The Sun.
London, England, 1804-09-15 00:00:00

.NATIONAL DEFENCE.

''Her the future. Historian relates the events of
the present period, it will be with the noblest
feelings of patriotic pride that be records the merits
of those-who. came for Ward aiVoLuNieras in sup.
port of their Country. At no period of our history
has 'there, indeed, been manifested on the"' part of
the People more zealous and atliVe endeavours to
oppose themselves to the attacks of the MQSI formi.
dable and the NIOSt envenomed Foe that ever at.
tempted to assail 'us. Our Regular Army deserves
the full'confidence of their Country, and would,
doubtless, alone have .gi►en the Enemy cause to
think the conquest .of, Great Htitain is not so easy
as he' supposes. But the Military strength of our.
Adversary is great, and hi; rage against this Coun.
try deadly and imPlacable. • It was, therefore, ne.
cessary that much should be added to OUT Regular
Land Forces in order to oppose that Enemy, if it
were possible for him re's:make his way through our -,
gallant, Naval Defenders. The noble ardour of the'
VOLUNTEERS rendered it unnecessary that Govern.
ment should do More than regulate the-operations of
those Patriotic 'Forcei which spontaneously came
forward. Government has devised many plans for
this great purpose ; and the plan last adopted has
been considered as the best yet offered, and has re-
ceived the Sanaion of the Legislature.

- There can be no doubt that our VOLUNTIERS
areas well gollified for the service which they have
A 4 gallantly undertaken, as, any men can be who
have not been adually engaged, in practical war.
fare ; anti if brought to the test, every thing may
be expeded from them honourable to themselves
;nd to the Country. Could it then be supposed that
it would be the uniform aim of an Opposition Print
to detrad from the merits of these Patriotic Forces
Yet such is the fad. A Daily Paper that can never
be read by Englishmen without contempt and indig.
nation, is constantly employed in making comport:
sons between oar VOLUNTIERS and the French
Armies, and it strongly insinuates that the former
would sink to nothing in a contest if they did not

fly from it.
After having vented .all that spleen'and rancour
could suggest against the \OLUNTEEaI, the Paper
alluded to has now eagerly avAiled itself•of a work
recently published by Sir Ro ERT WILSON, in order
to shew how little is to be expected from our Vo.
luntuer Force. We respeCt the eharafter and the
abilities of Sir RocERT,W LSON, "a4d we are per.
auaded that he must feel much regret in seeing. the
tools of Etli'm mike die of his Wfirk to tinny the
spirit of his Country, by lessening its Confidence in
those g.illant men who readily consent to a priva.
lion of domestic comforts, in order to support the
honani of their COMicry,' at the hazard of their.lives.
It never estild loe the 011.0 of Sir.RourßT Wit..
SON to furnish topics to the. malignant itistruments
of Party, and therefore it is to be lamented that
whatever he had to propose, which might supply any
4ricet, aid promote the national strength, was nut
Stlhillitted to G ,vernment, rather than to the world
at large, in such a shape as gives a handle to Jacobin
1%1 il.cootents, But it is only by garbled extratis
from Sir Roar Kt WI LSON'S work that the Paper
alluded to can give a specious colouring to its, ar.
tempt to &grade. the military pretensions of our
Volunteer Corps. , 'lliac Paper holds up, in the
highest point of view, the S ddiers of France, who,
invited by the hope of plunder, arc ready to rush
pdoll our shores, and to spread d!vastation and hor-
ror over the Cluntry.—But has the Writer in that
Paper refk;ted upon the present state of the French

Armies ? Has he lorgotten the `vast number of
,veteran troops that were destroyed up'on the Ex.

pedition to Egypt ? Has he forg9tten
.the iin.

menm: host of the hest Troops of France ghat

fell vietiinib in Si. Diming() ? Dues he ennsiaer

the Itmnber of CON'c RTr by which it has bcen

fortianrCelOgity to reCntit the, Armies of France ?

Will he Comp;sfe t k)se .Co NICK It Ts; those miser.

able Slaves, who are dragged into a bet vice they hate,
for a Iron whom they view with liquor as the op.
pressor of their Country—will, he, we say, cons.

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THE SUN.

