The Sun. — London, England, 1802-03-06 00:00:00

Armed Confederacy of the North had been under discussion in that House, for that the sentiments of that book were better' adapted to support the prin ciple he maintained that night, than those maintained loy him this evening. The reason for his not having quoted any _thing out of that book on that occasion was a good one. There was not then a copy of that work in England, nor aid he Then know of its existence ; therefore the observation of the Noble Lord upon his having kept that book in his pocket from that time to this - was unfounded. Indeed he wondered the Noble Lord should think it neces sary to advert to-night, to what had passed on the - occasion of the discussion of the claims of the Armed Confederacy. The opinion he then gave • was similar to the opinion he had given tonight-- merely to advise the House to wait awhile. The SPEAKER said; he would submit it to the House, whether, on a question, that this Bill be committed, it was competent to the Hon. Member to go into a reply upon arguments urged on a for mer night, and on another subject. Dr. LAWRENCE submitted to the-authority of the Chair. He admitted, that what he was urging was irregular ; but observed, it was one of these irregularities which were sometimes permitred—He then justified his conduCt, upon the occasion of dis cussing the claims of the Northern Confederacy ; and contended, that the Noble Lord himself, as Se cretary of State, had adopted in part, at least, the Counsel he gave in the House; for, instead of send. ing a Fleet to enforce our demand, he had sent his Hon. Friend behind him (Mr. VANSIII MIT), to accomplish, by pacific means, what was afterwards enforced by arms. Mr. ARCHDALL said, that the hostile disposition of France towards this Country was carried on, not by force and violence only, but also by insinuation and address. It was a fact well known, that there was a class of persons formerly in France, who s e political principles were so had that they could not remain even in France. They were sent to Ame rica. They disseminated their principles with a mischievous assiduity wherever they went : to counterad the efforts of such persons, a measure like this was the most likely to be effeetual, as blending with the liberal principle of it, commer cial advantages to America. He said he was con vinced this measure did not encroach on the Navi gation Law : that was amply proved, and not at tempted afterwards to be refuted ; for which reasons he was decidedly in favour of the measure. Lard HAWKESBURY rose to explain, and ob served, that as to what fell from him on a former debate he could, not refer to it. It was regular, however, to explain'what he had said to-night, and upon which he was anxious in one particular. He meant the expression of hostile disposition ; by hostile disposition he did not mean a disposition fur War, but a general hostile disposition to the general interest of a State. That was the sense in which he meant to apply the words hostile disposition in those parts of his speech to which that senti ment was applicable. As to the Government of America, and its disposition towards this Coun try, his Lordship said, " I am aware it is a dangerous thing to undertake to answer for the disposition of the Govornment of a Foreign Country ; but I think it due to America to state that from the conduct of the Government of that Country for some months past, there is reason to believe, that next to the consideration of her own interests, which of course is her first object, het views and intentions towards this Country are fair and honourable, and there is nothing in her dispo_ sition that ought to give us distrust. I believe that like every other country where her interest and ours clash, she will prefer her own, that is of course every where ; but I can see nothing in the conduct of America that ought to inspire us with distrust. With respcd to what happened in the last year; when the present Ministers came into Administration, and before we sent a Fleet into the Biltic, my Hon. Friend near me was charged with instructions to make representations to the Confederated Powers, before a blow was struck.