The Sun.
London, England, 1804-02-11 00:00:00

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tTeRBAY, FEB. g.—:Arrived His Majesty's Ship
hearatzt from a Cruize ; and the Cerbere Gun brig,
with dispatches from Sir jAmEs SAIUSAREZ, baud
to Plymouth.

4LUOUTI4, VES. B.—Put in here this day by
I%ntrary wind, His Majesty's Ship Fisga,d, of 44
Suns

't and Hound Sloop of War, having under their
carrynY the outward bound West India Fleet, about
tWentY Sail, among which are the following :
xe4agle,Crutcheli, and Harvey, Smellie, for Tobago ; lane,.
rnan, for West Florida ; Ann, Clark, for Grenada ; A ta-
-1(1tel Jenkins for Kingston ; Valiant, Goodwin, for the
'l' of
Ir4thliondur' as ; Sir f. B. Warren, Hunt; liatona, Ma-
.netara;
.Marian, Wilson ; arid Crescent, . M'Asg 1-.) 111, for -
MThe pr;nre iLlo/Ibur Packet, BouLDFIVON, With
ails for America, and the PortugueSe Schooner
P°l"tet for Cadiz, which sailed last evenin,put
bdck again this day, g p
Also put in
44 here, His Majesty's Ship Naiad, of
guns, Capt. WALLts, after experiencing bad weather much
between Plymouth and this Port ; hay-
ing On board sealed orders,
Or_ned tilt she which are not to be
reaches, a certain latitude ; arrived
ths: the
P;sgcerd, With 'a
Convoy outward-bound;
Portsmouth an
"as Fugate Convoy
ifija„le Slop of War from
'Vessels: bound to
Cork I p ,
also the following
HoPe, liumpreys frm,.. b •
• Iklea) kr ' .-"" ' °°'e, for Liverpool ; Providence,
from
to oat Portsmouth, for Cork; Manchester, Skurry,
1.14")
for
I)4blin ; Lord Lenno*, Hutchinson, from
tortsrnouth fo
yarrn,„t,
, ' T. St. Michael's ; Zealous, Bentley, 'from
for
_ i for Liverpool; Union, Rogers, from Waterford,
i LonclOri; and Country Lass, Worth, for Newfoundland.

,)04tte tsuoxrra,lP:a. to. Arrived the Mc/Pm"'
irrigfrom a Cruize.
S4iled the Barletta Sloop of War on a Croix!.
Went out of Harbour the ..Worzo Sloop of War.
••••••••••••••• bEikte, FIB. 10...-Arrived His
Rattier from the Majesty's Sloop
Northward, and remains ; and
tbz Curlew Sloop 'from a Cluize off the Coast of
li'rance.
The in:mop/ante and Leda Frigates, Lark Sl
daressor, Starling, Locust, and Arther
Gun-brooigs,
,
and Millbrook Schooner, sailed
B Csuize off the Coast of s afternoon on
France.
re this
The David Scott East India Ship put back, and
niains.
In the Downs—Monarch, Utrecht 'lllustrious, Raiso"-
abler,,A.p.olcleo, Brilliant, Cianipin, 'grew Squirrel, Vulture,
past.% vs
ainnig;,;,irtiaLP3r, ic, attler, Curlew, Speedy,. Slof3pns..;
brigs ; David Scoytt Errl3l3thalaick_all, Basi.lisk, and Snipe u t
ward-bud.
g
a flip, with a large Fleet ou
.........e
YkaMOUTRI FEB. ro--The 1-I.)n. Mr. PAGET
and Suite arrived here from
they are expen Town this morning ;vv ed to embark to-morro an board
the Earl of Leicester Packet, Captain THompsoN,
,
for the Continent.
Sailed the Henry Addington, NEALE, to Liver-
pool with corn,

BOARD OF ADMIRALTY.

