The Sun. — London, England, 1807-02-25 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT HOUSE OF PEERS, TUESDAY, FEB. 24. , . Earl DiGSY took the-Oaths and his Seat. • The. further Consideration of th 6 Appeal'" !!..Dick," was deferred till Thursday, _ The Spirit Driwback Bill, the Turkey' TOhacco till, the Irish Auaion Puty Bill, arid the Irish Quit Rent Bill were read a second time, and com mitted for Thiarsday. The further consideration of the claim to the Ba rony of Zonch, was postponed till the 12th of March. Mr. ALcocK, from the Treasury, presented an Account of the disposal of the sums granted for the service of the year 1806.—Ordered to lie on the table. Adjourned till to=morrow (thh . day), when their Lordships proceed:to Wes t inster Abb6y.'iw HOUSE OF COMMONS, TUESDAY, FEB. '24. The following is a.list of the Committee appointed to take into consideration the Petition complaining . of an undue Return for the County of Mayo : f. Woolmore; Esq. C. Leigh, ESq. A. H. Holdsworth, Esq. 1. D.•Yorcher, Esq: W. E. Lockart, Esq. G.. Skeene, Esq. Hon. C. Elliot, T. D. T. Drake, Esq. Hon. C. 11.11iitler, Lord R. S. Fitzgerald,' f-lon. I'. C. Onslow,' • Tyrwhitt, Esq. P. C. Bruce, Esq, Nominees-Hon. J. Butler HOn. T. Knox. A Message from the Lords announced their Lord ships' assent to the Newfoundland Fishery Bill. The Sheriff's of . London.,presented a P e t i ti on f rom . the Lord Mayor an(i Court, of Aldermen -of the City of London against Bark Bill. lieferred to the Committee on thesaid Bill. The Sheriffs! also .presented a Petition from the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Commons of the City of London, in Common Council assembled, praying , for a revision of thelaws which relate to Coal-Mar kets. Referred toa.Committee. . Lord HOWICK, by command of his Majesty, laid on the table of the, ouse;:Copies of the further Cor respondence between : the Secretary-of State-duel-the Governors of the, West India Islands. n;o , The Order of the. Day for calling over tjw'House was postponed! till Thursday.. FINANCIAL RESOLUTIONS Sir JAM ES PULTEIEY observing that he was not suite prepared with the Resolutions on the subjea, of Finance, which he had intended to submit to the House on that evening, gave notice - that .he would propose them on Friday. Mr. RoB IttiS presented a Petition from-the Agent of the Asse:nhly atDoinitka, praying for Pitcliltnen tary Relief -from- the distresses' oceas.iutli.!4 ; dini it,be dreadful Fire at Roseau.,.lt.was'ordered,:ez tie on the table; and Mr. Robarts intimtited his !. l iutention, when he was better prepared with evidence,of call ing the attention cat the House to the. subjea: Mr. SuAw presented a Petition from the - Grand Jury of the City and County of Dublin, praying for leave to raise Money by 4ssessinetas• for the Repairs of the Streets of Dublin. Mr.. HOB HOVSE brought up a Bill to enable his Majesty to grant Pelham House, in .Greenwich Park, to the Commissioncrs for the Government of the Royal Naval Asyluin; and Sir Jonx NawPoivr brought in the Irish Tax Bill ; both which were read the first tint, and ordered to lie read a second time On Thursday. On the iNtotion of Mr. "WutTnar.sn; the Poor Laws Bill was readn second time, and passed through a Committee ; the Report of which was received, !and ordered to be taken into further consideration on WednesOy the 15th of April. Mr. TYKWillrr, from the Mayo Committee, ob tained the Icave of the House for the Coriimitfe.e to adjourn from that evening to Thursday. , ' years the Company had alloved Their Tight to lie dormant, was untru:: ; f)r duiiirt the Whole of that period they had bC-.2.11 in the habit of granting licences, although it was allowed that those li::ences, were not of much value,The right which their Charter conferred'upou. them. was