The Sun. — London, England, 1807-04-27 00:00:00

and INDEV-ENDL'isrT ELtCTORS•oi rho CITY orwaßcE - r ER Residing in London and Parts ItAjaceitt. eNTLE: AS it is Xpette ' d a. Eiisdluilon of Pailiarrient will almost immediately be carried into effed, it be, ottiei necessary. I should again solicit` the favour of your Support to be returned one Of, your Representatives at the approaching hleEtiop.. • The grounds on• which presume to offer Myself to • your choice, arise itnin the most anxiousandaident'desire to regu late my Condud 6.1 the strident principles of redittedie and independeuce; to maintain our happy Cotstitiition ut. most purity and , itringth, and never to forfeit 'your good opi nion by any ad that May lead you to regret having continued , • to me that confidence and.favour, f an proud to say, I Mid GENTLEMEN, io repeitedly experienced. I have •the Honour to be, „ With much deference and great respea; Gentlemen, Your trioSt faithful and devoted Seivanis - AiiRAHAM R.ol3flfeh. Lon4on, April 27, lgoi. To the INDEFENDENT E LI CTS RS atilt COUNTY Of LINLITHGOW. CENILENiENi i • •• THE intended Dissolution of pal-Vial-bent afilirds -a. file anotheropPortunity of oaring rn2 Services to thy native County, and "'of soliciting the honour of your 0%13- ienance and Support hav6 the honour to be, Gentlemen, , Your most obedient ht!i-nble Servant, HENRY ERSKINE. London, Ar;ril x 7, z 2,7. IMPEINAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF PEEKS; SiTeßbiY APRIL p 5 tha 1103 4 :11 Assent was given by CorrimiSsiOn to the Loan -Interest Bill, the Irish _Loan Bill, the Treashrer Of . the Navy's Regulation Bill, the Cus toms Fees Bill, the Innkeepers' Subsistence Bill, the Sicilian Prize Money Bill; the Tanners' Bill, seve ral other and a great number of private Bills. The Commissioners were,the, Lord Chancellor, Lordt Waisingharn and- Hawkesbury,, The Btibls ori ;hie table were forwarded in their respeeiive stages; and the liutiSe adjoArned till Mouoy. HOUSE :OF COMMONS, APRIL 25 'Pie House Wet , at half past- three, and Wtre sorWhoucci by the Black Rod to..the House of Peers to hear the Royal Assent 'given .to several public and private Bills. , • • 11.^,.1 LS. A _ :-2, gasvap. Dnhlin, 3 WoNcl G r c il ott:mburgh, Lit,bol), Wafel ford. • , PRICE uF STOCKS i'kus ATTWELV & O'CLOCK. Consols ; , - 6z t pr. THE SUN. tOLiti QUIS A'L.!:UM aODEAZ 1, 0 D 0 N, MONDAY - , 4PRIL 27 - x 1V7.. DISSOLUTION Or P4RLIAMENt. WE observed on Saturday last .that a pissolutich of Parliament was - a rneasnre generally - expeCled, and most probably - On the eve of taking place. Before this Paper reaches the bands of many of our Readers, that important Event will have Igken plat*: The Nation at urge will. now have an opportunity of manifesting its sentiments with respeet to the comic& of His MAJ'EsTy upon the important question NI/hich led to a change of Adroinistiation. It is by no means turprising,that the late Ministers ,and their friends should be adverse to a rifeastire which will not only deprive them of their power, but will aTford tfia . most indispiitable proof that their conduel is disapproved of by their Countrymen. They, however, should recollect that it is they who have forced on this mea sure ; they have, under the pretence of defending . their own conduct, arraigned that of their Sove reign, and hav'e therefore convened him to make an appeal to the People. They 'wanted to make the 'Cabinet a body independent of the King, they. op peied to the People against their Sovereign, they have now no rieit to complain, when. their Sovereign appeals to he People against them. His MA3 ESTY has siobly dorre his duty:. With that firmness' Which he -has nianifeted upon all trying 'occasions, be resisted a Measure which he considered•as