The Sun. — London, England, 1806-08-15 00:00:00

MAILS AR t...zp - 2 1 Gott,: r nburgh, 2 Dublin, r Waterford. 1) . Haniburgii, 2 ‘Gotr2abur6h, r Waterford.' . • PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCK. tZ j 63 6111 (Thulium - - 6 8617 6 ; Co::sols T H E S 13 N. SOLEM QUIS DICER.E .. .IA.LSUNti AUDEAT? L' N D •it FRIDAY, AUGUST 15, 18-06. follBNl'/'i rig infelligelice was this 'aiornin,g re- : t• \ . August 15, i 806, 11:alflpr n ist -Qty Ex.rlu•::T or A. LETTER FROM ST. THOMAS'S, DATER 174. y ., g; 1803. " Last Sunday (6th) 'the French Squadron, with ou' board, passed , this placer, , and; an hour after, passed Admiral Co CilltANE, with bar Line of Battle Ships and three Frigates ; but the drench Shewing a*disposition to give him battle, he tilt' not wish to'etigfe . fheir superior' force, and issince' arrived at Tortda." WE stuted'yesterdaY, that a - Cabinet Council was summoned to .ta.ke, into consideration the . Dispatches brought over by BASILIC°. The Council assembled about one o'Clock : Lord .GEENVI-LLE, the Limp en-Az: ut.Lott, Lord SPENCER, Lord HowrcK.,. Lotd . . SIDMOUTH, Lord HENRY PETTY, and Mr. WIND HAM w ere present. The Council sat 'till three o'clock, .. and at half past ten o'clock last night BASILIC() was sent off with Dispatches to Lord LAUDERDALE. The flu6..tuation in the Funds yesterday was, we believe, greater than upon any one day since the Sig , nature of the Preliminaries of the last Peace. In the morning, as soon as the arrival of the Mes senger was known, the Funds' rose rather more than one pzr cent. hut about one O'clok a sudden, alteration took place ; Stocks began to fall,, and, at one time, ()annum was as low as 51. per cent. It left off at last . at 64. A variety of causes have been stated as having tended to produce this extraordinary depres sion. It was said that the French Government, so fir fruai shewing any sincere desirefor Peace, took opportnnity of treating the British Minister wit!, the Most marked coolnesl. Lord LAUDERDALE r2iI,::!QCI Paris, -we believe, .on Tuesday se'nnight,. and of.course immediately announced his arrival to TA T, LEYRAND, and deinanded an interview. The Frc2:1...1 Minister for"ForeiartAtfairs under the pretext of the pressure of business,declined seeing his X,ordship until the Saturdayor Sunday following. Anotherreport which .vas' eireulatei yesterday, but .which, we have to believe is wholly` unfounded, Was, that 1. L4tip.ol,..n.tt.E, finding that there was no pro of succeeding in' the - Negotiation, had,•be i :r: B.isztsico, left ,Paris,' - demanded hi'S Passports.; -,1:-..111y it was said; that a Treaty- of .Aliiante, Pffenive and .defensive, had". been:concluded be tween Franco. and' Russia, and that they were " - to if vigorously• together. against Great Britain,' if he latter did not consent to a PeaCe with France. Such were the reports :Circulated yesterday.with great :confidencp. The offea they produced we have:al- Te3dy stated.- When we received the intelligonce of the conclusiorl -of a separate Peace bet Ween France . and 1111;ssia,we expresSed our opinion, that it would yrodecc a material ch;tnge in the tone. of France to this Country. That change has, 'we understand, till:Lt.:l place ; .and although we do not, take upon owselve4 to day that.there is no probability of Peace, we have reason to believe,that it is considerably di minished. The Dispatches Which were yesterday sent off to Lord LAUDERDALE were,: we . have no doubt, of a deeisiveaature : it is therefore likely that the Ne gotiation will be brought to a deeisive issue, :,one way or the other, in a very short time. With respea t.r' the report of an Alliance, o4"ensive and d e f en . between Russia and France; we are not dis posed to attach any credit to 'it. .The arrival, how eVer, of Lord G. L. GOWER, our late Ambassador at St., .Petersburgh, in England, before his successor, the Marquis of DOUGLAS, had left this Country, proba bly - tended to induce Many persons to believe the ;Ci•C)rt. V . : l received last night Paris and Da‘cli Papers, (1)e i:')ciner to the 9th, and the latter to the 12th, in a; 111. The