The Sun. — London, England, 1812-06-01 00:00:00

MAILS. ARRIVED-1 Anholt, 1 Querrisry, 1 jensey, 2 Dablin, 2 Wa- terfora., 'Zoncols PRICE (.31? sTocKs THIS DAY AT 3. , . - FLyr, - - -61 i I lied. Ann. - LT7, , - i;)LE3I. QUIS . DlCtitE FALSUM AUDEA'r L 0 N N D.o.N,. 3.4ONEt . AY, _JUNE f; PI:S:1 - Vithitruch regret we-find that nothing de cisive has - yet tziken place in the arrangement of a new Administnition; though the Parties chiefly concerned in this arduous task, have been .un - ceasie;lyendeavouringto effect its accomplishment. we, said on Saturday, has omitted .nothing. that could tend to remove the awful pease and settle the leading Parties, if possible, into a -firm and . cordial : Union. We can, of course, only speak of the difficulties by wilkh an arrange . .ment is impeded ,from general rumouribut if we may draw 'any inference from the lartguige of the Opposition Papers, the Party which they sup port arrogates to itself the. exclusive , direction of public affairs: We have asked, but we .. . . have asked in 41 . 11, to be -informed what are the grounds upon which the Opposition rest theft pretensions to the confidence either-of the Public or of the REGENT. Will they refer us to the 'ilea , sures of their_ Administration in 1806, the most . prominent of which were one unsuccessful, neg.°. .ciatiOn, and tWounslecessfulsxpeditions ? .Will they refer to their cbnduct, since they have been.. in Oppo.sition, to prove their skill as statesmen ? Will they recall to the public' recollection the opinions which they .io loudly and : _sei . . dently advanced -respecting . the::it'ar in the: Pe ninsula'?-Will they recapitulate all their gloomy predictions of disaster . and - defeat, which were falsified by the nniforM success acid brilliant vic tories of our. - armies they justify. their . claims 'to govern this country, by confessing that if they had heen .Ministers for the last four years BUOIsMPA4TE . IVOUId, at this moment, be in pos'ses:- Sion of every' nch of Spain and Portugal.; at least, that.they - 'would not have made any effort to pre vent him ? We are Donvineed that - the •PRINCE RtGENT, in ins eflofts to form a new Adtainistra tion, is guided solely by-public principles; but if he . could be actuated upon such an occasion by personal . feelings, surely the indecent condUctbfitheParty towards his Royal 11 ighness for the last four months ca.anot he supposed to be very likely to conciliate . bis esteem of his confidence. pat it is said that ." the Party are willing to coaleice with the Marquis WELLESLEY and Mr. CANNING; and we were told, to our anidiernent; that the difference of political opinion between the - Opposition and those two distinguished Statesmen arc of a slight f4a tare. Surely those who made such an asser tion must have forgotten every public - event that has occured from - the .},:xpedition to C0pen. 7.. .. bagen, to•the present moment,-or they could never - have made so monstrous an assertion. In fact, there is no one point. of ..general._ policy, upon -„ wiiieh they agree ::even upon the Catholic Ques tion, their opinions are essentially at variance. - To the presnt Administration We look with such esteem - and confidence, that we still persuade our selves, that if any propOsed arrangements should filially rest upon them, a - sense of ;patriotism will triumph over feelings of . eticpiette,. or . ,even of . wounded pride, and that they will be found. • conformable to any plan which may relieve " the anxiety of. the people .in so eXtraordi nary a posture of affairs, and that may . promise . • the - .adoption of measures necessary for the • stantial benefit of. the Empire. This is not the time .for any feelings .of a :personal nature, and nothing should animate all parties bait an eager desire to fulfil the wishes of the PRifict, and to promote the interests of the Empire at this awful crisis. . We this morning received Jamaica . Papers the 11th Apfil, from which we have extracted the -following details respecting the earthquake at the Caraccas On the 26th ult at four -P. M. preceding