The Sun. — London, England, 1807-09-25 00:00:00

LONDON, FRIDAY, BAFF4NIAgn 25, 1807. OUR Readers *ill find in a, subsequent Column If Is MAJESTY'S Declaration respetaing the late events IQ the Baltic. Somg of. the Lettersibtoughtl?y the last Lisbon Mail, State positivelK i O4t;'".(lie - ::Portuguese Go vernment has deteririi;iaeci,„io resist the demands which BokiArAitTE has recently made of 4,000,000 pr trusadoes, and • that they were fitting out all their Ships • of' War for .the pUrpose of trans porting the Royal • Family, Treasures, &c. to the Brazils. We are , not . prepared to determine ,what degree of credit is due to this'account, but it is elated in the Gibraltar 'Paper,. that all the Spanish Troops in the . vicinity of thdt Fortress had, received Orders to march for Portugal. The Harry, Capt. HUNT, is arri7ed in the Downs from ` Jamaica : she 'parted from the Fleet . on' the 9th ult. in lat. 42. ',long. 50. 24. in a. heavy gale and thick weather, wtio,,, ~ ..,ntinued for several days, and tie supposes the Fleetlic dispersed. Lieutenant 8aa.g1W13.1,, belonging to His I`,lajes ty't Ship Sir Edward flu lies, has just arri% ;it thq g;194:-India iiopse,..with the news of her safe arrival off tbe.l6Je of Wight, with the NortianzhTland EAtra Ship, and Argo Whaler. • Governor PATTON, from St. Helena, and Colonel Scorr, of the King's Service, are Passeng.'?rs in'the Sir &lived Hughes. • The :filly' CO* and -.4 . 1: ! /-(1 Ilawkesbiiry, out -ward-Lowid, arrived at Staielena a . feNir clays before the of the Sir s. Lieutenant tl3flAmi,tl,Lf. Illiermirtls attended at the • Admiralty, with . a number of Letters which were on board some Vretich'Vessels that were :captured. GoVernment have received, by the inkepid, ac eouno-front Alex;indr i la of Etv&ry recent date, which state, that the Troops were ,good health, and Were plentifully supplied with provkiong by 'the The Turks had riot shewn any dispoOtion to attack Aleiandria. Tit!. ['tench 4p'ob?, the first part of which we gave a few days ago, and Of:'Whiell the reintinder was in Tug Sem of Testgclpp,, makes. a pompous display of the state,of Fraticiyi , :iral, indeed, the ex tent of its power is tag inanit‘f taadMit Ofdispqte.' There are some paisages in this Exposition which seem to offer a wanton insult to Russia, in the man ner of descrilling the French viOories. Ailer the high axptessions of rasped `for the Emperor At.Ex , aunt., which BoNaiaaTs has uttered, and bus 9oncesSions in favour of the iiipg of Prussia, in compliment to the desires of the former, a more moderate and modest allusion to the French might be expeCted. If the Ernp' cr„r of RUSSiR , feels far his charaoer as a monarch, and for the honour of his country, be cannot' but; deeply resent such language. . But, because it is said to the Trench ; ~1,?,.rim5?. . , that f " The Emperors NAPOLEON and ANDER will be true to their engagements," it has peed triumphantly asked, if it be likely that And England should yet,be on an amicable tooting, es it' unlimited credence an this head should be given to BONAPARTE befere we hear INhat the Em i;eror AtEXANDER says on the same sniijeCt latter has no reason to expea insulting language or injurious proposals from Great Britain, and it is Lrubble that refle&ion, and the recent successes of: is arms sgatnst Turkey, have induced him to tt,,iik hit he has made ton . many sacrifices to: France.-- fireat'kit4in, it i t s, t , ludF , st?od„ s' imbed to Mai 1U: C .L.J/11111U a 511U14111 I not,proceed if he would Le the : guarantee fur the neutrality of Dentnarlt. Thus, then, our Govern:. rpent litis.sheWn every amicable .disposition towards the Russian Monarch, and ho has too much reason to rely on British honour and fidelity, lightly.to give up this - country, and resign himself wholly to a rower that is intoxicated with its successes, and that insults - him at the. very same moment when it pretends to avow its respe& and to boast of its friendship and its indissoluble connexion . With him. Besides, as we before obierv,d, the French force left in pol l p4 is not much, calculated to satisfy the mind of. ALEXANDER, or to increase. his confidence in the professions of his new .4.11 y. We know that • our Government•will he anxious to remain upon an amicable footing with Russia, and . the leiter cannot he indifferent to a connexion with a country that T , has always condthed itself ' with the most hortpurr.