The Sun. — London, England, 1806-02-15 00:00:00

LONCTSUDE", ON the , 27th December last Mr: THOMAS E A RNSHAW, 159, High Holborn, received the long contested Reward of 3ocel.' ' The Cornrpissibile?s of Longitude voted him theatove sum March the ;d and 57th,18a3. for the determination of Longitude by the superiority of his Timekeepers; and the• Commissioners promised Mr. Earnshaw that they would' bring a Bill int 4 Parliament, praying, that Parliament would make. up that. stint to him through the channel of that House, in order to convey with it all poSSible horiotir. - But insreier - or so doing; a question was set. up at the Beard •nainst Mr. Earnshaw, as not being the Inventorof his Mlichine, and the Watchmakers were in. . , vited to the Board, 'to oppose mt. Larinshaw on that ground. He was called on by the Board to prOve himself to be the Inventor, although 2s years had elapsed since his first irr;ep tion'of it, a length of time which, most probably, had de privedhim'Of giving' that proof which, at first, he could have done. .And, it is most material: to relate, that when Mr. Earnshaw applied to the Board, about I. year* back, the _Board then examined him concerning his being the I E venter, and declared themselves satisfied on that - head, and actually engaged Mr. Earnshaw, as the Inventor, to devote - his - time and attention for the purpose of Determining the Longitude, , according to Aia of "Parliament. And the Board having used his Machines for Many years, for public be4fit, and which the Board could have no right to do, liad he not been the In ventor; and, after the above circumstances, to withhold from him. his hard.earried reward, under the iireience that he was not the Inventor, which so many years back they did admit, surely'cannot he Called an ad ofencouragenientto Mechanics, which the board - of Longitude are appointed to give. The principal part of the Watchmakers calledjo the Board apinst Mr. Earnsliaw seemed tp have no qualms of con: science in endeaVbiiiing to overthrow him.- -Mr. Earnshaw' petitioned the Board to have the common privilege of an Englishman allowed to him, that of meeting his accusers facein trace; hitt this' was not granted; though it is well known that when a man means to give interested evidence it. is a very great encouragerrient to h+in indeed, if heknows that. he is not to be confronted by the man he means to injure; and What a damp it is to the most daring swearer when he knoWs that the man he is anxious to oppose is to be looking him in the face. But this advantage was not allowed to Mr: Earn shaw. ,His enemies experienced the full benefit of priVate Examinations, and asserted just what they pleased, till, at length, they convided themselves, and proved Mr. Earn shaw to be the Inventor, althoUgh they intended to prove the cxitrary. Sir toseph Banks, and Mr. Gilpin, Secretary to the Board, used extraordinary exertions against Mr. Earnshaw, and en couraged tho selfish combiriation of Watchmakers against, him; and Sir Joseph distributed a printed Protest to the Mem bers of the Board of Longitude against Mr-. Earrshaw's hair_ the reward. The Rev.D,r,Nlaskelyne, Astronomer Royal, printed an Answer to Sir Joseph's Protest, in favour of Mr. Earnshaw, in behalf of Ming:Aland the leirned, Pro fessors of Oxford and Cambridge, whose opinions concurred 'with his own ; which Answer entirely confuted the Protest of Sir Joseph, arid proved Mr. Earnshaw not oily, to be the Inventor, but likewise proved the great and decided superiority of his Timekeepers over-those of all bther Makeis. Here, then, the. great influence of Sir Joseph, at the head of the malicious and-enyious Watchmakers, availed him not, any mare thin that of harrassiitg a man, and keeping him near three years out of his right.. What a pity it is - that,Such - in.. fluence vrarnot better- employed than in opposing an inge pious andindustrious individual, whom the Public appointed him to assist,, encourage 'and reward. Mr. Eainshaw has spent 25 years, by far the best• part of his life, to the very great injury of his health, in labour and study, in