The Sun. — London, England, 1801-02-11 00:00:00

Not being willing tastily to anticipate whit knight take place ) and as little inclined to pre filature panegyric, as to • premature censure, we liave hitherto refrained from calling the attention of our Readers to what we have to expel from the new Administration now form ing. This 'reserve,. which circumstances have in every respell commanded, has not been imi tated by the Opposition Papers. Not being able to contain their rage at seeing the reins of Government changing hands without passing into those of their friends, they have endeavoured, before they know of whom this new Administra tion is to be composed, to throw on' t discredit, ridicule, and even odium.—The Paper in parti cular which arrogates to itself the title of the Leading Print of Opposition, was yesterday most remarkable in this respeft ; and, incapable of forgiving Mr. ADDINGTON for being appointed to a place, which it supposed Mr. PITT could not resign without Mr, Fox's seizing it, has, with all the'bitterness of disappointment, and the most violent injustice, lavished on the first of these Gentlemen as much abuse as it had praise in store for the last, had he been placed at ,the helm of the State. No one of our Readers can be in sensible how unfortunate a circumstance for the Country we should have considered it, had Mr. Fox been appointed Prime Minister, and how much we regret that Mr. .PtTT no longer fills that situation. No one can undoubtedly be more ' , penetrated with 'the latter sentiment than , ourselves, nor be more sincere in the expres sion•of it. Our ingratitude would be equal to our blindness, if we did not feel the immortal services which he has rendered, not only to our Country, but to the whole World; and if we were, for a moment, to cease •to offer to him and to his worthy and able Colleagues the tribute of our admiration, our gratitude, and our regret.— We believe s however, that we know them suf. ficiently to say, that this tribute would be re. fused if it were offered them in terms of despond. ency, and that they would consider us as culpable for despairing in a cause to which they themselves still lend their wishes and their support. They would recommend to us less regret and more con. rage. - They would say," Think less of us, and wore of our Country." In these sentitnents, and with this convielion, although fully sensible of the loss which we have sustained, we turn our attention at the same time to the necessity of re. pairing it, if possible, and to the means which remain to us of so doing. Since it has been de. creed that Mr. PIT'T should be stopped in his career, by an obstacle not less fatal than insur mountable, what more consolatory circumstance can remain, what more earnest wish could tve have formed, than that of seeing him succeeded by a man who, having for a, long time filled a high office, has united, in a greater degree than ever happened to any, individual, the suffrages, the esteem, and, if we may be allowed to use the expression, the tender atrachment of Men of every Rank and every Party P What more could our SOVEREIGN and our Representa tives desire, than to see the burden of affairs thrown on a man who, for a number of years, has necessarily taken a great part in all the measures of Legislation anti of Internal Administration, and who by his situation, his connections, and the confidence which his talents procured him, must necessarily have an intimate knowledge of our external relations ? What man more fit, we repeat, could, in the existing circumstances, have been pointed taut by the favour, the esteem, and the interests of our Countrymen ? We have been involuntarily drawn to state in part what we feel for the Man whom the choice of our Cov ER EIGN has placed at the head of Go vernment ; but we have not .been able to sup_ i)ress the indignation with which the intenwerate and unjust refiedlions of Opposition, and the de sire of opposing to them sentiments and ideas more in conformity with what our situation and the truth require, have inspired us. We might, however, have contented ourselves with remark ing, that the person Whom the Journalist in question has treated with so much bitterness and misrepresentation, was precisely the man of whom we stood in need. The language of that Writer alone might have been to us and to the Public a sufficient sign of what we have to hope from Mr. AopixoToN. W e have no doubt that he will display, in the, new career which is opened to him, the same talents and the- same patriotism of which be has already given such useful and ho nontable proofs;. and that, animated by the de sire of performing the painful task entrusted to him, supported by the assistance of those to whom he has so long afforded that of his talents, and