The Sun.
London, England, 1805-01-21 00:00:00

son; been considerably weakened by sick:.
ness, The General ivitb,commancls in the C4tnp at
Sr. Roch, has cut off all communication w hit the
FortresF, and the service is executed in the most at-
tentive tnanner. The English keep fires and torches
burning during the night, to prevent a surprize
the part of our Tropps.
Admiral GRAITINA, and several other OffiCeis, are
expeeted here, to expedite, the equipment of this
Ships of War. They will also proee,!d tc Cartha.
gena and other ports for the 'same purpose. As many
Sailors as can be procured arc coVeding to man
them.

Gen. 11/10a env is to take his pissage for-America
In three weeks.

The last accounts from Gibraltar start., that clue
Epidemic, ever had entirely ceased; and that the
fees, remaining sick were all in a fair way of reco.
very. Among those who have fallen vitiims to it
are, Messrs. GLYNir and GAiZA ; Coe former the
Danish, and the latter the Imi;erial Consul.

A report. ih very
~prevalc'nt here, that the Eng-
lish have taken possebsion of the Wand of Mi.
norca.

AMERICA.,

New:Yoik, Dec. t I.—The Eleaors of
,the
State of Markland Met On Wednesday 'last, to vote
fur President and Istice-Pret,idents of the 'United
States The votes were, for Ti(101:41AS JLEFERSON.
as President, and Geomae CLINTON, Vice-Presi-
dent, le—for CHARLFS CoTeswoaxer PII;;CKNEY,
As President, and Rueu4 KING, as Vice. President,
Z. The Eleaors of the State of New York have
given their'votes unanimously forTuomAs Jr eesn.
as President, of the United States, and GEQ.
CLINTON, as Viee-PreAdent.. • . •
NuRFOLK, bot Inst that's in
danger ! We had' a, sort of Presentirnenf that we
should soon hear mere of the French.Fridate,
in oar! last, we.. stated, had come down the Bay,
with the intention of
.goiog quietly home. She
'would have done so, but !bat wieked wight, ,Cape.
HOittate, -neither disposed; to keep the.peace him-
self, nor suffer it to he preserved. by others, with,
a most uncivil design, and with malice aferertmeelit,
placed himself directly in the path along which Mon-
siette wished to proceed• in a' &Cent, orderly, and
inoffensive manner:" Ely hien ! d,,is tin pared ern,
barras girt doitiairelllallsiosf La Braise ? •Ii such
a predicament, what ought BROSSE to cly ?
Why,
.like a good Christian, who did not widt to
violate the Sabbath, nor to break!threugh the sixth.
.ordinance of the decaloguee he cam,: to anchor'otT
Grump's Hill. The Lord- High Admiral, with his
Lady, we are. well assured, 'were on board. They
slept at Hampton` on Monday night.. One report is,
.that they have both returned to Baltimore ; another,
that' they are still at Hampton; and a third, that
she has returned to her fattier, and that hn has
!re-embarked in the Frigate ; the Captain of which
is resolved to go out • immedlate)y and chastise
the insolence of the English B—. Here now
we have a beginning and a middle, and !to make
'the thing complete we Want only a earastrephe•
'ln end, We hope that Captain HoTitem Will not
be in- leeoe to Strike i i ceiours ; we hope yet to
have two or three paragraphs out ,of ,the business,
which, in the present dearth of rews, would be of
great consequence to our interests ; this expectation
would be defeated by a precipitate surrender, The
Pilot-boat left the Briti4l Frigate Liz Revolution. art
at anchor on the tail of the. Middle ground. Captain
Horn AN't discovered the Frenchman about one
o'clock on Sunday evening, dawn the.,Bay. The
flood having just made, and there being hut little
. winde,both ships came to ancho'r, -Oe the first of
the chin the British Frigate got under weigh, and
took her position oil'-the Cape.' ! AboterAye o'clock
this morning firing was heard in that direaion.—
The French may have resolved to go out; and there.
is nd Hell Gate through which to escape as thrOugh
a' back door out 'of Chesapeake. -
Genqemaa of respeaability informs
us, that he has just received ads ices from Point_a
Pate, through a confidential'friend, 66ting,' that a
Privateer called the Grandville; -mounting 28 guns,
and two 36-pounders, with a completneut of 280
men, besides Sea Men and Marines, had sailed from
thence,..with .orders to take all' Ameiican, vessels
bottod-to.ilispaniola, and hang the. Crews as Pirates.
By a Gentlenaanfrom St. Thomas's, we .undetstand,
that just before he left it labout eighteen days alo),
a vessel lead arrived'from jeremie, with information
that the French had abandoned the.rown Of St. Do-
mingo, and had surtendeted thernselvea•prisooers CO
the English, '
• learri that Mr.!NICHOLSON.!ias
.withdrawri bis.. Bill for the more effeCtual preserVa-
don of peace withim•rhe juriadiaion of thei!,United
States, and that he has reported anew Bill for that
purpose. By private letters received by the Sloop
Amity, foils Havannahe dated the 'lSth of Nevem-
ber, it appears, that the'British Frigate
and a Slop of War, were cruizing off that port, to
'• prate& the British Trade in.thatViirW, as it wits
supposed in Havarinth.• Before -this, perhaps, the
„business of these 'ships is 'nfore fully explained.—
The Houses of Congress, within these few- de)l,
liaVe been entirely taken up with the businesa 'of
Judge CHA9t.

In the. afternoon of Thursday sennight, Joseph
Lyun, of,lnghani, pgcti ten years, son of Mr. C..
Lyon, of that village, farmer anti grazier, was
drowned in the lake near to Sir CIiCIL WitAY'zi
Castle,

The. great Prizes of:the last Latter), weredivided
into somewhat more than 00 Shares, 40 of which
were sold at Swirr!s Office in the Poultry--the
present Lottery contains capital Prizes to a 'much.
greater amount, with the some number of Tick,ttu,
The whole Tickets in the present Lottery having
sold so much better than the Contra'Eats' ctnld have
any reason: Co hope or expett,- it is thoUght they
will divide among the L )ttery Offices whet few
Tickers may, he left no the Friday before the
Drawing, 'on the express condition that they will
share them, and nor sell them in cvhole -Tickets,
by which means many persons may be acconuno.
sated %v lin.must otheewise go without a chance, as
it is evident time will nit be Tii.tetl en. oei
both ForpQses, , .