The Sun. — London, England, 1807-04-20 00:00:00

MAILS. • - ARkIVJD—i Gottenburgb, 4 Dublin, 3 Waterford. Lisbon, i Waterford. Consols PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAYAT•TWELVE O'CLOCK. tszj minium THE SUN. SOLEM QUIS DICERS FALSVM AUDEAT? LONDON, sIOrDAY, APRIL 20, 1807. I pr. •AT a late hoUr last night a Bus= Mail arrived, by which were_ceived Hamburgh and Altona Papers to the 15th inst. They confirm the satisfaaory in telligence, which we laid before our -Readers, of the raising of the siege . of Stralsund, and hist) the ad vantages gained, by the Allies over the French Army employed in the siege , or rather in the blockade,; of Daufzie: 'The_reinforcenients which have joined • both the Russian and the 'French- Armies are im mense, • and we have little doubt we Shall soon of -a decisiv.e. battle .havirtg• beets fought; because we know that: Generaf , BrNbirosEN- intended to com mence offensive of about the middle of this mobil; anti it is-trot probable that iioNArita'rE tilt re-ciess.the- : Vistula without a i3attle. has'col- - : ledied 'reinforcements froth every q9arter, and, con-' fentrated the whole of his immense army; in the hope of retrieving his late reverses by One decisive stroke. After what we have seen of the skill of the Ruisian General, and the bravery of his . Troops, eve certainly do not feel so uneasy as to the probable re-, suit of a general battle as we did some months ago; and it is not to be supposed that Gen. BENNIGSZN would of upon the offensive without' first having maturely.cotupared his own force with that. of ,his adversary. . We therefore indulge very sanguine, lopes of soon receiving very favourable accounts from Poland. 'The loss stisfainOcr by. the French upon - raising the siege of Stralsund was more con si:ierable than was at first . stated great numbers have been made prisoners, and very considerable m32,,azines have fallen into the hands of the wedes. It was the dritehtion of the French to have raised the siege of Stralsund, even if the Swedes bad not made this successful sortie, and several Dutch' bat talions bad received orders to march, for the purpose of 'occupying Lubec, and that line, and of keeping the Swedes in check. These battalions are composed of Dutchmen who have been forced into the service, and of Prussian prisoners, who were treated with every possible' severity, and almost starved, in order to induce them to enlist. Upon such Trcops very little dependence can be placed, and in fait they de sert whenever an opportunity offers. An affair took place on the 1 1 th, near Stettin, between the Gaul-, son of that place and a detachment from the Garrison of Colberg, in which the former were defeated with considerable loss, and drivep into Stettin. No authentic accounts have yet reached Govern- meat respc(ting the proceedings of Admiral DUCK WORTIf3 Squadron alter the passage of the Darda nelles. It is stated in son of the Foreign Papers that a Treaty, was signed on the 7th March be tween Great Britain, Russia, and the Porte; but we confess we entertain considerable doubts of the trLit.n of that statement. Accounts have been received through private channels of the arrival of General CR'AUFURD'S Ex , pedition at Monte Video, on the i uth of February. No . Official Intelligence has been received by Go- vernment upon the sUbje6t, but there is no reason to 'doubt the fa&, as they sailed from Port Praya on the inth of January, and might easily have reached La Plata in a month Yesterday morning his MAJESTY, Princesses Av- Gus-ra, MARY, SOPHIA, and AmELIA, attended di vine service at St. George's Chapel, Windsor, and heard a sermon by Mr. Bu3By, from the 2d Of K.ings, fifth Chapter and thirteenth. Verse.