The Sun. — London, England, 1801-01-26 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLLAIMEN7'. ROPSE OF COMMONS'. SATURDAY) JAN. 24. SrEAKER took the Chair at twelve o'clock i and the !louse continued till half }salt three, to swear in the ,Members ; after which it was adjourned till twelve o'clock on Monday. THE'SUN. soL&Nt otis ralcv.R.L t A tsum tiI)!:AT ? LONDON, JANUARY z 6, 18oz. Tint Channel Fleet sailed from Torbay on Fri. day, arui. passed Plymouth the same afternoon with, a fine breeze at North, so that it would by Saturday morning, in all probability, regain its station ow Brest. Wc understand that the EMPy RCM of Roy, lA, in answer to the remonstrance of this Court, has refmed to make any satisfaftion for the de. tension of our. Ships and Men, or to give any explanation whatever of • the causes which in duced him to take that step. THE liamburgh Mail due on Wednesday last arrived yesterday. It brings us but one articlc of intelligence that desen (.6 notke, but diat is so singular that we can do nothing mote than copy it. the Petersburg. Court Gazette contains the following article Peterzburg, Dec. It . I.4.s'aid that lII* I\l.ljetty the 'EMPEROR perceiv ing that the European Powers cannot come to an accom modation, and wiehing to pot it. end to a War whi . 6h has raged elevza years; ,has conceived the idda of appointing a place to which. he will invite the other .Potentates to en gage, together wit') himself, in single cothbat, In lists which shall.hemarkednut,i, for which Purpose they !.;"hall bring with thet, to as as th'tgr Esquires, Umpires, and Horaids, the;; niost enlightclied ;Ministers, and ablest ce nerals, a 3 TuvouT, PITT, and 141:Ni MP. F , . He will britg, on his p4rt, the Counts PA ti N and Koausol " On this article the liamburifh . 9 that, • • " It is not known whether this rnrnour is to he 4c. pendecl upon; meanwhile it tioes not stern to be altoge ther without foßnclatien, as it bears the matli of Nvh4t often been imputed. tck 'Om." < It is hardly necessary for us' to enter into apy of the numerous reildtions to which this extra ordinary (Arran from the Petcrsburgh Ga2,-tte must give rise, of the authenticity or %Alio, then: appeaLs little dot!hr. We can hardly imagine any thing better calculated LI dissipate the mo. mentary alarms, which we ,know not upon what grounds, part of the Public: hitve r conceived. Great fears cannot certnittly be entertained, either respeaing, the duration, or the danger of a Confederacy,'of Which the Author, ,and the Only voluntary member,' is capable of 'such extrktva. fiance: It will be seen from the preceding ragraph, that he has not` conduned himself more prudently with respea to the remonstrances made by our CoUrt as to, his treatment of Our Sailors. It is apparently to this circumstance that wt are to attribute the circa produced in the City by the last Mail, and not, as was supposed, to the intelligence received from the Court of Berlin. We. believe that we can assert, that the idea with *pea to that Court is not correct, and that - the Cabinet of Prussia has too .much pru. (knee, and knows 'too well the feeble basis on Which the politics of the Court of Petersburgh is placed, rashly to take a part in its political measures. The intelligence brought from roma by this Mail, is mote recent than that which the Pass Pa,pert contain, but puts us in possession of no , thing which deserves particular attention. The ifamimrsh Mad which becamc due yes. tprday, had,not armed when this Paper was put to Press, WE. yesterday received. Paris .Paprs. to the td frost.. Their importance is by no means pro.. portionate to the impatience with whi`lt we have looked for their arrival, as, they leave us in the .satne stoic; in, which we were before, respetting * the two mat interesting objeets, our, situation with the Powers of the