The Sun. — London, England, 1807-04-21 00:00:00

NAVAL NEWS. HARWICH, APRIL lg.—The Husain Mail arrived this morning, by the Lady Napean Packet, Capt. G. DEANE, who had a remarkable quick passage— he left at. Husuill the 'Ackland Packet, Capt. HAM , The Packets with the outward-bound Gottenburgh and Husurn Mails of the 15th and 18th inst. are yet detained by a strong north -east-wind. The Viper Excise Cutter, Capt. MORGAN, has brought in two Scouggling"Cutters loaded with up- Wards of 900 half-anker casks of brandy and genera, which' are lodged in the Excise warehouse. Fleet of near 30 Sail of Ships in ballast, bound to the Northward, are now• detained by contrary Winds. The Piercer Gan-brig, with the Iris and ifrgus Cutters, arrived yesterday from a Cruize. FALMOUTH, Aram I B.—Arrived tile Superior Sloop of War, frohi Portsmouth, to wile & the Ves. sell lying here bound to the West Indies. Sailed the Princess Mary Packet, Capt. Pococii, with Mails for Halifax and New York. - -1)&11., APFUL io.— Arrived this morning the . 11 Iusquit6 Sloop of War, and immediately sailed again on a Cruize. • Sailed the Leda Frigate far Sheerness. .Arrived and sailed for the River the Teressa, WATIMS, from Chepstow. • PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 20.-:-NO arrivals or sailings tb.day. Went into the Harbour for repairs the Camtrian Frigate, Capt. BEitE:SFORD ; La Seine Frigate, Capt. .A.ry,./Ns ; and the Pelican Sloop, Capt. WARD. POOLE, APRIL Seagull Cutter has. tmught in a seizure of spirits, which are lodged in pis Majesty!s I 'V4reilOtlse at this Port. DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZE-MONEY. To the Officers and Company of His Majesty's Sloop CAn nett, for the Capture of the French Ship L'Arnitie, on the Ith day of July; 1803., a distribution of. tzeel. part of the net proceeds, on the •21st inst. at Angovel Office, Palmouth, and every Tuesday and Friday for three years. "Lo the Officer: and Crew of His Majesty's hired Armed Cutter Lord Nelson, for the Capture •f the, Experiment, Ctri the zyth July. 18.4. and of the Two Sisters, on the sth August tollowing..the nett proceeds, at No. 37, Southamp ton-street, Strand, on the zad inst. ; and for three years at th e same place. 'Co the Officers and Crew of His Majesty's Ship Tartar, for the Capture of La Clorinde, I.a Surveillante, La Vertu, Le C e rf, an d 1- a Decouverte, between the zoth November and 4t h December, 1801, in company with the Squadron under the orders of Captain John Loring, their respective proportions of Prize-money arising front the Ordnance tores of the said Captures, on the tst May, 1807, at No. t 3, Clement's-Inn; and every Monday and Friday for three years at the same place. Loss OP THE AJAX.—A letter from Gibraltar of the 30th ult. says—" On the 28th, the Packet from Sicily a nd Malta. arrived here, after a pas s age of fourte en days from the latter place. Lieutenant s "croa, late first Lieutenant of the djaz, is a Pas senger, on board her, on his way to England : he con the melancholy account of th e l oss o f th a t Mi ne ine ' a il), by fire, on the. 14th .of February, when lying at anchor near the Dardanelles. About nine o'clock at night the ship was discovered to be on tire in the Wing s , near the Surgeon ' s cabin, on breaking which down, the flam e s burst out with such violence that it was, found impossible . tg approach the spot.. The 4ljar was then lying to windward of ,t he 'whole Fleet, Who were all obliged to cut 'their cableS:to avoid her driving foul of them. All.the boats *ere 'itnmediate- JY, sent td her assistance, by 'whose exertions Cap tain BLAcKWOon and upwards of 450 of the crew were saved ; but the Captain of Marines, Surgeon, Purser, Master, two Lieutenants, and,several Mid— !hipmen,'-‘4lll about 2061 seamen, perished." Extra& of a.Private Letter from Lieutenant PrOC or, of his Majesty's late Ship Ajux,, :dated Gibral tar, March i.ao7 :--c‘ I believe the followin6y Qentlemen .are missing : Lieutenant Mitchell, and Lis BrOther, a Midshipman ; Lieutenant. Sibthorp ; 11. Donaldson, Master ; Captain Boyd (Marines); Owens, Surgeon ; , Dennet, Gunner.; . Renolds, surgeon's Assistant ; Messrs. .Fotheringhatn, Mas ter's Mate ; Saunders, Ditto ; Keen;Midshipman ; lieating Potter,. Manners, Lewes, Tighe, Danford, and Letters received by the Chisu!ie4, arrived at Liver-, Pool from Barbadoes, were delivered yesterday. The C4s2i , ick saled,on the 9th ult. in company with the kener' able, LErTAs, bound to Liverpool, and parted Iforn her ten days afterwards. . • Captures made. by the Enemy in the West Indies : . On the I s t , o f Yebruary, the Brig rolmateer, o f Cork,, captured 300 miles to windward of Barbad oes , °Y the French PriVateer Schooners L'Edair and L'Etoile, and arrived at St.Martin',. The Volunteer Was frOmLisbon, bound to a market. Feb. 1 I.