The Sun. — London, England, 1803-03-18 00:00:00

NAVAL,NEWS. PVMOUTH, MAseit 16. • 3i.ttl, this morning, the Ranger, of t 4 guns, Captain FaAsn, and the Eagle, of 8 guns, Capt. Alums, two Revenue Cutters, to the Eastward, on Admiralty service. Arrived the Ga/p, of 54 guns, Captain DOD, from the 'Westward, with the loss of her foremast. This evening arrived the /morn, of :6 guns, Captain VAUGHAN, from the Cape of Good Hope, with Dispatches. PORTSMOUTH, MARCH z 7. AktrVlO) this day, the Charlton East indiaman, apr. WSLLADVICE, from London bound to Cal. tutta, to take on board Troops for that Settlement ; and Skrevviah, . SPRIGS, from London for Lisbon. DEAL, Ivimtcu :7. Allyn!, the Bloodhound, Gun-brig, front a eruixe*; Pester,ll Sloop of War ; Aggressor and 41141 'wdla Gun-brigs, from Portsmouth ; the whole of which have sailed through for the Note. Came down from the River, and remains, the Ship 1 . 4 / 1 .4, FERMISSON, for Grenada. SHEERNESS, MARCH :6. AUTIPED the Conitauee, from the River Thames, I 1) manned. The Albion, of 7¢ guns, goes to the Nore to. "nrow, under the command of an old veteran Offi. t er/ Captain FERRIRRe The Charger Gun.vessel is ordered to sea imme. ' distely. Three fine Frigates, the Amelia, Ethalilv, and - 4 frieoi n , are, we understand, all to cruize off Cores, to watch the motion of the Dutch, should it be necessary to give timely information to Go. Veturnent. GREENOCK, MARCH IS. Minya!) at Port. Glasgow, on the Ltt inst. the . Urilli4m, Cavir,l3 ELL, from Trinidad, in sz days ;" the IltNitos, POSTL ETHWAITa. kleanot, Ca,ONE, tad not begun to load when the Willieva sailed ; a tm lonqtng to LATntion, THomsort =stet, was' taking in Int Clyde, and would be ready.to sail ten `LP alter the William. The Island was healthy v7iletv Captain CANtratj,L lay there, and had re. ctived a great increase of population since the arri. Val of Governor FULLAR TON. The Betty, EVANS, from Cork, for Belfast and Giennock, was drove on shore, on Sunday the 27 ch dls. about six miles West of the Ross ,of Kirkcud. bright, in a violent gale of wind. The cargo, chiefly consisting of porter and bacon, is landed there, in order to have the vessel repaired, the hull being considerably damaged. The tri,s, ANT:a Rsor:, of this port, was wreek. ed about the 17th ult. on Islay, on ,a voyage front Zoisboti to Liverpool... Cargo eXpefted to be saved- DISTRIBUTION 01, PRIZE-MONEY. the Sloop Cynthia, for the capture of the Favourite, Oitrierican Flour Ship, will . be paid on Thursday, the :7th Mr. No. z 3, Clemtuit's Inn. To the late Slonr Martin, for the capture of the Noodster Ind Tongs Isabella, a distribution will be paid on Saturday, the 26th inst. at the Adam arid Eve, York.streer, Weitrnin- Eq. Thc Brig Sallimine, for the capture of the Regulus French Privateer, on Thursday, the t7th inst. at the Swan, in Arun. dthatreet. A distribution to the undermentioned ships.-who have not already received their proportions of the prizes expressed igainst the said ships, when the distributions were made in the Mediterranean, will be re-called the first and third Thurs. 4 r 4 Y in every month, at the same house ;—P hognix, two Creek Constantia, and Madona de Idra ; Niger, la Paz hid !'Emerald Mercury, sixteen prizes; Caroline, Spanish Settee Nostra Senora de Rosario and Bull Dog Privateer; and Cameleon, sundries captured between the 2 4 th of S e p. tember and i nt of Oetober. :ht, and five Spanish boats. „_ The Sloop Spitfire, for the recapture of th e D e fi ance , w ill Pe paid on Monday, the arst inst. if. the Spitfire is then in lltioulon, Or on her arrival afterwards, at Torpoint, near Fly. The following Letter is from as Officer of the itaixier, dated ";ova Seat s zzd lax. tiloz. " By the Wllletky, which sailed from Bengal int iith ult. I informed you of my havin g . volun. i ftred to goon a secret Expedition then fitting out, the dr.stination of which was at that time a pro. .folind secret ; but it is so no l onger ; an d I nee d 11 .tittily observe, that it is to occupy t h e I s l an d o f Plaeao, situated at the entrance of the river Can. ton, which the Portagssese, by. the late Treat" of Peac e , • are said to have made over to the French; 'who would; if established there, annoy our China Trade exceedingly. Our force is composed- of °le Comp an y o f B enga l A rt ill ery , one o f 'the 78 th Regiment of Highlanders, and five bun. died Sepoys, embarked in the kid, Dower CasYle, and iGaitirer Ease Indiamen, and escorted by the L,TP 7141 , Captain OSBORNE, and Orphr u s, Captain ' t ITSTONE. Sir HOME POPHAM accompanied " to ?eel° Penang, when Admiral RAINIER took the command, At Penang, t he Admi r al took all , I provisions out, except enough to carry