The Sun.
London, England, 1803-02-02 00:00:00

THE OFFICERS ARE,

Per Windham—Lieut..Col. Desbrissay, Captains Colebrook
and Worseley, and Lieutenants Grant, (Winston, and Su:-
Miens, of the Royal Artillery ; Captain PAns, and Lieu.
tenants Henderson arid Wade, of the Royal Engineers.
Per Walpole—Lieut.-Col. Brydges, and Lieutenants Gossett
and Ellieombe, of the Royal Engineers; Captains Rogers
and Napier, and Lieutenants Cowper, Alms, Gordon, and
Mallctt, of the Royal Artillery ; and Mr. Hobbs, Mili.
tary Draftsman, untier Lieut..Co-I. Brydges.

Letters received yesterday; overland, state that
the Lord Nahon and United Kingdom arrived at
Madras on the loth Of July, and at Bengal on the
27th 'July.

TheCireszeester,Perieverance, and illnwid Castle,
sailed from Madras for China on the zoth of July.
The Marchioness of Exeter left Madras for
Northern Ports, on the tst of August.
The Thames, Widmer Castle, and Canton, left
Bombay for China on the 16th of August.
Sir Edward Hughes and Earl St. Vincent ar-
rived at Bombay from England, the former the 29th
and the latter on the I +th of August.
The Company "s Ships Cornwallis aria EariSt.
Pincent were expeaed to he dispatched from Born.
bay for England, with pepper and piece goods, on
the 19th of December.
The Sir Edward Hughes and Travers were to
sail for England, from the Coast, about the end of
January. _

- • The Herculean arrived at Bombay on the 6th of
September, and when unlit&n, was to be sent to
Bengal.

Yesterday the nig ter and Wardens of the Corn.

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piny of Bakers- waited upon the Right Hon. the
LORD MAYOR,- at the Mansion. House, to set the
Assize of Bread, when his Lordship, after in-
speeting the. Reports of the .Meal weighers, ordered
the price of Bread to continue the same as last
%Steck, viz. ninepence farthing the quartern loaf
Wheaten, and aevenpence three-farthings household.
Twelte of the Pristmers to be tried, next week.for
High Treason, have petitioned the Treasury for a
sufficient num of money to enable them to comina
their Defence, as the number of 'Witnesses so be sub
pmnaed will be expensive. The Treasury Solicitor,
in answer, has informed them, that, on application
to the Clerk of the 'Court for the Crown, Sub.
pmnas shall be furnished them, free of expence,
but that no money can be allowed to Them.

The Jacobins, it is sAid,' are actively at work in
order to form a consiletable concourse, under the
pretence of meeting tOr the purpose (4 promotlng
Benefit Clubs. Government, however, are doubt-
less well aware of all their ITlOVelllelltti, Mid Will take
efFeetu,al measures for frustrating their artifices and
desperate machinations.

A vulgar error ptiivails, which .is frequently
attended with very tniiclnevons consequences. 'I be
Common reople generally imagine that if a bag of
corn, a load of turnips, or any thing of that kind,
should by accident he spilt in the street, it becomes
the property of those who first lay hold of it. The
same idea is prevalent on the coasts7with regaiti,to
the contents and cargoes of such vessels as may
have been wrecked. It is, therefore, a pity that
more pains have uot been used toprumtilicate the
law, and Ice the nrople know, tharsuch depreda
wins are as much pliaiit as 44 rsy (Alt: Ailecic2

NAVAL NEWS.

PLYMOUTH, JAN. 3c.

.ARR IV Et) the American Ship Friel:dill; JO, RICH.
ARC GLOVER master, from Philadelphia, laden
with tobacco, cotton, &c. bound to London. In
coming into Hamm she touched the rocks near
the battery at Mount Edgcumbe, but was fortunately
got ofF without sustaining any:damage.
Arrived the Urania, of Bremen, Capt. WM.
GI E RSON, from Philadelphia, laden with rum, to-
bacco, &c. bound to Bremen, put in by contrary
winds ; also the Die Vrow Anna, Capt. H. -M.
Tor r, laden with fruit, from Seville, for London ;
and the St. Joseph, YIIRRA, from Bilboat4 Lon.
don.

Sailed the Sirenne, Capt. BOXERS, for London.

PORTSMOUTH, FEB. 1.

PASSED by, the City of' London, LANDER, for

India.