—The Ship Sussex, oil 4 , guns, and '3 8 I nen, from London, bound to -Stginotni ,captured to windward, of . Surinam, ,by the French • Privateer. Schooner L'Eclair, of , 12 guns, and 40, men, after an anion of an hour. and a half; the ,o . .yc' had her .Chief Mate and 3 seamen killed ; Second Mate and i'searnen .Wounded. L'Eclair : Yad several men kill d and . wounded, her mainmast and boom pluch in tued.-7-She arrived at P o rt R o y a l, 'Ma rt i n i que, on 2 8th of Febuary, with the Sussti. F6 b:23:-'-The French Privateer Schooner Bequin detainee} an American Ship, name unknown, with ar O slave s, bound from Africa to Charlestown, and rived with her at St. Pieire's, Martinique, on the 2 d of March. Enemy's Vessels Captured: On the 20th of February, his Majesty's Ship re nus capt ure d the French Privateer Schooner L'Eloile, o f 5 guns, and 57 men, 250 . milMto windward of Ilarbadoes. She belonged to Gutdaloupe, was-last from Cayenne,- out six days, had made no captures. the 28th of February, his Majesty's T3rig.Per4 captured the French Privateer Sloop Chasseur, of one gun_and 40 men, tq windward of Antigua. She 4.ad heen-otit four days, and made . no captures. MR. OPIE. THE remains of this excellent Artist were yester day removed from his house, in.Berner's-street, an.l interred in the Vaults of St. Paul's Cathedral, near the grave of his late estimable relative in genius, Sir JOSHU A REYNOLDS. The funeral was attended by a numerous train of private friends- and brother artists, among whom were a considerable number of persons in both classes distinguished for high talents and,chata6ter. The following is the order of the Pro. cession which passed from the late residence of the. deceased, through Prince's-street, and down , the Haymarket to St. Paul's : Six Mutes, with black staves and hat-bandt. Nine Horsemen, two and two. " A funeral Banner of tstrich Feathers, borne by a Mute. Next thllowed the Hearse, bearing the Body, drawn by six horses, and crowned with ostrich feathers, supported right and left by "Marslial:.men, in deep mourning. Next followed three Mourning Coaches, each drawn by six horses, and in which Were the Earl of Carystort, Lord. De Dunstanville, Earl Stanhope, Sir 1. Leicester, Sir I. St. Auliin, Mr. West, Mr. W. Sinith (late M. c.), Mr. Whit bread, Mr. floppner, Mr. H. Thomson, M - r. Owen, Mr. Favill, and Mr. Shee. . Twenty-seven other Mourning Coaches, drawn each by two horses, were filled by eminent Artists, and friends of the deceased; and next followed the Carriages of Ms lligh ness the Duke of Gloucester, the Earl of Carysfort, Lord De Dunstanville, Earl Stanhope, Sir 1. Leicester, Sir 1. St. Aubitf, Mr. Byng, Mr. Whabread, Sir 1 . Earner, Sec.. &c. to the number of thirty. • The Procession having reached Temple bar gate, was. met by the City Marshals, who from thence preceded the funeral to St. Paul's. The body was there taken frOm the heai'se, and conveyed •to the choir, the Noblemen and Gentlemen from the three first coaches supporting the pall. • It must be highly gratifying to every liberal mind to witness the honour which .was paid to departed Genius on this - occasion, not only. as it is a due tri bute to the individual thus distinguished, but as it tends to excite emulation and promote moral ex cellence among those on whom nature may, bestow extraordinary powers, by inducing them to employ those powers - in such a manner as may entitle the possessors to the esteem as well as the admiration of mankind. . Mr. Ortz was charajterized in private life by that vigour of coneepti , )ll which is so remarkably