The Sun. — London, England, 1812-06-03 00:00:00

FRENCri PAPERS. MAi,24.—Their Imperial Maiinties ar rived at Mentz on the lith, and stopped there during the 12th. The Emperor visited the 1-rti ficatioris, .and reviewed the troops. 'They re ceived the Grand Mike. and Duchess of.,Hestie- Darmstadt; ; the Hereditary Prince, and the Prince of Anlr.ilt Coethen. On the 13t.1i 'their Majesties, after stopping a few moments at Aschaffenburg with the P-rince continued their ronte for - Wurtzburg, where they : slot, after receiving the King of Wur-. temberg and-.,the Grand P ke.._Qf 3aden. They set 6:lt on the 14th, and slept at Barenth and on, the Idtli at Plauen. 'On the 16th, at 11 at night, they enterer! Dresden with their Saxon Majesties, v.-h 6 had met them at Freyberg. Oa the 17th his Majesty received at :his levee, the Ministers-and great Officers 331 .the Saxon .Court, the Princes of Weyr.lar,...Se r. Gottourg,. and Dvssan. Next day, at one:o4locic tht . l;mperoiand Em tress of A ii:tria Dresden..-.:111-the eve ning the King of Saxon : gaze a banquet'to his The Queen of Westphalia, and the Grand Duke of Wurtzburg, arrived at Dresden on the 17th. NUR'EMBEHG, MAY 19--The following are some farther details with regard to the journey of their Majesties. On arriving on , the frontiers, of :Bava ria, they were. met by the Baron de Friesen,Grand Chamberlain of the King of Saxony, and M. de Gersdorff, Chief of the Saxrnr Staff, who were sent to compliment their Majesties, and halc the honour of accompanying them to Dresden. On the morning of the 15th, their Majesties pas,sed - through Saxon Vogtland, and in the even• ing arrived at Freyberg, in the,Erzgeberg, where they found the King and Queen of SA:cony, who had come to meet theca. Their Imperial Majes ties were . received with the greatest honours at Frcyberg. A fete, arranged by M. de Trebna, Chief Inspector of the Freyherg mines, is much talked of. there was, it is said, on this occasion, a train of more than 3000 miners, carrying flam beaux, and picturesquely dressed in their working suits. _ _ _ Their Imperial Majesties reside in the Castle of Dresden. Their Majesties the Einperor and Ent , press of Austria occupied the Palace of Prince Antony, the King's brother. The fine castle of Pilnitz has been fitted up for, . . . a fete 5 - - there will be a grand bunt in its vicinity. FLORENCE, NIAy B. A r tayor of this city has informed the public, that_ between the - 20th May and the 7th June, a Neapolitan diN isiori, consist .ing of 11,027 infantry, and 1518 cavalry, destined for the grand army of Germany', will pass through Florence. • Wafts a - w , May I 1 .--The Emperor of the French , bur immortal benefactor, is expected here with 'the most lively impatience. The Royal Palace is already prepared for his reception. . • BERLIN, MAY. 10.—The Marshal Duke of Ta rento, who has been here for some time, set out yesterday for Custrin, on his ulterior destination. The French General of Division Desolies has been • appointed to the command of the - district between the Oder and the Vistula. , . • WILNA, APRIL 27.—The Emperor Alexander'. has arrived here in very good health. 'He gave audience to Count Barclay de . Tolly, chief of the first army of the West and to the civil. and military authorities.- The - Emperor's suite consists of Counts ROrnaniow, Chancellorathe Empire, Counts IC.otcLubey and Aractejew, the Duke of Richelieu, and a great number of' Aides du-camp. During the absence ofoßoinanzow, the port-folio for foreign affairs is entrusted to Count A. Soltikow. His Majesty left St. Petersburgh on the 2.lSt, and at nine o'clock on the 23d arrived at Pleskow. There he was received by the Civil and Military Authorities ; at ten he went to church, and put up prayers, kissed the relics and images, and was afterwards complimented by the archimandrite . and rector, Athanasius. After service, his Ma jesty, accompanied by Prince Schachoffsky, in spected the hospital and other establishments of the town. After dinner he resumed his journey. As far as Pleskow, the Emperor travelled in a sledge, on account of the great quantity of snoW., It is said, that he passed through Revel and Riga, up the banks of the Drina, and throug . li Polockz. The troops cantoned at \Vilna and in its vicinity are so numerous, that four men are lodged in the smallest cottage. The strength of the army is variously estimated ; the Guards are said to amount to 50,000 men. An Ukase of. the.sth orders a levy of two men from every 500 through out the whole extent of the Empire. PARIS, Mat 27.