The Sun.
London, England, 1812-06-11 00:00:00

" INSURRECTION AT iTAVANNA.

" The Universal Censor, of the 9th instant,
which has been politely sent us, mentions the
execution of five free negroes, one free mulatto,
and three slaves, for an attempt to possess them-
selves of the island. One of them, named Jose
Antonio Aponte, was intended to be created King;
and several others were nominated to high offices,
military and civil, in case of success."

Last night we receiYed Paris Papers to the 2d
instant. BUCYKAPARTE was still at Dresden on the
23d ult.

The following letter was -received yesterday,
containing much more recent intelligence than
that obtained by the last Anholt Mail :

" The Baltic, June 2.

We had letters yesterday from Hano, and I
am glad to find that the Orion's convoy all got
safe through the Belt, although the enemy's pri-
vateers were very troublesome.
" Letters from Riga of the 18th ult. 'state,
that the Russian ports were to be opened to.us,
but the Customs and other Authorities had not
received their instructions. • •

" Reports from two or three Houses mention,
-that the Ilussians were at Memel, and that the
French had occupied Pillau ; but colberg and the
other sea-ports were still kept-by Prussians. The
French seem to occupy all the ports "of that un-
happy country, • and I ay.n'far from thinking that
they have any good design in not possessing
themselves of the sea ports, imagining that their
motives of forbearance, are with the view of
facilitating the entry of grain, a want of which
beginks to press. very heavily on that miSerable
State.

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" One hundred and fifty vessels from Palau,

Memel, &c. had
,eptered 'Riga 'to procure grain,
within the last six weeks, and this is the'eause of
the Russian Government prohibiting the exporta-
tion:" _ _

We have also, adriccs direct from the Bay, The
subsequent is one of oucletters
" HAN°, MAY 28.—Letxers 4om Prussia as late
as the 24th inst. have been received here to-day,
and they bring us the intormatiodthai the exports
of corn has been prohibited in all ports of that
country. This order applies even to vessels that
had already their cargoes on board, and it is'very
much apprehended that they will be compelled to
unload.

" According to a recent account from Konigs-
berg, we have got the news, that the French ea-
vally found itself under the necessity of falling
as far back as Berlin, owing to the deficien-
cy of provisions, of which there is a great scar-
city throughout Prussia. This I hope will keep
the French army in check, until Russia is pre-
pared to give battle to the enemy.,
" This day the convoy has arrived. Admiral
MORRIS, who is here, had left it off Funen."

By a Gentleman, who has reached London from
Prussia, we learn some singular advantages under
which the French Commissariat contracts for corn.
All vessels containing this commodity in the Prus-
sian ports are seized"; a valuation is made of the
cargo, at the discretion of the French, and the
sellers are paid in bills on the Treasury. at Paris,
which are to become due in the year.lBl6 ; but
this is not sufficient. Before payment is given,
both the old contributiOns and the new contribu-
tions are/ deducted from the amount, in propor-
tions adjusted by the sameL discretion. The hills
so applied are already at a di' count of 72 per cent.

The PRthCE REGENT will hold a Privy Coun-
cil this day, at two o'clock, at Carlton-house.
Yesterday Earl BATHUkST transacted business
with the Earl of LIVER?ooL, at his' house in
Whitehall.. - •

