The Sun. — London, England, 1803-08-03 00:00:00

NAVAL NEWS. From the LO DON G.SZETtei 2 I tale . itimirdlty-Office, August 2., Copy eel Letter front the rionourahle vrntvallisi rural elks lilue, Oe. to Sir .Ev4n Arcpe4n, Bart, dated of Ushant, the 3 0 th ISo3. Mt, I have the Honour to inclose a Letter from Capt. Bedford, of the Thunderer, giving an Account of his• having taken a trench Ship Privateer, which m;glit have very nitic.ll dis. tressed the Trade of His Majesty's Subjeds i had not Captain Bedford's alive zeal prevented her taking a single Vessel be• l ionging to England. I am, dm; W. CORNWALLIS. Mundt -Iw, at Sm, .7:4 26, 1803. tilt, I have the Honour to report to you, that on the z6th inst. captured the Venus French Privateer, pierced for 28 Guns, Mounting 16 Six. Pounders, and two Eight round Carro. stades, One Hundred and Fifty Men, commanded by Mon- Zitur Lemperierre. She is a tine Vessel, quite new, sails remarkably fast, well foutul, coppered, and measures .Three Hundred and Fifty. Siltbt Tons; from the Report I have received she is calcu. hated for His Majesty's Service. She sailed from Bow. deauX the zist instant, in company with tour other Priva. teens. I have the Honour to remain, &e. W. BEDFORD Honourable Admiral Cornwallis.. PLYMOUTH, AUG. t.---Arrived the Catharine aid kar.y.Privateer, of London, of 14 guns, Capt. GOODALL, from a Cruize in the Bay. On Saturday the ridinst. she fell in' with Le Caroline French Privateer, of Bourdeaux, mounting as - long nine. pounders, which she engeged for twa hours, and beat off: The Caroline had three English Mer. thantmen in company, which she had captured, two ciUthem„ . the Cybele, a South Whaler, and the itaive Weft India Ship, were retaken by - the •Catbarine slid Mau, with which she was proceeding to port ; but on the following morning fell in with the same Privateer, and the Engagement was renewed with great vigour on both sides, until the Catharine and Mary had not a single shot left, and was of course reluaantly obliged to strike, after having • her masts and rigging cut to pieces, several shot through her hull, one of the Crew killed, and nine wounded, two of them mortally. The French men then boarded the Catharine and Mary, threw her guns overboard, plundered her of every thing moveable, and her mdin.mast, which was badly wounded in several plaCes, they cut away, and after taking Capt. GOODALL. on board the trench Privateer, sent the Catharine and Mary. &trill; soon after which they had the mortification to see the Cybele and iiii;vve re-captured. Great eredit is due to Capt. oodstnt.l, and his Officers and Ship's Company, for their very gallant and heroic conduit, in an anion with such superior force, and which they would certainly have over. come, had not their ammunition been expended. Arrived the French Ship Ladour, pierced for z 8 guns, t only mounted, from St. Domingo, bound to Brest, in ballast ; the Jean Pierre French Brig, laden with coffee and cotton, from I Guada.oupe, an d the French Brig L'Engagrante, laden with colf,:e and cotton, from St. Domingo, all captured by the 47afyinion Frigate, Capt. lion. C. PAC ST, Arrival the Danish Brig Hercules, from Cote, laden with brandy, wine, and oil, detained by Miesty's Ship Hazard; and the. Danish Ship Ceres, from Cette, with brandy, detained, by the Regulus Privateer, of London ; also ,the Swedish Schooner Johanna Elizabeth, from Gottenburgh bound to Bourdisaux,,laden with iron and de*, de.. tai "eti by 1. 14 Majesty's'Ship Diamond. Arrived the Danish Brig Vigilant, from Alicatit, %kith salt, leaky.. • LmouTit, Jut.r 31.--Airived this day, the Dide of York Packet, Maas, with Mail. in 16 1.3.1 ) 's from Lisbo n . Left lying there the King George Packet, and which was expelled to sail about • the 22J inst. Also arrived the Priutiis 44e/i a Packet, STEVE/44,1(0M the Leeward Islands, +z days from Tortola. On the 23 inst. in lilt. 47. 27. long. to. sz. spoke the Maria Privateer, of Guerra. sey, o ut t h ree weeks, and hint recaptured two 'Ve ssels. The Packet . took on board four, prisoners, the Maria being short of water. On the sth Spoke Zreburet, from Havanna to Amster. dam, out 29 diyq; and then in lar. 39. 