The Sun.
London, England, 1807-09-03 00:00:00

THE TORPEDO.

Tuts machine, by which the Americans arc cotu-
plyttly to dest%oy our Navy, provided our seamen
'will suffer it
,to be attached to our ships, is by no
means a very recent invention. Mr. FULTON, who
;tow claims the gratitude of the Americantifor
giv-
them.the b?neftt of an invention by which the
liberty of the seas is to be residred, and the corn-
merce and independence of America prote6ted, did,
a few years ago, make an offer of his discovery -to
the British Commander ar Halifax. The oiler was .
not accepted, and Mr. FULTON, in revenge, is de-
termined to blow our whole Navy out of the water.
*similar oiler was .made to the French Govern-
inent, bur after a' great number of experiments, it
was by them also rejeded ; ,not, we believe, on
the score of humanity, but because it is al-
most impossible that it could ever be. applied with
.effett. In the, first place, the Vessel to which
it is attached must he at anchor ; in the second
place, the sea mast be. perfectly calm ; and lastly,
the crew of the Vessel intended to be blown
tip must give their consent to have the machine
attached to their Ship now, as it is not very pro%
bahle that all these facilities will often "occur, no
very serious apprehensions are to be entertained for
'the safety of our Navy.

•
• A,dmiral DRURY IS to hoist his Flag on board the
AA/mouth, of 64 guns, at Portsmouth. Be will
sail in a few days.
It will be remembered, that in June last the Wan-
derer
,Sletip .of War carried to St. Petersburgh up-
wards of thits'e hundred thousand pounds in specie,
as a Loan froni this country to the Russian Govern-
ment, to be used or not astcircumstances might re-
quire. The Treaty .of. Tilsit put an end to the ne-
cessity, and, the money_ has_ since been re-shipped
for England in the Astieci Frigate, which carried
out Lord Gowan, and is now Mt its return to Eng-
land.
We ire sorry to
.state the loss Of the Susannah
Cutter, Lieut. Le Brdirac, by upsetting at sea.;
Lieut. LE BLANC and 16, men were saved by the
boats of the Naiad and Indefatigable. She was a
Bermudian-built Cutter, on a plan of fastssailing,
and was esteemed a tine vessel of her class.
'.Extrafa of a Letter from an Officer of his Ma-,
jesty's Ship , Boadicea, dated July 31, lat. 68.47. N.
The last time Y wrote to you we were at Sea,.
but having sailed from Cork with secret orders, were
totally unacquainted with our destination ; but time
has discovered it. It appears we are sent here for
the purpose a protecting the Greenland whale
fishery, the French having last year destroyed se-
veral of our Snips. The cold all this stinnuer
been intense ; we have been constantly surrounded
as-itli islands of ice., We were for some time en-
deavouring to get into a 'port on the Labradore
coast, where we intended to water, but were pre-
vented by the ice : at lait We were obliged to
bear up for the Crogue harbour, in Newfound-
land ; and, after having watered there, proceeded off
Cape Farewell, with our consort the Topaze. We
have now been out more than four months, and
we expedt to remain here until the end of August,
which is about the time all the whalers will have
left thi., part of the world. We then go to St.
John's, Newfoundland; the Topaze takes a convoy
from thence to England, and we take a convoy to
Lisbon. We are now reduced to salt beef, having
had the misfertime sonic time age to have all the
poultry drowned, by a sea which we shipped in a
gale of wind ; and some of our sheep died, owing
to the severity of the weather."
'The Blig Dave, of Weymouth, laden with Port-
land, stone, has been retaken on the Coast of France,
and broUght ipto the Downs on Tuesday morning,
by tie Seagull, Lieutenant CATHCART; it appears
this Vessel had been taken some time since, and was
removing from one port to another.
A Gland Review of the German Legion will take
place, to-morrow, morning, on Blackheath. Their
'.ltoyal Highnesses the Dekea of CLABBNCII and CAM..
SLUDGE will be on the ground at ten o'clock,
collections, last Sunday, at the Chapel at
Ramsgate, and at the Churches at Margate, and
at Si. Peter's, for the benefit of the Sea.bathing In-
firmary, exceeded ants, form'er year. The Sermons.
On the occasion were preached by the Rev. R.
110D.,;s0x, Ittdor of St George's ; the Rev. J. J AM-
MAN, Preacher to the Philanthropic Society ; and
the Rev. J. PLUMPTREE, Fellow of Clare Hall,
Cambridge.
WALIcING STUAUT.—In an account from Chel-
tenham, which appears an a Morning Paper of ;his
day, it is stated, that among the singular charatiers
there, is. Walking STUART, SO, well known for
leis
pedestrian journeys and his equally erratic specula-
tions. He repairs every morning to the Well-walk
in a costume of deep black, a pule pink sash, with a
deep fringe, encircling his waist. He there amuses
' the Ladies by leoping 'over the paling, the chevaux de
freze, &c.—Who this nerson may be we knoW not,
but in justice tp the Galtlernan usually distinguish-
ed by the name of" WALKING, STUART,' who has
been in various parts of the world, and whose mind
is certainly employed in studies calculated to pro-
mote the welfare of his fellow-beings, it is proper
to state, that he is now in the metropolis, and has
not been absent from it for many months.
It is said that on the French soldiery taking pos-
session, of TilSit, the town was given up.to plund"r
twP days, and scenes of excess, equally shock-
ing,, to decency and humanity, took place. Order,
nowever, was. at length restored, and a new scene.
of things opened to the view of the astonished inha-
bitants; the French troops (about 25)000 in, num-
ber), released from the hardships of a campaign, un-
dertook to exemplify, in a very singular way, that,
versatility of charadter for which they have long been'
proverbial amongst their neighbours: they colleted
in the suburbs-of Tilsit the wreck of some hundreds
of villages (chiefly wood) wantonly destroyed in
their progress, and with those they raised, in about
three days, and as it were by magic, an extensive
town, after the German fashion, withl many streets,
and sufficiently large to, accommodate their whole
body they next cut up a very fine wood in the
neighbourhood, consisting of several thousands of,
trees, which they transported to the acetic of their.
operations, and planted in their luxuriant foliage in:the
avenues of every street of this new Pandemonium ;
and to complete the whole, every man who had any
thing like a " stock in trade," opened a sho.
The Portuguese Ambassador arrived, on Tuesday
night, at his house in sauth Audley-street, from
',tie ,