The Sun.
London, England, 1807-05-09 00:00:00

NAVAL NEWS.

Y:EIrsOARL:h4II,f.EAT.

M'imbEns ELECTEL.

PLYMOUTH, MAY 7.—Arrived this morning the
dight Sloop of War, of 18 guns, from •Alexan=
dria ; she brings intelligence of the Capture'of that
Plce, on the 19th March, by the 'troops under the
command of Lieut. General FRAZER, consisting of
5°.06 men. The troops landed on the 18th, and
\vete opposed hi getting on shore, but so. feebly, that
°llly three of the British Troops were killed. There
was only one Line of Battle Ship at' the Capture,
with softie Frigates and Gun Brigs: On the Loth
seven Sail of the Line of *British. Men of War at-
lilted there, but their names are not mentioned.--
The Delight left Alexandria on the 2gtli March,
touched at Messina, and sailed thence thL Bth of
April ; left Admiral COLLINGWOOD'S Fleet, off Ca-
diz. seven days since, all,well.
Arrived the Raven
,Sloop of War, with the out-
ward-bound Lisbon Fleet, under convoy, put in by
contrary winds.
Sailed the Pickle Schooner, with a Fleet under
convoy, for the Downs.

EYTBSBtJKY—Lord Viscount
.Fit tharris ; dhatl6

Moore, Esq.
OXFORD UNIVERSITY—Sir \VIIE6 Scott ; Righ

Honourable' Charles Abbott.
Bulty ST. EDNIUNDS.—Lord Charles Fitzroy ; Lord
Viscount Templetown,
WIGAN-a-Robert Holt Leigh ; John Hodson, Esqrs,.
NEW RADNOR—Richard Price, Esq.
HEREPoßD—Colonel Symonds ; Richard Scuda-

more, Esq. .-
WEOBLY—Lord George Thynne ; Lord Guernsey.
WINCRELSEA-Sir F. Fletcher Vane, Bart. ; Cal-

verley Berwicke,. gsq.
RYE-Sir John Nicholl •;. the Earl of Ctnoa4.
6=3:mm3—Hon. T. C. OnilO ; Hon. C. Nor.
ton.

ASHBUILTON—Lord Charles Bentinck ; Walter Palk,
Esq.
LICHFIELD—G. Anson, Esq.; G. G. V. Vernon,
Esq.
HYTHE—William Deeds, Esq. ; Thomas Godfrey,
Esq,.
HtGHAM FERRERS—The Right Honourable Win.
Windham. , •

PORTSMOUTH, MAY B.—Arrived the Diana Fri•
.gate, Captain MALING, from Cork, having on boar 4

Admiral Lord GARDNER ; on which occasion •a
Salute was fired from the RoyellTilliam ; His Lord-
-6144 on account of the bad weather, does not land
tilA;to7rnorrow ; also L'Espoir Sloop of Wai, Capt.
.PP.g, from. Plymouth.

Sailed the Blossern Sloop of Wai, Capt. PIGGOT,
for Leith:

rAomirra, MAY 6.—Arrived His Majesty's
811$ Renard, from Portsmouth, with five Vessels
Under Convoy to the Mediterranean, having parted
from the remainder in thick weather.

SEMERXESS, MAY 6.----Came down from the
40wer, and sailed again immediately, the .Deptford
Tender,
Lieut. ANTRAb4, with Volunteers and Im-
pressed Men for the Fleet.

- ---- -----
Arrived the Swift Sloop of War, Capt. WRIGHT)
itorrt Heligoland, and Minx Gun-brig, Lieut.-P.
04ANDERSTEN, from the North Sea.
Ma' 7.—" The Hindostat of 50 guns, Captain'
tioNvEN, was this day paid.
Came into Harbour the Urgent Gun-brig,..Lieut.
111013 Y,
'MAY 8.,--The Spy Sloop of War, Capt. HUDSON,
made the signal for convoy to the Baltic.

DEAL,• MAY s.—Arrived His MajestO Ship Des-
'ate, from a crnize ; and the Zebrizs from Ports-
'rnotlth,,with a convoy, which are sailed for the
also the Apdlo, HENRY, from Jamaica ; and
the Susan and Sarah, from Gallipoly,

THE THEATRE.

Covent-Garden.
A new Opera was produced last night at this
11,,.eatre, under the title of Peter the Great ; or, The
*-I:±oden Walls.

