The Sun. — London, England, 1804-01-07 00:00:00

TO TILE KING. LETTER 11. SI RE, Try the success of the American Insurgents, - the Historian will attribute that subsequent Revolution and overthrow of die Monarchy in Franc e, which has deluged Europe with blood—and, by. an overgrown accumulation of Power, has en a bled our .natural and !inveterate Enemy to.. threaten our Shores with the . Hordes of Viaurious Republicans, Assay ins, and Freebooters, ready to be vomited forth front the Land of Slavery acid :Licentiousness ; —to.awaken our extrethest an,Xiety, and to'call forth and stretch the veer 'heart. strings of out Deface. •-• • • ee, • . If we adrnit, 'however, that .I.ara -CHATHAM erred, (which we cannot in jastice.do;as'the event is in the bosotu Of time) with respetl to oar Corn, plete Destreaion ; yet as to the Loss,. of - America . his prognostic was fatally verified.' Ministers _ridi. et:led the . notiOn, as Ministers do notv theappre '..nension of danger—and as' they:, did before a:thou-. : sand men were raised fur. the Defence of ttie (2atio try.. Thus tar is, viSibLe a strong and stiiking audacity between the" eircurnstanceS' An d COnditei of, • e -:Government, produaive' of the' fatal Issue of the - Anaericari' Contest, and thos" which,ein the _present areleadieg'es . roWards our rate: 'rut, - pardon the humblest of yoUr Ma jetty's Sup i jeas, if, trembling for the event; and'at the batebggeq . fidn evil.of -an which - Should 'not have 'Veen Siiffered - a place within the range of poslihility; I Wouldpiiint cut the-great and - n o :les s • v i s ibie disprop'oftion in the magnitude of the' - stake • foe which the . p.layed against the American Colonies, arid that whichis• left too much to the . haiard' Of 'the the beiwe.en France and the British •1 - 4.f•m - pire,:' , iti the: presen t most important crisise The - toSi of our : Colonies • will' be long deplored, if not long felt in 'its conse -quences-the Country . sustained a shOek--:--ared Eng land was humbled; .still we had the Land 'of 'our lYathers• to till, and• were we cut off from all corn . - e munication with the world, our Commerce lost, -our Creel:R . -destroyed, still ,might we - cultivate the Soil genial to Liberty—thotigh our 'Bread - might be the offspring of Labout, we should eat it under the shade • of our Fig-trees and our Bet, Sire, in the conlikt into which we have - now plunged, we strive for our last hope—we defend our - Jest ditch. The Citadel itself is menaced; and our Palladium devoted to destruction _by the Enemy, if • .he succeed. We lose not ' ft Colony, a remote pos session ; it is our existence, our vitality for *which we contend. Some may deprecate this language as `the cry of Dispondency 7 --I do.not despond, because I feel that we have 'at hand the means of Salvation, but I tremble in the pre sent mo ment, be cause" I find those means unresorted to, when the next may bring us accounts of the necessity of their immediate, and perhaps too !Ong procrastinated, application. The prognostic 'of Lord CHATHAM was desponding,. because he prospeelively viewed the effeas of a bad syiiteto ; but would to Heaven his despondency had _.been contagidus l---Precaution might have saved what confident rashness at length sacrificed.--To contemplate a failure of our ptese:ut hopes and e)ser, .• ,it-nrpa nt, or imagination conceive, art adequate idea of an- event so dire, so full-fraught with woe. I trust I db not trenth - upon the question of my Sovereign's high Preroga tive, in thus stating the general opinion, the univer." sal apprehension .of all ranks• of men in the COun ' try.---That Prerogative has ever been exercised with the trimst discretion, and with paiental in _ diligence by your M./.lsts•ry— , l-lence your :dice - tionate People have felt none of those jealous fears -- which; in preceding times, have burst forth into faaious remonstrances, .and-endangered the internal reaCe frf the Commonwealth.