The Sun.
London, England, 1808-05-16 00:00:00

' An 'Account sheering what hp been redeemed of
the National Debt, the Land Tax, and Imperial
Loan, to the 1.7, Ally, 18Q8.
Raeemed by Annual Million, &c. - - Z69,589,87t
Ditto on account of Loans - - - 66,6;0,89

Ditto by, Land Tax T =
23,0,0,16 f
Ditto by it, per cent. per annum on Imperial Lain 862,977

\

Total ki60,15 1.037
The sum to be expended in the ensuing quarter .is.
t,639,3661. 4s. Id.

The ed Battalion of the 24th Regiment of Foot,
and the 2d Battalion of the 47th, both front Col-
chester, have embarked at Tilbury, the former for
'Guernsey, the latter for Jersey. Both Battalions
sailed on Thursday.
The Gazelle contains a Proclatnation for the rest i•
tution of all Portuguese property detained by this
Country ;—also a Proclamation declaring that all
his Wajesty:s subjeas may lawfully trade to and
from the Islands of St. Thomas, St. John, and St.
Croix.

. . The letters by the Leeward Island Mail were de-
livered on Saturday. There were no direct accounts
from Trinidad, but the advices from Grenada con-
firm too fully the distressing intelligence of the
deatruaion of the town of Port of Spain, (the capi-
tal of Trinidad) by fire. It was an extensive and
populous place. The streets were wide, but the
houses being chiefly of wood, and in .most instanceN
built close together, it wa almost impossible to stop
the progress of the flames. One letter says, that
uine-tenihs• of the town are coustuned—anotbei
states, that only the Government storehouses and
two private dwellings have escaped !
The present may be truly called an are of cala-
mity to the West Indies. The Dutch colonies of
• Demerara, Surinam,-.'and .Berhice, have been inun-
dated with rain. The. cotton crop is ruined, and se.s
veral dwellings and :warehouses have been s'welic'
away by the Bond. At Tobago, also, there have
been destructive inundations„ While in 'Antigua,
where rain is always welcome, there has been along
4tungh t

Tile French Secretary of Embassy, LABLANtUE,
lately arrived in Paris trom Persia, via Bagdad and
.Cbbstatitinople, bringing the COpy of a Treaty of
Commerce and,Amey concluded bet weep General
GARDANNU and the King of PslriA. Ths Treaty
revives the intercourse which formerly subsisted, and
is stated to • create new and important
'Severaj French Merchants at Constantinople, &C.
have in consequence gone 'to Peisia to form ests'
blishinents there. Asxca HAN, who has been sr
pointed by the Persian Monarch as his Anb:isswins.
• to Paris, is empowered to deliver and receive ratified
Copies of the Treaty.
The Danish ~Ships at Leghorn; &c. have in prt
been sold, and the reit laid up until the return of
Peace, and.the sailors are on their return horne.
Three hundred of them have lately passed through
Augsburgh and Nuremburgh for Holstein ; but
one body, under pretence‘ot haying been guilty of
some excesses, have 'been surrounded by a body of
troops, to escort them, must probably, to Flus► ing.
in the North of Germany, measures of great
strictness and precaution are employed., The French'.
have taken an inventory of all description. of VesseN.
on the coast or the Baltic;, ;sod hold the proptiettos
responsible; for their produetiun whenever they mar
be called fi. :--and at Wismar, Rostock, and most
othertowps .on the Continent, .no stranger is Allow-.
ed to enter untij the permission of the French
Agent, Civil or Military, has been obtained lot
doing
A Rotterdam Paper of Wednesday last, together
with. the Hamburgh, and several other German
prints,' to the 7th instant, furnish the Jollowaig
extracts : .

LOWS BoONAI'ARTE is organizing the Staff-44.1°
Maritie'; is to consist of .Marshals, Vice wid /tear,
.Admirals, Brigadiers, Colonels, Lieutenant Ceiotiels,,
and Maj Ors, with the same rank as Officers of Lila'
same denomination in the army.
Important,Negociations have commenced between
the, French Executive and the Land'aman of Switz 4"
land ; the object of them is a new disposition of that
Government.. It was some time since sgtd,,that
BERTHIEtt was to have the greater part of tint Call'
tons added to his principality of Neufchatel.
The English who were arrested at Rome -on the,
arrival of the FrenCh in that city, have been liberated,
on giving security for appearing when regorred. .
All music was forbid in Denmark for 'several
dys, as a mark of Mourning for the death of the •
late King.. -
"The French are forming extensive magazines of
corn in Hanover.

The Prussian Government, on the tot of A:l4,
made considerable reduCtions in the salaries id 016,
servantspf the State. From an animal allowanceol
300'dollars, tour per cent. weie deduaed; five pet,
cent. from 400 dollars, six per cent from 500, a "
So on to 1000 dollars, front which It) per cent. is
ahstraCted ; the deduction increases. from- hundr4l
to hundred, to 50 per cent. which is the maxillitulli •
upon salaries of 8000 dollars; so that the Mini4ter
of State,.Governors, Officers of the Cottrt, Itro. are
reducedto.half their former allowances.

to town on Saturday e%ening front Blackheath,
Her Royal Highness .the Princess of WALES Cattle
and honoured Covent-Garden Theatre with bet
presence. •
The Princess of WALes.has a large new room fit'
tin& up in the most ele,ant and finished. Chines')
"Style,, at her house, onl3l4eklieath, for Which the,
most eminent artists are employed; Her &PI;
klighness assisted in planninglhe arrangements aua
when completed, it will, form a room of the mot
delightful and novel de,criptiun. . ,
• The season chews fihe ter large croi.s of lamb
grain, and fruit, &c. all over the country,• :vartictv'
' fatly in Berks, Bucks, Oxfordshire.. ands,.-and
joining counties, &c. There is one very fine peach"
tree in full bloom,. and the fruit all well ser,
Gentleman's erden,,at Co;nproo4, which tail Ye'''
produced 130 do-he'll of fine truit,end by the Gen°
Alec-lan's account of this year, is very likely t°
produce three tiines that quantity.
A violent•thunder - storm prevailed in :many Pm'
Of the kingdom on We:ineiday last. Twovot [ler!
west: struck dead by lititriing, at NO ,V ;
cow was killed by the .saine cause, at Doncls'cf)
and some trees shivered to pieces in S:ilitheck
Died, on Thursday ia,t, Mrs. Ovagi:v; rif
JOHN GURNEY,q. of .1.1,1;1;9g-1,a -
%QUAD GUAM', Esq. of 4.:swick, Npfloi".