The Sun.
London, England, 1804-06-22 00:00:00

ADDI I lONAL DEFENCE BILL.

The Earl of CAMDFN observed, that as the Prints
of the Additional Defence Bill were upon the Table,
he should now move, tl►at ►he said Bill be read
3 second time on M:)nday next.—Ordered.
Adjourned till to. morrow,

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

THURSDAY, JUNE 2r.

;NE SPEAKER, •at four o'clock, proceeded to
count die H use, but there being only 38 Members
Fre3cnr, the House was consequently declared to be
ktVii ,urned till to-morrow.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

LETTER I.

Silt.

• FROM the Meeting of Parliament at the end of
the year 1792, I have been an anxious observer of
the cokulud of Mr. Fox, and have expressed my un-
qualified disapprobation of it, in a variety of publi.
cAions. At the present crisis, when a second at.
tempt is made to force him into the Cabinet of the
S ,vereign, I shall not Irsitate a moment to return
to the scruple to !irate, without fear or
reserve, try reasons, such as they are, why he ought
to be excluded from any share in Cie Government
of this Cuuntry, while he continues to ad upon the
principles which he has so long adopted. The at-
tempt is now made undei different auspices, the
auspices of the House of Buckingham and its august
head,whom rite Jacobin Papers, in the interest of Mr.
ji.,•x and aq his adherents, have, from the year 1784,
kleoointnated tie TdCsiairs Atialcii9. True it is too,
that Mr. Fox l.as condemned, without a single excep_
rion, every tiu-Asure of Lord GitEwtrt t.t4, and repro.
bated his wroganre v, id) the bitterest asperity ;while
Mr. SNERADAN, with his usual merry malignity,
bas ridictiled the narrow-minded selftsh.
ne:is clt the Marquis ; but these hasty effusions of
hailed and uvutempt will be torgotren and forgiven,
awl IVIt Fn will consign the former faults and
ifolirgs •9f new friends to the vault of the

Capulets," with the same eiey indifference as hedid,
what he represented to be, the swindling of the kilic
of PttussiA, and the madness of the Emperor Pauti,
at the moment when they ce:ssed to be the Allies,
or became the Enemies of his Country‘ "So
much for BUCKINGHAM !"—But other auspices are
mentioned, to whose existence it is impossible to
give credit. No man of common sense or'common
decency can suppose, that a Son so dutiful, would ob-
trude a Minister upon his Father, against his declared
determination ; or that aPrince, so enlightened as the
PRINCE of WALES is allowed to be, would lend
him,elf to a FaCtion, to abridge the legal preroga-
tive of the KING of ENGLAND. The very idea is
a calumny upon his Royal Highness, and impeaches
the wisdom of his head and the goodness of his heart,
both of which the whole tenor of his life has proved
to be equally unquestionable. Splendid Dinners
are, no doubt, repeatedly given, and Noblemen and
Gentlemen of every description but one, successively
invited ; but we are assured from the best authority,
the Papers of the day, that these are not Political
Dinners, that the KING'S Health is the only Toast
after the cloth is removed, and that the whole is a
happy mixture of conviviality, duty, and loyalty.—
Moat of the guests are, as the Duke of NORFOLK
is, very good Protestants, though, like His Grace,
they seem to have a little tindu,re of the Heathen
Mythology, and occasionally appear with him as
votaries of Bacchus, or worshippers of the rising
Sun.

A SUFFOLK FREEHOLDER.
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THE SUN.,

SOLEM QUIS DICXR.E. FALSU:4 AUDEAT ?

LONDON, JUNE 22, 1804.

WE have to congratulate our Readers upon 2no-
ther important Success obtaiqed by the British
Arms, in the Surrender of the Colony of Surinam,
which took place on the 4th ult. We arc also happy
to add, that the loss on our part was inconsiderable.
The Park and Tower guns were fired this forenoon
upon the occasion, and the following Letter was
sent by Lard CAMDEN to the LORD MAYOR.:

" Dfrzuniv-street, June 22, 1804.

" MY LORD,

" I have the satisfaftion to acquaint your Lord..
ship, that Dispatches were received late last night
from Major-Gen. Sir Les Gx EEu, commanding
His Majesty's Troops in the Leeward Islands,
dated Paramaribo, on the t 3 th Mays .‘nnouncing
the Surrender of the Colony of Surinam to His Ma-
jesty's Arms on the 4th of that month, with a
very inconsiderable loss on the part of His Majesty's
Forces.

" I have the Honour to be, &c. &c.
(Signed) " CAMDEN.
"'To the Right Hon. the Lord Major."

