The Sun. — London, England, 1802-04-20 00:00:00

LONDON, APRIL 20, xSoz. TACKSON, it is said, is to bring over the tioni of Peace. He may now be hourly ex- —but we understand there 'was some doubt e. Spanish Ratification, would reach Paris on in which case it may yet be a day or two we receive the:Ratifications here. zs rnnrning we received Faris Journals of the in;t. They contain little , that is very im nt. The EMPEROR of RUSSIA has issued an e, by which 'French Books are permitted to iy imported into his dominions, and yvithout am►nation. lie :contents of these - Journals will be found r the Paris head. 'The Tiers Consol. on the uth-55. 30. THE Three garnburgh Mails due, arrived this morning. By theni - we Jearn, that accounts had reached Vienna, of the Ratificatiop of the Treaty between the Porte and France.' A Courier had also arrived from Constantino l sle, to Lord PAGE; to inform hi'm that the differences with the Porte had been accommodated to the satis faaion of both parties. A Dutch Mall, which also arrive.' this mori;irg, brings nothing of importance whatever. This morning , arrived a Mail from Lisbon, brought to Faluiciuth2 by the Duke of York Packer, in 16 days. It is settled that the office of Commander in Chief shall be continued during Peace, and that it shall still be filled by the DUKE of Yo ßtc. The office was discontinued after the American War, but there are precedents for its existence during Peace. Five Generals, it is thought, will also be continued on the Staff during Peace ; and these, it is conjectured, will be HULSE, GWYNNE, MOORE, VVIIITELOCK, and ENGLAND. Upwards 0f400,0f the zzd regiment ofDragoons disembarked .on Saturday at Portsmouth from •two Transports, from Malta. A part of the 24th regi ment ; the remainder of the Qtre EN 'S CierniatlS the Banmffshire and Princeof WALES'S Fencible re giments, landed there last week, from Transports lately arrived from the Mediterranean. The Subscription to the Hospitals at York, in stead of Illuminations, already amounts t 0.2701.— The Subscription at Bath, on the like'occasion, ex ceeds !Co guineas. We have before enlarged so much upon the na ture and probable, consequences of the warfare in St. Domiq*, that we think it unnecessary to en ter very, minutely into an examination of the last details given by the French Commanders of that expedition. The dispatches which they send are foli- of military description, and calculated to flat ter the sanguine expeaatidns of the French na tion ; but upon the actual nature of the war in th a t , country we haven() reason, from these recent' dis-, patches, to change any opinion we had previously formed. .It *ill certainly be a protraqed warfare, and therefore very fatal to the French troops. Upon - the success of this Expedition, we have often stated, that the fate of Our own West India Possessions, in a great measure, depends ; and con sequently, it is our duty and interest to wish it success ; but it is not the praaice, either of the English Government, or of an English Journalist, • to - disguise the truth---In this Country, we meet our Military or Naval misfortunes, of which, cer tainly, we have of late years 'had, (under the bles -sing and dirthion . of Providence), a very small -pro portion indeed, with manly fortitude and resigna - - . tion. We state the whole extent of our misfortune at once, and the Spirit of_the Nation reconciles itself to it, and at the same moment furnishes the remedy. In France, we find a more sanguine and figurative mode of expression in the Public Dispatches, and in the communications made to the People of that-Country, which may perfeCtly suit the genius of the French People, but which demands, on our part, a little deliberatim . We are more and .more convinced of the difficulties that the French have to encounter in the new I,Varfare in • which they have engaged. ' They acknowledge in some instances the arduous circumstances they' have had to contend with, and they seem to anticipate the calamities that await them from the consequences _of the cl.ange . 3 ,eason in that climate so de btrUetiVe to an European constitution.. These sig nals of - alarm may be considered a:k the certainty of •doubt on the part of the French CoMmanders of the, I.l7irmite success cif the expedition.