The Sun. — London, England, 1801-10-15 00:00:00

i fr resig:As Waf . o . ffice, OR. 13, 1801. STAFF Regiment of Fexcible bfanhy. THE SUN, SOI.J.M laUjik IALSU4 AUDZAT ? From the LONDON GAZETTE, Oa. 13, 1801. .sth Regiment of DragoOn Guards—To be Lieutenants with/ out purchase, Cornet Edmund Egan. Cornet 'Richard De Cane. Cornet Marcus John Annesley. Cornet John 'Knipe. Cornet Charles Moors. To; be Comets—Adjutant Edward Houghton. Moore, Gent. ;_Arthur Chichester, Gent. ' 7th Ditto, Cornet John Darke to be Lieutenant, by pur chase -; vice Crosbie, who retires. 7th.. - Itegiment of Light Dragoons, Samuel George Dukinfield, Gent. to be Cornet, without purchase, vice Moles Worth, promoted., ' . . loth Ditto, the Right Hon. , Lord Alexander Gordon to be Cornet, without • - purchase, -vic; Johnson,- promoted. , •Ral ph Bofeler Gent. to be torret, without pur chase, vice Bouverie, promoted: i4th Ditto, Lieutenant Charles Stokes Sloper to be Captain, by purchase, vice Saville, who retires. tsth Regiment of Foot, Captain Edward Copson to be. M ajor, by purchase; vice -Hinclson,- who retires. Lieutenant thivid I nnes to be • Captain, vice CoNon. Ensign J. C. Wood td be Lieutenant, vice Inner. 19th Ditto, Joseph Dowson, from the 60th Foot, to be Lieu tenant, vice Hassal,,Who exchanges. Charles Abdy Chap . man, Gent. to NI Cornet,. without purchase, ' 22d DM% Ensign Henry•Burtsal to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice 'Bestial], removed to the 7th Light Dra goons. Arthur Kelly, p Gent. to be Ensign, vice Burtsal. 34th Ditto, Ensign, Apthony 'Browne - to be Lieutenant, - by pur - chas6; vice Otter, who retire: . -r• 40th Ditto, Conyligham Ellis, Gent. toe Ensign, without purchase, vice M`Lachlan, dismissed by .the Sentence of a Cour.t-,.Martial. 4511117tto; Liait:' from the Half-pay of the late fosth robt,••to be Lieutenant, vice Birch, who ex changes, ;Lieutenant WilLam Thornton to be Adjutant, vi.;e:Foss, who • , t•• 49th Dit'fo, Ensign Thomas Gollock to be Lieutenant, by -prlr.2hase, vice De Lany, who retires. Ensign Frederick Herio't to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice • Hamer, who retires. William Thompson;' Gent. to he Ensign, by purchase, vice Hamer, promoted. . lehn Doherty, Gent. -to be 'Ensign, by pitrchasz:, ,vice Ellis, promoted.- . szclißer - , , rrient of Foot, Lieutenant Frederick Muller to be Captaii,, by purchase, vice Stiell, mho retires. Ensign .Antliony C. Martin to be Lieutenant, by . purchase, vice Stephen . . Grieve,.who retires. 58th Ditto, Ensign. Charles Renny to be .Lieutenant by pur '•chase, T vice . lngieby, promoted. 63:it Ditto, Lieutenant Tholitas Hassal, from the igth.Light Dra.oons,..to be Lieutenant, - vice Dowson, who exchanges. Aaing Quarter-Master Ft, ncis De la Chana, to be Quarter- Mater, vice. Ravvtion deceased. 6zd Ditto, to be Ensigns, without - purchase, Quarter-Master William Flotigkinson, vice Brown, promoted. Georo A. Elliott, Gent. vice Kerr, - promoted. Henry Parker, Gent. Dc>nel lan, promoted: • To be •Q4artcr-Mataer, Serjeant-Major John Davis, vice Hodgkin:ion. - - 68th flitto, Lieutenant f ames I ; V : innett to be Captain-Lieu temnt; without Vurchase, vice-Stewart, promoted., Ensign -.-Gcorge Williams to be I .ie utnant,. vice Winnett. .-. figAl.Ditto, Lieutenant Marc • gene.Montalembert, from 'the !. 29th Light Dragoon§, to be : Captain, sby purchase, vice Cooper, who retires. • $X ,t Ditto, Cornet* E. H, bambert, from the Ist Dragoons„ to• be . I,ieu;ctiant, by purchase, vide Masterson, who re- tires. . . • gjd Ditto, Thomas Shearer, Cent. 