The Sun.
London, England, 1807-02-25 00:00:00

SOUTH SEA COMPANY.

On the motion of Lord TEsri.on, the House re-
solved itself into a Committee on the ‘South Sea
Trade Bill. Counsel being declarod to be in attend-
ance on the part of the South Sea Company, Mr.
CRIPPS moved that they be called in. This pro-
duced N avery long cliseussion.
Oushe one hand, it vas contended by Lord TEM-
PLE, Mr: JACOBS, Mr. COttltY, Mr. COURTENAY,
and Mr. W. WYNNE, that no case had been made
out to prov 4 the necessity of the delarWilich the
bearing, of Counsel must occasion. Tie Petition
from the Soul h-Sea Company did not state, nor could
it be stated-, that they sustained any injury from.the
'Bill. Without 'a clear proof of injury
.could be
strewn, they were not entitled to be heard by Coun-
sel. Their charter had been granted to their with
this express limitation, that they should trade to the
possessions of the King of Spain alone, as was de-
monstrated by the exceptions in that Charter. One
million and a half. of British property was at stake,
the seourityof *which depended on passing the Bill
with promptitude ; for if any of the valuable Ships
that had been freighted ,to Btlends-TAyres should
chance to ,be lost before the Bill should be 'so.
pas'sed, the Underwriters would not be tesPonsible.
The Bill had been brought in with the consent of
the Company; for when it was first discovered that
the voyages to South Ainerica were illegal, his Ma-
,iesty'g' Ministers had thought it their duty to bring in
a Bill in order to render them ln December
'ast a Draft of the Bill was sent to the'oll:44Ors of
the South Sea- Cdmpany, for their opinion, anci, in
January a Committee of the DireCtors.attended,,the
Privy Council; when a discussion of the principle of
the -Bill took place: Several alteration'Oftrgsted by
the Directors were agreed to by the Privy Cciuncil,
and the DireEtors then signified, their approbation of
the Bill, of which the Bill then before the HoUse
was a Copy, word for word, with the exception of
those changes of expression which the re-capture of
Buenos Ayres required. If any claim could here-
after be made out for compensation, the justice of
the House would induce them to listen. to such
claim with the attention which its-merits demanded.
On the other baud it was maintained by Mr.
Cannes, Sir T. TosToN, and Mr. H. THORNTON,
that the Petitioners ought to be. heard by. Counsel,
end that the Petition could not throw any obstacle
in the way of the Plans of Government, or the Corn.
coerce of the Country. The Diretlorrof the South
Sea Company had a great duty to fulfil. They were.
the guardians of the property 'of the holders of their.
stock to the amount of above 26,000,0001. The
statement made on a late evening, that • for

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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25) 1807.

LAST night Mr. JACKSpN, brother to the ltite
Minister*at the Court of Berlin, arrived in Town with
Dispatches from Lord UpTclilt,iSON, at Konigsburgh.
Mr. WYNNE, and Mr. \VAGSTAFF, the Messenger:,
also arrived this morning at the. Foreign Office. The
particulars of the _Dispatches which have been teceived
have not yet transpired, but we feel great sqtisfac-
tiOn in being ,able to, state that they are of a very fa-
vonrable nature. •

