The Sun.
London, England, 1805-04-27 00:00:00

AY /1-L- N i-E .11' :'..

I.),lvrea, Arart. 25.—A Qun.brig. pased by here
Otis inuriiing, with. two Gon.b.aats, taken off But),
lOgne, for the Down's. It is said that these Prizes
carry about ditty then, and (hilt the Glin-brig• had
a smart anion with then before they surrendered.—
They appear to be very fine vesiels, and very pm,
bably of the first ChM of Gun.boats.

PoRTsMoUTEI, Ara I L 26.—ArriVed the Cornet
East Indiaman, from the Downs, foi the hdies ;
Harriet, PEARsoN, from Sunderland ; and His Ma--
josty's Brig Acute, froM the Blockading Squadron
off France, with the loss oilier main-hutim. •
Sailed His Majesty's Brig Defitader, with Con-
voy of a few IVlerchantmen and Transports, for
Cork ;' the names we cannot learn in time for Post ;
and the Meteor BuMh, on a Cruize.
It appears, on the return of the Pilots from the
India Fleet, that the Blettbei.tm, of 74 guns, struck
in going through the Needles ; but as site did. not
make any water when the Pilots left the Fleet,
Which was five hours after the accident, she had not
sustained any materia► damage. ,The wind-has been
favourable for proceeding down Channel ever since
they soiled.

The I'Lwnix Privateer, (.1 London, has captured
and sent to the IVlutberbank, ti here she is lint under
Quarantine, the Spanish Lugger .Seivegere Styria
Li6ia, from Cadiz, with wine, brandy, oil and lead.
Dispatches, no doubt of importance, were for-
warded to Gibraltar this day by the Lirvely Frigate,
Capt. HAMOND, which was ordered away with the
utmost haste. Capt. 1-LtmoND was a Member of
the Court Martial art Admiral DUCKWORTH, but the
Court dispensed with his future attendance.,

The Court Martial on Sir Jowl DUCKWORTH
concluded their proceedings for the prosecution this
afternoon at half past three o'clock, when the Court
adjourned till to-morrow, when Sit Jour,: will make
his defence.

PLYMOUTH, APRIL z;..—Arrived the Portu.
guesc Schooner N. S. Dc Pia:de, Cyr. CAPI.Lo,
(ruin St. Ander°, laden with fl .ur, wheat, &c.
bound to Seville, detained on the i 3th inst. by
the Felix Schooner.

Arrived the Harty Gun-brig from a Cruize in
the Channel,' with the loss of her foreroil-mast in
a gale of wind.
Arrived the Friends, Ls from Jersey.'
The Windso► Castle of 98 guns, Warrior, Brae.,
ruirhon, Comragenx, inspessilux, and Colossus of 7+
guns each, remain in CaV/5311ti say.

YARMOUTii, APRIL z6.--The Squadron which
sailed .yeaterday for the Texel consiits of the fol-
lowing Ships : '34'A/boa'', Admiral Russel., Itt
firx;ble, Adamant, and Antelope ; with the Fixes
and Scorpio, Gun.brigs.
The Snip Gun.brig, which was in some danger
yesterday, is now anchored in a sje birth.

Fiamourri, APRIL 24.—Arrived the American
Ship Little William, BALDRY, from Norfolk, in
35 days, with coffee, rum, and tobacco, fur orders,
and proceeded on immediately for Tonningen.
Arrived His M.ljesty's Ship Humber, of 16 guns,
from the Downs, and brought down with. hiin the
Amu, TriostAs, and Mary Ana, GEACII, from Len.
don. • •

Also, arrived the Aaive Cutter, KISMIN, from a
Cruize, and has brought in with hint a Mount's
Bay Boat, with 209 ankets of "spirits, tobacco,
and rum.

