The Sun. — London, England, 1802-08-06 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS. We have receive! the elegant Epistle of the Citizen and Fite mai? of Dublin, and it isj4st sach a Letter as we should have supposed a and supporter of Mr. GRATTAN would have written, in which we ace at a loss to determine, whether vulgarity, folly, rascality or cowardice, most pridominater. 4R.12 TV ED I IT6I MAILS. Consols. PRICE OF STOCKS, THIS DAY A T TWELVE O'CLOCK. I - THE SUN. SOLEM QUIS DICERS YALS'UM AUDEAT ? LONDON, AUGUST 6, 1802. THE Paris'Papers of the zd inst. this morning arrived in Town. It appears by a Letter from Frankfort, dated zsth ult. that the Prussian Troops have already taken possession of some of the Indem nities, but the Courts of Wurzhnre.and Bamberg have expressed their determination of opposing by force, any Troops that may come to take posses sion of their Territories, unless by the authority of the EMPEROR and Empire. • The publication of the Concordat has not put an end to the religious dissensions in France. .A vio lent tumult. has lately-happened in Seday, between the partizans of those who are termed the Constitu tional Priests ; and of the Emigrant Priests returned to France. Orders have been sent into the different Depart_ ments of France, to forbid the performance of any Play that has not previottsly received the sanction of Supetior Authori!y, This morning a Mich Ind a Ifamburgh zfrived, Their contents are given under the pro. 1.,!r YESTERDAY we offered some , Rernarks to our Readers on an Article which .ippeared in The Mai-n -il' fr Pest, and which to us seemed highly exception_ able, though written cvirh apparent temper and ino fo-d:ie, we are unwillingly compelled to chastise another. utnal, which does not pretend to Moderari,in, which evidently does not possess the talents and ingenuity that distinguish its Con temporary, and which is known to the Public only by its audacity and the deprivation of its Principles. We, mean The Morning Chronicle. That Paper has the impudence to assert, that if NLANw Att LNG be well advised, "he cer tainly never will present a Petition to the House of Connions against the Return of the Sheriffs of Mid d:esex, because a righteous decision would, beyond ail pest:on, he 'against him." There can be no douhr, if the greatest number of legal Voters were on the silt,. of Sir FRA.NOS BURDETT, independ ently of other powerful considerations, which we are well informed, must become the subjed of future discussion, Mr. MAINWARING might not consult his personal interest, by bringing this question before the Legislature. But the con trary is the foci. It is notorious, and it is believed even.by the friends ofthe Returned Candidate, that his Votes will be found invalid, on a legal scrutiny. It becomes therefore,• the duty of a man, who is conscious that he is supported by the genuine voice of his County, to exert every measure consistent with the Laws, to wipe away the stain which has .been cast upon it. This is a measure, which he ewes to h:a own honour, as Nell as'to the charaEter of the pei - sons who made him the objets of their choice. He owes this tribute also to the reputa tion of the Magistracy, and to the course of that Justice, of which he has for years pzoved himself a courageous Advocate. Ncr.it ion. The question is at present, p'aced on a very different footing, from What it would have been, had not the momentary triumph of the vitiorious patty been coupled with the abasement of the Magistracy. Every thorcst m_tn is now a party in Mr. MAIN.. WAR I NG'S cause, not merely on account of the re 3paciAbili(y of hi; private and public charafter, but because he is a vigilant and aaive Magistrate, who exerted himself successfity in the defence of his Ki ng a nd Country, w hen both were assailed by wild and mischievous Ruilians. The cause is therefore, no _longer between MA I NIVA,R ING and BURDETT, but between the Cons:it tr ion and Jacobinism ; and according to the ultimate success of the one or the cci r, we sil;;11 he enable.l ;o form some judgement of die Po;itica; State of our Country. Prom discus3ion, the Chronicle has direfled its calumnies against the late and the present Ad_ ministration. It has the frontless assurance, in the lice of a why►;e People, who are now enjoyiN all the advantages of their wise and provident Admi— nistiations, to assert that 'the Public Sentiment is ' against them, Without remarking once more on-the strong association which is thus attempted to be rivet ed in the minds of a certain description of persons, be tween the result of the Middlesex Elation, and the cause of DisaffeCtion, and which the above Paragraph completely verifies, we appeal to the People of Britain for -a candid examination of those measures of policy, which peculiarly honoured the conduCl of the last, and marked the undeviating path of the present Administration. The mind is appalled, when, refleeting on the dreadful abyss from, which we have happily -escaped. Let events speak for themselves. The disruption of Civilized Society, and the habitude of misrule in a neighbouring coun try, fostering the spirit of Disaffedion, inflaming the embers of Anarchy ; here Seditious Writings, inflammatory Discourses, popular Assemblies, abetted by the Secret Intrigues of artful De. magogues,• not only. impeded the Foreign Ef. forts of Government, but openly defied its Inter. nal Power. Public Authority, the Laws, the Esta blishments of our Country were avowedly despised and insulted ; all good Men rendered insecure of their Property, and doubtful of the future ; the Lower Orders of the People emboldened to advance pretensions hostile to the Peace of Society, and a great part of the Body Politic gangrened to the core ; Ireland, reducing these dangerous princi ples to praetical assertion, throwing off the Bonds of Allegiance, and unfurling the Standard of Re volt. Such was the sickly state of the Bri tish Empire, under the late Administration.-- In the space of a few years, however, by dint of Wisdom, Fortitude, and Perseverance, the AspeCt of our Affairs assumed a happier feature. Rebellion was crushed, Seditious Assemblages dispersed, an inflammatory Press silenced ; the Laws resumed their ordinary Course ; Ireland was reconciled and united to the Mother Country ; onr Domestic Quiet enabled Ministers to exert, with greater vigour, the National-Strength ; and Valour, combined wilt P o li c y, obtained for our Army, Laurels which have been justly envied by all Europe. T'aus, by a spirited application of well timed Expedients, our sickly state was removed, and the Nation bloomed forth, in all theVigour of Health and Power.—lf we look to the condition ofeve ry Coon t ry inEurope which has been engaged with us in the la teWar, we shall find them to have become the viaiins of their own in ternal dissentions, and of a foreign adversary. Not one of them had the advantage of treating for Peace on terms of equality.. This Country alone possess ed the power of continuing the War, without ha. zarding her Integrity, and in the consciousness of this principle, her Government was enabled to con_ elude a Peace without dishonour, and without loss of her original Territory. The Morning Chronicle, previously to the Signature of the Preliminaries, unceasingly poured out its inveelives against the continuation of the War, and proposed the esta. blishment of Peace on any terms. When this ob_ jea, was accomplished, feeling the awkward predi. cament in which it was placed, and the impossi bility of discovering any grounds of accusation, it was eluflantly compelled to panegyrise the new Ministry, and to approve their conduEt. From that time, the Chronicle was drivelling gradually into a dull register of Advertisements. Fatlion and Party Spirit were so completely silenced by the measures of Administration, that it was even sup. posed, and purposely insinuated, that many of the Opponents of the late Ministry were so delighted with the condo& of the present, that they were in. triguing to fill subordinate situations under it, At a loss what to think, how