The Sun. — London, England, 1804-04-03 00:00:00

MAILS. PUE. aml:u gh 3 THE SU IT. ARRIVED• SOLEM QUIS DIOERE FALSUM AUDZAT LONDON, APRIL 3, 1804. Ir was stated yesterday, that Ills MAJESTY was ra►her ❑swell, but we believe there is no reason to apprehend that there is any danger of a relapse, LAST night we received the Paris Paper; :to the 25th ult. They bring an account of an event which we state, with the greatest regret. The sanguinary and remorseless tempei of the First Coniul is at length gratified, by having in his power one of the Princes of the Jlooti Royal of France. The Duke d'ENcx I e'sr; son to the Duke de BouRBON, and granfisori to the Prince DE CoNDE, ,was on the ;silt ult. arrested in the ter, tor . } of Re.rden, by a detachment of French Troops, who, in violation of the.rights ©f Neutrality, and in contempt of the established Law of Nations, mado. an irruptton e into Germany for that purpose. The ciecurnstances ,attendinr , this most extraordi nary outrage are these :, The French Government having received intelligence that a number of Emi grants were 4sern4led at Eitenkiem.And,Offeuburgh, in the territories of the ELECTOR of jiADEN, or dered a large Leidy of Troops assembled at Stra,,_ burgh, to c rass the Rhine at three different - places, and to pr;oceed. to E ttenheim and Offenburgh, and to seize all 'the nench Emigyants. This order was executed on the 15th ultimo, under the command of M. Cs.oLitzcotlaT, Aid-de- Camp to the First Consul. A great number of Emigrants were seized, among whom was the Duke cl'EetoxtEet. He was immediately conveyed to Vincennes, near Paris, arid on the zist - was tried by a Military Commission, and sentenced to death. The ! by of his Execution was not fixed, but probably before this time one of the most amiable and accom plished Princes of the Illustrious House of i3ootte EON, has been sacrificed, to gratify the malignity, and relieve the apprehensions of the Corsican Tyrant of France. What effect this arrest will produce in Europe, it is impossible to predift ; but if it is submitted to, it will establish a precedent to jus tify France, in future, in invading the domi nions of any Independent State with .whom she' is in, v etted, amity, th e ta chould h A pp e . p to be in those Dominions one Emigrant who is ob- - noxiou; to the First Consul. Degraded and stupi fi:d as the Continent of Europe appears to be, surely such an unprecedented outrage must rouse the different Powers to a sense of the danger with which they are threatened : if it :loes not, we shall almost abandon every hope of seeing the Independence of Europe restored. At the Court of Russia this new aggression of France must be deeply felt f the ELEC TOR of BAORN, whose territories have thus been in vaded in the midst, of profound Peace, is Father-in lass' to the Eva E ROR of Russ; A.; hut after the repeat ed insults which, every Continental State has in suc cession submitted to from France, it is almost idle to speculate upon their future condua. • We have extraled from the /11(miterfr, the trial (if trial it can he called) of the Duke. d'ENprt I does not appear that any evidence was prcduced against him, but the Military Commission were Unanimous in finaing . 4im guilty,'and in•dooming him, to death indeeol any other determination would have endan gered their own safety; for one of the Charges againit General rirstqoyEs (one 'of the Emigrants lately arrested), is, that a Military ComMiSsion at, which he presided, in 1797, acquitted some of the Accomplices of Fret' Ecßu. It is stated in some o f rhe.Papers, that Dt.im'outtlEtt, was arrested, but this is evidently a rpistai, because Dumoo tt tat has not quitted England. The French Government has proposed to raise an additional body of 60,006 Conscripts, one half of Which is to be immediately embodied with the Army, and the other half is to remain in reserve. 1 The French Funds have fallen to 52. 60. The British Ministry are said, in Letters, from Ber/in, to have transmitted to the Courts of Peters_ burgh, Berlin, and Cotenhagen, a new declaration, stating that the intere3t of the, English Govern_ meat imperiously requires the blockade of the Elbz' and the Weser to be continued with great vigour, so long as the French shall remain in possession of the Eletiorate of Hanover. The Dutch Ambassador at Paris, has transmitted .7. Letter to the Minister for Foreign Affairs at the ilagra,' announcing that the FIRST CONSpL dis_ . avows and highly disapproves the conduft of the French Troops respeaing the late seizure of English • MerChancllze. . . • Th 4 4 Atisfrian TrooNt . 