The Sun.
London, England, 1812-06-01 00:00:00

NAVAL NEWS.

*mymouTH, MAY 29.—Arriveil this day atein-
tiful American ship, of about. 600 toils burtheri-,
called the General Gates, belonging and bound:to
New York,-Marner, -master, from Bo urdeaux, with
.a very valuable cargo, consisting of brandy; ivine,
silks, &c: detained by his Majesty's .ship Belle
Pottle, Capt. Brisbane, in -company with the
Abercrombie man of _war, Captain. Fahie ; Dryad
frigate, Captain -Galwa.y4 and the Az mide fri-.

gate, Captain Dunn.- The Gewral Gats sail

ed from Bourdeaux on. Sunday last,. and brings
intelligence_ of the arrival there of a very
fine American schooner called .the Gipsey, Which
was detained on the 30th April last, by the
Belle Pottle frigate, on her voyage from ,New
York to Bourdeaux, with a very valuable cargo of
colonial prodUce, and which was taken pOs,session
of by the master and part of the il.mmican crew,.
who were left on board, aided by four American
seamen who were concealed in the vessel, whkh
took place about ,fourteen hours after her deten-
tion, without any loss on either side; when the
American master offered to take the prize-Master
and his crew into Bourdeaux, or give them ,a boat
with as much provision as they might require ; the
latter they accepted, and fortunately were picked
up by the Belle Foyle on the following day.
Arrived the American ship Coran, Shaw, Mas-
ter, with a cargo of timber, for Portsmouth, boUnd
to this port, for orders,; and the American brig
John, Turner master, with a cargo of timber for
this port, both, from Amelia Island, after a pas-
sage of six weeks.. TlieSe vessels bring'a confirm-
ation of the intelligence received some days since,
of the Americans havipg taken pOSSeS3iOII. of Ame-
lia Island, hut that it was .generally expected it
would soon bf.s, given up to the Spaniards.
The Survedianie- frigate, Capt. Sir G. Collier,
has detained and sent in here this day the Ameri-
can schooner Young Conneeticatt, belonging to
.
New York, -Waterman, master, from Bayonne,
with a cargo, consisting of brandy, inc,W &c.
bound to America.

Arrived the Prussian schooner zEohls, II Jan-
sen, master, from St. Mary's, ;with a 'cargo of
timber, bound to this port foi• orders.
MAy 30.—Last evening,: as the brig Mentor ,•
Noble master, was attempting to work out, of
Catwater, she drifted ashore on the ^ rods under
Queen Ann's Battery, and soon afterwards fell
over, but righted again during the night, and, was
this morning got off with little damage. The
Mentor was from London; and had on board a
cargo of rum for his Majesty's Victualling-office
at this port.

Pased down Channel last evening from the
Eastward, a few merchantmen.

Arrived the Appledram, Gannett,. from
chester ; the Providence, Brown 5: 'the Rosamond;
Loviinian ; the Industry,. Lelean ; and. the Mary
Ann, Tippett, from Wales:

The Endyntion frigate was docked yesterday,
aria ordered. to be fitted for service.
Sailed the Neptune tender for Dublin.

Went up the harbour the Northumberland- maxi
of war.

Arrived the Circe frigate, and the i4etece4 brig of
war, from Portsmouth.

'DEAL, MAY 30.—Nearly a million of dollart,
belonging to the East
.India Company, were land-
ed at this port last Week by Mr. Edward Iggulden,
the East India Company's Agent, from out of the
Indefatigable •frigate, lately arrived from China,
and were forwarded under a strong escort, to the
India House. , _

_DEAL, .MAY 31.—Sailed his Majesty's -ships
Pompee and Defiance for off Flushing. -
FALMOUTH, MAY. 31.--=-Sailed the following
packets : Prince. Ernest for Lisbon ; Eliza for Ca.-:
diz ; Darlington for the Leeward Islands ; Prince
Adolphus for Surinam; Townsend for the Brazils ;
and the Malborough for Lisbon; the Speedy for
Cadiz, and the Mancl,ester for Gibraltar and Malta
still reiuuin. ,

DARTMOUTH, liLky 30.—Arrived the Eliza cartel,
from Morlaix.

