The Sun.
London, England, 1810-02-24 00:00:00

N AV A L N E W S:

PoRTSMOUTTI, FEB. 23.---Coale in his Majesty's
ships Royal Oule and Doneial.from craixo off
Cherbourgh.
Arrived the Mary, DUNN, from Sunderland ; 31.50
his Majesty's ship L'Aigie,tiorn Plymouth.
Sailed the Preveyante store Ship fur the Downs.

DOVER, FEB. 23.—A French privateer appeared
off here this morning, and made an
.attempt to cap-
ture a Dutch galliot lying in the Roads, but the guns
at Arcbcliffe Fort having opened upon her, and a
cutter appearing in sight to the westward, she was
glad to sheer off. , , • . ,

Ftl3. 2.—His Majesty's cutter En-
,
lreprenante, Lieut. WII,LIAMS, lately arrived' from
the Mediterranean, was this morning released from

quarantine.
. .
Arrived his Majesty's frigates Dryad, Capt. Galway, and
Naiad, Capt. Hill, from separate cruizes ; his Majesty's
brig Lyra, Lieutenant Bevians, with a fleet of light viclual
lers from Admiral Stoptind's sqUadren in Basque Roads ;
his Majesty's ship Christian the Seventh, Captain Sir loseph
Sydney Yorke, from Quiberon Bay ; • his Majesty's brig
Eclipse,,CaPt. Creyke, froni a cruize; the Dick and Harry,
---, the Ann, Foster ; and Golden Fleece, Rounttee,
rod) Sunderland ; the Nymph transport` Captain Tracey,
Irom Ba;qUeßoads; the French chasse marees Le Caton
and Maria 3oseph, from Bourdeaux, • liden with brandy and
wine, bnimd to Nantz, captured by his Majesty's brig Cad-
mus, Captain Wynter ; which ship has captured eight
chasse Marcel, laden with brandy, wine, &c. which are not
i'et arrived.

•
GRUNOCR, . FEB. 521. Arrived - the Atindne,
BIRD, from Martinique; sailed-thence 14th ult. in:
company with' the brig' Lady Co.fieton, for Belfast,
but she having sprung her foremast and bowsprit, to
leeward of Montserrat, in a squall,. on the ifith, was
obliged, to bear, up, for St. K.;tts or. Tortola.-,-Off
Bassetterre, Guadaloupe; was brought. to' by his Ma-
je Sty's brig of war Morne Fortunie, and received in-
formation ,that the ship St. Andrew, MI.LREA, from
Clyde, in" lat. 33. long. 19 had fallen in with a
French squadron, of four frigates and a corvette,
and was captured by the latter and.carried into BaS-
.
setterre. • The corvette was taken by the Squadron
blockading Guadalcupe, on her coming out of Bas-
setterre, laden with produce for France, and sent to
Miirtinique,..and two of the frigatesmere destroyed,in
a small harboUr to the North of Bassetierre, by boats
dispatched from the squadron ; the other two escaped.
On the 23d, saw a schooner, supposed her Co be a
Frefitif privateer; on the 25th, was boarded by
iddeats, .of his Majesty's ship SwiftLre, of 74

