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~. THE SUN. SOLEM QUIS LUCIA* FALSUM AUOLAT ? L 0 N D 0 N, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1 /31 1. MAILS. ARItIVIO —2 Heligoland, t Dublin. Duz--1 Cadiz, t !era bey, t Guernsey, 3 Waterford. PRICE OF STOCK S THIS PAY At' TWILVII O'CLOCK. Consols —64 a Red. Ann. 621 63 I Minium j dis. . . . Two Mails. frorn Heligoland arri this morning. We'are extremely sorry to receive by them further accounts of the damage caused by the excessive vio lence of the gales in 1114 quarter. • The following are extraats from the Papers brought by the Mails HELIGOLAND, DEC. 6.—Ever since Sunddy; the Ist instant, we nave had a series' of uncomMonly botaterous weather, wind S. W. W. and N. N. W. On Tao , . hr: gun-brig, which was an chored at the back of Sandy Island, lost all her an chors and cab.es, and was driven out to sea ; and the gale hying last night veeteil to 'N. N. W. blew diretity down the harbour, and exposed the shipping to considerable damage. During the night, the Horatio. frigate broke the chains of her moorings, and was driven foul of the Osprey sloop of war, damage(' her starboard side," acid forced her' also to ,part. The perilous situation of the frigateafter her chains brOke, rendered it im mediately necessary to throw her guns overboard to . ptPvent tier striking; and fortunately she W ' 3s brought up with her own anehorg, w lien on the eve of being driven on the reef, where she and all hands must inevitably have been Jost: A series of misfortunes befel the Thresher aft& parting on Tuesday : by the . violence of the gale, she was driven again on' the sands at the mouth of the Elbe, where she was obliged to throw her guns Overboardolndafter having, with dit6culty got oti, she narrowly escaped being captured by the gun- , boats in . that quarter. She wrought into the liar bout last night with scargply a sail manageab!e, 'and batting run up eleing;bir the Thetis transport, she was furnished with an, Anchor Sod cable. The .Thetis afterwards parted, fell athwart the Thresher, and tarried away..her bow,pri.t. A serjeant of, h Royal Veteran Battalion,• who was obselving the Thresher as she came into Harbour, was blown over the rock by the wind, and perished in the sea. In consequence of these dis-,' asters the Horatio will be obliged. to sail to England 'to replace her guns, and the rest of the squadron to refit. Dec. g..--The stormy weather continues to pre vent any arrivals from the coast. Dec. 4.—Wel!ave had a prevalence of westerly winds for upwards of a month past, in consequence of which the packet has been delayed -till this day. By a late.arrival from the coast,, we, learn, that great exertions continue to be made ,by the French Government in thd transportation of ship timber from the Elbe into Rolland. All the vessels fit tor the purpose in the ports of the Ems,'Weser, and Elbe, have been put in requiSition, and or !erect to proceed to take in cargoes with all possible clivatch. By a letter from Lila deJaneiro, towards the latter ' end of September last, it seems that t Ratuguese ,General Don DEAD° nib SouzA, and Portuguese troops, had arrived very near Monte Video on the 12th of that month, and that he had forcibly interfered to putdown the insurgents in the country, as far as the river ranima. Hii orders; as published at 'Monte Video, went only to interfere as far as the yraguay. it is very confidently asserted at Rip de Janeiro, that Don DLAao DE Souza, has likewise orders to . combine his movements :.with the MouteVidean forces, and also those of GUYONECHI, who it was expeaed; would have „approached Buenos Ayres, and jointly to attack that city. Soare additional Parii Vapors„..to, the-I.3th instant reached town last night. They contain an article f ro m Bucharest, dated the 6th ult. which Mentions that the ncgotiatiOns between Russia an4l Turkey were then going on at Giurgewo, and wero , c xpq;.ted - to last fur some time. The Prussian army is stated to be,placed on a peace establishment, which of course implies that there bad been some preparations in that kingdom of a warlike 'charaeter. As there 'w t As l yesterday some incorrectness in our ars wer to wlttt was said by the Morning Chronicle, respecting.its charge against Ministers, of concealiiii disastrous intelligence, we shall briefly recur to the *abject. The charge, indeed, was too silly to de. serve any notice; for is it to be supposed that Minis ters would attempt to suppress intelligence