The Sun.
London, England, 1808-03-11 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTE4LIGENCE.

is-cetT!.::: that the
troops have taken boss,.'-'' ci or tlegg;o oil Li,*
Strait of Messina. "I:tw taken there will
SerVC to Plant on the iy,ttic .•!. tigthe krid
for prosecuting -,thle,siegf,,, 4.. G 2 :of tr!:ls
which has already. bee:A strop, l; borhbarl:•ti.
oppoiite to t. t:aryla,-„Ii;;, i 3 tic ontv
point:Aviiiehrthe allci the EctiOish tio.4

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- mss in Italy., 16 the memorable earthquake of 78'3,
the bit of this fortress, with 700 men, werc.thwwn
into the sva. ,•
"The Offkial 'Journal contains an. article, dated
Constery ihople, Jan. 28, which states, that General
GlittDA NNE; AlTlbaSSadDr.frOrll the 'Emperor NAPO
LFON tb 'Persia, arrived-on the 3d of November at
Koi, the first town on thd;Persiati territory.- In the
;:atvie place he met the Persian Ambassador, on his
way to) France,, whose retinue.consists of more than
one hunditti persons; -and wboicarries with him ele-
g:iiit yind•curious preients of swords, to the value of
several' millions.
.An In*erial Decree, of the, 17th of February,
contains regulations to the following etre& ''•
'l' An Embargo shall be laid. on all Algerine Ships
in th:®' Harbpurs of our Empire, and-in:those ,of our
Kingdom of Italy; Algeritib stibieds.shali be ar-
and secured in prison; all goods and mer-
ehandize-belonging to the DRY of ALGIOIS,' or his
snhjeds,'Which shall be found in ourlimpire, or in''
the Kingdom of Italy, shall be sequestered. These
n4e4ashres • shall continue to .be taken a,flong'as the
D:v of ALMERS •retains our Genoese subjects as
slitters itt his prisons."
VIENNA, FEB. :8.---The AtChdilite FERDINAND
and :Generall3 ecao ittnaa re to command the Corps
70,0n0 men • Which 'is assembling on oar frontiers
(~U the side of. Turkey. The Turku have • laboured
hard, during the whole. of this winter, in improving
their fortresses in Bginid, 'Bulgaria, and Wallachia.
In' general, they are making preparations, as •if they
dreaded against surniner an united' attack from all the
Powers of the Continent. •
Uvaeution, preparations'are evi-
clf:iritly made both by theP:niei and the French With
the view of a campitign in' Sweden. The Swedes
have marched nearly all their forces"again;;'t the Itus7
sians, and have left scarce any troops in, the Pro-
vince:9 Opposite to Denmark, probably beeatise they
exped the English to priced them against any at—
tack en that siege. The goods which Were; seized
between the 23d of Odober, 1807, and the atitlf of
November folloWing, have • been relieved friu sc7
rfuestratiort by order of the Counsellor 91„§Lite-Cor,
DireCtor General of the Customs.
STOCK/Out, FEB. i3O-18re haVe received certain
intelligenCe from Finland, of the rtussia'ns having
vanced upon the Swedish territory; the war may
triert::fore regarded as begun. All the Swedish
t'CBitne:tits have reunited orders .to proceed, by forced
trmt-ches, tri the frontiers. The General in 'Chief,
CountKLl;wsron, left this on the tOth for

6.—The Emperor NMAOLEON, our
• •
buvvreign, has
h 'sped a I)ocree relative to
horn his Royal Palace at Milan, dated De-
ct:rnber 20. It is now, for the firat, time, -Made
rblic ; the fbilowing are the Article, of which
)t consists

isIAVOLTWN, E*PEIIOII OP THE IRENCII, KING OF
"ITALY, &C.
;We lave decreed, and: do decree, as follows :
''.AnT.l..There shall, be levied in our Kingdom of
Portugal .a W3l' coon il,)1A1 ion of .100 millioqs of francs,
so ho paid by all itinds of property and domains be,
logging to . .
.
IL The Comroauldt6sr of our Army shall.apportion
the contribution of the respeetive Provnlccs accord-
ing to the walls of each. •
..111. All the property belonging to the Queen .of
Peirruom. and to the Pa INCE REGENT, and to all
the Princes who-have pensionh, shall be seqUestrat-
ed. All the property of the. Grimdees of the King-
dom, who followed thePaiNce 111;altrn' in his flight,
shall also be sequestrated, unless they return to Por-
tugal before the tf th of January next.
In consequence Of this Decree, General JUNOT
has issuest an important Order of great length, but,of
_which the following is the substance

