The Sun. — London, England, 1803-09-20 00:00:00

TO THE RIGID' 110 N. [FILL/ A,ll PITT, &c. &c. LETTER IV. Sllto I never proposed'to myself to enter into a regular onalysis ief the heterogeneous performance which has so - sedulously been made the hubjea.matter of a very geoeral conversation e it presents so many f r inite, which if nest imposing in their appearance, are yet calculated to divert attention, that an oepo e rent is for a loog time lef:.undetermined where first to open his fire. Little entertainment and less pro• fit can arise from an investigation of .the black climes and foul political errors which are here laid, Sir, to the charge 4)1 yourself and your Colleagues. Hal ! et hand a Corps of those amphibious Females whose vigorous temperament and turn Of mind have . taught them to call things by their proper names, and ached carefully avoid all circuitous and by-ways refuting falsehoods, I might let them loose upon the greater part of the Line, and their ha vock would terrible; but as I have no such disposable Voice, I shad content myself with the means I pos. sess and leave the discordant principles of which this cataho fr tue is made up, to militate against each other, and by their mutual counteraCtiontO resolve themselves'irit, rnpty The first stilijea on which my' eye glances at this mnnent, is worthy some little animadversion. In referring to the gypti,'n Expedition, the writer of . the Nlanifesto seems to have wished he could either -Wet it out altogether, or give it a little lift into a later period of occurrence. Thoueli he does not say that the late Administration planned, arranged, aod dispatched this Armament, he goes so far, mnst be confessed !sherd/ in an adversary, as trei'illow that it nul l s prepared by them. The Fleet of . the Baltic, destined to raise it new glory, to the British Flag, is crammed into the same sentence, otecniling 'altogether less titan - four scanty 'lines, shills fourteen pages are scarcely deemed sufficient to contain the catalogue of political high crimes and mittlemeanoors, of which you, Sir, and your accessa ries are lAntil guilty. rut this is not all ; even in this small allotment he 'is convened by his duty to rob your Government of the most remote degree of credit on these two points. Having had much ex. eerienec of pelificid fowi e ebs since he has been a obstr , ...er of the conduct of his employers', and. bring perfenly assured that a stone wall is as im pereions to the eyes of one man as, to those of ono. tier, he with all the flippancy of Diplomatic coo. - ftdence observes, that it were unjust to "dissemble ( t ile very r h i i ise croft ins the inference) that 110 • ?sister could have been sanguine enough • to expel? sq.', !" This might all he considered very lair io an eleCtion contest for popular sufrrage, and as the friends of the Minister think it necessary to king I tin forward in the line his.enemies(ifhe have, any) would most covet to see him, that is in direct ppoosition to his predecessor in office, it is perfectly natural that they should wish to throw their for mer Patrons completely into shadow, and though comoelleit for - the general tired of the pieture to aclulit a few 'iglus, yet so to disperse them as to prevent their heiog sufficiently prominent:lo await the eye or to fix the attenti n of an observer. But it he credited by any person who has rot read it, that this same Elko , haying decided that your .Vininitorition, Sir, ceeld not possibly . s h rive any etedit from the conquest of Egypt, nor (rem the Battle of Copenhagen, can, I say, any moderate m 11l briog his In;ltd to conceive, that he Could possess that very teiceitimon, that superlative of .c superlative degree of assurance, to make these 4' , N* , 4very owenis the groutitiwotk of glory. to the present . ‘/liitisters—the key-stone of their greatness, ae4 the hat biller of their future success ? No words but his own can do justice to ' H s talent of QHMT.II36OII , " Voter these fatal inyte , sions-," O tt ,T., ;,-/ J quer,' male upoa the Country by your re. tirem , nt- pool (Oce, hufaing 'rimer] . her aisles to lir brine} ("dews:thou), " under these fatal 'in"- says he, " of the public mind, both at lr tin' aie l a broad, was Lond IiAWKE•4IUftY obliged to lubwit die first overtures 1.4 a Treaty which ap. rated to ail men altnost impossible to be obtained upeo riny , terms short of ruin and disgrace," (Itow these were, we have since had leisure to observe), " but to which we were i t kiwis hap. P ity' cowitteteft by the Pacificator of the Bltit, after t h e Pan/roll Copenhagen, and by the re. _nu<rt of the Trfary of h.rish, which was the t.