pursuitof an objed of no less magnitude than that. If aeving the lives and properties of all concerned in the Maritime Atiiiirs of this - great Commercial Country. as well as. thole, of ail the world,' and which must bring so much wealth, benefit, and honour to the Nation, by the determination of 'the Longi tude; which was before thought impossible,.and which was diclared to be so by the Committee of the House of Com mons, in the following words a "- Tlic'present Ad does indeed impose conditions so diffi cult, find so impossible to be surmounted, if enforced to the full extent of which they are capable, that it is to be feared few Artists will quit the certain gains of their profeSsion, to enter into things so discouraging and precarious." Sir Joseph's cendutt to Mr. Earnshaw by no means softens the above difficulties ; and, if Mr. Earnshaw has come with in the pale of such supposed impossibilities, how much More does he deserve the reward ? _ _ Mr. Earnshaw, as soon as business permits, mill - publish the whole account, from the first invention of his plan, and how he has been robbed of it by the Watchmakers, who haVe passed it on ,t he world as their own for many years, by which they have obtained great profit and honour, and avnicled'those failures in their business which they had before experienced, although' the greater number of his opposers were only sellers. of Timekeepers, not makers, as they never made one in their Jives, and this was acknowledged by. one of his principal op ponents at the Board of Longitude. It is very plain then that Mr. Earnshaw's cause must be very stroaa aid clear indeed, to .get the better ()fan antago nist so high and mighty as Sir Joseph is, aided and assisted by the keen malice and envy of the Watchmakers, who declared to the Board, that rewarding Mr. Earnshaw would be injur ing -them. • By this declaration they provedaliernselyes to be interested in his overthrow, and certainly not fair evidence to be examined against him. And can it for a moment be jus tified, that a man who renders such great and universal bene fit to Navigation as Mr. Earnshaw has done, is not to have the reward allotted to him by the Nation, because it will set hint above the pirates and bungling imitators of his work'— , F9tninon sense and common justice forbid it ! Mr. Earnshaw feels the most lively gratitude to every Member of the Board of Longitude who asserted his right to the reward, alai is convinced that .Sir Joseph Banks was the only Member against him.. But when Mr. Earnshaw recol leets that during the long struggle he has had with Sir lo saph, three changes have taken-place in the very high depart, meat of the First Lord of the Admiralty, viz. Lord St. Vin cent, Lord Mehrille, and Lord Barham; - the patronage of these Noblemen, and also of the Astronomer Royal, the Learned Protesseas of Oxford and Cambridge, and many rather Gentlemen of soPerior khowledge to Sir Joseph re aPedling the Longitude, he feels it as a very great compensa tion for the misfortune of falling under Sir Joseph's displea sure_ If the world ask a reason why Sir Joseph has taken So adiVe a pail against Mr. Earnshaw and the whole, sense of the Board of Longitude; Sir Joseph must explain this My awry himself. But if he doea.not, Mr. Earnshaw promises to do it for him, in which the world may see, that the inde pendent spirit of an Englishman, and the full confidence of tnetiog with strict justice in this Country, is not lost- - if the Public will coolly consider that Mr. .Earnshaw has de toted his life to the laudable pu'rpose of saving'lives and pro 4ierties, they will riot hesitate to pass the most honourable judgment on him. And he begs leave to state, that the loSa of His Majesty's Ship Apollo, with the very valuable West India Convoy, wrecked on the Coast of Portugal, was owing to the Captain's not knowing' the longitude;- and if one of the most inferior of Mr. Earnshaw's Timekeepers had been on board the• Apollo,' that loss had not happened, and the misery entailed on many families by the loss of so many lives had nut been known. A`nd if only one Ship shoold be saved in , the course olio° .years by the • uae of Mr. Earnshaw's Timekeepers, surely .the .sum. of 30°01-voted him by the Board of Lonaitude is nothing in proportion to the advan. Ine arising- to the Nation. .'