The Sun. — London, England, 1801-10-26 00:00:00

THE SUN. SOLEM QUIS ptcsgs ►AL3UM AVDZAT? LONDON, OCTOBER : 26, 18oi. Wz yesterday received Paris Papers to the 2 3 d inst.—They are barren of intelligence. The Ar tillery and all the Fortifications of the Republic on the Frontiers are to be immediately put on the Peace Establishment, in pursuance of an order of-the Consulate. Tt;E Ilamburs.h Mail due yesterday arrived . this morning. It has brought us no intelligence of importance. The work of Peace is aaively pur sued in the Batavian Republic, and the beneficial consequences of the Preliminaries have been more immediately felt there than in France, from the resumption of the Fisheries.—A long Proclamation to the Batavian People, announces the acceptance of the new Constitution. The report of the occupation of the BishOpric of Munster by Prussian Troops, seems to rest on no good foundation. The ROYAL FAm t LY yesterday morning walked from the Queen's Lodge to St. George's Chapel, Windsor. As THEIR MAIESTIFS passed through the Great Court Yard, the t oth Regiment of Light Dragoons, and the Staffordshire Militia, were drawn up, and the Bands of each playing " God save the King." A great number of speaators assembled to pay their respeCts to their Sovereign. The Rev. Dr. I,ANGFORD, Canon in Residence, delivered a most excellent discourse from the Prophet Jeremiah, chap. xxix. verse 7. " And seek the Peace of the city whither I have caused you to be carried away captives, and pray unto the LORD for it : for in the Peace thereof shall you have Peace.". After the sermon the Coronation Anthem -was sung-, in a masterly stile, by the Choir belonging to the Chapel. , His Royal Highness the DUKE ofKE NT yesterday visiced THEIR MAI EsTI Es and the PRINCESSES. Yesterday being the Anniversary of His MA yESTY'S Accession to the Throne, the Park and Tower. Guns were fired on the occasion. This mornilig the ROYAL FAMILY cane 'from Windsor to Kew Palace, where they reside till Saturday next. •The Fi RsT• CONSUL of France has given orders for Soo Light Horse tu escort the Marquis CORN WALLIS to Paris. The PRINCE of WALES, on Friday, amused the people of Brighton with a sham-fight. The tSth ragoons, and parties from the loth and rsth, with the whole of the Artillery stationed there, were employed in attacking or defending the town and adjoining hills. Each street was contested; and the day being very fine, the scene. was busy and entertaining., It began at one, and continued till about four. SURREY YEOMANRY.--At a field day of the -Re_ giment of the Surrey Yeomanry Cayalry;on Epsom Downs, the 23d inst. a Letter from Lord_ HOBART baying been read by Colonel Lord LESLIE, it was unanimously resolved, " That the Surrey Yeomen-Cavalry are impresed with the deepest anxtmost lively sense of His Majesty's most gra cious approbation of their condud ; and, as the first object of their lives is to merit their Sovereign's, thanks, . they feel it their indispensible duty to continue their zealous exertions. in de ence of Ht s ;ESTY !S most sacred Person, and the established Constitution of the British 'Entpire, until' His MAJESTY, in his wisdom; shall no longer deem their ser vices necessary, either` for the protedion of the Country against Foreign Enemies, of the preservation of its internal tranquillity." The Messenger who was dispatched by the Mer chants of Paris to' Madrid with intelligence of the signing of the Prellrhinaries of Peace between Eng." land and France,. Was arrested by the Spanish Go. Vernment as an impostor, undeserving credit, and confined till .a Courier from the Chief Consul con_ firmed his_aecount. , • , I.OITSSAINT.I.O,UVERTURE, who now ma kes so distinguished a figure in the WeStern Hemisphere, is an African, and was brought up by a *Priest in St. Domingo, from whom he learnt some few Latin ...;.