The Sun.
London, England, 1810-10-29 00:00:00

LEITH.

The Cedvpso sloop of war, with a la.rge fleet for
t he.Balttd. sailed from the Humber on Wednesday;
and the Charles armed ship tollo%ed on Thursday,
with,the.reonainder of thatrAe Colletled during the
late long prevalence of contrary winds.
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Naval ExpLorr.—We have much peasitre in
publishing the following official acc(iunt Of a gallant
naval expio.t,- be our countryman, Lieutenant James
Robinson, of his Maje-ty's sloop of war Prometheus,
second son of George Robinson, Esq. of Clcrtniston,

His Majesty's sloop Prometheus, Aug. 30, ISt°

On the 20 August, •t 8 t 0, lying at anchor in Pillau
Roads, I i A-. M. 'observed .a schooner about five
miles from the. town; . sent- a six-oared- cutter„ in
winch wai, Lieutenant Robinson, Mr. John Winnard,
cljrk, Mr. 'F. L. Roberts, mioshipman, nine sea-
tutm, armed with lour muskets one of Which was
useless, and six cutlasses, to examine her, supposing •
her to be a •,‘erchant vessel drawing near, they
'covered her to be armed and lull of men. Lieute-
nant Robinson determined to attack her, pulled close
under her bows, when they hailed them in English,
" What boat's that ?" Lieut. Robinson answered,
",An EnOish man of war's boat," The .elemy
immediately hoisted Ilitch colours, and commenced
a smart fire on the boat. ‘. Lieutenant, Robinson- and
Mr. Winnard finding them so much superior (being
Gen within hall-pistol'Sbot, that attempiing to board
woulti be imprudent, returned the tire as)3risk,y as
their small proportion of arms would allow. The
ship; observing the action, weighed, and stood to-
warus them, which the privateer perceiving, turned
her head to the snore. The cutter being so poorly
armed, and having expended all their ammunition;
•-ould 'tot prevent ,her troth gaining it before the
PPoti,eqieus uut wi h n go::-Stiot ; haVingretorned to
snip. got a supply. of arms and arnmutittion;
With the assistance at ain;ther boat, they -destroyt.cl
iter. The crew escaped up the country, under the
proteaion of the Polish soldiers-, a paarot whom
came down, and tired on the boats without doing

We have learnt. rou a Privisian pilot, who-Was
pre,ent•when they:landed; their loss wit two 'killed
and ihiec wounded.

The chata-e't.:- of British seamen needs no corn- ,
inept; it possible, thu intrepld coodull:t of MT.
nard, Mr. 1106,-rts, and their little crew, enhanced
i we had tine than Wounded, whose place Mr.
Winnard prom oly supplied.
The very g 4; 'beipiviOur, of Lieutenant Robin-
son, on this otcasion, :,as' procured him the .thanks
of Admiral Saumca, z, and the tnerchants'of
entortain a grateful s use or the service dot -a thc.:m
destroying the.pri'vateer, which had been the Terror
of that Oast.
I can,‘ot torbear t..) mention the remarkable inter-
position of Providence in oiir•taVonr,'hating but one.
man wounded, although a 6,•pound shot wept aim!'
:the boat, and it great, number of. intr.4:et shot s' rtiOk
the boat and sia of which out Lieutenant Ro-
bins-11'A liftt n'enly in two. She proves to be La
Messalina French schooner privateE•e, 01 6 guns and'
42 men Captain:;:ricon (firs!), and Captain Kersch-
(second).

WAIS (tiN, THE MEUSE), SEPT. 2.2.7--On the
Igth of t hi, month, net +.‘ een the hours: otfive and,
sot in the evening, a luminous meteor appeared to:
Inc ou h, and. about L‘t., distance Of a quarter of a
league front the small coinanune of Brezeau ; per-
sons who attentively examined it assert that it vas
nearly a.qoartcr of an hour in collecting floating
over the place where it was first seen, and tlt hat
when all pmts. had united, it appea;g4,all 01 once
as 4 very considerable globe of fire, taking a norther-
;y direction ; tt
,pread terror aniongst the inhabi-
tants of the %Illage,.wht: believed their houses would
be burnt, and they themselves perish.. This globe
was accompanied by a frightful wbica was
heard at the distance of more than a league and . a
half; and sometimes resembled the rolling, of a
rapid chariot ; at others, the noise of rain violently
dri,en by the wind. It was followed by, a very
thick fog, and carried up from the ground every
thing it met in its passage. In :,:rosbrng a river it
absorbed water, which. soon afterwards fell in rain. •
It wandeied for some time near the village.
o;rut thing,certain is, that the roof of a house ~vas
thrown down, which is the only trace it has left.,
It was accompanie-a and followed by an abundant
. rain, much lightning, and loud chills of thunder,,
Continuing in the same direction, it suddenly turn-
ed_ into a column of tire, which, with the tog, rose
cowards the heavens. • This made many person's be-
lieve tiefig was smoke.- It remained about a 'liar-
ter of an hour in this. State, aqumter of a league 'to
the north of the village, and at a short 'distance friom
the forest of Beaulieu. This column row stink- a
little, and at last it suddenly disappeared, leaving, a
thick fog, which had no smell., This pbenoinenon
lasted three-quarters of an hour, and travelled over
the space of half a league.
We are happy to state that Miss the young
lady who so fortunately .escaped a watery grave a
few dayi since, is now perfectly recovered from the,
consequences of her immersion, and has in a weal
degree over Borne those feelings of anguish wilch led
-her to atteo)ot an amt .so incompatible with every
krt.) titnent of Christianity. Her tempor.iry insanity,
we underAand, arose from the too suddeo infwiDa-
lion of the death of a Gentleman to whom she wAs
bei rot bed, and who' was killed.in the late aaiou in
Portugal.
Saturday afternoon, about 4 o'clock,. as a Gentle-
man (a, Foreigner) was gOing along Ludgate-hill, lie
was hustled near the Belle Savage inn, by three,rob-
hers, who forcibfy took from him his pocket-book,
containing 4 bank-notes of 101, each, and 4 of 51.
each. •

Saturday nearly 300 Portuguese sailors assembled
in Cable-street, St. George's in the East, to give.
.battle to a greatly inferior number ot Chinese; when
several of the latter were wounded, and taken to
the hospitkil. - After creating much alarm and cone
fusion iu the,. neighbourhood, about 20,ringleaders,
of the Portuguese were apprehended by. the White-
chapel Officers,- and are retained in eus.ody until
(heir .woanded orpouents are -pronounced out of
tlanger..,