which they might becertain that the enemy would take eve y possible means to spread all over the world, as well for the tr u qph of national vanity as to make t! e inhabitants of the Peninsula, and those of " every ether tthuntry in ttrepe, tit Mair of Any effeCtual sistance against Fre.nce, , and' therefore to induce theni to tesign themselves to its usurpations and • oppressions ? But though Ministers ibight suppose that in the account cif disasters sti6tit,-d by the Allies, given by the, enerhy, much might be imputed to exaggeration, yet our 'Uteri bare too many, reason, to know that there is a Party in this country hardly less eager than the enemy to spread the news of any events adverse to the great cause, in which we are engaged, not only for ourselves, but tti res cue' 011 Europe from the domination of a Tyrant, whose ambition, rapacity, and cruelty, .ex ceed all thathistory has recorded. Our Ministers have too much reason to know also that .the Party alluded to are hardly less disposed than -the' enemy to exaggerate the acccounts of dis,istrou, events that may happen' to Great Britain and her Allies.; — To accuse Ministers, therefore, of concealing, or attempting to conceal, Any unfaVourable events that may ' occur in the courser of the war, while the enemy abroad, and the faciion at home, are almost, if not quite, equally ready to propagate 'and exaggerate such events, is to accuse them of folly equal to the malevolence which would render such attempts ridiculous as well as abortive.. After receiving the address o the Corporation of London yesterday ; the PRINCE ItvogNic gave audi ences to the Lour) CHANCELLOR, Earl CAmnaN, Mr. ;PERCEVAL, anekMr. RYDER, and proceeded to hold a Privy C“uncil, which was attended by all the Ca binet Ministers.. The Rec r lei of London did not make his report, as was expected. T 1 e l'utNeg 'did not appear to experience much inconicnieslee from his lameness. Yesterday Earl SIDYIOUTH had two separate inter views with the First Lti`rd of the Admiralty. Sir WALTEA STI4ILING.gave a grand dinner yes terday, at his house in' St. Jamea's-place, to the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor and his Lady, the. Lite Lord' Mayor, Sir Joseph Yorke, Sir Thomas Trigge, and about fourteen other persons of distinction. Yoiterday a Court of DireLiors' was beld.at the East India Elfm . se, when Captain T." PRICE Wfl3 sworn into the command of the ship Lord Duncan, consigned to .Rombay dired, as . was Captain P.. RibLLAND, into the Aluwick Castle, consigned:lo China diren.—The Court adjourned at six o'clock, till Friday the ~ i 7tlt ihst Nesterday a QuarterlY-General Cow! Was held at the t;-tit India House ;'after the usual forms'the Chairman moved, that - in compliance with a Iteso lu:ion of the Court of Direaors, the dividend . for the half.,year commencing the sth July last, and ending the sth January next, be 5i per cent. which, on the question being put, passed unanimously in the affirmative. • We ytiterday received the following intelli gence, via the United Slates, contained iti the Ca tacctia Papers to the 73d September :-- " .CAti %coo, Sr.? r, publish with con• cern the following dispatch from the Governor of Valencia, appointed by the Connnandcr in Chief, General MIRANDA : "-MOST EXCELLENT SENOR, " It gives me extreme pain to inform you, that night.a conspiracy broke out in this city, the object of which was to overturn .she authorities lately established, and again to place VAlencia in the hands of the enemies ot the cause of independence. " The nuMberuf infatuated person .engaged in this detestable plot has not • been ascertained ; but at present more than 200 are in sconfine ment, many of them persons of the- highest , trust and distiuttion. It should seem, that by means of bribery mtifiy of the troops that bed sworn allegi ance to the General Congress notwithstanding the benefits they had derhed under its, Government, were induced to .disregard their oath, ,and abandon ,their duty, and even the guatcis of the Palace were parties to the eonspiracy The 13th, '2:2d, and 23d regiments of infantry, and the 27th of cavalry, however, rennined filithful to their Officers. " At midnight the Palace was attacked, when these gallant troops flew to their arms, and with unexampled intrepidity put to death few Conspi 'moors who •had.