The Sun.
London, England, 1808-10-15 00:00:00

NAVAL NEWS.

PLYMOUTET, OCT. 13.—Sailed the niumph, of
71' guns, to join the Channel Fleet ; the Lilly Sloop
of War for Madeira ; and La Fleche Sloop of War

for Port smout b.

Arrived t he Duke of Kent, EDMONTON, from Que-
bec, with masts and timber for the Duck-yard.

FALMOUTH, OCT. 12. Sailed the following
Packets : Duke of Kent, Capt. LAWRENCE, for Bar-
badoes ; Noccton, BLIGHT, for the Mediterranean ;
and the Manchester, DAviEs, for New York.

ISLAVDS OF SCILLY, OCT. Io.—Came in the
Speculatiai2, WHEELER Master, from Southamptop,
laden with timber and hoops, bound to Limerick.

DEAL, SEPT. I4.—Arrived, this 'morning, the
Beagle, Glonttn, Rolla, Crocus, Royalist, and Obe-
ron Sloops ;'the Bustler, Fearless, and Desperate Gun
Brigs ; from the Westward.

Sailed, this morning, the Ephira Sloop, and Supply
Naval Transport, to the Northward.
Arrived, this day, in the Downs, the Ada
Ship Herald, from Buenos Ayres.

SHEERNESS, OCT. 14.—Arrived the Sarpen Sloop
of War.

By the Diona, which brought the Gottenburg/z
Mails to Harwich, several passengers have arrived
from Sweden—among others, M. De BRINCKMANN,
as Envoy Extraordinary to the British Court from
his Swedish Majesty, and Mr. TELFORD, the Engi-
neer, who has for some time been employed by the
King of SWEDEN, in surveying and making out the
line of an inland navigation through the vallies and
lakes of that Kingdom.—Nothing conneeed with
the improvement of Sweden can be a matter of in-
difference to the British Public at the present mo-
ment. Many of our Readers must know, that from
Gottenburgh, by means ot the river Gotha, and the
works at Tromatta, there-is already a navigation
from the North Sea to the Lake Wenern, about 90
miles in lengib, which is beneficial to the public and
profitable to the undertakers; but a communication
was still wanting from the Wenern to the other
great lake Wettern, (which is about 72 miles in
length) and from thence to the Baltic. The import-
ance of this has long been evident, and we are happy
to learn from Harwich, that Mr. TELFORD has been
able to mark out a track particularly favourable for a
navigation, upon a scale which will admit of Vessels
fit to navigate these great lakes, and also the Baltic.
This stupendous undertaking, besides being the
means of agricultural improvements to that country,
will open a more direct intercourse with the inex-
haustible forests of Sweden, and afford another
communication with the Baltic in the time of war.
It will much exceed, in real importance, the adding
of Provinces to the kingdom.

Some advices have been received from Portugal of
a later date tlein- those to which we adverted yes.
terday. The Pluto Sloop, Captain JANVERIN, at.
rived on Thursday morning at Portsmouth, from
the Coast of Spain and Portugual. She called off
Lisbon on the 3d, and is said to be the bears' of
Dispatches from Sir CHARLES COTTON, for Govern-
ment. According to the acne-tints brought by this
conveyance, Lisbon, and the vicinity of that Cipis
tal, had been completely evacuated by the French
troops at the time the Pluto sailed.
It is stated, that the detachment of the French
which had been stationed at Elvas, in Portugal, de-
murred evacuating it. Sir H. DALRYMPLE, how-
ever, sent a letter to the Commander, ordering
the place to be evacuated : but the French Officer
observed, that the letter presented to him might be
a forgery, he not knowing Sir HEW'S hand-writing,
and that he might be made responsible for yielding
implicit obedience to an order of that sort. This
hesitation on the part of the Commander of the
French division, creased some surprize in the mind
of the British Commander in Chief, and not less
indignation in that of the Spanish troops who still
remained in ,Portugal. The latter in their rage are
said to have thrown some shells into the place,
and the former ordered General Hopp; to march
his brigade to enforce the surrender of the place.
On the appearance, however, of a British Officer,
.
it was generally expecled that no further difficulty to
surrendering' the town would occur.
ALFRED SOCIETY.—About two hundred and fifty
persons, chiefly of the first distinction, have already
formed themselves into a Society, designated by this
name. The principles and rules are like those of
the fashionable clubs, except with respeCt to play,
which is totally excluded. His Grace the Archbishop
of CANTERBURY is a Member. The first Meeting
was held on Thursday, at the Clarendon Hotel, in
Bond-street, Earl SPENCER in the Chair. This So- I
ciety, from its constitution, as well as from the cha- •1
reefer of its Founders and Subscribers, promises to
be the first association of the kind in the Empire.
The inhabitants of Cork, with a humanity truly
laudable, have lately, by means of a Charitable Lot-
tery, raised a considerable sum of money, for the
better establishment of their Poor Schools. Their
generous spirit was manifested in the purchase of
not less than 20,000 tickets ! A similar plan, we
hear, is about to be adopted in Dublin, for the pur-
pose of fouudiug an Economy House, or General
Place cf-Asylutu, for Orphans and distressed Young
Women of unblemished charaaer, in which they
are trained up in strid habits of industry, and fitted
for the different domestic duties of families.

A curious circumstance happened in a lane lead-
ing trot-n Cork-street, Dublin, a few days since
An old wan having died, and a carpenter's boy be-
ing sent to muoure him for a coffin, the limbs of the
corpse being much cramped and drawn up, the boy
sat on his knees to straighten his legs and thighs, so
that he might the better take its length, when the
body tiecesurtly bouncing up, struck the carperver,
who \vas so much atfrighted, thathe leaped instantly
out of a one-pair of stairs window in o the street.
The circumstance occasioned much lanz,l4.ei in the
,ne;ghbourhood.