The Sun. — London, England, 1801-09-29 00:00:00

THE SUN. SOLEM QZJIS DICSRIL FAI.SUII AUDILAT? LONDON, SEPTEMBER 29, Bor. Br the Venerable and Russel, which I.‘ave rrived at Portsmouth from Sir J. SAIIMAREZ'.i Sql ladron, we learn that that Admiral, with Ad: niral POLE and their united Squadronj, was cruizip g oil Cadiz on the 6th inst. THE ifainbagh Mail due on Sunday null/. ed this morning. It brings us from View:a, a n account of the recognitior of the KING of ETR UR 1 as far as the insertion ` 3l .iis name in the Court I :4azette can be so considered. According to the Brunn Gazette, the situation of European Turkey becomes every day re ,ore critical, from the progress of Insurre&ibn. It is stated that the insurrection in Belgrade was not ; i partial at tempt, but clic consequence of a genera 1 system of revolt. Notwithstanding the precipitate and . angry de parture-of M. Vox DoHNt from Mims/. ?r, it does not appear that any consequences had en sued as late as the t zth inst. The Citizens of the Batavian Republi c are to be treated, as is usual with them every s ix months, with a now Constitution. Our Reade rs, if they have a taste for making Constitutions, will find it gratified by the perusal. of the Hague art icle. The Direetory and the Legislative Body are aboli,hed, and in their stead, a State D ireetory is to be appointed, consisting of r z persor Is, one ( )f whom is to go out yearly; and a Legislative Bod y of 35 Members. An article from Lisbon, gives an account of a Decree of.t.he PRINCE REGENT, by which Engli sh Ships are to he permitted to enter the Portugu( :se HarboUrs till the end of September, and after ti - ►at period to Le exclu,ied. OU '4 Readers will perhaps recollea, that a mei- 7C_ month ago, before the Meeting ef Parliament, we gave our opinion at large on the high price of Grain, in dire-{l: contradiaion to the - prey. ing prejudices on the subjea ; an opinion wh ' tich we had the satisfaaion to find, was, after v ery minute investigation and mature considerat . ion, adopted, and zaed upon by Committees of. i )otli Houses of Parliament. We promise, that w hat_ ever sentiments we may entertain on any lues_ tion of importance, we will never . commit the 111 to print till after thorough reule&ion ; and as- we t .pink that the piainet and simplest reason will e> :plain the causes why the price of Grain has not yt :t di minished so much as fully' to meet . the publi"-.c peaition, con s idering that the abundance of the late harvest is universally adtnirted, we shill • I pro ' bably take the earliest opportunity of venfur ing to express our Sentiments at large, on this in( ist im portant and interesting of all subjeas,.ane, without any fear of risquing our credit with the T eablic, - by encountering popular prejudice. To-morrow. LORD MAYOR wil I proceed in state from Guildhall, at twelve o'clf ) ek, with the new.Slicriffs, Messrs. RAWLINS and pox, to West minSter, :to be sworn into Office bef ore the Barons of the Eltchequn, - where they will f ro through the antierit custom of counting the hob-t - 'ails, &c. Count DE, V lOMENI L, appointe(' t Commande - s; in Chief of the Portugueze Army, was to haves a il e d on Sunday from Portsmouth in the C 'oltstan' ce igate for Lisbon. Ile is accompanied b . vi several Citmeral Officers of his own nomination.. On Friday the Plan of Defens'ive. Operations, in the event of an Invasion, was iiorwardel .1 from the E xcr et al . ) , of. State's Office for ';he ;li.prc Amiion - and I , iertu;nar Its of Coun cotN:ideration of the different ties, who are to return their opinions o n the prac_ tieAility of the ,proposed Plan in "their respedive Digtrids. Tie Cornwall Lieutenants , Av(.!rc to--meet. this day, on the subjea•of defence, :ngr ceable to the sum mons of Earl Nio UNI'-ED GC' .rm.p :E.. That county.i divided into two Military ietl; and its Volun. teertk 'are brigaded into tw s Jo di Asions ; the Western • dii.iSion'under the Comm nd• of Lord itE DIJNST AN - LL VI L'L E, with the rank of,Brigadier-General ; and the Eastern division tin& , , t that of Colonel RODD, of the Royal Cornwall with the same rank. The Pendennis Art iller y -Volunteers are attached to the Castle, which cos ,nmands - the town of Falmouth and barbonr; : u.nder L 1 ae Command Of Lieutenant-Gover nor MELV I LLE .. ; where-provisions and stores' are laid . in for thei v.ceommodation. A vigilant watch is kept at all Signal-posts along: that coast,- and signals za - ppoi• in case of the ;Appearance of an Enetv, for ziartning thein!erior, and calling toge - ether the di' &rent Corps'at their appointed rallying posts. - . The ;.first Dragoon Guards have marched from ghaM, and are entering \ into quarters; at Guilt iurd,.Farnham, Alton, Ste.