The Sun. — London, England, 1812-02-13 00:00:00

MAILS. Aitßivz A - Dublin, 2 Watertord. D E-I Cadiz, I Bra• zils, I Waterford. PRICE OF E•rocKs: THIS DAY A TVIttLV It O'CLOCK. Consols. • —631 i Red. Arm. 61i 63 THE S UN. SOLEM LUIS DICERS FALSUNI AUDLAT ? L 0 N D 0 N. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1312. • We give further extrads this day from the Ame rican Papers. The Speech of Mr. SIIEFFY is ob viously diclated by a proper sense to the interests of -.his.country, and we Lope the moderation of this -Gentleman will have its - due effe& tr r on the ma jority .f his countrymen, whether in or out of place, and induce diem,: according to his advice, to adopt no counsels but such as regard that " sat of -honour which is tempered by prudence." . The Countess of Hurcdurt transport, from Bata via, 'arrived at Poristnouth the 12th instant. She sailed from Batavia the 20th October last, with General JANSEN and suite; arrived at Si. He lena the-gth December, and sailed from thence the .15th of that month. No ships there. The extra ships Euphrates. and Monarch had not ived at St. Helena. It is much to be regretted that the Common Council should have suffered themselves, on Tues day last, to be persuaded into a rejeaion of the motion for patronising Dr. BELL'S plan, since they hive thought proper to give a pecuniary support to that of Mr. LANCASTER. By confining their bounty to the system of the latter, they have evidently been betrayed by seetarians. With out entering into the comparative merits of the t o systems, the main principles of which were assuredly introduced in this ,country by DoQor BELL, whatever mechanical - iffiprovements they rnly have derive,:in praQice from Mr. LANCASTER, it becomes the City of London to skew an attach ment to the Established Religion, which Doetor BELL'S System of Education is eminently calculated to explain and tolupport. In political matters it ,may be expecled that the decisions of the Com mon Council may sometimes be influenced by one party and sometimes by another but in matters that essentially \ relate to the national faith in the purest Religion that human nature can receive as the rule of conduCt in this life, and the basis of lu;pe for a better one hereafter, the City of London, the great metropolis of the world, and the general asylum of mankind, front the oppression and tyranny of other coutitties, it might be hoped, would have been direaed by a sense of national dig nity to have kept clear from all seetarian bias, and I ave decidi;d according to the orthodox principles of our Church Establishment. We therefore trust, that some of the leading men of the City will support the honour of the Common Council, and rescue it from that charaaer of violence and party, which ha-certainly not increased its credit in the estima tion of the public at large. ,Yesterday the LORD CHANCELLOR, Mr. PERCE - YAL, and the NtarqUis had audiences of the PRINCE REGENT, at Carlton-House. Yesieiday- the Duke of CAMBRIDGE visited the Pitt ~; CE REGENT. Yesterday the Cabinet Ministers dined with Earl H .nnowsy, at,his house in Grosvenor-square. Yerterday morning the Duke of YORK, accom pinitAl by Lieut. Colonel BROWN, one of his Secre taries, left town for Windsor. This day Lieutenant-Colonel BROWN is expelled tl leave town for Irelanet, where he has been ap pointed D , puty Quarter Master of the Army. .1.1.)1.1.-HousE.—Yesterday a Court of Direaors u[as held', when the underthentioned Commanders took, lea e of the Court,• previous to departing for their respective destin-lions, Captain George Nichols, of the Bengal ; W. Lynch, of tkie i iarriet ; and A. Campbell, of the Sovereign—for Madras Rail Bengal. Capt..l). M'Leod, of the Marquis of Huntley ; 1. Haiti button, of the Glatton ; M. Craig, of the Elphinstune ; and C. Barnett!, of the Wextord—tor China direct. Capt. f . Freeman, of the Lord Keith ; and G. Weltden, of site Iliclus—Jor Madeira, Madras, and Bengal. The undermentioned Captains were sworn into al: command of their respective ships, viz. Capt. Pearson, of the Sir Godfrey Webster ; Brock, of the Fay, new ship building in the room of the Lady lane nun cios ; U. Bowman, of the Diana ; and R. Rawes, of the Itr- Vana--for Bengal direct. The following ships were thus stationed, Earl Howe, for Bengal direct ; Diana, and l uliana, for gatavia Carmarthen, fur Madeira and Bengal ; and Alex ander,- for (Madeira, Bengal, and Bencoolen ; the Lord Dun can, from - Bombay, to Madeira and v:ombay ; the Princess Charlotte of ‘Vales,_and Thomas Grenville, iron Ceylon end Bengal, to Madeira, Ceylon, and Bengal. The Court adjourned at six o'clock till to-morrow. The Board of Trade, having convened a Meeting o' the persons interested in the :Wine Trade, has oposed to theca the.following.regulattons fiat on exporting from hence one hogshead of sugar, they should be allowed to import from France (for ex porta firm only) two hogsheads of wine, or one puncheon (not exceeding t2o gallons) of brandy. On exporting from hence to cwt. of sound coffee, to be al lowed to import (for re-exportation) 2 1014 of wine. In all cases the inten.hange to commence by the exporta. don of the sugar or coffee trum hence, or the return, Nvbet her of wine or brandy, nut to be admitted to home consumption. This prOposition is to be considered as a mere suggestion on the part of the Board of Trade, and , rieti to fart her discussion. The final determination t. expected si the next meeting,. PLYMOUTH, rEB. 1 American ship Xeno phon) belonging to New York, B. LORD, Master, that arrived here on Sunday last from Wilmington, cable a running ship, 33 days passage; left there loading for this port the- ships Arabella, Algernon, and Middlesex; _ the former was expelled to sail in about fifteen days, and the latter in ten. — The ship Young Factor, ATKINSON, with a cargo, bound to London, was expeded to sail on the day after the departure of the Xenophon. The ship '46tcy 'with a cargo for Dublin, sailed the day be- fore the Xenophon; the latter has hada very stormy passage. It was the Pelorus brig of war that arrived here on Sunday with part of the cre,w of his Majesty's ship Laurel, which was wrecked a few days since in Quiberon Bay. Went up the harbour to be refilled his Majesty's ship Minerva, of 32 guns, Capt. HAWKINS, lately arrived from Newfoundland. The Loire frigate did not sail from hence, as stated on Sunday last, but remains in the Sound. Sailed the Steady gun-brig for Portsmouth. Arrived the Peggy, SEArma, and the Providence, ISAAC, from Lymington ; Three Sisters, CHAPNIAN, and Lord Nelson, PUDDLCOMBE, from Portsmouth ; Friends, CuMING, Bless N ing, MILLS, and industrious, DAVIES, from WALES. DEAL, FEB. 12.-- Arrived the Cygnet sloop of war from a cruize off Flushing, and the Cheerful cutter, after seeing the convoy that sadod on Mon day Safe to Portsmouth. PORTSMOUTH, FEB. 12. -Arrived this da y his Majest . Cs ships royal Oak, Poictiers, and Venerable, from off Cherbourg; and the Beagle and Rapid from the Downs. Sailed the Nile. Tile Jason frigate takes convoy to the West IndieF. YARNLOUTH, FEB. 1 2.—Arrived the Pri n cess of 'Pales cutter from a cruize. Sailed the Hearty gun-brig for off the Texel. In the General Orders issued by the Lieutenant- Governor of Gibraltar, immediately subsequent to the victory of Tariffa, we observed the following, viz. : " The Lieutenant-Governor cannot pass over in silence - the address and ability with which Cap tain WREN, of the light company of the 11th re giment executed the two sallies committed to his charge try Major KING, commanding in the island— his condua on these occasions has been highly cre ditable and worthy of emulation."—Capt. WREN (as we before stated) is a soil of Mrs. WREN, of Li-. tnerick. The Corporation of the city of Cork have pre sented an address to General FLOYD, expressing their approbation of his condul while in the command of the South West distria, to which he has returned a suitable reply Ensign WALLER, of the 87th, who was wounded at Taritia is nephew to Capt. R. WALLER, of Castle waller, county Tipperary. Lieutenant STAUNTON, of the i t 111 regiment of Foot (late of the Gal Way was wounded in a skirmish near Tarifa, on the 29th December. BUONAPARTE, it seems, is nicknamed by the Americans " the Little Corporal:" The Irish who return from Paris, generally mention him by the more humiliating title of " Little. Breeches." Such is the vindictive temper of the man, that these de signations ?re likely to render him the bitter enemy of both nations. Far from being surprized that the French Officers in Cidab;la should base employed assassins to de destroy English Officers serving in Sicily, such con , dual is so congenial with the whole charaaer of the French Government, and all its Agents, that, it is wonderful we do not hear every day of similar atro cities. Nothing honourable, nothing dignified, nothing humane is to be expected from the French Government, as it is directed and supported by the most artful and flagitious policy towards its own and all other Si at es. The French Papers state, that the drawing of the Conscription has not only been performed with tranquility, but with joy, parading about with mu sic, &c. The probability is, that as theSe poor fel; lows find it impossible to avoid the service, they 'affeol satisfaction, with a determination to take thn first opportuniiy•of deserting. The Manager of. the Bath Theat►e has, it seems, succeeded in his negociations with Mr. BETTY, and wrung from him his slow leave" io perform a few nights in that city. Report says, that this engage ment is preparatory to his re-appearance on the London Stage. BANNISTER has best! very successful at Edin burgh. The present is the last week of his engage ment in that city. - MUNDEN is performing at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, where he was a great favourite many years ago. Mrs. C. KE:usLa left Edinburgh to perform a few nights at Sunderland ; but she is to return to the former place upon a renewed engagement, after playing two nights at Durham. MATHEWS is still upon his rambling excursion in the,North. He was to take,leave of South Shields on Thursday last. A beautiful Pit ure of TITIAN has been recently conveyed from Venice, and is in the hands of a Gentleman in Berners-street. The subjea relates to Jephtha's Daughter. There are many figures in the work, all nearly as large as life. The colouring is uncommonly rich, and the picture, altogether, is worthy of the great Artist who produced it. Two brewers were conviled last week at Min chester, in the penalty of 2001. each, fur using grains of paradise in their beer; and an innkeeper was convicted in 1001. being his first offence, on a like charge. TAOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ; lea. 3. The engrosSed Bill for raising an additional tary Force, was read a thifd time, and the question put, shall the Bill pass ? •-• Mr. StIBITY spoke against its - passage. Whird he differed from the majority in the measures they were about to pursue l ‘he pretended not to impeach the purity of,their motives ; and he hoped the same liberality would be extended to himself. If they had determined on war in a dire& and unqualified shape, he should have considered himself bound to vote for furnishing all. the means necessary for carrying ft on, in order to bring it to a speedy termination.— But this dire& course had not been pursued. In stead 'of presenting to our view the objeds of a war, we had heard nothing but high-coloured piaures of grievances. He did not deny that we had ample cause of war with Great Britain, on account, of her Orders in Council—in fa& we bad ample Cause of war with both the great belligerents; but (he true question was, whether we had it in our power to compel Great Britain to do us justice ; whether it was prudent to try such an expetiment. As to the impressment of seamen, a great deal more noise tg as made upon that he.:d than the subjed.deserved. He never would consent to go to war to protea na turalised citizens abroad. If we prot,ded them while they remained within, our territories, we went far enough. Although it was not consistent with the rights of man, yet the principle was held in most other governments, that the subjed owed allegilnce to his sovereign until the latter consented to his ex patriation. He felt for the; men that were'impress.:. ed—but he would _not ..agree to involve the nation in war for the purpose of forcing our priniples upon foreign governments; for the purpose of protecting men who were not native citizens. Mr. S. repeated, that there was a wide difference between the cause of war, and the propriety of en gaging in it. He took a view of the state of our trade with France and her dependencies, which he asserted was not only of little value even in pros perous times, but was daily diminishing by the . shackles imposed on it by the French Emperor. For this commerce, then, scarcely worth having, we • were to under take a Quixotic war with Great Britain, in order to compel her to repeal her im prudent Orders in Council. For the sake of main taining a trade not worth above two millions. per annum, we were to sacrifice a trade with the British dominions worth about thirty-two millions—and this sum, without taking into view the commerce with Spain, Portugal, and the Brazils, which might be lost likewise, in the event of the proposed war's taking place. But, he observed, we were called upon to go to war in support of our honour. There were times, however, when, nations, as well as individuals, ought to suppress their feelings. The present was such an occasion. The situation of the world was unexampled. In all former wars, there had been many neutrals—at present, the United States was the only neutral nation; and it _was unreasonable_ to expect, that, in so, great, a conflict as the one now carrying on between the two belligerents, neutral rights would be respeoled. This principle of honour ought to be regulated by prudence. It Would be truly humiliating to our honour, if after having waged a seven years war, we should be com pelled to sit down without having attained the obje& for which the war was undertaken. While he thought little of the fanciful notions of honour en tertaiqed by some, he had a high regard for that sort of honour which was tempered by prudence—for men most yield to circumstances, when circumstances would not yield to them. In faal, such had been our own con duet heretofore—we had purchased peace of Algiers by a tribute—and - we did not resist the Berlin De cree, which was a flagrant violation of neutral rights, because it wOuld have been perfe&ly visionary to' attempt to compel the French Emperor to repeal it. With regard to the opinion held by some, that we ought to go to war in order to preserve our warlike charaCter, and for fear that a too long continuance in peace would render us an easy prey to an invad ing foe, Mr. S. said,, the history of nations did uot jus ify it ; nor should he be willing to render this country miserable now, in order that it might be happy hereafter. Mr. S. intreated Gentlemen not to be misled by the outcries of a few, that the nation was anxious for war. He referred to the numerous addresses to Mr. Adams in 1798-9, in which the !mil. s pledg ed themselves to go all length in support of war against France; yet the (act was, that the majority of the people were then, as they Were now, in favour of peace ; and these very adtiressors knew it. And it was undeniable that we had at least 2s great a cause of war