The Sun.
London, England, 1801-01-06 00:00:00

GREENOCK, Die. 9.

btx.;6tneriean Ship Arnsterdan Nat% Cald,
'well, arrived from New-York on Frit;lay, having
ebb board, ,4 hogsheads, 38 bakrels Indian C3rn
Meal, ze3 bump, Rycxibur, 116 whole and 49
halt.barrels Wheat Flour. The Captain says, he
Y ad the finest Weather he ever expextencet during
winter ?usage,

'the Sloop Belmont Cartir, of Greenock, A.
Wrarlane master, bound to Harries, in ballast,
was wrecked on the West End of the Island 'of
t nos on the soth..ulr. Much praise is due to
Mr. MfNiell, and the Inhabitants of the Island,
by whose great exertions all the materials were
sued.

Lieutenant ;km/ Sttotvri.ANn, late First Lieu_
tenant of HiS Majesty's Ship RilLues, is promot_
ed to the tank of Commander.
Yesterday advice was received at the East In.
tlia House, of the safe arrival in the Downs of the
4142174, belonging to Messrs. Rot BITCX and
At Roll., of Madras, and commanded by Mr. W.,
114ows, after an extraordinary quick passage of
three months and eleven days, having sailed from
Madias on the :.4th of September last. The Appllo
touched at the Cape of Good Hope and at the
f ISland of St. lielena, at which places she staid
but a very short tittle, and left them all well.
material occurrence took place during this
ship's passage. The last oveihlnd Di patch re.
reived from the East Indies being dated so late as
the latter end of August, it is riot supposed she
bas brought any interesting adviees.
Mr. La r, a passenger from Madras, has at.
ti..ed in the Atollo.
Thr.: Company's Armed Ship Co;tewarns, ar.
rived at Madras op the 25th of August, and
Lailed to Bengal on the followmg
The Cori, Btu )1 k, Walthamstou, Earl
Figesat, Marquis Welleiley, and Lord Nebo!,
sailed from Madras for china the t 2th of August,
under convby Ilia Majesty's Ship L'lmperietsze,
4141 did

;nit Lipty Zit4p4ier for Bengal, on'tht zist
August.

The Pluprix, outwarlibouncl, mind at Oat.
Cape on the x Bth tit September.
The Wowing Ships had arrived at tile CiTe,
and departed 'rum thence in. Set u'nler and
atiober, lia/vts, Union, Sarah, Ce.
`ilia, Kiwi and Tiketis.
3A1,114 PrrE tt Fit RON,'ESq:.is iPpbintedCom.
Mantier of the Honourable East India Company'
ship the consigned to China direct;
in the room of Captain Cams. LEPCtia ist who
1148 resilined. The Belvidire -it to "be u-float
on the t sth, instant ; to sail. to Gravesend the
3oth following ; to stay there thirty days, and
to be in the 1:10v;-;.s on the 7th Match, previous
to Tier being ili:-,patelied with the. following Sbips,
-severally consigned to China, viz. ilifred, Cat-
tain,JANlls F4XQUITAR6OII , DOC' ?/4 Ptie'"l4‘Ugf",
'CaPtAir) THOMAS WALL, ; 41-6:10/.1 11-
1)11UFW TIINBA tt.t. ; 'Amnion Castle, Cirt..in
111* PE t ItSit ;;/o'64TOrd, Captain JANI N'T% RTrN
-Ear! of Abergawel.tv., . Captain ;foe N WO'lt 1)!,-
'worm , and IV4ril:), Captain ELNgYWILSON.
Lerd DuncapI Capt. G o>tGE SAL*I NV El. I,
arla,tlie Ear/ 11011. Capt. RfluAtt.r,lea t;Rur+rt?s,
Lave lately been added to the uninher of Ships
engaged to proceed to India and China this season
by this addition tliL:,l4t collt;tiu thirty-eifht
Ships (mostly oc the largest,,burthen),. including
the iirwiikke,,Pr;Hie Vair-9:-, .and. Sir Ad-
Ilit.kbest. which were taken elp,for Madras,

'A Letter itom Capt.l-grus.tras,, ot tflue brig
Milburn, belonging to , North Shieldil to Mr.
Wool), of Hull, elated Scarborough, Decb 30,
states, " Yesterdays, morning, Whitby bearing
W.S.W. distant about four learwes, fell ifi with
a large schooner : Privateer, of 14. guns, with
which we came to close action for half an hour,
when we obliged him to sheer of`,l am happy
to inform you, that, except myself having got
one hand slightly burnt by one of the guns, we
have no person hurt on hoard. We fell in with
apother Privateer off this place last night, but
were not within gun-shot. I cannot say
,too
much, in praise of our people, for their good be-,
haviour."

His MAJESTY) to-morrow, will hold a Levee
at St. James's Palace.
The last overland Dispatch from India men-
tions, that a very formidable and extensive Ex-
pedition is fitting out along the Coast of Coro-
mandel, supposed to be direEled against Manilla
or Batavia.
Sunday night died at his Scat at. Wilton, in
Wiltshire, PIRILIPCOLDSWORTIRY, Esq. k Lieu-
tenant-General in. the Army, Colonel of the First
Regiment of Dragoons, Equerry and Clerk Mar-
tial ,to HIS MAJESTY, and Member for Wilton.

