The Sun. — London, England, 1804-01-10 00:00:00

MAII S. Doc. ARA27ID. .iburgli 2 PRICE OF STOCKS, zAY AT TWXLVE O'CLOCK. 56 Pmniurn THE SUN. SOLEM QUIS FAL.SUM AUDZATI Con cis LONDON, 3: ANUA R Y 10 , 1804. A report is again circulated, that a Plan of Attack upon some part of the 'Enemy's preparations for In. vasion, is under the 'consideration of Ministers, and that something in this way will be done early in the Spring. We sincerely wish . that the report .may be well-founded. We I are no fritrids to such inconsiderate and ill-judged Attacks as that made some time ago upon Calais . and Bgulove, be cause they were mad without 'a due estimate of the Force necessary to make a . sticient impression upon the Enemy ; but we are certain, that if we are, during the whole of the next summer, to an ul - on a frigid system of mere internal defence, the Spirit of the Nation must Sink, and we shall lose a - - great part oithat noble Energy which now animates our Volunteers, and aff_a.d.s' the best means for under taking, with our Regular Force, some important of fensive operation. From the injury which was done to the Town and Harbour of Calais by the very inade quate Force which was sent against it, we have no doubt :that the whole Town and Bason may be de stroyed by the employment of sufficient means ; and we know that a Plan was long ago given in for this purpose, by an Officer well acquainted with the localities of the place, by which its com plete destruCtion might be ensured. If we sit down coldly to calculate every little loss which an Enterprize may produce, we shall never, we fear, at tempt any thing calculated to feed the Spirit or support Ole Character of Englishmen for noble daring.----Under a more able and efficient Ministry we should not despair of seeing Enterprizes at tempted and crowned with success, which should vie with any recorded 'in the brightest pages of our History ;. and there never was a period when it was more incumbent upon us than at present to vindicate our Character, and convince the world that England is not only still capable of defend. ing herself, but of checking the career, and hum bling- the' arrogant pretensions of the most un bounded and destructive ambition. We shall sin cerely rejoice to be able, at some no very distant period, to cohlirm the report to which we have alluded, as we are confident than a well-planned Enterprize, of whatever nature, against the Enemy, would have great effect in overseeing his project of Invasion, and would perhaps be' the signal to the rest of . Europe for making one great effort more, to effectuate their own deliverance. By a private Letter from the Blanche Frigate, commanded by Capt. IVItinGE, dated Cape Fran cois, Nov. 19, we are informed that he has sue- ceeded in burning and destroying all the French c c.ksels at Monte Christi, which consisted of et 5 1 of various descriptions had three men jolted, and eight wounded in this hazardous Ser vice. Lieut. NICI I OLS of the Marines, was also wounded, but is in a fair way of recovery, On Saturday morning the Charwell Sloop of War, Captain DUMARESQ, arrived at' Plymouth, and immediately sailed again with Dispatches for Vice,Admiral Sir JAmEs SAUNIAKEZ, at Guernsey, and from the moment of her being sent off, Sir JOHN CoLioys was indefatigable in forwarding some pre- pararions, from which it was inferred, that some - thing in the was• of attack may be again meditated in the quarter of St. Makes. This, huwever, is of course mere conjeatirc. Two Prussian Schuyts arrived yesterday in the 'River from the Maes, from which they sailed on Tuesday last, corn laden. They bring no addi tional information to that which we have already stated. The Troops in Holland have, it is posi. lively affirmed, retired into winter-quarters. Yesterday morning His MAJ ESTY took an airing onlicirseback in 'Windsor Great Park. HEI: MA J E . STY and the Pa INc EssEs took an airing .the Maidenhead road. Major-General BARNETT, the present Licute. nant-Govetenor of Gibraltar, is appointed to succeed the late Major. General CL EPHANE, as second Major of the 3d Regiment of Guards. Gen:* Sir CHARLES GR EEN is appointed to succeed the late Gen. GR IN- F! ELD, as Commander in Chief of His Majesty's Forces serving in the West India Islands. The Court Martial sat on Friday, and yesterday, on General BVitToN, at Chelsea. The charge against him is for fighting a duel with an inferior Officer. The two Second 4 Wye been examined