The Sun. — London, England, 1803-11-29 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMEIVT• HOUSE OF COMMONS. MONDAY, NOV. 28. Mr. rosTER, from the Exchequer, brought. up Iln, account moved for by Mr. VANSITTART on Friday last, of the net produce of the Assessed Taxes fur the last year. Ordered to lie on the Table. A Petition was presented by Sir CHARLES Burl'. atlitY, from the Prisoners confined for Debt in the County Gaol of Suffolk, praying for relief. Mr.V).t. DuNons gave notice of a Motion re. spitting the Roads in Scotland, and Lord CASTLE. fREAGH gave notice of one respeeting the bonding of East India Company's goods, but we were not able to hear the exast terms of the Notices. PROPERTY TAX. "Mr. Alderman COM BE rose to put a question to an Hon. Gentleman on the Treasury Bench, to 'Which he hoped a distint answer would be ,given. The question he meant to propose was this, Whe. Cher it was the intention of His Majesty's Mini. atels to pro pose any measure for the purpose of situ. plifying the- Property Tax Bill ? Mr. VANSITT4Ia said, he had no hesitation to state that he had received no intimation of any intention to propose any alteration in the Property Ad. ,On the contrary, he was assured th at t h e assessment for this year would be made upon the Att as it now stood. It was thought bette r to adopt this plan, because if afterwards it should be found necessary to make any alteration, it might be made upon a view of the whole etica and opera. Lion of the MI. Mr. Ho ui-tousE brought up the Report of the Committee of Supply—which was agreed to rem. ton. Mr.. VANSITTART then moved the usual 'Esti.: mates, viz. the Ordinaries of the Army, the Half. pay of the' Officers of the Navy and Marines, the Charge of building Ships, .Szo. the Charge for Guards and Garrisons, the Charge of the Office of Ordnance, for the Land Service, an Ac.. fount of the Services incurred and not provided for by Parliament, and an Estimate of the•probable Charge,of the Transport Office ; all for the year So4..—These Motions were severally agreed to. Mr. VANSITTART then moved, " That an humble Address be scented to His Majesty, praying that he would be graciously pleased to give diredions to the proper Officers to prepare and lay before the House the said Estimates and Accounts," Admiral BERKELEY wished to know whether the• Charge for building Barracks was incluthd in these Estimlttes ? Mr, VANSITTART replied in the negative. The Mution of Mr. VnustrrnaT was then' agreed to, and the Address was ordered to be presented by such . Members us were of the Privy Council. The SPEAKER then gave notice that all Gentle men who had any renewed Eletion Petitions to pre sent should deliver them at the Table. The follow- Petitions were then presented, and were ordered itp be taken into consideration the following days, Vic Aylesbury, :4th *6th Feb. -•--Carrickfergus, and Sudbury, 2 at Feb.—Mine. head, and Hereford Town, 23L1 Feb.—London, and Coventry, 28th Feb.—Stirling, Ist March. Mr, Ao,sms,gave notice, that the vote of Seamen for the ensuing year would be proposed on Wed nesday. Adjourned at half past live till to-morrow. MAILS. _ •ititzvas. Hamburg!' 3 .... 41P a PUS. PRICE 01 STOCKS, 7141 s PAY AT TWWL,V/ O'CLOCK, , 54 :j 4'55 a 54 t I Onmium 7a 6 1:17 dis. THE SUN. 1101..ithl QV'S AlWit VAISUM AVDMI %L'ON 00 Ar, .N9PE4 1 1144R Z 9, ISQ3. ' tit isinntning Dispatches were received at Llrd lion ALT'S Office, • with an account of the Starer,. tier to Iris Majesty's• Arma of the Settlement of Berbice, The following Notification of this event was' this forenoon sent by His Lordship to the LORD MAYott.; " MY LOAD, (COPY.) " A"tuning.sirert, Nov. 2j. " I have the Honour to acquaint your Lordship, that I have this morning received an account of the Surrendet of the SettleMent of Ber'oice to His Majesty's Arms, cm the 24th of . Septernher. 