The Sun. — London, England, 1803-11-25 00:00:00

N 4 Pia NEWS. Frew ibe LONDON C;AZETT E, Mv. i 4. Admir9lty..o . ffire, Nay. 24, 18,03. Cob, of a Letter from Sir lames Saumarez, 11. Rear-Admiral of the Blue, &L.. to Sir Evan 1110ean, Bart. dated at Guernsej, the 19th init. SIR, I beg you will please to inform my Lords Corti. missionera of the Admiralty, tha; having detached His Majesty's Ship Poulette, on the breaking 40 of the late gales of wind, to watch the Enetrty'S Armaments on the French Coast, and to reconnoitre The Port of CherboUrg, Captain llmbat had the 'good fortune to fall in with a French Convoy of about Thirty Sail, escorted by a National Brigand other armed Vessels, standing to the Eastward, the whole of which were driven on the RoCks of Cape La Hague; Three of them wete cut out by the Boats of the Paulette, assisted by the Liberty Brig, under a smart fire from the shore. I herewith enclose Captain Dunbat's .Letter, and cannot too highly commend the zeal and good ton. duet displayed by him, his Officers, and Men, on this service, which has been effeded without the • loss of a single man. I have the Honour to be, &el JAMES SAUMARtZ. His Majesty's Ship Poulette, at Sea, 111 Nov. 15, 1803. As I was passing the Island of Alderney this inoining, about a quarter past eleven, I 'came up' with a Convoy belonging to the Enemy, consist. log of About thirty Sail, steering to the Eiistward, scorted by several Armed Vessels, and in the aft of rounding Cape La Hague. I have great pleasure in acquainting you that the Attack made on them by his Majesty's Ship under my command, was such as to compel their crews to run them on the rocks, where they be. 'came completely explsed to our shut, as well as the dangets incident to that situation. It is impossible - for me to describe sufficiently the zeal and good eoncluft of those under me every Officer and man • volunteered their servi:es in the Boats, by which a srig s a Lugger, and Sloop, the latter made fast with a cable to the shore, were cut out under a smart fire, while the Ship was carried, and an. doted within three cables length of the surf, to Cover those engaged on this la.,nterprize. As the rest were left dry by the tide, I am confident that several are totally lost. Those that fell into our hands are new, and from having sweeps on board, Though nOt armed, evidently intended to aid the Invasion: The Liberty took ashore, but the Mou. Oberon wild not, et up in time. lam most happy to add'that not a man was hurt, and the loss of an tanthoris All that we eXpericn:cd. I have the Honour to be, &c. J. DUNBAR. to Sir 7i:lnel Sdarnar e z, Aar). Com_ i van;ler Ere. &e. &e. q,.: PLyi4o l trili, Nov. 23. 7 , -Arrived the jairta;ta Frigate from a Croize : in coming into Cawsand ay yistitday, she 'ran foul of the Foudttannt, of `to gum', 44 w hich ircident the .fore =At and boW - .. sprit- of the former were tarried aViay., and other damage done: Sailed the Moir Frigate, on a P ORTsMukrirt, 24. —Went out of liar: bour to Spitheati, Nis Majesty's Ship ri-inte George, iSf 98 guns, Captain J. S. Ynkst. The Itel'eecaiSE6MA.N, and the Mertes y , Fissittit, of London, have been opttired by L'Egyptietoie and L'Atederrier French Privattem Artilnd the Rithig Sun, MutinY, from Don gurvon ; D ar t , K t N - 0 • from Poole ; Trtv2 Sisters, Wneti, from Waterford; acid Agdeript, Mug. Lay, from London, to reftr; having had he bow. sprit carried away . . Sailed the Europa, Gyssoit , for thntzic ; :Pori:- *youth, BiJINAM, for London ; •artnel, box , for Shoreham; and Goed Ifcop, lotritits, for Etubdo. DIAL, Nov. 4.-=-Sailed the L'Ai'mabie, tin a Cruis e off Flushing; Squirrel and !brook Schooner bn a Cruize off Dunkirk; Liopa)-d, / 1 0'14W/sr.'', and Lida Frigates ; Lark, llarly, and Auth.vut Sloops Archer and Bloodhosiod Gun.brigs, for their station at Dungeness. In the Dawnit—Menitrch, if trecht, itaisonable, tn u Champion, L'Amatanthe I Vulture, Perseus, Furyi and Xebra bombs i Cooftla and Starlit% G uthbrigs. SHEitteltis, Nov. 24.