The Sun.
London, England, 1802-02-04 00:00:00

BEVEREN :

(I I am penetrated with gratitude for the confidence With-,
which you have honoured me. I am happy in haiii4
been called upon during the first days of your interior te'.
organization, to communicate to you the Sitting of ale
Congress at Amiens. I cannot for some time to comei be
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witness of the salutary operations of your Government, 61
the organ of the benevolence of the First Consul, lAA
rest assured, that the Batavian Republic is an objea of
the most vigilant care of the First Magistrate of France,
that after having acquired a right to defend the independence
of your estithable Nation, he is occupied in encleavowring to
re-establish its prosperity on the firmest basis."

The Ham&urgh Mail dae yesterday is not at',
rived,

This morning arrived a Mail from New_Yoric,
and Halifax, brought to Falmouth by the Dsrke
Kent Packet.

The Royal Family came to town yesterday frog'
Windsor to Buckingham House, where His MI::
JESTY held a Council • at which were present thel'
Royal Highnesses the' buicits Yo Luc, .Cl. AR s
KENT, and CUMBERLAND, the Dukes of PORT'
LAND, and RoXBURGH ; the LORD CHANCELid,!t?
the CHANCELLOR of the. EXCHEQUER, the Mari:
quis of SALISBURY, the Bishop of LONDON;
CHESTERFIELD and AYLEsFoRD ; Lords HA wisrs.s:i
BURY, -HOBART, Pk:l. HAM, WHITWORTH, at'
CATHCART; and Mr. II AWKENER.

flis Royal Highness the DUKE of CANIBRIDO
took his seat yesterday at the Council at Backing'
ham House. •

Yesterday Lord HAWKE'AURY gave a grOf
dinner, at his house in Sacksilie.street, to 50'01'
Members of Administration,

The report of Mr. N. VANSITTART'S removing,
from the Secretaryship of the Treasury, we have
reason to believe, is unfounded..

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It is intended to extend the Militia Force
60,000 men. A Bill has been drawn and sent-00
to all the Lords Lieutenants and Militia Colonels r
their advice, previously to its being introduced int-
Parliamen t.

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The Definitive Treaty will probably be Pf:'
seeded on, soon after the return of the CHIEF Corr
SUL to Paris ; and we entertain a hope, of its g";
ing concluded before the expiration of the prese
month,

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M. AZZARA, the -Spanish PlenipotentiarY
Amiens, is but slenderly attended.
The Earl of ATt,Esrolo has been pleased tai
appoint- Mr. JOHN HUNT one of his Majesty'
Yeomen of the Guard, in the room of jos°,
ELSEY, deceased.
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Mr. SiiEitlDAx has been again rejeetPd
National Institute of France. The numbers vvw4)
for M. HEYNE, 323 ; for 144.arrrocz, ria;
for Mr. SHERIDAN, 252,
Yesterday a Court of Dire&ors of the East Odin
i
Company was held at the India House. Cairo
PH t Ltp HuoH ES is appointed to the command,°,o,
Company's Ship the Brunswick, consigned tow'
• this season, in the room of Captain JAMas LtrPaf •
GRANT, who resigns this season.
tiitf
Letters received from Bombay, dated in Aug,l
relate the Qapture of Zp,TAUN SHAW, by his,briel
ther IVlAmmoun. They also state that C(3'%el
INNES has gained compleat vitory over the
Polygars to the Southward.
jot
The Overland Dispatoh received on SuncUrdeig
from Bombay informs us, that the Board. of To o
employed in making arrangements for the exterlig
tihi
cultivation of flax and hemp on the banks
River Naaf,

LUKWA DADA, in consequence of the.suecc-bas
issue of the War with. the Rajah of jEyfooßY.,ll4
been advanced to the highest station by His 11/41
ness the PE ISHW A.
IVIOODAJE E BOONSLAU, the Chief of the Eastacrei
Mahrattas, has at length yielded to a request °loco
by our merchants, to open the trade of Nag?
which is represented to be very, advanta4eos. 0
A very severe shock of an earthquake has brip
felt at Palambang, and occasioned considerable

mage. • 10
The RAJAH of KoTAH has been taken 1#
Mahrattas, on the borders of the Draub,
Or
The total number of Officers and Troops be.'
ing to His Majesty's Regiments nerving 00
East Indies, will be embarked at Portsmout-000
board the Company's ships in the following Prtsii
tion, viz. for Bengal by the Lady Buries,
Jane Dundas, Marquis Wellesley, and Baring f'
Officers and 415 Men, for Madras ; per Ple•Dotili
ante, Aluwick Castle, Cirencister, and MarePlicktP
of Exeter, 19 Officers and 825 Men, making °,-5,
of t 300 Non.commissioned Officers and Priyat' -0
aced rho
We shall, we apprehend, have dreadful ace-
of theVrench Armament, if it had not got into on'
Trade Winds before the late violent storms OP- tot
Letters from Vienna of the 14. th ult. inforirog'
that the GRAND DUKE of TUSCANY has alroui
sumed his new titles, as follow : « We, bYetiß
grace of God, Prince of Hungary and 131 ,riocil,,
Archduke of Austria, Elector of Salzburglly deo,
of the Holy Empire of Panaw and Berclitoisir
rioc
General MENOU, after performing quara°
Toulon, landed with a numerous suite of woilleo 009 \
servants. Several of the lay ter had horse 0;
which is a distinaion of the Pachas. Mati'lec 17,1)11
Nov, who is an Egyptian, appeared in pubr,',;(los
veiled, agreeably to the practice of the
Ladies.
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The population of Cadiz, which forme rIY
fP
ed to 80,000 souls, is reduced, by the late 0,004
mic Disease to 45,0c0. Several English C,liforl'
cial Houses are about to revive their Establish
in that City,

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NAVAL MEWS.

PORTSMOUTH, FEE. 3.

Tilts day the Egyfitienne Frigate was released
from quarantine.

SHEERNESS, FEB. 3.

717.1ris.day a Court-Martial was held on board the
kagic;or'ne, in this Harbour, to try John Cook, late
, belonging to the D.:lphin Cutter, for " Desertion
and Robbery ;" when the former charge only being
proved, he was sentenced to receive rsc, lashes on
his bare back, with a cat-of-nine-tails, alongside of
such Ship, and at such times, as the Lords of the
Admiralty shall be pleased to dire Et.
Yesterday evening came down the River, under
jury-masts from Woolwich, the Plantagenet, a fine
new ship, of 74. guns : she is ordered to proceed to
Plymouth.
This day arrived His Majesty's Ship _Minotaur,
0114 guns, Captain Louts ; in her way up from
the Downs, she was ran on shore on the Pan-Sand,
by the ignorance of the Pilot, but has fortunately
received no damage. Also arrived from the Downs,
the Gannet Stoop of War, Captain COTGRAV E, and
has sailed up the. 'Marries.
The S'opbie Sloop of War has gone out of Hat-
boUr to the Great Nore.