The Sun. — London, England, 1803-09-14 00:00:00

J TO. TH NICHT INIY..WILLIAM PITT, Eee..e.9 e. LETTER 111. srst~ CdtriltMi . T may penetrate a feeling mind, but ehaitisement will be more erfenual with a pltnider. —Shame may reform a young sinner, and generosity convert where the seeds of .error are. only sown ; but with those whose apostacy is System, and who byovert.aCts Dare unblushingly confirmed the evil propensities of their nature, no refinement in the mode of treating, them will • be understood-no sentence can be efficient that does.not inflia a penalty suited to the character and. Proportioned to the ex. tent of the crime—Will men who, have trampled the most sacred ties under foot, who have dared to ransack the bureau of the State to garble its secret deposits in •order to traduce High Charade r, because jealous of its influence, who have had the depray. rid' temerity •,to trifle - with Diplomatic authority and - the • ,credness of official confiAlenee, to give weight t ,eir asperity against a Patron held factor—Viii such men, Sir, comprehend the work.. ings of a mind which shrinks (corn the rude attack made upon it, not from the effeEts of tear, or ap. prehenston; but from the silent feeling of contempt ? Will they be able to appreciate the sense which dis. (tains' to repel the shafts of malignity even when direaeil against itself ?,----Ratherwill not they who have bad the puerile vanity to misconstrue public silence into public approbation, profit by the for.. bearanCe of scorn, and claim the honotirs of a triumph —Let loose the reprobate who steals yo u r rase , and he imputes yOur mercy to timidity. Ask the pardoned Traitor to what he owes the extension of • clemency, and he will tell you the fear of popular clamour I • These preliminary observations are necessary to account for my ggicinurners in appearing as a Vo_ lunteer in a Service, where the Regular Force is sufficient in ,itself to Overwhelm and dismay the un. disciplined Ranks of its Opponents. Judging by the . event, it is evident, that • I differ in opinion from the generality of your immediate Friends— Ueir silence is decided; but as I have not access :triAeir confidence, I cannot be convinced by their Aripunents—and having maturely weiglkd the kub. jecl,, my determination is not to be shaken by a whose form :I.ant not ableeven imperfectly •to discern. The Rubicon then is passed ;.--,and have now only to look these desperate Foes in the faec--to consider their ,Posture—calculate their Re. sourees—and take advantage of their false Positions. Their ignorance of Taffies, is at the first glance - - evident—their Men are under.si4ed, and they have no Non-Comm;isioned Officers—The Field-Officers 'have risen from the Ranks less by their merit than the force 'of circumstances, and no objeaion is made any Recruit who may offer himself : On the con trary, the Bringers are handsomely rewaßled—Like anniher Corps in the Service, for the refuse of other Regiments, it is open to Gentlemen of all versus. sions ; to those Or have been able to find no means of attaining•a Fortune, as well as to those who have attempted to make One by a Coup-de-Main perrecuted Merit—unrewarded Seieuce, and 4tigert Dexterity. They appear to have Arms with. out Ammunition, and a heavy Train of Artillery without Carriages to mount them—their Balls are too large for the Calibre of their Cannon, and their Engineers seem to have do eye to. distance. The Commanding-Mer has (uncandidly no doubt) been OCICUSr.ti of ieg inning the gcoerality of his mr:ISUV:s at the wr0n,...; end, and on the present occaAir.nl there is certainly an aaearance which prima - facie may seem to jnstity the charge; for strange to relate, while the main body remains in the state of indiscipline just &scald,• no pains have been emitted to arm, equip, and ,accoutte t to net of RiAn-lqw,v. This projrd, however, has necessarily f4ilect for want of a proper Rereme, and the Weapons of these Sh ar p .SIB;, terr I ,uirc hitherto proved more fatal to them. than to their 'enemies. It was the Duke