The Sun.
London, England, 1802-07-14 00:00:00

EDthBURGII, JULY 3.

ON Monday evening last came to anchor, a few
miles below 's 7 land of Inchkeith, His Majesty's
Frigate Amer. and on Tuesdajr got under weigh
and sailed againi on a Cruize.
On Tuesday arrived in Leith Roads, from the
Davis's Straits Whale Fishery, the Raith of Leith,
Capt. LvoN.s, with !z- large fish, producing-about
450 butts of blubber.
The Raith is so very full' tliat the-boats,on, deck
are stowed with bluhber, and the greater part of her
beer and water casks are also filled.
Capt. LYONS brings no account'of the success of
the other ships, having been in a quarter where he
saw none.
The Royal Clanalpine Regiment, commanded by
MajOr LAMONT, arrived at. Stranraer on .the sth
instant.

. Yesterday the 4th, or Royal Irish Dragoon
Guard:;, quartered at Piers Hill B:4-racks, were re-
viewed On the sands at Portobello, by Lieutenant-
Gen. \'YSE. They went through their various evo-
lutions very much to the satisfaction of the General.
Among the company piNent there were MONSIEUR,
and Suite, the Earl ,of MoIRA, ecc.• A very dis-
tressing accident happened-during the review.—
When : making a 'charge, one of the horses fell,
Which caused several others to- fall, by which one
man. bad a leg broken, and two or three others Wez,:e
very much hurt.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

NEWMARKET JULY MEETING.

MONDAY, JULY 12

The Town Plate of 501. for 3.- yr.old colts, Bst, 4b. •fillies;
Bst. Last Mile, and:a Distance of B. C.
Sir Charles Butibury't> b. f Julia - - 1
. ,
Sir F. Sidra:llo's cii. c. brother to Spread. Eagle z
D. of Grafton •li. 6.- brother to Chuckle ••, .. 3
Five to zon Julia. • '

, .
Rcnewal of the-fuly Stakes, a ,SubScrip':.ion of. cogs. each,
30gs. ft. by 2.yr Old cults, carrying Sst. zlb. and tithes, BSt.
'f wo-yr (old C.
D. of GraftOn's b. f. by Grouse - ' -.. '- , 1
. Ld Staweli's f. by Waxy ~ . - -.--. .. ~ .2
Mr. Ladbrokes t. by' Young Woodpecker - 3
Sir C. Buobury's b. f. by Whisky ' '- - 4
Mr. Panton's.f. by Pot Sos , - - - 5
• Ld Grosvenor's b. c., by john Bull - - 6
Mr: PairitOWS c. Buss - ‘.- - - - pd
Ldl2l,,,riont's ch. c. by Trumpator - .: : ; psi
Mr. Wilson's b. c, by Buzzard 0 - - pd
Gen. Grosvenor's t." hr John BUll - - Pd
• Fiv... ! to 2 against D. .of Grafton,. 5 to .4 against Sir C.
Sunbury.
Mr. Ileath:ote's Anniseed, Bst: 71b. beat Lord
~111ilsint-
own's Pi......•th.:, lists izlb. - Ab. M. toogs ; 3to 4on Amu-
seed.. .

The following instance of a Lady's flawed afec...
tion for a dog, may be -relied on as a fa& :—Mrs. D.
ofCutzon.street,May.fair, was invited by the.Dut-
cheis of D. to her late public breakfast, but early in
the morning on the day when the breakfast was
giver., Mrs. D.'s favourite' dog died, which affeeted
her so much, .that, she staid at home to mourn. The
remains of the dog were put into a coffin covered
with crimson velvet and taker, :to' the 'gardens of
Lady L— M--, in Pall-Mall, to be buried.

ANTWERP,

•AND . •
THE OPENING- OF THE SCHELDT.

(Continued from our Pato- of Saturday.)

.To, Scotland Antwerp sent but little, as that
country was chiefly supplied from England- acid
Fr4nce.. Antwerp, however, sent thithe-r some
Npice,ry, sugars., madder, wrought silks, cainblets,
serges, and,mercerv. And Scotland sent, to
AutWerp Vast quantities of peltry of many kinds,
leather, wool, and indifferent clOth, fine large
though not quite of so. good a water as the
Oriental (Kies,