contents of-these Papers, which are v,2cylinpottant, are-tiot calculated to excite any hbpcs of Peace,: By a Uecree of the 3d inst: BUNAPAXTt hai ordered that 50:000 of the Conscripts for the pAiS: - Itit year should be immediately' called out. It is iii ti , )st impossible•to. account for this extraordinary rnodw re,except by supposing that he has formed some fw - Oier pl. n of as extensive and gigantic a nature/as o,we which we have already seen 'errie into exel , cution.: it true, that in the Decree great pains are, iakeri to convince Opt t.ii Ineiely A ;„ -- 41;:i;a!'e of .cburr,e, and neithil.r. indicative'6f 'Peace sr: - '3,V4r,, •But NVlaoif it ig (Vll . 3idCred that last 4p;.ar, after, the of ti:Austrlans at Ulm, BGDIAPA? it 'id not dcc,-,1 c,ece - sary to call ont, the Conscript . :4; althaugh he still had the unbroken force of the to contend againsti it is but reasonable to pre,llfne that he nust.nolxi' , have some extraordi-: IZ~i~~ nary objea in vietv, when, after concbiding a Peace with Austria and Russia, he makes such a largeaug- mentation to his ArMy. • • The Plan of, the .new Confederation, or, as it is . dialled ; the Leagite'of the :Rhine, has been presented to the Diet of Ratishon' by the French Minister BACHER. In the Note. Which M. BACKER present , ed upoh'this Occasion; after explaining the grounds * Which induced his Master to declare himself Pro feaor of Germany, or, in other words, Head of the Empire, he says, that he has but one wish remaining , and- that-is, to use the means whiCh Providence has given him, to restore the Liberty qf the Seas, and to establish the freedom of commerce. THE late ' Prussian Minister:tO this Court, Baron JAcontKLOEST, has at length quitted England. He embarked yestftdAy.oa :board the Auckland Packet, at Harwich, for Husurri. There is no variation in the report of Mr. Fox this day : I)ii friends continue with some confi dence to augur his recovery. - Yesterday morning the Dtnix of YORK transacted business with - His MAJESTY. Afterwards His' 'MAJESTY, the DuK.Esof Yo,pc. ancICA.NaRinoE, Lord VirAL .c&GnAm,LadyTnyNNE, Generals. FITZROY and CARTwiticwr,Colonels GORE, GREVILLE, and TAYLOR, rode in Windsor Great Park, &c. and returned about half past twelve. The DUKE of CAMBRIDGE arrived at Windsor on Wednesday night.. _ Lord- SE - AFORTu has received leave to return to Europe; but owing to .the Enemies' operations •in the West Indies, he determined not for the present to quit liarbaclOes. Government, it is understood, have obtained per mission to receive Aineriean oak, as a supply to our Dock-yards. This will at all events prevent th 6 too rapid exhaustion of the royal forests. • The LORD MAYOR crave yesterday a splendid en tertainment to the LORD CIIANCELLOR and others ofthe Cabinet Ministers,, in honour of his Excel lency the Hon. DAVID ERSKINE, the Minister pro, ceeding from England to America. There were present on this occasion— The , Lord Chancellor, Earl Spencer, Lord Ellenborough, Mr. Win(Mani; Sirs S. Cotterell, W.'Curtis, and Charles, Price; Mr. Barclay, Mr. Combe, Mr. Munroe, Mr. Pinck ney, General, Lyman, the Hon-.- H. Erskine, T. Erskine, Mr. Harris, and Mr. Wilson, the Lord Chancellor's Soli-, citor. . After Dinner, the following Toasts were drank : • " The King, and God bless hart:" • " The Queen and Royal Faintly:" " The Prince and his .12,0yal Brothers -; and thanks to them for- the honour they have. done the City, in ;the present Ma yoraity,:bv Their presence." " The American Ministers present (Mr. Munroe, Mr, Pinckney, and Cenetal . f.yman); ,nd may there o perpetual harmony between the two Countries:" Mr. MUN ROE begged leave to - return thanks for the honour which had been - done him, ,which he - did not estimate so - much persOnally, as . with : regard to his country. There. existed. a thousand reasons; he said, which made it desirable for him to promote 'a becoMing feeling of goodrWili between Great Bri tain and. America; but while he must he considered a true and faithful Servant of hisnepublic, yet - no peronal exertions on his part „should be wanting to preserve.that Cordiality