The Sun. — London, England, 1806-12-02 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. . . . • , c; Inclosed ycib will find the article in justificatiqn of o:,racier in;aiirst . the indo.;ent and calumnious aspersions CT :sir I p ANCI S Bu RDET T, which you' obligingly promised to ii,serr m your patriotic Paper. I request ydu will accept my Thanks for your liberality and impartiality; and - I am nor without hope, that the Public will now have.an oppor tiinily of discriminating 'between tale condua of an 111 edged Lited fq;.rmer, and a systematic, and - fanatics! De. onag-gue: I am, Sir, your's, &c. H. R. YORKE. South Lambeth, Supday Night. TO SIR FRANCIS BURDETT, BART. It is not without a considerable degree of pain that I tied myself involved, in a personal dispute with you. The Press being the only medium through which I can now address myself to you, I here ap peal to the public judgment, less on your account or my own, than for the sake :of that Country whose welfare you pretend to espouse. You have empleyed expressions, when speaking of me, which, as a Gentleman, you would never have e.dured for one moment, had they been applied to yourself by any person. I can make every reason abi:: allowance for the fugitive orations pronounced fr;)m the Hustings by a young man, inflamed by persotial vanity, and the violin of an ardent and fa oatical, mind. But surely the manners of Sir F. BUTD'ETT, and his connexions in life, should have re straioed him from violating those decent and decorous charities, without the. observance of which the moral obligations of civilized society can never be upholden; more especially in those cases wherein the sufferer can. obtain no:redress from the laws of his Country, In breaking down the great barrier between order and licentiousness, you are incautiously opening the road to a scene of confusion and misery, of which you yourself may become one of the earliest viaims; Gf this fa6t your political experience may not, per hqs, have atibrded you -sufficient proofs. My ex perience has been derived from the most afilielive and dreafful scenes ever witnessed by roan. Whether it b t.,- - oe that you are the dupe and tool of designing hyp Icrites, or that the original bent• of your mind Las i)ropelled you to exhibit yourself as the Hiero-. pha ,t of turbulent and -licentious Anarchists, is a q !oition which•l cannot presume to decide;' because 'toe habits of your life are as much unkneszililio me, as mine are, evidently, to you. But, in either case, feyi no hesitation in assuring you, that your folly is as'eootetuptible as your conduct is deserving of re proach. It is my intention to divest this Letter as moth as posslble of personal altercation for, Ma's! the state of the world, and of our Country, is sucb, as to check the spirit of recrimination, and to require of every man, who glories in the name of Briton, to consider. ,no one as his enemy,.but a Frenchman. The day is. • put, I believe, far distant, when you and L shall be ciled upon to proceed to the margin of oar in order to defend its altars, its venerable laws, and sacred Constitution, from the gripe of felonious in %%Lien, whose ambition and cupidity no laws, hu m:m or divine, have been hitherto able to restrain.---` At , that moment it will not be necessary, nor, in deed, will there be time sufficient,for tis to ascertain 'each other's condua and motives of aEtion. I trust we shall both do our duty, though you may belieVe me to be ".an hired informer," and I may believp' you to be—a political incendiary. To he brief, therefore, I shall separate private front public feelings, and, after having dismissed the' one in which I alone am concerned, I shall endeavour to expostulate with you as a public cha- • rn&vr. When you took the advantage. of that licence uglily 'granted to Candidates at a contested eleaion, and stigmatized me-ts " an hired informer, - you nmit have been conscious that you were uttering ,a falseliood—or you must have acted under impresious which had been made upon your simplicity by the c.%114y knaves who surround and laugh at )ou.