—A doLirt.Martiat *as this day assembled, and held on board of His Md• jesty's Ship Pegaiut, in this Harbour, oh Mr. Tito:Am EirlasoN, Gunner of His Majesty's Ilomb.vessel the Hecht, fur neglett of duty, drunk. enness, gross insolence, anti contempt. The charges being in part proverb he was dismissed his present Employment as Ounner on board the Hecia. Ship s at the ChillUnne, Htcla, Scourge, D iligence, anti Alonzo. The following are some further Particulars of the Pliant Anion that took place between the Grifa Cutter and a Fleet at French Gun-boats, &c. On Wednesday_ the roih instant, the Gri ruining oi r Sr. Valery, at 3 P. NI. discovered , de. vgn sail of the Enemy's Gun.vessels coming down under the Cliffs of Oriel, the wind being at S.S.V. At four she brought them to a4tiol, they at first 1114 'king a shew of attack ; hut on the. Cutter per. sisti ng an d prepar i ng f or action, (WU of the heart. most of the boats vushed in, and ran on shore "long the rocks, _Chem still continued engaged With the Cutter, seven Gun.hoats, a Galliot, and a tir;g (the Commodore): the Griii 'n. currying only tart ,)..pounders, and t s men, the French Brig alone having two ‘32.poundets on he bows, and the same-Vreigiit er metal on eaeli incl from no_ pearance not fewer than de) men on board: it was the great (+Ned of the Brig and Galliot t co ver the seven Gun-boats whilst . they were re treat. ing. For that purpose, they temained asrern of the Boats, and , kept up a constant firing of gape_ shot, which the Grigm warmly returned wish mus. ken} , and her three.pounders. After a contest of two hours (it then being dark), the CUtter-succeed. ed in driving all the Gun-boats, the Ga,flint, and Brig, on shore, where they were protelted by the Batteries of Tresport,; The Griffin matt,i several at. tempts tocut 'off the Brig daring the adion, by getting• to windward of her, but which she studiously pie. vented by keeping in shore. , This adion, which ended so much to the 41ory of our Countrymen, and the disgrace of the French, Was witnessed at its commencement by the inhabitants 'a Tresport on the beach. The boats we.re stwoied to have left Dieppe in the inoining, and were proceeding, to Boulogne. The Crig.2 sustained no other damage than one.shroud shot away, and her sails injured by the enemy's grape. Her Crew, though so few in number, diselayeci that contempt of the enemy which is invariably shewn by our brave Tars on such occasions ; anti they have very deservedly re. ceived, from the Commander in Chief, a letter of thanks for, and avprobationA their truly inerito. rious condutt. Captain TINLTNG is appointed to command the Dißater, of 64 guns, at Chatham. Mr. WHITBY' ,who is superintending the equip. meet of the Armed Veisels on the Coast of Nortulk, has bcen ordered to Hull, to forward the cotnple. Lion of the craft on the River Humber. FUNERAL, OF ADMIRAL PAYNE. YESTERDAY, At noon, the remains of this much fespeeted Gentleman were removed, in great funeral 'pomp, from Greenwich, for interment in the Clois. ters of Sr. Margaret's Church, We,tminster, adjoin ing \Vestniinster Abbey, The Procession moved in the following order : Undertaker. Six Mutes on hers;:hac,k, Staves in mourning. The Feathers (Wad:). • The Hearse drawn by six hors,:s, black velvets and feathers. Two Out-Riders Ih:tonging to the Princii Of Wales. His Royal' Highness's Coach and Sis,:witlrieur Foot Men, followed by two Men on hO r escbacki In the Coach were, (en. Hulse, Cpl. M'Mahon, and Mr. Ty rwhi t t Four Mourning Coaches and'Six, with Velvets and Feathers. in the Ist. Four Admirals, who supported the Pall. • Lord Hood, Lord kadstock, Sir Charles Pole, and • Admiral Ninrent. ad Coach, Stephen Payne Galvey, Esq. Brother to the De ceased., and John Morcly, Esq. his Nephew. 3d Coach, tour Gentlemen in whke, F fiends of the Peceased. 