The Sun.
London, England, 1809-12-21 00:00:00

N AV AL NEWS.

PLYMOUTH, DEC. 19.—It has for theie last two
days been currently reported, but to whiCh, no credit
Was given, that his Majesty's ship Hussar, of 38
• r,
guns, Capt. SKEENE, was lost on the coast of ~iferns-
ey we a e happy however in being able to state
that the above account is totally unfounded. The
Hussar was 'spoken with last Thursday by a vessel
arrived here from that Island.
His Majesiy's ship Malta, of 84 guns, :it is. said, is
to take out a Naval Commander to the East,lndie-s.i
she . i 5 Undergoing a thorough repair, now
bear?), ready for her voyage.
Capt. LocKYER, late of the Hound; is appointed to
.the Sophie sloop of war at Chatham.
Passed down Channel his Wjesty's ship Persian,.
with a convoy, for,Oporto.
Arrived his Majesty's ship La Rhin, Capt.'l\ifii=.
cotat, and his Majesty's schOoner Whiting, Lieut.
WILDEYs from Falmouth.
Sauey his Majesty's brigs Crocus, Capt. BucK,
for Faimonth ; Pickle, Lieut. CRANkr-Fottb, and Con-
BuLL,on a cruize.
Came down the harbour, and anchored in the
'Sound, nia Majeuy'S ship Tonnant, of 80 guns.
' • Sailed his Majesty's shipt.Piaorious, Capt. TAL-
ZoT, and Repulse, Capt. HALLIDA:i, to join Lord
CULuisGwo,D off Toulon his Majesty's ship Ama-
pa, Capt. PilatKEß, to the Westward; and the
Orestes sloop of, war on a cruize.

PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 20. His Majesty's ship
dipollo, of, 38 guns, Captain TAYI,ott, was; this day,
released from quarantine. • •
Came into the harbour, the Goshawk brig; of 18
gtins, Capt. LILBURN, trom Spithead.
Arrived the Hopewell, from Penzance:
Sailed..this day
,his Majesty's. ship 6anyniede;
Capt. CATHCART; for Livi,Grn.
Arrived the Woodliatd Castle, from Oporto.

POETRY.

IMPROMPTU,
On the intehded New Bridge over the River Trent, a Gun
thorpe, Notts.

Some crafty contrivers, with deep penetration,
Conceiving a plan for the " good of the nation,"
And hoping to profit full " per cent." -
Determin'd to build a bridge over the Trent.

The plan thus adopted, the projet far-fam'd,
And,all werr amaz'd what this bridge would be naT'd,
When at lingth 'twas resolv'd by some wags, in derision,
To christen and. hail it Euclid's Filth Preposition!''
*By Mathematicians called, The Asses' ,Bridge,"

CEiIM.-By judicious compression and transpo-
sition, the new Comedy of Sudden .Arrivals was ren-
dered much more entertaining last night. The Per-
formers exerted the with great zeal, and the
Play was so well received as to promise a successful
career. '

THE ThiATitss.—The Tragedy of Hamlet was I
repeated last night' at.Covent-Garden Theatre before
'a very numerous audience, and we have the pleasure.
to intbrm our Readers that gotld order and tranqui-
lity seem .to be effectually restored between the
Proprietors and •the Public. It must; however, .be
expected, that when any passage in the dramatic re-
presentation occurs that may bear a reference to past
events, some wags will occasionally take hold of it :
accordingly, last night, when one grave-digger isks
the other, " Who • builds stronger than the mtton.,
bricklayer, or carpenter ?" a ,humourist in front.
exclaimed, " The maker of private hones." Such
temporary efftisions are marks of our national.tha7
ratter, and-should alwayi be received with the same
gOOd htimour as produees them. Though KEMBLR
was somewhat indisposed, he gave a fine portrait of
of the character which StiARIESPEAEE has so admir—
ably designed, and throughout received the stamp of
critical as well as general approbhtion.—As EMERY
I had yesterday the Misfortune of hising his eldest
ion;- the part of chief GraVe-digger was performed
by BLANCHABEi. .
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The birth-day of the daughter of Louts. XVI.
Duchess D'ANGOULEME, who entered her 32d y-ar,
was celebrated on Tuesday, by the Comte and
CAiattesse de LILLE, at lihrtxt ell Froti4e. MON-
SIEUR, and all the rest of the Member?, of the Hou;L:
Of BOUIiBON, trigether with the Duc SERRENT,

