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NIA 11. S. RFttVfr D T FlambLrxlt, Gottentittitgli, 2 Oublin • D CE—z t auiburg,r, 1 Guttenbur;,h, i Dublin; Waterford. Consols PRICE OF 3TbCKS THIS DAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCK - - 63 I Omnium - THE SUN. SOLSM QUIS.DICERE FALSUM AUDEAT .CoNpo N, MONDAY, JULY 21 2 180. YESTERDAY the Hamburgh Mail due on Sunday se'nnight arriyed, and we also received Frenckand Dutch Papers, the former to the loth, and the lat ter W the 15th, inst. M. D'Ousnit, the, Russian . Minister, arrived at 'Paris on the 6th inst.,; and it is pesitively stated, in a letter from Vienna, that his - mission relates not merely, to - an exChange of Pri soners, but that he is authoriscci to open Negotia tions for Peace. We'stated some time ago, that the Cabinets of ,J...,ondpn and St. Petersburgh were acting in perfe& concert, ' with respe& to the Negotiations with France, and We at the same time expressed our opinion. that'BONAPARTE :would use every artifice in his power to destroy the harthony subsisting bet Ween Great Britain and Russia, and to induce each. of them with him . . . to negotiate with him separately-. Our opinion has .beeri-fully Confirmed by subsequent events, : BONA 7 - PARTE has actually made use of the same manoeuvre to Create a coolness between this Country aind Rus sia that he did in 1800; btit we trust that it will not be attended with equal s success. It is stated in a Letter dated from the Banks of the Maine, but ,evidently written in Paris, that BONAPARTE had con sented to'an Eichange of Prisoners with Great Bri tain„ upon condition that the latter . should consent to exchange the French Prisoners .in' England for Russian Prisoners, of whom, it is stated, that there ate about 12,000 in France. The motive which in - dnced BONAPARTE• to make sur..l a proposition is too obvious to be mistaken : 'lf it should be ac ceded to, ,he will have 12,000 sailors restor ed, which would be an incalculable advantage to him on the other hand,. if it should, be refused, be ;tatters himself that the Court of St. Petersburgh will be. offended. In. either case, therefore, he hopes to derive an important benefit from this insi- dious proposition. • Cataro has been given up by the Russians to the Aus trians, and has,, have no doubt, been before this time ceded try the latter to the French. BoNA 7 • iikRTE i 3 therefore bionnd, upon every principle of justice,. to evacuate Germany ; but he will, •we have no doubt, find some excuse for not with drawing his TroOps until his plans for the de stru6.lion of every remaining vestige of the .Ger . Manic Constitution have been carried into effea.— The last letters from Ratisbon state, that the plan of the -new Constitution 'wasdaily eNpe6ted to be laid before the Diet. The same letters state, that Hambuigh, Bremen, and Lubeck, were to 'be taken under the immediate proteaion. of BONAPARTE. The Ele&ors of HESSE CASSEL and SAXONY, Who have hitherto escaped French rapacity, are now like ly-to come in for, their share of the general suffering. It is stated that BONAPARTE demanded, ten months ago, a Loan of 5,000,000 of rix dollars from the Eleaor of 1-lEssE CASSEL, which was refused. BONA 'PARTE did not think it prudent, in the then posture Of affairs, to, attempt to enforce his demand ; but the unfortunate policy of. Prussia since that period 'having enabled him . to realize his. plans for the subjugation Of' the greater part of the Continent, he is now detextuined to compel . the Ele&or to comply With his demand, and Marshal 'BERNA DOTTE has been ordered to March into Hesse Cassel for that purpose. The ELECTOR Of SAXONY has also been called upon for a loan of six millions,of rix-dollars, which, under the present circumstances, he will probably think it prudent to advance. Alarming symptoms of discontent have, it is said, , recently appeared at Paris, and among those - whose opinions and whose condo& are likely to, have no, small lnOnence on the People. According. to the account which has been circulated respeaing this state of things in the French, capital, near forty. of the ,Generals- and Senators, among whom are four Marshals of the'Empire, have resigned their offices. Marshal 'LANNES, it is said ; has aaually been put under arrest, He is well known to be a restless, and turbulent charaCiet and be was sent to pit,. 