—We have no 11,-itl4 - ion in believing that the French may perma nently keep . possession of the Plains which they have conqucml,; but the annoyance which they may for year , experience from the Black forces, . marshalled by .TpUSSAINT, and a system of preda_ -tory ‘varfarethat will be handed down by him,•cnust prove fatal to . , thousand - s and thousands of Europe_ ans, that have yet to be, transported across the At lantic: from prance, l'he I.3tai amount oldie aftual payment oirt of, and ;e cbiage upon, tiie Consotidated Fund for ace. 5, 1 ,1 ,f;ntiary i Boz, is 24,385iz'z41. los. ci D,c, on the i:.t ut February lass, td to 535,365,20.51. -tun; NA VA L NEWS. PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 19. ARRIVED His Majesty's Ship Latona, from Torbay ; Resistance, from Ireland ; arid AmluJcade, from cruizing. Came into Harbour to be paid _off,,His Majesty's Ships Pt rote George, Prince of Wales, Royal Sove reign, and Windsor Castle. The Endymion, Camilla, and Aurora Frigates; were this day paid offal Shithead all standing ; and Volunteers entered immediately, as these Ships are to remain in Commission : a great many of the men re-entered immediately. ARRIVED. Holland - - llamburgh - Lisbon - - THE SUN. SOLEM QUIS DICERE FALSUM AUDE ? D. - 1 I French - - MA Y ARMbUTH, APRIL 19. Tuts morning the Princess Royal Packet, Capt. SANTER, from Cuxhaven, arrived at j_iowestoff; and the Earl of Leicester. Packet, Capt. THOMPSON, from Cuxhaven, this morning landed her Mails land Passengers here. The King George Packet, Captain P. DEANE, is dismasted on her homeward passage off Heligoland, and is gone back to Hamburgh, to refit. HARIVICH, APRIL 19. ABOUT four o'clock this afternoon arrived the Princess #9 , a/ Packet, Captain SANTER, from Cux. haven, with Passengers : they sailed on Thursday last, and landed the Mails of the 7th and loth inst. this morning at Aldborough. By the above we learn, that the King George Packet, Captain P. DEANE, when a few leagues upon his passage with the above Mail of the 7th, carried away his mast in a gale of wind, and was obliged to return to Cuxhaven to repair his damages. We are happy to stzte, that none on board received any personal in jln-y by the accident.. DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZE MONEY. r. • Thd TreMendous, for the destruction of La- Preneuse French frigate, will be paid, also for the Spanish brig Nustra Signora del Carmen, Frpnch sloop BenjaMin, and-brig Le Bientair, at No. -17, Cecil-Street, on Friday; the z3d inst. The Melpomene, Ruby,- and Nlagnanirne, for the capture of the Lucy sloop, will he paid,'! the Melpomene and Ruby at No. 17, Cecil-Street, and the Magnanime at Down ing -Street, both on the 23d inst. The Amazon, for the re-capture of the Eleonora Cathari na, will be paid on board the Amazon, in the Downs, on Wednesday the 2 rst inst. On Thursday, April 8, 1802, a Court Martial 'was held on board His Majesty's Ship NeptUne, in Torbay, on Lieut. W. HILL, cif His IVLijesty's Ship Hercule, for insulting and shaking his fist in Lieut. COLLET'S face; also, on Capt. MOR T IMER, and Lieut. DI MOCK, of the Marine Forces belong ing to the said- chip, for ocAirtlioui: and siearididou‘ behaviour to the Rev. CHARLES I;IJRNES. The charges being proved against Lieut. HILL, he was sentenced to be dismissed His Majesty's service ; and the charges being only in part proved against Capt. MORTIMER, and Lieut. DYMOCK, the former was severely reprimanded, and the latter dismissed the Ship. . The Rev. C. BURNES was afterwards tried on a charge of drunkenness, • exhibited against him by Lieutenant HILL, which case he Could not sub stantiate, he was therefore acquitted. On the loth of April a Court Martial was held on board the Barfteur, in Torbay, on the Boatswain of the St.. Fiorenzo, for embezzling His Majesty's istores ; the charges being proved, he was sentenced to be dismissed His Majesty's service, and muld of <tll his pay. 