valuable and transferable, and were it•offered to the Ports of London ar..Liver pool, might doubtless be ,exchanged for a large con sideration. DUrincr. the last week the Dire6tor s h a d • received numerous fetters from Proprietors, in dif ferent parts of the,: country, urging them; should Buenos Ayres again fall into the hands of the ,Eng lish, to avail themselves of their privileges. With regard to remuneration fur the loss of. these privi leges, a very moderate .sine' was desired. The duty on goods _exported to and imported from Buenos Ayres was tvielve and a half per cent. This duty Might easily bear the addition of an 'eighth per cent. 'Which would afford the small remuneration required. The Motion for hearing Counsel was then ne gatived. without . a division: The blanks in the, Bill were filled up, and the House having been resumed, the Report was ordered to be received on Thursday. - • Sir 'MIN NEWPORT brought up the Report of " the Committee on the Dublin Paving Bill.—Order ed to be referred to a Committee of the - whole House' on Thursday. The Thames Police Bill was read a third time, and passed. Mr. HOBIMUSE . brought up the Report of the Irish Sugar Drawback Bill ; which was agreed to, and the - Bill ordered to be read a - third time on . Thursday. • , - The other Orders of the Day were then disposed of, and the House adjourned to Thnraday, TO CORRESPONPENTS. The Meg-rations of our Correspondent, X. Z. are well founded, but in:rasp/talons from Foreign Papers, it it proper to keep to the meaning tf the 01 When we express our own anti. menu we use %soy dijerent language. 1 . MAILS. AR IV D -4 Titisurp, Waterford. Du 2=-3 Go;tentr4rgll, Lisbon, I Waterford, Tft E S UN. soolm guts D;CICRIL A : '"1,10E,“ ? SOUTH SEA COMPANY. On the motion of Lord TEsri.on, the House re solved itself into a Committee on the ‘South Sea Trade Bill. Counsel being declarod to be in attend ance on the part of the South Sea Company, Mr. CRIPPS moved that they be called in. This pro duced N avery long cliseussion. Oushe one hand, it vas contended by Lord TEM PLE, Mr: JACOBS, Mr. COttltY, Mr. COURTENAY, and Mr. W. WYNNE, that no case had been made out to prov 4 the necessity of the delarWilich the bearing, of Counsel must occasion. Tie Petition from the Soul h-Sea Company did no t s t ate , nor could it be stated-, that they sustained any injury from.the 'Bill. Without 'a clear proof of injury .could be strewn, they were not entitled to be heard by Coun sel. Their charter had been granted to their with this express limitation, that they should trade to the possessions of the King of Spain alone, as was de monstrated by the exceptions in that Charter. One million and a half. of British property was at stake, the seourityof *which depended on passing the Bill with promptitude ; for if any of the valuable Ships that had been freighted ,to Btlends-TAyres should chance to ,be lost before the Bill should be 'so . pas'sed, the Underwriters would not be tesPonsible. The Bill had been brought in with the consent of the Company; for when it was first discovered that the voyages to South Ainerica were illegal, his Ma ,iesty'g' Ministers had thought it their duty to bring in a Bill in order to render them ln December 'ast a Draft of the Bill was sent to the'oll:44Ors of the South Sea - Cdmpany, for their opinion, anci, in January a Committee of the DireCtors.attended,,the Privy Council; when a discussion of the principle of the -Bill took place: Several alteration'Oftrgsted by the Directors were agreed to by the Privy Cciuncil, and the DireEtors then signified, their approbation of the Bill, of which the Bill then before the HoUse was a Copy, word for word, with the exception of those changes of expression which the re-capture of Buenos Ayres required. If