The Sun. — London, England, 1807-09-15 00:00:00

y►4,n au LONDON GAZETTE, Sol. is, IW7I Commissions in Volunteer Corps, signed. 6y His 2114 - esty's Con. tuissimers of Litutenantey jar the City of London. Dared 44. Lithe Offer , Vitettteer.e. Captail William (ackson to be Major, vice Spitler, de. ceased. Bank of Ensland Supplementary arks.. Ensign Charles Norris to be Lieutenant, vice Barnard, de. ..eased. Wllll2lll Cllelt, Gent. to be linsign, vice Norris, promoted. Comm:l:44ns in the Sheppy Volunteers. signed ly the Lard , Lieutenant of the County of Lou. Lieutenant lames Viny to be Captain, vice Bishop, pro. trion.A. Dated August a 6, 11107. Lieutenant William Plane to be Ditto, vice Pea rfie, resigned. Dated August 27, 1147. Lieutenant B. B, Everest to be Ditto, vice Broadbank, dc. ceased. Dated August all, 'BO7. Ensign J. B. Rose to be Lieutenant, vice Viny, Dated August, 26, 1807. Ensign William Bliss to be Ditto, vice Plane. Dated August 27, 1807. Ensign Samuel Babington to be Ditto, vice Everest. Doted August at, uto7. lohn Davis, Gent. to be Ensign. Dated August aft, iSo7. Robert Coveny, Gent. to bo Ditto. Dated August z 7, 0;07; Abram Abrams, Gent. to-be Ditto. - Dated August iSoi. Cononistions signed by the Lod Lieutenant of the County Flint. Icallin Rangers. Edmund Oldlield, Esq. to be Captain, vice Gratton, de ceased. Dated August 7, 067. 1 1 +1 illiam Harrison, Gent. to be first Lieutenant, vice Oldfield, promoted. Dated as above. William Harrison, Gent. to be Second Lieute. _taut. Dated May 1. 1806. Thomas Harrison, Gent. to be Ditto. Dated as above. Contnistions signed by His Majesty's Lieutenant lo the County of Brecon. The Rev. Thomas James tone Deputy. Lieutenant. Datct September 8, igo. David Thomas, Esq. to be Ditto. Dated as above. Conuttistion signed by 14e Lord Lieutenant of the County of Not tinghain. Thomas Walker, Esq. to be Deputy-Lieutenant. Dated August 19, 1807. Conntistion signed by the Lard Lieutenant of the County of Caernarvon. Cerreestovm, Ban .r, and Conway Yoluntrer Infantry. William Williams, Esq. to be Major, vice Ellis, resigned. Dated August 13, lifc7. Crowl.o.ffice, Sept. tz, 18°7. UMBER RETURNED TO SERVE IN THE NutanNT PARLIAIIENT. Borough I.)undalk. Patrick Crawford Bruce, of Ow City of I on(lon, Esq. in the Num ofjostas Dupre P.ircher, Esq. who bring chosen a .Burgess for the said Buroudi, :Ind also a Burgess for Old Sarum, -Nth mad," WS Election to serve tot the said Borough ot,Old arum. MAILS. AtitlVin-i Lisboa, 1, W4terfarl. Guttcnburght &Liu, t DO)lin, a WolcUoad. PRICL Ur s - rocxs THIS DAy AT TWLLV O t GA.OOKe Consols 62,1 4 1 Unlnium . . 1 dap THE SUN. SO4&M VJ ptczgs 76/.041 Atrptict ? LONDON, Tuggp4Y, OBPTEUnght 14, 1807. Tars morning we received Dutch Papers to the Pith inst. They CUilt3ill 3 very important Decree issued by the Patch Government against the Commerce of this Comitry, by which all Vessels entering the Ports of Flo Hand 4ire to give a double security, Which is to . n.:- main until the legality of the Paper is fully acknow ledged, and until it is proved that these Vessels have touched at no Enemy's Port, And if it should appear that the Ship had touched at an Enemy's Port, the double security to be' medi ate ! ) , d ema nded of did sureties, and the amount paid into the Public Treasury. If any goads of Engli , b manufacture, or coming from an en:lily's port, are unloaded, they are not only to he codiscated, but the double security also to b,:leyied, end the Ship obliged immediately to put to sea; and in -case of bad weather, to have no shelter, except under the strictest precaution. Like vise all Correspondence, Journals, &c. coming iu a neutral flag, to be seized and burnt, and all passengers who cannot prove that they do nor code from the British Isles, to be immediately sent out of the Dutch territories, This is the substance of the Decree, and which is direEted to be carried into execution with the utmost stridness, for which purpose all such Troops and Vessels as way be ne;:essary are to be placed at the dispoAal of the Minister of Finance. Thu pretexts, so often descanted upon by BONAPARTE, are urged as the reasons iur this Decree, namely, the obiaittinz, a general Peace, and the independence of Ma &as, hewe• Papers contain Extraeta from the Paris Journals