The Sun. — London, England, 1804-12-24 00:00:00

PRICE OF STOCKS, Tilts DAY •s TWg O ' CLOCK. Consols . 591 3 Red. Ann. . THE SUN. SOLES WS DMZ FALIIUM A UllitAT LONDON. MONDAY, DFCBMISER 24'. 1804. IT is with much utisfaition we are enabled to state there is every reason to believe that the difference* which have for some time subsisted between Mr. Pt Ti and Mr. A DAINGTON have amicably terminated. Thbt reconciliation, we understand, was eireeted by the in lervention of a Great Personage, and was much facili. fated by the high sense of duty anti patriotic feelings tithe two Right Hort.Gentlemers alluded to,who felt, that at a moment like the present, when the very existence of the Country is threatened by a powerful and implacable Enemy, it was the first duty of every goo&Subjett to sacrifice arty private hostility which Ltnight unfortunately subsist, in order to contribute their mutual aid fur the salvation of the Country. it has been stated that Mr. ADDIN . GTON 38 to succeed Lord HARROWItY as Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs ; but we have strong reason to be. sieve that *this report is without foundation. Account, are received in the City, that Lord NE L. SON having orders to detain Spanish Ships, has taken agreat number : some in the Parrs, and others on their respeftive voyages in the Mediterranean, The ex, ad return is not known, but many say they amount to so or 6o Vessels, of various descriptions. LAST night we received Paris Peters to the 16th inst. and Eistsb journals to the zed. The spirited Resolution of the ilitavian Legisla tive Body, prohibiting any obedience to the French Military orders, in points relating to commerce, has, as we predifted, only served to' draw down ttpin them the increased vengeance of the Corsican Usurper. Three of the Members of the Batavian Government, who were most alive in promoting its passing, are stated to have been arrested; and there is no doubt that the Government will shortly be new-modelled, according to the last French pat. tern. Tbe 'atria& SCH NIM it LP INN INC K will pro. bably be the cat's paw of the Usurper upon this iscca,ion. Letters from Calais, in the. Paris Papers of the itsth, assert, that little or no damage was done by lOW attempt at that place. It is observable, how. ever, that they admit the explosion to have been so violent that some windows were broken in the town, and yet that the Fort sustained no other in. jury than the displacing some articles in the interior. The men on guard, they say, were thirty,: down, and the pier was ;lightly damaged. The Parisian mAnufatlurers probably received a hint that they bad said too with respecting the Boulogne business, *nd have t herefore been more cautious on the.pre. sent occasion. The whole account is certainly more couriousty worded ; and we have no doubt tliit the damage was much greater than the Parisian Newt.. writers pretend. • Another speeimen,of Parisian fabrication h ex- Whited in the Monitsur of the uth i ns ta n t, i n a pretended Letter from Barcelona, which is evident. ly only inserted with a view of exciting a prrju. dice against this Country ttpnn the Continent.— The falsehood of the 21/oniteur is, however, by this .•. . time, sof fi tkat - 1y known and appreciated. Letter frost the Banks of the Maine s peaks. of the warlike • preparations in Prussia having been eountettrianderi s , and of an approaching reconciliation between France and Russia ; but this is evidently hum the same mint' as the Letter from Barcelona. Friday morning His MAlrsTy.,arrived at Wind., am froin X s w, in his posr chaise, and drove to Coos. berland Ludic., and on hits MAJESTY'S alighting, the chaise 'No Aiecliarged, The Krno remained at the Leldge scale time, slier which fits MAJESTY went to the Ca*Tie in his chariot, drawn by six of bis heautitut Hanoverian horses. His MAJESTY, afterwards, attended by General Sr cncsa b and venal others, inspeCted the works that are going ow in the Castle, Saturday morning, on acconnt of the ha r d f rui t, its MAJESTY did not hunt ; but soon after break , kit His MAJESTY, ElletiiiCti by Sir HARRY BPS, SAID NEALE, Gieltrill SYENCSR, and several other persona, walked through' the fields to Spittle Bar. T acks, to the Riding Hour, where HIS MAJESTY 4 .I horses were in waiting. His MAJtSTY rode in file !tiding House a con. sidzrable time. and afterwards trispeeted the men in the Barrack Yard. Hrs MAjvcry then walked io yrogmore, and met HAIL MAJEsTY andtfte PRIN. In the evening Truitt MAJEST INS had a &lea Party of Nobility and . l'crboos niDt4tinttion, at tlo Cavtle. Yesterday morning the Rova, FAtArpr attend. cd Divine Service 4t e Georges wilco IJOILISIUNT 5uC ... 