The Sun. — London, England, 1803-04-28 00:00:00

PARIS, APRIL IS. THe General of Division DUPONT.CHAtiMONT has been appointed Commandant in Chief of the 2 7th Military Division (ci.devant Piedmont). By a Decree of the Government, the place of Colonial Prefeft of the Island of Tobago is suppressed. There is to be instead, a Chief of Administration, whose funftions will be limited to what concerns the expellees of Government in that Island. A Portuguese Squadron is now waiting at Gib raltar for a favourable wind to sail to Algiers, to compel the DEY to conclude a Peace, which for se veral years Portugal has been unable to obtain. The Chief de Brigade RAP'', Aid-de-Camp to the First Consul, arrived on the sSth inst. at Auxonne, commissioned to organize the Helvetic Troops which were in garrison. These Troops were to depart the igth or zoth for Marseilles. The Artillery only is destined for Cherbourg. Totmorr, APRIL I 3 LESSEIGNES has arrived in this port with the Squadron which conveyed General BRUNE, the French Ambassador, to Constantinople. He stopped at St. John D' Acre on his return, where he was perfealy well received by D'Glitizz4 PACHA. He left Alexandria on the Both March. The English evacuated it on the 17th March. Since their departure, tranquillity appears to be re-established in Egypt. The Mamelukes were cantoncd in Upper Egypt. The Rear-Admiral an. Chored at Malta in the midst of the English squadton, which was composed of ten Ships of War. The 4000 men who had returned from Alex. andria were performing quarantine at the Lazaretto. In all the Sea-ports in the Levant, to which he Went for the purpose of installing the Commercial Commissioners, they were received by tke Turks With every mark of esteem, and every demonstra. lion of joy. Ettusset.s, APRIL 22.—General BELLIARD is at present employed in examining the Coast's of Dutch Flanders. He has given diretlions for the establishment of military posts, such as they were in the last War. In the Island of Cadrand, the batteries and entrenchments are completing with the greatest celerity. A part of the French Troops that have arrived at the Island of Walcheren, are eantoned on the Heights. They amount to about 6000 men. The English Squadron cruizing off our coast, has been increased within these few days. RATISBON, APRIL 16.—TItz Imperial Ratifica tion of the last Conclusum of the Diet is expeeted here on the toth, at which epoch the Diet will re. some its Sittings. It is said that the delay of the Ratification has principally arisen from the send ing a Courier to Petersburg!) from the Court of Vienna, which judged it proper to entet into some explanations with the EMPEROR of RUSSIA, before giving its sanction to this decision of the Empire. BASLE, APRIL 19.—An Arret6 has been pub lished here of General D!JPAN, Direelor in Chief of the Administration of War, which orders, that the Fl'ench Troops stationed in Switzerland shall not receive for the future any rations ot' meat, anti that the Officers shall no longer have forage. He remarks in general, that by this Arril-C the Mill. WY Administration will have an entirely new or. ganization, advantageous for the Troops and for the Inhabitants of Switzerland. BANKS OF THE MEIN, APRIL 17.—The ELEC. ?OR of BAVARIA strived on the / tth April at the Capital of his new Dominions in Swabia ; he was attended only by a Valet.de.chamhre and two domestics. He had given orders that he should not be received with any peculiar solemnity'. The In. habitants testified the most lively joy at his arrival. gXTRACT OF A WITTER FILOM THE HACUE, DATED APRIL 21. el Ainongst the Countries disturbed by French in. trigue, over-run by French arms, vexed by French power, and ruined by French connections, Ho lland stands the first ; and the liberty held out by French Emissaries, as an allurement to the Ambition of the Fatlions, and to the Patriotism of the Republicans, has been as fatal to our Independence as destructive to our Commerce. " Since 1795, when we began to feel the curse of French Fraternity, we are became a beggared, enslaved, degraded and debased people, without public spirit, public virtue or private worth, seeing with the same indifference and phlegm the misery of our countrymen around us, as the insulting lux. my of our Tyrants, who, not satisfied with the plunder of our property, debauch our wives, seduce our daughters, and pervert the principles of our sons. By their scandalous example, and by their de praved.condud, they have outraged or destroyed the moral and religious notions of all classes of society ; our hospitals--our pr4ons arc crowded ; and more crimes have been committed in our coun try these last eight years, than the fifty years pre. ceding, " Since the French first