The Sun. — London, England, 1802-12-07 00:00:00

IMPERIL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF PEERS, MONDAY, DEC. 6. HEARD Counsel in a Scotch Appe;ll. The Promissory Note Bill was brought up, and read a iirst tln3e.—Adjourned till' to-morrow. 110 USE OF COMMONS, moNoAy, nEc. 6. AN AcCount was laid before the House of the iturrber of Ships employed in the Whale Fishery horn Scotland. Also an Account of the Quantity of Rice and Corn imported, af,d the Bounties paid thereon. Also an Account fro the Exchequer, showing the Amount of the Permanent Taxes from Oaober Y.:Sot, to OP.° 18oz. Admiral to:Er. E y presented a Petition from the 'Brewers of Gloucester, against the late Duty on .Beer. A Petition was presented, complaining of a double Retur n from the Burgh of Stirling, in Scotland._ Orctered to be taken into consideration on the zest IA December. 7 - I.)e S,PAKER said, he had received a Letter from the Clerk of the Crown in Ireland, complain ing of an undue Election for the County of the Town of Carrickfergus. Another Petition was presented from Coventry.— Ordered to be taken into consideration on the same day with the former. A Petition from Leominster was presented, com plaining of an undue Elation, which was ordered to be taken into consideration on the sth of April. Two Petitions from Aylesbury—to be taken into consideration on the 7th of April. Mr. BLAcKEURNE presented a Petition from Middlesex, from WILLIAM MAJNWARING, Esq. Complaining of partiality in the Sheriffs, RAW. t..tNs and Cow, as Returning Officers, during the late EleEtion, and also of corrupt prac tices being employed on the said .Elettion. Ordered to be taken into consideration on the Izth of April. Petitions were also presented, complaining of•undue Eleetions, from Malden, fixed for the 14. th of April ; Honiton for the 19th ; Shaftesbury fur the a. Ist April ; Carrickfergus for the 26th April ; Windsor for the Och April ; Weymouth and Mel combe Regis for the 3d May. The CHANCL4LOR of the EXCHEQUER said, that as the time approached in which the Re cess usually took place, he thought it necessary to suggest to the House the propriety of deferring the Petitions until after that Recess. He felt himself justified in making that motion, both with a view to public business, arid to the convenience of Mem bers. In the years 1790 and 1796, there was no instance of any Petition being heard before Christ mas, that had been presented so late as the present Petitions were, with the exception only of two petitions, the one of . which was for o double return, and which therefore necessarily claimed an early bearing, the other was from Southwark, and which the House heard from peculiar circumstances attend ing the case. He therefore conceived that he should promote the public business, and contribute to the convenience of Members, by now moving, that no Petition be heard till after the Recess. He there fore gave notice that he should make a Motion to that effed on Wednesday next, and on Friday he should move to fix the days on which they were to be heard. There was a Petition from Great Grimsby fixed for the 9th inst. he should propose to fix it for the T 4th, merely pro forma. Another Petition was presented from Great Grimsby, which was fixed, after some conversation, for the same day with the former Mr. DicieENsoN presented a Petition from the 'Debtors confined in ilehester Gaol. Mr. ALEXANDER brought tip the Report of the f2omniittee of Ways and Means ; the Resolutions were agreed to, and Bills were ordered to be brought ;re, Trish Militia Bill was read a second time, red to be committed to-morrow. . , presented an account of the • . - •r inking and bringing Fish to t:4 . e _.;radon and Westminster.—Ordered to AltiS I TTA'RT moved for leave to bring in a t :.,Wend an Aft of the 4.lst Geo. 111. which re: iced to Navy Bills, which were circulating at an In_ retest of 3 "„id. per cent. per diem. The reason of this Motion was, I.P. said, that the flourishing state of the .3ountry enabled Gove:nment to circulate Exchequer LiPs and. oth?,r Securities at a less interest, by which ~ lving,of 90,c0p1, a year would be made to the A-) üblic. —Leave was given to bring in the Bill. t i e Order of the Day for the first reading of the Indemnity ilia was discharged, on account of an informality in the tide, and a new Bill was brought in, and read a fir t time. _ The Committees of Supply and. Ways • and Is/leans were put off WeJoesday. .Sir E. N El'EAti n'iovetl, That there be laid befoN the House an Ad:count of . the Expence for the Main. tenance of Prisoners of War, payable in 402. Ordered.