*.mNevice of it series tot nnhoinel.pe rvicrioejte • What would a plain Country Gentlernan,auppose this to he, in a fair statement, hut that, on the en. tr met , 'of Mr.. Anot ! , 19'itlt.1 anti Frien.ls into Adminioration, they found .the Enemy in quiet on. interrupted posEnsion of Egypt ? 'and. that the con. flita of the I) Ines had been . s:o aggressive, that,though their fridaessors in -Offia, from their Weakness an & want of reso rces,.bad been incapable of taking up the quarrel, the barb still rankled in our.hreast t but not to be tictraaed t I say, would not it calm clispassionate reader of the varagraph.l have rnted imagine, that at such a crisis a. Saviour of Iris Country hiOt sprungs , up, like a new Minerva, ! trilled at all points,- to hurl a set of impotent and incapable men (tom the Seat of Government ? and ( 1 .4( lu:yins, bY a yigottr peculiar to himfelf, equip. r e,! 4 fleet; an.i launched it into the adtie, and hov log difipao,:;,ed the gallant Sir RALF II ABM. P or to the shores of Egypt, vittory had de. F%kr,d try an instantaneous chiral in favour of both expeditious i that blooming laurels had 'crowned :their first nurse; I that the luitre of the Administra. ti was lighted up from the Levant to the Sound av,i that, At use the 'language of the romantic Edi. hi, n.df, they were as fortunate us they proved' en..3r1.c..5 able and virroiyi ? When we relied that the,e are the sent iirrois and assertions of Ministers ihenitercs; it is scarcely possible to. determine which is tilost worthy of admiration, their want of or the impolicy of their conduit. It is a 4;.;':t confi.mitko oldie weakness which every other 4 * iaft of (heir procAure hos fended to impress upon T h t li; 40, of men. What must the relleOing Mind experien;.:e when takes 'a survey of our pre,ent r,tate Must 'it nor ahnost hi persuaded that some ficavy fatality bangs over us? Will I,t pot "rpti4 that I-Teaven itself prepares to pour out its vengefitt wrath upon cm. devoted Country fot. : some aberra. tion from its high 4"crees, or for grimes unatoned for or unropented ? When thus arrived at the - mos , awful crisis of our history, the most perilous and thrtattning period of our existence as a nation, we are left to ride out the storm without talent to direa, Concert to adopt—or energy to pursue any of those great measures which the necessity pf . the times dgmands. It is not necessary to advance far into this paper, to discover the strange proneness to error which is observable in the conded, and is • indeed the cha. raleristic of almost every individual conneded• with the present ruling powers. As a man of hu. nour, I speak more with regret, more from appre. !tension for the safety of my loved country, than from any feeling of party or of anger. The only approximation to the latter sentiment, arises front a conviction, that men, who have, in every transadion, proved themselves so invariably unequal•to the duty they have undertaken, cannot be so blinded by self love, 'or infatuated by self.interest, as not to feel their own incapacity, and the heavy responsibility they are incurring; a responsibility of which, per. haps, alas, their own temerity may put it out of the power of a lost people to avail themselves.. But to the point. In the coutse of twenty pars this Writer has told us that the Administrannu formed upon your retiring, were of course inex. perienced, but that the Country had confidence in and rested on• your support of them—arid regarded your - advice as the best hope of the State; and yet, almost in the same breath it is asserted, that your support of these very Ministers, was perhaps off. clout. In one place you are described as being so popular and ao looked up to by the People, that their despondency arose from their persuasion that 'Troy could be defended by no other arm than yours, and yet with equal consistency as in the former in stance, our Editor a little further on, assures us that the People were convinced that despair of sue- cess and want of talent alone drove you, Sir, front the Councils of His MAJEs-ry, and upon this he makes a sort of Slough of Despond, the difficulty of extrication 'from which is enlarged upon and most pathetically exhibited. The zealous endeavours and alive enterprize of the: new COMM, however, were not ..to be checked even by the formidable dls. play 'of impending danger; and what presumption, observes the Observer, could there be in - succeeding