The Sun. — London, England, 1804-03-24 00:00:00

Mr, l 7 , ;PY NA' 11 sai d, t!,,it Coe system ut ear hiption compreheoded 200 persons, and was carried on with the most open profligacy. Mr s ROSE observed, that it appeared from the evidence of one of the Officers of, the Corporation, who aced as Door-keeper on the occasion, that two hundred persons were assembled in a room, at an Inn, in the town, where they each received two Guineas out of a Punch Bowl placed there for the Purpose. Sir JOHN NEWPORT thought the measure was imperatively called for by the circumstances of the ease, and that it was one of these which Were cal culated to convince the People that there was vir nc 'enough in the House to Correa any abuses which might have crept into the Constitution. Mr. CALVERT also supported the measure. The CHAACELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, it was due to the Report of the Committee to allow the proposed Bill to be brought in, which, it was to be observed, professed generally to have for its objeEt the prevention of bribery and cor ruption at the Eleaion for Members for Aylesbury. If the House afterwards disliked the mode of doing this, 'they would rejea the measure, and he begged to be understood as not pledging himself to its sup port in thus consenting to the introduaion of the Bill. , Mr. HURST followed on the same side. • . T en he NIAST.ER of the ROLLS e xpressed'tak him- self glad that no steps were suggested to be by the H ouse to prosecute the indi v id uals impli psated, as he should consider such a measure inex edient, By agreeing to the introduaion of the Bill, he did not pledge himself as to its principle ; respelling which he should reserve himself for the Second reading. Mr. WILLIAMS WYNNE adverted to the Cases of Cricklade and Shoreham, where he said, the Elections had been condufied with the greatest purity since these Boroughs had been throw n open. After some f urt h er observations from Si c R. BUXTON, Mr. FULLER, anti the CHANCELLOR of the Exciteizut It in explanation, leave was bring in the Bill. given to Sir G E "" C "NRwAti. then mo ve d t h at no view Writ should be i ssue d for Aylesbury until Friday the 27th of tkpril.—Ordered• Mr. ROSE said, that M r. BENT being charged in the report with bribery and conuptiori, feel it his duty he should shortly after the Recess to move for an Address to lin IVlAjeary to direft the Arrow. VEY GENERAL to prosecute that Gentleman. IRISH ACCOUNTS. the H S;r JO H N NEWPORT a d verte d to an Order of *ion of , made some t i me s i nce, for the Prodqc- Accounts from the Treasurers of the Coon. ties in Ireland, of the Monies paid to. Houses of In dustry. These Accounts not having been produced, he gave notice that if they were not forth-coming by she end r l o' some strop tue Easter R ecess , he should move for ' g measures upon the subj. Th e • Hi ghway Bills passed through a Committee, t he Report was received, and ordered to he taken into further consideration, on Thursday se'onight. The Committees of Supply and Wa w }sand M eans , e re postp one d till Monday, to which day t h e H ouse aajourried, a t Six o'Clock. TO THE EDITOR. SIR, THE Paragraph inserted in your Paper of th e 22d inst. stating a serious affray to have taken Place on the Saturday Preceding, between the Royal Denbigh Militia and about soo of the Royal Artillery, is quite unfounded. Whatever may have bten the motive of your informer, I.know not ; but in com mon justice to both Corp s , the Public should b e un. deceived, as the Paragraph conveys a severe refiec. tion upon their conduCt and discipline. I have the Honour to be, Sir, Your most obedient Servant, A. YOUNG S Ma p EAlittt rr, jor of Brigad:, Royal Regiment of Artillery. aux. A 141 t MEI) Ralnburgh . _ "uoiwich Barracks, March 23, 18t . ., 4 PRICE OF S THIS rlAy TO CKS, TWZI.VC O'CLoCK. Consols ----- S 6 l THE SU N. SC:UAL( QUIS DICZRE rALsuu i.vDzicr ? LON DON, II il - RC li 24, 1804. ............,..............._ Ws yesterda actin y afte rnoon had an opportunity of g the Extras of a Letter from Lord NELSON, to w a pa rt i cular ( Fri en d of his Lordship in Town and e stopped the Press to state the fael), dales ted o n the loth of Febr uary, from the Maddina Is situated at the northern end of Sardinia, in the Streights of Bonafacio. His Lo r d s hi p says , t h at he was driven in there on the Bth of February, in one of the Bmost severe snow -storms he ever haw • He d oes not mention the sailing o f t h e reneh Fleet, but states in hi s l etter, that