The Sun.
London, England, 1807-04-21 00:00:00

MR. OPIE.

THE remains of this excellent Artist were yester-
day removed from his house, in.Berner's-street, an.l
interred in the Vaults of St. Paul's Cathedral, near
the grave of his late estimable relative in genius, Sir
JOSHUA REYNOLDS. The funeral was attended by
a numerous train of private friends- and brother
artists, among whom were a considerable number of
persons in both classes distinguished for high talents
and,chata6ter. The following is the order of the Pro.
cession which passed from the late residence of the.
deceased, through Prince's-street, and down, the
Haymarket to St. Paul's :

Six Mutes, with black staves and hat-bandt.
Nine Horsemen, two and two. "
A funeral Banner of tstrich Feathers, borne by a Mute.
Next thllowed the Hearse, bearing the Body, drawn by six
horses, and crowned with ostrich feathers, supported right
and left by "Marslial:.men, in deep mourning.
Next followed three Mourning Coaches, each drawn by six
horses, and in which Were the Earl of Carystort, Lord. De
Dunstanville, Earl Stanhope, Sir 1. Leicester, Sir I. St.
Auliin, Mr. West, Mr. W. Sinith (late M. c.), Mr. Whit-
bread, Mr. floppner, Mr. H. Thomson, M-r. Owen, Mr.
Favill, and Mr. Shee. .
Twenty-seven other Mourning Coaches, drawn each by two
horses, were filled by eminent Artists, and friends of the
deceased; and next followed the Carriages of Ms lligh
ness the Duke of Gloucester, the Earl of Carysfort, Lord
De Dunstanville, Earl Stanhope, Sir 1. Leicester, Sir 1.
St. Aubitf, Mr. Byng, Mr. Whabread, Sir 1 . Earner, Sec..
&c. to the number of thirty.

• The Procession having reached Temple bar gate,
was. met by the City Marshals, who from thence
preceded the funeral to St. Paul's. The body was
there taken frOm the heai'se, and conveyed •to the
choir, the Noblemen and Gentlemen from the three
first coaches supporting the pall. •
It must be highly gratifying to every liberal mind
to witness the honour which .was paid to departed
Genius on this- occasion, not only. as it is a due tri-
bute to the individual thus distinguished, but as it
tends to excite emulation and promote moral ex-
cellence among those on whom nature may, bestow
extraordinary powers, by inducing them to employ
those powers- in such a manner as may entitle the
possessors to the esteem as well as the admiration of
mankind. .

Mr. Ortz was charajterized in private life by
that vigour of coneepti,)ll which is so remarkably
cOnspietotis in his produdions—by a manly inge-
nuousness in conversation, with a strong tin&ure
of original humour, and an uniform promptitude
to ads of friendship and benevolence. He never
displayed an overweening confidence in his own 'ta-
lents, and was
.always ready to do justice to the Me-
rits of another. He died, we understand, intestate;
and has left a considerable property, the meritorious
produce of his own genius. It is,much to the ho-
nour. of his widow that. she has testified her regard
for his memory by so liberal an expenditure on his
funeral, as, by

" The grac'd =pea that claimed him to the lest,"
she had an opportunity of spewing to the. World at
large that his personal worth was upon a level with
his great talents.

We received yesterday morning accounts from
Barbadoes, from the 17th of January to the 18th of
last month. It was for some time supposed at Bar-
badoes, that an attack was meditating at Gualaloupe
upon Dominica. Troops were accordingly embark-
ed at Barbadoes, and Sir A. COCIIitANE sailed with
his Squadron • but the alatm was unfounded. The
outward-bound West India Fleet arrived at Bar-
badoes on the 23d of February.

On Thursday the Vulwark, of 74 guns, will be
launched from his Majesty's Dock Thd, at Ports..
mouth. She is, without exception, the handsomest
ship of her class in.the Royal Navy. • .
• . Earl ST. VINCENT has sent in his resignation of
the command of the Channel Fleet, but no success.
sor to his Lordship has yet been appointed.

(2,'apt. G. HARRIS is appointed to the Prospero
Lieut. J. BROWNE is appointed Agent for Transports
at Jamaica.

