The Sun.
London, England, 1809-12-22 00:00:00

NAVAL NI7W?!.

rALNICTITH, Dt.c. lg.—Arrived •this day the
'Duke of Kent packet from St. Thomas's, last from
Plvmou_th, where she landed her Mails from the
Leeward Islands'. •

Sailed this-day the Prince. of bales, TODD, with
two Malis, for Lisbod; the Princess Augusta, FuEzE,
with Mails for Cadiz;' 'Gibraltar, Malta, and Skil), ;
the.'La4 Pelletv packet; hARRIS, with :Mails, for
,Itirbadoes and Jatnaica; also. the Ras,
for Jamaica, with fish ; the- ship Columbia,' PERRY,
for. S;. Thomas's ; his • Majesty's ship Le Rhin, of
44 guns, Capt. MALcoi,m, for Plymouth; his Ma-
irsty's ship ilrethusa, of 44 ,guns, Capi, MEND, on
a'cruite ;.'his Majesty's ship Phipps; with dispatches;
for, Lisboa ; the Whiting schoongr for PlyntOuth ;
and his Majesty's ship Plover,' of 18 guns, on a

crtnz,e.
The Queen Charlotte packet for the Brazils, and
;Duke of Kent for Arrrwica, are detained till .further
orders: The Lord Hobart Packet is hourly expe&ed,
with Mails, from the Brazils.-,-I am happy to add,
that'dnring thelate.gales not a single vessel bas re-
ceived any injury.

COWES, DEC. 21.—This morning early arrived
here the American ship Hercules, Capt. TAYLOR,
vkith a cargo' of coilee, cotton, &c. from Charles-
town, out 35 days, put in here for orders.
The wind 'still continues blOwing fresh from the
Westward, which prevents the ships in our Road
from.sailing.

The Tisiphone frigate working to the Westward,
is got ashore, but.' it is thought will got off again
withbut much damage.

SHEERNESi, ,DEC. 20. --Arrived his Majesty's
brig Thracian.

Sailed his Majesty's brig Tyleteurius, with a convoy
to tieligoland. , .
bac. 21.;—Passed 'by down the River Thames
his Majesty's ship Tortu4e—iias.rwde the convoy
signal fut the Baltic.
Arrived his Majesty's shit:l.oo-lex,, and illexan-
dria frigate trotn the North Sea.',

PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 21 .=The ship Clarendon, '
JAMBS BRUCE, Master, b-ound to the West Indies
Which' drove on shore"on the Kicker, -in the. night
of the 14th inst, was 'this day got off, and is cOtne
into the harbottr to repair her damage.
4trived the Three. William§, Fox, and the Golden
Fleece, BABRTT, from Waterford.
Sailed the John Black, Speedy, and, Aldridge, for
London; and the-Britannia, et.nAxi›,' us, iur New-
castle.
Arrived his Majesty's ship impetueux, of 80 guns,
Capt. JOllbi LAWFORD,• from FluShing.
Came in'hisMajesty's brig Sarpedon,- of 10 gun
from the Downs. - •

DOVER; DEc. '2-I.—Half-past 6 P.M.--I am this
moment i►iformed, that the Secretary to the Ame-
rican Minister is expeaed here this evening, with.
MAYER, the Austrian Messenger, to embark for
France.

I have not time to inquire minutely into the truth
of this, .but, from the channel through which it
comes to me, I believe it true.

DEAL, JAN. 2 1.-Put back the whole of the
outward-bound merchant ships which sailed yester-
day, except the Mary Ann, Eliza Ann, and the
Gallant Schooner.

HULL, DEC. 19.—On'the listh inst. arrived at
Whitby the sloop Puzzle, CLOKE rriaster,-a fkanish
priie, with a cargo of iron and deals from Gotten-
burgh having been four. days without wateri the
crew were reciticed to the greatest extremity; smile
of then-i bordering upon a state of deliritim. In this
situation they obtained son-lexelle( from the circtim-
,stance.of their having on board. a few cabbages• which
they had brought with, them from.Gottenburgh, and
v..hich being divided among the people, served in
some degree to allay rheir; intense -thirst; by their
taking at frequent inttfrvals a:smalfpartion•into tfigir
mouths.

