The Sun. — London, England, 1807-10-22 00:00:00

From the FRENCH and bin - cif P4?.ERS. Itls, OCT. 10.—Letters from Bayonne, dated the 2541 of September, mention that. that city feels great benefit from the presence and good conduct of the troops composing the Army of Observation, and that the politeness of their Commander, the Ex-, Governor of Paris, entitled to particular praise. The Enemy are continually before. Rochelle. Six Ships of the Line and a Sloop . of War constantly c'rnize at. the entrance of the channel of Antioche; they are in sight from time to time. There are always three or four Frigates under sail, orat anchor, at the Mouth' of the Garonne, and two Sloops. of War, which never quit the Sands of Olonne, or the • , Whale. They keep the unfortunate coasters, vvlilefL venture to quit the ports, in a: state of continual alarm, and often drive them on shore. 51kOksfI) ASCENSION BY NIGFIT OF M. GAR- NERIN. "1p second aerial journey by night will net afford An opportunity. for the brilliant narratives which I have.had occasion to make in the course of my forty preceding ascensions. I shall not have to de' scribe the majestic appearances which nature con .offers to the eyes of an aeronaut who as: cends in favourable weather. I can only give a te rative of an aerial tempest which was nigh termi nating in a shipwreck. " The obstacles which the wind caused to the in- cation of the balloon sufficiently apprised' me ; of the approach cif the storm ; and to the difficulties: of the weather was added the farbulanceof a party,' by which I was prevented &Om placing the cord of, the valve so as to regulate the tube, which, in case!. 6f expansion, was to . condutq the gas into a diredlion different Aqui the lights which surrounded the bot tom of the balloon. , • I was to have been accompanied by 'M. DE CHASSENTOV ; but the aerial storm, which con,tinu ally increased until the :moment of my departure, gave me reason to apprehend such a disaster as Mr. BLANCHARD, And another aeronaut,. met With in Holland. M. Da CHASSENTON was aetually in the boat. I must bear witness to .his determination; for Dam convinced that nothing could have made ibis young man, remarkable for his merit, quit the boat, 'if the well•grouniecl apprehension which I entertained, of seeilig him exposed to certain. de struliOn, had not suggeSted to me the idea of de daring to him, that the.balloon was not capable of carrying up t*o persons. • ft It was thus in the most adverse weather, anzl . expoSed to the greatest 'opposition and the tuir..!. :)f a cabal, the head of which it is easy to goes,: that I ascended from Tivoli, at half past test o'clock the nizlit of the 21st of S . ptemher. An unex artipled rapidity ,of a,v7 , •n:,;on, but extremely nece,-: miry to prevent me frotu coming in contact . with the adjoining houses, raised me above the elou4s,:4ti'o, in 'a 'few minutes carried me to an laimenso , height, the extent of which I cannot .precisely ascertain; one; account of the dangers and embarrassments which,, suddenly atYcEcd my imagination, and prevented me from observing the declension of the Mercury in the barometer. Elevated in an instant to .the. frozen', regions, the balloon became subjed to a degree of expansion which 'inspired Me with the greatest ap prehension. There Was no altermitive between cer tain death and giving an instant vent to the vs and this at the risk of seeing the balloon take 4re; I gradually opened with one hand an oriftee; of about two feet diameter, by which the gai':e464e4l` in larie voh4mesi, while, with the other, leiii4ulSh ed al many of the lights as I could,- During this Ofoli, I severol times was near overbalanCing my !,or, and falling out of the boat. f‘ Deprived of the opportunity' of regulating the valve, my balloon,,like a slip without 4 rudder, floated in air, obeying the influence of the tempera tare, the wits ts, and the Whenever the force arthese triode me descend, the storm, which kept increasing, obliged me to throw out ballast,for the purpose of Avoiding it; And escaping from immi tient shipwreck. At length, At four o'clock in the morning, after having been almost continually en veloped in thick clouds, through which I could sel dom see the moon, all my, means or supporting tny. te ll in the air were exhausted, Whatever