The Sun.
London, England, 1806-03-03 00:00:00

DISTRIBUTiON OF PRIZE-MONEY.

To the Officers and Crevti, of His Majesty's hired armed
Cutter Adive, for the;re-capture of the Betsey, Francis, and
Providence, the iseh and 16th September, 18,i, on board
said Cutter, at Leith, tomorrow ;tor every Tuesday and
Friday for`tAree months, at No. 2i, 'Essex-street, Strand.

The ilercules, Country Ship, dispatched from
Bombay for the Mauritius, laden with colion, was
taken ott' the Cape of Good Hope, the loth of
DeceMber, by thee. Napoleon French Privateer and
on the 13th of December the prisoners, with the •
Captain and
,Crew of the Diamond Whaler; captured
on the loth Nov. were landed at the Cape of Good
Hope. On the 2I st Dec. Governor JANSEN ait' 3 7
ling! ish prisoner's on board the Danish Ship-Bis
Merin, for Sr. Helena, Where they arrived on -the 6tli
January. .
The :Milford, a private Ship, from Bombay, bound
to London, .arrived at. St.'Helenaon the 2 1 St. Jan.
in 'the passage from Macao the China Ships took
the inner passage
.between 'the—Paracells and the
Coast of Cochin. Thh.passao-e neVer 'has' been' laid
dowi) in any chart with perlea accuracy, aud.seve-
ral Vessels toddled the shoal near Pulo Cecir De
Mer, We are happy, to extraia fro, i . the Madras
Oazette the following articles, which may be ofser-
vice to seafaring Readers :

ENTRACIT ,OF A LETTER FROM RIS ,MAJESTY 5,5111 P

GRAMPUS, JAN. 12, 1805.

" It is with•extreme regret I inform you, that on
the loth instimt, at half-past one o'clock; P. M. ii
li).. 108'. '4
7. E. Whilst in the gt,of
sounding, His -y Ship Grcx!pus struck a
shoal called Van Hollands Gardett-,. having at the
same tiiue abbui'i?:3 feet water". - the 'Violence of the
shock:wasi.such, ,that she has' felt it; I fear, most
seyerely in every, titpber of.lter frame—=for shestruck
So heady, I had no other expectation `: but that sp6
must have bulged; and her masts gone by the 1)04,
It was blowing fre6h at' the. same time' from the
N. N. E." •

EXTRACT FROM THE Loa-rooK OFIIIS MAJESTY'S
SHIP CAROLINE, THURSDAY, JAN. 10, 1 SO5.

. .
". Ol.'sOyed, ,:at one P. M.. His Ma.i.tsty's
6-rumpas, and the East India Company's Ship Canton;
making signals for striking on a shoal', in (51 fa:hbms,
bard sand, hauled tto the W.N.W. and in- 2d reefs
Pulo Ceeir de Mer E.5.E...; S. seven lea gties West ex-
treme of the sand on the coast of Cochin China; t
called the jacolk. Mountain, WhiCh then rooked like
an Island, bore West 20 N. thc opening br entrance
to Padran;at the back' of Palo Ceeir de Terre, bore -
N: 'l7 E.' soqnded as ' going to the westward, from
7to 9 and 13 fathoms for two miles, and again
shoaled as going -to S.W. froth 13 to 7 iathotps,
then deepened tog and 11, 13 and 19 fathoms.—
The shoal must therefore extend five or six miles in
every direaion; -and very dangerous, as the. sea is
not disc9;toured: The Ships a mi!e west of us had
fathohxs. Its latitude, deduced' frOrn, our's at
noon, is 10.42. to 10..38. N. and in 'long. by good
chronometers, 108.40. to 1.08.411. T. or thereabouts."

