The Sun. — London, England, 1812-04-21 00:00:00

• T s GENERAL 'MEETING di the COM MITTEE of the LOYAL and INDEPENDENT LI V.E R Y of LON DON, held this ilith day of April, ail, at ;he London Tavern, Alderman CHRISTOPHER SMITH, in the Chair, • Resolved Unanimously, That the following Address be presented to his 'Royal Highness the Prince, Regent c To his Royal Highness the PRINCE REGENT. M.iy it please your Royal Highness, . . We, his Majesty's dutiful and loyal Subjeas, the under signed Liverymen of the City of London; beg leave to ap proach your Royal Highness with the strongest assurances of attachment to your Person, ani of out resolution to sup port your Government with zeal, constancy, and firmness. While we sympathize most deeply.,with your Royal High ness on the lamented indisposition of our venerable and be- Wed Sovereign, we eagerly seize this opportunity to convey th oar Royal Highness the ardent feelings of gratitude ex. cited in our breasts by thenumerous blessings which we have eiljo) ed, during the long and glorious reign of your Royal lather ; and more especially by the unequivocal proofs so repeaterll:. "afforded, under circumstances of peculiar difficul ty, art his sacred_ regard for those fundamental principles of :tire Constitution which seated, your Illustrious Family on the Tlin ne of these Realrbs. • Most .cordially do we congratulate your Royal Highness on the brilliant success which has distinguished his Majes ty's arms, during the-short period of the Regency, in differ ent quarters of the globe, by sea and land; success not less 4 beneficial in its imittediate effeas than in its remote conse s quences, since it ailiarkis a strong ground of hope, that by a continual display of the same consummate skill and bravery on the part of his Majesty's ()cheers and men, and of the same-wisdom and vigour in the Councils of your Royal High ness 7 you will be enabled ultimately to bring the arduous con,test in which we are engaged tp an honourable ter , mination. At the same time, we reflex with pride on the measures pursued by your Royal Highness, for the support of the na tional charsetcr, by the preservation of the national faith with his Majesty's Allies for the-determination to per., severe in that glorious stuggle. for independence on the Pen insula, which is the common causeof all who enjoy and ap preciate the blessings of national freedom ;—for the anxiety manifested by your Royal Highness, to support the com mercial credit of the natiqn, and to promote the general wel fare and happiness of the country ; and while we deeply la ment the pressure of the times, caused by difficulties in trade and mantitaaures, arising the nature of the present contest, and-partly from the dearness of corn, we cannot but express our indignation at the attempts which have been made to indispose the people against the Government, for events which have so evidently been beyond their controul. rom our experience of the past we are led to congratulate the country on the existence of a well -grounded hope, that the Civil and Religious Liberties of the Nation, as finally settled, and firmly established at the memorable - era of the Revolution, and-the Protestant ascendancy, to which, under i!roiridence, we are indebted for the inestimable blessings we are permitted to enjoy, will be maintained inviolate. , Relying on the goodness of the Almighty. tor a confirm-, once of these bldssings, we ardently pray that your Royal &harness may long be preserved to the Nation in health, prosperity, and happiness. Resolved unanimously, • That tile Address be lett at the kondon Tavern. Bishops. gatest reet, and at the London Co ice -house, Ludgate-hill, or the Signatures of the Livery. Resolved unanimously, That tnese Resolution's and the Address, signed by the Chairman, be inserted in the Morning and Evening Papers. Resolved unanimously, That the Thanks of this Meeting be given to the Chair- CHRISTOPHER SMITH, Cimirmaa. RICHARD CLARKE, Secretary. Mr I LS. AltitlYAD-1 Dublin, r Waterford. Dus—t Malta, I Dub lin, 1 Waterford: PRICE . or sTocKs. THIS DAY AT Tvirtz.vitoicLocK. 