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I I 1 I THE SUN. L_o N 1) 0 N, THURSDAY, AUGUST 14, 1806. MAILS. - • ARP rv6D—r Lisbon, Wa•erforti. Duz-1 Hamburg, 3.Comnburgh, s Waterford. PRICE k)F 'STOCKS THIS DAY AF TWELVE O'CL' CA. Consols - 64} # I Red. tin. 65 I eirmitira 9 to, 8041111 QUIS DICERS FALSUM AUDEAT? YESTERDAY afternoon, about half past two o'cloel, Mr. BASILIco, the Messenger, landed at Deal, with Dispatches from Lord LA,UDERDALE. He imme a!elY set off for Town in a post-chaise, and arrived at the Foreign Office between one and two &PIO& this morning. A Cabinet COUncil was summoned this, morning to take these Dispatches into consi der.ation. We 'need hardly state to our Readers, that nothing has transpired respe&ing the nature of the Dispatches ; but as reports have been circulated, for two or three days, that the Negotiation had been abruptly brOket? off.f-7 7 that Lord LAUDERDALE was on his return home-and, even that' he had been sent to. Yerdun, &c. which, though. wholly .destitute of foundation, had produced . 30111e' ef fect upon the Funds, the arrival of a Messenger, which at least proved that . the Negotiation was still pending, caused the Stocks to rise this morning above one per Cent. • • THE Transports comprising the Expedition which is to sail under the command of Admiral STIRLING, arrived at Plymouth on. Tuesday morning. Admiral STIRLING has hoisted his Flag on board the Sampson, of 64 guns. This Expedition will sail in a very short time. We have already stated that we be lieve it is destined for South America. Admiral Louts, with the Malta, : and three other Ships of the Line, will very shortly sail upon - a Secret ,Expedition. A part of the 4th Dragoons, or Queen's pays, arrived at Plymouth on ..Mon, day evening, and as soon as the remainder arrived the whole were to be embarked on board thelllalta and the other Line-of-Battle Ships, and to sail im mediately. LORD G. L. GOWER, late Ambassador to the Court of St. Petersburgh, arrived yesterday morning at Yarmouth, in the 4riadne Frigate. , ATelegraphicDispatch was this morning received at the Admiralty, stating, that the ExpeditiOn, which had again sailed from the Downs, was obliged, by contrary wind, to put back again. One of the , Transports,' however, hr.s reached Portsmouth. CONSIDERABLE doubts were entertained, &dm the language used some time ago in the Moniteur, whether it was the intention of the French Go vernment to permit his PrUssian Majesty to retain possession of the Elealorate of Hanover ; but if we may judzc;rom the D , :claration in Council, made by the KING of PRUSSIA to the Deputies from the Ha noverian Provinces, he seems determined not. easily to give up the onlycompensation which he , has ob tained, or which he is likely to obtain, for the void able cessions which he has been con elled to nuke., He distinaly states, that England cannotprotea Ha-, nor er---,that it can be proteaed by Prussi,a alone, and that the welfare and security both of the Hatio= verian States and the Prussian Monarchy depend upon-their union and incorporation. e.. ;', MR. Fox had a very favotirable night ; and the' report of this.day was, that he is Much-better than be has been at any time since his' disorder has con- . him at home. Yesterday, about twelve o'clock, Their MAJESTIES and the PRINCESSES, attended by Lady ILCHESTER, arrived at the Queen's. Palace from Windsor. Soon atter .CWO o'clock His MAJEsTY held a pri vate Levee, which was. attended by • Ar,:hhishop of Canterbury. The Lord Chalice; lor. The First Lord of the Treasury. The Secretaries of State for the :Home and Colonial De partment. • The Judge Advocate and Martial-General. Viscount Wentworth. Lera Cathcart. Sirs A. Paget and S. Cotterell. Admiral Knight. General Harcourt. Copt. Towry, R. N. The following had the honour of being presented to Ills MAJESTY : Captain 'Cowry, of the Royal Navy, upon his being ap pointed a Commissioner of tli; Transport Board. • Admiral Kniglit, 'upon his return from Gibraltar. Colonci DiiIt4KWATER laid bet re His MAJESTY the Report of the Commissioners of Alilitary In quiry. After the Levee His MAJESTY held a Privy Coun cil, at which, we understand, the Parliament was prorogued from the 28th r inst. to the 9th of Oato by. At the close of the Council His MAJESTY gave. audiences to & Sir ARTHUR PAGET and Mr. Bow), who laid before His MAJESTY the proceedings of