The Sun. — London, England, 1803-10-13 00:00:00

MAILS. AItRIVID. flzmburgh z DUI. PRICE OF STOCKS, TIM DAY AT TVICLVIL O'CLOCK. Consols . .. .. 52 ia 53 Omnium . . 9i i dis. THE SUN. 101.111 QUIZ Usd 11 7.41,11uts AUDigiTt LONDON, OCTOBER s 3, 1803. YHTIRDAY His IVIAJErry in Council signed a Proclamation for the Meeting ,of Parliament on Tuesday, zzd November. di* Session of Parlia. ment will then commence, the most important and interesting perhaps which this Country has ever witnessed. Sour of those Vessels ,which had. sheltered in the Downs during the gales 'of Saturday and Sunday last, have seemed their stations off Ortemi, Box. lapse, &c. Our Readers will now see how un. founded were the statements in some of the Evening Papers, of a Squadron being assembled in Dover Roads. Such shameful impositions upon the public credulity cannot be too much reprobated. THE report in one of the Paris Papers of the pro. bability of a Peace being effeeted in consequence o f Rus s ia having sateen Portugal' under her special protraion, and to which some of the Papers of last night laboured to attach something like &edibility, reaches us under no circumstances that can entitle it to belief. That such a Treaty respeEting Portu. gal should have been concluded, and that no intel. ligenee of such an .event should have arrived in this Country until it had travelled to Berlb., from tinned to Paris, and from thence to Husum, is a circumstance too absurd to be worth a moment's attention, did not some persons, for what purpose we know not, endeavour to strain a point to clothe it in the specious garb of authenticity, We are the more anxious therefore to do away, as far as our judgment leads us, any impression which may have been made by such kind of plausible reasoning, where the data upon which it is founded are wholly in. sufficient. It cannot have escaped the notice of out Readers that the report in question is extraded from an unofficial Paris Journal of so old a date' as the 24th ult. and that so far trom being borne out by eobsequetst circumstances, the latest intelligence of. fats nothing but the din of War, and the clangor of arms, increased preparation, and reiterated menaces of hostility. Such kind or reports ought to be treated with the contempt which they deserve, but to found upon tham a wire.,o4Vvo and elaborate argument to prove the probability .or the' possibility' of their truth, eaftnnly tend" to inspire false hopes and to lead astray. the public opinion . . What Russia may do, or . what Portugal , may eventually be reduced to, is at present filA t ter' of speculation; and surely report which upon the face of it has travelled backwards and forwards through the whole circuit of the Con. tincnt, and is after all cootradificd by later gence, is not that upon which any rational man Would rely as authentic information, We: cannot sufficiently condemn the .pradiee. of catching at every Straw, at every absurd .Report that. may' be inculcated in order to found upon it some reason about the Russian Mediation, and the probability of a Peace. It cannot be too often re. }mated, that we must depend upon ourselves, and when we have taught our haughty and implacable foe, that we arc not only capable of fighting, but of beating him single.hatuled, and that all his pro jeds of Invasion are futile and abortive, then and not till then, we may look forward to a Peace, fiunded upon a permanent basis, and secured by the commo n interest of Europe. WI are happy to perceive that the. Admiralty pond have at length cow to the determinati w of fitting out some Venal, that may be able, from their easy draught of water and weight of metal, to get near to, and make some impression on, the Batteries of the Enemy, which prated their preparations for the Invasion of this Country. Six of that &scrip. don are advertised for,,..and we hope no time will he lost in At ting them opt. We have at want no Vet. stiff in readiness for sea that are.calculatecl for a SOT. vice of that nature—Our Ships of the Line, and even our heavy Frigates draw too much Water to get near enough the irtertt4 Batteries to do them material damage, and the suhdler Vessels, whose draught of water would permit them to approach within e (fedi ve distance, carry too light metal to make any usefui impression. Such are the fireught, vigour and virdoat of the present ,Board of Admiralty who might have, thought, did they think properly at all, that 4 service of this nature must occur, and that it , uas their especial duty to be perkily prepared for it, Every thing shears the want of co.nperation and of union in the great departments of the State...