The Sun. — London, England, 1812-12-31 00:00:00

,• MAULS• akaistivEn.--1 Guernsey, 1-Jersey, 1 Dublin, 3 Waterford. Duf,—•l'Lisbon, - 1 Gottenburgh, 1 Brazils, .PRICE OF 'STOCKS THIS DAY AT TWELVE &CLOCK. Consols 6IH 1 Red. Ann THE SUN. SOLEM QUis DtegftE FALsUN .tunE.tr? L 0 N 1) 0 ,N; THURSDAY, DCE'MBEIT 31, 1812. Accounts .were received yesterday from the Coast . of France,. which state that BUONAPARTE continues indispos'ed, - though he still applies him self to business. A -great number of Couriers have been"sent off from Paris to Vienna, Stutgard, Ber lin, and Dresd6 ;.. and BUONAYARTE has had. se veral very : long interviews with the Austrian Anibassador. . No further accounts have been received respect ing the capture of the Arethusa; thereport now generally disbelieved. . WINDSOR,. DEC.- . ao.---VestCrilay' the QUInS7 4 . princesses BLIZADiTH and NARY, took an atr;ng,• through Eton, Slough, Langley Broom, Datcbet, &e. Princesses AUGUSTA, SOPHIA, and CHAR LOTTE of WALES, rode on horseback for about two hours, attended by the. Bishop Of-SALIS RURV, Lord WALSINGITAM, Lady PAULET, Lady QNSLOW, General CARTWRIGHT, and Colonel TAYLOR. On Tuesday the LORD CfIINCELLOR had a long audience of the PRINCE REGENT. , A.daily account of the state of the XING is still brought from Windsor by a Messenger..and sent round to all the Members of the QUEnI'S Coun cU for their inspection. Lord HEATIMELD was considered better on Tuesday, having less pain, and had had a tolerable good night. Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the East India. House, when the under-mentioned Commanders tool; their final. leave of the Court ; previous to departing for their respective desti nations, viz.— _ _ Captain'''. M. SAMSON, Itletaqe ; Captain J. SANDELANDS, Rose Captain• J., CARNEGEE, Bar ing ; and Captain Wool>, illarquis of Wellington, for Madras and Bengal. .Captain S. • LEE was sworn into the command of the ship Moffatt, consigned to 'Madeira, Ma -dras,sahci Bengal. . LielltebaTit DAVID Horn, (First) 'Of his Males ty's late ship MacOonian, of whom such honour able mention is Made in Captain CARDEN'S letter, is the same ollieer who conducted an attack upon some French armed vessels in the boats of his - Majesty's' ship Freya, - in the West Indies, two years ago, and for which gallantry be was recom mended -by his Captain (Jor-tx IIAY.Es) and the Colmar:der-in-Chief, Sir ALEXANDER CbCIIRINE,, "to the admiralty. for promotion. 'We 'hope the intrepidity which be evinced on the recent occa 'sion, as well asshis ~ former conduct, will 'teem= mend hinyto that proMotion,which his talents ap pear to deserve, particularly as we understand that he has suffered many wounds in the service of his country. It is said,, that the Av,enger sloop of war has been lost off the ,harbbur of St: John's, New foundland, but that the whole of the crew were saved. The new Tragedy, which is forthcoming at Drtiry-lane Theatre, is the production of Mr. COLERIDGE. The poetical talents of this Gentle man; and his critical acumen are well known. It remains, however, to be seen whether those 'ta lents are suited to dmimatic.composiC On. KEJIBLE has excited as much etention dining his performance at Bath and Bristol, as when he was in the zenith of his fame: , HOLMAN and his daughter have. been playing ith great success. in America, and are treated with the most courteous attention, notwithstand ing the state of affairs between that country and the" British Government, They performed with Much . applause at New York, and were proceed ing to Philadelphia, upon very advantagcOirs en gagements. d The Morning ronicle, Adverting to the late trial in the Court of King's Bench,-respecting Mr. BENJAFILD, and the purchase of - the Morning Post, at the period alluded ,to, asks . the following question : " Was it'under their auspices (the.:Mi- Distry) that he* published the lampoons of that clay, for tlr, suppression of which the Prince of WALES was so iit-odpised•as to grant the annuity This question is rather unlucky ; for what. .will the writer sav when. he hears the • simple truth,, viz. that the whole transaction was not suF,rgested by the Prince of WALL'S, 'biiCeiitifely - ifiafiairOliy the party then in orposition, of which Ur. Fox- was the head, thOugh they found it * inconvenient themselves 'to . give the. required security for -pay-- ment. To-morroth the New- Year commences ;—may it bring prosperity and peace s ;--7-4.0 -many. it certainly will bring plenty ; for in a few days the Lottery must distribute Twenty Thousands, Ten Thou sands, &c,. &c., and. as Nobody knors to Whom . they may fall, _Everybody:should try whether the New Year will bring new luck. , The veteran „Comedian, Mr. Joitr MOODY, re quested' to be bUried -in 'St. Clement'3, Burial"- ground,' Portugal-street, with the fOiloWing head stone :—" Native of this Parish, and an: old Mem 7 ber of Drury-lane Theatre.':. For his Memoirs, see Europeau Magazinc—and for hip professional abilities, see Churchill's Roheiad." MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT. —This morning early, at WOolwieh, a machine wed; it iS said, for tbe purpose of bending timber, unfortunately ed, by' which ciicumstance, we are concerned to that ei , , s ;ht inch were killed on the. spot, and several more. dangerously wounded; • NAVAL NEWS. PLYsOUTH, DEC. 2J.