'Monday the 10th, notwithstanding the violence of
the hurricanei two seamen belonging to" the Gibraltar
lying in ,Cawsand Bay, took the ship's cutter, with
an intent to- desert ; which design it was thought
they had effected ; but on Wednesday • the boat was
found stove in under, Plymouth Hoe, and on Friday
last the bodies of the two misguided men were pick-
ed up, shockingly mutilated, under Mount Batten:
The same night. Thomas Fitzgerald, quarter-master
of the Repulse, 74, and. four seamen deserted from
that ship, and are supposed to have met with a simi-
lar fate to the above, to they have not since been
heard of:

Thursday, the ilth of January
,next, is appointed
'for the christening of the infant daughter of her
Grace the DOchess of RICA-010/9, which is to take
place at the Castle of Dublin:. ,The ceremony is in-
.teinded to be performed With grew. 'splendour, and.
her. Grace•will give a grand ball in honour ()idle oc-
casion.' A number of personages of the first distinc-
tion have been invited. •

Her _Grace the Duchess of Goariow is shortly ex-'
peCted to visit Dublin Castle ; iris said her Grace
,will accompany the, LORD LIEUTENANT and the
Duchess of Ilicumovato 'Packenham Hall, the seat
of the Earl pi LONGraltDo to send the Ci~ristii~s

AMERIC4N IMPERS:

(VRRY LATE FROM FRANCE.)

NEw-Yett,t;', Nov. I.—Yesterday aitrived at this
port, the United ,States! Sloop of war trash, Lieut.
LAWRENCE, 22 days from L'Orient, with dispatche#
from Gen, ARMSTRONG to our Government. Lieut,
HASWELL, the bearer or the dispatches, proceeded
to Washington yesterday morning.

We have nor been able to learn .that any material
change has iala:n plane in our relations vtitlLEiance
and it is rumoured, on the authority of letters, that
no change was likely. to occur, at least-until the iv*
turn of the Emperor NAPoLEONT.
We further, learn, that the dispatch Wille). went

it in the If asp, had not as late as. the 20th Sept.
been sent' to BUONAPARTE at Vienna, as (it wasob-
served .by Mr, ARbISTRONO) it was useless to trouble
hits on the subje& while lie was engaged on the
C4ntinent.
•
Mr. ARMSTRONG intended some time• since to
y ,
have' .left France for the United States, but 'wai
prevented by repeated requests from the French
Minister to remain, as something decisive fiom the
Emperor might be eicpetied ; 'but as nothing had
been received, and Mr. ARMSTRONG despaired of:
any success, he intended, as soon as possible,'to sail
for America. He would have detained the Wasp,
for this purpose, we are informed, if his family could
have been accommodated in her.

It. is true the Prize Courts in France have sus-
pended the condemnation of American, property, ;
but this is supposed to be done to answer 'some par-
ticular purpose. None of the` immense property
•
under sequeStration had, as we can learn, been
re-
stored..-.

