The Sun. — London, England, 1803-03-07 00:00:00

t MARCII 2. 1 THE FIRST CONSUL set out on horseback at six o'clock in the morning, on Monday, attended by Generals - Bassraitea, MoNess-, LAURISTON, and Colonels CAULAINCOURT, LAUCEE, and RAPP. In an interval of five hours, he surveyed the Whole course of the Canal of.L'Ourg, which exceeds tfi leagues. In the first six leagues he found the Works in full adivity, and every thing in a state of reparation for proceeding with the remaining eight leapes. He stopped at Lig, whither Madame BONA PARTE had gone to lie, at the house of the Senator HARNILLE. On "Tuesday, at daybreak, the FIRST CONSUL mounted his horse, and proceeded to Mareuil s he was there met by the Prefea of the Seine, and the Engineer GERARD, who has the superintendance of the works on the Canal. The Canal n ill Afford sufficient water for such Boats as are now used at L'Ourg ; these will come direftly from Paris. By means of it, a considerable quantity of very good water will not only be fur. ;tithed to the City, but a great number of houses in the - Fauxbourgs will also be supplied. The-FIRST CONSUL arrived at Meaux at three o'clock: he was received at the Hotel-de-Vilk by the Constituted Authorities. Citizen GODARD, Sub.Prefea, acquainted him that the Municipal Council of Meaux were of opi. Ilion they could not better celebrate the passage of the FIRST CONSUL through their city, than by voting a monument to be erected in commemoration of it, at the same tithe with that, decreed to Bos. attar, the celebrated Bishop of Meaux, who died about too years since. At eight o'clock in the evening the FIRST CON. SUL Set out on his return to Paris. The Camp which is to be formed between Brus sels and Lostimiu, at the epoch of the journey of the Piave CONSUL into the Belgic Departments, 'will be established in the Plain of Cortemberg. The mumber of Troops of which it will be composed, appears to be definitively fixed at is,ooo men, who, as soon as the season permits, will be marched to their destination. RkrisuoN, Fan. r 9 Deputation of the Empire yesterday held their 45th Sitting, in which the Directorial Minister announced' that the Eldlor Arch.Ch'ancellor was 'ready to undertake the pay ment of tlfe Subsidies destined for the support of the Higher Clergy. • The city of Passau was not evacuated, pursuant I to the Decree- on the rzth of this month. The Imperial Garrison was on the point of removing, When a Counter-Order was received, importing that .the Austrians should remain (provisionally), and that the Bavarian Troops destined to replace them should halt at St. Nicholas, about half a league from POSIall. General STRAUCH has, however, diminished the garrison, several corps of which have been sent to Schaerdiug, whence they are to , proceed to Lintz. Four companies of the Aus. trian Troops remain in the city. It is reported that this fluduation in the resolves of Austria, is owing to a repeated declaration of the Court of Munich, that it intends to retain possession of the Bishopric of Eiebtert, until it shall have been secure of an adequate indemnity ; in con. sequence of which, the EMPEROR thought pro / per to leave his troops at Passau until the Grand Duke is put in possession of Eichstett, an event soon expelled, after which, the final evacuation of Paitall will take place. MADRID, FEB: 6.—The King and Royal Family artived at Aranjuez, the Sth of last month from their tour to Barcelona. As the suite of Their Ma jesties was very mtmerous, and all the appointments of the Journey. on the highest scale of magnifi. cenee, the expense' is estimated to exceed Fifteen Millions of Piastres. Soon after his- arrival His Majesty made a great number of Ecclesiastical and Military promotions. It is asserted that a new line of demarcation of the, frontiers between this Country and France will soon take place, on which occasion we exped that our Court will cede certain portions of territory to the French Government. According