The Sun. — London, England, 1807-05-30 00:00:00

NAI/ .A.L NEWS. s PLYMOUTH, ATA7 '2B.—Sailed the Kent, tif 4'4 rut*, for the . Mediterranean; - 4.fire...r • f • PO E TSM OUT , M Y g.—ArriVect the; A:Cr - airy Prigate from Newfoundland. Sailed the Emulous Sloop, Capt. STIYPAE T, for Guernsey; and the Fury Bomb, 'Capt. GIBSON., with one Ship under his piOteaion, for the Downs. FALMOUTH, MAI 27.—Arrived the Mary, BEL LING, from Bristol, with wines and bale goods, for Falmouth; Maria, M'DOUGALL, from Liverpool, for Malta, to wait convoy ; Orpheus, ADAMS, from Liverpool 5 Hopewell, Quicx, from BriStol ; Jane, Coox, from Bury; Brothers, BALL, Brothers, b LING, and Villiers, DOLLING, from Swansea, with coals. Sailed His Majesty's Brig Moselle, 18 guns,- Capt. GORDON, for Lisbon and the Med;terranean ; !Pal singkarn Packet, ROBARTS, for Lisbon, with Mails of the tgth inst.; Danish Ship Seeb/untster,FoYNE, Tor Amsterdam ; American Ship Danzscotia, Du KEN-. DORFF, ibt Rotterdam; And the Orion ditto, MAC AIIILLAN, for Amiterdrmi. Orders were receiVett this evening, at the,Agent's Office, for the sailirig of the Queo4 CharlattePaCket for the Leewird Islands, with Mails of the 20th inst. : she will sail to-morrow. . SHEERNESS, MAY 27.—Passed by front the River Medway, for Calais, a Cartel, with a number of In= Valid French Prisoners. Went out of Harbour the Procris Sloop of War; Capt. BEAUMAN. M's.; MAY 28.—Arrived the Regulus, of 44 guns, Capt. Boys, from the Downs, and sailed immediately for. the River, to be paid off. .I'7" Came down from Chatham, and anchored the Little Nore, the Stately, of 64 guns, Capt. PARKER. Arrived. the Sheerness Tender, from Hull, with Volunteers and Impressed Men for the Fleet, His Majesty's Ships Snipe wad . Aggres,tor *ere this day paid.: the Snipe sails for „eith. The Diligence, Capt. TIDY, bas made- thilL tignal for convoy to the Baltic. • Vsk:lf. , f,;:l"4 l ' MAY 29.—Arnved the Jane Frigate, Captain ►SCROAQBERG, from the Downs ; and the itler 4pl.ran,r ed Ship, Capt. WILLIAMS, with a Convoy Immo , the Baltic. DEAL, MAY 20.—Sailed .yesterday evening the dumber Armed Ship to the Westward. Arrived the Otter and Kangaroo Sloops of War from a cruize. This .morning carne down frora the Nore the Boyle Sloop Of,War, and sailed from the- DoWns with the Ea:4 Have, IVindhanz, and Wexford East Indiaaien, and the rest of the outward-bound, &c. Lawler 'convoy, for Portsmouth. GREgNOCK, May 27.—The Brig Jane, ORR, of anti . for . this Port, from Lisbon, is taken and'carried • ; into St. Maloes. ltd! • •?.. • ' .NEIV .31.(..i;;77. • .~ # MEMBER ELECTED. , -„ ;_; SUSSEX—Hon. -Wyn dh a ; John YORK COUNTY—.-State Of the Poll. • Wilberforce, Esq. 805 lion. Henry Lascelles .7g80' , . Lod Milton - 770(i PgmßitoxEsnrßE.—State of the Poll. Sir Hugh Owen - -b4 : Lord Milford - - - 4,0 , A Y ' ` ..~ . ~. trnMr the auspices of the presekft Acninistittltion,, .an increased energy seems to be gradually mvacting the Volunteer Force. We are happyto o sere, that frequentMcetings_ . Corps- have beenlkeirci of late for improving their discipline. On loliedtiM • • last, after a course of drills,-the 6th Regiment :br loyal 'London Volateets were inspeded by their COmmandi ng Officer, prepayatory to their being called out for the purpose of tijing a feu:de : bye; and prac tising field movements; for which occasi on th e fol lowing Orders were afterwards issued : • ,••• R. 0. " 6TH REG. L. L. V, "HEAD -QUARTERS, 29TH MAY; ]SCE. " The Regiment will parade, on Thumiay,, June 4,. l 'onshire-square, at Five o'Clock in the evening precisely, for th e purpose of celebrating the Birth-Day of our . beloved S overeign, by marching train thence to the 'London Field, to fir e a feu-de,j4r and pradice field movements. It is ex teeieci the Regiment will skew the expression of its •oyalty on that occasion, by a full attendance of Ofticers kid PrlyateE, in their best dress and equipment. . • " By Order, . " RICHARD BROWNE, Adjutant." The celebrated Abbe MAURY, now - a Carditiat. 