The Sun.
London, England, 1804-11-26 00:00:00

CORN EXCIIANGE, 26.

P. have to.day large supplies of all kind of
Calain:• Wheat is heavy sale, and O. per quarter
I.wer, 'but good old and foreign, the little here is
3.. and 4s. more than the currency ; B trley, Malt,
and Grey Pease are cheaper; White Pease are (oh
as dear ; Beans are cheaper,; Oats are 2s, lower,
excepting the fine samples Flour has little variation.
wheat 885 a 1006 a t tos od Beans - 525 a S7s ad
rintdittO - 1143 a rths od Tick Beans 50s a 55s od
Rye (new) . 54s a 605 od Oats 3os a 335 a 355 od
Barley - -48 s a 535 od Poland do. . 36s a 37$ od
Malt - Bts a 875 od Rape Seed - 411 a 441
White Pease Gos a GGs od Fine Flour - ps a 95s od
Gley ditto 545 a 535 od Seconds - . a 905 od

On Thursday the price of wheat, at the market
of Devizes, experienced a 'decline of upwards of
zos, per quarter. At most of the other provincial
markets it has fiuduated but little for the last
fortnight.
About three feet of water has been let into the
London Dock, in order to try the foundation and
cement, previous to its being filled. Every exer.
torn is using towards completing the, wharf, ware.
house, and entrance, so that it may be ready to
receive shipping before the expiration of the year.
This Duck, which ,is 1263 feet by -690, equal to
20 acres, is for the accom►nodatio►n of such vessels,
from all parts (►he East and West India Shipping
excepted), who chuse to use it ; but those loaded
_with tobacco, rice, wines, a►.d brandy, are, by the
AA, compelled to unload in the Dock.
STAMTICAL LAW: MANS, a Di.
reflnr of Buildings to His Prussian Majesty, in-a.
Paper which he lately read before the Academy of
Sciences at Berlin, gives the following comparative
statement of the present superficial extent, poputa.
tion, and number of houses of the undermentioned
Cities

Square Pe, cbes, Population. No, of house:.
London . 1,035,0ce, - 25,000
Paris . . - 1,641.644 - 100,000 - 21,000
Vienna . . 894,03 - a5.,,000 5,000
Berlin . - - 751,1132 - 173,652 - 6,184
St. Pctusburgli 2,112,66$ - 2,2j,000 . 5,000
Stockholm - 468,880 - 794600 - 5,000
Arnaterdam - 46+,831 250,c00 - 7,000
home . t5,86z . 164,000

It thus appears, that at Sr. Petersburg!) each in.
dividual occupies nearly 9 square perches ; at Stock.
holm, 5; Berlin, 4 ; Vienna and Rome, 3 ; Paris
and Amsterdam, 2 and at London, 11.
On Tuesday last Major. Gen. Sir ETIE COOTS,
K. B. left Cork for England. During his absence
the Command Of the Distria devolves on Major.
General CHAMPAGNE.

A severe Shock of an Earthquake has, lately been
felt on the West Coast of Sumatra, in consegnence
of which the Sea inundated the coast for a consider.
able distance, washed ,away several Native Hutsi
and on its retreating, left several of the small
Trading Craft in the Country far, beyond high.
water mark.
A Letter from Madras states, that the Corps of
Militia composed of the Company's Civil Ser-
vants, and other Inhabitants of the Fort and Black
Town, .have been re-established, and embodied on.
der new and irnproved regulations of that Pre.
aideney„
All the Palanquin-bearers on the Frontiers of
Guzzerat, employed by individuals, have been inus.
wed for conveyance of, provisions, stores, &c. to
the Army.
Intelligence has been received at Banal*, at the
date of the last Dispatches, that some Natives of
distinction on the Isle of Bourbon had been arrested
by order of the Government, under suspicion of
treasonable praelices.
We understand that AMR ur Row, Brother of the
PRISIIWA,, has written so 1-16ocatt, proposing an
accommodation between him and SeiNDl4l.ll, but
that the proposition has been indignantly 'rejeCted
by the latter.
We have been favoured with a Copy 9f a Letter
from an Officer in the British Army in Guzzerat,
slated July so, giving an account of the occurrence
which tumour had magnified• into a defeat of one of
out Detachments. The fan was simply this : A
Column of the Army, under the orders of Colonel
MONSON, was led into an ambush in the Mountains
by his Guides ; the pass afforded .great advantage
to the assailants; and their attack was in the high.
est degree ardent and resolute ; but such was the
steady valour of our people, that the Enemy wets
compelled to fly, leaving a great number of killed
and Wounded behind.

A Letter from the City of St. Domingo, dated
27th August, observes, that for two months there
had not been a single arrival there : Several Arne.
ricanYessels had, however, been condemned there
on the most frivolous pretences. One belonging to
BUCHANNAN, and BONSIS, of Baltimaie,
was adjudged a legal prize, because " Mr. BONSIS
is married to a Mulatto woman, and of course must
be a Brigand." Another, having a few barrels of
pork and hams, was condemned, it being allptged,
that the British consider pork and hams as con.
traband." The Letter adds, that the American
Seamen detained at Maragua were perishing from
want, 8o having died within a month.
On Saturday sennight the house of Mr. Bailey
(an elderly Gentleman), at Layton, near Black.
pool, Lancashire, was broken into, and 800 gui.
neas stolen thcreout. The thieves got off undis.,
covered.

A Gentleman, on experiencing a considerable run
of ill luck at a fashionable gaming-house west of
Temple-bar, exclaimed in a paroxysm of rage and
disappointment, Zounds I how is it that I can
never stumble, even by chance, on 'Fortune ?"—A
friend whispered him, 14 The chances here are all
against you—you don't understand the game : rut
your stake in a Lottery ; there the chances are all
equal."—This happened a little previous to the last
Lottery. The Gentleman followed the advice, and
gained a considerable Share of one of its highest
Capitals. Will this Gentleman risk his Prize at
the West End of the Town ? No, most assuredly ;
though he will probably commit a small part of it
to the ground from whence it sprung in order to
reap, by the same kind chance, a still more plenti.
ful harvest. The ground lies due East of Temple.
bar, namely, at Cooper's Hall, where one of the
most capital and inviting Lotteries in the whole
annals of Fortune's Wiwi, curnuienccs drawing in
January,