The Sun.
London, England, 1808-05-30 00:00:00

NAVAL NEWS.

FALMOUTH, MAY 27.--Arrived the Lord Halart
Ricker, HAMILTON, from New-York and Halifax,
with Mails; Reward, Thomnor, from Alicant ;
Ch.zrlotte, WATT, from Gibraltar, 17 days passage—
no news ; Friendship, -HAMMOND, Ednuind, POPE,
Rine,tdove, WEYMOUTH, from Liverpool, to Wait
convoy for the Mediterranean.

Sailed on the 125th inst. the Francis. Freeli►rg
Packet, BELL, with Mails of the 18th inst. for the
Leeward Islands.-

'The Lord Hobart Packet left New-York on the
15t1 April, at which time the Princess Mary Pac,-
ket, with Mails from England, was lying there;
arrived at Halifax on t:,O esth April, found there
His Majesty's Ship licflono, of 74 guns, and Queen
Charlotte Packet; sailed, from thence On the 29th;
on the nth inst. in lat 41.56. long. 40:So. spoke
the American Ship Jupiter, from Liverpool, bound
to Boston, all well ; on the 13th inrit. in lat. 43. 14•
long. 46. 21. spoke His . Majesty's Ships Medusa
and Thalia on a cruize. The Packet has brought
33 passengers. the Embargo still continued. The
lower class of people were quite discontented, and
many-of them in extreme want. It was reported
that Mr. JEITEi SON had resigned the Pre;ideney,
and that he was succeeded by Mr. MADDISON.

BRIXHAM QUAY, MAY :7.—Arrived in Torbay,
yesterday evening, the Channel Fleet, under the
command of Admiral SOUTHEY, consisting of his
Majtsty's Ships Dreadnought, Spencer, Neptune,
Afriia, St. Gorge, Valiant, and the richiaes, from
their station off Brest.

PLYNIOUIIi, MAY 28.—Arrived the Favourite
Cutter, with Letters from the Chautiel Fleet cif
Usliaut.

This evening I,vaa docked the Indifatigolde Frigate
and Haughty Brig.
Sailed the. Myrtle Sloop of War on a cruize, and
Cockatrice hired Armed Ship, with a large Fleet of
Nitlrclunatnen under convoy, for the Downs.

Aditiral HAavrt is appointed to the St. George,
of 9$ guns, and is going second in command of the
Channel Fleet.

Sailed the ikon: Sloop of War on a cruize.
Arrived the Unity, WARD, from St. Michael's,
bound to London, laden with fruit.

Arrived the French Chasse Maroc L'Adelo, laden
with horse beans, from France, captured by the
Dragon Man of War.

PORTSMOUTH, MAY 29.—Arrived. yesterday the
Harlequin Sloop, of War with aConvoy from the
Downs ; among which are the Ann, Ba au xcr. , Dart,
WA Lys ; and Merina, EVANS, for the Mediterranean;
and Jamaica Sloop of War fromPlyMouth.
Sailed the Resolute 'Gun-brig, Sucly Cutter, Ant
end Flying Fish Schooners, and Weymouth Store-
ship with a Convoy for the Downs.
sir ISAAC CortriN, Bart. resigned.bis c()minand at
this Port on Tuesday, to IlearAdmird TvLeu, who
has hoisted his Fag on board the Gladiator. The
Captains. of the Ships of War at this Port, on Wed.
nesday, gave Sir ISAAC a farewell dinner, at the
Crown Inn, in proof cif their esteem of. so active and
Zealoils itn Officer.

tapt..osnottx is appointed to the tombay, vice
,Sir li. NEALE, appointed Captain of tlje Channel
Elect.

Lieutenant lawiN, of the &tee, is promoted to
A don-inlander, and appointed to the Duchess of
Bedford.
Lieutenant S. 'LEst.tr., to be First Lieutenant of
the Chitonne.

DZAT:, MAY 30. —Sailed his Majesty's Ships
Alert to the Northward, and Kunearoo, on a ct•uize.
Also the Travers East ludiaman, for Portsmouth.

