The Sun. — London, England, 1801-09-11 00:00:00

TLIE SUN. SOL EM Q . U1,6 DICEhE FAL•SUM AUDIAT? LONDON, Si',PTEMBER u, 180 i• Colat secvenee of informarion yeciverl by Loyd Lsora 0:,1,..\\,',ed , ,f5,d;1y last, by one of the Armed Vessels, that r?►e E u-,m);'s Flutii a had moved out of the Harbour ir,to Bovlogne Road, six Si' p 3 of War, vizith a quMlier`of Guit-homs, Lave sailed from Deal p' resume- their-station off d o Coast of France. WE this morning received Pari.; Papers of a date ,ippe day lincrdran those . which had before reached ):Is, yiz. to the.. inst. They do not put us in possession of any intell•gence of importance. We seket. the following as the most proglinent Articles; ').VEst:t., AUG. zB.--The arrival of the Pruzsian Minister Baron de Doxm,. at Ifildesbeirn, has for its objea: to accelerate the payment of the different States of Upper Germany owe to the KING of . PRUSSIA, for the maintenance of the Pros skin Army of Qbservatio;), which has secured the Neutrality of that Country, and caused the Line of Demarcation to he respeted by the Belligerent Powers during the last Campaign. For this pur pose? a Congress, c.ornposed of Deputies from the different States of Germany, is to be immediately opened at Hildesheim. HAGUE, AUG. 3l.—The German Papers an nounced ome days ago, that the English had car ried a post of twelve men on the Island of Gorey. This news is entirely groundless. The English have made no attempt either upon the Islands of .Goree, Zcaland ? or . the Texel. TIDE best intelligence, and even the public Pa pers from the Continent, joined to the ostensible fads which we have before our eyes in our own Country, every day justify more strongly the opinion we have constantly expressed for some months past, respecting the offensive Plans of the French against this Country. Qn the one hand, we see the Coasts which lie opposite to our own lined with Troops ; the number of Vessels in a state to carry or to proted them sensibly. increased ; ; vigorous press publicly enforced by all the Departmental Au thorities on all'the rivers of France ; and particu larly on the Garonne, and on the Loire ; the Ports of the Texej and of the meuse, those of Boglogne, Mthkirki Cherl,urg, Brest, and Rochf6rt, become the rendezvous of all-the Seamen and Naval Work men who can .be procured ; and, in short, as great a degree of activity displayed its the means of the . French and Batavian Republics will allow. We see', in a word, the Government of , the former enLavparini, with the greatest constancy and exer tion, to enab:e itself, if not to dispute with us the empire of the Ocean, at least to cross it, and to make a moment...ry appearance on it. Never since the attempt of CIIATILgS the Fifth upon the Powers of Barbary, and since that still greater and still- more vain, which his Successor made upon us, have preparations of invasion been set on foot, on so great an . extent of Coast and on so large a scale. If every Vessel which arrived front the Conti nent did not bring us an account of these prepara tions, we sh uid be sufficiently aware of them from those which are r carried on here to eoUnterao them. We have seen the Supplementary Militia again . called out, flotillas particularly appropriated to observe and to alarm the Coasts of the Et)etny provided for that purpose ;—we see Troops assem bled at several points on our-Eastern Coast ; en / campments taking place at a period of the year when they commonly terminate ; —w c see our C omman d er iin Chief, ',not satisfied .with the intelligent and assi duous care - which . he ai well as the . .Secretary at' War displays 'in putting our ,Country into a com plete state of defence, himself surveying cur Coa,ts, and investigating cvc:ry . thing in person.—We see, in' short, our 06vernment adopting with calmness; but yet with aEtivitv, • with foresight, but yet with • 3 • • discretion, such measures as must be most efficaci ous, but at the same time such as must-occasion the least:possible:derangement in the business of . . and in the ordinary course of the pli tical, and civil machine. With this two:fold and irrefragable 'eVidence be_ re Minting 'Ckkonicie, unable - -teiT'leSiSt cite weight of such testimony, has 'at lciigth been obliged . to recant the opinions w hi c h i t had e)spress ed 'vith so much confidence and so much malice. 