The Sun.
London, England, 1804-01-27 00:00:00

The 4th Battalion of the Ist Brigade of Pa

shire Volunteers marched into Perth for perinanet'
duty, on Wednesday se'nnight. It is a gratifyifirg,
testimony of the spirit of the Country, that (13/c
Corps marched into quarters' above ;700 strong, .°f
a man being absent, but from sickness either. 96
themselves or their families. Before -entering ti','
Town 'the Corps halted in the Barrack. Yard, vibe.f
they were presented with a vary handsome Stand t,
Colours by Colonel MUIR MACKENZIE, who ad'
dressed them upon the occasion in a neat speech.; -,
ifrot.
Six ComPanies of the Fifeshire 'M 1113,ilitia
oht,
into Morpeth on Monday and Tuesday WOlll 0
to remain there. Four Companies are stationed
Aln wick.
Mr. ERSKINE's opinion, inserted in our Paper 135. t
week, and his reasoning in the recent cause, 10
KING V. DowLEY, have placed the nature of , `',.
Volunteer Service in so clear a light, that it is 04:
prizing to find there are still any doubts on the 50`#
jet. That Gentleman haS fairly illustrated his ate
guments by the express words of the Statutes
.../.
which he referred, and the result is plainly this • je
The Volunteers, under specified descriptions, _„li,
exempt by their Voluntary Service from the Di 1.151-
tia and the Army of Reserve. \then they relinett*:
the Volunteer Service, they lose their exemPtilfik
and.become liable to compulsory Service.l*km-vic
can be more clear, and yet certain Lawyer SAD .
contrived to puzzle themselves and.readers upon ,
subject, as much as if they were attempting to '''' ,
plain, or to comprehend the:PropertyTax Bill. ,
Lieut. RICHARDSON, of the 20th Light D°l,
h
goons, has publicly contradieted a paragraph pith
hot
has appeared in several of the Papers, stating too.
Ire, being in company with several Officers of of
same Regiment, was coniided, 'at- Dorchester' of
riotously assaulting several of the inhabitant: to
that place,. He declares the paragraph allocteutry-,
to be. a malicious libel, originating in a Coo
P.trer. . ,

IV.IPAL NEW

PLYMOVTH, JAN. 25.—Arrived the Pkanix
Frigate from a Cruize ; the American Ship Brutus,
from Bourdeaux, detained in the Channel by one of
Hi Majesty's Ships ; and the Mars, of and from
Jersey, Captain EDWARD FALL, with fish and oil'
bound to Waterford. _
-A Launch, with an Officer and nine Men, said to
belong -to His Majesty's Ship Prince, was this
morning upset in a gale of wind off Cawsand Bay,
and all the Crew unfortunately perished.
,i„ Arrived the Swedish Ship Sophie, PETER MATT_
lON master, from Messina for this Port, with
Wine; and the Favorite, of this Port, Oit_pt. PETER_
EON, from Trinidad.

PORTSMOUTH, JAN, 26.-Arrived Le Hazard
French Lugger Privateer, captured by His Majes-
ty's Sloop of War Speedwell; His Majesty's Ship
Alonzo from a Cruize ; Elizabeth, -----, from
Jamaica ; and a large Store-ship from the East.

'DEAL, JAN. 26.7—Sailed La Seine for Dunge-
'ress ; tke Arab for the Nore ; Bonetta Sloop, for
Portsmouth; and Archer Gun-brig on a Ccuize off
-Boulogne.

Sailcd the Cambrian East India Ship for Ports.
mouth.

• .
In the Downs—the Monarch, Utrecht, Brilliant, Chant-
ion, Autumn, I farpy, Pci.;eqs, Zebra, Speedwell, Starling,
. ack ill, Marirv:r Abinliiice Store-ship, Deptford Lighter.
.V,iizier , Wi:-.Lhetsea, Cirencester, Glatton, East
India Snips. _