—lt is from this convic . Lion ; this grateful :•entimenr, encouraged by former marks of your MAjzs-ry's gracious acquiescence in the wishes of your Subjefts, that I have been induced -to b , ecome the channel of their feelings and opinions. —That I make this representation publicly, is not to be attributed to me as a fault ; all other avenues ave been sedulously barred against a.moreconfiden. or respectful made of conveying intelligence to the Royal Ear, by those interested in hushing "flte tunnnil'ri excited by their errors.—The mass, .Sire, of Yotr faithful SL:bjeds are not unreasonable tresires, or chimerical in the objeft of their : .vishes—They feel the critical posttire of- public ari l cannot be reasoned into confidence (which the evidence of common sense contradicts) . in the men who are entru,ted with t h e direction o f :.them.—Whether it lie crying to the peculiar cha ratierof the tithes,. the concurrence-of untoward circumstances, or the misconduft - of your Majesty's Servants,-it i-s no longer necessary or interesting to inquire t;le C , :•tintry is placed . in a situation of peculiar difficulty, hazard, and anxiety, will not be disputed—To extricate ourselves from our pre. sent einharras.ment, recrireiymore than ..c?mmon talent and exertion.—Have we such -; corniwation if% our favour, nr can tie look with.mingied hope evezr - to.tyir,is' the Pilots of the Ves se l, w h o steer , self-assured, a mo ngst shoals and shelves, which lie beneath the surface of a seadeceptiyely calm, a sea wlio,e depth they have never sounded, and in ebbs )%vs they are unskilled' and un taught ?—Do we - not, Sire, rather turn our eyes towards those who have before navigated her 'midst storms and tempests, and brought her through, with added laurels and renown; who are known, acknowledged, and looked up to by'every State in Europe, as well as byourselves ; who h ave an here . ditary claim to the virtunus partiality and affeition of the Country, and who have been distinguished by-a long; -loyal, and faithful attachment - to the service yOur MAJTSTY ?--T feel myself borne cut in calling the claim of our first and, greatest Stitesman hereditary, for upon reference to the most isupurtanr, interesting and marked - i , pochas - of tour MA) benign . Reign, we. shall find. the mrrie-of CHATHAM, and that of hiS illustrious Sun, • onnPited wiitt theit de.velopetnent, and. contribut ing tCo. their result.--To the American Ali d r 1 shall onlS7 ' ag : tin cursorily allude ,is a prestnp -tive 111',tt (...)-lATRAtes'ativice and tTached the . Cotiocils of the State, the Cohi ples beeo s..iyri) 'to your M AJESTY , and all those evil consequerdes have been averred which lave sptope, ttuzn tile prot4'cution of that fatal con. test--That eonteirligriO . up iditfire-brand which Ip.as since set the four.cornersa , ro pe in flame., and carried its oierw4bnin and exterminaring eTedi to the - heart . oellMost evlrftmpire and,State Which it contains.- . ,--It is but fair to assume,. therefore, th at h a d hi s 'L o rd s hi p b oaste d t h e high - honour-7'of--your -- M A JESTY'S -Confidence at the period alluded to, _a z; tine of Coridud very opposite, .very . ,opposite to that' which was un :pursue4, would liaye been marked out by that 'enlightened Statesman - --The American separa tion would in all'prohability.have been avoided, the hortors and excesses which ha - ve enervated the mind, harrasseti the soul, and bioken the spirit of half the Continent of Europe, never, ha t e Charaderlzed - the rinks, or blackened - the page of History,---nor would the • ambition. of `an iipstiatZlsurper at this moment call . forth all kiiiri . xie.ty an d exertions, to avert absolute and irrevoca,Mhle The termination of the; Colonial Contest forms a very important epoch in..the History of this Court try,--tour MAT rsTr. will recoiled the feelings and sentiments .of. your People :at that period—Nothing was heard but the sigh of despondency, and the wild liOWl - of discontent. The - iviies(*ifid most sanguine . amongst , us no longer. Cherished hope, an d t h e ge . . neral voice 'mourned the Sun of Britain set for ever 1 The Son of CirivrHAta stood manfully for ward; . he viewed out state with ,eyes. farslifferent ---Our 'Resources were diminished, he admitted, but denied that they were. exha uste d. N ew , ones 'Were opened fronfchannels hitherto unthought of,. the' Spirit -of. the Country reviVed, her Finances were regenerated, and the Glory of Britain Amongst the Nations of the Earth 'ryas yonspicublis and corn_ mantling, as it had ever been in the most prosper, ous. and. distinguished .period 'of our History. The French Revolution naturally succeeds as the next remarkable air a in the Politics of this Court- try-=Here. the farts and details are too recent to 'need I - recipitulation. A. SyStern .without prece. and a vigour we knew not that we possessed, checked in its career the 'ffipp A nt, but subtle and. poisonous Sophistry: Ail the. Froth School of Political;PhilOsophy., le' . ls too generally' admitted to need my insisting upo n it, that to the measures of your MA J ESTY'S then Ministers, is attributable the _Salvation' of our onst ifution —To, their, fore. sight and:precaution, we owe our escape from the repetition of those. lawless and bloody scenes of massacre and devastation, shut out from us only by a Channel of seven Leagues--and current in evert part of this Country in theory, through the intrigues of an un`derniining Foe, and the criminal caprice of too many infatuated and unnatural of states amongst ourselves. the •conchision the .Revolutionary War, and a feverish interval, mis called a Peace, have approximated us rapidly to the. present most serious and awful period of our exist. enee—How far the great and brilliant talents of, the Statesman I have alluded to as the Saviour of our. Finances, and our shi e ld . against Revoluton .and Anarchy, will be permitted to avail us ihtnis most interesting State of Public Affairs, it is not,for me to judge—An aliernative hangs over us too dread. ful tQ be contemplated by a common mind-4)114r to be . averted,' I believe, by the greatest, f hive clone, Sire I—l s t reak the-Body of the People, and repeat,' that the feeling I have pressed, is the feeling of a-great Majority of that' Middle Class of the Community, who reason more soberly uppo the• Measures, and contribute mare cheerfully. to the Wants of the State, than any Other Description of Men' in the Country.--Think, 'Gracious Sire! What would be our sensations, should we have to look back from a .State of Defeat, Dis may, Subjugation, and Ignominy,' •and, in the unpick& 'Tone of Remorse,: regret that Party Differences and Partial Feeling 'had impeded that Union of Interest and Inteliea, which might have carried the Destruttinn then overwhelming us, to the Shores of the Destroyer—have reared, upon the premeditated Ruin of this'Country, the Humi.: liation .of his own unprincipled Ambition; and - have placed, on firmer groundi than ever, our National Stability and Greatnessi Impi'essed with every Sentiment of Resped and Loyalty, I Temain, Sire, . , Your MAJ'EsTA'i' mostuevoted' -.- And hundlile übjeta al i Servani, A OLPHIJS. ''t Du& . Hamtiurgh MAILS. •RRIVID• 5 • PRICE OF SI'oCKS. Tests DAY AT TW ELVE O'CLOCK . Consols 54i ex. cliv. Recl. Arai. 541 . 1 emu. 5 THE SUN. satiia QVIS. IncELE : rAcsum Al; E. A. ? LONDON', JANUARY 7, - I 8o ~. NOTHING more was known at Deal last night, when the Post came away, sespeaing the success of 'the Immortalize and Archer,, in their pursuit of the . Enemy's Flotilla; though -no doubt can .he enter- tanned of their having taken and destrpyed several mort.. A Bulletin was yesterday• isstNd by Go. vernmeni, stating that twenty of :the Eneiny's BOats had been taken. It does dot appear,. however, that any more than the five we mentioned yestetday had arrived in the Downs,; The account received yesterday at the. Admirarty from Dover. by a Mes. ;elver, probably stated the,nUmber, captured . : upon calculation, merely, as it is nett likely that Captain of 'the Immortalize, could transmit a Dis_ patch, as he teas aCtively 'employed in pursuit of • the Enemy. Of the vessels that liatT been Sent into t!;: Downs : two a:: Gcw.boats cf the 1 . 