An *Officer, ..Who has just arrived frtin EociajoS,.,
gives a Most interesting account of the .Patient endur,_-.-
anee and enterprising spirit of the native Portuguese., .
lately under -the,
,orders of Sir RoaEitT-Wicsos.,--,,,!
Three times 'his avalry were dismounted by the '
perior, number's of the enemy, and . as
.often wets
they remounted by the coin-age of the detachment.
It has not lost-a horse or, a piece of artillery, tbat..it
has net regained ; and the terror, of tlfe enemy at its -
approaelltls,so great, that he avoidS it every "where,;;
unless he possesses greatly the advantage in compa-
rative strength.
the• Co-reedy -of The Man of t,ae 1", oad yeas re-
presented 'last night at CoVe-rif-Gardeh Theatre to a; •
very numerous audience,. and was received with great
applause throughout. ,At one period there wAs a •
faint attchipt to reviye, the_ subject' of the -private
boxes, .but the public in general seem :to be -so 4ve)l
satisfied .with .the arrangement .which is to • take
'place next 'season, that the audience in a tilOnlent •
suppressed the, puny efforts.--Several placards were
held forth-in favour
nerd sentiment :of the riiiblfc is SO SI rOug...sga.Vl3‘
al: icka sacrificing and faithful servant tot
an excess of zeal, that all attempts of this kind secul',
att
to be unnecessary. A, inarity:concession .03,41" o,d
is certainly all,
,thal..can,b4, requiTed,
doubtless be a satisfrictork expiation of 211 WOO "1
the Mind or a liheral, public..
The new Comedy of '.Sudden 'Arrivals ; or,. 1-‘)°
Busy by was repeated last- night at. the Ly-
ceum. The author has so well availed hiMseif °L
public criticism, that the Pig is-much improved in
general area. • Mrs. MouNTAIN made her first ap-
: pearance, after, her:Dtiblin trip, in Alp Sang no Sup'
per. She was well received, and she requited the
audience by her admirable singing. ' •
Stribota is proceeding with great spirit
the condo of the new 'llleatie, at_ Edinburgh: ire
recently revived The (Pinter's. Tale in that City its
so magnificent a stvl.e, as to occasion a very judici°.us
and elegant critique, which
.appeared in The
burgh Averting Courant.'
It should be mentioned to the honour of CATA"
LAN,`, that, instead of proceeding from Bum. ingb3l,ll.
to Scotland,. she chine purposely to Iticlimo-A,
tl
, Surrey, in ()icier to Sing gratuitously. ata.Concert for
'the benefit of the late Mr. Tteas's family, and we
are glad', to learn that her efforts prbve4
highly ad-
vantageous.
The Trustees of Drury-lane Theatre, upon whom
the Renters now find that they must shiefly, if not-
entirely, rely, hal:'e, it is said,
.determined to adopt
the most vigorous and decisive ,ineasuie4 for restor-
ing the edifice, or else to Te]irtg4ish the tru•ft. , ;
The arrival of an AmbaSsader fro,m,
,Persia irs°
interesting 'an' event,_ that::we hO'ne, La.wliaNce,'.,
,or some ''other of ,our first-rate'Artist.,
mitte;l take a Purtrait of the distinguished ,Rere":'
seatative of the Persian Monarch.-

Some trays • ago, a Getui-Inan in.gelfast, having:
put unslackeiled lithe into some ernPly.harrelsinlit#,
yard, in 'Ann-street, the ,tide rose in the night timei-
wetted. the.lime, which set the
,barrels, on tire; and'
communicated to part of his stores, ,brit: was forte;
nately discoverQd and_ extinguished,-. before it to"
done much damage.
-A few days ago a man was apprehended at the West.
End of the Town, on a char7e of endeavouring• t°
pass'counterfeit 75,• pieces. 'Seven of which wera
found about: his person, and placed, upon a table,
but whilst further search was making,: he contrived
to swallow them. He was afterwards tent to a
Watch-house, but found means to escape.,
Wednesday evening, about five o'clock;. 'as a cart
was going alorig the. top of the Old Bailey, some
thieves stole a trunk out of it adcheSsed to a Gentle-
man at Portsmou.th2; the .cartnan being. upon the
alert pursued them into. Greeo. Arbor-couri,but theY
escapea.-down 'Break...neck-stairs with the' pro-pert'',

', atter knocking down the carman. . • ,n;
Tuesday evening last, as Mr. Thomas • Gladsto
Landing, Waiter, of Berwick, was •comiag .oil
shore 'from the Batchelor, stbooner, he stumble°,
and, catching at a boy who was•on the plank at the
same_thne,. they both fell into the river ; thent
vvas soon._pic.k,ed up by a wan. who instantly juin'''.
into the water, and wh'o did not giVe up his phil3u:
throphic pursuit until he succeeded also iy rexu.itLlP
Nr• Glstdstop 4941 41!‘.1.4.er-Y grape., •

