The Sun. — London, England, 1807-05-19 00:00:00

A report has been very corrcntly circulated, that 3 French Squadron lately made its ekape from Brest, full of troops. This report W 33 brought bye the Betsey trawl-boat, which left Morlaix last Friday, having been there as a Cartel. While the Betsey was there some Soldiers came on board, who informed the Master, that a Squadron of several Sail of the Line had escaped from B►'est, with troops on board. We are, however, not inclined to give any credit to this account, because such a number of Vessels could not, we think, have left Breit at this season of the year, without being seen by some of our Cruizers• No account of any Squadron having sailed from Brest has reached the Admiralty. Lord KtITEI has been ordered to strike his Flag, the Board of Admiralty having resolved to divide his extensive Command, which at present reaches from the Baltic to the hie of Wight, into three separate Commands, is heretofore. We mentioned yesterday a report, brought by an American Vessel from La Plata, of General BERES-. FORD having made his escape, and joined the Bri tish Army. The rumours of the surrender of Buenos Ayres are repeated. No accounts have reached Governriltut upon the subjea. It was last night stated that Letters bad been re ceived from the Continent, which mentioned a Battle having been fought on the ad inst. in which the Russians had been defeated. If such an event had Jaken place, we should have received the account in a wore authentic shape than by private letters. Lord PP.MBROKE set out for Vienna yesterday, and this day Lord GRANVILLE LEVESON GOWER takes bis.cleparture for St. Petersburgh. Mr. ROBERTSON, brother to Lord GRANTHAM, !efi town yesterday morning for the Continent, on a co - 0 mission. Pavia Is to Sir SIDNEY Sr yrn's quitting his com rrand in Sicily for Constantinople, he received the Crchr of St. Ferdinand from his . Siciliap Majesty. The following circumstance has lately occurred at Cork :—An` American Ship put into Cove_ on Saturday.se'lmight, dire& for Bourdeaux. A boat from the Pirglitia Frigate boarded her, and the c rew were examined. In the course of the exami ration three foreigners of creditable appearance 3.k ere discovered, who, upon examination, were c rtai:led to be Frenchmen, and immediately from France. Passes were found in : their possession, re cently' furnished by the FITDC,;" Government. 'As tio satisfa&ory information was obtained relative to their destination and views, they were sent on board 11,e Anisterdain Storeship, and a Messenger was dis patched to Government, acquainting them with the circumstance. A Letter from St. Kitts, dated April 3, says : %` Unless, we have a season of rain very soon, the lat ter part of our crop will fall very short indeed, but s ill not a bad one. Three Brigs and a stout Schooner were ready to sail from Guadaloupe the latter end of la month, on a cruize, and we imagine they tnust have sfled, as two Americans arrived here were boarded a ,-kv days ago in the latitude of Antigua, one by the Genera/ Zrnouf,- the other by the Duquesne (late the Neth , !/). A Schooner, of 14 guns,u as last week chased i Ito S. Martin's by a Frigate, having thrown four gut. overboard. By accounts lion, Trinidad, the Gulf swarms with Pickerrions, I believe chiefly . mann ..,(1 from the island itself. We have been Lial times lately amused with accounts of the ai d v:11 Martinique of an Enemy's Squadron. Ad- COCIIRANE is cmizing off there with nearly his whole force." . . AL NEWS. POITSMOI7TH, May 18. Arrived the Filo Schooner, Lieutenant BLED, fro►n a Cruise off Havre. Sailed The I/gayly Gun-vessel, Lieutenant WICK HAM ; and the Linnet Brig, Lieutenant TitEACY, on a Cruize. A three-decker has just hove in sight, i, , ut have , not yet made her Number. The light airs which prevailed yesterday would not permit the Cork Fleet to clear the Ide of Wight until this morning. SEVSN O'CLOCK, P. M.--The three-decker above alluded to, proves to be the Hibernia, of 120 guns, commanded by Capt. RICKETTS, from the Channel Fleet. FALMOUTH, MAY 16.