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MAILS. DUE-4 Gottenburgh, i Lisbon, s Dublin, 4 Waterford. PRICE OF STOCKS T.ISIS PAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCK. - 6ra 1 °minium - Consols - THE SUN. Apr. SOLE!! Quis rucEat FALSUM AUDEAT ? L 0 IV D 0 Iv, SATURDAY, MARCH .2 8 , 1807. IN adverting yesterday to the Explanations given in the Houses of Lords and commons, by Lofds GRENVIL . O and Howton, respe&ing the 'Causes of the Difference between His MAJESTY and his late Ministers, we stated, that there were two points which were particularly descrying of ccnsidera-, tiOn th2t His 2N.fIAJESTY; from the very earliest mention .of the Catholic evinced a marked ' t re.JuetanCe to., the hiLi - ute; anc3' se= . - condly, that flis MAJESTY certainly Was induced to give his-assent 'to the Bill under . the' convjEtion 'That its provisions were • noi. 'to exceed those of the AEI .pf. It 'cannot for a moment be supposed • that. Lord GRENiTILLE would attempt to praaise any deceptiOn upon his Snviereign, but. it ie ttait -iviallSteiS, knowing, as they - must have.known, His MAJESTY'S sentiments'upon the 6 .:bjea; should . not' haire: felt the necessity. of ex plaining; in the first instance, distinctly, the nature and ;the—Provisions •of the Bill which it was` intended to bring' into. Parliament. That they did Dot give. that explanation. in a proper manner* is' evident, not only from the. circumstance 9f His> MAJESTY having misunderstood the nature — of the, • :• - Bill, but from the fa&S, stated by Lord.SipitiouTH on Thursday night in the House of Lords;-,.:1t is most strange, that .upon a stibjed; which-, as we lame already observed, should have bee n ex plai n ed • and defined: with scrupulous minuteness,. such an extraordinary degree of uncertainty-511OtIld'ijaVe:Wb-. 4isted. His MAJESTY , misunderstood .the extent of the measure which his Ministers wished to' bring forward ; the Cabinet Ministers themselves differed in opinion upon the subject; and the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and. Mr. ELLIOT, after-the .receipt of the Dispatches from this Country, appear to have been in doubt with respea to the extent of the concessions which it was intended to make to the. Catholics. We dO not mean to insinuate that this ambiguity was intended, hut certainly upon such an important ques tion it was most unfortunate, With respe& to the pledge which was stated to have been deinanded from Ministers, the fg* which have transpired within these. few days have placed that part of the question in a very different light from that in which it appeared were led" to believe that Ministers; after having withdraWn the Catholic Bill, inconformity to His MAJESTY'S wishes, had been directly called upon to gii. - e a Pledge . with respeCt to their futUrc.cOndua . upon that subject. It nOw,appears, ..,4owever, that the Pledge was not demanded until the l a t e Minis- ters. had, in terms - too plain to be tni§understood; jntirnated to Ho. MAJESTI then- determinatiOn to avow their sentiinents, not only upon the present occasion, but its the event• of the Catho lic Petition. coming forward." We do not blame the late Ministers for determining to adhere to principles which they entertained, but it is equally clear that His MAJESTY, aeting.- as lie has uniformly done. upon this and every other : occasion, ' from the most pure . ant conscientious motiyes; bad a right to, .demand some , pledge•from those whom he had entrusted' with the_ adini , : nistration of Public Affairs, that they- would not ad in direct opposition, to his Wishes -.upon a subject of the highest National importance. The late Ministers havii e; refused to give -that Pledge, the result became inevitable. We cannot but lament the occurrence, of any event which has :deprived His MAJ E STY and the Country. of the :service of Lord •GIUENVH.LE; in whose talents and principles we have always had the highest confidence ;. but when. Ms 11tt-. JESTY'S confidential Servants avowed a determina- Con to a& upon a great and impOrtant que'stiou in .oppositiou to His MAJESTY'S known feelings and principles,. it became indispensably necessary that MAJESTY should call other men to hi's Coun cils. There could be. no doubt about 'whom 'he was to call von in such an UneXpe&edemergency. Those men who had for years been the able Co adjutors of Mr. PI. TT happily remained----,Men used to Public Business, and whose principles were well known both to.their SOVEREIGN and their Country. should have been highly gratified by seeing their Administration strengtheneA and adorned by. the.ac- knowle& - c.cl talents and experience of the Marquis eLL:::-.1.111Y, who has declined office for the present from motives of delicacy, which must raise him mill higher; if possible, than he stands in the public eitimation ; b'it the new. Ministry have the benefit oC his good wishes and support. The following is a covrea List of all the Appoint , meats that have hitherto beex official)) , annolanced. We have already stated the most of them, but tly3. Public have not yet seen ;them before them at one Vleo :- Duke of Poe.? LAND, First Lord of the Treasury. Lord ELDON, Chancellor. Earl CAMDEN, President of Council. , • Ern' 751 - Virestmo LAND, Privy Seal. Lord HAWKESBURY, LOrd . CASTLEREADH, arid.tho Right Hon. P..CANNING, Secretaries of State. Earl (ASH,. THAW, Master-General of the Ordnance. Lord I i VIui.CiAVE, First Lord of the Admiralty. Mr. PERCINiAL,. Chancellor of the Exchequer: Earl EA T ttUR sr, Mister of the Mint; and President of the Board of Trade. , • Lord BATHURET was the.attached and approved friend Of Mr.., PITT, and whose talents and virtues tender him every way worthy t ‘ he high,bouour of a Seat - 14 thc, Cabinet, which thus consists of eleven Members. .Sir A.nit,Es• PULTENzy,-Seeretary at War. Right Hon. C. Lo'N'o and Lord CHARLES. SOMERSET, Tyirtt! P;ymasters. I ail Of C.'7l-tic klE'r ER, Tcint Postmaster-General. , Riiht Hon . . R. S. 'l..ll . );:o.ls,rlC6ident of the _Board of • Conrao.l.. . 4 . • : Lord Lov A I NE, a -;giber of the India I3oard. • . Other Appointments we shall notice as they. occur. AVE lave been ,fasionred . with the periWal of a: private letter from a Gentleman of distin&ion at Vienna, which states,. that the desertion: of the Ger , man Troops, :whose 'Sovereigiis ,have lately became VasSals - of Franee, .is unprecedented ; no less than 9000 of tnem have within a very short. time made their escape into thp AuStrian - Territories,..andinve enlisted in Austrian. Regiments.. A great number of Prussian Soldiers, who were dispersed after the, fatal Battle of Auerstadt 4 effected their escape into Bohemia, .-acrd above 10,000 of them laaVe been in cOrporated .with the Austrian Troops.. The levies throughout the whole Austrian Empire are greater than was ever known.. . WE have this day continued our Ettrafis from the Hustnn Mails which arrived yesterday. The accounts which 'they contain from the theatre of war are rather confused. The Harnburgh Paper states, that the French head-quarters were at Os terode as late as the 10th of March, which certainly Is in dire& contradielion to the accounts which have lately reached us.' • Last night Paris and Dutch Pape/7 reached Town; the former to the' •21st and the latter to the 25th Inst, but they still leave us in doubt upon the actual. position of the Armies. The face} of the retreat of the French, however, we think indisputable; though we contess we should be much more gratified to hear that BONAPARTE was determined to carry on the 'War in Poland, than.that he had effected his retreat to the Oder. No 'further confirmation has- been received, 9f the .• Battle of the 2.Bth; , a Messe,:ger arrived yesterday from St. Petersburgh - with Dispatches fioru the Marquis of DOUGLAS; 'but they do not contain any account of recent events. EHTRACT OF . A PRIVAT.E LETTER FROM ST. PETERS- - Buit6H,:D;lr43 FEE. ' cc, The-ViCiory obtahred Over Ow Enerny at E ) i.:' ladwas'most brilliant and most ithportant ! . .Lie' • . • Army or BONAPA,III'E ,amounted ..,to near ) 1 ' 2 0,000 - men ; ours of the tiro` Divisions of BingraosEx and that which Was formerly BUZ' HOYDEN'S. The Bat-. tle,; which lasted two clays, 'was one of the most .„ tnutderous thit.,.eVer. was fought. BDNAPARTE'm newed the attack - eight.times, and acl - 1 time . he A NT'aS repulsed. The greatest fart of the . Elite b i :1-)is,4r „Grenadiers, w ho my was destroyed; . the i .Hprse were considered (it I may use the expte - Ssion)' as ' ' the Elite of the Elite; were nearly all eta topieces; accordin g io.the account of the ralssian's only.seven- • teen men remained out of the whole 'Corps.. The Hussars were nearly all cut to pieces. . . --, - .• "'The battle was fcraght upon plain of the ex,- tent of 20 vcrsts,. and. throughout .the whole space, . as ' far as the' eye could - r e a c h; noth.ing waS to: be . seen but carbage. You will perceive that thq -nr.t ber of Prisoners were not-in 'proportion to the num ber killed ; during the'latter, part of the battle, the troops on both sides having exbusted their: carl tridges, were compelled to fight Withtheir blyonti.: The 12 standards which were taken from the enamy, have' been publicly exposed. They are ornamented' .with the Eagle, which is a pfoof that those who car- ried them were killed, because it is alWays the'prac-' tice of the French to. take off the Eagle from . the standards when they find they cannot defend:them . ; very few of them are therefore_ever taken with that ornament -upon theM. If BONAPARTE had succeeded in his.'atten3pt, it would have decided' the fate of . , . . _ ... the Campaign ; lie would have effectually, cut Off BENNIGSEN from Vox EsSEN, and Konigsburgh must have fallen ; but the aaiVity and rapidity of General .BENNIpSEiI'S _ movements frustrated his I scheme." According to Pispatebes. from Lord COLLING WOOD, a French Squadron and four Spanish Sail of the Line are in Cadiz, having contrived to enter, notwithstanding all .the,vizilance of .our blockading Squadron. These Ships, with others in'.the Same Port, and a considerable number of Transports, were expeeled: to make an-_attempt to escape when the ,Dispatches, which were brought by the Halcyon, :;came away. ' E libdrars - piri t of moderation.that characterises the Note which the-Ottoman Court has ordered to be presented to the Foreign Ministers now at Con stantinople, in order to be transmitted to their re speetive Sovereigns, in consequence of the depar ture of the English Ambassador fium that place, is a - proof that, I,vhatever measures the Sublime' Porte has been induced, to adopt 'adverse to this Cduntry and its Allies, were, in reality repugnant to its own feelings. That they were the effe6t of • French intrigue and menace, is notorious, and it is.highly probable, that as soon as Ottoman Court is acquainted with the success of Russia over the French Armies, i,t a u ill eagerly embrace the first opportunity of resuming amicable relations with this Country. , . Yesterday we received Neep-York Papers to the sth ult. They contain some details of the Revolution in St. Douthigo. There is nothing - new in'these Pa- . pers respecting Col. Btratt, An account frOm the Isle of Bour.bon, (441)&1 th NoVernher,.states;:that the British Man of War. Sceptre, and Carinvallis .Frigate, had appeared off dig place, atidtortinaented a heavy fire'on -the town. The attack was expeded .to be renewed--the next4day.