The Sun. — London, England, 1807-04-18 00:00:00

nll tv ED-1 Gottenbargit;'r z Htisuth. I.Ll:,bon, 2 Dublin, 3 Watertord. I PkiCt o f STOCI , S THIS DA:Y•c.T TWELVE O'CLOCK. o ~,I S Omniuth - - pr. THE SUN. tOLENI QUIS DICE-RE FALSUM AVDEA,T? the i 9 the L '0 1V D 0 Ar, SATURDAY, APRIL 18, 1807. On+ t as he ias 3.0 rs' A'r t late heat last night three. Ilasunt Mails ara : the contain very long details of,theiproceed y of the „ British 'Fleet after it passed the Duda • 3 but we are not inclined to give thetri im :t credit, because we can hardly suppose that Ad • DucxwoßTH, after having forced the Passage„ have given the Porte time to take all the neces' , , means for the defence of the Capital. Indeed sc‘tiie Articles, dated Constantinople, are so evidently • • manufathire, that they must be received •••iit the, utmost caution' . We fear that we must some days without authentic intelligence upon rtiost interesting subjeet : the unfortunate cap of the Crafty Schooner,' with Admiral DUCK- Dispatches, leaves Govern ment wholly with .authentic information, of the proceeding's of the, Sefuadron after the passage of the Dardanelles. :owever, very confidently stated in the Foreign 9 ipel.s, that Admiral Ducx,wowra and . Mr. An.. :-./ . ll:tqo'r., finding they, could not induce the Porte t'' accede to the terms proposed, had repassed the . 1 , 1 -itdanelles ) and we know that letters have been Aiteived in Town from the Mediterranean, which Pizitively assert thatfaet. since writing theabove we have received in fortna. which removes all,doubt . from our minds, of the fa& of the ritisb Fleet having re-passed the 1 - :.: - danelles i without having succeeded in effe&ing a or in detaching the Porte front the interest Franec We stated several days ago, that BONAPARTE had ale a proposition to the KING of SWEDEN for an :Ixistiee, and at the same time we 'expressed ,ipinion that the object of BONAPARTE, in making Cl 4: overture, was • to set at liberty that part of his my employed in Swedish Pomerania ; and to march 1_1(o . Poland. This opinion has been fully confirm i:•! by the conduEt of the French upon the refusal of t 1 :0 KING of SWEDEN td agree . to the Armistice j for thr.7 immediately raised the.giege of Stralsund, and ivtreated out of Swedish Pomerania with all possible 'expedition. We ate ; however ; glad to find that thrir retreat was not effcaed without considerable loss. . Government this morning received some accounts Coin Poland, of a very late date, which state that no 42 '. 11) 4 of any consequence had taken place, that the ans were continually receiving teinrorcementg, audit was expeEted that they would begin to 'COM tne • ' nee offensive operations . about the end "of this r tlenth ; the first objea which they have in view is t) raise .the Siege of Dantzic, and it is probable that the French will risk a general aaion befote they ::')andon the Siege. The Garrison has been rein . 19rced with 6000 men; they have . nade several suc 7 ncssful sorties, and have driven the French frotn,the r` risehe He, - so that their . communication with konigsburgh is open. WE received this morning ilmerican Papers to the 12th of March. It appears that the Treaty was not rejected by the Senate, for it was riot submitted to their consideration by the President, who has taken upon himself the whole responsibility of sending back the Treaty to this country.. We have trade , some interesting Extrads from these Papers upon this silt). .It has been industriously rumoured these two days that Mr. CA KING. had resigned his office, in con 4csquence of a wish having been expressed of intro. clueing LOrd Stimorru into the Cabinet. We are enabled to state positively, that there is no foundation whatever for the report. Lieutenant COOMBE, WllO, in the command of the Galatea's boats, so heroically boarded and. took the French Brig Le Lynx, is deservedly promoted, by the new Board of Admiralty, to the rank ofsMas ter and Commander. Major DSLRY . MPt,E, who so gallantly led the 40th Regiment to the assault at Monte Video, where he tell; W.?. s second son of the late Lieutenant Colonel .1 . ..)/aAntrt.u, who took the Fort of St. Fernando dg Urat,Aa, in the Bay of Honduras, by escalade, d6riog the A.rdericati war. On Monday last an Address, to His Majesty- was moved, and unanimously agreed to, at a very nu werotis Meeting of the Freeholders of the County of Mid Lothian, in Scotland, expressing their thank .ful acknowledgments for I-bs MAJgsTv's firm and steady adherence to the Constitution in Church and '*ate.