Put into this Port the Mary Ann Cutter, Richt,
from London for Grenada, with the loss of the head
of her malt; parted from the Convoy, this morning,
under His Majesty's Ship 'Etholion and Serpent
Sloop of War. This evening a Fleet was seen staid.
ing to the Eastward, supposed to be them ping into
Plymouth.
Sailed the Ranger Cutter, FRAIER, on a Cruize
and the Ann, 13 taut Ns, with wine, for Plymouth.
The Walsingharn Packer, from Lisbon ; the
Chesterfield, from Jamaica ; and the Prince:: Eliza.
beth, from the Leewatd Islands, may be hourly
expeited.

DEAL, APR IL 26,—Arrived the Bonetitt Sloop
from Spithead ; Discover, fiomb from the Note ;
Bold Oun.brig from 'a
Cruize off Wend ; and
Archer'Gun-hrig, with two Schuytis captured by
the Squadron *tattooed between Iliancncz and
Boulogne.

Sailed the Arab and Pomona for their Station nff
Boulogne ; and Jamaica tor her Station oft-Calais.

ln the Downs —Monarch, Utrecht, Diomede, A tixine,
Discovery, fixelcsiou, VolcAno, Zephy E, Derides.
ruspero, five Guti-brq;s ;
,and A rincil L) tense Ships
itz; petore.

Monaay lamer Dtris/ar, a Petty Officer he.
longing to tl.c Crwrzer Sbiop Ott War, was flogged
r 7t. &the Firer pursuant to the sentence of a Court
Arttal, tar baying been guitty of a breach of the
9th Article of War, by beauty: and evil treating
a Prisoner on board of a PriZ42 in which Ship he
was placed at PliZl.M4Sitrt

is
nut Ti-IP.ATXR.--A new Ti ift.o, in three
Was last bight brAught forw.lr. Drury-iane
for the benoit of Mr. ELL I sTON. iiti;
of this piece is frh, Out Law.. It was
origThally deriVed 'front the Gltin.in, bat has I~eeii
since introdneea upon the French Stage.
LEVet,, author 'of The Monk,. has inibikhed
Novel upon this subject. The piece of last' night;
though
_prepared with haste for a part icalar occasion',
is strongly interesting; and, With a little revision'
May he properly adopted by the Mans, ers, it is
founded upon manners very ditrerent irorn those of
this Country, and such as are calculated to make
every rational Briton satisfied with his own Political
Government. EL LisioN wait the hero of the piece,
'and his aaing was mirked by versatility and force;
The rest of the charadters were tolerably well sop.
• ported, with due allowance lot the -trifling inac-
curacies that usually attend a Benefit. • There was
some temporary allusions u a political kind, which;
though well received last, night, are by no means
proper for the Stage, as the general tendency of such
allusions is to exite party feelings, and interrupt the
enjoyment of the best of public amusements. The
Theatre ,st'as•• not so well attended as might he ex..
petted frorn•the rank which ELOSTON deservedly
holds in'public estimation. •
Music.—The Vocal Concert, under the'direc..
tion of Hmtatsok and Balm r VAN, closed for the,
season last night. .This Concert has been &stir!.
guished in the Harmonic elicits for. several see.
sons, and it fully maintained its credit anti attrar.
',tion during that which ha's just concluded..
The Vocal Department, has been this year Very
ably supported by Miss PARKE, Miss TEN.
RANT, BRKTLENittN, and HARRISON, all of whom'
'hold a high and merited ra;ik in the profe.ssior.--
Last night two very juvenile daughters of .Mr.,
HARRISON made their tisrt aprearanee in publie,•
and accompanied ". C'es; thestrellowSarth,"-
the.be,lutift3l Air of with treat t4ste and
expression on the Harp andlirano Forte. The whole
of the Concert was very well received, and attended
by a numerous Audience.