4 t carry ing an I &pounder in the born, and a t 2 :pounder •in the stern. These Boars are very large, be. ing six►een feet on the beam. They fired twice at our Ships, but without any effect, while cur shot Cut their rigging and sails to pieces: They kept up, however, a .brisk fire of musketry upon our — BOats, but without any effe . 6.l, as not a man was hurt. The number . of one of the Gun.boats is . 437. There were thirteen Soldiers on board of her, and thirty dismounted Dragoons- on board a Schuyt marked No, za. A Galliot, one of the five, isfitted for. theAecePtion of horses. We save no douht_tuf several 'more being sent in. Yestdicijy the rtrinours upon thisiubjea were ex ceedingly various : it was confidently affirmed that twenty.seven.had been taken, whilc.,.other accounts carried the number - captured up to sixty. Such exaggerated statements are to be received with cau tion : nothing -quite 'certain, we apprehend, can yet be ascertained, either with respea to the num ber of the Enerny's Flotilla, whfch'is stated at be tween fifty and sixty, or the proportion of it; de stroyed. Of this we may he certain, that every thing will . be done by our Officers and Men ' that .skill and bravery can accomplish. This little rencontre will, we have no doubt, be attended with"the happiest efkls. While it affords us the most. convincing proofs that the boasted.pre parations of the Enemy are unequal to a combat even with the smallest portion of our Naval Force, it must impress them with the most melancholy apprehensions of what must he their fate, 'should they - dare . to trust themselves in their cock-boats even . beyond their • '; • itarbourVilMouilis . , - -iThat any thing prepared in - any of the P:Srts of the,Cl. -I nel can stand an -attack- from .us, it is tidiculOns edluppose ; all, t h e i r li ov e s ," t h er e . f fore, of success in their enterprize, if they still'enier lain any, must be in skulking over to out Coast:-. unperceived by our Cruizers, a thing which kis' im possible.they should be able to dO.in any considerable numbers. Had we at the present moment a 'Ailgorbui - . Administration,we have no doubt that"..weshOuldSoon chew, the French Army what Invasion is upon their , own shores. A well Alarmed and vigorously cured Enterprize v , might, at such 4 time_as this; lay • the. question of the Invasion of Great Britain asleep for ever. LAST night we received a set of llioniteiiis 'to' the Zph ult. and at the same time . Letters and .Papers from Rotterdam of , the 3d inst. reached Town. They furnish us with little that is new relating to - the grand subjea. of the Invasion. The preparations are talked of in the same strain, .but no im mediate movement seems to be intended. As we have already,. upon more than one ; occasion, remarked, the weather since the late 'storms has been remarkably favourable for the Enterprize; 'if • the Chief Cons.ul really means to attempt ir, or if he were fully prepared for it. That he views different. ly from 'what he did, the dif f iculties and risques of his •Enterprize, no doubt can beentertained ; but that he should Abe induced by a consideration of these ~wholly to abandon it, it would be rash and im. .prudent to conclude. . That he. may , re l ax i n his preparations, merely for.. the ptirpose of re: newing them at a. time when he thipk s we may b e more off Our . gUard than now, w e can readily plan at p re S ent ?