The Sun. — London, England, 1807-10-20 00:00:00

MAILS. A R* tv i sb - z Watertbra. E--1 Cottenburgh, i Dublin, Waterford. . . PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DA y A r TWILV 6 O'CLOCK. CuIISOIS 6zi I I ged. Ann. TiE 17, S VN. -611 i 101 4 / 4 (41.116 DlCliiii IAI,4UX AVDEAT ? L 0 ND 0 .N, TUESDAY, ocroiatt 20, 1807. Tu Proclamation which appeared in Saturday's . Gazette, relative to Aritish Subje&s serving on board Foreign Ships, has been comMented upon by some "of oar CQtemporaries it, a way which cvinc9s a total ignorance of the principles which diaatcd the mea sure. It has been assertgd that Ministers hai , e made a concession to America, inconsistent not only with their former professions, but with the true and an- . dent rights of this Country as a Maritime State. r. With respe& to the former, we inusi refer to what passed in the House of Commons on the jot') of August. In answer to a question from Mr. WHIT- BitirAP, on the snbje& of the aaion between the Leopard and Chesapeake, Mr. Secretary CANNtits, spoke as follows , " Sir, t have no difficulty in saying, that whateyei may be the situation olatlairs between thisCountryand America, I can assure the lion. 'Gentleman, and I feel that It will be a source of great satisfaelien to him, that it In no degree arise; oat of thtcondwa of His Majeqy's present Ministers. Finding on our apcession to office a Treaty pending with America, to laihieh the faith Of this Country was pletlged,if the Condi tions should be accept Al in America, we held it to be, our most sacred duty not to interfere with the course of the rela tio9s established between the two Countries, butto stiffer skein to proceed with the same impulse which had been im-, parted try them by our Predecessors. Whatever our private opinions mialit have been, we were resolved to give the fullest effect to the stipulations ,of the Treaty, determined Iliac, if it should not come to a hirtunate conclusion, it shoUld rot be imputed to any thing said of • done by us. With there 01r:4 . 4, 14m not only,labuained front seeding to the Ib Nth Minister ' ist Anttska initruellons that 'nth: interfere' with the Treaty, Om 1.4,T aoeerved the them - 0*04#114 with regard 11 the Naval &Ct. tipou that station. 11, therefore, on an accurate examinattm of she j 4411, dad an accurate examination must on all hands be allu%vcd to be indispensably necessary, it .ihrul,l he found tbai sign tentra , :astable ads have taken place on the part of Great jirstain, it must be acknowledgLal that they did, not originate in any undue instrualinns givei by us, and consequently that we are in no way responsible t'or them." This is the only observation which has ever come from Ministera On the subje&. It was cautiously: , worded, as wai_perfettly proper, in the state of taoranee as to the real circ.amstances of the case in which Mr. CANsiNq was at the tilllC. I3ut so far ftiArt assuutio4 any " high .441 imperious tone," it clear, that it any infironce 'were to 'be drawn {ro t a the_Speech we have tooted, it wotild be, that • the inclination of the. Speaker's mind was against " Vat ondatt of Admiral PKIMILLEY, or the ihstruc tiolis under which he ai.ied. So much for the ; question considered pers,eqelly at the .{present Ad- Ministration. tut, the most important. pais of the aubje& i s , t h e .pancesstons which IV/iniiters have been supposed to make, and this, we affirm, 'has been more or leas misconceived by every one of the Daily Prints. Tilat we hate, conetled any right which either - Britain or any other Power has at any periocl.ex 7 'retied, is a total niiii9ke. There iS,ne instance" of ,a,search of a Ship of War of a Neutral Power, hy a Belligerent Comminder. le is not long sir co . ,the Neutrals asserted the right of proteCiing, by, their National Hag, all Vessels under its' bonvoy. This Claim we elleaually resisted ) but the search of the convoying . Ship, or any other Ship if War, was never praCtised or attempted. Coe tOrmably to the an 7 - eientl.3W Of hichiutt never been Abandoned by us, nor ever,,in praCtice;hy any. European nation, weelaina the right of searcHltig the Merehant'Shipsof any Neutral Nation, and . of taking out and cotfis ' p a c i ng all- ,V,,fletniest Property or Contraband Goads s6und therein. .This prilaice is a mitiOtion of our Delligertut 13„ights'. We should be fully authorised in tidying to a Neutral Government, " You shall ;tot (for