The Sun.
London, England, 1802-08-17 00:00:00

L OND 0 N, AUGUST 17, ISc2.

CERTAlN'Accounts have at length been received,
.1-,f the fate of the Percher and the Tay, both of
which were captured in the Bay of Bengal by the
Bala= -French Privateer, the one on • the 13th,
and the other on the 23d of February last.—
This intelligence is brought by. the American
Ship Providence, which appeared off Falmouthon
Saturday last, on her passage from- Baravla and the
Isle of France to Rotterdam. At the latter of
these places she left the two captured Vessels ; but
we are happy to learn there was a doubt whether
they would be condemned, as they were acquainted
with the Peace having taken place previous to their
sailing from Bengal,

TH is morning we received the Paris journals
of the 13th instant, which are entirely barren of
intelligence. The French 5 per Cents, on the 12th
were at 53 1. 40 c,

IT was with a peculiar degree of satisfaEtion that
we read the observations in -The IVic-niteur of the
i th, and which appeared in our Paper of Saturday,

upon the sul)je& of the,rumoured Partition of Tur-
key. Whatever may have been the views of other
Powers of Europe upon this point, we are satisfied
that the expression of the wish of the two greatest
will be received with that respea which it is cal-

culated to cc,rnmand ; and it is a happy omen of the
security and permanency of the Peace, when the in-
terest of these two so immediately concurs. The pre-
servation of the Integrity of Turkey was one of the
Stipulations of the Treaty of Amiels, which we are
happy to see the Chief consul confirming and carry.,
ing into eff,.6l, by a renewal wWi the Sublime Porte
of some of the relationS which .formerly subsisted'
between it and. Prance. The French Guvernment,
in the Article alluded to, denies that any projeas
of the Dismemberment of European Turkey have ac
all been entertained. We sincerely hope t,hat it is
so ; but at any rate, such a denial, on the part of
France, is certainly an efficacious mode of leading
to the total abandonment of, any such ptojed, if it
ever should have been conceived;

This article in the Moniteur is ,written in a spi-
rit so direaiy opposite td 'the preceding one which
has been so much animadverted upon by our Jour-
nals, that we cannot suppose the former, unless it
shall be distinaly avowed, to have been written
under the authority, or with the approbation of the
French Government, We have been taught, it is
true, to consider that, Paper as oficcial, but it
is more than probable that statements, not unfre-
quently, appear in it, which, so far from receiving
the sanction of the Government, would, if adverted
to, excite its utter disapprobation. It is not
enough to say that an obscure English Newspaper
has uttered Invectives against France, to justify the
Official Journal of Paris in venting its scurrility
against every thing that is praise-worthy in this
Country.,—Such a warfare is fit for the Dames de la
Halle, or the s7ishavomen of .Billingsgate, but would
be very unbecoming the dignity of the French
Nation, or the
,charaeler of the Chief Consul. We
cannot, therefore, suppose that the Government is
concerned in the circulation of such Calumnies as we
have read in‘ The Moniteur.
Nothing is more probable than that the English ,
Newspaper referred to may have also inserted Ca-
iumnieS, but the Writers in The Moniteur may be
assured that such things are not inserted under the
sar&ion of our Ministers, and that the Statements
of that Journal particularly, have no influence upon
the people of this Country ; they should, therefore,
treat them with the contempt they deserve. But if,
instead of objefiing to base invective, the Writers
of The Moniteur °Ned to Free Discussion; if the
Freedom of the
.Priss is that against which their at-
tacks are levelled, they may as well require us to
give up our Constitution itself, as to divest our-
, aches of this invaluable privilege. We comment free-
ly op. the Principles'and: the f'radice of our own
Government, and of every Government in the World,
the establishment of whic4 becomes interesting to
;:s ; atn.i. shall. we not discuss the Government of
rance, the _changes of which, in the course of the
twelve years, have•been. so. interesting to Eu-
fo;;?e ? Ent, it is hisintiated,-we are at Peace, .and
tloo-q-ore every thing which la advanced. should be
`FI die t_eoviage of t- probation and fanegyric, If

this were the case, there is an end of free discussion,
and the boasted Liberry of the Press is reduced to
the freedom to praise—the liberty to censure is
denied, and the power to speak the truth, of course,
stifled. When we were at Peace with France under
the reign of the Bourbons, was such a thing ever
heard of, as that Peace was a reason against uttering
the most unqualified disapprobation of the Govern-
!tent of France ? It was a favourite theme in those
days, to compare the British and the French Go-
vernments, and most certainly -our Writers never
spared the latter. Nobody ever dreamt, as the
Writer in The Moniteur seems to insinuate, that
such animadversions could affett the Peace between
the two Countries.