plicated themselves; and upon this t here seemed to. be no evidence against the General. But the, DUKE of You.: hearing of this, produced a letter, to the Court, wherein the General admits the fad. The Court were to deliberate yesterday whether such a letter can be received in evidencee This day a General CourtlVlartial was to be held at. Chelsea College, for the trial of Colonel BOYCE, Inaperainee Field-Officer of the Marlborough Dis tritt. Major-General Bu rtitAtt D i of the First Re-. giment of Foot Guards, was to be President. The PRINCE Of WALES'S Light Dragoons, under marching orders for Guildford, we hear, do not lea ve Brighton until the•arrival of the sth Dragoons, who are to relieve them, and who marched from Bir niingharn for that purpose on Thursday last. We stated more than two months ago that His MAJESTY'S Camp Equipage was in perfeet readi ness, a piece of intelligence which some ofethe Papers now give as new. His Mat ssTy's resolu_ tion to take the Field in case of actual Invasion has been long declared, and we have no doubt animates . the Volunteers in the necessary duty of perfeeting themselves as much as possible in military discipline. Col. TYRWHITT having received authority from Government to request that a detachment of 300 of the Royal Stannary Artillery would march to Plymouth, on permanent, duty and pay, for three - weeks, read the letter of service a few days ago, at the head of the different Corps ; and he has not . been disappointed in his expeCtation, as each Com pany has most cheerfully volunteered its thirty men. The period for which this detachment is to remain in the Garrison, will enable diem, we are informed, under the guidance of those properly qualified by experience, to obtain a very complete knowledge of the great guns. The compliment has been paid the Regiment, of allotting George's-square Barracks in Dock, to their use, which most conveniently op6ri to the Batteries round Government H ous e. detachment will march on Monday next from Truro, under the command of Lieut. Col. TRELAWNYo^ The athletic strength, stature, and patriotic zeal of Cornishmen, were Bever more eorvicuously evinced than in this fine Regiment, who have by no means degenerated from What we have h ear d o f t h6 / i in days of old. The North Cornwall Regiment of Volunteers, commanded by Cot. l'Aers, received orders on Sa turdaysennighr, to hold themsel ves i n rea di ness to march at a moment's notice. This fine Regiment, though one of the last raised in Cornwall, has al ready acquired a proficiency in their exercise, truly creditable bosh to the Officers and men. Letters are received from Mr. Secretary YottcE, stating that by His Majesty's command, the Militia and Army of Reserve in Scotland, are to he com pleted immediately to their full complement, and given orders accordingly. An extra force of tOOO men, to preserve the peace, in the event of the absence of their Volun teers on aftual service, is Co be raised in the County of Dumfries, on the plan.of the Loyal Edinburgh Spea'rmen. The 2d battalion of the 18th Regiment,_ or Royal Irish, marched on Wednesday from the Canongate, Edinburgh, to the eastward. On Tuesday last the first division of the ra.th battalion of the Army of Reserve arrived at Glas. gow- from Dundee on their way to Ireland. The Berwickshire Militia marched on 'Tuesday last for Port Seaton. The Officers are to have Sea ton House for quarters. Orders were on Monday se'nnight received. for the Glasgow Volunteers to hold themselves in re ae - diness to march at a moment's warning; and routes for several of the corps to proceed upon the first alarm of inuasion, were transmitted to their respec tive Conunatidams. The first batta'lion of the Argyleshire Volunteers marched on Monday sennight for Paisley, where they are to be quartered :ill further orders. The second battalion also march out of the County soon. The Aytshire Militia, from Dunbar, marched into Edinburgh on Monday se'nnight. The 18th Regiment have matched for Haddington, where they halt 'for further orders. The PertficVolunteeis are; now doing the duty of that Town, as are Cotoncl,isilrLNE's Corps (the ph Forlarshire Battalion) that of Dundee. The Duke of BUCCLEUGH, as Lord Lieutenant of the County, and the Lotto PaovosT of Edin. burgh, as Lord Lieutenant of the City, have di reaed a Muster to he taken of thei - riumerous body of Labourers and Artificers, who lately offered with so much zeal and public spirit, to