The Sun.
London, England, 1806-03-18 00:00:00

granted-40 far -ai,may be consistent with the secb•
ray a the p9blic service.
The other Orders of the D4.vve're gone through
Adjourned about half-past ten-o'clock.

Whon the Aidianta feft Barbadoes, it was repott-
edthere that Admirals DUCKWORTH and LOUIS had
• • e .
fallen in with a. French Squadron, 'but. had failed
-.•• • . .
in their effOrts to bring on an action, and that the
French Squadron had got ',into. Martinique, where
they were closely :blockaded. It is perfeelly well

PitICV Ot• STOCKS
THIS DAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCK.
CODEOLS . - -- - - - . 6oi.

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ARRIVED-.. 1 Lisbon, r Dublin. Dus—i liamburgh,
Waterford. •

.notion that Admiral DUCKWORTH` did chace a
French Squadron, and that he lost sight of them in
consequence of some of his Ships being such heavy
sailers : and upon.this circumstance We conceive the
above report was founded. If the French Squadron
had a&ually got into 'Martinique, • Government
:would of course_ have received official intelligence
upon the subje&:----FroMthe length or time which
has elapsed since any distill& intelligence • has,
been received respe&ing., the Enemy's Squadrons,
wo think it by no Means improbable that they may
have shaped their course towards the East Indies.

THE SUN.

SOLENT QUIS DICER& rALsux AuuE.AT?

L N D 0 N,

TUESDAY, MARCII 18, 1806. -4

WE received this morning Dutch Papers to the

15th htsrant, which contain Paris news to the

9th instant. The chief article they contain is

a long.. Expose, . which . was laid .before. the Le-

THE subjea, of our Military Defence was last
night brought forward again in the House .of.Cam-
mons, and several questions were put *to Mr.WIND-

gislati've Body..by CHAMPAGNY, the Mitiisier of
the Interior. This Exposé contain, as might be,

As it tides not appear that that. Gentlethan
is yet prepared to submit 'his System to Parliament,
he was of course exposed to some anidiadversion on
• .
account of tie freedorn with which ;le had expressed
himself respeaing the plan adopted by his predeces-
sors, and Because he had, before lie was in office;
„declared that the situation of the Country would
not admit Of more than a delay of. five days in.
the arrangement of a decisive system for our mi-
litary defnce. If, however, we may cpttfide in
the information .•,,vitich we .have received from a
very. reSpea-table
.quarter,. Mr. WLNDIIAM is. by no
means' to be, censured for' a want of attention to
this important suhje&, •as 'it is said that be faid
his Plan several. days ago before his Colleagues
-.1
in Office, but that it had not met with their appro-
bation: Mr. WINDHAiI has, therefore, no doubt,
:been. 'sedulously employed in correcting what ap-
,
.peared to them to be defeas in his,Systern, and
will, of. course, bring it forward after it has again
been submitted to the rest of the Administration.;
and received the full sanfaion of their judgment. As
WINDHAM, With all his acknOWledged talents,
has found so much difficulty in framing a measure
suitable to this important crisis, it may be expeatd
that when he is, fully prepared to'submit his Plan to
the Public at large, he will, with the, liberality be-
.*•inirig a great •mind, acknowledge that he was
scimewltat precipitate in condemning' .a system for
which; whatever its defects may he, he haS not
'found it an-easy smatter to. Provi4 4.substiture.

expeaed, a most flattering account of the interior
. . -
'situation of France: • Jt'enlarges upon the indefa-

HAM.

tigable exertions of. the Emperor. in repairing 'the
roads, in constrUdting canals, building. bridges, and
particularly in improving the state of the sea-ports.

The Expose is not concluded 'in the Papers which

we have received, but there are no observations

whatever hi the:part which has reached us, upon
the relations subsisting between France and any
,Foreign. Powers.

We will lay this document before our Readers to-

morrow.

PARIS, MARCH 9.—Prince JOS.RPH, Brother to

theEmpernr, and Commander in Chief of the Army
of Naples, took possession of the. Kingdom of
Naples in the name of his Majesty, and issued
a Proclamation to that effe& on the 21st of

February. This Proclamation announces the ir-
revocable exclusion of the Dynasty of Naples from

the Government of that State. It invites the People

to concur in the measures which will be taken to,

irnprove their Finances, to diminish their 'wants,

and to, obtain for 'them Justice and Peace.—

Their Magistrates are retained in their offices, and

those who have abandoned their posts will be. re,

placed by others.—Prince Jos zru has provisionally
confided the funaions of the Secretary of State, who

This morning arrived -.a .Mail from Lisbon,
brought to Falmouth by the Priiice ve it:ales Packet,
in 13 days' passage.
Sunday evening Their MAJESTIES had a sele&
party to tea and coffee.
Yesterday morning a Messenger arrived at Wind-.
sor with dispatches from Mipiiters:to His MAJESTY.
. His MAJESTY will hold a Privy Council to-mor-
row at the Queen's Palace, t:t Which .the Recorder
of Lohdon will attend to_ make his Report of the
Convicts under sentence of death in Newgate.
Yesterday Mr. ADAM,. Chancellor to the PRINCE
of WALES, transacted business with the DUKE of
YORK at his Office.. •

was absent, to certain DireEtors.