• able regard to its engagements : . , . IT was erroneously supposqd that the hiti•ppid, which arrived on .Tuesday from the Mediterranean, had bro.: k ik Dispatches from LardCoLl.lNowpOto.; but Government exped every hour to receive acount from his Lordship, Although nothing is yet known of the nature of the propositions which Sir ARTHUR . PA,ET is instrueted to make to the Isnri;:isli govern .Ment, yet some of the Opposition Writers have • already began to attack Ministers upon th'e - subjeC4. We are, we confess, a little surprised at their con dud upon this occasion, because if there be any to pic which the advocatei of the late Ministry ought - to avoid with more caution than another, It is the question pf our Relationi with Turkey,,. The 'man ner in 'which the Negotiation with Turkey, and the Expedition .to Egypt pending that NegotiatiOn, were conduCted under • the auspices Or the Ministers, can never be forgotten ; biat their friends should not be' so indiscreet as to force the .subjea upon the., public attention. IT was yesterday reported'. tbat a very s4,lous dis , turbance had taken 'place at Copenhagetb ; and that the populace ,had put to death several , Merchrts who were supposed to have beep the most earnest in requesting the Governor to. surrender. We have endeavoured in vain to trace, the authority upon IA Lich this report was founded : it certaioly'Was not brought by Mr. JACKSOiI, who 'arrived yesterday from Copenhagen ;• be left .that City the day belpre SMITH, the -Messenger, who reached - Town last week. It ishowwier,by no means improbable, that some partial disturbances may have taken place in Copenhagen, .as itis natural that the Inhabitants should feel considerably - irritatt:rl at the suerender of 6_2,1- Navy. The accounts from 'Russia concur in stating, that the opinions of the . principal Nobility . of that 'Empire are becoming daily more hostile to. the Treaty of Tilsit, the terms of , which are in every point of view so injurious to the honour and:,so prejudicial to the interests of Rosia. The folloWing . Letterc9n tains some interesting details upon this subject " GOTDENEU.RGII, SErr. 13.—8 y 'a Messenger, which sails from. hence to-day, I have availed self of writing letters to England. ITe 'public d;s patches will have informed you of the result 0( the Expedition to Copenhagen, which will, I trust,-he attended with the-happiest consekinences ; it will, at least, defeat ,the •views which BONAPSItra .had fOrnied, of .uniting the Fleets / of the Northern Powers against 1351. Already the tone' of 'the Em., peror of Russm is lowered; and its is known here that the • intended invasion of Swedish Phalan& is abandoned by Russia. The ,King of SwEbeu'S fleet is to be at the disposition of Great Britain ; 'so that all the hopes of BONAPAUTE'S maritime war are entirely at an end. Thus we stand 'on very high ground, to carry on the war, or treat - for peace, without a necessity of sacrificing either our honour or .our integrity. " A circumstance *has tome to my knowledee, on which I can place the utmost reliance; it •is that a•most singular deception was practised (by Bo- NAPAItTE or TALLRYRAND;Of.hUtiI) on tbe Emperor of RUSSIA, in respea tolfurke) ,:whicii•accolinted the Treaty. of •That. .tins deception is now perfealy LnOwn ici the 'Eitineror . ,and the Russian CibiT;er, is .certain i and I believe by the time .this your hands it will be known to , the Ifritish • (iovernment, and will most probably have krable influence on the Emperor of RusSlA'r'lu=; tare Plans, which, joined to-the success at Copeidia w), -.01 perhaps .catisejt renewal uT hastilittes:, or lead to a general. peace.: This loan assure you, the prospett or •a tuptore between Great Britain and Russia ,:aused in that enipire great discontent. - saw a tientlentan of great fortune and itiflue4ce trona St. Petersburgh a few days ago, wtto declarA . with :out reserve, that should thepresont Goiiernmunt Russia - persevere in breaking with England, the Throne itself would totter to the centre. The tin.; 'press DowAoza, the Mother of ALEXADER, and'ihe r great fvourite of the Empress CATITAkINE, ie look, ed up to by all good Russians ; and it was with ex: treme regret they, saw her infblencd on her Son de- . cline as it did ; but the great ruistOrtune Was, he was at Tilsit, and his Mother` at:Sj,, Petersburgh. - Had she been there the disagreeable Treaty never would. have been ratiqed." , • ners. Cite id the skeleton regiments, the slst, rately, arrived at Cto:tharn, from the - fist Indies, is ordered trout thenct- w Chichester, to arrive there onik'ridaz, About 1 fio volunteers for the . 