The Sun.
London, England, 1801-01-20 00:00:00

YARMOUTH, JAN.. Oh

ABOUT ISO men belonging. to different
ments; who were made Prisoners of War in Hol-
land, landed this morning from a Dutch Cartel:
Yesterday a large galliot, prize to the Pylattei
sloop, and said to be worth 40,0001. arrived at
this Port.

By a Cartel from Morlair, arrived at Plymouth,
accounts are brought that the French are very'
assiduous. in collefting their seamen together, for
the purpose of manning their fleet; that they
hare called in the privateers that are now cruiz.
ing,. and, as they arrive,. they 'are immediately
stripped 'ortheir crews, who are marched to
Brest Without delay. It appears that they are
also colle&ing and equipping transports-and other
vessels, in a manner that shews they may be
wahted for some -special service. '

DUBLIN, JAN. 15.

At a• Privy Council held on Tuesday last, His
Rx&llene), the Loan. LI U.TENArrT signed a Pro-
clamation, recommending economy in the use of
corn and potatoes, but more particularly in the
latter, which, being the principal food of the
poorer classes, must from the failure of last year
become very scarce, if not carefully husbanded,
and (a consideration, equally serious) will leave us
without seed for the next crop, and thuS ensure
another year of scarcity, if the most vigilant eco-
nomy be no: adopted and piaaised by those to
whom they are not a, necessary of life.

The French Soldiers have a fine prospect ,on,
the return of Peace of having la Share in the NA-:
TIONAL' DOMAINS, WhiCh was. to. be reserved for,
themas the recornpence of-their Valour and their.
Services to the Repitblie.' A-new!Law, it seems,
is'pkojeCting under, the_ consular AuthOrity, by
which every inatr,to 'whom- Government. may
think' proper tb 0/tie " the spit if of Brigandage,
of vvifese presence may be represented-as" attended
with -clanger," are temoyeable from the, places,
" where the Principal Authorities.assemblit„,and
every other pity," short, all persop. tOicfe
expetlatialls -ma y.be inconv enietxt .and,tratibiasame,
may be tilled -about as ,vagrafiti, anrt rzc r,r`
rather's into banishment, i,; probably.
the way in which the unfriended Soldier will .
treated after hehas hazarded lt**6 life a thotisand'
timeS,wintf icertirps With th of as Many'
wounds, to his Country.?. expeeting,.to ;repose in
age tipbfit the tiibt4 of ,NationalCiratitude and,
tb be. hoped, that this new' Latin of
the French Government, this extraordinary spe-
cimen of Consular Liberality, will have a due in-
ue nee iitlll. fire ti ty of Frole h. Soldiers', 'a and,
induce. giemseKes 'or
,tvirar,jheriare exippliog their lives ?
' The manufaClure of paper from different, lir_
not Tags) lias been carried 'farther by M
SC iIAPFERj6I Ratisbon, than, we believe, by any
other persdri:.‘ He 6mployed thelea'vei of laurel.
and sa-dt4l, ana prOducti speCithens frbin bdth
those materials that were, generally apprpkcd, lie
died abOut 40 years ago,
Among the latese•Gernian books we find a
Translation of, the-Whole Duty of.:lVlan„ and to
make .Virtue. still more captivating, it is with
oth4 taste. continues, we shAttitethably
soon hear of Aintwortb's Ditilignary, with illus_
trati,ve k.'ngrawirigt.

The pcisiti`on; that the mail Without
ft fob Treasons, Stratagems, and Spoils, is con-
tradiCted by. the experience of France. We there
find Conspiracies intimately connected with their
Musical Exhibitions, and 11014 A? Eis to.day
congratulated on his escape from an Opera Plot-ir
rb.inorrow from an Oratorio Conspiracy.

.541.1 t oP A NV r H c,-=—Lawrence Siorpheieom, of
West Luvon, in the, East iticiing of York, Sold
his Wife Jar: to Wilham Semi:at, of Moving-
ham; for five shillings, ,(vklio returned two
shillings 474 sixpence to ,the former hush3ncl), in
open ina.rkee- New Mahon, on Saturdq,
night, d6d'delivered her in. h halter on Monday,
at the Market Cross there. •

Thv, I.,ight.ttorse, Dresser, from Baltimore .to
Brome!i, ire wrkketi near Solway Firth:.

