The Sun.
London, England, 1801-11-10 00:00:00

ARMY ESTIMATES.

The SECRETARY at WAR presented the Army
Estimates, and gave notice, he should move them
in tlie Committee of Supply orr Friday.
Mr. ROBSON expressed a wish that the Esti-
mates might be printed.

The SECRETARY at WAR said, they were ex_
aftly the same as last year, and were only for three
Months. He did not, thdrefore, see the necessity
of printing them.

Mr. ROBSON thought that now more than ever
it was requisite the Army Estimates should be
printed. The present was a period of Peace, when
a large Army would no. longer be necessary. He
should certainly objet to one part 'of them, relative
to the Cavalry. He was proceeding to discuss the
Estimates, when he was interrupted by
The SPEAKER, who observed, the only ques-
tion was, that they should lie on the Table..
The. CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
said, the Hon. Gentleman seemed to wish for in-
formation, which could not' be derived from the
Estimates. The Hon. Gentleman seemed to wish
for information relative to a Peace Establishment,
whilst the Estimates were for a War Establishment.
They were precisely the same as last year, and though
it was not supposed such a Force would be wanted,
yet it was thought expedient and necessary that the
kionse should he in full possession of all those means
of Defence which it before had, for the period of
three Months, to which the Estimates were con-
fined. If the Hon. Gentleman would refer to the
Journals of last year, he would find all the informa-
tion relative to the subject which he could possibly
derive from the Estimates now before the House.—
He thought the printing of them wholly unneces_
nary, that it would be incurring a useless expence,
and putting the. Printer to a great inconvenience,
without answering any useful purpose. As to the
interval between that day and Friday, it was the
usual period allowed for that purpose.

The Estimates were then ordered to lie on the
Table.

SUPPLY, AND 'WAYS AND MEANS.

Mr. BRAGGE brought up the Report of the
Committee of Supply, which was read and agreed

CHANCELLOR of the EACHEQLTER
moved, for a Committee of Ways and Means on
Wednesday.—Ordered.

The Committee of Supply was postponed till
Wednesday.

CONVENTION. WITH RUSSIA

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
said, that in consequence of the indisposition of his
Noble Friend, at the Head of the Foreign Depart-
ment, he begged the indulgence of the House to
postpone the consideration of the Convention with.
Russia till -Friday.—Ordered.
•
Adjourned.

THE SUN.

$Ol ,EM QUI,3 DiCIRI PALiUM AUDLAT

LONDON, NOVEMBER 10, 1801.

YESTERDAY afternoon General Mooßt landed
at Portsmouth, charged with Dispatches from Gen.
Sir J. H. HUTCHINSON, and Capt. OTTER, with
Dispatches from Lord KEITH. They came home
in the Morg;ana Brig. About an hour after their
arrival, El Carmen Frigate came into Spithead,
having on board Colonel AD ERCRONIBY and Sir
SYDNEY SMITH, the bearers of the Official Account
of the Surrender of Alexandria, the Duplicate of
which was received in the beginning of last month.
All the above Officers immediately set off for Town,
where they arrived this morning.

WE this morning received Paris Papers to the 7th
inst. If the I)(_:,,ce has been a fortunate circumstance
for the Commercial World in France, it seems to
have been no less requisite to the French Journalists,
who now fill their columns almost entirely from the
London Papers. The Paris Papers which have ar-
ived this morning, bring no news of any kind.—
Lord CORNWALLIS, it has been officially announced
in the /1//on;teur, was to arrive at Paris on the 7th
instant.

Tn E Con vention which has been entered into with
the Court of Russia, will form the subjeta of discus-
sion in Parliament, this evening, we believe, in the
House of Lords, and in That of the Commons on
Friday next. We have carefully perused the Treaty,
and we Are satisfied it will be found that all the int-

pnrtant objea.s for which we contended, are corn_
pletely, obtained. The cburts of Denmark and
Sweden have; not yet fortpally acceded to the Con-
vention, ,butthey haye expressed their readitr;ss to
become Parties to it.