14e Tyrol yiffe l it is stated, daily re.inforceo, NAVAL NEWS. TORBAY, APRIL z.--=-Sailed the Pheasant Sloop of War, and the Renown Excise Cutter, on a Cruize. The outward.hound West-Indiamen which have put in here, are now getting under weigh for Fal "mouth, under convoy of the Falcon and Venus Olt, ters. DEAL, APRIL 2.--Sailed the Perseverance, bound to India, and several other outward-bound vessels, for Portsmouth. Sailed the Illustrious Man of War, Immortaliti, Squirrel, and La Seine Frigates, Autumn, Alonzo, Bonetta, and Curlew Sloops of War, Fury Bomb, jackal' and Archer Gun-brigs, with the Stone_ ships, &c. for Boulogne ; Trusty Man of War, and William Store-ship, for Sheerness. Arrived the Lark and Orestes Sloop of War froth a Cruize, and remain with the rest as per last. PORTSMOUTH, APRIL z.—Arrived the Adirut, —, from St. Michael's for London, with fluit, in 30 days. The Leviathan Man of War, with the Y . let for the Mediterranean, remains. JERSEY, MARCH 27.—Considerable alarm% was excited here on Friday last. Signals were made for an Enemy's:Fleet ; about two o'clock, thirteen Gun-boats were so near Granville Bay, that their hulls• could be perceived from the lowest part of the shore, without the help of glasses. They were in sight for some hours, and appeared to be' sailing in the direction of Granville. At night, the Mercury Frigate, Capt. BOUVERIe, came from Bantry Bay, and made Chace. On Saturday night a very heavy cannonade was distinftly beard on the French coast, supposed to be the Frigate engaging the Gun-vessels. On Sunday night a heavy tio,ig was again heard. Scarce a day passes but what signals are made fiir' . oon,voys. or, vessels passing along the Frena7oßsr:' , :Ttirre--rtppocats tq he a great want of light. vessels on this'stationc'to in. tereept them : had there been a few Gun-brigs or Cutters in Granville . Bay on Friday, they could easily have got up with the French Ships,' as 'they were in sight several hours. It is true, chat some times a Gun-brig or two comes to Granville, Bay from Guernsey; but in general there'-is nothing here to intercept the enemy's ships. During the severe storm on Saturday afternoon, the Eagle, of 7+ guns, Captain COLEVY, lately launched at Northfleet, broke from her moorings at that place, and received so much damage by running on shore, as to make it necessary for her to betaken 'into dock immediately. T'he Alexandria Frigate has, upon examination, been found totally unfit for further service, and is to be immediately broke up at Chatham, , The lrnpregnnhl#, of 9S guns, and the Scipio, of 74. guns, building at Chatham and Portstrlouth, are to be immediately completed foE. launching, 'for which purpose a double set of shipwrights have . commenced working on each. Captains HILL and. MACKELLAP. are appointed to the command of the Humber, and Lady Warren, Hired Vessels, in His Majesty's Service. . The Captain of the Danish 'Brigantine Andrea and Elizabeth, arrived at Leith from Dram in Nor way, reports, that on Monday the 19th ult. about zo leagues west of the Naze of Norway, he was boarded by a Privateer Cutter Brig, mounting 20 guns, with French colours hoisted, but apparently manned by Dutchmen, and full of men. On the Saturday preceding, she had captured an Aberdeen Brig, bound for Bergen ; and when the Captain of the Danish vessel went on board the Privateer, be received a letter from the Captain of the Aberdeen's Brig, to deliver, Ao 414,,0wtie.rf,.. Moors. 014 BONS and Co. Aberdeen: • The Danish',Cavtatn understood that the Priva. leer had been out nine days from Amsterdam, and that they had a partial anion with an English Man of War, but escaped ; and that they were to pro eed to cruize off Bergen. Yesterday at one o'c'ock the LORD CHANCELLOR had an Audience of HIS MAJESTY. Yesterday, soon alter one o'clock, HER MA JESTY . and the PRINCESSES ELIZABETH; MARY, SOPHIA, and AMELIA, attended by the Countess CARDIGAN and Lady ELY, tookarrairingbyHatnp itead and Highgate. Yesterday, at twelve o'clock, the MASTER of the . Rot.Ls . had in - Audience of Mr. ADDINGTON, achis house in Downing-street. Yesterday, at halt past two o'clock, a' Cabinet Council was held at Lord 1-lAwicEssbaY's'Offict,' at which the Russian and Neapolitan Amliiissitfuti 7 attended. 