The Sun. — London, England, 1804-05-19 00:00:00

APAL NEWS. PLYMOUth) MAY Arrived the Posario Slop of W ar, of i 6 guns, from a Cruize ; and the Swedish Ship Upland, Capt. R ABEY holm, wi t h tar , from Stock , &c. for this Port. Sailed t h e Ni obe Frigate on a Cruize to the West ward. Private letters received here this morning from the inshore Squadron cruizing off Brest, state, that the Brest Fleet have made preparations for sailing, and the whole of the British Fleet are preparing to give them a proper recfption, as soon as they have the temerity to put to sea. SHEERNESS, MA Y Bl t B .—Sailed to re i n f orce t h e ockading Squadron off Boulogne, the Sulphur Bomb, Captain MACLEOD. Arrived the Perseus Bomb, Captain SEXREL, to refit. The inchehea Troop -ship sa il e d t hi s d ay f rom the Note, to bring over some of the Irish Militia. Lieu, JOHNSON has been appointed to the Success Revenue Cutter, and is stationed off South End, for the purpose of attendin g on H er R o y a l Highness th e - PRINCESS Of WALES. DEAL, MAYIS . —Hi sMajesty's Ship Crescent sailed on a Cruize oft' West Capel. 1, 4 Arrived the Charlotte Schooner from Portsmouth ; 414striou s from a Cruize ; and Pleasant Hill Tra ns' port from P ortsmouth. Sailed the William Transport for Deptford, and Sheerness Lighter for Sheerness. • In the Downs—Monarch, Utrecht, Ardent, Veteran, ll lustrious, Virginie, I mmortalite, Lucifer, Devastation, Lark, Zephyr, F ury, 't artarus, Zebra, Champion, larmica, Ores tes, basilisk, Millbrook, anti Charlotte Schooners. sant Hill T ransport, and Cuffilels East I n di a Ship, fur Ple Captain CHARLES FOOTE, R. N. is appointed to the command of the Favourite Slo o p o f Bheernes s . War, at Captain PieKrown a the Di scovery Bomb 's ap po i nted to the command - vessel. Captai n GRAHAM of the Zephyr fire.shir, is p ar is so d tM. o the rank of P ost C apt ain. This °ffi c Accounts had G RAHAM, th e M ag i s t rate . 14°0 D ave been rece i ved from Commodore at Barbad aes, stating, that the .Eclair Stoop having sent a boat, with t h e master an d twe l ve men, to cut a French priv ateer f rom un d er t h e batteries of Li Hayes, at Guadaloupe, that object Was ac complished Without any loss on our side. The par ticulars of this achievement, and the capture of rite gEgyptienne, are expelled to be insetted in the azette this evenin "e I he E gyp , ;e,in e Privateer, capture d b y the Hippo- Weft' n the W est Indies, was, at the commtnce_ nt of the present War, given to the Merch o " rd eaux, for the p urpose o f their fitting I . er ants out f . FShe. carrie s 3 2 guns, has been a Frigate in the rench Navy, and was called La Railleux. T _______-_, Theatre was opene d _HE OPtRA.—The King's last n i g h t, in respeelful observanc e of WirizsuN EVE, which should, of cqurse, he kept sacred from public amusements. Le Pis-gine del Sole numerous, but b drew a y no means a crowded auaience. CilAsszt,it . was oppressed by a cold, which im .. . . Haired. her, singing, but she amply compensated by the_ merit of her aaing, which Was very in. teresting and pathetic. The filial exhortation in t h e last Aa, ofte n as i t h as been heard, was uncoinmonly touching. WEicnsELL in a great measure contrib ute d to this effeet, by his delightful accompaniments. The only encore was the admired duet, in which also WEICHSELL'S tones were highly admired. The prominent features of both dances w ere DES HAYES and his wive, who were capital in agility and expression. The first dramatic novelty expeeted at the Hay market Theatre, is a Comedy from Mr. C. DI BDIN. It is in great forwardness, and has a very good re port fro m the Aaors.. It it said to be in the usual free style of this comic writer, but to Possess a con. siderable share of strong marked humour. The preparations for the-new Ballet which is to be brought forward at the Haymarket Theatre, found ed upon' SHAKSPEARE's Tempest have been attend ed with very great expellee, but the entertainment is likely to be so full of beauty and splendor, that the Proprietor will