Ms Majesty's ship Sprightly took off this Port
yesterday a small French privateei, of 2 guns and
27 men, and sent her for Portsmouth,

PORTSMOUTH,MAY (.).--;-...--Nssecibyhis Majesty's
ship Gloir, ?, with about 60 sail under conyoy, from
Tortola, for the Myer. •

His Majesty's ship Linnet has sent in the French
prii-ateer La Pilot Charles, which she took off the
Start.

A Naval Inquiry will, we understand, take
place, into some circumstances that attach to two
or three of our ships, soon after the enemy's
squadron, which lately escaped oat of Rochefort,
put to sea.

- • The Scarborough, 74; has been. eoppered and
taken out of dock ; the Minden,\74, built of teak,
at Bombay, is taken in, preparatory to, her being
surveyed by Sir Wm. RULE_and H. PE Ica, Esq.
the 'Surveyors of the Navy, \Vito are, expected at
Partnuoutli this day ,for that purpose,

ORDERS EV COUATIL.

FR-04 TfIE QUARTI:LY REVIEW,

(Gmtimyd from 'our I).per of Saturday ktst.)-

- There can be no doubt that these two Orders of
the belligerents bore hardupon the.only remain'
ing neutral.. The British Orders in Coun'dl, how-
ever, cinitainetl. many exceptions in her, favour I
White t4e.:--15ecte.e of Milan was calculated:to sweep
every ship or. hers from the ocean. • Not (Italy were
the British Orders -in Council. modified and mai,
gated in their original conformation, for, the pur-
pose of relaxing; in .fayour of America,, that ge-
neral prohibition- of pII trade with the enemy,
-which a mkt retaliation would have justified; but
Ivhen found that, scime of the relax,ationg
which were: intended for this object were more olv
nirkious to AineriCa ithan the probibitiOn itself,
those relaxations,, were repealed, It had been
permitted to neutrals.lby the original- Orders iii
Connell; to trade with the enenif,, on condition or
previonsly touching
..at a British port, and paying
a trifling duty. , The object of this duty was lot
to collect revenue-for this. Country,- still less to
impose a tribute on America, as was, yeAe.mently
aid angrily contended in.that country: It was
simply a mean of insuring . and registering, with.
respect to each vessel, the fact of its so touChing.
at an port.

The principle of the Orders in Council was this.
Our enemy says there shall be no trade with Eng-
land, We have a right to .say in return—thers•
shall be none with our enemy :—and this, prohi-
bition, if we had thought fit to adopt it in its full
extent, we had the power of enforcing. If the
neutral had thus boen excluded• front 411 trade
welatever; the fault would haVe been so, obviously
in the original aggressor, France, that against
..
that original aggressor the complaints of Arne-
rica must have been directed ;—at least, as loudly
as against, this country. It. is a whimsical fact,
.
that Great Britain heca.rne exposed to that most
~unequal share of obloquy Which* has been poured
upo-n- her by Ainerica, . only -by having mitigated.
• the -strictness 'of a principle -upon which .Francg ,
continued to act without. mitigation. And it is
, . . .
really edifying to observe with what in
Mr. Afadison has eontyived to represent all such
relations on the part of Great Britain in favour of
neutral trade,. of the exercise of o right( by -thel
strict.enforeement or which it must have be.ei
crushed and tin dished, as ' badges of hurnilit
atio. n,' as regulations ' violating equattrhe neil.:
teal rights ,aed national soverei.-nty of America,',
as measures not only " stabbing her interests, kilt
superadding,/under the navie of indulgencitis, 1i
blow at their rational independence, and a mock-
ery • of their understandings.'

That while all the instructions of Mr. Jeffers°.ti
. .
and Mr. Madison to their Minister 'in London,•
teem with violent
.and opprobrious expressions,
those to Mr. Armstrong at Paris are, to be sure,
. .
querulous enough, but gentle and supplicatory,.
!without one expression of indignation, at, the ori-
ginal aggressors and authors • of all the ills of which
they had eoftnplain. Nay, Mr. Madison finds even an.
apology for the Frencn Decrees ; they. aro
merely municipal regulations,' not affecting, by
their operation, the neutral rights of America
He lent a willing ear' to the deCeption practised
upon him by the French Minister, that the plac-
ing-of the British
.Islands in a state
.of blockade
made no alteration lathe existing French laws con-
cerning maritime captures.' The seizure and confis-. •
catiot of American ships on the high seas and the.
ports of Franee, made it indeed, impossible long to
remain deceived: yet even then her Minister Iva*
instructed to be particularly careful to leave the.
way open for friendly and respectful explanations,
if there should be a disposition to offer them.'
The burning of their ships .at'sea -.Mr. Madison i 9
pleased to designate as the most distressing or
all the'modes.by which belligerentS exert force con'

trary right yet provided C hostility. of, inteivs
disproved, he kerns to this that the

