The Sun.
London, England, 1814-08-17 00:00:00

NAVAL NEWS.

nius.rot, AUG. 16.-L-Came in the Berwickshire
packet, CROSBY, 'from Cork ; was taken the I-lth
inst./in sight of Lundy, by tfiell:ince of Neuf-
chatel.American privateer,. of IS guns, but was
released, after being plundered. The Berwick-
.shire has brought in the crew of the General
Doyle, SiM P•ON master, captured by the same
privateer, and burnt. The privateer had taken a
brig laden with culin,' and burnt several vessels,
names unknown.

DEAL, 'AUG. 16.—Put. back by contrary winds
severia of the outward-bound 'ships, but they
sailed again this afternoon.—Wind N. N.W.

PORTSMOUTH AUG. I(i.=--Arrived his Majesty's
ship ,ohis from the Coast of America ; Ur•t;ent
from t!•ie Coast of France; Hannibal from the
; and Snap fr_om the Westward. Went
Out 'of harbour his Majesty's ship Tortoise.—
Wind N. W. ,

SHEERNESS, AUG- his MAjestv's
ship Snipe,-with a convey for Elsinenr 3 the next
%yin sail ahont the 30th in. st.

PLYMowrn, AUG. 15.—Came in his Majesty's
ships Queen„ Bedford, Dublin, .atul BeHe Pottle,
fro►n Portsmouth, the two latter having on. hoard
the J3►i Regiment. Sailed-his -.Majesty's ships
Pheasant, Fly, and HeAcon, on a cruise, au''! his
iNlaje.'sty's ship Norge for Portsmouth.—Wind
S. 'iv. •

The ;Indefatigable, Bitootc MAN, has arrived at
Liverpool trom Dantzie \vas boarded the sth
instant, off St. Kilda, by the Peacock- Arneric3n
sloop of war, who .put On board her sonic pri-
soners heloo!,..;ing to six ves'sel, s le had taken.

The Ducit'ess ofDoRET, the principal La-
di;!s of Fashi'on in, igreed to appear in
Irish silks only, at tilt Fancy Ball which was to
take place in ftiit city.yesterday. '

rite Guzeti..e of last night', contains an offer, by
the PapicF. RECENT, of free pardon tosany- one
concerned in the Itllli'derofMrs.ELT ZABETH j\ O 1
except to the per Son who actually-committed the
siime. The Overseers of the parish of Fawley, in
the. County of Southampton, where the deceased
resided, have offered a--reward of one hundred and
fifty ponnds on the apprehension attd conviction of
the offender, subject to the aboVe exception. Our
readers will recollect we have already detailed the
whole of this barbarous,'ntrder, at which time
it was stated that the son of the deceased had
been committed for trial an suspicion of being the
perpetrator. The murder was committed on the
11th day of July last.
'flee bad effects' of the long continued drought
on the 1-101►5•become every day more and more
clear ; and those which turned early into Hops
will not attain their usual size, and much of the
burr cannot nun :into Hop,,.being withered on
the rips of the branches.—On the Grape _Grounds
the .fire blast continues to advance higher up the
poles. Accounts from- the Wcaids of Kent and
Sussex come worse.—(MaidsloneJournal, Aug.. 15.)
CORN Excrt ANGE, AUG. 17.—We had a few
arrivals of Wheat this morning-, together with_
what veils left front Monday's Market, .wlis equal
to the 'demand, the svaies being dull at Monday's
prices. - Fine Oats are Is. dearer. Barley-sup-
porta its. price : the same may he said of Malt ;
'fine samples arc rather dearer. In Peas and Beans
there is no alteration. At the close of the-Mar-.
kets on Monday, Flour advanced .is. per sack..
En4lish Wheat 61s. 655. SCis Fine Grey Pease -. 525.
Ellie ditto - t •riels - -38 s, 495.
Foreign do - G7s, pos. Swat! Beans . 495.
Rye - - - • 19s. 2:ts•

Barley - -30 s. 355. Fine ditto - • - 9ss. —s.
ditto 5- -40 s. —4. ►'caland ditto - - 20:. 28s.
- - 645. 70s. Fine tliit«. - - s.
Fine dittc; - - - 735. 7Ss.• Potatoe ditto - 295. ;375,
'.ir:litsPeage 575. ti is. liahe Seed per I.:Ast.

Fijte'ditto
(irev

1 FitieTiottr - 7.05. 73,
-41 s. 4:35. I.couils - - G3s. 70s

JAMES • WEBIS. Esca.-7-4his philanthropic- cha-
racter tinitts:d Swansea on :_iniday- evening last,
after displaying a degree of active benevolence
al7uost incredible. lie completely clothed about
230 boys res King in the town and neighbour-
hood, .at an expellee of 5301. 10s. and most of
them received likewise small sums of money. To
"many distressed fatuities and individuals lie gave
frOm one to twenty pounds ,each ; to our t
Lancasterian Schools he contributed ten pounds
each. Ile left fifty pounds with the Rev. Mr.
OLDIMORTII, to he distributed among the poor
of Ovstermonth ; and on Saturday last he -went
into Gower, where he selected fifty boys, whom
he ordered'to be clothed, and left with Mr. Nu
751. for charirable purposes, besides giving him-
self small stuns to distressed injects, whose
wretchedness elicited compassion from his feeling
heart. To our knowledge, he'expended iii -the
short space of twelve days that he resided here,
no less than sixteen hundred povnds, in clothing
the naked,, feeding the hungry, and relieving the
necessities of several hundreds of Isis fellow-crea-
tures ! !—Such 'conduct is superior to all coin-
ment.— (Cimbrian.) _ . .

•
A Gentleman .►vas on Monday thr-own -from Lis
horse in 'Blackfriars'-Toad, and falling with his
head, against the handle of a wheel-barrow, his
eye was literally forced out of his check. He was
taken up in a state of insensibility, and conveyed
to a •surgeons.

A !limber of persons who never before ven-
tured a speculation in the Lottery, have within
these few days, made purchases at the Office of
MARTIN, 8, Cornhill, to which they have been
ciicouraged by the very low. price of Stint( s, and
the liberal gratuity of a valuable Weelify Paper,
cal.ed 'fhe WILLIAM PITT, which is to be pre-
sented-to them for a whole year, gratbi, and for-
warded free of every expellee, to any part of the
United Ithigdom by this means the principles
and politics' of that illustrious Statesman Will but,
very widely ais`senduated; Atild axvery important
service rendered both to the Goverhment and the
People. There gill be ,Two editions of the Pa-
lAer '; that of Sunday gill beicalculated for Town
delivery, while •the bue on Alcmdav will be de-
voted principally to the Country, and gill contain
the late,it • intelligence, particularly the state of
the :`.Ln!y•ts from that day's returns. From the
country an early application cannot be too stre-
nuously recommended, in order to prevent
appoi utment.'