The Sun. — London, England, 1805-03-25 00:00:00

IMPERML PARLIIIII%J NT. ROUSE . OF PEERS. SATURDAY, MARCH 23. Mr. JOHN CLPRIC was heard for the Respondent in the Scotch Appeal Rochheid against Kinloch. The farther hearing Was postponed till Monday, The Exchequer Bills Bill, Sugar Drawback, Irish Postage, Stamp, Customs, Excise and Spirit Ware housing Bills, were read a third time and passed. The Promissory Note Negotiation, and Irish Sugar Drawback Bills, were read a second time. On the Motion of Lira WALSI NCH AM , the 'Order of the Day for summoning their Lordships to con. siev the propriety of Suspending the Standing Or. ders 56 and les was read. His Lordship then scat , tad that the Public Service would be impeded if the Bills which had now been read a second time were not passed with every possible dispatch. as they were for renewing Atts about to expire. For this pur pose lie felt himself called on to move, that the Orders by which the Home was restrained from forwarding a Bill through mum than,one step in the same day be suspended. Tie LORD CII4NCELLOR .regretted that there should be occasion for such a Motion, as it was highly necessary that their Lordships should have full time to consider the various provisions con. tained in the measures which were brought before them. He was aware, however, that there was some excuse far the delay in the present case, as, in preparing "fax Bills for Ireland, it was necessary that regard be had to apportioning the Duties in a manner consistent with the commercial relations of the two Countries.. He, therefore, did not objed to the Motion; but thought himself called on to notice the irregularity of the proceeding, and to ex. press a hope that the praeiice would not be recurred 'to in future. The Bills were then read a third time, and pass. RitATUSI. —ln the I,e.n.liiv,o Article respeding Lord Mx Lt,t, on Saturday, instead of'' it: ur in g the Publiz read • nd ," Me. NI A 1 I,S. Aug. tvgn—T Munburgli, Ccuttenburgh, i Dublln, z Wa. tertorcl. Guttoburgli, Dublin, ; VVaterford. T'HE SUN. SOL elkt QV NI DlCtli It YAL3I.I* AUDtptt ? L U N DO N, MONDAY, MARCII 25, 1805. Tit It illambro,ch Mai/ due yesterday arrived this morning ;as also a Mail from Gottenburik. The 1011.6 Wing are tie roost important articles of intel. lirnee which they bring `;cNLiA, MARCO 9. the departure of the Em. wor and Einpress.for Italy is put off to the 6th of April ;• their Majesties will go first to Cour., and then to the Camp on till.' Tagliament, where die French and Spanish Andra StradOrs are invited to at. tend them. They will then prriceed through the Vel,etizin States, Tyrol, Salzburg, and Hungary, so that the greater part of , the summer will probably he employed in this journey, The Archduke Crtnist.Si will set out on the 4th, and, during'hi , absence, the . Arohduke Joim will have the Prot. dency of the Council of War. The Government here has lately received two Couriers from Constantinople, ITAt.v; Fen. 16.---I.t now seems as if the Toulon Expedition were d4erred till a future time, as let. tern from the Sloth of France assure us that they are very busty in disarming the Ships, and sending bask the Troops on board into their Cantonments. On the 31st of January Lord NaLSOX passed the Straits of Messina, net hi, way to Malta, where he will continue some time. his suppoNed he will re. turn to the Magdalen INlands, as his.station. It is said the Goiph of Spezzia, with some other territorial points, will 'be ceded by the Ligurian P.Tiblic to the. new Kingdom of Lombardy, which will receive possrssiOn of some important Haverty. The support of the Genoese.4Vlarine, Will he under. t 41telt,hy Fraiice. SW 4S rA, :4,83 cri to.