The Sun.
London, England, 1801-05-12 00:00:00

DE,4L, MAY I r.

HriMajesty?s Ship Ttrpsichare sailed yesterday
vening to the Northward, with those Ships of the
Oporto Fleet under Convoy which are bound to
Hull, Yarmouth, and Leith, in all about 3o Sail.

The Alonzo, Falcon, Autumn, and Diligence
Sloops of War, sailed this morning to the Westward.

SHEERNESS, MAY 11.

AttatbrD His Majesty's Tender the ,Ediwinstow,
of t+guns, Lieut. MAVtk, from Shields.
The Meteor Gun.brig, and Broederchap, late
Dutch Careening Hulk, were this day undocked.

GREENOCK, MAY 4.

Tut George, Captain At.i.4N, one of tie ja-
miics Fle4t, arrived here on Saturday morning,
parted convoy on :he z4th March, in 1at..3.4..
ss. io gale of wind and very thick Weather, :6
'sat then in company. The fleet, '4s' in number,
tat teal of which were for America, sailed from
'Pott Antonio er the a6th February; under convoy of
tbliSoprird and La Prompt Frigates. Off Cape Ni.
elsabt.Mole, the Flora, Nat LL, for London„ sprung
heimain.mast, anti the Miele, for Liverpool,
eazried away her bowsprit and top.masts, and both
• away for Jamaica. After coming through the
Andlosid ?usage, a Brig belonging to the same
-owners-4s the Vara, sprung a leak and bore away
foaew: fligvidence. On the lith February, the
5,14 Iffie, of and for Liverpool, Capt. LIGHTFOOT,
foam t4:...4.0itie away with the Convoy, was driven
iptrihon vita strong North wind, in Great River;
vessel and cargo lost, crew-saved.
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• cii,,y;retlneeday last a Court-Martial .was held on
boird rho Gladiator, at Portsmouth, on Capt. Du NN,
for :the Logs, of His Majesty's Ship Incendiary,
which wis taken by Adm. GANTHEAUME'S Squa.-
erton, in the Mediterranean. Lieutenant' him'',
~coinmander of SPrighily Cutter, was also tried
for her beltig taken by the
same Squadron.—'
Theywere both acquitted. On Thursday Mr. J.
R. pis NZ, ?inlet' of flis Majesty's Ship ilindostan,.
• was tried by a Court Martial, for absenting him-
self without leave, and for defrauding several' of the
(Nicer* and Ship's Crew of money due to them.'
The charge being proved, the Court adjudged him
to be mulcted of all his pay, and other allowances
• due to him as Purser of the Hilda:tam, and to,be•im.
prisoned in the Marshal= six months.
The Maria from Glasgow, and the 7G3L/e,
NUTTALL) erom Demerara for Liverpool, which
were taken by the Braave Privateer, are re-taken
by the Revolutionaire Frigate.

The late LORD ADVOCATE is. appointed- LORD.
CHIEF BARON, and the Hon. CI-Wi LE3 HOPE sue-
ceeds as the new LORD ADVOCATE of Scotland.

Root RT DUWDAS, Esq. of Melville, is a cantli.
date to represent the County of Edinburgh in Parlia-
ment, in the room of the LORD ADVOCATE.
It is said that ROBERT BLAIR, Esq. Solicitor
General, is to succeed Mr. Dump/is, as Dean of
the Faculty of Advocates; and that 'JOHN nuarmr,
Esq. one of the Advocates Depute, is to be Sheriff
of Orkney, in room of Mr. flora.

We have the satisfaction to state, that in misc.
:pence of the abundant supply at the Corn Exchange
yesterday morning, the prices of Wheat and Flour
experienced a covsiderable reduflion.
There was yesterday a very lull Market at Smith.
field, and a further reduction took place in the prices
of live kattle of all sorts.

