The Sun. — London, England, 1806-12-18 00:00:00

I IMPERIAL PARLLIMENT. HOUSE OF-PEERS. WEDNESDAY, DEC. 17. HOUSE' OF COMMONS. WEDNESDAY, DEC. 17 . Cortenburgh, t Dublin, 2 I,Vateribrd, PRICE OF STOCKS THis DAy.AT TWELVE O'CLOCK. lted. Ann: •. Consols - create. THE SU N. SOLEM QUIS DICE RE FALSUM AUDEAT? L 0 N THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1806. I'ICTUALLiNG-OFFICE , Dec. i 7,. igo6, THE COMMISSIONERSfor VICTUAL LING His IVIA:IESTY's NAVY do hereby Rise Nothe, .That :on Monday the 29th inst, they will be ready to receive Tench, s, in uniting (sealed up), and treat for the Supply Of what FRESH BEEF shall be demanded for' thetik'orliis MajestY's Skips and 4e.i,cls.at Yarmouth, Lynn, and 41146„ i>f the County of Yorfolk ; and as New Rotting, in Dove's . Roth ; and at Margate (on separate Contratis), for Twelve Months, from the Ist.of . 7.tnueny to the 3tst Of December, 18a7, inclusive; and to he paid for 6? Bills, payable, with Interest, nineiy days after dare. , The Cosa/dont of the Contreras in.!) , be seen at the Secretary's Office, at this Office; we by app?ying to the Cdlenge of the CUS.. toms at Yarmouth; or to Mr. ' Russell, the Agent for the Itiaka lbw, at Dover. " Nu regard ;oil/ he bad to any Tender in which the Pt ace shall :mt.& inserted in wards at length, Of that that mLecdeliver‘ed to the Board before One o'clock on the said 'lo74ay the 291/) instant, nor unless the •Person•who makes . the ..7:ancler, or some' person on hit behalf, attends, to answer, when called for. The HoUse met about three o'clock. A few Lords who came in took the oaths, amongst whom were the Marquis of Headfort, the Earls of Jersey, Caernarvon, Egremont, Thanet, the Bishop of Chi chester, Lords Auckland, Redy, Mr, Ivlarriot, from the,Office of the Clerli of the Crown for Ireland, presented the return of the election of the'Earl of Charlemont, as'.one of the representative Peer; of Ireland, in the room of the 'Earl of Llandaff, deceased ; which was read at the table.—Adjourned at four o'clock till to-niprrow (this day). The SPEAKER came to the House at twelve o'clock, but it only wanted a quarter to two when a suffi dent number of Members appeared to make a House. A House being at length formed, the swearing proceeded ; but the number sworn in the . coarse °Oho day ‘iias not great, Among them we observed Mr. Windham, the Lord Advocate for Scotland, Mr. Robson, Mr. Wickham, Mr.'Caven dish I3Facishaw, and Mr. Richard' Wilson. The Speaker intimated that lie would come to the House to-morrow at one O'ClOck, and take the Chair as soon after as the attendance of i\ldmbers should enable . him to do so.—Adjourned at lout o'clock. Sss 59 It is with the depeSt concern that we,announce the Loss of His Majesty's Ship L',lthenienne, of (4. guns, and the greater part of her Crew. She struck Upon what, we believe, are c:illed the e‘ Es (piques Rocks," in the Mediterranean, She was go ing with a Convoy. for Sicily and • .4191t 4 a, and had 10,0001. in specie on board. The Captain (RAINS- Fosp), three Lieutenants, and,' we fear, near 3GO of the crew, perished. Lieut.-Gen. CA'stritELL, who was on board, was, vise are' happy to `add, among. those who were'saved. ' We have authority to contradict a paragraph, which appeared in a Naming" Paper of yeSterday,. and in several of the Papers of this dayi,- stating, that five Ships belonging to the Expedition un 2 . der the command of Brigadier. , General • ') ! RD had put . rinto Ilfracombe. No such, event. has occurred, nor is it probable that any of those Ships will now be. obliged to put back. _! intelligence whatever reached Town this morning from thy. C,mitinent.' There are now four Gottenburgh Mails due ; we anxiously wait for their arrival, as it is through them only that we can now -expea any authentic accounts from the Continent. In th,e'mean tune we feel it to be our duty to caution our Readers not.to indulge in those sanguine expeaa tions of immediate and decisive success,,Which some of the reports lately circulated are calculated to Nothing.. can he fatther from our in tention than ,to c!.,cite sentiments of despondency. With prudence and . perseverance much may, and we trust will, be /done upon the Coiltinent but it is absurd to. suppose that the;Fr?n - ph Army can be annihilated in a single battle, or , that the fate of the War can be changed in a single day. It is only by the adoption of a protraet ed system of 'warfare, by constantly