There was no Court of Aldermen held to-day
the LORD MAYOR, afte'r inspetaing the Returns of
the Mealweighers, ordered the price of Bread to. fall
2d: per peck, to t2ke place on Thursday. The
Quartern Loaf wheaten will then bet lid.—house.
hold t oid.

A Russian Newspaper gives an account of the
scandalous treatment which the Russian and Prussian
prisoners have experienced from the French. Many
of them did not receive a mouthful of bread for
several days together, and were obliged to suffer
every kind of insult and ill treattnent and,and,= in one
instance, 22 RUSsians, and two PrUssiant, (who
after experiencing the worst treatment, were drop-
ping under the fatigue of a tedious march) were shot
by their French eseort, and it is probable that seve-
ral more would have shared the same fate had they
not been 'providentially' liberated by a party of Cos-'
sacks, by Whom the French escort of 100 Men was
attacked and taken. The 'French being Mune&
ately charged by their late prisoners with this aat of
wagon cruelty, expeeted no less- than to' be saeri.:.
need ; they prostrated themselves before the 131',115-
sian Officers, whom they had pillaged, and begged
them •to intercede for their lives ; but there was
no need of any intercession,- as-. the Jeader of the
Cossacks, whose condal formed striking con,
• trait with that of the enemy, . ne,ver_ intended to
take their lives, and regaled the whole party 'of
fi lends and foes.

The late Mr. Goopp,w, who was One .of the
unfortunate vi(Airias in the wreck of the":lll4nche
Frigate, was a Gentleman of great talents avd at-
tainments. He had contrived' a, System or Na-
val Signals which 'has received the approbation
of the best judges, and will. probably be brought
into general pradice. He was going to superin-
tend the execution of them when the melancholy
event happened. As an Artist he possessed no
ordinary skill, and his drawings are much ad-
mired.' His poetical effusions manifest humour
and fancy. In private.life he was highly estimable,
and those who knew him best are convinced' that
arty perturbation he might shew in his last moments
did not result from the terror to which it has been
ascribed so much as from an anxiety for some-near
relatives who were in the highest degree dear to
him, and whom he knew would have to struggle
without proteCtion through a world full of dangers
and of troubles...,

BIRTH.—At Exmouth, on the 18t1 instant, the
Lady of-CoLiN MACKENZIE. &if:. of a Son.

MONTE VIDEO.

LXI /4 ACT OP A LETTUR }!t ))1 A OENTLgMANT AT

muNTri VIDEO.

" Monte Fel. 7, 1807.

." This letter will be conveyed to you by the same
Frigate that takes home the dispatches, it is therefore
probaWe you will see au account of the capture of this
Settlement in the London Gazette as early as you will
receive this : yet, having been an eyewitness to the
whole of the. operations which led to that event, I
shall give you some account of it. After several at-
-tempts, with Frigates, Gun-brigs,' and. Armed
Transports (carrying 42. pounders) to make an im-
itiresSion on the town and citadel of St. Philips, with-
out effeet, on the t Bth ult. 500 infantry were landed,
and 80 of the rifle corps..
" They were intmediately attacked by about
1.500 Spanish horse, and for the moment repulsed,
with the loss of 4 men ;, but our bravefelloWs soon
rallied, and giving three cheers, again advanced,
when the rifle cOrps being detached, took the enemy
'in flank, and in about a quarter of an hour killed
400 of them. The remainder were so completely
followed up, that. before the close' of' the day, not
400 of them remained alive. Smart skirmishing
occurred every day till the morning of the 3d
instant, when the citadel was taken possession of
about six o'clock, and at eight-I had the pleasure to
see the English Union hoisted there. We were
then within a cable's length of gun-shot, and I got
put on shore in one, of the men of war's boats, and
arrived at the gates of the garrison long. before they
had time to bury the dead.
• " But before.' describe such a scene-of carnage
as I never expeaed to witness in my journey through
life, I shall acquaint you with the circumstances
which 'preceded it. The troops had begun to de-
spair of taking the city and citadel .till the arrival of
the reinforcements under General CnAo FU Rn, which
Were daily'expeCted ; when the 40th 'regiment vo-
lunteered their services to storm the citadel; They
were accepted of, and the 54th, 87th, and rifle
'corps, 'fi)llowed their example..
The cannonading from our batteries and sol-
diers, during the night of the 2,d, was' dreadful ; not
a wink of sleep could I•get ; between two and three
o'clock in the morning- the attack began.; and our
brave fellows, in marching up to the breach missed
it, and were exposed tp a, he?r fire of six. guns,
loaded with cannister and musket shot, for near halt'
an'hour. There :the carnage was cireadful ;
.but as
soon as our troops discovt.i-eLI the breach, the Spa-
niards were obliged to give way ; a dreadful slaugh-
ter ensued, and ample vengeance • was taken on the
foe.