cOnspietotis in his produdions—by a manly inge nuousness in conversation, with a strong tin&ure of original humour, and an uniform promptitude to ads of friendship and benevolence. He never displayed an overweening confidence in his own 'ta lents, and was . always ready to do justice to the Me rits of another. He died, we understand, intestate; and has left a considerable property, the meritorious produce of his own genius. It is,much to the ho nour. of his widow that. she has testified her regard for his memory by so liberal an expenditure on his funeral, as, by " The grac'd =pea that claimed him to the lest," she had an opportunity of spewing to the. World at large that his personal worth was upon a level with his great talents. We received yesterday morning accounts from Barbadoes, from the 17th of January to the 18th of last month. It was for some time supposed at Bar badoes, that an attack was meditating at Gualaloupe upon Dominica. Troops were accordingly embark ed at Barbadoes, and Sir A. COCIIitANE sailed with his Squadron • but the alatm was unfounded. The outward-bound West India Fleet arrived at Bar badoes on the 23d of February. On Thursday the Vulwark, of 74 guns, will be launched from his Majesty's Dock Thd, at Ports.. mouth. She is, without exception, the handsomest ship of her class in.the Royal Navy. • . • . Earl ST. VINCENT has sent in his resignation of the command of the Channel Fleet, but no success. sor to his Lordship has yet been appointed. (2,'apt. G. HARRIS is appointed to the Prospero Lieut. J. BROWNE is appointed Agent for Transports at Jamaica. There was no Court of Aldermen held to-day the LORD MAYOR, afte'r inspetaing the Returns o f the Mealweighers, ordered the price of Bread to. fall 2d: per peck, to t2ke place on Thursday. The Quartern Loaf wheaten will then bet lid.—house. hold t oid. A Russian Newspaper gives an account of the scandalous treatment which the Russian and Prussian prisoners have experienced from the French. Many of them did not receive a mouthful of bread for several days together, and were obliged to suffer every kind of insult and ill treattnent and,and,= in one instance, 22 RUSsians, and two PrUssiant, (who after experiencing the worst treatment, were drop ping under the fatigue of a tedious march) were shot by their French eseort, and it is probable that seve ral more would have shared the same fate had they not been 'providentially' liberated by a party of Cos-' sacks, by Whom the French escort of 100 Men was attacked and taken. The 'French being Mune& ately charged by their late prisoners with this aat of wagon cruelty, expeeted no less- than to' be saeri.:. need ; they prostrated themselves before the 1 3 1',115- sian Officers, whom they had pillaged, and begged them •to intercede for their lives ; but there was no need of any intercession,- as- . the Jeader of the Cossacks, whose condal formed striking con, • trait with that of the enemy, . ne,ver_ intended to take their lives, and regaled the whole party 'of fi lends and foes. The late Mr. Goopp,w, who was One .of the unfortunate vi(Airias in the wreck of the":lll4nche Frigate, was a Gentleman of great talents avd at tainments. He had contrived' a, System or Na val Signals which 'has received the approbation of the best judges, and will. probably be brought into general pradice. He was going to superin tend the execution of them when the melancholy event happened. As an Artist he possessed no ordinary skill, and his drawings are much ad mired.' His poetical effusions manifest humour and fancy. In private.life he was highly estimable, and those who knew him best are convinced' that arty perturbation he might shew in his last moments did not result from the terror to which it has been ascribed so much as from an anxiety for some - near relatives who were in the highest degree dear to him, and whom he knew would have to struggle without proteCtion through a world full of dangers and of troubles..., BIRTH.