'ten be Ensign, without purchase, viceiGraharn, superv:ded,•being -absent without leave. • , • _ . gist Ditto - Brevet Major Henry Erskine, - front the Scotch Brigade, to be Captain,' vice' Campbell, who exchanges. -_:Ensign --- Collins to be Lieutenant, Without,pitrchase, vice John Campbell, promoted in the Cape Regiment, New South Wales Corps, .Ensign- William : Moore to be Lieutenant, vice Ltu_as, de.feased. Cadwallader Draffen, Cent. to be Ensign, vice Moore. SCorch Brigade, Captain Archibald Campbell, from the - gist foot, I 4 ne Captain, vice Erskine, who exchanges. The C i pe Regiment, Ensign Stephan D'Arcey Kelly to be Liearen:::nt. .William. Baxall, Cent. to be Ensign. sthA'-sr India Regiment, En*ign J.-B. Everett, from the 24.ftegirrient of the Tower Hamlets Militia, to he Quarter ? Master, :vice .1-Lague, . superseded, being absent withotit , • iith Dittto, Ensign Anthony Graves, from theist West India - Ilei•,irrierit, to be "Ensign, without purchase, vice Ross, promoted.. INVALIDS.. • _ . T rancis White, late Serjeant in the Ist. Foot Guards, to be Ensign ip tbe late Captain 131111celey'S Independent.Com fany of Invalids at Plymouth, vicc King pr9mot..l. Captain Joseph Lambrecht, of the, Marines, to . be Majofin "the Army. 14etv:enant Colithel l'hornas trownrigg, of . the :3ti FOot, `(acting Deputy Quarter-Master-Goneral„) to o :Deputy Qiiarter-Alaste.r.A.;eneral irt Ireland, - vice' Chau:tad, ap ,. poi itec.l Adjutant-General to tine Kiryg'4.Ti - Oops - in India. . . .. : • Angus Regime.yt.of .Fenciite Infantry. : _ .:Charlcs Johnson; Gent: to beEnsign', vice Carnochan, who AleNar!drr . Gol,van, Pent. to be Ensigti, vice,Hislop, who re- .signs. • Duke of Yor4's own, or Bar . fsbye Reentent of Fencible In. • J • • - Serjeant-Major J ohn Polton to - be Ensign, vice Harrington who resigns. ' Cheshire Regiment of Fencible Infantry. • .Ciptain-Lienyenant Charles Davies to be Captain, vice deceased." Lieutenant lames Ft.aitt to be - CaptAin-Lientenant, vice DiVies. Ensign Charles Stanhope 0- . Meara .to be a.iqurenant, vice. Legh Watson Seddon', Gent;.to be Ensign, vice O'Meara.. , . Nardu r yn:Leri.znd ReginAxt of Fen-ible Infantry.. Ensign Alan Ross to be Lieutenant, vice Stuart, appointed to the 3ad Foot. F. L. S.'Macleane, Gent, to be Ensign, vice itCoss. The Prince of kPales's own Regiment of Fencible Infant'y. Edward Kennah, Gent, to be Eniign vice Carpi', who re signs. .., , . . The Princess Charlotte of. frales'S (or Macleod) Regiment' of - , '. • . Teneihle Infant) . 7 . y. i . .. . ,Captain Lieutenant:lOn Kerr to be Captain, v ice Carripbell, whoresigns. . Lieutenant Alexander.Fittts to 7 he Captain, vice Mackenzie, who resigns. Lieutenant lames Lunn to be Captain-Liente . nant, vice Kerr. • Ensign William. Mackenzie to be Lieutenant, vice Fittes.. Ensign . James NlLedonald to be Lieutenant, vice- Luro. •To be Ensigns, Alexander Mackenzie,-Cent. site Ford, who resigns. George Robertson, Gent. vice Mackenzie. Robert Taylor, Gent, vice Macdonald, ' • .S'nfier•Regint'ent el •Fentible Infantry. Captain . -Lieu tenant"! acoh, Hetnetto he Captain, vice Thomp son, who resign - :;. - Lieutenant Thomas Read to be. Captai n• • -Lieutensi - it, vit.e- lemet.• .Ensig ) ,n William" Henry Robin son to be- Lieutc.nant, vice keid. Noah Beale; Cent. to be Ensign, vice Robtnson: • , • • Sur•ey Rasg,frs. Edgehili, Gent. to be Ensign, vice Spraed, who is stipersedcd. LCINDON, 0 CTOBE R 15, iBoi. YESTERbAT the Prince of Wales Packet, one of the two stationed at Dover to atterid the orders of the Marggis CORNWALLIS, as , Plenipotentiary at Arnieoi, sailed from Dover for Calais v ith Mr. HUNTER, 000 Of HIS M.ApiSTY'S \ilessengers. • :Urori the termination .of a Contest •in nom its peenhar naiure, the. ras!.:ion's of Men have I)een so much agitated and inflamed, - it is natural to expel the same extremes of opinion which have