The Sun.
London, England, 1801-12-26 00:00:00

LONDON, DECEMBER z 6, 18of.

NEITHER of the Two IL7l,7turgb MaWs that
were due, had arrived when our Paper was put to
Press.

It is with much pleasure we have to state, that
the Delft, armed e4iflute, of 64. guns, Capt. Re DMI
is arrived at Spithead, .witlypart of the Coldstream
Regiment, under colonel Firzaor, on board. The
reason of her, not arriving before, was her being
obliged to put into Gibraltar for provisions. The
news of her arrival was brought by a letter, sent
by the quarantine boat, to General WHITtLOCKE.
The weather being hazy, her arrival could not be
ascertained at the Signal-house.
Colonel FITZROY, Captain MURRAY, and Sir
JOHN FRAN4LrN, ihaVe landed at PortsmOuth from
Egypt.
It.is said that Lord CAM“.FORD intends,to sup_
port Sir SioNr.y SMrill, as the ,Representative of
Old Sarum at the next elea.ion.'

On Sqnday last the Right Rev. tl:e Lord Bishop
of ExETEK held an Ordination in the'chapel of the
Bled Virp.in Mary, withm the Fa(aF Exetel
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NAVAL NEWS.

PORTSIV9WW• DEC. 25.

ARRIVED this day, and were put uncjer Qua-
rantine at the Motherbank, His Majesty's Ships
Druid, Dolpkin, and Wiw•kehea, from Egypt, with
Troops.

Arrived the cygnet, .0 AMER 2N, from CherbOprg ;
and London Mirchew, BYERS, from Sunderland.

Arrived- the `'Nanny and lary, Enx m, from

Sailed the Sea Dog, GANDER ON, for Dieppe.

The remains of the gallant 4.2 d, or Royal High-
landers, are arrived at Splthe4d, last from Gibraltar,
in good health and high spirits. Colonel JArlEs,
STEWART, with three Companies, are on board the
Ceres Frigate. Three Companies, under the com-
mand of Colonel Ai.Ex. STEw,ART, came home
about three weeks since in the Resource, and the
remainder of the Regiment, under the comm.= of
Colonel WM. DICKSON, are also arrived in .he
Dolphin Frigate, having touched at Malta tnd
Gibraltar. the Ceres and Poljohin are put under
quarantine.

Four ships, having on board a part of the Toot
Guards, and the 28th Regiment of Foot, under th::
command of the Hon. Colonel PAC ET, • saiW at the
same time with the Polphil and Ceres, • pad a
few days after, and are not arrived.
Lord HUTCH ; NSOII/42, with the General and Medi-
cal Staff, and several Regiments, were left in Egypt
on the sth of Oftober : the troops in general were
healthy, and recovering fast from the fatigues of
the lastglorious Campaign.

The ;3d and 2gth Regiments of Infantry had
landed at Gibraltar, November 18, iin good order,
and were doing garrison Outy.
The Pensioners of Kilmainham Hospital, 'lreland,
are, it is said, to be placed on a .sirnilar,establish-
ment with those of *Chelsea; in England. The
change is to take plate from the Ist of January.
The poor old veterans will receive better food by
it, and each man a new suit of clothes every year,
and a comfortable jockey coat every third year,
It is now the fashion in France-for men of pro-
perty, whether acquired by peculation to which, the
Revolution has given rise, whether they be Army
Contractors, or Clerks in the Department of Finance,
to represent themselves ,as related to the ci-devant
Noblesse. If they have riot emigrated themselves,
they say, with a shrug,-most of their relations have
been forced, by their principles, to quit the Republic.
One of the Constituent Assembly, Mr, C-, who
was remarkable for his attachment to' the Monar-
chy, and who makes this observation in a Paris
Paper, says=" In former times I was branded with
the name of Aristocrat; now I am complimented
on the wisdorri of my principles by men who assure
me they have always, entertained the same,- and I
am frequently obliged co defend the cause of poor
cipserted,P hilosofily, against those who were former-
ly her greatest patrons."„.
We have: often expressed our wishes to seethe
People of France,, under their present Government,
`return to their former modes of computation,. not
only with respell to Time, but also to weights arid
measures. A circumstance leads us to believe, that
with itesped to the latter, the period is riot far dis-
tant. The Medical School of Strasburgh has pro-
posed to apply the new weights and measures to the
science of Medicine, and to sweep away at the
same time all chemical charaders, and the Latin lan_
guage entirely from prescriptions. Whether the
charader of a Physician will be exalted by render-
ing Learning less essential to it, we leavejo the
Strasburgh Society to determine ; but we are quite
sure that the myriagramme and bedogramme in ja/ap
and opium, will' make all those who escape with life,
confoundedly sick of the decimal covuttition.

The French Papers state, that Mr. BEHRENDA,
Professor at Frankfort, upon Oder, has per-
formed some astonishing cures, even in the last
stages of Hydrophobia. One of his Disciples, Dr.
SLARLIG, of Hamburgh, has published a Latin
Dissertation updn this subjeet, which deserves to be
universally known. The principal remedies he re-
commends are bathing, blisters, camphire, musk,
arid powder of Belladona.
MERCIER, Of the National Institute, has pub-
lished a Work of 700 pageS, in which he attempts to
point out the extreme impropriety of playing at
dominos in coffee-rooms.

When Mr, SHERIDAN, upon a late occasion,.
spoke of 46 the Apparition of a Claim," with all his
ingenuity, he misapplied the figure ; for it is cer-
tainly more applicable to Mr. Speare LEWIS, than
to Mr. jAcoa FaANco. Judging from the name
of the latter, he seems rather connected with
" Jacobs the little carpenter," at least in religious
opinions, as their names denote a Mosaic persuasion.
It must be acknowledged, that though the proposal
to send a Ftench Aftor to this country to play
English charaders is a severe sarcasm upon the Per-
formers of our Stage, there are too many 'among
them who, in point of education, may give full coun-
tenance to the satire.

COO ICE, the Astor`, it seems, has been taken ill at
Bath ; and, incredible as the cause may appear, his
indisposition is said to have been occasioned by his
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ng ewater !

The Walkers of the present day have excited the
emulation of the Hoppers. We find, that a few
days ago, at Sheffield, a youth of about r 7 ,years of
age, agreed for a wager of a glass-of gin, to eat
sixty cakes of gingerbread, hopping on one leg all
the while. This he had accomplished most manfully,
when an old woman came to the door with pies,—
on which the gormandizing hero proposed to devour
eight penny pies on the, same footing. This feat,
with the assistance of a quart of ale, he also atchiev-
ed.

One of the unfeelingyillains who plundered the
property of the ship-wrecked Marinvrs cast ashore
near Aherthaw. Glarnorganshire, is. committed to
Crcliff gaoli

I

L .4 ATRE.

WE have been favoured with a Copy of the fol.
lowing authentic document

" On a aucrvey of the Buildings comprising
Drury-Lane Theatre, ereaed under the diredion
of RENRY HoLL4ND, Esq. and considering the
extent of the original Design, annexed to the Deed
of Trust, I am of opinion it will require the full
Sum of Thirtyrseven Thousand Pounds to complete
the remainder of the Buildings cettformably to such
design;

4f RICHARD WDODINO,
'" Aed Liop,square.
(r i9th Deceztther, ISOT,
44. 4373000."
The above is exclusive of completing the Build.
ings already ere4cd.