The Sun.
London, England, 1810-01-10 00:00:00

NAVAL NEWQ.

PORTSthOuTtI. JAN. g.--Va me in this day his
Majesty's brigs Sophie, of 18 guns, from Chatham;
andEspeigle, frow the Eastward.

Arrived-'the Edward, CRISPEY, from Lisbon.
with 1-at, for this port; the Ceres, DOBSON, and
Ann, REYNOLDS, from Sunderland; Unity, Gan-
GORY, for Bridport ; and the Swift, PITT, from
Dartmouth.

Sailed his Majesty's ship Port Mahon with a con-
voy for the Downs.

PLYMOUTH, JAN. 8.--. Arrived his Majesty's
ship. Minerva, Captain HAWKIINS, from Admiral
STOPFORD'S squadron, in Quiberon Bay, with two
ships under convoy from thence, viz. The ship
Ellison, of Hull, HOLDSBERRT, Master, from Que.
bac, laden with timber and staves, bound to London,
was captured by a French privateer, and carried in-
to Belleisie, from whence she was cut out some days
since, by the boats of his. Majesty's ship Defiance;
and the Portugueze ship Allegria Constantia, from
Rio.de Janeiro,•laden with coffee, sugar, hides, and
horns, was captured by a French privateer, and re-
captured by his Majesty's ship Chtistian the Filth.
The Ellison was erroneously statea a few days since
to have been a West Indiaman ; and the Portuguese
ship Allegria Constantia, to have been from the
Isle of France, captured by his Majesty's ship
Christian the Mk_

Arrived the brig Devonshire, Rowsu., from St-
Johns (Newfoundland), laden with fish and oil,
bound to 'Waterford; the brig Ann, LE‘is ; from
Lisbon,, laden with salt and cotton, bound to London,
put in here by contruy winds.
CaMe .down the harbour and anchored in the
Sound:his Majesty's ship Pheasant.
The Ann, that arrived here this morning, sailed
from Lisbon the t nth December, in company with
a feet; parted company some days since.
Arrived his Majesty's schooner Nonpareil from
Falmouth.

DEAL, JAN. 9.—Remains the outward hound, as
per last:

SHEERNESS, JAN. g..—Sailed his Majesty's brigs
Peacock and Proteaor.
Arrived his Majesty's brig Centinel, with a divi-
sion of gun-boats, from Flushing.

We perceive that the congregation of a town in
Scotland have presented a snuff-box to their Pastor.
Perhaps in many other places it would be a more
useful and necessary present from the Pastor to kis
Congregation.. ,

It was well for BUOICAPARTE that he had in pri-
vate passed through the scene of weeping tenderness
with his wife, *hen they mutually agreed to sacri-
fice their domestic happiness for the sake of every
future generation of Frenchmen, for if he had dis-
played such an excess of conjugal affection and ex-
quisite sensibility before the Princes, Senators, &c.
also assembled ,on the occasion, they might have
conceived that a man of so gentle and humane a
disposition was unfit for the firm dutes of a Mo-
narch.

Thedocuments relative to America, given in our
Paper of Monday, concluded the w ole of the Cor-
respondence I.vhicli composed the Pre,ident's Mes.
sage to Congress. Those relative to France we find,
on examination, to be precisely the same which We
`inserted several weeks since.
AS the landlord of the Hotel at Minera was re-
turning home from. Wrexham, on Tuesday the
26th ult. between six and seven o'clock in the
evening, he was attacked; about a mile out of the
town, by two footpads, dressed in dark-coloured
jackets and trowsers, who, with violent impreca
flung' , repeatedly demanded his money; all of
which he told them, he had paid away, except
about two or three shillings, which they might
take. On hearing them getting over the hedge, ad-
joining the road, he had the precaution, being fa-
voured by the darkness of the night, to conceal his
pocket-book, containing bills to a considerable
amount, in a private part of his dress; and tne vil-
lains, after following him on each side Ins horse
tot the length of a fie'd, and frequently feeling
about his breeches pockets, finding nothing worth
taking, at last made otf, without offering him any.
further violence.

Saturday a Secret Com.nittee was held at the India
House, on the subject of the late divatches from
India, and at which several Military Officers of dis-
tinetion attended, with a view to give their opinion
on the subject of the differences existing between the
army and the Civil Government of Madras.

SUlClng.—Yesterday a shoemaker in Petticoat-
lane, Whitchapel, put a period to his existenee, by
hanging himself in his workshop, in which situa-.
tion he was found with his legs bent under him,
touching the ground, lunacy is supposed to be the
cause of the rash aet.

-SUICIDE.--A, Coroner's Inquest sat yesterday, at
Bell's-buildings, Oxford-street, on the body Char-
lotte Jane Rusport, an untort•inate dashing woman
of the town, who committed suicide on Saturday
night. The deceased had been in very low spirits an
Saturday, which was occasioned by a disappointment
in money, her circumstances being very deplorable.
She was found dead in her bed on Sunday morning,
with her throat cut from ear to ear. A case knife,
which had been the instrument of her death, was
was found clenched in her hand.—Verdict, Insanity.
A patent has been la'ely obtained for s, littittg
hides, so that each side of it may be manufaCt tired tor
t purposes for which an entire hide h a hit hetto,
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