Bcre Island at 5 P. M.
yesterday arrived His Majesty's Ship Princess,
Royal, on board of which a great, quantityof the
Thumderer's Stores, Guns, and Shot, were }nit ; and
this day arrived His Majesty's Ship Gollob, and a
Frigate, name unknown, with an empty Transport,
to take out the remaining Guns and Stores.
It is the general opinion, that when the Thum•
derer is lightened she will be got off,

DEA,LI JAN. 2.---Sailed the Curfew Sloop of
War for Margate Roads.

In the Downs. Ardent, Antelope, Inflexible, Castor,
Champion, lamaica,.Spcedy, Dart, Alert Lticiier, Volcano,
Discovery; Devastation, Vesuvius, and Zebra Watchful, Ri-
fleman, Thrasher, Monkey, Biter, Hold, lackal, Haughty,
Mariner, Locust, and • Tigress Gun-brigs, and the Aimed
Defence Ships and Transports, as per last.

LEITH, DEC. 29.—0 n Thursday arrived in
Leith Roads, the Diligence Armed Ship from a
Cruize.

Yesterday arrived at Leith, the Concorde, of
Kirkcaldy, ADAIASON, from Riga, with hemp,
flax, &c. She sailed in cumpany with several other.
British Merchant Ships froM the Sound, who joined
together for their mutual protediOn, there being no
Ship of War at that place when they sailed.

The Spanish Ship stated to have been captured
by the An:redo Cutter, Capt, SMYTU, arrived last
week at Ranhillan. She was bound for Malaga,
from the River de Plata, laden wish dried and tanned
hides,• tallow, candles, and iso,tscodllars.
As a trait in the British charade, the following-
is not unworthy of notice : riil Majtity's Ship the
Bat-hi/team being , appropriated solely to the re.
ception 'of Dutch Prisoners of War, her Ship's
Company, consisting of a detachment of the
Royal Marines and some seamen, ;gave up the
whole of their provisions, beer, &c.. on Christ4i
mas:Day, to the Dutch Prisoners, in. gonsidera.
Lion of the- humanity and kindness with which
they understood the Romney's Officers and Ship's
Company had been treated by the Dutch on occasion
of the loss of that Ship on their Coast ; an acknow.
lerigment which the prisoners most thanktully en,,
joyed in evtry sense of the expression, 00 New..
Year's Day they were-regaled by the Officers of the.
Ship tio account of the same consideration.

The Oporto Ship. jensys. Capt. STONEHOtTni
is arrived safe at Plymouth, after escaping, by sin.
gular gallantry, from a french-Privateer that at.
tacked per in the Channel-: finding they had no
chance of resisting the Enemy with two or' three
swivels only, he' proposed to the crew to fight her.
in a different way, viz. by attempting ra rnm her
down. The. proposal being:instantly agreed to, he
ordered the helm up, and run the jewty,direilly on
the Enemy's weather buw, 'which carried' away his
bowsprit and topmast,. and then wearing bore down
on his boats, which were hoisted nut, to bOard with,•
and, swamped them, leaving the French Privateer,
afterwards enough to do to provide for her own
safety. The Underwriters have very handsomely
rewarded Captain Syorrittiouss for this salmons
exploit.

A Court Martial was assemhkd at Sheerness on
Monday last, on board His Majesty's Ship Afri.
taint, to inquire into the circumstances relative to
the loss of His Majesty's Sitip.the Rowney, on the
Sand called the Suuth Haaks, off the Texel, en the.
19th of Novornbett•Anti- W try krt.( Capteitift
CoLvti.t., his Officers, and Crew, for the saint.

, .
zstivr,
F. N ICKMORIII Esq. • Captain of His Majesty's Ship Rami.
lies, and Second Officer in the Command of His hi.ljesty's
Shipa, ate. in the Medway, and at the Buoy of the Note,
President.
Captain A. Fraser Captain H. Inrnan
I, Draper Geo. Dun4as
—,—. I. W. S'pranger James Colnett
..--- W. Broughton --- A. M'Kenzie
---- A. Renou Sir T.l.ivingstonerift.
-- A. j. Griffiths
J. RICHARD; Esq. Deputy fudge Advocate.
After a very full investigation of ail the circurn-
stances relative thereto, it appeared to the. Court that
the loss of the Ship was occasioned by the thickness
of the fog, and the ignorance of the Pilots in regard
to the tides, &c. they having undertaken a charge
to which it appeared they were wholly incompetent.,
.The sentence ni the Court was, that the Pilots shall
be mulcted of all their pay for the Rom#ey, and ren.
dered incapable of taking charge of any of His Ma-
jesty's Ships and Vessels of War in future, and he
imprisoned in the Marshalsea, one 'for the space
of six, and the other for twelve cilemLir
The Captain, Officers, and Crew, were most justly'
and honourably acquitted of all blame ; it aprarin•c,
to the Court that the utmost exertions were used
by stem to Save the Ship after she had struck, and,
to prevent the Ship's Company from becoming
prisoners to the Enemy and the Court expressed,:
by their President the hi4h satisfadirm which they