The Sun. — London, England, 1807-12-23 00:00:00

TO CORIZZSIQNDENT;. f„,* The aelmiritblo Letici , of Voßoos shall certainly ap pear To-morrow. i• AFotiv*D-L; Leeward Dut —3 . Gottep... burgh, ; Watdrtura. " m - STOCKS TfrilS DAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCK. „Consols - - 644 1 i d. Ann. - - - 63 THE SUN.,, SOLEM QUKS DiCER& FALSUIt At/DkAT I, 0N D 0 , WED i!JE3DAY,. inctmliga 23, 1807. Wk; 1114 happy. to state, that:Admiral MURRAY,T • , Avitii the Polythemus, Africa, Daphne, and all the Transports under his convoy., from Monte Yide6, are safely arrived at Cork. The Polyphemus and Africa have brought from Buenos Ayres not less than ,500,080 dollars, on ac count of the Merchatitfi, and eighteen Vessels are in the convoy - cotppletel.ci laden with hides and tallow;, The Merchants, therefore, do pOt seem to' have sent thOr goods to so -Last a market as has been most in dristriously attempted; to be proved by the persecu tors of Sir Hours 'Th'e Tortola Packet brings intelligence of at least • u dozen Privateers being captured by the prui ; Lers under Admiral Cecil/1A.140i, command. It has been stated in some of the Public; Prints, that Sir -SIDNUY Smyrit,bad planned an attack upon Port . Bugin, anii that he meant to attempt to take the RuSsian Squadrotyin the Tagus. We are, how ever, very much inclined , to doubt .these accounts. The liivtw Tagus is so strongly defended on both tides; and by-the 'Port .Bogio,. the . tuid:lle, 1.; render any attack by Ships alone e)tiremely. hazard it" not impraCticable; tor, although it were pos sible' to' pass all the forts, with a leading wind and kit?bd tide,' it would be impossible to get out again v.ithout beiu,; dreadfully, mauled, as it is always tle ceSSiry for-large Ships to : move downwith the flood tdei, and consequently, agaitiSt a .very Ittong cur rent. If, th7retbre, the .i:4'rench *have pant V& into Lisbon in great 'lnce; there is little chance of getting out the,liussian Ships, although it is .possible they may be destroyed: however, the wretched condition in which tlicse half-retten fir Ships are, renders the pbjetSt scarcely worth the hazard of such an at tenipt. Out-Readers will in our sch4 , quent columns, the detailg of the intelligence received at Gibraltar ,from.Alges,iras„ the substance of which we yesterday laid before them. it appears now quite evident, thht if BUONAPARTE does not immediately dethrone the King of ankelfed a 'Revolution itt *at country, Ite is at least determined. to • obtain such complete pOssession of it, that it maybe considered as much forming it part of his dominions as any pro vince of Fiance. THE ;Opposition Writers are acting a very im politic part, for, instead of sympathizing with all honest Britons,''lmd, indeed, With all - wiSe and honest, men in every country, on the fortunate escape of the Court of Portugalfrom t he devouring ja \Va of France, zind in the pleasure .and pride which tritons must naturally feed in being instrumental in the gccom. plithotent of sO happy an event,.' they a r e eztgetly • 'employing; themielves in the attempt to discover contradiaions bet wet.'s) the accounts of Lord S:FRANG .4ortn. rind Sir SI.DXN.Y Sstrru; 'Upon . a fair and candid exatnialtion of the, two accounts, no dif frrenee cad he. discovercld 'worthy of the notice of any liberal mind. . It appeard that, the . opitirons - . hi two Officers happened to coincide,.. as might . texturally be expeael, with instruEtions . that,. Were received from home.. It it the main • ground atta,A. is a suippdsed ineonsistency - lit the Let ttar of Lord STAfr,nordab. In the beginning of :f.