to Letters from Tripoli, the commer. vial relations between that State and Europe are at present very trifling, notwithstanding their ports are no longer blocked up. The grand Caravan from Mo. roeco to Mecca arrived at Tripoli the latter end of December. This is the first that has been sent since the French invasion •of Egypt. It is laden with various sorts of gums, woollen stuffs, Moorish habits, 11 4 c. It intends to bring back various articles of the produdib n of India . . Rorvta, Feu. 1:I. —His Holiness, by virtue of the right conferred upon him by the great Power's of Europe, of appointing the Grand Master of the Or der of Malta, has chosen M. Le RAILLY Dr THO. MASI, a Neapolitan Knight. The Commander De BUSY has set out from Rome for Sicily to carry to the new Grand Master the Brief of Eleclion, confer, ring upon him that dignity. BERNE, FEB. 23.—Gen. SEREAS arrived here yesterday morning from Paris: He is the bearer.of Very important news for us. There is to be esta. blishtd in each Canton a Commission of seven Mem bers, in order to put into attivity the new Cantonal C onstitution. Six. of these Members are appointed 'Y our Deputies at Paris, and the seventh by the Flasr CONSUL. As soon as the Cantonal Commis sions shall have entered upon their fundions, the present Government will dissolve itself. The. epoch • Of that dissolution is fixed for the loth of March. MAItcH 3. A man of the name of PELTIER has been con_ clemned by the Tribunals of London, for having Printed miserable Libels against the First Consul. We cannot conceive why the English Ministry should wish to give so much eclat to all this. As.,the English Journals hare published, that it Was on the demand of France, and even that the Ambassador of France was present at the Trial, we ate fully authorized to deny both these assertions, 'the First Consul not being apprized,of the existence of these Libels, except by that procedure. In the system of Eurer, all civilized Nations hare reciprocally doties to fulfil, to which they ought to pay so much the more respel, as the op posite system, which does not fail to have Partisans in all Countries, tends to. nothing less than to throw us into a state of barbarism and anarchy. We can. therefore conceive how little interest they can have in England, in supporting and au thorizing all the infamies which are vomited firth by the Libellists of that Country, and less still in proteding French Libellists, who had established themselves during the war ; therefore the inutility of this procedure of parade and ostentation is ap. parent. The Alien Bill gives to the Ministry the power of sending Foreigners out of the Country, and the Ministry have used it largely. More than twenty Frenchmen domiciliated, and known, have been sent from England without any further for mality. It is only a few days since, that Citizen BONNECARRERE, Chief of Battalion of the Na tional Guard of Paris, having a Process at London, and his wife being ill, received an order to quit the Country in forty. eight hours. We know of individuals established and domici liated for thirty years in London, who have not long since been affeeled by this measure. Why then amuse us by ostentatiously dragging before a respeetable Tribunal, Foreign Malefaetors, such as 'always appear at the close of great political coin. motions ? It suffices, that the Sub-Minister of Lord PELHAM should seriously tell them to write no more, and they will be silent ; and if they are not, the Alien Bill gives the power of sending them out of the Country. The KING of ENGLAND owes to the respeEt due to his Person, and to the Honour of his Nation, to put an end at length to those outrages committed upon a neighbouring Government and Nation with whom he is at Peace, and to whom he sends Amb A s. sadors as distinguished by their rank as recommend ed by their personal qualities. It must be admitted, however, that if this pro. 6edure was useless, it has at least afforded an op portunity to the distinguished Magistrates of the Criminal Tribunal of London, to give a proof of their wisdom, and to spew themselves worthy to administer Justice to a Nation S"Q enlightened, and distinguished by sb many titles.