The Sun. — London, England, 1803-05-31 00:00:00

- 1 %,* On Saturday last we e:;epressed our hope that ewe might p yet be able to repair the great loss 'which the Country had sustained, by no report havifig ham given of Mr. PITT'S Speech in the House of Comtp9n4 on Monday the 23d ;aslant. . We can VOW express . ourselves more confidently upon the subjea, and have the satisfaciiou,V this day announeing, that ;we hope to be able to_give a full Repirt . V• that celebrated Speech, in our raper of -rr o -morrow or Thursday. 111 A; LS. ARRIVID. Holland •1 ..... - - o Vrzoch • 4 • • , Ilaroburgh 1 • • — a Du& THE SU N. sOLtal FALltita 4UDIAT LONDOIy,..AI AY .31, 1803, Wt have this day the satiiraftion of announcing the. capture of a French Frigate, said to be on het passage frOm the West Indies. She was taken' on Saturday morning by the Fleet under the command of Admiral CORNWALLIS. The Hazard Sloop of War (the'repoit of the capture of Which ii thus hap. pily proved- to have been unfounded) arrived on •Sunday at Plymouth. with Dispatches from Ad. miral CoaNwALLts, by whom she was detached for this purpose at four o'clock on Saturday morning. Before she had left the •fleet, however, the French Frigate hove in sight, and by noon she was taken. We think it not at all improbable that this Frigatemarbe the forerunner of the' French 6v:iron from St. Domingo. We are glad to perceive by our Dover Letter, that the 4balland Packet arrived yestesday that I . *:,rt from Calais, with Dispatches from M. M E r; Atm, the French Commissary at the latter place. We have reason to hope that'the Packets detained there will lie liberated, `and that we may receive the French Mails, as a French Packet dropped into Calais goad on Sunday, and . was only prevented froni coming over by contrary winds. We hope likewise, that the irascihle of the Chief Consul will so far subsi,le as to permit the English, so 'violently and unjustly detained in France, to return fa their native Country, The other :Evening Papers copied from an ill-in formed:Morning Paper. of yesrtrday, an account of .......15.14,ia10r ar tho, 11 (m... havitur to cantr ;Ana thi4 slaterriCnt.. No account has yet reached rill:). Country of such a violence having been coinalited in Holland; and yesterday Mr. BASI IA co the Messenger, sailed from Harwich with ) iTatches foF Mr. Livrptr, in a Flag of Truce. WE believe there is now hardly one dissentient , voice to the Opinion, that the Poonments which Lave beers produced to the Public, most clearly and fully prove, that the Government a France haye been ktuated by a spirit so hostile to the interests of this Country, that Peace could not have been *maintained witb.hrinour, dignity; or safety; The British Nation was told, in a Paper published in Tbe gonitt a r of the 2901 of oElober last, • that France had no connexion with 4issilmil, but bj the of 4vaees, and thatethey must have Me , whole Treaty Af Ant;enl. To this we first say, that they wanted the execution of the hirer of the Treaty of Arniens against us, while they were - violating its spirit i but next we must observe, that while they denied to 1/$ the execution of soave of the distinct Articles of that Treaty favourable to •rfr, they imist upon, the execution of those Articles . which are favoorable to ikeo, If they desire the witple Treaty of Amiens, why, we ask, was no payment ever made at* the stint) ativanced foe their Prisoners of War, according to distinet agreement ? Why Waif Opt the Sequestration rsmoVed from Bri. Lisle Property ip France ? But to representations, upon they and many other points, the only answer was, t' Clye usjklaita or, in other words, " Give q$ all that you are bound to give us under the Treaty of Amiens, and then we will tell you how much of the Ankles which remain unsettled on our part, it suits us to fulfil," What Englislunan can look at the transactions of r 4 towards us since the Treaty of Amiens, without tieing convinced that a superiority was assumed, and an insolence acted upon, which it was impossible to hear. Our Representation 9 were some fiales tre4ted with insult, at other times were unnoticed—the most friendly overtures on our part were met by a6ls of oppression ana injustice —our iShipa were c4ptured upon the most trivi a l p re _ texts, and no refit - es., was obtained upon repeat cti an!ig-'46(in either to the Courts of Law, u:r to tint tiuvernmen:; but in the midst of this Eundlizt and atter an avowal by the Fir*t conso, that hit Ojea vat Egypt, and before the Stipula. dons of the Treaty of Amiens respthing Malt a are carried, into eff.:4l, he tells Us we must either give him Malta, or wt must have War. 1 1 4 - o man eip doubt, under such circumstances, who is the Aggressor in the' Contest. Wishing, as we do, to animate the People of this Country to a sense of the injuries and insults with, which they were attempted to l'!! borne down, and wishing also to excite a spirit of honourable resent. ment against such condat on the part of Franci, it is our anxious wish, to comment as little as possible • upon the contfuEt of Ministers in - the course of the late Negotiation. There arc, however, some parts of that conduel, which we profess not to be able to understand. We applaud every. fair endeavour for the preservation of Peace; but we cannot approve 'of, meeting alts of injus‘tice, and of violation of Treaty, with submission, much less with civility. We wish many points of importance had been brought to an issue, which seem to have been forgotten as others arose. 'We wish the cession of the Cate had not been made under the circumstances which existed at the time the orders were given for its evacuation ;—we wish more firmness had been shown at early periods, and that the determination for War (as it appeared by the King'it Message) had not been so sudden. Indeed there are many points in the con. duet of the Negotiation which we cannot approve, but thinking, as Ise do, that there is just 'cause of War, we feel it to be a stronger duty to entlea your to unite the Country against the Enemy, than to run the risk of slackening the efforts of the People, by dwelling upon the mismanagement of those who could not have altogether avoided' the Contest, but who, if they could not have avoided it, might certainly at least have brought it on at an earlier and more advantageous period. • We are convinced that His Majesty's Ministers. Will give full effea to the Mediation of poufs, if Russia be fairly disposed to mediate ; but after all we have seen, the independent, of Malta cannot satisfy us. We must • have security for the Inte. grity of the Turkish Empire, and for the tranquil. lily of our Possessions in the East Indies : if we do not preserve the integrity of the Turkish Empire against . France, we shall not preserve the' Integrity of our own. If the Mediation fail, our exertions cannot be too active. We must exped great burthens, but we must submit to th'em chearfully ; if in the Taxes to be imposed, there is a fair and just consideration of the means of different classes, we must not look too closely into minor difficulties. Whether the system of Taxation to be adopted be Mr. VANSITTA. RT, we shall most cordially support it, if it appear fairly calculated to meet its objets. Nothing we shall so much objeft to, as putting off the evil day, and not spewing Ourselves ready, with pecuniary resources, to encounter all the difficulties of our iIIeSCIIT situation. In a subsequent column will be found, a copy of a Pruelamation issued by His MAJESTY, at Hanover, on the 16th inst. It declares that His 'Majesty, in his capacity of a State of the Empire, will preserve the strictest neutrality ; but as from the ob. vious movements of the French Troops in Holland, there is a probability of His Majesty's German States beinz exposed to danger, it commands an ac count to be taken of all the Inhabitants of these States, capable of bearing arms, and calls upon them, in the strongest terms, for unanimity, in the Defence of their Country, in the event of any such attack. t very important Memorial which we laid yes. terday before our Readers, has excited in the Me. tropolis a great deal of conversation, anti we have no doubt would be regarded with equal attention in every part of the British Empire. 