The Sun. — London, England, 1805-02-07 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLLIMENT. NOUSE OF 12ERS. WEDNESDAY, EEL 6. Tux Pension Duty Bill, and the Malt Duty Bill, were read a third time, passed, and a Wsage sent to the Commons to acquaint them therewith. Mr. HATEs, fr-m the Bank r,f England, presenfe4 an Actiount of 6,800=01. applied by the Commis. sinners for the Reduthoo of the Niathrial' Debt, `to that purpose, 'hiring the last year; and of 1,100,0001.' seceived tor the same purpose for the ensuing quer. ter,—Ordered !o lie on the table. Mr. ALF kANDER, and several of the Members • of the Hou.e of enmmons brought hack the Pen. *ions and Duly Bills, the CoMmons having concur. reel in the verbal amendment made by their Lord. Sir J. W. Araose.sou, and several other Mem. bets of the House 01 Commons, brought up a Na_ twalization Bill, to which the Commons had agreed. Lord Mut.o,nAv e presented several additional Papers relative to Spain; which were laid upon the table, and Copies delivered to the Peers present. Adjourned at five o'clock till to.murtow (this day). HOUSE OF COMMONS. WEDNesDAY, FEB. 6. A Person from the Wink of England presented an Account of the Outstiindilig Treasury Bills. The Bill respetting the Commissioners of Assess. ed I.'axes was read a third time, and passed., The Three Millions Exchrquer .Bill was read a second time, committed, and the Report or. dere(' so he received to.rnorrow. Ihr SECRETARY Et WAk presented a Copy of the Letter of &trice given to Colonel French to raise Recruits in 'trivia. Mr. WlLOHRFoitcit give notice, that he should on Fri,iiy sennighi bring forward a Motion having for its objed the Abolition of the Slave Trade r Mr. Wltinunm moved fur an Account of the nurnb.r and rank of 'Officers and Non.commbsion ed Officers. employed by the Invetior General of Rrcruits, together with the expense of the baffle.— ad,red. Mr. Fur.LPR moved far an Account of the rpm. tity offlops grown in the C.,unty of Sussex, irons the year 1789 14, the year 1804.; acid of the amount of the Taxes paid on the same, distinguishing the Qshuter.-o , dered. Mr. P(.41014, ijo order (tut the fullest Account tirigivi he lota before the llowe that it was possible to give, of the State of the Ordnance, moved, that an Ai:count should he presented of the nurnher of ef. fictive Recruits raised from theist of January, 1804,, to the tat of Jatsuary, tilos. far the different Dc. pitmen's of the Artillery Service, distinguishing the Royal Regiment of Artillery, the Horse awl the Foreign Attillery, :he Gunnels, Artificers, and Royal Minets.—'-Urdered. MALT "DUTY. A Message from the Laid s informed the House that their LordOttp,t had agreed t,• the Malt Duty Bill, the Sugar, Tobacco, Antillff Duty Bill, and t h e Bill for laying a Duty on Pensions, in which, however, they lt , nt m , d.- an Amendment, to which they desired the C ncarrcnce of that Route, Mve llooKissoN morrd that the Ainendment be now taken tn,o erniteideration. OA reading the Amendment, it appeared it was only inserting ihe word " Tax," where it hatibecn left' out in the Kxiiort Bill by a, clerical error. The Sr4t.4.lChlt informed the House, that at. though any Amendment in a Money Bill was a sine. jett which required the greatest vigilance in Alidt House, yet it hail been . the custom, when the Amendment was, as it ,;4,pedred to be in the pre_ sent eas e , invrely the rectifying a clerical error, to agree s.vith the knen‘l,neor. • Sir WIL /AM YOUAG considered that trial a conviiiuf tonal ought to be exercised by the Meuse, in the case of the alteration of a Money howevet trifling 'het ;literati in might appear, that he thought the rre,ent case ought by nu means to be mAle ptreed,oit of. Mr, iiuwotasort, and some other Gentlemen, h Av i nv cx.ptesseil a otinilAr P / C !Oi said it would appear to him pro. per, as 14c stijett, had • tvraaett the attention of the IV•. Nhonhers, that a special entry sh-uld be made iu the j o r , al,, of the present case, that it should not set we as a preCCdelli. The lioua Agrerti to their Lortitthips' Atrocod. LOYALTY LOAN. The CIIANC.ELLQIe of the iXCH QU put off' .0.111.)1 row the 111 LO ion that lie hit 'Horsed to make on the Nubjra of the Loyalty Loan. He enough", in point of