at that time, as we have at present, since, by t he French decrees, an American: vessel was liable to capture for having a single article of British ma nufadure on board. He. considered it by no means a matter of regret, that we ought not to go to war for foreign tonvest,for the alar.ent miserable people. T-ie contended that it *as highly absurd to talk '- of going to war two or three years hence ; no na tion ought to talk of such a thing until they were. = prepared for it. That ibis was not our case, wag ' evident from the cireurnstance of our being un. able to furnish the usual supplies to 'the Indiani • wi , hout some relaxation in our Non Importation law. And was it to be supposed that the Bavtish• would be sleeping while we were making our prepa-: rations ? Or was it supposed that the possession of the • fiozen regions of' Canada and Nova Scotia would be i full compensations for the ruin of our At.--; - !mile cities ? Let any man look at the numerous vulnerable points In our vast extent of seaboard, and then say whether we should not haVe enough tO do to defend ourselves, instead of invidng foreign coun t! ies. Before an army could teach the borders of Canada, we should be obliged to recal them for self defence. Mr. S. belieVed that we could not support the ex- pense of a War. It . was very easy indeed to make our estimates of expenses ; but he knew there was a very great difference between an estimate and an en penditwe. We paid a hundred per cent._more• for ... every thing that was done .than any other Govern ment. What went with _the money he could not say ; ,but such was the fad. Where were we. to ob- tain the money to meet the vast expenses of a war ? ' Our commerce would be -destroyed, and with it. s _would fall the revenue. ,It was said, we might bofrow . motley ; but _we could do this no longer -- than we could offer good security to the lenders tor the payment both of the interest" and,principal. It was an old-fashioned doctrine, Mr. S. observed; that standing armies were dangerous to liberty. He could not account for the extiaordinary changes . of opinion that had taken place . in any other way, than by supposing that standing armies would be composed DOW of different materials from all former ones : that they would all be patriots. What was our situation at the close of the revolutionary war ? Had it not been for the patriotism of one man, we might al this time have been groaning under a military despotism. Why was a standing army con sidered so dangerous twelve years ago, and so per feetly innocent now ? He could give no other rea son for this, than the majority were then out, and were now in. . , We are about, said Mr. S. to d ec l ar e war aga i ns t a nation that is fighting for the liberties of the world - . -- ; He felt no obligations to England for the protection thus afforded to us. A man, in self-de fence, might afford prote6lion to another with.out owing any good will. But he must know little of the history of mankind, who could believe we should be s:ife after the downfal of England. It was the nature of ambition to overwhelin every nation within its grasp, and then weep that there was nothing more to conquer. This was an im portant consideration with him, and ought to be with every man. Let any person consider the history of the British Government; and decide, whether they were ever driven from their measutes by threats. No instance of it could be found. It, therefore, we had no good reason to believe she would relinquish her pretensions by the conquest of Canada, it would be silly to undertake it. As soon as Mr. Sheffey concluded, the House ad journed (quarter before four o'clock.) SATURDAY, JAN 4. The 25,000 and one Bill has been debated almost all day. Mr. Rhea opened the wordy campaign of !he day in a speech of about half an hour. He was tollowed by Mr. Pickins, a young a ycitmg man from North Carolina. His Was a set speech ill e9mmit ted to memory : but he is supposed to be a man of considerable talents. Mr. Harper, of New Hamp shire, read - and spoke an harangue of about an half an hour. He considered 25,000 aS too few; unless, as he hoped, there should be 59,000 volunteers. Not only Canada, but Nova Scotia must. be ours, nor ought we tosutfer•the liability of being annoyed by the Bahama The St. Lawrence and the Lakes will be another Baltic, north of which may be supposed a population of four millions of inhal bitants. To him it had always appeared that the Great Author of Nature intended our Govern , ment should extend to the Golph of Mexico on the Swan), and to the regions of eternal Wst-(or Almighty Alack t:'rost, as Ballow would say), on the North. He. contvadiEled TrOup, who, some days ago, asserted that ten thousand Bt nisi] soldiets could March from Quebec to Boston in spite of any effbrt to prevent it : the army, that conquered at Auster lit could net, he said, march through New Eng land.. Next rose Mr. WwoEay (or Squire Widgery); he spoke about three-fourths of an hour, and al forded' the House mud) divtrsiou. AU these were in favour of the bill and of war . • it. was now atter three o'clock, and a motion was maile to adjourn, but lost. Mr. MAcUN spoka iibout pppasi.