The Sun.
London, England, 1801-09-05 00:00:00

THE SUN.

SOLiM QUIS OIdERZ, FAISU.M.AMDZ4iT

LONDON, .SEPTEMBER.,S,

Admiral LordNELsorrstill remains with his fleet
in the Downs. .

This morning artivecl a Mail from Lisbon,
brought to Falmouth by ;he King George Packet in
seven days.
The outward-bound Mediterranean and, Lisbon
Fleets, consisting of nearly 100 Sail of Vessels
under convoy, Lave put back to ,Turbay by con-
trary winds, after being oft' Falmouth.
The two Hartiburgh' Mails still . remained• due
when cur Paper was put to Press.

The PRINCESS CHARLOTTE of WALES, attended
by the Countess of ELGIN, arrived:at the Lawn, at
South Church, the seat Of THOMAS S:L'IMN'ER., Esq..
last Tuesday evening,, about, five o'clock, *where
Her . Royal Highr.ess is exueaed ,'to:-reside some
weeks, on account.of its I.:,::nity to South Eytd.
On Tuesday• next the Right -Hon. .the Loki)
MAYOR will hold a Court of Alder at Guild-
hall, to seaf into Orrice C.icoßG ta'A RICE, -Esq.,.
as Alderman of the• Ward of Bassishaw, the room
of Sir WILLIAM' PLOMER, Knt. and Alderman,
lately deceased.; and to elect a Governor: of the.
Tackltliouse, ail& Ticket Porters, agfeeably. to ALT
Of 'Common Council, •in the room of the late Sir
Wm. PLomElt ; and on other business. 1

A. notice was put.up a; the'Post,Qffice. a feW days
ago, to inforin.the Public-that letters woulil,now be
forwarded to Spain through Portugal, the intercourse
bet Ween the two'countries being re-establi's,hed:,

So stria is the Barrack Guard mounted at Mill
Prison, Ply'mouth,
_by the ;(.1 Royal
,Lancashire,
that with each morning's guard is an artillerY-m..,11
,with his match; at the battalion gtips;.whiCh ar
all ready for action in 4 moment's time.. . Ile guns
on all the outworks and different batteries of the
Citadel, and its dependencies, are- all run out, of
the embrasures, .ard tompioned,against the beats of
the weather.

There wads a most splendid' Garrison IBall At
CheimsforFi,on Wednesday evening last, at which,
besides a. 'Amber. of.neighbouring Gentry, IA efe,
the Marquis and 144chioness: of BUCKINGHAM,
Lord and Lady COB WANT, and Lord GEORGE and
Lady MARY GRENVILLF.

We find that the plan of Regimental Sehools is.
not limited to the De,Vonshire Regimen-e of 'Militia
alone. There are in Piyinouth Garrison two SCIIOI,
for the children of die Privates and Non-commis.sion-
e4 Officers of. the ,29th .Regiment of door, under the
patronage, of Lietftenant-Colonel Lord E. i'loNT4-
GuE and ,the Officers of the z9th ; "al,l
the Plymouth division of *Marines;
,under stile
t ronage of Major-Getter:dß° w ATE R and ihe OffiC'eu,
of that invaluable Corps. The happy idea of
us-
ing a portion of-useful, knowledge into the-children
of our brave. defenders, formerly too'much re...;4eel-
ed, has .already beeo produaive of the triost salutary
eFefts. • . '

. ,
Monday last, ,being Charter-day for eleCting the
Mayor and: other Officers of the Borough of•Col-'
‘chester, the follolwing were chosen, for the ensuing
year: Mr. Alderman TitomAs HEDO., Mayor;
M essrs..',Aldermen SMITH,Wm, PHILLIPS,
and ROB ERT HEWES, Justices ; Messrs; VIE. MASON,
jun. and' CHARLES HEDGE, Coroners ; aud Mr.
THOMAS ANDREWS, Chamberlain ; and on ivp
chaehnas-day they will be swot° into their resre.
-tive offices. • •

, • •
The pilchard fishery,ton, the coast of Cornwill
has hitherto' been unusually ,prosperous, and- 'Pally
thousands of hOgsheadsk,have been cared at the 441
ferent pOrts.• Such iMinenSe-.vantities have been
enclosed by the se-pies' at St. Ives, that they have
lain dead in 'the nets ten :feet, deep for want of
salt to preserve t them, and , of.
,course have been
wholly lost. • . '
• Mr. BAlisc LeLY, of Urv, has 'made a wager of
5000 guineas; with Mr. ER; of BallinShoe,
that he ;hall- walk ';9O miles in-I.i hours and an ball,
to be decided some time, in the month of Novem-
ber. 'Mr. BARCLAY formerly undertook to' walk
the same distance in the same given doe, for a
wager of zOOO guineas, - with MF.*FLETCHFR,
which he lost,. on- account of his having over fati-
gued himself pt setting out; • , • , •
The French began the Revalcition by making
War upon Heaven, -and now, in_.the true spirit
,of
consistencyrthey have it in contemplation tO;bstre.r
the clOuds-,-••for this purpose it is intended- tto ere}..
several l3atteries.on the Pyrenees, and to 'n-lotint
them with eight and i-ertypounders, because;,a's the'.
French -Writer (Who mentions the cireuM;tanze)
states, very philosophically, the souad.ofdannoty
has been found very efficacious in driving. away
storms'of hail from the tops of Mountains. , Instead,
however, of ereCtin Batteries,- the NationaY Iri-.
stitute perhaps may devise some plan of dragging
up it few 7.. gun Ships,. WhO may batter away a
storm with a•feW broAdsides, and be in perfect secu:.
rity from the.linglish, Tars,

'We believe that of late years it. has been oz.'
tomary in the Navy to use only commOn, balls, but
in consequence of the new system of Naval Isaffics
adopted by the French; we ingst again :have recourse
to chain shot.

The French must he put to an enormous expence
for chains and rettitig for their Ships, but it must
be admitted on, the other hand that they will save
considerably by leaving off the use of sqils:
The story of the ~,,.otuan Who was delivered Of
four stout child:Jen, is now acl,;.nowledged, .by the
it'rench *journalist w 1 first set it in circulatiqn, to
be erroneous. He har/ever lets his readers down-
gently, observing that the children were four .in
nucgm, but not as at first re, Orted, very stoat.

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