The Sun. — London, England, 1802-09-28 00:00:00

1 1 4 A ;!.LL' ARRIVED olian4 _ , - • PRICE OF STOCKS, TIUS DAY A T T NVEy/ la'aLocx• 159 Hi Omnium - Consols. - THE SUN. ID U II D lOLS,IyI QUIS DICARIL EALSUM AU1?1.47.? Disc. LONDON, SEPTEMBER -28, 1802. WE this morning received the 24m;terer, which is dated the 23d and 24th inst. On the last day of the Republican year, viz. the 2zd inst. the CHIEF COWSUL, accompanied by his Wife, and the Second and Third Consuls, went to the ',mire, to view the Annual Exhibition ofYrench ManufaCtures. On the 23d, several Foreigners were introduced to the FIRST CoNsur, by the different Ambassadori ; and anr)ng, others, the Chevalier D'AARA, on his twipgappointed Minister Plenipotentiary from His C4ll:OLic MNEs-r1.7, .not to the Italian Repub. lic, blit to the President of the Italian Republic. it is probable therefore, that the Chevalitr A will reside at Paris, instead of Milan. There were no presentations by the British Minister. A Dutch Mail arrived this morning, but it bangs pa fli.elligence of impqoan.ce, , His MAJESTY yesterday took his uscal ride in Windsor Patk. To-morrow the .poTc es s of WJRTENIIIiExq complete.; tie 36th year of her age. Lort! and Lady MELBOURNE came from Margate yesterday, and afterwards they sec off for-srocket Waliner Is at present so full of Visitors, -• that not single lodging-house is iatant, 0o Thursday evening Lord ST, VINCENT re turned to Town from his long excursion to the ie ye?al Dock yards; on Saturday Ilk Lordship went to Woolty aid yesterday to Deptford, which terminates his tour and inquiries. We have the pleasure to learn, that the Noble Lord has not en joyal. better health for many. years. - it, is stated on the authority of Letteri from Paris ; that the Prince de BOUT Ltoil,- a : British OF,c.er and' subjeti, whb lately commanded at Jer say, has been arrested in that Capital. It is added, filar Mr. MEa.ttir inlmediately claimed his release, thought the : &se of sufficient importance to tie made the'subjea of a Si - ecial Dispatch to the Go. vernment of this Country. .• - ;in the o.,zerte of Saturday last, the f-la.l.f_pay due to Naval Officer; between_the ist 'of January and t4le 30th of pine; x . 802, was advertised to be pay ablz..' on the 4 th of flue month. It was also stared, ?hat, by an Ott of Pa rlia men t , Officers desirous of i?ging paid at t place of their residence might have the same remit trd to them tree•of expence, on apply ing to the Treasurer of the :Navy. It is said to be in the contemplation Of Ministers o repeal the Hatr-powder Duty,. in the approach ing Session - of Tarliament. The 'general" disuse of the article has greatly diminished its produce to the levenue, and the Perfumers represent, that, greater income would be deriyed frOrri 'a Tax upon Hair_ powder itself, than from a Tax upon the use of it. The EmßEßoa_of GERMANY is devoting, much attention to the equipment of a Marine, and has 'ies%dilif l hed the relative rank between his land and sca,Ofticers.—A Captain of a ship -- of the line is equal to a Colonel in the army. ;: a Captain of a fri gate to a Lieuienant-tolonel ; a Lieutenant of a of the line to a. Captain ; of a frigate to a First )...ieutenant ; and of a Midshipmao to an Ensign. Their ,uniform is dark blue, with sky blue facings ; sky blue waistcoat and breeches, half-boots, and 'O4 hats. A Deputation has been appointed by theinha bitants of Bruges to wait upon the FIRST CONSUL, i v r the purpos;.: of petitioning him to save that town from inevitable ruin, by restoring to it its antient privilege of an egtrpol: 7 Every Naval Man 'knows, that all the fortifica— rion's the Panes• cap ete4 on their sale the Shore, could not stop the passage of a British Fleet, having favourable wind, and led on with Skill and resolu in regard to that objeEl, all their new Bar eeriet he ineffeetual ; yet it cannot be well denied, that it is a kind of Sa;ind Policy to cOn strti4 them, . • very singular and extensive confederacy of de predators on Ovate property, was last .week disco vered at Coggeshall, in Essex, by the conscientious compunaion of one of the gang, who, on his death bed, impeached all his accomplices, and disclosed the various systematic frauds which' they had long przeliSed oothe several FarMers, Maltsters, Brewers, &c, of that neighbourhood: this extraqrdinary dis covery has involved several families;hitherto deem ed respettable, in distress . ' and inforny, : one of the gang hung himself, on being dete6ed, last week ; iixteen of them, 'however, hare apprehended, and committed for trial, and warrants are out against