The Sun. — London, England, 1804-09-04 00:00:00

iv Aii £2 1, A, E ii/ j.. 1 i" i l OitTSMOUtti, SE FT. 3.—Arrived the Majestic Armed Defence Ship, from the D a wns ; Plato Sloop ' of War, and the Lio* Cutter, from a Cruize. YARMOUTH, Sr PT. 3. Arrived the Tribune Armed Ship, and sailed the same day, with the Champion Cutter ; arrived also the Earl St. Pin cent Cutter, Penelope Frigate, and Censor Gun brig. Sailed the Star, MARYSON, for Liverpool ; Lotto, for Scotland ; and Inger Helena, THottsoll, for Soen. SHEERNEsc, SEPT. x.--Came down the River to the Norc, the Cleopatra Frigate, of 3z guns, Capt. LAWRIR, 7 Sailed the Borer Gun-hrig. The Duke of Kent hired Armed Ship has the Signal flying for Convoy to Tonningen.. Arrived the Clyde, Lucifer 11 , mb, and London hired Armed Ship. Came down the River the Deptford Tender, with impressed men and volunteers for the Fleet. Ships at this Port—Zealand, Princess of Orange, Magna !lime, Cleopatra, Ceres, Clyde, Rartler, Inspeaor; Lucifer Bomb; Dulcet of Kent, and London hired Armed Ships. DEAL, • 3.—Arrived the Coriatrice Brig With Convoy from Plymouth ; Sulphur, Discovery, and Volcano Bombs, came back agaio'from the Gulls, and remain; and Diadem Armed Defence Ship hart Shields. Sailed the Utile Sloop, and Discovery Bomb, for Dungeness. • The Cockettrite has made the Signal of Convoy to the Westward. In the Downs— Monarch,lTtrecht, Inflexible, Castor, P re vt!yante, Speedy, Scourge; Heron, Sulphur, Volcano, Cocka trice, Armed Defence Ship s and Transports as before, and Supply Navy Transport. :the Fancy, Capt. BARRY. from Madeira, is ar. rived at Cork. She sai l ed from thence on the 31st of July, and brings an account, that on the morning of th e 36th of July, four large ships, apparently Frigates, appeaied off that Island under American Colours. On their first appearance they stood to the Southward, after Wards they stood for the land, and then stood away to the South-East. On the following morning nothing could be seen of them. , Various reports ate in circulation respefting the ap. Mpearance of the above ships and it was thought at Madeira, that they were a . French Squadron...— The Beaulieu Frigate, with the Fleet hound to tht We s t Indies, artived on the 12th of July, and sailed on the 34.11), in company with the Bacchante Sloop. • The Diana Frigate, and Lark Sloop, with the Fleet from Cork, bound to the West•lndies, arrived on the 20th of July, and sailed on the 24th ; and on ihe 2Jd, the Culloden Man of War, Sir EDWARD PELLEW, arrived there with the following out. watd.bound East Indiamen—Lard Hawke:bury, Duke of Montrose, Worcester, Baring, "lirly Castle, United Kingdom, Monarch, Sovereign, and the Alex ander, and two vessels bound to the South Seas, and tailed on the 27th. The Prevsyante Frigate, from the Mediterranean, is arrived in the Downs with a Fleet, which are put under quarantine ; in consequence of which we have been unable to gain any intelligence from them. .--- WS have been favoured wit . h the following Particul ars re th speding the C a p ture o f t h e Ve nus Freoth Privateer, by e Union East Indianian. " On the 22d of August, at day light, the Union being 8 -head of the Sir William Fulton./ and Eliza Pints, in lat. 48. 20 N. observed a strange sail with English Colours : she immediately fired several Apt to . bring, her to ; about seven, the Privateer having received several shot, hauled down the Effig lish union, and•hoisted the French Flag. The Union i mmediately bore down. upon her with a continued • fire, and coming alongside, poured in a broadside. ,The adion c ont i nue d very warm f or twenty m i nutes, 4 }' which time, the Eliza /Inn and Sir /Pillion:lW. leaf, were coming close under the Union's stern, The Frenchman now hauled down his Colours, but liceas doubted w h et h er t hi s was not on l y an orti , to induce the Union to come close enough to be hoardd, as he was seen making preparations to t hat effed. To prevent the effusion of blood, th e Captain of the tbriops would not fire another broadside at that moment, but sent an Officer, with 4to b oat 7" , On board the Privateer, and prepared The °P;." them sh o w t h e y m; , ke any resistance. wer irnmed,„,,,i the Pri vat v took possession of eie:er, a n d she proved to be La VIM", o f Na l ". en " 4 )4 from Sr. Andrew's, pierced for 16 guns, h lit having onl- Y four mounted on deck, two being !mind in the hold. Sh e h a d 72 men on board. 