The Sun.
London, England, 1804-01-30 00:00:00

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stating the capture of the Harmonic Privateer, in
Marin Day, by the Ruts of that Ship- and the
Drake, under the orders of Captain Ferris ; and the
surprize and destrudion of Fort Dunkirk, by the
Marines under the command of Lieutenant Beatie.
The judici, us manner in which this service was
planned, the gallantry and zeal of those Officers who
executed it, deserve my warmest encomiums, and I
beg leave to give them my strongest ret:numenda_
Lion to the L.,rds Cotnmissioners of the Adinitalty.
I have the Honour to be; Scc.

SA NI. HOOD.
Blenhe;mi'llf Mattilifue, Nov. t 7, 1803.

SIR,

'I have the honour to acquaint you, that on the
fourteenth instant, the Frenth Privateer Schooner,
Li-Harmonic, with a Prize, having put into' the
Harbour of Marin in the Bay of St. Ann, Marti.
niquP, induced me to suggest a Plan for the capture
of this Vessel, more destruaive to Commerce than
any other which has appeared in these seas ; and,
for this purpose, I attempted, against a strong sea_
breeze and Lee Current, to beat up from off the
Diamond Rock to the place where she lay at an.
chor. It was not until alie 16:1i in the mornieg-
that I was able to accomplish it, when, having re-
Oonnciitred the Harbour of Marin, together with the
Batteries on, each .side of it, and. also one. above tie
Town, I determined "on the attempt: I therefore
ordered sixty Seamen belonging to His Nlajest: 4
Ship under my command, with Lieutenants Cole and
Vurber, and a cleraChinept of sixty Marines of the
tattle -Ship, . under the command of Lieutenants
•leatie and Boyd, .to carry the Enterprize into ex-
ecution ; the. former in their boats to attack the
privateer, and the latter at the same tirne to ended.
your to surprise, or in any event, to storm, Fort Dyn_
kirk, a battery of nine guns on the. starboard side
-of the harbour. It was necessary to do so, to cut
off the Militia from rendezvousing on Marin Point,
which, being immediately. in the track of Coming
out, and where doubtless they would have been
joined 'by the troops from the Fort, would have
much annoyed Abe boats on their "return. The
sdrake having joined me, and captain Ferris. volun_
teering his services, I direaed him to take the cum.
hand of the stamen, and to add to them' fcitirteen
i:ifton'i the Drake. All things being prepared, the
"Itiekts, with the seamen towed by the Drake, and
Alwmarines in four boats tdwed by the Swift hired
Illcurarte'r, M,Pt eleven P. . proceeded off the mouth of
In HarbOur, and by estimatin
take for the boats to row g the time it would
vessel la up to the privateer which
y three miles from the Pernltranee'of the
harbour, botit parties set off so timely as' to coin-
nence the attack at the. same•instant 1 and I am
happy to add, that about iiiree A. M. on the fol.
lowing morning, by very spirited and judous at.
tacks, both parties succeeded ; the fort was corn-
prisoners, fifteen•in number,
lilnely surprised,. the.
' taken, and sent on. hoard the et tter, the guns were
dismounted and spiked, their carriages totally de-
stroyed, and the magazine t, w
Dio n up • the barracks
were spared, as a large and ripe field of canes ad-
joining must have :they been set &re to, inevitably been destroyed had
iiThe boats with the seamen
ndiscoveted, b passed, one battery
ut the privateer was on her guard,
and commenced a very heavy fire on them, who
nevertheless in the in
b0tr4264) and :.. , , host prompt and gallant manner
Int, were 1,60'71444r Miniuteit Carried her. Two
her deck, and fourteen
were wounded ; as don ,
many of the enem
selves into the sea,
m y threw them-
drowned.
killed, must have been
killed, and two
lam sort to add that the BI
enh eim had one man
wound 1
e y.t , and- the Drake three
wounded, one dangerousl
' The Harmonic was commanded by Citizen t• /\
izen Toyer,
had eight carriage guns, and sixt'. six
. attack, forty-four only of
whom
wemr:nfluantd the
the time of surrender. The boats and privateer re"
passed the -Fort oh the larboard side of the I • i
tar iour
within musket shot, but happily
escaped front a
heavy fire unhurt.
- •
The spirited manner in which C •
Captain Ferris led
the boats to the attack, and the i all
g ,nt con
(,I I.tn. 1 of
Lieutenants Cole an,' Furber) the petty Officers, and
men, on the occasion, merit my warmest •
praise; nor
can Ido ton- . .
"
much justice to the condua. of Lieu-
, tena'pt Bettie, .
-11-14.t•sa_Li commanding the detachment of Royal
..
.Offieers and Privates
Boyd, the Non.commissioned
."&tifiiii
after beaitess who in the most soldier-like
two centinels, andng challenged and .fired upon by
and number
of tlieriealY ignorant of the nature
with, pushed threat !mops they had to contend
y 1010 the F '
Fort with fixed bayo.
nets, When the enemy cried f
' silence with which the Batteurr quarter. By the
Y.. veas carried, one
hundred Militia of the Fort of Saint Ann's were
cut off from the point of rendezv"B, and thus the
Pace, .
to answer all Our purposes s
, ecured without
• the loss of a roan,
Enclos dgun;
less
eis an account of the rendered use-
) and stores destroyed, at Fort Dunkirk.
I have the _honour...to he, &c.
:deco
'THOMAS GRAVER.
.
), i,tf
A A
,v 1414,,,,i ANlr., ce and Stores destnyed, or rendered useless,
71.1' eloib;,„: --1-‘ Rty,st 11Strines, bellnging .a En's illaiisly' T.
i'lartin., --`,at the at ck al Fort Dunkirk an 'the Isidigd ~f
Iron oriiii.us' '''‘e. Ncive,jer, IS- A
Three p4uce —Si .Twent - fi, j-.Pouncterq and .Eighteen
c,..
parr butt _ •
.. . y- ur .
.. •, 5".... sartels b utect, and the Carriages.
ot all Cart • • Y,'Ter many filled Cartridges, One Cask
the Sea, ' ridges and '
. very many Cannon Shot.thrown into
Several Bartels of Powrl-
--'.t blown up in the Magazine.
nio. GRvAvEs...
,tdiarirahy da.
- 4,•ce, Jan. 28, 1804.
Copy .of another Letter r--
4, Gin Contnmdare Hood, Con.
mander in Letter
C 4"-i of His Majesty 's Ships add Fes.
Jekat the Leew
.
grd Islands, to Szr bv-att Areiwatsi
-Bart• dated at Sea, ad December, 180,3•