form, it would he 'more regular to b r i cig it to twAr d Commti ire at WAys and Mei4l.6, in a Committee ‘,l the whole flow, and, therefore he should to.mOrrow move the flouse into' such a Committee for the purpose he should now, however, state, that of the 22 millions, 13 bad hem Inn etihad on the terms offered last Sea. that, tt:t Holders, to the amount of four mil. lions an,l art halt, had dernorided payment ; but that theist WAN every ream to cippose the greater num. her of them v.ould he content to accept Dehen. turret beartog an intere%t ot three and an half per cent. with a bonus 'at one and an half, or one and * quarter. loath- settleJ, that the discussion should come on oil Monday neXt. Mr Wixou,ass expressed his wish that the Motion of - which he had given notice for that day (on the awe of the Army), should be fixed for, Friday sennight. This being however the day that Mr. Wilber. force had fixed for bringing on the Motion for the Abolition of the Slave Thule, and that Gentleman not being then in the Honor, Mr. Windbam's Mo. Lion was fixed fur Thursday.. - . Adjourned. MAI T.S. Dys—; Hunbuigh, I Dublin, WAtcrifOrdq PRICE OF STOCKS 11111/1 DAY ♦T TwlLvg o'cLocg. Consols . T E SU N. solocM cauls ntcs4; AUDEAT L 0 N D ON, THURSDAY, .FEBRUARY 7, taoy. SPANISH PAPERS, The CH ANCEL LU It of the r XCH Ecorse presented some Aditt( Spoish P41)011. Lard TEMPLE that as this was the fourth votuine of l'a i , ers laid on the Table, it wduld be necerb4ry togive Gentlemen time, out only to read them, but to c mpate them with the fo r m er riper!, ht CHANCELLOR o f th e EXcH,FQUER said, SitAt although it vo, old certainly be mote agrecAhle to him Ow the di , .cu,sion should c o m e on vo Fricky; yet if Gentlemen , A idled 1 ornt, titer time to make, thetthelve% more perfettly misters of the lobjed, Ye would reatiiiy agree to is ; and he was burr ,tie min: they coohidered the subjcel, the ).,re they *final h di,peraert tb c-incitie in the measures 1\44-sly at, Isviptistets had oaken. Pe %whet', however, that it tsltoulci lee understood at WA are still unable to Isy before our Readers any authentic information reapetling the Rochefort Squadron. au& we will not insult them by obtruding upon them the unfounded reports vibich have been eirOutated upon the subject. , We are extremely sorry to learn,' by a Le t tor from Weymouth, received this morning, that •the Earl of Abet:gavel:my, outward.bound'East Indiaman, has •sunk off that Port in twelve fathoms water, after striking on the Shambles. It is with still deeper regret we 4nd that the Captain, , and about Mate, about 300 persons, Crew and Passengers, are lost. VVe have also received a more detailed account of this melancholy event from a Military Officer who escaped from the wreck, and who reached . Town this morning, which will be found in A sOseqUent Column. A List of the Persons drowned and Send it given, as fat as they could be ascertained. Some Additional' Papers respeding Spain were yesterday laid before both Houses of Parliament. They are not of so much importance as, those .pre, viously communicated, although by no means desti. tute of interest. The most important Papers are a Dispatch from Lord HAWIP.SIItIILY to Mr. FR ERN, slated !St Oz.iober, rBo2, giving him instructions for his future condutt ; and .4 ,Letter front M. D'ANnumsa.,llTand, kitkalwax, dated 4 th No. vember, 1804, relative to the Armaments at Ferrol. The more minutely the whole case has been detailed, by means of further Documents, the more does the condua of this Country appear iust and honourable and the more clearly, is it , evinced, 'that we could not avoid entering: . into a 'War with Spain without compromising the-honour of Britain. Amongst these Papers ate 'some Letters which passed in canoe. quence of a complaint made by the' Spanish Mini_ seer relative to the condat of the Commanders of the Dor:twat and 'the Medusa in their attack upon the Spanish Frigate illathildr. It will be seen that . the result of the Inquiry instituted was highly honourable to our Officers, The discostiion relative to the Spnish War 'is Postponed, io the iiouse of Commons, from Vriday to Monday. There has seldom been an occasion on which we have had so mach mason to complain of the misre. presentations