The Sun.
London, England, 1803-11-07 00:00:00

LONDON, NOYEMB4R 7, 1303.

Tll hutittriditi Frigate anchored yesterday itt
the Downs, and brought an account that the firing
off the Coast of France, heard on Saturday very
distinCtly at Deal and Dover, was the elFeEt of an
Atta4k made by the Rai:math?, of. 64 guns, and
the Leda and Immortal;ti Frigates, on the French
Flotilla in Boulogne Bay. The French qun.boats,
it seems, to the number of 4, had ventured out of
;WI-Labour in the beginning of the week. The
above Ship, made an attack upon them on Saturday,
and it being low water, they could not escape into
the Harbour. The consequence has been, that two
were sunk, and several more were damaged.

Our Dower Letter furnishes us with an account of
a very gallant Mtion.fnught ott 'Monday:fast oft
B,mlogne, between the Admiral *illicit hired
Armed Cutter, commanded . by 'lieutenant SHE r -
rAtto, and a French Grumbrig of twelve thirty_
two-pounders and five Gumboots. The Brig and a
Gunboat were driven on the, rocks. The rest took
titel ter under a French Battery, which, ho %%eve()
did not prevent the Cutter from cannonading thin
fill she was obliged to withdraw horn tiaartg,
he bad sustained,

ON Saturday afternoon we received ilionitfurs to
the 26th ult. but too late for any notice in our
publiCation of that day, They contaiu indeed very
little that is worthy of notice!, 'The Moniteur of
the 24th has some remarks upon the Convention
concluded between this Country and Sweden, from
which we art; Teti to believe that g ONAPAKTIt. sees
with jealousy and resentment any good understand.,
ingbetween u) and the Northerp POwers., To de.
tichihein from this country, and to induce them
to renew the Vortherci Confederacy, hi,. always
been 'an .ohjt,fi of his policy; in which he trees 'him.
*Alf disappointed and &crated,. anti he way be al.

towed to rail intik at blitlailore. We much trsel:
lion if railing will avail him so much in the grand
failure which he is preparing for himself by his
Quixotis attempt at the Invasion of this Country.
His defeated and discomfited legions will hardly,
we presume, think themselves repaid for their losses
anti disgrace by a column of petulant invedlive against
this Country in the Adoxittarr. Upon the occasion
of the Conventiori, BoNApAaTe consoles himself by
supposing that it is only of a temporary nature, and
that every State must see that the question settled
by that Convention depends ultimately upon the
event of the present War, in which view, says the
Official Journal, the Cause of France is that of all
Nations.

TH Is morning arrived the ifermhirzb Mail due
yesterday. It brings es some more details from
France than the Motu/tars received on Saturday
furnish. The Chief Consul had not left Paris, nor
was he expeEled on the nth or 25th, to do so for a
week. Indeed we apprehend that no specific time
is fixed for his departure,
M. MARKCIFF was again absent from the qopsu.
far Levee. An article from Petenhargb, of ;he
3oth of September, states that he will be recalled,
and be appointed to a place in the Council of State,
with the Cross of St. Andrew. The same article
asserts that Count Wait 0 NZO W, the Russian Ambas.
*actor, lleret'is soon to return to St. Petersburg!), to i
assist his brother the Chancellor of State in the' func.
tions of his office, lie having been fur some time indis.
posed. These arrangements are.highly favOurable to
the interests of Britain, and we !urea* sincerely
to wish that the statements respecting them may be
true.

The Porte has, in an 011iciat.',Note' delivered to
the Foreign Ministers, declared its determination
to preierve the strictest Neutrality.
An article from 'll _rustrls, of the z7th ult. states,
that a part of the Chief Coltsul's Field Equit)age
,had arrived at Dunkirk, and that it was there be.
'Hem! ;hat the Expedition would be very shortly
undertaken.

B2ATHIEIt has been inspecting the Harbours cif
Boulogne and Calm., and the Camp at St. Omer's,
&c. avid issued orders to expedite the preprations
as muchias possible. Ile continued his route 14
Chttird, 4.tT,

An Article from the Ilague. of the zgth, is cal.
culated to create a considerable iferee of surprize,
if the smallest credit could reasonably be attached
to it. It says that private Letters from Paris can.
tain the extraordinary report, that an English ?let&
potentiary was expeaeti there, andthat a house was
aftually fitting op for his reception. If there are
any who can believe this, either in Engl4nd or
Holland, their credulity is more ev.tetuive than

THR la Dublin Mails arrived yesterday) and ;hat
of the 3d instant this morning.
Hatnihan, for whose apprehension a large Re,.
ward was offered, And who wu lately arrested, was
brought to Dublin on Wednesday under a strong
military escort from Enniskillen gaol, And sent to the
Prison of Kilmainham. Fie is nephew by marriage
to the late Rebel General /4r.J.P. Several other
persons charged with being
,concerned in the late
Insurreaion have also been..artisted.. The objedions
taken on behalf of •e4;sie.;.) and -Stojor'd, by their
Counsel, were all over.ruled by the Court, and their
Trial ordered to be proceeded upon.
Snipe further discoveries of importance have, it
is affirmed, been made by the Irish qorvern-
ment, which implicates some persons of higher rank
that. were supposed to be concerned in the late Tn.
surredion.

A great number of surpeBed perons have been
lodged in the gaol of Naa3,

On Suurday morning the Duct of YOR arrived
at Windsor, on military business with ilts Ma.
JRcTY. Soon after breakfast, His Niktsterr, the
DUKa of YORK, and Pa INc. css SoI.IIIA, attended
by Lord ST. HELENS, Lord WALSINGHAM, and a
number of other attendants, took an airing on horse.
back in Windsor Park.

In the afternoon the Dutchess of YORK arrived
on a visit to THEIR MAIEsTIRS) as did General
Do Buns.
.In tlie evening THEM MAJESTIES
had a selelt party at the Lodge. •
On Saturday night about t I o'clock, one of the
privates belonging to the t 31h regiment of tight
Dragoons arrived at Windsor express from Oat-
lands, with a letter to the Dutchess of YORK.
Yesterday morning alp PaINCHSSICS, the I)uK2
of CANIttaIDGE, and Princess, 5,,r414 of
GLou-
CPSTER.,, attended by Lord WALfiINpHAM, Sir
WM. and Lady Prrr, Colonels MANNINGHAM and
DEsHROVI, the Hon. Mrs. PRtes ; Ladies M.
WYNARP and A. CIIMBERLAINU, Wen; to St.
Georgeti.chapel, w` ere a Sermon was preached by
Dr. LANGVG&D, Carson its residence, from 2d Peter,
3 chap. t 8 v. " Grow in Grace, and in Knowledge
of our Lord and SavioIHJESU3 CHRIST.“

Yehterday At ten uldoCk the DVI‘E and DUTCH ESS
of. YORK kit Windsor for Oatiands.

1 bete will tc a Levee at St. jaincs's on NNW-
tie,ciay rICX r.

Lord Motaa rriy ed at Edirtborgh on Tomb),