44 I have the Honour U) be, kc. dec. ;Signed) 44 110134 RT. 4 . rdthe Right floe. the Leeet *var.," e yesterday evening received Paris .7 ossrmats to the ifitli, and Daub ?slier: of the 15th inst. making a series of the former of five days. They furnish us, however, with little upon which we can found an opinion of the real state of things on the other side of the water. They still talk of the continued preparations for the invasion. At Bon. lope, where the Chief Consul was still on the zoth instant, we believe these to be great — it seems the point at which the whole force along that Coast, from Hawre to a t t en d i s concentrate d, and from which it will issue, but it can be a force merely of Boats, The Consul was expelled to leave Boulogne on the teth or t 3th for Osiesd, and to proceed along to !baits: and the Isle of Wal. theme. The Minister of Marine came to Boulogne on the lath, where it was probable he would find 13osArAttrt. Thirty Posts from Havre - , having . on board about 700 men, had entered Bardogne in the course of two or three days preceding the 13th. Other Squadrons of Boats are likewise said to have arrived. Twenty-five flat-bottomed boats were, it is stated, at Cherbourg, destined for Boulogne, the Soldiers on board which were, ac cording to the French Accounts, extremely eager to come to England. A number of trading Vessels retained by Government, quitted the Canal of Brris. refs on the I zth and t 3th, and were to be succes. sively followed by others. At DunAirk a number of Daggers and Fishing Boats were arming with the greatest glivity. Each of these is, it is stated, to carry one 24-pounder, four 4-pounders, a num. ben of Troops, not stated, a crew consisting of 40 men, and a stable for the transport of Horses. Se. venal Boats from Holland were likewise expeded there. In Holland, the preparations were pursuing with great activity, a Commission of the Coun. ca of Marine was charged with their inspec tion, and to give all the necessary orders that the Squadron of Ships of the Line and Frigates and the Flotillas might put to sea at the first signal. In the mean time, however, General Moan El had • ordered new measures of defence .for the Isle of Wakhereu. At Ostend the Gun-boats and Pinnaces destined fur the Expedition against England were completed. The number of vessels of all descrip. lions which are to he employed in that Expedition, is stated at five thousand. Orders have been given at'Brussels to prepare a great quantity of Biscuit for the Army of England. The construdion of oars in the Forest of Soigne: was proceeded in with re.; doubled activity, thirty thousand of which were it is stated to he made. Five ' new flat-bottomed Boats were launched at Rotterdam on the loth,. making the number of fifty furnished by that Port completely equipped and ready to set sail.—The French have been making fanciful experiments to prove that their gun.powder is superior to ours ; we shall however prove to them how much pradice is superior to theory. Letters from Antwerp state the detention, by order of the French Government, of forty-four Vessels from Emblen; loaded with colonial produce, .and that a Commission hal been appointed to en. quire into the validity of the neutrality of these . Vessels. Probably it i 1 already decided in the true spirit . of French tyranny that they were not neu_ tral; and therefore fair Prizes. The Moniteur of the r zth, states, that the French Governmegt having !ell-kit that General BUYER was detained in a Prison in Scotland, had ordered that an English Prisoner of distindion should be treated in the same manner as General BUYER should be used here. From ihrnove . r of the 7th it is stated, that much activity prevailed amongst the French Army occupy. ing that Country, and that several carriages were emplOyed in transporting, cannon and ammunition. Four Vessels were at Ilarbourg ready to descend the Elbe, loaded with 24. pounders and gunpowder, and a secret Expedition was talked of. The French Co un cil of War had pronounced upon a Hanoverian Serjeant, convited of recruiting for England, the moderate sentence of condemnation to the Galtics for fifteen years. Accounts from ri,.nna, in the Paris Papers, re peat the old stories of pacific propositions being about to be made by that Courtin concert with Russia and Prussia.. The