The Sun.
London, England, 1803-06-13 00:00:00

LONDON, JUNE 13, ISO 3.

TH I s morning at ten o'clock the Gentlemen who
meant to bid for the Loan, waited upon the Minis-
ter at his house in Downing-street, The Bidding.)
were immediately presented as follow
Ml:ssrs. ESDAELt and Mr. Sitzwzt.t.t. 5 Long Ann.
GoLnatttos and Co. o, 8 4 Ditto.
BA.KING and Co. o 8 4 Ditto.
The BktiKERS • . 012 3 Ditto.
T 1 Stocr,,Ex,citAxot . o iz 3 Ditto.
Messrs. ESDAILE and SHEW ELL, of course, had
the Loan.

The other Lists, it is supposed, had united, viz.
Messri. GO I-DSMI DS and Co. and BAtt INQ and Co.
as their offer was the same ; acid the Bankers and
the Stock Exchange had joined their Lists.

The race at which the Funds wire taken was
nearly thus
s,!. Cons. . . ?
801. Reduced. 5'
6s. id. Long Ann. . . 17

Immediately upon its deing brought to market,
Omnium was at 1-1. premium, but at half past twelve
it had sunk to a quarter discount. Consols for open.
ing were at 6o I, but fell to 59 ; and Reduced,
which was at 59 y, was, at the above.stated period,
57 z for Money.

TEIR Budget which will be brought forward this
day, will necessarily present Taxes heavier. than
.any which have ever been imposed in one year upon
the People of this Country. We have already stated
the leading articles to be an Income Duty of 5 per
cent. and very high duties upon Malt, Sugar, Tea,
Wine, Spirits, and an increase of Assessed Taxes.
We most heartily wish that these heavy imposts
had beeen accompanied, Of rather had been preceded,
by such representations on the part of the Govern.
ment as had made the People really alive to the
true situation of the Country, and to the dangers
with which we are threatened. We cannot think
it judicious, that the Public should learn that
danger only by the weight of thee burthens
which they are
,to pay for their defence. We
wish not to produce dismay throughout the Coun.
try', but ae7ireit.y--if. our situation is well on.
derstood—if proper measures- are taken in time,
there is. no cause for alarm, but there is much rea..
son to, be alert. The spirit of the Nation is not
sufficiently roused-.—we yet see very. little aetive
disposition to promote Volunteer Corps, and we
observe no steps taken on the part of Go-
vernment to encourage that disposition. We
do nor mean to speak of 'the particular species
of force best Calculated, for our defence but we
should be well satisfied to see the fouodation laid, of
some plan for that purpose. We hope the hints
which Mr. Prrr threw out upon this subject, will
be arten,k3 to, and that Ministers will soon pro.
pone some efficient plan to effcauate the objets we
have in view.

We, have before adverted to the important fad
of the Offensive and Ddensive Alliance between
Frmice and Spain,, which was concluded in the year
1796, between the French General PERAGNON and
the PitlNc of PEACE. This Treaty is evidently
the cause of LVC tEN DONAPARTE'S journey to
Madrid. It is a question not worth asking on the,
part of our Government, whether it is the intention
of the Court of Madrid: to fulfil the Stipulations of
that Treaty. Spain must fulfil them, and in the
'fulfilment of them she becomes our decided enemy;
no, time should therefOre be lost in taking our mea.
sures, By delay, we shall lose the, advantage of the
richest eq:urei, and When her trade is safe, we
shall not have Spain the less our enemy. At all
eyents, Let tets of MArque :Amid be instantly granted
against Spain, and orders given for the detention of
all Spanish vessels, even if at the .end of the War we
should woke restitution of all we had captured, in
case. Spain did not enter into the Contest. Such a
n.lasure would be the most likely way tq keep her
out of it.