60i 6z 1 Navy 5 per Cent. 9! COMDIS. TH, E SUN. sotsm Qui; DICER I FALSUM AUDEAT ? L 0 N D 0 N, TUESDAY, APRIL SI 1, 1812. We have little further information to communi• cate to our Readers reipealing the flag of truce, the arrival of which we mentioned yesterday. The dis patches which were received were taken into con sideration by the Cabinet Council yesterday, and the answer, we presame, will be immediately trans mitted to France. In commenting upon what we said yesterday, re speaing BUONAPARTE'S insidious object, the Morn ing Chronicle says, it would be well if we had added —" thAt in the present instance he should be disap pointed in this expectation, for that fil;nisters had resolved to listen to his proposal—to enter-into ne gociation, arid to demonstrate to all Europe, by the moderation of their demands, that the calamity of war .was alone to be attrbuted to his implacable ambition. We fear that we shall give him his usual advantage." We are, we confess, not a little surprised at the shove paragraph. If the chara&er of ,BUONAPARTE was unknown to us—if it was .not known to every man in rope, that he makes war, not for the pur pose of defence, - but of conquest,—thpt he offers tegociation, nay with a pacific intention, but for the purposes of delusion, a wish night naturally be ex pressed, that an attempt shead be made for the re storation of Peace. But the Morning Chronicle knows, as well as we do, that BUONAPARTE has no wish , for Peace (except such a Peace as would be the result of unconditional submission to his will), and that if he has made any offer to .negotiate, it is only with a view of exciting dis cussions in this country,, and of intimidating,,llus siL But (says the Chronicle) we ought to enter into a negotiation, if it were only " to prove the mo deration of our demands, and that the war is alone to be attributed to his implacable ambition."— Now, really, if there be one man in existence, who, after the xperience of the last ten years, en tertains a doubt upon the subjea, his mind must be inaccessible to conviction, and it would be worse than folly to enter into a negoCiatien, without the smallest chance of success, merely to prove the insatiable ambition of BUONAPARTE. But, surely, the Morning Chronicle cannot require any expsrimetit of this kind to be repeated. An expe riment was made by those whose desire for peace the Chronicle can entertain no doubt, and it faded. Mr. Fox, when Minister, eagerly caught at the offer tsf negociation with gI7OE7Ai'AII;FF,; he railed irt his •attempt to restore peace; and that•that failure,tkas owing to the implacable ambition •sof BUONAPAR'DE, , and not to . the want of sincerity on the part of Mr. Fox, or his friends who survived him, the Chro 7 nicle, we presume, will not deny. Why then are we to negotiate again, merely to prove that w,bich no rational man . can doubt ? why are we to relax the energies of the nation ? why are we to check the exertions of our Allies;. why are we to damp the resolution of those who seem disposed to resist the aggression of BOONAPARTE, by entering into a negociation, without' any prospect of success, merely to prove that, which we repeat every man in Europe not only knows, but feels ? Nothing can be more easy than to declaim upon. the blessings of peace; they are indeed invaluable, but the question is not whether peace is good in .the abstrati, but whether it can be obtained. Nothing can be more unwise than .to. clamour peace, when there is no prospect of. attaining it, beca . use it de presses the spirits of the people of this coun ti try, while -it elevates those of Ow enemy; and only affords him stronger inducements to conti nue a war, the pressure of which, by fruitless calls for peace, you acknowledge to be severe. Can any man, whatever his party feelings may be, sincerely doubt, that the present Ministers; or .their opponents,- if they were in office, would , not gladly make peace, if they could do it upon safe and honourable terms ? and we can hardly suppose that any Englishman would ask for peace upon condi tions that were unsafe or dishonourable. What reason is, there for supposing that BUONAPARTE is more sincere now than he was in 1806 ? has his conduct towards the Royal Family of Spain been such as tovinduce us to place greater confidence in his sincerity in negociation ? has his conduct in the Peninsula and in the North, been such as to induce us to believe that' he is govern ed by principles of greater moderation and jus tice than he was in 1806 ? We have thrown out these observations upon the suppsition that ,these dispatches -contain some overture to a nego. Ciation. We"speak, however; merely from conj, c lure, for we know nothing of the fact. We have indeed heard it rumoured, that the dispatches relate to a proposed exchange of Lord B LAN EY and Gene ral SIMON. We feel much pleasure in stating this day that the University of Cambridge has followed the example of that of Oxford in voting Petitions to both Houses of Parliament against the Catbolic Claims, or in more appropriate language, in support of that vene rable Establishment in Church and Slate, which has . long rendered us the happiest and freest people on earth, 'and which, while it exists, will preserve the British Empire in the same state of liberty, independence, and security. The Petk lions passed in the affirmative yesterday, and the numbers were as follow : For the Petitions •- 