'age Lisbon chiefly to get him out cf the way. The supposed motives of these rumoured dis 7 contents are, the envy and. jealousy which such men. must naturally feel on the exaltation of persons not more deserving than themselves of Imperial favour,., !At who have been raised to, the rank Of Princes, and rewarded with Governments, &c. &c. This, ground, of dissatisfa&ion is very probable ; and if there be any truth in the e report'altogther, it is not likely • that these, men, would, have proceeded to such, a, length wigiout. having made previous, arrangements that may shake BpNAI!ARTE on , . hiSThrone,. - They May ,well conceive that their Emperor should hav-e been content with raising his - own family to Crown, and Principalities, without bktowing similar dis tinaions On Faourites and Sycophants. We know dot what truth there may be in the whole of this story ; but if arty great .fenneptation' should really arise in 'France, it will hardly excite much suf.- • prise ; but on the contrary, might naturally be ek -peaed. It, :has been observed that 130NAPARTeS , power and the vigilance of his ToliCe vould easily have prevented suet' agitations from assuming a very formidable shape ; but as his power is chiefly dependent on his Military Leaders, if they should . be induced to conspire against him, FoucHi and his Police would be of little use in the hour of peril. THE Portsmouth Paper of Saturday Y last contains the' following information, to which we are by no . means inclined to give implicit credit " Portsmouth, July t9.---The Constance Fri gate anchored at St. Helen's this afternOon from a cruize off Cherbourgh, and an-:Officer on board brings the following important information, viz. that on Thursday last they boarded the Ame rican. Schooner Hope, E. WOODWARD . Master, which at that moment i had come out of Cherbourgh ; and the Master of her declared,- that he had read in The Moniteur that a Treaty had been , signed at Paris, between the Emperor and the Porte, by which the 'former had permission' to march his Troops' through Thrkey into Egypt. The Officer who gave this intelligence says, that 'he :has no doubt whatever of its truth." .The- case of GL'ItNEY versus LONGMAN and Co. of which we have given a due report on Thursday and this day,, involves a question of essential iinpartance to the Liberty of the Press, the glorious privilege which has hitherto distinguished. Englishmen tibm every other people on earth, as well as to a due ad ministration of public justice. It Would . not bepome us to question the judgment of high law authorities, b'ut all matters that take place in a Court of Judi cature cannot be too generally known. By 'the free. and Oen. circulation of • accurate statements of Law Proceedings, and their results, people are taught to have a fuller knowledge of their rightS and clutis, and they of course rise pro portionably in. the scale of moral a&ion. We may, therefore, while we admit the right, fairly vbs tion the policy, of limiting the, publication of such matters to an individual, which will be of. so much greater advantage'to the community when eitentled: to the utmost latitude of a free Press. - .do not understand that . there has been any particular alteration in the state-of Mr. Fox's health for the last two days, but if ,he is not very obsetvahly better,, there is at Izast . no appearance of a contrary tendency. ' Yesterday morning the Royal Horse Guard , : and Staffordshire Militia paraded in Windsor Court yard, and were inspeCted . by . His MAJESTY, the Duke, of CAMBRIDGE, Earl HARRIrGTON, Sir 'H. B. NEALE, General MANNERS, Bre. " After the in spe&ion the Royal Party were joined' by the Prin cesses ,AUGUSTA, MARY, and Sornm, and the! whole walked to St. George's Chapel, and heard a sermon by D r . CHAMPNEYS. Ladies ,UXBRIDGE, NEALE, SUDLEY, and ELY; were at Chapel. After divine service the Royal Party went to Frogmore, where Her MAJESTY and the other PRINCESSES were ready to receive them. , The homeward-bound India Fleet, the arrival of which we announced on Saturday, are now safe in the- Downs. - During •their passage the followjng singular circumstance occurred French ; 50-gun Frigate was discovered in the body of the Fleet when, off the Cape of Good ' Hope, She did not appear' to, be acquainted with her situation. Captain Os . - BORNE, in the Tremendous, bore down , upon her, and considering her an easy conquest, did not tire a, shot, or open his lower ports, until he came within hail of the Frigate, who