•
,s we lay at anchor in Fort Royal Bay; Marti-
iiicitie; "close to
,Cape des Salines, xesterday morn.
YLtg, reschoOt et. with a sloop in to was working
fr°
iIP to leeward ;- about eight' o'clock being
withn six miles, and perceiving her intention for
St. Pierre's, I direaed Captain Maxwell to weigh
and give chase, and was not discovered until all
sail was set, when the schooner and sloop separated ;
I sent the Sarah advice boat, after the sloop, and
the schooner Ma. Sophie, belonging to Guadaloupe,
Of eight guns (which were thrown overboard in the
C,hace;) and forty-six men, was captured by this
titter a run of twenty.four leagues; the, tiluop
•

Yet y t e , was cut Ott
Courland Bay, Tobago, having on board only a few
hogsheads of sugar.
I have the honour to be, &c.. .

(Signed)

SAM. HOOD.

P. S. Since writing the before-mentioned,
tenant Dame:,-in -the Vigilant tender, with the
Sarah advice boar, burnt a schooner In Anc't de
Serron, of seventy tons, and destroyed the battery
Chateau Margot of three eighteen pounders, without
any loss on our part.—A party of the enemy came
down ankt fired on them, of which they killed one
man, and wounded some others.

Admiralty-Ofce, Jan. 28, 1804.

S. H.

Copy of a Letter from Rear2Admiral Sir johnTko-
mas Duckworth, K. B. Commander in Chief of
His Majesty's Ships and Vessels at Jamaica, to
Sir Evan Nepean, dated' at Port Royal,
thei9th November, 1803.
SIR,

Accompanying this I send you, for the informa..
tion of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty,
a letter from Lieutenant Foley of the Hercule, Com--
manding the Gipsey tender, stating the destruction
of a Fce►ich privateer.
Captain Roberts of the Snake also sends me an
account of a Tench privateer which he had been in
cline of the whole day of the loth instant ; a►nd itl
endeavouring to avoid him after &ilk, got on shore
upon Rocky Point, near the East end of this island.
The ptisoners, sixty in number, he has sent in.

I have the honour to he, &c. .
J. T. DUCKWORTH.
His Majesty's Schooner Gipsey, Port Rojo!,
SIR, November 4. tBO3.

