The Sun.
London, England, 1803-02-15 00:00:00

Nif I 11 L NEWS.

PORTSMOUTH, FEB* 4.

ARRIVED this day, His Majesty's Ships Intrepid,
Capt. Fia.ROOOD, La Firginie, Capt. ASTI:E, and
La Ch rot, Capt. STUART, from the FaSt Indies.
Also the !fibbers! Transport, -Lieut.. Dorrov
Agent, WM. CRABTREE Master, from New Provi-
dence, with part of the 47th Regiment on board.--
She spoke the Tartar Frigate cruizing off-Bermudas.
This day came into Harbour to refit, His Ma.
jesty's Ship Arrely.

Arrived the Neptune, PAtp, from Milford;
Atiive, MORGAN, and yame: and Ann, jowls, from
Chepstow ; and Dispatch, WOOD, from Plymouth..
Sailed the Ann,liEsANT, and Castle, ANDERSON,
for London, and Centro= Friends, BR 0 far Ha Yre-
de.Grace.

DEAL, FEN. 14.

THE Honourable East India Company's ShiP
Walpole came down this morning from the River,

and remains.

Arrived the French Frigate Necessity, from Rah-
fort, bound to DLinkirk, to take in Troops,

remains;

The 'iambi& Ship Ton, Captain F. B. C. PEI.-
u t ex, from Philadelphia, with cotton, tea, nah-
keen, cinnamon, tobacco, and coffee, run upon the
Goodwin Sands, and she now lays upon her broad
side, a complete wreck.

OIRRALTAR, JAN. 17.

The wind is still Westerly, so that no ship
been able to sail for England this month past.
Thc.Qarrison are all in good health, notwith..
standing the uncommon severity .of the
weather
lately. Nothing but heavy rains and violent gales
of wind fur these 'Eve weeks-.
The following mare the of some of the
vessels which were drove on shore at the botton) of
the Bay, in the last storm ;
The English Brig KiMerry ; the English Egg
Nile; the English Polacre Fortune; the rangl's-
,
PQlaoe Nag; the American Ship Anna A.Yarbq
the American • Schooner Do/atshiit; the Irt,Po,"
Polacre Bona rentura ; the Spanish Polacre Moq
Non hre de Marie; ; the French Brig La Bier Ai-
mee Adelaide ; the French brig. L'Onzietne ; the
French Ketch L' ; the town -Vessels, sn!
Pear/ and Fortuna. Eight of the abOve are sin"
on shore.

The Gluison is all petfedly quiet and tegulari
as usual.

DISTRIBUTjOA OF PRIZE-MONEY.

To I,lie Arrow sloop, a distribution of the condemned pas
of the dirges of the Olsterßl'acer, will be made'or. the t7t"
inst. at No. st 3, Hart-street, Bloomsbury,
To the Calypso, for the capture of the Prmisit argirt;
r.
dish ships Carolina and Nlercurius, a distributior';r'i,,v,
made this day, the teal inst. at No.
.BeaUfort 131.tdultli*
To the Courgeux; Gorgon, and Fox Cutter,"for ibecaptu ;
of the !Meech corvette 1'1.; tile, a disttibution w• 11 be Mule a•
'the same time and place. •
TO the Culloden, Minotaur, • Zealout, Swiftsure, 5g
Horse, the'Perseus arxi Bulldog bombs, and San Leon brig,
as also to the Vorttiguese ship San Sebastian, for the caiLtunr.:
of the French polacca 11 Santissitoo Crociti.sso• a disi`h'
tion wilt be made to the parties, at No. Barnard's 01'1
Holborn, on Thursday, the 24th inst.
To the hired G cuter Nancy, for the capture of the Henrietta!
a 4istribution will be mane this day, the tsth at No. 7!
Beaufort Buildings.

On Friday night, arriVetloW Plymouth, the Nil('
East indiamen; from China. The Parser landed
at PlYmouth, with the
pis iitches The Nib le
China on the 25th of May last. She qperienced.
very bad weather an tier passage. In a gale Pt
wind, last month, she fell in with the Vinorca, Eat
ft
Indiaman, which arrived in the Downs a ftw
ago, •

The brig Sop& was last week lost on the
Brake, about a mile and a half from l'arillate;
m
The Master, six en, 'antra passenger, got on 11,,':
topmast shrouds, the surf making a passage over
vessel this situation they remained during OP'
greatest part of the.nighi, but in the morning their
situation being discovered from- the shore., a boat!
put off to their relief,. but before she could reach
them, the sea beat the brig off 'the Drake into deeP
water, when she sunk, and unhappily only ono of the
people could be saved:

„ .
It is said, that on Monday next a Message will
be' elivered to the House of Commons from a”
MaIENTY, respe6ting the adjustment of the offtir
of His Royal Highness the P4irica of WAL"*„,t
On the instim wt a grand dinner as' git.o"o-d
Gordon Castle,and on the same evening a Bali ad
Slipper at Fochabers, in honour of the Mar TO
EIRNTLEY'S Birth-day.
Wp arp htippy in being able to say, that tile re"
ports sprat! in some of the Papers, Of Bills bell'
posted up, and threatening Letters dropped in f
ferent. parts of the City' are wholly without founi
dation. The business of the Lord Mayors ac'
other Magistrates of the City, With the Secretary
of State, on Saturday and Sunday, related solely c 9
the state of Newgate.
We heard a report some days ago, which is now
;epeated so confidently that we cannot help noticing
it. It }s raid 11'4 E4rl at. V INC INT retires from
the 4dmiralty Board, and is 'to be succeeded- .b 1
f,ora MELVILLE. The abilities a the latter for
th:t, or any other public situation, are suificieadY
known to the country, and his. distinguished Wilk:.
ruentary talents will form a great accession et
strength to Administration' in the Upper House,
This morning' the first Battalion of the Colj
stream Regiment of Guards attended 'at the Sorter
side of 13Iackfriars-bridge, to condat the remaining
Convids from Newgate to Woolwich; to be on
board the Transport. intended for Botany Bay• Yet'
terday morning at eight o'clock, eighty of t"c
Guards attended at the abosie place, to escort in