any claim could here after be made out for compensation, the justice of the House would induce them to listen. to such claim with the attention which its-merits demanded. On the other baud it was maintained by Mr. Cannes, Sir T. TosToN, and Mr. H. THORNTON, that the Petitioners ought to be . heard by . Counsel, end that the Petition could not throw any obstacle in the way of the Plans of Government, or the Corn. coerce of the Country. The Diretlorrof the South Sea Company had a great duty to fulfil. They were . the guardians of the property 'of the holders of their. stock to the amount of above 26,000,0001. The statement made on a late evening, that • for L N;1? Q WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25 ) 1807. LAST night Mr. JACKSpN, brother to the l t ite Minister * at the Court of Berlin, arrived in Town with Dispatches from Lord UpTclilt,iSON, at Konigsburgh. Mr. WYNNE, and Mr. \VAGSTAFF, the Messenger:, also arrived this morning at the . Foreign Office. The particulars of the _Dispatches which have been teceived have not yet transpired, but we feel great sqtisfac tiOn in being ,able to, state that they are of a very fa- vonrable nature. • Wit Err we. yesterday expressed our doubts of the truth of the report of the complete defeat of the French Army, as stated in the Letters from Yar mouth, we did so because the report came in - an un official way, and beeause we knew that - one part of the report, viz. that the Turks had joined the Rus sians, was untrue. It appears, however., by accounts which•reached town last night, that the battle at Mohringen, on the .25th ult. which the. 55th Bul letin represented as having terminated' in the defeat and flight of the Russians, in faa ended in the die feat of the French. Of this fact, the. Official Ac counts, - - whiCh we this day, lay, before. our Readers,. is, we think, decisive evidence ; and indeed the French accounts themselves, if examined minutely, lead to the same inference. It appears that the French Generals BERN A ne T T 4 and INTex intended to , form a junCtion, and that the Battle of Mohringen frustrated that intention. It is therefore obvious •that even if the French were not defeated, to the extent stated in some of the accounts, they had at least much the worst of the Battle, be cause they were not able to effea . the °hi -ea they had in view. It will be recolleCled„ that'll the 54th Bulletin, the advance and retreat of General NEy's. Division is mentioned in a very vague manner. It is said that General Nay, having advanced with se veral Battalions, the Russians took the alarm, and made a. movement to the ;right, and that General NEY had effected his retreat without any. toss. It is clear thaiNali did not advance inerely to retreat again . He must have had some objed in view, and that oh jea, whatever it might he, was frustrated by the Bat tle of Mohringen. It is_positively asserted, in all the accounts brought by the Mail which arrived last night, that the KING of PRI/SSIA had, in conse quence of the success of the Allies, returned from Memel to .K:onigsburgh. It is also stated, that the Allies have advanced to the Vistula, have taken • poSsession of Cohn and Alatienwerder, and have 1 compelled the French to raise the Si e g e o f Granclen tz. 1, The following , is an account of the of 'Moll tingen, extra&ed from the Abeille du gear, of Feb. 13 : It is stated to -hAvebeen published officiidly, at Elbing, on the 2gth - January : " Marshal 13.ERTiADOT4g was defeated. ringen, on the 26th January, with the loss of 4000 men, 10 pieces cannon, and two eagle. The . remainder of his,'Z'Orps is completely surrounded ; and It was the intention of .the Allied Army to bring on a general engagement, ‘‘ Accounts from Warsaw, of the Q9th ult. state ° , that many of the French