— He failed, not from any fault in him, but he failed gaining the objeft of his mission, and it was in con sequence of exertions of a hostile nature that our ob_ jed was accomplished ; and I shall never think it dis creditable to myself to say, that before I fight, I shall take every means which prudence may pre scribe to obtain my ()hie& without it." Doeor LAWRENCE said a few words, after which, the Bill was ordered to be committed to a Committee of the whole House on Tuesday. The House then proceeded to the other Orders of the Day ; the Indemnity Bill was ordered to be committed on Monday. Deferred Committees of Supply and of Ways and Lleans to Monday. Deferred to the same day, Committee on Ex piring Lpw, relative to the Transportation of Felons. Ordered that the Greenland Fishery Bill be read a third time on Monday. _ At half-past Seven, the House adjourned to IvlOnday. THE SUN. SOLEM QUIS DICERE TALSUM AUDEAT ? LONDON, MARCH 0, 1802, WE this morning received Parts jo u rnal; to the inst. inclusive. They are wholly barren of in.. telligence. THIS morning arrived the Hamburgh Mail due on Wednesday last. It has brought us a State Paper, purporting to be the Answer of the Court of Berlin to a Representation on the part of the ,ELECTOR of HANOVER, respeaing the Secularization of Osna b4rg, and some other places dependant upon the Electorate and the House of Lunenburgh, dated the rTh ult. This Answer is in substance, that His TRUSS/AN MAJESTY thinks that those Princes who have lost so much on the Left Bank of the Rhine, should receive compensation, and par ticularly the Houses of Tuscany and Orange:— and he hopes that His BR 'TANI.= MAJESTY will interpose no obstacles to the Sefulariza tions, which are the only means of procuring these Indemnities,—There is also a Note of the Hanoverian Envoy, in reply to this State Paper, stating, that his Court intends by no means to in terpose any obstacles to these Secularizations, but only to maintain its own rights. Yesterday HER MAJESTY and the PRINCESSES paid a morning visit to Viscountess SIDNEY. The ROYAL FAMILY left Town this morning, for Windsor. Lord BROME, it was yesterday generally report ed, and as generally believed, had received a letter by the last Messenger from his illustrious Pather, which states, that he need not be surprised if he were to see him in London within three or four days after the receipt of his letter. Last night, we understand, there was a very hot press on the River Thames. Yesterday a Court of Dire tors was held at the East India House, when Captain MACNAMARA of the Gleam?: took leave previous to his departure for China.—The Court adjourned at - a late hour till Wecinesdly next. The Duke of BEDFORD'S Will was yesterday proved in Do6lors' Commons. It is very short. The following is a copy of it " i, FR ANCT S Duke of BEDFORD, dogiveuntomyßro then, JOHN RusszLL, all my Personal Property.—Dated " this 27th of February, tßoz. BEDFORD." The Will is witnessed by Lord PRESTON, Doctor KERR, of Northampton, and Mr. PARKER, the Surgeon. It is written in the Duke's down hand, on a common half-sheet of paper, resembling the cover of a letter. The writing is not so steady as usual. By the date, it appears His Grace believed him self in danger on Saturday last. Besides this Will, he has left very long paper, sealed up, of instructions to his successor, which was or dered not to be opened till the Will wa# proved.— This circumstance hastened the proof of the Will ; his friends were anxious to know what the paper contained. A Surrogate from Doctors' Commons went to Woburn to swear His Grace respecting this paper. The Duke is supposed to have made in it various legacies and dispositions of his property, as he had not time to do so in a detailed Will, which requires certain legal forms. No Executor being named in the Will, the present Duke was obliged to send up with it to DoCtors' Commons a Bond for due administration.' His Sureties in too,oool. each, are Lords PRESTON and VI LL I ERS. We learn that the late Duke of BEDFORD in. strufted his brother to pay Mr. Fox 50001. out of his Personal Estate. His Grace has left several other legacies, amounting altogether to 37,0001. The Estate at Streatham, valued at soool. a year, is to be-given to his younger brother, Lord WILLIAM RUSSELL. A lulus nature was brought into the world about three weeks since, by a very amiable Lady of Fashion, which survived till about four days ago, and then fortunately expired.