North, and the relative circumstances of France and the Emperor. With respell to tht first point, a Letter from ,r‘tenbirgh , of the iflth ult. repeats what the last Mails had alreatly iiifrined us, that Con, vention had been signed o'l th riSth between the Courts of Russia, Sltheden, arld Detimiza. The Letter adds also; chat, ,on the fbilowing day, Pruistia had taken part in a it, , an Accessary rower. This is rontradittt.d by other Letters which assert, that the Prussian Minister had no powers sufficient to authoriu Kim to enter com pletely into this league; and we have good, reason to believe that the latter :lie rime to lie relied upon opinion, that Prussia will not renounce the ad vantageOus condition, 'in which a perk& Neu. treaty would place her,. either as a Mediatory or a'Commelcial Power. • No Armistice had, on the lath of this Month, been concluded between the two Armies's' Atu , ., irian and French, in Italy, but an Imperial Of ficer had on that day arrived at the Head..(. uar. ters of the latter, with a Flag , of. Truce,. sup. posed . to be vested with full powers to conclude also a Suspension of 'Arms. To this the French would not accede unless Malltaa, Peschiera,'Fer „r 1, and Ancama were delivered to them. So, at least, it is officially said by General Batrete, in a Letter to the Minister 'of War of, the gth inst. :the fate of the campaign has placed him in a situation both to make and to obtain these demands ; for it has been uniformly favourAle to him from the 25th At the latter period the French 'Army, after having successively forced the Passages of the Alineicr, of the Adige, and of the Brenta, .had almost reached the Banks of the Piave, and was exactly in the situation of BONATAItTE, at the opening of the Campaign in '1797. As we pre_ died six weeks ago, the Left of General %to E, and the Army of Reserie, have less diredjd their attention to the conquest of the German than to that of the Italian I:yrii, and have. endeavoured to arrive in the Valley of the Adige, in order to `separate the Army of General liter, GAR E from tint of general Iliii.lEß. In this deCisive ma_ no.ervre they succeeded, and General Horace Y, who commands their. Left, has seized aiid turned, one after the other, the heads of the Vallies of Camomietr, of the of the Be'entq,. and of the .I,eatego. No battle gained, nor even any considerable 'engagement successfully terminated, have marked this new progress ,of the French Army. One or two rather warm aCtinns have taken phice; in which the laic of Arms appears to have been equal enough. The retreat of General 'BE ILLEGARD E semis the combined re sult of' the inferiority of his Forces, and of the depression of spirit in his Soldiers. We find nothing' new respeding the Nego. t',ations between France and Austria, or the Con. `west; at Zuneville. The Papers, which i ,4lpparent. ly have been enjoined reserve on this head, :scarcely .make any mention of the subjel, con. te•lting themselves with considering Peace as certain,.end at hand. The state of the French Fueds proves that this convi6ion prevailed ; they continue to rise, and were, at the latest d;ttt, at 5.1.,1a. A : 4 might naturally be expeas.)a ) BONAPARTE, whom we now consider as deliyered from the Continental War, is daily increasing the number of his Troops on the Coast of France, front Calais to the Pyrenean A general review of his Naval Forces has- been announced for the zoth of next ,mouth ;. and three Expeditions are spoken of, as soon to sail from the,'Port of Brest,. We r,hall no doubt See the threats and demonstra tiorrs which the. French Government made against as aficr. the Treaty of Campo Formic), renewed with the same ,ffea as on' that occasion. It is the game which they naturally have , to play, but of which they can hardly flatter thetuselves that we shall be the dupe. FrAIICC itself affords no very important Intel floct very little detail respeding the late Conspiracy; and the men who were the victims of it. ,Some of them, it appears, are not to, be transported farther than the Islands of Rhe and Olerfor. Measures which have hitherto prov ed inefficacious for the safety, of, Travellers on, the high roads,. and for reestablishing Hospitals for the sick, are the most remarkable among the public ads of the French ,Administration. 