ad as Pioneers and Artificers with the Army, in the event of the Country being invaded by a foreign Enemy. Each perion is direded to assemble with a working tiool, a blanker, a h tversack, and a canteen, or ar_ ticles of a similar kind; the equipment requited when they are to assemble for service. • On Tuesday morning last, about two o'clock, the inhabitants of Newport were alarmed by an Express from the Signal House at the South East part of the Island, to Major General Lord CAVAN, stating, that the Enemy were embarked, and hourly expected on these shores. The Volunteers instantaneously assembled as one man, and before four o'clock, upwards of 500 were on pirade at Newport. Theyolunteer Ca valry were sent express to the different Commanding Officers, which duty they performed so. expediti. ously as to obtain 'the thanks of his Lordship. By noon there weo , assernbled in Newport near woo, and in the Island upwards, of 2500 Volunteers, be side Regulars „and Militia. -.The whole were under arms until the evening, when nothing further of the Enemy appeared. After having received the thanks of their several Commanding Officers, they were dismissed. The South Devon Regiment of Militia have ob tained the thanks of the Inhabitants of Falmouth for their soldier-like condut and good behaviour whilst quartered there. Last week a Court of Inquiry sat on a private of the First Regiment of Glasgow Volunteers, on a charge of improper conduft to an Officer while off duty. In consequence of the Report, Regimental Orders were issued by the Commanding 01*er, dis. missing him from the Corps. PLYMOUTH, JAN. B.—Arrived the Stint.: Mr garitta Frigate, fiom Sheerness ; and t h e Swedish Brig Teutcnia, Capt. VAis;DLEtlas, from Embden, bound to Surinam. Arrived the Leander, of Yarmouth, for Dublin, and the Eagle, from Ips%ViCh for this Port, taken by the Suwarrow French Privateer, and re-taken by the Jamaica Frigate. • PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 9.—Arrived the Orpheus Frigate from Cid:, and Pluto Sloop of War from the Eastward. Came up from St. Helens the Fisgard Frigate. DOVER, JAN. 9.—By the Ship Lojal Volunteer, of Hull, from St. Lucar, for London, which arrived to-day, we learn that on the 31st December, in lat. 45. 26. long. to. 1. she spoke the Ardent, one of Sir EDWARD PELLEW'S Squadron, who informed them that on the 28th November the Ardent chaced the 13 , 7yowia;se French Frigate on shore in Finnistre Bay; the crew of which blew her up, to prevent her falling into our hands. DEAL, JAN. 9. --The Basilisk Gun-brig has made the signal of Convoy to the Westward. In the Downs—the Monarch, Utrecht, Immortalit6, Per seus, Mariner, and Basilisk. EAST CHUk CH, JAN. 4.—The following para graph is inserted, in hopes - that the friends of the deceased may know his fate : There was lately found a drowned man, on Great Bell's Salts, in the parish of East Church, Isle of Shepley. He had on a blue coat with an anchor button; three handkerchiefs, two white, and a silk one round his neck, one was marked T. P. No. 9 a very old-fashioned silver watch, maker's . name Joseph Cory ton, 5770, Plym. Dock ; a small oval tortoise shell snuff-box, silver mounted, no cypher, for the plate was. .ttfOrn off; a cornelian seal, with the letters W. -Feversham--aotes, one a guinea, the other 11. The body was in a very putrid state, and was therefore buried in his clothes. The Glatton Man of War is arrived in Leith Roads, and the Vice-Admiral's Flag has beereshift ed from the Roebuck, of 44. guns, to that ship. Wednesday morning sailed from Leith Roads, the Inspector Sloop of War, on a Cr uixe. In the late storm on the zeth ult. the Foudroyant, of 84. guns, had every sail split to rags, and the seamen aloft were so exhausted with fatigue, that when the gale abated they had scarcely. strength-left to get from alofron deck.—The Idle de Paris, of 110 guns, Admiral CORNW AL - LIS, shipped a sea which knocked three of her men into the water from the main-yard, to meet, poor fellows, a watery grave. The San joserS'topmast was struck with lightning, but fortunately on examination it did not want any repair to prevent her sailing. Upwards of 3o sail °fairies and Swedes in distress, some dis masted, were passed in the Channel, but the-pen of war could not render them any assistance. A large ship, supposed a Dane, was wrecked in BigburY Bay, laden with fruit, near where the Ramilies, 98, Rear-Admiral DAP, EL L, Was lost in 1760; pact the wreck and fruit floated ashore, and three dead bodies, by their dress supposed Danes, which were decently interred by the country peopl e in the nearest churchyard. A Letter, dated Lochbuy, Dec. -29, 5 a y 5 . ......