The Sun.
London, England, 1803-01-29 00:00:00

GREENOCK, JAN. 25.
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TUE Tdy, KNOX, from Sligo for this port, sprung
a leak at sea, and both pumps having no cffeel, botF
away. for LOafoyle, and was driven ashore in 3
gale of wind, on Quigley Point, about nine miles
from Londonderry. it appears by a .letter from
thence, of the 15th inst. that the cargo would be all
saved ; but the kelp and yarn were damaged, the
vessel having been in such a situatilrrOtia.t. the tide
ebbed. and ftowed over her.
Alas teri
was determined, hoWever, if he _could get-tlie ves.
sel well-repaired, to take the goods: on boakit'Again'
and proceed on'his voyage to Greenock; •
The .Alert, MILACHLAI4, and Jeanie, MiDou7
cAL,.frorri. this port for LiVerpool, were still. in
Carnpbelton Loch on the 20th inst. after atterriPta
log LP make their pasage, had been beat back with
gales of head wind. . Several vessels were there
waiting a favourable wind.

'A-letter, officially received last week from
bay, states, that on the 29th of July; (7.4 t,
of the CoMpany's Ship of War the Swift, received
requisition from the Resident at, Amboyna, to p'o-
- to the relief of an out-port, named Arno Irangi
• then closely infested by the 'Magindanao Pirates;
their fleet consisted of forty large proas, from wlilch
twelve hundred men had been landed, 444.4 welve
pieces of brass ordnance, of eight and six -pounders.
On the tat of Augusr,. at half past five P.• IVT, the.
savitr came up with thOiiiraticaLflekr. and I.oitaliLty
opened.a cannonade upon them, which continued till
half 'past nine. „Besides the annoyance of the-ene:;
n,y,. Captain 11Ay Es's attention- was imperiously.
called to the critical situation" of -his kessd,
which was surrounded. by islands-and upon a danger-
ous reef: to this circumstance were the vessels. witch
escaped destruftion indebted for their rofety ;' tha
S'wifi, however, captured two ; one she passed over,
and cut in two ; seventeen others were run ..shore;
and about six ,hundrcd,of the enemy are supposed to
have petished during the confliCt. The Company's
Settlement upon the Celebes;
.graaaries:
(ompletely stored; have thus been.prOtiaCti rum the
most serious depredations, by the dispett ion of those
tiring pir:ites, Who,had overrun the Who], ~t the
Sangir Islands, redUced the capital Tairoon to allies,
and carried thence two hundred female cn,,ti ies, be-
sides males, many of whom peridted can th,: occasion._
of this attack ; Pile only of the futmer %vim siveJ
by the 'Sqiiift, and only one of the Pi rate;;
wreck of the Proa, which. had been r.n0,d0n.0.---,
Each of the enemy's vessels cairied...from't,ixy tO
eighty men, one six or eight pounder brass guy for-
ward, besides many *smaller ones, *lit', illiActs,
landeS, &e. On the. ibllowing day Capt. liter",.
returned to Amboyna, where he was at the date of
these advices,. undei orders to convoy the Asia an'
Mau Transports, having. on board the relieved
Troops from Ternate for Madras.

EXTRACT OF A LETTER, DATED DEttP.RARA,
DEC. 2.
" Yesterday the English Flag was hauled down
under a salute, and the Dutch Flag hoisted with the
same ceremon?; never Was sorrow so universe'
amongst the Dutch as well as the English. I asser
you, I felt much affected at taking leave of °Moo
umong whom I have been so long. All:the British
vessels are to be over the Bar this evening."

This morning died, in the;74.th year of his age,
at his apartments in the British Museum, the Rev.
RICHARD PIitiNECK, Reftor of ,Abinger, in Surrery,
and of St. John's, Bermondsey. This Gentleauo
was one of the oldest Officers of the British Museum, .
and was appointed to the situation he held in that
place very soon after its institution.
A very serious disturbance is said to have taken
place at Lyons, occasioned by the very InfirW -11"
.sistance to the execution of the Law respefting th
Conscripts. According to some accounts, „ha;.,
must have been an engagement between the troop 4
and the youths of the town, in which 40.0 f the far,
ter have perished, It is not yet known how far these
reports. may be relied on, but they acquire
probability from recolleting the ferMent which
the law has already stirred' up at Lyons since the
levy of the Conscripts has been announced, and the
precaution_ that was taken to strengthen the garii-
son'tif that city, by a reinforcement oftooo men.
The French GOvernment has excluded from its
National Academy the branches Of declamation and
of political economy, that they may not stir up men
to display their ;reasoning,: or their- sophistry, on
the moss important Tiestions oftegislation,
tics and Administration.. , -