The Sun.
London, England, 1807-04-20 00:00:00

DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZE-MQNEY.

To the Officers and Company of Ilk Majesty's Shill Mel-
pomene, the net proceeds of the Shefrherdess, captured zust
iuly, 1f304, trill .he ivid at No. 3, Clt*rd's lon, Loa Wcitnes-
d4ys and Thursdays for three year;. •
To the Officers and Company of Fiii;.Majesty's Stool? JO-
cam, for the Capture of On the ad A ligtist,'lS -4,
head-money for the same., at No 3, Salters' liaJa• Omit,
CA11111.n1.61 rzet, on the z3d inst. and on Mondays and .11:11
days for .three years.
To the Officers and Company of His Nlajes'v's Ship N 311
tot the detention of tikt Spanish Ship .t:1•E Lilo, 'on her
arrival at Plymoutf,.. and every Monday and Saturday fur
three years, ai Bog,er's Office, Plymouth.

From the HJIMBURGH and ALTO7V..4 P.dPERS

VIF,NNA (t-ourt Gazette) APRIL I.—The Impe-
rial litissian Admiral SIMAIIIN has set sail with a
strong3division of his- Squadron, which has -lately
been.: considerably reinforced from the lonian and
./Egian Sus, to join the remaining part of the.Eng7
lish Fleet, _which was left cruizing off. Tenedos„--,
The Duke of RICHELIEU has put himself in motion
with a 'considerable corps, assembled in the Govern-
ments of Odessa and Faganrok, to march to Mol-
davia,--.(Hamb. Cgrrespondenten, April 14.)
CONSTANTINOPLE, MARCH Io.—The English
SqUadron has availed itself of a northerly wind to
sail out of the Channel. While. the English Ad-
miral was negociating, the batteries were constru&-
ipg under the dire&ion of French Officers all around
our port, and mounted with upwards of 600• pieces
of cannon. Within a few days the,forts of the Dar-
danelles were all put, iu a most tenable condition.
Before! three weeks shall have elapsed, the I)ar,
danelles .will be in a state altogether impregnable,
like our port. In the Canal the English were struck
with astonishment at the sight of the immense po-
pulation of the coast. Their boats, which put off
to fetch water and provisions, were not able to land.
They have therefore done well to sheer off The
Grand Signior has adopted similar measures in hii
dominions-against the English and their goods. as Abe
French Emperor. The seals hate been put on the
Palace of the. English Ambassador, as 'well as on all.
English 'Warehouses. All persons not belonging
,to
the Military are to be disarmed ; and after this mea-
sure shall have been, carried into effea, the shops will
be opened again.—(Altona Mercury, April 1.4
BERLIN, APRIL B.—Six thousand Spanish- Ca-
valry and twenty-four thousand Inftintry of the'same,
Nation have passed the Pyrenees, and are expdaed
on the. Banks of the Elbe the latter end of April.
APRIL 11.—The passage of French troops by di-
visions and whole regiments is greater than ever.—
We also see daily pass .through here considerable
transports •of powder and ammunition of all sorts.
The want of specie is telt every day, more and more,
and it will almost be impossible for the city, to fur-, •
Wish the contribution of a million, which has been,-
demanded.