21. long. 45.42 . On the 3,1 inst. in lat. 3 6. i 6. long. Sr. O. spoke the Isabella, from St. Kitt's for Cork, all well, out ta days. On the zd ult. on her out. ward-bound passage, the Pes'ireen Arael;et• was brought to by a French Sloop. of War, of 16 . guns, commanded by Ita.ora: BONAPARTE. Yesterday arrived here the American Brig Leo. igardi Captain SHAW, from Philadelphia for &erten, with tubacco, detained by the Endeavour Privateer, of Mevagissy ; and arrived this day the Brig Bear), of Liverpool, Capt. FLYNN, having been taken by Le Blond e French Ship Privateer, of 36 guns, belonging to Bourdeaux, and re.taken by the Mi. rawla Privateer, of this Port, Capt. WILLIAM SNOW, after art anion of an hour and a half, the ' Prize being well armed with four double fortified six-pounders and small arms, Le filoade has also taken The Past India Ship Collin gwoo d , Anderson, from India* for London Actelphi, of Hull, since retaken, tad brought h,c ' r" of Galway, J o h nson, since burnt;' Blanch, I.v erPool, Galbraith, ditto ; Prince, of London, Scott, Grte4 idilo With 4Ue,a/ rtz* for Loll4oils since re. .taketi oi'Soutl►anipton, Alitiiony ; Martha, of tort 4 don, Ceary 6 Union► cif Jersey; M 4 Donald t and Young iricholas priratcer ► of London,Cooduit, of t 6 guns, which was engaged for some , lime. The Blondr had her First Lieutenant and foot men killed ; the Young. Nicholas First and Third Mates, and two men killed. The latter has been retaken by a Cut. ter Privateer, and carried into Scilly ; the greater part of the English Prisoners were fortunately put on board her. A French Privateer, of 24. guns, his just been sent in by His Majesty's Ship Plantagenet. The Crew attempted to rise, and in the. attempt one man was killed. PORTSMOUTH, AUGUST I.—Arrived this clay the Ship Caroline, LouMANN, from the Havannah, with sugar, for Hamburg!), put in to wait until the raising the Blockade of the Elbe. The Schooner La Favor( ' from Nantes, with salt, is captured by His Majesty's Ship Hydra, and brought to this Port. The Jorge Eldert, from Roseby, with salt, cap tured by the Duke of Y crk Cutter, is arrived at this Port. Passed by the his, SKINNER master, from New. York in 31 days ; by which Ship we learn, that Mr. Runts KING, the late American Minister at the Court of London, had arrived at Philadelphia previous to the Irit leaving New. York. POOL AUG. 2.—The Love and Usity, PINCER ) arrived here from Newfoundland, fell in with an English Privateer, who toad them, that last Satur day a French Privateer had captured eight Sail of Merchantmen off St. Ives. The Captain of the' Love and UNity SSW a French Cutter Privateer board a Ship, which -, he supposes she captured, as on a Cutter coming round . the Head, they both made all the sail they could to the Westward. ' • DEAL, AUG.. z.--Carle into ,the Downs this morning, the Peterd/Slonof:War from the West.. ward ; jackal/ Brig, from: the Northward; and Blood-hound Gun-hrig, from a Cruiz,.. • • Sailed the Maxquis Wellesley, Cornwallis, and CuPas, fur the River. • • There is some doubt, we are happy to state, re. speding the capture of the Juno Frigate. Lettcra from Gibraltar of the 16th ult. make no mention of the circumstance. The Hazard, of t 8 guni, Capt. Ni.ve, was taken a few days since off Ferrol. She was on the look-out off Ferrol, having eseved four French Line of Battle Ships going into that bar. hour, supposed from St. Domingo ; but in the grey of the next morning found herself surrounded by four French Frigates and a Corvette, and was of Lbliged to strike. She was seen in the outer road of Ferrol by a neutral vessel, with French colours flying ('tier the British. Captain MilltßAY MAXWELL, Commander of Flip Kijt , ,,ty' s sloop Cvenar, WA been made Post, ailiointed to the comm,ind of the Centaur, under Commodore Hoot:), in consequence of his gallant ccintlutt in the W•st Acc• unis were received night of the arrival o ff . Brighton of the Phoenix, Captain DOUGLAS, f rom which she lett on the 13th