The Sun. — London, England, 1812-05-02 00:00:00

AIRS. \VESTS NEW NOVEL. 'Phis Day was published, In - Three V-luntes zts brlards, THE LOYALISTS; an HISTORICAL Novhi.. I3y the Author pf " Letters m a young Man," " A Tale or the Times," &c. Preserve your boaltv. maintain . )our kights. Inscription on a Cotumwat Appleby. Printed I for Longman, Hurst, Rees,Oime, and Brown,Pa. ternoster-row ; -and at the British Gallery, s 4, New Bond street. Of whom may be had, by the same Author, I. The Refusal, a Novel, 3 Vols. 121110. price 11. is. briarcls. - 2. The Gossip's Story,'2 viols. 12m°. 7s. boards. 3. Letters to a Young Lady, 3 vols. tl. ts. boards. 4. I.etters to a Young Man, 3 vols. 11 is. boards. 5. Poems and Plays, 4 Vols. 11. 3s boards. 6 The Vlother, a' l'?em, raino. 7s. hoards. This Day was published, In Octavo. price 12i. boards, • ASUCCINCT HISTORY of the Geographi cal and Political Revolutions of the EMPI R E of GERM ANN', or the principal States which composed the EMPIRE of CFIA RI. EMAGNE, from his Coronation in 814 to its Dissolution in t8,,6 ; with some. Account of the Genealogies of the Imperial House of Hapshurgh, and of the Six secular Electors of Germany; and of the Roman, Ger man, French, and English Nobility. By CHARLES BUTLER, Esq. ' Printed for - Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster-row ; and at the British Gallery, 54, New Bond-street. Of whom may be had, by the same Author, Some Account of the' Life of Bossuet, post Bvo. 75,. boards. Life of Fenelon, post Bvo. 7s. boards. ' • MAILS. ARRIVIO-1 Dublin. Due-1 Cadiz, i Lisbon, I Malta, i Guernsey,lersey, 2 Dublin 2 Waterford. Consols • PRICE OF STOCKS. THIS DAY •r TWILVIO'CLOCK . 62. k 62k THE SUN. SOLIEM QUIS DlCilt 6 FALSUM AUDIAT ? LONDON, SATURDAY, MAY 2, 1812. Another Flag of Truce has arrived from France, a s appears by the following Letter from Deal, which we received this morning : " DEAL, MAY I.—Arrived last night, after post, a Flag of Truce from Calais, intended for. Dover, but mistook the port in a fog, •and being observed by officers of his Majesty's ship Inconstant, a boat was manned, and Lieutenant CLARK went along side, to whom the French Officer delivered his dis patches, which were immediately sent on shore to the Admiral, and forwarded by express to London. —The French Officer, after receiving an acknow ledgment from the Commander in Chief (Admiral roLEy) proceeded for the opposite Coast." In the extracts which we yesterday laid before our readers from the Anholt Mail, it was stated that a conspiracy against the Emperor of RUSSIA had been deteded at Petersburgh, and the principal per sons concerned in it apprehended. We are not in possession of all - the details of this affair, but se vetal letters have been received by very respeetable Houses in the City which mention some of the par ticulars. 'A person of the name of SPIRANSKY, who filled the office of Secretary to the Cabinet, and a Frenchman, are said to be authors of the plot in which several others were concerned, one of whose names only is mentioned, viz. M. MAGNETSKY. It is stated, that this conspiracy was discovered by the Emperor ALEXANDER himself, and that the conspirators were, after an examina tion, sent off to Siberia.—The following is an ex tra& from one of the letters which have been re ceived upon this subjeCt " A secret correspondence has been discovered to be going on between some of our Ministers and the French Ambissador, and through him, with the French Governmtnt. It was the Emperor ALEX ANDER himself who deteCied it ; and immediately on the Conspirators finding themselves defeated, by some of their letters being intercepted, they laid a diabolical plot to murder their Master, which for tunately was discovered before the time appointed for its execution. SPIRANSK Y and MAGNETSKY have been arrested, and sent off to Siberia.