The Sun.
London, England, 1802-09-08 00:00:00

DEAL, SEPT. 7.

SAI G ED the Ship Carteret, for the Cape of Good
Hope ; Clyde and Britannia, for Ftengal; His Ma-
jesty's Ship Savage, on a Crnize; Revolatigna ire
and Polnone Frigates, Tor Portsmouth.
Arrived t 1 Merlin Sloop of War, from Ports.
mouth, and remains.

The Penelope frigate, Capt. -BROuctnicm• has
been 'paid off and recommissioned ; and the Magri-
ficeat of 74. guns, Capt. GI pFnap, is paid off, and
laid up in ordinary. ,
A Letter from Bombay, by the late dispatch,
States, that Mr. M ANN ESTY, the East India Corn.
pany's 'Agent at Bussorah, h,is intimated, by a vessel
dispatched from the Gulph, the total destruaion of
a fleet of piratical -bows, under the immediate -or.
ders of the notorious, freebooter NASGI R Eat: SW A,
DIE. The ship Governor Duncan, according to the
same letter, was dispatched in qyest of the
Another vessel, we understand,' has been engaged
by Mr. MANNEsTY, in the room of the Pearl,. cap--
tured in the Gulph.

Some of the ships to be engaged for the East India
Company's service this season, will certainly sail
from England before Chrisrmas. In consequence of
the Peace, they will all be dispatched from • the
Downs, instead of Portsmouth.

Yesterday the. Master and Wardens of the Corn-
pany.of Bakers, waited on the LORD MAyot at
the Mansion-House, relative to the setting the As:
size of Bread, when his Lordship, after inspeling
the Reports of the Mealweighers, expressed. his
Concern, that it was not in his power to reduce the
Price of Bread ; therefore, he ordered it to be con-
tinued the same as last week, viz. zod. the Quartern
Loaf Wheaten,' and Household Bfd. •
Yesterday John 'Nelson, Priricipal Assistant Wa-
ter-Bailiff,. Lrottgh4. befor e the LORD MAYOR Rich.
Pearce, a Fisherman, for having in his posSession a
pouse-net, which is a very destrudive engine for
destroying the brood and fry of fish. His 'Lord-
ship fined him in the penalty 0151. and ordered his
net to be burnt,

• We are glad to find the price of butcher's meat
is a little on the decline : at Smithfield prime beef
averaged on Monday last 35. tod. per stone ; at
least Bd. per stoat cheaf.er than on the Monday
preceding.
On Friday last Lord GAGE had nearly, met a
bad accident, by slipping down whilst leading his
horse by the bridle over
_a_ditch,near Fide,...A.L„ the
moment the animal was taking his leap; three of
the horse's feet alighted on.',his Lordship's body.;
but we are happy to state, without doing, him any
material in
The following mdancholy catastrophe occurred
on Friday last. Mr..arTo, jun. Mr. SHERGOLD,
jun. and Mr. COuLsom, being shooting near Hand
Cross, in Sussex, attended by Master EDWARDS;
about fifteen years of age,• nephew to BRIAN ED_
WARDs, Esq. about two o'clock in the afternoon,
Mr. CouLsollt's gun went off on the haif-cock, and
unhappily shot the young Gentleman as he was
standing hard by, holding Mr. OTTP'S gun, whilst
he leaped a gate. The whole charge, entered his
right side, broke two of his ribs, wounded the
aorta, and occasioned his immediate death.

A small French Vessel was lately wrecked on the
Coast of France, near Dieppe, and the greatest part
of those on Ward drowned ; amongst whom were
the Master of the- Vessel; his Wife, her Sister, and
an Infant. It 'is remarkable, that a daughter of the
Master; about five years old, who was left at home,
had a presentiment of what would happen, and en..
treatet her parents not to embark.
According to intelligence from the Coast of
Guinea received in Holland, the Clit4ate'has already
provedfatal to a number of persons, lately sent there
in the employment of govepuneps?