several Courts Martial. ' Soon after five o'clock His MAJESTY set off or\ his - reiurn .to Windsor. ' The Princesses AUGUSTA and ELI4ABETII.ViSited. the Princess CHARLOTTE of WALES. HER MAJESTY, the PRINCESSES, and the DUKE Of CUMBERLAND, dined wild Lady CnAttr CITTE: FINCH, at three o'clock, at her Ladysinp's apat meats in St. James's Pakicc. At haft past four o'clock HER MAJEsTY and the PRINCESSES Set off upon their return to Windsor. The Princess AMELIA has, for some (kn..' past, been much af►liaed with the tooth :ache. Yester day her Royal Highness, accompanied by Lady CATHCART, went to her dentist, when, we under stand, she-underwent the operation of having a tooth drawn. On Tuesday evening the town and Tol.vn-hall;of Windsor were illuminated in honour of the anni versary of the Birth-day of the Prince of WALES, the bells were rung and the guns were fired. .Last night Sir ARTHUR PAGET' left town for Ply mouth, to visit his brother, Lord PAGET, previous to his sailing for Sicily, with the Expedition. INDIA HOUSE.—Yesterday a Court of Directors was held, when the following Ships ware thuS sta tioned, viz.—The Davaynei, Capt. W. ADDERLEY, and General Stuart, Capt. J. ROGERS, for Madras and Bengal. —Travers, Capt. T. S A NDE R S,' and Carmarthen, for Boinbay.—The Court ad journed at six o'clock till Wednesday next.—The Ships Alfred ap d IVottingham were also taken up•fot two additional voyages. • The Dinner givgiv-by the LORD MAYOrt;this day, is understood as a paincular compliment to the fion.„ DAVID EItSKINE;‘:k)II of 0.1 . 61,01(D on,account of his approaching departure for Arhe.- tica. A large Party of distinguished Personages - aie invited on the occasion: _P, , - - It is announced in Public Orders, to all th - e Regi. tuents in Garrison at Plymouth, th a t Lieut.-General ENGLAND, Comriiiiider in Chief at that part of the Western Distri&; is'appointed CoMmander in Chief of the whole 'Western Distri&, vice Lieut.-General SIMCOE, promoted•to the Command of the British Army in . Irrdia;vice General Lbrd LAKE, who is, coming home. The Great Military Hospital, near State Church, Plymouth, which cost nearly 80,0001. in its erection and fitting up for a Military Hospital, is to be con verted into a barrack for soldiers. The furniture, &c. was sold last' week, and the rooms are cleared out for the purpose of receiving Troops. Lieyitenatat-General SI c OE, the new Commander in Chief of our Asiatic Armies, long conunans . :edin• St. Domingo; and saw most o f hi s friends and com rades fail the viCtims of a destructive climate. , Lieutenant-General MAITLAND, ,now in Ceylon, was in the same place and situation. Sir ALURED CLARKE, the former Commander in Chief in India, was many years in Jamaica. Lieutenant-General NicoLLs, who' Aow com mands in Bombay, was in the worst of times, and foryears, in command at Grenada. Lieutenant-General iNI'Dow ELI, who now com mands in Bengal and the Upper Provinces, was iong in the 'West Indies. The late ever to be lamented hero,. Sir RALPH Afr3ERCROW3Y, was long in the West Indies. FREDERICK VANSITTART, Esq. and Captain CRT:ICOLL, haY`e arrived frotn,Sicily, at Falmouth; they were passengers in the . Peiizance Packet. . A detachment . of; In is fr9m :the ,76th meat, lately arrive 4 from tbe East Indies, was con:: reyed in Waggons from Dartford to Greenwich, on their. route to the York Hospital, Chelsea, late on Saturday evening -last; twenty-tour out of the forty were disabled, either by the loss 'of a leg or an arm. They had, it seems, received their woCads at the-siege of . Bhurtpore. From some informality in their in strudions, ,the Constable refused to billet them in Greenwich ; and the.Odicer, who came with them,' applied to the Coldnel of the Royal East London Militia, who, ordered straw to be prOeured for their bedding in the Guard-room, and humanely afforded them every possible accommodation ; and, on their . going away, gave each man 6d, to drink the King's , health. On Wednesday sennight a window in the house of Glenachy, occupied . by Capt. 'TELER, of the Straiton Volunteers, was broken, and' six silver tea-spoons taken away, while the family were from home. Having next morning ' learned that • two men of suspicious appearance had come to n;public house in Dalmellingto.n, Capt. 