— lhey were atten4d . bY Count AIthiSTLE, General G \WV NNR, and liady G. MURRAY. The Hon. Mrs. COURTENAY BOY LE iS appointed Bed-cnamber'NVOman to tier MAJESTY, in the.rooin of Mrs. FRANCES TRACEY, deceased. Yesterday being the first Sunday in Easter Term, the Judges, according to annual custom, went to St. Paul's Cathedral, where they heard a Sermon preach •ed by the Lord Mayor's Chaplain. They, together with the Sheriff and . a number of Aldermen and Common Councilmen, their Ladies, &c. were after wards entertained to Dinner by his Lordship, at the Mansion-house. The Ri!.!ht Honourable Sir ARTHUR 1 /VELLESLEY, K. B. Chief Secretary to the new Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, avived in Dublin on Wednesday last. Siiiurd3y night's Gazette contains Addresses from the Ll.iversity of Cambridge, the City of Edinburgh, and the City of Winchester. An Address front the Lord Provost, Magistrates, and To‘‘ n Council of Glasgow, has been transmitted to NIT. CAMPBELL, M.P. to he by him presented to HIS MAJESTY, expressive . of their gratitude to His NIAJ'EiTY for his firm resistance'to the Roman Ca thoFc Bill. A. most melancholy accident happened at Har-. wick on Saturday evening. As seventy soldiers be longing to the 70th regiment were crossing the river in a stn4ll sloop, the vessel was overset by a sudden squall, and, dreadful to relate, fifty-five Privates, with a Captain, three Serjeauts, three Drum mers, and several .wbinen, with their childre - n, were unfortunately drowned ! NAVAL NEWS. PLYMINITH, APRIL t B.—Arrived the Lady War. ren Armed Ship, from the Downs, and the Schooner Boston, of Jersey, Capt. REL/LIN, from Pacermo, laden with brimstone, Ex. ; last ftom Penzance. , PORTSMOUTH, APRIL lg.—Arrived yesterday the Strenuous Gun-brig, Lieutenant NUGENT, frotri a Cruize; and to-day theSary Bornb . , Capt. GIBBON; and the Childers Sloop of War, Capt. INN Es, with a Convoy from the DOwni. Sailed yesterday. the Jupiter, of 50 guns, Capt. Bartza, with the folloing East indiarnen udder Convoy :- . -Ceyian, Walpole, Surrey, and Lady Castlereagh, for Madras and Bengal ; LOrd Haug:es bury; and Airley Castle; for St. Helena 'and Bengal ; Charlton and Devonshire, for Bombay !Taunton Castle, .Hope, ffooilford, Earl Camden, Colitis, and - Surat Castle, for China ; and- several Ships for the Cape of Good Hope ; sailed also the Steady Gun vessel, Lieutenant ARTHUR 'STO*,, for .Rio de la Plata.; and ''the Harbinger, WI LLB, and Ma labar,. AscouGw(Transports), under COnvoy; Cro-, -codice Frigale.;Cßpt r : BETTESWORTH ; and the .eft,ert- . 'ger Sloop,, Capt. WHITE,. with A Convoy for Hali fax, Quebec, and Newfoundland ; Merlin Sloop of . . War, Captain FISHER, with a Convoy for Guernsey and Jersey ;' and the Magpie Schooner on a Cruize. Lately lost his-life by 'the taking fire of the Ajax, Capt. BOYD., of this Division of Royal Marines. Yesterday the' ProteEtor Sloop, laden 'with 'pota toes, foundered at,Spithead,; - providentially no lives, were lost. -. • -A Court l'ilartial assem'bled on board - the Gladia tnr, in this Harbour, on the 16th and 17th inst. Present —=-Admiral - Alontaa ° u, President; 'Rear Ad ffi ruiral Sir . Isaac Con, Bart. Captains Lawford, S. H. Linzee, Graves, Irwin, Hon. C. Boyle-, J. Brisbane, FL E. R. Baker, SornerVille, Nesharn, Bettesworth, and D.- M‘Lcod ; to inquire' into, the condUO of captain HENRY WHITBY, late of His Majesty's Skip Leander, who; by order of Captain JOHN Poo Btacspoitp, of . His Ma jesty's ship Cambrian (about April last), then Commander in Chief of his Majesty's Ships and Vessels on the Halifax station, was directed to cruize off New York, for the purpose of gaining informa tion ; and who, by a letter dated the 6th of May last to Capt. 13EarsFortD, represented that on the 25th of the preceding _month several vessels were coming down- from the Light House, near New York, and, ai they obstinately persisted in not attending to the first shot fired from the Leander, when closely pur sued, several of the said