The Sun.
London, England, 1808-04-28 00:00:00

FOREIGY INTEL LIGEACE.

HELSINGBDRGH, APRIL 18.-7-His Britannic Ma-
lesty'S Ships Orion and Ito' nguard are gone to anchor
off COpenhageil as Guard-ships. The Centaur and,
Implacable; together with two or three smaller Ves-
sels, remain here. for the same purpOse.:ThetTrench;
force in Holstein, and, in the Island of Poen, is said
to consist of 15,000 Spaniards, 10,000 French, And:
5000 Dutch: They are commanded bylisasanoTTE
they seem to have given up for the present the idea ofi
coming over to Zealand. 'lndeed it is.theught that at:
this moment BuONAPXIITE'S attention is more particu-
larly engaged in the South of Europe than the North,
and the appearance of the English Fleet hak had the
effeci of putting an end -to his operations here. The
retreat of BERNADOTTE from Copenhagen, as soon as
he heard of the English Ships heaving in sglit, is
sa4,o..bnyo,!:oeen rather
GUTTENBUFGH, APRIL 1112.---That part of the
Swedish Army which has entered Norway is said to
have already advanced seven Swedish miles
,(which
are nearly equal to fifty English miles) without
much opposition. By the last accounts frenn Fin-
land the Russians were-• retreating. The cause of
' tins is not known, but it is repotted to be for:want
proviiions. -

Avitn 23.—A: Courier has arrived this morning
from Stockhoirn,.. but 'brings nothing new from the
Army in -Finlaud.. The Swedish Government, We
learn, has thought proper to-grtint. prOtedions to al
Shisps having British linens. UpWards of 30 DAnish
tun-boats have, during the last week, appeared off
the Swedish coast; near Stromstadt, to the great an•
,noyance of that neighbourhood.

RXTRACT OF A LETTRR FROM LISBON, or THE
28TH JANUARY.

. " A few days' ago the Russian Admiral Stxt
reeeived from Petersburgh certain intelligeneeof the
commencement of hest iii ties between Russia and Eng-
laud. In consequence thereof Adroiral GuEIG struck
his 'flag, and set out by land to Russia, accompanied
by, seven ,English Officers in the Rus4an" service.
Th©' Russian Squadrons is .in the .most deplorable
condition; it consists of nine Sail ci the Line and
one Frigate."

Yesterday
,a Court of D'ircj.tors was held at the
India House, when the Ships Ocetin an& Sir stephtql
Lushington were stationed fat Madeira, Madras, and
Bengal.—The Travers, Com.tss, and Earl Spencer,
BENING, stationedlor Madras and Bengal, were di-
)eaed. to touch at Madeira;--The Coutt adjourned at.
six o'clock till Wednesday next.
Another instance of . the bad. consequences fre-
quently resulting from the Slaughtering of cattle in
the public market, occurred a few days ago. in
Sunderland. A fat heifer in her way to thersham7
hies for that • purpose, broke from her driver, and
succeeded in gaining the pier, which is' generally
Crowded with people. Before she conid be headed,
she passed on to its very extremity, without doing
any injury, and. numbers followed in the hope that
She would be secured behind the light-house;
When having unexpetedly forced her way back
through the narrow passage on the South. side, the
danger.to her pursuers became seriously alarmint,
and many thing them Selves over the raring, Cling-
ing by their hands, to 'mid it. A poor soldier,
hoWever, was the Only sufferer, who was gored in
the,bead, and taken to the hospital. After retra-
cing her steps along the pier, she proceeded with
great fury to storm the barracks by the eastern
gate, where the cehtinel attempting to oppoie-her
. with his-bayonet fixed, was tossed topsy turvy, and
she etTealed a lodgment in the very heart of the

,gatrison. Assailekon all sides by the bayonet, three
of which-entered, and one was broken in her body,
site soon found the post not tenable, and after over-
turning another centinel, made good her retreat by
the opposite gate.' She then crossed the moor to
the sands, and the tide being out, she got entangled
qtuong the rocks, and was secured without doing
further harm.

'GENERIL"
,PICKERIWG's REPO'

,TO
GOVERNOR SULLIVAN.