—ilead-quatters at G3i! • • rille,Duke of MANCHESTER arrived at Glasgow. c-, W,ciiri - esday; last, and L expeeted to attend . the eeting, in ,_ompany ,” it'll the Duko of ( . 3c4i3tin-; -anci:--MowßosE the Marquis Nii,6r ) . anti a long fashionable ; &c, THE HAMBURGH MAIL. VIENNA, SEPT. 12. THE new Sovereign of Tuscany is now stiled KING Of ETRURIA, in our Court Gazette. The KING of ETRURIA has written a Letter to the GRAND DUKE of TUSCANY, in which he an nounces to him his accession to the Throne, and communicates certain notices relative to the per sonal estates of the GRAND DUKE in Tuscany. No formal renunciation of the Gram! Dutch) , has, how, ever, as yet taken place. The Brunn Gazette says, the lisurreaion in Bel grade is only a part of a very extensive plan, as the flames of Sedition broke out at tha same time near Constantinople, at Adrianople, Philippopoli, Nissa n and other places, where the inhabitants rose upon the Magistrates, and dividing into parties, fought furiously with each other. Civil War appears likely to become general throughout European Turkey. The Commandant of Nina was obliged to fly. The PACHA of BELGRADE, before the late cummotions there, was much esteemed at Constantin ogle, and appointed Seraskier by the Porte. BANKS O.e THE MAINE, SEPT. 15. THE IVesel Gazette says, the departure of M. VON Doxm from Munster, was accompanied by some remarkable occurrences. According to Letters from. Munster of the ilth, every thing was then quiet there. MILAN, SEPT. 5. THE French besieging. Troops at Porto Ferrajo have ere6lcd three Batteries, one Qf which mounts 18 pieces of heavy artillery. Tilt:se have kept up for the last eight days a very afiive and incessant fire, and greatly damaged the tow n : they have also sunk some of the Enemy's Ships in the Harbour. defence of the Garrison is, however, still very obstinate. On the 26th of August, four English Frigates cast anchor a second time befo re Piombino, and landed some Troops there, who h ad an Engagement with the Fiench Garrison, consist ing principally of Poles. After the English - had colleded a consider_ able quantity of plunder, they returned to their ships. As several English Ships of Wait arc cruiziug be tween Leghorn and the Island of Elba, the two French Irrigates which lie at Leghorn have not been ablc to bail. for Elba; Admiral GANTHEAUME is, therefore!, expeled from Toulon with four Ships of the Lim! and land forces, to drive the English Criizers away from Leghorn, and hasten the Sur render o f Porto Ferrol°. HAGUE, SEAT. T 9. SINCE : the last post-day, great changes, have taken pl ace : the Legislative Body' has been dis solved b y the majority of the Direaory, and on the Ist of C ktober a New Constitution will be presented to the People for their acceptance; The following are tly particulars of this affair : Or I Wednesday last, the 16th inst. the DiredorY sent , a Message to the First Chamber, together with a C. - .:opy of the Proclamation which had boon prepared on the 14th, and on the rph sent off .by Couriers to all the Provincial Departinents, with the Plan of the New Constitution which was to be laid before the People for 'their sanction on the Ist of 9c.. tober. This Message was accompanied with a`Plan . of the. New Constitution; which had likewise been sent the day before to every Member of the First Chamber; The intention of the Direaory in this, was - merely to inform .the Legislative Body. of what it had done; and not in any manner to ask its advict. On receiving the Message, the President, VON SWINAUN, proposed that the Message, and