The Sun.
London, England, 1802-12-29 00:00:00

DECEMBER 2.

Yesterday a large French Ship of the Line passed
this to the eastward hbout mid-day. The Spaniards
have. now two first rates„ and eight other ships of
the line in commission in the Mediterranean. The
late Royal Nuptials is the ostensible cause ; but a
less formidable force might have served as a; con
voy against the Barbary States, between Barcelona
and Naples.

BR EA D .-Yesterday the Principals of the Bakere
Company attended the LORD MAYOR at the Man-
sion,House, to set the Assize of Bread.: and it aP'
pealing, on examination ofthe Reports °lithe Meal"
weighers, thai they were the same as last Week, hl5
Lor;lship ordered the price of Bread, to continue at
04-, the Quartern Loaf Wheaten, and Household ag
7d4.•

A new regulation of Watermen's fares has long
been wanting. Lord ELLENBOROUGH has inte-
rested himself much in. the- business, and has 0;
length succeeded in forming a standard which Is
likely to satisfy all parties. In a few days a table
orthose fares will be laid before the public.

By a new regulation of the Police in Westrniri'
ster, a party of soldiers, headed by a constable, goes
through the streets every night, anti compels 111
soldiers in the public-houses to retire to quartets,
or be conveyed to the guard-room. '

The Commissioners for regulating the lighting'
&c. of the City of Bath, have fined the Contratlor
for the Lamps no less than 4.01. for negleft of duty''
notwithstanding he had received repeated admonfr
tions.

A meeting took place on the 17th, instant near •
Waterford, between Captain COLLINS, late of ti 4
Ancient Irish Fencible Regiment, and JAMES SEA'
PILL, .the younger, Esq. of that City. On tir,
'signal being given, Captain Cou.trts fired, bt
happily without effed. Mr. S. reserved his fire)
and addressing himself to Captain C. declared
`b
felt conscious of being the original aggressor, an,
could not think of making use of his pistol
him, and immediately discharged it in the air ; °iv
on which the Seconds came up, and the matter, 10
the satislaCtion of all, was amicably terminated.
Private accounts from Paris state, that the Fittsl
CONSUL• will, in a short time, nominate for i'
Successor the son of Madame Louts BoreAr.a.Figi
and appoint a Council of Regency, consisting 13,1
Generals MuitAr and MONCEY, LAMBACERES, an'
the Grand Judge, at the head of which his brOthet
wsEPH iS to be placed. The College of Princect
is, s.ccording to the same advices, to be compose
of the great Officers of the Legion of Honour, the
Presidents of the.belib!rating Body, the President'
of the Sections, of the Council of State, and 3°
:Upper Chamber, taken fiwn among the Senate.,
A duty of 400 fiancs has been laid in France °,°
every five myriagrams of white cottons, stitched'
.embroidered, or striped, imported from abroad.
According to let t.ers from Transylvania, the ilwse.
melancholy •aceounts are daily received there of the
damage, done by the late earthquake, • which tff.
place on the 26th Odober. In 28 villages in 110 i
rum Szeck, the most beautiful part of the distria fc
Szeckler, a single church-steeple has not been le6c,
standing. At Galiacz, in Moldavia, more than
persons have been' crushed under the ruins of rages
houses. At Borndorf the church and ninety 11°,,.
were thrown down by the violence of the shoe
A short time previous to the decease of la'
much lamented Duke of BEDFORD, he intimatetioto
intention of increasing his plantations of carrter
at Woburn, for the purpose of supplying °II° to
food for his deer, having found those anituais.o;k
thrive exceedingly upon those roots, after bcl
washed and sliced.
pet of
The depredations committed on different par "elLs,
the Coast, from time to time., by a set of wre
wa. _s,
who plunder vessels that may happen to be cast a,
1 he
ought long ago to have been put a stop to. City
Lad Mayor has sent to Whitstable one of Ole, ,wo
Marshals, with proper assistance, to bring to r°
a party of those barbarians, who latey.nave
guilty of plundering the wreck of a Dutch Ars
and iil treating the unfortunate mariners.
b
James Tyrie, lately appointed charity scho rl e
oc
master at QUarff, in Shed/and, by the Society'
.1
Promoting Christian Knowledge, wilen returni.ilfbe
beenssci
in
home on the 6th of November from Lerwick,
evening, missed his way, and fell into .a sA"
where he perished. body was not Jou:il°
tlitee.days afterwards.

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