" The Kingdom of Portugal shall pay an extra-
' ordinary War Contribution of 40-niillions of cru-
staoes. The two millions already paid since, the
entry: of the French shall ;be allowed upon the pre-
twut couttibutions. Six millions of crusadoes shall
ho the proportion .to be paid by the. Merchants,
Bankers, and Capitalists... 1n all the Churches of the
Kingdom, the gold and silver plate necessary for the
performance of Divlbe Service shall 1). let remain ;
t lie surplus shall-be atirrieil.:t6 the Mint, and shall go
in diminution of the present contribution. •All the
Convents acid Holy Briltherhood, the Prelates,
..Arclibibliops and Bishops of the Kingdoth; who are.
pc.,,;:::,,sed of property, the Commanders of the throe
Orders, and of that of Malta ; finally, all.
;;yophttor,i.of .Itow,es and lands shall be rated to the
v•; A- contrifnaion in proportion to, the extent of their
• rty " • •
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VA ty, FEB. 1 t —On the -Iqtli 'inst.
.the
panish
Ship the Atpitzhogk,arrived at Paint-
Oti the .V,9th. of
.January it fell in with a..•
i'rettelt S(ittalli on of five Ships df the Line and some
I,'rizates, off alb Cape de.Verd 4lands. We doubt'
:not ,that this is the SqUadron Which sailed front
Poehefort under the 'coninitind of Tear,Adiniral
~h,l,t.MANty, it bad preViCtlily bhon reported that„
the6Rochefort Stitiadron had arrived atl'oulon.
Fr, a. i B.:—The .iturnal of the EMPire, in an
wick from Madrid, of the flrst of February,states,
Dube of INFANTA 00, and certain other 'rords;
have-been baai,hed ter o...rtain number of years,
inter lii.,lloP has received orders to retire to a con-:
.vent nlsigned to him. For some i.iays a 'roport
AL...tdrid,-' that the Emperor of,: the
.means to visit Portugal. in the Spring,
an.;,i,rhe're to review biS trO9l)N poi ti. . This
news r:4 by no mutts certain ; but though unco&
tirraCd, it hasproduced the grentust sensation in
Spatn.

A Letta from Bourdeanx mentions the arrival of
On A rnr.2;riC:ll) whip which was stopped andexamined
by 3;1 Engli,h cruiser.' The lit terioan was.4zund
ti*, I iaml,u(l.,,h, and ha bean driven on the. French

`con4t tht.: c C*.;.tptpiti, however,
Cie sired bite to pros cute his voya4ae, oblervmg;
iv! b:itt rtectived orders to do') tw mow Amoricao

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Piucr. or sTC)cKs.
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DLL/4 QUIS DICIRE FALSUM AUDEAT ?

LONDON,
FRIDAY, NARCII. I, ISOI3.

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Last night we receivfed sottre.,more French and
Dutch Papers, the timer Of the date of the 2d,
and the latter of the Cith instant. A series of the
Hamburg& Correspondenten to the 27th ttltinto also
reached town. In the Paper of, the 24th, it is
stated, on the' authority of an article from Paris,
that a Danish East Indiarnati, arrived at Poimboeuf,
fell in with a French Fleet off the Cape De Vent
ISlands on the 29th January.' If this statement
were true, it would follow, either. that the accounts
which we.have received of the Rochefort Squadron•
having.passed the Straights of Gibraltar is not true,
or that there were two French Sqbadrons of 'nearly
equal force. at Sea. But we 'are inclined 'to think.,
that this statement in the: Paris and Hamburgh
Popers is either founded "noon miitake, or'inserted'
for the purpose
sof deception. The'
which Gas been received of the entrance ,of.- the:
French Squadron into the Mediterranean Comes
firotn- so many, quarters, that it. is ahnost impossible
to entertain any doubt upon. the subje6t. As' to I

