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

TitASTL, IN . SOUTH AMERICA. Lately published, in Bvo, price 6s. in boards, AVOYAGE to BRASIL ; with general Sketches of the Country, describing its Natural P'roduaions, the Charaaer and Manner of the Colonial Inhabitants, &c. aiai an Account or the City and Provinces of St. Salvadore aid Porro Seguro. I nclv.ding a Narrative of the seizure of a ritsli Vessel, and the imprisonment of the Author and the ;Lip's Crew, by the PorrugUese. To which are added, a,cor led Table of Exchange, &c. - 7 By THOMAS I.INDI.F.Y. - Printed for I. lolinsori, in St. Paul's Cliurch-yard, This Day was published, handsomely printed in One large Volume Odavo, Price Nina Shillings, in boards, A, N ESSAY on the NATURE and IMMU -1-2.. TAB' LI'L'Y ofTRUTH, in Opposition to SOVi - liS. TRY and SCEPTICISM. By lAMES BEATTIE, LL.D. Professor of Moral Philosopny and Logic 41 the Marischal College and University of Aherdeen. gi Nuticpant alind Natura, aliud Sapientiadicit."—juvenal. - The Seventh Edition, Correcied, wilich is now prefixed, a Sketch of the Wrigin and Pro gress of the Work. London : Printed for J. Nlawman, No. 22, Poultry. ray whom will soon be published, a zd Edition, Corrected, of The Tempie of Truth ; or,' The Best System of Reasoi.), Philosophy, Virtue, aod Morals. MAILS. 44t&IVEp•-z Dublin, i Watertbrd, DuE-1 Gottenburgh, t Lisbon, I Dublin, s Waterford. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT. TWELVE O'CLOCK. bn I Omni= Consols - 4 pr. THE SUN. OLEM QUIS. picERL TALSVN! AITDERT? LONDON, SATURDAY, APRIL 4, 1807. Wz yesterday stopped the Press to announce the receipt of. Paris Papers, containing the 66th Bul letin of the French Army : We have this day made some further Extracts from them. , --No Military Movements of any great consequence appear to have taken place previous to the date of the Bulletin, which is the 14th of March. The Russians, how ever, have not permitted the Frenth to enjoy much repose in their Winter Quarters. There have been almost continual skirmishes between the . outposts of the two Armies. We have no doubt but that the French have suffered severely in this desultory kind of warfare, because it is so peculiarly suited to the genius and to the habits of the CossackS. Upon reading the 65th Bulletin, which contained an account. of the position of the French Army, we expressed an opinion that Gen.-Best NIGSEN would ad- , vanee as soon as he had received his reinforcements, in order to drive the FrenCh from that position, and :o Prevent them froM 'undertaking the Sieges of Pantzic and Colbert that opinion, we are happy , to find, is fully justified by the following Extras` from the Dispatches of General BENNIGSEN,. dated Head-quarters, Landsberg, Feb. 27 : " I left IS.onigsburgh on the 25th, and am at the Enemy's heels. they continue their retreat in ex tretne disorder. The cannon, waggons, caissons, and hazgage, which they abandon on the roads, are the only obstacles which they seem anxious to oppose to ;:s. My advanced guard, which has been considerably reinforced by the Cossacks of the Don, harass them incessantly, and alwayswith considerable success.— According to the most accurate reports, we have taken prisoners, since the Battle of ,Eylau, 48 Of ficers, 70 Subalterns, and 3205, soldiers, not in cluding 300 others, who have died of their wound. The reinforcements which I expe6t from Russia are already ou their• march and their early arrival will enable me to follow, with as much precision as 'con 7 • fidence, the plan of operations which I have laid The garrison of Dantzic has made another sortie against the PoliSh Insurgents, and has com pletely beaten them near Dirschad." down. IT has been reported for some days past that ac counts of an unpleasant nature have been received ti - out St. Petersburgh, not relating to any military events, but to the Commercial Regulations which Lave recently been adopted. We are the more sur prised that any Regulations should have been Adopted injurious or oppressive to the British Mer chants, because, .We had reason to believe that at the time Lord L. GOwER waj recalled 'from St. Peters burgh a Treaty highly advantageous to both Conn tries was agreed upon and almost ready for signa ture. Why this Treaty was not actually signed we are unable to state positively. Spine details upon the subject have, however, reached us : we have learned that a Memorial from the British Mer, chants at St. Petersburgh, which Was intend ed to be transmitted to this Country, was not transmitted, but delivered to the Russian Mi nister, and that some ezpressions, in that Me- , tnorial had led to the consequences which have