immediately got under 'the stern of the Tremendous, opened a broadside, 'and wounded the rigging so as to put it out of her power to prosecqe the choice. The Frigate got clear off without any damage. The Charlotte Indiaman after- WardS pursued her. The Tremend_ous was y nea enough to discover the : name of the Frigate . ; she Is called. La Canoniere : she sailed originally 'from, France with the Vapataire and JEROME BONA, PARTE s Squadron. , The above Paragraph is copied from another Paper, but we are very lima inclined to doubt its accuracy, as it is very improbable that a French Frigate could have escaped from a British 74 uhder such circumstances. List of Passengers arrived from:lndia in the utuier mentioned Ships, viz. • ilassingpr per Lary Catilertakb.—The lion. Cul: Monson, Capt. 1 . oung, , Lieutenant, Fraser, Cross -note,. Torriens, and !hough ; Surgeon Davis, • Wojor Daniel and Lady, Capt, Swinton and Lads, Capt. 114,:tx well, I,iettt. I. DundAs, Messrs. Harper, Wake, Cl4ippeitdalz., and Dunbar. Paisengeri per. Lord Duncan.— P hiltli Coal es, Esq. S. Davis, Esq.' Col. Broughton, Majors, - Fraser, White, and Grant ; Lieut. J. Evans, Surgeon Perinc.e, Captains Lindsay, Chis holm, and Skerrett ; . Lieut. Ship, Mr. Hickey ; Mistresses Davis and Goad. . _ - _ . Passengers per lgdpvle. —Sir John Anstruther, Bart..and Capt. C. Ste Wart and Lady, Andrew Waddell, N. Nugent, and W. Bird, Esquires R. J. 'Farquhar, late Governor of Penang, Surgeon A. Stewart, Lieut Col. Macrea, Capt. J. Carr Lieutenants Hamilton, Hatchets, and. Dickson. The..fire which happened on board the Doncaster, in Yortsmouth Harbour, on 'Friday last, was occasion ed by a boy going into the Magazine With . a lighted candle, from which some sparks (ell, which cam niunicated to half a barrel of gun-pow4er,- blew' up the deck, and did considerable other, damage, The Mate, Who was sitting in the Cabin, was hurled throngb two bulic-heads to .the main chains, and, without, . . N 4 AL NEWS. Ficm the LONDON GAZETTE, July 19. Admiralty-Office, July 19. • • , Copy of a Letter from the lion.. .Rear-Admiral Sir Alex. Cochrane, K. B. Commander in •Chicf..pf His Majesty's-Ships and Vessels at .the Leeward .Islands, to William Mitrsdetz, Esq. dated at Bar &aloes, the 3d June, 1806. I inclose, for the information a the Lords Com missioners of the Admiralty, copies of letters from Captains Campbell and' Bluett, of His_ Majesty's Sloops Cygnet and Wasp, giving an account of the capture ofn French National Schooner and Sloop, the latter His-Majesty's late Armed Sloop Dominica, which had' been run away with by. her crew three or four days before, and carried to Guadaloupe, where she was immediately commissioned . and manned with seventy-five men, and sent back with the Schooner to attempt' cutting out the Merchant Ships in Roseau Bay, which was happily frustrated, and one Vessel only, which they had taken 'Josses glen of, was re-captured. . The French General, Hottade, with a party of Soldiers, were taken on board ,these Vessels; - what motives could have induced an Officer of his rank to engage in such petty predatory warfare I am at a loss to guess, particularly as he was taken without any uniform► whatever. The Captain of the Duke\of Montrose Packet de serves great-eredit . fdr his exertions; 'hc.irece.ived on board a party of the 46th Regiment, and at the de-. sire of the President gOt under weigh and chaepd, and by his means the Schooner .was captured. .I have-the Honour to be, &c. '•-••• • ALEX. COCHRANE; Majesty's Sloop Ciignet,,q,Y.D-orninica, - f 2 -ills oti: : . ' At nine this morning, wberi at anchor in. Prince Rupert's Bay,l,received_inibrMation or a Schooner and Cutter of the Enemy being in the Offing, on which I weighed, and made the necessary, signals to His Majesty's Sloop Wasp, then standing in fo r the Bay. At two the Cutter surrendered•to the Wasp, and. before eight the Schooner coniMenced a partial %%on with the Duke of Montrose Packet (who joined in chase from .ROseau), oii the approach- of the Cygnet she sarrendered, and proves to .be the French National Schooner ial, commanded 'by a Lieutenant de Vaisseau, mounts one long nine pounder, two, twopounders, with small arms, and .63 men ; .sailed the evening before from Saints. I am, &c. ROBERT BELL CAMPBELL , To th:? Hon: ,Rear-Adiniral Cochrane, • Cominander iu Chief, 'Lee. &c. Leeward' Islands. His Majesty's Sloop ffasp, Dominica, Sttt,• 244, May