The Sun.
London, England, 1802-09-29 00:00:00

go tiiiiris so great as vine imagined. In the first_ ..,,,,
lace, besides our having received from the French
overnment the most solemn assurances, it was in
fa far from probable, that for the distant chance
of taking one of our Islafids it would have run
the risk of a new War, and have fixed upon them-
selves the eternal odium of such manifest perfidy.
Will it moreover be believed, that our Ministers
would have consented to the departure of the French
Fleet, without having known that we ourselves
.should possess in the West Indies, a force which
might defy that of the Republic, and without hav-
ing had sufficient time to.send thither the necessary
orders to our Commanders*?

" In the suppoition that General Le Cicre
would be received at Sr. Domingo in an hostile
manner, we should derive from the Expedition pr;
of the same advantages which would have re:sulted
from the contrary event, since we should no longer
have to fear any thing from a communication with
Toussaint's subjeas, 'kept in check, as they tvodid
have been, and at a distance from the sea coast, by
the Army- of the Republic. On the other-hand, we
should be perfectly at- ease with respat to the at_
tempt of the Litter, since their land and sea forces
would be entirely occupied in the difficult and, ex-
pensive teduCtion of that Island. -In whatever
point of view we had to cOnsider the French," whe-
ther as enemies, or simply as rivals, the present
hypothesis offered' to us the prO;peci of certain ad-
vantages acquired not by our Owtiefftarts, our own
exFnce, or our own blood, but by those of the
French themselves.

"Enough has been said to spew, that in suffering
the French and Spanish Set:tricot-1i to depart for the
West Indies, our Minister, instead of committing,
as has been said, the interests of !his.Country, on
the contrary, rendered it essential service. Timi-
dity and ignor;ince would have resisted Elie request
of the French Government. The opposite conduit}
marked a manly and able policy, which boldly look-
ing fnrw 11, ventures to open the Chance of dis-
tant Contingencies, which it had beforehand weigh-
ed and 'calculated. The event soon after aff:rded
our Ministers mdre than one proof of; and one re-
compence for, the correaness of their Judgment.
"-Whilst the French and Spanish 'neet-s were on
their passage to St. Domingo, a, circurtanee oc-
cured in one of Our own, which created a: consi.ier.
able, but happily a transient alarm. A Mutiny
broke out in Admiral Mitchet's Squadron, stationed
at Bantry Bay, from whence it was intended to sail
for the VCre,, Indies. This , was made the pretext
for disobedience by the Sail Ors, who had-flattered
themselves that an immediate. reieas • from naval
duty would be the consequ,:nce of the l'eace. 'Ad.
miral Campbell, and other Officers,, liy theit ad-
dress, and still mere by their firmness, orniented
this it surreEtion from extending beyond , a mo-
mentary disobedience. .As soon as it Cvas•knOWn
here, the Minister instantly adopted decisirie
mea-
sures, which struck at the, root of the evil ; the
Squadron received orders •o repair to Portsmouth,
where the Ringleaders of the Mutiny expiated with
their lives this offence against their Country, at
all times one of the greatest magnitude, and more
particularly fatal at a Moment when it might hav
afforded our Enemies decisive advantage in the Ne-
gotiations. The service which Government ren-
dered on this occasion, constitutes not one of the
least claims to national gratitUde.

* Five sail of the. line had been detached by Admiral
Cornwallis, on the 23d of Odcber, ISQI ; and tour sad of
the line by Sir James Saurnafez, from Gibraltar, on the
28th of December. The latter also detached four sail of the
line, to follow
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(To he I.:vain:act.)

EXTRACT FROM THE ENCYCLOPEDIA
"WILLIAM GED, an ingenious though unsnc_
cessful Artist, who was a Goldsmith ar. 'Edin-
buigh, deserves to be recorded
.for .his attempt
to introduce an improvement in the Art of Print-
ing. The invention first Nadised by GED, in
1735, 'vas simply. this—From any types of Greek
or Roman, or any, other charade, he formed
a plate for every page or sheet of a book, from
which he printed, instead of using a-type for every
letter, as is done,. in the common way. This was
first practised (but on blocks of wood) by the Chi-
nese and Japanese, and pursued in the first Essays
of Coster, the European inventor of the present
Art. " This improvement (says James Ged, the
inventor's son); is-principally considerable in three
most important articles, viz. experice, -corredness,
beauty and uniformity.'.' - But these improvements
are controverted.

"In July, 1729, WTLLIAM GED entered into
partnership with WM. FENNER, a London Stationer,
who was to have half the profits, in 'consideration
of his advancing all the money requisite. To sup-
ply this, Mr. JOHN JAMES, then an Architea at
Greenwich, who built Sir GREGORY PAGE'S house,
Bloomsbury Church, &c. was taken into the scherrie,
and afterwards his brother, Mr. THOMAS JAMES,. a
Letter founder, and JAMEs GED, the inventor's
son. In 1730, these partners applied to the Uni.
vergity of Cambridge, for printing Bibles and Corn.
mon Prayer Books by blocks instead of single types,
and in consequence, a lease .was sealed to them,
April 23d, 1731. In their attempt, they sunk a
large sum of money, and finished only two Prayer_
books, so that it was forced to be relinquished, and
the lease was given up in 1738. GED imputed his
disappointment to the villany of the. Pressmen, and
the ill treatment of his partners, which he specifies
at large, particularly FENNER, whom JOHN JAMES
and he were advised to prosecute, but declined it.
He returned to Scotland' in 1733, 'where he gave
his friends a specimen of his performance, by an edi-
tion of SAL t.tisr. But being still unsuccessful, and
hiving failed in obtaining redress from FENNER,
who died insolvent, he was preparing again to set
out for London, in order to join with his son
JAMES as a printer there, when he died, OCiober
14, 5749. Thus ended his life and piojea, which,
ingenious as it seems, is not likely to be revived,
if; as Mr. Alo4s suggests, " it must, had it first
succeeded, have soon sunk under its own burden,"
for reasons needlesS here to recapitulate."