Skill. I possessed was no longer of use to me. ~,My ,boat veral tunes struck against theground anti rebounded from thence, The tempest often. drove me against the sides and lops of mountains. Whenever my ottelinr cauii,ht in a tree, the balloon WAS ISO VitSetitly agitated by the wind, that I experienci all the convenience of a violent sea-sickness. Plunged at one . time to the .bottom-of a precipice, in an instant efter I ascended, and acquired a new elevation. :Tile violence of the,concos!ions exhan.iied my strotigth, and I lay for a half-hour in tile' boat i n it state of in. otempest I reeaVerilil per ceived During Mont Tonnerre, and it Wa s ii th o iniclat of , crashi'm of thunder, and at a Moment whiqb I sup posed would be my Last, that kplanted upon this c.e- T . FT E SU N. &OLILM LUIS r A 1.364 A.UDEAT ? LONDriV, THURSDAY, 'OCTCLUtt 22, 1807. WE are still without any authentic intelligence respecting the fine of Portugal, but from the fads that are in our Possession, there appears every reason to apprehend that the mandate of BUONAt'ARTH to the Portuguese Government, to shut their Ports against the trade of this Country, will ultimately be coil-' plied with ; and: indeed this opinion appears so general, that, several of the Opposition Writers, have vehemently accused Ministers for not having sent a number of Vessels to Portugal, in order to bring away all British Subj.ats and their property. This accusation is fouiided upon some Letters titan Lisbon,' in which the writers complain .that there were not .V.essels enough to . bring away British pro perry, and'that some persons had paid most extra vagant hi g h prices for freight. It is very true, , that , when the demands 'of the French Goli k !rnment, and their probable result, were known at Lisbon, a very general alarm, was- eicited• among the British Residents there, and that alarM made them believe that the danger was mall in?re near them than it really was. . GoVernment have, however, adopted proper precautions tb ensure their safety. It is well known that Adm. Puttitts's Fleet has been; fur sumo time in the Tagus, and a number of light Ni'is e js have lately , sailed for Portugal, for the purpose of bringing away British property. His Majesty's Ship 'fa, Ted,. with the Fleet under her convoy for the West Indies, whiCh sailed from POrtsmouth on the Ivith of June, arrived at Barba does on the 25th of August. Me James Mail-boat, 'from Barbadoes for Deinerara, was captured on the V4th of August by the :keine Addle French Priva• teer, which has also captured the Danish Schooner Betiey, Dyt.t./.;, and the Burchall, TY Nus, of and from Barbadoes, for. Surinam, and carried them into Guadaloupe. A Paper ,of 4,14 is morning states, that a, politicLl, .diiferettc has, taken place "bet Ween the two Noble Lords who are considered as being at the head of the Opposition, and that one of them (Lord liowtcx), JIM declared his intention of absenting himself 7 from Parliament during the ensuing .Session. We li`now' not whether this statement be.corre4.l or not, but we confess that a separation in politics between the' two Noble Lords alluded to would surprise us flinch - less than Their Union did. tAY,. we beg to be understood as 'not intending to cast any refieEtion u p on That gallant Officer. If he had specific.instrudions,' it was his duty to, obey them; if not, it is not possible to attribute his con du 't to any motive inconsistent with the most ho-, nourable feeling of a Britiih Officer, justly offended at the condua of,a professedly Neutral Power. But it is absolutely necessary for the &Alin& understand ing of the matter before us,. that the Admiral's con , dna should be thoroughly discussed, We will Brit suppose him to•have aatecl.with.out orders. If'so, he probably claimed the right o f searching' the Chesa peake upon the same grounds as he would have in,- sisted upon the search of qny AMerican Meraharit-• man, namely, the long and universally received praC 7 tiee of Nations, in cases where no Treaty ' exists„. This practice, or Law of. Nations, permits the search of all Neutral Ships, for the purpose oldiscovering ' the Property of Enemies, Contraband 'Goods, Prohi . , bited Trade, &c. Now, nothing can be more clear ly laid down, in . law and pradice, than 'that the resistance of the Neutral