The Sun.
London, England, 1803-10-11 00:00:00

NAPAL NEWS.

DEAL,. Om to.—Hia Majesty "s Ship Plait
sailed last night to the Westward, and His Majcs.
ty's Sh,ip Diana camc in last night fOrn the West.
ward.

Admiral Lord KElrlf, in His Majesty's Ship
Monarch, the Ranger Slimp, and Confia Gun.
brig, came in this morning from the Westward.
In the Downs—the Monarch, Utrecht, Yorh,
Blond, biana, Circe, Zebra Bomb, Ranger and
Merlin Sloops, Archer and CoVia Gun. brigs, and
Sussex Oak, hired Transport.

YARMOUTH, OCT. to.—ArriveS the Pewlope
Frigate, and Discovery Armed Ship, from a Oulu,
and remain with the Getykbeid, Roebuck, and Cox.

slant.

Sailed the Snipe Gun.brig, with a Transport for
Portsmouth.

The Mary and Margaret, from South Shields,
Thos. CouLaw,: master, bound to London, is km
on the New Comb Sand ; crew saved.

The Fleet under convoy of the Clyde Frigate
and Mallard Gun.brig, are put into flosely Bay.
It is reported here, that a French Privateer has
captured a Berwick Smack from London, near Sun.
derland.

A very gallant atlion has been fought in the
West Indies, between the Paragon, of Lancaster,
of 18 guns, .and about so men and bays (having
nearly 20 French PriSoners on board) and a French
Schooner Privateer, of t z guns and too men ; which
latter she beat ar. The following is an extrad of
a letter frinn Capt. HART, of the Paragon, to his
Owners in Lancaster, dated Barbadoes, August 16,
1 803
" Yesterday morning, 18 leagues •in the wind.
ward of this Island, I fell in with a French schooner
privateer of 12 guns, and about too men, who laid,
the Paragon on buard.on tht- starboard quarter, anti.
after a desperate aaion of near an hour, he, got dis.
entangled and made off, quite a wreck. During
the engagement, he made several attempts to throw
his men on board
.the Paragon, but was resolutely
repulsed by our small crew. Our heavy guns on
the quarter deck, with grape shot, made dreadful
carnage among the crew of the privateer; her decks
were almost covere&wirh dead bodies, before she
got 'front alongside, and her seubbards run with
blood. I and sorry to add, out of our small but
brave crew, two were killed•and seven wounded."

• We understand that in future tlw Promotion's of
the Line are to be inserted in the Gazette of Tues-
day, and 'those of the Militia and Volunteer Corps,
on Thursday and Saturday.
The only period,' prior to the present, in which
the Gazette was published three times a week, was
'from the 17th to the 26th of Noember, z6BB. In
the Paper of the first of those days, the folloWing
Notice was printed :—" For the' preventing of.
false news and reports, it i. thought necessary, that
the Gazette shall to future be published three times
a week."

The several military Corps throughout Cornwall,
have received Orders to hold themselves in readiness
to march, tminediately on the alyear.lnce 4,1 the
enemy on the coast. The South 1): von Militia,
with the Falmouth, Penryn, and Truro Volunteers,
amtiunting together to 2000 men, are to juin the
garrison at Pendermild,

The voluntary offer of a Regiment of Royal Stan.
nary Artillery, to he raised in Cornwall, to consist
of ro Companies of rooinen each, has•been accepted
l>y Government; and perscins will very shortly'be
appointed in different parts of the County, to re.
cove the naives of such Miners as chose to volunteer
their services. Such is the spirit of •the brave
" Cornish Boys," that it is expeded the whole
Regirnent'avill be completely enrolled and officered
in less than ten days.
On
.Tuesday and Wednesday rlie.aeccind Battalion
of the Staffordshire Militia,, commanded hy Colo-
nel Et.t,torr, arrived at Newcastle, wheie they
are expeEted to'remain some time, ", It said that
ten thousand men are to he Ouarteredin that town
and neighbourhood during the winter.
Op r riday evening last, a• train of fifteen , 24.
pounders, a large Aupply of poWder, some waggon
loads of round, case, anti grape
,shot; were landed
at Margate from Woolwich, in addition to the other
artillery before moonted upon the. Old Fort and
North Cliff, which are tp form new batteries upon
the Pier and other commanding points of thi
trance to the HarboUr'.

