The Sun. — London, England, 1803-01-18 00:00:00

.VV , t :t : . TO THE EDITOR OF ,771 E SUN, llTit, TO THE EDITOR OF TILE SUN, following Letter was addressed to jottri Doty LES, Esq. atter perusing his nth-statement of the Proceedings at the late Eleftion for this place. As he had been ltd so far into error, as to advance charges at variance with truth, we Were anxious to titideceive him, and flattered ourselves that candour would have in duced !din to tetrad when he was . better informed. has, however, been in pos session of our Letter three weeks, arid has not condckendeti to reply to it we conceive our. 4elvef. theief'c're no longer bound by any delicacy to wards hicit, but consider the publication of it as a justice doe to our own charaders as IViagistrates, and to the charaaer of the Town over whifh we preside. More mature consideration will deter- Mimic us what further steps to take respeaing this hacknied Calumniator. In the. mean time, we re.. oest of you to give our Letter a place in your Pa. Fr, which will much oblige,, Sir ? your very humble Servants,. JOUN DAN !sow, late' Mayor. Trios. ().otcrgow, JOSEPH OLDX.NOW, 41d, Alattivbaph Jan. 3, 1803. 6111 ? libisbam l Dee. 8, 1802. flavlog lately perused a ,Pamphlet entitled— (' Thooghts on the late General Election, as de monstrative of the Progress of Jacobioism," to which your name is nfEiced as the Author, we can. not, in justice to our Oa rafters as MagiStra tea, omit taking notice of a passage in it which relates to the late Medical for this Town. You therein stare, amongst other matters equally at ,variance with truth, that in - the procession—" A female, refire. settling the Goddess, of Reason, in a state of entire rledity, watt ti conspicuous figure. Many arc ' the mjarepresentations which have been propagated through the Kingdom respeeling the occurrences of the late EleCtion here, and it is self.evident that they 'have been so propagated, only with a view to pre. judice the Public Mind, and to prejudge a Question which will soon he investigated by, a Committee of the litne;e of Commons, These calumnies were ushered into the world at a Very - early period after the close of the Elution, awl we were' not insensible or iiiattentive to them ; bet eoneeiiiv that a discussion of their merits at that rime be improper, the Mayor and Sheriff relying on the candour of the Public, con. tented themselves with addresSing a Letter to the Editors of the Courier and the Morning Chronicle, timed the ;9th July, wherein they requested a auspeoSion of jtidgment, till such time as the ques. tion was decided before the proper Tribunal. After such an appeal, we were in hopes that truth and candour would have influenced every fu. tin comment on the evt.:ots of our Eledion. We have therefore,read with surprize and indignation, that, rissertino in your Book to which we have al. )(hied; and we think it our duty to state to you, that it does not contain one , syllable of truth.-. 41, in , defiance of commori decency, such an exhibition had taken place, we should have considered it our Wonder% duty to have brought to punishment the pvr;oti guilty of so gross et Visdatioli of delicacy and decorum. Wore no sftangero, that whattlier is 1 ‘ contra 1.10110 more', is • a misdemeanour, and might not to pa.S4 unnoticed by Magistrates who 'are the least alive to the better interests of Society, or I;tinw what is due to the dignity of their own cha. I.V :tors. That you may have been led into error by mis. information we will admit ; but we cannot consider it as any proof of your temper or candour, that you should, have written so gross a calumny against this vhce, without roper inquiry as to the credit due to your authority. You have prat any particular connexioo with us, of course your „knowledge of what passes here must be procured through the Medium of others ; and we think it would be a bet. ter proof of good sense, were you in future to ex. aririne how tar the source of your information is pure, before you again aCI upon it so far as to make an attack. on the character of any man, or set of men. Having thug endeavoured to convince you of the error Into which you have been harried by misinformatinit, and an intemperate zeal, we think ourselves entitled to a public