--We have no doubt this examplt, will be fol loWed by all the Counties and Corporations in Great • Boston ISTewspapers to the t ith ult, arrived yes ;ct.rday. The only important intelligence they cop st.iill is a nmification that the American Minister at Pitri ha s rec e i ve d a commun i cat i on from the Mi . :lister of the Marine, on the subject of the Decree ut BONAPAtiTE, for the blockade of Eitgland,,and ihat the provisions of that Decree will int be en :urc4d ozaipst t e Aiuvrivaus. THE tI tYS UM MAILS. S t . SWEDiSI-I , PFFiCIAL 11111.LE1IN. " MA=O, ,Apit 4 , -}3oort Made to his Royal .11,1ajety, by Baron 'nn Es- SEN, QoverWrPqneral., his Excellency intended that day to, reconnoitre the enemy's position with a greSt pirt„of the garrison ) , in order to . ascertain the enemy's views ; • according to all accounts re-' ceiVed, seemed on,the point of withdrawing from this Country. " A Courier who arrived here in the night, states, that in the morning of the Ist of April he saw the troops march out 4, the fortress, supported by six gun-boats, and beard a cannonade and musketry fire against the French entrenchments. The Courier was detaiped by contrary winds, at the post-house in Wittow; in the Isle of Rugen, till :yesterday Morning. The 501,9( April a written order was re ceived by the Postmaster of that place, dated on the fourth„ - at '5 o'clock in the evening,• tokecp a packet in .readiness for Lieutenant Colonel Baron Biwa, Aid-de-Camp to his Excellency, who Was the bearer of important report from the Governor General . to his Majesty. Th 6 above orders were dated Head-quarters at Derninin, 3d of April, and signed by the Aid-de- Camp, Liey,tenant-Colonel MELLIN. 'lt_ thereby Op peal's, that the French Corps which for Med the siege of Stralsund„ has not only been compelled to'rai.,e the siege of that Fortress, but also to 6%acuate Swedish Yomerania, , of which. is portant event Lieutenant- Colonel Baron BELIE will bring a full and'inibute account. " Baron HUNERBEIN, Major and Aid 7 de-gmp of the Kin g of Prussia-, who wai sent on a Sl*cial mission to• his Royal Majesty, arrived here yesterday at noon, EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM GOTTENEURGH. APRIL A Courier arrived this morning from Malmo, with the important intelligence that the French have entirely evacuated Swedish Pome rania : they began their retreat on the Ist instant, and continued it until the 4th, during which time the Swedes purSued and 'harassed theM much, and made above 1000 prisoners, amongst: whom are 20 Officers ; they followed them in two columns, the one going to Adnilarn, the other to Demmin. A great quantity of stores, baggage, &c. have fallen into the hauds of the Swedes, as well as a consider able sum Of money." . VIENNA, MARCH 28.—They write from the fron tiers of Turkey, that the preparations for war are continued : with the utmost activity throughout the whole of the Ottoman empire. After the demands which Admiral DucicwoßTH made to the Turkish Ministry, all, the inhabitants of Constantinople, ca pable of bearing arms, were armed t i p .the number of more than 60,00() men, and the French engineers which were in the capital were distributed among the different forts.--The following are the dernands made by the English : tst, That the Porte shall immediately make Peace with Russia. zdly, She shall deliver her Marine into the hands of the English till the conclusion of a Ceneral Peace. 3thly, She shall leave the Russians in possession of Mol davia and Wallachia until the came period . } tidy, As a proof of her pacific: intentions, she shall Sur- render to the English tit: UutwcAs of Constantinople. Although all these demands have been refused, the negotiations still continue, The English Fleet cut off, on the sea side; all the ,supplies of- provisions, for the populous City of Con '.stantinople, which ciretnnsianceinduced the Otto-. man Ministry not to.break off entirely the negotla tions with the Englisli. =- 4L ' Abeine Uzi 'Nord, loth ALTONA, APRIL iO.—A letter from Vienna, of the 'tlf March, announces that the negotiations be= tween the English and the Turks were entirely broken of on the Ist of March.—(L'Abedle du Nerd) • VIENNA, MAECII .9.B.