The Sun.
London, England, 1808-06-17 00:00:00

I'OItEIGN INTELLIGENCE.

PkAt.v, Nisv --..The traoe.between Sicily :tnd
lingland is very-brisk : the former sends to the latter
grain, oil, and fruits, particularly lemons, which are
indispensable to the English for their pauch.---
The Sicilians receive in return manufatiures,: which
arcs afterwards exported to Africa and different ports
of the Levant. The Roy al Fatnily are still at
Palermo:

AUGSOCHGH, Atistrian General
B.trou VON ViNCEN:rj well known for the numerous
negotiations in which \he has, been employed, passed
turough this city on the 17th for. France.
COPENHAGEN, MAY el.--..ro"lleat by which the
rtitssians intend to penetrate into.Swedett Proper, is.
intheNorth of Lapland, and is the last own
of Europe towards the Arnie Pole, and in Summer
xuibits the singular speEtacle of constant day light:
mur midnight the Sun is seen in the northern lip-
iphere, undm- the' polar stars. It was at Tornea
it M.kurannus, CELstns, and other mathemati-
A 'accomplished the arduous task of measuring
he Meridian, and there_ the depression of the Earth
t the Poles was lirsi'discovered. This region isone
rf the 'lima dreary the face of nature presents,—
fiearce a shrub rises from the frozen soil. The eye
oFt-ceives only arid Sands, barren heaths, and snow-
ct4ol2iil hills, The territory of the Stadtholdership
of WeSt Bothnia, to which Tornea belongs; con-
of'looo Swedish square miles, on which, how-
eZ7er, there are scarce 70,000 inhabitant's.
Par Esau a dii, 1V AY 10.--The Russian Troops Ootn
itig from Cattalo and the lonian. Islands, have
changed their route, and, instead Of marching by
Ilrody, will take the shorter route by Tarnopol,
in order. to be . able more speedily to johi the Rits-
ian,Army in Moldavia.—Letters from Warsaw as-
that recruiting is very brisk there, and that the
Polish Prince PONIATOWSKI is appointed immediate-
ly, with a consideiable body of Troop's, to break up
14 Spain.

BANKS o THE MAIN, MAY QO.—A letter iron]
Vienna says--:" Our foreign relations are managed,
a:iusual, with secrecy, and nothing, as is proper,
reaches the public. , But the tranquillity whiCh pr -
vails here generally,' and more particularly with re-
,.;ard to military preparations, hew that the warlike
4Torts propagated abroad are premature' and un-
!unit Jed.— "

•
VIgNNA, MAY 14.—The Russian armistice with
the Nile has reached its terninatien'; but will be
prolonged till the courier sent to St. -Iletersburgh
britigs-back' further orders to the Imperial General
Prince l'aesouowsx.y..
BaNxs OP THIS DANUBE, MAY 12.---Letters from,
Turkey say, that a:firman of the i;rand.Signior will
speedily appear, forbidding the introdudion of Eng-
litilt merchandize into Turkey, on,pain of death.—
'rile Greeks of the Turkish Islands, and of the Mo-
have declared themselves Against the English;
tii;ice they have learnt that the Russian Government,
which they look up to as their proteCtor, has ae&
Aired war against England.
MtpDLIMIIItG MAY
I appeared off
the Isle of Walcheren an English Fleet of 18 Sail, of ,
which 12 are Ships ()Nile Line. ..ShoulAtheir design
t.pt sainit the French and Dutch Squadron in Flush.
ing, they will meet with a proper, reception.,
KON Mtlat/R GU, MAY 8.--Thc•tbliowing Decla-
ration lately appeared in our Gil:tette :
. • "' However scrupulous Prussia_ may have been in
maintaining her engagetrien is entered into with France
and Russia, with reipea .to•hreaking otr intercourse
with 14:;tigland.and Sweden, yet the attempt has been
,again renewed, to-place the CQuatict of the Prussian
Government in this respeat in, an equivocal light.
`gk.ich an attempt hak beet. made in No. 4430; of ;the
flambUrgh'Cliange List of the present year, in an •
article -dated (March to), stating'that a-.
Prus:?lan Ship,- Capt. Grata IN Commander, batinging -
to Memel, had arrived there troin the NorthSea;which

besides cottee, and a great quantity of brought
a variety of merchandize from Sweden, all which
mire afterward 4 forwarded. But this account ex-

poses its unfounded nature, by saying that .the
goods were landed. in Denmark, a counirx, where
the same prohibition exists as iii Prussia, and de-
parted thence without being hindered. .The Prus—

;inn Government caused an examination to tie taken of

the shippers,. pilots, and sailors, who declared th.it
ship sailed from Menial with a hiding of tin ore for
Hull, on the 27th at May, t 807, was obliged to put,
into Norway on account ofdarnage, and was obliged
to retrain there till the end of the year for the ne-

pessary Tepairs; from thence she reached. Hull on
ti)6 27th. of January, 1808,, from which place she+
igain sailed oil the 27th of k'elSrudry, in ballast, with-
put taking in any goods. On her t'oyage back she
gain went into .Norway, 'on the sth • inst. to learn
whether the Cattegat was free from ice ; , from thence

the reached the Sound on the loth, cleared out for

lelsinger on the t tth,- as laden with, ballast, for
Varel, sailed the Sartie day into the italtic,

'riven by ccirtirary winds into Liebau."

Yesterday, during the inspeaion of the ditferen t
ieamen by the examining Surgeons on board the
render, at the Tower,
.a beautiful young womitn
was observed among them, dressed in a smock frock,
who; it appeared, had, on the preceding evening,
:ntered as a volunteer; in consequeneaot which
;he was °bilged, seeming relne.lance on. her,
art, to return again on shore.

TAME OTTBR.--Some tine Fast yeer 2 ybting man,
tt Lochside, in the. parish of filairgowriei'Scotland,
caving sh6t at and wounded, a yount?i•pftercarried
t home, where it soon recovered, andliiis now be-
:mile as, tame as a lae-deg.. It follOws the young
nan wherever he -desires it, and obeys his conga
panda with punthialitk. Lately it has been 11) the
wadice of occompdnyttig.him to the Loch and, ri-
ers in the neighbourhood,. where it dives for tsh,
wings them to land, lea,v,es, them wit,h its keeper,
nd'returns in Search of.ipore, ' •t:
,
There ha -been- a'-general failure a the carrot
red -soevn,. this Spring—the cause of which hos
nt been satiSfaOcirily ascertained. The quantity
uttink,nly sown in Norfolk is 41bs. per
,'acre ; but
Ir. liuttaowa, of Whitchitigliam,
.hap,2S,OWn' rolbs.
er acre, 011 ao acres, and it is thOuglethe sate;it
ray to secure a crop.