The Sun. — London, England, 1804-10-04 00:00:00

ARRIVSD nut. lianituirgh MAI LS. 0 PRICE OF STOCKS, -vim DAY AT TWALNII O'CLOCK. COMA, . . - St I 0111/IiUM . . 6 THE SUN. SOLtsll QUIS DICLRI VALSUIC ♦littlA7 ? LONDON, THURSDAY ) OCTOBER 41, 1804,. By Letters from Deal we understand that Lord MFt.vit.t.t embarked on board L'Abnable, com. handed by Capt. Bourow, on Tuesday evening, when ehc stood over for Boulogne with a leading wind; that towards midnight a tremendous firing of cannon was heard, accompanied with continued flashes of fire, for several hours. It having been determined to try the experiment of a night attack on the Enemy's Flotilla, the at. tempt was made on Tuesday night : the result of it ia not yet exaftly known ; but by a dispatch sent by his Lordship to Wllmer Castle, it is reported that very considerable damage has been done. We hope this may prove to be the case, as it will most probably be the means of keeping within their Harbours the Pigmy Flotillas that have been so pompously announced for the Invasion of England. Our other Letters from the Coast confirm the above statement, and speak of the result of the Minn as having been completely successful on our part, and dreadful to the Enemy. Government, we also understand, have received Dispatches to a similar effect. THE Kew arrived yesterday at Spithead, with Dispatches from Lord NELsosr. She left the Fleet towards the end of August, in high condition—the Craws all in full health and high spirits, ardently wishing for a brush with the skulking Squadron of Toulon. Ws yesterday stopped the Press to announce the arrival of Dutch Papers to the 3oth ult. and which, with the exception of one other Evening Paper, we received exclusively. Their contents are not of much importance. The reports in the Italian Pa. pers that Malta is to be given up to Russia is obvi ously undeserving of credit. The possession of Malta is of too much importance to this Country to admit of the idea of its tieing given up, at least during the War. What may be the ultimate fate of that vain able Island, in the present unsettled state of the world, it would be idle to corjedure. BtitiAinais is indefatigable in his endeavours to Create di:sencions between Austria and Russia ; he has already began to treat Austria as a Depen. dent Power, to point out the line of politics it ought to adopt; and has taken upon himself to decide what are its real interests. BONAPARTE ar. rived at Mentz on the zoth ult. His personal ap. prehensions seem to be subsiding, for, as the Dutch .ropers observe, apparently with some degree of astonishment, he was on that occasion attended only by his Guards and 14.410 Rfg;111&111.1 of Cavalry. 'Yesterday morninf ! a M , ssenger was dispatched from L rd HAKRODY'S Office, to Mr. PITT, at Walmer Casik, from whence Mr. Purr is expeeled in Town on Saturday, accompanied by Lord MEL. VILLE. Passports, we understand, were on Tuesday granted to the Masters of the different Spanish Ves. tel• in the River, in • oilier that they may proceed unmolested by any ()four Cruizers to their respettive destinations. Similar Pis,p,rts were sent offto all the our ports, for all the Vessels which they may contain belonging to His CATII 'LIC MAIISTY•• The Lisbon P,cket, which has been permitted to sail, carries out a Messenger irotn this Government, with dispatches to Mr. Fit ER E, the Secretary of Le. cation, ho remains at Madrid. These Dispatches, it is understood, contain the points on which Mr. Fiti• it it is instruCted so obtain a definitive answer from the Spanish Government ; and if it be not sati‘,laet;rv, War will immediately be declared. A Spio,ish Messenger likewise carries out Dispatches f rom t he Chevalier D'A NDUAGA to his Court. The sailing of the Spanish and Nirtuguese convoy is de. (erred. Spanish Vessels now in our ports, however, arc allowed to clear out. We understand direftions have been sent to all the ilifll.rent sea ports, fur enforcing, in the stritlest manlier, that all Ships which may have arrived, or shall arrive from Malaga, or the ports of Spain within the Mediterranean, in the vicinity of Ma. lags, be put under btrift quarantine, and daily scportb iv 'Alt& of the health of the crews. We are enabled to assert, upon indisputable nu. 