The Sun.
London, England, 1802-01-27 00:00:00

LONDON, JANUARY 27, 1802.

WE this morning received. Paris journal! to. tl.e
234 instant inclusive. Their contents will be found
under the Paris Head. The French 'Funds ate rising
rapidly, from the expectation, doubtless, of the.rwar
approach of the Signature of the Definitive Treaty.
The Tiers ConsOlide was on the 22d at 5•7. 15.
Our own Funds have risen within thcse twu, days,
upwards of one per Cent. from the same cause.7,--
This cipatation, we have no doubt, will soon be

realized, though it may a little outran in spee(l
the measured progress of Diplomatic Form.
The Chief Consul was expefied in ,Paris on the
24th or 25th inst. Tr ‘e business at Amiens, w<
have no doubt, will soon he completed after his
return. .

Two Dutch Mails and a Jamaica Mail arrived
this morning.
Seven Hamburg", Mails still due.
Earl ST. VINCENT, on account of his ill health,
resides chiefly at his Seatnear Brentwood. •
Admiral Sir CHARLES POLE proceedS to :Nfew_
foundland in the Spring; ,:as Governor- and Com-
mander in Chief on that-station.
The report still continues that the Duke of
PORTLAND goes as Lord Lieutenant to Ireland.
Yesterday the Principals of the Bakers' Com-
pany attended the .LORD MAYOR at Guildhall to
set the Assize of Bread ; and the Mealweighers'
Reports being ineaed, it appeared' that if his
Lordship set the-Assize by the price of Wheat
(which is
.not customary) instead of Flour, he had
the power of reducing the price half an Assize, or One
Penny in the Peck Loaf, which his Lordship, contrary
to the expectations of the Company and Dealers in
Flour, very judiciously did, and by this. mode the
price of the Quartern Loaf will he reduced to One
Shilling, to commence and take place tomorrow,---
This is the first time known for many years of the
LORD MAYOR setting the Assize by 'the price of
Wheat ; and his Lordship has declared his determi-
nation of always adopting this measure whenever
he can redi.ice the price by this method.
Letters from Malta of the date of the 23d ult.
bring an account of the death of Capt. JOHN Et-
Piirm-roNE, of the Navy, Captain of the Fleet
under the command of Admiral Lord KEITH. That
excellent Officer and valuable man dielon the 17th
of last month,. univ ersally regretted.
A superb present of some pieces of yellow velvet
has been sent from Madras to His Highness the
NIZAM, the same being the appropriated colour, of
Royalty at the Court of Hydrabad. His Excellency
MEER ALLUM BAFIADER, and his son, MEER
DOWRAN, have been sentt-by the Nt zitm on an
Embassy to the Right Hon, the Governor of Fort
St. George.
•A few days since a duel was fought at the back
of Silver_hill
_Barracks, Lewes, by Lieut. HEW ET-
SON, of the 9th Regiment of Infantry, and Lieut.
Tov Ey, when the tatter, from the first fire of his

antagonist, received a ball which perforated the
fleshy part of his thigh ; the Seconds then interfered,
and prevented the parties from proceeding to any
farther ads of hostility. Mr., To v E y's Ivound is
not ,likely to be attended with dangerous conse-
que:ltes.

The value of the Turkish piastres sent by the
Grand Signor to Mrs. Hoses, mother to Lieute-
nant HOR3S, who ftll in the aetion at Rhamanie,
amounts to upwards of sQol,
The Lord Btsttor of CutcazslzYkt has been
pleased to collate the Rev, J4mes CA.rr sa., A. M.
of Wilmington, in Sussex, to a Prebendal Stall in
the Cathedral Church of Chichester.

• It is a singular circumstance, that at the time Sir
EDWARD HAMILTON was last week disgraced at
Portsmouth, the Hermioue arrived from Jamaica, on
which hi so distinguished himself at her recapture.
Mr. Fox's birth-day was celebrated on Monday,
by a few miserable fragments of Party. A song in
h,inoar, of the glorious occasion, compared Mr. Fox
to a rock, but it did
,not distindly state whether
the resemblance lay in his head or his *art. The
comparison, however; may be applicable both ways.
It will apply to his head, if we consider his rash
euiogium on " the most glorious fabric ever raised
by human integrity and wisdom," the French Re_
volution ; and to his heart, if we consider his unre-
lentirg animosity,,against the unfortunate House of
Bourbon. - -

A most respeaable young Gentleman of Yorkshire,
having been invited to the house of • another, near
London, and while.in a state of inebriation, drawn
in to play to the loss of some thousands, it has been
the opinion of his Regiment, that under such cir-
cumstances, the demand ought not_ to be paid.

The coinage of base silver has of late increased
to a very alarming degree. Two persons were
committed from the Public-oAice, Bow-street, on
Monday last, for passing counterfeit silver; and
yesterday a man, apprehended in the Strand by
some of the Patrole, with a bux full of counterfeit
shillings and sixpences in his p.ossession, to the
amount of upwards of gol. was brought up for re-
examination. The Solicitor of the Mint attended,
but merely having counterfeit coin in his possession,
although known as a Praetitioner in that ,trade, .be-
ing no offence, he was discharged; The bad money
was ordered to be taken to the Mint.

The following daring robbery was committed
on Thursday evening last in the parish of Slaugham,
in Sussex. As Mr. Cremer, a master warrener,
was without.side his ' house, putting up his. win-
-low-shutters, 'he was accosted by two men, who
demanded of him whether any person was within
his house? On his, answering, that could be no
business of theirs, and asking whether they meant
to rob him, one of them replied that they were
come for that purpofe ; and instantly seizing him
by the collar, dragged him into the house, and with
presented pistols, robbed him of +oh in cash ; took
several articles of plate from a cupboard 'in the
kitchen, and two guinea“roin a servant maid, with
all -which they made off; and notwithstanding a
timber of neighob.rs were soon colleded, and dili_
gent search made ''arnong ,the adjacent woods, and
for several miles along the roads; no tidings could
be.heard of the villains, and. they remain at present
undiscovered. _

Monday evening as Mt:Kenton, of Winchester_
street, London Wall, was returning to. town in a
post-ChaiSe, lie was.sfoppedby three footpads, near
Kennington Common, who used the most blasphe-
mous expressions to inrimidate him to make a quick
delivery of his money, which amounted to near .101.
which having obtained, they ran -off with their
booty across the fields. .