en sued. We have no doubt that the New, Admi nistration will turn d:it - attention without delay to this subje6t, and that if there are any difficulties subsisting, they will soon be removed. Though the subjed of the grounds on which the late Ministers were dismissed has undergone consi , clot-able discussion, it is said that more points are likely to be brought forward, which will retlea still ircatr lustre on the Loyal Chara&er to t firmness, consistency, and-magnanimous forbearance, respea ing 4 measure that be could not reconcile to his *dings and his conscientious seise of duty. We are sorry to say that it seems too evident that Ms MAJESTY'S sentiments and scruples have been treated with a, lightness and indifference that must excite much surprise, as well as justify much censure. It was with. the utmost relutaance that we could bring ourselves to believe that an Administration could have carried matters to such an extent - with - so little authority, and, indeed, against such weighty and important obstacles. 'We can only lament and won der that Lord GRENY/LILE should have suffered him self to be so far hood-winked by connexions with which. it is impossible that he could ever cordially have united, and• from which it is highly probable, that he would in due time have separated, if this untoward event bad not deprived Government of the immediate services that might be expected from a Statesman of hiS,liigh talents and experience.—The following is given as the substance of what His MA JESTY thought proper to state on the memorable subject in 'question, and it seems to be no less impolitic. and absurd, than disrespeCtful, in, those who could presume to attempt to carry their own views into orea after so dear, so decided, and So condescending a manifestation of the Royal Will and Pleasure.—His MAJESTY stated, " that however painful he found it to reconcile to his feelings the removal of objeCtions to any pro posal which may have the most distant reference to a question which has already been the sub je& of si'lch frequent and distressing refle6tion, he would not, under the circumstances in which it is so earnestly pressed, and, adverting particularly to what took plaCe in 1793, prevent his Ministers from submitting for the consideration of his Parliament the propriety of inserting the proposed Clause in the Mutiny Bill. Whilst, however, the KING so far' reluctantly concedes, he thinks it necessary to declare, that he cannot go one step further; and he trusts that this proof of his forbearance will secure him from being at a future period distressed by, any further proposal conne6ted with the question." Yesterday His MAJESTY, the Duke of CUMBER.- LAND, and the PRINCESSES took an airing on horse back in Windsor Park. Yesterday, at two o'clock, a Cabinet Council was held at the Foreign Office, which was attended by the Duke of PO'RTLAND, Lords CAMDEN I ELDON, HAWKESBURY, -CASTLEREAGH, MULGRAVE, Earls BATHURST,. and CHATHAM, and Mr. CANNING, The Council sat till four, when Lords .HAWKES BURY, CASTLEREAGH, and Eavl BATHURST waited upon the Duke ,of YORK, at his'Office. His Royal Highness the Prince of `VALES set off yesterday Morning on a visit to His MAJESTY, at Windsor. We have received New York Papers of a re-, cent date, by which it appears that Colonel B,URIt had thrown aside the mask, and boldly avowed his intention of overturning the, Government. He de clared to Governor EATON, of Washington, that' " if he could _gain over the Marine Corps, and Secure the Naval Commanders TRtJXTON, PEBBLES, DECATUR, and others, he would turn Congress neck and heels out of doors, assassinate the Presi. dent, seize on the - Treasury and the Navy, and de clare himself Prote&or of an energetic Government." Intanother place he is represented as being actually in arms : NEW YORK, JAN. 3 .—Captain BoNvEs, of the brig Susan and Betsej, -who arrived . this morning, left New Orleans on the 3d' inst. He informs, that it was reported and believed, that on the evening of the 2d an expresi had arrived to General .WILLIAM soN, frOrn Cumberland (Tennessee), stating that General ADAIR, with the advance guard of Bußß's troops, .consisting of .2000 men, passed that pla ce on the 20th December.;.