The Sun. — London, England, 1806-02-04 00:00:00

• upon which' some hesitation had subsisted the day ; .dreitt exertions are making byRUSSia to strengthen. I • • • e bef ore , we understand that lits - Mties . ry, to pre- her positions in the Adriatic, in the neighbourhood yam all mistake, deliVered his sentiments in writing of which the employment, of a • great part of her to Lord GIIENVILLEy who then withdrew, and, Force will probably soon become necessary to resist With His MAJESTY'S permission, submitted the the designs of France. Paper to the consideration of his Friends. At four I , :BONAXARTE is stated to have arrived at Stut o'clock Lord GRE:jVILLE had a second audienee of ! gardt on the 18thult. 'on his return to Paris, litsMAJEs'rY, when the following. Arrangements ' A Convention has been concluded respeaing Ha- Were finally settled : ,; nover, according to which the French Troops in the fortress of Hameln were not to receive any reinforce-. • tents, but were' to be allowed'a - free communication .with the Country to a certain extent round that fortress. The Allied Troops were to evacuate the whole of the Eleaorate ; and it will be seen by our Private Correspondence that the British Troops were about to embark as soon as possible. CABINET. FRSKINE, Lord Chancellor.' Lord Gatliv iLLE, First Lord of the Treasur V . ' ' Lord HENRY Parr Y, Chancellor of the Exchequer."' Secretary of State for the Foreign Department. Ditto, for the Home Department. Secretary of State for the-Colonial and War Department. ?4r. GREY, First Lord of the Admiralty. karl Mor RA, Master General of the Ordnance. Earl Frrz WILLIAM, President of the Council., .ord SIOMOUTH, Privy Seal. Lord ELLENBOROUGR, A Voice, without Office. Mr. Fox, Earl SPENCER, Mr, W NDHAK In all Eleven Persons The Dula of YORK IS to. remain Commander in Chief, with a Council. The following Appointments are, we believe, also fixed DAN, to be • Treasurer of the Navy. General F -rzt. A r Riot - S ecretary at War. , Loid 11 , 1114T0, ( 'Board of Controul. .Eari TEMPLE, joint payrpaster of the Forces. :Mr. H. ADDINGTON, Lord ST. JOHN, joint Postmaster General. "Lord-R--SrErlcEit, - Chancellor of the Duchy of The Earl of DERBY, Lancaster. The Duke of BEDFORD Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. Mr r TIERNEY. Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant, • Mr. G. PONSONEY, Lord Chancellor of treland. S Chancellor of the Exchequer of Ireland. • Mr. CRATTAN, 'Mr. ADAM, • Chancellor to the Prince of Wales. Mr. riGOTT, Attorney General. , Mr. R r 14Y, Solicitor General. ,; Mr. VANSITTART, TOint Secretaries of the Trcasury. Mr. Kuria, Lord ARCH.HAMILiOtT, Two ofthe Lords of the Treasury .• M. , C- Mr. BOND, Judge Advocate. LAUfttNelt, King's Advoeate. Sir FRANCISVINCENT, Under Sec. of ,State to Mr. Fox. idr Ditto to Mr. W2Kow4m. • Having thus announced to our Readers the im portant Changes which have takpn place in His Ma• jesty's Government, it only remains for us to state, explicitly, the Line of Condu& which, at this most interesting crisis, we mean to pursue, and which we • • shall take an opportunity of doing to-morrow or next day. TFIIS morning arrived a Mail from Lisbon, brought to Falmouth by the To wnshend Packet, Capt. CooK, Ln twelve ,day,i_passage. Ts Motion brought forward last night by Mr,. CIItTWRIGHT., in the House of Commons, for an Address to His MA.ISTY, humbly requesting him to issue 40,0001. for the payment of the debts left undischarged by the illustrious Statesrrian whose losS is deeply regretted by the People, .was a measure dilated by a sense, of public duty and gratitude to wards that great man. Mr. CARTWRIGIIT intro duced this Motion with great feeling, and paid some high compliments . to the memory of Mr. PITT. On this occasion it must bellighly gratifying to the'Puly lic at largo- to find,. that there was a concurrence of all Parties as to the 'propriety and justice of the 'measure, with an exception of one individual, who, however,.clid not think proper to vote in opposition , tO The Motion, 'therefore, passed nein. con. and we will venture to Say, that no tribute of respect to • ekalted merit can 'be more acceptable to ,the Public in general - , except indeed what might be calculated 'for sheWing . till greater reverence and regard for SO distinguished an ornament and friend to his Country. Mr. RosE stated a circumstance last night, in the House of , Coriuons, so honourable to Mr. PITT, that it cannot fail to excite the admiration of the world at