retrattion of this calumny—we Open it from you as an an of com. run justice, which we consider as the more indis. pensahle, having observed (if the report of the Newsopers is to be relied oft), that the assertion in • your idook has been quoted by one filling a,.high sod dignified office:. We remain, Sir, Your obedient bumble Servants, (Signed) jams DAVISON, late Mayor. Jossiot OLOKNOW, TIMS. 01.DKNOW, To Jowl Bow 'kits, Esq. LThe° Listiors ha visit aPPrgitti in tilt! r.bi;fmir/t , S4autility the irroonv, -huorur Ctr ttitrn *Al4$ ttiOortlittl:1110 us yeutollay.l SIR, the Afornirig Chryviat of Saturday, the Bth imtant, I saw a Letter signed by the late Mayor, and two Aldermen, of Nottingham ; to which was subjoined another Letter, which those Gentlemen vire themselves to have written to JJon flow LEE, Esq. denying that a female appeared in the proCes.: sin') at Nottingham, in the charatter. of - a naked Goddefs of Reason, as Mr. B(.)W LIS had stated in hi, publication, entitled " Thoughts on the late General Elthinn," et,c. If Mr. llowLas was mis informed upon this subjen, I have no doubt that he will ai:knowledp his error ; and that the very work in which it - appeared will he deemed by hint the proper place fur its correCtion. But I think it rather too much for the Nottingham Magistrates to Dave expeaed from him an immediate. retrattation, .tour,) dirir assurance that he wa.i. wrong', Consider. tog the deep interest they have in the qtwstion, their assurance could tilt reasonably be e:Teded to have any othcrefred than that of leading to further tOve!aigatioo :-.- 7 .and so difficult is it to discover the tt Wit, in cases where the passions of men are 'violently agittittd, that, notv4thstindirtg the imps., tienee of the above Gentlemen, I am not surprised at Mr, BowLEs's taking more time for his inquiry . than they are willing to allow him; particularly as he adverted in his work to a variety of other diti. graceful proceediogs in'the Town of Nottingham, at ;he latc ; and although the Magistrates of that Town do not specifically controvert any of his charges, excepting that respecting the Goddess of Reason ; yet it is natural for him to endeavour to ascertain the accuracy of the other charges, and perhaps to nuke inquiry respeaing other circum stances which he may have omitted. Should it appear that Mr. BOWL Es's statement, respelling the Goddess of Reason, is erroneous, I think it behoves the late Mayor and the, Sheriff of Nottingham, to consider how far they have been instiUMental in promoting the diffusion of the error. For in the Letter addressed to Mr. BowLEs, and recited in the Morning Chronicle, it is said that the calumnies to which they allude, " were ushered into the world at a very early period after the Eledion ;" and that " the Mayor and Sherif" ad dressed " a Letter to the Editors of The Courier, and Morning Chronicle ;" in which Letter, I dare say, you' exped me to add, they contradided chose calumnies :---No such thing, but instead thereof they " requested a suspension of judgment until such time as the question should be decided before the proper tribunal." Now as the question re. speaing the appearance of a naked Goddess of Rea. son, after the Eledion, was evidently very dis. tint; from the merits of the Eledion itself, there could be no reason to reserve the former inquiry for the decision of a Committee of the House of Commons, appointed to determine whether Mr. COKE, or Mr. IltitcH ought to have been returned. The omission, therefore, of the Mayor and the She. tiff, .to contradid the reports of which they corn. plain as, calumniatory, must have operated in the strongest manner to confirm the public belief of those reports. Whether that omission proceeded from the prudential consideration, that a contradic. don of one only, out of many very heavy charges, might operate as an admission of all the rest, I leave the Public to judge. It seems, however, that at length they venture to run the gauntlet,• by coming forward witlra flat contradidion of this single charge, and they there by subjed themselves to, the above construction in respea to the other disgraceful proceedings of which they are accused. It They are right in their contra. diction, 1 am confident that Mr. Bow LES will, as I