The Sun.
London, England, 1801-05-27 00:00:00

PRICE OF BREAD.

Yesterday the LORD MAYOR was waited upon
by the Principals of the Bakers' Company-, at the
Mansion-house, respeaing the Assize of Bread; tnit
it appearing, by the Returns of the Mealweighers)
that 23,00 z quarters and four bushels 'of Wheat
sold at the Corn Exchange between the Ilth and
:6th inst. from 6os. to z4ss. per 'quarter, and
22,222 sacks of Flour sold between the 16:11 and
zad inst. at the Corn Exchange, from 645. to
: zos. per sack, forming averages of 9ts. 4d. Per
quarter, and '975. tad. per sack, whereupon his
Lordship ordered the Bread to be raised one As•
size and a Half, or 3d. in the Peck-Loaf—to corn•
mence aid take place tomorrow; the Quortern
Loaf will then be sold for One Shilling and four.
pence Farthing.

EXTRACT OF A LETTER. FROM AF OFFICER. AT

FORT BELIZE, HONDURAS.

" Fwt Belize, Honduras, 134 December, zgoo.
" _The Troops here are very healthy, and busily
engaged, preparing against an attack from the Spa-
niards. Should they have the temerity to come, lam
not under the -least apprehensions for the safer,' of
the Settlement, as Brigadier:General Sir BICHAED
BASSET, who commands here, is exerting himself
in making every necessary preparation for their re-
ception, which his lcngth of service and experience
enable him to do, in a style that gives us every ex-
peetation of being able to revel the utmost dogs of
the Dons."

In imitation of what was done in this. Country,
the Danes set on foot a Subscription for the wool'
Searnen, and the Widows and Orphans of those
'4°
fell in the battle-of the ad April. By the last ac-
counts, no less than t a sOOO rix dollars (about
25,0001. sterling) had been. received, and more was
expetied.
Letters .from the Cape of G od Hope: by the
India Ships just arrived; state, that Sir Hosts for-
PANI, after landing the new regiments which he took
out, and embarking the asd and 61st Regocuts,
and the rest of the garrison, in transports, wars to
proceed on the 2Sth of February froM thence, 003
secret expedition, supposed to be against the Spanish
South American possessions or, the River De La
Plata. A large. quantity of horse-farniture
shipped, to equip a body of, Light Dragoons °II the
horses of the country.
When the news of the fall of Sir RALPH Alit°
ckom Dv was received at Edinburgh, it was 112
posed that all Officers of the Line, the Militia a
id
Yeomanry, Artillery, and Volunteer Corps then
that City, should, for the next four &War) s 4.
pear in mourning dresses.
snedStethweacrdio,thMes
On Tuesday se'nnight tfte baggage of Gesell' Sir
contained RALPH ABItiCROMBY was landedbfrom the flog
Mr.
It is three or four years we believe since _
Gtohcs Al=
----cßomav the Advocate, the eldest
rileDwoilt)spwiouPnndeeeloifn:lw trUn
t
son of Sir RALest, was married to Pile of
daughters of Mr. Du
-NDAs. This Gentleman
practises as an Advocate at the Scotch Bar, ,
r
n.
All the East India Ships just arrived, distinetil
felt the shock of an earthquake in la, q.deg•ll)„,o
*South, and long. 92 deg. 47 min. Last• 3 l "1e
rq
. preceded. nearly .a quarter of an ..tour- by
heavy swell from
,the Southward, • „f
S It/NOILS • Fil.Q34 INPIA, P$R vaiESP$l6-;
Captain G. A. Robinson; John Laird_ Esq. C3l3tatilvitioef
Dayys, of the 29th Light Dragoons ; M,iss E. Loftye''l,
.•
F. and H. Fulton; master and Miss Horsoly ; Mast
and N. Hudson; Misses H. and A. Gilchrist,
The Paris Papers have published a severe
hhad
upon Mr. JEFFERSON, in lit statement that „_‘,
addressed an affedionate letter to the infamous Ir.,
PAINS. We cannot be led to give the sinalle:;
credit to such an attack on the charaaer of a 11'1

in office.
There' has lately been h superb sale of Piaores
at Paris. It was, ROSET'S CollOtion• The
occupied seven days, and the produce was 700
o,oi,
SEctrusi purehased to the amount 0f.300,000 frocall
Another French Citizen paid 40,000 for two '111.5,
piaures of Morillo's. There were some COminl,l
?ions from England ; but the National spirit, s,l)ab
the French Journalist, would not let ,the Etigt'd
have any other than piaures of the second or thl,A
rank, the possession of which would add little vi
our wealth in this valuable art. It
The folloWing ludicrotis circumstance lately t3ll
place., in the neighbourhood of Brest. A Corils
of Artillery, (a married -man) was walking wilier
gunner in the, fields.. ,They met a cow which "they
of
killed with their sabres, and then went in sc2rcani,
a butcher with whom they began to skill tam in
mal. The guard Came up and apprehended the
the fatl, and the Military Council condettlne t, his
Corporal to march in public with the hitici/".°2", talc
head and shoulders, *fitted in such a manticrri

horns should dignify his forehead. for
The Bill now before the HOuse of Cornmi" ,5,.: the
the further Relief of Debtors, with reiPe6 `-cre-
imprisonment of their persons, enads---4"'r their
ditors may discharge all persons imprisoned °I
Suits, without losing at any future nine, thi beri
'i,„:l
of the Judgment upon which the executon "
been. i,sued. ' • - ,
On -Friday morning last a wager was deternit-,0
on the Brampton road, near Carlisle, that a favoutile,
hackney mare, should tiot trio miles while a Ce
j"-
~
°

Y -
!gated pedestrian hero of nei:Chbouthood
sTevheenmmarien,u-
teasl,thozgal::bsehaet tbroyttchcalifthaemticievo, morileteil
minutes and a half.
ues
nted)
•
The Albion, Bunkers and' the Speed'', r oe
from London, were, well off Norfolk. Islam'. t.
former in November and the latter in 00ober 'J-
I
The Eolus, Forster, from Lisbon to London,iitiase
captured the Bth instant-, off Ireland, retake'
na
Loth ditto by the Revenge Privateer of jersO''

carried in there.
The Born Joust Almas Coelho, from Cork. t°
Lisbon, is taken by the French. to th'
The Rebecca (supposed), from Botany
Frer. BaY
ct
Cape of Good Hope, is captured by the