The Sun.
London, England, 1809-09-13 00:00:00

PLYMOUTH', SEPT, I 1.--Carrie in the Intrepid
man of war, from the West Indies ; and'the Orestes
sloop of wa horn a cruize.

Sailed the Harlequin with a fleet to the Eastward.

FALMOUTH, AUG. 10.—Sailed the Eliza packet
for Gibraltar arid Malta, and the Princess /Intend
ditto- for the Brazils.

DEAL, SEPT. 12.—Arrived the *Era frigate,
with transports and troops from Flushing.

The following is an Extrati of a Letter from off
Flushing, dated the Bth instant : " The whole of
our advanced squadron that were up the Scheldt
have come down. Our troops have evacuated Beve-
land, and the French have again taken. pos,ession of
it. We keep Watcheren, at least for the winter,
and are'making every preparation for its safety, by
surrounding it with gun-boats, Sc. The troops in
garrison are very sickly ; it is reported no less a num-
ber than 8000 are still in Walcheren. A fleet of
transports sail this day for England with troops, and
I understand Flushing, Middlebnrgh, &C. are to be
garrisoned with 16,00 u men. The enemy hive an
immense flotilla up the river at J,illo. I had an op-
portunity of seeing them every day there for three
weeks past, and sincerely regret the opportunity was
not given us to attack them. We expect to return
borne very soon."

It has long been a desideratum with the possessors
of the Cape of Good Hope, to promote an extensive
intercourse with the numerous tribes which inhabit
the Southern Districts of the vast Peninsula of Africa.
On this subject we have been favoured with a letter,
of which the following is an extra&
Cape of Good Hope, May 28, 1809,
" I entertain some expetiation of falling in on the
coast with the party sent by his Lordship (Lord Ca-
ledon), into the interior. They had penetrated in
December so far as lit. 25. and long. 21. so that t here
is every hope of their having by this time reached
Some of the Portuguese Settlements. The info, ma_
tion which they have already sent down is interest-
ing. The country which they have passed through,
is rich end fertile, with numerous liters, all • of
which invariably bend their' courses tor-the West.
The tribes which they havot met with are peaceably
inclined) and it appears not unlikely that they may
in time be brought to some Rind of intercourse or
trade with this settlement, a circumstance which I
conceive would be,most beneficial to them, in spite
of all that Vaillant has written, whose Hottentot An-
gels in a wild state, were certainly fiEtions of his ow n
brain. The camel has been seen, but it is not men-
tioned whether wild, or bearing merchandize tram
some distant quarter. All this you will, no doubt,
in a short time hear the particulars of, as any infor-
mation communicated by Lord Oledon. on this sub-
ject, will soon be spread over London. Some skins
of different animals have been sent down, but none
very curious,"

The late Malta Mail has brought no political in-
telligence; its contents having been anticipated by
previous arrivals) both from Malta and Gibraltar =---
A letter from Cadiz of he •29th ult, contains the fol-
lowing particulars) which will be interesting to our
mercantile readers

" Several alterations have taken plate in the Spa.
Wish CuStom-House Department) favourable to Bri-
tish-ctitntne-rce. Besides the admission of all cotton
rnanufaCtured goods (hitherto rigorously prohibited)
a great deduction has taken place in the duties on
woollen and other goods. Newfoundland fish only
pays 27 reals of vellon, instead of 45 American ; and
Norway fish are excluded from those indulgencies.

'• Tliese cessions, so highly favourable to British
trade, it is presumed will induce the Government to
put the produds of Spain on an equal footing with
the most favoured nations, particularly in the article
of Spanish red wines, which pay the enormous duty
of 121. per ton more than wine from R,rtugal.
6' With respeft to Foreigners trading to South
America, no relaxation has taken place, or alteration
made in the forger regulations."

SWINDLING SET TO MUSIC --A country-looking
man lately called at a haberdasher's shop, with a
fiddle under his arm ; and after purchasing and pay-
ing for seine trifling article which he pretended
to
want, asked to be allowed to leave his purchase and
bis fiddle, till he did some other business through
the town. He had scarcely gone, when in comes
an accomplice (as it turned out), who observing the
fiddle, takes it up and tries it, and is quite charmed
with it. " This is the most charming fiddlel have
ever met with, is it for sale ?—l'd give fifty guineas
for that fiddle." He was told it was not for sale,
but belonged to a countryman 'who had just left it
there till lie should make some other calls.—" When
be comes back fur it, try and buy it from him—
make the best bargain with hin? you can fez your-
self, but whatever you buy it at, I promise to give
you fitlV guineas for it, and
will -call again by and
by." lie and by back comes the countrymanp for
his fiddle. " Will you part with that says,
the haberdasher, " I have taken a fancy for ?
The man answered, he had no intention of:par:-
jug-with his fiddle, for he knew it to be a very good
one, and did not know it he would get such aoothet.
" give you fifty shillings' fur.ii," said the haber-
dasher. " No, no." Five gsiineas for said
the haberdasher. " not take twenty," the
countryman.—ln short, after a great deal of chap-
manship, the baberd;:sher' got the fiddle at,forty
guineas ; and a happy man was he, as thinking he
bad made ten guineas by she bargain. but lie has
been 'allowed to keep the fiddle, to solace himself for
The fifty-guinea merchant
the loss of his money.
never returned.

As the Parish Chureif at Leeds was undergoing
some repairs, the workmen found a stone cOtlin,
containing a complete skeleton, and the bones of
two ‘otbier human snbjeas, under the foundation of
the Church, near the entrance to the bell- chamber.
The coffin has been cut out of a solid block seven
feet long, by a foot and a half deep ; its internal
dimensions are six feet three inches in length, about
twelve inches deep, and between two or three feet
wide. The stone which formed the cover bore. no
inscription. From the situation in which it was
found, it .ntist have lain in that place ever since the
Church was erected, probably more than 700 -years.
The air was so 'completely excluded, that the bones
'cumin as firm and entire as if lately interred.