The Sun. — London, England, 1807-01-28 00:00:00

~~' :4~ ~`' ' ~~r Mr. MELLisn presented a Petition from several Tamers, against the Oak. Bark Bill, wbich was or dered in be referred tdtbe-C6mmittee. Upon Motion of Mr. PAR NELL, the Committee 'upon .the 23 tll of the King, respeaing Woollen-yarn, was.postponed until o-rnort oNtr. Upon Motion of Sir JOHN NEWPORT, the Irish Customs Office Abolition Bill went through a Com ritittee, and the -Report. ofderecl to be received to ti orrow.--Ther-louse theit adjourned. MA ELS'. AaR Lc ED--x Gcittenburgli, i s Dublin. ,Dva--c Gottenburgh, x Lisbon, 3 Watcrford.- PRICE OF :STOCKS THIS DAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCK. 0 3 iii I Kednced Ann. - 6ai Consols THE SUN. SOLLM QUIS DtCERz VA: tUM A UDF.A.T ? L 0 IV 131 0 S , WEDNESDAY, JAIWARY 28, 1807. By the Goitenburgh Mail of the 20th instant, which airived this morning, Stockholm and copen tingen Gazettes , up to the 14th have keen received' Nyhich contain nd _intelligence of any :importance relative to the military .operations in Poland. Letter from a Gentleman; who on the loth inst. arrived at Ystadt from Stralsund, states, that on ,his departure from the latter place no news had been .received there from the Armios. of Sescion, or having said any thing disrmeeifui to the,Clergy of Scotland. What he said was„ ;hat some reposp was d4rable for the Clergy, and he was not singular in this opinion, for the present Pre -sident of the Court of Session; had, when Lord Ad vocate, iutrOduced.a Eill for discontinuing the suits for augmentation for '4O years. Mr. HORNER, said, that he understood the Bill to be brought in, not in the spirit of hostility to the Court of Session, but the contrary, for it was in tended as a relief to them. The power to grant augmentations belonged fo the Members of the Cport of Session only as Commissioners. It was Dot a business that came under their jurisdiClion as a Court of Justice, b , lt properly of a legislative nar lure. This business had lately very much increased, ;Ind it was proper that the court should be relieved. lie highly complimented the Clergy . of. Scotland, who Were distinguished for their piety and good morals. Their emoluments, be said, were very in, adequate to their station, and the duties they had to perform. The LORD ADVOCATE disclaimed any dis trust of the Court of Session, or any disrespe& to the'Clergy of Scotland. It was bi 4 pride to be de seehded from a family which the Clergy of Scot land, who were eminent for their learning, piety, And morals, had always looked up to as their firmest friends. The obje& of the Bill was to relieve. the Court of Session frorn a press of business of this nature. No less than 149 suits for augmentations had commenced since July last. After soave 'frirther conversation between Mr. Re'vkiwpiq, Mr.. WM. DuNpas, Mr.. PERCIVAL, Mr. STURpES BOURNE and the LORD ADVOCATE,, the Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be 'committed oh this day se'nnight. IRISH, ELEcTit)tsr BILL. Sir JOHN NEIVPORT moved the' Order of tine Du for going into a Committee on the Irish. Election 13111. . . The House having resolved. itself into a Corn niittee, several new clauses . and amendments were proposed by Sir JOHN NEWPORT; M r . Coady, Col. ARf o r, and some other Members. One of the, Pew clauses proposed and adopted, was.tor prolong ing the time. for entering into recognizances to pro, secute a. Petition, from 14 days to 28 ; and the grotlnd assigned for this.clause was, that great delay might be . occasioned'by contrary winds in crossing the channel. _Sir Joni.: NEWPORT proposed an amendment for reducing the Clerks' • fees for taking ,own the evidence before the Commissioners' in Ireland, froM 6d. to 3d. a Sheet ; and providing that, n .no case, whatever the length of the proceedings might be, the Clerk should charge moro . than 501. for a copy of them to the parties. Sir JOHN NEW . - pORT also proposed a clause for preventing any person having or claithing a right to vote, from wing either as Commissioner or Clerk, without the con tient of both the parties interested. Mr. CURRY suggested' some amendments to the Bill, but said he rather threW them out for the con gideration of his Bight Honourable Friend (Sir J. Newport), and he should not embarrass the pro - - . ceeding byproposing them regularly as amendments. Sir JOHN NEWPORT said, lie highly approved of the alterations suggested by his Right Honourable friend, and 4 , 0 u-kt pay every attention to them. ne Bill having gone. through the Committee, it was agreed, on the suggestion of the SPEAKER, that the Report Should be immediately brought up, and t4e Bill be printed. The Report was immedi ately brougftt up, and ordered to be taken into con sideration on Monday. The Bill was ordered to be printed, and it : was un derstood that it was to be're-Committed. STOCKHOLM GAZETTE. COPENHAGEN, DEc. 2g.