The Sun.
London, England, 1804-12-03 00:00:00

NAY/IL NEWS.

PLYMOUTH, Dec. i.--Sailed the liellereisbom,
of 74 guns, to join the Channel Fleet ; and Ata•
lank Sloop of War, Captain MASISTIFLDS to the
EJ4twdrod.

Arrived the Ship Entfirm, of 1.4 On, Captain
DAV/WAN, with hemp, from Riga, for the Dock.
yard at tide Port.

PORTSMOUTH, DEc. 2 0.-- Arrived His Majesty's
Sloop of War Sat4ttli, and Meteor Bomb, from the
Blockading Squadron off Havre-de-Grace.
Sailed this evening His Majesty's Frigate Eury.
dice for the Mediterranean, with a Fleet of Mer.
chant Ships and Transports under convoy ; and the
Melpomene, on a Cruize.
Three Sloops, with the survivors, anti between
40 and so persons who have had communication
with the Vessel from Gibraltar, wrecked last week
near Chichester Harbour, were on Monday brought
to the Motherbank, by the Falcon Cutter, and
placed under the care of Capt. G. STILSS, to per-
form quarantine. The public.house to which they
went is shut up, and guarded by soldiers : it is to
be fumigated.

DEAL, Dv c. z.—His Majesty's Ship Champion,
and Dart and Omit: Sloops, put back yesterday,
it being foggy and calm.

Arrived the Tartarus and Vssurviur Bombs from
Dungeness.

Sailed the Sceptre Armed Defence Ship for Shield'.
Arrived the Pincher, Mario', Tigrish and
Bloodhound, Gun.briss, from a Crain off Calais.

Sailed the 'lava and Dart on a Cruize off Bou.

logne.
In rho Downs—Monarch, Utrecht, Inflexible, Castor,
Champion. Arab, Spy,o rotes, Prospero, Explosion,, Lucifer,
Volcano, Discovery, Tartarus, Vesuaius, Rifleman, lackal.l.
Minx, Defender, Watchful, Mallard, HatAllty, Firm,
Pincher, Monier, Tigress,, and Bloodhound, Armed De.
fence Ships as Wore.

SHEERNESS, Nov. 30.—The Leda Frigate has
this day been paid two months advance.
The Signal for the Baltic Convoy is still flying
on hoard the siVinchehea.
Ships at this Port—Zealand, Winchelsea, and Ceres Re.
ceiving Ship ; Leda an:l Proselyte Prigates ; Ships in Hat.
hour as before.

,FALmotmi, Nov. 30.--Arrived the Goldfinch,
MAck, and the queen Charloile, CLARK, from
London, bound to the West Indies, with damage,

EXTRACT OF A LETTER PROM MR. WILLIAM COY.
DON, AN OFFICER OF HIS MAJESTY'ssHIP RUM•
NEVI To HIS BROTHER :
Iris Afakto's Ship Bask, (jibe Text/. Nov. 24.
" DEAR BROTHER,

EcOn Sunday last we left Yarmouth to join Ad.
miral Russo L, Monday morning we run on shore
on the South Haack, off the New peep, near the
Texel. We lay without assistance; and on Tues.
day, as there was no doubt the Ship tnust he totally
lost, ,we made several Jake of the studding.sail,
booms, &c. and at eleven o'clock P. M. I left the
Ship on one of them, accompanied by twelve of :our
men. At sunset I saw a Dutch Cutter taking the
peQple from the rafts ; but it coming dark, we were
drove out to sea, and lost sight of them ; but thank.
God, about ten at night, we had the good fortune
to fall in with the. Alert Cutter, who took us up,
or we must have perished, as it blew fresh, and
the sea ran very high. The greatest part of our
crew are in Holland. The Boats upset almost
mediateiy after they were hoisted out, and several
men were lost, I am at present so weak that I
cannot give you a more full account of the deplorable
state we were in."

IXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM AN OFFICER WHO
WAS ON BOARD MAJESTY'S pull' YENS.
RABLI, ON THE NIGHT OF SATURDAY, NOV.

24, WHIN 8118 WAS LOST IN TOAlitsY.