to aCt, and much more what to write, that miserable Journal, plodded on in the stupid language of Monotony. The late EleCtion for Middlesex at length revived its hopes It sees the momentary triumph of Jacobinism, and it grasps ar it with invidious pleasure, as the starv ing wretch catches at the offils of- Plenty. What can its readers think of its principles and its inte grity ? This gleam of hope has suddenly darted upon its columns, and irradiated the gloom that universally pervaded them. It views with exul tation this efibrt of Party, and in the un guarded moments of rapture, conneds the cause of 'Sir FRANCIS BURDETT, with the condem nation of that very Ministry, whom it had before approved ; and even applauded. It i 3 not the exercise of the Constitutional Rights vested in the People, that we censure ; it is the abuse of it ; it is a perversion of true Principles which we deplore, but which The Chronicle public ly extols. We wish to arouse " the Public In, digoation of a Great. People" against misrule, and to see Loyal Men " sit in ?ornament, to obtain for us Indemnity for the past, and Secu rity for the future." It was the want of such men !' which produced the destruction of the Privileged Orders in France," and not (as the Chronicle would persuade its Readers, what it calls) " the Despotisnti which reigned Cowl. NAVAL NEWS. PLYMOUTH, AUG. 4. ARRIVED His Majesty's Ships Czsar and Cene rettx, from the Mediterranean, last from Portsmouth ; Diana and Blanche Frigates from a Cruize; Abbey, HANNAFORD, hot]; Waterford ; and Anna' Catha rina, HoLsT, from France ; also the Busy, Revenue_ Cutter, Capt. BOWDEN, with a seizure of Spirits. Sailed the Nile, BALLEY, and the Goad Intent, TRACEY, for Lisbon. The Generei:x; of 74 guns, is come into Harbour to be paid off. , PORTSMOUTH, Auc. S. ARR rvsp His Majesty's Ship Netley, from T.eith ; the Sally and Calypso Transports, from ti , c Medi.. terranean ; Traveller, FE ETAM, from it tersburgh ; Fielding, SMITH, from Dantzic ; Good Intent, BROOKS, from Guernsey ; Nile, DaAYToN, and Nelson, Do NAL D, from Havre de Grace ; Distateht WOOD, from Deptford; asd Jane, BEVIS, from London. (~me into Harbour to be paid off, His,Majesty's Cutter Pigmy. Captain CASE, of the Antelope Cutter, has cap tured two Smugglers with 3so casks of spirits, and carried them to the Customhouse here. SUE S dis. HARWICH, Auo. S. Anour three o'clock this morning arrived the Prince of Wales Packet, Capt. A. DEAN t, with the Mail and Passengers from Cuxhaven ; and about four o'clock this afternoon, arrived the Dia,va Packer, Capt. OSBOR,N, with the Mail and Passen gers from Helvoetsluys. Died yesterday, after a lingering illness, which he bore with great patience and resignation, the Right Honourable RICHARD Earl GROSVENOR. Viscount BELGRAVE a , Ki Baron GROSVENOR of Eaton, in the County Palatine of Chester. ,He is succeeded in his titles and estates by his only Son, ROBERT Viscount BELGRAVE, now Earl GRos. VENOR. The late Earl was a great sportsman, and his loss will be very much regretted on the Turf. He was the son of Sir ROBERT GROSVENOR, and the first Peer of his family, being raised to that rank in 1761. He was created an. Earl by Mr. PITT in 17 84. He was born in June 1731, and mar ried, in 1764, HENR ETTA, daughter of TgomAs VERNON, by his wife, daughter of the Earl .of STRAFFORD. There has been a report for two or three days that Lord HOLLAND has been killed at Paris in a dud. We give little credit to the report. There is an account, of another Indiaman having been taken in the Indian Seas by a French Privateer, the same we believe that was reported to have taken the Porcher, viz, the Bellona, belonging to B9ar deaux, which ',ailed, it is said, from that port on the toch of Ocinber, ten days after the signing the Pre. liminaries of Peace. It is now said that the Porcher is not taken, but that she is arrived safe at Cdlona. We shall be happy to learn that this is really the case. We noticed in the French Papers a report of the death of our excellent Icing, but we thought it absurd to take any notice of it. The Morning Chronicle of yesterday makes a very Pompous para graph of it, and adds to it a report, which we believe to be equally unfounded, that His MA. JEST Y ha; expressed a wish for the appointment of a Regency. Lord and Lady MDRPETH, says. a Morning Paper, were not in Sir FRANc ts BURDETT% House when the Procession arrived from Brentford, at the final Close of the Poll, but'at Castle Howard.