been evinced by different persons and by different parties during its continuance. Mr. Fox, we now find, is to support the Peace=--because he is to con tend that any Peace, upon any terms, in the present state of Great Britain, was preferable to the con tinuation of War—while, on the other hand, we hear Mr. WIND'? Am, and his Partizans, are to ob.. jest to the Peace, because War is preferable to any Peace in the present state of France. We believe the good sense of the People of England will agree with neither of these Propo sitions—They will neither think this. Country as much reduced in its resources as Mr. Fox would represent it, nor will they. agree that War .should be carried on either for the purpose of re stating the Bourbo n Family, or of effecting any material, change either in the Government or in the Power.of France, or' for the purpose of enabling 'us to acquire or retain more Colonial Possessions. They will naturally weigh. the Value of thek ob_ jeas with the probable price of attaining them, and upon these grounds they will think that it would have been .most unwise and impolitic in Ministers to have, rejeaed Peace upon the Terms on which it has been-concluded. The Peace is condemned because all has not been .obtained which has been contended for—ls it then indeed a great reproach to Ministers that, left alone in a Contest in which'they engaged with several other Powters, they have not attained every thing they aimed at when the Confederacy was en- tire ? If it is true that France has a more extended Dominion than Englishmen can contemplate with out anxiety, is this the fault of the Ministers of this Country, or of ►hose Powers, who, having en tered into a Confederacy to keep her within her own limits, afterwards deserted it, and left us to carry on the Contest alone ? What we contend for is, that the Contest is closed with honour and glory to the Country, and that, considering all the cir cumstances in which both Nations are placed, the Terms of Peace held out that, which Ministers have always contended to be essential in any Peace, —Security to this Country. We rest our opinion of that Security on our relative strength—on the means we possess of improving that strength—and, above all, on the Reputation and Charader which we have acquired in the eyes of all Europe during the recent War, by the exploits of our Arms, and by the good Faith, the Firmness, and the Generosity which we have shewn to every Nation which has been in alliance with us. Are we then indifferent to the Prdier of France Certainly not—lt remains however to be seen, 'whether the extended Territory of France really 'produces strength. But admitting that France has advanced in PoWer and Resources, has Great Britain been stationary for the last ten years - ?=Compare the state of our -Trade and Manufadures now and At the beginning of Ole War- - --look at - the enormous increase in our Exports and - Imports, and in the Tonnage in our Merchant. Ships, and we too shall be found to have advanced in all those thipgs whith render Nations great and powerful. If it be said that We have exhaUsted much of our Resources in the course of this, War, so has France also—We arc to look to the point from which each Nation starts ; and when we are told that France is to rival'us in our-Trade' and Manufaaures, we must observe that this has often been threatened in for- trier times, but never effeaed—that both the Dis position and the Capital are Wanting—that for a Nation to become wealthy and powerful by the means of Commerce, its People must possess -CUs toms and habits which never yet belonged to the People of France ; and that, though the French Re. volution has made great changes, it has not created any large