The Sun.
London, England, 1808-10-20 00:00:00

But no peace or suspension of hostritics, no change
affecting neutral commerce is kno.vn to have taken

not only egregious folly, as well as indecency, in
urging farther entreaty for what has been solemn'y
priomised in the eyes of mankind, but a most illiberal
spirit of frejudication, How can any of the Parties_
implicated in the 'Cdnverition be deemed culprits
till they have beep put upon- their defence, -and till
their guilt has been demonstrated, upon thecarest,
and inti:st substantial grounds ? This.mode of treat-
log. men; one of whom in particular, previous to
the Convention, had added lustre to the national
charader,as well as exalted his own (before de-
servedly high in the estimation, not, only of Great,
Britain, but wherever military talents of the' first
rank are'. properly understood and duly respetled),."
is monstrous. The opponents of Government, who,
thus illiberally presume the guilt of men, shew, the
cloven foot Of fat:lion, not.a love justice and a spirit
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of candourp,. . But," say these advocates.for,forther
Petitions to the Throne, ‘f it would bo savage to re=
joice in the conviction' of aiay inen, however
guilty." Mild Creatures !—They can find nothing
savage in applying the most opprobrious epithets
to men whose defence is unheard, and who, for-
aught they know, -have dope the best for our Allies
the the the case would admit. They can see nothing
savage in thus infliding • punishnthnt before there is
any proof of eilt. But we shall drop the subjeel •
-for the present, not doubting that we shall be.
fur-
nished too often-with occasion- to resutne•it •

place. The Orders of England, and the ';Decrees
France and Spain, existing at the date of those laws,
are still unrepealed, as far as we koow. In Spain,
indeed, a contest for the Government appears to have
arisen ; but of its course
,or prospeds we have no in-
formation on which prudence would undertake a
hasty change in our policy; even wore the autho-
rity of the Executive competent to such a decision.
" You desire, that in this defect of power, Con-
gress may be specially convened. It' is' 6messary to
examine the evidence, or the character of the faets
which are supposed to diaate such a call ; because
you will be sensible, on an attenion to dates, that
the legal period of their meeting is as early as; in
this extensive country, they could be fully convened
by a special call.

" I should With great 'willingness have .executed
the wishes of the Inhabitants of the town of Boston,
had peace, or a' repeal of the obnoxious Editls,
or other changes, produced the case in ,which alone
the laws have given me that authority; and
so many motives of justice and interest lead to such
changes, that we ought continually to expe6t them.
But while these EdiEts remain,ilte Legislature alone
can prescribe the course to be .pursued

" Taos. ILFFERSON."

" August 26, i8og:!"

We. have received Portuguese Papers-to- the 3d
instant : they contain little more than -.expressions
Of joy for the deliverance of Portugal from the Ftench
Banditti, and of Gratitude to their British Allies.
It is most_ unlucky for the faaion in this Country,
that not one solitary expression of discontent is to
be found in any of the Papers which have reached
this Country, from Portugal, relative to the .late
Convention; and if it were not for the very
,inge-
nions device of writing Letters in London, and
dating. them " Lisbon," the Opposition Prints would
not have a shadow of evidence to-support thL:ir asser-
tions upon the subje&. The Portuguese •Gevern--
ment have issued an 'order, that all persons in pos,j
session of the horses taken from the Spanish troops
by the FrenCh should deliver them at the British
Head-Quarters, where they would receive the sum
they had paid for them. -In consequence this
tneasure, most of the horses have been recovered,
and the Spanish Cavalry re-mounted.

