The Sun.
London, England, 1802-04-20 00:00:00

Y ARMbUTH, APRIL 19.

Tuts morning the Princess Royal Packet, Capt.
SANTER, from Cuxhaven, arrived at j_iowestoff;
and the Earl of Leicester. Packet, Capt. THOMPSON,
from Cuxhaven, this morning landed her Mails land
Passengers here.
The King George Packet, Captain P. DEANE, is
dismasted on her homeward passage off Heligoland,
and is gone back to Hamburgh, to refit.

HARIVICH, APRIL 19.

ABOUT four o'clock this afternoon arrived the
Princess #9,a/ Packet, Captain SANTER, from Cux.
haven, with Passengers : they sailed on Thursday
last, and landed the Mails of the 7th and loth inst.
this morning at Aldborough. By the above we
learn, that the King George Packet, Captain P.
DEANE, when a few leagues upon his passage with
the above Mail of the 7th, carried away his mast
in a gale of wind, and was obliged to return to
Cuxhaven to repair his damages. We are happy to
stzte, that none on board received any personal in-
jln-y by the accident..

DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZE MONEY. r.

•
Thd TreMendous, for the destruction of La- Preneuse
French frigate, will be paid, also for the Spanish brig Nustra
Signora del Carmen, Frpnch sloop BenjaMin, and-brig Le
Bientair, at No. -17, Cecil-Street, on Friday; the z3d inst.
The Melpomene, Ruby,- and Nlagnanirne, for the capture
of the Lucy sloop, will he paid,'! the Melpomene and
Ruby at No. 17, Cecil-Street, and the Magnanime at Down-
ing-Street, both on the 23d inst.
The Amazon, for the re-capture of the Eleonora Cathari-
na, will be paid on board the Amazon, in the Downs, on
Wednesday the 2 rst inst.

On Thursday, April 8, 1802, a Court Martial
'was held on board His Majesty's Ship NeptUne, in
Torbay, on Lieut. W. HILL, cif His IVLijesty's
Ship Hercule, for insulting and shaking his fist in
Lieut. COLLET'S face; also, on Capt. MORTIMER,
and Lieut. DI MOCK, of the Marine Forces belong-
ing to the said- chip, for ocAirtlioui: and siearididou‘
behaviour to the Rev. CHARLES I;IJRNES.

The charges being proved against Lieut. HILL,
he was sentenced to be dismissed His Majesty's
service ; and the charges being only in part proved
against Capt. MORTIMER, and Lieut. DYMOCK,
the former was severely reprimanded, and the latter
dismissed the Ship.
. The Rev. C. BURNES was afterwards tried on a
charge of drunkenness, • exhibited against him by
Lieutenant HILL, which case he Could not sub-
stantiate, he was therefore acquitted.
On the loth of April a Court Martial was held on
board the Barfteur, in Torbay, on the Boatswain of
the St.. Fiorenzo, for embezzling His Majesty's
istores ; the charges being proved, he was sentenced
to be dismissed His Majesty's service, and muld
of <tll his pay.
'On Monday, April It, W. FENvercre, First
Lieutenant of the St, ,Ficrenzo, was tried for ne-
gled of duty in permitting the said stores to be em-
bezzled ; the charges being proved, he was sen-
tenced -to be dismissed His Majesty's ship, and to
lose two years' rank.
Tuesday, April 13, C. W. PATTERSON,
,Esq.
Commander of the St. Fiorenzo, was tried for ne-
gled of duty, in permitting a Boat to take on shore
some Stores belonging to His Majesty ; the charges
being only in part proved, he was sentenced to be
dismissed the St. Fiorenzo, and mulct of two months'
pay.
On Wednesday. Lieut. GILMog E, and the Gunner
of the same ship were tried, the former for neglect of
duty', and 'the latter for embezzlement; the charges
were proved against., the Lieutenant, and he was
dismissed the ship,-the Gunner_was acquitted. Mr.
Murcx EL, a- mi4.lshiptnan, also of the same ship;
was tried for 'neglea, of duty ; being found guilty,
was sentenced to lose .one year's rated time.
The remaining seven menbelonging to the leme-
raire, who were condemned by the first Court
Martial, to be hanger! for Mutiny, were sent round
to Woolwich on Thursday in the Vestal, to be con-
fined on board ,the hulks there daring his Majesty's
pleasure.
• . Letters received by the way of America, an-
notince the arrival it Macao, of the following East
Indiamen, between the 24.th,,0f September and zd of
o&ober last,:—/lindostan, Pope, Boddam, Admiral
Gardner, Carnatic, Henry Addington, Ocean, Not-
tingham, Windham, and Lord Diencan.
The Extra Ship Royal Admiral had also arrived at
Macao.

The Emperor of China lately expended vast sums
of money in the erection of a palace, as a country
residence, a short distance from Pekin, but it was
scarcely finished, when one of the towers was set
on fire by lightning, and the flames extending, the
whole of this magnificent pile was reduced to ashes.
.The accident happened about the first hour.of prayer,
and,..the flames were not suppressed till the succeed-
ing. day. It had occasioned
_great alarm among the
superstitious natives, who -regarded it as an onwn
of some ,dire calamity.