The Sun.
London, England, 1804-10-09 00:00:00

Iran.o.lfire, OR. 6, tBo4.

iSth Regiment of Foot; Captain Alexander Henry to be Ma.
jor,,without purchase, vice Wallace, promoted-in the-toth
Battalion of Reserve.
59th Ditto, Captain lames Stephen Snell, froth the 15th Eat.
cation of Reserve, to he Captain- of a Company. joint
Shapland, Gent. to be Ensign, withoutpurehase.
71st Ditto. Captain Gabriel Buret, from the Canadian Fen.=
chiles, to be Captain of a Company.
'72,t1 Ditto, Lieutenant john Grant, from Half-pay.of the 16th
• . Foot, to be Lietitenant, he • having paid the difference lie
received on retiring • to Halt-pay. . Ensign Charles !tines,
from Half-pay of the 16th Font, to be Ensign. David
Home, Cent. to be Ensign, without jiuretia.;e.
82U Ditto, George Orr, Gent.' to be 'Ensign, without pur-
, chae. • ,
87th Ditto, Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Meller, from
the 81st Foot, to be Major's'. vice Sir E: Butler," promoted.'
Captain William Augustus lilakeney to be Major, vice Gif-
ford,_prOmmexiiir the 43d Foot. _Captain George 1V hite
to be Major. Ensign Samuel Ridd, twin the 6th Battalion
of Reserve,*to-be- Ensign, without purchase. Edward
rill, Gent. to be ditto. - _
88th Ditto, Mark HoWatd Drummond,. Gent. to be Ensign,
without purchase.
.89rh Ditto, Cornet William jervoise, -from the 13th Light
Dragoons, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Scott, who
retires.. .
To be Ensigns—John M. Dillon,,Gent. William Sherlock,
Gent. Charles Coated, Gent. Quarter-master Philip
Bass, from the will Battalion of Reserve.
gist Ditto, David Bewina , Calif. to be Ensign. Malcolm •
fil'lntyre, Gent. to be ditto.-
92d Ditto,_ Lachlan Campbell, Gent. to be Ensign, without
purchase, vice Nl'Laglilan,' whose Appuintment has not
taken place:
9ith; Captain Broadlo Grant, from the 92d Foot, to be Cap.
tail, at a'Confpany, vice Charles_ Campbell, deceased, Se-
cond• Lieutenant lames Travers to be Fiist. Lieutenant.

cond Lieutenant iVilham 'fallen to befirst Lieutenant.
96th Ditto, To be Ensigns Second Lieutenant George
Armstrong, from Half-pay of the zist Foot. Quarter.
master john Dowland, from the 67th ditto. Alexander
`Al'Donnell; dent:
sth West India Regiment, Saunders Gore, Cent.' to be En.
sign, without purchase,' vice Burnell, promoted in the sth.
Foot.
6th Ditto, Ensign Isaac HOdgins. from the 2sth Foot, to be
Ensign, without purchase, vice Goodall, removed to the
1st!) Foot. .
7th Ditto, Augustus Yielding, Cent. to be Ensign, without
purchase, Vice Camden, whose Appointment has not
taken place.
3d Batt:llion of Reserve, Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas
Bradford, from Half-pay of the late Nottingham Fen.
cibles, to be Major, vice Fraser, reniuved to the 6th Ye.
teran 'Battalion. : Lieutenant lames Fitzgerald Massey,
from the 96th Foot, to he Captain of a Company, vice
Leggatt, removed to the 19th Foot. Ensign William Gil.;
land, trumliall- pay of the 4111 Regiment of the late Irish
Brigade, to be Ensign, vice Eagar, promoted in theist
•
4th Ditto, Captain john Dalrymple, from the cti Foot, to
be Major, vice Ihmilton, removed to die ,Royals.
sth Ditto,,l.ientenant ',ratios %auto+, trom the 57th Foot,
to b, Captain of a Corripany, vice Young, removed to the
21 at Foot. Lieutenant Albert D'A l ton, from the Bsth Light
Dragoons, to be Captain of a Company, vice Renny, re-
. moved tc.tne 71st Foot.
- To be Lieutenants—Ensign John Armstrong, from the 49th
't, vice Sibbald, wno resigns Ensign Alexander I.
' Reel, from the 6th Battalion of Reserve. Ensign Robert
Henry
.W .al, ;NM the 4oth FOut.
To he Ensigns-- John NPLauchlan, vice Brotherton, who re-'
• signs. W. B. Fairman. Gent. vice Nl' Donald, supersed-
ed. Ste .iiian Hartman, Gent. vice Buchan, removed to
• the 7151 foot.
lath Ditto; Captain Francis H. Doyle, from Half-pay of
the late ioSth Foot, to be Captain of ,a Company, vice
Haantield, disinksed the Service.
• 6th Royal VcldUlt Battalion, hl.jor Simon Fraser, from
the 3d, Batrali:.n pt. Reserve, to be Major, vice Rose, who

