The Sun. — London, England, 1803-12-16 00:00:00

~i k - 0 ;:. r.- HOUSE OF PEERS. THURSDAY, DECFNIBER lg. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN, SIR, MAI I.S. Oqs. THE SUN. sr,Lllll (JUIS aLium 4upivir I l ' r s .i ,~; . 4 {, t,, i IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. THE Royal Assent was given, , by Commission, to the M.slt Tax Bill, the Place and Pension Duty, the Irish Habeas Corpus Suspension, the Irish Mar. tial Law, the Seamen's•Desertion, the Bank Re. ritrietion, the British Sugar Bounty Drawback, the Irish Provisiorr Import, the Irish Oats Distilla. lion, the Small ,Notes, the East India Bonds Duty, the Annual Indemnity, the Curates' Relief, and the Portugal Wines Bonding Bills, The Lords Commissioners were, the LORD CHAN eEpLOR; the Earl of Rost,u4, and Lord WAr.stNc. 11AM, • • - After some routine and private business. was dis positt Mr. VA NSITTART, accompanied by several Mem. ;,cfs, brought up from the House of Commonsjthe Volunteer Corps Regulation Bill. The Bill was forthwith read a first time : and, on the Motion of Lord WALstigottAm, ordered to be printed; His Lordship toolethe opportunity to state, that should the Prints be' on the Table to-morrow, it was 'his intention then to in for the second read ing of the Bill. Adjourned till to-morrow. HOUSE OF COMMONS, THUItSDAY, DEC. 15. T HE House was summoned to the House ofTeers by the I.l,her. of the ,Black RA, On its return the SPEAKER. stated, that the Royal Assent had been iven, by Commission, to the Irish Habeas Corpus bucpension Bill,.the Irish Martial Law Bill, and se. vcral other Bills. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER rise to move, that the House should at its rising adjourn to Monday next. He wished, however, to stare, that early after the Recess he intended to move for the appointment of a Committee to inquire into the causes of the differences between the Cot. ton Ivlannfadoters and their Workmen ; and also for a Committee to inquire into the differences be tween the Duties on Malt in England, and on Beer and Bigg in Scotland. The Motion was then agreed 'to, anti the Com. mimes of Supply and Ways and Means fixed for to. morrow, having been postponed to Monday, the House adjourned at four o'clock till Monday. PERMIT me, through the channel of your Paper, to convey to those who direft the defensive opera. tions of War, the very great apprehensions I am tinder respeCting the consequences that will attend the first alarm of Invasion. The Beacons, we are told, are to be lighted all round the CoaSt, 'so that the alarm will. be general from Norfolk to Kent, and from thence to Devonshire, and no tine will be at all able to judge where the Enemy is lands& and of course every one will conclude he is at his own door. The confusion and distress will be be. you! expression dreadful, and the loss to the Public very great indeed, as well as to individuals. To obviate this, I shonld TOSt that only two Beacons bhouil be lighted on the Coast, one on each side of the line of the Enemy's binding place, which would be sufficient to give notice to the interior country, and point out to them the ex ii spot where he was making , the attempt. And these two Beacons should take the alarm, nut nne from the other, but each from his own knowledge of the fart only. As to the Interior Country, they may light as many Beacons as they please, without the like dauber from the 'alarm ;..because when the, 'lnhabitants know there arei7thirty or forty miles between them a nd the Enemy, thiy will nut be in such a hurry to while. Sir, Your humble Servant, Dec. 8, 1803. ; CAUTION. &SPIV ID. Ilmnburg PRICV; OF STOCKS, THIS DAY AT TWILLYI O'CLOCK. COOSOIS SS I I RANI. S 4 * (Orn►tiun - 6 4 LONDON: DECEMBER i 6, 1803. AT the ruomnit our Paper was abaut to be put to VMS, ' the two liamksrgla Mails due, arrived. By an article from rienaa of the 3oth ult. we learn that advice had been received there, that the Aug. trian Garrison iii the Fortress of Oberhass, near Passau, had been expelled by a Bavarian Detach ment of superior force. On the Oth fits IMr s. tc i Al. MAJESTY issued orders for the Troops on the BaVarian Frontiers, together with others from 80.. iternia and Austria, amounting to 12,000 Caval» ry, and twenty-seven Battalions of Infantry, to ad. vance against the Bavarians. A Courier had been sent off from Vienna to . Mu- OA. All the Foreign Ministers at the former place sent off Couriers to their respeOive Courts with this important intelligence. An Article from the Batiks of thr Mayne of the ioht, says, that by Letters from Vienna it ap. pears that that Capital would become the centre of important Negotiations. The Court of N,.