The Sun.
London, England, 1803-10-29 00:00:00

NAVAL NEWS.

PORTSMOUTH, OCT. 28.—Arrived the Brig
Nei/my, JAMES COOPER, from Memel; Friendibip,
WILLIAM OAK, from London; BenOis, RICHARD
HortsLY, from Woolwich, with ordnance stores.
Sailed the Sloop Amity,. NV I L, L I r\l!.l SN9WSTABB,
for Guernsey, with ordnance stores.

Arrived the Experimrnt from the towns, for
Botany
.lay.
Sailed' the lifel,bomone Frigate, on a Cruize.

PLYMOUTH, OCT: 27.--Arrived the jenny,
Capt. SCOTT, with wine and fruit, from Malaga
for London, put in by contrary tvindt ; the Anna
Elizabeth, EWALDT, from Dantzic, with timber,
&c. for the Dockyard ; and the Corroboratha,
Capt. ANDERSON, from Dram.

Arrived the Plantagenet, of 74. guns, from the
Channel Fleet.

Sailed the Ardent, of 64 guns, to join the Fleet.

FALMOUTH, OCT. 26. Arrived the Furl',
Rowg, Alert, SALTER, Lisbon Packet, JENXINS,
from London, with bale goods, groceries, &c. for
this Port, under convoy of His Majesty's Brig
80411owir, of 16 guns, Capt. OW EN, which sailed
again for Mounts Bay to take the trade under con-
voy for the Eastward. She will also call on her
return for those vessels waiting convoy here for
the Eastward.

Arrived the Regulus, Ship Privateer, of London,
of zo guns, Capt. WHITE, from a Cruize off Spain
and the Western Islands. ' She has been rather un.
successful, not having taken a single vessel this
Cruize. She brought to a great number of Spanish
vessels richly laden, which she was obliged to suf.
fer to proceed. A'great many. English Privateers
are cruiziog off Vigo, none of which have been
very successful.

Arrived the Surprize, PEESENT, from Cork,
with provisions, hound to London ; the Bet.rej,
CoLLth's,:from POOLE ; and the jane, SQUIRE,
from Plymouth.

Sailed this evening, the Fanny, RICHARDS, with
sal►, for Cork.

DEAL, OCT. 28. Majesty's Sloop Am.,:
ranthe sailed this morning on a Cruize off the Coast of
France ; the Lark ',Sloop, and 3ackall Gun.brig
also sailed on a Cruize.

Came in the Pre=via: Bomb., from off Boulogne,
and the Comfit'? from the Note.

Ins Majesty's Ship Circe eante in this afternoon
from off Flushing.
Arrived two Dutch Doggerq, laden with timber,
sent in by the Immortalite Frigate.

Captain Blows; is appointed to command the
Inconstant Frigate, and Captain St-nil/HARD to the
Thisbe.
entn the, French Coast some interesting ad-
vices have been brought by our Cruizers, relative
to the proceedings of the Enemy, at Boulogne.—
On Tuesday last general review of the Army in
that neighbourhood took place, followed by a sham
fight of several hours duration. A number of the
Troops were embarked on board the Gun.boats
in the Harbour, which being perceived by our
Crutzers, our, brave Tars determined that the Chi-
zenti should not have all the sport to themselvey, and
accordingly several shot were fired among tl,ern, by
the ,lrcher Gun-brig, and the Lark, Harty, and
Pei:mu:4s Bombs. Fitty-three of the Enemy's Boats,
well manned, ventured out some little distance, but
not sufficiently far to give our Flotilla fair play ;
and they were enabled to retire without having
received any material damage from the British
fire, The Archer. Brig was, at the commencement,
so close in upon the harbour, as to hear the soldiers
huzzaing on their being embarked. The troops on
shore fired with great regularity, and exceedingly
quick, hut our people were not sufficiently near to
ascertain their numbers. At seven o'clock in the
evening, the Archer anchored within three or four
miles of the Enemy ; and our little Flotill,t were
perfealy ready to cog ige the whole of. the Boats had
they thought proper to come out..
'The Harry Dundat, Excise Cutter, commanded
Lieut. Moak 's, of the Royal Navy, which is ar-
rived•at Deal from Jersey, brings intelligence from
that. Island, by • which it appears that the inha-
bitants are in hourly expeaation of an attack, the
Flotilla at St: Maloes and Concale being in complete
readiness to underitake it ; and to increase its force,
all the Newfoundland craft in the neighbouring
Ports have been pressed into the Public Service.
The Artillery and provisions are down upon the
shore in a state of readiness for embarkation. The
people of Jersey, however, are in high spirits, and
prepared to give the enemy a very warm reception.
The inhabitants volunteered their services to throw
up redoubts and other works, which are now corn_
pleated. The several batteries arc also supplied
with shells of a new invention, being filled with
musket.balls, and arc calculated to be thrown with
equal precision from a long gun as from a mortar.
Mr. Sit ERI'DAN has often declared that lie would,
in all fluattations of Party, adhere to Mr, Fox.--
Hence it has been inferred that the latter h coming
into power, and froM the conclad of the Minister,
it seems not unlikely that he would coalesce with
any body, in order to shew that he could do without
the only man who could effeetually extricate him
from his difficulties, and enable him to bid defiance
to the Enemy,
Though there is so much difficulty in comprehend.
ing the /meow Tax aod conttariety,of opinion
in most people, yet they all agree in believing,
that they understand it full as well as the framer:,