The Sun.
London, England, 1806-12-05 00:00:00

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SHEERNESS, DEC. 3.—Arrived the Vesuvius Bomb,
Captain ARTHUR, from the Downs, with loss of
mizen top-mast.
Went out of Harbour the Speedy Sloop of War,
Capt. MUDDLE.
Sailed the Monkey Gun-brig. The Ceres has the
Convoy Signal flying for Tonningen.

DEAL, DEC. 4.—Sailed His Majesty's Ship Ama-
ranthe for Sheerness, and Shannon and Calypso on
a Cruize.

Put back to the Downs this morning by adverse
winds, His Majesty's Ships Humber, Fury, and
Prospero, with their Convoys bound to the West-
ward.

Arrived the Dauntless Praam from a Cruize, and
remains in the Downs with .the rest of His Ma-
jesty's Ships as per last ; also the William Pitt,
Bonetta, Melanthd, Diana, Amazon, Reliauce,Eagle,
Endeavour, Friends, Hero, and many other Trans-
ports, bound to the Westward.

We have authority to insert the Correspondence
which follows :
TO SIR FRANCIS BURDETT, BART.

SIR,

Ever since my entrance into public life, as a
Member of Parliament, it has been my earnest wish
to divest political differences of all personal animo-
sity ; and I have been at all times ready to concede
to others with regard to myself, the liberty I .have
assumed towards them, of the fullest and freest dis-
cussion of every part of my public condu&—but
there are limits beyond which it is not possible to step
without injury to the party who may happen to be
the subje& of animadversion—such as he must be
compelled to resent.
It is with pain I am forced to say; that I feel my-
self so injured by some passages contained in your
Advertisement to the Freeholders of Middlesex,
published in an Evening Paper of yesterday.
In the face of the People of England you tell me,
that by the publication of a Letter addressed to you
in answer to a printed circular Letter addressed by
you to me, as one of the Eleaors of Middlesex, " I
have aaed in a manner most unbecoming my station,
connexions, and charaaer."

After the account I gave you privately on tie
Hustings at Brentford respe&ing the Letter in ques-
tion, which was, " that it was written without con-
cert or consultation with any person whatever; that
T. began it within half an hour after the receipt of
your Circular Letter and Address ; that it was out
of my hands before four o'clock on the Same day ;
and that it was entrusted to the revision of one friend
only (and that not till after the copy addressed to you
had been sealed and dispatched), in order that he
might see whether, from the haste in which it was
written, it was not too inaccurate in point of • lan-
page for publication :" You say that " taddressed
that Letter nominally, and with dissembled resped,
to you ; but that I intended it as a political eledion
eering manoeuvre against the, Freeholders of Mid-
dlesex."

I did not dissemble, Sir, in any part of that trans-
aEtion, and at• the time I wrote I unfeignedly, as I
told you, felt respe6t towards you, and if you pos-
sess those feelings, with which I am still willing and
desirous to believe that you are actuated, you will
feel that it is impossible for we not 'to demand re-
paration for the injury my character must sustain
from a patient acquiescence under such imputations
as you have most unprovokedly thrown upOn me—
such reparaCon I demand at your hands.
Mr. BRAND has been so good as to undertake
to carry -this letter, and is the only person who is
acquainted with the circumstance of its having been
written—he will state to you what my demands are.
This is not the time to enter into what I conceiveto be the fallacy generally, or the injustice personally,
pervading the whole of your advertisement. .
You are certainly not so much in my confidence,
as to entitle you to tell the people what my- political
views are ; but I have never yet done any one po-
litical ad from the recolle&ion of which I shrink ;
nor will I ever do one, without making it as well
understood as my faculties will permit, what the
grounds are upon which that a6t was done.
It will be for the Public to determine then upon
my conduct. I remain, Sir,
Your obedient Servant,
Dec.. 2,1806. SAMUEL WHITBREAD.

SIR,

To SAMUEL WHITBREAD, EsQ.

Piccadilly, Dec.
_3,1806.

Nothing could have been more distant from my
intention than to introduce into the Advertisement
which I thought it necessary to address to the Free-
holders of Middlesex, any expression which could
be construed into personal disrespe& to yourself; and.
I take this opportunity of assuring you, that every
interpretation of its contents, which may be per-
verted into a sense personally disrespeEtfal to you, is
contrary to my meaning and intention.
I remain, Sir,
• Your most obedient humble Servant,
FRANCIS BURDETT.

P. S Mr. BRAND thinks it necessary to give pub-
licity to this correspondence, to which I can have
no objection,

From the FRENCH and DUTCH PA PE,iS.

TWENTY-SEVENTH BULLETIN OF TILE GaAND

ARM Y.

"BERLIN, Nov. 6.—At Stettin we found a con-
siderable quantity of English merchandizes, and in
that great entrepot of the Oder were also found sao
pieces of cannon, and a great quantity of proviions.
" The Ist of November the Grand Duke of Brno
was at Demmin, the 2d at Teterow, while his right
lay at Rostock. General SAVARY was, on the Ist,
at Kratzeburgh, and early on the 2d at Wharton, and
Jabel. 'the Prince of PONTO-COEVO, on the Ist,
was engaged at Jabel with the rear-guard of the
enemy.—The conflid was spirited, the Prussians
were put to the rout, and would have been completely
cut off that day, bad not the lakes, and the diffi-
culty of traversing the country of Mecklenburg!),
saved them. The Prince of PoNTo-Coßvo, in
charging with the cavalry, had a fall from his
horse, but was not hurt. Marshal SQULT arrived
on the 2d at Planer.