several others. The amount of the property, of , - which these depredators despoiled their masters, and'Others, within the last three yezitS, is estimated t ton. at roopetan 20001. Vie- are happy to announce, that the accident which C..olonel and Mrs > 'MERCER, by the pyerthrmying ofotheir was by no means so bad as has been repre.nted. The Colonel is al .ieeoveied f.orn his trifiing' httrts;, and his a_rnincommodedia,::,,Lzuly is np farther incommoded than by some c,0tt,,i(.4. which Lever threatened any Itas eonsegtiehees, IV4I/41L NEWS. ,PORTSMOUTH, ,SErr, *7. ARitrvEp the Ph4rni.t Logger, with spirits, prize to the Atalanta Sloop of War. Passed by for the Downs, the Coartreast, AN. DE RSON, from the South Seas, for Lohdon. DEAL, SEPT. 27. AttatvED this m . denilig, and prOceeded imme. diately to the Westward, the Ships David Stott, for Bombay, Stirling► Castle and Wellesley for Bengal. Arrived from Sheerness, and sailed for Spichead, His Majesty's Sloop Py/ades. DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZE MONEY. The Resolution, Argonaut,.l'Oiseau, and Thetis, for the capture of the undermentioned prizes, will be paid at the Crown and Sugar Loaf, Garlick-hill, London, on Monday, the 4th day of Oiober next, viz. Ship Potowmack and car go.—Head,money Bill for the •True Republican.—Balance of a Sum of Mnney retained out of the proceeds of the Flour Fleet to answerlaw expellees, in pppostng the claims of the Africa, Cleopatra and Tkisbe. To the Nereider for the capture of le Vengeance French Privateer,"and the recapture of the ship Eagle, a final distri-' bution will be made on Friday next, the zd of ,o&ober, at Nci. 7, Beaufort-buildings. The Alligator, for the cutting out and capture of, the French Ship Trioniphant, in the Bay of St. Mark's, in the island of Hispaniola, will be paid at No. t, Copthall-buildings, Throgmorton-street, on Thtirsday, the 7th of 061ober next. The Aquilon, for the capture Of the Santa Reta c San I6da, will continue to be paid at Portsmouth. ' To the Racoon, for the capture of the behoop, a distribu tion of the Racoon's prize will be made-on Friday, the zd of October next, at No. 7, Beaufort-buildings. To the Sloop Hawke, fcr the capture of the Spanish Ship St. Antonio el Triomphante, a distribution will be made at the same time and place. Captain A. j. GRIFFITHS is appointed to the Constance Frigate. The following are the particulars relative to the Fortutze'e Frigate, Capt. CLEMENTS, which ship ryas said to have been totally lost in the Texel ',' On the Bth of September, - the Fo.rtune'e, Dia mond, Alcmene, and Autumn, sailed from the Downs, with Dutch* Troops on board for 'the 'Texel.' On the loth they bore up fn- the Texel, in a heaVy gale of wind from W. S. W. : which blew so Ward that no•pilots could venture off. The Fortrthie and Diamond struck several times in going in ; and owing to the Dover Pilot mistaking the buoy, the' Fortune'e ran on the sand, which the Diamond only escaped by coming to an anchor. In the course of the night the storm so fnuch increased, dna it was thought adviseable to cut away the : Fortullits masts, notwithstanding which she beat off her rud der and was filling very fast, when the crew de serted her. The Diamondskept firing. guns -of dis tress all' night ; , but it continued to blow so 'Very hard that no assistance c,;,uld be given her. The next morning she was got into theTeXel. Oa the 15th the weather moderated,' when, by the great exertions of the Captain and Officers of the Fortune:, assisted by the crews of . the other ships, she was weighed, , and is now safe anchored, _in the Diep, where she is. getting in jury_masts to proceed to England, accompanied by tbellfirg;cieerne, Captain VANSITTART. - The Alcmene and ilmtritan went 'nay the Texel;through the inner Channel, and got sale in." A rock. has been discovered in the river Thames, a little below Blackwall, which renders the gation at a particular tiMe of the tide extremely dangerous. The Trinity Company have' off.tred a ffemium to any one who shall hit upon an expedient to remove it, and will undertake to carry it foto e Wed. A .seaman, saved out of the Nimble Packet-bog ; Wrecked off the . Praule Point about a fortnight ,ince, • going round to Portsmouth, has made a depsition, that there was on board her seveniy one Passengers; that she was run foul of off the lblt and started a butt end ; he instantly jumped into the boar, and tries' to save the rate Master of La Loire, who held last by one of the oars, till, quite exhausted, he quitted, his' hold and - sunk. This man was the only person saved out of