The Sun. — London, England, 1803-08-19 00:00:00

To Tii RIGHT HON.` WILLIAM PITT, M. P. Exettr, - Yri t i p 26, 11!o3: SIR, • Tar. interest and zeal which you'take for the safety and preservation of the COuntry, at this. im portant period of threatened Invasion by a most implacable and, powerful Foe, and your approbation of the bidicious suggestions of Colonel CRAW ro I) in the House of Commons, that the assailable places on our Coasts should be strengthene.d by Bat. series, hai i6duced me to present to you the follow. ing'concise Hints for our furtlikr security, which I conceive would add greatly to forming .a complete barrier; THILO,NALITICUS. T E S U N. 1,1. am quis i)tcn: s i ALsum AupitA LONDON, '4 G 1.7 T 19, • 1803. WE have the pleasure , ,to announce the safe arrival of the honicward-boond Tahit' Fite/ at, Yartnoui It, under convoy. of the enicora and Amaranths: Sates, nil:gore Armed, Ship, Millard Gun:brig, anti two Cutters. The Carjvcrt Frigate parted company with them ahout leo days since, with the Fleet for Liverpool, to go North about. Otia C”binet is stated to have determined not to accept the Mediation of RUlthr with respea to the' general points in dispute between this Country and,. France, unless the Court of Petersburgh shall induce France, as a preliminary, to evacuate the ifanave. rian Dominions. This determination is founded upon the obvious reason, that the Hanoverian Tar.. ritories Ravi, been seized.. in-violation of all Treaties, and, of the LAW of Nations, those Dona. inions being At the time of the seizure completely rcu►ral, they therefore cannot he considered as a conquest 'the common course of War, Of be. come the bubjeet of an ordinary Negotiation. How far such a determination may affect the question with respcel to 'he disposition of the Northern Powers, or tv!tether they will still ccmnive. o f t h e s h ame l ess viol►ttion of all the Laws of Neutrality, by the on. principled G-vetnment of Fraoce, it is itnpon,ible at the present moment to form any decisive Opinion. On We..dr , eo,sv Pv at'rer HIS MA jE6TY arrival frorit r,, rkte irt, FAMS walked on the .Tcr ra,: . :tir at Win t iv,q, • 'fbeir rtnyal Highnesses the Princesses ELtzA. gTii . and A $l.l A, attentieti by Lady C. D AMER , took an siring in a sociable try Engleftelti Green and through the nevv vlantations., Yesterdity morning, soon after breakfati, His acconipanted by the Princess SoptuA, attended by Lady liitiELLA 'lffy NNE, Lord WAG. bl NGIIALS, C;tIICIAS'CAR,TwitAcHT and HARCOURT, took an airing on horseback, under the trees of the Long Wall; In the Great Park', and returned about twelve o'clock to the Queen's Lodge. Hitt MAJESTY anti the PRINCIESSSS, attended by Lady CAROLINE' I)A:vIER, took an airing to Froy,tnore, ind walked some time in the Gardens. The goliEtt,g.ive an elegant Ball last week at Frogninre, in holii:ur of the PR NCESS AMELIA'S Ilirtli-dayi All tl. c Nobility abd Gentry. in the neighbourhood svcre invited : among whnu were 'l\llarchlolicsh of I),,owNst3t It tt, ',Lady • CARDS. GAN C(lilsqtti , Of W.4DE it AV 1 1 ., Leidy MARIA WALIIII4R Ay P, ( i 4C. The Hall.room was hril.. 11 intE~* li lath, lip by cilantlelitrs anti lustrel, `fl c datict;tioxnwtrcrd . .at half anti CHlVlpcied at ivt'elvi: o'clock, the company pit t, r k• tint ant cold collation. About one the Roirat, MTLY returned to the Queen's Ludic at Windsor, and soon after the compat.y retired. His M'Aj 118 TY was dressed in the Windsor Uniform, as were most Of the Gelltletner). The . QUFEN and the PRIN. c Essts Were hatiited in wild or silvet mhslins. HER MAJEVIY . wore• a turban head-dress,. ornamented with a profusion of diamonds. The PRINCESSES wore ostrich