'Yesterday an_ Especial Court of Aldermen was . held at the Mansion-house, at which were present the LORD MAYOR, eleven ALDERMEN, Mr. RE CORDER, and the SHERIFFS. _ _ _ The Proceedings of the last Courts of Alder. men, and Common Council, being read and con firmed, the Court proceeded to the Ele'dion of four Commissioners from out of eight Gentlemen returned at the last Court of Common Council, to carry into execution the Aft of Parliament for granting a Contribution on Income, &c. when the following Gentlemen were elected. viz.— JosHun JONATHAN SMITH, and RICHARD LEA, Esquires, Aldermen ; and NATHANIEL. BRICK wooD, Esq. Deputy ; and Mr. SAMUEL THORP, commoners, to supply the vacancies. The Mayor of Bristol has received a letter from the Secretary of State, requiring an 'immediate re turn of all the males in that City. It is now Said that Sir Wm. GIANT will be the new Chief justice of the Common Pleas, and that he will be succeeded, as Master of the Roils, by Mr. rEgct TO., the Attorney Oeneepl. The Royal Stannary Artillery continues. to take • a rotation of duty at Plymouth. PARIS, Mi.acx i 6. The. examinations preparatory to the trial of MORIAU, PICHEGRN, GEORGES, and 'their NSW ciates; are carried on with great'. diligence. The Reporting Judge goes every. ay to the Temple, to interrogate the accused. Letters from Berlin inform us, that the British Ministry have transmittedio the Courts of Russia, Prussia,- , and Dentiirk, a new declaration relative to' the joint representations of those Courts in favour -431,11arnburgh and Bremen. The declaration states, in substance, " -that- I the. interest -of, the English Government imperiously.. requires the blockade of the Elbe and Weser- to be continued with great vigour, as long as the French shall remain in mili tary possession of the Electorate of Hanover." The Austrian troops are daily reinforced in the Tyrol. The regiment of the Hussars of Blanken stien has been there these some days. The prin cipal depots of the army are formed at Inspruck. On Sunday morning GEORGES was transferred from the Conciergerie to the Temple. REBUFEET was the name of the inspetior of Police whom he shot. The other Police Officer who was wounded by GEORG-ES, died on Sunday. HAGUE, MARCH 20.—A letter from General EPPLER, the French Commander at Blankenherg, gives an account of the safe arrival of Admiral VgßtmEtt,, with his Flotilla, at 03tend. Lait week some very serious disputes arose be tween the French Grenadiers and Batavian Cavalry in this garrison. These differences have, hoWever, been settled by the interference of the Officers of the respedive Corps. Citizen SCHIMMELPENNINCK, our Ambassador at Paris, has transmitted a letter to our Minister for Foreign Affairs, informing him, that the First Consul disavows and highly disapproves the condu& of the French troops respeding the late seizure of English hierchandize. Letters from Vienna of the 3d inst. state, that the Russian and Neapolitan Ambassadors have re cently had repeated interviews with the Emperor and the Archdukes CirAxt.as, Jowl, and AN THONY. MARCH 23. TRIAL OF THE DilKt TrENGHIEN. SPECIAL' MILItARY COMMISSION, CONSTITUTED _IN THE FIRST MILITARY DIVISION , IN VIRTUE OF A DECREE OF THE GOVERN MENT, DATED ZOTH OF MARCH. SENTENCE. .In the Name of the French People, this March 1,1, in the tvel ft h Year of the Republic. • The Military and 4ecial Commission formed' in the first military division, in virtue of a decree of the Government, -dated March zo, composed, agreehbly to the 11:w of Sept. 6, in the year Five, of seven Members, consisting - of - Citizens Hu LEN, General of Brigade,' Commander of the Foot Grenadiers of the Consular Guard, President. Gu t TON, Colonel Commander of the First - Rcgiinent of Cuirassiers. BA ZA NCOUR T, Colonel Commander of the. Fourth Regi- Ment of Light Infantry. Ralv t ER, Colonel Commander of the Eighteenth Regiment of Infantry of the line. BAK Ito is, Colonel Commander of the Ninety-sixth Regi ment of Infantry of the line. • RA KEt Colonel Commander of the seeorkt Regiment of the Municipal Guard of Paris. D'AuTAxeonat,Captain Major of the SeleBcd Gendarme rie, now in the exercise .ot the FunCtions of Reporting Captain.' - Aloit N, Captain in the Eighteenth Regiment of Infantry of the line, Register. The whole of these were named by MURAT, the General in Chief, Governor of Paris, and Com,. mander of the First Military Division. The said President, Members, reporting, Captain, and Register, neither being relations nor persons conneBed within the degrees of afffnity prohibited by the law, met according to appointment. , The Commission, convoked by order of the Gene ral in Chief Governor of Paris, having met at the Castle