By this most important measure the advantages
of our Maritime Superiority are confirmed to us ;
and in case of War, the Power of Neutrals to in-
jure us is done away, as all those Neutral Rights
which were set up by the Confederacy, as founded
in the Law of Nations, are disclaimed, and the
Right of a Belligerent Power to prevent a traffic
hurtful to itself, and beneficial to its Enemy, is
fully admitted. The mode by which such a traffic
shall be restrained, is very properly prescribed ; and
in securing ourselves against the prejudicial interfer-
ence of Neutrals, we have Agreed to do it in a way
which shall expose them as little as possible to vex-
ation. We shouldcertainly never have obtained these
concessions under the reign of the ,Emperor PAut„
unless the event of war had forced him to give
way. The Emperor ALEXANDER, guided by a
better policy, has. readily agreed to such stipula-
tions as are founded in Justice and in the Law of
Nations. It is surely only justice to restrain a
Power, calling itself Neutral, from injuring another
at War by assisting its Enemy.

The principal points which are recognized by
this Treaty are, that "free Ships do not make flee
goods,"—that a Neutral Power shall not convey to
;IT) Enemy goods which are " contraband of 'war,"
—that a Neutral Power shall not carry on either the
Colony Trade, or the Coasting Trade of the Ene-
my,—and that to prevent any of these things be-
ing done, the Belligerent Power shall have the right
to search Neutral Vessels, whether sailing under
convoy or oche' wise.

When the Northern Confederacy was formed, the
contrary of all these propositions was maintained by
the Parties who entered into that Confederacy. We
are not prepared to say, that there may not be
found some verbal inaccuracies in the Treaty, and
some obscurity as to the precise meaning in parti-
cular parts ; and this, we hear, is to be made a
ground of objeftion to it, but, as we understand
it, the Treaty in substance stipulates all we con.
tended for.

We have indeed given up one point, and we
think it —a point which Justice, and even Policy,
called upon us to concede—the Neutral Trade is
not to be 'impeded by Pri.vateers. This has long
been a source of great vexation to Neutral Nations,
and of no benefit whatever to ourselves. The con-
demnation of Prizes in many of the Vice-Admiralty
Courts in the West Indies has been very vexatious
to the captured, proceeding upon slight grounds ;
and when the sentence has been reversed in thin
Country, as has frequently been the case in conse-
quence of an Appeal to the Courts here, the Parties
(though they obtained restitution of the Ship and
Cargo), in having lost their voyage, or being put
to heavy expence, were frequently very consider_
able sufferers in the end. Any measure which puts
a stop to these proceedings, is in every view just,
and worthy the fair and liberal policy of this
Country.

It is reported that those who opposed the Peace,
are also to with-hold their approbation from this
measure—We hope this is not true—We do not see
why any of the objedions to the Terms of Peace
should lead to systematic opposition. We give
Ministers the fullest credit, both in the conclusion
of Peace, and in the attainment of the Stipulations
of this Convention—in having most ably seized
the opportunity for accomplishing objefts, most im-
portant to the Interests of the Nation.

Yesterday a Count of Direlors was held at the
East India House, in order to read Advices, from
Fort St. George, brought by the Rice Ship, Adi,ve,
which left Fort St. George the 4th July, having
completed her voyage out and home in ten months
and eight days.

By the Adive we learn that the Garrison of
Tranquebar surrendered to the British Arms, headed
by Lieutenant-Colonel CAMPBELL of His Majesty's
74. th RegiMent, without resistance, on the 13th of
June ; that the Polygar of Veeraputchy and his fol..
lowers had been seized by the Force under Lieute-
nant-Colonel INNEs ; and, that Panjatamcourchy
was taken by assault, by Lieutenant-Colonel AG-
NEW, on the 24th of June.
There were not any of the Company's Ships at
St. Helena when the 4e7i7oe left that island.

The Court, at three o'clock, adjourned till Wed
nesday next.

The Hamburgh Mail due on Sunday is not ye
arrived. •

This morning arrived a Mail from Lisbon.

