The Sun. — London, England, 1804-08-25 00:00:00

MAILS. DUX. •ARIVLD. Hamburgh • • It • •up PRICE OF STOCKS, tuts DAY AT TWILVI O t CLIICIC. eolndiS . 57 1 Red. Ann. . 57 tOnin. . 6 THE SUN.' 11101.11 U %Ulf DtCItRIII VALIUM AVD/AT LONDON, SATUIDAY, AUGUST 25, 1804. LORD KEITH arrived last night in the iy'onarth, having inspefted- itye/41 parts of the Enemy's Coast. A Cutter belonging to one of our Sloops of War hai sent in a large French Sloop, laden with Wheat, which was gallantly brought off, under.a yery heavy fire of musquetry from the shore, near L'Orient, to which Port she was going with her cargo, for the use of the Garrison. . . There is something extremely ridiculous in the vapouring threats of the Enemy to invade us, when' our Cock.boats scour their shores, and carry of their Craft in the very teeth of their proud Ar mies ; when 2000 armed Vessels of different de scriptions are shot up in the Port of Boulogne by two or three Frigates, and about .a dozen Brigs and Sloops, cruiziog or lying at anchor within three or four miles of the Coast. The Athen;eatre, which convoyed the outward. bound China Fleet, carried a Letter, accompanied with suitable Presents from His MAjESTV to the EMra►toa of CHINA, which are, no doubt, intended as the overture for a future .Embassy to the Court of Pekin. Many prejudices, it seems, formerly entertained in that Country against the English charaaer, have been removed since the splendid Embassy of Lord MACARTNEY, and we have long been the favoured Nation at Canton. The benefits that would arise to Great Britain, from a Commercial Treaty with that extensive and populous Empire, are incalctt. fable. _ _ The, Rev9lutionaire will sail ►his day from Spit_ bead, with the outward-bound Eastlodia Convoy. Tu Crescent Frigate and the Royal Yachts are' arrived at Weymotich. An Artillery Company is now forming to be at, tutted to that valuable 0 - ,rps the Royal Matike. A very confidentnpinion his fat snMe days been entertained, among those who are likely to have the best information upon the subjefl, that the at. tempt at Invasion will be immediately made. 77 We suited some time ago, that the preparations of the Enemy .were complete, and that from the 'state of .the Continent, BoNAeaart must either ! make the attempt ,soon, or give it „UR . iltogether. Ire hai now been an unusually . long - time upon the COast, and has been almost daily employed in making preparations for the Embarkation of the Troops. It has been stated, and, we .believe cot. that Government have received iulotina-i lion that the Provision', and Stores are alicady,on board the Flotilla, in consequen ce which orders have been issued tO'retnoVe •the ilttrach Prisoners from the Coast to the Interior•of the Country. • ' Every fresh account we receive from the' oppo. site Coast of France confirms the statements we have at different times laid before our i ßeaders, respen.' ing the 'discontents which , 'prevail among the - Vrench Troop;, and which have in marry instances broke out into open: mutiny ; and this must be a strong inducement tO.I3ONA.Pi!tRTE to accelerate the attempt at Invasion, .because he knows that it wily be dangerous in the extreme to him to keep the Army mach longer in a stare of iriatiivlty, end he knows also, that however dissatisfied th'e Troops . may be with him, the prospe4 o( plunder will indnee them to fight very well against us. We ;re. therefore, almost eotifi,dent that many days Will not c hy s; b e t o ' f e.Oie effort will be made ; the result of which will, we have no doubt, be favourable to 80. ! ",..p AILTE in one point. of Ifietrit will rid him of ' . a large portion of an Army which is much snore fig tnidable to him than it is in thiti Country. Nct do not attach a sufficient degree of impor. canoe to the remarks in the leading, and indeed the poly Jacobin Print that is daily published, to in. &ice ua'to eng►►ge in a l'Aper War. We mean only occasionally to coned the bile of the Writer, which ba t i,bycn accumulating for more than a dozen years, and which, if it did 'not t:r.meti►nes get vent, must infallibly prove fatal to him. VVithout noticing the silly and prolix remarks in the ptplanation he has tou 6 ht necessary to give of his meaning under the head of « ari Presetit Coorit," by way of ex. twuiparian for his mischievous insinuatiOns, in which he is cxccuivcly indignant at an observation