—The following' vessels; from the Mediterranean, part of the Kent's con voy, came into, Ilamoaze yertoday, viz. the brig Maria of Dover, GOODS, master, the ship Dienia, of London, CAat.Tog, master, and the ship Prnitlis &,, berg-, of .London, JAI:AUSTIN, Master, all from Malta, last from Gibraltar, bound to London, with cargoes, which consist of wines, silks, oil, rags, 'and fruit, and are undel• quarantine. .This morning the Niemen frigate, Capt..l s Yti, made Signal for'the fleet, bound to the eastward, ,to get under weigh, and shortly afteiwards the homeward-bound Mediterranean fleet (With the , exception of the brig Three Friends, Wan.Ey, and two or three others that were bound here for or, ders), that 'put in here last' iveek by contrary winds, under convoy of the Kent, together with 'several merchantmen from the. West Indies, Lisbon, Cadiz, Ireland, .&c.. and a few coasters, in all about 80 sail, weighed anchor, and stood to the eastward for .their respective -destinations, with a favourable and fresh breeze from the west north west. _ • . . Arrived this morning the American brig &pe• dition, belonging to and from Philadelphia % lfith a • 'cargo of cotto►i, bound to Bourdeaux, captured a few days sipce by the Briton frigate, Captain Sir Tnos. STAINES. The Expedition has not brought • - any news. Arrived the . Conquestador man of war, fropi the Channel Fleet; the Leonidas frigate, from the coast of. Ireland ; the Neptune, Hoc,G, ing, to Montrose, from Dundalk, with provisions for thi4 port ; the William and _4nn, LITTLE, from Lope; Charle.qown, WILLIAms, and the :gory, from Fowey ; and the Ant, PEAm, from Penzance. Came down the harbour and anchored in the Sound, the fiohpyr, frigate. _ Arrived this afternoon the schooner Eadajor from the Mediterranean, last from Scilly : this vessel was raptured on her passage by a French privateer,,and afterwards given tip to the masters and crews of some British vessels, which she bad also captured, who were taken out of her by the Pickle brig of war, since arrived here, as men tioned last week. A repoit has been in circulation here this day, that the Belle Poule frigate has captured :a French frigate. We sincerely hope it may prove correct. Captain DACRES, late of the Guerriere frigate, with his officers and some of the crew of the Darbadoes frigate, lately lost in the West Indies, arrived here this day in the Leonidas frigate, from Ireland, they having arrived there in the Africa, 64, from America. 'Sailed this nioKning the Nienzen frigate, hay ing under convoy a fleet of nearly 100 sail, amongst them are the homeward-bound Mediter:anean fleet. • DEAL, Dec. M . —Arrived the, Sprightly cutter, with 15 sail of veSsels under convoy, from Dart mouth ; the Royalist sloop of war, Capt. DowNIE, with the Reese French privateer, with 68 men on board, which she captured early this morning off Dover. , The privateer came out of Boulogne last evening ; had made no captures. , ' • Put back by contrary winds, the Providence, East Indianian. Came down from the River several- ships, and remain with a large fleet-of outwardonnd: NEWHAVEN, DEC. 30.—Mr. ADF.Y, , master of the Catherine of Sunderland, landed here last night with his crew, and stay, that his vessel was cap tured yesterday by threFrench privateers, about a mile and a half from the shOre,-between trighton and Shoreham. lie also reports, that he saw two other • vessels taken, • which he supposes were colliers. PORTsmouTa, DEC. 30.—Arrired his Majesty's ship Venerable, -from Corunna ; Prevoyante,.: from the Downs ; T. , :tliant, from of.l Cherburgh ; Arie• men, with a convoy; from Plymouth; Northumber land, from ditto. Also the Holly, with dispatches from Newfoundland. Sailed his Majesty's ships Savage and Misletoe on a cruise. LEITH, DEC-. (418.--=The Forward gun-brig sailed front Leith Roads on Thursday for Sheerness, to be On Friday night a marine belonging to the ilda want, 50 gun-ship, fell into Leith - harbour and Was . drowned ; the body was got in a very short time after the accident. ,priin - ros6 sloop of war tailed yetterday to the . z.io uthward. Remain in the RoalsAdan2aittflag-ship', Ferret, Rift?man, and Siwlce,s,lcops pf war. 