The Sun.
London, England, 1804-08-24 00:00:00

CORN EXCH4NGE, AUG. 24.

Titt fresh imporwof Wheat to.day arc iathei.
namerous,with-scveral cargoes of Foreign, and this
trade is noted less' in price,;,,as is Barley and'Ailalt
steady ; Beans •are at "little difference; not having'
many arrival's of Oats, with btit few foreign, or
prime samples,
_c,auses the prices to be. readriy pur-
ported; Flour is in tolerable supply.
Wheat, Os. a Ids. a 755. od Tick Beans, 33s a '395.
Fine do.• ni:.a 795. od Oats, 20. a 275. a 295. od
Rye • 355. a 4c5. cx.l Poland do. , 3os. a 31s. 64 •
Barley 335. a 335. Gd Rape Seed, - 331. a 41.1.;
Malt . 70$. a 745. od Fine Flour, 655. ,a 705. od
White Pease 445. a vs. od I Seconds; - bog. a 655. oti
Beans,. -38 s. a 445. od

On Saturday last sixteen of- the French Prisoners
of Wa`r on parole at Chesterfield, marched from thence
through berby, in their way to France ; they %vitt
stop at- Bishops,Walthato, in Hampshire, a few days,
until the whole who are going upon their parole to
France are &tithed' together froth difterent parrs of,
the kingd ,m, when they will take shipping eit South.
.
ampton and be landed at Morlaix.
Several French Regimenrs that had formerly
served under MokEAu, in Germany, have, under
pretence of a mutinous disposition, been disbanded,
and the men-in them sent to the Colonial depots, or
incorporated with_ Regiments that hid been. in
Egypt. This despotic ad caused a great deal ofmurmuring ; and when BONAPARTE, the night
after, went to the Thbaire at Boulogne, he expe.
rienced proofs of the public opinion,
.such as he
little .expeded, and which caused this. Theatie to
be shut up. The drama of Peter the Great was
represented ; when this Emperor* was announced
by his Heralds, the pit cried .out, Arc Emperor !
no Emperor !" To this 130. N AR Tl 3 paid little
attention ; nor when, in another part, at the ar.
rival of the Prince of the Blood, the pit cried out,
" rive D'Engbien!" but when, in the second ad,
Peter the Great threatens his and brave Gt.
astral LE Font, with Siberia," rive Moreau!" re.
-Sounded' from every pin, the Corsican legit the
Theatre in a rage, and ordered the Public COMET) is.
sacy to surround the house with soldiers, and Lind
out who, the emmissaries of Parr were, that dis.
nuked the. audience, and insulted him by theit
disloyal behaviour, and., seditious acclamations.—
Every person was of course, obliged to show his
pass, or give an accotiot of himself. . .

Wednesday se'nnight . Thomas Warren, many
years pariah-clerk of. Casileton ami (Morrie, was*
found- drowned in the water in the park 'at Sher.
borne Castle, into w!lich he is .supposed, to have
fallen on his return from work the preceding
evening:
On Monday last a woman who resided at or near
Banktop, in Manchester, died suddenly (either
fully' or accidentally), • in consequence, of having
svitallovied a compound of arsenic, &c. which had
been prepared for the destrudionof rats.
Tuesday morning, between the honr3 of twelve
and one, a fire was discovered in Mr. Culls's
cooperages in St. James's Barton, Bristol.' and the
Same evening, about seven o'clock, a fire liroke out
in a house at the Mail, Clifton, but by the assist.
ance of the'military and inhabitants both fires were
prevented from spreading to any 0.1 the adjoining
houses, though the premises, where the fires broke
out were entitely'consumed. , •
Wednesday morning, between three and font,
o'clock, a fire was discovered in the •kitchen of the
Golden Lion inn, at. the top of Dale.street,
pool. The alarm bell was rung, and the St..Ge,,rgo
fire.engine brought, but the fire was extinguished'
Without itoitig other damage than alarming the fa.
ily, sevetal of
,whom leaped through the woutow!,
'Without, however, sustaining any material injury.
A Gentleman. in ESsex, about , 741 years of age,''
was some time ago charged before .a Magistrate, by
his housekeeper, who is about fifty years of age,
with violently attempting to rob her of her chastity,
which she fortunately preserved from the attacks of
the old Gentleman., Swearing positively to these
fa Is, the accused !Kid to bail in the.recogni.
zance of 4.001. to appear to the charge at the next
Chelmsford Aiiizes. •