%ertna, in colijunaton with Prussia and Russia, Itas offered int mediation, and presented a new plan of peace. To this article very little credit is to he attached. The malignant fever at Malaga was upon the decline. An article by these Mails, dated from the Hague, December „,states that the Expedition against England will now be deferred till th Spring. YESTERDAY evening Dutch Papers were received in Town, by which we are put in possession of the Paris news of the 3d December. The accounts are still continued from all quarters, of the immense preparations that. are making for the 'lnvasion, of the marching of Tioops, and of putting Vessels in requisition. The FIRST CONSUL was expefted very shortly to leave Paris, for the purpose of ac. celeratingthe : preparations, or perhaps of superb!). tending die-Embarkation. These Papers do not furnish us with any addi. tional information respelling the differences which are said to subsist between Russia and France. Count MARCOFF has probably before this quitted Paris : it was remarked when he presented his Let. ters of recall, that he confined himself strialy to the communication which etiquette obliged him to make, without interchanging the slightest personal civility with the First Consul. The Capture of the Squadron under Admiral Lt Not, still remains a subjeCt of doubt, although the intellipnce has been in some degree confirmed by reports brought by the AurpicioNs, Captain BARKER, which sailed from Calcutta on the 26th of May. In her passage home she fell in with an American Vessel, the Mate of which stated, that he was actually present when Admiral RA►NIER took possession of the French Ships in Pondicherry Roads. The Gazette of last night announces Abe capture of a French Armed Lugger from St. Domingo, by the Roadicca Frigate. The accounts which the Crew'gave of the .situation of the ill ated French Army which the First Consul, with his usual hu. minify, has devoted to destrudion in St. Domingo, are really dreadful—We say devoted to.destruflion, because nothing but the most positive-orders from the French Government, _could induce General Ro. CHAMItEAII to persist in resistance, without the slightest hope of success, and without the remotest prospea of relief. • His Majesty's Ship Gannetairived on the t zth inst. at,F4mouth front Lisbon, after a passage of twelve days. .She is said to have brought Dispatches of considerable importance, probably relative to the part which France will compel Portugal to take against Ibis Country. At Lisbon it was considered as certain that Spain would be forced to declare War against Great Britain, and the accounts which we have received from Gibraltar, of the arming in the Spanish Ports, seem to confirm that opinion. A Dublin Mail of the loth arrived this morning, but its contents are uninteresting. This morning arrived a Mail from the Leeward Islands, brought to Faltnouth by the Lai Arabella Packet, in ihirry-three days. It is understood that Major.chneral BAUM is exchanged for one of the French Generals returning to France. We hope that in consequence, that ex cellent Officer will be immediately employed. The House of Commons yesterday adjourned• to Monday, on which day or Tuesday Parliament will probably adjourn for the Christmas Recess. The idea of erecting a Beacon on the Cathedral at York, is given up ; instead of which it is, we understand, to be fixed • upon Severus's Hill, near Aycomb. _ _ Letters and Papers from Cork, of the 7th Ins . tant, receivediyesterday r state, that very strung works are immediately to he eredtd along the shoic of Bantry Harbour. Several Engineer Officers have already surveyed the ground. There were on the 4th, five sail of the line in Beerhaven, and Admiral CALI3IIIt was hourly ex. petted in the Prince of 'Pales, with the firitannia, Goliath, Defiance, and Phintagotec. The Night Goard4 of several Volunteer Corps have been put a stop to for the present : the Royal Westminster and the Prince of Wales's Volunteers have already suspended