The Sun. — London, England, 1812-02-08 00:00:00

Sir S. liomn.LY had not stated that the Cone Mittee were not inquiring, because he had seen all the evidence. He had no desire to separate the questions. The motion was then agreed to. Mr. BROUGHAM moved for an account of the number of Imports and Exports from and to Ame rica for the last ten years, ..t.ith their tonnage, &C.-- Agreed to. Also the number of Commercial Licenses, dis tinguishing the ports from whence. After some observations from the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who conceived there Would be some difficulty in a , certaining those which had been acted 1 1 ) °o, and Mr. Brougham stating he wished co have th l inf ormation, wh e th er acte d or no t acted upon, rnotion wars agreed to. On the molioi, of Mr. ROSE, an account of the to tal real value of Extorts from Great Britain to all P ar ts of America and the West Indies for the last three years, was ordered to be laid before the House. Adjourned till Monday. ARRIV MAILS. I r Anbult, t Dublin, 2 Vkaterford. I3ull-2 Guernsey, z jersey; 1 Brazils, I Dublin. I'lCiC f{ or 131')Cic` - ., T . ! IS DAY AT TVVYLVF O'CLuCK. Consols. ". 6a I Omnium - - T H F, S U N., gOLE M QUIS DIC(RE FALSUM AIIDEAT? L 0 N I) 0 N, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1812. - There have been many reports of the intended Tesi g"tion of Mr. YORKE at the Admiralty, on 13°Ii tical grounds, but these reports are wholly on ' (3"d ed• The truth is, that the health of this gentlerna, has been so indifferent for the last three tn ()Nils, that nothing but a sense of public duty a ° Uhl have induced him to retain his situation ; u ntl " We are assure d , t h at mere l y f rom drat cause, hit h every friend to worth and talents must re gret' he his expressed his anxious wish that a suc cess should be appointed. Vir• iv " a te letters from Sicily state that the o..teen of ,7 4P LRs ha s l ate l y ex p resse d sent i ments very a d verse Kt th e , ve Nation, and .others quite the reverse, 6Pe6t ing the Intruder on her Husband's Throne.— Thts str an ,,, s State of mind has been ascribed to some tre e of Ment a l d eran g e m e nt, and it is certain that are I 3 to the constant h a bi t o f t a kin g Laudanum in pr edi gtous quantities. The King seems wholly to 1 : 11rt ' horn publi c business. It is stated in our Fal -1,7111 letter th a t th e Queen, has been deposed, but il ieve there is nc) foundation for the report. N4 We this morning received American Papers, 1.2 h bring the following . details respecting the Meeedings in the House of Repres-ntatives IiOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Wiithitigton City, Dec. 3r. 111 h e House, in a Committee of the whole, re :led th e cons id erat io n o f t h e unfinished business Yesterday (B i ll f rom t h e S ena t e f or ra i s ing an ad ditional military force). Mr Wiee tams i mme di a t e ly moved, that the Corn 41"lee rise, for the purposf- of taking up another Bill °lll the Senate, authorizing the President to or ganise six co m p an i es o f R angers f o r th e proteaion ‘ l4 the frontlet. Mr M`K. - observed, that information had been 4 ceiv ed that the Prophet had been reinforced to the 410 " t of 2000 men, and that there was good rea -4.4 10 believe he meditated another attack. the House again went into a Committee of the 11h(31 e , Mr. BRECKENRIDGE in the Chair, on the 11 11 : .11 for r a i s i ng an ad di t i ona l m ili tary f orce ( 25 ,000 eti )e--After various amendments, the Bill was 6t)tle through; after which , i ‘lt• CLAY, S pea k er , e xp r e ss ed his sentiments 1,, it h respect to this Bill. He contended that the t ,,, t a - e it propo se d t o ra i se , so far from being too large, entirely too small for v.ar. If this army of A O O men wa, intended for the invasion of Ca -04,4, their num b er wou ld be greatly reduced before :eY reached Q ehec. This diminution would be ,: in g to the gp.riisons required for intermediate c es that miqht previously be subdued ; for al though the army would leave no European twee be hind th em, they wou ld l eave t h e i n h a bit ants est j IVer Canada behind them. Thus we should lav e but a sma ll force l e ft t o l a y s i e ge to Quo - bee ' a place already almost impregnable, and °j ell, in the event of hostilities, would receive gre at rei n f orcements. Wi t h r egar d to the idea hat Britai n was fi g h t i ng the battles of the world, .C. observed, that if she would relinquish her W a insolent pretensions, she might then challenge ~ ht • , rsal sympathy in the present contest, but not tlll then. He could not consent to submit to the kic ks 2nd s:offs of Great Britain, under the ci,nne tteal fear of FrctEh subjugation. He requested gentlemen to lock at the fate of desolated Spain.