The Sun.
London, England, 1813-11-04 00:00:00

DREADFUL EXPLOSION.

The inhabitants of ChelSca and its vicinity
were yesterday morning thrown into gieat con,;
sternation, in consequence of the suchhin explo
sion of a puncheon of rum, .containing upwards
of 100 gallons, at Mr. Gaiop,s,'the King's Arms,
corner of Ranclagh-street, Chelsea. . The .arci-
dent was, occasioned by the light of n candle
-(which Mi. G. had taken into the cellar), com-
municating to the tutu during the, time he was,
drawing a quantity of it oil'. 'The s.!tock wai so.
()Teat, as ,to occasion several other butts it' the
cellar to burst, and in the lower part of. the pre-
mises, many windows %vere broken. The premises
were immediately on fire, the.-flames of which
burnt exceedingly rapid, and did much, damage.
AieOnsiderable-number of engines from their va-
Timis stations, soon afterwards arrived, and by the
prompt exertions of the firemen anti, inhabitants,
the premises were with great dillicalty saved from
entire; destruction.- Mr. G. wits dreadfully burnt
in both arms.

jpSB.PII WHITE, of the Princen char-
lotte packet, just arrived from Malta anti Gibraltar,
reports, that the fever had so considerably abated
garrisons, when he f,aiktl, that it
iZ bout:n
~1.
.toll'i°gB:r deemed contagious in ,tither. lie
brought over twelve passengers of distinction, all
of %Omni are obliged to perform quarantine in the
ship now brougbt up in Stangate Creek.
Many of lhe. Clergy of this diocese Are under
considerable alarm in consegtience of <qui iani
rtiops being institated against themin the Court
at ‘'",e,staninster, for penaltiCN Si:‘era.l of tllenl have
subjected themselves to, by neglecting to dotlin
licenses for non-residence, in ee.ies,ot plurality of
livings, by 'tv bich a penalty of two:u birds of the
annual of the livings not re,,ided upon is
to be foriched to the informer, who Is a person
lately I.;iici.kHy cutployed by the ::,„shop of the
biocesc, ,oltio time sinc,. ,hscharet, /row ikiti
ofiic4,—(Lerri SI. EdounirB I'il4oCl4

NAVA L NE S.

PLYMOUTH; NOV. 2.—Two -French frigates, it
is reported, have made 'their escape from Brest,

fur America. Four others pushed to sca from

thence about a week since, bit were forced to
take slipltcr in a, Bay two miles distant, having
been chased in by our blockading squadron.—
Shoetly afterwards, we understand, they attempted
to get hack to crest, when they were fallen in

and again chaSed into,the Bay by the Queen
Charlotte man of war, which- put into. Cawsand
Bay yesterday morning, having been blown from
her station in bad treater.---Carne- in the Barchu3
sloop of war from a eruise.—Sailed the Sultan,
74, to the westward ; the Achates sloop of war
and FoxhOund gun-1)11g on a cruise.
DEAL, Nov. 3.7-Came ddwn from the River,
the Unity, Baownai, for Teneriffe, and sailed
with the irbole of tl outward-hound, tinder con-
voy of his Majesty' ships Griffon and Alert, for
Portsmouth;---Attired the ,Ravert sloop of war
froth a cruise, off Flushing; and the Nymphen
from off the Toicl

PortrsmouTn, Nov. 3.—Arrived the Concord,
from Seville ; Golden Groi,e'lintl, theilope, from
Cadiz. The have,performed quarantine at Cork.
Sailed his Majesty's ship Illadoe,=car for Ply-
mouth ; Tijriany on a Cruise ; Deinctura and Cen.
tpur for their station
,oti Cherhurgh.—lfis Ma-
jesty's ship Earyabis takes convoy for the Downs,
FALMOUTH, Nov. 1.--Arrived the Nocion packet,
with a Mnil from Lisbon, in fourteen days.—
Sailed the Duke of Kent packet' with a Mail for
Passage ; and the puke of ithrlborough packet
with a Mail for Lisbon...