the per formance of that duty. The Thanks of the DireCtors of the respective Fire-Offices, have been reed to the different Volun teer Corps who rendered assistance at the late dread. ful tire in Frith-street. We are'sorry to state, that Captain MANSR 1,, of His Majesty's Ship ihvebanter, lately received a violent contusion on the head by the fall of a block from the mast-head. It is hoped, however, that no serious consequencp will ensue. On Saturday last, while a large fleet of light colliers were conning into Sunderland harbour with the wind at South, and a heavy'sea on, many of them, to' the number of at least eighteen, were driven, by means of the - heavy swell, on the North side of the 'harbour, where they sustaine4 considerable damage By their beating on the shore in this situation, and coining in cour i gi with each others rigging, several lost their masts and bowsprits, and the brig Aatrea was totally distrusted. The sloop William of Suntierlaorl, loaded with potatoes and apples, was driven on' shore behiod the north pier, and it is feared will: be 4 mat wreck. The above *hips within the • harbour were, however, all got of on Sunday morning's tide ! ericept the bin TwQ 4441'4; 4 , liyhtch remained there on Monday. NAVAL NEWS. Firm the LONDON : G/I?ETTR,-Dc:. IS, ISO 3. Admiralty O d fre, December 15, 1803. Copy of at Letter from the lion. William Cornwallis, Admiral of—the Blue, &c. to Sir Evan Netean, Bart. dated7ff Ushant, the lotb instant. • I have the Ironour to enclose, which you will be pleased to communicate to the Lords Commissioners Of the- Admiralty, a letter to me from Captain land, of the Boadicea, giving an account of his having captured, on the z,}►h of . last month, the French National Lugger Le •\rancour, commanded by Monsieur Bigot, Lieutenant de VaisSeau, who wa3 charged with Dispatches from St. Domingo fur France. I have the honour to be, &C. W. CORN WALLIS. His Majesty's 81 , ip Boadicea at Sea, November zs, 1803. I have the honour to inform ybu, that last night, Cape Finiiierre bearing N. F. distance eight leagues, His . , Majesty's ship under my command captured the French National Lugger Le Vautour, commanded' by Monsieur Bigot, Lieutenant de Vaisseau, forty.thrce days from St. Domingo, hay. ing a Commissarie de Marine on board charged with Dispatches from General gochambeau at Cape Francois. She is a very fast sailing vessel, cop_ pered, and pierced for sixteen guns, bad twelve six.pounders mounted, ten of which were thrown overboard in chase, and ninety.two men on board. I have the honour to be, &c. J. MAITLAND. Hon. Admiral Cornwallis, &c. &c. &c. FALmovirtt, Dec. 13.—Arrived this day the Lady Arabella Packet, PORMIS, with Mails from the Leeward Islands, and is gone into quarantine. His Majesty's Brig Gannet, of 8 guns, Captain BASS, arrived yesterday from Lisbon, after a pas sage of t 2 days. She is said to hive brought some important Dispatches, with which Capt. BAst went otrexpress immediately on his landing. • The Town. the,nd and Wahingham Packets were arrived at Lis bon with Mails, and the former was expefted to sail from thence for Falmouth about eight days after the. Sloop of War.,—Passengers per the Gannet are, DONALD CAMP ELL, and --- LB ESTER, ESq. and Mr. 13IntocKe. Sailed the tkim!rican Ship Alexander, Captain Mimics KING, vViiit.tobacco, hit from - Norco!k - TOr . London. This Ship spoke on her passage, the sth inst. 20 leagues S. W. of Scilly, Le Brave, of 32 guns, and a (late Krieg George Packet) French Ship Privateer, of 18 guns, in company ; they had been out some titne,.and had captured a Guineaman and a small Brig. Also sailed the American Ship Kihvon, Captain JOHN STEVENS, with tobacco, for Dunkirk. 'On Sunday last, while lying in quarantine, this Ship was struck with lightning, which knocked down eight men (none• of which were injured) and did some little damage to her mainmast. The Ship Pelican, Capt. WILLtAst BROAD, for Smyrna, which sailed on the 7th inst. in hopes of overtaking the Convoy, which passed the same day for the Mediterranean, has put back, not being enabled to meet them. Sailed the Portuguese Brig Potwar, Capt. Vim- CP.NT DR GREDAOZE, with woollen, lirc. from Havre for Lisbon. The Earl Stexcer Packet, from Jamaica, was this day released, and came down the harbour from quarantine. Passed this Port this evening, the American Ship Govertior Strong, Capt. CLACK, in 34 days from Alexandria, with 57s hogsheads tobacco, and pro. ceeded on for Rotterdam. On the r ith inst. a few leagues west of Scilly, saw 26 sail, most of which were of the Line, standing to tlie Southward. When His Majesty's Ship Gannet left Lisbon, a War bet Ween Spain and this Country was thought to be inevitable. Passengers per Lady Arabella Packet—Lieut.. Colonel PAKINIIAM ; Captain* FOY, BLACK and BEATTIE ; Messrs. BEAR, MACNAMARA. and BRAD. MAW. DEAL, Dec. ts.