'The Privateer had one man killed and five wounded ; the Unio n t h ree seamen wounded. " flue crew of the Privateer were immediately , d ivided, and put in equal proportions on board the three s hi ps, two men and a 11.,,y being only left on board the Privateer. An Officer of the Union, who Ltd been a Lieutenant of the Navy, was put in eummand of the P'em dr , and she kept company till the ni g h t of the 2gth of Augast, when she parted .eumpany to the Westward of Scilly ; she is conse quently daily expeCted to arriv e . " The crew of the Union behaved in the most giallant manner, and the other ships only wanted Ille opportunity of signalizing themselves in the same way." The Thamrs, outward-hound, sailed from St. Helena the 4th Of July, in company with His Ma. I.:sty'3 Ships illbion and Sceptre. The zd of June, the Ceylon spoke the Marquis of 1 .)), Lord Nelson, and Maryuis of Wellesley, out ward.hound, all well ; they had been separated from the 21 rn n.“toic .4 in the late gale oft the Cape. Admiral LINOI3, with the Marengo, Malang'', rti Belle Pfiule s arrived ut the isle of France about . • the rnithile or April. The rejtiy for sea the Bth of May (the thy the Ship, A. loinette, sai!ed front thence, which ship arrived at St. (ielenif the 26th June), but the Frigates were not-so. , The Baring,Capt.MEADOWS ; United Kingaom, PETTY ; Worcester, NV otn); Lord Hatukesbniy, TIMER! LL ; Airly Castle, MACKINTOSH ; Duke of Montrose, PATERSON ; Monarch. HAW ES ; Alexan der, ?FRANKLIN; Sovert;gn, MoNroil—the three last extra ships—out ward-bound, arrived at Madeira the 23d of July, under Convoy ,of His Majesty's Ship Culloden, and were expected to sail from thence the 27th of that month. Letters have been received from Captains CAMP BELL and DALRYMPLE, of the extra ships Experi. ment and Tottenham, dated off Madeira, the 12(11 and 23111 July, which ships were proceeding on their voyages, outward-bound. The Princess Elizabeth Packet, arrived from the Leeward Islands, to windward of Barbadoes fell in with an Enemy's Privateer, a Schooner, which stood very boldly for the Packet, but on Captain KIDD altering his course and steering direelly fur her, she bore away, crowding all sail, to the N. W. The Princess Elizabeth chased her several hours, keeping her to leeward. The Elizabeth arrived at Barbadoes the 27th June; on the 29(11 sailed for Dominica ;' 3oth saw a large Man of War to lee ward, between the above Island and Martinique ; the morning of the 31st anchored at Dominica ; Ott the 3,1 July joined His Majesty's Ship Emerald, and proceeded for Antigua, where they arrived on the 4th ; the Emerald went to English Harbour, having it; a squall lost her mizen-mast and main-yard. In St. John's Road, lay His Majesty's Ship Centaur, re-fitting'; the Commodore was at sea in the Blen. hcim ; 6th, the 'Hippomenes, Capt. AYSCOUCH, ar. rived at St. John's with a prize, a Brig under Ameri. can colours, with French property from Bordeaux going, into Guidalf)upe ; some of the seamen of the Brig, who had been ill-treated on the voyage, lodged the inform ition against the cargo, &c. On the 9th the Elizabeth sailed from Antigua, and on the morn ing of the loth arrived at Montserrat : was joined ore the 11th by His Majesty's' Ship Hippomenes, and sailed in company for Nevis : on the morning of the 12th about four o'clock p. m. landed the Mail, and proceeded to St, Kirt's, where they anchored in the evening. The 17th sailed for Tortola ; anchored there the isih, On the: 19111 art; veil in Tortola Road His Majesty's Schooner L' Eclair : • orathe zoth left Tortola tor. England. L' Eclair, escorted die Packer, Lar. 22. N. and parted company the z. 4.11. Capt. Kt OD states, that in his many years know_ ledge of the \Vest-Indies, he never experienced weatker so tempestuous as the whole of July last.