The Sun. — London, England, 1801-03-27 00:00:00

ri l. "-• Ttilt nay were tO6 prise td - Orrllg 111 - VCITIVO ilinle. `' cessarily into di.lcussion. The Right Hon. Gentle ' m an said they were too weak to contest it. Be it ( V. as it might, the Right Hon. Gentleman who then [ came into Parliament, concurred with him in think- ' ing, that postponing the discussion was discreet and 1 ' wise. But in the year 1782, in that short Admi- , nistration of which Mr. l.ox made a part, he offer ed the EhirßiSS of RUSSIA to concede this question, on condition of her entering into an ac'tive Alliance, ' • with Great ;Britain, to bring France to a fair and moderate Peace : it was as a boon of considerable value to the Empress to receive, and yet the Admi nistration thought it a concession which they might 'safely offer as a quid pro quo. But the Hon. Gen tleman hid said, that it was a most fortunate thing for England that it was not accepted by Russia, as inithis War it would have prevented us from ex tingaishing the Marine and Commerce 'of France. 1 Mr. Fox said it would have had no such effea ' • for in the present War, by the , Declaration of R ussia herself at its commencement, she would have given no facilities to - Frince. To say • that it would have been dangerous to grant it to Russia, when -it was . 1 . 'proved nugatory in the hands of the Dutch, was most idle. What was the true meaning of this in . . temperate conduit at present, but that the present was thought a favbUrable moment for, a most impo ' litic question ? Jacobinism was become stale, and [.a -new cause for the War must be discovered.—As r . to the dodrine of Convoys, if one State is to con- Iv the Trade of another, it was a new doftrine, . and be thought a viery fit subjed ibr representation. —As to theiSeasch, if there was a strong ground of , - suspicion, there v<ould be a search, siotwithstand. ing the CotiVO, and the Government would be justified in doing so. Suppose Spain, which is al.. ways at war with the Algerine States, should claim the search of every British vessel passing through the Gut, merely under pretext of her being at War with Algiers, would you , or ought you, to submit w it is... With respeCt to the Contraband of War, the Right Hon. Gehileman reasoned euriously when he t a lked a Ships and Timber, and Nav'al Stores, nit , bejog foreseen as implements of war in 1694. Great Maritime Powers were then in existence; and : - it was idle to compare them with the article of . Gunpowder, and Guns and Cannon. The whole of the reasoning was unworthy of the talents of the 'Right Hon. Gentleman.. He owns that .he is . dis. s_sprinted at hot being in at the death of his War. Itas coming, he sap, to a cloie—yes-4t might be coming to a close. - The utter discomfiture of . all his schemes, and the failure of -all • his . pretexts, Is might at length have brought the calamitous con. test to a close, When this new. Contest was thought ef, to perpetu ate. the struggle. Not one word had lie said of the Kim: of PRUSSIA.—Mr. Fox then called to the recollettion of the House, the pretexts ( with which they had been amused from .year to year, and the arrogant Proposition which' was made to BONAPARTE'S dignified and conciliating Propo. iiti6n of Peace, in January a Soo, when they 'mo destly proposed that he' should give himself up to. the BOURBONS, or, in other words, hang himself.. . 1 . ile firmly believed tha t BONAPARTE was too wise, too dignified; and too magnanimous, to.imitate their gi os s indecorum,. ---Mr. Fox - then adverted to Mr. • DisstoAS's asSeetion of 'the Successes of the War, and he examined the pretensions to the charafler of Success, - To the Navy he paid the •warmest tri. hate of applause; of Lord SPENCER 'he spoke in handsome terms. - Nothing, therefore', could be a greater proof of the imbecility of . our Ministers, than that in the service which depended upon them, ' • every thing had failed ; in that which' depended on tlie men, every thing had succeeded. In