The Sun.
London, England, 1802-05-26 00:00:00

out exceptions.

THEIR MAJESTIES and the PRINCES lts ‘,,03
to town yesterday from Windsor to
Buckine
House.' •
The QUEEN will hold a Drawing'
morrow at St. James's Palace. - - • ;
will fc'
It.is expeded that the ROYAL IFAMI LTil mit
move to Kew
soon after the birth-day of Pis
JESTY. ~gea
The PRINCESS of ''ALES is at present enk of
in Painting on velvet, furniture for a ,Vo,tbich
rooms, at k r house at Blackheath, one "'I e' lo-
is a beaul,N; imitation of the skin f t.' Op
Pard. The groundwork of the vel il
spotted witli black. •
...ill
room g.o"'

WAt'AL NEWS.

PLYMOUTH) MAY 24.

•
4 S 411-tp the Re,:ard, of i 6 guns, with nispatches
.0, toe! West Indies.
Arrived the Betsey Transport, with part of the
tz
th Light Dragoons from Alexandria ; also the
44d 1
liSla) Cox, from Cadiz, with salt.

'PORTSMOUTH, MAY 25.

11111vEb.the Rose, BUTTON, from Plymouth.
• •
411 ed the Sea 11, wpb, CHURCH, for Guernsey.

HARWICH, MAY 25.

PrliE Diana Post-Office Packet, Capt. STEW ART,
4
44. d •
ts morning from Cuxhaven, with the Ham-
tir e this
ah Mail and Passengers.
~the Prince of Orange, Capt. BRIDGE, and the
rrnepss
Doy ixai Packet, Capt. A. DEANE, are pre-
Ited from proceeding with Saturday's Mails, ow..
in
g to the wind blowing hard from the East.
`=main the Arc-us and riper Revenue Cruizers,
,b.7tce °.f Wales, King George, Earl of Leicester, and
+.qr.4,44 Packets,

DEAL, MAX 2.5.

Ikt,
-rAttv in the Downs the Amazon Frigate,
vesse
.Ze Sloop, illomkey) Vixen, and Confiia Gun.
ls.

to This morning arrived a Mail from Lisbon, brought
twFalmouth by the Prince Adolphus Packet, in
•elve days.
A Yest, A
id , the LORD MAYOR held a Court of
Alien/len at Guildhall, at which were present 17
(etTheil, Mr. RECORDER, and the SHERIFFS.
„ The - LORDkitiffi- MAYOR nominated. the following
the.eh teen, fti be put up on Midsummer-Day for ,
9f
Sheriffs
the Livery, to elea two for the Office
for the year ensuing, viz.
~t'illiun George Willi ~t Si.bley? Es, Merce;.
Philip Clothorker.
L'q.
w NorrisGirpenter.
Charles Pratt,, - Baker.
i?hrißutts, Es 1.
- - - Draper. •
ichn Arundell Knight, - G,unmaker. •
peter Everitt MestaPr Esq. C kothworker.
.arses Simmons, Esq. - - Stationer.
11161nas Fish, Esq.- - Am-tourer and Brazier.
tread was ordered to be advanced half an assize,
'ant penny in the peck. loaf.
Y private Letters from Paris, of the 22d inst.
learn that on Friday last, not above 7000 names
pf hen
inscribed in the Lists for the reception
4s Chief
votes respeaing the Election of BONAPARTE
f
hief Consul for life. This Eleftion will, pro_
4DI
LY, be made by a very small proportion indeed
toe French People.
b( !'n
)\ Monday morning His Royal Hi the
'414 of CAMBRIDGE embarked on board the
.14115hion Frigate, Capt. FRASER, at Yarmouth,
ttuder a Royal Salute from. the Amphion Frigate,
fieshtile Adder Gun-vessel, but the wind blowing
?to jat North-east, His Royal Highness was ex-
e" to return to the Nelson hotel that afternoon.
spie n Monday the LORD MAYOR gave a very
lidld entertainment to the Britannia Lodge of
tl:e Masons, at which the PRINCE of `'VALES and
and t f the Brethren %vete present. The PRINCE
4e, uls 'party did not leave the Mansion-house till
4r eleven o'clock at night.
v„jhe Earl of GUILDFORD a few days since
;t Ited upon
- ,•Mr. PITT, and resigned his situation
Lieutenant Govrnor of Dover Castle. This
%.14Z1ii:ltrnerit is in the- gift 9f the Lord Warden of
IllqUe Ports, and was given to his Lordship by
ete(rather, ;when Lord NORTH. Mr. PITT on suc-
tessor.'B to tliat' office continued it to the late pos_