bodies of wealthy Men, disposed, as in this Country, to increase that _wealth through the medium of Commerce. Let any fair man consider the state of things now and at the time when . the two great Questions were depending (both of which have been decided in our favour), of the Northern Confederacy, and the Possession of Egypt—Let him consider the pre. sent state of things, as settled by the Peace, and compare them with any. Terms to which he would have agreed at any period since we were abandoned by our Allies, and he will •be satisfied. We do not say that we have acquired all that . we could wish—that there is not much left to excite our vi gilance—much to interest us deeply ; but we say, that e have.escaped from a great danger and dif_ ficulty, which we could not avoid, with Credit and trunOur to ourselves—andsthat if we fairly contern.: plate our future pros Peas, we shall find nothing which ought- to dismay us—nothing which ought to excite aiarm for the Sal,; . ty; thelrdependenee,.or 1 the Greatness of the Nation. The Hamburgh Mail which became due yesterday had riot arrived When our Paper was I;_ut to Press.' trite. ry • • NAVAL L 7 f i c r , NEWS. Nme 1111 imperium pelagi, saniumgue tridentem,, Sed mihi 4orte datum. DOYER, OCT. 14. THIS day sailed the Prince of Wales Packet, Capt. SUTTON, for Calais, with Mr. HUNTER the Messenger, and Dispatches. PL}'MO(JTH, OCT. 13. ARRIVED the Princess _Royal, of 98 guns, Rear- Admiral Sir IF,RAsmus GOWER, from the Channel Fleet ; and Amelia Frigate, of 4.4 guns, Capt. Hon. C. HERBERT, from a Cruize off the Coast of Spain ; also the Caroline, GIBsoN, from Memel ; Clarissa, FIELDS, from Barcelona; and Brothers, KICHARD SON, from Archangel. PORTSMOUTH, OCT. 14. ARRIVED His Majesty Ships Theseus, Beaver, and Alert, from a Cruize ; and the Gem, BASEL 1., from London to Guernsey. His Majesty's Brig Escort is appointed Convoy For the Downs. Caine into Harbour, His Majesty's Ship Airph;- FALMOUTH, OCT. 12. ARRIVED the Prima , of Wales Packet, .Captain TODD, 14 days from Lisbon. Left there the Wll - Packet, which arrived at Lisbon on the same day the Prince of Wales did.—The Walsing ham was expeEted to sail from thence about six days after the Prince of Wales. This Packet brings no news. Spoke three days since, the Channel Fleet, which informed Capt. To no - of th'e Prelirninaries of Peace being signed between this Country and France. Passengers are, CHARLES ARBUTHNOT, Esq. and family, and Mr. HENRY MILNE. Sailed the .Loudon Packet . Armed Ship, Lieut. FEGAN. with 150 French-Prisoners on board, from Plymouth f'crr . Liverpool ; the Alfred Armed Brig, of 8 guns, with .a Fleei under convoy for Wales ; the Hurler Cutter, Lie Lit. NORWAY, with the Brig Commerce, for Ireland and the American ship Clarissa,Caiit . . FIELDS, for Plymduth, With brandy and .wine. . .• The Lady Arabella for Halifax, and Duke of York for Lisbon, arc expeacd to Dail to-morroW morning. DEAL, OCT. 14. A RR IVED the Gier and Alonzo Sloops, jacall, Charger, and Locust Gun-vessels, from off Calais. SHEERNESS, OCT. 14. ARRIVED the Selby Armed , Ship, and 777gress Gun..brig, the former from Yarmouth, and the lat ter from the Downs. The Pour Brothers Gun-barge is paid off.' YARMOUTH, Ocr. 14. ARRIVED several ships from the Baltic, under convoy of the Hart Brig. Sailed the Pylaa'es Sloop, Cruizer, Cobour, Kite, La jalouse, Narcissus, and L'Espiegle Brigs, on a Cruize ; Peggy, BI,4)MFIELD, ; and Princi. Charles, RIPA, to Amsterdam. The Tcwe Ge‘roeders, DE BRIES master, from Lon. don to Hambro', with goods, is put in here leaky. FRANCIS CAMERON, Esq. is appointed to the Command of the Danai''Frigate. The Colleaor and Comptroller of the Customs at Hull have received direetions