" The dead bodies of our dauntless countrymen
were lying in heaps. Near the brtach, particularly,
lay 30 out of one company of the 40th Regiment ;
the 54th also suffered considerably. This dreadful
havoc would not have, taken place had the attack
been at day-light.
• " The loss (4 .:he Spaniards is immense, and can-
not yet be calculated. I saw do soldiers and armed
peasantry laying in one small avenue, or lane, in the
city, killed ,by the bayonets 'of our soldiers, who for
some time gave no quarter, being rendered furious
by the brutality of the Spaniards, who hail exposed
the heads of our men (who had untOrtutiately fallen
into their hands) on the walls of the city,'shockingly
mangled ; having cut off sheir ears, and sewed them
to their hats for cockades, Sco.

" \The Spaniards never thoUght the citadel could
be stormed. Indeed, several Gentlemen who have
been at Malta intirm me that the forts and garrison
of St. Philip's are superior' to those of La Valette.
The filmier has 115 pieces of cannon, and ammuni-
tion,. &c. fora five-year's siege. I hope the British
Cabinet will never give it up, after so dear a pur-
chase ;, it is the key to a continent that will uhi-,
mately benefit thousands ofEnglisiimen. There are
already 400 adventurers, mostly Scotch, and proper-
ty to the amount of two
_trillions sterling.
" As yet nothing is settled with respe& to com-
merce, nor can any thing considerable be done till
-the Spaniards return to the city, and we get posses-
sion of Buenos Ayres again. However, 'I am in
great hopes, wliCt) things are a little settled and com-
fortable to all parties, we shall find it advantageous--
but the Admiral talks of laying,on a duty of 1,(.2 per
cenL on all goods imported. , This will -be a great
check -; as the competition here with British Manu7
faaured goods exceed's everything yoU can imagine.
" This a fine climate, and now the height of
summer. Fruits, vegetables, and every thing in
great plenty. Beef, for the army and navy, is con.
4,raaed for at Id. per lb. and even at that rate the
contraelors will, make fortunes; . as they can' pur-
chase the best oxen at two dollars a head. Excel-
belent horses maY had for ti.vt, dollars each."

, . •
• Extra& of a Letter from: Holywell, Flintshire„
dated April i. A most melancholy accident hap-
pened here:yesterday ; twenty-seven men were kill-
- ed'in, a Coal Mine, owing to the fire-damp arising.—
They were drawn up in the course of the day, but so
mangled as scllrcely• to b known by their relations.
The scene of distress that 'took place masters all de-:
seription•—wives screaming oot for their dead bus-
bands, children for their fathers ; one poor woman,
as'soOn as "She saw her husband, fell into a tit and
expired immediately ; another, from the fright,.im-
tnediatelvfell into labour, and was delivered on the
spot. The men were obliged to use all their
strength in endeavouring to hinder them froth jump-
ing into the pit."

JOIN COMBS, of Milton, in the parish of Lan-
livery, has a brood of goslings three of Whom have
twelve legs among thew, viz. one gosling has three
legs, another four, and a third five.—The 3-legged
and the 5-legged ones are well, and likely to live ;
but the 4-legged one is deed.

Yesterday a match was trotted over Sunbury
Common, bet %veva the noted old mare Plienoinena,
and a black horse of Mr. ; the distance tea
miles; which the tbritrtr, won in 33 minutes with
(Treat case.

"There is no certainty," cried a moralizing cha-
rader the other evening, "'in any unaccomplished
pursuit of adventure."—" That I peremptorily de-
ny," replied a gentleman in company, " since it is
absolutely certal4 that all the numbers drawn, on
'Thursday next, in the Lottery, will prove Prizes ;
and no less a Prize, in very ,first-drawn number,
than that of .(1001."

OFFICIAL ACCOUNT

OF THE
EVENTS AT CONSTANTINOPLE.