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retiFes'on lialtzpay of the late Nottingham Feneible;,
7th Ditto, Captain lames M'Kunaeltie, from the, 86th Foot,
to .e Captain of a Company, vice Christie, shoved to
the oth Foot.
York Rangers, Major Charles Donelan, from time 624 Regi.
meat, to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Millet, removed to
the gotti Foot.
lki.jor Lowe's Corps, Captain Paoli Morati, from Half-pay
of late Corps, to be Captain, vice Lord Pelham Clin-
ton, removed to the toth Foot.
HOSPITAL STA F F
F+►' the Foreign frop4 In the Serviced" Great Brltalle.

Dr. Lewis Vebturne to be Chief Physician and Inspedor of
HosPitais. Surgeon Mtn Baptiste Weer to be Surgeon.
Surgeon Charle Hafiwig to be Surgeon, vice Wetter, ap_
point/xi to the Kluges German Legion, SurgeOn Joseph
rholon to, be Apothecary. Lewis Bcilatitunt,'Gent. to
be Deputy Purveyor.

IRLMOII ANDUM.

Assistint.Surgenn William Hamilton, of the lac. Battalion of
Reserve, is superseded, being absvric without leave.

Exit ATV xi in the Gazette of the Bin ultimo.
56th Regiment of foot—For Geurge Watson, Gent. to he
Ensign, read, Miles Frederick Watson, Gent. to be En-
sign.

Ordnance Office, OR. 4, 1804.
kyal Regiment of Artillery. '
Gentleman Cadet• eorbes Macbean to the Second Lieutenant,
vice C. Nlitchell, promoted. Gentleman Cadet Robert
. Newland to be Second Lieutenant, vice W. Miller, pro.
'tuned. Gentleman Cadet Wm. Stoptorci to be Second
Lieutenant, vice 1..' Evans, promoted. Gentleman Cadet
W. Oldham to be Second Lieutenant,
.vice R. 13. Hunt,
promoted. Wm. H. Cockburn, Gent. to be Secoud
Lteutenant,vice C. C rut tendert, promoted.—They are dated
spit September, 1804.

Commission: signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Kent.
Lath of Sera, 1/oluttteert.
Benjamin Walker, Gent. to. be Lieutenant. Dated August
as; above.
Commission 3; William Binh,-Gent, to be Ensign. Dated
Commission in the Dorsetshire Militia, signed by the Lord
L;eutenant. •
Ensign Frederick Layton to be Lieutenant, vice Humby, re-
signed. Dated August 20, .1804. Ensign George Sills to
he Lieutenant, 'vice llissett,, Jun. rcsigned. Dated Sep-
teMbei IS, 1804.
Commistiont signed by the. Lotd Lieutenant of the County of
Dorset.
ist Battalion o/ Dose Poltotrwrs.
.Alexander Cunningham, Esq. to be Major, vice. Hawker, re-
signed. Dated September 15, 1804.
3d Banaliot of Dorset Volunteer:. -
Samuel-Boswell, Esq. to be Captaio, vice. Cunningham,
promoted.. Dated September 22, 11104. William Bites,
i;ent. to be Ensign, vice Boswell, promoted. Dated Sep-
tember as, 1804.
Commissions signed ly the Flee Lieutenant If the County rf
Southampton.
The Battalion of the Bourne.
Lieutenant William N nurse to be Captain, vice Luke Dillon,
resigned. Datk.ll September z 7, 1304. •
Print: if New Forestßangers.
Francis Evans, jun. to be Second,Lieutenant. Dated ScP*
Wilber :A, ;804
•
,?grab Hants Yeoman; y
Pim Wilton, • Gent. to be Cornet, vice Lharles Kingsley,
promoted. Dated September at, 1804.
FareL am and Titehfield Sallalivi of Volunteer Infantry.
Richard William Missing, Esq. to be Adjutant, with the
Brunt Rank of Captaiu. Dated September 6, 494.