of our Cotemporaries, as in regard to our late comments upon the discussions with Spain not only has a false Construition been put upon our conduit, byr the writers with whom we have been most frequently in the habit of difiering, bu► the most unworthy motives have 'been ascribed tea us by those who join with us in supporting the pre. sent Administration, and, who take nearly the same view of Public Affairs. For a- week after the publication of the Articles to which we allude, scarcely a Newspaper appeared without some spa. cite of misconstruction of out sentiments and inter!. thins, We thought it right Co wait for the fer ment to subside, before we noticed the various ape. ;illations which we had occasioned, disclaiming only, in the first instance, any premeditated plan of attack upon Lord Stnmourit or Lord HAW Ki i i . *Way,: We now solicit a few minutes attention to the sile& The Morning Chronicle lea the way. Mortified and disheartened . at the accession of strength which Mr, Put had acquired by his union with, Mr. AD. DINCTON liTad his Friends, the Opposition Writer has never relaxed in his endeavours to destroy it. The slightest allusion, therefore, in a Pint which uniformly supported Mr, PITT. to farmer difrer. inces with his new Colleague, was immediately magnified into a systematic attack by Mr. PITT himself, and an instance of the Jealousy and Dia. s ,tisfaetion mispouti,to exist between him AO Lord SIDMOUTH. The speculation was a bold one, but did not succeed ; and the best answer to it, 84 it al. teal diC two Pettons t 4 to be found in the present state of harmony and_good understanding in which Mr. PITT and Lord SIDI4OOTII have cen ,tinued, in spite of all the awls of Patty to pro duce a separation The attempt to involve Mr. Pyres name In At dispute was confined to the Champion of Opposition. Those who pretended to be the exektive friends . of Lord St bmotITH, were eager 40 manifest their dis approbation of our condu&; no language was too - ; strong to express their indignation and all for what t Because, in recording a transaftion which. .passed a year ago, and of which, as far as we knew the fads, we bad always expressed an unfavourable Opinion, we did not tetrad or stifle that opinion, when confirmed by the .additional and complete evidence which it was our duty to lay before the Public; We neither 'fought the ,occasion to find fault, nor took pains ,to make the most of it. We are pettedly ready to allow, that some of our expressions might be harsher 'than; upon sober K. flexion, we should wish to repeat, in relation to any Member of a Cabinet of which Mr. PITT is at the head, and to which, as a whole, we are cordially attached ; nor have we the slightest hesitation in apologiiing" for 'such expressions, exaggerated as ,they have beep by the in of some, and the over. zeal of others, For the consistency of our opinions We . most re. fer to our fOrmer Articles on the Dispute with Spain, and particularly to those of the lath. and 27th of September,... wherein we stated. our appre. hension, that Ministers might find' them s elves embarrassed --by the conduCt of their Predecessors. The Molting 'chronic% affctled to laugh „at our suspicions ; if therefore it were not abkolutely Cessary, even for one own cretin, that, we should justify our former suspicions, cur doing so was at least not tcP be wondered at, • or' to 'be 'imputed to extraordinary or unworthy . m , ,tiies, We are sure, that those who have. attended .to our.observations, will not impute to - us any thing go foreign to our wishes as an attempt to disturb a u nion which gave us the most sincere satisfaction, from heing, in our opinion, calculated to canter the greatest benefits ou the Country. But it is from a /hitt/Class of Writers from whom the Observations have proceeded which we think most worthy of attention, , Morning Port and The Courier . have united, with the Paper to which we have just alluded, in endeavouring .to refute the observations which applied to the late Cabinet, upon the merits of the case itself. Upon this topic, for obvious reasons, We have no wish to revive die. carrion ; but we must remind them, that our tib. jtcfions were. to the- nature of a prostrllive and provisional. order, given under an