The Sun.
London, England, 1801-11-09 00:00:00

NOVEMBER 8.

Passage-vessels are now passing and re-passing to
and from Calais almost daily. The last vessel that
arrived brings an account, that about twenty-five
of the French Gun-boats -lately employed at Bou-
logne, were overtaken by one of the late heavy
gales of wind in going from Calais. to Dunkirk, and
that the greatest part of them- were driven on shore,
and most of the crews it is feared perished.

The Clyde, of 36 guns, on Thursday arrived at
Plymouth, and the Childers, of 14 guns, at Fal-
mouth, from Cruizes off the French Coast.
There are nearly iso sail of West-Indiamen in
the River, ready for sea, waiting -for. Spanish passes.
Some ,vessels at Portsmouth are to take 'advantage
of the sailing of the Desiree or 1/Eolus frigates, as
convoy against the swarm of black privateers, or,
in fact, pirates from the French and Spanish islands,
which infest the Caribbean Sea, and against whose
depredations there is no other appeal than that of
arms.

The Earl of AYLESFORD has .been pleased..to
appoint Mr. J. POWELL, to be one of His Ma-
jesty's Yeomen of the Guard, in the room of Mr.
•
G. COP E, deceased.
A few days since Page, of the London
Hotel, Ramsgate, was fined in the penalty of 405.
with costs, by Ros ERT CURLING, Esq. Mayor of
Sandwich, for refusing to provide a bed for an
ficer who was regularly billetted on him.
We understand that a new coinage is about to
take place at the Presidency of Bombay, in silver
rupees and gold mohurs. The rupee current in
Surat, and that in circulation in Bombay, are to be
reduced to one certain standard and value, so as to
remedy the inconVeniencies arising to,trade from the
exchange of coin of different fineness.
At Rugby fair, last week, pigs sold at Jess than.
half the prices required for them a month since.—
Cattle generally experienced a like reduCtion, in
prices, and sheep were full ios. per head cheaper
than at the preceding fair.
At many of the Northern fairs Scotch and Irish
beasts have been sold at less prices than those at
which the dealers purchased them, and great. num-
bers are driving about the country, not being able
to find a market.

The average price of good Wheat in the North
Riding of Yorkshire, is about Bs. the bushel. Oats
are reduced to zos. per quarter. The Country
Cheese, which very recently would sell for 7s. the
the stone, will not now produce more than zs. 9d.
The finest potatoes are sold at is. the bushel, and
Butter has fallen about 3d. in the pound. Every
kind of Meat, however, except Pork, maintains the
old price, from 7d. to Bd. per poUnd.

We have lately met some extraordinary instances
of the value of old building mAterials.—Tl%.DuKE
of YORK, some time since, bought some
,C3:.1:),1
adjoining Oatlands, for 50001., and immediately
after sold an old house which stood upon it !)r 300
guineas, to be pulled down.—On: WedneAay the
a-rrear of the first floor of the tenement corner of
Bank-street, Edinburgh, was put up at auction at
4501., and sold for the enormous sum of 15601.

The Comedy of Folly as it Flies; was again very
attractive on Saturday last at Covent-Garden Thea-
tre, and was very well received. The iVlanager
purchases the Copy.:right, and will probably not
publish the Piece till its attraction abates at the
Theatre. It is, however, so well-supported by
the Performers, and altogether so amusing in itself,.
that it will retain a strong hold on the Public
through the season.
The Play of The Mountaineers was represented
on Saturday last at Drury-Lane, out maugre its
'dramatic merits and its musical recommendations,
with very indifferent 'success.- The Farce was Of
Age To-Moi-rorw, and the Audience,- though by
no means very numerous, were so very vociferous
in their demand for the Prologue, Which was
.ori-
ginally spoken by Mr. BANNISTER, jun. that he
was obliged to come forward and deliver it. This
Prologue, if, we remember rightly, is the work of
Mr. MILES PETER ANDREWS, and .not the worst
production of his whimsical Muse. .

KEMB L E sets off on .his Provincial excursions on
Wednesday next. h is much to he regretted that
he and the Drury Lane Manager have not settled
their differences.•

Mr. and Mrs-. POPE, it is said, are to join the
Drury Lane company as soon as they haVe con:
clUded their provincial engagements.
SOUTHFY, the Poet, is appointed Private
Secretary to the Chancellor of the Irish Ex-chequer:
The return of peace and amity with France does
not appear to have been followed on the part of that
Country with any very intimate acquaintance with
our domestic situation. ".Misr
says the M9/riteue, " complained of a pain in 'her
arm, and Dodo, KEivrRLE having been cailed in,
thought he felt, a needle -under her -arm." The
Parisian Public may no* be gratified to leain that
the Spinster is recovered,- though the London Au-
dience regret that 'the Doctor does not continue to
pradise.

Those who anticipate the pleasure of a trip to
Paris for the purpose of drinking French wine in
perfection, may meet with a grievous disappoint.
Inent : The Prefect of Police; two months ago, 'went.
through the cellars of the Parisian Wine Merchants,
and
,was unable to decide, in many instances, what
-was intended to be sold as (wine and what as
vinegar.

The new Dutch Minister of Finance is a man
who must prove very, agreeable to the Swinish
Multitude, if the orthography of his name in some
of the French Papers be corre&—" Mynlieer Hogs-
trough-ten. ,

During the storm at Exeter,. on Monday, a girl
four years old was blown over the bridge into the
river, and being carried by the current under ,Pine's
Mills, was drowned. The mother of the inLtat
witnessed the singular and calamitous accident.