The Sun.
London, England, 1804-04-09 00:00:00

NAVAL NEWS.

PLYMOUTH, APRIL I.—Sailed the Aurora Fri-
gate, Captain M. MALaoN, on a Cruize in the
Channel.

A large Fleet of Merchant Vessels have been in
sight, and passing by to the Westward, the greater
part of the day, under convoy of a Sloop of War or
Frigate,
The Fortarro.yar,l, of 84. guns, came into Harbor
this,morning, in order to be refitted.

PORTSMOUTH, Anus. B.—Arrived His Majesty's
Ship Monmouth, of 64. guns, Capt. HART, from the
Mediterranean. She left Gibraltar about the middle
of March, at which time the French Squadron had
not left Toulon, so that the report of their defeat
by Lord NELSON must at least be premature.
:Sailed yesterday, Hi:, Majesty's Sloop of-War
Falcon, having under convoy , several sail of Slup
bound to NeWfoundland and America ; also tile
Minerva Cutter, with part of the 57th RePitnent'
for Guernsey.

TORBAY, APR 11, 7.—Sailed La Trompu SWI)
of War, with the outward-bound West—Wiener'
for Falmouth.

DEAL, APRIL B.—His Majesty's Shin Squ'iritt
came in from a Cruize off Calais, having sprod
her maintop-mast in a heavy squall on Thursa+i
last. The Suipe arrived from Yarmouth.

Sailed tha Illustrious, Prosperous, Zelbyr, Orates,
Locust, Harpy, Lark, jackal!, and Speculator Lgr
ger, on a Cruize off Boulogne; Champion,
and Aggresior,on a Cruize off CaL is ;
Convoy for Portsmouth ; and the Snipe Gun.briP
for Yarmouth.

Sailed for the River, the Uttion East India Shit''
Leviathan, Caletionia,Sally, Aarora, and Chartn4 •
Kitt; South Whaler. * . • _

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Arrived the Duckworth, AV Ake, from the B'f :
Honduras, 'pia 'sailed-1,5r. the 'kiver. ' .
In the Downs—Mon.arell, litmcia, Veteran, Praakel, P"
rriaica, Squirrel, Perseus, Vesuvius, and Deptford T 1414.
port. . . . •
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Hittwt.ca,7APßlL-8,---Yesterdair the Prince of
Wales Packet, Cain: Ha Avg,. and the Georg('
Capt. .arrived frshn
.Got tenbtugh, 'with.
acid last :night the A4urkiand Packer,..cape..
BRIDGES arrived from Heligoland, 'with four HatlP,,
binth -and Bremen Mails, thirty_ five casks of-silvers
and Passengerg. • .
• The Lrri.i. Pac,k.ef, Aga'!
for with the, A.a'
Ffr
for Husurn, remains, with the Prince o/i4),
Cript, Hi Atur, .fur Goitenburgh, with 4 Mai"

This morning arrive;.:,Mail from Lisbctir broU4bt
to FAlnGutii by oa,--zlackland Packet, in-seven Vai
o,.'i riday whilst the COurt of Directors 0t
East-India -Company were sitting, a letter. oms le4
ceived, addressed to the Chairinaii Dept ti!
signed y the of AR.RINGTOII,
bF, Ft •
as
.the Royal Fast- India Brigade had offered
services 'to march to any part of the Coast,it ~g3
-
the wish of His Royal Highness the i)tc.. of YottP
that the Qfficers and Men would ituin
riernelv°-
in readiness to match at a moment's niltje,e,
any point which might be thought necessary, In C4s,
of the Enemy', landing. In 'consequence Of the aho.ri
4etter, Brigade Order, were issued on SaturdaYa.i
which the O!iicers are Ordered not to go a I"'"'.4
ids.
distance from. London, .at present,. than eight 1111".,
Stantnore Priory has been for some time the sceiclie
of splendid revelry. During the Easter Wletd
thirty-four persons generally sat down ever,' cl3y..
dinner with the hospitable Lord of the 1/lAosic;cii
Lord DORCHESTER is at Srubbings Houser ,n
Maidenhead, w.ith a set of jovial Vi,itots• gtegt
Lady SARAH FAN ll"-E was at r Lord A„4l„,flar-
during the late H‘didays, and many of s co
,mar-
red gallants were very Alive in their attentt-11
this idlinent Heiress. f Larlf
The three 'chief Candidates for the hand °f
SARAH BANE, are understood to be Lord CILAVS
Lord \TILL' E Rs, and Lord LE v EsoN GOWER' "
Sv#
The Tragedy of Venice Preserv'd drew a cr-oy..
ed audience to Covent Garden Theatre on Sau'r` • r
A,ett''
Mrs. SIDI:PONS performed Belvidera in so 11"''BI,.0
a mann.er as to excite general 4ymparhy. .1‘•°1-s's
gave force and tenderness to
.37,;fier, and .(;`)°
was strongly markrd oy manly SNirtr' Nita
new Ballet of Valentine and Orson 10110wc"

