The Sun. — London, England, 1806-09-15 00:00:00

u‘k et- . . to remember that the beit . claiin that I can citablish 'to yaiir favour, will be a sincere ancLardent attachment to the princi_ plea of ma orious Constitirtinn, and to the Liberty and Inte rests of my Country'. inseparably conneaen as they Must ever be with Cite maintenance of those Principles ; and it will be my unremitting endeavour. as the Representative of so distin g,uisheu a part or this great Metropolis, that my conduit WWI nut dishonour your choice. I have the Honour to be. With the greatest respe&, Gentlemen, Your very faithful humble Servant, Northumberland House, 1 E RC V. Sept. 15;1806. MAILS. ARRIVED-2 Hamburgh,. t Tamaica, II Dublin. Dus-t Comnburgh, a Dublin, a Watatotd. PRLCE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCK. 63i I Omnium . . 71 Consols - - THE SUN. *OLIN QIJIS DICER!, FALSUM AUDEAI? L 0 D 0 N, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, : sO6. THE Hamburgh , Mail due on Wednesday last ar rived late on Saturday, and this morning the Mail due yesterday arrived. The intelligence which they contain is highly interesting and important. The ac counts from almost' every part of the Continent seem to indicate thespeedyrenewal of hostilities; and though, after what we have seen of the Politics of the Court of Berlin, we cannot place much confidence in its firmness, yet the crisis seems rapidly approaching when Prussia will be compelled, for the purpose of self-preservation, to take ,a decided part against France. Indeed there is strong reason to believe that 130NAPARTEiS determined to bring the KING of PRUS SIA immediately to the test, and to force him either into open War or into unconditional submission.— BONAPaRTE has, as Head of the Confederation of the Ithine,called upon the different States which compose it; to furnish their contingents ofmen; and of course his requisition will be immediately complied with. In the mean time, the KING of BAVARIA has been ordered to insult the KING of PRUSSIA, by forcibly taking possession of the Prussian Town of Iphofen. We say ordered, because it is 'obvious that the new KtNG of l3avAsa would not venture upon such a step, un less he were well assured indeed of the support of France. We received this morning a Letter from our intelligent Correspondent at Bremen,which states, that en Estatette arrived there on the Bth from Stettin, with the news that the Merchants at the latter place had received an intimation from Count HAtmwrrz himself, that " some important discussions were pending between HIS PRUSSIAN MAJESTY and the EMPEROR of FRANCE, and that it might be advis able for the mercantile interest to be cautious in their proceedings." . The adjustment of the differences between the KINGS of SW EDEN and PRUSSIA is at' length officially notified ; the Troops of the former have re-occupied the Dutchy of Lauenhurgh, in the name of His . Britannic Majviity, without any opposition from the Prussian Troops. The accounts from Naples ire of a most distress ing nature : the progress of MASOENA is marked with slaughter and devastation. The towns of Langonero and Cassano,and a'great number of villages, have been burnt, and the inhabitants put to the sword. It appears that the Royalists are still able to oppose a formida ble resistance to the French in Calabria, and that the French Army in Naples is not sufficient either to finish the, conquest of that Kingdom, for all the French Troops in the vicinity of Rome, and those at Ancona, and the Sea-ports in the Adriatic Sea, have received orders to break up, and march for Calabria. WE this morning received Jamaica Papers of the Qd August, but they are wholly destitute of in telligence, except the sailing of the Fleet for England on the 26th of July, under convoy of the Magi. cienne, Capt. I\i'KENzts, and the Brig Hunter, Capt. INGLEVIELD. WE announced on Saturday the complete success of the Expedition under the command of Sir. Home pc:ll , llAm and Brigadier-General BERESFORX), against Buenos Ayres. The Dispatches of these gallant Officers were published in a Gazette Extraordinary on Saturday night, to which we refer our Readers for the details respelling this most important Con quest. The Park and Tower Guns were fired on the occasion on Saturday afternoon. THE' Troops which disembarked from the Trans ports at Plymouth, in consequence 'of Admiral Lours's Squadron, which was to convoy the Expedition, having been detached for the purpose of intercepting Admiral GurLLEAUMEZ, have been ,re-embarked, and the Transports are immediately to proceed to Falmouth, to