The Sun. — London, England, 1802-03-19 00:00:00

IMPERI/IL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF PEERS, THURSDAY, MARCH 18. Cougsr.l. were heard in continuation, relative to the Scotch Appeal—LOTHlANand Others, v. fle.NDEaso&, RTDDELL, and Co. namely, Mr. ALE): esa, as second Counsel for the Respondents. Their Lordships then de ferred the further hearing till Monday. . The Mutiny Bill was react a second time, and committed for to-nic4:-otv, . The other Dilfs before the House were forwarded ititheir respe&ive Stages : after which, their Lordships adjourned till to-morrow, when they stand ~ .im.trionea for the farther towsiderat►on of CR P. W Z'S bivorce Bill. HOUSE. OF COMMON:::, THURSDAy ) NAILCH 18. Sir W. YOUNG moved that the Committee to whom the Petition of the Bookselltkis,. &c. had been referred, should have leave to report from time to time to the House.—Ordereel. The CHANCELLOR ofthe EXCHEQUER said, he had given notice of his intention to propose to vote certain miscellaneous services in the Commit tee of Supply, on Friday ; he now begged leave to state to the flouSe, that he proposed to vote them on ;Monday next. They were the Interest of Exchequer Bills, the Expences of the Loan and Lottery, one_ third of the purchase of The Duke of Richmond's An_ entity ; he should also propose to vote money for the payment of the Exchequer Bills in the possession of the Bank, the .aehequer Bills not provided for in the Consolidated Fund, the Excheauer Bills for the year r Soo, amounting to 400,000 i. the Exchequer Bills for the year Igor, amounting to 3, too,oool. It would be necessary to vote sums for the payment of the Corn Bounties, which he was sorry to say, amounted to neer 1,400,0001.- There were two other Services which he hoped the Committee would also provide for, the Papers tespeding which he hoped would be laid before the House this day or to-morrow. The' first was for American Ships detained' et the commencement of the War, by orders of Sir C. GREY. and Lord ST. VINCENT. With regard to the other Service to which he had alluded, as the Papers respeffing it were not ready, he should not propose to vote it with the others, but on a futare day. Mr. ALEXANDER brought up the Report of the Committee of Supply respetaing the Ordnance Ser vice. '('he Resolutions were read and agreed to. Mr. ALEXANDER brought up the Report of the Bill for continuing certain duties in Ireland ; it was agreed to, and the Bill was ordered to be read a third time to-morrow, if then engrossed. VANSITTART brought up an Account of the Additions to the annual charge of the Public Debt by the Interest thereon, Annuities, &c. with the produce of the Duties imposed to defray the same. Ordered to lie on the Table., The CHANCELLOR Of the EXCHEQUER brought up an Account of the American Ve,sels detained at the commencement of the War by orders of Sir C. PR cy and Earl St.V l C E , Ordered to lie oa the Table. Adjourned, .at Half past Four, till To-morrow. THE SUN. ZOLEM QU LS LICEkE F ALSUivi AIJOEAT ? L q D. 0 4', AI RCII z 9, YESTERDAY WC had the satisfaaion of laying before the Public, E' ? "C LDAVELY, an outline of the , • proceedings pf the French Armament at S which we took•from a Memiteur of the ts-th instant, received by Government by a special Tylesssenger from Paris. Today we give the Official Letters of the French Commanders - in full, and they cannot fail to strike the Public as most highly important. On the interesting paragraph in the 4:foluteur of the 4th, we shall purposely abstain from making any comment, for reasons similar to those which have imposed on us Reserve for some time past, and iiecause most of oar Readers are quite as capable as ourselves of drawing their own in&rences from it, and ofconsidering the cads and the impression which it was probably intended to pro!uce, both here and in France, and of , estimating the con siderations which may have led to the publication of it. But on the statement of fats relating to the St. Domingo Expedition, as they appear in the dis patches of the Military and Naval Commanders, rhlished by authority, there seems to be no occa sion for the same caution. They speak indeed for themselves ; and as the events which have taken place completely justify all the opinions which we had ever formed