The Sun. — London, England, 1806-03-31 00:00:00

„~'-~- 'v .. "'" ties.--The lieturns presented were ordered to lie on the . . , ImpERIAL PARLIAME.WT. HOUSE .OF. COA1.1102VS!: ,SATtYRDAY, MARCH 24. A. Message from the Lords stated their Lordships' Assent .to the Bills for issuing. Ten and a Half and One and a Half MillionS of Exchequer Bills; also to the Rum and Spirit Vending Bill, andlhe Felons. Traniportation 1;d1. The .House, in a' Committee, went through the British Fishery and the Irish Treasury Bills' Bills. — Report on Monday. Mr. YANS'ITTART presented, pursuant to order, an Account of the Sums' advanced from the Civil List, for public purposes, which had not been made good by Parliament.--Ordered to lie on the Table. Mr. VANSITTART moved a Return of the Amount of the Balances remaining in the Exchequer, and in the hands of the several Treasurers of the Army, Navy, and ordnance, in the year ending the sth of January, 1805, and which were allotted to pay off sums voted for the SerVice of the year 1804. Mr. LONG observed, that when the Account moved for should be brought forward it would ap pear that the statement which the Noble Lord (the Chancellor or the Exchequer) had made yesterday was quite erroneous. That Noble Lord had stated that . 5,000,0001. of the late Loan was to be applied., to the discharge of the last year's arrears; thus cast ing a refleaion upon the judgment and financial calculations of his Right Hon. Friend • (Mr. Pitt). But it would be seen that the arrears alluded to were not those of last year merely, but all accumu lation of several years, It would, however, be re colloled by all who were. acquainted with our finan cial history, that arrears had .accrued almost every. year to be provided for from the Ways and M e a ns of the succeeding year. The balances .of the Re -venue of the last year were, he.contended, more than sufficient to cover the deficiencies complained arising in that year. Thus much he thought it' necessary to say in tindication of the condu6.l of. his illustrious Friend, the Noble Lord's predecessor. Mr. LiNSIr&IRT maintained that his Noble Friend had not described the arrears alluded to by the-Right Hon. Gentleman as those of the last year,. but, on the contrary, 'as the result of Several years : on the whole amounting to m o re than. 5,000,0001. Mr. CANNING took fire at the recollection of those remarks which were a made .yesterday by the Chancellor of 'tie Exchequer.. At . the time he hcard . them he was surprized, but since then he - had had recourse to the proper sources of information, , and had learned that the suf4s yet to be received were more than Sufficient to meet the expenditure of that year. • Therefore :assets remained to cover the debts: Sucb.being the fat% becould not help complaining of the unfair, illiberal refle6tions which the statement made by the' Noble Lord was calcu lated to produce with regard to the condud and cha racter of his lamented Friend (Mr. Pitt). Lo TEMPLE observed upon the -, Right Hon.. Gentleman's angry solicitude to resist any injurious allusion to the memory of his late Friend, for whom there were many, who felt quite as Warm an interest and attachment as that Right Hon. Gentlefilan could pretend to.. However', as the Right Hon. Gentleman professed to feel so trnach umbrage. at any refieaon upon.his Right Hon. Friend; b ec a use he was no more, it wa s ' r a th er strange, that he should attempt to throw out refleaions ,upon his Noble. :Friend (Lord H. Petty), who was absent.. Mr. CANNING appealed to the - House, whe ther it indicated any want ,of proper feeling - or libe rality to submit the remarks he.had made in the ab Fence the Chancellor of the Exchequer; and whether it was not extraordinary and, unparliamenta ry in such nn Officer .to be absent from the House on the Report of his own Budget. Mr. W;iinnAm. gave 'notice that he would on Wednesday bring forward his Plan for the Defence of the Country, for the produelion of which • some Gentlemen on the other side .. had so prematurely manifested such impatience. THE SUN. L 0 N D 0 N,- MONDAY, MARCH 31, 180 G. Mr. HAWTHORN brought up the Report of the COMMietee of Ways and Means; and on the Motion for reading the Resolutions, • Mr. li.nooKs gave notice of his intention to sub mit some objeaions to the proposed Duty on Sugars, which he conceived w be rather a Tax on the Plant eri than op the Consumers. Mr. FlusicissoNalso gave notice that he would, on'Monday, make some addition to the Financial Statethent which he had made yesterday. ,• Mr. FRANCIS said that he should avail himself of the same opportunity to make some remarks