The Sun. — London, England, 1804-05-01 00:00:00

~i~IL3. Is. liamburgh ra s Lisbon 0 '- ----- Allan/IL 3 i PRICE OF STOCKS, TRU DAY AT TWZLYI O'CLOCX. -5 6 e I Omniuni 4/ pr Consols - THE SUN. SOLEM QUI3 DICERS !ALBUM AUDI/if ? LONDON, AT AY x, 1804. THAT most important and desirable event, which we have for some time past prediCled, may now be , considered as being on the point of taking place— we mean the dissolution of the present Ministry ; for that is , the .only interpretation we can put upon the language of Lord HAWICESBUR Y last night in the House of Peers. When the Marquis of STAT.. ?ORD was on the point of rising to submit his Motion to the House, Lord HA.WICESIILTRY rose , and req ueste d the Noble Marquis to postpone his Mo tion to a future day, in consequence of some circum. stances having occurred, which he could not, con. sistently with his public duty, state at that time, but which he declared, upon his responsibility, and upon his charaCter as an individual, to be of a na. ture that he was sure their Lordships would deem sufficient to warrant him in asking the Noble Mar. quis to postpone his Motion. ship was re Though hi s L or d . peatedly pressed, he declined being more explicit upon the subjeft, and it was at length agreed that the Motion should be postponed to Friday. A Conversati on o f a similar tendency took place in the House of Commons., between Mr. Fox and Mr, ADDmc-roti, in consequence of which it was agreed, that all business upon which any difference of opinion was likely to arise, should be postponed , fora few days. A Cabinet Council' was held on Sunday night, and another yesterd a the tw o y, pr ev i ous to the meeting of Houses, in which osed , as it is genera ll y sup. p, Ministers, finding it impossible any longer to contend against the combined rank, talent, and property opposed to them, determined, in order to avoid the disgrace of a complete defeat, to resign their situations. , Another great and important measure is said to be in agitation, but it is one of s uch peculiar delicacy, that we forbear to offer any ° Pillion upon the subjeft, until we are in complete possession of all the has. e stated yesterday, that Mr. Alm! xcnotkr had concluded the Bargain for the Loan, and also the Terms upon which it was made ; and last night, in the House of Commons, he stated the Supplies and 'Ways and Means for the year, or, as it is usually termed, opened the Budget. He proposed that a SUM of O ne Milli on a year should be levied as a W ar Tex : in ord er to ra i se this sun! he additional d ut propo se d an yof 81. , per ton upon Wine. It will e recolkeeted t h at a D uty of zol. a ton was o. ed on Wi ne last year, but it was afterwards pr reduceposd to 121. The additional Duty of only b r i n 81. will t h ere f ore g it up to the :01. proposed last year. This Tax, it is expeded, will produce zooioool. It is a l so proposed to increase the Custom Duty on Im- Wool a year. Potts, wi t h the excepti of Win; Tea, a n d C otton , which, on it is calculated makin g together One , will p ro d uce 800,0001. IVlillion. Th e I nterest of the Loan, Sinking Fund, and char ges o f numagement, amounting to 736,0001. is to b e provided for by an provement i n t h e augmentat i on in the Stamp Duti es , and by some im. mode o f t h eir colledion, which it is supoosed will i ncrease that branch of th e R evenue 800 ,0001. a year. Ttt Is morning we received three Flaml,urgh Letters from Muilith dated April 4, confirm the account of the departure of M Dtt r. Att F, from th at City in the night betwee n the tst and 2d ult It . appears, by an article dated Co ns t ant b rop/e, March 3 4 , t h at fresh disturbances have broken out in gypt, and that ALI PACHA was murdered on his way from Alex,lndria to Cairo. The Beys, who Ire supposed to have procured hiy assassination, in_ sited the late Governor of Cairo to resume his 11...ce, which he declined ; and in order to restore 1/Anquillity, GHEZZAR PACIIA, the celebrated D adia of Acre, has been appointed to that office. PARIS, APRIL 18.—The Senatui Coasultum, w hich is to settle the Hereditary Permanence of the Government, in a manner the most conducive to the Welfare of France and the tranquillity of the Wor!d, is expe&ed shortly to make its appearalce. Lo vls BoNAPARTr ha, bee n appo i nte d a C oon. of cillor of Stare, as he is the only one of the Brothers the. First Consul who has male issue. This cir =urnstance seems not irtelative to the reports which Still continue, of the establit,lime nt of an Hereditary S.Jccession. ANTwErty, API: I L It.