BANKS OF THE ELBE, APRIL 13.-•--Itl the night
from the 6th to the 7th of this month the town of
Rostock-was surprised by a Swedish corps, who,.
concluded by--a guide Which it had taken at Stral-•
sund, entered the said town by a sluice, avoiding
the gates.' This corps returned after having made
prisoners the garrison, consisting of from 120 to 130.
Dutch troops, as well .as the Secretary of the French
Vice-Consul;M. MARTENSEN, and after taking Off
the sequestration laid upon the Swedish Ships,,
which were to be sold the next day, as also that laid
upon English merchandize.—Another corps of about
200 Swedes in waggons advanced as far as the take
of Schwerin, and afterwards retired. The principal
corps of the Swedes appears to be direded towards
Stettin, a division of which'entered Friedland on the
6th.---it is Confirmed' that the communication be-
tween Pillau and Dantzic is established by 'the
.Frisch-Hall': on the 2gth of March a fresh rein-
forcement of 4000 Russians arrived by sea at Dant-
. Zic.—(L'Abeille du Nord, April 14.)
• The Raniburgh Correspondenten of the 14th of
April is nearly tilled with Official. Papers. It begins
with " An Official Account of the Occurrences
'which have happened at Constantinople, and of the
warlike Preparations made to repel the Attack ;"
this concludes with a statement of the TnikiSh na-
val force stationed off Consfantinople for the defence
of that city._
No. 1 Is a Copy of Letter from . the Russian
General MICHEI:SON, to the Constituted Authorities
of the Ottoman Empire, stating the reasons of the
movement of the Russian troops in Moldavia and
Wallachia ; t2iis Letter is dated 26th Nov. 1806.
No. 2 Is a Copy of a Letter from M. ITALINSKY,
the Russian Ambassador, to. M. HAUTZART, Dra-
goman of the Porte, dated Pera, I,2th . Dec. 1806.'
No. 4 Is a Letter from the same Ambassador to
the'Reis Effendi, dated on board the Frigate End2p,
mion, 29th January.
No. 5 Is a Lettet from Vice-Admiral DUCK-
WORTH to the Reis Effendi, dated. on board the
Royal George, Feb. 26, in which he refers to the
instrudions given to Admiral Louis, a copy of
which he, incloses.—(Froth the extreme length of
these Papers it is impossible to give more than the
above heads')
ELSINELTR, APRIL 9.—By an arrival yesterday,
in five days from Dantzic, we have the satisfadory
intelligence, that that city is rescued fronf its jai-
-1 pending danger, hy the seasonable arrival of 4000
Russians. The garrison,has again taken possession
or the
Fair Water,' to which the Enemy had ad-
vanced. ,We are assured, from the same source,
that the Russian Grand Army has been joined by
upwards of 60,000 fresh troops. A general battle
was every day ekpe6ted to occur. The affairs of
out-posts and skirmishes have been Very fre-
quent, and even sanguinary, from the 26th to the
end of last month. The Prussians join the Russians
in considerable numbers ; but the former complain
bitterly of the want of arms, which they anxiously
expect from England. The number of soldier's
without arms is very great.
COPENHAGEN, APRIL 7.—We have letters from
Dantzic of the Ist instant. They state the garrison
to be in high 'spirits, and to have been recently;
Strengthened by 4000 Russians and 1200 Cossacks.'
A partial engagement took plage bet Ween the be—
sieging artny and the garrison on the 29th ult, when.
the hitter succeeded in taking 520 prisoners, with. a
loss on their part of -127 killed
,and 68 wounded.
The loss of the French in killed and wounded was
estimated at nearly 400. The action was. the result
of a vigorous sally, in which the enemy was corn-,
pletely surprised. The writer of this account saw
the adion from the top of a church.
Ha~IBuRG 1, APRIL B.—Yesterdays accounts
frOm Rostock state, that a small corps of' Swedish
Cavalry, of from fifty to sixty men, commanded by;
Lieut. iVloottc, 'unexpectedly entered the town, by.
farting the pallisadoes, on the night between Stin-.
day and Monday, and on assembling .the Magis-
ir,ites, declared his taking possession of the town in
the 'lame of the King of Sweden and the Duke of
Mecklenburgh, and that the tots n and its trade was
free.. This little corps pushed afterwards further
out of town, and would have venturtd to Schwerin,

had they bet been prevented by a false account 0.
about 3000 Dutch troops being on their march to
the assistance of that place. They left Rostock after
having made prisoners the small garrison, and taking
two pieces of cannon with them, which the Com-
mander said he took merely in depot, to be given
back at a future time, when the old order of thing'
should again be re-established.

VIENNA, APRIL I.—The English Fleet, it is unT
derstOod, has not made its appearance a second time
before Constantinople ;..but,without attempting.any
' further hostilities, returned on the sth of .March,
through the Dardanelles, to its former station in the
Arehipelago.—(Rant. Correspond. April 15.)
ZARA, IN DALMATIA, MARCH 7.—General MAR.
MONT, who is still here, has given orders that new
roads shall be made immediately:from. Dalmatia td
the neighbouring paEts of Bosnia ; they are to be
finished within 20 days. the whole work is car-
ried on under the diredion of French Engineers.—
The General Proveditor of Dalmatia lias required all.
the inhabitants of the countries through which the
roads are to pass to contribute their labour. The
Bosniaks, who are most of them. Mahorrietans, have
all taken up arms, and occupied the frontiers'in great.
force, against the Servians, firmly resolved to defenl
themselves to the last man, shoUld the Russians, hi
•
conjunction with the Servian Insurgents, attempt to
make an incursion into their country.—(Hamb • Cor-
respond. April 15.)