78th Highland rev mera, a preient 'stationed at Cliathain, have ben ordere4ltu hoick- theaselves iu readitv:, , ,s to etnbok tur • '"' la : C44147 4Y • • His lg.tjcsty. uwes.to himself and to Europe a ~ t+ frank Exposition of the motives *bleb have di6tated r , his 'ate measures in the Baltic. - , - L His M.jety has delayed this, Exposition obly.. f in,,i ~.. the hope of that more amicable •aritingernent wit.lh' 140 6)qrt of peprqark which it was his Majesty's. first wish and endeavour , to ol.)t4in, for which be wps.ready to make great eff.orts and great sacrifices; land of which he never lost sight even in the mg•! merit of the most decisive hostility. ' ~ Deeply as the , disappointment of this hope has 1 been felt by His Majesty, he has the consolation of refleeling That no exertion' wts "left untried on his part to prodneB a different resnit. And whil,e he laments the cruel neceisity which has . obliged ' hire to have recourse to ads of hostility against a Nation with which it was His I\l6e:sty's most eai - , 7 pest desire to have established . the relations.of common interest and alliance; His Majesty feels pon4dent that, In the eyes of Bprope and of the Work), the justification Of. I.;ondua will be found in the commanding and, indispensably duty, „ , paraniqunt to others. amongst . the.obligations of a Sovereign ? of providing ? whilp there was yet tjnie, 'fur the inimediate security of his People. J - lis • Maje's'ty bad .rsceiVed the most pOitlve in 7 formation of the' determination of the present Ruler of France to occupy, with a military force, , the te?ritory 'of Holstein, for the - purpose of. ex:- cludino Great. Britain from ill her accustomed channel .pt communication with the Continent of inducing or. compelling the Court Of Den Mark to close the pasigge of . the Sound. against the British 'commerce and navigation ; and at; of the aid of the Danish Marine - for the invasion 'dr Great Britain and of Ireland. I ra` Confident as his Majesty was of the authenticity 'of the sources from which this intelligenceiw4sde and confirmed in the credit. Which he gave to it, as well by the notorious and repeated decla rations of the Enemy, and by his recgnt occupa tion of the towns 'and territories .of .other neutral States, as by the preparations atlually wade for col leeling a hostile force Upon the. Frontiers of 'his Danish. Majesty's ,Continental Pot:pinions, his Ma-, jesty.would yet willingly have forborne to as upon: this inte ll igence, until the comPlete and praalcal disclosUre of the plan had made manifest to all ilia! world .the absolute necessity of resisting it : . His Majesty did forbear, as long as there could be a doubt of . the urgencrof the danger,. or a hepe of an effeaual counteraaide to it, in . the means:or. in the dispositurns of Denmark. • ' But His Majesty . conicl not but recolle& that wheii, at the close of the former War, the Court 'of benmark engaged• iu a .hostile Confederacy against Great Britain, the - apology offered by that Court for so unjustifiable , . an abandonmeNt of a `neutrality which . his Majesty had never re,. s p e a, was ,founded on its avowL the operation of external influeo,:e; anti the threats of a formidable neighbouring Power. His Majesty - could not but compare the degree of influence, which at that time determined the decision et• the Court of Denmark, in violation of ,positive engage ments; solemnly contraaed b‘it six, mun►chs before, with the increased operation which France had now the means. of giving to the same principle of intimidation, with Kingdoms prostrate at her feet, 'and - with the population: of Nations tinder her ban- Nor was the danger less it-omit:dm than certain.: . • • 'Already the Army destined for Ate invasion of Holstein was assembling on the violated territoryof • neutral flam6urgt). And, Holstein once occupied, the Island of Zealand was at