'rice the Corypheus of the Court party . (cdf4:o4.i): the first National Asserribly, by doing botnoo - 11 °N PARTE, has been permitted to return to France, was lately re-admitted a Fellow of Olt SeCond `-lass of the National Institute, which exactly torre; , , Ponds with what was formerly called 'the .„/'''renc o i st , of which ha had been a distinguished a lewber. This re-admission created so great an in t'rest thrOughout Paris that the crowd at the Sitting w as excessive,. and 'lumbers, though provided' with tickets, could not gain admittance.' Abbe Steam), t he worthy successor of the good Abbe DE L'EPEE, at the Institution for the Deaf and Dumb, presided 4t , the Meeting. His speech, as well as that of Car -lal MAU KY, are expeded to be printed. The latter I t s reported to be as eloquent as any of his tncist ?riliiant speeches in the National Aisembly; ' l3 e used Ile - get:ally . to- be opposed - to-the famous 4"4.1q41.T. MUTINY AT . .31.4 LTA. . xfia4 of. a Letter from Mr. T. G. merchant at Malta, to a friend in London :-- " MALTA, Aillll. I 3.—Lasfiiight, another inaga .zine of 560 barrels of gunpowder was blown up ; but,: thank God, with the loss of only three lives Of anyvalue. It originated from a most disgraceful and determined .Mutiny which broke out in Fort Recazoli, among a new raised regiment called .Fro. berg's, Consi - sting of thirty-two different nations, at least. tongues. This Mutiny made its appearance on Saturday, the 4th instant, when they overpowered their Officers, murdered three, and wounded many others. The Garrison was immediately put under arms, and it was hoped the Mutineers would be im '..mediately subdued ; however, the General conceiv ' ing lenient measures, from the vicinity of the Fort to Valette, to be best, only planted a sufficient:body of troops to prevent their escape. This' measure had no effeet on them ; the next morning they loaded all the guns and mortars in the Fort, and pointed . them on the City ; at the' same" time sent out a message to the General, that if he-did not immedi ately send them provisions, orant them a free pardon, , and provide suffiCient itessels to carry them to ; their own countries, they 'would murder the whole. of their Officers, and all the English -Inen, women, and children, they bad in their power. It was now deemed necessary. to man all the batteries ; and about 150 pieces of cannon, besides mortars, were brought to bear on the, Fort, and ordeis were given at each battery that, should the rebels fire, they ‘frere. immediately to be fired on from all quarters. These preparations appeared, in some . measure;:to damp their spirits : they. thought proper not to fire on the, town, though they put many to death- who at tempted to escape from them. This was the situa- ; • lion of affairs from'Stnidav to Thursday, they daily • sending threatening messages to' the General. On the Ilatter day, provisions beginning to grow scarce amO'ng them, and no probability that the, General Avouldaccede to their demands, and no prospect of ' escape left. for them, difference's broke 'out among tthernselves ; and the most of the reg3ment rushed out tfcl- surrendered themselves, having first massacred the sentinels that bad been placed at the gates. In -this - conftision, the Officers and English .men„Wo., and children, gut out of the Fort. There were now not supposed to be above .et) left' in the Fort of -the Mutineers ;. but these were'the ring , leaders, and conseqiiently could not hope for pardOn,; however tfiey still deManded it, and woUld : surren- : -der on:no other terms thafithey at first:•de.Manded; • threateping still\ ttr. bombard. the city., and when they could do no further rnisthief, to' ,blow up' the ~Fort : - and; in order to skew that they were in ear ncst; op:Frilly, evening; they threw two shells and :: , several shot, but fortunately without doing any mis phie'l. The General determined to carry the Fort in -the night by assault ; but unfortunately, a dog which.the Mutineers had with them, and a mus _ „OLT, going off by accident; alarmed them; and after a few shots and shells •fired, they made their escape into the powder magazine ; our people• having se-, cured Nit two of them. • 4“ ,Here they were entirely cut oft from an pro-' visions and water ; yet they would