—Sailed last night the SulAr Bomb, for Dungeness; and the Ha►py Stoop on a Cruize. The thiited Kingdom East India Ship, parted her cables last night in a heavy gale of wind at East, and drove on board the Fury Bomb; carried away her bowsprit, by which she pitched away her f o r e and mainmast and mizen.top-mast, and she is now riding in the Downs, with her mizethmast only standing. The Unitary Kingdom is riding under the Break with only one anchor; a Deal Boat has beer. launched at a very great risk, with an anchor in, to go to her assistance. I n theVuwns—the Monarch, Utrecht, Euryalus. Leda, Champion, Squirrel, L'Amaranthe, Lynx, Dins, bury, Hecla;7lvvfskl, tutu, Zebra aust Cunthel. Li v EurooL, DEc. iz.—The Elt s from Riga for this Pon, sailed on the atst alt. from Elsineur, under convoy of the Clyde Frigate, .and parted in a violent gale of wind on the z zd on the aamu evening struck on a reef of rocks near Man dal, in Norway, when the Vessel went to pieces, and only the Captain saved. The SI/air:tear, Et,/ ':i 9l4 ) (Nat the "Me P l 4,ce for this tort, was like. wise lost a: the same rime—the ercw.tvere all savel The Rachael, ELL 1 tiON, from Honduras to London, was captured the zd inst. by the Corvette Valliant, of 24. guns and 300 men, in lat. 49. to. long. 1 I. 01 and exile:led to he in But:Mean): that day.. The Snow Afargev and Mary, Caott3Y, from hence for, Cork, put into Milford in a violent gale of wind , after a very severe passage. The MUMllirili et. GgEEN, from Poole to this Port,..is put_ into mouth with the loss of her maintop-tnast. Th e-, Balance, HIPLEIt, and Borne, from lience•' far Lobeck,..have passed the Sound. The St. 41104:: Morric; - , had ninety Negroes on board at the Catneroons, the yth June, and expkt%:d to leave coast in about three weeks or a month. The Kies. Bell, LITTLE, from Africa, at , Surinam, and seized here. ' The Crescent, HAI- es, frcm Africa and PAtbadoes at Jamaica. The Brook, Tupi;.Eß• from ditto and ditto at ditto, after beating off a large Schooner Privateer, full of men, off the West eriti of Hispaniola. The Mars, WI LSUN, from St. Tho mas, at Lancaster, spoke the jahrh, KING; of Os Port, from Africa at Bahamas. HIGH COURT OF ADMIRALTY• Tt; ES DAY the Right Hon. Sir WM. SCOTT pro.. ceeded to the adjudication of the following cases of Ships and Cargoes : The Wenskap, ,-- Deck Master.—This chip was sailing under Danish 'colours. - with a cargo of salt. TO Court in this ease snored the ship and cargo as claimed. Prussianria nd sc co l l ni o r i . rs — , wa r a ho ca l I , .Iy o la o s r tu sa r. i —J an li d is i s v l a ii s p se sa ir il ect ed o t r i i n c i r e ground of a breach of blot:lade. -The Court restored the . ship and cargo, as claimed. ' . Nossa Sen hen da Adjuda, --• Do Amok , Master.—Thls was a Portuguese ship..which was also ierzed on the ground of breach of - blockade. The Court in this case restored the , ship, but re . erred the consideration of the cargo. Fortuna, -- Ekedahl, Master. — .is was a Swedish Vessel, with a cargo of various artii:iit hound on a voyage 4 from Rouen to Elsuteur, and wachbrouglit in on the ground of breaking the Blockade of Havre." " 'rite Court the Captors in this case I restored the ship and cargo as claithed, but gave their full exp. ‘i )--, - - Resolution,ences Shapleigh, Master.4he ship am. , cargo were restored in this CAW, except* small part that was claim- of AS Spanish property, which went to further proof, and a part that was condemned as French property. The Court' . also decreed freight and expences of the Neutral Master to 170 a charge upon the cargo. The Vigilante cla F im rie ed nd as s A A d m ve e n ri t e n a re n , —...... Paddock, Master.