all former Wars, there had been Inquiries wherever there was • disaster. He had talked of the Islands captured ; . the capture of Islands was not the objeel of the War. Our objeft was to proted Europe against France. Have we done so ? And in the course of . the• Wars which of the two Nations is the most aggrandized--England or France ? They say that ' , • • there is only 160,6°0,0001. added to our Debt ; so - the Hon. Gentleman. cuts off 56,000,0001. inure, -- , . , tor which the Income Tax is mortgaged—so that a - debt to be paid by installments was to be considered :.)o debt at all , It now costs us 38,000,0 0e 1. a year in T axes , besides t0,000,0p01. for Poor.rates ; and ''' A .th e whole Land Rent of the country was onl y . 25 millions. A country paying double its Land Rent in mere Taxes was surely in a state demanding Inquiry. The 'War, Secretary had talked much about the di. - g enitors Of War s and he had in this instance sh e Z, vil l • us -the nature Of a diversion upon Lis principles. • ne bad sent his koyal Highness, and an Army of 30 , 000 Men, to the only neck of land in the world, i perhaps, where a fi fth part of their o w n num b er was equal to cope with them. After seven months, it seems, they not only could not be drilled a n d disciplined on account of the Frost, but they could not be made acquainted with their own Officers !--- iBOITAPARTI and his Troops disregarded the frosts iand Snows, of the Alps, and, spewed that no obstacle was superior to the energy of his example. And why not 'assist Austria after all this delay ? Why ? 1 ~. b e cause Austria would_ have nothing to do with ou r 'Troops. They thought 20,0d0 British Troops '‘,.lulci do them no service. They wished every thing belonging to us to keep away but our Guineas. --After the disgrace and disaster which has attend. td this contest, we were told, forsooth, that the war was drawing to a close—but how ? Was it by suc cess ? Wjiat was our situation ? 'Were not all the great objects of the war defeated ? Were we not ! deserted by our Allies ? And when it was found that no- .prospeCi of success remains, Negotia tion might be resorted to, and perhaps, as before, a )4egotiation on the failure of which-those that copduet it might . rejoice s and which might lead to ' the establishment of another solid system of finance Ministers migh t negotiate ; but was it for the Credit o f the Country that Parliament should, be held forth t- o the world as ready to sandion an insolent rejeetion of 2n overture, or the humble application for Peace.? ..', That -the. Minister -who had carried with him the Votes of the House in favour of War, could when ‘ ,he pleased whistle them back to Peace ?I t was by se. ..t Farating from Ministers, imaexpressing an indepentl -., eat sentiment that this ignominy could be avoided. We were called Upon to grant to the new Ministers :I!'., that _confidence which the ComtitutiOn authorizes. fi,, i Undoubtedl y that.enadence might be due, but. in a , S -fil w sound interp r e t ation. he as not disposed to think • . , . • naturei As.to the new .Ministers, the panegyric upon the, First Lord of. the 'Treasury had his full concurrence; but attiring the new Ministers he per ceived many Who were not utiknown in the old, and ,they had been the constant supporters and adVticates of that syStem which had reduced the Country' to its present distress. He 'admitted" that the Chair of the House of Comtrions was the first place which a Com moiler could fill ; but it seemed a strange and a singular want of ambition, that had induced two Gentlemen successively to descend, for the pub lic good no doubt, to stations of less digdity. Sen sible as he was of the merit of these Gentlemen in ttte Chair, he could not think that it was for the credit of the House that the Chair should be the road to other employments. As to the change of Administration, he did not consider it in itself as an unfortunate occurrence for the Country:— Some l indeed, might suspet, from