The Sun. — London, England, 1801-02-16 00:00:00

THE SUN. aOLEM'• QUIS DICERI FALSUM AUDZAT .LoNpoN, FEBRUARY _l6, 18or, Tlits morning at ten o'clock, the Loan Con traaors waited. upon Mr. PITT, in Downing_ .street, to .eouclude the Bargain for the Loan. 'The Bidding being the' same from two Lists, - these were declared to be the ContrAftors, viz. Sir Fk'ANcl'S BARING, SMITH, PAY NE and SMITH, , • arid Messrs. Ro BARTS, Cuterts and GOLDSMI D. The 'Terms are 125 Three per Cent. Consols, s. Reduced. This is justly considered as a good bargain for - ,tbei Public. •-•• The Loan is for 28,000,0001. The Three per Cent. Consols were at eleven o'clock at 56 YESTERDAY Dispatches were received at the Admiralty, brought by Lieutenant SMITH', in the ilfdirook Schooner, from Lisbon. He brings an account of the French Squadron having been seen off the Coast of Portugal, steering for the Medi.. terranean. The Squadron, by this account, is stated to consist of Seven Sail of the Line rind Two Frigates. If this statement he coma, the two that had separated soon after their .sal'ing, had again joined, probably off Cape Fi. nisterre. THE "Hamburgh Mail which became due yes. terday, arrived this morning. It has brought us from the North, accounts of the continued preparations for Hostility , on the part of Sweden and Denmark, between the latter of which Powers and 'Russia, an arrangement has taken place as to the mutters in dispute. .The Em bargo laid by, Great Britain on the Swedish Vessels, had occasioned the greatest anxiety at Stockholm. • The Vienna article, which is of the 31st ult. states that Lord MINT° had, in the name of his Sovereign, made a declaration, which sets Austria at liberty from her Treaty entered into with this Country. 'The Russian Minister KALITSCHEFF, who is . to represent PAUL in the Congress at Lugiry;lle, has passid through It' onistberg,. Lou Is BONAVART E has left Berlin. our Paper of Saturday, we gave an accu rate List of the New Administration, as far as ;the different Offices had then been filled up, but these comprised the most important in the Government. To this subject the eyes of the Public - arc naturally turned with expelation and anxiety ; and, as it seems to us material, at the present critical conjunaure, that the utmost possible union should prevail throughout the Empire, we are now desirous of exciting in the Public Mind sentiments of confidence in the Administration which. His TvIAiFSTIP has thus been enabled to form. Our regret at the departure of the late Ministers from Of fice, is now mingled with the hope that their Successors will be able to guide the Country with success through the difficult circumstances with w hich it is environed. The known Prin ciples of the new Ministers equally secure us from the dancers of Jacobinism with the Old.— .. Innovation and French Fraternity will be re sisted with equal firmness, and,, we trust, with equal success. On this ground, indeed, as in many other instari6es, we confidently trust that we shall see both old and new Ministers forming an united phalanx, which shall, as triumphantly as hitherto, stem the threatening torrent of Revolution, and maintain the honour and safety of the Country as (Tare as they have happily, to the present moment, beep preserved by the wisdom and ability of the Men who have retired from Public Office. To give due efficacy to the measures of Government, it is essential that it should he supported by the good opinion and confidence of the People. Aided as the New Mi pisters are, not only by the wishes, but the aEtive services of 'their Predecessprs; a great portion of that confidence which the latter enjoyed, may consistently be transferred to them. The same principles of foreign and in ternal Policy will 'aduate their condutt, and even .the only question upon' which it is probable any difference of opinion may take place, will, we doubt' noti be agitated by both with temper and . liberality. The wnsation occasional in every quarter of Europe by the retirement of Mr. PITT, from the helm of State, .cannot fail to be great ; but, its effea with r4, , ard to this country will be unfa vourable only in.pr9portiori to the effect it Mall. ppelc to have (Ton ounei yes. If our Enemies - - - shall see. the Executive Government of the United Kingdom still supported by the general confi dence and approbation, the'' , will be able to augur little in their own favour from the partial change which has taken place : ' they will per ceive that it is only a change of Men, not of Measures ; and that the Government of England is as ready, and as much qualified as ever, to maintain its Rights, and to vindicate its Ho nour: In this cause, we entertain no doubt of Britons possessing the same ardour as ever, and of their being equally ready to exert it.