'homy, that parts of the Letters ascribed to Mr. 11. WEI.LabiLEY, are fabrications. We allude, in r'irtieuiar, to the manner in which lie is made to describe his conversation with Mr. ADDINCTON, at. Lotd. P T4,EicrAGli'6 4 and to Mr. WELLEs . . itV,4l.u i erkL:dc:,r , vertkatioll, with Lord GREW?, I. I. E. .*(C saying, that Mr. WEI.Lrq.Fr his nor seen that Noble urd since his return tri,m . St. oci rcx DALE, and lofts WonD.ALL, km. .-.rrs• arc 0(41 4 44iiiffi fur Sqtrbuputi), for, the . f1,1.041118* year. hEirS. Dove a, OM 3.—We are in the greatest anxiety to learn the result of a most formidable Attack which was certainly made last night on the Boulogne Flotilla. A blaze of light was distinfily seen from the Castle and Heights, and a heavy firing heard for several hours.—The Master of a Fishing-boat, which was near the Varne (some miles from the shore) all night, reports, that towards eleven o'clock he and his people were struck with the appearance of an uncommon light in Boulogne Bay they at first imagined it to proceed from lightning, but they describe it as contint.ing with uncommon brightness for nearly an hour ; during which they could very plainly perceive many shells which were thrown from the ships anti the shore. The Master of an Oyster-boat, which was dredg. ing during ;he night, on what is called the new Oyster.ground, about three leagues from BOulogne, relates, that about eleven o'clock he heard some tremendous explosions, and saw an amazing blaze of light off Boulogne : he distinfily observed three Vessels blow up, which seemed to fill the air with fire, as if, to use his own expressions, thousands of fireworks had been set off at the same instant, A Cutter was seen standing from Boulogne Roads for the Downs at noon, and at this moment (six o'clock, P. M.) a great part of the Boulogne Squa dron, headed by the Monarch, with Lord Ks trit's Flag flying, are seen near the South Sand Head, steering under full sail for the Downs. The Fishermen and the persons who saw it from the shore, describe the appearance on the French Coast last night as the most formidable they ever saw. DEAL, Ocr. 3.—Arrived His Majesty's Ship Adamant, from the Note; Ardent, from Boulogne Road ; Basilisk Gun-brig from a Cruize offOstend ; Rifleman, Thrasher, atld Phosphorus from a Cruize to the Westward ; and the Bite'r Gun-brig, with a Fleet of Transports under Convoy from Ports. mouth, which are sailed for Sheerness, Sailed the Ptne/ap on a Cruize off Hushing ; and the Isabella, GlitE rN, for Charleston. This morning the Squadron blockading Calais was seen stretching in for the South Sand.head ; but they all tacked per signal, and stood away for Ca. lais again. In the Downs—Utrecht, Ardent, Inflexible, Adamant, Curlew Sloop ; Basilisk, Rifleman, Thrasher,. Biter, and Phosphorus, Gun-brigs; Armed Defence Ships and Trans ports as before. FROM ANOTHER CORR EsroNnerur• Wantsda . y, liatfpast Four. We have this moment received an account that a desperate Adion has taken place off Boulogne, be. tween our Cruizersand the French Flotilla, in which the latter have been completely defeated ; and the report is, that the greatest part of the Fleet within Boulogne Harbour have been burnt; the loss on our part considerable. The cannons were heard last night at Dover louder and mare frequent than at any former period. We are taught to believe the defeat of the Enemy to be complete. The Post is this moment going our. PLYMOUTH, OCT. Z.—Arrived the Pe/ter Gun. brig from a Cruize, Sailed the Ihrin . iiha/ hired 'Armed Ship with a Convoy for the Downs ; and the Cockatrice Cutter with the Sir William Reathcote, homeward bound West India Ship under Convoy for Lon. don ; also the Lad) Warren, hired Armed Ship, to the 'Westward, under scaled Orders, charged with Dispatches, which were brought hither from London last night by express. Sailed the Temera;re, of 98 guns, to join the Channel Fleet, A large Fleet of Merchantmen passed by this morning to the Eastward. Arrived this morning the Happy Return hired Armed Cutter of to guns, commanded by Lieut. TURNER, from the In.shure squadron off Brest, near which place, whilst cruizing a few