The Sun. — London, England, 1807-10-27 00:00:00

MAILS. Dvz —2 Gottenburgh, z IVaterford. PRICE 01 STOCKS tiils DA If AT T‘VLLV F. O'CLOCK. Consols THE SUN. 1101.1.:1 Q. 1.1111 DICLRL YALSUM AUDZAT ? L 0 D 0 N, TUEt , DAY, OCTOBER 27, 1807. A very considerable division of the Fleet from Copenhagen may be hourly expeEted. Admiral STANHOPE, with nine Sail of the Line, several Fri gates, and a great number of Transports laden with naval stores, sailed on the 121 h inst. The Eliza Tender, which sailed with the Fleet, parted from it oa the 22d inst. ; at that time they were all safe and well. The Eliza arrived at Shields on the 25th. Tnz following. Letter, which was sent by the American Consul at Amsterdam to all the American Merchants in that City, has occasioned considerable surpriie, and given rise to much speculation : " I have to request, that you• will hasten the departure of any American Vessels that may be to your address, with all expedition. (Signed) " S. BOURNE, " Amstcriarn, isth Ott. 18)7. American Consulate." Thi3 Circular Letter, it is slid, was written by BoottNz,' .in consequence of intelligence which he received from Mr. ARMSTRONG, the American Minister at Paris, slating, that it was the determi nation of the French Government to carry the fa mous Decree of November, 1800, for putting Eng land into a state of blockade, into execution with the utmost rigour, and that as it was probable the English would retaliate, by seizing all Ships going to, or coming from tt , Yrench Port, it was expedient that all American Vessels should get away as soon as possible. According, however, to other accounts, BUONAPARTR, finding the American Go vernment unwilling to engage in hostilities against this Country, hcid threatened to declare War against them.. Which of these' two causes, or whether either of them induced the American Consul to write this Letter, we have not at present the means of ascertaining; but we confess Ave do not see any grounds for thinking a War between America and France at all probable. Ir is hardly necessary to state to our Readers, that the reports which have been so confidently cir culated, of the complete adjustment of the dif ferences between this Country and America, are without foundation. In consequence et the very li mited power:; given to Mr. Mouitoz, the Negotia tion is at present in faa suspended, and cannot be resumed until Mr. ROSE 'reaches America. We of course are ignorant of the nature of the Instrudions given to Mr. ROSE, but there is one point which we trust Government will insist upon, and that is, that the Americans should not continue the pra&ice of naturalizing British Subjads, by the simple process of giving a Shilling Certificate; and afterwards claim ing those Persons as natural born American 'SO jedc pr►6lice, which has lately increased to an alarming extent, will, we hope, now be put an end to. Tim report of the alarming state of the Duke of roart.a.sn's health is,. we are happy to say, un founded, His Grace was able to dine w i t h hi s friends at finlstrode on Saturday last, .-and we have nut heard that 'he has had a relapse.. , On _Saturday evening Lord WINCITEGSBA, and Yard and Lady SUUEENif, arrived at Windsor on visit to their Nto F:sr I ; and yesterdayanorning" the nuke of Yong arrived al4o at Wiudjor. Yesterday liiS.MAJESTV, the Duke of YORK, Frintes•e# SOPHIA,. AUGUSTA, and AMELIA, az. eotnpoied by Lord WINCUEESEA, Lady GEORGE MURRAY; Count MUNSTER, General FIT4ROY, and Colonel Loa, rode in .t be Great Park at Wind . mg, and returned at twelve!. There was 4 meeting of the Commissioners at the Adiitivalty yesiurday, and we understand an increase of sAlary was ori.lered to be given to the Clerks of the Navy- Oitiee. )itrotvArmr.TE is probably by, this time on his road • • tie Italy. The letters from MiVan and Venice men tion,,that he w.is expet'tted to visit each of these cities bdore Christims. The last Paris Papers announce his speedy 4eparture. This is a journey rather of a political tliati military nature ; its ()Ned is holiness, not mentation, Nothing now can prevent France from obtaining, possession of the Morea, and of as many of the Greek Islands as she may find cons eni t for her purposes. When the Emperor Ar.,ex,a4- wit gave up Corfu and Cataro, he ratified his per petual exclusion from the, Meclitcrnmean, and relin nnisitcd 811 pretension.; to attain the rank of a naval rwer. The.,.Black Sen - aml,theaulph of Finland Are likely to be henceforth the utmost limits of the inaritime excursions of Russia. Yesterday, about one o'clock, 37 artillery wag., gnus arrived at the Bank, with upwards of a ton of silver in each, in bars. They were. escorted by two numerous parties amounted