which Was so essential to the, interests of the two countries ; and he begged leave to drink all thely good'healths, . Mr. Pl:sic:l6.mA; observed,- that he accorded per feftly in the sentitilents that had_ been expressed by his Colleague, and , that no 'endeavours - on his part "should be wanting to promote the 'good understand, ing which ought ever to subsist bet Ween Great Bri- - tain and America.. The next Toast was— • " Thc,Lord. Chancellor of Erigand, and may the name of Erskine and the Trial by Int)/ eve:r be united:" • which was drank with the Warmest- erithusiasni. The Lori 'CHANCELLOR returned thanks. He said, he felt it to be the highest honour that he could enjcy, to have l health drank and introduced in the manner if ' had been, at the Head 7 Quaners of the City of London,,-..a 'City where he had had many opportunities of using the talents which be possessed in support of that law which was the admiration of the world, and which was so•admir ably executed by hi's:Noble and Learned Friend present, whose health he would take the liberty of proposing. • • The Health of Lord ELLENBOROUGH having been drank— • His Lordship thanked the Company for the ho .ndur they had done .him, so much beyond his de serts. 1, The next Toast was, mr. Windham, and the rest of the Cabinet Ministers." Mr. WINDP.Ard returned thanks. Then followed " The Earl Spencer, to whom they had been on former occasions so much obliged." His Lord - ship returned thanks, and expressed his high sense of the obligation conferred on him. Then followed " The immortal Memory of Mr. Pitt." " The Wcoden Walls"---:" The Army," &c. &c. . . , The Ministers withdreW about ten o'clock ; but the hilarity and good liumoUr of the company were s protrataed *to a late . hour. -• . .• : • - . , DREADFUL' AcCIDENT.=-Xesterday afterncion Mr. Bolton, Haberdasher, of Stanhope-street, Clare Market, Wits travelling with his son, a fine boy ,four years old, inside the Bath and Taunton died cOacti,' in Piccadilly, the dour flew open, and the child fell out ; 'the hinder wheels of.the vehicle, which was loaded with trom'll - to 20 passengers i went over bo'zl the legs of . the,. ho above the..anclei and' broke thi!l'hooes into splinters. It w.fs a spee tacle too :sltocking to give a full description c)f; the blood flowed copiously from the 'wounds, and the legs sowed only to: be held together by the sinews. The pew child was taken to the shop of ;'fir. Harr.- bridge, Piccadilly, Ifflwre every assistance was afrord , - ed tc) alleviate its sufferings; NAPAL , NEWS. Llvtsteoor., Auc. 13.—Ari - ived the Royal Ed ..... • thcird; FOR: 1 / 2 'ER, from Trinid2d, which place She left . . •On the loth July. An Embargo all Shipping there seems to have •existed until that date: Extra& of a Letter from Trinidad, dated July 10, 1.806 : ""- R. S. We have just learned, that six Sail of the Line and one Frigate, .which composes: the French Squadron, two of them were' in a very bad state; and leaky; all sickly;--Admiral ••CgCHRANE had with him.four Sail.of the Line, three Frigates, and two Brigs."' BRISTOL, 'AuG:l4.—Arrived the Bristol Volun teer, JACQUES, from Antigua; Bachael, SMITH, and the King David, SHELSTONE, from Nevis. The above Ships cut their cables, and sailed from Nevis on the 3d of ' July, with between 40 and 50 other Ships, under Convoy of the Carysfort Frigate, in consequence of the French SqUadron being with in five leagues of that Island. The Ships for London, Liverpool, 3cc. partstd a few days since. a ' FALMOUTH, AUG. r5.--Arriied the Svtidaritige i . GALWAY, 'from St. Kitt's, for London, with stars, last from Newfoundland. Sailed the IVa/singhcon Packet, Capt. RoiARTs, with a Mail for Lisbon. DEAL, AUG. 14.—Late last night the Devastation, Explosion, and Fury Bombs, again returned to:the Downs, being the third time of their putting back, with the Transports, having, on board the-Troops, consisting of the Ist Guards, 52d and 62d Regi ments, with a part of the gbth, or Rifle 'Corps, the Artillery and Staff, which sailed fromtheDowns on the gth. inst. . • Sailed the Comlatant Piaam- for Sheerness ; Charleston, W E ST, for -the South Seas ; Friends, GRAY, -for SUrinam ; with seterat other outward bound Vessels, Coasters, &c. • Came down from the River the Diligence Store ship ; the Diligence East India Pilot-vessel, with the Union East Indianian 'Sy,rius, for the South Seas ; and several other outward-bound 'Vessels, ; with the rest of:the Ships as,per last. PLYMOUTH,. AUG. 13.