The Sun.
London, England, 1810-04-20 00:00:00

NAVAL NEWS:

, PORTSMOUTH,-APRIL i9.--Came in this day his
Majesty's ship Jason from the Mediterranean ; and
his Majesty's ship Goshawk, from LisbOn.
Sailed, his Majesty's • ship Nereus, of 32 guns,
with the remains of Admiral Cor,LlNowoon, for the
Downs ; alSo his Majesty's ship Escort, with a con-
voy for .Guernsey. •
Arrived the Christian, Coox, from Neath ; Hen-
` rietta, JONES ; _Hero, SMITH ; and Neath Castle;
SMITH. from London.

Went out of harbour the Mary, Aluxnoi.v ; and
Wargrave, BENSON ; the forturer for Quebec, and
the latter for Lisbon.

PLYMOUTH-, APRIL 18:--.-.The. Menelaus frigate
was launched from his Majesty's Dock-yard at this
Port last evening.
Sailed the Peacock and Encounter .gun-brigs to
the Westward. •

The Orestes brig takes convoy td the Eastward. -
Arrived the French sloop St..Piere, from Mintz,
laden with tar, pitch, rosin, itc. bound to Nantz,
captured by the l'iercer gun-brig; also arrived the
Sir Sydney Smith, BRANFORD, master; from Rio de
Janeiro, laden with sugar, coffee, cotton wool,- bark,
bot:And to London, put in here by contrary winds;
the Merchant Taylor, JOHN, from Newport.; Ceres,
BLACKBURN, from Portsmouth ; the Blessing,
STEWARD, from Neath ; and a French brig. from
Passage, captured by it .e Medusa frigate.

FALMOUTII,• APRIL I .-Arrived this day the
Carteret Nlcket, Capt. DAVY, in ten weeks,. from
Rio de Janeiro—she brings no news ; his Majesty's
ship Elizabeth sailed with convoy ior England, but
was to touch at Bahia for some merchant vessels
also the Walsinghain packet, ROBARTS, in. 1 Q days,
with Mails, from Lisbon.:. left lying in the Tagus
the Prifice of Ikales packet, which was •to sail the
Loth inst. No further movements have been made
by either the British or French armies ;- the former
were in good health : it is said that Lord WELLING-
TON intends to advance. "

Arrived yesterday the'brig Louisa, SIMEON, from
Guernsey, for Lisbon; the ship Reliance from the
Bay of Honduras ; and this evening the Brig Craw-
ford, LEGGEN, from St. Übe's, with salt; for Got-
tenburgh; 18 days passage.
His Majesty's ship Horatio, with twelve sail of
EastlndiaMen, outward-boUnd, appeared off this
day should the wind continue to blow, as' strong'
and unfavourable as to day, it is expected they will
put in here to-morrow.

'SHEERNESS, APRIL 18.— His Majesty's brig..dt-
tack has made the signal for convoy to the paltic.
APRIL 19—His 'Majesty's ship Belvidera Cipt.
BRYON, was paid County and two months- advai:ce.

. .
DEAL, APRIL ig.—Sailed the Itedpole sloop of
war for Sheerness. '

In the last Dutch Papers, a very important De-
cree of the Danish Governmept is noticed,•by which
it appears, ant" the Court 9t. ,CoptntOgen has re-
solved to carry into prance the'• principle,. that
‘‘ free bottoms make free it is stated, on
the authority_ of a letter from Copenhagen, that
the Danish Chancery has issued an Order .relative
t 6 Captures- and PriZts, and which, among various
new regulations, couiains the folloA ing
" Letters of marque shall henceforth be given
only to Danish citizens, and •for- vessels carrying
guns, and having crews suitobly armed.—Nune but
experienced seamen to have the command of pri-
vateers.--Securities to be given by the Captains for
the compensation•of damage done by the improper
exercise of their authority.—No ship to be taken
within the jurisdiction of friendly or neutral States,
.which jurisdiction is, according to the common ac-
ceptation, understood to extend one nautical mile
from the Nfld.—With respect to the Sound, it is
,particularly direCted that captures shall- not be made
under. the_ Swedish batteries, nor Within gun-shot of
the Swedish coast.—Whereas. free ships make free
goods, no vessel belonging to a neutral or- friendly
Power can be detained, to whomsoever the carg6-
may belong, provided the ship's papers are found
to be good, and the vessel is not laden with contra-
band of war for England, or' is not In other respects
of. suspicious character. On the contrary, if the
ship be not free, it follows as a consequence that the
cargo is not free.—Engli.h ships, smuggierS, ships
having false papers, carrying goods contraband of
war, or sailing under the protection of English con-
voys in the North Sea and the Baltic, are good'
prizes."

A Court Martial was held at PlymoUth, on the
•
17th instary, on Lieut. DANIEL ROBE.IITS, of the
Phoenix frigate, at his own request, in consequence
of some insinuations thrown out by. Lieut MURRAY,
of the Marines, belonging to that s!:ip, reflecting
on his condud -at the capture of a French privateer,
for which he had received Captain .MUDGE'S appro-
bation in his public letter to the Admiralty. The
sentence of the• Court was as follows : •

" The Court 'is of opinion, that the coridual of
Lieut. DANIEL ROBERTS, in the attack 'df the French
privateer„on the 29th J.muaryilast, was highly me-
ritorious and creditable to himself ; and...the Court
cloth in consequence adjudge the said Lieut.
40)4ERTS .10 be incest fully and honourably 12cquilled;
and the Court is further of opinion, that the insinu-
ations of Lieut. WILLIAM MURRAY, of, the Royal
Marin'es, serving on board- the.P,lcenix, in his let-
ter to' his Captain, refletiing on the condtia of the
launch under the command' of Lieut., DANIEL RO-
BERTS, on the occasion- before mentioned, are to-
tally unfounded and subversive of the discipline of
the service."---.HQP-Ilear-Admiral STorFottp, Pre-
. '-‘ •