The Sun. — London, England, 1804-08-07 00:00:00

PRICE OF STOCKS, THU DAY AT I WELVE O'CLOCK. CDrISOIS 5614,57 I Red. Ana. 57 Onus. - 6a 7 T H Ed' "S .. U . '„10 LIN( gore bie . . , LONDON, 4Ut UST 7, 1804; Tire French Fleet made a very short voyage. WI n the fog cleared up, they were seen snugly at tilichut in Camaret Bay, consisting of nincSail the Una and three Frigates. The L' Aigle, of the Rochefort Squadron, has 6stroyed a French, Frigate and a Brig, after a short Engagement, the particulars of which will appear , in this night's Gazette. • The particulars of the . 11 umbareli*ut 'of HavTo Will also be given ip the Gazette pf this evening, . • The larg e and valuabLe Fleets froptlye' . East and West Indies passed.the Isle of NYight this morning. We shall now, therefore,..be gratified with accurate Intelligence, resegtini Engagement of the China Shies with Lttlots... ".. • Valuable Co.yo z a arc alieyttfircd Lbc tic s l'Utiugal, -anti Newfoundland. h with deeplegret that we hali . e to announce the death of: the gallant , and truly - worthy Admiral Who expired suddenly, on his Way 6 . Edinburgh, of an attack, as is supposed, of-the . sour in : Ms sto mach. Sunday evening THEIR MAJESTIES, the PRIN. CRAIES, and the Doxas of Kurtz- and CAMB DGE, `walked on the Terrace.---Among the company we ( noticed Lords MULGR AV E and MELVILLE, Sir SIDNEY SMITH, Mr. PITT, and the Russian Am. eassador and 1. mily. His MAJESTY. conversed with several of the NAility. About eight o'clock the illoyXt. FAMILY retired to the New Music Rooms. Yesterday morning the Staffordshire Militia Was reviewed by the PUKE of CAMBRIDGE. in . Wind. hr Little Park. Soon after His Royal Highness bad .formed the line,' and they had gone through a Dumber of - manoeuvres, His MAJESTY and the DUKES a CUMBERLAND and KENT arrived, and 4 insp'ec'ted them. His MAJESTY appeared highly plelsed with their appearance. HER MAJESTY and the PRI Nctsses took an air. jog in a sociable in Windsor Great Park. Litters were yesterday itceived in Town from th Duke of ANGOULEME, dated Warsaw, the 19th in which His Royal Highness says, that he intended to leave that City for Wilna, with his LJ«tieand King, before 'the end of the month;, hut that his Royal Consort, with her Aunt, the Queen of France; were to continue to reside ihere, as no certain arrangements were made as to their future restartice. A 'Atter from Berlin, of the Bth ult., says, that two Russian. Armies on his Eastern and Northern Frontiers, and three. Freth Atinies on his Western and Southern, the KING of PRUSSIA has declared to the Courts of St. Peterlburgh and St. Cloud, that His Me:JasTY intends to preserve the.. strictest Neutrality, and therefore will not permit the passage Of any troops, artillery or ammunition, through' his dominions, but. regard. as an enemy,. ,a , y 1:0,4 tr attempting to force such passage." Another Letter, from the same city, Of the sanir. ,date, says, XVIIL continued at Warsaw• •when the last letters left that city ; nor was it exl 'petted that His must Christian Mn J tivry would leave .teat. t,ruirr Capir4 of Poland soon. New Over. rurcs . have been Made by BONAPARTE, for ageneral prifkati9n, through the mediation of pot Court, in which favourable arrangements have been proposed for the whole Boy a BON Family now in exile, on ; condition of renouncing their rights to the 'fluent ,of France,' and of promising no longer to reside in E , void. A Courier has beep dispatched. to St. Pert tihurgh, td communicate to the RUsbIAN EMe. remott these OVerturei." The Ist Battalion of the RPyal Irish Regiment embarked on Thursday, at Newhaven, for Hal wich. The aectanrl followeil on Friday, • • The Aiklishite Militia marched on Monday for Dunbar. The