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MAILS, ARRIVED-3 Dublin, T Waterford• i Waterford. D u E-2 .GottenburBh, THE SUN. SOLAMHQVIS DICER!. FAIEUM AUDEAT? .1.; 0 D ON, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1807. Paris Papers to the 30th and Diach fo the 25th ult. have been received this morning. The former do not contain any thing of . the least importance. The only articles in the latter worth mentioning are the following: _ VROM THE MERCURY, JAN. 24.-",` A Frankfort Paper, on the authority of a . Letter from Vienna, speaks of an. obstinate battle said to have been fought in Poland on the 29th or 30th of December& but without mentioning the result. • , . . " The number of persons lost at Leyden has, not. yet been ascertained, nor can it be done with any precision till all the ruins have been removed, which is a work of time and immense labour : dead bodies most shockingly mangled . are dug up from time to time, btit the greatest part so disfigured that they cannot be recognized. The King has in vited Architeas to deliver .in plans for -re-building the City, a premium of one thousand guilders being -eserved for the one which'shall be approved." WE stopped the Press on Saturday to state to our Readers that several Letters had been received from the Continent, which tended to throw some doubt upon the details which .have lately reached this Country from so many qUarters, of the total : Defeat of the French Army subsequent to the 26th of De-._ cernber ; 'but there can: be no doubt that the result. of the Aelion on that, :day was most diSastrous to the French. They • were 'completely fruitrated in the obje& which they had in view, 'which was to obtain possession of the Russian Magazines at Bierly-Stock ; but we confess our confi dence in the accounts from different parts of the Continent, of the total ,route of the French in the battles of the 27th, 2sth, and 29th, is considerably shaken. .. On Saturday afternoon the foll Owing Note was circulated in the Public Offices : " No Official Accounts of the Battle. of the 26th Decem 'her have reached us from' the Russian hcad-quarters ; but, day after day, something transpires from Warsaw which makes it appear that the issue of it was in every respect high ly favour;:ole to the Russians. " BONAPARTE at tacked in five columns, of which three were dcfeatcd. Tha grand op,ratinn he meditated, of forcing his way to the Russian magazines it Bierly-Stock, complete ly " The latest accounts from Warsaw state, that only one of the French columns succeeded in the attack on the 26th, and it may be depended upon, that the French army could not be led to a farther attack on that day. BONAPARTE is at ‘Variaw, and has promised his army an armistice, and winter Discontent and dissention prevailed among his Generals." quarters. A report has been circulatea, on the authority of private Letters, that one of the Russian Generals bad been deteaed in a treasonable correspondence with the French, and that he bad been sent in irons to St. Petersburgh. We do not think it proper to mention the name of the General upon such slight autbOrity, because the Officer alluded to has always enjoyed the highest charmer, and we have qo.doubt the report originated in mistake. . WE understand that a Gentleman arrived in town this morning-, who left Dantzic early in the last month : he states, that reports had been very gene rally circulated there, of severe anions having been fought on the 27th, 28th, and 29th December, in which the.Yrench were cOmpletely.deltited ; but that these reports were not confirmed by :any offi cial intelligence before he left Dantzic, and that they had begin to lose their credit. On Thursday the Prince of WALES, Dukes of Ion; l. KENT; SUSSEX; and CAMBRIDGE, dined with their M A JESTIES and the -PRINCESSES at Windsor • Palace. • esterday morning HiS IiIAJESTY, Princesses Au- GilbtS, 'SOPHIA, and AMELIA, attended by Lady ISABELLA THYNNE, Generals SPENCER and FITZ ROY, and Colonel TAYLOR, went to St. George's Chapel, whet -; a sermon was preached' by the Rev. Dr. HuasnAm, from Mat. C. xiv. V. 22 and 23.