of Cu \tattRLAND, I think, who, in the year Forty. five,, observing a Scotch Soldier take aim and fire at him l'frorn a high wall without hitting him, cried opt, " FelloW, had try Soldier of mine missed shOf tt n lie shun:4 have been tied up to the Halberts, and had a S.,lt Eel for Supper I" Sect amen amoto cowramus sere ludo. I.low, then, Sir, for Ehicoperation cif the Dcorthrol;si , and though the effort may cost me mtten I qrotli en. deavour to preserve my gravity during the re. mainder of my'progrest, l'o sit seriously down to ;dotal Caltutiny, which carries its own :refotal in its tail, and to vindicate Charaaer which has never been ay.• t xtl or blackened but. by those who draw upon their itnaginatimi and. Colour from their own hearts, may I confess, on a supetficial vie iv of the stilika, appear an ad of supererogatiooP, but to omit it upon a full, fair, and diva.— sionatv i;Nc:.;tigation, would he an at of ungra. tioat NtAligence, have, before had 'occasion to tei'cr 10 the. Oilki,llity o f 11,:u; niv e ri a l mfrom.that alo" the smallest degrce of importance. '1 The Public cannot' yet' be brou4ht to considet. the Tre:nnity of the State as' the channel' of falsehood, nor the office of its Funclitmaries the Empotitirn 'of scandal and defamation,- That a'..Ating might be w'initing to r 6 r o rr t h e Paperc;4; ,cleristic and undoubted prudatiOn of the fa lund, the cuinpOunder of rliis farraginous mixture, has tiiken peculiar care . to eUlnalit hittiSeil in htdive, before he has fairly en. teretl upon the subjett of his .Remarks, in the very dedictition'to the seeming God gf'his iridatu. A procession of candour and impartiality, and an' implied ignorance of the Right Hon; Gentleman (an apt , plca though nor a very flattering one on such an occabion) ushers in a pompous panegyric upon virtues such as every tomb.storte, in every country tharc.n, bearing record to posterity of detailed v,ittrth, exhibits from the chissel of the mason, and 141,,,:y of the sexton, bur which have no more to, do with a Prime Minister in his, situation, than 'the enumeration of the women in the Haram of the Gland Signor, with the opera.' 'dons of Passw an Oglos; against the Porte. In con. elosion, 'and for the purpose, no doubt, of astound. rig the' weak minds of those upon whom he hoped t o make some impression, he declares the ;.#spentibili. of beittP. thelriend of did Minister and !lib flat. term. at the same' time.: : Lam ready to; concede this to him, but by one of those strange blunders which take the charaderarather infteuation, he seem: entirely to have lost all idea - that a'reader . may not forger. at the end of the hook what he has read at the beginning; and I maintain that it would he as impossible to discover any one passage that refleds in the slightest - . degree ,uponthe :charader or condua of Mr. ADDINGTON, or rather, any one page that does not overwhelm him with unqualified adulation or implied eulogy froM the beginning to the ena. On one point indeed he presumes to differ from his Right Honourable Employer, but this is -merely to keep like an hottest mao his word which he pledged: at :starting ; and literally he has kept it, thougle e like the penultimate scene of a panto mime, which is darkened' in. order to .give double tired to the succeeding blaze of grandeur, he, after having query roundly taken to task the:Minister for his weakness (avowedly the only one a Near Oh. server could discover in his charaCter) in having, Sir, radioed some small share of rasped for your opinions; at once changes the scene, proves the weakrieis amiable, and makes Ms very censure the medium of approval. notice this circumstance as a criterion wherebyeto 'estimate the quantum of credit due to'profession and assertion which abound in the little volume before us. His claim to fair statement and ungarbled ,evidence is at least as ad. missible as his pretensions to candour ',and itnpar. tiality. There is little to notice or to selea from the envie heap, of exaggerated accounts and -sup pressed caunterparts which