Wit Err we. yesterday expressed our doubts of the
truth of the report of the complete defeat of the
French Army, as stated in the Letters from Yar-
mouth, we did so because the report came in-an un-
official way, and beeause we knew that-one part of
the report, viz. that the Turks had joined the Rus-
sians, was untrue. It appears, however., by accounts
which•reached town last night, that the battle at
Mohringen, on the .25th ult. which the. 55th Bul-
letin represented as having terminated' in the defeat
and flight of the Russians, in faa ended in the die-
feat of the French. Of this fact, the. Official Ac-
counts, - -
whiCh we this day, lay, before. our Readers,.
is, we think, decisive evidence ; and indeed the
French accounts themselves, if examined minutely,
lead to the same inference. It appears that the
French Generals BERNAneTT4 and INTex intended to,
form a junCtion, and that the Battle of Mohringen
frustrated that intention. It is therefore obvious
•that even if the French were not defeated, to
the extent stated in some of the accounts, they
had at least much the worst of the Battle, be-
cause they were not able to effea . the °hi -ea they
had in view. It will be recolleCled„ that'll the 54th
Bulletin, the advance and retreat of General NEy's.
Division is mentioned in a very vague manner. It
is said that General Nay, having advanced with se-
veral Battalions, the Russians took the alarm, and
made a. movement to the ;right, and that General
NEY had effected his retreat without any. toss. It is
clear thaiNali did not advance inerely to retreat again .
He must have had some objed in view, and that oh-
jea, whatever it might he, was frustrated by the Bat-
tle of Mohringen. It is_positively asserted, in all the
accounts brought by the Mail which arrived last
night, that the KING of PRI/SSIA had, in conse-
quence of the success of the Allies, returned from
Memel to .K:onigsburgh. It is also stated, that
the Allies have advanced to the Vistula, have taken
•
poSsession of Cohn and Alatienwerder, and have 1
compelled the French to raise the Siege of Granclen tz. 1,

The following,is an account of the of 'Moll-
tingen, extra&ed from the Abeille du gear, of Feb.
13 : It is stated to -hAvebeen published officiidly, at
Elbing, on the 2gth -January :
" Marshal 13.ERTiADOT4g was defeated.
ringen, on the 26th January, with the loss of 4000
men, 10 pieces cannon, and two eagle. The.
remainder of his,'Z'Orps is completely surrounded; and
It was the intention of .the Allied Army to bring on
a general engagement,

‘‘ Accounts from Warsaw, of the Q9th ult. state°,
that many of the French trorps have re-crossed the
Vistula, to take up witiler quarters in, S.,4sia.. •

."1"11e KING OP PRUSSIA bad returned to Ko-

nii;sburgh, His troops took possession of Marien:

welder, and the Russians of Cultn 3 they also raised
the siege of Graudentz."

If the following Private Letter, brought by the
Mail, may be relied upon, BONAPARTE has completely
failed in his attempts to seduce the KING of SWEDEN
from his engagements with the Allies. Indeed it
was not to be supposed that a Prince of such high
honour as the KING of SWEDEN would seriously
listen to the disgraceful propositions of BONAPAETE.

EXTRACT OF'A PRIVATE LETTER FROM ALTONA.

FEB. 13.
" By most respeCtable private advices from Stock-
holm, via Copenhagen, under date the gth ink. it
applars, that BONAPARTE has been indefatigable in
his attempts to make his Swedish Majesty renounce
his .alliances. MORTIER was his principal agent in
these dark and insidious negotiations; in which NA-.
,POLRON promised to reward Swedish perfidy with
Norway,. whiCh belongs to Denmark, With which.
Power the French feign to be on such a friendly.
footing. Thosp base terms were patiently . heard
and transmitted to the Court of Malmoe,. but
only verbal, the Swedish Cabinet sent orders to.:llave
thin'ffti Writing, which request was also Corniiited
with. .

• g':'• Hereupon the Swedish .Monarch sent copes of
the perfidious offers not only to thecourtsin
once with him,' but even to his neighbour,
.thelli-
nish Court,,who ,will now plainly perceive.wharivii.
tfl be the friend of such a being .as 14citqatimer8.—*
Suffice it to say, that the terms were scornfully.re-
jeaed by the Swedish Monarch, who sent .for"
saver the followinglaconic lines :-,;7cf Jamai.o de ina
vie je cPviendreti d'un brio and canune you:: 1"...-
I shall never in my life become the ally of sucb a
robber as youl". This anecdote is authentic,' and
comninnicated.from a most,unexceptionable Source.
Not only with. Sweden, but even with the Emperor
of Oertnany, NArOLE'7!N uses the same Piabolicali 41-
trigues of State, but wiih as little: success.
" By respeCiable private advices from Vienna, of
the Ist instant, the Hungarian army was arrived, in
great part, over the Carpathian mountains, on the
confines Qf oalicia and all the temptations; and
alluring baits; held out by the great despoiler of mo-
rality and mankind, are rejeaed by the Austrian
Court; 4s the latter has paid up all the.arrears of
the:ContribUtions due to the French, the fortress' of
i3ra.nnau will, it it said, he deliVered up again.