4th Coach, Four Attendants. Sewn private Coaches tollowat ; among the number were : Lord Lavingion's, William Payne Galvey's, Eq. Lund Hood's, Lord Ititdstock's, Sir Charleb Polo's, Admiral Nugent's. The Procession arrived in King-street about a quarter before two o'clock. At the Not thern gate of the Church-yard the Coffin was removed from the Hearse. The Procession 'entered the western porch and proceeded np the Middle Ailey the Pail being supported by the four Admirals above-Mentioned, and two Post Captains. Two other Post Captains followed ; then Colonel MACMAHON and the other : Gentlemen of the PRINCE of WALes's Hoesch°ht.., The usual rites being performed, the corpse watt consigned to the vault on the left of the principal entrance into the church. The ceremony concluded about half past two o'clock. CORN EXCHANGE, Nov. :5. TAR Market to.day is well supplied with Grain in general ; the fine samples of Wheat, with a little foreign, keep full as dear, hut much ordinary litre, that is almost unsaleable ; barley a bd Malt are a little cheaper ; and little aite. ration in Peaac or Beans ; from the late plenti. ful Oat arrivals, they are noted,at is. lower; Flour as our last. Wheat '44 5 SU a 6os od Tick Beans -3 6 s a 39s od Fine ditto - els a 62$ , oats - - 245 266 A 28s Rye - 318 3 33% od Poland ditto . 293 a fog 61 Barley - 23$ a 2 8 s 6d Rape Seca - 371 a 391 Malt - 525 a SOS od Fitie flour . Os a 534 oi l %VI - the resit sls a sis ad Sccou4 • - 44 1 a 48S Beans . 388 a 4as od . .. Mr. Fox, it. was seen on the first day of the Session of Parliament *as decidedly in opposi. tion to the Minister: Mr. Sti SUDAN'S Allgotia. tion has proved ftUitless to bring him over to the side of Ministry, and that Gentleman himself is thereby placed in an aukward predicament., He is pledged to support Mr. ADDINGTON, and he is solemnly pledged not to desert Mr. Fox,- , —Can a middle way be found to redetin both pledges •---We - should think not ; but it is said that Mr. So a at. DAN means to defend Mr. At:rum:Tors against Mr. PITT, nvhen No. Pox ;$ not t•etctiti hut always to side with his old Friends when Mr. Fox is in the House. He will find himself as Much puzzled as M. ADD] NnION footed hiMself last year between " his old Friends and new Allies."—We think bet. ter however of !slr. Streit t OAN than 'to Oppose he will follow the Minister's example—he will hardly, for his new Allies, discard his old Friends, unless he shall become inoculated by the Minister with a love of place, which it is proved, at once txtin. guishes consistency and principle. At flytiionth on Monday night it blew a most tremendous gale of wind at S. W. accompanied by the most loud and dreadful peals of thunder and vivid lightning experienced there for many years, the sea in the Sound ran mountains high, and the bail and rain incessant. At three a. in. on Tuesday the gale incteaSed, „to a hurricane, and the thunder and lighdrings awfully grand ; the Ships in the Sound draggek and firei several - guirr of distress, but the grounttbeing good they weather ed it ; at one period the lightning, was so quick and vivid that the' whole of Mount Edgecuirare appeared as if on fire. At 7a. m. the wind veered round more to the westward, rind the weather became more moderate; the Men of War rode it out without damage, only a Sloop was wrecked, all kinds saved, off theCobler's.Reach, but she - was towed alongside the Pier Heads, which contributes by their con . struftion much to the safety of the numerous ship. I ping in sukton Pool. Piiitofi OP LANDAFF. This venerable Prelate has just given to the world a short Pamphlets which contains the sub. stance of a Speee.h whiO he intended to have ale. livered in his place in the House of Peers on the first day of the,Session of Parliament ; but his Lord. ship in a prefixed advertisement states, '' that as he proCieded in the consideration of the subjeft, he found he could not comprehend in a short Speeco all that he wished to observe, and' being unwilling to take up the lime of the House with his Speculations, he thought fit in the form Oa Pamphlet to give his Sentiments to the Public." These Sentiments are such as become the respectable Prelate's Charatter for Patriotism, Moderation and Virtue, and