—Though men may reasonably differ on speculative points of Legislation, or of Civil Policy, there can be no difference of opinion in• the minds of English men, where the Interest or Honour of their Country are concerned ; and we feel it our pecu liar duty, possessing as we do a very flattering share of the Public Confidence, to inculcate most strongly the reeolledion of what we all owe to the General Interests of the Empire. Our veneration for the Talents and Integrity of Mr. PITT Mlle can doubt, and we will pledge ourselves that it shall be as lasting, as it is fer vent and sincere. To evince that feeling, how ever, in the truest way, we think we cannot do better than imitate his condua : Ha gives his zealous support to the New Administration—We feel every disposition to do the same, from mo tives both of duty and inclination. We have already declaied, that we know not where HIS MAJESTY could have selected men to succeed the Ministers who have retired, more fitted for their high situations than those whom he has been pleased to appoint : many of them are known to the Public, by their talents in the Senate—some of them are highly distinguished by the eminent services which they have performed—and the in. tegrity or all is unquestioned. Our attention, however, is naturally_ more particularly fixed upon the immediate Successor of Mr. PITT, in the ar duous Situation which that Gentleman has so ably filled for so many years of unexampled difficulty and danger. We have already expressed nu opinion of Mr. ADDINGTON'S talents and in,tegri ty.—Of the former, the Public can judge from the Manner in which he has discharged, for about twelve years, the high and important duties of Speaker of the House of Commons—of the latter we have the most perfet convitaion. The man who from his earliest years has been the chosen and intimate friend of Mr. PITT, may reasonably have credit with those who do not know himifor a great, enlightened, and honourable mind—those who do know him perionally have as high an esteem for his Virtues, as they have respe& for his Abilities. From all these motives, which we have thought it thus due to ourselves to detail, we are led to support_the Administration of Mr. ADDINGTON ; and it is no small consolation to us, in the midst of the serious calamity which we must ever think the Country has sustained by the loss of the public services of Mr. PITT and his late Colleagues in offiCe, that in supporting the Executive Government which succeeds them, (a line of conduit which, at the present momen. tons Crisis, appears to us to be an imperious duty upon every good Subjed,) we shall at the same time be lending our aid to the Administra. tion of a man, whose Principles and Talents will fully justify the Support which will thus be personally rendered to him. The ROYAL FAMILY heard Prayeri yesterday at Buckingham House. The new Speaker of the House of Commons held his first Levee yesterday evening, at his house in the Adelphi, which was numerously at tended by Members on both sides of the House of Commons. The LORD CH ANC E L LOR held a Levee on Sa tu:day at his house in Guildford street. Mr. GARTHSHOR R conies in as one of the new Lords of the Admiralty. Sir CHARLES STUART, it is confidently said, goes to Ireland as CoMmander in Chief. Mr. ABBOT, we believe, succeeds Lord CASTLEREAGH as Minister for Ireland. General MANNERS was on Wednesday re_ elected member for Cambridge. . A Notice has been published from the War-Office to all the Out-Pensioners of Chelsea Hospital re siding in South Britain, discharged from their respective Corps, as corporals or .private mcn, with some few exceptions—as of those who have lost an eye or a limb, personally to 'appear at certain places and at certain times, in order that such of them as on examination shall be found fit, may be sent to Garrison-duty only. To-morrow, the Right lion. the Loan MAvoa will hold a Court of Aldermen at Guildhall, to dal a Colledor of the City Duties of Water. hailage, Eastward of London Bridge, in the room of Mr. READ, deceased, and on other business. His Lordship will' take the Chair precisely at one o'clock. • It is reported that Government have officially notified to all Ambassadors, Consuls, our. Com manders in the, Mediterranean, &c. thaeldalta now forms a component part of , the BritistrEm, rirc, and is to be regarded as such in all Treatiel which may in future be contrafted. w -I THE HAMBURGH MAIL. VIENNA, JAN. 3/.: THE English Ambassador, Lord