'fhe•smack:E/iz4 arrived, at „Leith yesterday, ''end. the Swallow this norning. ti/oNArARTA's Ov6RTuntB TO TAA RUSSIANS. The following has been given As flit substance of what passed bctweo LAnatstotc, *ll4 was bent by BiIoNAPARTt front Moscow, to fritite KliTusoFF, in order to ensuart the latter into a cessation of arms, and to lead-, if possible, to such a pacification as would have. ended in :the sub version of the Imperial throncot Russia. tat , RtsToN was • methet] by Prlnce KITTUSOFF, in the midst of all his Generals., He ripened the conference by saying, that he bad been sentto de mand •an armistice, and to beg the Prince to trans= mit to his Majesty a . letter frOrti MIONAPARTki ,which would contain proposals for peace, in or dei• to cause the cessation of that horrible effisPin of blood, which had been shed with so much des peration and barbarity. The Prince replied, that hewas not authorised. to receive any proposal either for• peace' or ar mistice ; and that unquestionably lie would not receive any letter addressed to his Majesty that, besides, it was.bis duty to 'declare, that the Rus sian army was in possession of too many advan, tapes, td throw them awry by an armistice, of which it had no need, LAVRISTON observed, ti“lt the war must 'one day come to a termination, for it could not last for ever, especially in the barbarous manner in which it was conducted. • - • Prince KuTosof.y. replied,. that harharisM had been introduced into hostilities by the Frencji re volutionists, and followed up to the greatest ex tent by BUONAPARTR himself. It was true, that the war could not be eternal; but peace could ne ver be talked till the French were beyond the Vis tula. That RuSsia had not provoked the war; for the Emperor, by falling.with all his forces on the magazines and troops in Poland, might have annihijated all the preparations of BUONAPARTE im the , other side of the Vistula, before he was in readiness to commence it; but his :Ma jesty wished neither to disturb the• existing tran quility, for.to be the aggressor, and to the last hoped to preserve peace : that BUONAPAIiTIT bad entered Russia even ;without a declaration of war, and devastated a great part of the em pire : " that be had nothing to do but to get out of Moscow how he could, since he camethither without being iriVited ; while, on our side, it be came our duty to do him as much mischief as pos sible : that when be proclaimed the campaign terminated at Moscow, the Russians viewed it as only commencing; if he did not know this alrea dy, he should, soon be taught it by experience. LIURISTON. 2 —`` Since, then, there is no - hope of peace, it will doubtless be necessary to march; but in departing, it will again be necessary to shed the blood of men who are always brave; since your armies are marching on all sides." • " I again' repeat to you," replied, the Prince " you, of course, will adopt such measures as you ,can ; iaLorder to get off,—and we, to prevent-you. For.the rest, the time will come; perhaps, when we May arrange matters for your departure, should that b the only subject of di , :cussion." LAURISTON still uttered complaints with regard to the bitternesS and fury which had been excited in the. people, in order to banish all hope of ac cowmOdation, by attributing to the 'French the Conflagration and ruin of Moscow, while the in ', habitants- themselves were the authors Of that ca- . The PrinceE replied, that it was the. first time he had ever beard of complaints being made against the enthusiasm, and devotion to their country, of a Whole people who defended their homes against an enemy by whom they were at tacked, and who, by so doing, had excited that animosity and fury now complained of, but which, on the contrary, could not be'too highly appreci ated and extolled. " With regard to the burning ofMoscow," said the Prince, " I am too old—l have had too much experience in war, and possess ed too much of the confidence of the Russian people, not to be daily 'and hourly informed of what was pasiing in Moscow. I myself ordered -the destruction of some magazines;' but from the ariival, of the French at Moscow, the Russians destroyed nothing but the stores of the cart- WrigAtsi when you adopted the resolution of seiz ing them, by distributing the carriages at your 'pleasure :• the inhabitants caused very few confla grations. You proceeded systematically in the destruction of that capital, fixing the pa-ticuhir days, and marking out the quarters which were to be set on fire at different periodi. I have 'had aii exact account of the whole; it has been fol lowed with.precisiOn ; and one . proof that it was not the inhabitants 'who ruined Moscow is, that you destroyed with cannon-shot the houses, and other edifices, built with too .much solidity, hurl iug balls 'against them amidst the flames. Un doubtedly.we shall endeavour to revenge ourselves. Our conference . is . closed... • Certainly LAuttisTor had no reason to be satis .fied with its issue. the French had been long ac castorned. to arrange matters of this sort in a tete a tete, or by an