An ordt:r has been issued at. Paris, for sending
all the English to Paiturienet. The Women 'who
elyse to !cave France are exempted from this order,
but lit,: Etcirr, who was, at 'art on his w3y
home truict Consrantinople op account of his health, is
detained. Neither the Law of N"tions car of I los.
spitality forms, any impediment to the exitotion
of tits Will of the First Consul, Lord 1141vg,ii.

IVRY tS said tb bare made a representation respell-
ing Lord ELGIN, who, it is well known, %cops ab-
sent in n public cliaralier, and we thit.lk it not
probable that the Dispatch of the French Messenger
who arrived here yesterday relates to this repre-
sentation..

A French Messenger of the name of CoRMONT
arrived yesterday' evening about eight o'clock at
Lord HAWKRSBURY'SOffice, with Dispatches from
TALLEYRAND for his Lordship. This Messen.
ger left Paris on Friday night, and so urgent was
his haste to come over, that he would not wait at
Calais, which he reached yesterday morning, for
a regular Packer, but embarked in an open beat,
though the wind was high and adrerse. Upon his
landing at Dover, an express was sent to Deal to
annotmce his arrival by the Telegraph, and the
Courier himself imniediately proceeded to Town in
a post. chaise and four. The Dispatches which he
brought were forwarded to Lord HAWKESBtRY 3t
his Seat at Coombe, and Letters were cent off to
all the Cabinet Ministers who were out of Town,
summoning them to attend this morning.
The conjeeture, for it must be mere conjeaurt,
is, that BONAPARTE may have come a little to his
senses, and wishes to renew a Negotiation for Peace,
by which he is mote likey to gain his objet than
by War. The French Messenger is lodged in the
house of one of the English Messengers till he is
sent back to France.

On Saturday we stopped the Press to state the re.
ceipt of Path loarnah to the 9th instant, and yes.
terday a Hamburgb Mail arrived.
The accounts in the French Papers, and by this
Mail, gave us the hope that the Neutrality of
Hanover would be respe6led, and that liandurgh
would be left fret ; but our accounts this morning,
to which we cannot but attach greater credit, un-
fortunately destroy this hope.
By the Hambuigh Mail we have Letters from
Hanover of the tst instant, by which it appears
that on the 29th ultimo, the Commercial Court-
suitor, BRANDES, Lieutenant Colonel Bocx, and
M, Von BREMER, set out from thence on a mission
of importance, supposed to be to the Head. Quarters
of General MORT I ER, to conclude such a Conven.
tional arrangement as might preserve Hanover from
the mischiefs which would result from a French In.
vasion,

We. (Ind, in letters from Brussels .of the eth
'instant, that an Aid,deXamp of the Flare CoN•
SUL, passed through that City on the preceding
day on his route to Holland, where he was
charged with the execution of a Confidential Mis-
sion, from whence it was understood he was to
proceed to the Head.quarters of General Mott-
TIER. Ile was preceded by a Courier from the
French Government, who passed through Brussels
on the Fame day, with important dispatches,
also for that General. An Officer of the
KING of PaLlisSlA's Guards likewise passed
throUgh Brussels, going in great haste to Par;s,
with Dispatches which were supposed to relate to
Hanover. The greater part of the French Army
was then concentrated in the county of, Bea:beim,
whilst the Hanoverian Troops were assembled ou
the Frontiers of Osnaburgb.
From Berme?, of the 31st we learn, that 6000
French Troops had entered quaekenbruck, and from
thence marched for Diephohz. , Boundary Poles,
with the word " Neutrality" op them, had been
set up along the Frontiers of the Territory of
firemen. On the 3lst they arrived with an addi-
tional force, making goo°, in the
,vicinity of
Vedw, on the Frontiers of Deipholtz, the advanced
guard of which avoided the 'Mudd of Wilareshausen,
ceded to the Duke of OLDENBURCH by the Plan of
Indemnities, and marched by ,Goidevitaart to Die.
iholiz and /Iva. Some of the French advanced
Troops had fallen in with some small Hanoverian
detachments, but no hostilities had taken place.
The French Troops were, .it is said, to pass the
/Viler at Hqya. In this state of things the same hopes
are expressed in the letters from Bremen, of the
latest date,. the 2d inst. as in those from Hanover,
that an accommodation would be elicited. Bremen
had received an assurance that it should luffer no
injury by the march of the French troops ; nor had
they at that period direded their march towards
that territory.
A German Gazette 'states, that a Convention
has 'been concluded between Austria and France,
by which the fumes it to be allowed to occupy Wal-
lachia, a Province of Turkey ; but such a statement
is not entitled to credit upon wit authority.
A new Treaty of Alliance is stated to be in
contemplation between the Swiss Cantons and the
French and Italian Republics, by which n numerous
body of Swiss Troops were to pass into the service
of the two latter Powers,