“ We have had very stormy weather for some time past. On the z7th seven Vessels were piloted byd of the ferrymen of Crogan into Lochspelve, Islan Mull. Among these, are th e Shi p Lady Curnin7, Capt. Gt B SON, from New Brunswick for Liverpool; ... Ship, Zephyr,, from Riga f o r ditto; a Bri g f rom S a yannah for ditto. Capt. 0. CUMMING, from Oue bec, whose vessel foundered at sea, was taken up ;:by the Brig from Savannah." "A letter from Arbroath, dated the 31st ult. says, " there is no part of the temporary beacon which was on the Bell Rock to be seen, and one of the spars of which it was composed is drove on shore at Ar broath, so that these' is no doubt hut it is totally gone. It was last seen from shore on Sunday the 18th of December, after ,having stood six months, the last two months being almost a constant gale from the eastward, which had no doubt shaken it not a little; and the dismal storm of Tuesday the zoth, which was one of the hardest gales and highest running sea we have had on our coast, demolished this beacon. It was composed of four large fir &pars, hound with iron, which could be seen at /2 miles distance, and it having stood six months, and during all the easterly gales which have prevailed this autumn, will point out to every ingenious man who knows the situation how it was consttuCted. Had tie err ion been iron in place of wood, who can doubt but it would have stood. Great praise is due to the Subscribers who aided in putting up the beacon, as it has proved, without the smallest doubt, that an iron Light-house might be placed on this dangerous rock.". Jamaica Gazettes to the r 9th November last stare, that on the 27th Oaober the Theseus, 74., arrived at:Pora Royal, with the loss of her fore -top mast, which, had been struck by lightning ; one of her men was killed by the shock, and several wounded. Lieutenant CASgAN,of the Beth regiment, has been run through die body, in a quarrel with Captain M INCH EN, of the same regiment.—The C 0,211 has carried into Port Royal the French schooner La Jenne Addle, and I' Elisse, and cutter PAinWe'",. the Racoon also captured the French national brig La Petite but she was retaken by her crew and run ashore. The Cumber/and, 74., had taken and brought into Port Royal the French ships La Sophie, La Catherine, and Mars, with troops from Cape Francois to Old France. The French na_ tional brig' Goelan, cutter Sandwich (formerly . British) and schooners Tricolors, Pere Cheri, Char- Conser-eel, La Rosalie, with 1 z oo troops jestyis ships La Pipe a nd Pelican, at Aux Cayes, and arrived at Port Royal. L' Hercule, 74, had got on shore on a bank oft Cape Franc )is, and hav ing thrown 6o of her guns overboard, was got off again with very little damage, and all the guns ex. ceps three, afterwards recovered. On ale 3oth Offobcr, a smart shock of an earth. quaki - Was felt in the parish of Sr. David, Jamaica. The sailing of the convoy for England had. been put off till z 4. hours after the saili,zg of the packet,. that she might bring home the. necessary orders for in. surance. The Gjpu_y schooner had driven on shore and destroyed a French schooner of two long brass guns, and full of men. On the 7th November a vio!:!rt storm .had done some damage among the shipping at Port-Antonio. The Mar) , Ann, of Londpl,, g ut on shore, and lost her rudder, but was. got off dgain. Upon a Survey of Aberlady Bay, by Mr. Wit:r. -By, sent down by the Admiralty, it is found that there is good anchorage for large Ships, and Sea robin to turn out with any wind. The Men of War in Leith Roads are expeCted to be ordered dawn there immediately. Dutch Papers to the Ist instant arrived ye,ster day. Their contents are of very little importance- A Letter from Rotterda m states, that the removal of the Armed Vessels and Transports from the interior to_Flusiling, was a precautionary expedient against the efFeets of the frost, which would necessarily have' locked them up for an intermediate time, in which case that part of the very extensive prepara tions could not have been used ' , either to terrify or acq against the enemy," 'lndeed '(adds the same arti cle) report states, that the Expedition is postponed till the Spring. An American vessel arrived at Cowes, left t h c . 