vessels were boarded, and among the number that did not bring to, was a coast-. ing sloop, on board of which, it appeared, by various letters and papers transmitted by Captain BE RESFORD to the Admiralty, .an American Seaman was unfortunately killed by a shot fired from the Leander, or from some other of his Majesty's - Sjtip, and Vessels then under the orders of Capt. WntrAsy & the Court having inquired into the coudu& of !Cap . - tain WHITBY, on a charge of violating - the. Neu trality of a Station m amity ' ;s Majesty,: and having on the 25th April Ls,. within the Waters and Jurisdiaions of the United States of America, 'unlawfully, wilfully, and of his tna:- lice aforethotight, caused a shot to be fired from His Majesty's Ship Leander, whereby one John Pearce, a Citizen of America, was feloniously kill ed and murdered; and,havitig heard the evidence in support of the charge, and by Captain Wurrny, i n his defence, and having maturely considered th e whole, were of opinion, that the charge had not be en proved, and did adjudge Captain WHITBY — to be acquitted. • FAI,MOOTH, APR IL 17.—Sailed last evening the Prince of Wales Packet, TODD, with Mails of the 7th inst. for Lisbon; the Carteret Packet, PAT'F, R .. SON, with Mails" of same date for Gibraltar, Malta, and Messina ; and the Princess' Amelia Packet, STEVENS, with Mails of the Ist inst. for Barbadoes, Crooked Island, and Jamaica. PASSENGERS PER PRINCE ep WALts-114e.ssrs. Taylor, Richards, Carpenter, Inkcrsley and Son.. • PER C ARTI_RET. —Carat. Finlayson, Messrs. Lovell, Mor. rison, and,Chevalier; the latter Agent for the Packets at Gibraltar. PER PRINCESS AMELlA—Messrs. Aruky, Gilboddy, and 11,14Cullum. SHEERNESS; APRIL 18.•=—Arrived the Malabar, of 50 guns, from Yarmouth ; also a Tender from the'River with a number of French Nisoners 'brought home in the East and West India Fleet, with which she proceeded to the Prison-ships at Gillingham: The Astrea Pripte - received her men fro m the St. Alban's, which re, only lent ; she went out to the Nore, and Was paid' bounty and two months ad - Vance, and sailed for Yarmouth. The Railleur Sloop of War got under ueigli, with her convoy, for Tonningen, but the wind shifting to the Eastward, they returned to the Little Nore. The Bonetta Sloop of War sti:l continues with the Baltic Convoy. APRIL, ig.—Arrtverl the Cruizer Gun-brig. DEAL,' APRIL ig.=----Sailed from the Downs last night the Fury Botnb, with the outward-boUnd, &c; under convoy, for Portsmouth. Arrived and sailed for the River the Malta, EL-. I:1 OTT, from Malta. - Arrived. His Majesty's Ships Leda and Childers, with a Fleet of Transports under convoy, from Ports mouth, and remain in the Downs with the rest of the Ships as per last. DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZE-MQNEY. To the Officers and Company of Ilk Majesty's Shill Mel pomene, the net proceeds of the Shefrherdess, captured zust iuly, 1f304, trill .he ivid at No. 3, Clt*rd's lon, Loa Wcitnes d4ys and Thursdays for three year;. • To the Officers and Company of Fiii;.Majesty's Stool? JO cam, for the Capture of On the ad A ligtist,'lS -4, head-money for the same., at No 3, Salters' liaJa• Omit, CA11111.n1.61 rzet, on the z3d inst. and on Mondays and . 11:11 days for .three years. To the Officers and Company of His Nlajes'v's Ship N 311 tot the detention of tikt Spanish Ship .t:1 • E Lilo, 'on her arrival at Plymoutf,.. and every Monday and Saturday fur three years, ai Bog,er's Office, Ply mouth. From the HJIMBURGH and ALTO7V..4 P.dPERS VIF,NNA (t-ourt Gazette) APRIL I.—The Impe rial litissian Admiral SIMAIIIN has set sail with a strong3division of his- Squadron, which has -lately been.: considerably reinforced from the lonian and ./Egian Sus, to join the remaining part of the.Eng 7 lish Fleet, _which was left cruizing off . Tenedos„--, The Duke of RICHELIEU has put himself in motion with a 'considerable corps, assembled in the Govern- ments of Odessa and Faganrok, to march to Mol davia,--.