on the subjca, looking at it either in_a Military or-Political point of view, we cannot fear to hazard a tew observations upon them. Of the sincerity of the Fran—r CONSUL in signing the Preliminaries, we never expressed, or even en_ . tertained'a doubt. That St. Domingo was the prin cipal, if not the sole objeft of the Brest Armament, We have ever been perfeetly convinced.. That the emancipation of that Colony from Negro Autho rity and Controul, and its restoration to subordina , Lion and dependance - on the Mother Country, ought to be matter of the most urgent and primary consi deration to the latter; that a loss of time might prove a loss of opportunity ; and, that the means which she ryas about to employ, to execute successfully so dif ficult and formidable an operation, were not likely to prove more than adequate to the objet{; of all this, we have been abundantly persuaded. The apprehen. Our regular sets of Pan's journals of the 14th and isth, reached us last night ; and this morning we received further Paris 7outnals of the i6th inst. The following are the principal Articles which they contain :' M. DE COB ENTZ EL, Ambassador from His PER lAL MAJESTY, has made a dire& communica tion to the FIRST CONSUL, that the EmpErwil had determined to receive the Plenipotentiaries of the Batavian, Helvetic and Italian Republics, and that His MAJESTY would appoint Ministers of the same rank to reside among them. He also avowed, that the EMPEROR saw with satisfaaion the definitive organization of the Italian Republic. Count MARCOFF has also received, by a Courier whom he had dispatched to Russia, with an ac count of the proceedings at Lions, letters of Cre. desice to reside at Paris as MinisterPienipotentiary. Thus it is evident that the two most powerful Courts on. the Continent, and which were most immediately interested in the issue of that great event, have fully acceded to the measure. Tile Ottoman Government have abolished, for a certain time, the Slave Trade in Turkey, and par ticulariy in Egypt. Letters from Constantinople state, that 06MAN, the Paella of Bosnia, has declared himself in favour of PASWAN OGLou, and has commenced his march to Adrianople. They also state, that the English have refused to evacuate Alexandria. The French Funds continue at 57 f. MUNICH., MARCH 2.—The ELECTOR has per mitted the Protestants resident here ,to perform Divine Service according to the forms of their own Religion. The Catholics have made representations upon the subject, but without success: This is the first time, since the thirty years 'War, when the Swedes were for some time in possession of ifumich, that the Lutheran Religion has been publicly exer cised here. STUTTGARD, NIARCH 7.—lt appears that, the cause of postponing the Meeting of the Depu tation of the Empire, was the *refusal of the KING of PRUSSIA to admit the Baron de Hu GEL as Imperial Commissary at that Assembly. An ar rangement has, however, since been made between the Courts of Berlin and Pienfta, according to which the Deputation will not have an ;Imperial commis- sary. Yesterday.THE I R MA J ESTIES and their amiable Daughters went in their carriages to St. James's Palace; the PRINCESSES who accompanied the KING and QUEEN were AUGUSTA, ELIZABETH, MARY and SorxtA ; their Royal Highnesses the PRINCE of WALES, Dukes of KEN T and CAMBRIDGE were also at Court; her Serene Highness the Princess of ORANGE, their Excellencies the Imperial, Danish, Hanoverian, Neapolitan, and Portuguese Ambassa dors ; the Turkish Charge des Affaires ; the Right Honourable the CHANCELLOR of the EXCAEQUER, the Archbishop of Yoßx, the Bishops of ELY, CHESTER and OXFORD, the Rev. Mr. MARKHAM (Dean of York) the Judge of the Admiralty, and 'a most numerous Assemblage of the Nobility, 4:e. of both sexes, of whom were the following : Dukes—Richmond, Beaufort, Montrose, and Portland. Dutcbesses—Leeds, Gordon, Beaufort, Grafton, and Athole. illarquisses —De Circello, Salisbury, and Lorne. Marchionesses—Bath, Salisbury, Hedley, Hedfort, and De Earls—Galloway, Morton, Kinnoul, Roslyn, Fauconberg, Kingston, Mount Edgcurnbe, Mansfield, Cholmorideley, Ilarring,ton, and Courtown. Fiscotent s Sidney, and hood. Countesses—Harrington, Carnarvon, Carlisle, Ely, Essex, Aylesbury, Macclesfield, Mansfield, and Kinnoul. L , :rds--Hobart. 