trorps have re-crossed the Vistula, to take up witiler quarters in, S.,4sia.. • ."1"11e KING OP PRUSSIA bad returned to Ko- ni i ;sburgh, His troops took possession of Marien: welder, and the Russians of Cultn 3 they also raised the siege of Graudentz." If the following Private Letter, brought by the Mail, may be relied upon, BONAPARTE has completely failed in his attempts to seduce the KING of SWEDEN from his engagements with the Allies. Indeed it was not to be supposed that a Prince of such high honour as the KING of SWEDEN would seriously listen to the disgraceful propositions of BONAPAETE. EXTRACT OF'A PRIVATE LETTER FROM ALTONA. FEB. 13. " By most respeCtable private advices from Stock holm, via Copenhagen, under date the gth ink. it applars, that BONAPARTE has been indefatigable in his attempts to make his Swedish Majesty renounce his .alliances. MORTIER was his principal agent in these dark and insidious negotiations; in which NA-. ,POLRON promised to reward Swedish perfidy with Norway,. whiCh belongs to Denmark, With which . Power the French feign to be on such a friendly. footing. Thosp base terms were patiently . heard and transmitted to the Court of Malmoe,. but only verbal, the Swedish Cabinet sent orders to. : llave thin'ffti Writing, which request was also Corniiited with. . • g' : '• Hereupon the Swedish .Monarch sent copes of the perfidious offers not only to thecourtsin once with him,' but even to hi s ne i g hb our , .thelli nish Court,,who ,will now plainly perceive . wharivii . tfl be the friend of such a being .as 14citqatimer8.—* Suffice it to say, that the terms were scornfully.re jeaed by the Swedish Monarch, who sent .for" saver the followinglaconic lines :-,; 7 cf Jamai.o de ina vie je cPviendreti d'un brio and canune you:: 1"...- I shall never in my life become the ally of sucb a robber as youl" . This anecdote is authentic,' and comninnicated.from a most,unexceptionable Source. Not only with . Sweden, but even with the Emperor of Oertnany, NArOLE'7!N uses the same Piabolica l i 4 1- trigues of State, but wiih as little: success. " By respeCiable private advices from Vienna, of the Ist instant, the Hungarian army was arrived, in great part, over the Carpathian mountains, on the confines Qf oalicia and all the temptations; and alluring baits; held out by the great despoiler of mo rality and mankind, are rejeaed by the Austrian Court; 4s the latter has paid up all the.arrears of the:ContribUtions due to the French, the fortress' of i3ra.nnau will, it it said, he deliVered up again. I.‘ private accounts are said to have reached Vienna from'Cracow, that the Austrian General, Baron Vis c4NT, i 5 one from Wars'aw to St. Petersburgh. The cxchatige:of c2c,uriers between Warsaw, Petersbtr;gl), and MeineL s were more brisk than ever. Orders from NAPpLEOI.I have been sent to the interior of France, as well as to, the.confederate German Courts, end troops to Italy where great apprehensions are entertained of a visit from the Russians." Thtors OF:VIE ELBE, FEB. 12,—,-Private Let ters from Dan4ic, of the 31st of January, speak of a battle , which took place on the 25th, at • Mohringe,n, in East Prujsia, it which the Russian General, M. I).'A6'ir:lA, was ktlleg. According to these I.q4er - s, there were at Elbing, on the ctst 'January, a French corps of from 2 tp, 30,0 Q, men, which set. out .on the I! , tth, for Holland,. to rejoin the, division of which it formed a part ; the bridge of Thorn has been-car ried away 4y the ice. Gen. Vre•rOtt, who was madd prisOner . by a patrole near colberg, had arrived at Pautzic. Ills Prussian Majesty, with all his family, is returned to AC.onigsburgh. . Other. intelligence lam D,antzie s agree - % game fad, that on the 21i,th an . important battle i.wvA fOukht. at Mohringen, between the