'lt setves very materially to elucidate the conduet of TAL. LtYKAND at several periods of the Negotiation; and a reference to the Papers laid before Parliament, satisfaaorily establishes its authenticity, were not 'ts own internal accidence fully sufficient for that purpoSc. The two Conversations between Lord WHrr. woßnt and BONAPARTE, Must have produced, in every mind, the same impreshion. The former of them, that of which his Lordship gives an account, in his Letter of the 21st of February, contains the most incontrovertible Evidence of what were the CHIEF CoNstws disposition and intention in his cooler moments ; the latter that of the 13th of March, proves to os how little effetl, prudence, or even the common rules of civilized life have in restraining him when under the control of that disposition. The arguments contained in TALLEY ttAtio's Memorial appear, wit Cannot but a c k row _ ledge with regret, too well founded in many in. stances; and if the CHIEf CONSV L bad possessed that capacious view of the future, with which his admirers in this Country have suppr4ed him ro gifted, could hardly Nye failed to produce ~r,t frril. (41 him, Ha j sly , however, far grigkild i I pears to want temper, as much as be wants ptinel. pie; and this has furnished us with an antidote to the subtle poison which TALLEYRAND was endea. souring to administer to us in the shape of Peace. If our Readers will take the trouble to review the Negotiation, they will see in the moderation of the ei-it'tveint BISHor of A UTUN, the close adherence to his own principles which has ever distinguished that Politician, whether his objed has been to lull Foreign Powers into supineness, or to extort money from them. It will be seen, that at the first discussion of any topic with Lord WnITWOITH, he lends him self more favourably to the propositions of his Lord ship, than he does at any period after he has once conversed with BoLtraart upon them. One in. stance (not to fatigue our Readers with endless references to the great mass of Papers) is to be found in the Dispatches by Lord WHITWORTH of the 7th and gth April. In the former it is stated, that TALLEYRAND, in order to avoid the odium of &BASTIAN l'S Report, had gone so far as to Call in question the authenticity of the Monitcur. Lord WHITWORTH begins his Letter of the gth by saying, " In my conversation yesterday with M. de 'FAL- L TRANI), 7i found him, after he had tens the FIRST CONSUL, mote disposed to comtett the substance of the Note which I had presented the day before, than to afford any further explanation." The same spirit will be found throughout. If we can sup pose the French Minister to have been ignorant of the detail of the conversation of the 17th of Feb. he could never have been ignorant of the disposition of the man who bore a part in it ; and yet ro the last moment we find him full of hopes, which, with the knowledge of the motives In which those hopes originated, furnished us by the Memorial, we can. not doubt were sincere. We find him at the end saying, " Pal encore de Otepir ; 1 of what ? Of convincing the CHs 15P.CON4JIL. that it would ulti mately be, not for the happiness of mankind, (for on that subjeft, we believe TAZLETRAND 2S in different as the Corsican himself) but for the in terest of France, that this fraetious Despot should control his ill-humour for a few yeats. Late on Sunday ni ght, MAsON anti DONALD SON, the Messengers, were sent with disp;(tches to His MAJESTY at Windsor. Yesterday' morning soon` after breakfast His MAJFSTY, attended by Generals IlAr,coußr and GAATH, and Major DEsuitow, took an airing on horseback 'through Eton and beyond Salt-hill, where His MAJESTY met the 3d division of the Stafford. shire Militia, command,:dby Col. SNEYD, on their march from High Wycomb to Windsor. The divi sion halted and saluted Hrs MAJESTY; they then continued their march to W indsor, headed by His There were•upwards of t too of the men. fits MAJESTY afterwards rode in the Great Park, and returned to the Lodge soon after two o'clock. • A requisition was sent to the LORD MAYoR on Friday, signed by several Common Councilmen, re. questing his Lordship to convene a Meeting for the purpose of addressing His MAJE S TY on the State of Public Affairs, and in support of the War. The. LORD MAYOR has accordingly fixed it for to..mot. row. Yesterday morning at eleven o'clock, His Ma. jesty's 13th R eg i ment o f Light Dragoons was inspeCted on Ashford Common by His Royal High ness the DUKE of CUMtJERLAND and Lieutenant. General Gwyrustr. The Regiment went through their various manoeuvres