CASTLE RISING—The Honourable Charles Bagot
Richard Sharpe, 14',q. • • . - :•
•
Btsnops CASTLE-7-Wrin. Clive,. Esq. general. Ro-
binson.
EAST GRINsTRAn--Sir Nathaniel Holland, .:Bart=;
Charles Rose Ellis„Esq. •
ROCHESTER--The Election here terminated yes-
terday in favour of Sir T. B. Titompsow, Bart. and
JOHN CALCRAFT, Esq. Sir THONIASTRIGGE, K. B
betn the unsuccessful Candidate. The new-elected
Members were chaired round • the ancient City.of
Rochester, the one in a triumphal car formed
to represent a boat, and the other in a landau,
with flags expressive of the principles'under which
they were 'severally chosen. Perhaps in the whole
Of the approaching Ele&ions, what is termed i he Go-
Vernment Candidates will not 'have to encounter so
potent an Opposition as at this place—an opposition
founded on the very excellent and aMiable charaaer
given to Mr.. CALCRAFT by all that know him; as
well as. acknowledged with unbounded liberality by
his good and gallant Competitors, and the great
local interest he possessed, having been born and
brought up in the vicinity.—At the close of, the con-
test th,e Poll stood thus—
Sir T. B. Thompson, Bart. 38,1.
John Calcraft, Esq. - - 3(i2
Sir T. Trigge, K. B. - 306

novttz.—State of the Poll Third Day—
Jenki nson - - - 739
Pierrepont - - - 535
Jackson
MAIDSTOgE, MAY 7.—State of the
Mr. Simpson - -' ;. 356
Mr. Loinginan 326
Sir W. Geaty - - - 324

LivzKroot..—State of the Poll Fir,t Day.
General Tarleton - 2gg
General Gascoyne -2.5 g
Wm. Roscoe - - 11 t
SHREwsßutiv.—State of the Poll First Day.
Hon. W. Hill - - 62
Hon. H. G. Bennett . 40
Thomas Jones, Esq. - 39
YARMOUTH—State of the Poll First Day.
Hon. E. Harboard 337
S. Lushington, Esq. - - 303
Wm. Jacob, Esq. - 136

CHARACTERS.
Peter the Great, Mr. C. K etts LE.
Le Fort. - . , Mr. BELLAMY.
.MaUrltZ, • - • Mr. MUN DEN•
Count Menzikoff, - Mr. POPE.
Sparrowitz, . . Mr. SI mmoNs.,
Olmuti, Mr. WADDY.
Petrowits, . Mr. MOice.A Y.
Michael Petrowite, • Mr. Nettooll•
Vaulina, Miss Bo LTON.
Genevieve, - • •• Mrs. 134,P0RT.
Catherine, - . Mrs. C. KEMB LE.
Shipwrights, Huntsmen, Haymakers, &c.
if this Play were founded upon historical truth,
would be needless to detail the Plot, as it would
doubtless be known to all our Readers ; but indeed
it requires some ingenuity to form a Piot at all out
of the 'strange mass of scenes that were
‘presented
last night; which had little, if any, connexion with
each other, and which certainly did not tollow each
other in a regular and interesting series. Peter the
Great is introduced as a Ship-builder ; not in the SECOND DAY.
country where he adopted that charader, but in his At the close of the Poll yesterday the numbers
own. He is drawn froth the fancy of the Author, were—
not on the faith of history ; and though he is re re- • For Lord COCHRAN& • ' - 326
Mr. ELLIOT • 270
Rented as a very respe&able chara&er, he is made to Sir F. ItuRDET ..
T _ 213
.dppear much more soft and amiable than any account ' Mr. SHERIDAN
of him will warrant. But it" is useless to enter into Mr. PAuLt.
29
a rigid examination of any part of a piece that is ' Mr. SHERIDAN came forward and recommended
altogether so little entitled to critical notice -.Or silence and good humour to the crowd (noise and
public approbation. It is dull, vapid, -and heavy disapprobation). There could not, he said, be a
throughout, or rather it would have been so; but stronger prUof of a bad cause, than a retrial to ;hear
I.."the efforts of the Performers, who took as its adversaries. During the whole of the late cori-
,lMtieh pains as if they had been employed on a test, he had always kept his temper, and he imeant
,rOitlPtisition from the best of our dramatic writers, to do so now. But if the EleCtion were to be car-
iz..."-° the AL:ling and Singing, we must
_indeed tied by noise, he had it in his power to bring people
j„:l,7"likilly attribute the success which attended to make a noise too. He was not discouraged- at
‘4ll4'weryindifferent production, and the Author is the state of the poll, because it had generally been
under very great obligation to Mr. and. Mrs. C. his fate to struggle with difficulties and great ma-
MONDEN, INCLEDON, BELLAMY, and jorities; and he had been obliged to struggle against
rat's. Mrs. C. lizaittLE was peculiarly deserving of difficulties, because he had always made it a point
commendation for the excellent manner in which to support the cause of the people of England. , He,
She supported the part of Catherine, and for the was not personally opposed to any of the Candidates
taste and expression with which sbe gave the Songs. —lie wished them all well ; but he hoped he should
AIurIDENT was highly humourous in a Song about be allowed to say a word about each. 29,,5. to -Sir
lieynard the Fox, which had, however, little rela- f Francis Burdett, it ought to be recolht&ed, that he
tion to the charaCter or to the piece. never took a step in Parliament for the benefit of the
The Music was composed by Mr. *YOU'VE. It was people, but he stood at his side. Mr. Elliot during
pleasing in parts, but had nothing articular to re-• the late Ele&ion had certainly been friendly to him,
corrimend. it on the whole. BELLAMY sung with i and therefore he could, have no personal dislike to
great taste as well as science, and was much ap- As to Lord Cochrane, though it might hurt
Plauded. I his own interest in the contest, he should despise
Some of the Russian scenery was picturesque, but F himself if he refrained from expressing his opinion.
the procession at the end of the Piece, and the alle- He knew there were some who thoaglit that a
gorical transparencies introduced (though well paint- NaVal Officer was an unfit person to be their Re-
ed), Constituted but a poor speelacle. presentative. He was afraid he must soon lose the
This *era, according to report, was written by I applause which his last words had excited, But he
Mr. CHERRY, a well-meaning and an industrious denied that a Naval Officer was an unfit person.
man; but who certainly was not intended by Nature Lord Hood had been his colleague, and no prospect
to gain laurels in the field of Literature. of present advantage could make him disavow the
The House was well attended, and great appro. sentiments which he had maintained on a tbrrner oc•
bation was the order.of the night when the Piece casion. The representation of "Westminster was
kas announced for repetition on Monday; but a sort of Peerage which. would be properly conferred
thoZigh it mar linger a low nights, it must soon ex.. on meritorious Naval Officers. With regard In
PLe tor, ever. himself, he was already a Membet 44 Parliament,

