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ministration, and L more particularly sensible of it, from a corni.aricc- of their abilities and coodud, with !Ile abilhie: , . ;IA condat of those who formed the preceding Administration; and this is. more parricul,irly case, , upon a c o mparison of the pre sent with the' laze Premier, whose super.erninent abilities have been so frequently experienced, and whose inte g rity and disinterestedness have been so Strikingly proved by rile reduced state of his Fi. flatlets, when hi, ;iitevrity and patriotism induced his resit atiln of the riel,n. In the years 1756 and and 1757, such was the insufficiency of ;lie then Direaurs of the Cabinet, and such the unfavourable circumstances of the Country, that the Public were justly alarmed, and with a spirit of true patriotism loudly called for the abilities and services of that most eminent Statesman, the Father of the present Mr. PITT. The glorious and successful consequences are too well-known to need a recital of them ; but I hope that the recolleaion of them will awaken the attention of the Public to the present state of our Country, and to the transcendent abilities of the Son, so greatly worthy of his Father, and that they will unite in a warm and respeBful Address to our most gracious and good Sovereign, and earnestly request him to recall and to reinstate Mr. - PITT in his former situation, that he and his loyal Subjeds may be happy in the application of those abilities, which are so necessary to countcraa the hostile and destrudive intentions of our most malicious Enemy, by the prosecution of the War in that way from whiCh; under God, we can alone hope a success ful and happy termination of it. That the recall of Mr. PITT is the general wish of the Nation, is evident from the general high opi. nion which the majority in all ranks express of . him, and the very great esteem in which he is held ; and I am assured, if these circumstances were .to reach the ear of our most gracious Sovereign , that he would immediately gratify the public 'desire ; and he would, I have no doubt, as immediately in crease their confidence and their readiness to make the most extensive pecuniary sacrifices, because the Public would then feel assured, that none would be required but what were essentially necessary, and that they would be wisely and faithfully applied and direaed to their proper uses, to the glory, welfare, and preservation of our Sovereign and our S:ate. • Your's, PRO REGE ET PATRTIE. THE following Bulletin was issued this morning rather before twelve o'clock : " firs MA rts - ry is nearly the same as he was yesterday. (Signed) U Own' t Howe, Feb. 29, /SO4. " L. PEPYS. " H. R. REYNOLDS. 46 F. MILNIAN. " W. HERERDE.N." THE Debate which took place in the House of Commons on Monday night, was perhaps the must important, taken altogether, which has occurred in Parliament for a series of years. This remark ap plies to both the topics of discussion. The first, -upon the much lamented Indisposition of our beloved Sovereign, was pre-eminently interesting, both be . - • cause it related to a topic nearest the heart of every good Subjeet, and ,bectuse it tended to eipose to the Country, in a stronger point of view than ever, - the weak, temporizing and vacillating co.nduft of .Mr. ADDZNGTON'S Administration. We will ven ture to affirm, that never did the Prime Minister of . this Country, at any time, or upon -any-occasion, display such lamentable puerility, or manifest • such palpable inconsistency and contradiaion.— thugh the real Malady which has withdrawn our excellent Monarch from' the eyes of his People for • the last month has been shrewdly guessed at, it re. maitied for the Minister to tear away the veil, behind - which love and:respcd, .and delicacY, had hhherto . concealed it. : Mr. 4on ttw-rox 'specifically ex plained the nature of the King's Indisposition, when he told the House that " upon the authority of His Majesty's Physicians, comparing his present - 6ituatlon with the situation of His MAJESTY On two former occasion:, they qre unanimously of opinion that His Majesty's Illness will be of shorter duration." Here the Minister expressly explains the .nature of the King's malady, and' at the same. time consoles us with the hope, which we . sincerely believe the whole Nation anxiously che 'fishes, that its duration will be short. But does riot the very reference to hole upon this occasion prove that the Illness still continues ? Yet, incom. • prehensible as it may appear, the Minister in another part of his speech tells us that, " if the necessity existed, no. interruption to the public business, from the. Japposed situation of HIS MA J ESTY , exist." How these inconsistencies can be-recon cilcd in cottp sense we cannot for our lives .