The Sun. — London, England, 1807-05-28 00:00:00

NA N/ AL NEWS. PLYMOUTH, MAY 25.—Thc... • Royal George,' of 110 guns, Vice Admiral Sir J. T. DucKwoit - r4, hove in sight yesterday afternoon, standing for the Harbour, When a Signal was made by Telegraph, ordering her to proceed to Portsmouth, when she im mediately tacked ind stood to the Eastward. Arrived the Plot er Sloop of War from a Cruize Off Cape Finisterre, in company with the Amethyst and Dryad Frigates, where they captured the French Schooner Privateer La Josephine, of 4 guns, whose arrival is hourly expelled.—A large Ship has been also captured by the Plover, from the Mauritius, With a valuable cargo Qf board, bound to France, ISLANDS o SCILLY, MAY Ig.—Passed close the Islands, and sent her Boat on shore, His Majesty's Ship Plover, Capt. BRowx, who informs, that, seve ralleagues to the westward, they fell in wilh and Captured, after a long chase, a French Schooner, mounting 14 guns ; and has also on this cruize de tained a very valuable East Indianian front the Isle of France, cleared for Hainburg - h, her cargo esti mated at 100,0001. said to he the cargo of the Zarren Hastings, which was soiree tiihe since cap tured by the Piedmontese Frigate after a severe aftion. Arrived His Majesty's hired Armed Ship Haile pin, having under convoy two large Sloops with stores, fur Biddeford t the Yeoman's Glory, J. Cow IL, Master, from Swansea. Came to an anchor, at the back of the Islands, and since driven off to sea, the Industry, of Exeter, from Newport, laden with iron ; she, has lost both the bowsprit and boom, and otherwise much dis abled. It is hoped that she Way reach Cork, in 'lreland, the wind being favourable; every exertion Was made here by the Pilots to give her assistance, but without effe&. A mackarel Scan Boat, just come in, brings the bnple3sant account, that she saw a Sloop founder on the 18th inst. between the Land's End and these Liancls, and all on board perished: Came in His Majesty's hired Brig Endeavour, of Swansea, and several coasters, names unknown. The wind here for these three days has done con siderable damage to the early crops ; such has been the blight that almost every thing has the appear ance of being burnt, especially the early crops of potatoes, which in these Islands are of the first con sequence to the inhabitants, they being in general of a superior quality, and great quantities shipped off annually. PORTSMOUTH, MAY :37.—Arrived the Excellent, (4 74 guns, Capt. WE.SI - , from the Downs; Dapper Gun-brig, Lieut. GAADNLR, from Jersey ; and the Childers Sloop of War, from a cruize to the West ward. Sailed the Ant Schooner, Lieut. Bor', on a cruize off Havre. SUEBRNESS, MAY 27.--Sailed the Sappho Sloop of War, Capt. LANGFOAD, for the Downs. Haig PAW EWE . o'CLoca.—Just came down the rtiver, and sailed for Deal, two outward-bound East Indiamen. The Journeymen Tailors here have struck, in order to obtain au increase of wages. The Masters ap. Pointed a meeting at a public-house to receive, and, if possible, adjust their claims, which coming to the knowledge of some Naval Officers, whose Ships are fitting at this Port, and in want of hands, they paid them a visit, and sele&ing ten of the stoutest, took them on board, where they will no doubt them selves learn, and on return in peace, be able to in culcate into the minds of their brother Snips, the Wholesome sea doctrine of —never to strike. GREENOCK, MAY 25.—The Ship rt illiam , APLEA, from hence for St. Thomas's, was captured on the B th ult. in lat. 18. 5. N. long. 57. ; W. by a French privateer, of 12 guns and 120 men, after an engage- Ment of 20 minutes, Ind recaptured by His Majesty's Ship St. Christopher, two days after, and carried to Antigua. While the William was in possession of the 4etny, they plundered her of about 150 packages of Roods, Besides the above, intelligence has been re eired by the Lord Hobart Packet, of the following . r aptures :—The Ship Dykes, of Liverpool, taken by t he French 'Privateers Fripon' and Vengeance, in the West Indies; the Culmore, of and from Londonder ry to Barbadoes, taken and carried into Guadaloupe, 4 3' the General Ernotif; His Majesty's Ship St. Lucia, b oarded and taken by the Fripon and Vengeance, a nd arrived at Guadaloupe. The Herald, MiKessocK, from hence to Jamai• 14 ) is said to have been carried into Guadaloupe. The Ships , Harriet, of Lanco:ter Highlander, °f Glasgow ; Alexander, and Anna, both of Liver- N°l, have been taken by the Alert French Priva teer; the former retaken by H. M. S. illosambipe, 411 d carried into Antigua, and the three latter car ried into Guadaloupe. thAL, MAY 27.