The Sun.
London, England, 1802-12-02 00:00:00

THE PA PIRI.

THE Literary World will rejoice to learn, that
the lively interest which His Royal Highness the
PRINCE of WALES has taken in the recovery c,f
the Rolls of the Papiri, found in the ruins of Portui,
has been crowned with the most perfed success.
The resped paid to his request by the KING of
NAPLES, is a just return of gratitude to the Royal.
Family of England for the exertions which were
made in his favour in the hour of his difficulty ;
and we owe to the liberal and well-directed re-
presentations of the Prince, that this inestimable
horde of Literary Treasure is to be brought to light.
Fourteen hundred Rolls of Papiri are now opened to
the research and investigation of the learned world ;
and the Rev. Mr. HAYTOR, one of -. he Prince's Chap-
lains, a person eminently qualified by learning, zeal,
and perseverance for the itnpot rant task, is now em-
ployed in the restoration of the relics. The Chief
Consul was gratified by His Neapolitan Majety with a
present of ten rolls Of the Man uscrip ts, which are safely
arrived at Marseilles in their way to Paris; and in this
the Republic of Letters will feel no jealousy. The
learned men ofevery country are equally concerned in
the discoveries which are 'likely to be made, and
certain that in the hands of the erudite LACHER,
\TILLOISON, CoRAY, and others, they will be as
ably and accurately investigated as in Italy or Eng-
land. We understand that the model of the Volume
of Papiri already published, will be taken to identify
the character, and to enable the scholars of every
country to exert their criticism on the Text.—
Already a complete Tradate of Epicurus, of whom
we have heard so much, and possess so little, has
been recovered, and which is the first thing to be
published.

THE BRITISH ARMY.

GENERAL DISTRIBUTION OF THE BRITISH

ARMY, DECEMBER I, 1802.

Regulars. Fens-141e:. Tot. /nit.
Cirv. iv. 4nf. Lat. (,:coMII.
England and Wales - zo -zz • . 42 19
North Britain - - 2 6 8 2
Ireland - - 821 . 4 33 S
Jersey, Guernsey, &c. 4 4 13
Gibraltar . - - 6 --- 6
Egypt and Malta - r 9 39
Canada, Nova Scotia, &c. .7 x 8
West Indies - . 22 22
Cape of G. H. G oree, Sce. 6 6
East I ndies, $t on Pass. to s ili 23
On Pass. to Eng. or Ire. ? 6
6
from sundry places S

Total 36 127 5 268 39

DUBLIN, Nov. 27•

THIS day Sylvester Farrell, convicted of for-
gery, and William Hudson of selling forged Bank.
notes, are to be executed at the front of the New
Gaol, pursuant to their sentence.
Friday night last eleven villains entered the
dwelling-house of Mr. PATRICK DWLLAND, of
Balcunnin, near the Man of War, and after ex-
torting from him, by severe abuse, where his money
was deposited, robbed him of near six hundred
pounds, with which they got clear off.
Wednesday night last a Vessel was wrecked on
the Red Strand, about three miles from the town'of
Clonakilty, and lamentable to say, every person
on board perished. It appears from part of her
stern which came on shore, that she was the Mary,
of Liverpool. She was loaded with butter and
calf skins, and most of the butter casks (which
were much larger than our full bound firkins) were
marked H. F. S. and were probably shipped by
-Harvey and Fisher, of Limerick. There is scarce.
ly a stick of the vessel to be found, and the few
casks which were driven on shore, fell into the pos.
session of the country people, who carried them off.
Some of the bodies of the crew were washed on
shore near Ross Carbery—as were also the colours
of the 17th Regiment of Foot : these, we are led to
conjecture, were the old colours of the Regiment,
which were sending from Limerick (where the 17th
are now quartered) to England.