The Sun.
London, England, 1808-04-18 00:00:00

14VD2'4.

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MA DRAs, Ocr. et .—Wa haVe authentie accoutA
conveying the pleasing intiornation of the capture of
the fast-sailing Vrinch National ,Corvette Chittstuf,
of t 6 guns, elf the Nicobar islands,' by his Melia+
ty's ship fictizba yi atter a chace of 14 hours.
Btt ACM Lroani 8 s tor. 2 1 .—The Artillery. pet achl
mentofThe-Upiiel• Provinces passq.t his station yes.
terday morning. 1-is 141.i.j sty's 53d regiment Is ex-
praed in the course o' a_day or two.

Some German and Dutch Papers have. reached
town. They contain an ediel of the King. Of Ptcus•
stA, Aated the £7th of January, publithed at Bras-
law, the 15,th March, declaring that he bad ceded '
the Province of New Silesia, to be added to th*

Duchy of Wartia. A Decree of the King of WEST°
PH A LlA,dated the hth of 14'41nuary, directs that some
Englighinbtts, seized at Hamburgh on the Ist,
shall.; be-, burnt.. Tne goods sequestered at Ham-
burgh between the 25d of Ntober and the 3 Ist of
November last, have been released. it is said that
Etruria, the !nark of Ancona, and Civita Veec4ia,

are to be united with the Kingdom of

.., .
Another . portion of the Eleaurate of Hanover has
been ceded to the King of W ESTPLIBLIA, compris-
ing the bailiwick of Polle, the town of Roden wcrder,
. .

and parts of tlle Wiliwicks of Goopside and Opsen.
Monsieur LA tnevAnivnE, tho French Consul at

Danzic„ has been arrested there by ordr of General
RA.PP, and *sent prisoner to Pdrii, -accused of hav-
ing accepted bribes to im toduce Ilritish goods, .and
by thi, afezins, within a few 'months, ro'have ac-
quired tour milltons of (mom. Five Sail of the Lille
are staled toil rare been lately'built at Toulon, and
manned-by seamen obtained from Genoa, Venice,
8:c. Austria is stated to have joined the Confe-
deracy against Sweden, and to have intimated to the
Swedish Charge d'Affaires to quit Vienna,
Accounts from Cadiz mention, that the French
troops were on their march fo Madrid ; that the
advanced ggard was expeded there n the i7t h, and
that they were to be followed by an army of 40,u0u
men. It had been recommended to the King and

Royal to retire to Seville, but his Majesty
retusecho abandon his capital, and declared his re-
solution to'stand or fall with it. The greatest con-
fusion acid' dismay is -said to lure prevailed every
where.

The Besnlution Privateer, of Giterniey ; Spartan►,

SEYMOUR, from Malta for London ; Exterprizt,
TAPLEY, fronl.ditto ter Liverpool; Jean, KINNEAR,
from Newfoundland. for tireuadA ;
.Pers•verenee,
GALE, fronlThoidad for Halifax; Moitor. WA•rint-
SIAN, from Catalonia ha Philadelphia ; Eliza,-,
and „it • Ship (name unknowt9, alt'
from Liverpool lor'New-Xork, have been eaptared
and. burnt by the Hariense and Hermoine French
Frigates, which arrived in Fratice on the v7th ult.
from Martinique ; they also captured an Ames Wan
Ve3sel (rem Liverpotil for Boston, which they gave
up to. the crews of
..the Amerion Vessels they had
'captured, to.proceed to America. • •
In the Prize Court, Bombay, Sir .T.Am es Mscititt-
Tostt gave judgment, on :the t Ith a Sept. in the
• case of an Amerman Vessel trading bet Ween Manilla •
and Batavia, which was detained by our gruizers in
DeeCother 1806. It was contended: for the captors, •
that being , trading ,bet weep enemies colonies she
was acting in direct violation of his Majesty's In.
squalor's ()Untie 1803 ; -and for the claimants, that
the trade to Manilla or Batavia was not
foreigners being allowed to trade there in time of
peace. Commissions had been issued by the Court
to ascertain the truth of thevlatter statement, from
returns to which it appeared that, during the last
peace,. ports in those colonies were open to. tOreign- •
cri without restriction, except as to opium and spe-
cie,tt the port of Batavia. Sir JAMES MACKINTO3II
deCided*Nbat neither Batavia nor Manilla were such
colonies as to render an), trading thereto by neutral
nation:, in time of war, illegal, and that notwith-
standing the letter of the instruetions of 1803, some-
thing farther was necessary, namely, that the trade
to find with those . colonies was prohibited to nest- •
Inds in time of peace. The vessel was restored.
Dispatches werereceived,un Saturday at the Ad-
miralty, dated the 14th inst., on board ,the Mermaid
Frigate of 32 guns. They slate, that on the morn-
iug of„,the I.4th, Thursday last, the Mermaid fell in
with five French Schooners. tiont . Dunkirk, steering
Westward, close in•ishore,runderahe protection of
flying artillery. The Mermaid approached as close
as possible, and opened a -well-dirited
,fire, which
lasted a considerable time, and did the enemy much
damage, _ Unfortunately, however, the wind shift-
ed with the tide, and prevented •the Mermaid front
eifeaing their total destrudion,
Our • Squadron in . the Adriatic has. experienced
much kindness from.the inhabitants of the Seven
Islands, who have expressed:their desire to cu-operate
with a British force in the expulsion of. the yrehell,•
whoare notin sufficient nutubersto sustain theniselvett
against a :very inederate British: toree,•-• At Corfu
they •have.only fifteen hundred men, at Zaino .only
one. hundred, and fifty at • Aphalonia. This
,latter
'lsland would be an acquisition of great value to na,
as we Might keep- it with. .500 men. The inhk.
ho have 340 Vessel's, are particularly.at-
tached to the English, and by no means partial to
the French:
Died, on the 12th inst. at Moira-House, inDub-
lin, Eciz usiern, Countess Dowager of IVonta.; in
the 77th yt.Xar of her age, Her Ladyship was daugh-
ter of TimoetilLUS, Earl of • HUNTINGDON, and by
thei .1)441 of her brother, ,Faaticts Earl of- Hurrr-
INartotv without issue, succeeded to the ancient.
Barunies of liungerford, Haitiogs, Botreaux,
lins, Moels, Peverell, Newinareh, and De Horuet,
CORN-EX(.IIANDE, APRUL i8.,--The supply of
\Vheat to-day is rather considerable, and •toe sales.
dull, at somewhat lower piices; Barley anti Malt
keep their prices; Beans of bar h sorts iiice.‘64\l;
ItVhiti3 Pease are again cheaper; 'Grey rather.' so;
there Are alsoconsiderable supplies of Oats, ,and saki
thereof rather lower; Flour on the terms of last
week.