The Sun. — London, England, 1801-10-12 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR, THE inclosed, which I cut out of a Provincial Paper, seems to prove, among other things, that the Age of Chivalry is not gone, at least at. Chelms ford. —Perhaps you will think this curious remnant not unworthy a place in a Column of your Paper, of which I am A CONSTANT READER. CHELMSFORD, OCT. 3. The news that Preliminaries of Peace had been signed between His Britannic Majesty and the French Republic, reached us on Friday morning so early as twelve o'clock So unexpected a bless ing, at a time when the Negotiation was thought to be hopeless, and on the point of being broken off, astonished every one, and threw the Inhabitants into the greatest state of anxiety imaginable, till the Gazette Extraordinary reached us in the even ing, and happily confirmed the pleasing informa tion. The hells rang a merry peal, and Elnivet.. sal joy was depicted upon every countenance. We now wait the return of the Messenger from Paris with the Chief Consul's Ratification, and the ex amp:e- of the people in London, to express our sa tisfaftion of this pleasing event, by bon-fires, fire works and illuminations, and we are happy to find a spirit of unanimity among the inhabitants, that promises such an a& will be general. Even those who, from a point of conscience, have not rejoiced at Viaory, will, it is generally understood, give proofs of their satisfaction at the return of Peace. An illumination, when conduaed with regularity, has a very grand effect ; and for want of good order upon 'such occasions, have the fair sex been hither to prevented from publicly participating in the ge neral joy on such occasions. We are induced, from a sincere wish, that none may be shut out from the general rejoicings such an event must naturally ex cite, to offer the following hints :—That the Inha bitants be prepared on the evening which shall be appointed, with the cotton of the candles dipped in spirits, to facilitate their lighting, and that at eight o'clock, at the sound of the Bugle Horn, the illumination may become general—that the suc ceeding hour be allotted for the Ladies to parade the streets, and that they may do so in safety, that the fireworks be postponed till nine—that on the second sounding of the horn (a quarter before nine) the sex to retire, and at nine, the bugle to be again sounded for the firc-works to commence. Such re gulations, or some similar, we know are generally wished for by the inhabitants., but they can be ac quired no otherwise, than by the particular exer tions of every master of a family, and by the desire and concurrence of those who can comtnand obe dience. THE SUN. SOLEm y•-$1.42 naeoa• .A.VDIAI:? LONDON, OCTOBE,R WE on Saturday stopped the Press, to insert, as soon as it was published, the London Gazette Ex.. traordiwary, announcing the Exchange of the fications of the Preliminaries. We repeat it this day, for the benefit of all our Readers. LONL)ON GAZETTE EXTR AO R DINARY , ,'ATURDAY, OCT. to, 18or. Downing-Street, 03. I, o. THE Ratifications of the Preliminary Articles of Peace bettvcen'His Majesty and the French Repub lic, signed on the Ist inst. were this Day exchanged by the Right Hon. Lord Hawkesbury, one of His Niajesty's Prsnci al Secretaries, of State * and by M. Otto. General LAVRISTON, the Chief Consul's Aide de-Camp, who brought over the Ratifications, was welcomed by the populace with the loudest accla mations. The horses were taken from his carriage, and he was drawn by the People to REc.nrsx's Hotel, in St. James's-street, where he took up his abode. The Park and Tower guns were fired, and most brilliant and general illumination, of which we have in our subsequent Columns given, some ac. count, took place in the evening. 'E yesterday received Paris Papers to the 9th instant. Th.; Hambargb Mad, due yesterday, arrived too in cowse.. We may therefore consider ourselves as in possession of the latest possible in_ telligence from the Continent, but through neither channel do we receive much that is entitled to-no tice. The Par;s. Papers inform us of no new fact whatever. The French Tiers conwlido" had arisen to 55• The advices from Egypt, contained in the riemra article, brought by the Mail, do riot come down later than the period when MENOIS had requested an Armistice for three days. The next Mail will probably I . )ut us in, possession of the Articles of the Capitulation 9f that Fortress, if Government has not already received an account of them. Events nearer home, have now however diverted our at tention fronl this quarter of the world, which was lately, from the success of our arms, so interesting ;o Englishmeh. The reople of the T4atavian Republic do, not appear tp, bave been inveh disturbed by the change operated in their Political Constitution. Aother change is spoken of in• a more Southern Country ; and Gevort, if we may believe an Article from that place, is soon to return to its antient form of Government, under a Doge and Senate. No part of the South of Italy indeed, appears to be in a very tranquil state, and the Neapolitan Territory