The Sun.
London, England, 1803-08-10 00:00:00

LONDON, AUCU3T 10, z8o3!

Park.

We have the satisfaBion of stating, that on
I+7londay night some of our Cruiters from, the Downs
fell in with some of the Enemy's Gun.boats on the
Coast of France ; and it wait yesterday believed at
Deal, that the whole were either stink or driven on
slime. The cannonading was distinEtly heard at
at Deal.

To IS morning arrived a Mail from Dublin or
the 6J, ill,tata. We !Live nothing to add to the
intelligri.ca which we have before stated. Are.
port prevailed in DA)lin on Friday, that Counsellor
Emmilt had hen arte,ted at Drogheda, and trans.
frt red to the Capital ; but this report originated
from tit apprehension and removal to, Dublin of
Redmond, at Ne wry, which circumstance we litotd
yesterday.

On Monthly evening the ROYAL. FAM 14y walked
on 'retrace at Witl6ol! Ycsialiiiy morning)

soon after breakfast His MAJESTY, accompanied by
His Royal Highness the DUKE of CAMBRIDGE' and
the PRINCESS &pH lA, attended by Lady J.

THYNNE, Generals CARTWRIGHT, DE BUDIE and
DESDROW, took their usual ride in Windsor Great

HER MAJESTY and the PRINCESSES, AUGUSTA,
ELIZABFTH, MARY, and the PRINCESS SOPIIIA

of Gloucester, attended by Ladies AILESBURY,
DANIER, and Mrs. STANHOPE, took an airing in
two sociablcs in the new plantations and woods,

by Virginia 'WUter, and returned to the King's
Lodge about one o'clock.
Yesterday morning His Royal Highness the
Duke of KENT left Windsor, where he was on a
visit to Their Majesties.
A Court of Common Council will he held to.
morrow at Guildhall at twelve o'clock, to return a

certain number of persons, out of whom the. Lord
Mayor and Aldermen will nominate Commissioners
to carry into execution the At of Parliament "for
granting a contribution on the profits of certain

descriptions of property, &c.
Some unfounded aspersions having been thrown
on 1)11-Lori's Regiment, through the medium of
private Letters from Gibraltar, Colonel DI LLoN has
come forward to vindicate the character of his Regi.

tent from the charge of Mutiny imputed to it ;
and it clearly appears that that Regiment has al.
ways behaved with exemplary gallantry and good
discipline, and is now disbanded merely because the
period for which the men had been enlisted has ex.
Aired.

A most important fart transpires in Colonel Dm.
Lores Letter, inserted in another part of our Paper ;
namely, that the French occasionally sell their pri.
soners to the Spaniards, to be sent work their

mines in America! This traffic is ►nure horrible
than that of the Slave Trade,---Of course England
will afford plenty of slaves for the Spanish mines,
should the French be vi' orious in this Country.

A number of letters from Spain received yesterday,
state that things begin to assume a warlike aspect
towards this Country. It is stated that the Mer.
chants, who owe a considerable' sum to England,
have received orders to suspend. the payments they
were about to make. The Spaniards are likewise
augmenting their land forces, and the pretext is said
to be, to prevent the French entering their territo.
ries—a very improbable account.
By private Letters we, learn, that Lieutenant
General GRINFIELD attacked the Enemy in the
Island of, St. Lucia, with exactly half the number
of the French Forces. The Troops, after gallantly
driving the Fnemy from their lines, pursued them
to the stote.houses, where the French made an at.
tempt to rally, but were overpowered by the i rre.
sistible gallantry• of our troops. Our men, to their
honour, spared the enemy, who exposed themselves
to the danger of being- put to the sword, by their
fitolish obstinacy in defending themselves when too
late. Lieutenant. General GtuNFIELD sailed
mediate'y for Tobago, and as that garrison consisted
of 300 men, it is of course taken by this time.
The Duke and Dutchecs at NORTHUMBERLAND
on their arrival at Alnwick last Friday, were greeted
with the warmest tokens of affeftion by the people of
that neighbourhood. Their Graces have been alhent
from this august mansiolt seven years. They were
met by their numerous tenantry some miles on the
road, and escorted by them in a style of feudal re.
sped, blended with the genuine spirit of British
freedom.

