The Sun.
London, England, 1803-03-21 00:00:00

MILITIA.

THE Duke, of MAALtioxoucH, as Lord Lieu-
tenant of Oxford, has issued orders foi assembling
the Militia of that County, on the 3oth instant, at
the Town Hall.

The Rutland -Militia were on Saturday embodied at Oak.
ham.

The Denbighshire are to assemble at Wrexham on the 24th.
The Flintshire at Mold, on the 28th inst.
East Kent to.day, at Canterbury.
West Kent ditto, at Maidstone. •
Suffolk, 28th of March, at Ipswich and Bury.
East Norfolk, to-day, at Yarmouth.
West Norfolk, ditto, at SwatFham, dec.

The Norfolk Lieutenancy have agreed to allow
51. to all such persons, not possessing property to
the amount of sool. as may be drawn to serve in
the Militia, being half the sum now paid for a sub.
stitute.

A meeting is to be held at Leicester on the 26th
inst. for fixing the number of Militia-men to be
raised for the. Hundreds of that Borough. All per.
sons under 5 feet 4 inches high, and those who have
certificates from Surgeons, ao unfit for service, are
ordered to attend, before their names can be struck
off the lists.

EXTRACT OF A LETTER mom AN OFFICER ON
BOARD HIS MAJESTY'S .SHIP lIRAAVE, DATED
CAFE OF GOOD HOP 113 JANUARY 3.

" ON Saturday last the Dutch were to have had
possession of this place, it being New Year's Day ;
and on Sunday I was to have sailed fur England
with the luAlter and Tremendous, but she Imogene
arrived a little after 'loon on Saturday, and has de.
ranged all our arrangements. Her dispatches for
keeping possesion of this place, were landed about
a quarter before one o'clock. At five the Dutch
were to have been put in possession of all the guards,
previous to their Flag being hoisted the next morn•.
ing. Thus the • place watt only saved by about five
hours ; and it will be considered as a very extraor-
dinary event, as one half of our Soldiers were cm.
barked on board ships for the East Indies, and the
other half were encamped about eight milts out of
town. We had only about fifty men in the CaStle,
as a matter' of form, to keep possession till the
Dutch entered.

‘' The Dutch have about 1600`exceltent Troops
in town here, and they might with the greatest
ease have 'taken the Castle, as the report of the
place being to be kept, got all over the town long
before measures could have been taken to secure it.
By six in the afternoon we had landed a thousand
Troops that were emharked, and marched them into
the Castle. The Dutch are confounded and disc.
mayed; the English not a little astonished and dis-
appointed. .Are we going to loggerheads already
again ?, or is this place, according to some report,
going to be purchased ? We wait for further orders,
which I dare say must soon come. We'have about
1700 or :goo Troops here in all. The Dutch have
three sail of the line armed en flute, two frigates,
and two sloops. We are stronger, having the Lan-
caster, Tremendous, Jupiter, Diomede, Hindostax,
&curve,. Rattlesnake and Penguin."

A Private Letter from Lisbon has 'the' following
singular article:
sg General LAMES is arrived. —Scarcely had he
entered his former Hotel, when he wrote to His
Royal Highness the Pacz`ce REGENT that he came
to resume his diplomatic fundions, but that he
could not appear at any Levee before all the Mi.
!Asters, who were in power when he left Portugal,
were dismissed !

ft The Pit I tic E, yielding to circumstances, seeing
,they would not surrender to him, cashiered his best
friends, and appointed' his enemies 'to be their suc...
cessots.—.So much for the independence of Portia.
gal I" • •
Intelligence .was received nn Saturday evening
from .RosERT "CTALMit,SLEY, Esq. a respeetahle
Merchant of this City, who took his passage a few
days ago for Minorca, (via Paris and Barcelona : he
sailed from, Brighton for Dieppe, and immediately
on his landing there was arrested by the Police, and
the whole of his papers, which only related to corn.
rnercial'affairs, were, even 'with his pocketbook,
taken from himi when he wrote he w.k st4ll
rained, and endeavouring to 4et his papers,yetn.ined.
It must be highly gratifying to the friends of an
Individual deservedly esteemed in priiite and puti:.
lic life, ,to leans that Mr...CHRISTIE, olPall
who has been indisposed for some time, is in a fair
progress tolwards an entire recovery of his health.
This Gentleman, on resuming his station a few
days ago in his public Mtn, received the most
complimentary greetings from. a large Audience,
which burst forth unanimously as soon as he math
his appearance.
'At the last York Assizes, Henry Dobtax, 'for on.
lawfully enticing an Artificer to go to France, was
sentenced to be imprisoned one year, and pay a film.