— On her t , meward_bound passage the Elizabeth spOke with the John and Alice, under American Colours, from Liverpool to Philadelphia, in Lat. 52.• 9. Long. 14, West the 26th spoke with His Majesty's Ship qosario, off Cape Clear and on the -28th with the Lap wing, off Scilly. Paisengers by the Princess Elizabeth; Messrs. JANtgs FRAZER, WM. SMITH, WM. LAMAND, JAMES ROnERTsON, and Capt. DE NNEs, late cf the Duke of Kent Packet, captured in the West 'lndies by the Sans Pared Pri vateer. The Lady Aralclla, Captain PORTEUS, and tile Windsor Castle, Capt. SUTTON, will carry out the Mails of the sth of September ; the former for Ha., lifax and New York, and the latter for Parbadoei and Jamaica ; they will sail the 9th inst. DUNBAR, AUG. 30.—For 'some time past we had a very considerable Herring Fishing. Abotit the end of last week, the wind veering round to the North, caused a great swell in our Bay, and the fish shifted their ground; the Fishermen were of opinion that the shoal was gene, and, in consequence thereof, most of the Boats left us, and only a few remained to make further trial, and they were suc cessful. The Boats are again returned, and last night they caught an immense quantity, which are now landing, and putting on board Vessels in our Harbour, and purchased with great avidity by the Fish-curers, from tot. to t2s. per Crane, of 650 to 706 per Crane at an average.—We have not had such a drave since the year t 78s. CAPT. E. H. COLUMBINII, OP HIS mAjEsry's sun. ULYSS!S. STR, Trinidad, 4 714,te 6, t 804. Tut , . Merchants of Trinidad, sensibly impressed with the alacrity, zeal, and ability which you have uniformly displayed, on this important and arduous station ;, grateful also for the anxious attention yow have shewn to the Commercial Interests of the Co. bony, request your acceptance of a Sword, value too Guineas, which GEORGE BAILLIE, Esq. Landon, will have the honour to present' you, as a testimony of their esteem and gratitude. • , We are, Sir, your most obedient 'Sersrpnts, M'Kenaie, Rigby, & Co. Adam Nell,' Harrison, and Co. Clark and M'lntosh, Eccles, and Co. - !oho Sewell, Rivers, Campbell, and Co. A. C. Crookshank, Neilson and Hunter, ames Harvey, fhomas Smith, John Roissiere, Edgar Lyon, and Co. Daniel WC; rad), Sablick, Hebert, & Sobity, Burns, Sangster, and Stephen Judkin, Martin,' G. and kV. Dickson, Edward Conolly, Win. Browne, and Co. Wye, Grantlett, & Co.. Ulyttet, Tortola, jaw 4, 1804. GINTLEMEN, I have received your Letter this morning, an. nouticing your intention to present me with a Sword, as a testimony of the satisfadion which my conduel, during my station ar Trinidad has given you. It is with great pleasure that r accept this flattering mark of your esteem, which is the more acceptable, as coming from the Members of a Colony in whose welfare I feel so particularly interested. • I have the Honour to be, • GENTLEMEN, Your most obedient Servant, E. H. COLUMBINE. To the Merchants of Trinidad. The report of the French Privateer which violated the neutrality of Austria, by capturing a British vessel under the guns of Triest, having been libe rated by order of the Emperor, is unfounded : she has been condemned. The French Commercial Agent has, howevtr, appealed against the Decree. Plzpm THE DUTCH PAPERS; • VI FNNA, AttCUtiT I 2.-Ne* Offertures hay been mule ,by the French G .vernment to obtain from our Sovereign the ackns.wke.deneor of *. r . NAPARTE'S title, as an Emperar; f the French. \V:: are assured that an Answer on oiis suly:vci w Is sent by our Court, on the 9th inst. to P,iris, the par ticulars of which still renviin a secret.' 