—More arrests are every zoment expeeted to take place, for it is imagined that other persons of the first note are implicated in the diabolical design." The letters from Petersburgh also state, that the Emperor of RUSSIA has sent orders to his Plenipo tentiaries to sign the Preliminaries of Peace with Turkey, and that he hasordered a new levy of 85,000 men. The former part of thi, statement must, of course, depend upon conjecture; with respect to the latter, it is highly-probable. The important State Papers which we yesterday laid before our Readers from Sweden afford the strongest evidence of the determination of the Go vernment of that Country to throw off the yoke of France. BUnNAPARTE has always considered the refusal of any Sovereign to comply with his demands as equivalent io a declaration of war,and in all pro babdity he will consider the Speeches of the King and Crown Pi ince of Sweden in that light.— There is every reason to suppose that a Treaty of Alliance will be immediately concluded be tween Russia and Sweden. - Some Swedish Pa pers to the 25th ult. reached' town this morning, extracts from which will be found in a subsequent column. The King of Prussia has been obliged to 600 fresh eliets against all trade with England. NAVAL NEWS. PLYMOUTH, APRIL 30.—The Union cartel; it is expelled, will sail this evening for Morlaix, with ab Alt 40 released French prisoners.. The Tigre man of war arrived here yesterday, from the squadron off Brest, and,not the Stirling Castle, as erroneously stwed. . Arrived t he. Denmark man of war, from off Brest; the Mary, CROSS ; and the Mary, SMITH, from London, with cargoes of rum for his Mjesty's Vic tualling Office; and the Ceres, THATCHER; from London, with accargo of deals for this Port. Put in here this day the Sampson, SEAnOAR, from Dundalk, with a cargo of for Portsmouth. Went up the Harbour to berefitted the Talbot and Helena sloops, of war. CHATHAM, APRIL 30, P.M.—Came up the River, attended by two Margate loggers, his ,Majesty's ship Dolphin; she got on shore on the Flats, and beat her rudder off; she is obliged to keep her pumps going night and day. ISLANDS OF SCILLY, APRIL 28.—Arrived this morning the ship Granger of London, C. VANDYKE, Master, from Demerara, laden with rum, coffee, and cotton, bound to London. DEAL, Mvir I.—Sailed his Majesty's ships Plan tagenet aid Sceptre, the former for the Baltic, and the latter for off Flushing; and the Fisguard fri gate for Portsmouth. • Came down from the River the Diana East India man, and remains. FALMOUTII, APRIL 29.—Arrrived the Charles, TUNBURY, from Gibraltar. DARTMOUTH, APRIL 30.-.-ArtiVed the Paquelot cartel from Morlaix, with four French Ladies and two Gentlemen ; also 10 Engl!sh boys taken by tile Oiienf sritladron : six vessels were taken by them, the whole of which were sunk or burnt. Letters from Minorca, dated the 13th of March, state, that the war in Catalonia is carried on be tween the French and Spaniards in the most sangui nary style, no quarter being given on either side, and-the Spaniards are so a6live, ai to cause great de struEtion among the small French parties they meet with, constantly, if the enemy are too strong, retiring to the mountains, which are rendered im pregnable. ROYAL ACADEMY.—The chief Patrons of the Arts, and the private friends of the Artists, were yesterday gratified with a private view of the Exhi bition, and it is with great pleasure we state, that it demonstrates a considerable improvement in many of the juvenile candidates for public favour, and that the established professors fully maintain the re putation which they have acquired. The Pre sident has shewn the strength and variety of his powers in a very fine Lind Scape, in which he has introduced a subjeal from Holy Writ. LA V‘r RENCE, with many other works that do honour to his talents, will obtain iecreased fame by his portrait of KEMPLE in Cato, which we mentioned some time ago. 'THOMSON has an Infant Jupiter, and though it was a bold effort after the admirable pic ture of the late President, he has entered into a laudable competition. The portrait of Lord ELDON by OWEN, which we also previously noticed, is a faithful likeness, and a masterly composition. Sir WILLIAM BEECHEY appears to great advantage, par ticularly in a portrait of NOLLEKENS, the Sculptor. SHEE, by his works this year, has again proved that he has equal powers as a painter and a poet, and this implies no ordinal) , panegyric. PHILLIPS has distinguished himself among the portrait-painters. OLIVER also has greatly added to his reputation by a portrait of Sir HUMPHREY