French., ans, and Prussians, at the co elusion of which the Vrussians occupied Marienwerder, .the. Russians Culm, and the Blockade of Graudentz 'was, rai.sed., At A.M.ohcingen h e R ussia n s se i ze d the contributions. which had been imposed on the City of Elbingen,' by the French.' The king of Prussia had, returned hum 114 ripl to K.lOO lip burg . BANKS OF THEMAIV, 7,- 77 A., great num ber of, French ttloops.4.e proceeding by forced p. marches to Italy : it i „ aid that some troops of the Confederation of the Rine will take the same route. -The Frankrn i rt Journal says " The Court of Vien na having paid the cont i ributions ;hat were required by France, bad applied to the Emperor NAPOLEON, that the fortress of Brannau might be evacuated by the French troops. Four Regiments have already received orders to march towards Upper Austria, to take possession of that fortress." FROM A PRIVATR lATTER FROM ALTONA, FEB. 13. It.appears that after the battle fought between the Aussians and .French, on the asth , ult, at Moll= ringen, in which . the French were far from be'aig . vi s aorious, the 'Russians retreated to get more:rein forcements, and returned- to the field on the 26th ult., when they attacked the French left wing, under PoN'tt., Coiwo, at Mohringen, and completely routed and repulsed it. 00n this occasion, the con trityation in money, which BERNADOTTE bad raised 111 fell into the bantis of the viaters. " Unfortunately, the Russian Lieut. Gen, lost his life in the first battle a,t‘rohritlen. 4 the plan of the French, who were absolutely with out provisions, to proceed strait to Konigsburgh and every other part of ifrussia. For this purpose REP NADOTTE, at, the head Of 3000 men, bad ..entered . Elbing already en the gist, while the rest )of th, • 'A • - French left Wing endeavoured to turn the right,of . tht .0 • , combined' Russians. and Prussians, in which, -how ever, they completely failed. " BERNADOTTE suffered not only a great defe'at at Mohringen, but the Russians pursued him farther. Marshal NEY came to his assistance, but met with the same brave reception; and the two French corps"; who were to. have turned the Russians, found their . 1. . • .•. whole left wing turned by the combined effOrts of the Prussians, who are stated to have followed- 'up their advantages ; insomuch, that the whole left wing of the French was, cut off froth every comma nit ation with the Grand Army on the 27th alt . ••• The French raised the blockade of Graudenti . with the utmost precipitation ; while the Prussians , &mit one quarter transferred the - theatre of war, with 'their Allies,' from E as t to West and South Prussia,, •• since the former occupied Marienwerder, and Out - latter Culrn, at the distance of a few English miles ' frdin ThOtin, The linssians followed the flying Enemy, whb fel/ back as far as the Vistula . ; where, however, all .tlie'bridges were broken and dragged aWay ,by the .thawing shoals of ice. :the news of a battle may, • therefore, be hourly expeaed. Marshal KAAPNSK9Y, with the Russian' Grand .Army, was, also said i to be advancing from Byalis tOck; Ostroienka:g6mhich pl aces th e French had evacuated , for want of necessaries to make a diversion. A number of Couriers whp passed through Frank fort-on the nighbe;f the 6th inst. were all t o d eman d the Acceleratio of the arrival of the Conscripts, anti .ot h er troops. " general VICTOR, whq is arrived a prisoner at Dantzic, will, it is said, be transported to St..Pe ter'sburgh, at the express request of the Emperor AtEXANDEB. ' "The news . of Count EENSTORFF, Danish Prime Mini.4ter of State, having received the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour from NAPOLEON, tbundation. " The c.3oinrnanclant 7 ,9f Ilrannau has sent to War, saw, `to receive instru6tions whether he should sur render that Fortress, at the desire of tile Austrian The following'List of the Staff of the South- American Army is handed about in military circ lei ' Probably it is not quite corre& Commander in Chit Sgt h reg. Becohdih Command M a j o r-Gen. aati• e r, b3d Brigadier-General Ackland: Foot Guards ' • Bereslord, 88th reg , Sir S. Achimury, 'loth Fu:.: Lord tilayney, 59th reg. Crauturd, 67th Assist ut an y td Adjutant-General Lieut.