—The ship and cargo (claimed as American property) were restored 11l thiS case, but the Court allowed the Captors their expo The Fame, ntaler, Master, —This ship was also longing g ya t ge o t f h r e otn property. Ship restored. sailing under Bremen colours , laden with a cargo of rob. l or: i ------- Harjers, piaster.--This ship ''"" Owner a C a d al M e l a i s " t e t : thereof, ilremci: . and T i les ic c C r YQUrgh°ll: this case condemned the ship, together with tlijSo ci al t he °fi lm: adjudication of the rest of the cargo. , thi s case L'Union, Chauvin, Master. —The Court in ~,,o f restored a parcel of goods as claimed.' Several other Ga'4 o the like description were also disposed of by the Cinirti ' it adjourned till tomorrow. DISTRIBUTION OF PKIZE MONEY• A distribution will The be made to the Crews of the fondroy aLut, Corso,.fur Audacious, Alexander, Success, and N i o Lorso'llor the . capture of the Ville de Marseilles, ta! - 1 3, Barnard's inn, Holborn, on Thursday, the 9 . 11 Instant, to the Parties, and on the fallowing day to thzir A ttornies. 01.1.0.111.11011101.0.• F;S:a rd Frigate, with a Fleet under Con. "Y from Lisbon, are arrived off Lymington. Letters from GibraPar of the dates of the 4th and 7th of November, received in town yesterday, "ate , that several Line of Battle Ships were getting ready as fast as possible at Carthage.na, to join - • -t Cadiz. Squadron which is to be fitted out a. many contradiaory statements have been made with respea to preparations in the Spanish Ports, that it it di ffi cult to ascertain the truth. If Ships of War are really preparing for Sea in the Ports of Spain, there can lat no doubt whatever as to their 'bjeas as they must necessarily be at the disposal of France. A Boat belonging to Hi s M a j est y 's Ship Print's, , if Or "ge, under the c ommand of Lieutenant As. " Its " a e ar e Ship 00 , of that Ship , emplOyed for pro curing sea the Noretand, which they iMmediately made and found t o be the A r d o r, of London, from the rest Indies, laden with sugar. oge e ' s % placed in the most perilous si tuation by t he negli g men, on ,the 20 oaober o bserved for, ence or . ignorance of their pilot, having but . t!SP, feet water round her, where she lay from nine o'clock in the morning .till five in the afternoon. fortunately with little wird ; fa had it happened. to, . must have been the consequence : she was at five' blow but a mackarel breeze, inevitable destruelton with much exertion, a nti t h e assi,tance of anotherf boat under the diredion of Lieutenant Lan't.sss/e the same Ship, got off, put . - in a fair ""Y' ithig Orange, received a Letter from Mr. Master wished a more fOrtunate,terrninati°," o ' d , - 0 anti no more thought of, until I : e Vi ' l f ' b_ I cx, of Coopers.row, voyage, thanks,. through him, j ol li tb -e13;; : i i : afterwards Captain RoGEtts, of the, Pr f lu I: la r, couched in the handsomest London, Owner upon_ him for fifty guineas, tetinsit.tuarltditen: to his Officers for their turns and requesting Ca , twin R o cca' woe dra w 802110 Crews ; an adtai voluntary' geriCrOSitylinhis t licitcd, and unlooked for, which reiteaS Ol e h t e n s.. honour on Mr. BR ADDICK, diSpillyiqthe ge7,-„t anti truly noble sentiments of ,a Brittsh Mercua-;,. while it tends to convince aOrlirave Tars, th4'ith steady Ind honest performance. 1 P s their duty, w . i , stria attention tO the cOmmapdf:of their Sup er t°" : to distribute to 0, TaY very unexpededly givitlierc a Prizt, O en a the Buoy of the Nore. . :. ..........--................... . r , A mast daring robbery was committed at the he was leaning Earl of PETERSOROUGH's'hOttic in Portman-1400i early yesterday morning. Tice first person Ih° discovered it, was a -watchman, who accidental', found the area gate open; about seven o'clock• !. served the .fitrW..an-d passage doors open, °r id which_ he gaVe thi'alarn ; the butler immediately after appear and went into the p a ntry with the his dory; , on looking further, he ab• • watchman, when it was found that all the silVer plate, consisting of dishes,. a:large tea.pot, a V a i n ; City of forks, spoons, and other things, of the Ya l 9. of 2001. were stolen. It is supposed that the tiller got in by taking a pane o f g lass from a window 101. the side of the street door, through vliich t hey.c o 0. trivet! to remove the bolts arid other faste n " i Nothing has yet tran•pireil to lead to a Malian 9 the persons concerned in this robbery, 4 4.