The Sun.
London, England, 1817-07-16 00:00:00

Slip NEWS.

ORTSSIOVTFT', jtILY tris Majesty's
311ip Cherub frolii A(fica, last &OM
the liaY~,ti-
ltah ; touched at Jatnaica, and sailed from thence
the 7th May.; she also tOtiched at Charleston,
and landed 100,000 dolfais the're„ on account of
merchants. ills Majesty's
.shie Inconstant ar-
rived at Barbadoes the beginning of June, and
*ailed for Jamaica. .

DEAL, JULY 1.5 —Arrived, and sailed for the
11iver, the Batavia, MAYNE, troth Bengal ; Re•
Ward, BARCLAY, and Moutitaineet:, JEFFERSOW,
from Jamaica ; Rambler, For; GEE, from be South
Seas ; and Seholfield, Evans, from Mogadore.—

Put back several outward-bound vessels.

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RAMSGATE, JULY 15.--Arrived the French brig
Le Deux Ainis, from Dieppe for Lisbon, with her
fore•mast sprung, having run foul of the Ceres,
of Newcastle, at ssa, and did her considerable da•
'mtge.

DovER,, JULY 15.—The Hawk, PERCEY, from
flyimmth, in attempting to get in here, stove her
bows in and sunk between the Head, but will be

got off nest tide.
HARWICH, JULY 15.—Arrived the Laik packet
'with a mail from'Cnxhaven.
• FALMOUTH, JULY 13.—Arrived the Hind and
Active cutters tram a cruise.—The Providence

cutter, tender to the Superb, in getting, out of
lielford harbour last night, grounded on the
shoals, but by assistance from his Majesty's ships'
Mod, Active, and Pigmy, was got off without
damage.

DOCK RATES.—We are sorry to find that the
several applications which have been made by the
Committee of Ship-Owners to the Directors of
the EAST INDIA DoCKS to lower. their Rates,
Since rhe war, have been unavailing. We did
imagine that the praiseworthy example skeytu
fist by the LONDON DOCK COMPANY, and after.
wards by the WIEST INDIA 13,,cx COMPANY, who
hare both materially • reduced their respective'
Dock Rates, would have induced the EAST INDIA
Docti. COMPANY to have done the same. It how-
ever appears they will .not, and we imagine the
subject must be brought before Parliament or
Government at no distant period. . The general
charges on shipping in the Port of London are.
far Coo heavy in the present distressed state of the
Shipping Inteiests, n )r are they, in fact, war-
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tatutd by .any superior accommodation which is

afforded-in the Rivet, as contrasted with Liver

tioor,-Glasgow, and many wile; of the Out-ports

DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZE-MONEY.

the Rader and Recruit, for the L'Amistadt, on Saturday,
the 19th instant, at No.'4,Clement's Inn. Recall's same place,
every Tuesday and Saturday, for three months.

Three hundred and thirty seven ships with car-
goes have cleared at the Custom-house, New-
castle, for foreign ports, in the (patter ending
111Stant, being above 100 ships more th:in
cleared out on the same quarter in any of the
three preceding years :and another gratifying cir-
cumstance is, that most of these cargoes have been
shipped in consequence of orders from abroad,
not on speculation.

Newfoundland Papers to the Ilth ult. mention
that the scarcity of provisions was no longer felt.
There had been extensive arrivals of provisions
from Halifax *tad from Ireland. The Royal Ga•
zette of the 27th of May mentions that his Excel-
lency General Lord DALnotis.tc, Governor of Ha-
lifax, adopted measures immediately to afford re-
lief, and that they were carried into effect in the
most prompt manner by GIN BALDW N of his
Majesty's ship Fly ; every Officer attached to Go-
t;ernment using the greatest exertion to alleviate
their wants. The Papers of the 3d and 10th Jitne
mention the arrival of every description of provi-
sions, and pass high encomiums on his Majesty's
Officers, who were the first to' afford aid.

• 'Yesterday the PRINCE REGENT honoured Lord
and. Lady CASTLEREAGH with his company to
dinner, at their house in St., James's-square.
The Duchess of GLOUCESTER, (kiting her visit
to the QUEEN at Windsor, takes the air hit a
garden chair drawn by a poney, at Frogmorc, &c.
The Earl and Countess Of DARLINGTON: who
have been in Paris about a month, intend le,iving
'it in a few days for Italy.
The gallant Lord Ex mourn passed through
Gloucester. on Saturday last, on his way to liaise-
'more Lodge, the seat of his son-in-law, Captain
,HARWARD, R. N, where we understand his Lord-
ship purposes to reotain some time.
The celebrated Madame de LAVALETTE quitted
town last week for Paris. Her stay in this coun-
try was about a tortright, and the o.sje.ct of her
visit was to sell out of our public fonds. Madame
de LAVALETTE preserved a strict incognito, and
both her arrival and departure were known to
very few persons.
We hear that when M. TALMA and Mademoi.
selle GEORGES lauded at Calais, all their purchase's
in England of flannels, cottons, shawls, &e. were
seized by the Custoun-hous'e Officers as contra-
(('horning Chronicle.)
Messrs. EMMETT mid SAMPSON, from Ireland,
are- CIiOACII to represent the State of New York in
Congress.
To-morrow, about two o'clock, the Royal
George,, a new yacht, will be launched front the
bock-yard at Deptford. Sir EDWARD BERRY, flag
Captain to Lord NELSON at the battle of the Nile.
is appointed to the connnand, The Board of
Admiralty Hod Comuni,,sioners Of the Navy will be
present. Booths are erected for the reception of
the nunicrous Couvany expected.