—According to the last of ficial accounts from Turkey, of the. ad. March , ' no Treaty bad yet'bee'n concluded between the Porte and the Courts of London and St. Petersburgb,; but the Negotiations with the Engiish'Athbassador; Mr. ARBUTHNOT, Nkere broken off, and the preparations for defence, on the park of the 'Turks, carried on more adively than ever.. . Why the'Englisb Fleet has sailed back to the Dardanelles, or whether, as some suppose, its return was merely to be ascribed to a gale of wind, is ilot known With certainty. '(From the Telegraph.) BERLIN, Aptly: 7.=—After the English.AmbaSsa dor, Mr. ARBUTHNOT, had in v,aiu endeavoured to intimidate the Porte by threats, he resolved, to pro voke hostilities against it. • On the 29th San. he *went hastily on board the - Endyntion, with all the English Merchants in that. Capital, and sailed . to Tenedos, - where he was soon after joined by an English Scinadron of 14 Ships. . , The Porte gave oruers to shut the passage of the Dardanelles, and make preparations for defence. : But the Enemy anticipated them. He passed the Straits' on the loth of February, and on the 20th came in sight of Constantinople, with seven Ships of the Line, two. Frigates, and two Bomb-ketchess. Na measures .had yet been taken to defend the ap proaches to the City and the entrance of the Har bour. • This circumstance emboldened the Enemy. A Flag ofTruce appeared, and required, in the name 'of the English Ambassador, that the French Am bassador should be sent away ; that the Porte should . declare itself an Ally of England and Russia ; that it should deliver up to the English fifteen, Ships and fifteen Frigates, with their crews, and provisions for six months ; that it should admit a Russian Garrison . into the Castles of the BOsphorus, and an .English one into those of the Dardanelles, and into Alexan dria. Under these conditions alone would the Squadron retire, • . • Sublime Porte rejeaed all these propositions. negotiation, however, appeared to be opened, which lasted five days, and, during this time the ci ty and harbour was pot in a state of defence.: Three 11411drocl cannons were planted on the batteries., The itting (int of the TurkiSh fleet lying at anchor at thifoltdera WaS%coMploted, , and the whole eity Was under. firms. The -public indignation against (be Etiglisli iiiereased every moment, and on the .s6th ot -- ..Yebruary, the Grand Signior signified to Admiral Ducitwoata, who ooMmanded the English. Squadron, that before the ne.gotiatiOns could proceed he must retie with . his ships. • The Admiral answered by threats, but he snfeeMd two days to pass,over without making any attack, and on the. third (the Ist March) he availekl him-' self cti a,n9rtli: 7 witid• to sail back, towards the Dar-. clanelles. The Turkish Fleet made .ready to, sail in pursuit of the Enemy'; it ig not believed, however, that, it came up and on the 4th no account had been re ceived at Censtantinople. The Only, result of the Expedition of the English against Canstantlnaple, was to place that City in a condition tip resist them. Theintelligence we haveberegiven is confirmed by letters of a much later date, which we have re ceived this rpornent from Munich, dated the first of . April, and which state as follow " 41 , 411., have this moment received the important:intelligence of the bad SU*S.S of the Eng, list) before Constantinople, After haVing - sustained soiree, loss, they•feund theniselves compelled to leave the Dardanelles. It 13. said that General SEB:ASTI ANI superintends the defence of.the coast. " The Courier who brought this Account to Vien na, left. Constantinople the 12th of Mar Ch. It is conjeaured, that the, English have in that City .commodities t6 the amount of more than 50-millions of livres, which will probably all be seized. The Turks manifest great ardour, and Oen. SEBASTIAN' 'frequently finds it difficult' to restrain them." (Hang. 'Correspond. April 10.) BERLIN, APRIL. 7.—The Head-quarters of his French Imperial Majesty were still at Osterode on the 2d inst.—(Altona Alercury, April i t).) CepENHAGEI4, APRIL 7.—The English General STVAIIT is now here, and it is Ett.-.-lieved will go to Dantzic or Konigsburgh, . .The exportation of wheat is prohibited at Memel. The day hefbre yesterday Wile Ships which ar rived at Elsineur brought an Account that on the '26th Of March 400 Russians arrived at Fahrwasser, near Datitzic, and that the City was besieged by 26,000 French, Saxons, and' Poles. There were frtnuent sallies and skirmishes. • Three thousand troops have been embarked at, Pillau for Dant zic.—(iictmb Corresp(;nd. April i.t.) BANKS 0' THE MAINE, APRIL 4.