Lot •
tor Wow said that neither Marquis ELLESLEY
I CLIVE return to Europe this season.
atl3 0(1th Ladies and Gentlemen are to be in uniform
Cale dress ball to he given next week by BOODLE'S
%iCi• The Ladies are to be dressed in white and
The
with sprigs of laurel and olive intermixed.
le Gentlemen are to wear a green coat,.
_with
I .
trock collar and yellow basket buttons. Military
° h, ,aval uniforms, or Court dress, will likewise
- admitted.
..
(,
\ vetera The present from his Brother Performers to the
n
tratif • KING does them infinite credit, and is a
is ft Yitig tribute to the professional and moral dia-
-1 , trig" °f a man who has, for so many years, con-
4, Uted largely to the public stock of innocent
• ..tusetrient.
1 IIItiIIfsMAJESTY having been pleased to appoint
for a ter one o'clock on Thursday the vith inst.
_
Cam receiving the Address of the University of
triridge, such Members as are disposed to attend
hat occasion, arequested to meet at the
• ' after atch'd House Taii,••_fn, St, James's_street, at half
twelve o'clock on that day.
1., kiAtL_CoAcit NIA-rcit.—Last Thursday the
t Dndon Mail horsed by Mr. Land, of the New
ona .
-On Inn, Exeter, with four beautiful grey horses,
lind INdriven b-,..m
4Jray 1 r. Cave Browne, of the Enniskillen
. st goons, started (at. the sound of the bugle), from
• 111 SYdwells, for a bet of 500 guineas, against the
0111e)uttavlail, horsed by Mr. Phillips of the Hotel;
thith four capital blacks, and driven by Mr. Chi.
.. fireler, lir:Arlington-house, which got the Mail
, .•
firer
to the Post-Office in Honiron. The bet was
. : . ~,,n *.ith ease by Mr. Browne, who drove -the i 6
' • '"to"es in / hour and 14. minutes.—Bets at starting 6
~4 °n Mr. Browne.
, •'.
.ca.4:-., arly
00 Monday morning the Cotton Mill at
• :,,tl,l,ver, in Derbyshire, was discovered to be on fire,
thu notwithstanding every exertion to extinguish
coeames, in less than two hours it was entirely
•-•,. nsutned
14i„, • It is not ascertained how the accident
t)nr,rnedi the works were minutely examined late
its night, and every thing appeared 'in per-
4cler. Ilic losc is estimates ;t 20) Qa°"
oi\
--,,.. .

PA IS, MAY 22.

ttcl§tAtiyE Bony.
SITTING OF MAY 1,0.

TREATY OF AMIENS'.'

GAttots, Orator of the Tribunate : cc tcgislal
tors, the Treaty concluded at Athiens, and which
you have sent to the Tribunate!, re-establishes
Union between two People, between whom War or
Peace has produced, for an age, the War or Peace of
the World. It is the last act of the general Pacifi-
cation.

" This disastrous War, which for ten years had
overturned Europe, so terrible by the energy of its
cause, by all the passions whiclOt had roused, by
all the means of adion and of resistance which it
inspired, by the reverses, as by the success of
the contrary principles which direded the move.
ments, is at length terminated by a Peace which
equally avows the honour and the interests of Na-
tions ; by a Peace worthy of the triumphs which
have prepared it, and of all the generous sentiments
which have invoked and accomplished it.
" How comes it that a people who wished to
be free and independent, could find amongst their
enemies, a people who owed to their independence
and their liberty, all their power, their welfare
and their glory ? Legislators, let us leave over
the origin, and all the circumstances of this War,
the veil which Humanity has at length thrown over
them. It is not-in the day of Reconciliation that
we should recaithe remembrance of Discord.