the mercy of France, and the* Navy of Denmark at 'her : disposal. It is true, a British. Force might :have fOutid its way into the Baltic, and checked foe a time the movements of the Danish Marine. ,But the season Os. approaching When that precaution would no longer, have availed 3 and when his Majesty's Fleet must' have retired' from that Sea, and permitted France, in undisturbed security, to accurnulattithe means of offbnce against his'Majesty's Dominioott. Yet, even under these circumstances, , in calling upon Dentuark 'fOr the .satisfaalion and security . which iiii,Majesty was compelled' to require, and ',in demanding the only pledge by which that seCu.4 . , • , ritYre could be ndered effalual—the temporary. possession of that Fleet, which was the chief in duceinent to FranCe for forCing Denmark into hos • tilities with'Preat Britain ,--His, Majesty accompa ° nipd this demand with the offer of every condition which could tend to reconcile it to the interest's and :to the feelings of the Court of .Denmark. It wasfor Denmark herself to state the terms and : stirlations which she might require. ** , Denmark was apprehensive that the surrender of her Fleet would be resented - by France as ari aa . .l 41 connivance,' His Majesty had prepared a force cif such formidable magnititde as must have made con , cession .justifiable even in the estimation of trance,_ b .t yrenderin t'?sistrte altogther unavailing. L .► 11 , IV Imands of France, and to maintain her independence, 411 s Majesty proffered bis co-ciperititin, for her de fencb-=•Naval; Military, and'pecunairy aid; the gua. rutVels 'of her European Territories, and the' security 'ltridigitension of her colonial possessions'. the sword has been drawn in the execution of a 'service Indispensable to the safety Of His Ma j esty'a dominions, is 'limner sinceie andpainful re gret to his Majesty. That the state and Circthnstances 'lt& the world are such as tO . ,hai;e iiiiniredand; justi Aed the measures of self-preservation, tOVAich His Majesty' has found ;Id mself under , the necessity of resorting, is'a truth Which His Majesty deeply plores, but-for which he is in no degree responsible, His Majeity has long carried on a most unequal contest &scrupulous forbearance against unrelenting violence and •oppreSsion. But that' forbearance has. itii-::boancls. • When the design was opetily . #ovre4, biit too far advanced towarc4 its . ccorn4 plishitient, of subje4ing the Powers of Europe to ono -nbiversal uo.trpation, and of 'combining them by terror or by force in a confederacy against the maritime rights and political existence of this Kingdom, it became necessary for His Majesty I to anticipate the success of a system, not more fatal tohis'interests than to those of the Powers who were destined to be the instruments of itS'execution. -- It was time that tile effeets of that - dread France'hos inspired into 'the nations of the %arid, 'should be cotmteraded by . an exertion Of the pciwq. •of Great Britain, called for :by the exigency of the crisis, and prnportioned to, the i'ilagn'itude pf the clanger. Not withstandino the Declaration of War on the put Qf the Danish Government, it still remains fur Dernotak to &canine,' phether war' shall con tinue between _the two Nations. His Majesty still proffers an amicable' arrangement. , He br sanxionfi to sheathe the sword, which be has - beep mat ye!. Juetantly compelled to draw. He is ready to. der , monstrate to Mrimitrk and to thz WOrid, tb4t,batir ing.ipted solely upon the sense 017101 A .. tivas clue to the security of his own Domjnions, he is poticsirotro 'from-any other motive,-or fur any object ofsadvan tige,Or aggrandisement, to carry measures of hostility beyond' the limits ofthe necessity which has. FM" 'due6d Tem. Westminster, Sept. 1807. • . • 'of the homeward-bound Leeward isiao4 Fleet are arrived at I.,iyerpc.lol. • • 1 11le.article of pretended &markDa sby a ne,,upon I our Expedition to Denin'aili,; which , ; ,);.eared in a Paris Paper, plainly'shevis .iti'manyp.,,,.iiges that it was wholly of French fabrication, particularly where it says that we wished to burn those ships whin - some time or other might transport vengeance of the Continent ,to your COasts.";.