I.4etterl from Egypt,
,inserted in an Julian
Gazette, state that eight days after the departure
of the 4nflish Tend? fru►tt Alexattilriai a frcnch

Commercial Commissioner arrived there, deathti
for Egypt, and also a General of the same TI2IiOO
with a numerous suite, commissioned to demand of
the PACHA of CAIRO a considerable sum which haa
been assigned by the GRAND SIGNIOR to the;
French Republic, as an Indemnity for the losses
sustained by the French Establishments in the
Levant during the late War. The Pacha, it is
stated, had in consequence imposed a, heavy CO'
tribution upon the City of Cairo.
The Ottoman Porte is stated to have deteranow
to observe the strictest neutrality with respell
tO
the War between this Country and France.
General Moßn..r set out on the rBth ult. fro.
Milan, for the Army on the Frontiers of the Eccifv,,,
siastical States, which was destined to advanceel°
the Neapolitan Territory. The Army of the POI'
Republic was to be augmented to 60,000 mem
From Naples of the 28th ult. we learn, that gOll
alarm prevailed there in conseqUence of thaexPlC.l
talon of a War between England and France, ill*
that His Neapolitan Majesty bad applied to Itllo
to interfere for the purpose of securing to„hix.ii
neutrality, but had received no answer. Thep'
quarters of the French Troeps were then
enza. The Ou REY of NAPLES was expeetedli
out very soon for
By a Private Letter from ifamirrgh, we artlnt
to be enabled to contradict the slateinents
in the French Papers, with views which ma'l4l.l/1‘
be conceived, of many of the HallOVerialtS 1011/3/
uaa e is,
such
hcah t I
circumstances,
very deserted their Country in the hour of its thifge(
the f!°l
hand, the North of Europe is overrun with rim, .j
men nth' have escaped from the Tyranny of
The French Funds were
few have
whilst,
th the
We are concerned to observe, that accomitt
at4s i 25.
on
try under u 0:
Government.
ceived by the Auckland Packet, Capt. B,111),A"
which left Cuxhaven on the 6th instant, con 101:
Ohn
the favourable appearances stated in the ll° e
PP
Mail, of the Neutrality of Hanover, firrint°'
Hamburg', being respeded. llanovtr, IC
of bl
serted, has actually been taken possessiLr.
46,000 men ; that a French Carpi of SO° 9166
rid tbal
within two days' march of Cuxhalltlb
1 .1116
10,000 were directing their route for
Agent at Cuxhaven so fully expels their 311;1',
ofaw nayec,esssoimtye,
there, that he had detained the Packe!
hatift;:s;
till a Bye.boat arrived in which hemig
h woo loiltening
All British Ship.; at }Limburg • •
t the Exchange 14
sequence of an order fixed uP
hantmeo bad
the British Consul. Fourteen Mem
r a Frigates
arrived at Cuxhaven under convoy of
. the abo
bound to Harnburgli, but upon learning
-
Intelligence, had resolved to come back'
it was re'
Pg.INCE WILLIAM Of GLOUCESTtR)
With half cargoes on board, In cow
Frigate,
1-I,lllonSant"
ported, had safely embarked on board the haikfil
The Harz:ay', t. ItS, arrived at • jot
day last from Bremen : she sailed the 4,th inst. w
.I;,h
the French were within twelve 1.4" b..-
Bremen, only with his
"caPei