'fenCe \v.; uldhe- wiped off by an itthemnificatio9
to' the injured.individuats: And at the, very mc'l
went that he reprcients the Decree afterwards j -

sued at Bayonne, as a sweeping stroke at ail.
Arnei*an.Vess'els on the high sEas,; he (Erects G
'nert Armstrong to avoid a stile of procedure

which might co-operate with the policy of the

British Government, by stimulating the passigas

of theTrencit,' .ThLs return for this tame and suP-

missive conduct was precisely what might haste

beenforeseen. So far from indeminificatioii be'
ing made to injur?d individuals' for .the property
destroyed by the incendiaries, the plunder saved 014
Of the ship was 'condemned as good and
prize. _ _ _

(To be continued.)

The Incorporated. Trades of Lbinhurgh, ate
the Inhabitants of 4htwcleen, have unanimous-.
voted an Address of Condolence to the l'Rvcc
REGENT, on the atrocious murder of the Right
Hon. SPENCER PERCEVAL. Similar Addressei
have been also unanimously voted by .the
tratai of Kilmarnock and Paisley.

AAVOLT ,

":, GoVrtneStiaon, MAy.'23.---.-A•• Gentleman Who
left 'Liebatf. on the Y'th; inst. .brings the following
.-i. authentic informaticiti:--JThe Russian .advanced
.?:'' ' army consists of 300,000 men in excellent condi-
• _ • tion, and large feinforeements. are daily. arriving.
- 6
Whilst he was • at Dubno,. General.Bagrathion's
head4juarteri, • 3000 Don Cossacks arrived there,
' .*
anti he Was inftirmed that immense numbers of
,• - troops werellocking from all parts to the frontiers.
- - . The Emiieror.• and his•"august brother take no
- , -.'particular_ command (although the latter is Com-
_ madder in, chief of the Guards.) Ilis. Imperial
• Majesty intenUremainingin the star of the army
i . _ . with a council .of seven, of Which-General Ben-
,„.. • ningsen is to be at tine head.- 'The right Wing of
_ - the annyis to 'be , commanded Ity 'General Kutti-
-- Sow, the centre. by General Bar'iay de Tolly, and,
_
- ' 'the lefebY General BagrailiiOn. Mina is at-pre=
sent the. he•ad-quarters,* of which
,place General
Essen is GOvernin. Kamenski and Arinfeldt are
'Generals of Division. His' Imperial Majesty's.
,-- . 'brother-in-law, the Prince of Oldenburg, is* ap-
pointed Commissary‘Pinerat. '-• '. - *
M. Signetil, S.wedish Consul-General in. France,
Arrived at Orebro a few days since. The nature
.of .his communication has 'not transpired, butit is
- -• generally understood, that very considerable oaers
•
have been made to induce Sweden to jam k rance.
His conjectured, 'and with much probability, that
''.. Finland and Norway, together with a large sub-
sidy, havelieen proposed. M. Signeul Was, how-
t
t ' ever, dispatched in two days with a'positive refu-
...,_ sal, on the part of: Sweden, to enter into any ne-
gociation whatever.
..
-Notwithstanding Buonaparte's flattering ac-
counts of the facility with which supplies 'for his
army are procured, it is very certain, unless.' a
blow is struck in a.* few weeks; and he becomes
master of the Russian magazines, which are lin-
r.ense, they_ having transported all the grain and
forage into the rear of .the army; the whole of
Prussia and Germany will be in a state of starva-
tion : the scarcity of forae, in particular, is such,
t• that they have been obliged in many places to
1 unroof the thatched houses to get food for their
' lorses.
.. • ' :
, • • Letters from Colberg, dated the 4th ins' t. state,
• that up to that time no French troops had made
their appearance in that city ;. but that a Colonel
and three other Ofiicers, engine.4rs in the service
of France, had arrived there; for the purpose of
directing their means of defence, in the event of
an attack fromtbe..British. - .
OREBRO,- .74.1AY
