The Sun.
London, England, 1802-10-11 00:00:00

EXTRACT OF A LETTER PROM MADRAS, NAY 30.

If Captain FOoi:E, of His Majesty's ShipSea-
horie, has gained the highest praise here, for his exer-
‘tions in saving tlte'masts and stores of La Sensible Fri-
gate, to which service he had been destined by Admi.
ral RAINIER :.the Ship-having 'filled with water to
the gun-deck, rendered the operations peculiarly dif-
ficult, the nautical skill of Car: Foo-rf.,• 'however,
surmounted every obstacle, and' every thing valu-
able has been saved from the wreck, except the
P.rOyisionsp The Sensible was not lost on,the Mol-
I,lWally Shoal, but 'a few miles to- the kouthWard of
it:. The accident is said to 113 we been .occasioned
by 'a strong
_Westerly current, frc-rn which the error
in the reckoning arose: ,- •

4 4 Yesterday Capt. JOHN MAC.KRLI;Afti:g: the
Terpsichore Frigate, was tried by,a-CiiiitvlMAial,
on charges of Tyranny and Opprailifewas
sentenced,to be'dismissed His Majesty!'s
Capt. BATHURST has succeeded to 11Vc..'70.ipirrailil of
the Terpsichore; and Capt. MAL 0t.D.1 to the:Lii,;s44,-t.
" The Brig Creole, prize to the Viaor, Capt.
COLLIER, sold lately at Bombay for p too rupee's.'

We are favoured with the folloiving article by
an Officer of the Sea-Horse, the accuracy of which
our Nautical Readers may depend on : -

Capt. LE MIME, of the French Privateer Le
Nuice, in 1797, while cruizing off Ceylon, fell itt
with the Ball of Cotton Rock and another Shoal,
about the existence of which Navigators have 104
been doubtful, and by many -suppoied to be—only
ideal ; I therefore give you an account taken fro:n
the observations he made.

In S. 1.8. North lat. and 880. 20. long. front
Paris, there is a small Island' about 2; cr 'so fccr
above the surface of the sea, between sc) and 6o feet
long, and about 20 in breadth it is J ituatect on a
Sand Bank, which extends about 300 feet in a' N. E.
and S. W. diredion. At half a mile distanee from
it, there is no soundings with too fathoms of line,
and a boat's length from it '2O fathoms water.
In January 1799, Capt..LE MEME saw a shoal,
probably the Ouro, and sent an Officer to examine
it; but night coming on he was prevented froM
landing : the Officer reported that this reef was sof
to feet above the surface of the water, and about a
mile long,- from East to West <; there are no SoUnd.-
ings with too fathoms of line .at a mile divancc
from it. It lies in about to. North latitude' and
9Z., Egst.longitude from Paris. •
N. B. LE MEME is a good Navigators had se-
veral good Chronometers and Sextantsim
that. it is ,to be presumed the Latitu4aClid Liingtitudf
09(1311;gs-10'1
are the most gccurate extant.

• .)C csisso7
• Nsw MAYq s.-:—Nottiogharn, J. YouLL;Bulli
W. B. BoL-roN, ; Leeds, W. HEY, Esq.; Bever.
ley, 'W. MIDDLETON, Esq. ; Hedon, J.brats-TALL;
Esq. ; Chesterfield, T. DUTTON ; Leicester, J.
SLATER, Esq..; Wigan, T. WoovcocK, Esq. ;
Berwick, J. STEVENSON, Esq.
•
Last Monday morning, as. His Grace the Dukeet*
RICAMOND was passing a-waggon at Soutliglie,.in
Sussex, in his curricle, the vAteel of His 'Grad's.
c'arriage came in' contact with- a road post,' 1.5 Y.:
1 which the Duke was thrown out, but we are
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to.add,i was not,much hurt.
The Musical Festival finished •at 'Norwich on_
'Thursday. At ,the conclusion of one of the inite
prestive Recitatives of HANDEL, a young .G---111'
tlemah fell down in a 'fit, under the immediate 01).'•
sat-at:ion of Mrs: •BiLr,ANc.rctrt, on whom the
dent had such an effed as to throw her into hygc"'
ries, in 'which state she was carried out of t4c
church, but was sufficiently recovered in• the
ing to perform at the concert. These events
prived the congregation of hearing the conclusion
of Mrs. liii.LiNGTores song of '6 h Icoo\v. that my
Redeemer liveth. The performance was abrui)af
concluded with the Coronation Anthem.
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Concerts at St. Andrew's Hall were very nuille' •
rously attended, as was the Sessions Ball; and the
festivities of the week concluded with the Bill.
•given by General MONEY.
sctlf
Miss WADDY is not, we understand,' -ehga.g
at Covent. Garden Theatre, but the .faviiiirabre
cimen which she, has given of her
most probably, secure her a situation iiiiithaqraegt
As SUETT and BANNISTER were walking a fewl•
days .since in Piccadilly, a fellow on the roof of
'one of the Bath coaches, roared out, " How are'
_you Dicky Go,ssip P"—" Why, (exclaimed SuET4')
how should that man know me ?" —" Easily
enough (replied BANNISTER), don't you see he is
on the Stage."
It is perfealy proper, that the CHIEF CONSt":.
of France should speak in the name of the French'
People, as nothing seems more clear, than that the
'French People }gave no wia of their own.