Good- Friday, a:violent shock of an earthquake was ex yeAencerl in` the town of La Guira, which was fol- lowed in quick succession by several others, and in the short space of a very few minutes, only three -ont of about 1000 houses were left standing, and wards of 1200 inhabitants either perished immedi ately, 'or NVCV: buried under the ruins of the fallen houses. , . At Puerto-Cavell° the-shocks were sensibly felt at .the S ame time,- and about SO houses Were , -thrown down, and same lives . lost the number tics not exactly asclt tained, but it was said to be . . . . only seven. Considerable damage was also sustained in the. pity of Caraccas, who,re, at dui aliiameAceziaeut of these violent convulsions of.natute, divine service was performing in the Cathedral and the Church of La Merced, both of which were entirely thrown down, and almost every person present killed. A number of houses were_aiso destroyed. Vittoria, a town situate between Valencia and •Caraccas, was 'entirely demolished, and only fire persons saved. Leon has also suffered greatly, and in short the -whole province has been in some degree injured by this dreadful visitation of Providence:—Large quantities of land have been sunk, and bodies of water have arisen in its room. The total number of lives lost is estimated to be from 1:2 to 14,000. • ' The scene at La Gain and Caraccas was dis tresSing beyond description. The streets were covered with- the dead bodies of the miserable Sufferers; while the number of . persons who sur vived was insufficient to perfortn the funeral offices for, or even to remove, the remains of their unfortunate fellow-citizens. This larnentable catastrophe; it appears, hap .. . • .pened on the second anniversary of their Declara tion of Independence, .at the very hour that they had formerly , dragged their Governor to prison ;. a cir.:urnStance which, from their superstitious principles, it is donceivcci *ill produce a 'very sen sible change in the. politics of that Continent, Many of them considering it as a judgment of the Almighty for their separating themselves from the Mother-Country. Indeed, their. Priests have al ready'availed themselves of such arguments in their exhortations to the people: ,The earth qqake . was alSo felt at CUracoa, but no damage wl.latever occasioned by it.. STATE,' . O7 HIS IkIAJEST . V'S ngSLTII. Yesterday .being the last. Sanday in the month, lie foiiov ing Bulletin was shewn . at St. Janle'§' palace • _ Windsor Castle, May 30. " His INTAsysTt continue§ nearly in the same state - as. the last monthly report." Saturday afternonn the Marquis WrLY4sLEY .had'an au=dience of the PraNcE REGENT, which - lasted near two : hours. Yesterday:the - Earl of - MomA was closeted with the PRINCE REGENT for up , Vards of twohours, from hefore..thice o'clock tilt five. Yesterday morning divine service was performed at Cariton-house before.the PRINCE REoingir, the Princess CHARLOTTE, and other branches of the Royal Family. The service was attended by the Prince's Household. Yesterday afternoon the PRINCESSES visited the Duchess of BRUNSWIGK,at her house in Hanover square. In the evening their Royal Highnesses dined with the Duke andDucheis of YORK: The PRINCE REGENT, the Princess CHARLOTTE of WALES, and other branches of the Royal Family were present. Saturday sv6ning, about nine o'clock, the Prin cesses AUGUSTA and S ont IA arrived at the Queen's Palace from Windsor, for the purpose of being pre sent at the Installation of the Knights of the Bath. The Queen and the other, Princesse,s, will not be present, as was expected. Yesterday morning the Dukes of YORK; KENT, CUMSEELAND, and CAMBRIDGE, and a number of tlle female Nobility and Ge n t r y', vi s it e d the Prin ceiises at the Queen's Palace. IIs7TALLIITION.—On Saturday morning a Gene ral Meeting of the Knights of the Bath took place in the Jerusalem Chamber, and at one o'clock the Knights of the Order, the Knights — Elect, the Proxies for the absentees, the Squires, the Officers of „the Honourable Order, proceeded in grand pro cession, in' the same order as they will this day, at the Installation, to King Henry the Seventh's Chapel, where the installation is to take place.