The Sun. — London, England, 1807-02-07 00:00:00

:ouse, air LI. enl , . L i to sluestion the lonbur of that* C A "DM ti the Nation ; for te s!at House could not fl e : honourable; if c.onstitu by the undue - in "ttence of power' and corruption : nor could- the !Pantry itself be free, if robbed' of its hereditary i i ight franchise-=--so that - the charges in their ge ne nature go to que s tion the purity of choice "nich made that 'House, and the existence of those !I ri vileges which were to maintain. it. Thinking as he did; of the importance of that Paper, he Old not conceal his surprise that it had not long . I , r e lore that period been presented to the House.— " hen it was' considered' that it was the pratlice of' t hat Hous e t o p ost p one a ll o ther kinds of considera t I vios to the paramouet one of its privileges ; when 't Was considered that the Honourable Member who Presented this Petition must have known these rir'os nature of the charges it contained ; w hen it is e°nsidered that every Member having charges to f a , J ( lduce involving the 'privileges of that House, has ydispatoh to be his first duty in submitting such charg es to that House, it would be difficult to re concile a strut sense of Parliamentary duty with the ' h edged iti necessity for delay. The Honourable ;ember who spoke last panegyrised the candid an d honourable way in which. there had been plain S tatem e nt o f 'avow: , charges explicitly :id before the House.' . He, for his part, mould hesitate to term a. charge candid, merely be t:iose it w as a g ross o ne, but ould rather feel it his e UtY to look f o r evidence in some- degree propor lonate to the chara&er of the accusation ; bur hoW- Z er candid or honourable it may be to bring such candid 6? ses, he Was sure- that it was not either candid honourable to circulate industriously through The e -,, int o rumours calculated to hurry the unthinking 4 to inaotiiderate prejudices against those persons I t TP°M their accusers yet delayedao Charge before Proper and recognized Tribunal.' ;Did the Hon. louse think it very candid to present to that ll' 3 . tise a Paper reflecting in the most serious manner irn a Member of that House, without giving that ." v etlaber the slightest intimation such a process, t h ough such a notice was warranted, or rather re tred, by all the usages of Parliament ? He should anxious 'until the Petition was decided upon, and r'Ped that if the charges therein contained were 'v ° .,, u ,nd. upon due examination, to be slight and fri ,l'';'°ll!i, the House would feel it. due to their own ' t . g n AY, and to.the aspersed honour of ita Members,. . 13 make the persons,who advanced them feel the L' ) nsequence of wanton accusation.--Ordered to be 'eel into consideration on Monday sennight. MUTINY AT VEI.LORE. t Mr. HO•WoRTH begged leave to put one question ohis Right Honourable Friend at the head of the rd of Controul—Whettier he had received any authentic intelligence relative to the late unhappy Lnti9y at Vellere, and its much-to-be-lamented ,Unbeqtknces ? Now that a new Governor and Com ;7ancler in' Chief were going out, it would be ad- L'snable that they should have, previous to their de parture, their instru&ions relative to the wretched 'offerers both among the Native and British troops. Mr. TIERNEY said, that be was not the least "ttrprised at the anxiety expressed by his Honour 4Ole Friend, and should be; glad to give - him every 'III - urination upon the subject ; but not having re teived any official accounts as yet, it %‘ as impossible him to give a satisfadory answer. He could not,. see the propriety of detaining the Officers until such intelligence should 'arrive. L.BROOKS gave notice that he would on Mon 416s'e for an . Account of all the Stock held by 7 , L e igners. O r e SECRtTARY at WAR presented the Papers ered by the House relative to the Recruiting Ser ' ,---Ordered to lie on the table. ti he Barrack Department Bill was read a second I nn, and committed for Monday. The Navy Treasurer's Bill was committed for . kend ay. ,The Thames Police Bill, with additional clauses,. eat through a Committee. Report ordered to:be bn . Monday. h'un the Motion of Sir.JouN NEWPORT, the Irish i ß ee ion Bill was ordered to be re-committed on 'nnday next. I KISS{ CORPORATIONS. k:ir JOHN NEWPORT said, that it was his in ean id have brought forward about this time a 4,l ettit . for making Sonic regulations, whiCh he con glob absolutely necessary, respelling the admis -1 -. 