• *City If Washin filo?? March 848,.
• I
51n.-;-Thi &citing I, received your Excellency's
Letter of the ad instant, acknowledging tne.:3.reeeipt
of mine to ybu, (consistitig of six sheets) dated
,the
16th, (not the 7th) of February,.which, you were
pleased to return with an expressibti of " surprise,"
at what you call." my novel and extraordinary chin.'
upon you as .Governor of the Commonwealth," to
etnurnunicate my Letter to the Legislature. Indeed,
Sir, !Aid not think that in:" presenting to yon au&
them such a VIEW of our NATIONAL.. AFFAIES aS
My oFiectm. situation had placed in my power,"
1 was •Committingan error to addressing it to YOU,
as the-proper organ of ,emninonication to the Legi-
slature/ And''notwithstanding your Excellency'sadmonition, lam still', so unfortunate as not to see
wherein I have erred. llad'the language and senti-
ments of my Letter, thus addressed to yOu, and to
the Legislature, been wanting in decorum and, re,
'sped to, either, your
,surprise and reproof would
hate been just. But you are pleased to tell me,
that " before you had gone through the tirSt page,
you Were -surprised at my novel and extraordinary
cialm"—that " you folded my letter instantly, in
•order to retied upon its principles," and that," you
have not unfolded it since." You intimate, however,
that if I had requested you," as efavoto tont-pal,"
to communicate my Letter to the, Legislature, and
you hod approved of its
,contents, ytiu Might • have'
granted the request.
Rally, Sire when I was perferming what I con-
ceived to be a serious and import:int duty to my
native State, which I had the honour, in part, to re-
present in the Senate of the United StateS, it 'waS,
impossible.that the idea of asking any thing as a
" favour to myself," should have occurred to me.
The subjeaof the Letter was rneritioned in the first
page--=‘ A. View of our National Affairs." And
amidst the thousand • perplexing and alarming ru-
Mours' and reports spread `abroad among the people,
I hoped that the infurination contained in my Letter
might be acceptable tic) e our Excellency and the Le-
gislature, and to the CitiZene of Massachusetts. Yes,: gid,l4lieve it to be, extremely ieportant
to the Cerizass that THEY should know what was'
to be kridevit, •of the very " novel and -extraordi-
nary" situation of 'our public affairs. And lam yet
to learn, that it would have derogated from the dig-
Uhy t,f yOttr',Excellency' to have, made the cointnuni.el
„Pleat?. eelt Was not necessary fur your Excellency'
rtte.". reCollea that the Senate and Howe of
Representatives of 'the commonwealth (of Magee-
'Cliuset t'sritere visiblee ot genie .bodiese that the for-
mer. htura President, and the latter •has a speaker :"
tt wds beeatise I believed -them to be both "
and eeusible. bodies, that,,thrnugh you I addressed
them. Bute until yoor-F,xcelleney eaL pleased' to
inform me,. t• did not Irnow 'deft their " etei-ks" and
the " Secretary" of thee,Cemmonwealth, were the
proper Officers to-whom betters or. Memorials to be
Enid before the two Honses were to be addrihsed.
-The'l.Beeretary".l know, was, by lon usage, the
gticial ,bearer of the Governor's Meswjes to the
.Leislatnre. •
WOO have no dispOsition to question the " equal
claims." of the MessachteietK, '' Members of 'the"
Nattunil House' of Lepresentatives, to raddress
to yoHt Excellency any plwrs they may Been!
portant to be communicated to the State Legislattre;
I confess there •seerrred to be apeculiar fitness in a
Senator's addresSiug, the Legklatbre, from whom he,
immediately' derives: his appoeument. And iii the
present case, seeing my leHci• eittbraeed the highest'
concerns of Our cotintry,' in which Alassachusetts,
holds so large a state, especially in a commercial
point of view, I could net imagine that I was offend-,
ing her Chief el‘lagstrate, in presenting a view of
Ahose.-eoncerns to hint, to be afterwards laid before
the Legislature. I knew it wat'the duty of the Go-
rumor to watch over the- welfare of the Common-
wealth : and your Excellency,- in your late " pro-
clamation for a thy of public fasting and prayer,"
(which I%iive, read with great satistaatton, and I hope
with Christian delight) has very seelously aud
strikingly 'called' on the People over whom you pre-
side, to unite in their soleien tisseintilies, in praying'
to Oua Frauvit in fieSvitis c/ That he real smile
on the tabours of our hands„ and au our ENTrE.:
PRIZES in husinesS, prospering our N A %,Io,ATION and,
Fisetarttes':"—And it wits h.eause 1 Aa',v those
TEEPRizES blasted by an Embargo—our NAvio.A-
TIoN prostrated—and our Fisneames permitted f.e -
no beneficial end—sceihe the fish when eaueht, me.
bein.r suffered to be exported, must ydt in the hands,
fishers—that I presumed to address the Go-,
vernor and. the Legislature, of the Great Navigating.
and Fishing State,' in -the 1-111 t) to
.convinee theM of
the necessity of looking atent;elees. after those, essen-
tial interests of the -Commuto,vealth, —I knew that,
agreeably to long established 116:ige,' the Legislature
of Massachusetts.eanathreugh fhetu the People, had/
been-,accustomed to, receive front the Goernor
formation Of the thinki Whirh !io her peace
And at what period' of"her he,tory did it mote bee
hove her to know them v e —lnvery de.1.1, Sir, I should
have deemed Myself wanting in veNpch towar.l4 your '
Excellency, if in an Address intend for the Woe-.
matikm of the Legislature and the C4inclionwealth,
I had omitted .tro present it, in the first place, to the
Governor as her political head: .Anti slid remaining
satisfied that this is the correct mtist'
not omit, on uny Inture occ;.fti'xtrt, to poN,ne it.
I halm the Lotto& tO
I•l;4trritY PICKErsING.

COAST OP BAttBAIM--A Lctto from Gibralta.r,

dated the foi!ow alb; inteiiigence:
ti A hundred inen, with twn Ene,ineeri, And it de-
tachment oftAriiilcry, were ••;er.t yk;:itenday from tltis
to take possessicen of an Island on the oppoi,ite situ
of the Sti eights, near the 13.4riwy Clast,,which has
been eeded to us by the Emperor of iNioxocco, and
which will be of the' greatest utility in checking
the' Enemy's Gun-boats tt.sicl And afford-
ing shelter to our own Vessels, part,;:tuArly in bring.
in„ supplies frornliattary, ns-thete eKedletit an-
chorage on each side_of it, 'aptt it intended to
fottilY it strongly, The 1-..,!;',Ourer INlouocco
13 exreAecl daily to declare v. 3). tt4, last France anti
Spa i

'Yesterday the Cabinet ;.\iliniiteri dined-with the
Duke of VuitTt.Azw, at _Bnrliuton Hnn ae, picodijiy.
Yesterday the CHANcrt.Lokr held the ti: t Seal 1.).
fnre Easter rinni ; and "at one (idockleftthe Court
to attend hip MAJESTT at BUCkirigbarn gintSll-