The Sun. — London, England, 1806-04-05 00:00:00

ATA r A .t, AT E TV S. /LAW . ICH, APRIL 4.—Orders bathe dow this morning to the Custom-house for the detention of all Prussian Ships. The Earl of Leicester Packet, Capt. THOMPSON and the King George, Capt. SAUNDERS, arrived from Gottenburgh with the Mails. Thioutward-bound Packets with the Hamburgh, Bremen, and Gottenburgh Mails, are yet detained by contrary winds. PLYMOUTH, Antit. 3.—Sailed the Spartiate, Kent, Bellerophon, and Renown, of 74 gun's each, from Cawsand Bay, said to be destined for the Cape of Good Hope. Arrived the French Brig of War Neurque, pierced' for 16 guns, threw 14 guns overboard ; Captured after a chase of 12 hours-by the Niobe Frigate; she is commanded -by Mons. JoRDAINE. She left L'Orient the 17th ult. in company with three Fri gates and one Brig, bound to the West Indies. The Niobe communicated the above intelligence to' Earl ST. VINCENT, off Brest, who ordered her and the, Glory, of 98 guns; after them. Arrived the Danish Ship Vrow Marianne, Capt. FLOUNSON; from Dram, with timber for - this Port. . Arrived the - Crescent Frigate from off L'Orient. • PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 4.--Arrived the Daedalus, • AYE, from Gibraltar. Sailed the Susannah, WATSON Mary, CORK, for Sunderland ; and Hope, SHARP, for Belfast. The Phoebe Frigate went this day out of Harbour. SIitERNSS, APRIL 4.—The Convoys for the Baltic and Elsineur, which have been cletained•by tontrary winds, are direEted not to sail till farther oiderS. Artived several Merchant Ships from the River to join Convoy. Came out of Harbour His Majesty's Ship Isis to the Great Nore last night, and sailed to Deal this day. Arrived this day His Majesty's Gun-brig Centinel, Lieut. CHESTER, from the North Sea. _ The - Lion Man of War is paid, and will sail to 'iPatrnouth as soon as the wind is fair. The Monarch is ready to come to the Nore from Long Reach as soon as the wind is fair. Arrived the Helder, of 36 guns, Guard Ship in the Humber, Capt. BENJ. WALKER. The Falcon continues the Signal flying for Convoy to the Baltic; Railleur and Bonetta, fOr the Rivers Elbe, Jade, and Weser : all of which are detained at the Little and Great Ncre, by, contrary winds and bad weather. DEAL, APRIL 4.—Arrived the Exertion, Furious, and Speculator from Calais ; and the Thames, from of` Boulogne. Sailed the Desp&sate arid Gallant, *off Boulogne. SIERRA LEONE, FEB. 10.—The Favourite Sloop of War has been taken on the Windward Coast of Africa by a French Squadron, which has proceeded to the Leeward. YARMOUTH, APRIG, 3.—The Hull racket, BAR ROWBY, Master, from Hull, of and for Not'castle, with a valuable cargo of merchandize, was taken about nine o'clock on Saturday sellnight, off Flarn borough Head, by a Sloop Priviteer. Ths Priva teer had very much the appearance of a Scotch Sloop or a Cod Smack. On Sunday arriveeqhe Orpheus Frigate, Captain BRIGGS, and has brought in two foreign Ships with mast-pieces for the Dutch Navy ; one of which the Frigate_ cut out of the Texel, and the other was • stopped going in. . On Monday morning the Fleet under Admiral Russzt, got under way, but was forced to lay to ia the Gut till the afternoon, when. they again got un der way, and made sail for the Dutch Coast : Which Fleet consisted of the Majestic, Admiral Ittisur. Elephant, Diaator, isrgincourt, Stately, Ruby, Nas sau, Amaranth, and Sparrow Sloop of War. On Tuesday the Helder Mar of War arrived from Leith, where she bad been 'riding Guard-ship;'and was relieved by the ItJmulus ; and on Wednesday he sailed for the Nore. In the Roadc.—The Roc tuck, Admiral DOUGLAS, and Orpheus The cargo of the great tea-ship, the Concordia,' valued at 40 ; 0001. detained, and sent into Plymouth, some time since, as being Enemy's 'property, - has hem regularly condemned to the lucky captors, .the Lord Nelson, of 14 guns, Capt. CRO\VTE, a Pril;ateer of Plymouth ; which, with the wool-ship worth 30,0001. condemned some time since, makes 70,0001. of concealed Enemy's property adjudged in the High Court of Admiralty of England, as a legal prize to the Lord Nelson and her fortunate owners. Some papers, which led to the condemnation of the Concordia's cargo, were luckily found on board ano ther neutral, • detained and brought in by the Lord Nelson, for examination, some days after the deten tion of the COJthordia.