58 Against 38 By the regular series of Moliiieurs, and other French journals, down to the gth instant,. which were received yesterday, we learn, that the scarcity of provisions in FranCe has at length obliged the , Government to acknowledge it, and to attempt to extend some relief to the suffering people.' A De- cree appears in the Moniteur of the 27th ultimo, which orders a daily distribution of 2,000,000 ra- . tions of soup among the several departments, ac-, cording to their - tespeeive necessities, independently of the assistance which is given to the. Poor in ge neral. For this purpose the sum of 22,500,000 francs have been placed at the disposal of the Pre-, fees. This is the only, article in the whole series of Noniteurs, as all the political intelligence was anticipated in journals of an earlier date. His MAJESTY, according to letters from Windsor, gains bodily strength every day—he takes his meal* regular, assistrin dressing himself, and takes exer cise it his rooms whenever he is aisposad to walk ; the range. is extensive, and the :rooms extremely well aired. An Evening Paper of yesterday states, that the Princess ofWALEs gave a magniiiCent dinner on - Sunday last to Messrs. WHITBREAD, TIERNEY, BROUGHAM, and several other Gentlemen of the House of Commons. Saturday morning the Marquis of HUNTLEY left town,.tro attend the funeral of his mother, the Du chess of Gounoba. The Noble Marquis stops a day or two on his wayat KitnbollOn, the seat of his sister, the Duchess Of MANCHESTER. We have authority to state, that the burial-pllCe of the family of GORDON is at the Cathedral of El- . gin, and, not at Kinrara, 'as has. been erroneously' mentioned, where not one of that family haS ever been interred; and it is by the particular request of the late Duchess of GORDON that -her remains are to be deposittei, there. There have been s'me disturbances at Maccles field it) the course of last Week. but they have been quelled, and there was no appearance of a renewal of them. BREAD.—To-day there was no Court of Allot:. then. The Loan MAYOIt, atter iospec:ting the Ik turns, ordered the Assize to continue at the present pricp-;=quartera loaf NAVAL NtW,S, POItTSMOUTit, Mint, 20.—Aftived his Majesty's ship Cumberland, Paioliers, Plantagenet, POer able, and the Steady gun-brig from Plymouth ;. also ar tived.the Partridge and Acciczon troni a cruise : the latter is appointed envoy to the eastward. Sailed the Impregnable, and riaory ; - also the Thracian for off Cherbourg, and the Pelican to Yar mouth Roads. Went out of Harbour his Majesty's ships Leo pard, Sappho, Dapper, Gannett, and Phipps. ,His Majesty's ship Leyan gives lustrunions to the Lrade bound to Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Quebec. • DEAL, APRIL Ig.-- 7 -Artived his Majesty's ship Griffin with a convoy of coasters from PortsmouilL Sailed the Kingston and Leaner transports, under convoy of the Providence armed brig fotHarWich. Came down from. the river his Majesty's ship Montague, and s:til?,(1 forTbrismout h. FALbIOI2TH,- APRIL 18. —Sai.ed his Mij,sty's packet Princess Artielict With mails for ttie M,diter ranean, Malta, &v. &c. ; and the Princess Elizahth packet with a mail foi- L.sbiln and Cadiz.. CHATHAM, APRIL 20.—Sailed down the -River to Long Reach, : b's - Majesty's_ ship Asia , Captain SCOTT, a file new 74, lately_ launched at Mr. BanslnsLY'S yard at Friendsbuty. YARMOUTH, APRIL 20.—Arrived his Majesty's ship Lixen from, the Humber; and his Majesty's ships Leveret and Princess (,)/: Wales froin a cruize off the Dogger. A Court-Martial commenced on the tOth, and continued by ar;journtitent until the 14th inst. on board the Gladiator, in, l'ortsmouth harbour, on Lieutenant Wm. H.E•saY DOUGLAS, Comrnandl.r of his Majesty's cutter Barbara, upon charges of se verely starting with it 'rope's end, and ill.using se veral that vessel's crew ; also, because the pro- . visions were not regularly served out to them. A number Of witnt'sses were examined, from whom it appeared', that the Barbara was over-masted, and cruizing off the Forelands, every exertion was requi- , site to make and shorten sail; in the execution of which duty it was Lieut. DOUGLAS complained of their dilatoriness, and started most of the crew, as a. summary punishment. The Court agreed'' that the charges had been in part pro% ed ; bLt, in considera tion of circumstances, adjudged Lieut. Dour.;LAs only to be set erely repritn4nded. FRENCH P4PERS. PARIS, APRIL 14.