incompatible with. • the natty of one 'of the most important branaes of the ConStitutiOn : it 'now remains for the People t 6 do theirs. T3y the Addresses twhich are pouring in - from all parts, it is manifest that a very large Majority 'of the people; es we predicted Would be the Case, retied with due reverence and gratitude on the wis. arm, 'the virtue, and the firmpess which His M A . . ;EsTY • displayed in a trying moment, when a rnea , tuYe' was proposed. fraught with mischief, which . . • fiicylgh, perhilps, - :remote, was 'not the less certain. It is fit, therefore, that as the people in the Ad , 4r t isiesalluded to express their dutifulccinformity t 4 ii.islMajesty's sentiments, and their odeful sipsie . 61 the re&itude of his condua; the) , shcad baveit More complete opportunity of evincing their iirinciples .and feelings, by delegating their pri vileges to those who with heart and hand will spport the aims of t het. e'reign to pre- Serire the Constitution in undiminished purity.— 'the advocates of the late Ministry are fully aware 6E6.6 causes which, 614 led to this isissofti!idri, fiat it 'would by no means suit .peit= parpose to admit \ . them ; they 4 have therefore With great ingenuity di::- covered • another cause; which by. being repeated I with . i great confidence, they think . may produce , .1 some effe&, and impote noon some understanding 3; it is now said that the COMmittee of the /louse of iCommons are daily, making discoveries; but this is not all we ate told, with the utmost solemnity; that if the Committee had been allo*edtO sit• a' mdtifh longer " it is impossible to .say who , might not be affeeced;" an d d .this we are seriously assured it ilk real cause of the liiissCaution. Such an aSser lion scarcely requires an answer, becanse, though the DissOlution of Parliament will, of course, dis ._solve the Committee, yet it cannot destroy the evi dence which is already in existence, nor will it pre ilent the renewal of the Inquiry. if it had been stated that Ministers had dissolired Parliament because they apprehended that some Of them •inight be atteCted by the Inquiries of the born 'fiiittee, the . assertion,' though not true, would , • .. . at least have been intelligible ; b ut to charge . them (and to expe& to be believed) with adopt inv this measure merely because " it is ,iinpoi•- , :#bM to ‘'giiy. who might be affe&ed by these • In-. Aiiiries," is paying a-very poor Compliment to the I undersiatiditig 'Of their Readers. I , A . Prorogation will take place this clay; and the Proclamation . for the -Dissolution Will be in the 1 Gazette to-morrdw. • . , ~ . Our Falmblith Letter, we are sorry to say, .nien tions the Logs of the SwifisuTe, of 74 guns, off Ca diz ; but adds, that the Crew were saved. No, Such. Account'll.is reached the Admiralty. The last Dispatches from Sir It. STRACHAlststate, that the Rochefort Squadron had been entirely dis_ mantled; but the Blockading Squadron will not be withdrawn, as this maybe merely an aitifide of. the Eneuiy. We are happy to have it in our power to state, that the differences which' occurred between this Country and Russia, are already iti a train Of being adjusted. Sir A. PACIET, W4O is appointed Minister Plenipo tentiary to the Porte; left Town yesterday to proceed on his ntiNsi'on: No .intelligetici whatever arrived this Morning from the Contitwnt. Yesterday riiot-nitig his MAJESTY, PrincesSes Au GuiTA, Sdi.XIA, and AMELIA, walked to St. Gedige's 'Chapel, attended by Generals GWYNiqE, FITZROY, OF Bubn, and WEATHERALL, Colonels T.tvLblt antLD2§W I "tountt, WYNNE, &c. where a Sermon wagprgached by the never tad M r. Bits.a.#; rittii the third chapter of Aas, t 9th . . verse, anti afierwards rode to Frogmore to dinner, and returned to the talace at three o'clOck.