The Sun.
London, England, 1814-05-05 00:00:00

THE DUCEIESS OLDENBURGI-i.

Oxronn, MAY imperial Ili-Aness the
Do-chess of OLDENMIRGIT', RCcompanied by Prince_
GAGAIIING, arrived here at tanr.o'clock this after-
noon. She has her suite two Ladies *vi-ait-.
ing; General TtinNEit, her Chamberlain ; Mr,
JortpAN', her•Seeretary ; and a nuinher of domestics.
Her Highness at. the Star. Inn, and soon
after her arrk*al was, waited [fin by Doctor LEE,
Pro and •!res;dent of 'trinity
College, the Senior and Proctots, aura their
attendants, who coollueted.The Dache;.,s toirinity
Colleze,where an eleganter4A; 12 OW ion was laid out.
Has. ving partakeitol.the collat ion, her ig; Cr.= s was
conducte4 to the Divinity_ S, hosl, this Cot)pica-,
thin and the Theatre: The'Pieture
the New College, and the 'tine Chanel, each
in their turn, were examined by'her ilighneAs,
and to the Bodleian and Itadiliire. the
paid particular attention. Liter inspecting the
latter, she and her attendants ascended the dome,
the leads' of cvhich command a fine view of the
town ,and'neighbouring 'country. After enjoyi'rn
filiqhness visitetftheDlning-ball,
and returned to the Star, inn to dinner, highly de-
lighted With all she had seen in_ this great seat of
lear»ing. '

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livery mark of respect bas-2)een 'pld to the
sister of the Great. Eni.peror ALEXANDF.R. Her
arrival was announced bylfie ringing of bells, and
other demonstrations of joy, and in the evening
there were Fire-works.

THE ORIGI NAL AND Iti:.IECTED rr RATRE.-
This Work continues to add greatly. to itselahns
MI the atte.rtion and snpport of the Public. Tile
Fifth Njimher, just imbiished, containtwo
act pieces. '1 he Editor jitstly remarks, t.l),tt the
Tragedy of Suliema;t iS Ltto
_with'_ great taste,
.and is replete with interest and poetical beAuties,;
nod- were itsireader,s' to ask themselves when so
good a drama had heen produced at any of the
• • •
'Theatre , thbir. recollection would- he g:.ierously
puzzled. The lir, iy Comedy Ofd. KantruiTifig• is
fou LAO .011 MiSS 4DGENVORTLI Tale of_the same
name. .

A Gentleman's parrilge bioke down,, and fell
over,- neatly opposite- Car!tOtiElotise, yesterday,
in consequence' Pf-the' Spokes and one of the
wl;eets givi-012,- way, occisioned by the beat of the
-boxes from friction, for the svaikt of a.prirning of
the. Patent ANTI-ATTRITION;, which ,would not
have.cost sixpence.-
On TuesdaK last Ng. 2,771, drawn a Prize 'of
2,n00/. ; liket'vise No. 7,76-8, entitled to Ttis
WiptiLE TICKETS in the Nest Lottery, both
s..)l(l'in Shares by FILMING and Co. Na: I, Com,
Bill, and No-3, Charing-cros,,?;:r the former in
one Half and eight Sixteenths, tile' -latter in one
Quarter, three Eighths, and six Sixteenths; aud
it is not improbable nut the 15,0001. which will
belong to Abe First-drawn Prize above lit: Next
Tuesday, ..Nlay 30, will also be 5 olit at Old Guy's
Cocky Corner, No. I, Corrihin, where Tickets and
Shares continue on side, waryanted ondrawn.

BoxlNG.—it is universally allowed amongst the
amateurs Of the fist; that the selzbnd bttle (be-
tween Smith, of Hammersmith, and flares) at
Coombe Warreiv, 'on Tuesday, `vas one of the
finest exhibitions ofnational courage; skill,
game,,ever witnessed., The men are both under
ten stone, and not a single' round was fims,lit with-
out exchanging tremendous, hilts, and in MolAt
in-
stane one WAS
,knaCked down.' Each fought
well ivith both bands ; Smith being best with the
-right, 'and Hates with the left. It is uuderstoOd
both remain'in'a woerul state.—Davis feels sorely
the effects of Richmond's science, although he iy
'able to get to London., 'He is sorely pqnislitki
about the left side,of the head, the Bl4ek being a
terrific hitter.

MEI:AtICHOLY ACCMENT.--Yesterday, tvesseen
twelve and one o'clock, two old houses in Lom-,
bard-street, Mint, iu• the Borough, b4:wgirkg ro.
Mr. STRINGZW, Nit down -with a tremeudous Cr asli.
We are exit-clock,: concerned lo_stktc, that four
per:ions were, killed by this terrible tie6dent•----two
men, a boy, and t girl. These unfoFtuwtte crea-
tures were literitilv(arilised to munkmies. anti were.
with great difficulty got out
,of the rubbish ; three
ottiers were much hurt, and t3ken to the Liospi-
tai. The Wouses had not bee!) repaired for a con-
siderable time, and, like many often inluse.,' in
'the Borpugh,..were mouldering with

NAVAL NEWS:,

PLYMOUTH; 3.---The Lion. rnan of war,
with the homeward-bound East India fleet, are
now, off this_.port, beating to windward, with the
v.r.:nd at East. Arrived the Royal Oak rnan of
war, from a cruize.