—The report of the Bat teries of the Fortress of Cronenburgh having been entirely destroyed on the 20th of this month, during a violent ktorm, and that the damage was estimated at une million rix dollars, is grossly exaggerated. COPENHAGEN GAZETTE. ELSINEVR, TiERN.EMAII and sonuLT, who atiivcd here this day from Dantzic, which they left a fortnight since, state, that the qa T rison,comp o sedof Prussians and Poles, amounts to 20,000 men—that no apprehensions are entertained there of the French, and. that the latter seem deter mined to dire 4 their operations against ic.onizsbnrgh. TUE Gat..ctiq. of last night contains the details Ho ‘ NtA P9!H4AI respeaing the ge-capture of Buenos 4yre,s, it apnea p that this unfortunate event was more owing to the wrnl. mous co-operatiOn of the Inhabitants than to the skill or bravery of the Spanish Troops, and we fear that the disposition which they manifested upon. this occasion, will throw considerable difficulties in the way of our making any permanent acquisition in that Country. Suez the arrival of authentic intelligence of the Re-capture of Buenos Ayres,- a'- new' 'battery- has been opened by the Supporters of Opposition, who are content to encounter the perils of across-fire, if they can indulge the hope of injuring those whom they constantly and indiscriminately attack. A censure. is now - levelled at Government for sanalion ing the trade to Buenos Ayres; but the defence will be brief and easy. Ministers did not *concert and di re& the Expedition, and cannot, therefore, be expea ed to have been furnished with all the informatiOn which would have been necessary to enable therri to . foresee that the Settlement would be so speedily re taken. They were justified in supposing that due precautions would be adopted to prOte& and secure _ the conquest ; and they might reasonably conclude that the Captors conceived- themselves able-to -main , tain their post till reinforcements should arrive. These reinforcements were dispatched with all the celerity which actual circumstances would admit, but could not have reached Btienos Ayres before the recapture on the 12th August, if they had sailed on the 24th of June, the day on which the first intel ligence of the intended enterprize arrived from St. Helena ; for the passage of the karcissus, a single Ship, and one of the fastest sailing Vessels in the service, occupied two months. Ministers cannot, therefore, be accountable for the success of an Expe dition undertaken without their consent or privity, or be responsible for the precarious tenure of the con guest. They are entitled to the highest praise for, the promptitude'with which they enabled the Bri tish Merchants to avail themselves immediately of-a new channel of trade. To what complaints would Government,. have been exposed if this permission had been withheld, notwithstanding the encourage ment which was given to speculation, andthe com mercial advice which was communicated in de tail by the -Officer who planned the enterprize, who must have been best acquainted with-the pro bability of an attack and the means of `resistance, and who was most competent to decide on. the ,pradica - bility of retaining the conquest ? But-this argument is not applied with all its force, from considerations of delicacy and feeling towards those whose conduct may become' the sable& of future investigation ; but such considerations are totally overlooked by those who are solely intent on prosecuting a system o f blind hostility to Government. • We have- received Foreign Journals to the 23d -inst. but they contain nb intelligence. The silence of the Dutch Papers, respecting the success of the Russians; is not.- at all astunishincr but if the French had beed victorious, the account of their vic tory would certainly' r ,have appeared in these Papers. OUR Letter from . Yarmouth yesterday stated, that the Astreci Frigate had arrived there, and that the brought intelligence. of the defeat of the French with the lost ,of 60,000 men: The :elstrea has ar rived at Yarmouth, bUt she brought:no account whatever of any battle. NO dispatches had been received from Lord HUTCHINSON at the time this Paper was put to Press. His Royal Highness FREDERICK PRINCE ROYAL of DENNIA.RK. yesterday completed his 3gth year of age -; and in the evening his Excellency the Da nish Ambassador gave a splendid Entertainment. to Count DE WORONZOW, COuht STAH ENIAERG, and all the other foreign Ministers at our Cow t. Lady HESKETH, who lately died at -Bristol, was a near relation of COWPER", the Poet, and his chief companion. This lady has received many an elegant tribUte from his interesting Muse. ROYAL SOCIETY.