The Sun.
London, England, 1804-06-04 00:00:00

P9RTSMOUTII, JUNE 3.—The ck,fcc,eott!.:
ward-bound East Indiamen are dropt down to St:
lkicn's, to wait the- arrival of the CuHaden, Capt.
COLE, from P;ymouth. Sir EDWARD PE.IiI;I:V is
expe;:ted here to hoist his Flag. .

The Mediterranean Convoy is silll detained by

contrary winds.

YARMOUTH, JUNE j.—Arrived this morning
from Husum, the Diana Packet, STEWARD, with a

Messenger.
Sailed the Little John, PAGE, Amy, COFFIN,
and Hope, lIANNANT, for Leith ; and Emanuel, AN.
DERSON, for Norway.

HARWICH, JUNE 3.—There not being a Post:.
Office Packet in Port, the Hamburgh and Bremen
Mails were yesterday forwarded by the Betsy Smack,
belonging to this place, Captain CII.LLEN. The
Gottenburgh Mail, with the one of the 30th of last
month, will be forwarded by the Diana Packet,
Captain STEWAkD, who arrived this morning.
Having his mast, Sze. carried away, he landed his
Mails in the Humber.

DEAL, JUNE 3.—Yesteiday arrived the Ja.
ma ca, Champion, Dart and Orestes, from a cruize
off Calais ; Curlew, from a cruize off Havre, and
sailed for the Nore.

Sailed the Archer and Milbrook, on a cruize off
BJulogne.

This day sailed the Feteran, Seine, Speedy, Fury,-
.
and Bloodhostna', on a cruize off Boulogne; Jamaica,
Champion, Dart and Orestes, on a cruize off Calais;
La Bacchant, and Lady Warren, with the Flaws
Transport, and a Convoy of Merchant Vessels, fur
Portsmouth and Plymouth.

Arrived the Harpy Sloop, Bruizer Gun Brig, and.
Ann, Hired Brig, (rain the, Nore. The Har4ty
sailed again for Dungeness.

In the Downs —Monarch, Utrecht, Ardent, Inflexible,
Virginie, Tartarus, Zebra, Scourge Bruizer, Ann, Earl St.
Vincent, and Speculator, with the Transports as before.

BRIGHTON, JUNE I. A French Privateer,
schooner-tigged, and mounting 14. or i 6 guns, has
been cruizing in this part of the Channel for some
days past, but we have not as yet heard of any cap.-
tures that she has made. The Dash Trading Sloop,
JosEPH CAUNS. master, very narrowly escaped from
her in the night of Wednesday last. The Sloop was
I.Au.to off Rottingdean, within a league of the
shore, when the Schooner bore down upon her, and,
at length, %yds sufficiently near to hail the vessel,
a. d order the Crew to lower their peak, and per
mi: a b.)at to come alongside. An answer was re-
turned in the affirmative ; the man at the helm,
luestever, received different instrutlions; the fore-
*kat let go, and art, escape t'fiethd. The
Stisoot:er discharged fourteen guns at her ; one shot
was lodged in her boom, a:ld a secon-r went through
her mou_sail all the rest it,ip-,)ily•provrd inefEdual.

Letters from Gibraltar, dated the r7th May, are
received. The, Agincourt had arrived :!titre tl take
in her Lower-deck guns, in'order to cruize off
Cadiz.

Capt. La GROS, late of the Hindostan, has been
tried by a Court-Martial for the loss of that Ship,
and honourably acquitted. The Court gave him
great credit for his condua, in sinothering.the fire
at a distance of 12 leagues from the shore, and there-
by saving the Crew.
Two Frigates are ordered to be built at Dept.
ford and Woolwich, which are to be called the
Apollo and Shaknon, in the stead Of those which
have been lost:

Lieutenant BURLTON is appointed to the corn-
mana of the Pelter Brig.
Government has purchased four of the Ships em-
ployed by the East India Company, which are to be
immediately fitted out to carry so guns each.
The Urania frigate, which sailed from Portsmouth
on the Bth of March, with a fleet of about so sail,
under convoy for the West Indies, arrived at Bar-
badoes on the 233 of April, with part of her convoy.
Several of the Fleet had not arrived there on the
zsth of April.

The Earl of MoIRA, it will be seen by the Ga-
zette, has been promoted to the command of the 27th
Regiment, in the room of Lord C LAR I NA) deceased.
Saturday afternoon Mr. PROUDNIAN, the Messen-
ger, arrived at Lord I-lARaownY's Office, with
Dispatches from Mr. FR ER E, the English Ambas-
sador at Madrid. The Messenger came by the way
of Lisbon, and landed at Falmouth on Thursday.
Soon after his artival, a Cabinet Council was held,
at which nearly the whole of the Ministers attended.

Saturday Capt. CANTIto, of the Tiger Cruizer,
arrived in Town from India, via Egypt and Lis-
bon, with duplicates of the lately-received dis-
patches from Marquis WE LLFSLEY. Capt. CAN-
TI LO left Lord NELSON with his Fleet off Toulon,
on the 23d April, all well.
The 15th Light Dragoons is on its route from
the Isle of Thanes, to assume the King's Duty, in
room of the 13th : three Squadrons passed through
Canterbury on Thursday', Friday, and Saturday ;
the remainder of the Regiment followed yesterday.
The i 3th Dragoons, relieved at Hounslow, &c.
by the 15th, is on its route for Ramsgate,
&c. The First Division reached Canterbury on Fri.
day.

Letters from Alderney mention, that on Wed-
nesday the 23d of May, two Frigates, a Brig, and
a Cutter, arrived there, with three Transports under
convoy, having on board 1r Officers and 450 men
of the Royal African Regiment, of which Major
TURNER is Commandant ; the wezti:tr being stormy
that evening, they remained on board until the next
day, when they were all landed safe. Three Com-
p nies of the 57111 Regiment then quitted the bar-
rack, kind etnharked Lot Guernsey, where their Re.
gimcnt is stationed.