The Sun.
London, England, 1802-11-06 00:00:00

COWES, Nov. 5.

SAILED this morning from the Motherbank, the
Eclipse, Bo W E master, for the West Indies, having
onboard Messrs. BEARCROFT, WILSON, andCHAF-
MAN, Commissioners for investigating Army-Ex-
penditures in the West Indies.
Last Monday Capt. FERRIS, commanding the
Swan Cutter, fell in with and seized near Brighton,
two Tub-boats, containing 437 casks of brandy and
rum, with some tobacco, which he lodged in the
Custom-house warehouse here.

The Red Sea Squadron was disposed of on. the
6th of June, as follows :
The liiaor Sloop sailed on that day with General.
BAIRD, and his suite, for India.
The Babelmandel Armed Ship was to sail the
next day, with the last divison of Transports for

The Romney was to sail for Mocha, in the Red
Sea, on the Bth of June. _ _ _

The Sheerness Was to sail with a division of the
Indian Army embarked in Transports.
The Wilhebniptc was to remain a guard-ship at
Suez till December, with , some Transports, to
bring off the only remaining native regiment, then
in quarantine.

.i.t• is understood. that the igth and. 26th Dragootis
are to be received complete into-the service of the
Company, the officers -retaining -their
rank, in:. the King's Army. " ,The former .of. these
dist ingoished :Corps •is in India; • the latter in
pt ;. .wh kb, w„ittithe Q.; h fan,ka a -
_gs)l2,y;yray
of Suez to Madras.' The loch- was one of the Re-
giments that. formed a part of the Indiaß-Egyptian
Artily under •Generai-BAIRD. • .
SirRICHARD BItKEItTON sailed last month from
,Malta for Alexandria,' with transports
.to bring away
the Garrison, excepting the sorb Regiment of In-
fantry; and the 26111 Dragoons, .whith,.as we have
already. stated; are going to India, by. the,may of
the Desert to Suez. -
The army Under General BAIRD has tiobarked at
Suez for India, except one, native regiment, some
of the.privaies .of which were
.suspetted of being
slightly infected With the plague... This regisjient
was performing quarantine. • ..
It is- said to be in the contemplation of Ministers
to establish a General. Agency Office under the
'authority of Government. Such a plan would be
eminently useful to the Military, Service. as well as
'to the Public at large. The profits of Army Agency
have been very great, indeed, and it will be highly
honourable to—Government- if they proposed plan
should be effectually carried into pradice for the ad.
vantage of the State.
It seems very strange that the CHIEF CONSUL,
in conversing with the Mayor of Ivry, should have
declared that every family, and every party which
calls Foreign Powers to their aid, has merited, and
will merit, to the most distant posterity, the
ctirsei.orthe,French People, just-after what passed
in Switueriarid. Such a declaration, contains the
b4terest, censure on, the Helvetic Government,
4ich has supplicated the assistance of. France, in
order 'to violate the will and trample upon the rights
of their Countrymen.. Yet the CHIEF CONSUL,
instead of invoking the curses of the French People
upon that Body, has thought proper to afford them
the assistance which they so abjeetly implored.-

The French contend, that as we are Islanders,
we have nothing to do with the' arrangement of
Continental. Concern's. ' Upon the same. principle
we may urge, that as France is a part of the .Con-
tinent, has nothing to do with insular affairs,
and cop:ioquendy it has. too right to interfere with
any arrangement we may make reipeaing
an 4 other insular conneCtions of this country,