The Sun.
London, England, 1807-03-14 00:00:00

ROMAN CATHOLIC OFFICERS.

Lord HOWICK stated, that Tuesday was a day (St.
Patrick's Day) on' orhich it would be inconvenint'
for several,Membera to attend; and therefore moved,
that the second reading of the Roman Catholic Offi-
cers.' Bill should be • post poned from Tuesday to
Thursday.--..-Ordered.
The Royal- Marine Mutiny Bill and ..the: Mutiny
Bill were read a third time and passed. •
The Sugaf.Drawback. Bill, the Bahama Salt Bill,
and Paddintou Coal Bill, were reported, and order-
ed to be read a second time on Monday.
Mr. Gctocx reported from the TauntoirEle6tion
Committee, that the Sitting Members We're duly
eleCted, and that the Petition was frivolous and vex-
atious.

Lord TzmpLg moved, that the House should go
into a Committee on Monday, to consider the Duties
()n Oil and other Produce of Fish imported into Great
Britain.—Ordered.

The House-vent into a committee on the Malt

AO4.

Mr. VANSI,TTATiT stated that some improvement
on- ttfis subje& had been suggested by a Report on
the,:i:ble. That the Members might, however,
hay: ;au opportunity to consider this, he thought it
expe,fielit tttat the last Malt Duv Aa

Eliould be continued for one year lOaget. lie pit-,
posed 4 Resolution to that etlea.
The House resumed, and leave wattgiven to bring
in a Bill pursuant to the Resolution..
• Lord 'HENRY PETTY brought in ti" Bill for' charging
12,000,0001. of the Loan on the War'Faxes, and
providinc, a Sinking Fund, pursuant to the late Fi-
nance Plan.,--7Read a first, and ordered to be read a
second time on Tuesday next, and to be printed.
Lord HENRY PETTY also brought in a Bill for
altering and amending the Sinking. Fund Acts, .and'
making further provisions in them.—Read a first,
and ordered to be read a second time on Tuesday
next, and to be printed.

• • Mr. VANSITTART moved; that the House should, ,
on Monday, resolve itself into a otrimittee to con-
sider the Trade in Spirits in different parts of the
United Kingdom,--Ordered.'

Adjourned till Monday.

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I,OIVDON,
SATURDAY, MARCII 1 1807.

• A report was in circulation this morning, that in:
consequence-of a division of opinion in the Cabinet,
upon she now pending before the House of
Commons, restieeing the
,admission of Catholic into
the higherran ks of the,Army and Navy, a Noble Lord,
fortherly at thehead of the Administration,antl hold.
ing:a high Office in the present one, had resigned.
It' would not be proper for is at present to enter into
any observations on this subjea -but we are ena,
bled to state, positively, that the report of the re.
signatiton of the Noble Lord 4111,1dea to is without
foundation,. •

Ts intelligence hmught by Mr.PIERR FPOINT and
Mr. Elswortyn- is not.. of a later date than that
• brought by Mi.. VIcK,,, the Messenger. The next
accounts, howevef; we have little doubt, will inform
us that the French _have continued, their, retreat to
this side of the Vistula. If BONA/1.61TE bad suc-
ceeded in his late attack, he would not only
-.obtained posSession a the Russian- Magazine at
:-.Konigsburgh, but, he would: have.-cut off Genenil
BE.-sxtosEwfrotn the reinforcetnents which Were on,
theif March to'iorn him, and afterwards have been
a11e,5-perhaps, to beat them in detail.- it is net:
7.-ileref.ore surprising that 'he shty,ild haellerseVere4.
; so obstinately in hii .4ttacks „on. Qie 7th and
.t7lth, be-
cause a Victory' wc:l44,:hit.x.e. decided the 'fate of th 6
Campaign. But if the advantages which lie would
haVe derived from a.Vietoty wel:ogreat,, on the other
band the consequences of Ills Pefcat yaie, been most
disastrous. He llts..loSt, several of 'as._ most ;skill ul
• . •
tificers,' and 'iminense tiumbers of his. best an.ci
htaye4 Troops, and, what- is still more important;
• his Army must have-lost. tnuchof their Confidence,
"bOth in -their General and in themselves.