have before suggested, in an open and manly way, retract his charge; for it is impossible to read that Gentleman's publications, and particularly the last, without being convinced that he is animated'by an ardent love of truth. That he should, in a single instance, have been (as the lute Mayor and the two Aldermen of Nottingham express it) " led into error," is abundantly less surprizing, than that, in such a man of facts, as his work on the late Elec. don displays, there should be but one solitary eir. cumstance, and 1 have not heard of more, in which any attempt has been made to controvert his state ments. I am, Sir, i&c. A Lovaut OP Tiltlnt. MAILS. ' ARRIVED. IDUS. ilollanti 2 • . -•- • ... • •• • • • - 0 .0 - fa:wit o .. - - - -.- t II ain hti rgh o THE SUN. •QLLM QUIS DICZI& FALIIUM AIJpIAT ? , LONDON, y N Uri R Y 18, rBo3. WE received this morning the Paris Papers to the t6tb inst. from which we have extracted the only intelligence or any importance. The Funds are 56. t S. By a Decree of die Consuls of the Republic, the Wife of the First Consul is to have four Ladies in attendance upon her, ivlio are to do the Honours of the Palace. • Letters have been received from Admiral Vt NEUVE, dated Martiiripe, the 2ISt November, at which Island he had just arrived from Guada loupe. He represents the latter Colony as being in a most flourishing condition, and states that the War with the Blacks is nearly finished. Dispatches from Guadaloupe, dated the t sth of November, state, that the situation of the Colony was then much ameliorated, and that much had been done towards the restoration of tranquillity. A Courier passe► an 114 4th inst. through Rotes. Lou, with the Conventiorn relative to the Indemni. ties of the GRAND DUKE of TUSCANY, which he was carrying to Vienna, to be submitted to.the ra. tifteation of His IMPERIAL, Mn;es•rY. A General Report of the Proceedings of the De. putation of the Empire, has been made from that Body to the Diet. The news of the Defeat of the Ottoman Army in Egypt, according to Letters from anituntinople of the Bth ult. has been confirmed. Two butehltia;l4 which tvere due, arrived this morning. Letters from the Hague, dated the Ist January, mention the deteelion of a Conspi, racy which had been, formed against the Life of the FIRST COMUL ; but wv consider this report as nct entitled to the slightest credit, because we here re. ceived the Paris Papers and private Letteri of as late a date as the take no notirf: of suds a circumstance. Yrt consequence of the complete defeat of the Turkish Troops in Egypt, the G!IAND SEIGNIOSt has applied to'PAsswAN O,OLOt/ to undertake the task of reducing the sebalious Beys to obedience ; and tbg same account adds, that PASSWAtt i eager to prove the sincerity of his reconciliation with the Porte, has acceded to the proposal, Letters from Constantinopte state, that the British Minister there has made a demand of 36 millions of piastres for the expences of the War, declaring at the same time, that as soon as that sum was paid, the English would evacuate Egypt.—This report is evidently, untrue, but it will proba. bly afford a subjett of declamation for the French Papers. , • , IT appearing that the Statement of the amount of the Surplus of the Consolidated Fund, on the sth of this Month, has been misunderstood, and considered as less favourable than the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER had given reason to the Public to ex.. pth ;—we are happy to be able, for the satisfaction of our Readers, to explain a few circumstances at. tending it, The average Surplus of the Quarters ending in July and Odober last, having amounted to 1,9a0,0001. while that on the sth of January, amounted only to 1,48,0°01. it has been supposed that a diminution has taken place in the Revenue. The fad, how_ ever, is, that this apparent defalcation arises solely from a Postponement of a Payment of the Customs, proceeding from the unusual quantity of Sugar now Bonded, and from a large Sum due from the East India Company, the payment of which is suspended during the adjustment of an Account between Go. vernment and that Body. These sums together, amount to upwards Of Soo,cool. which, if paid in, would have made the Produce of the last Quarter eonsideralAy above Alto average of the two pieced. ing. It must, howeVer, be observed, that the Di. vidends, payable in January and July, exceed those due in April and Onober, by upwards of One Mil. lion ; and therefore that the ordinary Surplus of the Consolidated Fund, in these Quarters, is so much less.