— `t hat you spohe with deliberation is evidentfrom the circumstance of your having . repeatecithe same ex pression more than once, and on more than one oc casicm. Now, observe the consequence. By lay 'leg yourself open to public deteetion and exposure it, this- instance, have you not incurred the risk of Lehig marked as a foul calumniator in every other ? Pc you conceive that, with the starched grimace of a l'ulitao, with the phraseology of_ a Thersites, and with the manner of an aseetick,, to whom the dis tinions in iociety are abhorrent; you can persuade hoeeurable minds‘to give you credit for political in• tce: - ity, when you commit yourself' so grossly as to cause your veracity to be disputed by every one who LenA you ? , . You declared that I was the autlior of a .paper you held in-your hand, and Which, accord . to the report of your speech in the daily pa contained some aspersions on yOur..chara6ter, eats assure you, Sir FliaiNClS,' that ~.I Boyer-con.. ;410tieed .you as a nein worthy of ally particular at tention on my part. Of your. political talents have always entertained the most contemptuous oeinion of the qualities of your - heart I know no thiegt Hence it is. nut likely that J should give reiyiiell any trouble in writing against you, especially fitter the experience 1 -have had ref demagogues, and the firm opinion I entertain concerning the manner in which they onght to be dealt with. I never even . raw ynu in the.whole course of my life until the. Westminster Eleaion ; when, from .the same Mo tives of curiosity which lead me to view any thing wild or exotic amongst quadrupeds, fishes, and bipeds, I resolved. to ascertain what sort of .a look- ing animal you were. You were pointed out to me, and G have never seep you since. Your critical accuracy is as defective as your pa• tieal judgment for I now solemnly declare that; so fir from having' been the Author of the . parser to filch yeti • alluded, I have not, to this meinent, been able to obtain a sight of it. Neither have during the whole course of the Eleaion, nor boibre i l ‘a since, written one syllable abont you, ex eevieg the 'article which appeared in my Weekly Tolitieal Review' yesterday' sennight, wherein, in stead of defaming your charaaer, Tstrived to do it fropie justice ;' for I think that I pros,l, t6'the eon'. 'eietiee- Of every unprejudiced ` mind, chat end were exel;'er an apegate from tior inconsistent iti inasmuch as'yotilitee'''evthis time, as . i.4,1‘...i-oes a politiciati, and as inflexible a Jacobin, its ever been Snipe:2lm atom_ 'iii ''veezr 'brain V l -4 Cci ! 1 4e hiToif 1 1;. 11 ) 01) . "' kliwawPd impti ,4rl.Vit4 yon Ur,y,e e . har4cd me, I now come its Y`: • „ to ,he allegation of rely being 4 ' an hired informer." , . From what source you derived this ME:tilting piece of, intelligence you- have given me : opportunity of ascertaining, nor do I feel now solicitous concern ing it, because the Public are. sufficiently acquainted with your' principles to estimate the degree of reli ance'which ought to be placed upon any public,: opi -1 nion which comes from you. M os t ha ppy do 1. feel, that I do not stand a solitary instance of your vulgar abuse. When my Sovereign has not been spared, I am proud to receive a poisoned arrow . levelled at the heart. Oae of the :most .ho nourable [nen-. living, IN:Ir. Bow tts, the eloquent, advocate of the cause of religion, virtue, and public order, has likewise been assi:iled by your noisy and faCtious clamour. But, notwithstanding the per, sonal gratification, which f experience from being thus associated, it right that I should call upon you, to prove where, When, and how, at any. tithe of my life, I have become either an hired informer, or, an informer of any description ? If, Sir, I had. chosen 'to have become - a person : of such a charac ter, there are documents in my . possession which would have hanged some of your followers years ago. But there is no man living, excepting your self, or the literary Pruin who sounds your eulogies every week, who' can with truth alledge such an accusation against me. I owe nothing to the-',Go vernment-4 receive nothing from the Government —I am wholly .unconnected with the Government --wand, moreover, I never will be connected With the Government. In. Making this declaration,. how ever, I would riot be understood to mean, that the Government shall be insulted by me in . the Manner you have thought it patriotic to treat them. Al though I cannot approve 'of their measures, they shall have my cordial o siipport, humble as it. is, in the hour of danger. - I will never make the cala mities of the world an argument. for justifying the .disruption of social order. . It now remains for you, or any of your partizans, to prove - me "an hired informer ;" it remains for you to prove, that I have ever direCtly or indire&ly communicated - to the Government, or to any perr4m likely - to convey it to rbe•GOvernment, one word of information relative to thoSe circumstances of the earlier part of my, life, and to those connexions, to which you have obviously alinded. It remains for you to . prove; that I have ever been hired at any • time, or by any - Government 'or - persons. Until you shall have contradiCted this challenge, you must be considered, in the opinion of every honourable