—A Meeting was held on Thurs day evening, which was attended by forty-one Mem bers—when HUNFRRY DAVY, Esq. was eleCted to succeed the late E. W. GRA Y, M. D. as Secretary and Member of Council. Monday was a day of Jubilee at Chelsea Hospital, when the payment began of the half year's pension, in 'advance to Midsummer next, with the augmen tatidn according to Mr. WIND Ham's new regulations; by which the greater part of the pensions are increas ed from 5d2 per day, to pd. or Is; ;. and in cases of extreme disability, - to . 15d. or tßd. A few of these brave veterans, indeed, as a reward for extraordinary length of service, will be paid at the rate of 2s. 6d. per day. Such liberal encouragement cannot fail to operate as a powerful stimulus to induce the la bouring classes of the community to embrace the mi proft,lssion ; as besides an increase of pay in the progress of their service, they may look forward to the certainty of a comfortable retreat hitherto un known in the annals of this country. , MAD Docs.—We find with much concern, as well as alarm, that people are by no means suffi ciently apprehensive and cautious respeting the present dangerous state of the canine. race, as many doss are daily seen about the streets as if no such disorder prevailed, and no warning had been given. If the public are thus negligent upon a subje& in which their own safety is so materially interested, we hope that the Magistrates will actively and resolutely perform their duty, and order all dogs .to be killed that are found at lug. cltitiri4 the present 4 - 44 malady among them, rAL NE ff'S. F OV Til, JAN.q.s.—The:Grassiopp.! - r Sloop o£ War, of 18 gun, arrived evening froth Ply trrouth;- bound to the Mediterranean; she is come. here to give instrnalions to the Veskls waiting Con voy here for Portugal and the Mediterranean; also arrived the Schponer Scepfre, from London_, bonnd to St. Michael's. Sailed this day the Armed Brig Alorristowp, with four Sail of Coasters under Convoy for Wales.. The Princess glizabeth Packet, from Lisb;3,.nlay be expected as soon as the wind shifts. The Watsinghanz Packet sailed 'last evening with Mails for Lisbon. The Princess Augusta Packet, with Mails f9r Maltd and Gibraltar, sailed the 23d inst, PORTSNOUTII, JAN. 27.---Arrived the Thisbe Fri gate and the Emulous Sloop of War from the Downs. _ • • Sailed La Vir4ihie and iimethyst Frigates , with a Convoy of Transports for Cork. ." PLYMOUTH, JAN. :36.—:Arrived the American Ship Bourdeaux Packet, Cant., SPAFFOIt D, laden with cot= fee, sugar, Bcc, froth Philadelphia ; bound to Ant werp, detained by ,His Majesty's Cutter Pigmy. Ar:. rived also a French Ketch, in ballast, captured on the Coast of France by the Imperieuse Frigate. Arrived the Lavinia Frigate front Portsmouth, and Princess Royal, of . 94,.guns, from the channel. Fleet, 3 ri t he Lubec S h ip V COWES, JAN. 27.—Arr.ve— row Anna Eliza Leek, Boni, from P4imouth,, in ballast, with damage ; and 'the American Ship Hunter,' of Baltimore, GOULD,. from Amsterdam, in ballasL, Sailed the General Armstrong, S INCL A IR , for Gibraltar; and the Eliza, NoRRIs, for Leghorn, with salt fish. SHEERNESS, JAN. 26.—,—.Arrived the Mrisluito Sloop of War, Capt. JACKSON, frocn . the apkt4s, The Musquito,. drove a French Privateer ,of 1 4 guns and 70 men ashore under one of the Batteries of the French coast, near Calais, and destroyed her. One of the Musquito's rnen, was killed by a shot froth tfie shore, and the First Lieutenant received a musket ball through both legs: •,Sailed the Constance Gun-brig. Past by several Sail of Ships for the River, which appeared to be Colliers. FOREIGN INTELLIGEIVCE. BUDA, DEC. 25.—Though all the Papers" have lately printed the Articles of a Treaty concluded be ,tween the Porte and Rusiia, they are a mere fathicl tion. There is as much difference between heaven and earth, as there is between such a Treaty and the. present war between these Powers.. The injuries sustained by the .Porte will unite all MussulMeii . in the:defence of the coannon cause. MICHELSON and DOLGOROUCKI; who,command the Russians, hare already solicited reinforcements. VIENNA, Dec. 28.