be 'was on the eve ... f a Battle, from which it may be inferred, that ithe French Squadron had had g one up the Mediterranean, and was at n ot out, distanc e from him . . no great perfe Hi s Lord s hi p expresses his most ft satislatiion with the discipline and state of his Fleet, and trusts that . the result o f t h e B attle, which he seemed to consider as certalv, would not dishonour himself or porta nt the tritish Fl ag. Very im intelligence ma f rom his L ordshi y be very 500 A eXpeted p. The. Ad m i ra l ty had no letters from his Lordship, and the Gentleman who received 4114% which brouth t the importinit intelliwnce above Itate3, ttiuoglit it tits ddty to traticalit U to Mr. APDINGTON. An Address was presented to the CH t FT CONSUL on his vscape from Assassination, dated Feb. 221, from Admiral GANTHCAUISE, at Toulon, but this only proves that that Admiral had not sailed with the Squadron. We believe that LATOUCHE TRE. VILLI commands it. Yesterday His MAJESTY walked in tlle Queen's Garden. Soon after one o'clock the LORD CHANCELLOR and Mr. ADDINGTON had audiences of HIS MA ESTY. About twelve o'clock HER MATESTY and the PRINCESSES ELIZABETH, MARY, SOI'HIA and ANIELIA, attended by the Countess AYLESBURY and Lady CRANLEY, took an airing in the neigh. bourhood of Richmond. Sir L. PErys after attending His MAJESTY had an audience of Mr. ADDINGTON about hall past eleven o'clock. Yesterday at three o'clock a Cabinet Council was held at Lord HAwKEsuuttY's Office. The Volunteer Bill was read a first time yester. day in the House of Lords, where it produced some discussion. It is to be read a second time on Tues. day. American Papers to the sth of February are re. ceived. The Norfolk Herald, of the latest dale, contains a Petition addressed to Mr. MERRY; signed by the Masters of thirteen English Vessels lying in Norfolk Harbour ; in which they state, that the greatest part of their crews have deserted since their arrival in America ; and that, notwithstand ing they had repeatedly applied to the Mayor and Magistrates of the 13 ,, rough of Norfolk, and . convinced them that the Seamen in question were Englishmen, and under articles, they had not been able to obtain Warrants for their apprehension the consequence is, that these ships are not able to return home. The Vessels thus circumstanced are The Aurora, and Dundas, of Liverpool ; Minerva, Joannie, Dunrobin, ►Marv, Helena, Crawford, Ann, and Second Ann, of C reenock ; Richard, of Liverpool ; Nautilus, of Bristol ; and Harmony, of Saltcoat. It appears by Letters from Lisbon, that the Eng lish Merchants resident there, are comprehended under the Tax for supplying the French with the stipulated sums for allowing Portugal to remain neuter, that Government having laid a duty amount ing to about 21. ifs. a pipe on all wines. The First Regiment of Dragoon Guards have left Devonshire to be stationed on the coast of Sussex. There will be no encampments in Dorset this sum mer, (but one near Portsmouth), as Fits MAJ ESTY will not visit Weymouth ; the Barracks in that neighbourhood are to be occupie.l by the King's German Light Dragoons, under the command of the DUKE of CAMBRIDGE. It is intended, this Spring, to Brigade the Grena. diet Companies of the different Regiments of Militia stationed in the Southern Distrid; two Battalions of which will, most probably, be quartered in Canterbury. The Light Infantry Companies are also to be formed into two Battalions, and are expelled to be brigaded with the 43 a and cad Regiments of Light Infantry at Shornecliffe, Hy the, and adjacent. Yesterday noon the PRINCE of WALES'S Volun teers mustered in the King's Mews, from whence they proceeded to Hyde Park, where they were in. spetted by Lieut. Col. JENKINsoN. As soon as the Lieutenant-Colonel had examined the arms, the Corps proceeded to perform t h e respeaive manceu vres, which met with the entire approbation of the Inspecting Officer. Early on the morning of Saturday se'nnigitt, the towns of Bewciley and Kidderminster were alarmed by the beating of the Volunteer drums, and a report was industriously circulated that the French had effetfted a landing in this Country to the number of 50,000 ; the Volunteers were im mediately upon the alert, and, to the credit of both places, every man who was able to carry a musket, was at his post; in the course of an hour. As soon as the muster was completed, orders were given for their immediate march to 'Worcester, the place appointed for the general rendezvous for the county, which