the panegyric of the Right Honourable Gentleman, that the new Ministers were only the less gaudy Puppets direded by those who had quitted their stations. It the new Ministers aced from their own motives, they would.be So much the more unworthy of con fidence, if they had adopted the system of their pre decessots, with the additional blame of being hostile to the Catholic claims: With respe& to the Catho lic Claims, he had.understood that a pledge had been ,given them. Was it not a refledion on the House, for a Member of Parliament to say, as had been, by the Rt. Hon. Gentleman, that he could not bring for ward a MOtion of which he approved ?- If the Rt. Hon. Gentleman had the recipe for restoring tran quillity to any part of the Empire, why did he not produce it ? The Catholics have rights, as well as the Protestants, and he thought that no man should be . deprived of his rights because he worships God ac cording to the didates of his own conscience. The Right Honourable Gentleman seemed to decline bringing fOrward the question upon some supposi tion of obstacles in a particular quarter of the Con stitution. He was convinced, however, that no ob stacles of that nature could be supposed to exist, because it was a case that was not justified by the 'legal Prerogatives of the Crown. , The Right Hon. Gentleman, indeed, might wish to retire for a sea son, till overtures of Peace, which he . could not make without feelings of mortification to the man he but lately so much insulted ; and, the confession of the Right Hon. Gentleman, that Office was not at the present moment an obje& of ambition, was a proof that he did nor credit his own statements respeding the success of the War and the prosperity of our Finances. Mr. Fox then justified himself _from the charge of retiring from Parliament. He thought, that the truth should be told, ,It was not by concealing the exhausted state of France, that BONAPARTE had been able to create Armies, to ani mate enthusiasm, and to perform such prodigies, as the last Campaigo had exhibited. He then proceed: ed to consider the state of Ireland ; he said, that the recall of Lord FITZW ILL SAM had been attended with the most fatal consequences ; for then the Rebels had first began their•corr6pondence with France, de spairing of any mild and conciliating Government. He represented the state of our relations with Fo reign Powers, the decay of our Manufaftures, and the miseries of our Labourers 'of every kind, many of whom were unable to supply themselves with the Necessaries of Life. Every day, therefore, in our external and internal situation, called loudly for In quiry. . {We must reserve till To-morrow. the Speech of Mr. A n .DINGTON, whkh our limits do not allow t 4 to Insert th:i day.] THE SUN. 301.1:14 Q.L.1.7, DiCERI FAISCM AU0.1•1 ? LO NDO .V , R CI! , ISoI. AT a Lite hour last night we received, n Y EX? AFss, Paris Papers to the 234 inst. They da not add much to the knowledge of which. we are already in possession. The Peace concluded at Luneville was roclaimed at Paris on the z tst inst. --From the Hague we receive the two following articles : HAGUE ) MARCH s.—towarcis ,the end of last week there passed through this place a Courier from Berlin, charged with important Dispatches, from the Court of Pettssia for our overnment: AcCording to what we learn, the KING of PRUSSIA has invited the Ilatavian Government to send a Commissioner to lierl:i7, authorized to settle with a Piussian Mi nister and a Commissioner of the PRINCE of ORANGE, the indemnities with respe6l to the Do mains which that PRINCE held before the Revo lution in Holland. This done, hits MAJESTY will appoint a Minister at our Court. • HAGUE, MARCH 16.