The Sun. — London, England, 1804-01-25 00:00:00

MAILS. DUI Hamburgh 3 THE SUN. SOLLM QUIS DICERS FALSUM AUDEA.T ? waatvlD. LONDON, J ANUA R Y 25, 1804. EIS MAJESTY, we have great pleasure in stating, is hourly recovering from his indisposition. It was, we are well informed, a slight attack of a regular gout, which most persons concur in think ing a circumstance favourable to His MAJES TY'S long enjoyment of the soundest health. He was able yesterday to walk about the apartments of Buckingham_house ; indeed it is hoped that in a day or tWO His MAJESTY will be able to take his list:al exercise. A Levee is announced for Wednes day the ist of February, and a Drawing-room for the 9th. WE now hope that Admiral CORNWALLIS has been able to weather the storm of Thursday night last, without the necessity of returning into port. Such of his Ships as have been obliged to come in from having sustained damage, will soon be in a condition to rejoin the Fleet. The Northumberland, of 74 guns, is arrived at Plymouth from Bantry Bay. Previous to her sail. ing from thence, the Spartiate, of 74 guns, had ar_ rived there, a circumstance which gave great satin. fzclion, as some apprehensions were begun to be en. tertained respeding her. THE Cumberland, of 74. guns, and the Chichr.oer of 44, arrived yesterday at Portsmouth. The lat ter was Convoy of the from Jamaica, and we are sorry to say has brought one Vessel only of the Convoy, the rest having been dispersed in the late violent gales. We have the pleasure to announce the arrival of part of the Leeward Island Fleet in the Downs. IT is now said, but with what truth we know not, that the Chief Consul has changed his plan for the Invasion of this Country. Iliac he begins to see the impraelicability of pushing his Flotilla of Boats to sea in the face of a British Squadron, we can readily suppose, for it can require but little observation to convince any man of the con sequences of such an attempt. His plan is now said to be, to get our Cruizers under his Batteries in a calm, to disable them, and then push over be. fore our Ships and Vsssels can be in a condi tion to follow him. When our Vessels are be calmed, he thinks he can send out such a number of Gun-boats as will surround, and at least disable them, if not take them. These Boats are to be manned by Italians, . of whom it is said he has about 6000 now at Boulogne. These men may be accustomed to Boating, but they are not used to face British Tars ; besides, if the above be really amongst the new devices of BONAPARTE, wb.ere cines.he suppose are to be the aEtivity, and skill, and presence of mind of our Naval Officers, at any time more than equal to baffle and de feat such puny projeds ? We do not say that our Vessels may not be becalmed occasionally upon the French Coast, and such a thing may happen even under a French Battery ; but while the French are taking the advantage of such an accident, are our men to remain quiet spelators of their impending fate, without an effort, to retreat or to annoy the assailing Enemy ? If any such idea as our Vessels falling into his power in this way, has ever entered the tri;.nd of the Chief Consul, it only proves to us, that he has ceased to, hope that his attempt has any chance cf success. He waited till the long nights and thLk weather of Winter should favour his design. These he fi: - Ris unpropitious, and he is now to try what Summer, fine weather and c tms, will do for him. If his condud is regulated by such vagaries, his grand projed of the Invasion of Britain cannot fail ultimately to mike him ridi culous in the eyes of the whole world. MUCH speculation is afloat with respe4 to Spain, same thinking an immediate War with that Power unavoidable, while others repose a blind confidence in the policy and ability of,Ministers to prevent it. Upon what data the latter opinion is sounded, - we are at a loss to conjeaure. Ever since the renewal of the War :with France, it has appeared to us im. ,possible to avoid a War with Spain ; but in place of cur choosing the time for its commencement, inf..s! favourable and advantageous to ourselves, we have. left it to BONAPARTE to diaste and arrange v,ry thing with respcet to that *Vassal Friii.c4 • If cur Ministers seriously ui,hed to as , 'id a Spanish War, they should have begun with measures