--And that Mr. ADLlngoroN only stated his expenation of a Surplus of Six Millions and a Half, in the year ending January 5, 1804.; a sum which has been exceeded by the ;lanai Receipts of the year ending January 5, 1803, which have amounted to 6,7 56,0001• We are concerned to learn that His Royal High. ness the PR mutt of Wmt.os has been.so ill for two or three days, that he haibeen to*red to his (cot% under the care of Sir WAtres, M 1 TT, we understand, means to go to Court to-day, to ray his compliments to Their MAIRB. RS. The alarm raised respeeling the determination of the Court of Madrid to Insist upon the evacuation of our settlement in the Bay of Homdurns, proves unfounded. It is now ascertained that the requi. sition on the part of the Spanish', Governor relates merely to such parts and distriito of it as have been acquired by conquest or encroachment (luting the War.' The demand is, of course, strialy conform. able to the Treaty of Amiens, which requires the Contracting Powers to give up all territories they have conquered, or occupied, daring the late con. teat. Notwithstanding the execution of this part of the Treaty, the British Colony in the Bay of Honduras, will continue to enjoy all its former pos. sessions and privileges. The Court of Sessiop in Scotland met on Wed. nesday for the fist time after the Christmas recess. The frost was very intense at Edinburgh on Thursday morning, between eight and nine the Thermometer was at 16 deg. The Dutchess Dowager of PARMA is, it is said, to have a Pension of t io,ooo Florins, by virtue of an arrangement made between France and Spain. The Vaccine Inoculation has been introduced into Greece, with very considerable success. The Departments of France are still infested with WolVes : one was lately destroyed in the Commune of Roche. sur.Yon, in the Department of La Vendee, which had killed a woman and four children. The City of Munster is to be converted into a cen. tral fortress for the Prussian States in Westphalia. The City of Nuremberg is said to be in3ebted to the mismanagement of its finances for its indepen. Bence, the King of PRUSSIA not wishing to have the city with the incumbrance of its debts. A woman died on the sth instant at Chalons, in the Department of the Marne in France, at the age of too, who had not experienced any sickness during the course of her life. The following is given on the authority of a Gentleman who is just returned from Paris. The FIRST CONSUL being desirous a short time since, of decorating a Gallery at St. Clastd„ sera a verb a l Message to the Administrators of the Gallery or the Laxvre, desiring that sixty of the best Cabinet Pic tures in that immense Cql lcdtion might be immediate ly sent to the Palace, The Administrators in reply represented themselyr.g as the Guardians of a Natio na l Property, and desired that their condua might he sanctioned at least by a written order. This order was never sent, nor was any notice taken of the re. monstrance ; but in a few days the Board of Admi oktration was iuperseded, and DIINON, the Writer of the late Work on Egypt, was appointed sole Administrator.---It is scarcely necessary to add, that the Pictures in question, in a very short time, 6urni their way, and w ith the k arrt nt f ie di tyi to the Palace ot C/o:,;, T 112 DUTC I/ CONETitIMMOPLE, Par. S. Tit RErs Eyre Nor has had several conferences with the English 4mbassador, Lord ELGIN, The subjea of them, Among other things, relates to the Expences of the War, which the Court 4 London now charges on the Porte, for the as. sistance afforded in 47,Lypt, These expences amount to thirty.six Millions of Piastres ; and it is now signified, that the English Troops will evacuate Egypt as soon as this sum:pall'.ke paid, but until then they will continue Altera. ; They, in the mean time, preserve very gond:order there, and General SrOART does not interfere in` the hostili. tie between the Beys and the Pacha of Cairo. The French Ckargi d'Afairer,Citizen