probably receive an ample in.. dernnity for hi , , liberal speculation. Mrs. SECON D being realyper recovered fr om h er late severe indisposition, is said to have consented to perform at the Amateur Concert at the Hanover (l,ll.r,a" Rooms, out of co mp li ment to the Dutchess or at her distinguished Patroness. Lady S AtAii FA NE , accor di ng to report, gives her hand next Week to Lord VILLIERS. There will be _ i n ' want of h appiness in this union, if happiness tie Pend upon riches. The Newspaper \Vitlings have not been very cninplimantary to the Dutchess of BEDFORD, in say ing that the name of the Stable Yard -is peculiarly Ppropri ate at present, as it has been littered by tier Grace. Lord GLENBT av i e has relinquished all pobtica/ 4.11 ' 77 e, and confines himself wholly to Bushy ?ark, 4 nd hia Pheasantry. IVIr„ TIERNEY, accor di ng to h i s memorable al. fusion t o the old Fable, had the Goose and the Corn at his table, but he could not get the Fox. The French threat, that "happe n what will,we shall not retai n Malta," is like the boast of (hot NDOWER: ' 1 I can call Spirits from the vasty deep"—" But will they come ?" BONAPA RTE , i t seems, will want hob, oil CM his Imperial Inauguration at Rheims, as it was ail de. atroyed in the fury of the Revolution. He will, however, have plenty of ? utter and that has been p ro perly call e d " odof fool." 00 Wednesday se'nniet , W I LLI Aq T URBLITT, and THoma s HAv P. RS, E(lrf;. were admitted to the D egree of Batrist era at La ci ety of Gray', of, 11;t11;tthe Honourable S laa. REST: NrATION O COLOURS TO THE LO?AL LONDOT VOLUNTEERS. YESTERDAY morning at five o'clock, the. Flag was hoisted from the Stone Gallery at Sr. Paul's, as a signal for the ten Regiments that were to have their Colours presented, as well as those to keep the ground, to hold themselves in readiness to em bark. At eight o'clock the different Regiments repair ed to the places appointed for embarkation. The different Regiments wete thus arranged : In the first boats, the Commander and Field.ol ficers, Adjutants excepted;-2d. The Band.-33. The Regiment.—The Grenadiers and Light Infan try preceding.--4th. The Adjutant and Quarter- Master. After the embarkation, some of the boats having to pass through Loudon Bridge, it was ten o'clock before they all reached the place of rendezvous, off the 'rower. Precisely at a quarter befOre nine, o'clock, the Earl of HARRINGTON arrived at the Mansion House accompanied by Lady HARRINGTON, Lord PETER SHAM, and Lidy ANNE MARIA STANHOPE,. and his Staff. About the samt time arrived the Sheriff , of London. The whole party immediately set oil to the Tower Stairs, in order of procession as they arrived, preceded by the LORD MAYOR'S Carriage arid six horses, in which were his family. Having reached the water side, the Earl of HARRINGTON and the LORD MAYOR alighted, and repaired to the Governor's of the Tower, where, they met His Royal Highness the DutcE of YORK, and his four Aides-de_Camp, with whom they returned, and embarked immediately, together with the rest of their party, under a Royal Salute from the Tower, and proceeded without further delay, gccompanied by the Committee's Barge for the day, and the Lord Nelsen Barge, in which were several persons of dis. tindion. As this part of the Flotilla moved along, they were preceded and followed ,by some hundreds of boats, many of which were elegantly decorated. 46 equal number still remained with the River Fen ctble Boats, containing the Volunteer Regiments, which was attended with a happy effea ; for had the whole of the Flotilla • moved off together, the attratlion would have been confined to one spot, and the River would have been blocked up from the mense number of boa ts. The shores on each side of the River were crowd.' ed with people. The tops of the houses were co vered; nor was there a spot in the whole distance to Greenwich unoccupied. All the way as the Flotilla passed, it was saluted with incessant discharges from temporary batteries On shore, and the Ships in the River. The whole