of spi:it and,precouti( n..they shopld have t iken.security for tht preservaiion of the Spanish ;Neutrality, by conduCting into our own Ports the Treasure from South America, which 29 novi fast ii swing into the Coffers of the Chief Consla) of France, and is enabling him to proseeute, upvn so large a scale, his plans of livesion againn this Country. Had we adypted this measure in. , the first instance, we might have had some re. liance upon the professions of Spain, and if she had been forced at any time during the War into open hostility, we should have had ample compensation in our hands—but mere professions from a Country so unequivocally under the direaion of our invete rate Enemy, it is study, to say no worse of it, very silly to build upon. It must be very obvious to every one, that it does not, at the present moment, at all depend upon the decision of the British Ministers, whether or not Spain shall maintain a nominal Neutrality, (for certainly it would only at best be a no minal Neutrality), while she is supplying France with the sinews of war. Her being at Peace or War, turns upon the sovereign pleasure of the Chief Consul, and is it reasonable to suppose, at a time when he is meditating such vast schemes of attack against this Ccuntry, that he will not avail himself of the considerable'Fleet which the Ports of Spain can send out ? It has for these last two or three' days been strongly reported in the City, that several emi. nent French Banking Houses have been drawing Bills upon Houses in London, for the purpose of facilitating the payment of the Subsidy paid by Spain to France, as they cannot draw direa upon Madrid, there being no commercial inter. course between the two Capitals. We hope this report cannot be well founded, but if it is, does it not prove that BONAPARTt has address enough to make use of us even, as tools to serve his own pur. poses ? If, however, there be any foundation at all for the rumour, it is surely the duty of our Go. vernment to interfere in a transaaion so favourable to the interests of our open and inveterate Fue. A Dublin Mail of the 2131 arrived this morning. Yesterday about twelve o'clock HER MAJESTY, an. the PRINCESSES AUGUSTA and ELIZABETH, at tended by the Countess of HA,RCOURT, took an air ing in a coach and four, with the usual escort, by Hampstead and Highgate. PR INCESS AMEL T A, attended by Lady S.THYNNE, took an airing by Battersea and Clapham. Yesterday morning the DUKE of CLARENCE left London for Brighton, on a visit to the PRINCE. Yesterday the Dung of YORK and PRINCESS SO PHIA of GLOUCESTER visited THEIR MAJESTIES. Yesterday morning, at eight o'clock, the remains of the Right Hon. CHARLOTTE Countess Dowager TALBOT, were removed from her Ladyship's house, in Grosvenor-square, to be interred with those of the late Earl, in the family vault at Ingestrie, near Litchfield, in Stafirdshire. The cause of her sud den and much lamented death was an obstruetio n , occasioned by indigestion, which the Faculty en _ deavoured in vain to remove. Yesterday a Couit of DireEtors was held at the East India House, when Captain Rau ear WARD_ Low was sworn into the command o f t h e destined to Madras and Bengal. The Court ad. jf)urned at five o'clock till this day. Mr. TUCKER has left the Navy Board, but his successor is not yet appointed. It was supposed that Mr. PARKER, Nephew to .the Countess ST.; VI NC ENT, Would he appyinced t but his nomination, we believe, has not taken place. Letters were last week received at Lord Ho- BART'S Office, from Lieut.-Governor Cof.LINS, dated the zzd of August, who, in His Majesty's Ship the Calcutta had reached the Cape of Good Hope on his way to Port Phillip, for which place they were to sail with the first fair wind, and which they hoped to reach in six weeks from their sailing. The ship's cornpany and convias Were in good health. The Lieutenant-Governor speak s highly of the very flattering manner in which he was received' at the Cape. Ab art a fortnight ago, a Deputation from the Manufaauring Towns had an interview with Lord HAWKESBURY, on the subje6t of the unpaid debts of the Spanish Merchants, when he assured them that the demand of payment should he made again, and in the most peremptory terms. In the m ea „ t i me he informed them that no refusal of the had been atsemp:ed