days since, in company with the Sheerness Cutter of to guns, they fell in with two French Sloop of War, one a Ship of :8 guns, the other a Brig of 14. guns, at. tempting to get into Brest, which they engaged the greater part of the day, within reach of the Batteries, which continued to pour vollies of shot and shells over them during the whole of the Affirm ; the Sloops of War, however, at length effetted their escape, by running on shore among the rocks, where they were immediately guarded by. several hundred soldiers. The Happy •Return re. ceived only two shots, one in her how, the other in her . rudder, which rendered her unmanageable, and she was obliged to be towed off. The crews of the two Cutters are reported to have behaved in the must gallant manner, none of whom were either killed or wounded. Arrived the Venerable, of 7+ guns, Capt. J. Hystraa ; and Repulse, of 7+ guns, Capt, Hon, A. K. LLGGE, from the Channel Fleets, PORIESNMUTH, OCT. 3.—Arrived The Hound Cutter, Capt. HAWKINS, from a Cruize ; Thus Brother:, JOHNSON, from Dantzic ; Havant, M. II y, from Tenby ; Crown Prince Frederick, J*. cons, from Christiana ; His Majesty's Ship Kew, Capt. WHITE, from Lord NILSON'S Fleet ; Lord Mon, HARLEY, Podute Sloop, Speedy Brig►, and Lord Nehon Lugger, from a Cruize. Sailed the Susannah Matzaretta, LUND, for Frederickstad t. HARWICH, OCT. 3.—The Diana Packet, Capt. OssoaNe, and the Auckland, Captain HAMOND, sailed this afternoon with a fair wind, immediately on the arrival of the coach from London ; the Diana, with the Hamhurgh and Bremen Mails for Husum ; and the Auckland, for Gottenburgh. The Prussian Schuyt love Wilhelm, sailed for Cat. wick ; and the Argo Revenue Cutter, on a Cruize. Remain the Pegasus Frigate, Charger and Cell. Jar Gun.vessels, with the F/) , and Frederick hired Armed Cutters. SH EBtt t Ms OCT. 3.—Sailed the Wane?: for the North Sea, and the Starling and Sparkler Gun. brigs for the Downs. Sailed the Defence for Chatham. Passed by the Ditiator and Stately, under jury.masts, for the River, to be repaired, having been in ordinary at Chatham. The Lion Armed Ship has the Signal Hying for Convoy to the Elbe, and the Hind Armed Ship that for the Bailie. Ships at this Port—Zealand, Argo, Viacom, Thisbe, Ceres, Beaver, Pylades, Lion, Duke of Kent, and Hind Armed Ships ; the Firm, Teaser, and Escort 4un.brigs. Yesterday a Court of Direaors was held at the East India House, when the following Command. era were sworn, viz. Captain C. B. GRIDDLE, into the command of the Royal George, in the room of Captain TIMMIN. ; Cdphttsi J. J. WILLIAMSON, the Ocean, for Madras and China ; and Captain HA— MILTON, the Bombay Castle. The ships litav Ad. dington, Bombay Castle, Wexford, and Royal George, for iLinbay and China ; the Earl of 4lbergaven n iy, tor Bengal and China ; and Warn's* ifailtut• for St. Helena, Bencoolen, and China, were ordered to be afloat the zzd October, sail to Gravesend November s, stay there forty days, and be in the Downs December 20. , The Court adjourned At five o'clock till to.morrow. The Patristic Fund at Lloyd's have given aol. to William Langenberg, of the }oda' Gun.brig, who wos whunded.spme time ago in an adiun with the Enemy', Gun.boa►s. A large sture.ship has been lately puirchased fur the purpuse of conveying suite+, tkc. to the Settle. ment at New South Waleq Vr4sri is to be called the Lord Mekville,„nd it lb eXpetteli LCI soil troth Porrswuuth in a short time. ELECTIoN OF LORI* MAYOR.--At the close of the P .11 ,egreld4y the numbers were, ' For Alderman PritCHARD . 346% SitAw , . FLoWEit 623 None of the Candidates attended. Alderman FLOWER h.is, in a very handsome manner, declined. .tOl writer contest. Aldermen PERCHARD and SHAW will, of course, be returned to the Court Of Aldermen, whu will chute one of them to fill the Civic Chair. It is with the greatest satisfadion we lay before our Readers the result of the Poll yesterday, in the City. The Livery of London have, as we hope they always will do, shewn their detestation of the illiberal attempt made by a F a cti on to con d emn a respetlable Magistrate, before any investigation of his conduct had taken place. The violence and malevolence of the Fattion have, in this instance, completely defeated their own purposes. If they had suffered Mi. Alderman SHAW to be returned by the Common Hall, according to seniority, and ac. cording as it now appears to, the decided sense of the Livery of London, it could not by any means be c,nsidered as prejudging any question which it may he intended to try respeeting the Middlesex EleCtion ; but the rancour of the Faction against Alderman SHAW was too great to omit any oppur. tunity of attacking him; they have made the at. tack, and they have been defeated.