—Arrived this day the Lord Hobart Packet, Capt. HAMILTON, with Mails from the Leeward Islands, 21 days passage : found lying at Barbadoes the Puke cf Marlborough Packet ; which Packet, previous to her arrival there, had a smart engagement, which lasted several hours, with La'ColOance French Privateer, of 14 guns, and 120 men, out three days from Guadaloupe, which made three attempts to board, in each of which she was gallantly beat off, with great loss of men; and Vessel much injured ; so much so, that she immedi ately made for Guadaloupe to repair, where she had arrived. The Packet, I am sorry to say, had 7 wounded, in cluding Captain JAMES, Master's-Mate, and 2 Sea men slightly, and 2 men badly, one having both his arms broke, and another his thigh. The Packet only carried 6 guns and 30 men. She had since sailed for Jamaica. The IPiLdsor Castle Packet had also arrived at Barbadoes.' Passengers per Lord Ho bart :—Mr. MoN•rEFitzRE, Mr. DON ELLY, Mr. YATES. Sailed the Humber Armed Ship, with a Fleet of Coasters under convoy, for the Downs. The outward-304.114d Mediterranean Convoy, with the Pa( kets for Jamaica, America, Lisbon, and Me diterranean, will sail the tirit favourable wind. SHEERNESS, MAY 18.—Sailed the Surleti Cutter, Lieut. P. CKAWYORD. The following Extra& of a, Letter from an Officer on board the Active Frigate, contains some interest ing circumstances of the proceedings at the Darda nelles : " /Wive, at Anchor, di Lemnos, March 6. 1807. •' We only lay three days at Malta, two of which we were under qUarantine ; from Malta to Lemnos we had eight days paSsage. On the t4th, at .nine p. in. the 4,ax, 74, was discovered to be on fire-432 men were saved out of 678. The flames played over our mast-heads ; we cut our cables, and what is singular, this very serious accident hap pened direffly opposite to Ajax's Tomb. She drifted on the island of Lemnos, and blew up at five o'clock next morning. As yet the dreadful catas trophe is not satisfactorily accounted for how sh e took fire. " On the 19th we proceeded for the Dardanelles, passed six powerful batteries, attacked a Turkkh Squadron ; burned one 64, six Frigates, two Cor vettes, a Brig, and a Gun-boat; had not a man hurt. We engaged two Frigates, and gave the Line-of-battle Ship two broadsides, our shot enfilad ing her fore and aft; our damages were trifling, only in our rigging. The rest of our Fleet continued their course fir Constantinople, leaving us to de stroy a fort, which service we-perfortned on the 2 l st, having only two men wounded. " That night we learned from a Greek boat, that the forts and town were perfealy shattered from the effe6ls of our cannon, and the streets covered with men, women and children, killed and wounded, in such , numbers, that it was impos,ible to pass or re pass without walking on the killed and maimed. In the frigate that we'b%rned, there were no less than two hundred killed and wounded, and the decks so strewed with heads and limbs' in different places, that our people could not walk or stand among the blood on deck ; theii scuppers issuing abundantly the blood of the s hi n . You may pe full credit to this short sketch, as it is truth. At Constantinople the Turks would not agree to the. terms proposed by us ; which understand were to make peace with Russia, and deliver their shipping up to us - at any of the Islands below the Dardanelles. They hate 17 Sail of the Line, and thirty Fire-ships, which they intended sending among our Fleet the night they left Constan tinople this information we received by . a Greek. During the time our Fleet lay opposite to Con stantinople, the Turks threw up a mud battery, on which they mounted 150 guns. Our Heerlen their anchorage off the City, and on the 9d of March ar rived and anchored in the Bay we lay in. The next .morning we got under weigh and - saluted the batte ries, to see whether they were inclined to come to terms with us. They returned the salute with ball, which example we followed, and came through the Dardanelles, after sustaining a very heavy fire from all the batteries. ." During our passage in this intricate navigation, we did not leave a house standing; and very few breast-works in the Forts awl Castles that were not levelled. We have received three large stone shot ; one of which we weighed, and found it to be five hundred and sixty-four pounds weight. One stone shot came in on the lower deck, close - for ward—another, a little abaft that, in the galley,' and wounded three men ; and the other on the -fore castle, which wounded the boatswain and four men. Three other stones struck us—one lodged in the Midshipman's birth, one in-the. Captain's Steward's birth, and the other .in•the counter ; all our wound ed are likely to do well. The Windsor Castle ha, received Cstone shot in her main-mast that weighs 853 lbs. and every Ship has received either more nr less : one of our Bomb-vessels had her. - .m.,rtar bursted, which vrouude‘l,eight men—all likely•toZ) - • _NEU/ PA LL 'L T. Zvi EMBERb ELEC rEP. COCKERMOUTH—John Lowther, Esq. ; James Gra ham, Esq. CAMELFOrtD—Lord Henry - Petty; Robert Adair, Esq. BosstsNY,—Lord Rundlesham i James Ste , .vlirt Wortley, Esq. HEicryoul) COUNTY—Sir John Seabright ; Hon. Brand. DUBLIN CITY-..