The Sun.
London, England, 1804-01-02 00:00:00

A LIST

Of the Vessels of War of various descriptions .announced in
the London Gazette to haVe been captured from tile Erie-
my, or destroyed, since the commencement of the present
War.
MA Y iS. L'Affronteur Lugger, mounting r 4 lent, 9-pounders,
was taken by His Majesty's Ship Doris, Capt. R. H.
Pearson.
aB'. La Fransaise Frigate, of 44 guns, taken by the Minotaur,
Capt. Mansfield.
L'Ernbuscade.'sformerly the British Frigate Ambuscade)
of 3z guns, taken by the ViEtori, Capt. Sutton.
29. L'lnipatient, of zo guns, captured by the Naiad, Capt.
J. Wallis.
. La Felicite French Cutter. Privateer, a Dutch West India-
man, a Dutch Galliot, and a French ling, captured by
the Hind Revenue Cutter, 'Capt. Senhouse.
A small French Privateer, taken by the Boadicea, Capt.
Maitland.
jtrivx 3. The Betsey, French National Brig; and two Dutch
Galliots, captured by the Russell; Capt. R. Williams.
13. L'Espiegle Lugger Privateer, taken by the. Eling
Schooner, Lieut. Archbold.

L'lnabOrdable Schooner, and Le Commode Brig, two
Gun-vessels,' were 'driven on shore on the French Coast
near Cape Blanc Nez, by His Majesty's Ship I mmortalite,
Capt. Owen, and afterwards taken possess►on of by the
boats of that ship,- and the !Mouse and Cruizer. Sloops,
under a heavy lire from the shore.
L'Arab Brig, of 8 guns, taken in the Mediterranean by
His Majesty's Ship Maidstone, Capt. Moubray. •
18. La Color-idle Carver, of i 6 guns, taken by the Dragon,
Capt. j. Aylmer.
24. Le Marengo Cutter Privateer, taken by the Albion Hired
Cutter, Lieut. Wright.
25. La Phoebe Cutter Privateer, taken by the Hydra.
L'Enlant Prodigue Schooner Corvette, pierced for 16
guns, taken by the Emerald off St. Lucia.
La Bacchante Corvette, of 18 twelve-pounders, taken by
the Endymion, Capt. Paget.
26. La Pelagic Privateer taken and, scuttled by the Doris,
Capt. Pearson.
27. The French National prig La Venteuse, mounting four
long 18-pounclerS" and six brais carronades, was boarded
arxt taken under the batteries or the Isle of Bas by three
boats, commanded by Lieutenants Temple and Bowen, from
' the Loire Frigate, Capt. Maitland.
29. Le Dart:Armed Brig taken by the Apollo, Capt. Dixon.
La Mignone Corvette, of 18 gu4ls, cut out trop► Cape Ni-
chola Mole by the bons of the Goliath, Capt. Brisbane.
JULY I. La Creole Frigate, of 44 guns, with General Mor-
gan, his Staff, and 530 French Troops, besides the crew,
captured off Cape Nichols Mole by the Squadron under
Commodore Bayntun.
4. La Providence Schooner, laden with cannon and timber,
cut out from the Saints, near Brest, by the boats of the
Naiad, Capt. Wallis,
8, L'Aleyon,. of 16 guns, captured in the Mediterranean, on
her return from a special ►nission to Alexandria, by -the
Narcissus, Capt. Donnelly'.
11. The Lodi Brig taken, atter am anion of half an hour, by
the Racoon Brig, in Leogane Roads. Five other small
vessels ►were taken by the Racoon between the jth and tsth.
(fluty.
13 La Furet Lugger Privateer, of Boulogne, taken by the.
Constance, Capt. Griffiths-.
46. Le Felix Schooner Privateer, of 16 four-pounders,. taken
by the Amazon, Capt, parker.
L'Adour French store ship, of co guns, taken bythe
Endyn►ion, captain Paget:
23. L'Oiscau_French National Schooner, of 16 guns, captur-

cd off St. Domingo by the Bellerophon, Capt: rink: .
Le Leger French National Schooner, taken by the Alarm