It is confidently reported this morning, that Mar.
tinique has also been added to the dependencies► 6
the British Empire.

Yesterday morning His MAJESTY, accompanied
by the
.DUKES of CUMBERLAND and CAMBRIDGE,
the PRI N C EsSES SOPHIA and AMEL lA, attended by
Lady J. THY NNE, General GARTH, and Mr. GR E.
V I 1.1. E, took an airing on horseback in the neigh-
bourhood of Great Ealing. HE KMA J ESTY and the
PRINC EsS ELIZABETH followed in a sociable. The
ROYAL PARTY called at Lord GALLOWAY'S, and
viewed the garden and pleasure-grounds.
Yesterday, at two o'clnck,a Cabinet Council was
held at Lord HARROWBY'S Office, in Downing_
street, which ended about four in the afternoon ;
there were present the CHANCELLOR of the Ex.
CHEQUER, Duke of MONTROSE, 'Earl, CAMDEN,
CHATHAM, and WESTMORLAND, Viscount MEL-
V L LE, and Lords HARROWS Y, HAWKESBURY,
CA:,TLEREAGH and MuLGRAvE.
His Royal I-lighness the DUKE of YORK has is.
sued an order, ciireaing, that neither the Guards,
nor any Volunteer Cirps, shall Gn any pretence use
gunpowder, on their several field days, until further
Orders.

The Duke and Dutchess of Br oFotto go to Chel-
tenl:arn after the conclusion of the Sheep-shearing
Festival, where they purpose to remain for some
weeks; alter which her- Grace intends passing the
latter part of the summer at Gordon Castle, in Scot-
land.

Lord MOIRA, accompanied by Colonel SUTTON,
and Sir WILLIAM KIER, left Edinburgh on Mon.
day, for London, and arrived in London yesterday.
Tuesday se'nnight the Regiment of Ayrshire
Volunteers, consisting of 800 privates, were re.
viewed on Ayr Green by the Earl of EGLINTOUN.
There were 778 privates present. Tire tew who
were absent were sick. His Lordship expressed his
satisfaCtion in the strongest terms of approbation to
Colonel KELSO.

On Monday the rz di inst. the 4th Battalion of
the Ayrshire Volunteers, commanded by Colonel
ClniNt tiGH AM, met at Kilmarnock, to do duty for
thirty days.

On Friday set-might, Lieut. Col. Sir JOHN MAC-
GR F COIL MURRAY marched the Monteath Regiment
of Vulunieers into Perth, to continue en permanent
duty for three weeks. The circumstance of only
one man of the whole Regiment being absent on their
arrival at Perth, is a pfoof that they give place to
none of their country !pen in loy:iity and in ra..

• hilY AL NEWS.

Pt.Tuotrrff, JUNE 20.—Arrived this morning,
the 14ired Armed Ship Surinam, of 16 guns, from
Surinam. An Officer, with Dispatches for Govern.
ment, landed from her immediately after her arrival,
and set off in a coach and four for London. It is
reported that she has brought intelligence of the
capture of Surinam; indeed there_ is little reason
to doubt but this will turn out to be the fad.

Arrived the San Josef, of tto guns, from the

Channel Fleet.

The Naiad Frigate went out of Harbour this
morning, and anchored in the Sound.

DEAL, JUNE 2L—Sailed His Majesty's Ship
Seine, Harpy Sloop, and Archer Gun-brig, on a
Cruize off the Coast of France.

Arrived the Blazer and Bloodhound Gun.brigs,
from a Cruize off Calais.

In the Downs—Monarch, Utrecht, Ardent, Inflexible,
Trusty, Virgiuie, Scourge, Fury, Tartarus, Zebra, Vesuvius,
Locust, Blazer, and 131uodhound, Huinber Armed Ship, and
the Derence Armed Ships as per last.

EDINBURGH, JUNE iB.—Yesterday arrived in
Leith Roads the Royal Bounty, of Leith, Captain
NEwroN, lrotn the Davis Straits Whale Fishing, a
full ship, with nine fish, and +OO butts blubber.
The Royal Bounty left the ice on the zoth May,
and brings the following account of the success of
the fishing.
William and Ann, of Leith, Capt. LroNs, 9 fish-
Raith, of Leith, Capt. KLLLY, 6 fish.
Rattler, of Leith, Capt WRIGHT, 6 fish.

Capt. NEWTON reports, that, the success above
stated was pretty early in the season, and that the
probability is, that all these ships are by this► time
full.

