The Sun.
London, England, 1801-01-26 00:00:00

LONDON, JANUARY z 6, 18oz.

Tint Channel Fleet sailed from Torbay on Fri.
day, arui. passed Plymouth the same afternoon
with, a fine breeze at North, so that it would by
Saturday morning, in all probability, regain its
station ow Brest.

Wc understand that the EMPy RCM of Roy, lA,
in answer to the remonstrance of this Court,
has refmed to make any satisfaftion for the de.
tension of our. Ships and Men, or to give any
explanation whatever of • the causes which in-
duced him to take that step.

THE liamburgh Mail due on Wednesday last
arrived yesterday. It brings us but one articlc
of intelligence that desen (.6 notke, but diat is
so singular that we can do nothing mote than
copy it. the Petersburg. Court Gazette contains
the following article

Peterzburg, Dec.

It
.I.4.s'aid that lII* I\l.ljetty the 'EMPEROR perceiv-
ing that the European Powers cannot come to an accom-
modation, and wiehing to pot it. end to a War whi.6h has
raged elevza years; ,has conceived the idda of appointing a
place to which. he will invite the other .Potentates to en-
gage, together wit') himself, in single cothbat, In lists
which shall.hemarkednut,i, for which Purpose they !.;"hall
bring with thet, to as as th'tgr Esquires, Umpires, and
Horaids, the;; niost enlightclied ;Ministers, and ablest ce-
nerals, a 3 TuvouT, PITT, and 141:Ni MP. F,. He will
britg, on his p4rt, the Counts PA ti N and Koausol "
On this article the liamburifh
. 9
that, • •

" It is not known whether this rnrnour is to he 4c.
pendecl upon; meanwhile it tioes not stern to be altoge-
ther without foßnclatien, as it bears the matli of Nvh4t
often been imputed. tck 'Om." <

It is hardly necessary for us' to enter into apy
of the numerous reildtions to which this extra
ordinary (Arran from the Petcrsburgh Ga2,-tte
must give rise, of the authenticity or %Alio, then:
appeaLs little dot!hr. We can hardly imagine
any thing better calculated LI dissipate the mo.
mentary alarms, which we ,know not upon what
grounds, part of the Public: hitver conceived.
Great fears cannot certnittly be entertained,
either respeaing, the duration, or the danger of a
Confederacy,'of Which the Author, ,and the Only
voluntary member,' is capable of 'such extrktva.
fiance: It will be seen from the preceding
ragraph, that he has not` conduned himself more
prudently with respea to the remonstrances made
by our CoUrt as to, his treatment of Our Sailors.
It is apparently to this circumstance that wt are
to attribute the circa produced in the City by
the last Mail, and not, as was supposed, to the
intelligence received from the Court of Berlin.
We. believe that we can assert, that the idea
with *pea to that Court is not correct, and
that-the Cabinet of Prussia has too .much pru.
(knee, and knows 'too well the feeble basis on
Which the politics of the Court of Petersburgh is
placed, rashly to take a part in its political
measures.

The intelligence brought from roma by this
Mail, is mote recent than that which the Pass
Pa,pert contain, but puts us in possession of no-
,
thing which deserves particular attention.
The ifamimrsh Mad which becamc due yes.
tprday, had,not armed when this Paper was put
to Press,

WE. yesterday received. Paris .Paprs. to the
td frost.. Their importance is by no means pro..
portionate to the impatience with whi`lt we have
looked for their arrival, as, they leave us in the
.satne stoic; in, which we were before, respetting*
the two mat interesting objeets, our, situation
with the Powers of the North, and the relative
circumstances of France and the Emperor.

With respell to tht first point, a Letter from
,r‘tenbirgh,of the iflth ult. repeats what the
last Mails had alreatly iiifrined us, that Con,
vention had been signed o'l th riSth between the
Courts of Russia, Sltheden, arld Detimiza. The
Letter adds also; chat, ,on the fbilowing day,
Pruistia had taken part in a it, , an Accessary
rower. This is rontradittt.d by other Letters
which assert, that the Prussian Minister had no
powers sufficient to authoriu Kim to enter com-
pletely into this league; and we have good, reason
to believe that the latter :lie rime to lie relied upon