---It appears that the Ex }:edition against England will not be undert a k en 1 141 a ll the French and Ba , avian FiQtillat' have farmed a jursaion at Boalostte, which will be in a rnrnth or six weeks. We have received, through, lit medium of a Dutch Paper, another Report of the Grand Judge of France, respelling the supposed Plot carried on under the auspices of Mr. DRAKE, and in which Mr. SPENCER SMITH, the British Minister at Stutgard, is now implicated. The whole charge is founded upon the evidence of a Frenchman of the name of Roser, who is represented as having in sinuated himself into the confidence of Mr. DRAKE and Mr. SMITH, for the purpose of betraying them. Upon this subje& we can only repeat our opinion, that the greater part of this Correspondence has been fabricated by the French Government or their Agents ; and we are the more confirmed in that opinion, by a Circular Letter sent by Lord HAwKEs. BURY to the Foreign Ministers, in which he so. lemnly disavows, on the part of the British Govern.. ment, any knowledge of the Plot attributed to Mr. DRAK • It is stated in an article from Munich, that Mr. DRAKE being informed that a number of Gens d' Armes had left Strasburgh with a view to arrest him, demanded of the Bavarian Minister an assurance of his safety, which being delayed, he immediately quitted Munich. But he had previ ously received a Note from the Minister of the ELECTOR, in which His Highness declares, that he could no longer receive Mr. DRAKE at Court, or have any communication with him.—Mr. SP E NC E SMITit, it is also stated, had departed suddenly from &regard. Yesterday His MAJESTY rode in the Queen's Riding.house. About twelve o'clock His MA. JeSTY gave an audience to the DUKE of YORK. Yesterday, soon after one o'clock, HER MA JESTY and the four younger PRINCESSES, took an airing on the Surrey Road. Yesterday the DUKE of CAMBRIDGE dined with HER MAJESTY. Sir LUCAS PErys had yesterday an audience of Mr. ADDINGTON. LordliAwKEssußY ha: within these few days written a Circular Letter to the different Foreign Ministers, in which His MAJESTY'S disavowal of any knowledge of the Plot attributed by the French Government to Mr. DRAKE, as unequivocally ex. pressed ; but his Lordship at the same time insists, that with respeet to the general principles, there are certain cases in which a Government may em. ploy its Agents to distraa an Enemy and frustrate his plans, without any violation of the established Law of Nations. On Friday last the Right Hon. JOHN CHARLES Viscount ALTHoRr was unanimously eletted Mem ber for the Borough of Okehampton, in the room of JAMES STRANGE, Esq. who lately accepted the Chiltern Hundreds. Sir jAmtts MANSFIELD presided yesterday as Lord Chief Justice in the Court of Common Pleas. Sir EDWARD PELLEw is appointed Commander is Chie in the East T. G. SHORTLAND, Esq. is'appointed to the command of His Majesty's Ship Britannia, vice the Earl of NOIITHESX, promoted to the tank of Admiral. Yesterday the Pursers of the Earl St. Vincent, for Bombay ; and Wahhamstoetv, for Ceylon and Bom bay, were dispatched from the India House. Passengers per Earl St. Pincent—MessrS. Corkran, W. and E. Marriott, Cook, Elderton, Wilson, Smith, Warnqr, Cocks edge, Hicks, Davis, Moor, Ambrose, Stewart, Cox, and M‘bleal ,• Mistresses Corkran, Bell, Marriott, and Fal coner; Misses Corkran, Mack, and Gleadah ; and Capt. S. B. Bell. Passengers per Walthamstow—Messrs. Ramsay, W. T. and S. Money, Fildes, Cock, Moseley, Hervey, Cruickshank, Kirk, Sherrill; 1. and S. Snodgrass, and Macdonald ; Mis tresses Ramsay, Fildes, and Money; Misses Clarke, Fildes, and Hyde ; Capt. C. 0. Stephenson. The Official Returns of the Artillery, &e. as far as at present can be collected, taken in India, amount to 713 Pieces of Ordnance, exclusive of Tumbrils, Stores, &c. The Treasure divided on the field is reported to be immense. Colonel ALAN CAMERON, of the 79th Regiment, has obtained Letters of Service to raise a second Battalion. On Saturday se'nniglit sailed from Aberdeen the Marquis of ilunty, MITCHELL, with about aso Recruits of the Army