'omewhat hoWever, of having been 'the cape, or rather, we believe, of not Living succeeded iel making others 'dupes on this sphic4, the Writer now endeavour;) to excuse himself for. what he had ativanced, by• pretending that it is - we who have ascribed to him "such sent;ments. We should cer_ . tainly. have nothing more to do than to take the labour of again perusing what has appeared in that Pare! chairing the,lat three and we stoola then he en ? lped to .quote in his „own .words he has asser-zed twenty tunes, .that theYren'ch were too wise to think of . attempting an . Inva_ sio s n, and too powerful to stand in need of it." —W are, however, too seldom accustomed, to fir 4 any disposition in this Journalist to ac knowledge his errors, ,not to, give him credit on this occasion, and no to encourage him as to, .the future. We cons-i'atuFate ourselves on sA:eing him at length acknowledge, that the F i ench " may attempt some Descent upon these Kingdoms— /lug try s2mething '•in Wilstep—tha, France must he ward; observed, and that 'we ought to be we,/ pre_ pared against a Surprize." If this Writer had been contented always to write in this style, which plain good sense dictates, he would have saved us the trouble of exposing his errors ? and wnuld him self -have avoided the mortification of acknowledg ing them. " But," says the same Paper, "-what we said was, that the Gum-boats which it was reported the French had colleited, never could be useful, or se,. ) riously intended for Invasion." When we some time ago kook a view of the Troops and Vessels collat ed from the Texel as far as Rochefort, as one im mense Line of Attack, of which the Ports of Hol land were the Right Wing, those of the Ocean the Left, and those of the Channel the Centre, we ha, zarded an opinion that the two Wings were proba bly destined to strike the greatest blow, and that the Centre was intended to give the alarm and to make a false attack. Without, however, pretending that this is the case, did not the possibility of such circumstances require precaution and the measures which have been adopted ? Is it not universally known that every Officer who is instructed to make a false attack has also orders to turn it into a real one, if he finds the Enemy off their guard, - even in some cases though they should be superior in force! Has it not often happened that by a double feint, a false attack has been made 03 a point, which ended by the greater part of the force being ultimately direCted against it ? Would it not fol low 'from this view, that our Ministers cught to display their preparations and their vigilance in the Channel as well as in every other quarter ? What measures have they taken for this purpose ? They have employed the same steps of vigilance and alarm against the Enemy as the latter have them selves employed, flotillas of light vessels, reserv, ing their greaser strength against those Wings where the Enemy were themselves assembling their main force. What, we would ask, could Government do better, than disconcert the plans of the Enemy by a distribution of forces analogous, and at the sane time superior to those which they themselves em ploy ? Within a short space of time, the Editor of the Morning Chronicle has endeavoured to mislead the Public on two important points, and has in both of them been 'obliged by Evidence, and' the outcry of the Public, to make his Palinodiurn. He has im peached the Measures which Ministers have adopt ed along our Coasts, and every day has shewn the propriety of them, • fie afterlyards accuSed•them of having negleeted to watch the—Ports of Spain, where, according to htm, - the'moit-: fatal blow was .. • preparing . ; and at the very moment when he was urging this impeachment, the news arrived, that Admiral SAUMARE z had been reinforced for several weeks. We flatter ourselves, that these, with the many other similar instances which have occurred, will afford an additional proof to our Countrymen, how justly they have aced in reposing a. high con fidence in Administration ; .and will, at' the same time henceforth undeceive those Persons, if any such there be, who repose any faith on the judgment, the prophecies, and the censures of The NOrlling Chronicle, The military force in the Isle of Wight, under the command of Majdr-General HEWITT; is at this time very :considerable,. upwards of 2000 of the PRINCE of-ORANGE'S Army being lately disem barked. there from Ireland, and encamped,: - Brighton`is likery, to be kept alive for some time -to come, by an Encampment of several 'thousand men. The 16th and r Sth Regiments of Horse, and a Battalion of-Guards, arrived there on Monday, and there are more Regiments expe4cd. The Coldstream Regiment of Guards is to form part of the Encampment on the CoaSt. The First Regiment will remain in town. PRINCE AiIGUSTUS' FREDERICK has ,written hometo say, that, for the complete re-establish ment of his health, he is advised to pass the ensuing winter at Lisbon. Captain ANDERSON,~id_de~Catn p to general Maq E j is .returned from Egypt, and arrived in town on Wednesday. - 1-1 e contradids the report that General MOORE is on his return home, That 'able Officer is quite recovered from the dangerous wounds which he received in the Battle of Alex:in .teria : the' principal was in the calf of the right leg, a ball having passed through, near the bone. Cap tain 4'iiineitsurt came home with several other wounifrit'OfficerS and men; his wound is in *the arm. They had a very tedious 'passage, beingwzcks tan then wax. " • ' • , „ .„ ~.q..474L. to. . N 4 E - WS. • - \ • .; • • haperium pckgi, sepurque trleklest, mihi scrte dater. DEAL, Strr. 10. O= tcB reatiled Lord Nrt,s6s yesterday, by one of, the Armed Vessels, that the Enemy's Flotilla had moved out of the i!arbour into the Road of Boulogne, in consequenee,of which the fol. lowing Ships of War, that in the late gale were obliged to take shelter in the Downs, were this morning ordered to their station off the Coast of France, and they have since proceeded thither Namely, His Majesty's Ships" York, Isis, Eugenie, Gannet, Cite., and Diligence, Di:col:el . :) , Bomb, Iliaoire Fire-vessel, Plumper, Eclipse, Ferreter, Snipe, Mallard, Bruiser, and Minx Gun-brigs. The following remain : OverYssel, Admiral Ltrr- WID,GE, Amazon, Lord NELSON; . Leyden, Alk. maer, Shannon, La Magrczenne, Hound, Autumn. BOMBS. Volcano, Vesuvius, Terror, Zebra. FIRE,-VESSELS. Nancy. Akers. GUN-BRIGS. Locust, Jackall, Bold, Constant. Express .{Advice Boat). PORTSMOUTH, SErr. 10. Att.tuygO His Majesty's Ship Albacore, from the West Indies ; His Majesty's Cutter Admiral Mitchell, from a Cruize ; His Majesty's Cutter Rose, from Marcou ; Lorentz Maria, MARSH, from Christiana ; Diana, KARSTER, from Stockholm, and Bere!ford, Ross, from Waterford. Sailed His Majesty's Ship Alcmene, with a Con voy for Newfoundland ; His Majesty's Ship Row, dale, Lieutenant DONAVON, far IViarcou, with a Convoy. Came into Harbour His Majesty's Ship Mondovi. SHEERNESS, SEPT. 10. YESTERDAY arrived His Majesty's Gun-brig Bouncer, and is come into harbour to refit. The Cobourg hired Brig, Lieut. Waten-r, has come down the River Thames, and sailed for Yar mouth. • The Sophie is taken into dock. The bottom of the Four Brothers Gun.barge was, on 11N- being taken on the slip, found to be so very rotten, as to render her totally unfi.t for farther service, It was zeportel'yesterday, that Captain Loon, of the Venerable, has,hal a severe eng:;.g . ,ement near Cadiz, with a FrenCirSo gun ship, in the course of ,vhich the Vemer'abie lost her inain.mast and got . aground, by which means the Enemy were able to escape. The loss of the Venerable is stated to be z 8 killed and 87 wounded. On Wednesday morning, the American schooner Adventure, arrived at Cowes, in the Isle of Wight, from Guadaloupe, which place she left on the 3ist df July last. Captain LILLIERIDGE reports, that about -the middle of June last, General LACROSSE arrived at the Island with boo veteran troops, on board, the Coilleille and Coccade National Frigates, of 4+ guns each the latter of which, a few days be. fore his departure, sailed on a Cruize. The Albiag, and about seventy sail under con voy, from Leith, arrived at Elsineur on the 27th ult. The convoy sailed for the Baltic immediately. Letters from the Admiral Parley Armed Brig, of 16 guns, Lieutenant WOOLPRIDCE, dated the z7th of July, off Malaga, state, that on his pas. sage from Gibraltar to Minorca and Malta, in quest of Rear-Admiral Sir J. B. WARREN, Bart. he fell in with and engaged a Spanish xebec, of 24. guns, Ship-rigged, which he beat off, and would probably have captured, had she not escaped by taking to her sweeps. The Admiral Pasley then fell in with