The Sun.
London, England, 1806-01-25 00:00:00

NAVA L NE WS.

PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 24.—Arrived the Childers
Sloop of War, Capt. STMART, from the Mediter-
ranean ; and La Constance Frigate, Captain UPTON,
from the Downs, having seen the Lisbon and Oporto
Fleets safe., Also the Hope, BLAKE, from Madeira.

FALMOLTTH, J AN. 253.--7 Arrived the Prince of
Wales Packet,« HARRIS, from Lisbon, with Mail,
twelve days passage ; left there the Townshend
Packet, which arrived out in five. days.
Sailed the Brz,tizer,s, PLICKEY, for London; Busy,
Ams, for Swansea ; Betsey, Cora,ms, for Bristol.

PLY :MOUTH, JAN. 23.—Arrived the Sloop Thomas
and Elizdeth, C3pt.WEST;from St:Michaers, with
fruit, for this Port.

Sailed the Muid Frigate for Ireland ; and Harle-
quin Sloop of War on a Cruize.

The .Yenzesis Frigate is come into Harbour to
rest.

JAN. 24.—Arrived the Cygnet and Acute
from Boulogne; and Urgent from Sheerness.
Sailed the homeward-bound Vessels which arrived
yesterday, for the River and Stangate Creek ; and
the Levaizt, SXITII. Put back, the Brunswia,
SuAw, bound to Jamaica, with the loss of bowsprit,
and remains in the Downs, with the Ships as per
last.

HARwten, JAN VA.—The Beaufoy Packet, Capt.
Nzvltis, arrived from Cuxhaven with the Hambro'
and Bremen Mails, and Mr. RYAN, one of the.
King's Messengers, with Dispatches from Berlin.
This Packet was eleven days on her passage, owing
to a contrary wind and very tempestuous weather.
The Blazer Gun.vessel arrived yesterday from a
cruize, and remains with the Borer, Charger, and
Furious, Argus and Hunter Cutters.

The Weymouth frigate, Captain DRAPER, which
sailed with the convoy for the East Indies, when the
Alergavenny East Indianian was wrecked off Port-
land, and for whose safety serious. apprehensions
were entertained, has joined the Fleet under the
command of Admiral Sir E. PELLEW, in the East
Indies.

Yesterday a Cabinet Council was held at Lord
Mulgrave's Office from two ,till four.
Mr. MILLS, the Messenger, arrived in town, from
abroad, on Sunday.,
On Monday Mr. - PEGLEIt, the Messenger, left
town for abroad.
The Bishop of LINCOLN attended the whole of
yesterday at Mr. PITT'S, in Downing-street, with
Mr. AnAns, peruing the papers of . his deceaSed
friend.

the' late evere winds have done considerable mis-
chief. at Dover. The new works, construEting on
the Heights, have been materially injured, and seve-
ral of the Barrack-rooms pa) tly unroofed. The
South Pier has als'o 'sustained some damage, though
not so much as might have been 'expeEted. , The
stone-jettyto the westward is almost covered with
shingle, in many parts three and, four feet deep,
thrown up by the' impetuosity of the; surf, which
washed, at. times, completely over it. A strong
easterly gale will ha required to carry it away again.
Not a Vessel,bas been at anchor in the Roads for
some weeks past; neither was there a sail to be seen
Ott sea fot many days together. The harbour is full
of Torbay • fishing ,smacks. A foreign Brig, from
Lisbon, lately driven in by stress Of weather, struck
ttn the bar as she entered, and unshipped her red-
. der. -By the assistance, however,- of the hovellers,
.she was soon got off again, and stationed in a place
of safety. A .part of Sir SIDNEY Smrrn's Pier, im-
• mediately under the Castle,. hie likewise been washed
away by the violence of the waves, and otherwise
much hnaged;

Mrs. DicittNs, formerly, Well-known in the mu-
sical woOd as Miss POOLE) is, it seems, going to re-
turn to public
On Saturday evening hit an alarming fire broke
out in the stable, of Mr.. Squire, of Hernhill, Kent,
with sacral other buildings, was entirely de-
stroyed. The tire was occasioned by a candle falling
among some straw, whilst the servants were water-
ing their horses: Tire dwelling-house; bi)rn, and
stacks adjoining Caere happily saved-.

