The Sun.
London, England, 1804-03-02 00:00:00

N.dPAL NAWS,

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FAt:mottrtf, 28.—Arrived this- triprning
the Tawr;thend Packet. Dont:), with Mails from
Lisbon, efeVen daYs passage: left lying there the
IFUlsing4;zot and P rinie.'O aleiles Packets. 1141\la-
jesty's Brig ild/cyon,•.tif t 6 guns.; Capt. PEAR CE,
lead, arrived in the Tagus just before the Packet.
having onboard J. FALCON, Esq. Consul-Ge neral at Algiers, charged with.nlispatclies from Lord
NELsoN, Off, Toulon', with which he embarked on
board theTowns/Send, and on his arrival here went
off-immediately express for London. A report
pre
eirailed at Lisbon before the Packet sailed, that
th 'French Fleet; had sailed from Toulon. When
Mr. FALCON left
rwary), Lord our Fleet (about the 3lst of Ja-
NELSON was closely blockading Tou-
lon : the French Fleet there were ten Sail of the
Line and a number of Frigates and Transports.
His Majesty's Ship
of War, Lapwing, and Gannet Sloop
sailed from Lisbon a fortnight before the
met a gale of wind
Townshend, with Convoy for England, but having
, were dispersed, and several had
Put into Sr. Übe's, with loss of masts, &c. The
Ship Minerva, of London
Honduras, ,bound to the Bay of
had put into Lisbon, having sprung a
leak at sea.
On the 25th inst. in lat. 47. 2s. lon Packet was chased by three line of Rattle Ships, which
proved to be British. Last night, off the
was fired at b Lizard,
Y a Frigate, supposed to be English,
but-did not bring to.
P4sset)gers per the Townshendate,J
Secretary, a .FALCON, Esq.
Regiment rid servant ; Capt. T NOET, of the 30,h ; Messrs. n
....,ENNOR, EDWARD,, ASLING,
KtooAß, CFLLIN, MoottE, , ANSELM) DURAN
RAmEo, and M.. GlNoux.
Also arrived His 11,Iajesty's Ship Plover, of 18
Eux, Capt. from a eruize ; the Rashleigh,
IVltthursti, from Cardiff.; Riveire, COOPER, from
Penzance, with tin, for London ; and Friendship,
LIFFEY, from Poole, with fish.
Sailed the Four
rills Sisters, WILE tAms, with 1)3-
, fur ; the Steil, PETTIGR EW, for Car-
diff; Tem
pl e, Ho:RiNc, for Bridgese Water ; Union,'
A'f
Q-n Amary, MARSLAN, for Swan-
sea, •

he Chesterfield Packet,
to take theBLIGHT,
is appointed
Mails of the
7(1) of March for Ja-
AeNcn) aica t;,e Duke
of Cumberland Packet, LACY_i
York anti Halifax. e will take thMails Of same date fur New.

151;1-mourn,
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DoE' 29.--Arrived the .S.yijoh Sloop
or w 4r, Capt. ATE, from. Portsmouth ; also the
6100 • ..
p Robert n,,,51 '
fruit f --
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-.'." Jane, calif. MASTERS, with
~ f rpm r yai . .

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m ° --sivi"lnir MARCH z.—Arrived the Himd,
—4113. and George, TIN L EY, from London, bound
to Africa.
La - PauletteVa
, Capt. UNBAR, is now ling off
rnouth,- Ly
le of Wight, b. urid with Convoy to
laurtugal) and expeded .to saißon Saturday next,
sailed P 11)EAL, MAR ~
CH t.----1-lis Majesty's Sloop Auturnii,
n a Cruize to,the Westward ; Pegarrit, t•)r
Sh.eerness. atham;
eerness: and Minx Gun-brig came down from
The :8 . .
the iki "fly:Dick East India Ship, came down from
Arrive" .and
sailed for Portsm(...irh.
Arrived
the &Inc-. • Ship C - 4 724 of New..
'NI hound. . onan oa, , ,
!n-lkniterdam, and remains..
in the llows_.:_m - . R ison
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STATEMENT OP THE Dl.irP,lßuTio

11tilrlsil FORCE, 10 THE F
I
In Port and fitting, and Z Line so's
'
wit seald'crders 7
- ,
I Ilardhn the Engs
lShip s _
On ish _ 8 i
and Irish
27
~, Chn theannel - -
llowns mid North
II
~Sea stations
-"theWest India Islandi 2
04nd on the Passage 5
n the Jamaica station • 5
Arrlerican 4: Newfound-
o
f„l4nd stations -
Cof G. Hope, E. Ind. 61.
411(.1 on the Passage
Coast of Africa •
0
I)airt, Portugal and Gib
ialtar 6 I
\'!ecliterranean and on passage 13
ctospital and Prison Ships 13

h Total in Cdrnmission 3
.‘eceiving Ships
2erviceable and repairing 3
, for Service -
s ordigary . - . 1 - r I
G 1
j ~ 16

tBg
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iTo the Fc.u.droli,ailt, Northuniberind, Alexander, Auda.
ci,us, Success; and Li Corso Brig, for .the capture of the
French Snip of WAr La Ville de Marseilles, a distribution
will be made at No. tj, Barnard% inn, on Thursday, March
zz..

From the Norfolk tielald, Virgin a, Jan. 7.

