The Sun.
London, England, 1803-02-18 00:00:00

LONDON, FEBRUARY ill, 1803*

ON Wednesday the Pickle Schoot)er, Lieutenant '
LAPENOTIgRI, arrived at Plymouth, from MO
and Gibraltar, with Dispatches, which are supposed
to be of importance, and which were brought im
mediately to the Admiralty by Lieut. Joao', Isle
of La Penturer Brig, vtho came home in die
Pile, with his CAcers and crew, his ship having
been sold as un6t for service.
The Pi;4le laft Malta on the acrth Dec. ant
Gibraltar on the Ist inst. At the time of her leavg
ing Malta, the British Ttonps had received PQ,
orders for the evacuation of that place.

yesterby Hie Royal Highness the Pa tifca og
WAI.Es visited THEIR MAjssitss and his .13°Y4
Sisters at Bucicingham House.
The PitpacEss IVIA2Y, we are concerned to Says
is indisposed with a cold.
Hts MAJESTY and the Putt of Come ER L AtIO
Went in a travelling carriage, accompanied by gg
party of the Light Horse to Kew, about ten o'clockp
and returned to the Queen's House about three.
The Earl ant Countess of CmtnioAl4,
Co
Hovia and several others of the Nobility, vuntesoisit4
THEIR MAJESTIES in the course of the day.

In the evening THEIR MA; EST ES had a Concert,
in which Mr. BAUD ENDICIL repeated his Concerto
on the Flute. Several of the company presets;
played at cards.
His Grace the Duke of NOVI 1-1 t 1 hi 11 ERLA ND hair
with most becoming. zeal, sent to Portsmouth, Irons
his estate at Ainwrck Castle, to be embarked oft
board the Calcutta, hound to New South Wales, ;!`
number of sheep, with two rams of a very partial*
lar breed, and which will eventually prove of the
greatest advantage vo the Colony. This descriptions
of sheep invariably lamb from two to three, anti
Yometiraes four at a birth.
Friday, Saturday, and Monday se'nnight three
divisions of the 79th regiment, under the command
of Lieutenant-Colonel M‘LEAN, marched into Bel-
fast from Donaghadee, where they landed on the
Wednesday and Thursday preceding. They were
on their route for Londonderry, for which place the
last division marched on Wednesday sennight.
On Wednesday last a troop of the Scotch Greys,
on coast duty at East-iiourne, were relieved bti:
troop of she same regiment from Croydon. 11
relieved troops marched from East-Bourne to CrOf'
don on the same day.
Letters from Paris represent the ravages or the, ."
disorder which now afflicts that capital, to be 111°
formidable. Within the last month 5
9000 persona,
are said to have fallen victims to it. It is generally
in three days.
By an AO of the Legislature of Jamaica, preach.
ing is forbid in that Country, by any others than
those duly authorized by Law ; it having been
found that many of
them, tinder the cloak of re-
ligion; have been propagating the most seditious
tenets.
The malevolent fabrication respetling the treat._
death for High Treason,
mcnt of the unfortunate Criminals under sentence of
has,_ instead of throwing
the least retedioo on AdMinistration, been the
means of exhibiting another trait of its Humanity,
Lenity and Moderation; the comfort arfodvd ,to
those unhappy men, in their present lamentable
situation, being much greater than could possibly.
have been supposed, or than such delinquents would
have experienced in any other country whatever.
Happy !—thrice happy are those who live tinder a
Government regulated by'such feeling, and whose
Ministers, in the execution of every important
AiUsy, ate evally atluated by firmness and c.letnaocY,
.

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PAPAL NEWS.

PLYMOUTH, ir Eh . t 6.

litiVlD the Pickle Schooner, of t z guns, Lieu-
tenant J. R. LAPENOTIRItE, with Dispatches from
Malta and Gibraltar, said to be of sortie moment.
Lieut. JUMP, late Commander of La Venturer
Sloop of War, immediately landed, and set off for
the Admiralty.—The Pickle left Malta the zoth

December, and Gibraltar the ist February.
The Officers and Crew late of La Venturer Sloop
of War came Passengers in the Pickle : the former
having been found unfit for service, has been sold
in the Mediterranean.
The British Troops, at the time the Pickle sailed,
bad received no orders for the Evacuation of Malta.