.............--,
,ps 'eel
th_On Saturday morning ills MAjesir .- -1 to
by eGl3'h Regiment of Light DragnOs, otTun%oo,
E ~.eneral Sir JAMES CRAIG, on t'shford corai.iv.
ed" 14
Ai ESTY, attended by General GAvrtto °no,
ce,cm the Common about ten o'clock, and was a ,i
in." with a Royal Salute. The FgrNie!..;pl
EaIIAA DORE of YORK, DUKE a cui,o3o-,-„ra
Ror OIRA, HARRINGTON, Laid CRAOt'ff 14,
HUB "TMANNERS, Generals FAwarr, u' of
otherLsßt DUNOAS, MANNE,Rsi and a nolol'':ors
. irnvlow:eussrdetay,
.20mopnadfli,rtcntietir::svggeo:mafbi,led0AiujoSts: icetsiilitiytc ihkot
Inge
f.wvitobetoe; le):::`ir,li',o:
Ti.
ah ne
usfis:ni
:i ,Militaryht
ili:
men continued to go through their wi*:ite. I
woo',
ciividAntTensT,lES and the PRINCESSES, :tlCtitiedkP) ,„j•
C°/*FlTzttov, and Col. SreNcgtt,„,3llon
same
Deitip'll3l:::,Snwet lin:cue:el ei
to a‘ai.tt7tite:nteidsoCirt:lienrl
during the
e'ic‘seev
ii/s°:,:oil ,::,
After breakfast HER MAJESTY, itfld the --id
c asses, attended by the Countess of Ca ArniAto
Lady MATILDA WINYA.RD, took an airing h' 0
coaches to Frogrnore, and walked in tho,e haul
gardens till past three o'clock. ito i
In the evening the Ro VAL Flott Of Will'i•e' 1
the Terrace for the first time this se, ,son, :10.1t1,0.
continue to do so curry evening when the 09
permits, il,
Yesterday. morning the ROYAL FAMILY, `xlrte:ll,4l
ed by General GARTH, Colonel FITZRC-,Vt pPl,‘,to
DESIIROW and SPENCER, the lion. VCl'"-•• I:cc's'
the Countess of CHATHAM, Lady MATll,llA,.,;,,ine ,
YARD, and Miss GOLDSwoaTHY, atteilii,.l 11'1.061 :
Service at St. George's Chapel, where
the):,,spo
an eXcellent Sermon preached by Dr.
LA144','4110
Canon
.in residence, iron) the 16th of St. i4tl
and the aph vetsc. .roar, •
rowLomrdornivinagt..vti.o: sets off for Scntio4 °'lll°
i g A fe°l I
Mr. PITT we understand purposes P5-n- ,
weeks at Bath. g IP 1
The Earl and Countess Srenctot arc amanu
latest arrivals at Bath. .
of
clo 0
1300::1
A Report was circulated on Saturd3y,
PARTE being assassinated. It gai"3
~o
whateYcr) and is proved to Mae been tlnCtUel
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con•

11-cm tie 'LONDON GAZETTE,
.:rune If, ISO 3.