Secorkd Royal Lancashire and the Royal La. olitk ltire Militia ate to form a Brigade in the East. ern Distriet, under the cummlod of Major• General VONCAN CAMPBELL. On .W.ednesdAy morning four Companies of the sth Battalion of Reserve arrived at Manchester; by way'td Bolton, from Liverpool,on their route to Nortitigliont,' for which place they marched on Thurs• day ; the other four Companies Matched at illegalise titne thr..uph. waitiltton, from Liverpool, on their way to Lrehtirld. In quenee,' of an 'application made to the Lords of the•.. Treasury, by his .Grace the Duke of A 'mot., orders' have been sent err the Isle .of Man, Inc it' list of the 40ats, an t i !lumber:of men in each, to be. made out • and warded In that Board ;in order that protectiOns may be issued to the flitter.. :Teo, • _ _ _ . ' Saturday morning the Brigade under Majnr.Ge. nerd M O OR a, consisting of the 4th, 43,1, and std tight Ittlantry, and 9s , h, or Rifle Corps, rnaroh t t )ram Shornecliffe to Swenficld Minnis, between FL4cestone and I,l . . k rluiro Downs,. where, they per., fortneti, t in a most masterly style, a variety of (la_ colt mat oeuvres. There tk err preirnt a numerous I •:IVliii:ary Officers fr m Canterbury ;nd it 'vicin'rty, On Si.orda) the 63! Regiment, and on. Sunday the B.(1141101 1 01 - 11,e 61 ; Regiment (both 0 1 ivhic,ll lttd disembarked at It intsgAtt), took their gr , kind at the encammtrnt on Barham Downs, The two Battalion. of the ;i3th, or Royal Irish Itrgi. !tient, are hour!) , expeAed. d R, lent 01 Llgot • 4 ne first division or the t Dragoons marched, yesterday morning, _through Town from "Biimingham to Maidstone, Kent. The:experiment with the Military Car succeeded pettedly on Friday . last ;, it reached Welling, ,a distance of Is miles, in two hours and ten minutes, the men batiing> suffered no perceptible inconve. nience or fatigue. After waiting two ,hours or more to feed and refresh the horses, the fourteen 'mein were - as. safely and pleasantly conveyed backto town in one hour and fitty.minutes. Yesterday, . soon after one o'clock, another appa.- 4tus; intended. to answer the same purpose, was down by four. braes into, the Parade before the Horse Guards, where it was examined by His Royal ,Highness the DUKE of Yottx,. Mr. PITT, and a great number of General Officers and persons of distindion., This apparatus was slung upon the springs of a cont. Mon post chaise carriage. Instead of the tight rope going from one spring to the other, serving as a sup port to the. men's backs, there are six long irons standipgfrom the geatboards, three on each side, to support. a rope ;, iostead,of one hoard for the inens' feet, .two have been substitue - d side by - -side ; '• stead of its being suspended by ropes, large straps and buckles. .are introduced ; a footboard' for the serjeant and corporal, who - sit in front, has been ad. ded, supported by three large irons. Ten privates, a corporal, and serjeant, were seated on the Carriage about half past ten, with all their marching accou.. trements;, hut they alighted by orders 'from the DUKE of YORK, and went to the guardhouse to be accurately weighed; being again seated, they drOve off full speed, exaCtly at two o'clock, for Welling; accompanied by two Officers of the Guard, on horse. back. Mr. PITT seemed co. take the most alive part of any one present in inspeCting and suggciting al. terations,of the apparatus. Among the company present we noticed &me rals Boma/say, Hore, and LESLIE, M,jor VAL, 1.,)1d' CAMDEN, Sir joilN FORDYCE, Mr. BURDETT, &c. Hooks were. pros ided order the seat hoards for hanging the soldiers knapsa:•ks on, but they carried them on their backs al on Friday, and as seediS most proper and convenient, for them to do. This apparatus was,we understand, pro d uced by the same cuach.maker who' made the one tried on Late last night Dispatches were sent to Admiral CoßtywALLis, at Portsmouth, from whence he is expeded to sail in a few days. Dispatches were on Saturday sent from the Ad miralty to Admiral Sir ANDREW MiI:CHEM., at 1-14itfax, Nuva Scotia. . . Yesterday Letter's were received in town from our 'Squadron off Ferrol, dated . 