The Sun.
London, England, 1803-10-21 00:00:00

ildmiralty-Office, 08. 20, tBo3.

Exll.'l.l qf a Letter froin Capt. Wolfe, Of His ltfa.
jesty's Ship L' Sir Crown Napean, Bart.
dated Downs, ad. tB, 803.

, .
I have to beg you will acquaint my Lords Com.,
tnissioners of the Admiralty, that, on the 27th ult.
being of} Vigo, 1 captured, after several., hours
chase, L'Alertc French Brig Privateer, of fo n urtee
guns, French six- and four pounders,. mid, tighty.,
four men, commanded by Bernard'Benjarnin Berard,
on her return from. a Cruize,. having been sixty five
days from Bourdeaux. Her mists, sails, and 'rig.,
kg are much Om l7y our shot, and the man at the
helm (the'only man suffered on deck) dangerously
vitiur..led. I have 'sent five wnnntied prisonets, on
shore, to the care of the-French Consul at Oporto.

PLYNiOUTH, OCT.• I9.—Arrived this morning
the Dutch Ship De Areerttu, laden With sugar and
coffee, from Batavia, bound tg, Amsterdam, captured
by one at tae Cruizers ; and the Stijl) Yvan fililliam,
of London, Capt. CHAILLES BACON, from Jamaica
for London, captured by the Ateriture French Pri-
vateer (which arrived here yesterday), and retaken
the draila Frigate. The two West Tndiamen
mentioned in my last to be re-taken by the latter,
arrived here this mgrning.

The homeward-bound Jamaica Fleet-pasted by to
the Eafirward last night.
Sailed the Diaq Frigate, and La Fled.. Sloop
of War, on a Cruixe..

Si s a 11154 OCT. 30.—Arrive0 and proceeded
up the River, the Baltic Fleet, which came home
under convoy of His Majesty's Snips lii d, All-
tilligM? and Ricer/ Gun-brig.
The Rraderscarp 'lo sting Battery, 'C pt,
7'11.14 WWI ;his day paid, and will iminediotly
tier 4tati9ll at dig .4uoy of Ole Knob,

D,Lfiti OCT. 2e...-14is Majesty's Ship Melfiormme
came in early this morning from a Cruize off Havre.
'lit Majesty's ship Sant,a Margaretra, with a
large Fleet of Merchant Ships from Jamaica, came
in this afternoon, and remains.

In the Downs—Morrarth, Utrecht, Melpomene,
Intenortniiti, Ranges and VriltrixoSloopa,..l•44ifiwgi.
Brig, Ear) Bomb, Bloodhosid, Starling, and Cow..
All Gun-brigs, Sir Edward Hugher.ami,ariterrgia
East India Ships fur India, Ranger and Drisffird
Transports, Waiting for a wind.

Dova,., OCT. 19-m-The Pouro, George, and the
,Mary brigs, with wine, from Oporto fc,r.this place
and London, arrived here this day ; when they,
iviled, Portugal was expeEted to be invaded every
day.
Sailed for Sheirness, the. Scorpion sloop of war,
launched here a few days since; to be fitted for sea
with all possible dispatch she is a very fine vessel
of her
Every thing seems quite still 'at present on .the
French coast ; the gun boats at Boulogne, Calais,
&c. keep ClOse in theiiVarbburs, and otr ertirreri
are constantly watching theni; not a fishing boat
can get ()qt. , A. small privateer escaped out of
nonkirk in the dark, commanded by the noted
Blackman, but she has been chased into Flushing,
and very dearly taken.- Vatroles constantly go
along the shore from Dover to Folkstone, and ten_
`tries are placed all along cur shorts within hail of
each other.