Declaration of the English Ambassador, Mr. AR'
BUTIINOT, in the conference at Constantinople.--
February 25.

" The Subliine Porte, which has never ceased to
manifest partiality for the French, has, more particu-
larly since the arrival of the French Ambassador,
General SEBA:STIAI4I,. in this capital, changed its
principlesand system towards its own allies. •
" The said. Ambassador some days after his ar.
rival Jtaving.. given in a Note containing certain
threats, the Sublime Porte ou,sht to have returned
the Note, and sent away' the Author ; the Sublime
Porte, on the contrary, received the Note favourably,
and signified to Kussia, that her Ships of War would
not be suffered to-pass the canal of the Black Sea.
" On the occasion a the establishment of the
Itospodars of ;Moldavia and Wallachia, which took
•
place in consequence of preceding circumstances, the
Porte ought immediately to have consented, but the.
delay of that consent, which was not given till three
weeks afterwards, when the Russian Ambassador
had formally demanded it, was a proof of the overe
bearing influence which the French Court had ac-
quired. The Russian and English Courts therefore
agreed that the former should send land forces into
the Turkish territory, and the latter a Fleet to tke
capital of the Ottoman Empire.
‘c Should the Porte proceed to renew it alliance
with Russia and England, on the ancient footing,
and disrntss the said French Ambassador from the
Capital; the war will immediately cease ; but if this
be not done, a bread) of the friendship with Eng-
will, be unavoidable.

" To carry this plan into execution, England will
send a well appointed Fleet, besides the Squadron
now stationed off the Island of Tenedos. The Rus4
Sian Fleet will join it in the same Seas, in order to
pass together the strait of the Dardanelles..

" Should the Porte be inclined to give a negative
answer to the present proposal, the Ambassador will
' send hack to, their country all the English Merchants,
in the Ottotnan States, and remain himself here ts,--
renew the same proposal, and enter into conferences
on
shall have bliare formed a
jed')
when the said combined maritime
junaion in the vicinity of
this-Capital."

LITERARY .FUND.—The Anniversary Festival is
honour of this truly excellent Institution took place •
on Saturday last, at Free Masons' Hall. The Duke
of SOMERSET, the Earl of VALENCIA and Sir J.
CORE, successively took the Chair. The room was
crowded, and the ‘ompany were highly animated
-17:tilepurpose of the Meeting. -It was no small
addition -to the pleasure of the company to hear that
a bequest, amounting to 'near six thousand pounds,'
had been left to the SoCiety by a Gentlethan of the
name of NEWTON, who-was collaterally descended
from the great English Philosopher. A considerablg
number of other connibutions were announced, and
olq general statement of the Funds of the 6ociet
proved that it is in a very. flourishing _condition
The festivities of the, city were much enlivened by
the vocal exertions of INCLEDON, TAYLOR, DIGNUA/
MAJOR, SHIELD, and other. professional Gentlemen ;
and still more by the recitations .of Mr. Furz-
GERALD, Mr. GRAHAM, and Mr. TWEDIE. MC'
FITZGERALD spoke an admirable Address of his owri
writing in honour Of the Institution, with
_great ter'
voiir and effect, which we regret that we have not
room to insert. The CoMposition delivered by Mr.
GRAHAM .was-written by hiS brotber Oagistrate, ivir•
Pr E, the Puet Laurent, and possessed considei4bl-
inerit. That Which was spoken by Mr. TwEDIS.
-was written-by Mr. Deputy Mica,- and irwas`
ra6terized by patriotic as well as political spirit.
Many loyal and constitutional Toasts were given)
and others suitable to the objeas of the Instittr
tiOn and the day went off with' the genuine spirit
of Ctini.iViality, heightened by the glow•of bene'
velence.

As Mr. George Lewis, Land Steward to the Earl
of Charlemout, was returning froili Dublin a feW
nigh±s ago, the night becoming dark,, he uttfortv
nately missed his way, and was drowned,

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