commenced with the greatest cheerful. ness and alacrity. amidst the acclamations of an immense multitude of their friends and spedatort. After continuing their march for some distance, • they were informed it was a false alarm, and intend ed by way of exercise, to prove their steadiness to their engagements ; but highly to their honour and patriotism, it proved there was no occasion for such an experiment, and much chagrin was felt at the dia. appointment. Lord ALVANLEY'S death' is much regretted among a numerous circle of high and distinguished, friends. He was a man of solid worth, and had many amiable qualities. M. Vt LLENLUVE, mentioned in the list of the Grand Judge as one of the Conspirators against the life of the FIRST CONSUL, having escaped the pursuits of the agents of the French Government, arrived yestelday morning in town, accompanied by another person, who is also accused of having been implicated in the. conspiracy. The City of Rennes is said to have deputed four of its most celebrated Lawyers, to assist in the de fence of MOREAU. ALEXANDER LAMETH, formerly a rebel General under the King ; a prisoner at Spandaw and at Olmutz ; a bankrupt ready-made linen-merchant, and at present a Prefed under BONAPARTE, has - written to a Gentleman at Hamburgh, that the ItIRS T CONSUL has, lately been very busy in choos, ing proper persons as Prefects fur England; but that now all the nominations are made and com. plete, though they will not be made public before the landing 'is effeacti• It is Capt. CLAYTON, and not Capt. CLAY, as stated by mistake, who is appointed to the Sea Fen cibles, Capt. CLAYTON is the son of the late Ad miral of that name, was third Lieutenant of the remendous, on the Ist of June 1794, under Earl watt made Post in December 1799, and is hi ghly respe:fted in the Navy. NAP AL, N Ell/ S. PLYMOVTA, MARCH 7.2.—Arrived the Ship William, of London, JAm ES THOMPSON master, from London bound to Jamaica : she was run foul of on Monday morning last in the Channel; by a large white-bottomed Merchantman, by which the former lost her figure head, bowsprit, fore and main -mast, and suffered other damage. Arrived the Danish brig Four Brothers, Captain WINTER, from Longsound, wit!: timber, deals, &c. for a market. HARWICH, MARCH 23.—The wind has sudden ly changed from the Eastward to the West. The Earl of Leicester Packet, Capt. THOMPSON, with Mails for Gottenburg, and the Auckland Packet, Capt. BRIDGE, with the Mails, and about thirty passengers for Husum, sailed, with all the outward bound Ships, together with the Adder; Censor, and Ferreter Gun-vessels, and the Suit Cutter. Remain in the Harbour, His Majesty's Frigate the Constar.•ce; the Escort Gun-vessel, with the Hunter and Favourite Cutters; the Swedish Ketch Resolution, P. SAtrcos, for Dieppe, with iron ; the Portuguese Brig t'radoe, from Newcastle to Lisbon, with coals; and the jorge Roelof, from Yarmouth to Embden, with wine. The apprehensions which have now been long. entertained for the safety of the York Man of 'War, of 6+ guns, we are sorry to say, must be consider. ably strengthened, by a very large yard, about 60 feet long, and marked with her name, having been cast ashore a few days ago, at Mill of Mennie, on the Coast of Buchan. Three bodies have been cast ashore on the bench near Aberdeen, supposed to have been on board the Buxar, of Inverness, lately wrecked at Don-mouth, one of which is supposed to be that of Mr. RAE, the master of the vessel. All the bodies were decently interred in Footdee church-yard. Extrad of a letter from Whitby, Yorkshire, Mitch t 7.—" On Thursday a violent storm came un. About two o'clock in the morning the Thames, bound from Scotland to London, was miraculously. saved. At day break 26 other vessels were firing guns of distress, but no relief could be given them ; eight of them are entirely lost, the others got off." A 13111 was yesterday brought into the House of Commons, to relieve Bankers and others, from the Penalties to which they would otherwise he liable uuder the Property Tax At. It was read a first and second time, and committed fur Monday. The following are the precise words made use of on Thursday night by Mr. WI NDFIAM relative to Mr. Fox :—" The Hon. Gentleman, my Hon, Friend, as I am sure he :will allow; me to call him, and as I well may call him on subjects on which we so generally agree, having commonly found it so difficult to forbear calling him su on occasions when we so lately disagreed." • In the Debate last week nothing could , more