I have the honour 'to inform you, that on the
19th of O&ober last, at -four P.M. Carpe iViaize,
bearing Forth, distatit six or seven league~, I
chased, and, after a running tight of two hours and
forty minutes, drove on shore, and compittely ole-
srroyed a French privateer schooner, imiuntig two
long ,yighteen-pounders, and full of men.
I should have endeavoured to get her off, but the
night being very -dark, and the wind freshening from
the S. E. was obliged to make sail for the safety of
His Maj,:sty's schooner under my command, and
join the PAcket, which ship:lrsavrsafe, agreeable to
your orders.

I have, ire.
K. FO LEY.
Sir. . 7", brielvlrih, .k. IL Commander
Ch; j;&c. c.
Admiralty Office, jan. iB, i 804..

Copy ya Letter from Rear. Admiral rhorithorufb
to the Right I-loath-ruble Lord Keith. K. H.
Admi-ral. of the Blue, &e. dated oil board Hit
Al chesty' 3 shill Rzsly, • alr Tbi• Te.4:11-, the 17 th
;nitant.
MY Lottbi

"have thehonot:r td 11't Lot& that
Captain Wooldridge, of His Majrsty's Sloop
Scourge, returned to die this afternoon off the
Texel, having cut out of the We Roads an English
ship of four hundred tons bnithen, laden with tire.
ber, from Meniel bound to Hul!,, which Alp he hai
sent to Yarmouth R, ads'.

I beg leave to observe to your LordthiFi that,
from the very intricate passage' into the Anchorage
at this season of the year, which was planned by
Captain Wooldridge himself, decidedly against the
opinion of 1113 pilots, and which succeeded in the
fullest extent, thereby depriving the enemy of so
valuable a cargo, refleas no less credit on him than
it dues on Lieutenant Hughes, who conduaed, and
the officers and men who executed, so hazardous an
enterprize, wilder the fire of the batteries on the
island, and so many other disadvantages.

I have the honour to be, See.
EDW. THORNBOROUGH.
Scourge, of the Vile Islaid,
SIR, January 11, 1804.

I have the honour of informing you, that in exe.
cution of your orders of yesterday's date, on my
arrival off the Vlie Island, in His Majesty's sloop,
I spoke the Prussian, from Amsterdam, who in-
formed me, that a large ship;,. with prize colours
flying, was lying in the Vlidßoads, maiting a wind
to proceed up the Passage ;i and that lte understood
from the pilots she was an Eirglish:ship,, laden with
naval stores ; considering tharlodeprive the enemy
of a ship of that description was Of material conse-
quence, I determined On attempting to cut her out ;
for which purpose, after dark, His Majesty's ship
was anchored in the State Mile Passage, in four and
half fathom water, and within musket-shot of the
shore, ready to co-operate with The boats, which
were detached about midnight,. under the direction
of Lieutenant W. j. Hughes, the senior Officer, and
with such good order was the attack condutied by
him, that the ship was boarded and brought out,
although lying immediately_ under the batteries, and
mouraing herself eight guns, without the smallest
loss ; and proves to be a Ship from Memel, laden
with timber, 400 tons burthen, taken on the rgithof
December last, by L'Union Dutch Brig Privateer,
of t 8 guns, on the coast of Norway. Mr. William-
•son, the Purser, Mr. Hepburn, the Boatswain, and
Messrs. Dale arid Daly, Midshipmen, who were vo-
lunteers in the boats, Mr. Hughes speaks 19 the hand-
somest manner of; indeed the behaviour of every
man and Officer in the Ship was so much to my satis-
fadion, that had the resistance been ever so.great I
have little doubt of the success.
I am, &c.
Wl\l WOOLDRIDGE.
Rear-Admiral Tborfrtborough,
&c.

TORBAY, JAN. 28.---Arrived the rile de Paris,
Dreadnought, end Cdorsus Men of W9c, being
blown off their station in a heavy sale of wind yes-
terday.

PL,YMOUtii, JAN. zB.—Sailed. the Print-4 of
,g 8
guns, Conqueror, Foudroyaert, and L'ilfnietueux, of
74, guns each, to join the Channel .Pleet ; and tic
Santa Marsaritta Frigate, 0/14 Cruize in the Chan-
nel.

Arrived The Andromarke Frigate from Halifax,:
'sailed thence the 3Qth December, having four Mer.
under convoy, which she parted company
in a tale of wind.
The. Mars Transport, Cvhich arrived here a few
days since from Jamaica, cut away her masts this
. . .
inOrnini; in U3rkt,ater, which enabled hei to ride our
the gale tvhich came on last night.

