The Sun.
London, England, 1810-05-29 00:00:00

NAVAL NEWS

POKTSmouikr, MAy 28,—Came in yesterday the
Portuguese brig Flor de Cuntannhe, DIAX DER
ROXA master, from Cape de Verd Islands, for Lon-
don, having put in here by contrary winds.
Arrived his Majesty's ship Linnet from Falmouth,
and it appointed convoy to:Guernsey and Jersey ;
alto the Peggy, EpDINGToN ; Friends,
,HICKS,
from London ; Britannia, -,- from Newcastle;
Conledency,- ; Fly, WILSON and Hope, -,
from Suirdeiland and the Trimmer,'----., from
Morlaix.

HARWICH, MAY 28.—This morning arrived the
Beaufoy packet with Mails from Gottenburgh.; also
the Lady Aepean packet with Mails from the same
place, and a Lieutenant, charged with dispatches
froth Sir JAMES SAUMAREZ.

Six o'clock P.M.—This morning arrived the King
George packet with a mail and passengers from Heli-
goland.

IDEAL, MAY 28.---,Arrived the Oberon, sloop of
war, from the River, also the Susahnah, COLLING-
SON, for Cadiz ; the Susctnnilli has sailed for Ports-.

mouth under convoy of the Locust gun-brig.

SHEERNESS, MAY 29.—Passed by up the River
Thames the Meteor bomb.

CHEVALIER D'EON.

The late,Chevalier D'EoN, during the early pe-.
riod of his residence in this country, was nistin-
_ guisbed by the conciliating urbanity and polished
elegance of his minuets. It is well known that he
:had many opportunities of forming matrimonial
connections in this country, whiCh would at once
have raised him into affluence, but on all such oc-
casion's he abruptly quitted the family w.:,en the
opportunity presented itself. A circumstance of this
kind happened in the family of a nobleman at whose
seat he was to have remained some time upon a visit.
,1 The dAghter had conceived a strong attachment to
the Chevalier, and the father had, intimated to him
that he had no objedion to an union between them.
The CheValier, the next morning, quitted -the house
very early,- without taking a formai leave, and as
other circumstances of the same nature are known
to have occurred, it ,is by no means improbable
• that the suspicious should base arisen which -his-
death has so effectually removed. During the de,
clioing years of the Chevalier, he was certainly not
distinguished for that courteous affability and easy
. elegance of manners which had marked his earlier
days.; but, on the contrary, a negligent rough-
ness- generaliy charaelerized his depoviment, which
seemed to be the .result .of a misanthropic spirit,
produced 'by disappointments and Vexations. He
, was, however, full of anecdotes, and, not unwii-
ling to impart them. He was well acquainted with
must of the charatters who figured on the grearpo-
litical stage of Europe for the last half century.
His reflections. were distinguished for shrewdness and
a deep knowledge of-mankind. It is, lamentable ,
that a person so gifted, so well qualified to make a
figure in' society, and who might reasonably have
,expeded to terminate his career iri affluence and
honour, was obliged to expose himself in public in
the quality of a fencing-master, after having lived'
with charaders of the -higheat: rank, talents, and .
learning, respected for his knowledge and
It is said that he had written a history of all his
transactions with the'Court of France, previous •to
the revolution, but was induced to suppress the
publication by a promise of pecuniary support.
Though the 'mystery respecting his sex is at ,
length revealed, it is still difficult to conceive the
reason that induced him to assume the female elm-
rattier and attire, unless, indeed; upon the suppo-
sition that he was concerned in the plot to excite
doubts on the subject, in order, to share in the pro-
fits of public credulity. He was a man of spirit.
He fought a duel in Russia, _in which he concluded.'
himself very well. He was, however,' not digtin-
guished for his stria regard to veracity. •He basely
accused the Count de GuERCHY, a most respetable
nobleman, who matried a sister of the late Lord
HARCOURT, of • being employed, by the French
Court to get him kidnapped or murdered ; 'and,
though it clearly appeared that no such scheme
had been devised, the-Count'sunk under the imputa-
tion, and died soon after his return to France. A
paragraph which appeared in the public prints, of
this country, announcing that a man had codes-
ised o_a his death-bed that he was one of 'the agents
in this alleged . plot, was tweed to D'EoN, and was
a mere inventio4.l of his own, in order to give some ,
colour to his former 'story, which had brought con-
siderhle discredit on his charader. In short, D'EoN
was well fitted to ad the part of an impostor upon
the stage of life, though he possessed abilities and
attainments which qualified him for a' station in
which he might deservedly have accquired the re-
aped of mankind.

The officers of the Implacable have contradi6ted
the report, that the Baron de KOLLI, stated to have
been charged by the British Government to attempt
the escape of FERDINAND VII. had.been executed
in sight of our squadron off the French 'coast.
• A curious account is given in a late India paper of
an elephant hunt. Two wild elephants of an enor-
mous size, having made their appearance within a
few hundred yards of the cantonments near Hazaree
Bang and close to a village, several attempts were
made to catch them by means of pits, but these fail-
ed, and the ele, hants entered the village, where
they killed a ,man and a child, and wounded two
women. Their destruction was then resorved
upon, and some four pounders were brought up,
which kept up a continued fire upon them for some
time, and after a furious contest; the elephants
frequently charging within a hundred yards , of the,
&Lis, they were at length killed. Atter their
death ,nineteen four pound shot were taken out of
their bodies, and it was supposed that eight or ten
more would still be found.