The Sun. — London, England, 1801-01-20 00:00:00

ing Minuets were danced :- ' • - • - • • • ( PRINCESS AUGUST* . • DUX"f Y " K c PRINCESS ELIZA/Witt. DUKE of CLARENCZ • • R _ " CI " MARY) PRINCESS oOrtilA. PRINCESS Soriust of GLott. . Lady MARY Y TRYNNE, • DtmEofCUMIZRLAND I* CAROLINE TilYNirt, Lady 4. MARIA STANIIO7E•• PRINCE WILLIAM .. Lady CHARLOTTE, Towl:slit.:4l). Only two Country dances took place; namely, " Lfdy Harriet Hope" and " Miss Murray."-- At a quarter past ten the Kt No . rose, which was the signal for the dancing .to conclude: His MAJESTY looked uncommonly..well, and wore a great quantity of the richest diamonds, on different Orders, his star, sword.hilt, button and loop, rings, &c. hut above all, a Turkish Aigrette faitened to his hat, which he ,held on his arm, exposing the Aigrette to full view. In the shape • ofa hand, it was composed of a vast number of the finest diamonds ever beheld, 'which attracted and 'fixed the attention of the whole room. Be hind it was a heton's'feather, worth at least 5001. • - . The Qtrzaw wore a string or the finest pearls ever .seen, some as large as sparrows' eggs. Her pettiCoat festooned up with bows of diamonds, On her bead she wore a beautiful diamond corn. net, and hair powder ; 'and a white rose in her breasi., She Walked round the toom, was inhigh spirits, and very gracious ) speaking to almost every one presintl The four Prerrtcasszs present, Daughters of Tilt rR, MAJtsrits, wore each a diamond cre scent.,and splendid diamond necklace. 'ELIZA. BETH had a redtose. Her Hiipmess seeing some of the Ladies at the bottom without partners to the Country Dances, with great good humour, Made the Duke of CLARENCE go to the back rows, and press two Officers into the service. All the Cabinet Ministers were present during' the Ball, :Ind at >the Kirro.'s elbow, except the LORI) CNANCE LLoR and the puke Of PORTLAND. Mr. Prrt and Lord GRENVILLE were principally in conversation with Fits MAJESTY. Neither. the PRINCE or PRINCESS of Wm, ts %ere at the Ball, . DUKE of KENT .w.r.' The illuminations at the West , - End of the 'own were very splendid... The Opera House, Drury-Lane, Covent Garden, and the Hay_ tnarket Theatre, shewn brilliantly. St. James's 'Street and Pall-Mall had a very animated appear ance. In Bond Street, Mr: " - Mmt.TrzquAte's hOuse syas particularly distinguished. A very hand some Star, consisting of upwards, of so° variegat. &I Lamps, with Shamrock Leaves, C. R. Crowo, ttnd other devices. Mr. Hototaktin, C. P.. Crown, elegant tram -11/4 anent Pain/iiii, the inlignia of the oflh e aster; with other devites. Mr. li-lArcurrt4 C. R. Crown, Shanirock teayes,- and other devices, displayed with peat tress and taste. 'The Rev. Dr. BLAIR, whose death wefor mexlytulentioneti, was the son of a respectable IVlerehant in Edinhtirghi'who having sutlerettcon: §ider,a.hly in his circutnstauces‘ by the' South-Sea scherile, was afterWariiiitivAccotutrant of gxcice. Iliter:teA IA Was Ordained . fo the Parish of Col les ie, )p in t 743 Fhe faire preaching, eVkiv.itt . this votly period, procuredhim in. a few irlonthc!, a'translaticin' theeanbngate Church at,Esin:b4r2.,h, in which he remained till 17;i, When he v.'4,; ‘ a4t;Seri;One of the ,Ministers of the . City ) and in,. x . 701 was preferred to the High Church. About this time he. opened a class fox' kbotoric and Jei.lles Lewes, to :which he read 'the first sketch of-his Leeturel, and , - these - , were so.highly apprtived, than in 1759 he W § Created the first 'Regius Professor of -Rhetoric .and Belles Letties •in the University of litlinburgh. 