IdAtisioN.HousE.—james Wood and John (Jot.
tom, two watermen, were, yesterday, brought before
Mdernian CLARK, who sat fur the Lott!) MAYOR,
charged by a Gentleman with taking froiw him
more than their fare. It appeared that on the
morning of the 13th inst. this Gentlethan employed
a boat from the Temple Stair, to convey him
and two Ladies to a Margate boy, then under.

way. which tiley.did not oYertiike until it reached
the New Crane Stairs. The Ladies went on boartl„
and the Gentli.man returned to the Temple Stairs,
`when they charged him eight shillings, whereas'
25. +I. was their fate. He also complained that
there was neither name or number on their boat.
Cottoodenied he WAS a waterman, and said be only
lent his boat to Wood, which was fresh painted.—
They were told they had incurred two or three pc.,
nalties; hut, it being their first offence, they only
paid ten shillings each fur the overcharge, which
Ihey wet: obliged to refund, and pay all the ex.
peaces,

ALEX4NDRI A, (M,TORI6),JuLv 13.

Arrived last eve-‘ the SAlnoner Geverni
Pinang, Capr. l3attttY, from Tri• idad. Sailed on
taph ult, in company with the !rig Sa ly, ToD D,
Of and for BaltiMore. Left severd Northern Ves.
sets, names not recolleCtert, Tw): days after leay.
ing Port, in sight of the harbour of Grenada; Capt.
B. was 'boarded from aTreuCh Schooner Privateer,•
by a Lieutenant and Six.' 'men, armed with ng:
knives,. Whose-conduct and language partook of that.
brutality which is a general charaeteristic of these
Freebooters. The Lieutenant,, after questioning
Captain people as to any money that might be
onboard, rummaged his cabin ;red hold in_search of
it, and thetr robbed,him of a fifty gallon cask of rum
• (his own pioperty), and about Eoolimes; he men.
tinned his intention of breakingopen'a hogshead of
sugar, ;Ina taking out a barrel of it, as a hogshead
wis too heave for his boat; bur while his-hands
Were putting the rum, into the,boat, the man at the
mast head announced a Fleet to windwatd, and-one
Ship bearing down for them, when the Lieutenant
ordered his men into the hoar, telling Captain B. as
he took his departure, that he was then somewhat
in a hurry,, otherwise he would give him an order,
on his Agent at Guadalnupe, for the amount of the
rum he had plundered. During this time Captain
toot), mentioned above, was • compelled to hoist
our his.hoat, and carry a barrel of flour on board
the,Privsteer, for which he received an order on
Martinique,. Captains .BAARY and TODD then
mail Sail, and inn about two hours afterwards Capt.
B. was hoarded by a Lieutenant, of the British Ship
Pa wkly., Of 44. guns, Capt. NASH,.and treated po.
litely. The Lieutenant. informed, that the Fleet,
which was going in to anchor, were twenty-eight"
in number, and from Surioarmand Demerara, hound
to Euglanri, and that they and the. loaded Merchant.

men would sail the following day to join the wind-
ward hoineward bound Fleet, at Sr. Kitt's.- Captains
B. and T. kei,t company until the night of the 221
ult. when they were separated by a heavy squall,
ah 'or three miles to the eastward of Sr. •Eustatia.
Tone 23, at ten p. m. close. under the lee of St.
Martin's, was boarded, from a Dutch Sloop Priva.
teen,' and treated politely. July 8, at two p. m..
spoke the Schooner. Dorchester, of Vienne, Captain
Part..6s, from Guadaloupe, for Baltimore. On the
9,11, they, with two Brigs and four Schooners, came
into the Cape together.

