The Sun.
London, England, 1802-01-06 00:00:00

LONDON, YANUARY 6, 1802.

WE have this morning received from Dover, a
piece of intelligence which cannot hut be considered
as of the most important nal Urr, ifit- be corrca.—We
give iE without vouching for authenticitv,
re-
marking at the same time, that 'the channel through
which it comes is of the most respeetable kind.

EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM. ROVER, JAN. 5.

" It is reported here, that Molt AUK BERTEIIER,
MASSE NA, and BF.RNADOTTE,IIaVe been arrested.—
Search is said. to be making after M‘DoNALo, and
an Embargo was on Sunday laid, on the Shipping in
all the Ports of France."

Nine Sail of the Line are ordered-to be fitted im.
mediarely at POrtsmouth, for foreign service, sup—
posed for•the West Indies::

The Leeward Islands. Fleet, consisting of about
One Hundred Sail of Vessels, which salted from
Martinique on the 19th of November last,.was dis-
persed in a Fiolent gale of wind about the middle
of last month.. The 1114Y:writ/le, of 44 guns, the
Convoy of the Fleet, arrived on Monday at Ply_
mouth, in a state of considerable distress ; two of
the Fleet have likewise come in there, and several
had been spoke with,.after the dispersion, all well

theie are; .therefore, hopes that the damage may not
be co ns

. Lir: Trial of the'MUtineers Of the Detachment
of the Channel Fleet under .the command of Vice-
Admiral Sir AN nk EW'MITt HE L 1., were expefted to
commence this day -at Spithead. We have made
such arrangements as will enable us. to present to
our Readers a full account of the Proceedings, with
the greatest possible dispatch. •

OUR ReaAert must be sensible, it iS only during a
periodof Continental War, that any news from Ham-
burgh can 'be Teally interesting. The general Peace
which is promised to all Europe, opens new sources of
communication more -frequent and, more expeditious
than any which can be derived' from that quarter;
and with the-exception pf
,an -occasional Article of
Intelligence reipet-ting, the Powers of the North, the
Gazettes of Baniburgh must henceforth be dull,
spiritless, and unentertaining. Denmark and Sweden
are not likely, to afford' any: immediate topics for
political., animadversion. The determined councils
of our Government, and the vigorous operations of
our Navy,. have so: completely dispelled the combi-
nation which threatened our Maritime Independence,
and Superiority, that those Countries have no al-
. at.
tFrnive left hut to pursue the paths of a more
humble ambition, to. iiriprove their internal Ad-
ministrations, and to extend, as far as their capa-
cities will permit, their mercantile 'and commer-
cial transaaions, .

The other States, indeed, 'whose bo-rders extend
to the shores of the Baltic, must necessarily, from
their local. importance, occupy a distinguiAled place
on the Theatre of EUropean Politics. But the in
formation_ we shall derive froth those regions, will
arrive much earlier' from Holland and the Low
Countries, than through the' Circuitous medium of
the Hambur,gh Mail. It is from France, therefore,
we must expert such news as shall interest and
amuse our Readers. But there, nay even in the
Capital of that Country of nominal Freedom, Poli-
tidal Information must 'be received with many
grains of -allowance and qualificatiorr. The Sword
of Damocles is suspended .over the head of eVery
Journalist, where no opinions dare be published ex-
cepting such as are conformable to the sentiments
the prevalent Power. • 'There; men assume the ap-
pear‘anees of their Rulers ; adulatory and passive,
they take the tone of thinking from the latter
when they smile,. the CitiZens smile, when Eke"
frown, the Citizens are silent. .
What a wretched state is this for men to live in ?
Where is the proud -obedience, the high-minded
spirit of Independence, that (charaaerize a, free
People, to be I found ? s In Britain only. He;:e,
secui ed by venerated Laws from the abuse of Power,
and living under a Monarch beloved for every vir-
tue, pUblic and _private,the Subjea of this Country
feels himelf, in regard to
,Liberty, Security, and
. _
HappineSs; superior, to the greatest Subjeef of the
Continent, and in regard to Howur, equal to all of
•
them.

Without ,reverting to that. long catalogue of
glorious atchieveMents which during the last Nine
years, justly entitle us to this envied preeedence,
we need
.only. remark, that under such an'
stration as the present, we have even,' possible
guarantee those -blessings will be
preserved
inviolate to the lateSt:posterity. these expee.
-tatitins should be disappointed, the fault will

either on the restless maehipations of' worst.l
•
plitt of the People, :or In the elevation of ,men
ostensible situations, who neither possess the,, heads
oor hearts of the present Ministers, and who, ;con_
sequently, can never possess an equal share of the
public confidence and. estimation.

The Hambursib Hail which became due this
morning,- had not arrived when our Paper waslut
to Press.

Anoth**ta.chinent of the Guards who servo in.
the ever memorable, and glorious Campaign of
Egypt, mireh4into Portman ;Barracks a 'little -be-
fore three o'clock yesterday afternoon. - The' con--
course ofpedffie assembled to greet them was.gre*i
than on the 'preceding. day.
.They marched in with
,their band of music playing,, and were hailed with
nine huzzas by the people. Curiosity continued-to
attrati a multitude of speaatars till eight o'CloCk in
the evening.