" Without referring, for obvious reasons, just, at
this moment, to the circumstances that occasioned
the Unfortunate Inscof the, Verierable, I will, as fares
I am able, give you some account of our melancholy
situation from the time she struck till we left her,
with the loss of every thing but our honour and our
lives. It was about five ri4.clock P. M. on Saturday,
the wind Wowing very fresh, and the evening-very
dark andfoggy, that she touched on a ridge of rocks,
but at what part of the bay could not, at first, be
exa4ily aseertained, Every utertion,was instantly
made to get her off, bUt to no purpose. The wea.
the: rather clearing, we soon perceived the danger
of our situation. It was truly terrible, and scarcely
left us the most distant prospeft of life. Our brave
and worthy Captain, however, with thesmost
daunted fortitude I ever beheld (and I have been in
many
.dangers, and with many men), still continued
to animate the Crew to hope and tutther perseve.
ranee. This he did with as much collettedness and
self. Command as if conducting the ordinary duty of
the Ship ; never in my life did I:witness such utter
disregard to death and danger. Not the least alte.
ration took place in his looks, wiirds, 'or manner,
from the moment she streak, until, at our joint and
earnest' impopuhity, after *all the Crew were safe, he
left the Sltip. Every thing was done that the most
able andexperieeed seaman could suggest, but ;111
was in vaiit, Signal, of distress' were now itotdc,
and most fortunately readied the intleti‘ertx• and Go.
heal, which immeOtately stood back into'the F iv,
and"sent their' Boats to our' assiltanee. All the-it:it
of the Fleet were b,,cyqn4 the hearing of our guns;

and she people ashore did not attempt to give us
any kind of help.
" Having tried every thing in vain for.the safety of
the Ship,we now turned our thoughts to the lives of
the Crew, and as they could be of no further use,
they were told' to provide for their own safety on
Ward the Boats of thebtpitueux and Goliath, tha t had
by this time approached the Shlp,the Captain and all
the Officers having declared their intention to remain
on board till all the men were saki), out. This was
about 9 o'clbclf, the Ship being bilged against the
rocks, the mails cut away, and the waves breaking
over us at every roll. I now gave over all thoughts
of saving myself, as, I believe, did every Officer in
the Ship. As the Boats approached the Ship, the at.
tempt became more and more dangerous every time,
the night still continuing dark and foggy, with gusts
of wind and drivelling sleet, that seemed to freshen
every hour. In this forlorn and dismal state the
Officers continued on the outside of the Ship (for
she was nearly on her beam ends), encouraging the
men, and affording every possible assistance for their
escape on board the boats,which exerted themselves
nn this occasion with great skill and intrepidity.
The Ship was now a mere wreck beating against the
rocks, and with every wave expeded to go to
pieces, yet all this while we were so near the shore
as to be able to converse witl# the people whom the
report of our guns had brought down to the rocks.
With some difficulty we at last contrived to fling a
line to them, which being made fast,
,some of the
crew attempted to haul themselves ashore by it.
.The
surf, however, broke so tremendously between us
and the land, (though I do not believe we were 2o
yards from it,) that all the poor fellows who made
this attempt were either drowned or dashed to pieces
against the rucks. It was now past five o'clock on
Sunday•morning, the. weather still getting worse,
and all the Grew out but a few. drunken wretches
who lay senseleO on the deck, and about 17 noble
souls, who declared they would die with their Offi-
cers; a dreadful sea breaking over us, the fore part
bf the Ship entirely under water, and the rest ex.
peeled to go to pieces every minute; the wind still
freshening, and it being probable that the boats
could no longer be able to approach the Ship, and
conscious that our remaining on board any longer
could be of no possible use: in this state, the Offi-
cers persuaded their good and still undaunted Cap.
tain to think of saving his life, and with it their
own, as they had resolved one and all to share his
fate. After some time he consented, on condition
that the Officers should go first. This point being
concluded, the hope of life, long dismissed from our
minds, began to revive, when another difficulty arose
that seemed to cast it further back than ever
which of the Officers was to lead the way ? the ex.
tindion cif this new-reviving hope was indeed
dreadful, and the pause had nearly been fatal to us
all. At length one of the junior Lieutenants,long
known to the crew, and as brave a man as ever troth
the ouarter.deck, agreed to lead, the rest solemnly
promising to follow. One after another we now de,
scended from over the stern (the only part of the
Ship above water), by single ropes, cold, beounibed,
and wet through, anti in this condition gained the
boats, themselves in perilous attendance underneath.
In this manner was It that we left the poor old
FeneraLli; and about six o'clock reached the
lemeux, where, it is needless to say, we were
treated with every attention and kindness that one
Ship's Officers could slim to another in distress.
When the morning broke, we perceived the Ship had
gone to pieces, and that if we had staid aboard all
of us by this time must have perished. On the
beach the people with whom we had been convert.
ing from the rocks, were plundering every article
of the wreck as it floated ashore."

LEITH, Nov. 29.--Tuesday arrived in Leith
Roads, from St. Petersburg!), the Fame, of Ailoa,
JAMIES MIFAALANP master, which Vessel sailed
with a Fleet under convoy of the Charles Armed
Brig. Some time after the Fleet left the Sound the
Fanis was separated from them in a gale, and Cap-
tain M4FARLAN I Imagines they would be obliged
to put into Norway.
The Fidtho. of Leith, NORMAND, one of the
same Fleet, passed up Frith on Tuesday.