A Paper of this morning contains the- folloivlng
Ektrad of a Letter, dated on hdard the comet, St.
Salvador, Nov. 26, 1805 In my' last Letter,
dated Nov: 8, off the Coast of Brazil,• I gave you
the melancholy account of the loss of the Britannia;
and the very great danger that our 'Ship was in ten
minutes before, as the same
.Irack that we were
sailing would-have driven us among the breakers,
and then we must have
.shared the same fate. In
th'e Transport that was wrecked on the same Morn-
ing, only one life was lost; but that indeed was a
valuable one—that of General Yottx.c, of the A-
rtillery too- anxious to save some papers (I believe
public ones), he perished in the attempt. But now
comes the most' distressing tale I hope -I thall ever
have occasion to relate. On the night of the 24th
• Mr. PAisass, a very promising young man-;- being,
on shore after sun-set, missed the Boat belonging to
the Ship he,' therefore, 'with seven other Gentle-
, men, endeavoured to hire one of the Boats
to the natives.. These Portuguese, like,the
• ias-
cats on our Coast On th6.e occasions,- 'dethanded
most extraVagant ,stun,•:Which• they even- promised
to comply with on their being put on, board their
ship; but that could not prevail upon them ; 'they
would -have the money first:. ''Paitsotis, with his
party, a Carlin SMITH; of the Stith, Lieutenant
'Grin-, of the 73d, ,Lieurenant SMITH, of our 'ser-
vice, and7two Cadets', with a servant or twri, seized '
a BOat-With only INO hands on board, and shoved
off from the shore; 'this they' had hardly done before ,
one of the boatmenjumped'oterboard,•and swam-to
shore: There he colleeled sonic diabolical assassins,
and made after the 'parCy's BOat„ which -they were
dire&ed to by the voice of the Negro left in it.: It
_4
- was very dark at . pine-o'clock ; the party in. the
Boat perceived the one pursuing them, -but•were not
much alarmed, as they:could' only see two men :
they soon ;come up, and when alongside, six or eight
men, who had .lain concealed at the bottom of •the
Boat, sprang up, and, with their pikes and oars, at-
tacked PArsoNs's party, who Were 'unarmed. The
sequel is this—poor PARSOtis, a young Cadet, and
Capt. SMITH'S servant,' were'Stabbed, and ,•beat-al-1'
most to: piects,- and then thrown overboard. The
rest of the party, although ,in .a very wounded state;
sWantan , shore, and .by that means- escaped from
„these savages.. Thp body of young PAnsoNs was
yesterday washed On4hore."

f. • f
. Dunk conveying the
Mail from Tarbert to lOthkeal, V.as stopped withi#
t*o tulles of Glinn, on Tuesday morning laSt-, by
two men; who robbed him of the bag of letters,
which should have arrived at the G2neral Pcbt Otcti
On the Loth hiss. from Tralee and Lisle well.
An eXtraorditiary change of fortutie hAs pp need
to ,a :poor old woman, • Whd resides at Rothesay,, in
Bcotland. J. MICHEL, Esc,. Who lately died at St.
Vincent's, proved to be her only brother, of whom
she had not heard for many years, and has left her
property to the amount of 60,000.
An old man, named Armintinger, who has long
aided at Wrapping, .and eked out an etistencocf
extremo,itidigence, by selling toys and gingerbread,,,
\ has received intelligence within these few. days of
the death of a gelation in India, ‘;-lio has left him
,30,0001. but who refused while living 'to relieve
' him with a shilling; though frequently solicited to
do go..