Bureau, has complained of the preference granted by the Porte to the English navigation in the Black Sea. Colonel SE 4STI AN 1 has legitimated himself at Cairo, as French Plenipotentiary in. the whole the Levant. After he had taken a view of every f thing remarkable at Cairo, and had executed 64 commissions he had in charge, hi 'proceeded to Suez. PETERSLIURGII, DEc. zt. IT is confidently said, that the SULTAN, since the recent defeat of the p 4 cliA of CAIRO by the ileys, has made overtures to the celebrated P4bwAs OcLou to take upon himself the command of the Turkish Army in Egypt ; and it is• thought that PASWAN will cheerfully accept the offer, in order to show, by deeds, the sincerity of his [KWIC/HR. tion with the Sublime Porte, VIENNA, - CINSRAL Count Ma sa.vataT pdtare assumi t appointed Imperial Envoy ta , the Court of Russia. The report that the island of Zante had been aural.. lowed up by an earthquake * is fortunately not con. firmed. AUGS2U,ItG, Dzc. p, Tits arrangement of the 7th December, relatire to the Tuscan Indemnities, has not yet been sc. cepted at Vienna; in fael, new propositions on the subjeet ate expected from Pori(' The French Mi.. nister at Rerhbon, has made an attempt at Mu nich, to prevail on the Court of Bavaria to conseng to some-exchanges. France, however, has nvt re, flounced the guarantee of thy eras, HAGEJC leg* 41 1w gut &Iwo's, of.thit,day, atre it Atewettrfit f r om Paris, that a new Conspiracy has been disco* vexed against the FIRST CoNatm, which was On the point of breaking out. Several persons hay; been arrested, and when the Ft tir CONSUL wen; to the Theatre, the Guards were doubled. The GRAND DUKR of TUSCANY was So much beloved by his people, that it would by no means be surprising if they had earnestly sought to havq their Sovereign restored to them. The . CH's? . Corrstm can hardly ever have an opportunity ni sheaving greater magnanimity, with resped to the popular wish, than by restoring the Quoit:, DUKIc of TUSCANY as the bra Indeeinicy. We are astonished that General BOURNONVILLIt was not sent to take the command in St. Dominso, for no Officer ever carried on reattire with so little loss of men ; he once (accoraingim his own account) defeated the Austrians in a longrand obbtirtate battle, with the loss only of the little %finer of•ort of bs; drum Zuys. LOUTHERBOURG has been emplaying his vivid pencil on the Battle of Alexandria, a Battle ea glo rious to the British Arms. The point of time is the Retreat of the French. The departed veteran A BER CROI4,IIIY. of course, makes a distinguished figure in the piece. We are glad that an Artist of so much genius has , exercised his brilliant talents on this memorable occasion. The death of General LECLERC very naturally produced the external tribute of regret in France ; but in St. Domingo, it is probable, that there woe very little Blaci-Mourninz. Since the setting► lit of the severe weather, the Ladies who objet to wear Fleecy llotirry, are sup.. posed to have • found a comfortable substitute in Lamb's Wool. _ The two dashing young Sportsmen, who, in de. fiance of the Keepers, have been ranging over a va. riety of preserved Manors ; are said to have com mitted every kind of tresspass, except that of Ail. ling Game. The recent publication of CIiATTERTON'S Works may possibly revive the controversy respedirg RowLres Poems; but that controversy has been already handled with so much learning and ingenui ty, that " inspiration can hardly throw a new light on it." Sir ELIJAH IMPS?, formerly Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Judicature in Calcutta, is stated to be now in Paris, in the charaaer of an Agent. Sir CHARLES DAvErts has a large sear, so tame as to attend him when he goes a shooting, without being 'nuzzled : Bruin frequently strolls through the covers by himself at night, which was no Sooner known round the country, than the poachers imme. diately forwok their haunts, in a kind of compli. mentary fear of this new kind of gamekeeper, who takes out no other licence than what be derives from his 9wn stubborn authority. 1110 u The Thoug No 1 But so Save w Tans A Yet sti The pi The, se. tomp Ton by irot ke Shall 1 he wiry Q f~ 'Wh 4 #41, 14y GI .~l+~ L Arlto ill Rya AM' ti ` ." M . ~uM+^