On Friday the Distillers had a meeting with Mr.
ADDINGTON, when it was agreed that the Distil-
leries should be again permitted to work on tho
ist day .of January next.

Monday se'nnight being the last day of the time
limited by the Ad of Union, for receiving returns
,upon the Writs issued for the eleaion of a Tem-
poral Peer of Ireland, in the room of the late Lord
RossmorCE, 'the returns were made up by the Clerk
of the Crown and Hanaper at Dublin, The number

of 'Writs issued amount t,t) i 26 ; upon 43 of which
returns have been made, viz.

In, favour of CHARLES W tsit ILLIA Lord Viscount
CHARLEVILLE, firtyrtwo.
In favour of CiaAtLES Lord Viscount DILLON,
one.
[The single vote was, we understand, that of the
Earl of GLANDORE.]
The Clerk of the Crown has therefote certified
to the Imperial Parliament the eleClion of Lord
CHARLEVILL E.

Mr. TIEXNEY, it is reported, is appointed to
succeed Mr. ATRINsow as Military Commissary,
and Pay-Master, in the Island of Ceylon.
HAVILAND LE MESUgIER, whose appointment
as Commissary-General appeared in the Gazette
only on Saturday last, sailed for the Mediterranean
about a fortnight or three weeks ago.
Mr. BußooN, the respe&able Member for the
County of Durham, dLclines Parliamentary duty
after the expiration of the present Parliament.
Mr. Secretary ABBOT is still ill Ireland, arrang-
ing some concerns most material to the interests of
that part of the United Kingdom.
The whole of the Huntingdonshire Yeomanry
have offered their services to Government, free of
expence, as long as it may be thought that the cir-
cumstances of the country require them.

It appears probable that the Meeting at Amiens
will decide all the points in dispute on the Continent ;
at least the Continental Powers appear to expea that
it will. The German Congress is delayed ; and it
may be fairly inferred, that it is to some such cause
that the delay is to be attributed. The manner in.
which the Peace has been welcomed at Paris, and
the general dire Lion of the eyes of all Europe to
the result of the Negotiation with this Country, are
as stong proofs of our Political Importance, as our
Naval Vidories, or our Colonial Acquisitions.
The Governor-General of Bengal has made the
following appointments, for the purpose of carrying
into cfFet the Institution of the College of Fort
William, viz.—The Rev. DAVID BROWN, Pro-
vost ; Rev. CLAUDIUS BUCHANAN, A. B. Vice_
Provost. Professorships : for Arabic Language,
and Mahommedan Law, Lieut. JOHN BAILL I E ; for
the Persian Language and Literature, Lieut. Col.
WILLIAM KIRKPATRICK, FRANCIS GLADWIN,
and N. B. EDMONSTONE, Esqrs. ; Hindostanee Lan-
guage, JOHN GucHttis-r, Esq.; the Regulations
and Laws enaded by the Governor-General in
Council, for the Civil Government of the British
Territories in India, GEORGE HILARO BARLOW,
Esq. ; Greek, Latin, and English Classics, the
Rev. CLAUDIUS BUCHANAN.

Though we are seldom disposed to admire the
Administration of France in preference to that of
our own Country in any instance, yet we shall not
be sorry to hear that the Police is as rigorously
enforced in some instances here as in Paris. Among
a number of convitiions in that metropolis, we
read of two persons having been fined lately, the
one for having imposed on his lodgers, and the other
for having negleded to swccp his part of the-street
according to the.established rules.
The Duke of IVIDDENA is said at length to have
agreed to submit himself to the Treaty of
.Lunevilli,
and to have consented to share the•gtneral fate of
the States which that Treaty regulates. The vir-
tue which HORACE commends,

rnemet submittere rebus,
might have taught the Duke of MODENA the pro-
priety, or at least the .7.4.,;5d0m, of submission, some
months ago. •

It seems, from the late proceedings of the Swiss,
that notwithstanding the temperance and abstinence
for which they have been famed, the HelTetic Diet
does not agree with the Heketic Constitution.
The difference between Peace and War is sensibly
felt in the Batavian Republic : immediately on the
signing of the Preliminaries, the People are blessed
with a cargo of fresh herrings; in the War they
got nothing but a salt eel.
A poor woman on Saturday pushed violently Into
the Court of King's Bench; she was with difficulty
removed, and the Lawyers themselves formed a
conclusion that one who was so violently bent on
rushing into a Court of Lazy, must be insane.
A Dublin Paper has profited so little by the
Union, that in the true Hibernian spirit,* informs
its Readers, by a notice in its last Page, that the
Postcript is to be found in the Second and Third!

