The Sun. — London, England, 1801-08-11 00:00:00

. _ THE SUN. 4J:AIM F , LSUM AU.DAT? L ND OW, j.) :33 NV-4 Popers - to the Bt'h ; I.lring us what our ' Readers must hare felt th.:-.ll:eives cui logs and interested in receiv.: ing, she French Official Account of the Axt,ick made by Lord I`.;iLsoN on :he 4th irist. vpon-Bou/ogn... It is.tvritzetiin the Ordinary style,of'Frenell accounts. The result' is' thus' . crated : The English neither killed nor z.vanaded.al9 . o , ir.i 1 7 -zslaG un-boats they .had damisgri, rei t aired, so as tebe fit far s'.9.7,:tce - ."— , —This quay be-part of ,the, itut two of the vessels mentioned by. Loril NELs'oF . as having been driven on share, inzy refittel; I , ut, 'know not how the . PiT - .7ple of France Can patiently; ..bear so grOis an insult on their, underit.,ificling as the . attempt 'to concea)i- by s 9 paltry an arti.acc, the loss, of so' many 'Boats, it-4,aket 61 - Iviotts."t()P. very one in the neighbour. hovel of nd ne.• J. .21,fn1rt ! •zir'*observes, thy: hasps .an in'aibanJetice:asiontl..r:rnark this gager:E.:id it.)noz profess totr.r.lerstand this, for we.see noshirig - reniarkable in it, but the barefaced fraud of the FrenclL Official Accounts,, but.tLere is • some thi .„ ng, , We have no...doub t, v e ry - pr - rfoted in The observation. *The notes•of achniration in the Ma nitenr, like BITiti:EIGIVS shake of the . head, fredzi'a gnat cf the Paris Papers arc unin teresting. The preparations in:ll,2llamd are.repre senteC. - as ciirtied on sy.irligreat S Tke IMmburgh Mail aue oh Sunday lait ar -4V-ea yesterday 'afternoon, but too late for in _ r " sertion the whole of our Lnpre'ssion. It -brings us from Egypt ag : aCZOUSIt of the con tinu.:;:ee of those clarzrences between, the French Commander in .41exaildria and his Officers; from %Odell our Army in gyßt must •ultimately de rit:e so much ..adva:mige. According - to account , . from of the 30th of June; a French "Sl i ip, v. :Eh Dispatches, had bzen taken by' the Engt . ii,h, on its loay f; .= Akxavdria to France. General MENOU had sent home on board it six French Officers, and a nun.bcr of private men, part ly on accoant of illness, and partly for other rea- sons : on its passage, previous' to, its capture, the Crew, for w!,,tt L S SC is unknowp, rose upon these , voicers, mitt murdered them at(.—Tilere,isno men tion of GANTfirAUMF, or of any succours horn France lan c ied in , Egypt, or any part sf Africa. The other intelli , P enee brought by the 'Mail . is . . . . - not entitled to much notice, either pn actOutit_Of its Veit) , " or its iirpoTtarice7 If there be any person who is Yet ignorant how, fir the malice and. thefolly of the Orpositicm Pa. ters can reach, ire aciVise him to peruse the Mon/. Chtsani:lc of yesterday. Unable to forgive our M:uisters the approbati->n which -the 'Public "be: .on their Admibistration, the support which the Nation affords them, and the success which has so cminPritly distinguished them, this Journalist. has thou ,,- - ht proper to reproAch them, -difficult as it 'may be 'stil'use4 to believe it, with the mpasures of rrecautioo which they have adopted, and' which they arc sill t41:7 ) , to secure this Country against itivzsion; or to in'ake cur Enemy rue the attempt...—. To have . laboured to prevent the soil of our island from 'bei.n: debased bi the preence Hordes, the property. of rhe Rich f:oin becoming. the prey of igreetly and d..2stru,t`tive soldiery—the source whence the Poor, by their industry, derive aubsistence from being dried word, o have endeavoured to secure to all classes of Citi:zerts the enjoyment gf tranvillitr, and of those blessings arising from. ancient 411 d established order, which . are no where els,e to be found.