— •The Knights; the Proxies, - and Squires, were placed in their proper places and stalls: The whole of the ceremony was gone through; under the di; rection of the Duke of York, as Grand Master, and Mr.. Townsend, Deputy Bath King of Arms. The .Order of the Bath will he extended to fifty Knights, including the Sovereign and the Grand Master. The number. to be installed is twenty three ;- the following are their names : night Hon. Sir Arthur Paget. Sit-George Beckwith. Earl Sir David Baird. Hon. Sir Ge'orge Jas. Ludlow. Hon. Sir John Hope. fiir Samuel Hood, • Bart. Sir Brent Spencer. Fari of Northesk. • Lord Cochrane. , Sir Rich. John Strachan, Bart. Sir John Coape.Sherbrooke. Hon. Sir A.. F. Cochrane. Sir Wm. Carr Beresford. Sir.!. Stewart Count of Maida: Lieut. General Graham. Sir Philip Francis. , Lieut. General Rim - laud Hill. Sir G. Hilario Barlow, Bart. Maj. Gen; Sir S. Auchmutv. Viscount Strangford. Right Hon. Henry Wellesley, Sir Richard Goodwin "(elites. . Ambassador in The - Proxies , for the:absent Knights are to walk in the places of their - respective Knights, wearing the surcoat, afid"girt with the sword of the Order. They are to carry the mantle- on their arm. They are not to wear the spurs, hat or feather, but walk with hats in their hand. • For the Queen and Princesse!, a grand canopy was fitted up in Westminster Abbey, 4 from whence they view d the ceremony. The sight of Gold is so very attractive that the Lottery Office of CARROL, No. 7, "Cornhill, was crowded on Saturday by customers, inconsequence of his exhibiting- in his window some thousands of Guineas, which we presume he has been hoarding for the purpose of paying such Capital Prizes as he may sell in the Lottery to be drawn yn Thursday next. The extraordinary account at Bridekirk, which we inserted in our paper a few days ago,'stating that a report of the death of Mr; PERCEVAL had been, circnlated at that place' 24' h ours b e f ore the rimlancholy event happened,-was copied from the Dumfries and Galloway Courier, 'but the same paper of ,the 26th ult. has contradicted it, and 'says, that in consequence of an investigation by the Sheriff, the report appears to have arisen in mistake, and probably originated from the murder of one of the' manufactureri in England 414 ring the latiadisgracaul riots. NAVAL NEWS. *mymouTH, MAY 29.—Arriveil this day atein tiful American ship, of about. 600 toils burtheri - , called the General Gates, belonging and bound:to New York, - Marner, - master, from Bo urdeaux, with .a very valuable cargo, consisting of brandy; ivine, silks, &c: detained by his Majesty's .ship Belle Pottle, Capt. Brisbane, in - company with the Abercrombie man of _war, Captain. Fahie ; Dryad frigate, Captain -Galwa.y4 and the Az mide fri-. gate, Captain Dunn.- The Gewral Gats sail ed from Bourdeaux on. Sunday last,. and brings intelligence_ of the arrival there of a very fine American schooner called .the Gipsey, Which was detained on the 30th April last, by the Belle Pottle frigate, on her voyage from , New York to Bourdeaux, with a very valuable cargo of colonial prodUce, and which was taken pOs,session of by the master and part of the il.mmican crew,. who were left on board, aided by four American seamen who were concealed in the vessel, whkh took place about ,fourteen hours after her deten tion, without any loss on either side ; when the American master offered to take the prize-Master and his crew into Bourdeaux, or give them ,a boat with as much provision as they might require ; the latter they accepted, and fortunately were picked up by the Belle Foyle on the following day. Arrived the American ship Coran, Shaw, Mas ter, with a cargo of timber, for Portsmouth, boUnd to this port, for orders,; and the American brig John, Turner master, with a cargo of timber for this port, both, from Amelia Island, after a pas sage of six weeks.. TlieSe vessels bring'a confirm ation of the intelligence received some days since, of the Americans havipg taken pOSSeS3iOII. of Ame lia Island, hut that it was .generally expected it would soon bf.s, given up to the Spaniards. The Survedianie- frigate, Capt. Sir G. Collier, has detained and sent in here this day the Ameri can schooner Young Conneeticatt, belonging to . New York, - Waterma n , mas t er , from Bayonne, with a cargo, consisting of brandy, inc,W &c. bound to America. Arrived the Prussian schooner zEohls, II Jan sen, master, from St. Mary's, ;with a 'cargo of timber, bound to this port foi• orders. MAy 30.