is represented as greatly disturbed. Lord H A WKESBURY, with that laudable atten tion to the public anxiety for which Administration is distinguished, sent the following letter to the LORD MAYok, immediately on the exchange of the Ratification having taken place TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE LORD MAYOR. " MY LOAD, " Downing street, 03. so, iSoi. " I have the satisfaaion to inform your Lordship, that. "General LA un. i sToN arrived in town this morning with " the Ratification of the Preliminaries of Peace, signed on " the ist instant " The Ratification cf the two Gciv&ninents has this " afternoon been eichanged between M. Orto and myself. (Signed) lIAWKESI3URY." Saturday morning Has MAlrs - ry rode cut on horseback, accompanied by Their Royal Highnesses PRINCESSES SOrf-EIA and AMELIA, Lord WALSING HAM, apd COL CARTWRIGHT.—The QUEEN, and PRINCESSES AUQUsTA, ELI zA4Eni, and MARY, in their Landauler, followed, and paid a visit to His Grace the Duke cf,PoR - rt,ANo, at Bu!strode, where they were most elegantly entertained. Yesterday morning THEIR MAJESTIES and the PRINCESSES, and His Royal Highness PRINCE ADO Lr t; us, the Countesses of CAMDIAN and ELY, Ladies CATEK ART and C. WALDEGRAVE, walked to St, GeDrge's .Chapel, Windsor, where they heard an excellent Sermon preached by the Rev. Dr. LANG. FORD. On the ROYAL FANTII,T returning from Chapel, , Lord HAWiC'ESBURY and the Neapolitan Ambassa dor paid a visit to His MAJESTY, and had a long audience. HIS MAJESTY held - a Council this day at Windsor. Ali the (4binet Ministers were sum moned to attend this meeting. Dispatches were yesterday received from Lord KEITH, Commandcrin Chief of His Majesty's Squa dron in the Mediterranean. Yesterday morning Mr. ST. JOHN left Town on his way- to Paris, with the Ratification which M. OTTO had received on tiie preceding day from Lord I.l4wKi.sueßy. General LAunr,s-roN and M. OTTo waited on ,Lord ST. VI NC ENT on Saturday. They were met at the Garden-gate by Lord Sr. VINCENT, who 'very good humouredly addressed the 'mob thus Gentlemeu Gentlemen ! " (the populace ,gave his Lordship three huzzas) let me request ,you to be as orderly as possible ; and if you are deter mined to draw tlze Gentleman, Accompani,!d by M. Caro, I request of you to be careful, and not over turn the carriage."—The populace assured his Lord. ship they would be careful of, and respeCtful to the , strangers. Gener4d LAURESTON is a handsome young man, of a florid complexion ; he seemed very much pleased at the manner of his reception, and came to the window in St. James's-street, to make his acknowledgements. He was dressed in a blue jacket trimmed with gold, a white waistcoat, and black stock; after he came into RED9rsu's Hotel, he sent out ten guineas to the mob to drink. A Morning Paper has the following article re spetling the Bearer of the Ratification of Peace from France. • " M. LAUR ESTON, who brought over the gad_ fication of the Preliminaries, is, we believe, not a General, but a Chef-de-Brigade, or Colonel, in the French Army. He is, we understand, a lineal de scendant of the famous MiSSissippi LAW, a Gentle- man of an ancient family in Scotland. The father of M.LAURESTON was well i nown in the East Indies as ayery at - live Officer in the French service. He was a Count before the Revolution. The estate of Lau. reston, from which this Gentleman (we suppose) takes his name, is within three miles of Edinburgh and i€. we mistake not, M. LAU RISTO N is the heir of the property (not very considerable), df agree able to the laws of the country he is capable of hold- ingit. If he is the repreentative of the family of LAw, he has the best title to the estate. We v_ prebend, from some circuminces, that he is not aware of this, because we happen to know that very lately difficulties had arisen respeding, this estate, owing to the claims which tie representatives of LAW might have to it. Nay, we know that those interested were very anxious to ascertain what had become of LAw's family, who were settled in France." The Duke of ORLEANS and the Count of BE AU JOLOIS arrived at Dumbreek's Hotel, Edinburgh, on Friday sennight, On Saturday evening the Westminter Volunteers assembled in the King's Mews, and fired a feu de Aye in honour of the Peace. The crowd assembled ' in the Mews was immense ; and at the conclusion of the firing they gave the Corps three cheers.