The Sun.
London, England, 1811-12-13 00:00:00

NAVAL NEWS.

PimytstouTir, DEC. the (Iteeit wean of
War, to join ilia squadron off &est ; the Rkin fri-
gate, Capt. LCOLM, on acruize in the Channel;

the Bloodhound gun-brig, on a cruize to the West-
ward ; and the 8 trombolo bomb, tor Cadiz and Gib-
ralinr, with a small convoy consisting of transport
forCacifz; and tl►e Danishbrig Treacle Bkodres' , BRAG,
for Naples; also sailed the Pensumento La Guira,
MANUEL BERNARDO PEREIRA, Maser, for Perham-
buco,, in the Brazils.

The Royal Sovereign man of war, which arrived
here a few days since from the squadron off Toulon;
went up Hamoaze this thy.

Gibraliar man of war, lying in Cawsand
Bay it is expeaed, will go up the harbour in order
to be docked; having received damage by striking
on a rock a few days since on the Coast of Fiance.

DEAL, Dec.led his Majesty's ships
Valiant, Poisliers, and Edintriiik, on a cruize off

le 'fowl.

Came down from the River his Majesty's ship
Tarrior, and remains.

Arrived several transports under c •nvoy a his
Majesty's ship Daring, from Harwich. -

PORTSMOUTH, DEC. le.--Arrived thF Speculator
ugger with a convoy of outward bound ships from

he Downs ; his Majesty's ship Comet from .New-
'oundlaud, last from Plymouth. •

GRAVESEND, DEC. 12.—Sailed the Thomas,
lILTLas; Royal Charlotte, PENCH and Neptune,
DONALDSON, for India ; Orb, H►LL, for Gibraltar ;
Harmony, WootwALL, for Demerara; and Adven-
ture,for 1,7• 3
WALKER,Iav .

The Irlam, KEVSER, from Barbadoes, is off the
port; sailed the 6th ult. By a vessel which arrived

there that day from Guadeloupe, the following re-
port was brought :—That Captain MARA, cotn-
minding the French brig L'inipeyaiiie, of four-
teen twetitay-four pound, carronades, and sixty-
seven men, from Nantes, had landed some arms
and ammunition at St. Bartholomew's, and sent a
a Proclamation to Guadeloupe; it was said, he pro-
posed cruizing off Porto Rico; he sheWs Portuguese
colours, ha Pot tuguese Papers, and had .decoyed
two vessels. MARA, is a Member of the I.egion
of Honour, and 'a partizan of the. Minister of
Marine, and his Mission to the West Indies, is
supposed to be of more moment than merely csp-
tilling British vessels. L'lmperatrie is a small or.
vette brig, 'abd has a bust of Maria Louisa
under her bowsprit.

SHEERNESS, Dec, t t.—Just after', twelve o't;lock
last night. the alarm was.given of a fire having broke
out in the Dock-yard, and immediately the crews of
the . various vessels In the harbour • repaired to
the spot, when was. found to proceed frein, a
mooring lump, lying in Powder Monkey Bay, hav4
ings by some means taken .fire. Owing to the
prompt assistance afforded, more .pArtlenlarly' from
the Officers- and men of, the Raisaiiarle, it waS
speedily got tinder wtthwirdbing-mutrinjilrlr. The
exertion and activity di•pla.red on this occasion by
Lieutenant RIVERS (first of that ship), we more
.
especially noticed, froth the circumstance of his
having„.lost: a kg, ye underitand; in the glorioui
a&ion of Trafalgar.-41thr. day, James Myatt
Henryand .Monttgue „ received their- punishment
, through the fleet lying at
to
pilLsant to
their sentence, for having (riitto stir up a mutiny
on board the Fawn '6199 of , war, commanded by
the Iion.GgQ,UGB ALFRED Cao'Frorli .
By pftyate letters received froM Charlestown we
have an account o f his .'Majesty's sloop. if:nucleus
having detained a French brig, and finally condemn-
ed her as a legal 'prize on board ,ber..Were-
patcbei ,from the ,French Consul at Charlestown,
'addressed to the -Minister of Foreign --Affairs at
Paris; Most important 'Circumstances have trans-
pired .by the interception of those dispatches, and
a British naval force had been dispatched to pro-
tett British property, sitklated in that quarter of the
the more minute' particulars of which, we
apprehend, will shortly be made'public.

Letters .received in town yesterday from Fort
George, state, that most 'tremendous gales of wind
have recently beers experienced in North Sea's: A
frigate had come in, which represented the sea to
be, covered almost every where with wrecks cat shipa,
some turned with their keels upWards. One ship of
about 700 tons, was found a wrack, And the Cap-
tain and two other persons drowned in the cabin.
in,
the pocket of the former were found thirty
gumeas.

'On Sunday night fait, as the family of Mr. B—,
a Gentleman of independent property, in Knights
bridge-place, ere retiring to !eit,•t her-were aiarth.:
ed by tht., report of , a pistol, which proceeded fronf
the bed-roomof Mn. B. On knocking, no answer
was returned, when the
on ,door, was opened, and the
tinfortunatt, man lyia,g. the foot of the :bed,
covered with blood: Mr. Yensott,- a burgeon, was
'Sent for, and examining for the wouhd, it turned
out that spilt& ball had.perforated the left cheek;
•and had talcen
.a slanting dire6tion.and cariied-away
the 'jaw, without tiarnhging the jugulac vein. It is
eonjeOured, .that sonw,ttelvere
.family afflitlion had
so depressed the mind of Mr. B. its to cause the rash
Strong hlope4 ate entertained that the wound
will not PrOve- fatal. ..Mt. B. is Go yearti'ai age, and
has'nine children.