'I he Sultan has, it is said, in a Letter from Csurtantimph, ordered the Regencies of 44 and of 7'fini,t, to declare, and to mike War imme diately against the French. It' is unnecessary to remark, that this circumstance will be pirticu lathy' unfavourable to the French, as fir as con.. earns the preservation and the defence of Egypt. Upwards of thirty PaSengers came over in the Packet which brought , these Papers, amongst whom is the - widow of the French Admiral 13R1EY ES. Yesterday morning Tkili tit MAJESIIEO and the Pit i?:e.p.sEs,. with their usual attendants, went 16 St. George's Chapcl, Windsor, where they, heard- the Rev. Dr. WI t.sox preach a ser. Mon from the nook of Proverbs,. chap and the first chin.se of the. first verse, • " A. good' 1141fle t*' rathar to be chosen than riches." The KING was prevented on Saturday from taking his favourite divvrhion of hunting, ,on ttc count of the frost tlia 11 , 4er was to have , been turntd, out 3t Farnham eo;nmon, his IMAirsTy and lawndants %%I. : (1 Windlov Little PoCv, anti afterwards to FlOgEnOre. f_,011,0 vitt,ott. , will bee cznipiny every 4 .s:abirtlay cveninip Ar woe ty:••••.-7 . /.7- , • . NAP L r'"; - - s y AriE S Nan du bit Pt him f fla i, sa.vuirtgl‘f tlidelaOff, Sed torte datum: From (I,e LONDON G:42.E1 FE, .7antoity 24, dot. . , aidmsraity-ussee, January 24, 1881. - Copy of a Letter:from Captain. Yorke, Commander of Majess:p's Ship Ike Jason, to Bevan Ne peas, Esq. dated a t S ea t h e 18th instant. Sr it, I have to acquaint you, for the.information of my Lords Commissioners of t h e Ad m i ra l ty, t h at I this day ciiptured La Venus French Luger Pri vateer, of fourteen brass carriage - guns, and thirty.. six meri. She sailed from Cherbourg yesterday evening, and had noemade any captures'. I have the Honour to be, &c. &c. JOSEPH SYDNEY YOItKE. Admiralty-015ce, lansten:y 24, Igor. Copy of a Letter from Rear. Admiral Duckworth, Commander in Chief of Ili: Majest . A's' Ships and Vessels at the Leeward Islands, to Mr. Nepean, dated Leviathan, Martiniyuci -27th October, I Soo. - SIR, Haying direaed the, Gipsey, of ten 4-pounders and ibrty.two men, Tender to the., Leviathan, under' the command of Lieutenant COryndon 80. ger, to 'carry the chatlotte Merchant Ship (in which mylate Captain, Carpenter, took his pae, sage) to the, Northward of theJslandS, i am to L:g you will inform the Lords CommissiOnets of, the Admiridry, that on the' 7th - instants In pass.: ing near Gua4loupc' on the' ibove serviCc, he chased and brought to alion a:French Slo o p, o f very superior magnitude; and ; maimed with 'doh. We his number of select Troops of:Gitatialoupe For the Part icnlars of this - very handsome Contest I shall 'Tic'. their Lordships to Lieutenant Boger's Letter ;• but I should not do justice 'to' jesty'L Setvice, from the knowledge I have of this yaluable Officer's chata(ter, and 'from the unanimous •.voice of hisiCrqW, if I d3d not sify lii modest recital of his- , gallantry does him as much honour as"the,Aaion itself ; and I flatter myself' he, will be honoured with their' Lordships' pro.. tedion. • I have the Honour to be, &e, ,54c; . J. 