-, On Wednesday morning last - the first stone above the foundation . of the Obelisk ere&ing to the me mory of Lord NELSON, in the- Castle-green, in the City of. Hereford, .was - laid with much ce remony,. A few days Ago, .as 4he fashionable Mrs.C. was entering tidra,ving-reoin, on a visit, she. suddenly stopped at the.door, and could proceed no fluffier, when it was found thatthe train of her gown lick' been shot in the carria7e dam' below, I \~ iram FREYCiI /..; c', 1 71 I'APP,PS • •,} PARIS; MAR CHCB.-r-SOMC tie\Ni regulations lute been published in the Bavarian territory, infliaing very heavy penalties, and, in . some cases, even cot-- poral. Punishrnent,"upon persons convi&cd of export-. ink English merchandize beyond the Rhine. His Majesty's Brigs thcOrestes and Pylada have taken and sunk the English Sloop Elizabeth, Capt. SILK, from Jersey to Limerick; the Tartar Priva i.teer, of ten 6-pounders, Capt. JOHN PARDY ; and t the Ilord Nelson Cutter, Capt. - LEFEVRE, from Guernsey, of fourteen 6-pounders. Ninety-one pri soners, belonging to these vessels, have been landed in France: The Minister of. Marine departed from hence on .Saturday last, to make an inspelion on the sea-c oas t s of the Clinnel; and it is probable that he will also pity a visit to the Dutch Ports- . . • / • General CLARK, who was lately G overnor o f Vi enna, has returned hither, and resumed his seat. in • the Council of State. . • General VIAL, French Ambassador in Switzer land, is arrived here on leave of absence. M. BAADER, Provincial Councillor of the King of BAVARIA to the EtnperorNAßoLEms - ,having, during his residence at Munich, handed him a Plan to re store the celebrated Water-works at Marley, has now obtained permission from. his Sovereign to repair . to Paris for the purpose of communicating his Plan to the National. Institute. M. REGNAULT, Government Commissary to the • French Batavian Expeditionary Division, which has also nacle.:the campaign in Germany, is returned.to the Hague. General QUITS, with his Staff, arrived .at Nnme.guen.on the 26th inst. with the Regiment of Batavian Hussars, and a part of the 2d Regiment of Dragoons. On the 26th, arrived in the same city, Gen. VAN HADEL, with a Battalion of the 2d.Re gimeut of. Waldeckers, 430 men strong. Nothing certain is as yet known respelling the arrival of the last column of the Batavian The celebrated Dr. GALL arrived at Utrecht on 'Moriday.last ; and after having paid a visit to several of the Literati of that city, and viewed some of the curiosities: he proceeded for Amsterdam. SEMLIN; MARCH I.—We hear that a large Tur kish Army is asseiiibling.on the Banks of the Drina, and which is.expe4edto advance shortly, so that the fate of the Servians will be soon decided. CZERNI GEORGE, On, re,ceiving this intelligence, found him-, self under the, necessity of raising the siege of. Bel grade, and of sending- the greatest part of his force .to the Drina, to reinforce : the Servians, who are posted to cliipute, the passage of that River.. He hls summoned all . the inhabitants of Servia to join him - en-niasse. Great numbers of women have taken refuge on; our territory with their children. CZERNI_ GEORGE is now before •Schabatz, which he purposes to attempt by storm, and then to march, with the residue of his Troops, against the Turks in Bosnia. - The chief forceS of the latter, according to the last accounts, were separated in t wo di v i s i ons ; one of which was! posted in the neighbourhood of Tolzach, and the other near Zwernich. VIENNA, MARCH 16.