uncertainty of tue true state of Hurls, and founded, not upon what the conduet of STAIN bad been, •but what it might be. --But enough of this. The objqiiint, however,. upon which the great. est stress has been laid by the two Writers in question, is the accidental coincidence of opinion which has appeared between the tbe Morniti: Chro. wide, the constant opponent of Mr, and THit 5t.1.11, his uniform adherent. Now, in the first place, we do not (pilot understand the 'princi ples up'tn which we are blamed foi.not ronaa.fin g our opini o n u r n certain points because they. happen to be likewiie entertained by persons with Whom . we differ upon other:. - But were we even inclined , to compromise our own political sentiments, from a 'regard to the interests ot any particular Person, it would still he quite incotnprellenrible to uq, that we should be said to injure the Cause of Mr. PITT, by setting fottli the GikIiEItAI..AGIIREMENT OF GPI. NION 45 to his public measureovbetween his Friend: and Op' possess(' e. It was with the greatest sattsfac. tion, that we noticed lately,. the Artyatin.triorr ,exptess,.d by the leading Statesmen of die country, of Mi. PITT's conduit in regard to the late ,Dryer. We from F4ANCR, and to the 'system of Coyrinerrtail Alli‘rircer. We fret that nothing can add soinuch to the stability of the Administration, or to its popularity in the Country, as the kn6wledge,. that, ON ALL GILICAT PVIILIC McA.UltEs , MINISTIRS AND OPPO“T1011 HAVE BUT , f)NE I.PIIIIOO. If continual endeavour to' illustrate this senti ment, and an uniform desire to procure for the Couti. try the benefits which it ought to derive frOm a si. tu;ttion of Affairs not less advantageous than novel, —if these endeavours, and this ardent desire, be the way to " sow dissensions, and treatr sEific u l. tits," we must plead guilty to the charge ; but if it he thought, on the other hand, that, next to a comprehisaiv e and United Administration, which appears to be the object of our Opponent, that is most to he desired which shall leave to an able and Confederated Opposition the kat; t ground of objeelion to its measures, we must claim for our. selves, on the present, as on other occasions, the merit of a steady adherence to the true Interests of the Country, now more than g vet proved to be in. terwom with those of the MAN wilt* CCM it has ever beo par pride to maintain. • Yesterday, about half past twelve o'clock, MA; E'T.y arrived at the Qieen's 1-buse, from Kew• At two o'clock •1-I . ls •MAJ-EiTY held privits Levee, which was attended by His ROM iiighiless the Duke of York. The Lord Chancellor. The. Duke of Montrose. . Marquio of Herttord. O ' ind B .Earls=-Weitmorland, Winchelsea, -Ayleifordt --7 • ingitamshire.. Viscount Sirimouth. c ivi d t o . n, V A.7" avvk H e o n w er Lords—giiinykesbury,, and Mulgrave. Sir Stephen Council. a . r.. 1; Anson, , The colonels had the F h:n e' o ß ti p t u. s i e de v n e ' f an all a y F . oitizTe' l presented to 'HIS MAJESTY` by His 'Royal girl" ness the Duicir ( I f Y O RK, *Toil their promotions: Co A un r c m il r , fo t r e th L e for Sheriffs for the ensoing year, &C. . Thi C o 7, er broke up at a quarter before four o'clock ;,10 011 '," which Mr. PITT arrived, and had an audiecgeYs" HI& MAJESTY ... e p v u e r e po H se, s w h e 7tAiderTjanid'e,laOf apriFerni , The Duke of Mormtoss, Earl of Boo:1 ,401 1 sittita, Earl WINCHELSRA,` Viscount Stumotrij Lord HAwitesatray,, and Lord Mt/LW/tit D.' audiences of His MAJIISTY. The inquiries yestetday after Hui DiTto[ l " .A ," I health at the Queen's House were very niul le i, , and,.. we are happy to say,. the answers were, ,', J , mAjEsTT ras much. better. About three ecr the Pittra: a of VVALEs visited HEIL MAll i ktirrtf Yesreti.ly a Court of I)iriaori- tvachC lu '",of, East India House, when Caputo joint ST A whilkni the Windkom, took leave of the Court 140 . depatting,for Ceylon and Madras, "' Captain WILLIAM HAT was “vorn into' Ille„, % mand of the liefreat at4tiune4 fur .Msdeic*, s , liumbay, .., The Court adi‘urned at scr ew &chur l ' 01 7 , i morrow. , . ~. ~:, j ~ 1 . . ,i On 'Tuesday sennight the Brig Mary, ArO l A -4 iir il 'of Sonderland, boUnd from Shields to Lontitiell V, ] Coals, was wrecliid on the ticks near ~ 1' Mr,, t t ' 'Northumberland, and - 411114nels losi:' '1,, , 1 -1 ' The Brig Industrj, RlcrtmtniOtt,ior-wnr , t„ ' i after having .. bien uneipeltedly gut 'off . 