Yesterday the Princess of WALES went to Ken-
sington, and rettirned to BlaCkheath to dinner.—
Her !Royal Highness entertained her Royal Mother,
the
.D-ucheSs of BRUNSWICK, and a sele& partY.
• His Royal Highness the Duke of CUMBERLAND
yesterday inspeeted his Regiment, at Rumford, .pre-
vious to their marching to Portsmotith, bn Saturday,
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.to embark for Spain., . ,
Sir Wrt. SCOTT arrived in. town yesterday aNr-
noon, about six o'clock, and had immediately a long
conference with 'Ministers.—
Sir JOHN MooRE is appointed Commander. in Chief
of the British forces destined for Spain, haying under.
him Lieutenant-General Sir ARTHUR WELLESLEY,
As his second iu command. Lieutenant-General Sir
DAyin BAIRD, with his division, which lately sailed.
from Falmouth, is ordered dire& to; the Northern.
Coast of Spain,' also, to as with Sir'JOHN MoiLEE's;
force from Lisbon, which, when united .witif: this
division, will make the total of the infantry nearly
40;000 men ; a body of light cavalry, amountingio
6000 under Lord PAGET, is also ordered to, act :with
them.

• Letters from Lisbon state, that transports were
colle6ted in the Tagus for the embarkation of 20,000
-British troops for Spain. It appears that this em-
barkation has been thus long delayed only for the
purpose of consulting the persons exercising the
Powers of Government in Spain, as to the place in
which they could be most advantageously employed.
It has been agreed that they shall be landed, not in
Biscay, whither it was hitherto thought they would
certainly proceed, but in Catalonia, where the
are supposed likely to
WE should be ashamed of r't'r' 10. fte '
•,- -nr-t n so o nto ob the Eastern P -retie gandwhere
the 7 y
French troops. from Italy
e ,
the subject of the CoptientiOn of-Cintra, or rather to there- is yet no strong disciplined force to oppose
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the subject of. addressing the rthrorreon•that Con--, .. .
- . • a
vention,' if we did not. think that when party-spirit
' '.';‘, Twenty thousand-English soldiers, most of them
them. •
''aPitcicipators in the glorious victory of Viuiiera, aided
is so adively at work on
the occasion, it is the duty by fIEDING'S envision of the Andalusian Army, the
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of every loyal Citizen to be equally adive.in repelling i conquerors of DifroNT, by a stroeg corpse dTtahed
i from Arrac) on, and 6000 men from fhe garrison of
Minorca, .
its mischievous endeavours., The Public are; asked -•.
norca, landed some time since, will oppcise, an
by an Opposition Paper, that is particularly anxious 1 invincible barrier to any irruption on this side,: and
to promote Addresses on the occasion, " When, if I render the most important province of Spain. the
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not now, are we to address- the Throne' upon so . most useful to the common cause.
Intelligence is said to have been- received of the'.
e- 1
ipa nful a subject ?" We are strongly inclined to b • ...A -
ofDßatten's Expedition • I ' '•
arrival 0. Sir D. _xrecotion ott toe'colsr o;-.
lieve that it is rather'a pleasurable than a painful 1 spaiii. Both the British and the Spanish' 'troops
subject in the quarter alluded to, because it furnishes 1 from the Baltic would, it was Supposed, - land at Co-
somethingif it shall be found dangerous to attempt the
reviving the hopes of a desp
rut ,
like a handle for attacking Ali-Miters, and i
ma
t landing- at St. Andero. At this season Of , Cr: year,
e.rate'actilion„ Bat bow 1> the, no, vastof Spain, from C 0 • I
ape rtega to
can the present be the only time for atlelresSinaathe i Bilboa, is often not sufficiently safe for the debarka-
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with stores. But upon this sul-a,
1 tion of an army its 5.
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Throne, when 'the Throne his .he en addressed by
jea the most violent attacks have been made upon
the City of London; • and his-M•aaas-ry has given an i
ihis Majesty's Ministers, as if they were loth:01)CW