-Right Hon. Henry Grattan ; Ro bert Shaw, Esq. DUBLIN UNIVERSITY—J. Lyster Foster, Esq. NEwria—Hon. Lieut.-Gen. Needhan). BEDFORDSITIRE.—CIose of the Poll. Pym, Esq. - - - 1003 Gen. Fitzpatrick - 1034. (Moro, Esq. - - 1015 SUSSEX—State of the Poll. Wyndham, Esq. - :634 Sergison, Esq. - - 1461 Fuller, Esq. - 1426 LANCASTER.—State of the Poll sth day. Dent, Esq. - 1344 Patten, Esq. , - 1343 Col. Cawthorne - - 880 Doveton, Esq. - - 874 WSSTMINSTER ELECTION..—State of this day's Poll at one o'clock— Sir F. Burdett • - 339 Lord Cochrane - - - 5,'43 Mr. Elliot - - 204 Mr. Sheridan - • - 114 WESTMINSTER ELECNON. TENTH DAY. At the dose of the Poll this day the numbers were— For Sir F. BURDETT Lord COCHRANE.. . _ - -215 S Nit% ELLIOT Mr. SHERIDAN • • • • 659 Mr. SHERIDAN came forward upon the railing be fore the Hustings, and addressed the multitude thus :—" Gentlemen, Having before confessed that I am not now so nimble (not possessing the sea-legs of the Noble Lord) as I was some years ago, though I trust I am as thive in my mind and spirit as I ever was, this is the first time I have ventured forward on this perch—but I do it with a perfed confidence, because I am sure that if I were to fall backwards or forwards, I shall be among my friends.—Gentle men, it has been a rule with me never to reply, or to make any remark or comment on the speeches of those who have followed me and addressed you from these Hustings. I have olherved this rule out of respec't to you, because sure I am that if I were to take up all the circumstances which may be answer ed, I should Like up too much of your time, which might be otherwise and much better employed. But, Gentlemen, in stating toyou.the rule by which my condu& on these Hustings has been guided, I must at the same time say, that my determination on that subject was, on Saturday last, put to a severe trial ; and if II ever could have been tempted to de part from that rule it would have been On that occa sion, when I heqd the revered memory of CIVALS4 JAMES Fox mentioned with disresped on these Hurting..- 7 Gentletnen, I give the Noble Lord full and implicit credit for the explanation which he made afterwards, that he did not mean any per sonal retlealion on the memory of that illustrious man." , --- Lord CCICHILAICE....—." I did -not, upon my honour Mr. SHERMAN.---." Hear me patiently. Oa that subje& I say there are feelings which you have ex pressed in a manner whicn did you honour, and in which I participated when an imputation was east upon the conclu6t of a near relaunu of the Noble Lord, you did yourst-lves honour on that occasion ; but you will allow me to say, ti►ere are other feel ings which arc also strongly implanted in the human .hearti as well as those of relationship—l mean the feelincrs which arise from a recolleetion of sacred friendship. There are many of us who knew Mr. Fox, and who have a right, as brothers, to claim a reverence to his memory; and as to the youn g er part of the audience I have bow the honour of ad diessing, 'they are entitled to feel for his memory a filial respect. Mr. Sheridan then pronounced a very eloquent eulogium upon the memory of Mr. Fox, and defended his friends from the charges which the Noble Lord (Cdchrane) had made upon them. I have (sa;d Mr. Sheridan) been seven and twenty years in Parliament, and but one in office, and the constant adherent of Mr.. Fox, among many others; not many of us very rich certainly—none of us rich by the spoils of our country, fur we were all our life in the chilly damp regions of Opposition, instead of the sun-shine of Court favour ; but we all foi loWed Mr. Fox in all - his - pOlitical principles, and would have followed him in his poverty, if you will, rather than do any thing dishonourable to come into power; and therefore I feel myself bound to say, that as the Noble Lord confews he has been a long time out of this country, he is not well ac quainted with the characters of the friends of Mr. Fox, or he would not have said any thing against them. As for myself, when I descend into my grave, I desire no other posthumous fame than this short epitaph upon my tomb :--- « Here lies the friend of Charles Fox."--"-Gteat applause. That's noble. But. now give the Brewer -a wipe.