from His Majesty's Commissioners, that the Convoy Duty is to be con tinued until further orders. In the early part of the - year. 1763, the tieute. nants of the Royal Navy made the following pro position to the Lords of the Admiralty, ,for the purpose of making provision for about ;0,000 Seamen, who were to he discharged in conse quence of the Peace which had then recently taken place :—That all the King's Frigates, Armed Ships, Sze. which could be properly converted to the pur pose, should he employed in the• Whale Fishery at Greenland and Davis's Straits, to the number of 250 sail, making 125,000 tons of Shipping, man ned with 17,500 Sf!amen, and 1500 Nom:commis sioned Officers. From an 'estimate made at the time, of the gains made by the Dutch in this Fish. cry, it appeared, that after all the charges, includ ing wear and tear of the Ships employed, there . would be a profit of. too,oool. yearly,". besides establishing a nursery for Seamen. Employing Sea, men in the Government's pay in this branch, would be less injurious to the Merchants than employing tlism in any other, because the Ships in the Green land Fishery are obliged to carry three times' the number of hand k required in coasting vessels of eq-Jal burden, and at the period above-mentioned, more than 3000 had never been emplored in the Fishery in any one season. THE !VAR AND ITS EXPENCES. THE War. Atlewcates of OPPOSITION, who are every day declaiming against the PEACE, though Peace has, for many years, been their chief cry, at firm that we have spent two hundred and fifty mil lions in the prosecution of the War. The Public are well acquainted with the skill.of those Gentle men in the art of exaggeration ; but granting this statement to be correft, by whose misconduct was thii expenditure .incurred ? - Not by the British Go vernment, which, ever since the French Revolu tion began, endeavoured, as much as possible, to avoid a quarrel with the new Republic. As these Writers resort to their old falsehoods, those who wish to counter-At their malice, mustconsequently recur to former refutations. It is well known that }hussar was accused of having involved France in a War with this Country. That was the chief crime alledged against him, and chiefly for that crime he was consigned to the Guillotine. Far from being disposed to justify himself against this charge, even to have a chance of saving his life, he gloried in it. He boldly maintained that, by the War, the Revolution was consolidated and secured; and he contended that, in order the more effedually to confirm the blessings of that Revolution, it was ne cessary, to use his own words—to c' set Fire to tht four corners of the World." If such was the state of things, and the fad is too notorious to be denied, how is the Government of Great Britain to be blamed for, an Expence, however encrrnous, that at tended the prosecution of a War which it was isri possible for her to avolo 'ts Eut, it is salu, that BONAPARTE offered us Peace as soon as he became possessed of the Government of France. True hut BONAPARTE was too wise to suppose it possi• ble for Great Britain to open any Treaty with bite 11 she had reason to I)elieve that his Powter was likely to prove more durable than that of his numerous. Predecessors'. Whatever might be his wishes, of he • must certainly have been anxious to obtain that countenance to his authority which a Nego,tiation with such a powerful State as that of Great Britaio would certainly have afforded, he could never thini 4 so meanly of the British Administration, as to, eito pea that they would fall into so gross an error, at the moment when he was hardly seated in his state of dangerous pre-eminence. He atted with his usual 4iscernment