Crweem-Offet, Sept. 6. 1804.

MEMBER RITUITIED TO haltlrit SN THIS PAESENT

PARLIAMENT.
Coutify of Warwick.
Charles Morrlauut, Esq. in the room of Sir George Augustus
Wiliam Shuckburgh Evelyn, Bart. decesaid.

The Canna flexagoniii, a plant mare rare than
the An,,ericad Aloe, and which has seldom been
seen to tainaom in this Countty,, is now in bloom in
the priirns of Mr. Gould. Smith, at Blandturti.

AT our Sessions this day, a young man was tried
for an assault on two Officeis hetunging to the
Ringwood Volunte,rs, and fluted pi. and 'himself
in bond 0f.203.. to keep the peace, with sureties
of 2001. more. •

Roasting pigs and geese have been so plentiful
this week, that the former sold at 4,•. 6J—weighing
tz.h. ,and the latter at an average 3N. 6J. each.

A poor young creature, alervant, at Petworth,
a few days since put a period to her life, in the
pond in the Park. It is supposed the cookie,: of a
tooli:veihr d lover was the cause.

Lest week, the female servant of a Gentleman in
Radnorshire, delivered herself privately of an ilie.
gitimate child ; and, horrid to ieiate, nearly sever•
ed its head from the body. She is now conOned in
her mdster's.house until her recovery, when she
will be removed to Presteign GioLn
On Thursday morning, about four o'clock, a
fire Was discovered in Mr. Parr's gun warehouse,
Argyle-sircet, Liverpool, which raged with un.
common violence; the %I/tux building is destroyed,
ILA by thinly assistance,, no I ot.ter injury was Lth..

On Saturday ae'nnight a fire was discovered in a
dwetling.tiouse, in Bwidgate.street,•AlriWick, and
notwithstandirg the greatest exertions used by the
neighbours, four. tiGuses occupied by Mr. William
,Davison and others, were,entirely consumed. The
fire is stated so have originated the following
manner : a woman, who eccupied one, of the 'lonics,
had gone out for w aid had locked her two
children (one between-fiveand six, and the other
about two years old) in' her room, in which were
some corn that she had 'gleaned it ; and it is supposed
'that the chiltirel, playing with a lighted stit:!,., had
Let fire to ti.e straw, One of the ceighbours soon
atter discovered the Kitties, broke- open. the doOr,'
and luckily got the little ones, safe not, Captain
Bell,. with a party at his Company of Percy ,Tenant„.
ry, and Captaii. Kober, with a party of his company
of the Royal Cheviot I_,e6kn, rendered much assist.
ance ; and alter. the, fire was got ut,&r, they
mounted guard al!ernattly uytil nine o'clock on
Sunday' mar ring ; Lord Percy was also at the heed
Caen
of his
en tooth two titglotk.