BRIXHAM QUAY, JAN. 24..—SinCe my last, at-
riled aißt reul.,:n. the. Minerva,
Guernst CRQcKPR, from
y to S.vanr.ea. Also arrived a lAtied French
Brig, a prite to a Guernsey Privarier ; cannot yet
learn her name. Now coming in, His Majesty's
Ship gairraica, it blowing very heavy every day to
the Southward and Westward, accompanied with
continual rains, such as was never before remember-
ed by the oldest ichabitant. The Nemesis Frigate
yesterday sailed for Portsmouth ; but she being
:ntpely, bad sailer that a great part of the copper
fiOm her bottom is stared, and the wind backening
to the South:yard she prudently bore' u for the
lay again in the night ; but this morning •
g it start_
llisr to the Westward, she was of again : I hope
she will weather Portland, as it is come round to the
Southward again, and blows very heavy,

CORK, JAN. 20.-The Experiment, homward--
bound East Indiaman, Captain CARNEG/E, four
Months frum Btnnbay, and nine weeks from St. He-
lena, arrived at Cove on Wednesday last. Among
the Passengers on hoaranddand are General PRINGLE)
f
ur days
before she arrived, which may be therefore
expeded daily. The
yet sailed. West India Convoy have not
The arrival of out Bantry Charier has not offered
'any fre:h information,
Meer respelling the Squadrl ' at
h,ven. The ;,rrive,l of the Argus Sloop of War,
Camden anti Sp ll
iron s eect-tuer:nters, .a-r
the only v aria-
ince Obit ILA accounts.

GLA.StOW, 23.--The- greater part of the
~Id.bu.J(l Let,iv,, tit Lland• Fleet, belonging
TO Clvdt. at-Jived safe. The Dart, Elbe, and
ctuetted.
.RiEterd,:m have not tome into port, but are hourly

txt,.ad of ..........
one of the a Letter from the Captain of the Isabella,
Lee-ward Island Fleet, to his Employers'
r Glasgoiv. bated, Gourock Bay, 22d January
1 30.4.•
`-Wi" I ' waisSeparateci from the convoy in aal
nd from iht dace Westward eof
, .on. the g 2.3111 Olt, and
illa
orith-'Vnce encountered strong North ' East aod
. East winds, in which the Isabella. has suf-
...ota l an--ty ih her sails and rigging, and that not
ittlyklirionslya
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' tC ,
, I yesterdny morning, in the Sound of the Re.
eneties, fell in with the Itlercry, Wo.obs, of Li.
verpool iz ,
vid''''n 1"(1 lost the c,mvoy at the same
time that I did and was .in company with the
Dart and Deer several days afterwards, but
parted from them in a second gale, in which the
illeratry • suffered much, having had her quarter
stove in by a. sea, and every thing, (companions, I
erc.) squared with the deck, and three of the crew 1
Washed overboard..
• " The undermentioned Vessels were in the Con_
the day before I parted, apparently all well, in
lot. 407 •21: long. 36. W.
t ebyseorral:onclon, Berwick, W.e1r.711, Lord teaforth, on boar,d;
Ittr, liiii.. uis Two kr4:nds., —;
.Mary, Thomson; Yv •
couri„ Dwveen.lh; 7.-7. ;'Soveretra, —.; 'Alert •_-_-o—e;.
uetts.ethe
sett ; Perseverance,
Nile' ikte._____Lltiribti.Bleveo;ckford, ;
.t,r,11..., R
..,s.s
Ceres, ; .ah-rcury,r:,
.4 ntt and
, Afills.
Captains D
ker, Agoon
Mercury:
For Lveiveserpitolli—amßaersbaudloikesnol''ariel
w00,i3 . , )arn, Siddons . Van Guard, ;
zi,,, - , Alchymist ' ' ~,, •s ; Bachus, —;
-- several c • , -----; Ann, male
_
para..
__!utneamen, names unknown. For Lancattq-or
I.),l4>junu.Lstio:l.rt ;. Fortitude, Donald; Tliornas, —. Y____
1E111", 'eresll' -----, ; Ann, Crawford. for Guerne.yto.
---..0n • the' ,_.- ~e sit)o Specul^tion from Sr. Kat s _
' still) of • , ~" 11 Dublin, lost the
convoy on the t6the, irual .ottOaa to l),Lealber."
.
.
.7-7.....,.____
The
Ri° ArGva)fronl J;imaica, is arrived at Cowes.
She sailed from T ; the. Cum.
Jamtica under Convoy of
Berland
6f War ; but afterwards separated from
ben'
Durang the nio Noz.;(i's passage through the
crookedlslands, she fell in with the Theseus, of 74
vntiii Prl, jit
,:Ca. BLIcH, belonging to Admiral Doevf—
'tiet'Squadron, with a large French Frigate 'in
_
cciiiiPhtot;''Whielt she. had captured.
La 'Creole French litigate, of 44 guns, formerly
Bing to the St. Donain o
Squadron, which was
captured with soo soldiers g on board, by Commodore
BAYNTON'S Squadron in iul Royal (Jamaica •y last, sailed from Port
) bound tor England, in company
with the Cumberland .11.1 r) of War, and h
erConvoy ;
but in, conseqaencc of rneetinz with very severe
gales, she became so leaky that it was necessary to
destroy her.