opinion, that Prussia will not renounce the ad-
vantageOus condition, 'in which a perk& Neu.
treaty would place her,. either as a Mediatory
or a'Commelcial Power. •
No Armistice had, on the lath of this Month,
been concluded between the two Armies's' Atu,.,
irian and French, in Italy, but an Imperial Of-
ficer had on that day arrived at the Head..(. uar.
ters of the latter, with a Flag, of. Truce,. sup.
posed .to be vested with full powers to conclude
also a Suspension of 'Arms. To this the French
would not accede unless Malltaa, Peschiera,'Fer-
„r 1, and Ancama were delivered to them. So,
at least, it is officially said by General Batrete,
in a Letter to the Minister 'of War of, the gth
inst. :the fate of the campaign has placed him
in a situation both to make and to obtain these
demands ; for it has been uniformly favourAle to
him from the 25th
At the latter period the French 'Army, after
having successively forced the Passages of the
Alineicr, of the Adige, and of the Brenta, .had
almost reached the Banks of the Piave, and was
exactly in the situation of BONATAItTE, at the
opening of the Campaign in '1797. As we pre_
died six weeks ago, the Left of General %to E,
and the Army of Reserie, have less diredjd their
attention to the conquest of the German than to
that of the Italian I:yrii, and have. endeavoured
to arrive in the Valley of the Adige, in order to
`separate the Army of General liter, GAR E from
tint of general Iliii.lEß. In this deCisive ma_
no.ervre they succeeded, and General Horace Y,
who commands their. Left, has seized aiid turned,
one after the other, the heads of the Vallies of
Camomietr, of the of the Be'entq,. and of
the .I,eatego. No battle gained, nor even any
considerable 'engagement successfully terminated,
have marked this new progress ,of the French
Army. One or two rather warm aCtinns have
taken phice; in which the laic of Arms appears
to have been equal enough. The retreat of
General 'BE ILLEGARD E semis the combined re-
sult of' the inferiority of his Forces, and of the
depression of spirit in his Soldiers.
We find nothing' new respeding the Nego.
t',ations between France and Austria, or the Con.
`west; at Zuneville. The Papers, whichi,4lpparent.
ly have been enjoined reserve on this head,
:scarcely .make any mention of the subjel, con.
te•lting themselves with considering Peace as
certain,.end at hand. The state of the French
Fueds proves that this convi6ion prevailed ;
they continue to rise, and were, at the latest d;ttt,
at 5.1.,1a.

A:4 might naturally be expeas.)a) BONAPARTE,
whom we now consider as deliyered from the
Continental War, is daily increasing the number
of his Troops on the Coast of France, front Calais
to the Pyrenean A general review of
his Naval Forces has- been announced for the
zoth of next ,mouth ;. and three Expeditions are
spoken of, as soon to sail from the,'Port of Brest,.
We r,hall no doubt See the threats and demonstra-
tiorrs which the. French Government made against
as aficr. the Treaty of Campo Formic), renewed
with the same ,ffea as on' that occasion. It is
the game which they naturally have, to play, but
of which they can hardly flatter thetuselves that
we shall be the dupe.

FrAIICC itself affords no very important Intel
floct very little detail respeding
the late Conspiracy; and the men who were the
victims of it.
,Some of them, it appears, are not
to, be transported farther than the Islands of Rhe
and Olerfor. Measures which have hitherto prov-
ed inefficacious for the safety, of, Travellers on,
the high roads,. and for reestablishing Hospitals
for the sick, are the most remarkable among the
public ads of the French
,Administration.
'I he Sultan has, it is said, in a Letter from
Csurtantimph, ordered the Regencies of 44
and of 7'fini,t, to declare, and to mike War imme-
diately against the French. It' is unnecessary to
remark, that this circumstance will be pirticu-
lathy' unfavourable to the French, as fir as con..
earns the preservation and the defence of Egypt.
Upwards of thirty PaSengers came over in the
Packet which brought, these Papers, amongst
whom is the - widow of the French Admiral
13R1EY ES.

Yesterday morning Tkili tit MAJESIIEO and
the Pit i?:e.p.sEs,. with their usual attendants,
went 16 St. George's Chapcl, Windsor, where
they, heard- the Rev. Dr. WI t.sox preach a ser.
Mon from the nook of Proverbs,. chap and
the first chin.se of the. first verse, •

" A. good' 1141fle t*' rathar to be chosen than riches."

The KING was prevented on Saturday from
taking his favourite divvrhion of hunting, ,on ttc
count of the frost tlia 11,4er was to have ,been
turntd, out 3t Farnham eo;nmon, his IMAirsTy
and lawndants %%I. :(1 Windlov Little PoCv,
anti afterwards to FlOgEnOre.