- imagine,And that gro u th;t' t n o tay su be Lo l l ii e s ;, fioms 'his ' not i se h i e z r in ' g is th k 7 ne' most fiv'ci l u'rable season fOr putting forth his Flotillapvbickthe• winter can be reasonably ex petted to present. A Gentleman who left Holland so . , late as Tuesday last,states that considerabl e r el axat i on was manifest in that quarter,and the general belief was, that'the design for the Invasion of this Country was, for, the present at least, given up. •The TroopS were , even in motion : for 'the interior again". The Dutch thtre can be no reason to believe ever to have been hearty in the scheme of invading this Country, .=which. they consider as the effea of frantic folly; ~I .fia Were die" Dutch i roops even driven on board .., by the point of French bayonets, it is the general belief in Holland that their co.operation would not much aid the Frenth—were they ,ev.en lande'd in England, it is supposed they would lay down their ...• arms. We must not, however, relinquish our measures of defence upon any information, however respeCta. bly it may come to us, nor ought we to presume i s •^ l.„, calculate upon. what Ally be the intentions of the , . Cis tit Cc:IISUL while"'-he keef)s, his Arniy upon • the opposite .Coast. the . information 'that Go. vernment. receives be worth any thing, Ministers; about a fortnight ago, expected that the attempt would certainly be made immediately. We think . it less. likely ndw than it waa then. It is certain, as we stated same days ago, that 80 . NAPAITE was still at Paris on the loth, nor was there then any idea of his speedily quitting it. Of one thing he must ,601 . : be convinced, that it .is not by his Flo. ti;la of Gun. Boats that he . canf hope to make an impression upon this Country. l - iewiß see, from tlie =en; instance, thg.a few of our Cruizers woutti be sufficient to 'destroy his whole Armament. A conviction of this fad may no doubt go a great way in opening his eyes to the 'absurdity and immense - risque of his long projeeted enterprize. The Aloniteurs appear to have been rendered studi. - vas!) , batten, as they do - not contairsa single article worthy the slightest notice, unless- vve.-may except a Miserable fabrication,- stating that .the Crew of the Shannon lately wrecked on the Coast of : France, felt them6elves peculiarly happy, in escaping from the British Service, and filling into the hands of Frenchmen ! The capture too cf -this Vessel, Which . it is well known was destrOyed :Ate; she w fortunately wrecked, is triumphantly boaSted ugly thelVon;t ear . S uc h an official Paper is wor t hy of the Government by which it is supported. The DOtch:Papers are somewhat more ,communi. cative, A letter from Bhlssels asserts in positive terms,: that the rsth of the present month is the day fixed for the departure of the FIRST CONStIL froM Paris on his tour to the. Coast. Accounts from Piewna of the Bth ult. state, that notwithstanding the Court of Munich had formally disavciwed the affair of Oberhausen, there still re mained a variety of differences of more importance to arrange; between Auitria and Bavaria, which, however, it was thought would be amicably settled. - A Dublin Mail of the 3d, arrived this mornins.. • • ,Mr. WicKHANt, - See'retary for Ireland„ has been obliged to retire from public business on account of '...Y.es.terday morning at half past eight o'clock, - HisiMA.4ts - ry:left'Buckilagliain‘flouse for Windsor. On- his way ,Fits MAjgsTir .stoppeitat;KAv,ct and viciited the new palace, . • , ~F, 4 , :-. , ;:i+ER MAJESTY and fR INC ESSES f0110vV4,4 about The DUKES YoRKI_StAM,Pfcg44I Lady NE.,414, ► .3.44 several others' visited 4 - ietc,MAjr. Tile DUKE Of CAMBRIDGE and PRINCESS .E L I A it re : , ULM Ch better. Yesterday di one CLINE, the. At Mimenger was seni of to His MA) EsTy acWind. sor with the account of the capture of the dun. Boats Off Boulogne.... , Yesterday. being. the-day of. the Epiphany, the LORD CHAMBERLAIN, according 10 annual Custom, presented td the Right Reverend the Bishop of ti';tioori,. as Dean f His - Majesty'ssClial)el the usual offerings of frankincense, kc. - Lady CATHGART leave s London for Ireland in a few days,.th accompany her Noble I.Ord. - Earl CHESTERFIELD is very darigeroUsly.irl of a fever, at his seat in Dernyshire.