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Consols - No official intelligence has yet been received ret sped.ing the determinat-ion of , the KING of SwenEN upon the subjet of the Armistice concluded by Ge neral ESSEN with General MORTIER, but we have received information, upon which we place the most implicit reliance, that his SWEDISH MAJESTY has rejected the Armistice with the utmost indignation. Indeed after what, we have seen of the spirit and firmness of the-KING of SWEDEN, it would be an insult to him to suppose that he would give his as sent to . such a disgraceful Armistice. We stated some time ago, that the greater part of the French Troops having been drawn from Ham burgh, &c. for the purpose of reinforcing the Army in Poland, their place had been supplied by Dutch and German Troops, forced into the French service, who would of course take every opportunity to de sert. An extraordinary circumstance which occurred a few days ago, proves in the srongest manner the corredness of our opinion.---The Picket-guard of Hamburgh, amounting to . 36 men, quitted their post, and succeeded in reaching one of our Vessels which was cruizing off the mouth of the Elbe. They brought with them their arms and accoutrements, and have since entered into the German Legion. A report was yesterday circulated, that Buenos AyreS had surrendered to the British Arms. The report was brought by Capt. MILLArt, of the Char= lotte, who states, that on his passage from Teneriffe he fell' in with an English Cruizer, the Captain of which informed him, that he, had boarded a Vessel bound from the Brazils to Lisbon, from the Master of which he learnt, that Buenos Ayres had been re taken by the British Troops, without any loss, or even a gun being fired. We have thus stated to our Ret.ders the authority upon which this report rests : it certainly is very vague—but it is to be recolle6ted, that the account of the re-capture of Buenos Ayres by the Spaniards, and the capture of Monte Video, reached this country, through private channels, be fore the official accounts arrived. It appears, how ever, to us very improbable, that ',Buenos Ayres should havq been surrendered without any resistance. Government are in daily expectation of receiving Dispatches from La Plata. • We feel great pleasure in informing the Public, that Sir Altaltuu WELLESLEY, ,who distinguished lihnselfso much in the late', war in India, is going out Governor to Madras : Sir GEORGE BARLOW goes to,Bombay.- BY the Br , ig Sy/p/z, we learn that the under tnentioned Ships-bad arrived at Canton in OCtober, viz. Elphinstone, Wincnelsea, Ceres, Walmer Castle, Almvick Castle, ..Essex, and David Scott. The Tellicherry Botany'Bay Ship was lost in the Wlindora Sea. The' William Pitt Botany Bay Ship arrived in China on the 17th September.. FOR the honour of the City.of Westminster, and still more for the honour of the Repreientative Body of Great Britain, it must give pain to every true friend of his Country to see such a man as Sir FRANCIS BURDETT SO high upon; the poll. The political notions of the Baronet, for it would be a prostitution of language to call them principles, are so wild and so outrageous, and are calculated to produce so much mischief, that it would be madness as well as folly to give.him an opportunity of inter rupting the business of the. Nation by inflarninafory• appeals to, the passions. Excepting Mr. I'Aut,L, every man who has the least regard for the credit of the City of 'Westminster .must wjsh to see Sir FRANqs the very lowest upon the poll.-- He has uttered sentiments wholly inconsistent with those principle) upon which our excellent ConstittitiOn is founded. Sir F. BURDETT has declared that " the Country is not worth defend ing ;" though he sees the wretched condition to which France, and all the States under its con troul, have been reduced by the overbearing usurpa tion of a man who began his career with a pretended regard for the Rights of the People. If Sir FRANCIS can make such a declaration while we enjoy the blessings of Freedom and Security, while no man can suffer in Liberty-or Property, but according to Law, he must be blinded by democratical fanaticism and govern ed by political abstraCtions (to speak in the mildest terms) that never can be reduced