The Sun.
London, England, 1816-11-01 00:00:00

STATE OF THE NAVY.

The following is the state- and disposition of
the British Navy, made •up to the present day :
At sea, of the line, 12 ; from 50.t0 44 g►►ns, 2 ;
frigates, 32 ; sloops and yachts, 14 ; brigs, 46 ;
cutters, 3; schooners, &c. 3. Total, 112 —ln
port and fitting—of the line, 11 ; from 50 to 44
guns, 3 ; frigates, 7 ; sloops, &c. 6 ; brigs, 17 ;
cutters, 1 ; schooners, &c. 4. Total 49.—Gnard
ships, o 1 the line, 2 —Hospital ships, prisms
ships, &c.—of the line-, 4 ; frigates, 1. Total, S.
In commission—of ►he line, 29 ; from 50. to 41
guns, 5 ; frigates, •10 ; sloops, &c. 20 ; brigs, 63 ;
cutters, 4;, schooners, &c. 7. Total, 168.—Or-
(Hoary and repairing for service—of the line, 130;
from 50 to 44 guns, 19; frigates, 88 ; sloops,
&c. 24 ; bombs, &c. 6 ; brigs, 117 ; cutters, 2 ;
schooners, &c. 5. Total, 391.—Building—of the
line, 18; frigates, 9; sloops, &c. 1 ; brigs, 5.
Total, 33. Grand Total, 592.—Decrease in the
Grand Total, 26.

LORD WHITWORTH.
[From the Dublin Evening. Correspondent, Oct. IL]

We have great pleasure in announcing, that
the state of the LORD LIEUTENANT'S health is
considered to be so Much improved, that the Phy-
sicians do not deem it necessary to issue a Morn-
ing Bulletin as heretofore. The Evening Billie-
tin of yesterday was as follows :

a Phoenix Park, October 27, Four o'Clock, r.
" The Lurd Lieutenant has passed the dxv favourably."
(Signed as Usual.)

Letters from CHdiZ, of the 11th tilt. mention
that the British ship Melville bad arrived there
from Rio Janeiro, in 47 days. She brings ac-
counts to the 16th August, a date nearly a month
more recent than our former advices ; but they
are silent with regard to any further movement of
the Portuguese. Another insurgent privateer is
cruising off Cape St. Vincent's, and had captured
a ship from llavannah.—(Morning Paper.)
The Cadiz Papers to the lOth tat.llientioll that
a mixer belonging to the Emperor of Mottocco
hail captured a Russian verses, laden with salt,
from Alicant, and a Prussian vessvl, with marble
on board, for Lisbon, and carried them into
Moorish ports.
By advices, of the 9th October, from Naples,
we learn that a Trabaciolo and a Mart ineano, two
vessels, colours unknown; had been captured by
two Tunisian pirates, the 22d ult. within five
tulles of Navarino.

The American squadron by the last accounts
was at Messina.—The Americans, it is said, are
fitting out two vessels for the purpose of explor-
ing the north-west coast of that continent, and
making discoveries in the Pacific Ocean. Their
equipment is represented us being on au extensive
scale, and that they will he put tinder the directions
of some of their most scientific officers.

‘Vitinsoa, OCT. 31. Ile weather havinw been
very rainy for several days past, the Royal Fa-
mily have been very little out of the Castle, ex-
cept on Tuesday, when the QUEEN and PRIN•
cassas spent the day at Froginore. Yesterday
evening the Qua• had a select party at the
Castle.

The Loan CHANCELLOR returned to London to
dinner on Wednesday, previous to the first seal,
which commences this' clay.
Sir Romer GEORGE, the Chnirmaa of the
Transport Board, retires on a pension, in conse-
quence of that office being abolished, and the du-
ties incorporated with the Navy and Victualling
Boards. He has filled that situation for many
years, and has also served as an Officer on several
foreign stations, and was made Post-Captain in
November, 1781. Captain BowEN, another of
the Commissioners, will be attached to the Navy
Board. Dr. HARNESS, the Medical Commissioner,
alsoia very old and excellent servant of the public
in various laborious situations, and one to whom
the British Navy is eminently indebted for its
health and comforts, retires on a pension, and will
be succeeded by Dr. IVata (inspector of Hospi-
tals), the duties of which situation are to he per-
formed at the Victualling Board. Several Clerks
and others, unfit for their situations through age
and infirmities, are also to be superannuated.
Yesterday it was communicated to the Stock
Exchange, that Government. was ready to pay oil
ald. Exchequer Bills, payable in December
and January next.

011WINAL POETRY.

On Sir SIDNEY SNI 111 and his /Peg-Pirate ,isseciation.

Al: the world was expecting a terrible fight
' wist a very fine lley and a very fine Knight;
For each to the other great enmity bore, •
Though they never had met quite together before
nut I fear there's nu chance of this beautiful sight,
For the Dry is extinguished, and so is the Knight.
QUIZ.