—Notwithstand. ing the silly babbling of Mr. WatriamAx, and the laboured invedives of the Parry Paper, the result of the Poll shews that Mr. Alderman SHAW " con. tinues as high in the estimation of his Brother Li. verymen as when he first received•the sacred trust of Sheriff from their hands."—The disttess and embarrassment of the Faction is really ludicrous their hostility to Alderman . Sita.w induces them to canvass for Alderman FLow sit ; and yet a hope is expressed in their Gazette, that the Livery will vote against him when he canvasses for himself...— But it is now contended, that the majority which Alderman SHAW has obtained, "will not wipe Pfi the stigma which attaches to his conduit ;" but it the event had been the other way—if the Worthy Al derman had been in a minority, would it not have been triumphantly urged as a proof that the Livery disapproved of his cunduti ? nay, was it nut said, when the Common Hall were supposed to have d e . cided against Mr. Alderman SHAw, that " the Livery had that day expressed, in the must unequi. vocal terms, their abhorrence of the toesa'sed of the late Sheriffs at the last Election for Mid lie. sex ?"—So that according to this fair anti tatalid mode of reasoning, the rejection of Alderman SHAW would have been a proof of his guilt ; hut the &titled approbation of his brother Liverymen cannot wipe off a stigma from a man whose conduit has not been investigated, and whose cliaraCter has never been uestioned but by a d esperate an d di sappointed Faction. The Noble Houses of DavoN'HIRE and Btsno. ROUGH will be more closely conflated, it i. said, by the marriage of Lord Viscount DUNCANNON with Lady H. CAVENDISH, which is shortly to take place, WEYMOUTH, OCT. a: The ROYAL FAMILY were so lote before they came on shore last night, that the Pickets were' dismined by the Officers. • Their MAJESTIEs attended the Theatre last night to see the Comedy of The West Indian, the ne plots nitro of Mr. Curds a RLAND's genius, and The 'eau and the Dodge. ; Belton', Mr. ELL trrort. The house overflowed at an early hour. Indeed it is the case every night their MAJESTIES command. This morning His MAIRsTr was on horseback between six and seven o'clock, and returned soon after eight to the Lodge. Soon after ten o'clock the ROYAL FAMILY, attended by Lady ILCHESTER and daughter!, Mrs. DRAX, Mrs. DRAX Gaosys. NOR, Lady G. BULICEL BY, the Hon. Mrs. &wits, Earls RossLYN, PAULET, and UXBRIDGE, L ,, rds WALSINCHAM and RiVER.,G , _meraIsGARTH,MAN. NERs, MANNINO/IAM, and Aid-de-Camp, went on board the Yacht. On Saturday Mr. PENN gives a grand Fcte at his house at Portland, and it is exiu fled the Rova FAMILY will honour it with their presence. There are three new Privateers ready to sail from this Port. The Dux R a visit to the PR o i f N C S tr E C C ; ZWAert. f ro m fr' at y ß es ri t g er : l, r a o y n. noon, about three o'cl. ck, from C lar etnn.ln,use, on O. Her Royal Higlineis the P. NC P. 41 CHARLOIIIII of Wm. vs paid a visit yesterday at r -arleton.Houser where she remained for a few hours , andt he %us, in evening returned to Shooter's Hill. We are happy to contratti& some of the partteu• lan of the statement of the accident reported 10 have happened to Her Royal Highness the Patna cm of %YAM. Her Royal Highness's Gvoln► not perceiving het hand, shut the catriage.door. b ); which her little finger was 'jammed. She ivferf .l excessive pain, but escaped with only the inie r f 7 1 " the loss of her nail. Net Royal Highness exhinite"t infinite fortitude, and a degree of humanity whic' must for ever endear het so her family... Before her finger was dressed, she had the Oroom, whose dis' tress was not to he expressed, called up, and 11 , ' sured him, that sha. was not in the least ofroded with him, the fastlt being entirely her' own. Her Royal Highness is attended by Mr. IClstalle . and Mr. EDNIBAD, of Greenwich. Lord &trot arrived-yesterday at his house la Grosvenor.street;from the - tarl of ATl.lsSurell seat in Wilts. The Dike of Gleiteestet's Votunteets, command: ed by Lord CH FT‘V YrID, had yesterday a grants field.dnr in Hyde Park.. Mrs. essot t;rar:,-This Lady, so well known. Cos the Fashionable W .rid as the trierd and (labial/IWe' rival of Mrs.