not surrender, but fired 'on our people whenever they could get a shot at them. Thus they remained until last night, at nine o'clock, when they sent out their last mes sage, declaring if provisions and 'water were not sent them in half an hour, as they were starving, they would end their miseries by blowing up the maga tine. They kept their word ; and at thirty-two Minutes past nine the explosion took place, but most fortunately indeed did no further mischief than destroying part Of the works, and killed three cen tincls. Thus has ended the most determined Mu tiny I ever witnessed ; but punishment, I trust, .aWaits the greater part of the Regiment : never did Of so general a Mutiny; very few stood by •their Officers. " On Saturday 24 of the worst of those taken were tried, and executed the same day. A Court-martial twill bbassembled to-morrow to try a further num :;b6r, Who, it is supposed, Will suffer the fate the y so Hvighly peril directly after... About .iOO o f them laye been; so very desperate, that it . is aln")ost impossible selea:the worst : those executed on Saturday died in .'the, most hardened Manner possible, sWearing, blaspheming, dancing, singing, and darina.their fate to the .very i tnornent.they were launche/ into eter -nity. I believe, was such a seene.of harden ed -villany exhibited." --" APRIL 16.—1 t is said confidently, that the fiVe men,Who..blew the magazine up did it by a train, and made ; their escap e i nto the country : two of them ; were yesterday taken. There is not the least .rdoubt but that they will all be taken very soon. a distressing circumstanee to us to be able clear 'see our own people among the rebels, 'yet not ppossible to get them away, though we knew theta to be nearstarving; and believed that at last they would te'iMardered..,.The Fort lies near a quarter of 4 Mikt 'froL).: us by watery's° that-we could, see their every' movement. It was not intep i led that the Mutiny. shOuld have broken but - on the day it did, thei.not being - prepared ; but one - of the Serjeants told 'the „Qfficers, when oneclfi,hem rushed out, and demand;- "ell' the head' of the Mutineers to show himseJf, which he'. impudently did elirealy in arms. The Officer attempted. to .stab him, when they all fell on.: him and murdered him ; but not before he had killed one and wounded several others. He, nod most of their Officers, were Gertnatis. While the Men were tit the magazine, we were of Various nions as to.wherher they would or not have courage to blow. the magazine and themselves up. For the safety of Valette we knew there was no danger ; our - only concern was for the officers and men in the Fort.. The former, at the time the explo. , . sion happened,. were sitting at their wine after din ner. The magazine was so construaled, that in ease of au explosioh it might take to - the sea, which it did.". EXTRACT FROM A LETTER WRITTEN BY A PERSON OF THE FIRST RESPECTABILITY IN MALTA. • " A circumstance of a very unpleasant nature hai recently taken place here, and has thrown the whole Garrison into a state of great alarm and consterna• tion. A foreign regiment, composed Of almost every nation under the sun, but in the British service-, bad the command of a considerable fortress, just Opp , site this city, and about a fortnight since a spirit of rebellion broke out a m o ngs t them. A large party drew vim!) their officers, killed three, wounded severat ethers, tore down the English Flag, hoisted another „ in its place,.and swore they - would fire upon the tOWn, and blow up the Fort, unless. the General would grant them a free pardon-,, and provide them with • vessels, and every accommodation to carry thetn. to their respeclive countries. This, of course, could. not be complied with, and for five days we were kept in a dreadful stispense and uneasiness. At the expiration of this period, the gates were opened by' sortie means Or other, when a number of the Mu-, thieers, together with a small ,paily ofFingliSh ar tillery, who were likewise there_upen duty, rushed Out ; the former were secured.. # - Prisoners, and the -- others-were glad to regain 11f6Tr.liberty, having been kept in momentary