2762, he published a Critical . DissertatiOn On the Poem of Ossian, ;in which,. from internal, evi dence, he sUpported the anticitiity of that P oem; In 1 777 t he first Volume of his Sermons appeared, arid since that period , three more volumes have been pUblished. These Sernioi s haveexperinced a success unpara ll e l e d i n t h e a n nu l s of pulpit elo qttence, which they have justly merited.by their purity Or sentiment, justness 'of 'reasoning, and grace of .composirion. . In addition, to,these,vo inmes, we are happy 'tb heat- that the Doftor, previ(ms,t9 his death, . delivered .the MSS': of 7a fiftiVivolume into the -hands of his Publishers, twltich is far advanced in the pik.'sr: In 172ri his 4414 t es on Rhetorie and the Ilciles Lettres ,were published. These LeEtures are t7:llinen fly disti &Shed by laboOptts investigaticn, sound 'Sense, ,ati4le6ned taste I and above. all, by thatisicaro ords which always proves 'i Writer to be Master Qfliis siibjed., In short, this Work'ina . )l' be considered as an unequivocal. and sure stanchrd of Taste. • Th. BLAIR lived in eoMtant , habit! of friendly intimacy with the first literaiy charaeier , , of 'the age, whocontd not tail of being warmly attaehd to a man who had employed his life in tiffrusiii through his Country 4 genuine 41,tc: for rlitell terature, maintaining the peace and justice °fits ecclesiastical establishments, and enforcing :`the precepts, of Christianity not more by thp.powax tit his eloquence than by the purity of his'iannetti' WC shall, conclude with. observing that t very line,- every sentiment that has issued-from the pert of this eminent Divine, tends to: the gfeat tentre of all his views, the promotion of :virtue, religion, and humanity ; and that all his aetions ivere no leis pointed towards the same great end. , The eentury has been usheied in at Berlin by nearly as many copies of verses as there have E year elapsed in,the course of it. , In one of them, the Gholt of the lust Ceatutj is introduced ego versing with the pririeni.Centx7, an.infant in the Cradle. The latter, though not barn (with n sil- Zer ',peon in itt mouth, is yet ptoinisea a haPPY ter mination, which, says the deceased Century, will be produced by the Genius of FREDIRIC P AVA L tw); r t 3 • 3r a , ‘ Yr • Non ill/ sevuotigt tf r aqveil Sed 'arm d. 1110". DEAL, JAN. 19. His Majestft Ship Ntmesi's sailed this morn_ ing to the Westward,. having under conyoy. the Berririgtou, .117itrwell, Malabar, Btidgewater, William Dent ) and Rose s bound to India for rice, together with a large Fleet or Metchx:tmen. YARMOUTH, JAN . . Oh ABOUT ISO men belonging. to different ments; who were made Prisoners of War in Hol land, landed this morning from a Dutch Cartel: Yesterday a large galliot, prize to the Pylattei sloop, and said to be worth 40,0001. arrived at this Port. By a Cartel from Morlair, arrived at Plymouth, accounts are brought that the French are very' assiduous. in collefting their seamen together, for the purpose of manning their fleet; that they hare called in the privateers that are now cruiz. ing,. and , as they arrive,. they 'are immediately stripped 'ortheir crews, who are marched to Brest Wi th out delay. It appears that they are also colle&ing and equipping transports-and other vessels, in a manner that shews they may be wahted for some - special service. ' DUBLIN, JAN. 15. At a• Privy Council held on Tuesday last, His Rx&llene) , the Loan. LI U . TENArrT signed a Pro clamation, recommending economy in the use of corn and potatoes, but more particularly in the latter, which, being the principal food of the poorer classes, must from the failure of last year become very scarce, if not carefully husbanded, and (a consideration, equally serious) will leave us without seed for the next crop, and thuS ensure another year of scarcity, if the most vigilant eco nomy be no: adopted and piaaised by those to whom they are not a, necessary of life. The French Soldiers have a fine