-. We were told in March last, through the solemn medium of a Message from the KING to his Parris.: ment, that great preparations were making in the Ports of France and I/Wald for the Invasion of this Country.—What should naturally have been the first step of Ministers in such a Case, if they themselves believed what they so solemnly an. nounced to the Nation I—Why, surely, to pre pare, without a moment's delay, such a Force as should be capable not only of meeting these mighty preparations of the Enemy on the Sea, but of de. stroying them in their own Harbours.--Have Mi nisters done any thing like this I , Certainly not.— They have, with an improper and an inadequate force, made attempts which have in every instance failed, and in proportion to the extent of that failure, have given encouragement to the Enemy, and that wholly from the want of judgment' or capacity ; from no decay most assuredly in the skill or gallantry of our Seamen.—What it the fair in. terence from all this I—Either that Ministers did not believe what they themselves asserted in March, or if they did believe it, that such has been their criminal and disgraceful apathy and want of capacity, that the dearest interests and even the existence of the British Empire might have become endangered through them. Thanks, however, to the inborn Spirit of Englishmen which has saved the country, routed by the eloquence, and animated by the example of the greatest States. man and truest Patriot it could ever boast I We have heard it urged as a pretty general topic, that this is not the time to consider or to condemn the condutt of Ministers—The Country is in dan. ger, and we should only look to that—This we un. derstand was the feeling adopted at a late Meeting of the Old Opposition—of Mr. Fox, Lord Mottt♦ and some others who had a Meeting for the purpose of taking the Subjea into consideration. This is a convenient doeirine for those who have a political purpose to serve under a skew of Patriotism, but it is not the sentiment of a true lover of the Coun. try or of common sense—That the Country is in danger, in great danger, we know and are ready to admit ; but we likewise feel that the spirit of the Country is raised to a pitch to meet the danger and to vanquish it, however great it may be—Such being the case, we feel this precisely the timmo inve,tigate the cause of our misfortunes, and if p, wale to remove it. We can have, in our humble opinion, but one way of giving the Nation a chance of emerging from its difficulties, and recovering that, tone of animation which so much characo terised it during almost the whole period of the Revolutionary War—a period of difficulty and itu portance certainly then unprecedented in our His tory. We feel it our duty broadly to say, that a change of Ministry can alone restore the proper Confidence of the Nation, and redeem our Political Charafter with the other Powers of Europe—a change which we know we are fully justified in affirming to be ardently, though hitherto only si. lently, desired by ninety.nine out of a hundred of the whole Population of the British Empire. Yesterday morning, about half past nine o'clock, IiRR, MAJESTY and the PRINC,'I?S4ES AUGUSTA, EL I. ZABETI-I, and SOAIIIA, attended by Lady SIDNEY, left Windsor for Kew ; on their arrival they were met by the DUKES nig ENT and CAMS RI DG they were followed a shit time after by the PR t NC EsSiti MARY and AMELIA ; soon after their arrival the ROYAL FAMILY walked and viewed the new Nine. Th e Dums of Yoe arrived at Kew on a visit to HER MAJESTY and PRINCESSES, but remained a very shurt time. Yesterday, about half past twelve o'clock, His MAJESTY arrived at St. Jones's Palace from Wind. sor, to hold a Levee, which commenced at one o'clock, and was attended by their Royal High. nesses the Dukes of CLARENCE and CAMBRIDGE, their Excellencies the DANISH, PRUSSIAN, SAXON, WIRTEMBIEGIAN, SPANISH, IMPERIAL, Amt. RICAN, NEAPOLITAN, PORTUGUESE, and SAR« RINIAN Ambassadors; the Archbishop of CANTER• the Lord CHAstest.Los, the CHANCFLLOR of the Excitzgosx, the SECRETARIES of STATE, the TREASURE& of the NAVY, the ATTORNEY GENERAL, the ADVOCATE GENERAL, the LORD MAYOR, the SHERIFFS of Lortnost. There were present also Mary ;eh Salisbury. Harrington, Sandwich, Camde n u x . bridge, and Malmeabury. Viresoats—Hood, and Duneannon. Lardr—Hotharn, 'Hawkesbury, Chetwynd, Radstock, Man. tyre, Heathheld, and Mahon. 