MINTo, at a late audience, made a declaration in the name of his Sovereign, by which Austria is set at liberty from every engagement, to prosecute the War en. tered into in the last Treaty with England. Count*CoLLottEDO has sent a Circular Note to all the Foreign Ministers here, dated Jan. 28, 18ot, direEting them, by His Majesty's Com. mand, to apply in future, with respe& to any Conferences or Negotiations relative to Foreign Affairs, to Count TRAUTMANSDORFF.. Yesterday the ARCHDUKE JOHN appeared for the first time in the cirele with the _QUEEN of NAPLES. There is talk of the marriage of a Neapolitan Princess with a German Prince. . The interests of Naples will not be forgotten at Lune. tiille. The Russian Armies still continue colleaing in Poland : the communication between the Rus. sin Fro ntiers and Gallicia is now shut up. 11ANAU, FEB. 3.. THE • Head-Ouarters Of General MOREAU, which are still , at Salzburg, will not be removed backwards till the aaual conclusion of Peace. Among other unfounded reports, we have one that General DESOLL ES, who succeeds General AUGER EAU, will condua an Expedition against a certain part of Germany. • BERNE, JAN. 31. THE Insurreftion in Piedmont contributed td induce General BRUNE to conclude an Armistice, by , which Venice, and the.importani Fortress of Mantua, were at first to remain with Austria. A Courier, however, afterwards brought orders to BttuNr, to insist on the evacuation of Mantua (which it is well known was determined on the 26th of January,. at Luneville). . A Column of the Italian Army is marching with hll speed to Piedmont. In certain circumstances, General BERNADOir E will command an Expedition against Ireland,: and General AUCEREAU, the Army destined to at against Portugal. KONIGSBERG, FL). 1. 0u a Gaiette contains the folldwing Article It is confidintly reported tsar Louis XVIII. has sent a Courier to Berlin, to inquire whether he may be permitted to .. reside. in •the Prussian Territories, and end his days'in peace as a private person." The Russian General SPRENGPORTEN is on his return with 4896 Russian Prisoners. The Russian Minister, M: KALITSCHEFF, lately Vice-Chan cellor, journeys with two Adjutant-Generals, several Cavaliers and Secretaries of Legation, through Konigsberg . •to Berlin, and thence to Frankfort-on-the-Mainr, whence he will go, ac companied with several Ministers from Foreign Courts, to Luneville and Paris, to take part in the Congress for a Peace. (M. kAitTSCHEFF has already passed through Konigsberg.) PETERSBURGH, JAN. 23. IMPERIAL MAJESTY has been pleased to express his approbation to the Vice-Presidents of the College of Admiralty, for the expedition used in building ships. The Comniandant of the Fortress of St. Prtertburgh, Lieutenant-General Prince DOLGORUK I EW, has been dismissed, and Major-General SOSONOW appointed his successor. Count POTOSKY, who had, applied for"the En signs of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, has received a positive refusal. Eggland ; but are only desirous to maintain the Rights of Neutrality, as in the time of the Arne. rican War in 1780. JANUARY 30. The Military preparations both by sea and land arc carried on with the greatest aaivity. His Majesty has appointed the Upper-Chamber lain Lieutenant-General Count SrRomvELD, to be a General of Division in the Army on the' Coast. EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM SALISBURY, DATIID SATURDAY, FEB. 7 P. M. " This dm) , came on the elation for a Mem. bet to serve in Parliament for Old Sarum, when JOHN Ht4RNE TOOKE A Esq. was defied in the room of Sir GEORGE Yo NCR, who accepted the Chiltern Hundreds. The bells are now ringing . on the occasion, and an elegant entertainment was • provided at the King's Arms, which WU attended by a select parry of Lord CAMELFORD'S friends." • The circumstance of Mr. To o x E's ha vingbeem defied for Old Sarum, has naturally turned the attention.of persons to the question of the elle:: bility, or non.eligibility, of a person hating' been in Holy - Ordersi - to - sit in Parliament. Mr. HATSEL, on the subjeft of the Clergy being, eligible to SCIVe In ParliaMent, in his' book of Precedents, says, " That persons, _ whether in • Priest's or Deacon's Orders, are, with respe6l to • the •charaler in , which _they arc here • COITSi, tiered, precisely in the same situation." —He then adds. a note, that " There has been a formal determination, of- the question by a Committee under Mi. GiENVILLE'S . : On the 28th pf January, 1785, a Petition was . delivered, com plaining of the - eldlion of EDWARD RUSH. WORTH, for Ne*pOrt, as being a Clerk in Holy Orders, and therefore incapable. to, Tic eleded to serve in Parliament. The Committee;_ on the 24th of Feb. 1785, determined, That ED ! : WARD, RFSHW R Ty, Eli/tire s was duly eleeted.s. Mr. TeioKa is not ignorant tha t . a qualifie r .;. tion is required to a Seat in Parliament, and lie certainly recolleas, that a very short period ago, lie satisfied, upon Oath, the Commissioners of the rneome Tax, that* hii Income was under 601. it year. . On Situiday lasi the Pursers of the following Ships attended at the East Indi a . House, and ie.