— 'lad she been benefited by the base subserviency, to tileetial dictates ? No : If she had nobly.asserted her rights, her Monarch would not now be groaning in a dui von. Mr. WIDGERY and Mr. BOYD followed, in oppo ititton to the Bill. This morning a Malta Mail arrived, from which we have made the following extract GIBRALTAR, JAN. 25.—8 y private letters from Sicily we learn, that some further particulars rela tive to the conspiracy had transpired : it appeari that an officer, high in rant:, bad agreed to give up his division of the flotilla to the enemy. The corre spondence was fortunately intercepted, and the de velopement of the plot was managed with a degree of dexterity which reflects much credit on the ta lents of those who were entrusted with it. The Officer's letters were regularly forwarded (being first copied), the answers received and de livered ; by which means the conspirators have all been made known to Government. In his last let ter, the chief of the conspirators acknowledges the receipt of credits to the amount of the stipulated price of his treachery. We may shortly expect to hear a more circum stantial account of these proceedings, as the most active and vigorous measures have been adopted for bringing the offenders to.justice. As the packet was coming out of Malta she his Majesty's ship Active, which had captured the French frigate Pomone, of 40 guns and 350 men, after a severe a6lion, in which the former had 10 men killed and t 6 wounded.—We are sorry to find the name of that highly meritorious Officer, Capt. GORDON among the latter, having lost his right leg , the First Lieutenant lost an arm. The Ponzone was convoying two armed store-ships at tht time of her capture, one of which was in com pany with the ASiive when the packet fell in with her, the other had escaped. We are happy to have it in our power to congra tulate the publicon the capture of the last among the Venetian ftigates composing the Tyrant's Adria tic squadron. Mr. KIRWAN was to be brought up on Thursday last, but only tp receive an admonition from the Court. The Catholic Committee, notwithstanding the trials, mean to assemble 'on the ( .2.00). This daring contt...mpt of Government and Law will, we trust, be properly resisted. Mr. HAse read a message at the Bar of the Stock Exchange tins morning, announcing the intention of the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER to fund four teen millions of Exchequer Bills in the 5 per Cent. Navy. He proposed to give 108 Navy 5 oer Cent. for every hundred pounds subscribed.—Navy 5 per Cents. fell nearly 5 per cell. Yestrday the Dokes of YoRK, CLARENCE, and CUMBERLAND, ViSi'ed ti PRINCE REGENT. Mr. PERCEVAL hid a long audience yesterday, a Carlton Hou,e, of the Pi INGn i'a:G EN r. _ The Maiquis of HERTFORD wilt give a grind. din ner to-morrow, at his house in Manchester-square Thursd iy night Mrs. HovE gave her fir ,t rout this season, which was very splendidly atteliced. In the Court of King's Bench, this morning, the Rule for granting_ the Mandamus, in the case of Dr. POVAH and the BISHOP of LONDON was discharged. The Court of Exchequet was occcupied this morning W'ith hearing arguments in tdecase of Sir FRANCIS BURDETT and the SPEAKER. A letter has been received from Pails, wiitien by a Gentleman very well acquainted with the affairs of the French Government. He says, that France has at this moment a most powerful army in the North of Europe, which has received orders to move in the direction of the Kingdom of Poland, hming for its object, no doubt, the overawing