The Sun.
London, England, 1801-12-28 00:00:00

LONDON, DECEMBER 2,8, Teo'.

THE two
.11-427abgrg4 Mai4s, duo on :Wednesday
last, arrived' last night. They were brought. from
Cuxhaven in ihe Diana Packet, Captain SiE WAR T.
—ln their contents ;there :is very little that is in-
teresting. The reception of the Sy ADTHO LDER
and his Son, by the'Pßtiic 'of HESE CASSEL, has
•
been highly flattering.
It is by this Channel that we first rec€ive any.
formal account of the Meeting of thg Plenipoten.:
stiaries at .4m ens. An .article from tbat place, of
the 71h, :announces the opening of the Congress.

The Mail which beearne due yesterday; is not

arri.ved.

'VIC: ROYAL FAMILY attended Divine Service
yesterday at St. George's Chapel, Windso.r.
On Wednesday fiIsMAJESTY will bold a Levee
at 81.. jameet, Palate. ' •
The QUEEN gavea grand Entertainment .o the
ROYAL FAMILY 013 day, at Windsoi.

IVlajor.General SirCHARLEs Asc ILL is appointed
to the Conunqui of the,Eastern Dli.triet, including
the Garrison of Dublin.

A Letter from the gape. says, ". prohibi:.,
tion of, the importation of English Coals into otir
Republic 'is', to" be continued till the 30th April of
the ensuing year,- as by such an importation many
Of the Merchants of Holland, who had laid in great
stocks of that comn 'previous -previous to- the Peace,
would be ruined.".

NAVAL NEWS.

PORTSMOUTH, Drc.-

ARR 7 v t n'-the Severn'TrAnspor t-frorn Ma! to and
Gibraltar, and is put under quarantine at the Mo.
therbank. '

AhO.tlie following ships remain under that re.
straintai ili:e7Motherbank, viz. Minotaur,' Ceres,
Dru;d,,Dollibiw,. and Trraty.

Arrived at the Motherbank, the ship Basseterl'e;
of toticion, very leaky.

.Anotheriarge ship is arrived in distress at the
Motherhank; but her, name is not yet kno‘Yb.

HARWICH, DE C. 27.

THE King George Packet, Caps: DEANE, sailed
early this mo. ming for
,Cuxhaven, with the Haina
burgh and Bremen Mails of yesterday.
On Wednesday next a Packet will `sail from this
place for the first time to Hervoetsluys, with a
Mail for Holland and the Netherlands ; and in fu-
ture ture.a Packet will sail regularly every Wednesday
and Saturday' afternoon, for the same place.
The Monkey, Lieut. Coa.SELLYS, Mariner, Lieut.
WILLIAMS, Sparkler, Lieut. DICK, and. the Mizx
Gun vessels, are arrived at this Port from the Nore,
with Sailors to navigate the Conqueror, of 74. guns,
lately built here, to Chatham, toF the purpose of
being docked and sheathed,
Remain the Diana Packet, Capt. OSEORN, and
Argus Cutter„ Capt. SAUNDEE;S.

The power that the Lords of the Admiralty have
given' to Commanders in• Chief is7—thar each of
them shall try, Condemn, and hang any person
found guilty of mutiny, without consulting, in any
respeef, the Adluiralty Board.
Captain the Earl of NormEsic has resumed'the
command .of the Prince; vice Loßillc, who is
appointed to the B.elleroiksn ; and Captain S. Os-.
Boa N has taken the command 'of the 14miliet, vice
1•11CFIOLLS.
Commissioner Sir ALEXANDER BALL is arrived
in the Minotaur, Capt. Louis, from Qibialtar.
Saturday evening an Officer belonging to the Star,
Bombay Cruizer, reached the India House, to an-
nounce the arrival of that vessel in the Downs, from
A. mboyna ; she sailed. from 'St. Helena on lie zd
November, at which period there was not any -ves-
sel there, but the Cotentes,s of Sutherland was daily
expelled -frotri the Cape of Good Hope.