and diimounted Light Horsemen, under the command of Col. ItAVNs cltUs"l'. This treasure was chiefly brought to Eng land by the Diana, from Vera Cruz. The artillery waggons set otf for London from Chatham about nine o'clock on Sunday ; their arrival at the Batik attr4ed a very great crowd. Report states tut Veutenant-General Sir Jout4 CRADDOCK has recently been recalled frOm his com mand, and that an investigation will certainly take place of the causes of the mutiny at Vellore and other quarters. The Inspeetor General's Office in the Admiralty is discontinued, by order of Government; t. e busi ness in future will be under the dire3iou of the Na vy Board. General BENTHAM is daily expected from Russia, where he had been sent by Government to buy up timber for shipping. Besides completing the four battalions of the Scots Royals, the Duke of KENT has got so many volun teers from the as, it is thought, will make a sth and 6th battalion for him. The Duke has been most zealous in his personal exertions to recruit this antient and renowned Regiment, the Ist Foot. The 2d battalion of the Quarter-Master-General's regiment, the 9th Foot, has been one of . the most successful 'in recruiting from the English Militia. This battalion is likelyto be soon sent to India. The 2d battalion of the Adjutant-General's Regi ment, now goo strong, has marched to Bexhill, where they are brigaded with the 2d battalion of the 90th,. or Pertlaire Regiment, under General DYorr. 'Yesterday the Bloomsbury and Inns of Court Association had a grand field-day, preparatory to the inspection of the corps, the first of which will take place on Thursday next, and the second on Thurs day, November 5. The muster was not so great,ait , Was expected. Thursday last Don PASQUAL Ruiz HUIDOBRO, (formerly Governor of Monte Video) with his wife and suite, left . Reading on his route to Plymouth, there to embark for Spain, having received perinis sion from our Government to return to that country for 12 mouths, on his parole. The Marquis of HARTINGTON, eldest son of the Duke of DEVONSHIRE ; Viscount Ipswich: eldest son of th'e Earl of EUSTON ; and the Hon. Mr. BRIDGEMAN, son of Lord BRADFORD, are admitted of Trinity College, Cambridge. And Lord HAMIL TON, second sonof the Marquis of ABF,RCORN ; the Hon. Mr. CLivn, second son yf Earl Powis ; and the Hon. Mr. LAW, eldest son of Lord ELLEN.. BOROUGH, are admitted of St. John's College. The Danish Government have offered a reward, amounting to ten guineas, for the discovery of any person who corresponds with England. Extra& of a Letter from an American Gentleman in London to his Friend in New Yoik : " Since I wrote you last I have ascertained the fol lowing facts : " Ist. That our Government instru6ted our Mi nisters not to agree to any Treaty that did not make an American ship a sanctuary for seamen. " 2d. That the British Commissioners absolutely refused to insert any clause to that effea in the Treaty, inasmuch as it went to encourage desertion from their ships; and, when deserted, thereby pro tented. " 3d. That our Ministers in consequence declared the Negotiation at an end. " 4th. That the British Commissioners solicited a continuation of the negotiation on all the other sub jects, which was agreed to, upon the express condi tion that such partial Treaty should not be held official on the part of the United State s . • " btll. In lieu of the Article regarding Seamen, insisted upon by our Ministers, the British Com missioners, in form of a letter, avowed the pradice they would pursue towards the United • Sta►es re garding Seamen. Gth. There was no additional Aiticle to the Treaty (as was supposed), but the British Com missioners addressed a letter to our Ministers (after BUONAPARTE'S decree of blockade), declaring them selves at liberty to countervail the measures France might pursue under that Decree, unless America re sisted the encroachMents of France. "/,.. That the Treaty in other respects was as favourable and reciprocal as could reasonably be ex , peEted. " No apprehensions exist of any change of senti ment towards America, in consequence of the new Administration. In case no Treaty should be agreed upon, we shall only be considered to stand on the ground we did before we had a treaty with this country. Our sea-letter Ships will not be permitted to enter as American Ships in British ports." PHILADELPHIA, SEPT: ifi.