The long continuance of westerly winds has pre-
'Yesterday being St. Thoma,'s Day, the gleFion for
ye ited the arrival of colliers from England, and coals
Common Councilmeti, &c. was held for all iLe dit-
have risen to an enormous price, to the great preju-'
ferent Wards in the City, and great were the coo-
dice of the lower classes, which our worthy Mayor
is endeavouring to alleviate by every means in his testants.
. i The Lord Mayor went in state to his own Ward
power.
Major C.W. Clarke, of the 35th, and Capt. R. (Fatringdon Within), which he held at Christ's
Church, of the Corsican Rangers, who so much dis-
Hospital, when Mr. Percall, of Cheapside, Was
tinguished their valour at the Seven Islands, are na-
nominated. The show of hands were against Mr.
the , Metcalf, who in consequence demanded a poll ; arid
Jives of Cork, and a great credit to this city ;
the new candidate was declared duly elected.. His
former is brother to the late General Sir William
Clarke, of the 84th, who died at Goa, and the latter Lordship next went to Vintry' Ward and held a
Wardmote for Alderman Newnharn, where three
is brother to Mr. Church, one of our Sheriffs. fresh candidates were chosen ; he next went to the
The neighbourhood of George-street, in this city,
Ward of Billingsgate, and held a Wardmote for Sir
was very much alarmed the other night, by the
NV. Leighton ; several new candidates were nomi-
outrageo,.s conduct of an Engbsh stranger, who
nand, one of whom had a superior show of hands
proceeded to break the windows of several houses
to Mr. Beard, one of-the old ones. A poll was de-
and to do other mischief: being brought before
manded for him, and the contest is exeded to be
the Sheriff, he alleged his name to be Baylie,
. ,
and that he was travelling, having been at Glasgow severe.
and Dublin previous to his coming hither. We ra-
The Lord Mayor next went to Lime-street Ward
. w
then apprehend that Baylie is an assumed name, and and held a Warchnote for Alderman Jacob, who as
that he is reall the celebrated Mr. L whose lately chosen, but who is at present abroad. A new
—, y
candidate was nominated, who had the shew of
eccentricities excited so much notice some time ago
i hands, and Deputy Braun declined troubling the
,
in London. He appears much deranged, and is for
the present committed to the care of Mr. Bull, who W 'rd with a polls
Sir James Shaw held his Wardmote for the Ward
keeps a most excellent well-regulated mad-house in ;
of Portsoken, where two fresh candidates were no-
the neighbourhood &f Cork. The •day previous to
,
his being taken up, be seemed very desirous to ex-
urinated and a poll demanded. At tour o'clock the
change some Irish bank notes for English ones, in.
numbers were—
tending, as we apprehend. to go for England by one Mr. Cam:tech, . . . sr Mr. Ria 27
.
49 *l3r,sco 22
of the Bristol packets. His 2ppearthce acid address i Hoppe
47
when spoken'to are perfectly gentlemaiilike. He had ' ;%C:kaernter" 4z
been
.. about three weeks at a public-house in this vi- Alderman C. Smith held his Wardmote at Bow-
eituty. . i Church, for Cardwainer's Ward, when six new Can-
t didates started against the old ones. A poll was de-
-1 manded, at the close of which the oumbers were--
Mr. Hick
G. inith
Abbey
Kemble
Hammon
Raw
Trimbey
Sir William Curtis held his Wardmote for Tower
Ward, when several new candidates were nominated
ant: a poll demanded.
Sir Richard Carr Glynn held his Wardmote for
Bishopsgate, when live candidates were nominated,
aria a poll demanded.
Sir JAL, Eatner held his Wardmote for Lang-
bourn Ward, when two new candidatesdeMan''ed
a poll.
Sir John Perring held his 'N\radaine for Bread-
street, when tile two new candidates demanded a
poll there.
AU of the above commenced yesterday at eleven
O'clock.
Sir Charles Flower had no new candidates in his
Ward of Coruhill ; neither had Alderman Scholey
for the Ward of Candlewick.

CORK, Dec. is.

CITY ELECTIO3, 3.

THE AMERICAIV DUCHESS.

(We copy the following from a Morning Paper.