-This is ara • 'un.,vary acktintViedgmen!, for it the, writer 'weft" ma:xy a DJIIe, he ;Athrlitli •that the D a nish_ Navy inight•. kivel been employed in hostility against Great Britain, and of course juatiOes the .measura we adopted to obviate such a danger. • )S6. *Lare sorry to hear, that when the last Mein" get came 'ofF,' Lord CATIIcOiT'S health Was indif/ ferei:t, and that Sir DAVID BAIRD'S wound 11 14 been lirnduftive of more, serious consequences than first apprehended. Since the arrival of General, Fox,. the conuran4 of the Army in .the Mediterranean 'devolves on Ge . neral Moioits. VII;14211'S is i!ItiORITiVed.! and is succeeded in the coinmand of Malta by ,Sic C. Gkaarr. Intrtpid waileo fr. ,Palermo thet beginning of August, and lett the Fleet, oti Cadiz. ‘ all well, on the Ist just. She has not .brought qtly account Qf Lord Coe Lixowoon's proceedings after he left Malta for Tenedos or the' 2S3d July, with seven Sail of the Line The gallant Marquis. of HUNTLEY has been opi itolittett to: l ii . ucceed General FRASER, in Egypt, buf H aid not proceed in the Imperieust Frigate, as Inten d* Ned,. with . torifto — cmtANE.. .. , PPO.-..(4elTrai Sir Hew DAtatiiart.E conting° 4l in the•cOmmand Of Gibraltar. Colonel BRE'ItE . TDN and another Gentleman,'b6i4 IMPEREA'4, PARLI4M_ENTe• HOUSE PEER,S. -rmihsniY, ,SEPT. 24. PIIRTHER PIiortOGATION OF PARLIAMENT. This day, between .one and two'o'clock, the Loan CHANCELLOR, his Grace file Doke of PORTLANp, and. Loyd MutGl A vic, Commissioners appointed by ,His Majesty, being in their state robes, and se4ted on the Wooltaek, sent for the Commons, The CoMmonS, represented by WILLt. HENR Y LEY, Esq. and other Officers of that House, appear ed at the Bar, when tire Commission, authoriiing the above Lords to prorogue Parliament, being read, the,Lottn CHANPELLOII. said. MY 'maps AND GENTLIVMEki, fly' virtue t,f His Majesty',s Commission under the Great 4iNI, to us and ;o other Lords direde•l, and by authority o f the same, we do declare this present Parliament to be fur— ther prorogued until Tuesday, the toth day of November next, to be then here holden and sit; and the said Parliament a hereby further prorogued to the said day accordingly. The Commons bowed and withdrew. MAILS. ARRIVED—r Lisbon,A.Malta, t Dublin, t Waterford. Duz—z Gotteriburgh, I Dublin, !i ,Watcrionl. ' • PRICE OF STOCKS Tars DAY 'AV 'TWELVE O'CLOCK. COMOIS i 1. Omniuia , - par T. HE SUN. 3014$ QUIT 41CIT. 'FA/3U14 . AtiAtAT? hare, which he dict not perceive,w—hen_he fired.. terwards onu of thu same party.hroughl dowti a par- triclge,• which fell .on . a hare its . 11er form ; one of their doss ringing at the bird 'caught the hare, find killed it. These are two very-remarlcable fads in the annals.of 4ortlog. , . _ . . ~ •. , . 1 A. shootino. Match at par tridges. wiA Mao; on 5 i the toth :instant, ' between Major [-toward, who —t,„ loortothe-D."- icroon P 'a s an Keeper, t the name , . a' •d a i, et Pearson, at Stow,. Bucks, for, 190 guineas, who ! should kill the tooitbirds in ten shots. The keeper was baCkedby•his Master, W. 'Watson, Esq. and , the roatchAvlifirdeided in' three dais,' in the neighbour hood o f -Befactensfield, Nlarlow:, and Sicike.. The Nlajoii,'!ol'iTtlaiday latit, had nine shots, out of which : he killed:fii 4 brace and a half Of birds ; on the se cond'daYlie killed three brace and a half in .eight • shot's, having made one miss ;_ and early yesterday , tribrriing he killedi Wash of birds in the other threat shots, snaking altogether ten brace and a h.all. The ?Keeper,. who accompanied his -competitor had onlY, four shots on the first day, and he killed a leash of I birds ; on the second day be trod up a covey in somo i turnips; - and brought a : ledsh of theni to bag. He hack eleven other shots. and regularly brought a WO. t 0 I bag. .;He had to'kill four birds in four shots, an d ch after killing twice, he brought down a _brace, n. killed his last bird, which decided the match in bis.. i favour by one bird. . . . There-has been more. Cattle in' Smithfield 11).04. last three weeks than, has bet n.retnemberc4 tor soino. years.ipasti, ',which . his caused the sales at. Itio:ve . •Egices i : but, ; of-the Public, much to. the surpriSe 1 there i. 4 scarce any recludion in the p r ice of meat.. . , out shcxninglast weak, nearßroadehalk, aie.Colone, fired at a hare, and killed not only , that; but another