large, and well deserves to be recorded in the page of history as a splendid example of disin terested.virtue., According to Mr. RO SE'S account, a proposal was made to Mr. PITT, at two different periods, to present him with 100,0001. as a tribUte Of respea from the great body of British Merchants, and the sum would have been Oolleaed , in 48 hours. Mr. PITT delicately, but - resolutely declined this honourable tribute of commercial gratitude and By this Mail accounts have been received from the Fleet under Lord COLLINGVVOOD, which was cruizing off Cape St. Vincent. The Squadron from Brest had formed into two divisions, of six Sail of esteem. nap:4 - rz CORRESPONDENCE. the Line and a Frigate each. 'Admiral DucKwoRTLI BREMEN ti JAN. zr, Was in pursuit of one,. and Admiral Louis had been detached after the other. JEROME BONAPARTE had his Flag on board the Veteran, of 74 guns. The following Letter has also reached us : " LISBON, JAN. 20.—A Vessel is arrived here from Baba', on the Coast of Brazil, which left the Eng . lish Expedition, under General BAIRD, taking in refreshments at that Sttlement, Its destination was reported to be the Cape of' Good Hope ; by others, the River Plata. Two of the Transports were:lost, , I -three persons drowned, one 'of them a Staff Officer." IN confirmation of the statement brought by the Lisbon Mail, we' learn that dispatches have been received from Sir HOME Porn:tm, dated. from - St. Salvador, the 18th . of 'November.—The Fleet and Troops were all well. There were not 60 men out of 8,000 on the-sick list. In consequence of keep ing too far to the weso.vard, the Britannia Indiaman, and King George Transport, got among the ROcks off Cape Sr. Rocque, .•and'' bath . sunk. All hands on board them were, hO‘Vever, providentially saved, except two,. one of whom, we regret to state, l ii General YORnE, of the Artillery. -The next Dispatches from Sir HomE will most The number, of English exceed Hanoveriaiis, from England, joined since, and now fit for service, Russians, under General l'oLyr o Swedes • • 20,000 5,000 15,000 24,000 12,000 Total Eo,ooo probably announce the Capture of the Cape of Good hope. The Adamant, which has just arrived in the downs, brings intelligence that the British Troops 'were embarking in the Elbe and the Weser. THE Hamburgh Mail clue on Sunday (the only one remaining due) arrived yesterday evening. The Emperor of Austria returned to his Capital on the. 16th ult. The Archduke CHARLES also en:- tered Vienna on the 18th, at the head of e 5,000 men, who are to compose the futnre Garrison of that City. . The Imperial Chancery likewise returned, together •. • ;, With all the Foreign Ministers, except the Russian lYlinister. Whether the absence of the latter , was owing to circumstances of a private nature, or 'was in consequence of the resentment felt by the Ern , . peror of Russia at the condua of his Imperial Brother of Austria, we are at present unable to ascertain. The Grand Duke CONSTANTINE, of Russia, quit- ted Berlin - on the 24th ult. for St. Petersburgh, to which Capital it was supposed the Duke of BRUNS .WICIC would shortly proceed on an important Dilision, BY last Post I acquainted you that the general opinion here was, that His Prussian Majesty did not with the Embarkation of the British Troops to take place before he ' was satisfied with BONAPARTE'S division of the German Empire. This . idea still prevails, and, I think, very justly, for an Army of 70 Or 8,0,000 men here, and nearly the sank number of Russians -in Sile'sia, must, of Coarse, add very great weight' to the Negotiations which are going forward. lam astonished to see how ill-informed • some Editors of Newspapers in London are : in a Paper of the 14th inst. I observed the Editor qUite aliirmed about the fate of theEug - lish Army here, ...and : gattng.the whole Allied...Forces' at 30 or 40,000 sit - Ong ; had - that Gentleman' doubled the number he might have been pretty near the point. Perhaps it 'may be said the number of Hanove,. , . rians is 'exaggerated; which I assure' you is not the case, for the Battalions, When they marched. through this city, had more Recruits than regular trained Soldiers; alid you may naturally suppose they would soon be disciplined, as the greatest part of them had been in the old Hanoverian Army: HOwever, I do not think that the King of Prussia Will hazard to go to, War with BONAPARTE, notwithstanding this strong Auxiliary Force, if he can by any means avoid it; but I maintain he has nothing to fear