The Presents which the DEY of AL G I Sks sent,
in November to the. Somr.p.N at Constantinople,
and which are for the arrears of the Tribute
which the Regency. of 'Algiers pays the Imperial
Treasury, consist of 100 Moorish Slaves, so
males, and so females ; Barbary horses, richly
caparisoned, with trappings adorned with gold
and precious stones ; a solitaire of real valu6,
a lion, a tyger, a leopard, two ostriches, and a
number of parroquets, and other rare birds ; the
whole Present is valued at Five Millions of
Piastres.

The Reading Newspaper of Saturday last says,
" Fearing that the rapid fall of 205. per quarter
in the price of Wheat, in our last market, might
not be permanent, we declined noticing it in any
other way; than in our usual state ot the mar-
kets : we have now, however, the gratification
of informing our readers, that Wheat this day
further declined in price full zos. per quarter on

the average."
/t is an important circumstance to be reMeni.
tiered, not only in the present Tithe of Searekty,
but on the return of that Plenty to which we may,
with the blessing of Providence Icia forward,
that one pound of Rice, is equal in cited to
eight pounds of Flour. Such an improvement in
the system of Food, of the lower orders of Peo.
'pie, • and in the mode of preparing it, has taken
place during the Scarcity, thatthe beneficial ef.
feets of ii-.may be felt in all succeeding times
and as it may be fairly. supposed, that the Con.
sumption of Flour will tuwer again be so general
and so injudicious as it has -been, the price -of it
in years of plenty must be considerably lower.
Mr. SHEiID A:N seems already to have lost the
favoer ,of the Paris Journalists, by his open and
maely'deelaration that this Country ought not to
suffer its Maritime Charaeter to he infringed,
bat resolutely to enforce its right of examining
Neutral Vessels, and maintaining the 'Empire of
the Sea. If,, however, her sinks in the estimatiO,
of the. Foes of Great. Britain, he proportionally.
rises in the opiniOn of her Friends,
,and, May
ped to be classed with those Members of Oppo.
sitiiin 'who are untainted with the spirit of Gallic
Reform, and not with such rtioderts Patriots as
are determined to thwart every measure of Go.
'vernment, however condecive to the National
Interest and Honour,
• We some time ago stated, with accuracy, to the
Public, the,liberal allowance of Provisions which
GovernMent gives to the French Prisoners of
War. • Their naked condition is to. be
,ascribed
solely to the cruelty and injustice of the French:
Government towards its own People, .and toihe
passion, of the French Prisoners for gambling,. as
they frequently stake their last rag on a tom of the'
dlr. Sur Government have not been inattentive,
to the circumstance of
,their want of cloathsi and
the Prisoners have nothing to.. complain ,01, but
the indisposition of their Chief Consul to listen
to their, wants. . .
It is noteasy to discover what. the Northern'
Nations propose to gain by the War, but there
is one branch of their Commercial enterprises in
which it is clear, that they must,- by
,Chatiging
their charmer from I:e:drab togoculies, belose4,
We qtiote from .an Author, who- Was' known to
entertain nore;e/eyi tfeiredk.is favour of Eng.';
land,. the wife -of Mr. Gonwt:l. - Speaking of
Denmark', ishe gives 'the 'following "account of
,the tricks of Merehants, mis.ealled reputable,
and certainly Into 'of property during 'the present
War, in which common honesty was violated,
damaged goods and provisions having been ship.
ed 19r:the expre» purpose of falling into the
hands of the English, •-who had .plidged- thenf..
selves to reimbatse Neutral Nations for the car-
hoes they seized. Cannon alsd, sent back as 'un.
fit for service, have been shipped as a good spe,
rulatioa, the Captain .receiving orders to cruize
abont till he fell in with an English Frigate.—
Many indeed, I believe, 14ve suffered by:' the
seizure of their vessels ; but still I am'perstiatied
that the EngliiliGOVetliil)efit hive been very
much imposed upon in the Charges made by. Mer.
chants, .who contrived to get-their Ships taken.
This censure, is not confined to the Danish
moment."
The Commissioners for building a new Bridge
over tlic Thatll(,!S, ,at Staines, have agreed for...
iron' Bridge, -18 c) feet in length, from abutment
to abutment, to be in the same dire lion as the
&Ana Bridge which has been taken ?down, on ac..,
connt of the centre arch - sinking. new
Bridge is to be
.completed by. Michaelmas next.,
•' On Christmai Day a bed of strawberries, in
the evergreens in Woburn-park, the- -.beat of the
'Duke of. Bent:01LE)) were in biassoin and iii a
garden belongieg to Mr. BAR NW t at CraWley,
near Woburn, on the pule clay*,, aid api)le.tree
v4-d in bi"soin—a aciose*ry bush was ilkovise