The Sun. — London, England, 1813-12-03 00:00:00

with L very ,AVY of hood MIN. (.!ILii7,, I lifloi;;;, niaUl...: ~3~~ -N1(311.11()11% tulvs.tlier 11, a . . 013. boit vate vesi eh, or' t.llls rw g° s , The a` .• inr i v o ariLY tip vet to of a"*k's Elbe to Ole :rug! is Ind l'arrioct, - ) org, (;'" 1111( 1 , r,frecht the, Orill ige n, coe: and 0131 : s ircii4t h - arc their „ o il 141 4 ' 1t ;0 01151 ' )111V station; Wi'ds Itr t o "11l „II it 1111 litiregh, 91: ( 1 the g itil .l l to egicti.ll: ovinc o : e. voeVil volbe‘ t ill)lltli l. itzief o ilere(l rife rc f lobs " ces (1 tbi i{Ol•t, sfirit 1401; ° , cosss 131": 13rc`, d el :I'lo 4 tit.of 01 3 " ° • ha d "11 cooq u ,i c li provil Holland alone an army of 25 ,000 Men is of detect to becrganized. The report of DAVOu utter A , " I " ll lfiture is repeated . Wit i ,,i‘cased con fideuce; and it i s add e d, t h at , the- strong fortress of Kehl, near Strasburg'', has been taken by assault by the Austrian that the French have evacuated Wittenberg—and that the Al lies had erossCd the Rhine, and were at ponn and Coblentz. The latter probably refers to ' CzE RNIcIIEWs incursion, which would doubtless be - followed by operations of greater magnitude. The MorningChroticle states, that VERIMEL has surreudered the Texel fleet, and been put under arrest. This is premature. Ile sent all the lately Impressed men on shore, and we tinderstand 'blot one Sailor for exßressing his 'attachment to the Orange. Prom this circumstance, and from those we related yesterday, it is not likely that will give up his infamous trust till compelled e ither by external or internal means ; when we 11 °Pe he will be hanged as an example to all traitors. At Laden the Landstrum bas been resorted to, 411 (1 eVery whefe as the Allies advtmce, their force , reun... iten . to greater efficiency thein`,they pos tssed in - the beginning of ,this sanguinary cam- Pai g n • To meet these Levies the Tlrant in vain aY brain France with unwilling conscription. " re beg to direct the notice of onr Readers to the Letter from Nancy, among our Extracts. Under our Naval News will be fund impor tant information in letters from Dover. The state P rance may be conceived from the situation of where absolute children are dragged forth, a nd the town rendered a desert, in order to swell the numbers of the atrocious Tyrant's armies, ll'herewith he would continue the subjugation of determinetko be free. An Embargo is l'Pected to be laid on all the French ports. Accounts from Passages have reached this coun try' The following are . all the matters which have reached us, but we cannot vouch for any of the facts stated. We arc. (rill, .however, •to have the pa in fu I rumour of evil dispelled by the dates of this news :--- " PLymourn, DEC. 1.--Arrived the brig Dispatch, from Passage) in ballast, bound to London, four d ays passage : tmga intelligence that some smart skirmishes between the "tile armi es took place in the neighbourhood of Bayonne, t o l* three days previous to her departure from , Passage, , nrit 'g Which a 6en e ral Officer is said to have fallen, and an Mt cur of distinction wounded. ~ l A tters o f the 24t h ult. were received yesterday flow. ''"it r%LtaNuToN't head-quarters. Its Lordship had ' l i4 44.11 it'cd siiiee the date of his last, dispateheS. r Wa vessels have arrived from Passage. One of them them d on the 25th ult. ana brings an account of the incessant tams having for some days preirented any Movement in t uaee ; but that having ceased, the eisralry &it'd artillery hail teen ordered to march. • " There was a report just before she sailed, that Sovt.T had then obliged to detach eO,OOO nun to his rear, to quell some disturbances that had broken out." This last is very probable. A private letter, "%Illicit we saw some days ago, asserted that the Cauicription %could be resisted at Bourticaux, Yesterdav the LORD CHANCELLOR and Count -- luiisTEit bad audiences of the Pargcu REGENT, at Lltlion Elaine • I)ukes of CLARENCE and NE NT visited the • itEGENT vestei'daY• i n ,t i s i t i e n i g 'day the Duke of CAMBRIDGE was engaged upon the French Princes, the