great eclat. ,
1
List Wednesday morning
;hounds were thrown .off. in the height), or"°'fi n
F;gliatn. A very numerous Meld of Grill ''' 6
Wile!,l
sportsmen attended for a day's diver sion• te.
they got near Farn Hill a very fine .to3t 9r31.1-,A,
He to-•k his course by Mr. Smith's prenitaesi.°c,n-co
HENLEY'S pleasure grounds, where the'hoo 'O4
paid but little respect to beautiful!theL9rd BE 195:1°1°4441
did considerable damage. fteynard thcn,"' 1,0
course by Englefietd Green, crossed the •Bglisji
road, and made through the inclosUres to v:teiy
Tiunips Mill and Botley,• where they comeot,
lost him and gave up the chace,_ It was ein
cclient day's sport. • 'of
Tuesday last, as a young man, sont:t2tahetvgi.:clorof:-.1 ,
% the name of CROMB zE, in the Greenses, -- to the
was digging in a seam of coal, which 0Pen.,50.111 of
(I,ay, in the high and rocky Coast
t ,e mouth of the Tweed, a large frogmen!' endtvg
lug upwards of a ton, detached from the llej 1)1111
rock, pitched (tiredly upon him, and cf:"."othin °
to death. One of three others who ".`re' torn by
atl'e nor
lcw paces of him at the t,,5,--, had hi. Co
one of its projedling angles; but faith. et
they received any other injury.

F ;OM THE DUTCH PAPERS':

CONSPIRACY AGAINST BONAPARTE.
THE CHIEF YUSTWE's REPORT TO THE FIRST
CONSUL.