--that on the morning of the 3d another express • arrived in three days frbin the Natchez, stating that General ADAIR was: close to the Natchez, and that BURR was folloWing with 6000 men. On the 23d of January a, Bill passed the Senate to suspend the Habeas Corpus Ad 'for three months, but it was thrown out in the HouXe of Representatives by a ma j or ity of 113 to 19. By•the last Mail ftom Li s b o n, we learn, th a t se veral changes are about to take place in the Ministry of that Country; in consequence of the death of the Prime Minister, Count VILLA VERDE : it IS gene rally supposed this place 'will be 'given to JosErnz, EMANUEL PINTO, Commander of the Order of ChriSt, and 'Ambassador from the Court of Portugal at Rome;—this Gentleman is an- immediate protegje of NAPOLEON; it is, of course, easy to guess by whose influence he is to obtain his elevatedsittiation, and What line of conduct he . will pursue. Yesterday a Court of Dire&ors was held.at the East India House, when the following Captains were sworn into the command 9f their .respe6tive Ships, viz:" Captain WM. AUGUSTUS MONTAGU, !Maley ; Captain CHARLES BARNARD, Wexford. • THE ARTS.—WILK E, the young Caledonian Art ist who distinguished himself so much last year, will make a still more conspicuous figure in the ensuing Exhibition. .He has panlted a Pidure for. Sir GEO. BEAUMONT, one of the most enlightened and liberal judges of the Art, which will place the name of .WIL- XcIE upon a level`with the best Masters in his pro vince. The subjed of the Picture to which we al lude is of the rustic kiq, and it is treated with admirable humour, imagination, and dexterity.— LOUTHERBOURGH, we understand, will come for ward in great strength with a 'work which he has painted for the Duke of GLOUCESTER ; and Sir FRANCIS BOURGEOIS has a beautiful work,executed by order of the same Prince, who is much esteemed for his taste as well'as for the most amiable charaEter in private life. , • • • - On Wednesday died, at Eastmoor, near W: field, in the i 03d year, of her age, Mrs. Susannah Robshaw. Till withih a short time .01 . her ueath she was able - to walk about, and to read, knit, and sew, without speatacles. She has had 9.3 children, three of them at a. birth, one on each of three stir c!,ssive days; the oldest and youngest of her childrep are still NAVAL NEWS. PORTSMOUTH, 3.—Arrived the Baneita Sloop of War, Cipt. PILILLIPS, .from the Downs,;,- an last Indianian, supposed to be the Woodford, with several Transports, %Vest Indiamen, and Coast-; . ers ; and last night the Devonshire, MiTaß,nr, for Bombay and the Harriburgh. Galliot Seneca, from Bilboa, for `London, detained by the Strenuous Gun vessel. Sailed the Resistance Frigate, Capt. ADAMS, for the North Se“. FALMOUTH, APRIL 1 .--Sailed a Fleet of Coasters for 'Wales,. and the Pelter Gun•brig with a Convoy for the Downs. SHEERNESS, APRIL 2.—Arrived the Blarcer sun brig; also the Providentia Galliot, ,ToimsoN, from Norway, for Queenborough, with lobsters ; the Speedwell-Brig, TINLEY, from Malta ; Fairy Sloop, LEE, from Smyrna ; and the Fingal Snow, DIC,KEN, from Gibraltar : the three last . are gone to Stan gate Creek to perform quarantine. APRIL 3.--Sailed this day His - Majesty's Ships Minotaur and Agamemnon for Y'armouth. Arrived this day His Majesty's Ships Railleur and Mosquito from Deal. The snow fell so thick the whole of yesterdayAaat not a Ship was seen, nor any Boats on shore. The Baltic Convoy remain abOnt twenty miles below. DEAL, APRIL 3.—Came down from Sheerness, and sailed to Portsmouth, the Leveret Sloop of War. Remain in the Downs His 'Majesty's Ships as per last. P. S. came down from' the River, and sailed throuigh the Downs, the Cheerful, King's Cutter, for Plymouth ; Orlando, JAoKso:g, for Tobago Autumn, -, for Bristol ; Sterling, LEE, for Ja maica, with several others, names unknown.; Amonst the new arrangements in Scotland, the following are confidently talked of: Lord Frederick Campbell retires from the .situation of Lord Clerk Register, with his salary of mot. per annum,. which is to he given to the Lord President, who quits the Bench. The Lord Justice-Clerk to be President ; and Ro.' bert Blair, Esq. formerly Solicitor-General, succeeds as justice-Clerk. Archibald Campbell, Esq. the President's son, to he Solicitor-General. M'Lean, Esq. Receiver_ General, vice Sir William Cunningham Mr. Buclian, of Kello, reinstated as Solicitor of Stamps; and Hugh War render replaced as Crown Agent;. these last appointments Were given to Messrs. Gibson and Inglis, Writers, in Edin burgh. Archibald Campbell Colquhoun, Esq. now Lord Advocate, is succeeded in the Sheriffdom of i evil by Mr. W. I'vPDonald. Dr. MITCHELL, a Gentleman esteemed for his knowledge and talents iri the Unitoa Status ol'tLmc— rica, and the Representative of New York, cju ceiving that his Country is not yet designated by a proper name, proposes that all the land ceded to the American Governtnent,by the Treaty of 1783. should hereafter be distinguished by the name of FR EEDON, implying a free gift, or any thing done freely, or the Landot Free Prwilegesand Doings. To give the Coun try