The Sun. — London, England, 1802-11-23 00:00:00

IMPERL4L PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF PEERS, MONDAY, NOV. 22. AT one o'clock the LORD CHANCELLOR took Ls seat on the Woolsack, and prayers 'were - read by the Bishop of Roc HESTER, Who, as Junior Bishop, officiates as Chaplain to the House. Lords ARDEN and ST. HELENS, lately made Peers of the United Kingdom, were introduced in full form (the Earl Marshal and Great Chamberlain attending) sworn and took their seats. Their Lordships' Supporters were the Lords BROWNLOW and 13ZAYBROOK.E. In the course of the Sitting a considerable number of Peers were sworn, among whom were the Dukes of SOMERSET and RUTLAND ; Marquisses CORN wALLIS and BUTE ; Earls of ESSEX, CRAVEN, GLANDORE, WESTMORLAND, DERBY, CASSILIs, CORK, WINCHILSEA, and BUCKINGHAMSHIRE ; Viscounts CARLETON, GRIMSTONE, and Low- THER ; Lords BRAYBROOKE, RODS, BRowNLow, MINTO, KING, and ROLLE. At four o'clock the House adjourned till to-mor row, when the LORD CHANCELLOR takes his seta on the Woolsack precisely at one o'clock, and at two fits MA J esTv is expefted to come down to .the House. HOUSE OF COMMONS, MONDAY, NOV. 22. THIS day Sir F. BURDETT, Sir"C. BISSITOPP, Sir WM. DOLE EN, Lord G. CAVENDISH, Mr. TIER NEY, Mr. BRAGGE, Mr. PLOMER, Mr. I. H. BROWNE, and all the other Members who attended, took the usual Oaths and their Seats. Nothing else was done, and before five o'clock the House adjourned till to-morrow. MAILS. ARRIVED. ZL'E. French PRICE OF STOCKS, THI,; DA Y A T TWELVE O'CLOCK. 67i a6B I Oronium - - to disc. Consols - THE SUN. AgLEtt Q,US DICER& 74.1.5 UM AUDtAT LONDON, NOVEMBER 23, 1802. THIS day, precisely at two o'clock, Firs MA JESTY went ire the usual State to the douse - of Peers, and opened the First Session ,of the New Imperial parliament, with a Most Gracious Speech from the Throne. MAJEs7v, in his Speech, does not pledge his Government to the prosecution of any specific measures ; but in firm and dignified lan guage, asserts the intimate connexion which sub sists, and must ever continue to subsist, between the particular interests of this Country, and those of Europe at large, and recommends a state of constant preparation. Lord NELSON is expected to move the Address the. House of Lords, and Lord Low' HER we :have heard named as likely to second it ; and Mr. TRENCH tc move in the House of Commons, and Mr. Cu x zoN to second. W E this morning received the French journals of 19th and zoth inst. The Mon;teur contains a long Address to the People of Ssv;tzer/and, pur porting to come•from the Executive Council, but from its apostrophizing style, we think evidently from the pen of the CHIEF CONSUL himself. It stigmatizes the noble Assertors of their Country's Independence, as a Fagion aeting against the wishes of the People ; and the Interests of Switzerland, and attempts to vindicate, as an aft of friendly media tion, the Subjugation of that unhappy Country 1:9 , the French Troops ; and iepresents, as a mast benign a 1 of good-will and condecension, the intere§t which the CHIEF CONaUL takes in the affairs of Helvetia We recommend this Paper to the attentive perusal of our Readers. The oter contents of the French Papers will be found under the Paris Head. The French Funds were on the z9th, 5 per Cents. SZ. go. This mo:ning arrived a Mail from New-York and Halifax, brought to Falmouth by the Leicester racket. His Royal HighnPss the Dux c of YORK attended yesterday at the SECRETARY of STATE'S Office, Whitehall, and had a long interview with his Grace the Duke 'of PORTLAND, Lord PELHAM, and the Members of Administration. • Mr. PITT will come to town fora few days, and return again to Bath for the Christmas Holidays: The Priiy Council resumed,their sittings yester day morning at eleven o'lcck. The following per_ bons wee 'brought up by the Keeper 4 the New Prison, Clercenwell, viz. "Thomas by trade a carpenter ; James Price, a plaisterer ; Dennis 111'Gra, late a seaman on board one of the King's Ships; Edru'itird Russell, a labourer ; Win. Blander, ditto. 'The. above persons, after a short examina tion, were tananded. Nothing new transpired.