-rds, an .extraordinary acquisition' in a Man of that class,. who in s tbe midst of Frenchmen was never able succeed aitainirt the knowledge of French. It is. , .:t;vious . that his next master .Was named Liber;a-, anti it was tinder the yoke of this masTer that lie Medi:ate& the liberation of his fel. low Negrocs'. He is desctibedAs'a man of good sense and capacity, but as wanting decision ; as being a 'timid mar;;' and a - s; heing..::o wea r • 'and so 'sensible of his inability tq refuse any request made to him, that he ro=ver.. keeps his_ api.oin.;lnents,•to.avbid iinpyoper -compliance. He is accessible to flattery, and one of the modes in which ; it has then offered to him is that of a genealogy by which is made the descendant dim ancient King of Conga. The Clef du Cabinet, of the zrst. contains the following " A L etter from Haire an nounces, thpt the consumption of seed in sowing is the only cause of the present high Price of - Corn.. The quantity of Flour produced from the Corn this yeardS so great, that hardly in one year in ten has so abundant .a producebeen kno wn." The ;movements of the. French and Austrian ' _ Troops formerly • occupied a large space in the Foreign journals.. The vacuum .which the. Peace has occasioned is partially filled by the movements of M. VON Doum, whO appears to have been set into such a state of adion by the result of the:Elec.. dons at Munster. and Cologne, that he is unable to rest. We find in the French Papers no less than seven articles which merely give an account of his Opid travellb It is not in every Country as in England that an Exttaordinary Gizette is confined to political events. In Denmark we find one published - nu the Cow . Pox. . t.. ;:... „. NAVAL :17'\' , ,4 NEWS. ( , V... , -, . -.4.4 r,..V...!:.,..,L- 1 1:1<,. '%. Nom UZI imterium pelagi, sa-uumque tridentem, Sed ,noihi sow datum. From the LONDON GAZETTE, On. 24. Admiralty-Offee, Odober 24, 180 r. EXtrad of a Letter from rice-Admiral, Rainier, Commander in Chief of-His Majesty's Ships and vessels in the East Indies, to Evan Nepean, Esq. dated in ..e'bitzbay-Har, hour, the isth of itifi g , i So t. Be pleased 'to inform their Lordships, that Cap tain W. Wailer, in His Majesty's Sloop Albatross, on the tzth November last, in latitude is deg. N. and longitude, g i deg. E. captured L'Adel, mount ing twelve guns, with sixty men : and on the z3d of March following, in latitude itdeg. r 7 min. N. longitude 87 deg..E. he captured La Gloire, mount ing ten guns, and eleven men, both French Priva teers, from the Mauritius, Admiralty-Offce, Oilober 24, 1801. Extralt of a Letter from Rear-Admiral Sir John Thomas Duckworth, K. B. Commander in Chief of His Majesty's Ships and Vessels at the Lee ward Islands, to Evan Nepean, Esq. dated at 'Martinique, the 21 st of August, 1801. proLeedcd to thi3 auuliorage, where I found the Guachapin. had arrived the previous day, with a Spanish Letter of Marque, which she had captured, after a severe conflift of more than two hours. For the particulars of this gallant a6tion I shall refer their Lordships to the accompanying Letter from Captain Bland, of L'Heureux; too great praise cannot be given to Captain Butcher, his Officers, and Crew. His Majesty's Ship L'Heureux, of Mar- SIR, tinique, I7th August, iBor. Having left Case Navirre yesterday in the after noon, to follow the Orders received from you, the next morning at daylight, between Martinique and St. Lucia, we saw His Majesty's Brig Guachapin commencing an aftion with a Spanish Ship of War; to the-unequal contest we made all haste ; but be fore we could get up to give a broadside, the Spanish Letter ' , Of Marque La Teresa, commanded by an Officer belonging to the Spanish Navy, mount ing eighteen brass guns of thirty-two and twelve pounders, and one hundred and twenty men, struck to her gallant opponent. I am sorry to add, the Guachapin had three men killed and three wounded ; the Ship nearly the same. Captain Butcher mentions the able assistance he re ceived from his Lieutenant, Mr. Marshall, in the strongest terms. am, &c. (Signed) LOFTUS OTWAY BLAND. Sir John Thomas Duckworth, K. R. Rear-Admiral of the Red, Com mander in C.ief. TORBAY, OCT. 24. • LAST night came into Torbay, His Majesty's Ship Majestic, arid this morning His Majesty's Ship Prince, both from Plymouth. It is reported they are to remain in Torbay until• the whole of the Channel Fleet arrive, where they are to. rendezvou s until paid off'. PLYMOUTH, OCT. 24. SAILED the Prince, of 98 guns, for Spithea.