WEYMOUTII, • Nov. 3.----Sailed his 111ajesty's
ships Tartarus and Zephyr (with a fide breeze at
N.N.11) with a convoy for Cork; and'the Ches-
terfield bye-boat, with passengers for Guernsey.
Dolan, Nov. 3.—ln the gale of last night,
the schooner Itobert,..Citrain WILLIAM WOOD,
fl'OMlillll, bound to Cadiz, wish a cargo of suit-.
dries, was driven On shore on the. GOodWin Sands,
•
and, it is feared will be a pc: feet wreck. The
Captain and crew took to their boat, and are safely
arrived in DOver Harbout.'---The brig Active's In-
crease, FoRsTR, Master, from Peterbhurgh to
Plymouth, with timber and deals, was found with
not.a sold on board, and was taken into Ramsgate.
Hartionf, where sire still continues:
RANIGATIt, Nov. 3.—The * PrineM :Charlotte
packet, Capt. Wiirrs; who got, off the rocks lasti
night, after throwiq her guns and .bal:ast Over-
board, and brought up in Kingsgate Ilan, parted
from her anchor in a violent gale, turd drove to
sea. A boat "with an anchor and cable haS been
di,natched after ber--they are .both out, of sight.
The wreck of the brig 'Active's !Increase, has been
towed into harbour without mast,: rudder, or any
stores whatever, and her upper deck and heaths
cut away,
an., about two-thirtia of her cargo cut
out from between decks. The, sloop Fortitude, of
Dartmoath, BitOOK, master, has put in with the
loss of bowsprit. 'A report has Just reached us
that a fisher Man boarded a schooper ;it the hack
of the Sands, last night, upset, and without my
person on board, and that soon after dig went
down.
*,A Poi'er letter, (ard Nov. a, I he prii,ce,ys
pailet wac beating alma k'ol

A letter froth-.an Officer of Enfroth-.anocers, elated
\rei Oct. 15; which came with the lascdkpatches,
says, " Our next operttionS will prob:di ly beagninst
the left Of the enemy; at St.f.Tean de Pied de Port,
Where it is not lihely he will make any formidable
resistance, although considerably reinforced by
,conscripts; we nr-ty then look forward to 'the
siege of BayOnne: Ever itice the British army
has been in this i'eninStda, n severe epidemic has
invnriably appeared :at the close of the campaign
at peesent we are iinthitially 1.“..a1t by, which is not
to be Ntributed to Pyretmeau air only, brit to the
manner in which the tror ps. are now supplied with
'proper coyl;ing utewik. tents and coverings."
The last letters by the :aruaica packet State,'
that the Soppliire sloop of War was 'detained at'
Curacoa, for the ptirpose of bringing hack sect.,
rat °dicers em slaved on Coart.Martid duty, for
the trial of the bilicers of the 7th Nest India
Regiment.

The Stearn Packet intended to navigate between
arinonth and Harwich, is in a sottv of forward-
ness. The packet will pass to Harwich dila re-
turn daily.
Colonel DA t.zu.t., of the ln District ,
is to he the new Deputy Lo
Adjn:uto ant-GeneralStafor
Ireland.

Citptain 'Barn!), of the filth regiment, has htely
been npp 'tinted Atd-de-Camp top Getieral Hoes'
Tow, cootontodiog tlic'trot,,,s at orttoototth.
it is with sittoeve pleasure, we eon: radiet :to crroa
neotts report tv,tie:t had gone -ahrmitl revec:.ing the
death of Ca main Dog “..r) the 92i1
regimeot, That llntt.td:',:ver has far recover-
ed the hon!:.on'ahle 4ca,rs which he recvive,l in the
battles (IF do: l'yrenee‘,, that Ile will he enable
shortly to rettsit native hills of the N;tach,—
( invernesL•
Twenty-tive thowimul pair of cAvolry are
now Ut tking in this country nut andordur from the:
ttessoitt GotiernMent. .
EscA PE 611024 THE IitTLKS.----John I I Ohne% , who
yeas convicted of t. linty at i recent Old Baliq
ese-aped troni the Re.tribution -hulk. at
Woolwich. 0;:i monthly nod tierc 'Ali an escape
from the Zealand italic, Ist Slietrues4 ,oft the Pre-
cealing day.