encouraged by the wishes of the Public, he will do for' the—benefit of his Country, all that the times of unexampled difficulty at which he comes into Office render possible to be done, or reasonable to lie.ekptaecl. The principal (tit - ficulty which he will Meet in the exercise of his new employment will probably occur in the De. partment of Finance, but we have no idea that it will be any but what his talents and his assiduity will easily surmount. In a word, we cannot re fuse our entire confidence to a man itl whom we have always observed 4 happy Union of Modera tion and of Public Spirit, and who possesses, in a high degree, Information, Attachment to the Constitution, a long acquaintance with Public Business, and an Integrity above the reach even of Slander. THE Hamburgh Mail due on Sunday last, arrived last night. It has brought little of which we were not already informed. The Vienna Ar. tide contains only an impede& account of the Armistice concluded in Italy. The Hamburgh Mail due this morning, arrived in course. We find from both Mails that no change has taken place in the dispositions of the Emperor PAUL ) and that his hostility to this Country is as . decided as ever. The professed objeas of the Northern Confederacy arc stated, in a Letter from Stockholm, of the 27th, to be contained in the following Articles of the Treaty -: I. The subsisting Treaties relative to Contraband Goods, between the Contrading Pow4rs and other Go vernments, shall be maintained; but for the future it shall be establiShed as the basis of every Treaty of Corn nier.:e, that Neutral Flags make Neutral Cargoes. 2. The guaranty of the' Conimandir of a Ship of War shall, for the future, protect the Merchant-Vessels sailing under Convoy, from all Search by the Ships of War of the Belligerent Powers . 3. The strictest measures shall be adopted, and Tribu nals established, to prevent any prohibited and contrab:uid Commerce from being carried on under the protection of this Armed Ncuaality. . Among the means by which the EMPEROR of RUSSIA is to pursue. leis plans of, injuring this Country, it is stated, that the Treaty of Peace, supposed. to be concluded at Lane:4lle between the EMPEROR of GERMANY and the French Re public, contains a Stipulation, that PAUL shall be permitted to march 60,000 men through Hun gary, to assist the French in their designs upon India.—Such is the intelligence from Ratidon. The Naval preparation& of the Russian EMPEROR are stated in the Petersburgh article, to be consi. derable: The Hamburgh Letters assert, that the Prus sian Government has remonstrated against the Embargo laid by Great Britain on lie Danish and Swedish Ships. The Court of Goper,hagen is stated not to despair of a reconciliation with England. THEta,MAJ.EvriTs and the, PRINCESSES Au- GUSTA,.ELIZADETH, and MAKY, took an airing yesterday morning to' Kew. His Royal flightless the DUKE of KENT ac companied THEIR MAJEsites in his eurricle,. , Th, ROYAL FAMILY, after walking in the Gardens, returned to - Buckinghatmhouse to dinner. Their Royal Highnesses the Dx7Kt and DLIT - CHESS of YORK arrived at their house in Great Pulteney-street, Bath, Saturday night about ten o'clock, in an open landau. The Bath Volunteers were drawn out in the morning, and anxiously waited the whole of the day, in order to greet their arrival, but were disappointed in consequence of the lateness of the hour. Yesterday the Right Honourable the Lotto MAYOR held a Court of Aldermen at Guildhall, at which were present, including his Lordship, fourteen Aldermen, the Recorder, Sheriff's, and Law Officers. The Principals of the Bakers' Company at tending relative to the setting the Assize of Bread, were called in, and the Court, after ex amining the Mealweighers' returns, and it ap. pearing there was very little variation in the ave rage prices of Wheat and Flour since the last re turns, ordered the Price of Bread to continue as before. Mr. DAVIS, the Clerk of the Cocket Office at the Mansion House, laid before the Court a return of Flour bought by the Bakers for twelve weeks, up to the 6th inst. amounting to 14,836 8-12. The last remittance of the English Subsidy to the F.APEROR, amounting to Soo,oool. is said to have been stopped in its way to Vienna, by the British Minister at Dresden. It is to remain, until further orders, in the hands of the most re speftable Bankers in the latter City. Letters have been received from Turkey which state, that Colonel MURRAY and Colon e ANSTRUTHER, sent by General ABERCROMBY, have arrived in the Camp of the GRAND Viztsk, where they were well received, and were concert ing measures with the VIZIER for the attack on Egypt. The Marquis of EXETER has given half-a guinea to each poor widow in the town of Stam ford, and the neighbouring villages. Upwards of Soo poor women have received this liberal gift, exclusive of which, his, Lordship has sub scribed soh and the Marchioness the like sum, to the general subscription in that town, for the re lief of the industrious poor. Died on Monday evening, the gth instant, in Bryanstone-street, the Right Hon. Lady CHAR LOTTE CAkR, wife of the Reverend WILLIAM HOLWELL CARR ) of Menhenist, Cornwall, and daughter of the rate JAMBI Earl of Ea ROL. Is Pet,#* N , \4 1 . 