mind, as a. CONVICTED CNIAMINIATOR. This letter' closes our personal difference. To morrow, I shall address you. as a public character; on the mischievous,effeas which are likely to:ensue from the continuance of your present projeCts. It may then appear that the charaBer even of " an hired informer" will become necessary and' re speetable. From your candour I expeet nothing ; but, as I hate proscription, and judge of others by my own feelings, I think that much may yet be ex peeled from. you, when further experience shall +ave. chastened the vanities of youth, and brought you into a sober habit of thinking. ' It is withthis view I shall address you. for the second dud last time ; and if my reasonings .be irrefragable, the sooner you reform, or sink into oblivion, the better•it will be for yourself and your country. I have the honour to be, Sir, Your obedient humble servant, kJ-, YqRKE. .South Lambeth, Sunday night; MAILS. ARRIVED-1 Gottenburgli. DUE-2 Harnburgh, t llublin, z Watertord. • PRICE (iF sTOCKS THIS DAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCK. Consols - THE SUN. soLam uurs DlCtik& I , ALSUM AUDZAT LONDON, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1806. A report was this morning circulated, that an En gz..gement bad taken place between the Fleet under the command , of Lord Cot.LINGwooD and the Spa nish Fleet from Ca4i4, in which the latter were completely defeated. it • would give us the most sincere pleasure to'be able to confirm, this agree able intelligence, but. •i • accounts of any Ac tion having taken place had reached the Admiralty when this Paper was put to Press. . . ,A. rumour was yesterday very generally circulated in the City, that it was the intention of Government to sequestrate all the property in our . Fund:: belong ing to the 'subjeas of thOse Cot tries which are oc cupied by the French Armies, and also to give or'ders to our Naval Commanders to seize all property be longing to, the subje&s of those Countries, alttinagh found on board Neutral Ships. Whatever may be the . future determination of 'Government upon this subje&, we can venture,to state, that at present the report is destitute of foundation. There can be no doubt that if the British Government were disposed to fol low the example of BONAPARTE, they- have ample means in their hands of indeMnifying such British Subjects as have been deprived of their property.by . . French iniut;c • e and rapacity. The foreign property in our Funds greatly exceeds the amount of any con fiscations which the French have made, or can make., It has been estimated, perhaps a little too highly; at not less, than one hunclecl millionsi of which much the greater part belongs to the Subjects of those Countries now absolutely under 'the dominion ' of France, oroccupied by her armies. The necessity mu. 'be great', however, that would indnce Government to, have recourse to so strong a measure; but in• the present unexampled state of the world, and after the iterated prnofs which our Enemy has given vv. of WS 4 vltter contempt of all those laws and principlev by l RYA vA . L NEWS. Pcy - Nrov . rti, Nov. 30.—Arrivcd the Gannett Sloop ?f- War, Capt. StErESSOST, from Gibraltar, and from off Cadiz, with Dispatches : left Admiral C 01... LlNGWaaes Fleet all well the 17th inst. at wiiich time. twelve Sail of Spanish Line-of-battle Ships t: ere in Cadiz, Harbour apparently ready for sea. he -Gannett on her passage captured the Spanish . 7?rivateer La Cunfiance, of six guns, with 40 men, of the Harbour of Vigo : the latter had captured the Hind, 1 ) :FOLD, laden with fish, from New foundland; I.lcl'. the Goad Statesman, of Exeter, liir.zEtis, outward-bound : the Hia was retaken by the Gannett, and, with the Privateer, is hourly ex i paled to arrive,. , PORTSMOUTH DEC. 1 . —Arrived the St.:George; j0i . .0. guns, Capt. BERTIE, from the Channel Fleet; Brilliant Frigate, Capt. VniGENT, from Guernsey; LibertY and . Daring from their station off Havre. Sir SAMUEL HOOD this morning hoisted his broad pendant on board the Centaur, on which occasion a salute from the Royal tfilliam was fired. Sir SA e MUEL arrive& here to-day, and appears in good health and spirits. Arrived also the _Majestic Transport, Bo .ILTON Master, from the Cape of Good Hope, which place she left 22d September,. and St. Helena,. iGth Oc tober. She ,brings an account 'of the Jolly Tar (which was - purchased by the Governor of St. He- . lena, for the purpose.. of sending home dis patches)being. run away with by some Spanish prisOners of war, on the t oth Oaober, and has not been heard of since. The Majestic left at St. He lena the Ceres South Sea whaler. DCWER, DEC. I.