—Such is the condu4 with Which this Journalist thinks proper to reproach Mr.,Appr:.;c. - , - To N . , OS a JTltlliyeriale.vp,dien't. , - In order to give, a 4 far as it is possible, some colour to so ex.traordinary a proposition, the writer in queiticin has p.ttempted at .great length to re , • • present all idea of the 'designs of invar j ioriforped by the Ene;ny a.s.vitirr,arld rICIICt lour f' Was;" says lie'; :miserable alarm of Invasron corn_ • , intenicated h 7 the a voe:veif dectarati.;lls, by the pmbli: menaces of the ? The Fratch boldernme et, on - the :o3trary, ha's alrways" disclaimed the%inteation : it arqijerm tii extra3rdixl7 . Ar'earati 0114 irr France —Not at • 14, w%o l Aent,ed these lines, 'bad perhaps forgotten, ,ptir.;crous it2cl4r,;:ions and public threats Generals nd men in office, avowedly 1 - ..:ing the senti.rnots of the French Govern , t, 11„‘'e uttered, l thirst di:whiles, have for.. :;.:11 the conditional t7;reats SJ/hid . / the Oiicial ournal ttoUred e forth, at the yens morisent whet-) it assumed' a less antipacifte style: he must have for. gotten tha't at --that very - moment the Chief Consul was - Making all the preparations in, his power ; that it was at that moment that all the Vessels capable ,of being .areed were seized Sei his agents ; that the ' Sailors were pressed into the service in every River and every Port—that the combined Fleets were -pia into a situation to sail frown ISr:it—alai numerous bodies of TroOps were repairing from all quarters' to the CoaSts-of Normandy, Picardy, and Flanders, —tli4 'an extraordinary degree of a was ern.' ployed in tiles Ports of Hollansie—that, in short, the Armed .Vessels in the Channel were, not. withstanding the ithmittent risks- with which they we're threatened by-our Cruizers, directed to assemble on the Shores. opposite to our Coast. In this there :Was surely enough to shew, that the &signs of the. 'Enemy =ere not ;to be despised or overaloaked k t our Goveritnient, as did Writer himself admits, thus' falling into Obvious contradidions, a 'faul't which, -he who is Miler the influence of blind prejudice and eof rancour, `can. hardly -aVoid. We most assuredly do not take upon► ourselves to know, how far the ,' Chief Ctinsul aCtually. entertains the plan of inVitd ' ing . thiS Country, nor does it .enter intti,our plan' to inquire into the detail of-the means which he pos. senses to carry into . execution such a plan ; bus what we have said above, and the confession of the -Writer in question himself, shew, that the defen - sive and offensive measures adopted by Ministers, have. been commanded, .by circninStances. It -'may be - well imagined, that if this had not been the:case, they would neither have taken the'pains, nor incur. red 'the ,`experice . slviiieli ,these 'measures necessarily occasion. They must • either labour 'undei the•af fiktion Of: Madness, br be blinded by gross malig nance, who donot- admit that Men, exalted to the : highest Offices of the State; . by sheit talents; their patriotic virtues, the i choicoof their Sovereigo, and die public wishes, rwho are responsible for tfie • Interests of their Country, and whohave naturally metros of information far alsove what other .persons •Can possess; tley„ we say, . must ,be either parti_ ~ eularly distinge'ishecl 'for malice or for folly, not . to agree that' such Ministers ought fo . be admitted as the best judges of what the safety, the lninoue and the -prosperity of . their .Csiontry require. : It will .' hardly