occupy the early pages of the Manifesto. The regret which the . people expressed upon the resignation of yourself, Sir, and your Colleagues in )Bot, is finely worked up into a phrenzy of popular mai general indignation l How far this Gee tleman and the Firm can reconcile such an attack, with their reaped•due in; the quarter where they mar! kHOW the measure to have originated, I am not sufficiently a Caaeiat-to determine, but as far as .Nain tailing matter of faa will bear me out, I have • no objedion to admit that a Spirit of. Disgust and, Indignation did arise very shortly after that event —it was however the substitution of Imbecility for Vigaur, and the supplanting Energy for the intro.. dudion of a e ßouriod Policy, that excited the Fears 74 called "forth this Expression of the Country's Feelings., These have never wholly subsided, rho' the inarratur has been deep and low. There were reason., .4shich would, have withheld the open "ex. pression popelar Cootempt and Disapprobation , for sonic time Ithnget, had not the Breach thus made by elated self-importance, brought on a premature disclosure or Principles which make every honest Englishman glow with Indignation, whilst he Item ' bles for the Blow his charader has sustained, and the ])angers to which he is at present subjeded: The critical pnsture 'of public affairs at the period of your retiretnent, Sir,, from office, upon which this Editor appears to love to Audi, (though e , like a tenacious preserver of game, he warns others off certain delicate paints, which, in the Item spirit of manorial right, he most indelicately reserves for his own sport) would, had it been possible.to introduce it in an antithetical point of view, no doubt' have proved highly advantageous to the cause of the pre.' sent Ministers—could he, have Blazoned' forth stick a glorious :contrast as the late Minister effeded so short a time after being called' to the lielm 1782, it would have heen a master.stroke of 'policy to'. paint the:situation of the Country upon the arrival ! of Mr, Aniaiisctots at his post, in the most. livid colours of. despair ; tt, persuade the People that they were at the last gasp, and that nothingaloot of a total change of system, - toad 4 New Datine, ;Could possibly have restored their shattered constitution ` : Bat how, as the fat actually standm, will he - meet the admissitaupn MIT part, that the State was placed. balsa predicament: of some danger and t reater,difii. catty, nay, if We accede to his extreme statement, and the exaggerated account which he - has wrought up his fancy . to 'describe, are ewe so. cempletelY • • out of wood as to tails of difficulty—of dange.' —"cif a crisis, as characteristics' of other times ? Do we wear at this moment 'suds an unruffled, 'smiling face of prOtiperity ?. Has a euecessitha of empirical experimesitas rallied the sickeaed patient ? Can. he be eeatoreri'daii nothing • but evacuations P Is a 'Treaty, in whielaevery thing gitined during a nine years , Wat: , rvas - glyen tip without hesitation----41 the harci,earhed'ecAqueSts by sea, ard by land sped, flood to obtain it Pew_;,, in the duratlon of which we are now laughed at toe Ministers theinselVes, as drivellerieforleesing coeilded ?---Is our having 'banded eand disgusted the finest, Army the'Cuuntry ever boaattal, and dismantled our Navy, the - terro r and admiration a&athe world; both iii th e i ntere4 _! 'of doubtful negotiation ?—ls the holding out par - - Fairly and wilfully false hthpes to the People of t h e . continuance of so, deal ly.bought a peace,' and then re-plonging thins into a War. with crippled ini•ans of tretiotitining it ? ---Is the ink enaiti (',which ".! tot any other ocCaaion I should 'much douht these dentlemen possessing) displayed in seiling the worst pretext for reeommeneieg hostilities,latial in holding out the dark side of our pol;cy to the Powers of Europe, whilst the subtle Enemy has, been able to make good his story against , us the Making the better cause appeal the worse 1.--4 s the panic which levasien has created ?