—_ __.
WE promised in a former Paper to submit to the
wh
public opinion,
ether we merited being brought
to Justice for contending, that those who condueted
the -Affairs'of the Nation cnght to do their duty.
It has been stated, that the Public had sustained a
10.4 s 0f.60,0001.---well it had been no more. But to the
Poisiti4--We ask the Public to decide, whether there
Pais not been the
time to bring away the Naval
and Military Stores from the Cape of Good Hope
Alas it, is too late ; for the Dutch have seized
tbe whole I.' Nigh • when at
up the n
ape, the Ad •
was finally determined to give
ra
,ummanding as
sent out orders to ;he
Officer of the INT v.l F.oree to embark
tbiis
h_
the Garrison, all the the
anda js,4' •
tent, Stores, Can
Aturnunizaryc.b.:
& s&ac. At
this period there were only three 6o gun ships .and
a frigate to do all this : the Tremendous of 74. and
Lancaster of 64 gt:ns, were ordered. tot he East
Indies. The shids were so deep in the water, with
she troops and stores they had on board, that they
could not have fought their lower deck guns had
they fallen in with ao enemy No 'Transport r
0
'Vend could be procured at the Cape to assist, the
consequence was, that a Naval and Military. Corn-
nissar were left in charge of stores, viz. salt pro.
'Pistons, medicinal stores, gunpocvder, spars, large
inchors, cordage, and various other kinds, besides
a considerable pantity of stores belonging to the
East India Company.
The Dutch GovernMent purchased largely, It-d
paid in part. However, the result has been, that
rtot a ship has been sent out to bring any thing
away, consequently the Governor of the Cape sum.niond our Commissaries to deliver up, not only the
stores, but the money they had in hand ; we have
heard roo,ooo dollars. Thus the loss to the
Country is not less than tOo,oool. Sterling..
Have not the Public a right to look for vlgilance,
.foresight, and good contlud, in those persons who
have dismissed numbers for negieft, embezzlement,
C. as we have been told, for the charges are not
Yet proved. Before we say more we shall wait to
he answered in The Times. \Ve have long been
in possession of the fads in part ; our Readers may
recotlea we hinted at this two months ago. It is
`"elf known to both Army and Navy that two 74's
Would have retaken the Cape ; the Dutch Troops
would have joined us, and the Inhabitants had been
au oppressed, that they wished for our return. We
shall see where Ltriots ii gone ; if to the Cape,
Lt it lost ; for there is reason to imagine that t he
Uuteh
,for
who escaped out with
three sail of Ferrol
of the Li oily be also there, in which
''',4llt the Enemy vine,
av four sail (fi the Line and

ON ell Itrieteth it, look arier our inaiamen.
know that the . AThion, Russel, and Sceptre, of 74.
guns, are gone to the East Indies, but they will
not go near the Cape.
Whenever we state negleCts in the Naval Depart-
ment, we are told in the Times " that the Commis-
sioners ailing under the Bill for inquiry into abuses,
are rendering the greatest service to the Country."
—Will this loss of national property be inquired
into by them ?
We shall shortly have some questions to ask re.
lative to the treatment of Mr. ADAMS the Ship.
builder—Also why the Cutters-offered by persons
at the Cinque Ports arc not accepted—About Mr.
MARSHALL, the late Builder at Plymouth, and Mr.
Tv c KER, the present Sub-Secretary—Indeed we
shall have a great deal to talk about, so we give
the above to the Times by way of a Brief,

A Paper of this morning contains the following
Article: " A' circumstance has occurred within
these few days, to which we are bound to call
the attention of the Public, from the effc which
it has produced on the minds of every -Officer
in the British Navy, to whom it has been made
known : Lord Sr. VINCENT has, for several
days, been so ill, that he was obliged to quit
his Official Duties, and to retire to his seat near
Brentwood, where he has been confined to his bed,
and has left the Details of the Admiralty Board to
the two Gentlemen of whose Official Condo& their
Senior Officers have had so frequently occasion to
complain.