'The day before yeste!dly the Emperor 'returned here nnexreetedlY frith Baden. s -Soon afterwJrds a Council of State was held. His Maksty N est:led in person, and the Archdukes CHAR LES and Jo , ' r. Pll were present. We are assured that the Curt of St. Petershurgh has made proposals to our Cabinet of the greatest consequence, in the present situation of affiurs. FRANKFORT, AUG. tg.—According to tl:e Pub lic Prints, General BERNADOTTE has denvindtti from the City of Hamburg!), a new loan of three mil. lions and an half of dAlars, under the guaranty of the States of Hanover.--( Hague Cokraut, August. 25.1. . According to some Letters, the Janissaries, upon the summons of the Pacha of Bosnia, on the 28th July, surrendered the City and Citadel of Belgrade to the Insurgents. According to other Letters, they continued still to hold out. WEZEL, AUGUST 22.--;We hear from North Holland, that new ;viagazines are collecting for the Navy in the Texel. A Member of the Council of the Marine Departmfnt has for some trays been there, and made some inquiries concerning every thing that concerns naval transafflons. We are as sured that he has again engaged a number of Trans. ports, and that the 'Troops encamped at Zeist will soon arrive in North Holland, and form a division in the Expedition against England. VENICE, AUGUST B.—Several Ships arrived this day from Corfu. The Russian Troops there, and in the Seven Islands, amount in the whole to to,ooo men, who are employed in fortifying Corfu in a manner that it soon will he a second Gibraltar. (Hague Courant, August 2j.) COPENHAGEN, AUGUiT t B.--This day four Russian Frigates destined for the German Sea, an. chored in our Roads. HASIDURGI-1, AUGUST 12.—The Official Gazette of Berlin, of the t Bth inst. announces the resigna. tion of Count HAUGWITZ, and the appointment -of 13 iron HARDENIS EKG as a Minister of the Foreign Department. FLactif, Auctrvr 2 6,—We received, yesterday morning, 'a Letter from Aix-la-Chapelle, mention. ing that the Empress JosrPHINE had ordered every preparation to be made. for tier departure, through Brussels to Paris. An hour before she intended to set Out, she , obtained a Letter from the Emperor, that be would arrive at Aix.la_Chapelle, and pass some days there, to he informed of the situation of, the Frontier Departments, &c. The Empress will, however, soon return to Paris, but, it is believed, that the Emperor wilt remain behind for some time. —lt is even rumoured that Camps are to be formed on this part of the Frontiers t. , f, the French Empire. The Direftory have. for these some days past held several long deliberations, and several Couriers have arrived here. Count LEIINDORF, the Prussian Secretary of Legation, set out f 4 Aix-la-Chapelle yesterday. Vice Admiral VERHEUL, the Commander in the Texeh Admiral KicKfAtT, and the Secretary of the Batavian Flotilla, have hen here for some days past. KICKERT had last Miday a long conference with the President - of our Direetary. Col. BATFW. BURG, the Commander of the Colony of Surinam, has arrived here from Eogland. Letters from Vienna o f t h e / s oh, announce, that in the late Great Council of State, on the zoth, it was determined to publish a Patent, 'according to which, the Emperor of Germany makes all his tiles hereditary in his family, tinder the title of " Em peror of Austria." The Vienna Court Gazette, which announces this, says, that new Credentials have been sent to Count CoIIENTzEL, as an Am bassador to the Emperor of the French.-1 Anglia 27.) FROM THE FRENCH PAPERS. PARIS, Auc. '22.