DAVY, the great ornament of Natutal Philosophy. TURNER main tains his high rank in the province of landscape; and, indeed, has shewn a more adventurous, vet successful, pencil than on former occasions. His Hannibal Crossing the Alps is a bold effort of ge nius, yet is marked by a terrific fidelity to na ture. CALLCOTT will excite rnuclF admiration by the spirit, taste, and beauty his lanclQcapes. But as we have not room to e the efforts of any more at present, we shall defer our court-nen dations to a more convenient period. The PRINCE REGENT, has presented the Academy with a very fine chandelier, ,in order to gratify the Compiny at the Annual Dinner, with a full view of the pictures in the grea-room. It was lighted on Thur sday evening, merely to try its effect, ai'd it futly ac complished the purpose, tendering the place almost as luminous as day. But this is not the only oc casion on which his Royal Highness has manifested his desire to shed lusture on the British Arts. One day last week, Mr. W. an eminent druggist, of Spalding, received a letter from a pretended At torney in Londorr, informing him, that a Gentle man, with whom he bad formerly lived as asi assist ant, had just expired, left him his executor, and he must come to town immediately to give orders for the funeral, &c. Mr. W. swallowed the bait, and in a day or two took coach, arrayed in sable weeds.-- But, behold, when this worthy son of the pestle arrived at the dwelling of his quondarri friend, instead of theiaput mortuum he expe&ed to see, the very first person he met was his old master, in high health and spirits. On the night of the 21st inst. some villains (hi therto unknown) set fire in several places to a stack of capital hay, containing about 20 tons, standing in a field by Whittington Moor, near Chesterfield, the property of Wm. Siddall, the whole of which was entirely consumed . before assistance could be ob tained. SIVEr;SI-1 PAPERS. NOTIFICATION. As the navigation for the ensuing season must now soon recommence at the d;fferetit ports, it is proper to remind the commercia public of the or dinances issued from time to time, by his Majesty the King for the maintenance of the Continental System, and stria prohibition of all trade, or other prohibited - intercourse with England, especially the regulation of the 1 Ith of June,lBoB, and the or dinances of the 28th August, 1810, and the Bth of March, 1811 4 More effectually to prevent all at tempts to violate the said ordinances, his Majesty has resolved, that guard-hips shall be hued out as soon as possible in the principal ports of the king• dom, 4,0 see that the laws relative to commerce are duly carried into execution, and to guard the coasts against any attack of the enemy, and to carry into the nearest or most suitable Prussian harbour's, for further examination, all ships suspeaed of being engaged-in any kind of illicit trade, and all persons found offending against the regulations and ordi nances relative the Continental. System, must ex pea to be punished in their persons and property with the utmost rigour. Berlin. " VON HARDENBERG." ELSINEUR, MARCH 15.—The scarcity of forage is so great, that eight Marks (ss. 4d. Sterling) was given in the market for a lispound (16 pounds) of rye straw. Hay is still dearer. No corn Comes to market.. STOCKHOLM, APRIL 1 B.—MBjol' VON KLINT, who sailed in the frigate Chapman, on the 7th inst. from Carlscrona, to his cruizing station, has made report to his Majesty, thqt on the afternoon of the same day, when at the - distance of four Lerman' miles north west from Cartholms, he took the French privateer Le Jeune Adolphe, of eight guns, and thirty-one men, commanded by the privateer Captain, HENRY LORUTT, fitted out from Dantzic, but last from Copenhagen, which vessel he imme diately sent to Carlscrona. SEMLIN, MARCH B.—Since the recommence— ment of hostilities the greatest depression pervades all Servia ; even the hetetofore undaunted CZEtt Nt GEORGES is said not to be in spirits. The insur gents wish again to come under the dominion of the Porte, disagreeable as it is to them, merely to have an end put to this long and destrualiv2 war. PETERSBURG, MARCH 510.