—lt is attributed by the Faculty to a fright, taken from a large dog jumping up and biting her, in the third month of her Ladyship's pregnancy. The following is an Exlra& of a Letter from Paris The new Drama, entitled, Edouard en Ecosse, recently given at the Theatre Francais., ex. cited on its first representation so powerful an inte rest, that the CHIEF CONSUL sent a very handsome compliment to its Author, Duv AL, who was called for by the Public. " On the second representation, the enthusiasm of the Public was still greater. One of the audi ence, charmed with the talents of the Author, who himself performed the part of the Pretender, either not knowing, or affefting ,not to know his name, strenuously called for the Pretender to come forward. —The cry soon became general, and the word Pre tender was heard from every part of the house. At length the Pretender, DUVAL, appeared, and was welcomed by the loudest applauses. " On the following day the Piece was suppressed by the Police by order of the Chief Consul, and a rigorous search after its Author was made, who has since been arrested !" The Match for one thousand guineas between Mr. Fletcher's bay mare and Mr. Oswald's grey mare, to start from Doncaster, and run ioo miles South ward, was on Monday last run over Doncaster course. Each carried eight stone.—Betting was much in favour of Mr. Fletcher's mare, hut she ran away the first twenty miles, and, after baiting, a second time ran away.—Mr. Oswald's mare won easy. When the worthy Chairman of the Marine So ciety, Earl ROMNEY, at the Anniversary Meeting, at the London Tavern, was stating the general bu . _ siness of the day, he took notice of a circumstance which ought to be generally known :—A boy sent out by the Society to sea, was on the West India Station, and performed some meritorious ads, which induced the Commander to make him a Midshipman ; he was afterwards ordered to com. mand an armed boat on some enterprize ; and he succeeded so much to his credit, that lie was named a Lieutenant. When he returned to England, being without friends or money, he applied to the Committee—they were so well pleased with him; that they ordered the Secretary to write to the Ad miralty Board, requesting a confirmation of his ap pointment, which Lord SPENCER very handsomely sent him the week following.' This will be a sti mulus for boys to behave well under such a bene volent Society. _ _ _ On Thursday s'ennight, at the Cove of Cork, a boat belonging to His Maje3ty's,. Ship La Renonimee, with Capt. M'KELLAR, the First Lieutenant, an Officer of Marines,-and six hands on board, upset on her passage from the shore to the ship. In this perilous situation they continued for several minutes, clinging to the boat's bottom, and to some articles of furniture, which were fortunately conveying'on board, until assistance reached them from the shore ; and we are highly gratified in being able to add, that they were all preserved by the ailitrity whieh was exerted on the occasion. NAVAL NEWS. PLYMOUTH, MARCH 4. ARRIVED the Couragexx, of 74 guns, Captain T. SOTHEBY, from Torbay ; and the Portugueze Polacre La Lia, Captain ARENA, from London, bound to Malta, leaky. Sailed the Fisgard, of 44 guns, Capt. WAws, on a Cruize. PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 5. ARRICED the America, ROBINSON, from Arne- rica. The Lord Macartney, MACKIE, sprung a leak at sea, and put into Halifax to repair. Arrived—Sportsman, Stanton, Rifleman, Monday, Friend ship, Oak, and John and Robert, West, from London; and Mary, Cam, from Waterford. FALMOUTH, MARCH 3. ARRIVED the Ship Barzillai, Captain CAREY, to take in mules and pilchards for St. Chriitopher's; the Brig Gallant Schemer, Captain SNow, in 33 days from Naples ; and the Alive Excise Cutter, from a Cruize, with the Unity Smuggling Cutter, her Prize. Sailed the American Ship Fidelity, Capt. Vihms, for London; the Ship Atlas, Capt. Muscaovr, from London for Cork, to take Convids for Botany Bay, put in here to land a sick man, and sailed