—The entrance of the Russians: into Moldavia and Wallachia has completely exposed their designs.. People would naturally have, thought thia their objet was to bring about an adjustment of their differences with France, without compelling so formidable an enemy to have recourse to arms. But all the passions of the Cabinet of .St. James's predominate in that of Russia. Russia has set aside all , that regard due from one nation to another; *and even - at the moment her. troops entered Moltlavia, she declared she was mak ing a common cause with the Grand Seignioi, and instructed all her agents to publiSh that Treaty in the, 1 Newspapers, the , existence of which is now dis owned by the Divan. . , The Porte has had recourse to arms. PASWAN •013/..0A1, and MusTAPHA BAIRACTER, the successor of TuzEßicK - OGLou, at Rostchuck, have passed the Danube, and taken possession of Buelprest with 30;000 men, which has arrested the march of the Russian army. The . Porte, requiring an explana tion from the Russian Minister, respetting ?Moldavia, received an evasive answer ; and the French Consul :at Bucharest being,arrested by the Russians, MusTA. BHA BAIRACTER' . and the PACHA of Winom have, in retaliation, arrested the Russian Consul. Four English. ships of war are lying before Con stantinople to. terrify the Porte ; but it is most asto nishing, that England should support the obje&s of Russia at the expence of its dearest interests. It is. true-she may plhnder a few vessels; but then all the ports in Turkey will be.shut against her. Surely the English politicians will not lose sight of thedanger to which their:commerce will be exposed. . Faom THE MAIN, JAN. 'l4.—lt is now certain that. Breslau has capitulated. The Wurteniberg Besieging Corps hroke up from before the place on the 6th, and . have marched to Strehlin, probably with the intention of investing. Schweidnitz. Every day furnishes us with accounts of persons having been bit by mad dogs, notwithstanding the numbers of them that are daily destriiyed. A child was bitten. yesterday in Pulteney-street, and a woman in' Great Marlboro Ugh-street ; Craig; an Officer be longing to St. Anne's Parish, is likewise under surgir cal care on the same account; FrOm.the extraordinary Rich State of the Lottery Wheel, and the certainty of the First-drawn. Tieket i, on Wednesday next being entitled to 30,0001. are benefits in favour of the purchaser which ',ever be fore existed,. Tickets and Shares are selling; wart ", ranted undrawn, at HpANSBY and Co.'s State Lot tery Offices, .NQS. 26, Cornhill, 52,. Charing-CrOss, and St. Margaret's Hill, Borough. .CORN EXCHANGE, JAN. 28.—The Market to-day is well supplied with Wheat, and this trade conti nues very dull in sales, which are made at rather lower prices ; Barley still arrives in large gnarl titles, and with Malt is at le s s; White . Pease are full as dear, and Beans of each kind nearly at last prices ; the supplies of Oats are very considerable, with many fresh arrivals, mostly of second quality, which are rather lower; sales of Flour are. heavy at the late reduction, fine American . 455. to . sQs. per barrel. • _ 1 Wheat sos a 66s a 78s od Beans -4.2 s a 4Ss od Fine ditto - Sos a 84s od Tick Beans 35s a 41$ osl' Rye - - —sa—S od Oats 22$ a 265 3 3oS od Barley - - 34$ a 40s od . Poland ditto 315 a 32s ' odn Malt - . 66s a 1,3 s od Rape Steil 251. 281. otii ad White Pearic 84s a 925 . 0 d ,Fine Flour 65s a 703 od Grey diMo. fs 4.A 6 4 od 5gc9. 1 . 1 .4 C. O a Gsi ad AAMRICAN PAPERS. Yesterday the Duke of Sviscx compie'ed 34th year. In the evening G. acid S. n -,EDDELL, Jermyn-street, Sword-cutlers and Army-accoutre inent -makers, and several others, tradesmen to his I - Royal Highness, were illuminated, as nquai, on 114 'Anniversary of their Royal Patron's Birth. New York and 80 - ston Pdpers,' to the 31st of D . cember, have been received. Letters from NeW °dem - li, of the v,5t4 ofiNovember, notice the arrival of the American General WlLiti-INSON in that city, with a small detachment of 4Q artificers, but with BQO men close in his rear. The Spanish force which had crossed the Sabind ,against the Americans, is stated in the Official Intel ligence of the American General, tic.) amount to 1500 men, mostly mounted militia.—The Spanish force at Pensacola, Mobile,.and Baton, was estimated at froto 500 to .650. There was no appearance whatever of an amicable adjustment of d.ifYerences between the Arriericans and Spaniards. The public opinion in America is in general 11- : vourble to the innocence of Col. Bil.Rll no prCofs have been as yet obtaiped. against hitusf any thing , like treasonable or seditious praCtices. The New En:gland Palladium of t i he;29th ult. con , .: tains aparagrapn, stating, that intelligeriee had bepo brought by 'a vessel from the Havant - rah, of the, capture of Buenos Ayres, on the 'l2th of Aug. by the Spaniards.; and, also of the surrender of Mont Video to,the liritish Arms. Theiatest report of the proceedings of the House. of Congress bears date December 19. The only ar tiele-ef general interest is, the Bill to prohibit the Importation of Slaves ; it has been reported, with' amendaients.. One