The Sun. — London, England, 1804-10-12 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. I think you will agree with me, that the Public are entitled to some information respeaing the 'links voted by the Corporation of Londtm to Lon! NetiOu which be so severely and justly remarks upon. It strudk me that the meri t of Admirate, Co P.N. WALLIS ,and. THORN B ROUGH, with the brave Of.: ficeri and Men serving under them, tin hmrd, the Fleets which had been employed tinting the inost tempestuous be bon blockading th e Ports of France and iol 401 , ileherVed the tit:inks of the City of London: hat I Might be covreft in'what Idid, I waited opim Mt..ll 7 lAasnEY., at the Admiralty, who very readily ftsnris4,c~~ me with the names and titles of the Officers served under those galiant Admi. Y r ; hen I brought forward my Motion in the Court of Com Mon Council, Mr. Alderman Cu aTis thought at to Move; what he termed gm ameament to my Motion, that Admiral NE Lson, and . the Officers • serving 'under him, might be included. This he did without knowing (as it appears) who served um! r. that brave man. I will make no comment, but 511411 feel myself obliged by your inserting in your Paper Allis explanation, SIR, Y►►ur most obedient Servomr, SAM.. DIXON. ou s, MAILS. ARR IVLD. • Hainburgh z PltiCE OF STOCKS, • Tow' DAY AT TWILVII: 'consuls 0 , . .. .. . Or • - 57 THE SUN. SOLLIt QUia DlCtat TALSUhI ,AUDEAT L 0 N D 0 N, PRII)AY, OCTOS'EIt IZ, 1804. Tait morning arrived a Mail from Jamaica; Brought to Fatmouth by the Prince Adolphus Packc r, in 34 ctiyi. By this Mail 'we have received the Jamaica Papers' to the 2,1 ultimo, from which we have extracted the not ingesting articles.—We arc happy to state that the bland is in perfca health. Maxtor' the caution of Government has prevent. ed any thing from : transpiring that could furnish the Opposition Writers with any data upon which they might build a probable hypothesis resPeifing the present posture of affairs between this Country and Spain, yet those Writers are as confident in their fteroniegr as if they were in the secrets of the Cabi. net. If conlidetace, however, were their only fault, we might leaVe them to the contempt they de. serve but their virulence is equal to their pre sumption, and for want of fans they daily resort to the most raneorons abuse: Without knowing a syllable of the matter, the Chief Engine of Party says, thv Spain would have given " the must faCtory explanation of the Aemaerellrr, had it been asked in that decaroui and respetful manner which one Nation owes to another." • This assertion, we will venture to say, is as much at variance with truth as it.is with decency. Whativer •xplanations have been required of Spain by the British Government, have been made with the decision which ought to characterize the measures of a great Country like that of Britain ; but they have been required with British liberality. Our Rulers well know the hu_ miliated state to which Spain is reduced, and they feel for the degrading dependence of a country that once held a high rank among Nations. Far from addressing Spain,'as the OppoSition Writers insinu. ate, in " a tone which indicates a determination to quarrel," and which " even the humiliated and de. graded spirit niche Spanish Court must answer with It ghtinefs," we have reason to believe that the expostulations of our Government have shewn a temper of forbearance 'and moderation l and that though Spain may have been obliged to pause and hesitate, under the contrmil of em insolent and re., sistless ,Usurper, she is fully sensible of the friendly wi s hes of Great Britain, and would be hea rt ily if she had independence enough to justify her enter ing into the most intimate connexions with this Coen try. B ot , tos h ew the absurd incons:stencietiof the Op. prldtion WritM, they tell us that at the pteseni moment the state of the Spanish " Naval and Mi city Force is so miserably reduced, that it does not amount to any thing like what a PeaceZtailis' mew fouev en so secondary a Power as Spain ought to be." Can it then he stipposed - that our Ministry, who are as well aCquainted With the Naval anti 'hail condition of Spain as those Writers, would use tht:llll l gUhge 'of insult to ber in such a time of dis. treis, when even the faintest exprehsion: of sh e wilibei of such a powerful' State as Great Britain ratilfhave a decisive operation upon her feelings, though an apprehension o French resentment might Obit het it cuhmar ;host itcHngs ?