The Sun.
London, England, 1802-12-29 00:00:00

LONDON, DECEMBER 29, 1802.

It is gmerally believed that Lord GLENBER.VIE
will succeed the late Mr. ROB I N3ON in the office
of Surveyor.. General of His Majesty's :Woods and
Forests.

The Lord Advocate of Scotland, it is said, is
likely to be the new Member for the City of Edit)._
burgh, in the room of Mr. ;DumpAs, now Lord
MELVILLE.

We understand there. are ,no less than four Candi-
dates for the Civic. Gown vacAnt by the death of
Alderman CAI) E LL. Sir M. BLOXAM, Mr. COBB,
Mr. WOOD', and "Mr. T. ROWCROFT. The latter
Gentleman is mentioned as the most likely to suc-
ceed.

Lclters received overland yesterday from' India,
give the following interesting particulars reSpeding
East India Shipping. •
The undermentioned ships had arrived at Madras
from England,. viz. the Cirencester,- Perseverance,
and Alnavick.Castle, on the isth of June; Wa/-
thamstow, Bengal, and Marquis•'Wellesle.y, on the
24. th of June ; Lady, Jane Dundas and Marchioness
of Exeter, on the 26th of June; Baring and Lady
Bulges, on the 4.th of July .; 'lVgithamstosij,. Ben-
gal, and,Meirquis Wellesley, sailed for Bengal the
28th .of Jti,e ; Lady
.7.7ne Dicadas,, the z9th of,
June ; the illarchioq2.sr cf Exeter had proceeded to
the Northern Ports for Bale GOods:

The Swallow PaCket I.tias,ai: Madras the 3d of
July, waiting the Dkpatches from Bengal.
The I•l7altner Castle, Thames, and Canton, were
to sail from Bombay for China, the isth of August.
Balls anti ASsemblics among the Diplomatic
Corps art; very frequent at the Ilagne. On the
18th inst. the Spaoi4ii ,Ambassador gave an elegant
Ball, at which all the_Fortign Ministers residing
there, together with their families, and a great
many persons of distindion, were invited.
A Deputatipn of the Swiss Tkpuries at Paris, ivas
presented a few. days ago to' 130NAPARTE at St.
Cloud. The Deputy RuTTIMANN Made an address
to the FIRST CONSUL, who held a long conference
with them upon the situation of their unhappy and,
insulted Country. It is 'expeded thitt the New
Constitution will be finally atrangcd by the end ti
January. ,

NA vii L .N El 7 S ,

DEAL, DFC. zB.

CAME down this mlrning from , the River, the
Hon. :East 'lndia Company's Ships Earl Camden and
Royal George, and they remain.

ADMIRALTY INSTANCE COURT.

DOCTORS' COMMONS, DEC. 23.

The .flee ar, Stringer master.----In this case an
anion was brought by some of the crew' agai;;St the
Master of the Ship, which was bound on a
.voyage
froin Jamaica, with a very valuable cargo, destined
to the Port of London, for wag-es alledged to be dire
on account of the- voyage.
On the part of the Master and Owners, two
grounds of defence were set up ; the one was, that.
this was a very unfounded'and. unrighteous demand,
itTasmuch, as fifty guineas had been advanced to
every able seamati, and a smaller sum to every or-
dinary seamen, before the vessel quitted Jamaica,
under the term of run-money : the other was, that
the crew had deserted the'ship before she arrived at
her moorings.
On the part of the seamen it was contended, there
was no proof ljefore the Court that any
&such pay-
ment was made to these men in Jamaica, and far-
ther, that ihey did not attempt to leave the ship un-
til she was fastened, to a tier of colliers in the River
Thames.

The Court, after expressing its indignation at
the length of time this cause had been depending,
was of opinion, that the crew -had- miscondaled
themselves in quitting the ship in the manner
stated, as it never could be supposed or maintain-
ed for a moment, that a ship fastened to a tier of
colliers, waiting for the tide in order to come to
her particular place of destination, could be deemed
an arrival at her moorings ;
,and therefore pro-
nounced, that their wages in this case were become
forfeited.

A few days since as the Chapman Riga ship was
coming into the North Sea, from Riga, she fell in
with a 'heavy, gale of wind, which threw her, on,
her beam ends ; her masts being cut away, she
righted, although the sea made a fair breach over
her,' which drove her stern in, and caused the tim-
bers to start between' decks, and washed the cabin
stove from the cabin, as the water ran fore and aft.
A,Dutch ship, bound to London, from the same
Port, fell in with her off the Scaw, and assisted her
to get into the Humber.
Friday the to:h instant was driven ashore, near
Minehead, the schooner Timed, John Curris, Mas.
ter, of Dartmouth, laden with fruit from Malaga,
bound to Bristol, who notwithstattling they took
in Tour able seamen, as pilots,, off Minehead, could
not pOSsibly reach that harbour, but were driven by
a terrible N. W. wind, and a heavyi sea, upon the
Warren Sands, where they beat for five Hours, dur-
ing which time. the sea making over the ship, at
leaSt twelve feet high, the poor seamen were
obliged to take refuge in the s!rouds, as she only
means of saving their byes, hanging upon small
ropcS until they had almost lost the.use of their
limbs. PrOvidentially, however, the rigging held
them, until the tide left the ship,,when they were
taken under the hurnane care of the inhabitants, who
were waiting to lend them every possible assistance.
The cargo, as well what was washed on sAre,
as what remained in the ship, was committed to the
cate of the underwriters' agent, 'who, with a num-
ber of assistants were employed all that night And
two. succeeding days, in colleting and securing the
scattered cargo. By the morning light the .ccp,st
appeared covered, for a 6n,•iderable distance, with
thousandi-Of beautiful .new,lemons,-bpices-of the finest
Moon. and Muscatella raisins, jars of large white
grapes,. &c.