Estridge, of Dundee, 4 fish. Eliza, Swan, of Montrose,
Mary Ann, of Dundee, 3 do. clean, the 6th May.
Hercules, of Aberdeen, clean. Neptune, ofAberdeen, clean.
Blenheim, of Hull, 4 fish. Thornton, Hull, - 4 fish.
Joseph & Gardner, do. 3 do. John and Margaret, 9f
Leviathan, rib. - S do. Newcastle, - • clean.
Samuel, do. . - 3 do. Prescot, do. do.
Elizabeth, do. - b do. Middleton, do. - s fish.
Thomas, do. - 4 do. Etlrlttat do. 3 do.
Ariel, do. - 3 do. Sarah, do. - 2 do.
Holderness, do. - clean. Howe, do. - 3 do.
Lynx, do. - do. Isabella, do. - 3 do.
Oak Hall, do. - 3 fish. Content, do. - 7 do.
The Na icy, of Greenock, struck on a rock in
the Bay of Fundy, near Campo Bello, in a thick
fog, and, after, swinging off, instantly filled with
water; ,but being providentially near the shore, the
crew were enabied to get her on the ground in time
to save their lives ; but it is doubted if she can be
moved from the place where she lies.
Monday, a brig-rigged Privateer, of 16 guns,
appeared off Hartlepool, and attacked one of the
Carron Smacks. The Smack let the Enemy ap-
proach very near, when she fired into her with round
and grape, IB.pounder carronades. This made the
marauder sheer off. The same evening she attacked
a 510.,p and some other vessels (two of them New.
castle Packers), but they also be,it her off; and we
do not hear of her having taken any thing.

Yesterday dispatches were received from Admiral
CORN WALLIS, off Brest, which state, that the Illus.
trious, of 74. guns, Capt. Sir CHARLES FIAMILToN,
had joined the Fleet on the isth inst.
Capt. STUART is appointed by Lord NELSON to
the coil-inland of the Royal Sovereign, of zoo guns,
on board of which Ship Rear-Admiral Sir RICHARD
BICKERTON had removed his Flag from the Kent,
of 74 guns.

The circumstance the Moniteur alludes *a,- of the
Boats of a hired Cutter being captured in the Elbe,
probably relates to the following event. Some short
time since the Hawke hired Armed Cutter, corn.
manded by Lieut. JAMES GRANT, crUiZifig with the
Constance Frigate, Capt. Gic t FFITHs baying learnt,
through means of a man sw tr an the shore
to that vessel, that an E, Ship had been- cap.
cured and carried up the Eibe, Lieut. GRANT re-
quested permission to make a dash after her; which
he did, accompanied by a Butt from the Constance.'
After pulling several miles, they- 7tritaineTThir. prze,
but had the mortification, at gaining possession, to
find she immediately grounded within reach of must
quetry from the shore, of which a considerable
body of French tr rips taking advantage, annoyed
them first with musket bahm, then with ttieir
bayonets. Lieut. GRANT, and. his little party, de.
fended- themselves with the win, s. gallantry, nor
was it till two balls had struck him, and the point
of the Enemy's bayonets reached the gallant Lieu.
tenant, that he t‘etinquished his daring conquest,
and was onliged to surrender. Every thing that
zeal, aaivity, and pe'rseverance could effea, might
indeed be expeaed from this Offi(xr, wh•im it may
be recolletted, is the same that in the Lady Nelson,
of only 6o tons hurthen; performed a voyage of
discovery to New South Wales, and fully established
the efficiency of the sliding keel system of ship,
building, for which the Country is indebted to the
genius and science of Capt. SCHANKE, of the Navy.
It is to he hoped Lieut. GRANT'S wounds will meet
amelioration from that quarter whose peculiar pro.
vince is to toward the brave, and soothe the unfor.
tunate.

The following article we have extra&ed from the
Hague Courant, and it is dated from Paris :
" Our Journals are still filled with the examina.
tions of the accused, which .ire 410 of sufficient

importance to be given at length. Some a;e re_
trading the evidence and answers which they
gave before; others . say, that the reports thereof
have been falsified. What deserves greater atten-
tion is, that the numerous spenators who crowd
upon each other in the Court, hate presumed to ap-
plaud, by clapping of hands when General MyREAu
made his defence. The proofs of the public favour
htsformer exploits),
(since ht is esteemed to be the restorer of peace, by
are by no means equivocal.—
Tile guards at the entrance of the hall have been
doubled, and, a menace of arrest is held out to every
soedator who shall henceforth presume to chew any
sign of approbation,
_Besides, the curious. are no
jong,r admitted its such crowds."