The Sun.
London, England, 1803-01-31 00:00:00

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ALL the merchant.vessels bound to the East.
ward, which sailed on Friday, put back yesterday,
Owing to cgntrary wind ; they sailed again this
afternbon, but are now coming back again.
Arrived the Fame, ADAM WH ITE master, from
Botodeaux bound for Leith, with wine, brandy,
and other merchandize ; and Camel, Cox, from
Guernsey.
Sailed the Roth:a, POTTER, for Greenock.

Tin Hon. East India Company's Ships Harriet,
Sir Stephen Luthin gton, and Cumberland, came
down this morning from the River, and the Harriet
remains;' the other two Ships have proceeded 'for
India;

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Til E tar;n, Swedish ship, Captain SOVELINS,
which was driven on shore in the late gale of wind,
has been got off with little damage, and her anchors
and cable 3 having been replaced, she .willsail the
first fair wind. The Patriaten, Captain BUILtT
°CART) richly laden, has also got her damages re_
paired, and only waits a fair wind to proceed on
her voyage to Havre de GraCe.
A box of Surgeon's' instruments ..has..beeti driven
0T shore on this island, supposed-to come:figm the
liindostan, as has also that ship's bowsprit.

Shag of
NEVILLE is appointed to the liort Mahon
of War, vice GROSSETT.
11le Brunswick, of 74 guns, is taken into Dock-
atPortsniouth, to be repaired for Commission.
The Superb, a new ship of 74. guns, is ordered
for enmmission.
On Monday last arrived in Leith Roads, the
Clyde Frigate and Harpy Sloop of War.'
Letters from the Blenheim, of 7+ guns, Captain
towEit, state her arrival at Martinique, after a
pleasant passage of one month. Commodore HOOD
proceeded in the Ulysses, with the other Commis.
notices, for Trinidad, to fulfil the funlions of .their
office.
The .Alcnrche Frigate, Capt. STILES, was paid off
on Friday, at Portsmouth, and re.coinmissioned.
The Aire, from the South Seas, is arrived at Mil,
ford, and brings advice that the Aurora, MERRICK,
from London, which was taken by the Spaniards in,
the Paciik Ocean, and carried into Valpatazo, is
given up, she having been captured after the .time
Stated by treaty:
J. Copeland, surgeon ; J. Carr, gunner; and J.
Lewis, seam.in, of the I'l4i/id:hip Slave:ship, were
executed at Barhadoes on the NoVember, for
an ad of Piracy, in having attempted to seize and
carry away the Vessel, on board of which they were
employed:

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The 'Baran. Mantalembar siave-ship was lately
wieekcd oil*. Ciiioltcd Island ;—the .Captain, First,
'eenild and Third MPLCS; and.the, Surgeon, died on
their passage :limn :Africa to Sr. Vineent'R, and in
Proceeding: from thence to New .Plovidence, tile
vessel was lost, when all on. board, including three
1, ""dl.e i
il ,airett, perished.

General FoX will set out shortly to, take the
Chief Command in Ireland, in the room of General
Sir Wm. Mznows. Since the 'Union, there has.
been no independent Commander. in Chief in Ireland :
the Chief Command ;is held under the - DUKE of
•Yon.k) by. the General- in Chief on the Staff.--!The
emOluments of the'OffiCe are, holever, -enjoyed to
theitfull extent. They amount to between 1; and
15,004 a' year, and render this the most profitable •
Chief C
Nilitary appondintment under the Crown, next to the
omma id India.
The Neptune, which arrived from Honduras on
Saturday_ last, left . the Bay "on the 23d,0f Oftoberi
The iiev-ietter, whiclr arrived a few days ago,.sailed
from Honduras as late as the 1 ath of November, at
which time the English' Settlers there bad not met •
With the least.molestation from the Spaniards.
Letters from Tamaica,St..Domingo, and America,
concur 'in affirming; that some of the. French Getie.
tali in. St. Domingo poisoned theMselves in conse-
quence of adeteded plot.' This intelligence has more
foundation•than was at first imagined.. The White
Proptietors in St. Domingo have been greatlyop.
'Pressed and disgusted BY the .French Government
and Army, and the prospeas to them resulting from
14e. extirpakion of the Blacks are Of the most
gloomy Complexion. }-fence they' began' to disci).
.ver, that it the Consular Army triumphed, they
• would be, in a worse situatioo than living as they ,
have done, in a sort of alliance with the free Blacks.
Under those impressions, it is said, some of the
NYhite Proprietors intrigued between the revoked
1,.14cks and the French Officers, with the view of
zrnling a new establishinent,. and expelling the
ocular Army.----General Ducua was at the
.of this plan and . all, the Blacks under
• .tc.:Leitc ,were supposed to be well.afetted to
'The discovery is said to have imade General
''')l•cuA poison himself, and to have occasioned, the
removal. oithe Blieks on ship board, or .into the sea;
these Blacks being more dreaded than the others, on
'ccaunt of Their discipline. Since,•the last official
French accounts, the Blacks have attached the Cape
“nd Sr. Mare,. but have been repulsed. Port Re-
it' is said, they.have taken"by storm,
' making a &coati] massacre, putting all the white
inen) Women, and children, to the sword. .This is
said to have happened early in December.
The'Magiitratas have had a meeting for the put.Prtset, if possible, of drying and warming the cells in
the House -of Carralion, Cold Bath-fields, by means
'4' Mies tonsiruded upon Count Rutarottu's plan.
At the Court of Common Council on Thursday,,
Iwo Vcritions to. the , use'of, Cthrunons, one'for
regulging the Coal 'Trade, and the. other' for en;
411 Smithfield IVlarket, were agreed to.