—Arrived His Majesty's Ships 11Pijubts and Juno, from the Westward. Sailed for the Nore, the Explosion, from ro;ts mouth ; and Ihmter, front Falmouth, with con voys, which are sailed for the River; alio the Laly PuiLtirs, from Plymouth. P. S. Arrived the Experiment, -, from the East Indies ; and Ranger Navy Transport, from Portsmouth, and remains in the Downs, with the Explosion, Humber, and the rest of the Ships a, pier last; also the Lord Nelson, ANDERSON, for Su rinam ; and the Atlantic, -, for Lisbon. DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZE MONEY To the Officers and Companies of his Majesty's Ships Hercules. Theseus, La c,que, Blanche, lElius, and Dest r6e, for the Capture of La Clorinda, Le Surveillante, La Virtue, Le Cert . , and La Decouverte t on the z:>th Nov. and ri Dec. 18 , 3, on the 3d of tune , at No. 3, Salter's- hal court, Cannon-street ; anti every Monday and Thursday, at the same place, 'for three years. the Officers and Company of his Majesty's Ship Sea gull, tor the re-capture of the lane, of Sunderland, on the 24th Feb tBo7, the salvage thereof, on board, in the Downs, and every Wednesday and Thursday, between t t and 3, for three rears, at No. 9, New broad-street. To the Officers and Company oil" is Majesty's Sloop Spit. are, for the Capture of Les Deux Freres, oil the 29th De eember, 18,4, on board, in the Downs, and every 'Wednes day and Thursday, between eleven and three, at No. 9, New Broad-street, tir three months. To the Officers and Companies of His Majesty's Ships Otter, Kangaroo, anA Cl4le, for the Re-capture of the Farn ley, on the loth February, t S O 7, on board, in the Downs, and every kVednesday and Thursday, between eleven and three, at No. 9, New Broad-street, for three months. To the Officers and Company of His Majesty's Ship L'Egyptienne, tor the capture of La Libre, in company with His Majesty's Ship La Loire, on the z4th of Decemner, every Wednesday and "Thursday, between eleven and thre,:, at No. 9, New Woad-street, for three months. To the Officers and Company of His Majesty's Lugger Speculator. for the Capture of the French Vessel La Viet°. rieuse Hont!cur, on the 24th October, 1803, on the first of j;me, at the Chamber of Commerce, Portsmouth ; and every Monday and Thursday for three, years, at the saute place. ROYAL NAVY.—Progrescion of Strength.—lt ap pears, from an authentic Memoir, that in the year 1548, under EDWARD VI. the number of vessels was 53, and the tonnage 11,268. In 1793, the vessels were 498, and the tonnage 433,226. In 1805, the vessels were 949. NEW SHIPS OF WAR. --The following Ships of the Line are now building at Chatham Dock-yard, and the Merchants' yards :—Howe, 120; Trgfizigar, 98 ; Impregnable, 98 ; IParspite, 74 ; Poiotiers, 74 ; Vengeur, 74 ; Vigo, 74 ; Aboukir, 74, and Crescy, 74. By the Isabella, GREnN, an American, whose ar rival from Buenos Ayres has beibre been announced, we learn the following particulars :—She left that city on the Ist of March, at which time a part of the British Squadron had come up the Over, and was then lying opposite to a small town on the north side of the La Plata, not far from Buenos Ayres . . A Flag of Truce had been sent on shore, and some provisions obtained in consequence. The inhabitants throughout the country were certainly hostile to the British, and in Buenos Ayres, in par ticular, were making great preparations for the ex peded attack. No order of discipline, however, appeared among them ; and the embarkation of the 5000 that were sent out to aid Monte Video, prior to the storming of the works of that fortress, ex hibited a most tumultuous and disorderly speetacle indeed. The Isabella sold her cargo of British ma nufattures to considerable advantage ; none of it went into Buenos Ayres, but was sent up the coun try ; part was destined to Lima. The town of Buenos Ayres is about the size of Liverpool, and the adjacent country is well peopled ; but the houses and mode of living of the inferior orders are slovenly in the estreme. The follovAng is a Copy of Letter from the Pre sident of the United States of America, to the King Of HOLLAND, intercepted by one of the ships