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into

I enclose, for the information of my, Lords Commissioners
tif the Admiralty, a Letter I have received from Lieutenant
' Senhouse, otjllis Mi,jesty's ship Conqueror (employed on the
i„.lmpress Service on board the Hind Revenue Cutter), stating
Us having captured ta Felicite, French Cutter Privateer,
pail carried her into Portland-Roads) with sundry other
riz es.
I am, See. JAS. P. DACRES.
Wild Revenue C utter, Portland-
. tut, Roads, June r, t 803.
I beg 'leave to acquaint ybu, that whilst cruising oil Port-
' LIM, in pursuance of your orders, 1 havetaptured and de-
tained the following Vessels
La Felicia, French Cutter Privateer, armed with twenty..
two Men. •
E Le Charles, French Merchant Brig, laden *ith Oak
Timber for construiding Ships, .from Rouen to !loch-
fort.
It Dutch C;alliot, laden with Salt, fr'm the coast of Por-
tugal, hounti,to Rotterdam. •
A Dutch Intliaman, atom Surinam, with a very valuable
targo of Cotton and
„, the fre,h Westerly Wind, with the had sailing of my
• Trizes, jointly obliged me to anchor in this Roadstead ,• as
aoein, howevert'as the wind and weather wilt permit, I shall
lose no tittle in procceding to Pi? month.
I have the Honour to be, Sir, &v.,
(Signed) H. T. SENHOL'SF.
To Rear./Qmiral ate, el, &c. tfr• £'t.
Aintitalty-Offee, June tl, 1803.
ZAfra.l of a tette-elf-one Sbniral Afcntague, comma ,der in Chief
of fps .Ifnierty's Ships and lintels at-Plynoittb, to Sir Evah
.N4ean, Bart. dated the 9lit
The o!):f.flicea has taken and sent into this Port, a small
Armed French Privateer, having on board twenty-seven Men,
bad had been eleven days front St. Alaloes,. but had 'nut made
• kny Capture.

• PLYMOUTH, JUNE I I.—Arrived the French
igZ4b.yr, laden with rice, &c. frotts,Charlestnn ;
the French Sloop. La. Mere Dc Famille, from Qua.
elalonFe, laden with sugar, &c. ; and the French
Schooner Let Axis, laden_ With a valuable. cargu
Cayenne, ell captured by ihe Nemesis Frigate ;
the French Schooner La Dame Cherie, laden with
&c. from St. Domingo, captured by L'
Frigate .; the Spanish Ship Fedelar, laden with
Bides, &c.. from New Orleans ; And the Prussian
lirig Vrienilschap, Capt, 4YMER, from Amsterdam,
both detained by 14is Majesty's Ship MU
;

Danibb Ship Ocean, Capr. litmANs, from Cettr,
with brandy, Sx. iictained by His Majdsty's Ship

Atalamia.

Artived La Dirt Fr;gate, from Ireland ; Nelidth
ig,tte, and Seagull Sloop of War, from a Cruize.
Sailed the Raver Revenue Cutter, Capt. Fa An at
014 a Cruize to the Westward.

Arrived the Dutch Brig Aradondrlive, laden with
salt, from Aticant, detained by His M ijesty's Ship
1?otario; and ate Brig I.lrd &hot, of Barnstaple,
Capt. Ptta, with wines,tftorn Le Siiva,for orders.
Arrived the Boadicea' Frigate from a Cruize.
Sailed the Dr/Ton, of 7+ guns, to join the Chan.
rtl Fleet.

P;4r,rtuv rrt, JUNE I Admiral 'G FORGE
MONTAGUE is appointed Commander in Chief at
tltiA Vott, it, the room of Admiral Lord GARDNER,
110 is appointed Cormnander in Chief on the Irish
Station, and he, is to proc4tl there in the Dryad
Frigate, Capt. GI I' FA R D.
Admiral GAMS lt this day hoisted his Flag on
board the Mr, of so guns.

COm:iiiiblOrler ()TWAY is arrived 'here, and is to
take his passage in La Prevoyante, to Gibri:kat.
Arrived the Marthi Caatrgo, GEottst, mister,
from liooleitui bound to St.PeterOurgit, with
detained by His Majesty's Cutter ,out.