—Ad j our ned till tO.II2OFTOW. J Holland 0 Vrench ,4\IAILS. DUE. fi 1 PTO CE C?l' STOdKS, Tilts PAY AT TWZ.ViIt O'CUOCt• Consols for Opening •6 I Omnium - disc. THE SUN. SOLEM DICIRZ FALCUM fIUDZAT ? 4R It IVED• "0N D 0 ; p.g.cEmßtEß 7, r 302. By Private Letters from Geneva, re4e-;v0 yester ,i ws: learn that the French General NEF,corn >l)alAiog in s.',44itZeritita, has written ;Q die Com. ; 11 .inclimt of Oeneva, that there are zoo Englidimen Kgsen: 2t that placc, who are covspiripa against the life of tile Cricr CONSUL of the French Re. public. The English residing there, indignant at such an imputation upon the British Charaeter, have taken it upon themselves to make a representation of the circumstance to Lord Wn t TWORTH, the Bri tish Ambassador at Paris. There are not at present above twenty or thirty English at Geneva. THE Hamburg', Mail, which arrived yesterday, states, that the Deputation of the Empire has nearly terminated its labdurs, and that the Conc sum upon the question of the Indemnities may be very shortly exile led. We are sorry to find, by letters from Constanti nople, that considerable irritation prevails between the English and Turkish Troops in Egypt, which is said to have produced some serious contests. Spain, Holland, and Naples have not only ob_ tained permission from Russia to navigate in the Black Sea, but the Russian Ambasssador at Cowan. tinople has endeavoured to obtain for them a similar indulgence from the Porte, which application, it is said, will probably be successful. We yesterday received American Papers up to the sth of November._ Though these Papers do not contain any very minute statements respeaing the present situation of St. Domingo, yet the intelligence they furnish on this subject is of a very important nature. The accounts come down to the z sth Odober, from Cape Francois. The Negroes are in all quarters in a state of open insurreftion. They are spreading their devastations over all the Plantations in the neigh bourhood of the places occupied by the French Troops, and it appears that they experience no thing like effeCtual resistance. Their boldness was daily increasing,and they were gradually approaching nearer to the Cape, from which, according to the latest accounts, they were but a short distance.— A detachment of French Troops had been sent to Fort Jeremie to check their incursions, hut without being able to elle& their objet. The Negroes, so far from being intimidated, were, according to one account, adually preparing to attack the Fort, and in such numbers that there was reason to think they would be successful in dislodging the French Gar. r i son . There was not the least prosped of the re storation of tranquillity in the Colony, and its ap pearance was still more tumultuous than at the com.. inericement of the troubles at the breaking out of the Revolution. Commerce was completely at a stand, and among the Merchants nothing was to be seen or heard of but terror and dismay'. The American Mer_ chants were anxious to leave the Island, and as far as circumstances would permit, were taking measures for the removal of their property. The greatest want o f mone y for the payment of the► Troops and the ordi nary demands of Government was experienced. A very oppressive tax is said to have been imposed to meet the exigency of their demands. This tax consists of six dollars on each woman, ,eight dollars on each man of the poorest description, from seven hundred and fifty to nine hundred dollars on each Alterican, and from four hundred and fifty to six hundred on each French Merchant. Of this contri bution one half was to be immediately paid down, and the remainder within thirty days. In case of default, five per cent. is to he demanded for an ad ditional month, and if payment is not then made, confiscation and arrest is immediately to take place. Accounts from Aux Cayes to the ;9th of Oftober state, that numbers of the Negroes were hung and shot daily. The number of the Negroes in a state of revolt is supposed to he 30,020. Letters from Jacmel state, that a general massacre of the Whites had taken place, after which a pillage of the town en,riutal. We hope this statement is ex aggerated. yort_au-Prince was said to be closely besieged by the Insurgents. The American Met_ chants are not only obliged to pay severe Fontri. butions, but to enrol themselves in the National Guard. The above intelligence is certainly the most re cent from St Domingo. It appears, therefore, that the island has not been evacuated, as was reported. It is evident, however, that the French Army is in a very critical situation, and nothing but speedy reinforcements can enable them to aft, even on the defensive, with success. Letters from Martinique, by the American Papers received yesterday, bring no information of consee quence. Every thing was quiet in the island, but the markets were dull. The Americans complain that already they have begun to engienee injustice On the part of the French Governmeain the Island. They mention instartes where ships, which had paid the duties to the British governor, had been laid under embargo till they were paid anew to the French Custom-house Officers.