• scaled the walls, and with fixed bayonets.effettually resisted the entrance of se‘i.etal thoMsands whO had forced the antes.. This dread, ful contest continued for the space of an hour, when the triumph nt the cause of Liberty was agate con. .spicuous. The enemies of the Confederated. vinces were every where,defeated, and the approach of day-light displayed to view the Leaders' of about 700 victims . . • "•Such are the particulars I now have it in my power to detail ; mid since the def.at of this horri ble projed,. I have taken the neeesiary measures to secureaq bring to trial the prisoner•, bat not Moil some of ale, conspirators,. taking .a.ivantage of :tht' contusion, etreeted their escape ihro.igh silo gates af• the City. I inn happy r to add that all is now . trans qui!, raid the prisoners in my hands wilt tg - t; - brouglit to trial, aiid cxectttrd, as soon as it is consistent with-the course of t he 13w. " May God preserve you, &c l ' V.lmia, Sept. 6." Caraccas, Sept,, 2.11. Senor M. 4. ,PAz has been appointed on a 'nig sioil front the GOvernment of. Venezuela to that of the Uniti. , Lt States. He is to inform the latter illat thi s Conteder,,tion is ready and willing to enter into a connuerciakreaty with the North Arngrican'Go. vantrent. Adviccs received ye l sterday of the totit Oaober, from Aux Cayes state,' that, in consequence of: the death of Gen. RIOAOU, th m e alcontents lately under cw»thatid, w ho had, formed a separate govern ti had tuentiinfed an intention to return-to she autho rity of PETION, who was in treaty with them for that purpose.. . . . One hundred and sixty-six prisoners of war,, from the vide/ph transport, were placed in Porchester Castle, on- Friday. They were part of MURAT'S army, and are.composed principally of Italians, very few Frenchmen... NA Ar A L N 8, Ft YMOVIII, Da.c. t 7.—The tramp:4ls that arriv ed here yesterday, ‘..'cre frdin Portsmanthi, laden with s•nres, bound t(; Gibraittir. - Arrive,d last night his Majosty'Fischnoner Arrow s from a cruise off the coast of France, with 'her prize, 'tbe French chasse-mAIL , L'Ami', ladetrwith wheat, from Breit, bound tb Bout-de tux. Sailed the Union and Morning Star cartels, be longing to this • port, fo - r Morlaix, with the passengers mentioned h our last., Arrived the Constant gun-brig from the squadron in Basque Two hundred and, forty of the South Gloucester tegiment of militia have ina,rclied into G..orge's square, Barracks, Plymouth Dock ; from Maker, Drake's Island, and Yealtutim Barracks, where they have been doing duly for some time past.. Arrived the Hope, BarnNT, from Liverpool.: PORTSiIOUTII, DRC..18,-- ' -Sailed the Seiapis for Deptford ; 6,1 Fenertibie; Sir PONta POPHAM ; and the loyal Oak, Capt. MAttoLm, for offChei burgh; and the'thrmes and. Sprightly fOr the Downs. Al lived his Majesty's ship"Tileban- front a cruize ; and the Jason sloop of war from Newfoundi.ind ; alsO arrived the following East I:Idiot - nen: 4rnis lon, 'Thames, Build Charlotte, Cabalvd, Manias and Neptune; they are expeaed .:to be dispatched to-tnorto,A, and to sail in two or three d iys. _ DEAL, DEC. 1 B.—Arriv6d and sailed fur the Ri ver, the Free Briton s HUTCHINSON,' from Quebec. Arriied the John, JACKSON; :incl the Batchelor, from Newcastle "for Snrinam ; the latter with the loss of an anchor and cable. Came down from the River his Majesty's ship Grampus, and several merchantmen. The outward bound remain. Cuantast, Dec. 18.—Sailed down the. River and anchored at the Little Nore, his Majesty's gud-hrig "Mack, Lieutenant WALKER, Commander. The Bellona was unlocked at this port and the Asia (a new ship, just launched from Mr. BIUNDS.. LEY'S yard), docked, to be coppeied. ••••••6 ..Mot YARMOUTH, DEC. 18.—The Horatio yesterday evening anchored in our roads, haVing experienced much bad weather at and subsequent to her leaving Heligoland ; at . which place She waS driven from. her moorings, and drifted . so' near the that the sea made a'complele bread► cver her. In this per,4us sitUation,, she was obliged, to thlowAbe greater part of her gUns.overboard. The Princess of Miles cutter ha, tACn a Fretich cutter privateer, foramtly - the. Cafrii.7, iu our SOC.. vice. THURSO, DEC. 2.