—Letfers from Valladolid of he 4th ofsiVlarch, mention, that the town of 'Soria, having been attacked on two points by about 5000 brigands of the bands of Duran,' Amor, Vesura, the Empecinado, and Montijo, who attempted to take it by storm, a few cannon-shot were quite sufficient to disper.ge them. The brigands lost about 30 men, and' had 160 wounded. , The garrison had only eight wounded. The General in Chief has testified his satislaaion to Mojor St. Hilaire, Commandant in that province. We learn from Cadiz, that General Soult has beaten the army, of Murcia, and taken possession of the towns of Murcia and Orihuela. On the 20th of March the remains of the insurgent army arrived at Cadiz. General La Carrera was killed. ST. PETERSBURGH, MARCH 14.—Count Charles de Levenhielm, Aide-de-Camp to the King of Swe den, lately arrived here; he was present at the re view,Which took place at the (lose of last month.— Two other Swedish Officers have since` arrived." MUNICH,-APRIL 3.—Accounts from Vienna men tion, that the Russian General, Prince Bagration, has arrived on the frontiers of Gallicia with a corps de armee. Count . I\l"ovosilzoff is still at Vi enna ; but iris believed that he, wilt soon depart for St. Petersburgh. MADRID, MARCH 20.-- . -HiS - Majesty's birth-day was Yesterday celebrated with solemnity. - Dis charges of artillery announced this fête at day break. The King . received in the morning the chief public functionaries, and the nobility. in the evening all the city was illuminated, and there was a masked ball at the theatre de los Calms del Peral.. The Municipality of Madrid celebrated this day by aasof beneficence. His—Majesty made a great number of promotions in the Royal Order of Spain„and appointed Don Cipriani Palafok, Gentle man of the Chamber ; the Marquis d'likapa, Major Dorno of the Household ; and Don Antonio Rote, Master of the ceremonies, In the vicinity of Aldea del Fresno, General Ca pitaine has surprised and almost intirely destroyed ,the band of Fermin, who escaped alone. Mustc.--!-A very numerous and elegant audience attended the Hanover-square Rooms last nigh:, at the sixth performance of the Vocal Concerts, wider the directidn of the KNYVETTii aid the VAUGHANS. The Chief Vocal Performers were the KNvvaTTs; the VAUGHANS, SALE, jun. and TRXiMEZZANI. the first air rrRAMEZZANI displayed great flexibility of voice in a Polonese Bravura. • The Maltese Ma riners, a new Hymn, composed by Mr. COOKR, was deservedly applauded. Mrs. VAUGHAN, in this ati, sang." Angels, ever bright" a very interesting manner. The Glee " Chief of tlie - tvindyillorven," so honourable : to the genius of 1)r. C ALLCOTT, ex cited 'great applause, and again ativ..rken e d strtang feel ings of regret on the present situation of the meri torious and unfortunate Cotnposer. The first act concluded with the grand air and . chorus " Glory The most prominent parts to God," from Joskuq. , of the second at'l were a Gies- COoxe, well sup ported by. the VAUGHANS, K.N.YVETT, and W. ELLIOT ; an air of PORTOGALLO, by TRANIRZZANI,I and the admire 4 Glee, " When Sarrno tun'd the raptured strain," by DANBY, admirably givetr 'by W. KNYVBTT, VAUGHAN, and SALE, jun. - Ii is but j th itice t o the lair to say, that_ he'aoly follows the manly an 4tfetted style of his fa:her. The Concert was agreeably di.ersitied by' instrumental pieces front MARTINI, BACH, and BEETUOVM .. Li iIP it vi O Rt: etitiftt OF KING'S BENCH, APR IL :a. LIBEL AGAINST THE TRANSPORT BOARD. THE KING V. LOVELL. Daniel. Lovell, Piop,rietor of the Newspaper, called The Statesman, was brought up to plead , to an Indictment filed stgainsthim bythe Atiorney-Get,:s neral, for a false, soindalous, and malicious inserted in -The Statesman, calcnlated to vilify and traduce; he Transport 8 .aret, and•to hold them up to hai fed and indignation both at home aiid 'abroad. The Libel, w hich was in the shape of a Letter front a COrrespondtrit, began by alluding to the situations of our MAO, tonate Coontiyinen who are detained as Plisotiers in 'France, and to account . for their pro iraoed detention, went on to give a pretended de scripCori of the tryalment of French Prisoners of 'War in this country, by the Commissioners 'of the Tr.,nsport f3.9,rd. These Commission ers, the libel stated, had Ole card. of providing food and cloathing for the French prisoners, and thio-gh their hands also came iite remittant:es made to-t hem front France. These , remit'ances the Coma tnissionersonstead of iminediaielrappropriating to the use uf the prisoners for whirm they were intend ed, weie in the hahii of withholding for ind4nite periods, a..d emnloy,ig in speculations in the funds, for their ws,n pr. va! - benefit. The poor prisoners at the ditferen! dt- e o:s, they were freduee"l y, in the us : of putting on what was termed halt portions, hereby producing a siving, at each ditl,s! of about three hundred pounds a dal:, which c,hvy themselves, and their einp!oyers, pocketed: lii this manner tl.ey defrauded Ole poor prisoners out of large sums to the amount of several hundred thousand