• At No. i ma, high Holborn, 'maybe - seen the rates of going• of alr. Eariisha w's Timekeepers, tried by authority under the present Act of Parliaments; and likewise may be seen more 'than Ice, Certificates -of the going of hiS Timekeepers from the first Noblemen, Admirals, Captains, and Nautical Men, in Wis . country ; and the wandering S a il o r may th ere have Timekeeprs that will point out to him the right way through his watery career, and bring him safe to his wished . . tbe port.. • HULL DOCK SHARES: Dock-Office, Kingston-upon-Hull, Tan. 24, iBc6. TO 13E SOLD By AUCTION, At the Exchange, inKingston-upon-Hull, on Wednesday the'ith day of March, 1806, precisely at One o'Clock, un cle!' the povver, of in 'Ad of Varliament passed in the 45th year of the Reign of His present Majesty, pursuant to such Conditions as shall be then produced; ' EST NEW SHARES in the 'Vnderf*ing, for • making DOCKS . at KINGSTON-UPON -HULL. Bach Share will be put up separately. A Deposit pf tel. per Cent—in part of the Purchase-mo_ ney. will be requested immediately after 'the Sale, and the Ternaincier in two equal payments, viz. one half on the ad flay of une next, and the other half on the Ist day of Sep sember next. The Payment of the remainder of the Purchase-money is, for the accommodation of the Purchasers, delayed to the above-lnentioned distant periods; but each Purchaser will become entitled to a whole year!Dividend, .payable in Fe. wary, 1807. • Further particulars may be known by applying to Mr. frost, Solicitor, or Mr. Leyctt, Clerk, to am? pock Coin. PAU) 41 " • • • " • , The Motion made yesterday in the Common Council, for an Address to congratulate His MA JESTY on the appointment of the new Administra tion, occasioned a debate of considerable length, `and was carried by a majority of 12. . • A variety of reports are in circulation respe&ing • the Military and Financial Measures which the new Ministry'. have it in contemplation to adopt. They have, however, been so short a time in office; that it is almost impossible they should have already di gested any plans upon these most itnportant subjeas. There is, we believe, no doubt that it is intended to propose a very great augmentation of the Troops of the Line. The situation in which the Coun try is placed, by the unexpected and unfortunate . termination_ of the Cativign on' the Continent, undoubtedly calls tor the strongest and most decisive measures, and for the most vigorous exertions on the part of this Country. We are deeply impressed With the conviaion of the necessity of the cordial co-operation of all parties for the attainment of the great obje& Of national security ; and it will afford us the most sincere satisfaftion if the condu& of the new Ministry should be such as to enable us to . „ give them our decided 'support. In holding this language, we are, we know, speaking the sen timents of all the Friends of the' late Mr. PITT: 7 If it had pleased God to have . •prolonged . the life of that Great Man, we should have relied with implicit confidence upon his wisdonl and firmness ; but as his death rendered the formation of a New Administration absolutely necessary, it is a subjea of the greatest satisfaiStion to us, and we are con vinced it is to the Country, that HIS MAJESTY has been graciously pleased 'to place Lord.GRiNVILLE at the head of it.—The services which that Noble Lord, in conjunction with Mr. PITT/ rendered his , Country, when its safety, was endangered by the open attacks of external, ancl the secret machina tions of domestic Enemies, can never be forgotten, and afford the' strongest pledge with respe& to his future condua.