24.th'ult. at which time they were all Well. The French Ships in that harbour were expe6led to put to sea in a short time. One of them is quite ready for sea, and iiviaualled for eight months. If she escapes our Cruizers, her destination is supposed.tabe fur the East Indies. NAVAL Au PoiNnit brs.—LLCapiain J. Harvey, to the Agamemnon ; Captain Byng, to the Malabar ; Captain Clements, to the Texer ; Captain 'Shipley, made Post, into the Centaur ; Captain Ferris, to the Proterpine ; Lieutenant King, of the. Centaur, to command the Drake ; Lieutenant Henderson, of the same ship, to command the Cuacharion ; Lieutenant Sterling, of the Fondant, to eotnroand the 6'erapis ; Captain Waring., to the .Surinam Ifoo. Captain King, to the-AriaeLe. ; Captain C. Elphinstune, to the Ortyhomvili Sir T. LivingscunCoo the Media. tor, of 44 guns, built of teak; Captain Laiiriei to the Cdevorir; •Ca l it. J.,Watson, to the dilanzo ; Captain Impey, to the .6pervirr ; Captain. ,)Vi. bertson,lo the Hindorintr ;. Captain Champain, pro lempore, to Ole•Olory,suice .G.' Martin, indispc)Acil : E. Bromley, E;q. to be Surgeon_of the Texel ; S. Bromley, Esq. to be Surgeon of the. Malabar. The Lords of the Admiralty have been pleased to order that Dr. LIND, First Physician of the Royal Hospital at Haslar, shall be superannuated on his full salary, as a . reward for his unremitted attention to his duty during a service of 32, years. Doetor .'f itompsoN i s appc,inted First Pnysiciata. A private letter from Alton.a, dated July 35, • Pays, s The King of SWEDEN left Carlsruht- rail; CI une*pe4lidly, and after a..,short visit to Vienna, his Majesty intends direaly to return to Stockholm:" Th e Senate o f Hamburg!) has been applied to . for no less a sum titan three Millions of bane° marks (ah0nt,25r0,0001.), to defray the expences of BoNA PARTU'S Coronarion. Two millions more are claiMed of Bremen, and one _million 'of Lubeck. This deMand, however, has not been cOmplied with. It is communicated,. in private intelligence-froth Paris,'thai the same Tribunal which tried PEOR Ci'ES and Nilo R RAU ' will be shortly called together for the trial of the Ex-nobles FA 11C R, BO RK L, 1)s LA Roctiaropcnut.T, and Ds. 14Aurviona., who hay,: been several years prisoners in the rreinple. objet of this measure is, no doubt, to implicate the Generals Lv,coutta and MAC OONA . LD, whom the Corsican views with a most suspicious eye. 'The Court Astronomer, ir appointed a IVieniber of tl3e Legion of Honour. The number of all , the Members. will, it is said, be extended to to t oota, An annual appointment of 40,006 livres was intended for LAc s.r s DE . , the Grand Chancellor of the L.gion,. of which, hoWever, he would only accept scoo. • Letters from Spa state, that a dreadful tempest was experiened there on the, evening of the zoth nit. It'was. accompanied by a most excessive and, continual shower 61 rain. 'The 'river Vevay,:-and the tut:l'l - '4, Crepe, swelled so rapidly, that by ten o'clock at night. the town was, inundated. The water rushed in rapid streams through the streets, and penetrated into the houses, several of which were damaged 'Considerably, and 4 few carried away. A hattercarried his stock. from the ground. floor to the one-pair of stairs, whither he retreated with his family :.the flood undermined his house, and 'the first floor tumbled down, but the people were paved. The streets have suffered greatly, and the tavement is broken up. At ball past eleven the water abated, and at two the streets'wete cleared. The last great flood, of the 2xd of August, 17 Sz, did not rise so high ar this. The damage dine to the houses and furniture is very considerable. 