of the North Sea Squadron, under the command of Admi ral ilusstt. " Great and Good Friend—Having received your, letter of September last, which notifies your acces sion to the Throne of Holland, I tender you, •in be half of the United States, my congratulations on this event. Connected with that Nation by the earliest ties of friendship,- and maintaining such un interrupted relations of peace and commerce, no event which interests their welfare can be indiffe rent to us. It is, therefore, with the greatest plea sure I receive the assurances of your Majesty. that you will continue to cherish those antient relations : and we shall, on our part, endeavour to strengthen your good will by a faithful observance of justice, by all the good offices which occasion shall permit.— Distant as we are from the Powers of Europe, and devoted to pursuits which separate us from their af fairs, we still look with brotherly concern on what affe6ts those nations, and offer constant prayers for their welfare. With a frividly solicitude for your Majesty's person, 1.. pray God that he may always have you, great and good friend, in his holy keep ing. Written at the City of Washington, the 26th day of February, 1807. " Your good Friend, `` THOS. JEPFERSON. " BY Order of the President, " J. MADDISON, Sec. of State." The enemies of Government assert, that the sense of the People. will not in general be manifested in the returns to Parliament ; alledging that Ministers have exerted themselves too much to secure the re turn of their own friends and supporters. But there can hardly be a stronger proof of the injustice of this charge than what is to be found in Westminster— for, is it possible to suppose that if Ministers had exerted themselves in the manner which they are accused of doing, the second City in the British Em pire would have been left .to the triumph of the very worst part of it, in the choice of a man whose Prin ciples seem to be at war not only with the present system of Government, but with every species of political establishment necessary for the support and existence of Civil Society. A Critic on the present Exhibition, adverti►rg to LAWRENCE'S Pi&ure of Sir FRANCIS BARING and his two Partners, speaks of the difficulty " of eliciting much pic9uresque matter from any given quantity of three English Gentlemen."—This passage reminds us of wl at FIELDING says of Blifil's love, which he describes as' an attachment to " a .certain delicate Quantity of white human flesh." TO THE EDITOR OF THE sur SIR, your Thursday's Paper is an Address from m toy high and respe&able Members of the Roman Catholic Church, written with a view of convincing their Protestant Fellow-subjeas of their steady loyalty and attachment to the Princes of the House of Brunswick. The names subscribed, Sir, arc fully sufficient to entitle it to every sort of respect; and as its ostensible object is to lay before the public the solemn and con , prehensive oaths they are required to take, and would consent to take, on entering into any posts of trust, I Would not be thought, Sir, fir a moment, to insinuate any thing of suspicion or doubt, with regard to the integrity, honour, and sincerity, with which not only those subscribing Peers and Gentlemen, but many; . eithers of the Catholic persuasion, would bind themselves by such asseverations. But it the Address alluded to, Sir, is meant to ap ply to the whole question before the publiq at pre sent, I must freely declare, I do not think it compe tent to do so in any degree. The question before the public, Sir, I conceive, is not whether Lord Sllazwsauay and Lord PETRE, and the Vicar Apos tolical, Dr. Dococas, are likely to be disloyal to our beloved Sovereign, nor yet whether the oaths to be administered are likely to secure the obedience and submission of any commissioned Catholics ; but I apprehend the question to be this, whether we shall trust human nature so far as to give up the prefe rence, at present constitutionally due to the Pro- testants, in favour of the Roman Catholics ? For that it might soon come to this, if the Roman Catholics were entrusted with Power, I have not the smallest doubt—indeed I think too well of the. Roman Catho lics to fancy it could be otherwise. If they are by any means. so sincere as they pretend to be, in their attachment to the principles of the Church of Rome, I cannot believe it to be possible, but that