The Sun.
London, England, 1807-03-20 00:00:00

SICILIAN CAPTURES

The ADVOCATE-GENERAL moved for leave to
bring in a Bill to enable the Minister of his Sici-
lian Majesty, at this Court, to receive the Prize-
money of the Sicilians for captures made by 'them
-in
,Conjun6tion wkth British Ships, for the porPose
of distributing tie same among the Officers 'and
Crews of the Sicilian
,Vessels.—Leave given. The
‘Bill was then brought in, read a first, andord?fed to
be read a second time to-morrow.

Sir JOHN NEWPORT brought in a Bill to continue
the Dublin Coal A6t.—Read a first time, and order-
ed to be read a second tirrie. to-morrow.

The Irish Malt and Spirits Duty Bill was brOught
in, —.,Read a first and ordered to be read a 'second
tinh-; to-morrow.

The Iri6#l Paper Duty Bill was committed.—Re-
port to-morroN.v.

The names of the Members absent to-day were
ordered to be reported to-inorrow,
The Right Honourable Richard. Brinsley Sheridan
was ordered, at the rising of tie House, to be dis-
charged out of the custody ci the Serjeant, at Arms,
paying his re s. •

Mr. Sheridin came into the House before it rose.
The Speaker called out " Order ! Order !—this is
contrary to all regularity." He then called the Ser-
jeant, .and ordered him to take Mr. Sheridan into
custody till the rising of the House.—This was ac-
cordingly done.
The Excise Licence Bill was read a third time and
passed.

- The Coffee Warehousing Bill was read a second
time, and ordered to be committed to-morrow.
Mr.VANSITTART obtained leave to bring in a Bill to
permit the Exportation of Fuller's Earth and Pipe
Clay. He also obtained leave to bring in a Bid for
the better securing the Duties on Goods.exported
from Great Baitain.

Mr. VANSITTART gave notice of his intention, to-
morrow, to bring in a Bill for the better prevention
of smuggling.—Adjourned.

MAILS.

ARRIVFD --r Jamaica, z Dublin, r Waterford.
DUE-1- Gottenburgh, z Lisbon, t Wateribrd.

PRICE' OF STOCKS •
iors DAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCK.
Consols - - 621 1 (Vmnium . -

THE SUN.

SOLEg QUIS DICZRE VALSUM Atioss..r?

L 0 N D 0 N,

I,RIDAY, MARCH 20, 1807.

WE yesterday stopped the Press to state, that
Lords ELDON 'and HANVKESKIRY had been ordered
,to attend His MAJESTY at Windsor. Their Lord-
ships went out early yesterday morning., and re-,
turned in the afternoon. Upon their return to town
they went to the Duke of PORTLAND'S, for the pur-
pose, as it is stated, of conveying to him His MA-
JESTY'S Commands to 'prepare for his consideration a
plan of a New Administration.' We do not pledge
ourselves for the accuracy of the latter parr of the
above statement ; but we have the strongest reason'
to believe, that, when this Paper was put to Press,
DO notification'of His MAJESTY'S pleasure had been
communicated to Ministers.