ENtrvitoit of GERMANY is said to be very solicitous to procure the Election of a King of the Romani, but from the diminished influence of the House of Austria, this prujed would, it was supposed, meet .with many obstacles. The Parisian Edit Ors, however, so notoriously fabricate Correspondence from different parts of Europe, that very little reliance is to be placed upon the state.. ments they make respetling European politics.. • In the same situation may be classed pretended Letters from the Bank: of the Mein, ridiculing the idea of the disposition of Russia being favourable to Faigland, although they suggest, at the same time, what, perhaps, is too probable, that the Continental Powers will wait the result of the Expedition against England before they take any decided part. Nothing is said in these . Papers respedir.g.the reported c h ange in the Russian Ministry. Letters proceeding from the same. souree, dated from Piessa, state, the Porte to in a situation of the greatest perplexity and embarrassment, in consequence of the steps taken by England to dr a w it from its Neutrality.. An account is given in several of the French Papers, under the date of the 7th, from Hansburch, of the demand made by General BERTIIIRk of a Loan of 3,000,000 of Marks Banco, upon x Mort gage of the Hanoverian Possessions. The Senate, it is stated, represented the sum to he too large, but on the reiterated instances of Gen. Baltlllllllt, they agreed to the Loan, one million of which was to be furnished immediately and the remainder by instalments of 500,000 Masks tacit, We are satisfied that upon the statements in the French Journals upon , any 5 :e ( ,--very liatiti s treli. ance is to be placed:, W e kt w from the intorma. 09 fion of our own, Oft v icers, 'eil recently communi. ..._, 711_, cated, that the Preparations in the Ports of flat land have been very much exaggerated. At Flush ing, and in those places occupied by, and contigu ous to the Stations of the French Tioops, a show of preparation may be unwillingly made by the Dutch, but they ere so convinced that the Expedi tion must fail—they are so disinclined to the risk, and are so sick of their task -masters, that we may be assured their part of the business will be very languidly and inefficiently executed. The French Funds were on the 16th at 52. TH E idea of the Invasion being speedily attempt ed, seems to gain ground in the City, in spite of which, however, the Funds have for two or three days been looking upwards. The reason of this is, that the attempt will end the state of suspense in which the Nation is kept at present, and no suppo sition can be entertained that it can meet with even a partial success. For ourselves, we have no idea that the Enemy in any numbers can cf. lea a landing on any part of the Coast, at least on any part of that the most contiguous to the Capital. Our Squadrons for the defence of the Coast are now wisely kept at anchor in safe and convenient situations, from whence they can move in any diredion as circumstances may require.— By this means they art less subjeft to damage by gales of wind, and their stock of ammunition is husbanded till a proper occasion for adion shall present itself. Meanwhile small Vessels, are kept off the French Ports, sufficient to watch all the movements of the Enemy. We know it was the opinion of some of our best Officers, that if the. Bombardments such as took place some time ago, were continued, the Enemy might take ad vantage of the exhausted state of the Bombarding Vessels' Magazines after one of these attacks, and pot to sea in the face Sof our Squadrons without opposition. The chance of this is now .prevent. ed, by the disposition that is made of our Na. val Force. Not that we do not think an at tack upon Boulogne, well planned and judiciously eanduaed, might not have a very good effea, and the more crowded that Harbour is with Boats, the greater would be the damage which we might do to the Enemy. Unless, however, an enterprize of this nature were undertaken in a proper manner, it is, under all circumstances, better that it should not be