--Copy of a Letter from an American Gentleman in Loudon' to his Friend in this city I have only time to mention two or three observations from some pointed in quiries which have been made regarding Pensacola, the - depth of ts.ater there, the security of the har bour, quantity of troops, &c. England has an eye. on that quarter. America is no longer viewed with indifference by this country as 'regards her com merce, but considered a ,powerful rival.. The' Be i .: tish, I. am well persuaded, wool(' g.i aoy length to destroy' our carrying trade, and check our enter prizes I but the calculation, seems to,be, that they' must equally injure themselves to injure us. We have almost destroyed the East' India and China trade of this Country.", PIOtOI4 Sitoortuo.--A match was made on Tues day last, tier l'Vlessrs Herriot and King, skilful shots', who bad exhibited about two months since, and . destroyed a .great many birds, in shooting oil' ties, to shoot again for 100 guineas at nineteen pigeons; and yesterday morning the parties met on Finchley Cemmon, to contend again for su periority. Buttings • were About level. In the last match each of ,the pirtiea killed 19 birds, bUt their skill fell very short of that in the present instance. King, who is a gamekeeper, misted the first, and second, and the ninth, eleventh, and tweilth birds, and yet was a winner without shooting out the match. Herriot killed his first bird, and missed the next four, one of which tell out of bounds: He killed the sixth and seventh, •and missed three others ; and after King had killed his fifteenth pigeon, he won the match, his adversary not being within making a tie, jibe had killed alibis remain ingbirds. Madame CATAI.ANI left York on Tuesday morn ing, for Leeds, where she gratified the inhabitants of that place on Thursday evening, She was after wards to proceed to Manchester and Liverpool for the like porpose. A certain Aaor; it seems, is prevented from re tinning to the metropolis by an impediment that weighs not less than three hundred pounds. NAVAL NEWS. NORTH SHIELDS, OCT. 25, firlf past 7, Morn - ing.---This moment Mr. LEE, Surgeon of the Eliza Tender, has landed here from Copenhagen : he left it on the 12th inst. in company with Admiral STAN HOPE, with nine Sail of the Line, several Frigates, and an immense number of Transports laden with naval stores, an d parted from the Fleet three days since, all well. DEAL, OCT. 26.—Arrived yesterday afternoon li is Majesty's Ship Success, from off Cherbourg, and sailed again since for the same place. Arrived his Majesty's Ships Elizabeth and Marl borough, of 74 guns each, from the Nore ; the Eli zabeth sailed through for Portsmouth ; the Marlbo rough got under weigh this morning; but was obliged to put back, owing to the wind shifting. His Majesty's Ship Clyde, Commodore OWEN, sailed on a cruize off Flushing. The Fleet under convoy of the Trymouth, Hum. 7 Ler, and Speculator Luger, sailed this morning to the Westward, but have since put back again and remain. This morning a Smuggling Vessel, with upwards of 5 00 casks of liquor, was driven on shore near Walmer Castle, and seized by the extra Custom house Lugger, R. CURLING Master. A very fine Prussian Ship, called the Arland:al, Capt. OLOF E. SUNDBRIIOII, of Memel, from Ports mouth, bound up the Baltic, was, on Saturday night last, driven on shore near his Majesty's Dock Yard here, but from the great and ready exertions of the Deal boatmen, she was extricated from her then very perilous situation, and removed to a good birth in the Downs. The Galliet .Itilfrow Melia, LIRLFF STRICKIR, of and fm. Bremen, from Bayonne , with wine, was detained and brought into the Downs by his Majes ty's Gun Brig Cracker, last night, and still remains detained in the Downs. PORTSMOUTLI, OCT. 26.—Arrived the City of Cork, BLACKERTON, and Two Elizac, DYER, from Cork. Sailed the Resolute, Lieut. HARRIES, and Hearty Gun-brig, Lieut. WICKHAM, on separate crui2es. Went out of Harbour this afternoon the Linnett Cutter-brig, after undergoing a partial repair. FALMOUTH, OCT. 24.—,-Arrived the Grace, BAR NETT, from Liverpool, for Malta; and the Sloop Ann, PULLMAN, from Chepstow for Portsmouth, with timber, with the loss of saili, &c. The Diana_,_.Lewts, from Liverpool', passed An, tigua for St. Domingo 3oth August, after a most gallant adion with the French Schooner Privateer La Vengeance, BIAGI', from Guadaloupe, out two months, mounting 12 nine-pounders and too men, which the Diana beat off Captain Lewis and seven men wounded. Joined the Ship Hannah, from Liverpool, off Antigua;after the action, which happened on the 28th. . The Cadit - Packet, CLAYTON, was captured on the t ath inst. near the TeXel, by the Tilsit French Lugger, of 17 guns, belonging to Dunkirk, and re captured by the Princess Augusta Cutter, and brought into the Humber. The following communication was, at a late hour yesterday, made at Lloyd's ; but as the intelligence to which it relates has been sometime known through the French Papers, it created no extraordinary sen6it• Lion : " Lreorn, Sept. 3. " Upon the '29th ult. 3630 French troops entered this place, and took possession of the tOwn and Tort.' On the same evening, a Proclamation was issued in the name of the French General (SI low s), ordering the denunciation and confiscation of all English goods and property; An Embargo was; at epe same time, laid on all the Shipping without ex. l cepti u. 7 To this was annexed the following, from the same port: •• septeyder so. " No goods are permitted to be put on board the Vessels loading in the port till further orders, nor ;Ire Vessels arriv. ing•to be unloaded.