in any cases of competition, where matters are equal, they should not feel a bias towards Catholics. But how many opportunities would occur, if the Catholics were in power, of favouring Catholics, without any egregious invasion of the rights and pretensions of Protestants ? Such preference, and such bias, in cases of open and equal competition, would be na tural ; and as power generally multiplies friends, but always multiplies adherents, and the same post and power cannot be possessed by two individuals at once, so that for every Catholic in office, some Pro testant must be excluded, how long might we rea sonably expebt it to be before some essential ascend ancy and majority, now in favour of Protestants, would -be transferred to the Catholics ? Supnose, Sir, it should be in the Army oi Nacv, or both, how easily might that in time lead to an ascendancy and a majority in the Senate ; and what is to become of the Protestant Succession, -when there is a majority in that very Senate which constitu tionally exc!uded the Catholic House of Stuart ? This, Sir, is the question before. the public. It is not, as i said before, whether Lord SdREAVSBUItY, Lord PETRE, Sir HEsa ENGLEFIELD, Sir JOHN THROCKMORTON, as individual Peers and Baronets, are loyal, will be loyal, or would be loyal, serving in our Fleets and Armies, or acting in a minority, for I firmly believe they would be so, but whether as men they could be expeiT.ted, in the nature of things, having power, to exert that power in behalf of the present Protestant Ascendancy .? This is the ques tion, and a few words on the late Change may help to explain it. Had the writer of this been a Mem 7 ber of either House of Parliament he would have insisted more upon it than any Member appears to poke upon the occasion. have done who s • Dreadful has been the outcry about the pledge required of the late Ministry ; but, Sir, what was it ? was it. a pledge that the then Ministers would never again, as individuals, speak to His Majesty upon the subjeal of the Catholics ? Was it a pledge even that they should not, in their private capaci ties, counsel the King to grant further indulgencies to his , Catholic SubjeCts ? Far from it. Our good and gracious King knows full well that my Lord CRENVILLE is, as a Peer, one of his hereditary counsellors ; and he knows full well that my Lord HowicK, and many others, were at the time Mem bers of Parliament ; to none of whom has he ever been ac customs to refuse a private audience; they may all be admitted to his presence when they please. The pledge, therefore, required of Lord GRENVILLE was this : will you forbear, DCA as Lord GRENVILLE, for as such you have a full right to counsel me as you please, but will you fi)rbear, as Prime Minister, to press this measure upon the Parliament? Here was the difference—Lord GRENVILLE knows he may have his privilege of a private audience to this hour, and Lord HowicK too, by His Majesty's condescension but His Majesty may know, per haps, what I knoNi, that the private influence of a GRENVILLE is far different from his public influence• ilk Majesty may know,. what I know, that Lord GRENVILLE, out of power, though his talents: are splendid, and his chara6ter stands liigli„.Cannot yie . . with His Majesty on the score of generc.li.optilatity, Surely, then, nis Mnj.:sty had a right to say, do not go down to ParliaMent with this measure, clothe i in my popularity, but your own ; go there and pro pose it, if you please, as Lord GRENVILLg, but not as my Prime Minister. Ido not know, indeed, that His Majesty ever exealy thought or said this, but I am sure I have thought and said it for him, during the discussion of the business., and I am sure he has a&ed exactly as I wished him to ad, so thinking and saying to myself, One word more in regard to the pledge said to b exacted of the present Ministry. Why are they supposed to have given any pledge ? Has not his Majesty long known well enough,ehat in genera they have thought with him upon this Catholic Question ? Therefore, when he dismissed those who thought differently, whom could he chuse but those whom he knew to think with her ? Where was any pledge required, or where .was the necessity for any ? lam sick, Sir, of reading such charges. The case seems to lie in a small compass—Lord HOWICK and the Ft./KITES, while in opposition, avid active Members of the Whig Club, voluntarily, nay