. " A Letter has been written by the Order of the
Board, that is to say—of these two Gentlemen—
and of a third Lord Commissioner, who probably
did not know the nature of the order be was giving,
to one of the most respedable Officers in the British
Navy, very high in the Service, and one to whom
the thanks of the Public have been lately universally
called for, by an exemplary and distinguished dis.
charge of his duty. The letter in question is con-
ceived in terms so very improper, and so very in-
decent, when addressed to an Officer of this de-
scription, from those who, though seniors in rank, are
juniors in service, that nothing ought to induce the re-
spetlable Officer in question to submit to it, but the
desire of throwing a veil, if possible, over that official
misconduct} which has already manifested itself in so
many instances, to the detriment and injury of the
Royal Navy. We may, in a few days; have some
farther observations' to make upon another point of
Official Orders, originating, as we believe, in the
same quarter, which will require all the eloqueuce
of both these Gentlemen to explain to the satisfac-
tion of Parliament and the Public: But at present
we are silent, that we may not prevent the promo.
tion which is intended to gag Mr. —'s mouth."

It is now asserted that a Copy of the Proclama-
tion which we gave in our Paper of yesterday, pur-
porting to be a Proclamation prepared for circula-
tion in the Invading Army, has been in Town for
some days. It is stated to have been transmitted
to a Member of Parliament, inclosed in the follow.
ing note :

" 12th Year of the Republic.
" A literary man, formerly acquainted with you at ----,
but plrtieularly at --, and who can even boast of Navin
then received marks of your esteem, has the honour of trans-
mitting to you a Provisional Order of the First Consul, which
appeared to him highly interesting to your Country, and your
good Krxc. It would be usdess, and probably hazardous, to
mention the strange accident by which such a produaion has
fallen into the hands of him who addresses yOu. But he is
impatient to enclose it to you, and to offer you farm the bot-
tom of his heart, his warmest wishes, that England, that last
bulwark of Europe, may have its eyes adequately, and in
time, opened against the atrocious perfidy of the Tyrant who
lords it over France."

We must be permitted to say, that the story al-
together is a lame one, and we have great doubts of
the authenticity of the Proclamation in question.

Private accounts from the Western Departments
of France describe that part of the Country to, be
still in a state of considerable agitation. In many
places the Military have been attacked by the Pea.
sants : old animosities and hatreds have been re-
vived, and have caused an open resistance to the
execution of the law of Military Conscription, not
only in the Department of Deux-Sevres, but also in
La Vendee. These scenes have not only spread
alarm through those countries, but have also occa-
sioned the march of Troops and military execu-
tions. The General of Division, GouvtoN, has
been charged by the Government with the suppres-
sion of those symptoms of rebellion. He has taken
the cominand in chief of the Troops destined for
that enterprize ; and has established his Headquar-
ters at Palluan, in the Department of La Vendee.
An extraordinary Military Commission has been
formed, which si's at Bressuires, and has already
sentenced to death Moittrr, forrlerly a Chouan
Chief, for having excited disturbances in the De.
partment of Deux Sevres, and JOSEPH PIVETEIU,
for being chief and instigator of an insurrection in
La Vendee against the execution of the law of Mili-
tary Conscription.

Intelligence was received in town on Thursday,
that an embargo had been laid on all vessels at
Bourdeaux, and that all the merchantmen at that
place, to the number of about so, had been taken
into the service of the Republic. The same accounts
state, that there are about 250 flat.bottomed boats
at Bourdeaux, and that much adivity was employed
in fitting them out.
Since the present War, sixty.two Works or Pam-
phlets have been printed in France, concerning the
Maritime Law of Nations;' thirty-six concerning
former Invasions of England, and the probability
of succeas in the present attempt ; and twenty-four
different Maps of England, Scotland, and Ireland,
indicating the roads and tides, the property, the
charader, or prejudices of the inhabitants, &c.
A forged check for 7+ll. was presented for pay-
ment at a respeClable banker's in Lombard-streer,
on Tuesday last, and duly honoured. It appears
the party pr;)ceeded immediately to the Bank, and
changed the notes for smaller ones. The city
officers are on the alert, but have nut yet been able
to -apprehend the perFetrator,