AN Evening Paper has endeavoured to throw
upon the condua of the existing Cabinet the false
and wicked attempt of diminishing-that affe6tion,
loyalty, and attabhment , which have ever subsisted,
and which, we trust, -will never cease to subsist, in
the breasts of the People of these Realms to their
Sovereign; -arid it is by a very curious mode of
reasoning. that this silly,. though infamous calumny,
is urged. In the explanation which has already taken
place in the Publia Prints, and which we haveno doubt-
is as the present critical situation affords
us the means of disclosing, the question Of ditfer•
ence between His MAJESTY and his Ministers has
been stated to rest upon a pledge required on one
part, which could not be entered into on the other.
Whatever difference, or .whatever misunderstand-
ing, existed in the course of the discussion on the
Catholic Bill now pending in Parliament, between
the KING and his Ministers, that difference and that
misunderstanding are Completely &tie away by the
surrender of the Question in lobo' by the latter.—
As 'far, therefore, as the subje& of the Catholic Bill
isinvOlved in this attack upon the present Cabinet,'
we would leave it to the unprejudiced judgment of
the public how such a condu& merits such an accu-
sation. With respe6t to the consideration of the.
pledge before alluded to, we still beg leave
to make our observations upon it, without the
most distant intention of insinuating blame to
a quarter where we, in common . with every
Being who has the feelings of gratitude and loyalty,
are anxious to chew our most warm and dutiful at-
tachment. .But let the subje& be fairly stated.
.011 the one hand there is a sense of duty, of
conscientious obligation, of feeling, imbibed and
cherished and strengthened from His MAJESTY'S
cradle to the present hour, and from these impres-
sions, and a jealous regard -for the Protestant As-.
cendancy, have the pledge been required. On the
other hand; it is btit just to consider the nature and
extent 'of such an engagement contrafted by any
Minister or public man, whatever. -.Would it be
Consistent either with his duty to the KING or to
the Public ? As far as we are enabled to appreciate
the situation of a Minister, we are led to look upon
him as responsible to the Kingdom for
,the A6ts of
his Administration: We conceive him for the. time
being as the duardian of the Public Welfare, as the
fortunatemedium through-which the opinions of the
People are and ought to be communicated to the
Sovereign.-How therefore could a Minister justify
to himself and to the Public a pledge that under
any circumstances whatever he should be dis-
abled from making that full and ample ex-
planation, which it is his,beunden duty. to make,
and which we should conceive his withholding would
. .
justify his impeachment. Such are the views we
take on' the subje& of any pledge, upon any pUblic
grounds, from any public man. As the case 'now
stands, we conceive the Surrender of the Bill
in question as fully' satisfaelory, more particu-
larly as .the manner in -which it has now been r.
resisted , and withdrawn is the strongest and
most satisfadtory security to His Majesty .that no
Ministers can in future-bring it forward with any
ha; es ot succes. Upon these groundi, giving a fair

and just consideration to the question as it applies
both to His MAJESTY and to his Ministers, we can-
not allow far an instant that the public and avowed
refusal on the-part of the latter to.contraft such an
engaget:-.ellt, can in any Ivi..y whatever be judged
as an atteml)t to diminish the affe6tions of the
People to their Sovereign.

Tiz Princess Amelia Packet arrived at Falmouth
on Tuesday from Jamaica ; but she was sixty-three
days on her passage, and consequently does not bring
any intelligence of so late a date as 'that which has
already reached. this Country.

Hisßoyal Highness the PRINCE of WALES, Lord
and Lady. MELBOURNE, Lord GRANTLEY, the Hon.
BERKELEY CRAVENi Mrs. PITZHERBERT, and a few*
other friends, dined yesterday with EarI..BERKELEY,
at his house, in Spring Gardens.
Lord GRENVILLE gave a grand dinner yesterday
to Lords MOIRA, HOWICK, HOLLAND, ELLENEO•
ROUGH, SIDMOUTH, H. PETTY, SPENCER, and TEM-
PLE, Messrs. WINDHAM, T. GRENVILLE, &C.
Yesterday the . Governors of the Asylum for Or.
phan Children celebrated their Anniversary at the
Freeniasons' Tavern • his Royal Highness the Duke
of CAMBRIDGE in die Chair; near 200 of the Go-
vernors and friends of the Charity partook of an ele-
gent Entertainment.
Yesterday the DUKE of CLARENcs-visited the
Asylum, St. George's-fields, where the Lambeth Vts.:
lunteers were drawn up to receive him. His Royal.
Highness, after inspeaing this humane Institution,
politely expressed his approbation of the.conduat of
the Volunteers, who went through their military
exercises in a soldier-like style.
A Half-yearly Court of the Proprietors of Bank
Stock was yesterday held at the Bank, for the pur-
pose,of reading over the Minutes of the last Meet-
ing, and for declaring the amount of the half-year's
dividend due at Lady-day. The Governor, Deputy..
Governor, and Direelors, attended at twelve.o'clock,
and, to a very full assembly of Proprietors, announced,
that on the sth of April next they would be at li-
berty to receive half a year's dividend of 5. per cent.
on the amount. of their Stock, due at Lady-day,
making 10 per cent. per 'annum, on the gross
amount, independently of the pro Tea of a bonus,
at. the next half-yearly meeting.—Bank Stock in
consequence rose to 2301. per cent.
This morning, at five o'clock, a fire broke out at •
the Musical Instrument Manutadory, in Tottenham.
court-road, belonging to Messrs. CLEMENTI and Co.
which entirely consumed that extensive and valuable
fabric, and damaged several adjoining houses. At•
first there was a want of water, but when a surplr
could be obtained, the a6tivity and skill of the tire..
men subdued tae flames.- •