the above number. His, Majesty's acceptance of the offer of service from the Wiltshire Yeomanry Cavalry, has been 'sig nified in the following Letter from the Secretary of State to the Lord Lieutenant MY LORD, Drivning-street, "lug. 31,1802. I have received and laid before the King your Lordship's Letter of the loth instant, containing the otter of the ‘Vilt shire Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry to continue its services, according to the provision of the ACt of the la4it Session of Parliament and I have the Honour to acquaint your Lord , ship, that Ills Majesty has been graciously pleased to ap prove and accept this offer. • I have the Homour to be, &c. (Signed) HOBA RT. The Earl of Pembroke, egc,&c. A letter from Liverpool, giVis the following account of the amount of property supposed to be destroyed : France's warehouses 6 k.26,0c0 Dawson's ditto - 2 8,000 Front row ditto, belonging 8 • 18,000 to sundries, - , In all 16 Warehouses, 4.5 2 )°° 0 Sugar, about 1400 hhds. say - - k. 51,000 Cotton, 1500 bales - - - 26,000 Coffee, and other W. India, &c. produce 40,000 G rain - - - - - Tallow, Hemp, &c. - - 6 ,000 )7.243,00D 295,000 90,000 Insured about Supposed loss ,C. 205,000 On , Tuesday eveningidast, as d Mr. Page, the - keeper of the County Bridewell 'at WineheSter, Ws locking up the prisoners, he observed• soniethilg shining on the floor alone esf the rooms, which examination proved to be the filiits of iron, whi:h led to the discovery that most of• the prisoners hid nearly, effe6ted their escape, by sawing off dui( icon's with instruments conveyed, to them in a pri vate manner, They were all immediately property secured in irons' arid have since tinderitone a acre picnue insccaion.. E FT, 24. ON Wednesday the FIRST CONSUL, accompanied by his Wife, the * Second and Third Consuls, and the Minister of the Interior, proceeded at half_ past nine in the morning to the Court of the. Louvre, to view the Exhibition of the Produce of French industry. The FIRST CONSUL visited successively all the Apartments, and nitneised with the most lively interest, themarked progress of National Industry. Each Manufaauring Town exhibited the produa of its Mariufaaories, and the hundred apartments presented at that moment the present state of the Arts in France. He saw with pleasure, that emulation had been car ried to the highest degree, and that the Manufaeturers who were distinguished last year, had not dis honoured that distinftion, which was the epoch of their glory and their fortune. The FIRST CONSU L employed three hourp in vi siting the apartments. From thence he proceeded to the Picture Gallery, which he examined with the utmost minuteness. The Minister of the Interior having transmitted to the Painters who had not previously exhibited, the desire evinced by the FIRST CO'NSUL to see their Works in the Saloon of Exhibition, Citizens Gi_ RODET, REGNAULT, GERARD, ISABEY, VER. NET, and MAYN lE, hastened to place there the Piaures which they had , just finished. The First Consul ordered three ache finest Piaures in the Exhibition to be purchased for himself. These are the encourageMents which must create and support the Arts. At the Audience of the Consuls on Thursday, the Chev. D'AZARA presented to the FIRST CONSUL his Letters of Credence, as Minister Plenipotentiary from His ATIIOLIC MAJ ESTY to the President of the Italian I3epublic ; `as did also the Marquis de LUCCHESINI, on the termination of his extraordi nary mission, and commencement of his funaions as Minister Plenipotentiary from His Majesty the KING Of PRUSSI4. EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM PAIIIS, SEPT. 22. " At length, after a circuitous route, which has• furnished me with a greater opportunity of analy zing the existing state of Things in France, than if I had proceeded diredly,to Ilaris, I have,arrived this morning in the Metropolis of, the French R. public, where I should have arrileed sooner, 1144 not met with an untoward acCident at Bruges, oc casioned by the stumbling of my horse, in conse, quence at the ruinous state of the Bridges over the C ana l from Ostend to Ghent, and. which I have to reckon am: , ng the blessed fruits of the Revolution: Though this accident confined -me to my chamber three days, I can scarcely contemplate it . With re.: Bret, as it -procured me did' acquaintance of the principal inhahi.ant of the place, a . Mr. BAmVENs, who acted in the , capacity of Commissary_General to the British Forces in Fland-rs. From this Gen tleman, who is ever eager to seize, every opportu nity of testifying his regard for the English Nation, I have received the most marked attention and ci vilities ;- and though his friendly offices, have been introduced, not only to a, number of the leading inhabitants of Bruges, but what I estimate infinite ly higher, have obtained access to Public and Offi cial Charaders, particularly to the President of the Criminal Tribunal, M. KEERSMACHER, who led me all over the Palais de Justice, and kindly ac.