to these men (the late Ministers), when they (the • Public) did nothelieve that things had of late been so wisely or so prosperously. concluded as to render it presumptuous in any set of Ministers to hope they be able to conduft the business of Government with equal Prudence, Economy, or Success Nothing could give this Gentleman (or the Junto) more satisladionin the present (admitted) diffi cu l t y aid most arduous crisis of the State, than to have your support, Sir, for the present hlinistry,—,- Great condescension l l —he even presupposes the pk e , s ure of the Country in seeing you, Sir, once' more in the Caninet ; but lest this well-ti Med piece of flattery sh,old aired so weak and vacillating a mind as you have ever been found to possess, he bids you beware of opposing them, for that then you must needs go to the wall —lour talents are not caleultteci. to meet , the present formidable phalanx of Mini sterial Powers—you arc described rather as a sort of Posture Master, or Comp/eartemtarirt e useful enough to in 'kr up their company complete, but who, standing alone, and as a Ptivate, can hope neither for an Audience, nor a licence even to perform. Your mere gilt of Eloquence is here i.xposed in a most humiliatingcontrast to the Judgment, Know. ledge, Firmness, and Equanimity of our present Minister l—thou'gh strange to say, in the very preceding 'page we are assured, that this same do. quence might turn to great account on the other side of the question. " His financial skill (speak , ing of you, Sir, the Editor, proceeds) his corn . mantling Eloquence, and his mill great to fluence in the Couutry, would be a Tower of Strength to His - Majesty's Government." Thus, Sir, you perceive there - is an opening for you to make your peace with these Gentlemen, and of once more raising yOursell from the obscurity into which the brightness of - their e rmontide sun has sunk . you. Shine with a borrowed light, caught front their patronizing rays, and you will resume your former bpleudour—oppose them, and their dark side will soill•be turned to you, and the little popularity d ory h ave left you, and still charitably allow you to posses%, will be withered and blasted before the breath of their nostrils. These incongruities, it must be confessed, throw an air of suspicion over • every part of this notable produdion, and we can only account for the assemblage ut sach.disco rt f a a t and cootradidory opinions in the course of a b out 8o octavo pages, by referring to the different poiot i of view, and consequent .variety of feeling and eon. ohatic expression D of each Contributor of the ee claration. The want of judgment in the Collettnr, and the ill assortment of the materials 'veli•icli" he has so confidently, and yet so injudiciously put together, have induced a suspicion even of :the many simple truths contained in the Pamphleri'whiell by being counteraded, have more the appearance, in their present shape, of invented calumnies and interested misrepresentations. I had expected that these would have been dune away in the new edi tion, 1 have been credibly informed indeed, that such a corredion was adually to !wire taken place, and that the pruning-knife was especially to he ap. plied to a particular paragraph, that reflects upon a certain Leader of a Party, upon the suggestion anti at the earnest request of a 'subaltern of the same were, at pre s ent i n t he • Party, but who is, as it middle of the floor of the House, unattached to any, but open to all Parties. I should hope that a recent occurrence in Bedfordshire did nut in•luce the lion. Gentleman to give up the cause of his Cotyph,rus. The paragraph' however remains ! Being myself only a distant Observer, I am willing to admit that I may often be deceived by false reports ami un founded insinuations ; hut, like others in the wo r ld, I may sometinies stumble uP("' fall,of a v ery . pc" culiar anti interesting nature ; and I think, should the Subjed of she toregoing paragraph become a topic of geoeral eonversatioo, it . may lead t t i i n . quiries o f a nature mor rtunding to SOITIC and I shotslti conceive satiSfjetorY to none concereed its I have already, I fear, transgressed the bounds have prescribed to myself, and shall therefore for the present, beg leave to subscribe myself, with the highest respea, Sir, your's, Bec. FITZ-ALBION. MAILS. Due. AR, If lift. Cottenbmti o - Ihmhtirgli S 2 Lisbon o 0 - • • • • • - I PRICE OF STOCKS, sliss DAY AT - rwsz.v. o'eLon.K. • Consols - • - • = S3>l I Omnitun - ;le 8 dis. THE SUN. icaim