The Sun.
London, England, 1803-08-05 00:00:00

IV 11 NEWS.

PLYMOUTH, AUG. 3.—Arrived the Atalanta
French Privateer, of zo guns, belonging to Bour.
Beaux, captured in the Bay by- His Majesty's Ship
Plantagenet, the Endymion Frigate and Rosario
Sloop of War in company.
Arrived the American Brig Washington, laden
with brandy, from Bourdeaux, bound to London,
detained by the Diamond Frigate.
Arrived His Majesty's Ship Plantagenet, from a
cruize in the Bay.

Arrived the English Brig Mary, of Liverpool,

from Leghorn, Gt o. HASW ILL master, from Gib..
raltar; for Liverpool, laden with hemp, &c. cap.
tared by the Dinanaise French Privateer, and re.
takcn by the Hazard Sloop of War.

PORTSMOUTH, AUGUST 4.—Arrived this morn.
ing, the Ship Martha, jOil N CAREY master, from
the West Indies, lately captured by the French, and
since recaptured in lat. 44.. long. t t. by La Pipe
Frigate, and Dart Privateer of Dover.

The Esther, FRANCIS, from Honduras, is retaken
from the Enemy by the Lion and "lame Privateers,
of Guernsey, and carried to that Island.
Arrived a French National Brig, captured by
L'Egyptienne Frigate.
Arrived the William Armed Ship, Pandora,
armed en flute, Pegasus, en flute, and Abundan e
Store-ship, with the Planter, Amphitrite, Derlat'ut,
Afelanthe, Ariel, Zephyr, Freelove, Dutchess of
Rutland, Fame, Betscy,' and Union, Transports,
with Troops, from Malta and Egypt,

The- Hazard sloop of war, I.yhich was said to
nave been taken, is safe in the Channel.

L'Aiyht, a French frigate, of 36 guns, most of
them'in the hold, has been brought into Plymouth.
She had money and stores on board, and was bound
from Martinique to L'Orient. Two fine French
brigs from St. Domingo have also been taken, with
dollars, sugar, coffee, and cottony

Most of the Volunteer Corps of the Metropolis
paraded yesterday afternoon, and proved by the cor.
redness with which th,ey performed their exercise,
that they were far advanced in a state of discipline.
lletween seven anti eight hundred assembled in the
Lower Mews at Ch:iring_cross. Their uniforna, in
which they livened fur the first time, is exceed-
ingly neat, and altogether the scene, at this as well
as at every other place, was exceedingly gratify-
ing.

A respeElable Banker, and brother to a Noble
Peer, a few days since enrolled
and the
whole of his Clerks, to the number of thirty-eight,
in the Finsbury Loyal Volunteers.

The Corp: which the Duke of NoRTIiumBER-
LAND ;, ~bout to raise, t.) pay, to cloatit, and to
arl. .4i his own expence, will consist of 1200 men
!tom amongst his own tenantry, of whom Soo are
to tormeil into a body of Riflemen the whole
~ler the command or Earl PVRCY, who is a most
amiable young Nobleman, whose hereditary ambi-
tion it is to distinguish himself in the cause of his
Country.

Ii is rumnured in the higher circles that a certain
Illustrious Personage has not been very handsomely
treated in the mode in which his noble anti patriotic
offer of his Military Services has been refused by
the Minister. Whatever may be the grounds upon
which it hat. been rejeded, surety the noble nature
of the offer, as the high rank of the Great
Personage, entitled him to civility at least—His
Royal Highness wrote a letter, of the style as well
as the tenor of which report speaks in the highest
strain of panegyric—After a considerable interval
a second letter was written, to which it is said, hut
'we hope isot truly, that a verbal answer only was
returned.. If this he true, which indeed we can
hardly believe possible, we must confess we should
be at a loss in what terms, to express our indigna-
tion.

Mr. SHERIDAN'S Speech at the Surrey Meeting
received the enthusiastic applause of all present. It
consisted of an eloquent, argumentative, and beau.
titut eulogium upon the state of things
,in this
Country, under the safe-guard of the British Con.,
stitution, and an invocation to every man in the
lowest as well as the highest classes,.who enjoy its.-
blessings, resolutely to in,lititain his share in those
blessings, not merely the particular share which the'
individual.. high or low, may enjoy, but the great
and solid system upon which every moo's rssessions,'.
great or small, omit depend. ,Such is the language:
of the rrotoliotl philosopher, as well as of the saga.
clout politician, and the animated patriot.
The spirit and zeal of true PatriNtism and Loy.
'thy display themselves with the happiest effed
to
all part's ut His Majesty's Dominions. At Haver.
fordwest the lobabitAth have embodied themselves-,,
under Capt. FRANCIS lORTU-NS, a Gentleman of
.great loyalty and respectability, who, together
with his,colleague, Copt, MArataws, have already
irirt lied upwards of •goo in their patriot bands, to
,dtfehd-.ithiir Country, or die for its LAWS,- its
Lihertiet, land its excellent Sovereigti.--Captain
FoaTuya., in addition to this patriotic effut, has
made an offer to Lord MlLvotto, the Lord Lieu-
tenant of Pernbrokes!the,
of so 'Carts, and iso
Horses, when need requires them.

Lady Ho NLOCK Os eldest daughter, according_ to
the rumours in the Fashionable World, is soon to
bestow the comforts of matrimony on Mr. Cti Lai
Mr YNE L.

joitti GRETTON, Eill. or Lambeth, is the
writer of the New Grant Fitt.tle Called Britannia's
approbatiofi at kr,timitallC.trdetu, FluoN is
invatariam, performing with such highly marked
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