we made a few days ago, we shall eontent ourselves with giving him an answer to his question— "l Do nue stilly triumph over France and heat Bonaparte because he drinis 'tea and coffee tarried ittßritish bottoms ?" We have no hesitation in say. ing " yet," and we appeal to his own favourites, the French themselves, whose cause lie has so long espoused, for their opinion on the iubje4l. 7 -- ,Has , he forgot that his Friend, De LA CROIX, in one of his Conferences with Lord MALUESBURY, angrily exclaimed, 14 , Your ,Colonies and your Commerce herrJe enabled you to subsidize all Europe against us P.' Has he forgotten the fuss that his idol BONAPARTE lately made in his Custom. , house and Commercial Regulations ? Has he for gotten. the exertions: this great Man made to secure to France the Colony of Saint Domingo, so important to her interests; that for this end he sa, crificed his best Troops, 'arid collca.ed . together the best remains of his shattered Navy If he has • forgot, he may depend upon it BONA.PARTE has nut ; and- we most cordially congratulate , Our Merchants and Shopicepers, whom he and his Friends affeft to despise, that ". it cannot fail to humble the pride- of the upstart Emperor to n7)4/ill, as hi must do, that the Tea and Coffee he dried: • Must be: brought to him front the Colonies, and from the East,,in British Bottoens,", Thanks •to our Co lonies, and our Commerce, for enabling us to mantuNavy, which is our best security, and . whose a l ellAty,,,:zeal, and braery,,will, we have no doubt, con6ne,the wretched. Fleet and.rlotiila, of the,mk e hfy tips! g rt in their Ports, •till, , they . become rotten let him build and repair his . §hips as 'much as . he pleases'; he must know, that without Commerce, and without Colonies, he can never make Seamen'; add we hope and trust. it is the policy of our Cai. net of Shopkeepers, that he never shall be able to . do so; a policy which, however much it may dis. tress oar Enemy, and conietfuently annoy the An. glo.oallieio Scribbler', we confidently believe will ultimately triumph . oi:er "rune' e, and enable us to beat BONAPARTV.' • ' On Thursday afternoon the LORD CHANCELLOR and Mr. PITT had audiences of HIS MA J RiTY. About seven o'clock THEIR MAJENTIPA, ac. companied by the Doius Of KENT and GLoucES. -raR, came from the, Queen's Lodge to Windsor_ Terrace ; the weather being remarkably firw, and it being the lase evening prevkus to the departore of the ROYAL FAMILY for Weymouth, it was more crowded than any evening this season, except last Sunday. Great numbers of the Nobility and Per, sons of Distindinn were present. Among ,them were the Marquis and Marchicirtes's . of Tnomotio ; Lord and Lady RE NLEY, 1-401dVALSINGHAm, and Mrs. FILIFMANTLE, the Miss liAttvalts, Baum D.RUNTiot, Gen. and MIS,HARCOURT. MA,lisl'lts conversed Willi several of the The Bands of the Dug a of Kt: wt.'s, and the 9th Regiment of Light Diagoons, attend e d, ,and played during, the stay of the RovAt, FAmt L. S , Jon after eight, o'clock the RoYAL FAmILY left the Terrace, and 'retired to the Castle, where they, had'a select parry. Yest'erday morning, about,nint o'clock, the .De. tachnient of Guards doing, duty at 'Windsor, 4nd ihe §th Regiment of Pght Dragoons; marched from the 134rracks at WindSor to the Queen's Lodge, opposite which they formtd a line, Great numbers speaatots were attraCled u to the . spot to see t h e C dep.irture of the RoYAFAmII.Y. AI 11.111 n i ne mite R o tr.tN-11l."C and Attendants came out of the Lodge, and went in th e i r carr i ages i n ' t h e. following order : Majesties in a post-chariot and four. ' Princetscs Augusta; Elizabeth, and Mary, att en d e d by the Countess of Aylesbury, in a coach and tour. The Princesses Sophia and Arndia, attended by Lady Ma, tutu %Vinyard and Isabella Thynne, in a coach and tOur. The Duke of Cambridge, attended by Generals Cartwright . t and Fitzroy. • Ar. the Rova. PARTIT passed the lines, each Re. giment saluted, and the Bands played. The PR IN. ccssEs appeared afiated at leaving their favourite residence. The Royal Cavalcade pro cee d e d on t h e road by Benfield and Workingham, on their way to Sir WILI lAM Pi•rr' a i to dinner. The Watermen bcfunging to. the. A►lmiralty are gone to Weymouth in the Royal ,Sovereign Yacht, for the purpose of attending .1 nt ttt MAJESTIES. The PRINCE Of WALES, on the day when the• interview was to take place between him and his Royal Father, wrote a letter himself. to Efts MA. JEsT.YI crating the indisposition which prevented t he happy meeting. The disappointment was much felt by the ROYAL Fat.t iL y, who ,all confidently expetteci that the PRINCE- would have partaken of the' dinner which was pluvided ,fur the interesting .occasion. Yesterday the DUKZ of Ka NT left Windsor for. Castle Bear Hill. • Yesterday, at two o'clock, a Privy Council was held at turd HA Ito w y's Office, which was at. • tended by the LoRD CHANCELLOtt, Earl CAmos N, Lor'd HARRONBY, Mr. PITT, &c.