The Sun.
London, England, 1803-12-15 00:00:00

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PORTSMOUTH, buc. 14.—Arrived the Hydra
Frigate from Jersey.
Put back the Experimenl,. WITHER, bound to
Botany Bay, having lost her bowsprit t 6 leagues
from Scilly.

FALMOUTH, DEC. c2.--Arrived the Gainer
Sloop of War from Lisbon, after a passage of 14.
days.

DEAL, DEC. 4.—Sailed the lofts:arta/it/ and
Sulphur on a Cruize off Boulogne,
The Mari/ter Gun.brig put back last night, and
sailed again this afternoon, with Convoy for Ports-
mouth, with the Charlotte Schooner.

Arrived the Auspicious from Bengal,. and sailed
this afternoon with the Indiamen for the River.

In the Downs—the Monarch, Utrecht, Raisonable, Leda,
Euryalus, Champion, L'Amaranthe, Squirrel, liccla, I'cr.
sous, Fury, Zebra, and Pinto Bombs; Lynk, Dart, and
Harpy Sloops; and Contlle Gun-brig. . .

The Tamer, of Liverpool, Capt. MAY, has had a
very severe engagement with the Braave, formerly
a French, Privateer, and has captured her she has
on board, about 700 slaves, and a great quantity of
goods. The engagement lasted two hours, dur;ng
which the Tamer had g men killed and 7 wounded ;
the Braave had $ men killed and 14 wounded. The
above. Engagement took. place off Angola. A French
ship laying at anchor in that harbour, called La CV!.
fiance, on hearing the cannonading, cut her cable,
and sheered off, The Tamer has also captured a
French Brig.
A Letter from Malta, dated Sept. to, says:--
e' The Phoebe Frigate has had 'a Lieutenant and
Midshipman killed) and a Lieutenant' and seven
men wounded, by a Privateer. The Niger Frigate,
the latter end of August, had a Lieutenant and
five men killed, and four men wounded, in boarding
a Greek Vessel which opposed them ; wile» iwo
Midshipmen, the eldest not fourteen years old, in
another boat astern of, the one with the Lieutenant
who was ordered to examine the vessels, came up,
boarded, and carried the Greek, killing the Cap-
tain and seven men, and driving five overboard.—
The Lieutenant was killed on the spot. Lord NEE-
sot: immediately nude, both the Midshipmen Lieu-
tenants, and they arc now here."
The Oriheus Frigate sailed from Quebec with a
Convoy, consisting of twenty sail, thirteen of which
are yet unaccounted for. The following are the names
of those arrived :—.E.Turetta, Captain PATTERSON ;
Ouebec, Capt. BAILEY ; Ann, Capt. KERR ; Padget,
Capt. BARMAN; City of Edinburgh, Capt. Hutur ;
William Pitt, Capt. CONOL LY ; and Mary, Captain
OSWALD.

The Clementima, HURST, of Chepstow, from
Memel, was wrecked, on the 3oth ult, on the
Island of Lisore, in the Cattegate. The Captain ar-
rived at Leith on Sunday last, in the Rope, of Bor.
rowstounness, from Riga, and brings the melancholy
intelligence, that nine other vessels were seen ashore
when he left the wreck. These vessels were coming
under convoy of the Cat:, sfort Frigate and an Armed
Brig. The Convoy consisted of about so,vessels.
The Admiral Nelson, Capt. Ikv tr 4 E, from Lon.
don, bound to Copenhagen, struck on a rock near
the Scaw, which occasioned her to make five feet
water in the course of an hour, when, having lost
one man, and the rest of the crew very much dis.
abled, she put back for the Humber, where tale ar-
rived on Friday last in a most distressing state ;
only the Captain, and two of his men being able to
work the ship.
A letter from Middleburg. of N0v..213, states the
arrival of an English boat, with two officers and
thirteen seamen, at West Capelle, supposed to have
been prevented, by bad weather, from returning to
their ship. It is added that another boar, with two
`Officers and twenty-four seamen were lost. Also a
letter from liebvotti/up, of the 24th, speaks of two
Lieutenants, a Surgeon, ,a Midshipman, and eleven
Seamen being brought in, having been obliged to
surrender by tha fire of the Zeezicht battery on the
Goederede. 'They are said to belong to a 44 gun
Frigate, cruizing off Ostend, .and after reconnoi.
tring the Coast were prevented by the fog from
reaching their ship.

Yesterday the Queen's Royal Volunteers were
inspeded by his Royal Highness the DUKE of Your
at the Parade of the Saint George's Corps. The
Corps mustered at half past eight in the morning.
His Royal Highness arrived at the Parade about
half- past nine, attended by General Cm.vgitT and
other Officers. The immediate purpose of his
Royal Highness's inspeftion was to witness the
effet of the new manceuvre of parrying the thrusts
of a bayonet, in which the Corps: have been for
some time praftised.
Yesterday the Clewer Volunteers were entertain.
cd with an excellent dinner by
,their Commanders,
Messrs. RAMsBOTTOM and MANNIIRS, at the Swan
Inn, at Clewer. 'lle dinner consisted of four
rounds of beef, four legs of mutton, a bushel of
potatoes, a bushel of turnips, a.bushel of carrots,
sixteen large plumb puddings, and plenty of Wind.
sot ale, • -