-- We consider it as due to the charatter of the young Nobleman and his Consort, to repeat the state. ment, that they did not sat Lion such a ceremony, in such a place. The Marchioness of TOWNSHEND gets abnut Fifteen Thousand Pounds by the bequest of Colonel BARRE. It is surmised that the Hon.. and gentle Mr. LAMBE owed his success in Hertfordshire to the assistanee of his Pic-Nir friends. It will hardly after this he contended that they are a harmless set Q 1 People. Madame Viscom - ri is said to carry the nudity fashion to an extretnc. But most of our - present order of Belles are so conspicuous in this Ilshion, that we do not conceive how it can'extend much farther, unless they become entire Eves. Some People are not a little surpiized ,to learn th.it Mrs. SIDDONS should have appeared in the character of Hamlet, but it ought to be remembered that it is only in Ireland that she wears the breeches. Mr. TURNER, the Barrister, who came out at Covent Garden Theatre some time ago in Richard the Third, is playin& in the Winchester Company, SIDDONS, who has recently 'performed Hamlet, in Dublin, appeared in the same charatier at Bath, before she reached the zenith of her fame in this Metropolis. There can be no doubt • that she rendered ample justice to the part ; but, as it is impossible for the imagination to be strongly in terested in the perfbrmanee of any male character by a Woman, it is surprizing that the taste and jadg ment of this great Actress, did not .prei , ent her from resuming it. _ _ _ Early yesterday morning as'Mr. Salt9n, of Rum fordi.was coming to London with poultry 'and other goods, he was stopped between Stratford and Bow by three fellows armed with bludgeons, who de manded his money or ,his life. • Mr. S. delivered what money he had, to the amount of 31. when the villains made a precipitate retreat, NEW PARLIAIWENr. MEMBERS RETURNED. COUNTY OF SUrIiERL AV D. —Right Hon: Virg, Duruisi• COUNTY OF KlNEcoss.—Wrn. Douglas MlLean Cl_ph3ne. -- KIRKWALL, WICK, &c.—Right Hon. john. Charles VII"' Bets. • WEYMOUTH, AtiGiifir 4. LAST night THEIR MAJESTIES and the Prtugo EssEs came ashore, at six'o'clock, and walked' on the Esplanade for a short time ; they then returrydo and spent the evening at the Lodge. This morning the PRINCESS CHARLOITi4 WALES bathed. After Breakfast, Hrs MAJESTY, PRINCESS So. PH lA, the DUKE of GLOUCESTER, Lord CATfI CART, Colonels CARTWRIGHT and FITZROY, OB horseback, rode over the Hills, above the Bedell, through Preston and Ormington, and returned, at half past twelve, to the Lodge. THEIR MAJESTIES and the PRINCESSES Will ge to the Theatre this evening ; the performance, are, by command, the Comedy of The jew, and the entertainment called The Lydr. KENT ASSIZES. • MArDSTONE, JULY g, TWO O'CLOCK. Corinif , Clotl;WaS opt-neti y..tPrAnr; "" ?Assizes commenced this morning, hefOre Chief ;Baron MACDONALD and Baron Honi.m. There ate seventy. eight Prisoners in the Calendar. Two Causes have already been tred ; in one, iwhich was an Aftion br , ught against a Jew of the name of Levi, a WitneS he brought, a geo:eel ynung woman, grossly' perjured herself, and was committed . ; she screamed violertly. Adion has also been tried, which was 'trough- be a Mr. .ORGAN against the servants of JOHN avrogt Esq. of Bevkenham. The Verdid is nut Yet delivered. We have the pleasure to learn, that there is an excess of near seven hundred thousand pounds in .the, receipt of the Customs during the last quarter, be'' yond the calculated estimate. Lnrd FRANCIS ALMA/3/C SPPNCER 'was o n Fri lay last - admit ted a Comtnon Councilor to of the Borough of New Woodstock, in the room of Lora. BATEMAN, deceased. At the same time, JAMES BLACKsToNE, Esq. was eleled Recorder of the . said Borough, i n t h e room o f F&ANCIi BURTotrr, Esq. who has re.,igned. Last winter a great body of Indians presented themselves to Congress, at Washington, under th: command of one of their warriors, named Li-vv.