The Sun.
London, England, 1809-09-23 00:00:00

NAVAL NEWS.

PLYMOUTH, SEPT. 20.-Put back, the Jalouse
sloop of war ; and the Rhin frigate, Capt. MALCOLM,
with the vieluallers for the squadron off Rochefort.
A number of French prisoners marched from
hence this morning, for the royal prison at Dart-
moor, escorted by a detachment from the West Essex
Militia.

Sailed, the Hope, COLLINS, for Barbadoes, and
Trinidad.

Arrived, the Unite frigate, Capt. CAMPBELL, from
Portsmouth.

SEPT. 21. This afternoon the Rhin frigate, with
the victuallers for the squadron off Rochefort, made
another attempt to get out, but were obliged to come
to anchor again, the wind blowing fresh from the
westward.

Sailed, his Majesty's ship Ja/ousc, of I 8 guns, to
the eastward; and the American ship Ontario, NYE,
for the river.

Went up the harbour to be repaired, the UnitE

frigate.
Arrived the Union, HAM, from Llanelly.
Remain in the Bay, his Majesty's ships Tonnant
and Captain. In the Sound, the Rhin, Amelia,
Dolphin, Pickle, Ann, and Whiting.

FALMOUTH, SEPT. Q.a. —Arrived this morning, the
Princess Augusta packet, in 29 days, from St. Tho-
mas, with the Leeward Island Mails ; in conse-
quence of the death of the Captain (St. Autylo,
and t 1 of the crew, during her stay in the Islands,
she is put under stria quarantine. Passengers by her
are, Dr. ARMSTRONG, PETER DELISLE, Esq. Mr. and
Mrs. HILL and family. On the 17th September, in
lat. 49. 21. long 7. 44. spoke the ship Thomas and
Mary, from Martinique for Liverpool, out 4g days;
had lost all her topmasts in a gale of wind on the
2Gth ultimo, off the banks of Newfoundland.
Arrived, also, this day, the Mary packet, Capt.
COCK, from New York and Halifax ; left the for-
mer on the 17th ultimo, and the latter on the Ist of
September.
Passengers by the Mary are—Capt. JOFIN RICH-
ARDS, NOBLE HARVEY, Esq. Mr. R. WADE, and
Mr. SHORTPIECE.

She likewise brings an account of the Intercourse
Bill being again carried into effea.
The IT indsor Castle packet arrived at New York
on the 25th July. His Majesty's ship Pcmpie, Ad-
miral COCHRANE, arrived at Halifax on the 24th
of August. Also the Sybil brig from Plymouth,
Capt. WEBER ; and his Majesty's ship Aanon from
a cruize. His Majesty's gun-brig CoVIiR, Lieut.
BUTT, from Plymouth; Dolphin, Capt. FLINN,
from the Coast of Spain ; George, JOSEPH RICH'
ARDS, from Portsmouth; Martha, COOPER, from
Weymouth ; and Aid, BAKER, from Plymouth.
Sailed yesterday the Dispatch packet, Captain
HARRIS, for Cadiz; and the Princess Charlotte
racket for Lisbon, with mails.

PORTSMOUTH, SEPT. C2.—Arrived this day his
Majesty's ship Porcupine, of 24 guns, Capt. RICHARD
ELLIOTT, with Dispatches from the Mediterranean ;
and the John, BENNEN, and Unity, MoNDAY, from
London.

Sailed the Friendchaft, for Riga and the
Britannia, FLEMING, for London.

DEAL, SEPT. 22.—Sailed the Gluckstadt sloop of
war, with a fleet of transports, for the Scheldt..

SHEERNESS, SEPT. 2 1 .—Sailed his Majesty's ship
Perlen, Captain THOMPSON, for Portsmouth.
Came into harbour his Majesty's ship !ymphen.
Mr. Douotaiss, Master Attendant at Plymouth, is
appointed to Sheerness, instead of Mr. DUNCAN,
who goes to Chatham Yard.

It is with pleasure we have it in our power again
to notice an additional proof of the exemplary good
conduct, and, if it could be judged necessary, of the
essential services, of that inestimable corps, the Royal
Marines. An extra& from Lieutenant-General Sir
EYRE CooTE's Orders,•dated Head-quartes, Middle-
burgh,. Aug. 30, t sog
" The service of the battalion of Royal Marines,
under I the command of Capt. LTARDET, being no
longer required on shore, Lieutenant-General Sir
COOTE cannot allow that corps to be removed
from \Valcheren, without bearing testimony, in pub-
lic orders, to the soldier-like and praise-worthy con-
duct it has uniformly maintained, during its. stay in
the Island, and of which the most favourable re-
port has been made to me, by Lieut.-Colonel FANE,
commanding at Vere."
The transport, with two companies of the First
Foot Guards, under the command of Lieut,-Col,
ASKEW, with Captain STABLES, and Ensign Er.,
I.Frrori and Ittor,o-ros, which was missing, and
concerning which there existed some. uneasiness, is
arrived safe, and the men and officers disembarked
at Chatham, in good health.
The following is a copy of the Resolution pro-
posed by Mr. R. JACKSON, at the Bank Court on
t'hursday

Resolved, " 'OW it appearing to this Court, that during
the years 1804, 5, and (1, the Proprietors of Bank Stock re-
. ceived, 'by way of dividend or bonus, the stun of Pi. per
Cent. perliniium ; and the Uire6lors having this day at:ured
the'Praprietors of the contiiiurd prosperity of the►r affairs,
they are of opinion that utv, j;er cent. per trunuin may be'safe=
ly added by way of bonus to the five pec cent. row declared
as the half-yearly dividend.