" Too long have the National Assemblies. of
two people kept the oaths of hatred, and the cries'
of extermination. Too long have impious vows
against Humanity been applauded, and honoured as
the warm expressions of love for one's country.
While it was wished to exalt the spirit, the ima-
gination only was inflamed ; and without giving to
war means more decisive, the return of peace was
only rendered the more difficult.
" In the course of this long and cruel division,
some sounds of peace made themselves he heard ;
but jealousy, hatred, ancient and deep-rooted ani-
mosities were hid in the heart, and Humanity lost
the hope of ending so many evils.
" It was necessary for the real re-establishment
of Peace, that the men whose passions had kindled
the War, or whose obstinate' pride had so much
prolonged it, should lose their fatal influence in the
Councils of Nations. It was necessary that in
France, a Government called for by all wishes and
all interests, strong in the confidence of the Na-
tion, and in the ascendant of glory, should offer
to Europe, in the Interior peace re-established by its
means, a pledge of stably jcor foreign peace.
44 Then Europe saw an end of the calamities with
which it was overwhelmed. .All the obstacles
which opposed themselves to Peace were removed ;
all. the motives, all the circumstances which could
diminish the difficulties, were united ; and when
the King of Great Britain presented to France, for
the sincere and prompt conciliation of their interests,
the honourable charader of one of his most
• trious subjeas, the First Magistrate of the Repu-
blic confided the expression of the national wish,
and of his sentiments, to the noble frankness, to
the liberality of spirit, and to the personal affec-
tions of the Negotietor, who had seconded him with
so much success in the first ads of the General Paci-
fication. This choice was, as one may say, the Pro-
clamation of Peace. Three months were scarcely
elapsed, and Peace was given to the World.
" Legislators, before presenting to you the ge-
neral considerations which result from this Treaty,
I ought to submit to you an examination of its
principal stipulations.
" The firsi is relative to the Prisoners of the two
States. It has been decided, by the second Article,
that the expence of keeping and maintaining the
Prisoners of each Nation, should be defrayed by
their respedive Governments.
" It was,at the Peace of ;763, that this regula-
tion was established for the first time. England had
taken during the War, about twenty-one thousand
French Sailors. She exaded,-by'the third Article,
that their expenceeshould beßaieL by France. The
same regulation wat,renewed al. the:Peace of 1783.
" The Discussions which` took place upon this
point at the time of the Preliminaries, were renewed
in the Negotiation of the Definitive Treaty.
46 The Right of Nations, and the principles con-
, secrated by usage, were, without doubt, sufficient-
ly constituted by that long list of uniform Treaties,
according to which, it is said, Prisoners are restor-
. ed without any ransom, or recompense whatever;
and this right and these usages cannot be altered by
the single Treaties of 1763, and 1783, which can
only be regarded as exceptions. The French Go_
vernment, after having refused to recognize this
Regulation as a principle, adopted it as the most
prompt means of conciliation and of Peace. But it
caused it to be admitted as a compensation, that
_there should be carried to account, not only the ex-
pences occasioned by the Prisoners of the respective .
Nations, but likewise by the Foreign Troops, who,
before being taken, were in the pay and at the dis.
posal of one of the Contrading Parties.
" The justice of this compensation has been
strongly recognized by one of the British Ministers,
in the Sitting of the House of Commons, of the 4th
of November last. He declares, 4 that as these Troops
were not only in the pay, but at the dispoSal of
England, it was reasonable to consider them as Pri-
soners of War.'

" Already the English Government has hastened
to restore to their country those brave Frenchmen
who, in the rigours of a long captivity, aggra-
vated without measure by
_political passions, to
which they were strangerq.da not 'cease to ex-
press their wishes for the?,prdsperity:.of France,
and offered to her every cifipkt: In, slangs con.'
secrated to national vietory,.their.e,uthusiasm for
her glory, and forgetfulness of all -Rig evils which
they suffered for her. _ _ _

All the possessions and colonies of the French
Republic, and of her Allies, which have been con-
quered by England in the course of the War, are
restored to them, with the exception of the Isle of
Trinity, which is ceded by Spain to England, and
the establishments of the Isle of Cuton, which
are ceded to her by the Batayian'Republic. The
Cape of Good Hope remains to the Batavian Re.
public, in full sovereignty, as before the War,

' Thifei Prance tecoireri ucre,
and.Tobaga, Aineliorated, and, above ail, preserved
.from the calamities of the War.) and the devastation
of interior troubles. ghe recovers her establish-
tnents in Africa and Italia, ready to receive all the
impulses. of a free, naive, and powerful industry.
FOrthwith Commerce taking her flight, proteEted'
by an enlightened Legislation, by a just and firm
Government, by the glory of the French name, will
reopen her antient channels,' and find out new.
" Our fisheries on the Coast of Newfoundland,
&c. are restored, by• the fifteenth Article, on the
same footing that they were before the War.
" It is known that the Treaty of Peace of 1783
terminates all ilisputes which existed since the Trea.'
ty of 'Utrecht, by regulating new limits ;- and that
the explanatory declaration 'of the. same date, gave
to use French fishery greater facility and safety.
A great amelioration resulted from this new
order of things. It appears, in faa, by :he com-
parative tables of 1773 and 1788, that in the space
of these fifteen years the value of the exports rose
frofn six millions to twelve and a half. The ho-
nour of the French flag was established by this
Treaty. The fishery was protefted by Ships of
War till 1793 ; our fisheries on a bounded territory
occupied as much extent as all the English fisheries.
" The Treaty of Amiens replaced us in the same
situation as before the War. Immediately a.great
aaivity will reign in the ports of the ocean, de-
stined for these vcpeditions ; and then the capitals
returning to their old channels, will re-animate and
extend this valuable branch of the Commerce and
tltc.Marine of France. _ _ .