to the exercise of this -right, is a sufficieM cause for the cod.; demnation of the Vessel so' resisting, whatever may be her cargo or destination, • If, therefore, Ad miral BERKESEY conceived, that in insisting upon the search of the American FrigatP he was exercising ' an inherent RIGHT, it was his duly to bringit s the Vessel for lawful ADJUDICATION by a British Court of ADMIRALTY. The mode he adopted 'wasTalpa bly irregular ; and Commodore -BmittoN was un-_ questionably justified in considering his Frigate as Prize to the Leopard.. If then our Admiral ought to have captured the 1-Americap, what would this have been but an 'cal WAR. We capture and condemn Merchant Ve;isell, and Neutral Governments give credit to our Courts of Admiralty for justice and equity, in confiscating only Ships or goods lawfully PR qE. But to suppose that a Neutral Government will submit to the judg ' meat of our Admiralty the legality or propriety, of its own. Acts o . f State is really absurd, It most be a question of PEACE Or W A R, and that can onlys be safely or Consistently decided:by* Governizene.r, ) These observations are intended to meet the ideas.' of those who consider Admiral BERKELEY'S • perfeetiy consistent with the received practice of Belligerents with • respea to Neutrals;. as an Mei whiehought. no more to disturb the peace of the two Countries, than thea,-apture :of - a cargo, of salt fish entering a,blockaded Dart. We have Merely argued, that the right claimed by the Admiral was not an established right, and that, it i t were, he did het ; pursue it As he ougiit to have done.-.—We 0011 to-morrow resiaMe the subject. Yesterday, about . twelve o'clock, .Ttinta Nlfi k - JESTIES arrived in their travelling post chariot at the Queen's Palace, from. Windsor, escorted by- nparty of light horse : they were ,re-eived, on their en trance to the Palace, by the Dukes of YORK, KENT, and CUMBERLAND. The five PRINCYSSES IA .• ": (.1 THEIR MAJESTIES in two carriages; at.tenned b:. !ler . ' Countess of ILCHESTER and Lady 1. THYNNE, s § . A..) . ti: after their arrival, the Princess MA 'AY wenoq . t/ .Tarnes's 'Palace in the Duke of York's carriagtmand' honoured Lady CHARLOTTE FINCH with a vistt.ft,t,.h'er apartments, and returned 'to the Queen's Palace, 1 About one., o'clOck Hitt` MAJESTV and all *the' PRINCESSES, accoutpanied. by the DOKE of .Ctrs -', BERLAND, set off for Blackheath, upon a visit-to , the PRINCESS of WALES and Ducness of BRtJNs- WICK, where they partook of it stun:,:u.itli dinner',' at three o'clock .; after which they returned to the Queen's. Palace, - where they arrived soon after five . . Ilitty did not , alight from their .carriages, bin :re-.' mained in them while horses were ehanaititi and' then proceeded, with all possible speed, t:VVliitkor. The DUKE, of. CuNIBIILAND got into his oWn car riage, wilich wasitt waiting, :nd went to hi's'aptirt: :. clients in St., James's Palace. . ! His MAJESTY held a private Levee at - the Queen's Palace., soon alter two o'clock,. which was attended [V The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Secretaries of-State for the I•l,orne and Colonial Departments, the Master General of tits tkrdstance. L ilie First Loot- 'pi the Admiralty, the Chan. Cellor or the 4.xtite.quer, "harl .WiliclieLea, Grcom of the Sidle ; Lord Boston, in Waiting . ; ' Admiral Gould.- Colonel -Catiosan, and Messrs. fawkiier sand Greville, Grooni in Wiiitin.r. • .. ' The following h.ed the honouiof being present ?.1 to His MAJESTY : . . . Rear.Athrliral Gould, upon his promotion to that rank. ' Colonel Cadogan. upon his arrival from South America. His MAJESTY gave audiences, to the Cabinet Mi nisters,. and n6id a. Privy Council, which sat but a short time.: . - .. • 'About four o'clock His MAJESTY - Set off on his . return to' Windsor. - A Dublin Paper of the 17th contains the fonow [rig paragraph . :—" We have been this day inforkat: from a source on which we can place' the tirinekr= lance, that within these eight'days (a perio4consi derably snbsequent to any connetied with the re its which appear in the, last London Papers),4tnsC-Cr's army, 60,000 strong, were so tinr advanced on their route to, Portugal,' that the Gentleman from Whbin we have, received our information, and who tra . - versed a considerable pari of the southern provinces of France on his return, says, he has no doubt' whatever but that it is, at this,moment in possession of Purtogal. It is unnecesliary to add, that all com munications in business or pleasure were at a stand. Confidence had totally disappeared, and a. gdneral alarm pervaded every departMent of the State iscnd of the people." 