-Ohtft flemrs it and Mrs. Bk *lt HtAD, has had a most fortunate escape Nom treachery of her slaves, in the IslandolDomin,r About four years since, after an absence: Nil 711 • CHOU. IT Of fifteen years, she exellre" ' she the fascinating elegancies of Londo n, in.whieh was designed by nature to take so vow.,cunt/. al IiEI Is part, for the more solid joys of con j' her husband, residfil the ioa. , a of n minl ca, wh ere s h e en j oye d a ll 1 1. e colonialgrand•ur e. wraith and large pos .e, 10,4 b esto w. An attempt had heel, made some time s ince to ,poison rt. CHOLCIT, in chocolates, but without su ccess.. 4 CROL IT having lately gon e from borne, some het Slaves took the dish kat resolution of s trangling e their TVlisire s s, and entering h , r room in the nigh t whilst s h e was as l ee p, listened her to the, heti„....an.d_ fixed a noose roun d h e r neck for that p ur p ose. Person wbise part it was to poll the cord, caugh t h. Id of the wrong end, and a wtke Mr.. Crtot,Ltrs whose screams raised the I.mily, who instaniiy canto to her assistance, and ex , reared her from bet sirtia; ti ' -'n• The wretches effetted their escape. Therts was a 141 8 e quantity of dollars in the hi use, wh ic ., probably was one of the temptations to this hurtio attempt. A I.4 , tter from Poole, dated 0 61 . 3, says Wfaa: Jot PAV I fie, of the Barrack Department, has b een here inspetling the storehouses, to are how mart): Troops they would contain, if circumstances 0004 render it necessary for their being on this Colvit. In the last W ar we h av e had 4500 men in thePar racks at one time : a like number may be ac.orel lgim ' dated, should G o vernment think it proper. y The following is the present state of the EileznY Force in th e -Texel, viz. five Ships of the Li ne r an d one Ship of 24 guns. Coning from Amsfen ial/r and down as far as the Pampus, one large Fri V in I itely launched. The number of Transports h a diminished lately ; no more than 25 are now Some of our Ship s of W a r h a ve been for a lung on the North Coast watching the operations d t . t t he Enemy in the Ports of Holland. Owing to great perseverance of Capt. HoPe, of the Der i t: that Ship has been able to. keep in the stormy ell, Sea ti r more that, eight months, without kin, ooce in port during all that peril & The low grounds South of Kennington Greg?' into which place the Thames water spontanenus'l flows every tide, certainly an admirable ' for the South London trater.woris about to h e ereetbee there. Between five and six acres of land *ill n j appropriated to different reservoirs for retaining a m filtering the water, previous to its being, ili a, through pipes for the supply tit the iso mer , Lit i n o f bifants, which is a preferable method to !ha g h Vitt" forcing it iminettiately from the River Thames , lan , all filih and sediment. The Engir.eer and I t ' ion nCr of these works has so contrived the conaT art h of the different reset voir', that the excavate' ewill from the lo.ver ieservoirs (into. w hich the tide 0 be permitted fl w) will be applied to ra isio ,er considerable embankment or mound for the 1 ° Will PerC°. ta reservoir, from , which the water 'd o Ft r through the different pipes without the rav el Round the top of the upper reservoir wil l be I l _ e g f r o terrace of about 700 feet in circuinterens;d;videj which a lawn will gradually descend, io be 00 dr. into gardens for the different dwellings , In akv ateil gant polyvn proposed to he e retied 00 t h is . d opt Cl bs situation. This, with ar fine a sheet ° f pla l o . P in the fr. , nr, will certainly be one of the sant places Suuth of the Metropolis.