The London Gazette of last night announces
the Capture:of the L'Aveuture 14 tench Priva-
teer. This Vessel, it will he recollected has
been the most successful of all the Eneroy's Cruizers
since the recommencement of hostilities, She was
fitted out at the joint expetice—Of the Nuideaux
Merchants ; ana her name has been on several OCC3_
sinna very conspicuous in the otlielial communications
published in the Movitegr, by the French Ministry
of Marine. Immediately Wore she was captured
she had taken several, of the Jamaica Convoy, and
was art the point et boarding two more, when the
Acasla Frigate apitared in sight.
The Std./lower Mau of. War, arrived at Deal,
has brought advice, that the number of. Gun-boats
at Havre, puulogne, and Ostend , is about boo.
Letters from Liverpool mention, that a vent hot
}less had taken plaCe there last 'Windily: A great
number of able Seamen were collected. In the other
Ports, in comegoenee of ftesh orders frOM -the Ad-
miralty, the same vigilance has been Intercked• in
the Impress .11TAttinent, and it is' supposed that
our Naval strength will he'rectuited with several
thousands of useful hands by 'the late various nr.
rivaki' from Foreign Ports.

Yesterday the LoRO MA'yote !telt- #' Cortfrof
Aldermen at Guildhall, at whiell,,were present 24.
Aldermen and City Officers ; the proceedings of
lot Court being reaii, the Court proceeded to the
Election of Rceoreer by ahem/ of hands,.and there
bting only one Candidate, the Common Serjotibt
Mr, Smv rtsrea, was unanimously elected thereto,
and sworn into Office. A Court of Common Coun-
cil was held afttrwards for the Eiedtion of a City
Solicitor, in.., the room of JOSEPH Btl,HtiAtiti.`..6.l.
appOloted Comptroller : the Court, previous to the
Elation, accepted of the resignation of JOHN Sft-
VECTER, Esq. late Comtnon Serra:it, and .ippointed
the next Court for the Elatiin of a 'CoromOn Ser-
jeant in his room.

The Court then proceeded to the Ele6lion of a
Solicitor by ballot, and on casting up the saute;. the
numbers were as follows :--.

WILLIAM Li,WI. NtwmAw, Esq. . Its
1 AMISS tSIOI4, E. 9;
Fonast, Erg. it

Whereupon his Lotdshiptieclared xxr..ILLIAM Lswts
New MAN, Esq. duly clotted Solicitor for this City.

Yesterday a, Court of DireEinrs was held at the
East India House, when Capt. VI/Ai-Tett CAMPIRLI.
was ?worn into the command of the new Ship Win-
ebdrea, as was Capt. CHARLAS DRUMMOND into
that of the, Glatran.

The Brupisiwick 'was stationed for China instead
of St.'Heiens, Bencoolen, and China—and the ;Pal-
?tar Cattle for St. Helena, Bencoolen, and China,
instead .tit. China dirett.

The Court adjourned at five .o'clock till Tlrrs-
dak next.

- A G:ntleman.tvho left Paris on the sat instant,
says, that on the 4th IioNAPARTit was at NOS,
and reviewed a very large hotly of troops destined
for the invasion of Eng Lind. He passed from thence
to Holland, which he left on the r 3th inst. where,
he adds, there were 42,000 men, who would be
'ready to embaik in the course of ten days.
Letters from some respetlable merchants in fiol,
land state, th,it the proposition of the French .Go.
vernment for raising a loan in that country has to.
tally failed of . success. An interest .of eight per
cent was ufThred, and every exertion was made to
induce the,monied part 111 the community to accept
of the terms. The merchants cOntinuett obstinate
in their refusal, and the measure was at length
abandoned. Disappointed in this means of "raising
the supplies necessary for defraying the expence of
the present vast, preparations, the French agents
wete under the necessity of having recourse to other
expedients. It was accordingly determined to levy
Contributions to an amount equal to the sum to he
raised by the proposed loan. The mode in which
these contributions are to be raised is by a tam-on
property.

Sunday tennight, one dale hutment: of the new
iron bridge across the Thames, at Staines, gave
way, and tor some time created a considerable de.
gree of alarm, as the mar serious consequences
were apprehf,mded. Men were immediately em-
ployed in cleating away the stones and nibbish ; anti
as.no part of the old bridge had been demolished,,
the Commissioners.gave orders for it to be, re-open.
p.rd the new one blocked abovc failure
w 35 intirely owing to a vault having been' suffered
to remain near the b43olents instes4l44eing gII '4l)-
beli)te the bridge wk; or*,