'From' the orders issued by. the Commander in
Chief in Ireland, for the return :of the' several
carps of Fencibles stationed there to their seeral
counties where they were raised, the greater part
of the Scots corps have received their routes ; par-
ticularly the Cromarty, Lochaber, North Lowland,
and Loyal Tay. They are to repiaceithoeveral
county regiments of militia, which are expe&d to
be disembodied on the 24th inst.

On Thursday the 24th ult. Major-General 1-T.
resigned. the Command of the Northern Distria. ar
Aberdeen,. as -did the General Officers upon -the Staff
in",the other Distri is of Scotland; this establishment
being no longer considered -necessary for the Public
Service.

Orders have been sent down to all the Officers
commanding at the Signal Pos-ts-along oui-coasts, to
discontinue their' watch for night" signals.
The Marines serving on board :Vice-Admiral
M n cH tI. L'S Squadron behaved in the most
and loyal manner, particularly those of the Princeis
Rua' and Tenzeraire, in which latter ship in a
five minutes 'they drove the mutineers from-the
gang-ways arid forecastle into the litad, the -ports;
on the bowsprit, and afterwards frotn the decks`
;on the Novi- where they kept• them-tititil.
at ni4hund until they had.surrendered their
Marines •of the -P?incess Royal
volunteered their services to go 'on board any
mutinous ship, and to reduce them 'by force.—
They have received the Thanks of the ..Admi-
ralty Board 'for their- firm and exemplary good
condua during the Mutiny in Bantry Bay, 'yVhere
is the occasion, we may confidently ask, in which'
that Corps has not uniformly displayed tbe most
steady adherence to Discipline, and the most .dii-
anguished exertions of Courage ? •
His Majesty's Letters Patent have passed the
Great Seal of Ireland, constituting and appointing
ARTHUR BRowNF, Esq. His Majesty's Prime
Serjeant at. Law in Ireland, in the .room of
STANLEY, Fsq. who has resigned.
His Majesty's Letters Patent have pasied under
the Great Seal of Ireland, constitutiug and appoint-
ing WO. SMITH, Esq. one of the Barons'of His Ma-
jesty's Court of EXcuequer in Ireland, in the room
PETER Mvro.a, F.'sq, who has resigned.
Lieut. Gen. WM, gAltptIER is 'appointed Co..
vernor of Kinsale and Charles Fort; vice General
Lord RossmottE, deceased,
The lion, CHRI'ST'OPHER HELY HUTCHINSON",
Brother to General Lord kly rex ItisoN, is defied
Representative of die City of Cork, in the room of
the General, who is called up, to the House of
Peers,.

, Colonel MQNTAGUI who comnianded the Bengal.
Detachment of Artillery, in the, late war against
Tir goo Sticriorti, was one -of—the aCtivey-
i'ntelligent, and respefted'qlEcers in the Company's.
Service... His adivity.and bravery were proverbial;-
:tint so. greai. Were' his, eer t ions' on the- day, he vas-
dnfortunately killed, that a violent fe‘'rert'seited
which. increased. to such an alarniing
that he was, under the necessity of submitting to be
bled .. three .6.m-0- in the field. Notwidistanding
which, lie resisted all the efforts of his friends to.
indOce him to be carried to his, tent; till), at length,
he was, slaifirbir' a cannon shot. It is extraordinary'
ihat.'the great "merit and eminent services of thiST
gallant Officer,. Were= not mentioned either in public
orders,' or in any ofthe public letters. He left a wi.
dow,and 'several children, -besides a..numerous .set of
private friends, to lament his loss.

The present GOTENOR-GENtRAL of India lives
in moxe splendour, and! keeps- -up-infinitel-y- More-
state than 'any' of his ,predecessors: He never ap-
pears. with Out a train of Attendants; Native and
European.; Some former
,Governors had relaxed, it
Was thought, tod. Much in this reVeo,- in cone.
quence of which, the Natives, particularly at Cal',
Qutta, were growing too familiar. It was common,
a very short. lime..sinet, to hear an Attorney at.
Calcutta complain of the intolerable insolence of
a Hindu Rajah (a Native Prince), in not Stopping
his palanquin, and retiring, as formerly, •to-• the
opposite side Of theroadi while be; theAtibiney,'
passed ; at the same iime.Observing, that this loss
of proper respett, was entirely owing.to our giving
the Rascals the benefit of the. Laws of England. •

It was but a proper compliment in the Minister
to consult Mr; SHERIDAN, if such.was.the purport
of their conversation together in the House of Com-
mons on Monday, on the'subjed of the A/ainy.—
We can never forget, nor will it be soon forgotten
by the Country, that in the unconstitution,al seeds_.
sion of his Party from their duty in Pa'rliament, at
the very alarming crisis of the former Mutiny, that
Gentleman not only gave his presence, in his place,
in the House !of Cornmons, but uttered sentiments
calculated to repress the Spirit of Mutiny in' the
Fleet, and to giwconfidence to the Nation.
• The next French 'Papers will probably bring .us
the account_of,,the Eleetion•of the HonoraryMent.
hers ro be Added to the National Institute of France.
We shall be disappointed, if we Ito 'not see the
name of SHEltillrAn iq the List; as we think the
choice will do equal honour to This tountrY,and ;to
that. Mr. SUER rnAg is a man, whosse superior
literary powers do honour to the human race.