The Sun. — 1805-12-16 (London, England)

SIDN -SMIII-I "k; in Consequence, ap4. pointed to the command: The Pompee, and several gun-brigs, &c. are ready, at Plymouth to attend hint. The Contributions to the Patriotic FUnd at Lt.oyn's amounted, • on Saturday, to 23,0001. and the Collections at the Churches and ChapelS to ';i6,9001. A donation of 1601. was on Friday' paid at LLOYD'S for the Patriotic Fund, without any other notice than the initials 11. N, From the Cll- of this being the exam amount of the., half-pay of an Admiral and"Commander-in-Chief for a year, it. is supposed to have been given by a person- ', of that deicriptiori.  A general subscription is entered into at Leeds, for the relief of the widows and orphans of those brave men,who fell in the recent glorious engagethents. There is no truth in the report that the Lord Eldon East Indianan is likely to be lost near the Nore. She indeed struck on the sand, but sustained no material injury. . ThL:Prineess Charlotte Frigate, with her prize, the Cyane, arrived at Grenada on the 24th 06tober. The French Privateer Superb, which, in Oaober,engaged the Peterell off Charleston, bad, in November, resumed her station on that Coast, and had de-* tabled the Mai-Ma and some other Vessels..  The armed Ship -Loisis, under American colours, and commanded by a Scotchman named SUITH, arrived at Calentta on the of June whoa it appearing, from the confession of the Crew, that she had' been fitted (Alt 'for the pnrpose of piracy, of which, in numerous instances, she had been guilty,* the Master was arrested abed condu6ted to gaol, where he itninediately committed suicide, by means. ofopium. _ ,  . . `file Spanish Privateers in the West. Indies capture all Vesels bound to or frorii tt"firitish fort, and n'u'=rots cendehifiations of such prizes have taken. place both at Cuba and Porto Rico., A small S1)11111511 Slic)oner,.natved I,es 'Animas, with 16 men, in chasing a Vessel off Mor:lnt KUs, Jamaica, got a-ground, when a arty of ;Negroes,. w-ith equat gallatitt'y and attachment, 'went against them, and .carried then  . ..., . i• ••••• . • • . ~ The . AtnetiCati Frigzifr.o.in ,the iN,l(.l,ltqminein have bec.il ortlefed home, in. cOmiocluti'fibe 'of tbc.!ir peA6e.' ' with .the -Barbary, Poi,v-ers -; - the ConAlelliition„ Co 72. gress, Adams; and Essi.,,t,' have' airt,rady,.atlii,ed. Tho I.eczndir,: illugicien de,- kliVtt -fieiikkiil, were well' in' the.Gelf'gf Flptida'qP tEe vh.nit. ... . . ... Admiral E.TiA.RVOY, late of .the Tenzeritire, iiiit is .said,. to have the red- rit)liorkviicant by the de4tli of Lord,&iiLuix, ..  Jamaica Papers to-the loth October inelpsiveltave reached town. Ono 'of thein gates that orders had been received by Admiral DACItES to send home all the line of battle- ships and heavy frigates on that station.  Twelve large French and Spanish •Privateers, sailed from Barracoa the middle of SeptembeT, and two others, were preparing to follciw—thei•e were then lying there ten or twelve prizes, mostly Americans, and some of them valuable. This nest of pirates is protected only by a small- battery 'of six guns : the-channel is from five to six'fathoms deep, with .:,•ood anchorage in four fathoms. , The I.l4rcults and. Peteran, have made /several prizes in tlteulph of Venezula, and- sent them to Jamaica under the charge of the Gracieule : when this lat4-r leffthe• fiercute, she was in search of a Oct Fif,Liti Semis Frigate, which was reported to be in her neighbourhood. •  'The notorious Pirate, 'tu c coo GOR 00, viholias long . infested the West and North-West Coasts of India, has been taketfinto tharench service, and appointed to the command of the Gun-boats which have been built at the Mauritius for the defence' of those Islands.. Tie is -a min of 'great daring; and intimately acquaintqcl with all the Creeks and "ShalloWs in those .leas.  The last otlibialAOcoutits 'from Ceylon are dated -the'lrriddle of ;May, at which' period tranquillity was .so perfeetli restored in the neighbourhood of COlunibe,' that the Trjops had been recalled, and lodged in',their former quarjers. The jungle tiVer had so wholly subsided, that the Lazarettos, which had been opened for the reception of persons leliCted with ikat,disord4r, were abolished; .. In the new-establishment. at Prince of, Wales's Island, the most decided means arc adopted to prevent the cluvernment frOm seeking or accepting territorial acquisitioni. Amongst. the recent ord4s sent out was one, spetileally to that effer6l. .By the same conveyance, several valnahie presents were forwarded to ,the native. Chiefs., and the stipulated annual subsidy of 10,000 dollars to the King of QuEnA, . Saturday a considerable -number of Letters were received from New-York-, via Liverpool; The accounts front Boston by this cOnveyance tiweek ater than .those • previously obtained. Oii the tith Nev. the' Gioucejtter arrived there froth the hie of. France, 'which She lett the 3ist July, and the hie, of Bourbon the loth of August. AB' Vessels whiCh had touched at a British'llort were *prohibited entering those 'lslands, unless under "ctreurnstanees of parricul:-Ir distress. The itonapave Pt'iiater is stated to lave captured and sent. for' the Isle .of Bourbon' tree valuable English' Vemola : one of theth t in China bon nd to •London laden With tea; Bco. bad ayrik,ed—but her np:neis not tile mimed;  Pratt ski LONDON GAZETTE, Do. $4, t US.  Admiralty-Office, Dec. 14, 1805.  Copy of a Letter from the Honourable William Corn4dmiral of the Red, &c. to Trillion: Min- des, Esq. dated Ville de Paris, Torbay, the oth of December, 1805. . SIR, I have the honour to enclose, for the information'' of the Lords•Commissloners of the Admiralty, a .Letter which I. have now received from Captain .Fleming,•of His Majesty's Ship Egyptienne, making known to me his having captured, in that Ship, the Spanish Letter of Marque La Paulina. • I have the Honour to be, &c. -. W. CORNWALLIS:. His Majesty's Ship L'Egyptienne, at Se*  - . SIR, the-20th.qf November, 1805. naVethe hotioui' to acquaint you, that His Ma;.. jcsty's 'Ship under my command has this day captured, after a ,obace of nine bouts, the. Spanish Letter of Marque La Paulina, of twelve guns, eight • ofN which hidLd sailed,shethrewfroom Passage,yerboard in sir in the chase. Vessel id had stood to the NOrthward to avoid the British Cruizers off that Coast. I believe she Was bound to the West Indies, where she could not have failed to have done great damage to our' trade, as she sails remarkably fist. •  I have 'the Honour to be, &T. C. ak.,