the Emperor of RUSSIA. A quarrel has occurred between the French and Russian Ambassadors at the Co•,►t of Naples, the particulars of which are interesting, as they indicate the ill-humour which prevails. between the two Powers they respedively represent. On a day of gala and ceremony, the French Ambassador entered the apartment of state, and immediately proceeded to the highest situation assigned to the Foreign Ministers. The Russian Ambassador soon lol lowed, and hastily passing the Frenchman, placed himself above him. A dispute arose, the parties mutually expressed their sentiments, and the next morning fought a duel, when both .of them were wounded. THE THEATRE.—The interesting Opera of The Maid of the Mill, which has bez•ri strangely thrown aside for many years, was last night revived at 'the Lyceum, and so well supported in all its characters, as to be likely to prove very attractive.—PHlLLlPS acted and sung with great ability in Lord Aimworl/t. We never saw. Mrs.,DICKONTS act so +t.ll, or heard her siog , better than in Patty. DOwTON was excel-, len' in Sir Harry Sycamore; and Mrs. SPARKS gave hin , good support in his Lady. Mrs. BLAND was admirable in Fanny ; and KNIGHT'S Ralph was i.WHOTOuS and natural. Powfs.u. was very respect able in Faiiiield ; and the whole went off with great eclat. Yesterday afternoon, as a Gentleman's carriage was passing rapidly along Mary-ia• bonne-street, the hinder wheel bounded against: a post, in giving way for other vehicles, and was overturned with the ut most violence. An elderly Lady, and a youth about eleven years of age, were inside. the coachman was so severely hurt in his head that he died on 11;s way to Middlesex Hospital, and the youih within was so much injured in his arm, that it is feared am putation must follow. A meeting was held on Wednesday, at Bristol, for the nomination of a candidate - to succeed Mr. BAILLIE, who has announced his intention to re. tire from the represznuation of that city. Sir S. ROMILLY and Mr. PaoTHRRoE were proposed, but the meeting dispersed in consequence of the tu uous conduct of persons present. The LORD MAYOR has backed a warrant for the impressmeat of seamen in the City for the Navy. SECOND EDITION; Sun Office, Three o'Clock. We stop the Press to lay before our Readers the following interesting particulars respetling the recent transadions in Sicily : MESSINA, DEC. i t.—On Friday the. 6th was ar rested by orcir - of his Excellency General DANEROS at the request of the General in Chief of the British Army, Capt. D. ANDREA ROSAROLI, Neapolitan, charged with holding a correspondence with Gene ral MANHES, and other French Officers in Calabria. His last original letter, written in his own hand to the French General, wa6,produced against him, and officially verified as written by him, by six notaries in the presence of the Magistrates required. As the public has manifested a great anxiety to have a list of the persons who were arrested in the night of the lof December, we here subjion their names. We have the greatest satisfaelion in perceiving that there are among them only two Sicilians. Colonel D. CONSrANTINO de FILIPPIS. Lieut, Col. Di MARINA. E%LIIATE 0. 1'401.0 MINAS!. Capt. D. FRANCISCO ANTONIO SPADEA, Calabrian. FRANCISCO SANTARO. DOMENICO SANTARO. PIETRO VERSAEI. VERSA El. 9 Lours BASTION, Frenchman. ro DOMERSICO LLGATO, alias IALIVENTO, Calabrian. 11 SALVATORI BURSUMAT, Citirlll,lll. 12 GAETANO LAFARO, alias TANTILLO, Calabrian. 13 FRANCISCO NlA.ararr.s, of Catania. 14 GIOVANNI CAFASSO,Of Messina. IS PIETRO SORACI, of Messina, ANTONIO CRISEHA whose punishment was de• ferred on account of his extreme weakness, was hanged on Monday morning, after having been at tended by the priests, and received the sacrament of the chutch. DEC. 18.