--- , According to • the Public Journals 25,000 Spaniards, under the Marquis DE LA ROMANA, are expe6ted in Italy. A cc ording to,aceounts from Metnel her Majesty the Queen of Prussia . is in a state of pregnancy. g.LTRAPT OF A FEIVATE LETTER PROM HAMELTAGII, APRIL 7. fr The French Head-quarters are stilt at Oste rode. We expert, however, soon to hear of a bat- tie of importance. " It is said that a convention has beert'eoirluded between France and Russia, _relative to an exchange of prisoners of war; and some persons think this may prove the fore-rum - ler of a peace.- BEnLIN, APRIL 7.--YeSlrday arrived here in 4 waggons, a strong' Depot of the Paris Guard, which ag'ain set out for the:Grand Army : they made the journey in .17 days. The news brought froth Posen aftbrds us the greatest 1104)es of a' speedy Peace. . • S.T. PRTERSBURGII, MARCH 1; said that after the return of M. Novozu.T4orr, who has been sent to his Prussian Majestrat•Memel, the Emperor wilt seVout to join the army. , BAN.Ks' oF,TuE ELBE, APRIL 9.—it is reported that a' strong cannonade was heard at Frai kfort on the Oder ; on the tst Apra. Letters. from Wallachia,. state that the Tttrkish garrison of Rajova Braila surrendered 'to the Russian troops, after a siege of eight days and a terrible bom bardment ; and that Giurgewo has been taken by the Russians by assault. General MICHELSON command ed at this assault, at the head of 24,000 men. The garrison was entirely cut to pieces, for the Russians had expreks orders to give no quarter. . , The ballot, yesterday, at the. East India HoUse, was respelably attended ; and the question was car.; ried in favour of Mr. EDWARD' EPHRAIM POTE'S return to Bengal, with hiS, rank in the Company's service. . On Thursday a ballot was taken at the East India House, when the unanimous Resolutions of the Court•of Direaori, acquitting` the Captains of the Lady BUrgess, IParren Hastings, and the• Earl of iltergavenny, of any negled or miscondu& in the loss of these vessels, were confirmed. It is worth remarking, that one Ship amongst the 'homewafd-bOund East India Fleet made a most striking and singular appearance, namely, the Hon. East India Cnipany's Ship frit/icon Pitt, command ed by Capt. WILLIAM EDMEADES. She was painted completely black and over her stern was an escut cheon, as a testimony' of veneration and respe.it for thafgreat and never sufficiently to be lamented States man, whose name she has the k honour to bear. Two Soldiers named Eward and Srarpless, belong ing to the Regiment stationed in Woolwich Dock yard, wee on Tuesday last . taken into custody for theft, and committed to Maidstone gaol by Com missioner cuNN;:soups. They form, it seems, 13 - art of a gang. Commissioner CL/biN;NOHAN is active and vigilant in discharging his duty, as Superintend the Pcipi-p f r4s of Woolwich and Deptford, NEW - YORt, MAitCli, .I.2.—The Treaty signed With Great Britain will not he al I before the Senate,. 41eSs satisfa6torY explanation; should be received by .Government. respeaing the - point of , impress ment of Seamen out of Ameri'.an not'in.jittioned in any the Articies of the (rjap,.:,A of the Titaty i-ereived by Mr. 11.t1t.' torts cerning which there may he some understanding tween the respeaive Commissioners. Another objeCtion has arisen from a Note that, was presented by the B,ritisli to ovr conin.issionerS preVieusly tO the signing of the Treaty, containing declaration that the King of Great lirifain could not enter into the stipulations of the Treaty without an explanation fi-om the United States of their inter=', tions with.regard to the Decree of BON.APA WTI: Of the 21st of November T - which, it is stated, violateS all the rights of neutrals, to the (Brea injury of the British interest. • , The Note states, that the • King of Great Britain ; heing`animated by a sincere de sire to maintain a good understanding with this country, 'permits his CoMinissioners to sign the Troaty, but reserves to himself the right of refusing to ratify it, should. the Enemy not abandon, in the mean tune, tE-e Unjust pretensions, or should the United States submit to the violent aggressions on its neutral rights. It is very• - evident, 'that at the time this Note, was de4iii:red, no explanation of the meaning of Decree had been received in L.hidon. If the explanation already received be deemed a full and sausfaCtory Securty to• our neutral •riAhts, or if any modification should he matte of this decree to put our corotnetve upon safe grounds, there will be an end to thic difficulty at once. The . ceniplexion of the treaty then will rest upon - a single point - , the