Papers accompanying it, t , hould be received as a.No tificatiOn. ThTntirTeratis — Pditk which has constantly op posed. tiTe Direaory, and '4ny change in the Con stitution, objected with violence to this measure of the Diredory, which they . considered 'as' uncon stitutional ; and after very warm debates,' re3olv-ed by a majority of 28 agiinst 2 6, contrary to the prouosal of the President, that the Message should not be received as a 'Notification, but that a Corn. mittee of nine members should be appointed to examine the same, and consider in what manner the Chamber should proceed. • This Committee yesterday gave 'in its report, which was 'favourable to the Diredory, proposing that t he, Message should be accepted as a Notification, and .the Plan of ,the New Constitution suffered to go, to the People for their sanaion. But on this- occasion likewise, the Opposition Party triumphed, .and'by a Majority of "zi•against 25,.a Decree was adopted, the substance' of which was, that the execution of "the measure proposed , by the Diredory should be deferred. It now remains to see what the Second Clam iaer will do, to which this Decree will to-day be presented for its sanaion, and whether it will unite with the First Chamber, to deprive the DireElory of the power of introducing the New Constitution by legal means. The Plan of the New Constitution is already printed, and consists of 108 Articles. The Executive Direaory is to be abolished ; and in its stead a State-Diredory (Staats-biavind), instituted, to consist of twelve Persons ; one to go out yearly. There is to be a Legislative Body, consisting of thirty five Members. The Territory of the Republic is to be divided into eight Departments, whose Boundaries are to be the same with those of the old Provinces. P. S. This moment a Proclamation is published by the Direaory, declaring the Legislative Body dissolved, and inviting every Citizen to give his vote relative to the New Constitution on the Ist of Odober. Those Members of the Legislative Body who op posed the proposition of the DireEtory, have been arrested, and will be required to answer. The Commandant of the Body Guard, who refused to leave his post, has been put under arrest ; and the Guard itself released from its oath, and disbanded. LISBON, Auc. 24 THE PRINCE REGENT has published a Decree, signifying that English ships will be permitted to enter the Portuguese Harbours till the end of Sep tember, after which time they will be shut against them. In consequence of this notice, the English have shipped Port Wine on board all the Ve-sels they could procure, to the amount of 54.,000 pipes. The French Bishops held their final meeting on Saturday last. Every one of them adhered to the opinion which he gave before. The purport of their deliberation was not upon the main ground of the question, but upon the form in which the letter , , containing the determination of each individual should be couched. After a long debate, it was definitively resolved to conform stri6tly to the me thod prescribed by the POPE. All these Prelates were yesterday to deliver to Mr. - ERSKINE their different letters. To the seventeen Bishops who composed the first meeting, is to be added the Bishop of RHODES, who has just arrived from Scotland. The Bishop of TROTIS, who was on an excursion in Holland, did not arrive till Sunday. His opinion, long known from a publication, is in favour of their resigning. Thus, amongst nineteen French Bishops who have taken. refuge in London, fi•zre are decidedly con formists. . There are six Bishops in France, all.of whom are known to be conformists—the Bishops of MAR SEILLES, Of .NISMES, Of ST. MALO, Of ANGERS, Of SENLIS, and of ALAIS.. Without the realm of France, and on the Continent, we may reckon among the conformists, the Archbishop's of Aucx, TOULOUSE, TR EVES, and CAMBRAI, and the Bishops of LONGkES, LACON, AMIENS, and several others. Thus it appears, • that of the 84 French Bishops alive, there are eighteen known conformists. Letters received yesterday from Yorkshire, men tion' that' some aftive agents still continue 'about that County, endeavouring to disturb - the public mind. It appears .that a private meeting of Dee gates, of what are ca ll e d U n i te d E ng li s h men , w a s • .held on Sunday se'nnight; at the public-house . on Hartshead Moor, not far from HalifaX They Camein by one, or two at a time, and ordering liquor, 'waited till a person arrived, who :had 'a handkerchief full. of letters or tickets, which on getting into an inner room,. he began .to . direet, when the Landlord intimating that he could not allow any, thing of that kind,tO be carried on there, they begged to be allowed to stop only half an liour, promising not to come. any more. This indulgence :being refused, they immediately left the house, and finished 'their business under a hedge by the road side. • " We are credibly- informed (says the Halifax journal) that it is not intended by the fomenters of Sedition to. have any more public meetings for the present, but that they are very diligently employed in classing and. organizing themselves in . their pri vate assemblies: It. would be well for all Con stables stables-and Police Officers to keep on the, alert, to deteft these people in their places of resort, as we have reason to believe their meetings are not un frequent. We have strong' reason to believe that a meeting was lately held at a•house near Cleck Heaton, and others at some places in that neighbourhood." The French Government having, on the Anni versary of the foundation of the Republic, given games, at which all the Citizens of the Great Nation who were in Paris, had liberty to be present, gratis, the Printers of Newspapers thought proper to take their share in the diversionF„ which lasted during the greater part of the night of the 23d.. From the im possibility of procuring the requisite number of hands, the Parisian Journalists were compelled to print their paper of ,the 2.4. th, on the preceding day. It will, therefore, only be in the 'papers of the zsth, that we shall receive a detail of the Re publican ceremonies which :took place on the 23d. It appears, however, certain,' that nothing of im portance either with resped to France or to its conneetions with the other Powers, has been mingled with the . festivity. - It is rather singular to observe how the Writers -in the pay of France (on the other side of the wat: ter) sometimes let the truth slip out. ". The Squadron Of q,ANTHEAUM,E, " says the Clef du Cabinet, " fortunately got out of Brest and escaped the pirsgit of the Division of CAA„DER." The, Squadron with which GA:NTI I IP . AUM , 4 so heroically ran away, consisted of SeVen Sail of; the Line, and the Squadron, the pursuit of which• he so fortienately escaped,. was cxadly ,of equal farce, WEY MOUT'', SE PT. 27. YESTERDAY His MAJESTY and Attendants walk. ed on the Esplanade after dinner . In the evening the ROYAL F AMILY went to the Theatre, to see the Comedy off The Wonder, and the Entertainment of The Lyar. This morning the KING, accompanied by the Earl of UXBRIDGE, Lord; UJALSINGHAM, and Colonel CARTWRIGHT, - Walked on the Esplanade. THEIR MAJESTIES and PR INC ESSeS, attended Divine Service, when the Sermon was preached by Dr. DOUGLAS, son of the Bishop of SALIS.. BURY, from the 7th Chapter oi' Matthew, and the 2 ISt verse. " Not every one that saith unto me Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of Heaven, but he that doeth the wilL of my Father, which is in Heav en." After the Service, His MAI STY, with his usual Attendants, walked on the Est danade, in conver. sation with Lord SONltil Vu,L E, who is just arrived here. HER MAJESTY and the PRINCESSES took an air ing in a Sociable on the Sands. COLCHESTER, S:EPT. zB. THIS morning the 'Garrison o f Colchester was re viewed by His Royal Highness the DUKE of YORK. Marquis CORNWALL IS Commanded. The dif feren t Brigades formed clo,e cof Limn on their ar rival at the ground. The Artillery on the right-- r3th Light Dragoons on the left of the line. The DUKE came on the ground at one o'clock. His ar rival was announced by a disclvirge of Artillery on the right; after which the line was formed by a Signal-gun; 2d gun, opened thei r ranks ; 3d gun, general salute. The ranks then closed, and His Royal Highness Went along the