The Sun.
London, England, 1806-02-07 00:00:00

MALTA.

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Public have never been informed of a Projed-
!;fo:lllCC, by 40N ArARTE to
,;eize Malta, by surprise,
I the instant our forces ShOuld have pvacuated thB
island, and delivered it up to the 300o‘N-.npolit;ln
that were sent to occupy the fortifications provisionally.
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The first .news received iit Malta of Prelirninarieg
of Peace having been signed, was brought by a Cartel
l from Marseilles, whiCh was dis Patched in haste with
part of a cargo of wifie; oil, sweet-:meats; and other
IFrench merchandize,

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On the vessel's arrival She was
,put under quai'anl.
tine, because at Marseilles vessels from' Malta had
been made subjeEt ta quarantine, and .becausetheres
were On board this vessel several Maltese, who
were considered by their cduntfynit as traitors, and'
had chosen to go to Ft'ance with, the garrison when
it surrendered to the English and Maltese. It wal
necessary to devise ,means of securing these passen-
,gers froth the fury of the people, Who. threatened to
destroy them. ,
The Captain (BLacAs) was informed by the Cap=
tain Of the Part,, that all letters must be delivered
to him, to, be fumigated and examined, and- that
even when 'the ,days of quarantine had expired, all
letteis must be delivered to the:post Office. ln the
evening, When the letters_ were to, be given to the
Captain of the Port, this Officer came along side td
receiVe them; while he-was thus Occupied, a number
of other le.tters were thrown out of the cabin win-
flow to be Sunken ; but the Captain of the Port had
placed, unobserved, ' close under the stern, a very
'small canoe, which &gelled themtp. These letters
being. opened (several persons beincr acCidentall)•.
preseut,) and 'dried by the fire, on the blank part-of
a letter addressed to BALLA 13ELMONT, there appear-
ed, by the effect of the heat, another epistle 'thitt
had been written with lemon juice. It was froth
a Secretary of BONAPARTE„weII known in Malta.•
The letter informed ' him, that .the blow to be
struck would be like lightning ; that all would be
done before the heavy beast would awake. What
the great man had once resolved upon Must be. done 1
he never changed his determination; be was infiexi-
ble. There wele some prejudices to be combated;
but, there was sufficient to convince the most obsti-
nate,--and to deter others. The Maltese would not
have to complain; for, instead of their barren rock
they would receive fe,rtile plains. The orange trees
and cotton plants-,being•roote(4 ,•,„ at, and the whole
island sown with torn, there Id be food for the
inhabitants and for the garrison, which thus could
not, a secand time, be starved by a blockade. Twen=
ty thousand French faMilies, - transported to Malta,
would furnish cultivators and defenders. , . ,
The English were des grosses betes ; the Russians
des fourbes, et des traitres, but they Would be duped
as well as the otherS. ' ,

The original of this letter was sent by Mr. CAME-.
Row, Hfs Majesty's Civil Commissioner at Malta,
to Lbrd, HOBART, and is, now in the office of the Co-
lonial Department. It was sheWn td 'Several persons
at Malta,.and to many of the principal people of the
island, before it was sent.

BAILI BELMONT, a ereliChrnan, was suffered-US
remain at Malta, when the French garrison vas sent
to yrance, on accbunt of his ale and apparen-re-
speCtal)ility. It was afte`rwarcis, however, known,
that helatttakim'a very alive part in the infamous
intrigue which had bArayed the island to BuNA-
PARTE.

