The Sun.
London, England, 1810-05-17 00:00:00

NAVAL NEWS

-PLYMOUTH, Mir 15.--Arrive 1 his najesty's
ship Amide from off Rocitef2rt. A few dtts
a gallant attempt was made by the boats of this
ship to bring out a Small -convoy of French yes -
-sekfrom a bay near Rochefort, that was defended
by a very strong .battery ; they succeeded in taking
possession of, the, vessels, under a very heavy fire of
Musketry from the shore, but owing to the . wind
having suddenly changed, were not able to bring
them out, nor destroy them, as an incesant fire was
kept up on them from the battery, _which, we re-
gret to state, killed a Lieutenant and eight seamen ;
the crews of the other hints were then obliged to
abandon the enterprise.

Arrived his Majesty's ship Blake from the
Downs ; the Lively frigate from Portsmouth ; and
the Hannah, PYKE, from London.

PORTSMOUTH, MAY I6.—.Came in this thy his
Majesty's ship Pori Mahon from Guernsey with five
sail oftransports.

Put back, this Morning. into Stoke's Bay his. Maje-
sty's ship Linnet, which sailed
.on the 14th inst. for
the Mediterranean, together with the whole of the
outward bound that sailed under, her protection.
• Arrived his Majesty's ships Spitfire from the East-
ward, and Daphne from the Downs. .

Sailed his Majesty's ships Niote for off Havre,
and the Theban and Belloia, the former for a cruize,
and the latter for the Dowils. •

• His Maj4sty's ship Gagymede is- appointed con-
voy to the Mediterranean instead of the Linnet, and
will sail the instant the wild is flair. .

StigERNEss;MAY Is.—. Sailed his Majesty's brig
Manly -with a convoy to fiteligoland; his Majesty's
brigs Cordelic; and Appellet, and the Albion Cutter
to D: al.

111Ay W.—Arrived the Tower Tender with vo-
lunteers and impresied melt for the Fleet.

Vice-Admiral STANHOVE has hoisted his flag at
the Nore, where the Ships,' saluted him with 13 guns,
which he.returned with 1 i .

Sailed his Majesty's bomb Fury, and Censor gun-
brig with convoy to thB• Baltic; his Majesty's ship
Mosquito to Yarmouth ; and his Majesty's ship
Bodnez; to Plymouth. , -

DEAL, MAY 16.,Sailed his Majesty's ship _San
Domingo for the Nore.

Arrived the Philome4 from the We,tward, and
a West.lndiatnan, recaptured -sbine time back by
the Amelia frigate. „.
Caine down from. the River. the Cordelia and
Appelles sloop Of war, and the Spanish ship La St.
Neltune, for Malta; nann/Ore, WILLIAMSON, for
New Providence; and the Hope, Lovic, for Mont-
serrat.

,Yesterday .a Courtp or, Direolors was held at the
East India House, when the undermentioned Com-
'manders took their leave) of the Court, previotis to
departing fOr their respehive destination, viz.

,
Captain Maine, BataviA,Yor Madeira," Ceylon, and Ben-
gal.—Capt. T. Havard, Monarch ; Capt. R. Brook's, Tyne,
for Madeira and Bengal.—Cal a. G. Hemming, Earl Spencer;
Captain l'..Campbell, Lor& Keith ; Capt. T. Dumbleton,
Larkins; Captain 'R. lohnsun, Hebe —for Bengal direct.

The Court adjourned al six o'clock till Wednesday
next.

We have received a regular series of Moniteurs,
and some of the smaller ;Paris Papers to the Bth in-
stant, but they contain nel news of importance. that
has not already been antic ipated. The Muniteurof
the 7th gives a mint Ate &tail of the-operations of
the, French artny-before Cadiz, but •it only. reaches
to the 4th and sth of Mai.ch, and 'contains 'nothing
new. The intelligence of the progress of Napoleon
and,the Empress is not of later date. than the 3d at
Antwerp, where they hajl been,prescnton the pre-
ceding day at the launch of an 'BO gun ship.
The French Papers sttete, that in continuing to
dig into Pompeia, near Naples there has . been
found a large edifice, adorned with s3):u4nns, which
was formerly one of the grand public buildings of
the city.

The clearing away the. ruins of Ostia has been
interrupted for some Limy. One might expect,
however, to make great discoveries, if they were
continued. This city, "once so spacious and opu-,
lent, was almost ,entirely inundated by the sudden
rising of the Tiber, Persocis may now walk upon
the, tcps of the houses, anti find out whole streets
by following the •directiciu of the tops. Some. '
houses have been entered, ,and fourid to have been
built in the same style 'as ,Pompeia. There is but
one Temple, the Temple df Neptune, situated of
an elevaticin that has been, entirely cleared of the
ruins. The Temple of Afercury, in which he is
represented holding a purse in his hand, is only in
part cleared away. It was here that a very fine
Venus %as discovered, egifil to the Venus of the
Capitol—But it has been carried to England."
The Bath Musical Festival is 'to be supported by
the vocal exertions of Mestirs. BRA HAM and BELLA...
MY, and Mrs. DICKONS and Mrs. WINDSOR,
A shocking catastrophe occurred-at the house of
Mrs. Lomaz, in Duke. street, Oxford-street; on Mon-
day night, Miss Julia Anna Lomaz, her daughter,
having gone into, her bed4ciom let the candlefill,
which set 'fire to her dress, and by. which she weis
so much 'burnt that she died at. six o'c'lock on
Tuesday morning.
A female child, not more I han two months old,
was found in an open boat filoßting down the river
above Westminster Bridge, 45i1 Tuesday evening.—
It was decently dressycl,. and carefully wrapped in
in.:lb:lnel. A paper was, found on the-b' som of the
infant, representing it as an' unprotected orphan.