feithers; and Paradise plumes. Sunday afternoon, about three o'clock, His Royal Highness the DUKE of CUMBERLAND (General of that Distriet) passed through' Bristol, on his way to the HoiWells, where he has taken up his residence in Albemarle:row. Great preparationi arc making at Liverpool for the reception oIIPRINCE WILLIAM of GLOUCES. TER, who is shortly expetied there. His Highness will be the first Prince of the Blood that has visited that town for , upWards of a century . past. On Wednesday the Right Hon. CHARLES YORKE was sworn in Secretary of State far the Home De. partment. An Address from Dumfries-shire was on Wednes. day last presented to ftts MAJESTY at the Levee, by Sir 'Ron EIT LAURIE, Bart. Member for that County. • Mr.MuscitAvE, late Secretary to Lord PELHAM, yesterday succeeded to the place of Principal Secre tary of Passports in the Alien Office, vacated by Mr. LULLIN. Colonel MAITLAND is appointed to the dice . of Public Secretary to the DUKE of 'Yogi; in the War Department, in .the room of General 1314OWNR IGGE. On Monday last General TARLETON and Suite sailed from •Parkgate, on board the King George Packet, for Ireland. We understand that General DUMOURI Eft, at. tended by a Secretary, arrived in this Country on Wednesday last. He came in the Packet from Hu sum, and it is surmized, that he has come upon the invitation of Government. His return to this Coun try must be with the approbation of Government at least, for it may be recollected that General Du. ttottk t ER was once sent out of this Kingdom under - the Alien ASR. The Nephew and Niece of Madame flosArAaTE arrived at Dover on Wednesday, on their way to France. It has at length been agreed, that they shall be exchanged for the Young Ladies from the Boarding-school at Rouen, now waiting at •Calais. A cartel was expeded to salt yesterday. Several alterations have lately bee'n made in the Uniform and Appointments-of the Russian Navy, The EMPEROR ALEXANDER pays particular atten lion to the improvement of his Marine. w e copied yesterday a Paragra ph stating that Mr. KING, Under Secretary of State, was about to retire. There is no truth we believe in the state. ment. That Gentleman's experience in Official Business must be highly useful to the new Secretary of State. By a Gentleman of Ills' Majesty's Navy, just arrived from a cruize on the Flemish coast, and who picked up an open boat which escaped from Flus4ing on Thursday litst, on board of w hi c h were several men who had fled from the requisition, we learn that, in the, course of a few'weeks before, the French had shut sixteen or eighteen of their coon . trymcm, who had exhibited a degree of tardiness in obeying the injoneliona of the Fiench GOv . ernment. The Gentleman adds, that several slap-builders had been ordered to ,, construtt gun-boats, to be employed against this Country. Three gtin . .boats were aettiany laid down, but 'one cat the builders refused to obey his orders,' unless 'he 'was furnio':ed with wood and nails. I t i s a l so proper to contra . diet a statement of the b uo y s in the Doeiloo Chan. nei having been taken up. At : the time the boat •escaped, that measure had nor been adopted ; French pilot, however,, stated, that these buoys were speedily to be removed. It is somewhat eXtrannimary that we have heard nothing ; more of 'the French, Strips of War keen by. the Abu( heron Sloop of War off the Coast of apparently, steering for Brest. Had they arrived in that Port, we think their arrival would have been announced in t'he . French Papits, ' Yesterday a genteel dressed Foreignur was taken into custody by two of the Bow -street Officers, at the Gloucester Coffee.house, Piccadilly, on suspi. don of