The Sun.
London, England, 1802-06-23 00:00:00

LONDON, JUNE z 3, ISoz.

IT is still doubtful when Parliament will be.
dissolved, though the circumstance is a topic of
general conversation. When a great public measure
is in expeaation, it always happens that the event
is anticipated by the eagerness of mankind, and that
the most distant whispers are magnified into authen.
tic information. Even thoSe who may he supposed
to derive their intelligence from the best sources,
often mistake what they have heard, and come_
quently mislead others. Nothing can be a more
evident proof of this than the current opinion (in
which we in some degree coincided) that the Pro.
clamarion for the Dissolution of Parliament would
s.-ippear about the 3d of next month. The fa& is,

chat it is wholly unknown and uncertain when that
event will occur, and, therefore, all speculation re-
speffing it, while public business intervenes, must
be altogether questionable and unnecessary.

Yesterday the CRANcELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
gave a grand Dinner to M. ar-i-o, M ms. CoQuE-
BERT MONTBRET, Lord CORNWALLIS, Lord
HAWKESBURY, and a large party of persons in
high official situations.
Yesterday a Court of Direetors was held at the
EAst India House, when Mr. FREDERICK PITMAN,
Commander of the Skelton Castle. extra ship, took
leave, previcus to his departure for Fort St. George.
WILLIAM ADAM, Esq. was appointed Counsel to
the Ei,t India Company, vice GEORGE Roos, Esq.
deceased. _ _ .

Mr. CHAYLIN, of Blankney, has started for the
Cou ,ty of Lincoln, in the room of Mr. VYN ER.
Sir EDWARD HAMILTON, who was dismiswl the
service some time ago, has been reinstated in his,
former rank. _ _

The intelligence contained in several M
Papers of MCmday, of the arrival of a Fleet of Men
,of War from the West Indies, is incorreet. Lt.ird
Ka Ma, with the Fleet from the Mediterranean, is
daily expeded. '
The preent Board of Treasury has, we under-
stand, adopted a regulation admirably calcu_
lated to promote an useful emuli,tion amongst
the Profess rs of an highly respeCtfd Art, that of
Sculpture, and at the same time tending to sec,4,-.
immortality to the memory of those great men
have fallen in 'the 'defence of their Country. A
Committee of Taste has been appointed, of ,vhioi
we are happy to hear that Mr. CHAR LE, 1,11;C it•
the. President, and which is composed-of ii s'x
Gentlemen particularly qualitied for
authorized by the Treasury to ex._ is
given in by the different Artists noih.,,is, as
voted by the Legislature to their
men who have gloriously fallen in battle, :; to re_
Part their opinion to their Lordships, to w Leh the
vreference ought to be given. Such a measure is
wo thy of the Government that has adopted it;
and holds out a noble encouragement, not only to
Art itself, but to the future exertions. of that
splendid list of Naval and Military Heroes of which
we have so many to boast, on whose minds how-
ever v:e. anxiously hope that any opportunity of its
operation may be very distant.
'i he letter which has appeared in most of the Pa-
pers, aldressed by the deposed NABOB of ARCOT,
to his Agents in London, bears very strong symp,
toms of home manufaatire. We think this is almost
demonstrable ; and a duty ,we owe to our readers to
caution them against admitting any impression from
it, unfavourable to the Indian Government.—" Audi
alteram partem," is a maxim well suited to the jus-
tice and liberality of the British charader, and we
are sure, will never be lost siglit of:
A Court of Aldermen was . held yesterday at
Guildhall, at Which the LORD MAYOR, 14 Alder-
men, Mr. RECORDER, Mr. COMMON SERJEANT,
and the Sheriffs were present.
After the proceedings of the last Courts of Al-
, derincn and Common Council were read, the Court
proceeded to the setting of the Assize of Bread,
and the Master and Wardens of the' Bakers' Com-
pany attending, and the Mealweighers' Returns be.
ing examined, the Company were called in, and
informed, that agreeably to the At of Parliament
they found themselves tinder the disagreeable ne.
cessity of raising the Bread half an Assize, to take
place tomorrow ; the quartcrn loaf will then be
sold for tenpence.halfpenny.
The unanimous Thanks of the Court were voted
to the Lord Mayor's Chaplain (the Rev. Mr. gouty
HurcHr Ns) for his excellent sermons preached on
the Thanksgiving Day, and on the first Sunday in
Easter and Trinity Term, before the Court at St.
Paul's.

The Court eleEted the following persons Rulers
of the Watermen and Lightertnen's Company, for
the year ensuing, viz.
WATER RULERS.
Benjamin Spencer. Wiiti4,n Chapman.
George Sloe. Thomas Blackstone.
Daniel ()pie. Thomas Sloat.
David Wilton. William L.olt.
LIGHTER it.T.TLER.S.
John Ilarnor. George Tatton.
James Lyon.
This day the Lord Mayor, Sheriffs, Recorder,
and several Aldermen, iroceeded in their carriages
from the Mansion_house to the Swan at StrAtiorkl,
%here lii.s Lordship held a Court of Conservancy for
Cie County of Essex, and afterwards rroceeded to
the Green Man on Llackheath, wheu a Court was
held for the County of Kent.