'Texel on Sunday the Ist instant, at which time between fifty and sixty Transports had gone down to the Helder,. which were fitted up for Else reccp_ tion of horse and foot, but neither a man nor bursc:. was embarked, and there were no provisions oil. board. • Private accounts from Hamburg!) . state, that ac cording to the most recent intelligence from Peters_ burgh, Count - ALEXANDER WoßoNzow Irad not resigned his Office of Lord High Chancellor of Russia, but merely retired for some months to hip "country se4t for the restoration of his health. Two instalments of the sum stipulated in the late. Convention between France and Spain', for-the Neu trality of the latter Country, are already due, 'but: not yet paid. It is said that the Spanish Govern ment is endeavouring to raise eight millions of piastres, by means of a loan, at Amsterdam or k-lam. burgh, A private Letter from Berlin gives the following' account of the channels opened by Prussia for her c munercewith _England :—" The Atlglo.Germars trade, which was threatened with serious impedi. ments by the Blockade of the Elbe and the Weser, has 'conquered all interruption, and immense con-• signments of English goods go from Etnbden with Prussian passes, ro Munster, the whole of Westpha lia, and also into Holland. Thus Stettin is becom* one of the first commercial cities of Germany. To the same town the - whole Spagis4 eptiie of the Hansa . T( w.is, with the Silesia and Lusatia manufactures, is likewi-e removed. The KING of PRUSSIA has ad-• • vanced 4 millions of rix-dollars to the manuleturers of Silesia, to enable them to forward their merchan- , dize, &c. without employing Factors at Hamburgh. The trade •of Stettin therefore, is become'irery flour rishing, and'ships arefreighted from thence to Cad*, Bilboa, Corunna, and Malaga. Lubeck and Map deburgh arc 'also cansiderable gainers by this altera- , lion in the channels of commerce. Many commQ- dities which used to be shipped from Hambingh an 3 Luneburgh, and transported thtough Hanover, now' go direffly from, Magdeburgh to Brunswick, Franck. , fort, and even to Leipsic Fair and Nuremburgh. Twenty-tw o large waggons, loaded with British ma nufaCtures, were forwarded from. Magdeburgh and Stettin to the last Michaelmas Fair at Leipsic." On 20ti1 ult. Syndic DOORNIANN, the Deputy of the City of Hamburgh at Copenhagen, took his leave of the Danish Court, after having been .tteatea with particular distinaion on the part of the Krilo,, ‘vho as a farther token of his favour and remembrance, ordered the Minister of State, Count BERNsTottF to present the Syndic with a valuable gold snuff boxL e s e t t t e inrs from bitrcihl ti l e i s an of tasn' Hanover, n tvi :l eler e o a f t ls the 3 That Gen. IVIORTIER had r ece i ve d a Courier from Paris with The FFrench i A pi rmy in H anover, according to some ac. counts, are to h e re d uced to ro,ooo men. utmost 2 im l p,: i r t t ' an state,ce. A Letter from Wetzlar, in the last Mails, states, that •under the Iviediation of France, the Sum of In demnity to be allowed by the Batavian Republic to the HOUSE of ORANGE, for the domains of that Fa mily, has been fixed at Two Millions of Dutch Du• cats. A letter from Hamburgh, dated the 23d ult. says, " For some days tve have had a most severe. commencement of Winter. The cold has been at to or 12 degreesßEAumt.m. To-day it' is some. .• thing milder. The Elbe is entirely blocked up by the ice, so that the English frigates have, it is said, left the mouth of the River. In Hanover the cold r has been at 17 or 1 8 d egrees : M any F rench Sol diers in their late marches, as well as Peasants, have been frozen to death." By the late At it is enaaed, that every non. resident Clergyman claiming exemption on any ple; independent of licence---.such, for instance, as dis pensation for two livings, &c. must nevertheless notify to the Bishop's - Secretary his nonresidence, and cause of his exemption ; which notification must he given -within six weeks after Jan. r, 1804, on pain of losing the benefit of such exemption ; arA this notice must be given yearly, to prevent incur• ring the same forfeiture. By the operation of the Army of Reserve Aa, those Churchwardens -and Overseers of Parishes who have nor furnished their quota of men, will be subjed to a fine of 201. att the ensuing Session, fos every default ; and a further remilty of 201. at ever' Quarter Sessitin until the numbe; balloted is 4ii