and captured a Spanish Felucca Priva teer, of •io guns, and two Brigs valuably laden, which are arrived at Minorca. • During.a late cruizc of His Majesty's Ship Arro gant off Point de . Galle, a lief) , considerable booty . narrowly escaped falling.to the share of her gall ant crew. When off the Point,. the .Arrog an t saw two Vessels, and gave dace to one,' which they came u'p with and took ; the Other escaped. The pri soners reported that the latter, called the Doss Car los, was from Manilla, with fifty-three chests of treasure on board, principally the proceeds of cap tured property, amounting to 350,000 Letters have been.received from Madras, men-. tioning the following' circumstances having taken place on board the ship .S - usannah, Captain DR.:Y'S % DALE, during her passage thither wi t h a ca rgo o f gunpowder. A Frenchman, a prisoner on his.pa_ role, who'had obtained permission to proceed to Madtas as a passenger, concerted a plan' with Spaniard and four others, for murdering the Officers' and seizing the ship, with• the intent of carrying her to the le •of France. They commenced this diabolical scheme by-attacking the Chief Officer who had the 'watch upon deck in the -night, whom they immediately threw overboard : the Third Officer, who was also upon deck, was afterwards dispatched ; and thei then proceeded to the cabin ; but. Captain DaYsfiAL'g, having fortunately been awakened by the noise his Officers made in *resisting the villains, fhern coming towards him, escapeS at ono tioor of_ the cabin, while they entered at another, and got forward to the forecastle, where he was joined by the second - officer and crew. The mutis neers were very soon subdued, and one killed. The Susannah in a few days after arrived at .Madras, when the mutineers were sent on shore, in irons, to be tried. All the Ships taken up by the Non. Eat IndL Company, for India and China, for the last season, as well regular as extra, have now sailed for their respeaive destinations ;,and the Ships to be-engage ed for the ensuing season, are expected to be cbir. , tered tbelatteT end of the next month. We understand that nine ships are building for the Company's service, to be employed as extra tonnage, for the purpose of bringing gruff gaods from Bengal. Sixty-nine ships, belonging to the Hon. East- India Company, are now abroad for cargoes, front the different Presidencies, Eighteen ships arc At home, including those arrived lately ; and twenty four are building, ten of which are i 2oo tons :bur then, making a total of 111 ships. The 5wa1107. , , Earl of Morilingtalt, Georgiara, and Whim Packets, are now in India ; the two for mer, from their having been cut nearly two years.* are expected shortly to arrive. FROM THE FRENCH PAPERS. Ascr,as, AUG. 30.--,The Prefeft of this Depart ment has addressed to the Sub-Prefeets and Mayors of his Distria the following Circular " To conquer the Continental Peace the French people have exerted all their means. The conquest of the 'Man tirnePeace now calls for all their thoughts and all their forts. The task of our brave Armies is fulfilled; but that of the Saiiors is beginning ; and the moment approacho when they will make our Bag illustrious, as the thriller have, made our arms. Armaments are ordered in all th e p orts of the Republic. Jt is therefore necessary that the Mariners answer the call of Government, and fly without delay to the' post pf honour. " The Municipalities are responsible for the non-execu-• 'tion of the orders for raising men for the service of the ships of war, or for that of the ports'and arsenals of the Republic, in casethey should refuse to give to the Syndics of the naval forces the assistance of Which they may be in need, the pences of search, of the •arrest and conducting of Sailors w ho are in their charge. J must firther apprise you; that the Of ficers who are in search of naval deserters, or vagabonds, arC obliged to concert with you for the success of their pUrsuits. and that the penalties pronounced against the Public EunG' tionaries for the non-execution of the law,vreLnive to tary men in the land service - are alike applicable to persons in the sea service. These penalties are two yearS imprison' mom, and, besides, a fine, regulated by the law of the 17fli of last Vento'se, of 5 00 , francs Cit - the mialmam, and isob franc; • for the