The Sun. — London, England, 1807-11-11 00:00:00

e • r - lir LltfilL PARLIAMENT • • ' HOUSE OF PEERS, • TuasnaY, Nov. AttOtrr a quarter past three the LORI CHANCEL ton; Earl CAMUEN,..and the Earl of WINCHE.SEA, •took , ,their seats as His Malesty's Comthissiopers for Rather proroguing Parliament.. Mr: Qnarme,' the Deputy Usher of the Black Rod, was sent to require the attendance 01 the Commons. Soon afterwards Mr. Dysbn, the Clerk, Assistant;; and the Ofcers of the'. House, representing. the Coalitions, came to the ear. The Commission for further proroguing,thp tnent was read at the table. • The LORD CHANCELLOR, la His,Majesly's narne, and by virtue of the said Comnaission i declared the Parliament t 9 be, further prorogued to Thursday the 171 h, of December next. The Commons retired from the Ilar, and' the Lords CommissiOners withdrew from the •House.: , '1; MM I.S. AKA IV Ea —1 LiSbOn, c Mika. Dug —4 ciottObtith, 3 Watativd, PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT TWELV 04:LOCK. Consols , 63l# T H E S U N. GOLZM QUIZ DICEItZ 1AL51114 4ULIZAT L 0 N . I) 0 N, WEDNESDAY, tio,vum4r,t 41, 18Q7 ,Wg have at length received some authentic intel ligence from Portugal:--His Majesty's Brig the Rakigh, of 18 guns, has, arrived at Plymouth froth Oporto, which place she left on the 31st nit, Portuguese Government, in compliance with the mandates of BuotgAvAnTr, have issued Proclama tion for shutting the Ports of Portugal against our 'Ships, a copy of which was brought'oVer by the Palgigh. Almost the whole of the British Property at Oporto had been embarked, principally in Portuguese bottoms, before the ...Raleigh came away. The Fleet was expected to. sail about the of this month, under the'convoy of the LOinia Frigate. • yesterday mentioned a report Willa} was in very ,general circulation, of a Naval . A6lion. having talten Mice off cadtz, which terminated in the de feat of the Enemy, with the loss a twelve Saitot the • Niue. • Another version of the report was that the a6tion was fought off Carthagena, and tharthe lo4s or the Enemy was only five Sail of the Line. It wOuld, give us the most sincere pleasure to confirm this'ae- Acount;but we fear there is no foundation for it. We hove some reason to believe that the report took its rise from the arrival of the Russian Fleet at Gibral tar, and they were at first taken for captured Ships, A Letter was received . at Lisbon from Faro, by the' British Consul, Mr. WARP, who immediately transmitted it to Lord W. STUART, Captain of the Lavinia Frigate. - To remove all:doubt, how ever, upon the aubjeet, it is only necessary tO State, that Letters ofa subsequent date have 'been received at the Admiralty from Admiral Ptiitvrs, witch fully pontradid the report. Oar f,etter from Portsmouth of this morning gives lttt following interesting account of an at tempt made by a French Privateer upon the Lord E/duu 4ast Indiaroan : ' " yesterday morning, about four o'clock, a French Prig N v n te er , of 18 giino, and full of men, hailed tf Portland the homeward -bound East India Ship Lgrd Eldon, and, told her she VV3S Swan GUn Brig, and that she waS coming to press the hands ; Nile then sent on hoard a number amen, who took possession of. the Wheel,' and altered the Ship's course, Captain Youwo, of the Lord, Ehleih, tuediittely came out of his cabin, army(' with a cut lass ; the Boatswain of the Privateer, who, was armed with 'a pair of' pistols ani a .cutla„,i, made a blow at him, and wounded him in .the arm. This was returnedby Captain 'Youwo, who wounded his Opponent most -severely to the neek ;,,he irrlcnedi atety repeated his blow, and severed the Boatswain's i, a d f rom his body. The xemairuler of the Priva 7 feet's men then jumped overboard. The Privateer commenced .a fire ou r the, Lord Eldon, which was returned by her as well as the Lord Keith and Ocean, and his Majesty's Ship. Artienil„ the Convoy ; but . the Privateer got clear off by superior, #ailing, with. out receiving much injury." TIT; Beagle is said, by the ppppsition Papers, ' which