---"1 his day 'the Tfibunes of the Upper Chamber were filled with spelators. An immense number of people from the neighbour. ing towns crowded here; but the public curiosity was disappointed, as the Report of the Committee was postponed to to-morrow. Accounts reached Town last right from Sir RALPH ABERCROMBY. The Hamburgh Mail due on Sunday last ar rived yesterday evening. It confirms the ac counts already received by the French Papers, of an Armistice for thirty days having •been con. • eluded between the French and Neapolitan Troops.' An article from Naples, 'dated Feb. 19, contains an Amnesty published by the Kim; of NA r i.ts on the 16th of the same month at Pa. lermo, by which all persons imprisoned for of. fences against the State, previous to the month of May last, are to be set trt liberty, - and such as have left their country on the same aceouni j are permitted.to return, - Arm- stare, that that the English n e t t had s a iled f or Egypt, add that the Turkish Fleet would sail in twelve days. It it asserted that Sir It.'ArtiltcvosiOT had offered General MEN() V an honourable Capi tulatidni if he would evacuate Egypt ~i•ith phis Trodps and return tci France/but had received a positive refusal. The English, it is said, expert the co-operation of 6000 men from the East Indies, width will give • employment to the French in the Eastern part, of Egypt, while General ABERCROMBY attacks the Country on the Northern and Western sides. Accounts from Stockholm of dig 6th of March mention, that th e most a &i v e fneparations arc making for - War, anti the defence of the Country ::gainst any attack by the English. Letters from the Hague of , the 14th of March mention the proposals fin the revision of the Con stitution. On the . 1 zth a Courier .arrived at the //ague from Berlin, who, these accounts say, brought agreeable intelligence to the Batavia!) Government. Prussia, it is said,' waits only the answer of the British Ministry to the Note transmitted to Lord CARYSFORT, to take further measures. Two Hambergh Madi still remain due. HER MAJESTY held a Drawing-room yesterday at St. James's Palace, it being the first Court Day since His MAJESTY'S happy recovery from his late indiSposition. A more - numerous company of Nobi lity of both sexes were scarcely ever assembled, who came to congratulate the Ou EE N on the joyful occa sion.---The Court-room was graced with the fol lowing Noble Personages of di3tinetion : Their R6yal Flighnesses the • PRINCESSES AU GUSTAi ELIZABETH, SOPHIA, and MARI , their Royal Highnesses the PR INC E of . WALES, tile DUKES of YORK, CLAR ENCE, KENT, and CUM BERLAND ; their, Royal ',Highnesses the DUKE of GLOUCESTE R, and PR I NC''ESS SOf II zA; their Serene Highnesses the PRI,NCE and PRINCESS of ORANGE ; the Archbishop of CANTERBURY ; the Bishops of LONDON, .GLOUCESTER, OXFORD; NORWICH, LITCHF I E LD, and COVENTRY, ST. DAVID'S, EX ETER, KILDARE; ROCHESTER, and MEATH; the LORD CHANCELLOR ; the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER ; the MASTER 'of the ROLLS ; the ATTORNEY and SOLICITOR GENERAL ; the Im perial, Neapolitan, Wirtemberg, Hessian, Ha noverian, Bavarian, American and Algerine En voys, and the Turkish Chargé des Afraires. Mikes—Portland, Roxburgh, Somerset, and Athol. Margettset—Salisbury, Townshend, Ely, Watertbrd, .Tho monel, Sligo, ; Lorne, Bath, and Abercorn. • Earls —Dynevor, K.innoul, Moira, Chatham, Morton, Aylesbury, - Cowper, Macclekield, Dunifries,' Galloway, Cho.sterfield,St : Vincent, Radnor, Uxbridge, Cholmon- deley, :k.lanstield, Camden, Westmorland, aiul Poulett. Ifirtmus-- ! Do'wne, Falmouth, Hood s Howe, and Sydney. Lord:—Cathcart, Bruce, Grenville, Carleton, Grantley, Radstock, Hawkesbury, Rolle, Rouse, R. - Fitzgerald, Bayning,. Arden, Carrington, tienmare, Braybroke,, Hare wood, Gwydir, Willoughby de Broke, Walsingliarn, So merville, Fitzharris, Chmbervie, C. Somerset, Napier, and Folkfrone. The Rev. Dr. Parker. Sirs—l. Rose, P. Parker, H. Munro, C. Morgan, j: Cal 'ander, E. Hartopp, R. Glyn, J. B. Bur; 4s, E. Sykes, C. Hudson. Admiral Digby. Gemerah—Delancey, Manners, Adeane, Lennox, and Ti..rle- ton. C/with—Slade, Ram, BaauMent, and Egerton. lieutenant-Colonel Lake. Conla:i4sioner.Hart well . Mears—C. Long, Alderman Watson, Fox, Sheridan, P. Ca