being a Spy. A peison, suspeeted of being a Spy, was on Sa. tuiday last Arrested at. North Shields. Another person, alledged to be an accomplice, was also, on the folhwing day, taken into cust o d y at ,N ewcast l e . The 'family of the latter being on board a vessel coming up the River from North Shields, a little 'girl, innocently reciting her voyase, stated, that her father had been lately examining the harbours and western coasts of the Island. Notice of the. event was immediately forwarded to Government, The Turkish Gentleman recently resident in Li-. verpool, has been satisfadorily released from his ynfinement in the prison of tkat Town, a few days since. It• niay be inferred, therefore, that the re.. ports stating him" to have in his possession plant and soundings of several of our :Coasts and Flat'-. boors, are unfounded.. Orders have been sent to the Magistrates in the sea ports in Wales, to be .eauiious how they suffer any persons coining. tplrehnd to' land, or to ap proach the ioterior, without passports. This re gulation is extremely necessary, as several turbo. lent' spirits, previous to the breaking out of the rebellion in Dublin, were . seen in this city asso. dating with the iguorant Irish in London and Westminster, In consequence of the representatio n made 6y the Earl of ItomstE . Y, the soldiers (parcered in East Kent fire permitted to assist in gettin g in the har, vest, which is uncommonly abundant in those parts. Th e y work eight huurs a day, yi{l : tich, in the present state of the we.ither, is ticeane(l sufficient to get the Whole in within a tOrtnight. Leueis (*loth Hanover, of the gth instant, men. tion, that 'only 90 of the finest horses from 1 - its HAI usTy's stud, will be sent to London from Meektenhurgh; where the 'rest are to he privately sold, the number of royal horses which were sent our of the country, before' the Frenth entered amounts to 750, The Fr e nch have demanded the Toll Duey, near Stolle, of Danish Vessels owning up the Elbe, hut the Danes have protested against Olis iMpoti tion, and arc determined to resist it, SE.A. DEFENCE. the plan at present adopted i, Cruizing Squa. (Irons, that 'are oftentimes driven from their sta tions by the shifting of the winds, and other .vicis. situdes that ships are liable to at sea, and affords.a favourable . bpportunity for the Enemy to creep on, perceived out of port, and -in a few hours, with ti leading gale, to- reach the `holes of Englatid, viz. the Coasts of aorset, Hants,• Sussex, Kent, Essex, Suffolk, and Norfolk. TO obviate those dangers, I would *suggest a Blockade of the whole of the l.. i snemy's Coasts, from' Prest to, - the Edie ; a proportionate strength of Ships of War t stationed at all the different .Ports' and Harbours, efvfn 'hose capable of admitting Boats, .thrre to remain at anchor, at a proper distance, and to use every precaution to prevent surprize, 'in any attempt being made to board, from the shore. And, as .a further protenion, I should. compre_. ;Lend Floathrg Batterirsi ,ra tioned at all the inferior Ports and Placei on the Coast of England, where 'tero may be 'the smallest praCticability the Enttny could etfetl a disembarkation. They should vessels of some magnitude, to draw little water,light rigged, and capable of sailing at least with the wind as far forward as the beam, equipped with a heavy gun or two, and.carronades mounted on swivel stocks, and fifes of musquetry supplied from the Disttift Ttoops or, the station. I woOld 'also propose these vessels (as they may be compelled to follow. the Enemy towards the shore.) to be fitted with bilge-ways, of a sufficient depth to take the ground with ease, and enable them more cffeaually to employ their force, to weaken .and ,disperse 'the Enemy while contending acct fighting with our Troops at landing.; VRICE OF STOCKS, IHIS ONY 7%.1.vw o ' cLoax. Coosol - 53 7aaSais. .NdYylL FIEWS.. YARI4OUTi3, B.