The Sun. — London, England, 1802-01-20 00:00:00

~. Gentleman called on . Ministers to make 0 . 4 t disclosure now—tit:it was to say, he called u ! - °n Ministers to disclose that, up,:n which, in its . 1 present state; it was their duty to be silent, and winch it was the real interest of the Country should 1101 he now disclosed. That was the pradical inference to be drawn from the speech of the Learn ed Gentleman.—ln a word, the drift plainly was, to prevent the success of the present Negotiation for a Definitive Treaty of Peace. So much for the speech, and the object of the speech, of the Learned Gentleman who spoke last. How had the other Honourable Gentleman who preceded him, aimed in this case ? • He had spoken in a man ner which he must take leave to say, was not decent in a case like this; for there was a decency Of lan guage, and a decorum of manner to be observed on such important occasions, which might be dispensed with in cases of inferior magnitude and solemnity. To impute fraudulent pradices, and base artifice to a Power with which we were treating for perma nent Tranquillity, was not the way to condua with propriety, the Proceedings of such 'a place as the House of Commons : the general spirit of the House of Commons vas too liberal to approve of this sort of insinuation, and its condud had been more tole rant until the present moment. He humbly submitted to the House, that the whole of this condud, which was professed not to be an interruption of the work of Peace, could have no other rational object (and he could not impute to such persons as the Learned and 'Hon. Members who had spoken on the other aide, any irrational objea) than to interrupt the progress of the present depending Treaty of Peace, which (speaking the language of these Gentlemen) wasio be feared, that is to be feared by them, as being too near a conclusion. The motives of the lion. and Leal-fled Gentleinan who spoke last were rational, his objefts were rational, and there could be no other (for no other was rational as applicable to his speech) than that of throwing as much ob strut:lion as he was able, in the way of a Negotia riot' set on foot under the sandion of the House of Comrrions, and the success of Which was wished for by almoSt the total mass of the inhabitants of this Country. Such a motive he apprehe n ded, w ou ld tcit receive th e assent of that House. Me. /ONES said, he was extremely happy to hear the Learned Gentleman who spoke last. He believed he spoke the language of the great ma. jority'rif th e P eop l e o f this-Coun - try. dent that they had the He was con. eace most sanguine hopes of and there wa s .not one man who more sin. eetely wished for it ..than himself. But he could 'not approve of our haviii sufferecLthis great Ar mament to sail before- the Definitive Treaty was signed. T o c h ew, howeyer, what he thought of the great work of Peace, he said, he regarded this, in en_nyatison with P eace i tself as a speck in the Sun. -nits Armament had been already produElive of some e to this. Country : , but it had been removed, than k GA by that vigilance and ability which had dis tinguished the great Officer who Was now at the be of the Admiralty: He should, however, not stave said any thing this day, but from some wards which f e ll. f rom a N o b le L or d oppos i te to hi m .— 411 , e Noble L or d sa id that the Fleet sailed with , the kn o wl e d ge o f His Majesty's Ministers ; but the Noble Lord stated what he did not think he :as Prepared to prove. He sa id, t hi s su b jet o f h o e sai lin g ailing of the Fleet would give a t one , an d a relytone, and a v i gour , to t h e N o bl e L or d w h o p r esented His MUTAIMIC. MAJESTY at Amiens. 3o L No, No," came from the other side, and Mt. b , _ RS proceeded . ]--He said, he understood the No le Lord to say, that Lord COaNWALLIS, whose tharaft er w njed atiyas'to , o well known throughout the world hi panegyric now, would be able to hold &ler Treaty. language than at the beginning ,of the in the N ow he cou ld not help o b serv i ng, t h a n language of common sense, the French ap . _ geared to h.. their hand, treatingand with us with . the sword in France of the theyWestw-ttnted St. Domingo to be the wished Indies.he Under this impression, ow /t d h e , with - the Learned Gentleman, for some information ; nor did he lie these shore Adjournments from.time to to mode of hold ing Petty Sessions. , He thought it would be better at once for the Mibitier:to inake sonic communica_ tion to the Housed IQ , . enable it to come to some g ue ss at the state - of , ‘t i h a in d - g n s, and call _for a liberal confidence, which. _tit_h o doubt, Administration, would h ave . That he thought would be bette r t h an, the p resent state of anxiety in which the Public were placed, for there were rumours_ cf the most disa greable kind=--rumours of Wars. One other c i r : curnstlince he c ou ld not pass over : and that wcas, the txpence whi c h t hi s Country must have to defray, If w e were to keep up a Fleet equal to that which France had sent ; if. there was a Fleet from Brest and a Fleet from Toulon, there must be also a Fleet from Portsmouth and another from Plymouth ; and if that should be the case, h e s h ould not be an admi rer even of . wha t was called Peace and Plenty; for what bad we now / P eace surrounded by a Warlike F orce , and P Fle r lenty without Bread ? Captaii: NlARKlidlif said . . tat on of the saili ng o f the et, winch h the subjecl had to this evenin t been alluded g, he Learned Gentleman appeared. to be extremely aiarnied for the fate of Jamaica, because the 'French For ce m i ght come from Cuba and at t.• I.- • to tac.,tikit pace before o ur Fleet could arrive Proteet it.' The Leariied Gentleman's solicitude old be reli eve d , on recolleEting t h at Jamaica was to * tae v4indward of the Ilavinnah, and it would take several weeks sail to come to Jamaica. TY RikflYrr Said,. that the coounercial Pit 'of the Public talltht. to have no apprehension batever, supposing' ,any doubt to exist as to the lineation of parr,* for an* part of the West In. dies ; f or no bl ow enuhrbe s t ruc k before the British Fleet would conic up. Mr. Et.t.tur explained what he had said on that aiabj e tt. . The Question was pat on the Amendment of Ooetor LAW RENC E, and negatived; and then the original Motion was put, and carried without a division. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER then 11 "°ved, That there be laid before the House an Ac count, sheaving how the Money given for the Ser. ;ice of I So t had been disposed of, distinguishing the different parts under their sever a l heads, 84c.— °rdereti, Also, aft Account of the distribution of Two Millions and a Half, granted to His MAJESTY for the service of the Army for . rBoi, made by the Paymaster-General of his Majesty's Forces : An Account of the distribution of Two Mil.; lions, granted by an AEI of-last Session of Par liament, for the uses and purposes therein mentioned ; An Estimate of the Debt on His Majesty's Na vy, on the 3ist of Dec. 1 801 : An Account of the Bounty paid on Corn, 10.7.a1, Flour, and Rice, imported into Great Britain, in pursuance of several AEts of Parliament of the 4. Ist of His present Majesty, up:to . the sth of Jan. 1802. —Ordered. The CHANCELLOR of .the EXCHEQUER then moved, That the Order of the Day for the House to resolve itself to-morrow into a Committee of the whole House, to consider further of a Supply grant ed to His MAJESTY, be now read; which being done, he moved, That it be discharged ; which be ing ordered, he moved, That the House do, on Wednesday the 3d day of February next, resolve itself into the said Committee.—Ordered. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER then gave notice, That on Wednesday the 3d of February, in a Committee of Supply, he should move for the ad vance of an additional sum of money for the Extra ordinaries of the Army. The Committee' of Ways and Means was also de. ferred until Wednesday the 3d of February. About a quarter after five, the House adjourned to Tuesday the zd of February next. THE SUN. SOLIM QUIII DICSIII !ALBUM AUDZAT LONDON, JANUARY 20, 1802. Ws have the pleasure of announcing the safe ar rival in the Downs of the long-expeCied Homeward bound East India Ships, chiefly laden with Rice. Several more of the West India Fleet have like wise arrived, and the remainder were hourly ex petted. Yesterday the two Houses of Parliament met pursuant to adjournment. The Proceedings in the House of Commons were highly . interesting. There is perhaps nothing of more consequence, both to the Government and the Country at large, than that what passes in the Senate, while accounts are permitted to be given of what passes there, should be reported with as much ability as possible, bat at all events with a stria regard to a ccuracy— and4,that cannot be attained, at least it is highly in. dispensible ,that no studied misretresenttztion should be foisted upon the Public, because