(Hamb. Cgrrespondenten, April 14.) CONSTANTINOPLE, MARCH Io.—The English SqUadron has availed itself of a northerly wind to sail out of the Channel. While . the English Ad miral was negociating, the batteries were constru&- ipg under the dire&ion of French Officers all around our port, and mounted with upwards of 600• pieces of cannon. Within a few days the,forts of the Dar danelles were all put, iu a most tenable condition. Before! three weeks shall have elapsed, the I)ar, danelles .will be in a state altogether impregnable, like our port. In the Canal the English were struck with astonishment at the sight of the immense po pulation of the coast. Their boats, which put off to fetch water and provisions, were not able to land. They have therefore done well to sheer off The Grand Signior has adopted similar measures in hii dominions-against the English and their goods. as Abe French Emperor. The seals hate been put on the Palace of the . English Ambassador, as 'well as on all. English 'Warehouses. All persons not belonging ,to the Military are to be disarmed ; and after this mea sure shall have been, carried into effea, the shops will be opened again.—(Altona Mercury, April 1 . 4 BERLIN, APRIL B.—Six thousand Spanish - Ca valry and twenty-four thousand Inftintry of the'same, Nation have passed the Pyrenees, and are expdaed on the. Banks of the Elbe the latter end of April. APRIL 11 .—The passage of French troops by di visions and whole regiments is greater than ever. — We also see daily pass . through here considerable transports •of powder and ammunition of all sorts. The want of specie is telt every day, more and more, and it will almost be impossible for the city, to fur-, • Wish the contribution of a m illi on , w hi c h has been,- demanded. BANKS OF THE ELBE, APRIL 13.-•--Itl the night from the 6th to the 7th of this month the town of Rostock-was surprised by a Swedish corps, who,. concluded by -- a guide Which it had taken at Stral-• sund, entered the said town by a sluice, avoiding the gates.' This corps returned after having made prisoners the garrison, consisting of from 120 to 130. Dutch troops, as well .as the Secretary of the French Vice-Consul;M. MAR TENSEN , and after taking Off the sequestration laid upon the Swedish Ships,, which were to be sold the next day, as also that laid upon English merchandize.—Another corps of about 200 Swedes in waggons advanced as far as the take of Schwerin, and afterwards retired. The principal corps of the Swedes appears to be direded towards Stettin, a division of which'entered Friedland on the 6th.---it is Confirmed' that the communication be tween Pillau and Dantzic is established by 'the .Frisch-Hall': on the 2gth of March a fresh rein forcement of 4000 Russians arrived by sea at Dant . Zic.—(L'Abeille du Nord, April 14.) • The Raniburgh Correspondenten of the 14th of April is nearly tilled with Official . Papers. It begins with " An Official Account of the Occurrences 'which have happened at Constantinople, and of the warlike Preparations made to repel the Attack ;" this concludes with a statement of the TnikiSh na val force stationed off Consfantinople for the defence of that city._ No. 1 Is a Copy of Letter from . the Russian General MICHEI:SON, to the Constituted Authorities of the Ottoman Empire, stating the reasons of the movement of the Russian troops in Moldavia and Wallachia ; t2iis Letter is dated 26th Nov. 1806. No. 2 Is a Copy of a Letter from M. ITALINSKY, the Russian Ambassador, to. M. HAUTZART, Dra goman of the Porte, dated Pera, I,2th . Dec. 1806.' No. 4 Is a Letter from the same Ambassador to the'Reis Effendi, dated on board the Frigate End2p , mion, 29th January. No. 5 Is a Lettet from Vice-Admiral DUCK WORTH to the Reis Effendi, dated. on board the Royal George, Feb. 26, in which he refers to the instrudions given to Admiral Louis, a copy of which he, incloses.