The Sun. — London, England, 1802-04-08 00:00:00

NAY 4 f, NEWS. PORTSMOUTH, AP RIL 7. Rrs Pi a tt s Ship; Ajax, Arethusa, Success, I Poolveri w , and Terror, are ordered to be paid ff. Arrived this day at the Motherbank, and were put "flder quarantine, the following Transports from the Mediterranean : St. Ma lt 's Planter, WALL ; Or- CUSAN S ; Peggy, FRANK LAND ; and Ranger, C 'uNrir ; also the Ship Friends, GROVES, from Naples. Art:vcd His Majesty's Ship Dorothea, Capt. tituxTolv, from Gibraltar. Pa std b y, the William and Henry, DEWELL I frOnl Jamaica. SHEERNESS, APRIL 7. ARRIV PD His Majesty's Ships Ruh) , and Stand- Q 7 13 of 6 + guns, Ar go, of 4+, Inconstant and list'etz Frigues, and A u t umn Sl oo p, f rom S p i t h ea d ; an 'i Mariner Gim_brig, from a Cruize. o ff he Argo has sailed up the Thames, to be paid eri'e Ruby, Standard, Astrea, and Inconstant, have sailed hr Chatham to be paid off: Brilliant has come into Harbour. A, the Gunboats which lay in this Harbour Onlounting to zo), are 'ordered, with the Hermes 4 ' l.lll ed Ship, to be paid oft: DEAL, APRIL 7. AR IuvED from Portsmouth, and sailed for the Rip er , His Majesty's Ships Pallas, Ulysses, and le'.ceP Guu_hrig. ,sil'a'sed through the Downs for London, the Ships 4 with /j4'grol Hamilto n and Sc ar b oroug h, f rom I n di a , et. 1)ISTRIBUTION OF PRIZE-MONEY. Th e Cai r : °rn Pee, Hannibal, Venerable , and Audacious, for L°ndois'u bre of at the th C r Spown anish and Cushion, Man of War, Winch the S stetAntoine-.street,, 1 5th ii,st"Yall, on W e d nes d ay an d Thursday, the 14th and ailialtet.S,l4l7aiSitocroku,rAttii ablmi be paid t f r , e ) r t , he St. Juan Baptiste, on Friday, the 9th To Cois,%7;e, Mercury, a Distribution for the French Ship Fran - "' l be Paid win board at Spithead, on her arrival. GREENOCK, APRIL 2. a s l ' arrived the Ndney, ROXBURCH, fromJa th Ic4, in sixty days. She sa il c d f rom Ki ngston on ve e i i b l t of Fe:)ruary, and on the 3d fell in with se 4srirish Sail of the Line cruizing between the Ivard: r , i d , of Jamaica and Sr. Domingo, and af . ter_ to ol luKe the Me/amp/as Frigate off' Cape Tibe. hea t ', She was for several days endeavouring . to the e s " t°ll e,ll the Windward Passage, but owing to ! ) Y the rent, was obliged to bear away, and come lug uiph of Florida. At the time of her . the arrival Kingston, no account had been received of on th „ t the French Expedition at St. Domingo. lvn g. e Q 2 ith ult. in the latitude of Cape Clear, and tnd fo r 'Poke t h e Shi p B een i e , G u i neaman, of w ° d ay Terpool, which had sailed from Kingston af ter them. r 11 ' r()11 0 V iZ. W ing Ships are ordered to be paid off, A ax z4ce s i oyal 4re ti: s Rusa, AT PORTSMOUTH. Dido, Success, Wolverene, Terror, gu❑ vessel. Afar s 1141t.a. AT PLYMOUTH. Impetneux, San Josef. Was : gun vessel, AT CHATHAM. Standard, Texel. ill aZer, AT SHEERNESS. .„ le aze; Acute, Spar ' - Gallant, itist. tiler, Courser, Sty' )'' .p„'nger, Attack, ii t "uncer, Defender, .. yuolri , ' Manly, " c oUr- , ' Safeguard, Cri ne he. , Eclipse, rutio-r'' i ~ us, Cracker, gun vessel. ,„ h r . h - Hermes. jl / 1 -"a''''l"l, Mercury, Enterlrize, Pincher, - /Ic e , t or. , , and Y o .k ‘ 1 and w oolvvi, ' . c3h W ere paid off yesterday at Dept- * .......7.............. n . Q o —n Monday Rear -Admiral DACRE, plying ciilllnlissioner afloat, at Plymouth e'ellarged from the Service all the Supernumerary , paid off and attil,en '4 AS fr " the Cambridge of 84, Admiral Sir LEY. tart. Capt. LANF, in Hamnaze. r , )(est,?,rday Captain SAMUEL. BUTLER, of the Ho attended East India Company's ship the Herculean, intended ilt the India House, and took his final leave th tile Court, previously to his being dispatched for ;11! Presidencies of Madras and Bengal. 