41,111)1411 ZUZIGIAMCIOT TM&laea DU from siness et Lord kIA,BROWBY'S Office, two till half past three o'eloelcs On Saturday the DUKE Of CLARINCI gave a grand dinner at his house in the Stable Yard, St. James':, to their Royal Highnesses the Panics of WALES, the Duxes of KENT, Sussex, and CAM. BRIDGE, and several Naval and Military ()Seen of rank. His Royal Highness the Dual of Yoßt left Town yesterday for °strands. The notches: of DEVONERIII a gave l as t n i g h t an petit toupee to a sele4t party of friends, at De. vonshire Huuse. Satprday the Polls recommenced for Common Couniilmen in the Tower and Bridge Wards. The polling at the Tower Ward was carried on with great spirit, and at the close the numbers were, ' Messrs. S. Hutchinson tea, S. Dixon . rot, I, Dixon too, M. Lucas 98, T. Dawson 97, P. Laing 95, S. Wri n 95. T. Bridges 9 2, T. Fothergill 92, C. Stewart 88, S. Walker 87, J. Hartshorne 75, L. Gilson 34. Bridge Ward.—The Poll closed at three o'clock, and the numbers were , Messrs. Rartram 31, A kiln 3T, Cope 3r, GAtratt jt,_Child 30, Maltby 30, Browne 3 e , Roberts 30 , Joyner sg, Clough 29, Wrench 28, Jackson 28, Bovill 26, Ross as, Dalton 2i, Lacey 18, Wilde 7. ' The polling will. te-ctimmence, and finally close this day. We are concerned to find that a new War has prevailed in Ceylon, and. occasioned extensive de. vastation. It appears that in 4Oril last one of the principal Adige rs, by liberal , lergesses and promisee, collated a numerous.body of Ttoopa on the Fron. tiers of Mature, and soon' afteildeclared his preten. sierts to the Sovereignty of the Irlind, avowing his intention to be to expel the English and depose the present King of Candy.—He seized posiession of several Forts, and abundantly supplied himself with provisions and military stores. Captain MADOE being informed of these movements, assembled all the disposable force in the distria, crossed the boundaries, and by a forced march, made an tutees paled attack on the Enemy—the Insurgent Chief, after a _slight resistance, retreated ; the British fol. lowed, removing every impediment he opposed to their pursuit by the bayonet.—Several villages were involved in flames ; the country was desolated in every diralion, and the roads and banks of nullahs covered with the killed and wounded. The result of this Expedition is not known, although some Letters mention the return of Captain MADGE to Matura. We have received, by the late Overland Dis. patch, a Letter from Bombay of so late a /date as the nth August, at which period a report was pre.. valent there and. generally believed, although un. supported by official communication, that Peace had been restored between the British and-their Allies, 'and the Mahratta Chief Holkar, through the tnetli.. ation of the Nizam, the Nabob, and the Peishwa. The Army of Holkar was a short time before in e xtreme danger of being cut off, General We L L Lev having penetrated between the two principal, columns, in consequence of some misc once p t i on on . der which the General commanding the left division took up a position several cols distant from the one which he was direded to occupy ; Holkar, how ever, with great promptitude, and by a masterly manoeuvre, in which he was favoured by the ex. creme darkness of the'night, effected his retreat. So great, however, was his precipitation, and so'diffi_ cult the country through which he hat! to pass, that great numbers of his people died of fatigue on the march, others were drowned in crossing some deep nullahs, and many more deserted ; Holkar ordered th e Gener a l into a'dungeon, preparatory to his fuh. lie execution. The Berar Rajah, in afilietion and disgust .at the' result of the late contest with' the British FQTCeli s has declared his intention to resign, his Principality to his adopted son, and to retire to a favourite spot on the Banks of the Bain Gonga. Accounts had reached Bonigity on the 2sth Au. gust, that a Detachment of Scindla's Army having unexpetledly appeared before a strong fort occupied by Holkar on the Frontiers of Agunere, sent a Messenger to demand its surrender ; b ut t h e Killi. dar,instead