The Sun.
London, England, 1801-12-29 00:00:00

diately advanced to thOpia..e, and after a fevr hours
erriployed to make a breach, the storm commenced,
led by Capt. CAMi't EiA, of the 74th.; The Enemy
defended themselves desperately, the breach was
found impraelicable, and, after a hard struggle, Our
troops Were obliged to retire with great loss, four
Officers and fifty Europeans killed, fifteen Officers,
and nearly the remainder of the Europeans wounded,
besides SePoys killed and Wounded in great numbers.
Capt. CAMPBELL was wounded; and had the misfor-
tune to see his brother (a fine young man, and
tenant in his brother's Company) killed by his side,
and he is since dead of his wound. forgot to men-
tion, that previous to this attack of the Fort, a large
body of the enemy, who had remthnedim,the outside,
and attempted to stop the prbgres4 i)ur TroopS,
were charged by the Body GuAriA,Cavplry, led on
by a Lieutenant GRANTi wlio commanded them ;
they stood very steady, and killed' and wounded a
number of the troopers before they were .routed,
which they were at last, and a number of them cut
up in consequence:
" Lieutenant GRANT was speared throtigh the
lungs, and a Sebildar of Cavalry,-who saved Lord
CORNWALLIs's life before Seringapa tam, was killed.
Our lait. accounts mention the arrival of the 77th
Regiment to the support of the Detachment, and
Colonel ACNE w, the Company's Adjutant-General
on this Coast, is on his way to take the command
of the Troops, when, Imake no doubt, the too
much elated Natives will suffer for their presump-
tion:"

An account 0e..211 Crain, it,40.11 n....„ and
Rice; imported into, and/ exported from Great Bri.
tain, between the sth .of January, ISo', and the
toth of Odoher following.

IMPORTS INTO GREAT GRIT)
IEOI, AND 10
'Qrs. B.
10„o67
4,600 4
539,709 2
39,398 2
92,693 7
40,471 2
1,035,714. 7
txrovrs FROM GI:LAT ERITA
xeol AND 102
Qrs.. B.
1,224 2
2,E09 6
4,194 1
652 1
38 0
378 3
2,689 6
2,483 4

AtN, BETWEEN 5-FH OF JAN.
,Tti OCTOBER.

Barley
Beans -
Oats -
Pease -
Rye -
Indian Corn -
Wheat -

Cwt. Qr.
Wheat Flour 728,428 I
Rye Meal - 162,410 2
Oatmeal - 63 2
Indian Meal - 107,667 2
Rice - - 245,136 3

IN. BETWEEN STH JANUARY.
Ii OCTOBER.

Barley -
13,1nS

• Cwt. Qr.
Wheat F - 55,606 3
Oatmeal 2;50'
• 1,987 3
Rice,. 4,800 3

Oats -
Pease - -
Rye
Indian Corn
Malt - _
Wheat -

We have to correft a misstatement, copied from
a Morning Paper, xhich,appeared a few days ago,
respecting the SPEAKER'S Service of Plate—lt was
said in the Paragraph alluded to, that soool. was
the sum allotved upon this occasion—this was a
gross misrepresentation of the fad—The allowance
to the SPEAKER is either two thousand ounces of
Platel or t fool. in money ; the latter has generally
been taken, and though the above quantity of plate
would at present cost above 16001. the SPEAKER
Very handsomely took the money, instead of the
more advantageous alternative, as he had previously
ordered a Service on his own private account, which
Will cost from 400014 to 50001.
We are sorry it is not in our power to confirm
the intelligence of the safe arrival of the De/ft at
Portsmouth. The mistake' arose from a part of the
passengers that came in the Delft from Egypt to
Gibraltar, having been brought home in the Trusty;
and, as they sent letters on shore, it was reported
the Delft had arrived.

The Foreign Papers talk of a secret Treaty con-
cluded at Madrid between the PRINCE of PEACE
and LUCIEN BONAPARTE; This Treaty is said to
have been communicated to Marquis C _ORNWALLIS.
The objea of it is, to settle the affairs of Italy.—
The DUKE Of PARMA iS to renounce his States,
which are to be given as an indemnity to the KING
of SARDINIA; and the KING of ETRURIA is to cede
the Isle of Elba to France.

The. First Surrey Militia are. under orders to
march this day from Canterbury for'Shorncliffe.
The South Gloucester Militiiii;at present at Shotn-
cliffe, in Kent,'have receivecLia tztjute fqr their own
County.
Sir JAMES DUFF has been presented with a
Sword, value too guineas, and. General UNIACKE
with another, value so guineas, by the City of
Limerick,

A Society is formed at Exeter for the purchase of
sheep, &c. and which, after defraying all incidental
charges, is retailed to the Members. ' Ten sheep
were killed on Wednesday, they had been fatted
with much care, and at more than ordinary cost,
yet the expence to the subscribers was only 51d.
per pound, being nearly 3d, per, pound below the
current price of the market.

. The Mayor of ' Exeter, .on Thursday, distributed
amongst the Poor of that City, seven hundred loaves,
being the produce of sundry fines levied for trifling
offences, within the jurisdielion of that Corpora-
tion. _ _

Ice-boats were employed lately with, much ad_
.
vantage and success, on the-Grand Canal to Dublin.
These worked night and .day during the frost, for
several miles, in keeping the centre of the Canal
clear of obstruftions, by which means the Passage-
boats were able to ply. This •
,contrivance may
furnislia useful hint,- perhaps, for the passage of
Lighters on the Thames, during an extended frost.
The Ilaxton, STEPHENSON, of Hull, which
foundered in the Baltic in the storm of the 3d ult.
has been picked up at sea by some Swedish Fisher_
men, and ,'carried. into Carlsham Harbour. She had
received little damage in theAlij,:, out nothing was
'
left upon deck except the finijlte;i:s-4no t a bit of
mast, or rigging, &c. ftis)ierriien. who took
.her up, had unloaded part -01.'41-- cargo, and laid
claim to the whole, as well as to the vessel. Their
claims, however, have been resisted on account of
the Underwriters in this COUntry.
Three men lately passed a number of forged
Bank of England notes,. on the new paper, in the
neighbourhood of Ruthin, in the purchase of horses
and cattle the forgery was soon discovered,- and a
pursuit commenced by three of the Yeomenry, who
came up with one of them in the neighbourhood of
Wolverhampton, whom they lodged in jail' on
Thursday.