Foreign ""of disnietion, Atnbass.ldors, and his particular friend, taking his farewell of them previous to his departure for Hanover. He arrived at Carlton i.l"se soi-in after four o'clock, where he luid an. tHterview with the rfiINCE REGENT. lii> Royal i ghness aftei wards went, to the Commander in Chief's Office. The Hanoverian horses, which ' la " been brought frum Windsor to London, to l'ctller with his Royal Highness's saddle-horses, 4 " l "tilig to about 30, left the King's Mews this I,l.loruitig for Canterbury, where they will remain , 1 1 1 ,11 the transports are ready for them at Ramsgate. lit baggage-waggons were loaded' yesterday in 'e King' h M ews , and, will also leave town this l i t ay for Canterbury. All the arrangements for his t nal 'Highness's departure being nearly com ?ie o. ted, be will leave t o wn this day or t morrow. T tit.rs have, it is reported, been received from • PeterSbugh, dattd the 3d ult. which announce qic arrival of Lord Wat.Pot,a in that city, and Which set entirely at rest the gnestion respecting t ltt LMVll.llOll's mediation for the restoration of Peace between Great Britain and the United States. A second offer f ‘i - of friendly interference fu r pur . e bein g made by Russia, the first - having been t Felincd, the Nobleman we have named, it is said, 1114 tirictly and postively declared, that his Govern- Itient would accede to no mediation to adjust the ( 16, 11 ues with America, either from Russia or.unyy. other Power. Mr. GALLATIN'S appointment of Commissioner having been negatived in the iT na te by a majority of one, both he and Mr. t y" .l . 4 s, wito was his Private secretary, are (Sicia, and the latter can therefore have a ll4 i diplomatic duty to perform in England. It i .„ tn ie, however, that as a matter of favour canvenience, he brought dispatches to Count ' t ":.v EN the R uss i an Ambassztdor at this Court. and Mr. ADAMS are sanctioned by the American senate ' for the conclusion of a coin tat treaty with Russia. l oirle late l e t ters b av elbeen rece ived from Italy , e 're from Genoa are to the beginning of No -1,11':'1411% lii that city,, and the adjacent country, Oes between 16 and CO yews of age, -were lured to e nro l r themselves fo the public de a4{o, NAVAL NIOITS, 11.tawitat, DEc. first mail tlotif 1401.- land arrived to-day; it was, made up at Armf u l'. dam. BLUCHER; with 1500* men, is in thre'chf and 600 Cossacks are in Hamburg!). The Prise of ECKSICHL has been defeated by CouHt Woßw: zow, with the loss of between 15 and 18,00 d men ; and the Allies are advancing towards Gor cum. Admiral VERHEuL still adheres to the French. • Fifteen The:wand, we suppose, is.rneant: • DOVER, DEC. 2.—A ship came in this morning, which left Calais last night, bei'ig apprehensive Of an immediate Embargo : she brings no news of consequence. BUONAPARTE remained at Paris; and yesterday morning it was slightly known at Calais that there bad been an insurrection in Hol land, and that the English troops had marched into Amsterdam. French troops, composed chicly of boys, were marching from all quarters in the direction of Holland ; not a soldier remained in Calais, nor in fact any male, except old men, crip ples, and infants. Two Swedish ships, and.ll ships from Oporto, have been ttiken, and carried into Calais and Dunkirk. ANOTHER LETTER, SAME DATE.--Arrived this morning a vessel from. Calais, under Prussian co lours, having. left that place last night. She states, that the insurrection in Holland was whis pered about yesterday morning, and every soldier able to carry a musket had left Calais for the army, and among them were' many boys of the last Conscription, not exceeding 12 years of age. It was thought an Embargo would be laid on every port throughout the country. MARGATE DEc. 2.---This town is crowded with soldiery, anx iusly waiting for a change of wind to enable them to reach the Coast of Holland.— Yesterday General Sir TuomAs GRAHAM and Earl RossLYN inspected the troops quartered here.