we think we cannot better gratify our Readers or serve the Public Cause than by an adoption of some of them. His Lordship begins his intended Speech by stating his attendance in his place in obedience to the commands of His Majesty, and in compliance with his own sense of public dofy. " I, my Lords," he rroceeds, " could have -been, well contented to spend 'the little remainder of my life .in retire. ment, and buried in obscurity ; indifferent, alike, to the calls of professional emolument, and pro. fessionul ambition : but I cannot be contented to remain indifferent to the Summons of my Sovereign, in a time of distress ; deaf to the calls of my Coun. try, when its existence is endangered.—Endangered we all know it to be; but where is the dastardly soul (none such, I am confident, is to be met with - amongst your Lordships ; none such, I hope, is. to be met with amongst-any of those in whose heating I now speak)—where is the dastardly soul i who accompanies his prospeCl of danger, with a feeling of despair ? " Without laying claim to any extraordinary de. gree of courage, any man of an advanced age, who has wen contemplated the short and slippery course of this world's concerns, may acquire such a firmness of mind, as will enable him to sustain with Stoical fortitude all the vicissitudes of fortune which may await him; or, (to speak in language more appro. priate, I am sensible to your Lordships' principles, more consonant to your feelings, as well as to my own,) to acquieice, with Christian resignation, in every dispensation of GOD. What cause can such a man ever, have for terror and despair ? On such a man (I here sec_;nany such)--Maraca "wit sever fortuna.--Vie worst that can happen to any indi. victual amongst us is death ; and lie who fears to die in the just defence of his Country, does not de. serve to live in it. I put the matter at the very worst, and that worst is nothing : good men do not dread it, brave men do not shun it, wise men hourly think of it ; it terrifies none but bad men and powards. What ground then for our despair ? our cause is good; our conscience on this point is clear—we are nut fighting to plunder other men's property, but to protect our own—we are not fight. ing to subvert the liberty of other Nations, but to prevent the yoke of slavery from being fastened on out necks and on those of our posterity- .we are no fighting in contempt of National Character, in despite of the civil order of the world, in derision. of religion, in mockery of Heaven—No! we are fighting, to preserve ibis happy Land from Atheism, tram Despoti an, or Anarchy, from that moral con_ lamination of principle and raraice, which out. rages the very natiue of humankind. is B u t why speak of the, worst, when there is little probability of the worst happening? To some, w ee d, it must happen ; writr gallant men must fall in the noble conflid ; but that the Nation will be subdued is nor to me a pr,)bable event. The events o f War, we. acknowledge it with humility, an d we have abundant reason to acknowledge it with gratitude and piety, are. in the hands of Gon. Our duty is to trust the issue of the Contest to Him, 4 g it. we were nor concerned in 'bringing it.about— but it is our duty also to exert our own energy, as if every thing depended on ourselves. And are we not doing •this, in a manner and to an extent un. heard of i n homer times, in our own Country, and unprecedented in the most illustrious nations of an. tiquity ? " We read of a law in Sparta which made it death for a mats to refuse hazarding his life in the defence of h's Country, We have no such law ; but we have something a thousand times better than such a law ...we have a British spirit. That spirit is now roused, it pervades the whole Country, it animates the Nobility, Gentry, Yeomanry, all orders and descriptions of men, to do that voluntarily, which even Spartans were compelled 'to do by the fear of punishment - . Every city, town, and village, from the Land's End to the Orkney Islands, pours forth its voluntary