---the QUEEN and Prin'ces's L' LT had Divitie Setvici. performed in the Palace. They afterwards rode to Frogmore, and returned with his MAJis&Y. Saturday Princes MAlty. completed her 51st Year; on" Which occasion the Duke and Duchess of Yotik `visited their MAsEsTfEc, and returned to town on We night of the same day. , Saturday, at . twelve o'clock, a Cabinet Council was very suddenly held at the. Foreign Office, 'Which, was attended by all the Cabinet Ministers, except Earl CAMDEN, who was. indisposed. An :aPPeal• to the Lords of the Council was put 'off in consequence, acid the LORD CHANCELLOR uneipeetedly left the. Court Of Ciiiiicery to attend. _ _ . Sir Awrituß PAGET leaves tewn for ConstanOno ple to-morrow. His dispatches are ready, but, not closed, in the hourly expectation of further advices. Earl 1 3 4;) , tER . 0 course of the week. sets7off for Vienna in tht ,4 • . " The Gazette. contains Addresses presented to his MAAs'i'Y', On the subjeta of the late change of Ministers; from the Cities of London; Btistol, and, Cijasgow ; the Counties of Northampton,. Oxford, Flint, Pembroke, an d York ; 'the EoroughS of In- Verness, Noninorkth,and Selkirk ; the Synod , of Glasgow, and the University of St. ps also a Note from the Swedish Am - .baSsador to C. ! I.I4NING; announcing the rigid blockade ofthe mouth of the River Oder by St'veden. On Saturday a Mail' was received it- the;. Post, Office froth Lisbon, with letters to the 12th inst. The Fleet which sailed from Portsmouth under con- voy of the - Seakirse and E1e614 a arrived in the Tagus after a passage of seven days'. The Ships of War Proceeded to Gibraltar with the troops for the Me diterianean.. The 4.leara has a large quantity of money on board. The Orprd, One of. the last hornovi7ar4-bourid Fleet from Jamaica to London, that 'parted cempany, fell in with a Ffench Privateer, 'and after - p very sr-, yerc engagement; vas captud and carried to France. • A strongforee is immediately to be sent to the West, Indies. Five RegiMentS, amongst WhiCh are the 13th and 26th, ate to einbark from Deal, and two . Reginients; supposed . to be the sth and 5 0 t h, are mentioned as-coming from Ireland for the sane purpo§e. The 'tith Itegi'lu . ent; . trl)i)tg*, is *to proceed immediately to°Gibialtar, whither„ it is believed, the 14th will follow it. . On their arrival„ the 42d, and another now there, willgo to join the Sicilian Army tinder General MOORE. Tttp ttardS of the Admiralty have appointed Sir Homit P6l)ulot to the cotnniand of a small squadron to Cruize off the continetit, in the Rivers, &c.,with roving commission. Kensington Gardens and Hyde Park were throng-. ed with gay company yesterday. In the former :4 might be calle,d the first spring promenade. A►i ;;ng. the . fashionable visitants Were noticed the .Prince and Princess CAST4LCiGALA, Plaice EsTEßtiniv, ,Duchesses of NIONTROIE and I,F.k:os, Marchionesses of DOWNStlittE, BATH, and SWAYFORD, Oxioiri, Aritii 1.:•*-=Oil thUrscl# last, in fif.l t'onvocatiod, it was unanimously resolved, that an Address be presented to his MAJESTY, humbly thank ing hire fesr his firm and steady attachment to'our Civil and Religious Establishments. . . , Lieutenant W. CdONIZE, who corrithanded the boats of the Galatea, with five O ffi cers and 70 men, ;and took.the .Lynx,' of 16 guns, and 16i men, on the Ist ofJanuary, has been promoted to the rank of. commander in his Majesty's Navy, on .the express application of the Lords of the Admiralty, .to his MAJESTY, to enable them to Make the prornotion _ . there being an Order of Council against any Lieu tenant being protnoted to the rdttL f eif Commander, - till' he had served two years, which Lieutenant COOrsißi lidd dot done by sevtral months. When this brave Officer