—(Froth the extreme length of these Papers it is impossible to give more than the above heads') ELSINELTR, APRIL 9.—By an arrival yesterday, in five days from Dantzic, we have the satisfadory intelligence, that that city is rescued fronf its jai -1 pending danger, hy the seasonable arrival of 4000 Russians. The ga rr i son ,h as aga i n ta k en possess i on or the Fair Water,' to which the Enemy had ad vanced. ,We are assured, from the same source, that the Russian Grand Army has been joined by upwards of 60,000 fresh troops. A general battle was every day ekpe6ted to occur. The affairs of out-posts and skirmishes have been Very fre quent, and even sanguinary, from the 26th to the end of last month. The Prussians join the Russians in considerable numbers ; but the former complain bitterly of the want of arms, which they anxiously expect from England. The number of soldier's without arms is very great. COPENHAGEN, APRIL 7.—We have letters from Dantzic of the Ist instant. They state the garrison to be in high 'spirits, and to have been recently ; Strengthened by 4000 Russians and 1200 Cossacks.' A partial engagement took plage bet Ween the be— sieging artny and the garrison on the 29th ult, when. the hitter succeeded in taking 520 prisoners, with. a loss on their part of - 127 killed ,and 68 wounded. The loss of the French in killed and wounded was estimated at nearly 400. The action was. the result of a vigorous sally, in which the enemy was corn-, pletely surprised. The writer of this account saw the adion from the top of a church. Ha~IBuRG 1, APRIL B.—Yesterdays accounts frOm Rostock state, that a small corps of' Swedish Cavalry, of from fifty to sixty men, commanded by ; Lieut. iVloottc, 'unexpectedly entered the town, by. farting the pallisadoes, on the night between Stin-. day and Monday, and on assembling . the Magis ir,ites, declared his taking possession of the town in the 'lame of the King of Sweden and the Duke of Mecklenburgh, and that the tots n and its trade was free.. This little corps pushed afterwards further out of town, and would have venturtd to Schwerin, had they bet been prevented by a false account 0. about 3000 Dutch troops being on their march to the assistance of that place. They left Rostock after having made prisoners the small garrison, and taking two pieces of cannon with them, which the Com mander said he took merely in depot, to be given back at a future time, when the old order of thing' should again be re-established. VIENNA, APRIL I.—The English Fleet, it is unT derstOod, has not made its appearance a second time before Constantinople ;..but,without attempting.any ' further hostilities, returned on the sth of .March, through the Dardanelles, to its former station in the Arehipelago.—(Rant. Correspond. April 15.) ZARA, IN DALMATIA, MARCH 7.—General MAR. MONT, who is still here, has given orders that new roads shall be made immediately:from. Dalmatia td the neighbouring paEts of Bosnia ; they are to be finished within 20 days. the whole work is car ried on under the diredion of French Engineers.— The General Proveditor of Dalmatia lias required all. the inhabitants of the countries through which the roads are to pass to contribute their labour. The Bosniaks, who are most of them. Mahorrietans, have all taken up arms, and occupied the frontiers'in great. force, against the Servians, firmly resolved to defenl themselves to the last man, shoUld the Russians, hi • conjunction with the Servian Insurgents, attempt to make an incursion into their country.—(Hamb • Cor respond. April 15.) Declaration of the English Ambassador, Mr. AR' BUTIINOT, in the conference at Constantinople.