The Sun.
London, England, 1804-01-25 00:00:00

LONDON, J ANUA R Y 25, 1804.

EIS MAJESTY, we have great pleasure in stating,
is hourly recovering from his indisposition. It
was, we are well informed, a slight attack of a
regular gout, which most persons concur in think-
ing a circumstance favourable to His MAJES-
TY'S long enjoyment of the soundest health. He
was able yesterday to walk about the apartments of
Buckingham_house ; indeed it is hoped that in a
day or tWO His MAJESTY will be able to take his
list:al exercise. A Levee is announced for Wednes-
day the ist of February, and a Drawing-room for
the 9th.

WE now hope that Admiral CORNWALLIS has
been able to weather the storm of Thursday night
last, without the necessity of returning into port.
Such of his Ships as have been obliged to come in
from having sustained damage, will soon be in a
condition to rejoin the Fleet.
The Northumberland, of 74 guns, is arrived at
Plymouth from Bantry Bay. Previous to her sail.
ing from thence, the Spartiate, of 74 guns, had ar_
rived there, a circumstance which gave great satin.
fzclion, as some apprehensions were begun to be en.
tertained respeding her.

THE Cumberland, of 74. guns, and the Chichr.oer
of 44, arrived yesterday at Portsmouth. The lat-
ter was Convoy of the from Jamaica, and we
are sorry to say has brought one Vessel only of the
Convoy, the rest having been dispersed in the late
violent gales.

We have the pleasure to announce the arrival of
part of the Leeward Island Fleet in the Downs.

IT is now said, but with what truth we know
not, that the Chief Consul has changed his plan for
the Invasion of this Country. Iliac he begins to
see the impraelicability of pushing his Flotilla of
Boats to sea in the face of a British Squadron,
we can readily suppose, for it can require but
little observation to convince any man of the con-
sequences of such an attempt. His plan is now said
to be, to get our Cruizers under his Batteries in
a calm, to disable them, and then push over be.
fore our Ships and Vsssels can be in a condi-
tion to follow him. When our Vessels are be-
calmed, he thinks he can send out such a number
of Gun-boats as will surround, and at least disable
them, if not take them. These Boats are to be
manned by Italians, . of whom it is said he has
about 6000 now at Boulogne. These men may
be accustomed to Boating, but they are not
used to face British Tars ; besides, if the above
be really amongst the new devices of BONAPARTE,
wb.ere cines.he suppose are to be the aEtivity, and
skill, and presence of mind of our Naval Officers,
at any time more than equal to baffle and de-
feat such puny projeds ? We do not say that our
Vessels may not be becalmed occasionally upon
the French Coast, and such a thing may happen even
under a French Battery ; but while the French are
taking the advantage of such an accident, are our
men to remain quiet spelators of their impending
fate, without an effort, to retreat or to annoy the
assailing Enemy ? If any such idea as our Vessels
falling into his power in this way, has ever entered
the tri;.nd of the Chief Consul, it only proves to us,
that he has ceased to, hope that his attempt has
any chance cf success. He waited till the long
nights and thLk weather of Winter should favour
his design. These he fi:-Ris unpropitious, and he
is now to try what Summer, fine weather and
c tms, will do for him. If his condud is regulated
by such vagaries, his grand projed of the Invasion
of Britain cannot fail ultimately to mike him ridi-
culous in the eyes of the whole world.

MUCH speculation is afloat with respe4 to Spain,
same thinking an immediate War with that Power
unavoidable, while others repose a blind confidence
in the policy and ability of,Ministers to prevent it.
Upon what data the latter opinion is sounded, - we
are at a loss to conjeaure. Ever since the renewal
of the War :with France, it has appeared to us im.
,possible to avoid a War with Spain ; but in place
of cur choosing the time for its commencement,
inf..s! favourable and advantageous to ourselves,
we have. left it to BONAPARTE to diaste and
arrange v,ry thing with respcet to that *Vassal
Friii.c4 • If cur Ministers seriously ui,hed to
as ,'id a Spanish War, they should have begun with
measures of spi:it and,precouti( n..they shopld have
t iken.security for tht preservaiion of the Spanish
;Neutrality, by conduCting into our own Ports the