I g ..--Aceoriling to
the Nlark of AoFeaa,
t30,.1 Civiia wcch t)t.) joined
.tp thekin6doll,

the supposition of a second French Squadron
being at Sea, we thiAk. it' highly 'improbable, be-
!, cause all the Enemy's' 'Ports in the Atlantic have
been reconnoitred since the sailini'of the Rochefort
Squadron, and it did not appear that any VesselS
had left them.—There appears very little doubt that
the partition of Turkey will very shortly take place.
Immediately after the Peace of Tilsit, we. stated
our firM convi6.tion that,. by the Secret Articles of
that -Treaty, the Emperor of Russia 'was to be
denitrified in the East for the sacrifices and COCIaCS,
sions which he made in the North ; and that Aus-
tria 'W1.13, also • premised a portion of the Turkigh
.Empire, in' consideration, of her haying refused
to join the Allies against France. This opinion,
•
which we gave seven months ago, appears to be
now on the point of being realized, French troops
arc pouring in great numbers into .Dalmatia ; the
Russian Army on 'the lirontiers-of Turkey is re-
&icing large .ieinforcements, and. orders have re-

cently been issued by the .„\,n,.tylanGoyerntnetit for
ttisenibling Army ot sF,t.-:..11j. thousand men on
the The object of, all these
nurepieht:, and the Porte %% ill
very i'it.Lurately to apprecktte the
tlur of Bcp!,:.A.t,..i.e's prOtes.)ions of Irit•ndship
and proutclion. "I:tie trench are proceeding
with their usual rapidity in lilt!, plunder._ of Perin.
gal ; BUONAPARTE has issued ai.D.,:aee, imposing
'a
contribution of one hundred millions of livres on •
that unfortunate Country, and General-IuNoT is
Charged with the execution 'of this Decree. -Wis.
confidently reported, that • BUONAPARTE 41k:1 1c:13'6
visit Spain, probably fbr the purpose offsuperintend-
ing, in person, the execution of the Plans which he
has formed (or the subversion of the Spanish Mo,
narchy. france has declared War against Algiers,
beeause•the DEY refused to
,hberate some GetiOese
Vessels his Cruilers had captured.

A Copy-of the Convention *Melt has been con-
cluded between this Country and Sweden Was yes •
terday, by his MAJESTY'S COmmand, laid .betbre
both Houses of Parliament. By this Convention,
which:ll/ill be found in a subsequent column, his
Swedish MAjesty is to receive a Subsidy of 1,206,0001.
a year; by monthly paymeuti of 100,0001, to enable
hint fo maintain his 'Military and aaval Foree, and
to resist the efforts of the Enemy toforce • him to
submit to the French system.—The most naive pre-
parations are making :for the'Embarkation of the
Troops which :.4.tre to.. he sent to Sweden. Loid
CATHCART, is to, have the Chief Command. G.
nerals. Mootte, 'and ,WIII.LESLEY,' are also
mentioned as likely. to be employed on that inipor- I
tant`tervice.

On Wednesday last the Prince oFIVALas stood
Sponsor tbr the infant daughter ,of the ltev. Dr.
HOOK : LaIyCHARLOTTE CAmPettra, and Mo.'
WALTEs. FARQUHAR were the female, Sponsors. •
We, understand Viscount STRANGVOIIP is to he
invested with the Order of St. Patrick, vacant by the
death of the Marquis of Titossiitin.
The Princess AIVIULIA is 43 Weil as can
of the disorder of the measles. ,

14111 LS.
Ar.IL IN Er; —z W 4 terforft. 1)U r.' Gotteithurgli, i Malta,
- • 3 Waterford.

ilis-Majesty's Posttmasters General.on Tuesday
last were pleased to appoint Mr. amines (the 46t-
inn Captain of the. Windsor castle) to the coininand
of a. new Packet, in the morn Of the .1)1414 of ,1101:.-
Iron— ,

Aiming the, Troops to be immediAtely employed
in Sweden, and added to, the •Corps, 4 which a de-
tail has been already given, are—tlie whole of the
King's Oerintin Legion, artillery; cavalry; and in-
laptrY WM of that tnatchless body of 111/11.,
Foot-Chian:is ; 'sclera! liqitnents of Cavalry, y
and light.

