The Sun.
London, England, 1803-09-21 00:00:00

LONDON; SEPTEMBER zr, :803.

met is miming twit more of thellamburgh Mad:
arrived. They .hring us, through the medium .of
the Itam3urgh Carrespordenw, Paris, news of two
e! :p later than any French Papers received in this
Country. Admiral Bautx, appointed to cum,
padnd the Naval Force to be employed in the Ex..
rditian against Eng/fryd, has issued a Proclama.
tiun at Bo,telope, which Wr think will only raise a
unite of contempt on the lien of our gallant
Se4inen. our Soldiers, and Volunteers... •

All the Troops on the Line frotn Lisle to Metz,
are oydered to be in readiness 'to march at twenty.
lur hours notice, 'rim whole force collelling be.
vveen Cowper's:re anti Ghent will amount to ti 30,000
tit/.7n, and were to be Assembled by the loth of this
ontl).,

In the midst of these vaunted preparationi, bow.
r, We 113VC au account from Ilata,ve-r, of an in-
on the part of General MORTI r.ft, of erect.
I;,p, mins works at 'different points of the Elbe and
trekr, arising, it is believed, by an expeeta.
I.bat tbe coil! make tome attempt 10 re.
ortyr that: Cinintly. 'she Hanoverian Magistrates
have vratebted against this design, but of course in

I,aln.

An Article, from the liague stater, that by ac.
frOID VlistlOVer it has been proposed that the
Troops sh3ll he withdrawn from that Coun.
ry, and a.Prns,ian Garrison shall take possession
.kf it, on, condition that 'the States shall secure to the
1.6,.tin 'Government a yearly payment of Two
IVi,llions or }Ayres during the War. This account,
it at present stands, we do not think entitled to
a..y kind of credit.
About folly sail of the Flit arrived yester.
thy ifi Yarmouth Roa&i. All the Packets that have
ely come from thi rum, have brought over ri own.
fixer of Hanoverian SAliers, happy no doubt to es..
t.i,!,,ltorn the odious tyranny of the French.
,Two ilamburV) Malls remain due.

'The Mait of the 17th 11IliVed this morn.,
Outind 'the' übvetisiun of the State

This, however, may be considered as a fortunate
circumstance, as it is the strongest proof or the
continuance of the public tranquillity.

By the Lidos Mail which arrived yesterday, in.
telligence has been received of the Portuguese Go.
vernment having acceded to the demands of the
First Consul, in consequence of which Don Jon
D'AtAtz IDA, Minister of, the, Foreign and War
Department, and who was obnoxions to General
LASNES, has been dismiited. He is to go to Ger.
many with an Embassy. M. Pt NTo,Viscount Blast.
MAN is appointed to succeed him for the present.
He was formerly Foreign Minister, but has since
administered the affairs of the Home Department.
Yesterday a Cabinet Council was held upon the Dis-
patches from Lisbon.