of the business on the River was con. dude:l with the greatest regularity. Four River Fencible Boats preceded the Barges, to keep a clear passage, and each boat. mounted an 181 b. carron_ ade, and was wed manned. On the Loa n MAYOR'S Barge arriving opposite the Thames Police Office, the Volunteers belonging to that establishment were drawn out in boats, and saluted it. The same at tention was paid by the Volunteers at the West India Docks, who appeared on the banks in tary array, and fired three vollies with great pre_ lion. At Deptford, the Militia of the Tower Ham lets saluted. The several divisions of boats did not proceed frOm the Tower until nearly half an hour after the LORD MAvott's Barge. Each division was com manded by an Officer of the River Fencibles ; and a space of about leo yards was allowed between each division. The first division, which comprised the, zst Regiment, was contained in 9 boats. The zd Regiment occupied tz boats ; the +tit, ; • and rest, about the same proportion. The Bands' of each Regiment played all the way, and produced a most charming died upon the water. A gun was fired from a Gun-boat abreast of His Majesty's Ship Enterprise, at the approach of each Corps, as a signal ; and when the whole was set in motion, the masts and yards of every Vessel in the river was manned. The Enterprise (the tender) Was decorated with the colours of all nations, the Royal Yacht at Deptford, and a sheer hulk off Greenwich, were each ornamented in the same way. The Colours of almost every Nation in the cosnmer---. dal world were floating at various parts of the Thames, and exhibited such a ,pr:Jud display of the extended trade of the Metrcrolis, as would have made any foreigner envy us to see it. The same good order which had hithetto pre vailed; existed at the disembarkation at Green. wich. The company in the LORD MAYOR'S Barge landed at the centre stairs, and were all hospitably received at the Governor's house, until it was time to repair to the Heath. The other two City Barges, and the Doke of MANCHESTER'S Yacht, landed their companies at the same place. • The disenibarkation having thus taken place, the Greenwich Pensioners lined the different corners of the Hospital, in their holiday clothes. The park of artillery from Woolw:ch, placed on the left of the landing, gave its repeated discharges ; and the dif ferent Corps belonging to the neighbourhood lined the shore from right to left, • and presented arms to each Regiment. On their arrival at the bottom of Greenwich.hill, the whole formed into a kind of close column, in order to proceed to Blackheath. The River Fencibles, under the command of Com modore LucAs, assisted by a Detachment of the Westminster Light Horse, formed an opening through. the crowd, from the bottom of the hill to the gate, leading on to the Heath. The Committee led the van, preceded by a Band, with the ten Pair of Colours, and Standards fur the Cavalry. On their arrival at the top of the hill, they drew up on the right of the gate, and the Regiments passed them in Companies, according to seniority of number, headed by His Royal Highness the DUKE of YORK, attended by his Staff, to the Heath, and took u p their ground, which extended for full two miles, being the whole extremity of the spot. On their being formed, they stood nearly in the following order On the right of the line were the London Volun teer Cavalry, with their field-pieces, dismounted, in their Flying Cars, Sze. ist, 2d, an d 4t h R eg i ments , formed on their left, with theirbacks towards Wool wich, at the extremity of the Heath that way : sth, 6th, 7th, Bthrand - 0 - 1, formed an angleon ttle ad, and 4th, and extended, across towards the Lon don Road ; the loth and ri th forming , another angle on them, facing the Ist, ad, and 4 , h. They being now in full readiness to receive the LORD MAYOR, Committee, and Attendants, His Royal Highness dispatched an Aid-de-Camp to acquaint the MAYOR and Members of the Corporation, that the Troops were ready to receive them ; on which his Lordship beaded