- , . • Five - Ships haVe been taken up by the East India Corilpdny within these, few days, for' the purpose of 'carryitik-Tro6ps to India. They are to:earry:fotir hundred men each'. • ". The following Naval ,Appointments ;1 . _ . Captain Sir C. Hamilton, Bart. to the Temeraire 9R.• Hon. C. Elphinstone HeininA. to the I3ulwar,k T. Colville, to the Hercule 74. E". D. 'King, to the Mointio-iith 64: C. R. Collkq, to the Surviellante 38. . C. Shipley, so the Nymph 36. • , HOU. H. Dun Can, to the Porcupine 2.4. - Edo:'artt Hawkins, from the hail-pay list, to the command of the Minerva. Lieut. Samuel John Peellel of the Foudroyant, to Atli cinarriand of the Ferret "Sloop of lihr, with the Rank of, Master and Commander.— It is imagined, in some well informed naval circles,. that the French, squadron, of three-Sail of the Line, and a Frigate, full of troops, which escaped, a few nights since out of the outer road of Brest, are gone to the Last.fndies. The Determinee French .Privateer, of 16 guns and ' 150 men, ,is taken by the ,Venus Frigate ; and the . Creole French Privateer, .of I gun and 27 men, is, taken' by the.CireeTrigate—carried intollarbadoes. As it is • very probable that • the Swan Revenue Cutt6r, taken by'three French - Luggers off' Sti , anage, yesterday se'nnight, will be immediately' sent. ever 'to crihize against the Trade of "this Country, her de f. cannot be too generally known :—She is' carvel built, 'with - a very full boW; yellow sides, with-the ports painted black, the counter'red, a run ning,. bowsprit, fitted on the starboard side of the stern, copper-bottomed, and motinting 14 gunS. Thursday, the Annual Meeting a th'e Proprietors of tlie Sierra Leone' Company was held at The New LondOn Tavern, for the Eleotion of Diseolors for the ensuing year, - when the former Diredors Were re-. elealed: ' • • It has' been' observed that - the Loan MAYOR is ra . tiler in a ludicrous predicament, as, it is a prewriptive part of civic etiquette to invite tho Adniinis,trationOf the time to the t:aster Festiva]. The late Mini sters were, of course, invited, and it would b e . hi g h ly improper not tai invite the present also. It tile) -I, t.i b e dangerous to 'place them in opposition, andwill b e diflicult . to place fliein On the same sine. A inClanclioly accident happened in Earl Fitzl.vil Bar's Hunt on Friday s.e'nnight. Whilst the hounds Were in chase near Aleonhury-hill, Hoare, of the University of Cambridge (sou' of Floare . ,.Zs(j: Blinker, of ,Loncldn) . „ was -.t4ovvn .his hor4e,,and_ kicked . so fatally in the ibrehead, that - he . surViVed but a few Minutes. M It .1q .E.,. --A mirew ShostQck, a private in the King'S' German Lea on, Was tried .at• tile .Maidstone• Assiies, before Ar. Justice ttEA.TH, for-the murder . of ThoMazib '‘N'ird, of St. I)tters i • in the Isie of Thanet, on tiie t Oti),OfJanuary.:, The gnilt of the Prisoner was proved Lity circumstantial evidence, bot of the most satistadory kind, and his defence found ed upon contradi4ory falsehood. He .was to be .executed this day, and his.body given fordisseetio. -• Died, in her 65th .year, Much.lamented, on Wed nesdiy .the . 2sth inst. at Cold Higham, Northamp7 tonshire, atler a few days illness, in consequence of a mortification in a carbuncle, Ismiti,A, the very - affe6tionate Wife of the Rev. Jou BAsnor,. Iledor of that .parish. ';CORONER'S INCWEST.