Let the French, we say, despise Calumnies, not
retort them—let them know, that the Freedom of
the Press will sometimes degenerate into Licen-
tiousness—but let them not look upon Ministers
as responsible for Newspaper. Scurrilities ;—and
above all, let them not suppose that they can si-
lence free discussion here.---BONAPARTE has done
much for France ; possibly nearly as much as cir-
cumstances would admit ;—but we are not so des-
titute of reason, or so blind to truth, as to say that
he has given to France a free Government, or, that
the late change in the Constitution of that Country
has rendered it more so than it was before.—Much is
still to be done before the dawn of Liberty is seen in
France, and the first symptom we expect to see of it,
is the Government not only permitting, but listen-
ing to those animadversions upon its Institutions,
which probably for some time to come, it will only
hear through the medium of this Country—where
the Press ;; Free.

Many of the illuminations last night, in honour
of the DUKE of YoßK's•Birth_day, were the same
as those displayed last Thursday in honour of the
PRINCE, excepting, that D.Y, was substituted for

His Royal Highness the DUKE Of CUMBERLAND
is. at Lyndhurst, where he remains during the South-
anpron Races.
The Lord Lieutenant of Ireland arrived, on the
Bth instant, in Dublin, from an excursion into the
County of Wicklow. On the preceding day Mr.
WicKHAm arrived at his Lodge in the Phoenix Park,
accompanied by his Private Secretary, Mr. FLINT.
A grand Dinner is soon to be given at Bristol,
in honoui of the eminent Services to his Courtry
rendered by Mr. PITT.

The Birthday of Colonel HILL, who so nobly
distinguished
.himself in Egypt, and who we are
happy to hear is recovered from the wound which
he received there, was celebrated on Wednesday
last, at Hawkestone, the Seat of his Uncle, Sir
CHARD HILL, with great festivity.

Brighton will be clouded by the departure of the
PRINCE, which was to take place yesterday.—
His Royal Highness goes on a visit to THEIR MA-
JUSIES, at We) mouth.

On Sunday was married, at Great George-street,
Hanover-square, by the Lord BISHOP of LINCOLN,
the Most Noble AUBREY BEAUCLERC, Duke of
ST. ALBANS, to MISS MANNERS, daughter of Lady
LOUISA MANNERS, and sister to Sir WILLIAM
MANNERS. As soon as the ceremony was performed,
the happy pair left town for Hanworth Park, a seat
of his Graee's near London. The Dutchess of ST.
ALBAN'S is sister to Lady G, HEATHCOTE and Mrs.
DUFF.

The Lord Chief Baron MAC DONALD has gone to
the Isle of Wight.

• The following Officers of the Royal Marine
Corps, on account of their eminent Services, are to
retire upon their full pay :
Coldnels Varlo. M'Donald, Cuming, Monro, Spry,
Archibald.—Captains Patten, A. Ball, Colby, Foster, G.
Young, Wcir, Simpson, Hopper. —Capt. Lieutenant Rea.—
First Lieuts. Halls, Ransley, Ede.—Second Lieuts. Tait,
R. W. P. Day, and Green.

On Tuesday ,evening last, as Lord ELLENBO.
ROUGH, and his brother Judge, were proceeding
from York to hold the Assizes at Durham, he was
met near the latter place by the BISHOP of DURHAM
and the Representatives of the City. On the follow-
ing morning the Assizes commenced, but the busi-
ness before the Courts was of no great importance.

It is a subject of general remark throughout the
Country, that the Crops of Corn have not been more
abundant in the memory of man, and there certainly
never was more favourable weather.

The very spirited measures which have been
adopted by the Magistrates of the neighbourhood
of the Clothing Towns in Wilts and Somerset,
and the large rewards which have been offered
for the deteffion of the Incendiaries, will, we
hope, speedily suppress such horrid depredations
as these poor deluded and mistaken wretches have
lately committed, Already have the following
persons been apprehended, viz. \On the 6th in-
stant Thomas Hilliker was committed to Fisherton
gaol, in Wiltshire, charged on oath with having
been concerned with many other persons in com-
mitting divers outrages in the clothing neighbour-
hoods ; and on ' the r 3th 'inst..Samuel Ferris and
James May were committed to the same gaol ; and
John Hilliker, George Marks, and Philip Edwards,
to the prison at Devizes, charged on oath with va-
rious felonies of the same tendency,- some of whom
will, most probably, pay the forfeiture of their
lives for their offences.

The Society of Sciences at Gottingen have offer-
ed Prizes for the best answers to the two following
questions :

‘i What are the best meansof getting in Corn, and desttoy-
4)g the Worms and Insetts which injure it ?
" Would it be advantitgeous to introduce the culture of
Maize into Lower Saxony ; why has it hitherto been ne-
gleeted ; and what would he the 4thratttise of us cultivaticn
respell to other grant?"'