fought this desperate action ; be was three times beat off in his boat froni the Lynx; . . when, in 'additibn .to the loss of one of his legs, in a similar brave action, he received a wound' in his thigh, above the former amputation. . . A letter from Copenhagen, dated the 16th, inst.. states, that the Dadish Government, although it has . carefully avoided the appearance of military-equip- . ment, has sedulously laboured to place both its ArMy. and Marine in a condition Tor service. • The letter sayS—" There are now 21 Sail of the Line and 13 Frigates; besides smaller Vessels, lying, in the Bason : they are not rigged, but their stores of every descrip tion are on board.', , ' - '- NAVAL NEWS. Frog tit LONDON GAZETTE, Aril zs, Advdralty-Office, April 25, 1807. Copy cf'a Leiter front the Earl of St. Vincent, K.B. ii‘lmiral..,o,nd Contract:4er in . Chief of His Mr:- estrt giet employed in the . Channel, Soundings, 4.9 4 C. to Win. Marsden, Esq. dated in. Town, the 24th inst. SIR, I inclose, for the iofdrmaiion of the Lords Con m:►ssioners of the. Admiralty, a letter which I lrive received from CalitaTii Maitland, of His Majesty's Ship Einerald, giving an account of the capturo of the Austerlitz French Privateer. - - , I am, &c. ST. VINCENT. MY LoRD, Emerald, at Sea, April, 14,.1807. I beg - to:iriforin you that His Majesty's Ship un der my : command, yesterday, captured a Spanish sPolacre.Ship frOm La Guira, loaded with cocoa ; bark,. indigo, Ste. Which I was convoying as far as the limits of my station, when a report being made of a sail on the Weather-bow this morning it 'day ltght, I gate dace; dace;and after a very hard run of ten hours, hid the good fortune to capture .theAtister litz, of Nantes, p. Privateer .Brig, carrying fourteen g-pounders, and ninety =six trien.: ;She is quite new, appears to sail extremely fast, and is;. in my.opinion, perfectly adapted for His Maiesty's service. - The Austerlitz was fitted, for a five month's cruize, and had been out eight days from,Nantes without mak ing. any, capture. I have the Honour to be, Brc. ' , F. Z, MAITLAND. The Earl . of St, Vincent; &c. &c. &c. Adriziralty-Office, April 25; 1807.. The French estimate their loss of Men at the battle of Eylau to Amount to 5000 in killed, wound ed, and. disabled - as ,to be for , a time withheld from military service. Their place is to be supplied with 5060 of the conscripts for 1807. A. - considerable portion of 'the French army in Frieli has been ordered to march immediately to . .Poland,. s • A loan of 2,000,000 rix dollars is at present ne gotiating in Holland kir the kingdom of Saxony. The Princes ANHALT PLESS ; LIPPE, DERMOLD, WALDECH, and the Count of LIPPE 'amt Aura sup:6lli have joined. the Rhenish Confederation. An alarm of scarcity prevails at Kenigsburgli and its neighbourhood, in consequence of the great in crease and condensation of the Allied 'Forces. The arrival of a number of ships with corn, &T. from va,, riOus ports in the Baltic, was looked for .with the, greatest anxiety. • In Baltimy a paper currency is to bejmitediately ,issued tattle amount of 5b0;000 crowns. ' in - a late affair off Dantzic, the Polish troops; Under _General - GlELGUD;•are"said to have defeated the Piussians, with the loss' of ,300 prisoners and • two pieces of cannon, together with Count 'KRAO KOCv, theit Commander • The spouse of his Royal Highness Prince . 0111131 , ‘ TIAN FREDERICK was safely delivered ofa Prince; eh the gth WI. at Ploen ; the _infant died soon after wards. The Councillor FRAN'!uoisTEIN has been arrested and toncluCled to Breslatt.