The Sun.
London, England, 1804-03-24 00:00:00

NAP AL, N Ell/ S.

PLYMOVTA, MARCH 7.2.—Arrived the Ship
William, of London, JAm ES THOMPSON master, from
London bound to Jamaica : she was run foul of on
Monday morning last in the Channel; by a large
white-bottomed Merchantman, by which the former
lost her figure head, bowsprit, fore and main-mast,
and suffered other damage.
Arrived the Danish brig Four Brothers, Captain
WINTER, from Longsound, wit!: timber, deals, &c.
for a market.

HARWICH, MARCH 23.—The wind has sudden-
ly changed from the Eastward to the West. The
Earl of Leicester Packet, Capt. THOMPSON, with
Mails for Gottenburg, and the Auckland Packet,
Capt. BRIDGE, with the Mails, and about thirty
passengers for Husum, sailed, with all the outward-
bound Ships, together with the Adder; Censor, and
Ferreter Gun-vessels, and the Suit Cutter.
Remain in the Harbour, His Majesty's Frigate
the Constar.•ce; the Escort Gun-vessel, with the
Hunter and Favourite Cutters; the Swedish Ketch
Resolution, P. SAtrcos, for Dieppe, with iron ; the
Portuguese Brig t'radoe, from Newcastle to Lisbon,
with coals; and the jorge Roelof, from Yarmouth
to Embden, with wine.

The apprehensions which have now been long.
entertained for the safety of the York Man of 'War,
of 6+ guns, we are sorry to say, must be consider.
ably strengthened, by a very large yard, about 60
feet long, and marked with her name, having been
cast ashore a few days ago, at Mill of Mennie, on
the Coast of Buchan.
Three bodies have been cast ashore on the bench
near Aberdeen, supposed to have been on board the
Buxar, of Inverness, lately wrecked at Don-mouth,
one of which is supposed to be that of Mr. RAE, the
master of the vessel. All the bodies were decently
interred in Footdee church-yard.
Extrad of a letter from Whitby, Yorkshire,
Mitch t 7.—" On Thursday a violent storm came
un. About two o'clock in the morning the Thames,
bound from Scotland to London, was miraculously.
saved. At day break 26 other vessels were firing
guns of distress, but no relief could be given them ;
eight of them are entirely lost, the others got off."

A 13111 was yesterday brought into the House of
Commons, to relieve Bankers and others, from the
Penalties to which they would otherwise he liable
uuder the Property Tax At. It was read a first
and second time, and committed fur Monday.
The following are the precise words made use of
on Thursday night by Mr. WI NDFIAM relative to
Mr. Fox :—" The Hon. Gentleman, my Hon,
Friend, as I am sure he :will allow; me to call him,
and as I well may call him on subjects on which we
so generally agree, having commonly found it so
difficult to forbear calling him su on occasions when
we so lately disagreed." •
In the Debate last week nothing could, more
forcibly prove the miserable shifts Mr. ADDING_
TONI the First:Minister of this Country was
drove to in his Defence of the Admiralty, than by
reading two letters from, as he called them, tewo
meritorious and distinguished Ofeers, Captain DAY
and Lieutenant TOOKLEY of the Navy. It is a
question that may very naturally be asked of that
Minister, if Captain DAY is so meritorious as he
describes him to be, why has he not urged or di-
reCted his friends at•the Admiralty to employ him ?
Captain DAY may have merit, but certainly
it is a name very little known in the Service. But
his praise of Lieutenant Tooxecy is still more ex-
traordinary. This naval luminary, this Officer of
such refined and discriminating judgment, he de-
scribes as having been seven years in the Corrimand
of a Gun-boat, where he still remains a Lieutenant.
Does not this appear
,somewhat singular, that a
Lieutenant in the Navy, honoured with the Private
Correspondence of His Majesty's First Minister,
should, not in the course of seven years have done
something to recommend him to promotion ? The
thing is too bare faced to admit of comment. How
will Sir EDWARD PE L LEW be able to look that
gallant body of men the unemployed Qfficers of the
Navy in the face, whom, in the presence of a
British Senate, he has so` unguardedly aspersed ? The
immediate promotion of his Son, which is to take
place, can on cool refleCtion 'be but a very poor
price for the unmerited obloquy he has, in conjunc-
tion with Mr. SLIER I DAN, cast upon all the Naval
Charaders who have the misfortune not to be em-
ployed. Mr. PITT'S Motion has already been pro-
duetive of the most essential benefit, by rouzing the
Admiralty from the lethargy that, with respect to
the defence of the Country, possessed them, though
no one will deny their activity in providing for
their friends and adherents. It is a faCt well
worthy of notice, that at a time like the present,
when business, in an accumulated degree, presses
upon all the Public Offices, that the Admiralty (who
never thwart) instigated precepts to be demanded
from a certiin Office by the Commissioners of Na-
val Inquiry, that occupied every Clerk in the Of-
fice alluded to upwards of three weeks to make them
out. Glorious System of doing business. No,
this was no thwarting!---O, temporal 0, more, !
QUEEN-SQUARE, WESTMIN9TER.—Yesterday a
fruit-woman who attends the boxes of Drury lane
Theatre, was charged with a violent assault on a
reputable tradesman's wife of St. Martin's.lane, on
Thursday evening. The Prisoner had intruded her-
self into a box at the Theatre, occupied by the Pro-
secutrix and others, and not being able convenient-
ly to sell her fruit, she became very abusive; and
charged them With unmannerly' behaviour. Not
satisfied with vociferating her abus'es, she became
more restive, and placing herself against a pillar,
she began to kick the Prosecutrix very violently.
She was ordered to find bail for the assault, in de-
fault of which the WAS committed to Tuthill Fields
Bride well,