The Sun.
London, England, 1803-10-19 00:00:00

SHOR2VCLIFFE CAMP, OCT. r 7.

CAPT. florrywooo's Troop cf Kent Yeomanry
Cavalry were _reviewed near this on Sanrigaie Plain
deneral CARTwa,IOHT, who expressed himself
highly pleaslil with their appearance and disciptioe,
and particularly noticed the very fine stile in which
the charge was made. He however, observed, that
some of the mincenvres in which :hey were prat.
tiled, were ,nit calculated for the n !cute of the ser.
vice on which it was probable they would he rm.
pleyed, and therefote 11.1 should send some non..com.
missianed Officers ao drill them in what only was
absolutely necessary.
Mr. ,PITT, who
.seems highly pleased with the
Troops at this place, paid us another vim this !Timm.
Ong, when the Regiments of the Line under M
General Moods were drawn out, and advanced in,
order of battle'ai far as.Folkstone, when they re.
turned re 111: Camp across the Country with the
Light Infantry and Rifle Corps skirmishing in front.
It is said,that the first and seconii Surrey Regiments
will march this dav from Ashford for Brayhourn.
Lees, to he encamped there. . The Barracks building
at that piste for' 450000 men are getting forward
with amazing rapidity.'
Fur( 3 , near Hythe, is putting in a state of
strong defence. Aderachment train the Militia of
$0 men, under the command of a Captain, Praftise
• incessantly at the guns, and at the moment of alarm
a reinforcement of a Naval Captain and'p Sea Fen.
cibles will enter the Fort.

It is expeEted that the 'Props here and along the
Coast, wilt be hutted during the Wiliter.

The Cour;er de Loadrdu of lan nig,ht, in a private
letter from Paris of the 30th of September, gives
some particulars relative tb the Invasion, which,
though they may not be altogether con4dered as
authentic, are worthy of notice in the present state
of affairs.

It is stated, that, while the organization of the
Army betwixt Ghent, Bruges ald the Coast, is
going forward with great aftivity, every precauti-
is used to place the .CSasts :of Fianders, Z.1711,1/41
and Holland in a proper state of defence. Reirazirce.
meets have been sent to all the Principal p pints from
Blackenbur(t to Dunkirk. The nuns vr of
bottomed bott's itid-itin. boats which w it be'ready
in Holland about, the end of aftober, it is calcoloteo
Will be aboUt a hundred and eig!ity. Consideral)le
nihvementa have lately taken pl,ice in the Army
stationed betwixt the S,:ileidt and the Lys. The
Troops as they arrive are eanivnect r.ea.r the banks
of the canal betwixt Bt uges and Chem. They ore
to be inspected by General DumAs and .D.Av.ousT.
Neither of these Generals I oa've hitherto obtain.
ed much Military reputation. The rise, of both is
ascribed to favouritism. DAvoosT is married to a
sister of General I,ect.t ac, who perished in the Ex-
pedition to Sr. Doming,. At this Camp it is said
that twelve thousand Cavalry have arrived: This is
evidently exaggerated, but at all events, if any
thing, like this number of Cavalry .is ,meant to
be •• transported from. one quarter, .Boattseauxe's
plan of Invasion by smaller:tit appearxiscii,l,'„rpore
than ever inadequate to i:s.objed. Betwixt Ghent,
Dyeuse, and .Bruges-the numbers of lite :Invading
Army ale carried so high as. eighty thousand.---
At Ostend the inhabitants are so apprehensive of a
bomhardtnent, that many of the principal families
have withthawn with their moveable effects into the
~For several weeks. it has been impossible
not W. take notice .of the sedulous anxiety of the
French Government to keep the state of their prepa,
rations in the utmost possible obscurity. In conse-
quence of this anxiety, the Batavian Government has
lately .been under ,the necessity of prohibiting even
sfishing-boats from. ventorintalong shore, with the
'view of preventing any sort of information on this
subjeft being 'conveyed to England. •
The Report of, the Prefea of the Police at Paris
to the Grand Judge for the List Republican year,
ending September' 23d, gives a dreadful pifture of
the state of meerdiry in that Capital. It appears,
that in the course of the year four hundred and nine-
ty men, and one hundred anti sixty-seven women,
.!have committed. suicide ar Paris ; eighty-one men
'and sixty-nine women have been murdered, of
Iwhom fifty-five men and fifty-two women were
foreigners, strangers, or have. not been owned.—
' Six hundred and forty-four divorces have taken
place. One hundred and fifty-five murderers have
been executed. Twelve hundred and ten persons
have been condetined to the gallies, to the pillory,
H.or to chains; sixteen hundred and twenty-six to
hard labour, to longer or shorter imprieonMent. Six.
ty.four have been marked with hot irons. Amongst
the criminals executed were seven fathers, who had
poisoned their children; ten husbands, who had
murdered their wives ; six wives who And poisoned
,their husbands, and fifteen chiltirehlwitcAtati Poi.
toned or otherwise destroyed their pirtitim pitting
the same period, twelve thousand and seversty.sixpub.
lic women, or street-walkers, have beets registered,
and have paid for the proteCitan of the Police. Fa-
teen hundred and fifty-two kept.mistresses are noted
and known .at the Prefetture of Police, and three
hundred and eight public_ brothels have been privi.
leged and licensed by the Police ?feted at Paris.
A person of the name of. GOoell,ll7lt was on Monday
committed by she Magistrates of Whitechapel, to
take his trial for murder, he having killed a man
last - week in a pitclied battle in White Conduit

EPOAI--PkE }"tr: rie.' Al' PAPERS..

CHARE,Itowv,*

French-Frigate t'ertmieiattee, cf 32 guns
took a Piiot on bvatd ~nct is=n-lw to lht
offing, bound in with two ciptured ships, From tilr
repo(' of 'the pj i,arv, tiv3r one of the ships
is the
.7„„0, of Gyisgow, mounting 14. guns and 40
bound to Wiiinitigto,i, North Carolina, eat).
turgid -oft-Cape F.e.,ir a..iew clays since, after an ac.
thin of two hours :.ovi an hait. ith.o.7other, the 4mr-
deal) ship Lottm Plan'tit;frcitlG avannah, bound to
Cowes, to Intleil :it this voTt.'ff.n supplies, captured
yesterday, ab it four leagues from the light-house;
some of the crew informed the pilots that they had
fallen us with a fleet of British merchantmen in the
`night. and e.'ptured 1.2 sail. It is not known' from
whence the French Frigates came.
Yesterday morning Citizen J r Tiost BONNPAIITZ,
accompanied by the Spanish Consul, a numbeiOl
Ladies and antlemen, anti several Strangers oldis.
tindiont „took breakfast on board .the Spanish Cot.:
vette lyinteff the Point.