be contended -that a Statesman is not : better informed on these subjeas than 'a 'Journalist, and it the Public is contented to euff - er the, latter to reason, they may, surely with-much greater propriety allow the former to at Near, indeed; would that State he to ,its ruin,. in which the-multitude, or that is nearly the same thing, the -Journalist in his eioset should. he' . . suffered- to decide on' the exigencies of the present, - • time, and the possibilities Of futurity. The, whole world,. knows, nor will it soon flint What France has becolile•un4r the GOveentnent of . scribblers and orators. Let it nor however be styposed, that we mean to deny to the commentator on public fads his -due, merit. His task will. be .lionnurable, and 'his exertions will be - useful. as ,long as ht. cOnfines lliniself :to forming 'a .correft -judge inent. as . -to the past e and to aepreciating , justly ..the ostensible farts of the day. 'But we deny that the secrets of State.and the. uncertainties of futurity :tre -within his range; the consideration of. these is, best entrusted to thoseesvhdieduty it is to look lore: ward to political' events, and to- weigh. personal . charaCleis.. Theabuse which the Writers to whom we • allude have thought proper to bestow, stecordingoo custom, on Mr: ADDIGTON and.Mr: Neer; seems as little to deseisee any . - obseryatiOn as it does to b: , repeated. Merl like -our, late and our present Mini . ster are.too elevated to be reached by such assail: ants, or even eo be affeCted by. their chimour. To them both their eftoris and their, noise are equally . contemptible.—lf, instead of imerOvieg the Atrdirs of our Country, ADDINGtotst 'had I)een guilty' • of any errors, or had exi , erienFed- great rnisfor LUIICS, t : • if his Administration Lad not been ,d4tinguished -for that ivis - doin _vizJur which characterize it if every class of., our Countrymen had not, by an union of opinion and of effort, given the best proof of their decided 'approbation' of his measures, then doubtless would the ambition of individuals, and the - -spirit of Party, have attacked him - with much less violence., May he' continue to be in an _equal de., gree, the object Of the animadversions, of the Mont ing Chronicle;- we - can hanliyediscover more certain -• evidence •of-his claim to the esteem - , the - atltnira 7 tion, and the gratitude of every. tnglishman. Yesterday the Earl and Countess of en‘vrtimit left to.yn on s i. visit ro yi , count and Viscountess SIDNEY' at their seat at PrOgnal in Kent.. _ An Eneampmety : of Actillery is just formed oft. The North We side ;. or* Watley Common, near. Brentw . ood, in F,ssex. • • .140rk.k Bit Ai' R 0 0K I, :IS 1,0 d rfilsifx; has reeiye,l a Royal I\ll,i d.:te, Sign Manual, to .c:',ll lot Ca and re-t'...tilhoi.iy .tine Sup piemerliary of that Coursty,• rcit entered into 1::s regular forces since cli , ,cliarge .. pro - tenzpare, front either of tnc 1.`("1-• Rc4i,riet,its licloogins to the sic Couuti. 0... ei 4 NAVAL -:• }' --- Y y 'T' l , " NEWS.. '" ),-; --.4...!... ~..*„. Non ill; imprison pelagi, sirvumisrt rridentem, Stu' .r h. sorts datum. PORTSMOUTH, Avc. 10. Astatver. His Majesty's CLIME Champion; from Marceu ; anti, John and Elizabeth, HAYWOOD, from Newcastle for London. Sailed the Racehorse, SPUNCLE, for London. Arrived the De Ruyter, of 64 guns, Capt. PEY TON, from the Downs. SHEERNESS, Aug. 10. Tests day came into Harbour from the Nore, His Majecty's Ship Amazon, of 3$ guns. The Waakzizmheat came into Dcick. The new 1291ing-place for the Chatham and Other Passage Boats .was this day opened, which fornerly was in the Dock-yard. The Dock-yard is nov per, fealy shut up to all strangers, which'was fo•merly too public. Avo. zo. AitlttVEo the . A77tg George Pocket, itt..