The Sun.
London, England, 1808-04-20 00:00:00

et success as an nt!IN j) proof of xiair of kno
and capacity, yet weitsdithsly (, 110 temon to com-
pliment that Gentletuatrots the prusverouss restw
any, measures that.
_f:solc. place while he wa3 Ow
he.t4 of the Naval Doparrin..lr,t; We cannot
dude without eNsp;-eossing our regret that Visitors.
who often manifest a disposition to support G.)vern-..
mint at tins awful cri.ii, when the Continent. of
Europe is wholly prostrate at the foot'of an irape-ri.
ous Usurper, who never can be satisfied fill he has
brought this Country to a still Mori disgraceful and
ruinous condition, should. PO frequently endeav•Air
to depreciatethat Depat:tsuont of. our National ser•
vice by which our independence an 4 btCplity
be chiefly maintained.

• •
On tionday mornin H g is MAJirrt, the puke of •
KENT Prince se, AUGUSTA acid SOPHIA, aCcompa-
niect by. Lady BUCKLKY, Count Mutts-ma; Getterals
FiTZROYand'GwYNNE; 100 k. an airing on.norseback
in Windsor Great Park, at twelte d'clook. • •
His NIA.JesZY is not (Apt,,cted in towel this day:
The Duke of Cothathou left Wiothor on Mon-
day for Lontitin, tis Oil the Archbishop of CANT;R-
BUttY, for his Pallce at Lambeth. •
The West
cout:-:ary India Convoy has been compelled by.
winds to put back.to St. fitlen's.
fibs COrtitnissiOneri ut l‘tilitaiy, Inquiry-10;4i Tyro-
ceeded hi) far with the Dcp.tetntatit of • thelAfrayOf-
fice, that their Report is c%petaed to belaki!oetore
Parliament loon after the recess. .•

The Speaker of the'Fignie .Conunons hag no-
tified ,his having recei‘-ed the Cominissioners'''',•torn,
iromlreland, of the evidence on tht--Thst-hiin Uni-
versity Eiettion, and dire&ed the Committee tti'rp-:
assemble, i.. order to• take the same into con:iinera-
lion, on .Tuesday the-ad Of May.

An 'account ha% been tai vii of the notices,
tions,'and divisions, which look place in
during the laic '‘winter months, on the subject of the
Orden,- in Council :.they amount to---Notices oiven,
24 ; lotions for Papers and DOates,, '46 ; °Divi-
sions, sb. ,

It is said that the voyage of the Dilke of OR-
LEANS, for the Mediterranean, haki in view an im-
portant political objea. •
The army under Sii GEoRGn Paevos.r and Gene-
ral lioutitmotr, it is calculated, will, hedisewl-+irkedd
at HaLfax before the Itodietort Squadron can ltaVe
reached that quarter.
We have rea:ton to.believe that a part art he .tni-
Nary' force under tut; command of General StUDlCitt
is destined for the protection of Sardinia; upon which
Island the Luerny lave fur Some time meditated an
attack. .

The 61 st Regiment is going to Guernsey, to be
completed for servien, under tie eye of that excellent
Utficer General Sir Joaw DOYLE. ."

We understand that the Portuguese Ambassador
ha 4 at length relaxed in his prohibition of cotton
piece goous to the Braiils.
The contests between the rival •Chiefs in' Hayti
cannot be viewed without some interest by a British
public. CURISTOPHEii decidedly' to the Inm-eat Of
&gland, and at pre.ent, a consillyablit
c..1,1e, with the viorts in' his po,session. ri veil; p*.;
TtOit i inppostid to have an understandiut vitii
BUOPAPARTB. though he dare, not yet avow a eo,)
neetion with France. Captain'GOMPALL, there/ere,'
when he'fought in behalf of Cgatiroritst, aerVed
the interest of his own Country..
Besides the Bulletin given in our Paper of Yester-
day, Cnats-rorne has published otw,.,dated Feb. 29,
giving an account of some advantages obtained over
his rival by land, in the parish of Mirabalais..—.
Cid aISTOPH A'S troops were commanded by ToVa.,
SAINT, a son, we believe, of. the unfortunate Chief.
who perished in a French 'prison under the tortures
of BuoNAPARTE. There is reason' to expea that
the next arrival from St. Dotningo will bring an ac.
coont of the complete discomfiture of PETION.
CiflilSTOrill: has under his command more
40,000 well disciplined troopS, and. is in posiession
of several strong places. PETION, on the contrary,
hash but few troops, and those almost entirely new
recruits.
JosErnlE DeSSALINEs.r—This Dowager Empress
has not :only been permitted by the popular successor
of her husband, to reside in the capital of St. Do.
mingo, but has receisted from him 30,000 dollars in-
demnity tbr some property destroyed by PETION.,
Being as prudent and wise in, adversity, as she had
been modest and humane in prosperity,, she has .for-
gotten her temporary elevation to reasetnber her na-
tive obscurity. She h,,s entered with spirit and he-
treaty into commercial transaetions, and is supposed
to have, within 18 mouths, more that doubled
upitat by the success attending her speculation. She
has transtiA used all her ci-druant maids of honour
into clerks; all her gentlemen in waiting into war ►
!Joust:well ;.' all her pages into portera, and all het
equerries and groom late waggoners and eartmen;.
Every day upwards of-fifty persons dine under :her
roof; and evtAk foreign, merchant or tra 4af*: et•!
spedability is her sumptuous table. As'
reguhirity, indisstry;;:and • liberality, haVe. hitherto
distinguished this:trading'npstart Suvereign; her te•L
putation and credit increase, aisd her coMmercitsl
cormeetion in England; as well as in America, are
both numerous and wealthy. ;.She often declare. 4,
that she is snore happy in her .magazine, than she
was in her Palace, and that behind her counter bilt
experiencei tramptillity unknown to -her when
seated on a throne. •

The Egypii.in Piece of Oiduauce in St. James's
Park, mounted on a new carriage made of English
oak, with cast iruu wheels on' a beautiful model, was
yesterday exposed to public view. The different fi-
gurative entablatures, repoienting a .distant view of
Camp before Alexandria, .and the Battle of
Abotikir at sunset, to which, Aritannia is seen ex-
ultingly pointing, :together" with the Aligator, ,de-
scriptive of the River Nile, being finely bronzed,
exhibit altogether a beautiful piece of British art and
workmanship.
*General JUNOT'S modest proposal should be first
Ins' ered by requiring him to deduCt 11..rpoutlfa pro•
vision for his 4rirly on its march home., and leave the
rest to those frau whom he took it.
The rirericli Emperor may have other iiews
regard to as a monarchy., hot his obvious Tux-
.;t to p,-Jvldtt for his vast armies, at iW expence
whiehlie A i,ites to avert tram his Pro:A balietqs
long as vio