prospect , on , the return of Peace of having la Share in the NA- : TIONAL' DOMAINS, WhiCh was. to. b e reserved for, themas the recornpence of-their Valour and their . Services to the Repitblie.' A-new!Law, it seems, is'pkojeCting under, the_ consula r AuthOrity, by which every inatr,to 'whom- Government. may think' proper tb 0/tie " the spit if of Brigandage, of vvifese presence may be represented-as" attended with - clanger," are temoyeable from the, places, " where the Principal Authorities.assemblit„,and every other pity," short, all persop. tOicfe expetlatialls -ma y.be inconv enietxt .and,tratibiasame, may be tilled - about as , vagrafiti, anrt rzc r,r ` rather's into banishment, i,; probably. the way in which the unfriended Soldier will . treated after hehas hazarded lt**6 life a thotisand' timeS, w intf icertirps With th of as Many' wounds, to his Country. ?. expeeting,.to ;repose in age tipbfit the tiibt4 of ,NationalCiratitude and, tb be . hoped, that this new' Latin of the French Government, this extraordinary spe cimen of Consular Liberality, will have a due in ue nee iitlll. fire ti ty of Frole h. Soldiers', 'a and , induce. giemseKes 'or , tvirar,jher i are ex i ppliog their lives ? ' The manufaClure of paper from different, l ir_ not Tags ) lias been carried 'farther by M SC iIAPFERj6I Ratisbon, than, we believe, by any other persdri:.‘ He 6mployed thelea'vei of laurel . and sa-dt4l, ana prOducti speCithens frbin bdth those materials that were, generally apprpkcd, lie died abOut 40 years ago, Among the latese•Gernian books we find a Translation of, the - Whole Duty of. : lVlan„ and to make .Virtue. still more captivating, it is with oth4 taste . continues, we shAttitethably soon hear of Aintwortb's Ditilignary, with illus_ trati , ve k.'ngrawirigt. The pcisiti`on; that the mail Without ft fob Treasons, Stratagems, and Spoils, is con tradiCted by . the experience of France. We there find Conspiracies intimately connected with their Musical Exhibitions, and 11014 A? Eis to.day congratulated on his escape from an Opera Plot-ir rb.inorrow from an Oratorio Conspiracy. .541.1 t oP A NV r H c ,-=—Lawrence Siorpheieom, of West Luvon, in the, East iticiing of York, Sold his Wife Jar: to Wilham Semi:at, of Moving ham; for five shillings, , (vklio returned two shillings 474 sixpence to ,the former hush3ncl), in open ina . rkee- New Mahon, on Saturdq, night, d6d'delivered her in. h halter on Monday, at the Market Cross there. • Thv, I.,ight.ttorse, Dresser, from Baltimore .to Brome!i, ire wrkketi near Solway Firth:. The Charlotte;lte, from --Martinico to London; 'vi - flat. - igptured'the totliNovember, within two dat,*, , sail of the Cha nnd, b%, Le Chande (Add PrtVattei,, of 10 gunsj 'and carried into badeo, in Spain. , The George Mashihgton, from Bahl.. more to Attisterdatni 'got on shore in the gale of the 2d fnst. near the Tex el, and it h feated the vessel and cargo will be lost. • On Thursda,cr, Mr, Gardner ? Apothejeary,, at floxton, after returning from vistting:higpatients, fell down in a fit, in his 51top, 4nd expired in two hours afterwards. On the of bcCernbeldst, c tilt toijAe of a person suppo4tl •tn have been , tittirclered, , whciee narnelir placeof residence hai-pat'yet:ttOspited, was found lying iy*e4,,,with thret large stones rolled upon it, in a river nera the Evidge of Ca. militie„ in the divis44 LQ4%I , Argyleshire, • • • •• • ma 7 'T dr!: 1:!.;.71 eYilOl,...gtFN :" rr IS: 1 G ()V E }4VAlhifc TO RISO!fritY — OT AR. ' eoxtinved.frot , oreT.Ttrr tf,rforrio.),, nuNthrit - nbcxrx. Di wnieg-stret, 4, tBao. Lottnsj 1 have r4AiVe4 berore the king your Letter of the t'st inst. InclOsing a.C..:6rtespondcnte between Captain Cotes and the Minister for reign A Fairs at Paris, relative to the cloithing of the