The Porcher' -, Tay, , and the Highland Chief,
, taken and carried into the Isles of France, are con-
demned were.

The Coiniherce, Rand, for London, with tco Hhds. of
sugar on board, was totally. lost in a gale of wind at St. Kitt's,
on gth Nov.
'1 he Gainsborough, Km)annagh; from Rotterdam to Bel-
fast, is got into Margate with loss of Rudder, and very leaky,
having been on Fairness Rock.
The Tradesman, Watson, from Lynn to Wakefield, is got,
into Grimsby, after being on shore on Saltfleet, and the cargo
discharged.
The brig N. S. del Portal, De Liherano, from Ostend.to
Cadiz and Seville, has beeii found at sea without any person
on board, and curried into Ramsgate.
The Mary, I ones, from the B 4 of Fundy to Halifax, is lost',
'and all the crew. _ .

The Hoop Van Hoe, Jacobs, from London to Amsterdam,
being leaky, was deserted about ten miles front the Texel.
Captain and crew arrived ,Elsinore.
The Maly, Sieman, from Amsterdam to New York, is lost
near New ork. • Part of the-cargo saved.
The Faithful Sally, Burke, tf.nm. Jamaica to Cork, which
put into Charleston in distress, is condemned there. -
The Elizabeth,, I‘l'Allister, from Nova Scotia to New-
foundland,-was lost at.Newfouflland in September last.
,The Diligent, Porvior, front. Quebec to Newfoundland,
was stranded,in,,the river. St. Lawrence yth tilt. •
The Esperanza, Magratli, from Petersburg tc, Malaga, is
lost near Westerwick„ on the. 'coast of Sweden. Part of the
cargo and materials saved.
1 he NellY, Walmsley, for Rotterdam, is stranded at Liver-
pool: but little of the cargo saved without damage.

Lord ROLLS, finding at the Ballot for the Militia
in the District where he aled, the examining Sur_
geon had charged zs. 6.1. for each substitute, for in-
,spedion, and understandiug it had been done in
other distrids, under the authority of the Army
Regulations, which Lord'ROLLE considered did not
apply to the- Militia, he therefore stated the case to
the Secretary at War. - His answer, Lord Rot,LE
has published, 'in justice to those 'men who have
paid, that they may have their money returned.

.‘. Wzr- OfficoDec. tB, 1802

"MY Loan—l have been honOuredwiih your Lordship's
'letter of the iith instant, and have no hesitation in stating,
in answer thereto, my opinion, that the Surgeons attending
the ballot of the Militia can only be entitled to ten shillings
a day, whatever number of .bAlotted men,. or substitutes,
they may examine. t haii to add, that the allowances to
the Line cannot he. made appliable to the Militia Forces dur-
ing their disempodied state.
" I' have the Honour to be, &c.
" Lord Rolle, rvic: Devpn. C. YORKE."

On Friday se'nnight, at the sea-town of Broad-
sea, near Fraserburgh, as two' young lads, fisher-
men, were employed in their usual praaice of fir-
ir.g at sea-fowls, the musquet of the one being on
hair-cock went off, and the shot went through the
body of the other, who instantly died on the spot.

GL7RALTAR, Nov. 30.

YESTERDAY the Thames frigate, commanded br
Captain HOLLES, arrived here from Sir RICHARD'
13TCRERTorr's 'squadron, after a passage of six weeks,'
Ac the time the Thames sailed, Sir RICHARD, with
four sail of the line, 'was at the rendezw,ui in the
island of Sardinia, waiting for the five sail of the
line from this, which h-ad not then joined
Previous to the sailing of the Thames, the GrO'
hound frigate had arrived from Toulon,, where,slgt
had been"
sent to examine the .preparations making
by the French, which, ,however, did not appear t°
be then very considerable; or to be carried on with
any adivity, only -five sail of the line being read',
for sea.

But by letters from Malaga, we are .informetly
that the Constellation, American frigate, had jot
arrived from Toulon, after a short passage, and that
the French were then arming every- thing thef
could with the utmost aEtivity it that port. The:,
Captain of the Conitellativn said, " Thar he ho'
been treated_ with much greater civility and atter)"
tion by the French than formerly, and that they
seem now to wish to conciliate the friendship of th!
Americans."

The St, Fiorevzo and cptthia both sailed yester•
day, and tile Thames proceeds to Portsmouth the
first fair wind.
His Royal Highness the Gus ernor has been cot"
fined for some days, with a severe attack of,the
rheumatism, which he is supposed to have' caught
froal remaining too• long with wet. clothes on, as
he never spares himself on any 'occasion, and no
weather ever prevents his attending the parade tiailf
when in health
The rains have continued with great violence of
later •