Dm/ ItY -LAN E .—The Opera of Artaxerxes, sup-
ported by the powerful talents of Mrs. 811.1.1 NG-
TON, attraEted an audience last night that entirely
filled this Theatre. We have so often testified our
admiration of this incomparable singer, that we
can hardly be expeCted to add any thing to our
former tribute, to her merit. Those tributes how.
ever fall short of her desert, for as she displays in-
creased excellence on every night, she of course
demands additional commendation. It is indeed
impossible for vocal skill to exceed her performance,
anti the general approbation of the Public is con_
firmed by the suffrage of professional criticism.
Cov E NT-GARD E N.—CO OKE appeared in Richard
the Third last night, and was, as usual, well attend-
ed. His assumption of this charader was spirited
and judicious, and he was received with warm ap-
plause. His chief excellence was obiervable in the
Soliloqu,ies, but his general attention to every thing
illustrative of the charaaer, deserves particular
notice. CORY performed Richmond. This per-
former seems to possess talents, which he wants
fortitude enough to bring forward. His conception
is just, but there is a nervous' tremor in his voice
and in his manner, that makes him " come tardily
off."

KEMBLE leaves town for Sheffield to-morrow,
where he intends to remain► about a fortnight. His
first Charaaer will be Hamlet; Penmadock,

King Richard, and the Stranger, follow in'due suc-
cession. Hull and Liverpool are afterwards to have
the advantage of Mr. KEmB LE'S great talents. He
returns to town early in January, ac 4 proceeds from
hence to Paris.

Mrs. BILLINGTON'S charming tones have mate-
rially redqed the price of cracked china at out
Theatres.

NA I 7 L, I\7 E Tl 7 J.

PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 9.

Tins afternoon arrived His Majesty's Brig ilf.2;•*
giant', with Dispatches from Egypt, undei• the
charge of General MooRE, from General HuTcH-
INSON, and Captain OTTER, from Admiral Lord
KEITH. About ,an hour afterward, arrived the
El Carmen Frigate, Captain SE LBY, from Egypt,
with Dispatches from General lICTCHINSON, iri
charge of Colonel Au ERCROMBY, and from Lora
KEITH, in charge of Capt. Sir Si DNEY SMlTatri'"
Both Ships are put under quarantine. All the above
Officers landed this evening, and are sec off for Lon-
.
don,

Arried also, the Aairr:e Extra Ship, Captain

SMITH, from NI-dras.

Arrived the Me/pcniene Swedish Brig, Br:IC:F.
SODEREEP,C., from Mogadore, in a leaky state ;
and Ne'w Euphrates, FR ASE R., from the Southern
Whale Fishery, with 12c) tons sperm oil. She left
St. Helena the 2oth September, in company with
the above Ship Aaive, and at the time of her sail--
in from St. Helena there were there the followiog
Ship; homeward-bound

Allegood, Flirt, Favourite, C.:harrning anti Reolu
tion, tbr London t and African Queen, for Bristol.
Sally, Diana, Perseverance, Cornwall, William, ar,d etc
becca, outward-bound Whalers.

The Euphrates has had bad weathers and recei%,
ed damage.

Arrived the Hope, AoCirvrorr, from Neu• York,.
with 2200 barrels of flour.

TOER AY, Nos.

ARRIVED last evening, His Majesty's Ship DON.
?legal, Sir R. J. STRACHAIII part. and remains with
fourteen Sail of the Line of the Channel Fleet, under
the command of the Hon. Admiral Co %IC W A L Is.