Private Ship of War. •
24. I.e Duquesne; a French 74, captured by the Squadron
blockadingtape Francais.. • •
PAiguiile Brie, of 16 guns, taken by the . Bellero-
phon, Capt. Loring.
zs. The Courier tL ferre Neuve Privateer, taken by the
Plantagenet, Capt. Hammond.
26. La VtaillS Privateer, of.Bourcleaux, pierced, for 22 guns,
taken by Majesty's Ship Thunderer.
27. L' EperWr Brig, of 16 guns, taken Or the Egyptienne
Frigate, Capt. C. E. Fleming.
30. L'Atalante Privateer, of Bourdeaux, or 120 men and 22
guns, taken by His Majesty's Ship Plantagenet, Captain
Hammond.
AUGUST 1. Le Favori French National. Lugger, taken by
the boats of His Majesty's Ship Hydra, Capt. Mundy, off
Havre.

z. De Haasje Dutch National Brig captured at sca by His
Majesty's Ship Csroline, Capt. Paget, and
.sent to St.
Helena.
6. A letter from Commodore Hood, of this date, states the
capture of two row boats belonging to Guadeloupe; one
by the Government boat. of the Island of Dominica, the
other by the jolly-boat of L' Eclair Schooner.
Le Messager Lugger cut out from within the rocks of
Ushant by the boats-of the Ville de Paris.
14- La Fanny.Cuttcr Pt ivatcer taken by His Majesty's Ship
lamaica, Capt. Rose.
17. The-boats of-His Majesty's Ship Cerberus, under the
command-of Lieutenant Nlanscl, having made an attack on

the Enemy's. Vessels in Concale Bay atia St Cas Bay, cut
out one boat out of the former and seven-out of the latter
place.
Le General Moreau Schooner Privateer, of 16 guns,
captured by the End) mion.
Le Desespoir Lugger Privateer, taken by His Ala-

jesty's Sloop Wasp._ •. ,
St.rik,rasa t. The Papillon Corvetrei) pierced for la guns,
Lea Croix Amis. Transport, and the iCiary Sally Schooner,
delivered Up to :._Capt. Walker, of the Vanguard, on the •
Capitulation of fort St. Marc, in St. Domingo.
g. Le Courier de. Nantes, a small French National Vessel, •
taken by the Vanguard, Capt. Walkek.•
r. La Sagesse, of a guns, capi!ured off Fort Dauphin by
the Theseus, Capt.,Bligii.
Les -Quatre fills Privateer, of Nice, taken ofF Cape
Spartel by the I uno, Capt. Richardson.