7— There have also been inundations 'in the neighbour. hood. At Vieux the bridge on the Verre 'was swept away. Y JL L, 1V 111 PV , Tr f rifWlTH, AUGUST S. —There has been no at. -, • • rival frbm the Channel Fleet to-day. ..The intelli gence received yesterday was brought by the Hawke Sloop,of War ; and there is little reason to doubt but that it is the Squadron commanded by Admiral GANTHEAUME which have made - Their _escape from Brest. Various are the conjeaure's as to their destination : some suppose Ireland, others the Wk.aiterranean ; hut it ,is sincerely to be hoped that Rear-Admiral Sir I'. GRAVES, in the .Montague, .of .74 guns, with the Squadron. under his Command, • that have been detached from the Channel Fleet, consisting of the Foudroyant,'of, 8o guns, Celuirsr, Venerable, and Irn peteux, of 74 guns each, with three other Ships of the Line, will soon be able to give good account of this Expedition of the Enemy. They made their escape during a very thick fug, in the course of which it was impossible to per ceive them, and it was only discovered that they had escaped, upon reconnoitering the Harbour of Brest at the cleating up.of the•fog. • The Prince George, 01 98 guns, and Tigre, of So guns, sailed hence last night, w reinforce the Chan. nel Fleet ; and this morning the Seagull Sloop of War and a Frigate sailed from the Sound 'oil a cruize in the Chops of the Channel, in case the Enemy should be daring enough to penetrate cite British Channel. The Princess Royal, of 93 guns, now in Caw_ sand Bay, will sail to j , )in the Fitet the tnmient the wind will permit. It pow- blows a strong gale at S. W. with likelihood of a storm' From that quarter. .. • . . . Arrived a French Sloop of War, prize to the Hazard. • Sailed the Princess Royal Man of War, Santa Mar. garetta Frigate, and Sylph Sloop of War, - on a Cruize, Arrived .the Drake Sloop of War, from the We:il m indies. She left the home waril Lre ward Islands Meal ) all well, a few d4y s since to the Westward. PORTSMOUTH, Auc. 6.—Arrived the Start:, man, irpm a Cruize. Sailed. the Levant, MII.I, t it, fur Trieste. PooLit, Auo. 6.—The Homeward Fleet from Newfoundland 'arc just arrived off the Harbour. The names of the Ships are yet unknown. HARWICH, AUG. 6. The I.,:rk, Post-office Packet, Capt. Dr.t.t., arrived this morni,g from !limn, with the Hamburg') and Bremen Mails and Passeng,:rs. Th. Water I'acket, Capt. A. DEANS, and the Earl of Leicever, Capt. TitomrsoN,• sailed or Saturday evening, with their respectiveMaili ; the first for Husum, ,and tlie, latter for Gottenhorg. Arrived the Adv . oture, COOPER, from Chris tiana, with deals for this place; and the Fleet passed this Harbour for their respective destinations.. ; The outward-bound galtic,Fleet from the Nore passed this'P?rt yesterday, with a faivivind. DEAL, AUG. 6.