'Prownlow, Sommerville, Bayning, Went_ worth, Napier, Littleton, Alvanley, Willoughby De Broke, Louvaine, Carrington, Henley, Boringdon, Glen. beryl; Bagot, Rouse, Wodehouse, Newark, Kenmore, ham, and Dare. Baroness Howe. • Ladies —'l'. Sutton, Alvanley, Dungannon, L. Connolly, Carrington, Huntingfield, C. James, F. Marsham, Wilson,.. Perth, Wodehouse, Knatchbull, Walpole, Bagot, Howard, Tankerville, Cozens, J. Dundas, Henley, C. VValdegrave, C. 1011i - Ist - in, Wentworth, Hobart, C. Hamilton, A. Cum- b:rland, Veering, M. Murray, Peel, IVlilbanke, and Cot- terel. Sires--G. Osborne, C. Harcourt, R. Wilson, W. Harnil ton, P. Stephens, C. Cave, C. Morgan, F. Sykes, R. ; Peel, W. Jerningilarn, C. Pole, P. Murray, E. Knatch bull, R. Milbanke, R. Bill, .nd S. Cotterell. Gener,ils—Cradock, Leland, nuncios, Rainstord, and Finch, Ccheels—NP - Maltun, Rain, Calvert, 1. Bentinek,. Hope, Elation, Jackson, Roberts, and Macleod. Captains—Hood, Cockburn, Pierrepoint. Major .Archdall. Messrs. —Windham, Blackburn, Tyrrwhitt, Bentinck, Skef tington, Dent', nuncios, Berresrord, Stapleton, Bragge, Beath:fere, Vansirtart, King, Law, De Haney, Paoli, Cad- . drington, Hammett. Mistresses—Howard, Markham, Sutton, J. Rentinck, A. Pechel, Huskisson, Egerton, Fano, Brown,' Bartin4ton, Newton, Fremantle, Be.autbv, York, Dc Haney, R„yeler, Tankerville, Cornwallis Hoblins, Ram, H a r court , Gascoyne, Thelluson, andMalcotin. Misses —Dc Haney Napier, Smith, Chester, Markham; t wo . Abercrombys, Richards, Peel, two Locks, two Smiths; Quin, and Townsend. The Noblemen, and Ladies introduced to the KING and QUEEN were as follows : The Rev. G. MARKitilm,.-on his Preferment to theDeanry of York, being introduced by his Fa_ ther ; Lady MURRAY, by her sister, Lady JANE DUNDAS ; Sir P. MURRAY, accompanied his Lady ; Colonel BENTtivcx, 'and Mrs. J. BENTINCK, on , their marriage ; Colonel RAM, by Earl CouaTc.)wx ; Miss QUIN, daughter of Lord ADARE, by the Marchioness of HEDFORD ; Miss PEEL, by her mother, Lady PEEL ; Miss RICILAR DS, by.her sis, ter, Mrs. BROWN. Mr. Mrs. and Miss FREMANTLE, and Lord Chief Baron MAC DONALD, attended the Drawing_ Room. .tic Duke anti Pureness of IttAu, FORT were at Court for the first time this season. When the Court closed, the ROYAL FAMILY re turned to Buckingham-House. His MA JESTY, accompanied by their Royal Highnesses the DUKES of KENT and CAMII E, yesterday morning took an excursion to Kew. Mr. CANNING'S Motion for papers respeeting the Island of Trinidad, will not come on to-day. Pro bably it will be brought forward some day . in the next week. Lord ROB ERT SPENCER, It iS now said, will be the Member for Tavistock, in the room of the pre. sent Duke of BEDFORD. At no period has the circulation of Specie been so low, as at present, throughout , the whole of the Dutch Republic. The 55th Regiment of Foot has embarked on board the Texel, of 64 guns, Capt. GARRETT; and .delft, of 64 guns, Captain REDMILL. The 9th Regiment of Foot marched into Hilsea barracks on Wednesday, to do duty in the room of the 55th. We are sorry - to hear that accounts have been re ceived of a fresh Insurredion in the Island of Gua daloupe, in which all the Whites have been mas sacred. This account, we are informed, has been received by a vessel arrived from Dominica. The following extra& of a letter from St. Vincent, dated Jan. 29, mentions the same lamentable catastrophe : " We have just received the disagreeable intel ligence, that the insurretion amongst the Blacks in Guadaloupe has become general, and that every White Person there has been murdered.—lt has ex- cited the greatest alarm in thiS Island." Yesterday thirteen very large Packets were brought to the India House from the Georgiana Packet, lately arrived from Bengal. The letters containeki in the boxes are more numerous than ever was known to have been sent by one dispatch. Nothing new has transpired; the late overtand ex presses having detailed all the public events of late n India. The first ships expeEted to arrive from the Presi dency of Bombay this year, are the Fort William, Capt., BOULDERSON ; Airly Castle, Capt. NASH ; Lord Hawkesbuty, Capt. DONALDSON ; and Wor. (ester, Capt. WOOD. The above ships arrived at Bombay on the 28th July, and were to have been dispatched by the Government