Colone,l BLOMFIELD is expected to be returned
for Plymouth, vice Sir THOMAS TYRWHIT, Who
N;acated- his seat fox thatßorough,•on his recent
promotion,
In consequence of pubic notice on the part of
Mr. VANSITTART, we understand the same parties
as last year, viz. the Stock Exchange--=Messrs.
BARING, Ews, and Co. REID, IRVINE, and Co:
JOHN JACKSON and CO. and ROBARTS CURTIS,
and C. are preparing lists for the loan to be ne-
gociated early next week.
Tuesday evening Mrs. ORBY HUNTER gave a
grand ball and supper, at her house in Welbeck:-
street, to about 300 persons of distinction. ~
Countess SPENCER gives a-grand rout td-moi-
row, at her house, in,St. Jaines's.-place.
It is somewhat curious that an impression from
the wooden block of Colonel WARDLE was given to
'the public as' a 'Likeness of BELLINGHAM. -
The language of the GREYITES and GREN-'.•
vILLITEs, fairly translated, means precisely thus :
" We are ready to be servants of the' PRINCE
REGENT—provided he will submit to us in every
thing." ! ! !
NOLLEKINS is employed on a statue of the late,
Duke of DORSET, which is •to be placed on his
tomb:—lt is stated that it is to cost .900 pounds,
but this we conceive is too scanty a recompense
for a whole-length from such an .Artist. The
statue of Mr. PITT, by ,the same Artist, which is
to be placed in the Senate-house at Cambridge,
cost four-thousand guineas.
Mr. LAWRENCE, it is said, is going to paint his
friend KEMBLE, in the 'Part of Brutes. We are
far from blaming this excellent Artist for so
often employing hi's pencil on the same subject,
for KEMBLE_ is the first actor of his day, and as
every body must wish to see him in his chief cha-
racters, they may wish to see him represented in
-those characters, and Brutus is one of his very best
performances: How many portraits are there of
GAitatcx in the same character ; yet who that saw
him does not look on all of them with a pleasing
remembrance, or who that did not, would desire
that there should be a portrait less of so admirable
an actor !

GREENOCK, JUK°2 6.-,—Yesterday, in pursuance
of his sentence, at the last Circuit Court of Jus-
ticiary, held at Gla.gow, Moses M'Donald was
executed here, for the robbery of the shop of Mr.
James Jelly, grocer, Laigh-street, in. December
last. In addition to the detachment of the Ayr-
shire Militia, which has been stationed here for
some time, four companies arrived from Paisley,
on Thursday, of the same regiment, at present
quartered in that town. The gibbet was erected
early yesterday morning on the square, about six
yards from the front of -the church. At 12 o'clock
the military were drawn out round the scaffold ;
at a quarter past two, the Sheriff, the two Magi-
strates, with white staves in their hands, the Town
Council, the Town Clerk, the Rev. Mr. Steel,
Dr. Gilchrist, the Rev. Messrs. Hercus and Bryan,
tills father and sister, all dressed in black; together
with the town officers, the executioner from
Edinbutgli, and the criminal, attended hy a party
of soldiers, came dowii fro the llrefewell, and
walked up under the pillars at the church : the
criminal then received some wine from the hands
of his sister. They continued in prayer and .sing-
ing psalms until ten minutes past three o'clock,
when he took farewell of the Magistrates and.
Clergy, and ascended the scaffold with a firm step,
by a stage erected out from the church railing :
the executioner then put the rope round his neck,
drew a white cap over his face, then .withdrew,
and. at a -quarter past three he gave the signal by
dropping a handkerchief; the drop fell, when,
dreadful to: relate, the rope broke, and he fell to
the ground ; his sister, who was 'fear, instantly
assisted him in -rising (his• arms being -tied) ; he
immediately got up, and walked steadily, without.
. the least attempt to escape, to the church door ;
he was then taken into the church, and turned
• faint ; the back of his head was a little bruised
by the fall : another rope was procured, the drop
was supported underneath by a plank, he again
'mounted the scaffold with a firm and quick pace,
the executioner put the rope round his neck, tied
the other end on the hook above, and drew th©
cap over his face ; he then went below, and, on
the signal being given, knocked the prop away,
when the drop fell, and he was launched into eter-
nity at twenty minutes before four o'clock.

• NAVAL NEWS.

PLYMOUTH, JUNE' 9.—Arrived the Hotspur fri-
gate from Portsmouth ;• the Nortliumber'land,:'
SEDGWICK ;' Harmony, SCOTT, Latona, Cunt."
TON, and the Albion, METCALF', from Sunder-
land, with cargoes of coals for this port ; the'
Prince of Wales, C OSTER; from Southampton and
IVales ; the ' Good Intent, BEARD, from Ports-
mouth ; the Union, MATTHEWS, from Gloucester;
and a small fleet of transports from Portsmouth.

Sailed the Abundance store-ship for Portsmouth.
Arrived the Mutine and Helicon brigs of war;

from a cruize.

PEAL, JUNE 10. —Sailed his Majesty's 'Wig
Cheerly, with a convoy, for Portsmouth.

PORTSMOUTH, JUNE 10.—Arrived his Majesty's

ships Ulysses and Missletoe from Guernsey aug.
Jersey.