—" Arrived the Home. ward.bound Baltic Fleet, under Convoy of the Unicorn and Amaragthe Frigates,. Diligence Armed Ship, Mallard Gun.brig, and two Cutters. The Cary fort Frigate parted company► with them about nine days since, with the Fleet for Liverpool, to gc; North about. Arrived in the Roads; the Stork Cutter and Bald Gun.brig, from.a As soon as the Ships arrived in the Roads, a very sharp Press took place, in consequence of which a great many men have been procured, and carried on board the GeObeid, Admiral TDORNBOROUGII. Arrived Die lenge Maria, FLANS HENDRICK WoLUERS, from Teneriffe, with wine, hound to Glukstad, sent in by Ills Majesty's Ship Penelope'. Sailed the Five Brothers, ALDON, for Harwich ; IPedderburn, MURRAY, for Leith ; Ceres, OTTEY, for London ;.Nancy, ARCHER, and Industry, HAI/- DONS, for Hull. Arrived in the Roads, six Dutch Schuyts, prizes :o His Majesty's Frigate Pens Ne. • FALMOUTII, Auc. t6.--Arrived ,this. morning His Majesty's Ship Galatea, of 32 guns, Captain illivriscout, and sailed again immediately. to the Weitward ; also 'arrived the East-India Ship,tl/ex. ander, Capt. Bitootts, from Liverpool, in ballast, for London; the Carrqiira Cutter from. a Cruize - ; His Majesty's Ship Tramp, of 64. guns, Lieut. NOR WAY, to he stationed at chis. Port as a G04..14114; ; the Smack Penryn, Capt. BUIIsTP it, from London, with bale goods,,,troceries, &c. for this Port. Yesterclayarrived the Brig Fan*, from Greenock, with stores, &O. for 'Portsmouth.; the Norway Brig, Freya, Capt. from Ncirway, with timber for the mines ; the Brigi,Sarah, Capt. Jotiss, from Taterford with buiter, oats, &c. for Chiches. ter : spoke yesterday a small French Privateer, Prize to ilk Majesty's Ship Jamaica ; alsb arrived the Priticr.. of Wahl, T R ELUDR.A, from London. • The Lady Arabella Packet, froth America, Prince Ernest, from the Leeward Islands, Queen Charlotte, from Jamaica. and King George and Auckland, from Lisbon, are daily expeaeti. Pt.vtsiotrrH,. Atro. I7.—ArriVed the Dread nought, of 98 guns, from the Channel Fleet., and . Jamaicai of 28 guns, from a Cruize to the West- . ward ; also the _Ranger Revenue Cutter, Captain FaAsER, from the Dawns, with a large Fleet of Merchantmen under Convoy._ nna Sputter, eir, 14.emq each, to join the Channel Fleet, and jamaica,'of 28 guns, on a eruize to the West‘irard. A Fleet of Merchantmen convoyed by a Frigate arrived this evening; the former, with . a few Ves sels under Convoy, arc , passed by to the West ward, DitAL, Au°. Majesty's Gun-brig Snipe sailed last night to the Eastward. Arrived the Archer and yackillGun.vessels from a Cruize, and remain with His Majesty's Ships Vire:the, Leda, L'AfricaiNe, and Dicrow,:y Bomb. BRISTOL i AUG. t7. ! ---A letter received 'from Cork to.day, says, the Jamaica Convoy was just coming into that Harbour," The lkyade Frigate arrived at Cork. on . the nth inst. from a Cruize.— About 200 leagues to.the Westward she fell in with the following Ships, Viz. Nero, Thetis, Tregwlaiwn.y Planter, Mary and Surannah, and Aane, KING, froM Jamaica, for London, and took them under her protedion, and brought them in with Cape Clear ; the, three former are arrived a: Cork,the others over shot that port, and it is supposed put into Waterford the tith. HuLt.,'Atto. ts.