—On Saturday night a barque was taken which had been sent to the enemy to take otfsome spits, who, however, had been arrested the day before, in a neighbourirg village, where they were ound concealed. One day last week a gallows was. seen ereaed on a point opposite this city, with an unfortunate wretch hanging on it, and we have since been in- formed of an aet of equal barbarity .and injustice, perpetrated by the French Government, in Calabria, which most chill the blood of every one who has the slightest feeling of humanity. In the night be tween the 5111 and 6th, the Spy, by whose means Capt. ROSAROLI, before-mentioned, carried on his treacherous correspondence with the enemy was apprehended, with a letter upon him, written by ROSA ROL!, of which he was to be the bearer to Gen. MANHES. The French lament the arrest and con r►emnation of RostatoLt, and suspecting that he had been destroyed by one BORELLO, they seized the innocent wife of the said BORELLO, and after putting her to cruel torments. to make her confess what her husband had done, of which, indeed, she knew no thing, they at last barbarously hanged her on a gallows, within sight of Messina. What a contrast do we find between French and Brit►sh justice ! The English treat wish humanity those even who are evidently proved to be guilty, while the French exercise the greatest barbarity on the relatives of those against whom they"have no proof at all. NAVAL NEWS. PLYMOUTH, FEB. G.—Arrived this morning the Tip Patent, belonging and bound to London, Gtr.- LtsPIE, late master, from New PrOvidence, with a cargo, consisting of logwood, &c. was captured a few clays since by a French privateer, and shortly alter was fallen in with by his Majesty's ship Diana, of 36 guns, Captain FERRIS, by which•ship she was chased three days, when - the Pateni was run ashore on the coast of Franc , -, where she was taken possession of by the beats of the Diana, and a r ped .off; Captain GILLBPIE with- ten of his crew were taken out by the privateer. His M ,jesty's ship Mermaid is appointed to take convoy for the Downs, instead of the Lutona, which ship was ordered to sea that day, and the former will sail on Saturday next, provided the wind proves favourable. Arrived the Diana from a cruize off the coast of France; and the Loire frigate from a cruize off Brest ; also arrived the Lark, belonging to . this port, HAttats, master, from London, with a cargo tot' - this port ; the Belle Pottle frigate, Captain Bills- BANE, and the Dryad frigate, Ciptill) GALWAY, have de!airied and sent in here this . day, ate Atm riCan .schooner Prudentia, TucK, master, from Gloucester, in America,with a Largo of fish, t2010,.1 to Boutdeaux.. FALMOUTH, FEB. s.—Arrived this morning the Sandwich packet, Captain SCHUYLER, with mails from the Mediterranean, nine days passage from Gibraltar ;. she left s Messina on the 25 t h of Decem ber. The Quec'n of SICILY had been deposed. Se.. veral Sicilians, with a Monk and Ftench Colonel, (deteBe3 as a spy), bad been executed. All was tranquil when the . packet : left. The Ncraon and Adolphus packets arrived at Cagliari ort Jhe 9th of January, ten days from Gibraltar ; the latter sailed on the sam6 dhy for Malta. His Majesty's ship Leyden, with fleet for England, was spoke with on the 6th of January, in lat. 18. 26. 611 . Majesty's ship Matatar, with fleet for England, arrived at Maki' on the 28th of December; and his Majesty's ship Ganymede, and Weymouth store-ship arrived at Gibraltar,' on the 24th ultimo. The Duke of Montrose packet was lying there at that time. This packet confirms,the account of the cap ture of a French frigate and store-ship, by his Ma• jesty's ships ilaive and Alceste ; the former frigate is said to have los 20 .killed and 40 wounded, among the latter is- Capt. GORDON, vvho has lost a leg. The ficTiive artived at Malta on the 7th Jan. the day the packet left. The enemy is said to have had t5O killed and wounded. They were from Toua lon, bound to Corfu. Arrived this day the schooner Duke of Clarence, JOHNS, Master, from Bristol to load for Lisbon. POETRY. OLD TO THE LAWS, AND STAND FAST BY THE THRONE. WRITTEN BY M.A. SEISE, ESQ. R. A. COMPOSED EY MR. MAJOR. From the mr.wasted scene where Oppression bears sway, And of Freedom no more foil i 'd.Philosophy raves, Where life in the palsrofltar pines away, And the Tyrant still triurbphs, surrounded by slaves; The Briton his eye turns exulting to own The blest region where Man bears an aspet sublime, Where a King wields the sceptre of Law from a throne, Which, by Liberty built, stands