—(MoAiteur.„/ A great number of civil and military bodies having subscribed for the purpose of erecting Monument to the First Consul, he has ordered the Ministers of the Interior and of War to notify his thanks to the different Corps, thinking that they had better leave the care of ereeling It to posted. ty, if he should then be judged worthy of it.— THE DUTCH MdILS. CONSTANTINOPLE, JA x. ON the 26th of December, in the evening, an Adjutant of General SruART, had a conference with the Re is EFFEND r, and proposed, in the name of the English Government, that the Porte should grant a pardon to the Egyptian Beys, and assign them a distant place in Upper Egypt for their residence, where they should engage to live peace ably, and conduit themselves as faithful Subjeas of the Porte. Thellt is EFFENDI, who bad expeCted very dif. ferent proposals from the English Adjutant, an swered, that the Porte would . commimicate its tie. termination on this subjeft ,to the English Ambas iador:Lord ELGIN. The latter accordingly had several conferences, with the RE IS EFFENDI, and the Negotiation was yesterday evening brought to a conclusion, as Lord Et.o ix took his leave of the GRAND Vtztatt. The Porte has, in fact, con.. trary to general expectation, granted a pardon to the Beys, under the following conditions : I. The Cavalry of the Mamelukes shall enter immeJi.ite ly into the service of the P,aCha of Cairo. 2. The Porte will assign to the six Insurgent Beys, the little Town of Awan, in Upper Egypt, where they shall re side in peace, and subject to the Porte, without interfering, in any manner, in the public atlairs and government of Egypt • Aeloon as this Convention was concluded, Lottl LCIN declared officially to the GRAND Viz . ' et, that Ewa should be immediately evacuated, by the English Troops, which would be conveyed from thence to Malta. The latter Island ►he English will continue to retain possession of, till they have certainty of the maintenance pf Peace between Eng land and France. • On the 6th inst. the French Ambassador, General BRUN E, arrived here with the Squadron from Ton. lon, consisting of a Ship of the Line, a Frigate, two trigs and two Corttes. This Squadron like. wise brought the French Agents of Legation and Commerce destined for the different Ports of the' Levint. The average price of BroWn'or Muscoyado Sa gar, computed from the Returns made for the week ending the z 4 dity of Marah,..11151, - is - thlity.iiiite - Jkillivt a/I,d NAVAL NEWS. PLYMOUTH, MARCH 5. P Dire, Captain DAN , EY, which sailed hence on Wednesday evening for Amsterdam ; is put back apih, having sprung a leak at Sea: Sailed the Dutch ship Benjamin, Captain RAt sits, for Surinam, after_ having been completely refitted, and the damage she received In a gale of wind`pre. vious to her arrival here, repaired. Arrived the ship Canadian, Captain SHADFORT, from London, bound to Tortola, with loss of cables and anchors. f, le d • I ,c, xl 5. he !it na re. off be tic a th Lea 441. 4 . 1 g co PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 6. Arrived the William, Preston, from Shields, bound to, Gibraltar, w►th coals ; Woolsington, Turnbull, from New castle ; Nelson PaCket,,Donald, from Havre ; Albion, Wal ker, from Sheerness; Charlotte, Pearson, from Sunderland ; Gibraltar, Sutton, from London ; and Sarah, Hunt; from . < Lynn. Sailed the Endeavour, Holmes, from London and this Port, bound to Cork and Jamaica ; Mary, Graham, for Sun der land ; Rover, Baggs, and Rose, Button, for Guernsey. FALMOUTH, MARCH 4. ARRIVED the Brig Woodland Castle, Capt. LI, EWE LI,I N, from London, to load fish and tin, for Slily rna ; the 76..reph and John, Ltt Git o with cyder, from Jersey ; and the Duke °ins k Ex cise Cutter, SALMON, from Cowes. Sailed the American Ship Rebecca, Captain McKuvßa, with flour, and President, Capt. WES COTT, with wheat, for Lisbon ; the Ship Neptune, Capt. Horptti,. fur Jamaica ; the Schooner Bra,., ganza, Capt. Corso, for Gibraltar ;. the Prince of Wale's Packet, TODD, with Mail of the 22d ult.for Lisbon ; and the Dutch Brig Nierlands Unit, Capt. SMIDT, for Ceite. Sailed the Myrtle, Ilarper, for Lancaster ; Betsey, Collins, for Poole ; Hopewell, Clark, for Bristol • John, I.isle, for Poole; Astiea, Dymond,' for Swansea ; irothers, Puckey, for ditto ; and Alercury , Alas, for Penzance. A ship is now in the °fling, : supposed to be the King Grose Packet, from Lisbon. The /juke of Mar/borough, for Jamaica, and the Lad) Hobart (Packets) for America, are expetted to sail on. Sunday next. DEAL, MARCH 6: SAILED yesterday morning, His Majesty's ship Juno, for Portsmouth, and the Honourable East India Company's homeward.bound ships Canada and Caledonian, for the River. HARWICH, MARCH 6. THERE being no Post-Office Packet in the Har hour, the Dutch Mail of yesterday was forwarded by the Pocock Cutter. Me. ScHAw, one of the King's Mesengers, with Dispatches for the Hague, embarked in the said Cutter, with other Passen. gers. 'L'l►e Diava Packet, Capt, STEWARD, and the Earl cf Leicester, Cipt. THOMPSON, arrived this day from flelvoctsluys, each with a Dutch Mail. THE THEATI:E. cownt-Garden. TH It new Comedy, entitled . 79ht.• Bull, or ex biglisbman'S Fire-side, brought torward on Satur. day last at this Theatre, is the acknowledged pto_ dation of Mr. Co I.Nrit.N. DRAMATIS PERSON/E. Sir Simon Rochdale, - Mr. BLANCHARD. Frank Rochdale, - - Mr. H. joric4sran. 'Lord W ADny . Per, rine Rochdaid, - Mr. Cooxt. Torn shualeton, - • - Mr. Lzw Is. Lena. Bullgrandery, - Mr. jonNs t oNt. • Waiter, Thornoury, Lady Caroline Braytnore, - Mrs. H. jouNsroN. M a ry Thornbury, - - Mrs. Glass. Wife to Dennis, - - - Mrs. DAV ENroßr. FABLE. The County - of Cornwall is the scene of anion in this Drama. Peregrine, when about sixteen years' of age, artbeing_ of adventuroos torn, left his family tor the purpose of trying his fortune in the East-Indies. Previous to his doper tore, he was kindly received by Thornbury, who had just set ,up busioess at Penzance, and who, without knowing Peregrine's story, gives him ten pounds in pity of his distress, and a Letter toe Captain' of an East I ndiaman, at Falmouth, by - which moans Peregrine obtains a passage, and acquires a twee fortume. After thirty years have elapsed, he returns to this Country, and is stranded on the Coast of Cornwall, in which County he was born. The ten- pounds given to him by Thornhury, he had separately employed in trade, abetted raised it into a capital of ten thousand pounds, and this sum which he had put in a box, and slung about his person, was all he. was able to save in the wreck of the ship. He rambles over a desolate heath, and at last reaches, a little public-house ' with the signof the Bull, kept by an Irish. man, named Dennis Bullgruddery. At this time the Play is supposed to begin. 'Soon after Peregrine hasmade inquiries atter his old benetaflor Thornbury, who is now a Brazier, he hears the scream of - a female in distress. 'Peregrine ties to rescue her, and she proves to be Mary, the daughter. of Thornbury. Having been seduced by frank Rochdale, the son of Sir Simon Rochdale, a Magistrate, arid a man of great property in the neighbourhood, she quits her father's hOuse, just at the time when the consequences of her frailty cannot be much longer concealed, and was attacked by a robber as she was wandering in pursuit of a Stage to convey her. to London. Peregrine obtains her confidence, and promises her redress, placing her in :the meantime at the Bull public. house; and leaving money 1N t h the Landlord for her support. Peregrine's first object is, to discharge hit obligation to T liornhui y whom Iselin& in a state of bankruptcy, having been security for a friend, by whom he is