The Sun.
London, England, 1806-02-04 00:00:00

DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZE-MONEY.

To the Officers and Companies of His, Majesty's Ships St.
George, Spartiate, -Atlas, Eagle;' and .Veteran, for the Cap-
ture ot the Spanish Vessel Gracicsa, the 23d February, 1803,
on Wednesday next ; or every 'Monday and Thursday after-
wards, for four Mouths, at,Mr.. N. A. hunt's Ottice, Stone-
house..
To the Officers and Company of His Majesty's Ship
Re-
non Re-
m
n, for the Capture of I.'Aimteale, Betsey, and Maria
Fr,:hcoise, on Wednesday next; or during three years atter-
walds, at No.; 23,- Norfolk-street, Strand.

Yesterday the Princess SOPHIA of GLOUCESTER
paid a morning visit to Her.MATESTY and the PRIN-
CESSES at Buckinghatn;-house: , -
Last' night the Loan-,. CHANCELLOR and Lord-
HAVVKESBURY, were with the KING at Buckingham
house, from eight till teh',o'cica, ,• •
Yesterday afternoon, Mr. KAMMOND, one of his
Majesty's Messengers, arrived at Lord hin LGR AV B' S
Office from Berlin ; he brings no fresh advicos, but
reports that the fall of snow had been so great in the
North of Germany, as to render travelling .almost
impossible. •
The Frenchmen taken on board thelnzprdmptu
PriVateer, -the capture-of whichwe annonncecl.yes-,
terday; state, that they are very. aelive at Boulogne,
in getting the French Gun-boats fit►ed 'and ready
for sea.'

• 1
THE THEATRE.Mr. POPE, who has been re-en-
gaged 'at Covent Oarden Theatre, made his appear-
ance there last night in the charafter 'of Othello,
character. which he has always perlbrmed with suc-
cess. He Was very favourably received by the au.
dience on his entrance, and he excited strong marks
of approbation (hiring his whole perforthance of this
very arduous •Charaeter.
MARRi ED.—.-On the 20th:ult. at Weston Under-
wood, Bucks, by the Rev. C. FRE-
DERICK HALL, Esq..of E:ikelithHouse,. Yorkshire,
to Mrs. BAR' CLAY, of Weston.

No. 1,077, a Prize of Two Thousand and Twen-
ty-Two Vounds, the First-drawn the first Day of
Drawing, 'Was Sold in a Quarter, Two Eighth and
Eight 'Sixteenth Shares, by- RICILAION,
Goon -
LUCK, and 'Co. at theirDilices, Cornhill, and Char-
itig-Cross ; where Tickets' and Shares.contin4e on
Sale, warranted Undrawn. -
No. 8,e8.9 drawn ' the First Day of Dra',Virig-a
Prize of ten thbusand and twenty-two pounds, was
sold by HORNSBY and. Co. in ,the following Shares,
Two Onarters,' One Eighth, and Six-. Sixteenths.=
The importanee--of the prosent..Lottery is manifest
by the First Day's D awing.. l'Etie chance' of the
Capital Prizes was- obtained Without' risk....; Every
holder of a Ticket or'Sl-1,:irl:: drawn on the First bay,

will receive mere than the iirirne:ta3t 5' arid may
mien, the sarie chonce for the. S,:Cond, Third,
Fourth, and
_Fifth Days of DczrAing with •,",dn-
tasre. HoiaNsaY and Co. .2'6, cornhill,-.5'2, Char-
ing-Cross, and St-. Marg'lret's7j-iill; 13a-pugh, will
coltinue .to sell undrawn Tickets and Shares so long
as they can be . procurd, in great variety, 'and at
the lowestprices.

MEMORIAL
OF THE MERCHANTS or NEW TuP.K.

To the-President of •th.: United States, and the Senate anct
• of Representatives of the United States of America',
in Congress assembled : the Manor ial of the MerchAms of
the City of New-York.

