The Sun.
London, England, 1806-10-14 00:00:00

NAVAL AT E /VS.

FALMOUTH, OCT. .—Arrived His Majesf.
Ships La Nereide, of 38 guns, Capt. CORBI.TT;4
Thisbe, of 28 guns, Capt. SHEPHEA RD, Plover, ( f 18
guns, and Ilaughty Gun-brig, with a large Fleet7c
Transports with Troops on board, for e .Expedi,
Goa under General CRAUFURD ; the. Carolina Armed
Brig, Lieut. DERBY, from . Plymouth; also the
Prince of 'Pales Picket, TODD, with Mails from
Lisbon, in .15 days ; left there the - Townvhend
PaCket,,and the Squadron under .Earl ST. VINcENT4-
Sailed the Princess Elizabeth Packet (2d), Capt.
FEATHERSTOM, with Mails for .iValta and Gibraltar.
The Prince of Inks fell in, on her 'passage home,
with the Fleet which sailed from hence, under con-
voy of the Richmond Gun-brig, all well ; they were
within two days sail of Oporto..

PLYMOUTH, , OCT. 12.—Arrived the /3-ow .liana,
HANSE, from_Dantzick ; the Ceres, NooED, from
Long-sound ; 'the .Mary and Anna, EAP)IA, from
Petersburg!) ; and the Europe, KAETTOLHOLDT, from
Dantzick. •

Arrived, the Insolent Gun-brig from the West
ward, with the loss of her fore-top-niast ; and one
of the hired Armed Schooners from a Cruize, with
the loss of her main-top-mast, supposed to have been
carried away in a gale of wind.

SNEERNESS., OCT. 12.—Sailed, the Crocod le, of
24 guns, Captain BETTESVORTII, for the North-
ward.

SEPT. 13.---The Spartan Frigate is paying boun-
ty and two months' advance, and is'expecled to sai•l:
Came down from the Tower, a Tender with
Vohinteers and Impressed Men for the Fleet.

Ships as per last.---The Baitic Convoy is still
wind-bound.

HARWICH, OCT. 18.-The Prince of IVales
Capt. A. DEANE, arrived this morning from
with the Hatnburgh and Bremen DoLirs ; and atnoon
the Good Latent Extra Packet arrived from the same
place with Mails. The four Packets with the Mails
of Wedneday and.S'aturday; bowid for klusurn and
Gotten'ourgh, yet remain.

Arrived the 'Pi-Ticker, of Bridlington, BELL, from,
St. Petersburgh to London, with iron,- Lido and
other goods, having lost an anChor 4nd cable.

' Sailed the Acute Gun-brig, and SeVen of the out•
ward-bOund Ships' to the Northward.
Arrived the Argun Revenne Cutter.'
Remain the Charger, Aggression, • and Father
Gun7brigs.

, DEAL, OCT. 13.—Came down from Sheerness
yesterday afternoon, and sailed from the Downs this
morning, the. Trampeuse' Sloop of War, with the
Clyde Frigate, Commodore ONVEN, 'and several Gun_
brigs for the French Coast ; also the Explosion Bomb,
with the outward-bound Ships under Convoy fqr
Portsmouth.

Arrived the riven Gun-brig from a Cruize, and
His Majesty's' Ship Agamemnon from Sheerness,.
and remain in the Downs with the rest of the Ships
as per last.

Arrived and sailed for the River the Nelson, HUB•
BACK, from Antigua.

. SIR SAMUEL HOOD.—The following Report Of the
Health of this gallant, Officer was made by 'Lcird
HOOD to His MAJESTY at the Levee on Wednesday
last • •

" " Sir SAMUEL Hoon's Health is so Rey' O. to.greatly improved within the last three or four days, as to admit of his ‘vaking
in the Village..—The state of his stump is so flattering, as
not only to render it.more than probable that he will he well
in a tOrtnight, but that he will be capable of embarking in a ,
shorter time. " " GEORGE VANCE,
Surgeon, Royal Naval Hospital, at Haslar,
" " RICHARD DALEY,
Surgeon of His Majesty's Ship Centaur *,'

APPOINTMENTS AND P.ROMOTiONS.-- Captains
LILLICRAP, HAWKINS, and HANCOCK, are pro-
'noted- to he Post Captains.. Lieutenants G:HAR.
RIS, RENWICK', J. MANLEY, :LOCKYBR, and HAM-
MACK, are promoted to be Commanders. Captain
BROWN is appointed' to the Plover; Captain AR-
THUR to the Vesuvius ; and Captain WESLEY to the.
Centaur.