'l'. DUCKWORTH. P. S. Since the concluding of the above, I find three more of the wounded havc died, .oiptej, iii St:' juAzt's- Roads, Oduber 8, iSoo. SIR, I havc the honour to acquaint you, that at eight A. M. off the North end of Guadaloupe, I chased and came up - with an 'Armed Sloop ;• on firing a shot at her, she hoisted Ifench colours and returned it ; an Affion imtantly commenced ; we remained at very close quarters .1 - or. Wour and .ao half, wh‘m, finding "that her imusketry. did us considetable"darnage,..Lhauled a little - fitrther off, and kept up a, sharp fire of i.ciund and grape : a t h a lf past ten I had the satisfadion to'see her strike : she roves to be Quiprovo, corn :waded by Tourpie, .fOrmerly‘ a 'Capit i ,hia de Frigate in , the , service of the King,. an 'was charged with Dispatches from C:trayab tound' co Guadaloupe i she mounts eight'guns, six anti nine-pounders, and had on' board ninetr.eight ingni eighty, of wholu Gtiadaiuupe Misseurs and Cannoneers. I am sorry to add, that- oUr loss •is considerable,' having' had one killed and 'eleven 'wounded ; among the latter-I include Mr.: Clarke and.mybelf. binding it necessary to get medical assistance as soon a!, possib,le, I. put - into . this Port, and have got all the wounded into an Hospital. The' loss' on- the side of the. Enemy was the - Cartain) and four kilted and_ eleven wounded. Both vessel s have suffered .much their sails , and rigging, but I am happy to say,' His Majesty's Schooner has not suflered in her hull. I cannot omit, mentioning. the great assistance I received from the Charlotte Merchant Ship under my' convoy, boils in securing the Prisoners, and giving every asistance to the Wounded that lay in' their power. The Petty4tlicers and Men you (lid Me the honour to place under my command, behaved ex. teemely well on' the ocewsion: I am sorry to add, that, two men have since died of their wonnds: I have the Honour to,bev &c. &c. &c. CORY N'DON BOGER. Rear-4,114ml Duchiuioith, &c. &c. Etc. PLYMOUTH, jA`m. TH E Channel Fleet sailed from Torbay yester. day, and passed by this Fort in the. afternoon, with a fine breeze at North." Arrived the Danish Brig LJAke Spill, of Am ito, J. K. Votis inaster, frorn'Ostend bound to St.. Martin's, in ballast, captured by the Cot. taur, of 74 guns. , PORTSMOUTH, JAN.. 25; SArraft) His Majcsty's Ship Siverh, of 74 guns, Adivr t'i igate, unti - Laptviiig Sloop of War, for the Westward, Arrived 'a Fleet of Traders from the Dowil, 3 , under convoy of the Netnes;s Frigate. The Transports, with the 'sr and; 64. th Regi. tomorrow fol- the West Indies with• out Convoy, being mostly armed. F ALMOUTIi, jam. 23. I:E D t 1 IC .I: ) riieett Charlotte racket, C4pt: K E u It, for .1111131C.1,; Duke of Cumberland, emit, lic uLDAiwv, lot New-York ; and Wahine; trier with the Mails of the 7th inst. ana the latter with two Mails of the 6th and 13th inst. Also, ,the American ships Juno, CLARKE, for Tenerife ; and James, PEDRI ex,. for Lisbon. Danish and Swedish Ships detained.ltere n4:11511. Ship Fortuna, Capt. F. Peterson, from Riga "kr,LisbOi l ,' with masts, Sx, ,t„ East India Ship Vennerne, C a pt. Kirland, from If* at' for Copenhagen ' with . sugar, ociffte; Schooner' Freya,. .Capt. Scivcre, from. Sti Thornast for Coipeuhagen, with sugar, ,coflix, , swLot sit. • Ship Kassaren, Capt. D. Eergrstrorn, from Hull for Lisbon, With bale goo 6, ace. Ship Anna Maria,' Capt. Mathias Wikren, with coals., for Lisbon. , Brig Isabella j?cobina, Capt. (I'Lotr Sodergrin, with pil--• • chards, ..fur 1y rice, ti'allibt Maria Elizabeth, Capt. Kreckler,' from Bristol for Hainbitr B h, with sugar, ac 4:. and a Brig in ballast. The outward-bound Fleets for,Lisbon, Oporto, Gibraltar, Mediterranean, and Africa, were pre. vented gettingobt, the wind blowing very - strong, at N. N. E. DOPER, JAN. 25. THE if 'WU) Gesiena, Capt. CI.AVS DIERIES, from. Hamburgii to Liverpool, with a valuable cargo of barley; - oats and pease, stopped by the King George ,hired Armed Cutter, in attempting to qamelor this Harbour,, ran a-shore, and will be totally