—This - evening a large snow rigged ies,el was observed coming ruuiid Flow burn head frog) the westward,.and. was supposed to be standing in for Scrabster roads,. but she after wards shaped her course towards. Murkle Bay, probably mistaking 'lltinnet4 eatl• for the west point- of the island of Strom4,in the Pentland Firth: Thu result molt unfortunately was, that, that, in the conose of the night, the ship got aground on Dunnet sands, - and was there dashed to •pieces, and all hands perished. N. morning no part of the hull was, to be seen entire. Some leaves o f th e 1ogbo.)1t were picked up, by which it has been as certained that the vessel was the Fingal of London, 'THOMAS FRIWGII master; that she took in a cargo at the, port of Miramichi in New Brunswick, and was bound for London. The- greatest part,.of the cargo, it is expected, - N ill be saved, and, from the large dimensions of the logs, the vessel must have been of considerable burden. She was copper bottomed, end in all likelihnod,would have a comple ment 'Of 12 or 14 men ; of these the I?odies . of only sit had been found by the litest accounts, two of whom were supposed to he the Captain and mate,. But, from the state of the Weather, it is expeCfdd 'that the remains of the rest of the: unfortunate ,suf ferers will soon cast up. LAITII, DS C. 16.—The Forward gun-brio arrived in the Roads 'on Saluiday, limn croize. D She bas taktan tlrreu priaelt, one ot Thorn a privateer,' but they Are not yet arrived. 4 The Quebec frigate s‘iiied this morning fur Yar• mouth Roads, Karl only Ot the crew of the vessel she brought op.the Ro.tds away washed overboard, the rest . were mived by the frigate; CORK; DEC. 15.—Letters were yesterday received from Capt. SMITH, of the Annestey Revenue cruiz er, at LoughsWilly, mentioning, that one of the crew of the Saldanhai reached the shore Ake bat was so confused as not to be able to give any distinct account of the 'melancholy business—he died in two hours after being washed ashore. It 'appears that the Sal danha endeavoured to go up LOughswilly, but ll'e wind blowing a gale at the time they anchored at Bally masloke Bay, at the entrance of the Lough, and the storm increasing during the night, she drilled on the rocks, alter which she separated, and the. tWo Parts of -the wreck being seen by the country pea :pie, gave rise to "the report that "the Taltot was also wrecked. However, there is strong reason to sup. pose,, that sha kept at sea, and was able to weather ale storm. Instead of two dead bodies being wash e d ashore, only one officer, and two 'of the cre.v, were drifted ashore, the Officer's, shirt was marked W. P. ,but as the Master's name" was Wm. POOLE, it is not clearly known, whether it was his body, or that (Wale much lamented and worthy Captain, I .11E PRINCE R '*-:-: GEN rs . eouxT . . Yesterday being the day appointed by his Royal, Highness the PRINCE REGENT, to receive the Ad- 1 dress of the. LORD MAYOR and Corpora tion of the - ir City'of LOndon, for the Prevention of the th-tilla- it Lion from Grain, they arrived at York lionise, St. James's; in grand procession, in the following order, I f about a quarter before three o'clock :-.-The Gentle- i 4 men of the Lord Mayor's Household in his' Lorsk. f -ship's' private' earridge; the Cif) , Marshals on hors"- 1 back ; the State cartiktge, with the Lord Mayor, ~ his Chaplain, the Mace, the Sword of Stale; fol lowed by. Aldermen Lewis : and Combe, the Ile- corder, Aldermen Scholey, Doroville, Wood, and i Goodbehere ; •Sheriffs Birch and licygate ; the rte" 1 niernbrancer, Comnirm Serjeant, Town Clerk, tht . ea Counsels, Messrs. Watson, Reypold , , And, Arabin ; the Comptroller, Solicitor, and about 50 of the Members of the Curntnon Council. They were received . in all. due form of State, the Lively Ser• i• VaillS, Pages, &c. bring in their full dresses, same as on a Grand Court Day. '..;,!•:,.,!, ~ The Prince was attended by his f ull attendants, .:, consisting of Mr: Chancellor Adam, in his robes, , !,•• :., and . u:ith his seals; Colonel MeMahon, General Turner, General Keppel, Colonel Bloomfield, Col. Congreve, and the MiniSters of Stare, &c. in the large room on the ground • floor, which looks ill the garden. His Royal Highness was dressed hu full uniform, and seated 'in a large chair, to rrceie the Corporation, where th were introduced to • ~ • his presence from an anti-room, after: t bey IA alihted from their carriages', en the Recorder read. he Aldress, to which the Prince returned an • answer. The Members of the Corporation woe' I. most graciously - received, and had the hocoui ID kiss his Royal Highness's hand. The P r ince ar m •peared to experience but little ioConvetrience fro his latheness..