-rx, from m Cuxhaven; Three Brordcrs, WoLtr, Thavas astd Mary, ELLts, froru Christiirra; nap, FEIRETT, and Susanna, MIL Es, from London. Arrived the Charlotte and George Cutters. Sailed the Drake Cutter. - The YrowCatbarina,frorn Amsterdam, to Nor. way, with Geneva and Cheese, is sent in by His Majesty's Ship Lynx. EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM HARWICH, AUG. 2. This day we perceived anchor off. the Long Sand Head, the . Dutch Shi.vileschernei-, fitted as.a floating battery in , His Majesty's Service;--which ship, we understand, is to be : chiefly manned by Pensioners froM Greenwich Hospital ; whose un:. shaken:loyalty sand ardent ze a l in the servivy of their Country (the real chnratteristic_ of a British Sexman) cannot he too:rnuch ikhrtired - .. A : boat from this place having put a long-side,•heard the old ve. terms (many of whom have been- 7 'froth r to years in the serVic6 some, without arms, others wanting legs) deelarepothing but the loss of-their heads should 'sever their heart-felt attachment to their King and Country ;—with these sentimenis, every feeiing for domestic comfort at the. same time appears sacrifieed, for hardly one of t these.gallant 04(1 souls but have lest a family ,and comfortabie ittlatipli, tq step'forth trhe Voluntary Trotettors of the r Country's all. Thus boldly bursting forward in the _moment of extrensity, is ,surely an eitaiapie worthy the iantsiion of Ail . . Tie statement in the French 'Papers, - of the ioss.of 114,:jesty'_s Ship JEVIa, On the coast of .Sveden,' ar , : happy to - find; is - torhily unfounded ;` that ship being safe at Shzernens, - where she,lias =ur wine time been refitting. The Gentierneii- Coffee.house, with their usual-spirit ,ind liberality, have opened a St.tb criptiori cur the relied. of the Snf erers.. in the late slorlou3-Vielory gained by Sil t JAMES SiitliitAßEZ. Leiters frourGibraii-ar state, that. on the 18th: ult. the Hrinnial, which had been ewliged to return to Aloe. iris 13ay, was-anchored , off the Forts. , Sir Jtv,iEs SAUMAk Ez f with his Septidron- and his prize, the, Sap Antoizio, was in.the Bay of Gibraltar, • re pairing the ditin,(ges.they had .sustained in.the difre :rep! .A.ct,oins.. It was reported at Gibraltar that the • andiwhieh was engagAi by the Vewrabie on, the, inorning - .of • the .t3th,, had sunk Au her return to Cadiz. .In the Attack on the French 1.41 en of War in Al gesiras Bay, some small _craft . were sunk, one of which. has *lticedriftedclose under the Ragged.Soff,: supposed to be the Speedy Sloop; of "14.. guns,-cap_ turgd by 'Admiral Ltriots's Squadron pKevious : to his arrival at 'Algesirass • • The Moherzoke, .verpool, - .arrived at FaltnOdth on, the . 4dr . inst. in z 8 Five days before she left the hotheward bnind Leeward Islands Fleet, consiqing - of upwards' QI tocisail, under convoy of four Frigates tvo which acco:rnntnied them from the and : , had been j )ine - ci on he tst of Augost by ".the PLaiie and, Glegilore Frigates. On Sunday arrived 'off'Dml, :end, sailed, through the Downs, ttte Westidia f?hip Phcra;:r, Captain DOUGLAS, from J.nnaica. S.he sailed from Port Royal Harliour on the 26th June. The Ni ; Frigate sailed froin Port ,Royal, hound to Purr An, tont° on the 253 June, to convoy home the Fleet, consisting of 7o's - ail, .which was ex - petied to sail on the Ist of 'July ; parted company with the Earl of lf!ycombe on the loth July, in lat. 29 2. long: 78. 