The Sun.
London, England, 1801-12-14 00:00:00

SHEERNESS, DEC. 13.

YESTERDAY sailed up the Thames for Deptford,
the York, of 64. guns, Captain .14-EatttEß, to be paid
off.

Arrived His Majesty's Ship He/ditz, of 32 guns,
Captain PARKER, from the Downs, and has this
day gone up the Thames to he paid off.'
Sailed the Crash, Gun brig, Lieut. HAmLINE,
for the Downs.

POOLE, DEC. 11.

THE-Inn, OfStinderland, laden with coals, bound
to Dartmouth, in goilig though the Race- off Sr.
Alban's, A sea tell into her main-top-sail, which car-
ried away the maintop-mast, boom, &c. she also
shifted her cargo, and -is quite a wreck; the same
sea unfortunately washed the master's father over,
She is just come up to the quay to be repaired,

The-following Naval Promotions
,have been made
by Admiral RAIN LER, in the East Indies :—Capt.
H. L. Ball, to command the Trident, vice Turner,
deceased ; Capt. Wallet-, • to the Dxdalus, vice
Ball ; Lieut. J. G. Vason, to the Albatross, vice
Waller ; Lieut. R, Evans, to the Hobart.—To he
Lieutenants : Lord G. Stewart, of the Trident,
FL Lambert, of the• Suffolk, R. Burton, of the Ar-
r6gant, W. Templar, W. Flint, and W. Davison,
of the Fox, J. Lambert, of the Albatross, T. Jones,
of the Sufrolic.- F., B. Gibbs, ditto, and R. Watt 4,
of the Centurion. .

The Conqueror, of 74 guns,. lately launched at
Harwich; is ordered-round from thence to Plymouth,
to be laid up in ordinary.

.The Stork Sloop is uodir orders for ,the Bahamas;
she taken out the new' Governor, HALIcET.,
Rear-Admiral T. Boston, is chosen Mayor of
Harwich, for the ensuing year.

The Brig SvJa//alv, of Great Yarmouth, Hours,
masler, with Barley and Oats, was upset on the
Lincolnshire Coast some days ago, and it is feared
the whole of the Crew perished, as her boat came
.on shore full of water.

The Mary Ellen, of Liverpool, bonnd to Malta,
has been taken in the :Gnt of Gibraltar, by two
Spanish Privateers, after a gallant adion of three
hours.

The Maria Brig, of Liverpool, had an engage.
meat with a small Privateer, off the isle of Ash,
which she beat

The Marquis de Souz4, who arrived in the for-
mer Packet from Lisbon, is appointed Minister Pie-
nipOtentiary on the part of Portugal to the Congress,
at Amiens, He came by the way of LOndon, in
order to confer previously with His Majesty's Mi-
nisters ; and on Saturday he left Town to attend..
the Congress.
The late inundations in Italy have caused consi-
derable damage- to the City of Mantua. Twenty
houses were swept away, and above two hundred are
in danger of falling. The damage is' calculated at
no less than millions,of francs.,' The sum of six
millions has been granted rut of the public-treasury,
by the Consulta to the sufferers,- •
The sea ran so.high in Mill Bay, Plymouth, in
the late storm, as to unroof a public-house called
the Sylph, thirty yards from the beach, and to make
a clear breach over that house, and the wall of Mill
Bay, carrying with it into the marsh three boats,
which were all knocked to pieces, and the marsh
now exhibits a sea of many acres. The six strong
posts, cased with iron,,driven down to ascertain the
bounds of the Borough of Plymouth, opposite the
Sylph public-house, were actually grubbed up from
their foundation. At the slaughter-house, Devil's
Point, opposite Mount Edgecumbe, the sea 'ran over
it like a sluice.

The Fleet lately, arrived from China brought
home 189 s large and 95,630 small chests of tea,
containing 9,083,1461 n. of which one million were
bohea, six million congou, and 1,380,0521 b. twan-
key ; there are likewise about 30,000 pieces of
nankeens.

We are 'desired to state, the Office that lately
had a trial in 'Westminster Hall; is not the West-
minster Fire Office, in Bedford-street, Covent. Gar-
den, for insuring houses only, , and which has exist-
for nearly a century, but the Westminster Life
Office, lately established.