' A large ftissile skeleton; of an animal similar to a:
crocodile, Nras lately foirild 'on the estate of
Hawker,
.Ese. Of lltiddridge, Gloucestershire, It
• was dis Covered in a Solid stratum of limestone,
twenty feet thick, Bi'id was imbedded ffteen feet
below the surface of the stratum. The .skeleton is
ten feet and a halt in ldngth, and all parts are per-
feel.- The jaws are in high preservation, and the
teeth even covered with their 'enamel : one of theM,
on being broken, appeared so much like the fraCtura
of petrified wood, that an idea has been started, that
many fossils, hitherto supposed, to be of vegeta )le,
are of animal origin.
Asa proof of the progress of Literature in Ross',
it is asserted:in the foreign Papers, that in the yeac
804,,.fifteen • new Journals were printed in that
Eriipire;•and 115 1)(:W works were publis•i.d •
Petersburgh and Moscow. , Amongst the latter,
were translations into the Russian langilage of Sterne's
Tii3trarri Shandy ; Itousscau's Contessioos, a ..e
Eloisa; ,Huieland's 'Art of 'Prolonging 'Lice;: and
Barthelemy's .11-at-els of Ailacharsis-.
.
To obtain an additional proof oft he rotatory- faction
of the earth:M. Bk;gZENBEItGi PtOfeisOT 01 A-it'd:
11014 Dusseldortf, made '2B experimen:s in the
coal-mines of . Seliebush; by causing tvills,
turned' r 5 sh to till from a heigot of 2tii?
French feet. At a medium, .they produced a della-
.:tion of five lines towards the East. Similar experi.:.
inents*made at Bologna, by.U. GUGLliLitfr, gave
nearly the same result.
A mob, chiefly women, some time since collected
at Basil, in Switzerland, Carrying lanthoras, broke
into the gallery of the Church, which contained that
master-piece of ',antiquity; • Holbein's -Dance' of
heath, Ore it from the ‘N,alls, and completely de-
stroyed it. .11ifferent motives are assigUed fur this
singular •Ontrage. . • • s•
It is stated in one of the American Papers, that
our Government has, granted permission to Sir F.
;BARING and Co. and toVoiother.Loi4n flouses„to
enport twelve millions of dollars to Spain, receiving
in return bilh; on 'South Arherithri. The article to
Which, we ailu,de continues to observe,' that the profit
to these Gentlemen, including the difference of ex-
Change lietw6en Madrid and London, &c. to be. al-
lowed, will. probably amount to set, on or eight tuil7
lions of dbliars..

1 BONA-PARTE seems determine'd to spew his autho-
rity upon all occasions, little or great.—At a late
Court-day held in the Imperial Palace; though many
Ladies as weli as Gentlemen Were present, nobody
was permitted to cpeak.--1-1t must be considered as a
-.striking proof of the terror Which awaits his power,
. ,
when such an oppressive Order should have been
profoundly oisjyed, even by the femtde visitant's.
A Coroner's Inquest sat on Saturday at the Tuns,
in Oxford-streei; on •the body of Rachel Grissei,
who was found droNow.d in the Paddington Canal,
on ThUrsday evening. Tla deceased, it appeared,
•was the daughter of respeotahle parents in Hamp-
shire, from -whom she had fled, and had been mar-
ried to a persoft wl,to represented himself as. a Lieu-
'tenant in the Navy. Her husband turned out a very
-different tharaaer, and the deceased, for some 'ime
past, led a wretched life, which so convulsed her
faeultiesl.- that she. was often lost to herself. Sly
left- her apartments on Wednesday afternoon,as she
.said, to take a walk,' and was. never ,again heard of,
until she was recognized a corpse. 'Verdict—lns%thitjj,
SUOCKItiG ACCIDEN'i.---About ten o'clock on
Friday night as Mes,srs. John and Alexander Ro-
bertson, two brothers, Ship-chandlers, in St. Cattle-
rine'S-street, were packing up some gunpowder fir
exportation, assisted by. Capt. Halkett, Master of the-
Fame West Indiaman, • the hammering Of a' nail
struck a small spark of fire, which communicated to
some lobse powder, and instantly the whole explod-
ed: The c(aSh was so tremendous that it shattered
'all the, neighbouring Windows, and drove the.front
of 'the. shop into the- street. The three persons
Mentioned were dreadfully wounded, as ti as also a
labourer,. who was working along with them.--=-
Capt. Halkett died at three,o'Clock yesterday. morn-

