The Sun.
London, England, 1810-10-06 00:00:00

NAVAL NEWS.

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tPLYMOUTri, O'cT. Majesty's ship "715 ;135
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detained and sent in here the Prussian vessel
helmina; from Bourdeaux, with a cargo.
Sai~ecl his 'Majesty's ships A,lnatia, Haack, 81'
Orestes, to the WeA ward.
Arrrived the Leonidas, CooK, from Quebec tbr
London, pu:t in by contrary :winds ; the
and Mary, Notimas; And M'icur,y, sm.riaDo
from Wales.'

Sailed his, Majesty's ship Latona for Portsrnoe'
His .Maj,fsty's ship Poiaieri was ra(.l.iied tjQitl
quarantine this morning.

PORTSMOUTH, OCT. 5.--6ine in this us/If '
Majesty's ship Raid'', with thiee sail of tranirit'l
from the Dovims.

Arrived this evening the Triton, of London, troll
St. Domingo, for London ; she-hastad bad weatber

, pare
duringthe voyage,' and bee,) obliged-to
of her cargo Overbond in consequenc;: : she 113'
been nine weeks On her passage: •

Arrived his Alajesty's ship 4innet,from s

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, ,"is l;j
FALMOUTH, OCT. 3. Arrived tile "'

schouraer from a cruize.

Dl%At., OCT. s.—Came down from the River ana
sailed the Chillia)n Castle, NEAi.E, tor Suritiari
and the' Ganyinede, to the West Ward: Ca,iie dolt'
from the. River, and sailed under contoy of the
Retulgun-brig to Portsmouth, the Sovereign, M°:
NEUR, and Eaglu; PEARSON,' for. Lisbon and
Expedition, LUNG,

SHEER NESS,. OCT. s.—Sailed his Majesty's 51°°P
Beagle, Cap;. DoLLING,Iur the'Downs.

RELIEF OF SHIPWRECKED MARINERRS•

On Thursday se!nnight were exhibited at 17.,f,;
mouth, before Rear-Admiral Lord Gardner, for
report thereOn . (ordered by._the -Lords' C.otriti:
sioners of th.e•Admiralty), two boats, with.a prosyq
method of getting them from a beach in a gal' 'f
wind, previqus to their being sent to the Island. °,
Anliolt, with a complete set of apparatus' for
shipwrecked Mariners:. The first boat was a slir."J
one; of 15 "feet keel, 74 feet beam, and
14 cwt: it had "tWo extended billage ti6ards, c'
equal depth with .the keel;to keep it in an uprigb t
position, for the advantages of launching, beocht4,,
and to resist.upsetting, With a broad fender of CVO
surrounding the upper work; to prevent the P05.6';
bility of being stove ; it was tilled with water, "1-1,
the buoyant properties of the air '(secured in to:‘esi,
kept it so much .above the water's edge, that 111,
me' rowed it- athint with the mosrapparent
anddeclared it wasin" that stateable-to perforin a'11:
service that could be required.—The next
nan of war's jolly boat, fitted up with etnPlY oe
casks lashed within it to give buoyancy, the.bill't
boards, as before described, to keep it in an uprira
position, with a Stout projecting rope going .r°o`.`is,
its :gunwale, . serving as a fender-to prevent '0
being stove,
_The whole expence of thus fit flog Ili
4(4 not otcce;d 31. ancrit could be put. togelilel
a few minutes.
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The advantages Of this methodof giving-the
perties
.of preservation to any. boat may be Wl'l,
tiered of great importance to, a maritime and c 6.115
inertial country; as many a brave fellow who 146
oVerboard at sea, and perishes in a gale of
from the boat swamping, which prevents tie rsai
bility of going to. his ass.stance, may thus be s3veied
likewise the boats arqund the coast-may be, en" 9, to
at 'a very small. expence, to be thus converted
efficient life-boats, by which 'numerous livo
imniense "property be annually saved, Parhc-Li;
larly since the Lords' Commissioners of the Adlt,
ratty have literally signified their invention of P 1.4
vtdwg' thefull :gleans of security against distrOs ,ve
ship Wreck, at the ditfetent signal stations along"'

coasts of these kingdoms. e at
.Similarrexpe^riments with those lately come 'of
Cromer and Lowestoft then took place, by
two anchors being' laid out,' wi.h a stout rope 6urjo
prided bet Ween them, at thedi,tance of 150 Y 3
from • the. jetty • end•i•-,-7the shot'.ias.. of a ltr,lo
construction, 'adapted to. give the :greatestposs,llvbir
range, and was trtposii to be di'settg3i',l;c
accident, when. once it lnid Caught the rope',.,
rope projected
.was uf the patent Sunderland fltru•l•-0
facture, of'-strength equal to any two-inch rcpt le,
use. The foul weather flag w:ls flying at the till 3;/
'but the surf was, not sufficiently high to slit-,
the great power that can be acqdired by this sittlfo,'`
effective, and certain mean.; however, there `b
not the least doubt entertained, from the result pea
the experiment, that whenever its • use is
forth, itcouid haul any weight that a two-inch reri
can sustain nearly the, distance of 200 yaf'-',
distance sufficient for
,Any part of the coast
opinion has been most sully confirmed by the lrt
lots and Committees of the LoAces,toft and Creill
life-boats.

• Lord WELLINGTON, it is said; has transmitte%eio
Government some intercepted correspondence of t.
enemy, which is considered as extremely impolla!1co.
Among these is a dispatch trot-n.o'4; Duke of Tr''.r;cy
(Marshal MoartEa) to-the Emperor himself, gi.'l,;
details Of great discontent and jealousies Salon; t`3,
French Generals, and which threaten their. oP.'rr,
tions with disaster. It also appears from the I`tf e'er
eg_v,g
copied correspondence, that the French are dr
fully harassed by the desultory mode of wat fare litivey
adopted by-thc Spaniards and Portuguese, that t' tcl
find it necessary to fortify the villages, in orde%o,
secure a communication teetween their principal,
dies,

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