Legions in defence of their Country anti of their King. It Glorious and unexampled on the Surface of the earth is His Majesty's situation 1 Other hinces there are who reign over more extensive regions— other Princes there are who support their Thrones, in times of Peace, by more numerous Armie's ; and exercise over their tobjetts a more tin..m.tet. sway. But where is the Prince, in Europe, or in 'the world, who, in the day of danger, sees himself proteeted as His Majesty is, by the united efforts of all his Peopleby the persons of those who are able' to wield a weapon - by* the prayers of the , ' aged trod of the sex—by the purses of the richand..by, the hearts. of all ? Surely all this is wdl—it does . honour to the King, it does equal honour to the People: They knbw for whom and for what t h ey expolie_ their lives—they know that they are not miserable tonscrios, driven in .vhains to be saeri - fieed oh the altar of an ambitious Leader, whom they detest; but loyal subjeas, voluntarily encoun. tering danger for a legal and beloved Monarch anti nut for...hisn only, but for themselves ; for the pre. servatiOn 'Oita limited Monarchy_ which it the primary snuice of all the blessings they enjoy as members of Civil Society. " Is any one ignorant of these blessings ? Does any one think that he has nothing to fight for, that his condition, is so mean and uncomfintable that, let what will h a ppen, it cannot become worse under any Cons t i tut i on which may take place ? taken m a n go And see if thou cant find in France a trial by jury-ik-an Habeas Corpus AA—an incur. rum administration of Jiw ice—an equality °flaw-- a iecurity of life and property--..A rmc bi ai ni3" ~:\~ ~ ~~~ . ~'~~ • . h ttnance for my oath arA in ut whA age Or micitleoir lossl titittersed the arm of industry t filestings these! *kith the (Ilene/it Fn lishoi,tri co literally enjoya i that he is apt to overlook them ; which the greatest Fr&ch. Men 60 eagerly desire, that they will, erelong, t+ ith swords in their' hands detrvind theme The Soldiery of France, nf Holland, Switzetlandi ghitted at length with *laughter, satiated with 'twitter will ere long begin to he ashamed ' officeri and men ) of the part they have ailed in this Revo. Intionary Traged y of the World ; they will at length make an atonement fur the mischief they have dotie, and snap at once the despotic chains, which in a fi t of Eglion, passion; atilt insanity, th ey have contributed to isn i tost on their respedivs Couniries," His Lord Ship recomniernis sortie aciaitionit Meal of defence, which ate certainly well worth ieflOtti attention; " In the first place then, my Lords,ii says he; " I am of opinion, that the first class of the people; adopting the division prescribed by a late Ad of Parliament, should be called out and taught the Use of arms, not merely as, a temporary eipedient to answer the present exigency; but annually continued •as a permanent measure of the Executive Govern, ment. Unwise and alefeaive is that policy, whiCh is occupied iri devising remedies for present evils; without extending Its views to prevent the recur. fence of danger.: I read_ly join in the general praise so justly given to the Volunteers; but this Coat, mercial Nation ought so fir to become A IViiliter# Nation; es always to have within itself a 'sufficiency' of men ready disciplined foi its defence. This may be completely efFeded fuc the present occasion In A. short time; and when the pressure of the present Ot. casion is removed; it may be established as a per. manent measure in the 'course of six years; without giving any sensible interruption to our agriculture, our manufadures, or out commerce. " The population of the Country would annually supply, at least, fifty thousand youth+, who in the preceding twelve months had attained the seven. teenth year of •their age ; in six years we should have three hundred thousand young men sUfficiently instruated in the use of arms. In the seventh years fifty thousand of them might be di , atissed, as eiro.o riti, from