„etter, his Lordship says,*, speaking of tlir.rernigation of the ; Court ut Portugal, ,` This and Memorable event, in not to be attributed oitly to the sudyn alarm excited by the appea,rance. of a li'reneh army, Nvithin the. frontiers of Portuga).. It has been the genuine result of•the sy'stern of per- Severing contlderre and moderation adopted by His o ,\ii).-JI:s'EY towards that country."--,-From this wiser.: tion 'it IS inferred,. in the Paper to 'which we allude, that the British Government had secured the mi.. gratiOn of the Court of Portugal, ‘‘ happen what ',Ord Sta/.l4t;vottp's language , will not 1 3 ,, mr Any such interpretation, even if construed - 1u tip most uncandicl manner, Lle says the emigra iion is not to be attributcd.only to'llie• sudden alarm excited by the .tit-ttranca of a French . Army into Por tugal, 4 . 5 but has beach the genuine result," ,&c. is Lordshlp do, - ,;,s not ~ ay that the Court of Portu. 47 ° • would have enlo-rated, even 'if there bad been ° • • fl) 3 L ivat iion ; by the :The obvious' mean itag of t hi s lanuakie ,that the entrance of . - 144P.EFIIAL DECREE. the French Army into portugai wDuld not ).1 been sufficient to incluse the Porttlgu eoe NAVAL NEWS. vernment to emigrate, it 'lad not been 'tor the ". system of persevering confidence 'and modera . - ti,on adopted by His Y 14.1 esTy tewards that Ceun try." But, says the Paper in question; the very next paragraph, but one, of Lord STUA tGFoßp's Let ter, contradias hjs'foiiner assertion tbe deter wination of the Court to emigrate, because he I.am the LONDON GJZF.TTE, ate. 22, 1807: Adnziralty r Oflice, Dec. ?2, 1307. Cob of a Letter from Admiral Young,'Connander, in Chief of His illojeyy's Ships and Pes3els.at,, Plymouth, to 'the Hon. IP: . 11 7 . P . ole, dated on (wird His Majesty's Ship: Salvadordel Illundo; in Hantoaze, the Oth Inst. says—"' on the ath pf November a Proclamation. was issued by the Porttiguese Government for the seizure - of British subjeas and property." • There is certainly more Qr trick than ingetwity . .in . quoting the next paragraph:G/4/ one of Lord STII - Atoizolas Letter to prove an inconsistency ? and passing 'over that Paragraph which coinpletely,.4plains the seern=,. ing incongruity ; for ..his Lordship sty the tPrince Regent suffered himself,foi'd moment o for Let, that, in the present state of .irope, no Contitry,could • • permitted to b s eAlte Enemy .of England with impu nity ; and oil the tali November was induced fo sign an order for the seiztfre of Ilritish &c. The previous -and sghsequeut condua 91 the. PaiNte. liEggwr justified the languageof f_dordSTlAtioreltD'; th'ere certainly-was a momentary Vacillation in the Portuguese COLlPCils,but that cannot be urged as a proof that there is any deviation from the fad" or any inconsistency in his 4ordship's statement. SIR, :I request .you will lay before the Lords Com -9?lssioners Of the Admiralty the accompanying . ter, which I have this day receied from Lieutenant James INl`Kenzie, Commander of his Nlajesty.'s• hiied Brig Anti and 1. think it ,my duty to inform theli' Lordships, that in a Letter I have received froth Captain Lord Henry Paulet, his Lordship speaks in terms of great admiration of the gallant dm . cuce made by Lieutenant in'kenzie against such •. superior force, 'of which he was an_ eyewitnos, thinking,- 14 all who saw the aadott thought,. tiutCit would be impossible for the Brig to defend hexself, so as to escape' being capturaL • • • I . have the honour to be, 80. • • W. YOLTNG. But even granting that there had ash ally been contradictions, some trifling "discrepancy," as they term it, in the accounts that have been officially published, - of' this great 'and important 'Measure, wpuld not any -man , of common sense, and 'upright