The Sun.
London, England, 1808-02-03 00:00:00

NEW AIiftANGEMENTS Wren TIIE RANK

The CMINCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
begged the Hon, Gentleman to tix some other day
besides Monday, ax it was his intention to submit to
the House'On that, day the substance of what bad
passed between him and the Guvornor and Deputy
Governor of the flank, inconsequence of the Report
of the Committee ofFinanee, relative to the manage-
ment of the public debt.

Mr. TAYLOR digit named. Thursday sennight for
hi 3 Motion.

13ANI1URY COMMITTEE.

Mr. Wilma presented at the Ihir the reduced
nit, containing the names of the Members ap-
pointed to try the metits of the Banbury Elec-
tion, viz.

Hon. E. Finch,
H. a.wan. Esti.
F. ryni,
F. I-lortier. hq.
W. E. Welbv,
N. Calvert, Lg.
Sir I. S. Yorke,
Nese.
1.. Onudas, EN. I Right }lnn. C. Bathurst.
AMERICAN TREATY.

Right Hon. R. Dund4s.
Right lien. !kir I. Newport.
1. Egerton, Esq.
11. rrtith, Esq.
AdalTIS.
T, Thutnton, Esq.

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Air. EDEN rose ill pursuance of his notice, to
moves for au „Addrey; to his Majpsty, praying thm ho
wonld be graciously pleased to order tube laid before
the House on authentic Copy of the Message tat tl,

President of the United States of America to both,
Utilises of Congress, communicating his refusal to"
ratify the Treaty concluded between the. Commis-
sioners appointed on the part of his Majesty and the
United -States, about a year since, 'The Hon.:Gen-
iletnan made a few brief observationsi tending to'
show the mischief that arose from the non:ratifica,
tion, and expressing a hope 'that an amicable ar- '
rangement was not impracticable, concinded with 4s,
Motion according to his notict-T- - "-
Mr. Secretary CANNING was apprehensive a
difficulty of form might have arisen, ,(for there could
have been no other ditliculty,) as to .the produclion
of the Paper.referred to in the Hon. Gentleman's.
Motion. There was nothing in America that cor-
responded with our Gazette.; and the copy of the
President's Message sent to this. Country by his Ma-
jesty's Ambassador was in fa 4 only extraaed 'from
a newspaper. On this day, however.. he (Mr. Can-
ning) had seen the American Minister, who had.
promised to furnish him with an .authentic
which might enable his Majesty's Government to
fulfil the objeti of the Hon. Gentleman's Motion,
Whether or not the President could ratify, or refuse
to ratify, the Treaty, without the consent of Con-
gress, was a question arising:out of the American
Constitution, with which- the ParliaMent of this
Country bad nothing to. The Cengi•ess could do
nothing till the President had transmitted the Treaty
to them, and the power of transmitting or not.trans-
mining, was, in effeta, equal to a power to ratify
or' not, as his-discretion should dtredF; 'The Treaty
was returned to this Country by the, President urt.
ratified. .

Mr. TIERNEY adverted to the unguarded expres~•
sion in the Speech from the Throne,' in which hisL
Majesty .was made:to commen4 on theTtesideat's
Mesiage on the authority of a'neWspaper report --
The etfea Of these comments was to excite a; belief,
!that:the Treaty.had been absolutely rejected; where-
as, in fad, it may:yet be ratified.
Mr: CANNINS explained. The Honourable Gen.
tieman was under a complete misunderstanding as
to fads.

The Address moved for by Mr. EDEZ,I was or-
dered.

BANK. ACCOMMODATION.