Sorne.private Letters have been received from the
Continent' which mention some vague rumours of
BAtles having been fought subsequen; to, the Rth,
in which the ftench were defeated ; and the report
of Austria having declared War against Franco has
also been received. No such accounts have reached
Government, and we have reason to believe that they,
are wholly unfounded. •

yesterday Her MAJESTY and the PRINCESSES'Ioured Lady C. FtNon with a visit.
princess CHARLOTTE of WALES dined, and spent
the evening with their .111,AJEsTIE$ on Thursday. •

It is reported that M'i. _AMAMI:4OT, the, British
Envoy at Constantinople,. has declared to the lAirtea
that this country will remain neutral as to the war
bet ween;Turkey and Russia,.p.rovided that the Forte
• forms no intimate connexion with France.
The., Extraordinary Expences of the Army, from
Dee.'2.s. 1805, to Dec 24, 1806., both inclusive,,.
amount to the sum of 3,81)8,9,99 I.
The Grants of 'Monies for the service of the year
endingian. 5, 1807, amounts t0,n,9652,2281. 15S..al d.

- . .
. The Emperor of Austialai givil a fresly-instance.
of an enlightened and benevolent mind in the Ukase
which has recently .been issued at St. Petersburghirr
Wimathe state, at d
.favour of Commerce. in order to, give more .con-,.
sideration - and distin6;tion to commercial. pursuits,
theVkase *recommends the establishment, ef Com-:
.rneroial Companies. It allows the Nobility to
be-
come-Members of the
.first and second classes of
Merchants, it being the nrsi°lls witho.fh thes two;
peror, to draw closer the 'ties between
;,,, ie. MerchantS
, descriptions, of his subjeas.
may even aspire to. the first . ofnc,s of. , 1
Measures are oven to be taken to preserve and
are to have the privilege of
' perpLitnate the nonle of the. most
.ernirtent Mer-
chants,
with thstinaton
appeareing :at cou,.t,,
• and traailanit them . to pus- . .
tcrity.
• -
Two extraordinary discoveries have recently been' _
made on the coast near Roscilly, about'2o' •mileS
from Swansea :, the tide oflate.having recededmucli -1
farther than usual, the wreck °fa vessel has appear;
ed, which was lost there about 50 years ago, and a
cast of iron wire was last week recovered. A short
distance from the-spotabout 12lbs. of Spanish dol-
lars and half dollars, of the date of 1625, have been
found amongst the sand, which are conjetured to
have tbrmed. part of the cargo of a rich Spanish ve,,-
sel from South America, called the Scandaroon ga'-
. ley, which was wrecked' on.tht part of the coast up-
.wards of a century. since.

The rupture between ilussia and the Po-rte, or
the apprehension, rather, that the energetic plea-
sures of the limner will completely 'frustrate the
.views i'vhich France has long had towards the
Turkish Provinces, appears to have much
,irritated
acid embarrassed BON.APARTE. A meeting
,of the
Senate lately took • place on the subjea, in which
a long letter from his Majesty the Emperor
was read. It will be seen by the following ex-
trad from it, that nothing- less than the complete
re-establishmetit of the French influence atConstan-
tinople, which necesarily excludes that of the Court
of St. Petersburgh; will satisfy him :
" Who could calculate the duration of the wars,
and the number of campaigns which must be made,
to repair the misfortunes which would result from
the loss of Const4ptinople : if the love of cowardly
repose, and the pleasures of a metropolis, should
predominate over the suggestions of a wise spirit
of precaution ? We should then leave to our pos-
terity a protraaed inheritance of wars and mis-
fortunes. Should the Greek Tiara display its tri-
umphant influence from- the Baltic to the Medi-
terranean, we should see, even in our time, our
Provinces attacked by .a crowd of fanatics and bar-
barians; and if, in this too lOng protra&ed confli6t,
civilized Europe should perish, our criminal indif-
ference would justly excite the complaints of pos-
terity, and would he marked with opprobrium in
the page of history.
" The Emperor of PERSIA, harassed in the inter'
• rior of his kingdom, as Poland was during a course
of sixty years, and as Turkey has been for the last
twenty years, and all produced by the policy of the
Court of St. Petersburgh, is animated by the same
sentiments as the Porte, has taken the same resolu-
tions, and marches in person to the Caucasus, to de-
fend his .frontiers. _ _ _

" In this state of things peace cannot be durable,
;unless it guarantees the entire independence of these
two great Empires ; and if by the unbounded inins,
ticeand ambition of our enemies the war should con-
tinue, our people by their energies and their
Jove for 'our person, prove themselves worthy of the
elevated destinies which will crown our labours, and-
can alone secure a long and solid peace to close the
present season of glory."