- They aftetward6 returned to the Palace. 'Her MAJESTY., Princesses ELIZABETH arid MARY, Lad diVine service perfoimed in the . Palace. A numerous meeting of the Board of Trade was held on Friday morning,, at half past eleven o'clock; at the Office in the Treasury, when a great number of West India . Merchants and Distillers attended, upon the subje& of distilling from sugar. The Mem- Lers of the .Board present were—Lord AUCKLAND, Earl TEMPLE, Viscount HOWICK, and Lords QIIEN VILLE, H. PETTY, Mr. T. GRENVILLE, Mr. COR BY, 84c; —We did not understand that the Board came to a determination upon this important sub- jeat. M. D'ALOPEU s, who is coming to this Country, is to succeed COUllt STMOGO7.4OFF in the Aussian EtuT busy, and Is said to be charged with Negotiations which are to have decisive influence on the opening of the nest campaign, Lord HUTaiIINSON'S. principal business with the Russian . Army is to see that it amounts to the.sti pulated- number of efleaive. men in the field, con formably to the Treaty between the Emperor ancl our Government. NA PAL , NEWS. Admiralty-Office, January 31. Copy.of a Letter' from Vice.Admical ; the it iglu' Hon. Lord Collingwood, Conunakaler in -Chief of His Majesty's Ships and Vessels in the Mediterranean, to William Mars den, Esq. dated on board Ills Majesty's Ship Ocean, off Cadiz, the sth of January, 1807_, . sta, Incloein transmit-to you a Letter from the Hon. Captain Waldegrave, of his Majesty's Sloop the Mitiorc.a, informing : me - of his having chaSecl a num ber' of those small -Privateers which infest the Straits, and by a skiiful-manceuvre having sepa rated the largest from the rest, captured her. I have the honour to be, Szc. COLLINGWOOD. His Majesty's Sloop Minorca, Gibraltar Bay, December 29, iSo6.. , MY LORD, • I have the honour to acquaint you, that on my liassagc to this.port with the Spanish Vessel I cap tured on the.23d, on entering the Straits eleven of the Enemy's Privateers stood, out to reconnoitre us, so near, that I gave chace to them, on which they dispersed. We were'coming up with two very fast, when 'the largest stood to the westward, with the intention of cutting off our 'prize. Having alloWed her to get a sufficient distance off shore, to prevent 'her regaining it, :I hauled up, and after a chace of two hours, captured her, close to Cape Trafalgar. • Her name is the Nostra Senoia del Carmen, alias La. Caridad, mounting two twelve-pounders; two four.pounders, and two large swivels, having on board "thirty4ive men out. of _her complement of fifty. I have peculiar satisfaaion in announcing this Capture; being one of the largest of that class which infest these Straits. - •• I'afterwards captured a small Felucca,, the • Spa nish Packet from l'angier to Tariffa, having a Mail. on . board.—l have the honour to be, - G. G. WALDEGRAVE. TO the Right Hon, Vice-Admiral Lord Collingwood, &c, &c. &c. Admiralty Office, January 31. • Copy of a Letter from Commodore Sir Home Popham, to William/Marsden •Esq. dated on board his Majesty's Ship the Leda, off Buenos Ayres, the 4th of Aug. iSo6. I have the honour to transmit to you, for the information of' the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, th,eCopy of a Letter which I have this day received. from Captain King, of His Majesty's Ship Diadpm. I have the honour to be, &c. HOME POPHAM. Diadem, Monte Video, N. N. E. Five SIR, LeagUcs, July 30, 180. , , I beg to inform you, that a strange Sail having been discovered in the N. W. quarter