upon the Property Tax. Lord H. PETTV moved that the several Resolti tions, excepting the two_ should' be postponed till Monday. ' .. • , . The .SpEAF. K.a observed, that he understood the discussio? . . postponed till Monday, and that the •Resolut - s were tci by read pro jiirma. The t j .) first Rew..Aulions were read and agreed to. Upon the-reading of the Resolution with regard to-thc'..2roperty Tak, . • '7r. BA eINGToN, after some remarks which were dehvvred,in a tone of voice too low to be audible , to UF, as .F.cu whether it was intended to grant any vxempuons to Military Officers and to the Clergy who had stnidl incomes ; also to those who had merely annuities'for life ? Mr. ROSE suLiaitted the propriety of postponing the discussion of .this question till Monday. ,Lord H. PETTY, hOwever, thought, proper to an swer Mr. Babington. • It was, he said, intended al together to exempt :Military Officers and Clergymen 'of a certain income ; , but to Life Annuitants no si= ,znilar exemption was to be granted. Lord H. PETTY'S Motions were.agreed to. Accounts were ordered of the quantity of Wine imported into Great Britait, 'froth January, •1790, to Lnuary, 1803, distinguishing each year, and the Wine which was French, from that not French ; and of the quantity of Wine taken out for home consumption during the same period, making the same distinaion. Mr. C. V . ll.grtF, presented, pursuant to ,order, a Return of the Subdivision Rolls under the Levy en - Masse At. • The H6n. Gentleman observed, that, during the year 1804 only seven Counties had made any Returns ; .and during the year 150.5 only three. Ent,' in order to obtain the ihformation to which the Motion of the Honourable: Gentleman on the other side alluded; he 'had to state, that Circular lyetter§ 114 d been dLspztclle4 to *5 - everal Cow ! z The ATTORNEY-dENTEZAL brougl.t up the Report of the Committee appointed to examine the Jour nals of , th House of Lords with regard to preee dents applying to the Liability of Witnesses', &c. Ordet-ed to lie on the, Table, and, to be printed.-- Adjoup4. PRICE OF STOCKS TrusDAy AT TWELVE O'CLOCK. Consuls - - - - ......God MAILS. ARRIVED— I Dublin, 3 Waterford. Dug— I Hamburg!), i Uottenburgh, i Lisbon, z Dublin, I Waterford. There is strong ground to hope that the four French Frigates, which lately , escaPed from Cadiz, have beer captured; they were seen by Admiral COLLINGWOOD'S Fleet soon after they sailed, and four Sail of .the Line were detached in chace of them. - IVe received on Saturday night and yesterday-rom plete sets of French and Duich Papers, the former to the 23th inst. and the latter to the f29th. It, is stated, in a Letter in a Dutch Paper, from Naples, dated February 28th, that the two Calabrias had sub mitted to the French, that the Levy en Mci.ise had dispersed, and that the PRINCE ROYAL had embarked for Sicily. We have never for a moment doubted that the French would ultimately gain pOssession Of , the whole of the Kingdom of Naples, although the PRINCE ROYAL might have been enabled to keep them in check for some time in Calabria, particularly if it were true,' as was stated in the last accounts, that he had been joined by the English and Russian . Troops : but there is every reason' to believe that this statement was unfounded. Indeed, unless an effeanal resistance' could have been opposed to the French, it would have been highly injudicious to have exposed the British and Russian Troops fo the danger of being captured. We do not, 'however, believe, that the French are yet in possession of Calabria, because the .M'oniteur is silent upon the subjed, and if the entire conquest of the- . Kingdom of Naples had been effeelcd, it would certainly 'have been mentioned in the 'French °falai Pa— per. Prince . Josciur, notwithstanding his great humanity, has, it ,is said, been compelled to exercise considerable severity on several persons hi Naples, whO 'have been guilty of the 'unvardonable criMeM loyalty to their Sovereign. - The French and- Prusgian Goftrarnents are pre-' cceding with great rapidity to carry into effeci the territorial exchanges which have mutually been agreed upon, or • rather to which Prussia has been compelled to agree. It is, , evident that - BONAPARTE has dictated these changes to Prussia, and that he only . left to that CoUrt the alternative of War Or acquiescence. Indeed the KING of PRUSSIA, in the Proclamation which, he issued in order to ac quaint his Subjects of Neufchatel and Valangin, that those Countries were ceded to France, states,that " con . siderations of the greatest importance, founded on the lost pressing interests of