expectation of being destroyed by the rebels. , On Saturday, about 24 of the prin cipal ringleaders were tried by a .Court Martial; fOund guilty, and were executed the .Same'day. The following evening, those who still remained in,pOs, session of the Fort grew desperate for want of pro-, visions, and actually blew up the poWdermagaiine,, which caused a terrible alarm here, though no great deal of damage was done by,it. Three Englishmen, were killed by the explosiOn, and some wounded ; and thus the affairl hope is terminated." PORTSMOUTH, MAr Tats day being the anniversary of the RestOr tion of King CH ARLES LI. to the British Throne, it was observed here with the usual ceremony of firing of guns, ringing of. bells, 84c; The friends of Messrs. CI-ILITFI alAd MILDMAY havingappointed this day to give a grand:Dinner-:at 'the Crown Inn, at this Port, to c e l e b ra t e th e r e tu rn .4 those Members to Parliament, a large body of Freeholders, both on hot - so and on foot, went out to meet them at Plilsea, when the Members took their seats in an elegant car, made expressly for the purpose, handsomely decorated with appropriate:de vices, mottos,'&c, &C. The cavalcade having.form ed, themselves, moved' n the following order of pro . cession:; Trumpets and Bugle , Horns, Three Hags. • ' Horsemen, three atsreasi, with two Flags, &c. North Hants Band. Twelve Horsemen, three abreast, with tWollags. Dock Band. • ' Shipwrights, on foot, six abreast, with their Flags, &c.. The Members, in a Carriage, with large Flags on the dickey, drawn by nearly sixty People. Carriages of their t riends. • • , Three Horsemen, with one large Standard. Twelve Horsemen, three abreast, with two Hags. _ : Marine Band. Freeholdcrs;ron foot, six abreast. Flags.", &c.• • ..The Procession moved.froln at 2 o'clock, passed through Newtown, Lion Gate, Portsea, Queen -street, round the Common-hard, up St. Thomas-street, Portsmouth, and. then down the High -street, to the Crown Inn,. where the Metm ber3, each having made a short hut . appropriate speech on the occasion, alighted; and at 5 o'clock sat down, .with nearly 300 Freehol4ers, to 'dinner. - ,. =:rhe day being . fine, drew an immense number of people to view the Procession, ,which was ex tremely gratifying to all,, particularly, as not ,the slightest accident happened, no t w i t h stan di n g the pressure at the Crown Inn was 'very great. Lathy HEATIICOTE gave. a Grand Rout on Thurs day eveninx, at her house in Grosvenor-square, which \Vas attended by upwards of Goo distinguished filshionahles. • . The PRINCESS of WALES will appear at Court on 'the ensuing Birth-day: - A very superb dress is now preparing for her Royal Highness. • • The Countess of DERRY had a Grand Concert on Thursday night, at her ele g ant house in Grosvenor square, which was ttendedby the principal Nobility 11l town. The Countess :of CHOLMONDELEy!s grand rout on Thursday evening, .was attended by upwards of 700 persons of the first distinction acid fashion. We have authority, to Contradiet a paragraph of yesterday, for the Countess of E. is now at her father's house, with her children, where she has re sided for a long time. • • Ladies 'of' fashion, well known for their. musical • patronage, have introduced the `‘iptaaice of permitting favourite performers to have concerts t their own houses; by which means those concerts are more likely to have a liberal support nit' hold at the public rounih. Lady SALISBURY, - `upon this , principle, opened. her house on Thursday night for the benefit of RovEnizio, Nth() has beet many years in this country, and whose conduEt has been always unexceptionable. CATALANI Sling on the Occasion, and was of course a powerful aurae . don. NALDI'S admirable talents were also exerted. A , Terzetto by him, Madame BrANcin, and •RovE DINO:, was 'among the most admired efforts, of the evening. • SPAGNOIETTI high and merited .applause by his performance on the violin. The company were numerous and elegant. , Lord SELKIRK has lately addressed a letter to the Scotch Peers, in which,be proposes, that their six teen Representatives should be chosen for life, their ,places to be filled up, in cases of death, by the eke, tion of the Peers. He also proposes, that the Scotch Peers should have it in thekpower to become Mem : tiers of the House of COMmons, if they chuse ; and, in short, that they should be placed entirely on 'the footing of Irish Peers: We doubt, however, whe ther such an arrangement could be adopted without Violating the A. 61 of. Union. KING CHARLES'S REstortarioN.