about noon this day, I immediately weighed and chased her until the Diadem was in four fathoms water, when hove to and detached the boats, who sobn came up with arid captured her. She proved _to be a, Spanish Man of- War Brig, called the -Arrogant, pierced for 12 guns; but had only two 'mounted, with 24 men on board, I have," &c. (Signed) - WILL. ICING. To Commodore Sir Home Poliham, K. B. eze. arc. stc. Admiralty Office, January 31. Copy of another L e tter trom Commodore Sir Home Pop nam, to vv illiain Marsden, Esq. a ;tea onllnard the Dia dem, Rio de la Plata, Sept. 9, 1806. SIR, I have .the honour to transmit you, for the in forMation of my Lord Commissioners of the Adthi ralty, the Copy of a Letter which 1 hare this day received from Captain Honyman. I have the honour to be, &c. HOME POPHAM. His Majesty's Ship Leda, off Monte Sia, Video, Sept .9, .1806. In obedience to your signal to slip, at ten A. M. we made sail in chase of a Brigantine standing to wards- the River St. Lucia ; at two P. M. Point del Espikiello bearing N. about four • miles, and conceiving ourselves near the Rock La Panela, tacked ship, with an intention of 'making a short board to prevent the Enemy from gaining the River ; shortly after the Chace not 'being able to weather the Rocks off the Point, she bdre up and ran for Monte Video ; tacked and made all sail towards her, and "at ,half-past three drove- her on shore, close under the Points de las Yagues, when she hoisted. Spanish colours; anchored in fog fathoms within gim-shot 5' hoisted out the large cutter, Pinnace, and Launch, and sent them manned' and armed, to endeavour to bring'off or destroy the Enemy ; Lieutenant Parker and Mr. O'Grady, Mate, in the large Cutter.; Mr, LascelleS, Mate, in the- Pinnace ; and Lieutenant Stewart, and Mr. Sterne, Midshipman, in the Launch, with a Carronade to' co ver the boats ; "(iring the time they, were pulling to, the vessel, we fired from the ship, to prevent, if possible, the Enemy froM colletting• At six P.M. the Cutter and Pinnace returned ; - Lieutenant -Par ker . reports his having boarded the Enemyshe was pierced fOr fourteen guns,, had none on board, and deserted by the crew ; from the heavy sea' and state' of the Vessel, he found it get her_off. or destroy her by fire, he therefore cut the cable and left her to drift farther in amongst the breakers. — The wind veered more to the Southward' after the boats left the ship, the launch unavoidably sunk and .was lost, and in. the ad of taking out her crew, about two hundred men, who had before concealed themselveg behind the sand hills, commenced a fife Of musketry on the other boats , and uufortunately wounded Lieutenant Stewart and three men, who were with much difficulty brought off. Lieutenant Parker, and those with him, appear to have acted with great zeal ; and had the weather been more favourable I make no doubt they would have done themselves great credit, and bad to con tend: with a visible instead of an invisib'e force. I cannot conclude this without mentioning that it is the second wound received this war by. Lieutenant Stewart in the service of his country; and I trust their Lordships will consider him entitled to, their protec tion, hiS last wound having occasioned the- loss of his left arm much above the elbow joint, but I am happy to say he is now in a fair way of-recovery.— Inclosed I have the honour to transmit a list of the names of the wounded. -I am, &c. . "(Signed) -ROBERT HONYMAN. • Commodi)re Sir !tome Popham, K.B. &c. Lts - r or WOUho-En.--•l.icut, Williarii Stewart; Wil liam Cumber, SeailLut, ILdlit White, ditto, - 4itto, tialiZero"lY. PLYMUTIT H, JAN, 3 1 .