—c - An it be supposed too that even admitting we should so far have deserted our national charaaer for gefieious. compassion as to address Spain with a total , dim. gard of that. decorous and (eipeetful manner . w'hich one Nation owes to another, that Spain, whose 461 has been broken under the yoke of France, and whose Naval and - Military Force is represented as be low even a Peacellstablishment, would venture to an. ewer Great Britain with haughtiness ? The whole is a fallacious assumption of Opposition malevolence. The British Government has seen with commisera tion the condition of Spain, and has extended its concern to the full limits of a liberal , forbearance ; but when it finds the ascendancy of its most deadly foe over the Councils of the Spanish Court is prompting it to rouse from its slavish torpor, only to become an a&ive agent against us in the hands of that deadly foe, it is time indeed to suspend the feelings of compassion, and to adopt those measures which National Safety, National Dignity, and Na tional Honour demand. Whatever may be the issue of our present Nego. tiations with Spain, we know that Ministers have concluded themselves with a due mixture of modera. ation and firmness, and whenever the history of the transatlion is submitted to the world at large, it will prove the malice of their opponents, and testify their own wisdom and liberality. A little time will develope these matters; and in the interim the Opposition WriterS, by their impudent assertions, and ridiculous, suppositions, are only preparing for* themselves an additional load of mortification and . disgrace. Dispatches received at the Admiralty state, that the Enemy have in the Harbour of Dunkirk about 40 Sdil of Armed Ships, ()eating .pendants, some, of then (about r 9 or 2o) are.tioder- Dutch Colours. 'There is likewise a number.of small craft. Lord G. L. GOWER left town yesterday after. noon to embark, at Yarmouth, on his Embassy to the Court of :it. Petersburgh ; he was accompanied by the Hon: Mr. PONWNBY, son of Lord BF.SBO. ROUGH, as Private Secretary ; and Mr. Rots, for. fu my Srervtary to the Earl of MALMESISURYp ac companies him as Secretary of Legation. Messrs. VICK, and ROFFe attend his Lordship as Messen. gers. The Dukt of Yoi had an interview yesterday with Lord G. L. 'GOWER, previous to his , Lord. ship's setting out for Russia. His Lordship sails in the Amethyst Frigate, which is to bring back Sir B, WARREN. Mr. Purr is gone from Piltney commit to Vey. Mouth, upon a visit to His . MAJe , Ty, from whence he will accompany the Roy,i.t. FAMILY to the seat of the Eat! of 1:1•:RCI-IiisTsit. • Lord CHATHAM'S Birth-113y was celebrated on Miinilay with great splen'h at the New London Tavern, Cheapside, by the Gentlemen of the Board of Ordnance. A Pilot Brat from Heligoland was spoken with . lait Saturday, by our Cruizers block a di ng t h e Elb e and ihe.Wescr. . By stress of weather it had been forced to take shelter, at Bremerley, in the latter rivet. According to the report's of the Pilot, the sufferings. of the inhabitants in the Eleftorate of Hanoveuare still greater than they h a ve been re.. presented in the Newspapers : the French being now actively, employed in carrying away this year's harvest, and dbrising of it at liasnburgh, Bremen, and even in Hollatid, so that a limine is inevitable, should they not be relieved from other Countrieti All gold and silver coins have already been sent to France . ; nothing bu t co ppe r i s in circulation; and the people are. entirely ruined by the enormous re. quisitions and contributions extorted by BostnrAtit''s Satellites. Far from pitying these wretched people, the French Cirminitrsaries have ordered military exe. cution every where ; and not only the cattle, but the furniture and kitchen utensils ha've,been seized, and transported h waggons to Holland,' to be, sold there, as 1)01 moneit is left in Hanover for buyers. Several insurreetions have taken plaCe ; but .they have been of no use, except to procure the French new opportunities to add murder to, plunder.