of Reserve, tp join the ad Battalion of the 92d Regiment. Yesterday tivlrning the Second Battalion of the First Regiment of Foot Guards had a Grand Field.. day in Hyde Park, commanded by General BUR. BARD ; and this morning the Second Battalion of the Coldstream Regiment had a Grand Field.day, under the command of Colonel A It WITRONG. Yesterday the St. Georges, Kensington, St. James's, and Loyal Westminster Volunteers, had each a field-day in Hyde Park, ,under their respec . Live Commanders, preparatory to their being re viewed. The St. James's are to be brigaded on Thursday the loth, and Saturday the 22d inst. On Thursday last a Court Martial assembled at the Marine Barracks, Portsmouth, upon Lieut. HAN.. NAN, of the Royal Marines, on several charges made against him by Lieut. Col. WINTER, and con tinues still sitting. _ As the Countess of WARWICK was coming out from the Marchioness Of SALISBURY'S rout last night, to get into her carriage, her toot slipped, and she was pitched down the stone steps. For tunately the crowd was so great, that they prevented h e r re ceiving any injury, her Ladyship having pitched upon the heads of two footmen. On the 2d of March last, the Commissaries of Edinburgh pronounced a Decree of Divorce in the Aftion at the instance of Mr. JOHN MACE ADZEN, again st M rs. G RIZEL Merchant, of Manchester, KENNEDY, Lite his wife. On Monday, at Godalming, Surrey, the Lady of Captain BALL AitD, of the Royal Navy, was safely delivered of a daughter, IvAPAL NEWS. FALMOUTH, APRI L zB.—Arrived This morning the Prince of Wales Packet, Toon, with Mail from Lisbon, five days passage. Left lying at Lisbon, His Majesty's Ship Orpheus, and the Diana and Auckland Packets: the former was expeaed to sail on the n:otrow, with Mails for England. The Con voy was appointed to sail from Lisbon for England on the 28th inst. Sailed this evening the Townshend Packet, DODD, with two Mails for Lisbon, and the Lady Arabella Packet, with the middle Mails of this month for the Leeward Islands. Also sailed the American Ship South Carolina, Capt. STEEL, for London ; the Copenhenda/, WOLFE, for Embden ; the Maria, M'KSNNER, for Cork ; and several Coasters round land. DEAL, APRIL 30.—His Majesty'3 Ships Ja maica, Dart, Orestes, P asp, Autumn, Fury and Tartarus Bombs, Archer, Aggressor, Conflid, Lo cust, Mariner, and Starling Gun brigs, Milbrook ,Schooner, sailed on a Cruize off Boulogne and Calais. Sailed the Viper Cutter and Regulus, with the Walthanzstcw East India Ship ; Ranger, Jason, Providence, Pleasant.kill,Countess cf Elgin,Dutchess of Cumberland, and Sussex Oak Transports, and a large Fleet of Merchant Vessels under their Con voy, for Portsmouth, Plymouth, and Falmouth. In the Downs—Monarch, Utrecht, Illustrious, Veteran, Ardent, Trusty, Virginie, Immortalize, E uryalus, Leda, Crescent, Champion, Squirrel, Perseus, Vesuvius, Lucifer, Discovery, Sulphur, alai Speculator Lugger. DOVER, APR IL 30.—A French Row-boat, sup posed from Boulogne, taking advantage of the fog yesterday, came dose in with the land between this place and Folkstone, and captured a coasting Sloop> which she made off with. It is reported that ano ther Sloop was afterwards captured by the same Boat. BRITISH NAVY. STATEMENT OF THE DISTRIBUTION OF THE NAVAL BRITISH FORCE, TO THIS DAY. Line In Port and fitting, and with sealed orders S 7 Guard-Ships - - 9 In the English and Irish 26 Channels - - On the Downs and North t Sea stations - At the West India Islands ? and on the Passage S 3 On the Jamaica station 6 American & Newfound- 2 land stations - C. of G. Hope, E. Ind. ? and on the Passage S 7 Coast of Africa - o Spain, Portugal and Gibraltar 7 Mediterranean and on passage 13 Hospital and Prison Ships 11 so's I Frig I Sps. 4122 1 51 41 91 3 3 1 27 } 64 3 1 201 76 21 111 191 01 61 141 II 3 1 31 S 9 1 io 1 21 of 21 4 2 121 II II i o Tot. 35 26 4 13 3 8 14 Total in Commission too 26 I t 25 y 256 5c7 Receiving Ships - 4 4 4 1 1 3 Serviceable and repairing i 6 2 /8 for Service - - S In ordinary - - 59 6 5 0 l9 1 34 Building - - iz 37 66 Totals 188 I 33 I 197 3 1 5 STATE OF THE ORDINARY AT EACH PORT. Line. so's Frig Sps. Tot. 22 1 17 5 45 2 3 4 11 5 43 2 41 3 I 10 1 2 39 2 1 2 7 12 I 2 i 20 i 3 26 Portsmouth - - Plymouth - - Chatham - - Sheerness - - River - - Total 72 I it I bo y 22 1• 16 LAW REPORT. COURT OF KING's BENCH, APRIL 33. BORDENAVE V. GREGORY. Mr. GARROW had obtained a Rule to shew cause why the verdict which the PlaintiTobtained at Guild. hall should not be set aside and a nonsuit entered. The points on which he rested his application were, Ist, that the Plaintiff had not attended at the Stock Ex change after the sale of the stock until the latest hour of the market, to call on the buyer to have it trans ferred, as he ought to have done, conformably to the principle recognized in the case of Lancashire and Elillingworth, in Lord Raymond's Reports. Second— ly, that he did not sell the Stock, to ascertain the damages sustained by the buyer's default in not ac cepting the transfer with sufficient promptness, ac cording to the provisions of the Ad of the 7th of Geo. 11. chapter 8. Mr. ERSKINE and Mr. RICHARDSON, in support of the Verdid, contended, that there is a material difference between the present case and that reported in Lord Raymond. That in this case the evidence went w prove a tender and refusal of the transfer, and therefore it was not necessary for the seller of the Stock to wait until the latest hour of the Stock Exchange Market; and that as no time is specified in the Ad for the second sale of the Stock, to aster. lain the damages, the delay of such sale, from the Bth to the tzth of May, was not unreasonable, nor repugnant to the letter and spirit of the Statute. Mr.GAtt Row and Mr.GIBEs were heard in reply. Lord ELLENBOROUGH said, that certainly there ought to he a tender and refusal. In this case there was no evidence of a name being demanded, (which is the way these bargains were completed), until the 6th or 7th of May, so that there was neither a tender and refusal on the sth, either in fad or by operations of law. With reseed to the second point, he left it to the Jury to determine, whether the Plaintiff had aced with all due promptitude, and they had found in his favour.—Afterwards the Court doubted upon the construdion of the Stock_ Jobbing Ad, whether, the difference between the I agreed f or , an d t he p r i c e of the subsequent price sale, was the necessary measure of the damages. — Th e y said it was fit that so important an Ad should re ceive a Judicial construction, and therefore in the ne t rial, that question might be Ft , . upon. the code—New trial granted w FROM THE DUTCH PAPERS. PARIS, Aced TZ. [Second Report of the GRAND IUDGE, respec9ing tire Plots of the person named DRAKE, Minister from England at Munich, and of the person named SPENCER SMITH, NII.- nister from England at Stutgard, against France, and ttir person of the FIRST Cotis tn..] " CITIZEN FIRST CONSUL, " My conjeaures are verified. Mr. DRAKE not the only agent of England whose political ink sion is merely the plausible mask of a hid len Mi. nistry of SeduEtion and Insurrettion. I havf the honour to place before your eyes, Payers, which prove that Mr. SPENCER SMITH, Diplomatic Age!;r of England in the States of Wirtemburgh, after the example of Mr. DRAKE, has occupied himself, since his arrival at his place of residence, only in prostituting his public charafter, his influence, and thesold of his Government, to that infamous NL nistry. " Mr. SPENCER SMITH has staered a discottery of the secret part which formed the real °hied of his Diplomatic Mission. I present to the 'Ft kST CONSUL an enigmatical letter, which this Minister has written to M. LELIEVR E DE SAINT REMI, one of his agents in Holland ; this Agent, Spy, Emigrant, and who has received his pardon, was already known to the Police; but before I had any one of the parts of his Correspondence with Mr. SPENCER SmITH, I knew by other reports, that when he was about to obtain his amnesty, which he procured in Plavio,e, year it, he quitted Seez, his place of birth, in Ni_ vose, the same year, in order to go to Cambray ; and that, on the zd of last Frimaire, he had gone to Holland, there to serve under the name of Pau. NE AU, hnd to follow there the double direEtion of a Frenchman and a Spy, named LE CLERC, whom the British Ministry supported at Abbeville, and that of an accredited Spy, named SPENCER SMITH , whom, for the purpose of covering his designs, that same Ministry had invested with a Diph,matic Cita_ ratter (see cite Pieces 8, 9 , Bcc). I further knew, by papers equally nut-act:Aß, and not less in_ strutlive, seized on the spy at. Abbeville, that Mr. SPENCER SMITH, before he (pitted London,. Mad entered into such intimate connexions with a gene ral Committee of Espionage, established by the above Administration, and the direction of which was en. trusted to the Abbe RATE L, that he had demanded and obtained of that Committee a confidential Se cretary named Ptaiac Auto, who ,was to follow the" Secret Correspondence, and to receive and comtnu_ nicate all the necessary documents to the Agents Holland, the Spies on the Coast, and the Conspira tors in Paris. The Letters to Lt at E. V R E, the cit.. dit for 2000 Louis d'ors given on the house olaO s v at Rotterdam, the cypher, the enigmatical Letter, No. 7, are of the handwriting of this PER I C ; and thus it will be seen, that Mr. SPENCER SMITH is gone to his residence with, all the exterior of a Diplomatic Minister from England ; that is to say, with sympathetic inks, watch-words to cotninunicao: with all the Spica, Bills of Exchange to reward their services, and a confideroial intermediate Agent, to follow up their proceedings and to direct thein, without committing himself. " It is necessary to recyr once more to Mr. DRAK E. The zwa repeats which I lay before you, Citi zen FIRST CON,UL, will give you an account of a mission to that Minister, by Citizen Ros Captain and Adjutant Major of the gib Regiment of the Line in garrison at Strasburgh, whom Mr. DRAKE was very willing to employ as agent of a pretended General, who was to stir up four Depart. ments, to draw round him the French Army, to overthrow your Government, to instal in its stead a Democratic Direaory, and finally, to put this phan tom of power, and all France, at the discietion of the English Government. " I should hesitate to present to you these mon.. strous absurdities, if I had not to lay before you an original letter from Mr. DRAKE, backed by con. siderable sums of gold, counted by Mr. DRAKE, and deposited at my office by Citizen ROSEY. This letter serves as a proof of the accuracy of the re ports of the French Agent, and ought to be publish. ed, because the odious particulars which it contains, give additional colouring to the pidure of infamy which Mr. DRAKE has himself delineated of his in cendiary diplomacy, in the first part of his corres pondence. " Mr. DRAKE replied to the pretended General. He acknowledges the receipt of his Envoy with his credentials. He congratulates himself on the har mony subsisting between him and the Committee of Disorganization, over which the General preside~. ' Your views,' says he, complacently, are quite conformable to mine, and I need not enlarge tut ther on this point.' " But he requires (and here he follows the first vagaries of his predecessor WI cattana) that prov,- sionally they should secure two strong places ; Hu. flinger) by all means, and Strasburgh, if possible.— By this means 61 - 4. could they depend upon a sure Communication, then would Mr. DRAKE take his residence near the Rhine, and it will suffice to in_ form him immediately of the in talent fixed for CM mencing the operations, and of the precise periods when farther assistance will be necessary, as well as of the amount of the succours required, that he may have time to take measures to provide fur the same, and that the operations may not fail for want of support (See No. 6). " However, the most important_ point is not the taking of places, and securing stages for the safe ar rival of Subsidies. First of all, we must disorganize the Army. Mr. DRAKE complains of being kit no. informed of the progress which the Agents of the Committee may have made to &till over some among them; but he trusts to their zeal. He supposes, with confidence,that the attempts tried with this view have completely succeeded, and that they are certain of a powerful diverSion from that quarter ; without this aid, he solemnly declares, your o p erations will confined to cause three or four Departments to rise, which can never succeed upon the long run, on the supposition that the FIRST CONSUL retains a power over his Troops sufficient to make them march against you. " "This disquietude, it will be easily believed, is the prevailing idea of Mr. DRAKE ; it seizes him, it occupies birn continually ; however, he has found an admirable cx . p,AliCnt to recover his cO - orPze, Yoae