The presence of the Duke of NORTHUMBERLAND
in the North at the present time, we- cannot but
consider as Of great political importance, and his
undertaking the journey is a proof of that patriot.
ism which his Grace has displayed upon many sig.
nal occasions. . ..Corps which his Grace' mean 4
to raise, and which Earl Pettey will command, will
he one of the most complete in every resped in the
kingdom.

We understand that Mr. SHER ID AN, jun. W 46
offered by Mr. ADD INGTON the verylucrative
titian fit. Registrar of the Vice-Admiralty Court of
Malta, which however he declined accepting. We
have no doubt however that an offer of something
that may be more acceptable may soon be. made.
Mr. SHER I DAN, it 14 said, has MAC an offer to
Ministers of an Irish Regiment, provided that his
son shall have the principal command.—lf Mr.
SHERIDAN has the power of raising -such a Regi.
ment, we rely too much on his patriotism, in every
hour of trial, to believe that he would qualify his
offer with any such condition. At the same time we
arc ready to hear testimony in fiivOilrof.llls son, and
doubt not if he were anxious fur such a command,
that a preference would be given to his preten:
Skins.

The I.lOn. Cu!. STEWART, who is just returned
to Parliament for the Burgh of \Vigtoun, is at
Cheltenham for the benefit of the waters. His
health has never been perfect, since he was wounded
at Ferrol.

A Matrimonial Union is spoken of between Lord
G. L. GOWER and Lady S. FAN The parties are
at Brighton.
The trial of Captain BAR LOW, Member for
Coventry, commenced on Saturday last at Plymouth,
and is expeded to occupy the present week.—This
Officer, we understand, solicited this investigation
of his condud.

Yesterday several of His Majesty's Messengers
and Officers of the Police were in search of some
persons in Town, whom government is apprized of
having escaped from Ireland, after taking an aelive
part in the Rebellion. lt is not true, as stated in
several Papers yesterday, and copied by them from
a Bristol Paper, that Mr. HUNTER, Stn. lately pass.
ed through that city with a person in custody.
A letter from Rostock, of the 26th uh. says, an
English Cutter anchored lately near the R►tssian
Fleet in our neighbourhood, and the English Cap.
lain paid a visit to the Russian Admiral, who invit-
ed him to dinner. After the hralths of the Em-
.l, ROI( of RUSSIA, of the 1(111c: ofGaRAT BRITAIN.
and of all other lawful Sovereigns had been drank,
the Russian Admiral gave the following toast—
, 14 The political and com►nercial connexions of Ros„
sia and England, and destruEiton to all Plotters of
Aevowcions, chile& Corrigmcial or

NAVAL NEWS.

Frcm the LONDON GAZETTE; :lug. 9, 1803.

Admiralty Offce, August 9, 1803.

Copy of a Letter from Captain Samuel Sutton, Com-
mander of His Majesty's Ship Viaory, to Sir
.'van Nepeast, Bart. dated of Gibraltar, 12th
June, 1803.
SIR,
_ _ _

I am to request you will lay before my Lords
Commissioners of the Admiralty, the inclosed Copy
of a Letter I have this day written to Vice-Ad-
miral Lord Nelson, giving an account of the re-
capture of His Majesty's late Ship Ambuscade, by
the Ship under my Command.
I have the Honour to be, &c.
SAM. SUTTON.

poor), of GilraMgr, June 12, 1803.

MY LOR D,

I beg to acquisint your Lordship, that, on Satur-
day the 18th ultimo, in latitude 4s deg. 40 min.
longitude 6 deg. to min. West, I captured the
French National Frigate L'Embuscatle (late His
Majesty's Ship Ambuscade, of thirty-two guns),
commanded by Monsieur Fradin, Captain de Vais-
man, and manned with one hundred and eighty.
seven men.

The Ambuscade was from Cape Franc' is bound
to Roclifort ; out thirty days.
I have the Honour to be, &c.
(Signed) SAM. SUTTON.
Picr.Admiral Lord Viscouvt firlson, K. B.

Duke of Braiiii.

Adm;rally-Office, August 9, 1803.

