The Sun.
London, England, 1805-04-05 00:00:00

Pl II V 13„ yEW S.

HARWICH, APRIL 4. l'he Pr;Nee
[ocket, Capt. ANTH,NY De Artit, and the L 'trio
Capt. but, sailed this
.rtiornirg ; the limner far
Husuns, with the Honburgh abd 2remen
and fourteen Possengers; and the Lar4 fur Gotten.

burgh. ,
Capt. SAUNDER 9, of the Elf! -George, Packer,,
arrived this day at noon from Husutn, with thti.
Hamhurgh and Bretnen Mails, and one of iii 3 Mt.
jesty's Messengers, with Dispatches from Berlin.
Srx.o'CLocx.—The Auckland Packet, Captain
BRIDGE, is this. moment arrived with a Moil flotn,
Gottenburgh.

PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 4.—Arrived the. Favorio
rite, STRICKLAND, from Waterford uNiou, Dx.
vts, (late ROGERS) from Carmarthen, last. from
Falmouth, with butter, oats, and coal ; saw two
large fleets the 3a inst. proceeding up Channel wi.tr
a fair wind.

Sailed the Betsy, BISHOP, for lent,.

SIIRIZURSS, Aran. 4,-•-Carpe down from tle
River the Adelphi Armed Ship, Capt. PRATER.
Arrived the didniral Mitchdl Hired C4.u,tr,
Lieut. WILLIAMi, from the Down,.

The Mercator Armed. Ship has hauled down the:
Signal. For Convoy to the Elbe, and hoisted
nal fur the Baltic..

Ships at this Port—Zealand, Ardent, AginCourt, lee,
mona, ltenommer, ‘Vitnthelsea, • ceres,
Magnanime, Valorous, Lynx, Ainaranttio,•,'
genre, Lord Eldon, liutchess of Bedford, H.Jogcr,...i..felohi,
and Mercator Armed Ships ; I.6cust,
and Desperate C un.brigs , Admiral hired Cutter
several Fue-vessets and Borilb-ten‘lers, and a large itect
of Merchant Vcsweis for the Baltic.

DEAL, APRIL 4.—Sailed the Basilirk Gun brig
and Shee'rness Lighter for S!leerness.
Canie in His IVlojesty's Ship Leopard, R..lr-Asi.
rniral DOUGLAq; with the Lit? drab, Rail/ear,
Thrmes, Orestes, Alert, Spy, Galge, and ralture ;
Blazer, Afonkey, (Lute, Wattbfal, Braizer, Tick-
ler, Pincher, Archer, Firm, Griper, and Gallant
Gun.brigs, blown of their stations by the strung
westerly winds.

Put back the Bogetta Slov, Admiral Gailmer)
and Meteaif, East India S!iips, and Albion Hired,
Navy 'fransport, and reinain.

Arrived the Spy Sloop, with a large Convoy of
Merchant Skips, from Cork; amongst which are 17
Sail from Surinam, and remain could not get their
names in time for Post. •

FAL:wax/Iw, Aratt, L—Arrival the American
Ship Ann, Capt. BRADFORD, fr,nn Alexandria, in
35 days, with flour, fur orders ; His Nidjesty's
Ship Plorritr, of 18 guns, Capt. Heolcocat, from a
eruize ; and the Prince ff Wales Packet, Tout),
with Mail from Lisbon ; ten days passage : left
lying in the Tagus the Auckland Packer.

Sailed the Felicia Spanish Privateer, Prize to the
Kitty Privateer, of Llntion, fur Plymouth; the
Four-mast Ship Trartrit, Capt. LtsToN, for Srnyr..
na ; the jemmy, DAVIDSON, for Liverpool; the
Hawk, FORSTAR, for Wales ; the Nancy, Ross,
for Weymouth ; the James, PARK I, for Plymouth ;
and the Wien and Catharine, 'fur Shoreham.,

CORN EXCIMNGg, APRIL 5.