UNITED STATES.

NEW YORK, AuctlsT 12.

THE PRESIDENT'S PROCLAMATION.—The southern
mail of this morning, brought Mr. NlAnisoN's Pro-
clamation—by which it appears, that the British
Orders in Council not having been removed, the
United States are declared to stand in the same rela-
tion to Great Britain as they stood previous to Mr.
Efts KIN e's negotiation.
Thus, after having for several months been de-
luded by the expectation of realizing a speedy ad-
justment of all our difficulties with that nation, we
suddenly find ourselvs precisely where we were, on
the 16th of last March. We have neither advanced
nor receded a single step !
With respea to Mr. ERSKINE'S negotiation we
have been deluded. It is in vain to say that this de-
lusion is the effea of casualty—blame is chargeable
somewhere.

And now the question naturally suggests itself,
" Is Mr. ERSKI NE to blame, or Mr. CANNING, or
our Government ? Or, is the blame to be shared
by two or more of the parties ?"
This being a question of fa&, all that ingenuity
can say with respect to it, unless supported by evi-
dence, will amount to nothing more than idle spe-
culation. And as to evidence, the few items which
have come to light are insufficient to support any
opinion on this subject which has hitherto been
hazarded. We have, indeed, seen " extracts
of letters," and " statements," which (in order
to make them more imposing) are represented as
coming from the " best authority ;" but then these
extraUs and statements assume for evidence rumours
so various and contradielory, that the best opinion
which can at present be formed must of necessity
be extremely inaccurate.

The truth, however, is capable of being ascer-
tained, and will, unquestionably, in the course of a
short time, be perfealy ascertained, what, then, in
the mean time, are we to do ? What does prudence
suggest as proper to be done ?
Prudence, nay, every diaate of common sense,
urges, with a force and persuasion which is irresisii•
able, the propriety and duty of suspending ourjudg-
ment until we become more conversant with, f aCis.
A great effort is once more making by theforeign
presses in this country, to throw us into the arms of
France. DUANE and others are zealously engaged in
the business; and every, attempt is made to rouse
all the vile passions of human nature, to aid in
the accomplishment of their desperate purpose.—
These interlopers in our affairs appear to reel, as
if nothing were necessary to induce us to yield
up our independence to France, but to make us
out of temper with Great Britain. This is a serious
subject, and inconceivably interesting to the United
States. We must be stupidly and wilfully blind
with passion, or something worse, if any earthly
motive can seduce us into the clutches of France.—
the most of us have lived through the French revo-
lutionary period, and we cannot be ignorant of the
events which it has produced.
The means by which these astonishing events have
been produced, are of the most formidable kind—
corruption arms ; and the latter, terrible as they are,
are much less to be dreaded than the former. The
poisonof French intrigue, is infinitely more efficaci-
ous, than the thunder of French artillery. The ap-
proaches of an army are distinElly seen, and can be
met or avoided. But intrigue lurks in the heart' of
the Country, and renders its vitals putrid.

Providence has kindly placed the United States
at a great distance from France, and as kindly de-
prived BUONAFARTE, for the present, of the means
of visiting us. At the same time, when we re-
member the strong attachment which our last Ad-
ministration had for France, and bow corrupting a
thing such high example always is—when we call
to mind, hat immense numbers of the most des-
perate charaders among us, and many of them are
in places of high trust and ioßuonee--how much
reason have we to dread the hour, when peace, or
conquest, shall give this great Destroyer leisure to
turn his thoughts to us.. The materials by which we,
may be enslaved are ready, and he will not even be
under the necessity of corrupting them--the work is
done to his hand, and thousands of the vagrants are
pining for employment.
Reflections of this sort are gloomy enough, but if
the above remarks are. just and true, unpleasant as
the subject may be, it is a duty to press it on the
public attention. There is native vigour enough in
this country, could it be brought tog united effort, to
defend our liberties against any human attack. 4
strong sense of the danger from the source I have
mentioned, will rouse our patriotism and our cou-

rage.
Extrati of a Letter from Mr. Prel*, at Paris, to a respe4-
able Mercantile House in 13oston, datact lune
ceived by the Mentor.

" I open my letter to say, that the Emperor has
appointed a person to settle the differences, and
make a treaty with the United States and there is
every prolaah4ity that Commerce will again be re-
newed. I hope soon to see some of your vessels at
•MariPille4."