risked. We have no doubt that our Army, both Regular and Volunteer,, longs for nothing so much as that the Enemy should soon carry his threat into execu tion. It seems, indeed, as if it would he diflicult for the Chief Consul much longer to find an excuse for not liberating his Flotilla from its cooped. Up situation. In the crowded state in which his Army must find itself at his principal de. pets, and more pat ticularly at Boulogne, we ep. prebend that the patience of his Soldiery must by this time be pretty well tried. The moment they venture out, we feel a confidence that their courage too will have to undergo an ordeal from which few will he able to shrink. The vengeance of our brave Tars t will overwhelm them like a whirlwind. Ir was stated in a sort of official way yesterday in the House of Commons by Mr. VANSITTART, that there is nu intention on the part of Ministers of bringing in any Bill to amend or explain the Property Tax At, and that they intend to take the Apiessments for the year upon the Aa as it now stands. It is therefore to remain with all its imperfedionbupon its head. Yesterday morning, soon after breakfast, His MAJESTY, attended by Lint WALSINGH.kI I / 4 1 and GeneraN MANN INGHAM and HAII,COURT, rode into Windsor Great Park, and viewed the improveMents making there ; and at twelve o'clock, with a nu merous suite of attendants, went, to hunt . with . the Harriers. PRINC ISM AMELIA and SOPH IA tO . Ol. an airing in a coach and four by . Holly Gruve and North Row. Yesterday morning the Staffordshire Militia was inspected in Windsor Little Park, and the 13 , h Light Dragoons in the Long Walk, in .the Great Park, by General Fox, inspedur-General of the The Windsor Volunteers are to have their Uni. forms on : Wednesday next,_ and the Colours are to be presented by Lady CARDIGA.N. Last night Capt. iluNT,.tif the: Navy, arrived at the Admiralty and Lord- :HapArtr's Office, horn Commodore Hoop and GenerafjCittlNFlEt.o, With Dispatches, containing the Article s o f C ap i tu l at i on of the Settlements of - Demerara and Essequibo, which will be published in the Gazette of this evening, but which we were enabled to give in our Paper of Thursday last. We un►lerstand that the Commanding Officers of the several Corps within the Distritt under the corn. [nand of Lord HARR iisaTaN, are to meet his Lord ship, by appointment, on Friday next, in artier to settle upon Alarm-posts, at which a Guard of VO. lunteers is henceforth to be stationed, and whicht arc to serve as Rendezvous for the meeting of the; L:orps, in case of necessity or any sudden call. NAViL NEWS. PORTSUOUTH, Nov. :B.—Sailed tLe L7rd Howe, BAGGS, to I\florlaix, with French Passengers , ; and james, HON E ?MAN, to Newcastle. Went out of Harbour to Spithead, His Majesty's Ship .P;s= ) , Lieut. Wsiti E. Arrived a Sloop of War from Burbatioes. SHEERNESS, Nov. 26.—A Court-Martial WES assembled and held on board of His Majesty's Ship Winchebra, in this Harbour, consisting of the fol. lowing Members, viz. Capt. W. MircHEL, Presi dent, Captains IVIANBY, VESEY, ELYHINSTONE, BYRON, and RikTHIJORNE ; when they proceeded to inquire into the conduet of Capt. CHARLES FEUD. ING, his Officers, Pilots, and Ship's Company, for the loss of His Majesty's late Ship the Circe ; when the Court were of an opinion that the loss of the said Ship was occasioned from the inaccuracy of the Charts, aml that no blame attaches to Captain FEILDINc, his Officers, Pilots, and Ship's Com. Pally, and they were fully acquitted accordingly. Sailed the Cleonne and Avenger. DEAL, Nov. 28.