await the return of Admiral Louis. Yesterday morning HIS MAJESTY, attended by Ge nerals FITZROY and MANNINGHAM, paraded the Blues and Staffordshire Regiment; inWindsor Court-yard. He afterwards walked to church with Princesses AUGUSTA, SOPHIA, AMELIA, and -MARY, attended by Ladies TIIYNNE and BOOTHBY, Generals FITZROY and MANNINGHAM, where,a sermon was preached by the Rev. Dr. MARSHAM ; afterwards rode to Fro more to dinner, and returned to the. Palace at tlINe o'clock. Her MAJESTY and Princess ELiz.s- BETEI ha.! divine service performed in the Palace, and afterwards rode to Frogniore LOdge.. THE HAMBURGII Mil:IL, - ARRIVED THIS DAY. BULLETIN. GR/EPSWAL.b, SEPT. 4. Yesterday, at two in the "morning, C;lonel, 'ENGEL ZRECHT. returned from Berlin, with the Answer of His Majesty the KING of PRUSSIA to the Letter which had been transmitted to him on the pait of His Swedish Majesty. - - The administration, of the Duchy of Lauenburgh having been resumed in the name of, His BRITAN NIC MAJESTY, after the peaceable taking possession of that Country by the Swedish Troops, His Ma jesty has graciously deigned to order, that the block ade of the Prussian Ports shall be entirely raised, and that the embargo shall be taken off the Prussian Ships which were in the Ports of Sweden at the be ginning of the late misunderstanding. NOTE Delivered by Order of his Swedish Majesty to the Ministers of the two A llied Courts accredited to the King. " The entrance of the Swedish Troops into the Duchy of Lauenburgh, and the peaceable re-occu pation of that Country, in the name of His BRI TANNIC NfAJtyry, having restored affairs 'to the si tuation in which they, were previous to the com mencement of hostilities - between Sweden and ,Prus sia, and produced a result satisfactory to the King and his Ally, the Undersigned has the honour to in 7 form N. N. by the express order ofbis Majesty, that he has caused to cease the measures hitherto adopted against the Ports and Commerce of his Majesty the KING of PRUSSIA, of which N. N. was inform ed at the time, by the Notes of his Excellency the Grand Marshal Count DE TERSEN, dated the 29th% of April and Gth of May last. In conseqUenee, the necessary orders have. been given to raise entirely the blockade of the Ports of Prussia, as also to take off the Embargo laid on the Vessels of that Power which were in the Ports of Sweden. Requesting N. N. to convey to the knowledge of his Court the contents of this Note, the Under signed avails himself of the opportunity, to re peat," &c". " In the absence of his. Excellency the Grand Marshal Count Da TERSEN, " GUST. Da WETTERSTEDT, First Cabinet Secretary to His Majesty the King of Sweden." " Head-quarters, Criefswald, Sept. 3, 1806." BERLIN, SEPT. 6.-His Majesty will very soon, it is said, repair to the Army. Count HAUGWITZ Will, it is said, accompany his Majesty.' It is ex padted the Foreign Ministers will follow the King to the Head-quarters. The Princes HENRY and Wil. - LiAM set ont yester day for the Army : each of these Pribms will com mand a Brigade. Pritice Louis FERDINAND set out the day before yesterday for Saxony. He will, command the Ad vanced Guard of the Prince of HORENLOHE, who is expeeled here to-day from Dresden, and who comes to receive the King's last orders. Field-Marshal MoLLENDORF ' will likewise set out in a few days for the. Head-quarters at Magde burgh. All the different Corps of the Prussian Army will to-day arrive at the points which have been assigned them. We eXpea here next week the Marquis Luc- CHESINI, who was to leave Paris on the arrival of the new Minister, LEIPZIC, SEPT. 4.---Every week Couriers pass through this City with Letters which the Emperor of Russia and the King of Prussia write reciprocally: The last ' Letters came front St. Petersburgh, gud were addressed to the King and Queen of Prussia. The advices from Paris are all very pacific ; nil the Foreign Ministers there receive assurances of the friendly intentions of his Majesty the Emperor: The Confederation of the Rhine, however, strengthens every day ; we are assured that the Princes of WAL DECK and LIPPE have joined it. A Messenger to the Russian Ambassador arrived at half past four o'clock yesterday, with dispatches from the Court of St. Petersburgh. Yesterday morning Mr. t A SSM the Messertger, also arrived in town with dispatches from St. Peters. burgh. Last night a Messenger left town for Paris, with dispatches- to Lord LAUDERDALE. Mr. , lttrFFE, the Messenger, set off on Sturday with dispatches for Copenhagen. It' is singular to remark the mortality that has 'spread among the