—We are persuaded that he will never consent-to compromise the Dignity of , the Country abroad, nor will -he permit any inroads to be made Upon the Constitution at home. ' it was yesterday stated, upon the authority of a private Letter from Glasgow, that seventeen Sail of the West-India Fleet, which sailed from Cork un 7 , der convoy of the Fisguard Frigate and the Wolve rine, had separated, with the Wolverine, from the, rest of the Fleet, and that fifteen df them had been captured by a French Squadron, supposed to be the ene which'was chaced by Admiral DucKWORTH.. No official intelligence has been received of / this disaster, and we are ;Arongly inc;ined to hope 'that the keport is greatly exaggerated, if _not wholly un- . Founded, IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT, HOUSE OF PZER6, .. • _ FRIDAY, FEB. 14. The Bills for granting Annuities to Lady Vis 7 countess Nelson, and Sir Richard Strachan, were read 'a" second tinie, and corninitted fur Monday.— Adjourned till Monday. HOUSE OF COMMONS. FRIDAY, VEI3. 14. Mr. JOHN LAToticHE presented a Petition from the Debtors thnfined in the Marshalsea Gaol of the City of Dublin, praying for relief. 7 ,-Ordered, to lie on the Table. INDIA. Mr. PAULL gave notice, that on 'Wednesday nest he wguld shew from the Papers relative to the Bul lion and, Specie exported from this Country to India, for which he had formerly moved, whether the Ad of the 33d. of the Icing had, or had not, been vio lated. The Se&ions of the At to which he would particularly call the attention of the House were those from the 14th. to the 19th. The notice was entered as usual. EXCHE2UER BILLS. . On the Motion of -Mr. VANSITTART, the Exche 7 quer Bills Bill Was committed.—Report to-morrow, NEW WRITS. On the 'Motion of Mr. GEORGE W4LPOLE, a new Writ was dire6 - ted to be issued for the Election of a Member to serve for Lichfield, in the room of Tno. ANSON, Esq. - poly Lord ANSO, called to the House Of Peers. On the Motion of Mr. HURST, a new Writ was ordered to be issued for the Ele6:tion of a Member to serve for the Borough of Steyning, in the County of Sussex, in the room of JAmEs INIARTIN LLOYD, Esq. who, since his Election, had accepted the Steward ship of the Chiltern Hundreds. • • The other Orders of the Day were then read., Adjourned, MAILS. ARRIVEP-2 DUE—z Fiamburgh, 3 Gottenburgh, Lisbon, 2 Waterford: PRICE OF STOCKS ". THIS DAY. AT TWELVE O'CLOCK. Consols THE SUN. SOLENT QUIS DICERE FALSUM AUDEAT ? L 0 ,N.D'O N, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1804.. ~ We are sorry to - find, by private. Letters from Ire,. land, that the Enemies of the Union are making gle most strenuous exertions, in different Corporations in Dublin and in the Country, to procure Addresses to Parliament against that - tnea.iure. We trust, however, that those Members of the present Administration, who were hostile to that measure origintally . , will not now give ahy encouragement to discussions which can only tend to excite disaentions and national animosity. WE stated same days ago, that the embarkation of the remainder of the British Troops that were on the Continent would take place about the 12th, and consequently they may be daily ea pe6ted home.— Nine Transports, having on board part of the Ger man Legion and of the 14th Regiment, arrived in the I-lumber on Wednesday, WE have still to regret the non-arrival of the HamburghAils, pr of any intelligence from the continent. Yesterday morning the Princesses ATT;USTA, So- Nita, and AMELIA. attended by General MANNERS, Colonel TAYLOR, SCC. took an airing on 'horseback in, Windsor Great Park. " - • Her MAJESTY and the other PRlNCEssres, in two carriages and four, took an airing by Englefield Green. The DUKE of CLARENCE had yesterday► an inter view with Mr. GREY, at the Admiralty. Dispatches were received yesterday at the Ad miralty, brought by the Weymouth Frigate, ifrom Sir Epw4Rrp PELLEW, and Sir THO.NIAS TROU pRIDGE. Mr. COOKE, to the regret of all who know his talents and great official experience, as well as dis tinguished private worth, retires from the War and Colonial Department. We have, however, some consolation for such public a loss in knowing,that his successor is to be Sir GEORGE SHER. . _ The,Dutchess of GORDON had a grand route, last night, at her house in St. James's-square every arrangement