The Sun.
London, England, 1804-01-10 00:00:00

LONDON, 3: ANUA R Y 10, 1804.

A report is again circulated, that a Plan of Attack
upon some part of the 'Enemy's preparations for In.
vasion, is under the 'consideration of Ministers, and
that something in this way will be done early in
the Spring. We sincerely wish . that the report
.may be well-founded. We I are no fritrids to
such inconsiderate and ill-judged Attacks as that
made some time ago upon Calais. and Bgulove, be-
cause they were mad without 'a due estimate of
the Force necessary to make a .sticient impression
upon the Enemy ; but we are certain, that if we
are, during the whole of the next summer, to an
ul-on a frigid system of mere internal defence, the
Spirit of the Nation must Sink, and we shall lose a
- -
great part oithat noble Energy which now animates
our Volunteers, and aff_a.d.s' the best means for under-
taking, with our Regular Force, some important of-
fensive operation. From the injury which was done
to the Town and Harbour of Calais by the very inade-
quate Force which was sent against it, we have no
doubt :that the whole Town and Bason may be de-
stroyed by the employment of sufficient means ; and
we know that a Plan was long ago given in
for this purpose, by an Officer well acquainted
with the localities of the place, by which its com-
plete destruCtion might be ensured. If we sit
down coldly to calculate every little loss which an
Enterprize may produce, we shall never, we fear, at-
tempt any thing calculated to feed the Spirit or
support Ole Character of Englishmen for noble
daring.----Under a more able and efficient Ministry
we should not despair of seeing Enterprizes at-
tempted and crowned with success, which should
vie with any recorded 'in the brightest pages of our
History ;. and there never was a period when it
was more incumbent upon us than at present to
vindicate our Character, and convince the world
that England is not only still capable of defend.
ing herself, but of checking the career, and hum-
bling- the' arrogant pretensions of the most un-
bounded and destructive ambition. We shall sin-
cerely rejoice to be able, at some no very distant
period, to cohlirm the report to which we have
alluded, as we are confident than a well-planned
Enterprize, of whatever nature, against the Enemy,
would have great effect in overseeing his project
of Invasion, and would perhaps be' the signal to
the rest of
.Europe for making one great effort
more, to effectuate their own deliverance.

By a private Letter from the Blanche Frigate,
commanded by Capt. IVItinGE, dated Cape Fran-
cois, Nov. 19, we are informed that he has sue-

ceeded in burning and destroying all the French

cc.ksels at Monte Christi, which consisted of et
5 1 of various descriptions had three men
jolted, and eight wounded in this hazardous Ser-
vice. Lieut. NICIIOLS of the Marines, was also
wounded, but is in a fair way of recovery,

On Saturday morning the Charwell Sloop of
War, Captain DUMARESQ, arrived at' Plymouth,
and immediately sailed again with Dispatches for
Vice,Admiral Sir JAmEs SAUNIAKEZ, at Guernsey,
and from the moment of her being sent off, Sir JOHN
CoLioys was indefatigable in forwarding some pre-

pararions, from which it was inferred, that some-
- thing in the was• of attack may be again meditated
in the quarter of St. Makes. This, huwever, is of

course mere conjeatirc.

Two Prussian Schuyts arrived yesterday in the
'River from the Maes, from which they sailed on
Tuesday last, corn laden. They bring no addi-
tional information to that which we have already
stated. The Troops in Holland have, it is posi.
lively affirmed, retired into winter-quarters.

Yesterday morning His MAJESTY took an airing
onlicirseback in 'Windsor Great Park.

HEI: MA J E.STY and the Pa INc EssEs took an airing
.the Maidenhead road.

Major-General BARNETT, the present Licute.
nant-Govetenor of Gibraltar, is appointed to succeed
the late Major. General CL EPHANE, as second Major
of the 3d Regiment of Guards. Gen:* Sir CHARLES
GR EEN is appointed to succeed the late Gen. GR IN-
F! ELD, as Commander in Chief of His Majesty's
Forces serving in the West India Islands.