feelings; hare rejoiced in the event itself,insteaa of f carping at - trifling variations in the narration of SQ, grand a circumstance ) . The OlipoSition Writers; how ever, very naturally endeavour to draw the?attentiou of the People on „ these pitiful matters, in order, if p . osSible, to ence the . memory of their own contemptible -variation of opinion; ',land ;gross' itt 7 con4l:stencies ; 'for. when, the Lica of 'the removal of the Court of Portugal was first Suggested, those writers freak it as a visionary scheme, 'arising im sOnie romantic mind, that had chiefly devOted itself to Dairy Talcs: When there:began to appear some probable grounds for belieVing that the measure would really be adopted, Ministers 'wert.censured for not rendering the PLUNGE REGENT every possi ble assistance in their power, though ihe:writers - •in question hadoindeed full reason - to believe that Mi nisters were resolutely putting every measure in force. that could tea'd to thO:accomplishment of the Expedition. But when difficulties seemed to arise, and it was ' thought that the artifice or-the menaces of l'eauct ; wo,lld succeed in inducing the Prince to relioquish the plan of removal, t hen these very Opposition Writers no longer saw the projects in the light of a romantic enterprize, but as the only plan calculated to 'save: the Court of Portugal from : • destruttion, and the be . st . prospea cif an .equivalent for all our loss of commercial intercourse on the Continent, in the immense mart which the Brazils would open for theManufaaures of this Country. Such is the glaring inconsistency of men who, instead of feeling as they ought todo on the escape of a faithful Ally from an Enemy intent on his ruin, on the beneficial appropriation 'of a Navy which might have been employed,against this Country, on the mollification Of our EneMy must suffer, 'ontlie vast commercial advantages that open on ns, and on the share which ,dreat Britain liad in a work of so much magnitude and impoitance, use their pitiful micro;.; .5c,)1),.: vision in the detealon of apparent contradic" • ti n3~ in the account of an event history will record with wonder, and which mustdiffesejoiover every 'people on earth, but those Who are inmiediately,de- Voted to the upstart PaWer : Whose design has been so happily- frustrated on this glorious occasion. SI;E:EtINESIi, DEC. 22.—Sailed His Majesty-'t Ship Cumberland, of , 74 guns, 'Capt. WoDEitoUsa, for Portsmouth. .DEAL, DEC. f22.—Carne dOwn from the Ricer the 'Fanny, BoswELL, fora Craze and the Hugh Johnston, SIMARD, for Boston. Majesty's Ship Wrangler has detained and sent into the Downs the American Ship Paragon, C4t.llAGus, from Amsteriihn for Cowes, ,to wait for orders, laden With Geneva, cheese, , giasq, &e. and ~•remains in the Downs with the ,Shpi as per last. This Morning arrived of Mail, from the Leeward Islands, brought to Falmouth .by the Itrinl.or Cast/0 Packet. ; • . CORK, DEC. 14.—The ATphion Frigate is- ap pointed convoy to the West India_outward-bOtind Fleet, now colle6ted, to the number of .51:1 v`th'ssels, in thii harbour. She has' not yet arrived. American Papers to tliv 21 it pit. arrived yester day. They contain no news of im?Ortauce. No proccedinas had occurred in Ciingress relative to, the diSpute with this country. sirbseeinentlf:to those which we have already commUnicated. ['ho following arti,!le is of importance, inas mncb as it shows that France i very. witting: Ili all times,- when she i 3 able, to adopt ih4t mode of coudtiel which she is-so eager to complain of in any other nation. Prin ens -A tuella Packet, with Mails .from Vale t I), aria the 7uis Fire-abip, troth Plymouth had arrh , Ltd at Barbadoes:, Yesterday