The Sun.
London, England, 1807-09-18 00:00:00

NAVAL NEWS.

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PLYMOUTH, SEPT. 16.---..4.rrlired' the Spartiate,
of 74 guns, from PortstriOuth, to take on board bul-
loCks for the supply of the Channel Fleet; also the
Latona, RITCHIE, laden with tar. from Archangel,
for the Dock-yard at this Pcirt ; and the Danish
Brig Vigilancia, Capt. STUBS, laden with marble/
Sm. from Leghorn, bound to Touningen; detained
by the Ccesar Privateer.

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- PORTSMOUTIIi SEPT. 17.—The Lively Frigate,
Captain WKINLEY, has again sent into this Port
the Vigilante, SILVIERA, from Lisbon, with coffee
and cotton.

Sailed the Essex, ROUNDTREE Ayres Quay,
HAWETH and Salacia, COCKERON, for Sunder•
bnd; Nadent, FEATHERSTON, for Wou!wich.
Went outof Harbour this morning, the Tereraire,
98, Capt. Sir CHARLES HAMILTONAatt.

FALMOUTH, SePT. 15,—Sailed the• IVahinghant
Packet for Lisbon.

DEAL, SEPT. 17.—Sailed Frls Majesty's Ship
Royalist on a cruize.

SHEERNESS, SEPT. I6.—Arrived the Allundance
Store-ship, JOHN FicyEtt Master, from the West
Indies.

Arrived His Majaty's•Ship Snake, from Deal, to
refit ; and His Majesty's Ship Snipe, Lieutenant
CHAMPION, from the North Sea.

Sailed His Majesty's Ship L'Ainzable, Lord W.
STUART, for Yarmouth.

DISTRIBU riom OF PRIZE MOVEY.

To the Officers and Company of His Ivlajestv's Ship
Ari..tine, for the eaptUre of the Juno and the i)Anktooskyu,
on il.e 20th August, illoo, will be paid the net proceeds on
boar~ii.on her arrival in port, and every W.inesday and Fri-
day, between eleven and three, and fur three months after, at
No. is Throgmortou-street.
To the Officers and Company of His Majests Ship Scor-
pion, for the cal:tore the I acob Zachariah and Trende Sostre,
on ,the 30th April, 5799 l • and to the Officers and Company
ot' the &line, and 146: hared Lugger, on board the said Ships,
for the capture of the Mean, the prize-money arising from
the s.nu captures, on the zzd inst. at Messrs. William and
fames. Fish,. Great Yarmouth ; at No. 13, Great George-
street; and for three rams atter, at both places.

Directions have.beeri sent to Chatham and Sheer-
mess for receiving the Danish Fleet at those places;
and as the number of seamen that will be necessary
to navigate them will be more than can possibly be
spared from the Men of War off Copenhagen, di-
rthions were yesterday given to Captain RICHZELI.,
the Regulating Officer iri. town, to propose .to the
crews of the Ships recently arrived from the Green-
land Fishery, ',to proceed' to 'Copenhagen without
delay, fur the purpose of being put on board the
Danish Ships, to navigate them to England. For
this service- they are to -receive a bounty, and the
other anal allowances, and will also be entitled to
their protections from the impress, on their return,
in the same manner as they are from the Ships em-
ployed in the Greenland Fishery. The Trinity House
are also to se!id a:certain number of Masters and Pi-
lots, well acquainted with the North Seas, to assist
in piloting.the Danish Ships to England.
INDIA HoUSE.,-..WedllCSday a Court of Diredors
was held, when the under-mentioned 'Ships were
taken up, and thus stationed, viz.
The Calcutta, Capt. —; Lord Nelson, Capt Hutton;
Preston, Capt. Sturrock ; Hugh Inglis, Capt. Fairfax; Wil.
tiara Pitt, Capt. Graham; Streatham, Capt. Daie ; Lady
lane Dundas Capt. Lindsay for Madras and bengal.
lane Duchess of Gordon, Capt. Cameron ; and Bengal,
Capt. Cumin, lot Ceylon mid Bengal.
Earl St. Vin,:ent, Capt. lofts ; fur Isonihay direct.
Phtenix, Capt. Rarnsden ; Europe. Capt. (Alston; and
Lord Castlereagh, Capt. Kyruer, fur St. Hun'aa and Bengal.