-An Inquisition Was:taken 'on Thursday s . at' the Mitre, an the Paddingtcin Ca 'nal, before G. HoDGsoN, Esq. Coroner, on the body of John Taylor, who was found drowned in the 'Canal on the preceding day.—The deceased'had ari 7 ginally been a Clerk in some very respeaable.hOuses in St. James's, but he had, for nearly two years Bast, bean unfortunately in a ,dejeaed state ) 61 wind, .and "incapable of foll Owing his industrious pursuits. Ti le 'unfortunate man had. a wife in Audley-street, and he bad also a' COmfortable home arising froin her in dustry. . _ On the. morning of . W.edoesday the. de . . _ _ ceased infortned'his wile . that he should arise. and take a'walk, but being gone longer than was ex- peed, his ,wife arose also, and on going into .her sitiing-rommshe saw a letter of her husband's hand- writing; whiehhad been left by hini to inf orm h er that he was :gone to the Canal to drown himself, 'being tired of his .The letter exhorted the wife . not to grieve, as she would meet her husb an d aga i n in heaven: The wife,,on reading the letter, hastened. to the , Canal, and having been . informed by , the haTemen of the course her husband had taken, she ran tow,ards the Mitre, when she beheld a body floating on the water. The poor woman, in a fran tic state, _rushed into the, current, and brought the hndy on shore, but the spark 91- life was The landlord of the Mitre took the body in, and used every effort, 144 .. .4; vain, to re4toro Insanity, NAVAL NEWS. F I ILMOUTH, MARCH, 25.—Sailed this day the Speedy - AJ-tbed Ship to join the outward-bound Que. ,hge.and'Nectifoundiand convoy. • Arrived the Brig Marristown, with a Fleet, of Coasterk'tinder convoy, for Swansea, from Ply month; fortune, JRISTKINS, Bedford, NlcHou.s,- and Iladard, WATERS. The Prikcers , Mar y Packet left Mount's Ray last evening for this . Port; she may be expeaed to arrive this evening. PLYMOUTU, MARCri G.—Came in the Liberty, PETERS, from Lisbon, and the Smelicte Broderi,, Bum. ; from Dram. PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 2L—Sailed His Majesty's Ship Edgar, on . a Cruize ; His Majesty's Ship Eleara will sail to-morrow, with the Mediterranean Convoy for Plymouth, to join the Seahorce Frigate. ~. ILVRWICIf, MARCA .27. ---- The Lady Frances Packet, Captair? FLYNT, arrived late last night from Heligoland, with a Danish Mail ; and the Argu,s Revenue Cutter, , Captain TURNER, from Yar. mouth. Arrived also the Ladder. Cutter, Captain GUNTUQRPE, from the Northward ; and the Viper Excise cutter from a Cruize. • Remain "the B6netta Sloop of War, with the Dauntless and Valorous. „SHEERNESS, MARCH 2 6.--Sailed His Majesty's Abipi ~:lfrjaine, of 44 guns, for the Humber; Salt?, t up at the Great wore with her convoy, TOttningen and Orestes, for Yarmouth. Arii'ved the Piercer Gun.:brig, and the Snipe ditto, mith:loss of topmasts, rudder, &c. from Yarmouth. MARCH 27.-414 day a Court Martial was held oil board His Majesty's Ship Magndnime, for the ,trial of the. Junior Lieutenant of the Wanderer for being'off deck in his watch. Sentence of the Court was—Reprimanded. Sailed the. Piercer for Harwich. E117,341-A4I QUAY, MAIt CH 26.—Sailed from Tor. `bay thel4iidia - Frigate, on a Cruize. • • • ,; DISTkII3UTION OF PRIZE-MONEY: ,To. fhe Officers and Crew of His Majesty's Gun-brig the Clipture of the Pallas, on the tOth of April, 1806, on board the Blazer, in , the Downs, on the 4th April and afterwards ar.N,o, 4, Clement's Inn. To the Officers and'Crew•of tits Majesty's hired Brig Ann, their proportions of the'Neptunits, taken '3lst - Marcb, 18 - 05, 'by the , Bbld Gun-brig; Stisarinahltlargaretha, taken 23d Au l gust, 1805,. by the Cruizer ; Dogter.Catharina, taken ;th rune, i8o; , by the Ann and others, on' the i6tli