The Sun. — London, England, 1801-12-29 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMEN HOUSE OF PEERS, MONDAY, DEC. 28.' 'HEIR Lordships met this day pursuant to their :ast adlournment. Prayers weTe.4ea'd-hy his Grace the Archbishop if C4I\ITE Rl3 UIRY; • „ - Some routine business Was disposed of, in the course of which, a proceeding took place respeling the%appointment of a.Commokee of their,l.airdships upder the East India Judicature Bill, but the s'u,ffi :tient number . oflists iequired by the Mt being not xst presemed, thoe . given in were ordered to lie' op, *pike . , Lord W4LsiNol.44t4 presented a Petition from certain Debtors - confined in the Gaol of Stafford, praliog• relief, &c. which was ordeTed to lie on the Tit ble In the course of the private business which was iransaCle.d, , a "Petition was presented - for leave to bring in a Bill, to dissolve the Marriage of CH ARLES BR YDGES WOODCOCK, Esq. with ANN cROS.EIE,, his now Wife.—Ordered to lie on .the . - T4 Hose then adjourned till Monday next. HOUSE OF COM4IONSt MONDAT, DEC. ZS. ; • A Few Writ was ordered for the Borough of Ilaverford West, in the room of Lord IcENSINC. TON, deeeased. 'Mr. Wm. DUNDAS 'presented Petitions from purdee l Annan, Dumbarton, Renftew, and-other places inSeotland,prayin4 that the Prohibition on the Distillery might be continued, which were severally ordered to lie on the Table. The - CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, he rose to move, That the House. should, at its rising, adjourn to that day se'nnight, He re gretted that the House should then he called Ivan for its attendance, but His Majesty's Ministers' were influenced by prudential considerations, which he trusted he should' not be called upon to state. /Ifs.. T. GRENVILLE iaiti,.he had at a former periOst thOdght it his dtity•to . give his opinion rela tiVe to the Preliminary Treaty between ;his Coun try and France. The House thought it wise and expedient to' sanEtion that Treaty, and it being by .no means his wish to harass His Majesty's Mini sters, he had not any intention to offer a word more on the subjca, 'until the Definitive Treaty was laid before the House, A report had however prevailed, which he thought aforded strong grounds for appre hension and alarm, that an - Armament had sailed 'from 13resti-larlsour, consisting of Sixteen Sail of the Line, and containing to,Ooo Troops, destined for ss . St.:Dominoo. If this 'Armament had really been suffered to'sail, he submitted to the , House; that. it was a fit subject for their consideration. HecOn sidered the Preliminary- Treaty as a Truce for. the purpose 'of giving both. parties an opportunity of calmly discussing their 4espeBive eh:elms and pre tensions, and that no measure should be taken which might put either Tower in a .state of alarm and apprehension. He had before consideted the Treaty as famirabic to' ,France, and therefore he ought not -perhaps to impute to them any a6l of hostility against it. Still, however,, he must con. : sider this measure in a hostile point of view ; and he would ask if the Tespedable . Nobleman at 'the. head of the Negotiation, supposing he had to -put. an .alternative ,to the other sides„ - either to concede some point essential to the honour of this Country, or to renew hostilities ; he would ask, whether, that Nobleman could use that strong and energetic language which -his situation called for, when France had a strong force in the West Indies, by means of which our possessions were placed in a state of alarm and danger ? He thought . it his duty' to make these observations, but he did not - mean to ' follow them up by any motion.. In making these' observations he had two objeas in view, the first. was to ascertain the truth of the report, and, if it' was true, his : second objea was, to give His Ma jesty's Ministers an opportunity to give to the' House and the country the best consolation upoh such a sUbjeft which could be afforded them. If the fears 'cOrisequent upon such-a measure were not ,relieved by His Majesty's Ministers, then he had a third object, which was, that the- House should take those'meastirei which were rendered by such an event necessary and proper. , The CHANCELLOR ,of 'the EXCHEQUER said, he knew by experience how difficult it fre ssmently was for 'Gentlemen to . confine themselves in their observations strktly to the question,' but he thought a large share of indulgence had been granted to the Rightlion-Gentleman to allow him 'to make those observations