The Sun.
London, England, 1803-03-05 00:00:00

DEAL, MAILCH 4.

SAILED' the Bloodhound Gun.brig on a cruize ;
and the Hon. East.lndia Company's homeward.bound
ships, Canada and Caledonian, remain.

His Majesty's ship Pallas has, upon survey,
been found unfit for service, and is ordered to be
broke up at Chatham: •
His Majesty gun-brig Vixen, • Lieut. Num.
BROWNE, has captured and carried into Dartmouth
harbour the Fox Cutter, of 8o tons, having on
board three hundred and sixty ankers of contraband
spirits.
His Majesty's Ships ArdeUt and Grampus are
ordered to be got ready for service, the fornier at
Chatham, and the latter at Portsmouth.
The Certerus frigate, lately returned from the
West Indies) is to be repaired at Chatham, previ-
Gusty to hedbeing re-commissioned.

American Papers to the end of January are re.
ceived. The proceedings of the Spaniards in the
Mississippi have produced considerable discussion
in the American Legislature. It has been carried,
however, that the management of the negotiation
for procuring redress should be left to the Executive
Government. The President has appointed Mr.
IVloNitott to go to Madrid to complain of the vio.
lation of the Treaty of which the Spaniards have
been guilty. It is added likewise, that Mr. MON.
ROE is to be invested with a special awl important
mission to the FIRST CONSUL.

There is nothing very important from St. Do.
mingo relative to military operations. It is said
that the distresses of the service have compelled
General ROCIIAMMEAV to levy contributions on
the people at the Cape in a very arbitrary manner.
The Americans complain bitterly that the French
Governor of Guadaloupe compels American vessels
to receive on board the insurgent Negroes banished
from the island. Several of these have been landed
in America.

It is reported that Lord CHARLES SOMERSET,
son to the Duke of BEAUVOILT, is to be appointed
Governor. General of the Islands of Grenada, St.
Vincent, and Dominica. His Lordship's residence
will be at Grenada.

Yesterday a part of the Coldstream Regiment of
Foot Guards had a field day in Hyde-Park.
A seled detachment from the corps of Royal
Marines, having under their charge 300 male con-
vids, ate about to proceed in His Majesty's ship
Calcutta, to form a settlement at Port Phillip,
which is situated on the Northern side of Bass
Strait, on the Southern part of New Holland.—
They are commanded by Lieut.-Colonel COLLINS,
who is appointed Lieutenant-Governor of New
South Wales. The stores an't provisions necessary
for this establishment, have bee.) seleeted with every
attention to the comfort of the colonists. Several
Settlers proceed in the ships that take the stores and
Civil Establishment.

Orders are given for the removal of the Gun on
the Parade in St. James's Park, which is to be re-
placed by a 52-pounder captured from the French
in Egypt. The ground is already measured out,
which is to be covered with twenty square feet of
stone, the piece being sixteen fee; long ; an iron
railing is to be put round it. It is not exatlly
known in what country the piece was made : there,
are several Hieroglyphic Cttaraders marked on it,
which have not hitherto been explained.
On the Ist of January, the Captain-General and
Colonial Prefeft of Martinique and its Dependencies
issued an Arrete, containing the followic disposi.
tions

" French Merchandize shall pay nu import nor export
duty.
• ‘• Foreign Vessels shall pay an Import duty of two per
Cent. on the value of their cargo.
" Foreign vessels clearing outwards with a lading of-rum
and molasses shall pay a duty of two per cent. ad vabron •
44 Foreign vessels entering with a cargo, arid departing in
ballast shall pay 9 per cent, on the value of their imports.
," Such of the said vessels as sail without a complete car-
go, or with one not equal in value to the cargo imported,
shall pay g per cent. on such part of the proceeds as shall not
be laid Gilt in the purchase of colonial produce.
port Spanish ves;els arc exempted from all import and ex-
duties."

Thursday John Williams, a brazier', from Bridge. I
water, who attended as a principal evidence for I
Messrs. lIARCOtikT and AGNEWI in behalf of their
Petition fora new Eledion, fell down, and suddenly
expired, as he was waiting to be called before tho
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