—At Exmouth, on the 18t1 instant, the Lady of-CoLiN MACKENZIE. &if:. of a Son. MONTE VIDEO. LXI /4 ACT OP A LETTUR }!t ))1 A OENTLgMANT AT muNTri VIDEO. " Monte Fel. 7, 1807. ." This letter will be conveyed to you by the same Frigate that takes home the dispatches, it is therefore probaWe you will see au account of the capture of this Settlement in the London Gazette as early as you will receive this : yet, having been an eyewitness to the whole of the. operations which led to that event, I shall give you some account of it. After several at -tempts, with Frigates, Gun-brigs,' and. Armed Transports (carrying 42. pounders) to make an im itiresSion on the town and citadel of St. Philips, with out effeet, on the t Bth ult. 500 infantry were landed, and 80 of the rifle corps. . " They were intmediately attacked by about 1.500 Spanish horse, and for the moment repulsed, with the loss of 4 men ;, but our bravefelloWs soon rallied, and giving three cheers, again advanced, when the rifle cOrps being detached, took the enemy 'in flank, and in about a quarter of an hour killed 400 of them. The remainder were so completely followed up, that. before the close' of' the day, not 400 of them remained alive. Smart skirmishing occurred every day till the morning of the 3d instant, when the citadel was taken possession of about six o'clock, and at eight - I had the pleasure to see the English Union hoisted there. We were then within a cable's length of gun-shot, and I got put on shore in one, of the men of war's boats, and arrived at the gates of the garrison long. before they had time to bury the dead. • " But before.' describe such a scene - of carnage as I never expeaed to witness in my journey through life, I shall acquaint you with the circumstances which 'preceded it. The troops had begun to de spair of taking the city and citadel .till the arrival of the reinforcements under General CnAo FU Rn, which Were daily'expeCted ; when the 40th 'regiment vo lunteered their services to storm the citadel; They were accepted of, and the 54th, 87th, and rifle 'corps, 'fi)llowed their example.. The cannonading from our batteries and sol diers, during the night of the 2,d, was' dreadful ; not a wink of sleep could I•get ; between two and three o'clock in the morning- the attack began . ; and our brave fellows, in marching up to the breach missed it, and were exposed tp a , he?r fire of six. guns, loaded with cannister and musket shot, for near halt' an'hour. There :the carnage was cireadful ; .but as soon as our troops discovt.i-eLI the breach, the Spa niards were obliged to give way ; a dreadful slaugh ter ensued, and ample vengeance • was taken on the foe. " The dead bodies of our dauntless countrymen were lying in heaps. Near the brtach, particularly, lay 30 out of one company of the 40th Regiment ; the 54th also suffered considerably. This dreadful havoc would not have, taken place had the attack been at day-light. • " The loss (4 . :he Spaniards is immense, and can not yet be calculated. I saw do soldiers and armed peasantry laying in one small avenue, or lane, in the city, killed ,by the bayonets 'of our soldiers, who for some time gave no quarter, being rendered furious by the brutality of the Spaniards, who hail exposed the heads of our men (who had untOrtutiately fallen into their hands) on the walls of the city,'shockingly mangled ; having cut off sheir ears, and sewed them to their hats for cockades, Sco. " \The Spaniards never thoUght the citadel could be stormed. Indeed, several Gentlemen who have been at Malta intirm me that the forts and garrison of St. Philip's are superior' to those of La Valette. The filmier has 115 pieces of cannon, and ammuni tion,. &c. fora five-year's siege. I hope the British Cabinet will never give it up, after so dear a pur chase ;, it is the key to a continent that will uhi-, mately benefit thousands ofEnglisiimen. There are already 400 adventurers, mostly Scotch, and proper ty to the amount of two _trillions sterling. " As yet nothing is settled with respe& to com merce, nor can any thing considerable be done till -the Spaniards return to the city, and we get posses sion of Buenos Ayres again. However, 'I am in great hopes, wliCt) things are a little settled and com fortable to all parties, we shall find it advantageous-- but the Admiral talks of laying,on a duty of 1,(.2 per cenL on all goods imported. , This will - be a great check -; as the competition here with British Manu 7 faaured goods exceed's everything yoU can imagine. " This a fine climat e , a nd now t h e height of summer. Fruits, vegetables, and every thing in great plenty. Beef, for the army and navy, is con. 4,raaed for at Id. per lb. and even at that rate the contraelors will, make fortunes; . as they can' pur chase the best oxen at two dollars a head. Excel belent horses m aY had for ti.vt, dollars each." , . • • Extra& of a Letter from: Holywell, Flintshire„ dated April i. A most melancholy accident hap pened here:yesterday ; twenty-seven men were kill - ed'in, a Coal Mine, owing to the fire-damp arising.