The Sun.
London, England, 1816-11-27 00:00:00

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DEAL, Nov, 2G.—An ived, and sailed for the
River, the Electra, WILLIAMS, in 33 days, from
Philadelphia. Came tiokvn from the River, and
reniain, the Lord Cochrane, KING, for Jamaica;
James and Theresa, APSRY, for Smyrna ; Hus•
siren transport, for Portsmouth ; and West lir-
COOK, for Antigua. Put back the Grenada,
APPLETON, for Hayti.—Wind S.
FALMOUTH, Nov. 24.—Arrived his Majesty's
ship Lee from a cruise, and Commerce, HOCKER,
fr on London. Sailed the Comet, Tuomcsobr,
for Giuraltar, and Camperdown, LESLIE, for
London. The Oak; WYNESS, did not sail, as re-
ported last eventug.—Wind S. E.
RAMSGATE, Nov. 26.—Put in for shelter the
following vessels :—Providence, for Plymouth ;
Aurora, for NVatertord ; Hein, for Swansea;
Hope, for Brighton ; Manly, for Liverpool;
William and Mary, for Leghorn ; and Mary for
Portsmouth—the latter has lost an anchor.
GRAVESEND, Nov.26.—Arrived the Princess of
Wales, Stewart, from. Calais ; Catherine, Pro-
bert, from Riga ; Vrovr Harmina, Fidler, from
Lrar.—Pot hack the Mary, Herbert, from St •
Vincent's, having teen on shore.--Sailed the The-
tis, Barclay. for Hanihttcgh ; Ann,-Goodwin, for
Jamaica , Ceres, Matthew, for ditto ; Resolu-
tion, Roberts, for Dublin ; Commerce, Scott,
fur Havre ; Jong Peter Jacobas, ‘lTyheS, for Am-
sterdam.

The William and Henry, of Charleiton, and
sevoal other vessels (particulars unknown), were
wrecked on the I I th inst. near Rochelle.

• Exchanges %%TIT again higher yesterday. PAris
was done at 25 771 to 25.80 ; Amsterdam 12. 6;
flatuhnrgh 36.9.

J3ONPLAND, the botanist and companion of
11U2413OLDT ill Spanish Aniei,ica, lately sailed for
Buenos Ayres, accompanied by a ►cumber of
French Officers.

A Alortikug Paper says, on the authority of its
Paris Correspondent, that itt consequence of some
conversation held at Sir C. STuART's respecting
the Police, M. TALLEYRAND received an inti-
mation from the .ht NG of FRANCE not to appeir
at Court.

Written requisitions were placarded in Plymouth
last Thursday, for a mob meetiug on Friday on
the Hoe; but. without effect. The failure of the
incendiary is the hest proof of the good temper
and good sense of the people in that qiimier.
They know th.it scuition is no improver of bad
times; and that eery practical effort has been
made, and is •till making, to find empkylient
and subsistence tor the poor of Plymouth, Dock,
and toe neighbourhood.
Tilt rc k% ill be. an eclipse of the moon in the
evening of Weonesday the4th of December, which
will commence about a quarter past sevel., be at
the middli: a, 44 minutes pas, eight, and terini-
nate,,at 14 minutes past ten. Tnc digits eclinsed
will be eight degrees of the moon's south limb, or
two thirds of its surface.

Large flocks of-wild geese have recently been
seen along the Sussex coast, an indication that
the winter has set 10, itt the North, with severity.
The same may be augured by the multitudes of
woodcocks, snipes, &c. in all their haunts through-
out the country, and from the gulls and sea fowl
which are daily visible around London flying from
place to place,
Mr. lewtti, a Gentleman who had been lligh
Sheriff of the county of Roscommon, in Ire-
land, hot latterly a prisoner in the Four Courts
Maishalsea, in Dublin, for debts to the amount
ut 17,000/. effected! his escape on Friday last, by
working' a hole ['brine) the wall of his room,,
and, by the means of it rope lowered himself. clown
full 16 feet into Marshalsea lane, without being
discovered.—(,Morning Paper)
IkCENDIAHIES —A valuable stack of 'oats was
destroyed by the work of some incendiary on the
premises of M.. John Hague, at Garloreh, near
Luella, latft Tuesday. We hope the perpe,rators
of this criminal act will not long escape detection.
Last week ,a considerable quantity of French
and other foreign silks were seized by'the aticers
of Excise, at the bousiot a resperlable merchant
in Leeds.

• MELANCHOLY Acciont4T.,---Monday night, the
11 tit Instant, the 'driver of one of the chaises (ruin
the Lion Inn, in Wrexham, after driving hiS tare
to Chester, set out on:his return home. The night
was extremely dark, at►d the wind blew a hurri-
cane —On arriving at the Russet Bridge, about
six miles from thence, it is supposed the untortu-
nate driver, who inside• the vehicle, with a
passenger, missed his toad (some say he was
asleep) ; the horses took the ford, when, painful
to relate, the rapidity- of the current swept chaise
and horses down the stream ! Next morning one
of the horses having disengaged itself wai found
grazing •on the river bank.. The other horse,
chaise, postillion, and passenger, however, have
not since been heard of ; and it is apprehended
that-, being washed into the- Dee, the fresh may
have carried the whole into the sea.—The Alps is
a small •stream, receiving its water from the adja-
cent high lands ; but in wet weather it swell•
prodigiously, rising 10 or 12 feet in the course at
s few boors.

A young man, named Pocock, apprentice to
Mt. Gundry, grocer, of Devizes, going on the
evening of Monday se'nuight into a ware-room
above the shop, with a candle in his band, with-
out the necessary precauti►►n of putting it into a
lanthorn, a spark contn►unicitted to two tubs of
gunpowder deposited there, weighing about 151bs.
each, and the explosion was trilueodous : it car-
ried away the tront of the upper part of the house,
and nearly the whole of the roof. The poor youth
was precipitated down two pair of stairs into tl,c
shop, his face and the upper pert of his body
scorched to a cinder. He died un the following
Thurbday.