----fa the dread which the vacillating measures of Goverement 'in. spired the fear of losing every thinguaered,and, dear in life, that. roused tin; People tosdefentltheir homes and their rights, Which 'seemed ready: to fen t° pieces in the hands of ,their Rulers ?seeis,in fine, after all the sactificea made . for a twelvemonth's Peace, the loss of His Majesty's continental mio -Minions, the Subjuiatiao of 'Hanover'?----Is the loss of her troops, which would at least have been something from the wreck ?—ls the present state of:, Ireland, whose became the seat. of regulftaly digested reliellionalhe centre of deliberative ,area., son, and : l ilo. ,: gartion of an army of inSurgentsa- in, - the face Of, and under the very ken of the Viceregal Covertimenisels the sactifiee of a venerable. Noble. man and his relative, in spite of actual information 'afforded the Executive Power of the _purposed - to. sairedion in which he ,fell ?--els the present disgust .Whiell is felt and expressed from the Land's Peat to ohn-a,Gr oat ' s. House, a t the treatment .Iu Vo lunteers, aftei having bantered them, at the suee . gestion of the Ministerial Banterer, with a , A, bernian Vote of Thanks ?-1) 0 , I to.Yi these ihirt;. ' doca this catalorioe, let kta".k e s aff, ord 441L i i it); We yesterday confirmed our Account of Monday, of the re.,captpre!af the Lord Nelson East Indiaman. The Gazette of last,night .cone ins Capt, roP.RWs, account of this important re.caliture. • To that tic- . count we are enabled to add some interesting parti. culars. • It was on the 14th of August that the 'Bdierra French Privateer, of 36 guns, and 260 men, fell in with the Lord Nei:ron, which maintained a warm Aaiun of one, hour and a quarter, but was at length taken by boarding. In the first attempt to board, the French were, unsuccessful, but onfur-, tunately succeeded on the second.. The slaugh,er on both sides was considerable, the 'Lord Neff: having five meo, killed and thirty-one wounded) and the French Privateer eleven killed and twenty eilht wouicled i the ,Second Captain of which was _ T?:1 . • , onhe Lori ehon s quarter-deck. Aniong the killed on board the Lord Nelson,' we have to regret. Lieutenant-Colonel PITER MURRAY, , Mr. Sporriswoone, the Captain's Brother, and the Fourth Officer. An English Ship of War was in sight at the time of the capture, but not near enough to render any assistance; and in order to avoid losing her Prize, the &Ilona put 90 of her crew on board of her, and then stood, away for the English Man of War, to draw off her attention, in which objen she completely succeeded. It wax, oil the ritit that the Lord Mho: was re captur,l,l by the Seaga/Sloop of War, Capt. &Mitt, after a smart Adian, in which the latter had two men killed and eight wounded. Sir EDWARD PEI.- trw's Squadron hove in sight, and upon the head most Ship, the Colon: c r. of 7 4 guns, adv anc i ng , t h e Lord Nelson struck. Previous to the Seagal fall., ing in with her, she bad sustained three different Anions with an English Brig Privateer, of z 6 guns, in which the latter, after rtriking the greatest exertions to buard, was each time repulsed and beat off. la The Itracitmlinni.bf the Privateer,. upon their getting iii?"siesiecin . /!iit the Shi p , p l un d ered the i) „, i4nger s and.,cryq, but it is stared, that the Officers put oa. begird her behaved vital great kind_ ness to their Prisoners. The French Privateer had a great many Irishmen 00 bpard, several of whom were put into, the Lard Nebo] and they have-been bran:Olt into Plymouth in irons, where they will nf, he 'tried as Traitors " their Country. :;ome of her crew, it is said, are St. Domingo Blacks, a very bold and despe rate set of men. The L!ly.ving are the names of the kilted 0,3 wounded on board the Lord Nelion in the Milo with the Bellow. K 1 LLlD.