I.‘ private accounts are said to have reached Vienna
from'Cracow, that the Austrian General, Baron Vis-
c4NT, i 5 one from Wars'aw to St. Petersburgh. The
cxchatige:of c2c,uriers between Warsaw, Petersbtr;gl),
and MeineLs were more brisk than ever. Orders
from NAPpLEOI.I have been sent to the interior of
France, as well as to, the.confederate German Courts,
end troops to Italy where great apprehensions
are entertained of a visit from the Russians."
Thtors OF:VIE ELBE, FEB. 12,—,-Private Let-
ters from Dan4ic, of the 31st of January, speak of a
battle, which took place on the 25th, at •Mohringe,n,
in East Prujsia, it which the Russian General, M.
I).'A6'ir:lA, was ktlleg. According to these I.q4er-s,
there were at Elbing, on the ctst 'January, a French
corps of from 2 tp, 30,0 Q, men, which set. out .on the
I!,tth, for Holland,. to rejoin the, division of which it
formed a part ; the bridge of Thorn has been-car-
ried away 4y the ice. Gen. Vre•rOtt, who was madd
prisOner .by a patrole near colberg, had arrived at
Pautzic. Ills Prussian Majesty, with all his family,
is returned to AC.onigsburgh. .

Other. intelligence lam D,antzies agree-%
game fad, that on the 21i,th an. important battle i.wvA
fOukht. at Mohringen, between the French.,
ans, and Prussians, at the co elusion of which the
Vrussians occupied Marienwerder, .the. Russians
Culm, and the Blockade of Graudentz 'was, rai.sed.,
At A.M.ohcingen he Russians seized the contributions.
which had been imposed on the City of Elbingen,'
by the French.' The king of Prussia had, returned
hum 114 ripl to K.lOO lip burg .

BANKS OF THEMAIV, 7,-77A., great num-
ber of, French ttloops.4.e proceeding by forced
p.
marches to Italy : it i„aid that some troops of the
Confederation of the Rine will take the same route.

-The Frankrnirt Journal says " The Court of Vien-
na having paid the contiributions ;hat were required
by France, bad applied to the Emperor NAPOLEON,
that the fortress of Brannau might be evacuated by
the French troops. Four Regiments have already
received orders to march towards Upper Austria, to
take possession of that fortress."

FROM A PRIVATR lATTER FROM ALTONA, FEB. 13.
It.appears that after the battle fought between
the Aussians and .French, on the asth,ult, at Moll=
ringen, in which. the French were far from be'aig.
visaorious, the 'Russians retreated to get more:rein-
forcements, and returned- to the field on the 26th
ult., when they attacked the French left wing, under
PoN'tt., Coiwo, at Mohringen, and completely
routed and repulsed it. 00n this occasion, the con-
trityation in money, which BERNADOTTE bad raised
111 fell into the bantis of the viaters.

" Unfortunately, the Russian Lieut. Gen,
lost his life in the first battle a,t‘rohritlen. 4
the plan of the French, who were absolutely with-
out provisions, to proceed strait to Konigsburgh and
every other part of ifrussia. For this purpose REP
NADOTTE, at, the head Of 3000 men, bad ..entered.
Elbing already en the gist, while the rest )of th,
• 'A • -
French left Wing endeavoured to turn the right,of .tht
.0 • ,
combined' Russians. and Prussians, in which, -how-
ever, they completely failed.