'FEUER procured . two Constables, and had them arrested: On search . - ing ,theM, although the spoons were not found, the. circumstance (-; their having a quantity of powder and ball determined him to send them tbr examina tion to Ayr. The party had not proceeded far till the Prisoners drew out each a pistol, which their searchers had not discovered, and ran off in different diredions, They Were closely pursued, but, before , being taken, the'one fired hiS pistol a.t Capt.TELFER, and the other at . a "man who attempted to stop him, but fortunately both without.effecl. Therhave been committed to prison in Edinburgh . ; The naine : of One of them is _gebrge Taylor, whosays de-, serter from the bsili•Regiment ; the other, John ]feat- um, says he is A - 'Wrter from the 250; Regiment. _ _ .SirJos4PH BANxs's healtiv_was in so precarious a state some month - ago,.tht Iresolicited and obtain="; ed His MAJESTY'S permission to resi g n the care of the Royal Flock of Spanish or Merino Sheep kept at Kew ; from which :flock His MAJEstV has lately di "rested a seleCtion'''to be 'made, for public sale, on Tuesday next, at . the usual place,. and in the Mati ner of the two past years. Mr. FARNHAM, acting on the principles and advice kindly given by Sir .T:' - .ANK:s (who is now happily recovered), h,as seleeted the Sheep which are this year to be sold; and they are thought to be lunch superior in carcase to thOse before sold-a quality in which the finest woolled Spanish Sheep are often miserably deficient.- . ' The inhabitants of this Metropolis were yesterday alarmed by an apprehenSion of the approach of it dreadful thunder-.storm.---Retween three and four o'clock the heat became excessive, and the .atmos phere suddenly so dark as to give to the . day the appearance of the close of evening. In a rew nutes the rain 'descended in tbrrents, filling the cel lars in many parts•of the town, and giving to sane of the streets the .appearance of rivers. About half, past four the rain ceased, the - atmosphere cleared n p, and the inhabitants were relieved. from the teas f` Of the thunder and lightning, of which there had been sb many symptoms. At the Surrey Assizes, held at Guildford, a was found by the GA" and J tiry ; against T. D. Ba:oTioi-, TON, Esq. preferred by I. J. SCHUNcIt, ESq: tOr at assault, in throwing a billiakdball At hint. N i/ AL NEWS. PLYMOVTII, 4C7G. 12.—This morning the Tran sports-, stated yesterday tb ,be in sight from Maker Tower, arrived and anchored in the Sound, having on board Troops for the remote Expedition, under Convoy-of a-Frigate, the -Preivyante Store-ship, of 40 guns, and .an Armed Ship; they will be joined from hence by the Sampson„ of 64 guns, 'bearing the Flag of Rear-Admiral STIRLING, and are expecrted to sail in a very short time. Last evening, part of the 4th Dragoons, or Queen's Bays, arrived here from Dorchester; the remainder are hourly expeeted ; when the Whole will. be em barked on board . the Malia, of 80 guns, Rear-Ad miral Louis, and three other Ships of the Line, to gether with a Company of Artillery, under the com druid of Capt. HANKER, and' proceed 'on a. Secret Expedition. The Dragoons are - to be dismounted here, but will take the equipage of -their horses with them. Such is the uretit rof the Expedition,: that the Dragoons came 110,59: by - forced marches, and had only a; few. hours notice preyious. to their setting out for. thisli.iikice. The embarkation has .not commenced ; theii destination is a profopndsecret. 7'l 'This being tile` AiailVersit;7 of. the B rth of Rdyal highness the PRimcz.,pfWALEs, the..same Was observed here with tile:4l4-durs -usual -on- occasions. . The Sir Stephen Lushingion, and Earl Spencer, outward-bound East India Ships, arrived here with the Transports before-Fnentiotied, from whiCh it is conjectured 'that the expedition - is destined to the . Cape of Good Hope. • Arrived the Lion Cutter Privateer; has detained and brought in with her the undermentioned Ves sels ; The Danish Ship Mary, froin Bourdeaux for Lubec, with wine; the Bremen • Galliot Christinci Mar;aretta Lucia,: from Bourdeaux - fbr 'Bremen, with wine; the Bremen -Galliot Melia Dorothea, with wine, from Bourdeaux. for Bremen', and the Bremen Brig Elizabeth, from Bouraeau to Tounia gen, with wine. FALMOUTH, Atm . . 11.-.