--By private accounts fern Siutprif, we learn that the following per. sons were arrested there the latter end of last •month; the Counsellor of Government Baron SECK ENDORF, 1),16t0r WEINOTA Alt o natives of Wirtemburgh; snot M. Vort I.lLArnaNtrvtN, CAI. SAS WE 2 ', Lett, of Frankfort on the Maine, and the Counsellor of Government Vorit Sttict.A.llt, who were'delivered up by the Landgrave of Hesse Hamburgh, in whose service they were, on application being made by the Government of Wirremburgh. They were convey. ed to Lod wigsb s nrgli, whore the Commission of In.. tiry will sir. Accurdirm 111 later accounts, DoelorWvlifillAAk wat, set it lilicrry on the 2t3, so that Baron SECIUN. OR Fis the b o dy native of Wirtcinburgh now in c.2r;fitaetrient., MlrSihd irtuNc (An the Bch inst. proceeded from Stri , l , cirgl , on his journey to kirk, with an escort of t i ; d#,lnons. The Eleelor of Laden sent an Ohrrr t , ) accomp.my him try Strashurgh. In the tinue of the Marshal is a Janisaary 0( Ilia late booor4lty g,mrtl at Constatitio# MADRIV i Fli B. 20......T0 provide as much as pos. sible for the extraordinary expenses which will be incurred by the fitting out of our Navy, recourse has been had to the commercial class. Cadiz and Madrid have each contributed a million of piastres, and an equal sum is expected from the other com mercial cities : by means of these and other-con tributions we shall be able to fit out 26 Ships of the Line. There is, however, a want of Sailors, as within the last two or three years more than to,ooo of them, to avoid falling victims to poverty and famine, have been obliged to enter into foreign SCCV tee. We are assured the Prince of Peace will be ap. pointed sole First Minister, and that the others will be dismissed. The. Negotiations now carrying on by the Ame. rican Minister at Aranjuez are very Yetiv, and, we are assured, may be expeeted to have the wish. ed.for issue. BERLIN, MARCH 15....-Sir GEOR.CIE RUMBOLD arrived here from London the 13th inst, as a pri. vate The Russian Plenipotentiary Baron De WIN. ZENCIBR 01) a is expe(tcd to set out on his return for St. Petersburgh in a few days. According to a Letter from Sr. Thomas, dated the 3d of December last, 641 houses became a prey to the flames in the late fire there. ALL the accounts which we have of late received from the Continent tend to skew, in the strongest "manner, the apprehensions which BONAPARTE en. tertains of the designs of the Continental Powers, by the efforts which he is 'caking to disunite that Confederacy which he knows is forming against him, arid ,to secure himself in ,that quarter in which he is most vulnerable,' and where he has the greatest reason to exped an attack, namely, in, Italy.-- The - Freiab Papers have, of late, taken very great pains to assure their Readers, that there was no foundation whatever for the report of the 'Cordon of Austrian Troops on the Italian Frontiers having 'been increased by several Thousand men,i There is no dJubt, however, that the Austrian Army in that quarter has been very considerably' augmented, and that it was the suhjed of some very strong Re presentations by the French Ambassador at Vienna, We do not pretend to know what answer was made to these Representations ; but we may infer that it was not pettedly satisfadory to the French Go. vernmenr, from the great numbers of French Troop which they have since that time continued to pour into Italy, am! particularly from the eirdumstance of the Girr4,lii of IVlanttia having been sci greatly increased. , We have seen a Private Letter frOm Vienna,, diced the sth, which states, that notwithstanding the positive assertions in the Fretch Papers, the EMPE a or. of GERMANY has not yet consented to acknowledge Borrise ra, or any of his Family, Ktr , ,a of L'hl II Alt DY, much less KING of ITALY, which was the title which theCorslcan first propos ed to assume, The Ftench,Minister at Vienna, LA ROClll.l , :itil G AULT, presented the Mar EROR on the zd irmM. a Letter from BONAPARTE, in which, he desitrd an interview with His listr PRIM., MA during the Spring tin the Venetian Frontier. Another Leitcr was at tie same time delivered to the Archduke CHAR I. s , requesting him to be pre. sent at the interview. These Letters are said also to contain offers of considerable aggrandizement to sale, }louse of Austria. From this it has been in. ferred by some, that the best understanding does not subsist between the Cabinets of Berlin and Sr. Cloudi but it is more probably an artifice of 80. NAPARTH to prevent the