—The Resistance Frigate; of 38 guns, Captain ADAM . -anived:here yesterday, with the outward-bound Transports; from 'Ports mouth, and will accompany them to the placo of their destirration. ', Arrived the American•Brig leon, DRYDROUGU, from Cadiz, bound to London, with wine, detained by the Hero Privateer the .San Antonio, CAVELLO, from St. Sebastian's, bound to 'St; Andero, detained by the Martial Gun-brig ; the Juficella,Da from Nantz, bound . to Lisbon,, laden• with-w,leat, detained by the Lion Piivateer'; and 'they anish Ship Gamic' Norge, BODICHER, from Pram, with timber. - Arrived this afternoon a' Frigate, said to bre from the West Indies, with dispatches ; no particulars of which have transpired •here. The Telegraph was set to work immediately on her arrival. PORTSMOUTH, Am 14.—The greater part of the Downs' Fleet have, through adverse winds, been obliged to.put back- to the Downs; however, three or four have been able to beat their way in, viz. the Joseph and Mary, 818/N, for Newfoundland, Indus 'try, KIRBY, for Quebec, London Packet, —, and the Aylward —. The latter: Ship left the Fleet off the Owers Light yesterday afternoon. HARWICH, AUG. 14.—The Brig Four Sisters, belonging to Sunderland, HENRY PGLLEXPEN Mas ter, with a cargo of coals from thence, bound to Harwich, was run down at Sea a few nights ago by a light Collier ; ' the Master and Crew fortunately saved their lives by getting'on board tilai Ship. 'The Auckland Picket, Capt. BRIDGE, saiied ires lerday for Husutu, on the arrival ofi - the coach from London, with the Hambro' and Bremen Mails. His Excellency Baron JAcciat Ki.ot ST, late Minister Plenipotentiary from Berlin; with his" Suite, em barked on board the said Packet. The Auckland Packet, Capt. HAMMOND ; salted gt 'the 'same tilue with a Mail for Gottenburgb. . .. . The. Ind.'grzant and Chylrgcr 'Ginn-brigs: : arrived yesterday from their Station, and the Ueittinel .and Aggressor arrived this morning and remain'. Captain Tdompsoil, -of the Earl of Leicester Packet, arrived this morning. with a'Mail from Got tenburgh. ' Two othe- . Mails are expedted to arrive nest tide. • DOVER, AuG.l4. , —The Ni/e.Lumger, Lieut. JOHN . .. solsi, "has captured and sent in Here La &geoid Margueale French DOgger, laden With flour and wheat, 'which was cut .out from under the Batteries Otochefbrt about fi.veweeltS since.. • - Earl ST. VINCT::IIT, to the 1-111c7nia, left the Fleet ot Brest on Friday with" - 111C ,D lance, of 74 gnus, 'and the Ltyvinia...Frigate, resigning-thr: command, far a time, tb fit CHAR s believed. that his 1, 9 1-41,0ri .trii7goile 'to - Lisbon, and that upon the snters''of the -very - important ar rangement - king , by the Portu&neses Government, relative to d tlie Brazils, but whethei- for any measure so decisive as the immediate,: removal of the Prince Royal thither„..wy, pedlars, he yi4--41idetrrrkitikili: From, the FRENCH" and DUTCH 'PAPERS. Panrs, AUG. 6.—The English Ambassador, Lord LAUDERDALE, . accompanied by two Secretaris, and BASILICQ, the Messenger, arrived on the 3d inst. at Calais, - and yesterday in this 'Cipitla. An .lsperial Decree, dated the 3d of this month, ordains a levy of 50,000 conscripts, taken from the 80,000 authorised to be plced in a state of activity by the Decree of the 2d Vendemiaire,' year 14. — They will be divided among the different Corps of the Army. The 30,000 Conscripts remaining from the 80,000 will form the Reserve of the year 18136-. The Official Journal, on the occasion of this mea sure, contains the following note : c' The Senatus Consultum of the .S.'d Vendemiaire, year 14, placed at the disposal of Government the Conscription of I 806. Thu third Coalition appeared under such an aspet, that the levy of 80,000 men seemed then necessary to support the glory of the: Throne, and to defend the dearest interest of the Country. But before the end of the month of Ven- Aemiaire, the success at Ulm had given such an ad .vantage to our arms, that the Emperor considered the cal *g out the Conscription of 1806 as unne cessary,' and confined himself to calling •ut the Re . "serve, . . "'At present / a, t 4 80,000 men of the Conscrip tion of 1406,...,. the EFipetor has judged that the call.