4 e l Ps to be dispatched this season to Bengal ar4 or- The last t ect to be Gravesend on the 2(1 of June. ________ 1,1,4td EtmoN, we understand, will succeed the r,`e Lerd KENYON, as Lord Chief Justice of the of 1,,_ i,of King's Bench. It is further said, that -id KELDESDALE will be appointed Loa', CHAN- Qk.t.it, of England, and Lord ALVANLEY Irish I,_titleellor—Sir .EDWAILD LAW to he created a tz,e.c., and raised to the Chief JuqiCeship of the illmon Pleas —the Hon. SPENCER PERCIVAL to p etal, Q AtuDrocy, and Mr. ROMILLY Solicitor Ge_ a Yeste r d ay a Court of Direftors w tti.i' ti t .i . ndia as held a t t h e Y• House, which adjourned at A late hou r lls da PARIS, Aprsti 4. THEY write from Calais, under date of the 3 March, that the Peace was announced there on, the 27th, at half-past nine in the evening, when imme diately all the houses were illuminated, and the most lively and enthusiastic joy was displayed by the Inhabitants. Lord CORNWALL IS arrived at Calais on the 3oth, at two in the afternoon, on his return from Amiens. Civil and Military Honours were rendered to him, with that effusion of the heart which cha raaerizes the French. He dined with the Mayor at the Hotel d'Angleterre, and in the evening went to the Theatre, where he received the most flattering and well-merited applause. L'Anglais d Bordeaux, a Piece analogous to adual circum stances, furnished allusions which gave rise to re peated and long-continued applause. A Song, relative to the happy event of Peace, in which was a passage alluding to the pacific Minister, written by an inha bitant of Calais, was sung and listened to with the greatest pleasure. His Lordship embarked on the 31st, at eight in the morning, apparently highly pleased with the result of his mission, and his re ception by the Calaisians. We expeet very shortly the publication of the Concordat, which, it is confidently asserted, will be the first aft presented to the Legislative Body. We are informed from Vienna, that a journey will shortly be made to Paris by PRINCE FER D r NAND of TUSCANY. It is said that, following the example of the PRINCE Of ORANGE, he comes to treat with the French Government relative to his Indemnities. It is believed in that Capital, that the French Ambassador CHAMPAGNY, will go to Constantinople, and that he will be replaced at Vienna by JOSEPH BONAPARTE. BRUSSELS, MARCH 31.--Tile DUKE of SAXE TESCHEN, formerly Governor of the ci-devant Au strian Low Countries conjointly with the Archdu_ chess MARIA CHRISTINA, has sent here a con& dential Agent, charged with the liquidation of the Debts of his Court, which circumstances prevented him from paying until this moment. VIENNA, MARCH 20.-Our Court claims the right exercised by the late Republic of Venice, of presenting to the POPE two Cardinals: His Holi ness will nor, however, recognize this right. The Baron de HucEL, Ex-Imperial Commissary to the Diet, has set off for Baden. BERNE, MARCH 29. —The meeting of the Pri mary Assemblies has not been attended with the success that was expeEled. In the' Canton of Zurich, a number of Communes refused to assemble ; others assembled to protest against the Constitution ; others have at - length appointed tlieir Elthors, and charged them to protest. In the Canton of Basle, the assemblies which have met have been composed of a very small part of the adive Citizens. One, in a village which contained 88, was only attended by three, which prevented any election from taking plac - e. The Town of Basle, which contains more than 3003 adive Citizens, had not more than 18 4 voters in its different Assemblies. At Beithoud, in the Canton of Berne, the Electoral Assembly, which ought to have been composed of twenty-four Mem bers, was attended by only three. The greater part of the others protested against the Constiru_ tion, nevertheless the three Voters proceeded to ,make the prescribed Eleaions, which the Senate have declared valid. Many Communes in like manner protested, but the Senate passed to the Order of the Day, with disapprobation. A Protest has likewise been made by the ci-deVant Cantonal Diet of Berne, couched in very violent language. It contains a recapitulation of the events which have happened since the 2,Bth of Onober, and the incompetence of the Senate (such are the expressions of the