French Priotiers of Wae in' this Cntiniry, anti have reeek-ed HIS-Maje3trs -Comm'to desire that the folloWingAnswer Todd ninde, both through Captain Cotes and Otto, to the FrenelLGorernment The English ,Government has seen with the greatest surprizc that the Minister for Foreign ' , Affairs in his Letter. to Captain Cotes of the , z7th Noveitiber,, should remind the latter of the Arrete of the First Consul of the 21St Novem ber, 1799, and that in answer to a Representa_ tion respeOing the want of Cloathing for 'the •French Prisoners in England, be should think' it sufficient. to observe, that .by that A - rrete the, First Consul had determincl (among other things}' " that the said Prisoners . should' be cloathed by the British Government." It can scarcely be necessary to observe to the Minister for Foreign Atfairsohat . an Arrete'of the French Govern.. went, pretending to prescribe' and lay down a rule of c2ndua to the Government of Great Bri tain, is not binding upon the latter, and that such a mode of communicating the wishes of the First Consul was not the Most likely to procure, 'His Majesty's acquiescence to an arrangement,, which, however, he would have equally 'ly:en obliged to withhold, had it collie under his con sideration in, a form more usually 'observed b.e tween Independent States. But this part of the subjed is the less material,' as this Government did not leave to that of France to, ctillea, either from its own experience or our silenc'e, the deter. urination of His Majesty respeciing the Cloathing' of the French Prisoners., Immediately on that Ar. rite being received pin, this Country, so far back as the i+th of Oeceinber, 1799, a ComMunication of which, the inclosed is a Copy*, was made to the French Government, both, ‘through Captain Cotes and M. Niou ; and from that period up to the present moment, the 'charged with the care of the French Prisoners of War in. this Country have repeatedly, urged M. Otto, in the strongest terms, to provide them,with Cloath ing,,and have forewarned him of ,tlie'conscquen ces of not attending to their Representations.— These consequences, with dcgp regret it is aist ed, are now too manifest in the misery, the sick. ncss, and the Mottality, which preiail in all the Depots of French Prisonets 'in this Country ; whilst those of , the - Dutch, under the same ma. nagement, and-with the S3MO allowance in every respeft as the Ireneh,•but cloathed by their own Government, continue to enjoy— their usual health. 'Consittering'dif the - onehand that .the comfort, the Itklill,tanZl'evelt , the existence' Of-mote:than 20 - „pottdrienelostilliets-Itre at stake, anti On • the. ofee'r:iliep6etilfieclitititilindepwlent of the ke_ neratiketngi 4 3 .1iittpaniry their , relative si rue dein' hi .`ti t leir''Couatry ver them to its protec tion,... Majeftra i 'GOVernment ,ean_ scarcely iye -44 , .at; ttitorin qeesti on which tfompass ion op our part hits Asa 'Often"aittiost Obtrtided upon the attention 'of, the French -GovernMent, and with the , :knoWledge .. ,thut Government possessed' of liis Mi)listrkv'ilelertrilnation, they should at this Seasotii ealalit' refer to an Arre"te' . Which they - knew' is eltoe months ago moil be Unavailing , to l , eveiy . parfio,,e Otlrelief, and in this•• hour diSilreSS, thetriirndf rheir persevering . in that Arrete a reasoli, which, 4 had , the sabjeti e'r'r- • appeared to theqyof ;sufficient: interest , to merit a moment's 'attention on their part) M. TaileYrantl would-h Ate known to b without any tbundation ; that in former Wars the Cloathing of Prisoners of War was furnished at the expence of the' GiSVeltiliferit byiwlikh .they',.iVere detained.' 