The Sun.
London, England, 1801-12-08 00:00:00

EDINBURGH, DEC 3.

Tat 14:Telly and Ann, BROWN, from Riga; Graf_
ton, Rroew, from ditto;
Lord Keith, CALDER,
fr'om Petersborgh ; and. some other Vessels from the
Baltic are arrived at Leith.

The Masters of these Vessels report, that they
have had a tedious and boisterous passage--that
a violent gale of wind took plate in the •Baltid
about the beginning of November lasi-, and that
a number of ships were lost in ,the Cattegat, and
many of the Crews perished—that such was die
violence of the gale, that a Ship belonging tallui,
with her sails furled, overset,' and the crew, after
clinging to the wreck for some days, were picked
up and carried into EisiheUr, having been obliged to
subsist on a few candles, the only thing they had
left,

At tl-,e Corn Market yesterday, the supply was
abondanti and the prices declined early in the morn-
ing ; but towards_ the close of the market they again
ath,anced, as sonic speculators came in, and offered
hi ker prices for a future day than were demanded.
Potatoes titre turned out so plentiful a crop in
Cornwall, that a bushel (of three Winchesters) is
sold at zs. 6d.

The price of beer has been teduced from 6d. to
4d. a quart at Falmouth; in consequence of there_duCtion in the price of malt and hops,
The Mayor of Exeter has ordered that the As-
size of Bread shall in future be set; by regulating
the. price of the peck, half-peck, and quartern loaf,
and not in the old method of selling loaves at stated
prices, and altering the wv,ight according to the
price of corn.
There were 220 bolls of oatmeal on Tuesday last
in Edinburgh market, which sold from 18s. 6d.
to. 19s. 6d. per boll. There were also so bolls of
pease and barley meal, which sold from s 2S. to 14';.
per boll. Retail prices, best oatmeal, is. 311.—
Second, is. 2d.—Best pease and barley meal, from
tod. to Is. per peck.

On the subjeft of Corn we take the opportunity
of mentioning one fad. At a Meeting of Cre-
ditors which took place at Leith, last summer (be
fore the late abundant harvest), among other items
of loss, was 20,0001. for damage of Corn in grans_
ties, which Corn had cost 40,0001. None of the
Corn had been sold.

The subjea for the Norrisian Prize for the pre-
sent year at Cambridge, is • the following :—" On
the Method of Illustrating Scripture from the Re-
lations of Modern Travellers,. in Palestine and the
neighbouring Countries."
The late Captain ONsLow Gaosr, commanding
the Madras Pioneer Corps, lost his life some months
since in' a 9 attack on the harriers of the Ballam
Rajah.of Arrcherv, in the Mysore Country ; he
was killed endeavouring to place scaling ladders at
one of the barriers, and died regretted by his su-
perior Officers, and universally beloved and re-
speited by the Army in which he served : his body
was borne to the grave entirely by his brother
Officers.

Lieutenant NlcHoLas PATESEALL is appointed
to the Ville de Paris, in the room of JA-MES IRV IN,
removed to the Command of the Stork.

As an instance of great aetivity, and also of the
abundant crop of the season, Thomas Russell, of
Leighterton, near Tetbury, a man of small stature,
Jug up on Monday the Bth ult. (clearing the ground
as he moved) thirty sacks of potatoes, within eight
hours and a half ; he, on the following day, dug
twenty_five sacks in the same space of time ; and
offered to bet a guinea that he in a like
space, dig thirty-four sacks on the day following.
The sacks'averaged2sB pounds each. Two women
attended the whole dine to pick up the roots ; whilt
a man was glively employed in carrying them to
waggons, brought to the field for conveying them
away.

Two nondescript birds, which the ship Buffalo
brought home from Botany Bay, are now ordered to
be landed, and to be sent to the seat of the Marquis
of EXETER. A cage has been purposely made for
bringing them or, shore, and another for conveying
them to his Lordship. They rise in height seven
feet from the toe to the point of the beak, and. their
form resembles that of an ostrich, with greyish
brown plumage, consisting of two feathers in one
quill. They are extremely docile, and are with
difficulty enraged. When they are in anger, they
shew it with no other method than by kicking with
the greatest violence. The neck is like that of a
swan, and the head and beak greatly resemble those
of a goose. Their legs are long, thick, and fea-
thered ; and when they stand erdt, they are, in
form and attitude, nearly perpendicular.
The John, Jones, from Cheater to Wexford, is
lost—Crew saved.