" BERNADOTTE suffered not only a great defe'at at
Mohringen, but the Russians pursued him farther.
Marshal NEY came to his assistance, but met with
the same brave reception; and the two French corps";
who were to. have turned the Russians, found their
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whole left wing turned by the combined effOrts of
the Prussians, who are stated to have followed- 'up
their advantages ; insomuch, that the whole left
wing of the French was, cut off froth every comma-
nit ation with the Grand Army on the 27th alt.•••
The French raised the blockade of Graudenti .
with the utmost precipitation ; while the Prussians,
&mit one quarter transferred the-theatre of war, with
'their Allies,' from East to West and South Prussia,,
••
since the former occupied Marienwerder, and Out
-latter Culrn, at the distance of a few English miles '
frdin ThOtin,
The linssians followed the flying Enemy, whb
fel/ back as far as the Vistula.; where, however, all
.tlie'bridges were broken and dragged aWay ,by the
.thawing shoals of ice. :the news of a battle may, •
therefore, be hourly expeaed.
Marshal KAAPNSK9Y, with the Russian' Grand
.Army, was, also saidito be advancing from Byalis-
tOck; Ostroienka:g6mhich places the French had
evacuated, for want of necessaries to make a diversion.
A number of Couriers whp passed through Frank-
fort-on the nighbe;f the 6th inst. were all to demand
the Acceleratio of the arrival of the Conscripts, anti
.other troops.

" general VICTOR, whq is arrived a prisoner at
Dantzic, will, it is said, be transported to St..Pe-
ter'sburgh, at the express request of the Emperor
AtEXANDEB.

' "The news. of Count EENSTORFF, Danish Prime
Mini.4ter of State, having received the Grand Cross
of the Legion of Honour from NAPOLEON,
tbundation.

" The c.3oinrnanclant7,9f Ilrannau has sent to War,
saw, `to receive instru6tions whether he should sur-
render that Fortress, at the desire of tile Austrian

The following'List of the Staff of the South-
American Army is handed about in military circlei'
Probably it is not quite corre&
Commander in Chit
Sgt h reg.
Becohdih Command Major-Gen. aati•er, b3d
Brigadier-General Ackland: Foot Guards
' • Bereslord, 88th reg,
Sir S. Achimury, 'loth Fu:.:
Lord tilayney, 59th reg.
Crauturd, 67th
Assist ut
an y
tdAdjutant-General Lieut.-Col. forrens,B9th req.itto Major Trotter, 83d'
Dep. Quarter-Master-general Major Pritzler, 7th Feet
Assistant ditto Major Tucker, ;act Foot.
inspector of tiosptals Dr. Gordon
Deputy Commissary-General Major Lindsay
Capt. Hall, otthe 89th, is appoiented one of the Aids,cla-
Camp to Gcneti,l Whitelocke. .• •
Thu Payrnaster-Cieneral, Military Secretary, Majors or
Brigade, and sonic of the Aid's,-(lkt-Garnp are not yet ap-
pointed.
.The'B9th Aegiment, commanded by Lord BLAY-
NEI', as as the Trooti of I-lorse Artillery,, were
0 Monday en barlced at Portsmouth. The baggage
of the .C6lnmander in Chief was likewise setit on
board the same day, from the Isle of Wight: Urriker
art..oiEcer of such aelivity arid enterprize as General
WAririLooKE, we are confident there will be no,
delay. Detachments and recruits for the 28th, 40th,
4,7 th, •83d, 'B7th, and 88th, were 011 Mo,lldaY
„ .
cna-
barked .for South America.

. .
The. Army of South America will consist of
The Royal Engineers and Artificers, a Detachment.,
Th'e 126yal Horse Artillery; I 'Croon." • '
The Royal Artillery, 4 Cumiianies.
The 9th tight, Dragoons, counnanceed by
Lieut.
Ccooll.. A
DI zahvoit:
17th Ditto; -- Lieut. Col. Lloyd. i
• aoth Ville' 6 Troops, -. Major Blake.
list L/i MO ,) 2. Troops, -
Co
.
sth 1.p.4,.2 • ---„,
soth Fopt, ----- _______
,i3urne
'Bth FOO' -- ' •

5.................. Vassal.
'3 'l '- •
40th Foot, ----- ------ Browne.
4stli Foot,;--- -7-----7. Guard.
47th Foot, -7-- BA ckhouse?
54th Flaw.; Companies ----- 7 -----,-7----
tst Foot,
.--. Lieut. Col. Pack.
4{34-Foot, Major Trotter.
87th Foot, --- Lt.Col.SirTZ.Butlet
8811 k:oct!‘ -:
.7-- .. Dud:

• 89th Foot;
.Lord 131ayney..
• 951.11 Rifle Corps, 5-Companies, Major•M•Leoc.
And a Detachment of th,,, ft uyal Waggon Corps.
We hear that a Field_Oilicer of the Royal Engr-
neers,.ds well as of the Artillery, will accompany
WHITELOCKE.

