The Sun.
London, England, 1804-01-12 00:00:00

DUBLIN, JAx. 7.

MONDriY arrived at Cork the American Brig
T(v.,c Braberi, Captain LowELL, from Dunkirk,
which place she left 17 days since, bound to Nor-
folk, in ballast, but forced into Cove by contrary
winds. By her the several accounts of the prepara-
tions in the Enemy's Ports are fully con Armed,
and the division of Ireland is the general topic of
conversation among the troops. The number of
Gun-boats equipped in that harbour is said to be in-
credible ; the general plan 6e) feet long, to carry
one 32-pounder in a slide, each calculated to carry
too men ; but from the materials of which they are
stated to be composed, it is not thought this Cour].
try can be the obje& of their destination.
The Commissioners of the Revenue having had
just reason to suspeCt that great abuses had pre..
vailed in the Excise Department, in the DistriCts of
Newry, Dundalk, and Droiiheda, dispatched a
confidential Officer, J. B. ITZSIMNONS, Esq.
who with equal promptitude and celerity repaired
to these Distrias, and by well-timed measures of
prudence, deteCted numerous frauds and forgeries
on the Revenue to a large amount. From New..
ry, Mr. FlTzsritamor4s hastened to Carlow and
the Distria of Leighlin-bridge, where he made very
great deteaions.--The result of a week's exertion
by this Gentleman is, that two thousand pounds
have been paid or secured to the Crown ; fines
and seizures to the amount of many thousands are
depending ; a most complicated system of forgery
upon the Revenue has been thrown open ; the fair
dealer is proteCted ; honest men are gratified, and
the national purse is replenished with that which
otherwise would have gone into the pocket of the
public spoiler.

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Thursday Captain DAwsoN apprehended a
most desperate villain of the name of &ode-
rick, who was President of the Assassination
Committee which sat upon the life of the Earl
of CARHAMPTON ; and for which Dunn and Carty
were executed in Strand street. This Broderick
escaped in the year 1798, and has been out of this
Country since that pet iod, until some time previous
to the z 3,1 of July last.

FRENCH AND DUTCH PAPERS.

PAR IS, DEC. 3t.—Tlve are daily engagements
between the divisions of our Flotilla and the English
Cruizers. At the /de of Croix, seven of out Gun-
boats compelled two English Ships of-the Line an 4 a
Frigate to sheer off, after having their rigging very
much damaged. Between Calais and Gravelinet, a
part of our Flotilla having got on shore, some English
CatiZers advanced to take possession of them, buc
the Patroles of the Ist Regiment of Chasseurs, with ,
some Detachments of the gstli Regiment of Infantry ,
and the Flying Artillery, efedually proteded than
from the attacks of the English, whQ were compel-
led
led to retire after having sustained considerable da- f
mage, and upon the flowing
Calais.of the tide, our Flotilla
escaped safely into C
During the whole of Wednesday last, it blew a
violent tempest in this city. Between eight and
twelve o'clock, when it was most violent, it ocea.!
sioned a number of accidents. The slates were fly-
ing to all dirraions ; the lead* were torn in several
places from the roofs ; some chimnies were thrown
down, and a number of persons are said to have
been severely hurt by their fall. In the gardens of
the Thuilleries, several trees were thrown downs
and large branches broken oIE The statue of Pa/
pirius, at the extremity of the Allie de; Orallgeris
near the gate-way, had its head broken by the fall
of a large tree, blown from its roots by the hurri',
cane. The roofs of the pavilions, anol that 9f tits
grand gallery, suffered considerably,
MINISTRY OF MAR/NE, . •
The Privateer, the Audezciov, of lia,yoPz7is, his
captured and brought into chat Port an English
Vessel, laden with three or four thousand tiuinrals
of Cod.

The Ptivateer, the Determine, took .an Fog:list)
Vessel with nearly the same Cargo ; bu.t the kng,.
lish Priponers who remained on board retook. her,
after killing the Prize-Master and two Sailors, and
wounding fool. others ; she .was, however, again
captured by the B1.111417:1, of .80):Oftnr, acrd brought
into that Port.
FRANKFORT, DEC. 23.—The Commlssariat_Ge-
neral of the Bavarian Provinces in Franconia, having
learnt, that the Direlory of the Equestrian Order Ii
sitting at Nuremberg, as well as some of those
Members of the Order who have refused to take
the oath of submission, are endeavouring co procure '
a Loan, have published at Bamberg an Edict, de-
claring, That in no case can the possessions of die
Equestrian Order in Franconia, situate in the Prin"‘
cipalities of Wurt-4bourg and Bamberg, be made to
serve as pledges for such loan, and that his Elec-
toral HighnesS will never recognize such engage-
ment.
ScH I EDAM, Jv. 3.--It is now positively said,
iwnekpeur.suance of the orders issued by General
NET, Commander in Chief of the Combined Troopi
in the Island of Walcherrn, that the Fix.ve-CoNstlr•
will arrive at Rushing towards the end of next
Preparations fur his reception have already
been made. Against that period the French Am-
bassador at the Hague is also expo led there, as well
as several Generals and Staff' Officers. The FtasT
CONSUL will make a longer stay in that City than
he did last summer; a circumstance which fully re.
futes all the idle tales circulated on that occasion;
such as that he was afraid of being assassinated by
the Dutch, 84. c. Rear Admiral VERFIE.UL will
arrive at Flushing in a few days, to take upon him-
self the command of the Flotilla. It is certain that
he left the Hague immediately on the arrival there
of a Courier from the FIRST CONstn..

On Tuesday evening a thininner belonging to
the Queen's Royal Volunteers was tied up to the
halberts to receive the punishment sentenced upon
him by a Court-martial for desertion, at the Corps
drilling-ground, near Raiieiagh, when Colonel RO-
BINSON read the sentence to him of the Court•
martial, but on account of !tits being the first offence
co itted in the Corps, the Colonel remitted the
sentence.; after which, he read the At of Parlia-
ment, authorising the Cqrpe to inilitt military I`u-