By the most recent edvices of authority from Spahr
and Portugal it appears that the former is 'to pay a
very large annual sum to France, insult of carrying
into effeft the Stipulations of the Offensive and De.
fensive Alliance of 1796, by which, on demand, the
Court of Spain is bound to furnish to France Fifteen
Sail of the Line, 18,000 Infantry, and 6000 Caval.
ry. It is generally reported that the Sum which
Spain is so to contribute is Four Million, Sterling
annually. Upon this arrangement it is generally
thought that our Ministers will content themselves
with considering Spain as Neutral. Though she
furnishes France with the means of carrying on the
War—Though she suffers French Privateers to carry
their Prizes into her Ports, Though, in short, she
gives every assistance to France she can afford, be.
cause she does not comply (with the consent of the
CH I er CoNsul.) with the literal stipulations of this
Treaty, and became the Spanish Minister reiterates
his assurance of a with for Peace, we are to be satis.
fled with a Pacific disposition, and with being told
that necessity, not inclination compels the Court of
Madrid rd assist our Enemy. Is not this voluntarily
taking all the disadvantages of the hostility of
Spain, anal denying ourselves its advantages ? The
question respeCting Portugal indeed is said to enter
into this temporising policy—but the moment the
CHIEF CONSUL'S views are really dire led
towards Portugal, (whatever we may do,) Spain
will not risque a War with France by attempt.
'ing to save it. If Ministers think they can get
any thing by courting Spain, they will find them.
selves mistaken—lt would be pardonable in them to
suppose their conciliation and forbearance might
make an impression on the Court of Madrid, but
do they not knew that if it did, the Cut IF CoN.
suL would not suffer them to reap the benefit of it ?
The Traitor NArria TANDY, it is said, was given
up to 'France by the present Ministers to 'soothe the
anger of the FIRST CON4UL.—We suppose the ex.
traordinay cession of the Cape of Good Hope with
a French Army in Holland, must have been
made for the same purpose—yet it would be
difficult to find, from the Treaty of Amiens to
the breaking out of the War, at what moment these
conciliatory measure: produced their effeil. Lord
HAWKISSURY, we fear, in his intercourse with
Spain, is, according to his own idea, mixing
" conciliation 'with fironess," hut, as usual, the
first ingredient in this excellent composition is so
plentiful, and predominates so much, that the last
is totally lost and destroyed altogether.

IN the a&ial dearth of all important intelligence
which has so unaccountably prevailed, acme of our
Cotemporaries, with their usual ingenuity, have been
endeavouring to excite the interear, or to work
upon the fears of the Nation, by fallacionq or ex.
aggerated accounts of preparations in the Enemy's
Ports, and of determinations made by him which it
is morally impossible that any persons in this
Country at least should know. It has ever been our
rule of condud, to arouze as far as in us lay, the
spirit of the Nation, to recommend exertions cons.
mensurate to the danger which threatens us, but
never to attempt to work upon its fears—so to ad,
we are perfedly sensible, is very wrongly to ap.
preciate the siirit of the Country and its COMMOn
sense.

We are now told that tht preparations in the
Dutch Porte are enormous, and in such a state of
forwardness as to engage the most serious attention
of His Majesty'a Ministers. If this be true, His
Majesty's Ministers are very highly culpable for
having only now ascertained the real extent of the
Dutch preparations, for it certainly is not much
more than a fortnight since some of those very
Ministers assured those about them that they had
the most satisfattory imetligence,that the Dutch had
peremptorily refused to take any alive part in the
meditated Invasion. of this Country. This tepre.
sentation of things as then given to His Majesty's
Ministers is certainly supprted by every observa.
lion that has since hveti nude upon tie state of the
tch ts by the Btitish Cruizets, Ind we believe
it to he a true state, both of the clicpl.;itiun and the
exertions of the Mich, Fin!: iiiiii»rc4l curd Mir')

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given as the number not/11;v, but admaqy fitted in
the Ara, would so fill that River that our Cruizers
could not fail to have seen them long ago—But what
is the real truth ? That the Dutch preparations for
joining in this mighty Invasion are hardly worth
mentioning—By the accounts received by the Ham.
burgh Mails arrived only yesterday,' it is very
coldly stated that pteparaiiiini were making, and that
tweitty.eight Gun. Boats were consttuding at Rater...
darn. Had the immense preparations been making,
or the force been alreetiy fitted out which has been
so idly, and sillily enumerated, (for the purpose we
presume of frightening our women and children,)
would not the Dutch have taken some credit to
themselves with the Cuter CONSUL and the People
of France by pompously detailing these gigantic
exertions ? The grounds, however, upon which we
deny the truth of this statement are better than
any furnished by the Dutch or any Foreign Journals.
—.-They are founded upon the aaual observation of
experienced and intelligent British Officers—Several ,
of our Cruizers have within the last fortnight or
three weeks closely ,inspaled the Dutch Ports, and
more particularly the Texel, and their unanimous
statement is, unclouded by any doubt, Oat in the
Tenet there was nothing like aElivity—and upon
shin fad the Public may rely.
While, however, we think it our duty to refute
exaggerated and fabricated reports, we are far from
wishing to relax the vigilance, or to depress the
spirits of the Nation. We wish to see the Coun.
try support itself in that dignified attitude of de.
fence, which it has in some measure attained, more
by the patriotism of the People, than by the wis.
dom or energy of the Government ; hut upon the
question of the. National Defence against the arro.
gain threat of Invasion, we look only to the cause
of our Country. While we tread this ground we
wish to forget the incapacity of Ministers, and their
weak and vacillating condua, even on points on
which the safety of the Empire most materially de.

