The Sun.
London, England, 1807-06-24 00:00:00

NAV AL N.E'V'S.

PLYmPT#4 JUNA 22.—Arrived the Danish Gal.
liot.P7impvrlcpk.Assmer, laden with linen, &c. from
Tianninten7lNnind to Lisbon, detained by the Busy
Privateefj .0.717/ary, I.EAR j and the Benjamin and
Mary, CoaTps, both from Memel, laden with tim-
ber for this Port.

The Poinone Frigate is come into Harbour to
refit.

The Alceste Frigate, of 44 guns, went out of Har-
bour this morning and anchored in the Sound.

Arrived the Leighton, Ross, from Alliurg,. with
• t►mber for the Dock-yard.

PORTSMOUTH, JUNE 23.—Yesterday arrived the
Rio Novo, MARTIN, for St. Vincent's, and the Bel-
lona, TixompoN, for .Madeira, from- the Downs ;
and; to-day the Strenuous Gun-brig, Lieut. Tom:
Nu ENT, from a cruize. '
Ooi •
URE J RNESS, UNE .22.,-Came into the Little Nore
His Maj esty's Sloop Falcon.

Sailed all the Transports`to the Downs to take in
Troops for the intended Expedition. _
Arrived a Tender from- the River with volunteers
and impressed_ men for tl?e Fleet.

Sailed up the River, with men to bring down
Valiant, the Rifleman Gun-brig. •
Arrived His Majesty's SlOop Stork, from the \Veit
Indies, where she has been five years ;.:likeWise His
Majesty's Sloop. Tanderer from the Nprth'Sea.

Came down from Chatham H; M. Rosamond.

Sailed the Sparrinv, Capt. BEVEN, with Convoy
filTonningen, and to cruize off the Dogger Bank;
and the Venus Frigate for Woolwich.

DEAL. JUNE 23.—Arrived and sailed: ror 'the
River the ANcndance Store-ship from Portsmouth.
Sailed. the. Pincher Gun-brig with the outward-
bound Fleet under Convoy for Portsmouth.
Arrived_yesterday the Ant Schooner, with the
Queen and Hero Transports, containing the 2d and
4th Companies of the, Artillery of the king's Ger-
man Legion ; al4o several light Transports under
Convoy from Portsmouth, and remain in the DoWns
with a large Fleet of Ships of War, Transports with
Troops, Scc.
_

:11,6ISGATE, JUNE 22.—A great deal of company,
from Margate and other parts of Kent, came here
this morning, to see the troops that.are to form the
second part of the Expedition embark ;- bat there
was no embarkation, nor have any troops whatever.
arrived here for that purpose. The troops which
are to compose the next embarkation are still at'
Canterbury, and consist of
A Troop of the Horse Artillery_ or the
The 3d Light Cavalry,
Tho zd Heavy Dragoons, German LegiaiL
eL Detisi:hment of Foot Artillery,
And a large proportion of Artillery Horses.
It is not imagined here, that there will be any
British troops detached from this country, at the
pr,esent period, on foreign service.. Rum Ours and;'
conjectures are,, however, as frequent on Ramsgate
Piewias•they are'on the Stock,Exchange. •
Ramsgate harbour is 'Still crowded with transports
, 4 '
~1-4aclY $9
,receive the troops, whenever they arrive
fpriVia4l.4rpose:
•

klettenhas been received from Newfoundland,
which mentions- thearrival of a Fr'ench Fleet of six
Sail 'in the tleighbourhood of St. John's. The fol-
lowing is an, Extract of the letter
“. -ST. Tontsfs, 11lAy SchoOner an,
rived here last night from Halifax is said 4o bring
the' information, that a French Fleet of six Sail has,
been seen somewhere in ow neighbourhood, atic),
that a'veSsel had been dispatch&l for the West
dies with the same •intelligenoe. As to its .truth

can say nothing ; I give it-you as I heard it myself.
" vessels foundered in a most tremendous

gale on the 'Banks; one of them from Peterhead ; •
),fteirplyitvere all, saved.: the other met with a more
,iiserl9n,sAt,p; she was an American, from Liverpool
fqr,buiii.,3fork, with passengers on board—all of
•
waiyi.4,A,4„,Ana sorry to .noderstand, met a watery
2,g6;F.,,f, The-crew
,(though not all) saved themselves.
by taking to the boat 3 they had not been . above.
"one hundred yardl from the vessel, when the ship,
after. pitching first on.one side, then on the other,.
went down .amidst ,the shrieks, of husbands, wives,
and children, laiinchipg into eternity,.locked in each--
arms,",. .