The recent impudent assertions in the French Bul-
letins, that the mortality in the Grand Airny is ra-
ther less than during a period of peace, seem to be
bit. servile imitations of the statements of the Pa-
risian Journalists during the war of, the ,Grand Al-
liance. The.healthy condition of the French people
after the Battles of Hochstecit and Rarnilies, is thyS
humourcusly represented in tl'x_ at"er::—" My cor
respondent, by the way of Brussels, informs rue,
upon his honour, thilt the Gentleman who writes
the Gazette at Paris, and ought to know as well as
any man, has told him, that ever since the King has
been past his 63d year, or grand climaderic, there
has not died one man of the French Nation who was
younger than his Majesty, except a very few who.
were taken suddenly ill nu' r the village of HOch-
tedt, in Germany,: and some more who were strait-
ened for lodging, at a place called Ramilies, and died.
on the road to Ghent, and Brugei."

The Duke of NORFOLK permits his Ane
Mansion at Arundel to be publicly viewed twice a
week, and has, in the most condescending manner,
made. this indulgence known in the country. Such
attention to the curiosity and taste of others forci-•
bly reminds us of the distinalion between the polite
and liberal enjoyment of greatness, which may be
witnessed in persons to whom it is familiar, and the
coarse monopoly which new possessors insist upon in
their territories.

POLITENESS IN THE ExTREmE.--T4e Duke De
Crillon was at Avignon at the period when the Duke
of Ormond died there; and . having entered his
chamber at the very moment when the latter was
dying, he had nearly been witness to a remarkable
scene which had just taken pla-ce between the ex-
piring Nobleman, who was a true pattern of polite-
ness, and a German Baron, also one of the most
polite men of his country. The Duke, feeling, him=
self dying, desired to be.conveyed to his arm chair,
when turning to‘vardS. the Baron, " Excuse me, Sir,"
said he, " if I should make some grimaces in your
presence, but my physician tells me that I am at
' the point of death." " A,h, my Lord Duke 1" re-
plied the Baron,," I 'beg that you will not put your-
self under any constraint on my account."

, .
THE
ARTS.—The statue of Venus sitting, which
does so much honour to the talents of NOLLEKENS,
has been purchased by the Earl, of CARLISLE, one
of.the most liberal and intelligent patrons of the
Arts. The Marquis of STAFFORD, who is not less
distinguished by tastg and liberality, has become. the
Proprietor of SnEt's charming pi(ture " The Cottage
Girl," WESTALL's " Christ appearirg to Mory,'. -
OPIE'S admirable work " Beltisarius," and HENva
LRTT'S Flower Piece;" for the last of which the
Noble Patron gave four hundred guineas.