entered our territory, we 'have been more or less burthened with their troops, but never entirely free from them ; because no sooner have we eluathed, armed and paid one,di visa') going to Flanders, than another has succeeded, comirrg down the Rhine in rags, without arms, and with out money.; Holland has not only been the magazine', tic arsenal, ,end the Treasury of France, but during the tampAigns erminy, tri hospital t most of its sick and wounded were sent here by water, w be cured at oar eAlearr, in our houses, our public hospitals not being sufficient to contain them. Not satisfied — with those Fraternal ttanqiaionc, our French Brothers, under the appellation of Friendly Loans, Favourable Treaties, and Patriotic Duna. tions, have laid our different Governments under continual contributions. " We have paid for getting rid of the French troops, we have paid for getting them hack, and again paid for getting rid of them ; we have paid for having them reduced, diminished or augmented ; we have paid to avoid revolutionary requisitions ; we have paid to avoid forced contributions ; we have paid to prevent military executiofts. We have paid millions in bribes to French Directors, to Fiend) Ministers, to French Generals, to French Agents, to French Commissaries, to French Secre. taries, and to their pack of Couriers, Clerks, Valets, and Footmen. " We have paid to the French Jacobin Fa lion for changing our Government, we have paid the French Moderate Faction for changing it again ; we have in six years paid for the change of Three Constitu. lions, and not long ago we were asked to pay for not having a Fourth. Our Government may make out its Budget, but not before the last Dutchman has paid his last Ducat, can it fix what French rapacity may exaa, and French tyranny extort. Our French alliance has cost us more in eight years than all our glorious wars under WILLIAM 111. and the wars to the peace of Utrecht. " If what we have p a id p roves our f ormer r i c h es and our former resources, the disappearing of gold, the scarcity of silver, the decline of our manufac tures, the decrease of our trade, and the uncommon poverty of our people, prove our riches gone, and our resources exhausted; and should France continue to injure our Commerce, mock our Independence, and plunder our Property, we shall in a short time become as hurthensome an Ally to France, as France has been oppressive to us. " Our population is reduced, and the Seven Pro. winces do not contain above /qv° million' of ;nimbi. tants, .who pay more Taxes than twelve millions of Frenchinen ; many therefore think the French policy is to force us by despair to demand, what 'despair only can force us to demand, an incorporation with France. " If all the nations of Europe have acknowledged our Independence, not one has resented the continual violation of it ; and whatever the ignorant or the interested say to the contrary, it was not because England kept the Cape and Goree that 20,000 Frenchmen were poured into our country, but be. cause our Government wished to ascertain its Inde. - pendence, by an application to the Courts of St. Petersburgh and Berlin to guaranty our neutrality in case of a new War, the Court of St. jameer having promised to respea our neutrality, if the Court of St. Cloud respeled our Independence ; and even our Potion are now obliged to confess, that when BoNAPArti a ordered Flushing in a state of siege, it was moderation and generosity in the British Government not to order its cruizers to cap. cure and detain our Men of War or Merchantmen. 66 Was not the ancient Batavian Patriotism changed into modern Gallican Egotism, we might yet make an effort, if not to be entirely free, at least not to be longer such contemptible French tools ; but in the common ruin of our Liberties and Fortunes, we all think how to save ourselves, none what the ho. nour of our nation, and the preservation of our coon. try demands ; we tremble at the arrival of each French Courier, not for the Batavian Republic, but for our own individual selves ; and so prepared are we, for French violence, and so accustomed to French oppression, that many thought it an an of lihera. lity, that the Decree which declared Finskistg in a state of siege, did not declare the Bank of Amster. dam in a state of requisition ; and that the zo,ooo French troops occupying our strong frontier towns, were not quartered at disceetioO on the inhabitants here, at Amsterdam and Rotterdam. _ We know we have nothing to hope from the Court of Berlin, but we expeitt with anxiety the answer of the Court of St. Petersburgh. Should the magnanimous ALFXANDIK not assist us to throw off the GaUican yoke, or to lighten our Gdlican fetters, and a new war breaks out, we