The Sun.
London, England, 1805-07-09 00:00:00

' VAL NEWS.

PLY. hiCkUTII,.•JULY 7, ---.The" Curieux,,COlain
BETTESWORTH, arrived here: she, left Lord INTr,r.boN
the uth June, off Atiti'gua, steering
,to the North-
ward after the
,F reach and Spanish Fleets, having
received information that they ,had left Martinique,
without attempting to do-any thing (even at Trini-
dad. or any, pther of the 'Windward :islands), ONViug ,
to their being so sickly, that it is said they burin,
3000. Lord Nctso told the Captain of the Curiewr
*to _steer a particular course, which he said would give
them a sight of the Combined Fleets. The Curitar
did pasi them the 19th (;r' Jane, in the morning (17.
Sail), steering across the 'Trades at thiS time the,
Capin of the Curieux coniiiferi Lotd tv was
a day, or 'd day and a half, behind. them. They
sailed so badly that the Curieux seat 'them under •
her topsails. n
Lord NELsom sent back A(10111.31 Coctirtai•tit in
the 11Vorthum1erlqnd and the -Spat-Hale. He had
with him only t 0 Sail of the Line, hut not a sick man
in the Fleet bilt, what could come to quarters ; and
he had every confidence in hiS Fleet,. Winch induced
him to-send back the two bips tp tar S ration.—
CaptAin BET#SIVORTII is gone of express.
(
AWSTIZER LETTER, SAME DATE.)

Half-past Dile, P. M.—Just this moment arrived
a Slbop of War Brig,'under a press of sail. She
came to in the Sound, and from the Circumstances of
.her not making her number, bearing a .whiter
sign, and 116 r crew, which went aloft to furl the sails,
being dressed in white jackets, trowsers, and straw
hats, she 'mpst be' either from Vice-Admiral Lord
NELSON, in the West Indies, or Rear-Admiral Sir
PELLEW, Bari. in the Last 'lndies. Some ac-
count may be had before the post goes out, as a
Captain of a Man of War is jest gone up the Han;
bour to thq Port Admiral in the Stoop's Boat. ,
Half past Five, p. m.—A Post Captain is just
gone through express.
The accounts brought are; that the Coinbined
Fleets have left the West Indict, and Lord NELSON
was within a day's sail of them. The Enemy, had
not done any damage in the AA-est -Indies. '

Quarter lufore Si:v.—Since. the letter (20 minutes
sive), I learnt the following partieulars Cu-
thux, of 18 guns, Captain BETTRWORTHj is,the
Sloop of War arrived—she left Lord NELSON
f:ti hours sail of the French Fleet from Martinigne
she (the Crtrietii) liaving rc-connoitered them. The
Etieriiy, on hearing of his Lordship's drivel, had. set
otr, without doing any atnri, e. to our Islands, for
Europe, theretbre,his being clear Ships,
.and knoW-
ing their, track, tic most- pre i ttbly ill.ash duatnlnui
their Expedition. The French. Inp.,e last 3000 Me
mostly SOdiers", beside. the sick tktey haVe landed
.at Martinique. The Curieux's ' people. .think there
can be no doubt-of Nr.LsoN's ruin.; them. over,' as
they, called it, as he know.; by the
.Ctiiieux their
exael track, and they cal; no. he viCtuaildd tit Mar-
Calque.

.
Sailed the Cavar, ,ofb4 gullS, to jpiti ihe Chan-
nel Fleet.

Came in the Ranger, of t 4 guns : she saw, some
days since, several sail of squAre-rigged,Vessels go-
ing up Channel, hull down, but could not make
them out. Also an ,Arnerican Ship, William and
Mary, bound for a market, from Antte:-dam to Cu-
racoa, and to many. other Ports, detained by the Naiad,
38 guns; another Amt..rican ,is also sent in by the
Kent Privateer, frona Nov-York to Cadiz, for orders,
with flour, Sze.. There is another Privateer of -32
guns, a sister vessel to the raliant (brought in here)i
in the Atlantic Ocean, cruizing to cut off any strag-
gling Jamaica Ships, oi' which the Melampus and
Brilliant have intelli&ence, and are cruizin to fall
in with her.

PORTSMOUTH, JULY B.—A.fri.red His Majesty's
Ship, Royal Sovereign, gain. J. STIJART,' from the
Mediterranean ; the Enireirrenante, Lieut., Youl4io,
from a Cruize; and the Cerberus, Capt.' SELBY,'
from Madeira.

Sailed, His Majesty's Ship L'Epiegle, Capt. Moa
Els, with Convoy to most of the Ports to the West-
wark and to Cork.
Sailed His Majesty'; Shipillender, Lieut. J. G,
Nors, on-a Cruize;' and Goodwood, Itiuour., for
Woolwich. '•

4,.
The Fleet which came hereon Saturday from the
Mediterranean, under Convoy. of the Anson, Capt.
CIIACiIAVT, are as follows:
FrOm tlibralt4r—Naise Transport. ttopps, 'Two Friends,
BOA, Vine, Newland, -Bartick , Batley, Lady Shaw Stewart
Parry, Tryati, Le,;, Ant. Barker, Ellen, Coats, Eagle* R 0.,:
bens, and Ad" Hodgson;
rem Nta 1 t:t —Y reel ovo,. Gray, and Ceres, Pellet. •
Arrived the, Rose; lixaeisox, frimn Malta and
Miples; and Belk Awl, TouLn, from Maita and
Palermo. , .;

Majesty's illemene; Captain CI:01ton
STILES, went out of Harbour, aftel havin, under.a
gone a .thorough repair.
A fire thii morning broke out in rt.:fleiick-itfOet.;
l'ortsea, and v. Welt, tiont situ...tion of the wind;
if it had liappnned in the wthild hare most
probably destroved the wliole of that ; but by
the exertions of the i(4lthbittits it w soon gut
under, with-little other &image than the roof being
uncovered franithat And the- twQ houos 'adjoining
ti.-ii;.l4 olds.

SHE rmi:Ess, Juer -7:—,,Arrired the Borutlrt, Cal. A-
. To is','ll'om Hosely Bay.
Passed by several of theJaninien fcr tits
River.
Sailed the Shields ♦Teiukr for Shields,

• ,
Ships at thii; Port, &Aland, %N. Cferet, magna.
ninic, Combatant, less, Valorous .111Cs;:i10,
ertnes ; Ranger Atiitett Ship ; arilLst,
Constant, Prettitger, arid Resolution. -

• TIE.A.L„ *inornidg Majesty'A
Ship Majestic; Bear,Admir3l It.ossrt.t., 1;11,h tl.d
Siatelyi';Elephant, ;;Idaniant, and Dioin'ede "Mf-n f
WAri,sailed on a Cruize o 1 the Texel also the
and Brui.;z.cr Gun -brig4 on a Cruize off Boulogne.
' Came down from
,„Sheerii& ...
s, and "sailed for Pu.ts
mouth', the Druid Frigate.
P. S. The Zebra, Bomb, with the PAst inai,tmen.
atid.outWard-liound..Yeseis, are getting under gait
for. POrismouth.