VERN4Y, as the propriety of.the late bar-'
gain between the Itink and the Government, with
a view to the public service,' was to be discussed on
Monday, thought it right to move for Copies of all
Correspondence between the GoVernor and Deputy
Governor of the Bank and the. Chancellor of the:,
Exchequer, or First Lord of the Treasury, since the
Ist of May last, relative to the management of the
Public Debt, the application of unclaimed -Divi-
dends, and Loans nom the Bank to the Public, be
laid before the House. The propriety of having
the documents was suggested by the re-
colleOion of the failure of the memory of Mr. Pitt
and the Governor of the. Bank for the time, as to
the particulars of a conversation relative to a matter
of this nature, which had passed between them not
a month before they were called to speak to it, a
matter which afterwards turned out to be a profit-
able speculation for the Bank.
The CHANCELLOR if the EXCITEQUER
said, the present case was very difkrent from that
alluded to by the Hon. Gentleman ; there was no
extension of the. Charter of the Hank in this cw.„...„,
the advsetaso of the arras zement was all on the
side of the Public. The arrangement arose from
the suggestions 'of the, Report of the Committee of
Finance, submitted to the Bank by his Majesty's
Ministers, and acceded to with the usual liberality of
that Institution. In consenting to the Motion, lie
'acknowledged he saw no Parliamentary ground tor
producing all the Correspondence : many of the let-.
ters referred to conferences managed on the ope
part by him, and on the other part' by the Goveritat
arid Deputy Governor.. The subitanee of these cep-
versations could not be stated.
'Mr. THORN TON said the Negociation had
proceeded partly by means of letters, and partly by
means of conferences managed on ie part of the
Bank by the Governor and Deputy Governor, the
substance of which was reduced into a. conne6Ae4i
form, ,and Au*nitted by the Governor and Deputy
Governor. to the Court of Proprietors,: then. the
•whole was made the subje&of an ultimate letter. 44.
Re supposed the inforthation contained in this letter
would be sufficient, as it contained, in aeuhstan•
tinl and connedled' form, the essOck,of Oa;
passed verbally in cc:lnference and in notes referring
to those conferences. The Papers mere ordered.
Mr. HUSKISSON, with a view to the discus-
sion which was to come forward on Monday, .in
which the application
of the pnclaitned Dividends
would .be a material featere, moved that thero.be
laid before the House on Account of the Amount of
those Dividends in can Quarter, on the day pre;.
vious to the payment tr.= the Bank:into theExehe-
(pier. Ordered.i—Adjcurned. • • • •

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THE SUN.

EOLEM QUI( DICZAY 41.111 ht AUDEAT ?

LONDON,

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 3; 1808.

Government this morning received dispatches
from Halifax, dated the 6th of January. The intelli-
gence which they bring from the United States is
not, we understand, of so late a date, as that iVhich
has already reached -this Country. No mention is
Made in them of the death of Sir JAMES ChAIG
that° can be, theretbre, no doubt that the report
which was circulated of his death is unfounded.

This morning we received Pqris I:(zpers, to the
26th ult. alto only articles of interest -which they
contain are two Conversations stated ,to have passed
betwceti Mr. CANNOIG and Mr. RIST, the Danish
Charge d'Affaires ; and also a Correspondence be-
tweett.connt 4takillTORPPI, and. Swedish
ter, upon.the suojcet of the OCciflpaii4ll Of Zpailiad
by Swedish troops.

,The Maniteur of the 25th contains a Report ad-
dressed.:loi BUONAPAETE by the Minister for re-'
reign Affairs, in which he endeavours to justify
the attack made by France upon Portugal.-
The principal, indeed the only accusation Pre-
ferred against the Portuguese Government, it
its attachment to Great Britain. We have not
MOM to give the whole Of the Report, which,
however, is very uninteresting: it concludes with
complaining that, notwithitanding the repeated and
urgent remonstrances of France, the PRINCE Itr,
GENT 'contrived, from time to,time, to delay join'
ing in the ConWeracy against Great Britain, and
Confiscating the British Property in Portugal. " At
one time a delay was required, in order to send the
Prince of BEY RA, a child twelve years . old, t 0
protect the Brazils, in case of their; being at
tacked by the English ; and at another: time 4
delay Was required, bqcauge 3 Squadron was eapeaeti
from the Mediterranean, which the Portuguese Co.'
vernment wished to see in safety in the Tagus.",
There is another Report irom the Kline Minister to
BLIONAPARTE,, dated the 2d htn.;.2,ry : it announce!"
tins departure of the Portuguese Goveriiseut. and:
adds, that it is necessary to occupy Portugal so,.h
Nvecchrseiderettibnoeddy Q f
thatTroops,lhe Ell4blieshca:soeualdppmreahkeensioioss
attempts upon its ceasts., ft also adds, that tte:
Spanish Government felt some alarm for Cadiz, ea:
for Ceuta. These Reports convey. no hint of Bco-.
NAPARTE'S future intentions rc.pc6ting Portugal.