...
• " England restores to the Batavian Republic her
Spice Islands, her establishments in India, and her
colonies of Surinam, Demerara, Rerbice and Ism-
pito, which the capitals and the industry of the
English have carried to the greatest degree of pro-
sperity ; the authentic statements recently publish-.
ed prove, that in 'Sot the exportation of certain
articles were some twenty times, others forty times
greater than in 1799. Thus, the temporary occu-
pation of these colonies by the English, will have
given to the Batavian Republic an acquisition of
riches in that part of the world.
" England cannot certainly consider as a sacrifice
the restitution of the Cape ; it has been proved,
by calculations which seem to merit every degree
of . confidence, that the commerce of the Cape,
since England possessed it, that is to say, since
the year. 1795, is entered in her general commerce
only as a six hundredth part.
" It is besides known to what excessive expence
this establishment has hitherto subjeeted the English
Government. It is only under the economic and at-
tentive administration of the Dutch, that the Cape
can he rendered an useful possession, and pay the ex-
pence of its Civil and Military Government.
"The change which the Revolution has produced
in the political and administrative system of the
e a `y
ra i i
Republic, by abolishing the existence of exclusive
interests, and introducing a greater degree of fiber.
ty in the commercial organization of the Cape, will
give to that Colony a degree of prosperity which it
has never yet enjoyed.
" All that England could desire is the right
which has been accorded to her, as well as to the
other Contracting Powers, ' to make their Ships
of every kind anchor there, and to obtain necessary
provisions as heretofore, without paying any other
duties than those which the Batavian Republic obliges
the Ships of its own Nation to pay.'
" The establishments of the island of Ceylon are
for England---a very useful acqUisition, considered
under the head of political interest. She •there finds
the means of defence for her doininions in India,.
capacious and safe harbours for her fleets, and re.
treats for her armies. But, under the head of Corn.
mtrcial Interest, Ceylon has as yet added nothing
to the prosperity of its possessors. The long and
bloody wars which the dutch Company had to sus.
rain
a century with the inhabitants of the Island,
a.nlodo
the vice4-of its interior government, had stop.
p progress towards amelioration. It is ac.
kno,,vledged that, before the War, the territorial
revenue, the cUstoms, and the other little branches
.of Commerce, were riot sufficient to defray the cost
ofi its administration and its defence."

(To be continued to.morrvith )

The following Order has been issued by Major-
General ST AV EL EY to the Troops in the Northern

GENERAL DISTRICT ORDERS.

" Head-quarters, York, May IS, 18oz.
Major-General ST AYE El' has received the Commands of
Ilia Royal Highness the CONIM ANDER in Ca tF, to notify
to the Troops His MAJESTY'S Royal Pleasure, that the
a_ppointment of Major-Generals on the Statfin the Northern
DistriB is to cease the 24th inst."

The reduclion of the Army proceeds rapidly.
No fewer than one hundred and thirty of the horses
belonging to the 7th Light Dragoons; quartered at
the Barracks at Croydon, were sold by public auCtion
at that place, on Saturday last, and brought on an
average thirteen guineas each.
The Subalterns of Militia Corps will receive a
Half-pay nearly. equal to Officers in the Line. An
Ensign is to be allowed thirty, and a Lieutenant
thirty-five pounds per annum, which, with the ad.
ditional sum of eight pounds allowed for joining the
Corps to which they belong, eight and twenty days
in each year, will make the Half-pay thirty-eight
pounds to the Ensign, and forty-three pounds per
annum to the Lieutenant-.

Lieutenant-Colonel \..I.TILLIAm ScotT is appoint-
ed. Resident at the Court of His Highness the Nabob
of OUDE, at Lucknow ; and Lieutenant-Colonel J.
Cott,' NS, Resident at the Court of DOW LUT Row
SCINDIAH.
Yesterday morning about five o'clock, a woman
of very respedable .appearance, about the age of
-forty, was taken out of..theßiver, on the Surrey
side of Blackfriars, neatly'drowned. She was taken
to the Cross-Keys ..tap-room, where she received
every possible attention. _Eking pettedly restored,,
she was asked her name and place of 'abode ; but
refused to gratify the inquiries ; cried piteously,
and expressed much disappointment on being saved
from a watery grave. Some humane persons took
her in charge to walk her about the Surreyroad
and adjoining streets, thinking to meet with some
of her friends; but she took care to elope from
them, having outrun them turning round the or.
ner of a street.