—Last evening, : as the brig Mentor ,• Noble master, was attempting to work out, of Catwater, she drifted ashore on the ^ rods under Queen Ann's Battery, and soon afterwards fell over, but righted again during the night, and, was this morning got off with little damage. The Mentor was from London; and had on board a cargo of rum for his Majesty's Victualling-office at this port. Pased down Channel last evening from the Eastward, a few merchantmen. Arrived the Appledram, Gannett,. from chester ; the Providence, Brown 5 : 'the Rosamond; Loviinian ; the Industry,. Lelean ; and . the Mary Ann, Tippett, from Wales: The Endyntion frigate was docked yesterday, aria ordered . to be fitted for service. Sailed the Neptune tender for Dublin. Went up the harbour the Northumberland - maxi of war. Arrived the Circe frigate, and the i4etece4 brig of war, from Portsmouth. 'DEAL, MAY 30.—Nearly a million of dollart, belonging to the East .India Company, were land ed at this port last Week by Mr. Edward Iggulden, the East India Company's Agent, from out of the Indefatigable •frigate, lately arrived from China, and were forwarded under a strong escort, to the India House. , _ _DEAL, .MAY 31.—Sailed his Majesty's -ships Pompee and Defiance for off Flushing. - FALMOUTH, MAY. 31.--=-Sailed the following packets : Prince . Ernest for Lisbon ; Eliza for Ca.-: diz ; Darlington for the Leeward Islands ; Prince Adolphus for Surinam; Townsend for the Brazils ; and the Malborough for Lisbon; the Speedy for Cadiz, and the Mancl,ester for Gibraltar and Malta still reiuuin. , DARTMOUTH, liLky 30.—Arrived the Eliza cartel, from Morlaix. Ms Majesty's ship Sprightly took off this Port yesterday a small French privateei, of 2 guns and 27 men, and sent her for Portsmouth, PORTSMOUTH,MAY (.).--;-...- - Nssecibyhis Majesty's ship Gloir, ?, with about 60 sail under conyoy, from Tortola, for the Myer. • His Majesty's ship Linnet has sent in the French prii-ateer La Pilot Charles, which she took off the Start. A Naval Inquiry will, we understand, take place, into some circumstances that attach to two or three of our ships, soon after the enemy's squadron, which lately escaped oat of Rochefort, put to sea. - • The Scarborough, 74; has been. eoppered and taken out of dock ; the Minden,\74, built of teak, at Bombay, is taken in, preparatory to, her being surveyed by Sir Wm. RULE_and H. PE Ica, Esq. the 'Surveyors of th e Navy, \Vito are, expected at Partnuoutli this day ,for that purpose, ORDERS EV COUATIL. FR - 04 TfIE QUARTI:LY REVIEW, (Gmtimyd from 'our I).per of Saturday ktst.)- - There can be no doubt that these two Orders of the belligerents bore hardupon the.only remain' ing neutral.. The British Orders in Coun'dl, how ever, cinitainetl . many exceptions in her, favour I White t4e.:- - 15ecte.e of Milan was calculated:to sweep every ship or. hers from the ocean. • Not (Italy were the British Orders -in Council. modified and mai , gated in their original conformation, for, the pur pose of relaxing; in .fayour of America, , that ge neral prohibition- of pII trade with the enemy, -which a mkt retaliation would have justified ; but Ivhen found that, scime of the relax,ationg which were: intended for this object were more olv nirkious to AineriCa i than the probibitiOn itself, those relaxations,, were repealed, It had been permitted to neutrals. l by the original - Orders iii Connell; to trade with the enenif,, on condition or previonsly touching . .at a British port, and paying a trifling duty. , The object of this duty was l