The- Ship Owners of Berwick on Tweed have
~made stn otFer of sevoral Velset3 to be at the entire
.disposal of Goiernment. ;rho), are now on their
7way to -Deptford, tit which place they are to be
armed and fitted out.
On Friday last, after the return of the 3d ftegi.
sothi of Royal East-India Volunteers from ball-
praCtice at Highgate, a Court Martial was held'on
.tierjeant Scholes, of sth Company, for (Motu-
dietwe of orders. After sitting two' hours doritig
which peribd the Regiment. was kept under arms,
SVrjeant Scholes, wat4 airetably to the sentence,
dismissed the serviee,*ith•overy mark of ignominy,
at the head tpf:the Rkgimenr: l-ie was formerly in
the Guards,.frotr.whence Itt was allowed a pension
by the Corronatitrer-Iti '

. • -
Weitre, itappy,fii find. that =the necessary precut-
- tines have beitr taken" to guard Ag4iinst the. tutbulent
spirit,l4tely,displayed by the 'French Prisoners in
this-Country, :The hulksin the IVletlway; itt which
,'numbers of theta arc confined,, are goardedby tinned
.ye4sitts moored around them, an& which at, ready
• to fire upon them, should they attempt to rise.
Friday. the firt,t. Division of the 6tsr .Regiment
of FOot, arrived at Newcastle, from Durham, to,
• their roadp Berwick upon Tweed. . • •
.The Building of the and.-N;,
vat Hospital, At Bruntstield Links, 'near EdinbUrgli,
which had been contrasted for and begun,. has beet!
put a stop to, by order of G.Jvcrnunnt.

TEN 11.4AIBURGII MAU,
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PARIS, SM. 26.

Tux Festival of the new year was celebrated here
yesterday. in a perfettly tranquil anti satisfatlory
manner. We have no longer any Temples of Rea-
son, or things of that nature the Government did
not invite the Citizens- to dance in -the-Elysian
Fields, but they danced more freely and cheerfully in
other public. plum No distrust, no military die.
play, disturbed the innocerirrusements. The Po-
lice watched„ Over ever 'thing, but, no where ap.
peared. Every one diverted himself in his own
way : some went' to church, others to the theatre.
The First' Consul,
iin the morning, received the
Members of the Senate and Council of State; and
in the evening the Thuilleries' were illuminated.
About eight in the evening there was a Con..
cent, at which the First Consul was present, in
,the
uniform of the National Guard. When he went
away he saluted the audience, who expressed their
satisfy Lion by loud acclamations.

Of the ten Regiments of heavy and light Ar.
tillery which are in our vicinity, and which have
been reviewed by the First Consul, the greater
part have, begun their 'march fur C'cropitgne, Rouen)
Havre-de-Grace, &c. They will serve on foot as
well as on horseback.

General Jot:twat is appointed one of the Lieu.
tenant-Generals to the First Consul, for tl,c
proaching Expedition arinst England,

After the conclusion of the Helvetic . Diet Gen.
NIT will, it is said, command the Army of
serve, which will be assembled at Compiegne. The
new Treaty between France and Switzerland will
be more advantageous to the latter than the Treaty
of 1798. In contains several articles which exist-
ed in the time of. the Kings of Ft 211 Ce.
There is no longer any talk of Negotiations for
Peace ;
.the Expedition against England is alone the
Order of the Day.
The order that no Neutral Ships from English
Ports, or which had even anchored there, shall be
admitted into French Ports, has.undergone an alter.
ation. A notification has been published, .stating
that such Netitral Ships as shall have been obliged
from circumstances of necessity to pot into English
Harbours, shall be admitted into French Ports, if
their tading only consists of Northern produtts;
but if the'' have.oti board Manulaftures or Colonial.
commodities, they will be excluded.
The Army at Bayonne, which is intended to
consist 0f30,000, tie% amounts as' 'yet, only to
18,000.