• percerye,- Nor are the charaftars of the Ding's Physicians Ttss -bused than the .frelings and cre4ulity of the 'Public. We are expressly told by the Minister, MAILS. DUI. Hatnburgh 4 Consols - ♦*atm. PRICE OF STOCKS, THI DAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCK. - 55 1 1 Red. AAII. - - 55 i a 56 THE SUN. *OLLM QUIS DICERE FALSUNI AUDEAT ? LONDON, FEBRUARY 29, ISo4. that the daily Reports of the health of our beloved Monarch, which all ranks of his faithful Subjeas daily crowd to his Palace to peruse, that they may know the progress of an indisposition which is universally considered as a great National Calamity, do not so much refer to the state or probable. dura tion of 1-Its MAJESTY'S complaint, as to the anxiety of the Public—that, in short, the Medical Bulletins are more c lated to play with the feelings of the People than to tell them the truth. We sincerely hope there was some•error in Mr. ADDINGTON'S statement, or in the general apprehension of his meaning in this part of his extraordinary speech. We should ,be willing to suppose or believe any thing, rather than suppose that a set of men of high professional charafter, of unblemished reputation, and held in the greatest possible personal respea and esteem, should have entered into a combination to delude a whole Nation to whom the welfare of their Sovereign is so deservedly dear, and who having a• legitimate interest in every thing that concerns him, have an undoubted, right to know, if not the whole truth, at least -something like the truth. In the Howe of Commons, we believe, that the chief emotion which the speech of the Minister excited was that of pity. It chewed the shifts and flounderings of a weak mind, perplexed by the multiplicity and importance of circumstances press ing upon it, and appalled by the awful responsibility which now hangs over the heads of those, who still presume so unworthily•to occupy situations for.which they have upon every occasion proved themselves so unfit. The second subjea which occupied the attention of the House, .was the second reading of the Volun teer Bill. This was rendered more interesting by -a speech of great length and eloquence from Mr. PITT, upon the general defence of the country. In the. view of that great Man, much remain_sto he done to render this complete, though, unlike all other Statesmen under the same circumstances, he does not magnify our deficiencies and danger for the pur pose of critninating Ministers, or enhancing the va lue of the plans which he himself has to propose ; on the contrary, he expressed his opinion that our means of defence were great, but that by judicious measures they might be rendered still more equal to the great crisis which seems so near at hand, and to the present unsettled state of the affairs of the civi lized world. The great length of the prelimiltary discussion upon the state of His MAJESTY'S Health prevented this Speech, of about two hours duration, from being given to the• Public at any length, a cir cumstance certainly extremely to be regretted ; but in the Committee on the same Bill this evening ' there is reason to hope that Mr. Prrfs ideas upon this important subjea will be still more particularly detailed, and we shall be able to give a'connefted and satisfaaory idea of them to our Readers. In the course of the discussion on Monday night, Mr. PITT adverted to the very inadequate state of our Naval Defence. This we have repeatedly touched upon, from a conviction of the error and obstinacy which have been uniformly practised by the Naval Administration of the Country upon this very essential point, add it is no doubt a proud con. solation to us that we arc suppOrted in our opinions by the authority of Mr. PITT. We likewise heard, with peculiar satisfaaion, that that great. States man intimated the 'probability of his bringing forward, at some future- day, a spetific motion upon the subjen. The more it is itiveitigated, the more we are satit.fizd we shall lie 'found -to be justified in