ponds.
Let the noble Volunteers in their Country's
Service persevere in their pursuit of acquiring a
competent knowledge of military ta!lics and disci-
pline ; by cilia we do not mean :o insinuate, that
many of these National Defenders do not already
possess pretensions to the honourable appellation of
good Soldiers—we only wish to animate them in so
noble a pursuit—let them persevere, and their
Country is, by their means, placed beyond the
chance of disaster. The formidable state of pre.
paration however in which, we now stand, na.
totally leads the minds of Englishmen to atftion
and enterprize. The National Spirit will naturally
languish anti decline, if not fed and supported by
exertions on the part of the G.v,:rnrocnt correspon.
dent to its vigour. We know what both our Navy
and our Army can do when under the direCtion o
able and spirited Ministers, and the fillip which
even a small enterprize, such as that of last week on
the Town and Port of Granville, gives to the Public
mind, ought to suggest to Government some greater
efforts, or at least a reiteration of enterprizes simi.
lar to that. The good effetts of Sir JAM Ca SAU.
MAUR 's spirited and successful Bombardment will
be sensibly felt by the Islands of Guernsey and Pr.
sey. It wilt remove from the minds of the Ihliabi.
tants of those Islands all apprehension of their being
attacked, and it will shew the People of France
that we set at defiance the threatened Invasion of
their Great Consul, and must ever successfully defy
it, while we can by a small effort destroy his
mighty preparations in his own Ports. If a system
of offensive Warfare of this nature were pursued all
along the French Coast, we have no doubt it would
he attended with the very best reels. It would
feed the Military Ardour of the Nation and raise
the Spirits of the Navy, absolutely drooping from
inaction. A Flotilla of Bomb and Gun-Vessels con.
tinually hovering on the French Coast, would keep
the Enemy in a state of unceasing alarm, and might
no doubt often find opportunities of annnoying them
with. the greatest advantage. Would to Heaven we
had a Ministry capable of wielding with eflea the
great means which we poisess, not only for saving
the Country, but of extending it, interests and add•
.
ing to its honour I

Yesterday morning Hts MAJESTY, the Dux, of
CAMBR I Dal,. anti Princess born in, attended by
Lord WA LS I NO HAM, Sir W. and Lily PITT, afICICOI.
FITZROY, took an airing on horseback in Windsor
Great Park, towards Cumberland Lodge ; a heavy
shower of rain coining on, Fits MAJEsTar returned
to the Queen's Lodge. about eleven o'clock.
A house is fitting up at Cheltenham fur the rrcrp.
tion of His Royal Hit:mess the PRINCIE of WAL
Who is expeded there daily.
We are happy in find that the audios, of Ds.
voNsttt>ZE is so far reco,ered from her late alarming
attack as to be pronounced by Sir Wilartg FARQV
u tit and Dr. BLANK out of. danger. Her Grata
was in a most critical state till Sunday evening.
The Marquis of Fitmrt.y is pronounced by his
medical
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PLYMOUTH, SEPT. 19.—Sailed the Loa' Wien
East India Ship, Capt. Sr orriswooo, from Ben.
gal, for ,the River, under Convoy of the Rine
Revenue Cutter, Capt. FRASER ; also the° Coxfurre•
of 7+ guns, to join the Channel Fleet.
Arrived the :Diamand Frigate, Capt. Etrutti-
Erora, from a-Cruize—last from the Channel Fleet•
Arrived the American Ship Fradlitt, of Phila•
delphia, Capt. G. KONKLIN ; and the Swedish
Brig Catharima Carolisa, Capt. M. WFDMIN,
laden with wines from Barcelona, on account of
Government ; also the William, of and from Quebec'
Capt. J. LAMELY, for Londou, put in to wait
Convoy.