—The Minister of Finance set out two days ago to join His Majesty the Emp eror , who was to leave Raogne for Aix la Chapelle. The Minister fur Foreign Affairs returned, on the tgoh, from the waters of Bourhon.l'Archatn. baud. M. LACE P EDE, the Grand Chancellor of the Legion of Honour, has also returned from Ildulngne, to which place he went to be pr'esent at the fete of the isch of August. A Division of twenty-one Gun-boats of the first class, arid Pinnaces, - arrived from Brest, in the night of the 16th, in the Road of St. Malo, and sailt•d the same day at four in the morning. The Enemy not being in view, it approached Cherburgh about one o'clock, p. On the 16th . August the Anniversary of the BirthAay of the Emperor was celebrated at Aix-13- Chapelle. At six in the evening the Empress re. paired with her whole Court to the Cathedral, where Te Drum was sung ; after which Her Ma. jesty distributed to ,the embers of the Legion the Imperial Star, attended with a grand artificial fire-work, and then went to a Dress Ball given by the City. A person of distinaion, lately arrived at Gottin. gen from Lisbon, states, that at the time of his departure from Portugal, the Prince Regent was preparing a magnificent present, which he intended to offer to the Emperor of the French. It is, ac cording to report, a crown of gold, valued at a mil. lion of crusades, which answers to about three millions of our money, 'An article from Frankfort, of the r4th of August, mentions a report that Russia and England have proposed to the Court of Vienna, to place an Au. who Prince at the head of the Order of Malta, and to establish an Austrian Garrison on the Island, with Troops 13( the Order levied in all Commande. .ries that remain. PARPS/A.N .Firiiio.l7;4;. • Yellow is verYlittle Seen - Lilac has ; pissed att _ does nor take ; bus red and white roses arc all the The newe , ii. Vas are of rose crape, with , wirro'v leaf, 4nit a very flat crown. Thiy are frequently rumen up the side. We have lately observed, uptin the white i.ap-'?teS; cords of roses .Thzse cOrds 'are in the place of riooorrs: paia under : the chin. and are knotted above.- Whit,: muslin shawls embroider d ala 7"..,p(e,. in worsted, are tlv. most fasaionable. IVeoccaaionall) see aprons with narrow plaits btittonea •nefore; and makii,g at the same time a robe; a handkerchief,and.an apron,. Beside& red Turkish mastitis, for morning robes, muslins of,a .yellow ground, with very small bundles of - flowers, are frequently used. We frequent ly see, in Wilt-dress, jewels upon the head-dresses in hair,: particular.) tipron-the plaits upon the forehea Instead oF a neck::•handkerchief, most of our eh gawis wear their long shawl in a cord. The long shawls, When they are !flail; admit to the ends four or five cotton bobs. In inosk emnroi deries the flowers are so large as to-occupy a third of the. ground. Palm branches and tiortensia enter into almost alt the designs. The newest fashionable slippers are sloe colour. 'T 8' r'•i~i ST. M-IRTHOLOAIEW FAIR. Tx is annual Civic Carnival commenced yester. day. It was Proclaipfd about two o'clock- by the .. Loan MAymt, who proceeded for that purpose . to Smithfield, in his state carriage, attended by I\ l lr. Sheriff SHAWE, Mr.• Alderman B9YD ELL, several, of the Livery; and .the usual suite of City Officers. The customary solemnities were duly observed; with the exception of one : death had arrested the liberal hand which was wont to present the cool tankard to his Lordship; and as a proper mirk of . . Yelped to the memory of the deceased Mr. Kt R D Y the Procession did not pass his house. The LOR MAYOR was escorted to the East side of Smithfield, made the necessary Proclamation, and swore the Steward of the Court of Pirdpoudre into his tri.. diurnal office. His Lordship's departure. was the signal fur commencement of the festivities in honour. of the pious St. Bartholomew. His votaries sainted his Lordship with shouts of applause ; but Mr. Sheriff SHAW c was pot treated with equal courtesy —hissing noises, something like what were lately .heard at Brentford, rent the welkin. When the cavalcade retired, the air resounded with symphonies such as HAYDN or PLEYEL never dreamt of. SOUTHAMPTON, SEPT. t.