The Sun.
London, England, 1810-04-17 00:00:00

NAVAL NEWS:

PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 16.--His MajestOr _ship
Owen Glendower takes convoy to Nova Scotia; New
Brutis‘vick, and Quebec.
His Majesty's ship Euryalus gives convoy instruc-
tions to the ships bound toPortog9l, Spain, and the
Mediterranean.

His Majesty's ship Diana has captured and sent
this port the French schooner La Clarisse in ballast.
Sailed his Majesty's ship Scylla, with a,convoy
for Newfoundland;which are as under-mentioned
The Ann, A.PPLEToN ; Prince of Wales, MATTIiEWs;
SuCceSS, TAYLOR ; Collingwood,. WESTER ; Osprey,

WHITE ;. Hart, STUBBS ; Lord Dupplin,--; Bar-
bara, OSBOURNE ; and Falcon, ; also the
Linshill, HOGG, for Quebec.
Arrived the Three Brothers, GRIFFITHS, from
Exeter ; and the Wonder, SHAW-, from London.
Sailed hislMajesty's ship Prospero with Dispatches
fur America ; also his Majesty's ship Savage with a
convoy for Plymouth.

His Majesty's shit) Grampus takes convoy to the
East-Indies.

Passed by this morning a fleet to the Eastward,
but it is not ascertained from whence they came.

PLYMOUTH, Anti L 1 5.---Arrived the Onslow
homeward-bound West Indianan, belonging to Lon-
don ; was captured by. a French corvette, who took
out the master, mate, and part of the crew, and was
re-captuted' and sent iri here by his Majesty's , ship

Sailed his Majesty's. ship Parcissus for Ports-

mduth

FALMOUTH, APRIL 14,—This morning arrived
the. PrinCess Augusta packet, Capt. Fuazi, with
Mails from the Mediterranean ; left Gibraltar on the
sgth ult.; Sailed fromthence in compary with his
Majestffis ship Nereus, Manilla,. Tuscan, and Tor-
toise stw,:-ship. On the 25th ult. arrived his Ma-

jesty's ship Ville de Paris at Gibraltar fro►n Mi-
nOrca. (bound . to England), having on board the re-
mains of the late and much-lamented Admiral Lord
COLLINGWOOD, who died two days after she left
Minorca. On the 27th ult. arrived from Ceuta his
Majesty's ship IV:ereus, of 32 guns, bound to Gib-
raltar, bringing the information.of that gakrison being
in .possession of the British: The Diana and

Snake packeis, .with Mails from England, and
the Pomona frigate, arrived at. IVlalta on the 21st
February : the Diana sailed on the following
day, 23d, and the Snake, on the 24th, for Messina;
the Augusta left Malta on the t Ith March, at Which
time hi; Majesty's ships Trident, Terrible, Belle
Poule,,,Anzphion„ Suci•esi,' Leghorn, and Paulinn,
.on the. 28th February, in .lat. 38. 15. long. 11. 8-.;
spoke the American. brig Aurora from Leghorn for
cagliari, all well; and on the Ist of April, in lat. 37:
2—long. IQ. 4. spoke the ketch Fortune, of Phila-
delphia, both masts gone, and abandoned. by the

crew.

Also arrived this day the brig punted of Mex.
borough, anli the Forest, HOOKER, from Swansea ;
the Rashletgh, MELuisa, from Newport ; and J4ne,
STEPHENS, from Plymouth.

Sailed his Majesty's brig Redpole, i guns, for

Portsmouth.

ISLANDS OF SCILLY, APRIL t o.—Arrived the
schooner Christian, HENRY COOK, Master ; the Ve-
nus, JAMES COTTON`; the sloop Valiarit, OWEN,
and Venus, THOMAS MARTIN, with sundries, for
London; also the brig Fanny, of Tenby, LEWIS,
BONE, blaster, for New Shoreham.
• Sailed the schooner Elizabeth Cornelia for Lisbon.

DEAL, APRIL 16.—Came down from the Itivq
' several ships outward-bound, and with those That
were here, sailed under convoy of the Skylark sloop
Of war for Portsmouth,

According to accounts received ye§terday from
Bayonne, 80,000 regular troops, and 32 squadrons
of gendarmerie, had passed through that place for
Spain. Let ters_were from Cofunna,
--which still speak of vigorous 'preparatio'ns making
there, and throughout the ,whole of Gallicia, to
resist the -French. It is stated that 20,000 muskets
were daily expected from England, to arm the peo-
ple of Comma. •
A letter from Lisbon, dated the 31 st ulf. represent's
that-city. as being in a state of tranquillity, and trade
rather brisk,' The following' ships were lying in The
Tagus at • the above date :—.Barjieur., (Hon. Admiral
G: BERKELEY), Cmsar, -Kent, and impeirsertx;
together with three sloops of war, and a number of
small craft, Admiral BERKELEY ,was on the point
of shifting his flag to the Ccesar, and the Bazficur
was coming home. to undergo some repairs. A large
.fleet of merchantmen were lying in the-Tagus, some
'discharging and others takt'ng ins cargoci. A nutn-
, •ber of Frogh.,prisoners had. arrived at Lisbon.: It
the prevalent. opinion-of the Officers in the British
army, th 4 40,00 Q Britis.h troops are equal to the
defence of Portugal, in consequence of the; feW
passes,' and their great natural strength.
Yesterday his Excellency the Persian Arnbassi.
dor, accompanied by Sir G. OUSBLXY, visited Chel-
C sea ollege.