Tyrol.''
A letter from Botzeta, of the 30th •of January,
contains the following :particulars' respeaing the
taking of HOFER :---
. Yesterday, the itin-hateper Hoven, thsa late
leader of the insurgents in the Tyrol,' with one of
his 'associates and his Secretary, was brought in
at
here prisoner, under- an escort : of. 400 French.
troops, AcCording to the account of the soldier's
who accompanied him, he had , for six weeks ab-
sented himself from his dwalliugat St. Martin, in
the-District of Passre; and kept himself concealed
in a 'remote part of the mountains, where be had
• bUilt himself a hut. In this hut, at the aime he was
taken,' was found some hard,bread and dried flesh.,
It was very difficult to find his retreat in the moun-
tainous country, covered with 'snow, but he was
' betrayed by one of his companions. • Ho will to-day
be conducted along the road to itAry, and it, is said
• . .1..............•••••••,••••••••••••••••••••••••mmt ' , will be carried to Mantua."—(,Supplement lo.the
..
Yesterday, a Court of Common Council was. layal AllasterdaM Courant,
Feb.
. 13..) .
held. at Guildhall, which was numerously attended. FRANKFORT, JAN. 31.—0 n the 26th in the eve-
The several Comtnittees were appointed for the ning arrived here, with his unfortunate latitily, the
year ensuing, viz.-:- City and Bridgehouse Lands, ,
Gresham, ' Navigation, General ,Purposes, Port,_ - Count of GOTTORP .(GusTaarus IV of Swedeti)..—
Temple-Bar, 'Snow-Hill, and Coal and. Corn ; and He dined on the astli with the Hereditary Grand
the Commissioners of Sewers _were like Wise ap- 1 Duke of Hassa;who has alio arrived here, and v. hose
pointed. consort j
: .
Several Reports for granting leases and otherwise, jive sister of the' Countess. To-day he will
•were presented. . continue his journey to.Bruchsal. The four •Swedish
Mr. MATTHIM LUCAS, and Mr. J. HURCOMBE, I Officers who accompany him will, it is understood'
were appointed coal-meters, in trust, for four years ;
and MPi r. ca, Mr. BRITTEN, Mr. BOAR., Mr. LEIGH, return from thence tp Sweden.. . .
and Me. Deputy ALDRIDGE, corn-meters, in ttust, PARIS, FEB. 7.—They write from Mont de Mar-
for the game period. sari, that the passage-of troops continues incessant,
- Upon reports from the Coal and Corn Committee,
and with incredible-aaivity. Scarcely had the last
it WiS referred back to, them to prepare bills for ad.!
valuing the prites 01.)abour to the Deputy Corn, division of the. numerous corps of the Duke of
Meters and Fellowship Porters. ABRANTES left our walls, -when we,saw 9000 men
It %in-A referred to /the City Lands'- Committee, i
arrive,. forming the &it division of the • Imperial
to:exatuine the claim for !yaws for the-Corn Of-hese,
-
,and to report on the propriety of an application to Guard.. The second division, which will soon be
Parliament for the repeal of the At.c.l;asf.37tlt-Henry I followed by 'Op third,is already on the road from-
-VIII. for the Tythes in London and to bring in a , '
Bourdeaux, and within a feW days will be at Bayonne
Bill to provide for the better settlement of the. Par-
sona;Vicars, and. Curates, of the city, and parishes, They write from Hamburgh, under date January
sand
liberties, which escaped the .fire, A.D. 1666. i 26, as follows :---- • .
Mr. AVAITHMAN then brought forward his ma- • . . ,
" The Treaty of Peace-bet Ween France and Swes
' aion for- a Petition to Nrliament, against granting a
den having engaged the latter Poaer to the' support.
peution to Load Wellington, for his services, which,
aficr two divisions, svas-earried by a majority
.of i of the Coastinent, we may assert with certainty.that
aaeven ; and a,Petition to the House of Commons
tie
Baltic will be entirely shut to the English navi-
agreed to accordingly ; and the Sheriffs, attended by
the Remembrncer, direkAedto'presentahe 'Same. • , , . .
, gation and trade. The Swedish and Ddnish bat-
. No-other,busineas of consequence wasaransaaed, 1
.teries, aCting it the same time, will render the pas-
and the: Court broke up at'Jialt past six. - 'sage Of the Sound impossible. It Will be rernetn-
- The total number of:Military to he provided for,`
•
bered that NEViON, at the time of his great under-
' ace, rding to tht estimates before the-House of Com-
taking against Copenhagen; in 1801,, tleclarei!, that
too.ns, is 371,382 men, the expense of which, and
the various eitablislantents conneeted with the army, it Sweden had aaively &fended the Strait, he would
is 15,994,43.71. !Fs. From this, however, 114 10 - not have undertaken the Expedition.
be deluded 707,8371. 6s. Bd. for the regiments
Accounts from .Frankfort,statei- that onahe Ist
*in ,the East Indies, amounting to 30,547 men,-
leaving the sum to be provided for by ,Parliament, of this mourn a Russian' courier from St.' Pews.
- 14,287, I 001. . - burgh, passed through thtt city for Paris. Accounts
. , ,

andlt. Martin S. W. with the Germ in com-
pany; (on the Berniuda Station), on the 6th inst.
passed a ship standing to the Eastward, supposed to
be the Ellen,' for Port Glasgow , . which sailed 10
hours before the Ariadne; on the 14th, off Mizen-
head, saw a lane schooner, supposed her to be a
French privaleer ; when_the Ariadne sailed, Guada-.
loupe was strictly blocltaded,• and the Expedition
pgainst it would sail from: Martinique, a few days
after the .driadne. the .eiriadne. has brought dis.-
patches for Government. '

DEAL, FEB. 23.—Arriyed the Quebec frigate from
Portsmouth,
Sailed, the .Castilian sloop ,of war on a cruise.