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Eigbtythousand men of the conscription bf 1809
are called; notwithstanding the conclusion or a Glr. - •
vet? n Peace, " which has tixcd for ever the destinifs
the Continent." •
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THE Papers which we yesterday submitted to the'
Public, respelling our late intercourse with Russia,
must universally have excited a full convi6tion ef.

the justice of our, cause. That there were Secret
Articles in the. Treaty of Tilsit, though repeatedly
doubted, if not denied, by the Opposition Writers
was evident in the acknowledgment of BUDBEIVIA

SOLTIKOFF, and ROMAN zow, the Russian Ministers.
They declared, indeed,' that those Secret Articlut
had no relation to this Country. This acknowledg.
ment; however, afforded a strong reason why gfe
should expeet to have them disclosed to us, even if
we. admitted that they might have no immediate
relation to Great Britain. A full communication

was not too uauth for us to require of a friendlY
Power, and Russia was, in that state of the Nego"
tiation, to be still regarded in such a light. If the'
Secret Articles **ere harmless as to us, why net
reveal them ? lint were they harmless as to out
Allies ? and, in their probable consequences, as t°
ourselves ? These are questions which we had 3
right to ask ; and the refusal to disclose thean man'"
tested a spirit unfavourable to this Country, or total
submission to the diaates of France; and in such a stata
of things Great Britain might well hesitate to admit
Russia as a Mediator, between ns and our Ertel,
to whom she was devoted, or by whom she was it"
tiinidated. Wie need twit pursue this subjea tarsi
farther.' The Papers speak for themselves, and,
a proof that they do so, even the Opposition Write"
can extort nothing from them that can furnish on
argument against the conduit of the British CAW'
net, or throw any doubt upon Its sincere disposition
to Peace, if Peace could be obtained upon term' t 9
which we could nonourably accodo.

.Our last letters from America state, that the funds
ot, the United States hsd fallen faille atl to 60, uh'
der the general dread of a rupture with Great Bri'
Wm'
Lettere from Oporto of the 90th ult. have bre°
received .19 town. The writers describe their present
situation as lanientable, and their prospees equalirf
(I,:pkirable. They are suffering under a scarcityth• 0
provisions ; and this calamity is awls% ated by
obligation of supporting 1,i,u00 Spanish troops.
A report prevailed yesterday morning, ,aid to "7,
founded on intelligence received frota
Russia had declared war against Sweden.
About 2000 troops, in detachments of the 6tho
Corps, embarked lait week at Portsmouth and Cove° I
10th, 21st, 48th, and
for the Mediterranean. Thev have • orders to join
General SPENCER'S Brigade, at Falmouth.
62d Regiments, and the Sta
Private Letters state, that a levy en
,masse has
taken place in Sweden by 'order of the Government,
and that there it not a male in the kingdom capable
at bearing arms who is not a soldier. In. Stock-
hoiast alone the ithlitia consists of 10,600 elle6tivi,;
men. To the pretensiomi of Ruisia the. pt
Sweden is determined to make every rebistance;
A Letter from Copenhagen, dated Jattuaryi,
says, " The 10th ult. .the batter of the Three
,y
• Crowns stopped a Vessel Under Russian colours,o3
which had been furnished with faire papers, attest"
R
int that she came from a neutral Port the-real Po;
pers.being lad in a false ham, made of tit), and place.°
s in a locker in the captain's cabin. A Danish sailer;
who was on board against his will, dise.overed'the
deception to flee Officer sent on board, and told him
that the Ship came from London. Her cargQ,e'LT
sisting of kerseymeres, pieces of handkerchists,-ew
is valued at 1,000,000 rix dollars."
On Saturday seinnight, the post-boy:,cOnvey.ing
'the cross.post letters from- Dungannon to Belot
was stepped near Dungannon, about twelve o'00"'
• at night, by two meth who rubbed him of the mime'
An inhuman monster who has lately stabbed sot
raj xouvg women in Portsmouth, and the placo its a
11t, wagon Aleti4ay apprshensied arid corPin
to prison.