Ess?ritott of G23.MANY from joining in any Confederacy with other Powers ,against France, and to keep alive that jealousy which, unfortunately for the independence of Europe, subsists between the Houses of Ausssia and Bran. denberg. But it is not only the march of Austrian Troops towards ,Italy which has excited the jealou. sy of lIONArARTP, the colleaion of 3 numerous Russian Army on the frontiers of Austria, 'without giving any umbrage tc the Austrian Cabinet, is a circumstance peculiarly calculated to awaken his apprehensions, for he cannot but recollea, that it . was nearly in the same spot that the Army of Su. svaArtow was assembled in the winter of 1798, which afterwards tescued Italy from the power of Fr atICC. It is said, but we know net on what authority, that the Empßittil of GERMANY had caused it to be declared to the Court of Berlin, that he could not remain an indifferent speetator, if His Nos. IAN MAJES T Y shn t dd adopt the resolution of march ing any part of his limes into . Swedish Pomerania, in consequence of what was It uliposed to have lately passed betwecen the Courts of Prussia and Sweden, The ()hie& of the Conspiracy which has Lod) , been detefied at Stutgardt was, it is said, to carry ff the Eletirels, the Princess P. ,, yal of England, and to convey Tier to France. Atrocious as such an ad would he, the uniform conduit of the Cord sican 'Usurper does not warrant us in entertainiog a doubt that he would attempt it, if by the com mission of it he could either promote his interest or gratify his revenge. The Gazette of Saturday last contains such con spicuous proofs of the heroism which has alwdy 9 marked the Naval Chara Cur of this Country, in the Letter frota Captain FARQUHAR, of the Ackeron Bomb, that it yields some consolation for the los s it records, in the augmentation to the national ho. nour, resulting from the gallant resistance of our Seamen against a much superior Force. HAviNo in our Paper of. Saturday stated and examined the only FACT which is reported of Lord MELVILLv, we now come to the part of the Charges agaihst him which are founded upon Inference. Lord MELVILLE % upon his examination, being called upon to answer several questions proposed to him as to the cause of the large balances in the. Paymaster's hands, and as to any profit or advantage derived by his Lordship from the use or employ ment of the Public Money, refused to do so, under the authority of the' sth Clause of the Naval corn mission Aet, which proteas persons from questions tending to criminate themselves, or to subjett them to pains or penalties. From this refusal an inference is drawn, that Lord McLvsm.Llt participated in the advantage de. rived by his Paymaster from the use of the public money. It is said that Lord HARROW II r, Mr. BATIIURST, and Mr. 'TIERNEY; aq. answered in the negative, proposed to them, and that no. to similar questions thing but conscious guilt could have actuated Lord MELVILLE in his refusal. This inference we hold to be perfeCtly unjust : For what are the peculiar circumstances of Lord MELVILLE'S situation ? Mr. TROTTER'S con. nexion with the other Treasurers who were exa 'mined was tnereliopial. They knew very well that they had derived- no direa advantage from the use of the public money, and they had no such connexion with the Paymaster as to make it possible that they could have derived any benefit indirealy. Lord MELVILLE was in A far different situation : to him Mr. TROTTER aCted as Private Agent, man of business; all Lord MELvit.t,tt's Accounts' were kept by Mr. TROTTER, and all his Lord ship's money went through his hands, To Mr. Teorrea Lord MELv rt.LE looked fits money when:, ever he wanted it ; he knew that his Agent was 41 twanied man, , and intimately corinceted with monied. men ; and there was certainly nothing to excite sus. picion in his Lordship's mind, in the circumstance of. Mr. TaoTTER's having it always in his power to make advances to his Patron whenever they were called for ; they probably were never very great, for his Lordship certainly never lived at any very extravagant rate ; and,Neter all his supposed