T4cre are encamped between Dunkirk and Nieu-
von a body of ro,oco men, who are. to embark in
vessels which arc arming in those ports. The
fhtitla whic% is preparing at Dunkirk, will consist
eq four Frigacs, each mounting 41 guns, a number
of Corvettes,
sioop4, and Brigs, and of six flat.bot.
towed tend Gun-boats. These last are to mount
Phittp-six and forty-eight pounders, and the gun_
boats twenty-four and twelve pounders. All these
essels were built three years ago, when there was
en iateution of etfeEling a descent on England, ,and
ire on a new construdion. At one of the ex-
tretnities there is a bridge, which can be lowered or
raised at pleasure, and which is to serve to facilitate
the debarkation of the troops when they approach
near to the coast. There are 170 flat ranee gun.
vessels at St. Maloes, which have been lying there
two years, built on the plan of La Bomparde, taken
ome dine since and brought into Plymouth. They
motnit forward a thirteen-inch mortar, and abaft, on
high platform, a long thirt)P-two pounder. They
can carry i6o 'froops, row sixty oars), and are flat.
bottomed, to run plump ashore.
Private accounts state, that a dreadful mortality
prevailed on hoard of GANorttEAumc's Squadron
before it reached Toulon, occasioned by a kind of
leprosy, which was much increased by the great
number of Troops embarked for reinforcing she
ttepubliean Army in Egypt. It is confidently stated,
that no less th.in zoo() Irmo were thrown overboard,
‘f whom had perished by the ditcasa.

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•
the tragedy of Richard .MM; Third; though
hackneyed by frequent Representation, drew a large
Audience last night. Mr. COOKE has often•pliyed
the Chirader of Rieblrd so well, that we weft sur-
prised to see him fall so niuch below himself last
night. Whether we are to impute this comp.
rative failuie to illness, or any other cause, we
know not ; but certain it is, that he by no means
afforded that satisla:tion which he has been accus-
tomed to excite in this charac7ter.

He seemed to labour under a cold, but afrea.
ed a low tone too generally ; and was often
hardly audible. Hence he was several times de-
sired tet spell:. louder ; and at length his temper
was soured, and he forgot himself so far as to show
great discontent towards the quarter from which
some disapprobation issued, and after pausing a few
moments, abruptly left the Stage at the close of the
fourth MI, without finishing his speech. This
disrespect towards the Audience was very strongly
resented when he again appeared, and he was not
suffered to proceed. However, he seemed so much
agitated, and manifested such marks of contrition,
that the Audience were pacified, and he went
throUgh the rest of the Charaler without " let or
molestation.", •

From the event of last night we hope he will be
induced to take more pains in his futuKPerform-
ances. We hope also that he will learn to suppress
his " stern impatience," and refletc.l that before the
Public " nothing so becomes a man as mild beha-
viour and humility."

This morning arrived a Mail from yanfa;cer.

MILITARY SEMI NAILY.---.4itfinStitUtiOn has been
founded, under the. immediate patronagex of His
Royal Highness the DUKE of YORK, foi rearing up,
and educating to the- profession of Arms, One
Thousand-Children, -the legal offsprings of British
Soldiery. The ground is purchased of Sir W. FAR.
QuxAR, for the_ appropriate ere4iun Of this National
Seminary
.near Chelsea College., The funds for
greet national undertaking are to be derived
from a Parliamentary Grant, and one halfpenny out
of each soldier's daily
.pay. The whole superin.
tendance is to be under the Management. of a Go-
vernor, and a Board of Visitors.

We are happy to see by the last. Gazette, in which
is the List of the Killed and Wounded on the Coast
of Egypt, that the brave and amiable Colonel HI LL,
of the 9oth Regiment, and who behaved so gallantly
in the severe Aftion of the t 3th of March, is not
among the former, .as was very erroneously stated
in some of the Papers, which occasioned much dis-
tress to the friends and relations of that trtily wor.
thy Officer, "who, we believe, is now at lades in is
way of speedy recovery.

Ensign jitiiitttisoN of. the Coldstream Guards,
who was killed in the battle of the 13th neat Abou.
lir) is the son of Capt. JENKINSON. of Winchester,
and nephew to the Earl of LIVERPOOL.
His Royal Ilighneis the DUKE of CL.%RPNCE
and the STADTHOLDRA were last night et Drury.
Lane Theatre.-

The jampwa/ At De:let:seam de la Pattie, con-
tains the following article :
• " We are exprosly authorised to contradift, in
the most positive manner, and in all respeas, the
article relative to the Marquis de LUCCHESINII
given in the English papers, and copied into our
Paper of the 6th. ,
4 This note we give to our Readers in conse.-
quence of a letter from the Marquis LUCCHRSIN
in which we arc not merely authorized, but ex-
pressly requested to insert it."

When the teveEtable authority. on 'which the
Marquis of !Alec"' listrit's name was introduced
into the account of our successes in Egypt, be con-
sidered, there will remain but one question, whether
the Parisian Journalist has ventured to use his name
improperly, or whether the Marquis has thought
proper, "for reasons of State, to be guilty of this
disingenuous conduEk ?

