The Sun.
London, England, 1802-03-16 00:00:00

TRANSPORTS:

The House resolved itself into a Committee on
the Transportation Bill.

Mr. TIERNEY wished to know for what pre-
cise objet the Inspector was to he appointed, and
whether the salary of 3501. would cover all the ex-
pences attached to the office "?

Lord GLENBERFIE explained the objet} for
which the Inspelor was to be appointed, namely,
to inspect the Hulks, and report regularly to Par-
liament ; and said that the salary of 350 h would
cover every expenct attendant upon the office,
whilst there would be, after paying this salary, a
saving of tsol. per annum in the Contra t.
Mr. TIERNEY expressed himself pericaly sa-
tisfied.

The House having resumed, the Report was or-
dered to be received to-morrow.

MARINE MUTINY BILL,

The House resolved itself into a Committee on
the Marine Mutiny Bill.

Mr. WILLI4M ELIOT said, the Bill was the
same as the preceding one ; the only difference be.
ing, that its duration was limited to two months.
The' Mouse having resumed, the Report was or.
tiered to be received to..rnorrotv.

We have, to announce the safe arrival in the
Downs of the ship Betsey, Capt. C. HooPEK, from
Bengal, which Presidency she left early in Sep_
!ember last.. - The Betsg is one of those ships
which were licensed by the Honourable East India
Company last year to proceed to Bengal for rice,
and is the fourteenth ship which has arrived this
year with grain. Letters have been received by
this ship, dated the 31st August, which state that
the Government had extended the permission to load
rice for Europe till the month of Oftober, in con-
sequence of the great rise of the rivers, the effea of
heavy rains, which impede the cargoes using com-
pleted within the prescribed period.
A few days ago, on preparing for the spit a pul-
let bought in the market by a tradesman in New_
castle, a genuine seven-shilling piece was found in
the crop of the Bird.

STRASBOURG, MARCIi 5.—Another inundation
has taken place in this neighbourhood, more dis-
astrous than the first. The hasty dykes which the
inhabitants had construtled after the former inunda..

Upon further inquiry, we find it has been as-
certained by a Gentleman of the Faculty, that the
Tradesman of Chelsea, alluded to in
.our Paper of
yesterday, as having died suddenly at an Hotel in
the West End of the Town last week, died in a fit
by natural causes.
Monday se'nnight 180 full grown rats were killed
in a barn at Claverham, in Sussex, belonging to Mr.
Fuller. These vermin had only a few days before
been routed from two other barns, distant about
half a mile, and were discovered in their retreat by
the stench they emitted. One only was seen to
escape.

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