The Sun.
London, England, 1814-02-22 00:00:00

very mysterious."

DEAL, FEB. 21.—Rernaia his Majesty's ships
and the whole of the transports as per last.—
Wind E.S.E. _

PORTSMOUTH, FEB. 21.—Arrivecl his Majesty's
ships Penelope from Plymouth, anti the Diomede
from the Downs.—Sailed his i‘injesty's ships
Dannemarek, Albicore, and• Moos, with the
fleet for the East Indies, &c. ; and his Majesty's
ship Pcrsens with •the fleet for Lisbon. The Sea-
horse takes convoy •the coast of ;Spain. The
East India and Lisbon convoys are at anchor in
St. Helen's roads-the wind there (noon) south.
Wind now east.

FALMOUTH, JAN; 19. Arrived the I)!•ineess
Charlotte packet, with a mail trom Pas,ages, itl
six days, and a few vessels from Other ports to
wait convoy.—Sailed the Darlington packet, with
mails for Lisbon, Gibraltar, and Malta ; Pr'ncesi
Elizabeth, ditto, with a for rassages,:—Withl
N. light breezes, and clear ~vc,:ther.
/-IARWICII, JAN. 21.—. Arrived the Vriendshaft,
SEisot.m, with coifee, ,irom London for Am-
sterdam.—Sailed six sfi! for Amsterdam, one for
Rotterdam ; the Lady Francis and Alliance
for Heligoland ; and the Auckland packet for GA-
tenhiirgh. The Seville packet, Flo: sod;, from,
Dunbar to Lisbon, with soap, ,vas tots ou Thurs-.
day night on the Long Sand.—Wind W. -

The homeward bou.nl fleet from Rio- janeiro
was at Bahia on the 23d of November,Hand would
sail about the 30th, call off Pcrnanibucii for his
Majesty's ship Satellite, and the ships. there, and
proceed for England, under convoy of the Nisus,
with the Ineonstata and Nereus, in company, as
far as the Line. •

The Ville de Paris of 120 guns,- Rear-Admiral
Sir 11. B. NEALE, arrived ou Saturday at fly-
mouth.

BRITISH PRISONERS IN FRANCE.

The following is, a very recent list of British.
Prisoners in France. All that follow are relieved
by the Charitable Fund, which has been of infinite ,
service to the poor soldiers and sailors, whom the
fate of war has made prisoners.
At Arras lBOO
1- •
' Longwy, removed to : diierp, l4OO
Besancon removing to ditto
Bitche, removing. t:, Se•laii
Briancon, removing to Mauhenge ..... ~1050
Givet, removing to Pcietiers
11Iatitlyon,rennoving to Autun lO3O
Sarrelonis and Sarrdion,• removing to
Beauchain a!ni Brusainne • 488 E
Sisteron, removing- to Guise; depOts of
punishment for sailois and soldiers ' Se,o
Cambray '1873
Vi6ncsihnes 1660
Verdun - - 280
.

16,00
At Verdun.(now removed to Blois), an i in
other parts of France; there • are, from 1000 to
1200 officers and other prisoners on parole, not
relieved by the fund. There are generally 300 or
400 on it arch from, one depOt to another, so that
the total :number may be stated at near 19,00.
The treatment is, in general, good, and the pri.
sailers are, considering every thing, very healthy'.

THE TITE.ATR,S3,4II% KEA.N made MI tl,ir ap-
pearance last night at Drury-htne Theatre, and
was received with increased appl4use.
Mrs. JORDAN returned to Covent-garden The.
acre last night, in the part of Rosalind, which she
supported with her usual spirit and humour. The
only change in the play was in the part of Orlando,
performed by Mr. CONWAY, who was too formal
and attiludirous. There was an elegsdnt,.but not
a crowded audience.

No one need be surprised that FIOnNsBT• and
Co. of Gornhill, should have so great a run- tor
Tickets and Shares in the present, Lottery, when
it is well known rlint they divided among the pub.
lic, in the last two.small Lotteries, One Hundred
Thsoussnri Pounds.

'Yesterday morning, about nine o'dork, the
hotly of the. young man who was unfortnnately
• drowned in the Canal of St. James's Park, was
foam!. lie proved to b.e Tuomp,s .BURNS.
herald painter. The body Was-taken to the Silt-
ling-house, at St. James's P.-dace, where the Co.
loner's Jury sat in the afternoo'n, and hron•lit iri
-a verdict lirownec.4 piteinpting b sate. others.
•- gnFoun. ,were last night
shewn t;:e following posteript of a 'letter from ts
gentleman in the nighbOttrhood of Fern,: :
" I era this instant sent for to mold an inga,st "n the 13,07
-of a young man, nairdercd last ni,;h'c. near Woodhvook, the
seat o€ Capt. Matt:cr. He wa called to the door, not know..
ins fur, what ...mrp,,,c' and theresinstantty shut dead." IV,
trust we shall be enabled to gice‘the result of the Coroner's
inquest in our next".—WczArd