The Porte wished for Peace.—ln pursuance- of
this disposition (perhaps carried too far) she con,
sewed to the reinstatement of two of her dismissed
Hospodars. She had not yielded to the threats of
Aussia she knew that Russia was her implacable
enemy but she yielded to the notes and the threats
of England. England seemed satisfied, and every
thing seemed to give reason to the Porte for ex-
peEting the continuation of a Peace she had so dearly
purchased ; when all at once Mrcrmsox advanced
into Moldavia, surrounded Choczitn, and took it
in consevence of a stratagem after a few shot had
been tired. IV/tchiELSON thereupon issued the Pro-
clidnttion marked No. I. and it was followed by the
notification No: 11. on the,part of the Russian Mi-
nister; whom the Porte, had invited to Constanti-
nople.
The Porte was deeply sensible of this accumula-
tion of insolence, treachery and hypocrisy. The
Russian Army was not satisfied with attacking Mol-
davia, seizing upon ChoCzim; surrounding Bender,
and marching towards. the Danube ; the Court of
St. -Petersbur,ll disclosed its intentions' still farther

by Commanding the'Turl'ish inhabitants of the pro-
vinces she had-attacked to sell their goods, and to
quit the distria occupied by the artily. The pea-
sants were known to sell an o. for a (1411 tr; and to
give up their.,moyables :and other effects for still
smaller considerations. Already,reinforced' by Es=,
SEN, MICIfELSON.S army was also further strength-
ened .by the troops which were on their march to-

wards- the Danube. The Ottotnan EMpire was in
danger; but the French army appeared oli the Vistula,
and took possession of Warsaw. Russia, thus threaten-
ed on her own frontiers, hastily recalled ESSEN and
the troops. of the Don. ' Mlcum.soN colle(:ted his
troops into BuCharest, but', -he could not advance
farther. The Turkish army formed, and their ad-
vanced guard was sufficient to keep the Russians in
the neighbourhood of that.place.
The English: Ambassador at first interfered—be
could make no answer to the -,,trong grotinds on kViiicti
the Divan aCied. The Porte was ai tacked in its
territories without any declaration of war ; the
ads of her internal adminktration were criticised.
in the Prociamtition of the. Enemy's ,General ;
not a single Diplomatic 1:(7 :...;:cried the hostile
operations, anti no way s.• (,),, for a re-
conciliation. The" acted in
the same spirit ; he saw the Lil,sian Minisier de-
part, and he remained tranquil. A feW
wards he appeared at a Conference, on the 15 ill Jan.
with the Sublime Porte. He handed in the Declata•
tion (No. and then went on board a Frigate,
ordered the cables to be cut, and disappeared; on the
29th he sent, from on board the Entignzion, the Note
(No. IV.) to the Porte. It was plain at this crisis
that it was intended to impose upon the Porte by-.. 1
sudden blow, for scarcely had the klibassador
arriv-
ed at Tenedos, when the Squadron of Admiral Ducx.s
WORTH appeared there also.

` After the Engl:sh Admiral had waited some time
at Tenedos, be appeared with two three-deckers,
three eighty gun ships, two seventy-fours, and 'a fb‘v
bomb-vessels, before the Dardanelles. Favoured by
2:south wind, the enemy's squadron arrived at eio.l
o'clock in the morning of the loth of February Ix-
fore the batteries of the two first towers ; the lattc,r
began a 'brisk and well direcied fire, which . the
English did not answer. When they arrived utf
the heights of the two other forts, the batteries
began to play upon the ships. The wind drove the
ships forward, and the batteries of the forts were
badly manned.

Olt. the heights of Gallipoli, the English Squadron
encountered a Turkish Ship of the Line and five
Frigates. The crews of these Vessels were in the
mosques. Resides, what could this division do
against so superior a force ? The English attacked
them, and were,once Whore guilty of a transgressiou
Which is pecull'ar to this Nation, and with which
they had already disgraced themselves by the burn-
ing of four Spanish Frigates. The English Admi-
ral, in short, burned the six Turkish Ships of War,
and yet war was not declared ; negotiations w,:r‘..
stin going on, and the Minister of the Porte was
still in London.