of June. The Charlotte Patket had arrived from England t h e day bdure the rha.nix CORN EXCHANGE, AUGUST 3. , s TO-DAY we have h ut little supply of Corn : the Wheat samples are chiefly from Essex and Ktin, and the last prices appear nearly main. tired ; Rye and Barley arc lower ; Malt is evi dently getting lower; there are hardly any Pease h er e, which continut, to sell high; Beans are un. altered; but few Oats, and higher prices arc asked for the first quality ; Flour in good supply, tvtie3t 47s a i2.s a 56s od. Tick Beans - 271 a 31s od Fine ditto - 57$ a 58s 6d Oats - - 2oS a 22$ a 26s R y e - - 32$ a 34s od Poland ditto - 27$ a 28s 01 v irley .- 2os a 25$ tai Rape Seed - - 4 0 1 a 4.1 1 Nt.,it - - sos a 57s od hoe Pima - 4SS a 40s cal White Peae 44s a sts oil 1 Seconds . - 405 a 45% Beans - ' 3a , a 35' oil l This morning arrived. n Mail from the Leeward w an d s , brought to Falmouth by the Print-ow Amelia Packet, in six weeks, and a Mail from Lisbon, brought by the DR4eofYori Packet, in sixteen days. Advice has been received at the East.lndia House of the safe al rival of the following Ships from , the East Indies, viz. the llfarfssit Wellesl9 , , Captain BRUCE MITCHELL; the Sir William Bewley, Cap. tain ROBERT RHoue, from Bengal; the Cornwallis, from Madras'; the Cupells, Captain CHARLES Bow LAND COTTON, from China ; the Yarawra, Country Ship, from Bengal ; and the Periessl, a Botany Biy Ship, last from China, with a cargo oa account of the East-India Company. The above fleet of ships left the Island of Sr. Helena in May► last. They heard. of the War with France before they made the Western Islands. the public mind never appeared more deeply engaged than at this time; every. individual seems to ,come forward ~with that degree of courage and fortitude which the preservation of our Laws and Liberty requires. I t must afilnd peculiar satisfac. tion to every friend to the British Constitution, to behold the congeniality of sentiment which prevails through all classes of people, and the total abhor rence which they shew to an implacable Enemy, who threatens us with Inva s ion. It has been said, that it is in contemplation to secure the City by fortification, as well as the Coasts in general ; and from the very high encomiums that have been rod to Mr. Git.Lstirts's Rittery; by. the first Military and Naval Officers, and which is to be seen in Bond. street, at No. 157, it is very singular, that an invention of such extraordinary utility, at a. time like this, has not been brought forward ; it must affiird every individ ua l w h o h as seen it thefireatest satisfaCtion,qo find it adopted in securing us against the attacks of Tyranny and Oppression. `• • AItbDLEsEX cotiNry mEkriivc, • • • VesitithAt N very numerous and tespeliable meeting of the Gentlemen Freeholders of the Coun ty of Middlesex, convened by the Sheriff at .the re, quest of the principal inhabitants of the county * took place at the Assembly Room (the Mermaid) at Hackney, for the purpose of considering an Address to be presented on the present crisis of public affairs. The proceedings commenced about one o'clock. The Sheriff; read the requisition for convening the Freeholders of the county, which was signed by the Duke of PORTLAND. Several Gentlemen of the first charatter in the county, and several Aldermen of the city of London, and others of the first respeet.. ability attended, for, the purpose of addressing His Majesty wr the present criski'of affairs. Mr. Alderman SK r xrrx R Caine. forward, and ob. served that at the time when the list of the names of Noblemen and Gentlemen requiring that this Meet ing should be held, was delivered to the Sheriii, he was totally unprepared for the subjea, he therefore could not draw an Address to be presented to the Freeholders' of the county, or take any leading part, in the proceeding's, for a consideiabie time past, however, he had been desirous that suell a Meeting should be held, and he bad been eall:d oil to take an active part in it, as a Noble Lord who was to have brought it forward had not. done it. He therefore did come forward to propose an Address to. His Majesty on this occasion, and if company , would permit him to say any •thing . 