GUIS DiCtlti PA tstird ADDIAT LONDON, SEPTEMBER 20, 1803. • - THREE Ilaniburgb Mail:, the tst, 2d, and 4th of the six that were due, arrived ttis 'morning. Their contents principally relate to the prepare. Lions making for the Invasion of this Coun. try. All the Ship.carpenters in Flanders are put in requisition, and were to enrol thernitelves by the 4th of this month, or be sent by force to the Ports, there to work under the inspeftion of the Grns.d'armer. Several thousand Artificers were expetted to be procured by this arbitrary Mandate ; but these representations of the.state4S things, if they be correct, serve to prove that the preparations fat the Itiva,ion are.onfy in their corn. inencement. At Brunel:, the first Gun.boat 'out of twenty-eight, is stated' to have liter) launched only on the Ist inst. If they have been so long in corn, pleting one Boat, when are the twenty.eight,to.be ready for Sea The Naval Force, however, which Admiral BIIVIX, it is said, is to have under his command from the Ports of Flanders and the North. ern French • Coast, is rated at T , svoThindred Armed .1 Ships, beside, Transports and Fishing-boats Ge. nerals MAbligNA and AUGPREA-V, it is Slated, received orders to repair to their respalire mantis. • • An article from the Hague of the 7th inst, states that preparations are making at, Amsterdam, &c, but nut in a way that leads us to believe them to be in any degree Icrmidable. , The accounts from Hanover are, as may tie ex. petted, truly deplorable. The daily expellee. of maintaining the French Troops, amounting to 35,000 men, is more than ;he Country .can pos. sihly bear, exceeding nearly three times it, wlyile Revenue. A hope is expressed of their being re. lieved from this intolerable burden, but it is a hope which does not seem very likely to be speedily realized. The Great Assembly or the States has been con. venekt at Hanover, for the purpose, no doubt, of giving a colour of legislative sanflion to the mon. strong extortions of the French. It is expeaed that some proposition will be made for disuniting ilanovey from any future rule of its legitimate Sovereign. Flopes are entertained at Berl;ps, that the Nego. tiation carrying on here, for raking the Blockade of the Elbe and Weser, will he successful. We are rather inclined to believe that it will. French Troops continue to assemble in Lower Italy, from whence it may he interred that the views of the Chief Consul upon F,gypt, however unpromising, are not abandoned. its morning Mails front Lisbon, the Leeward Mandl, New-York and Liphfax, arrived in Town, which had reached Falmouth on Sunday. .From bon there are no accounts of particular interest ; things remained in the same : state as t h ey ha d been for some tone pAt, and no incteased prehensions prevailed of a visit from the French. From the other sine of the Atlantic there is no in. tetciting Thc Baltic Fleet may 'be hourly expeEted to sr. rive in our Ports. One of them arrived yesterday morning in Yarmouth Roads, horn St, retei-burgh, bound to London, which parted from the Fleet in a gale of wind on the Ittli instant. The Leeward Island Fleet may liketVise anon be expened. It sailed from 4ntigasa on the 28th of, July, under convoy of the Courageux, of 74 guns. AN American Vessel is brought into Portsmouth by the Ant Schooner, bound from Bahimore to Am. sierdam, on board of which it was supposed that o f hi s s ervants are o n b oat ! , anti it is still JEstotste BONAPARTE Was coming t o E urope . s e. ver4l conjeaured that JEROME is concealed in the Vessel. A titti t search will of course be made, before she is permitted to prosecute her voyage. This morning the P1441;4 Mail of the 16th at. rircd. It b r i ngs IA intelligence whatever, the Special Commission having ailjournato yesterday, when the Trial of Em mn came op, NAPA L NEWS. PLYMOUTH, SEM r 8.--Arrived The Brig Mow and Sarah, of Guernsey, WILLIAM Km) master, laden with rum, sugar, and staves, from Sr. Croix, captured by La Chifastist French Privateer, of if guns, and 8o men, And :waken 1y iiis Majesty's Ship Ertomistr. POICTSittOVin, Strr. morning the Att Schooner arrived at this Port, with an Atneri• can Ship from Baltimore to Amsterdatn, said to hare JEROMS BONAIIatft. on board, but who has not yet been found, notwithstanding the stridest search. Several of his servants are on board, and it is strongly snspeled - that he is concealed in the vessel. The Act also sent in the Prussian Hot Viza, from Bourdeaux bound to Embtien t Arrived die Son lot.l Maria C_oacr,lier, from st. Anders, with Passengers and Seamen lately cap tured by a trench Privateer, called L'Avartare, and c a rried into a•Spanish Port. •••••••••••• ' FALMOUT4I. 5141%, 17.