— Mr. Sheridan did not wish to be disobedient to the cal) of any one of those whom he was addressing, but he must defer the pleasure of obeying until to morrow, he was now almost exhausted. He then stated his motives for coming forward, and the reason of his being so late in doing so, as he had done be tore. His object was, that those should be returned on whom fell the genuine choice of the people of Westminster. He should consult his Committee to-night as to the promises which had been made this day by the Electors to vote fir him, and if their report did not warrant it, he should not continue the contest ; but if it did, he should stand a . Candidate while there was one man willing to . vote for him ; and Ithould he be returned, then the Electors of II- ehester had signified it as their intention to return his son for that One, and he was actuated by the same p;inciples st, fiti,e Bt:t h he should have the honour, or not, of being el '(..tcci for the City of Westininstor, it should be the glory of his life to possess individually and colleCtively the conhdence, and continue to receive the commands of the Eleiitors of Westminster." Lord CocunANE—(Mach. uproar)--I am pleased' with the marks of disapprobation which you have just now shown to me, because an expression dropt from we on Saturday—(alizzding to the Brush of the ro.r)—which ought not to have fallen from me — you felt with the same disapprobation as you did on another occasion, when en illiberal expression was made use of against tne—your feelings in both in stances did you. honour. The expression I made use of respelling Mr. Fox was, in every point of view, improper, and unfit for the occasion. I felt most sincerely, after I made use of that expression, more than I can now express to you. All I meant was, that although Mr. Fox himself was a truly great man, yet that many of his followers were of a different stamp from him. Many of them took places for which they did no duty to their Country. I trust you will believe'me when I declare, as I have often done from these Hustings, that I have not, and that, I never will, authorise any one to canvass for me conjointly with any other Candi date. I have not, nor will I ever coalesce with any other Candidate; it is a pra&ice I do not like. Here big Lordship explained the reason why lie went to some - Ministers of Government ; which was, to learn whe ther Government meant to, and to beg it would not, interfere In this Eledion as it had done in the last, but that they would leave the Eleaors to their free choice ; and he said it was impassible for the Eledors to be fairly represented if Government interfered.--It had been stated that there was no interference at the last Eleetion for Westminster on the part of Govern ment ; now he had got a list of those who sub scribed to that Eledion, as it was exhit:ited before the Committee upon Mr. Paull's Petition. He then read as follows : Lord Grenville - - iota Lord Sichnouth - - too LOrd Spencer - . - too Lord Henry Petty - . _ too General Fitzpatrick - Mr. T. Grenville . - Lord Holland - - - - too Lord St. Vincent - - - too An lilustriclus Prince - - - so, The Duke of Devonshire - - lop The Duke of Argyle - - - too And we think Ito said the Duke of Queensbery toeo And.another Noble Lord, whose name we did not hear - too And he said he had not heard any answer to the statement he made of the sale of Ministerial Bo roughs to support certain popular Ele6tions. It had been affirmed, that he was wrong in saying that the Naval Commander in Chief had the emolu ments from the command of the Channel Fleet while-he resided in London; he meant not at this moment, but three weeks ago ; that wax another mis-statement ; and he should say no more upop that so bjea. He should enter into some other par , - ticulars hereafter; but for the present he entreated the Ekelors to continue their exertions in his favour. Mr. JANNINGS spoke in support of the Ele6torsa whose cause was now triumphing in the vast mai(/' city for Sir Francis Burdett; but they were not - to relax, but continue to exert themselves in a muss so noble, in order to give a tone to the popular Elec' Lions of the kingdom.