leading men in this Country with in the last twelve months, vii. Marquis CORNWAL. Lis, at Gazeepore, East Indies, 06tober 5, 1805 ; Lord, NELSON, 06tober 21, 1805 ; Mr. PITT, Jar., 23, 1806; Lord TritißLow; Sept. 12, 1806 ; Mr. Fox, Sept. 13, 1806. We are authorized to state that Lord PERCY will be in town this evening, and means to otter himself for Westminster. On Saturday an account was received at the East India-House, that the outward-bound Fleet which sailed from Portsmouth on the 4th of March last, were spoke with, all well, on the 28th of May, in the Mosambique Passage. The Perseverence parted company, and arrived safe at St. Helena, where she delivered her Stores ; and on the 27th of June pro ceeded on her voyage for Liencoolen and China. , MR. FOX. - event for 'which 'the expeEtatiOn of the Public has long been prepared took place On Saturday last. Mr. Fox, in the afternoon of that day, had signified. that'he was convinced it was not within the power soff' btit - rmin -knowledge or sitrii to in ti,rait, his ; and he requested to be exempted from the disagree able necessity of subthitting to any thing more that his Physicians 'might propose. Indeed these Phy sicians, from the general appearance of things on Friday afternoon, had deemed it their duty to in•- form his relations and friends that all was over, and that his death might hourly be -expeCted.—This aweful intelligence was caunnunicated to Mr. Fox himself, who received it with manly firmness and composure. Lord HoLLAND,,at his particular re quest, dispatched messengers to the Duke of NOR FOLK, Earl FITZWILLIAM, Lord JOHN TOWNSHEND, ,acid Sir FRANCIS. VINCENT: He then gradually be came more weak and languid, and died about five in the evening, reduced to, the lowest state of de bility. Mr. Fox has so long made a distinguished figure on the stage of life, and has so much attraded the no tice of the world, that the 'death of such a man is not to be classed among ordinary occurrences; and the distinCtion he acquired entitles his memory to particular observation. , A rigid conformity to the old Latin maxim, which inculcates only a favourable notice of the dead, would be absurd and useless.— Every man who has risen to importance in a State, when he is released from all human cares and duties, leaves his character as a legacy to mankind, that they may improve by his virtues, derive instruction from his knowledge, or be warned by his errors.—ln discriminate panegyric can render no honour to the dead, nor can ummerited censure.be of service to the. living. A fair and impartial estimate of a distin guished CharaCter when he departs from this tratYsi tory scene is, therefore,. What mankind have a right to expe&, because it may not only be of use to the race who immediately survive him, bUt may extend the instruction, resulting from his example, to dili tant ages. Upon the present occasion we have nc , thing but truth in view ; yet it is our anxious wish not to' deliver 'too rigourously even what trlith may di rea, but to blend with its dictates the sentiments of candour. Mr. Fox commenced his public career under' the most favourable auspices. , Nature had been liberal to him, even to profusion, in intelle&ual endow ments, and he had all the adVantages of fortune at his command. It has been justly obserVed, that neither our virtues nor our vices are entirely our own : The ill-judged fondness of a parent is too often the source of error in the offspring. Lord, HOLLAND, the father of Ali - . Fox, was naturally partial to a son whose talents held forth so promis . - ing a hope that he would,rise to the highest distinc-, tions in the State. Hence, from thefear that 'curbing his son's spirit might tend to obstruct his genius, it, was a rule with Lord HOLLAND. that his son CHARLES . should be indulged in every thing. The conse quence is easily to be conceived—this unlimited permission to do as he pleased, gave vigour to his passions in the same proportion as the progress of time increased the energy of. his , mental powers. —lt would be painful to dwell on the errors of his youth, which was marked by a career of pleasure that led him into the most ruinous spirit of extrava gance. He tame so early into Parliament, before in , deed he had reached the period limited by its regula tions, that it has been said he was born in the House of Commons. He very soon made a figure in Par , liament as an orator, even at a time when one of the greatest orators which the world had ever seen (the late Lord CHATHAM), was in .the highest esti mation, and when it was adorned by many other Members