The Sun.
London, England, 1802-08-04 00:00:00

ANT IGU A, juNE'9.

FRIDAY last tieing our gracious Sovereign's
Birth Day, His Excellency Lord LAV/NGTDINI gave
a grand Dinner to a company of three score persons,
Consisting of the two Houses-of the Legislature, all
the Officers of the Staff, the principal Officers of the
Army and Navy, and all the pi incipai Officers in civil
employments in the Island f—and last night, in cele-
bration of the same occasion, His Excellency gave
a grand'Ball and Supper at the Courthouse, which
was more numerously attended than any entertain-
ment of the same kind ever remembered in this
Eland, and which exhibited nearly two hundred
Ladies, who would have been an ornament to any
assembly in Europe.

We have much pleasure in announcing that ac-
counts have been received of the arrival of the Par-
cher at Calcutta ; her tedious passage from Madras,
and having many passengers on board, occasioned
some
,apprehension, and excited a considerable degree
of interest for her safety. We•understand His Ma-
jesty' 6 Sloop Albatross accompanied the Porcher from
Madras Roads.

The Old Madras Insurance Company have pre-
sented Captain WALLER, of His Majesty's Ship
A/bail-ass, with a piece of plate, of the value of
1600 sicca rupees, for his attention to the trade on
the Coast.

Captain JOHN MALCOLM, late' Envoy to the
Court of Peria, has been appointed an Honorary
Aid-de-Camp to the Governor General of Bengal,
and Private .Secretary ,to His Excellency during the
absence of: the lion. tIENRY WELLESLE.Y.

At a lade 'Admiralty Session. at Calcutta, Joao
Elario, a naiive of Manilla, was tried for the murder
of Capt. J. GEORGE, on board the ship Marianne,
in January last. He was found guilty, and exceirted
the 33 of• February, at the Old Fort Ghaut, pur.
scant to his sentence. His body was afterwards
carried down the river, to be hung in chains on the
banks of Hooaly. '
General Ross, Surveyor General of Ordnance
in England, has arrived in Dublin ; amongst other
business he is to transa& in that Country, will be
that, it is said, of an inspection of the Forts and
places of Defence throughout Ireland.
Yesterday forty-five Gentlemen were sworn into
the Commission of the Peace in aid of the Civil
Power for the County of Surrey, at the Public Office,
Union 11,11, and oiligy places, before Mr. lielton,
Clerk of the Peace.

. Yesterday there being some apprehension of a
riot at the Lower Gate, belonging to Mr. Bernard,
Ship. builder, among the Caullcers, who stood
against their masters for some privileges, three
Magistrates attended, with near two hundred Con-
stables, to suppress any tumult that might arise.
Fortunately no tumult took place, as the journey_
men and masters agreed to refer the differences to
arbitration.

Aitken, yesterday, stood in the pillory, oppo.
site his house, in Castle-street, Leicester-ftelds, for
selling indecent prints.
Thursday there was a great deal of thunder and
lightning, a few miles from E,dinburgh, to the
Northward,: •

The price of Bread NS fallen to ninepence the
quartern loaf at Edinburgh.
On Monday se,onight, Cape. LARMICHAtL, of
the Royal George Excise Yacht, seized, off Peter-
head, a Sloop,, having on board 400 onkets of
Voreign Spirits, and six marts of Tobacco.
The .11,evples, Gt 400rr, from Greenland, with
four whales, yielding 1.,.„ butts Qf blubbera is ar,
siyea at Atectkt.p