—General ST. VINCENT, at present in Paris, is particularly charged to negociate an.lnciernnity for the Archduke FERDINAND, as a recompence for the Briscrau. There are also some difficulties to be removed, which had arisen respea ing _the D achy of Wurtzburgh. • General ANDREOSSI will depart from hence as soon as his successor arrives. There is a report current here, that a bloody battle has been foUght between _the Servian and Turkish vans, and that the former are the Conquerors. The Austrian General Count, NosTarrz. has not suffered the outrage committed upon him by Prince .DOLGOBUCKI, in accusing him' publicly, and as he dares to say officially, of not having done his duty in the Battle of Austerlitz. The Count has de manded satis66tion. .This . affair has excited a con siderable. interest ; the Count is determined to vin dicate the., honour of the Austrian. Army, publicly and pfficially‘tarnished by the Russjan Officers, who, to conceal the shame of their own Army, have been equally base and unjust in imputing the cause of their defeat to their Allies, though the number of the latter in the beaten Army was only in the pro portion of one to ten. The Austrian General has declared in his challenge, that this, shall be un com bat_ a mart. The Russian General .has accepted it but hitherto we have heard nothing of the re sult.—(Moniteur.)- NirLES,,•MARCH 4.—Four Gun 7 boats daily an noy the Mole of. Gaeta the shot came from \ the batteries upon that point, which killed General GRIGN'f.- We every day expea the surrender of the Fort, notwi,thStanding the Prince of Hesse Phi lipstal, a Nephew to the Queen, has pledged himself 'to defend it-to . the.last extremity. Marshal JOURDAN is on his way from Paris to take the cOrnmand of the City of Naples. Marshal MAssENA set out from this on the 26th to reconnoitre .Gaeta, and returned on the 28th. He has sent off a' great quantity of artillery for the siege of that place, which is already commenced under the Command of General LACMIR. BERLIN, MAacx.l2.—We are assured, that the 'Proclamation for authorizing the Civil Possession of Hanover, is Ai the Ptess. The cannon that - has been sent to Cuxhaven, it is said, is destined to,be 'made use of in Batteries for shutting up the Sound. —(llloniteur` _ _ The Duke of BRUNSWICK arrived here yesterday froin St. Petersburgh, and alighted at the Royal • Castle. Ii'aANKF9RT, MARCH 21.--The division of France into Departments and. Districts, it is understood, is to serve fora model for the new Kingdoms in the South of Germany, 'allied, to France. -- The head-quarters of the French Army will soon be fixed at Strasburgh, where Marshal BERTHIER is shortly expeaed. DUSSELDORFP, MARCH 23.—Last night three. Couriers arrived in this City ; and shertly afterwards the report was spread that a change was to take place in our Government. This morning 700 French ar rived here, and who, in the course of an hour, were folloWed by Coo more. An eleven o'clock a Proclamation was read by the Sydicus, from the Town-House, by: which it Was announced to the ditizens; that the King of BAVARIA had ceded that, Country to the EMPEROR of the FRENCH, who had appointed Prince MURAT to be Hereditary Duke of CleYes and Berg. In the forenoon the Bavarian marched out.of the City. The Duke of ,I:I:KREEi.D•set off with his retinue for - Ilareuth, from: whence he Will repair to . ,Amberg. Ail the Constitnted Authorities in the cOvintry of Berg' reL ,main at their .posts, and have taken 'the requisite oaths of allegiance to their' new Boyereign .before the Commission appointed 611' that purpose,' in pre sence ofthe Fi-ench Cieneral. The French Troops who have entered - this City, came from Deuti,, and belong to the. Division of Din''citsi. They are now, 2706' Men strong. MARCH 25 .