---A number of flying Artillery yesterday arrived in this town under a strong escort ; its destination was variously reported to be for Weymonth, and fur the Islands of Alder. ncy and Sark. The Town is very full, all lodging. houses are engaged except a very few upon the largest scale. Mrs. Si DDONS is still at the seat of V. FIT Z. HUGH, Esq. in this neighbourhood. The Earl of CAVAN has purchased the Tewet Mansion on the south. west bank of the S , tO hampton river, and is now putting the whole of th.tt titoctinl residence into high order. Two great matches of horses against time, are at present the subject of public expectation here. The ooe, for too guineas, is to ru.i two miles in , ix rots notes; the oilier, for 5 guineas, the same distance in seven minutes. EDINBURGH, SEPT. r.— Thirteen Soldiers of the Canadian Regiment, were sent ~t f Y; ti .users yesterday from Gla.gow for this City, tit , d.r a mi litary escort, They arrived in tuwii this forenoon. folloviing Circular Utter has ben sent to the Officers commanding Yeiamattry Corps io he. land '' SIR, Dtditin Castle, Aug. 28, 18°4. " I am diresed by the lord Lieutenant to accpliaint you, that it is probable the Yeomanry will be called out and pLced upon permanent duty for a part pt the ensuing month of October, with a view to their discipline and clicreise as by that time it is hoped the harvest will be completed. :In tlie mean tune, ,while, with a view to public economy, aS well-as to the convenience of the Yeorpen at tin:, busy Meson of the year, His Excellency has direacd that the weettly•VradeS should cease, a monthly Parade being reserved tar the inspec tion and muster of the Brigade. Major, the. specific day of which he will arrange wita you as usual. Youivill pleased to observe this regulation, and to have it carried into etieet immediately on the receipt of this Letter,. Should it be finally determined to cad out the Yeomanry Corps in Oc tober, the necessary orders Will, of course, be issued in pro per time. I have the f honour to Sir, your most obedient humble Servant, " EVAN NEPE'AN." Convoys will sail from Leith Roads for the Baltic .and Tonningen on the .19th instant. An Aquedua, for the purpose of supplying the populous toWn of Carmarthen with water, from springs in the neighbourhood, is about to be imme diately ereCted. Miss Porto was the Lady wno many years agri distinguished hersrlf as an Equestrian, by riding for a wager a thousand indes in a thousand hUU(S. She was the daughter, of POND, a celebrated horse. d ea ler.. Site died a few years ago in a :Hate of oleo. tal deraogement. _ On Monday se'nnight Mr. ELFlin's gardener, at Echlinvitle, County Antrim, cut a Rock Cantaloop Melon, that measured three feet in circumference, a nd weighed ten pounds three quarters. , Yesterday, during the time of the Lotto A,yolt proclaiming Birtholome , v Fair, a master butcher, at the West End of the Town, wa, hustled by some thieves, who robbed him of 701. which he was' going to pay a salesman for cattle he had beright that morning. Monday se'nnight Mr. Nrcdot.-zoig, farmer, .0e Gainslawhill, near Berwick, baying turned seven of his best mulch cows into a field o 1 clover log, four of them died within a few hours, and the lives of the the rest were with difficulty preserved. A side and easy cure is, emptying 411 egg, filling the shell full of tar, and putting it dot%'n the throat Of the animal. On Saturday last George Williamg, twenty years foreman to Mr. Goslet, sugar-boiler„ in Wentworth. street, Spitallieldi, 10,4 hi life by a fall from the roof of the premi!ies, his - head coming in coma& w i t h a copper_boiler, which split it in two. Ills wile, half an hour after the accident, was delivere,l of twins, and is in the must distraded state of mind from the accident that her husband met with. On theV a while some men were employed rear csinaetta ' g er_house, Greenock, in placing a N cart-whed upon a cart, the horse took fright, ran off, 'rind in its way threw down a female child, about two years old, the head of which it tram sled upon in such a dreadful manwr, t hat a f ter h ngu i dt. ing in great agony, She exp:itd about four 0%:1,1ck next morning..