The Sun.
London, England, 1801-09-26 00:00:00

SHEERNESS, SEPT. -25.

A:IOt.IVED His Majesty's Ship Serapis,,of 36 guns,
Capt. WINNE, Margate Roads : she is to be
relieved in her station there by the Ardent, of 64.
guns, at the Nore the Conflia Gun-brig has also
arrived.

Sailed. His Majesty's Ship Monarch, of 74 gut*,
Car, PEYTON, for Yaimouth,

The Sophie is undocked.

•
YARMOUTH, 2'5.

SAILED the King George Packet, FLYN, for Cuic.
haven ;,Catherine and Mary, ROB r itrs, for Roches-
ter ; anad,Fie Sisters, Hos us, for Scotland. '
The Delight, Wit min' master, from }lull to
Hambetrghowith coals, on the 23d instant, about,
ten in the forehoon, 'came over ,Happislitirgh Sand,
and became Wafer-logged. The Crew, consisting
of the master, two 'men, and a boy, took to their
Boat, which, on coming to the beach at Happi,-
burgh, unfortunately' overset, and the master, one
Man, and the- boy, were drowned. The *Vessel
was almost immediately boarded by two Cod-
smacks, who 'succeeded in getting' her into Yar.
mouth Haven. •

A Squadron of Ships of War, supposed to be Ad;.
miral lltexsies, just now appear in sight. •

NAVAL. APPOINTMENTS: Lieutenant LUKE
HORNE, to His Majesty's Ship Ruby,, of 64. guns ;
Captain J. WEST, to the Utrecht, of 6a guns ;
Lieutenant 'HERRING, to His Majesty's Ship the.
Ville de Paris, as First 'Lieutenant ; Lieutenant
JAMES BOULT, to His Majesty's Ship the Plancbe ;
Lieutenant WALTER KENNEDY, to His Majesty's
Ship the Bari/era, of 98 guns; Mr. ARCHTE AL,D
Tt LFER, to His Majesty's Ship, Raisonizble,"Of 64.
guns ;
.Lieutenant GEORGE HOLDER,' to His Ma::
jesty'S Ship the rille de Paris, as Second iLieutenan t.
Accounts were yesterday received at the Ad_
miralty of the safe arrival of His Majesty's Ship
Investi,eator, Captain Ft INDERs, at the Island of
Madeira, on her voyage of Discoveries.
We understand that the ships taken up this season
for the service of the Honourable East-India Com-
pany, are proposed so be armed as ,follows Those
vessels of 'zoo tons burthen, to carry 38 pieces of
ordnance, each of which is to be an eighteen-poun-
der ; twenty-six are to be mounted on the principal
battery, ten to be earriedon the upper deck, and two
in the after_ports, eight feet in length, to serve
as stein-chasers. The vessels of 800 tons, are to
carry 32 preces of .ordnance; twenty are to be
ilhounted no the principal battery or gun-deck, ten
op the upper. deck, and two carronades, eighteen
p(illitieFs,in the after_ports, to serve as stern chasers.
the,Ships are all to be provided with hoarding net-
tings, at least half mast high, 'and dose round the
(poetess. '11)e men to be :rationed in the tops

are to be armed with swivels, musquetoons, and
pole-axes. A Master at Arms js to be carried in
each Ship, in order to learn the crew the great_
gun exercise. The carronades are to run uporn a
sliding carriage. The former method of defenCe
in general pradice on board. East India Ships was,
twenty guns on the prindipal battery, and six on the
quarterdeck, and their weight of metal did not ex.
ceed twefve and nine pounders, which
,was very in_
adequate to the deffnce proper to. be made by Ships
of so respeEtable a construaion and equipment, and.
hence the losses which have been ,sustained by Cap-
tures_ this War, as in the instances of the Pigat,
taken pit Bencoolen.; the Fri-cress Royal, 'Captured
in the Straits- of Sunda ; Tritoit, taken by a Pilot
Schponer, in the Bay of Bengal
,; the Rayn ion'd and
Woodcot; taken by the French On the 'Malabar
Coast ; 'and lastly,. the unfortunate Kent; off the
Sand Heads,: by' the .Surrovir.,. This last capture
was avowedly owing to a want of the ineans•ot, de-
fenee, ' . .

The regular tonnage appropriated this season at
present, for the purpose- of,.being.;. sent tO:china
teas, &c.' amount to 16,798
,cliartered- tons, which
are occupied in fourteen ships.

The: Privateer Brig, Two Brothers Fither, be-
longing to Nassau, .has had a severe engagement
with a Spaniih‘ArMed Brig, in which both crews
suffered mtfch.•

In the lunricane at Nassau, in July last, the Sloop
Primrose, ----, with an American and a Spanish
Vesse4 ‘..ver. the only vessels in the harbour that
,rode out the gale; but it was:hoped that many of
the stranded vessels would be got afloat again. with-
out rnuth cisels' that have ar-
rived at; Nassau since the hurricane experiencA4
severe gale, but nothing like what was felt there,
The Lord Nelson, ; Charlotte, ---- ; and,
Brothers; belonging. to Nassau, ha.ve• been
wrecked off the coast of the Crews
saved. .