instance) carry to the Ports of our Enemies . ..any Warlike Stores , you shall not permit your iubjeas to do it if they persist, it will be for Iva to decide whether time '4, extent of the I.nef does or does not make yen(nentrality more ‘;tiangeroes than your hostility, compel us •to consider you as au Etteiny:yoUrsell." But in t teAd of this, Belligerent Nations iii genorql (fur there have been exceptions) content themselves with ;vizing the .contraband geOds themselves, wherever they find them, punishin4 the individual without iilistiobing the peaCts, of the State. Nowlet us suppose; that America, or any other . N eut r a l State, were to suffer its natiun# Vessels to be freighted with the property of our k neT ies l et 4 inp po S e 'that ihiv.... s .A'inericatt Navy should be em rtnyed i n conve y 4 to , the Ports of France warlike, or ether contraband; stores. TiyTe Ca . ri be no doubt heat, in, loch a Novel s . hootc)l , )Oi fontent 'ourselves -with seizing the prohibited tfAtia themselveo, and interrupting. -their COMUICICO wherever our powere9abjed us to do so: We should unqueitionably consider, it as a question betw4n . .' the Governments, and should probably consider .the re fusal instantly to abandon the obnoxious praaice, as a commencement of hostilities. We should not in stria our Commanders to treat the offending.4ships of War with the lenity shewn to < the vessels of Individuals; if we gave any iustruaions, they would be, to blow the Ship out of the water ; but the more . legitimate ; mode of proceeding would certainly be, to abstain. from such ,vlolent measures until justice had been formally 'denied us by the Neutral Govern. ment. • • Let us apply these observatinns to the case before us. The seduaion and detention of our Seamen, thereby weakening that arm upon which we' most rely, is a breach of neutrality not unlike the streugth ening of our adversary 'by supplying him. with war ! like stores. When , this seduaion is practised by in dividuals, we therefore treat them according' to the same rules. We take out the Men, felting the Ship go free, as we §hould in the case of Cuntra hand, unless the Ship belonged to the same Pro prietor. But when the American Government itself is a party to this hostile practice--when it employs ;he Officers of its national kleet to enlist our Deserters into its national Ships, the offence becomes, as in the supposed case of contraband, 'much too serious to'be lelt to the application of ordinary rules. In such cases we dire& that immediate information may be given to the Government at home, who alone ought to be entrusted with the dreadful power 'of PRACE or WAR. The course which we have pointed out, is that ' which His Majesty's Proclamation dirOets to be pur sued. The main luestion, remains at issue between the two ckivernments we have only cleared it from that irritation, which naturally, attends the mode which had been adopted for bringing it to a point. Should the American Government persist in a line of condu& esSeutially dangero , us to our vital interests, we may still have recourse not to these accidental rencounters, but to decisive and.extended hostility ; we are confident that the American Government will. understand the 'Proclamation too well to suffer it to alter the inclination which we believe it to entertain for an amicable and perfealy saiisfa'actry arrangement' with GnaAr }3n Tatx, The following interesting Narrative of the loss of His Majesty's Schooner kclir, is given by the only surviving Man 'of the Crew of that Vessel. It is dated from Santander, in Spain. the Man is now serv ing on board our .Squadron cruizitig More itoche fort : COPY OF HENRY stLAßtis NARRATIVE O 1 THE 1.0:19 OF Hl5 biatitSTY'S' SCIWONER VEL.L.X. Santander. #OSOOIED CAPTAIN, take the liberty or sending you these few lines to inform you of our misfortune in being cast away in your Schooner, on the , night of the 2:44 - January last, between twelve arid three in the , motning,on the coast- that 'lilt opposite the Fort, at the entrance of Smtander, where every soul perished but me, being 79 in number, including nine prisoners that we got'eschanged, being sent here for them as Car tel. We arrived here on the :lath of said month, got our prisoners on board on the loth after twelve, when it came on. ro blow . so Strong right in the har bour, that we could not put to sea, being to anchor under the 'Fort, from which they hailed