t 806. • I have the honour to inform you, that in proceed -irig to, Prince RUpert's Bay this morning I receiyed intelligence (per signal) from His. Majesty's•Sioop• Cygne,t, 4,L that anchorage, of an, Enemy in the S. \V. , quarter, which I immediately went in chace of, being a Cutter and Schooner, the fOrtil6r I cap tured, which proved to be the 'Napoleon Privateer (late, His Majesty's Cutter Dominica), commanded' by 'Vincent Gautier, having Seventy-three men, four of whom Were of the 4th Reginlent of Artillery, and twelve of the 26th Regiment :she sailed from ,Bas'se terre on the 23d instant. I emperienced the greatest, Satisfaetion in being witness to the most -gallant condud and perseverance of. His Majest) `si,Packet'the Duke of Montrose in capturing L'lmperial Schooner (Consort to the above Cutter). I ath sorry to inform you, from the determination of the Cutter to escape, if possible, she had two men killed.' I have the Honour to be, " B. STERLING BLUETT. To the Hon. Si? Alexander Cochrane, K.. 8. Rear-Admiral of the White, Commander in Citity; . F.9'c. &c. PLYMOUTH, JULY ts.—Arrived the Prussian Gal liot Johannah, H. IhttEli'iNlaster, from Rochelle, bound to London, laden with brandy, detained' by the Ma's Frigate'; and the .Betsey Privateer from a Cruize. JULY 19. —Arrived the Danish Ship Catizarina, Capt. Kantor, from Leghorn, bound to Tonningen, laden with maible, skins, &c. detained by the Betsey Privateer. Sailed .the Portuguese Schooner. Nova Mathilda, Capt. FRER4, for Lis,bon.; and the Portuguese Brig Diligente, Capt. DE SOUZA, ‘for Amfterdarn the Lalona Frigate. _ . • • . , PoRTSJSOUTU; JULY :Rl—Yesterday arrived the Constance Frigate from a cruize off Cherbourgh ; and' this afternoon the ' Milford outward-bound East indiaman from the Downs. 'Passed, by for, the Downs, from the EastintlieS; on Friday night, the Tremendous, of 74 guns, and Hin dosion, of 54 guns, with the following Indiamen un der Con voy : —Surrey, Lord Duncan, Lady- Castle ,reagh, and Walpok, from Bengal ; Earl Camden, City of London, and 'Ceylon, from Bornbay ; Charl ton, Admiral Gardner, Metcalf, and Devonshire, from Madras ; sailed, from. St. Helena 24th, and spoke the outward-bound East Indiamen„under Con voy of . the .4-ion.and Medusa, all well, in lat. 'B. 30. long. p 3 .. 30. W. Yesterday sailed. the ,S'heldr ake Sloop. of ,War, Capt. TIIICKNESSE, with a Convoy for Guernsey; ,William Armed Ship, with a,Convoy for the Downs; and the Atßz Brig on a cm*. To-day sailen.the ,Sterapis, of 44 guns, and the Ant Scho2npr for the Downs, with 'Convoy. Also the. .31eron, RAYNER, for Riga; and I'7w Reim!, TENsF.N, fpr Amsterdam, come into Harbour this 41terp9911 the 4grly Gun-brig. t.{Jr L~ , FALMOUTH, JULY . 18:—/rr:ved this day ti e Princess Charlotte Packet, KERR, 46 days from Ja rnaica'r viii nevus nor passengers... No Packet was arrived out. Also arrived the 13rig Peel, MA3NERS, from be rnerara, in 31 days : spoke, in lat. 33. 0. N. long. '52. 52'W:tile Brig Apollo, GEARY, from Liverpool, all well:1 Sailetrthe Prince of Wales Packet, TODD,*with Mails - of Bth and 15th inst. for Lisbon i and Corn- Packet, 'ANTHONY, with Mail of Bth instant, for Olintaltar and Malta. The' otitward-ibottnd • Lisbon, Oporto, and Idedi terrallean'lleA!. ts are expe6ted to sail to-Ir.orrow. JULY 241— . apt. HAmit.ToN, of the Dorset Packet, arrived this morning from Husurn With a Mail and 'Passengers., Mr. SHAW, one of His Majesty's Messengers, with Dispatches, carne by. this Packet. The Diana' Packet, Capt. STEwAr,:;, and the. , Capt. DELL, sailed yestei - day afternoon on the arrival of the coach from London ; the former with the .Harnburgh Mail-for Husurn, and the latter with. the Gottenburgh Mail. , The Charger Gun-brig sailed yesterday on a cruize ; and the Aggressor,. with .he Eames:, re- main. DEAL, JULY 20.—Sailed through the Downs'yes: teiday the Parttmatta, GLEN, for NeW . South \Vales; and . the Remittorci, - LAW, for New-York. • Sailed this morning His Majflstys - Ships 27 Eli dous' and indostan, for Sheernes ; Theseus, for Ports month ; and 'the hom . ewjtd-13oundlast Indian:ten, for,the Riv6r. Arrived the Conzbatant Praam from a cruize, and remains in the Downs with the rest of the * Ships as per lasi. SHEERNESS, JULY 20.