harassing the, Freach Army,and cautiously avoiding a general a6tion, except under circumstances that must al-, most ensure success, that the French can now be successfully OPPosed. We have Continued our Extrads frorri the Fo- reign Jourrialgamolig them will bz..: . foUnd an in tere§ting account of the capture of the 'celebrated FRA DIAVOLO. • Yeterday, 'about twelve o'clock, THEIR TAIA'-- JESTIZS and the PRIN•CRSS'ES, attended by Lady ELY, arrived in town, in their travelling carriages, 'from Windsor, at the Queen's Palace. At ti*rd &clock His , MAJESTY held a private Le vee, which was attended by • The Archbishop of Canterbury. • The Lord Chancellor.. . . The First Lord of the Treasiary, The Secretaries of State fur the Home ani Foreign Depart ments. The FirSt Lord of the Admiralty. The Master-General of the Ordnance. The judge Advocate. . I . The Lord Steward of the Hoilsehold. Count Monjoy :Freiberg. Marquis of Salisbury. Lords—R. Fitzgerald, Heathfield,' Headley, and Arden. Sir H. B. Neale. General Hope. • The following had the honour of being presented to His MAJESTY :7- Count Monjoy Freiberg, Chamberlain to the late Duke of Brunswick, by Viscount Howick ; when the Count deliver ed to His Majesty the Insignia Of the Order of the Garter worn by the lee Duke. Lord Headley, on coming to his title, by the Marquis of Salisbury. lord Robert Fitzgerald, by Viscount Howick, upon his return from his Embassy at L►sbon. •General Hope, upon his being appointed to the Command of the sth Royal West India Regiment.. 1-11 - s MAJESTY gave audiences to Lords GREN VILLE , and HOWICK. • HER • MAJESTY and the PRINCESSES honOured Lady CHARLOTTE FINCH with it visit, soon 'after two o'clock, at her house in St. James's Palace, and afterwards , they went to dint: with the Duke of CAMBRIDGE, at his apartments in the,Palace. At five o'clock the Royal Family set off on their return to Windsor, escorted by a party of Light Horse. • HIS MAJESTY is expe&ed in town again on Mon day, when, it is supposed, the Addresses of the Two Houses of Parliament will be presented to.bim. Yesterday . a Court of Direaors was held at the Eastlndia . House, when the under-mentioned Com inanclers took leave previous to departing for their respeEtive destinations :- ! --Capt., SOHN PATTERSON, of the Duke of Montrose, for St. Helena and Bengal;, Capt. Jonw EASTFIELD, of the Admiral Gardner,' and Capt. RICHARD COLNETT, of the Castle Eden, for Madras and Bengal. Capt. WN. BURGESS was 'Sworn into the command of the Airly Castle, des tined to St. Helena and Bengal.--The Co,t . irt ad journed at six o'clock till Tuesday next. Letters from Surat mention,,that, in consequence of the remonstrance' of Mr. MERCER, the Company's ReSident, the communication , between the former place and Judpoor, which had been 9bstruded by SCINDEA, is again open to the native traders. The markets for copper, cloth, spices, sugar; opium, - and rice; are well supplied- from Tatta, Jeypere; and Mewar. The roads which . lead from Surat to Jud, poor,: through Guzerat and Ahmadebad, are now petty well cleared of the banditti which infested them, and laid ithe Merchants under contribution. Some of the depredators consisted of the refuse of the Mahratta armies. •. Kirknitz, or Czernitz, in Germany, is remarkable for its famous Lake; called Czernitz: r Lake, or Sea, which is ten miles, long an eight broad; encom passed with mountains and forests at some distance, and on the east side with. forests of pear trees. The water sinks under ground every year in June, through. . many large holes in the bottom, leaving it quite dry till September, when it returns spouting out of those holes with such violence, that it soon rises to the height of a pike, and covers all the ground again, making that space a sea which was before fields of corn, pasture, and bunting ; for after the retreat of the water the people sow corn here, 'which ripens for the sickle before September ; and the grass grows here so quick, that it affords pasture for the cattle and deer, that are turned into it from the neighbour ing' hills and forestS, which are taken off before the springs rise again.---The fish that abounds here are carp, eels, tench, &c. which none must catch with-, out licence from' the' Prince cf Eckenburgh (who is Lord-of the Manor), till: the water retires, .and then the peasants' catch great numbers, by laying their nets over the hOles. The adjacent inhabitants say .the lakeS constantly observe this course, but can give no reason for this strange ph(enomenon. •-•TALLRYR AN D.