The Sun.
London, England, 1807-04-28 00:00:00

HERTFORDSHIRE ELECTION

.Ciay's Inn Coffee-house, Holborn, A 061'27, rgo'f.
AT a Nurnt!rous MEETING of the FREE-
ROLDE RS i;of the COUNTY of RT FdRD,
Resident in and near London, held this day, pursuant to
public Advertierreat, to conceit measures for the success of
the Ele6..tion of the Hon. THOMAS II R AND ;
The Rev. LYNCH YIURROUC; HS .in the Chair;

T. It wat unanimously resolved, That the Hon. Thomas
Brand appears to us to be-a proper Person to be one of the
kePresentatives of the County of li6lford.
z. That a Committee be appointed fot the,porpose of pro.
muting Mr. Brand's Eledion, and that the Comniittcr do
meet daily at the Gray's Inn house, Holborn, at
E leven -(1) C 1 ock , until the Eledion be closed. And that the
Friends of Mr. Brand be partictiarly requested to attend a t
the Committee. /

3, That the Friends of r:lr. Ilrand be also earnestly re-
quested immediately to transmit the Addresses of Voters not
Residing in the County, andall other Communications which
tray tend to the success of his Election, addressed to " The
Chairman of Mr. Brand's -Cominittee, Gray's Inn CoMe:
house,-Holborn." -

4. That from the assurance 3 of Support which !Ur. Brand
has received from a large ly2dy of the Eledors, and from the
active zeal they have manifested in his support, we look for..
ward with confident expectations-of suFcess.
Y ;ICH DU It ROUCJIS, Chairman.

It was afterwards unanimously reSolyeci, That the Thanks
of this Meeting be given to• Mr. Burroughs for his conduct in
the chair. •

VICTUALLING OFFICE„
April 20, ISc;7.
THE C 0111.211 1S- ,S,JONERSfor VICTUALLING
-IL HIS MAYES T Y's NAVY .herebyg ive Notice, That
on Tuesday the 28th Instant, they w%II be rair.'Y to receii..e
tiers in writing (sealed up),-, and ucat for: :IWO llmusand hags
of i3ISCUIt; made
,from whole Met!; to be delivered in a
Month, into His Ilbjesty's Viaualliag Stores- 'at Chatham, and
to he paid /or by Billr, livable, with Interest, hiaety days after
date.

The Conditions of the Contraa nut). be seen oil the Secte-

laPy'ds Office,

, No regard'Tvill 4e bad t any Tender in which the Price shall
not he inserted in v,,,alf at 4'lo, or teat shall not he delivered
14 the Board bdo?e O,t o'Clock on the said Tuesday the 2W,
Instant, nor ardess the -Person who makes the Tender, cr sane
Person on hie behalf, attends, to answer, when ealled /or.

rzcTudaL MG-OFFICE,
April
rrHE COMMISSIONERS hr PIO-WILLING
-*l-IllS ji4jAsTr, NAVY ds bitchy give Naiee,Tat on
Tuesday the 2.816 instant, thy he rea4 to nteive
in I.liting se-t/el .14p), and •tteat fin- 7welue (2lleir
ter: cf Pate and Three Hundred (laareers AM.I3ER
MALT and Jr' One Ilondeed gags of KE N H 0) PS of
the last Year's gr'vith, to be answerable to Sample's to be prduced
with the Tenders tO.be delivered in a .Portnig by vieek.4 is.
phrtims, into His Majesty's' Viaualling Store's at Deptford ;
to he paid for by gills, payable, with interest, ninety dlys after
date. .

The Conditions of the Contrao m.ij' be seen at the Secttta,:y's
Office.

NO regard
,will be bad to auy To?,ler in übith the Prier
not he inserted in words 41 or Ma? shall not be ,delivered
to the Bodrd be/ore One o'cic,ck •oot the said Tuesday the zit/
Instant, Nor unless' the Person Who makes the Tender, or serve.
Person on his behalf, attends, to answer, when cal‘.ed.fkr-

IMPEPIAL PARLIAMENT.