a more musical and poetical sound, he suggests that it might be called FREDONIA, and the natives FREDO.. NIANS. But for more familiar and convenient use he observes that a native may be styled a FREDE, .which he considers as quite on a par with a Mede and a Swede. To further the .plan hp would introduce the adje&ive Fredish, as a Fredish Ship, a •Fr e d i ,h man; a Fredish manufa6ture, &c. &c. There is some ingenuity in this scheme ; but, pe r h aps, the attention of the American 'people at present would be more properly di'realy towards the establishment of their Own security against the arts of French Jacobins, and the support of their honour and inde pendence abroad, in order; to use the words of Dr. MITCHELL in reference to his new proposal, that their " common and beloved portion of the earth may thereby acquire a name, and be famous among, the nations.' Poomism.—On MOnday the 23d tilt. a long ex pe&ed pitched battle was fought at Coningsby, i Lincolnshire, between Mr. John Swan, of C,on ingiby Inn, and Mr. John Randsley, farmer, of the Haven Bank. Both the combatants are extreme ly powerful men, and the style of the contest did not disappoint those who had impatiently awaited a display of extraordinary muscular fOrce, exerted with more than common skill. After several rounds of hard fighting, which reduced both parties to such a condition that they could hardly be recognised by their fiiends, .vi&ory was declared on the side of Mr. Swan. The Seconds were, for the conqueror, -Mr. William Dalton ; for Mr. Randsley, Mr. Wil- Tam Bell. It was expected another battle or two would have succeeded the above; but the condition of the combatants at the close was not that which excited the envy of those who had whole 'skins, and no challenges were given. But that a cor respondent has taken the trouble to'furnislTt us with: a full account of the fight, we should not have 110-' ticed a circumstance which is certainly not creditable to two persons above the lowest station in life. The bare publication of it amounts to reproof. The con- flint, we are informed, arose from a dispute about the transfer of some landed property ! The following circumstance, no less curious than iuteresting to the safety of almost every family, oc curred at the house of rvlr% Whitworth, diaper, in Northampton, about two o'clock in the afternoon of Tuesday Whitworth perceiving a strong smell of fire, was induced to search into the cause of- it ; when, going into a bed-chamber, he found it proceeded from a crape handkerchief, on fire, hanging against the wall,,i,vith one end on the dress in;;-labie. No fire or candle having been in the rAom, it is supposed to have happened from the fe fle:tion of the gm's rays, drawn to a focus through: a iarge globular bottle, filled with water, whit. ic stood upon the toilet, a few inches from the crape handkerchief. The toilet was scurched and also the Paper FROM THE FRE.VCiI I'.4PERS. PARIS, I‘IARCH 27. SIXTY-SIXTH BULLETIN o, THE GRAND ARMY. " • OSTERODE, MARCH 14. The Grand Army remains in its.cantonments, where it takes repose. " Frequent skirmishes have taken place bel weer' the advanced posts of the two Armies. '"-Two RegiMents of Russian Cavalry came on the 12th inst. to harass the 69th Regiment of In fantry of the Line in its cantonments, at Lingnau, before Guttstadt. A battalion of this Regiment wok their aim from an ambush, attacked and repulsed the Enemy, who left 80 men on the field. Gen.GuyoT, who commands the ailv"anced post of Marshai SOULT, has on his side had several affairs of out-pasts with the enetny, in which he has had the advantage. " After the little battle of Wellenburgh, the Grand Duke of BERG expelled the .Cossacks from the• whole of the right bank of the Alle. In order to assure himself that the Enemy were not making some movement, he went to Wartenburgh, Sod '.burgh, Meusguth, and Bischoffsburgh. He had some engagements with the Enemy's cavalry, and took 100 Cossacks prisoners. The Russian Army appears to be concentrated on the side. of Bartenstein, on the Alle. The PrusSiart Division; on the side of Czentrburgh. ( The . Enemy's Army - have made a retrograde movement, and have approached nearer to Konigs.• burgh. " The whole of the trench' Army is in canton ments it is provisioned by the towns of Elbing and Brannsberg, and from the resources drawn from tilts Island of Nogat, which is extremely fertile. " Two bridges have been erected over the Vls, tula, one at Marienswerder, the other at IVlarien. burgh. Marshal LEI?EBVRE has completed the in. vestment of Pantzic. Gen. TEULIE has invested Colborgh. Each of these Garrisons have been driyea into these towns after Slight engagements. " A division - of 12,000 Bavarians, commanded by the Prince Royal of Bavaria, had crossed the Visl , tula at Warsaw, and is coming to join, the army." CONSTANTINOPLE, FEB. 20.