The Sun.
London, England, 1804-10-03 00:00:00

DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZE-MONEY.

To the (Micers and Company of His Majesty's Ship
Pique,.fur the capture of the I'Uniou, it:: 3 tst of July, tBo3,
to-morrow' or during three years afterwards, at No. 14,
Clement's Inn.

A Letter from an Officer nn board one ~t
&latiron off Havre, (Lied Septembrr 27, :-
16 I am sorty to 11,11,/e to state the ; ;ss :„ur

Cutters (the Kilts (eorge), whie
in the an of desttoying ort, ,
which she had forced on shut e, A ..„ . ~; every
effort to get her off, but to no purpo,e, ti,ty were
under the necessity of destroying her by fire ttypre.
vent her falling into the hart& of the Enemy. 'Ve
were too far off in the large. Ships to afford any
assistance ; had we been nearer, it would
not have been possible to have kept the Enemy in
check, as We Could not approach within gunshot,
fur the shallowness of the water, and being a strong
ebb.tide and Last wind, the Boats of the Squadron
could not have arrived in time to afford any assist.
ante, as the Frenchmen were. all in motion, and in
less than an hour, fourteen of their Brigs and Lug.
gers had. completely surrounded them ; but, not.
withstanding this, site was completely cm fire be.
fore the last-Boat quitted ly'r, as we could perceive
by our spy.glasses. The dastards'then sheered off
from the Cutter,, and pursued the BUIS foriour or
five miles, keeping up an incessant fire of round,
grape, and musquerry, latterly within pistol shot,
which literally covered the boats ; and had it not
been for the gallant manner in which the Locsirt
Gun,hrig stood in and covered them, I am con.
vinced, in ten minutes more, ,they must have been
a'l destroyed or taken ;, but sooner than risque an
oftion, though only with two Gun.brigi, they
thought it most advisable to abandon the pursuit.
Too much praise cannot be bestowed on the Officer
and Crew of the Xing Genwe, for the gallant and
determined manner in which the whole business was
condaled ; however, it is only another instance of
the superior courage and address of Iltitish Seamen.
While I am closing, this, I at given to under.
stand, that not a man is killed Of wounded,
,which
a utterly astonishes me, as I never witnessed more,
galling fire."

i C.ll

A► vapouring Letter of Sr.• FAux, Commodore
of the Batavian Squadron off Bergen, appeared lately
in the Dutch Journals: We cannot give a better
refutation of it than tile fultowing ;

Eztrael of a Letter from an Officer of His Majesty's Ship
I.a Chitlinme, to his friends in Cdinburgh, dated Bergen,
zOth July tBo4.
4 4 In mylast, which. t was forced to conclude so abruptly,
informed you of part of our proceedings. On Sunday loth
I une we lett the. Ethalion, watching the. Corvette at anchor
at :the distance of three miles: from her, :and we sailed to
cruize at sea to tritmept her, in case she should cscapotite
Lthation. .

**.on the Titesilay.after, Sr. FA Ulf, a Frenchman, who
commando her, and styles himself Goleral, sent a fiak of truce
to the F.:theism, (pretending to believe she WAS the Chlfronne,
though he well knew' ::he had. sailed), with 3 challenge to
'Captain An Am; o*.ring to go to, sea and engage' us, if Cap-
tain A. would give his honour no other Ship should assist
us, at the same time upbraiding Captain A. of breaking the
neutrality, by chasing so closely, adding, if his fOrce
had been etioid, he never would have put him to that trouhle.
Captain S rs. WART returned a verbal message, that we were
Ott sea waiting .tor hint" and it be 'sailed eutild not miss us,
adding, that the Ethalien was ot' t he same tate as the Chit"-
fonne, and he was very much at ilia service thii Monsieur
1.4 Genergl thought,proper to decline.
" • To convince you the tallow had no intentionof fighting,
I shall only say, trim when we arrived at Bergen, we round
there two large Dutch Corvettes; • weaitchored within hail
of thein,, and remained there nearly two weeks, during which

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time Ss. FA vx never dreamed of challenging us, aerl when
one of the Corvettes sailed, wip well aware we could not sail
after her until, t wenn'. tourhours- lied el apserkw tout break-
ing the neutrality. As sore' as I'Lat thee erapseki, we
sailed from Bergen to take station to intercept the remaining
one, our Consul at Bergen giving us duly ietelliiNnee.
" Sr. Feox at last, .finding a fair opportunity, as be
thought, sailed, and as soon as we received intelligence of it,
which was in three hours, we immediately set otf in pursuit
of hint, and Julg so near him that he was obliged to go within
the rocks. The limits of the neutrality are, 1 believe, a
mile without than. Tor three weeks he tried to elude our
vigilance without cited, and at lam was so alarmed by our
constant pursuit of hint, that he landed some of his guns to
form a battery, giving out for his reason, that he expected
we would attack him. For this gross violation of the Neu-
trality be- was severely reprimanded by the Governor of
Bergen, Monsieur Bsu t. see e, who instantly ordered his
guns on board, and added, that his conduct formed a
striking contrast to that of the British Captain's. A Danish
Corporal and two Soldiers were sent on board to report it M.
Sr. FA tin should think proper to ad again so improperly ;
yet this same paper•fighting hero, after presuming to chal-
lenge us, without ever intending it, lett his Corvette in a
Harbour about forty miles from Bergen, stripped of her rig-
ging, under the charge of a Lieutenant and twenty men, and
is now travelling over land to Holland. lie may certainly
think himself fortunate if he arrives there, as Mr. Cane,
the British Consul, informed me yesterday, that the Gover-
nor had sent Couriers to arrest hint, as he had killed three or
four horses on the road, and refused to pay for them.