Which had made. The Right Hon. Gentleman had stated a report which must lie known to . every 'Member in that House, of the ,sailing of an expedition from Brest Harbour. His Majesty's Ministers-had no official information relative to the , fact, but that such. an event had taken place there was no doubt. Whe ther, however, any communication -had taken place between the two Governments upon the subject,, or whether any means had been taken to provide against that whicis was. not likely to happen, but, which by possibility .might happen, -he trusted the House, would not call upon him to state. • There was no s thing, however, in'that event, which could in any, • way interfere with any strong 'language or etier getic condo& which the Noble Lord at the head of the Negotiation might think it necessary, or wise to use or adopt. Mr. BI4OOK ,said a few words which we could. not distinftly hear, relative to a Bill which origie noted with Mr. PONSONBY concerning the Courts pf:Law in Ireland. The CHANCELLOR of, the -EXCHEQUER said, the Right Hon. Gentleman. who proposed the Bill was, not now in the''Hosise,but he Linder- • toorl there was an intention to- bring it forward in . the, course of the Sessions. Before he 'sat down he -wished'-tb say, 'that ,theiVlOtion, he ma 4 had no reference whatever to the subject alluded to by -the light Eon. Gentlemen (Mr.. T. GIUINV;LI E). Mr. T. CREATILLE thought he was perfealy in order, upon a Motion of. Adjournment to bring forward any report which tended to place the Coun try inn state of alarm, or which, in his opinion, hel t 4 out any prospea of danger. The CHANCLLOI? of the .EXCHEQU E R said he did not mean to say► that the Right Hon. Gentleman was not in order, but that, in making the Motion of Adjournment, he Ir►d no reference to what had been adverted to by the itigh t Hon. Gentleman. - The Committees of Supply -nnd Waysand Means were deferred till Monday next. . Adjourned at half past four till Monday nex. TAE SUN. lOLL* cal/IS piczrz PLUM #VDZAT? ZONDON, DECEMBER 29, 1801. IT is generally understood, that the Adjournment of Parliament to the time orFginally proposed, is deferred merely on account of the recent Mutiny in the Fleet lying in Bantry Bay. The Mutiny ? there is no doubt, is completely quelled, and Fifteen of the Ringleaders are now on ' their passage to Spithead for the purpose of being tried by a Court Martial — It is generally supposed that, should the weather have permitted, the Squadron destined for the West Indies has by this time sailed—On this head we can state nothing certain, because we believe no pc3itive information has been" received, but it seems very probable that on a subject of such moment to the Nation in general as that which has recently occurred in the Fleet, Ministers are naturally desirous to make some communication to Parliament before its Members separate for any considerable time. SOME uneasinessii—woltesterday learnt, prevailed in the:City, respPli;lo.llB'Sailing . of the Brest Fleet. This subjea, it Will be seen in our Parliamentdry Report,- was slightly adverted to last night in the House of Commong, and "the answer of the CHAN CELLOR of the EXCHEQUER Will no doubt be read with great attention and avidity. .He admitted that the sailing, of the Brest Fleet, though no Official Account of that circumstance had been received by Government., seemed certain ; but he did not conceive it prudent in the present state of things to declare whether any communication had taken.place-. between the two Governments' upon the subjea, or Whether any means had been pursued to provide against that - vvhich vas not likely to happen, but Whieh,waS still within the scope of posSibility.—lt would be presumption in us to prestind to state more upon this subjea, than Ministers eltuse to cont. municate, but we have before asserted, upon what we know to be good authority, that the Expedition to St. Doiningo was known to our Government be fore its otijca was publicly declared in France, and that there does not seem to us any reasonab:e, ground of alarm upon the subjea. At any rate, it is absurd to suppose that it is an, objet which llas, not attraaed the serious attention of rise British Ministry. We have reason to ,believe that the Definitive Treaty .will soon be brought to a conclusion.