—The Alonzo armed ship ar rived in Grimsby Roads on Wednesday last, and sailed on Friday with a large fleet of ships for the Baltic. On Wednesday butt, the Ho//apidia, s 'a Dutch Greenlandmsn, wait five fish and a suck t, raptured to the N o rth war d o f Shetland by-,the Mar" privateer of, Hastings, arrived at Shields. — Some of the Privateer's crew report, that when they met the Greenlander, in lat: 53. they' per suaded her to steer to an English port, on pretence that there were great disturbances in Holland : they came together to Leith Roads, when the British flag was hoisted above the Dutch. The reason for the above delusion was, that the Privateer had only 25 men, and the Dutchman s 3. Four sail of Dutch Greenland Ohio have been sent into Yarmouth, by the North Sea Fleet. The Galilee (of Whitby), CLARKa, frim,London to Malta, is captured by the Coneorilia French Privateer, And carried into Carthagena. Yesterday afternoon, abuut half after two o'clock, was launched from Perry's Dock, Black_ wall, the Hero, of 74 guns. She went off the stocks under jury ,masts, in very fine..stile, and was upon.the whole esteemed an -excellent' laynch. The name *4O given by Lord i - loou, who,. with Lord .CAsTLEKLa.uIt, *Lord AUCKI,AND; Countcs of CAMDEN ) &c. were present.. The" Hero h„, b een five ye.irs on the „stocks, She will imme. cutely proceed to Chath:iin. The spedatori wer e numerm, and the diTtay of fine women, elezantly dressed, made the scene extremely ry ;Ind ful. A cold collation and a dance followed, induct,. ing the usual festivities on such occasions... _ Anew ship of 7+ guns is ordered to be built at Chatham Dockyard, to he called ihe Ab Captain De COURC is ,appointed to, command the Plantagenet, of 74. guns, vice Captain Hiat. MOND, who is by illness compelled to relinquish the Command. Accounts have been received from ,the -Caroline, of 3b, guns, stating her arrival at Madeira, and that during her Cruize she captured several valuable French vessels. The-Portuguese have at length gained an advan• tage by sea over the Algerines. The raw dr :Gana, a Portuguese ship of the line, - cruizing be. fore Algiers, was attacked by three large xebecs and a forty.gun frigate, which formerly belonged to the Portuguese. The Algerines attacked with their usual fury and desperation, but the Portuguese Captain made so good a defence, that after a fight► which lasted three hours, he sunk two of. the xebecs and captured the third, in which he had the ness to find zoo prisoners, whom he set.at liberty The frigate, however, contrived to make her escape. \ r ester.lny the LORD 1V1A3012. held a Bnar.l or Cnmmissioners of Land Tax i at Guildhall, to c!'"''' . by ballot seven Gentlemen to' at as Commissionos nn Property, when the following were elettecl : Mr. ennings . 38 Votes Mr. Deputy Pinder 2 5 Votri Mr. as. Dixon 3s Mr. Thos. Poyndev 7.; Mr. nob Poak 3 c ;v1.1"„ James Palwer '.,,, Mr. )ep. Blaxland 2.e The ;following were missioners ': Mr. Prec'ous ao Votes Air. Pinegar 20 Mr. Weddell 2o- Mr. Jacks a , hosen as Asastant Corn Mr. S. Thorpe Is vote Mr. Willey Is Mr. Deputy Routlat t 4 Yesterday morning a party of recruits marched into Windsor for the 'Staffordshire Militia, vvh ( T'' ranks pow are very nearly complete. 'f he M", - cians Of the Band are exercised d a ily as coo n„ soldiers. The Dutchess of DEVONIHIRR,- the Martriq C , HARTINGToN, Lady HARRIET CAVENDPSH. an" Lady IVloskraTtr, set off yesterday On their long talked-of visit to Castle Howard, in Yorkshire, the sea! of c Earl CARLISL E. Sir r Is- VI N tux has at leng N rAMIsEL E. th i a Parliamentaiy release from London, and is gone to hiS seat in Nottinghamshire. Lord FINCAsTLE, who was married l a o s b t t a s: n e e e k a - to the youngest daughter of the Doke of Haivitt.