The Sun.
London, England, 1802-08-20 00:00:00

" Our• Cabinet nevertheless knew too well what
our situation required, and what oueresources would'
admit, to confine itself to defensive measures.
While the French were assembling all the small
Vessels, and Gon-boats, which they could procure'
or construe in their Ports in the Channel, it was,
determined to attempt the Destrueion of them.
For this purpose a Flotilla was equipped 'on the.
Eastern Coast, which the Hero of Aboukir and Co-
penhagen undertook to command. These move-
, ments on each side, and the Negotiations for Peace
which were carried on at the same time at Loridoni
occupied the greatest part of the summer.
"• During this time the valour of our Sailors, and
the wisdom of our Government, were rewarded by'
a Convention concluded the t7th of June, between
Lord Sr. HELEN'S, aid the Court of retersburgh.
By this, which re-established, in the most desirable
manner, Peace and Amity between Great Britain
and Russia, the latter Power recognised our Right
of Search in 'more positive terms, • than it had ever
been before, renounced the pretension that Free
Bottoms make Free Goods, and by the abandon-
ment of this Fundamental Point gave a mortal blow
to the principle of the Armed Neutrality, and pre-
vented the possibility of the renewal of our diffe-
rences with the Northern Powers. On our part we
gave up. nothing but the Right hitherto exercised
by our Privateers of Searching Neutral Vessels un.
der Convoy, a right, the exercise of which had oc-
casioned so many abuses and embarrassments, that it
was as desirable as it was just to relinquish it.
" Notwithstanding the seasonableness and the
Merits of this Convention, it became some time after
the subjeet of Parliament Opposition. Those how-
ever, who' raised it, were so weak in argument, and
so few in number that they did not venture to di-
vide the House. Without doors, that Convention
was theni, and has ever since been considered one of
the most important and salutary Political Transac-
tions ever executed.

It was not without repugnance that the Courts of
Stockholm and Copenhagen had united themselves
Lo that of Petersburgh, by the Treaty of Armed
Neutrality. Besides the injuries and damage to
which their Harbours and their Commerce in Eu-
rope were exposed, they clearly foresaw that their
Settlements in the two Indies would become (as it
atually happened, a short time after,) an easy prey
to our Arms. The only means in their power of
recovering their Foreign Possessions, as well as
their Vessels, which had been detained either in our
Ports, or at Sea, was to accede to the Convention
of Petersburgh ; which they soon determined to do.
Some arrangements, however, of inferior concern,
delayed for some months their formal accession to
it. _ _ _

" The Afflairs of the North, the War in Egypt,
the Measures of Precaution against the threatened
invasion, and the Negotiations for Peace, though
• the most important, were not the only objeas of the
attention of the Minister. To remedy, as much as
possible, by Importations from abroad, the Defi-
ciency of Corn, the consequences of two successive
years of Scarcity, to encourage, by the advice and
the wise Regulations of the Legislature, the adop-
tion of suitable Substitutes; in a word, to 'endea-
vour to ward off, till the ensuing Harvest, the evils
arising from high price on the one hand, and great
consumption on the other, and at the same time
prevent the distresses of the lower class, ever the
most powerful engine of the ill-disposed, from af-
fording the pretext for disorders and tumults ; to
render the consequence of the Union more and more
beneficial to Ireland ; to expedite, by the frequency
of Cabinet Meetings, the dispatch of the principal
Measures of State ; to quicken, by the constant
presence of himself and colleagues, the aaivity of
the different DepartMents ; to bestow on the Con-
queror of Copenhagen, on the Family of the Hero
who fell in Egypt, on the. General who completed
the Conquest of that Country, on Sir James SAU.
MAR Ez, and on all who had rendered important Ser-
vices, prompt and eminent marks of national -grati-
_tude ; to meet with candour and ability, all the
interesting subjeas which came before the House ;
such were the employments, and. the conduct of the
Minister; such the claims by which he quickly con_
ciliated the favour •of Parlianient ; the confidence
of the Nation, and the esteem of Foreign Courts.

To be rorilgued. )

SEDUCTIO.N.—Among the many melancholy el._
feasof the immorality and sedudion, which prevail
in this Metropolis; we are sorry to have to relate
the following.:—On Monday last, about twelve
o'clock, as a gentleman was crossing Blackfriars.
bridge,, he observed a young woman attempting to
climb up the ballustrade. Convinced that her inten-
tion was to throw herself over,_ he pulled her hack,
and asked her what she was about; her eyes were
swoln with crying—she avowed her design of jump-
ing into the River—'' I am (said she) a ruined girl—
I have eloped from my parents, and lived with a
young man, who has now deserted me." On hear- ,
ing this story, the gentleman, whose humanity had
first been intere6:.ed by her appearerce, called an-
other who was passing, to his aid, and they convey-
ed her to a place of safety in Bridge-street, Black-
friars ; they there delivered her to the care ,of the
Parish Officers. On being farther questioned, she
stated that het name was Sarah Sh—, and that she
had absented herself for six weeks from her parents
With a young man, whose name she would not dis.
close ; they had lived together in St. George's-fields,
until the money and clothes she had were made away
"with: The young man ,had deserted her when all
was gone, and she was left in such a state of mind
that site could no longer support existence, nor bear
the idea of looking her friends again in the face ;
she at first said her father lived in Shoreditch,,
but at last she confessed that lie was a quit-smith,
and worked with a Mr. Mortither, whOals-o keeps a
house in Poppin's-court,' Fleet-street.
Monday evening as some labourers .were em.
.ployed in lowering a but of porter into the vaults
of Mr. Sturgess, near. the Binter Market, Canter=
bury, the
,rope slip-ping, it rolled upon a man
named. George Stnith, broke his thigh, and
crushed one' of his legs in a .moSt dreadful manner.
Ile was immediately taken to the Kent and Canter-
bury Hospital.