— Three inhabitants of Neuenhoosen were shot on Wednesday sennight,' accused .of preaching setii. Lion. The same day several of the Peasants, at and near Bretnerley, were pia_ into requisition for assisting to build a Signal Towei In the neighbour. hood,; General BeaNADOTIR having ordered twelve Signal, rowers to he conatruded,in,twelve different Bailiwicks of Hanover, and to 'be armed with Rome guns, to'serve as a rallying point for the French, Troops, in case of a general rising of the Hanove. rians against- their tyrants, or in case the Elettorate should be invaded by fOreign foes:. The . French report, 1113 E BONAPAItiIIi intends, in Cit&C of a.con 'tinental War, to order a Conscription of all young men,. from fifteen, to twenty.six, in Hanover, and that they are to be sent to France, and incorporated with hio Army uron rite Coast. A number of young men, therefore, quit their Country, notwithstanding the severity of BONM'ART a's Police Agents and Gins di Arras with regard to Passes. Three young Hano. verians were concealedon board the Pilot Boar, who intended to go to Hokum to enlist in the German Le., gion..in the British Service, but who entered into the. Marines on board our Frigates. Theseyoung men declare, that if . their Countrymen were at liberty to folloW their inclinations, England wouy in' a month raise an Army of so,ooo men atnong them; such is their detektarioniot the French, and the misery to which they are reduced. They confirmed the above particulars, and added, :that within a fortnight, se., vela! thousiind Mose French Troops had arrived in Hanoeer frOm Holland,, together with a flume. roua Train of Artillery, Ammunition WaggOns, 4c, They say that the French Troops on the Banks of the Weser, from the sea to ~the City of Brem,en, jrmuunc only „to 700 men, fur the delince of 16 strung' Batteries. NAP/IL NEWS, RiXFIAM Qt./AY (TORDAY), OCT, zo.--Sailed ye:sterti.iy. evening, after Post, and put back this morning, the Ville de Paris, San Josef, Prince Ge,irge, Temeraire, Price, and the Clog, Men of War, under command of Admiral CORNWALLIS. FALMOUTH, OCT. 9.—Sailed - the - Wahinghatg Packet, ROBAATS, with Mail of The -2,1 inst. for Lhhon ; the Lord Charles Spencer Packet, COATtS. woR-rit, with Mail of the 3d inst. for Jamaica, Barbadoes, and Crooked bland ; and the Lliza Packer, PATBRSON, with Mail of the 3d inst. for New. York and Halifax. Arrived late last evening the Prince Adolishut Packet, BOULDERSOZ,I, in 35 days from Jamaica ; left lying at Barbadoes the Duke of Curnherland Packet, LAWILANCE, which carried put the July Mails. Passed this Port for the Eastward the East India Ship General Stuart, Capt. MUturtmEß, which, with six others, were under Convoy of His Majesty's Ship Courageax, of 7+ guns, and from which she park. ed on Sunday last. Arrived this morning the American Ship in trrpid, Capt. RUDBICT STEAD, from Norfolk, 2 . 6 days passage. DEAL, OCT.' t i.—Arrived the Hecla Bomb from off Boulogne ; and a Gon.brig from the West ward, Could not learn her name. Sailed the Medium" Lighter for Sheerness.. , Arrived ;he General atuart, Capt. MoitTlblint, East India Ship, and remains. In the Downs—Men of War, Armed Defence Ships and Transports as betore ; Windham, Calcutta, City of London, Cultni, Rolla, and General Stuart, East India Ships, for the Rivet. PORTSMOUTH, OCT. 2.--Arrived His Majesty's Ship Po), bennis, from the Downs ;,also the 80. rough, PATTERSON, from Newcastle. Sailed the Trusty Man , of War, for the Downs; the ran Scarbutt, PAUS, for Longsound; and Wit: HANDASDALL, for Cork. The Princen Elizabeth,' FoIiRESDALa s frUm London, bound to Bermuda and New Providence, will sail under Convoy of His Majesty's Ship Avenger, which intends leaving hence in about six or seven days, for Newfoundlandind HalifaX. HARWICH, OCT. t I.—The Post-Zee riaCkit KiNg George, Capt. SAU ND ER.I, and the Print,' of Walet; Captain FIIIARN, bailed this morning with = a vnurable Wipd—the King George fox Husum, with the Hamburgh and Bremen Mails, Measeng4, and other Paisengers ; and the latter Packet with the Gottenburgli Mail. GREENOCK, OCT. 9.