— The Council )i•nic.t: - up at half after three o'lock. Lord and:Catir MEL BoURNE have a Grand Dinner yesterday, ~at their House, in Whitehall, to which were invited His Royal Highness the PRINCE of WALES, the Duke and Dutchess of DgVONSIIIRE, ; .3nd Mrs. FlTzi-lERBERT: NAVAL NEWS. PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 22. THIS evening arrived at the Motherbank, and was pot under quarantine, His Majesty's Cutter l'Entreprenante, Lieut. Swimey ) from Gibraltar, in thirty_two days, and Lisbon in ten days. She left at Gibraltar the Medusa and Atiive, and at Lisbon the Cynthia and El Vicenzo ; and spoke on the' i nil inst. ofr the Rock of Lisbon, His Ma jesty's Ship Rosario, all well. Arrived this day His Majesty's ship Isis, of so guns, Admiral Gm,tartß, from Newfoundland ; and soon afterwards the Camilla Sloop of War, from the same place. Passed by the Isle of Wight this afternoon, for London, the Aid, SAIMON, from Quebec, in seven weeks. This day a great many light ships passed through Spithead frOm the Westward, bound to London and the Northern Ports. FALMOUTH, Nov. zo. ARRIVED this morning, the Leicester Packet, SHARI), with Mails from America, thirry.onedays passage from Halifax. Passengers by her are, Co lonel and Mrs. KAINE, and four Children; Mr. and Mrs. HARTSHORN, Mr. NERD, and a Mr. CATOR. Also arrived the American Ship Bristol Packet, Captain PHILLIPS, with tobacco, from Norfolk, for orders. Yesterday, off Scilly, spoke the Ship Hind, of Hull, from Jamaica for London, out ten weeks, all well. . Arrived also the Miners Schooner, CARD Is, with bale goods, &c, from Liverpool for this port ; the Betsey, MALTREE, from Chepstow; the Brig Union, METCALFE, from Madeira; the Nancy, CREW, from London for Grenada ; the Dutch Brig /Vier land Unie, SCHMIDT, frOm Middleburgh for Cette ; the Brig Elizabeth, SALNEY, from St. Vincent!, for London; the Mary, PROWSE, and Betsey, LAY, both from Newfoundland, with cod-fish ; and the ilei;ve and Hind Cutters, from a Cruize. Sailed the Fanny, ACHLAN, for London ; the Ceres, SMITH, for Hull; the Lark, SMITH, for Southampton; the Snsanna, TULLOCH, and Com merce, AYNON, for London ; the Benson, BELL, for Lymingron ; the Jervis, WOOLLY j for Venice ; and William, ASHWICK, for Seville. The Leeward Islands Mails of the I 7th inst. will be taken out by the Mae of Marlborough Packet, which, if favourable wind, will sail to-morrow. The King George Packet from Lisbon is hourly expected. DEAL, Nov. 22. THE Hon, East India Company's Extra Ships Princess Maly and Ann, from India, arrived in the Downs this morning. The former has sailed for the River, and the latter remains. REGUL4TIONS IN THE NAVY. THE Admiralty Board having discovered, during the late Visitation of the Dock-yards, that persons had contrived to get appointed as Warrant Officers on board some of His MAJESTY'S ships, who had not been brought up in the Navy, to the manifest injury of the deserving Petty Officers, who have btavely toiled through a long War, their Lordships have established the following Regulations, to be ob served in future as part of the Standing Orders of the Navy : No person to be appointed a Purser, who has not served two years as Secretary or Clerk to a Flag Officer, or Captain's Clerk of His Majesty's ships. No person to be appointed Gunner, who has not been rated a Petty Officer of some description, for the space of two years out of the four years already established as necessary to be served, before he can be examined. No person to be appointed Boatswain, who has not served four years, two of which must be in the capacity of Boatswain's Mate, or Yeoman of the Sheets, No person to be appointed Carpenter, who has not served a regular apprenticeship to a Shipwright, and for the space of two years after the apprenticeship as Carpenter's Mate, or Carpenter's Crew, on board His Majesty's Ships, or in His Majesty's Dock-yards, and produce a certificate from the Master Shipwright, of his being property qualified, &c. and each of these persons must produce certificates of their good con_ duet, before they can be considered eligible to re ceive an appointment. On Sunday se'nnight, arrived in Leith Roads, His IVlajesty's Ship La Sophie, Captain ROSE NHA. GEN. The total number of Commanders, Officers, Sur geons, and Pursers, which are proceeding to India this Season in the service of the Hon. East India Company, amounts to 287. The number of Sea men necessary to navigate the 4.5 ships, amounts to zsgo. So that the