Tire supply of Wheat to-day is in middling
quantity, with a few arrivals of foreign ; the
samples of fine old are full ai dear, other qualities
gu oil heavily ; Barley, with Malt and Beans, ata
at small variation; altho' hut few .White and Grey
Pease, the small demand creates little alteration it
price ; Oats are in tolerable quantity, with a few
Foreign Cargoes, and some very fine samples fetch
our quotation ; having so little Rape Seed, the
price ismontinal ; Flour in good supply, at our last
named prices.
witear 73$ a 88s a lop net Beans 42s a 485-OCI
Fine: too a to 7 od Trekileans 4ES 4 47$ oa
kye 54s a 6os net oats 24$ a 276 a 29 od
Barley 43s u 6e. Poland do. 3os a 3tei ad
Malt 74$ a Sos od Rape Seal - •-4
White Pease 42s a .48s od Fine Flour nos a 356 od
Grey ditto - 378 a 413 od Seconds - 745 a 305 ad

Two Ships, of 74 guns, are contraCted for, to he
built in Messrs. PITCII E dock-yard At North.
fleet, as soon as possible.
Captain HaNwict.t, is appointed to command the
/liajettie, of 74 gu:is, at Sheerness.
The Flora Frigate is ordered to be prepared for
service at I)eptford, without delay ; at which placc
an Armed Schooner, whist) is built on a new con-
struaion, will he launched in a few days, and is to
be callet4 the Arrow.

The Spanish Ships N. S. del Carmen, Pedro 13;1
111nrin Agf &Jeri, L. 141 era Ilbefteitera,' D.
jtotgo, Sciloorteto L'Aikte Levis, jacpw'r,444-6.,
6'on Fraw.i.tco die Paido, De Sul, are sent into Ni..
vis by His Majesty's Cruizers,
His Majesty's Ship Scrap's, with about 40 !lips
undo(' convoy, sailed from Tortola on the ,9th
February, •.for England.
The Amelia Frigate has sent into St. Vincent's
the Spanish Ship Gaarcociets, laden with wine, 3e-e.
from Barcelona -to the Havannah ; anti the ;.,shi,n
Ship Comm.:T:4lj laden with fluttr, alio for tte
vannah.

On Wednesday morning there was a Grand Rt.
view and Inspection of all the Ropes Ae tiliery
raining at Wuldwich, belJrc the Right 1i n. rite
Earl of CHATHAM, MasHer-GenerBl
attended by a number of Gcnerat Officers,

The child wa stated yesterday to have been stolen
on the preceding day tioin the Temple was found on
the same evening in a ditch, half filled with water,
at Lambeth, .with no covering but its flannel petti.
coat, and very much bruised. It is supposed the
wretch conceiv.ed she had killed the child when she
threw it in the ditch, ;anti herintention would have
succeeded, had it not been found before the corn.
mencement oof the night. It is hoped the same in.
terposition of Providence wilt discover the perpc.
wow of such a barbarous deed. . ,
k, •
' At Durham Fair last week, there was a very
poor show of horses, and a gte,st number of dealers,
,-- - , , ,, , , , „s, , ~. , , which caused good horses to sell for high prices.
*,mliten ryltatileti on.), 10,..,,0r stsi; iiiirxiae..,OSt ,13 . .
~
i* The Prine,:. of tlr:llc4. With the most lautlahlt zeal cur Captain .K.EIGHTLEY, of the .57t1,, is app,,inted
1 he.eause of l.iter;:tult, ha* employed A Gentleto4n for 4orne ' Mai it of Brigade to the Infantry in G,lrrison at
~,,,a, .4 Ni pie 6, epos A work of gre.it expel= 'and intern" Canietbur ..
y .
:;ti V,s Lie labour, .to superinienJlite tittrullilig of ale Qhttrred
;,,i,:nwii2ript; folntl in Herculaneum and Pompoii—raterary The following unfortunate. accident occurred la
tr.;itirc.:i ; WhiVii t
it
biir;:.ll with tiltoe unfortunate cities, Rickcrgate, Carlisle, on the evening of Tuesday
:Pf'tharinnst etteadrA eltipti-614 of Alottot Vesuvius, when ._. , i
:14- elder PlinY Perniiied ; it: 'ix fit,,:,i ) ear of the Liuperor sennight.-7-Sericant Cletninsoni of the Artillery,
1 ,tut,, tl, 1.), 79, findiog hiluself somewhat indisposed, retired to
Ti-e rnignanhnou3 co:PINet of ths young King of Sweden bed, early in the evening : about ten o'clock hr
I,,tist be admircd !••.1 ervery -ttLen Of ;pint and honour, here
crowitect Hod, coo,.
rite door, he fell into the street, from the height of
ii.rzltid Europernit;tit y 4.1 rot/Levu ib chat-oder.
Vide iionJparte's s "
.c.:::,..11 heron:: the Eirc4.ing out of the . tiV el; stories. He w.as taken up dreadfully bruised;
v..:r, that Etigidittl urges-badied tv.ii nut:latch ;
fur I •'11C:"." 1 but hopes are efitarramestof his recov try.
. .