— Our bay is covered with Dutch fishing-boats. The Military patronise a Ball at the Assembly Rooms on Monday, should they be detained so Mr. COBB, jun. gave, a grand dinner on Tuesday. We have a. considerable importation of Dutch cheese ; the seamen are profusely decorated with Orange ribbons. ' FALMOUTH, Nov. :O.—Accounts reached here this evening of the Little Catherine packet having been carried intti. Penz3nce, being picked up at sea by the Hotspur frigate, in lat. 47. without any person on board. From 'the state in which she• was found, the Officers conclude she must have been captured, being apparently plundered of, every thing, and .attempts having been made on her side to scuttle her. Two brass guns were only. remaining out of 14, the twelve others, it is supposed, were hove overboard in the chase. The' riail. F ri..c*.w.tuangtug a wait ', , m P 44 4.1 4 5,„ and her log-book was found on board; it wits kept up to noon of the 25th November, and on the 2fith, at desk, the Hotspur fell in with her. DEAL, DEC. 2.—Arrived his Majesty's schooner Pigmy from a cruise off the French coast, and the 4411 armed cutter tram Admiral YOUNG, off Flushing. PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 2.--Arrived his Majesty's ship Corge/i4 from a cruise. Came into harbour his, Majesty's ship Espoir. TLic Zephyr sloop of war is appointed to convoy the. West India trade, and other ships bound to Cork, and will proceed withotit delay. Mtixonn, Nov. 28.—Arrived the Unity, HARDY, from Guernsey to Cardiff. Sue was boarded on the 221 instant, about eight leagues sonth-east of ,the Lizard by a French lugger privateer, which plundered her, and then suffered her to proceed.— The privateer went in chase of a brig, which she soon captured. LEITH, Dec. I.—Arrived the Furious and Gal tat tiun-brigs4 with a convoy from Gottenburgh. 'They are part of .a very large fleet : the remainder are for England. THE HOMEWARD-BOUND BALTIC FLEET. Extract . vf a Letter from Hull.—" I have to in form you of my arrival. here this day, all, well, affer : ti passage 111 six'days front.Gottenburgh. W e sailed under convoy of three glin-bril;i ; .. .but the fleet were separated by two Danish sloops of war coming out of Norway, which took font' suit about a mile from me; one of them belonged to Hull. Four of the fleet have arrived here. " Dated on board the WiWant, in the Humber, Nov. tin, (Signed) " FRANCIS SKELTON." The Diana, Earl Ilowe;and Northampton,which were under orders to sail from Bengal for Europe, on the 4th of June, are daily expected to arrive in England. The Bontba►/, Elplanstone, Lady Melville, Ca balm, and Niptime, consigned to Bombay and China, and Sealeby Castle to St. Helena, Batavia, and China; will be dispatched at the India-house on the 18th instant, and will, it is expected, 'sail for India about Christmas. The Sussex, from Windan to , London, is lost at Windau. Yesterday the Duke of KlisT visited the Prin cess CHARLOTTE at Warwick flouSe. Her Royal Highness, attended by Miss' KNIGHT, took an airing in Hyde Park for about an hour and a half. The Royal Household in the Lord STEWAIIDA department, began paying on Tuesday to the Alichaelmas Quarter Lord WELLINGTON has appointed that distin guished Officer, Lieut.-Colonel GRANT, of the 15th Dragoons, a Colonel on the Staff, with the com mand of the 4th Brigade of Cavalry, late tinder the orders of MajorAlew.ral Los 4. • Part of the armathent preparing for sliolland consists of a strong Rc ke ket Brigade. The em barkation will be superinteuiled by COLCONGREYE himself. • t7Ni-04 O tiltbi-Asdto, wits an inter6tifig and, import ant day to the Masonic World ; for on that day it vtas .formally announced in the two Grand Lo:to2s, by the Doke of .1-7.ENT, (;raoci Master of the )_'reentlsons of England, acoording to the old Institutions, and by the Duke of SUssEx, Grand Later of the Freemasons node: . the Constitution of England, that Articles of :Union between the 'two Fraternities had been signed and sealed at Kensingmit Palace, on Thursday the 25th of Nom venther last,.after the twt) zio;:icties•had been se parated for a century. • We - stated, that some time ago his Grace the Duke of Athol, who had ‘t-,ien Grand Master of the Ancient Masons for 