—Lieut—Colonel Peter Murray - Mr • Spottiswootie, Brother to the Captain; Mr.'Ettwaid 4th Officer; one Charter.party Passenger; one Seaman. %Votrxnen. , '--lohn Routledge, Esq. ; Lieut. F. PtliS" c i h oi a l u n d lu ß n o t :e p r ; t iv S t :t h t i is p vv ii . o l od an e ; Commander; Robert Itaulagb Ist M a te; John Masson, zd Ditto; Mr. Hobson, Purs 6 Petty Officers and Seamen; it t e h W r r ,. ;:e L C:h V a a r l t l e a r c - e p , a l r ) t i y tt i l l eseigi'tccstb. SENT ON BOARD THE "PRI V ATEER. Mr. Rarnmage , 2 F n i c r i st i. ( lo ): . ce G r an i Mr. Masson, Second ditto ; Mr. Burrell, Fifth ditto ;. Messrs. Creig, Fulton, and.Cockburne, Midshipmen; The List of the Killed and Wounded on bogd the Seagull Will be fouiirin'the G 3 ZEt tee The Pacienwrs on' boilctiii i /lird N e haN were,, . . Lieutenant-Colonel Peter Murray. killed ; Mrs. !Autrey; William Hart, Esq.. Mti. Hart; Mrs. H. S. Thornhill; Miss Lloyd; join) Routledge, Esq. fames Houten. Esq. William Spottiswood, Esq. killed, Iliother to Captain SNttiswood, Commander of the Lord Neison ; Lieut. ' R. C. Garnham ; Lieutenant C. F.-Paischaucl. Children-- Miss E.' M. Thornhill, Miss Maria Bailligr Ivi's s Bine, Miss E.M.'laylor r Aliss lienrietra imlack ; Nl3stet William Spottiswood, Master ktobat Spottiswocxl, ter C. F. Paischaud. An Expedition is to be undertaken against M. merara, and there . - . is every probability of our ob• twining possession of that Settlement. Great hoPes are also entertained that the French Squadron a t 'F Domino has by this b time fallen into th e hands of"' Admiral DUCKWO R T H , wlio was watchi n g, ' heal very closely whets the last accounts c ame away from his Fleet. The s e ar e the two points to which . Ministers are at pre s e nt l o oking fou some thing t 1) animate the spirits o f t h e People. TEI E Darin Mai! of Saturday last arrived this e na n. o a r b o i e i n to . gi B arm y e y t o b u e r T P r r i i a v i a s t o e fCtohrartetsc;:: d f e r r o i : fi e )7 1 will be seen that Four mOre of the Rebels h ave beta cony iaed. We yesterday were enableti, -fr: m our sup erior • sources of int e lli gence to state the arr est of F ' LlSe Se L, the Reb e l C onnuan d er o f t h e Northern Di§4 trie.t, so late as h a lf p ast ten o' c lock. on Ft ib i night, only half an hour o r an h o ur at snoNt before, , the departurc•of the Post from Drab/in. We CO by our accounts received this morning, that 1 14 C intelligence was perfedly' cdrrett. If we were to state all the Complaints We 444 f receive from different Volunteer Corps, of ihec' n " duff of Government, we-should fill our Columns ' 6tl) 'no other subject. Mr. ADDINGTor;'s want of f' l43 it liz and decision, is treated by some of his P• an attention to the Public Opinions P r which' the say, he always waits, before he makes op his own; but upon thesubjeft`of the Volunteers, the Pu blia at sentiment way very distinEtly fic;trti,bnr nor tended to—or, what is worse, vteri d et i 10 titie ll3Y i s 1 and — slighted and thWiltt,ed the next. Ag ain ' friends say, " if' dit till you kfar j itstifi( but what justification can there be lor exciting the generous spirit of the Peo"Ple, and . then suiyi'''.'" l a C it'? for inviting the 'People to come forward.ur'-c certain terms to defend their Country, ,arl d then telling them, yon woulti wit give tl.em t he tool °6l"edanaccepted ? If the objetthad really b een to annihilate all patriotic leding in the Coun tr y' • could intiiiity itself suggest a better mole f ax . t: that y;urpos:!, thin tha:.which has b een adoll ted b/ the Minis err, ? likely 3kt place ciuhiittaclilvlseiii, in 1 11.,,a d of t1.1;:ril:il:it: ,Ptte)deClll,''4l':',ll,r',.l:loelils,t','),l:, %ji.lerit'iller. e. ll lL antri wend ---""m"r\ ti ii tt .:l !l l rit some other of kis Majesty's Ministers. Thesellif' ferences are said to have been .occasioned 1.1 3 pro !landsb Gir' 4 h : re t rael i reported, '' ? 1:1:r:i fli°)'':(l;:tbv.fvl:' been jh° e -enittr:co: r orib e dlt i iiiv i .gout r v e nintl'i'a fi lil: e Chi l litttnol' e ta d rhie:a t ev l 4Wi l le e to.l°vl C l:ete : 'h4 l e ) :E e ranel;ll' : e: s ili.l)lll)l7‘jel'l'lercilewib(l'Creu:iten'niv'stterji:°:it:tl-1 t F h r e anc tr e u , th than in our own. We d° ''''' "uch lur dt stated to us with great confidence, an d fr ' nn 4 : 1"1.' : , 1- 11 : r t ec u o P i re c e o n tle e i d i nu ; i tt , t la‘ .l le i e r° n i i , l - 1 : ti: l t h l jecl i ' , : i l sitialbeicite{:::::._ A d i llta l ' we give credit to reports of changes At the .."