The Sun.
London, England, 1811-04-11 00:00:00

NAVAL: 14EWs.

PLYMOUTH, APRIL a. --:Sailed his Majesty's
sloop Savage, of 16 guns; and the liarnbtr, hired
armed ship, with a convoy consisting of about 40
sail, for the Downs; also ',ailed the extra ship Ma-
rian, WRATIIIIRHEAD ; and the Dutch schooner
De Gede. Trow, from Batavia, prize to the Fancy
hired cutter, for the Biver ; and the Wansbeck,---,
fur Maiden.

• PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 10....AtTiVed his- Majesty 's-
ship Proniiiheus fruit Gibraltar; and is put und,l
qulrantine ;. she sailed on the 27th ult. ; the Mor-
tague man of war left Gibraltar a week previous,
with about 70 sail under convoy for England, and
may, be hourly expected.; also the Crane and Diana
from Plymouth ; Port Mahon and Coquette from a
cruize, and the Narcissus from Madeira.

Sailed his Majesty's ship Amelia with a convoy
for Quebec, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswickiand
the Lightning sloop of war for the 'Brazils ) the
Amelia • and Lightning are brought up in 'Var..
mouth Roads, •.

HARWICH, 'APRIL 10.---Arrived the. Diana, with
from Heligoland.
Sailed the I,,arly Francis packet, with the -Aohnit
mails of the 6th and a ; Prince of Wales packet,
with the HeligoLud uiaml rat the th.

Remain. in Flweiey Bay, Mkjesty's ship
Vigo, Rear Admiral Dix.oN, nu(' several Otll4. ships

at war.

DEAL, :APRIL li).—Catile down from the River
several ships, and pissed through the pawns.
..Sailed thc St. George and Princess Caroline men
of war for the Baltic. .
The Furious gun-brig takes' convoy to the Weit-
ward.

DISTRIBU PION ol' PRIZE MONEY.
Emerald, tur the Commerce, on board, on her arrival; re..
called at b;, FOre- strert, Plymouth.
Mitticey, fur La Pelagic, yesterday, at ag, George-strect,
Plymouth.
rethusa, 8r;ool. in advance, ter her shareor le Niemen,
bet ore recalled at aines.st reet, Adelphi,
Seine, for the Betsey and l'olly, Union, and Hope, on
board, on the ttt,, hutont ; recalled at 2,3, Norfolk.,
street.

' Proslntro, for flu: Ai4gerhuns and Anna Mette C .thartna,
on bosnl, to-morrow ;- re,4llrd at 18, Clement's-Inn.
Viotvtu ad, for mu Fulton., Brnctie,, sututry o,intsh boa's,
and Active, recaptup:, un board, to-morrow; rta;ailLd at tb,
4.:lCirittn• Inn.

On Sunday "night the LORD CitANCELI,Oa. and
1. rd E.l.l..6NnotitiziGa were in waiting to receive Iris •
heyal Highness ahe PIIIN.CE lteotreT. upon his re-
tain 'from clsor, a,id afterwards bad an audience •
of hill Royal Nighties.; for a eansiderable tune.
The Thir eelith: Report, of the Corronisaioners of
Military finptir) has-been printed., b. embraces the
Office. ,of the Il.l.lstet•Getteral and Board of Ord-
nance, It Liar:llr, principally upon, the C tilt Esta- •
blishment of the Ordnance, and the great increase of
its expellees within the few last years. It colicledes
with reco.ninending a new t or the Board
of Ordnarrce, and a new arrangement the busi-
nessof the Department, with a view to greater sim.
plicity and economy conduding it, and a more.
;defined respot.sibility in those wholeive the actual
management of it. The alterations Which it recent-
mends are :—That there should be only one Secre-
tary atfathed to the Office of 'the•Maitter-General,
With a salary not exceeding 8001. suyear, in lieu of
fees and: every tiling, The busiiress of the Of-bce to
tar:carried on othier the saw,. roof with the geeeral
business Of the Ordnance.---Two Clerks appointe,l
to the Lieutetiaut-General's ()thee: to be disconti-
nued, as unoecessary. The Jon!' Junior Members ,
of the. Board' to ,be abolished:, and :the Board of
l• Ordnance, like those of the Adm.raltv and Trea.ury,
.toz.be censtituted by one generai Co rimissien, with.
the Lieutenant-General of the (.iatnalice at its head,
kV it h the powers eXt'teiSeil by the, present Board,
siabje:t,lioweter, io .1 he Master• General's interior-
, euce ; and not mote than two of the C .miniastoners:
to sit se Parliament. The salary :ot the Lieutenant-
Gyrteral not to exceed tool. a year, and ttio•ie of
the tour Junior Cummis.ioners at t :tool. a year, in
lieu of every thing. Ailowance tor stationery, ,and •
thepradiee uf, emelt); log persons in the pay of the
• pttbltc ht. their domestic service, to be discontinued
through the whole department. The travelling ex-
'peaces of the Mater-Genetal to be reduced to.4s.
. and 21. • a day for expellees ; .and for Board
Offiyer, 2i. a mile, and t is 5;., per day for expenees,
The bills to be sighed and ce.t4irad for ".Ordnance
objecti."—le-tead of the 'pi cot Offices at (lie
Tower, an (Jill 0 e,f Serve). Cheque, 3 Money
Accountant Office,' am! at Store A,,comitatit Office,
to Loil,titniett,—.l.'he Office of Cletit of t Deli-
vet ies to be abolished, and tee actual' cusindy, ecc.
of the Stores to be committed to a. new Officer,
called the Tower Storekeeper. The Office of Sur-
vey and Cheque to be the same, with the exception
of the toonaging of Seares, etc. as it is now carried
on in the Survtyor-Qentralls Office; and that of the
Money Accountant Office toe same as in the Office
of Clark of the Ordnance, except the recording of
orders, warrants, t&t:,-Tile objeCt of these altera-
tions is'to confine the three Officers to separate anti
disiiiia imatters of business ; and is suggested
that the present Officers an 4 Clerks might be easily
tranferred to the new Oakes, having duties orre-
sponding with their present omploytneuts as, tor
instance, the Chief Clerk of the Serveyor-General's
Offise to be placed at the head of the new Office of
Survey and Cheque; the Chief Clerk of the (Mice
of the Clerk of the 'C./Me:ince, at the head of the
-Money Accouct,int's Office; and the, principal
Storekeeper's Chief CterL, at tire Lead of the Store
Accountartes C ark et tile Clerk
. c,f Delivery's Office betog made Storekeeper at the
Tower.