(l. Arrived the May, CONN, from Ireland; He Velittc, FITZLATF, from Dantzic ; E/entlra, RITTApL, from Barcelona ; Pearl, LANGLEY, from Dram and Onv4rwaght , TAN ER, from. Dant zic. POIC/ i SiiiioTJTif, OCT. 25. ARRIVED His Majesty's. Brig Escort, from IN Downs, with a Fleet of Traders under convoy. Sailed His Majesty's Ship Anson, and Store-shio Abundance and Empress Mary, and several Trans ports and Merchant Ships for Gibialtar and the Mediterranean ; and the Wolverene, Capt. Wit Ica T ) for Marcou. Arrived the • Mary, M'Carthy, , from Petersburgh. Herron, Roberts, • from Memel. • Dorothy, Johnson, from Petersburgh. Ebenezer, . Pailrn, froin Chatham. Wandersman, •Vetk, froM S tack holio. Goode Economy, pustrevald, froth Dantzic. DOVER, OCT. 25. APassage-vessel arrived from Calais last night with, a great number of Passengers, Dipatches, This morning sailed for Calais a Bye-boat with Lord . CORI4WALL is's horses, Mr. — "ViilFFiN the Messenger, and a great many .Passengers. FALMOUTH, OCT. Aft RIV•Ep the Danish Brig Helena, Capt. Kock, to load fish for the Mediterranean ; His Majesty's Brig Raven, 0f" . .,8 guns, k.:aptilirl SAN DE ik.S, frign the Downs ; Majesty's ". Brig Require, of ; 16 guns, to give instruaions to the vessels here wait. ing Clinvoy for the :Mediterranean : the Fleet ate expeded dowi% tomorrow. Arrived Li/pi/tam/it/ Frigate, of 36 guns, Ca 7. Lain IioTH AM, from, a Cruize off the Coast of - :pair : about three weeks since she chased a French Brig Corvette, of zo guns, which took shelter under a Battery in the entrance of the Harbour of Coruna. L' Immortalite stood in, in order to attempt bring_ ing her out, but the wind suddenly failing (when nearly close to her) she was some time exposed to the fire of the Battery, several shot from which hull'd her, but luckily without hurting any per son, and the Brig was towed off by the Enemy, in spite of their endeavours to prevent it. Passed this Port, the Swedish Ship Expedit;c, Capt. HAMB ERG, from Lisbon, last from Cowes. Arrived the Mau Packet, Capt. Tuomt.soN, in nineteen days from Halifax, 'with a Mail. SHEERNESS,, OCT. 25. YESTERDAY sailed up the Thames, His Majesty's Bomb vessel Explosion, Capt. MARTIN. Arrived the Jane hired Lugger, and has gone to Chatham to be paid off. This day being the Anniversary of His Majesty's Accession to the Throne, a Royal Salute of z guns was fired from the Batteries, and Ships at the Nore at noon, in commemoration thereof. Arrived the Dolphin Cutter from the River, DEAL, OCT. 25. His Majesty's Ships York, Medusa, and jamaicay with the Bruiser, Bouncer, Biter, Vixen, Mallard, and Mariner Gun brigs, came in yesterday from the Westward, and remain with the averyssel, Isis, Leyden, Alkmaer, Amazon, St. Fiorenzo, Autumn, Hound, Eugenie, Gitr, Diligence, Alon:zo, Arrow, and Galgo Sloops ; Archer, Bold, Snipe, Ferreter, Charger, Locust, Jackal, Plumper, Minx, Griper, Eclipse, and Flamer Gun-brigs ; and Ranger Lighter. The East India Company's Packet Telegraph, Capt. H. SAmrsoi;, for St. Helena and India, sailed this afternoon on her voyage, with a fine wind at North. YARMOUTH, OCT. 25. ARRIVED from the Coast of Holland the follow ing Ships, under the command of Admirals GRAVES and PARKER, viz. the Standard, Asia, St. Albans, Irresistible, Princess of Orange, Veteran, Raison able, Polyphemus, Surprize and "Edus Frigates, Ariadne, Pylades, Lynx, and Squirrel Sloops, Cruizer, Cohours, and Kite Brigs, Lark and Phee ni.i. Luggers, Pheenix, Griffin, and Hazard Cutters, and Harpy Brig. Arrived the Diana,OSBORNE, Diana, STEWARD, and Prince of Wales, HEARNE, Packets, from Cux haven. Salle i theSulrize Frigate, Squirrel Sionp,Cruizer and Kite Brig's. The Pariable, Bo ILK, from Malaga to Hamburgh, with wine and oil, is sent in by His Majesty's Ship Squirrel. HARWICH, OCT. 25. YESTERDAY arrived the Danish Ship Endracht, belonging to Altona, HANS ARDIkES ERICKS mas ter, loadedwith salt, from Alicant bound to Ham- Virgil. This Ship has received considerable damage at sea, and was