Diet) to give to the Swiss a Constitution different from that of the 29th of May, which is now to furnish the motive for the dissolution of the General Diet. In a Commune of the Canton of Leman, the EleClions were made in a singular manner. Some thirty, out of five. hundred Citizens who ought to have composed the' Assembly, having assembled without the concurrence of the Public FunetionarY, whose duty it was to assist by virtue of the Law, one amongst them drew from his pocket a list, and thus addressed them, " Citizens, here are six Citizens who have been proposed as Eleetors for this Commune (He read their names). Those who are of opinion they shall be eleited, will stand up (<►ll stood). I see, Citizens, you are unanimous— the Assembly is therefore dissolved." He then re turned to the Hall of the. Commune to deliver the Proces Verbal of the Meeting. A match between two post-chises and four is to be run on Haidown, near Exeter, on the 21st instant, for wagers to the amount. of rive hundred guineas. The post.boys on the occasion are, on the one side; Mr. CHICHESTER ,q1 , .1 Captain STiItiC POI. E, and on the other s Mr. U.Lovut and Mr'. BR6wN. THE HA I'LL GJI MA IL. CONSTANTINOPLE, FEB. 25. JAsrs ErrEst:o, the former Reis Effendi, has been commissioned by the Porte to visit the Egyp tian Ports, in company with the Swedish Captain RHODE, and to make such improvements in them as may be judged necessary. These two Commis sioners are about to sail from hence in a Turkish Frigate. The Porte seems apprehensive that the protection afforded by the English to the Beys in Egypt, will throw obstacles in the way of the new Administra tion intended to be introduced by the Turkish Go- vernment into that Country. The English Ambassador, Lord ELGIN, is at present very much indisposed. Baron STURAIER is appointed to succeed Baron HERBERT, as Ambassador at Constantinople.• VIENNA, MARCH 20. The Qt%EEN of NAPLES has been for some days confined to bed by indisposition. Three h°:►ndred and sixty pieces of cannon are al ready placed on the walls of Belgrade, ready to re pel the attack of the Turkish Troops. The ex pelled Janissaries hare set fire to the Town of J a _ gcdin. FRANKFORT, MARCH 23. PRIVATE Letters from Paris assure us, that the integrity, neutrality, and independence of Swit zerland,-!las been confirmed by the Treaty 9f ilm;ens, and that French Troops will soon be withdrawn from that Country. The Lady-Day Dividends began to be paid this day to the Bankers, and to-morrow to the Public. On Monday night the CHANCELLOR of the Ex. CHEQUER proposed the new Tax on Malt, Hops, and Beer ; and in reply to a question from an Hon. Mem ber of the House of Commons, stated most explicitly, that it was not his intention to lay the new Duty on the Beer already brewed. Nevertheless, on Tuesday morning, the public-houses dependent (as most in deed are) on the Brewers, gave notice that the price of Porter would be immediately advanced one nalf_ penny, that is to 4-Id, the pot. Now, the stock of Porter in hand is probably more than six months' consumption, so that the Public are to be charged, zd. per gallon, or - 6s. per barrel, on perhaps above 600,000 barrels ; nearly zoo,000l.• advance on th;it which pays nothing to the new Duty. Mr. FLINT, late Superintendant of Aliens, is appointed Private Secretary to the Hon. W. WI CK _ It Am, who is going Secretary to the Lord Lieute nant of Ireland. It is said that Mr. BROOKE will succeed to the Alien Deparrment, as he is first in succession in the Office. The Tax upon Income is not novel in the history of Finance, for it was known to the Romans. The CHANCEL LOL of the EXCHEQUER, it iS said, has taken the house, for the Summer, near Kensington-Gore, formerly occupied by the Prin cess AMELIA, and lately by Mr. CRAUFURD. By the French Papers we learn that Mr. TIER. NEY is to resume the superintendance of the Fi nances in the House of Commons, a charge which for some time has been committed to Messrs. RUB_ SON and JONES. " All the world," adds the Journalist, " must