The Sun.
London, England, 1806-04-30 00:00:00

A short but interesting conversation took plaee
yesterday in the House of Peers, upon a Motion of
Lord STANIJOPE, for an Account of the quantity of
,Corn imp'orted into this Country since the Ist of
January, 1804. The Noble Lord prefaced his Mo-
tion by making some' observations upon the possibi-
'lity of a Scarcity of Cdrn" iii consequence of the Ports
of the Baltic being shut against this Country. Lord
MOIRA,. and Lord AUCKLAND declared, that there
was not the slightest foundation for the apprehen-
sion entertained by the Noble Lord of the possi-
bility of a Scarcity; and Lord .A.uct(r.A.Nii added,
that the Ports of the Baltic neither were, nor were
likely to, be, shut against us. . •

Dispatches were received:on Monday night from
the Government in Ireland, at the Irish Treasury,
in Whitehall,
. .
Yesterday morning. an express arrived from Dub-
lin Castle, which was forwarded to the Irish CHAN-
Cill.oll of the EXCHERLIER, then ht his place at the
House of Commons.

The most perfect order prevailed in and about
Westrninster Haan yesterday : this our lteliders
not be surprized at, when we hrform them every
.thing was cOndueted utlder the. dire6tion of AARON
GRAHAM, E4tF acid Sir DANIEL- WILLIAMS, Knt,
who attendelin person, equally active and intel,
••

CcfOoy has beets 'appointed from 0411 to Ton-•
nitigen;Atind4ill sail on the of May. 'lt is daily
expect; V a Convoy froth. London, for the same
place, will be appoititea.
We have the satisfaCtion of announcing to the
Public, that in answer to a,demand from the Court
of Berlin 'to
.that of Copenhagen, enforced' y an ap-
plication 'from the French Resident, that. the Ports
Of Denmark should be. shut against Gie:at Britain,
the Government of Copenhagen have replied :

"-That a secret but fundamental Treaty exists between
the overnments of Russia, Sweden, and Denmark, by
which the security and the fteedoin of the Baltic Seas is re-
gulated, and that the demands of the Court of l3erhu are
contrary to the stipulations therein."
The outward-bound China Ships, now lying at
the Motherbank, are to recelve,oh board 380 troops
each, and those about to sail for Bengal 250. each,
for the Cape of Good Hope, and the Coast of Coro-
mandel.

Private letters from St. Pctersburgh, by the Got-
tenburgh Mails of yesterday, state, that the Grand
Duke '(the Emperor's brother) is to take the com-
mand, of the Russian Army on the Frontiers of Po-
land, which now consists of about 2.40,000
ALEXANDER wished to command in person, but was
dissuaded by his Council.
Private letters from Berlin of the 15th state, that
the Troops stationed under Count KALICREUTIE, in
Prussian Poinrania, are ordered to bold themselves
in readiness to march at a moment's notice. •
The Prussian Troops are spreading therosetvos over
every part of the Eleaorate of Hanover, on the other
side of the Elbe. Some few days ago a party of
them took possession of the celebrated University of
Gottingen, where they immediately put seals ou the
presses belonging to the different Professorships.
If the War 'now carrying op ht- the. South of
litaly be well managed, it may be continued in
I wternum. The Country is prodigiously strong; and,
a very small Army may defend it against numbers
vastly superior. HANNIBAL maintained his ground
for I 3 years, in this very quarter, against the whole
power of Rome, and then only quitted the field be,.
cause he received a peremptory order, which ho
long resisted, but at length complied With; to leaVe

, ThefOrtress of Gaeta is ,situate upon a peninsula,
and is very .rong by art and nature: The ,ground
in its vicinity being' hard rock immediately below
the surface, no trenches can be opened upon it ; and
without the dominion of the sea it is impossible to
reduce it- by famine. It bears a striking reemblance..
to Gibraltar ; On. which account tho Italians call it
Little Gibraltar. In 1707 it sustained a .celebrated
siege by the AustrianS, who tool: it by assault,
after throwing into the place y 000 bombs and
eO,OOO cannon-balls.
Aaiarticle; dated Amsterdam, April 15, asserts
positively,- that JEROM• BONAPARTE'S Squadron is
`gone to"the East Indies:
The•fAlowing Extras from thepage of history is
strikingly'applicable t6' the conduct of France at the
present moment, particularly as the French have
often denominated- this Country the Modern Car-
. ~
,usage, and, if they could possibly triumph over it,
would, no, doubt, treat us worse •than the-. Romans
treated the Carthagenians. _
" The Roman's no lOnger apprehending any oppo-
sition from Carthage; set no bounds to their ambit.
tion, cruelty,:and contempt of national faith. They
interfered, n the most arbitrary manner in the affairs
of all nations, and took upon them to regulate, or
rather to pervert, the succession of Kings. PERSEUS,
liing of Macedonia, AwriocßUS, King of Syria, and
a multitude of smaller Kings and States, including all
the Gaulle 'part of Italy,and almost the whole Peninsu-
la of Spain, were subjected to the dominion of Rome.
.ATTIOCIIUSi and several utlier of the Asiatic Princes,
were permitted to retain a nominal royalty ; but
they were merely deputed Magistrates,, etibotually
;deprived of sovereign power, and particularly of their
naval force; and, alter assisting in the rednetion of
their neighbours, wherein they gratitied their resent-
ments, without considering that they were accele-.
rating their own destruaion, they were stripped of
their tolerated Shadow of power, and had only the
comfort which, according to the fable, POLYPIIEMU
• promised to ULYSSES, of being last devoured."
Such is the brief history of the Romans for
about half a century, as collated from their own
Writers and the Ronranized Greeks. What would
it he if' the Historians of other Nations were extant
to tell the talc !

. Nothing can be more improbable than the decla-
ration in the French .ErposJ, importing that the last
change the Government of Holland had not the
sanaion Ot BONAPARTE, when it must be notori-
ous to all the world, that the Dutch could not
presume to make any alteration in their Legislative
System, except with the permission of France, and
such indeed as must have been ae,ually frained in all
ointtb.y thq ,French Ruler,