JOLSLI QUIT DICERS lALSIII4 AUDIAT i

LONDON,

SATURDAY, ORPTIMBER 15, 3804..

Three Ships, part of the Channel Fleet, have ar.
rived for repairs. The Parli and Majestic
have joined the Fleet.
Four Cartel Ships, with French Prisoners from
Jamaica, are arrived at Plymouth.
The Laward Island Fleet, under Convoy of
the /I/et/beim and Pandeur, ate not yet arrived as
reported, but they may hourly be expeCted. The
Adventure Transport left them on the '3lst ult, and
is arrived at Portsmouth.

The Bengal and Madras Fleet, under Convoy of
the Coiraseux, niay be expelled in the course of
eight or tcn days.,
The Boulogne Flotilla, to the number of too,
remains, as usual, under the proteEtion of their Bat.
genies.

MI the Danish, as well as Swedish Vessels, that
were in French Ports, have made a precipitate de-
parture, having every reason to suppose that an
Embargo was about to be laid upon the Vessels be-
longing to Denmark, as well as those of Sweden.

BONAIPAITI is said to have replied to the Note
of the &sir saoa of Rossi^ in his usual style of
insolence, and in such a manner as cannot fail to
bring the latter to a speedy decision as to the steps
he means to pursue.

LAST night we received Dutch Papers to the gth
inst. It is stated, in a Letter from the Hague,
that the KING of PRUSSIA has expressed his satin.
faetiOn at the new title assumed by the EMPEROR
of GERMANY : though this is not officially an.
nounced, yet we see no reason to doubt it ; for,
from the present politics of Prussia, no opposition is
to be expeded to any measure which has met with
the Concurrence of France. If the rumours upon the
Con tinent' are entitled to any credit, another addition
will be made to the list of Emperors : the Km* of
SPIN, it is said, has it in contemplation to create
himself an Emperor; but the assumption of an empty
title can afford but poor consolation for the lois of
real dignity. We do not think, however, that the
report is entitled to any credit. No accounts have
yet been received of the manner in which the Notifi.
cation of the new title adopted by the EMPEROR of
RMANY has been received at the Court of St. Pe.
tersburgh. Whatever the EMP a ROB, of RUSSIA may,
think of the measure itself, he will nor, we think, be
much pleased to find the legitimate conduct of his an.
cestors and the profligate usurpation of Bo N ApAttre
coupled together, and assigned as the examples
which justify the step recently taken by the Court
of Vienna.

The Papers contain very little other Wel.
ligence : their •.cialumns are principally 'aeon.
pied with pompous details of BotrisPa.i.rit'a
.umphal vary into Brussels,
.The 'circumstance
of so many Foreign Ministers repairing to Aix.la.
Chapelle, has given rise to numerous speculations,
and it is supposed by some that a kind of Congress
be formed there; bar we are inclined to think
that the Ambassadors of those Independent States
have only been ordered there to swell the triumph
and gratify the vanity of BONAPAUTS.

Wg arc happy in being enabled to contr4cii:i se-
veral rumours which have found their way into the
London rapers, stating the existence of dicacc_
lion in the North of Ireland, and that numbers of
the Cavalry carrying, expresses in that part of the
Country, had been waylaid and assassinated. The
whole of these reports are utterly destitute of foun.
dation.

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..L.4 L • / 4,1 •

rAistotrtr, Svrr. tz.—Arrived His Ivlajesti's
Brig Garnet, of 18 guns, Capt. 13A”, 311t1 Hind Re.
venue Cutter, ALLAN, from a Cruize ; also the Si.
rims, Do nc,orr, from Sunderland ; the Two' Friends,
Coop I a, from Arundel ; the Princess RqyaliPwENs,
from London ; the Louisa, KIWI, and Chance,
QtrrwrF.L, from Chichester ; and His Majesty's
Ship Humber, of zo guns, Capt. HILL, to collect
Vessels waiting Convoy here for the Eastward.
Last evening put in here the Morristown hired
Armed Brig, of t 2 guns, with a Fleet of Colliers
under convoy for the Eastward, and sailed again this
evening ; also sailed the Ann, HAStV EY, for Swan.
sea ; the Lamb, BALL, for Bristol; and Experiment,
BASCO3II3 B, for Cowes.