'Without looking .further battk than the , la s t War, IVI:'-'falleyrandl Will. find, Ostia°. the humanity-and protethng care of .the Govern» merit then existing ill France; /and , not to this Cou n t r y, were the.FtenCh Prisoners.iildebted,not only for Cloathina, but. also for a '-small , daily low a c ce (one penny)' in money,: for the:purpose of procuring tobacco . or other trifling comforts, which habit , has rendered teiniany . asnecessary. as this. obseriation is made bete, Alot witli any view tO a eompaitisort , (xvhich ,nay more properly be' drawn'brrthoseAvho nriwAisclutrAe the. corresponding duties :of humanity and ,pru teclion, and those who furl . iftrgeffetis - of them), but lo impress , upon. the , piesentGovernment . the necessity of reviving thistlatter prit&ice,..sas many Prisoneti sold their.elbatlitig when they had any, and at preient barter- rheitura4ion (from which nothing can be 'spafed) , for ` 4 iOIXICCO. The watit .of this'article is indeetithe more severely felt by the French Prisoners, as - irt the course even. of this War -it was supplied , to - them by. the Freneh Agetit in-this Country as well as Cloathing,'until they' were deprived of the one and 'the other by the Areite of the First'Constil above-mentioned. -The French Government must therefore' under stand, 'that of ing4olely to that Arriti, and not withstanding frequent and timely: representations froin the Country; the wretchedness of the French Prisoners s now become extreme ; that sickness and mortality Tufve already made an alarming pro- . eregs among'them ) - and must continue rapidly :tu increase with the increasing severity of sea- , son, nnd'that His Maksty, firmly determined not to depart . from -the resolutions signified to the French .Government. on; he . zoth of December, 1719, once more takes` the only remaining, but hitherto ineffectual method, of solemnly calling upon the French Government to commiserate the sufferings of its own Prisoners, and most speedily to• provide for their .relief. If' this last appeal should be attended with no better success than those -which have hitherto reached-that Govern.. glaze- Vl4 14* , 4 , rUTIO7S , AVA4I3I=. L. I din.' it has reason to beli e v e on tle of the unhappir i:oners themsel'as ; is tht Huinanity of 'this C. , untry must continue to he shocked by the pre: sence and Therease - of - so, much misery, Where pro: teCtion is so_ much du e , and relief might so easily be granted, 1M Majesty will have the consolzi.: Lion} to' think that he has' done every thing in liis power as' welt to prevent, by timely pre_ caution, as at }:resent to check, by 'poirsting out the - immediate but only remedy, a calamity he Olds t'sinetTely deplores, and which, deeply anxious as he feels on the melancholy occasion, be can Only Consider, ns he , d?cs other cilaunircs of War; with a reference to what is due to the dignity honour Of` his CroWn, and to the: intapts cif People, anti far :is tlitfe,consi de.rations- will admit, with a most anxietY , wish to ace 'them all terminated by the restoration. of the .11le”ing,s , of Peace. Until that tnosudesita.' bit alijed can be attained, lie feels it hit next. , duty to urge everything that can tend. toalleviate existing and unavoidable 'calamities ; and tinder that impression 116 Majesty c,amot omit this-opt. portunity of renewing his most solemn Protest, 'as declared in the-Duke of Portland's Letter of the. WI) December 4799, against the whole of thd Ariete' above mentioned, by which the French Government, in violation' of the agreement then existing between the two. Countries, refused to provide 'any longer. for, the subsistence of its Pri.. soners in this Country, and thereby put an end a 'measure, which had been found, by-experience, to he-in the hizhest degree conducive to the health and comfort of the Prisoners on each side, eminently calculated td obviale all misrepresenta:. tion, complaints, and recriin ina tions, ana thereby' to preventany increase of attimbiity`between teal Nations whose minds are' aufficienly enflamed against each .other. It remains to be added, , that ',His Majes..