India Company employ, ac cording to as correCt a calculation as can be foemed, allowing for those now homeward bound, about 5800 Seamen annually. On the Izth inst. two Masters of Ships were convieted before the Sitting Magistrates, at the Guildhall, Newcastle, under the Harbour Aft, in the mitigated penalties of sos. each, and the charges of removing their ships, for refusing to comply with the direCtions of the Harbour. Master, as to removing them to a more commollious place in the Harbour, PARIS, Nov. 20. ON the 16th the English Ambassador, Lord WHITWORTH, demanded an audience of the Mini.. ster for Foreign Affairs, by whom he was received with the greatest consideration. General BARRON, General in Chief of the 27th Military Division, will immediately set off for Sw;tzerland, where he will command a part of the French Troops stationed there. He will be re.. placed at Turin by General RIvAUD. General MO NTR !CHAR D, who comma,rided in Switzerland, is appointed Commandant in Chief of thg French Divisions in the Batavian Republic. . . A voluntary subscription has been opened at Brussels, for raising the Contingent of the 9th and zoth years for the recruiting the Army. This Sub scription is filled with much zeal and patriotism. By a Decree of the CHIEF Cutout, the table allowance for Officers in the Navy serving in America, Asia, or Africa, is to be doubled upon their arrival in any of the Colonies. (FROM THE MONITEUR.) A report having been falsely spread at Leghorn, that there had been a Naval Action in the Mediter ranean, between the Batavian Squadron, commanded by Admiral WINTER, and a certain. number of Bar bary Corsairs, the following Note has been officially published : " The Squadron under Admiral WINTER has peaceably traversed the Coasts of Barbary, and has found those Regencies in the most amicable dispo sition towards the Batavian Nation." (PROM THE MONIT11,:lt.) BERNE, Nov. 3. PROCLAMATION TO THE HELVETIC PEOPLE. " CITIZENS OP HELVETIA, " In announcing to you, four months ago, that the French Troops were about to quit our Soil, the Council of Execution at the same time declared to you, that a constant obedience to the Laws, a spirit of confidence and peace, the union of all wishes for the maintenance of the established order of things, could alone proted your Independence; while the contrary dispositions, disobedience, tumult, and dissentions, would infallibly bring back a Foreign Army. " You have not attended to our words, Citizens of Helye tia ! Ambitious men have induced you to embrace the cause of their interests and their passions ; and while . one Party amongst you roused itself at their calling to overturn the Constitutional and National Government, the other Party became, by its silence, an accomplice in the Civil War. " What is the result ? A few weeks have scarcely passed, when the Frcnch Troops, ten times more numerous than they were last Spring before their departure, penetrate into your Cantons ; they take from you the Arms which you have turned against your Government, and thus declare to all Europe that you are at once incapable of remaining at peace, and unworthy t,o proted yourselves. " Tell us then, Citizens of Helvetia, to whom you owe the return of these Troops ? Is it to the Senate and to the Council of Execution, whose fault was, on the contrary, to consent too soon to their departure, and whose whole study latterly tended to prevent, by a frank and loyal acceptance of the mediation of the Ctil ev CoNsuL, the evils which we had o tear from his indignation? Ur is it to the Insurrectional Authorities, to the Assembly which dignified itself with the name of the Confederate Diet of Schwitz ? to that Assembly which, rejeaing the conditions of the proposed Mediation, promising to dissolve itself; and notwithstanding continuing its intrigues, announcing Peace, and keeping the Soldiers under arms, wishing that a Foreign Force might enter the Country, that they might have it in their power to say, " /Y? yielded only to farce 'i?" Miserable vanity, which gratifies itself at the expense of a whole Nation ! Wretched ebullition of pride, calculated to precipitate the Country into complete ruin, and which it would have done, if the Generosity of the CHIEF CONSUL had not equalled his Power, and if, notwithstanding all the efforts of his .Enemies, and of yours, he had not still persisted to wish your welfare. " However, Citizens of Helvetia ! the Council of Execu tion is informed of it; the Members of that Seditious As sembly, and the Committees which it had established in the Cantons, not content with having consecrated, in formal:pro testations, their foolish pretensions, still seek to mislead the People respeCting their real situation, to spread false hopes of Foreign Succour, to frighten them by menaces, and to belye the intentions in which the Helvetic Government ad dressed itself to the Cxiar CQNSUL, to invite him to make himself the Supreme Arbiter of our didererrces. " But we will answer these men, that they likewise have invoked that mediation. The Letters of the Chiefs of the Little Cantons to the Cute? Corts 4nd-ta the. Ministers of France; the Plans of Constitution on which they openly called for their good offices ; the sending-Deputies to Paris, are so many proofs of the desire which they hut of interest, ing. the French Government in their cause.. It was only when the F lase Cow tu I. had previously demanded and ex aeled the cessation of a War which armed, Citizens against Citizens, and Brothers against Brothers, that they rejeCted the mediation solicited by themselves, and which they then artfully turned for the purpose of increasing the• number of their partizans. " We w►ll tell them again, that if we have called for the Mediation of the FIRST CONSUL, it is because, of all, the Powers called by their position, to take an interest in the des tinies of Helvetia, France is the only one which has recog nized our Independence, consecrated, by its means, in a so lemn Treaty : 'the only one which can exercise over us an influence of proteelion and support. The History of Switzer land for five centuries, our Revolution, and the years which have succeeded it, sufficiently prove how much it is our. interest to follow the political system of France. It is this truth which, engraved on the hearts of our Ancestors, protecled the cradle of the Confederation; and we, Citizens of the Helvetic Republic, have a thousand times more reason still to be convinced of it. " Lastly, we will say no longer to these met, for they mill nut understand, us, but to the Nation itself, that the Equality of Rights amongst the Cantons, the abolition of Hereditary Privileges, the Liberty of the Citizens, being a depo sit placed in I:Au hands to be preservectit azsy price, it was nQt-pctt• ted to us to w;tveT respecting calling for the mediation of t he only Government which can preserve to us these PriiiciPl`" " Thus, our conduCt in this respeci has been 001) th e necessary consequence of the National Will, expre=: s e d in favour of these same Principles at the time of the acceptan ce of the Constitution. " Such is the answer which the Council of Execution owes to that part of the accusations of its Enemies. 6 6 With regard to the other accusations by which it is a t ' tempted to raise against them a factious hate, they ctesP`; them, well knowing that th e y cannot c i te a s i ng l e family ° which it has caused the ruin, or a single person in whom the tights of a Citizen have been violated. It is, on the trary, for having been too indulgent, too confident in the justice of its Fellow-Citizens, too little severe, in shor t, that it has experienced misfortunes. The Insurrection al Authorities ordered in four weeks ten times more arrests► odious inquests, and measures of rigour of every kind, than it had ordered during the whole course of its existence. " Citizens of Helvetia ! you will be required to furnish extraordinary Contributions for the support of the Troops which your Insurredions have caused to enter your Country. Submit yourselVes to a necessity which you cannot tat Wi tt/ injustice; open your hearts to dispositions of Fraternity O a f Social Order ; it is the only means o f a b r id g i ng t h e p e ri°4° your misfortunes. Shew yourselves, in short, wort hy to called a Natio n , and yo u w ill b ecome one. l% " BONAPAR Ts. only desires to have still the power of tcresting himself in your destinies. " For us, Citizens, thanks to the care of this gaieroug Mediator, our task will soon be finished. Returned into th ° class of private individuals with those who have so cruelly calumniated our conduct, we shall be always ready t o answ e t f their, imputations. Henceforth there is no sacrifice cu wig 6 we are not resigned, if it can only be profitable to out C 61114 try. ‘, Done at Berne, Nor. 3, 14.32." LUC ERXE, Nov. B.