—lt is well known that this mis chievous Agent, or, perhaps, prompter of the de signs ot BONAPARTE, is of a family nearly the most antient irt France ; .but it has, we think, not been noticed; that, his family were once the subjetas of England... They were so, however, for a few years, in the L4-th century. The . Peace of 1360 placed their then extensive possessions under the Sovereign ty of EDWARD 111. and within•the immediate juris 'diEtion of the. Prince of WALES, who then held his. Court ,at. Bourdeau.r. In this 'situation the Earl of Perigord was restless, until by his appeal to the Court of France, upon the subje4 of a hearth-tax .imposed by EDWARD, he had produced a new war. —Another of the TALLEYR ANDS, a Cardinal, dis tinguished himself by his interference in a different way between the two Powers. For two days pre vious, .to the battle of POICTIERS, he : was employed in endeavouring to negotiate 3 suspension of arms. The demands of his Court were, hoWever, too exor bitant even for a handful of English to submit to, and the .expedients of the TA LLEYRAND of that day did not prevent a viaory, the glory of which, we may yet 'hope, will be equalled by the result of the. pt sent inevitable contest againSt the arms of a new • France, and the manceuvies of a new TALLEYRAi4D ! A MONsTErt.---Atiother of those unnatural mis creants,, who disgrace - humanity, and render them selves terrific to the female part of society, has been deteEted , in an indecent exhibition of his person to a young . woman in a pastry-cook's shop in Princes street. He was yesterday examined at Marlborough street OtliC9, and committed for trial. On Wednesclayievening, about eleven o'clock,.. Mr. Monkhouse, tillo‘Al-chandler, of Wigton, was .proceedinp: ladme froM Carlisle, he was attacked, near Newt Crcis, by a fellow with a large bludgeon, who aim , : t a blow at him, but which fortunately alighted on the saddle.. Mr. M. who. had a consi derable stun on him, escaped by putting spurs to his horse. Sir SAMVE . L HOOD bas applied to the Adtnit - Jlty fora Pension. JAL NE di S. PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 17. —La Sophie, Captain RAINSFORD, Termagant Sloop, Captain PETTET, and William Store-ship, arrived this evening from th6J Mediterranean, bring the melancholy account of the total loss of L' Athenienne, of 64 guns. The Captain. (RANSFORD), and about 240 of her people, are said to have perished. She was wrecked on the Esqui queS in the Mediterranean. Dispatches were landed this evening from the above Ships, and are forward ed per , the Mail to, ,the Admiralty. The Fleet which were under their 'convoy .separated three. days'since in a gale of wind. HARWICH, DEC. 17.—A Danish Brigantine, full of water, has been brought into this Harbour by . three Fishing Smacks, loaded with timber and deals, bound to Bristol, having beeri on shore upon the GallOper Sands, and deserted by the Master and part of the Crew. The Gbede Werwagting, MECH.MYCH Master, with coffee, and the Goede Werwagting, GRERT DIRKS Master, with sugar, from London to Am sterdam; have put into this Harbour. Arrived the Argo, of Berwick, Ron. WINDLAY Master, from Berwick, with oats, &c. and the Buc cleugh, of and from. Leith, both bound to London. Two Packets, with the Hamburgh and Gotten burgh Mails, sailed this day, and no arrivals what ever from the Continent. SHEERNESS, DEC. 16.—Sailed the Agincourt, of 64 guns, Capt. HILL, for Yarmouth 5 and Bonetta, Sloop of War, Capt. PHILLIPS, for the Downs. A large Merchant Ship, name 'unknown, is aground on the sand off Sherberry-Ness. DEC. 17.—They have struck the topmasts, &c: of the Merchant Ship, and have Lighters taking out her cargo, to . enable them, if possible, to get her off. - ' The Ruby, of 64 guns, is paying wages up to six months at Chatham. Ships in Commission at Chatham—Minotaur and Defence, 74 guns each ; Agamemnon, 64 ; Meleagar, 36 ; Tartar and Franchise, 32 each ; Favourite, Sloop ; Mariner, Gun-brig ; and Argonaut, 'Hospital-ship: FALMOUTH, DEC. 15.—Arrived His Majesty's Ships Fortune and Swallow from a Cruize, and re main with the Ships as per last. His Majesty's Ships Plantagenet and the Lavinia are at anchor off the Harbour. DEAL, DEC. 17.