Mr. PITT

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TtloeJGII it seems needless to enter into the par-
ticulars of a life so well known as that of the illus.,
ttidus 'Statesman of Whom this Country. has 'so mitt
thrtutiately been. deprived, there is a melancholy
pleasure in dWelling on the subject, in which we are
persuaded our Readers will participate:
WILLIAM PITT the ,second son of .th 6 illus-
trious Earl of CirkviAm, and was born; as We have
already stated, on the 28th of May, 175 e, when his
father's glory was at its zenith, and'when, in conse-
quence of the wisdom of his councils; and the vigour'
and promptitude of his decisions, British valour Was
triumphant in every part of the globe. On the Ac-
cessibn of his present MAJESTY, that great States-
man retired from the situation which he had so
honourably 'filled ; and col signing leis two- eldest'
sons to the care of others, devoted the whole bf his
time to the educatiOn of WILLIAM, on a strong,
and, as the result has shewn, a well-founded per-
suasion, that, to use his own words, ." he,would one
day increase the splendour of the narde of.PITT." ,
Mr. PITT acquired his classical knowledge tinder
the care of a private tutor, at Burton; Pynsent; the
seat of his father ; and the Earl took great pleasure
in teaching him, while still a youth, to al-gee with
logical precision, and to speak with elegance and
force. He himself frequently entered into disputa-
tions,with him, and encotirag-ed him to converse
with others upon subjects' far above what could be
expected from his years.• In the management, of
these arguments his father woulduever cease to press
him with ditficultieS ; nor would he permit him to
stop,' till the subjea of -contention was completely
exhausted. By being inured to this method, the
son acquired that quality Which is of the first conse-
quence in public life—a sufficient degree ofiirrimess
and presence of mind, as well as a ready delivery,
in which he was wonderfully aided by nature.
At between 14 and 15 years of 'age he was placed
under the care of a very worthy and enlightened
Clergyman, Mr. (now Dr.) \VILSON, and sent to
Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he was admit-
ted under the tuition of Messrs. TURNER and PRET-
TYMAN (the former now Dr. TURNER, Dean of Nor-
wich, the latter Bishop of Lincoln). These able
men seconded to the utmost of their power the
intentions of his father. In Cambridge he became
a model to the young Nobility and Fellow Com-
moners; and it was not doubted, that, if the pri-
vileges of his rank had not exempted him from the
usual exercises for his Bachelors' Degree, he would
have been' found among the first competitors for'
academical honours. On his admission, according
to custom, to his Masters' Degree, the• public orator
found it needless to search into genealogy, or even
to dwell on the virtues of his father ; for the eyes of
the University were fixed on the youth ; the enrap-
tured Audience assented to every'encomium, and
every breast was filled with the liveliest presages of
his future greatness. •
Mi. PITT was afterwards entered a Student of
Lincoln's4nn, and made such a rapid progress in his
legal studies, as to be soon called to the bar with
every prosped of success. He went once or twice
upon the Western Circuit, .and appeared as junior
Counsel in several causes. He was, however, des-
tined to fill a more important station in the. Qovern,-
ment of his country than is us Tally o'Jtained through
the channel of the law.
In the year t7B t he was .returried for the Borough
of Appleby. Oh tal,.ing his seat in the House of
Commons he joined the Party which had constantly.
opposed the MiniSter, Lord NORTH,, and the Ame-
rican War, and which regarded him with a degree
of veneration, recognizing in his person the genius
of his illustrious- father revived, and, as it Were, 'act-
ing in him.