• companied me to thejiote/ de Prefer, where I -ex. perienced a mist gracious reception. The detail of what I saw at _this place, (which, I flatter my self, will prove highly interesting, the more soi as a deputation from the inhabitants of Bruges to Bo- NAPARTE, at the head of which is M. BAMVENS himself, who conveys his Brother,Representatives in his own Coach and Six, is now on the road, .for the 'purpose of petitioning the FIRST CONSUL to save Bruges from utter ruin and inevitable de strudion, by restoring it to its ancient charader and privilege of an oitrepk), I reserve for a fu ture letter ; and meanwhile, shall resume :my nar rative from St. Omer, the place from which I di retied my last communication. " To such olm' y Countrymen, (if any such there be), as entertain still a restless dekire for innova tion, I would earnestly recommend a visit to St. Omer : there they would witness such scenes, as cannot fail to strike even the most determined' yid ? vocate of Revolution, with horror and dismay. • A Town once nourishing, redticed to inin and decay--- Inhabitants once competent and happy, (I am speak ing of those that still remain, for thousands have either fallen vidims to the Reign of Terror, or else been- driven into exile), literally ,brought to beggary and •Nant ; Public Institutions of the first, utility and magnitude abrogated, • and the very Buildings destroyed with wanton savageness, and .more than Gothic barbarity. In surveying' the ruins, which I cannot describe by any better epi thet, than the merhento mon' of that beautiful Esta blishment, the ci-devant English College, I was so affected with the devastation, which presented it self on all sides, that I absolutely could not refrain from tears, Like ENEAs, when reciting.the cala mitous tale of Troy's destru6tion to the Carthagi nian Queen, 00 - 4 i pot help exclaiming : falia fando Myrmiclonwn, Doi,oßum, yel duri miles I.llyssis, Temperet a lachrymis ?" . , " Pietute to yourself an Establishment the most princely and extensive, calculated for the Education of between four and six hundred: young men of fashion and fortune, and which, of consequeoce, must have furnished the principal means of subsist:- ence to a large proportion of the' inhabitants, con ierted into a Military Hospital during the Rcyo. lution ; but now' in stch,4_ Atate,,-as to-be, with the exception alone wing. which has been put int,' repair, totally uninhabitdble ; the walls thrown doWn, 'the ceiling's demolished, the float's. broker: up, the windows shattered to pieces, and the Very . casements torn away ; nothing in short remaining of, thisiarge Institution, but a heap of ruins, from which one apartment hasbeen rescued, • and is now, though still in a very dilapidated state, Converted: into an Assay Office for. gold and silver. " X understand, however, that the Fi TCoNstr . t.` who poisesses too much sagacity not to appreciate. - - to its full extent, the vahle of such an itt§ritution,' has signified his intention of re-establishing' the , College, and that a competent sum of money i$ already apprOpriated for this purpose. You may indeedseasily form an adequate conception of its int. portance, whenl apprize you, that during its exist_ ence not.less than zoo English families,. on an average, were constantly resident at St. Omer, and that upwards of a hundred Gentlemen's carriages' were then kept, whereas now there is •only one person who'keeps.his carriage in the Whale town, and that a person who owes his means to hi s Official situation under the French Government, viz. the. Commissary-General of the Place. " ' , formerly observed, that a scene of general bustle prevailed throughout the town, it being the Festi;val,f the Nati.tity of the Virgin Mary, a da f t which the French have long not had an opportu n i t y of Celebratink. Anxidus to witness the spirit with. which the -restoration of Religious Worship would be received by this kkle and volatile nation, I re,. paired in the morning to - the Church of St. Denys, the only Church, indeed, which is in a state to ad_ snit of the performance of religious rites. I was much - pleaSed with the air of piety and decorum 'which prevailed among the numerous frequenters of the place; but I could not 'Wholly banish from my . mind thedisagreeable sensations of horror and dis gust, when I beheld on all sides the calamitous ef fefts Of revolutionary rage and phrenzy. The rich and costly ornaments which formerly ethbellished: this Church, were now superseded by tinsel and. false jewels ; many of 'the images of the Virgin anct Sall:afar' Miudi were, literally speaking, no better than the wax dolls in our nurseries. As one in, stance, from which you may f orm a gen e ra l esti mate of the poverty of the place-.