The Sun.
London, England, 1806-10-20 00:00:00

NORFOLK ELECTION.

THip, Friends of the Right Hon. WILLIAM
WINDHANI and THOMAS wit.i.tAm COKE,
Esq. are earnestly requested to • u►ect at the Queen's ['lead,
Gray's-inn Gate, Holborn. on Tuesday, the ztst Oaloher,
rsso6, at Seven &Clock in the Evening precisely, to consider
of the best mean, of securing their Return for the County of
Norfolk, at the next ensuing General Eledian.

To the WORTHY an.l INDEPENDENT FREEMEN of
the CITY (.t. CANTERBURY.
A DISSOLUTION of PARLIAMENT. Ix;ing
.L shortly expeded, I ►mce more take the liberty of of—
fering my Services to represent you.
Should I :win have tout honour, it will be the ambition
of ►ny future Conduzi, as it has been the pride of toy past,
to maintain your Liberty and-Independence.
I shall take the earliest opportunity of paying my personal
Te pests.

I have the Honour to be, Gentlemen,
Your most obedient and devoted humble Servant,
1011 N BAKER.

St. Stephen's,
Thursday Evening, O. 16, iBc6.

Tattle C ENTLI',NIEI4,CLERGY,and FREEHOLDERS,
of tho COUNTY cif SURREY.

GENTLZMIN,
IT being now pretty generally reported that a Dis-
st,liition of Parliament is about to take place, I lose no
Inn i expressing my anxious hope, that at the ensuing
I:.l,Ndion I ,11411 rot be deprived of the distinguished honour
have alreidy five times conferred on me, of representing
y the House ad Commons.
Witnout presuming to arrogate to myself, from personal
:.rest pretensions to your confidence, I yet
It let I ii:Jy Ot' allowed some claim to your present sup-
. u the nature of that by which in ether times
I have been ho;v ; and I indulge a melancholy pride in
'reminding you. that formerly I. had the constant happiness of
ranking among my Friends on your Hustings, that illustrious
Statesman and most excell.ait Man, whose recent Lots the
whole wo:1d has now so heavily to deplore, and whose Me-
mory, held in sacred reverence by every British Heart, must
neeessaril, be so in a peculiar degree by the Inhabitants of a
County to which he was warmly attached, and in which he
so greatly delighted to liVe.
- The Constitutional Doetrines which he uniformly asserted,
the System of Politics which through life he maintained, are
indelibly impressed on my mind, and as they must ever regu-
late my Conduct} in Parliament, they arc the only grounds on
which I can venture to solicit that which it is my highest
ambition to retain, the good opinion of the Independent 'Free-
holders of Surrey.

1 bays:. the Honour to be,
heait,felt gratitude and esteem.
N our obliged and dewed Servant.
WILLIAM 11.USS;.:LL.

THE intelligence received by the Carteret Packet,'
which arrived at Falmouth OH Friday from Malta,
'gives us strong reason to hope that before
.this time
our ,Navy has obtained. another glorious viElory.
On the Ist of this month the Carteret was off Ca-
diz, and perceived the whole of.the Spanish Fleet
in that harbour preparing to sail, and four of them
adually under weigh. On the same clay the Car-
teret fell in with Lord COLLINGWOOD'S Fleet, con-
sisting of nine Sail of the Line. 'A boat from the
Ajax, 'of 74 guns, came alongside of the Carteret,
and the. Officer who was in it stated, that Lord Cot-
LINGWOOD had received positive inforMation that
the Spanish Fleet intended to put to sea. On. the
the Carteret saw a Ship of the Line stand-
ing in to join the British Fleet, which would
maVe Lord COLLINGWOOD'S Force ten Sail of
course not the -smallest. doubt can be entertained
of the result of. an engagement, if the SPaniard3
should really venture out. Indeed, we can scarcely
bring Ourselves to believe, that a Spanish Fleet of
e Sail of the Line. Would put to sea in the face of a
British Fleet of 10 ; but it is possible that the
Spanish Government may have resolved td make
a desperate effort to recover Buenos Ayres, and
that the French Squadron which escaped from Brest
a few days ago was destined to co-operate with the
Spaniards for the accomplishment of that objeet.—
From the position; however, in which Lord Col,
LlNGwoon:s_Fleet was seen, and his knowledge of
the 'intention of the Spaniards, it is hardly possible
that the Spanish Fleet could escape him.

COMMENCEMENT OF HOSTILITIES

BETWEEN
FRJ XCE AND PRUSSId.

A Hamburg/4 Correspondenten of the 14th has
reached town, which contains intelligence of the
aetual commencement of Hostilities between Prussia
and France. The details are not given with any
degree of precision in the correspondenten. It op-
pears, however, that the advantage was on the side
of the Prussians : the following is the statement to
which we allude :

" BERLIN, Ocr. I.—Hostilitiei have at last
commenced: the public evinced the greatest joy on
being-informed thereof by the following Letter :

THE FItINCE OF HOHENLOHE TO THE PRItiICESS

OF SALM, DATED 04T. 9.