The Chuhnin4i Kitty Captain Kt!..7G; Greenwich,
BRISTOW. ; rind the Duke of Portland; SPENCE, from
London for the South Seas; were all well.on the 9th.
of April, in. Lai. Long: 22. W. ' having parted •
company from' the• East India Fleet which sailed. •
from-Portariouth on the 26th of February last, a few
day's 'before.
Letters have been received from' the Fleet under
`,V;ice4Adnitival Lord COLLINGWOOD, off Cadiz, dated
labout twelye.'days ,since, all of which agree, that
the combined Squadron, about twelve or thirteen •
Sail of thbT Line, are ready for sea, and it is sup-
,posed if our Fleet were by accident driven: off their
station, they would endeavour to make a grand push
out to get through the Gut of Gibraltar, and en-
deavour
to form a junction with the Carthagena.
or Toulon. Squadron, or perhaps with both. But
Lord COLLINGWOOD is ever on, the alert, and ' his , •
cruizing Frigates form a line of communication from .
off Cadiz Bay to his Fleet in the Offing, for the pur-
pose of communicating information directly by tele-
graphic signals.
A Court-Martial was held on Friday, at Plymbuth,
on Mr. E. HANDHELD, Midahip'man of the Pomone,
on d'chare'of,haing occasioned the death of JOHN
WI Lirnms;searnan, of that ship: Mr. ki A NDFI ELD
seurby his Captain for his pistols, when going
ti!p ,vith them to the quarter-deck, Mr. H. had to
lstocia EafttiWii.rope, the pistol in his eight hand went
"off, and lodged the contents in the biidy of WD.-
Limy. It was proved to be unpremeditaled and per-
fectly accidental.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE

SIR,

The veteran CUMBERLAND, in his very entertain-.
ing Memoirs, speaking of GOLDSMITH, aCknOiilMges
that his: ,Deserted Village and his.. Traveller, passes§
considerable merit, but. does
...not seem diSposed to
allow that GOLDSMITH was -a Poet, alledging that
his works are hardly of balk and magnitude Sufficient
to entitle him to such a name. It might be thought
that so acute and so, ingenious a writer as Mr.,Crmt-
BERLAND would not have.ha,zarcled such .an observa-
tion;for, ;upon, this principle, GRAY; who wrote less
than GOLDSMITH, was still less entitled to the name
of Poet, though his,works will for ever do honour to
the British Muse ; and upon the same principle, also,
BLACKMORE was a much greater man than either. I
am sorry that on this occasion there is reason to re-
mind Mr. CUMBERLAND of the story in Peregrine
Pickle, in which a Dutchman., speaking ,of his bro-
ther as a great author, took up a, large cheese and
said, that the latter had written a book of equalZ
thickness.

QUALITY;

INFANT POPE.—When KING-JAM ES ,visited the
house of Sir M. POPE, in his progress through the
Kingdom, Lady POPE had been recently delivered of
a daughter. The child was presented to the King
with•thb following verses in hur hand :
" See ! this little mistress here
Did never sit in PETER'S chair,
•
Or a triple crown did wear,
And yet she is a Pons. •

•
No benefice she ever sold,
SE or did dispense with sins for gold ;
She hardly is a se'nnight ohi,
And yet she is a Por E.

No King her feet did ever kiss,
Or had froin her worse look than this;
Nor did she e'er hope
To saint one With a rope,
And yet she is a Po z.

A gale PopE you'll say:--a second Jo I
No, sure, she is Pope INNOCENT, or none."

THE THEATaE.-;-*-The season concluded -last night
at Covent-Garden theatre, with the Tragedy of
Ilan KEMBLE exerted himself with great zeal
on the occasion, and never supported the hero of the
piece with more ease, dignity, and spiri t. At the end of
the play he came forward to testify the thanks of the
Proprietors and Performers for the very liberal pa-
tronage whiCh had attended the Season, and to pro
raise a continuance Of zeal to deserve future protec-
tion: It was one of the neatest and most pertinent
speeches of the kind which
.we ever heard, 'and was
tittered in a very impressive manner. He was re-
ceived .with very great applause when be came for-.
ward to deliver this elegant little address, and retired
with the most flattering marks of public favour.
MisS JAMESON, WI o has so highly distinguished
liersellon the Bath stage, takes a benefit at Bristol
text week. The play is to be Alphonso, Mr. LEWIS'S
best dramatic work, and GARRICK'S interesting ro-
malice of Cynion. Miss :JAMESON has considerably
increased her reputation this season by her spirited
Performance of Lady ROdolpho ,Lumbercourt, and
her interesting support of Florence, in the Cur,
Bath has long been. esteemed an adniirable nursery
for theatrical powers, and MisS JAmasoN is one,of
the fairest of its fruits.