CITY BUSINESS.—A Court of Aldermen was bed
yesterday, at Pi.iildliall, at which the Lord May(r,
.16, Aldertneo,,. the ' Recorder, and City Officers,
were present. :The price of bread was ordered to
be raised half an ,assize, ora penny in the peck loaf,
whiCh.w.44 ako:plitce to-morrow, when the .quar -
tern loaf wli tsdi ?till be sold for Is. O,Ad. and liou t,:-
Ii
liQld 11.0., l;l4Xourt proceeded to determine the
appeals against: The assessments for tythes under the
Inetimbent Aikfur the parish ofSt. 'Peter, Cornhill.
.and,.after, liearing.
,the s.eye.r\i-tlas quashed,partie and a
saggriei.Ted,
naetii.
‘c
4v.150 Ihe-aSseisors, ;the rat 4 was
.One,ordered to.be_kuade. The Court agreed to pe-
tition the liouise.cof Commons on a Bill now' before
a Committee efi,the House, for regulating the tan-
riqrs,: and othei:dealers in leather, as relating to th,'
searchers and „sealers of leather in Leadenhall Mar.
ket, • , and a Petition being prepared, was ordered to
!...
heti/v-10 by tiviltavn Clerk, and presented by the
s.heiiffs,.- attlnzcilett:by the Remembrancer. The
Court!
.inA Magner, highly honourable to them, re-
ferred it to aOommittee of the whole Court to in..
quire into thk situation of the friends and relatives
of the unfortunate sufferers who lost their lives at
the execution in the Old Bailey on Monday last,
and also to inquire into the causes of that melancho
ly accident. .

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NAVAL NEWS.

From the LONDON GAZETTE, Feb. 24, ISg7.

Copy a Letter from Vice-Admiral Dacres, (OM-
inainler in C,Licf of His Majesty's Ships and res~
sets at Janiaica, to. Win. Marsden, Esq. dated .a 1
Port Royal, Jan. 1'2,1807.
•

I inclose to you, for the information ofthe Lcirds
Commissicnwrs of the Admiralty, a list or Men of
War and Armed Vessels captured by the Squadron
under my command between the Ist of January,
8-06, and the Ist of January, 1807.
I am, &c. J. R. DACRES.

[Here follows a list of Vessels Captured by the Squadron
between the Ist of !actuary. 1846, and the tst of January,
'lsey. The names of the Vessels captured have been already
'published. The list comprises 48 Vessels ;-of these 19 were
entneh. including 3 Brigs of 16 guns; 24 Spanish. including
S %fascia,* 56 guns, and a Brig of i 6 guns; and 5 Dutch,
Nor "Ai& were the Vessels captured at Curacoa.]
.44aaraltg-Oli,ce, Feb. 24, 1807.
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'City of a !Wier from Admiral Young, Conona,nder
Cliff of His Akijesty's Ships andA4.s.Fels at
flymouth, q IPn. Marsden, Esy. doted onboard
Me Salvador del Mundo, in Hamoaze, the 21st
instant.
SIR,

li-rewith I transmit a Letter which I have re-:
teived from Captain Carteret, of His Majesty's
Sloop Scorpion, acquainting me of the capture of
14 Bougainville French Privateer by that Sloop,
ivhieb I request you will lay before the Lords Com-
bissiunets of the Admiralty;
I have the Honour to be, &c.
W. YOUNG. •
Ills Majesty's Sloop Scorpion, Scilly, 11V. E.
SIR, Four Leagues, Feb. 17, 1807.
Yesterday evening, alter a long chace and a slight
.t.esistance, the Bougainville French Brig Privateer,
twenty-three days out from St. Maloes, having 16
guns and 93 men, was captured by this Sloop.
I ant, &c. PHIL. CARTERET.
To I7illiarz YOZ/71,,r, Esq. Admiral of the
Blue, Let. &c. &c.