Gunn dawn from tbe River the Hera, STEPHENS,
for Quebec; Elio, WATSON, for the Brazils; .E 1
Spencer, and the Carmarthen Packet, Ross, for
Inciia; and remain in the Downs, with the rest of
the Ships as per last.

SIIRRIMESS, DTAy 26.--Arrived the Mary Ten«
der trom Leith, ..with impressed Men and volunteers
for the Fleet; obit) the Lyra Tender. with ditto from
Shields. The 117ing George, Queen Charlotte, and
Prince of7Pales, Hudson Bay Ships, with a Brig, to
'be convoyed too leagues to the North-west by the
iYed./.ilvin Sloop of War, Capt. O'Cormon. .. •
MAY u7.--Anchored at the Nora the Calypso
Sloop of War, Capt Bahnnvl_ she is to proceed to
Yarmouth with men for the Edar, 74.
Sailed the Calypso and the. Md Elwin with con-
voy,.•

The Alert was this day manned.
Half Past Five.—Passed by for the Downs an out-
wardrbound East Indiaman.

SH RIR NESS, MAY 28....-43114 the dggrersor Gun.
brig, Lieut. WATSON, with convoy, for Heligoland...
MAT 2g,—This being the Anniversary of the
Restoration ofKing CH A aLES, the same was observed'
by the standard being hoisted at the Garrison, and at
the maintop-gallant-mast-head of Admiral Wt t.t.s's
Flag-ship the Namur; at noon the. Garrison saluted,
and at one o'clock 15 gnus were tired from each Mau
of War at the Nore.

The Lieutenant and crew of the Widgeon Schooner,
lost in the Orkneys, have arrived here.
Arrived the Transit, and sailed to Standgate.

LIVPIRPOqL, MAY ^B.-.-Pour Ships from PIIII:1:CA
are off here this evening, supposed to be the Blanch-
ard, CONNELL, Alexander, WARD, Crescent, LY-
' otis, and the Mary, ROACH. The Ships Thetis,
CHRISTIE, and venerable, LDvErs, are arrived here
from Barbadoes, and bring the following intelli-
'gence, dated Barbadoes, 17th of April :
' His -Majesty's Ship Dispatch arrived here on
the 14th inst. with the Fleet under her convoy
(59 Sail) from Cork, none missing or injured. His
Majesty's Ship Cherub parted from the Dispatch on
the 6th inst. with seven Sail for Surinam, Demerara,
and Berbice ; the rest of the Fleet for the Island
and Jamaica have sailed from hence for their destined
ports, under convoy. The Chalmers, of London, from
Africans reported to be lost on the Wand of Margaritta.
The Maxwell, EDWARDS, sailed from Detherara for
Liverpool 19 days ago, to call here, and is not ar-
rived. The Trade for Great Britain, &c. are to sail
from hence on the iluth inst. for Tortola, under
Convoy of His Majesty's Ship Defence, which, to-
gether with. His Majesty's ShipS Cerberus and Mel-
ville, ekort them to England."

YARMOUTH, MAY 29.—Sailed yesterday, P.M.
his Majesty's Ships Brunswick, Edga,, and Trom-
peusc, to the Northward.

Yesterday morning his MAJESTY, *Princesses Au-
GUSTA, MARY, SOPHIA, and AMEL/A, accompanied
by Lady A. CUMBERLAND, Generals Frrznoy and
GAwru, and Colonel DEsaßow, rode to St. George's
Chapel, and heard a Sermon preached by the Rev.
Dr. DODSWORTII, frQtn the '2 2 d Chapter of. St.
Mattho.v, and 21st verse, and afterwards returned
to the Palace.

The Duke of Yonm was engaged with the KING
the whole of Thursday morning. His Royal High-
ness dined with the QuErn and PRINCGSSES, and in
the. evening rettuned to London.
On Friday his Royal Highness held a public day
at his Office in the Horse Guards, and gave audi-
enmi to the Earl of StlvroLK, Sir DAVID
and about fifty Military Officers.

Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens had a greater
number of persons of rank and distinaion yesterday,
than we for a long time remember to'have witnessed.
The splendid equipages in the Park exceeded belief.
Many of the fashionable inmates, from the fineness
of the day, were induced to quit their carriages, to
perambulate about the Park, or along the Banks of
the Serpentine River. Kens►ngton Gardens were
crowded to an overflow.

The Spanish troops in Denmaik are reported to
participate warmly in the sentiment of their country
towards ,Frauce, and to have been engaged in nu-
' merous affrays with the Franch troops in .Holstein
and notlia. The regiment of Catatonia, which is
at Nyborg, is stated to have manifested such inve-
terate hostility as to have made it netegsary to with-
drat'!" from the town the French troops who were
stationed there. The desortion, too, has been so
grelit, that the Marquis RomAtszo bag found it ne-
cessary to declare in hir ptibli,.; orders. that c..5,...rf ion
ill future be punished with death, without con-
sideration to the previous merit or chatader of the
offender.

Marshals BRUNE and KEY Are ordered to Spain,
and Marali,ll MASSENA to Italy. The Artillery to be
employed in the siege ot Gibraltar is to be placed
under the command ot General-114°5SM

The greatest part of the contribution
_imposed on
the inhabitants.of I)antzic has been levied by mili-
tary execution. For the maintenance of the French
troops, and of the hosphaly, in monthly rotation,
eighty of the prini:ipai inhabitants were ordered to
furnish loon hussian money, each. In
March, not a fourth part were able to pay, and their
effects were seized. The coothMed fall of
French soiLliers, anii the inhabitants had been again
invited to furni,h lint and bandages.
General Mmuktin, who commands at Hanover,
has received from liutmkrAairE the title of Count,
and a pension for hie of 30,000 francs. Similar fa-
vours have been conferred on numerous other French
Generals.

Great exertions are maki►►g at Cherson, and in all
tlw ittis,iiin ports of the Black Sea, to equip a Squa-
dron for the Adriatic.

Thu Polish Legion which has entered Spain con•
sista of eight battalions, each of 800 men, and two
regiments of Hulans, each of 1000 horses, with a
park of artillery.
BUONAPAATII has ordered several Frigates to be
-built at Leghorn.
On Saturday the Committee met to inspect the
piece of plate subscribed for, to be presented to his
Grace the Duke of BRDFORD, as a token of grateful
reweet from the principal Agriculturists of England.
It is a large silver, salver,, with a spacious. embussed
border decorat.r.d.with various archite&ural embleing,
and figtires, in alt relief, of the four species of ani-
mals in the breed of which the Duke has so emi-
nently excelled, viz. a Hereford, and a Devon ox,
and a Southdown and Leicester sheep. The centre
of the'salver, immediately. under the Ducal arms of
the family, is thus inscribed Presented to his
Grace Jour; Duke of BRDPORD, by the Aciat.cui.,
WRISTS of ENGLAND."...-It is intended to be pre-
sented to his Grace by the Committee, on the first
day of the Woburn Sheep-shearing.

Mr. LUDLAM made his escape yesterday morning
from his Keepers,_ from the house where he has
been confined, in Osendon-street, since the Lop
CHANCELLOR delivered his opinion of his being a •
Confirmed Lunatic. By some means his Keepers
were lulled into a belief of his apparent sanity, and,
gave him some indulgence, when he contrived to de.:
ceive them. They passed all yesterday in searching
for him, but we understand his retreat has not yet
been discovered.

CORN-EXCHANGII, Ma. 30.—The fresh arrivals
of Wheat are short, and sales are made at an ad-
vance of as. per quarter; Barley is dull of sale and
somewhat lower; Malt, and the two sorts of Beans,
likewise; Oats are dearer; Flour nearly ss. per
sack higher. The Market is now to be open on
Mondays and Thuildays only, during the harvest..

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