Mrs. GLOVER has resigned her situation- at Covent-7
garden Theatre. A difference with respect to terms•
is the cause assigned for the proceeding.
MUSICAL •PHENOMENON.—CASINER IiACCKER, a
boy who has astonished all Paris by his performanee
on the Harp, has just arrived in this country. His
taste, .skill, and knowledge, have' excited suptise
and admiration in the best judges and most able•per-
formers. As this extraordinary Boy is under the
patronage of some persons of diStin6tion in this coun-
try, it is not certain that hewill be permitted to exert
his talents in public ; but from all accounts he -ii
likely to pro;►e another CROTCH Or MOZART.— •

A Gentleman reading in the Paper s'recoinmenda-
tion of having ropes. at different spots by the Canals,
for the rescue of such skaiters as were in danger of
drowning, a hurnouritt observed, " That the old pro:.
verb excluded ropes in drowsing." •
The German Version of the Psalms, which has
been tolerated ' and sinCtiOned by the Catholic
Church, is not exaetly conformable with the transla-
tion' of Luther, which is used in the Protestant
Countries. From the division of one of the Psalriii
in one of the, Versions, or from an omission in
the other, the chapters do not exaelly correspond.
This circumstance was unfortunately overloolted,clUr-
ing the celebration of the acce§sion of the BleEtor of
Wirtemburgh to the kingly dignity. On that occa-
sion, public service was performed throughout the
kingdorh, and the Court ordered an the clergy to take
for their text the 23 stPsalm, versesti, 7. The Protestant
Ministers preached from the words, " For thou bast
made him blessed for ever : thou has made him ex-
ceedingly glad with thy countenance. For the King
trusteth in the Lord, and through the mercy of the
inost,fligh he shall not be moved." Not so the
Catholic divines : they were peremptorily required
to obey a command which admitted no deviation,
and did a&ually take for the great and joyful occa-
trod,'the verses which in our arrangement are iu
the 22d chapter, " But I am a worm and na,man,
a reproach of men, and despised. of the people. All
they that see me langh me to scorn !".
There is no foundation whatever for the report
of Sir Jams MANSFIELD'S intending to retire from
the Chief Justiceship of the Common Pleas, over
which Court he presides with so much ability, his
Lordship having .tiever been in better health. and
spirits. •
The'aetion against Dr. WoLoorr, for criminal
conversation with a Mrs. KNIGHT, stands last but
one in the list of causes to be tried at the present
Sittings.
TRADE WITH IRELAND...—III the• week endirdg
the loth ult. there were'imported thence into Lon-
don .840 tons of Bacon, 70 tons of Beef, and 342,,t'94.
yards of Linen.
. . .
The first division of the Warwickshire Militia are
gone to Sunderland.

. The following i 3 Pablisked as the otaer d the
FRANCIS
which is td attend the, chairing of Sir
YRAI4CIS BtIRDETT, on his being returned as one (5(
the Members for the City of Westrxiin,ster: The
persons who -have adjusted this ceremony l)aye very
freely dispOsid of the Beadles Of the several Parishes
On this occasion; but we presUme.that it will be nu-
cessary to procure the assent of the tespe6tiVe C hu rch-
Warden's. I-lOw far it May be proper for such a ce-
remony to take place at all, so lOng after the day of
eleetiOn, on which. day alone, according to immemo-
rial custom, it has ever taken place in Westminster,
is another question. That it will draw together an
immense crowd of people cannot be doubted, and
as it is impossible to say what inischiefs may ensue,
we dOubt not that Government Will take all due mea-
sures tb preserve the peace of the metropolik, on an
occasion so likely to produce disturbance, confusion,
and more fatal consequences :

ORDER OF THE PROcESSION,

FOR •
CHAIRING SIR FRANCIS BURDETT,

ON' MONDAY, JUNE 29, 1807.
Marrowbones and Cleavers, tour and four,
Four Trdmpeters on horseback.
Two large- Flags used during the Eledion.
Three small Ditto.
Ditto, Ditto, Ditto.
High Constable on horseback.
Nine Assistants, Three and Three.
.One large dark Blue Flag, Motto,
" Burdett and our Country."
• Band of Musk, -three and three.