Some time since we, gave an account of the good
condul and bravery of Captain CUMM I Ng, and the
crew of the Atolls Brig (a small Guineaman, about
zo tons only),. in beating off a French Privateer of
much superior force, to windward of Barbadoes, in
March last, and afterwards comialing the Apollo
safely to her destined port. We are happy in hay.
ing it in our power to announce to the Public, that
although those men could not be considered as en.
titled to reward from the Patriotic Fund at Lloyd's,
yet, to the honour of the Underwriters on the
Apglli and her cargo, they have not been other.
ways forgotten, as we find that the Underwriters
on such part as was insured at Liverpool,' imme.
diately presented Captain CUMM INS with a piece of
plate ; the London Underwriters, as soon as they
were informed of the circumstances, immediately
signed off two guineas per cent. on their subtcrip.
tions, under the following declaration:

" We, the undersigned Underwriters on a Policy of insur.
ante, per the Apoilo, Capt. Cumsttns, on a voyage from
Liverpool to Africa, and a market, wrote to WM. lin Ryas,
in August, tZo3, do hereby agree to allow Two Guineas per
Cent. on our rcspedive Subscriptions, to be apportioned by
the Owners of said Vessel, and presented by. them to the
said Cupt. Cu MM t Ns, his Officers, and Crew, according to
their rank in the Vessel, and the services respedively ren.
dered by each, in beating oll'a Privateer of superior force on
the aid day of March last about So miles to windward of Bar.
badoes, thereby preserving the properly under their case,
and skewing a truly laudable British Spirit, in repelling the
attacks of an Enemy of superior strength."

This Subscription, so trivial individually, yet
amounting in the aggregate to 113). has been
transmitted by the brolor to the owners of the
Apollo, at Liverpool, to he divided as desired, on
the return of the Veltel from the voyage she is
now performing. We feel much pleasure in making
known this circunistanCe, so highly honourable to
all the parties, and doubt not hut it will excite an
equal emulation in others to •follow the example of
the hatArtil of brave oleo that composed the crew of
the Apollo.

CTIoN OF LORD MAyoa.—None of the
C,.:<;t rates apt cared oit the Hutting, yesterday. At
cl!, c of ilic 3kl day's Poll the numbers wen:

For Al‘tertn4n l'nt o . 12os
Alduretian Set A- .
Alderman FLowt a -
Mr. Alderman SHAN gains daily upon the Pull ; a
strong proof of the good tense and true patriotism
01 the Citizens of London. Indeed it was not to
he suppo,ed that the arts of a disappointed Faaion,
and the clamours of a Jacobin Gang, 'could tarnish
the reputntion of a man who resolved to discharge
the duties of an arduous situation, and. doting a
pe rjod of extreme violence, with unbiassed fidelity.
Whether Mr, Alderman SHAW will, by the event
of the present contest, be seated in the Citric Chair,
is more than we pretend to divine ; but we may
truly declare that no man is better fitted to support
its dignity, by judgment,
_ retlitude, and a firm at.
tachment to the British Constitution.
Yesterday the LORD Malroa went in state to
hold a Court of Wardmote, in the
.Watd of Bassi.
show, for the EteCtion of an Alderman in the ioom
of dFORGII CLARK, Esq. resigned ; when CLAY.
DIUS STSPIIEN HUNTER, Esq. an eminent Solicitor,
of Charlotte.row,' and of Spring Garden.terrace,
was unanimously eleeled.
The following are a List. of the Commissioners
appointed under the Property An, fur the City of
London, for the ensuing year :

P. Sansum, Esq. Chairman. Pooh. Doak. Esq-
D, Jennings, Esq. Deputy. , Henry Wildman, Esq.
Alderman 1. 1. binith. Dante! Pinder, Esq.
Deputy Brickwood. Thomas Palmier, Esq.
James Neild, Esq. Benjamin Harrison, Esq.
Phomas Plummer, Esq. John C. Powell, Esq.
Stephen,Cattley, Esq. Henry Maxi Ind, gteg.
lames Palmer' Esq. Robert Precious, Esq.
atnes Dusan, Esq.

Several of ,the Merchants of London have re.
monstrated against the removal cf the lidthcor
Mattes's Office to Limehouse. The ground of their
renfinstrance is, the unavoidable inconvenience
that must attend their daily intercourse with that
Office."

BREAD. ..7.. Yesterday the LORD MAYOR was
under the painful necessity of ari.ing the price of
bread an assize, or zd. in the peck ; the var.
tern loaf of wheaten bread will be sold tomorrow
for Is. and household told.

On Monday last was held the Annual Meeting of
the Royal College of Physicians, in Warwick-lane,
when the following Gentlemen were chosen Officers
for the ensuing year :—President, Sir LUCAS Parrs,
Barr. Censors, Dr. MAYO, Dr. Pet.isticroxiDr.
MATON, and Dr. HAwokTK, Treasurers Dr. Boucot
Register, Dr. Htav sr. Commissioners fur grant.
ing licences to persons keeping houses for the rtcep.
'ion of Lunatics, Sir LUCAS Peres, Bart. Dr. HuN.
Mil Dr. ROISZRT4, Dr. Fitataotx,, and Dr.
FRAMPTON; and Secretary 'Dr. Mayo. At this
rnrettng Dr. Frr.Lows, Dr. Parce/Dr. CuattY,
and D. TURNER, were elated Candidates.
On Wednesday last Col. Lord EDWAKC SOW R.
sit, of the .4th Dragoons, and Capt. MUNK°, of
the North Hants'lNAilitia, started to ran too yards,
at East Bgtirnr, for a bet of so guineas, which wm
Avon liy.Lorti Euwatto. The above Gentlemen,
we widetstand, a(e matvhcd to run ten tulles for too
4UOICAS.