The Sun.
London, England, 1810-01-30 00:00:00

• Yesterday the :Earl of LIVERPOOL' traniaaed
husinessiwith Lord MVLGRAVE, at the Admiralty.
Yesterday Commodore OWEN transaCied business
'with Lord MULGRAV R.
On Friday next his Royal Highness the Prince of
WALES will give a grand entertainment to the PER-
SIAN AMBASSADOR and a .large.party of Noblemen
and Gentlemen. Great preparations are waking at
Carbon-house; and his Royal Highness has order-
ed A grand- rich iwitoim to be made for his Pages on
the occasion.
The motion of thanks to Lord GAMBIEIi, for his
services in Basque Roads, which was to have been
proposed last night in the Hotise of LordS, was.de-
ferred until Thursday, on account of the non-atten-
dance of Lord Alor.on A VE. His Lordship's absence
was occasioned by the .death MAILING,
(Lady IgULGRAVE'g father) who was one of the
Commissioners of Excise:
Private letters by the last conveyance from Hol-
land, state the departure of BONAPARTE from Paris
to take the command of the army in Spain.
Leiters were yesterday received from Bilboa
to
,the 14th instant, but they afford' no informa.
Lion of.importance relative to the state of the War
in Spain. .

Letters were also received from Holland to the
18th. King Louis bad not arrived, 'and the ships
in several of the Dutch ports were locked up by the
severity of the frost.
Mr. SALT, Secretary to Lord VALENTIA, who is
gone on a special commksion to Abyssinia, arrived
at Mosambique on the 25th of August. Most of
the commercial articles on the Captain's account
found a ready market. Mr. SALT 'left Mosambique
on the f 6-th of September for the Red Sea. It
appears that BRUCE'S anomalous Monsoon is.errone-
ous. Of Lord CALEDON'S mission nothing Las yet
•transpired.
'Tile remains of the 23d Light Dragoons, under
the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Lord PORTAII-
LINGTON, arrived at Portsmouth last week'. from
Lisbon ; they, gave the few horses that remained to '
the.l4th and 16th Light Dragoons. The 23d has
since marched to Chichester.
A person who lately held a situation of public
truss;, has been in custody some days on a charge of
capital felony. The charge against him is for an
offence, • which he' was employed by a concern 'of
the greatest magnitude to dete6l.. We decline
stating further particulars at Rresent.
A duel was fought on Saturday at Herriming's.
Grove, near Harrow; betwixt a Capt. Smirti and a
Gentleman of the name of ,DUBOY, in consequence
of
.some family dispute, the Captain having gone off
with and -Married M. D.'s niece. Captain SMITH
was dangerously wounded in the hip in the second
fire.

BREAD.—.This day there was no Court of Alder-
men, but the LORD MAYOR, after ins Feeling the
returns of the mealweighere, ordered the present
prices to remain.
A great number of horses are to be embarked at
.Portsmouth, to remount the dragoon regiments-in
Portugal.

' We copy the following froth a Paper of last
night :—" A few days ago the CHANCELLOR of the
EXCHEQUER wrote a letter to the Bank, desiring. it
to pay no more drafti of Mr. HUNT, the Treasurer
of the Ordnante. A draft or a bill of 15,0001. was
soon after presented and refused papnient, though
200,0001. was in the Bank to Mr. HUNT'S creutt.
Mr. HUNT, on hearing of the circumstances, resigned
his situation. Mr. ALcocx is-appointed-his successor.
Mr. HUNT was private Secretny to Earl CHATHAM,
when .First-tord—of the Admiralty His Lord-
ship afterwards made him a Uaurnissiiiner of .Vic-
tualling, and subsequently -a.ppoilited hialTreasurer
Of the Ordnance." • -

On the Persian Ambassadors visit to the Prince
of WALES the other day, his Royal Highness pre-
sented him with a very beautiful and curious clock,
invented by the celebrated Mr. CONGREVE, in
which the time is measured by the motion of a small
platina ball. •

- The names of 30 vessels Were posted at Ll'oyd's
yesterday, as being at Quebec on the 27111.0 f
.No-
vember, and. not expe6ted to get .away in, conse-
quence of the ice. ,
Mons. CINCATIN! arrived ..on Saturday last =frotn
France. He brings accounts of great importante to
theOperatical Ainateui s. Madame BALSAMINI wails
only for a fair wind, and Moos. SIBONI has engaged
several of hers;

The favourite Opera of Up all Night attracted a
most crowded and brilliant audience to the Lyccuth
last night. The applause Was unbounded.
Elizabeth' Laven received the sentence of the
Court of King's Bench yesterday,- for wilful and
corrupt perjury. It will be remembered that this
woman was subotned by her mistress to comMit the
crime, charging a third person with secreting a quan-
tity of diamonds. She was adjudged to be confined
only four months, on account of her already baying
been imprisoned eight months.
. • Sentence of divorce, a : nzensa et thora, was on
Saturday pronounced at boOors'' Commons by' 'Sir
WII,LIA,NI SCOTT ill the case of- Mr. CHAisauits
.against his woife, :whose •condua with 'respect to
Mr. CAULPI ED ,the 'Public are suliidently aCquainted:
with.

'A plan is in contemplation by which it is hoped'''.
that the fatal accidents so frequent in the corning-
houses of the Royal Powder-works at Faversham,
may in a great meimurebe prevented. It is intended .t
net only to
,simplify the machinery, so that the ‘i
power of one gorse only will be required, but the 1
wholeof the works are-to be sunk in the ground,
with a loose roof of weather boarding, which in the
event of the composition taking fire, will fly off; aad
give vent to the explosion.--French, the seventh
victim, on the late unfortunate event, is since dead.
A patent has been recently enrolled for an im-
proved method of stowing cargoes of ships, &c. 1-
Insteild of the, casks, trunks, &c. now
.used fot
packing and securing'from damage, articles °inlet-
chandize,
_whether in the solid or liquid form, the
patentees make use of cast or wrought iron -reeep-
tacles, . made so close and light as to be absolutelyi:.,
impenetrable to the extesual air and moisture:
They are so constructed in figure and shape, as to
fit exteriorly to each other, Without the waste of
room,_ which often takes place in ,the stowage of
wooden casks. In some cases the iron packages
are recommended., to be tinned and Varnished: