The Sun. — London, England, 1803-11-10 00:00:00

• TO TH E Right Um. HENRY ADDINGTO.N; Ear. Efe. LETTER T.I. SIR, Is resuming the subjea of the Treasury Mani festo, I shall endeavour to take, a summary view of its leading principles, and to ascertain how far the means employed have advanced the proprised' end ; whether, in weighing the merits of the late and present Administration, the pre. , ponderance appears to be in the scale of the latter, or whether an aver-confidence on the parr of the Editor has not made him lose his balance, and, ac. cording to a beautiful figure of his own, leave the sides of his Employei 'naked in the conflia. I Shall commence operations by. a contrast to that. Gentleman's view of Public Affairs, not drawn by myself, but exttalled from a Letter addressed to you, Sir, as it is said, by a young Irish Noble man With regard to the generaLstate of the Empire, you came into power at a moment pecu. liarly calculated for your own fame, to. encircle bour own brow with laurels, and to raise and up. old the English name ,and Nation ; in alarming quarrel in the North decided and adjusted with a high and cavalier hand, in such. a manner as would have done honour to .gritein in her proudest day. but Sti,. it has been reserved far you,' notwith. standing the glOry which the • Nation acquired in. Egypt, • a glory that Might eclipse the far-faitted achievements of our RICHARDS, our HENRYS and oar Enwattos—With an Exchequer not exhautsed, the spirit of the Nation undauntedandunsubdued—. with en Army arrayed, disciplined, and expert. enced, such *5 wq have never had since the days of M Ak i, B oanuGH......viithia Fleet bending the Enemy in all their Ports; It was reserved for you, under ihese eirctimstances, to seal your own infamy, by compromising not the Honour only, not the Cha 'after only of the Nation, but by endangeling . iitp Safety, to a degree that will require the united tax •rtions of all the Talents, and of all the Physical Voter, combined, to tender it problematical, even then, whether it shall survive !" I am of opinion, Sir, that the majority of Great I :Britain will concur in this representation of the state of the Country on• the retirement of the late Ministry, rather titan in that chaos of misery, mis. fortune, and complicated evil, which your Cham. pion has painted in all the sombre tints of a distem. pered imagination, The Writer from whom I have "belated the foregoing observations, certainly op pears to have no predileCtion for Mr. Pisa; on ;brat account I should imagine his opinions, on this 110)jea at least, may be consideted as unbiassed, and will, I suspea, have the greater •weight with you. Now supposing, merely for the sail of argument, :without an, totention of separating Men from Melt shoUld please His Majesty to Record to the -aoxtous wishes of a loyal and attached People, to 'accept at this moment the Resignation of yourself and your C6lleagues, the first parallel that would present itself 'to the mind . of a man wishing to cont. 'pare . the two Administrations, would very natu. 'y be the .Opposed state of the Country at the pe riod of the Dissolution of each.. Let as then calcu. late how the account will stand on your. side, con trasted even with dark and murky clouds of impend. ing ruin which hung over the horizon, and beyond -which the ahort.aighted observer could not discern ray of hope-.-a cloud behind which nevertheless, though it seemed sat for ever, the Sun of Peace awaited your commands. The extreme of Poetic 'Fancy had as yet been content Heroic Gallantry `should 41 pluck bright' Honour from the pale.feeeri .Moon;" but you, Sir, from this setting Sun have, in the opinion of your Eulogist, newAighted up the World front the Orb of Day, and restned Man. kind from the fearful and ruinous effete of our too. d ery Patarroo - ' from whose hands you timely sna tched the Ikeins.—You, Sir, thought ao great -a good could not he purchased at too high a price. Wh en a man goes to market with his pockets full, and his mind wade- up, there can be little doubt of •bis carrying his purchase. Satisfied with your bar. gain, and confident of having deserved well" y o urself, you never took the pains to iroluire how far the other Conttaning Party was fulfilling his engegements, so occupied weft you in discharging your Own : nay, so fearfully appicherative were you of,favouriog even an appearance of dissatiafaaion or do o ht, that you discharged the very Vatcloneo anti! removed the Sentries, whom the common principle of self-defence had - Usually placed over the reserved articles. ! You may say, perhaps, that what ' was left Was not worth the pains Of keeping 3 you will not however admit this, 1 hope, for your own sake. i t ,„ quite enoug h t o have tucked us up warm in bed, buried our arms, and Cried to us, 'f Sleep in Peace 1" to have song lullabies to us just when you were about to rouse us—to drag us from our rest in the middle of the nights; and when we would have you explain, to laugh at us for a set of Ninnies and DriVellers (as we most surely were) fur believing •wltat you told us. io plasm English, having dii. armed thus Country, and left her in a state of naked. ness, we are now told officially, by the Editor of your Pamphlet, that.„ the Enemyieto whose hands! we liad : resigned every biting, and at whose mercy you were resolved to leave us by the redalion of . our defensive force, waa pursuing " a ttain of en croachment even during the NpgotiatiuntitAtolens." The fda roost assuredly is, that with our eyes open to a' decided and undissimulated System of ambitious anti offensive Intrigue on the part: of . France, we tofletins if we had not the smallest in. centive to distrtist.—The Country supposed that Ministers, with the advantage of better informa. (ion, knew whit they were about—The justice ttt this supposition will be better estimated by a ref e .,, rence to the Offizial Details of the Negotiation at Paris, than by :my argument) the bitterest Own.' nest of His Majesty's Servants could adduce. It s h o ni this bubble broke lit little more than a. • lwelvemooth ; anti after having 'borne insult open insult—having p.1.(0. , by provocation after rovo. ererlvinit, the Continental Aggressions of ~liopo:eattiot without an attempt aCternonstranee rfefa'erataviottostilhe opportunity of making a COM.; • t ti e M w ho - (..a6e 1,4 to . an was aiming at . oni‘a:tsal Soveteie,nty, you, Sir, contrived by an Art peculiar to the present conch:mil of Mrairs, so to rime your rupture, though unlimited in 'your .choice of the moment, as to give to the quarrel the charaaer of Injustice, to make the Cause appear, in the eyes of Europe, the Cause of Great Britain alone ; and the occasion of the War, a Breach of National Faith, Sir, I have conversed with some of the best-informed men who have lately arrived from the different Continental Courts, and I need not assure you, for you have been told it, that for the first time, since the burst of Revolutionary Po litics, the general sentiment is decidedly against this Country, and more particularly as to the prin. ciple and circumstances.,Of the present War, „The cliira4er of the British is lowered—the spirit of the Nation, no longer the admiration of Foreigners, who, interested as they, for the greater parr, must naturally be, have Observed to•, vanish the broad system of enlarged policy, and; substituted in its stead the pitty politics of a Gerrnan'State. It is tiOW Just eight months since the fae.famed Message from , he KING was brought down to the House, wherein a plea was inserted in the name of the Sovereign, for the truth of which (whatever might have been the Self.deception at the time) Ministers themselves will not, I rather am inclined. to suspect, cow contend. During &Nit short period your Administration, Sir, bas lost the Continental possessions of His Majesty, which might have been saved had not procrastination been considered as an indtspensible drequiaite in every public trans:Mon of the day -- even the Troops' might have been withdrawn, but the trarotorts were rasher too late—a•lreland (through the mat.' tendon and inability of a Governoieot a which In spite of grossest miscondua ever yet passed over at head-quarters, still continues) is.reduced to a state which if we a fford it the epithet Of 'doubtful, we uoneede more than the remedies that have hitherto been adopted, will warrant us in doing..—Here the ' system of delay was carried even tq the costrettien of danger, and though the Rebels were sharpening their pikes under the very walls of the Castle, it required deliberation to determine whether or not Government should feel an alarm. —Pending this deliberation, which must nee/ward, employ some , days, the Viceroy went as usual to the Pink—the Courtiers at she Castle revel'd in Irish claret, and the Officers omitted themselves at cricket. Unfor., tunately before the mind of Government could be made up remuletor arum upon the point, a venera. ble and ever to be lamented sacrifice was offered up upon the altar of indecision and inability, and Rebellion nor'(' its head, and spread dismay' through the unguarded and unprepared capital.— Fortunately for that Country and for England, the councils of the Rebels were in a converse ratio with those of the State,they were as many hours too soon as we were days too late—else woeful indeed had been the event, and with a lost country, we 'might at this moment have had to deplore the butchery of those men to whom the disaster would have been attributable, but for whom we should have then wept, as we now do fur those whose shades hover round the Vice-regal Court, and reproach such as have hearts among them, with the fate 'to W . bias their miscondu.t tZtent. This altsroste cajoling*, and itistilt. to the Volunteers, which have rendered therii averse to the public sdreil.. Astratiori ref afairs —the injury snatemed by our -Conamerce---the Ports of 'Europe shot against us—the deficiency of our Revenue in spite of the gratuitous and unnecessary 'oliarepresenta. •tiota to the Howe last December.,- 01 0 b,411,d at, tempts made upon the Coast of the Enimy with inadequate forcear a ttm stigma consequently thrown upon our , bear service-salor exertioos strained to the utmost, and therefore the sooner likely to Maxi with the hordes of lionar,smis Fret-hooters at our very gates—vith all these evils, and damning 'pool* of, miscondud, what could induct this Luny Whipster of a Knight Ecru", to oleo forward your Squire, to throw down this gage of t4anee, and tq tempt the exposure of the ?cal and dreadful dilemma to which the Country is reduced by your family ;outwits and unsteady policy P—Had Mr. Prt-t's Administration left the Country in a state :pore wretched, more pitiable than that attributed to it in your Manifesto, still would it stand a proud comparison with the circumstances to which you have reduced it, If our resources Were impaired, as he tells us, are they, do you wish us to believe, itoprOvnd by your husbanding P If de. sertedby Allies, are we bettered by the. loss of Hanover, and the desertion of Portugal If the eovic t 'and Territorial Possesaions of France were, as your Defender describes, so vast, have they not increased and grown whilst you stood trembling lest your Terms for Peace should be rejetled t In short, after having resigned into the hands of the Enemy all the Acqoisittona of * long and successful War—having torn out the Nerves and Sinews of our Power—after having sandioned the aggression of France towards its Neighbours, and compromised the Honour of the Country, here we stand upon the edge of our own Cliffs and Shores; waiting with Firmness and Courage, Birth.riglits of which you cannot rob us, the event' of a Contest which; it Chance or rate should turn against us, the Sun of Britain is set for ever, and the Politics of an An. nitiorow will• have overthrown the venerated trui!lttte of our Liberties, our Rights,. and lode. pendence. —Oar Constitution Will be sacrificed to a narrow and selfish Policy, unknown as unte». sottel ici by Mao 'born to govern, and our Exist. ence as a Ndtion bartered away for 111' few short month* of feverish Power, which you, air, and your Colleagues have eojoyed at the r xpenee of the People. Our Navy, the first Service M the wnrlcj , ' hjs been made instrionental to its own degradation, by being dispatched* upon Expeditiona ineorredly planned, and inadequately equipped. In the Channel Otif Forte consists of Vessels many of 'them unfit for Service, and others ill adapted to . the 'Service on which they most probably will be employed. Every Naval Officer is disgusted, with the intetopprate and conduit of the Admiralty Board, and it would' not be wonderful if the seeds of future miN. chief were gernainating in every Docklard flitough ogt the kingdom. Much. is it to be lamented t h at . this Noble Earl it the head of the Board, tied not set about the business of Reform, and PPPOsed himself to every species of Peculation whew r" rt.va s iu the iliet . t . bdira—lie t he n 'by expetieni have" been able to calculate Consequences, and thkisCoutt. try wonla have eseved the datge of T _ngratitude to her best Friends, and the popular vcrdit would not have been given against a- Government Job.. — Spain, whose money supplies we might have cut off, affords a revenue to the Enemy for his attack upon us, and Portugal, a great objea to the Commerce of this Country, independent of being a long and faith. ful Ally, is deserted and abandoned. Here then Sir, we are, in • the month of November 1203, in a . situation dissimilar, in all its bearings from that in which we were in February 1801 —Not Sir, as your injudicious Adulator would imply, but so deteriorated, that a Briton is almost ashamed Ofhim. self. Setting aside the losses and the sacrifices we have been made to .undergo, we have sunk in the estimation of the Nations around us. • 'Our Faith {was till lately unimpFachable, and the quibbling of State Attornies was unacknowledged in British Di. plomacy. England might sometimes fail-1 uirramix nt.—but she never dishonoured herself 1 How arc the Mighty fallen I—how is the scene revets'd The work is yours, Sir. The progress toguin is a rapid descent, when once the ball is delivered.- and much, deeply do I fear that it was delivered with one hand, when you accepted the Seals from your Sovereign with the other I haste taken the liberty of drawing this parallel, though, to do yoni Defender justice, he does not gourt it. Isranottrr place, however, hit Zeal paralyzing his Jar. ment, he without hesitation enter& into st compara tive Discussion of the tespedive Claims of. the lass and present Administration. • have the honour to be, Sir, yours, Sec. NtIllY• 8, 1803. Fl TX.ALBION, hf4ILS. au.. 4"..11 1 / 1 1111. H.mburgh 4 PRICE OF STOCKS, ?$dU DAY AT TWILLYS: O'CLOCK, Consols . . 534 I Uranium . S dis. THE SUN. 4oLsat ouriasesas raLight auctifor LONDON, NOVEMBER zt), i 203. .THIS morning arrived a Mail from Jamaica, brought to Falrnourh by the Duke of York Packet. The Letters and Papers brought by it are dated the Loth of September. By the latest account received at Jamaica fr ins St. Domingo, our Squadron coati. nued very closely to Blockade the Harbour of Cape Ftalcois, in which were three French Frigates, an armed Brig, and about 40 Sail of Merchantmen ready to take the first opportunity of selling. On the ars, of August a French . Cartel Schooner * ar. tired at Port Royal in eight days front Cape Nicholas Mole, having on boartlGener—si No4ita,e's AirLde.Camp with Dispatcher; for the Governor and Admiral. On the morning of the . 3 .j s he left Port Koyal on her return. YRsrtt.DAY,after our Paper had been put to Press, Paris and Dutch Papers, the former to the 3oth ult. and the latter to the 3d inst. were received. L'heilio. vitturs are, es usual, silent upon the subjeft of tl)e In vasion ; but some of the other Papers ass►:rt that the Embarkation of the Troops has commenced: if this be ,t r u e , it must mean in Brest, and the Ports on ;be Western Coasts of France, for It is not probalale that Soldiers would be -embarked on board the Flotilla' in the Channel, till it was an the point of sailing. The President of Government in the Department of . Finis/errs?, has addressed a very encouraging speech to the Soldiers in That quarter, who have received arms of honour, in which he tells them that it is unnecessary for them to swear that they will conquer or die. as the conquest of Great Britain is a matter of ehiolitte certainty. Whether the worthy PresiOnt is ;cagy convinced of the