to practice, and which, in the attempt, would bring forth destruc tion instead of improvement, and render us, by anarchy at home, an easy prey to a foreign Enemy. Happily, the good sense of the People. their expe rience of the blessings resulting from the British Constitution, and their observation of the miserable state of things in France, where the attempt was made, and has produced such fatal consequences, will secure them from all such visionary and ruinous theories : but why .should any part of the people give their support to a man who is not to be enlightened by the progress of the events, and the melancholy. example of other Countries ! Sir FRANCIS BURDETT is a pitiable instance of a young man who has not judgment enough to decide for himself, who, since he first appeared on the stage of politics, has been the mere puppet of designing men, who profited by his weakness to partake of his fortune, and whose own charaaers were so low in the estimation of man kind,' that they could only bring disgrace upon any measures which they supported in person, and there fore chose an unreflecting dupe to be the unconscious instrument of their mischievous designs. It does not appear likely that Sir FRANCISBURDETT will ever have understanding enough to be sensible of the degrad ing use which is made of his charaCter and property, and therefore the People of Westminster should rouse from their lethargy, and shew that they will chuse a man who can think for himself—who will employ his thoughts and devote his actions to the .preservation of the Constitution, and not select the mere engine of malevolence and mischief. Thtsie is full time to frustrate the views of a desperate junto, and an ignorant rabble. The City of Westminster contains_ men distinguished by rank, affluence, and patriotism : Will then men of this description suffer themselves to be overborne by the clamour of a Mob, and let him appear as their Representative, in the Great Council of the Nation, whose folly they must pity, and whose obje&s they must abhor ?—Let them come forward in support of their own honour, and the credit of the great City in which they reside, and they will soon reduce the DUPE of DEM OCR ACY to his proper level ; other wise they will themselves be obje&s of contempt to the rest of their Fellow-countrymen, and to the People of every other State. Yesterday, about one o'clock, her Royal High ness the Pius C ES'S • of WALES' paid a visit to Her MAJESTY and the PRINCESSES at Buckingham- House, with whom she remained about half an hOur. The DucHEss of YORK also visited Their MAJES TIES and the PRINCESSES. HIS MAJESTY held a Private Levee to-day at the Queen's Palace. Her MAJESTY had a party last night, which was attended by the Marchioness of BATH, the Countess Of CARDIGAN, Lady CAROLINE DAMER, and Gene ral and Mrs. ST. JOHN. Her Royal Highness the PRINCESS of WALES will be at the vrawing-room •to-morrow. It is rumoured that Marsha LASNES has been put under arrest in Poland, by order of BONAPAtTE ; and that Marshal AUGEREAU has been displaced from his command. On the evening of yesterday se'nnight his Grace the LORD LIEUTENANT honoured the Public Rooms at the Rotunda, Dublin, with his presence. H 9 en tered the Rooms a little after ten, where tvere as sembled a numerous collection of all the beauty and fashion of that Metropolis. His Grace did not leave the Assembly-Room till three o'clock in the morn ing, when he returned to the Castle. The embarkations continue to proceed with ac tivity. The 14th regiment has arrived at Ports mouth, and is to be immediately embarked, it is supposed, for Sicily. The 2d battalion of the .50th, and the loth Veteran Battalion, have been marched to Portsmouth for the same purpose of immediate embarkation. Upwards of 200 recruits for the 38th, Co!. VASSAL'S regiment, have like Wise arrived 'at the same place, and-are to be immediately sent to South America. Bit cAn.