him to Madras, from whence w'e pushed on to Malacca, .antl, waited a fortnight, till the two men of war dined US. We were to stop a few days at Am., "Yila, after which • we launch away to the East , _Ward o f all the 'islands', even the Phillipines and Pet e'vt , , ioto, the Pacific Ocean, before crossing N. • trade for Canton, which will take us at least .six weeks " Admiral RAINIER received advice of Peace hay. g been concluded, before he arrived in Canton 'Rem . - Admiral HOLLO WAY left Town last night for Portsmouth, *here he is to hoist his Flag as Assistant Part. Admiral to Lord GARDNia. Captain ROOltitS, appointed to the Utreth, of 68 guns, hoisted his pendant on boaid that Ship at t2hathatn on Monday morning. 'InirroLEND socarr of SP. PATRICK. YESTERDAY the Benevolent Society of St. Patrick held its Anniversary Meeting at the London 'Ta vern. Lord MOIRA presided as the representative of His Royal Highness the DUKE of CAMBRIDGE, Earl of TIPPERARY. He was supported by Lord HUTCHINSON, Lord GRANARD, and many whet distinguished Noblemen and Gentlemen. On account of the Call of the House of Commons, a considerable number were prevented from attend ing ; but this unforeseen occurrence did . not injure the interests of the Society. The company amounted to between five and six hundred, and nothing could exceed the harmony and conviviality that prevailed during the evening. When the cloth was removed, Lord MOIRA. gave— The KtNes, TheQuiztr, The "RI prcz and PAINCZSS of WALES, The DUKE of YORK and the Army, The DUKE of CL Alum ce and the Navy, And several other loyal and Constitutional Toasts. An excellent Band of Music folloWed up each with an appropriate Air.—Before giving I The PRINCE of WALES,' Lord MOIRA observed, that His Royal Highness, with his usual munificent attention to the Society, had authorized him to continue his subscrip tion for too guineas. His Lordship, after a suitable preface, in which he intimated that there were zg children more upon the list than any former year, gave The Benevolent Society of St. Patrick: ' Which was drank with three times three. He next gave His Royal Highness the DUKE of C AMSR toot, the Presi. dent, Which was received with every mark of respeet. . . Lord GRANARD said he was convinanded by His Royal Highness, to express to the Society his deep regret that he was not able to attend, to person, and to assure thecompany that no one had its prosperity more nearly at heart. . Mr. Alderman Rowcttorr then observed, that he rose to propose the health of a Noble Lord, for whom he was sure every one present entertained the highest admiration and the warmest regard. At the present crisis there were many to whom the country would look to with confidence, hat on the talents and gallantry of this illustrious Commander, they no doubt in an especial manner relied. His p,ist viaories were an earnest of his future success. ' After this preface it was scarcely necessary to men. titan The Lord Viscount lityreiliNsoN. , • Lord Hurt:l4lmo N immediately rpse, and begged leave to express his most humble and sincere thanks to the worthy Alderman who did him the honour , of proposing his health ; and if any thing could en hance his gratitude on this occasion, it was the very warm and flattering manner in which the assetnbly did him the honour of receiving the toast. So far as his humble. services could be useful to the Empire, he should be happy in following the example of his Noble Friend near him (Lord Manta.), in' calling on his Countrymen and the Empire at large, in warning them that a restless, an ambitious and daring foe was at their gates, with menaces of hostile invasion, and in calling upon them to pre pare for common defence. The allusion that had been made to his humble efforts, in the per.. formance of that share of the public duty which fell to him in Egypt, c ons id era bly o v e r.rated his services. The splendid talents, the unrivalled va. lour of that gallant General, who lost his life in the outset of that Campaign, whose loss he so deeply lamented, and whose plans it only remained for him to pursue ; and the resistless valour of those Troops which he had the honour to Command, left indeed but trivial credit for him to claim. The re sult, however, afforded to the British Empire a bril liant specimen of what British 'Soldiers could atchieve. Menaced now as the Country was, at a moment of imagined Peace, with the return of War ; threatened as she was with an Enemy at het gates, he would call upon the spirits of Englishmen— who inherited from their Ancestors a proud name for ancient courage and patriotism, in 'resisting and vanquishing the Enemies of their Country— and he trusted they would braVely maintain, in