A Letter from Bayonne, dated September 16, says,
" The Army assenth!ing here~ undo General Ay -
Ek E consists of excellent, troops. The Gene.
rals Av t I L and Ducos command under Auczarno.
The Counsellor of State and Vice-Admiral
Tit UG U E r is appointed COmmandint of the Fleet at
Brest, Rear.Adtniral LACROSSI Marine Prefen at
Havre, and Captaitt Bottivstoo Marine.rrefed at
Dunkirk.

With the new year the service of the Nitional
Guards ceases : the threknew raised Municipal Re.
giinents now occupy all the Posts.

Several houses at Fecomp were damaged by the
Bombardment of the English. An old man of B+,
was killed in his bed : o'letter.carrier was wounded
by a Aplinter in the Old Market-place. Two of
the Enemy'a Ships are much damaged.
On New-Year's Day two Ships of the Line, Le
renzeur and Le Conart, each of ,74. guns, ,were
launched at Blest, On the 17th of Sept. the.B;,./.
fn./if, of 74 guns, was launched at Z'o6enr. Two
Ships of the Line, one °flu, guns, and ihe other 0174,
have likewise been lately launched at Rocilefort.

The magnificent Palace of Schcovbergem,' near
Brussels, which belonged to the Archduke CiemiLt*,
has,' it is said, been purchased by
,the ,EX.Dirtetor
BlitittAs,- for loctbooo livres. • '
The exportation of pitch and tar Friuli' any of our
Ports in the Mediterranean, is prohibited.

On the 23d the First Consul reviewed five ilegi.
ments of Dragoons, who manoeuvred
.on foot in the
Plain of Roequeneourr, near. Versailles. These Re.
giments are intended.for the Expedition against
EngUncl. Madame ii3ONAPARTg was present at the
reyiew.

BRVIIIRLS. SEPT. the Merchant Ships
Which, with th.eir. Crews; have been put- in equ
ittion by—Governme:nt;rsand are 'now iying* in our'
Rivers and Canals,hava received orders to repair
to Bruges and Ott6,ldA They ,will for the most'
part be employed at iiansports to convey
Ammunition, and 110 es. ,

Fifty of these' Ships have already arrived at
Ghent, whence they will continue. their yoyage,
jn
the course of this week. sevetal Cuit.:tioats,w.ill be
iounched Bruges. We are ;tattled OM
Rear.Adiniral NI.ELLY will be appointed Corn
61.Craint of ihe whole naval ,force at alien& •
English: Ships of 'War are contin'tiall) cruiaiog
off Ostend. Furnaces are now prep Aria to.tite on
tlieui with rctl-hot

The troops which fre daily arriving, *1! be in.
speled by General D'Avo UST, and other Generals;
on the Ist of ()Aber : fourteen Battalions of In-
fantry, two Regiments of Dragoons, Hussars, and
Horse.chasseurs, will be assembled at Bruges•
General D'AvousT will now go to Caratuf,
where he will review sOOO Troops.
-General Senora` commands the Corps at Co.
pkgne ; General SouLr the Camp .at St. Owes)
and General D'AvousT the Corps at Brupr..

HAGUE, Ocr. a.

TH I naval preparationss in our Republi are in•
creased and accelerated.. Besides the Ship of the
Line the lirlilUil the Ships of the Line the Dogrff-
lank, the Neiltune, and the Jobs de Witt, the Fri.
gates Irene, of 32 guns, and the Sea.barse, of I+
and two Brigs, will be put in commission, and their
crews considerably augmented.
Admiral STORY, who surrendered out f leet
tr
the /lintr to the English, is said ,to be iftear. at
the Magee, but has nor yet been discovered by the
Officers of Justice.