of Vincennes, in the apartment of the Corn. mander of the place, for the purpose of trying Louts AN PHONY HENRY Of BOUR BON, Duke of ENGH I EN, born at Chantilly, August 2, 1772 ; height one me. tie` .05 millimetres, auburn hair and eye-brows, oval face, rather long, grey eyes, inclining to brown, mouth of a moderate aize, aquiline nose, chin rather pointed, and well proportioned : Accused, pit, of having borne arms against the Republic; 2dly, of having offered his services to the English Government; 3cily, of having received and accredited the agents of the said Government ; of having procured for them the means of carrying on a correspondence in France ; and of having con spired with them against the internal and external. safety of the State ; +thly, of having put himself at the head of an assemblage of French Emigrants and others, paid by England, formed on the frontiers of France, in the territories of Fribourg and Baden; gthly, of hating maintained a correspondence at Strasbourg, in order to excite a rising of ,the neigh bouring departments, for the purpose of making a diversion in favour of England,;, 6thly, of, being an accomplice in the Conspiracy framed by the English a - gainst the life of the Fr ksT Coasu L, and intending, in case of its success, to enter France. 'Die Sitting being genet!, the President ordered the Judge Advocate to read the several documents on both sides of the cause ; which being concluded, the President ordered the guard to bring in the accthed, and'he being introduced free and unfettered before the Commission; Being also interrogated as to his several names, age, places of birth and residence ;—lie answered that his name is Louts ANTHONY HENRY Of BOUR BON, Duke of ENGHIEN, aged 3z years, born at Chantilly, near Paris, having quitted France on the r6th of July, 4789., After the President had interrogated the accused on the contents of the charge made against him ; having heard the Judge Advocate in his report and conelusion, and the accused in defence; and after the latter had declared that he had nothing to add for his just . 4carion, the President asked the Members if they had any observations to;, make,' when they re_ plied in the negative; but: previous to collecting their decisions, lie ordered the accused to retire. The accused was accordingly coßdutqecl hack to son under an escort, and the Judge Advocate, the Secreta r y, as well as Citizens present, retired at the regnest of the President. The Commission 3clibera!ing in private, the Pre* sident put the following clue-tionl: ist, Ts Lours AN-rue-lAN: HENRY of BOURBON, Dilkenf Enghien, guilty of having borne against the French Repub lic ? idly, Is he guilty of having offered his service s to tho English Government, the enemy of the French people ? 3LaY, Is he guilty of having received and acknowledgea the agents of the said Government ; of having procured thou the means of carrying on secret intelligence in Fiance ; and of having conspired with them apinsl the internal and ex ter• nal safety of the State ? 4thly, Is he guilty of having placed himself at the head of an assemblage of French Emigrants and others, paid bY England, collected en. the fa:mi.:vs of France, in the terri tories of Baden and Fribourg ? sthly, is he guilty of having kept up a correspondence in Strasbourg, tending to excite an itisurreCtion in the neighbour'. ink departtnents, in (4 - Jcr to make a diversion in favour or England ? 6thly, Is he guilty of being one of the agents and accorn plices in the Conspiracy planned by the English against tlt life of the FIRST CONSUL, and designing, in case of its suc cess, to enter France ? The votes lacing colle6led • separately on each of the above stated charges, commencing with the juni" in rank, the President delivering his opinion last ; The Commission unanimously declared him Guilin, of every one of :hex. Whereupon the President put the questi3n rela tive to the application of the punishment, when the votes were again colleded in the same manner as before : The Special Military Commission unanimously condemns to death Louis ANTHONY HENRY 1 1 BOURBON, Duke of ENGH I EN, for the crimes ° I , espionnage, of correspondence with the enemies the Republic, and of having made attempts a gaiPs t the internal and external safety of the Republic. - The said sentence is pronounced conformably t c ' Articles 11. Title IV. of the Military Code, rela' tive to 'crimes and punishments, of the z tst nr ° i maire, year s, Ist and zd, 2,1 section of Title I. the common Penal Code, of the 61h Odober, 179 11 thus expressed, viz. Art. 11. (of zr Brumaire, year 5.) " Every inclivirio.