- TON, and BRANDON, it passing the honeymoon with his lovely bride, at' the Duke of Qua a Nsß a k ity's, at Richmond. The Earl ofSHAFTsausY, who has been a pri *sow at Paris, was removed last week to-Brussels, for the benefit of the waters. .Sir JAMES CRAUFURDLiS said to' be dangerouslY ill at Valenciennes. , . Mr. and Mrs. I)aummoND SMITH die at Rich mond, the richest . Scene of natural beauty nor the metropolis. . . Amongst the last Artivals at Cheltenham'Sir Wnt' W I Dowager Lady Clilford, Lady and Miss Kents, and Lady Sir Robert Ainslie. Dr. Elickes, Capt. Laroche, Mr. and Mrs. -411atuiard, I V ll \t- ‘ Mrs. liaillte, Mr. and Mrs. Applwhaile, M r . 04 P' l ' .l lhewell, Mr. and Mrs. Taal*, Nlr. and Mts. BrowniVrt Mr. and Mrs. Edward Cvmtkin,_ Mr. and Miss Wht l „ le 4 Y ,.' Mr. Dumas, Mr. Riddell, Mr. Bevan, Mr. Alleyne , • COblitm, Mr. Evan, Mr. liarroW, Mr. Clarke, Mr. 1 105 7 Mr. Tinue, Mr. M'Calmoul, Mr. Ctlrlint, 'Mrs.l. l 9Yl Mrs. Oliver, Mrs. Throckmorfon, Mrs. Aicastic, Nlr; sP". Mrs. Ann Nevill, arc. The King his accepted the very splendid offe r ; made 'by' the Marquis of BUCKINGHAM, of giv•ng to each of the Three Thousand Five Hundred and :Nine' ty l finse Volunteers called for in Buckinghlmshire ny tile Training Bill, a bounty of tine Gaines, so so" 'as they shall be certified fit for service. This frog" nificent proposition has alteatly had the best ble et e& : the Country sees itself relieved from all the cogrl'ilsory obligations of the late An, and the Volunteers, who crowd to be enrolled, find th!'' n ' selves reimbursed for their loss of time in training. Saturdays at a Court of Cornmori Council, Di' EVANS, Esq. was defied Mara. of Brig" roomttl a ßo r aE y sTC:STLX, Esq. lately dece as- ' on studa last _A Merchants of Sunderl a a n c ; ie :w it a io s t l i o r r t :v - a ‘in rd th e e d i t r o it G terr:vea;n: men?, praying leave for Mr. Bot. Tou to. make 4, . 6 further copper coinage, tv hich ,is expetled. to I) granted, as there is iso capital recitiired Irorn Go' vernmenc. Ac the same time they prayed ibr. issue of small coin. r a .als Tuesday morning last, the shipping o. c from the new Rail Road, on the' North Wall, ne' ir ,Whitehaven, just finished, which. has costa vci4 large sun) money, took place in the presene,r,ua thousands of people. The Crowd was also gollu'r, with a sight of the first itiatiO waggon it namented with two handsome fl igs of yellovc i s e ' , ,s inscribed "Success to the Whitehetven Coaljr,'., o f ".Lnwther and the Constitution.'-'--Sect ,l ' rejoicing followed, as has seldom been witn ess e a that part of the kingdom. , • The,' Performances 'at Drury-lane Theatre . commence early in the next' month ; the- pr"d uce t i is the first evening i s t o b e devoted to the P atriot Fund 'a VLlnyd's. , the) Dr. LAWRENCE remains in his old Cop, Lumber Troop. . .. Sod. Dr. LRTTSOM has seta good example to the i f eiety of which he is an enlightened member , for. n : like him,'they are restrained by their refiginuorria; ciples from giving their .support to militiiryrnels sures, by contributing at least towards the co d oor of the Soldiers, they .may' prove themselves Frii" to their Country. Mrs. BtLituarott will be. re.engaged A A t fi n l er Opera. 'Surely Europe cannot produce Singer. The late Mr. CHALIS, of Bedford.s e are, w a i s well known about town for being.almost conoton'lti upon horseback, and al ways being upo n a g oick t as r° 3 This pratlice, conneClCd with his•profecbi n, Wine. Merchant, procured'him the title of Thc klaccktts. lie was an intelligent gOod-huaiL)ute man. ' t t he Our several modes of military defence agains ch menaced Invasion had been describ ed in the Fre n hic Pipers an Rtrtvieldy mast, and it is highly'l l4 i t , indeed that. the French tYjU Bever tl~ethie t° 1141:4 5