" The small Corps of Gen. TAUENZIEN arrived
last night at Schleitz, without the loss of a single
man. I expea the Corps to-night at Neustadt:
Our good BAYREUTH'S Troops have had the
great satisfaaion of receiving the first fire. The
French have lost ten men.

4‘ A Letter from Head-quarters assures us, that
General BUDWIC'S Hussars have token eight bun-
,
dred prisoners."

The. French have been for some time strengthening
their right wing, which is at Bamberg, by very large
reinforcements, intending, as it was supposed, to at tack
the left of the Prussians, which is stationed in the vici-
nity of Hoff, under Prince HonEtzt.onE. These two
Corps were the nearest to each other, and between
them, as might have been ekpeCted, Hostilities have
first taken place. We regret very much that the Cor-
responfienten doeS.not furnish us with any particulars
respeaing this affair. It is probable from the follow-
ing passage that a part of the French Atmy under
GeneralS SOULT and DA 'OUST bad made an attempt
to prevent the jun&ion Of a Prussian Corps under
the command of Gen. TAIIENZIEN 'with.the Army
of Prince HOHENLOHE.

" SOULT'S and DAvousT's Corps of 16,000 men,
have not been able to prevent the junction of Gen.
TAUENZIEN with Prince HOHENLOHE, at Schleitz."
The Prussian Army is represented as amounting
to two hundred and thirty thousand men : this, we
fear, is a considerable exaggeration ; they are, how-
ever, numerous enough to contend with the French,
if they do not suffer them to choose both the time
and point of attack. The Manifesto .of the KING of
'PRUSSIA has been issued ; it is said to be couched in
uncommonly strong lapguage, and to conclude with
a declaration, on the part of his Majesty, of his in-
tention either•to CONQUER or DIE.

Since writing the above we have received the

Hamburgh Currespondenten of the 1 sth inst. which
contains the following intelligence, from which it
appears that the kit wing of the Prussian Army has
fallen back :

" ME:sse.N, OcT. 10.—Si-nteen tho,.ls3nd ineD

the of DAvousvand SuU LT hav:3 advancod
by, the way
,of Holt- On the Bth some of those troops
entered Hoff. Gen ToEN2isx retreated with his small

Corps to Schleitz, to preserve his communication with
the Army under Prince HOHENLOHE, whose Head-

quarters, according to the last accounts, were at
Jena. •The advanced Guard, under Prince LEWIS,

was at Rudolstadt."

The Gazette of Saturday last contains the details
of the gallant action in which Capt. Bum:owes, of
the Constance, lost his life.

WE understand that Lord ST. VINcENT -has writ-
ten to the .Board of Admiralty, requesting to be re-
called.

