The Sun.
London, England, 1802-03-23 00:00:00

WSTRIBUTION OF PRIZE MONEY.

To-the Concorde, tor the Vrow Hendrica, also for the Twe
Gebroders, on board the said Ship at Portsmouth, on tho
25th inst. _ _ _ _

-'La Constance, for the Spanish. vessels LI Duides and Nos-.
tra Senora de Cabalonga, alias Ventura, will be paid on the
31st inst. at Portsmouth.
The Constance, for the capture of the French privateer
Jupiter, will be paid on Thursday, the 25th inst. at No. g,
New Broad-street.

The Leviathan, Swiftsurc, and Emerald, will be paid on
their arrival, for the Spanish frigates Le Florentina and El
Carmen, and a remittance from the West Indies, on account
of the Lima ships, at No. 22, Arundel-street.
The Imrnortalite, for the capture of La Constance, will he
paid on her arrival at Plymouth.
The Sirius, and Diligent hired armed cutter, for the cap.
turc of the Dutch frigate Furie,'will be paid at Plymouth,
on their arrival there.

The Earl of ESSEX is eleaed High Steward of
Leominster, in the room of the late Lord BATEMAN.
On Thursday last Major FOLJAMBE, Command-
ant of the Worksop Volunteer Cavalry, gave a din-
ner to that Corps, and the Volunteer Infantry His
Majesty's Ministers were pleased to disband some
months ago; the evening was spent with the greatest
conviviality, several appropriate toasts were drank,
and 'the harmony of the company was much in-
creased by the exhilarated gratification of the wor-
thy President.
We understand that a correspondence of a very
curious, and no doubt entertaining nature will
shortly be
_laid before the Public, by a. Lady of
Rank.

Mrs. BILLTNGT'N again appeared last night at
Covent-Garden Theatre in Clara in The Duenna,
and drew a very respetable house. She sung with
all her accustomed excellence. BRAHAM likewise
was admirable in Carlos.

The contradictory assertions that have been made
by the Proprietors of Drury-Lane Theatre and the
Conductor of the Covent-Garden Oratorios, re-
specting their separate .rights upon Mrs. BILLING-
TON'S voice, have excited much surprize in the mu-
sical world, and have been thought inexplicable.—
The difficulty however, we understand, is easily
solved. Mrs. BILLINGTON signed articles with
the Drury-Lane Proprietors, agreeing to perform
in Operas or Oratorios, not aware that there was
an agreement between the Proprietors of Covent-
Garden Theatre with Mr. ASHLEY, precluding, for
a certain term, the transfer of Oratorios to any
other place. Mrs. BILLINGTON entered also into
an agreement with Mr. ASHLEY to perform in his
Oratorios. Hence both Parties have a right to as-
sert their claims upon Mrs. 1311, LANGTON ; and the
only way for her to settle the matter is to perform
at both Theatres on the same night, if Oratorios
should actually be brought forward this Season at
Drury-Lane.
Many thousand persons were assembled near the
whole of yesterday, in some of the streets in the
City, to see a wager performed of a curious nature.
A Porter engaged, for a bet of ten guineas, to carry
twenty chests of oranges, weighing one cwt. each
(one at time), from Botolph-lane to Spitalfields
Market, in ten hours. The whole of the ground,-
backwards and forwards, is estimated at forty-three
miles, which he completed in eight hours and thirty_
five minutes, at the rate of something better than
five miles an hour. •
A great deal of betting was made on the occasion,"
and the odds considerably against him- at starting.
Carriages lined all the streets through which he
passed. It is extraordinary, that the man performed
his journies with the load •on his back in much less
time than without it.
The Assizes for the county of Dorset closed last
Saturday,, when seven persons received sentence of
death, but were' all reprieved before the Judges left
the town, There were but few Nisi Prius Causes,