The Sun.
London, England, 1815-11-29 00:00:00

FIRES.

We know not to what to attribute the alarm-
ing frequency of these dreadful visitations ! In
our following page are further particulars of the
conflagration in Holborn, to which we have now
to add, two other extensive fires, which were at
midnight last night glaring o►er the atmosphere
at opposite extremities of the Metropolis. On the
western side, a large house in Lisson-street, has
been consumed ;—anti towards the East, the de-

vouring clement broke out at a Tobacconists in
Featherstone-buildings, City-road. Here its
ravages were greater, as not only" the house
where it originated, hut two more were entirely
destroyed. The Hospital belonging •to the West
London Militia was burnt to the ground, and an
explosion of gun-powder took place, but happily
without causing any loss of lives.

On the 25th a .similar: calamity happened in
Mary's Abbey, Dublin.

NAVAL NEWS.

DEAL, Nov. 28.—Sailed the Julian gull -brig-
for St. Helena.

Fire o'Clock.—The Warrior remains till day-
light to-morr6W Warning.
PALmourti, Nov. 26.—Arrived the Montagne
packet, with a mail from Malta, which- place she
left die 26th of October, and Gibraltar on the
26th inst. The Qneenshury packet arrived at
Malta the same day the Montague left.

A brig, laden with timber, deals, and staves,
was wrecked the 15th instant, on the Island of
Hoy (Orkney) ; one of the anchors is marked
" Albion, of Blythe."
The Niger, Captain JACKSON, will be ready to
go out, of Portsmouth Harbour to Shithead this
day. She.is shortly to proceed with the Hon.
CHARLES BAGOT, his Majesty's Minister, to the
United States of America, and after lauding him
will r. to Halifax and relieve some part of our
naval force on that station.

The John and Mary, of London, WILLIAMS,
bound to Memel, foundered off the coast of Nor-
way the 2d instant ;--only ,two of the crew
saved.

They continue to speak of the, building of a
magnificent Palace at LA Belle Alliance, in the
middle of the extensive woods \Vhic!► the national
gratitude hat given to the great
\man who has
preserved our country from► innumerable evils.
It is stated, on the authority of a letter from
Paris, that orders were issued on the 23d, by
M. de Caze, to arrest Marshal MASSENA, and the
Police Officers went to his hotel in. the middle of
t!!e night for that purpose ; but that some kind
Buonapartist, in the bureaux of the Minister of
Police, took care to apprise the Marshal of his
danger, for he had quitted hiS hotel some six or
eight hours previously, and bad. not since bcon
heard of.

On Monday night, Mr. Cnotin, the King's
Messenger, rived in Downing-street, with (Fs-
patc:es front Paris. Yesterday morning, Mr.
MATts, another King's Messenger, arrived from
the saute place.
Yesterday tl.e Duke of YORK transacted mili-
tary business. with the PRINCE REGENT, at Carlton
House : his Royal Highness afterwards went to
his Office in the Horse Guards, and held a Mili-
tary Levee, Which was but thinly attended.
Yesterday the Earl of. BATHURST, the Earl of
HAttßoly't3v, the Lail Of BUCKINGHAMSHIRE, the
'Earl of WESTMORLAND, the CHANCELLOR of the
EXCHEQUER, and Mr. WELLESLEY. POLE, met
Lord CASTLEREAGH, at the Foreign Office.

VISCOUiIteSs CASTLEREAGH still remains an a
visit at Widmer Castle.

Yesterday the Marquis of ANG'LESEA., arrived at
Uxbridge Ifo►cse,, from his seat in Staffordshire.
Out arriving in town, his Lordship waitesi on his
Royal Highness ti►e PRINCE REGENT, at Carlton
House. •

• All Frenchmen furnished with passports; by
their own Government, are now permitted to
travel freely throughout Spain. The SAOille and
nine transports, comprising .the expedition under
Don FERNANDO ,AIIYARLSy arrived at Vera Cruz
i❑ June last.
One of the kur Generals who have been al-
ready taken into custody in. Paris, °fotoNo, is a
near relative of Buotsr&rAtlTE, 'and commanded in
the Imperial Guard ; BOYER is chiefly notorious
for his military atrocities. •
The other day, an Aid-de-Camp of Nay was
summoned before the Etat Major ; but, rather
than undergo the interrogatories he thought would
be put to him, he took out a sort of dagger or -
dirk, and stabbed him:,_lf•through the heart.
NEY has replied, by a formal argument, to the
answer made by the Duke Of WELLINGTON to
Madame NEY.
The Perisians are in a state of absolute conster-
nation ; eve❑ the partisans of MY scent to have
his own almost unmanly despondency. •
The Gazette of last night contains the Royal
Pardon, and a reward of 501. for the discovery of
the author of a threatening letter sent to Mr.
LUFFE, near Saxamndham, and of the person
who set his barn on fire.

The head-quarters of the Highland Brigade of.
the British Army were on the 17th lust; Neau-
phle le Chateau, about 20 miles from Paris, and
very comf(,rtable quarters.
bUEL.—A meeting took place on Sunday, in
the neighbourhood of the Scalp, between Mr. G.
and Mr. S-Tft-N ; the former attend-
ed by Mr. SMITH, the latter by Mr. MORAN.—
After an exchange of shots, Mr. S. fell, hay.ing se-
ceived his antagonist's shot in the fleshy part of his
thigh : the wound is not thought dangerous, the
ball having been extracted immeil:a.tely after.—
The cause of quarrel, we understand, was some
misrepresentation said to have been wade by Mr.
S. relative to a young lady.,--(Dublit, Correspon-
ddll, 1 ov, 25,)

ILLICMIN:ATIOgg.

some strange omission we
,past ewer ttte
di-Tlay of Monday evening, made hy a celebrated
Biewer's Drug-mach:nit, who has obtained a
twelvemonth's lease of a certain great Mansion in
the City. Our Readers will be gratified with a
particular account of this splendid Exhibition,
which made the Mansion, never appear so bril-
liant. The space between' the centre pillars was
filled up with a large transparency, in a wooden
freotte, of a druggist before a masiting-tub, on
which were th- hop-poles, malt-shovels, and
other implements of the brewhouse, burning in
the fire, with the ghost of Quasst descending with
a quassia branch. The transparency was border-
ed round with two rows of variegated lamps ; un-
derneath were the following lines :
" Hail, snub-nosed Slate ! dark youth of Indian race,
In Freedom's Isle thy long-Sought Quaesia place; •
Quassia alone can warm the poor man's nose,
C,luassia's the drug whence all his Porter flows."
Between the other pillars, on each side the trans-
parency, Was G. R. with brilliant lanips, on a
rhubarb-coloured ground, each letter inclosed
within a wreath of Gentian. The populace were
much puzzled with these mysterious init,4ls :
some guessed tine thing, and some another.

We

do not chtu;e to repeat their several conjectures ;
hut every body was agreed that they meant any
tiring rather than GEORGIUS REx. For our own
parts, we think the worthy Illuminator meant
Gentian Root !

ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES.