The Sun.
London, England, 1802-02-05 00:00:00

LONDON, FEBRUARY 5, 0302.

This morning arrived the Hamburg Mail due
on Wednesday last.—Though intelligence through
this channel is generally anticipated by the French
Papers, yet it may som:::imes bring us such as these
may not chuse, or may not be enabled, to publish.
Of this nature is the account we receive by the
Hanibc rgh Mail of this Clay, to an article from Mentz,
of the rgth ult. which states that Gen. SEBASTIANz,
the French Minister to the Porte, had set out on his
return to Paris, the GRAND SEIGNIOR having re-
fused to ratify the Treaty of °Et. gth ;—and an ar-
ticle from Constantinople, Dec. 24th, says, that
Lord ELGIN had concluded a separate Convention
with the Porte, by which particular privileges have
been granted to the English, with regard to the
Levant and East-/nefia Trade, on account of the
signal services rendered by the British Forces in
Egypt; which Convention is to last for three years.

We have this day presented our readers with
the remainder of the Constitution and the Organic
Laws of the Italian Republic:
We purposely abstain from offering any further
observations on the intelligence from Lyons,, which
we yesterday communicated .to our Readers, and
which might give birth to various specuLttions, di..
reEled to very different objects, and leading to
verydifferentconclusions._ The subject is a delicate
one ; and we trust that the Public will properly
estimate our motives, if we abstain from discus-
sions, Which, under the present relative circum-
stances of Great Britain and France, might justly
be considered as indiscreet and unnecehsary.

HER MAJPSTY held a Drawing-room yesterday
at St.. James's Palace, which was most numerously
and brilliantly attended; 'it being the first after the
celebration of HER IVLIEsTy's Birth-day, most of
the Nobility appeared in their Gala dresses.

THEIR MAJES'ETES and the PRINCESSES AUGUS-
TA; ELIZABETH, IVIARI`I, SOPHIA, and AMELIA
entered the Drawing room at two o'cloCk, when
the Court commenced. The circle consisted of
their Royal Highnesses the DUKES Of CLARENCE,
KENT, CUMBERLAIhD, and CAMBRIDGE; . the
Frencn, Imperial, RusSian, Hessian, Danish, and
Neapolitan Envoys ; the Right Rehr. the Bishop of
DURHAM ; the Right Hon. the LORD CHANCEL.
LOR, the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, Lords
HAWE.ESBURY and IJORART, the SECRETARY at
WAR-; the Right Hon. the LORD MALIOR, accom-
panied by his Lady 'and his Lordship's. Chaplain,
and a number of Nobility, Sr:. of both sexes, of
whoM the tollovving were pre92nt

Dukes—Portland, Roxburgh, and Montrose.
Dutchess ot.Dorset.

Marv/ ises— Headfort and Salisbury.
Ma; c4ionessei--11eadtort, Sligo, Bath, and Dowager Donne_
gal.
Earls—Harrington, Northarninon, Cholmondeley, Morton,
dthurAt; Chatham, Westmorland, Clieuerfield, Pam-
fr:t; E Hingham, [ersey, Mount Edgeumbe,
blacdcsietti, Cardigan, Camden, fortescue, Fauconberg,
rues bury .

Cowaes.ies::-,A4lacclesfield, Camden, Liverpod, 13ruhl. P.-
cnester, Westmorland, DowabtrEssex, P6ltsmotith, SL.i.-
-o,o', and Ely.
. _
c..unt Haslang, Baron Nagel.

Discounts--Sidney, Chetwynd, Harburton,\Ventworth, Hck.t.
and Folkestone.
l'ismattessts—Harburton, and Sidney.
Lordr—Boston, Cathcart, Whitworth, Digby, W. De Bro
Bolton, Hawkesbury, Glenbervi, Hobart,-: Pelham, S-
mervillc, Bleathfield, \Valsingha.t, G. Thynne, R. Fit-
gerald, and Langford.
Generals--Delaney, Ross, Coote, and Lister.
alcneh—Roberts, Hope, Stapleton, Cowell, Glyn, Steven,
Winyard, and Whitham.
ilfajors—Desborough, and Fuller.
Captains—Chester, Plamplin, Legge, Holloway, Hunt;
and Gray.
Ladies—,Glyn, M. Parker, F. Compton, two Thynnes
Carleton, Milman, K. _Fitzgerald, F. Percival, M. Perci
val, H. Fitzroy, Sheffield, Douglas, Glenbervie Lucas
C. Harris, Chambers, Dacre, Lavingdon, Grantham, C
Smith, Wilson, C. Wynne, Euston, 11. Brown, Amherst
M. Bentinck, C. Johnson, C. Waldegrave, Floward
Dowager Templetown, Melbourne, Poole, Walstngham
Boston, Trigge, Bensley, Winyard, Hammond, Law, A.
Cumberland, H. Wallop.
Sirs—R. Onslow, W. James, H. Dashwood, R. Wilson
Orde, A. Ball, C. Morgan, J. Pulteney, 1. Burges, C
Pole, J. Colpoys, H. Strachey, and S. Cotterel.
Messrs.—R. More, C. More, Conyers, Bankes, Hon. R.
Walpole, Egerton, Knox, Newbolt, Hillindon, Bonc,
Villiers, Abbot, Elliot, Knight, Dawkins, Hon. Mr: Co-
lier Warner, Bouverie, Hatsel, Garth, Stratton Uptot,
Paoli, Stevens, Law, Cavendish, Wallace, and Wickham
Mistresses--R. More, Armitage, Conyers, Banks, Hon. M.
Walpole, Egerton, Stratton, Hoblins, Newbolt, Knot,
Calvert, Roberts, Peachill, Stapleton, Robertson, Beat,
foy, Wheeler, C. Yorke, Grant, Ramsden, Agnew, Chu.
mondely, P. Carey, Strange, Smith' Hunter, Glyn, Mi.
thew, 1). Smith, Broderic, Agar, and Wickham. .'
Misses—Whitworth, 2 Irbys, Digby, Broderic, 3 North s,
Dashwood, Knox, a Hoblins, A. Peachill, Smith, -Harn-
na,nd, a Egertons, Lawrence, and Chester.
The Presentations to Her MAJESTY were, Mrs.
MATTHEW, (first time) by Lady CARLETON;
MISS DIGBY, appointed one of the Maids of Ho-
nour to the QUEEN,. in the room Of Miss JEF-
FRIES, deceased, had the honour to kiss Her MA..
JESTY'S hand on her preferment ; she was dressed
in white, and was introduced by her aunt, Admiral
DIGBY'S Lady; Captain PLAMPLIN, by Sir H.
PARKER ; Captain Sir A. BALL, of the Navy, by •
Captains LEGGE and HOLLOWAY.
Lord WHITWORTH, appointed Ambassador to
France, and Mr. WI cm-lAm to the Court of Berlin,
had audiences of the KING.
Sir C. MORGAN laid before HIS MAJESTY
Minutes of a Court Martial, and at five o'clock
the ROYAL FAMILY returned to Buckingham-
House. •
His MAJESTY yesterday morning took an excur_
sion to Kew, and on his return accompanied the
QUEEN to St. James's Palace.
•

It was yesterday very confidently reported that
Sir JOHN M I TFO R D would be appointed Irish
Chancellor, at least his definitive answer was ex..
peeled to be given last night ; in which case Mr.
BRAGG E is likely to be chosen Speaker, and report
added that Mr. TIERNEY would succeed that Gen-
tleman as Treasurer of the Navy.

The outlines of the new Militia Bill are—That
the whole Militia body shall be sixty thousand
men. That the men shall be drawn to serve for
ten years, but substitutes to be taken for five years,
and renewed at the end of that term. One ti'Aird of
the body is to be called kout for twenty-one days
annually, to be exercised. Regiments of 800
men to have one Colonel, two Lientenant-Colonels,
and three Majors. Regiments of 700 men have
one Colonel, two Lieutenant-Colonels, and two
'Majors, and so on, reducing the number Field
Officers in proportion to the size of the Regiment.
The Bill contains a number of other regulations,
and we understand that it is generally approved of
by the Militia Officers.
Three thousand guineas for a Service of Plate
have been voted in the handsomest manner, by the
House of Assembly of :Jamaica, to His Royal High-
ness the DUKE of CLARENCE, in testimony of the
gratitude of the AsseMbly for his exertions in Par-
liament in favour of their interests.

Yesterday New-York Papers to the i zth January
inclusive were received. They contain Letters
which have arrived' in different parts of America,
describing the calamitous state of the French West
India Islands. A fresh Insurreaion was on the
point of breaking out in Guadaloupe. The New_
York Advertiser of the Sth January contains the
following Letter on the subject{ :

" Baltimore; 3`a?"4"Y 3.

ec Arrived yesterday the Sloop Exchange, Capt.
1318 E RT, from Guadaloupe ; she left it on the s rth,
at which time Port-au-Petre, and the whole Island,
was in confusion, another Insurreilion having taken
place there, which, if it had not been fortunately
discovered, would have involved the total detruc-
tion of every White and Mulatto on the Island.

" The Rebels, in the present instance, were. the
Country Blacks against the Whites and Mulattoes.
The former having lent a helping hand in the Re-
volution which had been just effeCted, expeded a
total emancipation from their masters, but not find-
ing that event confirmed, or even contemplated in
the Proclamation of the yellow General PELAGE,
they had determined to achieve their own liberty
through • the blood of PELAGE and his party.
For this purpose i 1,000 were•to have been orga-
nized on the night succeeding that on Which the
plot was discovered ; to have burnt the towns, and
to have, murdered every man, woman, and child of
PELAGE'S party. At that very moment only, when
it could possibly have been defeated, was the plot
discovered, through a Black woman, who was. the
kept Miss of a White man, when four of the ring-
leaders-were apprehended.
" Notwithstanding the bloody projet had 'beer,
discovered, and for the present warded off, yet every
thing was apprehended from the vengeance and
,fe-
rocity of the Blacks, and all was in the utmost con-
fusion. In such haste Was.the island deserted by
those who could get off, 'that, the 'Exchange came
away on the i.lth, with 'only two' hands on board.
An English and a French Frigate were at that time
off the Island, cautioning vesselS not to go ir.—
Accounts had also been received that General MAC-
DONALD had sailed for the Windward'lslands with
8,000 meta, and ROCHAMBE.AI,I ,foj• the Leeward, •
with 4-o;000."
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A Tetition was presented to the House of Ripre-
sentatives in America, on the sth of januari, on
behalf of a Mr. DurRE, stating,
.that he hatidis.
covered perpetual motion.. It was 4ated• the loth
day °fret-feet motion,

NAVAL NEWS.

PORTSMOUTH, FEB. 4.

THIS day it has blown a hard gale of wind from
the South-West, and we hear that a Man of War's
Boat, with two Officers and nine Men, were all
drowned. In corroboration of this fad, several
boat's oars, stern-sheet boards, &c. were picked
up floating into ihe Harbour.
Arrived at the Motherbank, and put under qua.
tantine, the Swedish Ship Thetis, ASTROM master,
from Alicant.

. This day the Good Design Armed Ship, was re-
leased from quarantine.

YARMOUTH, FE B. 4.

THE Earl of Leicester Packet, Captain TtromP-
SON, from Cuxhaven, arrived in Yarmouth Roads
yesterday, with Passengers, having landed her
Mails at Bridlington ; and this day the Prince of
Wales. Packet, DEANE, from Cuxhaven, arrived
here with Mails and. Passengers.
The Industry, HOPKINS, from Leith, to London,
with bottles, is put'in here with loss of masts and
other damage, having been on the Barnard Sand.
Sailed the Wray, WILLsoN, to Stockwith ;
Friends' Goodwill, METCALF, to Hull ; Exchange,
BLY, and Crown, FLIGHT, to Newcastle.
Arrived the Earl of Leicester, NrcHor,s, _Ceres,
OTTEy, and Hope, RAI NE R, from London.