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iuctt beipg the obstacles to an Invasim: of India,
it will naturally be inquired on what grounds the
Opposition Papers rest the probability of its success.
They have no hesitation in replying, " that the
experiment has beeu.frequently made with effea
that NADIR SIIAW, GENGIS and AMMAN-
Dia the GREAT, haile all conquered the territories
ie question ; 'that what has been already' performed
cannot Without rashness be pronounced impossible;
and that BIIONAPARTE, .so like tlx.ExANDult in his.
character andfortune, is not less dating .in his pio-
jeas, nor less happy than that hero in their exc-
cution?,. _ •

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BUONAPARTE like ALEXANDER ! ! !—SQsay the
base and abjea .w retches who cro?da'before him On
the Continent; and so repeat, witii added baeness,
malignert of their Country in this Metropolis !
slut where is the resemblance ? ALux ANDea Was a
'Xing born of Kings : 13tIoNAPARTE; bprting from a
dunghill, bred in misery, and educated on charity,
driven with disgrace from the most 'disgraced spot in
Italy, .owes his first distinetiou to osassination, and
Lis first elevation to infamy Nor is the a cha-
raaer "of BtIONAFARTE more ALEX:INIIV,It'S
than his birth and ftirt une,--ALEXANOC It :was a'
"'adman, if our Readers will have it so ; hut he
Was ahigh-souled, generous madman : BUONAvAIiTE,•
is a pettyfogger in madness a cool, calculating,
malevolent madnian,.whose freaks nauseate
they .ternly. ALEXANDER wai'laiisli Of blood;—
but what was with hint merely the means is with
IitYOOIAPAR7•E the objea and end. The former was
I Lion TUartliilg jor prey to gratify ids inn:lean:tie.
Purrose ; the hater is a Tiger, insatiate of gore,
ted seizi4; viairn after vitlit», fur the infernal
tleaSnre of tearing what he cannot devour. It was
tie noble ambition of ALLXANDEtt to raise a pros-
trate, foe ; it is the mean pride of ....RVOAS'AItTE to
throw himself upon him, and, with the remorseless
ranCour of his countrymen, to stab him with a poi-
-4°llecl stiletto !