—Some regiments of guards commenced their march to-day from this city. The Hexholm regiment of infantry, which was quartered here, marched off on the 29111 SEMLIN, MARCH Is —The Russian troops which were in Belgrade, have marched to the left bank of Danube to join Gen. MARKOFF, who is in can , . tonments in Lesser, Wallachia. The great Russian head-quarters are still in Bucharest. BERLIN, APRIL 14.—0 n the inth inst. the Mi nister from Westphalia to our Court set out from this place for Glogau ; the day before yesterday Major-General and Brigadier the Prince of FIE,ssE" HOMBOURG for Breslau ; and yesterday his Serene litghness Prince AUGUSTUS FERDINAND also de parted for Breslau. LEIPSIC, APRIL B.—The speedy arrival of his Majesty the Emperor of Austria at Dresden, is still talked of as well as that of other personages of the highest distinaion ; nothing official has, however, been published on this subje6l. BANKS OF THE MAIN, APRIL B.—An important faa which M.ACSIARD has made known, proves that the English are not indifferent to the measures taken by his Majesty the Emperor to do without the Riga! cane. In 1810, M. ACHARD was anonymously offered 50,000 florins; and afterwards, in 1802, 200;000 crowns, if he would publish a book, and avow in it, that his enthusiasm had deceived him ; that his ex perience upon a large scale had convinced . him of the futility of his first trials, and that he had, at list, acquired the very disagreeable - conviction that sugar from beet-root could never supply that of . cane. The honour and disinterestedness of M. ActiAt,E) made him resist these insulting offers. COLOGNE, APRIL 6.—The waters of the Rhine have risen to the height of 24 feet 3 inches. The quays are almost all inundated. We are employed in adopting the necessary measures for withdrawing the goods from the public magazines. :Mr. KENnY is Said to have arrived in France a short time ago, having proceeded thither in the Wasp sloop of war, which sailed frocp Arne' ica on the very day that the documents in which he was concerned were laid before Congress, He gave out that he was proceeding to Russia to take a command in the army. Lately, an elegant new Chapel was opended at Dundee for the accommodation of the .Gentry and Inhabitants of that towh and neighbourhood, pro fessing the Scottish -Episcopal Communion. An impressive sermon was preached on the. occasion by the Rev. HENEAGR HORSLEY, Prebendary of St. Asaph. Another forgery on a Banking-house, to the amount of 30001. has been discovered at the West end of the town. The offender has fled. - THE ROYAL FAMILY. .:- On . Thursday the QUEEN a d the Princesses Av..' GUsTA and MARY retired from the DraNieg-roots to the Dtike of CUMBERLAND'S apartments in tire Palace, and after taking .off their Court ,dresses, went to Carlton-house to dinner, where they w•rte received by the PRINCE REGENT. At the dittner. there were present, to meet the QUEEN and Pau4- CESsEs, the Princess CHARLOTTE Of WALES, the Duchess of YORK, and Princess SOPHIA 'Of GLOU CETER, the Dukes of YORK, CLARENCE; KENT, • CUMBERLAND, SUSSEX, CAMBRIDGE, GLOUCESTER, and BRUNSWICK, Lord DE CLIFFORD, Mrs. Howe, • &c. The dinner was served •up in the blue velvet • room. After dinner a most magnificent suite of rooms were thrown open to receive a very numer ous" party of distingui'hed personages invited hy command of the PRINCE REGENT to meet has beloved and affeaionate Mother 'the QUEEN.-- There, had been one of the largest, assemblies of youth, beauty, elegance, 'and . di4nity, at the Draw ing-room, but on this occasion, it was allowed that the, assemblage never was ,surpassed, Ladies being in their full evening dress, all of`eourse. new for this princely banquet. These, together with their glittering costly jewels and ornaments, by the brilliant illumination, rendered it such a truly rand scene as is not to be described, 2111" was not excelled, considering the scale it was upon, not even by the grand fete given by his... Royal Highness last year, in honour of the King's "• Birth-day. • r. The Company were condo&ed into the grand crimson drawing-room, where her MAJESTY enter ed about half-past eight o'clock, leaning on the arm of the PRINCE REGENT, and spoke to all the distin 'guished gta sts assembled. After thiS condescending ceremony, a very excellent Concert commenced to t) the same room, with one of HavroN's: symphonies. 