The Sun.
London, England, 1802-02-18 00:00:00

SIIEERNESS, FEB.

Tx' xs-day arrived His-Majesty's Ship; //flexible
and Caroline,from_ Spithead.

The following is the interesting detail of the par-
ticular.§ of the capture of the French Frigate La
Chifonne, by the gallant Captain etiAltl.P.34..DANist:
extraCted from the log-book of ilk Majesty's ship
La Sybelle, ,p4blished in the Madras arietee of the-
-Bth of Odober last : - •

Yesterday morning anchored in the Roads HiA
Majestf's ship La Sybelle, Captain CH AR L F S ADAM,
accompanied by 'her prize, the Republican Frigate
LaChiffonne. •

EX'TRAC'T FROM THE GYRELLE' 100-1100 K.

. . _
• .Remarks; Airg. 59,
.559 I.
. •
" At half past eight, on observing signals flying on ,
I'Sland hoisted. French Colours ; at' nine; having
rounded the Islifid,• dist3otered a -Frigate with lie? foremast
out, and several small vessels close in shore; backed the maist
tonsai I, Cleared'hir "iiiStion; and tot -springs on-the aneheri;
then tilled and!set
.the fore-sail ;' at ten, the Frigate fired a •
stint, and hoisted French Colours; at fifteen minutes pas;
ten, hating pa-Ased through many dangerous sho'als whore
lay in the harbour,. anchored within a cables length of her,
not being able to get Cloier on account Of a-shoal- which lay' ;
on her larboard bow the frigate hailed to desire a boat
`might be sent onboard her; answered,: We shotild send one
;immediately ;- let go the best-bower under fcrot, brought thi.
:broadside to bear, and at twenty-five 'minutes pail ten hoisted
!English ecilonr, and cornthenced firing,, which was instant- ; •
ly returned by the Frigate,' and almcist immediately by a
raking battery from the shore; at forty-two minntes past t:in
:the Frigate struck, cut her cable, and drifted on a reef; set t
'Lieutenatitt M"A u;o.e a to take possession .9f her, the. battery
,still firing; veered away co bring the bre.aclside to bear on it;
sent Lieutenant CoasYg on shore, on which- the Cologrs
were alio struck, and the people made their ascafat ; as soon
!as the Frigate struck, many oilier crew got on shore the
boats. • •
" She proves to be La Chiffonne, having fourteen, ports
bn a side, on the main-deck, but mounting only twenty-six
tz-pounders an that deck ; six,6-poUnders,- and four howit-
zers, •on the•quarter.deck and foreclistle; she had, however; .
`fairteens2-pounders mounted on the side she engaged us :
the Battery proves to be mounted with four of the Frigate's
rz-pounders, frem her starboard side; having a furnace for
heating shot, some:of which were fired during the A6tion.'-L.--.
La. Chiffonne, commanded by Captain Guizvssti, had
about i 3 killed, and upwards of 3o wounded ; whereas the,
loss on our Side was only Benjamin Johnson and John Jones
(seamen) killed, and a Midshipman slightly wounded; the
running-rigging a little cut, and. the MAID topsail-yard shot
through in both yard-arms.
" Took possession of a schooner and a grab-ketch, under
-French colours; the schooner being- sunk by one of our 32-
pounde"s, the grab by het own crew. Sent hawsers on
board the Frigate, and laid them to 'neaye her off : received
pri,soners from the Chiffonne, and sent a party of hands
on board her found riding here, besides the prizes, some
,stnall vessels under Seychelle colours, viz. a blue flag, with,
'the words " Seychelle Capitulation," marked in the mid-
dle with wllite letters ; found the frigate's foiernast on shore,-
. wanting a fish, cheeks; and' a new hocks. The batter}, is
exceedingly well constructed with faseines, and a good plat-
form of plank, 'and would have done us much mischief; had
the Attion continued longer, as they had just began to depress.
their guns. Tht number of prisoners that escaped was up-
wards of too.
. .
" La Chiffonne, on .her passage from NantZ to India,
made a prize of one Portuguese Frigate, on the coast of i3ra- •
211. On the 56th of June, off the Cape of Gond Hone, she' •
'Captured the ilellona (Country ship), belonging to 'Bengal,
bound to -London. She sailed- from. Naritz the 52,th day of
April, iSof. La Chiffenne is a new Frigate, . about n ne.
months Old, and never at sea before, pierced fi.) guns, and'
manned with 296 men. ,
" On the zest of August, the Spitfire;. King's Schooner,
Lieutenant CAMt'HT.t.Li Commander, from 'Bombay, bound
to the Red Sea,, with dispatches„. was totally lost on the
Sherhome Dubopliam, one of the African Islands,. unknown
to the'English, ancLlately discov'ered by the inhabitants of
the Seychelle Islands ; the crevx and most part -of her
stores were saved. On the 2al of September Lieutenant
C A MPS EL L arrived in a small Boat.; he had been Six. days
from the Island on which the Schooner- was .lost ; delivered
over tdLieutenant C A sirs Li, the Sophy Schotiner, to take
in ,his crew and stores, and to'proceed on. his .voyage to the,
Red Sea; on the-3d, in the morning, Lieutenant CA id 5.11 L Lx.
sailed,' and at three' in the afternnon,,the stone day, La Sy-
belle and La Chillimne sailed." • ,

The List of the Royal Navy, at present, is as
follows : Admirals, 138 ; Post-Captains', 537 ;
Commanders, 412; Lieutenants, 2394.
A short time since, some of the Police Patroles
stopped two men in Coldbath-fields, with a bundle,
in which were the bodies of a woman and a child. The
man who Was carrying the basket threW it. down and
escaped. The other was taken, but discharged for
want of evidence. the-man whci escaped was after-
wards discovered to•be•a grave-digger ;
,he was there-
fore indifteci.separately for stealing 3 bodiesovith the
shrouds ; and on searching his, house,
,upwards of
'so shrouds,: together with the body of a child,
were found concealed -in the privy. On Tuesday
he was apprehended, and committed, to prison. It
is. said, that pn searching the church-yard, the body
of a 'woman was discovered without a head, which,
it is supposed, had been cut off for the sake of a
fine-set of teeth. -Even the screws•had been taken
from many of the coffins.
Yesterday a'young man was examined-before the
Lord Maydr,. being.charged with having forged two
Bills of Exchange, one for 61. and the other for 41.
representing them to be that of a Gentleman in the
City, with Whom he lived as Clerk ; and the case
being made out, he was committed to Newga.te for
trial.