rey, Bra'gge, Grey, Whitbread, Tynte, and most of the Members of the Honowable Hopse of Commons. Princess Casteleicala. t:bet.res—Montrose, Dorset, Beaufort. Chandos, Buc cleugh, Gordon, NorOlunlierlarA, Leeds, and Athol. .11.2rehionefrrs- , -Bath, and Dowager Bath, Abercorn, Salis bury, Townshend, Sligo, Donnegal, Hertford, and De Circello. ' C.4.4te.fres—Malmesbury, Coinslen,. Uxbridge, Chesterfield, Harrington. Racin(N, Mount Edgecumbe, Spencer, Stun.: f,rd, Carlisle, Pomfret, Caernarvon, Cholmondeley, Chatham, Kingston, Liverpool, Westmoreland, nuisfield, Ayleibury, Leitrim, Delaware, Westmeath, Kinnoul, Talbot, Dowager Portsmouth, and Nfourttnorris. Pi:counter les—S uttley, Tamworth, Harberton, Newark, Ma ther, Wentworth, and Buikeley. Ladies—Templetown, Loughborough, L. Pusey,t M. Ben tinck, Bagot, Milbanke, Affleck, Anthers!, A. Hatton, Bankes, F. Compton, Yonge, Howard, Lavington, Folkeston, Fawcit, Headley, Rotham, Hawkes bury, Musgrave, C. T. Long, Bayning, Braybroke, Lucas, C. Johnson. J. lames, Rouse, Vernon, Carrington Gren ville, Cutterell, Caithorpe, C. Somerset, tleadfort, Claws, N. Holland, Sheffield, Percival, Dowager Lady' Glynn, Rolle, Kenmare, Willoughby, Grantham,.C. E. and T. Thynne, Ashhurnham, Catherine Harris; Lewis. ham, the three Pereys, C. Hellas) se, Workhouse, Bruce, C. Lennot, Wroughton, C. lenkinson ' Beaumont; Vava sour, Mulgrave, Colly e r, He a th co t e , C. Bligh, Os borne, Wills, Bishopp,Glenb;rvie, Montague G.Villiers, Walsingham, Castlereagh, Hort, t Crofton, Louisa Cortie, . and Baroness Howe. Afirtraut—Milnes, Dawkins, Sutton, Tolley, Robinson, C ' Long, Carleton, S. Vassal, Bortfoy, Porteous, Barnard, Harding, Sykes, Pool, Carey; Hartwell, Raniaden, Pe chill, Digby, Coombe; Howard, H. Windsor, Ram, 11. Williams, Heatitcote, Darner, C. York, Milks, Poole, transcob, Ellison, Rose, M. Pitt, Norris; and Courtney. Missa.—Erskine, Macle-an; Clarke, Whitworth. Jeffries, Chester, Colman, Brudenel, .Harley; Sykes, leanings, 8./tikes, Milnes, Crofnin Boughton; Poyntz, De Grey, Hudson, Courtney:, and Smith. The Nobility introduced to HER MAJESTY were—Captain MARKHAM, one of the Lords of the Admiralty, by Earl S _T. ViNceidT, who tad the hor.elt to kiss Her Majesty's hand, as did all the New Ministers ; Lady • Lou IsA COILRY, by Lady CASTLEREAGH ; Viscountess MATHEES, On her arriving from reland ; Lady CATHERINE Haltitisi 'by her. Mother, the Countess of MALMiS. BURY; LieUtenant Colonel SLAtit kissed the Queen's hand, on his appointment as Equerry to his R6yal Highness the DUKE of CUMEEKLANb; NESS BOUGHtON ) daughter of Ce Rouse BOUGHTON, Esq. by her mother, Lady BOUGHTON ; Miss MILNEs, by her mother Mrs. MiLNEs., His MA3 esTY did not attend the Drawing-Room. Lacry..C. TINLEY Lo NC was at Court for the first time this season, and also Lady G.' VILLA Mks. The Court, from the uncommon number of Per. sons present, did riot close till after five.o'clock; and it was past six before the CoMpany left the Palace. His Maias - ry on Wednesday took an airing in a coach, accompanied by the Qut EN, and PRIN CESSES AUGUSTA and ELIZABETH, round by Ful ham, , and returned home by Hyde-Park Corner. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER yester day wok An airing on horseback, •WO are concerned to state that Sir CHARLES STUART ) K, B. an recently appointed Commander in Chief in Ireland, died on Wednesday evening.-- By Isis death, the 26tH Regiment of •Foot, and a Red Ribband become the gift of the Migister. • - • .71; SEWS, Na,, Wi h;lper;unt pelagi, ievufriquevidenler4 Sid_ nib; p,rge: datum. Y ARMOUTH; M'AiCH 16. AttRIvED the Selby Armed Ship, and Edipe Gun brig: Sailed the Lady 414 Eiig; The Selby brought in fiere the Frievtl s, of. .London, DifER, with pipe-clay and oil, which she milt up at sea offTlaniborough Head, without any person On hoard; Ye - stentay three Frenchmen, prisoners, who attempted their escape from Boston, in a Btiat which they stole ltoio thence, were taken by the Southwbld Cuutom-house Boat, and