0 . ,. 61111 -- perilous situati,, n among t!se rocks ~neer- 1 1 1 4' rtestLy last, n 7 titt c i " tt h e "e plsacgeaiwn in her t e he. a i tt: l7 : i7 l , : upon Tweed, , stranded, and is since gone to p i eces. ' ".• v. $ I „ n oss 9 j ; a h ma ol ic e a y o"n the 16th of D ecember' .i.i:' :4Q4l , itiAnci..Williart Henry , kom PY . n ed the al arrived carrying 18 guns, and lull of men, 40W :1381 ;1 enemy bore down immediately upon ' 'them' '`h poured his 6rs t . broadside into the LIP /ji l t ,' '' t itos fell In with a French Prigi fe l; else returned with great - biavery ; 111 "A y 'l l ont Henry then came up, and joined in the:idol ~ which was maintained with great spirit p 0 A" S ' ro l i at length i the Privateer, convinced of the 4 11 " io ~ nation of the Merchantmen no t t o be takeet l o t proper to leave them to pursue their vole " m oil further molestation. It is with regret, "„"; i ies tion, that the Leydirt suffered a 1104. s 01 tw o ml killed, captain DULL, of the irilliaol, 1 ( 1 0 sent home an account of the aaioti. We are extremely sorry to - annn o u nne the 'O tion of the homeward-bound I s m a ic a Fleet, cen,l' o ing of upwards of fifty Vesieli ; they sailetilf;j: Jamaica under convoy of the Sagest, Frigate; Hound Sloop. We have already stated t he On of the Sageuc at Portsmouth, after experiencing, n' most dreadful weather ; she separated from hit voy on the rsth and zzd of Jan. in a gale , A i, from Honduras, foundered on the 18 th of Polio' *tranger, Captain PINES, a very valuable '"tv'i, the crew were saved by the Sage:se, which Fl u,l Kis not seen any of her Convoy since the zZa°. n ,ll nuary; and we are sorry to add, that not lis,! ship c(npnsing it has been heard of. r i he foll°4o is a List of the Ships bound to London :--- 44 7 0 1. Captain WAK ft ; Brunswick, DitYsnALg ; -gm w 1 LSO 11 ; Barzella, HENsT; Cunsktrigfir 01. ING ; Cranford, LE I: , II hl AN ; VOn4/I 9 "ye Endeavour,' DICKE lis ; Hazard, Wtovio v , l ! 0 0' Maica,' WA ILK lIL ; indefatigable, WFTit; 1 7:0; Packet,' RonstmaN ; Lincoln, 131.sroN; - A j t : ( o, Ttiout6oN ; Lord Middleton, HAWK INS i . 4 ;01 : WOOD ; Ranger, CALDER Richard, ?"/0, Selky, - SKY ; Thuiat, ATKINsON ; Willit/A VISIII OOSI hoTT ; -.lli/liartarsva COLE ; William, Tt l°' , and Wellesley, Loy ITT. Or A.:LETTIIR FROM RALWR. --° OC I* lAN. 29. ht, the 2001 Ult. ins gt l l9 11l 4 ! On Sunday ni Brig p oi,.tin il ' a Sc it ti l t la t n ;f d, lr ssi ar as mG d u r e i l v i' eri la o d n en sl w io i r i c h - ton. - ESome - Soldiegi were on board going °" 00 'lough ; one 4.0 c y 1 / 4 4, Serjeant, aided th c ,company in getting on land ; but when retutnlpo board lot the 'Fitt rnan (one of his etinir' d i e .. l ;l4 found great dif fi culty to accomplish bill I tioit, talon'. of the tnaVs....,isig4tialatitt,y, acid t-- hor ' terc~tts .; sett !Striking, over them :it v'' a !)i ft tlig'l by thPpe,w.ho had got to land, that bath w, er ;b e in the Waves, 'and'iherdfore' they mill i ',„( 00; of their way to some Iniuses. But the oe s" fo ing the Serjeant and his comrade vic t i% D if lYing,hehind sotoebthfxs•io a fi eld, by 1'1" 0 1 Th.e Setjtan; was able ,to speak, but the 0 off speechless and near dead, Same 11 , 4) 4 tained of the Setj;49; '3 reefov try, but I Sin A t formed that he it dead " About the same time a Brig, M plow Suoderland, the cargo belonging to r* . 0 01 of Alemoutli, laden Wheat, brok e ' ,1 4 t oifi c l moorings in the harbour of Bcarlheilt c are ashore on the outside of the harbour. jyyC pretty safe, and the vessel is expeeted with little damage.", In consequence of t h e prosecutions f° * . ' t ,l! ctimbinations at t h e L ite Leedsgod W 4 i ke i A risi t ‘ lions, the Magistrates of Halifax have en Alo to lay hold of surne ►parties here, eng a g e " fief lee praclices, b ut these have absconded, buoyin g a ll t h e i r honks, rules. 8, :c• f 1" On Monday seinnight covjd name sit Swallow, going to the pawl, lentiiott mondhury, near Hudders fi eld, wi th aA.lipoll tfc 13 4 married, complained ola sudtlento.! g olq the ro ad, droppe d down, and almost )111 tired.