Constantinople was in an uproar; in place of dil-
spondency being produced, all the inhabitants were
inflamed:

On the 20th, at five o'clock in the evening, the
English Squadron appeared before the. Seraglio. No-
thing was prepared to receive. m ;the not a single
point was.in a state of defence ; but every one ran
to arms. The Grand Sultan was the first to pro iced
to the positions which were thought most advisabie
for the batteries 'to be constructed. Turkish Men,
Women, Children, Armenians, Greeks, Ulemas,
Sheiks, Dervises—all seized upon spades and shovels.
Ten French Engineers, Artillery, and Artillery ()di-
cers, arrived from Dalmatia in the night time.
In five days, 500 cannon and 100 mortars were
planted on the batteries, and the Turkish Empire
was not only secured against the destrudion of a few
houses and buildings, but also against the loss of its
honour and dignity--tire (ft-11y kind of property which
Nations can never regain' when they ,have once lost
them.

in the. meantime the English Minister had the
impudence to sen4l a boat on shore-to demand a
truce,
.The rage which filled all the inhabitants wai
concealed, and the Kiaya Bey went on board of the
Admiral's Ship, to hear the proposals that might be
made to him.

The following were those proposals :
I. The Dardanelles to be given to the English.
4. fifteen Ships of War, fully equipped, to be taken to
Malta.

3. The Porte to declare War against France, and send away
the A mhassacior.

4. Russia to keep 'Moldavia and Wallachia ; Ismail and
the other fortresses on the Danube to be delivered up to the
Russians.

. Such propo;al3 deserved IQ answer. The next
day the Dragowan of the Porte was dispatched, but
in vain. Either the acceptance of the conditions, or
bombardment, was the language of the EngliTh
miral. He did not thin!: that mortars were in readi-
ness, and that bombs would answer bombs.

There was something sublul3e in the conte.
nances of the people. The zeal they displayed in
their labours, their obedience to the directions which
were given them, and their lov,d exclarnation
vOtion and atfachtnent to their Sovereign', -astiiiir4l(.,(t
every stranger. On the 25th at 1i.,-.tbriiarv. the

pointed where he*,could land, in order to confer with
the Minister of the Porte. The Divan answered,
that in future there was no place, po foot of ground
in the whole' Ottoman Empire,. where an English-
man could land without being exposed to the just
indignation of the people, that even in the Seraglio'.
of the Sultan himself, there was not'sufficient power
to protea•.an Englishman against the exasperatiOn'of •
the Nlitseltnen. ' •
. , .
The. English squadron now 'saw" that they could"
obtain nothing—that the Porte was not to be teen
tiedand that. their plot had failed. -They desisted
from the first 'proposed 'conditions, but the Sultan
replied he would not negotiates as long as the English
tick was on' this side of the DarAnelles; a sublime
answerto be 'compared to that of the I.l.lman* 867
nate to Pyrrhus.—The English now preceeded'to
use intrigue; corruption, and meanness--the usuai
arts resorted to by injustice and presumption.
On the .26th of Febrdary Admiral 'Duel:won." Tit
sent the*No(6, No. V. alonetkith the instru&ibns,
• to the Reis Effendi, whom he expeaed to" induce to
re-Atiitie the negotiations. We see' from this that
/there is 'no longer any mention 'matte of delivering
up the Dardanelles or the 15 Ships of War. The
Grand Sultan was inflexible; his condua was ener-
getic and decided. Although *educated in the Sera
glio, he behaved himself as a Prince who had spent
alibis life in camps. He was night and day with
his troops, or upon the batteries.
On the 2d of March- Gen. SEBASTIANI "was per-
mitted to approach 'him. 'The former found him on
horseback, in the Midst of his soldiers. The& and
Signior said to him, " The English wish that I should
remove the French Ambassador, and commence war
against my best friend. Write to the Emperor that
received a letter from him yesterday, that I shall
stand by my engageMents, that be may depend upon,
me as truly as I depend upon him."
The Seraglio and the European and Asiatic shores
were covered with batteries ; • every description of
fort: ications were 'erected towards the-Dardanelles, •
Which were planted every where with cannon, and
provided with camps. •
'ln these circumstances the English Fleet thought
it advisable to withdraw. It has repassed ',he Dar-
danelles. The satisfaaion of the people is equal to
their energy. -In a moment there were 16 Ships of
War, two of which were three-deckers, in -readiness,
and provided with their stores and seamen, Officers;
Janissaries, Sailors, all strove for the honour of go
ing. on board the Fleet, and. in spite of the advice of
the most prudent people, the impatience of the crews
who weighed the ancliOrs overcame*everr obstacle.
The Fleet ha:; advanced to the Dardanelles.. The
English came to at! anchor the 3d, tWo
on the other side of the Straights, on the side Of the
old Castle ofAsia.
The Emperor NATOCEON, at tle .first dediration
of, war, offered the-Sultani an army' to covitr the Dar-
danelles and the Danube.' The Porte would at first
a:cc:et only 'Engineers and Artillery ()dicers .7. it has
At' requited Other aid,, which is 'adviancing with all
.