- . After the Corporation had withdrawn, the Prinre.. Cam .gave andiencts to . the Lord Chancellor, Earl den,' bit, Perceval, and Mr. Ryder ; after w hi c h Ire 'proceeded to hold a Privy.. C o uncil, which 5v3" the • tended—brthe-President, the Lord Chancellor, First Lord •of the Treasury. and Chance llor of. the Exchequer; the First Lord of the Admiralty, the blaster General of the Ordnance, the three Secreo- ries of Sta;e, and the President of the Board of Con troul. Viscount etw •Ch d attended as Clerk u f the y it Council. , .The Recorder of London . did tin t matte, his 8:e". port, as expeaed. • t , -- I , . 'CITY ADDRZSS. Yesterday the' Right Hon. the LORD MAY" .. • tli , ! Aideperl, SheritiS, and Common Conned of the,Citi . df London, waited upon his Royal Higb - • ' ness .the PRINCE REGENT, At York Howe , -•vo i d. the following Address, which W 34. read nY' ll4 RECORDER :,-- . . To his Royal Highness the PRINCE of WALES. Regell ot thellnited Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. The dutiful and loyal .Anottais of . the Loan MA volt, Aq. oaa m z Iv, , and Ci rifo 1.4 3 of the City of London , 10 Common Council assembled. .• • ' May it please your Royal Highness, . " We, 'the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Corn- • .mops of rte City of London, in Comm flirtlines4on Conne l !, assembled, humbly approach your Royal .. . OD bdiiaif of ourselves, and the community at large, with an earnest request, that yogi' Royal-Highness will he graciouslypleased,to adopt Such Measures aK, • With the advice of the. Most Honourable -the Pril Council; khan seem meet,• for causi n g a cusp. n iter of the use of Grain in the Distilleries of the United Kingdom; such suspension appearing tons io 1r one o r the Most efiettual means of preventing ilio4, serious evils with which a farther r the pr o ice al grain is at this ,time so obviously,calcuise in ►li ed l t r; • duce: And we farther humbly beg leave to e%i'r e ,, our confident hope, that, well aware as your nn ", ,Highness . mist be of the causea of lb; present adoptin 'scanty supply of grain from foreign 'parts sod o f f; the great *distress that may arise therefron:, PP. Royal Highness, to whose justice and hunianitY '47 it be practicable, shall not, *e •trust, appeal in vain, will be•graeinusy pleased to employ - all the means in your pnioc r ) ul 3 Royal charaliter and disposition, to re-open use I,IEO 1 . micaebaiseu,reasi,oseeorcrielaspnenuecli:colgt ...with. your ow i foreign, here:ofire been foUnd 'so' gentrally advantagons ,1 and especially netitrai natioinn4le,r%c'v°ll.liict withh' ' • his Majesty's sUbjeas, and so good a sail against those'dreadful Calamities which are•bl'.t It : often the consequence of, a scarcity of the accu s.. • ties of filet' . . . • ' • IS To I.viticli Address his -soya' Highness ii pleased to . riturn the following most grgion s s ir swer - : . o l e res. t , L must always see with great co ncern mn sur e a t; ablleltissial.lvigoepridedrPZia:ed:jsfiruicciiartfilliscetYleipti:s ttohebetailal;int'as tirr from such , a deficiency ; tend to give the earliest effeot to any measurers vYlu c o f i r pose .. frelieVing the inconveniences . or efovirls the likely to tO u '' stances shall make . it pratlicable, nothing shAtl t e ' 4' wanting on . my part to contribute tow: 11115 ' 114e r t i l s toration of commercial intercourse between .; i ti , it cotintry and other natiops to the' footing 00 w b ' e c ins been usually concludes civil in the midst ° war." . • and whenever circufir ~ a , • t t n vt d o eb e t x e p ('l er i rm r - --- - .......................... 0.1..........r....010. , Ciptain.MANßY, to whom the country is so ma i d the presence of the Dukes of YORK, KENT) an d q t oe* ,CAMBRIDGR, the Adjutant and Quarter-Maet' 6 ciltilsts,vallnuaadbeleyedsitsec.rodra•tyl,ies, superinten.e.._ nerals, and . sereral distinguished Ofliceriol En and Artillery. 1 'The first of these experiments s! tried o n a -twelve-pounder carronade, to demonstraly the instantaneous and certain ignition of in IlydePagirolte,eirl_ the application of a chemical composition, which , °„, has been ,ascertr,ined by repeated trials,_ will P"', produce. Combustion spontonenwly or by tri 6l , °P :r o mid which, if introduced into pra6lice, win (7° 7 all the iticoveniences and casualties incident to I; &wing by the match . The next experiment was made of extricating persons from wrecks, ,svith such podr, by' improvutitents as had- occurred to Captain 1 ‘ 1414 1c , since the 13't experiment at Woolwich, the result of which his already been stated. The It0 ( 1.. 'Jkes: and the distinguishod.Otlicers who Ittlenhe ed, expresm!d the most cordial approbatiOn of t , inventions, .