'By a letter from Captain ROBERTSON, of t 4 rat Castle East Indiaman, dated AUgust 1(3, tli&Yei-, ,sel had get.her leak stepped, and.was , to sail 'Odin' vience in, the coprse , of two days, on her voyage to' Penang and Ctlina. ' ' Parrolottrit, Oar. t L.... 11! Resistance Frig ite, Captain ADAM; Success Fripte, Captain AscouGa, and Sprightly Cutter, Limn. GORDON, have cap tured and sent into this Port Vildelheide, a French Sloop, from Cherbourg, bound to Havre de Grace,_ with potaih, oil, logwood, sod sugar. Arrived the Success Frigate, Capt. AYE - COUGH, and Pluto Sbop of War, Capt. JANVEIN4 from a cruize ; HUNTER ; Jeney Peak, MlLLsiii Argo, HARWOOD.,; Jane, THOMAS ; and Three Si; ters, MGM, from Sunderland ; and Trader, • buts. from Cardiff. Sailed the Dapper Gun-brig, Lieut. GARDINgit, on a ordize. The Saracen Sloop of War, Capt. - —Pikr‘OST. 1 1 Appointed convoy to the Mediterranean ; Redbreast Gun-brig, Lieut. HARRISON, with Ships in ballast, for Lisbon ; and dr.; Success Frigate, the Dowal convoy. • FAL-UW.ITO, OCT. 19.—Arrived the American . Brig Caroline, Capt. DUAK, from New York, for Cherburgh, with cotton, rice, &c. detained by the. Mara Privateer. DEAL, OCT. `..1 .--Sailed Majesty's Ships ' Kangarob•and Furious on a cruize. Remain 'in the . Dewns the rest of Hi, Majesty's Ships, with the-outward-bound, tkc..as .per last. ThIE EXPEDITION TO ZEiILiIAD. His Maj,:sty's SiiipPrinoo of W4IC4 OR' Copenhagen, Seer 23, 1407. The Admiral has the sincerest satisfaelion in obeying the Orders of the Right lion. the Lords Commissioners of the .Admiralty, by cutiveying to the Flag Officers, Captains, Commanders,o fficcrs, Seamen, and Marines of the Fleet under his H commiind; His Majesty's most gracious approbation of their.zealotts and persevering exeitio. s, and above all, their COrdial co.operation 'with the Army under the . command eE Litut..Geiteral Lord Caine:Mr, in carrying on 'the siege againit Copenhagen, which, by its result, has added the Navy•of Denmark to that of the United r;ingdont. .The Admiral al.() seizes this, as the fittest OCelliiintj:* expiess his sincere thanks to the Flag 04iic!rs, Captains : , Commanders,, Officers, Seamen, and MiOine, for their tiltr. t execution of all his commands , by which , he I !4 s b een "tinikted with the must nattering testimony 01 His Sote. reign's approbation ; and he assures them at the same that he shall not fail to Con vey to liii:hlajesty his in .st per. , rect Conviction, that the alacrity with which they has* .the late Panish Navy . for Sea, is unexampled in hienry. (Signed) 1-10N14.• rt./tHA24,, To;) the respective Captains and Cothmanders,. ,ARMY ITV 4E:ALAND. GENERAL. ORDERS. " tilad-qukriers tiellcrup. nor CoNnhaggi, Sviitonb 7 zr 18,1. • " The Cominander of the Forces cannot delay expressing his b:st Thanks to all the General Officers, and Syfrfor tt:c great and able assistance he has received froin them in their several ranks indstations ; and he feels himself in like man ner indebted t) all 'Officer; commanding prigade* and fkigi• ments, and to the Officers and Soldiers under their command. ,11AAmust, however,. be allowed, in a Particular Mariner, to lexpress his Thanks to Major-Cert. Bloomfield and'colonal. re.D'Arcy, and to the, O dicers and Corps of the ltaxal rand engineers, whit* labours, science, and success, collec. tively and ifidividually, haV4 been most remarkable, arid re hea great - Cr‘.%fit on that branch of his Majesty's Service, '; The.services and perseverance of Lieutenant-Colonel Smith. and the -Sri Regiment, in occupying and maintaining thA . Windmill. Ilatieties, hail: been particularly distinguished, and claim peculiar Thanks.. ,The gallant cunclu4 of Lieutenant Light%'of the.pth Acgimeht, 4, - .4.atitpand of a piquet of tha:c Regiment on the 3tse. NV as particuiarly-notical.“ .E:S.COLITION OF LIMITSNANT. Battfly.