—M. M. ALOYS 11E0 14 and AVIDER-MALIR arrived here, escorted by Of French Hussars, and one hunched Infantry. Whi le they were here, no one was allowed to convers e with them. They are gone to the Fortress of burg. They likewise speak of the arrest of g' M. ZELLW ECEN, of Troguen ; PFISTER, of Schaff : " housen ; Ms tx tA N, of Basle ; and REDING of Ba 4 e ° ' ix-Senators. These are to be conducted to th e Castle of Chillon, in Geneva. BASLE, Nov. t3.—The French C omman dant of this City has received orders to arrest M. N is i o Rzart, Deputy of the Canton to the l ast Diet 0 . Schwitz ; but the order has not b een execu ted , / consequence of his flight. A detachment of third men has been lodged in his house, and will 11 0° there till he re.appearc. E]cTRACT OF A LETTIR FROM HAVAC DE CR2sCs' DATED NOV. 18. " I am sorry to acquaint you, that an Engli sivi. man was found dead on the Ramparts the day be yesterday, who had shot himself. The stock pistol was lashed to his hand, the barrel of whi t was blown to pieces; the ball passed in t o his frq e , az and through bis brain. He is a fine young man , co tween zo and $o years of age, of genteel appear'," • and had been staying at Havre some time past.. Two men, one a Soldier ' and the other a CO—(' !err were yesterday brought up from Windsor, by EDWARDS, the Officer, charged with beingcon ee ' ed in Treasonable Pranices. 'f° Yesterday a journeyman Printer was taken i d l e custody, who it appears was the Paymaster at ;be meetings of the Conspirators. 'Whatever 0 %10 amount of• the reckoning, it was discharged by man without any objeCtion being made, or q u o , tions asked by any of the rest of the 02 03 P o as Upon searching this man's lodgings, nothiog nip foend in them of any consequence, and the it t ' ture was of the poorest description. ° r Kr Papers have been received in town from iiew7,, e up to the sth of OCtober, which contain noth'iclll moment. In an Address to the Voters of Frea er b o f County, they are reminded of the fast appro c o the Election of Delegates to the next Genera l A 0 sembly," in which Mr. JEFFERSON is accu sed 0 1 the " most tyrannical conduCl, in tutning ° t r act office the best tried servants of the country, in °lit, to give high offices to §tieh men as G A LO so ir TENCH, and Cox." It also 'accuses Mr. JEFF° bf of having repeatedly " , :;iolatld the Constittitittiled, having had the Judicial Law of the buttes rell3ther in order to turn out the Federal judges." It fu r o p ! positively asserts, that JEF F ERSON gave DER, the Editor of the Recorder, printed at K cot moral, an hundred dollars out of his own pos e : s 4 , writing of a book, in which the great WAitiaicor TON is attempted to be proved an enemy and tr to his country. svas tei The 3d Articke says, Mr. Jrettetc;os 110 f ch. upwards of thirty-two thousand dollars out ° fitr' Public Treasury, in repairing a ship called theft, 50 ceau, to be sent bacic to the French, frorrvvf" h ose) had been taken, when (to use their own i S lagot bi robbing, their trade on the High Seas ; an' thi sending an 'Ambassador and a Treaty.carrier,__ French Nation, Mr. JEFRERSON has run L-"_!. ex' tion to a very extraordinary and unne cessaU pence. e bi, : The Board. of Health of the City of Philad Poine reports, on the Ist of Otiober, the death an d adults andAwo children, in twenty-four houristioore _ a for the forty-eight preceding hours. 0.00; reports the death of nine adults and . tw° stilt in this ratio it goes on in the report uto p t he with an increase of Malignant Fever. his on Sti ri3 he confinement The Duke in D; ra C n ii ce o . lSlitlL is liberated from It is stated in a Morning Paper, tha t e lds, t arrived at BRUNET'S Hotel, first detachment of the French Agenrs). ,a at ill orlon- coo' be scattered around the Coast, and at. 0 • title ° Sea Ports of this country, under the _ f oie , b mercial Agents," or Consuls, for all the c houij e, towns of England, Scotland, and I re 4 ken f is et ta 'cler no Treaty of Commerce has Y and They are tin in number, Interpreters included, Leicester-mho oe re Per l *I to a ti e car cer