— They were drawn up in the course of the day, but so mangled as scllrcely• to b known by their relations. The scene of distress that 'took place masters all de-: seription•—wives screaming oot for their dead bus bands, children for their fathers ; one poor woman, as'soOn as "She saw her husband, fell into a tit and expired immediately ; another, from the fright,.im tnediatelvfell into labour, and was delivered on the spot. The men were obliged to use all their strength in endeavouring to hinder them froth jump ing into the pit." JOIN COMBS, of Milton, in the parish of Lan livery, has a brood of goslings three of Whom have twelve legs among thew, viz. one gosling has three legs, another four, and a third five.—The 3-legged and the 5-legged ones are well, and likely to live ; but the 4-legged one is deed. Yesterday a match was trotted over Sunbury Common, bet %veva the noted old mare Plienoinena, and a black horse of Mr. ; the distance tea miles; which the tbritrtr, won in 33 minutes with (Treat case. "There is no certainty," cried a moralizing cha rader the other evening, "'in any unaccomplished pursuit of adventure."—" That I peremptorily de ny," replied a gentleman in company, " since it is absolutely certal4 that all the numbers drawn , on 'Thursday next, in the Lottery, will prove Prizes ; and no less a Prize, in very ,first-drawn number, than that of .(1001." OFFICIAL ACCOUNT OF THE EVENTS AT CONSTANTINOPLE. The Porte wished for Peace.—ln pursuance- of this disposition (perhaps carried too far) she con, sewed to the reinstatement of two of her dismissed Hospodars. She had not yielded to the threats of Aussia she knew that Russia was her implacable enemy but she yielded to the notes and the threats of England. England seemed satisfied, and every thing seemed to give reason to the Porte for ex peEting the continuation of a Peace she had so dearly purchased ; when all at once Mrcrmsox advanced into Moldavia, surrounded Choczitn, and took it in consevence of a stratagem after a few shot had been tired. IV/tchiELSON thereupon issued the Pro clidnttion marked No. I. and it was followed by the notification No: 11. on the,part of the Russian Mi nister; whom the Porte, had invited to Constanti nople. The Porte was deeply sensible of this accumula tion of insolence, treachery and hypocrisy. The Russian Army was not satisfied with attacking Mol davia, seizing upon ChoCzim; surrounding Bender, and marching towards. the Danube ; the Court of St. - Petersbur , ll disclosed its intentions' still farther by Commanding the'Turl'ish inhabitants of the pro vinces she had - attacked to sell their goods, and to quit the distria occupied by the artily. The pea sants were known to sell an o. for a (1411 tr; and to give up their . ,moyables :and other effects for still smaller considerations. Already,reinforced' by Es=, SEN, MICIfELSON . S army was also further strength ened .by the troops which were on their march to- wards - the Danube. The Ottotnan EMpire was in danger; but the French army appeared oli the Vistula, and took possession of Warsaw. Russia, thus threaten ed on her own frontiers, hastily recalled ESSEN and the troops. of the Don. ' Mlcum.soN colle(:ted his troops into BuCharest, but' , - he could not advance farther. The Turkish army formed, and their ad vanced guard was sufficient to keep the Russians in the neighbourhood of that.place. The English: Ambassador at first interfered—b e could make no answer to the -,,trong grotinds on kViiicti the Divan aCied. The Porte was ai tacked in its territories without any declaration of war ; the ads of her internal adminktration were criticised. in the Prociam t ition of the. Enemy's ,General ; not a single Diplomatic 1:(7 :...;:cried the hostile operations, anti no way s.