Some time after this letterwas interceptcd, no no-

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tice.having- been taken of it to the Bfric,l, some
chests, for-him arrived from Palermo,. and as Malta
had been made a . free port•, Merchandite is net
opened at the Custom House; but in p'asSing through'
it one of the Chests was thrown down, and the noith
it made seemed- to..the Custotnei..,-to be like that of,
muskets. It was, opened; and-'about 500 muskets
were found in all the Chests. -Intercepted letters to.
the Rum afterWards.slaewed that' More were to be
sent if these arrived Safe.. The)i came from a Knight
at Palermo, and the B;AILI said they were for sale to
the people of the coast of Barbary; which was ,im-
possible, for all the Knights took' an Path not to fur-
nish them with arms. . - • .
- Thus we. have. a proof of the intentions of the
French Government, in the stipulations that were
sisted upon in the Treaty of: AmienS---atid 'can,'We
expel amore scrupulous observance of other-
lations in future ? . '
BONAPARTE would sacrifice, a kingdom to get uf
out of Malta. He knows that it is.'Worth a kingdom;
for he would be master of the Mediterranean; though
Russia occupied Malta; he could pursue his views
against Turkey and India, and he could block up the
Russian Fleet in the Black Sea, or enter it with a
superior force, and destroy all the sea ports, if Rus-
sia would but detach herself from Great Britain, and
be on good terms with France. All our projects of
'sending British Manufadures into the Continent by
the.Black.Sea,, in transitu, through Poland, Bc-c. and
to Asia and the eastern parts of Thissia„ would be at
an end ; and, if the portS on this-side of the Conti-
nent are shut against di, the' Black Sea will become
of immense importance to us. .
Malta, 'by some, has been considered as Useless, ;IS
it does not affOrd.a station to block up Toulon. The
' value of Malta is, -that it' diVides the Mediterranean 4
secureSSicily, Turke,,,.anclEgypt, and protects, if
noLover-awes, Russia in the Black Sea, and secures
her alliance,. Which. must be lost, v ith -Malta. :It
• may also becorrie a great arsenal of Naval stores for
our ships of war:, . . r

Boulogne has:lieen so long the theme of public ob-'
servation, and so MuCli the object of our national at-
tention, bjdckade, 'and- enterprize; froni being the
great 'depth of tire enemy's naval and military force
for. invading our sliOtes, that our. curiosity is Ilgtll-
--ally roused to obtain a thorbUgh kii6wledge of the'
spot in 'a gebgraphibal point of .view 5 fully to gra-
tify this curiosity, and convey information both
interesting and useful, we hate no hesitation-to pro-
nOnnce, that the Grand• Panorama of Boulogne, by
.SERR, now open at the Great Room, Spring Gar-
dens; and eAecuted on no less a scale than 3804 su-,
perficial feet, is an exhibition masterly in the ex-
treme, and .coinplefelY adequate to these pur-
poses:

.The.Fiist-drawn Ticket,: No. 17,880, entitled to
1 0,0 2 21. . was sold in ppe Half and eight Sixteenth'
at Ili'airtSoN and liitooKris' old established Otfi

No. 237, Piccadilly.—All Prizes s7ll at this Ciftic
be paid iillt-nediately.

LAW REPORT.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, Fix. 6.

THE KING V. ABRATIAM HUGHES.

Mr. CUMMING moved the Judgment of the Cuo t

on the Defendant, who had been convicted of an
assault on John Smith. He was. tried at the Sittings
after last, Term before Lord 'LLENBOROUGH, in
Westminster, Hall, and convicted. The Presecu-
tor and Defendant had been in a.sort of partnership
as bargemen, and the Prosecutor Was the -"steersman
()f the barge, the.Detendant the'chief owner. An-
other person had been preferred to the business of
steersman and the Prosecutor being displeaed vvith

tt, oblitered the name of the Defendant from the
- stern of the barge with a mop, which occasioned a
quarrel between,the Prosecutor and the Defendabt,
in which he gave the Prosecutor several severe
blows.

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The Defendant gave the ProSecutor notice that he
was to be brought up for judgment - and nobody ap-
peared on the pare of the prosecution.
Lord ELLENBOROUGH said at the trial, that as the
parties bad been in a species of partnership before
the.quarrel, they had better shake hands and unite
again.

Mr. Justice LAWRENCE .pronouncpd the sentence
of the Court'; in ;which lie observed, that the De-
fendant: if he thought himself aggrieved,- should
have appealed to the law for, redress, instead of
masking his passions the measure of ,his actions, and
taking the law into his own bands, ,as he bad done
'in this case : that was an error which the Court
must correa ; and therefore ordered that he should
.pay a fine of 40s.