morning the Princesses AuousTA, I‘Mhl.l.l, With several attendants, rode on bar-eback, in Windsor, Park, from, halt — Oast:eleven o'clock till halt' past one. . . . . "rhe Duke of Voitx, held a public day, yesterday, at hi i Office:, in the,Florse'Gtiars. ' Sir A. PAORT attetitled,.;:ind had Luz tl - dieocc. , of Itis ‘ lleyal liigh , ness, upon his return ft6rn Constantinople: . : „ Lord CAsTLY.REAom.had an audience of his Royal Highness for a considerable time. Kis Lordship i$ much recovered in his health, • . • Yesterdriy a Cabinet Council a-sernhled at, t o'clock, and continued their . deltberationi until nearly five. Siic of the Members were present. The Gazette' of last night contains an Qrtier of Council continuing the prohibition upoli the expor tation of pig iron, bar herrip; . pitcb, tar, rosin,. turpentine, ancliOrs, cAbles, cordage, #llOHls, yard,,; bOWSprils, oars, oakum, sheet-copper, of other hm:ii stores, tbr six months, from the t ith of iantL:s , next„except Shio or iN'ar Or GOt t:111:t3(lot sets, or to Irelitml, 13ritisit Wirt rOstriCtiotil, " BosToN, Nov. 20.--,When the Hornet 'Sloop of War went I;Orient, we had five Frebch sailors on board, who hod been naturalized, and who, had been in our st-A‘ic:u Ter several years. A -French Officer came on beard the Eurnet, and seized these Men by terce (then tinder the prote6iion of our fl and carried them off. Not one word 'wat 'heard about this oumv.." • A meeting was • yesterday held at' she house of the St'Aicl44,,ol: the TruilLu, for the purchase of a Natiotcot Estate for Ow of Earl' Nelsyn, at which tl e D4e• 1)1P.OlITL.INI); thirCHANCELLQH of the it,.%cueuutit, Eatl ~MuLoaAvE, and Eal EL -,c)t4;,.attcatuicd. Iflie have not yet heard what place they have fixed On: . . Lord STRANGEORP r accompanio , the PRIVCE RE o rof PORTUGAL to the water-side, and proceed with hint on board, and when he took his final lea his Royal Highness drew from his finger an (;:enant and very valuable diamond ring, -which it pre,ented to his Lort6hip, as a token of his high regard and esteem. The centre ; sprat; of . ‘riltrable pin is valued at eight huhdred ri 1, -"Che rage of ZUONAPARTE against, this devoted 'COiinitly seems to - , inerease- with time.. Previ usly to ; WO dcparture'from Fontainblean, he drew up the following Decree, which, we are well informed, i s Atirbe ! put in immediate execution upon his return -frOin-the-parption-nf Turkey, and tbeemulsion of the English Forces from the Two Indies. We, NAkmacix BUON . iPARTE) by the grace, arc. decree, and have decreed as-follows . : 1. England shall no longer fOrm apart of Europe. 2. All the geographers, cosmographers, and topo graphers of our -Enipire, as well as of tale free and independent States Of Germany, Sire hereby enjoined to conform themselves to the present Decree, and cease,,to reckon . England among the number of .Etu'oliean kingdoMs. As it will" -be • necessary to Noe .her - soinewhere, they shall resPeatiilly wait • Until a' Sehatils . Consultus shall have 'determined to . what quarter sof the world, she is henceforth fob.. long. The condusters of •. our prytanzeurns, His. illajesty. !fired Armed prig "inn, . SIR, Plymouth Sound, bee.. t 6, 1807. 0,1.. cxutus, central schools, &c. shall teach their p Puy In execution of your. Order of the 14th, I have that . the British Isles no longer make a part of to acquaint you, on the, twth November, at noon, Euro g c. being ittlat. 41. 44. N. and long. to W . 30. .of my - . - . falling iu with . and 'capturing the Spanish Lugger '3. All merchandie that is, or may be, English) ;5 " ). 