The Court Martial sat on Friday, and yesterday,
on General BVitToN, at Chelsea. The charge
against him is for fighting a duel with an inferior
Officer. The two Second 4 Wye been examined

plicated themselves; and upon this there seemed to.
be no evidence against the General. But the,
DUKE of You.: hearing of this, produced a letter,
to the Court, wherein the General admits the fad.
The Court were to deliberate yesterday whether
such a letter can be received in evidencee
This day a General CourtlVlartial was to be held
at. Chelsea College, for the trial of Colonel BOYCE,
Inaperainee Field-Officer of the Marlborough Dis-
tritt. Major-General Bu rtitAtt Di of the First Re-.
giment of Foot Guards, was to be President.
The PRINCE Of WALES'S Light Dragoons, under
marching orders for Guildford, we hear, do not lea ve
Brighton until the•arrival of the sth Dragoons, who
are to relieve them, and who marched from Bir-
niingharn for that purpose on Thursday last.
We stated more than two months ago that His
MAJESTY'S Camp Equipage was in perfeet readi-
ness, a piece of intelligence which some ofethe
Papers now give as new. His Mat ssTy's resolu_
tion to take the Field in case of actual Invasion has
been long declared, and we have no doubt animates
. the Volunteers in the necessary duty of perfeeting
themselves as much as possible in military discipline.
Col. TYRWHITT having received authority from
Government to request that a detachment of 300
of the Royal Stannary Artillery would march to
Plymouth, on permanent, duty and pay, for three
- weeks, read the letter of service a few days ago, at
the head of the different Corps ; and he has not .
been disappointed in his expeCtation, as each Com-
pany has most cheerfully volunteered its thirty men.
The period for which this detachment is to remain
in the Garrison, will enable diem, we are informed,
under the guidance of those properly qualified by
experience, to obtain a very complete knowledge of
the great guns. The compliment has been paid the
Regiment, of allotting George's-square Barracks in
Dock, to their use, which most conveniently op6ri
to the Batteries round Government House.
detachment will march on Monday next from Truro,
under the command of Lieut. Col. TRELAWNYo^
The athletic strength, stature, and patriotic zeal of
Cornishmen, were Bever more eorvicuously evinced
than in this fine Regiment, who have by no means
degenerated from What we have heard of th6/i in
days of old.
The North Cornwall Regiment of Volunteers,
commanded by Cot. l'Aers, received orders on Sa-
turdaysennighr, to hold themselves in readiness to
march at a moment's notice. This fine Regiment,
though one of the last raised in Cornwall, has al-
ready acquired a proficiency in their exercise, truly
creditable bosh to the Officers and men.
Letters are received from Mr. Secretary YottcE,
stating that by His Majesty's command, the Militia
and Army of Reserve in Scotland, are to he com-
pleted immediately to their full complement, and
given orders accordingly.
An extra force of tOOO men, to preserve the
peace, in the event of the absence of their Volun-
teers on aftual service, is Co be raised in the County
of Dumfries, on the plan.of the Loyal Edinburgh
Spea'rmen.
The 2d battalion of the 18th Regiment,_ or Royal
Irish, marched on Wednesday from the Canongate,
Edinburgh, to the eastward.
On Tuesday last the first division of the ra.th
battalion of the Army of Reserve arrived at Glas.
gow- from Dundee on their way to Ireland.
The Berwickshire Militia marched on 'Tuesday
last for Port Seaton. The Officers are to have Sea-
ton House for quarters.
Orders were on Monday se'nnight received. for
the Glasgow Volunteers to hold themselves in reae -
diness to march at a moment's warning; and routes
for several of the corps to proceed upon the first
alarm of inuasion, were transmitted to their respec-
tive Conunatidams.

The first batta'lion of the Argyleshire Volunteers
marched on Monday sennight for Paisley, where
they are to be quartered :ill further orders. The
second battalion also march out of the County soon.
The Aytshire Militia, from Dunbar, marched
into Edinburgh on Monday se'nnight. The 18th
Regiment have matched for Haddington, where they
halt 'for further orders.
The PertficVolunteeis are; now doing the duty of
that Town, as are Cotoncl,isilrLNE's Corps (the ph
Forlarshire Battalion) that of Dundee.