that taste and liberality could dic tate was made for the reception of her Grace's com pany Capt. BUTT is appointed to the command of the. Spire Sloop, at Sheerness, which has undergone a complete repair at that Port. PRIVATE LETTER FROM DUBLIN, FEB. 10. " Mr. RYAN, at whose house, in Marlborough street, the meetings - of the Roman Catholic Commit.. tee were held; wrote to Mr-Fox, congratulating him on his accession to political power, and hoped that he would not forget his friends the Irish Ca tholics, who had always supported him. Mr: Fox answered the letter rather in a general manner, thanked the Gentleman for his congratulation ; said, ,that in or out of office, he would not forget the Irish Catholics, and . that Mr. RYAN : might -make what use.he should think proper of his letter. " Lord REDESDALE will give his.farewell dinner on Wednesday next, on which day the arrival-of Mr..PO&;SONBY is expelcd. " Lord HARDWICKE'S Suite-am this day embark ingfor England." •On opening the vault belonging to the family of J. NORRIS, Esq. in'the Church of St. Peter's Man croft, Norwich, on Monday se'nnight, a live Bat was found therein, of a greyish colou'r, whereit had probably laid in a torpid state, a solitary companion for the dead, more than 32 yeais,' the distance 'of time since the 'vault *as before opened. The Bat afterwards survived and flew away. Mr. M-, a young - man of fashiod o undertook to walk from Hyde Park Corner to the five mile stone at,Turnham-Green, in fifty-five minutes. The wager, which was for . a considerable sain, was de cided dal Wednesday last in favour of the undertaker; lie came in at the winning post, in abOUt one minute and , a half of the limited time. PARTICULARS OF THE ,LOSS OF THE MARIA TRANSPORT. . We give the following particulars, on the atithoir ty of Capt. JONES, an incorre& account having ap peared The Maria Transport struck on the Southern Haaks off the Texel, between twelVe and one o'clock of the morning of the 'l3th December. Capt.. JONES was saved by having been sent in a boat to find the, shore and gain assistance; about seven o'clock on the 14th of December he was conveyed in a Fish ing-boat to Admiral K 1 CKERT'S Ship, who imme diately sent off boats to take ,the soldiers, but un fortunaiely the Ship sunk in the sands before they could get to her. On the Dutch Pilot sounding ever *tile Wreck the folloWing day, she had 18 feet of wa ter over her hulk. The Dutch Admiral treated Cap tain J. in the kindest and most humane manner, supplying him with money and clothes, and chew ing every attention which could alleviate his dis tressed situation. For the satisfataiOn of the friends of the parties, we insert the following List of the Officers saved, &c. 'Military saved : I Captain Assistant-Surgeon z Strjeants I Corporal 8 Privates z Women 2 Children Military drowned : Captain . 4 Lieutenants to Serjeants i r Cori.)ralS 203 Privates 22; lVorrien S Children I 7 Ship's Company saved .Captain 9 Sailors 29 Sill s y's Company drowned ; z Mates • 4 SAilors. 27 Left Enchazzen and er ?tierce 22d January, sailed 1 i 65 lbaAied on board the Cow fromNew Deep:, 3oth Jay, Officers drowned :. Captain Garstir I Lieutenant ~:an- i pbell 1 Lieutenant Marshman . Ensign Cunningham Ensign Mathewson. efieid, John klodskinson, M. , Lancelot Loth, Cha. Thomas Officers saved : Captain tones • Assist. Surgeon Armstrong Serjeant David French , Serjeant 8.. Burk Corporal lohn Leslie erivates saved—john Wak powielly, Stephen Thatcher, Dorrick,. and Henry Judge- Wonien saved— lane Field and lane T hat c ker. Children saved—lane kuAl lane' hattintir, NAVAL NE WS. PLYwouTri, FEB. 13.