The Sun. — London, England, 1804-08-28 00:00:00

THE PRESENT CONTEST. IT might be expeaed. that the dreadful copse. quences which attended the attempt to carry. the. Revolutionary Principle's of France into pratlice, would have prevented any of our Public Journals, at this time, from contributing their efforts in arty. respeft to lessen the horror whichthose Principles must excite. Even the liberal .Friends' of a Re. public, who detest the excesses of Jaeobinism, might be expefted to look with more complacency towards a Monarchical form of Government, since Repub. lican Principles tend to jacohinism, and to the establishment of a Military Despotism. It might indeed be expelled, that if our Journalisis were not cyred of their, errors, they would have. too much common sense to-insult the feelings, of Britons, by attempting to damp the spirit of their Country at the most critical period of its history ! Yet we find that there are degenerate Englishmen who take every opportunity of discouraging the exertions Of their Country to save itself from the menaced yen, geaoce of its most deadly Foe, and to animate that Foe in his endeavours to destroy us : yet they , are only " afraid that they shall be accused of //mi. evirei!" For our parts we conceive, that instead of being accused of it:civil/sr, the soft and tender term which they have borrowed from their favonrite.Po. liticians, the French Revolutionists, these Writers deserve , to be stigmatized with every opprobrium that charasfleriZes• the enemies of their Country.— The Writers we allude to are constantly trying, by all possible means, to weaken the National Defence, or to bring it into ridicule. Sometimes they la bour to &eft thcir purpose .by an appearance of argument, but more frequently by tareorous abuse, contemptible ribaldry, 'and sneering impertinence. Having done their utmost to bring derision upon the Volunteers, they now endeavour to throw ridi. tole upon the Meetings for the purpose of arranging methods for the conveyance of our Troops to any point of attack at which their services may be sod denly required. These Writers tell us, that such Meetings should not be. voluntary, but should have resulted from the positive orders of Government. if Government had issued orders for that purpose, the same Writers would doubtless have exerted their talents, with the utmost vehemence, against the severity of Goverornimr, as well as its impolicy, in neat leaving th,e matter to the spontaneous offers of a pateiotic People, who have shevin so much attachment to their Country, by honourably corn. ing forward with their voluntary services in a mi litary cliarataer. , Such Writers obviously na upon a t7etermined, system of hostili:y to Government, and always will do so, till their Own friends get into power, Can they titbit: that the People will place airy eenfeleece in then,? Can they think that they will excite any thing but con. terry, end ahhortence ? But these Writers, on the sane" d a y i n which they attempt to depreciate and frustrate all the measure" of N.'itional Defence, tell us that the preparations of the,Eeeory, o' if not complete, according to a pre.arranged system, ap. bear gigantic and pro:it/able." M Arc they then performieg an ad of public dirty iii attempting to w ea ken and degrade our efforts to resist these gi. ' ..e . a ; ft i c ant i formidable preparations ? But what rea.' lion have they to insinuate that the Enemy's prepara. titers. are pot complett , according to a pre.airenged ' plan ? Ifal not the Enemy had time enough to arrange Isis hostile system ? I las he not, in fait, laboured in. cessantly to arrange his system in the most complete and formidable' order ? Do these Writers wish to put us off our guard, by inducing us to believe that we shall be attacked with numbers withaut system, and that Noce we may easily throw our Invaders into coast , ion ?