The Sun.
London, England, 1802-06-25 00:00:00

DEAL, JuNE 24.

ARRIVED from Portsmouth Hia Majesty's Ships
Edgar and Powerful, both of which have sailed to
the River.

Sailed the Ganne► Sloop of War, , on a- Cruize ;
and the Vixen and Bloodhound Gun-brigs remain. '

HULL, JUNE 21.

The Duitcombe, EUNSON, of this port,.artived at
Kirkwall, in the Orkneys, on the 26th ult. from
the Seal Fishery, with 361 seals, which he deliver-
ed there, and was ready. to sail for Archangel on
.the. Ist inst. waiting a fair wind. The weather had
been boisterous, and the season very indifferent for
the Seal Fishery.

Lord ELLENBOROUGII, Baron GRAHAM, and
four other Judges, dined yesterday with the Bench-
ers in the Inner Temple Hall.
ARTHUR A4uRPHY, .E,q.• the celebrated Dra-
matist, has been chosen a Bendier of Lincoln's Inn,
and yesterday dined in the •Hall with the Earl of
of ROSLIN; the ,LORD CHIEF BARON, -and the
other heads of this illustrious Society.
Yesterday the Duke and' Dutchess of RUTLAND
left Town for Belvoir Castle.

Yesterday aftelnoon Mr. PENN gave A grand
Breakfast at his Seat of Stoke Park, near Windsor.
Yesterday being Midsummer Day, a Common
Hall was held at Guildhall, for the eleaion of
Sheriffs, and other annual City Officers, for the year
ensuing, which was attended by theLoxiti MAYOR
and a great number of the Livery. After the nomi-
nation, as usual, of the Aldermen who have not
served the office, RICHARD WELCH, Esq. Citizen
and Glover, and JAMES ALEXANDERi Esq. Citizen
and Butcher, were no,ninated, and Were declared to
be duly elated.
The eleCtion of the, two Bridge-Masters then
took place, and there being a vacancy, occasioned
by the death of Mr. SPECK, two new Candidates,
Messrs. MARRIOTT and YEO WARD, Were put'
in nomination with the present Bridge-Master,'
Mr. GALABIN. The shew of hands for .Mr.
GALABIN was decidedly great, but those for
Mr. MARRIOTT and YEOWARD appeared so near.
ly equal, that the Sheriff's ordered a second
shew, when they declared the choice of the Li-
very to have fallen on Mr. IVlAnittovr. A Poll
wasshowever demanded by the friends of Mr. YEO-
- and Mr. GALABIN not
shaving been se-
parately eleaed, as it is suggested he ought to
have been, the Law Officers were of opinion that he
must also stand a Pull, which was accordingly
agreed to ; and when the Hall broke up, the Poll
commenced, and the numbers on its conclusion,
stood as follows: GALAIVIN rB6, .VIARRPTT i;9,
YEOWARD 117. The Poll re-commenced this
morning at nine o'clock.
Mr. 'I:RAVERS then addressed the Hall, and stated
that the LORD MAYOk had consented to summon a
Common Hall early in the next week, to receive the
Report of the Committee appointed at a former
Common Hall to endeavotir to obtain a Repeal of
the Tax upon Income. Mr. T. stated, that at this
Hall a proposition was intended to be made, of a
declaration of what qualifications are necessary for
a Candidate to serve
,the City of London in Par.
liament.

The Chamberlain, anti other City Officers, were
eleeted without opposition. .

The City Auditors presented their Report on the
City Accounts, which was ordered to be printed ;
and at half past three o'clock the LORD MAYOR and
Aldermen left the Hall.

One Troop' of the 18th Regiment of Cavalry
marched from Brighton on Monday, for EaStbOurne.
A detachment of the loth is to supply their place.
Wm. FooRD, Esq. who (as stated in our Paper
of yesterday), after cutting his throat with a razor,
was taken out of the Anna, from Bengal, and carried
into Brighton on Monday, expired on Tuesday af-
ternoon. His children, four in number, the eldest
not Chore than eleven years old, arrived about six
hours after his dissolution. The Coroner's Inquest
was on Wednesday held on the body. Verdift—
Lunacy. .

The Post-boy conveying the Mail from the Gene-
ral Post-office, Dublin, to Bray, was stopped about
(he hour of twelve o'clock on the night of the loth
inst. near Galloping-green, by two men armed with
pistols, who rubbed him of the whole Mail, con-
taiiing the bags of letters for the following Post
towns, viz. Bray, Newton, Wicklow, Arklow,
Gorey, Ferns, Enniscorthy, Oulart, Wexford, Tin.
nahely, lkathdrum, and Clonszal;