44 , of Freemen into Corporate Bodies in Ire 1 4 , 4 ; but he had learned that a Gentleman who t 0 taken an active part in the discussion which t r f t ) i l t place upon this subject last Session, and th ° he knew was anxious to be present when . question was again brought forwc,rd, - had hi 't With a severe accident, having fallen from ta. horse on his journey to London; which : had f ti leVented him from attending his duty in Par- L e 4l ent. The Bight Honourable Baronet said l av Was induced; from this circumstance, ,to de t&the bringing in the Bill till next month. He -tight it necessary to Make this statemet.t, that it tell , not be supposed that he had abandoned his in .l`ibn of bringing forward the subject. b t llt Report of the Newfoundland Fishery Bill was be Tip by Mr. Hbbhonse. a foilc lie Spirits Drawback Bill wat ordered for a se readina- on Tuesday next.—Adjeurned. • . MAILS. 1);11:.--z 'COttenurgh, I isbon, w. York. GOtiCllbUrgh b i 2 WaterL!.Ord. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAli AT TWELVE O'CLOCK. , CCTISOIS THE SUN. s:tuts DICERS FA:CIJNI AVDRAT ? LOIVDON, B ATTIRDAY, FEERVARY 7, 1807 1 .-aks2 night, at a very late hour, Mr. BARKER and another Gentleman arrived at Lord Howicx's Of fice, with Dispatches for his Lordship, which con tain an account of the battle, or rather .battles, of th 2 •-"Gth. the Dispatches are not from Lord nor c nticsox, •but from the British Minister at St. Petersburgh. Mr, BARKER and his companion Were v . e rY much - delaye,l in their passage by adverse v4l t l so and they bring no account whatever 9f any. Ipte ry qp# tool 0O events Which to.' ok. 'place subseqUrnt to the . sth comber. 'lt appears that the 'charge or insinunion . agahist'Gren. BUX HOYDEN, yhich is contained in Gen. BENNINGSEN Letter to the KING of PRyssiA, wholly unmerited, for Gen.Btixuovis EN was engaged on that day, and fought with the greatest bravery:— The French 'Were repulsed in all the attacks which they made that day ; their loss is statbd, in the Offi cial Account which arrivellast night, to have been 4000 killed, 6000 Prisoners and Si pieces of Cannon. Towards the close of the day the French Infantry retreated in considerable confusion, which enabled the Russian Cavalry to charge with great advantage, and to take great. numbers of Prisoners. We understand that the Russian Commander in Chief has been fortunate enough to dete& some French artifices, which, if they had remained undis covered, might have been produaive of the most se rious consequences. A French General has been de tected serving in a subordinate capacity in ,the Russian Magazines. It is said that by dint of bribes he had gained over some Emissaries, and, his objea was to deteriorate the gunpowder and also in making up the cartridges not to put a sufficient quantity of powde r into them. If this plan had succeeded to any great extent, it Might have led to the total destruc tion of the Russian Army. We believe that there are other instances where' discoveries of a similar nature have been made by General KAMINSKY ; and it is stated that he has addressed a very strong Memorial to the Emperor , ALEXANDER upon the subje&, representing the necessity of removing from Russia, or at least from the ca pital, and the vicinity of the Army, all 'Frenchmen and other' Foreigners l except British Subjeas, and the Natives of those Countries which are in alliance' with' Ruisia. • Whether this advice will' be adopted to its full extent we do not know, but it was ex pe&ed at St. Petersburgh that some strong measure of Police respeaing Foreigners would be adopted. • The following Copy of the Forty-ninth, Bulletin of the French Army was contained in several of the private Letters which were yesterday received from the Continent : 66 WARSAW, lAN. B.—Ereslaw has surrendered. Krieg, Schweidaitz, Kosel, ColbErg, and Dantzic will be imme diately besieged. Our light Cavalry is in the neighbourhood of Konigsburgh. The Russians continue to retreat towards Crodno. Baron . ..Ds VINCENT has broUght letters from the Emperor of Austria to his Majesty at Warsaw." This appears to be rather an abstrata from a Bulletin, than a Bulletin itself. It is so vague and general that very little information can be colleaed from it. This morning a Mail arrived from Denmark, of which the following are the principal contents :. GOTTENBUEGH, JAN. 23 .