' HOUSE OF .PETS,

MONDAY, APRIL 2.7

Aboin a. quarter before three o'cloek.the Loan
CHANURLLOR, Lord cAmn-2.1.; and I
BURY, took • their Seats as His MajeSty.s Cow-
mi3sioners.
Mr. Quarme, the DepUty Usher of tile Black
Rod, was sent to the House.of commons to require
their attendance.,
After some time had elapsed- the SnAku.R, ac-
companied by a great number of Members of the
House of Coinnihns, came.' to the Bar.
The Royal Assent was notified by. the Lords
Commiisioners to two Private
The Lou CHANZ.tELLOR, in Has Majesty's name,
delivered the following Speech :
My Lords and Gentlemen,
We have it in COLOmarid frOm HIS MAJESTY to
inform you that MAse.sry has thought fit to
avail himself of the first moment which would ad-
mit of the interruption 'of ;the Sitting of Parlia-
ment,' without material inconvenience to the Pub 7-.

tic, business, to dose the present Session : And that
His MAJESTY has therefore been pleased to cause, a
Cor9mission to be issued, under th Great Seal, fdr
proroguing ParliaMent.
" We arc forther_commanded to state to yob, that
his MAJESTY is anxious to recur to the sense of his
People, while the events which have recently taizen
place are yet fresh in their reColleCtion.
" His MAJESTY feels, that in resorting to this
Measure, tinder the , present CirCurnstances, he at
once dernonStrates, iil the most unequivocal manner,
his own conscientious persuasion of the Reetitude of
those Motives upon which he has acted ; and affords
to his People the best Opportunity of testifying their
determination to support Him .in every Exercise of
the Prerogatives of his Crown, which is conformable
to the Sacred Obligations under which they are
held, and conducive to the 'Welfare, of -his King-
dom, and to the Security of the Constitution.
" Hts MAJESTY directs us to express his entire.
conviclion, that after so long a reign, marked by
a series of indulgences to his Roman Catholic Sub-
jeas, they, in common with every other class of
his People, ,must feel assured of his attachment to
the principles of a just and enlightened Toleration ;
and of his anxious desire to protest equally, :and
promote impart ially,the happiness of all dem.:riptiOnS:
of his SubjeCts."
Geiztlemen of the'Llouse of Commons,

" HIS i\oIASESTY has commanded its to think
you, in Hrs. IVIAJESTY'S name, for the Soplics
which you have furnished for the Public Service.
" He, has seen with•gt•eat satisfaaion, that vol
have been able to find the means of defraying, iu

LCTVDON,

TU23D..Y, APRIL QS, 1807.

A Report was circulated yesterday in. the City,
that a Cartel
,had _arrived -with propositions of a
pacific nature from . 1-.:ONAPARTE. The objeE•t
of ths report was most probably. to cause a rise in
the fuuds, and it had that.eff.t& ; but we have the
strongest, reasons for stating that it is wholly un-
foundei.i. ' No': Cartel has arrived, • nor-, have any
propositions • been received. It is very. well known
that BONAPAATE has. made overtures.to Russia and
to Prussia, but. they have refused to, negotiate ex-
cept in conjunaion-with Great Britain.

. .
THE ProrogatiOn of Parliament yesterday took
place, and the Proclaination--for Dissolving it will
.
appear tomorrow, brThtiMay7 The Appeal will be
made by the Sovereign to his People, aryl that Ap-
peal, we confidently predid, will be answered with
gratitude and:loyalty. This measure will' of course
be arraigned by all theadVocates oithe late Ministers,
and the utmost pains will be taken to mislead the pub-
lic mind with 'respect, to the causes which produced
it. One attempt of this kind has already been boldly
made: It has been stated, that the Dissohition is to
take place merely 'for the purpose ofpreventing the
Committee of the House of Commons from pro-
ceeding in their investigations, and of proie4ting some
persons who are stated to be public defaulter's.- This
kind of charge is certainly very well adapted to the
period of a General Election ; it might produce some
effect if enforced in a speech from the Hustings to a
thoughtless -Mob ; but it -certainly cannot produce
any effe& upon rational and impartial then, because.
it is
.absurd to say that .a Dissolution of Parliament
can .stifleinvestigation or prevent deteaion, if the
change in Administration had not taken place, Par-
liament, it was supposed, would have titen pre-
rogued about the middle of n6kt month,' and the
proceedings; of
.the Committee, would have been
suspended until. next Session. Very little more is
done by the Dissolution ; and that the Inquiries will
he renewed and-continued by the present I..,linisiers
thereean be.no doubt. Ile passage in his I\IAJEs-
TY's Speech:which refers to this subject is tOo,ex-
plicit to leave any room for doubt : •
i• Flis Majesty has observed with no less satisfaaion
aqui ries which .you-have instituted" into sui3yeas coo Retied
economy;sv .h public and, he trhsts; that the early atten-
tia.ti a anew Tynan:tat, which he wiliferthwith ditta ttj