151.4411 Honipi:sch. 4irr—P. Hales, H. Popham F. Hartwell, R. W elch, R. Ford, W. Leighton, I; Popham, and R. C. Boughton. ifwbai.tado..4 —Danish, Prussian, Saxon, Wirternn erg i m , Spanish, Imperial, American, Neapolitan, Portuguese, and Sardinian. oostrata.--Manners, Balfour, Edmondson, Dundas, Wilford, Gascoyiw Bromfield, Leslie, Floyd, and Huokeney. Coirinda—Calvert ' Vansittart, Cotton, Itainie, Fitzroy, Co. burn, Boodle, Erskine, Beaumont, lenkinson, M'Kenzie, and Phillimore. At Vert , Stewart, M'Combe, Campbell, and Allen. Capralars—M Atlners, Sutton, fenkinson, Chambers., Work house, Cambers, Bryan, Tranatiti, and Ponsonbe Morkurs—Stanhope, Aust, Yorke, Addington, Brook Wat., son, Bradyll, Pole, A. Paget, Reynolds, Hayot, Fawkener, Shaw, Knox, Percival, and Tierney. Among the Presentations were— Lord Blantyre, on his 4rrival from Fgypt : his Lorihihip se. tititnyanied the Mairreluke Chict, Eiti Bey; to England g his f.acellency WI prevented neing present at she Levee, to deliver his Credentials us:His Majesty, as exploded. The Hon. Thomas Erskine, on his brang.appointed Colonel of •the Law Association. Lord /Viscount Duncannon, on being appointed Colonel of the Miry-le-Bone Volunteer Corps. Lord Chetwynd i on being appointaColonel of the Duke of c - Gloucester's corps Sirlichard Ford, on his being appointed Captain in the Pim lico Volunteer Corps. Cot Cotton, Capt. Chambers, and Bradyll, by Col. Dal. tymple, on their appointments in the Teddington Corps, commanded by His Royal Highness the Duke of Clarence. Col. Phillimore, Col. M , Kenzie, and Capt. Ponsonby, •on — theh - appointments In the Mary-le.Bone Association. Major M'Combe, Major Dal zel, and Major Stewart, on t h e i r 'appointments, by General Leslie. Aldermen Shaw and Sit William Leighton, the new Sheriff's of London, by the' Lord Mayor. Lieutenant-Colonel enkinson, Inipeeling Field O ffi cer o f the London Distri .l, by the Earl of Harrington. General Kookeney, by Lord Heathrield. • Captain Bryan, of the MAry.le.bone Association, by Si r trandis Hartwell. Colonel I3oodle by the Lord in Waiting. Major Campbell, b' ditto. Captain Trapaud, of the Mary.le.bone Association, by ditto. The Levee closed soon after two o'clock, when His MAMMY held a Privy Council, at which the Right Hon.CliAltLlS YORK presided in the room of the Duke of PORTLAND ) who was prevented from attending through indisyosition. It sat a consider. able time, after which tilt MAJCITY gave private audience to the Marquis of SALISIIIIkY, Mr. Ap. DINCTON, Mr. YOWL, anti Lord HAWILIII•SVII,T. At half.past four His MAptstr left the Palace for Kew, where the ROYAL F*MTLY will remain till Saturday. His Royal Highness the nvite of CLAnit no it was to have presented the Officers belonging to the Teddington Association, but was prevented by his Uniform not being completely finished. The report that the Matneluke Chief was, to be at Court attrated several hundred persons i to Sr. James's, and the avenues leading to the 'Palace were so extremely thronged, that it whs with vent did. cubit the Mete could keep the passage clear. Lord Wit ITWOltill said the Duchess of DORIS*/ have left Know'. in Kent, and are at present in town. Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the East India House, which adjourned at six o'clock till Thursday next. _ The late Duke of* tiltAUFOlt? will be very much lamented by his family, his friends, his neighbours, and his numerous tenknity in-the counties of Glou. center and Monm ,wh.—fie maintained the dignity of his station rather by the noble simplicity of his manners, and his rrovincial hospitality, than by at. tentions to exterior *splendour, and the display of fashion...