—Yesterday .—Yesterday arrived a Courier from St. Petersbuigh, with Dispatches . for the English POvernment, and for the Russian Mi nister in London. ." COPENHAGEN, JAN. 17.—Accounts from Berlin state that ,the French troops in Poland are all going into winter quarters, and that any further operations would be suspended till the spring. BONAPARTE Was expe&ed at Berlin on the loth instant, but it was not certain whether he would pass the winter there or at Dresden. ExtraEt of a Letter from Copenhagen, dated Jan. 18, 1807: " Although the Post from*Flarnburgh is just arrived, there_ is not a word of news in the Papers respeEting affairs in Poland ; but we have certain accounts from Hamburgh, stating, that the French have suffered a severe defeat from the Rus sians, and have, in four days that they continued , fighting, viz. from the 26th to the 30th December, lost 'upwards of 70,000 men, in killed, wounded, and taken prisoners." GOTTEN4URGIT, JAN. 23.—The herrings have not been so abundant for many seasons past as at pre sent : they are now caught very high up the river. (Stockholm Gazette.] STRALSUND, JAN. 152.-LThe French General Molt- TIER has again taken possession of Attelam; with a Corps of 5000 foot and woo horse; his artillery con. sists Of 4 howitzers and t 2 twelve-poUnders. The rest of his Corps, which, is in the whOle estimated at 14,000 men, occupy the neighbourin4 country ; it is said to suffer much from want of provisions. Generall‘roaTrua left Anclarn on the 525th of last month, with the greatest part or the Garrison; and Was joined between Lapin and Netzhoff by three regiments of infantry ; manoeuvred some days in the vicinity, and then teturned-to Auclam. In the Duchy of Mecklenburgh remain at present very few French Troops, most of them having marched to..frussia. In the mean time the Coun try is treated in the most hostile manner ; in the towns all sdrts tff goods are taken away on pretence of their being English ; contributions of every de scription are levied on the Country, and the Duke's arms replaced by those of the French Emperor. At RihnitZ, as well as Dernmin, demonstrations hava•beert madd to cross over to this hide, and to constfl bridges for that purpose. At Meyenkebs- Pass a storm threw a considerable quantity of tim ber colleeted for the eortatmetiog of bridges on tLe w"ezlish side, which the CoMmanding Officer 'of the S,veLlish Chasseurs statioAed there seized upon, and rejected the demand of the French Officers, who re claimed it, with contempt. Between Stetnbuigh and But zow, in the tontchy of Mecklenburgh, we ' understand a considerable French park of irfillery has been obliged to halt on account of the heaviness of the roads, which renders the conveyance of ordnance almost impossible. VIENNA, DECEMBER f: 7.—The fate of the Mar quis GIIISILIERI, who_ in• his capacity as Austrian Commissary General in Albania and Dalmatia sur rendered Cataro to the RuSsians, is now decided; he is dismissed from . the 4 - nperiac Service, and sen tenced to be confined in'a fortress inTransylyakia for the remainder of his life. THE New York Paper of the Bth of January, which we received this morning, contains the fol lowing.intaresting particulxs, respeaing the British Force in the River La Plata : " Mr. GILBERT DEBLOIS, Of Boston, passenger in the Schooner Adda, from Cayenne, informs, ,that he left the Port of Monte Video, in the River Plata, on the 25th of Oaober last, at 1 4 - o'clock at ,night, in a small French Privateer Schooner, called the L' Oiseau, Capt. Brno's,. (the only Vessel that had, or would have, liberty to depart ,the port for some months) and has handed us the following intelligence relative to South America : [After giving an account of the Capture of Buenos Ayres by the British, and the Itc-capture by the Spaniards, the Article proceeds.] " Sir HOME PoPHAM was in Buenos Ayres when it was re-taken, and with great difficulty effected his escape in a boat to his Ships; after which, with the exception of one Gun-brig left cruizing between the Colonia and Buenos Ayres, he brought his Squadron (consisting of his own Ship, elm Diadem, of 64 guns, Capt. KING ; Raisonalle, 64, Capt. R2WLEY ; Dio mede, 50, Capt. PHILLIPS ; one Frigate, two Sloops of War, and several Armed Transports) down the River, and anchored in full view of the Harbour of Monte Video. " Some days