relinquishing the right 01 -- iinpres-; sing British seamen out of American' ships ; a right which any reasonable man never supposed Great • Britain Would relitiquiSh ; a right which she has ex= ercised towards every neutral nation, even her oldest and best allies : a right, in line, so intimately inter woven with her safety, that it cannot be abandoned without absolutely endangering her political exis- tence; and With her's perhaps ours. If it be true, as we have. heard and believe, that !' by the new treaty we are permitted to bring French prodUce from French colonies hither, and from thence to carry it into any port in Europe . ; if our trade to the British territories in the East Indies be allowed, and if it be stipulated that !our ships shall not be searched within five miles of our shores, will it he wise to place in competition with all these im portant benefits, the r4. , ,ht of impressing her her own seamen, which England never has, never will, and never ought to relinquish ? The rejeEtion of the • British Treaty by the Pre., sident, has occasioned in this city, and will no doubt _occasion in all parts of the Union, the most lively Sensations of Sorrow and surprise. Just as the cup of accommodation was at their lips to have it un-; snatched away,' is of itself a very reason able motive for regret. But this is little when corn.' pared with all the many Other affecting points in `which they have to contemplate and to feel this disappointment. The nature of the demand on the part of .Great Britain is not yet sufficiently known to - citable the public to decide upon it. But one thing is known of still treater and more forcible impres sion, viz. that if the President has rejedeLL the 'Treaty without taking the opinion of Congr2ss upon it, he has done an ad of despotism for which he will it `difficult to account •Satisfactorily- to the Country. If he can assume the power to reje& a Treaty without the concurrence of the Legislature, What is to prevent him from assuming the power to make one also. • Colonel Bilita, it is stated in the National gencer, on the authority of a Letter from Natchez, dated the 2Gth of January, has..been liberated, on giving bail for his appearance, in the sum of tO,OOO dollars; and had returned to his boats. The Grand Jury of New-Orleans, it is said, have found a Bill against Judge WonKmAx and Mr. hERR', but without specifying any charge. HARWICH, APRIL 17.—Two Gottenburgh Mails arrived yesterday by the Prince of !Vales Packet, Capt. A. DEANE; and this 'morning Capt. BRIDGE i of the. Auckland Packet, : came express with a Mes- , senger, with . dispatehes;frorn St. Peteraburgh. Three H math MIAs also arrived this morning by the Earl of L:.'icester Packet, Capt. TiromPsoti; Beau toy, Capt. Noittas, and Diana,.Capt. MACDONOUGH ; a Messenger, witli dipatches from Vienna; and about thirty other persons, came passengers. We are inforMed that the •Frerch. having rais e d the siege of Stralsund, the Swedish. troops made a Ord& tr'Oni 'the Garrison s and, in their .retreat, made 1.200 prisoners and took several ammunition ikag- gobs. • ' The Packets with the outward-bound Husum and (ottenburgh are yet detained -by a strong north-east wind. Remain the Dauntless, Combatant, and Valorous Sloops of War, and Eagle Revenue Cruizer. PcmlsmouTH; APRIL rti.-:—Arrived the. Isis, of 50 guns, Capt.,LAuottAttNE ; Nassau, of 64 guns, Capt. Ctotrii4l. ; and the Explaiiinz Bomb, with a (Zonvo . V from the Dowrisx among which are the Zinnia'? Cagle and Surat Castle. Sailed La Decade Frigate, Capt. STVART Su-: perieure Gun-brig, Lieut. SOWORTH _riven Gun brig, Lieut.Tuntqsll ; and the Camilla Sloop of War, Capt. Bow EN, with about 40 Sail, under Convoy f o v the West Indies. Several Ships which were botand to the West Indies arrived this morning from - the Downs. APRU. 1 7.—Sailed the Leda Frigate, Capt. HoNY• MAN, and the Childers Sloop of War; Capt. INNES, with a Gonvoy of near forty Sail, for the 'Downs. Part of the East Indiamen are droliped down to Sr. Helens, and the remainder are expeeted to drop • down to-morrow. SPORTING rivTgLugs.wqE, WMARKL/ FIRST SPRING MEETING, Ao7. FKIDAY, APRIL. 17. Ld Sackville,s Whirligig, Bst. ?lb. -beat Mr. Mellish's Glory, 7st. izlh. T A.M. B. Cc. .- 0 . 0 ;s.;-7 to /putt Whirligig, Mr. Mellish's Cardinal Beaufort, Sst. 4th. beat Sir t . Burt. bury's Snug, M. B C. roogs. 3 to t ag,t Cardinal Beaulort: Gen.Gower's Swinley, Sst.slb. beat Ld Sackville's Witch ! Oraft, Sst. 714, ta.ogs.--7 to 4 ass! §vy'ulley.:,