that leads at once to embarrassment on one side, and deception on the other. It has been the study, and we believe we may confidently state it as the exclusive boast of THIS PAPER, that the Parliamentary Reports have been given accurately, as well as fully, and we have now a testimony of our superiority in that respea, which we are called upon from principles of duty to state. On Thursday last it was that the Houses of Parlia ment met pursuant to their former adjournment. — Upon that occasion the CHANCELLOR of the Ex - cn - EQuER made a short Speech of great delicacy an d infinite propriety, in-which he certainly made no pledge of any kind, but which was so much mis represented by some of the Morning Papers of next day, that the portion of the. Peblic who have the misfortune of reading those Papers; - were completely misled; and he found himself lasi night under the necessity of adverting to the expeaation excited amongst some ill-informed persons by these mis representations—The candour and temper which he displayed, cannot fail to strengthen, it is impossible it should raise, his charaaer in those respets with the Nation at large. Adverting to this Subject, he last night said, " that it " was with considerable surprize he had heard, " that in some quarters, an expeitation was enter " tained, that he should that day have some parti " cular communication to make to the House. How " such an idea could have arisen, he did not know - 1 4 —certainly, it was not justified i y any thing 11 that had ever fallen from him." From the tenor of this speech, there can be no doubt but that our statements respeling the cause of the short Adjournments of Parliament have been uniformly t orreft—and that was the Mu tiny which took place in Bantry Bay on board the Fleet; the extent and consequences of which it was perhaps impossible accurately to ascertain till the close of the Trials at Portsmouth.— That this was the only reason for keeping Par liament near at hand seams certain from the Mini ster's declaration last night " that the causes for the frequent Adjournments were now completely done away." It was not a subject that could be mentioned in the Supreme Council ,of the State without demanding their interferenue—and it was an occasion on which, till its extent was fully known, it was a prudent and wise preca.ution in the Mi nister to keep it in his power toilave immediate recourse to the advice and energy of the Legislature. It seems unnecessary to enlarge upon his conduct on this occasion—lt has been equally marked by licacy and . wisdOm, and' we have no 'doubt thit't the countryw ill feel most sensibly the motives by which he has been influenced, and are ready to pay him the tribute of theit gratitude and anprobation. Another subject was last night touched upon in the House of Commonsi on which we have repeat edly given our opinion, and which we are equally happy and proud to have sandioned• by the autho rity of the Secretary of State for'For inn Affairs— and this is the sailing of the Frencha'ini t inent for St. Domingo. Lord HAWK 64UIVA7;• 11dj " that " this was a subjea of peculiar dericaCy, and one " upon which he could not be expcded fully to ex " plain himself; but he thOught himself at liberty " to state, that that fleet did not sail without a " previous coMmunication being made to the Govern " ment of this country." This is what we have uniformly asserted ; and our readers will now be able to see, that we have not made our assertions without some information upon the subjed. It is not our practice to boast ; but, surely, when we alone present a true light to the Public on points of such importance, we may be allowed to indulge the consciousness of such decided superiority. YESTERDAY morning the five Mutineers of the Tetneraire, who were condemned by the Sentence of the last Court-Martial held on board the Gladiator, were executed at Spithead ; three on board the juste, and two on board the Centaur.—We ear nestly pray that these unfortunate men may be the last to suffer for the crime of Mutiny, and that the charnaer of our Navy may remain unstained by such ,foul offence to all futurity ! These unfortunate men were, Allen, Taylor, Dixon, Riley, anti Simmonds. • Five Ha mbttrgh Mails now due. This morning arrived a Mail from Lisbon. Yesterday morning THEIR MAJESTIES and the Pit NC ESSIS took an excursion to Kew .Palace. Captain GoocH waspresented to HER MAJESTY on Monday at St. James's, by Sir T.