0 , The Vcwal Performers Were—CATALANI, BERTI.. •:. NOTTI, LACY, COLLINI, the CAUViNIS, BERM', " MANNI, TREMEZZANI, FISCHER, NALHI, , &7C.—* CATALANI came after the Opera, and s.-Ing ore, , song—the brilliance of her head-dress caused much" attra&ion. BERTINOTTI was the principal sines s' er'of the evening. Her Royal Highness the Princess of WALES vi-, sited . yesterday her Royal Moths-r, the Duche,s . iiftuNswt cx, at her-House in Hinover-square. -`, The Earl of DERBY gave a grand'dinner yester- - day at his house in Grosvenor•squarep to . his Royal Highness the Duke of•CAMDRIDGE, the Earl of Es- SEX, Earl and Countes MANSFIELD, Lord ate ELLENBOROUGH, &C. ".• 4 IsThmberless disappointments took place, on the score of Presentations, at, the last Drawing-roorn-7 ,` • more than six hundred young Ladies going to St. James's in expeaation of this honour, Whet) not m i me than one-third of that number ,weie introduc ed to the QUEEN before four o'clock, the hour 'at which,her MAJESTY withdrew, and went to Carlton- House., The. following are the ,regiments which have moved, mit bih the List few days ; by the. skirts the capital, towards the North ::---Norlh Y,rk M !lila, 2d .Somerset ditto, Bedtbrd ditto, alvon ditto, Wilts ditto, Louth ditto, and 'An Dragoon Guards. A convoy of thirteen transports, with teas".,., sailed on Wednesday from Plymouth, to rainfc.r. our army in Portugal. A reinforcement of troops is to he sent without • delay from Cork to Lisbon. Several transports are ordered to the fpriner place for their conveyance. The Committee of LLOYD'S, much to their cre dit, have resolved to recommend 10,0001. in aid of the.relatives of the soldiers slain at Badjoz. An Official Return made to the Honse of Com mons pursuant to order, state; the Tool of the Capi tal' of the Funded Debt of Great Britain and Irel t ind, on the tst January, 18 12, - at eight hundred and se , ' venteen m pions, - one hundred and one thous And, seven hundred and forty-five pounds, five shillings and eightpence one farthing', viz. Debt of Great Britain - £ • 747.4 2 9,379 II 34 ----- Ireland 61,274,250 o o Emperor of Germany 7.502,633 G -- Portugal - - 8 95 , 5 12 7 9 1C 81 7, 101 ,745 5 Si ft also states the total of the capital of the tJn• funded Debt, up to the sth January, 181 2, at reat Britain - - ,E. 50,4:4.166 15 8 Ireland - 1,543,0 12 iO 0 Total - X 52,7.97079 5 8 And the money raised in the same year, By Taxes k. 63,682 , 535 15 Tot By Loans 1b, 6 3 6 ,375 3 9 By Lotteries 92;2036 8 o Tot l - £. 3 L, 2 4 1 ,c97 7 71' The Oppositin Wciters represent the subsetiberg to the City Address as graVe refle.ling men who have long passed the " hey-day of youth,", and, whose opinions, therefore, ought to have, great weight with the public. If these grave refleMing men had happened to, take a different si.le of the questidn, the same writers would dOubtless have tepresented them as a set of dotards, who " had grown old without the benefit of experience." A most melanclmly circumstance took place •n.-"r Huddersfield, on Wednesday evening. As Mr. W. Horsfall (a partntA . in the house of Horsfall and Co. of this town), was returning to his house at Alatsden, about seven- miies otf, he was shut at bl some desperate villains, concealed in a plantation by the turnpike-road sicie on Crosland Moor, about t a miles from Hudderafied. He is not yet pronounced out of danger. Every thing was tranquil in Manchester on the -29th ult. The rioters wete becoming mere ma rauders. The Local Militia had assembled, and tile public mind was more at ease. Mr. Trentham, notwi►hstanding his alarrning wound, is likely to recover. The Luddites have had the audacity to placard the streets of Notting ham in the night, offering a reward f:r Mr. son, the Mayor, dead or alive. He had commit ted no other offence than signing the offer of reward ,of 6001. from the Corporation of Nottingham. (or the discovery of the assassin who shot Mr. Tree* tram. These infatuated men are said attuary ( 0 ,neet in the streets of Nottingham, in small parties,. in the day,time, and triumphantly talk over Oleic ni g h ly depredations.