--At Newyork, and all the other places where the pestilential fe ver prevailed, every dangeroUs symptom has disap. peared. At Philadelphia the , usual .bills of health were restored on the first of November. Other ac counts state, that the fever still raged with fury. It appears from the American Papers, that Thomas Paine arrived at Baltimore on the 3oth of Oaober. The common people flocked round him on his landing. He retired to a tavern and drank copiously of brandy, which he takes at all times immoderately, and it gives him a very sottish appearance. The Americans do not relish the idea of his coming among them ; his credit has declined ever since he wrote so disrespeafully on General WASH t NGTON. He mixes with none but the lower classes, with whom he- is quite familiar. When sraking of himself he generally says " We public Charmers," and loudly boasts of his having been expressly sent for by President Jefferson. PRINCE - WILLIAM Of GLQVCESTER ha 4 visited all the Arsenals, and every ihing worthy of notice at Stockholm ; and on the ;&th, Hia Royal High ness was entertained at an eVgant Ball, given by Mr. AR BuTHNoT, the British Minister there, at which the wbule of the Dirterstaciq burps were pre:, sent. NAVAL NEWS. PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 6. ARRAYED the Kiitislog, BUNKER, from the South Seas, a full Ship, last from the Coast of Africa, with loss of mizen.mast, and other damage, and was on shore last night on the I'Vamser Ledge. i) YARMOUTH, DEC. 6. S.,4kp the Clyde Frigate, on a Cluize ; and the Ci l -tilzer Brig, for Sheerness. Arrived the Friendship, GIDNEY, from Wis beach ; and Mary, HORN, from London. Sailed the Bee, BULLY, Industry, BOOTH, Oak, ATKINsoN, and Lion, TEASDELL, for the Medi terranean ; Endeavour, FOREMAN, for Chichester; and William, Husoti, for Dover. DE,4I, DEC. 6. SAILED the Bloodhound Gun-brig on a cruise, and Adder Ditto, to the Westward. Arrived the illagicienne and Penelope Frigates, from Portsmouth ; the former has sailed with the Autumn to the Northward, and the latter remains. LYMINGTOY, DE c. 6. PASSED by, the Britannia, TURNBULL, from the South Seas. DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZE-MONEY. To the Sloop Busy, a distribution of the following cap tures, viz.—Der Winter, Vrow Rica and Newtraliteit, Eli zabeth, and Dracon Privateer, will be made at No. 17, Cecil street, every Friday for three years to come. Alexander, La Lutine, and Strombolo, for the capture of the wreck Venus; and La Lutine, Strombolo, Bonne Citoy.. enne, and Transfer, for the capture of the Ship Fowler, will be paid at No. 9, New Broad-street, on the first Thursday in every month.—The Pearl's proportion of the above cap.. Lures will be paid at the Griffin, in Villiers -street, Strand. A compensation for the loss of the Chasseur French Cor vette, captured by the Lion, a distribution will be made at the Bank at Rochester, the first Thursday , in every month. A distribution of the Vrow Rica and Neutraliteit will be made to the hired Lugger Phoenix, at No. 17. Cecil-street, every Friday for three years to come. The following is an Extra`} of a Letter from the Cape of Good Hope, dated Sept. r, 18o1: 41 We are hourly in expedation of the Dutch Squadron to take possession of this place. All the Ships of the Squadron are fitting to receive the Troops; the Lancaster, Capt. LARcom, is to take 300 ; the Inpiter, Capt. LosAcx, zso ; D;onsede, Capt, MOTTLEY, 2 5 0 ; and the smaller ships ih propor tion. I have the pleasure to add, that the Admi. ral, Sir ROGER CURT is, is in perfest health, as are all the Fleet." His Royal Highness the Duke of CUMBERLAND gave a Grand Entertainment last night, at his Apartments in St. James's Palace, at which were present his Royal Highness the puic r of YORK, Generals Sir WM. Fivwc Ell- and . hitowNßicc, Colonels CALVERT and PHIPPS, Major COLLYER, and Captain