The Sun.
London, England, 1802-07-03 00:00:00

FALMOUTH, JUNE 30.

I,,AltitlvEb this day, the American Ship Join''"gan, Captain CtiEw. from New-York, thirty
days passage, with flour and wheat, for orders ; also
the American Ship Elizabeth, Captain THoNiAs
Itc,P,cKs, twenty-six days passage from New.
:°°^'. with flour, pepper, &c. for orders.
Sailed His Majesty's Ship Rosario, of 18 guns,
Captain MouNc EY, on a cruize against the Smug_
iers• and the Prince of Wales Packet, TODD, with
of the 22d inst. for Lisbon.
IG?7,g George Packet (if she can get ready),
will sail on Saturday next, with .Mail of the 29th
lost. for Lisbon,
41 -P. Ss- The Walsingham Packet may be expeacd
morrow, with Mail from Lisbon.

JULY 2. •
THIS morning arrived the King George Packet,
pt. FLYN, with the Mail and
Cuxhaven, Passengers from
which place they left last Saturday, and
Burin the passage they
very
weather. tempestuous
This afternoon arrived the D;ana Packer, CaPt'
0
5130 RX, from Helvoetsluys, with the Mail and
Passengers, amongst whom were Sir Ronnivr and
Lady BA R C L AY .
The above Packets a:e in turn to sail again to.

morrow afternooii, the fornier for iteii4eislay.si an(
the latter for CuxhaveN

SHEERNESS, Jixty

Tins day sailed His Majesty's Bomb-vesse
Fury, Capt. CURRY, for Deptford, to be paid off.
The Phabe was taken out of dock this day.

NEW HOL L AND.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE °I7.V.

A letter has been pointed out to me which appeared
in The Morning Chronicle a few days ago, asserting
that the article which appeared last week in your
Paper under the head of Neetv South Wales, contain-
eda misstatement. I have no desire to conceal that
that article was drawn up from my information, and
I can safely affirm that it was coned. Ido not there,
in the remotest manner take credit to myself as
the Discoverer of these Straits, for I had orders,
from the Noble Duke then at the head of the
Home Department, which reached me at the Cape
of Good Hope, to pass through them, and the
statement in question goes no farther than to
say, that I obeyed these orders. That the Lady
Nelson was the first vessel that ever made a passage
through these Straits from the Westward, I have
the testimony of Governor KING in his Official Dis-
patches to Government ; but I will not take it upon
me to assert that their situation is even now cor-
reffly ascertained.
I made the discovery of an extent of Coast in
nearly four degrees to the Westward of any land
ever seen by either Messrs. BASS or FLINDERS, and
this was afterwards proved by two vessels passing
through after me. The first of these was the Har-
binger, Capt. BLACK, who saw this land, and de-
scribed it to Governor KING very nearly as I had
done. The second was Capt. BY of the Mar-
garet Brig, who fell in with the land a very little
to the Eastward of where I had made it, and uses
nearly the same words that I did, in describing its
appearance.

With regard to the latitude of Wilson's Promon-
tory, I have produced undeniable testimony that
Mr. FLINDERS'S position of it was laid down from
Mr. BASS'S information, who was in a Whale-boat,
and gave it by computation only, which is always
liable to error.

Mr. BLACK, a scientific Navigator, lays Wil-
son's Promontory down in 39 deg. 8 min. South.—
I had particular instru&ions from Governor KING
to ascertain, on my return to those Straits, the
exalt situation of that Promontory, and from every
observation and calculation which I had it in my-
power to make, I found the latitude to be, accord-
ing to the best of my judgment, as I have already
stated it. To Sea Men, therefore, it will appear,
that this being nearly the medium between the ob-
servations of two able men in their profession, no
Material difference Will be found to exist ; and it
will readily be admitted that the latitude which
Mr. BAss assigns to Wilson'i Promontory, does great
honour to his judgment, as there is only a difference
of six miles, where he had his calculations to make
from an open whale boat, which the sea and the
weather must necessarily aired. Independent of all
conjeElure, Mr. BAss was of opinion, that Wilson's
Promontory lies in 39 S. when I had the honour of
conversing with him on that subject previous to my
leaving Sydney.
I beg leave to observe, that the Boundaries of
these Straits are so little known, that I have laid
downs from calculation, a Cape named by me Cape
Albany Oftway, in the fat. of 39 S.—Should it there.
fore turn out that its situation is to the Southward
of Wilson's Promontory, it would become the
Southern Boundary of New Holland, but I should
be sorry to deprive either of the Gentlemen above
named, of the merit due to their exertions.
I am, Sir, &c.
JAMES GRANT.

The important case of the Swedish Convoy was
yesterday determined in favour of the Captors, by
the Lords of Appeal, in the Cockpit.
The Devaynes, extra-ship, the last of the season,
will touch at Madras in her way to Bengal.
Rear-Admiral TOTTY, who died in the West
Indies, and whose body has been brought to Eng-
land in the Saturn, of 74. guns, arrived at Ports-
mouth, %vas miraculously saved from the Invincible
when she was last year lost in going out of Yarmouth
Roads to join the Fleet in the Baltic.
_ _

We leain from Messina, that a Swedish Frigate
arrived there towards the end of May, with a
Tripoline xebec, which she captured after a despe-
rate engagement against four vessels of that nation,
two of which were sunk. The Swedish Frigate, it
is said; had above too men killed or wounded.
Lieutenant RAE,
,of the Marines, who killed a
Purser of the Navy in a duel, at the Cape of Good
Hope, underwent an examination yesterday before
the Privy Council. He was brought tip with his
second, and the second of the deceased, from on
board a vessel stationed at Deptford, by two King's
Messengers. We did not hear that this is a case of
an aggravated nature.
Mrs. Caro, we are concerned to- hear, is ex-
tremely ill.
KEMBLE set off yesterday on his journey to Spain,
and the letters of recommendation he carries with
him, from some of the first persons in this Country,
are, perhaps, equal in number to those taken by the
Mail.

Bo o ',LESS SO C I ETT.—The remainder of the sub-
scription money for the Fete given at Raneiagh in
commemoration of the Peace, on the zd of June,
amounting to 824. has been given by the Gentle-
men of Boodle's Society to the following Charities :
The Naval Asylum, Paddington.green, ,C.zoo
St. George's Hospital - - - - too

Lock Hopital - - - - - too
Middlesex Hospital
Westminster Infirmary - - - -
Indigent Blind, St. George's Fields - - 7-too
Brownlow-street, Lying-in - - - 124

On Monday evening two men fought at Waltham,
Abbey, when one was killed on the spot, leaving a
widow and four children, The survivor is in
custody,