•Titourißructi, and Col. STEWART by Lord CASTLEREAGH. The Right Hon. Mr. ADDINGTON gave a grand dinner yesterday at his house in Downing -street, at which were present , His Royal Highness PRINCE WILLIAM Of GLOUCESTER, Sir J A MES PULTENEIir, General COOTE, COI. THORNTON, and several Members of Administration, The Definitive Treaty will most probably be signed before the expiration of next month ; but all the speculations upon this subjea, in some of the Papers, that speak at random upon every subje4l, are unworthy of notice. On Monday the Pimlico Volunteers fired a feu de.joic, in honour of the day; previous to which Major RoLLEsToN put them through various ma. nceuvres, which they performed with great steadi ness and precision. Yesterday morning about three o'clock an alarm ing fire broke out at the house of Mr. CmiLvz p., surgeon, in Great Marlborough-street. The fire was first discovered by the watchman, who was crying the hour ; but it had previously consumed the ground apartments, and had made its way through the parlour floor ; the hall was likewise in flames. —The watchman sprung his rattle, and knocked, without intermission, at the street-door, calling out " Fire ! fire !" until Mr. Chilver threw up one of the two pair of stairs front windows, and asked what was the matter. The watchman desired Mr. Chilver to alarm the family, or it would in a few minutes he impossible for them to escape with safety. The flames had by this time taken possession of the parlour floor ; the hall door burnt furiously, and that devouring element met with nothing - to impede its progress for near an hour, during which time it had consumed the greater part of the House. Mr. Chilver went down stairs at the first alarm, with a view to open the street door for the family to escape that way ; but, finding it impossible (he be.. ing almost suffocated by the smoke), he returned, and providentially the family and himself escaped over the parapet unhurt. About four o'clock seve_ ral engines arrived, and the St. George's Volunteers mustered strong. The sound of drums and fife having awakened and roused the inhabitants, water was soon procured ; but Mr. Chilver's house fell in before the engines began to play ; and the adjoining house, belonging to a Mrs. KENNET, was likewise on fire. Every exertion was used to save the latter, but without effet ; the flames had made their way through the party-Ivan of Mr. Chilver's house, and they burst out in the parlours and the second-floor at the same time. Mr. GU I CHARD'S was the next house, which was saved, and that solely by the ex ertions of the firemen.—The flames raged with un abated fury till seven o'clock in the morning, when they were got under. Yesterday afternoon about half past five o'clock, a terrible fire broke out in the large range of ware. houses, chiefly used as a depOt for coffee and cotton, belonging to Mr. Ptrou, in Thames-street e the corner of Dowgate_hill. Notwithstanding the can. tiguity of the premises to the Thames, a speedy and ample supply of water, and the early attendance of the fire engines, the whole inside of these extensive buildings was burnt, together with all the produce in them, which cannot yet he esti mated. The flames being continually fed from within, could not be extinguished for many hours ; but the strong party walls, and there being but little wind, prevented the extension of the mischief. None of the neighbours could ascertain in what manner the fire broke out. The attendance of the Volunteer Corps-belonging to the Distriet had a very happy effeCt in preventing inter ruption to the firemen, or pillage of the property. We understand that the Publicans in Mr tix and Company's Trade, lower the price of Porter to their Customers, to 4d. per pot, to commence this day. ,MAV AL ATEWS. DEAL, JAR. 19. THE folloWing Ships are just arrived from . at East Indies; viz Countess cf Sutherland, Castle, nelton Castle, Perseverance, Travers, and Grant. . • Several sail of - the Wect India Fleet are.also.ar.. iriVedi and the remainder hourly expe&ed; :.:2 PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 19. 