DEAL, MAy 4.-4rrived the Active hired cut-
ter, with*" sail of transports under convoy; from
lielvoetsluys. _Sailed the Princess Caroline man
,of war, -and the Sybelle i-Tigate, for ciTtenland
the Pigmy and Pioneer cutters for Plymouth.—
Wind E.'S,. •

PoRTSMOUT!I; MAX 4.—Arrived 11011 a,
GRAY, from the Mediterranean, awl the Nautilus,
bound to- Grehada. his Majesty' 4 ship
Cracker, with a convoy for Cork and the West.
Indies Growler' anti Misletoe; for Plymouth.—
The East India fleet are' expected to drop dawn,
to St: Helen's to-mdrrow.—Witil easterly.

FALIVIOUTFI, MAY 2.—Arrived the Frederick,
Capt. NORFER, from the River 'Thames, to be
taken into Packet service. Sailed the Princess
Charlotte packet, with a mail for Bourdeanx,
and, the Nocton ditto, with a mail for Surinam.
Also• sailed about ten sail of merchantmen, for
Spain, &c. to join a fleet, expected off this port,
from Plymouth. The Manchester packet, with a
mail for Malta and Gibraltar, is gime into the
Roads. . .

P. S. , Since writing; this evening, the Diana
Packet, with .a mail from the. est Indies, has'
arrived ; the Two FriendS, for SMyrna, and the
Titus, for the. Mediterranean, have sailed.—
Wind E.

Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the
East India -I.lottse, when the following Cont.
manklers took Leave 'af the Court, previous to de-
parting for their respective destinations,
Captain T. MACDOUGALL, Tigris, and Captain
G. Wi;LTDEN, Indus, for Madeira and Bombay
Captni❑ J. P. MANSELL, Coldstream, for Madeira
and Bengal.
The acting Purser of the Rose arrived yesterday
morning, with accounts of the 'safe arrival'of that
ship-off Falmouth on the 24-inst, She left Ma-
dras 26th August, arrived 'at the Cape lath Octo-
l)cr, and Sr. Helena the 7th November left the
latter place the Ist March, under convoy of his
Majesty's ship Lion, in company with-the Com-
pany's regular ship Apollo, and extra ships Diana,
Northampton, Lord Eldon, Carmarthen, and 14
merchantmen and whalvts.

JAMAICA.

(From the Uazette, Marcb 5.),

The schooner Charlotte Fame in on I'Vedocs::ay
from Surinam, with dispatches for the Admirai,
acqua'in'ting him that the Mosqpito brig of war
had been chased into that colony, on the 3d inst.
by 'a large frigate, which, from her dacrptiot:,
ansvierd that of the Constitution United States'
ship of war consequtnee of which, his MA-
jesTy's ship. Queen, Admiral Laforey, immediately,
prepared for sea, and, wiih the Cohunbine, brig.
h-
ft the anchorage in the evel:ing, in quest of the
enemv.

On Thursday morning the flag of Admiral Dili-
bam as saluted by the men of war hi the Bay,
upon his taking the command of the .squadrotr on
this station ; Which salute was suitably returned,
by the Venerable, the 111:ar-Admiral'sflag-ship;
and, in the course of the.day, from the several re-
ports that had been received of the enemy's cruis-
rs being to windward., the Venerable was orderect
to sea, under the command of Captain ‘Vortb.
The ReSr,Admiral's flag is now on the Dro-
medary._

The Columbine brig of war returned yesterday
nonn, having lost sight of the Queen on'the night
of sailing, and on the following day, she descried
a large frigate, which, not answering her signals,
she watched her movements until the darkness of
the night prevented any further observations,—
The enemy not being in sight yesterday morning.,
the Columbine came in for the purpose of ap- '
prizing the Admiral, who immediately dispatched
her to give intelligence to the Venerable; and, as
the Galatea was the only frigate in the Bay, orders
were given her to prepare fqr sea; which were so
proniptly obeyed, that nOtwithstat4ng
,she
refitting, and bad not a sail beat, she was undei
weigh by five and stood to windward with
favouring breeze.
The French icter of marvebrig Jason, which
was captured by Venerable,. 74, on the 31st
December, arrived on Wednesday last from Ma-
deira`. The Jason. had been chased by a frigate, •
which she took to be an enemy.
FEss. gajesty's. ship Fox (armed en
flute) arrived at-noon, with 22 vessels tinder her
protection, front Bertnpda, whence they sailed on
the..3;l inst. We have seen some newspapers of
that island, and their contents, are unimportant ;
but we have been informed that Sackett's harbour,
and an immense quantity of stores and antirJuni.,
tion, had.been taken possession of by the British
forces in Canada ; and that in a 'tate -gale of wind
the gr,oter part of.the American 'flotillas that were
employed Lipari the Lakes hail been'sunk, or other- •
wise considerably injured. •
It is now atreertilineci , that the United States'
ship of wt.ir Constitution left that country' on the
20th December last,, with- a chosen crew of 500'
out of 1500 men, and lad four 'additional (tuna
mounted, making in the wlidle 60' pieces of ota.
mince,

An American privvecr schooner, apparently of
18 guns, was chased by the lster nnn Cleopatra
frigates on Friday lust to windwarA ; but, owing-.
to. her superior sailing, and. by thro.ving over hey
guns, 1102 ,est lied, their tint?:ut..---Ttie
Cleopatra, as well as theister, came in witii the
Cork fleet.; and the former, we understand, will,
take charge of those vessels destined kr -jamaioa,
'and leave this in the course of this' evening oe
to-morrow,