—Arrived and sailed for the River the Swallow, KERR, from Smyrna ; President; LYNCH, and the Saliba , BRYANT, from Teneriffe. Came down from Sheerness the Sceptre, CoLL.ms, and Rencrnmee and several other Transports, and re main in the Downs with the Ships as per last. Y AIIMOUT 11, DEC. 17.—A large Vessel belonging to Dantzic, bound from thence to Londow, with a cargo, struck upon a sand off Winterton, near this Port, and is entirely lost. All the crew, except six, are arrived 'safe here : it is feared that they `are drowned. r 7" GREENOCK, DEC. 15.—The tide rose to a greater height hereon Saturday than for many years past, but we have ir.!ard of no material damage suffered from On Thursday last the James, HENDERSON, .of Ir vine, frour . Belfast, struck on the Brest Rock, and afierwards floated off, and .drifted ashore atTurn berry, where she is totally wrecked. A soldier, wife-and child, who were passengers,. were unfqr tunately drowned; the rest , of the passengers and crew got safe , on shore. • • • The Eleanor GUITRIE, from' Liverpool, foi Wex-; ford, is lost near Beaumarais. _ . 'The ROT, --, of Liverpool, is lost near Balti more, Anierica. . The Trio, Puttvzs, of South Shields, is arrived in Ramsgate Harbour, with the' loss of anchors and. cables, - after escaping from a French Lugger Leer, under Dungeness, which fired several volleys into her, and much damaged her upper works, sails, and rigging--; the Trio ran for the Ness:-Beach, and. was nearly on shore, when the Privateer sheered otf, and stood for some other Vessels, to leeward. • • The Regular Force going to Ireland will he -coli c siclerable. The Infantry. that have already received orders for that destination amount to , tiooo men. The -Brigade of Major-General HILL; consisting :of the 4th, 14th, and 91st, now at Hythe, are cKpec.t ed in a few days at Ramsgate, where they will em bark, and proceed down Channel. Gen..WELLEO.: LEY'S Brigade, consisting of the 3d, 7th, ,and Bth, or King's Own, will proceed, as we have already slated-, I through London, and by the Paddington Canal, to Liverpool. The Bth commenced its march in two divisions on Monday ; the first division will arrive in town on . Friday, and the second division on Satur day,, .The 7th Regiment commenced its march on • Tuesday, and the 3d will follow on Saturday. Some Regiments of Cavalry also expe6t orders for the same service. LIVING CONNEXIONS.—Last Week 'a • child was born in Kihnarnoci With the following connexions-- two grand-fathers, two grand-mothers, two great gra Id 7 lathers, one great, grand-mother, beside uncles, aunts, &c'. A man of the name of Lewis, at Alvanply,. iii Cheshire, has ten c,hildren that measure 20 yards. FOREIGN lATELLIGEIVCE. PARIS, DEC. I.—Letters from Auch mention Ole death of - PIERRE MONNEDE, at the age of tig years• ,and, four .months. He worked as a day-labourer till p little before his death. He recolle&ed the war of -the Spanish Succession in the reign of Louts XIV. Ile died through hunger, occasioned by his not be-. ing able to swallow, through weakness, the food which .was given to him. He bad never been sick in his life. NARLFS, Nov. 12.--Tbe following are the ' par ticulars of the last proceedings on the arrest of FRA. DIAVOLO, the wretched - agent of the Court of Pa lermo and Sir SIDNEY SMITif. For several days only a small part, of the male faCtors attached to his. fortunes remained with him, with whom' he endeavoured to reach some of the ' , English Ships. . From the mountains of Sarno he AleSeended to Castel-a-mare. Not being able to escape from that quarter, he proceeded, to Salerno, and followed the coast ; from whence, some days before, a large boat, probably intended to ' receive him, was discovered. Being pursued by the Pro vincial Guard of Monte-Corvino, he. took shelter in ' the mountains of Olivaro anti Campagna. VITA ADELIZZI, his Lieutenant, was killed in the house of a peasant near that " town, by two National. Guards, who wounded another of his companions. On the 9-gth ult. S. BELARDI, of Palermo, another Officer of FRA DIAVOLO'S troop, was met by a pa.