The Sun.
London, England, 1815-05-30 00:00:00

TllB ARMY, &c.

A large detachment of the isth regiment ern-
tarked on board the transport-ship Zodiac, at
la,q week, and !ailed on the 24th, to join
their regimen! in Sicily.

Sever.4l dctactimeors also embarked from The
tame place, in the Centurian transport for Gutrn-'

:Cy.

Two rompanies of gfl.rrison troops are forming
at VortCuinberland,constitated in the same man-
lier als the corps the Tower, and in other garri-
sons, and slimild tie war continue, the whole
'be fornied into a battalion.

11+1Onclly a detachment of the Royal Artillery
embarked at Leith in two trwrspOrts, to .10111 the
'army in !he Netherlands.
On Saturday ahont 700 pensioners found fit for
service were marched fro►n Chelgea Barracks to
the Tower, in order to he e►lnipped for immediate
se! Vice. On their setti:n►; o►.f from Chelsea they
gave three cheers, arid appeared in very high
spirits, quite delit!!,ted with the i,!ea of their be-
ing again revived tf, their old occi:pation.
A letter troni au Officer with the British Army
in Handers, stares, that the g2d regiment is to be
brigaded 'with the 42d and 79th regiments on their
arrival, and the command of the brigade to -be
given to General Pack.

The Weser, Captain KENT, and Traave, Capt.
CODD, are under orders to proceed for Quebec, to
bring hone persons of various descriptions em-
ployed in the late war on that station.

- The French frigate Terpsichore, which has been
pm-chased by Government, is to be distinguished.
by the name of the Modeqe, and commissioned
'With complement of 315 men.
lie AiVlston'or- seaMenomdev the command.of
Capt. NAPIER, assembled in the DOwns, destined
to act as pontooners, &c. with the army in Bel-
gium,' have received' notice that their services will'
not be required for those operations.
On Sunday last, two men belonging to the smack
Eliza,' of Shoreham, were forcibly seized, at a
village near Dieppe, and confined until four
o'clock the next.. morning: they. were getting

The Wye (24) has been commissioned byCap-
tain ANDREW GREEN ; when ready, she will pro-
reed to Guernsey, to be the flag ship of Rear-Ad-
miral Sir T. FREEMANTLE.

All the troop- ships at Portsmouth arc getting
ready with the utmost expedition, and several of
the ships- of war .are fitting with furnaces for
Leafing shot.
On Saturday morning, as Sri'.
Sri'. of
lnchcroan (an island7in LochlOmond), was wing
borne from -13tiloch, .in his own boat, along with
his sister-in-hw, two of his own sons, and ano-
ther young man, the boat was upset by a sudden
squall of wind, ,between Knock°9r and Inch-
murrain, at which moment the young man who
was at the-helm sprung into the small boat, and
cut the painter ; the other boat,went to "the bot-
tom in ten fathoms water ; the two young men
came up, and were both taken into .the small
boat. . The boat which had sunk was on
Sabbath, but neither Mr. SPFARLAN'S nor the
woman's corpse was found at mid-day on Monday.

Thursday last a dreadful fire broke
but in the stables of Mr. Smith, a carrier of Chip.
ping Ongati in Essex. In consequence of a candle
being left burning in the stable, the flamescom-
tnunicated to a tinantity of straw, and before ef-
fectual assistance could be obtained to subdue the
raging element, the stables were,demolished, and
bre horses burnt to death.

Manchester British Volunteer Office, Saturday
morning.—Last night, about a quarter past ten,
an alarming fire broke out in the extensive soap
and tallow works of Messrs. Fogg, Birch, and
Hampson; at the bottom of Hunt's. Bank. The
combustible nature of the stock prevented a pos-
sibility of saving the building where the flames
broke out. Being seated on the banks of the
Ir-
well, it presented an awful, though certainly
splendid spectacle.

COROICER'S INQUESTS.-Yesterday an Inquest
*vas- held at the sign of the Ship, in Berkeley-
street, st. John's, Clerkenwell, on the body
.of
Ann Power, of the above street, who died on
Filthy evening last, in consequence of her having
taken a large quantity of laudanum. Anthony
Power stated, that he was husband to the deceas-
ed ; that about a month since, he being in troth
• Lie for debt, his %rife came to visit him, and ten-
dering two phials with liquid in them, requested
witness to drink the satire, which would release
Idm at once from all his cares. He answered he
,was not yet tired of life, but should write to his
iriends in the country to assist him, which he did,
and he received immediate relief. On Fridaylast the
deceased went to a closet in the room where they
were sitting, and poured something from a bot-
tle, which he thought was gin, into a cup, which
film mixed with water, and drank the same, then
leaving the room ; soon after -she returned,' threW
liar arms about his neck, begged he would for-
give her, that the deed was done, and desired that
he would send for a surgeon ; witness immediate-
ly sent to Mr. Chamberlain, surgeon, in Aylesbury-
Street; Mr. Shipley, assistant to Mr. Chamber-
lain, who attended on the deceased, said that he
atiministered medicines for her relief, and a
quantity of laudanum can off her stomach, but
could not extract the whole .; after languishing
swne hours she expired. The Jury returned a
verdict of---Lunttry.
On Saturday last there was another Inquest
held at the house of Mr. John the sign of
the Pewter Platter, in ,Charles-street; Hatton-
garden, before G. Honosow,
on
vie„;4ofCtoher7bnoerdyfnoir
the County of Middlesex,
'Mr. James Sealy; a Gentleman much respected,
and whose death was occasioned by a quantity of
Jandanurn. that he I:;:ad_raken. It appeared the
deceased had for soturtiine laboured. under cnen-
lal Lunacy. •

The cow-pox 1)4; a't lenath been introduced into
tllc northern parts of Siberia, in which the small-
pox has for many years proved so fatal., that it
w:is estimated three-fourths of the natives were
twin:llly victims to that malignant malady.