the Colours, and proceeded to the centre of the Troops, when, on a gun being fired, - the whole line presented Arms, Officers sa luted, Drums beat, &c. On another gun being fired, a Standard Guard from the Lr,mon Volunteer Cavalry, and the Grenadiers, accompanied by the Ensigns who were to receive the Colours, and precehd-Nby their respeftive Bands, advanced to a position which Lord HARRINGTON had marked for them in the centre, and where His Royal Highness and the LORD MAYOR had placed themselves. The eleven Companies of Grenadiers, and the Standard Guard of the Cavalry, formed a circle rOuni them, in which were Her Royal Highness the PRINCESS of WALES, Princess CHARLOTTE of WALES, the LORD MAYOR'S party, and from 6 to 700 persons of rank and distinCtion. The Colours were now unfurled, and consecrated in the , most solemn manner ; after which t h e E n _ sighs came forward, and kneeling down, received them with a Speech from the Right Hon. the LORD MAYOR, which being concluded, the Ensigns rose by command, and placed themselves with their Co lours in the centre of their respenive Companies, whO faced to the right about, and marched in ordi nary time to their Regiments ; this was a grand sight indeed ; in every direnion was to he seen standards-hearing down to their Regiments, sup. ported by .Companies of Grenadiers. The Colours are the general Standard for all Bri tish Military Bodies, and the City Arms, with the number of the Regiment on that which belongs pe culiarly to the Corps. On the Colours being paraded in front of each Regiment, the word -was given to form circle of Battalions, when the Commanding Officer of each addressed his Regiment in a short speech on the oc: casion. The Corps here gave three cheers, and being, by another. signal gun, thrown into line, they fired three willies off:amlions," from right to left of the line, in a masterly style. On another signal-gun being fired, the whole line wheeled backwards by companies,' and by another signal-gtin being fired, stepped off altogether in or dinary time, to pass the Royal Party in review or der. Her Royal Highness the PR INC 555 of WALES, a close carriage, was on the right about 300 yards, and PRINCESS CHARLOTTE •with. her.— The young Princess stood at . the carriage window, and, by order of His Royal Highness the DUKE of YORK, received from each company, as they passed, a Royal Salute. The Colours of each waved on the ground as they passed .Her Highness; which compliments she returned with a wdive of her hand from her bosom, in a very attradive manner. Her Royal Highness the PR INC F3S of WALES, and, thee' Dote of YoRK, received also, as the Re giment passed, a Royal Salute. After the London Regiments had passed the Royal Patty, the Royal Artillery Company, with their tield.pieces, the Cities of London and • Westminster Light Horse Volunteers, with their 'dismounted Cavalry, and flying cars, and the Deptford Volunteers, passed by their Highnesses. The ground was kept in an ad_ mirable manner by.the following Corps : London Light Horse Volunteers. Greenwich Volunteers. Westminster Volunteer Cavalry. Deptford Volunteers. • St. James's Volunteers. Royal Artillery Company. Custom-House Regiment. The latter Regitr:nt'embarked, with their Band, on hoard the boats that. brought the otherS down, and, under the command of the Naval Officers and Captain LtrcAs, were safely landed in London. The ten LondOn Regiments marched to town, under the command of their respedive Colonels. The Captain of , the Marine Society's Ship, in order to add to the interest of the scene, and to dispiziy the'objedof that excellent Institution, ar ranged the boys in the mast.judicious manner in the rigging, where they cheered the Duke of YORK, the LORD MAYOR, and the respedive Regiments, as they passed. Several Governors and Gentlemen were tin board. • It is with pleasure we add, that no accident oc curred to interrupt the:general satisladion. Alter the business of the day was' concluded, the LOR D MAYOR Set Off to Town in his coach and six, to meet His Royal }iighnes the DiiKE of YORK, the Earl of HARR I NCTON, and. the Field Oacers of the different Corps, at dinner at the, Mansion-house, where the evening wa's spent in the greatest hilarity. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. EPSOM. • FRIDAY, MAY I. The Oaks Stakes of sogs. , each, h. ft. D. of Grafton's b. f. PeliSse, by Whiskey - - , Ld Fgremont's b. f. by Precipitate - - - Ld Derby's F. by Sir Peter - - - - - 3 Mr. Coventry's f. by Overton; Mr. Brown's f. by Pe gasus ; Ld Stawell's Ringtail ; and Sir F. Evelyn's Peggy, by Btrzz.ard, also started. - Five and 6 to 4 on l'elisse . against the field—won very easy. Mr. Warrington's c. by Guildford, beat Mr.- Brauthowayt's c. by Tom Tring, the last mile, toogs. Volunteers are entitled to send and receive let ters, under the same restridions as privates in the army, when such Volunteers are absent from their homes on aflual service, and receiving the King's Yesterday, the moment the Oak Stakes had been run for at Epsom, His Grace the Duke of GRAF TON walked up to .the winning post to speak to his rider, who had won the Stakes. He was immedi ately, surrounded by, three well.dressed men, who eased him of his purse. A Gentleman, well known in the City, of the name of DIXON, observing the transaaion, rushed.forward, and rescued the Duke out of their hands. Mr. Justice BOND has received the thanks of the PRINCE REGENT of Portugal, and a piante of His Royal Highness, for his exertions in deteeting the late forgeries upon the Bank of Lisbon. - -The- pic ture k richly inlaid in a gold enamelled snuff:box, and surrounded by a prolusion of diamonds. .1 3 ARMMAy 4. LAST Bunciay, after a Diplom 'tie Andiend-, t!,e Grand Judge presented to the First Consul a ne-A: Edition of the Civil Code, printed at the P re! the Republic, by the cider Government, I r published under the Seal of State, and there i, 110 other authentic copy of the Civil Code. The following ate the names of cht il4(r&lcrs of the Tribunate who voted for the dppointme9t of BONAPARTE CO be Emperor of the French.: Fabre (de l'Aude, Arnould, lard-Panvillier, Sinenn, Gary, J. Albisson, Savoye- Rollin, Danier, Favard, Chabaud, Mouricautt, Mallanue, Pinteville-Ccrnon, lluvidal, Gr:!nier, Chalian, Lalrry, Chabot (de l'Aliier), Gillet-la iacq,,e; miniere, Joseph Moreau,. Racier, Perin :..osc, Labrouste, kionor. lluvevrier,' Ch. V:2:1 11 117.:11, pil-Preieln, G. Males-, Koch, Thouret, odee Gironde), Gallois, Beauvais, Pierre- Ch,rles Chvbsiroir. Carret, Sabi:, Max. V. Freviile, L. Co,Jaz, Carrion-Nizas, Gillet (dc - Seine-er-Oise), I FROAITHE DUTCH PAPERS. A PARIS, MAY 10.--- 7 flccording to letter; received from Toulon, 'dated the 3kl inst. a British Fleet of 17 sail of the Line, and 28 Frigates, was cruing off that Port. The Minister of War has issued orders to. a,JI do. Commanding Officers and Counsellors of AAninis_ tration, by which they are forbidden to grant for_ loughs to any military person, or to permit strcl, persons to absent themselves, under any pre tence whatever, beyond the distance of one day'i journey. The General Commandants of the Camps are under the satne restricaion, which can only be re moved by the Minister of War himself. We are assured, that the Legislative Body will 1)- called together by the 14.111 of July ; and that the Laws, by which France is in future to bepiveined, will be published this week. The Carrel La Justine, from Jamaica, is arrived at Nantes with C5l persons, coming from the Cape, in St. Domingo: 83 persons died on the passage, from the effeds, not cf an epidemic distemper, hut of the had treatment they expetienced from the fish. This is the second Cartel which has (11,2 r a similar fate ; the former was the Louise Cherie, which, from a similar cause, los: 107 men on the pi_ sage. _ _ GHENT, MAY 9. —They . wri:e from Biu , :sels, that a new gate will be built there, on the rbdcl ing to the tine castle of Laake , i, and tbAz v .;l called " The Gate of Bonaparte." _ it is vsserted that the Caronition of the Fir , c Consul, as Emperor of the French, will take pl'ace at Aix-la-Chapelle, -An A :dress sent to Par . 