pecida. floes, is now very far from a rich man. Lord MELv I LLE now knows, from Mr. Tana.. TER'S admission, that in, making advances to his Lordship he did not consider whether they were, drawn from his private or public balances, the ac.' counts of which were blended at his Balker's, It is well known to all who are at all acquainted with Lord MELVILLE, that he pays no atten tint, to his own pecuniary affairs, and thus, confused as are the accounts of his Agent, he certainly cannot swear, that at NO time atlas Mr. TaorrEß enabled by his balance of public money to make advances which he otherwise Would not have been enabled to make. If this were the case, Lord Mc av !Lau certainly did, • iddirea/y, and UN -100 %V I NGLY, derive some advantage from the pub. lie treasure in the hands of his Paymaster. To us, this supposition really appears much more probable than any of those upon which the bat;nua. /ions against Lord MELVILLE are founded ; but we by no means rest the case here. Putting himselfquite out of the question, it is tin. , reasonable to suppose—on the other hand, is it not na. total to expeCt —that Lord ME av aol:wouldnot wil lingly give evidence tending to expose the irregulari. tier (as yet they are not proved to be more) of his con. fidential friend ? Lord MELVILLE had reason • too for suspecting, at the time of his examination, that an attempt would be made to criminate him on account of the original permission which he gave to the Paymaster, although the Com missioners themselves state, that it is to be inferred from his evidence to be perfectly free from any view of gain. fie knew that there was a great. eagerness on the part of the Board to demonstrate the criminality of Public Officers, and he kighy disop. proved of the manner in which they conduced their inquiries; he knew that abuses had prevailed in his former Office, which might perhaps be attributed to, an order of his own, given in perfeii innocence, and that his own Friends and Agents might he involaed Why then is it necessary to look fur mysterious and a i criminal raotioes for his Lordship's refusirl.te silt this Inquiry further than the Law compelled him to du ? But there is a still stronger motive than thole which we have hitherto mentioned : Lord M l 4. VILLE was conscious of having, in one 'particular, aEled with I LLEGALITY. Fle had applied lie Navy Money to other than Naval Sttvita; 140 admit it, not reluaantly but with gratitude and pride ; he had applied them to purposes Nitenati fir the SALVATION of the STATE ! Dreal til re. tyonsibility !—He knew that an answer to the questions proposed to him, though . they did not immediately refer to subjeels like these, must marely lead to a disclosure of the transaeliong question ; and it was not to Sir CHARLES Pots 1 1 1 the Continissioners of Naval Inquiry that LordlYlol,' v !IA wished to answer for his Illinisttrid ean4 dul. Lord MELViLLE knew very well that his Ondil lt would be canvassed in a Court where it V/0111011" a fair trial and where he should have an Oro' nity of vindicating himself from all the impurat i° which an ex part e examination might as; 0 1 30 a him. Before that Court he now stands opoo deliverance, and we have no fear buktiliO t withstanding the pains which have heenAOnt excite the public indignation against hi:011v, 8114 have a fair and i m p art i a l trial, and founded upon all the Geis of the Case.. .-...—........... Yesterday morning His MAjasTY and A o il Its. 4 111 1: younger PRlNCessits, accompanied by 1- 4-r a l iTzRoY and MANNEtts, Earl of UXollitilidb-04 Major PR 1c e, walked to Sr. George's 1, 4 1 a ft' • heard i a Sermon by Dr. CoOKSCN, - fool' . Q . ', ) ° 6l, F-111. ix. verse. 4. After Divine Service Ill i "" I , ANIILT to* an airing to F r °vivre, i 0 Yesterday, at one o'clock, a Privy CoUnci.,,o, held at Lord Mulgrave's Office. Eerl CAM; dg Sir WILLIAM SC OTT , anti Mr. PITT, svaV),ol, those who att en d e d. T ue Council sag ti,"' o'clock. The ' Russian Ambassador atiendo' ' I caconm T oi l )n i r e gde G frr el o r tiln e r tts of Saturday contains sn' ~,i hi Order l. Council for taking off the Quarantine iMP°l'ships A late over S l t a ! and. : nu e do r lD . 