Coutiom.—A, several persons are in the habit of.l
Icting their children drink out of tea.pors, she
following occurrence, which happered in Butimio,
on Winitay last, will, we h pe, deter thtm from
doing so in future : a child, spout two ye'ars
being very thir,ty, and seeing J tea-Rot standing
on'the table (unconscious of *6'4, water it contained
being boiling hot), snatched it up anti drank so
much as to occa,ton itslieath.on the day following.
At Crawley Fair, last week, there was a very
large show o; %Wish and Deyonstiiie cattle, which
sold, upon the average, at full sixpence per stone
cheaper than cattle of a similar kind the preceding
week at Egdean. The Fair was well attended,
but i'considerable,portion of the stoct:.. was never.
the:e,s driven away unsold.
On Wednesday in digging the foundation for a
stew h. use, building. ',tor Bristol, by C. Catring.
ton, Esq. for his Steward, Mr. Dowding., an earthen
urn was dug up, containing a quantity of silver,
coins, in beatititnl preservation, of &man and Ro.
Man kings 3, and which had lain, to every appear.
since; 600 years buried in the earth.
On Friday two 'Bleu belonging tct the Disck at
P Oat, lodging an 111 C Wile room, one robbed the
o. ner 4271. drawing the pocket-book out of his coat
pocket that was under his head; bought clothes inMon.
inouth.siteet, a watch at Temple Bar, and gave al.
to his landlady as a present, out of the poor man's
Money ; since which he, has been apprehended, but
with very little of the property about him. He has
been examined hefoll Magistrate, • but is to ap-
pear 'again for a full investigation. • -
A deperado, named Pritchard, alias Price, who
.was to have been arraigned at Norwich on Tuesday
as a 'vagrant, contrived to effect his escape front the
Bridewell of that City on the preceding evening in
a curious mantwr :—He forced off the staple of the
wicket belonging to his cell, and putting his hand
through, picked the padrock. He then went op.
'stairs, and picked another kik ;•after which he,
tote' up his sheer, and letting himself down from'
the roof into the yard,' escaped without deteiftiOn.
As the•utmost cater had been taken to deprive him
of any instrument,, it is supposed he must have
.picked theloclo, &c. with nothing but a nail.
On Tuesday' the 18th alt. ad Inquisition was
:taken at Patton, in the County of Bedford, before
William Whitworth,. Gent. Coroner for the said,
County, On view of the. body of Luke Astwood,
an infant,' who fell into a milk.pan filled with
boiling water, and was scalded to death. 'Verdict:
.!---eiecidental Death.

DIED,
On Sunday morning last; Mr. John lames; of Plaistow,
Essex, at the :a4l%,,nced itge of 89 years.
tiethe yeilciw tc ver, uniter passage home from St. Do-
mingo, aged 23, Mrs. Blake, wife of Captain George Blake,
of the 44th Regimeni
Madam NI acctonal..t, wife of the General of that. tunic, and
daughter w semonville, Ainhassador at the Hague, aged
$2, She was first married to Geburai loubert, •who was
101 w at the battle of Novi.

Uu Tuvbctity ia,t, Mrs. Lewis, wife of Mr. David Lewis,
j in. of Ciirtnethui. The ciriui►►:.t:u,ce that occasioned her
(tv.ith is trill,- reinarkalik, as w.,11 is lan►enrahlu 31ic dreamt
►t►at she met.witb tWu mon t;arrying a coffin, and inquiring
win. the coffin was fur, th..y,iepliedi it was tor her, Tt►:.s
such an elfed on her mind, that it brought tin a,miScar—
;Ako, tvh►ch tenni►►ated het. life.

Bank Stock, shut
VAVy s per Ct. F,9.1
$ NI cent. 1797, s4tt
I ri4h 5 per Ct. shut •
4 pcf Cent. shut _

Ifink L. Ant. shut
Ditto Snort Ann.
Excheci. 11,11 s, is. iks.
Outn►u:n, 6 pr. '
I inperidi 3 per Cent.
D;tro Ann.. _

v,l- Cent. Red. shut
3 per et,•Ccms. 57i 57

Con. iot t 6 ma. 57i

4ARKETS,

IN MARK-LAME,
tst.tA.s, Meal Weighcrs, •
6f Sept. to the 29nt of Sept:
the new' Ad.
:57 Quarters at 67.4 oct
too ---- at 66s 'od
5 t
So t al
toe) od
71 •—•••---- at liza 0(1
. 334 -- Qd •
153 --- at ifis •441
3°
Z,
2 t • 54, 45,1
too
39 at 5t.; od
at say od •
t6t at 46s CAI
--average Its. sd.
h.tn last geturn.