The Essex was stationed for Bombay and China
instead of the Canton, and the Canton stationedtor
China dire&.

Capt. NESBITT was sworn into the command of
the Ship Essex, consigned to Bombay and China.
• Lord STANHOPE passed a considerable part of yes-
terday at the mannfattory of Mr. WILSON; a -smith,
in Dean-street, Sobo, giving
.instruations about the
completion of his newly-construeted model of a 74
gun ship. It is 4o feet in length, and is to be tried
in a few days, as to its intended eat.
To-moriow a fine new 74-gun Ship is to be launch-
ed from his Majesty's Dock-yard at Deptford.
We have received NeW-York Papers to the gth
of August, but their content; are not important.
Mr. ERSKINE returned to Philadelphia on Monday,
the ad of August, .from Washington. CoL,Busa s
Trial commenced at Richmond on the 7th.
Letters, dated the gth of August (Old Stile), have
beer% received from St. Petersburgh, which contain a
report of a singular nature, and which, if tree, would
atford some ground for expeaing that the hostile
disposition of the Russian Government will not be
of long duration. It is said, that an order for con-
fiscating all British property had been presented to
the Et peror ALEXANDER, by his Cabinet, but that
he bad refused to Mix. his signature to it. British
Ships still continue to enter the Russian Ports.
So completely is the communication cut off be-
tween Sweden and all the ports in the possession of
the Enemy, that Gattenburgh Journals receive the
news published at Hainburgh through the medium
of the London Papers.
On Monday next, being St. Matthew's Day, ac-
cording to annual custom, the Lord Mayor, Alder-•
men, Sheriffs, and Governors of the several Royal
Hospitals, will attend Divine Service, at Christ
Church. After a sermon, preached by the Rev.
JOHN WOOD, Fellow of Pembroke Hall, Cam-
bridge, they will repair to the Great Hall, in Christ's
Hospital, where two Orations, will be delivered, In
Latin by WILLIAM STaPirut GILLY. and in Ens..
fish by JAMES SCHoLEFIELD, two of the senior
Scholars of the Grammar School,
A magnificent conservatory, in the gothic style
of architeaure, is erecting in the gardens- of Carle.
ton-house, at the west end of the mansion, which,
when completed, will exceed any thing of a similar
kind.

IMF 1:01111' 7141
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On the frequent paisegyrirai attacks upon Miss Bo i.Tozi
aud Mrs. DicKons.

Oh ! BOLTON, Oh! Titcicoss, how grest your distress,
To be prais'd thus by bigotted zeal to excess 1
Your friends would do better' your poWars to defame,
Then ENVY, not FoLt.y, ivould bear all the Uinta.

Tim THEATRE.—.The season commenced ditspiL
ciously at Drury-lane Theatre bit night, with
WvcircaLEv's excellent Comedy of Me Country.
Wife,
.now called The Country Girl. Mrs JORDAN
sprang forward in the charaaer of Peggy, and was
received with the warmest marks. of popular favour:
She never performed the Charaaer with more hu-
tuour and spirit. In parts of this kind she has long
been without a rival, and it.ii no more than justice
to her to say, that She completely fulfils the design
of the author. She received warm applause through
the whole of her performance, Which she amply
deserved. WROuGHTON, who has so long been
a respeifitable' servant of the public, was very fa-
vourably received "on his , entrance, and he perform-
ed the part of Moody with his usual good sense and
energy. BARRYMORE in Harcourt, and PALMER ih
Sparkish, diaplayed their usual merit, and had no
reason to be dissatisfied with their reception. Hor.-
LAND, whose return to this Theatre was somewhat
too formally announced, was dent enough in Bet-
Ole. He had a favourable notice from the audience
on his entrance. Miss Meu.ms was not forgotten,
and thnUgh she had little to. do in iilitkea she did
that little well. The Theatre has been refreshed in
its ornamental parts, and looked very well. NO es-
sential alteration has taken place. New' side scenes
have been introduced, resembling the supporting pii-
!asters in the front of the stage, but we could not
perceive their utility, as the performers entered 'in
the usual places. The house was crowded, 'and the
play was heard with great attention, that was•only
interrupted. by the merriment it excited, and the
approbatio►► hestoWed on the perforinvrs.