The Duke of BUCCLEUGH, as Lord Lieutenant
of the County, and the Lotto PaovosT of Edin.
burgh, as Lord Lieutenant of the City, have di-
reaed a Muster to he taken of thei-riumerous body
of Labourers and Artificers, who lately offered
with so much zeal and public spirit, to ad as
Pioneers and Artificers with the Army, in the event
of the Country being invaded by a foreign Enemy.
Each perion is direded to assemble with a working
tiool, a blanker, a h tversack, and a canteen, or ar_
ticles of a similar kind; the equipment requited
when they are to assemble for service. •

On Tuesday morning last, about two o'clock, the
inhabitants of Newport were alarmed by an Express
from the Signal House at the South East part of the
Island, to Major General Lord CAVAN, stating,
that the Enemy were embarked, and hourly expected
on these shores.

The Volunteers instantaneously assembled as one
man, and before four o'clock, upwards of 500
were on pirade at Newport. Theyolunteer Ca-
valry were sent express to the different Commanding
Officers, which duty they performed so. expediti.
ously as to obtain 'the thanks of his Lordship. By
noon there weo,assernbled in Newport near woo,
and in the Island upwards, of 2500 Volunteers, be-
side Regulars „and Militia. -.The whole were under
arms until the evening, when nothing further of the
Enemy appeared. After having received the thanks
of their several Commanding Officers, they were
dismissed.

The South Devon Regiment of Militia have ob-
tained the thanks of the Inhabitants of Falmouth
for their soldier-like condut and good behaviour
whilst quartered there.

Last week a Court of Inquiry sat on a private of
the First Regiment of Glasgow Volunteers, on a
charge of improper conduft to an Officer while off
duty. In consequence of the Report, Regimental
Orders were issued by the Commanding 01*er, dis.
missing him from the Corps.

PLYMOUTH, JAN. B.—Arrived the Stint.: Mr-
garitta Frigate, fiom Sheerness ; and the Swedish
Brig Teutcnia, Capt. VAis;DLEtlas, from Embden,
bound to Surinam.

Arrived the Leander, of Yarmouth, for Dublin,
and the Eagle, from Ips%ViCh for this Port, taken
by the Suwarrow French Privateer, and re-taken
by the Jamaica Frigate. •

PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 9.—Arrived the Orpheus
Frigate from Cid:, and Pluto Sloop of War from
the Eastward.
Came up from St. Helens the Fisgard Frigate.

DOVER, JAN. 9.—By the Ship Lojal Volunteer,
of Hull, from St. Lucar, for London, which arrived
to-day, we learn that on the 31st December, in lat.
45. 26. long. to. 1. she spoke the Ardent, one of
Sir EDWARD PELLEW'S Squadron, who informed
them that on the 28th November the Ardent chaced
the 13,7yowia;se French Frigate on shore in Finnistre
Bay; the crew of which blew her up, to prevent her
falling into our hands.

DEAL, JAN. 9.--The Basilisk Gun-brig has made
the signal of Convoy to the Westward.
In the Downs—the Monarch, Utrecht, Immortalit6, Per-
seus, Mariner, and Basilisk.

EAST CHUk CH, JAN. 4.—The following para-
graph is inserted, in hopes-that the friends of the
deceased may know his fate :

There was lately found a drowned man, on Great
Bell's Salts, in the parish of East Church, Isle of
Shepley. He had on a blue coat with an anchor
button; three handkerchiefs, two white, and a silk
one round his neck, one was marked T. P. No. 9
a very old-fashioned silver watch, maker's. name
Joseph Cory ton, 5770, Plym. Dock ; a small oval
tortoise shell snuff-box, silver mounted, no cypher,
for the plate was. .ttfOrn off; a cornelian seal, with
the letters W. -Feversham--aotes, one a
guinea, the other 11. The body was in a very
putrid state, and was therefore buried in his
clothes.