-It was not to his taste, nor did it suit with his habits, to solicit notice by any of those aurae. dons at which the public gaze with temporary ad. miration. Grosvenor.square was not disturbed by his festivities ; hut, at Badminton and Troy. House, every visitor felt the honour of his reception, and was delighted with the satisfaftion that accompanied it. In politics, he supported a tranquil, dignified independence. He never engaged in the ranks of opposition; and the support he generally gave to His Majesty', Ministers, could never be justly at. tribured to any motives, but such as were pettedly consistent with the integrity which distinguished his honourable life. On Tuesday the Bishop of Lottbox was pleased to appoint Mr. J. B. SAL'', one of the Gentlemen of His MAJESTY'S Chapel Royal, in the room of Mr. SAMUEL CHAMPWIII4 ) deceased, who some years since was celebrated on Dsury.l ane S tage f or hi s very powerful bass voice, particularly in the cha. reeler of Hecate, and kept up his fame for several years after his retirement from the Stage as a Con. cert Singer.... The unsucces4ful- Candidates were Messrs. JAMES WELCH, GONE, PAO,, CHAMPNESS, FIEND, from atm a number of others, but the contest was between M. W 11.04 and the successful Candidate ; the former could not succeed although he had the interest of a certain great per. image. The death of Mr. CHAtitrtitil has caused a vacancy in We,imi 1 the place has been offered to Mr. BAKTLFMAN. Yesterday morning the Staffordshire Militia had a grand field day in Windsor Little Park. Cite Fuutch ,Regiment of the Loyal London Volunteers, are, it is said, to take the Tower duty on Saurday next. The PRINC It of W,►r,ss's Loyal Volunteers had a Grand Field-day, in the Green Park, yesterday afiernono. O►► Wednesday se'nnight the Earl of Mot/ tDO• comas reviewed on Maker Heights, as Lord Lieu► tenant ►►t' the County of Cornwall, the fine Regi. ment of the Royal Cornwall Militia, commanded by Sir WM. LEMON. His Lor►lship was highly pleased with the - steady and.soldiel.like appearance of both the Officers and Men under arms. After thr re% iew, the Colonel and Officers gave an eft. dejeuld in the Camp to his L , rdship anti suite.— There were present, Lord VALLETORT I Colonel LEMON, of the Royal Cornish Miners, Lady Lamont, the Miss LiMoN+, &c. The Third Regiment of Loyal London Vo teens, c unmanded by JOHN POOLEY KEN,INGTON, Esq, Lieutenant-Colonel, had a grand field day , at Kennington yesterday. They marched from their drill ground at Bridewell, about eight o'clock, and returned about twelve. The Eighth Regiment of Loyal London Volun. terra, from the Wards of Broad.street, Cripplegate, Bassishaw, and Coleman.street, with HENRY CAN. NINO, Esq. Lieuten ant . Colonel-C-mtnandant, at their head, marched from Moor&lds at about eight o'clock yesterday. They proceeded from thence to Highbury Barn, and had a grand field day. The Brigade of Royal East In lia Volunteers are to have a Grand Field-day, near Lay tonstone, next Tuesday. The subscription at Leeds for the encouragement of Volunteers amounts to upwards of 27,0001. General DUNNE it indefatigable in his exertions to instrud' the Yeomanry 'of Dublin in the exercise and discipline of Light Infantry. On Tuesday sennight, the detachment of the 3d Dragoon Guards, the Artillery, and the Ayrshire Militia, quartered at Perth, and the Perthshire Gentlemen Yeomanry Cavalry, were inspeded there by General MACDONALD. The Duke of ATHOL, with a spirit worthy the veneration of every Friend io Great Britain and her Interests, has_ put himself to the expence of `,or tirl gas ■ifVilds7a ;OIL *L.. T.A... ....r w,. iool. NAVAL NEWS. PEAL, OCT. 1Z...--ThC Explosion Bomb arrived Int night from off Boulogne, and sailed again this morning for the same place. Arrived the Starling Gun-brig from Portsmouth ; and the Autumn Sloop, and resuruisr Bomb, from a Cruize off Boulogne. His Majesty's Ship Circe sailed this morning on a Cruize off Ostend ; anal the York and Zebra on a Cruize off Boulogne; the Blear, with a C o nvoy for Portsmouth; the Menke', with Convoy for Hull; the Meru,, and Comfia, on a Crain to the North. ward. In the Downs—the Motrarch, Muth', Diana, Squirrel, Ranger and Autumn Sloops ; Sarno and Iternniim: Bombs ; Archer and Starling Gun. brigs and Sussex Oak Transport. Sitatassss, OCT. /s.