instant, at No. 2.z., •Arondel.streer, and aftefwards flitthree months. To the (Hikers and Crew of His Majesty's Ship Raison. able, for the Capture of the San Rafael and El Finite, by tho Fleet under Sir Robert Calder, on the sail of Illy, rsos; --- -44-- - the C4pture or the Ranger, on the 3d of August - , 18os, and La Torche, on the 16th'of August, toy, the ,proceeds ar i s i ng from the said CaptUres,O n th e rst April, at No. 70, Great Russel . -;,trept,, Blobinsbury, and tar three- ntontW, at the same place. To the Officers and Cre w of His Maje s ty' s G un- b r i g Clacker; for the Re-capture of the Brig Resolutiou, of Exeter, on ,the ad family; 1807, the salvage thereof, on the z6tti March, at No., 2gi High-sti - eet, Portsinquth ; and every M o n. day and Thursday for three months. • To the Otficzts and Company of His Majesty's Ship Fi,s. gard, 'tor the Captuto of Spanish Ships I)Oo and lil Lin. ttu, oni-the agth November, 1804, on the :, , tst Inst.' at No. ,8; Clement's 'rift ; and every Ttleaay and f iidiy for three years, "ATo the Offii;as and'CoMpany of His Majesty's Ship Niger, the.p.rooecds of the--Dicio-ankt,i,a l.indu , captured on the 29t ,and 30th pr : Noveni';)er, 1804, on the 4th or April, •at No. it, 'Ceell:stieet, Strand; and tof three }ears from that date. GALLANT EXPLOIT. (E xtran from the Madras Gazette, Saturday. Sept. 2 - .",1896.) His Majesty's Ship Fox, Captain the H-onourablq . ARcHIBALD COCHRANE, arrived at VlZigapatal D 12th current, from Penang; ti. ith the following i n ., ,teresting and important intelligence: ;On .the 25tir July His Majesty's Ship 'Grey . hound, Of 32 gnus capt..ELriIINTONE, attd His Majesty's .Brig Harrier, of 18 guns,. Captain TROUBRIDGE, running through the Straits of Salayer, fell in with four Sail of the Enemy's, Ships, between the small. Dutch Ports - of BOuthian and Boelecomba, about `seven miles distant from the shore, (•,onsictino• of the Pallas Frigate, of 36 guns, and the !thin Corvette., twenty 2 4-pounders, and the Batavi(r and rick ria,• armed,l n di a i nen, .of 'BOO and 500 tons. They drew up, in a hne to receive the' British, the Grey .houild leading through the line, under the stern of the Pallas, and fhe Harrier following in her wake. The .enerny received them with great spirit, and after an adion of forty minutes; the Pallas szruck her colours, and .thelarge Shills folloWed her Corvette being to windward, ,and having very little share in the au ion, made sail towards the shore.and escaped. The Rim ier immediately gave chace, but the Enemy being able to carry more .sail (her -rig ging being uninjured), Copt. ELPHINSTONB made ,signal to recall her. . - The Greyhound had One man killed, and seve4 wounded, among whom were— Mr. T. Wood, -BoatsWain ; Geo' Majorihaukes, Master's Mate; John Bradford, sligntly. The Harrier hnl•-• men wounded. The Pall-as had'ekilled, and 3 2 wounded. • Tbe Victoria, z The Batavier, z killed, 7 wounded. • DOMBAY GAZETTE, AUG. 7, 1806.-011 Saturday last anchored in the harbour his Majesty's Ship Psyche, Capt. WOOLDRIDGE, from a crilize off the Island, of Bourbon; • accompanied by three French prizes, The Psyche left her cruizing ground, of the Island of Bourbon, on the 17th lilt. and.proceeded2 to .St. Mary's on the Island of Madagascar, where they received, on board a supply of water and bullocks, and from thence they touched at the Sychilles. The' Psyche, during her cruize, captured eight small French vessels,, tom - of which, being of little or no value, they destroyed, one was dispatched to Madras and the other three accompanied the Psyche to Bombay. The Expedition Fiench Brig, priie to his Majes ty's Ship Pitt, Capt. BATUUasT, orriye , 4 at Bombay the ,73d July.