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• . CORN EXCdANGE,. MARCH 3.—The fresh arrivals
of Wheat to day form considerahie •Supplies ; the
..,
Sales 'are 'dull, and .at less prices, excepting Prime
Samples ; having a large Market, of Barley, it i§ .
rather cheaper ; in Malt or Pease little fluduation ;
small old Beans are very scarce- and dearer.; there
are many arrivals of Oats, and this trade 'is quoted
at about last Currency ; Sales ofFlour at rather less
prices: ~
W.ticai.* '44s a 60?,a 68s od Reins - "53s a 58s od
Fine ditto -71 s as 74S od Tick Beans 4 44, a 49$ od
Rye . . ...33S a 425 cat -tats 23S a 2,s a 3,ps od
Batley - -2.8 s a 33S cc} Poland ditto acs a
,mss od \
Malt . - - 4 63s 'a 469 s od Rape Seed - 381 421
White Pease 36$ a 4250:1 Fine Flour 6os a 63s od
Grey ditto '. 32$ a 36s od Seconds -55 s a bas ad

SMITHFIELP MARKET, MARCH 3.
This day's.market was amply supplied with Prime
BeastF4 -and the show of Cattle-m other respeas was
very good IBeef, Mutton, and Pork sold at last.
prices ; Veal is.something; cheaper, and the trade
was rather brisk. The sales in the Haytnarket were
pretty lively ; Hay, Straw, and Clever. bave got pp in
price sinee our last report.—The under-mentioned
prices and.numbers is a come& statement :

To sink the 4)ff4l per stone of 81h.
Beef ss. 611. to 6s od.--Ntutton ss. 61. to 6s, o,l.—Veal
6s. oti, to 7s.
O. —Pork is. 6d. to §s.
Beasts 1940. 12;700.—C—dyes lo3.—figs 570.
SmintrlP.l.;.ti 11A1'MAitE1 T.'
Ilay 31. lOS, tQ Si. SS.—Ohri'ef Si. ICS tp 51. Straw,
•,ii. ir.rs. to zl. tss.

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Whitehall, March 4, 1806.

The King's German Legion.

/4EMOR Npusii.

.Mrdway Pciunterr.r.

BANKRUPTCY. SUPLIZ3.7:I).EI).

Fruin the LONDON GAZETTE,"-Mdrch 1, 180:

Dozrning-street, March 1,1806.
-Thi Kin has been pleased to appoint lkaancis
Core, Esq. to be Rientenant-Governor of the Pro
wince of Cpper Canada.
.• • -
The King bas also been pleased to ?ppoint John'
Hodgson, Esq. Brigadier-General of His IVlajesty's
FoToes, to be Governor of the. Bermuda, or. Somers)._
Island% ' •

The King has been-pleased to grant to James Mar-
tin L 105,11,141. the Office of Clerk of the Deliveries
of the OrdnanCe 'of the United
.Kingdom of Great;
Britain and Ireland. . •

Lord Chamberlarn's Office, March 1, kW.

~..Noticeis hereby .giveri, thattliere will be.a.Dram,'-,.
ing Room. arSt. James's on Thursday next, the tith,
instant. . .

.
. . . .
try:Uri, March i, t8:.,6. '
Royal' Regiment of Horse Guards, Cornet Thothas Par'k.ia
to- be Liz.thenatit;- without purchase, vice Field, who re.
t:res. Wi I halo itickaldson, Gent. to be Cornet; by put..,

chase, xice Part:rr. ,
6th Regiment of Drainon Guards, Henry NiOriarti, 'Gent. to,
be Cornet, withour puiebase.
2d Rcginteot of Dragoons, Cornet. Robert ()rd Fenwick to be
Lieutenant, by. purchase, vice Stringer, promoted M th►e