—Yesterday the Loan MAYOR ordered the Price of Bread to be continued the same as lat week, viz. Eleven-pence Three-farthings the Quartern Loaf of Wheaten, and Ten-pence Halfpenny the House hold, there not being a suftici,ent number of Alder men present to constitute a Court, We are authorized to contradia a paragraph that appeared in our Paper of last oiglit, and wild . stated, that Lord PER c Y opposes Lord tiow4cK, for the Conn- . ty of Northumberland. Lord PERCY offers himself as a Candidate for that COtinty„ in obedience to the wishe r s of a large body of Freeholders ; neither con net-led with, nor opposing, any other particular Can, didate. INCLEDON took for his benefit last night; at Co, cent-Garden Theatre, The Witodindn, "u" Which ttiere are so many beautiful compositions by Stltuna, and had . , as ttii i ht be expOted, a very crowded house. NAV AL NEWS. BRIMIANI QUAY, TORBAY, MAY 1 1 --His Ma jesty's Ships Hibernia, Prince of Mlles, London, Dreadnought, St. George, Monarch, and Rose, which sailed from Torbay yesterday, returned last night. PLYMOUTH, MAY 11.—Arrived the French Brig Privateer L'AlLrt, mounting i 6 guns, with 80 men, out three months from Bourdeaux, and had cap tured one English Vessel only, the London, of Lon don, from the West Indies, which she sent to France. L'Alert was captured by the Pallas Fri gate in the Bay; when she parted from the Pallas the latter was left in chase of a Schooner, supposed to be one of the Enemy's Privateers. Sailed the Alfred, of 74 guns, for Portsmouth ; and the Prince of IVales Transport, with 150 of the German Legion on board, for Spithead, under cone voy of the Insolent Gun-brig. Arrived the Lord Cochrane Privateer from a cruize off the Coast of Spain, in company with the Mars, of this Port ; in the Bay of Cape Finisterre they attempted to cut out some Spanish Vessels from under a Battery, but failed in the attempt, with the capture of two of their Boats, two Officers, and 16 men. PORTSMOUTH, MAY 1 2.—Arrived the Challenger Gun-vessel, Capt. RYDER, from a Cruize off Havre ; the Seagull, with a Convoy of Transports and Coasters, from the Downs, among which are, the Two Friends, BON E, from London ; and the Cynthia, WAYTH, for Newfoundland. The Juno Frigate, Capt. SCHOMBERG, was thi s day released from quarantine. Came into the Harbour L'Espoir Sloop of War. SHEERNESS, MAY 11.-- Arrived the Satellite Sloop of War, Capt. HOPKINS, from the Downs. A great number of Merchant Vessels have passed for the River, and several for Stangate Creek, to per form quarantine. It is reported the Princess Royal three-decker is. fitting at Chatham to be Guard-ship at the Nore, in lieu of the Zealand, the latter Ship being thought too small for that service. DEAL, MAY 12.—Arrived His Majesty's Ships Alfred from Plymouth, Skylark and Exertion from a Cruize, and remain in the Downs with the Ships as per last. GENERAL ELECTION, To the WORTHY 31.1 INDEPENDL - NT ELECTORS of the 130;OUCI-1 ct GREAT YARMOUTH. G zisTLEMEN, • T MPRESSED with the highest sense of Gratitude 1. for the Honour of being elected your Representative, 1 beg leave to return my best Thanks to Al those who have in any way contributed to the attainment of this first object of any ambition. Your approCation of my conduel, during the short time I had the honour of Representing you in Parlia ment, has been declared by a majority of voices which ex ceeded my most sanguine hopes. To that line of conduct I shall still adhere, ever actuated by the most anxious wish to promote, as far as I am able, the welfare of my Country, and the interests of those whom I have the honour to Represent. Firm attachment to my Sovereign, and to the Constitution with which we are blessed, will continue to recommend me to your confidence, and, I trust, that no inattention to the general or individual interests of my Constituents will ever give you cause to regret the choice you have now made. An honest and faithful discharge of the duties incumbent upon your Representative, will, I am confident, be the most satis factory return I can make for the distinguished honour this day conferred upon me. By this I shall best evince my gra titude—by this I shall best approve myself worthy of your preference. I have the Honour to be Gentlemen. Your much obliged and ever faithful Servant, Yarmouth, May 9, 1807. E. HARBO RD. MAILS. Duz—i Gottenbur6h, i Dublin, 3 Waterford. THE SUN. SWAIM QUIS DICERS FALSIIM AUDEAT? .1, 0 D 0 N, WEDNESDAY, MAY 13, 1807. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCK. 63 Omnitnn t a j 1 risk Omn. 411 DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZE MONEY. . . To the Officers and Crew of His Majesty's Ship Namur, for the Capture of the French Line-of-battle Ships Duguay Trouin, Mont Blanc, Sci pion and Formidable, by the Squa dron under the Command of Sir Richard Strachan. Bart. on the 3d November, 1805 ; and also at the Capture of the Ma• reap and Belle Poule French Men of War, on the 13th of March, 1806, by a Squadron under the Command of Sir John Borlase Warren, K. B. the proceeds of the hulls, stores, Szc. on board the said Ships, at Yarmouth, on the 14th inst. and for three months after, at No. 7e, Great Russell-street, Bloomsbury -square.• To the Officers and Crew of His Majesty's Sloop Moselle, for the Capture of the Furet French Brig of War, on the 27th February, 1806 (in Company with the Hydra), at No. az, Arundel -street, on the Loh inst. and for three months at the same place. To the Officers and Crew of His Majesty's Ship Mino taur, for the Capture of the Concepcion; on the 6th January, 1805 (in Company with the Repulse, Northumberland, Ajax, Montague, Terrible and Illustrious), on board the said Ship, at Yarmouth, on the 14th lust. and at No. 22, Arundel-street, tor three months. _ _ . I'o the Officers and Crew of His Majesty's Sloops Halcyon and Sophia (sharing by agreement), for the Capture of the Spanish Ship Pomona, on the 6th Odober, 1804 (in Com pany with the Narcissus). on the 14th inst. at No. 2z, Arun del-street, and for three years, at the same place. To the Crew of the private Ship of War Weymouth, the Bounty-Money for the Capture of the Spanish Letter of Marque La Buena Ventura, on the 18th November, 1798, at No. 11, Cecil-street, on the 16th inst. and after, at.the same place. To the Officers and Crew of his Majesty's Ships Dragon and Dispatch, for the Capture of La Rhin, on the 28th I Li ly, 1806, on their arrival at Plymouth, on or after the 13th inst. and after, at No. 30, George-street, Plynirautb Dock. To the Officers and Crew of His Majesty's Ship Leda, the proceeds of the Phoenix and Twee Vrinden, captured on the 18th and 23d May, 1803, on board, the loth inst. and for three years, at No. 2, lames-street, Adelphi, London. Mr. HORNE TOOKE, in the Letter, of which we yesterday gave an extraa, speaking of the manner in which Mr. PAULL clung to Sir FRANCIS BUR DETT, alludes to the story in the dirabian Xights Entertainments, and hints that Mr. PAULL, is, like. the Old Man who stuck to SINBAD the sailor. This allusion, though it is certainly pointed and humor ous; was somewhat unlucky on the part of Mr. HORNS TOOKE, since it has enabled one of his po litical opponents to apply it more strongly to Mr. TOOKE himself, as will be seen in the following passage of a whimsical Letter, in answer to Mr. TOOKE'S Pamphlet : ". I wish poor Sir FRANCIS would read the whole story, for it is a sad one. It tells us that SINBAD the sailor fell into the hands of the Old Man of the Sea; a decrepid, nauseous, mischievous animal, that fastened round his neck and almost strangled him. No wonder that SINBAD the sailor was ravished with joy when he got rid of this importunate rider, this cursed old man (maudit vieillard) ; for shocking, indeed, was the chara&er of the monster. "You have escaped (said the people) from the Old Man qf the Sea, and are the first that has escaped being strangled. He never quits those he gets into his hands till he stifles them; he has rendered this island famous for the number of people he has been the death id." God help those who fall into . the power of, such Old Men ! This description of the Old MS of the Sea has made such an impression on me, that 1 think I could draw him, sitting on. Si N13411'4, shouldCrs, to the life. I would paint an adult, wrinkled, shrivelled old man, with the brow of an executioner, aid the dark de signing look of a conspirator, sitting on the shoulders of 4 soft, gentleman-like, young man, and I would write under it—" - The Old Man'of the Sea, sticking to the shoulders,of ssnbad he Sailor.? • NEW ReIRLIAMEAT. ZIEMBERS ELECTED. ESSEX—Colonel John Bullock ; Admiral Eliab Hat• vey. BERKSHIRE —George Vansittart, Esq.; Charles Dundas, Esq. RADNOR COUNTY—Walter Wilkins, Esq. NEW RADNOR—Richard Price, Esq. WORCESTER COUNTY—Hon. W. Beauchamp Ly" gon ; Hon. W. H. Lyttleton. Dut.iwicu—Lord Huntingfield ; Snowdon Barnes Esq. A