The Sun.
London, England, 1801-08-24 00:00:00

LONDON, AUGUST 24, 1801.

LORD NELSON, with the whole of his Fleet,
weighed anchor from Deal yesterday morning, and
stood to thallorthward. At three in the afternoon
the Fleet were still in sight, apparently shaping
their course N.E.

A Flotilla, which was supposed to be bound to
Boulogne from Dieppe, was met off St. Faller]
on Friday evening by His Majesty's Frigate Ja-
maica, which immediately gave battle to, ana sue,.
ceeded in sinking three, and capturing as many;
one of the latter of which sunk soon after she was
taken. The vessels were close in shore, and covered
by the Enemy': Batteries.

MAJOR MoNrit ESOR arrived in Town on Satur-
day evening, with Dispatches from Majoi-Gene-
ral HurcHtNsov, containing the. official details
of the Surrender of Cairo, which hay.e been so
anxiously expetled, and which were yesterday
published in a Londcn Gazette Extrawdinary, tp
be found in our preceding columns. It will be
gratifying to our Readers 'to find that this success
has been purchased without bloodshed on either
side. The force in the City, it appears, was not
exaggerated, when it was stated at 6000 men.—
Too much cannot be said of the beneficial conse-
quences likely to result from the capture, nor too
much praise bestowed on the Troops to whom we
are indebted for the accomplishment of an °Ned
so.arduous, and which has been attended with so
much fatigue ; but it is unnecessary to enlarge on
these subjeas, as the opinion of the Public has been
uniform and undeviating from the first moment.of
the arrival of the intelligence. .
By the Terms of the Capitulation it will be seen
that the French and Auxiliary Forces are to evact,
Ate the City of Cairo, the Citadel, the Ports Of
Bculac, Giza, and all that part of Egypt which
they then occupied ; are to retire by land to Re-
sena, with their arms, baggage, field-pieces, and
ammunition, and are thence to be conveyed to the
French Ports in the. Mediterranean, at the expence
of the Allied Powers, by the most dire& aml ex.
pcditious route. The, third and subsequent Arti
des of the Convention, to the eleventh inelusively,•
determine the manner in which the conveyance of
these Troops, bid the other circumstances inci-
dental to it, are to be.-regulated. The twentieth
Article direas that a *communication of the Con-
vention shall be made by a French Officer to Gene-
ral MENou. , at Alexandria, who shall be at liberty
to accept it for the Forces in that place, within ten
days after the time of his receiving the communi-
cation. The date of this Convention is the 27th
of June, and supposing General ME xott to have
received the intelligence on the 3oth, he will have
had till the 9th of July to deliberate on the condul
he would adopt ; and as Lord &ones. Letter is
dated on the 18th of July, it does not come down
to a date sufficiently recent to bring us the result
of the French General's deliberation, supposing him
to have taken the time allowed him by the .Con-
vention. We arc however without anxiety as to
an event which, as far as it is allowable to calcu-
late upon certainty in human events, appears 'in.
cvitable, though it may be delayed a few days, or a
few weeks.

The Park and TQwer guns were fired on Saturday
evening in consequence of the above advices.

The Hambuish Mail due on Wednesday arrived
on Saturday evening, and that due yesterday ar-
rived in course, The intelligence which the fur.
mer has brought us from Egypt is anticipated by
the 4ficial accounts. From Peterdur‘b we receive
information that DUROC has failed in the objea of
his mission, the revival of the Northern confede-
racy, a fail which our Pacification with the Court
of Russia had long ago enabled us to predia. The
other information brought by the first Mail is un-
interesting, with the exception of those articles
which relate to the Invasion of this Country ; and
our Readers have been so long alarmed, or rather
excited to vigilance by these accounts, that we 4101
not thinkit necessary so reoapitulge prepara.
tips of the French,

.a. • ••••• •V•aallA 1, 1111 LUC In 414".7

that the Turkish Troops were advancing in COr'
siderable force against AleAandria. It represent)
too the preparations in Holland and Flanders as nog
aaually carried on, less with a view to an attack
upon our Coast than to the defence of their own,

