The Sun.
London, England, 1814-12-19 00:00:00

EASE' EiDiA ThAbE.

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Some very judicious RegulatiOns haVe lately
been adoptvd,at the as't India-1-louse, which are
%veil 'calculated to give g'r'eat facilities to the Com.-
manders and Officers of the 'Company's ships.,
The advantages this MeritotiOnS body of men now
possess will operate extensivc!V against the free
traders. Since the renewal of tile Charter, the
proportions of tonnage have been allotted agree-
ably to the following statement :
The Court of Directors of the EaSt India COrr-
pany have lately made several Regulations A's to
the CoMpany's Indulgence in Private Trade to the
Commanders and Officers of their freighted ships,
of 800 tons and upwards, in consequence of the
late Act for the renewal of the Charter having
laid open the Trade to India. The privilege out-
wards, warlike stores excepted, as also the im-
portation of woollens, camlets, opium, clocks,
watches, or other curious pieces of mechanism,
exceeding the value of 1001. each, into China,

Tons. Feet.
Commander - 56
Chief Mate - - - 8
Second - - -
Third

Purser - - :3
Surgeon - - - - it)
Surgeon's Mate - ;3
Fourth 'Maio - - - 2
Fifth Mate - - I
Sixth Mate - - - -
Midshipman - - - -
Quarter Master - -
And a like quantity to inferior ()dicers.

Privilege Homewards—ln any sort of goods,
excepting turmeric, pepper, musk, camplior,'ar-
rack, arsenic, or poisonous drug, viz.:—

Tons.
Commander - - - - -
Chief Mate - - - - - S
Second - - - - - • 6
Third - - - - - - 3
Fungi- - - - - - 3
.Surgeon
Surgeon's. Mate - - - - 3
Fourth Mute - - - - 2
Inferior Officers - - -

The privilege homewards to ships of less bur-
then then 800 tons, is, to

ron.s. Feet.
Commander - - 30 at
Chief Mate - - 6
Second Mate - - - 4 33
Third Mate and Purser - 2 16 ,
Surgeon at
Surgeon's Mate - - e 16
Fourth Mate - - 1 21
Inferior Officers - - 32

Jamaica Papers, received to the 25th of Octo-
ber, state, that intelligence had arived front Mar-
garitta of a victoey obtained by BEastunos.over
MERLE'S army, with the loss, on the part of the
latter, of 1000 killed, and 1000 stand of arttis.---•
BERMUDOS. was advancing from Carthagena with
1000 cavalry and 4000 infantry upon Caraceas.—
The interior provinces of New Granada had at
length come to the resolution of contributing, in
proporti )fl to their respective means, to the sup-
port of time Government of Carthagena.
In the Bombay courier of the 16th July, there
is a Commercial Notice of some importance to
our trade. It states, that information had been
received by t-he Government from the. British En-
voy at Goa, that the duties of 15 'per cent. levied
on British produce and manufactures entering the
Portuguese ports in India and China, under an
erroneous interpretation of the Commercial Treaty
.of 1810, had been -removed by a Decree of the
Prince of the Brazils, who had ordered that goods
shoulik be adniitted in future on paying duties to
the amount of 5 per cent.—lt is mentioned, that
the Admiralty had sent orders to the Commission-
ers of the Navy, to procure a piece of Plate to be
made and transmitted to Jumsetjee Boinanjee,
Master Ship-builder at Bombay, as an honorary
mark of their approbation, for superintending the
construction of the 'Minden for his Majesty's GO-
vernment.—The accounts from Calcutta mention,
that Sir GEORGE ;NUGENT was about to depart for
Europe, with his Lady and tamily, by the-earliest
opportunity.

A letter from Porto Ferrajo mentions a report
th►►t the DRY of ALGIERS has declatiql war against
NAPOLEON, and ordered his ernizers to capture all
vessels sailing under BuoNArARTE's flag.
A letter from the Havannab, of the 25th Oct.
lays—" Tl►e last accounts from Pensacola men-
tion that Colonel NtCITOLLS, with his small force,
had taken quarters. in Fort l3aranca, at the mouth
of Rosa Eay."

General A,MRILLAS commands the expeditio❑
from Cadiz, for South America: it has been de:
termined that the whole should depart at the same
.time; but to form it into three divisions. The
general rendezvous to be the Portuguese island of
St. Catherine. From St. Catherine's the troops
are to embark for Rio Grande, on the frontiers of
the provinces of the River Plate, and within 'the
Brazilian territory ; and having proceeded up that
river in small vessels as far as it is navigable, they
are to march overland, undertake the siege,- and
obtain possession of Maldonado: which is 10,0
miles to the east of Monte Video. The naval
t'orce to be engaged with this expedition consists
of one ship of the line, two frigates, and a brig,
which are.to co-operate in the attack • upon Mal-
donado.

Tice Directors of the East India Coenpany have
permitted a whOle-length picture of Lieutenant-
General Sir SAMUEL AucHNory, which has been
painted in London at the expellee of the British
Inhabitants at Madras, to be stlt•thitber, freight
Fee. it is intended to be placdd in one of the
public buildings at that fresidetny.