The H"'
Ca-Pt` Cl.- "Y is Rivointed to command
11'‘ ko)al Charlotte Yacht, in the room cf Sir HAIL

.
RY NE LE.; And to tltt edraMarid. Of' the Seve•:ii
Lighters and Boats that have heenfitted for the de-
fence of tit entrance of the River Tiiwrws. Capt.
FooTE succeeds to the command of the Princess
Augusta Yacht.
The Prospero Bomb Vessel, at Woolwich, is to
be fitted for immediate service. Capt. HUMPH RI ES
is to have the command.

His Majesty's Gun-brig Vixen, Lieut. P. BROWN,
commander, has sent into Newcastle a Prussian Ves-,
sel, called the Nov,/ G,,artigt, JOl3 D E WF: FS E, master,
which he captured on the t Ith inst. about two miles
from HuntclifF Foot, 'on the Yorkshire Coast. She
has on board 300 half ankers of-Geneva, but had de-
livered part of her cargo before she fell in with her.
The crew, ten in number, have been delivered to the
Civil Power, who have committed them to the house
of Corredion, until they receive orders froth the
Alien Office as to their future disposal.
On Sunday se'nnight the Brig Jason, of Brid-
lington, loaded with oats and: lentils for London,
went on shore at Great Cowden, on the Holderness
Coast, during a heavy gale of wind, amiLht a dread-
ful surf, which made a tree passage over the Vessel,
by which the Captain was unfortunately washed
overboard ; the rest of the crew saved them,
selves in the rigging. A few hours after, the body
of the Captain was found and c.lriveyed to Bridling.
ton for interment. The Jason only sailed from
Bridlington the Saturday night preceding this unfor-
tunate accident. Her cargo is now delivering,
without having sustained much damage.
•

The Henry, BRADLEY, from Atrica to the West
Indies,- is captured an: carried into Quadaloupe ;
had two men killed aria seven wounded.

The Scorpio/7, Capt. DAGG, from the South Seas
bound to London, is arrivtd at Sr. Helena, with the
Ganges and Cyrus, tw French Whalers, which-she
captured.

A Sailor has been discovered on board the B/old-
bowie/Gun-vessel, at who is strongly suspeft-
ed of having been concerned in the murder of the
Officers of the Hermivre Frigate, in the West Indies.
Upwards of Soo Convicts take their-,passage in
the Inconstant Frigate, Capt. DICKSON, who have
been pardoned on condition of being transported to
the Settlement at Goree, on the coast of Africa.
The East-India Company have lately made some
regulations relative to the qualificationt of persons
to be appointed Mates of Indiame!),, the pure -at of
which may be acceptable to our Readers :—A Chief
Mate must attain the full age of twenty-three years,
and have performed a voyage to and from India or
China, in the Company's service, in the station of.
Second or Third Mate. A Second Mate, t wenty-
two years, and have performed a like.voyage as
Third Mate. A Third Mate, twenty-one years,
and have performed two. similar voyages. And a
Fourth Mate twenty years,,and have performed one
voyage of, not less than twenty months, or one
shorter voyage, and one year in actual service in
any .oilter employ.
NAUTICAL DISCOVERY. A Gentleman has
just invented- a Floating Battery upon a new prin-.
ciple, and which by a mechanical process, m'ay be
sent to any given poi ca not exceeding two miles
and a half in distance, and there discoarge ail its
guns in any dire&ion at the sam moment, ,with-
out the assistance of human i.,ericy. One of
these Floating Batteries may he r. .ichcd to eN ery
ship, so that if wc nave ten cruizers off Boulogne,
or any other dept, each ship can scud one of these
Batteries into the enemy's harbours, and the guns
may be brought to bear on the town, or gun-boats,
at pleasure. Supposing the numhcr of Batteries
sent to destroy the flotilla be ten, and on
board each are four twenty-four pounders, the Cle
strudion they would occasion would be incalcul-
able. What adds to the value of this contrivance
is, that when the guns have fired, the Batteries will
return instantaneously to the place from wilt:tree they
sat out, and on their being reloaded they will return
and go through the same process as before. It is
necessary to add, that the calculation of distances
must be taken in the day, and the Batteries sent out
in the night.