every thing. we have said upon the conduCt of the present Board of Admiralty. N erw.Y ork Papers were received yesterday to the t4.th of January inclusive. A Bill fur ereat‘g Louisiana into a part of the United States, under the name of the territory of New Orleans, and to provide for its temporary Go. vernment, has passed the House of RepreSentatives.. The executive power is to be vested in a Governor,' who is to be resident, and hold his office for three years. He is to have the command - of the Militia, and the appointment of Officers, both civil and Mili tary. The power of punishment and pardon is, also to be vested in him. It appears limn the accounts - of a Captain of; Vessel, who arrived at.. Philadelphia on the loth of January, from Port Republicain, which place he left on. the 19th December, that the Blacks were employed in levelling all the Fortifications at that place, and, at the same chile, were ereding , wooden buildings. for their 'residence, in order that they might set them on fire, and retire to their fast. nesses, in case the French should return in force.. It is said that Government has, within these few days, received dispatches from the British Minister at the Court of Berlin, stating, that the prOposition made some time since by the Ft as.r Co Nilf1:00 form a close Alliance with His Paussi MAtg:iry, h a s at length been decidedly rejected by thelatter. The following Corps are to be brigaded in three Battalions under the command of Lieut..:General Fox The Right.--Brentford and Ealing 300 men. Is!eworth 10Q. Twickenham 204. Licut._Col.•' .1.) I'N te. WATER. The Left. —Kensington 480 men. Lieut.. Col. Wicc is . The Centre."--Pulham 320 men. Chiswick 260. Lieut.- Mmick. NAVAL NEWS. PLYMOUTH, FEB. 27.—Arrived His Majesty's Ships Jamaica and Seagull, from a Cruize. Sailed the Hazard Sloop of War, on a Cruize. PORTSMOUTH, FEB. zB.—Arrived His Majesty's Ship La Paulette, Capt.DiirtßAß, from the Downs; Providence, Oke, from London; Sedgefield, Manter, from Newcastle; AmeriCan Ship Palmyra, , (brought in by His Majesty's Ship Arradne), from New Orleans, bound to Havre-de-Grace. Sailed—the Crown (West Indiam:.n), Caffray, out of'llar bour, refitted. • SHEERNESS, FEB. 28.-Arrived La Firg;nie, Capt.,BERESFORD, from the Downs, as likewise the champion and Lynx, to repair the damages which' they sustained by running foul of each other. Came down from the River the Dolphin, of ++ guns. This morning Capt. Btr LL E N, who commands the Sea Fencibles at this Port, received orders to get his Flotilla immediately ready to co-operate in repel ling any attempt that may be made by the Enemy in this quarter. DEAL, FED. iB:—His Majesty's Ship Trusty came down from the Nore. Sailed the Immortahtt and Liqraor on a cruize. The Rgisongble ,sailed for her station off the Texel, but bore up again, the wind shifting to the northward. The Medway Lighter came down from Sheerness last night, and sailed this morning for the same place. The Seafiower Brig sailed with convoy for Ports. mouth. Th 1 Lord Nelson and Princess Charlotte East India hips came down from the River, and sailed with the Convoy. In the Downs—Monarch, Utrecht, Illustrious, Raison_ able, Trusty, Leda, L'A.irnable, Pegasus, Rasoio,.Synirrel, Vincego, Lark, Perseus, Fury, Conflict, Locust, Mariner, Stalling, and fackall. ADMIRALTY BOARD. WE have so rrpeatedly called the public - atter!. tion to the neglea or mal-administration of this Department . of Govetnment, that it, might appeAr exhausting the subje& to say much more ; but when the evidence of the farts which we have stated, so frequently occur, we feel it a duty to the Nation not to remain silent. How often ,have we pressed upon this &mid the strong necessity of building/or tiring small Cutters, &c. which could follow the Enemy's small Craft, even under their batteries. Saturday's Gazette states that the iffilive, hired Cutter (of 8 guus).and about 3o men, alone, main. tained an anif,n with i 6 French Gun.boats, &c. and captured one of them though within three.quarteis of a mil: of the Batteries. The wind was partly off shore, yet the Cutter worked in among them. Here then is - sufficient proof to justify our remarks that the present Board of Admiralty have not, since the War began, provided the. proper Vessels to intercept the: numerous' Gun.boats, &c. which have so con stantly escaped into Boulogne. The powder and shot expended by