‘, - He is accused of having foviaired the recruiting for the Prussian - arthier, and it is expeated he will be shot. • The King of 'PRUSSIA, it is reported.. it-Aotttto proinete . Generals - Vox BLuctIES;- Neg . IiCAUV. REUTIIi and • VON . LESTOC4, to the rank of Field- Marshl. The KING of S'WEDEN . has announced hiS tion'to join his army in Germany. - Arrangements have in consequebue been made for the departure of the QUEEN and the. ttochess of BauNswieK, from Mahnoe for StOckholtn;nbout the middle of May. BERTIJIER has assumed the eotninand of the Freocb army in Friuli. • ' Several persons have been 'arrested at Florence and Leghorn, suspected of sentiments hostße to the (39••-, vernment. - The Spanish troops on their march to Join the French army on the Vistula are under the command 'of the Marquis DELLA ROMANA, and of' General K.III3ELAN. Three British Armed Vessels passed Copenbageri on the Bth and loth instant, on their way to the , Baltic. • • The Foreign Ministers at Vienna haVe 'received , intimation, that theit attendance at Osen during - the sittiOg of .the H'angarian Diet; in which the Emperor .presided, would be dispensed with. Fifteen thOuxand Dutch troops have. arrived the Lauenburgh - Cotintry, to oppose the career of the Swedes. • The Swedish, patro.es ,were, on the 141 h, in the neighbourhood of Lubec: ..Since their passing the Peale, nearly two thousand prisoners; chiefly Dutch, haVe fallen into their hands. The riot at Harrow Was by no means so serious as has, been represented in some of . the Public PrintS ; and we hope that by the proper and spirited 0: ertiens of the Masters, the yoring Gentlemen ecla - cited at the School Indy be restrained within feason .able • bOundS. ' Mr. HARRIS, Of ' Ovent:Gardeo Theatre, as well • as M% EAIBLB, line, been some time labouring under a severe rheumativcomplaint:-7-Both;• we are glad to learn, are now ' so much better as . to be able to go • abroad. •-• 1 • There is no•truth, it seems, in. the.report that , Mr. tuF.IsTON is about to leare.the Stage, as the Propri-' etors of Drury-lane Theatre have recently renekved _his engagement for five years, with an augmetita.: tion of salary. Mr. HEATIICOTE, it is said, has liberally settled : 0001. on .MisSSlttl.F., Preparatory to h i s intended. nuptials, and after having filly - seep the vitnirrof •fashionable - life, means to resign himself to stoniestie y. Mrs.SIDDONs had dined,ar Lora ticom ' 0, ana . y was indulging the company lvvflh some readings from SHAKSPEARE, when • stie •reLtived the tidings of her Mother's death. . The Masquerade is Argyle-street on Friday . night Was attended by tutors than four hundred • Persons. It was a seeds dflrtinterrupted gaiety throughout.' There wererlilliify navel charaCters, and.rnost of • • A List of Killed and Wounded. them were well supported. The embellishments cc' • ~ wp and refreshityents were all in the first style. - • , BACCItAleri. - Mr. , T„ ti. M•Kenzte, master's uu _ slightly azied. %WWII MUM, Sea111:41, Tits SERA,. -14a Norte lifitridate, with the Scanlan, ditto. lames Reid, 'Seaman t l / 1 e: SeAirian killed " 5 ',,' • •Li• 'son,' Seaman, ditto. _la S ' eAtn pot'ut aid of CATALAN!, drew an Overflowing A thence to the King ' s Theatre on Satarday, nig 7 , I.retti:ll, Seamad, ' Lli L lt r o. I. Nash. STatma" , . i4 c' Wll 14 n lewsvii, Seaman, ditto. William Cordon, The applause, as usual, was enthusiastic. The n ' lames Simpson, Seaman, ditto, Edward 1' I N 'n'r I;:diet of Le Siege de Troye followed, and detaineA! ditto. ditto. -- --- "e;nian, ditto. %, ; .', lci te f ' ttit)4 of the cumpany till its conclusion. It 'is "4,' seaman, ditto. loin Lewis, Seaman,. ditto. T. .Seam-n, ditto. Samuel Deer, Marine, ditto.—Total 2 superb SpeClacle, but is much indebted to Drs- !