-:.-Mr. CHARI.ESAR4 EUTHNOT, the. Minister of England, appeared at a Conference which had been assigned bythc,rata i . and declared at it as folliaws : " That the Sublime Porte, not haying ceased display a propensity and partiality in behalf of France, bad, particularly since the arrival in that Imperial Ae.sid : ence of General SEBASTIAN', the French Am bassador, changed her principles and system towards her. Allies. " That the said Ambassador having; a fey days, after his arrival, presented a Note, which contained certain.threats, this Note ought to hav,e been return.? ea, and its author immediately expelled froth tb4 Sublime Porte; boat ,that, on the contrary the Sublime Porte, giving. a favourable reception to the said Note, had signified to Russia that her Ships of Wor,must.no longer pass through the strait of . the Black Sea. That in the affair of the conArmation of the Vaivodes of Wallachia and Moldavia, an afThir which ► took place at the sequel of the preceding one, the Sublime Porte ought, at the very instant, to have acceued to it ; but tier tardy GUllt,Clit, which was not granted until three weeks after the formal demand made by the Rus.,ian Envoy, was a proof of the su perior influence acqured by the Court of France. That,' in. consequence, the Courts of England and Russia have settled and arranged between them selves, that the one should convey troops by land to the Mussulmao territory, whilst the other should send its fleet by sea to tne Capital of the Ottoinaa Empire. If the Sublime Porte. will irnmediate4i proceed to the renewal of her Alliance with the said COurts of England and 'Russia, on the ancient fuutt , ing, and if she will drive' the French Ambassador froin the finpori3l Residence, the war shall imme diately' cease; but should it be otherwise, t 4 rue. titre of friendship with England is inevitable. - •` That, .in order to execute the plan already agreed on, theC,')urt,of England, without reckoning the Squadron of Sliips it has at present stationed before the INland of Tenedos, was to send from ita harbours a complete Fleet, w►►ich. was to etlect a junction with the Russian one, in order tQ ent er to , gether the Strait of the Dardanelles. ", That if the Sublime Porte intended ,to give negative answer to the present proposal, the bassador won id cause all the English- Merchants who wire in the Ottoman States to return to their coy n- try, and he would r e mai n h ere to renew the some pr „p o sA, and again confer on the same object, when the said'combined naval force's should be united in this Imperial Residence." Each - of these proposals was answered in a most energetic manner by the REIS-EFFENDI: that the French Ambassador was so far t roil) having threatened the Sublime Porte, that since his arrival his Govern meat had been engaged in a war with Prussia; be sides which, the great inferiority of the tuaritim* forces of France was such as could not lead to any suspicion than that Power intended, in the slightest degree, to injure the Porte; that it was of her own accord, and with judicial proofs in hand of the crimes Of the two Hospodars, that the Sublime Porte bad determined to depose them; that the French Ambas sador had only learnt the deposition of these Princes at the same time ns the other inhabitants at Constan tinople ; that the . English Minister had dispensed with reminding him, that having made known, whilst these proceedings were going on, the interest which, the powerful King of Great Britain took with regard to the two Hospodars, the Porte had shrunk from the proposal of being, at the same time, at war with Russia and England ; that in consequence, SuitanSELlM, and all his Mitlisters,. put t i ng u p . with the greatest affront which could be offered to .an independent Power; re-established the Hospo- - dars, who but a few days since they had declared.re bels ; that the Sultan Still% by a sublimeetfort, had placed himself above tile feelings which have the most influence over men, in order to purchase the peace and happiness of his subjects at the price of the most painful sacrifices for his heart ; that he had received the Hospodars in his palace, and given anew the in vestiture of Wallachia and Moldavia to Princes justly recognized as criminals; that instead of the peace and . tranquillity he had hoped for, he had obtained only war; that his provinces had been invaded,' and thlitti in most insulting manifestoes, the Russian Generals -had tz'44,l the liberty to state uptivcs . for war thqif