- The Hon. A RTHUR 1 3 A G E SOO of .Lord I.Tx,‘ BRIDGE, and His Majesty's Ambassado r 40. the Court of Vienna, was sworn on, Wednesday a,St.:` James's, a Member of the Privy Council.- • • 'The Neutral Vessel which brought the Dut . cA and. • French Papers received laScnigh t , came into the ' River, so that the Regulation respeaingNeutrals being confined to Yarmouth .R oa d s . or di% Dovv_rts, is virtually abandoned. Thotigh the Frost had nut: set in very severely to Holland in the beginning of the week, there can be no doubt.of its having done so by this time, as it has froze very hard for seve... ral days. Philadelphia Papers to the 26th of November are received. [hey contain an official document, which plainly evinces, that howev'r certain the transfer of Louisiana, by the French Government to the Linked States may he, the Spaniards are by no rn , ans satis fied with the measure, and the Americans are making ,• such preparations-toOake possession of the Country,,!a ~ if thgy c:pe.i.cted - soine-degree of re s ist ance on t h e part -.1 - Spain. It-is evieetit the First Consul had two objects . in view inflie sale of I.;,uisiana. The first wa., to get the money which woad be paid Tot . ' . the purchase ;__and tbe : secslnd,- to ptevt:ntas;cbrrif:' ing into the •p-osstession ot Great B.i-iV ,st,l4 -%, ~..., Ttvo persons of some resp:24:tability a y e been pr.; prehe n d e d, c h arge d w i th ha v i ag r 6 bbed , qatTit s 4; l -t i ti of :.New Jersey. The rmtrittatinial vtfeaty-bet-Ween t JettoNtr, BOTLiPAR'rt and the 'beautiful and rich MIS; PATTESOri of Baltimore, has been . fin,dhr brOken of,-and the Lady's parents have thought it advisable to send her to lier , friends in Virgini.i. A letter from Constantinople, of the 9th Novena.; ber, states that Mr. Dit ummortn, our ,Ambassa dor a the Ottoman -Porte, . has been recalled on r;C. " Count of his perilous state of health, and is succeed ed by.Mr.STRATroN, formerlY Secretary to the.F,,,l -bass-Y,,under the title of Minister Plenipotentiary. , .., Yesterday morning, a der hment of 4 50 o f 1 ..Queen's Volunteers tree: in Hyde Park, where il Went through a variety of mant;c:it:res, *in skipYli ing and bush.fitin g , under the command of Li, -tenant-Colonel Roamsoiv. At twelve o'clock t L marched off the ground to Gro;venor,place, a were dismissed opposite Lord HOBART'S hou. The report that .HER MAJESTY interßiCtl to vi the Corps, a s the R O Y AL F AMILY went to Win HER. M AJESTY an d t m i l l (i t t l.' leave B uc ki ngham - House y s pt e o ßr r di , aN; w .e i u r sn s stsi s u l .I C f w ;7( e ui lve o'clock. Yesterday the Ist Surrey Regiment of Voluntel Infantry, commanded by Lieut.-Colonel Gi staLL, paraded at Montpelier Gardens, in 7 com i ,le marching order, every marl - with eighn rou" of ball.cartridge, two flints, knapsack, "haversac, canteen, and military greatcoat. They march on their route to Kingston ; but having advanc' six miles, received connter-orders to• returi., ..i hold themselves in readiness to march at a morueo' warning. A serious dissAtisfaaion is said to prevail in •t mindi of the Members of the Rifle Company of 0, of the Regiments of Loyal London Volunteers, consequence of their having' been ordered to' pr form the duties" of Light Infantry, which they col ceive incompatible with their engagements as Rifl men. The request made by that Company to nett the matter to the decision of Lord HAR4INGTOr' I is stated to have been relihed by the Colonel at' Committee of the Regiment. I V . hey and Ise ! t ieW n(I- -cUe res. • eer ere: end 10 5 11C in [er Nr nd •