---Arrived the American Ship' Golden Age, VYE, laden with brandy and wine, from Valencia, bound to Copenhagen, de tained by the Happy Return Privateer; the Ame rican Ship Palinurus, MERREHERE, laden with wine, &c. from Barcelona, for this Port ; she encountered some severe gales of wind on the passage, in which her sails were split and the Vessel leaky;, the, Por tugueze Brig N. S. Deconsa CAVALH laden with coffee, cotton, &c. from Lisbon, bound to Cherburgh, detained by the Hero Privateer. Sailed the. Cockatrice Afmed Brig, with a, Convoy • to the Eastward. Arrived the Portugueze Brig Pensamente Klis„ BARBARAZA, laden with cheese, &c. from Am sterdam; detained by the Thomas and John Pri vateer , and the Ann,. ARMSTRONG, 'from . ,Nona. Scotia, laden with timber for the Deck-yard ; :alsO the Thymouth Frigate, from WJolwich, with, stores fOr the Dock-yard ; and the Endeavour Ari - ned Brig; with a Fleet of Coasters under Convoy, from Wales. PORTSMOUTH, FEB. I .—Arrived the - Nicholas and Ann, PALSON, fr . = Frederickstadt ; Harriet, PEARSON, from Sunderland ; Neitnne,Flu - Te . Hticcs ; and the John, REACEi from Milford.. . Sailed yesterday the Serapis - Store:ship for Woolwich, and the Pidgeon Schooner on a Cruize. To-day the Redwing Sloop, Capt. UsgER, with the Adelphi Armed Ship, Capt. PAYNR, under his orders, -on a Secret Service to the Mediterranean ; and the Sprightly Gun-vessel, Lieut. .GORDO'N, to the Westward, with.a Convoy of Coasters. FALMOUTH, JAN. 30.—Sailed the Humber. Armed Ship with a Convoy for the Downs. His Majesty's Ship Grasshopper' has a Signal flying for a Convoy to the Mediterranean. iIARWICIi, FEB. 1 .---The Auckland Packet, Capt. BRIDGE, and the Earl of Leicester,Capt. TnamrsoN, with the Outward Mails of yesterday; are detained by a strong north-east wind. The Aggressor Aggressor Gun-brig, Lieut. WATSON i arrived from Yarmouth, and remains Vi ith the Charger, Acute, and Escort. The wind now being fair, a Packet is every mo ment expe6ted to arrive. • No arrival this day from 'any part of the Continent. • `‘ : DEAL, Frt. I.—Arrived His' Majesty's .Shipi , Flora from Plymouth ; and the Dauntless with 4 convoy from Portsmouth, whiCh are sailed for the River. • le •The Hon. East India Company!s . ShipCianter land, which sailed' from the DoWns . yesterday for • Portsmouth, put back last night contfaiT and sailed again this morning with the Henry 4d dington East Indianian, London Packet, M‘Dory- • „AWL, for. Philadelphia, and several outward-bound ilts'sels, 'for Portsmouth. , . STATEMENT OF THE DISTRIBUTION OF THE Mg . TISH NAVAL FOR Line In Port and fitting - ..8 In the English & Irish, 28 Channels - 5 Downs and North Sea 12 . Sppain,Portugal &G to Mediterrailein& I'assage 14 Coast oi Alriei - . - West Indies and Passage $ Jamaica Station - .Americit.&Newfoundland 3 Cape of Good 1-101)C - 4 East Indies and Passage t ()man Expedition, &e. 8 - G - Hospital & Prison Ships 19 Total in Commission 1 34 Receiving Ships - o Serviceable and repairing o In ordinary - - 49 Building - - - 37 Total 220 STATE OF THE ORI Portsmouth - - 13 Ply TlOUtil - 21 Chatham - to Sheerness - 2 River 3 Extraneous - 1! 0 1 I 32 THE ri. - 4 0 28 S i 3 I 1 7 I 3 9 3 0 0 S 2 32 IST INST. G. fl Sps. . 33. 2`d 2 2 47 1 AT I 0 0 5 , 39 264 I of i 8 182 115. i 2 79 1 ACK P I 283 OAT. 61 Total so I 'S 1 5.3 I SI ; 1 0 I lB2 , We understand that the Debate which was ex pe&ed in, the House of Lords' this evening is to be put off, in consequence of the indisposition of Lords SPENCER and HOLLAND. THE OPERA.—The attrgliOn Of tATALANI seems , to increase in the musical world, and it must be con fessed that her friends are uncommonly assiduous in spreading her fame. She drew a very crouded au dience on Saturday night to the Opera of ,Senzframide, and 'a great number of persons were obliged to leave the theatre for„ want of accommodation. If the charm of novelty should not Wear off, and their pre sent success 4bould continue through the season, the Proprietors' will be amply indemnified for the ddicit ~ which was lately the subjeel 'of complaint. The company on Saturday night were grievously distress ed by the inclemency of the weather, and the diffi culty which attended the regulation of carriages. MAD DOGS.