LDBOROUGH, SUFFOLK—Sir John Aubrey; lq. Mahon, Esq. NORFOLK—Sir J. H. Astley ; T. W. Coke, Esq. LEICESTER—SamueI Sinith, Esq. ; Thomas Ba bington, Esq. CANTERBURY—John Baker, Esq.; Edward Taylor, Esq. RICHMOND—Arthur Shakespeare, Esq. ; Honour able Charles Lawrence Dundas. TA VISTOCK—Lord Wm. Russel; General Fitzpa• trick. OXFORD COUNTY—Lord Francis Spencer; 3. Fane, Esq. DovER--Charles Jenkinson, Esq.; John Jackson, Esq. State of the Poll— Jenkinson Jackson Pierrepont - - - 622 WEYNIOUTH-Sir Jas. Pulteney ; Gabriel Steward, Esq.; Richard Tucker Steward, Esq. ; Charles Adams, Esq. Ay LESBURY-Lord G. ,A. H. Cavendish ; HOD, Gen. G. Nugent. Bucxs—Marquis of Titehfield ; Earl Temple, BEnwiN—Sir John Nichol' ; James Henry Leigh, Esq. BEDFORDSHIRE.--State of the Poll., Pym, Esq. - 781 Gen. Fitzpatrick - - j 70 t • Osborn, Esq. - - 682 SUSsEX,—State of the Poll. • Wyndham, Esq. - 140 Sergison, Esq. - 91 Fuller, Esq. - - 77 Slstwsnutty---,State of the Poll, Hon. W. Hill - - 227 Hon. G. Bennett - - 145 T. Jones, Esq. - - 1.50 .Livgßroot —State of the Poll, Gem. Tarleton - - - 1384 Gen. Gascoyne , 1212, Roscoe, Esq. ‘. - 330 • 1869 Freemen have polled. SURREY Et.EcrioN.—At the close of the Poll the , Vd day, the numbers stood as follow : Samuel Thornton, Esq. 850 J. H. Sumner, Esq. , 538 Lord William Russell 4g 1 WESTMINSTER ELECTION.--State of this daY s9 Poll at one o'clock—. Sir F. Ilurdett - - - - ie 7 Lord Cochrane - 157 Mr. Elliot - - - - 125 Mr. Sheridan - - 43 Mr. Paull IfiESTAIIATSTER ELECTIOAT; FIFTH DAY. AT the close of the Poll the numbers stood as follow : Fur Sir F. EuariETT 1174 Lord COCHRANE zoBs Mr. ELLior ?Jr. SittuiDAN - - 203 Mr. PAULL Mr. SHERIDAN said —a Gentlemen, I perceive that yo,u have looked at that board which announces the state of the Poll, this day, with pernliar sensa 4 tions, of pleasure ; I can assure you that there is nothing thereon that gives me the least dissatisfac tion. Gentlemen, I hope none of you have thought it any disrespect to you that I have latterly shewo myself so late upon the Hustings. The faCt has been, that having begun my canvass so late, I have thought it my duty to co nt i nue i t to t h e l ast honc.l could., without entirely d esert i ng my p as t at this place. I do not, indeed, possess that adtivity and good sea legs which enable that Noble Lord (coal< rane) to address you from that perch in the front of the Hustings (meaning the outer partition of the Hustings, upon which Lord Cochrane generally stept forward); and this day, Gentlemen, Lam not m the situation that I stood upo n o n f ormer d a y s; 06 I have lately lost my post in the State, so I hay° this day lost my usual post upon the Hustings , When I' say to you, that I had no objection to meet you sooner, I protest sincerely; that it gives me much pleasure, amusement, and instruction, that lOr sometimes honoured with your candid opinion upon the Hustings. I think it your right and privilege , upon such occasions, to tell your Candidates your minds, and to tell it to.them bluntly and plainly 0 1 4 you do. v I confess, that neon the first day of rnY coming here, there was a very acute and discerning "person, who addressed me, and whom I regret nor having seen here since ; he appeared to possess 35 much genuine humour and wit as any person I eves,` saw."—(" lam here, Sherry," exclaimed a persolk amongst the crowd.—" I am sure," continued 01; Sheridan, " I am glad to find the person I allude d to present upon this occasion, and I do not mean 10 the least to retract the compliments I have paid him t and ; can assure him, that if political affairs had Da t withdrawn my attention, of late, from the theatre: I would back that person for writing% play agains t all the authors who bring out the trash of the pre,. sent day. There is another person I re 4 l et O°L, having seen amongst you, I mean my honest broa d _ -faced friend, Mr. Berridge ; because, although was once a friend of mine, and deserted •me ° account of an unfounded calumny, raised, as o my having betrayed, the city of Westminster w e the House of Northumberland, he "turned • 19 again„, whenever that calumny was done ay. l„ , with. I always thought him sincere and hotiou.l,r, able in his heart, although he had a rough w'y of eztpressing it. Gentlemen, I shall take the