&c. Yesterday Dispatches were received from Sir CHARLIL3 COTTON, off BITSI, which were forward. ed to Lord MELVILLE at Witnbledon, Yesterday a Court of Dircaors was held at the r,,,, s 'r„L i dia House, when a variety Of Dispatches were signed for the ditlerent Presidencies in India and St. Helena. The Court, which was very filly at tended, adjourned at Six o'clock till Wednesday next. . Gqvernment has determined On buying up several CaSties, or 00)11g-built Mansions, •in the ciuntry parrs of Iteland, under the General 11.!leoce:Aa, to serve as military stations, or deptit i „ Th ey h ave commenced with the putchaSe of Portumna Code, t h e seat or the Fill of, CLAratICAIWF 3 near the banks of the Shannon, EWS. HARwlcti, Auc. z4. 7 --The Prince of Wale: Packet, Capt. IivARN, sailed this morning, with the two last Mails for Gottenburgh. A remarkable- fine Gun.vesscl, of twelve large guns, called the Pincher, was this day launched from this Dock.yard ; and another of the same class is in a state of forwardness. The keel of a Frigate, of 36 guns, on a large scale, is now preparing, and the Ship will be built with all possible expedition. SHEERNPSS, Atm z4.—Airived the Duke of Kent hired Armed Ship, Capt. MORRISON, from Eisineur. Pissed by one of the Royal Yachts for Weymouth. • Came down the River to the Nore, the Liar Sloop of War', Capt. W. RICHARDSON, The Liam hired Armed Ship, Captain BRADRY, has the signal flying for Convoy, to Elsineur. Ships at this Port—Zealous, Ceres, Daft, Rattler. Tospec tor, Duke of Kent, Utile, Linn, and Earl. Spencer Cutter: DEAL; kuo. 24,--Arrived the !hie/ea, Eugenie, Railleur, Alert, and Cariew, Sloop* i froin the.Nore ; Magnanime from a Cruize to the Westward, and sailed to the Northward. The 11, , leva has made the Signal of Convoy to the Westward. The Whitby Transport came down from the River and remains. The Braizer Gun-brig came in from Dover Road and remains. In the Downs—the Utrecht, Inflexible, Helena,. Eu geitie, Itailleur, Alert, Curlew, and llruizer ;Armed Defence Ships i and Transpor ts, as'before. ~----r PoßTsmotram, Auo. 24.—This day came into Harlaour, His ,Majesty's Ship m C'4pt. .jAmEs; also the Bethrobon and EgYptiiime; . Arrived—the ulessing, Goodhall, •KubY, , Anderson, Lady Bruce, Armstrong., Awn, Suwierland g, Friends Goodwill, Dreyden, from Newcastle ; Lawrence , Maria, seragg, .and tredrick. Nile, Wilson, from .liiga. Lours XVIII. and ti,e Duke WANCOULE MR are safe out of tlv• Pru,sian Ouminioris. Letters arrived on, Wednesday from Warsaw, which.state, that the Dutehess D'ANQ•iur..thlr, had reAcived l etters from het hushan,l i : &tied on the third day af ter hi a partlife froifi Warsaw. Fits MAjgrry and His Royal IlighnesS expected to be at Groan() on the following day. Between the aoth. of June and zoth of July, no less than sixty-six persons committed suicides at Pais, of whom twenty-two were women. Eig h. teen drowned themselves, eight hanged themselves, thirty poisoned their elves, and ten shot them selves. Among them, the most remarkable Was Josephine Barre, in the RueSt.Mminique, fit of jealousy, p.)isoned her lover, and aftcrws"t!! herself ; but, apprehensive that the poison world have no effect, she shot herself through the heart.. •A letter upon the table explained the cause of this rash aft. She was just turned of seven teen, and an only child of a rich wood merchant, who has been mad ever since. Her mother•died of convulsions on the day of her daughter's suicide. Another suicide, L ou i s D e F a y, age d t wenty-one, fell in love with his ow n s i ster ; an d his mother hav ing discovered his ince s tu ous p ass ion, - he poisoned them both, and afterwards hanged himself. In a letter to the Prefect of Police, he demanded to be buried in the same grave with his. sister, which has been consented to. She was not quite fifteen. According to the registers of the Police, the 5 ; common girls in Paris amount to . 