amendment provides the mulish.. ment .of death for being concerned in importing Slaves ; another,. that Slaves importe4 shall be for. , feited in those States only Where slavery is permitted. Great difficulties had arisen, when the Bill was bef fore the Committee, as to the line of concinEt with regard. to such Slaves as should be imported in future, contrary to Law. The questions agitated were, whe4 ther they Mould be sent back to Africa, or be set at liberty ? A Bill is about to be brought into Congress, in America, imposing a Tax upon all Batchelors above. the age of 25 years. The produce of this Tax is tO be applied to the purpose of educating n;:ural and orphan children. Yesterday a Court of - Aldermen was held at Guildhall, at which were present the Lord Mayor, fourteen Aldermen, the Recorder, and City Officers , • The Court inspetied the Repor6 of the Meal* , , weighers, and ordered the price of Bread to be con.' tinued at Is. iid.. the Quartern Loaf of :Wheaten, and i iid. Household. Mr. KENNEY has been 16: successful w ith hiS Cousin, that he need be under no. False .ellar'ins lest . he 'silt:1111d be obliged to apply to . his Uncle. BELLAMY, the singer, is, it seems performing with great success at Belfast.. Miss JAMESON, who lately - performed the cha-• rater of Palmyra, to Master BETTY'S Zaphna, is the revived Tragedy of Alahornet, at the Bath Theatre, acquitted herself so ably, that she has much increased her reputation, hi g h as it wag befbre. .- One of the fashionable Coxcombs who haunt the scenes Of the Opera House,- ow Saturday last„ for a wager of 10 guineas, crossed the Stage, close behind CATALAN!, while. she was singing. The audience saluted him with a..hiss, but such an insult to tbo Public merited .a more severe . mode .of - reprehension. CATALAN' iS a very great Performer, but her powers are much over-rated by injudicious admira tion. The vast compass of her voice is her peculiar merit. In the execution of chromatic passages shit is by no means equal . to .131tAHANt, and her voice, in point of sweetness, is very much inferior to that of Mrs. BILUNGTON. She certainly excites surprizei . btit,,in the words Of the Poet, it may be fairly said , that she Plays round the bead, but touchop not the heart." FU TiT E Ni t ta. E, at the age of 97, after saying - Mai . ny amiable and gallant things to the young and beailf tiful Mad. HELVETIIJS, passed before her, without perceiving her, in order to place himself at table " said Madame HELvETius, " how I ought to value your gallantries you pass before me with , out looking at me." L--" Madame," said the old mail 4.. " I had looked at'?jou, I could not have passed." ANECDOTE.---01.1 VER MAI LI, A RD, a Cordelier, had the reputatibn ,of bein one of the most famous preachers of his time. Having glanced, in his ser- , moo's, at some traits applicable to the cbudat of Louis XL the irritated Monarch desired the Preacher to be told that he would drown him. " The King is master," replied MAIL LA ; " but tell him that I sbajl arrive sooner in Paradise by water, than be will with all his post horses." Mrs. INciumo is preparing another of Ahosd affeeting Novels 19r the Public whicls:A.lLtrongly ;kg" terest the..feel.ings.---Thi3 Author draws trom the e . genuin source of nature ; and therefore we should prefer an original romance from her pen to ani translation from the .German drama. CORONER'S Isaucsr.--;An Inquisition has been , taken before G. HODGSON, Esq. Coroner for Mid- Ale Sex, on. the body of the. voung wtstrinn whom we, stated to have falltrn a yidial to the neglect o f the .drivers of two.couutry• carts. The dreadful event 'occurred between Brentford. and Harrow, and not in the neighbourhood of 'Paddington, as before stated: It appeared in evidence, that the young woman who lost her life was a Miss Robinson, 19 years of age. &be kept a milliner's shop at Brent ford, and on the day of the accident she was in. a chaise-cart with' another female, on her way from Bretitford 'to Harrow, at which latter place she was about taking'another shop. The country carts were retutning from town laden with dung, and the driver of one of them was asleep, and the other was in a. state of inebriation, a considerable distance bairn'. . _ his 'cart. It has been already stated' that the chaise" . . cart was overturned by one of the carts being drawn against it. Miss Robinson was pitched on her bead , by • which her neck was broken, and she died ill" 'stantaneonsly, and her friend hid a limb broken•! 'The• Jury retuened a Verdi& of Accidental Death , -occasioned by the negle& of the drivers, 'and a dee 'land was taken. The drivers of the carts were taken' before the Magistrates at garrgw, and comoaittedta ppsqa . ,