DEAL, DEC., t u.—Sailed his Majesty's ships Van- ' and all the other French Nobility "now in England,
guard an,d Impetuei4s,-the former to Plymouth, and i. paid their respects' upon the occasion.
the latter to PortSmouth. t We cannot omit observing with what avidity the ,
os s o )eii. i n ebdLatou, to every
Arrived the Garthier Cutter from Flushing, Which' Crl'l', er fGo ' me t ' • - impute
i . ~., —L.' AtiiStorturie that befais I he,Spatriai.th. to some neg Lat
place she left the 15th inst. and brings an account on the part of the British Minlstr) They would'
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that our . shipping hare not suffered so muci, by the : hold out to the world th,it..: in) Clad.. of inen w-e ready
late bad Weather as was 'supposed. to start up in- Spain, but . that 'C- t at - no, a, ins to
put into their hands ; qtl;:i
' The quiward-boiind still remain. . on the Ministers of tbjs co ..I!itry,i
•• FIVE O'CLOCK.—Sailed '-soMe' of the, outward- have neglected to send an sclegn
essential
bound, . hut it is feared they must bear up again, as articles. We lin% e- a;t..t
,
we repeat it now, wit liout.;o4l
; the wind is not better than west. . , arms for at least 209,00 m - ei, ,gin sent to
•
.t Spain from this country, wiihroUt inciuding in this
SHEERNESS, DEC. 20.—Sailed his Majesty's s'llip
. . amount the arms supplied to Tortuga.
-, Mercurius, with the trade for. Heligoland.
i The Sydney Gni-Ales to the 2.7 th of March last)
I received Yesterday, contain' a ProclannotiOn issued
by the Lieut;-Governor PATERSON, prohibiting all
correspondence and communication With the late
Governor BLIGH, or any of his family, friends; or

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z LARDIOUTII, DEC. 20.—Sailed his Majesty's ships
Bellerophon, Saturn, and Edgar, for the Downs ;
and the Zenobia sloop of war, with the loss of her
bowsprit and foremast arrived a ship with the horses
..from. Walcheren, and about 40 or 50. men.. •

Tolois', DEC. lg.—Sailed the Persian frigate,
with a fleetOf 'transports for Gibraltar.
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GREENOCK, DEC. 18.—The Argus, Foaltna,
from Le' Have, in Nova Scot►a, arrived at the
Tail of the Bank on Saturday morning.last, after a
passage of 32 days, during a great part of which she
experienced very heavy gales of wind.—Reports that
the brig Mary, of and from Leith to Halifax, was
towed into the latter port by a frigate, with the'
loss of both masts, and otherwise materially da-
maged.—Spoke only a schooner off the Banks of
Newfoundland, out seven weeks from Liverpool,
bound for Newfoundland.

