The Sun.
London, England, 1802-02-10 00:00:00

LONDON, FEBRUARY ro, 18oz.

WE this morning received Paris
_7ournals of the
6th instant inclusive. We have given, under the
Head of Paris, all their most important contents.
An article from Havre states, that the Definitive,
Treaty would be signed by the I 3th of the present
month ; but these accounts are to be received with
the same degree of credit as those in some of our
own Journals here, that have been assuring us for
a week, or even a month past, that it was aaually
signed. The strictest secrecy is observed with
respeet to the proceedings at Amiens, but we have
no reaf,on to abate our hope, founded upon superior
information to what any other Paper possesses, that
the much wished-for event of the final conclusion of
the Definitive Treaty is very near at hand.
The Mon;teur of the sth, contains a long article
from St. Domingo, dared Nov..7th, 18ot, received
by the way of New-York, in which ToussAiNT
LOUVERTURE gives an account of 'some Insurrec-
tions, kind of the means whiet he had taken to sup_
press them ; and concludes with observing, that
tranquillity had been perfedly restored.
The French Funds were on the sth inst. 57. Ty.
These Papers were brought over in a French
Packet Vessel, which brought a Messenger and a
Mail. A report was likewise brought Over yes-
terday, which was stated to be confidently believed
in France, that BONAPARTE was to be chosen Chief
Magistrate of the Batavian and Helvetic Republics.

IT was with infinite satisfadion4 that we on Mon-
day communicated to our Readers the Intelligence
of Admiral CAMPBELL'S having set sail for the
West-Indies. It is a conclusive proof of a wound
being entirely closed, which we hope, and indeed
are confident, will never again break forth ; and in
the cure of which the delicate, the skilful, and the
decisive hand of Government has been throughout
so eminently displayed.

On the subjeEt of the Army Extraordinarics,
which have occasioned some discussion lately in the
House of Commons, we cannot refrain from offer-
ing a few observations. To those who take the
trouble of reading the Reports of Debates, they
may possibly appear almost superfluous ; but may
not be so to such as can neither command time or
opportunity to pay much attention to them.
The Minister very properly lays before the
House the distribution of the sum obtained by a
Vote of Credit, by which every item is made pub-
lic, constituting the Extraordinaries of the Army,
which hail exceeded the Estimate made of them.
From one quarter he is charged in the lump, with a
scandalous profusion of the Public Money, where
however is silence, when defied to prove it in one
single instance: from another, a minute observa-
tion is made on all the specific details, to every one
of which a specific explanation is given. At such
explanation perfect satisfa&ion is expressed on one
night, and retraaed on another.

This is the suns total of the opposition mac?: to
the Mifistcr on this occasion, To examine it at

length, would indeed be trifling with our Readers.
Who of them is so ignorant as not to see that the
expence thus incurred, is in fact nothing more than
the winding up of an expensive War, for which the
present Government cannot, at any rate; be respon-
sible, but which responsibility would be far from
disgraceful to them ? Who is so blind as not at
once to perceive that the greatest part of this e:,;-
pence necessarily arose out of measures adopted,
(wisely we will ever maintain) by the preceding
Administration ; that between the Services perform-
ed, and the adoption of the measures, there must
necessarily be some interval, as also between the
demand for payment and the services performed,
and between the acceptance of the Bills at home and
the demand for payment abroad ? Thus a very con-
siderable time must elapse between the first issue of
the order from home, and the tillual payment at
the Treasury of the expence created by it ; so that
giving the dates of such actual payments would be
quite nugatory, as giving no useful information
whatever.