--Arrived His Majesty's Ship Immortaliti, Archer antißloodhound Gun.brigs, Irony cruize - off Baulopd ; Flamer Gun-hrig Iraqi the Ntire ; Mariner, fiogs a Cruizeitiff',Ostend;.. and .La'Poulette, from Portsmouth. ' Arrived and sailed for the River the Anna Bella, BANGF., from Antigua ; Stork, Bleow ; frt,m New Providence ; also several Ships from Lisbon, whose names we were not able to learn. Arrived the Alert Logger with a Convoy from Plymouth, which are sailed for the River. Sailed the Tartarus Bomb, for Sheerness ; and Sussex Oak Navy Transport, for Woolwich. The Scourge Sloop has made the Signal for Con. voy to the Westward. • In the Downs—Monarch, Utrecht, Inflexible, Immor tilt*, Castor, Scourge, La Poulette, Orestes, I-Ltrpy, Fury, Sulphur, Bruizer, Bloodhound, Archer, Flamer,. M,iriner ; Plymouth Navy , Transport. Princess Re Mil AllllOl Ditto; Armed Defence Ships as before; and Matida, Cart6l ; Mar riot, Union, and Lord Kcith, East India Ships. YARMOUTH, Aug. 6:—Yesterday passed by a Convoy for the Baltic, and were joined in here by the Perwveran ce, WARD, John, gißso,, Borers', Hu WM., Benjamin,• BUTCH RR, and Venture, SR EL. Arrived the Censor Gun. brig, Chapman Armed Ship, Swift Cutter, and inspegor Sloop. Also arrived, the Jervis, WooLsros, and Mer cury, COCK, from Wyberg ; Memel, BROWN, from Christiana ; Bonetta; BEST, and Woodhouse, NEW SY, from Liverpool. Sailed the hind Brig widt th Convoy for the Baltic. TORBAY, Au G. s.—The Or ) sheur Frigate, Capt. Ht t. c, with the Mang/es East Indiaman, and a Con. voy from Portsmouth, bound to Newfoundland, Que. bec, and Halifax, put into Torbay last night at seven P.M. The homewatd-bound Lsewaril Islands and East India Meets pasied the Isle.of Wight, on Monday afternoon, for Ihe Downs. The Tax-Bills.pass'il—the Senate's Wit is o'er, Awl Statesmen urge the Party-fight no+ more — No more shall Wi NAHA AT, with assidUous care, Perplex his hearers—while lie splits a 'lair ; .No more shall Aurii!veroki, in pompous phrge, Pour forth his own—or any ocher's praise— Nor Dodor I.AWRENCE shall our senses steep, Not in profoundest thought—but soundest sleep D Y sow anti I.Ly to rural scenes . retire, And ABBOTT struts—a worthy Country Sluire, But did I say. that Party-strife was o'cri ' • That even FJEtion'rear'd its head no more ?: Go then to Brentford —there, with thundiring voice, The Mob proclaims its vitiated choice— That Mob which can its fitaious.clamours 'lend TD DRXPARD'S and. O'ConNoa's bosinP Friend, Let those who sandion hint consistent be, Nor prostitute the name of Liberty— Calfthmselyes Levellers-- rtenchmen-7any thins — But name not Laws —; their Country—or their KJ Ns, Now let us note the changes which appear To mirk the course of this eventful year : , . See AADI NGTON has fall'n, to rise no more, And Pitt resurn'd the rains he held before; PITT ! who should never leave his 3overcign's ai e R ,, And AIDI Nero?: !, who ne'er Was born to guide; • Behold the best of K mcs—by all ador'd, To Health and Regal Fundion now resior'd. Long may te live to urge . his Country'4 cause, The safe and stead} , Guardian of its LaWs Beneath his gentle sway shall Britons prove 1 Th' invincible elka of Subjeds' love.' • '• No Foe shall e'er disturb his just command; , 140,BUADIETT prosper —and no Frenchman land; iliituns shall still enjoy true Liberty— Be th.,is their Motto—' , •LOYAL, BRAVE, AND I' R E Y.. BOLLA 4.3 s left this Country, and is gone tae perform at Tvliian, The Opera wascondueted by Mr. Gant) 139 t season mucrt more to the credit of hii liberality th"n to the improvement of his furt'utie The truth ' 9 ' the. Salaries to the seVerai! 'Performers ari, in (kit' general amount, enormous, ,ati4l afford little choco of profit at ill; muchless of a proper recompense for, the trouble and risque which attend zuett 1145 t COti" cern. An American Votary of the. Muses has, i t seem', been . put into the stocks for steali n g Coals. It 'l3 very seldom, indeed, that the inspiration of Po ci'- 3 us iqfp, his children 'warm, and it is only in the Ainai' can way. that they ate likely to get into tut stocks, The following account is' given of & A TI F . ttl ifffanthse Roscius, who has b e en playing i nany.a SHAKSP F. AR E'S principal Characters