lost. The greatest part of the cargo will be saved, but muck of it in a very damagJ state. D.E44, JAN. 25. His:lVlaSesty's Ship Nemesis, Mentor Brig, Ma. lahar, Berrihrtov . , Bridgewater, Rose, and Wil iam Dort East India Ships, bound tO B enga l f or . rice, together with at least zoo sail of Merchant • Vessels; otitward.bound,s4lled yesterday from the Downs to the Westward, with a fitie wind at N. E. . . NAVAL APPOINTMENTS, , . Admiral Sir Ht nit TAJO:ER, - Commander in Chief in the North Sea. Vice-Admiral L or d 'Nt Second in Command, and to:hoist his I on board NepOsole and Rear-Admiral ,Sir G. W : . PAINFAx,,Third. C`aptain.DUIVIITT, of the -Bdleisle, is to be First Captain to the Commoder . in Chief, ',Captain LIIMSDAINE sue.. cods him in the_ Command of the above Ship. • Captain LAWFORD, to the bovincith. Captain CHARLES HARE, to tle Madras. cap. WHITE, to the Suipb4r. Captain HETHERILL, to the Heeler. And papt; RAG olt tho4verrign. • His MAJESTY. does not go down to the ifoua; of Peers till Thursday next. Sir A. S. HANIOND and Sir WiLLsAnt Rus h, arrived at Portsmouth on Monday last, and left it for tondon on Wednesday, after surveying, in company with Commissioner Sir GNARL rs S,vvroN; the whole of the Ships in ordinary ; and ordered the following to be repaired and' ready toCommission in six Weeks at f art h e4t the Brwwwid, Bah:o2frhem i Pengfance, Vanguard, and llannibal. They also proposed to allow each of the Arti fleets in the yard * sixpence per diem for their chips, and 1-:ft them to consider of the proposal, And they have ordered, that, the ships for , repair» ins, tvc. are to be hove down instead of being docked. Orders,bave been ,issued to tan all the hands, heretofore employed on the Ships which welO building, to.those that require only inconsidera. ble repair, every one of which is to be equipped, for sea with the.. utmost possible expedition.--, At Chatham, soimre tlic Plenbeiv, PotuirA4.tea/pus, Asia, and Zdjheid, are in tM first class to be, commissioned- - ; numerous, gun-boatkare direEted to be repaired,,as is the case in the other Ports. We hay . e great satisfaelion in contradiaing the report of the loss of the Camiila ; and to state, that she is safel arrived at Cork., Lord OARDNha has informed the Merchants of Limerick, in consequence ot thelr application, that On the arrival of two Sloops of W ar , now expeded from England, he will . send one of them round, together with, a cutur, to convoy the crude from the Shannon into the English Channel. The Naval Commander at Limerick has seized the 'Ship klioirrer Vacs Strotwste, Capt. Moats, supposed from. Embden,. and bound fo r B atav i a and China, as being DtKch property. This 'ves sel had put into Carrigaholt Bay, last week, in distre.s. His Majesty's Ship h i l , of so guns,.. Captain W ALKER ,, will convoy the next outward-bound East India ships. Intelligence has been received at the Admi. ralty from Lieut . : FA A LIN, Conimiuldin g One o f His 'Majesty's Ships of War, that he was i n . fbrnied by the Captain of a Swee,li vessel whom he - spoke in one of the lielvetie Channels, t h at a most violent Storm and swell of -the waters, in Flushing Harbour had driyen on shore eight sail of Line-of.llattle Ships stationed there, This fleet was left aground, not having more than se ven feet water upon the falling back of the swell, and could not be got olf without much time And difficulty. It is stated, that at Havre, Dietipe, Boulogne, Cherbourg, Malo, Morlaix, and all the Western ports off ranee, a severe: press has taken place, and all seamen between the ages of is and so sent to the Fleet at Brest, which chntinued 4144 Inner Harbour, with top.sail yards across, and other. wise in apparent readiness for sea.—Simil ar *X erti,ons are stated to be making 1;7 the Nnrthirn Powers, for planning their respenive F