7zd Foot.
60) Ditto, Cornet Thomas Kerstemari to be Lieutenant, vice
Nugent, deceased. Robert Yorke, Cent. to be Cornet,

vice tiersteman. •
Regiment of Light Dragoons, Cornet lolin Townshend
to be Lieutenant, without purchase.
Ist Regiment of Foot Guards, Richard Pliison, Gent. to be
Lii3igh, by purchase, vice Rousby; who retires.
Ist Regiment of root, Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Wil-
liam. Buller; from Fiall-pay of the late tith Garrilon'Bat-
titlion, to be Lieutcnant-Coloncl, vice Burnet, Who ex-

dlattges.
atit Ditto, Ensign Thomas nraght to he Lieutenant, vice
• Kip g, deceased. Ensign Robert M'Guire to'be Lieutenant,
vice Baker, deceased. William Hely, Gent. to be Ensign,
vice Enright. ‘Villiam Thurgood, Gent. to be ditto, vice

• M'Guire- - •
24th Ditto. Lieutenant john Evans to be Captain of a Com-
pany, vice Forster, deceased. Ensign Cromwell Doolan
- to be Lieutenant, vice Evans.
2.6 th Ditto, Ensign john Edward Hunt,.from the 59th Font,
to he Lieutenant, ‘vithout purchase, vice Eyre, promoted.
Et.sign Philip Espy, from the Seth Foot, to be Lieu-
• tenant, vice Child, promoted. Thomas Mil Marshman,
. Gent. to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Smith, pro-
moted.
3th DittP Lieutenant Icihnivory to be Paymaster of the
td Bat tal:on
16th Ditto, Edward Gillam, Gent. to be Ensign, without
purchase, vice Mackay, promoted in the 66rifloot.
38th Ditto, Lieutenant Roger Finch, from the ;d Garrison
itattalion„ to be Lieutenant. without purchase.
4oth DittO, Ensign Robert Phillips, from the 6th Foot, to
be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Wood, promoted.
55th Ditto, Serjeant Hutchinson;. from' the igth
Foot. to be Quarter-•M aster. vice Nixon, whotesigns.
59th Ditto, William Smith, Gent, to be Ensign, without
purchase, vice Hunt, promoted in the t6th Foot.
66th Ditto. To be Lieutenants. without purchase—Ensign
William Barstow, trout the 81st Foot, vice lnnes, pro-
rnoted. Ensign Samuel Turton, from the 88th Foot,
vice Urquhart, promoted. Ensign Francis Powell, from
the 4011 Foot, vice Pitman, who retires. Ensign Niel
..Mackay, from the 36th Foot, vice Douglas, promoted in
' 'the Barrack • Artificer •Corps: Ensign. Henry Thompson,
from the 90th Foot, vice Moorhead, appointed to the Bth
Royal Veteran Battalion. Ensign John Crotty, from
the 96th Foot, vice Croasdale, promoted in the 98th Foot.
67th Ditto, William Forsyth, Gent, to be Ensign, with-
. out purchase, vice Bolton, superseded.
.7gth Ditto, -Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel William Moundy
Harvey, .from the Ist %Vest India Regiment, to be Major,
without purchase, vice Lord Fatties Murray, promoted to
the command of the Royal Manx •Fencibles,
81st Ditto, Ensign A. Macalpine to be Lieutenant, without
purchase, vice Clarke, who resigns. Smith, Gent.
to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Barstow, promoted in
. the 66th loot. Lawrence Macartitey, Gent. to be Ensign,
vice Macalpine.
55th Dino, Ensign Adam Dowie to be Lieutenant, vice
Evans; deceased. Ensign Robert Hotison-to be Lieutenant,
vice Dey, who resigns. Samuel C. Grey. Gent. to be En-
sign, vice Dowie. tames Cuthbert Antrobus,Cent. to be
• Ensign, vice Hobson.
88th Ditto, Isaac Walker, Gent. to be Ensign, without
purchase,.vice Turton, promoted in the 66th Foot.
geth •Ditto;- Richard OWeara, Gent. to be Ensign, with-
out purchase, vice Thpipson„ promoted in the 66th
. •