the wonder of Time. Look back to those ages so vaunted of yore, Where has Liberty shone with a lustre so pure . Where has Man been so tree, or so happy, before, Or hapless felt those'ills which all mortals endure; While the wrecks of proud empires lie scatter&d around, And the tempest, still raging, drives dark o'er the Unshaken the bulwarks of Britain are found, And undaunted her sons on the land and the main. TO BE FREE is our birth-right, our pride, and our boast, 'Tis the Charter achiev'd by the blood of our Sires, And as long as the ocean encircles her coast Shall Oi•i England be free While their spirit inspires. Or abroad, or at home, then, what foes Should we fear, While our hearts are our Country's—our swords are our own ; While our rights we maintain, and our Kingwe revere, WHILE WE HOLD T• THE LAW, AND STAND FAST BY THE e rilltON ' El * It is gratifying to find in these revolutionary times, that an author, wl.io has written two.such adri.irableyocros ay this 6entiernan has produced on the art of which he is su tinguished an ornament, is animated by loyalty as well a ) * genius. - ANHOLT MAIL. LEMSEO, JAN. 6.—There were no more than 1 t men saved of the crew of the St. George, as the twelfth died before he could be brought into a house. These seamen state that the ship, previous to the loss of her masts, had likewise had her rud der broken by striking or:, the Red sand, and the one which was made no Lard to replace it, was too weak to steer and govern the ship in a gale of wind in the North Sea, and which might probably cause the ship's stopping. The Defence first took ground, and on signal being given of the accident, the St. George let go her anchor, but in bringing up with the an chor she took the ground abaft, so that her fore part, which had• deeper water and was confined down by the cable, was in a short time under wa ter. To save them by boats and craft from the shore, was impossible. Such as were hoisted out were immediately driven from the ship, with the exception of one boat, in which about 20 men at tempted to save.themselves, but it upset alongside. the ship, and they were all drowned. On the af ternoon of the 25th of December (Christmas-dC, when the last eleven men left the ship on a small piece of plank, Admiral Reynolds and Captain Cyan, the Commander of the ship, were lying dead aside each other upon the quarter-deck, as were also about five hundred and ninety-eight reen of the crew, who had died through fatigue and cold, and from the sea breaking over t hem, only about 50 men remaining still alive, whose cries were only heard until it became dark, when it is to be hoped that an end was pot to their misery. 'I wo days afterwards, when the gale was abated., and the wind being easter ly, was off . the shore, a Danish boat, with two of the English sailors, went on board, to bring away the Corp es Or the Admiral, Captain, and several other persons, but the deck was washed away by the sea , with ail the bodies laying on it. It is supposed the ship most now be broken right athwart, al ' t the ends of her are still perceptible, and that it nit bit the ammunitiou lying in the bottom which holOs her together.'" Among the ship's crew, which is sai , l. toehave been no more than 750, about 40 were 'teckoned in the class of Odiders, and of these, - exclusive of the Admiral and Captain, ten were .Lieutenants, one Secretary, one Captain, and three Lieutenants of Marines. The Secretary was half dead when •he came' on store, and expired imunedistely. after. A great quantity of gold coins were found- upon his person, such as wholti arct .hoif guineas, Dutch ducats, &c. and like wise boille English Bank poles, 'is, so far as yet known, all the money saved, according to the re port &vett by the survivors. The Admiral. mutt have been a most gallahr roan. •fiu would not quit his ship, but died on b, , azd her. 1-4Ags a widower, and has left two daughters behind Mira end a son, who is a Captain. A great number of dead holies have bt*t driven on shore between liansby, and Nessucas all of which' were interred .s ith military honours. Porty seven - half-carrels of gunpowder have been saved out of the Defence.