To appreciate our departed Minister, as a Politician,
is a work of historical investigation ; to form an estk-
mate of his personal endoWments'; to scan the linea-
ments, and to describe the characteristics of his great
mind, should indeed be the task of those who knew
him privately as well as publicly ;. but still, while the
moral influence of his genius ii,operating on scniety,
and while the soundof hi'scloquence is yet as it were
echoing in the publie.,:ear, the name of Mr.. ITT ,
cannot be mentionea 'without suggesting refieaions
on the wonderful peculiarities of the man..
From the earliest expansion of his hopeful' talents,
he stood forth, as ordainedby destiny aswell as birth-
' right, to fill the station,,and to emulate the talents' of
CHATHAM.—If he. WaS not-bora an orator, he was
earlier trained to oratory than any Statesman of the
age.—ln watching over the bright progress of his
studies, and anticipating his future fame, his father
was notdeceived by parental partiality. The young
eagle looked undazzled, like his sire, fo the blaze of
glory and pre-eminence. Even when a boy, his ta-
lents for declamation were so prompt 'and ambitious,
that when Lord CHATHAM one day heard of his tu-
tor's intention to take him along with 'his elder bro-
ther to hear the.debates in the House of Lords;' he
forbade him, saying to the tutor,, " You may take:
the eldest, but I will not allow WILLIAM to go ;. for
I am sure that he would rise up and speak, if he
heard any thing that did not agree with his opinion."
CHATHAM knew the full value of promptitude,
copiousness, and energetic declamation, to a Parlia-
mentary Statesman, as he foresaw his son waS,to be ;
and he Qwulded the fine elements of his genius for
that purpose. Never .did such materials for the
formation of rhetoric fall into the hands of such a
teacher.

By early pra&ice, gnidance; and encouWgerrient;
our Minister, possessing by. nature a, rich faun-
fain of intellectual images, vas' taught to arrange,
to beautify, to amplify, and swell the order and
progress of his thoughts, which were not reluCtantly
bfought out in debate, but evolved with a spontane-
ous promptitude which had an influence. almost
like Magic-. The quickest and strongest imaging-
tions are sometimes attested in the course of their
eloquence, by accidental crossing Of thoughts, and
forced into cOnfusioni and hesitation—but the order
of Mr. MITT'S ideas seemed for ever to be so marshal-
red, that nothiricr brake or cotsfused them. Even
when betrayed by the richness of his imagination
into parenthesis, involution, et deviation, he never
wanted exuberant language=he never lost himself,
Or needed to halt for a new. arrangement.
The name of BURKE will ever be held in ad:nira-
tion, and his opinions mult always be received with
reverence. It then' with peculiar pleasure that

record what may ainiost be C3113:1
wi ing,testhnony 1p favor 4: of thc
no'hai i-etently '-followOd\ that greai.

:

If," says. Mr. Buriikc, " things Slidt:'.(l'
the compara.tive-happluess,of a-struggle,
found, I was going to say.figliting,.. (that wOuld b
foolish), but dying' by the side of Mr. Pia-T. -I M;;.,st
add;_thatif any thing defensive in on: dorneMCL,ys-1
tern can possibly save us from the disasters of a
Regicide Peace, he is Ma via» to save us. If thee
FinanCes; in such a case, can .be rep sired; he is the:
Man to repair them. If I should lament any of hij
Ab, it is only.when they appear to me to have no•
resemblance to aas of his."

It has been afters and justly, ohScm:i, that the
report of a inan's servants is well entitled to at
tetition, as affording a good opportunity of eStlrrhit
ing the merits. of hiS charaBer: Judging of Mr.-
PITT by this Criterion, be was one of the mlidest,l
Most indulgent and amiable Men tligt ever lived:---
Hence we find. that in every view of'this exalted
man, he 'was as much distinguished' for those quali-
ties which give the most endearing charm to pri-,
vate life, as well as for those sPletKiid talents
-which rendered him the admiration of the world,

. .
On Monday and following days • the -.frs',-. ,'.,:-
Royal), Regiment of Dragoons arrived at ',,',-..)0c.-
bridge Barracks: several other Regiments are short-
ly expe&cd. .
Alderman SKlka is p ankh iridispbse.i, :i.::',
be is not expeaed to recover.—He hts rea:7.!-,e,i to
an advanced age, and his closing days will be cheere,.'.
by the consciousness that he is
.indebted far all hi-
wealth and honours to his ow persevering ,:,iligence
and probity.
The . recent sale of the Blood air:let, Broca
Mares, &c. near Wakefield, in Yorkshire, (N. 'the
late Sir ROWLANI WYNNa, dreW together all the
Turf and Sporting Characters of the North. Sit
ROWLAND'S Own Hunters were thus disposed of :