01 himself, he would state that he had • now been A Fteeholder of the County of Middlesex for forty years, for the last twenty of which Ise. was never absent from any Meeting of that body which' was convened for any public purpose, nor remarkably negligent with re_ sped to public business for twenty years preceding that period. Unon'tlris occasion he did not hesi„ tate to say, that there could not be two opinions by those who heard huin on the subject on which , they had met. lie claimed no merit for .any thing he had done as a publid charaaer ; if he . had any it would have been absorbed in the great subjed of the presetit hOur—if he bad . any ,d,rfe&s he knew they would be reduced, to•nothing for the same reason. He had, ho'ivever,„-no merit to chains upon this occasion, for he had hot,,Written the Addiess which he was abourto propose;,he ! was indebted for the composition of it, to his Reverend and valuable friend Dr. Ron HRTS : it was a composition drawn up in• haste, fur the reason he had already stated ; but for all that, he was persuaded it would do its author immortal hon Our : it would shew the pod. ness of his heart, the purity of his morals, the patriAism of his principles, the animation of his feelings, the energy of his mind, and the soundness ofhis — judgtnent. --- . There were three leading points, on which, he flat tered himself, not only all those he had. now the honour of addressing, but also all the intelligent inhabitants of this world, except those who wished to get possession of our property by violehce, and to expose us to infamy, would agree, and. on which he should shortly touch: The first of these was well described, in his opinion correftly, by a Re. solution of a CoUrt of Aldermen in the City of London, which he hoped the company would allow him to applaud, although•he was a Member-of that Body, and which he had no difficulty in saying,, he. believed bad given great satisfaCtion to the Coun. tr y at . large. The welt point to which he had to advert was, the proceedings at Lloyd's Coffee house—a proud proceeding to Great Britain, and an encouragement to the valour of its Forces : al. ready the subscriptions amounted to One Hundred Thowad Pounds, over and above the 29,0001. Stuck i n t he 3 per Cents, voted by that brave and gene rous body of men for the support of the present contest : and whit was to be the appropriation of that immense wealth ? It was to be applied to the re li e f of the Wives and Children of those who by the fate of War May fall in battle. The third point to which he wished to call the attention of the coin. parry was, that of the D.-claration of the Me:- chants on the . Royal Exchange, • the words cf which, he said, manifested the charailer of those who framed it, and they were men as exalted in their understanding as they :„were in fortune. —This being the state -of things at this moment, he did not think is :necessary fur him to r! x p ai L te upon them, for there was really no point in t hi s case on which Englishmen could disagree. There was not the slightest indiffereuce to the common cause, or want of resistance to the common foe, hi any part of the Kingdom. He desired those who heard him to look at the City of ,London. There would be, in the course of the month bf AUgust, 10,000 men ready to defend the Capital, and to take care Of the . prbperry of every worthy roan in it. Let theta look at , all, the different parts.of the Country, and they would find , the same satisfadory spirit cf animation. So that indeed he saw nothing upon which any difference of opinion could arise on this occasion, What were .we to look for, -if we did not .now shew a spirit of true vigour? . Absolute slavery, to Etiglishmen, too hateful even to third: of.' On the other hand, if we performed our duty to ourselves, by resolving and .by, tiding .with vi gour, what were we.to expeet ? Perfeet security to our persons, our prnperty, and our righti,.governed as we were by the best of Kings, aod