'nit's morning the five Mutineers of the Tome_ raire last condemned, were executed 'purt - ,uant to their sentence, viz. Three on board the Juste, and •two on board the Centaur. Arrived this day Hig Majesty's Ship Ambuscadc, rom Jamaica. SHEERNESS, JAN. 19. Tars day arrived his Majesty's Ship Beaulieu, of 4o gtins, Capt. S. POYNTZ, from the Downs. COURT OF CHANCERY. LINCOLN'S.INN HALL, JAN. 19. DRURY-LANE THEATRE. THE LORD CHANCELLOR wished to know what had been done towards a settlement between the Parties relatil*e to the above concern. Mr. FONBLANQUE said, a proposal had been submitted to his Clients, the Trustees under the Deed of 1793, to which they had consented. The LORD CHANCELLOR thought this insuf ficient, and wished to know what had been done relative to the Tradesmen and Performers. Mr. FONBLANQUE said, he understood they had agreed to the provisions of the Trust Deed, which had been drawn up expressly relating to this subjeft. The LORD CHANCELLOR wished for more cer tain information. He had, he said, read the pro posal alluded to, but he thought it was by that still left a matter of doubt who were the Proprietors. Mr. PICOT adverted to the trust-deed, iu which Mr. Adam was a trustee, 14y which provision was made for the liquidation of the arrears due to the Tradesmen and Performers. The Loan CHANCELLOR wished to have some Information from Mr. Adam upon this suhje&.:_ Mr. Pz cot said, Mr. Adam was not in Court, but would no doubt attend tomorrow morning to give his Lordship every information in his power. This dud had, however, been signed by several of the Tiadestnen, and by three of the Performers, namely, ivir, Kemble, Mr. Kelly, and Mrs. Crouch. Mr. AGAR said, the deed had been submitted to the Creditors a long while, and very few of them had signed it. .Mr. Pi coT replied, that the deed had only been completed since this business was last before the Court, and no time had been lost in applying to the Creditors, many of whom had already signed it, and there was no doubt that all the Performers would • sign it. Mr. RICHARDS said a few words; on behalf of the Duke of Bedford, who was willing, he said, to - consent to any arrangement that might be made, provided the arrears . due to him were discharged in the course of two years. Some further conversation ensued between' the Counsel and the Solicitors for the different Parties. The LORD CHANCELLOR said, he did not see how the parties could get forward by making ob servations on a proposal, until they had time to consider it. They must take it into consider ation, and inform him, this day week; of their de termination. He had made up his mind what to do, in case they did not agree ; but, he repeated, that it was the interest of all the Parties concerned, that he should not make that order, which, in the event of their not agreeing, he must make. '.He hoped they would all agree, and he wished them to consider what was to become of the property, if something was not done to satisfy the Duke of Bedford. He had looked at the situation of all Parties with much anxiety, and with respet to Mr. Grubb, he thought he under Stood his rights in every way in which they could be con sidered ; the chara4er, however, of Mr. Grubb, relative to this concern, could not be exatlly ascertained until all the Deeds and Instruments relating to this subjea were fully examined. He • meant, therefore, to-morrow morning to refer to Mr. Serjeant Palmer, the question relative to the right and interest of Mr. Grubb, ordering at the same time that all Deeds and Papers relating to the subjet, should be produced before the Arbitrator, and Witnesses examined upon oath, the testimony of whom should be deemed in any degree necessary ; and if the Parties would not help him to get through the difficulty, he must lay the strong arm of the Court upon the property. He could not suffer the conclusion of this business to be longer delayed : he therefore direeted , that copies of the Proposal should be served upon all Parties, who should come, before him again on this day week, to state finally the result of their consideration, and stated that he would, to-morrow morning, didate in Court, the terms of the reference to Mr. Serjeant Palmer. WEDNESDAY, JAN. 20. The LORD CHANCELLOR this day stated in Court, the Question to be referred to Mr. Serjeant PAL MER, who is to consider, what are the rights and interests of Mr. RICHARDSON and Mr. GRU B re speCtively, in the Patents, Property, or Profits of the Theatre, either as Proprietors or Partners ; and what debts they are respeaively liable to, in either o; . those charaders. His Lordship direaed the business to stand oyez till `'Wednesday the 3,1 of February. The Price of Bread the some as last week. Mrs. Auxiot., of Park lane, is, we now hope, in a fair way of recovery from the dangerous and very severe bruises she,received some days past, by the overturn of her coach in Brind.strect. y, . ;~ t-