The Sun.
London, England, 1803-11-19 00:00:00

i• A 11,1 L, N Ail' S.

rLYMOUTII, NOV. 17.—Sailed the NarAhober.
land, of 74. guns, Capt. Hon. A. COCHIIANE, to
join the Channel Fleet ; and L' Imps ierise and Niobe
Frigates, on a Cruize Westward.
Arrived the Mary Hall, Capt, MOORE, horn
Bilboa, laden with nuts, fur this Port.

POILTSMOiITH, NOV. 1 8.---Arrived the I,2banna,
from, Oporto, detained by His Majesty's
Shipßaver; Les Am' from La Hogue, cap-
tured by His Majesty's Ship Liberty ; Maria, AR.
THUR) from Jamaica, captured by the French Pri-
Vateer La Blonde, re..captured by the Isis, and,
since carried to. Newfoundland ; Union, &mix.,
from Jamaica, captured by La Reprisal French Pd.
Vateer, re.capinred by the since carried
to Newfoundland ; Hope, Knot, from New. York ;
met with bad weather on the passage, and forced
to throw overboard great part of her cargo. ..
Sailed the Industry, INGRAM, for Amsterdam.

Nov. 16.—The following Packets
Tailed this evening wiih a dine breeze at 'itortli„
-14 z. -Tow t", 7 and Waliiirsham; R 0
SARTS, with Mails.of the zsth alt.. and tst anJ Bth
inst. for Lisbon ; Earl Lekester, BELL, with Mail
of the zd inst. for New-Yark and Halifax .; and
Duke of Marlboroargb, Bu Li, with Mail of ad inst.
for Jamaica, Barbadoes, and Crooked Island. . Also
the Zondox, Brig Privateer, of London, Capt. PAtJ.
LETT, on a Cruize ; the Industry, ROgivaTS, and
Ebevezer, MAINWARING, for Swansea.

Arrived since my last, the English barque Royal
itsvereign, Captain GMAYDOR, 4s days passage,
With wheat from Quebec, very leaky. She will be
obliged to discharge part of her cargo. Also arriv-
ed the Lord Nelson, Roc 11 as, from Corp, with pro.
stony{ and the 13lessin4, PINKIIAM, with wool.
ions, &c. from Exeter.

Packets with Mails from the Leeward. Islands and
America, *te daily expe&ed.
The Prince of Wales Packet will take out the next
Lisbon Mails, and will 'sail on the arrival of the
iisteiland from thence.
The Duke of Kent Packet will take out the next
Leeward Island Mails of the 16th inst.
Arrived the Hope (Russian Ship), Captain BAT.
iLITS, from St. Übes, with salt.

YARMOUTH, Nov. io—The Blackney Packet,
of Blackney, Wm. HARVEY, for Lon Lion, with
corn, way captured on the Oth inst. by a Priva.
leer, and since re-taken by the Pharni..v Cutter, and
brought in here. The William and Mary of this
Port, BENJ. COLE master, for Era, with herrings,
was captured off Happesburgit by the same hi-
vateer, and sent for the Texel.

DEAL, Nov. t B,—The hired Sloop Pinion came
down last night, and remains.
• Sailed the inemortalittl, Trowpenee, Lark and
.L.yiex Sloops, Cow'ie7,. Mariner, and 'Blorelhoun'
•
Gon.brigs, and Viper Cotter, on a Ctoize off the.
Coast. of France and the Alilbrooke Schooner to the
' Northward.. . •
In the Downs— Menarch,Utrechr, Raisonablc, Magicicone,
Squirrel, L'Amaranthe; Champion,. Vulture: Hound. and
INlerlio Sloops ; Perseus and Fury .Bombs ; Seatlower
sprig ;
Starling G un- haft Findon hired Sloop; elyrcouth, Supply,
and Sussex Oak Transports. . .

SHEIRNESS, Noy. 'tB.—This day the crew of
Hie Majesty's Ship Stivrrn, of 44 wins, were paid
"42 Bounty, and two month's advance ; after which
she immediately got under way, and proceeded for
Portsmouth.

Arrived to refit, the Adder Gun.ve‘sel, having
carried away her fore.mast and bow.sprit in the
late gales off the Coast of Holland.
Yesterday. His Majesty's Ship Sotto Margaretta
went into Dock : it being dark before she' was
Completely shored and secured, two of her people
tmployed on that duty fell into the water, one of
'whom (a marine) was unfortunately drowned.