both on foot and horse back in a superior stile of excellence, and re. ceived the thanks and approbation of His Royal Highness, and General Gwywive; the Inspetting General ; and notwithstanding the rapidity of each movement, no accident happened. Yesterday morning the Fifteenth Regiment of Light Dragoons marched through London, on their route from Worcester to. Dover. • The 26th and 4.zd regiments, now in Scotland, are ordered to be ready for embarkation. The North Gloucester Militia, commanded by Major AYI.I, and the South Gloucester, coin mantled by Colonel , WALL, have marched into Portsmouth and Portsza ; and the Worcester Mili : tia, Major Nest., are arrived at Gosport. The military movements in the North are very brisk. The Northumberland Militia arrived. List week at Newcastle from Alnwick ;• • the first and se cond divisions of the Durham Militia from Barnard Castle, have marched into Sunderland. The Cum. berland Militia are on their route for Liverpool, to embark for Ireland. The Town of Kirkcaldy have offered a bounty of Five Guineas, over and above all other bounties, to every person within the parish who shall volunta rily enter into His Majesty's Navy. It is reported that ail offer has been made by a Northern Province of Ireland, to raise for the ser vice of Government, a disposeable force of .to,ooo men, while such a perinanent armed forc e w ill h e provided for their own immediate defence, as may hurl defiance at the power of machinations of any enemy. We learn, through the medium of a Private COM munication, that 22 Privateers have been fitted out from 'different Ports of 'France to cruize in the Sound, for the expre4s purpose of capturing the British vessels etnployed in the Baltic 'Trask, and carrying them into Norway, We hope, th a t - G o . vernment will take sufficient precautions to prevent the intended system of depredation from being eartied into ea t% it will he recollected, that at the coinmencemenr of the last War, British pro perty tg , the amount of rrveral millions sterling wax cap( tired i n that tplarlfr it) the sarr,c tr.trreq, 3:1;1 c.ittied int- Not's,„i'• L 4 VA L PLYMOUTH, MA? 2,g--S - oc o'CLocK, the Hazard Sloop of War, with Dispatches from the Chan. ncl F Yesterday morning at four o'clock, after she haJ received her Dispatches,- a French Frigate hove in sight, when the Minotaur and two other Ships of War gave chaci. and at twelve o'clock the headmost shipsatne. up and cap tured her, after the exchange of a few shot. When thi Hazard lost sight of her, she was beating to windward vritt the three Mtn of War, to join the Fleet. The. wind being at 6outli-wcst, she may be every hour et FEW to atiive here. Sailed the Doris Frigate, on a Cruite. DOVER, MAY :0-4141.r :Ail Two, P. M.—The Auck, land Packet is this moment arrived with Dispatches fronl 111, MENGA uD. By the Master of the Auckland Packet nft learn, that the French Mail Packet came into Calais Road Yesterday with Mails on board for England, but was obliged to put back owing to stress of weather. Captain Soirot4 was in hourly expeetation at receiving permission to returs! to England with his Paact. Two common noveling Boats of this place, having Letters of Marque, fell in with a French West huliaman early 013 morning otrEarleigh, and engaged her nearly two hours, WWI the Lark Sloop of War, which had heard the firing, conli z t up, she struck. having had one man killed and several wounded. Several of the Boats' Crews were slightly wood' ca. The Prize.past this afternoon tor.tbe Downs ahe fine ship, soo tons, deeply laden, bound from Martinkro mprc S ,i,: e .a r a l t t ,oc i f a rro, y nt e th s: Dunkirk. er:ivaiy4 Sophia, o b r y t t t oloietA.PDnotullveenekrpaitriP:sramiwvaiittityheenralttle:cylke,lnceirvratio6,l;i;... Oil. DEAL, Mw-t• 33.—The Frigate that was an show:ool.T Goodwin Sands yesterday' afternoon, is the Hussar. 4 01. Arrived the 11Q11. East India Company's Ships Marce Ely, and Canton, and remain. • HARWICH, MA 30.