WESTKINSTER.-At One o'Clock, the Poll for this
day stood as follows :
Lord Cochrane - - - 102
Mr. Elliot
Sir F. Burdett - - - - 55
Mr. Sheridan - - - - II
Mr. Paull - - - - • g

WESTMINSTER ELECTION.

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but it isras his anibitiOn tk &shit into Parliament in the
Mat perfect state of independence ; and.that
pendence the City of Westminster could confer.
He wished both Sir. Francis Burdett and Mr. Paull
-well, but behad been applied to by many respectable
persons who had Supported Mr. Paull. The applica-
tion was not made, however, till after the event s,rhich
prevented the personal exertions of Mr. Paull, and he
thought it 'unmanly and mean to take advantage of his
Bitdation, and therefore Said he would not-come for-
ward till he saw a public declaration from Mr. Patin
-that he had resigned his pretensions. Flaying seen
that public resignation, he said that he WOuld cowrie
forward. Yesterday he understood that Mr, Paull.
-had been proposed ; but having found that those
friends who had applied to hiM had acted fairly and
.bonourablys .he would still stand the contest, and did
not fear the poll. Many stories had been circulated.
about him : one was, that be had betrayed the City
to Lord Percy and the Duke of Northumberland, the
falsehood .of which had been sufficiently proved:-=-
Another objection to him was, that he was a place-
man—that objection, to the, great joy of some of
them, bad been -removed. It had been said, that
he was...careless about his own affairs; he had -not,
pethaps, always attended to them with all the nicety
that might have been requisite; but, however, a
friend had undertaken to endeavour to set them in
order.' 'He -had been 27 years in Parliament, and
had held an office:for one year, and for that office it
turned out that he was about teool. poorer than be-
.tore. Ile had his Consolations 'however, in retiring
from Office, that he defied any one to point out any
single inatance, during the 27 years he had been in
Parliament, where he had given a vote against the
people.- He :retired without pension,. place, or re-
- version -of any sat, and he had this consolat ion; that
if he had been of little istility in office, he bad re-
tired without being a burthen to.the public. 'He had
always stood up for the HabeaS COrpus Act, for the
liberties of the people, and for everything that ought
to be dear to them ; and this much he wust.say for
himself, compared with the A/ew Candidates, that
with :regard to him they had experience instead of
experiment, practice instead of professions, and ads
instead of promises'. He concluded •by saying, that
the price was not on earth that could make him
swerve from his principles and his. devotion to the
cause of the people.
Lord COCLIRXIIE then stepped forward. With
regard to the pretensions of the Candidates the tiec-
tors must judgefor themselves-. . They had certainty
had no experience of him asa Memberof Parliaruenz ;
all that he could givethem was a pledge', and they I nust
look to his general charader-as a security. He wished
again to call their attention to what had been said
respeding the unfitness of Naval Officers ao serve iu
Parliament. He repeated', that it was impossible thit
persons of any other description could give the proper
information as to the state of the Navy. Parliament
ought to -be composed of persons of all classes, that
the interest of all Might be attended to. From the
changes' of system in, the ,Navy, Officers who
had retired could not be better acquainted with
the' actual 'state of the Navy at different periods,
than any .of them who had never been sat sea.
There had been
.systems-of tyranny and abuse
in the Navy.—He did not set himself up. as a
professed' reformer, but he wished to be armed. with
power to say to Ministers, " such abuses exist—
reform them." If they reftised, he pledged him-
self to bring them before Parliament. It would not
answer .his purpose to come in for a trifling Borough.
Scandalous praEtices prevailed in the eledions for