ostentatiously, pledged themselves to the Catholics, Revolutionists, Reformers, Dissenters, &c. to do so many things that they wished to have done, that when they came intoadministretion I have no doubt but they were really worried almost to death by the numerous claims that were brought forward. Mr. Fox, am told, said very wittily, that his expeaants lay three in a bed ; and I have also heard another very witty application of his, when he gave his first Ministerial dinner; when being asked who were his company, turn, says he, to the twenty-second chapter of the first book of Samuel, verse 2, and there you will find an 'exaa list of theM. I firmly believe they were overwhelmed with these expo Cants and claim ants, andehe Catholics were of course among then:. That they tried to keep back the Catholic claims, is acknowledged by themselves ; not being however suAred to do so, they proposed an extension of the Bill of 1793. In the first communication of the Bill proposed, there was somewhere oi• other an equivocal expression, which the Catholics interpret ed in their own favour ; and the Ministry being questioned about it, did not venture to refuse what the Catholics had thus been induced to exped. Then were introduced so:ne new terms which might convey this boon ; but His Majesty was not ex pressly apprized of the sl!eratiee. It was sent to him, but the alteration, I appreheed, ws.; so ti-ifling, in point of expression, that any body besides His to might have overlooked it ; and had His .14,,jesty none so, I much doubt (tboueh I grieve to say it) whether Lord G. or Lord H. ear— or— or— would have ever let him into the secret. The matter however was luckily discovere.d in time, and His Majesty very properly said, if you :neon to go these lengths, return to your own private situa.; lions, and let the public judge between .us ; and here the n h at present rests. Election advertisements, and speeches from the hustings, have tended so to perplex the subjeCt, that I have been inclined to avail myself of the op portunity of the Catholic Address in your Riper of Thursday, to endeavour to simplify the whole busi ness, at least as it appears to me. The cry of " No Popery," as 1 cry of faaion, I abominate ; but as the cry of prudence, wisdom, and foresight,. I think it. extremely reasonable, extremely just. I am, Sir, Your obedient Servant, N. May 24, 1807. We are authorized to say, that the next Harrow Speech day will be on Tuesday the t)d June, instead' of Thursday, Thursday being the Anniversary of His Majesty's Birth-day. Yesterday, about two o'clock, as the Duke 3 of YoRK and CAMBRIDGE were coming out of the Queen's Palace, a woman, about forty 7 five years of age, decently dressed, presented a letter 'to the Duke of YORK, at the door of the Lodge. His Royal Highness was about to take thi: letter, but Sayers, who was in attendance, knowing her . a n d suspealing she was deranged, put her asid‘, and de sired her to go home. She went a few yards frota the house,, but in - a few minutes returned 'close to the ra;lway of the Palace, and remained there during . the whole afternoon. About five o'clock, when the King's travelling carriage entered by the iron gate before the Palace, to wait for His Majesty, She rushed in after it, unperxived by tlid centinels. She was, however„observed ,by Say . .ers, and Mr. Baker, the Gebtlernan PcA - ter, they, tollowed hcr' with all pos , :ible speed, and st.opt her lielore she got to the door of the Palace. SayerS secUred tier, and took the letter from her. It appeared to be diretied to the King and Queen, and with " God sate the . :',H;g" on it. There were five other letters inclosed' in it. From their contents there was no doubt of her being deranged. Her name a pp ears to be Mar-: garet Flett, ard she resides in Star -court, East Smithfield. Those who recollected the appearance of Margaret Nicholson, when she attempted to stab the King, say, she is a similar woman, and dressed exACtly like her. .Last Thurs'iay a servant girl in a family of fashion, near Sandby, i 7 Bedfoidshire, was apprehended on suspicion of murdering, her new-born bastard child. On the preceding Monday, in the absence of m ost of the family, she tookim opportimity of deilvericAr 'hcrl.etf. The infant she concealed in-a closet till tit Wedneaday,;wherr she buried it in th e garden. 'nes., e a. bein g apparent, she was committed :yr trial.