The Sun.
London, England, 1804-04-02 00:00:00

STAIZ Of THE OP.DINARY AT ZACH POIT.'
I Line. so's Ffjg Sps. I Tot.
Portsmouth . -.. zi I 18 8 I 48
Plymouth t. , . • g 3 • 4 ..it ,5 43

Chatham

25( 4

Slieepir4s
River 4

2.

2 1
=9 I.

41

Total 72 I tI .1
I if 1 167

On the' 18th ulta`aix of the Eriemy4s
Were discovered by the Hydra Frigate attempting
to come round Cape La Hogue.- The Frigate im-
mediately• gave chacei• and drove them. into Blain.
where they were all lost in the' gale of the
2id, and the crews of two of them perished. Two
other Gun.brigs are also • within the rocks, near
Gouree, totally disthasted, In addition to this in.
telligence+. we haite the satisfa(tkn to state, that on
the 24. th ult. the Mttrttity drove on shore, .off Piton,
four Gun.brigs and two armed Loggers, which were
stealing along shore. •
A Letter from Gibrairsii•dated March 7 states,
chat the Thisbe Frigate, with the iiigdostan,Storc.
ship, and 19 sail, . being: the whi4e of her convoy.i.
arrived at Gibraltar,on the 2d of March, after a
passage of 17 days from Falmouth. , ,
The Weaxie Brig, of 14 guns,. was' losi on the
Ist of March,teearciibtltia Point—the Crew saved,
with the exception of one. man, and active(' atGib-,
raitar. The #aivitt Brig, of 18 guns, was lost off
the S. W. coast of Sicily, on'the 6th January; 'the
Ciew saved, and arrived at Palermo.

POLUNTEER CIRCULAR LETTBR.

Mareb,•lBll4.
lam eommintieci to ti try to you His Majesty's pleasure
that daily pay hosllowed to ott4 Serjeant for every; Company
of Volunteer Inferitiy consisting of not less than Sixty
vacs as established, undteceiving:the-alleivatices specified in
Lord Hobart's Circular• Letter of the 3d of Angus; hist r?and
that you do give the necessity directions for the Wine thereof
such pay to contnience'from the '2sth of this initatit'MarCli,
if the Appointment shall have then taken, place, ;lair not,
from the date of the Appointment, ;mitt° be substance-4 in
lieu of all pay, to drill Serjeants licrccdoie paid by Vie re:..
under the riet-or the 43a Gm 3,k c.
The Serjeants receiving the said pay are to be regularly: at-
tested, and will be subjeet to Martial Law, in like mintier
and under the like regulations as ;he Serjoantsof-flis'Majet-
ty's Militia forces. •
. .
In order to qualify a man for this situation, it is necessery
that he should basic served two years as a 1N on-Corniriissioned
Officer or Private Soldier in the Regtilars, Embodied Militia,
feneibles, Marines, or bast India Company's Service,. 'and
have been creditably discharged therefrom ; or that he should
have served three years in some Company of Volunteer In
fumy, in both oases the fitness should becertitietl by an in,
spetling+Field Officer of the district, who may dispense with
the period of service if the real sufficiency of the Indivitinal
should justify a departure from•tha strict rule, but cannot
dispense with the service itself as above required. •
The Certificate of the Inspetting Field Officer, as to the
sufficiency and former service of such Individual is to be an-
nexed to the first pay list which shall he transmitted to the
War Office after the Appointment takes place.
I ant to desire that you will cause this regulation to be merle
known to the several Commandants at Volunteer:Corps
through the General Agent.
have this honour to be, &c.
C. YORKE.