-0 11 Monday last another atieeling instance of great distress occurred at St. George. Hospital: a poor and aged man's leg was amputated, at that 'excellent institution, to prevent the other wise inevitable consequences of a mad dog's bite. CORN EXCHANGE, FEB. 2.—Although the fresh arrivals of Wheat to-day are inconsiderable, this trade is extremely dull in sales, the ,hest samples. keep their price; but other qualities . are Cheaper ; Barley in large supplies, and second qualities fur ther: give way in price; Malt .likewise; White Pease and Beans of both sorts are at less ; Oats are in middling quantities, with very few fresh art ivals, and good samples, are rather dearer. The sales of Four continue very heavy at prownt currency. Wheat vs a 645 a 76s od Beans .- '4ti a 47s of Fine ditto - Bos a 84s od Tick Beans 34s a 4 os od Rye - - --s a—s od Oats 22s a 26a a 3os od Barley • - - 335 a 41$ od Poland ditto .31s a 3zs 6d Malt -- -66 s a 72s od Rape Seed.. 241. 281. os. od White Pea3e 84s a 925 obi Fina Flour 65s a 705 od G Ley ditto 40$ a 46i 0 seconds . 6as a 65 , od Tot. 1 4 8 153 158 25, 1 ABSTRACT OF THE PLAN QF FINANCE, ,AND OBSERVATIONS THEREON. The. plan so ably developecl. by Lord HENRY' 1 ) 1"I'Y &prided on the present rate of expence , and intended to, provide, only for the charges of the War, tho9gh ~its principle is npplicable to every emergenty„ The expenditure of each year of War, exclusive of Subsidies, .is therefore taken at 3e,000,0001. be yond the surplus bf the Consolidated Fund and the Annual Taxes. The price of Stocks is taken at Go, and 5 per Cent. 1 'as the interest of money; but variations on this price will upon the whole be favourable to the' objeot to view. The War Taxes are taken at 21,000,000 1 . computing the Property Tax at 11,500,0001. and the other ..Wa:r Taxes at 9,500,0001. the : above-mentioned Expenditure cf ' 54,90,b,,,9001: annually • so long as the war may last, it .is fii - opcAdd to borrow, as a Charge upon the War •Taxeli, t Q,000,0001. annually for the first three years; for fhe fotirth year (or .1810) '14;000,0001; and fa the ten succeeding years 16,000,0001. in each, year. This' mode of dimributing the charge; by taking smaller Loans at the beginning of the period, 0 0J ,increasing them, is preferred, because it will preveot ' too large an'addition to the future Supplementary Loans, and consequently to the amount of Taxes. But,. by 'this . atrangement; the utmost possible ad' Vantagels not' taken Of the principle of the - plan ill relief 'of our' present burthens. In the first and, each succesive year for which these Loans. shall beraised, so much of the :War Taxes i 5.• to be appropriated- to thetwas•will provide for the In' tertst on the Loan, and also such a Sinking Fund, 3 5, ` together with the interest; and charges of manage' ment,*shall be equal to ten per cent: ott,the sate borrowed, let the pri c e o f th e - fuUds be whatever i t I may. . . • y, the natural operation of compound interest, $ five cent: Sinking Fund would redeem the Loan is fdurteen years. If the funds should rise, the re' deinption 'would be. accelerated, for if the Loan be Made when the funds are at 75, or in other word:: at 4 per cent. then its corresponding Sinking Ftll ls will be 6 per cent. which will redeem tile capital in thirteen years, the application of the Fund being made quarterly. To provide for this Interest and Sinking Fund d -.10 per cent. an equal . arnounrof Virar Taxes is to ti appropriated in each successive year; ankt wi:ich