be called, will be applied tl thz. prcse u on of thcsc
j.ottant objets."

But those who throw oat these charges to '
lead the public mind, know perfedly that the con-'
duet of the late Ministers in, a manner compelled
His MAJESTY to have recourse to this measure--
they wanted to erect themselves into a body per-
feel), independent of the ..,Sovergign, . and to
form, as it were, a fourth Estate on the Con-
stitution. They —(the King's confidential Ser-
vants) in the first instance attempted to. force
Upon HiS MAJESTY a measure, to which he
was known to feel the strongest repugnance, and
when they found they could not succeed'in, their
attempt, they, in a manner, we will venture to say
unprecedented, accused their Sovereign before both
Houses of .Parliament. They (the King's confiden-
tial servan is), repr'esented themselves as being anxious
to promote a.- measure which would gratify the,
wishes and conciliate the affections of a large .part
of His MAJESTY:S subjeas, and which would restore'
the most perfeet haimony in Ireland. They assumed
to themselves all the popularity of the measure,,and
endeavoured, not obliquely, but direttly, to throw the
odium ,of its rejection upon their Sovereign. Was
this'or 'was- it not an appeal, by the King's Confi-
dential Servant?, to the Parliament; against their
Sovereign ? and did net they by this conduct render
an Appeal to, the general
_sense of the Country,
by a Dissolution of Parliament, 'absolutely necessary ? .
The present is a mest'intereSting and awful crisis;
the Prerogatives •of the Crown, the
,safety of
the. Constitution, are at stake s. but we confess
we feel. little apprehension as to the result, because
we are convinced that
,the. People will follow the
. example set them, by their Sovereign, and by sup-
'porting his flights, they will pr serve their own.

On Sunday evening Lord liAr ,`,7:BY left town
for Staines, where his Lordship slept, and proceeded
to Windsor early yesterday morning,- and had an
audience. of His MAiiESTY soon after nine o'clock
for about a -quarter of an hour; after which ffig
MAJ-E3Tt- proceeded in his travelling carriage to
London, and arrived at the Queen's Palace about
twelve.

At two o'clock His MAJESTY held a Privy Coun-
cil, which was attended by the Loan CHANCELLOR,
the Mikes of PORTLAND and MoNTItosE, Earls
CAMDEN, WESTMORLAND, arid BATHURST, Vis'
CQOUt- CASTLEREAGH, Lords HAWKESBURY, Mtn-
Oddly& and Mr. PiacEvAL,when an Order was issued
fur proroguing the Session of. Parliatnent to the 13th
of May, preparatory to the dissolUtion, which will
take place this day: • • • •
His MAJESTY will come to town to-morrow zna
held'a 'private Lel=',...eat—WhiCh a DePutation of the
Unive6ity of. Word will attend. and present their
Address. The Duke Of VoRTLAND will head them,
as Chancellor of the University ; after<vifrds the De-
putation will dine with the Duke of-ponTLAND, at
Burlinvon House.
The New Parliarnent is expeaed to cnc,.2.t for the
dispatch of busincss al)ou-t the 'litter end of June.

The following is handed about in the highec
&cies as 4lisi of the sixteen Scotch Peers tbA wi
prokeably be returned for the New. Parliament

Early 4: As.EßDtts, Earls : SazAcrittci .
---..- ABOYNE, -.um- STAA tHMORB,
- DALHOUS/E, Viscount Aasurnisfoir.
—.+ C;t.Asnow, Lords t CAT kiCART,
- iIADDINCTQN, - :, f.ortats,
- HuPLTON, --- N.A.? IL E.;
HUME, • -- SING!. AIR,
KiLLY, - ----- : SOMERVILLS,
Thos.._ inakiied, with a : are in the present Parliament.