on the part of the Court of Sp a i n , and he believed that the delay had hitherto been cc cAsioned by temporary circumstances. The Marquis CoRNWALLIs is appointed to the command of the district of Suffolk and Essex. We understand that all the Guards, now guar. tered at Chelmsford, have received orders to march immediately to Harwich. Yesterday the Ist Regiment of Royal East India Volunteers were inspected by Lieut. Col. NAc F 2 and had afterwards a grand Field-day ; at the' conclusion, Col. HARNAGE addressed Col. MILLS in the following emphatic terms : "Sir, as a military man, I have to return you my thanks for the treat I have this day experienced ; and I quit the field with heartfelt pleasure, in the idea that His MAJESTY has at command the services of a Brigade, distinguisshed for the general discipline and . extreme corratiless of its manoeuvres. The usual Warrants are ordered to he applied for b the different Qaarter.masteis, of the Brigade of For Guards for a change of qur. : irs, on the zoli of February next. 'they are as lbllow : za Ke a , lion of the Ist gegimenr, 'Earracl,;:s and place's adjacent ; 2(1 BattalitiB of the Culdscreani Regiment, Portman Barracks and places adj 4c ',„ l the zd Battalion of the 3d Regiment go into tio : a: tc;s in Upper and Lower Westminsteri NAVAL NEWS. PLYMOUTH, JAN. 23.—Arrived the American Ship Sujjk, of Richmond, Capt. H. MooRE, from Virginia, for orders. She first touched at Falmouth, and sailed thence for Bourdeaux, where no commu nication with the shore was permitted, on account of her having touched at an English Port : sailed again to Falmouth,. and thence returned to Bour deaux ; but the same cause existing there as before, she tailed for this Port, and is now performing quarantine. Arrived the Imp eriease Frigate from Oporto ; and Northuwherland, of 7¢ guns, from Bantry Bay, where she left the S,partate, of 7•} guns, Capt. MANLEY, which has been for some days past considered a missing Ship. Arrived also L' Aigle Frigate, and Rambler Sloop of War, from a Cruize. PORTSMOUTH', JAN. 24.-Arrived the Brothers, BAAR, trom Jamaica ; Cumberland and Chicleerier Men of War, from the West Indies, and the Hydra Frigate, from a Crtlize. Sailed the Sylph Sloop of War, on a Cruize, and Pheasant Sloop of War, with the Ardent Transporr, with Troops under Convoy, for Gibraltar. DEAL, JAN. 24.—Came down the Zebra from the Nore. Sailed the Leda for the Nore. Arrived and sailed for the River, the Isabella, Green, from Charlestown ; rarren, Hill, from St. Kitts; Good Intent, Melville, and Ardent, Jennings, from St. Lucia ; Nymph, Johnson, from Trinidad ; Hero of the Nile, Abercrombie, Severn, Watson, and Le Mercury, —, from Tobago ; and several others from the Leeward Islands. In the Downs—the Monarch, Utrecht, Immortalite, Seine, Brilliant, Arab, Champion, Perseus, Autumn, Bonnetta, Harpy, Merlin, Speedwell, Zebra, Archer, Basilisk, Jackall, Locust, Starling, Mariner, Abundance Store-ship, Deptford' Lighter, with the outward-bound as per last. Dovtrlt, JAN.' 24.---rAs a Pilot-boat was going off with two Pilots in her, to two Ships this morning, she unfortunately struck against the Pier-head, un. hooked her rudder,, and got out of her coarse : the sea being Very wash, she stove, when one of the Pilots (Mr. STEPHEN jEpPRITS) WaS .drowned, l eav i n g a wile and seven children to lament his loss ; the other Pilot, Mr. fonctss, was restored by the means recommended by the Humane Society. COVE OF COAK, JAN. i B.--His Majesty's Ship Apollo, Capt. DIXON, arrived here this_morning from a Cruize. A Ship from the East Indies, an American Ship, and a .Brig from Liverpool, with the loss of her mainmast, also came in ; the wind blowing a gale at the 'time' of their arrival, neither of them could be boarded. The West India Fleet did not proceed to sea yesterday. It was very for tunate that the breeze had not blown with sufficient freshness to induce the Convoy to get under weigh, as the wind shifted in the night to the S.W. and has since continued to blow a %rely hard gale, attend ed with squalls and rain. pleasure to announc e t h e sa fe arri of the East I n di a s hi p t h e E x p er i me nt I f r r a t i ): l l lre Th Ch > oa m rv b ke a y. Captain CARNECIE sailed from thence the Bth of September, and from St. Helena early in