The following is .an . Extract of a Letter received -1'
from a young Officer, .whO suffered shipwreck in-
the Harlequin hired armed ship, on-Thursday, the
7th ult. off Seaford, addressed to his parents at Ply, i
mouth : 1
~g No doubt you,have before this time heard of
our misfortune, and wondered ,at not hearing from
me. We were all in a wretched condition, and
shotrid have been much worse, had it not been
y for the activity and generosity of the Officers of
• the 81st regiment, .whose conduct I shall always
remember with gratitude. We sailed, as you
know, from Plymouth Sound, on Ttiesday after-
noon, with a fair wind, having a convoy of -27
sail under our care. We continued with a fair wind
all the way, Lot having more of it than we could
Wish for.
" I have seen the papers, which give a very in.. •
correct statement of the melancholy. affair:'..- We.
struck about four o'clock on Thursday morning,
when most of us Were in our hammocks ; but we
were very soon upon deck, and, cut away the masts,
- thinking we might get oft ; but the tide sowing in,
our efforts for chat purpose were -unavailing. Little
did. we think at the time that we were so near the
shore ; all of us thought we had struck on a rock,
4.. - we. -iwincciiately fired our, guts and ,burnt
blue lights- till all were expended ; y& the con-
voy still continued to follow us, and six of them
struck ; the rest hauled their wind and got safe off;
those on shore soon went to pieces. Our's being the
first vessel that struck, and nearest the shore, we'
lost only two lives ; but many poor, souls belong-
ing to the other vessels perished, an-winning in the
whole to forty. Such a wreck is scarcelylpthe
remembered : I was wished' off three times4-ippce
with a child in my arms, which a Lieutenant had
on board . with its mother; both of I.Vhbm
ultimately succeeded in. getting safe to the shore,
though with 'much • difficulty, as we were the lust
on the wreck."

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The alterations which Government are now mak-
ing in the bat-lacks at Ashford, are expected to prove
very conducive to the health and comfort, of the
soldiery. The plan of the barracks in their old state
must be allowed to have had an opposite tendency,
on account of the great numbers apportioned to each
room, which, though only four in number, had yet
accommodations for 2000 men. By the alterations
now in progress, it is intended,' by partition walls
onite through the building, to makesdifferent sized
rooms to contain from 24 to 48 men, with fire-,
places in each, with a gallery extending 'along the
front, for a communication to' each room on the up-
per story. The Whole to be completed by -January,
and the barracks will then contain 1500 men.
The annual allowande for clothing to the Volun-
teer Corps and Troops of Cavalry, will, in fUture, be
reduced to the sum of 11, per man.
Monday night, a Frenchman was dete&ed at
Driver in getting into,a boat, and endeavouring 'to
escape; but being fired at by the sentry on, guard,
he ran the boat on shore, and endeavoured
,to make
his escape, but was taken by the picket. He
proves to be the Lieutenant of a privateer, and.has
been in England five or six years, and made his
escape frail Plymouth. He was taken to the guard-
house.
A shocking murder was committed on the servant
of Mr. J urcle, a farmer, at York Farm, near Dor-
chester, on Saturday night last. Mr. Jorde's house
was attacked .by thieves, and, on a Newfoundland
dog barking, Mary Thomas, the servant, who, was
washing, it being twelve o'clock at night, went to
the via-house door, which had been broken open.
She was attacked by two men disguised. who Jan.-
I-led her off the premises, and she was found dead
the next morriing in an adjoining field, with her
head beat to a mummy. One of the supposed mur-
-derers has been taken into custody.
RlOT.—Another very serious affray took place be-
tween two parties of Irishmen on Tuesday, in the
Hampstead Road, arising, in some measure out of
that in St. Giles's, on Sunday. Three men were
taken away apparently lifeless, and another had his
bead fra&ured, and is'not expeaed to recover.--,
There were above eighty persons engaged, half that
number having sallied forth from Bloomsbury, to
attack others who were at work in the neighbour-
hood of 'Camden Town, but the latter party obtained
the viaory.
A shocking accident happened in Duke-street, Ox-
ford-street, on Monday evening, to the child of Mrs.
Fa-well. She had gone down from her apartments in
the absence of her servant to answer a knock at the
door, leaving hey only Child, a fine boy, about three
years old, in the rooms. On her returning again she
was alarmed by her son's shrieks, and found the
child so much burnt, that he -expired soon. after-
wards. He had taken a newspaper off the table and
lighted it by the fire; which was the causa• of the
catastrophe.-