The Charlotte;lte, from --Martinico to
London; 'vi-flat.-igptured'the totliNovember, within
two dat,*,,sail of the Cha nnd, b%, Le Chande
(Add PrtVattei,, of 10 gunsj 'and carried into
badeo, in Spain. ,
The George Mashihgton, from Bahl..
more to Attisterdatni 'got on shore in the gale of
the 2d fnst. near the Tex el, and it h feated the
vessel and cargo will be lost. •
On Thursda,cr, Mr, Gardner? Apothejeary,, at
floxton, after returning from vistting:higpatients,
fell down in a fit, in his 51top, 4nd expired in two
hours afterwards.

On the of bcCernbeldst,ctilt toijAe of a
person suppo4tl •tn have been, tittirclered,,whciee
narnelir placeof residence hai-pat'yet:ttOspited,
was found lying iy*e4,,,with thret large stones
rolled upon it, in a river nera the Evidge of Ca.
militie„ in the divis44 LQ4%I, Argyleshire,

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Lottnsj
1 have r4AiVe4 berore the king your
Letter of the t'st inst. InclOsing a.C..:6rtespondcnte
between Captain Cotes and the Minister for
reign A Fairs at Paris, relative to the cloithing
of the French Priotiers of Wae in' this Cntiniry,
anti have reeek-ed HIS-Maje3trs -Comm'to
desire that the folloWingAnswer Todd ninde,
both through Captain Cotes and Otto, to the
FrenelLGorernment

The English ,Government has seen with the
greatest surprizc that the Minister for Foreign
',Affairs in his Letter. to Captain Cotes of the
, z7th Noveitiber,, should remind the latter of the
Arrete of the First Consul of the 21St Novem-
ber, 1799, and that in answer to a Representa_
tion respeOing the want of Cloathing for 'the
•French Prisoners in England, be should think' it
sufficient. to observe, that
.by that A-rrete the,
First Consul had determincl (among other things}'
" that the said Prisoners . should' be cloathed by
the British Government." It can scarcely be
necessary to observe to the Minister for Foreign
Atfairsohat. an Arrete'of the French Govern..
went, pretending to prescribe' and lay down a
rule of c2ndua to the Government of Great Bri-
tain, is not binding upon the latter, and that
such a mode of communicating the wishes of the
First Consul was not the Most likely to procure,
'His Majesty's acquiescence to an arrangement,,
which, however, he would have equally 'ly:en
obliged to withhold, had it collie under his con-
sideration in, a form more usually 'observed b.e-
tween Independent States. But this part of the
subjed is the less material,' as this Government
did not leave to that of France to, ctillea, either
from its own experience or our silenc'e, the deter.
urination of His Majesty respeciing the Cloathing'
of the French Prisoners., Immediately on that Ar.
rite being received pin, this Country, so far back
as the i+th of Oeceinber, 1799, a ComMunication
of which, the inclosed is a Copy*, was made to
the French Government, both, ‘through Captain
Cotes and M. Niou ; and from that period up to
the present moment, the 'charged
with the care of the French Prisoners of War in.
this Country have repeatedly, urged M. Otto, in
the strongest terms, to provide them,with Cloath-
ing,,and have forewarned him of
,tlie'conscquen-
ces of not attending to their Representations.—
These consequences, with dcgp regret it is aist-
ed, are now too manifest in the misery, the sick.
ncss, and the Mottality, which preiail in all the
Depots of French Prisonets 'in this Country ;
whilst those of , the -Dutch, under the same ma.
nagement, and-with the S3MO allowance in every
respeft as the Ireneh,•but cloathed by their own
Government, continue to enjoy— their usual
health.