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A striking instance of the disinclination of the
Dutch towards their GAllic oppressors, is afforded by
the following circumstance, which is stated to have
occurred within • these few days DutCh' Ship
employed to carry several thousand stand of arms
from one port to another, no sooner got out of the
reach of the batteries upon the coast, than she steered
for England,, and is now in the Thames, with the
whole of the Cargo.
We are told that to have taken possession of the
Spanish Galleons " would have been to imitate the
conduft of the last Administration with respea to
Ireland, where men were arrested and imprisoned on
suspicion of being suspeaed." . This false and des-
picable attack upon the last Administration chews
the cloven foot of Irish jacobinism.—We are sorry
to find that the W riters in favour of the present
Ministry think they please their employers by
abusing the last. But perhaps 'the Irish Jacobin
who wrote the silly and malignant article alluded
to, obeys the impulse of his own feelings' upon „this
occasion, and' is mourning over the loss of some
Irish Reformers who were not only. arrested and
prisoned, but hanged for their revolutionary =dil-
-1 nations.

By a letter from Scarborough, of
.the Isth, we
learn, that the weather has been uncommonly tem_
pestuous during the last week ; five sail of ships were
sunk there-close to the harbour, all laden with coals ;
but happily zio lives were lost. Great numbers of
dead bodies, however, continue daily to be thrown
on shore by the wages along the whole coast.

In the storm of yesterday se'nnighr, a large tree
was blown down at Alvaston, neatiMftiy, which
fell across the turnpike-road; three of 'the London
stage coaches met within a few minutes, one of
which had just passi!d, and the other two were un.
'avoidably detained upwards 'cif an hour, until the
tree could be cut and removed.

The pork butcher, of Whitecross-street, ulto was
some time since convided at the Old Bailey, of
manslaughter, and the term of whose imprisonment
lately expired, was so much 0110ted on returning
to his former rcgidencf., as tu it but a single
week.

!qui L, lAN. zoo

, the._ t rth instant 'toe .bitigent Sic)* jose'ry:
LANCASTER master, from Woolwich, arrived here,
with 2.44ounder iron giins,- grapei'ease, and round
Shot, and upwards . of. one hundred,ban-els of pow:.
der, appropriated for :the prOteftion of the South
end of this town (immediately facing the passage
of:the Humber inwards)! and at which Fort they
will be placed in a short .time.
On Tuesday last, the r 7th instant] the brig Four
Frivids, WILLIAM ,STAFF, Master, arrived here,
(also. from Woolwich, and other' military depots)
deeply laden syith ordnance stores of every descrip-
tion, viz. sixty iron guns and carronades, about
306 bari-els. of powder, large quantities, of grape,
case, and round shot, and a great number of strung
and well-made 'pikes, fur the the of the boats of
the Sea-Lncibles, and others now fitting out. at this
Port, to ad in and below the Humber ; also many
articles for garrison service, as well as fur the troops
in the Yorkshire distrift. Indeed, stores of this
description are almost constantly arriving at this
Garrison from the South.