of the tat instant, but there is nothing ;ti them of importance.. An account is given of the Mtion between the Russian and Turkish Flews, by which it appears that the latter lost four Ships of the Line taken, three burnt, and two driven on shore. Tll VI morning arrived a Mail from Libbon, brought to Fulinuath by the lawns/taut Packet, in thirteeen days. We mentioned yesterday, in a part of our impres sion), a rumour that accounts to the 4th instant had rec,:ived from our Fleet off Copenhagen, stating that the bombardment had conatnenced, and that tile City was on fire in two or three places. It was also stated, on the other hand, that no bombard. ;bent had taken place up to the 3d, but that some kind of negotiation had been entered into subsequent to the departure of the Earnest Brig, on the 27th utt. and that on the 3d inst. a Flag of Truce was sent into Copenhagen. Bote these statements depend equally upon ru. ;flour, as we cannot learn, trod any authority to be depended upon, that any accounts of that date have been received, and we can positively state that no Dispatches have been received by Government since those of the s3;th. ILI the mean time some of the opponents of Mini sters are eagerly anticipating the failure of the Expe dition : we trust that a very short period will bring us the complete disappointment of their hopes. It has been erroneously asserted that General WI3ITELOCKL► obtained his command through the infiti,-L: , .e of the Duke of YORK. We have reason to believe that the General was sent on the Expedition to Buenos Ayres at the earnest entreaty of Mr. WINDHAM. It is proper that the public should know that Lieutenant BARTHOLOMEW, of the Diadem, who is stated by Admiral NlvititAy, in the last dispatches respe&irtg Buenos Ayres, to have been of " infinite service," who was " strongly recommended to him by Admiral Stirling," is the person whose hard case was the subject of Parliamentary inquiry, and whose abilities were well known at the time when the cir cumstances alluded to happened. There can be little doubt that the merits of this intelligent Officer will not be overlooked, or his former treatment for gotten. It is again asserted in a Paper of this morning, that the Troops sent to the Island of Zealand were many of them embarked without a tent. We are enabled, on the contrary, positively to affirm, that the most ample supplies of every description were sent with the Expedition. Mr. and Mrs. WINDHAM dined with her Royal Highness the Princess of WALES, and her Serene Highness the Duchess of ,BRUNSWICK, at Black heath, on Saturday. Door A. B. FAL/ Lks NU, of Saekville-street, Fel low of the London College of Physicians, has been appointed Physician Extraordinary to his Royal Highness the Duke of SUSSEX. Yesterday the LORD MAYOR went in state from Guildhall to Cripplegate Church, where his Lordship held a Wardmote for the eleEtion of an Alderman of the Ward of Cripplegate, in the room Of Sir WILLIAM STAINES, Kllt. deceased, when MATTHEW WOOD, Esq. Citizen and Fishmonger, was unanimously chosen. Moststittra and the Fitsstou Passions have been for the whole of the last week participators of the magnificent hospitalities of Stowe: the Duke IJE however, was on Sunday sent for to Lon don by express; and Moss lEU at repairs to Trentham this day. Sunday last, Captain CRONY, from Jersey, for Southampton, was captured by a French Lugger Privateer, between Portland and Christchurch Head. The hands were taken out, and the Captain only: kept on,board, with three passengers, who had se creted themselves below. As soon as the Privateer had got some dirt: nee ;rom them in pursuit of a Brig, the passengers came upon deck, and re took her, and on Tuesday she arrived at South,:mpton. The following instance of preservation, in a state of uncommon peril, is perhaps as memorable as any of thoSe which have, during the late season, distinguished the eventful employment of the Green land tishery-:—A boat from the Volunteer, of Whit by, Capt. BenutioTosr, having'struck a large fish, another boat was shortly afterwards rowed upon. its back, in order to strike a second harpoon into it, when the fish, by a sulden effurt to disengage itself from its unwelcome visitants, sprung the boat up into the air, a height of at least 16 feet, although its contents, including the people, lishing-lines, could loot weigh less than a ton, independent of the . weight of the boat itself. On its descent, the boat rolled over in the water three or four times, carrying the people along with it ; yet, what is truly aston ishing, no material injury was sustained by any in dividual ; the .whole being taken out of the water by other boats belonging to the same vessel, which succeeded at length in killing and securing the hsh. The keel of the boat, which was struck, was entire ly broken, and the bottom stove in, • TUN THEATRE.