Three Bugle Boys on horseback, with small Blue Flags,
The Majority. painted thereon.
'Large White Flag carr►ed on Horseback, Motto, .
" Purity of Eledion." '
r. Flag of St. Anne's Parish.
Four Beadles of Sr. Anne.
. _ Electors, four and tour.

z. Flag of St. Paul, Covent-garden, and St. Martin Le Grand.
Four Beadles.
Ele&ors, four and tour.

3, Flag of St. Clement Dines, and St. Mary Le Strand.
Four Beadles.
Eledors, tour and four.

4. Flag of St. Martin in the Fields.
Four Beadles. ,
Eledors, tour and four.
S. Flag of St. James.
,Four Beadles.
Electors, four and four'.
6. Flag of St. George, Hanover-square.
Four Beadles.
Electors; four alld. tour.
7. Flag of St. Margaret and St. John.
Four Beadles.
Eleaors, tour and four.
Large dark-Blue Flag, Motto,
" Burdett the Choice of the People."
Band of Music, three and three.
Large dark Blue Flag Motto

" Committee" on one side, " l'uiity of 111eaion" on the

other.
Committee, three and three.
Chairman to bring up the Rear.
Large Sky Blue Banner, Motto,
" The Constitution."

Mr. Jennings, supported by Messrs. Glossop and Adams.
Large dark Blue Banner, Motto,
" The Triumph of Westminster."
SIR FRANCIS BURDETT,
In a Grand Car, drawn by tour Horses abreast.
' Small dark Blue Bantir, Motto,
" The Sense of the People."
Horsemen, four and four.
Carriages to close.

A letter received in town from Smyrna by a Mer-
chant of the first respeEtability, states,. that the
fluence of France at Constantinople. was on the.
decline. The vigilant blockade by the Russian.
Fleet had produced such a scarcity of provision?,
that the people had been induced to emwesi their
disapprobation by loud hisses and groans. as SEBA.s-
TIAN' passed the.streets.
In consequence of the increased demand for pro-.
visions for the Naval and Military service, the
Commissioners of his Majesty's Navy have found
it necessary to contract for a further supply of se-
veral thousand barrels of pork from the original
Contrators.

In the City it was yesterday reported, that a Loan
of five millions is to be granted to our Allies.,
Yesterday a Deputation from the Committee of
West India Planters and Merchants, consisting of
Mr.
,LYOtv, Agent for Jamaica ; Mr. MARRYAT,
Agent for Trinidad ; Mr. flizaEßT and Mr., Bo-
SANG,ITET, had a Oonferetace with the CEIANCEC-
LOR of the EXCHEQUER, at his house in Downing-
street.

The following is, we' believe, a pretty accurate
statement of the numbers of the new Irish Repre= •
sensation, viz. 67 with Administration, 33 with
Opposition. Only three Petitions against returns
are expected from that Country, one of which will
be froth Mr. BAGWELL against the Sitting Member
for the County of Tipperary. ' • -
'Yesterday an elegant Silver Cup was rowed for 14
six of the best Cutters on the River, manned by
Gentlemen who sustain and row them at their own
experce, and for their own pleasure; the agree-
ment was made in,this tvay—that the Cutters should
be rowed, not by their own hands, but by those of
the others, on the fair ground, that they knew the
trim of their own galleys so well, that it would be
a fairer point that those who belonged to one
galley should row any other than their own. In
this way they started from the Widow Smith's, at
Alillbank, on the flow of the tide, to the Swan at
Chelsea, and returned down again, four rowing each
Cutter. Six galleys started, but vi&ory was, soon
divided in favour of three of them, the'Diana, the
Northumberland, and the Venus Funney. On drift-
ing down, the -Diana took the lead, and kept it—was
followed by the Northumberland, who was backed
by the Venus. They came itfin that order, and •the
••Judges gave the cup (a most elegant one) to the
Captain of the Diana : 'it was a well contested race
with those three gallies, and afforded much ainuse-
mew.

A great number of boats were on the River,
pleasure boats as well as others, and it atiorded a
pretty aquatic spectacle.
Mr. THOMPSON, of Castle-street,. Leicester-
square, has received a -letter from Mr. CHARLES
STURT, dated at Bitch, in France, 27th May, stating
that the accusation against him of his taking plans
of Boulogne and the flotilla, is entirety false; -and,
that, after a long confinement, he was proved inno-
cent, his accusers not having been able to bring the
slightest proof against him. The - whole originated
in private pique, and a most nefarious plan to extort
money from him.
, The Sick and Hurt Office is removed from Somer-
set House to the Transport Office, in Dorset-square,
Westminster.. ,