--A Packet sailed this aftsio under a Flag of Truce to Ilelvoetsluys, with Mr. BA* I t ' W11 ! one of the King's Messengers. DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZE-MONEY' we,The Hydra and Daphne, for the capture of the Isinun we , French lugger privateer, will be paid on the t tilt of I . at No. 6, Stanhope -street, Newcastle-street, Stran'd. yi d The sloop Eugenic, for the capture of the Weiva ltir Pilliau, will be paid at the came time and place. The Monarch, Tremendous, America, Scsgtret:'lo, Triiient, Jupiter, Ruby, Crescent, iplsynxt tlesnake, licho,.lad 'lupe, for the capture 01 ships in Saldanha Bay, wilt be paid on IVedittatbla ,*"" of LIM', at No. 9,. New Broad.strcer. The following Officers were appointed Yell ertig :' to the Command of Armed Cutters. ~ Lieut. .i. Talbot, Minerva. Lieut. Betsw' ()Ohs )1111 " )1 ',. W. Price, I3ritish Fair. Delafons V r t 4) ,,,,„ 146 ' '.., I. Sybrilit!, Dutelless NI. hall, 'S,W"'' of Cumberland. --- Swiney, }W . ' e l' tl' ,---- Illwker, Swift. tviiinot, Lord N Ai F l a. Bud, Fox. --j, ' Walker,, lA ` ll ' .. --- J • Drew, Qu. Charlotte.— Fritton, it.„.. r .,, . _.stewart,.6" I :`,'' Shirley, l'hcrnix. - Gibbon Leaver, Chapion. Lake, Duke of .Vork. --- Wells, Pfr e .,,s'''' , Att* Garrety, Favourite. —.—.. scotr, -111.,, Wright, Albion., gust°. ~, Geotte ..---L— 13 r amie, r-ine Nicnoison, Fox. 1. Smith, 3d Britannia. -- -- ''''', 4 ol P' Va i n ' Upon application made by the Dickenson, Countess of ----- , 1° ,,,,.„,,L., . f f . is, 1:1....... ........—,• • • .......-- , he Glasgow, at the request of the ShiP Owners, ten, Lords Commissioners of the Admitalty have he x: pleased to appoint the Spi tfi re SloovofWar, noy! . Milfintl•Haven to crtlize in the North C luitinci ` for the protedion of the Trade of the Clyde. , rk Orden were received at N'etvcastle lsa we auks Magistrates' 0 . 1 to discontinue the Yrrss of the Keelmen in neighbourhood, and ro set those at libery %Ill () ; already been l atim . sse d. Th e oilier did " 0 1 III ;i, in time to prevent the sailing of the tort ll ,., the gate, which had p of them on board. 0 00 " P 'le .Note : they will, however, be discharged, 1150 as the order. reaches flus IVlajestre ShiP" ~1 . 7 ,1 00 0 fracle, .vhich has been at a complete stand Pi' - time, will now become bask again. Levers have been received from Carttlin ,C l l6 of the Company' s ship the gebierteeo, teat i d o deirithe lath March, all well; she arrived ths— o f the 13th, an d was expetled to sail for t ho w r Good Homan the first mentioned day, . mt. Lc was yesterday very strongly reported, that t RANEY is to he ippointed Treasurer of the N e il; and to lend his talents to the supt;itit of the P r i d i s t Administration. It is nerfediy understooom34 he gives his assistance in forming the aPPr cacP ;sa Budget ; and it is but justice to Mr. Tuccit e dit* t— et say, that he u n d erstan d s the subjeet of Finan than any person connected wirh t he ,rapit AC h nist ration. New.Ynrk Papers to the 3oth of April i nchisivi were received yesterday. t h)tl; The following is copied from a Paper of dot- - ,4 ) " A letter of the zd inst. from . Cape Firs i n , i ; io mentions, that the bloed.hounds lately ifurnr te ,%%,. l- r iii Sr. Domingo from Cuba, have spread great 1- „," among the Negroes. Several black prisonerh„ would . have expiated their guilt upon the 8a"°,40; have been turned - defenceless and naked bet plains, and torn to pieces by these dog's. A i n ull !„, i , of Chief O ffi cers of the Brigands lately hel d a c c- in s Terence with the Commanding Officers of o "ii. c. Francois ; the result was nor known, but the rci o prevailed, that they offered to lay down their ° r i g a; and return to their plantations, provided th e y 1111) be treated as hirelings, and not as slaves." 1 , F r nett The United States begin to swarm wit.. - e t a s Commercial Commissaries. The Elealons tun 1 ., year much more in favour of the Federalist Pril: than they have done for the last two or three} er , The Nottingham Election commenced yesteri4oi The new Magistrates appointed since the paSlitl. a d the late Bill, are Gentlemen of consequence °ye aelivity, who will, no doubt, he ab le to prici er t the peace in a town which, for a g reat length° time, has been the scene of riot and uproar. wr i s t w tisiosiaitdv will i that e tittlitaellylYl:,trgeivsetrnartetshehraevog , pecwr . ji ,ta kt° part of the company frequenting t he profileta Kemcington Gardens, from being i" 3°ltc4 ful :er fr by a set of vulgar people, who !rave hitherto impoperly been permitted to fan , the Sates.