further attendance on military duty, ex , cept when the'Country was invaded. Thus by a slight service of a few day. annually for six years., the whole Nation (for no Substitutes should in this arrangement be allowed) woaki at length become a Nation, nor of Warriors, but of peaceful Citizens, of all occupations and denominations, ready to be come Warriors, whenever the satery of their Coun. try should require the exertion of their skill and courage. Neither France alone, nor France with all Europe in her Vassulage, synitid venture to set foot on this Island thus prepated to receive them*: Great Britain, single handed, would defy the world. " I own I prefer this Militia Rotation, if I may so call it, which I have submitted to your Lord: ships' consideration, not only to the Voltioteeting System, but to every other Mode of cktraordinar) defence. It would not supersede the Standing Amy, it would be subsidiary to it, and might greatly assist in rectuitin,,o the ranks of the regu. lar fortes, and perhaps in diminishing their number: Some men are apt to speak of every species of Mia WA . force with contempt ; this has been always Ott case: Lord Clarendon in one part of htt History speaks in a most disparaging style of the London Trained-Bands t but lie is farted to do thern justice in another, where he informs tat, that they cou. tageolisly resisted with their pikes the cavalry of Prince Rupert, though led on by himself and there. by saved the army at the battle of Newbury. It was by a force of this kind that the Romans first conquered Italy, and then the world. And, in our time, a force of this kind captured a must gala lane army at Saratoga, and thereby acquired lode. pendence for America. " I forbear, my Lords, entering into any detail on this subject; the very mention of which may appear to some to be a going beyond my Province. But the—se tutor rihra trrkidam—the Iratlext brilia fabri—the, let Bishops mind their Bibles-- these, and sarcasms such as these, front whatever mouth they May proceed, aired not me ; nor ought they to affeat any honest man, who is dealrous to setvd hit Country by his advice--The advice may be worth nothing, but your Lordships' candout will, I am persuaded, suffer the tealtude of the Speaker's intention to sanctify the imbecility of his judgment. I rely upon that candour, and proceed to men. tion a second mean of extricating the Country from its present danger, and of preserving it from • a ll f utu re apiarehension of danger. The mean I re. commend is—the payment of the National Debt, at least of that part which has been added to it by the seven years War, by the American War by the last War, and by this. 4 . 1 This woolci he an ati of Magnanimity .Worthy of antient Rome—lt would o:Cmd that which Rome itself displayed after the battle of Canwor- ,- -She ex. peaed Hannibal at her gates, but she did not de spair ; she redo-ibted her' means of defence. We expect France on our 'shores to attack us with her forces, onto bankrnpt us by expense What does Britain -1* She prepates. to resist her forces, and she determines to pay her ,deht;- France will be dun). derstruck at her oWti temerity, in attempting to subdue a Nation possessed ofluch resources. Europe will be astonished at This noble sacrifice of private Wealth to r ublit want—America will rejoice in the vigour •of her aged : parent—and no Nation in the World will-dare, for a century to come, to • disturb the peace-of a People which would have it h credit for four or five hundred millions on the commencement of HOstilit les." • M. Sentirrt, a Member of the Parisian NAtion a t Institute, has discovered that Gelatine, in A statt o f purity, is a febrifuge greatly bltptriOr to OLiin. quina. Yesterday tnwning, on Ili: dismounting of t!le Kiog's Guard, a min reeely d 200 I,tsiirs in th e Bi r de a ge.walk, for desertion. He tni2in A lly esl in the 341 Regiment of Foot Guatil., tm c n %% 16 c ,, he deserted, and eniiiited in the Army of lteserv.., deserted tru►t tli t, And eldiSttd in the R filel3, :~(' `. 1 .,