of complying, hung up the herald in front of one of the gates. The besiegers exaspe. rated by this outrage, stormed the place, and carry. ing it, put every soul to death. The advantages obtained by Holkar over Colonel WiLuvr, in Bundeleund, in May last, have been greatly exaggerated, and arose chiefly from focal circumstances. The country is uncommonly moun. tainous, nearly impassable from jungles and me. rasses, and inhabited bye powerful tribe of Rajah. pouts, warmly attached to Holkat Holkar occu. pied one of their forts in front of his army, and from thence greatly annoyed the out.posts of the Allies. Colonel W11.1.0T planned an attack on this position ; but having. in his, progress lost several men in a morass, owing to the treachery of his guides, and finding that a. narrow defile which he bad to pan was defended by a strung itnitri‘ed bat. eery, be was compelled to abandon the enterprise, By American rapers to tr u e 26th ult. we learn, that the French Ambaa.ador, Ceneral TotratoT, bearing the Official Dispatches relative to the new dignity assumed by BONAtAriti ) had arrived in the City of Washington, and that the Charge d'Af. faires, M. Plow, was about to return to France, The Engrossed Bill for making farther appro. ptiation to carry into tired the Treaty of Amity with Great Britain, was, on the 20th ult. read a - - bird time and passed, in the House of Itepresen. atiyes. The Prefea of Quadaloupe has forbidden, under a penalty, of aoo dollars, the introduition of any Newspapers or Proclamations, whatsoever, from any part of the world I The Russian of didtinaion just arrived from St. Petersburgh, who was presented to the KING on Wednesday last by Comte WounN?:ow, is coma over on a State Commission of the highest im. portance ; being entrusted, it is said, with special powers to neiottate a Secret Treaty between Great iliitain and Russia. Great quantities of Stores have been sent troll the depot, at Winchester, belonging to Governtnenf, to the difTerent hospitals round the CoAtt f in th.-, eCarSt of lin Wc4a • Mimics', Dec. 23.-- The brig Charlota BRINHARD WO LPMAIINS Master, loaded with barley, bound to Rotterdam, has been on shore upon the North Coast, end is brought into this harbour very leaky, with the as sistance of a pilor.boat. Several Neutral Vessels have strived within these few days from Holland, by whom we ate informed, that every Town is now full of French Troops, and that Inspeeting Officers are appoint ed to examine every cargo landed, to prevent Bs itiah merchandize being imported into that Conn. try ; and that all kinds of provisions are prohibited to be exported. A patrole of horse, and every pre caution, is taken to prevent any persons landing upon the Coast that have come dire& from Malaga, or places infetted with a pestilential fever, without per. fcirming the usual quarantine. The Brig Pins, of Leith, from Oporto, with wine, Jonw Low' it Master, bound to Leith, has put into this Harbour with the loss of anchors and cables. The.jangfrow Asa, R. Jam mots Master, from London 'to Tooningen, with coffee, dm; the Elms', of Ernbifen,dott N. Ha on t WANG la, front Rotterdam to Newcastle; and the Neutral Ship Yards Ritchelt, from Crockery to Fowey p with deals, are arrived with the following Coasters, and many others, of which we bave not been able to obtain their names : Two Brothers, William Elkiion, Fanny, Shad, and the "Thomas and Mary, Gladdon, trom London to Sunderland, in :.ballast ; the Swift, of Newcastle, Manners, from London to thields, in ballast; Betsey, of Hull, Taylor, with goods, and tke Thomas and Ann, Newton , in ballast, from London to Hill; the friendship, Poole, Four Sisters, Ptilledfen Mall in well, Providence, Andis, and Shia Deily, all in ballast, bound to Sunderland; Mary, Proud , fr om Sunder. land, with coals; Burton, Wilkinson, liewick, Barrett, from London to Hull, in ballast. Tile outward-bound Packets, with the Hamburgh, Bremen, and Gottenburgh Mail's, yet remain . ; to. gethet with the Pegasus Frigate, Escort, Chatter, and Fearless Gun.vesaels ; the Swift hired Cutter, and the 4rgus and lair Cruisers. PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 23.