Arrived the Swedish Ship Emanuel, CVt.EIiN.
. •
from Salo FA' C'hristian4:

PORTSMOUT.II, JAN. 29.-The Britai7get, of zoo
guns, Capt. the Rail of Nt',R4:Hcsk, was ordered
by Telegraph to join Ole- Channel Fleet. She is,
however, detained arfit,Helen's, with the Prinifss
kiydl and WindsorCaidr, byontrary winds.
His Majesty's Ship Montagiie,. 01.74 g nsi Capt.
OTWAY, is completely ready for sea, and only waits
for a favourable wind--to go out of Harbour. The
Leviathan, of:^74 g4ins, Capt. BAYNII.J2.I, is also
ready for sea.

The Rua/ Sovere;gn, Capt. MALCOLM, is fit-
ting at Plymouth, fi,r:the Flag of Sir RICHARD
BICKERTON. She takes out twelve Russian Officers
to the Flee: in the Mediterranean.

FALMOUTH, JAN. 27 ;Sailed this evening, the
Ship. Hope, Capt. B NN ETA, for the Spanish
Ship Providentia, Captain ANumtt, for Londoh,
with wool, for Bilboa ; the Dutch East India Ship
:Juliana Maria, Clpt. RANSOM, last from Batavia
(Prize to the favour;tc, of London, which she fell
in with on her passage to the South Seas), for Lr;n-
don.

Remain in Harbour, the Wah;hzilaiv, Rot murs,
and Prince of Wale', To•Do, with four Mails on
board for Lisbon ;• the PT;nce Ernest, PETR E, with
Mails of the itith inst. for the Leeward Islands ;
and the Princess 4rnetio, (Packets), Stsvtlcts, with
Mails of the 4th inst.liJr Jxtndica, Barbadacs, and
Crooked Island.
The' bide of Crtm_berlatil, LAWRANC t, from
America, and the %Iv:Aland (Ncicets), Scau“Ek,
born Lisbon, may be soon expedd. It is supposed
that Hit; Malesty's Brig c;rinnet; of .tBsguns, wijl
convoy home the latter Packet, as she was.to wait
for 3(3Tle Dispatches said to be of much importance.

AlCing's Allisenger arrived at Corr rain's Hotel
on, Wednesday last, and will take Atis passage in the
Walsitg'hatn Packet for Lisbon.
The Pritae.si Cbati6tte Packet, which arrived
here tan Wednesday last from the Leeward Islands,
brotight tio newt of importance. •
The' Lady Araiiella Packer, which was driven on
shdre on the i9th inst., andstranded on the rocks at
TEefusls, was this day floated oil by emptjr.iiab
fastened to her bottom: she is much injured, and:it
is suppled will take two months to repair her da-
mage. The ship John, which went .on shore at
St. Mawea itt the same gale, is got off with little
damage.

SHEERNESS, JAN. 29.—His Majesty's Slop r;r-
ginie, Capt. BER.Estoßri, having repaired the da.
mage she sustained in her last cruize in the North
Sea, has this day sailed for tie Downs.
The Leda Frigate, Capt.' HONYMAN, was this
day paid six months' wages.
• A Tender arrived .this miming at this Dock-
yard, with -two gangs of Shipwrights, one from
Deptford, and the other from Woolwich, to com-
plete the repairs of the':Favourite'Sloop and Minx
Gun-hrig.

DEAL, JAN. 29.-Came in yesterday the Immbr-
:alit/ and Locust Gun-brig, from a Cruize off Bon.,
logne ; Spirt-el from. Dungeness; the Cyclops from
the Nure. Put back the Iralmer Castle East India

Came in the ruhaire Sloop, from Dungeness,
having lust her anchors ad cables. Put back the
Witichelsea and Ghitton East India Ships.

• In the DownS—Monarc.h, Utrecht, Immortalit6, Cy:lops,
Brilliant, Squirrel, 'Champion, Harpy, Cruizer, .Vulture,
Perseus, Zebra,: Speedwell, lackall, Locust, Mariner, Abun-
dance, stoic-ship, Wainlet Castle, Winchelsea, and Glatt9n
East India Ships, with the outward-bound as per last.

The Tribune, of 4 guns, Capt. BEIINET ; Pluto,
of 36 guns, Capt. FUR BUS; and, the Bury Sloop of
War, Capt. CLINCH, Lay( -Sailed
/from Portsmouth
for the purpose of blockading the port of Cherbourg,
and watching the line of coast in that quarter,
Capt. But..t.-Es is to have the command of the
Sheerness Dock.yard Flotilla, in the room of COnt-
missioner CokriN and the Botnb-tendets are, in
the event of Invasion, to I); placed under his ,direr.
fion, . _