-- February 25. " The Subliine Porte, which has never ceased to manifest partiality for the French, has, more particu larly since the arrival of the French Ambassador, General SEBA:STIAI4I,. in this capital, changed its principlesand system towards its own allies. • " The said. Ambassador some days after his ar. rival Jtaving.. given in a Note containing certain threats, the Sublime Porte ou,sht to have returned the Note, and sent away' the Author ; the Sublime Porte, on the contrary, received the Note favourably, and signified to Kussia, that her Ships of War would not be suffered to-pass the canal of the Black Sea. " On the occasion a the establishment of the Itospodars of ;Moldavia and Wallachia, which took • place in consequence of preceding circumstances, the Porte ought immediately to have consented, but the. delay of that consent, which was not given till three weeks afterwards, when the Russian Ambassador had formally demanded it, was a proof of the overe bearing influence which the French Court had ac- quired. The Russian and English Courts therefore agreed that the former should send land forces into t he Turkish territory, and the latter a Fleet to t k e capital of the Ottoma n E mp i re . ‘c Should the Porte proceed to renew it alliance with Russia and England, on the ancient footing, and disrntss the said French Ambassador from the Capital; the war will immediately cease ; but if this be not done, a bread) of the friendship with Eng will, be unavoidable. " To carry this plan into execution, England will send a well appointed Fleet, besides the Squadron now stationed off the Island of Tenedos. The Rus 4 Sian Fleet will join it in the same Seas, in order to pass together the strait of the Dardanelles.. " Should the Porte be inclined to give a negative answer to the present proposal, the Ambassador w ill ' send hack to, their country all the English Merchants, in the Ottotnan States, and remain himself here ts, -- renew the same proposal, and enter into conferences on shall have b liare formed a jed ' ) when the said combined maritime junaion in the vicinity of this-Capital." LITERARY . FUND.—The Anniversary Festival is honour of this truly excellent Institution took place • on Saturday last, at Free Masons' Hall. The Duke of SOMERSET, the Earl of VALENCIA and Sir J. CORE, successively took the Chair. The room was crowded, and the ‘ompany were highly animated - 1 7:tilepurpose of the Meeting. -It was no small addition -to the pleasure of the company to hear that a bequest, amounting to 'near six thousand pounds,' had been left to the SoCiety by a Gentlethan of the name of NEWTON, who-was collaterally descended from the great English Philosopher. A considerablg number of other connibutions were announced, and ol q general statement of the Funds of the 6ociet proved that it is in a very. flourishing _condition The festivities of the, c i ty were much enlivened by the vocal exertions of INCLEDON, TAYLOR, DIGNUA/ MAJOR, SHIELD, and other. professional Gentlemen ; and still more by the recitations .of Mr. Furz- GERALD, Mr. GRAHAM, and Mr. TWEDIE. MC' FITZGERALD spoke an admirable Address of his owri writing in honour Of the Institution, with _great ter' voiir and effect, which we regret that we have not room to insert. The CoMposition delivered by Mr. GRAHAM . was - written by hiS brotber Oagistrate, ivir• Pr E, the Puet Laurent, and possessed considei4bl inerit. That Which was spoken by Mr. TwEDIS. -was written-by Mr. Deputy Mica, - and irwas` ra6terized by patriotic as well as political spirit. Many loyal and constitutional Toasts were given) and others suitable to the objeas of the Instittr tiOn and the day went off with' the genuine spiri t of Ctini.iViality, heightened by the glow•of bene' velence. As Mr. George Lewis, Land Steward to the Ear l of Charlemout, was returning froili Dublin a fe W nigh±s ago, the night becoming dark,, he uttfortv nately missed his way, and was drowned,