'On Monday, April It, W. FENvercre, First Lieutenant of the St, ,Ficrenzo, was tried for ne gled of duty in permitting the said stores to be em bezzled ; the charges being proved, he was sen tenced -to be dismissed His Majesty's ship, and to lose two years' rank. Tuesday, April 13, C. W. PATTERSON, ,Esq. Commander of the St. Fiorenzo, was tried for ne gled of duty, in permitting a Boat to take on shore some Stores belonging to His Majesty ; the charges being only in part proved, he was sentenced to be dismissed the St. Fiorenzo, and mulct of two months' pay. On Wednesday . Lieut. GILMog E, and the Gunner of the same ship were tried, the former for neglect of duty', and 'the latter for embezzlement; the charges were proved against., the Lieutenant, and he was dismissed the ship,-the Gunner_was acquitted. Mr. Murcx EL, a- mi4.lshiptnan, also of the same ship; was tried for 'neglea, of duty ; being found guilty, was sentenced to lose .one year's rated time. The remaining seven menbelonging to the leme raire, who were condemned by the first Court Martial, to be hanger! for Mutiny, were sent round to Woolwich on Thursday in the Vestal, to be con fined on board ,the hulks there daring his Majesty's pleasure. • . Letters received by the way of America, an notince the arrival it Macao, of the following East Indiamen, between the 24.th , ,0f September and zd of o&ober last,:—/lindostan, Pope, Boddam, Admiral Gardner, Carnatic, Henry Addington, Ocean, Not tingham, Windham, and Lord Diencan. The Extra Ship Royal Admiral had also arrived at Macao. The Emperor of China lately expended vast sums of money in the erection of a palace, as a country residence, a short distance from Pekin, but it was scarcely finished, when one of the towers was set on fire by lightning, and the flames extending, the whole of this magnificent pile was reduced to ashes. .The accident happened about the first hour . of prayer, and,..the flames were not suppressed till the succeed ing. day. It had occasioned _great alarm among the superstitious natives, who -regarded it as an onwn of some ,dire calamity. _ _ _ ~ I 7iI.R7S, APRIL 16. TheCARDINKL LEGATE has declared, by virtue of his apostolic power, that the following days shall be kept as Festivals and Holidays—Christmas day,, the Ascension, the Assumption, and the Feast of All Saints. M. CAMB ASC ER ES, Archbishop of Rouen, yes. terday performed the ceremony of washing feet in ,the Church of St. Roch. On Sunday the Archbishops and Bishops Of France will take the usual oath of Fidelity publicly in the Church of Notre Dame. A private Letter from Rochfirt states, that in a few days a Vesel of 130 guns will be launched in that Port. The Minister of Police has succeeded, in causing a mar; of the name of Thevenet to he apprehended at Thoulouse : he is one of the greatest thieves now in existence. Seventeen years ago Ir. robbed the house of FINGERLIN and SCHERER, at Lyons, in the open day, of 400,000 crowns. He was also concerned in the robbery of the Garde Meable. He has lately committed several robberies at Lyons and Thoulouse. The EMT EROR of RUSSIA his ordered that there shall be a uniformity of weights and measures 'throughout his Empire. HAGUE, APRIL 4.—Admiral De WINTER IlaS received instruaions to sail to Algiers, Tunis, and Tripoli. These Powers have expressed som, dis content, and have even decared War agairfst our Republic, because the usual Presents, amounting to 130,000 florins a-year, were not sent. Admira De WINTER will pay the sum which is due, and renew the former relations between the two States. TREATY OF PEACE BETWEEN THE FRENCH REPUBLIC AND .THE REGENCY OF TUNIS. THE FIRST CONSUL of the French Republic, wishing to .renew the .Articles of Peace anciently agreed upon between France• and Tunis, and to add thereto new Articles, has appointed for this' purpose JAC Q UES DEVOIZE, who , by virtue' of full powers given to him as the Representative of the First Consul of the 'French Republic, has agreed with His Excellency HAMOUDA PACHA BEY and the Divan of Tunis, upon the following additional Articles : z. The First Consul of the French Republic, in the name of the Frenc'h People, and His Excellency HAMOUDA PA en A BEY, and the Divan of Tunis, do confirm and renew all preceding Treaties, particularly that of 1742. 2. The Trench Nation shall be maintained in, the enjoy before the War',; and being more distinguished and morn use, ful than other Natives established at Tunis, it shall also b the most favoured. 3. Whenever any French Ship of War shall stop at the. Goulette, the Commissary of the Republic, or some one for him, shall be allowed to go on board without molestation. 4. The Commissary of the French Republic shall appoint, and change at his pleasure, the Dragoman's - arid the Janissa ries in the service of the Commissariat. 