are always in the secret of Government, to have brought dispatches of a pacific nature from ktnerica.. We havit no intention to dispute the fa6l ; but we cannot avoid apprising our Readers that tho , ,e dispatches can be but ot little import. Kle e in the present state of nirairS, as the questi on .of Peace or War must ultirnately depend upon the Negatiatipn with which Mr. Rosa is charged, in consequence of the recent tratimaions. ut the, Beagle h a s brought information, they nv, " that the clamour in America has subsidcd," . ,• expeaect. America is insolent and •un grateful,.,,but she has, pot yet quite lost her senses. She will itorm'and rave, but ; if lies impotent ebelli tionsi?ediSregaided, sic will, accorf,ling to a homely phrase, take wit in lieNnger and` .silent. Kind.; ness emboldens her—concession renders her ferti. cions,—and the admission ,of one doubtful claim in her favour is the fruitful parent .of a thogond Pn , just demands, . In rejeLling • theareaty with England, she has been guilty of political suicide, and :has ,at lengtti, diScovered her error. undoubtedly she would have, paused upon her rashness if she,had been aware of the change in.;the AdMinistration of this,ceuntry ; but she only looked to a et,i3f.inen wbo,attentive• to 'internal innovations of doubtful or pernicious tendency, left - destiny Witiiollt a thought, and dealt oni il the / immunities and peculiar rights of their ~eptuirry with a careless anc f lavish hand to every greedy , awirant. From such a Minis try AMerica had'siitlieient sagacity .to diScover that every thing might be eipe6ied, at least demanded, and that no danger could ,be apprehended . from an attempt to gain more 'where too , mtich was already conceded • Scarcely, however,. was the Treaty returned ere she learned .that thoe Whsoselimidity or indulgence she hoped to abuse were no , longer in power, and h'er. tiii:i"ppointment..'wii3 extreme. In this state , of things, while She was silently deploritig the .rejec tion of advantages which she never hopes toregain, the unfortunate renConire With the Chesape'ake Look place. With the natuial shrewdness of the Atnerl can. character, an incident so favourable to their wishes, and which, from the 'publicity and Wade with which the Vessel was manned and dispatched, might, with no, great breach of charity, be ahnost supposed to be 'anticipated, was seized. on with' the utmost avidity, and turned to every poSsible account.' l'he right of searching their 'tiading vessels was craftily confounded with that of examining their ships of war, and declared to he incoinpatible with the dignity and safety of 'Atnerita ; Proclamation:;, neither remarkable' for their ,truth nor humanity , were hastily issued, and a furious and premature display t ot; war instaetiY;took place, as if • to give weight to their remonstrances, and extort from sad: den alarm what could not be eXpe6ted froth calm de- liberation and a just view of : our inalienable rights. ,Cheex,lieripent leas failed, and. we are seriously dined tohelieve that it is the 'last which will be hazarded ,for 'some time. Ameilea has received a salutary lesson i f ,and ,truth compels ;. us to add, that no nation on earth ever wanted it so much. Th Inacl.enootniums laviShed on her. 'public virtue, :her integrity, ,and her power, by the fatStion which I?** ralized or thwarted every measure of, Government during' the rebellion, 'and since re-echoed by the : malignant .and diialfeaed outcasts of all countries, seem to.have persuaded America that she really was What she was absurdly represented to be; and, . . amidst afl her laxity 'of principle, her discordant in- terests, her. fadious anomalies, her grovelling pur. suits, her rude and unatniable manners, her savage habits, and her barbarous ignorance; the terror of England,• and the Lyceum of the civilized world The present Ministers well know that, without the expence of a man, without the addition. of a single Ship to those already incOmmission, less than six months of war would suffice to burst the hubble . of American prosperity, and confine her commerce to her own rivers: yet have they not for this, taken adVantage oilier precipitate hostility, but.proceeded with • that dispassionite, dignity which becomes a kreat nation, to consider what is 'due lo:them selves as well as to othersi and after. separat ing. what , had hen purposely ,blended to distraa them, and dispatching a confidential Agent, to give and demand redress on a point which must be discussed by the wisdom of Government, and not determined - by the blind fury of a senseless rab 7 ; ble, they have published the most clear, decisive, and energetic State Paper, that ever issued from the Cabinet of imy country. • ' . I. This important doctunent puts a final close to the dangerous> pradice of seducing our seamen on board Neutral Ships of War, by constituting it an overt ILt of hostility, for which vengeance will be not by the' zeal of an individual, but by the colloetive force of a mighty nation: U. It annihilates the, scandalous custom of natu ralizing, or pretending to naturalize, our unsuspe6t 7 ing Mariners, by a scrap of printed paper and 'ati affidavit, both of which the - easy conscience of 4mericn allows them to purchase for two shillings and sixpence ! by declaring (heir allegiance to their natural .SuverOgn unalienable : and it must surely require far more inhumanity, far more intrepidity in baseness than she can be soppobect to possessi—to subjed these poor wretches In the penal!ies of; high treason, with which the Proclamation threatens them if takeh in arms against their country ! M. The right of stopping and searching Mer chant Vessels for British Seamen, against which Neutral 'States llave long clamoured, net winch America, in particular, had required ns to forego, with a violence scarcely short-of aanal War,,thia truly British Paper does not condescend to doubt, or pertnit to be doubted. The claim is taken as 7 iin7, perscripfible ; it is asserted without 'qualification o r reserve; and the atria enforcement of it imposed . _ as a solen)q duty on every Captain of a Ship.of- War : closing the dispute, and qoashit' bt once, and for ever, the daring and dangerous pro, tepsigus of Neutral Powets. • - Of such magnitude are'the'pOints secured to us by Hi Majesty's Proclamation ! and surely ot)je6ts more valuable in themselves, or more important at the present: moment, never called .for the gratitude, and applause of a just and discerning . People. It tnuA have been, therefore, with some' contierit that Go- . vei - nn)6nt heard the most vigorous Measure justice and reason could devise (and. without justice' and reason, vignuf is but another word for fenzy)., taxed with weakness, merely becauseit.did43oo:.ike', the .tremendous power of commencing War out vi: the 'amb r the S4ve'reigti, and Coin .it 'Abe ardent eorerprize of a thousand individuals And even it Ministers, as was not improbably *the.' case, were tprepared for the ,inktitice of a Party, they must still have witnessed, !with som . ' e emotions of surprise, the extraordinary vehemence of obloquy , with which they were assailed. It required no com mon degree of asturanCe in the adiocates of an Ad ministration who, during the. tWelve - Montlia . 'in Which England was visited with their sway, ,con tended for no rights, defended no principles, -Vita bli ;hed no claims and over whose !wads the Atiiei canrTreaty 'pet-hangs, to accuse the presentGovcra ment of timidity :in the face of a Measure • . their patrons "never dared to contemplate,'end of :•, . claiMs which they had neither the inclination, n.or the sririt, nor the courage, to put forth and maintain. WE stated yesterday that Government were about to adopt some vigorous and decisive measures, in order to counterat BUONAPA itries unprecedented Decree Opinst the commerce or t►!is Country. Con sidering, the violence of that Decree, and the de termined,- and apparentlY. Unappeasable hostility in which it originated,' we conceive that there., will no difference of sentiment as to the propriety of tic measures which