—We learn from Gerona, that on the 4th instant an attempt to carry by assault the fort of Maar°, built in the old garden of the Capuchins, was made by the insurgents under the command of Milans. They were supported by two English ships of the line, a-frigate, and six corvettes. The Commandant received a summons to sutc render, signtd Milans; in the name of Lacy, im porting, that if the fort was not immediately sur rendered, 10,000 men were ready to mount to the assault. The Commandant, Chevillard, re plied, that a French officer never surrendered as long as he had powder and'hall; and that if the escort of the flag of truce did not retire in ten minutes, it should be fired. upon. On this unexpected reply the attack com menced : the cannon placed by the English near the Capuchin convent, at the extremity of the town, opened their fire, hut did no damage, ex cept to some houses used as barracks. A battery, consisting of two large pieces of artillery, arid placed on the side of the mountain, only injured the town without touching the fort. The enemy :,ueceetted in effecting a breach : at midnight they attempted an assault on all points, but were vi gor--nisly repulsed. At last, hard pressed by his Excellency the Commander-in-Chief, they ,were compelled to reimbark, after losing a number of men, and the French gained possession of the bat tery. A great number of Russian Nobles, •who spent last winter and the beginning of the spring in France and Italy, are now on their 'return to Russia, through Suabia, Bavaria, and the Aus trian States. LaMI3EIIO,. (POLISII ALty 1.--Ac- L 0 .N D 0 N; WEDNESDAY, JUNE. 3, -1312. In pursuance of our promise to communicate to our Readeys th'e earliest intelligence respecting the Negociation for the formation of a New Ad ministration, we yesterday afternoon published in a Second Edition the following statement, which we deriVed from a source that induced us to give it implicit credit).— “. We have just heard from an authority, in which we are disposed to confide, that the Negociation between the Marquis . WELLEsLEY and the heads of the GRENVI; LE Party has been abruptly con chided, and upon such a ground as renders it hardly likely that it will be renewed. • c The Marquis WELLESLEY, we are:assured, de clared to Earl GREY, that in his arrangements there would be four Cabinet appointments for his Lordship's Party, upon which . Lord GREY IS said to have answered,—” Then your Lordship in tends to have 'a majority in the Cabinet ?" to which the Marquis answered in the affirma tive.—Lord GREY is said to have added,—" and whom does your Lordship consider 'as the most proper person to be at the head of the Admini stration ?"---The,Marquis, we understand, replied, " myself, certainly,"-1 am to form the Admini stration, and I conceive I may reasonably expect to fill that situation." Upon receiving this an swer, Lord GREY, WC are informed, signified that the Negociation was at an end, and took his leave." If the above statement be correct,. and we have every reason to believe that it is, it is evi dent that the Opposition are acting upon the Prin ciple which we attributed to them; viz. that they, will not join in an Administration unless they have the formation of it. Their conduct, in refusing their assistance Under the Marquis WEL LESI:EY, cannot be accounted for on any other ground. When' we contended that considerable differences of political opinion subsisted between the Noble Marquis and the Opposition, we received a direct and an angry contradiction from the MOrn ingChronicle. 