The Sun.
London, England, 1801-11-13 00:00:00

AMSTERDAM, OCT. 31.

SOME hundreds of Merchant-ships are lying here
ready t 9 sail in a short time for different_parts. Our
Ministry of Marine has formally, given notice,
that according to the Preliminaries of Peace con-
cluded betwoen France and her Allies and. Eirgland,
a Free Navigation will be ensured to the Batavian
Flag. Our
.Republic has applied. to. England for
Passes for Ships under the Batavian Flag, in case
they should meet with English Ships who have not
yet received notice of the Peace.,---These Passes arc
immediately expdted from England.
Two Dutch Ships of War will soon sail for the
East Indies and the Coast of Guinea; other' Ships of
War will likewise sail for the West Indies, in or-
der, after the signing of the Definitive Treaty, to
take possession of our former E:;tablislarnent.3'. The
number of our Colonial Troops will be considerably
augmented.

VIENNA, OCT. 28.

AN answer has now been returned on the part of
Our Court and ;the ARCHDUKE ANTHONY, to the
Chapter of Munster, relative to the late Eleaion- to
that Bishopric. This answer imports, that in con-
sequence of the present critical situation of political
*affairs, the office and funlions of Bishop of Mun-
ster cannot be assumed and exercised till the final
settlement of the Indemnifications ,of the German
Empire.

BRUSSELS, OCT. 29,

THE Towns of Dunkirk, Ostend; Havre, Nantes,
and others, who will suffer considerably by the
opening of the Scheldt and the Harbour of Ant,werib,
have made very pressing remonstrances on that sub-
jet to the First Consul.

The Kixo finds much amusement in inspcEing
the improvements at \VindsotCastle, and the build-
ing of, the Royal Palace at Kew, His MAJESTY
rises regularly at seven o'clock, breakfasts. at eight
with the• Royal Family ; from nine till eleven views
the progress of the workmen. Every window in
the Castle is to be replaced with stained glass. His
MAJESTY 15 so much attached to any thing Gothic,
that no part of the new Palace is to be on a.modern
construction.

The manner, according 'to private letters, which
the French Government have, it is said,. proposed
to sonic of the chief of their Annuitants, resident in
this country, to liquidate the arrears, subsequent to
1798, is somewhat similar to that in which they
have settled with their own Countqinien. Of all
arrears previous to 1798, during the revolutionary
governments) they donor take any cognizance. Of
the subsequent dividends they pay in what is called
the Bout de Mrs, being one third of the sum ac-
tually due. The state of the French Finances may
perhaps render even this arrangement acceptable to
the Public Creditors.

Count RUMFORD, who is now at Paris, and who
is naturally an interesting person to the Chemists
and Natural Philosophers of that Metropolis, w:II
at leapt have sufficient matter for amusement. We
find that he has had long conferences with Citizen
Lt RON, whose scheme is, to light a house by the
smoke of the wood by which he heats it ; and with
Citizen MONGOLFI ER, another operator upon
smoke, who has also discovered the art ex falizo
dare lucent. In comparison, with these, the. Lapu-
tan Philosophers, who extra&ed Sun-beams: from •
Cucumbers, may Nip their dininished heads,