— ' Colonel La O...LEHALts,, we understand, does' not return to. Amiens, from which it is reasonably in ferred, that the stay of the Marquis CORNWALL IS, in France, is not expeCted to be long. One Hamburgh Mail remains due. The PRINCE of WALES returned to Town the latter end of last :week, for the purpose of passing . part of the Christmas holidays with the ROYAL FAMILY at Windsor, where a gran. Entertainment: ivas given yesterday. We are sorry to learn,'how ever, that His ROyal Highness was so indisposed en Sunday, that he was advised by Sir WALTER FAR- . QIIHAR not to leave his room. His disorder is a violent cold, attended with fever. . On Sunday the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHE QUER, and his brother, Mr. HILEY ADDINGTON, dined at Bromley-Hill, the seat of CHARLES LONG, Esq. Mr. PITT. was 'of the Party.. Mr. PITT goes down next week to spend some time with his venerable mother, at Burton-Pynsent. Mr. NEPEAN is at present on a visit at Brid port. A Mail was made up at the General Post Office this day, with the Letters for Holland, and other parts of the Dutch Netherlands, to . be for warded by Packet Boats by the way of Harwich and Helvoetsluys;,and a Mail will continue to be made up every Friday and Tuesday following.. The Minotaui- has brought home some of the i i th Light Dragoons, lattiltbeßodY Guards of General .ABERCROMBY.,„, . The •quantity"tifgnsSian beef that has lately been imported into this Coun:ry, is likely to have some effea in reducing the price of provisions ; in ma nufaeturing towns it will be found particularly be neficial, as it is well salted, will keep excellently, and is much cheaper than fresh beef. The Hon. HENRY CAULFIELD, Son to the late, and Brother to the present Earl of CIIARL F moNT, has announced himself a Candidate for the County of Armagh. From May the Ist, the power of the supreme Court of Judicature of Calcutta extends over , the province of Senores, anti pines subordinats, thereto. . NAVAL NEWS. / FALMOUTH, DEC. ARRIVED the Lord Charles Spencer Packet, Captain COTE SW °writ, 39 days from Tortola, with Leeward Island Mails ; the Lady 4rabella, Capt. PoaTEVs, ;9 days from Halifax ; and the Princess Elizabeth, Captain Klyy, with Mails from Jamaica, Barbadocs, and Martinique, 54. days passage from jartiaica, Passenger by her—r Mr. G. Lt,ARMAN. By the 19rd Charles Spencer—Mr. 13ARcL Ay ,_ DyErt , ,, Mr. IN/FM.)llm.y, and M. RODOLPN. • 'Tlie"4 : (idy Arabella racket left at Flalifax His Majesty's Ships Boston, Anelrontacbe, Pheasant, and Lilly, and the Duke of Kent racket, which carried out the Mails from England. The Traci/wham Packet, with the Mails from Lis bon, and Lady Hobart ditto, from Leeward Islands, are hourly expep.ed. Arrived the West Indian Ship Severn, ,c4p.PiP WASEN, from London foc Madeira and Barbadoes;' ditto the Ship Prince of Wales, GRE IG, from Ion ! . don for Jamaica l put in here by contrary wind, PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 28. SAILED the London Merchant EvEr, toGuerrsz ? sey. great many outward.bonpd Ships sailed 'this day from IVlotherbank, Stokesbay, and Spithead ; 1)4 it was impossible to get at any of their names. HARWICH, PEc. 28 THE Vinus, of Yarmouth, from Rotterdam bound London,. with oats ; also the Brigantine Harmon, of YarmOuth, THOMAS BOO*.CH master, laden with Geneva, flax and other goods, froM Rottirdam bound t0 : 49 . 0d0n ; the Frost? Catrena, from Dort. to Lon don, wiih madder, &c. and the Amia;C:T. Cx ETAR c from Rotterdam to London, with butter, &c. are put into this Harbour by contrary wads. •; We understand there has.been a severe.frost.upon the Continent, which prevented the. Packets sailing from Cuxhaven with the Mails ; • the D;aiitz Packet, Capt. STEWARD, fortunately got to sea with some Mails, which are hourly expeded. NORTHERN SEA-MARK. Tiiß following Paper contains information of some importance to the Navigation-towards the Coasts, in the neighbourhood of the IslandOf Hel goland : it was published at Bremen on the loth inst. under the authority of Mr. KoLErticAmp, the Danish Consul in that place, and cannot fail to be acceptable to the commercial world. Fo'r the safety of vessels, which are bound for the Harbours or Rivers in the neighbourhood of Hcl_ goland, and ;'nay have been carried, - by accident or otherwise, to the Northward of that Island, a Sea beacon has been ereEted 'on the-sand-bank, which lies a quarter of a German mile (a German mile is upwards of 44. English) to the ;South of Anirtun, and the West of the Island of Pellworm, and which, in ordinary floods, rises five feet above the surface of the water,. • . The height of this Beacon is 6o feet. It is easily seen at a distance of three German miles ; appearing at first like a sloop, with a topsail set. The Bea Con and the Light-house on Helgoland are different from each other; by a compass devi ating 25 9 from N. to W. N.t. by E. e E. 6,1 Ger. man miles, in bearing and distance. The advantages to be derived, from' this Beacon are as follow : I.' It serves to point out the sand-banks in that part. As soon as it can be listindly seen from the deck, the vessel,must not :ippwa.ch nearer.; for then the soundings will be from six to five fathoms, and the distance two German miles. z. The Beacon may serve also as an excellent mark for enabling vessels to regulate their course. When it is seen two German miles East, by the compass, it gives the foll9wing courses and dis tances ; regard being always to be had to the state and direftion of the tide : Course. Dista To the Island of Helpland, - - S.W. - outermost Red Buoy of the Elbe, S W. 7t Black Buoy of the Eider, - _ _5 S Red Buoy of the He- Z S.E. by S. 7 ver, - - - - Black Buoy of the jS. E . E. if Schmal-deep, . - S - Lister-deep, - - - N.E. E. ' 4 .~ - - 3. The Beacon furtherserves as a principal mark for direting the navigation to these Deeps and Rivers. To make the Schmal-deep—the Beacon must he. brought to N.E. 2-3dS E. bearing, from the vess4l; and this course must_be kept till within a German mite of the Beacon, where, the Pel!worm Old Tower bearing E. by E. Ole outermost black buoy of the Schtnal4eep will be found in fitham lroter,, In clear weather,. the Beacon may be brouOrWithia an eighth of the compass to the ot:fibe outermost .corner of Annum, lna the `l 3 ellwOir. 4 old Tower, betwixt North And South Oog, but nearer to the first, in the proportion -of• one to two. • To make the Hever—let the Beacon be brought two German miles to the East ; then let the above.: mentioned course S. E. by S. be kept, till North hoft (that is, the N.W. of the land , of Eidcrsted) is seen ,or till the church and steeple of Wester-bever become .dear of the sand downs. Then the Beacon, which can there be distinlly seen' bearing N. by - the coinpass, the . outermOst rea buoy of thelieyer will - be discoVered. To make the Eider--let the Beacon be brought two German miles to the East, aud let the course be S.S.E. till the Beacon disappears to the North. The sand,downs of Eidersted will then be disco vered, and the course must be continued so long to the Southward, in from 4. to 32fathoms water, till the two Beacons on Sud hoft or at St.. Peter appear in a straight line E.N.E., when the outermost buoy will be seen,. In the same manner, the Beacon is of advantage for making the Lister-deep; for as soon as it dis appears to the South, the island Silt is discovered; and when The middle of this island, called Rothelif, appears in the East, the course may he direi.c.led Northward very near the coast, till the Northern point of it is reached; then turning to the E. and S.E. good anchorage may be found behind List. COCKPIT, WHITEHALL. BE - FORA TR £ GO&DS COMMISSIONERS-OF P E ALS iN PRIZE CAUSES. 'The S;sterr, STOKES master.—An- "Appeal from New Providence. - ThiS ship, laden :with 'a cargo of deer sk r ins,_ furs, staves, and bound on a voyage from Pensacola, in East Florida, to any port in America, as asserted, was captured on the 25th of February, 1798, by the private sloop of v . war PIaer,,BENJANt IN NE wzoir, commander, )ind carried. into New Providence, ,in .the Vice-Admi ralty Court of which Island-the usual proceedi ngs , the. ship. It appeared that the claimants were natives of Scotland, and that two of the senior Members of "their mercantile I fihn . Were' 'inhabitants of North America, and with the Independence of the United States had their persons zttatnted, and their proper. ty confiscated,' by reason of their attachment to the BritiSh Government, upon which they rook refuge in lis Majesty's then Province of East Florida, where being acquainted with the nature of the In. dian ttlide, they commenced Indian traders. That upon the cession of the Floridas to Sp tin; the firm was continued, with - the approbation of His IVlajes, ty's Officers, and consent of His Catholic Majesty's Governor, who was sent to take possession of the Province. When the War between 'Great jlritairt and Spain tOok - place_ they wete.