with the gre atess .......... . sticci.s , in lrel and And Scotland : " °irate Static his manners are puerile, as he is ci*ten.sc, e , playing - at ru.ablus in a morning , and afterwards Erhard lio in the evening. " He is rather short of his age, slight rna gg. but has great expression of countenance. The frtomolt. ;I begins to - converse upon stage business,•he appears an insp" l berog. He I t t i.e. a oa s rr: a : p t a. it t o e ty a u s sv a fio n icr t sc t t u dre r u n hee f as o lr r lsoa r t e l ,fi p t a lhi r a t y e t e h:u rw irs vh l oo ti o c ic lr ee :: : : 0 1 : 1 : 015. : : cio it m "stk iia en n ,h y .,l n tis . i e u bc. ct , : ; s o o Nu u t y gl wd i o t etta lo ird r s . l; ; . f ti h rne e 4le ir E k enddoinobaleuprpigireltijac.ilinßorajo:o:llp pi; Il th re a s t s : l l l.i e s . my playlug will I" . . o ....;,,,- •- - ! . in j • KENIBLIt is engaged to play at the Lim erlc- :, s of Cork Theatres, during the respedive• Assi ze- , a t those two Cities:-- He.- has had crowded "' ` ie& 'ort the Dublin Theatre, which closed for the seasu" 7 , Friday the z7th'July. ae The Freedom of the Ciry.of Dublin was voic the-last Quarterly Assembly,' to Sir JANt Fs. Ironer, His IVlaksty's Second Serf- aCIA7IW in Ireland, for his conduit as au uptig able,. and'Constitutintial Judge of Assize. A Letter, from Cork, dated July 31, sa , ", ►} c '' 0 !BR TEN, tile iris! Grant, died here tact I"rtt P ` and this (I.!s . v. - as interred at the Church of St' , i1 :1.! bar; the coffin was of immerse magnitttle, an d concourse of people which attended the funeral' "'r _ •St) great, and so clamorous, as to oblige the M to have the attendance of several of the. react; 0 . fteers.---.O'Butetv lead a small property in the. .sy of Kerry, of about 150 i. a year, whieli had mortgaged, to clear which he exhibited hi as a shew for some yed,rs' back ; the propett ‘ nearly cleared, and he had . tletermineA to retil e lv : his native place, Ate!' exhibiting himself at to which place he was about to have •at tne he was taken ill here." The following Motion was fatly made of the erovir i ctal Assemblies in Atnerica tiered, that a . Writ, be opened f) 01 , a member to serve In this Assembly, in the room otiWsots (. 41; ,; -ut NS, who has been removed by Death tothe A,sembly." a . BONAPA.RTE, it seems, in his Imperial Aclr ,, 16 some of the Gettnan Princes,' greets them bY,i et , o , h .4-isle of Mon Cousin. All the Polders with c u he has had any connexion have indeed too 11l reason to consider him as a' Cazeteer. The. prudent EMPEROR of the French was, c ,7, tent to take art.liumble repasfat a . cottager's (111 ` . because he thought rural fare less dt`ngcrous made dish at a Grand Hotel, and his loving 1 . 11 1 1., jails represent his fear as condrlcent;on. Noth ydi it sianding the.acknowledged pride of his charatithoi is probableohat through:life, hi will fi n d i t n ecci s to observe in his diet 'the same rilrr,ti/e hralleilitp ANECDO,TII.—..-SAitt. Foors wag Once d , -- re . . 00 0, a friend to look over some juvenile corn} oi t ' hi al which the Author intended to publish if he p o t the sinftion sei good'a judge. When the 'for submitted them to FouTs, he made an apoh:gros giving him so much trouble, alledging dust " c o immersed in business, and had too many " , 90 0 the fire" •to attend to such- things, 'After a r,, e " able time, he called upon Fool's, and itsi ce " what.he would advise him to do with his O p p " Why," said the Wag, 64 I would ad V i Se Y ° . put them with your irons." • p t to' • Kotrztten has raised another Monti linen it its Genius in Isis Travelsfront Berlin to Pa To:- rich repast of sweetmeats,aided by the I diir°' and architettute of a skilful Cunfetiion