—Arrived the Tirobisp bern Picker, Roamrs, with Mail from' Lisbon , Sixton days passage. Left there the „Prix ., of . Irak' t Packee;TODD. His iViajestyq Ship P ' ll°l6 ' •'' of i . 6 guns, Capt. Cos aETi, arrived at Lis bon with dispatches• from Gibraltar on the ad inst. in C9Ol. . piny. with, her Prize, a French Merchant Ship (faw' ' ' merly the Cherterfield Packet on thissstation).. Also arrived the Princeis ehildatte Packer 8 1(111. with 1)11ails from „die, Leeward - Islands, thirty-nine delis fr.om Tortola, r. -- b y : her are, Mr. Cekragete . x, of 7 4 gti' ns ' . A INDSAY. MS Mit I'CALFX, , IVIr:DOD6, - and CO' 14 Majesty's Ship sailed from Aitigua'with Conv o y f ur E ng land the 19thPIP' Sailed th e gymy, m4I NT ," iv y, and Aid , L 11 ... if Lt . for Portsmouth, a n d P rov i 4 f e nce Cutter., wok' no., on a C ru i ze . . . . . . _. YARMOUTH, SIP? 1 The . Georst, ' V II IM IIM4 • LINES master, arrived io . .the Roads this -mornings froin St.•Peteriburgls - hquad ; she Ow l ennipany with the Itomew4.l bound Baltic Fleet on,. the 2111. inst. in a iale „Arrived the DitufalPosket,. gib ft.3m Husu ' in, 'wi ` tli Mails and Passengers. - t whickhav'e been sent, in as P rize b ifte;NOrti Sea etuizers, have bean roi c'E ' s " inw ppete4ed on 1146 voyagei. m Thl'loed Nebo:, from Tonninient r Ori ved P s ` teay evening, with the Bo* ' Mr. ,Item' anU a tovir. The Lark New parted coMPani with her ,the day before, to proceed to Harwich, Cows',. SIFT. tg.—Artived the Harry .41,. Jaffe, jos. Yotrtto master, from La Piga, wit h y , OK and horse hides, for orders: On thC Aueil the Master spoke the Srotre, of 74 guns, i" to N. long. ss W. ; and on the au! the APO " extra Ship from India, in lat. is N. 104 18' for G m ° you, chat St". •11.10011* chat Sir 1 . J AVtly SAW‘Aass is this Wont come_ into the Roads, on hoard the Cerheriii , if . v all Granville, for which place he sailed on a secre t 7 i . redition, last Monday , for the purpose of hern i t u i ing the town, assisted by the Hydra Frig sge ,, - ta l some bomb ketches ; and the result is, the t— the loss of a single man. Sirj.ts4 James h w ithol? destruftion of the town, barracks, &C. tke, 16*—" I have just time to n' escaped, a shot passing close by h i l m s 'e ai l d ren : r:dwih r re was T slightly wounded in one of his leis by B , s P litlic Al WC v . They were engaged all day yettcrtlay, an d thei day before. They have also destriyed All the • "Wing, 'silenced the batteries, drove till (hi inhabitants out Of the. twit of gnn shot. S i ! JAMES little limping, but the wound is of no ConsCqUenCe . ................ Cant T n is this instant come on shore ; he walks!, the r k h r e a - i r , j f i t :int:it:n:l7:: Sloop i ts , i i h is s la has been i C n n ; p e p: g i i d : O t :ill e ::::: : 11 : c a ti :: . j : comm and fTll U hha t v i vice, i te ng ßrarierreart, both at Chatham, r, and the crew p ut found n on n o :r il d r v t e h l e i Sibve ld°r e Mundt. - • P ed in fi ttin g the One hundred canvids are employ pr„ceev Re t k l if t of 7+ guns , at Woolwich. She will to the Nor'. t , . a few days. , Aar PI% The Seagull, lOW C AR T S & CoMlnanu'i.' . 1 16 carried into ruole tne thrt, of Beer, laden wit"lo.4 tubs of foreign sp i r i ts , a ll o f w hich are lode" oins secured. in the warehouse of His M4jestYls dst at chat Port. Yesterday morning, al)ut t en o , ci ock, 1 11 ,, /V1 ,1; 0 ..,—.........--- .itstv and PRlNcess morning,, Sir Wm. tit a 2,1, Pm, Lord WALt sons Asa tihFi)Efftifieztrietn:ctli'mlai)nrnodlSeWl'mi l'elr:nistC-°;r4m-i.G:rtkl4'riel4nAaf'dPtaCnrkk: 1 4i an 111 ; :i ilrre: tri grvi I- 14 )4:11 ' i to the Lodge to dinner. there, g t. • HER. MAI rive . and PRtriessitts Attovill"„,o4re ZAR MI. and MART, took an airing to rid — P , and returned to the Lodge at one o'clock. "'nog His Royal Highness the Dv" of CAM ` p a cer' amuse d himself with shooting near Virginis ‘',ick"day The Windsor Cavalry had yesterday a F itt . day on Winkfield Plain, commanded by Major S'ru sa ci , The Terrace at Windsor was not so well at t. rl.,, , ed as usual on Sunday, as the RuvAL FAmits ,v:05: t.ot there ; the Staffordshire and 13th Ligh g I ' g anin o .eu n iiv r enr i s ale:eilaes il mr: i emso n i t a l Binds itirn) concernedv.l a ni y nN e i l it le tr t to i ab li tol dark: :ia.: Incsot. i ,fsi t iti l e t eanseteont s i o Gic n rc i a b o a : di g tiblii;