—Came in the Mariner Gun• brig, from a Ckuize. Put back the Merlin Sloop. Arrived the Diligence Brig, and Drjorford Trans . ~ port, from Plymouth; and Discovery Bonet, from, Margate. Road. . . In the Downs—Monarch, Utrecht, Ralsonaltle Immord talit6, Champion, and L'Smarantlic ; Vulture aild Merlin Stoops; Perseut, Fury Zebra, and Discovery, Bombs ; Mariner, Coithiti, Starling, facl:all, and Qmsor„L; tut-brig s ; Diligence Brig, and Deptford Transport. THE THEATRE. lilt: Covent Garde's. 1 Tits splesidid - manner in which the Tragedy of Dram Y a l° :: 4 ta t k h e e s !r f l acluth was brought forward last night at thi s excellence great pai n o s f w t t he performance , o c r h n i ta ra n a cc e , r # : give renewed popularity to that admirable Macbeth, • and . his labour is rewarded by #°e ee ' ge ' -' He • gave the various • with kill and , })assions great # • effetl, and though exceptions may be mode to*Pertl cular parts, they are absorbed in the general mer it of his representation. the The omission of Banys;o's Ghost in th e Ba r n n i guei: scene certainly weakens its di !c.t, far n andat :' the spekttator cannot enter so fully into , the pre sent tears," and all the horrors that possess the fillt.. gination uf illacbeth, as it Would if iliac wer e an external appearance perceived by hi m an d not by his gurus. F ti w e ver, KENID LE certainly'rent'ell t he scene impressive,- though it w ould probably be much m a re so , if the apparition were restored. We do not see the propriety of . the angerthphlg a ‘vhich l KEMB L R expre,se, i n concluding the phito intioence o iliarf tomarr to oiso. is relled ionsyin the begui lin g Such refle `.?ions s mus t be supposed fam i . mind, and when suggested by the death y g of his w if, brief rather would naturally be accumpantecl than indignation. din her ex hibition • 1\11 ". S 1 DDONS was truly g ran of Lady Alacbesh. The l oft y iinuence of atnbition, mingl e d. with the arts by ~vlAch'she confirms the purpose of her wav guilty l• nd if:gaol ering hus iit , ~ .us' lull scope f or h e r powers, and sli rendered ample j tire. to i t . - t-t .Ci second dress was super_k_but sotu what heavy. It seemed to have been c opied rolP the ccualme of QU Et N. Et, I ZA a ETH. iS C°°", for the first tulle played Macdajr. 14 Perfornumie was manly, but he did not surtieienlll' subdue the l i arsbi4,s t pf Lis tones. He was, hui.v i ; ever, natural and affecting intim • scene in wt.icti In learns the dreadful 'fate of his wife and childre4 The dresses 40d 'ficenery. arc, rich, stiiking, and pidurcsque. , • • . , nie Lzstnight His. Excellency Eiji BEY, licc°lTlP ; : nnnal himYre:HlounGeliiNt!::Jridei:italieviiii,:tnitoMtrh.:ivEr.,‘,,Y,":l): ''',! of The ,Horning Chronicle, where pc exainl o i tehd,e;A'l::::fogolift.:l4)triiiifi:grtii,:iute.c the ina l c:: , p , f on c d c, 6 ; „ 0 lenty with whicli . ,a N :nvbpapet is c° l 0116 c "•, the ce ' 4' and expressed oil by the Bi. y .:11.::::lastity , Wrift7 l : We I re 0 :0:1; posed - on •the Q vc d s'i.:/ri, _ a nd t h e iiorrepion•s" To I►S IE,CLEEE.I4CY ELF: REY , ON Illx Yil i zT - 2,8" t 1' k INTINt; ►HOUSE OF THE 'MOKNI;4O 0;;i4“4 -C"' ,0vEm5,z8,.1163. Hait tb the .0 tt iF. r who, with a PatriO jeal' Wooer Bit IT AI WS tOr His CoO rrY's Who, having 'Ought and itininp led in her cause. Nov seeks ta dultiOaxe her. A it ri and I,lk Of Who views our Isle, in conscious vigotir bolds For EuaoP+'s l'cace her cnOrgies Would ife the secret of poi strength explore, And beat it back to Lear r,s fruttful 4 ikore ? Oh, may the secret to the-Earth belong I Ttte I F. F.no Nt that titligki4yla ni,tkes us strong. ...--_ : i. . n. o cineije d f: ,. lH ,.j ; , : i . R7,3e;ea k t dispatches from the. Cotnol a ",`: Highness the Dvx.E of A r o l %l and.ltiajor.General Lbrastox, were tcceivect 4Y , Colonel commanding at Bleichingcon bar'rackslll,4"; ing; tha-r th e Flineh,"should they succeed in-crool% the British Cl*riet, would certainlY. %frf eW° d landing in Sc.ford Bay ; and direairg a striarielic vigilant watEn to .. be kept up in 'consequence. leo purport of these dispatches were the next daYg.svej out in orders, at the head of the R,:gittient ststO in the above Barracks. . . - , , Olefir. General the Earl of Coax is apPoint" t " . o f command of Waterford Distri.,tt, to the our l ; 4 Gen. Drul--k, , 1 ' .l the COIC. i•-'/'7 l$ 11) 13. appUiniCua, 10 . . tritt. . . 400 nk, Pv,rfsTAN vIL i . E very handenrelY °l# lows eachinan of the Piatre,th Voluntetc Artillerri +Ol. per antittat'our of his own at the cxpence of clothin g equipping th,qlll,, Cores consists of sop men.. pocket, besides loli.fi'it