ot to collect revenue-for this . Country, - still less to impose a tribute on America, as was , yeAe.mently aid angrily contended in.that country: It was simply a mean of insuring . and registering, with. respect to each vessel, the fact of its so touChing . at an port. The principle of the Orders in Council was this. Our enemy says there shall be no trade with Eng land, We have a right to .say in return—thers• shall be none with our enemy :—and this, prohi bition, if we had thought fit to adopt it in its full extent, we had the power of enforcing. If the neutral had thus boen excluded• front 411 trade welatever; the fault would haVe been so, obviously in the original aggressor, France, that against .. that original aggressor the complaints of Arne rica must have been directed ;—at least, as loudly as against, this country. It. is a whi ms i ca l f ac t, . that Great Britain heca.rne exposed to that most ~ u nequal share of obloquy Which* has been poured upo - n- her by Ainerica, . only -by having mitigated. • the - strictness 'of a principle -upon which .Francg , continued to act without. mitigation. And it is , . . . really edifying to observe with what in Mr. Afadison has eontyived to represent all such relations on the part of Great Britain in favour of neutral trade,. of the exercise of o right( by - thel strict.enforeement or which it must have be.ei crushed and tin dished, as ' badges of hurnili t atio . n,' as regulations ' violating equattrhe neil . : teal rights ,aed national soverei.-nty of America,' , as measures not only " stabbing her interests, kilt superadding,/under the navie of indulgencitis, 1i blow at their rational independence, and a mock ery • of their understandings.' That while all the instructions of Mr. Jeffers°.ti . . and Mr. Madison to their Minister 'in London,• teem with violent .and opprobrious expressions, those to Mr. Armstrong at Paris are, to be sure, . . querulous enough, but gentle and supplicatory,. !without one expression of indignation, at, the ori ginal aggressors and authors • of all the ills of which they had eo f tnplain. Nay, Mr. Madison finds even an. apology for the Frencn Decrees ; they. aro merely municipal regulations,' not affecting, by their operation, the neutral rights of America He lent a willing ear' to the deCeption practised upon him by the French Minister, that the plac ing-of the British .Islands in a state .of blockade made no alteration lathe existing French laws con cerning maritime captures.' The seizure and confis-. • catiot of American ships on the high seas and the . ports of Franee, made it indeed, impossible long to remain deceived: yet even then her Minister Iva* instructed to be particularly careful to leave the . way open for friendly and respectful explanations, if there should be a disposition to offer them.' The burning of their ships .at'sea -.Mr. Madison i 9 pleased to designate as the most distressing or all the'modes . by which belligerentS exert force con' trary right yet provided C hostility. of, inteivs disproved, he kerns to this that the 'fenCe \v.; uldhe- wiped off by an itthemnificatio 9 to' the injured.individuats: And at the, very mc' l went that he reprcients the Decree afterwards j - sued at Bayonne, as a sweeping stroke at ail. Arnei*an.Vess'els on the high sEas, ; he (Erects G 'nert Armstrong to avoid a stile of procedure which might co-operate with the policy of the British Government, by stimulating the passigas of theTrencit,' .ThLs return for this tame and suP- missive conduct was precisely what might haste beenforeseen. So far from indeminificatioii b e ' ing made to injur?d individuals' for .the property destroyed by the incendiaries, the plunder saved 014 Of the ship was 'condemned as good and prize. _ _ _ (To be continued.) The Incorporated. Trades of Lbinhurgh, ate the Inhabitants of 4htwcleen, have unanimous-. voted an Address of Condolence to the l'Rvcc REGENT, on the atrocious murder of the Righ t Hon. SPENCER PERCEVAL. Similar Addresse i have been also unanimously voted by .the tratai of Kilmarnock and Paisley.