The Sun.
London, England, 1810-04-18 00:00:00

N AVAL NE W S.

PLYMO4:II, Al" RI L 16.—Arrived his Majesty's
store-ship Tortoise from Gibraltar, bound to Ports-
mouth, put in here by contrary winds ; sailed the
31st March, and we regret to state that she blings
the melancholy account of the death of Admiral
Lord Cor.r.uscwoon on the. 7th March, after a lin-
ming illness.

.. , .
.The West Indi#nan .that arrived here yesterday,
stated to have been the Ons is the-Wansiea4,
. • .
limonm!,..from • .Jamaica, laden with
rum, sugar, and Coffee, bound to Condon ; she was
captured on the 261ii'Mar6h by a French •Corvette,
and retticen. on. the. 3d -April by JiiS Majesty's Ship
zi/p.e/ia;.- the corvette captured on the 25th
trit-liteiizia, of Belfast, from the rest -
Arrived. his Majesty's brigs. Philonql and
from separate cruizes ; the Hazi,k,• PILLAR, *from
FRENCH, from.BriitOl Fanny, TEE-
GAFTHEN from Bridgewater; and the Kancy,
FILIGIIES, from Swansea.

Sailed his Majesty's ship /Narcissus for Portsmouth,
Pluver for Liverpool, aud Amethyst on a cruize.
Arrived his Majesty's ship Actceoiz from a cruize ;
she towed in a galliot; which she fell in with at tea in
distress.

-PQIITSMOUTH, APRIL 17.—Came in this day his
Majesty's ship Nereus from the Meditrancan, arid
is put under quarantine, in consequence of having
Nice-Ad m: Lord- COLLINGWOOD'i corpse on board,
he having died during the' passage.

Arrived his Majesty's :ships Tyrian and Dapper
from a CrUiZe; also the Mary, CRAIGE, from Sun-
derland ; Jonge ./OitanißucKLum, from Christiana ;
and the Minerva STOCKMAN, from Neath ; the
Providence, RICHARDSON from Guernsey, for Lon-
don ; and several transports from Guerasey.
Sailed his Majesty's ship- Christian PM to the
Eastward.

DEAL,
'Aran 17.—Sailed his Mjesty's ship
Dictator, Admiral Drxox, for Yarmouth.
Arrived tile Reclpole sloop of war frow.l he West-
Ward. • • .
Sailed. the N.ympiren fri,gate on a cruize off Flush-
ing...

,SHEiRNESS, APRIL- his • Majesty's
brig Cruizer, with .a convoy to the Baltic, aci:oni-
panivd•by the ./Piingler gun-brig.

- Came dower 'the river Thames his Majesty's ship
Soieb.ay.

APRIL 17.—Canie clown the river Thames his
Majesty's ship Fylla..
Came down from Long Reach, and anchored at
the Great• Nure, his Majesty's ships Blake and
-Resolution.

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The Diligence collects the remaining part of the
Baltic convoy, and will sail the 22d.

Monday morning his MAJESTY, and Princesses
:AUGUSTA and SorniA,_rook. their usual morning
airing'in Windsor Great Park till twelve o'clo'ck.
Yesterday morning his .MAJEsTY; and 'Princesses
AUGUSTA and SnPLIIA, took an airing in Windsor
Great Padc., and returned to the Palace at two o'clock.,
QUEEN and' Princess E4IZABETH took an -
airing to Frogmore L9d,ge and Gardens.

The following. letter hag been transmitted by the
Secretary of State-for the Hotne Dopartini.nt to the
several-commanding Officers of Volunteer Corps in
the .Metroplis •
•
(CIRCULAR.) "Whitehall, nth April, tat,.
" SlR,—Having every reason to believe that the InetrOpo-
lis is in a great ineasure restored to iss usual state of Order and
tranquility, I 'lose no tune in acquainting you, that the cir-
cumstances which lately induced hi 4 Majesty to call for the
assistance of the Corps under yourconimand, towards the pre-
servation of the peace, no longer make it necessary that they
should remain asstnibled. . •
It affords me the greatest satisfaElion to communicate to
you, at the same-timet t e li.gb sense entertained by His Ma-
jesty of the ieai and public-spirit by which the Members of
your Corpi have been actuated on this important Occasion
and the confideqi persuasion which is felt by His Majesty,
that the same degree of alacrity will prevail among -themo
should circumstances make it necessary to call again for their
exertions. • • - •

•• ".1 mote the honour-to be, Sir,
" Your most obedient huMble Servant,
(Signed) "R. Y R."
" To the Officer commanding the •
Volunteers."

The following whimsical' paragraph,appeared in
a Morning Paper of yesterday-:—.. • .
" It is singular that it has not as yet been noticed,
that 'when the case Of Mr. WI usts's application was
made to the House of Cpuiinons fur protettion,
when be was charged. with printing a libel, they de-
clared that-their privileges did not 'extend to the
case of a seditious-libel;' or, in other words, that-a
libel was misdemeanor cogniz:tb!e only in the
Court of Law. With this declaration made in his
present
.MAJESTY'S reign, it is curious that the
Houte',Shortld have proceeded to construe libel into
contempt, and. to punish it by their own summary
justice .o,
It is difficult, amidst the 'ingenious confusion into
which the English words, composing this-precious
morsel: of composition, have been jumbled, to
cover whether tolaseribe that confusion to the- head
-or heart the writer :—lf, however, there. be. any
thing to'be gathered from them, it is ,the following
very logical argument, which -on the .same painful
considera. ion we have' arranged as the probable
cogitation by which the author was impressed
" The House of Commons refused to prolect their
Member ;,c lien guilty of a libel against the Stale :
Ergo, the House of COUPTIOng ought to protect all
libellers against themselves:"