'Consittering'dif the -onehand that .the comfort,
the Itklill,tanZl'evelt,the existence' Of-mote:than
20-„pottdrienelostilliets-Itre at stake, anti On • the.
ofee'r:iliep6etilfieclitititilindepwlent of the ke_
neratiketngi 43.1iittpaniry their, relative si rue
dein' hi .`titleir''Couatry ver them to its protec-
tion,... Majeftrai'GOVernment ,ean_ scarcely-
iye -44,.at; ttitorin qeesti on which tfompass ion
op our part hits Asa 'Often"aittiost Obtrtided upon
the attention 'of, the French -GovernMent, and
with the ,:knoWledge..,thut Government possessed'
of liis Mi)listrkv'ilelertrilnation, they should at
this Seasotii ealalit' refer to an Arre"te'. Which they -
knew' is eltoe months ago moil be Unavailing ,tol,
eveiy.parfio,,e Otlrelief, and in this•• hour
diSilreSS, thetriirndf rheir persevering.
in that Arrete a reasoli, which,4had ,the sabjeti
e'r'r- • appeared to theqyof ;sufficient: interest, to
merit a moment's 'attention on their part) M.
TaileYrantl would-h Ate known to b without any
tbundation ; that in former Wars the
Cloathing of Prisoners of War was furnished at the
expence of the' GiSVeltiliferit byiwlikh .they',.iVere
detained.' 'Without looking .further battk than
the, last War, IVI:'-'falleyrandl Will. find, Ostia°.
the humanity-and protethng care of .the Govern»
merit then existing ill France; /and, not to this
Country, were the.FtenCh Prisoners.iildebted,not
only for Cloathina, but. also for a '-small,daily
lowacce (one penny)' in money,: for the:purpose of
procuring tobacco .or other trifling comforts,
which habit, has rendered teiniany .asnecessary. as
this. obseriation is made bete, Alot
witli any view tO a eompaitisort,(xvhich ,nay more
properly be' drawn'brrthoseAvho nriwAisclutrAe
the. corresponding duties :of humanity and ,pru-
teclion, and those who furl. iftrgeffetis -of them),
but lo impress,upon. the,piesentGovernment . the
necessity of reviving thistlatter prit&ice,..sas many
Prisoneti sold their.elbatlitig when they had any,
and at preient barter- rheitura4ion (from which
nothing can be 'spafed),for `4iOIXICCO. The watit
.of this'article is indeetithe more severely felt by
the French Prisoners, as-irt the course even. of this
War -it was supplied ,to- them by. the Freneh
Agetit in-this Country as well as Cloathing,'until
they' were deprived of the one and 'the other by
the Areite of the First'Constil above-mentioned.
-The French Government must therefore' under-
stand, 'that of ing4olely to that Arriti, and not-
withstanding frequent and timely: representations
froin the Country; the wretchedness of the French
Prisoners s now become extreme ; that sickness
and mortality Tufve already made an alarming pro-.
eregs among'them)- and must continue rapidly :tu
increase with the increasing severity of sea-
,son, nnd'that His Maksty, firmly determined not
to depart .from -the resolutions signified to the
French .Government. on; he. zoth of December,
1719, once more takes` the only remaining, but
hitherto ineffectual method, of solemnly calling
upon the French Government to commiserate the
sufferings of its own Prisoners, and most speedily
to• provide for their .relief. If' this last appeal
should be attended with no better success than
those -which have hitherto reached-that Govern..

glaze- Vl4 14*, 4

, rUTIO7S, AVA4I3I=. L. I din.' it
has reason to believe on tle of the unhappir
i:oners themsel'as ; is tht Huinanity of 'this
C.,untry must continue to he shocked by the pre:
sence and Therease-of -so, much misery, Where pro:
teCtion is so_ much due, and relief might so easily
be granted, 1M Majesty will have the consolzi.:
Lion} to' think that he has' done every thing
in liis power as' welt to prevent, by timely pre_
caution, as at }:resent to check, by 'poirsting out
the -immediate but only remedy, a calamity he
Olds t'sinetTely deplores, and which, deeply anxious
as he feels on the melancholy occasion, be can
Only Consider, ns he,d?cs other cilaunircs
of War; with a reference to what is due to the
dignity honour Of` his CroWn, and to the:
intapts cif People, anti far :is tlitfe,consi-
de.rations- will admit, with a most anxietY, wish
to ace 'them all terminated by the restoration. of
the .11le”ing,s,of Peace. Until that tnosudesita.'
bit alijed can be attained, lie feels it hit next.
, duty to urge everything that can tend. toalleviate
existing and unavoidable 'calamities ; and tinder
that impression 116 Majesty c,amot omit this-opt.
portunity of renewing his most solemn Protest,
'as declared in the-Duke of Portland's Letter of the.
WI) December 4799, against the whole of thd
Ariete' above mentioned, by which the French
Government, in violation' of the agreement then
existing between the two. Countries, refused to
provide 'any longer. for, the subsistence of its Pri..
soners in this Country, and thereby put an end
a 'measure, which had been found, by-experience,
to he-in the hizhest degree conducive to the
health and comfort of the Prisoners on each side,
eminently calculated td obviale all misrepresenta:.
tion, complaints, and recriin ina tions, ana thereby'
to preventany increase of attimbiity`between teal
Nations whose minds are' aufficienly enflamed
against each .other.
It remains to be added, ,that ',His Majes..-
ty's Goverment will only wait the answer to this
Representation,' to' rerider. public cm this, as it has
done on a former occasion, during the. present
War; the whole of its proceedings upon a subject
in which His. Majesty feelsit important that the
true state of this , case, as '-af}:..eting • the charader
and the Humanity of the respativeGOvernments,
should be understood by his. Subjeasi.
his Enetnies, and the rest•of the! World..

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