STATE PAPER.

Article I. His Majesty the King pf...this United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland engages that:there shall be, paid
to His Majeity the King of Sweden the sum of tivelve.laun-
died thousand pounds sterling, in equal instalments of .one
'hundred thousand 'pounds sterling each, .per month, begin:
hing with the month. of iiunary of the present year inclu.
sively, and to continue successively in the course of each
month, the 'first of which instalments shill be paid an tile-
Ratification et the present Convention by His Swedish Ma•
jesty. . .

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11. Ills Majesty the King of Sweden engages on his part
to employ the said sum in putting into moro:n, alid keeping
on a respe6table establishment, all his Land Forces, and such
Fart as shal l'be necessary of his Fleets, and particularly his
lotilla, in order' to oppose the most eMdtual resistance to
ttie common Enemies. .‘ .

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111. Their said Majesties moreover engage to conclude. no
Peace, or Truce, or Convention.of Neutrality, with the Ene-
my, but in concert and by mutual agreement.
IV. The preSent Convention shall he ratified by the Two
High Contracting Parties, and its •ratification shall be ex-
changed at London within .the space of six weeks after the
signature of.the.is'..ild -Convention, or sooner if kt can be done.•
' In faith wheteof, -we, the tw,t,...rsigned Plenipotentiaries of
their said Majesties, have signed the present Convention, and,
hem caused tat; Seals oftour Arius to be affixed thereto.

Done ut Stockholm, the Btliof Febtuary, in the Year of
Redemptirat One Thousand Eight Hundred and Eight.!
EDW: TIIORNTON. ' F. EHRENHF:I,M.
(L. s,) , . (L. a.)
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SEPARATE ARTICLE.
The Two II It Contrading Pai ties have agreed to eon.
cert,. as soon a po-,:sible,' the measiircs•to •takeni and the
auxiliary succours to be Stiptilated. tor, in the case of. a War,
aetu 'lly.taking place between Siveden and the Powers her
liejghbourS ; and the ,stipulations : which; :may thence result
shall be considered as Separate and additional Articles to this
Convention; and shall have the saint; force- as it they w.cre
word for word inserted therein,: • • • '

il'ot• which, we, the undersigned 'Plenipotentiaries
of Tneir said Majesties, have signed this -separate' Article,
and have caused the Seal orour Arms to.,be-ailixed thereto..
'llontiat Stockholm, the Sth of February,' in the year of
Redemption One Thousand Eight Hundred and Light:
EDW. THORNTON • E. EHR.ENHEIIit.
•Ct. s.) • ' (L. s.)

A Meeting of the Merehants, Manufaeturets,
and -ethers, resident in the Metropolis, and interested
in the Commerce between .Great Britain and the
United States of America, took place at the Lon-
don Tavern, in Bishopsgate-street, for the purpose
of : considering of and concurring in
.a Petition
against the late Orders in Council.
A discussion on -the propriety -of the measure
immediately look place,. in which Mr...Sligstyst,
the Chairman of the American Committee,
,took a
principal part. iie was licard with that attention
to which his good sense and acknowledged patriotism
and abilities always entitle him'; and he concluded
by moving, that all the words of the. PetitiOn be left
out, and that the following be suhstituted, vii..
.‘.!•"111..it it is the opinion of this Meeting, that
during the prese►s known political discussions be-,
.twee►i the t.vo COuntries, it is inexpedient and un-
necessary to
,present any Petition to the
upon tare subject ,of the Ordeii in Council." _