We copied on Thursday last a Paragraph from
ne morning ch,,,,sith of that day, the absurd and
calumniout nature of which, the following Letter
Will explain. It was by us very inadvertently
copied, foy we certainly know the charaaer of
Aritish Officers better than to suppose for a moment
that such a circumstance could hive taken place on
board any of His Majesty's Ships of War. In justice
to the Gentleman who was so improperly► brought
before, the Public, we readily give insertion to the
following Letter from him :

Datrur, Ntt Majtv's Ship Utrecht,
stk, Nov. 18, 1803.
Taking up gout Papo, the Sun of the 17th iWtallti WaS.
astonished at reading the foll Owing paragraph :
The French Soldiers captured a few days since in the
'4un-boat, witnessed on Sunday night a strong proof of
British Prowess and British justice. The Captain of the
Gun-hoat, who with the other PrisOners ,is on hoard
the Utrecht, became refraClory, and struck: the hlaster
of the Utrecht : our gallant Tar instantly eltallettged him
t!) Single• Combat, which took place--" lair PlaY." ‘vas
Inc cry—and thuresult.was, that which ;.we unit will cvet
zlnpen to the Slaves of 4.3oNAVARTS .centeuding . with the
Fretl4enof Old England -a complete Defeat."
Now, Sir, a‘ Master.of His- Majesty's Ship Utrecht, I am
certainly the Iverson best qualified to. vouch tl trutlt of sit r.
zod • •
"""""' LIQI 4 rnoutent to rromunct it 01.10' of tho

etistiloa,is• thlt 'ever .ii.ortertletl• a bad heart et
a Weak held:: it not 'only Chaes trioClf; Witt 'er4ty
cer in the Sint, with hehayiciur that 'W-ottid ever discraee
in Engtishman, who at alltinies;'•and under oiery provocit=
tion. Would, 1 trust, disdain to strike'a
\rout insertion of this will much oblige, • •

SIR,
Your most obedient Servant,
1. H. WEMYSS,
Master of His Majesty's Ship Utrecht.

We are happy in being able to contradift the
report of the loss of the Henry Dundas East India.
man, which was stated to have- taken place its Bengal
Bay. It was not the Company'.s Ship of, that name,
but a Country Ship th.t was lost.,
A Convoy 13 appointed to sail from Cork to the•
West Indies on the T sth of December.
The Seaga/Sloop sailed fromiCinsale on the Toth
inst. with a Fleet of Transports bound to Guernsey,
with the First Battalion of the 58th Regiment on
board. _ _

Capt. VESEY is appointed to command the Bril-
liant Frigate, at Chatham.

.FIRE,BEACONS.

TFie following instruflions have been issued by
the General commanding the Southern Diana:

WV Cs it is most desirable and essential,. on the_
near approach of the expeaed Enemy, or on his
actual landing, on the. Coast. of Kent, that the
quickest intelligence of such an event should be
diffused over the whole County, it is judged exile.
dient, for this purpose, to establish Fire Beacons on
the fifteen or. sixteen most conspicuous and elevated
poims, of the .County, which successively taking
up the signal, beginning from Canterbury (Head-
quarters), in consequence of intelligence received
there, will, in a very short space .of time, com-
municate it to the most distant part of the County :
and, on which signal, every one is immediately to
assemble at his known place of rendezvous, and
there expea and receive orders for hiS further pro.
ceedings, from the General Officer ..tirailet, whose
command the several Volunteeriand other. Corps are
placed, and to whose quarters on the firstalarm.of
such an event, the Commanding Officer of each Corps
is. to dispatch a mounted.Offieer, ur non.contrnissioa.‘
ed OffieerJor such orders.

" The places at present ,(Nov. 17) fixed upon, but
which, on more critical examination, may in home
instances.be changed or .added,to, are thus numbered:
. ,
i. Shorr.ebtfe, ' . s. Egerton
z. Canterbury s. 'ft:met:ten
a. liarhim ' '6. Coxheadx '
2. Shollenclen . G. Highgate, near Hawkehurst
2., Lynne Heights 7. lioxley-Hill
•
3. Isle of Thanet • 7. Goadhurst '
3. Enstlin Down : NA Chatham Lines

Charinvign4 I 8. IYroth4m-Ellll,
N. B. Stations:marked with the same Figures, comiri*k.
Qat' 'direeity with t;acii

", It is therefore proposed that an intelligent and
steady Scrjeant and three men shbnld encami,
be stationed at each place, and the spot chosen s*lat.
be the most favourable that offers in the
of the town, village, or point, Mentioned in the list.
A Telescope will be provided for cavil post, and
one of the men will always day and •night berm the
lookout towards the station fr(int which he is to
expcet the signal, and also, towards that one to
which he is next..to communicate.

" The Scrjeant is /0 be'peifealy convinced, that
he is not tnkled by accidental fire or smoke,
before he repeats the signal ; note is he, on any ac.
count,. or .occasion, to. hiory it; he is not to fire
his Beaeon- (ai in. (aic:and hazy weather) until lie
distinaly. Sees the one to which he is to communi-.
'care, and Until he is persuaded that from that Beacon
his is to'he seen. •

A forge 'stack, or pile of furze or faggots. with
some cord-Wbud,'at least eight waggon-loads, a.-id
such As ivy be expected to produce a fire, con.
spicuous at ten or twette miles distance, is to be
etefted at each station, together with three or four
tar-barrOs, to add occasionally, so as to make a fire
that will he visible for kus bogs. Also a large
quantity of straw, wetted, and;-in readiness to be
wet, to make a smoke by day. Stno,ke.ba4 will also
be‘sent to each station., with imitations 'for their
use.