--Arrived His Majesty's ship Porde/is, Capt. DUN AR, from Oporto, cast from the Downs, whither she had proceeded with the convoy. Sailed the Pdareir 4fOreve, of 74 guns, car. Roasts, and beariag the flag of Rear.Admind DkilltY s who is appointed Second in Command on the Irish station. The Thaaderer, of 74 guns, from the Channel Fleet, and the Reiroaae/e, Capt. BALTON, from Spithead, are also to reinforce the Squadron on the Irish station. It was fully determined last night that the out. ward.bound West Tndia fleet, under the oprivoy of the thaw", should •ail this day ; but in the night the wind changed from N. E. to S. W. and of course they could not get under way. The wind is this evening got to the Eastward, and if it con. times, the fleet mad► he otpeeted to be off in the morning. tan night the Raw') sloop of wat drove foul of the D 4.14) joy ;41;d Rayalilr transports fit Spithcad, and did them a one damage. PLYMOUTH, Dec, 22 —Arrived the Danish ship Emanoie4 Capt. STROLDT, laden with wheat, from Copenhagen, bound to Bareet)qa I ptlt in to refit, having encountered several heavy gales 91 wind on the passage, by which she is bccogie extremely leaky, DUI., Deg. _3.-Sailed His MAjesty'l Ships itletb(, Arab, and Prudent, to the Westward. Arrived the Alert and Curlew Sloops, Ortivr, Knit, and Startiv Gan-brigs, from a Cruize off the Cont of France; Momby Gun.brig from Dover Harbour ; and Minx Gun-brig, from Dungeness. tho Downs —Monarch, Inflexible, Castor, Ardent, An. telope, larnalca, Aimable, Speedy, Leda, leopaid, Autumn, Orestes, Alen Curlew, Harpy, Vesuvius, Zebra, F ur y, Devastation, _t Volcano, Lucifer, Dart ? Mariner, Minit, . Tickler, Blazer, Thrasher, Rifleman, Firm, Iliter, Ilaugh 4.4ty Basilisk, Mallard, Bouncer , Watchful, Tigress, iitkeve 'Orlper,. starting, anti Mopiuty , snO Mined, Defence ships as before. VINCEOO SLOOP OF WAR.. 'The Publicato already informed of the fate of this vessel, and of the unjuitiflahle severity to whih her gallant Commander has been subjetled ; the following Letter from an Officer of theVincegu po4sesses, notwithstanding, much interest.) is We have at length arrive,' at our place of rest (Verdun), after a fatiguing march of near Soo .rnilea. Captain WRIGHT was separated from us at Vannes, and the men were afterwards taken from us at Verneuil ; we were . then conveyed to Paris, and lodged in the Abbaye; as soon, however, as it became dark, we were removed to the Temple, where, we were confined seven weeks, ate, of , w4;ch ewe plied ,e senior) tenfinemint. - ¶1 4s, perhaps,. you have nut heard the particu. lave of our being taken, I will give you a short ac. count. Ilaring our long cruize in Quiberon flay, we were r Footinually engaged with the numerous Gtin.boats that passed from one Port to another with Convoys ; but haying no Pilot, and they keepiog close in-shorq, we were unable to do any thing decisive ; we, howeier, rook two unarmed vessels, one a Schooner, laden with flour, and she miter, a National Luggei, With 2000 oars lot the Gun.boats: this lair, hum out want of 4111 en . 1 . drove a Sloop and a Luggerashore, near St,Geldei On the morning, at day light, we discovered i number of vessels coming out of the Morbihan, am a Corvette of r$ long IS.pounders Jay at ameba close in-shore. The Pinar was at this time be. canned in a strong tides.way, which drifted tsi close on a rock, which we avoided by dropping our anchor; when the tide slackened, having takca a poor man from a fishing boat as a Pilot, we attempt. ed to make the Tenuis Passage,but from his fears of ignorance, be was of no use, and went down below. We now trusted to chance. We were in* narrow and intricate passage, without an air of wind; mt. remits Gun-boats coming rapidly up with us : our men, who had been up all night, and had laboured three hours at the oars in a sultry morning . , ,taste quite exhausted ; and finding escape impossible, the Captain ordered the ship's broadside to be swe_pt to, and an eng agement was k ept up aga i nst such feyffoi odds for more than two hours, when our firing II• most wholly ceased, three of the g uns being dis mounted, and the rest incvmbered with Walton, from the falling of the booms, their suppoeters Ism ing been shot away. The men falling fens tits , ' foremast nearly glint away ► and the vessel eeePT , sinking, Captain %MIT was forced to hail thr e he had s truc k, j ust i n t i me to save the lives 0 1 1 i few that could keep the deck, as the Gun.beete we" towing up alongside, with strateroas freoPis J. board. He himself was wounded in the tifilftew i l in the aCtion, by a grape.shot but ner.