he would have , every Ship under weigh, at other times cuily one or two of easy draught of water, who would stand in so close that the very inhabitants could discern the buttons on the Officers' uniforms. Sir HOME had sent into Monte Video upwards of 30 flags of truce, de manding Gen. BERESFORD and his troops, a supply of provisions, and some medicines for his sick and wounded. " The Governor, tired of such business, gene rously sent Sir HOME POPHAM a supply of fresh pro visions, and. twenty-three English seamen, who were brought into Monte Video, a few months pre vious in an English Guineaman—and' saying,, that he should not resped any more flags of truce from that time. • • ~ "'Sir HOME POPHAM answered the Governor's Ci vility, by accepting' the fresh supply of provisions,. and receiving the .(43 seamen ; but, contrary to the etiquette observed in time of War aboutlexchange of prisioners, he refused to deliver up the like number of Spaniards, which he might very easily have done, as he had more than go in his possesSion, which were taken from a small town on the south side of the river. , • - .; Several skirmishes had taken place between the, • English. Vessels and Spanish Gun-boats and Forts; and almost every day they saluted Monte Video with -1 2 and islb. shot, which, to those people who were peaceably attending to their business, and especially the young ladies, who by their reli gion wore obliged to attend mass every day, was ektremely ungenteel and inconvenient—for a few days previous to Mr. D.'s departure, an English Brig sent a number of heavy shot into and over the city, some of , which had the audacity to tear away the S. E. corner of St. Felippe's-Church ; however, not many lives were lost; or much damage done. • fc On the t.t.Eth of July last an embargo was laid on all Vessels in the Port of Monte Video, and con tinued with more than usual rigour when Mr. D. sailed. The reasons assigned were -Ist, that they were going to fit out an expedition to retake Bue-, nos. Ayres :—when that was accomplished, the second was, that they were going to expedite foul Vessels with dispatches for Spain :—when that was done, and the four Dispatch essels, by uncommon good luck, had escaped clear of the Blockading Squadron in the river, the ' Go vernor's last objeEtion. to taking off the Embargo, was, that the British Squadron were 'starving for the want of provisions, which every body 'knew to the contrary, as the. Raisonable, a Man of War, had been dispatched to, and arrived from, Rio Janeiro with so much of a supply as to be obliged to caulk in her loWer tier of gun-ports. " It was reported before Mr. D. nailed, that Sir HOME POPHAM had received a reinforcenjent of 3,500 men from the Cape of Good Hope, which he believes to be true, a's be himself counted 35 Sail at anchor five miles below Monte Video, between Point CArrettas and the Island of Motes, the same 'evening he sailed.: and . it was knows i that •iti. Sail more had arrived of ATaMonad° a city . . at the en trance of Rio Plata, as the Oovernor of Moine Video had, 'tile- 23d 06.16ber, received a Let ter from „the 'Commandant, at Maio, who wrote to that et e&. If this force. has arrived, Sir . Hoz,in will undoubtedly attack Monte Video : but whether he will be able to tt:ke possession, 'even with 5000 men, is vpry-uncertain, ps . the Spaniards have nezirlY 10,000, abd bre in high-spirits.- , - - • • THE Petition from some EleCtors of Hampshire ga;e rise to a spirited conversation yesterday. in the HduseOf . COmmons. LordTEmPLE and Lord Howtc e zpressed. , • their SatisfaCtion that the Petition had been presented, • (how..-ever late), in order:that the insinuations which have been thrown out against • Ministers might be fully investigated. Mr. FRE EM A NTLE, z 1 au:st whom. senile of the allegations. , of the Petition were principally direEted, stated his anxious desire to"meet the charge, which, according to the de claration of that Gentleman, we doubt not he has. ami)le mean of refuting. Yesterday Lord GP.fiNVILLE and Lord H. licTTi sent notice to the Bank, that they were ready to sell the third Lottery for. t 80S, on the followink,terins 25,000 Tickets, to be drawn in ten days, in equa: dr.rAirigs, and to finish on the toth May: ,•- Deposit rto 6 per Ticket,- t4th Fcbtusiy. Second payment s o o- - 13th iviarch. • Third payment s o a - 28th March. FouTtik payment, three days before the