Mis 3 DE CAMP, a sister of 4,lrs. CHARLES KEM•
BLE, made her first appearance on the .I.onJon Stage,
on Wednesday last, at Covent Garden Theatre, as
Peggy, in the Farce of Raising Me Wind. Her
figure, though small, is pleasing. She lias'an agree-
able face, with very expressive eyes. Her voice is
sufficiently powerful. She spoke and naed natutallyi
and was very well received. •

POPS was very successful in Ireland, but in ad-
dition to his loss of upwards of a hundred pounds by'
a robbery' he was nearly in danger of being,ship
wrecked in his passage to this Country : the 'Vessel;
after having been many hours in imminent danger;
owing to a high sea, the want of lights, and the want
of hands, struck in this melancholy state ; and, at
last, with great difficulty, put into Milford Haven
Music.---M. JOLLY MAELGIT, of Vienna, has
visited Paris; in order to sbmit to the judges of music
in that capital, a piece of mechanism of his inven-
tion, which he calls Panhartnonicon. This machine,'
which is moved entirely by springs, gives the sound of
all wind instruments with a purity and perfettion
which art has never before attained. It combines
the following instruments ; the German flute, small
flute, clarinet, hautbois, bassoon, horn, trombone,
serpent, and trumpet. It perforins pieces of music
with great precision, marking perfealy all the shades
of piano and forte. The execution of the trumpet
is particularly surprising. If this artist bad lived in
the dark ages, he would probably have been sacri-
ficed as a sorcerer, and his iiiachine exorcised upon
suspicion of containing a legion rf devils. ,

SEDAN CHAIR.—This convenient vehicle, which
is by no means in such familiar use as it was half
century ago, was first introduced in England by Sir
SUNI)KR3 ,Dvtqcomas, a Gentleman Pensioner to
King JAMES and CHARLES the First, in the year
1534, when he procured a patent, which veined on
him and his heirs the sole right of carrying persons
," up and down" in them for a certain term. It is
somewhat:curious that in the same year the use of
Hackney Coaches was first introduced by Captain
BA ri.sy, a well known chancier of that period.

O Saturday s"!utright a perion named William
Cliff
.Ira, aged oc, dasordered in bis senses, was
brought from Filey, to be placed in the Lunatic Asy.
intu- at York. He slept that night and remained
the whole of Sunday at the King's Arms, near
Foss-b6,ige. About three o'clock an Monday morn-
ing he escaped from the person who had the care of
him, got Out of a two pair of stairs window, without
his clothes, into theetreet ; and it is supposed threw
himself from the battlements of the bridge into the
Voss. On Toady his body was fouu.i in 4t.
George's dose. adjoining the New Walk, a consi •
derable distince from Foss-bridge. •

An. Arabian coin has been discovered on, the occa-
sion of removing the materials for the foundation of
a house on therampartsat Nism,es. By Professor JAU•
BERT'S account, it appears that this coin was struck
at Waseth, on the shores of the Tigris. The inscrip-
tion on one side is, " There is but one God, and that
God bus no companions." On the reverse is, " God
is one, he is eternal, neither begetting or begotten,
none can be like unto him." The legend runs thus
MahoMet is the Apostle of Cod, who 'sent him
for the guidance of the faithful. The religion of the
true faithful is manifested above all other religions,
notwithstanding the hatrect of those (Trinitarian
Christians) ,who associate companions with God."

-Ou Saturday senuight, when the river Ribble
was very high, a young man of the name of Parker,
near Odder-bridge, in endeavouring to catch pieces
of wood, with a triangle, as they were floating dawn,
,got bold of a piece so large, that he was unable to
draw it to the side, and before any assistance could
be given, he was dragged in, and:drowned—A victim
to his own indiscretion, having the rope from the
triangle tied to his wrist I—His body was found near
Ribechester, on Sunday afternoon.

On Saturday se'nnight a serious accident happen-
ed to a flock of sheep, the property of Mr. Cooper,
of Ralston-Hall, near Stowmarkvt, who had en-
trusted the care of them to a boy for that day,
in tba absence of the shepherd, who was assisting in
getting in the harvest. About the middle of the
day the sheep broke from their pasture, and the
unguarded boy hastened the sheep back again over
a narrow and deep ditch, when the leading sheep
fell in, and the remainder passing over them,
smothered to death i 6 sheep and 4U lambs, to the
yal tw of between 701. and sot,

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