23 yt .s, resigned the situation in favour of Co; lluke of 17 tla. Since his appointment as Grand toaster, the negociation fOr an union, begun under ,the auspices of his Royal Highness the Prince Reg :;tt and Earl Moira, when that Noble Man was Commander in Chief in Scotland, has gone on, in which, assist . - ed by three Commissioners, his Royal Highness has had several conferences with his Royal Bvo tber, who was also assisted by three Commission ers on the part of the.other Fraternity. The re suit of which waS the formal sigoature of Articles of Union, on Thursday sennight ; in which the principles, traditions, and,practice of the Ancient Craft, as well as the rights and privileges of every ,Member of both Commeities, are completely - preserved. It was further agreed, that two Grand Lodges should he held, on one and the same day, to coniirm anti ratify the saute ; which accord ingly tools phice on Wednesday last. Preciously to the promulgation of the measure of Union, the Grand Lodge of Mascts ; according to the old institutions, was held at the Crown and Anchor Tavern, for the installation of the Duke - of Kent as their Grand Master. The eereMony was conducted with all. the rites and solemnities which have been handed down to Masons from the earliest ages, and of which we may nor render an account. His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex, accompanied by the Grand Officers of his ( Fraternity who had insisted at the conferences, and several other distinguished Meothers;took the degree of Master Mason, according to the 'an cient forms, in a private Lodge, as an example, which is to be reciprocal, for the sake of perfect .equality, to all the Members of both the Grand .Lodges The procession then took place towards the prair:lLod g e in the following order:— ORDER'OF TH.E . PROCESSION AND CEREMONY. • ' ' Grand Pursuirant, with his stair. Luis 'loyal Highness's Band. of Music, .being 'Masons. 11'he Regalia of the Grand Two Master Elect, Grand Strwards, • Gtand stewards, o n a velvet cusnton, thz i s t t l a i ve;s. Grand steward. to be borne by a • t h e i rwith staves. Nine Excellent Masters, three. and three, bearing the :mph!- , • ments of Masonry. • . - • ' The first Three with those of the Entered 4ppreutiee. The second Three with thoseof the Fellow Craft. Thelast Three with those of the• Master Mason. Banner of fhe.floly Royal i‘rch. • • • • Grand Principal t,f the Holy - Royal Arch. • • • TheDeputyGrandSeeretary,bearingthe ufLonstitutions. The Gran, Secretary, bearing the Great. Seal. . . The Grmit Preasorer, with his Key. , • . Grand W arden y$ of other 1..0dAre... , :-;---- - roe rati. ..4.1454r7 Juntur Crrand Vs - Arden Qrt a perh:stal, b urnt by a Illater Maioh. The Juuhir G 7 rand Warden, with his Gavel. Past f The Standard of 1 . Post Gland Wardens Ancient Masonry. j. Grand Wardens, The Pillar of the Senior Grand Warden, borne-ass before. The Senior Grand Warden, with his Gavel. • The Deputy Grand Chaphtio, his cassock, bearing the Holy • Bible, square nod compass, on a velvet cushion. The Grand. Chaplain in I,is robes. • Deputy Grand .Masters of other Ludges,.visitors. Past Deputy Grand Masters, too and two. 'Past Grand MaNters of other Lodges, visitors. The . Banner of the late. Grand- Master. Deputy Grand Muster of EnglamL ' • The Banner of the Grand Mastet.Elect: Grand Sword Dearer., - GRAND MA-STEM ELECT, H. It. H. the Duke of KENT, • Supported by H. H. the Duke of Sussex, • • grand Master of the other Fraternity of English' Masons. Two Grand Stewards. Grand Tyler. After the ceremonies in the Lodge, vrtich can neither be. written nor described, • . The Grand Chaplain proclaimed the Installation, after sound of trumpet, with an audible Voice, in the...e words, thrice repeated— H ea r ye—The Mo,t, Worshipful his Royal Highness Ed ward; Duke of Kent anti Strathearn, Earl of Dublin,'Rnight Companion of the Must Noble Order of the t ;after, and of the. Most Illustrious . Order of St. .Patrick, Field Marshal of his Majesty's Forces, Gitvertior of Gibraltar, ColOnel of the First or Royal Scots Regiment of Foot, Gland :Sl:liter of