The Sun.
London, England, 1812-04-17 00:00:00

NEWS%

PLY MOUTI4, Aril IL 1 s.—The Cherbourgh
squa-
dron, consisting of the Vengear and Hannil•al, of
74 guns each, and Fawn, of 1 8 guns, was this morui-
ing driven in here by a strong Easterly gale..

Arrived.the John, ARROWSMITH ; and the En-
deavour, BLAIR ; both belonging to and from Sun:
derland, together with a few others from thence,:
with cargoes of coals for this Port.
- Also arrived the Dove, FOOT ; and Hawke,
PERCY, from London.

Sailed the Peter will John cartel, belonging to this
Port, FERRIS, (vaster, for Morlaix, Ithving on hoard

Messrs. STEVENS and AKERLEY, America❑ Gentle-
men, Mrs. FAIISHAW,' Mrs. THOMPSON, and Mrs.
WALSH, English Ladies, and a few 'released pri-

soners.

DEAL, APRIL 16.—Sailed his Majesty's ship
Horatio on a. crurze off Flushing.
Arrived the Fisguard frotn Nitsmouth ; and the
Grin from e cruize.

PORTSMOUTH, APRIL IG.—Sdiled hi 3 Majesty's
ship Spitfire on a cruize.
The Viaory has dropped down to St. Hele❑i.

FALMOUTIT, APRIL 14.—The ship Hope LOVE,
sailed from Jamaica on the same day the Flor(i dii
that arrived yesterday. The 111anchestei- packet was
to sail from Jamaica with the mail on the 24th of
February.

A convoy from the Humber for the Baltic, is at).
poitited to sail the 20th instant, and every fortnight
after, until the 15111 of 061ober.

NAVAL APPOINTMENTS.--Capt.' Henry Batt, to
command the t2hristian VII, at Portsmouth. Lieut. Wil-
liam Ingrain, to the Plicebe frigate. Lieut. T. DueLl, to the
Dilator, ..Lieut, J. W. Sheriff; to the Stirling Castle, at
Chatham. Lieut. S. Hilton, to the Leopard. Lieut. T.ll,
Wilson, to be Flag-Lieutenant to Sir R. Strachan in the San
Domingo. Mr, 1). Smith, Purser of the Diana, to the
Hawke, 74 guns. Lieut. john Couch; to the Itegulits trOop-'
ship. Lieut. Thomas Busliby, to the Herald, of to guns.
Lieut. lohn Dewar, to the Eledra sloop, at Portsmouth.
Lieut. Edw. William Pitt, to the Mars, of 74 guns. Lieut.
Robert Palk, to, the command of the Sylvia ,cutter. Lieut.
Ebenezer Winton, to. the Port Mahon sloop. •Lieut. Henry
N. Eastwood, to the I mpreguabie, of 98 guns, at Portsmouth.
Lieut. lohn Taylor, to the Meteor bomb. Mr. John Gaing,
to be Purser of the Milan. Mr. John Thomson, to be Put-
ser of the Redpole slOop. Messrs. Charles Dow, Andrew
Thompson, Robert Fuller,and Horatio lames, Midshiprneki,
to the rank of Lieutenants.

KING'S THEATRE..--.The Benefit Of CATALANI
took place last night at -this Theatre, and a new
Serious Opera entitled, Genevra de Scozhz, was
brought forward on fhe occasion. The fable was
derived Itom the Orlando Furioso of ARtosTo. The
music was compc.sed by PUCITTA, and the airs al-
lotted to CATALANI were well fitted to display the
full scope and extraordinary powers of her voice.
TREMAZZANI also waF provided with songs which
gave him an opportunity, of strewing that expression
which characterises his manner of singing. A
duet between him and CATALANI was loudly en-
cored, and she ,Was also encored in several of her
individual exertions. The house was occupied in
every part, and many of the higher ranks attended.
The Opera altogether was received in a very favour-
able manner, and CATALANI herself had a very_
flattering testimony of general approbation.
We have to congratulate .the lovers of Art upon
the very great excellence whir.) the art of drawing
in water colours has, of late years, been brought to.
The coiled-ion-of drawings executed by Mr. Wilkin,
jun. note on view -at 39, Sack ville-street, displays
a truth, a vigour, and a richness of colouring, which
rivals the splendid works of Titian, of Rubens, and
the other great masters from which they have been
copied. This small but selea collection of drawings
has very deservedly met with universal admiration.
That fine body of men, the Duke of CUMBER-
LAND'S Sharp-shooters, commanded by the Earl of
YARMOUTH, were inspe6ted yesterday in Hyde-
Park by Colonel HARNAGE, who expressed him-
self highly satisfied with their soldier-like appear-
ance, and the manner in which they performed their
various evolutions and movements, and regretted
only that their number fell short of his wishes.
This indeed is a circumstance to be regretted, as•
this corps may be said to have' arrived at the sum-
nut of excellence in the use of the rifle.

The St. Jarhe,'s Volunteers, a very fine ,corps,
were also inspetted yes.erday in Hyde-park.
The Sandown Castle Volunteer Artillery, com-
manded by Captain DARBY, and the Deal Castle
Volunteer Artillery, commanded by Captain UN-
DERDOUN, had a held-day on Sunday last, and were
afterwards inspected by Colonel WEBB, the lowed.
ing Feld Officer of the Kent.' Disttier, who was
pleased to express his entire and unqualified a,.pro-
bation at the perfetiton and good order of the corps,
and their steaJiness under arms, and in the most
handsome terms complimented the Officers on their
extreme assiduity and attention to their tespetstive
corps, by wlkieh means they had been brought to
their present state of discipline.

•
In consequence of the exertions of rvlajor Hankin,
of the- 116)/M Scots Greys, aided by a detachment of
the regiment, in appkehending, near Birmingham,
a person named Booth, and his accomplices, con-
cerned in 'forging Bank ,of Engl,ind notes, and in
coining base Bank tokens to a large amount, the
Governor and Deputy Governor of the Bank of Eng-
land, on the part of the Bank, hare, very hand-
somely, presented a donation of one hundred pounds
to the Non-coMmissioned Officers and private sol-
diers of the Royal Scots Greys, to be placed to the
fund which has been established in that regiment for
the-benefit of the Non-,commissioned Officers and
soldiers, when, from age and infirmity, they are no
longer able to serve their: ing and country.
The Carlow regimept of Militia are now on their
march from Harwich through -Lincolnshire, in
three divisions; the first of which arrived at Market
Deeping on Monday, and reached Lincoln yester-,
day, on their way to Hull; the other two divisions
will follow in succession. This regiment is 900
strong, and is commanded by. Col. LATOUCEIK.