The Hoop; Bcterwey, from Rotterdam to Guern-
sey, is taken by a British cruizer and. carried into
jersey.
The Schooner, Peggy, Kenny, from Jamaica, was
captured by. ii- Privateer on the is3th "Julv. TN;
Crew turned adrift in a boat and arrived at Jamaica,

. .
MAJOR. ANDit E'S. TR E .-The memorable Tulip
Tree, at Green6tirgh, in Ainerica, under whicll
Major ANDRE wits taken,. was struck on the 3lst
of July -last with lightning. It was rent almost-ex-
adly in. two frOm top to bottoM. Near the root it
was hollow, at which part it took fire, and blazed
up for about twelve or fifteen feet through the fis:,
sure for a few minutes, when the eastern part fell.;
the remainder extending over the road,stood in so
menacing an attitude, as to render it necessary to
cut it down. This remarkable tree measured z 6
feet in Circumference at the base, was tt r feet in
height, and its branches extended io6 feetio
meter. - -

A Letter from Vienna states, that the improve.;
ments. the ARCHDUKE is introducing into the Aus-
trian Aimy give great sati,laftion. He has dis-
banded the Corps of Red Mantl-s, a .Regiment of
Chasseurs. These rnev, besides being bad soldiers.,
disgraced the Austrian Army by frequent robbales
and assassination. At the commencement of the
War they received a florin for the head of every
.Frenchman that they brought in to the Advanced
Posts ; but it was found that these banditti used to
cut off. the head; of die unfortunate peasants who=,
they met with in the fieldi, in order to obtain the
promised rewarcL
. On Thursday the Royal Westminster Voliinteers
Marched to Kentish Town to fire for a Silver Cup,
according to their annual practice.---They fired
three rounds' each. The. Winner, Mr. Roe, of the
srh Company, hit
,the target every -time. The
firing did the greatest credit to the Corps, for the
Target was almost shot to pieces.—The Corps after-
wards dined at Kentish Totill.

A letter from Chelmsford, September 25, says,
" A large Detachment of Flying Artillery, and A
number of Ammunition Waggons, passed through
this place on Monday and on Wednesday last
other Detachment passed- through on its routefof
Colchester, ..where sixteen of the t4.th Light Dra-
goons have been ordered to join the Artillery Corps;
The Cumberland Militia are expeeled here shortly.
Wednesday sennight, the East Suffolk Regiment
of Militia arrived at Ipswich, after an absenceof
nine years, and were most welcomely greeted on
delivered to them by the Baker who contrailstheir entrance into the town, Upon havlng the Bread
for the
Troops in Garrison, on the Thursday, it proved so
very indifferent, that at the evening Parade com-
plaint was made thereof, and the Baker appearing to
answer the sanie,,he was very roughly han4led, and
underwent the discipline of tossing in 'a blanket iJ
the. Barrack-yard. The Baker having exculpate°
himself by throwing ,the blame on the Miller, for
the badness of his flour, the latter is threaer'e
with the like summary punish neat. •

The Comedy of She Stoops to Conquer, and Farce
of The Apprentice, have been performed by the
Officers of the 82d, in garrison at Port Mahon, f°',
the benefit of the Widows and Children of Sulclicr:
and SZ:amen who fell in Egypt. An Address
written and delivered on the occasion by Lieutell3:t
BAR Ro N. The performance, which was given
the regular Theatre, produced x to!.

CHARLES ANDERSON, Esq. is eleaed MOl°r's
and S...murt, SPAN and RICHARD VAUCH'AIq) jun.'
Esqrs. Sheriffs, of Bristol.
EowARD GOLDESBOROUGIP, Esq. is eleaecl
Mayor of, Wells.
Tuesday JOHN Goo w N, Esq. was chosen Marr
of Portsmouth, for the ensuing year.
Woof/ley Lodge; near Reading; was built about
twenty-five years ago by. Mr. WHEI3LE• It was
Sold-to Admiral Lord .1-IoTHAm. Mr. AnnlNco.ol4'
was the-next possessor, who embellished, increased,
and dignified it. A few days ago it was bought
Mr. WHEi3LE, son of the original proprietor. t
A fatal accident had like to Lave taken place 3,
the Theatre at Vienna. The grand lustre •suspencleat
over :the Pit fell down, but the cylinder co whch.lic
was fixed luckily unrolled itself so slowly, that a tl
speaators in the Pit had time to get out the way,
The lustre cost one thousand crowns. by

ctoons, and
carried in

the great.:
run upo'n a
of defence
Ships was,
d six on tilt-,

did not ex_
,as very in„.
[de by Ships
iprcent, and.
led by Cap-
r the Pigal,
74 captured
by a Pilot
2yr;;a7:d and
le Malabar
!nt, off the
I'3C capture

leans o de.

.s season at
oc:2,hina
whie-1-2

cisiicr, be-
ngag:!ment
bol crews

the Sin')
a Spanish
irboor

t many of

(rain with-
have ar-

)crienc::d
!It there.

; and
have is en
the Crew

to Cuero-
tried into

mica, was
Jly. The
Lt Jamaica,

ible Tulip
.ier whic4
n the 3tst
ilinost ex-

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and blazed
h the fis:,
part fell,;
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!4sured ;6
r feet in

a, in .dia,

improve.,
► the Aus-
has dis-
giment of
robt-lies
flt of

of every
Advanced
ti used to

nts whom
obtain the

rolunteers
ilver Cup,
fired
)E, of
Tti.
for the
)rps after-

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ry, and
thrbte
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route fa

iglu Do'
ry Corrs•
shortly."
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thsence'of
reetpd on
the Bread
61s for the

proved so
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dled, and
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'XCU:pate
liner, fbr
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bre;l!..e°

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f 5000.5
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give'

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