are entirely undone, and the lest, the only resource left, is to cease to 6e a Nation. Believe me, the contents of this letter are far from being exaggerated, and intim' exaggeration is impossible, 'where the reality surpasses the posti. bility of narration. May the example of Holland be a warning to States yet free and independent ! Deceived by French promises, disunited by French plots, and duped by French treachery, we have lost the independence our ancestors conquered ; and in exchange for the liberty left us by our fore fathers, we bequeath to our posterity a slavery, so much the more disgraceful, as it was imposed with. out struggle, nearly without resistance." Mr. ANGERSTETN'S Gallery of PiClures may now be considered as one of the very first colleetions in this Country. It is open to the Moinhers of the Royal Academy at all times, and the liheral.mintied Proprietor, it is said, means to a certain part of the year for the inspedion of Students in general. We can conceive no libel so great or so generally mischievous as a statement in a Public Paper, that a Lady of Fashion had a Concert on Sunday even. ing, at which songs were sung with great humour. We will not believe that in fashionable lift there is so little of decency, as that such an entertainment should on such.an evening be publicly held. We see a Work announced in one of the French Papers, which has for its title, ." The English People pi fed vp nvith pride, beer• and tea, tried before the Tribunal of Reason."—From 016 title we may judge of the probable candour and libe rality of the Work. . From the very talkie part taken by the French Lieutenant to the Grand Master of Maita l it might be supposed that, with a reference to his character and condoet, he was named Busy. Bartholomew Robert Nesbitt was committed a few days ago to Lancaster Castle, by JoHN LEAF, Esq. charged with having endeavoured to seduce Artificers to leave this Country, in order to be emi)loyed in a Cotton Manufaaory in Spain, Afr ftEPoRt: COURT OF KING's TIENCII, Aitnit • Tit is tieing 'first Day of Easter 'Perri, the Court did hot pit until near on.! O'clock. Mr. EasxitiE moved for leavf , to file a Criminal Information against Mr. John Olitly, a -Surgeon, at Windsor, tor sending a Challenge to hr. M ih gay, a Physician, of the same place. The parties were stated to have been formerly intimate. The Physician prescribed for a patient, and the prescrip tion was to have been m.:de up by the Surgeon, and it was ;Wedged that he took the liberty of altering some part of it, on which a misunderstanding arose between the parties ) and Mr. O'Rcily sent Dr. Mingay a Challenge. Rule to spew cause granted. Mr. JARVIs moved for two Writs, the one for a Habeas Corpus, to be direaed to the Keeper of the Goal of Dorset,commanding hid) to bring up the body of Capt. Wolf, and also of Lieut. Hastings, Officers ofone of His Majesty's Ships of War, and also Lieut. Morgan, of the Marines, arld seven of the crew belonging to the same vessel, all now in the gaol of Dorset, on a charge of Murder.—The other Writ was a certiorari, to remove and bring into Court all the depositions taken before the Coroner, on v. hose inquest these parties were charged. This motion he made on the affidavit of all these persons and many others who were not charged, about twenty in number, stating the circumstances minutely as 'they► occurred in the case on which he was now ap plying to the , discretion of the Court—lt was that of the unfortunate affray which took place on the second of this month at the Village of Easton, near Portland, where one person lust his life, and others were wounded. The substance of the Affidavits was this, that Capt. Wolf, and Lieutenants 1-Listings acid Morgan, and a Crew of the Ship which they belonged to, came on shore for the purpose of impressing Seamen, and had their Warrant ptoperly backed by tliv Mayor of Weymouth. That in the execution of their cluty, they were resisted by an armed mob of between tjo and 200 men, some of whom had loaded guns, others swords, some clubs, and one man a poker. That the Captain told the mob, he wanted only Sailors, and desired those who were not such to retire : that he shewed his authority ; the mob furiously resisted him ; a scuffle ensued ; the Cap. tain held in his left hand a pistol; which in the scuffle went off, but his hand being held down, it fired to the ground : that it went off by accident, and that was submitted to be evinced from its being in his left hand, and he being right-handed; that he had no intention whatever of firing ; that the Captain was wounded in the arm with a sword by one of the mob ; that the word " fire" was made use of, and the scuffle became general, and sevetal of the crew were