The Sun. — London, England, 1802-09-16 00:00:00

French - ARRIVED MAILS. PRICE OF STOCKS, THIS DAY A r TWELVE O'CLOCK - - - by Ommuir. - Consols. T H E • S. LT N. tOLEM QUIS DICER& FP.LSUM AUDLAT ? .8 Disc. LONDON, SEPTEMBER 16, ISoz. WE this morning received the lifon;teur of the I tth inst. We have extracted the only article of intelligence it contains, viz. a Letter from Citizen BERTIN, the Colonial Prefer} of Marti , n;que. He says the Colony is in a state of tran quillity, and that he daily experts the arrival of the Armament destined to take possession of that island. The Price of the French Funds is not mentioned. A Hamburgh Mail arrived this morning, but as we received Papers of the same date which it brings, by the Dutch Mail yesterday, we have nothing to communicate from it that is new to our Readers. Yesterday a Court of ' Dire6lors was held at the India-House, when Captain j.' F. Timmtrts was sworn into the command -of the new ship, building by ROBERT ANDERSOINT, Esq. for St. Helena, Ben coolen, and - China. The Court adjourned at six o'clock till Wednesday next. The Court of Direflors of the East India Com pany have been pleased to present to Captain Wm. IVlorrArx, of their ship the Phanix, the sum of Five Hundred Guineas ; al so Two Thousand Pounds to he divided among the Officers and. CreW of the above ship, for their gallant conduct in en gaging and capturing the ship,Genera/ Malartic, French Privateer, in the Bay of Bengal, last season. The Court of D•ireftors have permitted the ship the burehess of Portland to proceed to the East ward of the Cape of Good Hope this season', on the Southern Whale Fishery. Sixteen vessels, fitted out from Holland for the Greenland Whale Fishery, are all returned, hav ing caught in the whole 6z Fish. The Earl of Ross died in Ireland last week. By his death the Colonelcy of the 32d Regiment be- OrfleS Vnean.,..; Lord F.Lt,FN2"RCUSii.r, •••-4 I,)owager Countess or ERROL, a;ld Lady PAGE are arnonast arrivals at Brighton. Mr. EIUKIII I E has gone to France by the way of Brighton and Dieppe. He will probably reach Paris before Mr. Fox leaves it. Lord TruntLow is completely reconciled to his (laughter, Mrs. BROWN, who now lives domesti rated with him at Brighton. She was always sup_ Posed to be his favourite. her husband is, we be lieve, gone to America. The PRINCE of WALES is more in Lord Turßi.ow's company than in that of any other family at Brighton. Besides the Public Dinner given at the Thuil- Pries on the day of the last Review, we find that Mr. FOX, Lord R. SPENCER, General FITZ FATRICK, Mr. ST. JOHN, Mr. ADAIR, Mr.HARE, &c. dined in private with BONAPARTE two days after. Madame LASNES, it seems, does not appear in this Country the very beautiful woman she was re.: presented. This is a strong test of the pre-eminent beauty of English women. Mr. WEST has exhibited one of his Pi4ures at Faris, in the Saloon appropriated to the perform_ paces of Modern Artists in the Louvre, a circurn. stance which has given great satisfaaion there. The number of &ig iah in Paris is already dimi nished one half. By the last returns of the Police .they amounted to Eight Thousand, and that number will probably much diminish before the approach of Winter, which in Paris is no very comfortable sea. son. , _ We are desired to say, that the Hon. Mr. EARDLEY is at Paris, and consequently was not present at Sir FaAtsicts BußQErr's dinner on Mon day last ar Blackwall. The Hon. Mr. EARDLEY, as well as his Noble Father, is too much attached to the Constitution of this Country to have any con cern in celebrations. His younger brother, Colontl EARDLEY, was, indeed, present on the occa sion alluded to, not however induced by any motives Of a political kind, but merely as an acquaintance of Sir FRANCIS BURDETT, and from the natural curiosity of youth to view a scene 9f such an.ex .t:aoritraty description. Sir FRANC'S BURDETT' and his Friends mean to stake merry while they can. A Dinner is ordered `at Stanmore next week for . the Rabble of that part of the Country.—it is surely fair to ask, who de frays all this enormous expense, and what is the ob jeki of it ? Things in Norfolk seem perfectly harmonized since the c10 , ,e of the Scrutiny. Mr..COE and Sir 3 Acos A'.7LEY are appointed Stewards of the Mu- Sicnl Festirual at Ncevnek. An attempt it seems is made to raise the Funds, by anonymous Letters, threatening the lives of cer tain eminent Monied Men. Mr. Anotfymous, we qprehervi, will find very little credit in the City, iind will Make small impression on the Funds. Duz..el- , Paper, attempting to be ..witty, says thlt M PAINE will be created Lord tilbale4one, upon ;,is arrival in 4merica.