- ty's Goverment will only wait the answer to this Representation,' to' rerider. public cm this, as it has done on a former occasion, during the. present War; the whole of its proceedings upon a subject in which His. Majesty feelsit important that the true state of this , case, as '-af}:..eting • the charader and the Humanity of the respativeGOvernments, should be understood by his. Subjeasi. his Enetnies, and the rest•of the ! World.. I am, (Bigi4) • e: SY HEN'kY DUIVD.kS, NLINIBEit XL. 7).v. , 4-pct7-qiCe, Dec. 6, iSvo. STR.;, We have. 'the honour to inelosc to yon thp copy of an offiCial'COmmunication which we Italic tins day reeciVetl frOrn the LaTiis Comthissioner's `of the Achnit%ilty ; and as the tti'whieh it' relates is of the' mo:it ititi.lortiiti 3 Oir'' the cause of Justice and l aman rV', We I.4'e . 'no't moment's time in obeying tiw:.r Lord stru4tions, by cominunicating this paper to you, for ,the purpose of the roost carp'` transtnision to your GoyetunFra. Wc 'client humble. Servants, . • .' s (Signed.) Ruptet-r. OVORGE. Qlp: - S . ,E W ~.~ r'_: r. NUMBER Xl. 1 . go CtNTL•iNTE', • The LordvCottnrnissioN..rs of His iViajesty's - Treasury htt'ving*ttqiiiStnitttd to triy Lords Com- • missioners of the , AdMiralty, a letter addiressed to theireeretary from the WhyOr of Bristol, in.: closing one from Messrs. &tithelor' and An i dtelvsl'•two respeaible merihants 01 that eity„ dticribitt the wretched ' , situation of thi: French PiisoneNtlyho are now (:?trained at S'topkton; ttliniitlit4ki you herewith 'of the letter' `and 1 hnve their txmlihips' ekinkni:tilds to signify 'their direction 'to' you, tti seild.ene:' of th;:: Nletribers" 01 your 80, rd to theet (n* of the (ontirtlssitStiers of the Tran , ,poft wholtis also been diretted to reptile- r,, ) Stapkt olls , and; •in conjunetiOnc r ith him, to itnaLe a very minute inquity• into:the circumit'ances therein st.ittd, arid to take . suely inc&ures cis• May be cessary, tillinediately'foi:kife4iittleik the distresses of the'Vrisoners witOse situations May•requireit,` reportiirg to me, for thitir Lordshipst•inforrna-• ticitt, a, 'fall':atltt .par,t4eulat of their pro. cv&lings ; at(l stikkting wheiher any, and what' met t sares should-1n lkski°A for the ftft•to..!r relief of the isiti'flii4on4ik•' 1 , E Ar t NiPß.t.-s Conntlstiasti'lla SiF and Ifinorded .13.,Afrjetter , to the sal= eiYe6l:.was written to the Transpott Bo.at d,, tp send ant of the corn. atisionets'Ot tll4t BOiltj,to . Stapiemil: • ityptiNitlrivt x.t.it. • * 4 '2' Igdl. • The ittelo , ,ed' letter was Ail(ll,' t''; inc 1 Chief Dilagistritte of this ,•ity, v, .1, .1 send it to'the - 'tieasury ; an.l, I•-; have thought it my duty t• tf- Since the ipt Hof the . „ varal of the G u a r d then ,, , 1,, , r of the 11(..)tv t tioo, ntla dying rei)catcdl ) . • Mr, Bat - cheior, the first' Snb,.:.,ribc.T., ildar five years D.:Tuty Gcvernor fospital j in which sitcation alit traes care of all the Pont. of , ftf,''frorrt the nature of his mice, is n-t t,y !Al.,ceprible of the ( 1 ,1 ; n, r. An; 11,.:vis, c, i., a speaable eabinct-triA,J. in th i s city, :The Prison 'oat of my joriNliol-,„ s fee livihg in the neighbouthood pf 'worthy: and able INA-og'i l tuaes of the Cowl?) , of GiouceAer, very, tit men to incj;Aiii.• into the-,? 'edged grievances; whenever (:,;(),1-.,-nlciPio... it needful. ,The charaster utle implicated in LW charge s rot On this - as oil all occasions, 11‘‘ hutinr,ely - ported. I am, E Ca (Signed) Nx,rt LLIAM Gin , C?. iiye - - Cent R;;e, Tfic.rt -. i 1 ,:,,,.- ..,-s,:.:i.vad.)