proteded as we were by the best .Conatitution. that ever was formed. Secure, if we chose :to be so, in all the blessings of human society. These. were topics to which the most beautiful' language might be fitly applied; but that was nor his object, - nor should be his endeavour, for he was a plain man, wishing. to use none but the plainest words, for indeed lie spoke as he thought it his duty to speak, with:a .perfed simplicity of an honest heart; H was persuaded that nothing could induce the present meeting to Spew any thtference of opinion.on q subjed of this kind ; .there could not Oil such an occasion he two Opinions,. and therefore he should now proceed to move, the Address, , which was then read, and folloWs TO Ti; KING is MOST E XCELLENT MAJESTY. " We, your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal Sobjecis, freeholders and lithignitallt* of the , CUUnty of hl;rlJlwcx, itnpessed vita me ardent love ()lour Country, anti the bless hiss ire enjoy under the British Constitution; 'the patlarlitidi or. our personal 6ecurity, Liberty, anti Property, induced by that merited 4.1.44ein, due to a grAekittt SeVefelAll anti his Royal Family, approach your sacred Person, to expres;:od, Alrittirldirlitloutianist the distuir,crA Cif the peace, cbrif 7 forts v and consolations of mank lid, pryLlaini nut jitit abhorrence bf the treadherons(lesighs Of &hided doirie:frie foes, and to dechre our patriotic' disdain of the threats end vauntings of our Foreign Enemies.. Aet nattd by sin.)i lovat.arid constitutional sentiments, We . soletrinly plettidoitr united as sistarice by the °Mt of our personal service and trnperty, td defend and preserve inviolate. your MAI aty's l'erson and Government; our Laws, Liberties, and Religion, and out . 16ng established Constitution, purchasM for us by the blood of out Ancestors, the pride of Britons, and the envy of the World. • " Permit us, Most GraciOus SoVerelgoi, •tb aisute tour MA.12.5-rY_, that no hostile thre a t s can i nt i m id ate a People animated by the hive of Liberty, and inspired with a sense of duty and a%Ction; who, confiding in the hi vine Provi.• Bence, the wisclorti-of your Councils, and the valour of your Subjee - ts,• are resolved to employ their utmost eWorts t , ) re pel the insults, and defeat the attempts of our inveterate and destrtidive Enemies." Mr. WooD, of Littleton, seconded the motion.. Mr. TRAY FRS moved an AlDenitnterit at the c'on.. elusion of the Address,. which relates to Bonaparc's Declaration concerning this Country, by adding these Words, " who lias declared that nothing'short of the destruCtion of this limpire will gratify his insatiable ambition." The Motion for the Address - with the , Amend. ment was then put, eXivltiti , C.l on its propriety, and, amongst other things observed, that the C6u„iy. o f Middlesex, • alt hough on this oecaiion a little late in its proceeding, had always been distinguished for its good sense and fur its patriotism, of which lt!C considered the present measure as a very strikiig example. •He took a view of the conduit which he had observed on former occasions with the Elei.tors of the County of Middlesex, on Publ.c Afrairi ; the last time he iddiessed them was on the su!(jeCl : of . Peace, which at that time, he thought essential to the welfare oldie People, hut now tic thought. W-.r • • was inevitable, and he thoughtthi:. was a season liar all Englishmen to unite heart alai hand, .as' he was well assured they would, in order to terminate the present contest gloriously.fir Great Britain,' and to put to confusion, out implacabie,-and,sin temper, ex. terminating Enemy. tic tibserved, that all divititil of men. were now united in resisting our Foe. War was at all seasons injurious to the interests of pupal, lons it was particularly so to the City-ht had,the , honour to represent but' al hough that was the case, . the . inhabitants of that -City had unarti. mously • voted a Resolution• to support. tile. present war, from a convietion that it ein!mteed every thing which wa s drat- to man in a social 4tate. The question w as t h en p