On Tuesday l'ast, as one of the Manchester stage.
coaches was in the aa cf stopping to change horses
at the Inn at Leek, one cf the outside passengers, in :
his impatience to get down before the coach was .
quite still, unfortunately fell down between the_
wheels, so that one of the hind wheels passed (tiredly.
over his head. Having on a stiff 'leather hat, the
pressure on his head was so much lessened, that
skull sustained no injury, but the lower jaw bore
eras broke. He is, however, in a fair way of re.
covery.

.. .
, .
Many of the theatrical Corps during Passion week. ,
'are engaged to perform on PrOVincial Stages. It 1;
somewhat strange, however, that while London, that
at. no time,is distinguished for devotion, is disposed ,
solemnly- to observe religious ordinances, country..
places; in which z.aral innocence is thought to reside,
should be amused with putlie diversions.

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NAVAL NEW 8.

FALMOUTH, MARCII 17.—Arrived this day the
Princess Amelia Packet; STEVENS, 6i days from

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Jamaica; passenger, a Spanish Gentleman; a Mr..
ROBINSON,. Surgeon pt Jamica, died on his pas Sage
. ,
about. ten days since; the Packet:arrived at B2rbd-
does - t Ith December; found there His Majesty's
Ship Korthurnlerla,ul, Admiral COCIfRANE; the,Cer-
taus Frigate and /Vag) Sloop of War arrived at
Jamaica loth December ; the following Men of
War arrived and sailed during the Packet's stay
there :—the Shark, Peterell, Pelican, Elk, Mig-
konne, Success, Lark, Goeglau, de Milan,
Pomone, La Pique,
,and. Anson; sailed *frOin, 'Ja-
maica in company with the Supereure Schboner, for
England; 'on the 22d ult. spoke His Majesv's Ship
Liebe.

AlSo arrived this day the Hope, HICKS,, from
Cork, for London ; and yesterday the Nimrod Cut-
ter, from off Ushant, left the Fleet all well ; "the
Two Friends, TONKIN, from the Isle of Man, bound
to Oporto; the Union, WHITBORN, from, Liver-
pool ; Brig Menturo, DENNIS, 'from Bristol ; and
Union, ---, from Liverpool.

PLYMOUTH, MARCH 18.—Arrived the San Josef,
of 110 guns, from the Channel Fleet, to be refitted,
proving very leaky ; the Narcissus Frigate, of 36
guns, Capt. MALCULM, from a Cruize; the Philomel
end Mutine Sloops of War, of 18 guns each,' from a
Cruize to the Westward ; and the Snapper Schooner,:
of 8 guns, from a, seven months Cruize off Cape
Finisterre ; arrived the Montague, of 74 gulls, from
off Rech.:.fort.

PORT3mouni; MAr.crt.ig.--Arrived La Decade'
Frigate, Capt. STUART, from the Channel Fleet ;
Hearty Gun-vessel, Lieut. WICKHAM, from the
Do'ns'; and the Steady Gun-vessel: from a cruize
off.the.French Coast.

Passed by four or five Sail- from the ..11.1editerE4
nean, and arrived here six. others.

Sailed the Soleli.ay Frigate, Capt. BROMLEY, for the
Downs.

YARMOUTH, MARCH Ig.—The Falcon Sloop is
arrived, 'with a Floet under convoy, for. the Baltic.
Arrived thellfekstic, Stalely, Flora Fl igate", and
Peri!etter and Hecate Gun-brigs, from'a cruize, and
remain with the Roebuck, Dißator, Ruly, Malabar,
Quebec, and 1114euger, Cruizer, and Lin".

DEAL, Muck io.--ArriVed and sailed for the
River the Pigeon, COLLETT., from the River Piata ;
she sailed in•Novemher last ; Adventure, CooK, and.
• the.Newry, ROILLY, from Newry,
Came down from Sheerness yesterdny evening the
Mariner Gun-brig ; also from the River this'morn
ing the Airly Castle and Walpole East Indiameh,
and several other outward-bound Vessels, which re-
main in the Downs with the Ships as per last.