forcibly prove the miserable shifts Mr. ADDING_ TON I the First:Minister of this Country was drove to in his Defence of the Admiralty, than by reading two letters from, as he called them, tewo meritorious and distinguished Ofeers, Captain DAY and Lieutenant TOOKLEY of the Navy. It is a question that may very naturally be asked of that Minister, if Captain DAY is so meritorious as he describes him to be, why has he not urged or di- reCted his friends at•the Admiralty to employ him ? Captain DAY may have merit, but certainly it is a name very little known in the Service. But his praise of Lieutenant Tooxecy is still more ex traordinary. This naval luminary, this Officer of such refined and discriminating judgment, he de scribes as having been seven years in the Corrimand of a Gun-boat, where he still remains a Lieutenant. Does not this appear ,somewhat singular, that a Lieutenant in the Navy, honoured with the Private Correspondence of His Majesty's First Minister, should, not in the course of seven years have done something to recommend him to promotion ? The thing is too bare faced to admit of comment. How will Sir EDWARD PE L LEW be able to look that gallant body of men the unemployed Qfficers of the Navy in the face, whom, in the presence of a British Senate, he has so` unguardedly aspersed ? The immediate promotion of his Son, which is to take place, can on cool refleCtion 'be but a very poor price for the unmerited obloquy he has, in conjunc tion with Mr. SLIER I DAN, cast upon all the Naval Charaders who have the misfortune not to be em ployed. Mr. PITT'S Motion has already been pro duetive of the most essential benefit, by rouzing the Admiralty from the lethargy that, with respect to the defence of the Country, possessed them, though no one will deny their activity in providing for their friends and adherents. It is a faCt well worthy of notice, that at a time like the present, when business, in an accumulated degree, presses upon all the Public Offices, that the Admiralty (who never thwart) instigated precepts to be demanded from a certiin Office by the Commissioners of Na val Inquiry, that occupied every Clerk in the Of fice alluded to upwards of three weeks to make them out. Glorious System of doing business. No, this was no thwarting!---O, temporal 0, more, ! QUEEN-S Q UARE, WESTMIN9TER.—Yesterday a fruit-woman who attends the boxes of Drury lane Theatre, was charged with a violent assault on a reputable tradesman's wife of St. Martin's.lane, on Thursday evening. The Prisoner had intruded her self into a box at the Theatre, occupied by the Pro secutrix and others, and not being able convenient ly to sell her fruit, she became very abusive; and charged them With unmannerly' behaviour. Not satisfied with vociferating her abus'es, she became more restive, and placing herself against a pillar, she began to kick the Prosecutrix very violently. She was ordered to find bail for the assault, in de fault of which t he WAS committed to Tuthill Fields Bride well, C.IMI3R/D6e, - MAnbti ON Tuesday last the Bishop of Li NC OT, N Or, tended a Special Convention of King's College) as Visitor, in order to bring to a final deer_ sion, a question which has for some time eml barrassed that Society, viz. " Wilether the R , 7_, verend Mr. B-, conformably to the Statutes of the College, could continue to enjoy his Fellow , hip, after having cohabited many years with a Lidy whom he had generally• introduced AS his wife, and 'by whom he had several children called after hia name 1" The matter underwent a long and serious discussion, irr the course of which the whole body (saving sae disthiliellt) declared, that sufiioicnt -evi dence had been adduced to prove Mr. B-- a tn ried man, according to the spirit of the College Statutes, and that the Senior fellowship which AR', had so long holden, was therefore, in their opi.. nion, ipso fads, become void; and an Election uf . another Fellow was ordered accordingly, TFIE ORAToRIo.