4 . ci t „ l a i iim o oc f , hi n N acir t o i November m cio b t: jegriiail;pa.s.7:l::::::;; deratand,... brought some interesting ilirt' c ha " t ikel. the recent insurrection of the Polygsrii."s;, obi have not transpired. We learn, howevOgr;el foie two Battalions af Sepoys which had adiriln.. i tiiti.. Veliure against them, after sustainino a 7 , gf ettl ships in the jungles, had driven them Obit 114 large quan t of their post s , an d taken 16" " stores, &C. st stsh A Letter from Bombay, dated Nlv e ' Tote . that the PAtan Sirdars, Mrsa and ' l4 ' h - i Ig ' KHAN, who had deserted from HolcAt t '' i j i v iiii i ll turned to his standard, in consequen" (/'‘ ;0' r. success over Colonel IVIoNsoN ; their Oant o 'cif , been followed by man y ut h e is, and the ii7 t his, curntanCe had materially contributed id rectlitiosc, army. HuLKAR. threatened to attackAZta; viers ever improbable suchan event ,was, 41C , $ : S on i der to guard against it—the works ‘",; 04 1, 4 , 0:1) tfi e . ge r i C ,ln i 1 L(f o l t) ) il l . l : : : : sA n Lt i e t. :l: : • S i r l i t e ia i v a s E s ll4 : e .r d oA li r , .A r a , a n n fa y d i th a e t w g t l l l ' i ' i e r c r h i l i :t e C sO i t l rf a e ,i n t gh°t :irb e tt ! Counts from Bundlecund, was in pursuit , 0 4 3t eti;. been hundred of the enemy ;ire st ald 16' 'Ol/ ' ~ r eaKlast, His i a m — a A i s S p ° , s t ti l e: c h i acyliird morning,flight t iie D a u i : E rlif:1 1 ; 1 : 1 1 1 0 4 ,fl i: :!: st a b illt n:: .: t HMAr i s ti , D ytitun c t bgve o g :eypr r L: aa ' i a d rant r ,k i e dr, g:l i,w e r ) ;y e l d . u ss ß tr r a()r o k V gn o e i l n i ' l t d t f for he cite hunting.ur v t ‘ ob li a i l e i t n4 l ,A l ::: c : si ° 1 :: : ::: :20 61 e : sen: s t ,i 4 r 11 0 111 11 11 10: 1 turned out of a cart. fle shewed gre t a t s rieti ( J 1 ' up.vards of three hours. , ( I , r f atga''.A yesterday had to boast .0. - n i g iot. a tonable company than we have hithert° ni i,o4 ~ this . "awn. The Ride all round was a La na asperller-s3'turori Pedestrians i n e s C i ::+,a were ci'e ' also besides Chari ots eeeii numbers n g ( 1 ) , :n: ' h , e , o ,i t r:s n n e c t' s : 3 o c s l l" . ;::: ~ The West India Merchants and P lanter pSo 4 grand , entertainm ent on Saturday' to , ti n ' e , n oltll' e , li :' LLARENCE, and several Noblemen andYr-hlv'' at , die London Tavern. After dinner 111 C ov eri' 1 Tillit MAJESTIES were tit t, wil ll , , 'P, Toasts Chairman -chosen on the occasion was lie.C' G t Colonial President of Jamaica. Aol°ng,,,, - Ott! Pan/ were, the DUKE of CLARENCE, i''' 0 0 0 ', 1 of .-4.1C0, Sir T. TRIOGE, Sir CH L AK ler i lye ..)S.ii,,,,,ts,..N7:l4.l.:t.tenthatoCneuittiLiql.:ltSli,rslArL. E C:ag „l g o g n , ei, Z!::` ) ; ll :: : and Mr. jottN,ort. The Dolii "I C i L, : o (0 4)l f: on his he,lth being drank, made a- sPee o : I ' lo ts": t o l f ;e I ( ll : e ha P i r r es o e n nt tl C ie ul z7t i l ' i d SnYfsit:"':brirstil:ll anti 'lice :T(l ' 6 ' ,Anniver,ary of the re_ketioi of Mro. - r the S?„1 FORCE'S Motion (or the AbOlition , sol- Trade. Mr. DIGNOM and Mr. 'DLL tO!no . .. , excellent Songs in the f tie CVel' irlg. 111 1 ° ' cuutsc 0 , , CiP l ii ; The Brigades of .Guards st aticine't w i 4 l %, 0 ''' i l ' • and Ili.al, and Major G,..neral Sint. 'l ° ,.; - s i llif 4 , e g o .i ; Bade, consisting of the 43(1, szis dii(' i i r 9s' a ir ineriti of Infantry, and a Detachment l'` 6 , 0 Wile Regiment, ate sa id to he und'l r ,?:yert il ,, r , Foreigo Service, tatty it is not known '''''. rl' ;•„„ o cs , are to hrrn a part of the Seoet ExPed it " - ; (10'1; sent to the West Indies. Th e Oiricets i ) Nicw' h , fliC ' perdition cOnsider their destination to ~- ' 10 let rain-an. eroto..io - The Fad of M,)raA, acs: jading ") . I :, cilic i i d resigne,d his situation as Ct.iininander•:l.-O,FI„J Scotland. As this Nobleman is so itnif e ` ; ', - 0, ,it fur his inili , tary talents and 1 , 4:r5 00 ' 1 v ,, , ;: c u p !f f . ,: ' Parnewarly endeared himself so . ' 14 00 1- . North, we hope the re p ort is w ithout i'll,nl 1