[Wegave Nlr. AR SU T )TNoT'sDeclarition, yqsfenlayl
' No: IV. ' • '
• "On board of the Endymi,,n, an .
e‘ As the Untk;sigued, the Ambassador E&traor-
dinary and Plenipotentiary from 'his *Britannic Ma-
jesty, has.reeeived a teflisal to the request he made
for a Passport for a Messenger to his Majesty's*Go-
vernment, and as this refusal has been repeated to-
day, it is impossible for4hitn. any longer to think
himself in a Country Which is willing' to keep up its
friendly relations with his- It is also fig the
very same reasons impossible for the 'Undersigned,
While he remains in this place, to proceed with the
negociation now . commenced. with ant' security.
without Which there can :be no freedom of discus-
sion. Ile has, therefore, been compelled -to adopt
the resolution of ;going on- board of the British Fleet
ly otithe heights ofTenedos, where he may enjoy
that security which has been denied him here. It
will giva him the greatest pleasure if the Porte should
transmit him an answer to the requisitions w hielv he
made at the conference of the 25th inst. and which
were.to the purport of enabling him again- 'V) re-
sume his post, The Undersigned will Wait -a cer-
• tain time before energetic measures are resorted
to in order to obtain satistaCtion for the injuries done
to his Majesty and his Ally the Emperor of Russia.
The Porte must perceive tharthe ans;.ver can-easily
be given without the least delay: To the requi"sitiOna
of the Undersigned a smple Yes or No only is ne-
-cessary. The Undersigned has considered it his
duty to take along-with him the British Snhjeels resi-
• dent here. Their property, as,Well as the property
of the Undersigned, and the eifetas belonging to The
Hoiel of his Britannic Majesty, are left. behind. All
this'property has been placed tinder the safeguard of
the Porte, and it ,is hereby declared responsible• for
the same. While the Undersigned assures the Su-
blime Porte of his high consideration, he expresses a
most anxious wish that the Porte will have the ‘kiS-
dotn of placing his Majesty and his Ally, the Ern-.
peror of Russia, in a situation to produce a renewal
-of their friendship with the Porte.
- • (Signed) "A_'l-lARLES AIIBUTIINOT."

No. V.

NOTE OF VICE-XDMIR.II,‘ DUCKiVORTII TO TI E

LEIS EFFENDI.

“. Vice-Admiral Sir JOHN THOMAS DUCKWORTH
had the honour to , receive the Note of this date,
transmitted by his "Excellency SAID HALET
DI BEILIKIE, with the proposals annexed. .• I❑ con
sequence of what his Excellency SAID HALE,” Er-
FENDS says, the Vice-AdMiral.cannot but,perceive
plainlY, that the Porta, from want of authority over
its own subjc&s, has not the power Of appointing a
secure place for holding a contrence. 'As the
Admita knows.: the sincere respect which his Bri-
tannic Majesty feels towards his Imperial High-
tieSs the Sultan/ he regrets from the bottom of his
heart that th6lnfluence of a Foreign lljinister has ex-
tended itself-hi such a hanefUl manner. • .
Eiten to. this influence Vice-Admiral Sir TIM,
MAS DUCKWORTH is inclined to ascribe the contents_
of the proposal which the Porte: has eircredas the:
basis of a Peace. Ithe had not'been' aware of tllis
influence; the Vice-Admiral would have een.led to
believethat there was a studied. intentiOn to insult
him,. when a bkisis for Negotiations was Proposed,
v,tir OuJd hie-only been d(seryizig, of notict; it
E rent, Britain 'and her:Ally; the Court Z)f St. petrs-