-' ,:' ts 1)- * U r' this, as indeed upon most other ri o ' s ts o eh fa n tg i a ew n ue y er:n i le l l i nYo n i g fieno s nn le ef' mined, that it is difficult to say what is to WIT ° 4. last—lndeed we do not believe Nll. Apulv,):r .Ifirnself knows. Lord CAVIL R R EACH W as P.i O3 l ' theofficeof First Lind of theAdtniral t y smut' lin w ' ll3 ' he did not scruple, it is said, to tell his trten' i ' i • , teiv he was to have the appointment, a nd that 11 ' i,,rn asked Sir joitir:Botchsa WA11.1(.1" N -10 40" , i at the Boarki, as one tit the s!,. ~ .1 tor ,l %* I4c l'.l re ° ' l dnce learnt by experience, what is t he Ps° 1) 6 Mr. ADD IN N GTO'S -deC;SiOns (kVilii II are '''. '' ill P. /. ,bt, %' almost proverbial), and bora, much MV 1. , ‘..11‘ ' , wen tbr rip and Ile lii). t he WilDnd3Y Murning, [hell itovat 1-lighoessesi DUKES Of YOP.X, and LIGE tro near Y tt gitsia Water, and had an excedent ti4s Wirt shooting ever that part of Wituhnr Olett their Royal Highnesses w ere v cry suc! ganw, which is very pitnt:Jni tit re : of 0" wartil DuKu of Ye.nu‘.lcturs)o to (-at141341` that bi ihly coloured, rich, and glowing pit ure which is to force all former Ministers tb hide their diminished heads ? Is it for this that we are called upon to look back upon past times; and to charm our imaginations with a rapturous con a templation of the present ? Are these the bits; sed effeas of discarded system, and have we for these left the beaten path of honoured and res.., peeled precedent?—Shall the British Constitution be a subjea for experiments' ?—lnstead of the regular praL ice of the College, ate we to be treated with the Charla tanoit of a Quack ; for the pharmaco pxia of W itrw s ictulane, are we to substitute the wonderdovorkinglEill of Dr. BaoDUM, * the Pana. yea for all aildt the Sovereign Balm for all occa. sions ; 'a,s a wulloight we be committed to the charge of some Village Dot - tress, who changing her Reme dy with the Lour, applies any thing her shelf affords, without awaiting the effe4 of any one. From such a succession of Diuretics, Purgative's, Sudorific, Narcotics, &c. &c. &c. and their counterafting in. fluence, the fate of the Patient may without the aid o f second sight be pretty fairly anticipated. " Alack ! when once our C race we have forgot 44 Nothing goes right—we would an4lsof.t WOW not ! rot the present, Sir, I have done. I shall on as early, day resume the subjed.--In the mean time I have the honour to be with the highest respect, Sir, .Your's,' FITZ-ALBION. Lawlor, Sept. 12. P. S. I have just read in the Government Paper,a paragraph which would tend to confirm me in the opi. nion I have for med,and upon which I am anxious, Sir, your friends should 041; were I in the smallest de. gree n inclined to waver on the subject. It declares its convidion, and that too in a . style which may easily be. traced, that the Scribblers (among which I naturally feel myself included) who are endeavour ing to make a breach between Mr. PITT and Mr. ADDINGTON, are . playing an idle game, for that you, Sir, in spite of all that has :passed, and in in spite of yourself, cannot but approve the.condtia n and measures of your enlightened Successor in office: Is this deprecating again ? MOnitrous impudence ! * The Pkipprs have just announced to the Public the re. i i. tirement oftins (irea Man from business with a Splendid , Fortune.t -Wnit'd rd` eaven the Hint might be' of service to: 'or bek Great Men of th )tame irregular prattice..—The condi lion attached •to retirelneut Would be acceded to without a murmur by their Patipts, ebouldtbcy have been 're:ftiits on tbat .tnini them:duct.' MAILS. Y DUI. D. liatnburgli 5 PRICE Of .STOCKS, Tilts nAY AT TAVKL.VE O'CLOCK, • 531 THE SUN. SOLII4 QUIT DICIRS SALSUSI AUOIST r LONDON, SEPTEMBER 14, 1803.