—The season commenced last night at Covent-Garden Theatre with the Tragedy of Romeo Ulla Juliet, and the Farce of The Poor m Soldier. Thu character of lie° was represented. by Mr. Cu4situts KEYII4B, with a rate of al.)ility that has rarely been equalled %chitin one remem brance. Ile nut only displayed due feelin,; and judgnent, but struck out new lights in some pas sages, which shew a discriminating mind, that is not disposed to take things merely upon trust. He WHs . much applauded on his entrance i.nel during his per figinance,.—Miss SMITH was tender, aniinated, and impressive in the part of Juliet. She also had a very liberal greeting from this audience.-I,gwrs Was as spirited as ever in Mercutio. He received . a Very flattering tribute of public regard.—The venerable Huta., in his accustomed part of Kier Lawrence, exhibited, amidst the marks of time, those proofs of just conception and simplicity in acting that cha racterized the good old school. He was .cheert dby a warm testimony of general respect.—ln the Farce MvwnsN was received with tokens .of wel come, and he perfortnecl Darby with his usual whim. INCLEDphI participated abundantly in the honours of the night, and sung with his usual el lea. The parts of Norah and Kathleen were as, signed to Miss BecTosi andAiss Me. nows. The Theatre does not seem to have undergone any alter ation, but it has'had a thorough defecation, and ap peared neat and elegant. The house was much better attended than is usual on an opening night. NOLLEKINS, it is said, has commissions for near eighty busts o Mr. Fox, and of Mr. PITT, the great prop of civilized society, and the wisest and most upright Statesman that ever existed; " A man whn needs not marble for his name, "Le !lice:iv wilt with pride record hts time." Admiral Lord HOOD'S Government House in Greenwich hospital was, through one of the ground floor windows, entered on Friday night by a party of bouse•breakers, who carried off a considerable quan tity of his Lordship's plate, and other property, un discovered, although there were lamps burning in every part of the house, and the whole establish- Meta of servant* resident therein with hit} I f ard3hip at that time. REFLECTIONS ON ?HL MICE BETIPEEN amid AND FRANCE. (Cotolusted from our Paper of Saturday.) STRENGTHENED by all the evils which he had in fliaed upon Austria and Germany, BONAPARTE found it more convenient to associate Russia in his plots than to persevere in contending with her ar mies. He could not subdue this gallant nation: he found it a work of far less difficulty to seduce her Chief. He laid before him the picture of Europe in its present state, that is, in the state to which his furies, his perfidies, and his cruelties have reduced it. He shewed him the rertrtining Potentates of Europe in the situation into which he had precipi tated them, and pointed out the inefficacy of their means of resistance, and the impotence of their de spair. He held 'out to him the political partition of Europe—in other words, the possibility of enslaving it, by placing at St. Petersburgh and at Paris the two ends of the chain with which he propoied to bind it " Political tranquillity, the fruit of independence and of a just equilibrium.," said BONAPARTE to the EMPEROR of RUSSIA, " is no more : let us provide for Europe the tranquillity of dungeons ; it is the only peace which suits my charader, the only one which flatters my heart !" Thus was renewed at Tilsit the Treaty of the Triumvirs : not at Tilsit, ho .vever, as heretofore on the Rhenas, were individuals alone proscribed, but Empires! Such is the history of the negotiations at Tilsit, and such the secret. The issue of them will be the same as those of the Rhenas, if