line, which changed their front , to the right, its, two lines ; then cha aged to their ori ginal front, passed by, and went off the ground. The 13th Regiment of Light Dragoons remained in the 'field, and was inspected by His Royal High ness, who expressed greatsatisfaCtion at theifine pearance of the Regiment, both min and horses. It is not four years since the Regiment returned from the West Indies with about 6o Men and Officers- 7 . -o , they are now near 900 strong. The DUKE dines with LO'rd CCARNwALLis. So great was the concourse of people on the ground to behold the brillian t s i g h t , t h at a T roop of the z3th was Obliged to keep the carriages off. His Royal Highness goes to Ipswich to-morrow, to inspea that Garrison.. THE THEATRE, Covent Garden. ofTheßl.vQueens i w ,h a e s p r a 6 r i t 7e o - f sen T te H d E l T as r t ag i e ii d night at this Theatr e . Alexander was performed by Mr. LACY. lhe ta m lents of Mr. LAC Y se em b etter a d apte d to charac ters of the moral and sententious kind,'Than to what tiomsox calls " the amiable fire, and quick heroic arcinur," of such a part as Alexander. It was evi:, dent, through the whole of his performance, that Mr. LACY's general conception of the part wa3 just: in all the pathetic passages he touched the aft Lions, , but his natural quaiiiics are not equally calculated to diTlay the impetuous activity, the , eager violence, and the rapid transitions in the tem-. per of the Macedonian Madman. Upon the vihole, however, Mr. - LACY'S performance was very credit.. able to his understanding,, thou g h not thoroughly in unison with his habits and ins powers. , Entered at , the Mansion-House yesterday, tilts 28th of September, Wheat, 8091 quarters—Oats, 6757 quarters. - ,At a grand festivafat Thurso last week, at which w: re present, LOKI CAITHNESS, and Sir JoHN and the. -Ladies. SjNCLAIR, &C. 24 different kinds 40 fish were placed upon the table ! The young Candidate who was to have started forwrd at Covent Garden Theatre, in the part of Hamlet, has, it seems, reflected on the difficulty of the enterprize, and resolved to defer his - atterrP t 'till he has improved his qualifications by farther study, Defels these, which olodest terrots cause, " From impudence itself extort explause." _ HoLmAxes negotiation for the pUrchase of the lt obstacle an d Dublin Theatre is likely to end in disappointment, afe r th a e mo lln: l a e r y r ter ;ae l;. , e . re apparently ltis s said that settled,t is an old mortgage left by BARRY,. which must be • liquidated before new arrange t nents had are made. This story, however, i 5 supposed to be mere pretext, in order to cover the reludance of the " Proprietor to part with the Theatre. Indeed, 4 was predicted from the beginning of the TreatP that J O NES would not dispose of this property. When, at the late Sessions at the Old Bailey, s v4 read of a person of the name cf Harmony having bin convited of stealing the shells of twelve tortoises, eve• cannot help remarking how. antient the•cornie4ti o4 has been between harmony and tortoise-shell. l' ll° first musical , instrument ever made was the Li re t .whiCh was fabricated by M ercury f rom t h e s h e ll i ° a tortoise, and strung with its dried intestinei: the present instance, we must, however; say, the Old Bailey Harmony, though stridly Wit hl a n bars, was a little out of time. We wonder he not plead that he had. taken the shells on score. A Letter - from an Officer in 'the British ArrnY , addressed to his friend al Belfast, dated zis . t MaY' and inserted in .the Cork Advertiser, says :—" The .Turkish Soldiers shew no mercy to Frenchmen? 'they carve and cut the fleshy part of their bodies o w it q their imint nsetabres." Alexandria holds out m uch longer, however, the "Turks 'will have very little . pickings in that Fortre ss , n ot w i t hstanding the 'gril° . \ • quantity of corn, and the vast abundance of We which it contains. Among .the most curious events of the last w eek, we mayfcertainly. reckon the blunder of the Many chester Partridges, in mi s t a king a market place far : 4 t hissing hot." corn field, and the di - inviting of an iron trona ce 1