°lli whatever may be his quality or profession, convicted of P`f a spy for the enemy, shall sutler dea t th." A t . I. " Every plot or attem p against the Rer btra shall b puished with_ death. " Art. 11. ( n of October 6, 179 t.) " Every conspiracy o(1 .1 . 0 st tending to produce civil war, by arming the Citizens ag ar one another, or against the exercise of lawful authority, be punished with death." • The Judge Advocate is enjoined to read ialnl e " • diately this sentence to the Prisoner, in presence o , f the guard assembled under arms. A dispatch is ordered to be sent within the terq prescribed by law, to the Minister of Wartthe Ch i Judge, the Minister of Justice, and the Cie ner ° 4 Chief Governor iaf-Paris. / • Done and signed, &c. Sec. &C• A proje was presented' yesterday to the Leg's' a lative B ;dy, for levying 60,000 Conscripts on the, 'Conscription of the year 13; 30,000 to be 'Hoof ' diately placed in the Army, and 30,000 to retnala: in reserve. The Judiciary. Interrogatories respeting r"*. Conspirators, are nearly finished,.• Amongst the Prisoners, brought to Strasbourg tO • be transmitted to Paris, are two ci-devant Lieu' tenant . .. Generals, who served in the Corps of CoNO I ,. and several. Ecclesiastics: . : They write from Trieste, that several Vessels ar i e ' preparing to transport four Battalions Troll, , and a great quantity of Artillery to the itiook , ' .. the Catario, in Albania. l " . RENNES, MARCH 18,—The Brigands .cdP- 1C and PIERRE-JEAN, sent by . tne Briti; sk nistry to shorten the days of the Ftrks-r Cois! . 'were arrested yesterday at St. Aubin-dit-corin icr ; s : This morning. JEAN-JEAN, another Brivolis %11 attested at Saint Aubin di A:ll4w. "t, These three were returning from Par:, and endeavouring to throw themselves into , Morbihais. They were with JEAN Louis, ano lhe Brigand, whom the Gendarmerie could, not tail but he is closely pursued, and there are great hof e of taking him. EXTRACT OF A PRIVATE LETTER FROM Slgj t " BURGH, OF THE 16TH OF LiAacta. • r " The assembling of the Emigrants o n °tl 44 , - frontiers has occasisined measures of which I tea: mit to you the circumstances and result as t" - r if are reported, without strictly pledging ulfro y d ire t ) l e e f cl or e t those yesterday,m easure meas u res. he for accuracy in every respea. It is M. Ds LINCOURT, Aid-de-Camp of the First C ° ':, 7u n g oi w efa h d o t ihn l e r g a s d into Getmany to be opened, o' l s ctli through it with Gen. LE vir, Commandant of tli ; ' t o On the r e b vee : La s a :cl -e Military Division, towards the right Blok so 3 Rhine. A little before this a body of InfantiP;i4 a strong division of the Regime nt of Cavalry ( I) s he in garrison at this City, besides a division National Guard, had been stationed on the P a 'he of the Rhine. They crossed this river ;1, t o night, and direaed their march through I C ST Offenbourg, 'which was immediately perceived De our Troops., Their Commandant ordered (0 n o pointed out ,to him the habitations of the Ernig r l who resided there, whom they wished to seize. 1' 1 3; were immediately put under arrest. Some of 1 4 , description were arrested also at Kehl. Th is e i 1c ,, 1 % . dition was conduard in the greatest order, an° et ut ed with the greatest propriety. " It is reported that Generals DE CAUL INc e ' rg i and LEV AT have themselves retuned to Offeoh n ' j i be During the whole of the morning of yesterday passage of the Rhine was shut. Nobody wasrrfa. 'pitted to cross the river, even with pase s io About mid-day the column of Olfenbourg entered our city by the citadel, after having eon ln he r ted to the Commandant their Prisoners, the n°mtof whom amounted to about fifteen. They ate Prot„ o visionally detained. Among them are the .131, DE REICH, and the Abbe D'EYmAR, form cell Member of the Constituent Assembly ; I 1 rr) employed during his emigrancy as Vicar Ge n , e ,p: of Cardinal DE RQHAN. There has been also ars't at ed, but by a mistake, the Dircaor of the rnafter, Kehl ; he was released, therefore, yesterday noon. TrooP s j out s o "On the same night anothercolumn of composed of Infantry, of Cavalry, of Arti l k Joa o ' l gen4-Parmes, crossed also the Rhin e at , he o'7 about six leagues distance from this upon c o e s to Brisac.—We are assured, that their obi. a rr est d is • to keconnuitre the City of Ettenhcim , an It 1 such Consiirators as might be .109 11 4 11.'er.ca.