. New York Papers to.the..2lst of March state, that
*five French Sail of the Line had arrived at Porto
Rico, which is said to have been ceded to France ;
that Colonel-Et/an had been taken and was a Prl4
soner on board one of the United States' vessels;
that_ 40() tnen.had been sent from Jamaica, to, rein•
force Cl:tracoa; and that captain BRISZ.VNS wad gone
as Governor. Accoutiti were said to have here re-
ceived by the Commander of his. Britannic Majesty's
Nriival Force in America, to release' every American
seaman who had not voluntarily entered, and could
prove their Citizenship.

On Saturday last a very elegant dinner was given
at the London Tavern, by the British Merchant;
trading to North, America, to Mr.. MONROE, the Mi-
nister from the United States of America.
- The Company was 'veor numerous and highly re-
spedable ; amongst the vis'rrors were—Mr: PIN.CK"
N kA; 110; it .is understood, is .to succeed Air.
MoisToE), tLe CHANCELLOR of Chet EXCHEQUER,
Lc.rds -L\II,JLGRAVE, CASTLLREAGII, and ERSEANE,
Sit VV:Ni:Scovr, Mr. CAs:NING, Mr..ROsE,
PHILIP SA NTAM, EST the Chairtnim of thegorn-
mitte'e of American Merchants, who presidtd on
the occasion, filled the Chair with great ability; and
to,the highest gratification of the Company. The
day was-passed with the utmost harmony and good
hurnour, and at the same time with a degree of order
which has seldom been witnessed on such occasions.
The Toasts were—

"Vhe King.— The Queen.—The Prince of Wales, ke.
And the follOw:hg, from die Chairman, were re•
ceived with bursa. of applause, as particularly ar
propriate to the object of theiVieeting--•
•
The President of the United S'tates:of ~11nerica.
Perpetu4l fr;endship between Great Britain and the United
.States of America.

Mr. Nlwiroe---Mr. Pinckney.
• -.The. Hon. Mr. Erskine, the British Minister to the United
gutes,or America.

Upon the heelth of Mr. MONROE being giving_
that Gentleman adcirzssed the,Coilii.;any in a feeling'
energetic sPeetqf, expres'sive of the high sense he 11L
'of the compliinent paid to him, and•uf the pleasure
he felt al the unanimity that Prevailed..;
Mr. PtisldlcNEY also, upon his lie.4th being drangt,
addressed- Ow .Coni pany in an cicqucnt speech, CZ.'
presiing ,;entiments.

,BLfo-re the .visitors withdrew Mr. CANvING, the
Secretary .fof Toreigti ,Taus; gave the following
. Toast :

tiv.t.l.iritid, and Anwricans never meet on terms le9s
friendly tun they Imv.: dozio y.
Anct.which vira wito the utranst. satistac-
Econ.

N AVAL s.

POiTSMOUT/i, APRIL 27.—Aft-i;:red the iiztica.ai
Sloop, Capt. INTZTRS, &Orli a crnize; and the-Serapij
Store-ship, LLOYD Master, with • a convoy of about
fitieen-Sail,,from the DoWns.
Sailed he Leverett Sloop of War, Capt. SAI.T,

with a convoy of 15 Sdil, for Oporto ; the Brisk
SlOdp of War, -Capt. CooDE, with one Transport
under 'her proteaion, for Cork.

DEAL, APRIL 27.—Arrived His Majesty's Ship
Tigress from a cruize, and remain in the Downs
with the Ships as per last ; also the Sally, ALLAN,
for Gibraltar, and the Recovery Transport.

Arrived and sailed for the River the Mount Ver-
non, COGGESHALL, from New York.

FALMOUTH, APRIL 25.—Sailed the Thalia Fri-
gate, with a Fleet from Jersey, for Newfoundland.

LYNN, APRIL 27.---11 i% morning sailed the Brig
Alartha, Capt. JAMES LEAHMOUTH, as a Cartel,
with French Prisoners, for Morlaix.