The Farr Fiqends has also brought; for the use
of the Park of Artillery (which is now very con.:
siderable) a great number of large shells, of a pe-
culiar cOmitrudioni quite new ; they are entirely
filled with carbine balls, and have, when put into
use by means of strong powder, a most tremendous
and destrudiVe eff:a.•

On Thursday night a tremendous gale came on
at this Port, from the South East. Two stoops
were sunk in the Humber; at the South end, and
another off the Long Jetty. - During the night a
considerable part of a house bailding in Osbourne_
street fell down ; and some other buildings in and
about this town, have received trifling damages.:
We are happy to say, we have not yet heard ac_
counts of any considerable mischief at. sea:

DISTURBING DIVINE WORSHIP. •-

THE prevailing praetice of disturbing Divine
Worship, in consequence of idle and dissolute"
youths, and children of both sexes, assembling in:
church_yards, in several distrids of the Metropclis;'
has bec,nie an evil of considerable magnitude:
With a view lo,sheck this indecorous and repre_
hensible practice, the Chapel Waden of the Church.
of St. Ma7garet's, in the Bro.aJway, Westminster,
obtained a warrant against a youth who comalitteo an.
assault upon him in the execution of his duty, in
preventing offences of this nature,, which was heard
before the Magistrates at the Public-Oa-ice, Qncen-
square, who explain4d to the delinquent the great
severity of the punishment which must follow ct.n.
viftiorl tor this specie, of assault ; namely, that, the.
vjender should, besides excommunication, have his
ears cut of, vr his or her cheek narked 'with a hot

Iron.
On account of the youth of the offender., and on
his discoveri-ig great. contrition, and .a,:kitig p4rdon
for the offence he hid cotnmitted, and rtceiving a
suitable admonition from tie Magi•itt ices, tt,e
Chapel Warden humanely,' pros ed tir,p d.e rfo.
secution ; on condiLion, howe%cr, that u should be '
made public, as a warning to parents in.general, to •
attend more pariicull: ly to the murals and be-
haviour of their L:ii.drcit.

THE Tli H ATRE.--1 he Comedy eritith-d A 777;_p
to Scarbo,o', altered from The OrFirzne iu
Danger,. was represented last wi t .11'ury-taie
Theatre. The charaCter of Miss ..'-loyari.n is one of
those• .arts hich they WhO do not admire
JORDAN in genteel Ciimedy•rinis't oWn'attirds her
an Opportunity of displaying tatent's Wiiiol defy
competition. Nothing indeed Could be more spirited,
humorous and charaCierisiic than her performance list
night. The audience were -delighted through the
whole of her acing, and gave her such warm ap:.
plause that we hope it will i,nduce her more often
to resort to that province of the Drama in -which her
chief eiccellence The House, though
not crowded, i
The new Opera of. The English Flat; and The
Review, or the,Wags.of Windsor, drew a numerous
audience to Covent garden Theatre laSt night: In
the latter piece, WADDY! for the first time, per-
formed the. Part of Ma&-wolter. This ~v!s one of
joitNsTONE's best charafters, and nny other actor
must appear to comparative disildvantage, in folloWi-
ing so good a repreientative of. Irish characters
but it is but justice to WADD•i' to say he. acquitted
himself' very, reqeaably, and received. consideraVe
applause.
- Mr. GRAHAM, the Police Magistrate, has suc-
ceeded.to.che Trusteeship of Drury. Lane Theatre,
vacant by the death of Mr. BIGC IN. Mr. GRAIIAM
has shewn so much zeal for .the interests
,of that
Theatre, and ability in .the arrangement of its con-
cerns, that a more proper person could hardly have
been 'chosen:

It bas.been said that Carlo begins to be tired of
ObScurity, and pants again for public applause. flis
benefit will of course be deferred till the idog.k4T.

Though Lady E. BurLt R. and her' fair ASs;;eiate
may be driven from their beautiful:retiriment in
Wales, they have friendship enough to resider any-
seclusion equally-,Pleasing, and their taste will soon
give a new direftion to the charms of Nature in any
other place. The fervour and perseverance of this
friendship is equal to any thing that we read of in
romance.

' The last account's from Thilldelphia give a li't7
mentable'account of Dr. I.3lllTl.,'El't Whose
Orion was so reduced, that he was expetfted i 6 live
but a short time longer, ,The scientific researthes
and literary talents,q&ktihis Gentleman most excite
the 'regret of all the 6iends of learning, that "his
mind should have taken such an unluCky
with respect to politics. • There are few literary
charaaers of this Country, whose prodktioni have
been so multifarious.

The following is an exa& manuscript n:.te,writ,
ten by a German Bookseller to one of his Antburs :
I have just received half a dozen lean English
oflavos, which yoU must fatten up to as many guar-
to3, for the Lcipsick-Fair. I send you a large quan.
tity of paste, -with a new pair of