STEPHENSON, &C. The Entertain ment was concluded in the first stile of elegance, and gave great satisfaEtion to the visitors. His Royal Highness the DUKE of CLAitylct was not present at the Dinner. Her Royal Highness the DUTCHESS of YORK'S health is greatly improved. The Dutchess of CUMBERLAND has been detain. ed some time at Lyons, by a disorder which had been unskilfully treated at Paris, but which was cured at Lyons by means of a delicate operation, pertormed by a Surgeor. of that City of the' name of MARTIN. Her Royal Highness has since , set out for Nice, for the benefit of her health. Sir LioNEL DARELL'S Friday Balls attraa all the Beauty and Fashion of Richmond, and its neigh. i bourhood ; his last Ball was numerously and ele. gantly attended '; his Royal Highness the DUKE of CLARENCE, Lady BuCKINGHANBHIRE, Lady CASTLEREAGH, &C. were of the Party. Mr. HE N RY HoPE gave a grand dinner yesterday to a seleft party of friends, among whom were Sir HENIky, Lady and MISSSTREACHFr, Sir GILBERT and Lady AFFLECK, 'Mr. METCALF, Mr. Mrs. and Miss MooaEs, Mr. GREGBYS, &c. Sir RICHARD and Lady HERON have taken the North-house, at Brighton, which for many months, in igot, was the residence of his Grace the Duke of GRAFTON. The Margravine of ..ANSPACH, Princess BEL MONT, Lord STEWART, Lord DE CLIFFORD, and Lord and Lady AYLMER, are among the last ar rivals at Bath. Lady Lou ISA MANNERS returns to Town from Moulsey Grove, near Hampton, in the course of a fortnight. The following Anecdote much engages the atten tion and chitchat of the fashionable circles :—A Lady of birth, fortune, and accomplishments, hay. ing ocular proof of an improper intimacy subsisting between her husband and her own servant woman, took the opportunity, next day, of her husband's absence, to inform the woman that she had no further occasion for her service, and paying her what wages were due to her, ordered her to leave the house direfily. The husband, on his return, being informed of what had happened, ordered his carriage to be got ready, and told his Lady she must instantly return to her friends, as it was his determination not to live with her any longer. The Lady, with that fortitude which innocence in. spires, yielded immediate compliance, and was re. ceived by her friends, after hearing the circum.. stances, with all possible tenderness and affection, her father observing, that if ever she returned again to her husband, she must never expect to find a se cond asylum in his house ; and here the affair at pre sent rests. The result time will not fail to unravel. Delicacy obliges us to suppress the parties names ; suffice it for the present to say, that they have hitherto moved in the Brat acclas of fas:Tiopt tXTRACE OF A LEITER F'ROM " Yesterday I was w it ness to a most tn elanel' ° ); sce:;e, but which, in this Country, is passed {'i'l very , slightly. A young man, who had been i ra te , ed among th e C onscr ip ts , w i s h e d to fi n d a S u bstitu rd This produced some alterc a ti on b et w e en him t one of the Serjeants : the latter, in a rage, t hri l l ; him through the b o dy. Th e rest o f : h e Cc . ..:1 5 ! of whom there wa s a l arge party , i ns tantly' patched the Serjeant. A confii6t ensued bots vc the Conscript s and th e Military. The Guard w ere called, who tell upon the Conscripts with great and cut them down. Five and twenty were lc besides several wounded. Two or three of Guards likewise lost their lives. This took in the Public Street, i n la Rut St. Martin. 4. yours to comment—l only state _fads. " In consequence of a variety of circumstan ce , similar to those which I detailed in a former coll:1; munication, the superinte n d ance an d contr act t i erf Theatres have, by a late Decree, -been tran sfer r. from the Co uns ell o r o f S tate , c h arged w i t h Po': sid instrion, to the Prefeds of th e Paldis. TIO f they may be said to b e un d er t h e i mme di ate eYe °nt the FlitsT CoNsut., who will now receive intelligence of any symptoms of popular effervesc ef '". that may occur at the Theatres. This circua e a— re : has aff o rd e d the . 