The Sun.
London, England, 1802-08-03 00:00:00

tizens.

Yesterday the Directors of the Bank of Eng-
land had an interview with the CHANCELLOR of
the EXCHEQUER, for the purpose of representing to
him, that the Subscribers to the late LOan conceived
that the plan which was some months since adopted,
of • the Commissioners for liquidating the National
Debt making, their purchases in the 4. per Cent. and
3 per Cent. Reduced Stocks only, tended greatly to
depress the price of Omnium ; when the CHANCEL_
LOR of the EXCHEQUER agreed that the future put_
chases of the Commissioners should be made in the 3
per. Cent. Reduced, and the 3 per Cent. Consols.
The PRINCE of WALES has given splendid
Entertainments to large Parties every day at the
Pavilion, since the commencement of the Itace4 at
Brighton.
Lord NELsoN, Sir W. and Lady HAMILTON, the
Rev. Dr. and Mrs. NELSON, and the. rest of their
party,' proceeded from Qxfbrd on Saturday sent-tight
to Gloucester, and on the following day went to
Ross, on their tour through South Wales.
Mrs. OTTO and her children were ocpeded to
leave London yesterday afternoon, on their, return
to Paris.

On Friday night, the Hon. C. J. fox, Mrs.
ARMSTEAD, and ROBERT ADAIR, Esq. M. P. ar-
rived at Dover, and on the following day sailed foi
Calais in the Countess of Elgin packet, with a fair
wind. Just as the vessel had grit clear of the har-
bour, she pitched away her ,topmast. • A man who
had been at the yard-arm to clear the bowling, very
providentially caught a rope just before it went,
and saved his life.
Madame liANrt, Lieut. Colonel TUFVNEI,L, J.

PI GOTT, Esq. and upwards of forty other Passengers,
sailed in the 'different Packets tic same morning
from Dover for Calais.
The King (and Queen of Pt“rsst A, during their
residence at. Warsaw, invited the Duke and Duchess
of ANGOULEME to dine with them en famille.
Louts XVIII. is dangerously indisposed at War.
saw.

The Duke of BERRY is arrived at Hamburgh
from Warsaw, and will immediately proceed to
Cuxhaven, to embark for London. This Prince
met with the most gracious reception, at Berlin, and
was invited to dine with the Royal Family, ,

. General VY SE has reduced the Ross and Cm.
marty Fencibles, commanded by Colonel 11/16KEN..
it E, and the-Regiment of the Isles, commanded by
Lord A/1'1)01;mA), at Inverness. General Dow
has reduced the Royal Clanalpin Fencibles, Colonel
MURRAY M`GREGOR'S, at Stirling, the Rothsay
and Caithness, Sir J. SlNct—Air.'s, at Glasgow, and
the 3d Argylesltire Fencibles,
,Colonel CLAVER-
ING's, at .Ayr.

General GAscoyNE, the Constitutional Member
for Liverpool, has 'returned to Parliament more
flattered by his Constituents than any Gentleman we
know of.—His Election clid not cost him one shil-
ling, and he has received numerous proofs of,at-
taehment from all parties; none more honourable
than the vote of the Corporation of Sephton, vvhieh
appeared in the London Papers.
On Friday night two Transports arrived at
Portsmouth.from Malta, with ordnance stores and
passengers. They left the Island on the 27th of
May. Two Transports have also arrived from
Minorca, with Troops. It is reported,, that the
zOOO Neapolitan► Troops, who, by the Definitive
.Treaty, are to serve as a garrison for the several
,Maltese Fortresses for one year have sailed from

The lion. East India Company's Ships, the• Ann,
Capt. ALEXANDER SINCLAIR ; the Ca/et/0111a,
Capt. JOHN. CRAIG, and the General Stuart, Capt.
ROBERT A BB()N MASH, arrived at Fort St. George,
from England, on the 4th day of Fe'”ruary last. The
sovereiga, Capt. GILBERT MITCHELL, arrived at
Bombay the 9th of February, and the No.rthamit:qtr,
Capt. ROBERT BARKER, arrived at Bombay from
England the I rth of. February.
On the 3oth January, anchored in the Harbour of.
Bombay, the Hon. Company's cruizer the riper,
LieIit.THOMAS DADE BEATY Commander, from Au-
jengo, from whence she sailed on the 1 Ith, and
touched at Quilon and Cochin. She left all the In-

diamen at Quilon on the 12th, in the expedation of
prosecuting their voyage in the end of the month.
The Viper fell in. with and spoke the yacht and Pe-
nelope, all well ; the Viper also spoke the Friend-
ship, Captain DAWSON, bound to China. Captain
MATTHEW BICATNAN, of the Bombay Military Es.
tablishinent, arrived in the Piper, from Cochin.
By a late regulation of the Customs and Exciss,
the limits for capturing Smuggling Vessels, of all
descriptions, laden with contraband goods, are now
e,ttended to eight leagues from the nearest head-
,
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land, instead of the (Tid liinits.prescribed in 1783,
hicTi 'were -only four leagues; this will give a
great ads antage to the Cruisers and Revenue Ves-
sels in the Channel,

Mary persons who_ have_ read a late horrible, trial
at Chelmsford, haveinsisted that it is a translation
froth' the French Papers; the circumstances were

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so horrible, that they could not bciiere Itolsible
.to have occurred in this country.
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NAVAL NEWS.

PORTSMOUTH, AUG. 2.

AAR TvRI) the Westmorland and Fortitude T727:3-
ports, from Malta and Gibraltar.
Sailed the Walker, PARK, for Sunderland.