—This to be sure is %.,•,:y hie ,/ KELLYhas returned from Paris, with a number ,t,' Tra dy whiell l e vill, no doubt, soon n' ' 1; qcn.vr;: ► IVAITiIL NEWS. PORTSMOUTH, Sep T. 1 5. ARRIVED the Dispatch, CANTWEL L , from Dan garvon Hcpe, KETTE IR, from London ; Young Edward, FORSYTH, from Newcastle ; Messenger, BLACK !STUN, and Nautilus, DAVIE, from Sunder land. Sailed the Russia Company, , for Riga ; Niger, FELLMORE, for London ; Commerce, BAX TON ; Rosamond, SeMNIERS, and Cato, YOUNG, for Sunderland; and Lord 'Lave, Bttccs, fur Havre de-Grace. D'JZ ! ' -1, AR MOUTH, SErT. 15. Tx Is morning arrived the Prince of Wales Packet', Capt. HEAR N, from Cuxhaven, with Mails and Pas sengers. She left Cuxhaven on Thursday last, in company with the Earl of Leicester Packet, Capt. TuomPsoN, but it blowing hard, they parted corn_ pany the same. evening, and it is supposed that the Earl of Leicester would make the land, and land her Mails somewhere to the Northward. On Monday night, or early yesterday morning,' the Akin, of and for London from Newcastle, coal. laden, got on Scroby Sand, and is lost. Some of her materials, and a small part of her cargo, will be saved. The crew are all saved. The ilioneverery, GAT?, is put in here leaky. Arrived the Tartar, DRAPER, from Liverpoul f Sailed the Nancy, HA.DD F.l;%'S, to HARWICH, SEPT. X 5. A4our miclniglat, arrived the King George Packet, Capt. FLYN, with the Mail and Passengers from Helvoetsluys ; and t nearly the same time ar rived the Union Bye boat, Capt. HATT, from Hel voetsluys, with a horse-carriage and Passengers. The King George Packet sailed again this after noon, with the Mail, and near fifty Passengers for Helvoetsluys ; there being no other Packet in the Harbour, owing, to contrary winds and stormy weather during the latter part of last week. D... 7 AL, SEPT, 15. SAILED on a Cruize the lermortahti Frigate. Arrived from Portsmouth and sailed for Sheer ness, the Li:a, of 6+ guns, and the Hind Frigate. The following Article is extraled from a New York Paper of the 7th of August ;—" Capt. SAN GER, arrived at N. Lund Jul, 13 days from Bassa_ terre, Guadaloupe, infQl% , .t-. , ,, that previous to : his sailing - , h Government caused it to be reported,' that the English 1..1 refused to give up-Tobay, agreeable to the Treaty ; and under the pretence cf an expedition to take that Island by force, the black troops, and a body of whites, were embarked en board two ships of the line and two frigates. Hav ing secured the blacks,, the white troops were re landed ; and the next day more blacks male and fe male, were sea on board, and it was said, and im plicitly believed; that they were sold to the Spa nish Government, to be employed in working in the mines of South America, where t'ne fleet is destined. The number of negroes shipped ofF amounted to sOOO.---Markets *dull, no money allowed to he car ried off the island. The produce of the island is per mitted to be exported in foreign bottoms, paying a heavy duty. The town of Bassarerre is not burnt as was reported. No foreign bottom allowed an en try in any other part of the Isiz.nd of Quadaloupe, than Bassaterre." According to letters from the Hague, the eva. cuation of Holland by the French troops was to commence on the tzth inst. A part of the troops were to be embarked for Louisiana. _ _ _ It is reported at the 40gue, that a Definitive Treaty of Alliance will shortly tab,e place between France, Prussia, and Russia. There are at present at Doddington Park., the Seat of Lord MoTa4, an Ethiopian Goat and four Sheep, which have been lately sent him as a pre sent from the Baron de MONTREAL, an Emigrant Officer in our Service. The Goat is of a red colour, with curly wool; the Sheep are black, with very fine wool, resembling those trom the Cape of Good Hope, The Song we inserted some tiire ago in compli ment to the present Minister, entitled The Pilot that mooed us in Peace, has been elegantly printed at Tunbridge, and placed in the Rooms and Li braries. It is mentioned as a very singular circumstance, in an Irish Paper, that a dozen People have lately gone mad at a Watering-place in Ireland. If the Writer of the Account would visit Margate or Brighton, his astonishment would cease. The complaint of the