pounds , yearly. Whether the higher departments of Go vernment, or the Admiralty, joined' in, or were aware of these praffices, the Writer of the Letter did not pretend to know, but it seemed likely they did, from the anxiety whiCh was shewn to increase the number or French prisoners in this country, by bringing them from Spain, instead of exchanging them for Spanish prisoners in the possession of the French. While such practices, however prevailed, it was in rain •for those who had relatives detained in France to expea that they should be permitted to return to this.countt.Y, Mr. Lovell being called upon to plead Guilty or, Not Guilty to.the Inforination, Mr. READER, as Counsel for him, craved impar. lance till the first day Of nett Term. This, he he- - lieved, he was entitled to by the, proC-tice of the Court; and in the mean time his .client would - try to set himself right with the public and with'the Atioiney-General. He felt great concern for the offence into which he had ignorantly fallen, in hay leg been the the instrument by which publicity had been given . to a libel, such as.‘hat now read, and of the existence of which he had not even been aware, . till after it had appeared in print. The defendant was unfortunately -at present a prisoner in Newgate, and of course was unable to superintend his own affairs. It might not be proper, however, for hint (Mr. ItaapEtt) to say more at present. ' Imparlance was granted till the first day of next Term, .and the defendant was remanded into the custody whence be had been brought. CRIMINAL ,INFORMATION. Mr. kTTORNEY-GENERAL moved to file a crimi. - nal information against Fleet, the Editor of the Brighton . Herald, for a most. gross libel on the cha ratter of Miss, a daughter of Lord The part was now read which contained the libel, :- and which was published in the newspaper by the defendant ; it was as follows :—" A faux pas has been lately discovered it high life, by which two ' noble families have been made miserable. The young Gentleman has offered honourable reparation, but his father, a Noble Earl, has refused to con sent ; and the father of the Lady insists ~ o n marriage." That Miss S--- was the Lady glanced at in this paragraph, he had an afficia. , vii, in which it was stated what 'Mr. Freer said : the affidavit was by a G:•niletnan, who stated, that having occasion to see Mr. Fleet at his office, he asked him it he had heard of the discovery- between Capt. W. - and Meas 8— ? When he replied, No. When Mr. Fleeradded, it was certainly so, and that his father, the Earl of —, had threatened to cut him off ,with a shilling, if he married her. 'Lie Lady had sworn to her innocence, and the Court would ask if Capt. W. had made any affidavit ; had not, and he would tell the Court why. Capt., W. had certainly :done Wriong, ter .hn s ee i ng it ie paragtaph, he had gone to th:mtfice of Flee., and he refusing to give up the author, he had certainly given him a good horsewhipping. A. a lawyer, he was bound to say it was wrung,; but as a man, be could not so much blame him for, the assault. Fleet had inditted Capt. W.,and in this ca,e the Atiorney General 'said., he thought it not advi , able to ask . fOr any affidavit froM that Gentlernati.-- Rale il'isi granted. The Blues and Stafford 'Militia !lava received routes from Windsor, .in consequence .of the late riots and disturbances in our thaouta:lufing towns. The Royal Blues marched yesterday .and today, and the '<Jog's Own Stafford tomorrow. They are to proteed to the Eastern District, in'ordur to be sta. tionedzs cir':umstanees tnay require. Tilree,huo< dred of the 29th Foot are to do duty in areir room at Windsor. We learn . by the proyiecial Papers received yes terday, that there has been some further rioting at Manchester and Carlisle, but we are bapt y to - add, that all is again tranquil at.thr,sl places, and the nt., er,ssary precautions haVe been stak-qt to pi eventr all further mischief. _ At Sheffield every thing remains quiet, and the apprehensions entertained ofdis of - ances on Saturday have proved u.,foutided.—At Stockport and at Cheshire all is geict. Manchester is pertettly orderly,—ln Corowall the ruiners have returned to their work,' and_ we cannot' find from the Yorkshire Papers any confirmation of. the ,ac counts circulated some days since, of arms having been seized in Huddersfield. •In short, we are sure we shall not be disappointed in our exi:ettations that the proverbial good sense of the people will convince them that the destruction of wachinrry cannot amend the market for out ntanutactores-, but must render Clem more_ unworthy of competition with the mantliadulei of other countries; and that WI dissatisfaction iltstead of remov ing or altuvWting the calamity of scarcity.