THE LATE DUEL.

A circumstance, in the private life of Gentlemen
always respe&ed and sacred—always entitled to, and
treated with delicacy—the common care and con-
cern of honourable minds—their general danger—,
and the badge of their distinguished class in society
—that Decree of the Secret Tribunal—that unecon..'
querable di&ate of unflustered minds—all at once,
and for the purpose of the day, is to receive tie guar-
ter, no indulgence, no reprieve, at the hands of the
Priests of another Altar, not worshipped with equal
purity, and not free from this very pollution.
One might have thought, that firititgtose who
were not liable to " Methodistical vieWS."'Of evils in-
separable from an established mode of Society, the,
unhappy accidents of private or even public dit-
ferences would have been entitled to candour, if
not to forbearance :. and oven to adopt (for the mo-
ment) their own narrow and party views, it would
have been expe&ed that the distinguished persons
who are the 'subjed of the malevolence and poli-
tical anathema of the Opposition Press, in conse-
quences of circumstances, respeaing, which ever)"
thing remains to be explained (excepting reciprocally'

high and tenacious principles and feelings) wocid
have been treated with some sort of delicacy and
decorum.

The crime, however, of HAVING BEEN MINITEII.S
is not easily erased from the tablets of rancour and
disappointment ; and that acknowledged calamitY 10
which all the Gentlemen are in society ineessall'lY
exposed, is to be magnified and exaggerated into
crime of State. What must be the feelings of these
interested and hardened Partizans of a bad and des-
pet ate cause, when they perceive all good and 110'
nourable men to lament a casual and t4ncontroulablo
event in private society, in which themselves ars
obliged publicly to rejoice, and to affed and pretend
public motives and principles, for an exultation !bat
nothing but private interest and depravity can feel
or hold out ? With what strenuous grace, too, do
these sudden proselytes contend for their new doc-
trines and principles ! Individuals, Officers, Gentle,
men, &c. &c. may fire as many pistols at each)
other's heads as they please—" it is a moral evil
frequently of political and social good." But if two
Persons, who have been honoured with the li:ltitfs
confidence should at any time fall into some fatal
disagreement of opinion or more fatal expression of
it, they are either ko be deprived of that cruel pri.,
vilege so fatally hut so naturally prizO by their
cast ; or to be overwhelmed with the hypocritical
malignant (but happily riclicialoch) censure -awl itIP
Veaive of libellers, made angry and vindialve by the
proof and demonstration that an acute and sensitive
principle of honour has betrayed into a public ad 91
indiscretion those great and bonourable bosom's
which they were in. the daily habit of representing
(for the vilest purposes of parry) as inaccessible to
every notion but that of personal interest and
ambition.

It is singular that an event, only deplored by good
and honourable men, should not have disclosed to
them the dilemma in which these organs of goPri3"
cipled ta6lion are now seen to stand. Could privet*
interests, could public convenience, could arraPge'
ments, could delicacies, could attention (we are ire*
to say where they were most due) have
sentiment and feeling, we should not novt'
have to deplore one of those irresistible ebullitions of
perhaps mistaken honour—but ever British, and ever
overcome
necessary in Monarchical Govern Governments,
„ of
which
honour is the fundamental, moral, and guardian prin-
ciple : we should not have to lament the individual
act ; but neither should we be able_to spew at one
stroke,'how base, how vile, how unfounded, and
malignant, have been those long and wicked
artifices by which Government has been caricatwe4
to the people, as a Partnership, a League,
or Corpo-
ration, only_true to one another, for the purpose 01:
deceiving the community at large.
The unfortunate event which has taken place,

shews that however causeless -and unfounded,
British Statesmen will not endure the slightest re'
fleaion upon their purity, their conduct or charaaer.
from the mouth of persons of honour (not eve°
their own friends, colleagues, and associates) 3 ail('
that the habitual contempt with which they are
obliged to disregard the illiberal and false imputations
of low and ignorant writers cannot efface from their
sensibility, the quickest sense of the slightest insinn,
ation, from generous and noble minds.
We shall conclude these brief reflections with
merely appealing to the memory of those who
find
a subject of triumph in the unfortunate (anti voci
have reason to believe momentary) dt,sensiiin be'"
tween Lord CASTLEREAGIA and Mr. CANNING; Wile;
ther or not it be -true that the late Marquis rt
LANSDOWNE fought a duel; whether Mr. Fos totign'd
a duel and whether Mr. PITT fougia a duel s
it they should remember any of tlies2 circuM.sl3ll".,!
which caused some noise in their day, we would ask
what is there eNtraor,,linary in any sense, and what,.
to them, useful, or available .to them in a politic +l
sense, that two Members retiring from the present
Cabinet should, fr.m the same wounded tedn,g,
have had recourse to the same prescribed (nut ti-
bappy and siritly speaking) unjos.tinable 4Ped.Y