—•to set a glorious example of the energy of Freedom. He considered Mr. Elilot as entirely unfit to represent Freemen, because ti,e had declared that he would support every NlinistO wbo had a majority in the House of Commons. Mr. ELLIOT could not obtain a hearing. Mr. GIESONS considered Lord Cochrane as ape' litical impostor. He complained of being threaten' ed in thirty anonymous letters, that if ho. appear on the Hustings he should be shot. The tenor whirh was, " G— d— you, Gibbons, if you dare to appear again on the Hustings, you shall be shot through the head." Mr. THOMAS SHERIDAN said, he was not accuv tomed to speak in public; but he trusted dint what he was going to say would be to the purpose. The! had one upright man who was now cteirly the ob-' jet of their choice. They had another upright (WO whom he submitted should also be the obj e dt o f their choice. Let but too of themselves enter int' ) a Resolution, and bring up to-morrow ten each/ and then, said he, my tither will be with that 1 4" right man—at the head of the poll. MIDDLESEX ELECTION: FIRST DAY, MONDAY, MAY, 18. All the avenues to Brentford were crowded at early hour this morning. The friends of the Cal" didateS proceeded in coaches from their respettive houses and committee-rooms, to the Hustings, Al tended by bands of music, and bearing flags within' scriptions expressive of their attachment to the Ca didate whose cause they espoused, as—Byng and Iv dependence—Mellish and Commerce—Sir Christopher Baynes and the Protestant Intorest. When' they reached Kew Bridge, the ditfetent parties fell into the rear of each other, and formed a sort of regAll 3r procession. From an early hour the hustings well surrounded by a great multitude, who anxiolls i f waited for the arrival Of the Sheriffs and Candidate s ; The first Candidate, who arrived at th e place Election was Mr. Byng. He came - in an elegal new chariot, drawn by four beautiful greys, NO., two out-riders and two grooms behind. His eclu t h page was followed by several hired carri a g e s, . 6 his friends and a number of voters. Th e r e ar brought up by a numerous concourse of the ilwr e t e lity, wearing his Election colours : viz. light b' e and yellow "ribboiti. This party arrived at t.il`l b hustings rather before•nine o'clock. Mr. Meth s . arrived in about half an hour aft e r, and his prot e l : , ,/ sion was upon the whol e more s tately. The W"r' Candidate's own coach, drawn by four hor', 4 , e ; made a very handsome appearance. This cva 3 I r t.o mediately billowed by Sir William Curtis's ial 3 u re and four. Two handsome Coaches of their ro" particular friends followed. Thirteen hired CO& les ' tilled with their supporters, made up he ca valcAs i the Election favours of INlelli4l were unir'l' oNo displayed by his party. Sh ort ly a tt e r, th e iies , Sheriff's of Middlesex, namely Sir Jonathan ,t 4 ip and Sir James Bran3comb, Knights, apre 3 r7 to their state equipages, and proceeded forth The the hustings for the purposes of the EleCtion• co o' new Candidate, Sir Christopher Bayneg; This Day was published, In One Vat. Svo. pace gs. in boards, Ir,setibed to the Most Noblc wog Duke of Bedford, !P.M.? . Lnrd Lieutenant I Wand, &c. &c.) DAROCHIAL DIVINITY; or, SERMONS on -I L arious Subjects. By CHARLL•S ABI3O r, D.D. F.L.S. Z:naplain to his Grace, Vicar of Oakley and Golciington, in !ivilortlsnite, and laic fellow of New College, Oxford. ed fur Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, Paternos. ter-row and I. White, Elect-street. OSSIAN'S POEMS. Genuine Editions, I n various - Slam This Day. were published, New Editions of THE POEMS of OSSIAN. Translated by A S MACPHERSON, Esq. To which are pre. f "red, 'Dissertations on the lEra and Poems.of Ossian. Elegantly printed by Bensley, in Two Vols. Bvo. price Os. in .bc.arcis • or on Royal Paper, price 11. ins. in boards. gcPtions, in Two Pocket Volumes, price 6s. in file paper, price Bs. I'ri:Elea :Ur Cadell and Davies; R. Faulder and Son ; y ari4 Sf.,n : 1. Walker; Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe ; . Lea; Uatonand Harvey ; J. Nunn; Cut hell and Martin; .;Catcherd and Letterman ; Longman, Hurst, Rees, and **)tine ; j. Booker; B. Crosby ; Black, Farry, and Kings bury ; R. Scholey ; and J. A aperne. This 'day were f,ublisheil, In Tvvo Volumes, p6c.,! !oi. in boards, T d ETTERS ADDRESSED to the I)AUGHTER ora NOBLENIAN, on the F.ORMATION of RELI GIOUS and Nlt►R:\t, PRINCIPLE By ELIZABETH HA MILTON. Author of " Letters on the E lernentary Principles of Edit. cation," &C. Printed for T. Cadel l and W, 0. vies, Strand. " The satisiadion which we receivLd front Miss 'Tamil ton's Letters on Education, as well as from her Memoirs of Agrippina, was such, that we opened the volumes before us with expedations of amusement and instru'_':tion, which, t mouNh high indeed, 11;‘ve not been disappointed. We are cimvinccd that no young lady in the kingitom, nor old Ludy ei:her, will read them with nue attentioli, and earnestly en d ..-ivOur to observe the precepts which their author incul e::es, without becoming a wiser and better Christian."— ti.it..Crd. April, tBO7. AXLIVED--I 2 Waterford. Duz—z Gottenburgii, i LIS::'01), I Waterford. THE S UN. SOLLM QUIS DICER& FALSUM. A UDE4T? L 0 111 D ON, TUESDAY, MAY 19, ISO 7.