---4"510,. these degenerate men, who do not de:;teve the name of Britons, tell us that our arvernmeot is weak and inefficient, and more than insinuate that we should become an easy prey to an prienty used to vielory, and eager fut. plunder. But such is the inconsistency end folly of the .Writers alluded to, that while they urge, the necessity of an aCtive conitont on the part of Government to carry into effeEt measures fir conveying our TroOPs' at a time of emergency, they lay, that the zeal of the People to furnish the means would have existed just as much, without the Meetings. Where then was the necessity for interposing the commands of Go. ve,rnment, when the voluntary zeal of the People would supply alt that Givertonent could re q uire ? How was this zeal to be manifested, unless such Meetings were to he held, in brdcr to bring the Friends of their Country together, and to arrange their voluntary offers into the form of an effeCtual tein It is evident chat these Writers, whose eT position to Government is uniform, whatever may be its measures, are blinded by their malice, and , refute themselves by their absurd inconsistencies, BLit they are blind also to their own interests; for if, by unnerving the arm of their Country, they could strengthen that of the Enemy, they would here little chance of escaping in the general wrck, whaever they, might expeff from the graitude" of teat' Enemy—not for their inc;virscs,, but for theirpersevering promulgation of those sentiornts whicl have a tendency to betray the Land that save them . birth to its most deadly Foes—whose sue. cess would be followed by massacre, desolation, and irretrievable ruin. We than resume this subjea; in order to detea the malice and expose the folly of Writers who digs. graces the British Press, and convert it into an in strument of hostility to their Country. MAILS. DUI. ARRIVID. Hamburg h t PRICE OF STOCKS, THIS DAY AT ?WILMA oictocn. Consols - - 57 a Red. Ann. • 57a ( Omn. 6i THE SUN. 110.1.1A1 21/15 DICER/ YALSUM AUDZA.T ? LONDON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 28, 180 . BONAPARTE is raid to have been at Etaples on the 23d instant, where a considerable' Force is col. Teed, and a number of Gun.bnats and other craft• There is little doubt that the attempt at Invasion will be made immediately. The Blonde Privateer has been captured, and car. tied into Cork, by the Loire Frigate, commanded by Captain MAITLANo, after a running fight of near twenty hours. This is the Privateer that captured the WA/trent, and which has done to our trade:a prodigious deal of mischief in the course of the pre. sent War,—The particulars %%ill appear in this evening's Gazette. IT appears by the private Letters which were brought.. by the last Hambargh Mail, that uNA. PARTE is . adopting the same system of procrasti. natini policy towards Russia that he did towards this Country immediately before the commencement of Hostilities, It is obviously his interest to delay giving an answer to the Ultimatum delivered by the Russian Charge' di Alaires, M. D'OtratttL, be. cause that answer will most probably be The signal for the commencement of Hostilities, as it is by no means likely that BONAPARTE will comply with the demands made by . the Esapeitoa of Rusits.. • Atpresent M. D'Ooaat c. cannot obtain an'answer to his Note, because there is no ostensible Minister at Paris whose duty it is to transmit it to BONA. PARTE ; for TALLEVRAND, whose immediate pro wince it is, has taken the .opportunity of 11 ) s t er's absence, to go .into the Country. 1,.-se evasive tricks, however, cannot avail long; for it is generally believcd that the Russian Courier, that passed through Carlsrulie, on his way to Paris, on the 9th, catried inslruclions to M. D'Oua R. It to leave Paris intotetliately, in case no answer, or k.rie of an uns itistaeinry nature, was given to the Note %%bleb he ha.l presented. . 