—Passed by for London the fie 'Autetican, DAVIES, from Baltimore, with tobacco. ) s rice, Rohr, acid staves. . SIIEERNESS, DEC. i.--Yoerday. went up tO Chatham, to be paid off; His -114ejestftii - S_hip Art. :771 . emnon;Of 64. , Ditii; lately from the West Indiei, During the gale on the 27th ult.' the jolly-boat of the iivdming broke adrift; the Gunner, With a boat's crew, were sent in order to Pick her up. ;:ititve not since been heard of. ...The:Speedy is expe&ed to' sail this day fof Ports. mouth and 'is to proceed 'from thence to Buenos: Ayres'.' A:trive,d a Tender from the Tower with impressed men and.volunteers for the Fieet. - The Forre.aer Sloop of War was _paid bounty an& advance this day, and will sail immediately. DEAL, DEG. 1.--Arrived and. sailed for the River, the East India Coinpany's Gun-brig charger, from. Bengal, last from Plymouth.. . . Sailed' the Vestal Frigate, and the --Governor Manes Bomb Tender, for Sheerness. • Arrived the Helena Sloop of War, from Belfast, with a ConvOy; which are sailed for the River. Futhack His Majesty's Ship Magnificent, from the Westward, and remains in the Downs with the rest of the Ships, as per last, and several more 'outward-bound Vessels. • ! • ! The following. Lieutenants have been appointed i' Out-Pensioners of Greenwich Hospital, under the I t . provisions of the late ACS of Parliament for that "ioni;Pose, viz. win. Allfray W. jewel . Henry Roshet I). Miller , Richard lagoe I. Symmons Alex. M`Leod Jacob Adams G. L. Cole G. Morehead F. 1,.. Davies T. Appleby E. Power J. Rickman Win. Robin Sett (iliii Holmes J yetis E.. Covey ,olin Barnsley, 1 ... Bradley T. Brow . B. Connolly. R. Leggett B. Hickey . W. Koherts C. Skyrine S. Clarke Os. White ' John Stephens .R. Collea P. Creed • ' lohn Burrow , M. Buckle lames Godwin E 1-lallum . S. King P. tunes John Deacon E. Fades, lames Atkins .f ho. Lethbridge •Cha. Napiet Thomas Miles F. Wheatley E. 1-laddiick ` ,— Thurnas Crawford I. George.. • - G earga Dunn - John Bealey , There was [m a numerous meeting Yr of . the Board of • *- . Some farther particulars have been received r 5, Trade yesterday morning, at which, we understand, the present state of our Commercial Relations with spgaing the capture of the Warren Hastings East lodiernan, Captain LAakt[ts, by a French Fri . the Continent were, taken into consideration. The ' gate,. on the 21st June, after a b'ottle of hat Earl of 13UCKINGIIANISHIRE, Lords HOLLAND and AUCKLAND, the ATTORNEY•!.GENERAL, Sir JOSETII hoots and. a' halt', partly yard-arm and .yard-arm, the Purser and six. seamen killed. The Captain, BANKS, and Mr.' VANSItTART, were present. About 'Merchants in the City, who Surgeon, and three Officers, NS''erestbbed after the thirty of the principal - ' are concerned iii the Trade to the : : Baltic, and the capture, but.have since recovered. The Committoe for managing - the affairs at North of Germany, - attended to give information to thaßoard.. AfterexaMining alexia, and deliberating LLOYD S, having , received ,letters from .Captain for some time, the Board broke up. Lord kuck, DASHWOOD, of his - Majesty's Ship Franchise, in- NAND then went to the Cabinet Council, which was, forming them that he is under great obligations sitting at Lord: Howicx's -Office, and reported the (and the 'mercantile interest in ,particular) to Cap tains MTONALD, Of ' the Ship - .9zeddan.; ATHENS proceedings Which had taken place at the Board of , Trade. This CabinL Council was also very numb, of the Aim ; FOWLER, of the Canal: i-, FOSTER, 9f the Larkins ; for their unwearied attention in re rously attended. .The result of the deliberations ha 4 ' atithe numerous signals he was obliged to not transpired, but it is generally understood that'Ali=: . -11e1, 1 2', -- make and for the example they set to the convoy nisters are determined to adopt very vigorous mea 2 i sures in order to protect the Trade - in. obeping them ; and that, were it not for their of the Country assistance, he could not have brought home_so against the injustice and rapacity of the enemy. Yesterday the Duke of YORK' transaaed businessmany:crippled Ships as. he foitunately accomplish with His MAJESTY for upwards of two hours. • -%edl:R, In consequence thereof, the Committee have unanimodsly resolved to returff Thank s in their His MA J ESTY .is expected in town to-morrow. name, and that of the Subscribers, to the - Masters The two Princes of OLDENBOIGH HOLSTEIN have -wor been these four or five months past upon a tour round of the Ships above-mentioned, for their praite the . principal part of England, Scotland, and Ireland. thy condaet., The arrival of so many of the Fleet, Their Highnesses terminated their course forward at Whitt) sailed from Jarnaict on ,tl* 213th of' July Dublin, 'where they paid their respects to the Loid last, after experiencing an "alMO4t unprecedented gale, being in a great measure to be attributed to Lieutenant. After having partakkai for some days of the hospitality of • the Vice-regal Court, they re- the•Uneormuon attention and. judicious arrangement turned . by Hoiyhead to London. Yesterday evening of the. Shi p s of War composing the Convoy, the then q two illustrious personages, together with their Committee, have considered it highly necessary to Tut r,. of. the Horse, Secretary, Vic. reached 1 acknowledge the same by letter to the several Cap tains ; viz.