3,-. c, OVAL Z , : t Y NEWS. 4 4 6',n jN.i iverniunt relagi, tas.u►n7at trideniem, mibi tole da►u►n. From the LONDON GAZETTE, Feb. To. Admiralty-0154:e, Feb. io, !Bor. ' Extraii of a Letter from the Earl of St. Vincent, K. B. Admiral of the White, &c. to Evan Ne pan, Erg. dated Torbay, the 3d initant. SIR, His Majesty's Ship Oiseau is this instant ar rived, and I inclose a Letter from Captain Lin_ zee, giving an account of the Capture of La Dedaigneuse French Frigate. His Majesty's Ship L'Oiseau, MY LORD, Torbay, Feb. 3, 18os. I have the honour to acquaint your Lordship, that en Monday the 26th of January, at eight A. M. in lat. 45. deg. North, long. 12 deg. West, I fell in with the French National Frigate La Dedaigneuse, of Thirty-six Guns, and Three Hundred Men, with Dispatches from Cayenne for Rochfort, and chaced her until noon the following day; when I discovered His Majesty's Ships Si. rius and Amethyst, off Cape Finisterre, whose Captains I direaed by signals to chace, and con tinued in pursuit of the Enemy until two o'clock on 'Wednesday morning ; being within musket shot, she opened her fire on the Sirius and Oiseau, which was immediately returned, and she surren_ dered to the above Ships after an adion of forty-live minutes, distant from the shore, near Cape Be lem, about two miles ; her running rigging and sails were cut to pieces; several :Oen killtd and seventeen wounded, amongst the latter were the Captain and the Fifth Lieutenant. My warmest thanks are due to Captains King and Cooke for their exertions, -but -particularly to the former, as from the 'Sirius's steady and well-direaed fire, the EneMy received considerable damage ; the Amethyst, from unfavourable winds, was unable to get up until she had struck. lam happy to say, notwithstanding the gallant resistance made by the Dedaigueuse, neither of the Ships lbst a man ; the Sirius's rigging and sails were a little damaged, her main-yard and bow-sprit slightly wounded. I cannot conclude without expressing m y approbation of the Officers and Company of His Majesty's Ship under my command, and in justice to them, must add, their anxiety to close with the Enemy, nn first discovering her, was :. equal to what it was on becoming so •operior; and must further beg to acknowledge the very great assistance, I received from Mr. H. Lloyd, my First Lieutenant, during a long and anxiotis chace of forty-two hours-; I trust your Lordship will be pleased to recommend him to the Lords Commissioners of the . Admiralty, as •a most valuable Officer, and deserving of their attention; . on his account most sincerely do I lament the bath ing winds that prevented my 'bringing the Ene •my to action on the preceding day, 'which-I was several times in expeaation of . doirg. La De daigneuse is a' perfeiit new Frigate, Copper fas- : tened, and sails well, carries Twenty-eight Twelve-pchrnders on her main deck,- and pierced for Forty Guns.;. I have given the Pride in charge of u,y. First Lieutenant, with ditedions to pro ceed to letymouth ; and have also to acquaint your Lordship of my having detained, on the Ist inst. the Swedish Ship Hoffnung, from -Valentia, bound -to Altona, laden with brandy, bartheil two hundred and sixty tons. I havc the Honour to be, &c. &c. &c. S. H. LINZEF.. The Earl of St. Pinceirt, K. B. &c. &c. &c. PLYMOUTH, Fs B. 9. ARRIVED the Danish Brig Catharina, Capt. HANs JAMIE ) laden with brandy, from Bour deaux bound to Altona, detained by• the SU(Wilt row hired Armed Schooner ; ,also the Swedish Brig Neptune's, Captain HAGGIMAAN, laden with hides, linen, &c. from Nantes bound to Malaga, detained by the CoNcorde Frigate. Sailed the Prince George, of 98 guns, Rear- Admiral Sir C. COTTON, and Pampie, of So guns, Capt. C. STIRLING, to join the Channel Fleet ; and Telegraph hired Armed Brig on a Cruize. Arrived the Glory, of 98 guns, from Torbay. P,ORTSMOUTII, FEB. to. Tests day the Topze Fr gate made the Signal for giving instrUlions to the West-India Con voy, and will positively, if the wind continues, sail to-morrow morning. The Transports (Armed Ships), sailed yester day with Troops for the West-Indies. The Portuguese Fleet will not sail before the zoth inst. The Stuallorw Revenue Cptter, has taken and sent into this Port the Archimboldur Swedish Ship, from Spain bound to Altona, with fruits and a Dane laden with salt, which is sent to London. Arrived a large Fleet of outward-bound Ships from the Downs. SHEERNESS, FEB. 10. SAILED HIS Majesty's Sloop Lynx, of 18 guns ) Captain A. SK It NE, for Yarmouth. The Selby has gone out of Harbour to the Norc, ster. LispoN , AN. i Tin death of the late Prime Minister has caused many changes in the Administration of this Country. The following is the new Ar.