—Near the south east,corner of St. Giles in the Fields Church, are de posited the remains of the famous RICHARD PEN-. 'DRILL, preserver and conductor of King Charles 11. after the battle of Worcester. His memory was ho noured by a handsome. marble tomb-stone, with a suitable epitaph, written by Mr. HUGHES, author of the Siege of Damascus. A sum of money was granted, by order of his grateful Sovereign, to li,eep the tomb in constant repair. It was also t the will of that Monarch, that annually the Parish Officers should decorate the tomb with oak boughs. Some years since the ceremony- was striEtly observed, but it i does not appear that the tribute has latterly been paid. Why so laudable an offering to loyalty- has been discontinued, we cannot explain. The cutting of the Glasgow, Paisley, and Ardros ,san Canal, is now going on vigorously within two miles of Glasgow. This is a Barge Canal, the first in Scotland, on the plan of those-inland navigations, which, in the manutadturing counties :in -England, have been praducitive of immense advantages to_ the country and to canal proprietors. • t- SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. YORK SPRIN(; MEETING. WEDNESDAY, MAY 27. A StYeePstakes of 25gs. 12st. eachi rode by Centlertien.— FlOrses having started, but never won, allowed Sib. T % NT ,. mile hats Mr. Watt's br. h. Marshal Carouser, by Weazic •;." t Mr. Thompson's Seapetire, brother to Streteh 3 Mr. Richmond's Cockspur, by Oberon - 3 . . Five and 6 to 4 on Scapefire. Mr. Mellish's Trafalgar, Bst. 71b. beat Sir W. Gerartrs lulius Cxsar, Bst. tart mile and a half, tooga. Won v er y . easy. Three to ron Trafalgar. Lord Darlington's brother to Bumper. 7st. alb heat Mr. Lonsciale's Comrade, Sst. slb. h. ft. Last mile, Won by a head, five to 4 agst Lord Dariington's. EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM. AN OFFICER RUA E- TER ED AT THE CAPE, DATED MARCH 26. I embrace the opportunity of the xvh ich is Ordered home, to,give you the news of this place. Till lately we have been rather dull. The 21st Light Dragoons, Naha 72d, and 93d Regiments,. are guar. atered in Cape, ,Towtr, together with the 4th batta lion of. the 60th. The 83d are at Simon's Tow n . The arrivatof General CRAUFURD'S force here has *Made a good deal of bustle. Many of the Officers Of this Expedition, who had been at this place be fore, 'were, astonished._ at the ,great improvements which the I;teteli had been making, and which ate now carrying on I,l7ith great spirit. .The appearant.e of the town ", is now really grand; „every thing is beauty anlregularity. We 'hate abundance ; of. all provisions and liquors, and there is, a most ,excellent and well-governed . Police; i'l' Dutch seem happy under our. government„, and copy all our rnamiers and dress. Not hi p g can .spew the greater partiality which the' Dutch .feel for the English, in comparison with the French, than the ,following. fast :—Before the arrival, of General BAIAD:s force, an otter of as .. sistance was made to ,TANSENS, tbeljotch Governor, by...M. DE CAEN, the Governer of the Mauritius, Who proposed sending three thousand Freneh sol diers to the Cape, to assist in repelling :the English. The - offer was rejected, no doubt from the appre-. hension that this Colony would.aoon have been in thedeplorable..state of Holland at this moment.— . We have a Paper published weekly in English. and Dutch. We have-not yet established any regular pub lie amusements, ; but we intend soon establishing a Theatre. We a are to have races in a few weeks, and balls of course. We were mUchaffe6led at the change. of Government which l a t e ly took place.