I;

PORTSMOUTH, SEPT. 204—This day
Swedish Ship Oftergotblani, from. India bourtd ta
Gothenburgh. arrived the

YARMOUTH, SEPT. 7.0.--011 the 9th inst. the
Camel, of and from London bound to Noire in
Russia, foundered at sea in a gale of wilts!. Tile
Crew were saved in the Long-boat, and got on ihuse
at Falney, in Denmark,
on the following day.
Arrival in the Roads about forty sail of Ship.
part of the homeward.bound Baltic Fleet, under
Convoy of the Circe Frigate : the wind blowing
string S. S. E. they have brought up
in tile Roads.
The Venus, JAtts PETERS Vt.As master, 'Mot
Schedam to Bilboa, with spirits, foundered on the
z oth instant at sea, off the Galloper. The Cre%
consisting of the Master and four Men, nil"
here this morning in her boat.
The Am;; Packet, SiAotpinst
and Bow Bye.
boat, DEATH, arrived here this morning from Hu•
sum, with Mails and Passengers. All the Packets
which have arrived here lately,
bring a great none
her of flanoverian Soldiers.

BEE, from Sum'atSrca,PrErassrBl—ndiAesr,rived
FALMOUTH
the American E:tst India Ship Levant, Capt. Stew
&c. four months'
passage ; called here for order,
the American Ship Pert, Capt.Drx()l4'
from Norfolk, with tobacco,
Tr nifty
this martini/
days' passage; the
Danish Brig Syren, Capt. DRSVEGR, from Barce-
lona, with wine anti brandy, for Guernsey, 17
weeks' passage, detained by the /Me of r°4 ?1,1.1
vateer, of. London, Capt. BLAIR, which is also
arrived.
Passed this Port,
.the American ship Mitchent•
Captain CURTIS, from Norfolk,
days passage, for Amsterdam.
The Nile Lugger spoke on the stir inst.
long. z. the ship Iftoodroi Sims, of Philatiiilll.l.:„l„3,
with tobacco, 49
Captain lioucsoN, from Liverpool for Pilil2'l"- -
all well.
The Ship Levant spoke on the Bth PLY' in Ist.
lona
-35. 3t. South, long. 24. 00. East, the c
Company's Ship Minerva, from Colombo, in toll'
lon, bound to Europe, out seven weeks ; °rl
3doo
September, in let. 45. 10. Waal, 10111* -I
of
West, spoke the Privateer Schooner lifa"Wi'
Bristol; on the 13th September, ill Ist' 49. His
North, long. 12. 30. West. was boarded b4,OY and
Majesty's Ship Diana, having the hotriewir4
Lisbon Fleet untie, Convoy ; on the 15111 Sept to.
ber, in lat. so. 00. North, long. ri• 00'
luton,
spoke the Ship Rvai Cheriolitt L.O.
from North Carolina for England had tbeent,;:s-P
4.. with
pepper, cafe,.
cured by a French Privateer, and rc-taken
English Cutter ; the Leittair Packer, late SHA:4O,
.
(who died in America) from New. York and ,
lifm, 28 days passage she arrived in ti
ula
send off her d'apatches by last night's Mail.
MOO.°
DOVER, Seer.2o.—.Callie into Dover
this morning, the French Brig Lisligflu°ll.4 °';
Granville, prize to the Mary Luggermr
ari• vaitm °ch.
Folkstone, Capt. GITTENS, taken a--
since on her voyage from Newfoundland) laden Vila'
salt fish. _

