The Sun.
London, England, 1803-03-12 00:00:00

NAVAL NEWS.

FIX MO VTR) MAR C H 10.

14/iT • night one of the hottest Impresses for the
Navy took place at this Port that was'ever re-
membered ; the Marines frotn Stonehouse Bdrracks
were stationed in parties in the Towns of Plymouthi
Dock, and Stonehouse, and seized almost every one
they met, whether Seamen or otherwise ; the Boats
fro'm the Men Of War and Frigates were employed
in sacking the Merchant. Vessels dispersed over
the Harbours or Harnoaze, Catwater, and Sutton
Pool, and some hundreds of hands were picked up
and conveyed on board the Guard Ships in Hamoaze.
Parties of. Marines were yesterday dispatched to the
villages situated near the public roads leading from
hence, for the purpose of iticking up stragglers.'
The Impress wall it :is expefted, be renewed
again- to night, but not with equal success, as most
of the' Merchantmen were stripped last night of
;he hands they had on board, whereby some of
them suffered considerable inconvenience;i4 rticular,
ly the Birk Favourite, of this Port, Capr.
sox, bound
,to the West Indies, from which Vessel
they took all her hands, and it bloWing strong, she
was driven on shore in Catwater, and had her rud.
der knocked off.

PORTSMOUTH, .I‘,lAh CH 11.

ARR. IV SD the, Detroymee acrd the Minerva Fri.
gates from a Cruize.

• DEAL, •MARCH' 11, ,

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ARRIVED the American Ship Fa Captain
TIIOMAS FARRELL, after ende3votiring in vain to
reach Rotterdam, the Port of herdestination. The
Fabius came to an anchor onv the 7th inst. off Goree,
where she cut from an anchor and cable in a gale of
wind, and was obliged to bear up for the Downs.

Orders. for impressing Seamen for h-lis.Majesty's
Strvice have been received here, and three of the
Crew of the Fab;ui have been taken out of the
Ship; and pot on bciard, the Ambuscade Frigate.'

Orders have been issued by the Treasury Board,
for all the Revenue Cruizers to be immediately em.
ployed in the Service of the Admiralty.
Among the Naval Officers of distioCtion whose
services will be immediately called for, are, it is said,
Lords NELSON and KR ITH, Sir EDWARD PE L L Wp
and Sir St Dray SM TH. It.ls confidently reported,
that the command of the Channel Fleet will be given
to Lord'NE LSON, and that ache North Sea Station
to Lord KE 1711, and that the whole opposite line of
:he French coast will be , blockaded by numerous
squadrons of frigates and gun-boats, under the dis-
tin& commands of Sir EDWARD PELtEW and Sir
si DNFY SMITH. Orders have been issued by the
Board of Admiralty for the equipment of twenty of
the largest and swiftest sailing gun vessels.
Ten Sail of the Line and Sixteen Frigates will be
ready in a few days for Commission.
A Board was held yesterday at the Admiralty, at
which Sir A. PIAmoND, Comptroller of the Navy,
attended for the purpose of stating the ',timber of
Ships now ready for Commission.
The following IN of ,His Majesty's Frigates in
ordinary at Portsmouth, have been ordered to be
fitted immediately for commissioning,' if found in a
state fit for service : 4!arrn, of 32 guns ;
meda, of 32 guns ; Galatea, of 3z guns ; La To.
pazr, of 38 guns ; La Decade, of 36 guns ; and
Seahorte, of 36 guns.
The Zealand, of 6+ guns, late guard-ship at the
Nora, is immediately to, resume her station ; and
Captain W. MIT. cHe LI., who formerly commanded
her, is again appointed.

Lieutenant \,V. Sc. 4 ERV ILIA is appointed to the
Enterprise, which is hourly e:tPeCted oft the Tower
from Deptford.
Every hand has been taken out of the Company's
Ship the TherWari, by the late unexpeCted preis.; This
ship was nearly ready for sea, and was on the eve of
being dispatched. The Exeter, Charlton, and Thigh
are also deprived of their men, and
,conse,
quently,, will be detained fur some time.
G:).verinnent, we understand„"ielies upon increas-
ing our Naval .Force with I 0,000 Seamen, either
volunteers or inwressed men, 'in leis than a fort.,'
night, in consequence of the exertions which are
making in all the principal Ports. Thoie colleCted
on the River, and in London, .will be instantly con.
veyed to Chatham, ,Sheerness, and Portsmouth. Se-
veral Frigates 4114 Gun-brigs have sailed tbs. .the
Islands of Jersey and Guernsey with luipressed
warrants,

The 'Admiralty ''relegraph .was at work during
the whale of'yesierday, by which information was
received from Portsminith, 'Sheerness, and the
Downs.

Direainns will innuedjately .be given to all
Greenwich Pensioners; able to perform; duty, to
assist in manning the ships in the River.

Ltsaakan.-7-General NORTON,. Chairman of the
Select dominittee'-appointed. to. try, the merits of
the -contested.EletliOn for the Borbugh of Liskeard,
in Cornwall, reported on Thuriday to the House of
Commons,:thai the,Hop.,Jclux and WM. tLLIoT,
the Sitting' Members, were duly eleAtd;' but that
the Petitions. .of :THOMAS :S.IIERPAN and "Wt,'
OCILVI2; Esqro. and others, Were neither frivo.
lons nor vexatious. The right of eledion has been
determined to be in the Mayor and Burgesses, and
not in the Inhabitants eayipk Scot and Lot; for ,the
inter.Of which the Petitioners contended,

TTING IT .1!4 COMMITTEE. —,-
MP. HAWICiNi
BROW N I repOrted on Thursday to the House of
Commons, that the Cortunir.tee had ordered STEPHEN
littoolis into cusiocty of the Serjeant at Arms, for
" wilful prevarication." Ordered, Shat the said
STEPHBN BROOKS be ccimalittea to Hill 111.15611r3
Gaol of Newgate.