- fig 6# :of Afly„,thousand - is necessary. If, as every thipg leads to iioe, the affairs of the Continent'are about to be settled, these -50,000 'men will serve to repace the soldiets'whe shall receive their discharge,. anclfreinrn to their families. If, on the contraryi - • which fhere is no reason to think, the period of the repose of the Continent is not yet arrived, these 50,0'60 men, by completing the different Corps on the War footing, will carry the .French Army to its highest degree, of strength. "In any event, then, this levy is necessary- Even if we had enjoyed profound Peace, we, should al ways have called out, not 50,000, at least 40,000 men. Since the last review 20,000 men have been discharged; and by the result of the reviews ,of this year, it,is-probable that an equal number will again return to their: homes. Noshing, therefore, ought, to be inferred fa vourable either to War or to Peace, from this ope ration, which is almost annual. It is done at the ordinary period; sufficiently late for the harvest be ing finished, sufficiently soon to enable the young then to join their Corps before the unfavourable sea son commences, and to perfect themselves in discir pline during the winter." The Moizitetfr .of this day contains the following article : " General ',minim:4 has written from Ragusa, under date.oftlae -15thluly, - that that City enjoyed the . most profound trauqUillity, and that its terri tory Was quite free from Brigands. He adds, that, during the whole period of the blockade and siege of - Ragusa, he had only 40 men killed, and 120 wound ed. He praises the behaviour of his Troops and the, zeal of the native 3." The Moniteur also Communicates the list of pm. motions of the brave men who distinguished them selves at Ragusa and before Gaeta. The Holy Crown of Thorns, which was given to Sr. Louts, in 1238, by BMIDOUIN, Emperor , of Constantinople, and which happily has been pre. s erved amidst the religious profanations which have marked our Revolution, will be transferred with all possible solemnity into the Metropolitan Church of Paris, on Sunday the 10th instant: Plenary indul gences will be given to the pious who may assist at the ceremony, with the requisite qualities. RAIIIII3OII, AUGUST 1.-... This day. M. ELCHER, Chirge-d'Affaires of France, remitted to the Diet the following Note : " The Undersigned, Charge-d'Affaires of his Majesty the Emperor of the French and King of Italy, at the General Diet of the Germanic Ein‘Pire, has received orders -from his Majesty to mahe.the foilowing declarations : Their-....lVlajesties the ,Kings of BAVARIA and lATllO'imiftueon, the Sovereign Princes of BAT'S IION,'Of BADEN, of. HESSR DARMSTADT, of NASSAU, and the other principal Princes of the South and West of Germany, have taken the resolution to forni among themselves a Confederation, wh le places there iii safety from all the uncertainties of the . future, and they have ceased to. be States . of the Empire. "The situation' in which the Treaty of •Presburgh plaCed direetly . the .Courts to' France:, slid in dire Sly the Princes ‘liom tiley surround, *and),Fliti are their neighbours, being 'incompatible with 61'e condition of a State of the Empire, it became ne cessary for those Courts, and for the Princes, to.,ar range on a new plan the system •Of their relations, and-.to cause to disappear an inconsistency which would have been a permanent source of agitation, Of inquietude, and of danger. `"On . her side, France, so essentially interested di maintaining the Peace of the South of,Qermany, and who could not doubt, that the moment when ;he shouki.have,..caused her Troops to repass the