PLYMOUTH, FEB. 23.—Arrived the Spanishiktg-
ger rev Tramaza, in ballast, captured by His Ma-
jesty's Ship Cowiance.
Arrived the John and Sally, WHEELER, the lie-
• robze, BERUT, and the Two Eliza's, DYER, all.from
Limerick, Wm with provisions for this Port.
Sailed the Tritune Frigate, of 36 guns, Rear.
tdmiral DE COURCY, to join the Squadron off
itochefort. Admiral -DE COURCY is to relieve
Hear-Adruiral HARVEY oil that station.
Arrived the Plover Sloop of War from i cruize.

korrsit?u+n, -FEB.' the Dapper
Gun-vessel froiti a cruize; and the Thisbe from St.
Helen' to Spiihead.

bromieddOwn lei St. Helen's the Cdpiain and the
'Ganges, of 74 gnria each, and the Curieux Guti-ves.
tor ; together with eleven or twelve East India WO
waiting a fair wind to proceed to sea:

Sailed the sheldrdke Sloop for Guernse3i.
Sir ERAS:4ns
,Govl-ila hoisted his Flag Ou lioata
the tedalas, of 32 guns, intending to Ptit td sea as
soon ds the wind pro es favourable.

Arrived the King George, Hoitsmititiog; frbm
North Yarmouth ; Groiso, Stun, from Lon-
don for St. Vincent, both with the loss of anchors
arid cables; alio the Ileisdy and 4Velly, Dtxr 9N;
from Sunderland; and the AmeriCan Ship Pi-c4E41,.,
INisroT, from Louddn, bound to ti.Q Canary Isladds,
both with damages;

FEB.SHEER ass,
23. --Game down fi:orri the
River, and andidred at the Ndre, tht Hindustan
ttore-slain.

FEB. L—Arrived upwards of 5(3i Sail of Ships for.
the River, which appear to be CoMel's; upwards of
twenty Sail are brought up between the Wore and
South Ent.
.... •

Airivod the Rosamond, a new Sloop of War; un-
der jury-mast, to be fitted foPCommislon.
Came into Harbour the Earnest Gun-brig.

EAI.., FEE. 24.—Arrived the Resolute
from Ireland, with a Convoy which are sailed fur
the River ; also Hi 3 Majesty's Ships Dauntless and
Arrow from Sheerness.

THE OrEaA.L--The serious Opera of ITRiforni)
Serse, in which Mrs. Btt.Ll NGTOSI appeared to so
time') advantage last season, was brought forwdrti
last night it the King's Theatre, and the heroine or
the. piece was assumed. by Madame CATALAN'.--.
There was a strong curiosity among the more intelli-
, gent part of the audience to compare the merits of
these two great performers in the same character.—
They are boil, possessed of very high talents, and
shall not enter upon the invidious task cif era-
):lrison. Indeed the songs, in general were chile=
reni, and therefore no comparison can properly be..
drawn. CATAL N X sung in her peculiar style,
A
With her accustomed ability, and aevittai
herself with .pre-eminent merit in the tow,.
Airs which were introduced on this °cos-
sion. 'l.l,se 'Air's. are principally scribed to
Frrta:tar, wnose .chat after as aMusician is deserv.
edly csteemCd, and whose composition.** always-
mari:ed by taste, elegance, and sentiment. As altt,
AC; MT.; CAT ALA NI was by no means less succepilli.
The recitatives were given with interesting emotion,
and in some of the situations she strongly affeded
the f(!clings. Signor Sraorrr did, not lend baisixY
powerf iissistante. A duet between CATALAN':
and 'lnca', which they both deserved great tip.
i~la;tso, was particiarly well received. TheTheatre
abounded iu Vi3itOl'S of the higher order.
is is to treat a very large party of his.
next with a miscellaneous enter-
ing of music, recitations, &rt. Scc. at
C.ILC in the Green Park. .