The Tow/avid Pecker, from Lisbon, may be
expefted in the course of a few days. •
The Witubor Castle Packet, SUTTON, for Jamai.
ca, Barbadoes, and Crooked Islands ; and Lady Ara.
fella Packet, PORTEUS, for New.Yurk and Hali.
fax, both with Mails of the sth inst. are detained
by contrary winds.

The Princtss ElizaZell, Packet,
.KIDD, is Ip.
pointed to carry out the Mails of the tgth inst.
for the Leeward Islands.

The Spanish Brig El Labrador, which is to take
on board His Excellency the Spanish Ambassador
and family is still detained by contrary wind.
A large Fleet of Vessels are now ofr this Port,
steering to the Eastward, supposed to be a Fleet
from the Leeward Islands.

PLYMOUTH, SEPT.' U.—Arrived the Arcade,
Capt. DALE, Favourite, Captain PURDY, Hannah,
Captain HEDLEY, and Maria, Captain RANDS,
Transports, witivabout a too French Prisoners on
board (part of those captured at St. Damingo), from
Jamaica. Those Ships came in compani with three
others, which parted company in the Channel, and
are supposed to have proceeded for Portimouth.

Arrived the American Ship Columbe, Capt. DAY,
from Norfolk, bound to Bourdeaux, detained yester.
day in the Channel by the Nautilus Sloop of War.
Seviral Ships of War are now standing into the
Sound, supposed to be a part of the Channel Ffeet.

YARMOUTH, SEPT. 14.. Arrived the jongt
Mena, DE JoNcE, from London. •

The Ferreter Gun.brig baz sent in the/Cali/der,
SCHOOMAKER, from Rotterdam. with salt; on the
North Su Fishery ; and La Casstaare Frigate ha;
sent in the Drie Gehodere, Uous, horn Embdens
with lime.

,The
,garebb, BAReeB.. from' NeWeatitt to
__Lon-
don, with coats, struck on the Scroby Sand off Olt
Town, but is since got

YARMOUTH ROAD4.---Arrived the Rosanna Arm.
ed Ship, Lord Nelson, Drair, Phszle, and Alert
Cutters.

Sailed the Intleaor Sloop, Ferreter and rixeh
Gun-brigi, on a Cruise ; the Clelatra Frigate,
with live stock for the Nortl, Sea Fleet 1 the Earl
St. Vincent Cutter, and feint Lugger, on a Cruize.

HAR W I CII, SEPT. 13.--. The 4udland
.P.tck et,
Capt. HAMMOND, sailed last nig!it for ilusurn, with
the Ifamburgh and Bremen Mails ; and at the same
time the Dorset, C.lpt. HAMILTON, sailed with the
Mail for Gottecthurgh.

This morning early the Earl of LeicestrrPacktt,
Capt. TH,Aytv3oN, arrived horn Hilburn, with Ger.
man Recruits,

r4•---The King Grorge Packer, Captain
SAUNDEKS, is this moment arrived with the Mail
from Guttenburgh.

Remains the Prgairss Frigate, Earl of Leicester
and King George Packets.

DEAL, SEPT. 14.—His Majesty's Ship GrQ..
hound, Devastation, andLacifir Bitubs, c4tn down
from the Note, and remain.

Sailed the Havhty, Clinktr, and Cracker, Gun..
brigs, on. a Cruize off Boulogne.

Arrived the Chicheorr, —, American Ship,
from Charleston, and sailed for the River. •

The DrvaJtariox has made the Signal vi Convoy
to the Westward.

}-Irs MAJESTY embarked on board the Royal
Yacht this m ,rning about ten o'clock ; the firing
from the Ships and Forts are distinaly heard here.
His MAJESTY intends honouring Mr. WOLD, at
Lui worth Castle,thisday, with his company.

The elettion of Officers to serve in the C-orpora.
lion for the year ensuing, came on this morning at
the Guildhall in this town, when MARK Simi.,
Esq. was unanimously re.eleaed Mayor BENJA-
MIN GARLAND LECTOR, Esq. Sheriff; CHRISTO.
PHER SPURRIER and SAMUEL CLARK, Esqrs. Co.
roners ; and JOHN Wise, Gent. Water.bailiff.