52. all well. . PRINCE of ,WALES dined on Tuesday last with the•Dake of NORFOLK ) at Arundel Cir,tle; present Lord HOLLAND, .Lord BERKELEY, 'Lord EOREMoNT and .Mr. TIEIiNEY. The PR-Mr E staid that night, and next day reviewed the,ssth Regiment, • which" made a' very fine appearance; r I,ieivenant.GeneralSir AI:UR ED . CLARKE RT . • lived • in town from Bengal, having resigned the Malcsty:s and. the Honorable company's Armies in India, t,.Lieptenant-general e, - who - was-appointed to si;tceed him. •. • Wheat, Nye are happy,to And,. v.-aiyesterdayf4il per Qtiaitei - ehettper ilian on last . • the Official Returns, .it appears : that the quan tity of . (Vheltt imported rind entered at the Custom- I.ondon, last 'wek,"aiilountect to t0,03t t :Ic:triers. - • WEYMOUTH, Au c. 9. THE ROYAL FAMILY came ashore yesterday evening at half past five o'clock, with the. f)llovi ing Nobility, who accompanied THEIR MAJEsTIE on their aquatic excursioa.: Earl of Rolit.t;i:, Vis count SUDLEY, Lord HAWKEsDURY, Lord C. SPENCER, Mr. WINDHAM, Mr. .Dp..A.4 GRos vENolt,- and Mrs. 'GRANT, who :4 taken grC 3 notice of by the ROYAL t ' AMILY, The Theatre was honoured with the presence of THEIR IVIAJEsTres and 'the ,PRlptCpssEs. 'The Performances were the new eini - 4y, Called rig Poor dentlemdn, and the Musical' Ekiteiatainment of The Romp. Mr.._Ltwts, as usual ; . was much.aa mired in the charaaer of Frederick Jiramble, 111 the Play. Also Mr. PtrasEß as OE Cockney.. In the Entertainment, Mrs.HAR'LQWE 'as the /2a - frilt gave great satisfaaion to the 'Audience. • -This! morning the Klxo and PkiNci: ADoLi situ. bathed ; afterwards, with their Altendants, took their usual walk before breakfast on 'tl l3 Esplanade: • At eleven o'clock TFIEIR IVIAIESTIP.S. and the PRIfICESSES attended Divine Service a!: Weymouth Church, wheie they heard the Rev, Mr. Fosrot, of Taunton, preach a Serm on fr om t he Book of Pro verbs,- chap. xiv. and the 24,th verse " The crown otthe Wise is their riches ; the foo::sh itess of Fools is telly." Master ICELNEft sung an Anthem, accornpanio on the Organ by Sir W. Paasolis. Baron LENTNE, the Hanoverian Mini:irer, Sit Jong MXTFORD the Speaker of the House of CoLu• mons, And. Lord FrIGET, arrived here last night. A few nights ago a Taylor's shop here was rob' bed of several suits of clothes, by'`a JOUTlleYillaPp who had free access to the house ; he was tiat*t. l near Blandford, ir, the a 4 of selling- the nrt;cles longing to his master. He is confoled in thf County Gaol, x INSTRUCTIQNS TO BE OBSERVED BY i;tr ritotlYs, li` StIDDINLf 011iDEXEO MARCtip.-AND ASsEMIII;E' ON ANY NAMPD POINT. • Tasa Instruaions of March, Act, hare pointed out thy state in which the Troops are required to Move at ansorntnt' s warning, and for syhiChCommanding'Otlicers must tindoUbt' edly have prepared their respedive cola. acing therefore provided with the Country Carriages, DAr rnr:3l, etc. as prescribed by th ose InstmetiOns, and - le4v it4 , ' every Unhidden neumbrance whatevcr.behind them, they v` l ' „ ` march as much as possible together, in the small B ' , P c° of contiguous Regiments, into which they will be divided* atrec.ible fo the p art i cu l a r routes an d :orders that will ;11 ' 1. niecliately be forwarded from Heacl-quAriets, on the 4 ; 4 " minty of the rocrny'S appearance. Such Brigaxlz:s will h a" each a named Commander, or otherwise t e , c ,,, cialan dee, bi the eldest Officer in rank for the time. - • In the first hurry ofassembling the 'r rcopt on:the landing of an-Enemy, it may be impossible, in all caSe.