Novem. ber. Parted company with the Marquis Wellesley extra ship from Bengal, since arrived in the South of Ireland. who was Commi ssary General at The Experinieirt's dispatches we re i n c h arge o f 1 ..' A In cinSequence Or several French Privateers M the r. C P a g pL irc E, hay ing lately been seen cruizing off Teneriffe, with the view, it is supposed, of falling in with our `Vest. India Fleet, the Lords Commissioners of the M in i. rainy have ordered Admiral CoxtrwAt4, is to send immediately one of the largest anti fastest sailing Frigates to cruize off the Western Islands, in order to proteft our shipping, and to capture any of the French Privateers they may happen to fall in with.. The Firgard Frigate has also been ordered to the Canaries, and to stretch from thence to the Coast of Africa, in quest of these Privateers, should they appear in that quarter. The Seagull, of 18 guns, the Plover, of 18 guns, and the Kite, of 18 guns, have been ordered to have their defeas made good at Plymouth imme. diately, for the purpose of being sent to the French Coast, EcLI PST.-There will be a visible Eclipse of the Moon to.morrow, which will begin at '44 minute; 31 seconds after seven o'clock in the evening. The time of greatest obscuration will be 5+ minutes and second after eight ; and the moon will be quite free from the earth's shadow, at 3 minutes 31 se. conds after ten. The eclipse will be visible to the inhabitants of Europe, Asia, Africa, and the East. ern parts of America. On Thursday night last, during a tremendous gale of wind from the S.W. considerable damage was done to the roofs of several houses in the city of Gloucester and neighbourhood. From various parts of the country we have heard of turf being torn up by the roots, &c. At Worcester a fatal accident was occasioned by a stack of. chimoies falling on the roof of a house occupied by Mr. HAAR Is, Attorney ; in one of the upper rooms where the nursery maid was in bed with two children, a beam fell upon her neck an r d - killed her'. upon the spot ; the babes escaped Urdlurt.- Thc,,gale.rs Thursday evening blew so violent at Sisyletou, that it . forced down a great part of the wall at the French Prison, in consequence of which, one of the Royal Bristol Light Horse was sent off, "press, to Bristol, and a guard of fifty men arrived at Stapleton'in the space of three or four hours. BRIGI(ITON, JAN. 23. DURING the night of Thursday, the wind blow. ing briskly from the S. W. the tide, though at neap, flowed as high, and more completely inundated the strand here, than is altogether usual when at full spring. A darge fragment of the cliff, to the east of the half-finished Crescent, undermined by the water, fell in, and was partly washed away in the course of the night, leaving a chasm in the road which leads to Ruttingdean, dangerbus to pass, and frightful to behold. One of the French lugger-rigged Privateers, which we before noticed a 3 having appeared in this part of the Channel, we have the satisfalion to hear, has been recently captured by one of our Cruizers. She is commanded by a Frenchman, of the name of SAL. siAToR, wit° was the Commander of the Bonaparte Packet, which sailed to and from this place and Dieppe, during the late few months cessation of hostilities, and is well acquainted with this part of the Coast. SALVATOZ had the command of a Pri vateer last War, and many of our trading vessels and colliers in the Channel were, during that time, concluded by him into the Enemy's Potts. Th e Paye e, yesterday, attended by General. CHURCHILL, &c. took several turns on the Steyne, and was present at the afternoon parade, of the Sussex Militia, ere he returned to the Pavilion to dinner. A Ball and Supper, on a most extensive-and superb plan, it is said, will be given at the Pavilion, by His Royal Highness, on Wednesday next. Two o r ,more Royal DUKES, with a numerous assemblage Pi the first Nobility, it is also said will be present on the occasion. On Saturday last PRINCE WILLIAM of GLotr cERTER reviewed the Earl•of CHESTER'S Regiment of Yeomanry, commanded by Cul. Sir JOHN LEI CESTER, in Tabley Park. The Pa I arc a, who had been spending some days at Tabley, appeared upon the ground at eleven o'clock, attended by three aid-de-camps, and accompanied by Lord STAMFORD and WARRINGTON, the Lieu. tenant