The Sun.
London, England, 1802-01-02 00:00:00

A I,IITOUTH, DEC. 30.

SAILED last evening, the Lady Hobart Packet,
BARGESS, with Mails of the 16th inst. for the
Leeward Islands.

Several outward-bound Sllips sailed tbi% day,
among Which were the following :

Lovely Emilia, Parker, and Sophia, COWIIIII, • for St.
Michael's.
Jane, Kelly, and Ocean, Hamilton, for Leghorn.
Jane, White; Comus, Waller, Flora, Addis ; Pee, Fully;
and Three Brothers, Wascot, for Leghorn.
Neptune, Smith, for tilboa.
Helena, Cock, for k4Ops.
Marvelon, Mannal, fur Malaga.
Minerva, Thompson, and Reliance, Allan, f)r Jamaica.

Arrive:l the lane, Captain PE RR IN) from TOgn-
mouth,

The Guards lately arrived from Egypt, and'now
at Winchester, are immediately to proCeed tp *Lon.
don in three divisions. The first division marched
yesterday morning ;_ the second were to set out this
day ; and the third on Monday. They will arrive
in Town on Monciap Tuesday, and Tbursday
next—part of them are to go into Portman Barr
racks, the remainder into quarters in the Holborn
division, at present occupied by four Companies of
the id Battalion—of the 3d Regiment, who go over
to the Borough to be quartered.•
" The Lords of the Admiralty 'have sent orders to
the several ports, for an immediate redudion to take
place in the consumption of fresh beef on beard ail
His Majesty's Ships employed on home service ;, and
for substituting salt provisions in part, with flour,
suet, and raisins, in the usual proportions, By this
regulation, the several crews,durtng the short time
they are-to be continued in service, are to receive flesh
beef only two days in a week, instead of four, as has
lately been the praftice: In issuing this order, the
Admiralty have a double objet in view.. In the
first place, a material saving will arise to the Public
in the diminished purchases of beef, the Government
Stores containing at present a sufficient qyantity of
salt provisions to answer every possible demand for
a considerable length of time ; and in the second
place, our markets will not fail to experience the
beneficial effeets of the measure, from the purchases
of fresh beef for the Navy being at once diminished
a full half.

Toeysdaar); great-sale- commenced at Plymouth
Dok decayed, zpid unserviceable
u_(,
fort he
damaged,
naval stores of all descriptions, before Comnitissioner
FANsHAW, which all fetched good prices. The
folldwing gun-boats were also sold as unserviceable :
viz. William, Fowej, Success, Brothers, Forrester,
anal Al* vhil/A.9,m . •

A very extraordinary circumstance has occurred
in a Northern county, which forms a great topic
of conversation at present :--Several years ago Mr.
the only son of a Gentlemiln of consi-
derable landed property, in consequencf of repeated
imprudences, had the misfortuneentirely to alienate
.the afFdtions of .his father. His distresses accu,
I and hia-aPplications redoubled for relief ;
ihltlC•but
e:eraventie Was choaked up to tenderness and
forgiveness, and tli 'unfortunate young man was
abandoned by a rigorous parent to the severity of
his fate. At last, 'broken-hearted With remorse,
distress and despair, he fell into a dangerous illness,
during which he was frequently visited by some
members of the family till he expired and was, bu-
ried. So at least those persons believed, and be-
lieved they had seen so. The whole, however;-or
at
least the consummation of this extraordinary scene,
was a delusion.. Mr. H. whether 41 the hope
that his father, appeased and mollified by this
dreadful catastrophe, might be induced to pay his
creditors, or plainly perceiving that he had no
other prospect of avoiding being disinherited by his
unrelenting father, had had recourse to the strata-'
gem we have described. 'As soon as the funeral
was over, in whichhe perforhied so.signal a charac-
ter, he withdrew tq the Continent, where, amongst
the several adventures that befel him, it is said.
poverty or some other misfortune concluded him
into the Quicksilvei-mines of Hungary, from which
.misery so rarely returns to the sight of the sun.
Mr. H. however, had very lately the good for-
tune to cad, by some method, of which we are
uninformed, his liberation from so horrible a pri.
son, and is returned, after a long absence, to this
Kingdom. Finding his father had died in the in-
terval, and that his three sisters were, as heirs at
law, in possession of the estate, he is now rejoicing
in the success ofhis policy, and claims an immense
property, which can only be contested by disputing
the identity of his person, of %% hid), however, per-
sons of great rank and integrity are thoroughly
satisfied. This Gentleman, we understand to have
formerly cut a very dist iimuished figure in the bean
monde, and to have led the tan of whim and fashion-
able dissipation.

On Monday the 7th ult. six Colliers went into a
coal-pit near chesterfield, Derbyshire, in order to
have worked therein, when the inflammable air
(which had collthed since the day but orie before)
took tire with a great explosion, by which means
three of the men were so shockingly burned, that
two of them are since dead, notwithstanding every
rtedical assistance was giirn them.

THZ HAMBURCTI Afthe

AMIENS, DEC. r 3

Ow the 9th inst. JOSEPH BONAPARTE and Lord
CORNWALLIS exchanged their full powers; and oft
the loth, the Bata vian Ambassador, Citizen Sort IM-
MELPENNINCK, had a long conference with the
French Plenipotentiaries, The Negotiations be-
tween the latter and Lard CORNWALLIS are now
carried on with great aaivity.

Our Town is become the theatre of numeron
festivities : to7day Lord Co N WALL ts gave a din/
ner in so sumptuous a stile as has. not been seen here
for a long time.

A Spanish Secretary of Legation is Arrived here,
the Court de CAMPO D'ALARGE.

VIENNA, DEC. 16..

COUNT BALTTASAR.ONI is gone to Tree:lip, ta
prevail on the DUKE of MODENA, at the instance
'Of His ime ER lAL MAJESTY, to accept the Austrian
Brisgau.
The report that Austrian Troops are about to
enter /120/da,via, is without foundation.

HAGUE, Dcc. xg.

THE place in the Marine Council, which was re.
fused by Admiral lilsticsp ERG aN, who is resolved
to live in retirement in his native town of Elburgh,
in Guelderland, has been given by the Direaory to
Citizen AENAC, Marine Commissary at Amster-
dam, where, before the Revolution of 1787, he
was Professor of Commercial and Naval Science.—
He will not, however, have the principal direftion
of the Marine as President, as Admiral Kt NQSBEIL.
GEN would have had, but is called the Thirel Mem-
ber of the Marine Council. The two other Members
are the Ex-Legislator Van RooyAN, late Redor
of the Latin School at Middleburg, and Citizen
JACOBSEN, late Commissary at Amsterdam,

Citizen Vos Van SLEINNYK is appointed Gene.
ral Treasurer ; and the place which he before held
in the Council of Finance, has been given to
zen 'Van de CASTICLE, of Haerlem. Our five •
Councils of Administration are now all filled,
and in complete aetivity, viz, the Councils of
Marine, of Wm', of Finance, for the Interior,
and for Foreign Colonies. . The 4th Department,
viz, the Department for Foreign Affairs, has no
resemblance to the other-councils, as it is entirely
under the direlion of the Secretary ofState Van
deb aOg's. AU the Members of our pireoory; Le.
zi§latitT and. Synclicgc, are aT4O appointed,
and nothing remains to complete our Administraf
tion, but, to fill two places in the superior National
Cogrt of Justice.

Yesterday a balfl,battaliQp of French Troops ar-,
rived here, which will remain at the gagpe till the
siznins; of the pcfinitive Treaty,

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