the whole Monarchy, have, obliged us to acquiesce, &c. &c." He, after expressing his regret at the loss of such estimable Subje&s, pro-. ceeds ais: " We cannot dissemble how,much that voluntary resignation is better for you than the fate of a conquered Country, which might otherwise be your lot." • This language is too plain to be mistaken ; but it is not only ,territorial, cessions which his PRUSSIAN MAJESTY is•called upon to inalie—rhe is publicly and grossly insulted hi the French Official Paper, through the mediuni of his Confidential Minister. In corn . meriting upon the Note written by Count HARDEN BERG to . Lord HARROWBY in Decetaber last, the Moniteur not only declaims in the strongest man ner against; thp. English Governtnent for-publishing it, but attacks Count 'HARDEN - BERG in the most abusive terms. With respectto the English Go vernment, are convinced that there is nd founda . tion for the charge made in the Manite - ur. The Note in question was first published in a German Journal, and was afterwards published in the Eng lish 'Papers but with regard to the other part of the article to,Which'we allude, though the . attack, is' made upon. Count HARDENBERG nominally, it is in Oa directed against the Prussian Government, because it cannot for a moment be supposed that he would have written'such a Note without the autho rity of his. Sovereign. It is stated in the Paris Papers that the-French Army is immediately to be put upon the Peace Establishment, but we cannot 'suppose that, BONAPARTE would, under the present state of Europe, reduce his Arniy; it probably only means that the National Guards, Which were called out when the French Army en tered Germany, are to be disembodied. There can be no doubt that as long, as Russia las such a formidable force in Poland, BoriArA trri will neither reduce his Army, nor withdraw 40 , pz,4. of it from Germany. It Is stated, in private letters, that has applied to the-Court of ; Vienna for pet:mission to march an Army through . Bohemia, - for the pur, pose,of attacking the rtussitis, we do:nof think it probable that 'BONAPARTE has seriously such an object in contemplation; the 'demand . . was pro bably made, *to induce the Cabinet of Vienna to prevail upon the EMPEROR of. RUSSIA to withdraw his Troops. A Letter from Stutgard, dated the iGth inst. sv4 - tes, that the fate of Pomerania will be decided by the end of this month, and that the ,French Troops will then commence their march for that Province, if not previo . usly occupied by the Prus4 SOLEM QUIS DICERL FALSUM AUDEAT I . 1 sians. IT is stated, that , further Dispatches have been re ceived from the French government, and that , they probably contain an Answer to the Letter transmitted by Mr. Fox. These Dispatches are said to have been landed at Deal on Friday; but our Letters from Deal are silent upon the subjeet, we are therefore inclined to doubt the accuracy of the statement. Saturday, about three o'clock, a Cabinet Council was• held at Mr. Fox's OffiCe, which was 'attended by Lords GRE; , IVILLE and Sttxmourn, and several others.' The Connell sat till .ucff . fiye. . This day tlie workmen will •begili'io,fit up. West minster. Hall, for the reception of those who,are to be - present at the trial ofLord MELViLLE. Yesterday His MAJESTY, - PRINCESSES AUGUSTA, SOptriA,.- and-Auk:L.li, went-to St. George's Chapel, and heard a Sermon by ti Or. aLLA.m, fromthe fst Chapter of Timothy, verse 15. His MAlEstyis expeded in to.*ii on WednesdaY, to hold a Privy The DUKE of CUMBERLAND is on a visit to THEIR MAJESTIES. There are two vacamies hi the _Order of St, Pa tick—the one occasioned by the death of the Dtike of LEINSTER some-time ago, the other by the recent decease of the Marquis:of ELY. Saturdaywexeceived letters from Demarara to the 27th of January, at which period the arrival of a French force i 0 those Seas, although expeded, was unknown there. Meditated Assassination of Bonaparte.—On Mon day night. last, the 24th instant; a stria search was made by the Magistracy of Hamburgh, assisted by the French- Minister and ail the. French •inha bitants, tArciughotit the whole of that city and its environs. Every .. hotel, inn, and public-house, were inspeaed with the most pointed scrutiny. At an inn of the second sort a French Officer was seized, whose appearance accorded striElly With the de scription in the hands of, the Police. •On his being arrested he immediately exclaimed, " take me, • and do with me whatyou please—l have deserved to suffer more than you can inflia for my ankwardness." then confessed that he had tWicefired at BOZIA PARTE, on the evening succeeding •the Battle of Austerlitz, but unfortunately missed On the affair taking wind he had deserted, and had got to Hamburgh, whence he intended to have sailed for England. He was immediately sent off by the yhickest convey ance to Paris, where his inevitable fate awaits him. A most reapealable native of .France, who came over in the last- Harnbucg - h Mail, was very nearl7 stopped at the same time, under suspicioh of being implicated in this affair, but had the good fortune to be suffered' to proceed on his voyage.