'We would ask,'; said that Paper on Sa turday, what differences in principle exist between the Opposition and either Marquis WELLESLEY or Mr. CANNING, On the leading features of our present policy ? On the Catholic claims, for in stance ? on the Spanish war ? on- the prestrvation of Peace with America ? or on the Bullion 'ques tion, so admirably stated and discussed in Mr. CANNING's speech last year ? Shades of difference on the policy of this or that measure, or of this or that degree 'of pursuing the same measure, may ,and will exist among per-, sons who have not had the same facts to refer. to for .forming their opinions ; but that diversities of this nature should be set up with. a view of in flaming them into broad, fundamental differences of principle, is downright nbsurdity, and can only be the act of men who, in the desperation of seeing their beloved places tern from their impotent hands, would keep the country in its present alarm,would perpetuate the ferment which they have caused, would be ready to see ,their country be come a province of Francs, and would render the Crown not worth the REaENT's wearing when he gets it" !fore, then, is a distinct, c.!eclarafion that there is no such difference in principle between the Marquis WELLESLLY and the Opposition, as to preVent them from acting together in , Ad- . ministration. Why then have they, at this most awful crisis, refused their services to their PRINCE and their Country ? the • answer is obvious ; it is because power is their ob ject ; they will not act with those with whom they say they agree in principle, unless they . are invested with au absolute controul over the Coun cils of the country. We have .repeatedly asked their supporters to tell us what are the grounds upon which they test' their lofty pretensions, but we have never been able , to obtain- an answer. When they were in office hi 1806, with the ad vantage of the commanding talents of Mr. Fox to support them, they were, as Mr. SHERIDAN very candidly acknowledged, an unpopular Admi 7 nistration: The Public witnessed their dis missal. missal film office either with, undisguised satis faction, or with mortifying indifference. When they ire baulked in their 'sanguine.. hopes of poWer, at the commencement of the Regency, the great mass of-his Majesty's subjects saw their dis appnintment either with the most vexatious ex ultation, or the most cruel apathy ; and we are convinced that their present refusal to take a share in the Government, will have precisely the same effect upon the public mind. They admit the pressing exigency of the times ; they proclaim aloud the dangers which threaten the State—dangers which they have increased. (unintentionally no doubt) by the nature of their opposition, and yet they will not make one effort to save their Coun try. The Public will appreciate their motives, and decide upon their conduct. In consequence of till's refusal of the Opposi tion to take a share in the Government, the-Mar quis, WELLESLEY, we understand, is employed in forming an Administration,, of which Mr.' CAN NING, Lord MoIRA, Lord AlgtviLLE, and Lord CHICHESTER, are liKely to be Menthers: it is also stated, that as Lord SIDMOUTH• and Lord BUCKINGHAMSHIRE, will probably join in the ar rangement, We understand, that though Lord GREY, as we have stated, had signified his positive dissent to the propositions of the Marquis WELLEst,EY, yet we have since heard, that the formal letter from Lords GREY and GRENVILLE, in CO/YrtfiCgOil, was not expected till this day. Last night we received Paris Papers to the 29th ult. BUONAPARTE had reached Dresden, and was expected to set out immediately for Warsaw. The Emperor ALEXANDER had also joined his Army. It is stated in an unofficial article, that the French had crossed the Vistula in three places. We this morning received Cadiz Papers to the 14th ult. but they contain very little news. We are sorry to learn that fresh disputes have broken out between the Governments of .Monte Video and Buenos Ayres. The French have resumed the bombardment of Cadiz, but With very little e fleet. Yesterday Lords WELLESLEY and Morro had long audiences of the PRINCE REGENT, at Carl ton-house. After the' dinner given by the Pitriccu RECENT, on Monday, to his Royal Daughter, Bmthers, and Sisters, his Royal Highness had a select party to meet them,,to music. Yesterday morning, a little before eight o'clock, a