Provi - deuce permits their develnpement, and ALEXANDER wilt be the vi&im of BONAPARTE, as LEPIDLTS was of AUGUSTUS. . When the Triumvirs disposed of the Universe in the ISle of the Rhenas, the Universe was in their power,and England herself in chains. She is not so in these days; and this is the only obstacle which Bo- NAPARTE encountered, at Tilsit, in completing his great work of the general slavery of Europe.' Against this England, which he can neither inti midate nor conquer, it was th,:t•ssary to excite new enernics ; while he prepared the moan, of occupying ALexAtinsa at home, if, at any future period, he should incline to a renewal of his connexiuns with that Country. ' Article XIII. provides for the first of these ob jeas, and Article V. for the second. Article V. resuscitates the Polish name. Article V. revives every pretension and invigorates every hope ; it opens a vent for long smothered resent. ment,i, for bitter aspirations of vengeance, and • awakens iii the tilcerat...d ht art all& ing recolle6lions of injuries lo,lg It was still necesciry, h .wever, that the seeds of this most dangerous and wide-spreading coatings tion shouli be in the hands of him who lighted up the brands : and tills is in . ,,vided for by confiding • Warsaw to one of th- Confede,iates of the Rhine, placed in that quality under the immediate coutroul . UI BONAPARTE. By these means BONAPARTE conceives that he has alienated 11u,si:► trout England, and bound her by the, strongest ties to the prosecutio❑ of his designs : assured, as he undoubtedly is, that the recoileaions has excited in the heart of Poland will be sutiiexot to rally her natives around his standard whenever it shall please him to announce her entire indepencience. filving thus made sure of, the future by Article V. !lib next obje& W 3% to render Ruisia all naive agent in the struggle which he had yet to terminate with Engiand i and this he has ctiaed by Article Xll.l. This Article calls for particular attention, no less on acCount of what it announces, than of what it leaves us to divine. In drawing it up, BONAPARTE had two very essen tial ohjeas in view : the first to annihilate the Bri tish K - ver ; the second, to induce ittlsisia to concur in it. There are two modes of annihilating the British Power: the first is, to et:m(l4er England, lay her waste, and destroy or enslave her. inhabitants, in other words, degrade them, for this would suffice. The day that sees the English humbled in their own eyes will be the last of their existence. This me. thod is infallible; but, happily, it is not easy, and no one is better convinced of it than BON,IPARTE. The second mode is not altogether so difficult as the first ; that is to say, the first is impossible, and the second is not. it is to elle& by Peace what can not be done by war ; it is to relax and enfeeble all the faculties of England by a perfidiolls Peace, to flestroy her moans of attack and defence by the prolongation of this Peace; and, finally, to conduit her, step by step, to her ruin, in disgracing her by it, since Providence will not permit her to be over. come! This is th© secret of BON APARTE with re veal to England. lie cannot kill her; he wishes, therefore, to instil poison into her veins. He is apprehensive of failing i‘t his attempts to draw England into a Peace; he roust, theinfore, deavour to-stir up ettem'esi against her, and separatt . her frQtn Europe, since she alone is desirous of I re- . serving it from destru&ion. Article XIII. furnishes hintlvith the means of elfeaing this objea. By this Article BONAPARTE accepts the Media tion of Russia in bringing about a Peace with Eng land. It is evident that an article conceived in these terms would be absurd in the highest degree, unless it were preceded or followed by secret articles, and these articles must necessarily form the basis of the Peace which the mediating Power is authorized to propose. Now, who has discussed this basis ? Sure ly, not the Mediator. It is sufficiently clear, by the same Treaty, how this Mediator discussed his own interests ! And no one, we presume, can reasonably expea that he should exhibit more sagacity and firmness in discussing those of Great Britain. It was BONAPARTE, then, who laid the founda. Lion of it, without difficulty and without