amioable interview ; but here More than 30 persons were witnesses, on the one hand, .of the dignity of the Russian Marshal, and on the other, of the cringing meanness of a low fellow cominissioned by a Brigand, N :7. Tilt; VOICE OF Lit I LOVE, A Dal surig with di - stifiguiSliel applause by Mr. Bit at Drury-tine Theatre: WRItTEN BY alit. PALMY. How sweet at close of silent eve !Mc harp's re3ponsive sound, How sweet the vows tl:at ueceirk And de..a. cty virtue cr-.)wa'd; now sweet to sit beneath a tree, fa some delightful .;rove, But ab ! more soft, more sweet to me, The voice of her I love. liletie'er she joins the village trap, To hail the new-born day, Mellifluous notes compose each strain, Which zephyr; waft away; The frowns of fate I cahaly heir, Iu humble sphere I move, Content and blest whenc'er I hear The voice of her I love. MR. FOX A's it is still the fashion with certain Reformers to mention Mr. Fox with the highest veneration, and as his opinions are held by them as oracular, We hit% ( e extracted the following speech, which ap pears in . a ,note to the last edition of Jutztvs's ,LETTERS, vn the subject of WOoDFALL'S trial The public, in general, will, we .ddubt not, be struck with the observations which Mr: Fox - made. on the factious clamours of that day, both within and without the House of Commons, and their re markable applicability to the , conduct and coin-. plaints of the same description of people at pre-, sent. Indeed we might almost consi.derthe descrip tion which he then gave of - the character and ob jects of Demagogue Reformers as prophetic of the present time, it the history of all times did not inform us i that there will always be turbulent and factious men who, in their anxiety to get into power, endeavour to bring disgrace upon the existing Administration, and even to hazard the safety of the country itsgriti - order to gratify:- their own venal and ambitious views-. We leave to the admirers of Mr. Fox the task of recon ciling the sentiments which he then delivered respecting the voice of the people, as expresseti by their representatives, and the opinions wilich he afterwards found it expedient to hold forth oa the same subject, opinions which those admirers vehemently inculcate at the present moment. Mr. Fox spoke as follows : " We are told by the abettors of this motion, that jealoulies, murmurs, and discontents inereoe and multiply throughout the nation ; that the peo ple are under terrible apprehensions that the Ia y. is perverted, the juries are deprived of • their con';- stitutionarpo — t, titrertie - CriditrOt JUSIIL not sound and untainted ; in a word, that tha Judges, have, like a dozen of monstrous PEta7o nian giants, either swallowed, or arc going tr> swallow up both law and gospel. And how do ' they prove the truth of these allegations the manner is pleasant enough. They refer us to their own libelous remonstrances, and to those infa mous lampoons and satires, which they have takea care to write and circulate. They modestly sub -stitute themselves in the place of the nation, and call their own complaints the grievances of Eng land. Their meaning is plain enough, and we understand perfectly how all their grievances ought to be redressed. For my part, lam not disposed to take the voice of a miserable faction for the voice of my country. Were the people really dissatisfied, I should be glad to know how I am to ascertain the reality of their diSsatisfac tion ? I must freely confess, that I knOw no other way but that of consulting this House. Here the people are represented, and here their voice ex pressed. There is no criterion but the majority of this assembly, by which we can judge of their . • sentiments. This man, in order to' answer one _ purpose, and that man, in order to - answer ano ther, will tell you that a general cry has gone abroad against certain men and measures, but will you be so credulous as to take him Upon tis,word, when you can easily penetrate:, his-intertsu I views, and find him the original and prime mover of all the clamour ? I can easily trace the authors of the outcry raised against the Judges ; and I would point them out, had not they, as well as their selfish ends, been already exposed in all their deformity. Why then should we hesitate to put a negative upon a question which sprung from such alow source ? From dirt it came, and to dirt let itreturn. As to myself,' r certainly Willi as I can never acknowledge for the voice of the nation what is not echoed by the majority of tpis • House ; and I do not find that th'e majority of us entertain any suspicions, much le'ss terrible ap-; . prehensions, of the Judges; though, if there were • any just foundation for complaint, we must cer tain ly have been better informed of it than the people. " Indeed; if tile adoption of this inquiry would answer any good purpose, I slaoulri not be s uch