-Col. forrens,B9th req. itto Major Trotter, 83d' Dep. Quarter-Master-general Major Pritzler, 7th Feet Assistant ditto Major Tucker, ;act Foot. inspector of tiosptals Dr. Gordon Deputy Commissary-General M a j or Li ndsay Capt. Hall, otthe 89th, is appoi e nted one of the Aids,cla- Camp to Gcneti,l Whitelocke. .• • Thu Payrnaster-Cieneral, Military Secretary, Majors or Brigade, and sonic of the Aid's,-(lkt-Garnp are not yet ap pointed. .The'B9th Aegiment, commanded by Lord BLAY NEI', as as the Trooti of I-lorse Artillery,, were 0 Monday en barlced at Portsmouth. The baggage of the .C6lnmander in Chief was likewise setit on board the same day, from the Isle of Wight: Urriker art . .oiEcer of such aelivity arid enterprize as General WAririLooKE, we are confident there will be no, delay. Detachments and recruits for the 28th, 40th, 4,7 th, •83d, 'B7th, and 88th, were 011 Mo,lldaY „ . cna barked .for South America. . . The. Army of South America will consist of The Royal Engineers and Artificers, a Detachment., Th'e 126yal Horse Artillery; I 'Croon." • ' The Royal Artillery, 4 Cumiianies. The 9th tight, Dragoons, counnanceed by Lieut. C c o o l l .. A D I z a h v o i t: 17th Ditto; -- Lieut. Col. Lloyd. i • aoth Ville' 6 Troops, -. Major Blake. list L/i MO ,) 2 . Troops, - Co . sth 1.p.4,.2 • ---„, soth Fopt, ----- _______ ,i3urne 'Bth FOO' -- ' • 5.................. Vassal. '3 'l '- • 40th Foot, ----- ------ Browne. 4stli Foot ,; --- - 7 ----- 7 . Guard. 47th Foot, - 7-- B A c kh ouse? 54th Flaw.; Companies ----- 7 -----,- 7 ---- tst Foot, .--. Lieut. Col. Pack. 4{34-Foot, Major Trotter. 87th Foot, --- Lt.Col.SirTZ.Butlet 8811 k:oct! ‘ -: .7-- .. Dud: • 89th Foot; .Lord 131ayney.. • 951.11 Rifle Corps, 5-Companies, Major•M•Leoc. And a Detachment of th,,, ft uyal Waggon Corps. We hear that a Field_Oilicer of the Royal Engr neers,.ds well as of the Artillery, will accompany WHITELOCKE. CITY BUSINESS.—A Court of Aldermen was bed yesterday, at Pi.iildliall, at which the Lord May(r, .16 , Aldertneo,,. the ' Recorder, and City Officers, were present. : The price of bread was ordered to be raised half an , assize, ora penny in the peck loaf, whiCh.w.44 ako:plitce to-morrow, when the .quar - tern loaf wli tsdi ?till be sold for I s . O , Ad. and liou t , :- I i liQld 11.0., l;l4Xourt proceeded to determine the appeals against : The assessments for tythes under the Inetimbent Aikfur the parish ofSt. 'Peter, Cornhill. .and,.after, liearing. ,the s.eye.r\i-tlas quashed, partie and a saggriei.Ted, n a e tii. ‘ c 4 v .150 Ihe - aSseisors, ; the rat 4 was .One,ordered to.be_kuade. The Court agreed to pe tition the liouise.cof Commons on a Bill now' before a Committee efi , the House, for regulating the tan riqrs,: a n d othei:dealers in leather, as relating to th,' searchers and „sealers of leather in Leadenhall Mar. ket, • , and a Petition being prepared, w as or d er e d to !... heti/v - 10 by tiviltavn Clerk, and presented by the s . heiiffs,. - att l nzcilett:by the Remembrancer. The Court! .inA Magner, highly honourable to them, re ferred it to aOommittee of the wh o l e C ourt to i n .. quire into thk situation of the friends and relatives of the unfortunate sufferers who lost their lives at the execution in the Old Bailey on Monday last, and also to inquire into the causes of that melancho ly accident. . I