• .
Foot.
66th Ditto,..George.Wtl,, Gent: to be Ensign, without
-purchase; Tice Crotty, promoted in the 66th Foot.
ISt West India Regiment, Captain Nathaniel Blatkwell,
from the 4Lst Foot, to be Major, without purchase, vice
Harvey, appointed to the nith'foot.
sth Ditto, Ensign Dlgby.llevenish to.pe Lieutenant, with.
out 'purchase, vice Donaldson, appointed •to- the 54th
\Foot. George Mtinro,- Gent. to be Ensign,.. vice De-
v4nish.

2d'RegiMent.of Dragoons, Cornet De Hurling to
be comet, vice Luderitz, whose Appointment has not

.takeu pla‘e. - , •
ist Eight Dragoon's, Cornet George Baron 'Tiecken to be
Lieutenant, vice Voss, promoted. :Cadet Serk.ant Gus-
. tavus Schaumann to be Cornet, vice Decken. ' •
of the Line, Lieutenant Benermann to
he Lieutenant, with temporary Rank, vice Lutzen, who
resigns.
6th Ditto, henry fames Amey, t sq. to. be Paymaster.
7th Ditto, Henry Cowper, Esq. to be Paymaster.
Ist Battalion of Lii,lit infantry, Ensign William Barost
Heimbrtich to be Lieutenant, vice Deiring, who retires.
Vrederkk Raron Klenck to he Ensign, vice Heinibruch.
Depat•Cornpany, Ensign Charles William De Rougemont to
be Ensign, vice flotzen, promoted.
Ist Garrison Battalion, Lieutenant George Henry • Drewry,
from the 37th Fout, to be Lieutenant, vice Campbell,
promoted in the 341-11 Foot.
std Royal Veteran Battalion, Lieutenant Richard Jackson,
front the 86th Foot, to be ricuteriant, vice Ilepburne,
placed Su the Retired List.
7111 Ditto, Quarter-Master Thrnitas Smith,. frOm the Royal
Revi,tient of Horse Guards, to-he Lieutenant.
Royal N.lturc Fencibles, Niajdr Lord lames Murray, from
ti,c 79th Foot, to be Lieutenant... Colonel. Corumandant,
with permanent Rankin the Army, ',lug Lord Henry Mur-
ray, deceased.

Lieutenant john Ne*soin, of the 58th Reginoehrof Fbot, is
superseded, 'absent without leave. WSsistant-Sur-
geopi W. Vortnaii, of the bist Regiment of Foot; is eukr-
secled, having-absented himself from the Army Deytit with-
out leave.

•
signed bY the 2,6 rd Lielitestall'of the County of Kent.
Chisieburst and Feat( ray Vilsente'ers..
Captain George Stone to be Captain-Commandant, vice
I.ll3tiii!gtoni resigned. Dated February 20,, 1806. First
'LleuTrr int Richard Stun; to be Captain„ vice. George
stv;,; Fated as above.. Second Lieutenant William
Drecu to be Fifa. Lieutenant, vice Richard Stone: Dated
as abo , _

Thomas Song, Gent. to be First Lieutenant. Dated Fe—
bruary 24, tEG6.

Ciiinmiisi,m in the ist,Battalion of Royal LinLithgewshire Vo-
-I,nacer 1 ntantry, signal!), the Lord Lituttrant of the County
of Int , •
Ar hibakt
.ti.atlie. Gent. to be Second Lieutenant, vice
Thuni4ul., rest6ned. Datqd January 29, 18c.6.

Thomas fell, of Warklqur—sp-et, Wisfaninster, ctiachmaket.

BANKRUP T.S
Niithaniel tile eldrr and Nathaniel Perkins . the
yeiinger, of. Listington, U loucewershire, clothiers arid