Treasure from South America, which 29 novi fast
ii swing into the Coffers of the Chief Consla) of
France, and is enabling him to proseeute, upvn
so large a scale, his plans of livesion againn
this Country. Had we adypted this measure in.,
the first instance, we might have had some re.
liance upon the professions of Spain, and if she had
been forced at any time during the War into open
hostility, we should have had ample compensation
in our hands—but mere professions from a Country
so unequivocally under the direaion of our invete-
rate Enemy, it is study, to say no worse of it,
very silly to build upon.
It must be very obvious to every one, that it
does not, at the present moment, at all depend upon
the decision of the British Ministers, whether or
not Spain shall maintain a nominal Neutrality,
(for certainly it would only at best be a no-
minal Neutrality), while she is supplying France
with the sinews of war. Her being at Peace
or War, turns upon the sovereign pleasure of the
Chief Consul, and is it reasonable to suppose, at a
time when he is meditating such vast schemes of
attack against this Ccuntry, that he will not avail
himself of the considerable'Fleet which the Ports of
Spain can send out ?
It has for these last two or three' days been
strongly reported in the City, that several emi.
nent French Banking Houses have been drawing
Bills upon Houses in London, for the purpose
of facilitating the payment of the Subsidy paid
by Spain to France, as they cannot draw direa
upon Madrid, there being no commercial inter.
course between the two Capitals. We hope this
report cannot be well founded, but if it is, does it
not prove that BONAPARTt has address enough to
make use of us even, as tools to serve his own pur.
poses ? If, however, there be any foundation at
all for the rumour, it is surely the duty of our Go.
vernment to interfere in a transaaion so favourable
to the interests of our open and inveterate Fue.

A Dublin Mail of the 2131 arrived this morning.

Yesterday about twelve o'clock HER MAJESTY,
an. the PRINCESSES AUGUSTA and ELIZABETH, at-
tended by the Countess of HA,RCOURT, took an air-
ing in a coach and four, with the usual escort, by
Hampstead and Highgate.
PR INCESS AMEL T A, attended by Lady S.THYNNE,
took an airing by Battersea and Clapham.
Yesterday morning the DUKE of CLARENCE left
London for Brighton, on a visit to the PRINCE.
Yesterday the Dung of YORK and PRINCESS SO-
PHIA of GLOUCESTER visited THEIR MAJESTIES.
Yesterday morning, at eight o'clock, the remains
of the Right Hon. CHARLOTTE Countess Dowager
TALBOT, were removed from her Ladyship's house,
in Grosvenor-square, to be interred with those of
the late Earl, in the family vault at Ingestrie, near
Litchfield, in Stafirdshire. The cause of her sud-
den and much lamented death was an obstruetion,
occasioned by indigestion, which the Faculty en_
deavoured in vain to remove.

Yesterday a Couit of DireEtors was held at the
East India House, when Captain Rau ear WARD_
Low was sworn into the command of the
destined to Madras and Bengal. The Court ad.
jf)urned at five o'clock till this day.

Mr. TUCKER has left the Navy Board, but his
successor is not yet appointed. It was supposed
that Mr. PARKER, Nephew to
.the Countess ST.;
VI NC ENT, Would he appyincedt but his nomination,
we believe, has not taken place.

Letters were last week received at Lord Ho-
BART'S Office, from Lieut.-Governor Cof.LINS,
dated the zzd of August, who, in His Majesty's
Ship the Calcutta had reached the Cape of Good
Hope on his way to Port Phillip, for which place
they were to sail with the first fair wind, and which
they hoped to reach in six weeks from their sailing.
The ship's cornpany and convias Were in good
health. The Lieutenant-Governor speaks highly of
the very flattering manner in which he was received'
at the Cape.

Ab art a fortnight ago, a Deputation from the
Manufaauring Towns had an interview with Lord
HAWKESBURY, on the subje6t of the unpaid debts of
the Spanish Merchants, when he assured them that
the demand of payment should he made again, and
in the most peremptory terms. In the mea„ time
he informed them that no refusal of the had
been atsemp:ed on the part of the Court of Spain,
and he believed that the delay had hitherto been cc-
cAsioned by temporary circumstances.

The Marquis CoRNWALLIs is appointed to the
command of the district of Suffolk and Essex.

We understand that all the Guards, now guar.
tered at Chelmsford, have received orders to march
immediately to Harwich.
Yesterday the Ist Regiment of Royal East India
Volunteers were inspected by Lieut. Col.
NAc F 2 and had afterwards a grand Field-day ; at
the' conclusion, Col. HARNAGE addressed Col.
MILLS in the following emphatic terms : "Sir, as
a military man, I have to return you my thanks for
the treat I have this day experienced ; and I quit
the field with heartfelt pleasure, in the idea that His
MAJESTY has at command the services of a Brigade,
distinguisshed for the general discipline and.extreme
corratiless of its manoeuvres.

The usual Warrants are ordered to he applied for
b the different Qaarter.masteis, of the Brigade of
For Guards for a change of qur.:irs, on the zoli
of February next. 'they are as lbllow : za Kea,
lion of the Ist gegimenr, 'Earracl,;:s
and place's adjacent ; 2(1 BattalitiB of the Culdscreani
Regiment, Portman Barracks and places adj4c',„l
the zd Battalion of the 3d Regiment go into tio:a:
tc;s in Upper and Lower Westminsteri