—Arrived this evening the Princess Elizabeth. Packet, KIDD, with Mails from Lisbon, t 1 days passage ;, left lying there the Prince IValesof Packet, which arrived out 4 days previous to the sailing of the Princess Elizabeth. An armed Brig had arrived 'there on the Bth July, with six or eight Sail'of Vessels from Gibraltar under Con voy. The Packet ,: has brought a, Porthguese Mes senger with dispatches far. our Government. Sailed, the Dike of Kent Packet," ComswoaTu, with Mails of the'gth inst. for Jamaica, and the Manchester Packet, DAVIS, With Mails of the 7th for New York and Halifax ; ~the Carteret ,Packet, with Mails of the 6th inst. for Malta and Gibraltar, sailed late on Saturday night. In consequence of the arrival of the Vizateth, from Lisbon, the Walsinghanz Packet, with Mails of the 6th inst. will sail'for Lisbon the first fair' wind. PORTSMOUTH, AUGUST 13.-.-Arrived the Ant Schooner from Plymouth, and the Henry Trans port from the Downs, having part of the Expedi tion on board. This is the only Ship that has been able tobeatin,from the Downs belonging to' That Fleet ; also the_ Penelope, LAMB, from Sailed the Catherina, Tholgehagen, and Alburgh. YARMOUTH; AUGUST 13.—Sailed Vice-Adnikal ItussEL, in the Majestic, with the Ruby, Diaator,:i il4Tincourt, Nassau, and Flora on a Cruize oil the Texel. This morning the AriarhP Frigate arrived from St. Petersburgh, with Lord - GowEx and Suite. DEAL, AUG. 13.—Arrived the Humber Armed Ship from . FalMouth, with a Convoy, which are sailed for the River.; also arrived the Regulus Man of War from Patlsnicknthi . bontbatthit :Praam fromn. a Cruize; Feliva i rawiport, , with the remainder . of the C.id RegiMent on bgaid, • from Ratns&ite; . and, the Vesta/Yrigate from Bonlo i ;nc, and landed Mr. BASILIC°, the Messenger, at twelve, minutes after two o'clock, who immediately proceeded with his Dispatches in a post-chaise and four from Admiral HOLLOWAY'S, for London : Nothing transpired rela tive to the Negotiation. Came down from Sheerness the Wrangler Gun brig, and sailed with the Intelligent on a Cruize. Arrived an American Brig, detained by His Ma. jesty's Ships Monkey and Basilisk.. S R EERN F:SS, A UG. 12.—Arrived the Spitfire Sloop of War front the Downs. Sailed the IV-angler Gun-brig, Lieut. PETTIT. G . ,13.—Arrived the Glatton, 54 : guns, from the Downs, The Di:anond Frigate is ordered into dock. The Cuckoo Advice-boat is c,,mmissioned at Chat, limn, by Lieut. PADnotsr, from tl,le.Zealand. ;ilijps at this Port— The Z,..Jzid,- (Patton, Winchelsea, Ceres, Blanche, Shannon, Dianionii, ikn as, Crocodile, Sus. 7. Maknaii.ine, and Alkmaar Store-ship . C ,, rinordnr, Spit; tire. Stat.'eagull, And Nimble SloOps or . War;' Pidgeon, fac: ,. .datv, Magpie, Crane, ‘Vaterv,4tail, and cock t'dvice-boats, awl Project Mntai-4iit.' • '" STATE PAPER. DECLARATION IN COUNCIL or xis MAJESTY Tat KING or PRUSSIA, To THE ASSEMBLED DE. DUTIES or THE HANOVERIAN PROVINCES. • " GENTLEMEN " By your' appointment, your Deputy, Count VON ITARDENBERG, has laid before me your Repre sentation of the third instant ; and I' have observed from it, with satisfaEtion, that you . have acknow ledied with gratitude , my regulationS in regard 'to the Hanoverian States. The additional sentiments therein contained are to me a - security, that you will henceforth be devoted to me and to my House 'with 'the same loyalty which you .discovered for your former Sovereigns. I therefore have made no delay in more closer) , learning from your Delegate's iliese concerns that were entrusted to them by you, 'And .now communicate to you the following answer .to the Declaration given in by them " 1. With regard to the secularization of the Abbey of . Marienrode, and the representation re lative thereto, that not only the C ons ti tut i o n o f the States thereby suffired .an alteratien, but that One of the securities 'thereby appropriated to the payment of the public revenue, and the discharge the. public debt, would be withdrawn, should the - revenues of the said Abb e y b e i nsepara bl y unilg4 . W4h .the., possess - of the domains, con trary to the legal agreement between the Impro priators, and the States, whereby the revenues accru ing from secularized' foundations should be diStiridly and separately applied to charitable pur poses : it 'should be observed, that this 'Abbey ,lem gaily belongs to 1 - 11:leslieirn, and tiius my 'particu lar regulation' respealing the same can in no way prejudice-the said Constitnii(-er.