— After the firing, Colonel ROBERTSON thanked the Corps for their uniform steadiness and attention, and begged they would attend, as usual, until the pleasure of Government was known. Several Volunteer Corps have already disbanded themselves ; although we rejoice that there exists no probability of their services being again re quired, we trust for a long period, we still hope that these Patriotic Associations, whose appearance has powetfully contribved to the maintenance of of . tranquillity, will continue embodied, and by occasional meeting, Manifest that they are toady to support the constitutional authority whenever their services may be required, , Saturday Mr. LocKE's ship of 'zoo tons, to be commanded by Capt. CHARLES EATON Pit Esco - ry, esteemed a chef d'a'uvre in Naval Architeilure, was launched from Messrs. PE RR y'S Yard, at Blackwall, and named the Ahrwick Castle. More than 300 Ladies and Gentlemen were present on this occasion, MR. ADDINGTON'i ADMINISTRATION. IF it he true, as is generally believed, that the talents of men at the head of Public Affairs are to be estimated by the success which accompanies their measures, how much ought not this Country to ad mire those of the present Minister; and what obliga tions does it not owe him ? During the short space in which he has had the management of our affairs, what rapid steps have we not made from Evil to Good, from Trouble to Repose, from Uncertainty to Security ? A brief review of the past will be sufficient to demonstrate this. At the commencement of the year, although we had been every where viftorious, although we had sustained, both abroad and at home, our Charafter, our Honour, and our Power, our situation was ne vertheless become disheartening in Many points of view. The Enemy with whom we had been con. tending for more than eight years had acquired a more vigorous government ; had triumphed over our Allies ; had displayed unforeseen resources ; and had loftily announced his, design of di- refting, from that time, all his strength against - this Country, He bad taken advantage of his successes to weaken our ineuence in the different Cabinets of the Continent ; and, favoured by themo mentary dispositions of that of Petersburgh, had suc ceedcl in provoking to hostility in the North of Europe, three Powers leagued together to resist our Maritime Rights, and our Commercial Inter ests, At home, the Spirit of Turbulence, encou raged by the melancholy aspeft which our internal situation presented, and turning to its account the sufferance and privations which two unproduftive• years in succession had occasioned, renewed with fresh ardoui its dangerous and mischievous prat, :ices. An inmortant question, in which those most distinguished for talents, for rank, and charatier, were divided in 'opinion, agitated the Public, ex cited much anxiety amongst the best disposed, and criminal hopes in the breast of the faCtious. It was under these circumstances, that Mr. ADDII3GTON, aft : Jated solely by a sense of Duty towards his Sovereign, and Love towards his Country, ac cepted the Situation of Prime Minister. • His Public Career began by the declaration, that he wished only to be judged of by his measures : and the Country has not been disappointed. His mo derate and conciliatory Prepositions, nochaving im mediately succeeded in surmounting the unjust preten sions of the Northern Powers, an Expedition der taken, in which the vigour of the Execution equal led the wisdom of the Plan, and the aftivity of the preparations anticipated the piojefts of our Ene mies. That which the force of Arms paved the way for, MOderation in Council and Political A ddress accomplished ; and a Treaty, more compre hensive than any of those. which had before con. fleeted us with the Powers of the North, solidly esta blished our Maritime and Commercial Relations with them. These were not the . only advantages which resulted from the Viftory of Copenhagen, and from Of: Convention of Petersburgh. Our Fleet was recalled from the Baltic, to cover our own Coasts, and to threaten those of the Enemy. We recoveied oar preponderance in the North, and in Germany, and France found herself deprived of a powerful diversion, by which she calculated on distrafting our strength, and on favouring the fur ther projefts that she bad entertained against this Country. But it was not to measures of defence alone that our Government confined its views. While it re. venged the insults which we had experienced, and asserted our Maritime Rights, it resolutely fol lowed up an Expedition of the first importance, we mean that against Egypt, without a happy termi nation of which we-could neither have prosecuted a successful War, nor have obtained a . solid Of the whole of that brilliant Campaign little need be said by us ; but had the. means of carrying it on been sparingly afforded, it would, prosperously as it had been begun, have probably failed. In the same spirit of unremitting exertion is to be classed the sending of Sir JAst ts SAUMAR z to Cadiz, Sir Joarr WARREN to block up Toulon, and . Admiral PU&S,, with a strong Squadron, to Gibraltar; the former of which measures paved the way for that brilliancy of Exploit at Algesiras, and in a subsequent Aftion, with a force double to our own, which would have, added trophies even to the great names -of a DUNCAN or a NEI,soN, and have alone contri buted to immortalize the Naval Atchievements of this War. While abroad our efforts were attended with so much glory and so many advantages, the measures of Goverment at home had not less merit, and were not less successful. His Majesty's Speech dire Bed the attention of both Houses of Parliament to the two objeEls the most proper to engage it, the High Price of Provisions, and the machinations which threatened the public tranquillity. The number of Bills passed, after the most