of the County, Lord BVLKELEY, Lord PEN!, RHYN, Colonel Pe INCE, and a numerous party o f Gentlemen. His Royal Highness was received' with a general salute from the whole Regimen!, and then proceeded to the front of the line 0 present the • Standards, which were extremelY beautiful, bearing, by the PRINCE of WALO . particular permission, the Plume. of Feathers. ,His Highness delivered an elegant and imptcs' Gore speech on the occasion it was most cord' 'plimentary to the very spirited =and adive_ e,:et; tions of the Colonel, Sir Joule LEICESTER, a 4 +" the patriotic endeavours of such a number of Ye9'" men, voluntarily giving up their time to enable their" selves, should occasion offer, to stand forth witft died, in the defence of their Sovereign and Colltfr r try. Sir JOHN L EICESTER h av i ng t h en f or himsel f and Regiment returned his thanks, the Regimen' I proceeded to go through a number of movements , . - which they performed with the greatest rapiditi and precision, and finisked by a charge of the 10 which would have done credit to a veteran Corp'' This Regiment, consisting of upwards of 3° % Yeomanry well mounted, and accoutred in the tile splendid style, attracted the curiosi t y o f t h e sl' f '",,e County, and the Park was crowded at an early with carriages and Officers from all the neighb°"" ing Corps. THE Or e RA.—La Yergi-ne del Sole was repeat ed last night, at the King's Theatre, before a te.leta b Y numerous audience. The unaffected style of GxA s SINI'S singing every night augment' the number admirers. Her part in the Duo with 13oee.e truly charming ; but her grand effort is the 0 1111 e address in the last scene, in which she displays taste and genuine pathos. Boeea, being mor e In possession of ,her charaEter, was a still better sti P stitute for VI ANON T. The Obbiato Accompany meats of WEECHSELL were detightful. Jn Ballets DES HATEi and his Wife particularly 4 15 : tinguished themselves. PARISOT• and L A0 00: were also conspicuous, The Duke,uf CAma R I WI Lords CHATHAM, CARDIGAN, -MOUNT Epo' costae, Sec. &c. were present, af BamtAst is to he added to the Musical Corps the Opera House this Season, in order to fight the side of Mrs. BILLINGTON. He has alreo w seoled the business of a Furlough, with the COQ• 'blander of - the Covent Garden Forces. . MOUNTAIN, — the Husband of the fair warblef brury-lane Theatre, ii gone to lead the Concert' at -Edinburgh. --He . is 'a good Performer, and yea' well qualified for the situation. It is the intention of the Conduaors of the Ol' e f fi l : House, we understand, to be as selea as poss ible e the admission of company to those parts of ' b' ,3 Theatre generally allotted to people of fashion a n , io distinttion. '['he Pit, in particular, is, if poSSi b ~,, to be effeetually secured from women of a certain ?r e • Scription ;: and when any of those boxes, called Dres . s-boxes,. are to be disposed of,i tt o care . will be taken to prevent them from being l e f ly persons whose - situation in life d oes not prop e r o qualify them to mix with those. who occupy neighbouring stations. This judicious regulatly,,f will, of course, considerably enhance the value 1 Opera.boxes. Mr. UNDERWOOD, whose extraordinary conyllA respeaing Mrs. LEIGH, has rendered him a sobj. p of public curiosity, has, for some time, been an inb„ bitant of the Castle and Falcon Inn, Aldersg al ; street,where his eccentricities have occasioned vat! j ty of conjeaures. His time has been much occuP i n c in writing letters to the DUKE of YORK, Mr. onicTort, Mr. PITT, and other persons of high P o iitical charaaer ; but his epistles to Mrs. L O l% , Were without number. Since firs MAJESTY'` position he has been a daily visitor at the Que c ,. 11 39 House, where he left his card, describing hunscl i e , residing at the Castle and Falcon Inn, Alderseto street. A very. violent passion, however, for ! lio LEIGH, seemed to be the predominant cause of o f extraordinary conduct. On reading an a ccount 5 , the Dream attributed to that Ladv, in the Nc wi e , papers, he worked himself up into a lio , a ig t ' t h re w his breakfast about the room, and was i n E o l tIY w.street Offi cers , on a com plaint of c pbayrothxeysm of passion wh en h e was ta k en into cus (5,, LEIGH.. He is about thirty years of age, and. 0' genteel appearance.