& PIGEON. The President and Government caused ploughs and other implements of agriculture and v!4P rious arts to, he given to them. The President , at the same time, told their Chiefs, that the Gregg Spirit had given to the enlightened Whites a pre , r sent, which contained the means of destroyi g ,I *- simall.pox, which had lately occasioned a great mot* tality among their tribes. Such was the confidenee, of these Childr en o f N ature i n t h e i r more civilized neighbours,' that all the Wdrriors immediatelf, caused themselves to be inocul ate d, an d t h e y earr ic4 with them vaccine matter for their countrytnen.' Soon after, fifteen other Chiefs came to he inoeulAc: ed with the vaccine : this operation was perform-a l both times by the Chaplain of Congress. PAUL the FIRST was one day az Court, sot ° rounded by several Russian Princes, and being al' ways inclined to bowel?' the pride of Great Me") h e asked Count RoTorscHut, his favourite Minister , how it happened that he was not a Prince It Woo please your Majesty," replied the Count, " becat!s° my ancestors, who came from Tartary to settle ift Russia, came in Winter." " How could the 5 0 ' ; son hav e any efffet upon it ?" said Paul. " Why,"' replied th e C ount , " w h enever any T artar appea red at Court for 'the first time, the Sovereign aiw;4r gave him his choice either to receive a present of Pellet, or to be made a Prince ; now as it was very severe Winter when my Grandfather came tQ. Court, he had sense enough to prefer the Peke." • - The Egyptian Antiquities, now at the . i 3 9115 Museum, have been examined by many-Onartne rs of know n Li te r a ture a n d T aste , w h o a ll pronc iece c them the moat extraordin ar y t hi ngs o f t h e ki n d have ever been seen' in Europe. They, were 0 , Most perfea reliques of An t iq u i t y i n t he Count from which they were brought. The Petp!e that _Country viewed them with the deepest serlli of Religious Vener at i o n, c once i v i ng , t h at who,. they remained in the Country, t h e y h a d powe r .iv avert any Calamity that might threaten it. .1 .14 were in the habit of addressing their Prayeri to s ee veral of the Idols among those Reliques, a nd riq f f thing could exceed their const e rn at i on an d when they understood th a t t h e F renc h i n ters ed to convey them away. When these Antiq i Spoils were on board of the Fr enc h Vessel, ttc Natives earnestly implored permission, to pay last homage of their resped and regard to their , . le The French Captain assented, and the poor Per u knelt devoutly before their late t reasures, an d wi fears, and the strongest innks ,of afflittion, bad s them farewell ! Yesterday being the first day of the Oyster Seasl Billingsgate Market was t h ronge d w i t h peop l e a t very early hour in the motping. So eager were th e / to _gain admission t o th e 'O yster _b oats , that marini,i fell into the Thames, and one poor woman was U co fortunately drowned. E very exert i on was used 0 save her Irma watery grave, bu t wi t h out effeaf it is supposed she went under one of the boats. At Winchcombe Fair, on Wednesday, there ci ° a very large show of draught horses in partial)/ and some good riding h orses; one h ac k ney was sr/ `i for too guineas to a L on d on d ea l er ; an d i n gene oaf good prices were given for warranted horses 0 figure. The inferi o r ki n d s , as usua l, were i° great request. Alresford Sheep F a ir, on Th urs d ay se'nnight, we, fuller attended than it has been since the com mend meat; upwards of sOO O ewes an d l am b s were penned,, mostly South-Downs. Th e sa l e was brisk ; Streiia, g Down rams from 1 5 t o zo gu i neas a .h ea d, ;torn 34i• -to 535• lambs, from 28s. to 325•