---Besides4--ha% e-rx pressly established in the Aat . of &cularization, that in the mean lime no change 'Shall' take place in re speLl to the contribution chargeable upon this Ab bey towards 'the. _'n revenue and the re dempiion,of the . public debt. - "For the 'rest, as it is far from being my inteetion. to alter the destma timr.rof :the ell:eels of the Abbey to charitable pur poses, I feel a satisfaEtion in assuring you, that the' special adminiitration.of such parts as have been separated :from the domains, and the , applica tion thereOf to such beLeficelit anon' landable pur poses, shall, e scritputowly continued, an d the ut most care shall-be t a ke n b o th to -augm ent these revenues by good management, and to ameliorate the made of applyin t ; them, by the removal of ex- . isting abuses: ". 2. The .ad-interim prohibition of home-made snit is'to be considered solely as an inevitable regu if lation of police for securing- an equal supply of that article of primary necessity, and cannot have the ap prehended pernicious consequences, Since the supply of salt will not thereby be dinliaishel, btu will only receive another diredion. " 3. The continuance of the hitherto existing Constitution of the Country in general ; and, " 4. The continuance of the Provincial Consti , tutions in particular presuppose that a new and more intimate acquaintance with them may be more ne cessary than the Commission of Organization has been able to procure in so short a period, nild urulet such difficult circumstances. But they will inces. s,a.ntly continue their labours i n thi s respe at , an d I will not 'hereafter' introduce •any arbitrary changes, but such only as may be necessary to unite, as intimately as possible, the Hanoverian 'Territory .with my Monarchy, of which it now constitutes a part, and to 'govern it by sucti laws as have been found, by long experience, the fundamen tal pillars of the power,, the security, and prospo. rity of the Prussian -States ; wherefrorn the esta, blished Constitution will be so little 'excluded, that it will much rather be- built upon and strengthened, a.s you may learn from the example of the neigh. bouring Provinces, Branclenburgh, Magdett,urgh, ate rialberstadt.' -5. The Petition, with regard to any new ma ditications, upon which the _States, together watt; other privileged orders, who may, perhaps, have particular. knowledge of the subject, should be Con, suited, before that introduQion, on account of any injurious: o..tisNitences apprehended thererorn, is wholly ,can formable to the spirit of the maxims Of the Prussian. Gorornment, and will, be. pursued hy the Commission of Organization in all doubt .,t4l 'Cases whatsoever, And without particular itt, Finally, the military regulations, as soon as it can :be done with safety, shall be so modified, that --the grievances of the Country, connected with the present extraordinary 'measures, shall wholly cease. From this answer you Will ;infer,' and I give you with pleasure the strongest . assurances on this head, that my whole endeavours are exclusively direEted to heal the wounds which the- hitherto unhappy wars have produced, and td 'render yckir Country completely happy. Neither ambition - nor the lust of territory, but solely - a convidion founded, on experience, that the incorporation of the Hanoverian States with the Prussian Monarchy, is obviously , necessary tor the . welfare • and se curity of Moth, have determined-me to: this union, and to the sacrifices conneeted with it. The past has taught you that England cannot prote& you, and that you can he pr o t ec t e d by. Prussia alone.,--- :Prussia has now taken upon herself this protect ion, .from .which. you have to expedt grater security of person.sand of property, as -well as the abolition of all oppressive abuses which the - distance of your ltillers produced. But you must also ctosely unite with a Government which has wrought you all these blessings, and support, u ith counsel and .ac tion, a Constitution which has been decided upon for your benefit. ,On the tither hand, I will always ap• prove myself your gracious Sovereign. (Signed) " FR EDiatICK WILLIAM." " CharlotiviioUlol„tune 2 4 , is. .6. A well-dressed Lady, who attended the embarka. tion at Ramsgate on Tuesday, presented to every mail a Pampboet, containing Advice to•a Soldier going to Battle ; which many of the Suldiers iinineliatel began to read. Copied from a Laud-bill :—" Wants a Situation, a Sexton, who 'is of a gray. turn, And ha . im cQa, nekion with liesurrqaion-meii."