Masons in eitnatiti, c. tke,&.c. is installed Grand Muster of the Free and Accepted Masons of England, according to the Old Inititu- , tioos,—Whoin way :3041'1011g preserve To whi.ol the whole Fraternity- said " Amen The Grand • Chaplain then offered up a prayer to tlt-e Di rinu.Architect of the Universe, and invoked a blessing on 1.1. t work. The Ode, written f»r the occasion, was then performed, as we stated yesterday. After the ceremony in the Grand Lodge, their Royal Highnesses, accompanied by the Grand Of ficers'Visitors, and a large body of iaster Masons, , repaired in procession to another huge roam,' where an elegant dinner was prepared. The Duke. of Kent was supported in the chair by his Royal Brother, and his Excellency the Minister from Sweden to Spain, who is a Grand Master Mason. The afternoon was spent with high conviviality. At eight o'clock, the two Grand Masters, accom panied by their respective Grand Officers,' pro ceeded to hold aGrandLodge—the one in the hall which had beeri occupied in the forenoon—the other at Freemasons' Hall, in Great Queen-street; in both of which, we understand, the Act ,of Union was, pethaps, at the same instant unani mously approved of and confirmed. The gra a d Assembly of both Fraternities, for the Re-union, is to he held on the (lay of St. John the Evangelist (\londay, the 27th 'of December, instant), to which there is to he a brotherly ap plication to the Grand Lodges of Scotland and Ire land, to send Deputies, that perfect and entire uniformity may be established throughout Masonic world. A more exemplary or more decorous meeting we never witnessed than that of Wednesday last.-- Above one thousand Master Masons were as sembled in the Hall, ►►ll uniformlY dressed h► black, with their Mason►C distinctions, white gloves And aprons, their banners ranged on the walls, and all placed according to degree. The silence, attention, and order that prevailed throughout the whole ceremony, were signal proof's of the in fluence which Masonry has on theafind. ."'.'tilei.fi..,t§ . firtiotsb4, EXAMINAJO'N;j)? TOO:11AR ON A airAiidi OF MURDEitMr PRESTO, t'DNSTA:67O34 Yesterday Mr. Aldernian iVOOD he trTiiieWei . at Glit3pur-street Compter; in support el a Ort.trei' of wil;nl 1110:.der tigiali‘St 1110111aS ithodet,; Wks . put to tilt; bar hand-cittfed; but not in irons;' lie is of a sh,,rt stature; sttint make, and dark ebniplexion: there W! , .!notitt;.-i . q. in his appearaneg' or departmene,pecidiarly Marked or striking. in the qxamination be was perfectly COmpriSedi and appeared to have a clear and Niirt:CL idea 4f -ail that pas!;:e.l. We have heard that he l only 22 years of are. 9,e . ;Orge - Metdaife, the porter, w as fi rst eXti-. ; mined . ; next Mr. James Charles, clerk and wine houseman to Messrs. Daniel Haigh and Co.--; The evidence of neither of these persons differed . least from that given before the. Coroner, which we published yesterday. When Charles's tertimony - , as finished ; the Alderman informed .the prisoner, itto it *as his intention, after all the evidrd was wine through, to ask him whe ther he any cause to shew Why lie should not be committed but if Itepleased, lie might observe on the evidence as far As it had proceeded. The prisoner ansteered, that the evidence of 'Metcalf certainly' was not correct, but he Would reserve himself. s Samuel Tow was next called. this man was one of the keepers who went to • secure Rhodes, and was the first who tusked into the counting: house after the pistol was tired that killed Presto. Tow's evidence was the same as he had given be fore the Coroner, with the addition, that 9 fret. Rhodes had snapped the second pistol , he secured him, just as he was cocking it again. Mr. Heddiiigton, a surgeon, who examined the, body, was called, and deposed as to the cause tif the deceased's death. Mr:, Alderman Wool) then addressed the pri soncr—" Mr. Rhodes, you have !mart' the evi dence in support of the charge of murder, against. you, antlyott cannot for a moment suppose theft I will hesitate in committing you for trial, 'unless you can shew sonic strong and sufficient reason to the contrary : but, in so doing, let me eautiou you not.to say a word that may in the least weigh against yourself.!' " I wish, Sir (said Rhodes), for a Copy cat the evidence you have taken against tuc. — The Alderman.