L'Espoir Privateer, of 6 guns, captured, and the Two
Friends, from Mogadore to London, recaptured by the.
Joseph hired Cutter, Lieutenant Gibbons, in company
with the Maria Privateer of -Guernsey. • . • •
to. La Caille.Schooner Privateer, taken by the Bittern
Sloop, Capt. Corbet.
tl. The Lord Nelson East Indiaman, captured thirteen days
before by a French Privateer, was retaken after a smart
action by the Seagull.
is. L'Oiseatt Cutter Privateer, taken by the Argo, Capt.
Hallowell.
17. Hippomenes Batavian Corvette, pierced for i 8 guns,
and twelve merchantmen, surrendered at the capitulation
of Demerara.
zo. La Caroline Privateer, captured by the Constance Fri..
gate; Capt. Griffiths, in the Elbe. . .
The Sapent Batavian National Schooner, and five Afer:.
chantmen, taken on the surrender of Berbice.
29. A Squadron of the Enemy's Gunboats proceeding from
the Eastward to Boulogne, was attacked by His Majesty's.
Ship Leda, and two of them driven ashore and destroyed.
An Armed Sloop taken between• Dunkirk and Nieuport
by the Jackall Gun-brig, Lieut. Leaver. •
OCTOBER 2. L'Avanture Privateer of Bourcleaux was cap-
tured, and two Westindiamen retaken, by His Majesty's
Ship Acasta.
L'Alett Privateer Brig, ••of Bourdeaux, captuted by
L'Aigle.
to. Two Armed Ketches and a Brig were driven on shore in
Quiberon Bay, by the Atalante Sloop.
27. Les Sept Freres Privateer driven on shore and destroyed
off Dunkirk by the boats of the Merlin, Capt. Brenton.
31. A Gun-brig and one of her Convoy were driven on shore
on the rocks'off•Boulogne, by the Admiral Mitchell Cutter.
NOVEMBER S. The French National Gun-boat, No. 86,
Lugger-rigged, was captured by the Conflid Gun-brig,
Lieut. D. ChaMbers.
Is. Thirty sail of French small craft were driven ashore on
the rocks of Cape La Hogue by the boats of His Majessy's
Ship Poidette;"-with the assistance of. the Liberty Brig,
and a Brig, a Lugger, and a Sloop taken.
24. La Vaptour French National Lugger, of 16 guns, was
taken by. the Boadicea, Capt. Maitland.
28. La 13ayonnaise French Frigate, of 31 guns, driven on
shore in the Bay of Finisterre.(where she blew up) by His
Majesty's Ship Ardent, Capt.' Winthrop.
DEO. 8.. Le LiOnnais, French Cutter' Privateer, captured
and destroyed by the Vixen Gun-brig; Lieut. Browne.
is. Le V.igilanti-, French Ctitter Privateer, taken by the
• Badger _E xcise` Cuttel, Capt. Gunthoipe.
IS 'The French' NatioLd Gun-boat, No. 346, taken by the
Basilisk Con-brig:Lieut. Shepheard.
,19. Four of the Enemy's Gun-boats, full of Troops, driven
on shore near Dunkirk by 'the-Speculator Hired Lugar,
Lieut. Young. •

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SIIIP NEWS.

CRAVESE.ND, DEC. 30.
Passed by=the Cotistantia, from Alicant, and Hede-
ing Magdalena, --,, from Valencia.
Sailed—the Boddingtons, Soal, for St. Vincent's ; Naiad,
Roberts, for Jamaica; Trelawney Planter, Curry, for Ber-
n-m(la ; Matian, Wilson, for Demerara; Valiant, Goodwin
tbr Yucaton ; and Pastorimba, for Oporto. ,

BIRTH.
On Friday morning, at Epsom, the Lady of Dar.iel Webb,
Esq. ofa Daughter.

111/IRRIED.

On Thursday last, at St. Snithin's Church, Worcester,
lonathan,Walker, jun. Esq. of Ferham, near Rotherham,
Yorkshire, to Miss Barr, eldest daughter of Mr'. Martin Barr,
of Worcester.
On Thursday last, at Walton, near Liverpool, by the Rev.
William Blundell, A. 13. George. Orred, Esq. of Liverpool,
to Mrs. Blundell, of the same place.
On Saturday, at Hammersmith Church, by the Rey. T.
S. Atwood, Thomas Prince, jun. Esq. of the Island of Ja-
maica, to Miss' Marianne Sanderson, niece of the late Sir
John Hales, Bart. of 13Iashforci, Hants.
Friday se'nnight, -at Stoney, Huntingdonshire, Robert
Hanslip, Esq. Captain in His Majesty's 99th Regiment of
Foot, to bliss Mary. Shelton, daughter. of Thos. Shelton,
Esq: of the same place.
Mr. Brook, of London, Seal-engraver to His Majesty, te
Miss Sinipson, youngest daughter of Thomas Simpson, Esq.
of-Ufford, in Norfolk.