for England. on the 3d December; their arrival may therefore be looked for in May next. We are concerned to state, according to a private letter received from Bengal by the Georgiqna, the death of GEORGE DICKiNSON, Esq. late Colleaor of Bangulpoor ; also the death of G. R. FOLEY, Esq. who had been deputed to succeed Mr. Dicx- INSUN. It is a circumstance not a little extraordinary, that notwithstanding we hear almost daily of the arrival of ships from India laden with Rice, that Wieful article cannot be purchased under the error_ mous price of five pence ir.pound. NAVAL NEWS. PORTSMOUTH, MAgoi 18. AR.R iv El:His Majesty's Ship Ellj.rsti, from Co ri ' : Cau't,co7t Frigate, from a Cruize ; Fredricki tait : i NELSON, from Fredrickstadt ; Hoit , FE ARcs) Trio Friends, READ, from Cherbourg. sions of Alarmists on this point, though we could not help respe&ing them, we have considered as visionary ; but have, at the same time, been among the foremost to applaud the vigilant circumspeaion of GoVernment, which, under 'circumstances so pe_ culiar, and which involved perhaps the vital inte rests of the Country, wisely determined to leave nothing to chance or accident, or to rely altogether .on the confidence which it entertained in the pacific disposition of ale 'Power with Which it was nego tiating a Definitive Treaty. . - .. Ignorant as we profess ourselves, to be of the motives which induced the Cabinet of late to adopt measures which bore a - vigorotis, resolute, and de cisive charaaer, we have never seen any ground for suspaling, that they originated in -any jea. lousy of the real objet of the Brest Armament.— We have throughout imagined, - that they arose out of some new obstacles which had occurred in the Negotiation, which the interests of the country re quired that they should bring to a speedy crisis. That crisis cannot be far distant. It is evident, , from the Dispatches of the Officers commanding the Expedition, that even when they arrived at the point of their destination, they were wholly ignorant whether 1 outssAyr would prove a friend or a foe. It is also evident, that his great object had been, by a language of conciliation, and of a submissive tendency, either to gain time by inducing the FIRST CONSUL to postpone measures of vigour till a Definitive Treaty had been signed with England, or to lull him into the persuasion that a less efficient Force would he necessary for his purpose, than that now employed. But he under rated the sagacity of the person with whom he had to deal. The first moment was seized, and ample means employed, to carry into effed, without rely ing on mere appearances, so vast, so desirable, and so necessary an objea, How far these means may really prove adequate, remains to be proved. We cannot but entertain some doubt of it. Should the temptations held out to the African General prove ineffedual, what difficulties may not the French Army have yet to encounter ? In fa&, they may scarcely be considered as having begun.—No general A&ion had been, and none. probably may be fought-- TOUSSA INT would be mad to risque one. ---But secure in the savage recesses of mountains, lb rests and fastnesses, inaccessible to a regular army, he may long be enabled to carry on a sort of Ma roon War, which may defy the valour, the disci pline, and the perseverance of the army sent to subdue him. The rainy season too, according ro General LFcLP R C'S account, would tot in 2h tinvC months from the date of his dispatches. Of such a contest it is difficult to foresee the termination. SHEERNESS, MARCH Igo nfi es' YESTERDAY, after post. sailed His ~Laj ti' s Ship Brilliant, Capt. MrKENZIE, for Spithod• This day arrived His Majesty's Ship Slay. X7l' Capt. 1 3 ,Aizt, from Yarmouth. DE4L, MARcfl IS. llts Majesty's Ship Cambrian arrived this t he ing from Piy month, and sailed immediately t° River. The East India Company's Ship Brava/Jig calliC down early today from Gravesend, and re lll3-11 with the Royal Charlotte. Arrived and sailed for the River the Go r g ial'l Packet, from Bengal. 1 1 ; Arrived the Heroine Frigate, f rorr Fortscloa' and 'sailed for Sheerness. CY) 1?N EA:if/INGE, M a reb lq• l pp o s ied la THIS day our Market was tolerably -u- - a ts, general : Wheat a heavy sale, and cheaper ; fine fro the great Importations, are cheap; ,b 4 ,„ E .0“ samples keep their price ; and for seed, refrai n ".; e at r Barley but little alteration. )loud froM th e b ,; stocks, rather lower. . „ a cs g 1 44 Whcat 64s a 74$ a 84$ -od 1 'leans (new) Ps - °' Fne di t -.