The Sun.
London, England, 1802-04-17 00:00:00

MAL, APRIL 16.

ARRIVED His Majesty's Frigate Vesta', from
the Mediterranean, and sailed through the Downs,
with the Crash Gun-brig, to the Northward.
Came-down from the River, the Brig Pallas,
LIVINGSTON master, to take on hoard for Gotten.
burgh, the goods saved from the wreck of the
Swedish East Company's Ship Sophia Magdelina.
Remain' His Majesty's Ships St. Albans, Ansa-
'ZVl, Eugenie, and Savage Sloop, Pdoniey,
and Confliti Gun-brigs.

EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM STROMNESS, DATED
29TH MARCH.

" The brigantine Fert:y,HAßßisoN, of and from
Belfast, for Dantzic, iit ballast, was forced on shore
on the night of the .3.lSt curt. a little to the.North_
ward of the Bay of Skaill, on the West side ofthe
Island of Porno
wna,uclurinr,'' the continuance of a very
severe gale or It 4; the Crew, except one boy
were with difficulty saved, but the vessel before
day-light next morning went all to pieces. Sane
night a large .ship, said to be the Swan, of Liver-
pool, for the Baltic; was put on shoreland drove to
pieces on the Island of Stroma, in Pentland Frith ;,
all the Crew said to be saved 'except three.
It Ship William and /Inn; KELLY, from Leith,
for Davis's Straits, has retutned.to the harbour of
Stromness, after having been nearly
,one hundred
leagues to the Westward .of Orkney, being very
leaky, having at one time six feet water in ..her
hold. The Raith, Capt. LYONS, returned with her,
hut the Royal Bounty of Leith, kept sea, when the
other two vessels bore away for ..the harbour of
Stromness. About z t ships for the Fishery at
Davis's Straits and Greenland, remain here' 'wind-,
hound, all nearly ready to proceed to sea whenever'
a fair wind comes,"

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER'S Reso.
lutions, on Wednesday, respecting the National
Debt, are as follows :
Resolved, That it is the opinion of this Committee, that
the sum applicable under the 26th and 32d of the King, on
the tat-of February, 1802, to the extinelion of the.:-Natiorrml
Debt, together with 200,ti001. per annum, .would, without
the annuities which will expire,-extinguish the, whole in
45-years, being a shorter time than the two fund, if kept
separate, upon their present'establislid footing would do,
together withl'oo,ooial. per annum,'zinct i per cent. upon the
97,doo,000l: funded this session of Parliament.

Resolved,. That it is the opinion of this Committee, that
the sum of zoo,oool. to be paid annually under the 26th of
the King to the Commissioners for the extinaion of the Na-
tional Debt, from the sth of April, 1803, be 'vested in coilw
missioners,.to be governed by other regulations, - •' . •
Resolved, That it is the opiniori of this Conimittee, that
the fluids tinder the 26th ancf324 of the King should be con-
solidated, and be continually laid out at compound interet,
till the whole National Debt is extinguished. -

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Resolved, That it is the oinion of this Comrriittee, that
the annuities which shall expire, shall be applicable-to the
public service, in such inanrigi as Parliament shall. provide.

Thcfo!lowing. is: the amended Rate of Assess-
ments on

INHABITED HOUSF.SL

Additional Duty the Pound from Sl.• to 201.-
ditto above zol. and under 411.—15. 3d: ditto front 401. and
upwards.

WINDOWS.

9 Windows, ts.—to, 16s.—ti, il. Is.-12, 11. 45.---13,
11. 75.-3 s. additional for every window to 2.5, then ss.
On Thursday Lord REDESDALE left. Town for
Ireland. •

The very lucrative appointment to the Collec-
torship of the Customs at Halifax, in North Ame—
rica, has been conferred to Mr., JEFFREY, son of
the Member for Poole, in Dorsetshire.

By the parochial returns of the Clergy, of the
number of acres under tillage, which, however,
.are
far from correa, it appears, that there were nearly
seven milliOns of acres of Corn grown in England in
the Year 18ot, and of those, about 2,400,000
acres of Wheat.

In consequence, of the very many outrages' corn:,
mit ted for die preceding fot tnight, in the. neighbour-
hood 'of Tipperary,- Major-General. Sir cHARies
Ross convened the Magistrates, &c. on. Tuesday
seinnight, where, at a full meeting,.they:entered
into very strong resolutions, toput a stop to such
rebellious proceedings, and have also remitted to
Government a statement of the unquiet state ofthat
county and neighbourhood.
The remains of the late Lord KENYON have been
interred in the family vault at Gredington in Flint_
shire.

GORMANDIZING.—Last week, a,labouring man
iventto'the Sias Tnri, at Rawmarsh, near Rother-
ham, 'Yorkshire, and ate his dinner) which con-
sisted of about four pounds of mutton, .four of pota-
toes, and two of bread,.to which he drank.two pints
of beer. A person in the house remarking to him
his ravenous appetite, he replied, that he could eat
as much more if he had it, when immediately
.five
pounds of beef Were procured, and fried in apound
of fit, which, with the addition of a sixpenny. loaf
and three pints -of beer, this voracious eater con-
sumed-in about fury minutes, to the astonishment of
all who witnessed big gluttony. The whole may
be com.kuteti at the wei4ltt of ;;lbst