—" I cannot give you that now . ; I only tv;it to bear frmn you, whether you can she any sufficient cause why I Should not com mit yoWfor trial before a Jury of your country Answer.--No, I cannot : I must meet the charge in the best WAy I can. Q.--130 - you wish to say any tbjng just now A.--No., I. do not. The. prisoner Wits then committed to take his trial for the 'wilful murder of Samuel Preto on the 30th of November last. The Alderman asked him if he had any friends or relatives who would come for: to assist him with their advice, or if he wisLed to have counsel. lie replied, that he had relatives in London, but that he did not k tibAV that he had 0.111, The Aldertrom informed him, that as the ses shins were notv holding, and as the Graud.3ury might find their bill, even bcfort: the day wex.. pired, it was necessary he should make up his mind as toi the course he intended to pursue ;• but ,if 'he would assign any reasonable motive fur 'de lay. such delay should bt afforded hiM, and his trial should not come on until next SesAons. The prisoner replied, be had no wish an the subject, hitt would meet it the best way he could. lle requested to be informed at the curliest mo ment, whether his trial would take place. this Ses sions or the next. Mr. Alderman %Vont) then fully committed the prisoner for trial, for the wilt►til murder of Sanwa - Presto. Mr. James Charles was bound over to prose- cute, and the other ‘vitneSses were bound over to appear. They instantly atter leaving Oi street .Compter, 'trent before Grand Jury, and the prisoner was committed to Newgatc. In the course: of the examination, the Alderman refuSed to admit any evidence relatiVe to the pri'- soner's insanity. " By an 'error of the press, we'said yesterday, that the acconntS from the . Netheriands were mkt favourable, instead of Which, it should have been were inost favOnrable." {Morning Chronick),--Th, I'Lintcr conicl not belieYe their senses that a wri= ter in this I'Jper should say, that. there were /au4 favourablv accounts, ilotr. ~thy'Ally of Great BC!. tain or Elionv to BuouaParap,, and in ende.a. vourinoto emend the sense of the pass”ge, they fell into the mistake which caused this curious erratum. .GEouct ALLAN, Dim of Grange, in Ole county of Durham, is elected ffor the city of Durham, his opponent, Mr. POVi'LAND ) having on MoLday de clined the contest A correspondent' near Stornoway, Scotland, of great respectability, pledges hiniself for the truth of the 'following singular occurrence, and states that the man is now on one of his farms the month of March, 1811, ALAS. MARTIN beCillll4: deranged in his mind, in which state be pint'd away to a mere Slit:10011, and his hafr became grey. In March, 1813, he became perlectiy.sane, and in the course of one night his hair resumed its former colotir; dark-brown ; has .been.ever in the best state of health, and is getting tea tint in his habit of body as before the melancholy vi sitation.—llecklij journal, PED RtT RI AN 1 iM ..*—WedfleSdaY morning a young man named EARL, undertook, for a wager of 5/. to go on foot from the Obelisk, in Fleet •strvet, to Clapham, and back again, in two hours no d a quarter, the distance marked out being sixteen miles. The morning, vas higid favourable, and be came in two minutes within the time, conN-ExcuANtig, 144. 3. , -Orir Market to-day was very thinly qt plk4 with the different kinds of Crain, ow i ngtii t contrary wind. Wheat, Oata , , and Beans, noiintuit: the prices of Wednesday last; and in other kinds of Grain there was no material alteration sio:,e Monday. SMITHFIELD MARNIi Li•EV • 6,. .-This dny'S Wald wis rat t well supplied with iho rarions kinds of Cattle; atl was cheaper; MOHO!) was dearer; Beef and Pork support hit prices; and the trade. for the most part, was sninywhnt`thst. The sales in the May-market were rather ; flay obtuine4 last price; straw DWI claw have fallen In pike: