The Sun.
London, England, 1802-08-14 00:00:00

P 0 R T4/10 UTH, Au c . r 3.

ARRIvED this day His Majesty's Ship Alexandtr,
Capt. MANLEY DIXON, trom Gibraltar.

DEAL, Auc. 13.

SAir.rn on a Cruizel the Vixen Gun-brig ; and
on her• voyage to the East Indies, the Dutch Frigate
Merria Reygersbnrgen, Capt. J. LOW BAR.
Carne in from a Cruize, the Savage Sloop of
War : last night ran on board the Montreal, Capt.
DAyinsoN, for Quebec;, carried away the Mon-
treal's bowsprit, with other damage. The Savage
sprung her bowsprit and mizen-mast.

Remain in the Downs, the Glenn:ore, Amelia,
Galatea, arid L'Oseau Frigates; the,Ratoon, La
Sophie, and Savage Sloops ; Bloodhound Out.).
brig ; two East-Ipdia Pilots ; and Montreal, DA-
viDsoN, fur Quebec.

The Duke of NORTHUMBERLAND is at
The Dot-chess, with her family., is at Worthing. •
Lord NELSON, Sir \Vti. and. Lady HAMILTON,
and their Party, have been for some days on a visit
to Lord MIL'iORD,.at. his Seat at Piton Castle, in
Wales. •

•
Sir ROBERT ABERCROMBY 'has returned from
Scotland,' on account of a complaint in his eyes.
- The Right Hon. Cum: LEs LONG and his Lady,
at present' occupy apartitents in Doiter Castle.
CHARLFS FRE.EMAN, Esq. was on Tuesday last
eleeted_ Mayor of .Northampton, for the ensuing.
year ; Mr. JoSt-tuA•Gooctt,- .and Mr. LutcE
SHAW; ,BailiffS. After which the 'newly cleat('
Officers gave an elegant Dinner to the Corporation,
and a Bathin the evening.,
The Court of Naples, we understand, has some
ohjetaion' to tine g:irrisoning Malta with Neapolitan
Troops, on the score of expence. In this case the
British Troops will probably remain there some time
longer. When the, last accounts came from thence
there'were thirteen British Ships of War in the Har-
bour of Malta.

The Department of the North, which has for its
Capita; the City'of-'the Cape, cbtnpris...s six Ttar-
ters, whidi are—Fort Liberty, Limonade, the Cape,
Port,de Paix, and St. Nicholas Mole.

The Department of the,Wcitcomprises the.quar.
ters of Port Republieain (at the same time the chief
place of that DepartMent), St. Marc, Leogane, and
jacmel.
The Department of the South comprehends the
quarters of,C4es, St. Louis '(likewise the Capital),
Petit Tron,' Jeremie, Tiburon; and St. Louis.
Towards the end of June, a Frigate and two Cor-
- vettes'arrived from Toulon. at the Cape, having on
board a thousand ,`f roops, who were to be followed
by six thousand More.
Om, the Painter, and his Wife, are gone to
Paris, for the purpose of viewing the Treasures of
Art, which the French conveyed from Italy and
other places, as
,the trophies of conquest.—OFt e,
hoWever,,is not without a hope of employing his
Poncil on a Portrait of the Chief Consul.
We do not find that the account of 'the new ar-
rangementfor the management of Drury Lane The-
atre, which has appearol in the Newspapers, has a
better foundation than Newspaper authority.
I'lRn a celebrat4Frenchman, had the custom
of taking off his hat to every line read before him,
that was a' plaaiartsiiHe called it saluting hi's
Friends:.-, If he had&en an Englishman, and lived
in our time, our Modern Dramatists would have
worn him out many a hat.
Citizen LA HARPS was said to hive withdrawn
all his Pieces from the Theatre ; but it now al).
'pea rs, he has only "withdrawn one, viz. Mianie.
A very daring robbery was lately committed-in
Paris. About four .in the afternoon, one day last
week, three Robbers introduced themselves into
.the Apartatent of Mademoiselle MILIERE, an
Opera
,Dancer. The noise Which, They made haying
been:heard, -by, .the Mother, or the Aunt, of that
Lady, she
the
the other people in the houie ;
and as. the Room was locked, white they ap:
plied a ladder on. the outside, to see what was the
cause of. the.noie, 'the. three Robbers found means

to escape by another window, with all the money
and trinkets they could find -in 'Mad. LIERE'S
Apartments. The alarm being givep, by the
cries of the neighbours after theta,. .and, their
precipitate flight sufficiently justifying the sus-
picidls which appeared attached to the persons of
the three -fellows, a Mason, who was' in the way
of one of them, struck hini ,town with an instfu-
ment which he 'held in his hand.. The- robber

had hardly recovered himielf when he .Was assailed
by a young Water-carrier, lately returned from the
Army, and who seemed lirtle'd4Osed to let hint
go, but :who received the thrust of a pOignard,
which stretched him on tht ground', He died'afew
minutes after in the 'arms of 'his Mother, whose
support 'he. was, and.whom the cry of 'alarm had,
brought to the spot, The Assassiti tied,. but :was
soon.otter taken—his two accomplices escaped.
On Tuesday last .a sailor named Wm.. Cote, was
committed to Chehnsfor'dga6l, charged with corn—
mittinF, a' rape on. Ann Smith, a child only seven
years of. age. The same day qihhen, (wife
of one of the Convias now unde.r sentence.. of
death) was committed, being'eharged.with having
conveyed a file, 'concealed in a pair bl stockings, to
David Gibbons, in the said gaol, in order thereby
to assist make 14.5 scaiwt