man, of a very gentlenianly'appeatance, dressed in black silk stockings, black small clothes; Mar: seilles waistcoat, and dressing-gown, a white night cap or} his head, and carrying a small poker on his left arm, walked through St. James's Park. His uncommon appearance attracted a •number of people to. follOAr him. He proceeded to York House • , and knocked at the door. The, porter, observing his' very strange appearance, did not open. the door ; however, 'he repeated his knocks 'with a degree of cOnsequence, which induced the porter to open the door. He then presented a let ter for the Duke of Yo' observing, that it was upon State affairs, and' it must be given to him directly. The porter told him it was impossible to deliver the letter to hiS Royal Highness immedi ately, but 'he should have it 'very shortly, with - which hd appeared satisfied, observing, die con tents were of the utmost concern for thebuke to know, and said he should call again at ten o'cloCk. He then left . York-house, and proceeded along the Park, the crowd increasing, from his eccen tric appearance. .„ The following 'is considered 6. singular 'circum stance:—A Thrush, which 'for four years past has built her nest in the garden of Mr. Anthony Thompson, at St. Bees, has this year changed her residence, but not quitted the premises. She haS taken up her abode in , a bottle rack, and built he: nest in the cavity of a bottle bottom ! . This her cottage is not more than a couple of yards from a back door, through which some or other of the family are frequently passing. The Thrush is at present in the quiet state of incubation, and so familiarized to her old friends and protectors, as to suffer them to stroke her hack whilst she feeds • off their hands with the greatest composure. ORDERS IN COUNCIL FROM THE QUARTERLY REVI.E'.V (Coutinued from our Paper of Yesterday.) We need-not go far out of our w9y to see wlo t the effects have been of the Orders in Council (/° the enemy. We have the testimony of Bu L OO• paste's own Ministers in the annual Expose of state .of.. duce, _for the privations and distri which are felt by all classes of the community 0 1 1 ; account of the almost total extinction of forei: Commerce. In 1808, when the Orders in Cour cif were in full operation, the Minister of the terior is obliged to notice the almost absolute cessation of the maritime relations, and the maril priiations for the French merchants, manuf3e" ttirers, and . consumers.' •We need not be told, in, deed, that the French merchants 'the manuf l6 ' turer, and: the agriculturist, arc all reduced to ti'" most ruinous and deplorable ,condition ; that 'o' 6 Capital of the lirst.is totally unemployed, his rotting in p . ort; and his warehouses empty ; that the manufacturer has ncr vent for his goods, 1 01 the farther for his produce.—llow is it possible to persist in asserting that the blockade of the CO' tinent ha; had no effect on the condition of the enemy, When- we liar that his, custom-house re' venues have fallen from 60 millions of livres 1807, to 18 millions in 1808, and still farther 1809 to 11 millions, that is to say, to less the one-fifth part of their amount before the Ord' in Council took elect ?—when we see this hate r of all commerce, employed in calculating b 0 Many myriagrams of this article, and killograo of that; will pacify the clamours of the merchant' the mechanic, and the labourer ? enacting penal statutes to fprCe the cultivator of the soil to en v ploy his land in endeavouring to raise certain PO ducts in a climate ungenial to their growth i t° plant beet instead of corn, and cotton; and to bacco, and indigo, where. nature neverinteivlt then' to grow ? The: inference to be drawn from the statentots advanced by the advocates of America, on this si de the Aflantic; is nothing more nor less than .thir" . that all the distresses of our manufacturing toW IIS are entirely owing to the Orders in CounciL—f be increase of the poor in Liverpool, the decrev 4 the denimator the pOtteiy ware of Stafrordsb ive :, the riots at Nottingham, are all to be ascribed t , the Orders in Connell. As We profess notL i4 more than' plain matter of fact dealing, we 013 :', tent ourselves with transcribhig the return of Order of the 'louse of ConnnOns.of the 10 May, ISII, for the value of all import's into, °, O all exports from Great .Britain, from 1805 to` i inclusive, ordered to be printed 18th rebri°'' ' 1812, • , Official Value. Meal value. Import; in 1805 X:30,344,628 ,c 53,582,146 1806 Q 8,835,907 50,61,707 1607 28,854,656 53,500,990 1808 29,6i9,353 55,718,08 1609- 33,772,409 59,851,36 e 1810 41,136,135 74,538,061 Exports - 1805 £34,308,545 £51,109,13 1 1806 36,527,18.4 52,028,88 1 ' 1807 34,566,572 50,482,66 1 ' 1808 34,564,267 49,969,74 6 1809 50,286,900 66,017,71 2 1810 45,869,860 62,702,409 • This return, in our opinion, speaks sufficie for itself. The diminution in 1867, and - po- rticv laxly in the exports, was in no degree wh ate ; l : • owing to the Orders in Council, whose °pe at ' had not then taken effect ; but is sufficient l Y le plained, as Lord Sheffield, observes; by tb,F 11° ' tl r i proceedings of the United States in conseq uell r - IliC t' of the President's violent Proclamation, int e 00' ing British ships of war from their port s ' the distrust` which such a proceeding occasi°-.1 n among - our merehauts.here ;to the peace of ("-- 10 . sit,. which concluded the disastrous eiGhPl'° t t i,e the North! to the rupture with, Denmark' o f Russian declaration •of war -; the declarati°- ,y 6 Prussia; the irruption of the French into gal = all of which occurred - in . the course 0f t the year 1807—yet with all these disasters, 2111 C Berlin and Milan decrees to boot, interdicting f3e' introduction of British commerce and 1 131 w 9 h . te tures from the shores' of the Adriatic to th e Wt Sea, the diminution in .the real value of tlje a re ports scarcely exceeded 500,0001. Ba t we told that the Custom-house books are fal se “1 , i s unworthy. the least attention . ; that noboq.----,ble terested in their . being correct ; none resiw ns ' .for any. errors they may contain. Let us e , turn to -the amount of the customs actuallY 0 f ceived at the Treasury. The gross u°u nt those receipts in the five consecutive years Iva. under, exclusive of the war taxes :-- luthe3ear 1806 . . £9,456,255 1807 • 9,573'1" 1803 . . 9,214,131 1809 . . 10,532,9 89 1810 . . 10,773, 569 • Ci that the calamitous year of 1807 ocasod, in the receipts of the customs of 1808 a ciiini°.o; QtlY 3Z8,9291. in the Mc' f2119w1 cording to letters from Warsaw, the French fumy has crossed the Vistula in three columns, at Grau dentz, Thorn, and Polanka. - . Letters from JaSsy announce, that a division of Russian troop .had passed through that town : . and had marched . for Zalesczyk, a town which was :ceded to Russia by the last treatT . Of Vienna. On the 14th of April, winter returned in all its rigour. A great, deal Of snow fell, Which. has stopped vegetation. This delay of spring is the' -more unfortunate, as theie is already a great, scarcity Of hay, the prodnce of which was very deficient last year from the great dryness of the season. PARIS, MAY 26.—The Tribunal of the First Resort for the department of the Seine has con demned fifty-nine refractory conscripts ; and has also lined their,- parents, .as civilly responsible, 1,500 francs each. TOULON, .'TAY 16.--The 'Mediterranean squa dron does not discontinue its frequent manoeuvres. On the 12th, Admiral Eineriau put to sea with 'l3 .ships of the line, and six frigates : -thdy were becalmed during the whole day on the coast; but " . 9a the 13th, ,a strong breeze from the N. E. en abled them to get out to sea, where they were out of sight during part of the day, and did not return to their anchorage till night. Yesterday tits signal-stations telegraphed 17 of the eneray':; :ships nine leagues off Sicie. 6 , •dexeAi out to sea the Boree and Trident, of 74guas, with two frigates, under the order:, • of Captain Senez, to protect the move inents of sereral transports which were on the coast. - and Which that .;;liicer has conducted to their nation, ,7,kT AILS, ARIiIvc..D--.1 Cadiz,' 1 I ,Vaterford. Pure-1 Cadiz, • PRIC_E OF &rocas Tills DAY dT TIVZI,yI: o'cb 4 )cg. Consols for Opening - ‘.34.1 Re& Ann. - - 7 GOI rmE SUN. _ . QU,IS • I)ICERE FALSUM tUDEAT ?