- ex retro discs omno;-•it deserves to be recorded, that the canopy' made use of in solemn processions, and which stands within the railing of the communion table, hal a label affixed to it, calling upon the generOSity of the frequenters of the chapel to restore it to' its wonted splendor, of_ which the following is a translation : "I stand in need of linen, to screen me from the dust." " The rest of the appetidiges of ceremonious wor,- ship were in a proportionatx • Atate of meanness and. degradation. In other respbas the service, as I be fore remarked, Was numerously,lettended, and I had the pleasure-in parading the ..mwo, which I did for that express purpose, to see that the major part" of the inhabitants had still. a sufficient sense of reli gious duty left, to shut up their' shOps, and to cele brate the Festival as a. day set apart for mire than ordinary worship and solemnity. Indeed the gene ral.sattsfaCiion. which the restoration of religious worship has given to all the respectable part of thn Community, holds out - -the most ,consolatory pro-. spei Moral emendettion, and justifies the hope,. that the French Nation at large.will in so.far return• to their former habits, as to renounce the gloomy tenets of Atheism fur the more cheering as Well as salutary precept's of the Christian - , Faith. The nuirther Of new Crucifixes, which I saw ereCied on the road from Flanders to Paris, inspires me witl'f full confidence to augur:this happy reformation. " Anredere 0 magnos, aderit jam tempos, honores." The ;are excessive heats having nearly dried uct one of the arms of the Saone,:at Pontailler, several of the inhabitants of the neighbouring country , sought -there to procure stones for building, of ,which they found ,a great number. They,. als9 . discovered several columns, fragments of beautiful marble, instruments of copper, and a . 'figure Qf bronie, about ten inches in light, representing a woman coming out of the water with .her hair w et ? The figure is singularly graceful, and f ine ly pro portioned, A Member of the Academy, Citizen • LE S CREVW, hearing- of the circumstance,' imme diately went to Pontailler, to examine. the bed of the river.. In addition to what had% !ken alreadf discovered, he found there several chirtargical in struments, a number of medals in bronze of Nervar Vespasilm, Nero, Antoninus, Domitian, &c. and several copper utensils. A report is shortly ex petted to.he made to the Academy, on the subjea of this discovery. The Eagle Revenue Cutter, Capt. WHITEHEADT brouwht into Newcastle on Sunday se'nnight a l a rge smuggling lugger, called the Resolution, of NeS ,York, which she fell in with off Huntcliff abput tour o'clock _on ;he preceding Saturday afro— nobn, and captured, after a chace of ,ix hour s ' TVnernouth Castle then hearing West, ditant about zs mines. She had on board about 750 half anke rs i of;geneva, and t 1 bales of tobacco ; is upwards So feet long, and only about 15 broad. On Etiday a carman was convicted before M r ' AlderrtianWA - notr, at Guildhall, of running.evcr a poor woman in Crotched Friars, and brutsiog her in a mpst, terrible manner. She is now it, the .Lmd .tv hospital. The carman, who was ridi n g on his cart, was committed to prison, till :I c erii"- care of the poor woman's life being our of dang er be produced. The prosecution was carried on )YI the Churchwardens of 'St. Olave Hart-stree t, an it is to be wished, that. in every parish th e Church" w a rdens would be vigilant in attending .to simi l a r misconduct in carmen. of On Satordak . seinnight, in the neighhourl i6°4 F,yemouth, three young ladies had a most tlarr.!„,_ escape. In taking an airing in a_ one h0r5e.c1131.7:5 the Fair Charioteer laid herself and .her comp h the upOn the ground ; happily, however, thoug-, carriage was completely turned over upon, t'l e /9 with the Wheels uppermost, and the horses' be io the same situation, they were taken out them by two young Gentlemen, who attende d aided, by some country. peovle hard by at t 1 1; of the acci4rlt,.3