‘ ,;_ r i t. 4.4 11. desk. We lamer* has separaw ' ' 4,0 1 "' gr i;, 2 7, would the absence of our dearettMeleft• gi' s . --. nets are those of a pedal GrOtteman-Ais abilities of the first class--and his bra Very only equalled bir his generosity and humanity. In his deportment!o his inferiors he appears in the most amiable poise of view, it being that of a kind and benevolent father. Indeed, I have not weeds toexpreas my ad• miration of his charade:. " Stellate of cit Force aid ths iftemit II J/ Carr °nide*, IS-pounders, 70 ef. feaiVe men, including 17 boys. istemfy's Ftrce-6 Gun.brigs, first class, 2 long a-pounders, and one 24.-pounder, from 6o to 70 men each; 7 Gun.boats, Lugger.rigged, 2 104 tB.pounders,4o to s'o men each ; 4 ditto, of the sd class, t heavy carronade or mortar, and from 3d to 40 men each. Troops of the Line from 3so to zoo. Their accounts varied. Total, 17 %yeah 36 heavy guns, and from rt4o to 1490 men. " The linage, from havin4 been ashore befog s this, was SO leaky as to require pumping al m ost continually." Ntw.Yo*t, Nor. 14..-. on the 231 sailed frog Staten Island, and went to sea, about five o'clock P. M. the fine ships Indettax of ao guns, Londe of 16 guns, Olimier Elptuorth, Napalm, Soacirewia, Brig Dial", of 1.1. guns, and Schooner Diaxa, ai 6 guns, all for St. Domingo. Four of these res. sell' are owned by SAtatm. G. Orautrv, and two chartered by the same Gentleman' • Arrived in Basseterre Roads, the French Priv*. tear ship la Dew Capt. M Amber?, L A AUStigil 7111 said Island, mounting 16 is-poun d carronao ver r s, with two Prize Ships, the 4 and Diouf , u"det c°""Y. both. armed G u i ne arnen, one of alit .the other of 18 guns, h a ving together five hundrea o f Li it and forty SIVCS. Cipt. ladstemersitar fell in with the t wo Ship,' o ne hundred leagues a ndto,svindivamer of Bathadoes, and engAged them both at e time; having boarded one, t he other attempted tu? escape, but the Privatee r immediately pursued and shortly came up with her. This was formerly the Duke of Marlborough Packet, and the same which took the British Sl‘,,p of War Li ll y, captain cObtro! lON, GittNocx, Dtc• 21.—Atrived hsre on Too. the FanNy, T A YLOR, from New-Yolk ; she made the land in 19, and this port in 2.3 d4Yes though detained four of these by head winds, Tho ChLowat.i, for this Port, sailed an ttlf Game day. Suf- DISTRIBUTION OF FRIZEJIONEY. To the 0 fliceri and Company of His Majesty's Slog_ &ante, tOr the Capture of the . Navigation, the 30th ohort an; second and final payment, on "fnursday next, or duds% three years, at Messrs. Denton and Clemcnt-iOO% Duds No. 14, Clernmes Inn. To the ()dicers and Company of His Majesty's 0010 Conflict, fo r the Capture of the French Gnu-boat, Na• the Bth tloverriber, 41103, at NO. all, AtUridel•afte. Stran ds during three years. The Phaidx is said have ant into Baltimore' in Ireland, the Nfocavy, *large Spanish Ship ( 04 La Plata, having on board a considerable quantiti of specie. On Tuesday arrived in Leith Ros t % the 1.114 Armed Ship, from the Sound. No fleet sPr earl 10 have arrived with her, and it is of the honseward.bound shi p s from the Baltic ars frozen in. Cam. atilt whim i Appa l," e a tev she MiN d fil : Frigate, at Portsmouth, vice Goers. _ndisposej and rapt . F. Dotto LAS to thellOndro which sae from Lymington yesterday se'nnight, with pa tches. , The R,rnlcer Sloop, supposed to have been 111 1 was spoken with to the leeward of Cove Eisth ( lb `reported ,that some by a Pilot-boat, which fund her in compoi wi four sail of the outward bouna West India Fleet' The Loa Farber, Art LEO ', ~ on her passage hu from Surinam, has been taken and carried into Gov shlunpe. The Nemo', NEILL, from Quebec. for Gr h es" ock, calling at Ayr for orders, wen t on ol bilged, and is full of water : part of the cargo tua g ; The Grace, WILLI Amsosr, of Greenoulc• Th° wrecked on the a ►rh inst. in Lagan Bay, Islay. vessel and cargo will be entirely lost. The ship Throdaria, from New Brunswick, fl Newcastle, sprung a leak at sea, and was Boston. seen °P Cape Cod, having bore away for The Gazette of Saturday contains an Ord Council, dared the istth, for continuing the Snit"? to Seamen, Sec. till the tit of December ,. iSo r , the It also contains a Notice, that the Free Market 'Pt the Sale of Coals that may arrive in the Port ° I London, will be opened on Wednesday, ita vi January next, on the Notch Si de of Lower POI* str!et.'