Drawing begins: Discount 5 per Cent. The Schethe and Days of Drawing to be • settled' by the Contradors, with the approhttion of the Lords of the Treasury • but not ore than thrt-e Blanks to &Prize will be m allowed. The Biddings to be sent, sealed up, to the Treasury on the 1 ith inst. before four o'clock, and to be opened on the 12th, at twelve o'clock, in presence of the Governor of the Bank af England and the parties. If the' highest bidding should not be accepted by the CiIANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER:, the Tickets will be, sold by open Subscription to the Public. Letters from Lisbon mention, that oi s had arrived at Madrid from Paris, and had been for mally introduced to the PRINCE of PEACE ) by whoM he was received with much cool and Studied indif ference. His mission is conjectured to relate to a farther supply of money. It was under s t oo d at-Lis bon," that on the accomplishment of his mission td the Court of Madrid, he was to proceed to Lisboii on a similar errand. Last'luesday morning,as thiLudlow mailcoach was coming to town, it uhfortquatc.tly overser, near' Ten bury. All except one Gentleman, who was much bruised, escaped unhurt. PLYMOUTH, FEB. 5.--Sailed His Majesty's Ship Tonnant, of 8o guns, to join the Channel' Fleet. • A Man of War is juist anchored in Cawsand Bay, supposed to be the Ganges, of 74 guns, froth the Westward. Arrived the Commerce, CoLit, from Cork, laden With, provisions ; and Fame, UNDERLIII4, fiord Lisbon, laden with fruit, last from Falmouth. His ,Majesty's Ship 'Narcissus, of 32 guns, in Cawsand Bay, has the Blue' Peter flying- for bail ing, and is expeded to sail this evening to the West:- ward. , • A fire broke out-early this morning in the Paint house, in the Dockiard, but by the prompt assist. ance of the men and . engines belonging to the yard it was got under without doing much damage'... PORTSMOUTH, YES, 6. - Arrived 4 the Cc'sar, of SO' guns, Rear-Ad m iral Sir R. .STRACHAN, Bart: Capt. Cu. RicHAftosoN, from off the Chesapeak. The - gallant Admiral, on ./heaving in sight at. this Port, tired a salute, which was returned by the Port Admiral. 'Sir RICHARD is not yet landed, nor is he expeded . thiS evening, the weather being unfavour able. ArriVed also the Neptuniis, SEYLLKEN Mas - f*rofn .Baltimore, bound to Bremen, with tobac co, rum, Bt - c., detained• by the Alcmene; and the 11 - Veno ifurora, from Olet on, with 'salt for a markets by a Frigate , name unknown. ' Sailed the Albicore Sloop, Cracker, Safeguard, and Hearts, each on a Cruize. HARvIOH, FEB.. 6.---Th e Ladd Prances, CJpt. FLT N; arrived this morning, with a' Mail from Got tenburgh and two Messengers, charged with Dis patches of the utmost importance, for Government. The Packet was 14. days on her passage. The Bonelta Sloop of War arrived froM Sheer ness, and the CentinelGun-bl'ig sailed on a Cruize. FALMOUTH, FEB. 4.--;;Arrived the Windsor Cas!le Packet, Capt. SUTTON, with Mails frdm Halifax and New York, 23 days from the latter place : the Dian 4 Packet had arrived at New York : the Wi n d sor Castle left lying at Halifax his Majesty's Ships Ciesar, Triumph, Topaze, Halifax, Busy, and Observateur 5 the American Ship China Pack* t, :from Calcutta, arrived at Philadelphia on the Ist January : on the 25th November she fell in with one English 74 gua Ship, two Frigates, and 21 Transports, toll of Troops : the Captain of the 74 boarded him, after whin they stood to the Southward :, the Captain of the China - Packet could not learn their destina tion ; they were then in lat. 1. N. long. 30. West. Arrived also the Prznee of •• Wales Packet, Capt. TODD, with Mails from Lisbon, 13 days passage : left lying in the Tagus His Majesty's Ship bhpe -1e114:, 80 guns, - Camilla SloOp of War (arrived from Newfonndland on the 13th january) ; His Majesty's Brig Gannet (arrived from a cruize); the- Toionshend and dockland Packets, arrived out on the 17th Janu ary, with Mails froth England :- the convoy timEng- , land were expeaed to sail on the 2d inst.. froarlis , bon ; His Maj.!sty's Brig Moselle, w ith convoy • from England, arrived out aft er a pas,sage of eight days only. , • BRIXHAM QUAY, FEB. .5. —Ptit into - Torbay tf4. .Chatin4 Fleet, consisting of His Majesty's Ships Bayleur, San Jost j,', Loudon, Si. 'qeorge,. Bellero phon, Contilleror i —Gibraltar, Monarch, Prince of pg&le.s•, Pitcebe, 3112.' Rose; frc.al WI Brest.