_
Dispatches were o received at the
nett
brought to Plymouth
r-i-.........bym0nday
miralty from Lord NELSON, in the Meditgrrs-
Letters from Gibraltartiolef iltherh2l:trhigaotfe*Aliti:
mention, that a Convoy sailed from Mai" &iv
about So ships on the ail of August, and Were
sotto
expeiled to arrive at Gibraltar, where the Al then
be joined by between 30 and 4.0 VCISCIts Oriu -
proceed for England. vote'
,The following appointments took 01° ic p
day :—Ciptain BROWN/UGC, to the Part lili.
Copt. Ssir LL, to the Avenger ; and Coith„ for
otteLt., to the Illstaar ; the whole
sea at Deptford. bound
The Prince of lateriar, from New Orlean'',....shc
to Marseilles, has been carried into Gibrali% c so
is French property, and worth pool. -1"
thrst was to sail for Malta the 6th uir. , fire
The Nirreirrur Frigate has taken
w a veil
her re,
French Corvette off Sardinia, •Se as on oo
turn from Alexandria, where she hod been 00
par ticular.mission. ,t state
j
Letters from Antigua confirm the rep or• f 4,4
in a former Peper, that a French Frigatet,° iibb
guns, has been taken off Madifillsre by an loft
Frigate (supposed to be the Eft:era/rib after a !ii
a(tiori, in which the tread) ship was distil/01'v

11.411;111dRou:i11.40a.,

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toither o.

PARIS, SErr_ 2.

ADMIRAL Mu; ix has published ' the -following,
Pitichimat ion, ii tLLti tcom the Head-Quarters at Both'
logn July, joth. - '
• • .
I. BRUIX, CLANSF.I.LOR STAIE,'AN6 ADMIRAL-

To THE NATIONAL FLOTILLA" DESTINED TO,
`,14 ' - • '

CAV.Y. WAKTii EITGLAND. "
, ."`Thc Finf Coiisui;• when he- signified tOrniyour Sestina-
`Lind trfe-Ivih thwtitie of-yout A.dmiralr
ine• to you to: e0.1*,10 your
:exertions n the:career of glorY
' whiehhis-geniuS has prepared for you. What man at this
distinguished proof of the confidence of a Hero, ;Would
not be raised above himself? who would doubt,.of his,
,Own powers • Brave. Seamen, the choice of BONAPARTIL
renders toe worthy to' March at your head ! Your zeal and
yont bravery are pledges so me, that we shall, fulfil his ex-
' Otilations. Already you have the cry of vengeance ; our
Towns and Distrias bring in their voluntary 'gifts in
multitudes. All Frenchmen are ready to march to punish
. a t.;,uvernment which is an enemy to the peace of the
World, 'And especially an 'enemy to the glory and. wel-
. Lire Of our Country. YoU are first called to thil great
entcrprize. To )ou your • County Hirst commits the Care
of sitistying her just vengeance. Be certain that you will
fulfil your noble destination. Rec:Oiled that the viEloty
begins I yourdocks, and in yoUr marine and military eiereises..
. . •
Se. those ships whi•tinSolently'cruize along our shorei; at:
-siglibt'Yotir labours they inaY return, and say to their Giivern-
men:, A tearful day is preparing—the winds and sea,. again
• fivinii aile to the Conqueror of Egypt, may in a few hours.
briny tiim to our Coasts,: and with libn the innumerable
CompanionS Of his r.lory !' . •
•. • To hasten this result, his my first.duty to establish a:.
Severe discipline in the National Flotilla -subordination Will
regulate your efforts; that alone can add 'to the adii;ity
of
your labours. Sailors ! we arc on the field of battle: to loose
s moment, would lie criminal cowardice. Redouble, there-.
fore, 'your zeal, multiply* your ,servicet, and the Nation
Which oppresses the Seas will be conquered by Terror, before
It experiences, the fate of Arms, and sinks beneath the blUvis
of our Heroes. •

~ ~y

Signed)

BRUSSLLS, Szrr. 4.

