The Sun.
London, England, 1801-09-24 00:00:00

I:IfEERNESS, SEPT. 23.

SAILED His Majesty's Sloop Savage, of 18
guns, Capt. WEBLEY, for the Downs.

This day being the Anniversary of 11;3 Ma-
jesty's Accession to the Throne, a Salute of Eighteen
guns was fired from the Battery, and Ships at the
Nore ; the former at twelve, and the latter at one
o'clock.

DEAL, SEP I. 23.

SAILED the Diana Frigate, with the outward-
bound under convoy, for Portsmouth.
Admiral Lord NELSON, with his Fleet, remain.

Dispatches were yesterday morning received from
Sir JOHN BORLASE WARREN. It has since been
reported, that, from a Merchant-vessel, he had re-
cetved'information of Lord KEITH'S Fleet having
car-tured a French Convoy, bound for Egypt.
It is reported that the Lords of the Admiralty
have resolVed, that the Port Admiral's Ship at Ports_
mouth shall in future have her proper number of
guns and men, so as to he in comi lete readiness for
sea in case of necessity. The Roy:// William being
the oldest line-of-battle ship in thk Navy, and not,
fit for service, is, in consequence of this resolution,
gone into Harbour to* paid off.

A Paper received, fro ,u Halifax (under date z2d
of August), Dy 4;40: ,4raes( Packeta ha,s ;he

following Paragraph :—" The Brig George Clin-
ton, Wheeler, lately arrived at New-York, on the
r6th of July, lat. 48. 30. long. 30. spoke a French
Frigate on a crnize. The same day at four P. M.
spoke His Majesty's Frigate Concord, then in chace
of the PrenclunarV'

His Majesty's Ships Circe and La Se;nehave cap-
tured a Spanish Armed Brig from Vera Cruz for
the Havannah, laden with cables and anchors for
the Spanish Navy,
The Grand Duke arrived at Liverpool is one of
nine sail of the Jamaica Fleet that, parted from the
rest of the Fleet on the isth of August last; in the
Windward Passage, the Convoy having left the
Fleet.

. .
. Yesterday a Court of Direaors was held at the
East-India House, when the uudermentionec Ships
were taken up for the service of the present Season,
and stationed for the different parts of India and
China as follows, viz.

lOMBAY AND CHINA.
Tons. Captains. .
New Ship,* :zoo JAMES TI.vEEDAL;
Canton, - - 1204 TIIO4A S Lus Nora N•
Thames, • • -•-• 1198 ROBERT %V I I.4.lABeti•

COAST AND CHINA.
New Ship, - 1200 CHA. ELTQN PRE:COTT.
Cirencester, - . 1200 TiinmAs RoßtßTseri•
Walmer Castle, - 1200 ES.EX 1-11E.NRY

ST. HELENA AND CHINA.
Arniston, - !Zoo MPLELI. MAJORIBANI“•
New 6111 p, - 12.Q0 ANDREWI-14NNA Y.

CHINA.
New Ship, - -i! A R LES JONES.
••• - A . IiOWI.AND Cot-ToN

Ceres

- I2co GEOA.C.I. STEVENS

Brurn3vvick„ - - - 12.0 jAmF.s Lupovicx. GRANT
Glutton, - -
--
Royal 1200 -

COAST ANL) BAY.
Lady Burgess, - - 8.20 A. K. W. Swiwron.
Lady Jane Dundas, gzo Hon. HUGH LINDAy.
Marquis Wellesley, - 818 -filtuc-Mircn-t-t.t,
N. S.
Waltl-u}rnstowi - gzo Wm. AGNEW.
Bengal, - - „ 818 AnAm Cumr NE.
Lord Nelson, - - 819 Ro4. SroTTlswoqnt,
N. S.
MADRAS AND MOLUCCA.
N. S. - •

MADRAS AND CEY LON. ,
Britannia, - - 770 1' s BA /t4t OW,

pomp AY.
Earl St. Vindmt, - - 818 IN°. BROOK SAIO'Sq.I4.
Sir E. liuglo, 957 AS. URNISION.

* In the room of Earl.Fitzwilitam.
The Court adjourned at six o'clock till this day.

Yesterday a Quarterly General Court was held
at the East India House pursuant to Chatter.

After the last minutcs were read,
Mr. Roof( wished to know whether certain ac-
counts of the nett profit and loss of the .Company
ought not to be laid before the Court,
'the Chairman (Mr. Mri.Ls), stated that the
Accounts alluded to had been produced in March
last.

Mr. ROCK observed,
,that his objet was to
ascertain the exact amount of the Company's debt.
The.late Pre'sident of the Board of, Controul having
srateti it to be Twelve Millions, whilst an Hon.
Proprietor (Mr. Jotqrs) had asserted it in Parlia-
ment to be Twenty Millions ; these were the gross
contradictions which he was anxious to have recon-
ciled.

Mr. DAVID SCOTT said, that the statement of
Mr. DUND AS was made up from'correl accounts
furni3hed by the Company's Officers, and that the
General Court had not any thilig to do with the
mere ipse dixit of a Member of Parliament.
Alter a few words from Mr. BOSANQU ET, in sup-
port of Mr. SCOTT'S assertion, the Court adjourned
sine die.

A fouler and more detestable calumny we believe
never appeared in the Page of the wickedest Paper
ever printed, or in other words of the Morning
Chronicle itself, than that which charges His Ma.
jesty's Ministers with having biassed the French
Bishops in their general determination to reject the
Propositions of the POPE ; we defy it, without he-
sitation, to produce the shadow of a proof of this
base and malignant falsehood.
At Mark-lane yesterday morning, there were
some considerable sales of Wheat at much the same
prices as last market day. Other articles were also
sold at Monday's prices..
The Pavilion in the Mate Park is construaed
entirely (on a series of inverted• arches) of Port-
land stone, in massive pieces, " block and block,"
without the intervention of any other material
whatever, grooved and 'dovetailed together, in the
manner of the Eddystone Lighthouse.

A French Journalist, speaking of the extraordi.
nary blessing of the present abundant harvest, ob.
serves, with the hyperbolical absurdity of Repub-
lican style, that nothing was wanting to the om-
l-lction kir oo luxuriant a year, and that they could
very (well do (-without the Comp. letney:ary
We remember nothing equal to this but the resolu-
tiOn of the Anabaptists in CRomwELL's time, that
there should be no zsth of December.
The original signature of the POPE in all oar
antient Records is Serous Servorum. The addi.
lion to his name in the last Brief is P. P. This
has puzzled many, but a solution has been found for
it in the Miscellanies of POPE and SWIFT; where
P. P. is the name of the Clerk of the Parish..

The French Mechanic who has formed an Auto-
maton, that will play several Tunes on the Flute,,
certainly deserves credit for his science and skill.
But what is this atchievement to the ingenuity of
the CHIEF CONSUL, who has contrived to convert
all the people of France into Automata, and di_
reEts their movements by his Sovereign Will and
Pleasure.

A skeleton of a very tall man, was found five
feet under the surface of the Bank of Cowbit-wash,
a few days ago, by some bankers, who were re-
pairing it near Peahill. No marks of violence were
discovered on the skull or bones, which have been
colletied and interred in Cowbit Church-yard.—
Near the same place, a brass measuring chain was
found; 22 yards long, the links of which are about
16 inches in length.