assisted into Port by some Pilots from Aldbro', which re all put under Quarantine. Also arrived the gix Sisters, P. FALKENBURG, from Larwick, with deals ; and the Concordia, H. P. JANs master, from Hamburgh, to Lisbon, with barley : this latteE„ ship has received considerable damage, and it is feared the cargo must be unloaded before she can proceed to the port of her destina tion. The Tam - Gebroders, H. GAR R ETTS, from Lon don, with coffee and other goods, bOund to Amster_ dam, with ,several other Foreign Ships outward_ bound, are put Into this Port by the late strong North-east wind, His Majesty's Ship Squirrel arrived this morning from Yarmouth Roads, with three large ships load ed with masts; detained some time, since under Neutral Colours. ADMIRALTY-COURT. pocTOß's' , COMMON'S; OCT. 23. THE Amelia, a Danish neutral ship, laden with timber, had a considerable time since been captured by an English Frigate, as she was steering in a di re&ion for Toulon. She endeavoured to avoid be ing intercepted by the English Frigate, and after wards made some opposition to a Lieutenant's com ing on board to examine her cargo and papers. It appearing that her cargo was ship-timber, and her papers not altogether regular, she was taken pos session of and carried to Leghorn, where the Cap tain protested agaiiiSt the legality of the capture,' offered to produce documents to prove his neu trality ; and that although he was bound to a French port, it was not to Toulon. The ship, with these papers on board, was sent to Corsica, then in pos session of the English, and the papers were deliver ed to the Commissioners for Prizes. In consequence of the evacuation of Bastia by the English, and•tbe confusion naturally produced by s'o sudden an event, the papers were lost. The prize was then sent to England, and the ship and cargo sold for the benefit of the Captors. The evidence in support of the cap. tore consisted of such of the crew of the Frigate a s took possession of her, and examined her papers , and the nature of her cargo. The Claimants, on the. other hand, contended that the timber consisted 01 , Danish fir, which was as applicable to the building of houses as ships; that the cargo was not destined for the French dockyard at Toulon, bat was pro ceeding to Hieres, to be employed for other r ut• poses ; that the papers which- had been lost, either through the negligence or misfortune of the Ca ll tors, would, if produced, have proved these faas ; and) therefore; that further time ought to be given to,. die Claitrlants to supply- the want of them by other proof. it appeared, however, that this cause I:nd long been in agitation, and that ample time had been allowed the Claimants to ha‘ e obtained further proof; but that they had failed in bringing it for , ward. Sir WILLIAM S 3r-1. delivered his. judgment at great length: he obServed that there must bz sou limits to the continuance of causes of this nature ; that the Claimants had bad sufficient time granted them for that purpose, and still there was no o ther evidence :before the Court but what had been ad duced on the part of the Captors. The first olje 3 to which he had directed his attention was the des' tination of'the ship ; the Captors had sworn she %vie sailing within three points of the port of Toulon , and was manifestly proceeding to that place. 1 6 answer to this, a variety of nautical arguments had been urged to prove that, from the description of the Captors, as to her course, she could not have bee steering for Toulon, but for the Hieres. He w . 