many of these ; but what did they think of a traffic
in Naval Commissions with borough agents ? If none
else had the courage or public spirit to tell of these,
things, he had. He wanted to be returned to Par-
liament by a numerous body of free and independ-
ent Men. The seat alone was not his.objed ; it
was an easy thing to get into Parliament ; - but he
who was returned. only for a rotten borough, when
he rose to's speak must feel is if he had . a dirty
shirt. If he should be. returned for Westmin-
ster, his endeavour would he to restore the Con-
stitution to its original purity, and he pledged him-•
self to support inquiries into abuses, and every pro-
posal that should be for the benefit of the nation.
He' hoped that that they would exert themselves to
send. men of integrity. into.Parliarnent, far what sig-
nified. abilities without integrity. It
.might require
ability to conceal the badness 01 a cause,
:but it re!-
Oired little talents to prove a truth.. He had spent
his life in their servicee--if they should now enable
him to serve them in another way, it wouldTbe his
study to do his duty. . .
Mr. JEstsaisiOas would not make-any professions on
the part of Sir Francis Burdett—the people knew
that in him they might repose the most perfed con-
fidence. He begged of them .to use every exertion.
to secure his return,- and thereby to serve them-
selves. They 'would never find him voting with Go-
vernment against.the interests of the People, and when
he rose it would be always to protect them and pro-
mote their sveltare. He did not wish to say any thing
respeaiug the other Candidates, but heeould not help
touching upon what had fallen frem. one of them,
about the_fitness of Naval OfficerS: They deserved
well of their Country undoubtedly, and if they had
the gifti sc.:ubiquity-L.-if they could be in two -places
at the 'arrie .time, he would be Willinss that'they
should!be Members of the: House of Commons: But
it ought to he recolleded that the attendance of in-
dependent Officers might be particularly wanted at
times when they -could not be present 'in Parlia-
ment ; it ought to be recolleaed, that the reso-
lution against Lord Melville was only carried by a
single Yoice.., The Noble Lord (Cochrane) must be
sensible, that'on similar occasions, however just and
sound his principles might be, he might be absent.
However, he had no scruple to 'say, that he would
much rather-give his vote to the. Noble Lord than
to Mr. Elliot, who, to say the least of it, was com-
pletely untried. He could not conclude without
putting them on their guard against the cry of
" No Popery," which had been industriously raised
by the Ministers. When he recollected that under
.a
. clamour about " The-King and Constitution," the
Habeas corpus Act had been suspended about seven
years—that the Treason and Sedition 'Ads had been
passed, and multitudes confined in dungeons with-
out remedy—when he recolleded theSe things- he
Could not but be alarmed, lest some new right of
the people was to be invaded, when be heard the
cry of "No Popery." This-cry was raised by the
Ministers merely to serve their own crooked pur-
poses.He concluded by observing, that the stare
of the Poll ought to Alarm them fig. themselves.

&ital..' bald, that h'6 Wouid r(.4ve tl a athe'r
Candidates to the Elea-tors'. As fir hithselt, rt‘e de'-
clared on his hotionr that his principle's ‘7eri corn"-
pletely independent. He defied any one to point
out how he .WaS•depender)t., or how he could be de:-
pendent.—He Was, indeed, dependent on their
favotir. He had resided among than
.fot ti,venty
years, and had never before come fOrWard in any
public chataeler ; Out he trusted that Ms conduti
had been such aS to entitle him to some confirm
deice frOm the EleaorS.

Mr. GIBBONS then spoke in behalf of Mt% PAULL;
but in so low a tone, being apparently hoarse, that
we could not coned what he said.

The crowd, notwithstanding the rain, was as nu..
merouS as usual, and as noisy : but hitherto a much
greater degree of order and decency has prevailed oti
all hands than 'tiering the late Election.