—Xne Embargo still continues." Twci Ships, of 74 guns each, are to, be built at 7orthtleet An t i liawich, to be called the ,Gloacesick and the ScUrboroqh. Two .meetings of inhabitants of Sheffield were held last Week at the Tontine lon, to take into con sideration the propriety of Sheffield setting an ex ample to the other manufacturing towns, of peti, tioning hikMajesty to exercise his Royal Prerogative for the speedy restoration of the benefits of Peace. But, in consequence of strong and repeated objec tions, by so.ne amtlemen, that it Would be tic at the present moment to embolden the enemy, by such a proceeding, it was determined to postpone the assembling of a public meeting., By a private letter from Ceylon, dated the 9.3 d of March, we learn, that the scarcity of grain in the Carnatic has reduced that country to a deplorable state. The Company bold out great offers to in-. di%'iduals to import; and the Governor of Ceylon, to prevent the like calamities there, has prohibited its exportation. This letter says„ 1 1 You will per. hapi-be astonished to hear, that our brandy costs us but two rix dollars per gallon . (about 4s. std,) and will probably be cheaper, from the great quantityln hand. India is stocked with it." A fevi days ago,, John Dempster, late teller to the Thistle Bank. of Glasgow, absconded, leaving a deficiency in his' accounts to . the amount of ten thousand pounds ; he was, howeVer, pursued to Portpatrick, where he was apprehended, broeght back to tillasgow, and lodged in jail. MILI 17.4. Tut following is a Copy of a Letter to'hil the Duke of 'MARLBOROUGH, from Lord HAWKL." Bum Y, one of His Maje4y's Principal Secretaries , a State " biv LOR'D. 44 Whitehall, Oa. zo, tB)7. The great a nd obvious advantage to the Public Service, which must necessarily result from completing the new le vies for the bliliti.t with the utmost possible dispatch, in duces me to call your Grace's attention to this Important subjed.. 41 Although the. Legislature, With a view of preventing, As much as possible the hardship which would naturallY be telt from a ballot for these levies taking place upon imperfect lists of . persons liable to serve, has thought tit O . sanction an extension of the period of three months within which the county quotas were originally required to be raise ed, iu some cases to four, and in others to five months ; end although it has been provided that the penalty of 631. per man . for everrinan of such quotas remaining deficient, shall not attach until the expiration of such extended peri ods, yet it is appr.:iended that few instances will occur where the due exertions of the Deputy Lieutenants, and of the Officers whose assistance the provisions of the late Militia ACt are to be carried into effect, may not be considered as adequate to' the completing the number of men required to be raised, in a much shorter time. " Under this impression, and with the fullest conviaion that nothing will have be en wanting on the part of your Grace, which could tend to promote the early success of this important measure of National Deteice, I have to request your Grace will acquaint me, for his Majesty's informed" what progress lias already been made towards its completion. within the County under your Grace's charge. " 1 have also to desire that your Grace will inform stle whether any, and what number of men were raised within your County, previous to the ist of this month ; and fur' *her, that during the dine this measure shall be in progress, , your Grace will cause to be transmitted to me monthly its turns of the number of men actually raised, and forwarded ° I the flead.quarters of the Regiment ; and so that such WWl* may arrive in this Office by the isth of each month. " I have tne honour to be, my Lord. " Your Grace's most obedient humble Servants " 1-IAWaCKSAVIIIN" " To His Majesty's Lieutenant of the County of Oxford." THEATR R.