+ ceived their final •Dispatches, with which they: immediately proceeded to Portsmbuth, to wait the arrival of their respeCtive Ships,•viz. The Admiral Gardner ' Captain' 'EDW ARD BILADF-ORD.; Cbarlters, Captain .CAA. ADVICR; Duke of Montrose, Captain PATRIC* _1 BURT • and Dower - Castle, Capt. PETFL SANtrsoNi _ 1 fOr Madras and Bengal. The Aid) Castle, .Capt. ALax, NA.sp, for Bombay ; and the Boddasai Capt. JOHN JON2I • 'and 'the- „:„ foi.Madras and bins. M P2ull ; othre'haYinlo Followin g C ;n , gs apt. G ships sw e a ci s ittr ed day t and 'the. true Briton, Capt. W I L . L I AM . STA t aint: CLARKE, for Madras and Chin ; and . the Cal.. cutta, Capt. yiNt. MAXWELL,or Madras aria !kV: By the last letters fr om'St: Helena, advice has been received that the AViterityr, SALIVA); -hal arrived in the Bay of Bengal, from Port Jackson, • with accounts from th'it Settlem4it to the 14th of February. The . .Minerva was. emisloyed as a • Transport, • and took to New'South,Wales' up wards of zoo United trishmen, amongst whom were the Rebel Generals Holt,and O'Hara, Dr. O'Connor, &c. &c. The B , 4iallorr.u . had sailed from Port Jackson with Dispatches for Canton, previous to the departure of IVlinerva. , Letters from Port Mahon, Minorca, to the 3d . January, state the island, to be tranquil . and healthy. - The arrival of some Troops at Major- • , ca had led to an opinion that the Spaniards medi tated an attack, but the imputation was a libel '! on their, discretion. The Centre:ix, of 74. guns, was appointed to sail for England early in this spring, ,with convoy. Letters from ConStantinople, dated the 29th of.Deceinber, state the arrival of Lieutenant Colonel BROMLEY there, from the coast of Egypt with dispatches for the Turkish Admiral, having left the British squadron on the tith of November. At this period, MENOU, apprized of the fall of Malta, and of the powerful expeditic.a that was advancing against him, had again rejoaed all overtures for the evacuation of Egypt ; he had greatly improved, his means of defence, and expressed full confidence in his strength. He had made much progress in arming and in.. struaing in European tattics, the Greeks and Caphtes, and had a corps of ten thousand of them under the most rigid discipline, encamped AT Minhia ; he had pledged himself to his army, that previous to the close of the year, the num.. tier of native troops should be augmented to thirty thousand. IVIURAT BEY, and IVlotitiAMEII ELSI BEY, with some other persons of influence in the country, who are become active instru ments of MENOU'S ambition, were exerting themselves with considerable .cfreet in forming these new levies. The Boston Gazette, of the ist Jan. states, that the Treaty with France having been pre., viou'sly printed for the use of the Members of the Senate, Mr. MORRIS moved the adoption of a rule, enjoining on the _Members secrecy in the case of all future Treaties, and the Proceedings thereon, unless it should be otherwise direaed by . the Senate, without reference to the Treaty then before them. On this Motion the Senate was equally divided, and the Vice..Ptesident gave his casting vote against it. The same Paper states ; that the Hon. 0. EuLs- WORTII had tesigned the Chief Justiceship of the United States, in which he wag tube Wcceectsd by Mr.. JAY. BERLIN, FEE. 6. YESTERDAY afternoon Lou is BONAPARTE left this city. COPENHAGEN, Frs.7: WE have to day received certain intelligence, that the misunderstanding between Russia and Denmark is entirely adjusted. A Courier who arrived here yesterday from St. Petershurgh, brought this advice. It is now said the Russian Ambassador, M. LIKE IV ITZ, will very soon re turn to Copenhagen. STOCKHOLM, 1n s. 27. THREE Ships which have arrived at Gotten burx from Englaird, have brought the unexpeded advice 'of, an Embargo having been laid on all Swedish and Danish Merchant Ships in the Eng lish Harbours. This intelligence has caused the greatest sensation both - at •Couri and on the Exchange, as neither' grtueden nor 'Dininari have! given any occasion for hostilities on the part of - I ~~ ~~ =l '', ~.' i ~. '~.