us, ordering us to put to sea . We told them we could not, as the wind was right in the harbour, that if we - did we should be in great danger, and the weather look ed and the wind rightaead on the shore. They told us, if we' did not go out itnmediateiy they would, firo into us, which they did about eight o'clock,.and at twelve in the night gave us' another shot, at four in the morning` a third, then blowing a gale, and at eight in the morning tired again on :us, so was furc'd to weigh anchor, but it was impOisible to get out, thewind blowing so strong frem,the N.W. with a terrible sea, so was obliged to anchor at the entrance of the bay, the sea breaking. over us every instant, and *the gale still (nereasing. We rode ,out all that day. in the greatest danger, was forced to haul down our Cartel flag, and hoisted the tiglish flag Union downwards, and fired a number diens in distress but no assistance attempted to come near us, though a French Brig, as have since heard, and several Atne. rican Merchantmen, °tiered to assist. WI, but the heads of Santander would not permit them to come near us. We t;,teod in this state all the night of the toth, the -gale continually increasing : on the 21st we hove eight gnus overboard, the sea running 110 high that it washed our boat overboard, together with a great number ofOur hands, no one remaining nn deck but was lashed to different parts of the ship, in which we' stood WWI the 22d, not knowing what to do, the *ea running mountains high, nothing but death befom our eyes. The Captain, Lieut. Mitcba, „ • the Hot, and myself, were all that ,'could be seen aboard:l the bulwarks being all stove in, we were lashed to the ring -bolts en the quarter-deck, the sea flying over us every instant; About twelve a 3rl cirried away our mists - and bowsprit; so that nothing reamLoci' but clear decks and a bare hull ; we lay lashed until two in the morning, when a sea parted oilt cables, so that we did not know what to do.— L spoke to Capt. Cameron, and persuaded him to jump overboard, that in five minutes we should be all .to pieces on the beach, and murdered by the wreck we immediately unlashed ourselves, and jumped overboard, where I held paw., CamerOn by the head for some time, until the Flick or Mr. Alit cbell laid hold of me by the leg, at whiCh time 'I was obliged to let go Mr. Cameron to clear myself at; length a sea hove me on the shore, where I crawl =ed upon my hands and knees; not being able to walk, until I was clear of the sea, where I lay until. half,past sib the next morning, almost dead, no per,. ' sop being there to assist me. I rose and went to-. wards the , .hills, but being so weak from the blood lost from a dreadful wound J received on my head and several parts of my body, so that I could not go any farther. At length a Spaniard took me up, and dragged , tne to his house, where I lay for some time bleeding ; at light they sent for a Dottor, who dress ed my wontidi, and ordered me to be put to bed.-,- In this situation I lay several days, until I was a lit tle recovered, when they took me from thence, and put me in prison, where I remain, naked, half-stary ed to death, and eaten up with dirt apd yermin—bo one to assist me--the English Agent was once . to see me, and told me he could notossist me, as' the Spa nish Government had me in their charge, and only allows , Ad. per day, which. acarce keeps me alive. — I should be happy to be able to relate verbally to you all this, but I am afraid it will be a long time, as I am kept so close confined. 'I should have sent rati, this account before now, but had no opportunity -at length a friend hai offered to deliver this to our Ambassador at Lisbon,, to have it gait to you; &c. As the Expedition against Denmark has been the subject of so much acrimonious censure against our Government, and htu r heen represented not only as an unjustifiable attack upon an " innocent, neutral, un offending" Nation, but as "wholly unexampled among civiliZed Nations, we are happy in being reminded of. a precedent drawn from the condua of the Danes themselves. The PRINCE of Hesse, as our Readers may remember, marched against Hamburgh in the year 1801, and made a forcible seizure of that free . and unoffending place. And here it may be proper to present an EXtraa of a Letter published at that period, gitifing an account of that most 'scandalous attack.' , •• tintnews.un, p. —Our city is now In