wound ed, and one man lost his life. That the Cap tain had no intention of impressing any but Sailors, and w hen t the Captain fOund could , not get them withimt using !Luther ;las of violence, he withdrew his men from the village, after having taken from the mob a gun, three sword , , and a poker ; and that the attack which produced the mischief, came first from the mob, who determined to resist the Officers in the executi mof their duty. The object of this Motion was to lay rite whole case before the Court, in order to lay a foundation fir a further application that these parties might be admitted to bail. The Court granted the Writs. SIIERIFF's COURT. TOOKE•s COURT, CURSITOR-STREET, APRIL 26. FRANCIS TWEDDELL, ESL. fv. WALTER. nits was an Action brought by Mr. Tweddell, a Gentleman of family in Northumberland, against Messrs. Walters, the Proprietors of the Times Newspaper, for a Libel inserted in that Paper in the m ont h of August last. The Libel charged the Plaintiff with having at the last Durham Election, personated a deceased brother, and voted in that character for Mr. Wharton. The Declaration also contained a Count for a subsequent Libel inserted a few days after the first to the same cffett. The Damages were laid at soool. Mr. Gaattow addressed the Nry on . behalf of the Plaintiff. He stated the Plaintilito be a young Gentleman beginning life, in a situation of life in which he could only hope for success from the maintenance of an honourable charader. He wa one of the sixty Clerks in Chancery. He would give the Defendants the advantage of himself star. ing the transaCtion on which they had grafted the present Libel. It was an error in the Guild book of the City of Durham. Mr. Francis Twed. deli the elder's three sons had all a right by Patti mony to the Freedom of the Mercers' Company. In the year 1790, the eldest son John being of age, had his guild called in the usual manner, and was ap proved. In 1793 the names of Francis, the Plain tiff, and Robert, were given in by their father to Mr. Dunn, at that time the Mayor, to have their guilds also called, which was done, but by mistake the former was entered in the books by the name of John, instead of Francis. On Plaintiff's applying to take up his Freedom• for the purpose of voting for Mr. Wharton, at the last Durham Election, the mistake was obviou•, as there were two . 70/.7ns, the sons of Francis, entered on the Guild books, when, in fad, no such person 39 the second named Jahn had ever been in existence. The Town Clerk, how ever, refused to ratify the mistake, and Plaintiff took a copy of the Guilds in the name of the latter John, intending to explain the misnomer at the host. in g s. He signed the books in his usual manner, " F. Tweddell," .and gave in his name at the host. ings on a slip of paper, as " Francis Tweddell," but was never sworn there at all, as the vote, on account of the irregularity, was, after much debate, refused. From this circumstance the Defendants had framed the libel in question. He did not mean to charge the Defendants with being themselves the authors of it, but they were liable, and ought to ans wer in damages to the Plaintiff whatever injury he sus tained through their publication. It was for the Jury to say. what proportion of their gains should . be 4id fb the Phtini ;ft, as sosiie reparation for the injitiy he had sustained. ... , • Mr. PaiCE, the. Plontiff's Attorney-; stated hii diving called on the . Defendants in company with the Plaintiff, immediately alter the insertion of the libel, When the Plaintiff returned to town froM Durnani. They met the elder Mr. Walter; The Plaintiff produced the paper, • end demanded the name of the Author. He was requested to call again, when he should receive satisfactory informa tion, and the Witness u nderstood, froth the con. versation, that the Plaintiff would be furnished with the name of the Author. .The Witness and the Plaintiff accordingly went on the following day; when they found a person whom they conceived to be an Agent of the Defendants, as he was sitting writing in the office. Mr; Walter was not there, but this Agent asked the Plaintiff his name, and desired him to walk with him into an ad:pining room, into which the Witness, endeavouring to follow, was prevented by- this person, and the Plaintiff, finding his Attorney excluded, refused td go in himself, and left the house. Sir Al'. White Ridhy, Member for Newcastle, gave evidence of his having known the Plaintiff's falter and family for Many years; and spoke to the respedability of their charaders. The Hon. C. Grey, Member for Northumberland, had been intimately acquainted with the Plaintiff's father, of whose charader he spoke in high tern*. Col. Beaumont, Member for