discussion : • he diaated his will to the same person to whom he diaated the Treaty of Tilsit ! No farther proof is wanted that this basis must be ruinous to Great Britain, than that it is the work of BONAPARTE. Accordingly, he entertains no expeaa tions of its being accepted; he is only solicitous that, it should be offered. If England accepts it, she precipi tates herself into the toils which he has spread for her If she refuses a mediation of this suspicious nature. or, after accepting it, ultimately rejeas the Peace which it holds out, Oh, then BONAPARTE has fore seen everything ! Russia is associated in his pro. jeas, and her armies in •the execution of his furies ! then comes the shutting up of the Rassian Ports; • the junaion of her Fleets, and the assistance of het Troops in Europe, and, above all, in Asia I Is there any Minister, we ask, versed in poll. tical transaaionsi—any man simply ' initiated' in •the elements . of diplomacy, who would not, by the power of redeclion Anne, as clearly comprehend the nature of the secret clauses which precede•ths . 13th Artlele, - asif They were Openly' exposed , to' hit view ? This mediation has no objets but War ; it was only projeaed with the hope of associating Russia in it :—so impuasible does it appear to BONAPARTS to seduce the British nation by the shameful alluse• rnent of a detestable Pence. But every Peace which leaves : ol'c Continent in the power of BotrArArra it detestable, because it place.; England under his mediate controul. England iy the centre and the soul of the public credit of the universe : she cannot, therefore, place under the dependence of another any of the brancinte of her political existence, without consenting to hot own destruaion. What, now, would be tae inde pendence of E n gland, were BONAPARTE master of the Continent ? when he Might, by merely threaten to le bid her access to it, give an alarming bias t public opinion, and, haying dimmed her by Peace, check or enfeeble the atlivity of her hostile preparations, by menacing the prosperity of her commerce ? England cannot separate her destiny from that of Europe : this is the true, the indis soluble bond which unites •her to the Continent. The ocean assures her independence—but her into. rest binds her to Europe. Inaccessible in the midst of the element which she triumphantly rules, she Would be the terror of the Continent, if all her te.ests did not incessantly lead her back to Europe, and attach her for ever to its independence. All her means, all her treasures, all herforces, apper.! taro, of right, to the safety of Europe; because, whenever it shall fall under the absolute controul of •one master, the commercial existence of England will lie at the mercy of the Tyrant, and her political existence prove a mere phantom ! If Europe was ignorant of these great truths, 1 3 ,9' NAPARTE was not so : accordingly his e xcliimati,o,n . has ever been, " Carthage must le destroyed !" Ye s ', " as the Romans said of old, to complete the subjuga' tiun or the world, Cartilage mu.e oe destroyed. lint the Carthage of our clays Is' nut destruaible. will never be so but through her own folly, when, like the. Cartilage of other times, she:consents, its the words of AtosTirsoursu, " to receive peace s not from the hands of an,eneiny, but a master !" The Secret Clauses of the Treaty of Tilsit Will 0130 day tie a s apparent to all mankind as ;thy are at present to-every politician : then will be seen to what excess of madness the mind may be goaded by ambitinn joined to fury ! Then will be seen thosi projeas against Asia, of which the.dreadful results would be to' cover India with games and blood ! projeas which, devoid of sense, betray at once the extreme of rage and impotence ! Yes, British India may perish; but it must be by the hands of England alone. Inaccessible to bet enemies, she is accessible to the errors of the British Government. ' Such, however, is the excellence of the British Constitution, that the vices which die tance and a lapse of agcs have produced, may be summarily destroyed, and, iu tne course of a single ' dely, vanish for ever ! . . CWant of roam preventc.l the continuance of this admira ble Article yesterday, an 4 the conclusion ol which we hope to be WA to present to out KOCIVVW.ITIgtroIY.I %