4 4, 0o and 1809 kept mistresses are known to the Police. — Among these unfortunate persons, nea rly one. third are divorced women, who, within some few y ears, have been married to several husband,i. The former laws . concerning divorces may therefore truly be called the laws of legal prostitution, and they have done more harm to the morals of the people than all the horrid examples, vices, and crimes, they have witnessed since the Revolution. According to our renewed civil code, it requires at least twelve months before an. at of divorce can he obtained, A Memorial has been presented to the French Go. vernment, in which it has been proposed, that." every French Citizen, every year, on the day of his mar. riage, or on the birth of a child, should be obliged, under a tine of fifty livres, to plant a tree in the neighbourhood of his residence ; and that every parent, widow, widower, son, and daughter, on the day of the decease of their relatives or friends, are to plant trees on their graves, Or ,not far distant from their plaees of burial. If this Memorial was changed into a Law, not only fuel would be cheaper, but in ten ye'ars we should have timber enough to build. both Flotillas and a Fleet more powerful and numerous than that of * England ; and, instead of importing timber or planks from Russia, Sweden, and Denmark, we should have sufficient to provide Spain,' Portugal, and Italy, with this necessary 'article." The concourse of the BOURBON PRINCES at Russia,' added to the preparations which the Em. peror ALEXANDER has for some time been making, portend some important movements that seem likely to be produCtive of extraordinary events. The career of the French Usurper has been marked by such oppression, injustice, and violations of the rights and independence of other States, and he has treated al pacific mediations with so much con. tempt, that strong measures must be employed to check, if possible, hie insolence and daring ambition. His condo& at home too is so despotic, that nothing but the awe inspired by his Military hordes has prevented a general Rebellion against his ill-gotten power. The whole of Europe therefore seems to be ripe for vengeance on the great Disturber of • .Mankind ; arid we are not without hope that his downfall may soon be as conspicuous as his elevation, and prove a warning to ail upstart Tyrants to the end of time. ANDOVER, Au&. zip. EIS MAJESTY; wi:h the ROYAL FAt42LY, at. rived at the Star and Garterinn this evening about seven o'clock. His MAJESTY appeared well and in high spirits. He was received with the accla. mations of the People, and the streets were lines with parties of the zsth and loth Light Dragoons,. and. the Andover rolunteert nyder armr—the Band of the Volknteer Corps saluting with " God save the King," which was repeatedly re-echoed by the populace. Mr. Cut. HumFRY, Builder, of Cambridge, has offered. to furnish, at his own expence, seats, &c. for the conveyance of the Volunteers of that, Coun. ti', in else of invasion, upon the Plan which has been approved of by His Royal Higlinc,s the Commandet in Chief. s Capt. WILLIAM GRIFFIN, of the t . 4.th Regiments . 1 .-. is arrived at. Ely, to take the command of the Royal I. Army of Reserve intended to he assembled the re. The. Rev. Mr. Gt./on gave a most sumpt uous / dinner, on Wednesday, at Ilia house in Hanwell, 10 11:' . the DUKE of CAMBRIDGE, and a selea party o f persons of distinttion ; among them wer e the i , Dutchess of LE Eris and her Sister, Miss ANMIIIII, Earl MOAINTNORRIS, Lords KIRK WALL1111(1 1 . SIDA NEY, Sir SIDNEY SMITH, General TAI4". litee ' ' Alter dinner a number of excellent Glees and Duets were sung by the l)vica of CaNtaitiougs Mi" GLissr, and Mr. SALE, jun., who presided at the , Piano-forte. His Royal Flighuess is a very ready ' and correa singer; he.took a part in Italian ?keel 1 . . , as well as English, with very great taste. , On Monday evening a foot-race of 25 rods was ... run at Faversham, between the noted BARROWS Of 1 that place, and a Gentleman hoot London, for 50 guineas, which was . won by the former, who bea.t his antagonist half a rod. On the 17th inst. the cause between the Earfat .'' CORK and Lady .FITZGERALD, Caine on at Corks and the Jury returned