deserted, to the amount of six, thoosand pounds, as well as in the Midst of distress on account of his datighter's night. Atter Peregrine has in vain attempted to induce Thornbury to accept the vast accumulation of the Sian formerly given to hint by the latter, • he persuades Thomhory - to let him pay his Creditors, .upon condition of restoring his daughter. Halting brought- the . father and daughter together, Peregrine now turns jtis thought; towards the redress which ought to be obtained for poor -Mary: For this purpose ; he goes to Sir Simon Rochdale's, and is introduced to Frank Rochdale, who is fulraf cootri thin for his coodact towards Mary, and who had sent Tern ShulHetcn, a ‘vortidess man-of fashion, with a letter to heri and a prorate to provide far her. Shufficton torti.sa i• the inost dishilnourabie vieweAlmoi 'her,- vnd in order to cure her, gives her a letter of recommendation to the fermi:: Conduetor of a pottirions Biotite! in • London. Peregrine having fortunately trustvacd this wicked purpose, dis closes the Villainy of Shuffietore to. hrank.', V' , 1:Q is strong ly attached to Mary, and Wisbes•to repalt her Wrong., by marriage, but is . prevented by his father, who bas enter— ed into a matrimonial Treaty with .Lord Fitz-Bala4m, a necessitous peer. A ftcr the reconciliation bet:e.:n Thorn bury and his daughter, the former also determines to seek redress at Rochdale Castle. With soave difficulty, he gets an audience of Sir Simon, who allots only two hours in Ilse, day to his duty as. a magistrate. Thon.bury relates wrongs which his daughter had received, without reveahny, the 'lam' of the betrayer . ,. and the wagi,4rate - ptumbe ample compensation. When Sir Shiloh, however; filids that hia son is the .tr..nder, he recants, and. his ptide rtsvolts•, at the idea of sulli:ring his son to marry the daughter of Brazier, though ; with all his dignity anti grandeitr, his own great grandfather was a miller, a circumstance that he is very anxious to conceal. Thombkiry severely repro:wires - Inns with having disgraced his office ' and gets into the scat justice lihnsell. All the reproaches of "Chorlibury, and the entreaties of his own son .have no effeet upon the Vaitt anti' proud mind of Sir Simon who is determirie.f that /113 son shall not debase himself by the proposed match. At length Peregrine comes forward, and proves lihrisell tt) be the elder brother of Sir-Simon, and of course the V:hper in of the title and fortune. During these triinsaittious, Toni Shuffleton avails himself of the l!eensc brolieht for the purpose of Lady Caroline's 'union with. Frank Rochd:dei and persuades her to marry him at.the next church.' , •Thg. powerful intervention of Peregrine iii tavour of poor Mary., at last induces Sir Simon to consent to her inarriagd with Son ; and the piece of courre corielikes with afttl l iredie , :s of her griev.tnces, and the happiness at the parties: its general. : We , have here given merely an outline of a Dra.; ma abounds in a muitiplicitvof ircidents, , and episodicalcircumstances,•which we not attempt to delineate. The Fable comprehends a .very sulking and very diverting mixture of the-pathetic and the ludicrous, nor is it only distinguisned by en 'alter. , nation 'of affetling and laughable - events, in it main . structure, but almost 'every scene . . do flists: of teres:ing circumstances mingled with facetitaus points, • that at one moment excite tears, anti the', next provoke merriment: •It may, perhaps, be alledged that a the Author sometimes defeats his - own 'purpose, in thOse frees vent vicissitudes of laughter artddistress, .but he: has the example • of SHAM c ESP EARE for such a prac tice ; and who slidl presume to find fiult with as the drat is so strong in the piece before us ? • There is certainly - no striking novelty in the Plot, but it is worked-up in so' able a manner that it takes a' strong hold of the feelings. The same may be said of the CharaEterst—none of them, per