mature consideration ant ample discussion, proved the common solicitu of Parliament and of Government on those important topics. The Hydra of Sedition was again crusheit The measures of the Legislature co-operated wits the beneficence of the Rich to alleviate the sufferings of the Lower Orders, and to induce them to await patiently the time when Providence would rewala their fortitude by a most abundant harvest. We say nothing of the unremitting assiduity paid by. His Majesty's Ministers to their public duties ; of their alertness to reward merit wherever eminent services have called for recompense ; 01 their moderation during their whole career of un' interrupted Prosperity ; or of the secrecy with which they have concluded the most important Ne' gotiation ever carried on by any Government- 01 these a discerning People will form a proper estimate. To sustain the glory of our Arms, to maintain the power of the Empire, and support the National Charaler, were not the only objeCls to which the generous ambition of Ministers has direEted its attest' riot', From the first moments of their AdministrP, don' they had it in contemplation to put an if it were possible, to the sufferings of flumanitYi and to .put a termination to a glorious War bj a solid Peace, A direo Negotiation, conform' able to this objeCt,. and pursued in, this spirit' experienced long and trying diff i culties, They per' severed.—Strong in the purity of their motives, they seem to have avoided the two extremes of impatience on the one hand, and of weaknes s on the other ; and feeling the importance of so desirable an object, thoy had the goo 4 sense to proceed_ towards its accomplishmen t with slow, but certain steps, While they caltoli discussed the Conditions of PeaCe, they aaiveli prepared to proseettte the War with vigour* While they testified to the, French government the since' rity . of their desire to terminate it, they shewedl the same time, that they had nothing to fear from its prolongation, This "judicious and meritoriou s conduCti has, at. length s produced its efreet, Peace has been concluded, which confirmed the Or e ' :dit we had acquired in the long and painful which infu ls o trti; gle in which we have been engaged, by ) ancient Possessimis are preserved,_ and others the most desirable added to them x which confirms ()a faith to our Allies, and which, by satisfying I,o°' parties, carries with it the best pledge of its I.)c r manence and Solidity', We do not mean to at as the panegyrists of tb ° present.Qovernment we le a p o. 4to our Countryli fl to con Sider, whether to have rendered: such signal se ta vices during the short period in which they 10 1 i been called by HIS MAIE§TY to the helm, does °I does not entitle them to Confidence, and wi le ' ther any doubt ought to be entertained that tho° who have condb6ted the War with vigour, and te r " minated it with honour, will continue by a haPP I mixture of firmness and moderation, to preserve t t us those Blessings, for whi c h t h e C ountry ca nil but feel itself indebted to their talents, wisdoms a° exertioos‘ PAR'S, OCT. 7, The Peace between the French Republic 0 the Kingdom of Portug a l w as s i gne d at M a d r id ° 0 the 29th of September, by Citizen Luc! E N BOS IS .I PARTE on the one pact, and Citizen Cyra ls. l BrzEtßo FaztitE, Commander o f t h e Ordef 0 Christ, on the other, OCToDER, The,Peace concluded between the French Repo 1k and the QIIE EN Of POKTI.T GAL was this day pull: lished with great pomp, and amidst the acel arnat io o . : of an immense crowd of people. Th e ceremon y at daybreak, and the cannon resoun d e d fro ' every quarter of the City. The Audience of the A m b assa d ors took .P. 40 yesterday. Vr 4t The Chevalier D'AZAIt A p resente d to theA 1 Consul the Prince of NASSAUSIEGEN, who is - the service of His CATHOLIC MAJESTY. Mr. PINKNEY, Minister from the United S° to His CATHOLIC MAJESTY, was presented by, t 1 3 Minister for Foreign Affairs, as was a l so Citi d e i , STP. oc de LriiscHoTEN, formerly t h e Dutcho' nister at Stutgard. Mr. STRATTP N, who belo nge d t o t h e End Embassy at Vienna, is goi ng as S ecretar y of J?"-# bassy to Constantinople. 0 To-morrow - precisely at one o'clock, the 1 ,0 1 1 MAYOR will hold a C ourt o f Ald ermen , w hich b' i e l be the last but one previous to his going ou t his Mayoralty, for the dispatch of public busitle ss ;o On Thursday, the Third Regiment of Drar r Guards marched from Ip sw i c h f or Norwich, y et mouth, Colchester, Coggeshall, and Manningtre they are to be replaced by the r3th Light Drag° l l ,e • It is said that the Alien, and o ther laws of l ‘ i v description, will terminate with the War- of hope not ; much good has resulted from the co of sures, and we are unwilling to forego the benefit 1 0 their operation. Most other countries reserve to themselves the power of expelling Aliens host ile i ii their tranquillity ; we should do the like ; and as 0 5 nations are at present alike subjeEt t) the provisl co , of the Alien Law, it could not be made the °c ill sion of particular or individual jealousy, if t he was made permanent. ►~