any struggle, the glory of that inheritance, and hand it down to posterity unsullied. Colonel Bacwat.t., after a shrift compliment to Lord Monte, proposed his health, with three times three. Lord Motx4 then rose, and addressed the Assem. bly. His Lordship said, that upon a day and occasion like the present, it would naturally be expefied that he should say something on the subject of the Meet ing, as,Well to celebrate the Anniversary of a Day dear to the afeCtions of his Countrymen, as to investigate the progress of a Benevolent nstitu. Lion, which had so eminently / thriven under a general and benevolent proteftion and support. — But though he wished, of all things, to avoid every thing like discussioni on political topics, yet the peculiar circumstances of the times made it necessary for him to address his Countrymen, then assembled, because that Assembly would be, in'some measure, looked to as the representation of Irish sentiments in this Country. , From their con. duo and their, opinions, his Countrymen in Ireland would be apt to take the tone of things ; and he him self, as the Chairman and proper 'organ for the ex pression of the sentiments of that Society, should wish to mark, by the most public and emphatical, expressions of his own sentiments this day,. that feeling and opinion in which he had no doubt the Assembly would cordially 'join with him.— We were menaced by a restless, an .ainbitious, and a vaunting Enemy, _with nothing less than Invasion to our Coasts; and Ireland was looked to as a ready source of friendly reception for the invading Troops of France. That the day was not very remote, when they might have looked with some degree of confidence for such a reception from his deluded Countrymen, he would not dispute but, after all that had since passed in Europe, if - it were possible that such a delusion should Still pervert the judgments of any portion of his Countrymen, he would intreat to know upon what rational grounds such an intention could - exist. The treatment re ceived under French proteEtion, by. the once free, in dependent, and gallant Swiss, was a specimen of *hat Ireland would have to meet In French em. braces. In short, all their professions of friendship, of alliance, of prote&ion and independence to the PeOple of Ireland, were hut other words for subju. gation, oppression and abjea slavery, like every other nation which had submitted to the curse of their pretended friendship. He trusted iliac those Gentlemen who heard him now and approved his sentiments, would propagate them with all their influence among the People of Ireland. In fad, all that now remained for the permanent security of every branch of this Empire, was the common union and mutual support of country to country, , and man to man. No man more sincerely depeetated the calamities of War than-he did ; yet, if neces. sity should unhappily force us to the confli6t, he hoped that the audacious foe who should attempt a landing on our shores, would find that British veins still glowed with the same blood which vivified the spirit of our Ancestors ; and British bosoms burned with the same patriotic ardour that has attuated them in every period of their annals for the honour and security of their Country. Lord Mot R A then gave, The United Kiudom," which was received with zealous approbation, and the greater part of the company sat to a late hour in the utmost conviviality. THE THEATRES. Drury Loire. Mr. COOPER last night. assumed the part of Macbeth, and acquitted himself in a manner very creditable to his judgment.' There were no extra ordinary flashes of genius, but the whole seemed to be properly digested. The' perturbation of guilt was well sustained throughout, and he certainly en tered strongly into the passions of the charafter. He was perhaps too loud and monotonous in many parts, but he altogether displayed talents that.de serve public protection. .. Mrs. POWELL followed the steps of Mrs. StDAONS very ably in Lady Mac. bet& The ghost of Ban quo did not as usual appear in the banquet scene, but was supposed to be present only to the guilty conscience of Macbeth. This omission may be critically right, but it is a &via. tion from the traditional mode of representing the scene, and certainly does not produce so strong an elfea upon the audience. There was a very nurne tous audience. Covent-Gardea. THEIR MAJESTIES, and the PRINCESSES AU GUSTA, ELIZABETH,. and MARY, honoured this Theatre with their presence last night. The new Comedy of jobn Bull, was commanded on this oc casion, and went off; if pcissiblc, with increased effect,--Indeed, the gratifkation which it ob. viously afforded to the Roy At. 