ITUNTER.
38 Tankersley, 6 years old, by Overton, dam biv
Phenomenon. Mr. Maw for toe Du!ieOf
Leeds - - - ,C 315 o c
39 A dark Chesnut. Mare, 7 years old, by Grog,
Mr. Thellus§on - - 2'20 lo 6
Chesnut Mare, 6 years old, by Mita:le no 5 0
Bay Gelding. - Mr. C. Wilson - ice o 6
Bay Mare, by Miracle. Mr. ThellaSsoh 94 la o
Bay Gelding, by Traveller, out of Co-
lunnaa. Mr. Umpleby - -
44 A Brown Horse, 7 years old, by Ills A. H.
the Prince of Wales's Arabian. Mr.
11,1 atliw man - . .. - s 8 It o

40 A
4L A
42 A
43 A

75 t 5 o

DUELLING.---A meeting took place a few &rye
since near Ipswich, between a Mr. R. and. Lieut.:
; of a regiment in the neighbourh;)od. ri he
parties appeared on,the ground early in ‘. the morn,-
sing, attended by. their Seconds; but when the groun
was marked. out, the son of Mars dircovercd that be
had left his pistols at home; in consequence of this
fortunate circumstance and the interference of _the
Seconds, the parties agreed to retire and adjust their_
quarrel as they had began it, viz: over a bottle.----2
They had the. preceding evening; in company with
several otheis,..,sacrificed rattier freely to the jolly
gad, when Mr. R. (who is an Hibernian) in Order
to amuse the company with an Irish joke, cat.off the
Officer's tall;

. A new species of fraud has been pra&ised for some
evenings past, on different tradesmen at 'the West
End of the Town. A man of genteel appearance
calls at a shop, and orders different articles to be sent
to a house, of
,Which .he states himself to be the
owner. He also desires the tradespeople to send
with thegocidS change of a one, two, or a five pound
note. When the porter is hear the house where he
is to deliver the goods, the person who ordered then
meets. him, and giving him a forged note, takes
the change, and sends the Man back in a hurry for'
some other articles. This, fraud was pradised
the Bunch of Grapes \Vine Vaults, Brewer-street,
Golden-Svare and at the Coach • and Horses,
Kingstreet'; a Fruiterer's in Bond-street; and seve-
ral other places. ' •
It is said, that there is an eager competition among
the Princesses of q'ermany to enter into matrimonial
alliances with the august i - ouse of BONAPARTE.—
Such may be the case at pre sent in the vassal States
of, the Continent, but when the head of that august
House shall be prevented by death froth disturbing
the repose .of mankind any longer, there can be lit-
tle doubt that the family will fall into such coht,:upt
that there Will. be. none so
,poor as to do it re-

verence.

- tt appears, from a report just published at Glas-
gow, that, during the last year only twenty-one
children have died of the small-pox; such has been
the advantage of the vaccine inoculation.
On Thursday the loyrer part of Wakefield be:n7,-
inundated, the road over the bridge was impass2l.)le
for several hours. Two vessels Were driven over the
weir and lodged against the bridge, where one bf
'them, laden with corn; sunk.
A Gentleman observing the_ other da:l-, that BO-
NAPARTE principally owed hiS goofl fbitune in the
Continental War to the'rapidity Of big marches—all
acquaintande replied, there are many good fortunes
dependihg at ,this-rhoment on the same princiPle
of conduct, for Unless- dilatory adventurers make
very rapid'tharcheS to the Lottery Offices, they will
speedily he deprived.of all chance of participating of
the immense interest Contained in the first-drawn
5000 numbers.
The' firstdrawn 500 Tickets are s'lre to be
Prizes:---Hoiticsat and Co. beg leave to state to their
• Friends and the Public, that in consequence of the
arrangement of the above benefits, it is manifest to
every Adventurer, that by purchasing before the
Lottery commences Drawing, an important advan-
tage is- obtained : for instauce, the First-drawn Tic-
ket will be,entitled to 10,0221. ; the fortunate hOlder
may renew the purchase of an undrawn Ticket with
the 221., and on the, second day obtain 20;0520.,
and continue to do so:until the first 5000 2all Tic-
kets are drawn out of 'the Wheel. Tickets and
' Shares Are selling'in great -variety of numbers, and at
the lowest prices. Prizes paid on demand by
HoßnsaY mid Co. the old established State Lottery
Offices, 26, Cornhill, fit, Charing-Cross, and St.
Margaret's Hill, Borough. Orders by, Letter cr
Carnet; executed exaedy on the sanre terms as if pre-
sent. The Lottery beg:ns Drawing next Mbzday
week.

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