— General BAIRD possessed the esteem of every offi cer and Man in the Army, and his removal has ex ,cited a great deal of observation,. Much to the cre ,dit„however,.of his successor, the Horn. Major-Ge . neral GREY. a brother oft Lord Howick, all. the appointments made. during the Government of Sir DAVID hate been permanently confirmed. General GREY is well liked ; he is by no means so rigid a disciplinarian as Sir DAV ID, who carried his system to a greatlength in this S e ttlement. But Sir DA yip was adOred,becau:se he could Condescend to be polite. "Noluan could be more generous and hospitable at his table. We have goo our iirst die ision of prize money for the capture of this place: Sir Diorfp, it is thought, will have altogether about 49,0001. Field Officers have already received 5401. Captains 751. and Subalterns 451. each. This distribution,. I believe, was entirely made by the General himself; and the next division, I believe, is to be made ac cording to the same proportions.. It i thotight that Field Officers will have in all nearly asouol. cap tains 4aol. and Stibalterns'2sol. each, when the un sold storeS, &c. have been disposed Of. " The Fly Sloop, of War arrived here a few days ago, ftom England, with dispatches far Admiral MURRAY. No communication has been yet allowed between her and the - shore, and .we are afraid ..he has brought sane unpleasant intelligence trona home, particularly as her dispatches are now in agi tation.' An Order has been issued ',here, prohibiting . Officers frilniinterniarrying with the Dutch. , We are'afraid tha.Hhe. consequence of this prohibition will be a moye,,restrained society with the Dut c h fair . offea, . who arc very partial t o English Officers.- \Vo . litive not, hOwever, yet felt the bad crie&s of it,. as their-houses are still open to us., A fatal duel took.. place here a few weeks ago, between two Officers of the 93d, in which a young man of the name of 111‘KENzia. was unfortunately killed." ANOTHER LETTER, SAME DATE. " We sailed from Port Praya Bay; January lt, under convoy of the Spenc ers The ; cell q / l' az di na , an d Haughty,cnlsser the line.on the 29th, and arrived at Simon's Bay on the 20th 'inst. At St. Jago it Was generally belleve'd that we Were going to Mexico, and Wheo thelaignSl was made to steer due South, nothing, could, equal our astonishm en t. W e then supposed' Cane Hein was the next land we should see : in a few days afterwards, however, we learned that bur rende'zi•ous was to be at the Cape. We had, On the -whole, a very pleasant passage : we lost one transport, the Campion, a very bad sailer ; and, to our surprise, found that she had arrived here al- Most a week before us. We came round to this Bay on . .the 24th, for the convenience 'of getting water and provisions for the troops.. We found Admiral MURRAY . bere,. with the ,Poloheraus, "'friar, and Came/ store-ship. The GOvernor wish ed to lay an embargo on all vessels here, in order to keep this Expedition as'secret as possible ; but the Admiral told him there was no occasion, as he was Certain no one knew any thing of our destination but himself and one other individual. The Nereide Frigate, which left our fleet at St. Jago, to convoy the 9th Dragoons to Buenos Ayres, arrived here the day before us, and brought the ac- Count of the taking of Monte Video. " Th4kFij,Sloop of War came inhere a few days ago; Ntith ctispatches for the Admiral and General CRAW:Ian, and they say that the General appeared much concerned on reading them." 'On Wednesday last the colle6.lion at Exeter for the unhappy,sufferers at Chudleigh amounted to two hundred pounds. The inhabitants of Ashburton, Totnes, Neton, Teignmouth, Dawlish, and Ex eter, came forward with imniediate supplies of pro visions Ofallkinds to relieve their present necessities; these were placed under the care of their very re spe6table Vicar, the Rev. 111r.,ButtRINGTotsr, and by him (with the assistance of a Comtmttee) appoc tioned to the sufferers, according to their wants. A fUrther subscription is also raising for their relief in the above town. There are to, be free Benefits for them at the Exeter and Plymouth, Theatres. Sub scription-books are opened at the Plymouth,, Naval, and General Banks, for the above laudable purpose.