- 2 Tiiis day will be'meenOrable,in the: annals' of our CitY, it being, the firsr.tirne that we had the honour of beholding our, near Prince ikithin . our wails. Larly. in the morning, fifty discharges of cannon announced - the rejoicings 'Of the day ,• 'aund at nine o'clock the Citizens assembled '; and marched out 'of the City with music playing, wliefe they formed in fWorankS; and joined those of the French military. The Merchants had alsO set Out to nie:et the Duke, and the Clergy waited for him at the City . gates, which he ,entered at one o'clock, amidst the ringing of bells and the acclamations of the peo ple. The Duke having alighted at _the Palace, re ceived there the congratulations of the several C leffes. This evening the whole City will be illu mutated. , • • MILAN, MARCH has - .pleased His Ma jesty the Emperor and King, as Grand 'Master of tbe , Order of the Iron Crown, by decree of the 20th Feb. last ; to confer the grand insignia of that Order • on His: Highness Prince EUGENIVS NAPOLEON of France, Deputy. King of Italy,' his son ; on - Prince JOSEPH NAPOLEON and Prince Louis, his brothers, and on the Princes .MffIZAT and- BORG-HESE, his brothers-in-law. , After- niass, last Sunday, the Deputy-King distri buted the Badges of ,that Order w several of the great Officers of State. LEWES . ;, MARCH 3 1 .—The 2d 'Battalion of the 35th, or Sussex Regiment, in OUT barracks, have re ceived orders to hold themselVes in readiness to em bark for Sicily, where the Ist Battalion of <that Re giment has been stationed since the evacuation of Naples. The order was read on Saturday by Major BUNBURY, the Commanding Officer, and received by the men with' general satisfaction and three huzzas. Friday and Saturday two' diVisiOns, of the i7th Light Dragoons, commanded by General DEIAN CEY, which had been a - Considerable time stationed in Ireland, _marched into this town, on their route to Bletchington, and other.parts of the coast. Saturday the first division of the 34th Infantry, commanded by Lord SouTnAmrfos, marched into this town from Rye; on its route to Po'rtsmouth, where the Regiment is shortly to embark for foreign service. • MARLE - ORMIPH- STREET. - Charles • Hammond and George - . Bevan, the persons. charged with rob bing the- Reverend Mr. CRAVEN ORDE, in the Strand, have undergone a long private examina tion: It will, be remembered, that the Prosecutor was not present at the examination .of Bevan when he was taken ; and he could not,'at the present exa mination, swear positively to his person, although he believed,him to be one of the three - who accosted him, and that he was the person whnsnatched away h is purse. - Mr. Lingham, tailor, in the Strand, , ,swore. to Be van, as having paid him the bill of 181. the morning whichsubsequent to the robberywhichturnedout to have. been a part of the contents of the purse, for cloth ing to the amount of iH. Duplicates of part of the clothing were found on Bevan's wife, which she' had pledged at the shop of Mr. Page,, pawn-broker, in Sherrard-street, which rendered her an accomplice. With respeet to the prisOner Hammond, the evi- - dence given against him at the former examination was substantiated by the Clerkyman;at whose house he called himself a BOW-street Offieet; and charged the brother of Mr. C. Orde with a heinous crime, taking him for the Gentleman he had robbed: It was stated to the Magistrate . by one of the Officers, that Bevan. was an old _offender, andithe Magistrate recognised him to be so. A fellow was executed :scne years since for robbing a Gentleman, by charging him' with an unnatural crime, and a Subscription was set. on foot among his brethren to buy him a coffin; &c. and 201. was collected, andTevan made treasurer, when' he decamped with the money. The proparatious for the grand Entertainment to be given at the Mansion House on Monday next are on a most 'splendid and extensive scale. The principal apartments have uudergonevaripus altera tions and improvements, and the whole mansion-is beautified for the occasion.- The Egyptian Hall exhibits a display..of lights grand in the extreme. This noble strutture we have seen lighted in va rious ways—but, on the present occasion; it will form a most brilliant amp d'ceik The designs are masonic, and have never been exhibited on any occasion whatever ; the pillars are to_be lighted. on a- new plan, in order to display their !grandeur.