WE yesterday received Paris Papers to the
2lst instant. They, contain scarcely any thid
of importance. Admiral LA.ToVCITE TR Ev
has given an account of the Attack made by Les
NE LsoN: on the French Gunboats, on the !lie:
of the rsth instant. If we were not already in
possession of the narrative given by Lord NkLsoll
and his Officer's ofthis affair, we might peruse this
account with some interest. But this is- no lone
excited ; nor can we, patiently peruse a statement/
in which it is said, that one of the French Guts'
Boats sisal four o f our Pinnacer and took several -I
All mention of the Chains which preserved these
Vessels, is of course omitted, and the French are
again covered cwith glorj•, for having saved their
Boats from the efforts of our Seamen.

We understand, that in the arrangement or the
offices of Secretary of State, the Plantation business
is transferred from the Home Secretary to Loi
HUB AR T'S Office.

Sir Oft)xcE SHEE is appointeci to the Herne
Department, principally for 'the purpose of givi4
his assistance in coluitietiiig the Correspondence with
Ireland, with the affairs of which he is particular)/
con versant.

In addition to the Supplementary Militia and Va'
lunteer Corps, which are every where organizing fat
effeaive service,` arrangements are making for rats'
ing the Country rti mane, should circumstances re'
der such a measure necessary ; the Sheriff's of same
Counties have already issued their preeepts.for asset'
raining the number within their several ,Distriei
capable of bearing arms, and for establishing evert
possible facility to the immediate assembling of the
posse comitatzst, in the eu.ent of invasion.

Lieutenant-General w zLLIAM GARDINER IS ara°,
pointed Governor of Kinsale, vice General L
Ito&smoxE, deceased ; and
Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. TWIN CRE /GHTOlif
to be Governor of Hurst Castle, vice Lieutenant'
General GAILDINER.

The Lincoln Supplementary Militia are to be re:
embodied at Stamford and Grantham; on the Vs'
inst. and the following day.
The Nottingham Militia are to be re-embodit4
at Mansfield on the z+th of September,
The Volunteers of Scarborough are at present
doing garrison duty there.
The Suffolk Supplementary Militia was on Thuts4
day re.etnbodied at Bury and Sudbury.
The Troops, including some Detachments of the
Guards, which marched from Colchester rthcnit Al4s
weeks since, nre shortly to return thither.
The Leicestershire Militia were to be emboaigl
at Leicester this day.

Several other of the Scotch Volunteer Corps, VII
addition to those we before mentioned, have off
feted to extend their services to England in case
invasion. The Musseibur4h, Dalgety, and SitAth"
migis, were most prQminent.

Saturday a considerable number of Letters Fre
the Cape of Gooal-lope and St.... Helena, brought 0,
England by the G'am.brion Frigate, were delivered
from the Post-Office.. By this 'medium, Letter,
from the Cape. I'o the" 26th of May are received,
which state that the nutriber of Troops sent ftolll
Bombay to co-operate with the British 'Army i°
Egypt, amounted to near.. 816 co men.--Our Letter°
from St. Helena are to the z4th of June, at whiel
period, the iVimibain and Lord Drumm Indigrei
had arri;ed there tram London.

General MOORE, and several other wound
Officers, are stated to have
.been on board the S,willa
sure, on their passage to Malta, when she was c:lr-
tured.

•
The two Naval Officers who were to have bet/
executed at Copenhagen, on the 14. th inStant, for
cowardice in the battle of the 3(1 of April, wer°
pardoned when brought to the scaffold, on

tion of being imprisoned for life.
The Banking-house established at Hcimburgh for
commerce with Vienna, is called Foga and Corm.
anj ' • a name composed from the initials of the
four Partners, FRICS, OCHS, GtYMEELLIER, and
ARts-rrEtxtits, four rich Bankers of Vienna. It 9
business will be principally confined to the payment
of the debts and interests due by Government to
FOreign Countries.