11 is MAj ESTI" was escrened yesterday at the
RAy4 Academy, and preplrations were vide. to
receive him :and the rest of theitoyAL FAlvar,r,
but the recent .fatigties of the Installation •deprrved
the Members of the honour of such august spet9ators.
Many iva friends of the Academicians, husvevt•r,,
were athnittcd, and were very well satisfiA a,ith
the general contrihutif,ns of 'British Art. Thi
Uld Efs that chiefly attr.,4l7A attention %861..,._ two
Pittares caf little 13tr-rt, One by -OPIP, in the
part of YOuirg Norval, aN.I the other by NoßTH-
co•re, in that of Hamlet.' They are both wotks
of merit, and we t►hall, leak the .I),ild;e to decide
'which is the liet.lik-cnes'i. LAW.r. ENC a,fiti
HOPPNEK, SHE Hi 'Ow EN, and Tito:stroz):•:, have
,sbine- excellent Portraits. Bobacr-tlia his sent
some. good ,Latuiscapes. A. you 4 turned
Citi„LcnTT, has come very forward aS a Land.
scape -Painter, TtntNati, though a
.11.t.141
sitininian, has 'cllit, thought thotught proper to contribute any
thing this year to. the support. of the Academy;,
but is preparing an Exhihitiun.of his.nwri There
iqe,.,501)e new .arrangeinenti in the distr,initiori. cf
the P4inreS. which certainly contribute to -,diii4day
them to snore advantage. Mittiatures are, all
in the Council 01,iniber. There are -sonze goA
enamel Pieces by BUNK. Sculurtire.ronin
hibits no-retnatk.thle specitwo of genitia this year.
and we ace nothing that iances us to think this
branch of art is Making great ativances towards per-
fettiOn.

Mr. ER INE may still have his nnme coupled
with Trzat jury as a Toast at the wh;s ;
l'ut the twitch of Gzu y, FO Ks arc) WimUlIANf, 'can
never hereafter 6e associated at any Political
ings with The Libero of the Press,
The Fisbmomgers have s ilieited the honour of a
pi ure of a certlin Naval OfficerOmt they hay;
not yet decided whether, among the ornamental
ensigniii, the mo:it iippropri te w Id he
gudgeon or a :bark. A Sitott time. will prQtEtbly
enable them to stlea a suitable dvziicr.' -
It is remarkable that .I.3ozgArAtvrt Was crowned
King of hal), on tlic Fis:tt of Aped, a day, accord.
lug to the adage, very avproimi,,te, as denoting the
intelletls of his suiVee.7s.
As BON APART K airC•itt tO pay attention to 0,..ne11f,
4is not itiprobable that he wculd have &:'erred his
coronation at irfihm, 'if he had heard of the capture
of ale Ville de Milan, considering such an event as
113,111o:it.

SrAt•i>Orr C are happy to inform our
Military 14-tiends; that 183 dayS Staff-pay, up to
74th of December last, will be issued from. the
Army Pay.office, Horse Guards, on Monday next,
stmt idso an Allowance of Summer Forage Maney
for such OffiCetB us were employed bet ovt.en the /,t
May and 16111 November. This Allowance is cx.
tended to all ()dicers of the Military, Medical, and
Volunteer Staff, as appears by a little Work Ludy
publishi:d by Mr. GI NG Lit, Bookseller, Piccadilly,
entitled The Aid-de-Camp ; or, Staff Officer's
siatant; which is particularl/ rec::mmeculed as con.'
tabling corral and Statements of the P.,y,
Allowarces, and Contingencies granted to every
Officer on tle Staff of Great Britain, Forms and LI.
mations fur making out their Accounts, Hi re.
(104(11 by the last Regulations, and a variety of
useful information not to be met with in any
other Work.

OLD 13AtLtY.—Vesterday Jahn Ge6rre was in.
diited for having assembled, with several other
persons armed with fire-arms And other offensive
weapons, in, order to rescue a large quantity of
smuggled spirits, after seizure the rcof by W. carry,
an Officer of the Excise.. The Jury found the Put.
saner Cikitty.. This is a capital offence, and sub;
jells the Prisoner to
Sunday morning about one o'clock, two shocks of
an earthquake were dietinttly felt at Birmingham,
Handsworth, AreSi NeWCAtille, Sc:C. The,
door. and winduivs were in some plAces burst oven
by the violence of the shock. At Stone, it is slid,
that a horse.keeper was thrown down by is, while
dressing a horse.