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AS We proceed we discover contrasts yet more .
abominable but we are already sick of the parallel
So impudently forced upon our notice, and gladly
return to our subject.
When ALcxatsoEa undertook his frantic Expe-
dition to India, he was sole and undisputed master
of the resources of Persia, then a rich and populous
exiending to the frontiers of Hindustan.
"4 difficulties, therefore, commenced at !I point
which the French can only reach by encountering
ut!d overcoming thousands ! After incredible hard-
2biPt4, Avethaquan. CrUsses- two of tins :Streams
-solidi fall into the Indus, loses vast numbers of his
1119 in a drawn battle witli tc,petty Itajah, an:i is
instantly compelled, by want, and the murmurs Of
isiollowers, to retrace his steps with all possible
eleritY. Out fur the wise precaution of sanding
hack a great part of his army by Sea, which, be if-
t'lnerved, BLIoNAPAR4E eaunot do, it is wore than
prbbable that the whole would have peri;il by. tile t
way, as their supplies must have failed them: long
before they reached. . flatten' aloe,
.there-
f're, can reckon ALexAubsu among _the co:14
luerors of Indb ; a country,Which hersearcely.saw).
from which
,he broughtback 4lotbipg.but o..ragged
raquir, ,tmdiry
.whiolt, the Dilly traces, of hit meteor-
ous appearatiee,.vere, a ,few worth of a Greek tea- •
gedy, that some of his idle soldiers taught
Hindoos.
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Thus far-We, have rand :lu:iv-eat enconra,sTethent'.,
form Expedition. to`lndia morebe..sought, it
will scarcely be atTorded by that of tialgots KUAN.
GENG/S riot Only 'possesied 11;.dhavia, (now 'an.
arid desert, then a fertile and flourishing. Country,)
but all the regions which bound India to the North.
Hfg excnrsions, therefore, flit they were nothing
more, were made at a less exiience of travel than
those of Aop.xANDLe, and, .to all appearance, With.
49 little'real advantage savage 'cavaliy poured
in desultory myriads, into the defenceless villiges,
burned what they could not •devour, and reiired as
rapidly as they had advanced. . .
• The invasion of NADIIt Snnw is more to the
Purpose, as having iu Some measure succeeded.—
tutlslastna had previously employed many,arduous
year in subduing
.the country which lay between
I)ersia and India ; nor was it until he had mastered,
.by force or fraud, every strong position on his route,
that he finally proceeded against belhi. T'vo days
March. froth that city, he was met by the Mogul
frees, whieh he defeated, after a long and.obstinate,
co.i.avt: but India • was' HO:. more . subdued by),
thhi bottle than Russia was by that of Fried-
141kt. The troosim, though were un-
br,ikcn, and still more numerous than their oppor
rY'tits ; but there was a traitor in the Mogul's
C.:ootieil (the atiLestor• of the, present Nitittn,) who
upon his Master's fears (as, other traitors
o.
have done' in other Councils), persuadest him to
')er,i);tate when' he shnuld have tiaughty and thus
6•we time for \l' o lit to appr,:;cll,: the
.e.tart:%! it into an intconclitional
'the volume, A the Arabian Nights have ike,t,l,.

ransacked for magnificent descriptions of the trea-
SUres- Wained by' the:. plunder of this unfortunate
r Mephant loaded with diamonds, and load; •
trains -of camels bending under the weight of un-
counted millions, figure in the pages of modern his-
tory, and .exasperate
.the avarice and bewilder the
imagination of the licentious freUbooters of the day.
ThatNAmit obtained phindeg beyond the dreaMs
of cupidity, can scarcely be doubted: little of it,
hoever, reached Persia. He was plundered in i!is
turn by petty chieftains,. who way-laid him at every
difficUlt pass ; and found, on his arrival at Ispahans,
that.his gains scarcely sufficed to pay the expences
of ntiVtxpedition 1 Refletlions on barbarities, thus
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nprotitlhly exercised, alienated hiireason; he be-
Caine savage: from despair, and, after a few mise,-
rable Months, .was cut- to pieces in his tent by his
most confidential servants

We Ipve destroyed the ingenious parallel of the
Opposition Writers, -by proving that Buosrie.NliTs
-bears -no, kind of resemblance . to ALEXANDkit the
GR.EAT; our duty, therefore, to supply them
with another, that shall be liable to no possible ob-
jeCtion. The annals of the world do not furnWr a
Single' person. to whom he can with any degree of
justice be compared, but Noma SHAW, and here
the similarity is complete ! One exception, indeed,
oceers, and one alone :—NAntit was once faithfill
to his •Prince, w4ereas BUuMAPARTE wal a traitor
from the beginning: in every other circumstance,
the parAel runs on all-foArs Rude in his language,
atlrtipt Ond even violent. in his Manners, (Tatty,
"'" I
eFnel,aud'unrelenting, subject to fits of ungovern_.
paision,. greedy, avaricious,' unsociable, faith-
iipidtable, bloody and inhunian, there wants
nothing but the catastrophe, which,- we are per-
suaded, he will one day find, to,assiMilate BOON.A;
erattT in every respect to his most detestable proto.-
type !