The importation of Grain and Flour for the %WIC"
viz, from the 15th to the 21st inst. inclusive, Os
as follows ; Wheat, 25,700 quarters ; Flour, it,5,84?
cwt. ; Oats, ,I 1,960 quarters ;. and Rice, 7,00 ct
ew t.
There were likewise about r,OOO .quarters Of
Barley, and a like quantity of Pease. ,
. The Price of Wheat in the Metropolis has'
during the last week, experienced a further retoc;
tion of about zos per quarter, bring a fall of three
Guineas per quarter .within the present month/
Barley is gs. Rye Bs. and Oats 6s. per quartet
cheaper. Flour holds its price, and is 103. ref
Sack dearer than the best quarter of Wheat.
In some of the Provincial Markets, Wheat has
fallen more,than Cent, per Cent. At Chester, ar
the commencement of the present month, the 3''ei'
raged Price of Wheat was 15s. z Id. and last wee'
one hundred bushels of prime new Wheat was offer"
ed at Ss. 3d. per bushel ; but no purchaser ,
be found, the Dealers e:pefting, from the admitted
abundance of the present Harvest, a still greater
reduetion,
In Cheshiie, Staffordshire, WArwickshire, and.
some ne.ghbouring Countie,, Potatoes are selling al
one shilling per bushel of Soil).

Died, on Friday the x4th inst. at the Parsonage'
House, Chatham, WILWAM STORY, Esq. at thc
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,Stcl JGrte dazzent.

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) 'ApigntAL Un- Watluthe. whole of.his
feet;,;-consisting of Hilli9lalegsiyesl;Ships M-ertuset
and Lryei,en, -Dant.SloopiCtiiier,-z•Ffec-1.4 Explosion,
and Su/gra-. Bustl3s, rpwgitio;re, -and. Nairzy
rire-v.esseh; Harty., anti j9ciall
Gun brigs.); xnd Expreis. AdsicaliKrat,. weighed this
rnorningrabont. nine -A. M. and
_proceeded to the
N'ortl?ward ; ..and-at three P IVI.-the,Fleet were still
in sight-,..,apparently -shaping- their' course N. E.

His-Majesty's Frigate jaMitiCa.pilived this af_
ternoisnfrorrithe Coast of Frince, MAI brings the
agreeable hiTelligerice of her having in the •evening
of the"*Frst Ynst. fallen with sevexat French Gull.
boats off St. Vallery,l*-lich th,.!y -immediately gave
battle to,, and succeeded -sinking three, and
captur 'the sa rive nurnber, one. -of which' sunk.
soon 41(9-11 -4-1! s ASP4t4 ligcs rt.ll4t,
this Flotilla was bound
.to Boulogne frciliVieppe;
they were 'in id igoii; covered-•.
with
the , eTaly AT t'iNcy.,. .9 Qt ist ndi wh •our .
gallattt.'Scarnen ha ^e ,evinced ;.the-•,ll.itility.-of: a
French Invasion, by destroying some of the very
Vesseß'-I.i. c.3e3ciiit was •to he *e
even within. relo.of 'their canAQ:),,on ovp.

The Haider 'Slooki Of ;War i 3 airiV'ed from th-e
River; and :the ?wee this,after.
n4°l-1-vnlq.Cruize to the We4tward. .
Saifeti the tos:iDuncan Outtet, With the Princess
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aly and Caiidoiii.aN I ndiainen, andOutWafd-00u.nk..,
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SAILED the ,Royal Sovereign, of tio guns,.-V ice-
Acimital HARiEi, I 2 guns,
74 guns, `and huitAtig:abie Frigate; to
IF, Channel Fleet: . 1/4• . -
Arrrived the Brig-E.xpeltimentr,of---iild for
don, .Wicrqttlisir I'l4 t`; master, Jaded sugar;
from M4r.t-iniclu;;,p4rtd from the oxpoit.7
and, and put back.:-by''bootrary winds: _
• Atiived the Darber; ;of 18 itin'i-:from'igiuize..
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