A sean.bhat belonging to Gorran, near Me.
vasissey, was.lately forced on .the rock, when two
men joniped ashore and' were saved, .but five who
remained in the boat were, drowned, in the sight
of a number of'spetlatora, one of whom endeavour-
ing to afford
.assistance, fell over The cliff, and was

Three waggoners were , kille'd last week, in the
County of alset, by negligent, conduit. Two fell
from the shafts on which they were riding, and the
third, by removing the blind 'halter from the head
of one of the horses, occasioned it to take fright,
and run over him:

The remains of John Law, Esq. late a Captain
in the Royal Horse Guards, were on Saturday in-
terred in the burial ground of St. Margaret's, in
Canterbury. The pall was supported by the three
ld-officers, and ,the five Senior Captains of the
Royal Horse Guardsi the other Officers of that
grgiment, together with Major-General Staveley
and his Staff; following in procession..
On 'Wednesday sennight the Earl of P,wis and
{amity arrived at 'Montgomery, and were received
by the inhabitants with every demonstration ut joy,
An ox and a sheep were roasted; and the Volun.
teem, b yth horse and font, were assembled to salute
Isis Lt:rd;;!lip. fi rving spent Bode time in the most:
affable manner among the inhabitants of Montgo-
mery, the noble faintly s. t out far the ancient.fa.
stilly seat, Pol. is Castle, escorted by a party 'of
Cavalry. On Vorden Heath they 'were met by a
detachment Of Cavalry frcm Welshpool, who joined
the eava;cade, and proceeded to Pool, where similar
)icinga took place. The arrival of the Earl, was
the signal foe universal joy. The ancient iiiansion
on-;c. wore assumed its gaiety and hospitality.
1-nr• api of the multi tide, elated with heart.
together with the mi!itary appear.
.711“:c.,..4-: ;he Volunteers, who were assembled. to wd.
conte ,Itint spread around an air of unusual festi.
vity, which extended to all the different villages in
neighbourhood, and the evening closed with
w!nost hilarity and pleasure.
cek the Burgesses of Bishop's-Castle, and
Nnd. tenants of the Right Hon. Earl of
Po, is, dined at Walcor, with his Lordship, who
Weicomd his guests individually as they entered, in
the most friendly and Cordial manner. On this
masion the green-house was,con veriest into a splen.
did refeetory, and the tables literally " groaned
with hi'i)it,ibic food." At. the head of one table
tti; Lordship presided, and on either hand the Hai.
tiff of the Borough artcl Captain Clive, In short,
hospitality and abundance spread 'the board, and
true et•nviittality closed the evening.

Qn W nesifay se'nnight the Justices of the
reace, at Greenock; fined James Mat ray, driver of
the Mail enach.to Glasgow, in one guinea, for the
benefit of the Poor, and grimed warrant to.imirrison
him in the Tolhooth of Greenock until payment
was made, for his wanton and barbarous behaviour,
in lashing and mal.treating a cow in a most unwar.
rantable manner in the streets of Cart's.dyke ;
-serving for farther consideration the amt,unt of da-
mages for the injury the cow may have sustained,
,and the quantum of expences to be awarded.
Last week a mushroom was got:in a field belong.
ing to-Mr. Stringer, of,High Holyland, Yorkshire,
which ineasoled 231 inches in circumference, in
diameter t if inches, and round the stalk 51 inches:
it was pettedly sweet and good.
•A Gentleman who resides in the vicinity of Man.
chect.r has reared a cabbage which weighs .78;b.
and measures five yards and a half in circuinference 1
Query, Where will he fint, a kettle to boil it.in ?
Oit Friday list a man was discovered floating on
the water near Rownham. He appealed to' be a
sea-faring periton, and Must have beta in the water
some days.