Yesterday afternoon an over-land Packet was re-
ceived at the East India House, whiCh contains no-
thing new, being dispatched from Bombay prior to
the one received last month..

Yesterday afternoon Mr% gLLIOT, the Secretary to
the Duke.of BEDFORD, had an interview with Lord
GRENVII,LE, at 'his house, relative to some new ar-
rangements to be made-in Ireland.
' It is very discr.ditoble
_to our Parish Ofncers
that they suffer. cook-shops to be as open on Sun-
days as other days. One in particular near Turn-
.style, Holborn, never Manifests the least respect
to the Sabbath, but glaringly displays its boiled
roast, with all its culinary operations, in perpetual
aaivity.

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' The wife of a mechanic, in Ab-1',.-buildingF,
Roseiriary wa, yin
boar, some weeks nel:)re she expected ;
conielavnce unprov.ded far the occasion, and in the
hArry, they gladly accepted ofthe servic of a wo-
man who was herself far advanced in her pregnancy,
as nurse, -&c. brut sympathy. or some ot.fer
.Cause
accler.tted the time of the poor occali.heuse, at d she
was ',actually delivered before the AN °man 6.t.e hzal
..been employed to attend.

A melancholy accident took place on Wednesday,
'at York, 4n -consequence of a most extraordinary
and hazardous amusement (if it can be so called)
which has lately prevailed amongst boys ; that of
making experiment, how long they can remain sus-
, pended by•the .neck without -strtibcation. Thomas
WaleS, a tine lad of t(i, apprentice to Mr. Cobb,
bricklayer in that city, went home in good health
and spirits to his dinner, at the usual hour, and not
finding it quite ready, went up into a.chamber, de-
.siring to be called when dinner was ready. Shortly
after, his fellow apprentice called him, but received
no answer. Not, .however, rsnspeailn any -thincr,
he sat hin do to dinner, and when he ha%
.finishc3 it, went up stairs, where he found the un-'
fortunate youth suspended by a string, which was
tied to a neam, wrapped once round his throat, and
'fastened to his thigh. .The stool 'on which he •ap,
peared` to have stood bad unluckily slipped, and left
him scspended without the power of untying hini,
self. <'Tlie body when found was still warm, - but
the means used to reAore animation Were ineffeCtual.
It appeared before the inquest, that the above ap-;
prentice and another boy had been tryingexpert=
'vents of the 'same sort on .ea'cli other about three
• weeks before, till one of thedi was tiearly.Sulrocated
and we understand.the prilaice"haS'nbt been con-
fined to them,: At Leeds a similar instance. lately
Occured at St. Paul's Church, during service. A
hoy, who had before nearly. strangled obe of his
'companions,. (whom. he. persuaded to become the
subjea olhis experiments) contrived to suspend his.
os,vrt.brother ; and he was-discovered in. that dread-
, ful situation nearly dead,. to the great terror of the
congregation. It is difficult to account for so strange
a praCtice, thougth it'may possibly originate in the
strong interest taken by young people in the public
exeentionS which they occasionally- witness here, and
. their curiosity as to the nature of those sensations
which the sufferer experiences. The _circumstance.
alludedto at Leeds, happened about the tin-le-when
the disseCtion of some criminals at the Infirmary
there, who bad. been hanged for murder, was the •
topic of conversation. `Whatever may have been the
rise of this horrible . amusement, we trust that the
fatal event which has taken place will effectually put
an end to it.
An Inquisition Was taken- yesterday, at the
Triumphal Car; Piecadilly, ?before ANTHONY GELL;
Esq. Coroner, ,on the body of. Williarn'Moore, ,who
was killed by the Reading Stage Coach.—lt appeared
in evidence, that the deceased, a youth ten years Of
age, belonging tO.respeCtable parents, haft alighted
from behind a hackney coach at the moment when
William's Reading coach had arrived at Hyde-Park
Corner gate. He was knocked down by the leaders,
and the fore wheel struck against his head, which
fractured his skull, and he.died instantly. A passen-
ger who was on theßox with the coachman, stated,
that he bc...,ficved the coachman never beheld the boy
until he was ordered to stop his horses, as he.did not
himself; nod they were not going at more than seven.
Miles an hour:—Accidenial Death,. .
A mil-Woman named Malony, .being jealous of
her husband, hung herself in the cellar of her resi-
dence, in Short's-buildings; Clerkenwell, _a, few
mornings since : a person passing by soon after,lsaw
her suspended from the cteliag, and had her cut
tiaie to saye her life.

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