ptrse!cp. sion eta Danish array under the command of Prince CHAilLss of Heist: A Deputation was sent to him on his approach: having heard whet they had to urge, the Prince gravely pull ed out his WAtCII, and, looking at the hour, said, Gentle men, it is now eight o'clock : to home, and convoke your A Id .:rmen and Citizens; deliberate upon what reception they think proper to give me; meanwhile, depend upon nay being before your gates by eight o'clock to.morrow." The despotic arrogance of this declaration appears in a still more atrocious point of view when con trasted with the terms of the summons 'addressed by the British Commander, to the Governor of Co. penbagen, in the recent Expedition : " I cannot," says his Lordship, " omit request "ing Our., Excellency to take into your most se " rious consideration, the present situation of the " City. For God's sake, Sir, consider coolly, wile t they resistance will not be the ruin of the place " you wish to defend." A little before day-break, on the 29th., the Da " tikh besieging army had already colleaed' before the Altona Gate, with a train' of sixty pieces of heaq ordnance, a great number of ammunition " waggons, baggage, src. . , • The letter adds that "the harbour is blockaded by " nine Danish Gun-boats, and not a single itiglish " Ship remains. The inhabitants of the Ci!y, ,or Lubeck refused, ,for six hours, to surrender-that town to the Danes,' and, it, the 1-esistance; the " place wafrexposed to a L severe can Such were the proceedings of Denmark against a neutral City, from which she could have nothing to fear, and w•hich had given, her no ofince, and the place was, of course, obliged to surrender, least it should have, been doomed to suffer a bom bardment that would have buried it ashes. The Danish forces remained in posSession of Hambutgh and Lubec till the 22d of May i frequently levying Contributions on the former. But it is essential '0 ,state the reason given by the Prince of Heise, the, Danish Commander, in his declaration on leaving the place, dated May 20th, 1801, as that reason, so far from testifying that unotfending spirit of neutra lity of which Denmark has boasted, that it was an aft of direct hostility against Great Britain, ' "This change , of circumstances having taken place, the tica nt s i o ) n en is m r a e r m k ov ) m ed o fo rd r e t r he th p e rt oc it , t ip w a h ti i . e n h o in f dis th ced Vr i s l e i t s imperial ' City of llamburgh, by his troops, whiCh bad :vo other.abjea f than the interruption of the. English navigatios and contweree and his ,Majesty, In determining on such a measure, only yield:d, to the pretoie of imperioor circumstances. It now only remains for us to advert for a ma- Lira to the different motives which aauated the Danish attack upon Han4bargh, and the British Expedition against Denmark. The former was charaeterized ,by tyranny, plunder, and •liosti ; towards Great Britain. The latter originated iii the absolute, uecssity of self-defence, to antici pate the - intention of a foe Who has avowed a determirration to destroy, and; to - prevent; him front compelling au insidnons Neutral from becoming the open Ally of that foe, and assisting him with all llis means to accomplish his objea. We cannot coil elude Without a remark or fix° on the different 'con du& which the Danes have experienced from us, to what they would have reason to expe6t if France had obtained possession of their, country. . The cautions forbearance and respeet with which the inhabilaut` of Denmark were- treated -by our countrymen, as - toon,as hostitities.were at,au .end,-.otaght to convince: . them of the difference between a visit . froni the French and trot - it the English. If the French fad succeeded in a similar attack upon Copenhagen, ar:i. the Danes had presumed to express any discontent, at the behavionr of their conquerors, or had beets - rash enough to insult them, under any provocation , instead of conciliating restrie.tions upon the . French .troops, the latter would doubtless have been indulged with ample licence to avenge themselves on the pre. perry and lives of the unhappy Citizeqs, We, Can not therefore wonder, that, according to report," die panes have requested that the British Forces maY continue in Zealand, in order to exempt them as much ,as possible from the rnineus aid of French protection. • , YeSterday morning the Duke of YORK 'transaEted . buiine?s with His