" The enemy finding every point of retreat inter-
cepted—to the Oder—to the Elbe—to Swedish Po-
merania, appeared desirous of reaching the nearest
coast of the Baltic—they were, however, very ill
provided ; when any part of their column fell into
our hands, we found them destitute even of bag-
gage.
Martha! LANNES is at Stettin, DAVOUST at
Frankfort—Prince JEROME in Silesia.

" The Duke of WEIMAR has quitted his Com-
mand, in order to return to his own territories—a
„General very little known was his successor.
" The Emperor this day reviewed the division of
dragoons, under the command of Gen. -BEAUMONT,
on the Esplanade of the Palace, and has ordered se-
veral promotions therein.
" Ail the dismounted cavalry have repaired to
Potsdam, whither the horses taken from the enemy
have been sent, in order to be mounted. General
BOURCIER has the charge of this grand depOt.
" The fortifications of Spandau, Wittenberg, Er-
furth, Custrin, and Stettin, are putting in the best
possible state of defence.
" Marshal MORTIER, who commands the Bth
corps of the Grand Army, arrived at Cassel the 31st
of Otiober.

" The Prince of Hesse-Cassel, Marshal in the
service of Prussia, and his son, a General in the
same service, have withdrawn from it. The Prince,
in answer to the Note which was transmitted to
him, demanded permission to march at the head of
his own troops, along with those of France, against
our enemies. Marshal MORTIER replied, he had no
orders touching such a proposition : but that the
Prince having armed, after the declaration he had
made through his Minister, M. DE MALSBOURG, at
Paris, the least farther armament on his part would
be considered as an aa of hostility, as the Prussians
had not violated his territories, but on the contrary
were received with pomp therein by the Hereditary
Prince ; and that from the period of the Hessian
territories being evacuated by the French, until the
Battle of Jena, there was nought but armaments
going forward at Cassel ; and that, in point of fa&,
the Hereditary Prince was more desirous of march-
ing at the head of Prussian troops, and to insult the
French by all sorts of provocation.
" He will pay for his frenzied condu& by the loss
of his dominions. There is not a Principality in
all Germany that has been so uniformly the enemy
of France. For many years its Sovereigns sold the
blood of their Subjects to England, in order to fight
with it against France in the two worlds. By this
traffic of his troops the Prince in question has
amassed great treasures, part of which, it is said,
are shut up in Magdeburg'', and part remitted to fo-
reign countries. This sordid avarice has caused the
catastrophe of his House, the existence of zvhich on
our frontiers is incompatible with the safety of
France. It is at length time to extinguish that which
may cause the unhappiness of 40 millions of people,
and bring trouble and disorder to their very doors.—
The English may yet corrupt certain Sovereigns,
.by
means of their gold, but the loss of the thrones of
such Sovereigns will he the inevitable consequences
of such corruption. On the contrary, the Allies of
France will prosper, and be aggrandized.
" The people of Hesse Cassel will be more fortu-
nate; eased of the expence of vast military esta-
blishments, they can follow the peaceti..i occupa-
tions of agriculture ; freed from a great part of
their taxes, they will be governed upon generous
and liberal principles, as is France and her Allies.—
If the French had been conquered, their country-
would have been dismembered; it is just, therefore,
that the serious consequences of war shOuld attach
to those who provoked it. In this terrible game
the chances should he equal. The Emperor has or-
dered the fortresses of Hanau and Marbourg to be
destroyed, all the magazines and arsenals to be re-
moved to Mentz-•-all the troops disarmed, and the
Sovereign arms of Hesse Cassel every where to be
taken down.

These measures are not di&ated by an insatiable
ambition, nor a thirst for ft:irther conquests. The
Cabinet of the Thuilleries is induced to ad so by its
conviction of the necessity of putting an end 'to a
contest, such as the present, and causing a durable
peace to succeed to this insensate war, instigated by
the miserable and low manoeuvres of Agents, such
as the Lords PAGET and MO-APETH."

, FROM THE 'HAG tiE ROYAL STATE COURANT. ,
HANovER, Nov. 16.—Marshal MORTI ER, on the
loth inst, at five o'clock in the evening, arrived here,
escorted by some Dutch Dragoons. On the same
evening he was followed by several companies of
Dutch Dragoons, and on the tbllowing day a number
of French troops entered this place. Two days after
the Marshal issued the following proclamation :
TO rnE HANOVERIAN STATES.

GENT LEN EN--I have taken possession of your
country, in the name of his Majesty the Emperor
and King, my most gracious Master. In his name
the public revenues must henceforth be raised, and
justice administered.
The administrative regulations of each place shall
continue as they now are, till his Majesty the Em-
peror • shall have decreed otherwise respecting them.
I am to nominate an Executive Commission com-
posed of three Members; Messrs. PARE, MEDI NG,
and MANcHAT.rsEN. This .Commission shall have
the same powers as that which has been already in-
stituted during my stay in Hanover. It shall give
an
.account to, and receive orders from, the persons

to whom the Emperor shall consign the dirction
Hanover.