Copy of a Leith. from Mr. Daniel de Puiron, Com.
mander of the Private Ship of War Alarm,. to
Sir Evan Nepean, Bart. dated Guernsey, 23d
July, 1803.
SIR,

I beg leave to acquaint you, for their Lordships'
information, that on the 28th Olt. in lat. 42 deg.
45 min. North, and lung. t t deg. 7 min. West,
I fell in with, and, after a chace of 14. hours, cap-
tured the National Schooner, La Legere, corn.
mantled by Mons. Coll inct, Lieutenant Do Vaisseau,
and mounting two brass tour.l►ounders, and 14 brass
Swivels, with 36 men. She was bound from Ruch.
fort to Senegal.

1 have the Hminur to he, &c.
DANIEL. DE PU'IRON.

DEAL, AUG. 9,—A very heavy cannonading
was distinEtly heard here the greatest part of last
night, which we. have since learnt was an Attack
nn the Enemy's Gun.hoats between Calais and
Boulogne, by some of His Majesty's Cruizers from
the Downs Station : the for Mer, it is said, were
either destroyed or driven on shore.
Sailed His Majesty's Sloop Ranger, to the North.
ward, bit/nom/Me Frigate, and Perseus Bomb, on a
Cruize olr Calais ; His Majesty's Ship Colossus, for
Plymouth ; Supply Navy Transport, for Chatham ;
and the Peter& Sloop of War, with a Fleet of Mer-
chant Vessels under convoy for P,Attmouth.

PLYMOUTH, AUGUST B.—Arrived the French
Brig La Union, laden with sugar and coffee, from
St. Domingo bound to Buurdeaux, captured by La
Pique Frigate.

SAiled L' Aisle Frigate on a CrUize.
Arrived the Pbernix Frigate, from Portsmouth ;
Nile, London, Grant, Princess Rsyal, Ccdwort, and
Sibble Transports, from Portsmouth, to
take on board the gth Regiment of Foot for Cork.

YARMOUTH/ AUG. 9.—Arrived in the Roads
the Auckland Packet, Capt. BRIDGE, from Got.
tenhurgh, having landed her Mails last night at
Horsea. It is reported by her, that on the 29th
July near 700 Sail of Merchantmen sailed from the
Baltic for England.

Arrived the Earl of Leicester, NI citots, and
1-. IA t LL, from London.

Sailed the Harmony, DINGLE, for Liverpool ;
anti Herring, WARREN, for Leith; De Rote, DI y-
RIcK, a detained ship, for London; Wervaeren,
MY ER, and Anna NEWhIAN, both for Amsterdam;
and Anua Dorothea, Solt eNsE N, for Reinsbargh.

(CIRCULAR).
SIR, AintioaltptYflet, August 6, 8
My Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty being desirous
of obtaining
.the best possible intormation respecting the
Coasts of this Kingdom, I have it in command from their
Lordships to signify their direction to you, to proceed along
that part of the Coast within the limits of the District under
your Command, and, having made a careful examination
thereof, to lose no time in transmitting to me, for their Lord-
ships' information, a particidar and circumstantial Account
of such Situations as may appear to you to be most exposed
to the Landing of an Enemy—the difficulty or easiness of ac-
cess thereto —with your remarks upon the winds which may
occasion more or Iris Sort upon that part of
„the Coast—and
also with -what winds, and in what place or places, a land-
ing may be cfreeted by boats, with the tide must suitable fur
that purpose.
You are, at the same time, to point out such parts of the
Coast within your District as may he rendered by Nature (lit-
ficult of approach ; and to make-Such other observations re-
lative to the Creeks and Rivers, within the said limits, as
may be necessary for their Lordships' information.
1 am, Sir, your very humble Servant, &c.
capai„ A. a Commanding the Fenci6le
&c. &c,

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The Duke of DEvoNstima was taken ill on Sa.
nudity, on the road to Derby, to attend the County
Meeting, which was called for Monday last. It
was on the other side of Si. Alban's that his Grace
was seized, and he went to Woburn, where he slept
that night, and next day returned to town. His
Grace is confined to his room, but is not considered
as in any kind of danger.

The Tourterdk, with the Peggy Transport, are
arrived at Corte with the 634 Regiment, in good
health, from Malta and Gibraltar. On her mug;
home she recaptured the S.ybellet