continue pledged for 44-years ; if the Ftiads shoul d continue at 60, but not so long if the Funds should 4I b li O ;; 1 f that !.io l o )r o,o ice. 0,01. be borrowed at Go, in 180/ 1 witl - draw oil for interest and Sinking Fun 4 1,6'0(4001. for fourteen years. In 1620, tliii DO' itr)n 0,6 totally . redeemed: And for seven years trn' a thepeesent - time this* Plan' may be aled upon With' but pledging the Property. Tax,-as the War Taxes 1 the cus,toms..and Excise will'provide arrample for that Peridd; If the War •ShOuld be protraelv beyond seven years, there are other ineOs to' wil.t o it .is propOsed to have recourse,' v6tliotir pledging tu ProFrty.Tax lieyOn'irthe continuance of the War'. s j. Ii Peace; be re-emblished sooner tban i i r .by this other arrangenients madefto release the portion. 4.): War Ta).ir, thus to be_mortgaged .; but if, on t h e contrar y, should be protraCted beyond fourteen years, the o E ra ; aiLn:ttaihnuc:iimisrtuaeymenth i ,will tall in u p n • ael thisvte,3rp)t,hl-aen succeedingc• indefinitely ;iirge,o fyasrcr : l : , i• lar War Loan to. ‘s. borrowed on thes t nite. tenni 0,, the service of each so 011 0. as - the 'War continue.- But as the Interest and Sinking Z ui d to b e thug i provided in each successive year tilt- the .c h a rle °' , these ; War Loans are taken ti'om the Pr duck of 0 War Taxes, which now constitute- a pat, , 4 tV means by which the annual expenditure is defrayed , the deficiencies so created must be supplied as tvy may respedivelv arise, and. it is propo,eci to do 015 by a Supplementary Loan. • 0 In the first year (1807) the Supplementary 1)° 3 1 ' 0 1 so required to meet an expenditure of 32,0,0 09 will be only 200,0001. - _ War Loan 1807 War Taxes tr,Oco,opo Dedud Interest and Sinking Fiind of 1,200,600 War Lunt - - "---- 19 , 800,000 Supplementary ,Loan ,- - 200,000 Total Expenditure to be provided for 32,000,000 by this Plan 12,,000,00c? ' These Supplementary Loans will bo raised - 0 , cording to the system pursued since the year .11g' t A Sinking Fund of one-sixtieth, or one per ce!'„' upon the nominal Capital will be added to the '`..o terest on these Loans, and the-chargeso cr e ated %V l ; i r be provided for by the fading in of Annuities, Q l. New Taxes. '-'' ' • ' e t The amount of new Taxes- which. Will be Otis re . quired in a period of twenty., years frOm the V D a sent (supposing. the continuance of War) wili:o 2,100,0001. in all ; .at 'which period there. •wilti o t .thirteen . years free from all new Taxes, and 0 the other seven years we shall be subject only 10 annual increase of 293,0001. - f f eti The twenty years.is divided into two series 0 6 1 years each ; the first extending from 1807 to. 1 may be eased by the following expiring Annuiti° ° In 1.807 Annuities will fall in to the Z , • t 1 54 1 ) amount of - - - - 5 . , In 184 Annuities will fall in to the e 37 0 ,00 t, • I. • amount of - : - - . 5 In afew years the Life Annuities granted in William and Mary and Geo.ll. may 67,547 be ex petted to fall in to the amount of In 18ro • Imperial Annuities will tali in g . 2,30,04 0 to the amount of • - - • - £ 683,061 dot . . ' • To this might be -added a sum arising froil l e oti redu6tion of the five per cent. to a four per e t 0 1 , 1 fund, it the same were taken in aid of the ti' . ol ol ries of seven years. The amount of this spill 00 be 480,5291. 0 4 There is no doubt but that the remainder of th e , millions might be obtained . better from the I eb c re ) :l [hip and retOrm of existing taxes than by th e de 0 , tion of new duties. ' And one great advaite r ', this scheme would be, that it . would afford Mit',. t oi' and, Parliament time to turn their attention lu important subject, 16 0' e The Annuities .which expire in 1 8 07 atidoitil would veiy nearly provide for the derno-5