'FAMILY, seem. ed to heighten the pleasure of the Audience in general. It is a very interesting Comedy, and was admirably performed throughout. The Farce was Cron Purports. The Rol'm. VISITORS ware received with the most ardent testimonies of popu lar affeetion, which were repeated with unabated zeal, particularly in the allusion to John • Bull's good KING, .contitined' in the Epilogue.—This al lusion had an elearical etfeeEt, And produced an una. nimous burst at applause. The usual loyal airs and rapturously were sung, applauded. The Th e m e was crowded in all parts at a very early hour, . CORN EXC HANCE, MARCH 18. Wt continue to have but few fresh' Samples of Corn at Market, and the expedancy of larger Supplies, cauws a,slack Market, with little doing ; the Wheat Trade dull, and.. is. lower ; Barley and Malt at something less ; Pease and Beans keep up their prices, the former, of Pearl quality, very dear; although Oats in tulerble quantity, we can. not quote that article' cheaper ; Flour at prices unvaried. Wheat 46$ app a 62$ n.l_ Tick Deans -29 s aus od Fine ditto 63s a 64s , K 1 Oats tss 18s a 2Es Barley - 23$ a 27$ b.t Poland ditto 2.25 a 23S ad Malt, - 42* a 46$ oft. Rape Seca . 301 a 331 Ry e . 3zs a 35s od Fine Flour . 45s a 49s 0,1 White Pease 42S * doi od Secun.ido - Ar'S 4 45s Beans - 3 2 4 a 37 6 od A very considerable Failure took place in the Stock Exchange this morning, on the part of a Jew .Broker who has transaded a great deal of business "for many years pa s t. -Lord MONTGOMERY is soon to be united to his Cousin, Lady MARY MONTGOMERY, Daughter of the late 'Earl of EGL INTON, who is possessed.-of rt fortune of 14,0001. per ann. They have taken a house.in the neighbourhood of Harrow. The Duke of °US ENSBERRY, we are happy to hear, is greatly recovered from his dangerous lotus.. position. Mr. .I(ttorn t iso being a young Speaker, probably mistook the argumentuin ad hominem, for the argu. ;Tumults ad rem; or, perhaps, he wished to 61;0. the House, ,an example of what the late Lord. Kett'. vott . foed t v term, ifrailical Oratory. The very great success of John Bull has induced the chief Proprietor of Covent-Garden Theatre to purchase the copy-right at a very liberal price ; and we understand that it is not to be printed during th'e present season. A new• Opera from the pen of the Poet.Laureat, is to he brought forward at Drury.lane Theatre, after the run of The Hero of the NOrth. Any pro.. du tionl3f Mr. FYB will have the recommendation of good. sense as well as good poetry, and every body must wish success to the. works of so re.. speaablea charaler. • . • Two seta Card Parties are stated in a Morning Paper to, have been given- on Sunday evening in Corzon.street, May. Fair ; one by the Dowager Lady Essex, the other by Mrs. MostANT. The same Paper also mentions about a dozen grand din. ners, arid several musical parties having been given on the same evening. If these accounts be true, it is tn:)st disgraceful to the higheforders of Society, who ought to set a better example to the Commu. nity ; If they be fabrications for the'purpose ofkling the Columns of a. Newspaper, she Proprietors are highly culpable' for thus grossly aspersing the first Charafters to the Coix!ty. PARIS, 14. Tilly write from Toudoff, that the fti a &aies Rhin and La Conte lie, were equipped on the iStr: of February, to cruize before Algierr, and prevent the Coisairs of those Pirates film injurii,g- our commerce. The frigate La Main: is prep-ing to proceed to the same destination. It is known that the Del , of Itt.c ERS has given two months to the Agent of the Republic to quit his States. We are ignorant of the motives of such aninsult. The FlasT CONSUL, accompanied by Madarna BONAPAIM and the Minister of the Fi nances , visited the Mint on Saturday at eight in the niOrn. ing. • _ _ By letters from /kluisicb, dated the sth of March, we learn, that His Majesty the Eur E %tort of Russ' A, having consented to the suppression of the flivariati Langue, of the Order of Sr. John of Jerusalem, its goods and possessions will be united to the 11.)... mains of the lELPCTOR. by w a y of compensation for the loss of the Bishopric of Eicivtett.; The value of these goods is estimated at cooo i ooo florins, and the revenues ar r 7 t,OOO florins.- The Government of the Republic decrek.., that tilt exportation of specie is prohibited till furthei orders. The foreign Gazettes have for some time men; tioncd a new plan of a Political arrangement, which Would give to the King of SARDINIA . the City and Principality of Sienne, containing near two.fiftbs of the Kingdom of Etruria, as an indemnity. The Xing of ErkußlA, according to this arrangemeht, would receive in exchange the Duchy of Parma not comprehending, , that Of Piacenza, which would' be united with the Italian Republic. • RATISBON, MARC/1 I.