— The Season concluded last night, at Covent-prden Theatre, with a grand Se.. ledion of Sacred Music, principally from the Works of HANDEL. The chief Vocal Performers were Mrs. BIL I NGTON, BIeAHAM WELSH, iMissTvt:E.R, and Miss Mu ND AY. The kfiuse was crowded, a:vi man y o f th e Pi e ce s were ercorcd. Mrs. B LUNG_ Tort never exerted herself with more zeal and abi lity. She Was peculiarly excellent in k - now that my Redeemer li•veth." BRAHANCS " Come iti , ,9u dare!" was highly animated ; and his cadence bold and chnraleristic. The Band was admirably Jed by Mr. WE tcisELL. The Season has hren ;tic ces4ul, the just consequence of the spirit and ability with which this So blime Entertaintrrnt has been uniformly conducted. Mrs, BILLINGioN anti BRAH.MA appear to much advantage. in the new Serious Opera, that for some time they may be expeded to throw GRASSI N.r into the back-ground, with all her acknowledged merits as. a Singer, a;;<.i 11104 e pa:ticoiarly 145 iifi Adress. Mr, GooLD, ttict new Manager of the OPef,:i House, has the tnetit of having brought forward the Opera of 11 Trio/if° deli" Amer Fra!erno. This Gentleman brought the sithjeet from Franee. The, music was composed here under his di:et:ion, and it was at his suggestion that no Divertisesry.:nt took place after the first Aa of the Opera, but dances in troduced incidental to the Piece. The music is in the highest degree creditable to the taste, judgment, and sensibility of the composer WINTER, at,d the Opera altogether is represeoted in a mahner very honourable. to the liberal Spirit of the Manager. • it has been justly observed, that there was a strong resemblance its the charaaers of the lare• Messrs. RICHARDSON and HARE. They both possessed great talents in private life, and were both restrained by an invinciLle shyness and delicacy from exerting those talents in the House of Com mons. They were both men of extensive know, ledge and high classical taste. Both were well ac quainted with life, and both were ready and skill:tf in strokes of colloquial wit and humour. They were also boat men of hon.Asr and feeling. Mr. kicllAitusoN, however, had the advantage in one respeet, for he possessed literary abilities of a very superior kind, though he dial not exerr them so. Often as. his friends tnight reasonably expea for their own. gratification, 'as well as for the fame which they were calculated to confer on their possessor. Lady ELGIN'S accouchment took place at Paris on - the 4th inst. when her Ladyship was safely de.. livered of a Son, and we are happy to hear, that at the date of the last accounts both were in good health. Lord ELGIN, we have 'the satisii.ftion to add, is now in perfeel health. His Lordship has been removed to Orleans, where he is on his parole, and makes no complaint. whatever of the treatment he experiences. Lord and Lady YAitmotrTi-t were also in goo,' health the beginning of the present month. Letters from both were a few days since received by their friends in Town. Lady HARRIOT CAVENDISH, according to the report of the fashionable circles, is soon to be lead to the Hymeneal shrine by the Hon. Mr. Bum; ELL. Lady ANNA MARIA STANHOPE is soon expe&ed to give her hand to the lion. MoNTAcu E MA. Vii E W. The Docile:is Of CORDON is shortly cxueded to return from Scothmd. On Monday a Court of Common Council is to be held at Guildhall, to teturn to the Court of /Wet. men eight persons agreeably to the Aa of Parlia. ment, four of whom are to be Aldermen, to be Commissioners for the general purposes of the Aet. And also to consider the 178th seaion of the whiCh diretts that the Lord Mayor, Aftlet men, and Commons of the City of L-ndon, or any three or more of them, not in any case exceeding seven, shall he Commissioners for executing the said .ad, and•the powers therein contained, in 1-el-I lion to the. cffices or ,employments of profit in this City or Corpoiation, and in every Guild, Fraternity, Company, or Society, whether Corporate or not Corporate, within this City or Corporation, and for all offices or employments of profits (not being pub lic offices or employments of profit under His Ma.. jesty) in this City - ; arid on Tuesday a Court of , Aldermen will be held to nominate two Commis sioners, and two to supply their vacancies cur of I eight: persons to be returned by • a Court of Cows Council, agreeably to the Aa of Parliament of the 43d of his present Majesty. A Ttial of considerable importance to Country Bankers, will come on atiWestminster Hall neat Term, viz. theii liability of paying. their own notes in cash, if required. To-morrow two Charity Sermons v 9l be peached et Tavistock Chapel, Broad -court, Long-Acre, for the Benefit of the Charity Children belonging to the Parish of St. ill,4tin's in the Fields ; that in the morning by the Rev. WALTER HARPER, Minister of- the said Chapel, and joint Lecturer of St. An drew, Holborn, ant that in .the evening by the Rev. DANI EL PARSLOW, A. M. Curate, and Morn ing Preacher of St. Giles's. Prayers will begin in the morning at eleven, an 3 in the evening at half-pa:l six o'clock,