5. The Merchandizes coming from France in French ves sels, either to Tunis or any other Ports dependent upon it, shall duly pay.as heratofore, a Custom duty of 3 per Cent. which shall not be colleted in Merchandize, but in the cur rent coin of the Country. The Tunisian Subjects shall en joy in France the same privilege. 6. All Merchandize coming from Countries at war with 'the Regency, and which shall be imported into Tunis by French Merchants, shall continue to pay a custom duty of Three Per Cent. ; and in case of a War between the French Republic and any other Power, the 141erchandizes belonging to and laden in France on account of French Merchants, in vessels belonging to Neutral Powers, friends of the Regency, shall only pay the duty of Three per Cent. until the cessa tion of hostilities. Reciprocal regulations shall be made in France, with respell to the TuniSians. 7. The Jewish Brokers and other strangers resident at Tunis, in the service of French Merchants, shall be under the protedion of the Republic ; but if they import Merchan dise into the Kingdom, they shall pay the impost usually paid by the Subjedis of the Country to which they belong; and if any difference arise between them and the Christians or Moors of the Country, they shall come with their antago nists before the Commissary of the French Republic, where they shall chuse, at their own option, two French and two Moorish Merchants of the first rank, to decide their disputes. 8. Every indiVidual of any Country, which, by concwiest or by treaty, shall have been re-united to the States .of the French Republic, who shall be found in a state of captivity in the Kingdom of Tunis, shall be set at liberty on the first . • request of the Commissary of the Republic ; but if that in dividual shall have been taken in the service and pay - of a Power at War with the Regency, he shall not be released, bin remain a Prisoner. 9. In the event of a rupture between the two Powers, the French Residents at Tunis shall not be any ways molested ; they shall be allowed the space of three months, during which they shall enjoy all manner of liberty and protedion ; and upon the expiration of that term, they :shall be at liberty to retire unmolested with their etteds, to wherever they may think proper. Done at Tunis the 20 of February, 18oz, or the ztst of the month of Chewal, in the year One Thousand Two Hundred and Six of the Hegira. (Signed) DEVOIZE, 'Commissary-General of the French Re public with the B of To: s HAMOUDA, Pacha-Bey of Tunis. In September last the Chinese Sea was visited by a tuffoon, which occasioned the loss of many junks and fishing boats, and upwards of SOOO persons ; the, severity of the gale produced an inundation of the low lands, and it was coniputed"that 2000' natives peri‘hed in consecoence, . THE TIIEI4TRrS. Drury-Lao, this THE H T E he l a ' t t r a e ge i d a y s t n o ig f hTt,echOierityhafonr wasrhe purposerevi revived aott. giving Mr. and Mrs. POPE an opportunity of ar pearing in the charaders of Castako and ifiovitni a which may fairly be considered as their ve ry hes t efforts. They have often been seen in these civl: rafters, and they were not less successful last nig' l * than heretofore. Mrs. Pont is certainly interesting in . the unfor tunate Heroine cithe Piece, and deservedly excite, much applause, particularly in the latter scenes. CHARLESKEMBI:E played Cham,ont with spirit and dignified feeling. B AR R Y MOR.E seems to 1 0 ; crease in his servile adherence (0 the ma nner') KnEht4s. His Poly dare soasind dre ee o dt l o as e t xr ni i g te ht t :di.= rat her than ite excess of this studied iLnitation. really possesses merit of his own, and would 11 1 °' probably stand much higher in public estirnatinri' if he were to play from his own conceptioos• he The dresses were spleudid, and according -to t he , costume of former times. This -we believe:i s t d. first time that the Tragedy has been so rePr eselltc --- The - piece itself, - thotigh it cal beauties, and effusions of passion z;troigikY'int. ed, is very gloomy and dull upon the Oin k ' % k d, and the Page, than - affected b The Audience were chiefly of the go/i-da) awl they seemed to be more,diverted by th e- 4- ha.cißlitsizurf_emiotiitngbr. g bf the Drama.' • y ji t o h s e se i s i i s e l s mans'rarpaetocetri: 4 deg' Coven ,- wir C• COOKE, who has so often entered the fieldvi ril 5 Ll s cess in the chara&er of Richard,wielded the lSrcanori truncheon with his usual eclat last night. , tits sidering, indeed, how often'he has,appearea 3 charaaer, the