To :Ireland Antwerp sent much the same t)m.
modities and quantities as to Scotland; and Ant--
wet-Rtpok from Ire and skins,and leather of various
sorts, • some low priced cloths, and other. gross
things_of little value.
TO Spain Antwerp sent 'copper, brass, and lat-
ten,_ wrought and unwrought ; tin, lead, and •much
woollen cloth‘of various.kinds made in the Nether-
lands, -as aliO-'some made in England ; serges of all
prices,. (wstades- et deny astadt's, -names of woollen
goods. then in use, but now almost lost, unless '
worsteds be meant thereby, which the affinity of
:the name may possibly -countenance), tapestry, fine
'and coarse linen .to a great value, camblets,
thread, ,wax,. pitch, madder, tallow, sulphur, and
:frequently wheat• and rye, !. salted flesh and fish,
-butter-and cheese, all sorts of mercery (mercer), in
-those times meant almost all kinds -of of small ware),
.metals, silk, thread, &c.. for very great sums
silver in baliion,:.and winked up into silversmiths
work; arms of all .-sorts, and ammunition.; house,:
hold furniture, and tools of all kinds ; and every
thing else produced by human industry-and labour.
Of Spain,- Antwerp _took jewels and pearls, gold
and--silver 2iri;great., quantities, - Cochineal, .-‘sarsa-
parilla; guaiacum, saffrOni, raw and thrown,
and worked up into various stuffs ; 'velvets,
salt,'-alum; orchil, fine wont, iron; cordOvai
leather, winos-of various -kinds, oils; vinegar,
honey; molasses, Arabian-•gums, soap, friths, both
moist 'and dried,. in Vast quantities wines •and
sugars-from the Canaries •
To'Portugal, Ants; crp sent silver bullion, qUicksii.
er, vermillion,..c•opper, brass;,and latten, lead, tin,
~rms, artillery, and ammunition; gold and silver
.thrnad, and.such other wares before named as they
sent -to Spain.-4,-From Portugal, Antwerp brought
pearls'and precious stones, gold,- spices, to above the
value.of on.: million of crowns .annually ; drugs, am...
I-Ktronusk, civet,..iyoiy, in great quantities; aloes, _
rhubarb, anil, • cotton, China root, and Many other
precious things.-from India, with which the greatest
part Of, Europe _was supplied -by Antwerp.; also
sitars- from the Isle of Sr. Thomas, under the equi:. •
no4tial line, and froinnther,lsles. on the African
Coasts:; Brasil wood for Deers- (but -no sugar
as yet brought from Brasil, nor-from any 'other.part,
of America—and this countenances the conjecture,
that sugar was not originally a native of Arnekiea, but
was rather carried thither from the Canary or else
the Madeira- Isles) ; Malagnetta, or Guinea grains,
and other drugs
.from the West Coast of Africa ;
sugar also, and good wines from Madeira ; anti:from
Portugal itself, *Antwerp brought their salt, wines, •
aad oils, woad, seeds, orchil, many sorts.of fruits,
both moist and dried, preserved, and candied; to a
great value. . . •
To Barbary, Antwerp sent woollen cloth, serges,
linen, merceries, innumerable metals, &c. And
Antwerp brought from Barbary, sugars, azure or
anil, as the- Portuguese call it, gums, coloquintida,
leather,- peltry, and fine feathers.

_ •
• Thus, we have a summary view of the export's
and iMports of and frolli Antwerp, the most eminent
City for commerce then in Europe. The port of
Arnmyden, on the Isle of Walcheren, the princi-
pal Isle of the Province of Zealand, was the place
of rendezvous for. the shipping of Antwerp, 'where
are often seen five hundred large ships together,
some fiound to, and others -returning from, many
diStant parts of the world. Armuyden,7at that time,
possessed an excellent Port, and wellfituated for
that purpose, though now an 'inconsiderable place,
its harbour being choaked up with mud and sand.
Yet,. after all that can be said of the greatness of
Antwerp, it must, however, be admitted, that the
two lafer grand emporiums of. London and Ambter.:
-dam have, since that time, exceeded Antwerp 'in
vaiious'.respeas ;. _such as their greater 'number of
large,andstout.Ships, their acquisitions of several
great .branches of ;COmmerce, not then known to
Antwerp, viz, the Turkey Trade, the Whale
Fishery, the Russia Trade, the
.Negro Guinea
Trade, that of bothlndies-, as also the Madeira and
Canary Trades:; yet, if Guicciardini has not exag,
gerated, Antweri), rn the height of . its prosperity,
about that time, is said to hale shewn, at once, two
thousand five hundred Ships, or Vessels, lying in
the Scheldt, before the City ; • (though .possibly
many of those might have been such as, at London,
in"our days, are called small Craft and Coasters.)—
And our-Author adds, « that it was usual for five
hundred Ships to come and go in one-day ; and
four hundred to come up the Scheldt in one tide ;
that ten thousand carts were constantly employed in
carrying mcrchandize -to and from the neighbotiring
Countries) beside rriany,hundreds of waggons,daily
coming and going with passengers; and five
hundred coaches used by' people of all diginct
tions.:" all which possibly must be read with some
grains of allowance. Gut ct TARDINI adds, c' that
Antwerp had then one hundred and sixty-nine Ba-
kers, seventy-eight Butchers, ninety-two Fish-
mongers, one hundred and ten Barbers andSurgecni,
five hundred-a nine:y-folr Taylors, one hundred
and twenty-four Goldsmiths, beside a great number
of Lapidaries and jewellers,- three hundred master
Painters, Gravers, and Carvers, Mercers, i, e.
retailers-and •pedlars, &C. without number. That
the City of Antwerp contained thirteen thousand
five' hundred houses. That lodgings there were
extravagantly dear,-
.(occasioned by its great corn,
merce) so:as, except-Lisbon,-to surpass any City. of
;Europe ;'ll set of lodgings of free or six chambers)
with t hall and garrets,. not letting for less than
two hundred crowns, i, e, four. hundred Holland
guilders, yearly ; and 'the greater lodgings and

SHIP NEB'S.

GRAVESF.ND,„ ky.

. _
Passed by—the Two Friends., Baker,j_froth Surinam ;..,Far,
mer, Comely, troth Lisbon ; Louisa, - Barber, from Cork ;
Nereus, Spilkes, froth Bremen 4.-Two Brothers, Spander:
man, from G heat ,; Cominerce,Alder,son Emerald., Storr
and Commerce, from Petersburgh.

Sailed--the Mary, Willcocks, for, Jersey; Neptlmus,
for Brussels ;'artil,Nile.Packei, Beectly;ifor Calais:,

On Sunday the rith inst. at Ingestree, the Countess,4ral-
bot, °fa Son and H.:tr.

MARRIED

•
On the r4th of February last, at Sir john Anstrtither's,
Bart. in Calcutta,. William Parker, Esq. of the Civil. Esta.
blishtnent," to Miss Catherine jane.Seton, seanld daughter'
of Daniel Seton, Esq. Lieutenant Governor of Surat.