- EBs od 1 Tick di Os 3 , ; I s 03 Ane ditto - ntttk a Malt di. 44s a 47$ a sos od Oats - i M i st Fine ditto 51s. a sas 4d Poland Jo.. Irr 6 l arley . 38$ a 42s 6d Rape Seed. .32 1 a 3 ..er . 4os a 43s od Fine Flour 65s a 67::carao• White Pease 4os a 44$'6d Seconirdo:6os a §.J 00 r1 Yesterday a Meettng of thc Livery of •Th es o , was held at Guildhall, at which passed son*, lotions against the longer continuance of the i re Tax.. Messrs. Robson and /ages were t4)(3t. t•aV 5 Hustings. The speech of the former we ". already giyen, Want of room prevents ,US Iry giving any detailed accouot of this Meeting' rse The Prussian Minister a t the Court of !et ° is s nv l burgh (Count Lusi), has been recalled, at 0), request, on account of the bad state of his turf s Count WORONZOW has obtained leave t° 1 100 1 to Russia for six months. During his absen ee ,,o. London, his place will be filled by Baron rJsc frog The exportation of grain has been permitted the Port of Dantaic, since the 24th of Jan e ' t ali A', We anticipated that the Pic-Nics some time or other, land in the Round.lin The Recorder of the Society, Mr. BR I D. 9 " l c A L eir cm's/41,16.1,A :h. grit h SV 3. 3C ni s y pe" The to nights of Pic-Mc Theatricals % ill; baps produce some striking consequences months would eeruse.e., ; OP Pic-NiFtssuppered to be derived from a term which the liegroes in the West Pdies apP to their infants. bora. A French brig, from Honfleur, having ' 9ll r' to poultry, eggs, and seed, has not been p errn 'to sell her cargo at Portsmouth ; tly the ex - P ress of the Board of Customs. ilk al A Cause of great importance to the sever-eonti holders in the Clothing ManufaCtories in t he. ' t h e re, of Gloucester, was tried at she Mail es porna g wherein job Wicks wag Plaintiff, ant r l i he New Jones (a servant to Mr. John Cooper, (!a o thier. Mills, in the parish of Minchinhamptin; e r' datitl Defendant. The Cause related to weir' having pulled up a board placed on the ver e V e 0 55 ' Plaintiff's mill.pond, which so penned 4, t ' i r r ic pre' against the wheel of Mr. Cooper's mill, 0 1 4 e a as I vented its working. This the jury con sic l e L . jast i ; nuisance, and that Mr. Cooper was thrgref'; 50' fied in ordering the Defendant to pail up th-ndo board, and gave their verdift for the P eic accordingly. Ba iley, On Wednesday se'nnight, at the New can Manchester, James Doorson, of Farnworth, v` l3s _ fat viEted in the penalty of 401. by the Magistraie'p't of buying weft from a weaver in the emp l° Y r n ,, e o lert Messrs. Ramsbottoms, of Stand ; and Joh n — t oo; a weaver in the employment of Messrs. Al s o) be and Snowden, of Manchester, was senten ce ' imprisoned for three months, and to be P g a weft whipped, for embezzling a dimity Warp an entrusted to him to weave. svb° i 5 The examination of Mr. HZ DIRT Co'CIC to 1 0 committed on suspicion of Forgery, ow,i n g en , c indisposition on Wednesday, took place v e 'vr" iso ll / BOND, the Magistrate, in Tothill-Fields and his public, examination stands over- f i c on Yesterday afternoon a painter, while at ''‘ v° il e re the ioof of the workshops of Mr. Butts:44,otin castle street, Strand, fell on the stone pav e ' . the yard, and was killed on the spot. a fe e In the dominions of Rolugay, in Russia/moon/ markable, though not entirely new, Oe n ° of presented itself lately, namely, a.heervyrasil ode seeh. In an expanded arch a cloud was 0 ,... 01 an at first very small, but in its particular ' ° , l) , pars colour differing very much from the reniai,nl b y the, of the cloud. As far as could be j ud g e d ' it • de' continually increasing bigness of that cl°, ',overe a scended with great rapidity, and at lengt,;“ the ground in a considerable space titude of worms, that, in some places, t",. Ac' piled on each other to the height of six places, , obes e with su i li ce were, cording to the testimony of eye witnesses, W hite A of 3 worms were two inches in length, an d • colour. ca r go The Elizabeth, Sharp, bound to Du bi k in : shore near Glasgow, having sprung a I " landing. 1