again yesterday. HARWICH, MARCIA S. TH Is forenoon arrived the Diana Packet, Capt. STEWART, from Cuxhaven, and the_Prince of Wales, Capt. A. DEANE, from Helvoetsluys, both with Passengers and the respeEtive Mails ; by the former Packet came Colonel PROBAN from Egypt, last from Malta ; also the Russian Prince BARE-NTISKY. SHEERNESS, MARCH g. ARRIVED this day, His Majesty's Ships Diadem, Capt. LARMOUR, and Modi'ste, Capt. HINToN, from Spithead, and the wind being favourable, pro ceeded up the Thames to Deptford, to be paid off. The Jamaica has gone out of Harbour, having been refitted; and the Arrow has come in to be refitted. YARMOUTH, MARCH 5. SAILED; the Ruby and Standard Ships of the Line toSpithead ; Hound and Diligence Sloops to the Nore ; Pylades Sloop on a Cruize; and Ariadne Sloop to the Northward. In consequence of an express which reached Tor bay on Monday evening, Admiral CORNWALLIS ordered the Edgar, Excellent, Magnificent, Belle. Robiat, and Audacious, all of 74. guns, to be vie - Nailed and stored for five months, and to pro ceed immediately to sea, The dispatch used on the occasion was so great, that the Ships received their provisions and stores in less than twenty-four hours; and sailed from Torbay the following afternoon. Their destination was unknown, hut there is little doubt that they have sailed upon foreign service. TO THE MEMORY OF THE LATE DUKE OF BEDFORD. WHEN antient titles now are thought to shed No magic honours round their wearer's head ; Who shall be found that still redeems their claim, As well in worth a Noble as in name ? He that by one consent should be allow'd Entitled to a rank above the crowd, Our fancy forms him greater than mankind In looks, in mien, in manners, and in mind; Such as a stranger would at once design The worthy offspring of a princely line; Yet more for worth than outward shew approved, Admired, when seen ; when better known, beloved. He were a man that thought their country's good The noblest objed by the Great pursued ; To rear her cities, teach her fields to smile, Extend her commerce, and improve her soil. • When keen ambition urges the debate, And jarring FaCtions rend the troubled State, Calm and unbiass'd should his judgment shine, Or more to freedom than to power incline; By pure conviction lcagu'd with either side, With views so spotless, and with faith so try'd, That when by Fate too early doom'd to die, All ranks should mourn, and every Party sigh • Can such be found ? or is the period o'er ? Yes—there was one, 'till BED FORD was no more ! Ye titled Great, behold a model here, More noble as a Man,. than as a Peer ; By Patriotic Worth exalted far Beyond the honours of the proudest Star; Alive, his Country's friend, his Country's pride; Her universal sorrow, when he died : Still follow'd by her vows, when call'd to rise, And be a Noble e'en beyond the skies ! AI, Yesterday morning two French Gentlemen were taken into custody by the City Marshal, upon a warrant of their having an intention to fight a duel : they underwent a long private examination before the Lord Mayor at the Mansion-House, and several witnesses were examined concerning the business. At Shrewsbury Fair, on Saturday last, fat cattle and sheep declined in price, and were dull of sale ; lean cattle and pigs were dearer than at the preced. ing fair. ?4R I, MA c n RJ TISIII) X, FEB. r6.—We now know pasi;' ; ! - ies that the Conferences relative to the Indetnnitay will take place in this City. We expert ever}' d ~ M. de Hue EL, Imperial Co-Commissary, and ix."_ ' Count de GOETLZ, Ambassador from the ELE cTo i of BRANDENBURG. The EMPEROR has app oin , e . fe M. SCHRAUL, Counsellor of the Empire, Su b-v legate for Bohemia. Amongst the number of conjeaures which a rse upon this subjeft, there is one which is gen eral* : agreed in, that the KING of PRUSSIA will eXCllang the Principalities of 4nspach and Baretith. BASLE, FEB. 23.