— At the top of the Hall is an arch of laMps, a Royal Crown of a large dimension, with G. 13. ,and motto, Long may he Live '!" an anchor encircled with Wreaths of laurel, and other devices. Opposite'is a large plume of feathers, with G. P. W. a beauti ful star, supported by- a crescent of immense size the ground-work of all the designs in this biiilding are silvered. Immediately opposite the. entrance is a Bust of Lord NEL . SO in the centre of the Hall are suspended three magnificent cut-glass lustres.--,- The Saloon will be lighted in a Gothic style. In the centre of the large Room is a beautiful Crown. The six. stone pillars are wreathed with . variegated lamps and loyal oak leaves. The Ball Room will be lighted in a new style of elegance; there are six large festoons with double rows of lamps, two bril liant stars, and numerous other devices. The whole of the designs are under the direaion, and executed by Mr. PATRICK, of Newgate-street, whose talents' in this line are fully acknowledged. As a Gentle Man, on Saturday last, was going from the Borough to Old Broad-stret, to the house of Messrs. PENNEI. and Co. in the same"street, he lost his pocket-book, containing 6,0001. in bills of Exchange, and two Waterford Bank notes. Fortu nately the bills were not endon:ed. i _ . The spirit of emulatio n n rural improvement has extended to North Wales, and it is in conternplal tion to establish an Agricultural Society in Muntgo. perysliire. `/"~ -~ D lIBLIN, 1%,;A n ell 2.9. The Earl of HARD V.riCkE is expeaed to 'embark for Holyhead this day: Parochial rri::..tirigs of „the Rothan Catholics of .I..)u,blin were yeSterday held for • the purpose; it w;s said, of eleaing Delegates to • represent them in a General Assemhly.... . . Last night the City W as ill um i na t e d ; an d a feu de-joie was fired, for. Adniital Duckworth's Viaory, at ,St. Domingo. Upon the first rumour of our s4c 7 ces having, -arrived on , ,) , Vednesday evening, some houses Were.illurninated ; but there.not having - been any Order issued from authority for that purpose, .the Post-office, which bad ever been-foremost to set a loyal example upon similar occasions, was net,, lighted up, -which so", provoked the mob-,L-alwayi ready for Mischief- 7 ,that „they attacked the Office with stones, and did not leave a single unbroken, pane of glass in the sashes towards the street: In The course of the attack one of the principal. rioters was arrested in the very aft of breaking win (lbws, and brought into the office upon this a furi ous assault was 'cornmenced„ to rescue the prisoner, and 'was carried so far that an attempt N6s made to break open the doors . of the office, With violent threats ofg - those wholad thus offended the mob, and the danger had become very serious, • wheti la shot was fired 'over the heads of the assail ants, which s oon put them completely to the rout: The prisoner was then carded before the Lord May or, by whom he was admitted to ; others of the rioters are known, and will be prosecuted for this outrage. . . ,On - Wednesday evening a - serious affray tee!: plar.le at. North Sliields, between the.PreFs-gang and a riat-• ty of soldiers belonging to .thc. Sussex regiment„, Which originated in the gang seizing - three soldiers who were rather intoxicated, and confining *them in a room atthe sigti of the Tethered . Goose. The news of the imprisonment soon reached the other soldiers; who were in that part of .the town, 'when they as sembled before the house and deManded the release of the prisoners. This being refused with contempt . by thelang, the soldiers posted themselves at dil e , ferent parts of the dwelling, and commenced some- thing like a regular sioe-e, some forcing the doors and others botnbarding the windows with stories; by w:hich the beautiful Mascas' Lodge wilh',ot , and several others ,were'sliattered to pieces. The storm= ing party at length effeaed . a breaeh, and released the prisoners, when the gang received a severe chas tisement. The conquerors then made' the best of their way to Tynernouth barracks. Howeyer, after the main e body