The Glatton Man of War is arrived in Leith
Roads, and the Vice-Admiral's Flag has beereshift-
ed from the Roebuck, of 44. guns, to that ship.
Wednesday morning sailed from Leith Roads, the
Inspector Sloop of War, on a Cr uixe.
In the late storm on the zeth ult. the Foudroyant,
of 84. guns, had every sail split to rags, and the
seamen aloft were so exhausted with fatigue, that
when the gale abated they had scarcely. strength-left
to get from alofron deck.—The Idle de Paris, of
110 guns, Admiral CORNW AL-LIS, shipped a sea
which knocked three of her men into the water
from the main-yard, to meet, poor fellows, a watery
grave. The San joserS'topmast was struck with
lightning, but fortunately on examination it did not
want any repair to prevent her sailing. Upwards
of 3o sail °fairies and Swedes in distress, some dis-
masted, were passed in the Channel, but the-pen of
war could not render them any assistance. A large
ship, supposed a Dane, was wrecked in BigburY
Bay, laden with fruit, near where the Ramilies, 98,
Rear-Admiral DAP, EL L, Was lost in 1760; pact
the wreck and fruit floated ashore, and three dead
bodies, by their dress supposed Danes, which were
decently interred by the country people in the
nearest churchyard.
A Letter, dated Lochbuy, Dec.-29, 5ay5.......“ We
have had very stormy weather for some time past.
On the z7th seven Vessels were piloted byd
of
the
ferrymen of Crogan into Lochspelve, Islan
Mull. Among these, are the Ship Lady Curnin7,
Capt. Gt B SON, from New Brunswick for Liverpool;
...
Ship, Zephyr,, from Riga for ditto; a Brig from Sa
yannah for ditto. Capt. 0. CUMMING, from Oue-
bec, whose vessel foundered at sea, was taken up
;:by the Brig from Savannah."
"A letter from Arbroath, dated the 31st ult. says,
" there is no part of the temporary beacon which was
on the Bell Rock to be seen, and one of the spars of
which it was composed is drove on shore at Ar-
broath, so that these' is no doubt hut it is totally
gone. It was last seen from shore on Sunday the
18th of December, after ,having stood six months,
the last two months being almost a constant gale
from the eastward, which had no doubt shaken it
not a little; and the dismal storm of Tuesday the
zoth, which was one of the hardest gales and highest
running sea we have had on our coast, demolished
this beacon. It was composed of four large fir
&pars, hound with iron, which could be seen at /2
miles distance, and it having stood six months, and
during all the easterly gales which have prevailed
this autumn, will point out to every ingenious man
who knows the situation how it was consttuCted.
Had tie err ion been iron in place of wood, who
can doubt but it would have stood. Great praise is
due to the Subscribers who aided in putting up the
beacon, as it has proved, without the smallest doubt,
that an iron Light-house might be placed on this
dangerous rock.".
Jamaica Gazettes to the r 9th November last stare,
that on the 27th Oaober the Theseus, 74., arrived
at:Pora Royal, with the loss of her fore-top mast,
which, had been struck by lightning ; one of her
men was killed by the shock, and several wounded.
Lieutenant CASgAN,of the Beth regiment, has been
run through die body, in a quarrel with Captain
M INCH EN, of the same regiment.—The C 0,211 has
carried into Port Royal the French schooner La
Jenne Addle, and I' Elisse, and cutter PAinWe'",.
the Racoon also captured the French national brig
La Petite but she was retaken by her crew
and run ashore. The Cumber/and, 74., had taken
and brought into Port Royal the French ships La
Sophie, La Catherine, and Mars, with troops from
Cape Francois to Old France. The French na_
tional brig' Goelan, cutter Sandwich (formerly.
British) and schooners Tricolors, Pere Cheri, Char-
Conser-eel, La Rosalie, with 1 zoo troops

jestyis ships La Pipe and Pelican, at Aux Cayes,
and arrived at Port Royal. L' Hercule, 74, had
got on shore on a bank oft Cape Franc )is, and hav-
ing thrown 6o of her guns overboard, was got off
again with very little damage, and all the guns ex.
ceps three, afterwards recovered.