a verdia for the Pla,l,?t id i by which his Lordship, gets immediate posse ss c be a valuable trait of land near that city , sa i d to worth i 5001. a.year, to which the Defendant cl aim. ed a title tot nineteen years longer. . , IVEr. The Papers and Correspondence of the lat e WI LKEi, which are about to be published by Mr. ALMON, WCIC the genuine Cohesion of that cele . brated Charafter, left by him to Miss WILK I / g a .il bequeathed by her Will to Mr. PETER ELPSS LEYP .1! and given by the present Mr. Et.sist.rir , A L MON. This genuine Colleaion has sinCe he ro enriched by the liberal Contributions of seve r ," Noblemen, and of the respeCtable branches of 114 Family. . , ~,,, It is now discovered that the Crops of. Lel" though perhaps not so abut tlant as he - year s ? I.'. : 1 , likely to produce a fair average supply i n the 111 . 1 7.. , cipal districts in Englanti ; the blights and 0001,. tiCal ling so prevalent as has been sta ted b y I°'" Agricultural Reporters.' On account of the late rise in the p rice.OfG" plui.n.l_ it is, reported. , that, Government,.. with . a laudat attention to the alecesSities of the - ro ar + 41 , 7 1 4 % priters tor its Age n t s , both in th e Balt ic an 7 _ the Meditertarein, ..to b uy up itornecitatety age 1 . r•' quantity of Wheat and Barleys a nd to ship Pc. for this Country direaly, that it rnay arrive . . fore the winter. We have, besides heard, 'fiat orde r ! h a ve from our Merchants, tan the. same account, ar' been sent to Germany, Russia, Poland, and AMe:- . riea, within these last four weeks, to the amoun t of no less than t h r ee millions sterling, whi ch !' the cause that the exchange on foreign County? t : .• hat been rather falling. Upon every part of 0 1 i ''.• : Continent, the harvest has not, in the mernorP: m a n, been more abundant ; and 'grain has in Countries fallen sixty per cent, from what it waslestt Spring. In France and Brabant it has fallen fif t y per cent. and. such is the quantity to be dialv il ': 1 . : 4 of there, that BONAPARTE, has been forced to per. mit a free exportation even to Holhind,' though h e l .' is well aware that the Dutch Merchants arch P . u r " .', r chase grain in France, Brabant, ot.Flaudars. to n .w; : , P awn ne harvest besides, a b i e n si t d o es sl;e Merchants in England,. ' hit ' though not So plentiful...S.7i. year, is, however, sufficient, with little ittls, l4 t tion from abroad, to supply our wants *A sa% l Summer. No scarcity in this article ia th't— to be apprehended. A Letter from Canterbury,• dated August 3 1 s t a h y e s i.t 71,.Spiinacnetantiuornsl;:sttheRyTanvrte by y f n tl o te in c e o a n n d s i ni ti e o lla n de a d, in their, promise of the crop that had been expeci e .: the cold weather has every where checked their growths they are small and uncommonly ward, and in. some places mouldy.% Duty 1 4.01 14.5,0001. a, On Thursday evening a journeyman cope' -_ _ coming- from Edmonton, where he had been at at- a' job at a Gteotlexnates. house, and having ed his money, called house, will stopped till about ten O'clOck drinking ; after proceeding,to London with his, bag, of tools, accosted near Stamford Hill by two men, who ed him down, and robbe.4 him :al what tnl had, amounting to upwards of late:WWl %chi made their :ctOape..,, f WedneidaY evening. as tW young n' crossing the fields froin Peckham, they' wei , by Several fellows near the 'Kent Road, to be a press gang,. who took their wa, them as a pledge that they 'would - meet 1, morning at apublic house in Kent.S tee.; went with someltiends ; but the Villains did not keep-their appointment; A one.year old new Leicester sheep , 'cabbages, turnips, and grass only, l'py Mr. of Willesborn, slanghtired it. Canterbury 'din 'weighed 116 lb. the. Carcases includ head. -A few days since as John Staff rd, a boy a' teen years, :iierVani to Mr. Briggs , a t , near Derby, was crossing the river at there, with a load of coals, he aciidentallt the fore horse and was unfortunately drove" accident was occasioned. by a flood•upon Another servant as weli. as all tlie hors' the gre atest danger, but fortunateky the saved, r11:1:;r1 their y I4° l ' 41 carpen te; :,. sn at wc ii:.;, ing reCel , w her e': tiler wlii‘ ,18, he ‘'. -4 vlio al oof) ; Nhia i !:' • w het . (31 1 : ° ' fed 41 , r. BA° t. , on ' 1 b 6; yageo.* - 4 , Alc , " tt' t he P I fell F, 1 the (Jv ley o e ' 1