GRAVESIIND, JUNE 10.—Sailed the .B/4chig,
GooDWIN, and Wylam, CUNNINGHAM, for Malta;
Blossom, SALMON, and Anna, FLACK, for Oporto ;
Maria, ESTILL, for Wingo Sound ; and Jane,
JOLLY, for Guernsey.

YARMOUTH', JUNE 10.—Sailed this morning his
Majesty's ship Forward foe Shields.

Admiral MARTIN has left town for Portsmotith,
from whence he will sail in the Acasta frigate tv
Lisbon, as Commander-in-Chief.
The Diadem, which sailed from Portsmouth on
Sunday, with a detachment of Royal Marines 60
board, had also some fiat-bottomed boats ; from
' which, it is conjectured, a descent will be at"
tempted on some part of the enemy's coast.

St. James's Place, June 6th, i -2•
MINtTTE OF A‘ CONVERSATION 'BETWEEN LORD
MOIRA, AND LORDS GREY AND GRENVILLE, AT
-WHICH LORD' ERSKINE WAS PRESENT.

Lord MOIRA stated to Lord GREY' and Lora
GRENVILLE, that .he was authorised by the Par No'c
REGENT to consult with them On the formation 0'
a new Government and, satisfactory explanatioo
having taken place between` them, respecting slid'
measures as appeared to be of the greatest ur-
gency at' the present moinene,
r` more especially
with. reference to. the situation of his MAJssTO
Roman Catholic subjects, and the differences noll
unhappily subsisting with America, and that Litird
MOIRA-had received this commission without any
restriction or limitation whatever:being laidl?
the Pftn.rcr: on their considering 4ny points Yelsic
they. judged useful for his service,
.they expre;*;se
their
,satisfaction, with the' fairness of this prop°.
sal,. and -.their readiness to enter into sucb
c;issions as must precede the det4iis of any 1-lelq
arrangement. As a preliminary question, 10",ci,
appeared to them of great importance, and
they thought it „necessary, immediately to bri.°q
forward, to prevent the inconvenience. ands 'iy:
harrassment of the further delay which inig,l.,,
produced, if this negociation should break oti
more advanced state, they asked, whether this •'"ll
•
liberty extended to the consideration of new ap-
pointments to those great Offices of the. flouse-
hold which 'have been usually Included in the 11:
litical arrangements made in a change of an AOlla
nistration ? intimating their opinion, that 1,0110
be necessary to act on the same principle on il'at
present occasion. Lord MOIRA answered, 4,
the PRINCE had laid no restriction upon 11-ilna;t
that, respelt, and had never pointed in the
distant mazner at the protection of those." r,
cers from removal. That it, would, hoWeveur
be impossible for him (Lord MoIRA) to ecdic.i,e
in making ' the exercise of this power noi'"/-.
and indispensable in the formation of the A dinit.nr..
ic-
tration, because he should deem it, on P ra
groundi, peculiarly objectionable. To this Pso
GREY and Lord GRENVILLE replied, they tiler
acted on public grounds alone, and with no Gittibe
feeling whatever, than that Which arose frog' iiat
necessity of giving to a new Government t'se
character of efficiency and stability, and
marks of the constitutional support of the Cr°' far
which are required to enable it to act usefullYd, it
the public service ; and that on these groull
appeared to them indispensable, that the coon % d.,„
tion of the great offices of the Court with the
ministration should be clearly established in
first arrangements. A decided difference of 7eti
pion, as to -this point, having been thus .c%Pres,,,itn
on •.both sides, the conversation ended here
mutual declarations of regret. Nothing was ,illyon the subject of official arrangements,
per
persons proposed, on either side, to fill any
cular situations.