_Answer which fully concedes the, object in request ? i by a determination to hood troops as far as possible
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I from the scene of aelion— if they as y ..would
Upon the old philosophic axiom,. " the greater in-
not land them close, to it if they could do it with
the
.the less," a cotnpliance with the entreaty of 1r ' -
• • I
.• saiet ,
the first City in 'the world, ought ceatainl. y. '
y.. to give I Colonel .MARTIN, inspeaed the 3d Regiment o
satisfaaion to every other place, and obviata the ne- i Lo'y'al London Volunteers yesterday, in,Lincoln'i
cessity of any similar Address, since a ire ob Inn Gardens.jeCt is the :
• Mr. MoNTAGUF. BUitOYNE, of Mnrie Hall, Essex,
same. But if it was not a little disreSpectful to his ; has made a tender to Government to raise, at his ovvn
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MAJESTY; in the first instance., to petition for an in- .
Lexpcalco, a Regiment of Cavalry, to serve in Spain
1 Portugal.
quirt', which might naturally by expected to arise from lor - - r i _,.
INDIA nous E.--2-(7
esteruay a Court of Dire6tors
his MAJESTY'S owo feelingsa'and attachment, to the ! was held, when Capt. JONATIIAN BIRCH was sworn
honour of the Country, the disresped is greatly nog- t into.the conimand of the Co,:npany's. ship Britannia;
'
merited on every repetition, since, as we have before t
.journed at six o'clock tilt Wednesday next. consigned to Madras and China. The Court ad-
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contended, and, as indeed is evident, every repeti- i
On Saturday a considerable degree of gram was
tion comes direilly, in the face of the. Royal Promise. I On
in Leith, in consequence of advises from
What treatment would that man deserve, in private ; Dunbar that the Cygnet Sloop of War, Captain Dtx;
d been suddenly, in a violent cr:ile betwee
had taken , n
life, who, when he had' been told,by a person whose
1. Redcastle and St. Abbe:s Head; in which she-was
eharatier was so pure, so bonounable, and.so firm i
, obliged to cut away her masts, and wag in danger of
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as to preclude the possibility of -distrust; that what I being driven on shore. Great praise is due to Ad=
miral VasHON for his eXertiOns; for immbdiately:bil
he solicited should be given, was to 'persevere in I '
worrying I receiving the intelligence, the Spitfire Sloop--4 War
requisitions ? Surely if a private_ individual , and a Gun brig were dispatched to her assistance
;of character, not only Unimpeached, but in the and the life-boat, with a . number of NeWhaVan .
Fishermen,
Who volunteered their services tbs milt
highest degree honourable and observant of his !
- , word, and anxious to fulfil her,accompanied by several naval Officers, were
it, should be exempted i off inthe naval Istorehouse.
; sent
from insulting persecution, His MAJESTY has still : horses. The Ship was happily in safety before this
greater reason to expect that he should be free:from : 'assistance, atforelett'With 'Such laudable promptitude,
• ! arrived. The latest accounts mention the Cygnet
I a- • • ,
' ' iii ,A.' - -ei 1. '
.was suca ouenstve importunity, since s nay, ,
being seen in tow-Of the Spitfire,, steering for Leith
aiven in the face of the whole world, and will re- : Roads. -
ta
.
ceive the stamp of history. But the perturbed siii- ', Th from Ti. _ .
The order enaa t ' -embargo ae"
o in) an 0n..,,,,
rits Who vent their si;:aen on this subjea.,: and 'Americans arrived 'at Trieste too late to prevetatahe
. sailing .of sever=al vessels belongina• to the Unite('
are incessantla labouring
1 to -,.;_sturb the public -
States, - They 3,
ley took the aelvanrag-e• of one of our.C4 nit
peace, ask if the Throne should be addr.Zed " alter ti.,,
vs protection, and all of them escaped,
excep the condemnation of the culprits 1" ligre we find one laden witlfl*Xp.: which was detained. '''• •

Some very interesting Letters will be fouridln a
subsequent Column from Admiral IVIouLA to- Mr.
DUPF, the British Consul-General- in: Spain, upon
the subject of the Commercial Intercourse between
this Country and Spain.