latter proposition, or whether he is willing to relieve the tender consciences of the French soldiery► from the danger of perjury, we are unable to determine. The French Government have received Die. patches from Gene ROCHAM4SAU at St. Domingo, from which they have published a very short Be. tram, to acquaint the People of France with chat which they certainly knew very well bekre i that the Fresh Garrison in St. Domingo was in +a very unpleasant situation♦ ;t is netc stated in any of the Pak)ers that the quitted Paris. First Consul has Yesterday, about one o'clock, HIS MAJVSTT ar. rived at St. James's Palace, from Kew; Hts MA. irtstir was condoned from 11;s carriage into the Palace by the Dines of CAMBRIDOS. About a quarter before two the Levee commenced, which was attended by Hi‘ Royal Highnesl the DoKE of CAMlsitiUGlt, tiIeCHA.NCRLLOR.of the EXCH 'QUER, the SiCRETAR. IRS of STATE, the Titirmru gi t o f t h e ,14Avv, the MASTRR of ibe - Row, the Jvuoe of the ADM!RAL:TY ; and the Duke of liutland. itLirekives—Cinzello, De Lima, StaErd, and Salisbitry. E4M—Sandwich, Weartney, 'Athlone, )tarririgton, and Winchelsea, in waiting. - - Comte tie Pac. risraillts--Dutteannon. MA AM Clitilettigh. Dudicr• C. Sortitmet. Langford, Chettrynd, 4°P‘ H d a j ;k l- et b U r r t y i , Duisinogih Pvillain, Teignmoutli, and Set- ' sea. . • 1 . . Baron Lenthe. .4m6arsadart...Swedish, I nip : alai. Rusi4l, p ort „" fte. Nu. po i jum p sardirsian, Aim/Pt:44 Ilietqui.43, allil, WArtamtr.x. p. Sirs—S S . .. Cottrell, ti, 'Dili', C. Creep, ii!, Gt,i,t, '',4. W . : I I 7 -""" Scut. k.] r, ( 'K , Geoperah—Cr..il, Maitland. Fox, Repptl, Sir A. Bloomfield, St. iohn, Ogle'Jy, Hue I.cice)tcr, Bruworigg, and Burch. Came/:---Calvert, Boyue, M'Quartie, o",slaudain, D. I.4n ccy, Hewitt, kainw, ar.ef H.oltinge. Thoniton e Perry, nnri Jackson. Captaftfr lartant. Annus R,'bert.,, Perry, llngher, Hibburt, Cure, Walpole, 11.tiper, Lentaitre, Campbell, Thompson, and Davidson. Dort--kieberden and Moss. .11h4kurs—Arbuttlitot, Ryder, Ihrper, Addington, A. Star.. hope, Beanion, Hats*ll, and Tierney, - • The following were among tKe -Presentations to His MAPISTY, . Mr. Arbuthnot on his return Nen his Ft - 1710w at Sweden. 'General Fox on his return from ihavotnertanif in Ireland. The Marquis of Seaford on his corning to. his title, by his Brother.m.law the Hon. Mr. Ryder. , General Kepr.el on bit return !coat the Continent. !Baron Letithe, the Aspbassatlas from Homer, on his return from that oaqptry. Lieut. Col. M,l2 , sarfie, sm his spielathsent to be Assistant raid Gen Cal of the London 'District, ompte de Pay by the ft eIIiSSI Ambassador. " 141 4tford, Captains ./G O% and Captain Farrant, on their epßelatrisents to Commissions in he e el r C lotl cester's volunteer Corps, by Lord Chetwynde Com* tnander slaw Coeps. Captains Anetesiey, Roberts, Perry, Hutfiets, and Hibbert, on their appointments to cornimoions in the East las ,Voltintsci Corps, by Sir Hugh Inglis. Weer and Walpole an iheir sppointments C°raraitleinite &Hiss Si. Gost:ires Volunteer Corps, by Lord Sedley. 111 i "Per the fteral:York Mary-le-bone Volunteer M- q er b t goir . r a wi t. a b y art Tbotaton. nuticx - Perry. by Midst Sachsen. • Cseg—BotWe, Mitchel, Ls Mastro. Ctimpbell, and lhees the Oval York Mary-le-bone Volunteers., • I;i 3 ;iir ooattiprocling &facer, VISCOWIt I)ilCaftlicti. After' the Levee, -tits MAlrsity held a .Pristy Council' which sat a considerable time. His nieti tate a closet audience to Lord HAlvxtsttUßY, whenfiis bort! p tielivere4 SO His MAJ'itTY the Seals of the dtcliy of 14nci1". 14 heldby. his father the. Earl. of Lxv ER roo Atter hit . I,ordship bad withdrawn from H,ls "- ESTI', Lord .P 11.11141 was admitted into the pie' sense of flu MA:101', and the Seals resigned I/ the Earl of Ltvitteoett:, - . were given to his Lo s d . ship by lits,msTitirr, his ap pointment to the :cha t odialship ot the Dutchy of Lancaster, on* firmed tty kits MAJESTY. We understand his Lordship has received the sP pointment for life, The Marquis of STnrroto had a private audits • ence of His MA I EST Y, and delivered the Blue R ib ' band worn by his late father. The Duke of RUTLAND had a long . private audi ence of His MAI asTY. • The following Noble Personages had likewi se audiep . Cist ; • Lord Hobart, Lord Ptinntore, harp Sandwicti, hfarquis bury, Mr. Addington. 