On ale 3oth Offobcr, a smart shock of an earth.
quaki-Was felt in the parish of Sr. David, Jamaica.
The sailing of the convoy for England had. been put
off till z 4. hours after the saili,zg of the packet,. that
she might bring home the. necessary orders for in.
surance. The Gjpu_y schooner had driven on shore
and destroyed a French schooner of two long brass
guns, and full of men. On the 7th November a
vio!:!rt storm .had done some damage among the
shipping at Port-Antonio. The Mar), Ann, of
Londpl,, gut on shore, and lost her rudder, but was.
got off dgain.

Upon a Survey of Aberlady Bay, by Mr. Wit:r.
-By, sent down by the Admiralty, it is found that
there is good anchorage for large Ships, and Sea-
robin to turn out with any wind. The Men of War
in Leith Roads are expeCted to be ordered dawn
there immediately.

Dutch Papers to the Ist instant arrived ye,ster-
day. Their contents are of very little importance-
A Letter from Rotterdam states, that the removal of
the Armed Vessels and Transports from the interior
to_Flusiling, was a precautionary expedient against
the efFeets of the frost, which would necessarily
have' locked them up for an intermediate time, in
which case that part of the very extensive prepara-
tions could not have been used ',either to terrify or
acq against the enemy," 'lndeed '(adds the same arti-
cle) report states, that the Expedition is postponed
till the Spring.
An American vessel arrived at Cowes, left thc.
'Texel on Sunday the Ist instant, at which time
between fifty and sixty Transports had gone down
to the Helder,. which were fitted up for Else reccp_
tion of horse and foot, but neither a man nor bursc:.
was embarked, and there were no provisions oil.
board. •

Private accounts from Hamburg!). state, that ac-
cording to the most recent intelligence from Peters_
burgh, Count -ALEXANDER WoßoNzow Irad not
resigned his Office of Lord High Chancellor of
Russia, but merely retired for some months to hip
"country se4t for the restoration of his health.

Two instalments of the sum stipulated in the late.
Convention between France and Spain', for-the Neu-
trality of the latter Country, are already due, 'but:
not yet paid. It is said that the Spanish Govern-
ment is endeavouring to raise eight millions of
piastres, by means of a loan, at Amsterdam or k-lam.
burgh,

A private Letter from Berlin gives the following'
account of the channels opened by Prussia for her
c munercewith
_England :—" The Atlglo.Germars
trade, which was threatened with serious impedi.
ments by the Blockade of the Elbe and the Weser,
has 'conquered all interruption, and immense con-•
signments of English goods go from Etnbden with
Prussian passes, ro Munster, the whole of Westpha
lia, and also into Holland. Thus Stettin is becom*
one of the first commercial cities of Germany. To
the same town the-whole Spagis4 eptiie of the Hansa
. T( w.is, with the Silesia and Lusatia manufactures,
is likewi-e removed. The KING of PRUSSIA has ad-•
• vanced 4 millions of rix-dollars to the manuleturers
of Silesia, to enable them to forward their merchan-,
dize, &c. without employing Factors at Hamburgh.
The trade •of Stettin therefore, is become'irery flour
rishing, and'ships arefreighted from thence to Cad*,
Bilboa, Corunna, and Malaga. Lubeck and Map
deburgh arc 'also cansiderable gainers by this altera-,
lion in the channels of commerce. Many commQ-
dities which used to be shipped from Hambingh an 3
Luneburgh, and transported thtough Hanover, now'
go direffly from, Magdeburgh to Brunswick, Franck.,
fort, and even to Leipsic Fair and Nuremburgh.
Twenty-two large waggons, loaded with British
ma nufaCtures, were forwarded from. Magdeburgh
and Stettin to the last Michaelmas Fair at Leipsic."
On 20ti1 ult. Syndic DOORNIANN, the Deputy of
the City of Hamburgh at Copenhagen, took his
leave of the Danish Court, after having been
.tteatea
with particular distinaion on the part of the Krilo,,
‘vho as a farther token of his favour and remembrance,
ordered the Minister of State, Count BERNsTottF
to present the Syndic with a valuable gold snuff-
boxL
es et
tt e inrs frombitrcihl ti
lei
san
of
tasn'
Hanover,
ntvi:l eler eoaft ls
the 3 That
Gen. IVIORTIER had received a Courier from Paris
with The
FFrenchiApirmy in Hanover, according to some ac.
counts, are to he reduced to ro,ooo men.
utmost 2iml p,:irtt' an state,ce.