from him, and, of :course,` will not deny those Auxiliaries his protecrliOn to embark for their respeaive desti- L nations if a patched up Peace should take place. . .1 'rile British .4 triay remain in their former Canton k meats, 'though, I am informed, they have orders to be in readiness to match at the shortest notice; and , the heavy baggage, I know, is packed up and given i into store ; howeVer, it does not :appear that they intend to quit the Country:immediately, as Lord ,CATIICART has ordered a - Boai'ddf Claims . to sit at Head-quarters; and all those who have.any demands are direaed to give them in before the 28th instant, so that one may naturally infer no apprehensions are entertained for the 'safety of the Army, and 'also that no unusual dispatch for embarkation is necessary, Their future movements must certainly be governed by the result of HAUGWITZ'S Mission to France. , which a feW•days will determine,. NAVAL NE IFS. FALIMOUT 'FEB.. 1.--Arrived the Touinshrrid Packet, CCkli, from Lisbon, iri' days' By her we have the following intelligence :—A Ves-; sel arrived - at:Lisbon on the' 13th ult. from Bahia,' in 55 days passage • left there watering and taking in provisions, 70 i'ra*orts . with Troops on board, under command of Sir HOME PoPHAM and General BArap ;' and two Transports (crew saed). were lost in the shoals neat Bahia Only 400 men mitted by the Portuguese to' come on . shore at' a time. 'The' Portuguese'here - are surprized at such an Expedition having'arrived there.. Remains the Topaz e; Frigate. The .iivori Brig sailed the 17th ult. for Gibraltar. . It is reported that Admiral 'COILING / V/00D had captured four Sail of French Men of War. The news.saine from Faro: - Arrived the 111qtis, CUNNINGHAM, and Aid, GIL LARD, from Liverpool ; Unity, HUTcHINS, from Portsmouth ; Iris, LiEn!st, , frOrn Yarniouth ; Lovely Betsey, M`CARTtIy, and Indicstry , BOWEN, from Cork. PORTSMOUTH, FEB . t 3.—Arrhtcl ILES Majesty's Ships Astrea and Forward, from a Cruize Scorpion, BRUCKBR, bollild to , 'the South - Seas ; ana the Marquis of Huntly, bound for the Coast of Africa; from tile Downs. Arrived also the Fury Bomb, Capt. "ITELLAND, from a Ciulze 3 also 'the Alonzo; Doti6LAs, from PLintzic ; and . the Unity; MoisznA.li, from London. .Put back the PrOs,cro Bomb; and the Convoy for the Powns. Yesterday Rear-Admiral MARTIN hoisted his Flag on board the Gladiator, who is appointed the second in command in the absence of SirlsAAe" COF'FIN. The Friends, DEAR, Master, bound for Demerara, lately on shore on the Harrow Bank, is floated off, and gone into l the Harbour. COWES, FEB. 3.=-Arrived the Efiza, of Boston, J. BISBROUGH Master, from Hamburgh, bound to Philadelphia, With glass, &c. The above Ship sailed from Hamburgh on the 20th ult. at which time the Transports were rang,ing in divisions, to 'take the English Troops on board. DEAL, FEB. 3.--The Danish Ship Sophia 'lndia, Of Altoiia, Capt. PETER HtFFER DEI4TSCHER, last from Yarmouth, bound to'Leghorn, in ballast, got on shore on the Goodwin Sands this niorning, but was fortunately extricated therefroni by the assistance of a Deal Boat, without any material daiLage. Arrived . the Kite, from the River klin4 Ada mant and Oberon; from the Weser, which state, that the Transports with the Troops 'on board were to : sail from thence this day. • Sailed the Flamer off Boulogne;' and Falcon, with Convoy, for Spithead. SILEthiTIES, 'FEB: 2.--'—Arrived the ANte/ope, of 50 guns,. Captain BAZELY, - from the Downs ; and" Commerce Cartel; Under the orders of Lieut.-Wm. ,CHARLTON, from the TeKel, Id‘ring• on board the Commanders of the Manly Gun-brig and --Pigeon Schooner, and part of their crews; 'five Captains, four -Suhaltern,' and IF. Privates of the _sth‘ Recr.i mene; 'one Captain, the 'Assistanturgeon, and 7 Privates of. the 26th.,Regiment; and' the crews of, the two Transports which the Troops , were wrelied in on the 23d,Decemberlast on the: coast of :Hol land. • DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZE-MONEY. To the Officers and Companies of His , Majesty's Ships St. George, Spartiate, -Atlas, Eagle;' and .Veteran, for the Cap ture ot the Spanish Vessel Gracicsa, the 23d February, 1803, on Wednesday next ; or every 'Monday and Thursday after wards, for four Mouths, at,Mr.. N. A. hunt's Ottice, Stone house.. To the Officers and Company of His Majesty's Ship Re non Re m n, for the Capture of I.'Aimteale, Betsey, and Maria Fr,:hcoise, on Wednesday next; or during three years atter walds, at