haps, art striWy new, but they are placed in such situations, that they powerfully aid the general pression, and operate distin&ly upon the mind by the situations in •which they are involved, •The chara&er of Thorntury is well drawn. So•is that of Peregrine, and the Author has exerted all his comic skill in pourtraying that of 'honest •Dimir, the Publican. Sbnecron is an admirable portrait of the Faskionable Lounger . : of Bond.street, and we fear there are too many originals , to warrant the dranwtic copy. The rest of the chara.lers have no very marked peculiarity. The sentiments are warm, dignified, and inapt es sive. The language is in‘generaf neat and elegant, and is occasionally embellished with much pw!tical grace. The piece, howevei, - on the whole, is um.. 11 too long. The dialogue will admit of corlsiderable curtailment. A great part of the Landlady's ratfier . may be properly omitted. It seems very impr,bable that Frani who is a very amiabte youth, though he has coin. mittfed the crin” upon which the., Fable .chicily turns, should'ha - ve imparted his confidence to.Atch a wretch as Shujieioa.: It appears to be equally improbable, that a man who seems to be so le hiewil as Sir Simon, simuld have invited such a fellow into his house, as ShAlgeton makes- no scruple of avowing his want ale, ling and prill'eip/e, under the notion that both are totfaihimatle. We could pOinr out Many other improbable parts in this Drama, but it is on the whole so affecting and so.amusing, that we will not dwell on so invidious a task. We, however, advise the Author to get rid of his Peer, who makes very little figure in the Piece, and is of no use but.to shew the inconsistency of Sir Sikon, who ridicules the state of the very family With whirl' he aspires to the honour of being con., neded. • Iyis impossible to say too much in, favour of that principal Adors. Ksw c ITT exhibited the agonie3 of parental grief, 'and- the honest bluntness of an' Englishman, with Masterly skill. JOHNSTONE was exquisitely diverting in Dennis - . La wis tendered' Shier/on a very humorous' sketch. BCANC R deserves great praise for; the manner in which he performed. the-part of Sir Simon, which we under. stand, was designed for MUNDEN. EMS al', lir the rustic 'Waiter, also deserves a very commendatory notice.- CootE very highly 'distinguished himself by the impressive manner in which: he delivered the moral and benevolent sentiments of Po'regrirre, Mr: H. JOHNSTON displayed - great feeling and charac.. teristic propriety in Frani Rochdale. Mrs. CID di gave simplicity and interest to the tender anxieties` of Maly. • The Play was received by a very croWded dicnce without the smalleit token of disapprobation in any parr, and Lewis, .in'ann9uncing it for this evening, obtained a loud and tumultuous"testimOnY of unanimous Consent. The Prologue, in vindication of John national charader, is well written. It is iscribea to Dzsbtt;r, of this Theatre. " The Epilogue which consisted' ola hurnourous Sang, `adverting to 'the CVol)ts of the Piece, was so well given by lo a xi. rrosit, that it ‘va, encored. CORN EXCH4NGE, MARCH 7, Svrt.l.T Es of all kinds of Grain are to-day in great abundance, particularly 'English Oats ; Wheat is down full 35. per Quarter in general, but a few very fine parcels of this and most articles rerch ed . nearly as last week; Barley and Malrboth lower.; White Pease and Beans is. and 23. diaper ; Ticks 3s. ; Oats alsb may. be' quoted ,at a decline of is. and 2ti. ; Flour but a trifle less. - , Wheat 445• a sos a s6s 'ad Tick Lioiri - 25$ 4 i 3os od' Fine ditto - s7s a sits od Oats - - 'IP ' IN a 1 9 1 : Harley - aos a ass od Poland ditto aos k , 4 21$ Ott Malt - '' 4 0 n:44S l A, Et_aPosce, a - • 3ti a 34 1 nye - . 32$ a 345 on M , M in e 1 4 10U1 . 44 5 a 47s od White Pease gra a 3its ad Second do • . 4ns a 44$ Beans - 3ts a 355 , od Ott Tuesday; and .the three preceding Jar, -ninety couple were married at the Collegiate. Church, Manchester.