CITIZEN FIRST CONSUL,
I think it my duty to separate from the infornia-
tion respefling the vile Conspiracy, which public
jusice will shortly bring to public view, and punish,
those pieces of additional correspondence, which, in
this great affair, and, as far as concerns the police,
is but trifling ; but in its political point of view,
seems to me of a nature that cannot fail to open the
eyes of Europe to the despicable charafter of the
knglish Ministry, the meanness of its Agents, and
the miserable expedients it has recourse to, for RC-
Complishing its views.
. An English Minister is accredited at a Court
bordering on France: the manners of the people at.
tach distindions and privileges to this place, and
Mnot without reason. The residence of a Forein
inister is every where designed for the ascertai gn..
ing and maintaining those bonds of friendship, con-
fidence and honour, that unite States, and whose
preservation constitutes the glory of a Government,
and the happiness of the people.
But these are not the views of the diplomatic
agent,- of the British Government. I shall lay be-
fore you, Citizen Consul, the dire& correspondence
which Mr. DRAKE, the English Ambassador to the
Elector of BAVARIA, has held for these four months
With agents sent
heart of the , paid, and employed by him in the
Republic. This correspondence consists
Of ten original Letters, written in his own hand.
I shall also lay before you th instruEtion wh that Gentleman is charged toe distributes tohic his
agents, and an authentic account of the sums already
paid, and of those promised, as an encouragement
and reward of crimes, which the mildest laws every
Where punish with death. (See the Instrudion, and
Nos. t, 3, s, 7, and 9, of the Correspondence.)
It was not as the representative of his Sovereign
that Mr. DRAKE came to Munich, with the title of
Plenipotentiary. This is merely his ostensible cha-
jratterl, a pretence for sending him: the genuine ob-
ef.l of his mission is to recruit for agents of intrigue,
revol4 and assassination ; to stir up a war of plun-
der and Murder against the FrencloG ozernment, and
to etuna the neutrality and the dignity of the Go-
verninent where he resides.
• It is premised, though Mr.DI/AKE appears °Sten-
aibly as a public charader, he is in reality (as his
private instrudions prove) the secret Ditedor of
Engliih machinations on the Continent ; the sinews
of which are gold, corruption, the foolish hopes of
those concerned in the plot, and of all the ambitious
people in Europe.
His aim. is plainly pointed out in the eighteen
Article-B'6f Insteuftions with which Mr. DRAKE
I-unlit/hes his Agents, and which form the first of the
Pieces added cis this .Ikeport.
•
Nos. 2' 7' °, 9' and 13, of these .Instruaions,
remarkable.
are sufficiently
Art. 2. The principal point in view
• -overthrow of h being the
t e Present Governmen , one of the rin.ciPal mean
s of accomplishing this is, the ob.
taini g
'lc a ...nowied •e of the Enemy for
ge ni me- plans
this purpose, it is of the utmost importance to begin
by establishing a correspondence in the different bu-
4reau
„"
ts, jot the obtaining particular information of
he plans, both as to the exterior as well as to
the interior.—The knowledge of these plans sug-
gests The best mode of rendeling them abortive, and
Ole want of 'success is the Must effedual means of
discrediting the Government, the first, and most
important step towards the end proposed.
7. To gain over those employed in the powder.
mills, so as to be able to blow them up, as occasion
allay requite.
• 8. It is indispensably necessary to gain over a
certain number of Printers and Engravers, that may
be relied on, to print .and execute every thing that
the Confederacy inlay stand in need of.
9. It is very much to be wished, that a perfe&
k..nowletige may be gained of the situation of the
utffirent parties in France, and particularly in Paris.
ase tlt is well understood, that every means must
tied
of th to disorganize the armies, both in and out
e -Republic.
Thus you s',.e that the real objeds of Mr. DRAKE'S
mission are, to
brio
lie, to wow g fire and flames into the Repub.
u
Ph
e Powder-mills, to procure trusty
Printers and Engravers for the purposes of forgery,
to penetrate into the heart of every Assembly, to
arm one party against the other, and, in fine, to dis.
Organize the armies.
But, happily, this evil • •notso powerful
genius is
in its means, as it is fertile in illusions and sinister
its
; were it otherwise,
rencethere would be an end
of Society. Hatted craft, gold, and a total indiffe-
as to the m ,
means employed, are neither want-
ing to Mr. DRAKE
, nor the immoral policy of the -
Government whosetosses.%
Agent he is. But they do not
F power enough to shake the or
anization of
rance, which is of the strop
g
foundation in the affe en g
nature, having its
ftions orthirtv millions of Ct-
tizens cemented toh b
ter
and interest, and animated y their joint strength
nius of the G b
y the wisdom and ge-
overnment.
Those who consider nothing of any value besides
gold, whose
toyonl abilities consist in low intrigue,
are not able conceive the strength and power of
a combination of circumstances, the result of ten
years of sufferings, and ten ,c years of viftories, of a
concurrence of events, and of the establishment otot noble ''ration, founded on the dangers and efforts of
a glorious war, and a terrible revolution.
In the tnidst of these means, Mr. DRAKE sees
nothing but opportunities for intrigue, aryl the efforts
of spies " During my stay in Italy," he says to
one of his correspondents, (Munich, Jan. 27. No. 7)
" I had connexions with the interior of Prance
should continue to have them, as I am at this
moment, of all the English Ministers, the nearest
to the Frontiers."
This is his pretence for exercising his utmost en-
neavours for the overthrow of France. But his means
are no better than his right.
He has agents in whom he dares not confide. His
doubtful correspondents write to him 'via Switzer_
land, Strasburg, Kehl, Offenburg, and Munich. He
1115 subalterns in these cities, to take especial care
fhis correspondence. He makes use of forged
Passports (No. 835) of fiditious names, of symia-
thstic