continuance of his attrattioll t h e proof that his popularity is by no meal" Ito wane. His representation o f t hi s charaeter is I ts 3 gether a well digested performance, and me t r v ilt l high degree of commendati on , p a rticularly - n we consider what a falling, off there has bee , tragic excellence among the the a trical fra e I.lllEl'. v Tole The Winter's Tale . hiis done more for Do r i Eel Theatre th an . any p i ece t h at h as b ee n rePr es ; ti l ot this Season. I t _ i s certa i n l y revived in a it g which shews that the Proprietors are, not sP u .' r 7L% their attempts to pl e a se the Public and deserves great credit for having e rnploYe" t ,rbe liberality with so much judgment and tast e ' e shade of our great Bard has indeed reason t° e satisfied with the splendor with which the Pi ec oa, brought forward,. and with the general merit 0 performance. Last week a.COmpany of ,Strolling Pl3Ye rs ' i coming to Montrose, , in Scotland, advertiseupe Comedy of the West Indian, with the Devil I ° ,d i e Their Scenery not arriving from Aberdee n p ot night of performance, t h e Play was consequent'Ytioc off to tile followirg u.n,ing . ; but in or der , d er the , Public should have proper n..;cp,.. t he .I\4°,.pg employed the Town Drummer, who (prob 44 been reading the accounts f rom S t . Domil" l 6 ;Is! fished it in the foll ow i ng te r ms :—" O Yes gr een' Oyes ! let ye to wit, that the Pl a y Acxer-, t h e ) , hae nae , come forward f rae Ab er deen, a n ' s ,- as; canna perform this evening : but the 1\ 113173 g - fil sures the Public that to m orn night tiler; w "the the Devil to pay in the West sa ve King." QtAccording to the opinions of some profou 6 ` - ‘ 7/ Hunts, Austria and Russia are preparing tc) e - h j' ait i a Turky, but it is probable, that after so nn h , ror' hug throughout most parts of the world) th°' tentates have a more pacific taste. or BIRCH, -of Cornhill, we-find, hid th e r euses merit of the Easter Dinner at the Nlansi ° T hioaf which has made such a no i se i n t h e Circles o f i's verse If it is true that the French have invented Vet: to navigate under water, it will be neees sari :vith case of-a future War, to furnish our S h W s e' all strong nets instead of Grappling Irons, an (l 1 ,, Pr'' have this advantage, that our Seamen may ta— .soners and catch Fiih at the same time. leading POST ING .—T4 Inn-keepers on the roads and from London to Bath, Birmingham, W° reefitth ryb e ' Gloucester, by Reading, Henley, Hig h WYr the and Oxford, have published a declaration t•l3r expences attending each carriage and four "wi ses teed the receipts by 91. 4s. per annum. of O lj e t —° The calculation states the average earn ~can' horses, at I id. per mile, exclusive of dutY , t 31" t° In several counties, however, the lo f 0 have lowered the price to is. for a pair ° doP k h t 7 se e ; : different to measuresn places lolx,er t t h i e ie Magistrates a t rreaateb.out t ° ' r etl eb lhe following story extraeted from t" e f oe se I , papers, is a new proof of the fatal efre6ls° bre break mlod ern romances, which seem intended Oa give do wn every check of reason and principle, a!? 0 .„0 new strengh to the violence of unbridled fee ; l i Tcy in passion. RcioERE, a young Officer of ar t " , , ri tell• the French service, had conceived a v iolent a ot g p , ment to a young Lady, whose parents d hi , o it'fh e prove of his addresses. A Novel, entitl"! boas, Unfortunate Lovers" happened to fall into his st orYl and . the fatal catastrophe made an he found some resemblance in it to his o'i in ~, hi° i m pressV or ` s onie days he continued to read over the Nov el re l o t, i rl ly ; sometimes he threw it aside ; and, a! t ,, the, flames. But his, fee,ings were a „ paroxysm of anguish, he coniraitted it ,i r ace ,) 1- Much ab; ito ot restored t') tranquillity. too to be the Poorc the streets d' - 1 • distributing his money :10 100 g Go d (1 12 people he met, entreating them to l'r a Y 10 ' ' le ' a his h he might die. At last, unable to srr a' his ' lO spair any longer, he applied a pistol to and put an end to his existence. not coo' The melancholy efleds of this ael wer e reigli fined to himself ; a respedable Lady of the with/ state °lt 30for, bourhood, at that time in a wcalc i rt IC d imagining, on hearing the report, toil- , r , • ,cir C% l tunate person was her only son, instal , lie ilin wildl' w - I