maximum. " I am persuaded, Citizens, that you are sufficiently 1 3 ;* - netrated with a sense of your duties, anti the' wants of the country, not to put yourselyes in the way of incurring these penal dispositions, but to contribute, on the contrarY, all your means and all your efforts for the su ccess _ o f the Arola meats which are preparing, Every Citizen who h a s era' braced the maritime profession is bound to the public: service by s4:a and in the arsenals, and tbr this purpose he is c l as sed and dispenseil from every other service. Accordingly, y o unS the t7th,Yeatose, and of the Consular Pecree of the 16 th. Mariners cannot avail themselves of the benefit of the law oi Germinal, of the year 8. If any of them have surprise 4 yo n i i t t r iy o c at i l e i raie and .o f t haabtsconfce, t Cueh Military ey h themselVes from thc Requisiti o n o f whi,:h they will b.: the objet.!. Thew I;aves absence ought to t) con .iidereu c t c : e ip ti i null and void, (SiVied) " MOIsSTAULT DESILLES.I! On Wednesday morning Ca - pt. _MUR RAY arrived in town from Hamburgh, accompanied ily Major 131.4.1 R and Colonel C4LLikNIY, Capt. Nii.TRRA't went over to the Continent fir the purpose of tight' ing Sir SANitiEj. HANNAT, The meeting took place at Altona. The parties fired a case of pistols cacti' Captain MURRAY'S last shot was fired in the air , and put an end to the diipute. We understand it AN 4s . the intention of the parties to have fought here; but, intimation having been given to the Magistrate'l Capt, M. was bound over to keep the peace in Hi: Majesty's dominions ; Si r S4lvtsEl. having eludO the watchful preservers of the peace. The cause of the difference, we believe, was. 3 trifling dispute between Sir SAmont and Caprifil M. the latter, of whom gave some displeasur e to the former in a public room , which they gi e ' _terwards.felt'disposed to terminate amicably ; bo g some Officers present conceiving it not exaftiy sistent with military regulation, to be reconcile° without fighting, the dispute in a short time becaril e more serious, and finally produced circ:imstan^ o that could not be settled in any other mode than that which they adopted. Mr. Ho Lt.' Ncs, the Surgeon who accompani ca. them, during the passage received' a fall by the yes' sel's rolling, which put out his ,:ollar-bone. With so great a quantity of American wheat io hand, and the produCt of so tine a harvest, we have reason to. hope that pread will continue to fall, par ticularly as the wise measure adopted by the Lox!) MAYOR, of publishing the weekly returns, will frustrate the artifices of speculating Dealers. Still, however, it ,is to be hoped ,that economy o f c oo sumption will be observed, to guard against scarcity which has pressed so heavily u pon all classes of the people, and which the Enemies of th is Country •endeavoured to convert to a political put - , pose, in order to excite, general discontent, 31 ''' produce evils.ofmuch greater magnitude; such, in' deed, as would only terminate in our ruin as a i \l ' l3 ' tion. It is difficult to say how far disc/Wine may be Or timately carried, but it seems that system, which 15 the parent of it, has_" made wonderful progress h i St. Helena. Major Cocks, the East India Coln' pany's Engineer there,.gives an account of th e trvontlelful preparations made for the defence of th e Island. In•times of danger,' it may he desirable f ° know what are the Major's notions; of guarding againscan enemY, and it is . impossible to convel them but .by an Extrad.--" On discovering one 0r two, ships, a single gun is fired ; and if "there if rime than four ships, six guns are disehargew which is what is termed a general.alartn, and a std"' nal for defence: A man is, thereupon, .dispacchc" to the Valley, whO runs all the away, without in termission, till he reaches the Castle, to communr care intelligence to the Governor, for which he 15 rewarded with somearrack 1" Yesterday i i i Prisoners were removed from the different prisons to Newgate, in order to take thef t trials" at the ensuing S ess i ons at t h e Old B a iler) wflich commence On Wednesday next, , terday STEW, this G In t CART' XER, In t Royal ZAB ET MESSES .In tl So PHI The the bat His C Earl The Earl The ( xaro Lady Loral The } Sir fl Sir W Genes Colon Nonoi Hono captz Captii r. 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