-Letters from Zar4cZ', gie, satisfactory account of the interior situation of ° a s . Canton. When To B ER, BLEUL ER, WUEl l ' tdill ec and BELLSTAL returned, the agitation of the pu"`ii., mind was very great, and an explosion was feareu i t They, however, went round to the different Cor ti ; munes, and represented that any armed resista n c e to the order of Government could have no salutary .effect, and they intimated at the same dale, they had found the Chief Landamman, the Fte lic Minister, and many Members of the Senate, to the terrain the most favourable sentiments towards t People, whose grievances, there was every rea l " „a to believe, would be remedied.. These efforts had the desired effea ; tranquil li Z was restored, and the payment of the Taxes W 35 " longer resisted. MILAN, FEB. iB.—Our new Government has commenced its operations. The Legislative C°,' 1 11 , 1 :1 cil, which yet wants several Member s , h as divw itself into as many Sections as there are Ministe rs. VIENNA, FEB. r 5 .—Requisitions of GraiP I W re o been ordered in Bohemia, Moravia, and the P v f Gallicias, for the purpose of storing the Mili car ‘f Magazines. This would appear extraordinary) t, it was not known that it had been resolved not have recourse again to Contraaors, but to take I , llie 1 necessary provisions immediately from the profrie# tors, at the market prices. ,- STRASBURG, FEB. 24.—The Baron de Su--of DQRFF, attached to the Legation of the Duke 4 WIRTEMBURGH at Paris, has passed throtigfe this City, on his return to Stuttgard. We a assured that he is the bearer of a Treaty eons eluded between the Minister of Foreign Aff d at and M. de NORMANN, the Dutch Plenipotential bo Paris. It is added, that M. ABEL, Deputy of t States of Wirtemburgh at Paris, assisted at the O rl i : ferences, the end of which was definitively to r e ,g i te , late the affairs of Wirtemburgh, an d put on e' the numerous contests which have existed between the Prince and his States. • BERLIN, FEB. 17.—The definitive plan of iri s ; demnities has arrived, as was expeded, in t h e COur of this month. It was brought by a French :C° a tier who arrived here two days ago. Gen. BEl T e g i vv NONVILLE immediately upon receiving it, ii. l upon Count HAUGW I rz, our Minister of For o g o Affairs, to whom he communicated it. The 1 05 . eg was also informed of it the s: - tme day. That Pr ° , will be very advantageous for Prussia and her A lli es sg STRASBOURG, FEB. z6.—According to thej o a r ,, Letters from Mentz, the building of the ne'v tresses along the Lef t B an k o f t h e Rhi ne is t o es o f mence in March. It is affirmed that the Ci Q ' e c rnc Bonn, sa;nt Goar, and Frankenthal, Wit c, o ns Fortresses of the second rank. Several Batt3"thc of Miners and Pioneers have already arrived °° i c s f banks of the Rhine, t o be em pl o y e d an these w°l. THE ORATORIO.—This sublime entertaimfi meriC to commenced, for the season, last night, at C° vel ' a p Garden Theatre, under the diredion of the , rer i er fo r ASHLEY, by whom it has been ably condale“ many years. To heighten the merit, and th e e s traaion, of this musical treat, Mrs. 811,1,1 101. o f and BRAHAM are engaged, in addition to the l is ri c he vocal performers who supported it last year. b y Band, according to the agreement first planned the chief Proprietor of Drury-lane Theatre, vv 3s od by Mr. WEICHSELL. The Orchestra Was r it, • by instrumental performers of distinguished gl e its r. and a numerous train of Chorus Singers. The 'se• monk repast last night consisted of a Grand 00 , lettion of Sacred Music, principally extracted . 1 1 0 01 the Works of HANDEL. Mrs. BILL INGTON proved that she is as capable of expressing th e s of nified grandeur of FIANDEL's compositions ;- e et, those which are chiefly designed for theatrical Her " Pious Orgies," and " Angels ever brigh t - 10 fair," were her most striking efforts. Ba.AlVa 4 - bug exerted himself with great effect in all he sung' i r t , particularly in " Deeper and deeper still." t ee cLEDON continues to be too much indisposed t- no tt) some his professional labours. We have not iss to notice the several merits of DENMAN, TYRER, and Miss STEPHENS. BIRTH. At Southampton, Mrs. John Elouis, of a Son MARRIED. . mi le' On the 27th ult. at Lisnegar, Ireland, Lientenant-C_°4o; Baist, (thaw Ist Battalion of the 6zd Regiment, to tlwltigli` Esther Charlotte 'fonson, eldest daughter of the la te Hon. Lord Rivcrsdale. .....,"" PR ICE OF STOCAZ, Y E S I Litt) AY. 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