It must not be forgotten that all those attempts
upon ludic, have been niridety armies with few'in-
cumbrances. •The Mace4onian soldiers carried their
Own' arms, spears and swords; the Tartarian hyrdes
were still more lightly equipped; and even the
trfBwi of NADtt SILAW had little to impede: their
oarch : a
,few pieces of wretched artillery, not.sul,
ticient, at present, fur
.a single battalion, Via 4 all
that accompanied this immense host. The chief
re,iance a the Frenctr soldier is upon his
and every cannon, and every shot that is fired,
mist be dragged by main force, a mardi of four
thousand miles, -through rivers and iwn::sses, over
and mountains, where there is scarcely a trace
of liutnan footing to be found. It is not now, as in
the diy.%.of SHAW ALIMM ; and our Indian armies
are furnished with parks of artillery that would ex-
admiration in those who 'witnessed the batiles
of Aus erlitz and Friedland. •

And. what, after all, is tlie obje6t of this dirt...nett-
ed r ? To drive. us front A.qa
,But we tinLA
• lii'>,t'bc. Lirlyen from the sea'i and this is a comm.
tenCy Which madness alone ,can adopt, and which
there/Ore be. foil b Is it
y COW AI.
Vfiti3 But ludia is -exhausted ; it is no, longer the
EilDu'rutto of the old Deini, which ;tallish-
ed kitS roillious to the fury. ofN.tont:S/I.tw, is now tt:,
ittiserablepile of ruins, amongst which it would be
dilikult to coiled a few rapt.es ;• while the Alogul,
Who once ge:Oitdininonas, and trarupled tipOit gold,

is now au- humble dependant upon the bounty of the
•
Which 'enables hint to retain a few Oiticers

With',s9uOchog hihnes, but ,whose appearance would
Lit-fattly excite the envy, or tempt the cupidity of the
rou4v6t-European soldier !
armies enter this country, Must be sup..
'!" fn.i thir own funds, or staKve; uor is there;
the North of India, a single town that would
yield sufficient spoil to pay for, the iowder that
might be.consunted in reducing it. The true riches
of India are in kits
,soil and its manufacture's; and
'those can only be gathered by the slow progress Of
time, War demo) s them ; and lung years of trait-

quit iddustry ark required to repair.th.e. ravages of a

single campaign. What, then, aro the l'c9pe4 it the
Enemy ? An incursion like- tliat'of NADO.Sui.w is
nu longer available : an eitablishment will require

many bloody ,batrles, and many frein armies, which.

it will he impossible to procure, to confirm it.
either case, no temptation is held out to the natives
to support 'the cause of the invaders : they can have.

14(1 wish to be robbed and murdered by transient yi-
sitors and it will puzzle better consists than the

OPposition possess.; to .dkcover •,w hat advantage,'
, .
),,pliey. can propose to tnemselOes by exchanging Ihe
tilintiont and peaceful prote&iou of England, for thu
turbulence, the rapacity, the. wretchedness and the
tyranny of France !

Yesterday was married,. lit St, Bride's, Fleet-street,
:font,lsom ROCiGkaRSON, Esq. ,of .Livvrpgul, to Alp,
I)Avis, of Cecil-greet, Strand.

- Several houses in Prince's-street, Prince's •court
and Angel-court, We.sttynster, were •on 4.lturditY
destroyed by ,a tire, wos discovered in a de-
serted 'house, and under suspicious eiretunstanec‘;..
Ait old , woman had her kg broken by th: falling u:
the ruins, bur we have not beer 4 of :u
Alvtiebt big lust.