---Captain ADAM MACKENZIE, of His town, and again put up at BatiNaT's hotel, in Lei cester-fields. • 'Majesty's Ship Magicienne ; Captain taHARLES ' I DASWVOOD, of His Majesty's Ship Franchise; Cap- Yesterday, an order was issued from the Post Of- 4 tail) Joii;s SNIITII, of His Malesty's Ship Penguin ; flee, that the Hanahurgh and Bremen Mails Should ' acid Captain - 'LI. ~,,,, - E. EVANS,. or His Majesty's Ship not for the present be forwarded. `) A''etcran. •...~~ i J'~' *which Civilized Europe has been governed, it is im possible to foresee what measure's the. British Go vernment may be compelled to adopt. The Seizure i d British property at Hamburgh is wach a grossallof injustice, and so glaring a violation of the Law og. Nations, that Government would be justified in' adopting almost any measure of retaliation, however r violent; at present, however, yre can only repeat that. there is no foundation for the report alluded to. WE have received Paris Papers to the 21st tilt. from which we have extra&ed some-very interesting articles, the most prominent of which is the aoth Bulletin of the French Army. ~From that we learn, that the heads of four Russian columns, of 15,000 men each, had begun to enter the Priissian terri tories ; but that upon hearing of the result• of the battle of Auerstadt, and the subsequent successes of the .French, they had retreated. It .appeari ti at they had entered the Prussian territories about the. twenty-second or the twenty-third of OEtober ; and It . is possible,•. that on receiving intelligence of the. .result of the battle of Auerstadt, they might, have halted fOr further orders .(though we by no means think that likely); but we cannot believe that the Russian Generals would venture, Without orders from their Sovereign, to retreat.—We have no doubt, that long before this time, a powerful Rus. sian army has reached the right Bank of the Vis— tula ; and our opinion is confirmed by the circum, stance of Marshal DAVOUST'S remaining so long at Posen without daring to advance. Notwithstand ing the astonishing success which BONPARTK has met with, it is Obvious that he feels considerable uneasiness from the following remarkable sententh, which is in the 30th Bulletin: " So many successes should not slacken the Mil itary preparations in France ; on the contrary, the?' should be followed up with energy, not to satisfy ad . insatiable ambition, but to fix bounds to the ambi don of our Enemies." . But the most important passages in this Bulletin are thoseWitti which it is concluded. It states, that 1 4 .4 the French Army will neither quit Poland nor I Berlin until the Porte shall be completely in dependent, nor until Moldavia and Wallachia shall be restored to her." This hint is meat , t for Russia ; that which follows is meant for Great 'Britain.—". The Fr'ench Army will pat i quit Berlin until the Possessions and coloniei; both Spanish and Dutch, shall be given up, and general Peace made." Sucli'are the sacrifices which tONAPARTE threatens to extort from us. What concessions he is disposed to make in return he has not condescended to state. We have extracted from " these Papers an Article which, though not given in an official form, evi- dently proceeds' from authority.. — The ostensible object of this Article is to contradia the false reports which are said to. have _been circulated in Germany reveating the- state of the -French, Army in Italy ; but in doing this some veryi severe and undisguised attacks are made upon the Austrian Government. The extraordinary military exertions which the Court of Madrid was disposed! ) to make some time ago, is also noticed :in this; article, and they are attributed to a very curious It is said that the Spanish Government had received intelligence that the English had prevailed Upon the Emperor of Morocco to land 40,000 Moors in Spain, and .that it was . tO iresist them that these extraordinary preparations 'Were ordered ; bur finding that this i nformation was not correet, the Spanish Govermhent had given orders to discontinue the preparations cause :