34 not sufficiently acquainted with the science of n avi-, gation, to judge whether such arguments %It' founded in truth; but - he certainly did not thioV-. they ought to weigh against the positive oaths of the Captors, alledging that her destination was ev%; dently for Toulon. The next question was with to the cargo, which was proved by the cap tors to have been ship-timber ; this, he had no he sitation in saying, was contraband, and, considerio it as such, be should have little regarded whether it was going to Toulon or to Hieres, from w hence it might easily have been conveyed to the former place the faE of its not being contraband rested on the bare assertion of the Claimants, and was not verified by such proof as was admissible. Consi dering, therefore, that the ship and cargo had beet' destined for Toulon : that the cargo was contra band ; and that a sufficient delay had already hcel, allowed the Claimants to have supplied the *want 0 1 the ship's papers, aliedged to have been lost at Cor sica, he thought himself justified in making an eO,l of the suit, by declaring both ship and cargo lawfr prizes. On the z3d of August, His Majesty's Ship Apoll ° descried off Savannah.la-Mar damaica), a Felucci, Privateer-: it being perfettly calm, Capt. HALKETT maimed -the - barge - and two:other-boats, and sent them to attack her. The barge lout-rowed th e others, and got up to the Privateer, when her con", sorts remained a considerable distance astern, 0 1 with a gallantry deserving a better fate, they sine attempted to board. -The Felucca was full of rucn and after a severe conflid, our people were over powered, and the barge sent adrift. When th e ,,, other boats came up with the barge, they fowl: only one man on board, dead,' having been td through the body, and the hat of the Mario,: Officer very much cut and hacked.-1, he barge crew consisted of the Second Lieutenant of- ( 1).- Apollo, a Lieutenant of Marines, and fourteen trier l i all of whom, it is feared, -have fallen vidimo CO their too impetuous and ardent gallantry. The Merchants of Port Royal,: Jamaica, som e time since purchased the Tidier . :;cllooner, , and pre' sented her to Lord H. SEYMOUR, requesting she might b.e employed in protating the trade of the Wand from the numerous petty Privateers that fest it from Cuba. His Lordship has, however, re' turned her to them, with a letter, stating, that sill was unfit for service ; and the Coasts of the Isla& continued to be daily insulted and scoured by Ol' e or more of those marauders. The Pon of Cu alone had fitted out no loss than sz feluccas, every maritime town in the Island had a prop o tionate number. Tpe following Vessels, part of Admiral Mr) 34 ' TActrt's Convoy, were lost on 'the Island of M" i# tinique the 7th August, viz. the' Elizabt.s , na, part of the cargo saved ; Hope, ditto, lost on Point' Saline; Ea'svard, sunk in Trois Islet .334 . ,' John, for Martinique ; Pacific, foe ditto, wi th Government Stores, all of London ; and a Schooner , for Antigua, all bands perished. The Synod of Glasgow and Ayr have appo i n t the second Sunday in November, and the Synod Fife .the gth of November, for a general thank i giving within their ministry, for the blessine Peace and the late abundant harvest. - -- -- - - ---- In Edinburgh, fine fresh herrings sell at sixPe llos per dozen; • It is a curious faa that in the small countY. 4 Mearns, , or Kincardine , containing only z 6 1-7 iO, s . habitants, there are 2 hi.. 6 fewer males than t,,aiiell', being nearly a twelfth part of the gross populati° Mr. EpYE, is the new Mayor of Bristol. At the last Quarter Sessions for the count,' 0 ,.. ° 6 Buckingham, a question of considerable iinpor n ; r , relating to the Poors Rate, came before the coL i .,, a The Overseers of the Poor of Great Marlow rated the stock. of every tralesman in the to w 'i: not excepting the Surgeon. The number of al'i'e n lants corresponded to the number of parsons whom this new charge was made. The Oversc.e'to produced Witnesses to endeavour to substantia,i the rate, all of whom were heard, when the Alircidie% of BucxlNott Am, Chairman of the Sessions , he dared it to be the opinion of the Court, th at t o rate had not beerrsubstantiated in any one instLo..4l as to the sums charged on stock in trade ; f or thooo o f it may be legal •co tax stock, yet the difficul t i' d ascertaining the sum on which the tax is to be 131 os t so great as to render it impraeticable in °in' to every instance, as the Overseers must be able._o, prove that the sum so rated is the .clear!proPer„, tsciof the person charged, exclusive of all bit debyp The rate was therefore quashed as far as re ltc the tax on stock. be tal St: th th a all al)]