'That 80r.:.5? ARTS feels, it impossible to avoid a Rupture with Russia without abandoning his plans of aggrandizentent and plunder, r obvious, from the official paragraphs in die Mairiteur, anti from the pains which he has suddenly taken to conciliate the Cabinet of Vienna. instead: of the haughty language which he would, under other circum stances,have held to Austria, in' consegoence of her still declining to acknowledge his usurped Title, we find him earnestly negotiating that point, without at least. any public appearanee of insult and the Writs which have been thrown out in the Alonittur resped. ing the Republic of the Seven Islands, art evidently intended to amuse the Cabinet of Vienna for the present,. and to excite that degree of,. distrust be - tween it and the Cabinet at Petefihurgli, that will, he hopes, prevent them'from cooperating for the general deli v.:rance of Europe. - The artifice, however, is too obvious to succeed but it very evidently skews that BON:.! ! PARTE begins to be sett. ti itg e o f the danger of that situation into which his unprovoked aggressions, his boundless ambition, his treachery, and his cruelty have brought hits. T will be seen by our Letters from the C oas t o f Kent, that on Sunday afterooon a smart Cannonad. ing took place between our Blockading Squadron and the French Flotilla, supported by their Batteries ,at Boulogne. We have not yet learnt the particulars of the affair; but one of our Cutters was so damaged by the fire from the Batteries, that she sunk soon after. The Crew, it is supposed, were saved. IT is with the , highest satisfaction that we are able to congritulate the Public -on : the remo. val of our apprehensions respeaing the state of the Harvest. Notwithitanding the gloomy appear ances in, so'rne places, the general asped of the Country in 'this roped 'is very promiling. There .was a material fall in The Corn Market yesterdaz ; and we haVe - lit tie doubt that 'the . 'price would have continued to.dectline, even independently, ,of the llirge importations 14tely mak fern other Countries.' NAP‘iL E,W S. M.W ER, Auo. 27. —The horizon being uncom monly clear yesterday afternoon, our hills were lined with spedators, too,view .a spirited attac',•: made by a part of the Boulogne Squadron on the Enemy's Flotilla, which was out in great numbers. Our Cruizers were so close in with the land, as 'to raise the greatest apprehension of their being materially damaged by the incessant fire kept. up from the land Batteries. One of the Armed Cut. ters having got very close in, and being in much danger, a Frigate (supposed to be the Inwrortalite) was observed to stand most gallantly in between the Battiries and the Cotter, to take off the fire from the latter, and for some time kept up a most spirited fire. I am sorry, however, to add, that the Cutter, which is said to be the Constitwtion hired Armed Cutter, of this place, wa's so much damaged as soon afterwards to sink. Her Crew, there is every reason to hope, were saved, as the Boats from the Squadron were seen rowing to the spot immediately after she went down. PORT,MOVTII, AUG. 27. —His Majesty's Ship Ajax yesterday was paid wages, and will shortly .. sail with the Defiance, which was paid on Friday, to join the Channel Fleet. The it ille de .Paris, of I 10 guns, went out of Harbour to Spithead, having been new coppered and refitted, and will also sail, to juin the Fleet off Brest, as soon as she has been paid. Sailed the Zobir Frigate, Capt. Lord Frrzitor, to attend on His Majesty at Weymouth ; and the Royal Charlotte Yacht, Capt. TuWR EY, passed through Spithead: the Crescent Frigate, and several Yachts, passed round the Isle of Wight on the same service. The Avenger Sloop has made Signal for Convoy to Halifax and Newfoundland. •. The Revointionaire Frigate has hoisted a Signal for Convoy to the East Indies. His MAjesty's Schooner Ant was last night seized by two Custotn.house Officers, who have sil,ce sent her in here, having on board 109 tubs of spirits, and 19- hales of tob•rceu. Arrived His Majesty's Ship Sylph, Capr. - GoAre, from a Cruizr ; the Ganges, MAIN, Adventure, NEWCAN, William and Ann, BR I MCI CU, Wit. ham, jAiN and joke, BitirroN, from Riga ; and Earl Gasstaf, Ni E Lsoit A, from Stockh dm. Als- arrived the //e/eNa Sloop of War, with the Ceres and C 0‘7,4!', Transports,. and several other oii.%%ard.bound Vessels, and a Convoy from the Downs. Sailed His Majesty's Ship Adamant, Capt. BURL. TON, with a Convoy fot the Dowm ; Tribley, 'rya EN, for Slnderland. Sailed the bryade Fr igate on a Cruize ; and the 'N ew , Sloop of War, the Penelope, RoBINsoN, and Ceres, BENAu ELD, bound to the West Indies, •under convoy for Cork, YARMOUTH, AUG. 27.