-IYES, his wife, PARISOT, PEESLE, NORA, and our ,' ""‘""d`d* • • cignigl) fair - countrywoman, Miss CitANTISI.D. Copy If a Letter from Vice-Admiral Dacres, Goth mandeViii:•Chicfy . His Majesty's ,Ships and - Vis; "'sels!at Jamaica, to Win. Marsden, Esq. dated on board His Majesty'v Skip Veteran, at l'Ort Boyd. Mardi 12, 1807. SIR, ~x~y= . I have the honour to he , &c. . • J. R. DACTIES, jrlP n.. Thier es, Esq. rice-Admira‘ - kite, Commander in Chitl, &c. <4.V t.f c. • 114.3kesty's Ship Bowficmtr, at Sec ) lar4ary 24; 1.2u7. Having Captured the French .National Schooner). as mentioned in my Letter of the 16th inst. which L.found was well known in Samana (that nest far Privateers), and having consulted. with Capt. Wiser . of the Mediator, whom. I •felt in with off. the Mona, under similar orders 'to myself, aruizing for the an' noyance of the Enemy (whose Vessels are pritx" cipally • Privateers in these Seas), I took him Linder my orders, and arrived at a deterrninatiOn to wick the captured Vessel in, . under her former colour's, to disguise' this Ship as a Prize, and the My'. diator as a Neutral ; , which stratagem so completely deceiveda navigation them, we got through the intricate n Harbour, and atichOred7within. vigiofth t e ha t half a mile of the Fori, befdre the Enmy . disco' y e red theirmistake, and opened their fire upon us from the Fort,. haire the pleasure to ac' quaint you,' Sir, after, a heavy cannonade of font _hours from the' Ships, was carried by storm,' bY, the Seamen and M ar i nes o f b ot h s hip s - l an d e d n ode'. , the command of Captain Wise, assisted by 'Lien.te - ' pants Baker, NOrton. and Shaw. We found in Harbour an AtneriCan Ship ; and an English.Sehoone r ' Prites 'to the' Vessels aforementioned, and two French Schooners then fitting tor Sea as Cruizers'•''' lam concerned to say the Mediator suffdred cone derably, the fire•of the ,Enemy being chiefly direst' ed 'against .her, but not so much as might be peCtecl from the Corumanding situation of the For; which was manned principally by the crews of 11 `. 1 'Privateers. The behaviour of the Officers and .Alt - ! of.both Ships was such as always distinguishes .1 31 r. fish Seamen, and great credit is due to the iVlasie l r , . fur earlying the Ships through.so difficult a navige, anti, Which Caused this enterprise to be so complet e ' ly successiul. The Fort and cannon were destroyed by L. , tenant C.;ould when we evacuated the place op Et l Ift instant. The; Enemy's loss must hare 13 '`,; considerable, though we could not ascertain the ne l '' ber, from their retreating to the Wuods. Inclosed is the Return of Killed and Wounded' I mil, &f.:. (Sign - ea) • 3. R. DACRES, To l'ice Acitalr4l Dacres, &c. &c. It is with much satisfitaion I inclose Ynti, -for the ~ information of the Lordi Commissioners of the An miralty, the Copies of two letter s I have received from Captain Pacres, of. the liacchante, acquainting me of the •Cptilre of the French National Sehooner- - Dauphin, and of the Destrudiun bf the Fort ; &c ; at Satnana, the nest from whence the Privateers arts" fitted out that are codatantly cruizing about St. Do thinga and, i'orto . ltivo i ,-b1 that ,Ship and the MGA diator. • 1 trust thei;Jeetabbitai will approve of rte Et • terplUdi whrch lies been so 'Completely successful. Lam, &c. • • 1. ft. DACRES, 4-1_ is lilajeslis ,ship Awe/tante, at Sea, . . , VaTtialt 16, 'lBoi. I have - the honour to inform you of His - kiLlestyr Ship Bacchante, under 'rry 'COmmanal ) (Mediator in company) having captured, on the 14th instant ; of Cape Raphael, the French National Schooner Datv• phin, after a chace of ten hours. She mounted one long twelve and two four-poundit4 but the 0 7 .19 latter she 'hove .overboard in the chace; and bad 011 board seventy-one, Men, 1 am extremely happy at captured-thit Venel„- as she has done much mischief to our Trader and was returning from a suck:essful CrujZe to St. Domingo. •;r