By the returns made at the last Quarter Sessions
for Wiltshire, of the mixed or medley woollen broad
cloths, it appeared that the manufaaure has increased
upwards of 50,000 yards more than in the preced-
ing year, in which there was'also a considerable in.
crease.

Notwithstanding the immense public, salts of
American Flour, ‘‘ hidi have already taken place at
Liverpool, the last Paper announces the sale of
nearly ig 000 barrels more, and we understand that
the quantity still expected at that Port, greatly ex-
cceds what has already arrived there. Prices 535.
to sgs. per barrel.
A. very re:Tett-Ale Innkeeper of Bristol purchased,
a few day since, a quantity of potatoes for half a
guinea a sack, for which the farmer had, only a
fortnight ago, refused szos. per sack, demanding a
guinea for them.
Potatoes wcie last week sold at Warrington at
hall.a.guinea a load of 7.401 b.
CO A L S.—State of last week's Market :
Carves sold.
Monday, May 4, - from 316. 9d. to 41s. 9d.
Wedlie,4ay, 6, 1 10 from 31s. 9cl. to 4,15. 6d.
Friday, -8, - 49 from 315. 6d. to 411. 6d.

On Sunday last, at Theobald's Grove, Hells,
died of a decline, GEORGE PREDERICK PRESCOTT,
Esq. nephew of Sir GEORGE WI L L lAN! PttsscorT,
Bat.

Hume's History of England is the most judicious
and philosophical, Rapin's the most impartial, Dr.
Henry's, as far as it goes, the .most elaborate and
minute ; but by far the most valuable and most in-
teresting at this tune, is Grose's Military History of
England, which is just republished, with great im-
provements, and brought down to the present time.
Its value is known to all antiquaries, and it should
equally be so to every General Officer in the Army.
They might thus learn, how it has happened that
the British Forces have degenerated, from having
been the first in Europe. Mr. Grose shows, that
for a period of five or six hundred years, the English
cavalry-, and the men at arms, the archers, and the
heavy armed infantry, distinguished themselves as
much upon the Continent,. as the British Navy hws
this War upon thv ocew,

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ttICKT OF EING-413,ENCH, SAtu:r.D,A•:,

CRittIINAL n4,!FORMAT.IONS.
Mr.:GARROW moved' i
the Court for leave o tire
ti Criminal Information against an Innkeeper; at
NortliiiMpton,.•Orthe Mime pf Priestla,.nd, .for al_ledged mi=onduEt towards an Officer of the Dragoon
Guards. It was, stated, among other things, in ,
the Affidavit, on which the. Motion was founded,
that a Private Soldier in the Regiment, of which
the Gentleman now complaining • was an Officer,
had been much imposed upon, and being in a state
of intoxication, was prevailed upon to consent to
marry a woman in the neighbourhood, for which
purpose Banns were published in the usual manner,
but before the third asking, the man came to his
senses, and forbad the banns—upon which another
course was taken, and the man being again gat
into a state of intoxication, a Licence was obtained
for the purpose of accomplishing this marriage, but
that could not take place without the consent of the
Officer of the Regiment, a' whOlesbme.regulation.by
which many impudent Soldiers had been kept dear
of a great deal of misery. This Officer who now
applied to the Court for its interposition, had ex-
ercit.ed this power most humanely towards this
Soldier, and saved him from the evils of this in-
tended marriage, by refusing to assent to it for
which the man afterwards was• much obliged to
him ; but on account of which it was imputed to
the Innkeeper, that.at his Inn, when fill) of Com-
pany, he said of this Officer repeatedly, " That he
was a rascal, and a scoundrel, and that if he was
one
_of the men, .he would retaliate on him."

Mr. GARROW said, that Military Officers were
'Mich to be applauded for coming to that Court,
when insulted, instead pf appealing to arms, accord-
ing to the false Motions of Honouri which was to,)
prevalent in this Country. 'lt was setting a good
example to the Public, for if Military Men took
this course, all other professions would be called
upon to do the same thing, and so the peace of the
COuntry Would be perfectly protected by Constitu,
tional means. But there was one defed of which
he must apprize the Court, The Affidavit on which
he moved this; was entitled as in a Civil Cause ;
the Court would, Therefore, he hoped, allow that
to be altered, and the Affidavit to be re-sworn.
Lord KEN YON said, he might take a Rule to
shew Cause, but the Rule must not be drawn up
until the Affidavit was properly altered.
Mi. GARILOW said that care should be taken of
that matter.
Rule granted.