brought thin'day to the prison here. The Boar they had stolen is indrked the "kwveiler , ot:licht . Arrived the Prirce cyc Orauge Packer; Caiy; - . BRIDGE, from Cuxbay en. Sailed the Prince of Oaks Paciiqt;dapt. I I E Cmx.haven. i1R1X114417, MARCH 25. ARRIVED last evening, from Plyrnouth, ; lli Majesty's Ships, Royal Spi:ereign and. Princess Royal ; also the Fiszard s Frigate, from a Cruiz , ; which, with the'l'ille de Paris; 7emeraire i Wind for" Castle; Prirce Ge.clge, Prince, Atlas, Vat joscf,,Glo)., l'enerable, and "..Sperb, remain in "Torbay. . • _ _ ailed this day, the Rval -Geortr, Captaim, Anduiscade, L'rzir9rm i Siriois, and , Mentcr hire ; Armed Brig, on a Cruize; POPTSMOW if, MARCH 26. THE P6rcupint Frigate, of 24. gulls, is appoint ei Convoy for the West Indies: _ DOVER, MARCH A Flag of Ttuce, with Dispatches, arrived. from Calais about Iwelve o'clock at.noon. Passed by, the Gibraltar, ADAMS, from Quebec. SHEERNESS ) MARCH 26. RRIYED this day, His Majesty's Ship Goad Design, from; and sailed again for, Yarmou th. Sailed His Majesty's Sloop Gier, .of 18 guns, Capt. Je RUSSELL, for the Downs. ,• DEAL, 26. His Majesty's .Sloop .oerven; angangi ture6 , anti Vidette j with 'the East India Coin patly's.Ships Taunton Casile i Due of . Buccleglghj Bail livive s and the whole of the qutward.bound, put I)ack last night from the Westward, and re. maih. The Earl of Abergavenny East Indian= is turning through the Gull Stream, but will.. not be in the Downs 611-1* this cycning',• as the wind is S. W. •• . . . . . On Wednesday we stated the arrival of a Post. Office Express, from Edinburgh, with Letters from Sir HYDP PA US. E They were brought to Leith by the - ii/eda Fire Ship s Lieut, WR i c trri that had unfortunately sprung a leak. She left the Fleet on the saute day with the Pellet. gun vessels viz.. the i gth s whose arrival at Whitby we two days ago -announced; but several hours later than that vessel. The Fleet had entered the SkaW, all Well, and they expeded on'the follow_ ing day, (last Monday se'nnight) to pass the Sound. Yesterday a'totirt of DireaOrs was held at the EAst India Hottse, when the following Extra Ships were taken up for bric vdyage only, for the 'pur pose of carrying out goods to 14 - Idia, and bting ing sugar, saltpetre, and'other goods from Bew, gal : Manship, Sri tons, Messrs. St. Barbeand Green.. Monanni, 62.0t0ni, Mr. Mestayer. Sovereign, 616 ton;; Mr. Locke. New Ship, sio tnnl, C icland and Cu. Ditto, 545 [gel, Mr. Mestayer. Yesterdarihe Pursers of the 'following Ships attended at. the Eait. Trdia 404156; and received their final Dispatches ; with which they imme diately proceeded to Poitsmouth,' to join their respettive ships, viz. the Sit- Strphell La:bin-von, the Walpole, and the Asia; for Madras and Ben.. gal ; together with the Fon :William and the Worcester, for Botnhay. The Po lt/trial, of 74. guns; sailed from Sheer neis to , the Nore, on Tiltisday evening. , • .The Gabrie4,CLEFTON I , which had been taken by. a French Privateer tin her passitge from ,Yar month to Newcastle, was re-taken the toth inst. by the Drake Cutter; Close in with - Go' ree. Wa some time ago stated, What all Ono other Papers have been almost daily ever since repeat.. ing i that our Ministers were taking means to ascertain the real disposition of' the 14erich Go_ . vern ment with :respeCt to peace: We have now the happiness of saying; that the prospeet for NegotiatiOn is extremely favourable. M. OTTO had a.Dispatch this morning on the subjea ; and it is supposed that a Negotiation will very speedily be adually entered upon: Oh Wednesday a General Court was held at ;the East . India lioUse, when a Motion was made by Mr. JONES, and seconded by Mr. Alderman Cu RTIS, for the granting 'Five Thousand Pounds to Sir SIDNEY SMITH, for his gallant. condo& at Acre. After a long debate ' in the course of which Mr. METCALFE moved to adjourn, the original Motion was withdrawn, in order to re. fer the mode of remuneration to the Court cif retort,