Arrived in distress the schooner- Dispatch, Capt.
ROEtNsoN, 6S days from Glasgow, bound to Rich..
pond, with dry goods, In TEMPLE and GORDON.
'On the eighth day after sailing, being in lat. 30.
long. 53. it blowing very heavy, and a high sea
running, at meridian, the crew being on the quar-
ter-deck, the vessel was struck by 'a sea which
°knocked her .over•on•heT beam ends, in which si,
tuation she lay for about ten minutes; when the
fore-mast gave-way a few feet above decks, and she
righted. At this time all- the crew but the chief
mate were overboard; 'after some• time the Captain
and second mate got on board by swimmin2-, and
thOugh the sea continued high, the wreck was clear-
ed, but not without the greatest difficulty, owing to'
the loss of five of the crew ; every thing on deck
was. washed overboard,, and the ;passengers' in the
cabin were much hurt, and the cargo shifted so
much as to keep the lee gunwale under water ; but
after some time a jury mast was got up, and the ves-
sel trimmed, with the assistance of the passengers.
Spoke several vessels, but could get no assistanc •
from them, owing to heavy gales. The following.
are the names of the persons lost overboard :—John
Babcock, belonging to New-York ; Csar Pursley,
William Johnson, Isham Stevens, and Joseph Jack-
son, from Richmond.

It is said, that the Admiralty Board have ordered
the construaion of twenty new Ships of the Line.
Among the many melancholy accounts of ship-
wrecks and distresses by sea, the following has
been unnoticed :—About the middle of last month,
a Sloop, name unknown, was cast away on the rocks
betwixt Stotfield and Causea, within six mileS of
Elgin, and every soul •on board perished. The
long-boar, which has been drove on shore, has two
initial letters marked upon it, with " Peterhead"
- painted on the.stern ; from which it is conjeaured
that she belonged to that One of the bodies
of the unfortunate 'offerers has come on shore, and
•has been decently interred in the church-yard of
Drainy. A part of the mast is only seen at low
water, so that the vessel is irrecoverably lost.
COASTING TRADE.—Our trade, particularly the
coasting part of it, has Of late suitained great in-
jury from' the depreciaritms of three small-Lugger
Privateers belonging to Boulogne, between Beachy
Head and Dungeness. We know the measures
that have • been adopted by the Admiralty to guard
against this evil, but it is not at ail likely to
answer the end. The time affixed on by the Pri-
vateers for their daring attempts, is when there
is not' any moori-light at -the early part of the
night, , and after a shift of wind from the Eastward
to the i-Westward; and vice 'versa ; in the. former case
they are sure of falling in with our coasting trade '
up Channel ; in the latter our trade down Channel.
They are generally stationed at ,different Ports, Bou-
logne, Treport, and Dieppe ;' they leave Boul,gtle
with the wind strong at S.W. or from that to West,
anti with,the ebb tide are close in under Fairleigh,
before nine o'clock at night, Gupoosing them to have
left Boulogne at four o'clock. With the wind as we
now mention between S.W.-and W. none of our ships
are close in with Boulogne. The Privateers then bring
to close under-the' land, -and during four or five
hours, not a coasting • vessel escapes. The vessel
taken is immediately run over to the nearest point
of the French coast, where there are innumerable
batteries to protest them, and both privateer and
prize arc safe in a French port before day-light next
morning. The privateers leave Dieppe, Treport,
&c. as the wind is between the points of N.N.E. and
S.W. so as to be able to fetch some point between
Dover and Beachy Head at a stretch. There are two
Ships stationed4etween Beachy and Dungeness, the
Vulture arid Speedy, snips the least calculated for the
service thew are -to perf.4n-i; they are two of the
purchased Sloops, fitted up with 24—pounders, and
particularly forruidAble in aftion, but having been 1
merchantmen, are very bad sailers.

MrS. l'ot.F.'s ball On Monday evening in Hanover
Square,, was attended
_by upwards of 300 persons of
high distinaion in the fashionable world..
The Margra vine of ANSPACH'S sumptuous din-
ner on Friday last was one of the most splendid en-
tertainments of the kind that has been known for a
long time in the circles of fashion. But the treat
was by no means confined 'to the gratifications of
the 'palate ; the eye and ear were equally delighted,
the one with 'beauty and magnificence, and the
other with " the concord of sweet tounds." It
was on the whole a rich intellectual repast, that will
long be remembered by the guests with pleasure
unalloyed.
Mr. CHERRY is not less fortunate in the closet
than on the stage. his Soldier's Daughter hating
already run through eight large editions.
The Ladies' Subscription Private Concert has been
renewed this year in the Fashionable World.—
SALomort is, as usual, the Leader, and renders it a
very charming entertainment by his beautiful se-
learon, and by his own admirable performance.
The next concert takes place on the Bth instant •at
Lord SOME is's in Cavindish-square.

A Miss Easicirsu is likely to become a distin-
guished ornament 'of the musical world. She is
the daughter of the manager of the concerts at
York. The name of ERSKINE is ominous to the
success of whatever depends on the
Miss Mo'RT/mER,-_ whOse vocal powers were
brought forward at Covent Garden Theatre with
encouraging success, but who has since been thrown
into the. back-ground, has been introduced into the
musical circles with friendly zeal by Mrs. CR ES.
PYGMY, 'a lady well known for' talents and bene-
volence.

The-good fulks,in the Galleries were so-turbulent
at the representation of Othello on Monday night,
that Ketvta t E was disturbed in his performance, and
obliged to 'appeal the Audience to entreat that
they
_wouldenforcearrention among them,elves, if
they wiOied,to have tlicir amusements properly cun.
duCted by_l4;Pcsforniers. . . .