Our attention has been turned to this ,subjeifl at
present by some conversation which took place the
other day in' the House. of. Commons, .upon the
question-tor the Redudion of the Irish Militia. Sir
Joust Nioxi.ualr earnestly recommended a provi.
lion for the wives and families of such soldiers as
should enlist from the Militia for general service.
,stated, from his own knowledge, that after
any considerable embarkation, from PortsmouthAand
Plymouth, from 800 to loco women, the wives of
the Irish soldierst were landed the. Potts of Cork
and Waterford, in a state absolutely destitute, and
obliged immediately to have recourse to begging for
subsistence; and that the towns of the South of
Ireland, and the interior, swarmed with the fami.
lies of Irish Soldiers, who had no other alternative
but begging or starving. Colonel BA/SWELL fully
confirmed this statement, and not an Irish Member
present attempted to ccintratlid, or at all to invali.
date it. The lad must, therefore, be taken as Wt.
deniably true and earliest by every body. Mr. PITT
.allowed the great importance of the suggestion, and
3 apparent inequality that there
would trn regret t
grantingie theallowauce to" the families
of-Irish Soldiers by law, when there is no such pro.,
'vision for those of English Soldiers. He clearly saw.
that the evil complained of arose frotn there being
no system of Poor. Lawrin Irelandils in England.
Was this a question merely relatinto the irate.
riot" regulation of. that part of the united King.
dom, perhaps the opinions of the rich Gentlemen on,,
the subjed would be entitled to more importance; ,
but when it'is evidently not merely a question of
ragulatioo, era question of humanity, but one which
affeds the most important interests of the Empire,.
we think it is a subjed fit•for the enlightened judg.
merit oktheAritioliNation. The question is extremely
.clear, as far act it relates to the military strength of
the Country.- The Empire wants disposable Troops.
'lreland, from its great population and the poverty
of its inhabitassts, (who upon that account could be
easier tempted with the bounty) ought to afford
a considerable number ;. hitt from the delta of its
institutions before the Union, ts, considerable ob_
staele is thrown in the way of Recruiting
.in that
Country. The wife of the Irish Militia Soldier is.
allowed two shillings a week (a small pittance, but.
sufficient, to keep her from starving), but ;he mu.
merit her husband shall enter for general service,
she loses that little,, and with her family is imme.
diately reduced to 'the` extremity of,tnisery: We
believe that there are few of our Readeri who have
nut felt for the situation of those Soldiers who have
been compelled, as the Poet describes, to
" Beg better bread through ftrithns their valour sav'd."
No poetical description can present a mote af.
fetting pi Lure than the plain statement of Sir
jonti Naw.tiottx, confirmed by other Gentlemen
from that.Coutitry--the face of the Country covered
with the starving families of. its ,brave defenders !
Being informed of.the fad by Gentlemen from that
Country, we want not further intormation, to .know
whether this is right or wrung. We hope that some
mode will be speedilly adopted to remove .this great
discouragement to the recruiting service in Ireland,
and, that the causes of divatistedloo in that part tel
the United. Kingdom may .be traced' to their true
i source.

7 v." t"4 I ,•-% WI 0211 Jr!, Ittat path MO: IC,
Orders lot the l'apfr, Letters tur tits Listor,Sc:,.. ''pair„ paid;
Poole{itlettAitn lIA IS Of No. 4, iviiirtictr.court, ft; I' Wrtinvn y
At tilc bUN OFFicgt No. 1: 2, Strand; Mitre Aivtyttetnints,