the immortaThe Frig:l%, would in its value have paid for the hire of two such Cutters. We have before noticed that all the Gun-boats which have been taken, were by such Vessels as the Gri sll, Speculator, and such like.' Our Readers must well remember, that in - the last War scarce a week pass ed without a Gazetted account of small convoys of the Enemy taken either by Sir JOHN BORLASE WaitftEN, Sir EDW. PELLE W, Sir SIDNEY SMITH, Sir RICIIARD STRACHAN, Capt. KEATS, and some other such able Officers. The Enemy's Convoys coast it as formerly, but when do we ever hear of - -any being taken ? In a former Paper we mentioned that we had something to say about hiring Cutters at the Cinque Ports. The Admiralty were offered many, but they, from a pretended economy, rejeet ed theoffer ; strange conduct ! when the . Nation is thiiiiiened with destruEtion, like Jews in Rag Fair, thek:aie liaggling . for a few hundred Pounds. The ship-builders are reluClant to contraA with that Board, far they have taken this power from the ..Navy Board. Mr. ADAMS has been fined, .or threatened at least to be made to pay ioool. for, being three weeks beyond his'tirbe in launching a Frigate, although he proved`that his men attending : drills as Volunteers was the cause : thus a man is to be fined for permitting his peciple tb learn .to fight for their Country. Mr. 'ADAms, in fa&, is not; worse off than Mr HuFFHANI, the Rigger : his men were pressed, and then he was complained of for not rigging the ships in the river. A-pro:Tog, it is some long time since Mr, Secre.' tary 71t16;.E4. furnished The Times with a list of '2B' Sloops of War building, and some to be ready by ',Christmas ; but possibly 'we mistake, it may be the. Christmas that is coming. On Saturday orders were received on board all the Ships.s•ati med at the Hope, for the defence of the entrance of the Ri ver, that no person belonging to them should be suffered to :sleep-on shore, on any pretence. Direnions were sent on Sunday to 'Woolwich, for all the 'Bomb-vessels to proceed down the River this week. The Acheron, Etna, and Thunderer, sail this day,- with each an Officer and patty of men on board belonging to the Artillery. Onlsitday last the Reverend HENRY PLtMLEY, A. I‘ll:'N'icar of St. Leonard, Shoreditch, and Chap. lain tiii,ffie 'Right Hon. Lord Sr. HELENS, was in. stituted'Wthe . Bishop of SAL SIIURY to the Living of Windsor, on the Presentation of the Lotto CHAN. cELLott. RIDING MATCH.—We understand a bet has been made, to take 'place in six months from this time, by a gentleman who engages to ride from the City ' of London to' York in twelve hours. He is to change'horses on the road as often , a, he plea.cw-- The bet is for tOOO guineas, FINANCE. Ir the amount of the Revenue is one year arlm• rently larger than the preceding, the Public is art hastily to conclude that it is in a flourishing state, and the Friends of the Ministers are sufficiently ready to encourage this fallacious opinion. It appears by a Paper laid before the House of Commons, that the produce'of the Taxes to the Sth of Jan. 1804, is 30,710,0001. —whereas to the sth of Jan. 1803, they amounted only to 27,531,00 01. This account has been triumphantly stated in all the Ministerial Papers, and the inference drawn has been, 'that there is an increase of above Three Nil' lions—Whereas the fad is that there is a considera ble deficiency—because, from 30,710,0001. twi st be deduCied the New Taxes imposed last year (0 4 which have not produced what they were estimated at), and to the snm of 27,531,0001. must be added the sum of 1,633,0001. for Corn Bounties paid out of the Revenue. The Account will then stand thus Produce of Taxes to Jan. c, tSo4, - X. 30,7 10,0° Deduct New Takes, - 2,967,0°3 -------- o )7. 