At Newmarket there was mate betting concern-
ing the Lottety. than on the Itiaming
betting embraceil a variety ni objeas,
which, what Oftie bho-alti sd the 30,0Qt)t
(W 0 $0 one In fiVOl,l7 satI.IORNSB

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ilrlM THU. PAPTRA LAID aavootr. T'llE ittit”lr ay
IvorECTING Slit 140MV. r0P11.394.

• (Continsati from aue Pater 0,/ Thip r I,y, )
No. ITl.Hcopy .) From Sir Home I>oritm.l to
'Capt. Spats!.
Filial the report of the Builderi reweeling the
worthiness of ,the Sensible to be.repaired and new
coppered, .from the opinion of Mr. Stothart, the
Naval Arebiteet,llow, in Calcutta, that she has the
finest bottom he ever saw, and from my own jodg.,
silent 'after a minute examination of her timbers in
elock, I have determined that she shall be repaired
and coppered accordingly ; you will therefore use
your utmost exertions to-forward the repairs of the
sail ship, seeing that the black carpenters, who are
naturally indolent, work the whole time they are.
on board, and give every other superintenden.
cy in your power to forward this work. Y-;ti will
also return all stores that are unserviceable, and
likely to be so in The course of a short time, .as it
will he very difficult to replace them on our arrival
in the Red Sea, and indent for every thing necessary
to complete her with six months stores. Yottwill
see. that the proper ()Ricers take the-rcgoisite receipts
from the Naval Oflker, and that they are particular
so ,the examination of all stores delivered, rejecting
such as are not in every respell tit for His Majesty's
Service. Your exertions to get His Majesty's ship
under youreommand fitted with every Possible dis.,
patch is at this moment very much desired, as 'he'
is wanted to return to the Red Sea with a convo'
rif Vittuallers antl Transports :.after she is out of
clock you will take the earliest opportunity of re.
'porting to me when,, in your judgment, she will be
ready for sea, that I may make ray arrangements
accordingly.
(Signed)

Home POPHAM.

Copy of aletrer from Wtt.t.ra:m Mmtsocrr, Esti.
Secretary to the Admiralty, to' Captain sir
110t.%2 porkiAm; dated gth of MArCh, 1804.
I
have received and communicated to.mi Lords
Commissioners of the AdMiralty your litter of the
6th instant; and I ant cwnmanded by their Loa.
ships to acquaint "you, rh.it the Papers which 'have
been referred to the Commissioners of Inquiry, re.
late merely to the Expenditure and Purchases of the
Stores and ProVigions for the Ships late under :your
orders, and the Stir of such Articles .as were sent
on shore, the circum,tance.s of which their Lord.
-td ups had neither time nor poWers fully to investi.
gate; and their Lordships will dire& that you may
he furnished with Copies of the Reports made by
the goy and ViCtualling hoards on this suhjen,
on your Making application to them for that purpose,
I am, &c.
WM, MA.KsDEN•

Copy of :a Letter from Sir 'Two Poruoit to Navy
Board ; dared r ith March, 1804.
York. Place, March 11, 1804.
CENTLEMRII,
_ _

The expression which your Report, with reopen
to the Supplies to the Squadron lately under my
command, drew froth my Lords Commissioners of
the 4elmiralty, made it indispensibly necessary that
sliciold be furnished with such Report or Reports
Emit Papers relating thereto ; and I therefore applied
tat their Lordships to dirett the same to be trans.
witted to me, as you will see by the enclosed Copy
of a Letter to their Secretary, accompanied by his
answer, from which I trust you will do tne the fa,
your of direCting all the Papers conneCted with this
subjett to be transmitted to me as soon as it may
suit your convenience.
I have the honour to he,
Honourable Gentlemen,
your most obedient lognlsle Servant,
TO the Hoe. the Principal HOMU POrilAtte
(Veers and Conoeissren.
era of His Witco's Na.
ru, Lorick".