4ituix.!'

ALL:tlieTroqs which arc idgarrison in Picardy
frontier. Of Trince, from Lisle to-Metz,
'according to orders from the Minister at War, 'are
to hold themselves in readiness to march within 24
hours after they shall receive orders. TZte.*liole
force which is collcaing between Complogrte and
Went, will mourn' to t8o;000 men, and is to' be
assembled before•tite ioth of September.
The i4tb Demi-brigade of Infantry' has marched
through this city for Boulogne. A great quantity
of Artillery is drawing towards Ghent.

SEPT. 6.

.

CPNERAL MORTIEIit 11113) it it' taitl;•-propbsed
• • that strong works shall 'be ereaed at differeiii points
of the Elbe and Weser; the HanoVerian•Magistrates
have therefore been required to furnish the French
' Officers aF'p,intecl.on this service; With all tequisites.
-• The • states have nude- representations against' the.
H • execution of this design.' it is believed that 'this,
• measure is occasioned by the expedation of 'a land.
• • ing by the English. • • , •
It is said the States have voted another Loaita of
• aso,ooo Rot-dollars. •
•

! ' ...' • -Cciiisenor ' MEI' tit; Member -of the:•EXectitive
• - i
'. 'l64ifethlTlVAs• prciios'ed a Han for the maintenance Of
. • .:---•4e 4trtnetil Trool>t, ' which will produce' 'a.. reitt,
.i. t 1 Mt, , .• • '
...
.Ipaill*. •R • • -•—
& ' " " —TlWpayAile-iti 'the aishaOdea Ilanoiretiiritoldieti,
''•''' consisting of t 4.; 3•7 then, • attittunts tb: 4.',3,0ci0
•
i'd'ollairs: '

,

IiAG St? r. 6.

ACC6RDIVtrto some accounta"TionalanciVer,
Lis been :pit:;posed that the French shall 'withdraw
their Troops fro.n the Hanoverian territory, 'and
leave to a Pru,sian.4arrison of Soca men, on con.
Titian titat the States'shall.s'ecitre to the French :Go.
verninent a yearly payment of T 'TwoMillions of
tivres during, the continuance of the War: - ,
The rvport is renewed, that a Congress. will be
Lela tit 11)-ussels, to negotiate a Peace beiween #4g-
lu,td P
ra4Ce/ under the mediation of
.the Ncirth..
• i
II rowers, •

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FLORENCE, , ;

. I ..........
N consequence of 'several conferences which the
" •' Gen al '
t• er— mCu 111 Nitriovr has held here with the
V,UIiiNPOI,V AC Si' REGENT, and the Ministry, the
.' Young KING CHARLES Lours, un'the rsth :inst.,
teceived.the'homage of ;lie. Senare,'an4 all classes,
. of the Citizens, as Sovereign of. Etruria. • i , :•
In the Ordinance of Neurralit'Y for the Seven'
'United 41?9d5,, the Inhabitants ;tie forbfidlidn- to
Iriolate,thisnNeutrality in:tiie.slightest 4caree, miler
-p.iin 'of 4itemplary punisisrltent,, and . esniioAtil '9l
their lcoits.

•
•

. •
Accounts from Paris sfate'. 'that -the' Na
"'IL will comr6al-rheetlire the'•Arit*Ofl4...
land BERTH IER will be Chief of 'the- Stiff Odd..
General DAV Ot ST NC in COMlTlikiiit' Ile grighi
wing; and lift 'will he d'ororh.rii-ha
Geiicrat
Sotrt.t, .iticter whom General Atibit:itossY
at.the. bead of the Staff: ' Ganciat N will'
'nand he Army arkeicrre.