rejoice to see such a charge res cued from such hands !" A Lady, it seems, is corning forward with a tri bute to the memory of the late Duke of BEDFORD. This is a bold effort after the posthumous eulogium of his friend CHARLES Fox, at once honourable to the feelings and the comprehensive mind of the Orator, to say nothing of the place in which it was delivered, which could awake no objedion in a liberal mind. A Gentleman of high rank in the Company's Service, lately returned from Calcutta, it is said, had the beans in his cabbin aCtually cushioned, to prevent his head from receiving damage in stormy weather,: so enervating is the elimate of India, and so accustomed are t h e highe r Civilians to ease and luxury, that they require every possible pre paration to enable them to endure common hard-ships; On the night of the illuminations at Portsmouth, a Publican on the Point ornamented his candles with black crap . Colonel Pic-Ric Flustered his forces again on Monday evening. The French men in cvomen'i cloaths were discarded. Le Texier appe . ared in the charaler of an old old woman, and while the re presentations are confined to old women, they may probably prove harmless enough. A Soldier in woman's cloaths was on Tuesday taken to Bow-street, in custody of a Watchman of St. Martin's, who apprehended, him the preceding night in the streets behaving in a disorderly man ner. Many depredations having lately. been com mitted by persons in such disguise, great, pains were taken to ascertain the Prisoner's motives, but nothing satisfactory being obtained, he was delivered over to his regiment, and promises were made to punish him for such unsoldier_like conduit. On Sunday morning last, during Divine Service, a great number of blackguards of every description, assembled on Chelsea Common, to witness two pitched battles that were to be fought there ; but information of the business being communicated to Mr. BoNn, the Magistrate ; he immediately issued his Warrant to apprehend die principals, and dis patched several Constables to the spot, on whose approach the mob dispersed. Two of the combat- ants, who are butchers' apprentices in the bourhood, were afterwards apprehended under an.: thority of the Warrant, and obliged to find sureties to answer ,auy complaint that might be preferred against them at the next Session. THE AZ.4 RIN ES. At a Court-Martial held on board His Majesty's Ship Tamer, on the 24th day of December, t Sot, and held by adjournment to the zgth, the Court direaed their President to address Lieut. J. S. SmITH of the Marines in these words : " I have in command from this Court, to express to ybo the high sense they entertain of your very Officer-1.1:e Ccrl duel on the evening ()If the 13th instant, and the good and steady conduet of the Party of Marines embarked under orders. 44 Your prompt and spirited execution of Captain FA N s HAW'S Orders, appears to the Court to have stopped a very dangerous Mutiny; and this token of their approbation of your condud will be transmitted to the Commander in Chief, and inserted in the Minutes of this Court-Martial. (Signed) "- Tuom S WES President." MEM. ILs Majesrys Ship Southampto 1, Dec. 26, 180 i. Whereas the Members of the Court-Martial on the Muti neers of His Majesty's Ship Castoy, have felt called upon, in justice to the exemplary and meritorious condu& of Lieut. J. S. SmiTH, of the Marines, and the Party under his com mand, to express the highest approbation of such spirited behaviour ; It is my direelions that those sentiments of the Court are read on board His Majesty's Ships under my orders, to testify how fully 7 accord with the Court in the com mendation so deservedly bestowed. (Signed) 3. T. DUCKWORTH. THE ORATORIOS. DitußY-LANE.—Lo-nt night this Theatre was at last opened for Oratorios, with the sacred on e of Redemption.. Tile Vocal Band 'was strong in t. lentS, it consisting of Madame :v.I.NR A Mrs. MOUNTAIN, Mrs. BLAND, NrEr.D, DIGNurCt, Young SUE TT, and Mr. T., WELsii. Several of the Vocal Parts were very finely sustained—Madame MARA, if nor equal to what she was in power, was deiightfui in expression. • Pious -Orgies was most rapturously encored. Mrs. MOUNTAIN and Mrs. BLAND acquitted themselves with their wonted sweetness and ability. 