The Moniteur, after announcing the Capture of
he Cape of Good Hope by, the English, tpakes the

following observllioni :

" The Captain-General of the Isle -of France
offered, fifteen months ago, to the Comn)ander.

of the Cape; to send him two thousand men

as a reinforcement, but he would not accept it. The

• This .morning Earl MOIRA, as I'vlaster-General of
qle Ordnance, attended by his Aides,de-Camp, &c.
set off to inspe& the fortifications, an:: various new
works, at Galleywood.Coninion, and other parts of
Essex. 7.

four Dutch Ships which.are at Batavia have done no-

thing for the common cause. They have not once

quitted Eativia ; they have not made one prize.
It is remarkable, that while England sacrifices Au-
stria, and the Powers which she has'seduced, she

CHARLES O'HARA, Esq. Member for Sligo, and
Governor of that County, is appointed one of the
Lords of the Irish Treasury.

Mr. HENRY ,PARNiLL, Member for the Queen's
,County; son of the late Sir J. PARNELL, is also ap-
pointed'one of the Lords of the Irish Treasury, in the
room of the Hon. GEORGE KNox. Mr. H.
IraR-
NELL Will be again re-ele6ted for the Queen's County,
without opposition:
The Hon. GEORGE PONSONBY, son of Lord-Pox-.
SONBY, we understand, succeeds -Mr. OR,;ISBY
I the place of First Counsellor to the Commissioners
in Ireland. •

employs her power not against Boulogne, to make
attempts on our Coasts, hit to conquer the Dutch Co-

lonics. The. English make dupes,' but they, do not
choose to be dupes. They will say, after this, that

France wishes to exclude them from the Continent.
It is England that, by her conduet, has renounced it

in the most decided manlier."

'Sir JOHN NEWPORT has appointed MP:WHEATLEY
to the place of Secretary to. the Irish .F,xcheAuer Of-
Ace, lately filled 'by Mr. H..PAR.NtmL.
Sir L. PARSpNS and Mr. FiTZGERALEI,_ commonly
called the Knight of Kerry, Lords of the Irish Tre-
asury, it is understood, wilt retain 'their situations.

We are much mistaken if this dire& attack in

the Ploniteur, upon the Dutch Government, is not
the forerunnerof its speedy dissolution.

The Rev. Dean Wnesuß•oN is appointed First.
Chaplain to his Excellency the Lord Lieutenant of
Ireland.

BONA.PAATE has =voluted the Seriate,that he has

affianced the Princess STEPHANIE NAPOLEON, niece

We arc happy to state the safety of the. Dragon,
of 74 gun's, Capt. GRIiFITiI, stud the Latona Fri-
gate,, Capt. CTOssLut,t, for -which much anxiety-had
been felt. Advicw have been received by the Plan-
tagenet (which is arrived at, PlYmouth„ with the
Phenix and Revolutionaire), that. they arc both
crUi zing in the Bay of Biscay.
Court of
.Aldermen being held forenoon,
the LORD MAYOR, after inspetting the Mealweighers'
Returns, ordered the price of Bread to be lowered Id.
per Peck Loaf,

to JOSEPHINE, to the Hereditary Prince of BADEN.

WE are still unable to lay before our Readers any
authentic :information tespeEting the, Squadrons
which have escaped) from Brest. The following
Letter, brought by the Atalanta, which has arrived
at Milford Haven, from the West Indies, was yeS-
lerday 'received at LLOYD'S :

airbadoes, lan. 2,1.

Mr. PU6KLEY, the Messenger, left town last, tfight
" Conjeflures are entertained that the Rochefort Squadron, for Berlin, with dispatches of great importance, and
or part of the Brest Fleet, are in these Seas, and have pro. was supposed to have a further destination.
ceaed to the plunder of the' Neutral Wands to leeward, as Married on the 14th inst. at the house of JOHN
five strange Sail. were seen on the 18th by an .English ,
OAY.ERS, Esq.. Baker-street, Portmart-square; RICH.
Schooner, coming down the latitude of Martinique, and was
TALBOT, Esq. of Mallahide Castle, County of Ppb-
chased that night by 4 Brig, but escaped. .Admirkl Si!: 1. lin, to Miss MANOST SAYERS, of the. said County.
DU CKWORT His Squadron had been joined by the Atlas and , _ • Saturday last a ' daughter of Mr,. .LITTLEWOOD,
Northumberland, and were Martinique on the 15th. , ,
of Lamb's Conduit-street,. standing by the 'fire, her
"The French SquadrOn which fell in with the Fisgard .
clothes caught, and before proper assistance could
and Wolverine Convoy', on the 7th ,December, from Cork,- he given, she was burnt in a most dreadful manner.
Consisted of, the following Ships from L'Orierit : ' - She-languished till SU:iday evening; when she ex.-
Regulus - So guns President - 4o guns 1 .vired.
. •

Cy bete

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Arid Sur vernante Brig.'•

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