—The same evening• Altona 'experienced a similar diligence of search, as it' was supposed the party might have crossed theßiver.—No circumstance is more strange throughout the whole of this extraordinary affair, than the priifound oblivion it has been buried in for such a. length of time. It spews, however, hoW mua ',the channels of - communication throughout, the Continent are governed by BONAPARTE ; and we have little doubt• but thefate of this unfortunate person will be equally mysterious. It is very pro bable that the Prussians will hear, the first Of this transaction from our Paper. Some important intellicr ° ence was received . from India during-the last-week; relatiVe to the unsettled state of Politics it that Country, and the discovery of another confederacy against the British interest. A correspondence between the Rajah of Bhurtpore and the Rajah of - Jehangur has been intercepted, by which the former, while professing friendship, and attachment•to the:Company, was .exciting and orga nizing renewed hostility against them. Several bodies_ of recruits which had been raiF.2d for the service of H?lkar in Malwa, and•other Pro vinces, being unable to_ form a junction with, the Army, have divided into small parties, and conceal ing themselves-in the and jungles during -the day, at night descend and raviigetticoxnatry,_. Anotherbody of Mahratta Cav4lry has appeared on the Banks of the Chambhul i and has- been en gaged in several skirmishes. with our troops, in one of which it lost a great nuMber of men,, and most of the booty which, it had amassed in the tieiglibnuring • Provinces. , The Treasury. at Mysoie, containing jewels,". and other articles of great value, belonging . tb.the Hyder . family, was lately robbed. The theft ‘i4s supposed to have been effected by corrupting the native guards, but the *offenders have hitherto escaped. • The British Subsidiary Troops in the Nizam's ser vice were lately called to the Frontiers, in conse quence of some-serious disturbances which for a time prevailed there. • A serious affray lately occurred amongst 'the Offi cers stationed at Villore, /which, at the date of the last accounts, was , about to become the subjet of legal investigation. - HYDE PARK, Yesterday, from, the favourable state of,the weather, vas crowded from 3 o'clock till &, with all ranks of persons. At half past 2 o'clock an unfortunate accident happened to a Gentleman who was riding a fine blood chesn:t mare, which took. fright, and ran with such rapidity as to dismount se veral Gentlemen, till she arrived at the New Bridge, where.the rider lost his seat, was unhorsed, and hiS leg catching in the stirrup, he was dragged some considerable way before he fell, apparently lifeless, on the ground: . be was conveyed to St. George's Hasp i NAVAL NEWS. From the. LONDON GAZETT, March 29, 066. Admiralty-Office, - March , iBO6. Copy of a Letterfrom. Vice Adittiral .Dacris, Com mander in Chief of His Majesty's Ships and Ves sels at lamai4t, to William Marsden, Esq. .Dated at Port Royal, the 13th of January, ISO'S. SIR, It is with pleasure I transmit, for the information ofthe Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, the copy , of a Letter which received from Capt. Hall, of the Malabar, • inclosintone from Capt. McKenzie, of the Wolfe, whose cantina on this occasion I feel highly meritorious. T-laeiri.ordships, always ready to reward Merit, will, I am sure, shew - their 'approba tion of Capt. McKenzie's -zeal and s adivity. I am, Fee. J. R. DACRES. His Majesty's Ship Malabar, off Portihara. SIR, cleroes, Island of Cuba, Tan. 2, 1806. .I . have the greatest satisfaction in having it in my power to acquaint you, that his Majesty's Ship under my command, and his Majesty's Sloop Wolfe - have this day captured Le Regulateur and Le Napoleon, two of the largest French Schooner 'Privateers out of St. Jago, protected by a double reef of rocks. ,Capt. MeKenzie, whose vigilance deserves every praise, saw oti‘&-of them go in this morning, On coming off the Port I sent 'the Master to sotn for anchor age, who found a passage on the reef, through which the