Sw;mm;vg. Lady at Rams_ gate does not appear to be a rwiqmiu head only. Since the seizure near Cowes, of 89 Casks of Spirits in a ploughed and harrowed field, Squgziliv is ranked amongst the re4-Sports. '• ' The French, we are told in a Private Letter, are very unhappy, because the Wild Duds have left them. so early in the Season but We think, they might console themselves with the large Flights of E4glish Geese that supply their place. Last Saturday evening, just as about 6o work men had kit their work, on the k..;iew Grand Canal Wet Dock, the property of the Right Hon. Lord 13oRINGDoN, at Turn Chapel, near Plymouth,great part of it blew up with a poie like that of thundei - . It is hoped the damage can be repaired - , as it is a work of magnitude and much expellee. Fortunately no lives were lost by this accitlent. FdIRIS, SEPT. 12. MINISTRY OF THE MARINE. CHARLES HENRI BERTIN, COUNSELLOR OF STATE OF THE FRENCH REPUBLIC, COLONIAL PRE FECT OF MARTINIQUE AND ITS DEPENDENCIES, Tu THE MIIIISTEIt OF MARINE AND COLONIES. " Saba Pierre, fury z 3, tBoz. " I have the Honour to address to you, Citizen Minister, the triplicate of my Letter of the gth of July, and the dupli cate of that of the igth. " Since that epoch, Merchant Vessels have arrived daily from Marseilles, 'Bourdeaux, and Havre. Several other Vessels frOM diff:retif Ports, which were not able to effec:. tuate their sales with advantage at Guadaloupe, have come to Martinique, where they hope for better success : all of them make their discharges, and establish : their Magazines. " The Captain-General of Guadaloupe offered - me a part of the Troops under his orders, in order to enable me to retake possession of Martinique, but I did not think it expedient to accept his proposal, expciting, as I did, every moment, another Expedition from Brest, and fear ing to deprive Guadaloupe of a number of hands which were necessary to preserve the tranquillity which the suc cess of our Arms had restored. On the other side, the ad mission of French vessels into our Port, and the aCti:ity of Commerce which prevails, induces me to wait the arrival of Troops from France. I have therefore thought it my duty to think General Ric ii zr sasa, and to decline the aid which he offered to me. " In the present state of things, neither the French Go vernment or Commerce will sutfer by delay in the arrival of the Expedition ; and the Interests of the Mother Country , are as well maintained, as if the French Flag was eying on the Forts of the Colony. ' " I am aiively occupied with the establishment of Bps pitals, Barracks, and Guard-houses, and in reconnoitring the situation of the Forts, Batteries, and other Military Esta, blisments. I shall have the honour to' address to you imme diately, all the Papers which relate to these digerent opera tions. " The Colony is perfectly tranquil, and the Inhabitants testify daily the satisfaaion which they experience at return ing under the French Government. " I have the Honour to salute you, " BERTIN." The following is a more particular account of the transaction attempted by the French Embassy at , Lisbon, than has yet been published rea son of General L4sNEs quitting Portugal was, that two ships from France, consigned to a Mr. W. de R—,' Merchant of Lisbon, had two-thirds of their cargo prohibited goods in cases, which were all passed as the French Ambassador's bag gage; but on the arrival of the third vessel, DON MANIQUE, the Intendant of Lisbon, thought there was foul play, and had some of the casks opened, and, insteadof private effects, they were filled with • piece goods. Notice of this proceeding was sent to LASNES, who sent his Aid.de-Camp to the Cus tom-house. A violent altercation ensued between the parties, which terminated in blows ; the Aid de-Camp was taken to the Guard-house, but libe rated next day. The General waited immediately on the Portuguese Minister for Foreign Affairs, and in a rough manner [old him " the i mince , his rrias - ter, was a ; that there was no Government; that all was anarchy ; and that they were slaves to the Engiishi &c. 1 - 1 e insisted upon passports, and off he went. It ought not to excite surprize that the Embassy of General LASNES should begin its diplomatic career in the manner we have heard described. He is a man without education, having been an ap prcatice to a Dyer in Bayonne, till 1793, when he was put in requisition. What led to his grace with the First Consul, atter being appointed