Northumberlandi gave evidence to the same effect. - Being cross.ex. atnined, he said, the Libel had produced no change in his opinion respeding the Plaintiff, of whom he thought as highly as ever. Rowland Bunion, Esq. Member for the County of Durham, was acquainted with ,the Plaintiff mily, of which l)e spoke in high terms of respell . The Publication, he said, had produced no change in his sentiments, as he was on the spot, and knew the circumstances of the case. David Ogilvy, Erg. and C. Grten, Esq. had both known the Plaintiff a great number of years and had always entertained the highest opinion of him. No thing that they had read would at all tend to di. minish this opinion. The Defendants having, by suffering judgment to go by default, precluded the necessity of provs ing the Plaintiff's case, the evidence closed here. Mr.' ERMINE on behalf of the • Defendants ad.. dressed the Jury in mitigation of damages. IJe admitted the Plaintiff's charadt:r to be as stated in its fullest extent, but contended that the Defendants had by the recognition of their error, which a judgment by default implied, made the Plaintiff every reparation in their power, if his objet in the present ation was to have his reputation put right, and not to obtain money ; with respell to the second insertion, which was intended as an apology, but which 'was.perhaps imprudently worded ; that parA_ graph, he said, was inserted in compliance with a letter from Mr. Wharton, in which, complaining of the libel, he had expressed himself nearly i n the terms of the second letter. Mr. Tweddell had not suffered either in the opi. nion of hiS Friends or the World, by the insertion of the paragraphs in question ; and every one who read them, would be immediately aware, that the. whole was an exaggeration. It was strange, that .Mr. Tweddell did not bring his adion where all the. circumstances of the case were known, instead of coming up to London to pursue his remedy here.— He might say, if he chose to be invidious, that the Plaintiff would not bring his action in Durham be cause he was likely to he unsuccessful ; hut he would say, that the Plaintiff would not bring it there, because he knew he had sustained no injury.— The whole of the libel appeared to have origi natc a in mistake, without any malicious motive, aril could make no impression injurious to the charac. ter o f the Plaintiff. He did not say the libel was justifiable, but the jury were to take into consi. Aeration what hardship the Plaintiff had in con sequence undergone, or what damage he had bus_ twined, which he could in any degree predicate as a loss ; of this nothing had been proved. Ther e could be no damage, for no person believed the paragraphs ; the Plaintiff was now in as complete possession of his honour and his charader as he ever was before. There was no proof, therefore, before the Jury of any special damage having been sustained in any roped by the Plaintiff: and he did not doubt, therefore, that they would give those small damages which were proportionate to the small extent of the injury. Mr. GAR ROW contended that he had a right to reply, Mr. ERSKIN e having read part of a letter of Mr. Wharton's in the course of his speech ; but was over-ruled by the Shetiff. The Sheriff then summed up the Evidence, and the Jury returned a vetdid, Damages sool. It is not unworthy of remark, that great exer tions are making in France, in the Departments of the West, to discover and seize. concealed Arms.— The Prefeit of the Marne and Loire, in his - Letter to the Mayors of that Department relative to this subject, observes, '' We feel too touch the import. ance of this measure, under the prercgt circumstan ces, to negled its execution for a single instant." The Artillery that was in the Arsenals of Mush ing and Middleburgh has been carried to line the batteries on the Coast of the Isle of Walcheren. Letters from Rome of the zd inst. mention, that on the 28th of List month t!►e Pon: publi,l )c a Decree of Canonization in favour of the Cardinal J. M. TuomAo, in two months a Grand Master and a Saint of the same family ! !—Lieutenant ria BUSY is of opinion, that if his Holiness had made the Grat4 - Master a Saint, and the Saint a Gr►+ntl Master, the Maltese Order would not be the worse governed. On Tuesday morning last, one of the Watchmen of Whitechapel parish, whose box was at the end of the London Hospital, was found dead, at four o'clock in the morning, leaning over his hatch, He had been a:Watehman for upwards of 20 years. There certainly must be great virtues in the Botatrical.S . yrup and Nervous Cordial, since it has enabled Dr. BRODVNI to purchase that elegant estate called Nea.House, Opposite Lurd Btrts's, near Christ Church, in Hampshire. k k