27,743'°c Pro:lnce Tan. 5, 1803, 000 Add for Corn Bounties deduced, 1,033,PC° n,-ce 2.9064i—0 • --- Defalcation in pre,•:nt Year compared • with Receipt of preceding, - ,C. The following Circular Letter has been sent to tPAr" Lord Lieutenants of the different Counties :. • (CIRCULAR.) '' MY LORD, . Wilieball, Feb. 21, " It being extremely desirabletlr i a t t cr yourCorp; l a the or i dsliip, ard . l Commandants;of the several Volunteer under yOur charge, should have the earliest posiihle inrl fo a :z tion of every new appointment or distribution Of ltispeL-"cci 'Field-Officer's which may take ()lace within the same; cif inconveniences having' been already experienced froni.ri'c,' cuitolis mode in Which that information is at present,.. ° , l Li c -als ed, it Inis been thought expedient that, in future, the • •eonocanding Districts-should make the necessary c.o01111t,;,, cation upon those points direttiv to the nentenants ot 97. ties, Ridings, or Places within' their repee - ti4e,COIIB T !I; Instrudions to this effea will be immediately,sent Royal Highness the Commander Chief, to the,("cPr ral• Commanding the District' in Which the §iMited, flint) whorri your Lordship. may expea to rec eiV f: filiT)l time to time, notification of all such changes as eV take place in these particulars, with the. view of en.-11 -your Lordship to communicate the same h s Commanders or the Several Volunteer Corp's, to w110;11 its important that such changes shodld be made known withoil ' cot '" I take this opportunity of requesting; that, in the ev of any new oiler ot' Voluntary Service being recotriniencied your Lord Ship, and accepted by Nlajesty, your 'l..sirds l ,7, will have the .goodness, in making known His Majesty"s gZ e ir immediately cious acceptance to the individuals•who have lendered " ra j loyal services, ro convey the, information in the precise te r n _ or the acceptance, and to direet that the same sha o h be v e t he tered in an orderly book, to be kept for that purr' s.° ';,, , liosa Commandant of the Corps, Troops, or Company' services shall have been accepted. " I have the Honour to be, my Lord, " Yu or Lordship's mOst obedient humble Seq''' " Ills Majesty's Lirzfienant of the Yesterday,. the Earl Of C O NYNGHAM I (14 , the Pr Hon. CSAROVI GR:i3V ..t.lic,:and , Jokiirr ca . a NI. P. brother of Lord CARRINGTON, were el e ': Honorary Members of the Board of Azricultu re , ' The following ark the Names of the Coni t ''` •nrt appointed to inquire into the merits of the e ' from the Journeymen Calico Printers of Lance. Derbyshire, &c. Mr. Blackburne Mr. Stanley • Mr. Dent Mr. Wilberforce Sir G, Cornewa4 Mr. Dundas Mr. Vansit tart Sir Win. Geary Mr. Rurdon 141 r. Best Mr. Adair Mr. Alexander fir. 'Wood IVlr. Baldwin Mr. Hobhouse Mr. Smith Sir 1. Anderson Sir M. B Folkes - Mr. Bane Mr. Ward •. Mr. Dallas Mr. Dickinson Mr. Coke Mr. Lygon • Mr. Williams Mr. Moore Air. Giles tile. Ormsby Mr. Hutchinson Mr. Burroughs ; And all the Members who serve for the Coo, • of Of Lancaster, Yol k, Westmorland, Curnber l3 . ll , andNirth)fourmNbL,errltad North Britain Durham, ritainanathe N i u , t ro ti v il i g n i it n, The Duke and Dutchess of Goa DoN, and -1; :e ‘ 4 1) arrived at. Aherdo e "re. i MAD EL NA St NC J.. AIR, Her Grace on ThursilaY 'd e r. crdaY senced e'"ig the Colours urS to the Ist Regiment o f 1 deen Volunteers. . sn ort acrd Lady REDESDALE, it IS are expeted to return from Ireland. og' • On ,MondaY THOMAS GOTOBED, E , q• w 3stl : ruinously eleded Receiver of the .Bedford Ch al in the room of his late father. en t The Duke of PORTLAND gives full emploYT 4 to the labouring poor, in the neighbour hOa ea Bulstrocie. hundred men are every day .eloP lL 'i o rs in the improvements - which liis:Grate is c ati l ..;n° at. that place. lo t The last.attvices from Washington informs t•the has been settled after solemn ~ Argument t', l3 ,i e ja Ladies of Mr. JEFFERSON'S Ministers, precedence to the Ladies of Foreign and a public dinner was given for the expr4 o4 i nt o pose of carrying this important princiP l so praffice. This question therefore : which ha% is much and so long agitated the American Cab inet now asleep for ever. , 4 Mr. CAULFIELD appeared last week on 01 B a se. tol Stage. in the Charader of Hamlet, a n d great satisfaction to a crowded audience. ; . 00 oft Mrs. BILL INGTON Was greatly in requislts enfr Friday night, for she was obliged to . visit C °v o ioi - Garden Theatre . twice, to assist at the Orat' ,..o o, and to be twice also at the Hanover-square Fol.! to perform at the Vocal Concert. I "° 11" INCLEDON'S performance of his musica l o n • called The Wandering Melodist, at CanterbOriV,,r, • Friday last was very successful. Five liundr e" e i st sons were in the room, and three hundred at ` sang were unable to obtain admission. His 10' 1 •itt i in honour of HIS MAJESTY. was applat"l6 enthusiasm. As a return for the very warm . b u.y, • age which INcLEDoN . has received at C" ntr c at Ire means to repeat his performance for the ben the Hospital at that place. 1 1