Commandant of the Consular Guard, was his condua in the arrangement Of the con tra} with a tailor to supply the Guard with clothes. The tailor was informed, that unless he made him (LANES) a present of roo,ooo francs, he should riot have the contraCl, which Snip agreed to, observing, however, that it must be laid on the prices. When the account' was sent in to Bo- N..a.ARTE, he thought it very high, and ,sent for the tailor, Who confessed the cause of their being so high charged. The First Consul, io a violent passion, sent for LASNEs, who, in his turn, was also enraged—high words took place. Laser is be irig a great favourite with the Army, i t was pot thought primer to imprison or to exile him ; and he was with difficulty prevailed on to accept the Embassy, A few days ago a party of three Gentlemen went from Bridlington Quay, to Flambro' Head, to take the diversion of shooting at the numerous Rights of birds which haunt the environs of the latter place. After walking along the sands for a considerable time, under the high rocky cliffs, the tide cut off their retreat before they. were aware, and obliged them to take to the water, as the only chance of preserving their lives. Happily they were all swim mers. Leaving their sloatlis and fowling-pieces to the mere/ of the waves, they made for the nearest place with which they were accinainted, where they could regain the top of the cliffs, and from which they were about a mile distant. Fortunately a cobble shortly after hove in sight, and descrying their situation, made up to them and took them on board, and after a short time ? set them safe on terra firma, Last week Barnaby Strother, Kceperof the Toll- Bar at Barton-upon-Humber, undertook for a wager of five Guineas, to draw a Gig himself from Bar ton; to the Turnpike-Gate near Brigg, being the distance of near eleven miles, in the space of two hours and a half. This task he performed in one hour and frfty-eight minutes, apparently with great ease, and without having sustained any bodily in jury. On Monday evening as the wife of Mr. Desanges, dyer, was retutning to her house in Wheeier street,- she was stopped in Spital-squate, by four men, armed with pistols, who threatened to shoot Mrs. D. if she did not deliver her money. One of them struck her across the breast with his pistol, on which she gave them her purse, containing seven guinea's and a half, with which they made off, telling her if the luqked back it shold be the last time, TEE THEATRES. Covev-Garlett. Cooxy. reLnmed his station last night at this Theatre, in the chara6ter of Richard the Third. — He seemed to be in very good health, and he cer tainly played with very great spirit: The salne attention to the detail of the charader, as well a 5.. wits general scope, which has hitherto masked his performance, appeared last night, and he was very much applauded. The appearance the House plainly - indicated, that.CooKE's popularity is by no' means in the wane. He was very well rceeivea on , his entrance. - TH E dramatic entertainments of this place con. eluded for the Season last night, and the .expeela tton excited by the Advertisement, announcing an extraorditary Address to the Public, attrafted a very large Audience. The Pieces exhibited last ni o ght were The third Letter, The Voice of Natith , , and The Fairies Revels. On the conclusion of the second Piece FAWCETT Came forward to deliver the promised Address.— He was greeted as soon as he appeared with very flattering applause, and he delivered the first Para graph of the following composition with a strong expression of grateful sensibility, and read the re. mair4ler with manly firmness. .$ .t.AbiEs ttzi.n csNri.smEN, "Mr. COLMAN, the Proprietor of this Theatre, under whose Management I have, of late, assisted in many of his arrangements, immediately relative to the Stage, has deputed me to return you his warmest Thanks, for the patronage with which you have continued to honour his House, during this Season. Allow me to say, also, that the Gratitude of every Performer here is as strongly impressed upon their minds, as, be assured, it is on my own ;—but,.in addition to these acknowledgments, the Proprietor has instru6ted me to address you with matter of such peculiar nature, that your patience is solicited, while I read, verbatim, that which he has commissioned me to communicate. " When a Royal Patent was about to be granted to the late Mr. FOOTE, it was inquired, with that justice