‘, io Prewrit 4 - potitive'reutes, and to prevent crossing; crowding, and inter' terencei in the march of so roany, bod:es,.tnovng frora tliA' ll4 places, and tending to the same point. The pruderseand nalgementof the Senior Officers must, therefore, in the 1764 manner, obviate such zinaioidab;c di faculties, When the TroOps msreu in Cori)s," and zncarftp, the-7-1. ti the- more easily provident for; but wren they must $ ea' :ono.' or kittrried on, trey mast are TaZi;;sed 7,v!th ill; J 11 9 ". Crosi.clod and. slight e st accommodation; and a rigorous cipline Must prevent ,them from requi ti ng more th.in 0.7 Country and circurnstances.can On'tn; routes wilere Troops are tomarch, tt:tf:c i en: I., es tfliy certainly tit provided in the ,I;trge towns, on a siw ft notice. Should this not be the Case, Cornmanding'Ottic e : are, themselves-to ooviate the difficulty in the oast' gea r t , mode they can, and not permit Mdividuals to tretpasse Q , Omani. outrages. • Wnether the Troops canton or encatnp, a Commlssaty'ff tls _. be ordered to attend each Brigade, to regulate and provide 1° 0 ; Lau march, and to whom every necessary asal - stanty IP-451 if there is. no Commissary or Assistant •Quatrer-mas ter ' - and that the pressure is such, that provision of strai,v, ford' or bread, must be had on the 'spot, the Commanding facer must. appoint one or more intellikent Officers to 3 ' as Commissaries and Assistant Qu:Arttr:matc.-rs for the O le " • c who will go forward with proper assistance, call upn,, ir al - Magistrate or Magistrates of the neighbourhood, and, T e r r I,o* sensing the necessity of . the case, as the only rneans serving property, and the regularity of the ,Troop"', pr,l ear them to take such immodiate measurzs, and Rive such as' will co :he spot produce, the necessary supplies ; fir which the Cornmandiug 'Officers of each Regiment , ed alio by' the . Cori - 7;<sary or AV:ijtant Vtiarter":‘4:: ter) .Will. give full and tiistindt acknvwledgm en ts in wil o ing, epecifying in -worth, quantities each art received; the -number of Persons and Horses hereby vided for, and for what time. Registers of cvzry receipt $49 granted svtll be kept by Commanding 0 Acei . s, as nelessorf cheeks, call :d >i on, and the receipts themselves 14 _ aftervyards4 . .ollected, and diicharged by the I;:ouimissitry natal, at the fair rates of the Country. , The TroopS will encamp on the commons, wht-rever . are such. OthLrviis, they must encamp on such grass 6 1 ef as are n.lst convenient ;Or their march, .and to which can d 6 the least damage. And, if unavoidable daiog e d ssueh.case is . i.done, the Commanding gicer of - the Encal n ? Corps trill grant ,a certificate of the n7ture and amount . .• By, Order 61 His Royal Hight - m . 55.. THE COXIMMANDER,Ig Crag'. In g 9 el tit Ode to - the British' Militia for t ", . . meritorious Services.in Ireland, upon the brelc tn i; out of the Rebellion in that Country, no few?r , t . hirty_two Regiments of Irish Militia hal4l-tir e '',:a volunteered 'their S'er Vices for, the Defence ofGri. .tritain, if it should become necessary j . " and : 11 c r4 .,: no doubt of the rest of the Irish be Te 'ready to follow thiigallant -•and.liatriotie e 5 Iti' of their Countrymen. in Saturday Ogal,- an eminent.'' n . 1 11 1 c' • Tharnes-stree'v, suinrnoned':a: r great many •-•-, re , before the Lord'Mayor, charging - them vii'a t A fusing to load.sneh-goods as' he had ready for t'ic they wishing to have their'eleCion" . in'o hußing cart only such goods as - they pleased. For o f ample - to- others, the 4,..9rti Mayor .finch 0;; 1 ' them ten shillings. • • •th zi th da Ca gni cle. ! Pi( tri / Ve 4.. . 1 0 kter I 'II Ale .; • ha) of the 10 411 stop