Yesterday morning His MAJESTY, attended by
Generals FazitoY and MANNINGHAM, Colonels
,TAYLOR and DESEOROUGH, inspe&ed the Blues and
I Stafford Militia, in Windsor Court-yard ; .and after-
wards walked to St. George's Chapel, with 'Prin
cesses AUGUSTA and MARY, attended by. Lady. AL-
BINA CUMBERLAND,. Generals FITZROY and MAN.
NINGHAM, Colonels 'TAYLOR and Destiottovnll,
where a sermon was preached
,by the Rev. Dr.
.DovAL, from 2d Corinthians, , lath chapter and
1 1 th verse.
The KING afterwards rode in his coach to Frog-
more to dinner, and returned at three o'clock.
Her MAJESTY,' Princesses ELIZABETH, SOrHIA,
and AMELIA, had divine .service performed in the
Castle, afterwards rode to Frogmore, and.returned
with His MAJESTY. • ,
The Earl of RossLym arrived on Thursday at
Portsmouth, from , Lisbon, on board the Lavinia
Frigate. His Lordship (nine to town, on Friday,
and waited upon. Viscount HoWicx ; after which
he had an interview with the Duke of Yoax.
We understand his Lordship has brought advices of
importance, transmitted to him by General Fox,
from the Mediterranean. ~
Mr. WINDHAM and Mr. Coax arrived at Nor-
wich on Satuiday, for the purpose of making an
aelive canvass for Norfolk. Mr. WILLIAM SMITH
arrived there the day before, and immediately began
to canvass the. City, • - -
A spirited contest is expe&ed at Colchester be-
tween Mr. DICKENSON, Mr. TUFFNELL, and Mr. R.
THORNTON.
Sir WM. DOLBEN has declined the honour of re-
presenting the University of Oxford in, the ensuing
Parliament ; and we understand that the Right HOn.
THE SPEAKER has been put in nomination as a Can-
. didate to succeed him.
Sir- FRA:WIS BURDETT certainly offers himself
again for Middlesex, with Mr. BYNG
We have been favoured with the sight of a letter,
written by a Professor in one of the Saxon Univer-
sities to a friend in town, from which we extract
the following passages, not as. containing any thing
in itself-unknown or curious, but as evidence of.
the state of the public opinion- in the most inde-
pendent as Well as the most enlightened port of
Germany :
" The political changes which are taking place
have 'been less the subjea of loud and public
conversation than you might ; expeet; not that
we were indifferent to them ; but it is otherwise,
now the Northern Coalition, and the friendship of
the Emperor of Russia, have kindled a game of pub-
lic spirit altogether unexampled :' it is an agreeable
surprise to us. Bavaria is most detested, and yet
pitied. PALra's death has had a great elle& upon
the minds of many. • -
In Prussia there' is little dissatisfaCtion remain-
ing since the King seems disposed to enter really
into the contest. On the contrary, there have been
somewhat riotous expressions of joy at Berlin and
elsewhere at the prospect of hostilities. Lately
' The Coffee-house Politician,' (Der Politische Kan-,
nengiesser) was given. The Players contriVed to
bring in a number Of • apt allusions, which the, pit
very welt understood, and received with rapture. So
in SCHILLER'S" Maid of Orleans," the Virgin's_spa-
triotie exclamations were most enthusiastiCally ap-
plauded. You see the Prussians are not °Ended
with their Monarch, whatever the Foreign Prints
may say—btit catis saperque:'
The report last week circulated that a Gentleman
was to do penance in St. James's Church yesterday,
attracted a great concourse of people. At half-past
ten St. James's Church-yard was quite crowded ;
and as soon as the Church doors were opened every
pew and seat were filled; and near 300 persons re-
mained in the Church-yard, the Church not' being
able to contain them. They continued there till
divine service, when a scene of great confusion en-
sued, a great struggle having . taken place between
'the persons coming out, who were met by those that
wanted to get in:'• In order to disperse the crowd
and, prevent confusion, it was 'industriously circu-
lated that the ceremony would not take place tilt
the evening, which had the desired elle& We
understand that the report originated from the fol-
lowing cause :—..A. Reverend Gentleman some time
back had been prosecuted in the Ecclesiastical Court
for ill-treatment of his wife, and a separation was.
agreed upon, by which he was to allow her a cer-
tain
maintainance ; which lie not haVing fulfilled,
and, at the same time publishing a libel against her,
which affeeted her character, the Lady had recourse
a second time to the Court ; on which the Gentle-
man being summoned twice to appear, and failing
to do so, he was in consequence excommunicated
yesterday week. I

TUE Tli ATR E.— The Suspicious Hastand was
represented on Saturday last at Drury-lane, and was
very well attended.—ELl,lsTots has a good concep-
tion of the animated playfulness of Ranger but
his a&ion is too measured and mechanical.—CaaLts
made his second appearance at this Theatre in the
charatier of Bellamy. He is a genteel looking
man, and very, well qualified to give such characters
more consequence than they have generally pos-
sessed:—PALNEß totally misconceived the part of
.lack Meggoi. His dress, as well as manner, was
more like that of a Box-lobby Lounger than au af-
fc&ed man of fashion with a taste for virtu.—
hiss DUNCAN was not uninteresting in the serious
passages of Clarinda, but was ridiculously atfefiegl
ifici childish in those of the gayer kind.

A / ; I_, E 117

From the LONDON GAZETTE, Oet. 3S.

Admiralty Office, 067.17.

Copy af a Letter from Sir fames Snumarez, Batt.
and K.B. Rear Admiral of the,Red, to Wm. Mars-
den, ET. dated at Guernsey, 061. 15, 1 806.

SIR,

I herewith inclose, for the information of my
-Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, a Letter I
have received from Captain Thicknesse,"of His Ma-
jesty's Sloop Sheidrake, giving an account of a gal-
/ant and spirited attack made by the Constance, Shel-
drake, and Strenuous Gun-brig, commanded by
Lieutenant Nugent, on the French Frigate La Sa-
lamandre, which they succeeded in capturing after
close andflevere aC-tion ; the Enemy's ship being sup-
ported 8y a strong battery' from the shore, and nu-
merous troops and field-pieces and musketry.
Whilst I sincerely lament the death of Captain
Burrowes, with the other brave men who have fallen.
in'this enterprize, I cannot too highly applaud the
'perseverance of Capt. Thicknesse, the'Otficers and
men under his orders, to prevent the Constance,
after'she had taken the ground, from falling into the
Enemy's, hands ; and it is a satisfattion to know
that their efforts so far prevailed, as to have rendered
her totally useless to the Enemy, having left her a
perfeEt wreck under the battery ; the Salamandre
having also grounded, they succeeded in destroying.
by setting fire' to her.

I am,

J. SAUMAREZ.