No. ; 23,- Norfolk-street, Strand. Yesterday the Princess SOPHIA of GLOUCESTER paid a morning visit to Her.MATESTY and the PRIN CESSES at Buckinghatn;-house: , - Last' night the Loan-,. CHANCELLOR and Lord - HAVVKESBURY, were with the KING at Buckingham house, from eight till teh',o'cica, ,• • Yesterday afternoon, Mr. KAMMOND, one of his Majesty's Messengers, arrived at Lord hin LGR AV B' S Office from Berlin ; he brings no fresh advicos, but reports that the fall of snow had been so great in the North of Germany, as to render travelling .almost impossible. • The Frenchmen taken on board thelnzprdmptu PriVateer, -the capture - of whichwe annonncecl.yes- , terday; state, that they are very. aelive at Boulogne, in getting the French Gun-boats fit►ed 'and ready for sea.' • 1 THE THEATRE.Mr. POPE, who has been re-en gaged 'at Covent Oarden Theatre, made his appear ance there last night in the charafter 'of Othello, character. which he has always perlbrmed with suc cess. He Was very favourably received by the au. dience on his entrance, and he excited strong marks of approbation (hiring his whole perforthance of this very arduous •Charaeter. MARRi ED.—.-On the 20th:ult. at Weston Under wood, Bucks, by the Rev. C. FRE DERICK HALL, Esq..of E:ikelithHouse,. Yorkshire, to Mrs. BAR' CLAY, of Weston. No. 1,077, a Prize of Two Thousand and Twen ty-Two Vounds, the First-drawn the first Day of Drawing, 'Was Sold in a Quarter, Two Eighth and Eight 'Sixteenth Shares, by- RICILAION, Goon - LUCK, and 'Co. at theirDilices, Cornhill, and Char itig-Cross ; where Tickets' and Shares.contin4e on Sale, warranted Undrawn. - No. 8,e8.9 drawn ' the First Day of Dra',Virig-a Prize of ten thbusand and twenty-two pounds, was sold by HORNSBY and. Co. in ,the following Shares, Two Onarters,' One Eighth, and Six - . Sixteenths.= The importanee--of the prosent..Lottery is manifest by the First Day's D awing.. l'E t ie chance' of the Capital Prizes was- obtained Without' risk....; Every holder of a Ticket or'Sl - 1,:irl:: drawn on the First bay, will receive mere than the iirirne:ta3t 5' arid may mien , the sarie chonce for the. S,:Cond, Third, Fourth, and _Fifth Days of DczrAing with •,",dn tasre. HoiaNsaY and Co. .2'6, cornhill, - .5'2, Char ing -Cross, and St-. Marg'lret's 7 j-iill; 13a-pugh, will coltinue .to sell undrawn Tickets and Shares so long as they can be . procurd, in great variety, 'and at the lowestprices. MEMORIAL OF THE MERCHANTS or NEW TuP.K. To the-President of •th.: United States, and the Senate anct • of Representatives of the United States of America', in Congress assembled : the Manor ial of the MerchAms of the City of New-York. Yciur Memorialists beg leave 'respeafully to 'roach the Government of, their Country, on sub pas of great itnpdecance, which have affeded their minds with the deepest anxiety and alarm. Confiding in the justice and friendly dispositions of the Government of Great Britain, and entertaining a correSpondeni expectation that nonnusualrestridions Would be iMposed on Neutral Comnierce without adequate motives and the most ample notice pre suming.especially;that commercial enterprises, com menced under the sanction of established principles, Would on no account be affected by a change of system 5 . your . 'Memorialists have employed a ‘ast capital in importing . various colonial productions . , the surplus of which, exceeding the demands of this Country, they have been accustomed to export free ly to the different markets of Europe. After this commerce had been prosecuted without restri&ion for several years; and-bad attracted a great ,proportion of their wealth ;. after their insurers had 'assumed immense responsibilities, grounded on an opinion, that this trade was strictly regular, having never received the slightest intimation that it could bedeemed incompatible with the rights of a belli gerent Nation, they have been suddenly confounded by unexpected intelligence of thoarrestation on the high seas of a large pOrtion of their -property, which had been embarked with the most unsitsped ing confidence. The feeling of your Memorialists are not only ex cited by the losSes which they have adually sustain ed in consennence of measure unsusceptible of - *previous calculation, but also from the state of un certainty in which they' are placed with . respea to 'future comthercial operaticins. Your Memoralists have heretofore believed -that Commerce between the Unites States and Colonies • subject to the enemies of Great Britain, when bona ,fide