— Yesterday the Ger manic Diet held an extraordinary Sitting, after the reading of the Note by which the Ministers of the Mediating Powers call upon the Diet to give a prompt Ratification to the labour which is submitted to it. The discussion was opened on the general Reerrof the Deputation. The Prussian Minister, NIDE Dock: Z, voted , for its adoption, In the explanation which he gave of his vote, he observed, that no regard ought to be paid to the declaration of His Swedish MajestT, DUKE Of POM EkAN I A, because that State, having abandoned the cause of the Country during the whole course of the War, could have now no other Objed in view but •to pronounce azains't the dispositibns of the Treaty of Peace. The Mini'stcr of Sweden protested against this dnlaration, which he considered as uncalled for and misplaced, and . so much the more; as His Swedish Majesty, In his' . quality of a State , the. Empire, was vistllled giving his advice as well as all the other Members• of the Empire. The same Minutes-then voted for the adoption of the general Concius.7,72, as at' fiNt prepared, so far as the Treaty of Westphaliii,, the fundamental laws of the Empire, and the rights of the immediate Noblesse of the Empire, ..were Con. firmed in all their dispositions, and, have not been changed by the new Candasum. It is remarkable' that the propositions male by the two Direaorial Minivers,- nAmely, that of Mayence in the Eleaoral ,College, and that of Austria in the College of Princes, d f r : the first, the Baron EP/lA.l[3lNi demands purely and simply the ratification. of the Modified General Rites ; whilst the s::cond, M. DE I , lli rilait o, to Submit all chat relates to the new organization of the Diet, the nets votes, their rank, to a particular deliberation. This - diversity of opinions tends / still to ret a rd the ratifi c i t i on o f .the Rptes. It is even asserted that several Ministers accredited to the Diet, arc on the point of quitting Ratisben for some time. CoNsTANTItvoPLE, JAN. Ig.j—Tile suite Of he French Ambassador, General BritrNu, consists of .sixty persons. He has had a conference with the RBl3 EFFENDI. He has not yet been pxit•nt. ed to the GRAND SIGNIOR. His presentat'.on will be magnificent ; he will be accompanied by more than a hundred French Officers. The riew Ambassador sent by the ,Porte to Paris is one of the best informed men in the Einpire. BRIsT, MARL i 5.--The effects of General Dr. CAE N, and of the Officers belonging to the Expedition to India, were yesterday embarked. r They were themselves to - goon board, and thefine weather no doubt expedite their departure. The CaPtaiti... General DR CAEN, and Vice.Admi rat Lirrots enibark in the , Mdrengo, formerly. called the J. I. Rp4ssmu. The ships employed' in this Expedition are crow ded with a vast . number of Passengers, Transport yes. sels are expeded from Boradraux and L'Orient, which are to sail soon alter on the same destina. tion. MARCH 8.--The Expedition for India, which sailed in the *afternoon 14 the day before yesterday, must have made al rapid progress in its voyage : for the wind, which was favourable, blew very freak during that night and the whole of yesterday. The vessels that compose the Expedition are, the Marengo Of the line, the Frigates L I Semilanie, .I. l .4lara ntri , Liz' Belle Poule, and the Tranaport Gote-POn: General* VANDAR MAC SE N, Adjutant-General BINOT, and the Officers of the Etat Ma, r, departed with General DE cAlN.—Gene Mo to vv, v: ing received a cut on his fingers' in '4etting into a boat, has _remained on shore. PETERSBURG, FEB. 13. The FIRST Cont. atm of the French Republic has, as we are os sared, - signified to our Ambassador, that he would compty with the wishes of Els INIP)A4I,AL MAJESTY, Dot. only with regard to the island. of Malta, but also with respco to the dematld -01 an adequate, indemnity for the Kir% of SAIL Z: I The edIEF C.ONSUL, however, has.not ye( declared of what that Indemnity is to cOnsisr ; 'the dialsrent propositions made at first to 'our t.':ourt -on that subject .ha:e not been accepted. . The ' conversation between the Ft p.r.T Cutistm . afid the BR vrii“ :AMR Assikoost, as inemtioced ;ti nitr Paper of Wednesday, we believe- to the truly st.tte.t. Lord WH TWO R TII'S conduct Upcjil this occasion cannot he enough. admired, he has displayed Goa t) suivsa, Terapatt, and coutt,toE, Atzalities which make him peculiarly fit fur his present difficult situa. We have heard that the CH lEP CptiS l JL l in a discussion bet ween him'and the Portuguese Atnhas_ radar, adually cknched his fist at him, and frighten_ rd the poor Ambassador very nearly out o f his wits,