ut , And the ' A !dress, with' the Amendment. of Mr. TRAvaits, - %yds car. tied unanimquily. Mr. Alderman SKINNER moved, od That this Address be signed by the Solid's, and presented by '• them to His MAPOTY." Mr. Alderman Ctra-rts observerL there Chas no man in this Cauntry who gave to this Address a more cordial concurrence than, himself, and there., fore he thought it proper to give it his public probation: He could not, howevet, help l noserVilo ss that it was cuslomary, in most Counties, for. rthe Sheriffs to be attended by the Members who repre. sented the Freeholders in Parliament when any Ad. dress was sent by them to the Throne.. It was from this view of the subj.ei that he lad a Motko to propose by way of amend neat to what had !men already agreed to. He said, he held in his hand a Paper of yesterday, that was to say„ August the ISO 3, called he illorniAg Pont, upon . the coo. tents of which, as they referred to Sir Ft aNtts BUIL ACTT, he wished for an explanation before he moved his amendment. The explan ition whidt he wanted was on the subje& of the speech of that Hon. Baronet on Friday last, before sitti,,• of die Electors of MithlleseX, at 'the CroWn and AucliOr in the Strand. The Hon. Baronet's right to sit in the House of Commons for the County of Middle. sex was disputed ; but wh never might be the re. suit of that 'contest, he was, for the present, ac. cording to the forms if ant Constit ut i on , con s id i . n d as one of the Representatives in Parliament of 'tile Freehrilders of the County of Nli.hlit•stx, and in that cliarktet,• opposing the F:telo i lders cor , fifed. in him, ought to be instroa:'d to attend thr Sheriff w i t h t hi s Addr e E, s , to the. King ; but before he could propose any :melt course 'tO be takei;, there. Was a poinr, he said, on which - the Pleetoi's . of the Couoty of Middiesek had'a•right tO call 1:r an txilanatio.m of the lion. Baronet. The question was this- 7 4)-id, the Hon - . Baronet, or did he rut, avow the Sufi. stance' of that which was r.tated in the 11 - foiwi'mg Poi, cf yester d ay, a s his speedt at the meeting held at the Crown and Anchor O n Friday la s t of the it4e. tors of the Cininty of MiddleseX? - I Ilk he Wished to 'be aniwered before he poiceeded to move .the: amenthrient he had in view, to propoSe to the'Ad. dress. . Sir FRANCIS BURDIITT anired that the P.yer alluded to might be read. i\ir. Alderman CURTIS said, that was sary, for he believed the P;lper had bucn rc,r,i by every man in England. Sir FR AllolS BURDETT said he hoped for pa. tient he while he endeavoured to explain his condo t. He said; be was so far from entertaining any ill. will tdwards the worthy Aldermin who .had proposed this matter to him, that he fdt self much obliged to him for having, given him this opportunity of explaining his sentiments to 40 le. spectable a Meeting as the present ' of the COunty of MAtilesex, who, he admitted, hail - an Lingoes. tionable right to a full explanation of every part of his political (=dud. He should, as _liortly ea he could, endeavour to call to the reeolieetion of 'ail who heard him the sentintents which were published in that infamous libel which the worthy Alderman had alludt.d to . . He might in&eir ad: how far it was wise or .prudent, - and.perhapi he ought to sub., mit to • thejadgment of the Freeholder, how far it was wise or podent for a . in:in like him to stoop' ro answering such slander, I r he was not to forget that 11e had, the honour to hold an high station as their Representative, and Thar, from varioni do; curn ` sr;,,iees, curnstaiices, his within in .society !laced hint ~ h ove alte'reation upon this speciei'Ltlslartiltr. llow. ever, as the .worthy Alderman had alluded to them, he ought .to have Time first C:cog he had to utter. upon 11,af s u bj,e t V. a•:, t the fad's' stated against h.:o so in. jiirionsly in the Pai.er all Oded to by the worthy Aldermen, were lics. Long, and long ago, had he, been marked as the object ot calumny in that Paper; hut he de,pi;ed ate trash and detest Ale calumnies contained in that Paper.' There were two toain