of great oratorical- powers, tho Ugh their lustre was dim' compared with that transcendaut ornament of the British Senate. it is evident that, if Mr. Foit had not suffered his political ambition to be diverted by putsuits of pleasure, he must have become one of the most conspicnous and useful props of the State. Unhappily, however, the man of pleasure and the politician were United in his cha raeler, and the former at length prevailed so much as to plunge him in dissipation and its consequent embarrassments. It is in the charaetet of an Orator that Mr. Fox is chiefly entitled to attention, and more particularly as the head of Opposition ; for his judgment did not bear an eXad proportion to the other powers of his mind—and it does not appear that he was as well qualified to eondud the affairs of a Country as to watch the - conduCt of -an Administration, - He disc played. great capacity ; force of argument, splendour of imagination, and ingenuity in debates but through the whole of his political life, those who are capable of fairly appreciating. his powers ; must acknoWledge, that thOugh • he could ob jea,. he could not create ; and he was often so precipitate and unguarded in his opinions and declar. ations ) as to show t hat it would have been rash indeed to trust the concerns °fa great empire wholly to. his management. It must be acknowledged also ; that the principles he supported were different in different situations, and, consequently, there was not that Clear and decided judgment which forms an essential quality in the charmer of a great Statesman. It is impossible to forget the hasty eulogium which he passed on the French ReVolution, notwithstanding all the arguments which were urged by his great rival Mr. PITT, to the conviaion of all mankind, as well as the warning voice of Mr. BURKS, whose admir= able work on the subject will live in the estimation of all sound Politicians and friends of humanity, when Mr. Fox will be little more than a name in the records of History. Nor does it appear that, notwithstanding all the horrors which that dreadful scourge of Nations (the French Revolution) pro duced, and its termination in the most oppressive and disgraceful- Despotism the world ever beheld, that Mr. Fox ever recanted his opinions, or at least deliVered any recantation in that Assembly which witnessed 'his temerity. It is, then, as an orator that Mr. Fox must be viewed, . and in that. light he was one of the greatest that has appeared in this Country. We need not expatiate on his talents in this resped, as the people are so well acquainted with the history of his public life. As to his private condu&, we are under no pressing obligation to render it a matter of dismission. It is sufficient to say, that be was ad mired for the easy pliancy of his temper; that he was always ready to do a good-natured action,; and that though he was 'too negligent In the choice of his friends and associates, 'he could number both some . of the most 'amiable and. gnished men in the Country. The etfcci of Par:irat indulgence, indeed, 1: ,- ,..vai!ed during the whole of his life, in public ar/1 in private, and the unbridled course Of his passions in youth ,:ettled an habi tual indolence, except when :.i..mated by political exig,cncies, whit rrt!'vented Lim from attaining that 'dignity of charaaer which on-;:ht to have accorn. such extraordinary abilities. Mr. Fox was born on the 1 3t h of Jannary, 1748, He was the son of HENRY Baron .HOLLAND, of Foxley, who was raised to that. title in the year :1703. CHARL E S JANIF:3 nix, the second son of .this Nobleman, and the - stil) . jea of our present notice, was, in, the year 1708, when only ni 1 -- teen years of age, chosen Alen:her of Parliament for Midhurst, in Sussex. In 1 772, during the Ad ministration of Lord NORTH", he obtained a seat at the Admiralty Boards and wa`s .after appointed one of the Lords of the Treasury by that Nobleman,— Conceiving that his talents tltialitied him to take a higher post, be threw himself into, the arms of Op position, and became the Leader of a 'Party, in which situation, with a short intermission, he re mained till the ever-to-be lamented death of Mr. ' PITT, and the critical nature of the times, rendered. it necessary to form an union of Parties, and to on., ploy his talents in the service of the State; and after so much political experience, it is, to be hoped that they would . have been highly useful to his Country, if it had been the will cf Providence to have extended his life with unimpaired health and capacity. ' PLYMOUTH, SEPT. 13.