'lvatter Vansigo, pierced for fourteen guns, but -stridly prohisited i throughout' the whole extent of only six four-pounders and one long brass twelve- . pounder mounted, with forty-five Men ; out. eight. • . days' from Ferrel'; had not made - any captdes 4 . the European Continent, : This • prohibition ow' , - , .-x • braces all looks, 'newspapers', pamphlets, 104 5 ° also, on my entering the Straights of Gibraltar on sheets - , &c. -which shall be printed in E n g lan d' . the morning of the 24th,- with .a fresh br,!eze from ..W. .(Jhe Lugger in cotripany), about half- The impertation of English jdeas is equally jowl.- W.N.W. • diaed as tenng tp establish a mode 9 1 thjalOng past nine A,ll/. falling little. wind, the Islana of • ' • di . Territilt N.E . by N, observed ten 'of the Enemy's.; highly prejudicial to those ideaa..ofruoralitY arid I!" . G un-boats rowing towards me. f i't ten the head- berry winch it is the objeol o f his MajestY;. the most fired a shot, ,and hoisted a red flag.. Finding it impossible to escape, Ilthertened sail t&re c e i ve ...Etnperorarid..K.A *ng,...to propagate. them. At -a quarter past ten the three headmost closed, and domtneticed a6tion. ~ i t half-past ,t ea, r all 4'. Eng la nd Ravin uiurped the sovereignty of lbs seas, and -pretending . to oblige the Nresso o f A 'seven more: closing,.the Laigger struck, having ba - ;led - • • .to inform me she had ,three men dismasted ono of the Eneiny's Gun-boats, and two I a, .: killed. At e4aven ' 'Nations •to carry her commodities, we 1- . rl.!id,..fiv ill .' more not si ruck, cliseQininued,the a6tiou, but ie li els, P a ti t b ul lica th l o i° s l e l. :f i io ll r 6 A l li ? i e e c s, te t e l 4 le a a 4 S;o u f r o l°o‘ if ij e llegstlieir , 'Y' : did not think it prudent to attempt to ,take pos session; having on board toity-two prisoner's, and . , . .artner4s: to take n a Chargod With I)ispatches (iny complement being chOcolate,- sugar, liquors , sWeetMeats, and sug4 ol4 , pastry. We stridly forbid them well( g use.: or to , out)- thirty-nine, nine of laic ,were ian.huard the of muslin cr ,pzttton, tits produce of India, Logger). At ten 1114111tei : past eleven,• got , the . ja di tto h al bee3' any cloth, in the dying of whio . Vessel round by the a,i , stance of the sweeps„And cat to we charge . them, opened my fire on tiv, who had taken, parjun. (41 .. . the L u gger, and ! , ;.iii closing on my siarbOfard kart or other Transatlantic drugs, and to fall. 41 0 ', no fevers or . other.diseasizs a to the eurti•of which 0 4 quarter, With an intention to board ; b ut ilitt h o g my guns so wt-. 11 .itippliett t.);ith . round and grape, Ise of boarding, at, Officers of Health shall judge, the said dC°.' rugs 'and ready ti . ., recciNe thcia in ci • • . one o'clock P. M.. they steeped out of, gunshot; - ducice• • a carrying oft my prize. I am happy in having the- • ' pleasure to add, that although six of the largest were ' course of their successful piracies, shall have t0 . 3 6 ' :., 6,. As soon as the - Pglish, 4Etiv . ely porsniii!, It within pistol-shot for nearly one hour sand a half, 1 , t i l . 1 1 enase ves masters q a t. e„ . gets o t all the c 0 1 1• have not a man hurt. It would be - ne e dles s - for me to attempt to say . 'my thing in favour of Mr. Olden, i'llental States; Ships of War shall be looked OP° 1' 'f 11 . lt r • ri c th ~\l,l,,ier, and each of the crew,, only my great • es. English • therehandize, and .the said State4sh 34 411110.1(1;0n on beholding the nigh flow of spirits 'wi nc h i s , zene r n ity imintrested in the countenance cd - , be . strilitly enjoined to have none of teat in lile4 every British Sailor, altlioqgh opposed to so superior ports„ A.:otOdering also that the iivers' of ilie c° , tl o . a tOi . ce, - And their regre at not beiug able to sink the inept throw themselves into •the sea, and illai I ' l • ~• • all .t*o Which had stink. Tam, 4.:c.