. •
Yesterday letters were received from. Lagliii,°"t
to the middle-of April; by which we learn, t 71,-
such was the disolation produced by the 91,1;i:A
quake of the 26th of March„ that not a bui;ut
remktined entire. in the whole -town, exce,Pt
belonging to the Philippine Company.
fortunes of the Spaniards ' Laguira nlu e
":
terminate witj the 'earthquake. All th
t,
who had property left, had collected it .1..3
gether,. and proceeded with it and their fan"),lia
to the mountains, there to reside in tents, ‘.,
their habitations could be rebuilt. The n111)11-01
cipled part of the natives, taking advantage
0,
their situation, assembled in numbers, and P4.1111,„t,
dered them of all their valuable effer.ts.;-se
in fact, property had changed hands ; and 1,-ot
who before the earthquake were the most °P"
efei
were now reduced to poverty. Preparations
however, making to build a town near 111°Iqua1e
in the room of Laguira, which is to bear a 3- ea
commemorative of .the calamity which ilk" be
experienced.. still
The practice of „selling wives, though
prevails. It is a shocking violation of deee9:l,
and calls for the igorous interposition,of the,;•,•v
gistrate, as it tenth to les,en the stC;'l7d o"''er
tion of the nuptial borad in the esteem of the 1°-
or,lers of society.

DIPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS-WEDNESDAY.

ORDERS IN COUNCIL.

About-half-past two o'clock,: their Lordships',
- after forwarding the Bills upon the table, resolved
into a Committee on this subject, Lord WA:. -
SINGHAM in the Chair. •
Three witnesses were examined at considerable
length, by several of their Lordships, viz. Messrs.
McKenzie, King, and Baker.
Pending the examination, the. House resumed
for a short time, and in that interval,
It Was ordered, on the motion ofLord .ERSKINE,
that the further consideration of the Case of the
-Banbury Peerage; which stood for to-morrow in
the Committee of Privileges, should be postponed
-until that day se'nnight, in order to give the
Judges an opportunity, as his Lordship observed,
of answering certain queries which 'had been re-
' ferred to them.
The Earl of LAUDERDALE moved for an Account
cf the Number of British Ships which had sailed
froth the Port of Liverpool for America, from the
23d of June, 1810, to the 23d of February, 1812 ;
end also for an Account of the Quantity and Va-
lue of all Colonial Produce imported into Liver-
pool during the same period: which were accord-
iney ordered to be laid before the House. •
-A
Message was brought up from the Commons
by Mr. Lushington, and other Gentlemen, im-
porting, that they, had granted leave to one of
their Members, Joseph Marryatt, Esq. to be ex-
amined before their Lordships' Committee on the
Orders in Council..
A Private Bill was brought up by Sir James
Graham, and read a first time.
Their Lordships then again resolved into the
' • -Committee---anci- havin, finished the exa.mina-
:tons:for the day, the-douse again resumed.
INSOLVENT DEBTORS' BILL.'
On the • occasion of the second reading of the
• tnglish and Irish Insolvent Debtors' Bills,
A short conversation, in an under tone of Voice,
took place between the'Earls of MotaA and LAU-
tERDALE, and the Loan CHANCELLOR.
The first-mentioned Peer, after adverting to
the great improbability there was. of their being
41ble to get through - a general Bill upon the sub-
ject this Session, suggested the propriety. of ex-
tending the amount of debt to which- the measure
4hould attach, beyond what was proposed in the
and last year ;. which was, be believed,
*63000. Indeed there were cases in which the
amount should be unlimited, always keeping in
Flew the nature and circumstances of the debt.
ate was, therefore, friendly to the Tinciple of a
g'onsiderable' extension of the sum to which the
till should reach.
The LORD CHANCELLOR took the opportunity
°f declaring his full assent to the measure of a
temporary Insolvent Debtors' Bill passing this
bession ; and, as to what his Noble Friend.threw
out as to the propriety of a considerable extension
of the sum, he was of opinion that such a princi-'
Ple may be beneficially adduced into that part of
tile law. •
The Bill was then read a second time, and their
Lordships adjourned for a short time during plea-
!Lire, with reference to zn expectation, as we
Akoderstood, of some interesting proceeding taking

On the Loan CHANCELLOR again taking his
seat on the woolsack—
The Edinburgh Police Bill was reported to the
-Mouse without amendment ; and, on the motion
1)1 the Duke of ATHOLL, ordered to be read a
third time on Friday.
arl STANHOPE expressed his. regret that cir-
"tumstances should oblige him ,i)g,ain to posii_pone
Ihe further consideration of a measure of great
'importance, particularly to the. poor of Ireland.
41 2 meant the' Tenants and Peasantry Bill. The
~
ramittee on which he moved should be adjourn-
Id from Friday till Tuesday next, which was or-
dered accordingly, and their Lordships to busum-
koned far that day. •
Adjourned till to-morrow.