which chara6lerises the griglish Throne, what Annual extent of Term might be a:lowed him, without injury to theatrical Patents then existing 41 this Metropolis. - 'lt he Proprietors ofthe Winter Theatres were interrogated on this point, and,' in consequence of their Documents a ?went was granted tO FOOTE, for his Lire, to open a Theatre annually, t:rom the ivh of May to the tsth of September inclusive. The Winter Houses never closed precisely on the com mencement cf his Term—but FooTg was unique, and del pended, chiefly, on his own Writing, and his own Ae.ing,. License was given to the elder Co ;:m AN, for the sor:e nuai Term, on Foot E's death :—but, aware that he could not, like his singularly-gifted Predecessor, depend on his own individual Powers, he engaged a regular Company 0. Comedians, chiefly seleled from the Winter Theatres, for whose assistance be we: cbliged to w Art till there TY:e4O-0 He ventured, in every shape, very deeply in a limited Privilege, which this mpde of Speculation rendered still mor4 l limited, 1. he younger •COL*AN, our present Proprietor, suss needed his father in the License, hu bought the Pro;erty, Ihe expellee of several thousand Pounds, and thus earn° into a Tilc4M, where the custom of depending an tha saave...• ments of the Winter Houses.. !vs now curtailed its short sea." sea of nearly One-Third. • " The objea, at length, in view, is to remedy the evil, without invidious and vain attempts, to attack much more powerful Theatres, who have an undoubted Privilege 0 f ailing Plays all the year round, The Proprietor has no in— tention of tiring the Public ear by a querulous Appeal i 110 admits that others have the.fullest right to make their Pro perty as productive as possible : he wishes merely to fol.- low their example, and solicits your support in his efforts in establishing a Company of Adors, totally independent of them. There are but three Houses permitted to give yoir regular batches of Plays in London; and this House (by far the most humble) sees no reason, when they will be all making their ircad, on the isth of next May, why o' 6l Three of a Trade should not perfectly agree. " Should his Arrangements succeed, which are, even at this early period, actively forming, you will (on the re opening of the Theatre) greet the return, to London, of som e favourites, who, it is trusted, will find no diminution of your protection :---you will witness new and rising, merit? which -it is your marked practice to foster. There is r , ° theatrical Town in the United Kingdoms, which will ne he resorted to, in the hope of procuring you its choiCest prO' ducz:—and, in addition to other Authors, you will be in' treated, early in the Season, to shew your indulgence to the Proprietor's further attempts at dramatic Compositicr , t whose Pep, he humbly hopes, notwithstanding the Wog duration of your encouragement, is not y;:t qui:e- worn out A your Service.'? • The mode in which this Address was announce a in the Play-bills, naturally tended to induce rite Audience to believe that it would contain soioe' thing - veryhostile to the Winter Managers. 'fate , liberal spirit and good humour, however, by whi c , it is charaacrized, raised the same sentiments ' t !, the Audience , who during the recital manife s g e ' vivid :narks of approbation, which they amply cot'' firmed by loud and universal applause on its ionclu . sion. • DWYER is already come to town to join th 6 standard of Old Drury. He has been employed in very alive service during the Sunaner Campaigni and tht:e is little danger that in his new field alion he will tarnish his honours. The Tale of Monsieur Tonson, in which F A ivc ' distinguished his powers of humorous recitation) s still popular on the American Stage, where it i l d announced with the additional title of The Loma °7 Quizzer. Daring the late Dramatic season at Lewes) i" Sussex, CLAREMONT, of Covent Gaiden Th eatre' „ gratified the Critics of that Town by Ppre 36 " twice in the charader of Richard the Third. Mr. KEMBLE, we believe, still remains at Para because he and his fellow-traveller, Mr. H" 1 "„ e , COT, find amusement enough to detain them the : or Besides, as they mean to pass the Winter in Sil o g they have time enough before them to see ail . f i ca , that Kingdom can supply of pleasure or go t ' tiun, 1 dr e , COW th e ( be re tr ust "Por mind Z'olt 1 by I, S i P w re lit tit use lice tess. tsta the after ter n Oth, siol Poll Ares Gui dui) tall