Upon this amendment many opinions were ably
delivmd. In support the Petition Mr. SII.4ICPB,
Mr..GLENNIE., Mr. BENTIty, ,Mr. MURRAY, Mr.
BAUM°, OP :chairman, and several other • Gentle-
men,, disting4ished .themselues. Ancl in favout •ot
the amendment Mi.. 1114LEs, Mr. Goa port (Mem-
ber for Worcester), Mr. M RYAT (MenthLr tor.
Mirshant), Mr. WILLIAM LIiSHINGTON, Mr. Alder-
man SUAwE, Mr. MELLisn (Member fur Middle-
sex) and several other Gentlemen, spoke with great
etfet. The arguments on both sides Were, how-
ever, little inure than a repetition of those so fre-
quently used or hoc in both Flouses of Parliament.
On the 'question being put, Mr. SA NSOXI'S amend-.
ment was carried .by a majority of full' two to one..
The Pitition consequently-was
Thus has genuine patriotism obtained another hap-
py triumph. But notwithstanding the defeat ex-
perienced in this instance by gio mai-contents, they
have determined to present a Petition. *.Sneh -of
them as. were present' Sub Scribed .their names in op-`
position to the decided sense of, the Meeting, and
immediately proceeded to canvas fur additional signa-
tures to'

TEE THEATRE.—Mr. Coo Ka resumed his station
last night at Covent. Garden Theatre, in: the chn-
raaer of Sir Pertinax, in The' Mon of !he
The eagerness thr places was almost as great as' dur-.
ing the rage 'for seeing Master BETTY. As soon as
his voice was heard behind. 'the scenes, a general
shout of weleome burst tOttli, and, when he appear-
ed on the,stage, -several minutes elapsed,befOre the,
applause he received would permit him to •:speak,
'He • biiwed repeatedly, and seemed to be. mach Id-
lefied 'by the favour of the audience. He perform-i
eel the, part ndmieahly, and the phy was'in'general
Very well. supported: • •

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OPERA-Flou,x.-- Att mutt riGarr, at. rh.
of the Court of ChanCery„ yotterdity, stibmitj
ted a proposition, the substance of which llTtithat
Mf.'tay'Loa ,hoi)la be, restrained from interterliti
the Opera concerns ; t hat Mr:JEW rut:, bf NO/refill,
parties ent,:qtained so high'an- opinion, sfloaWbe
eontintipci 'Treasurer ; tinit the nione).f tilitiuld' be all
paid ;nu,. his. hands, and by him deposited' in' the
aD.wtsoN and c...6,lislitAiik6rs of the'eou,
6.rn 5 tint it should bc'theuce.ptticl dut
order of the trustees, who it'kUS'sJitfi,vere likelYt6
M. ILART; on the lother side, statecf, that
!.- :I.ld no instructions, and reiv,:-!,sted that it /night
Liutil this day,(Vtid,iy,) when it will

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CONS,`ENTION BETWEEN ills MAJESTY AND` THE KING

'Or Swat-rata—ON Tins BTH OF FEERLIAItV,
The consequences of the Treaty of Tilsit, between Russia
and France, unfolding. themselves More and mare, in such a
manlier as to threaten Sweden with a speedy invasionj for the,
purpose of forcing- her to accede to the French system ; and
His Swedish Majesty finding himself therefore under the ne-
xessity of hringing torward, to resist its effects, a greater
force than he- has at his ordinary disposal ; His Britannic
Majesty, animated .with the constant do4re.of contrinuting
to tne defence and security of hits'A Ily, • and -ot supporting'
him, by every means, in a War undertaken I'M the mutual. in-
terests of beth-Siates, has determined to give to his-Swedish
Majesty an'immediate aid in ioney-,.as being the most prompt
and ellicacions, to he paid from time to time, at Bled
p.-riods ; and their Majesties having judged, it' expedient,
that a formal Convention with regard to their reciprocal in-
tentions, in this respett, should' be concluded, they have for
this purpose name* and authorised their rdspedive Pleni-
potentiaries ; that is to say--; In the name and on the part of
His Majesty. the King of the United • Kipgdom of Great Bri-
tain and Ireland, EtleVard Thornton, Esq. his Envoy Ex-
traordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to His Majesty the
King of Sweden ; and in the name and On the part Of His
Majesty the King of Sweden, the Baron.D'Ehrenheim, Pre-
iident of his Chancery,' and Conunander of his Order of. the
Polar Star, who, after having communicated to each other
their respective full powers, nave agreed upon the following
Articles ; . *