our Ministers are going to 'put in force, for the purpose:of obviating the effetts of;the i .Enerny's.vindidive spirit ( It is evident that none of the ordinary Means of warfare 'will dO against this man: He is intoxicate-d with ,power, and blinded ;by. Vnitnosity. He bears in his hand-an-exterminat ing sword, and we -must not attempt to defeat his implacable malice with delicacy and meek fbrbear- . ahce, It is - in'oor power to convince him "that he is -only bringing additional trouble upon the people who are unfortunately subject to his-passions and his ;Caprices; and, in the end he may possibly,excite ..discontents which may - ,shake that Throne which he does not seem disposed to fortify by. wisdom and hUmanity. He has absurdly decreed a blockpde against the British . Porta, l and we can •con- • vince him, that in so doing,'he has, in effe6t, passed a Decree against his Own, and those under con troul that in spite',Of all his idle' threats', I. no' Ships but those which. 'actually contain the produce of Great Britain or her Colonies, and that have last been cleared • Out from British Ports, shall be per mittedto enter his dominions, or any of his vassal tates. With such . a maritime strength as we . posieSs, and after such a tyrannous attempt to inter dict our commerce, it would be consistent with our national vpirit, and a sense of national hOno'ur, to force this .upstart to resort to those measures which • have hitherto been adopted by all civilized States, even when they happened to be at variance With . ! each other. We have shown, by our recent.niea "sure espeaing Denmark, what we have resolind' to do, and what it is in our power to accomplish; and that since be has set an example of severity never resorted to before, it will recoil with even-handed ' justice upon his oWn head.. Yesterday morning his MAJorrv, Princesses Au- GUSTA and AstaLtA,.accompanied by the Hon. Miss EGERTON, GCOCNIS GWYNNK and SkENCER, and Colonel TAYLOR, rode on horseback in Windsor Parks and returned at half past twelve to the Ctstle. On Sunday the Princess AUGUSTA completed her ,30th year. A Council of Cabinet Ministers was yesterday. af ternoon .held• at the Secretary of .State'l Otfice, - in Downing -street, at which were present the Lmtp CHANCELLOR, the CHANCELLOR of theEXCHeciOid, the Earls .. Of WESTMORLAND and' . CAMDEN, Lordt MVLGRAVE and HAWKESBURY. The meeting did not break up till six o'clock. Mr. WiLnEttroapa had an interview with nisters after the Council broke up. Yesterday the Duke of Y ORK h e ld a pu bli c d ay at his Office, in the Horse Guards; and gave private• andiences*tO . General Fox, upon his return from Sicily ; general Sir GEORGE Lunt.dw, upon his tettim.from Copenhagen; 'Sir . DAVID, Ge. Dept ;thiosvEiroa, and the principal part of the Staff. from Buenos Ayres, an d a b out fif ty ot h er Officers: Mr. G. kY. gloss, Envoy Extraordinary to the 151:ited States, sailed yesterday in the 4.ttirq Fri- • gole, 11001 Lyrnhigton for th e Ch esapeake. Leik.rs anti Papers datect the 24th ult. were yes toby received from Holland, but they contain "up in tvili.reilce of importtitice. • • NAVAL NEWS. PLYMOUTH, Nov. 9.—Arrived His Majesty'i " le ig l ß ef a t ic o ig n ii che r 1133r5, Copy of a Proclamation, issued by the Portuguese D u g ; t f . ro a n n i d O h p a o s n b o r , o t u v: h ic l h o pl er ac e s Government, -for -shutting .the Ports of .:.?,Port l o, against this Country. At the ell* sluf left (91??.rt.P4 the: hale of the British pmperty at that placeila 4 , • been embarked, the greater 'part; on :board .1 . 3 P 011- guess -bottoms, and. the. Fleet :were expeaed tot - on the Sid inst. under i convoy of, His . Majestfgl ! Ship . ' Lavinia, Lord Wm ; , STUAATi Commander. Ord STulliT had 'recurred advises from -Lisboa, • . • stating, that a...,Frenc i h' Sgt drop hacl been defeitteirr in the, 11 , 441*rrappAti, pi/. a British: force, which was generally believed. ri •. The homewaril-bound tislintilleet passed up thannel last, evening, under convoy of His Majes. ty's Ship 13 oad*a, consisting,af 32 Sail, part of which were front IleWi'dundiand. 