-considered as the alien enemies of Icing of Spain, and one of the partners of the-,firm was indulged with taking -an Oath of. Neutrality, for the proteetion;of their per, sons and property, until they could ~semove there., with front:His Catholic - Majesty's li),oin;nionS an 4 it also appeared that the present cargo:. was • part of that . .property,. doing under letters . Of safe condu't, agreeable to the Royal Orders of the Icing of Spain, t43444e-ifiSsitish- erca ntile. house in. America, at the time of thecapture. - : It was contended on the part of the captors, that the question in this case depend, ed upon the national charaeter of the claimants, atu - that, it was clear, from the evidence prOduced in the: cause, that these parties never intended to withdraw their property altogether from the Spanish Domini, ons, and therefore,,. whether they were to he consi. tiered as SpaniSh SubjeCls, or British .Subje4s, ig was - liable to confiscation. After Counsel were heard on the part of the claimants, their Lordships took time AO consider of their sentence, as it would determine two othei• cases, in which the claiMants were interested. The Conn Martial, for trying Capt. li t LPL. LowrLL; of His-Majesty's late Ship Sluittsi t ire s was held on board His Majesty's Ship - Gmret4x, Mahon, on the 18th of August, aol, for quit., .zing his convoy, put Under his charge by Lord KEITH ; and also for the loss.or the Ship after a minute investigation into all the circumf stances, the Court • passed the following sentence on capt..,HALLowELL and.his ship's COmpany " The Court were of opinion, and it appeared to them, from the narrative of Capt, H4LLowELL, supported by the best•possible evidence to be ob tained, that the Convoy, ,under Captain' HALLo- WELL'S charge, was of very little Importance in any point of view ; that his determination -to leave the said Convoy, and join Sir JOHN WARREN, was diElated by sound judgment and zeal for the ,service of his King and Country ; and the Court was far ther of opinion, that the loss of His Majesty's late ship Stuiftsure was unavoidable, and that the condua of Captain I-lALLOWELL, his Officers, and Ship's Company, in defence of the Swiftsure, was highly.metitorious, and that Captain HALLOWELL displayed great judgment in the mode he adopted to avoid' so superior a force, and,equal gallantry in the execution of the plan so formed ; they did therefore adjudge, that they. he honourably ac quitted, and they were honourably acquitted :ie. Cordingly." We have great satisfadion in stating, that by an overland Dispatch , received yesterday at the India House, accounts have reached this t;ountry of the safe arrival at Sydney Cove in New South Wales, of the Lady Nelson, commanded by Lieutenant GRANT, a vessel of sixty tons only, constructed under the immediate diredion of Capt. SCHANgs Her 'passage from the Cape of Good Hope to Nevi South Wales was only ten weeks, in which she 'encountered a variety of weather, but arrived with out the smallest damage, and with her crew in the most perfect letters from Govertor 'KING are dated in March last—The Lady Nebo had then sailed to prosecu those discoveries on the Coasts of that immense Country, for which she was sent from. home.—The utility of this Vessel. was strongly acknowledged by Governor KING,- and there can be no doubt but we shall soon hear of im portant additions to the confined knowledge as yet gained of that Country: It was generally con ceived before she sailed from England that it was impossible for such a vessel to circumnavigate the Globe,—The doubts upon this point are happily re- Moved by the safe arrival of the Lady Nelson, and the great utility is further proved of the sliding ; keels, the invention of the Officer above named, Ed whose, ingenuity and wive services the Country is under many and great obligations. We shall s oon' state some further particulars on this interesting subjed. . . Several of the homeward bound British Ships had sailed from Elsineur oh- the 1 - sth inst. it . a by the the past pi i obtain' some a Leti the fol cc T Our 72.!C010nc themse caring said tc Creams ratic, They arsenal ding have b Lett intelli 74th board cluebar compar the Cl, fallow 4 ‘, F Of tin Calcut quis now al et rived 1 Mario sports, S )2.2inne: ls on tl IXTRA taki , Ceded and wl that Our up, an more time. in this and ti coriclu seen -. sc Test ti cc I COmpa meat march , Europ the m 4 of wk Thed detcrit ahe g th from iaintii sights accust or thr the Eu got tc among Was el prison Who allegi; the C under; surfer ;cc in wh reap among 2 18i1Vf occurs Pailan and a; any p Of i t . fined i his es precor Viet; agains thoug '/ , 7 take ti :merit .bat co bundr , telligt light c to mil his Fc Panic, 4iatel; had co not tl it hac Majul