The only step that could have been taken by the
present Government to avoid discharging the ex-
pence thus incurred, must have been, to stop the
payment of the Bills drawn by different Commis-
saries or Envoys., when presented at the Treasury.
Such a measure it might well suit the wise head
of a M—T-41, or a R—s—N CO recommend.—
These Bills always come accompanied by proper
explanations of the expenses which they were to
defray, and supported by regular vouchers, which,
with the Accounts, undergo the most minute inves-
tigation, first, by the Comptrollers of Army Ac-
counts, and afterwards by the Auditors. Any re-
ports made by them to the Treasury may of course
be called for by any Member of Parliament who has
any doubts about the correaness or propriety of
any one charge. On the part of the Minister,
there has not only been a readines to give an ex-
planation on any charge, but he has courted and
challenged investigation.
It must have afforded very great satisfaaion to
the Public to find, that, notwithstanding the vast-
ness of our Marine Establishment, and the great
and expensive Naval Operations which were carried
on in the course of the last year, a very consider-
able saving in that branch of the Public Expendi-
ture had alually been effeaed even during that
period. We were not ignorant,, that the CHAN-
CELLOR of the EXCHEVER, with his able Coad-
jutor, the First Lord of the Admiralty, had parti-
cularly exerted themselves to introduce Economy
into that Department.
That every article of Public Expenditure should
be closely scrutinized by the Representatives of the
People, the People have a right to expert. It is
their first duty. But a discerning Public will have
no difficulty in discriminating between tlie-frivo.
lons cavilling of halfwitted Senators, and, the laud_
able vigilance of the Statesman or the Patriot.—
To the sacred Charaaer of the latter, let not that
Individual presume to aspire, who dares to bring a
charge of scandalous profusion, from the proof of
which he shrinks ; and who, by a disgusting cant
about candour and honesty, perhaps, but vainly,
hopes to impose upon a Public, in whose estimation
Professions will not constitute Worth, on the one
hand, nor vague unproved Charges, Demerit, on
the other.

The Hamburg', Mail which became due this
morning is not arrived.
HER MAJESTY and the Pa INcEssti came to
Town yesterday, from Windsor.
The KING also arrived in the afternoon, having
rode out with some Noblemen and the Attendants
in the Great Park..

Our Portsmouth Letter of this morning states,
that the Bells of that place were set a ringing, and
the Town Colours were displayed from the Church
Cupola yesterday, 'in consequence of the tidings of
the Signing the Definitive Treaty of Peace. It was
by Star-light, no doubt, that all these rejoicings
took place!
Friday night Her Grace the Dutchess of GoRDON
and Lady GEORCIANA arrived in Edinburgh from
the North, on their way to London.
The DUKE of YORK is taking into his Park so
large a piece of Walton Common, that it is said the
fencing alone will cost 70001.
In Monday's Paper we mentioned the munificent
benefaCtion to Greenwich Hospital and the Chest at
Chatham, by an unknown Gentleman. It is noticed
in the Gazette of last night in the following manner :
" A Gentleman, who will not permit his name
to be known, having by a confidential Friend sent
to Lord HOOD, Governor of Greenwich Hospital,
the amount of the sale of Ten Thousand Pounds in
the Three per Cent. Consols. for the use and be.
nefit of the said Hospital ; •

,‘ The Governors and Dire tors take this method
of returning their most grateful Thanks for the very
generous gift.
" This truly benevolent Gentleman has also
given the like sum to the Chest at Chatham."

Mrs. WALL, widow of the late Colonel WALL,
is nor, as, erroneously stated, sister to the present
Lora SEAFORTH, Governor of Barbadoes ; but of
the late Lord StAvoaTH, a Peer of the Kingdom of
Ireland, and whose title died with himself,

NAVAL NEWS.

BRIXIMAI, FEB. S.

ark
Fur into Torbay, the Fleet of Men of W3l.
Merchantmen bound to the West Indies, 3:°' 's‘ci

.P 1 YlllQUilf, FEB. 8.

from

ARR I VED the Ville de Paris, of 110‘gunci eOO
Torbay ; Alr.etl7.q and La N.;,-mphe Frigates'
a Cruize in the Channel.
Sailed the Edgar, of 74 guns, and Diamovi
gate, for Torbay; and SFrfire, of 20 guns, C3o3'
Kt EN, with Dispatches for the West lodies,