- rangement : Duke de la For s, Minister of War, and Prime Mini- Mr. PINTO, Secretary of State for Home Department. A Don lons D'ALM r:r on, Minister far Foreign Affairs. Don RODRIGO DE MELLo, Treasury. Visconde D'ANA DI A, Minister Of Marine. Conde De VILLA VERDE, Board of Trade. Conde Dc POMAEIR A, Codigo, or Lord Chancellor. MORGADO D'OLIVEIRA, Grand CIOSS. LOUIS De VAsconerLLos, President of Public Works AMR ASSADORS. Don LILIRENZCi De'LIMA, L011(1011. MORCADO DE MA TTH WS, Vienna. FTRNANDO'COP.ALA, Berlin. • -• CireatA No Facia.ai -Copenhagen. J. M. PINTO; Stockholm. S. BEzzENA, United States of America. There is a report abroad, that 'the PR INC E . Of PEACE has been appointed Generalissimo of 25,000 Spanish, and I 5,000 French Troops, who are to form a Cordon along our Frontiers; in order to force Portugal to make a Peace with France. His Royal tlisghtlfSS PRINCE AUGUSTUS ar. rived'here on. Thursday the. tsth lost: in the En.-. dymian Frigate, after a stormy passap of 113 days. THE HAMBURGH MAIL: VIENNA, JAN. 23. THE formal publication of PeaCO, *lll be de.; ferred to the 12th of the ensuing month, which is the Birthday of His IMPERIAL MAJESTY ; but though it is not officially announced, it •is generally believed to be certainly concluded. Count COiENZEL, after the conclusion of the Negotiations, will go as Envoy Extraordinary to Paris, and JOSEPH BONAPARTE will be appointed .tfivoy to Vienna. _ _ _ It is now said, that Duke FERDINAND of \llyaTtittl ERG will not go as. Ambusador tb Peter :burgh: • • PI:NOTHPR *R I SAME DArE] . , On the 201 i insti• an Adjutant of General Mo. RrAu arrived at the Head-quarters - of the ARCH DUKE CHARLES, leleenbrann, and , delivered to him Dispatches,which, it is confidentl7 asserted, contained the Prelithinaties of Peace concluded at Littieville. The Adjutant was invited to the table of the•ARCIIDUKE, and went, accompanied by two Austrian Officers, to the Ridotto, and other entertainments, and was treated with the most flattering politeness. Hu after w,tr.h. tLopartod, carrying with him, it is said, the Ratification of the Preliminaries. On the arrival hereof a Courier from Lune, ville, on the - 25tIOnst. the Neapolitan Ambas. saddr, the Marquis 'DE GALLO, set out for that Towne The report, that Count CODr tczt t, will h:rnself bring to Fienna the Treaty of Peacc.i when finally arranged, is not confirmed. To complete our Regiments, a new recruiting of 60,000 men is ordered. As the KING of N.1P1,24 is - not included by 6.-tmein the Italian Armistice, a Corps of Cis:ll - Troops. is on its march towards Naples, through the Ecclesiastiea . l State, • VRANK FORT, JAN. 25. IT id - not now doubted that the Preliminaries of Peace between Austria and France have been signed at Lunrville, and that the Treaty will he immediately 'Seri t to the respedive Governments for ratification. RATISBON, JAN. 29. ONE of the conditions of the Preliminaries of Peace is, that Austria shall grant a free passage through Hungary to an Army of 60,000 men, which will probably join the Russian Army, and march in conjunction against Constantinople * whence the French will be able to attempt. an at. tack on the English Possessions in the East In,. dies, HAMBURG H ; F/0. 4. IT is confidently said that the PrussiandoVetn. meta, on the 30th of January, transmitted to Lord CARYSTORT, the english Ambassador, at Berlin, a Note relative to the Embargo laid on the Danish arid Swedish Ships in the English Ports, expressed in a ,very strong and poshivt manner against that measure. The Ambassador had a short time before given in a Note, an. nouncing that Embargo.- PETE RSBURGH, JAN. 6. THF following new Ships arc to he built at. Cronstatit : three Ships of the Line of t zo, 90, and 88 Guns ; one of 54, and a Frigate ; at Archangel, a Ship of the Line of 74. guns, one of 66, and three Frigates of Sq., 4.4, and 3z ; and at the Docks of the Black Sea,_ a Ship of the Line of t io guns, one of 74, a Frigate of 54, art some smaller Ships. As Captain Bciottcr, of the Ist Somerset, was riding' to Upway, to meet the hounds, he fell from his horse, and expired immediately. He has left a wife (sister to 'Viscount GALL wAy) and three children to deplore his loss. lie was taken to Wincanton for interment, and had every Mili tary Honour paid him by the ist Somerset Regi. ment, and the York Hussars, then quartered at Weymouth.