'The Band was very well led by Mr. SHAw, and when we mention that the whole was conducted by Dr. ARNOLD, it will readily be admitted that the performance was altogether very good. The house was a very respeaable one. The Orchestra, raised upon the Stage, of Gothic structure, had a grand and magnificent cfrea. COVENT- GARDEN. - The Entertainment here consisted of a Grand Selection, the first part of which comprized the first part of Creation, by HAYDN. In the second Part BRAH AM was loudly . encored in Gentle which he gave in a most superlative style. Mrs. BI LL NGTON enraptured her auditors in Mad Bess. The whole of the Entertainment afforded a rich treat to a very full and genteel audience. TH E ARTS.—Mr. KE R PORTER is employed upon a representation of the memorable triumph of the British arms at Alexandria: The picture is to be upon a very large scale, and, as far as it has proceeded, is likely to rise to the dignity 'of the subjea, and consequently to add very. much to the fame of the ingenious Artist. HEATH has — nearly finished two beautiful prints of Mrs. JORDAN and the younger BANNISTER, to match with his admixed engravings of 1.K. - ENIBLE and Mrs. SIDDONS. SALOMON'S first Concert was on Monday. The treat was a very high one to the Musical Amateurs. MARA, VIGANONI, and BRAHAM, severally dis played all their fine powers, and some Foreigners, in the instrumental line, were, for the first time, introduced to a British audience. The Company were of the first fashion, among whom were their Royal Highnesses the Prince of WALES aid Duke Of CAMBRIDGE, besides several of the first Nobi. lity and persons of Fashion. • The new Ballet at Covent-Garden Theatre had received some improvement, by judicious curtail ments, on its second representation, which made it go off with great applause. The Iron Cage, and the Dance at the end of the first part, were pro perly omitted. The splendour, and, at the same . _ ....._ time, corredness of the Scenery, are subjed3 of great admiration ; and the Music is in many re speEh entitled to praise. It is the joint composi tion of DAVY and MOLINTA T.N. MC latter, we believe, comes before the Public for the first time as a Composer, and he has acquitted himself very much to the credit of his taste and talents. A translation, in French verse, of some fragments of OSSIAN was published a few days ago at Paris. The 'translator is Citizen TALLLAsoN, who is al lowed by the French Journalists to possess consi derable merit both as a Poet and a Painter. There has lately been dug pp, in the vicinity of Ostia, near Rollie, an ancient statue of AcHILL, about 92 Roman palms lugh, and in perfett preser vation. The following melancholy affair happened at Ro chester on Monday se'imight.—A young Gentle man, son of Mr. 5 4 ****, of Woolwich, decamped from his' father a day or two before with 'a consider able sum of money, in company with a female, and slept at the King's Head Inn on Sunday night ; his father, with a friend, arrived early in the morning, and finding his son was in bed, sent his friend to the room door for admittance, during which the son hearing his father's voice on the stairs, immediately took a pistol from his trunk, and discharged its contents just below his temple. Mr. Adams was immediately sent for who extraaed the ball, but with little hopes of his recovery ; he lingered .front six o'clock in the morning till two in the afternoon, when he expired. The Jury sat otthis bOdy,ani after a lone consultation, returned a verdid—Lu. WE feel great s.uilattlion in every opportunity of doing justice to this 'merircrious Cotps. ProccedingS of a Court It/I:rti.al held in the West Indies, add another to the many proofs given bo7h in the course of the late and former War r of the steady loyalty and useful services of that cellent Corps.