A Letter from Wetzlar, in the last Mails, states,
that •under the Iviediation of France, the Sum of In-
demnity to be allowed by the Batavian Republic to
the HOUSE of ORANGE, for the domains of that Fa-
mily, has been fixed at Two Millions of Dutch Du•
cats.
A letter from Hamburgh, dated the 23d ult.
says, " For some days tve have had a most severe.
commencement of Winter. The cold has been at
to or 12 degreesßEAumt.m. To-day it' is some. .•
thing milder. The Elbe is entirely blocked up by
the ice, so that the English frigates have, it is said,
left the mouth of the River. In Hanover the cold r
has been at 17 or 18 degrees: Many French Sol-
diers in their late marches, as well as Peasants, have
been frozen to death."

By the late At it is enaaed, that every non.
resident Clergyman claiming exemption on any ple;
independent of licence---.such, for instance, as dis-
pensation for two livings, &c. must nevertheless
notify to the Bishop's -Secretary his nonresidence,
and cause of his exemption ; which notification must
he given-within six weeks after Jan. r, 1804, on
pain of losing the benefit of such exemption ; arA
this notice must be given yearly, to prevent incur•
ring the same forfeiture.

By the operation of the Army of Reserve Aa,
those Churchwardens -and Overseers of Parishes
who have nor furnished their quota of men, will be
subjed to a fine of 201. att the ensuing Session, fos
every default ; and a further remilty of 201. at ever'
Quarter Sessitin until the numbe; balloted is

F,lcrir Waterford Packets, or Maik, are dtie
here this day ; ;in extreme unpleasant circumtrance to
those who have their letters sent thus.
Captain M'Gt.r IRE of the Royal Navy, passed
throueh this City this day, en his sway to Bantry, for
the purpose of erecting Signal Posts along the Coast.
The Tellicherg Transport arrived yesterday in
our Harbour, with several articles necessary for the
ereftion of the Signal-posts about to be established
round the Coast of this
Yesterday the four following Transports—Print.
cess Rual, Coterworth, Nile, and Gr,,nt, from Fal-
mouth, arrived with the 3d Regiment of Foot, under
the command of Major PR E VOST ; they did not stop
in the Harbour, bur cast anchor at Monkstown,
uswil place of disembarkation. Six other Trans-
ports also arrived, to take on board the Troops
destined for f reign service. On Tuesday the 27th
ult, the ship Mary, of Bristol, to Charlestown, was
totally lost at the entrance of Glandore Harbour;
Crew saved.
On Friday the t 6th Rgiment, now at Kinsale,
embark from Monkstown ; and on the same day the
46th, now here, will embark, both for the West
Indies, to the great regret of the inhabitants, as Col.
VANDAL F, uit and his Officers are much liked, and
the Regiment has cundut-ted itself in a most exem-
plary manner.

Upwards of zoo sail of snipping arc about to sail
fur thc... West Indies.

The Earl of CORK Lis taken a house at Sc. Pa-
trick's Place, in the envirohs of this City. His
affability has endeared him much to thvenple here.
Lord DE CLIFF01:1), to whom Ghvernment had
riroinistd ftc Colitaion of Kinsale (Revenue), has
in the most hardsol-L• manner recommended for it
JoH t MEADE, E. a Gentleman (math' unconnea-
cd with his LirdN), but who resides in the neigh.
bourhood, and is highly valued for his loyalty and
spirited eondutt in suppressing disturbance.