It is difficult to believe, that Buonaparte, when
he made Ihe American relict of his brother Jerome
o Duchess, was impelled by no other motive than ,
the ostensible one--the vanity of shewing that
Whosoever by any connectiou bad becn,allied with
his family must be distinguished and exalted.—Ar-
rogant and vain as he is, we can scarcely think him
sincere in such vanity as this. For he must.
know, • that taken as mere vanity, the cost o' it
inkist give some offence in France ; and he could
scarcely fail to be aware, that evzii in America, if it
be understood that the ennobling of Madame Pater-
son and her seen is to have no consequences beyond
themselves, is not to be followed z-,y otter brans of
dignities, the envy of her title, untempered by any
kope of rivalling. it, can have no other .etfect than
that of disgusting her former equals, and offending
his own partizans.
It is also difficult to believe that he can have
formed the presumptuous design of establishing
any sort of Court in the centre of Repubiican Ame-
rica; but, if we will guess at his motive, we must
ehus,:. between imprebabilities, and this seems the
least of the two. We have other instances of his
Presumption greater than this. Spain and Tor-
tuga' were his devoted instruments, becoming
every day more submissive and more valuable, for
through them he received the treasures of the
New World. Yet Spain and Portugal •he risked
for the sake of usurping their thrones. Their in-
lerumentality could not content him ; he must have
dominion and-possession.. Upon this risk he staked
also his own throne ; for, however securely be may
be styposed to have accomplished his plan, the
story of that adventure is not yet told ; the
War will alternate betweea Spain and Germany ;
44'11m he has lost half another army in gaining
victories over the Spaniards, Austria will
try her fate against the other half ; and, if he
• should once more reach Vienna, his brother Joseph
will again have to fight for Madrid. But this is fo-1
reign from our present consideration, except to sbew
how little capable he is of contentment, and how
Contemptuous of danger he has been rendered by
saecess. In any scheme, however, respeeting Ame-
rica, his risk of present good will not be great.—
America, notwithstanding all the friendship of Mr.
3efferson, and Mr. Maddison, has hitherto been but
It sort of negative instrument in his baud, and of her
Continuing such he cannot be sure, since the Ame-
ricans either cannot, or will not, live without trade.
Pie may intend to forge, out of this pretence of ex-
alting his repudiated sister in law, some golden and
afterwards some iron. chains for the Republicans
of the United States. There is already a Governor
appointed for the ioung Prince, his nephew.. A few
snore Officers will make a Court. The Duchess will-
have her establishment. There will be an influx of
salaries from France, and less visible bribes will fol-
low for Americans, who shall deserve them from
Buonaparte. The new Court will soon outshine the
homely finery of the President's hous.!.. It will be
instantly a head-quarters of corruption. The French
Minister will appear there as the servant of the
Young Prince, and by a careful display of ceremoni-
ous adulation, not yet known to the Ainericans, will
endeavour to give them an habitual feeling of such
respell for his person as may be converted into awe.
A nephew of Buonaparte, and yet an American,
this youth may become popular amongst a people,
whom the agents of France already seduce in some
degree, though they have against them the odium of
a foreign conneCtion, with the alloy of a native
Priece's influence.
Without being very confident in our conje6ture,
we will now venture to say what it is.—This child
is destined to try his fortune in an attempt to be-
come Buona2arte's Viceroy in America.

BROAD-STREET WARD.

At the Meeting of the Wardmore held yesterday,
at Drapers' Hall, all the oltt Members were on a
show at hand, cleated except Mr. Cott-erell, in whose
stead Mr. Clark was eleded. Mr. Atcheso❑ wai
proposed, and a poll demanded for him, a►►d for Mr.
Cotterell. It appears Mr. Atcheson had not can-
vassed the Ward. At the close of the, poll the num-
ber. were, viz :

Mr. Ciark . . .
Crokatt
Nl.rryatt . . .
Blaxland
Paterson
Sharp

Mr. }learn .
Arthur . .
Chapman . .
A tclieson . .
Cauiton . .
Cotterell . .

• •• • • J

'E WITHIN.

* Mr. Dock sey . .
13irt
* Palmer . . . .
Hiscien
White
Vallence

SGATE.
* Mr. Tilford
Windus . .
Blundell .
* Davis . .
Could . •
* Koss . .
Poynder . .
Knight . . . .
Gough

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It was invidnusly observed in a Morning Paper
of yesterday, ti nt the Earl of CHATHAM was con-
spicuous in the :1 cle at St. James's the day before,
" to shew that he was to be supported by the Host
of Government." Surely a liberal mind would en
ISuch an occasion 261 upon the principles of British
Justice, and infer, that the Earl of CHATHAM is
emboldened by a consciousness of having discharged
out duty to the utmost of his power, and therefore
appeared before his Sovereign with the firmness of
tegrity, and a mind prepared for the fullest inves-
tigation. Such, we doubt not, would have been
the inference which the sane Paper would have
drawn, if any public Officer of its own side dt the
9,.uestion were placed in the siline situation as the
4:41 of CHATHAM, and were to have appeared in
Such a manner as that which occasioned so illiberal
I comment.

AP.
Mr. Wigan l7
Williams
Swift
Fournier
*Farr
*Dollman . . . .