The Sun.
London, England, 1812-04-27 00:00:00

Sailed the Ann tender for Wales.
Went into Barnpool to refit the Fantome. sloop

Arrived the Piercer gun=brig.frorn a cruize.
Arrived last night the Mullet schooner from Ha-
-litax, and is gone up the Harbour to be refitted

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also arrived tl-e Fa;:ry cutter froft PortsCriotiiii;
aailtd again to the eastward.

DEAL, APItiL 2.6.—Sailed his Malest;i'i Ships'
7n-constani, Swiji, Cordetia, and Origin, en

Crui2e3.

PoßTsthnuTH, APRIL 26.—Arrived hiS Majesty's.
ships Venkeur, Hannibal, and Faun, from the
Downs, and t)e Hope from Guernsey, with lour
sail under convoy.

Sailed his Majesty's ships Sceptre, Dolphin:Cum-
berland, and Plantagenet, for the Downs ; and the
Helicon for Plymouth.

His Majesty's ship Savage is appointed convoy
for Spain and Portugal, and ihe coast of Africa, in-
stead of the Thais, and the Vixen to the Eastward.

YA R MOUTH, APRIL 26.—Sailed yesterday his Ma-
jesty's slip Sheldrake . for Wingo Sound, to call off
the Humber on her way, to take the trade from
that river hound thither.

Arrived yesterday the Prince William and Beaver
from the Downs, and the Flamer from the more,
with a convoy.

'Sailed to-day the Redbreast for Heligoland, and
the Prince lyilliam, with a convoy, for the Humber.

- CHATHAM, APRIL 26.--Sailed down to Gilling-
harn'Reach, his Majesty's ship Barham, Captain
SPR A N,GER j and the Diamond frigate, to Sheerness,
to be repaired.

The beautiful neW' frigate, the Teneclos, just
launched from this yard, is commissioned by Capt.
HYDE PARKER, son to the late gallant Admiral.
The Ardent is commissioned by Captain DAVIE,
as a troop ship.

The Poetverf ul is breaking up.

An order is come down from the Transport Board
to clear the upper-deck. of the. Glory for all the
French Officers who have or m..y break 'heir parole.
Orders came down yesterday to The dock-yard to
fit the Brunswick for a prison-ship, in lieu of the
Bnckinghani, ordered to be broke up.

The Gazette of Saturday contains a Declaration
of the PRINCE REGENT relative to the Berlin and \
Milan Decrees, and the Orders in Council (which
we inserted on Wednesday), preceded by an Order
in Council, declaring, in a formal shape, 'he taller
part of the declaration, namely, that on the Berlin
and Milan DeCrees being repealed by a public Mit-
promulgated, in an authentic manner, the Orders in ,
Council shall case to operate.
MANCHESTISII, APRIL e5.--About fonr o'clock
in the afternoon of yesterday, a. very extensive
weaving fadory at West Houghton, :bout 13 miles
from Manchelte, was set on fire by the populace,
and, with all !he machinery, cambries, Ste. burned
to the ground ; happily n„ lives were lost. Where
this dreadfully ruinous systeM will end it is impos-
sible to te..1,, horn what I can hear, they are said
to be resolveu noon attempting the destruction of
every kind of ElllCiiinery that has tended to lessen
the value of manual labour."

The following senter.ces of the Officers of the
First Roy;rl Surrey Regiment,. vtu were brought to
a General Court Martial a short time since, were
on Sunday last read at the head of the regiments it
garrison at Chelmsford.—Major Peter Thompson
was sentenced to be cashiereit, bu,, being recom-
mended by !he Court, the I), ince Regent had been
pleased to order, that Major P. Thorrq;son be re-
moved from the First Royal Surrey regiment„
Captain Frizell, the charges proved, and to be chi-
.missed his Majesty's service. Captain Thompson,
and Lieutenant and Paymaster Hunter, both ho-
nourw ly acquitted, but not_ to return to their duty
till an investigation takes place.—Capt. J. Ford, the
charges proved, and entericed to be suspended in
rank.ani pay for one month, and reprimanded, and
the proceedings, to be itisesligate.l.
Saturday, in the Court of Excheqder Chamber,
Mr. Clifford argued the case of Edw. rds, who 'had
been tried at the Old Bailey Sessions by two Juries,
owing tone of the'Jurymen first impanm lied having
fallen down in a tit: ,At the time of the trial Mr.
Clifford had objealed to a new Jury, but was over-
ruled by the Judge. Mr. C. now insisted, and, in
proof of his opinion, quoted several great authorities,
and adduced a number of cases, that when a Jury
was once impannelled to an offence of a capital na-
ture, they could not afterwards be discharged with-
out giving a verdict. Lord •Ellenborough and Mr.
Justice Chambrequokd similar cases, which had
also been referred to the Judges, and in which they
had confirmed the verdiBs. Lord Ellenborough ob-
served that the case had been so often been desc:ded,
that it must now be held to forma part of the law of
the land.

Saturday, a Ciim. Con. of a peculiar kind was
brought before the Court of King's Bench, in the
cause of Flowers v. Lewes. The plaintiff, a convi&
on board the Hulks, brought hiS action against the
defendant, whci had married his wife, and had two
children by her; it appeared, that the woman, before.
the marriage, had lived servant with the defendant,
and that her previous marriage was totally unknown
to him., Mr. Garrow, who spoke in extenuation
for the defendant, characterised this as an absolute
burlesque on the Crim." Con. cases, and observed,
that the object was merely to extort a sum of mo-
ney. Lord Ellenborough told the Jury, that s viola-
tion of the marriage contract having taken place,
some damages must be given ; and they accordingly
gave twenty shillings.
On Friday a writ of inquiry was executed at the
Town-hall, Plymouth, by the special appointment
of the Under Sheriff of Devon, before George East-
lake, Eiq. and a most respectable Jury, for ascer-
taining the damages in an action brought by Mrs.
Bentley, wife of Corporal Bentley, of the Royal
Marines, against Lieutenant Gibbous, late the Con.
mander of the Alphea schooner. The case must
be familiar to our readers, and therefore it is un-
necessary to enter into it. The plaintiff wag order-
ed to be fastened to a buor, where she was left for
some time in a most dangerous situation. The Jury
gave her verdict for 5001.