The Sun.
London, England, 1814-01-01 00:00:00

'TLIE FOG.

The Fog still continues. It was more dense
and oppressive last night than at ally time since
its commencement on Monday last. Very few
persons ventured out except on pressing business;
and no sound was heard out of doors, bat the
voices of the watch►uen, or the noise of ,o ne so-.
litmy carriage, cautiously feeling its way through
the ;loom. It extends as far as the Downs,
a distance of 70 miles, but ho' far in other di-
rections, has not been yet ascertained. The wind
has in the interval blown uniformly from the
North-east. We understand that there has been
nothing like the present fog since the great earth/-
quake at Lisbon, about half a century ago. The
fog then lasted eight days. .

On Thursday night List, about nine o'clock, a
serjeant belonging to the West Kent Militia, gar-
risoned in the Tower, owing to the thickness of
tho fog, fell into the River from the wharf, and
was unfortunately drowned before assistance, from
the extreme darkness, could be of any avail.
Mom'ay night, owing to the thick fog, a post-
chaise and four passengers, nu its way from town
to Ucl,field, was overturned into the_ water, by
the rind siege, at Brixton Wash, the chaise was
broken to pieces, and the passeugcrs and horses
dreadfully :hit and bruised.
Two men, respectably dressed, hatl the auda-
city to stop M. CROSS, of Portland-road* as early
as ten o'clock on Tuesday evening, dnriug the
fog. People were passing within;; a few yards
of Mr. Cuoss at the time, but the robbers got his
watch and hat in a second, and made off, eluding
detection.

EXTRAORDINARY PEDESTRIANINI.--Tuesday a
feht Of pedestrianism was decided between 0 per-
son .of the name of.i. LEADERI-IF,AD, who' is a fine
atbletiezman, and- a veteran of great c,:lebrity, of
the' name of BENJAMIN DAVIS. The comt.atants
were to roil a distance of 12 miles against time,
the odds at stating were two to one against
DAvis ; each of their shoes went to weigh three
poinuis awl n quarter. DAvis•performed the first
two miles in 14 minutes, and did seven miles with-
in the hotir'; he finished the distance stipulated in
one hour, 51 minutes, and eight .seconds. His
antagonist completed the distance in two hours
rind 12 minutes. anti iu consequence lost a ‘vnger
of 2(3/. by 19 minutes. A great crowd was as-
sembled on the occasion, and the friends of the
veteran were highly delighted with his success
over his youthfuCcompetitor.

TAVAL NEWS.,

His Majesty's Wolfe, at Kingston,

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NQv. 1, Isis,.
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Stg,-4 cannot allOw;You and tbeseainen under
'lour conunand.to,depart,, v.0.1t bout expres,sing
,roy
full and entire approbation of their good conduct,
and request that you will_communicate .the same
to them, as also to the Transport Boer&
~
. . . .

I.beg you likewise to accent my sincere thanks
toi• your cheerful compliance, on all occasions,
during the Aline you have beep under, mw coal-
;
mand. i am, Sir, your Obe,lient.Sierra‘nt,
•,.

J. L. YEO, Ccuanodorre.

To Captain M'CutA.,ocu, R.N.. commanding
a pasty of Transport.S*94le-n.

DRAL, DEC. 31.—Arrived the Alert hired armc•ii
. .
vessel, with dispatches from Admiral YOUNG, io

the Roompot Channel ; Co'rdelia sloop of war
from a cruise,• and remain with his Majesty's
chips and outward-bound,as per last, .

. .
PonsmouTa, Dli.c. 31.---:-Arrived the Pickle
sehooney from Otterns'ey. Sailed from St. Helen's
a fleet,. for the Brazils, C4e of Good Hope, and
the East Indies, under convoy of his Majesty's
ships Medway, Briton, and Revolut.iemnaire. The
convoy consists of the following ships—Bombay,
Cohnlva, Llphinstone, Lady Melville,.Neptuie,
Scalehy Castle,' Java, Mangles, and Fort Wil-
liam,-for the East Indies ;litr,r, for the'Cape
Is,abella for the Isle ot, France ; Adantie, Jiames,
tend the Hot atio, for Buenos Ayres ; Santa AMU(
for Bahia; Brunswick anti Commerce for Rio Ja-
neiro
.and the Frederick for the South
Also sailed his Alajesty's ships :Medway and Poll
Mahon with a fleet for Spain, and his Majesty's
.ship Egnion f6r!Plynynuth. Caw cin front the
Eastward the William, Thomas, and Betsey col-7-
hers.. His Majesty's ship Gloucester gives in.,
structions' to the trade bound to the West Indies
alto the Dutch Colonies. The M:sletoe will take
convoy for the Downs, and not theDextcon.,..
FALMO.UTI-1, Dnc7 29.---Arrived
.theElizabethn-
front Liverpool, bound to the Brazils. •

CORK, DEc. 27.—The fleet for Spain and Por-
tugal will sail the first fair wind. the West 1117-
dia fleet only waits the arrival of the ships fl:uni
Liverpool and Bristol, and then starts the first
fair wind.' A great many vessels_ standing it) with
wind S. E. Ills Majesty's ship Tenzer, Captaiii
FIARGRAVE, proceeds to •Plyinotith.

A report is very prevalent of the ,caphire", by
the Helma sloop of attar,` of the True-BlObtlect
-Yankee American priVatcer. •
Yesterday a Coiirt of Directors etas 11.04 at the
East -India House, when the following Commati,-
tiers took leave of the Court, previous tc departing
tor their respective destinations, •
Capt. W. MOFFATT, Wincheisca;. And Captain
D. MAcLEon, Marquis of Huntley, for Madras
*ltd Ch a,.- - •
Capt. J. LlArAsuwrox, Glattoli, for St..llelena
and China.

Captain S. BEADLE ...MIS sworn into the COM-
mand of the ship Surreys consigned to Madras and
Bengal.
It is said, that in addition to the large ships
composing Admiral YOUNG'S fleet, a flotilla of small
gun-ves,,els will he employed upon the Scheldt,
to assist the military operations of the allied
forces on the banks of that river. The vessels for
this service will be furnished principally by the
Prince Sovereign of the. Netherlands, and chiefly
manned by Dutch seamen, awl commanded by
Dutch naval officers.
BRITISH NAvY.—The total amount of ships is
now 1032, (including those in ordinary, repair-
ing, &c.) of which there are in. commission 116
sail of the line, 20 front 50 to 44 guns, 157 fri-
gates, 110 slocips of war, 7 fire-ships, 199 brigs,
40 'cutters; 50 schooners—making the total its
commission 768.