--The George, Stst,ort, ar, rived here on Sunday last, frurn.New York, after a, passage 0128 days,; left the Francis, BRAINS, road. ing for this Port--he way expeeted to sail in t 6 days when Capt. SmsoN left New York. The Garthlaid, 11/1 4 1.:Ac HERN (tine of the Jamaica Fieet), arrived here o,n Sunday ; 'poke, at ; aqua, t h e A nn , AITKEN, oftonlion, and was advised by Capt. AITKEN of the ' , capture Of four vessels, off Charleiton Liar, by a French Privateer ; he war also informed of one of the Fleet being captured near C ape Antonio, name unknown. A Strip, supposed to be one of the Fteet, was seen lying on Wicklow Bank when that part of the. Fleet which arrived here ailed past. • The Elizabeth French Schooner Privateer, of guns, has been cut out of Guadsloupe by the Gala tea Frigate, and carried into Dominica on the 3,1 of August. Yesterday a Court of Direaors was held at th e East India House, when the, following Officers were sworn into the command of the it respective Ships; viz. JOHN WORDSWORTH, Of the AbergaTenny ; joIIN KIRKPATRICK, of the Henry Addingtca ; and THOMAS LARKINS, of the Warren Haslitegs. , The Court adjourned at six o'clock till thk day. Yesterday the arrival of . the General Stuart, Capt. MORTImsa, WJS announced at the EAst.andia House. She has on board a number ol French pri, sorters. We are concerned to state, that Captain' Mottittitaß has had a very severe fit of illness, from which he was but slowly recovering when he Ship reached the Downs. The Prince Adolphus Packet, from Jamaica, is arrived ar Falmouth. The Carlttou, WHIN NY, from Jamaica, bound to Liverpool (one of the Fleet), got on shore near Whitehaven, when the Captain -was unfortunately drowned. The Bo,lock, KELLY ) from Jamaica to Liver}, is reported to have been dismasted, and carried into Cork. The Lion armed Ship sailed from the Nore on Wednesday last, with five Sail bound to the Baltic. Extrad of a Letter from an Officer on board the Preston, dated Bengal, March 3 :—,‘ We expel to be dispatched about the 2;th of this month, under convoy .of the Caroline Frigate. The Fleet will consist of the Lasty'Casslereagb, Preslon; Europ e , and moat probably the Tigress." Our Deal Correspondent mentiotis,a rino9r Which we shall be most happy to be able to contradid : One of the homeward.bound East. Indiamen, the Prince of Wars, parted company with the other Ships (which have arrived), on the 29th of Wfay last, off the Cape. It was t,upposed die had r un 1, 4 the Mosambi que ; but our Coirespondent bums. drat just before Abe nArrp,l was seen-in the utmost distress. Two says after. wards a great number of pieces of wreck were seen, and it was feared she had gone dtawn. It is said, that she had a greater number of passengers on board than any Ship in the Fleet, The Amberre, HOVIE, from Africa to the West Indies, has been captured by tie Elelbamt Man of War, and carried into Jamaica. An erroneous account of the toss of the Swedish Ship and,Crew wrecked upon the Goodwin Sands having appeared .in.t he ,public .Plpersohe •following statement, contained in a Le'tter from an eyeovii. ness (Capt. B.RowN # .a, the 1 tdefatigable Defence Ship), ),to'his brother,,atWhitby, may be relied on! " On Tuesday the 25(11 ult. 'at tlay-break, a ship was discovered upon,the Goodwin Sands, without her masts, her crew running to and' fro in the greatest agitation, waving :and shouting to A great number of boats which had put off from Deal in the hope of saving their liVes, and picking up any thi ng th at m i g h t fl oat from the wreck. ' ll * sea, however, ran so high, that tieing-of the boats could approach near enough . to tak4 out the peOPIfA wiiho ut - the almost certain consequence of being dashed to pieces against the..vesiel, and Wing buried in the waves. Ablyor nine o'clOck:, the friod fn. creasing, the Want were unde'r the necessity of withdrawing nearer to the' shore*' .alien the poor men, conceiving themselves abandoned to the mercy of the waves, expressed their aiiprehensions by the most affeeting gestures. One boat, however, re. turned; and . had the good fortune to rescue from rho billows one of the cre,v, who, ;more 'resolute.thrt the rest, .plunged overboard and'swameowards tiers This boat frequently got very hear the':wreck, ill the hope that some other of the: crew might be 106 duced to folloW his example, bat noue•Was 11)04 bold enouglf to hazaid the attempt. About noon the sea. began. to break over the Veiiel, ,ails in little time the poop and the forecattle parsed I min , the middle,- w h en t h ree me n u p o n the , fohner, one upon the latter, were soon plunged i nt o the deep. The rest of the crew, about thirty in . notp• her, crowd e d toget her upon th part, e—remaining * still keeping their eyes fixed.. tiptiri the boat ; bUC when they saw in its departure (which ielf-prescrva lion rendered necessary) , the extinetion of their_ only hope, : no language can describe the agony of despair, that seemed to seiz e t h e poor wretches, and which they expressed in the most frantic ma. says,rinn ct ii , n rn d pe g li c e s t t i u i r o e i s t . deck, and when in still! no about five minutes he- returned, all was nitiat \ hairo Crew, who (as he emphatically observes) . s to T q h u e it stiligeht, Capta i n Biwwtr apisa.ranee remaining of any part of the untortuoo o eAp,criencett the pain of twenty ticathi dusinp-.0 that put a period to their existence." long interval that preceded the hilt ; drea_dful uraava • . A Letter from Hamlitirgh, of the 28th ult. slate*, that the spirited Note which the KING of Swine* ordered to be delivered to the French Chargi: d'Affilins,'at Stockholm, in answer to BoSAI PAI V IIII libel on the Kits'a of Swv DSN, 111 TkAfilititeuri.has - excited such' a - .ragein the Corsican. Ihuiper, that, in the. presence of several German Prineei,at Mentz, he declared,• in the rmnir violent terms—" that the SW ?DISH MONARC II Shook' not, in twelvt Months, remain a MeMberof the German Empire ; that .the Province of Swedish 'Pomerania, which gives him a vote at Rat isbon, slyndd, in a short time: Change its.Savereign; and it the KING of PRAM IA would not make. arrangements to ineorporite it With Prussian __Pomerania, he, Bo NAP ARO/ ShOillil himself Create• and' support , another Dulcc of Ponatraa ulterior." , These, iiird similar et 4es'!' sinns, he ina.le use of in the presence of A the German Princes, and 'of the Members Of the DTI" ~ trta - tic LOll4. .111 the evening the Pill9sl4ll Chargi d' /Wain.' to the Imperial City 4 Franic rc Fre " nc i li t sent a Courier to his ruurt, no dOubt, with these particulars. l i , s ro, r ) e p p s o e r n te c d arn i p ti t , o d n ne n a u r r i, E u x: e i n ta b n o g is e, h, th in t a i : liver, ate' to be increased to 25,0 0 0 men, and th at the greater pill of them are, uelore.,the ` vint h e : sets in, to occupy Swedish t' anerinia, unde r t i territory,' .the me an command of Ganeral I..soeuto lialtTlitv a. ; 1 1 time the KING t)i SA iDi N has orl'e te " Genoa Stralsund, the only strong placi it his the French, to b e put in a state to sustain a siege* The. old fortifications are repairing, and new "e O . l are added .; and it is said that an encampmen t - ~1..2.00° Swedish Troops will be formed between `ari"l"tvald and Stralsonl As it is necessary or before they can arrive on the ter ritory of the KIN O of S W k DIN , to v i olate that of IVleck• tinburgh and Prussia, it is supposed 'that the for Met Dtitchy will be also occupied by them. Under such an expetiation, the Duke and his family have re. moved their most ivaluable eff:ets to Stettin, in Prubsia. A rumour i s at t h e same t ime current , th at the EMPEROII. of RUSsI.A, has ofrered to send 20,0 00 men as a•suceour to His SW EDisH MAPSTY) ~bt it that-the KING of Pit 1164JA tins reinonitratici a g o" ' the debarkation of Russian Troops upon the Get'''. man Territory." flal~,~ l l Thotigh we have Contradiaed the report that LeT 3 NELSON lia3 solicited his re:call, yet some of the rib!' lieW Prints repeat that' report. e can astute O u'r geaders that the Q•illant . Admiral is in better health than ht: hat enjoyed for some time Int r ot , 14" not hkely to abandon the Cause of his Country While has strength to defend it. A forgery of a very extensive nature has belie discovered on a House of great respdtability s t West End of the Tow n . One of the junior cleats, who is in custody 'as ari accessary in the has given some mtrerial infOrmation, which we fa' . bear to state at present. Cas hel The Posc.boy conveying the Mail from to 'Tipperary mid V o pped about ovo 0 l (gic on l ; the morning of Wednesday sennight, by three to h .,- 0 ; two of 'whom were well arm.rd, who sibbed j i l t , of the Tipper'ary bag of letters, which WO Patched from the Gweral Past oinCC the to. It tltt reppried at Paris that the Swedish Gec to uct Baron ARNIFELDT, late Affil),l,Bador to the 1 0 , buoitless, of Vienna, is to be a ppointed Minister of the reign Department to the King of Sweden*