weregone, two 'mei] belonging to • the regiment were detained by some constables, and tried on Friday, which did not end till Saturday afternoon, when they were honoUrably acquitted, it being clearly prOved that they were innoc:‘nt, tho' a number of witnesses (may Heaven wink !) sword . against them in the most positive ,manner. OnTuesday theferry-boatbelonging to'N. Shioldsk in coming across tike River heavy loaden with wheat, sunk in the face of the girt. - The two ferry-men add the farmer Supported themselves by the oars till.boats Ome.to their assistance.. The boat and cargo have been since weighed: SINGU LL.II ClRCUNlSTANCE.—TbefiAlOWlngttr.cre rence took place a few days since, near town, Enid whether considered as the intervention of en over ruling Providence, or-'the effecrt'of a dream, is worthy of *particular notice, and ma y b e depended upon as fa& :—A Gentleman holding a high situation in the India House, who resides at Clapham, dreamed a few nights since that, he saw his servant maid dressed' in white, and covered with blood. He thought nothing of the dream ; .but it being repeated the two thljow ing nights, On the third he got up, and descending into the kitchen ; saw-the maid sitting by the fire-side, and dressed in white. : On .asking her what She was doing:up, in the middle of the night, she replied ;he was going tote married to the Gardener; who was` gone to the stable to fetch the horse,and cart. The _ Gentleman bearing a noise in the garden, and his suspicions being'awakened, he left the kitchen, and perceived his Gardener and another man digging a hole ; upon his approach, the Gardener fled, and upon the man being questioned, he replied that be was - digging the hole, at'the request .of the Gardener ; to bury some carrots in. The circumstance has created some conversation, the Gardener not having, been heard of since, and the servant maid is pregnant by him., _ . . CORONER'S INQUEST.—On Thursday afternoon an inquisition was taken 'at the Golden Lion public houSe, Dean-street, Soho, da a View of the body of 'John King, killed by falling from a garret window, at nine •o'ciczck fit the morning of the same day. It appeared that the deceased resided at the hous e of Mr. Lucas„ haberdasher, in' Grafton -street, and that he was a surveyor. A short time previous to his death, hewas seen in the street in a state of in toxication, and about half past eight went •to his lodging in the third story, apparently with intention to go to bed • he had nut, however, been long in his apartment : before he Was observed endfxr.-outing to get on the top. of the house, from the 'window, in which attempt he fell, knocked, of a piece of the parapet, and pitching his head on the stones of the back yard, was killed on the spot. Surgical assist ance, was procured at the moment of the accident, but every sign of life disappeared, and - the 1 - ody was_ conveyed to the , bonehouse.—Nerdia---" Tfic, :death of the deceased occasioned . by • ,the excess of „. drinking." An Inquisition was on Wednesday last taken at the King's Head, Newington-road, on the boiy of Richard' Cook, -a man in :the employ of Messrs. James and William Rroottfield, bricklayers, at worth. The 'deceased was sitting on' a cart, and fell. between that and the hOrse, and the cart pas'sed over him ; h.e was immediately taken td 4 public house near the spot ; when a surgeon was 'sent . for, Who attempted to bleed him,, but without effeEt:— Verdi Accidental death." • " We can, form-opinions of that we know not: ; says a. Celebrated writer of anti(juity, " only by placing it in comparison with something that we do, know." This maxim 'iS,excelh.tntly illustrated by the opinion whi - Oli already fiegitis .to be entertained' of. the present- : State Lottery, , whieh, having-been compared with:•geverat that have Of late f'reeeded - it : , is found to . .be more - ddruirably calculated to _afford the chance of a, splendid inclopen s dence 'to every class acouiputiturs for the dohations Of Fortune. ' ( 11 4 ( 11 ~_ y -~~ • s ~~,