—Arrived the 'vier lena, TitoßsoN, ttom Soen. Sailed the Zelust• WoDECOCK, fur Etnbden ; and Amara, MOSI, for Tunningen. The Fryhtrina, WARDIOR, with pitch, 'run, and deals, from Stockholm to Dieppe, is sent in by His . Majesty's Ship Ferreter. Arrived the Ferreter, Cetuor, and Hecate Gun_ vessels. Sailed the Magicienne Frigate, Cormorant Sloop, and Drake and Alert Cutters. DEAL, ALIO. 27. Sailed the Eugenia on a Cruize ufrOitend ; and Alert, on a Cruizt off WCSI Capel. Arrived the Dart from the Nore ; and Basilisk Pun-brig from a Cruize to the Westward. In the Downs—Monarch, Utrecht, ihtlcxible. Castor, Darr, 13wyi1i,k , Mariner, itruizer, Anned Detenix Shio; a► u i Trahspuris as before ; and !loyal I:►ccape Lighter, FALmouTii, Auc. 25.•--Sailed the Diana Packet, with a Mail, tor Lisbon. CAPTURES IN THE EAST INDIES. [raoM TrIL CALCUTTA GAZETTE.) Extraas frau: a Lour from Captain PAC E, dated 6th January, 1804. " I request you will inform the l'ilost Noble the G wernor-General in Council, that I had the g .l n d 'fortune to capture the French Privateer srig Les Freres Unit, of 14.0 tons, pierced for sixleen nine and six-pounderb, but with only eight on br , ard, and having 134 men, fifteen of whom were Of. ficerq, and forty soldiers, from Bourdeaux in July, and from Mauritiui the t tth NovetnOer, going to cruize off the Sand Hedtiti, and had out made a cap. Cure Extra& from a Lett e r fr om Captarn rAc w, dated the i+th of February, I 804. . . " •I request you will ►ntortn His Excellency the Most Noble M4rquis WELLestaY,, qivernpr-Ge. nerat in Council. that I am :mired at Kedgeree, in His Maje,tv'N Sup •Ulltiti my command,- with her kize the French .hip General De Caen, of 26 guns and zoo men, which I captoted between the Coco, and Andartian riles en the 4.iliinstant, and. befure he had mad a capture. '''This ship was built for a vessel of war equal' to cur twenty-gun ships, and carries eighteen tune r): ,!rulers On, her gun.deck, besides those on her quarter-deck and furecaStle, which are heavy cat., runades.", THE ACTION WITH I.INOIS. . . We are happy to have it in our poWer to submit to the pero. .salof the Public the following very minute account or t1;: - 'brilli-att Action our China Fleet had with Admiral 1.1 NO I.i, onthe memorable t;th of February. and which we Ilia& been favoured with bv a Gentleman who was an eye wit ness of that gltriuus Action : .0n the night of the 1 ath of February, we had very variable unsteady wiads, with thunder, light ning, and incessant rain, which occasioned the_ Fleet :3 be very much scattered at break. of day .-- At past eight, a. re. cm the t+th, the Royal George' made the signal for two strange sail in the S. W. and almost immediately after for four in the . same quarter. The Earl Camden (the Commodore). then made the signal for theßayerl George to chase, and some time after for the Alfred, Hope, and Bombay Castle, to chase also.—About noon the Royal George made the signal that the chase was suspicious, anti at half past for an Enemy. At this time our Fleet were lying too in a line a-head, and the headmost of the chasing ships (the Royal George), near ly hull down, and apparently very near the strangers..Thf Royal George's signal to bring tars on the starboald tack. Observed the strangers. bring too also VIM,. the .. same tack. • About halt' past two p. sr. the. chasing ships tacked, and msde sail to join theileeot,.`,,. 'as did the strangers. At five p., M. the signal 6 keep' - atAttarters during -ti)e : night ; by this ,tiOse. could plainly perceive the. Strangers to be A Ship of. the Line and two heavy Frigates, one tili letfi,er •size;fand a Brig; between six and seven jf- es. t he ' chasing ships- joined th'e 'Fleet, and took. their tt, _spedive stations in the Line of Battle; our Elect continued laying too in a line a-head during the night; but found it very difficult to preserve their stations, owing to light baffling winds and calreSP ' observed the strangers :frequsntly very near .0 6 rear-ships. At day-light the strangers to *villa" • ward about three miles in a close lilac flibead;• AL seven a ..m. the C oot i e " made t h e s i gn al to Mk: sail; and from the orde r o f sa ili ng , a t the sam e ti t sheaved -his Colours offering them-battle if theY ~ ! inclined, upon which t h e y c h ewe d French Culots,* the Line of Battle Ship c arr yi ng a Rear-Admi ral 's Flab ; the Brig shewed Dutch Colours; they bore u p 1 . , and made sail as we did . . About to a. nli obsetvei. the Royal George change stations with the A/frtris • which brought the former ship to be the leading ono in the starboard and weather line. At I 1 0. "'' t he Enemy bare up under a heavy press of ON seemingly with an intention of cutting off sortie of oar rear ships, when the Royal George, as if aware uvr s e t , tacked for theensign supportidpe ndn of a the ,i o re f ar t , hei h r av iii it a tg7 hoisted a blue , shortly after the Camden tacked , and ma de the signal for the /Farley and Ganges to do t he same, which was accortlinzly done. Aft e r t a . Royal George had tacked, and standing to sear '. ' the Enemy, they hauled their wind, but 0" rakill after bore up evidently for the purpose of her ; hut that maateuvre was completely by the Royal George bearing up with them. GAP c,Aiaba°l4, noon Capt. TI MI Ns, having laid the R oy a l nd9tie. alongside the Flag-ship, in the most gallan t 8 , - two termined manner, at about the 1 d_stance of d that tables, the Enemy opened.a tremendous fire on , fruStrate4 ship, which was returned, sand kept up during tt e . anion, in a manner that must ever refied the grestesS credit on the Ship's Company of the Rojo? Gtor e ili The Earl Camden anti Caves soon after al'e n ? ed their fire, the former ship being on the lee 4 0 f" ter of the Royal George, and the Ganger on hcr ICC bow, and very, near her. Those three ships vet° the only ones that were engaged. The Ene'll after engaging about twenty- fi ve minutes, ihau' e • t • a fo n u d r m; . de m a . ll th sa e il a , ig w i l i t a e i n % (.. v At a r s F ttl it‘e id t e r to ve tack, ; an b d u A t ' v e s d r: e oc ‘ e v e t r i l o e l t e i onof theirour v fi Tig proceeded which was the only Ship that sustained the strA l h i ; , eat damage, and that was not so great as Int R ea gain T st he th E e 4 N r ay inY ar' dire - have been expened, considering she had to e w - fi l tend with so very superior a force. She had ont o kilned, and one severely wounded, many th° t hei licr hull, her rigging and sails very much Cur, hot tore topsail.prd shot through, and many 91- , damages. George, 01 It I may be allowed to particularize indivi d • oft merit, • Captain 1 . 1:41 Ns, of the Royal Gravies rP f 2 certainly deserves the highest praise and that k" fri ; brave and grateful People ; it may, perhaps, bY 11) „ 6 . be deeined temerity to lay a loaded Indibman 8 1 °4 side tit an Bogun Ship; but allowing that to be ' Case, his Motive must have been a •hoble ones f or at there is no d übt but that by so d o ing. he `AI t o she ri , que.of his own life anti of his valuablee '!el/e" the saviour of the whole Fleet. Indeed, 0 let the emphatic wor.is used by a Gentleman, Ni s '''',,f, in one of .our Snips, when at Malacca, shOtl,4 : to Oe anion, " Captain TIM I aiS old Villed.a. laiiv : I executed." SHIP DAR Tpsotrii, Au G-tt;t. .23.—0 n Tuesd4 L b : 2lit in the eVenittg,',was laur.,chtd 'ficat ) ".'i TANNGA's extensive Y.trd,S, Hie Majesty 's 13ri L . t War Staso.ch, a remaikable fine vessel. offin to elegant - and majestic styles amp ,61 large colic iurse of speElaters ; and ~the followi n g a very grand entertainment was given on itul..°cc a i r lion, in the Woodi, by ' Mr. SEA/Ai - ill owner s to a large as s embly I,,adie4 ;rilt where every thing 4 ! 5% 4 74 to the sense, and lovely to the eye, " I . was exhibited, the former on the table, and the ' s o ter in the female part of the company. 0 " e 4 t his Commissioner* of . the Navy being preen', health was given , with a' discharge of, siva ° o f guns,' from a battery situated at the hospital) this enchanting retreat, to which place the c.)1111:r"Si retired to tea 4; an apprnpriatehour, and alter c, embarked in barges, decorated . with coloars, Mrs this Sea FenCible Band of Music also Aor g TAkri*lt's _Barge ledahe van Ihe being Com,iir upon the occasion), and ro w i n g round.thrfilihalt Corvette, she saluted the company 'with a dio of artillery, which being re.echue4 fgoTO t."