'and Mr. Arbuthdut. ' At a quarter before fi ve 0;14 11;s114Mg" V left the Palace for Kew. Yesterday horning 7--". 1 . 11 Et a T A)ll4T if fl and the PRISM:IW • Sttenkcl , by La kit Pitt and M YNYAR D, left Windsor for Kew at half lost n io o'clock, in three tsrtiages: Left Wirlsor yesterday morning the Potts 0E K,wr and CAMBItiDGE, for Kew;. and illrof with Tar IR MAIttCIIIIS; aVerivardi the Dusk of c 414 .- Iminfalg arm to Lon4on 4 also t. O O ...r. HOW end General Da Boot. ' YlLtud'lli At, l4 . EN lc i_of c l , ogo et , olive .0 hitt Apartments in The 3414e.yaril, Arid OM • beentist 444464 he DU 14 It a Cote a mot i d Ng AlP a4in r nui in the Palace. We undetitanclthe 11 ' 1 * e ...___ of RUTLAND IS to, hare the va c44 l Bl ue K oi t i s a t i by his late Uncle, i Worn , Inc 1).1 . !L. was generally understood yell.ter,"Y It, 1 . i ~ lim t httiiiNsilY is, Shoe . tly to be 14 1 0 1 1. dr 4 4 .i' llse. of Peer;. ' .... that Lora villWr"irstrelawrong glirk Irpoin tett to cOntond the Troope io . the Rover Dittrial tin; der . ._ Sii DAVID DusoAl, and shit doy. hs let . " 11 ': "" I) "tri -- where he will reside. • ' • , Three l i rorTs of , he' Royal Waggon Train Aare It ad yesterday from Canterbury to CrOyd9.. ': , the Royal • WemninsteP V o l u nteers., the LoYat °l 'Tnestisy next , t ilt .0141 Saint GeorgeCelPss North . &icons, the St. Andrew's , and St. George's and the Cletkenteell Corr), SIC to be Brigaded to gether iii Hyde Parks when they will g o through, some new mancenv rel. r.S Si 1 o Nay bm tut, who arrived in the ibdrietto ' on Tura -ay a t yamout 11, states that the utmost or , ertions are used on the Coaot of Holland f it this Country ; that every. place at which it , is possi• ble and the t' . 6 arls which .ore in general, nearly new, and calm.. for Troops to be embarked, is crowded with " le ""Ming IQ* area with ease. Sir Stprrsr CaP 4 could be easily tilted ono boat close in shore, which was taken in. " b 7 the 4,..te1c0e, but a s trong gale e•ftning °"' ly compelled to let her d l i(r, ilie Xrenc h l' '''' '/' boat havifig lost her mast, he WO IC/otter; etUbarkalion and telanding. The Gentleipen of the N a vy Itay-plAce h av e Pre sented their late Paymaster, A L tit. "1,'0," tf; :l . with a superb piece of pl ire a s 3 mark 4 1 4 41 discerned , t ,; cite co;ist, prodtisiog esteem in which he Was held in that. ulficG' Oa .Toutor evening, the Earl. of Vitla"l: Ban 4ave a Grand at Windsor "coven Hall, tor I i Entertainment of the Officers of the Staffordshihre. Militia, and the INT/ability apt! Gentry in the neig h , bouthood of Windsor : there were present, The Duicf,i Of Kent and Cambridge • Lords Roslin, Wt l : s u iotham , sit. Helen's, ans! - tiotticbt i 1 Lintirs Frances , , i ," Barris, " 6 lienleY,'RnOrn and family and Wa6inttha."' liarvey ; CeaerAi Harcourt, and Dilughtrt: j i Mr. and Nlrs. Frarnanile, Mr. and, 5 , 1 , 1 ; 5 ,; Ramshuttunt, jun. Kir, Harcourt, Mrs. Sneytl, an" ' - is blarmtliglgirli, pcslkrow, And Stwyd , Th.e.conwany (lanced till a late hour, the Stafford' and Sir Writ. Pitt ;,Colnne shire Rand playing the. most favourite Country. dances. • _. By a Gentleman arrived in Town yesterclo}",olll Newcastle,. which place he left on iVloriday* 14!;* we :ire sorry to find ' t hat the Fever whieh• ma' le i .. ra its appearance there about a month a g o, ,iii ro i le.. increased than abated._ Several persons -cootr2e to die daily in different quarters of the 'cown.. .N` ) , Petson who has been ,a,eted with tf , e tlisctru i er e has yet completely recovere d from ir.4 WWI patient is first seized with the Fever, he feetsa,t l nArf2 , lent pain in his forehead , which is shortly full by a stupor, and he is soon reduced to a very , Wt c6ndition, 1 1 , in this sitUation, he i... able to Sir gle through ten clays, h ! pet may he e -his 'retoverf; but c den 'then he may' nterta in*:: cititql tra! rnain for some time in a ~ery debilitated icattr. .