--Capt. j.Nt CHOI. MOP' ti Is appointed to the Leopard, of so guns, Yic° Capt. Curtxtttogast, who is made a Commissioner of the ViEtuallixi, in the room of the Hon, PHI( RODXSY, who goes as Commissioner to the Island of Ceylon. The greatest aCtivity and exertion have for bell some days prevailed in the Dockyard hereto' e q ui t and rest the Bomb s an d G an _y ess eb which hav e been shook by the late Bombardments on the Coact of France ; they are all now ready, and it is expea.. id that they will immediately sail to recommence effeaire operations aga i nst the Enemy, under the immediate ditaiti nn o f Admiral Lord Kt ITU, who bas ! '" ieeel Y eletmooitring their Flotil las. Sailed yesterday His Majesty's Ship La rivinito for the Baltic, having on b o ard two of our Envoys, one of 'them ptoceeds to Dresden, and the other to . Stutgard. Came down fr om Ch at h am t hi s d a y to the Gre at Note, His Majesty's Frigate Shalom% ; and went out of this Harbour the Broderscarp, Cape. C 4 2" TI t it, to be stationed as a Floating Battery at the Buoy of the Knob. limo YARMOUTH; OCT. IR.—This morning th e lark Packet, DILL, and Lar4 Packer, Ttiostrsoos portssailed for Husain; and the Assalsord Pack et ' BRIDGR I for Gottenburgh p w i t h Mails and Po lo* gers. The Odors and p ea k , ' Frigates, and Cease Oun.brig, arrived from a Cruise, and remain in the Roads, with th e Orl.yhheid, Amethyst , In d Raramd• ssoars( Armed Ship, The and Crittl airl aoo.brigo are sailed on a Cruise. The ?oily, rzn Alt°ll ' Imo Petersbergh to London, with Iro n $ 5(l del4 , a je put in hare with loss of fareenast and besvor t • The °wre asid Mat'', a Fishing Goble, Wu yesterday m o rnin g ru n down in Lowestoffßoads, by one of the Berwick Smacks : the Crew were f or ' innately saved, by getting on board th e Smack, the . Coble going down instantly, with al ' her nets, Ea about three lasts of herrings. P°""4"Tai OCT. 1 2.--*Artived this day, ih e R acs, : vr a ; ;;; f4r , DAM Avs : Le t o : f 0 : m rfdr l .o ) l o u r gru Stockholmn d r, Nt ; a arx I , I , it::: and litcommtncennit, KINDER, from DAtItZiCF om Nano Sailed the rfNUI Frigate to the East ward, Frigate for Cork., and Fo;g Sloop for alp Indies. Sailed the Fat:silos, BuoaNsozr , for Norway. • W ait cd pt n . rad cresi l o t: d a ent : g ull -Martial ompalial of theme lowing lowing members, was holden on board the iiii" a dieter, in Portsmouth Harbour, viz. _ Leu e aißitsar-AdaLtral_ HowiIVAYI ......-.1 , T . :try 7 is: l l7 Capt• w^ I tiVrafirP / .......... F 1,10 1,1100 ......v....- 301111ERVII: ' 46......, 1. 1 - Lg IP ........""'" 11, Vi i 0 il &NICHOL**. i ; C " rage", on several Mch°9LrgLeiswreAxiiiiitliFeidAr:at,iritnil'of-t o h i r i d in der n s t o ) , y t cohnisteCmalp)tt,aianntifinAe (HARDY) of dot} '' u a tY is - Aerru: " l4 ; -Pe bi ro t; s d ecution was conduded by Capt. J. 0. 114 "" f ie occupy more than three hours litteAn'n'ce of the Court * who, after hearing the " 'la i n ; adduced to support the charges set forth, atittrYi‘;4r. the most impartial attention to the evidence l a i t he MOLLINJIMIX, were of opinion, that not one° I . charges had been proved, and that Mr. M° i l i j. NIAUX was entitled to a most honourable acq uit • g rata. The Atalaate, r 6 guns, Captain IVIARst•--,b. which sailed a few days since, is gone down o . ° i ., ' , coast of France, to try to cut out some more tii!/1"; • 11 of 14 ships, as there are many of that class tu te a luable knees, fut locks, ben ds, and beams, all 690 it, and ready to be tut up in a ship , g ot sate into P 9 by hugging the French coast along shore. A smack from Lon,lon, bound to Dunde,efb With goods, the Formosa, of Newcastle, and Brair of Shields, were chased into Sunderland Fipariv:teel: Tuesday sennight, by a Schooner-rigged , ft , with two top-sail yards, yellow sides, wis," „ i , she SI""' - markably white sails. The Master o f . hck ,l or ilit saw him capture a loaded Sloop, bound:l9 to , • off Tynentouth. 0' ••••••1•021.111111. 1 .... 0 The corporation of Derry pve a sumptuous t ner on Thursday se'nnight to the of Bishop of ths See, At which the Fiel d Officers of the GArrli n 41 „ er the Clergy were among s he visitors. After cl,ll.•_f his Lordship was presented, with the Fretdo.