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From (I,e LONDON G:42.E1 FE,
.7antoity 24, dot.

. ,
aidmsraity-ussee, January 24, 1881. -
Copy of a Letter:from Captain. Yorke, Commander
of Majess:p's Ship Ike Jason, to Bevan Ne
peas, Esq. dated at Sea the 18th instant.

Sr it,
I have to acquaint you, for the.information of
my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, that
I this day ciiptured La Venus French Luger Pri-
vateer, of fourteen brass carriage-guns, and thirty..
six meri. She sailed from Cherbourg yesterday
evening, and had noemade any captures'.
I have the Honour to be, &c. &c.
JOSEPH SYDNEY YOItKE.
Admiralty-015ce, lansten:y 24, Igor.
Copy of a Letter from Rear. Admiral Duckworth,
Commander in Chief of Ili: Majest.A's' Ships
and Vessels at the Leeward Islands, to Mr.
Nepean, dated Leviathan, Martiniyuci -27th
October, I Soo. -

SIR,

Haying direaed the, Gipsey, of ten 4-pounders
and ibrty.two men, Tender to the., Leviathan,
under' the command of Lieutenant COryndon 80.
ger, to 'carry the chatlotte Merchant Ship (in
which mylate Captain, Carpenter, took his pae,
sage) to the, Northward of theJslandS, i am to
L:g you will inform the Lords CommissiOnets of,
the Admiridry, that on the' 7th-instants In pass.:
ing near Gua4loupc' on the' ibove serviCc, he
chased and brought to alion a:French Sloop, of
very superior magnitude; and ;maimed with 'doh.
We his number of select Troops of:Gitatialoupe
For the Part icnlars of this -very handsome Contest
I shall 'Tic'. their Lordships to Lieutenant Boger's
Letter ;• but I should not do justice 'to'
jesty'L Setvice, from the knowledge I have of
this yaluable Officer's chata(ter, and 'from the
unanimous •.voice of hisiCrqW, if I d3d not sify lii
modest recital of his-, gallantry does him as much
honour as"the,Aaion itself ; and I flatter myself'
he, will be honoured with their' Lordships' pro..
tedion. •

I have the Honour to be, &e, ,54c;.
J. 'l'. DUCKWORTH.
P. S. Since the concluding of the above, I find
three more of the wounded havc died,

.oiptej, iii St:' juAzt's- Roads,
Oduber 8, iSoo.

SIR,

I havc the honour to acquaint you, that at
eight A. M. off the North end of Guadaloupe, I
chased and came up -with an 'Armed Sloop ;• on
firing a shot at her, she hoisted Ifench colours
and returned it ; an Affion imtantly commenced ;
we remained at very close quarters .1-or. Wour
and .ao half, wh‘m, finding "that her imusketry. did
us considetable"darnage,..Lhauled a little-fitrther
off, and kept up a, sharp fire of i.ciund and grape :
at half past ten I had the satisfadion to'see her
strike : she roves to be Quiprovo, corn-
:waded by Tourpie, .fOrmerly‘ a 'Capiti,hia de
Frigate in , the , service of the King,. an 'was
charged with Dispatches from C:trayab tound'
co Guadaloupei she mounts eight'guns, six anti
nine-pounders, and had on' board ninetr.eight
ingni eighty, of wholu Gtiadaiuupe Misseurs
and Cannoneers. I am sorry to add, that- oUr
loss •is considerable,' having' had one killed and
'eleven 'wounded ; among the latter-I include Mr.:
Clarke and.mybelf. binding it necessary to get
medical assistance as soon a!, possib,le, I. put-into.
this Port, and have got all the wounded into an
Hospital. The' loss' on- the side of the. Enemy
was the -Cartain) and four kilted and_ eleven
wounded. Both vessels have suffered .much
their sails, and rigging, but I am happy to say,'
His Majesty's Schooner has not suflered in her
hull. I cannot omit, mentioning. the great
assistance I received from the Charlotte Merchant
Ship under my' convoy, boils in securing the
Prisoners, and giving every asistance to the
Wounded that lay in' their power.
The Petty4tlicers and Men you (lid Me the
honour to place under my command, behaved ex.
teemely well on' the ocewsion:

I am sorry to add, that, two men have since
died of their wonnds:

I have the Honour to,bev &c. &c. &c.
CORY N'DON BOGER.
Rear-4,114ml Duchiuioith,
&c. &c. Etc.