The Sun.
London, England, 1804-08-09 00:00:00

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PORTSMOUTH) AUGUST 8.--Arrived the Nimrod
Cutter, and Alert Lugger from a Cruize.
Put back the Glory Man of War, of 9r3 guns, Ad-
miral CORNWALLIS, and remains.

PLYMOUTH, Atm. 7.—Arrived the Player and
Nimrod Sloops of War from a Cruise.
Sailed His Majesty's Ship Tigre on a Cruise.
The French Squ*lron are again got into Brest.

• HARWICH, AUG. 2.—Flis Majesty's Ship the
Diredor, of 64 guns, now lying as a Block-ship at
the entrance of the Swin, is ordered to Chatham to
be fitted for more. important service. The Ana.
land Packet, Capt. BRIDGE, arrived this afternoon
from Guttenburgh with .1 Mail ; and the Diana
Packet, Capt. Osaoex, sailed for Husum with the
Hamburgh anti Bretten Mails, a , Messenger with
Dispatches, and other Passengers ; at the same time
the King George, Capt. SAUNDERS, sailed fur Got-
tenburgh with the
.111 ail.

DEAL, AUG. B.—Arrived the eirdelt, Veteran,
Euryalus, Leda, and Blazer,, imp Dangenesi; the
Romney, with the Leeward Hand Fleet under con-
voy ; Plantagenet, with the Ocean, Iler:ry Adding.
ton, Bombay Castt; Royal Gtorge, Earl Carden,
Cumberland, Wexford, Exeter, Warren Hastings,
Hope, Watley, Cutts, Earl of Abergavenny, Car.
martbett, Dorsetsbire, Alfred., and Ganges, East
India Ships, under convoy fruin St. Helena ; and
the /hub', from a Cruize off Calais.

The HauVity Gun.brig has had her. bowsprit and
head carried away by a Ship driving on board her;
the Ship has lost her bowsprtt also, whose (Mile I
am not able to learn. The Blazer Gun-brig has
sulrcr,:d in- the same marner ; two of the Convoy
have arrived with the loss of fore-topmasts; the
Yarmouth Lighter has lost her bowsprit and top.
mast, by a vessel driving on board her. Several of
the Convoy have rst their anchors, which have
been replaced from hence.

In the Downs —Monarch, Utrecht, Ardent, Plantagenet,
Veter n, Ronni:y, Euryalus, Leda, IntinorNitre,
Castor, CiiJlllpJoti, tidrpy, Avenger, • . testes.
Scouige, Still>tiur, is; ii.cr,
nalgler, y 61.,111;, :111,1 bIAZci• ; illou tit T 141.-
port, t'rint...tss Royal .inne.t ;into, YArtllClUril 1.11,111 Cr, :tad
A filiCa :.•iltps as per last Account.

BR :CHAN' QUAY, TORBAY, AUG. the
Orpheus Frq;itc, Capt. 1-111.1., with ilie Ships under
cunvoy for Ncwinulviiind, Quebec, and Halifax.

Sunday afternoon arrived in Leith Harbour, the
.13rt Traveller of Aberdeen, Gso. BOOTH master,
iiottod ft in thehee to Londoit, with a cargo of
storie,, which ve•s.l was captured on the 29115 ult.
by the //are Schooner Privateer, of Ainsierdatn,
8 i„;uns and 53 men, and te.taken by His
Majesty's Armed Ship Hebe, on the 1.,t Inst. i6o
Julies S. E. by E. twin thr Isle of May.
The Mau Anne arrived at Dundee from Davis's
Siraits, on Friday last, brimiMi of timber. Re.
tides knits% all her casks toil, nearly two large
whales were lair* ed in hulk; her pumps were
chocked with oil.

Yesterday a Court of Dire tors was held at the
East India House, when the following Commanders
to,;k lrave, previous to departing for their respee.
ti‘A tiestinaßions, • viz. Captain JAM th NIA M AN,
Shelton Castle, 'for Ailadeira and Bombay ; Captain
%VM. A DUE It I. Yo Devaytitt, Maack' d, Bombay,
and Kalras. Tlbi Court adjourned at six o'clock
till Wednesday next.

Of the Leewaiti Island Fleet, amounting to 200
sail, that part which are destined ior Bristol and Li.
verpoul are'arrived at their respective pOrts.. ,The
Lisbon :'feet is arriyedin the D.)w 119, and the New.
fuundland Fleet off Poole, The" litkit! Fleet k also,
we understand, at rived, T:ie Hull Ships arrived at
Bull .on. Sunday..

An account was received in Town yesterday
evening, 'by the Telegrapts, of the safe arrival of
the 'homeward-bound East:lndia and Wesr.lntlia
'Fleets in the Downs yesterday at three o'Clock.
• The late L.,rd DO icAtv was, in t76t, appointed
Post Captain on hoard the rid/ant, under KE PP el.,
and was afterwards .chosen by that gallant Officer
the Captain of his Flag Ship, ,He cuiiiinanded the
Jilenbeiin at the relief ofGtbraitari and was at' the
caking of the llay.innah. 111 1787 te was made .2
Rtitr- Admiral ;. in 1793, a ,Vice-Admiral ; and in
1795 he llecailae Adm,tll ut the White. The dis.
tinguished cuOlness,and bravery which .he displayed
while Admiral of the North Sea Fleet in 1797, in
the battle with the :Dutch Fleet under Ds ,
off Camperdown, will lung endear his name to the
British Nation, and must transmit Itis well-earned
fame to posterity with gratitude arid admiration.
After that gtorious, achievement he was' create
Lord Viscount Du NC AN, •of Camperilown, and
Baron DUNCAN, of Lundie, in the shire of Perth,
with a pension of 20001. a year ; anti the two next
heirs to the peerage. Lard DUNCAN Was 'of a manly
athletic form, and no less, than six feet ;Ince inches
in stature. His'private charatier was that of an at.
feEtionate relative, a steady friend, an I a man ,of
great and unaffs:Cled piety. His Lorhship is suc-
ceeded by his sun Ito II FAT, a Captain in the Ayr.
shire Militia.

The improvements now making at the Bank, nn.
tier the dirttlion of Mr. SOANE, will renter that
place, in point of convenience 4qd beauty, superior
to any edifice of the same description in Europe.—
The building is to be much enlarged, and t;.e
rent otfices will communicate with each oth-r an a
dived Several parts of the interior arc twined
'awn the best models of antiquity, and the utmost
accommodation is happily blended with classical
elegabee,