--The, ate ful-sentence of the Court Martial upon Wtn. Berry, LthQ. First Lieutenant of the Hazard Sloop' of War, l'Was?carried into execution 011 Monday, on board that Veisitl„ in Plymouth Sound,: he Prisoner haying, beta 1 1 -eittotied. from the Salvador Del Mundo to the lial.ard Sloop of War, which lay alongxic(e.a Hulk in iiamoaze. At nine o'clock he appeared, and tr mnted the scaffold with the greatest tortitude.—' He then requested tn .... speak with the licv- gr' BiRDWOOD on the scaffold ; he said. ; a few words to hl.n, but in so low ;I: tone ut voice they could.not be distinaly heard. The blue cap being put thee, the fatal bow gun was tired, and he was. run up to the starboard .turc-yard arm, wit h. a. thirty-LW pound shotztied to his keno Unfortunately . the KOLA had got : 'round under his , chin,. which caused great convulsions for a quarter of an hour. After, being suspended the itsual time, he was lowered .4119 1 ' 1 Collin, which was ready-to receive hiM in a boat Mr mediately under, and conveyed to the Royal liosPit al ' where his friends mean to apply for Ws body for in" torment. •He , was dressed in a We coat, wil!, waistcoat, blue pantaloons, and boots. He. wa,7, dative of Lancaster, and only in ,his year. - the last week he seemed penitent, firmly colleeleat and prepared to meet .his tate:—A curious. dram"' stance occurred while the Prisoner was in the obi Witifthe . Clergyman, receiving the.sacrament h a g" woman came alongsidethe .Hazard's Holk, s apd sit up a letter, signed:Elizabeth lichens, to the COO' - manding Officer,. :wzbich stated, that Lieut. Bol t could yet be saved, and- the p e rson who could do la was alongside---it was, by marriage. Tile "Is was Ordered on :board, aud•put under the care 0.10 centinel. When the execution 'was over,, C a r s e a DILKES, with the Clerg) Mill and others, questi t„ §tie said, she d reaul ed a the woMan.' dream preceding:night, that if ' s h e went. on hoard ficizedd that' day, and Lieutenant B err y wduid rolir t u o he - would not suffer d Si ' l ' 8 - 4kea...no w t .r clw% aLitised her ? she replied, that she .had told -n " .to.scmie women, where she lived in Dock , Ivto - commended iier to go inconsequence Of !Ler dtf Sbe was atlttioniAled, and sent on shore: that of ALEXANDER. I was carried away fiir some time longer by guSts Of wind, but fortunately some peasants came to my assistance at the moment that the anchor booked in a tree. They took hold of the cords which hung fron the balloon, and 'landed me in a forest upon the side of a mountain, at half past hive in:the niorning, seven hoUrs and a half after my de parture, and more thin 100 leagues distant from Paris. They took meto Clausen, in the canton of Waldfischbaeb, and department of Mont Tonnerre. • M. CEsAity a man of information, and Mayor of the neighbouring totvn, came and offered me every assist ance s in his power, and at my, request drew up a nar rative, of which he gave me a copy. " I was splendidly 'entertained the next day at Deux Ponts, by a Society of Friends of the Arts, consisting of Public Funeiionaries, the Officers of the 12th Regiment of Cuirassiers, and of the Mem bers of the Lodge of Freemasons. " GARNEUIN." MILAN, is not certain that our An. gust Monarch Will come here this year, although no doubt is entertained of his speedy arrival. BOURDEAUX,' extraordinary assas sin, of the name of Labarthe Pinot, the terror of his Canton, has been executed at Thoulouse. In order to secure him, a Brigade of Gens d' Armes, and the inhabitants of an entire. village, were obliged to as semble. He broke out of prison several He was.thrice condeMned to death, and the last sentence could not have been executed without the :precaution which - had been taken. of .putting a tope about his neck, in order to weaken his strength and powers of resistance; - He threw the executioner off the scaald; and so terrified his assistant, that he durst not venture to lay himds upon him. FLIANKFORT, are assured that the fiepresentative system will make part of the Constitution of all the States of the Rhenish Con federation. :the report. derives some credit • frOm the manner in Whicitthis interesting qUestion has been decided in the Kingcloni.:) of Bavaria,. West -I.halia, and Saxony. - • , PIA! LS. • AR v tn—t Waterford., !)0 E. .-4 G,Atenbutr,h, 'Dublin, V.`;!terford. ' • •‘ PKICE OF sTocKs THIS •t AT "TI4tLV O'CLOCX. COMAS • . 621 „