--,The Pomptte, of 74 gung Capt, Sir W. S. %lull, which sailed hence yester day, returned again this morning. Sailed the Virginie and Santa Margaritta Frigates on a Cruize to the Westward. Arrived the IVloudgfon Sloop of War from M4ta. with Dispatches. " The Conqueror, 0f74 guns, mica out of garbote this morning, and anchored hi Cawsand Bay. Arrived the Aaive Frigate from Ireland, with French Prisoners, captured in a French Privateer ,taken, by the Druid Frigate, and carried into Cork also the Prussian. Galliot Frau Carolina, Captain MEYER, from Einbden, bound to Bourdeaux, de? tained by the Betsey Privateer and the Prussian. Ship Amyles, laden with tobaeco, from Virginra, detained by the Dion Privateer. Arrived the Britannia Yacht, Capt. LEVIT, from London, for Dublin, with groceries,; and the Sprinr, THOMAS Cnbrie. Master, from London, bound to Cork, put in by contrary winds, Came in a Smuggling Cutter, prize to the Eagle, of 14 gl i ans, Capt. AbAUS, taken half Channel over, with 160 ankers of spirits, The Betsey, of this Port, with a cargo for Bristol, is supposed to have foltndered, and all hands perish ed, on her passage, in the late gales of wind, as she sailed- some weeks ago, and has • not been heard of since her 4parture from this Port. By letters received here from an Officer at Barba does, is learned, that Rear Admiral COCHRANE had received, through various channels, information of the sailing of a French Squadron from Brest, sup: posed for the West Indies, and Oar he was con, centrating his force to endeavour to fall in with them on their arrival and givesthern a good threshing.. .The Brig which went ashore in a bay, flanked by two ledges sof rocks, a few nights since, uncle" Princess Anne's Battery, is floated off without da mage, bring luckily been supported upright be tween the rocks. She is gone. up Catwater. Before therThbernia, 110 guns, and the Vile de Paris, 110 guns, sailed, Tuesday, they were paid six tnontht wages, and sailed dire&ly. : PORTSMOUTH, FEB, 14.—Achnipl LEIGU DOU., GLAS is ordered to strike his Fag ; and the Squadron which was under his orders'are ordered tc), join the Channel Fleet: • Put back to St. Helen's, the Meteor Bomb, Capt. CoLutiTs, with a Convoy to Guernsey. The Transports laden with provisions for the Cape of Good Hope are not counter-ordered I the three Ships which were first ordered, were, Qn examina. tion, found insufficient for the voyage, and three more, larger, and copper-bottomed Ships, are now desired to receive .the provisions, and to - procee4 without delay. • Remain at St. Helen's=—the Prince of Wales, Illustrious, Achille, Polyphemus, Astrea, S4uebee, and Duke of Mutt. cruse and kiawkesbury Indiainen, FALNOUTH, FEB. 12. 7 -4rrived the Brtg John; I , lATitestrsT, from London, , for Gibraltar, lost the Canada's Convoy a few days since; Hartford WAL.- TERS, from Swansea ; Esther, , from Dart mouth ; Hind, ALLAN, from a Crtize ; brought in, the. Fortune Smuggling Sloop of. Gweick, with about 200 casks of s.)irits. • Sailed the -Towan,. CANDY, for Penzance ; Bridgewgter, ORE, from _Bridgewater. HARWICH, FEB. 14.—Part of the Crew of the Brig Polly, belonging to, London, Jaxus Lobo Master, 'With about 150 chaluron of coals, bound to 'London, arrived here this morning, haying taken to the boat on she approach of a small ltigsaii Prig vateer, about ten o'clock - last night, as they lay at anchor in the Swin, near the Buoy of c,e Gunfieet ; the Master and. Mate were left on board. .13eforq the men quitted the Ship,„ therobserved the Thy*" teen. capture two other Ships by ilieir'bOartiing, and instantly cutting their cables, and setting sail; one is styposed to be from the . Last Country, and' the other a Collier. The Brig ,Providence, from Shore ham, bound to Yarmouth, • was ;11E0 at anchor in the Swin ; to the Master these men communicated the circumstance •as they passed; but there is too much reason to .fear this Vessel was also captured and car- tied away. Two small lugsail Privateers were seen yesterday off Orforduess. DEAL, FEB. 14.--,Sailed the Beaulieu Frigate for Sheerness ; and the Jackall for the back of the Goodwin Sands. Arrived the. Falcon Sloop of War from Portsmouth; Cygne4 Sloop. of War, Dauntless' and Valorous Praams, and several Gun-brigs,' froth off the French Coast, and remain in the Downs with the rest of the Ships, as per last. • , TORBAY, FEB. EL —Sailed the Nile Lugger ; the Brig .Mary for Waterford ; and Colpoys Schooner or; a Cruize. Aemairr His Majesty's Ship Ville de Pct, 'is ,London .Packet, of London ; the Pitt and 4 +~~