's by a Courier Extraerdinm , , from the Maycr . ,,f dent City (which Address was signed by all iVlilitary, and Ecclesiastical cOnrai. s the fotlowing passage : " The Throne ofCharleenk:c'e awaits . jot, -111ri:rtriOut Ernpi'ror, to take . p.:SSCl3ieft Of ;11' • • RATilllolc, MA r r. -=-Citizen BACHE' R. the Freilith Charge d' .4 . ffa;res, has tria,',e a tiew.<ieolar tion on the part of his Government, to the principal Members of the Empire, stating, that the interter; ence of the two Mediating Powers would soon take place; and that, meanwhile, the affairs of &trrlaLv• were to remain in stain ciao. TR/INSPORT-OFFICE I biAY r 4. An Account of the NUmber and Tonnage of Transport;; taken up by this Board, for the.purpose . ol taking, on .bOaat any part of the Hanoverian Army, an,; e%pence at tendiog the same; also, an Accmant of the dates of the first orsier to tile Board on this cecasun, of the orders for the sailing of the whole, or any part, of th`e sai.l Trans ports, and of the orders, it any, tor countertm,nding ti sailing thereof. Nunll , icr of Ships. I Toio'ege. I Experce. Thirty-six. I 6950. t,c5, - : ; These ship were hired, in, pu suance of an orJer twin the Right Hon. Lord Ho BA RI - , datcd the 18111 of Mary, The whole of than were fitted with accommodations for Troops, victualled, watered, manned, and s.v,re all a - ssernblA at the 'Note on 12th of lune, ready for convoy. RUPT. GEORGE., 17110. trAmiLTON O E. Bouv;LRIL, J. BowEN. -,_ A Coronet's Inquest was on Thursday held on the body of a young man of the name of Ellis, in Holborn, who on the preceding day shot him-elf, in consequence of his family having refused their consent to hid marrying a young woman of whotn he had made' choke. There being• reason to sup. pose that he had been for some days deranged in his intelleds, the Jury returned a verdict of—Luang. According to a recent enumeration, it appears that in the. Metropolis there arc 346 places of wor ship, viz. ,1 12; Parish-churches, 58 licensed Chapels and Chapels of Ease, 19 for foreign Protestants, re for Roman - Catholics, 133 Meeting-houses, and Me thodist Chapels of various sects dipenting frern the Established Church, six Quaker's Meetidg-heusee, and six Jews' Synagogues. • A very serious affray happened early on the mern ing of the rAt instant, at a placecalleO Dedd's W(11, about a mile from Berwiek.upon.Tweed. jt Las . been an immemorial custom for the yo ut h o f h ot !, sexes to meet, on the eve of the first morn of M at this well, to watch the Stan's'rising2 and cellet't the dew from the grass, with which they wash their faCes, in order to pu:ser - ve or add to their charms. The evening is uaually Spent in all imaginable hila_ rity and spur ireness ; hut the harmony of the Morn iog was in'terrupted-on 'a sodden, by a dreadful bate t i e w hi c h too k pi n e; betiveen a Han Goddess or .the Town and a Son of Mars, belMiging to the rsth , Battalion of the Army of Reserv e . Th e equal conflr roused the indignation of two Sol diers of the Royal Artillery, who hastened to the r e li e f o f the enraged fair, and her antagonist was soon felled to the earth ; not contented wich this triumph, the vidors • inhumanly continued to;beat their fallen enemy, cwho.lay insensible to Il7e dreadful blows. which he received: At leegth some . others interfered, and the vanquished hero was car ried from the field of battle to the barrack , eapparent. ly lifeless. The two artillery men were immediately put under an arrest, and confined in the geard.rorm i by order of the Commanding Officer of die Gatti_ son; and at the. same time the AlthlZ ni . etli was committed to gaol, by an order of tl e Magi. strate!,, to abide ha' the event, and stand her trill. The sufferer's wounds were immediately ie sre d e d by the Sargeon (1 the 15th Regiment of Reserve, end his ktillis . so - tireeAftilli- fractured, by the blows he received from the Heroine's hands , vith a ston while down; tha . : his life is despaired of.