• (,),, for a re conciliation. The" acted in the same spirit ; he saw the Lil,sian Minisier de part, and he remained tranquil. A feW wards he appeared at a Conference, on the 15 ill Jan. with the Sublime Porte. He handed in the Declata• tion (No. and then went on board a Frigate, ordered the cables to be cut, and disappeared; on the 29th he sent, from on board the Entignzion, the Note (No. IV.) to the Porte. It was plain at this crisis that it was intended to impose upon the Porte by-.. 1 sudden blow, for scarcely had the klibassador arriv ed at Tenedos, when the Squadron of Admiral Ducx.s WORTH appeared there also. ` After the Engl:sh Admiral had waited some time at Tenedos, be appeared with two three-deckers, three eighty gun ships, two seventy-fours, and 'a fb‘v bomb-vessels, before the Dardanelles. Favoured by 2:south wind, the enemy's squadron arrived at eio . l o'clock in the morning of the loth of February Ix fore the batteries of the two first towers ; the lattc , r began a 'brisk and well direcied fire, which . the English did not answer. When they arrived utf the heights of the two other forts, the batteries began to play upon the ships. The wind drove the ships forward, and the batteries of the forts were badly manned. Olt . the heights of Gallipoli, the English Squadron encountered a Turkish Ship of the Line and five Frigates. The crews of these Vessels were in the mosques. Resides, what could this division do against so superior a force ? The English attacked them, and were,once Whore guilty of a transgressiou Which is pecull'ar to this Nation, and with which they had already disgraced themselves by the burn ing of four Spanish Frigates. The English Admi ral, in short, burned the six Turkish Ships of War, and yet war was not declared ; negotiations w , :r‘.. stin going on, and the Minister of the Porte was still in London. Constantinople was in an uproar; in place of dil spondency being produced, all the inhabitants were inflamed: On the 20th, at five o'clock in the evening, the English Squadron appeared before the . Seraglio. No thing was prepared to receive . m ;the not a single point was.in a state of defence ; but every one ran to arms. The Grand Sultan was the first to pro iced to the positions which were thought most advisabie for the batteries 'to be constructed. Turkish Men, Women, Children, Armenians, Greeks, Ulemas, Sheiks, Dervises—all seized upon spades and shovels. Ten French Engineers, Artillery, and Artillery ()di cers, arrived from Dalmatia in the night time. In five days, 500 cannon and 100 mortars were planted on the batteries, and the Turkish Empi re was not only secured against the destrudion of a few houses and buildings, but also against the loss of its honour and dignity--tire (ft - 11y kind of property which Nations can never regain' when they ,have once lost them. in the. meantime the English Minister had the impudence to sen4l a boat on shore - to demand a truce, .The rage which filled all the inhabitants wai concealed, and the Kiaya Bey went on board of the Admiral's Ship, to hear the proposals that might be made to him. The following were those proposals : I. The Dardanelles to be given to the English. 4. fifteen Ships of War, fully equipped, to be taken to Malta. 3. The Porte to declare War against France, and send away the A mhassacior. 4. Russia to keep 'Moldavia and Wallachia ; Ismail and the other fortresses on the Danube to be delivered up to the Russians. . Such propo;al3 deserved IQ answer. The next day the Dragowan of the Porte was dispatched, but in vain. Either the acceptance of the conditions, or bombardment, was the language of the EngliTh miral. He did not thin!: that mortars were in readi ness, and that bombs would answer bombs. There was something sublul3e in the conte. nances of the people. The zeal they displayed in their labours, their obedience to the directions which were given them, and their lov,d exclarnation vOtion and atfachtnent to their Sovereign', - astiiiir4l(. , (t every stranger. On the 25th at 1i . ,-.tbriiarv. the rt rOt ell ro• it, Led