- - trole of the National Guard, and was not put to death, in consequence of his prOmising to discover to them a hidden treasure. In consequence, he • concluded them to a myrtle grove, about a mile off, where they fOund a great . banner, richly embroi dered by the hands of Queen CAROLINE and her datighters, which FRA DiAVOLO had received from_ i Sir SIDNEY SMITH 35 the standard of general' irt . surreelion and massacre. Near it another English standard was found, which &LARD' declared had been given to JOSEPH PEZZA, the younger brother of FRA DIAVOLO. . This wretch, having successive. , ly lost all his companions, fled with - a single brigand, from the neighbourhood of Campagna, and 'passed near Eboli, through the midst of a French detach „went, without being known by them. Hd was wounded, bare-footed, in rags, and walked with difficulty. He .went to the village of Baronise, near San Severino, to,buy a-pair of shoes. The Apothe . cary, who was a corporal in the Town Guard, seeing an unknown person in such a state, began to-suspeat him, and asked him who he was ? His answer was, " that he was a Calabrian, who was waiting for his companions." The . Apothecary invited hint to his house, where he was immediately arrested, and con- duffed .to Salerno.- He-was there identified by a ) !t krerjeant in the Neapolitan Infantry.: MADRID, Nov. 21.—Letters from Grenada men tion a second earthquake, but do not contain any details of _the. first, which gives us reason to hope that the accidents have not been -so- fatal as we have been taught to expect. They speak much of .a journey which the King intends to make to Valencia, a country to which he is extremely partial. NAPLES, Nov. 14.—They write from Capri, that the north winds have done much damage,there.— Eight vessels were lately driven on shore, and, among others, a Polacre, laden with provisions, from Palermo, and a small armed vessel employed as a cruiier upon the coast. Capri is-short of_ pro visions. It often happens that they do not know where to get supplies for the garrison, composed of 8•00 men, Calabrians and Sicilians, and who do not conceal heir discontent. (FROM THE ARGUS.) " Many French, Journals have asserted, that the object of the Message sent on Tuesday ,last to the Senate, was to communicate an Irpperial 11-oree, prohibiting all correspondence with the British ~ i.slands, and the confiscation of British property, public and private, which might be7found - in France, or on any of the territory occupied by the French troops. We expel the publication of the. documents and official pieces, which may allow more. light upon, and give chore importance, to ,this _measure. As we run a risque of erring as to the details, until we have the -I.vhole before - us, we shall only sub: mit the folloWing refledions, suggested to us by the first idea which this news presents, with 06. 7 ,fian and distrust:" .•:" This Decree, ..brought about by extraordinary circumstances—by an exaggerated ablise of the new Maritime Legislation adapted by Baglitod-rtan not be considered.but as a reprisal exercised by an enemy whose patience and generosity England has,, at length, exhauted.'This Pecree seems to out rage the ideas generally reccked, in which one isnot accustomed to hear such language from the mouth of the "Conqueror of Austerlitz and Jena ; but the opinions hitherto , adoPted respeCting the maritime code, and the application that tigland has made of them, were false in themselves, tareign to the law of nations, contrary to humanity, and repugnant to the present civilitation of Europe. " Continental wars, in the infancy of society, and during the invasion, of the barbarians, were ex actly what the maritime wars are at present with re spei to civilized nations. " Onemay feel astonishment, but still this is no thing beyond strict' troth in these ferocious wars the property and the persons of the vanquished paSsed over to the conqueror; individual was never distinguished from public property. Force was Ale r only law acknowledged. We read the history , A bese calamities with horror, and yet we can still -look upon them with tranquillity in the present maritime wars. The English pillage individuals of their property with impunity ; they, treat their per sons as slaves they even pay no regard to neutrals. The legislation of the' English is, in every respeti, the legislation of pirates Or barbarians. " If every Power possessed the means of resist ance nearly equal; they would soon feel the neces sity of recurring to' principles less destrndive of all ,society--of all reciprocal commerce = of all common industry. They would soon distinguish, as they hay done in the continental war, betweep the person of the7nation„ and public and private property. But Ittrgland most t'onveniently , appotles every develop-. went of social ideas, as in tins respe& she sets up an exclusive systena of morals and laws for herself