—Arrived and went into Barbour the Leveret Sloop ; also arrived the Lyra Tender, from :Shields, with impressed men and vplunteers for the Fleet. :'The Rmetta sails on . Tuesday 'Nvith Convoy for Tonaingen, HuLL, JULY 17. The arrival last night of • the Ships Atieon and Hunter folly confirm the rumour • that. prevailed softie days ,ago of four EfieMy's Fri gates .being at Greenland. An Harpooner belonging to the Aeleon boarded an Hainburgher on the 27th June,. Who said he had seen twc Dutch 44 gunTri gate:4, and had been twice very near to one of them lie. farther said, that the preceding day he wen t . era board' 4 Bremen Ship, the Master of whiCh said he had been on bOard one of.t he Frigates ; the Offioess were French and Dutchmen, and. that he saw :eighteen Sail of English Ships lying near the Fri gates, as if captured. Captain 'ltos.n, of the Hun, ter - , reports, that he saw the old Manchester, - in . . company with four Ships, on the 27th June, about a mile from - one of the Frigates. - The Ships were scaling, and had their boats out,- but made A signal for all the boats to return to the Ships, which when taken on board, the Ships hoisted lop-gallant sails and stood into the ice, apparently as though they had intelligence of the Frigate being an Enemy. The Frigtt.: then tacked, and ran alongside tha Dingwall, of London, and captured her. The iigecq and the Hunter left the ice on the 29th June ; and on the 4th July met the Thames Frigate and two Sloops in lat. 64 ) who'said they had got Capt. SA.D4 LEICS affidavit of the above cireutrustance, and were going to Greenland in pursuit of the enemy. - DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZE NtONEY. To the Officers and Compally of His Majesty's Armed' De ? fence Shipindefatigahle; tor the kecaptute of the Mel.. cowbe, on the . 2tSt June, Thor; the salvage thereof, at No., 2S, high-street, Portsmouth t for three years to come. To the dicers and. Company of His Majesty' s Ship Ton, Dant, for the Capture of the Coffee, Boom, and 111aasluys, on the :.ct ,and 4th tune, 1803, ; their respet 4 .li,ve portions:of the-said Prizes, On the 23d by Messrs. Poulain a nd , Keys, No. 3, Salters' Hall, Cannon -street, and every Mon day and Thursday for tine: years: To the Officers and Company of. His Majesty's C.un-brigs Watchful, for the Capture of the French Gun-boat No. 337, oq the 29th January, 1805 (in, company with the Harpy and 1 mmortalite), ,the . net proceeds thereof, including head-mo ney, on the 25-th Inst.. at No. 14, Clement's Inn, and log three months. • To the Officers and Crews of HiS Majesty's Ships Sea.; horse,' Wolverine, Aggressor and. Censor Gun-brigs, arid , Swift hired Armed Cutter, for the Capture of the, Prussian Brigs Vennerne and Elizabeth, on the i ith an:l tzth days of Aug. 180 r, the net proceeds, on' the 6th of Atiost, and every IVednesday and Saturday for three years, at March's Office, Gosport. - . •• • -. • To the Officers and Seamen of His Majesty's Ship ViClory-,. Kent, Renown, Belleisle, Triumph, arid Stately, far the. Capture of the French !trig Titus, - and of the Ragusan Brig Madonna del Rosario, in the Mediterranean, on the Bth• I tkly,• awl, their respective shares of the said Captures, on the 3oth irist. and every Tuesday and• Friday for three years, at No, 23, Nottolk-street, Strand. - .• To the Officers and Company of His Majesty's Brig Gan net, for_the Capture of the Ship Fattor, rat the 25111 May, on the Ist August, at Angove's Office, Falmouth ; and fur "three years to come. To the Officers and Company of the Tribune, for-the Cap ture of the Cazuafidad and Rioxana on the rat January, i 805,, on board the Ship, on her arrival at Spithead ; and every Monday' and Thursday, at No. 28, High-street, Portsmouth, • for three months. Calais haslately been bombarded by our Cruizers on that station., It appears that while Commodore OwErr was examining some vessels which had ran within the French shore, he was fired on from Ca.' lais ; on which, it is added, he sent in a, Flag of Truce, declaring that he had been restrained, by con siderations of humanity from firing on the town, but that should they persist in their wanton attempts to annoy him, lip shouldbe compelled to retaliate. Our . Correspondent at Dover continues to observe, that an insulting answer having been returned, the Com modore ordered two Gun-brigs. to play upon the town 'for eight ; hours, and that a great part of it was in . consequence reduced to.ruins. We' are strongly, inclined to,,doubt the truth of the Above statement : our letters' from Deal and Dover are silent upon the sOjed,