--Arrived the -Vrotv'Mar ircretta REmrs, and the Elmbur , fh dEolus, 0 STEM, both detained by the Hey() Privateer the Econolny, Nicnot.soN, from'Malitga, bound to St. Petersburg!), detained by -the Intlifilt:galle Privateer. Sailed the Juno, RuTnEttlioLD, for St. Andel'o the l'ortlinit, PETERSON, and, the Norberg, CHRI:i- TIANSEN,.bOth for Hamburg!). 'Arrived the Myrtle, NIGHTS N`GALE, and the Hope, YOutcnEit, both from Riga; and the Severn, filtlC- W6OD, from Cork. The Encampment at BUckland.DOwn has bro',-,- , n up, and the TroOps are re-embarked on board the Transports from which they were landed ; Those encamped on- ilickleigh Down broke up to-day, and proceeded to Stonehouse for the same purpose. The . whole -are 'expeEted to be re-embarked by Monday next, when it'is said the Transports are to Proceed to Falmouth to await the return' of Admiral Lotts's Squadron, and that in•the interim other Troops are expeagd from the Eastward 'to join the Expedition. •Arrived the Plover Sloop of War from a Cruize. • Sailed the Caroline Armed Ship, with a Convoy 'for the Downs ; and the Edo Sloop of War for Portsmouth. POUTSMOOTti, SEPT. 14.—Afrived this rnoming the Star Sloop of War, and the LAcifer Bomb, from the Downs ) having a Fleet tinder Convcn, of which the tollowing are a part, viz. George, ROAtiURGH, from Riga; Catalonia, ARMST . RONG, flOtt St. Peters burgh ; Jolin , MONDAY, from Archangel.; the En deavour, Eybrt, Minor, Ann 'out Jane', Margaret, and Betsey Colliers, from Sunderland. Sailed the Champion Frigate, to join the Channel Fleet ; Rattler Sloop of War, with the . Sizz.'cess Gar land, .zPrilve, and fester, I::;!wfinin4land Ships, un der Convoy for that plve Margai - etta Packet for Bengal, and the Safignard Gun-vesel, with 'the Skelton-Castle ; Union zinc! Matilda East lndium') ; and the, Mermaid Picket, for the Cape of GoOd Hope, nutter Convoy for Plymouth; to join the Con rov there. Yesterday the Atlas, of 71- guns, and the Unicorn Frigate, went out of - the Harbour. BARWICH,SEPT.I4.--:-The Prince ofiVales Packet, Captain A. DEANE, and the Lady iVepean, Captain G. DEANE, arrived last night with Mails from Got tenburgh. The Earl of L eicater, Capt. TiIOMPSON ) with a Mail for Gottenburgh, and the Lark, Capt. DELL, with the Hamburgh and Bremen Mails, which sailed on Thursday last, were obliged to return, and now remain With the Dorset, Captain HAMILTON, and Lady Frances, Capt. FLYN ; the former bound to Gottenburgh, and the latter for Husum, each With . yesterday's Mails.--The Count M. WoaoNzo, is Passenger on board the Dorset, charged with dis patches for St. Petersburgh. Captain, MAcnoNouon, of the Diana Packet, arrived last night from Husuni, with the Hamburgh and Bremen Mails ; and the Diana, Capt. STEWARD, arrived this morning from the same place; with the bit of the Hamburgh and Bremen Mails that are due. Sailed the Pathe, of Boston, Captain DIXON, for Riga, in ballast, and the Centinel Gun-brig, on a Remain the Gallant, Aggressor,. Escort, and Charger Gun-brigs. FALMOUTH, SETT. 52.—Yesterday sailed the Ishend Packet, DODD : . with a Mail for. Lisbon; and the Princess Charlotte Packet, KEitlt, with a Mail for Jamaica. DA/4tEt.s.--.Baturday the Court-room at the Man sion.House was crowded at an early hour, in the ex peaation of Daniels being examined. On the LORD MAYOR, however, coming into Court, a few minutes past ten o'clock, he presented a certificate which had been put into his hand, signed by Mr, Hodg son, stating, that though Mr. Daniels was much better, he wis still so much indisposed as to render it 'dangerous that he should be brought up for exa. Mination. In opposition to this certificate, it was stated, by: several of the Gentlemen interested on the part of the prosecution, that Dr. Turner had, at their re quest, visited Mr. Daniels, and that the result of his, examination was, that though Mr. D. was certainly indisposed ) yet that his illness was by no means such as to prevent bim being brought up for exami nation. The Gentlemen. from themselves added, that they entertained no doubt a similar obstacle would be endeavoured to be thrown in the way on Monday ) or any other day to which his Lordship might be inclined to postpone it. • The LORD MAYOR said he did not pretend to know much of medicine; but the real question was, whe ther or not he ought to order Daniels to be brought up in the very' face of the official certificate lying before him. Such he did not conceive to be his duty. , • After a consultation among the parties interest ed; it was agreed that the examination should take pace to-morrow moriling at ten o'clock. _