prosecuted on their own account, would be per fealy safe from interruption : they -have, also be . lieVed that all articles which might be securely. iyn ported into the United States, might be as securely & ported; with the exceptions well understood, both in respect to the import and export trade, of com merce with places blockaded, or in articles contra band of war. • • - In a recent interpretation of what is considered by the TribmialS,of Great Britain as a direa trade be tween the Colonies and the Parent Countries of their enemies, your Memorialists perceive with concern, the developement of a principle which, if conceded on the part.of the United States, - Must prove fatal to their commercial importance. . It is understood to have been dedided, that when-, ever it ap;ears to bethe intention of the _importer of colonial produce to export the same to Europe ; or, whenever it is so exported by the original importer, such intention or exportation shall be evidence of a direct trade, and subjea the property, though nen - -tral, to conftsation; Your Memorialists consider it their bounden duty to themselves and. their Country, to express-their . most decided opposition to this decision. • As to the evidence arising fivin the supposed in tention of any importer, they readily admit that the great quantities of colonial produce, . which are by means of the American commerce, ox ceeding the demand for consumption in the United States, will,fairly itistify,# general presumption that the surplus is ultimately destined for European mar ketS; They'asSert, however, that the intention of a rucrehant, in respe& to the future _ddtination„of his property, must, irom the nature of things, be incon elusive. plani of. business, formed by ,lii diViduals, are liable to be affe&ed by circumstances, not to be foreseen or controlled : these plans are thetA fore necessarily revokable. by those who form them; and an intention which has not been executed, proves nothing more than might justly be inferred from a• general presumption arising from, the course of our .commerce. To apply such an intention, in a par-, ticular case •to the prejudice, of an individual ; to pmurne that he has voluntarily, incurred an im mense risk, which, consistently with the success of his main Objet a, he might-have faitiy, avoided, and to involve him inn ruin for prosecuting a trade, which, if undertaken with a different motive, would have been declaredlawful—would be, in the opi nion of your Memorialists, to confound and reverse the best established principles of reason, eqUifv, and law. Your Memorialists contend for no innovation on the law of nations ; and, except where special Treaties have prescribed a different rule, they admit that \ they may lawfully be, restrained' from t!an sporting the property of the parties engaged in war. In the recent decision which prohibits , an. importer of colonial produce from exporting it to EAL - upe, they however perceive, with concern, either a nu gatory and vexatious 'regulation; or a meditated blow at what they deem an incontestible and valu able right. Heretofore there existed clear and obvious cir— cumstances of discrimination between the diret7 trade, which Great Britain has assumed the right of 'denying to Neutrals, and the indireEt onctrcuitN:s trade, which she admits to be laWtial. The direa trade could be performed by a single shipment or voyage ; whereas, the circuitous trade subje&ted the property to double freights and insurances; •to de &talons in favour of the revenue; and various other expences in this Country. - If the arrival of a ship in the Country to which it belongs ; the landingof the Cargo . i the inspection of the Custom-house) thepaymer,or security-of ,•dutiesiido• not terminate a voyage ; 'then we Contess Our ignorance on a point, which, never haVing beeo. 'before questioned; has been assumed by, us as an ac knowledged truth. If the entry for exportation ; • the embarkation of merchandize ; the re-inspe&iou of the Custom-house ; ,the bond for securing a deli . very in a foreign country, and a public clearance, do not, indicate the commencement of a new voyaae, then we are yet to learn the meaning of-the expreF,- sion:---If all the formalities and sanaiOns established for the security of our revenue ; if operations of im mense- wagnitude, transtitted with the greatest pub- ' licity, : and without any mbtive for concealment, -are considered as unreal representations,- and merely co lourable and fraudulent contrivances to covcr au