Should the Enemy suddenly appear cm the
Coast, between Folkstone and Dungeness, the Gt.'
neral Officer at Sandgate will,. by orders from him.
self, fire the beams at Shorncliffe, Lynne Heights,'
and Postling, and thence the alarm will be extended.
The several mounted Messengers that are ordered
on such occasion to be dispatched in all direelions,
will more particularly ;ascertain events, and supply
the stoppage of intelligence that might other Wise
be occasioned by unfavourable and thick weather.
48 The communication by Sussex will he by the
beaeonr.hill of. Crowborough, being seen from
WeothAm, Bexley, Coxheath, Goodhurst, and pro.
hahly from Egerton. Fairlight Beacon., near Mast.
ing., will she be seen front Highgate, Tenterden,
and Aldington.
" As the Naval Signal Stations along the Coast-
are ditched to make certain Signals in the night,
.by burning one or more blue lights, accompanied
with a ftre.blaze of no long duration, care it to be
taken not. to give' the interior alarm from any of
those ; but, by the magnitude and duration of the
beacon-fire, when near any such Signal, Stations, to
distinguish between that and the other, which is
confined to the Coast line.
" The General Officer, from whose,Diyisions the
parties ate sent, will give such further direflions as
occur, to promote vigilance and iireV.ent, premature
and false alarms."—Cod save king. '

•
,In case of emergency, the County of Lancashiie
can, at a kw hours notice, embody, upwards of
30,000 Volunteers, well-appointed, and fit for
aaual service.

Mr. ASLETT'S (of the Bank) case was to be
argued this day in the Exchequer Chamber before
the 'f Juages.
Itrcoma TAx.—The India Company, by a late
Resolution, have made themselves anwer*ble for
the salaries and fees of their Clerks being forth-
coming to Government., This mutlo,will be pur.
sited by all Corporate PAiitlies,

•-• '),II4:IIISCAPW,

1 ,---P-.lttia 4,bittalimi of 'Cinque Port .Vounteets are
to be•plit on permanent duty --for three weeks, corn.
mencing on Saturday next: :The -twelve Companies
forming thiSlattalion (viz, four from Sandwich,:four
from Margate, two from Ramqgate, and -One each
from•Broadstairs and Ssrre) met 'their Colonel the
Right Hon. WM. PITT acid Lieuti-Col. Lord CAR.
1112.1GTON, by 'appointinent, on Sandwich Flats, yes-
terday atietnOon (Wednesday). The Battalion having
formed a-ci`rele, were addressed by -Mr. PITT in 'a
very animating speech), explaining to the Volunteers
the proposal, he had to make them relative to their
entering on permanent duty, which it was His Majes.
ty's wish they should undertake for twenty-one days,
for the protedion of the CU:lst, &c. the rst and 3d
Battalion of Cinque Port Volunteers having already
(he said )-engaged to do the .same.• He then explained
to the Corps, that during tint: period'they were to
be under Military Law-•in every respect ; adding,
that as they had stepped forward in support of their
King and Ctteuntry, it was necessary to be acquainted
with the duty they may have to perform, should
their services be required ; and, it was his (Mr.
Pyres) particular wish that, during the 21 days,
attention should be paid to the 'Battalion being per_
fedied in.:their military eiercise,-,&e.
The Lieutenant-Colonel, Lord CARItINOTON)
then read His Majesty's letter relative to the above,
when Mr. PITT eg4ifl-atirtleSSed the 131110110 N stat-
ing, that if there was any further explanation re.
quired,he was ready to give it, and in order to give
every man an opportunity of asking any question,
he desired the Officers of-each Company to converse
with their men, and to learn whether they- under.
stood the nature of the proposal jest made to them,
after which Mr. PITT said Ke would sec each Com.:
isany Separately, to be informed-of their determina.
lion.

The whole Battalion then, as if satiated at the
moment with one' heart and voice, gave three
cheers, and •were 'elated iti the highest degree with
their Colonel's handsomelnanner of expressing him-1
self, and affability .to them: Each Company then
formed
ra separ,stej!"Otele,.-an.i Mr. PITT and Lord
CARRAPItTON went,intothe centre of each,
,wher;
they were' received -withlothi cheering, and every,
mark of respat anti sati44tion and.of the whole.
nuniber.we.do not hear there was one di sentient
voice. Notwithstanding the weather was. very un-
favourable, and it:rained the whole day, there were
present' uwards of 800'rank and tile ; anti including
Officers and Seljeants, &c. altogether about, goo.
The Colonel and Lientenant-Culonel on quitting
the ground expressed their high satisfaetion at the
loyalty and unanimity of the ad Battalion.
Owing to the Mustering weather that we have
had for some da'ys past; a great many vessels of va-
rious descriptions hare taken shelter in Ramsgate
Harbour, "chiefly coaiters, and :luny with barrack.
stores of different kinds,.