'The Bevenich, from Oporto, one of. the Cow*, is come in here, and His Majesty's .hips Rou4rarint, of 80 guns, i aed P/Ortaggiet; . of 74 guns, together with the Naiad, Eurydice, And dioneise-Frigates, from thr channel Fleet, • Arrived the Danish ;rig ;traria, Capt, from Cadiz; boUnd to Waterford, laden with wine, detaine¢ 'by the Happy Return Privateer also the Eretneni Ship Canopus, from St. Thomas's, bound to Tonningen, laden with sugar, coffee, &c. d tained by the licielatigalsie Privateer, I' Sailed the Bound Sloop of War, with a convoY , ` for the Dowiis; also the Rthannie Cutter, w ith - a Vleet of Vitttgallets, for the Cbapoel Fleet in Tor- 7' FALMOUTH; Nov. B.—Arrived this day the Car. ..c ; caret and Cornwallis Packets, with Mail ' s from Mess Bina, Malta, and Gibraltar, the former in .” days, and the latter 21 days, from the latter place. Lord COLLINOWOOD, with His Ivlajestx's Ships illaiirt , Ocean, Queen, and iftpu/se, arrived at Malta on the 4th October. His Majesty's Ship Melpomene, with .seven Sail under convoy, for England, left Gibraltar on the itith OCtober : nine Line-oil,battle SitilVis and a Frigate (Reunion), arrived at Gibraltay en,th* roth October. Op the 2glll ult. in lat. 42. 14. long,. 14. 30. the Cornwallis fell in with a Lugger i Privateer, of. 14. guns, which, after .an hour and a half's engagement, she beat off. . Arrived His Majesty's Ship Champion, of f;.4 guns, from a Cruiie i arrived also the Towns/tend, Packet, Popp, with Mails from Lisbon, in 18 days pasSege a i left in the Tagus His Majesty's Brig .fissivn,, of 1$ guns, which was ,waiting to bring home Lord STRANGVORD and Mr. GAMBIER. The Convoy for England under His Majesty's Ship Lively, 3ii guest sailed from Lisbon on, the 17th ult. having on hoar 4 nearly the whole of , the British families residing 11 ; Lisbon. Capt. Do.nD had orders, in the event of . falling in with the dockland, on his passage from Lisbon, to request hqr not going into the Tagus; tO, Parts were:to be shut against British Ships on the obth ult.: About 13,000 Portuguese Troops Wer9 expeded into Lisbon from the interior, said LO V s ; for the:pill-pose of assisting the , Priitce Regent and his family in their embarkation for ti i ke Brazils-40 moregenerally believed to carry into effect the ordeg !. tot- the British Merchants to embark. The trench influence appeared' to have prevailed. No Army 1 04 commenced their march from Bayonne: The Passengers from Lisbon by the Tournslaind are i 4 :: • • Mt, and Mrs. Lytle, Miss Lyne, a n d Mi ss P. Ly n e s „NIT 'CdrITIO. Mr. and Mrs. Kemp, hilts Knight, Mr. and P.- - Arboine, Mt. Cope, Mr. bulkirY. Mr. I'. nuncio, f i r ; Mattis, miiiii March, Mies l'arinenter, Mr. AlLinsvik..A l , oll ; Duller, Mr. Winter, Mr , Moiraie Mr. Worth Mfg 141 ` ' Mr. Noye, Mr , C. 1411 e,, and Mr. s Fleetwood.. ' PORTSMOLITiI, Nov. 1 0.--Ar rived the Boadic ea Frigate, Capt. MAITLAND, from isTewfoundisoti, L'4fricaine Frigate, Capt. Ma NBY, from the 1)0" 11$1 and Liberty Cutter Brig, Lieut. J. CORD, fr °n3 2 cruize ; also arrived the Ann; BRAND, frOM I g°llt° Video. ' DE'AL, Nov.. la—Arrived His Majesty's Sh i P 4rdent from. Monte Video, last from St. Helen s ' having -under convoy the Hon. East India CO; pany's Ships . Lord Eldon, Lord Keith, Ocean, Fortune. Rear-Admiral' KEATS, in the Superb, is just av rived, and anchored in the Downs, from the The Skylark has captured and sent in a French Log . get Privateer,' of 16 guns, two of which only•wcre mounted v. hen captured." 'The Ships in the Downs as per last, with the above named, and about cop Sail of Transports told Merchantmen, exclusive of Danes. DO'S*, Nov."lo.—Passed by for the Pov.' o ' from Charleitowo, the'Ship Adeline, Capt. i rs °ll"l of „Bolton. From the log-book of the above SHIP the following has been extratied : ,e the Oct. Oct. 15. In lat. 33, a, long. '55. 33 . s l )— Ship Perseverance, of New-York, bound to 12190 1 Oct. 31. in hi'. 48. 45. long. 30. fib. tpol‘q 11).1