in manifesting at least a pad' fie disposition, and with a full expeaation of tho rejection - of his offer, and a full convietion that ore should have been mad to accede to it, he acorn" plished the purpose he had immediately in viol and at the same time lost no opportunity strengthening his Power. Thus, in whatever 140' we consider the War, in its origin and its Cons! : quen ces, the British are not deserving the least censure, and in procuring the blessings 0 ' Pee, when the Government -of both Countri Peace, d were in the pieriitUde of 'Power, and the . Peopl e anxiously desirous of enjoying those biessing o the British Administration have proved themselvd enlightened Statemen, true Friends to the Interest" of their Country, and zealous Supporters of thS duties of Humanity. Such, %stare persuaded, ruuS t be the sentiments of every man capable of uodcr standing compighensiVe Principles of National Fr i licy, 'and. sincerely attached to the Interest si Honour of his Country. Let, Au), the. WriteV; Opposition rail, as much. as -they please, a t- t Peace; they 0pp0..,e the . general sentiments of tin Country, and they must be considered in no otp i p light .than as Advocates for the ;Q.NTDIVAIIci fiF WAR.. HER MAJESTY and the PRIVCESSie roe° morning a visit to the Hon. Mrs. ii4aco o at St. Leonard's Hill. Yesterday morning His NIAIErtY, with his us itsl l Attendants, rode oat on =horseback, and v iesvs the different improvements in the Great Park, t 4,4 at twelve o'clock took the diversion of Wu" with the harriers. HER' OAJESTY and the PRINCESSES took 3.. n cursion to Frogmore. PRINCESSES SOPHIA and AMELIA.; accornim .-1 I.)y PRINCE ADULPHI7S, and Lady ALBINA cUPP ,p ERLAND, tcok an airing on horseback in the Park. On Tuesday' Mr. ADDINGTON gave a handsocri, enrertainment at Wimuledon to General LAlO $/ , TON and M. OTTO. Lords CoartlvALL.rs , VINCENT, CHATHAM, HAWKESBUICY, &C• were of the Party. The appointment of Marquis ColowA.M.lst,, Plenipotentiary, has afforded particular satisfae _ l 4 at Paris, as well as in this Country. A more_ 15 cious choice could not ha ve been made. The 1419`ii Marquis has ever shewn himself r e ady , an d in 11 capacity, to render services to his Country. It. is understood that t t n a cii t so J fa ot an s i maP amiable I . ina ß sb). o i e s Al He bre: rlis o meet great moderation, t N i o w n General LAUR ISTON yesterday forenoon Town on his return to Paris. orm of Couricra -who «sconicniri;ea It;s 1 " 0 47, off hiS horse at Charing cross, near the Eqne s . . f lr Statue. He was not hurt, but his dress of and gold suffered a good deal from the mud• eh/ populace lifted him again on his horse , and g age a loud huzza. Only six Shs of the Line have as yet b ee ° dered to be pail off. of The Report's of the immediate redation s i Forces by Sea end Land are equally prat-waif-,IA indiscleet.. No material dimiuution will talte A till atter the Ratification of a Definitkit the ultimate success of which will not be fori:o ,,i , by the hasty propagation of groundless ittiO Lord SPENCER, it is rumoured, is to jOi ll Mr. WINDBANt, in condemning the Peace. Mr. W.INDHAM sported a tew of his Ca t4 0 §1) ( , , on the nights of g eperat rejoicing, too wise to the Populace, at least, any symptoms c'h pointed ambition, or of g.oomy disconten t ' , sit d , Yesterday a Court of Diredors was-')e— yet'' East India-House, when Captains Dix.°s'l„, Dosv6, ESSEX, HENRY BOND, CANtroo;ool‘f MAjoRIBANKs, were sworn into t he Corn old their respective Ships. The Court flie o'clock, till Wednesday next. AF qusi• the ti ece count paißs l Its c h; mark s trio; A 1 IV • G. I Pr i Par e ne i l I V[ rth Y I>er' Tautift v ph la elt ° ll alt us 0 10 gr E ve sq. M oasts d - 7 E