A Conscription, it is said, of °nein six of the
Youths at Hamburgh, from 16 years old to a certain
agei has been enforced by the French at that place
'Pith great severity. It is probable that similar at-
tempts to strengthen the French Armies will take
Place wherever French autheFty prevails. The con-
:''equeece will, perhaps, be more formidable to BON A-•
PARTE than he is aware of; for as the present war
is tarried on• merely for the gratification of his proud
ambitious spirit, a strong sentiment of revenge must
operate among all. who are forced to hazard their
Lives for the promotion of ..such an objeEt, which has
only a relation tOhiniseit. It is well known that
all but his minions would exult in his destruCtion ;
for except, them, every hand is against him. At-
tempts have lately „been made to destroy hini,
and many more will doubtless follow. It is
impossible that such a career of ambition and
despotism should proceed much hanger, and the re.
cent Proclamation to the People of Germany, issued
loy General BENNVISEN, cannot biu strongly impress
their feelings, and rouse them 'to. an assertion of
those rights which the French have so outrageously
violated.-
A Paris Paper, of March 1; says, "While the
English, through their obstinacy in continuing the
war; have involved our braVe legions in hostilities
which have carried theM so far from their native
country; we learn that his Majesty the Emperor.
has given the English prisoners a proof of his favour
and humanity. According to accounts from Vet-
dun; all the English women, the wives of seamen
not excepted, have received permission to return to
England. • hlany of them have availed themselves
of this permission, and others are expeaed •to fol-
low.,
4,.ver; having The Jziho
THOMPSONI Master; has arrived in the
Ri
left Memel some days later than the
dimitY Packet. Some points of the intelligence
through this communication may be considered as
of importance. The following Official Notifi7
cation was posted on all the Public Offices on the
day preceding that on which Captain Tuomrsorr
left Memel :
" The Governor and Chamber of Magistracy have
to Congratulate their Fellow Citizens, that Official
Accounts have this day been received, that after re-
peated battles from the 3d to the 9th, the Combined
Armies of Russia and Prussia had obtained a corn-
, plete Victory over the French. The result of the
viCtory has been twenty Eagles, fourteen of which
have been awarded to General BENNINGSEN and the
Russian Army; the 'remaining six have been pre-
sented to his Majesty the King of Prussia. The
French had lost twenty thousand men, who were
dead on the field of battle. The contest had been
so obstinately maintained on both sides, that both
Prench and Russians had refused to accept of any
enarter from each other. A body of 1500 French,
who had been cut off during the battle of the 7th,
had been surrounded on the seh by the whole of the.
Russian Army ; they refused to lay down their
arms, or Iccept of quarter ; but General BENNING-
,:gf their 1-.ler. a sharp attack, made them iensible of
fruitless resistance and ruinous desperation, and
induced theca to. surrender at discretinn. These are
tbe only prisoners taken The Russians remained
• 'lei the field of battle or; the 10th ; the French had
retreated two leagues. General BENNINGSEN ex-
-1)„..,c.!.,e.d a strong reinforcement of Cossacks, and the
Thu_ on of the Silesian Levy—when it is supposed
ener of'
"( he will
Cita, •• Parsue his viCtory. By Order of the
Magistracy.

• " H. KLOPSTOCK."
(7..ipt. Wu
t-1€ 'Az)-.lerica_lTnY) of the Leander,. from which Ship
de,itti oecasionas shot some months
.since, whose
be wed LI a"evo", so ?much agitation in America, is to
or; Moti.lely tiex;rt Martial, in Portsmouth Harbour,
time, iu order to __The trial has stood over for some
deceased, wh-o.
ir°r(l the prtics interested for the
bring this thficer 'tore apprized. of the intention to
N. they thought pro Vial, to Sustain 'the accusation,
against the accused. Per. But no evidence appears
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between Jem Belcher, the
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opponent of the Chicken, and Cribb, ibr 100
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to Su. m
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