- . I‘' e a tvratinited over by the r,tigt.isli N3vy , , (Signed) -J. M€KENZIE. ~.. . .„. - . • , . commerce upon them shall 6einterdjaed i and d' 4 . 7e Trigiem . razing, Esq. Admiral of the'Blue,' and Coidniandor in Chid, &c. Plymouth. --- lorrorof :water, converted into a political paxeillioti hall henceforth justify tho prophetic s itnara , Enragefs,...whiehlvils 4. criveu to the tirit au thors of till Revolution-. - Frain - our Ealice:ofYontainbleig, Sce. 24"-!4-4. 1 . , The : collo - winz - Etr..id Of a Letter applies t o 09 • •••••••^• i rumour soiong afloat, with regard to the res:,ga,/ lion; or terutival i of litso Lout •-a .---1 l '''' ROTTERDAM, Nov: i B.—r ha - ve fast, learned! 11is i that I f onti'llas aeually-set off tram Utrecht olt i route to' Paris •' and that. T A Lt.r.viiAgn is holltlY: i expected, in order to make arrange,iients for 11'6 reception and coronation of Nfe,ttAr. . erevi , l o4 ,ie ! the latter. event, an Address from 'Loot§ to the L' u. i Oslitive and - the People of the C4untry, is to b!... 1 I published. This Address will, it is said, coif Declaration front Lodi% that he,sj)ontaiwo,.. or.: 'renders the Throne; . and'strongly recoMm,..:,,is I''' ii i l j e t t ilit i lit o l ltr cl i n eet i o : s a e( : lnit , fo r y ll .um a tc r i! ' a l m s : n l i : lis ol fe. i sa f i, c ,t t;hl d l t 6 .. i t g ) is o; e p t . i t i ts l l l l a t i, b i:r :ll . o t , a e:e tr g e l i: a t:i ri g: o 4 l . l : i t te e et d T ,),.; I l i ' t e i c oi l i t:?: : :: l i ti c ; ee r . • and 'serve the people. ' Every- Decree against oe .l,vis by -hint enforced . with e'''' i dent Jelutiatice. He liad endeavoured to red u t the public • hurthens, by introducing. retreneluneu !and economy into every department of th e Stat--:,.: !in prosedution of% this object, he ,had re cently ch' itinderl a &eat .body of the trod as untlecesial t ' L t ' 9 . ce ll 'e d d l ii i i a : slt w t h h iL e sl? ffi vTs ri t g- x tl i rteLtiti)l6.l3l;Yo'fislidts'ili .e.. l . 'st t ,t ) l' a ii Pdr i fe : , ~ _ _ 1 scription Of persons ‘vhoin .it has always bee" t ,' 4 particnlar policy of BUONAPARTi to COI1C111:110) 4'''. . • ... NA' 1 veraf remonstrances were presented at . Paris. 15 I POLEON disapprOved Of the measuie, but „/ tthought it . just and ttecesa'ry from the situ:l6on n v a the country and the distresseS of the peoplo,'ll i v , I 'therefore persisted in it. Different inaxito, tau ever, govern , the conduit - of NA roLEON , and' LVijilis ' has been found an' Unsuitablei nstr uinent fo r view 4. INTORAT ,will answer :better." ._lo ; - Lii*Vtit FA ri irA N s undertook tor a consitlerovir% Istun th run . frOrn l the . ind 'cif (-)tford ... .iitr cet 1° iF. row; and back' again,' being 'il ~‘istililc.t; of tWeii .. ) as I ritiles;' , in two hours ,and fifty' minutes, lie "_,„d, "bound by tlfetepns of his engagerneitt to pert.o.llo. the joucney on .Motitilty, p. p, Ow log -to . 'the ,P? VitieSs of the roads; and the Unfavourahle atato or, di et .ll [ weather, the .odds .. ran higli ..against 'hint ; au" ,',,,, cportiltdseequttileyncd.,ecioiti-letdheischenttlittlodt.evratiaikt itcligrictiattnitattapnaciea:qtro,lrli: feit.-4-le is, boviieer; said to- be not distow: 4 ld ) tiotn still undertaking the journey. To j ‘ L' i c i ,°! . ': l l di d it Ite -tut4t go at. a 'greater. rate• than • 1 " 11 Te ,,, p . 1 1 rtc",:illaadorkinaei'tl;),ulßlircittiglias-yuagapotnti,n)Lytsrtd‘tivCco7tt:st.iitlx.etilii:triricie'illsel)s'isit I,ll'o .111:11°011trtr;• l and 3 t. , l e ta ii t t. oti - 'chosen grot7d4-aud at !s firlo :s 4 '7 l) . 0::