The Sun.
London, England, 1809-10-02 00:00:00

OF )TED STArES.

BOOTON, AUG. 17.—We. stated in our last, that
BUONAPARTE had manifested a disposition to relax
in his outrageous condud towards the United Stateg.
By letters from Paris to July 6, it is said that Ne,

gociations for a Commercial Arrangement had com-
menced between Gen. ,ARMSTRQNQ and Mr. liku-0
TERiVE, appointed in the absence of CHAMPANY.

EXTRACT OF A LETTER PROM A GENTLEMAN IN HAA

LIFAL TO HIS FRIEND kN THIS TOWN, L)ATIT AU"

GUST 1.

7 Yesterday arrived here a sloop of war Of 19
guns, with a French frigate of 48 guns, her prize.
She is one of those which escaped from Guadaloupe.
a short time since, and has a valuable cargo of sugar,
cocoa, and 1,200,d001b5. of cote orr board."

The art of printing from stone continues to be
pra6tised with great suceess in Germany. At Stut-
gardt a printing-office had been established for the,
more extensive application of. this invention. The
engraving of music is the chief branch to which it is.
applied.
Printer, at Basle, has lately direaed his attew.
tion to improvements in the principle of stereo-.
type, by simplifying the plate;, and he has so far
succeeded, as to have copied a series of medals irk
this way.

It is said that M. DEGEN, a Watchmaker at
Vienna, has invented a machine, by which a person
may rise into the air; he has made several public
experiments, and has risen to the height of 54 feet,
flying in various du-et-lions, as the foreign papers
say, -with'the celerity of a bird. A subscription trs
been opened at Vienna to enable hitn to prosecute
his discoveries. The machine is formed of two para-,
chutes of taffeta, which may be folded up or extend-
ed at pleasute; and the person who moves them lio-
placqd in the centre.-
- An ingenious German (M. liozzlNE) has an-
nounced in several journals, the invention of a ma-
chine, intended to throw light into the interior of
the animal body. It is composed of a recipient con-
'wining the light; of tubes which dired its ray to
the cavities which it is wished to enlighten ; and
reflecting tubes, which transmit the lutninous rays
to the eye of the observer,
The Committee for inspecting the Accounts of old
covc..nt.Garden Theatre employed the whole of Sa-
turday in examining the proper vouchers for the ad-
ditional inctunbrances on the new 4 heatte.,--Wo
understand that their sitting was adjourned to thitA
morning. The ><irst meeting of the Committee took
place on Friday morning,' not, as was generally re.r
ported, on ThorSday. - --
Whatever may he the dccision of the Committee
who have so kindly undertaken the investigation of
the concerns of Covent-Garden Theatre, the Public.
most feel a high sense of gratitude towards thosP
Gentlemen for thus devoting a considerable part of
their valuable time to such a subjed. They are
exempt from al‘l interest in. the question,' and qin
have nothiaz in view but ..justice, truth, and a MI
eat'ci for putklic tranquikty. Iche oely recur there''
tkiere'
tore, that the Pubhc can rzlalse to this high characi
tern who have acted with so much kindness ape
liberality,_ and from w hose abilities, knowledge, dill
gence, and integrity, the most honourable result
may be confidently tit-reefed, is a iespeCt(ol and etl-!
tire acquiescence in their determination.

Lieutenant BARTON, of the 12th Light Dsagoonso
died at Deal last Wednesday :—His premature death
\Vas occasioned by eating a quantity of nuts on 111;1
preceding Saturday, on which day he came of age:
He felt the etfeai the next morning, and medic"
aiistatice w immediately called in; every possible
means were tried by. the facUlty, bqt unfoounately
without etfea.

The Bishop of Et.PHIN, brother to Lord ELLEN'
BOROUGH, is so ill at .his Palace in treland, that his
Physicians despair of his recovery ; his Lordship has
for many years been of a dropsical habit, the disor-
der which is daily e4Telled to terminate his ex-
enee.
some docks are about to be constructed. between
Shoreham and Lancing, which will probably draill
the low lands in that neighbourhood.
The Lords of the Admiralty have rewarded the •.
Ramsgate boatmen with 4o guineas, for their services
in saving a boat's crew of the Diana frigate.
A Gentleman of Kenningtonehas undertaken, fo
a wager oa tr. &
of D 7,
~to
17,,t0tv ia
ri.ui esl ins engaged
ed a
14 hours.
The E
worsted
mill near Canterbury, for the purpose of introducing
a new manufaCtory. From an address circulated by
his Lordship, it appears that he has fanned the kw&
able design of enabling the county of Kent, by work-
ing up its own wool, to rival in the worsted hosiery
trade the counties of Leicester, Nottingham, part of
Warwick, and Derby, to which that branch Of trade
has hitherto been confined.

A sale of Merino sheep took place in the month
of June st Ranibouillet, France, when 69 ram;
and 84 ewes were disposed of—the former at the
average price of 705 traucs, and the latter of 433,
which was considerably higher than what they
brought list year. The amount of the sheep sold
was 80,470 francs, and the produce of the wool
(i 857, makings total 0f_87,327 francs.

BoaoLAttYT—Yesterday morning, between four
and five 'o'clock, the Antelope public-house, in
White-Hart-yard, Drury-lane, was entered by two
men through a .back window. Tney were in the
parlour packing up what property they could, when
a woman came in upon them, and seized one by the
collat; the other made his escape, leaving an 'roil,
crow behind. Persons coming to the as,istance of
the heroine, the tellow was properly secured.
Tire quanity of rain which tell in the last month

was equal to tour inches in depth, a quantity, per..

haps, unprecedented at he like season in the meteorn-
logical annals of this country. The depth of rain in the
two preceding months was likewise unusually greats,
having exceeded seven inches.
• 1:::)ur Prizes of 20,0001. will fall .to One Number
in the present State Lottery. This may seem 40'
possible to those who have not attended to the
Scheme : but such is the tact--the purchaser of the
your Tickets of any one Number may, in an initant,
find himselfa gainer of 80,0001. he wtho has 'Three
Tickets of one Number may get 60,0001. and so oil
in proportion. There are'on}v 5000 Numbe and.
the whole will be drawl in One Day, tlag 20tt:
this month.