Yciur Memorialists beg leave 'respeafully to
'roach the Government of, their Country, on sub-
pas of great itnpdecance, which have affeded their
minds with the deepest anxiety and alarm.
Confiding in the justice and friendly dispositions of
the Government of Great Britain, and entertaining a
correSpondeni expectation that nonnusualrestridions
Would be iMposed on Neutral Comnierce without
adequate motives and the most ample notice pre-
suming.especially;that commercial enterprises, com-
menced under the sanction of established principles,
Would on no account be affected by a change of
system 5. your. 'Memorialists have employed a ‘ast
capital in importing . various colonial productions.,
the surplus of which, exceeding the demands of this
Country, they have been accustomed to export free-
ly to the different markets of Europe.
After this commerce had been prosecuted without
restri&ion for several years; and-bad attracted a great
,proportion of their wealth ;. after their insurers had
'assumed immense responsibilities, grounded on an
opinion, that this trade was strictly regular, having
never received the slightest intimation that it could
bedeemed incompatible with the rights of a belli-
gerent Nation, they have been suddenly confounded
by unexpected intelligence of thoarrestation on the
high seas of a large pOrtion of their -property,
which had been embarked with the most unsitsped-
ing confidence.
The feeling of your Memorialists are not only ex-
cited by the losSes which they have adually sustain-
ed in consennence of measure unsusceptible of
-*previous calculation, but also from the state of un-
certainty in which they' are placed with. respea to
'future comthercial operaticins.
Your Memoralists have heretofore believed -that
Commerce between the Unites States and Colonies
• subject to the enemies of Great Britain, when bona
,fide prosecuted on their own account, would be per-
fealy safe from interruption : they -have, also be-
. lieVed that all articles which might be securely. iyn-
ported into the United States, might be as securely &
ported; with the exceptions well understood, both in
respect to the import and export trade, of com-
merce with places blockaded, or in articles contra-
band of war. •

• -In a recent interpretation of what is considered by
the TribmialS,of Great Britain as a direa trade be-
tween the Colonies and the Parent Countries of their
enemies, your Memorialists perceive with concern,
the developement of a principle which, if conceded
on the part.of the United States,- Must prove fatal to
their commercial importance.
. It is understood to have been dedided, that when-,
ever it ap;ears to bethe intention of the
_importer of
colonial produce to export the same to Europe ; or,
whenever it is so exported by the original importer,
such intention or exportation shall be evidence of a
direct trade, and subjea the property, though nen-
- -tral, to conftsation;
Your Memorialists consider it their bounden duty
to themselves and. their Country, to express-their
. most decided opposition to this decision.
• As to the evidence arising fivin the supposed in-
tention of any importer, they readily admit that the
great quantities of colonial produce, . which are
by means of the American commerce, ox-
ceeding the demand for consumption in the United
States, will,fairly itistify,# general presumption that
the surplus is ultimately destined for European mar-
ketS; They'asSert, however, that the intention of a
rucrehant, in respe& to the future
_ddtination„of his

property, must, irom the nature of things, be incon-
elusive. plani of. business, formed by ,lii-
diViduals, are liable to be affe&ed by circumstances,
not to be foreseen or controlled : these plans are thetA-
fore necessarily revokable. by those who form them;
and an intention which has not been executed, proves
nothing more than might justly be inferred from a•
general presumption arising from, the course of our
.commerce. To apply such an intention, in a par-,
ticular case •to the prejudice, of an individual ; to-
pmurne that he has voluntarily, incurred an im-
mense risk, which, consistently with the success of
his main Objet a, he might-have faitiy, avoided, and
to involve him inn ruin for prosecuting a trade,
which, if undertaken with a different motive, would
have been declaredlawful—would be, in the opi-
nion of your Memorialists, to confound and reverse
the best established principles of reason, eqUifv,
and law.

Your Memorialists contend for no innovation on
the law of nations ; and, except where special
Treaties have prescribed a different rule, they admit
that \they may lawfully be, restrained' from t!an-
sporting the property of the parties engaged in war.
In the recent decision which prohibits , an. importer
of colonial produce from exporting it to EAL-upe,
they however perceive, with concern, either a nu-
gatory and vexatious 'regulation; or a meditated
blow at what they deem an incontestible and valu-
able right.
Heretofore there existed clear and obvious cir—
cumstances of discrimination between the diret7
trade, which Great Britain has assumed the right of
'denying to Neutrals, and the indireEt onctrcuitN:s
trade, which she admits to be laWtial. The direa
trade could be performed by a single shipment or
voyage ; whereas, the circuitous trade subje&ted the
property to double freights and insurances; •to de-
&talons in favour of the revenue; and various other
expences in this Country.
- If the arrival of a ship in the Country to which it
belongs ; the landingof the Cargo.i the inspection
of the Custom-house) thepaymer,or security-of
,•dutiesiido• not terminate a voyage ; 'then we Contess
Our ignorance on a point, which, never haVing beeo.
'before questioned; has been assumed by, us as an ac-
knowledged truth. If the entry for exportation ; •
the embarkation of merchandize ; the re-inspe&iou
of the Custom-house ;
,the bond for securing a deli-
. very in a foreign country, and a public clearance, do
not, indicate the commencement of a new voyaae,
then we are yet to learn the meaning of-the expreF,-
sion:---If all the formalities and sanaiOns established
for the security of our revenue ; if operations of im-
mense- wagnitude, transtitted with the greatest pub- '
licity,:and without any mbtive for concealment, -are
considered as unreal representations,- and merely co-
lourable and fraudulent contrivances to covcr au