Wolfe, Was successfully- conduaed; and most ably anchored musket-shot of the Enemy, attended by the Boats of both Ships manned and armed. Le Regulateur was \arrnedwith a brass, is pounder, four 6-pbunders, and manned with eighty men. Le Napoleon was armed with. one long g.. pounder, two ti.velve-paunder carrot - lades, ‘ aterl, two Your-pounders, and ,manned with sixty=six men and it is but justice to say they were well defend ed; the :talon continuing without intermission an. hour and three quarters, when the survivors of the. : crews abandoned them, and landed in the woods,' four only being made prisoners, one •-ef whom is mortally wounded:- They were then towed without the reefs, when - the Regulateur (a remarkable fine Schooner) stork, and 1 am sorry to Av. Thomas Smith, a"_ Marine belonging to his Majesty's Ship under - my _command, went down in her '1 except ,this man 1 have pot sustained any loss. The Offi cers, Seamen, and Marines of the Malabar di*, charged their eaty most perfealy to my satisfac tion. ; Mr. Thomas Fotheringhani, the Master, de serves particular praise for having, in- the shortest time, e%amincd the Passage, so that the Wolfe could be taken in, - a circumstance the Enemy had not the least idea could be att em pted, an d w ith out which the conquest, had it been effeaed, must have been attended with very serious loss : it is therefore attributable to the gallant, cool, and able manner in which the Wolfe was cope': aed and fought, and which, I beg leave to offer my opinion, merits the fullest acknowledgments to Capt. M'Ken zie, and likewise to his Officers and Ship's Com pany. • _ beg leave to inclose a Copy of c.v. McKenzie's Letter to me on the occasion, with his Report of Killed and Wounded on board the Wolfe.. I have the honour to be, &c. . . 110 BERT HALL: To James Dares; Esq. Rear Admiral of the Red, Commander in Chief: Ills Majesty's Skop lVQlfe, Port 4zarades, ed lan. 1806. SIR, I have the honour to acquaint you, in compliance With your orders, I proceeded with his Majesty's Ship under my command to cover the Boats destin ed 'fertile attack of the two F renc h P r i vatee r s i n t hi s Port; but, on approaching, I found them moored so advantageous a situation, and so well prepared, I thought it would be imprudentto allow them to pro ceed, I therefore stood in six fathoms water, within a quarter of a mile of the Enemy, and opened my fire, which was continued Mle hour and threq quay, teis, when I perceived the Enemy were quitting th e , Vessels ; the Boats were then ordered to proceed, and take possesSion. - They proved to be Le Regula te* and Napoleon Schdoners ; the former a most beautiful Vessel, mounting one long 18 and four 6-pounders, brass, with eighty men ; the other a very fine. Vessel, also with one long 9, two 12-pound carronades, two fours, and 66 men. It gives me in finite.satisfataion to bear testimony to the cool and determined bravery diSplayed by every OffiCer and man I bad the honour to command ; nor can I omit expressing my warmest (hanks to Mr. 'l'. Fothering-, ham (Master of the Malabar) for the very judicious manner in which' he condu&ed the Ship to anchor; .and also the Officers and Crew of the Malabar's Launch .and Jolly-boat, who volunteered their ser vices at the guns. I have a most heartfelt satisfac tion in having .so-. small a list of killed and wounded to subjoin. The loss "Of the Enemy could not be ascertained ; but; from the appearance'ofthe decks, it must have been great. I am sorry to add, the Regulate* sunk a short time after being in our pos.. session - , by which two unfortunate wounded French men'were lost. I have the honour to remain, &c. G. C. M`K.ENZIE, Rob. Hall, Esq. Captain of His • . Majesty's Ship Malabar. . Killed and In:aided an beard IL M. S: Wolfe, 744. 2, 184 Killed- 7 405. Tayldr and Sam. Al' Mackin, seamen. 'Wounded—Alex. M'Dowal and F. Itazekin, Seamen; R. Sallinger, Marine ; Beiiith .Blanche (prisoner), dingerousiy, Total—z killed. 4 • wounded. PLYmotprif, MARCH LT.—ArrivedHis Majesty's Ship Martin i from Gibraltar; also the Brig.Sara4 Ann; JcisEpit .MAr.t.,.ETT, Master, from Zante and Gibraltar, bound' to ,Htill,. laden with currants and fustick, with lois of main top-mast and bowsprit; Anna, of London, FnAtgois, from Smyrna; Mary, TAYLOR, from Messina; the Ant, MORRIS, from Venice; the Amphitrite, LEVAY, from Gibraltar; All ion, THo As, from Cephalonia—The above Vessels came under Convoy of the Chtfonne Frigate and Mar tin Sloop of War ; lekGibraltar on the Ist inst, then 18 Sail, the rest hating sjparated. In coming through the Gntt, four French Fri;a - es and ,r-.n ~++ ' .