—The tragedy of Corielanus,whiob is brought forward in a very magnificent style, was represented last night -at Covent Garden Theatre, and attended, as it deserved to be, on account of the merit of the ailing, as well as its dramatic eV' e.ellence, by a very numerous audience. Kessit.l performs , the hero of the Piece in so admirable IL Manner, that altogether it may fairly be considered as his chef d'wuvre. He was firm, bold, and anie mated throughout, and received repeated and vehe. ment bursts of applause. Mrs. Sintiosis was ?Ise excellent in the part of Volumnio, who appeared the blending even ,the most let+ tventrue it4" e11 11a 0l iO n n M s of m n alernal atfisetion with the zeal of patriotism. There were some fine touches of doe rnestic life in her expostulations and rebukes to het son, when he is unwilling to pay court to the Rom man populace. PoPz's diffu/ius was manly, digni. fled, and impressive. Miss NORTON took the part , of Virgilia, in consequence of the illness of Asa BRUNTON, and supported it with delicacy. Mute.. DEN'S Meneniuc was sufficiently humorous, withott degenerating into burlesque. The Proprietors de' serve great praise for having bestowed so much .o*.° pence on a drama of such intrinsic worth,, though, indeed, it cannot be doubted that they will lie fully in demnified in the popularity which mustatteud a play so splendid in the costume, and so excellent is the acting. *Die After-piece was The Review; or, 'he Wags of Windsor. The part of Loony Mactwolter was assumed by a new performer, whose name, it IS Said, is ADAMiON. As this character is so admirably supported by Irish JortesToNE, any other perfum' must appear to great disadvantage. Mr. Anamsotr has a good Irish accent, though he appears to labour in the delivery of it. His humour is of a dry kind, but he seems to have talents worth cultivating. His action is easy, and he is attentive to the business of the scene. He is of • the middle size, and a young map. His forte seems to be quite itv the lower walk of comedy. ENILRY, ill .lobo Lump, and FAW Urn, in Ca/el, Quot'em, , had a po,%erful ettec upon the risible muscles of the audience. The part of Phoebe IVhilethorn was per' formed by Miss DE CAMP, an interesting little girl. who, when she kas, derived courag e trout practices will doubtless be feticide very usefu l actress. moray between the Proprietors of the King's'Thea., THE OPERA.—The report of a restoration of har tre, it seems, is without fonndatiou, and there ar pears little probability that pacific movements will te l o i t i ' e ' the contending parties. Mr. :. !allowing account is giVen heatre, claims under a d ee d a- agreement TosofAotYnhceboeparaedsteholici:ttces:tiaef Proprietor and former Manager of betw t t e en him and the deceased Mr. GooLD, the (11+ rectiun of the entertainments; and, as an advertise* meat shows, he has proceeded to engage a compani "i,,f performers for the ensuing season. He has PP; pointed Mr. Inovltt.z to be acting Manager, ell' accordingly has for some rime been employed in pre paring the Th e atr e for openin g . O n th e ot h e r hand I Mr. WATERS, a G en tl eman w h o was a pp o i n te d . executor to Mr. Gomm, has been acting under will as Trustee , and we un d erstan d that be also has engaged a company, and he also has.made prowl' I bans for opening. Both partlea., hav4 workmen in the Theatre. Both are painting and decorpticii and both of them beast of the splendid exertions which will be made in the Service of the Put 3 li' On Saturday last, as , both parties were at work ' n the Theatre, a fracai , took place, which is likely w bring the matter into a Court of Law, Mr. D'Eovut.ll; was superintending the pinta' and machinisis in the painting -room, when Aft; WATEas interfered, and ordered them to desist, tin" to.quit the place, of which Ire, was in possegoihn` Mr. D'Ecvstt.t declared he would protect people, and warned Mr. Wxrwas off the prentist A scuttle ensued, in which Mr. Inovn-ut aeeon Mr. NV - Arens .of being th e aggressor. He EIPPl ie ,,, for a warrant against Mr. AWATEI23 for the assawli and. he was brought up to Bow-street, and exam ille c by Mr. READ and Mr. GaAna.v. Mr. D'F,Gvi,', l ;„ persisted in his charge, atld Mr. WATEtts gave hat , appear at the Quarter Sessions. It was supposed last week that all differen o in dr thi: a ff air had been settled; because both parties h under the provisiuns of the trust. deed, nomina l arbitrators with lull powers to 'adjust the dispote4 Mr. GRAHAM, the Atigistrate, who is expe6ell`;,l iu legid, as well as th eatr i ca l matters, was aPI N)I / 1 05 by Mr. TAYLO R , a n d t he . C hev al ier L E KONEA t „ chosen by - Mr. Ww*etts. Au Umpire wil o d be appointed by these Arbitrators; but a new g ro i e ci of dissention-has ariNen,- audit is to be aPPr chelll that the difference can only In terminated hY iuterroiitiop of a Court of Law.