MAJESTY; afterw e irds Fits M Es . tY; The DUke of Yoit, Princesses SOP/lI,A, AtPl', Lit,T.ST,A, and 4MELIA, accompanied by .Lacly TIIYN Dins QeflerßlS FITZROY and CARTwittoirr, and Colonel TAYLOR,' rpde i 4 Windsor Great Park, and returned , at twelve e,clock. Yesterday Sir SIDNEY SMITH had st iOna,illtav view with Lord MuLtitia.vg at the Admiralty. It is certain that the'Guards are immediately com ing honie from Copenhagen. • They .are the only troops as yet recalled. Provsiotis are gone out suf ficient for the subsistence of the remainder till the middle of December. Tlie bi cl ekado of Cadiz is raised for the moment' Orders, we understand, were transmitted .some days ago to Admiral PURVIS, who ,commanded on that station in the absence of Lord COLLINGWOOD, to proceed with the whole of his squadron to Lisbon, for the purpose of facilitating the removal of -,/tritish persons and property, and suppressing any attempts which might be made to'preveut the government from withdrawing . to the Brazils. Nq accounts have been teceived - from Lisbon of a later date than the 7th instant.—Clne letter of that date states, we understand, that the populace, had broken out into ads of riot on the preceding clay the object of it Was to prevent the sailing of the Portuguese Ships, and the emigration of the Royal Police is said to have shewn .no very great inclination to check or put down the rioters. A Letter from Hamburgh of the 30th Aug, says, " A private of the Spanish regiment of Zamore was executed here on .the.,26th, for. robbing and mur dering the poor man on whom he Was billetted:-- . . The Ftench speak of the Spanish troops, in the most disrespeaful terms, alledging that they were for the greater part galley slaves ; the Spaniards are not more courteous, and the most cordial con tempt and.hattod subsists between their respeair4 corps." When the Emperor of RusstA, issued his late Manifesto, in which he declared that he had rejeAed all plans for the auginentation of his dominions at the expence of his Ally, be, in tact, published .a circumstance which was a gloss insult to himielf. for it was absulutOy treating him with,,worse thou . contempt even to propose . . to : bun the spoliatioa o f any part ofthe territories of his Ally. The Bus" s i an people, therefore, instead ,of -respeCting their Emperor for this declaratiOn - of.self denial, must at thy . best look on lute with pity.'for having redUCC4 t.andllisgraCful proposa4 .nor can they be inclac 0 to thi4 l Very highly at his understanding for not cautiont*ncealing a circumstance so' much 61 01- . WO 'ol*er his CharaCter in the eits,of his Sob' jets, ti . nd'Of all . mankind. VOLUNTEERS.—=-WC have to state, for the in' formation of Members-of: Volunteer Corps, the cir cumstances in which they are placed with regard le the approaching Militia Ballot. Volunteers are 1 .13 : ble to be drawn, as well as other individuals, but the ballot will be suspended, with respect to theta , as long al they continue elfeßive inetnbers of the e corps ; but it' the persons drawn at any time cease to be etreaive members, they are immediately liabla to be claimed by the Militia. To constitute an ef . fe4ive member, every Volunteer, must have excl.- ciiecl eight days within the tour months preceding the ballot, or sixteen within the eight months pre,' ceding,, which must be certi fi ed by the Comman a. ing Ottigy ; and it is to be obsetved, that °Hit:arse well Op/gates are to be subject to the same r e tP l ; he penalty for an individual making false clalin is .:361. and for a Commanding (nicer. -making,a. false certiticate is 2001. The Loyal Britons Volunteers, commanded by Major LE . :,ocat, in the absence of -their olonel,. ALEX. DAyisozs, Esq. had yesterday grand Fiela day in Hyde Park, preparatory to their being r e " viewed by-the Commander in Chief. Yesterday the Loyal Whitecha pe l Volunteer commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel HARDY, With au attached corps of Ar t ill er y, marched, to Forestearly,in the. morning, where they bad A gr‘.,lo field -day, after which the Colonel entertained " • .•, ' Corps at the Bo s h on E pp i ng F ores t. • th e i ; A on t Coni; a fortified town . of Piedmont, 404 night. orthiy bth the shock of ap earthrlu ake very sensibly felt; it* duration was nearly" ea botir ancl,a lialffiloring which time it .was sr It does not appear that it was attended with a) ? , ticular (lamer. •