7eurneilists an opportunity 01 torting on the Theatres, for the affront passed them, by depriving t h em o f t h e i r Free Adinisil,, They say, that the ccunsethr of Statefor strudion, finding it imp oss ibl e to ren d er t h e lr;t i e rtes subservient to their l eg i t i mate purpose: i 1' ell; Promotion of Moral Impr ovement , h as g i ve n up, as an incorrigibl e set, and transferred therm to more rigid inspectorship. s to " BOURIIENNE, I find, has been. restore,' Figs favour. He was so much in the secrets of the FI It , CONSUL, that the latter knew not how to do Wi tt out him. " Another attempt is to be made to retain sion of St. Domingo, though it is allowed by all i d telligent persons, particularly by all who are vers a in Political Economy, that the Colony is not w° t ot retaining. The expence of every Soldier sent i c o on this Expedition, amounts t o no l ess a sum Fifty Guineas. The whole re turns o f t he Co l ° ll / , „, at the most flourishing pe r i o d, at t h e t i me SANL /i i i, NAx commanded in 1797, did not exceed nine lions of Livres. The expences, on the other hBn of were upwards of ts Millions, of which upwar“ s o , 13 Millions were for the Mili ta ry E sta hlishin e . , o tn Thus, instead of being a.gai n i ng , i t is, and - b. long remain s a loring concern." "- •• , In our Paper of Thursday we stated . , that `" t)- t o STAHL ENSEIRC had received orders to quit Pa rls oc s twenty.four hours, and the territory of the r ° ,116 Republic as soon as possible. The next dal following paragraph appeared in,the Times : dtb g , " Among the wildest and melt ridiculot rumours J O' day, is a paragraph in a -Paper of yesterday, stating, oil Count STAHRItirDERC, the Imperial, Ambassabor t„ ° re' Court, had, on his way through France to this countr. , 'oo ceiveci orders to quit ;the Republican Territory Witha l space of four-and.twerdy hours. / ' Ofr The ril72Cs of this morning, speaking of the es , rival of Count ST 4 HREMBERG at Paris, 513 t that ha d " His entrance into Paris was hourly expefted, an d still d barely time to alight from hiSFarriage, when an l'-' l ` l or IP • Pclicr, ,a,quainted him, that Governe lc ; ir se given directions that he should leave l'Aris in the C°. til twenty-four hours, and the territ o ry o f t h e R epu blic svi possible ex peditiOh. " g a ol Qn Wednesday last t h e 4 ;d Regiment gaol Highlanders), received thei r • n ew C o l o urs : !,'"" t - he are very elegant, with the word E g ypt, figure of a Sphinx, upon them, as a mark . 1f f tinelion, for their gallan t b e h av i our in 1 - . 7 gP" h ill t The Regiment was drawn up on the CasOf", - a ifl Edinburgh. General VYsE delivered an eL e ,i ; lo speech ) and the Rev. Principal B AIRD detiVe re ' - appropriate prayer, to the Regiment. hir e Qn the zzd ult. the Royal Linlithge:. n ea Yeomanry Cavalry paraded, and afterwartls together in Linlithgow. Besides the >ye required by Ad of ParliaMenr, they have resfraed ed to hold quarterly meeti n gs, in order, P),.. 'O l O alive amongst themselves the spirit t4cellent Institution, of which they have the ri j, notxr of having set the first example in Ser iti , a r per Can this occasion, Captain FERRIER, in their presented a superb Silver Bowl to Major Sir e th eit DALYELL, Bart. of Binns, as an expression high regard. Y in All Officers belonging to the Staff of the Ar ril „ the West Indies, are ordered to repair to the",oo, speftive quarters with all possible dispatch• tier of order has been occasioned by the great nur ny Officers belonging to the Staff Establishme r " co o' had obtained leave to return to England, on th e elusion of Peace. corn' The sth Battalion of the 60th Regimen t ' 4 o' m3nded by that excellent Officer Col. DE BOURG, is to witrer at Trinidad, and pw c , e :colv the Spring to Halifax, where it will prub 3bv dcov st , tinue for some years. The discipline and gof dud of this corps have been the subjeet or J general encomium. 10A r ,,3 15 The Ajax, Capt. Hoocts, anchored in Gou- Roads the 16th of March, from the Cape s of 0 ,1 Hope. A number of Recruits for His M"Je the Regiments on the Madras Etablishmenl, ul ivi " . eu to r ' charge of Lieutenant DE BOSSETT, of die Regiment, and Mr. Assistant Surgeon Tar g we L re received by the Ajax. ieutenanr.Colonel SHERRIFF IS appo in ted command the Cantonment of Arcot. Saturday a Deputation of Maltsters , ferent Counties, had an interview with Mr : n DINGTON at his house in Downing-st reet, f e subjett of some clauses in two late Alts TheY ,id ment, respelling the making of Malt. w ho very politely received by the Minister, ore 355 P great attention to their observations, an. n w it! them they should ta ken into ennsideratio out delay. ult. says' A Letter from Dublin, dated the-30t11 i dow er, " A Gentleman of resredability , . an d a 1 : 41 i t o tot with four children, has just been commit te e pr, son by Lord REDE , DALE, the Lord Chan c chao running away with and marryin a ,posses se d Ward°olf eery, a young Lady of nineteen tune of 60,00ol." 't