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

LONDON, NOVEMBER cr, !Ser.

Two liambp-gb Mails became doe this morning,
neither of which bad arrived When'' this Paper was
put to,,Press.. ,„

TnomAs JAcxsoN, Esq. is appointed Envoy Ex-
traordinary .and Minister Plenipotentiary to the
Court of Paris; and FRANCIS WEB BE, Esq. is to
be the Secretary. of Legation and Charge-des-Af-
fdires. They are immediately to repair to the
Congress at Amiens,':to assist in negotiating the
Commercial Treaty at the same time that the Defi.
nitive Treaty.shall be proceeded in. Mr. JAc-xsoN
-was Minister at Turin. Mr. WE B BE is a Gentleman
of high literary attainments, and was confidential-
ly consulted by the late Duke of LEEbs, while Se
crebry of State. They were to set off to Dover last
night.

In consequence of the long indisposition of the
Right Hon. DUDLEY RYDER, he has been advised
by his PhySicians to relinquish all attention to bu-
sines, and has accordingly resigned the valuable
office of Paymaster of the Naivy, which Mr. AD'-
DINCT.O.N, has, given to :his brother-in-law, Mr.
BRP;.GGE, who will accordingly remove from Great
George-street to the Pay-Office in Somerset House.
Lord GLENBE4VIIi is to do the duty of -Mr.
-Rir D ofiheCouncil of the Board of Trade.
General IcIOORE left Egypt- 'eighteen days after
the departure, of Colonel A.BERCOMBY from that
Country, the latter having undergone. an untoward
passage. They met accidentally in the street. at
Portsmouth, sood after they arrived. Gen. MOoRE
was induced to hasten his return on 'account of the
illness kif hiS father, who is. at Richmond, and io
whom, the General went yesterday morning. The
presence of a Son who has been so nobly engaged in
the service of his Country, will doubtless. be the
most cheering "restorative that his father could re-
ceive.

Major-General FRASER left Cape-Town, Cape
of Good Hope, 27th Jtme, for Simons.Town, under
the customary salute from the Castle, of 53 guns.
He' embaik2d on board the Eliza; Captain HOL-
MAN, foi 'engal. Captain ARCHIBAI.D CAMP-
BELL, of the'9sst, accompanies the• Major-General
as Brigade-Major ; and his Son, OSBOaNE FR A,SE.R.,
as Aide'-de.qamp. The. following Military Pre-
nuitions have taken place in ..consequence of the
General's departure; viz: Colonel HALL, of the
Bth Light Dragoons, appointed Bgigadier.Qeneral;
Lieutenant HIPPESLEY as Brigade-Major to Col.
Ball ;. and Colonel HAMILTON, Deputy Quarter-
IVlaster,General.

• Capt. MARKHAM, the Candidate for the- gorongl
Of Portsmouth, arrived there, on Moriday from Lon
don. All the Military, except 'enough to dJ• gar.
rison duty, are marched without• the town, picpara.
tory to the Ftleuion, which takes place to-morrow,

NAVAL NEWS:

From the LONDON GAZETTE, Nov.

Adm;ralty.Of.ce, Nov. 10j iBO t.

Extraa of a Letter. from Sir Charles Morice Pale,
_Bart. Vice-Admiral of the Blue, &c. cao Ewan
Nepeats,'Esq. dated of Cadiz, Sept. 24; iSoz.
Enclosed I transmit to you a Copy of a Letter
from 'Lieutenant Newton Starck, of the Milbrook
Schooner, stating his capture of a Spanish .Priva.
teer, called the Baptista ; and one from Captain
Hollis, of the Thames Frigate, informing me of the
capture of the Sparrow Spanish Privateer by the
Boats of the said Ship, in a spirited and gallant
manner, which I pray you to lay before my Lords
Commissioners of the Admiralty.

His Majesty's Schooner, Mi!brook, of
SIR, Cadiz, Sept. 21, tBo x .

I beg leave to inform you, that on the- tsth inst.
being off Cape Montego, in «His Majesty's Schoon.
er, Milbtook, under my command, to put myself
under your Order, I perceived a small Spanish Pri-
vateer, which, after a long chaie, I succeeded in
securing ; her name is the Baptista, mounting
Eight Guns, and was laden with a valuable Cargo
of 4nglish Prize Butter, with which she was on her
passage from Vigo to Seville.
have.the Ficeour to be, &c. 51cc. &c.
NEWTON STARCK.
Pice-Adzniral Yale, &c.&c. &c.

Ills Majesty's Ship Thames, September 24
iSoi, Cape Saint Mary, N. 1/P., by N.
pI R, Four Leagues.

I have the honour to inform you, that this morn-
ing, at day-light? His Majesty's Ship Thames be-
ing between the Sand Hills of San Lucar and Con-
dan Point, discovered an Enemy's Lugger in the
N. W. which, after a chase of twelve hours, (it
then becoming calm when about three miles from
the Ship,) was boarded in a very spirited manner by
the Boats of the Thames, under the command of
Lieutenants Hawker, Stewart? and Lucas. She is
called the Sparrow, a Spanish Privateer, mounting
two four-pounders, two brass swivels and small
arms, and thirty-one men, out filry-four, days, had
taken a Gibraltar Privateer, and was on her return.
I have the honour to be, Zec. Stc. &c. .
(Signed) A. R. HQLLIS.
Vice,4din;ral Pole, Commander in
&c. &c.