.12.-His Royal Highness the
crown Prince has, good nights repose, and-although
lather WCali..., is otherwise perfectly well.
COPENHAGEN, MAY 14.--His Majesty has, by
• rescript, published on the 11th inst. graciously
authorised 'the CoMmissioners for enemy's pro-
perty, and the neutralization of gOods, to de-
liver, within the present week, statements in
writing, on, .
Ist. The kinds and qualities :of goods which
they have commissioned from foreign countries,
'ad winch,- in - consequence, may be expected to
arrive at the Custom-house here in the course of
the
Hnext eight weeks, with notication of-the
amount of such goods in aniburgh bane°, and
likewise what 'part thereof has or has not been'
- 2dly. The quantity and quality of fOreign goods
Which they have now lying 'here in, the Custom-,
house on their own account, With a statement of
the amount Of the same in Hainhurgh banco, and
Low much thereof is not paid. .. ~
. 3dly. The quantity and, quality of foreign goods
Consigned to them, and now lying, in the Custom-
Ilonse here, or which, by consignment, may he
expected to arrive here inthiCourse of the next
four weeks, with..a statement of such consigned
goods in Hambur.Th-banco, and also to what amount
there may already have been made remittances or
advances on such goods.
VIENNA, MAY 2.—The cordon in Transylvania
amounts- to 30,000 men. ' Sik- regiments of in-
lantry have • just received orders' o proceed from
loravia to Hungary. A large
.corps of reserve 'is
tssembling in - the - environs of Caschau. The
rinccs of Hesse Homburg-II and Phillipsthal have
l'eeeiyed orders' to
_go there. The skeletons of
three•battalions of litingarian' infantry, and the
41_ th division of the regiments of Hussars, are gone
'') Hungary to recruit : all soldiers absent on a
furlough are ordered to join.
The Hungarian affairs appear to -have taken a
favourable- turn,. the principal. difficultteShaving
been vanquished by the zeal and activity. of the
...'Archduke Palatine. The interruption of. maritime
"onerce having deprived us of many kinds of
Roods, we continue here to replace them by the
l'r nduce of our soil. The works executed by our
,t, Pestry-makers, locksmiths, and joiners now, for
2'e manner in which the finish their respective
,orks, rival the English..- Thousands of persons
are occupied in' the manufacture of silks ; wo-
Z`Len of the superior classes begin to sew. In
fromort, Turkey receives fro our commercial houses
Nirrors, portfolios, gold chains, &c. '
t They write from Hungary, that the heacl-quar-
ej of the Arm of Observation are to 'be esta,
"shed at Stanis y laow, a town of Lesser Poland,
lilqallicia. . •
thPublic report has named. as General in Chief 'of
1-s army the Archduke Charles.

Alusfc.—The musical season may be said to
ka''e oncluded on Friday last- at Hanover-square
l'oins, when the Annual Benefit Concert of the
OltvETTs took place. The first act consisted of
i`e first part of Le Nozze di Figaro, an admirable
lit'rk of MOZART, which had all due support from
(lbs, FISCHER, TRAMEZZANI, Mrs. VAUGHAN,
(j. The second act commenced 'with
tthe first
Organ Concerto of HANDEL, performed._ by
ihst• C. KNYVETT *in a very masterly and
t:4fPressive manner. The act itself consisted
kjieces from HANDEL, Dr. CROTCH, R. COOKE,
q 4 W. KNYVETT, &c. A new Song, 'by
_W. LIN-
)11'. Was sung with great taste by W. KNYVETT.
1,411 AM sung with his usual skill in this act.
'l,e Room was crowded.
% he inhabitants of Northampton have, as expres-
Qof their grief for the foss of Mr. PERCEVAL,
I g With black the Church of All Saints in that
the•
it L, Voted a mcnuinent to be erected within it to
,f 9 '"erncry, and agreed to 4-ear mourning:fora
ttuizh t,