VARNtourit, JoNt la.—Arrived the duck.
hind Packet, Captain BRIDGE, from Cuxhaven,
which She left on Monday the bth. The Pas.
sengers by her say, that the French have taken
possession of with 16,000- men; that
they were within two days' march of Ctrx.
k...vetz with 8003 men, and to,ooo were march-
ing towards Stadt. The Agent thought it ne.
•eessary to detain this Packet three slays, till a
11}c-boat arrived, that he. -might secure him-
self a retreat. AU British Ship's at .1-lambutgh
4'2re getting away_as fast as possible, sume load.!d,
'itAtl some with Lail cor,goes, on bout!, in c9nse,

Adynirakr. 0 7 Ime fl, ISO 3.
tVe-
(V.! of a Letter from" the Honourable .Idntiral.Cornwallls, &c.(9'r. &c. to Sir Evan Nepein, Bart. dated Dreadnonght, at
Sea, 3d June, 4)3.

sta,
I, am to request you will he pleased to lay before the Lords
Commissioners of the Admiralty for their intbrmation, the
enclosed. Letter from Captain Wallis, of His Majesty's ship
the Naiad, dated the ad instant, acquainting.me of his having,
on the 29th of last month, •taken possession of L'lmpatient
French National Corvette of Twenty Guns and Eighty Men,
commanded by Citizen Hypolite Arnous, Lieutenant de
‘'aisseau, from Seaegal to Rechfort ; and on the 31st, at
noon, the French merchant Ship La Chassetir, from St.
Domingo to L'Ori,ot, laden with supr, cotton, co*c,
about three hundred and fifty-ainetoas burthen. •

W. CORNWALLIS.
s t 5, His ilbjeiry'.l Ship Nai.d,
Tune a, 1803.
I have the honour to inform you, that Fyn the 29th ult. at.
eleven P. M, being in latitude 45 deg. 5o min. N. and longi.
tude 4 (leg. 40 min. W. I ':apturcd the French National
Corvette L'lmpatient, of. Twenty Guns and Ei,;lity Alen,
commanded by Citizen ltypolite Artious, Lieutenant de
Vaisseau, from Senegal bound to Rochfort; she is a "very
fine Vessel, and is esteemed one of the swiftest sailers out of
France ; during the chase they cut away her anchors'from
her bows, and threw part of her guns overboard.
I have likewise the I lonour to inform you, that on the 3 tst
at notni, I c.tpturckl the French Merchant Ship La Chasseur,
• finm ISt. Domingo hound to L'Otient, laden with sugar,
cotton, coffee, c. ite. ; she is a very handsome Ship, three
- hundred and fifty-nine tons burthen, newly coppered, corn-
tuanded by Citizen Lamar, I-jewel:l4a de Vaisseau.
• I am,- Sir, tire.
• LAMES tVALLIS.
7 he Itanura.4le .4dmir4lCwww.ililf,
C. :wander in thief; er. Ue.
Atinaral:i,..(ff,y, June Ir, 18,3.
of 4 retie?. 1,-ent Rcar,,Limiral 'ryas'-u, Commanding or.
jiter Mt !Wiener Ship and Vess.cli at *mouth, to Sir
ikian hiepean, Ba,i. dated the 3."1 ;mt.
bra, ,

quclikx tn art UTUCt W n3Cn Wai
ngta up On tilt E

change at Hamburgh by the British Consul, in the
afternoon of the 2d, diredting all British Ships
to drop down immediately to Cuxhaven,. which he
required them to do within two hours. Fourteen
Merchantmen, under convoy of a Frigate, had at.
rived at Cuxhaven hound to Hamburgh, bat ate
now coming hack. The Amethyst Frigate was at
Cuxhaven, and it was said that the PatNct was
embarked on board her.

Arrived the De Jouge DrN
IRERM, Fishing Dogger, tent in by the RaMger
Excise Cutter, and De Leaf Dee, HOFFMAN, Fish-
ing Dogger, sent in by the Badger Excise Cutter,

HARWICH, JUNE 12.—The Hamburgh and Bre-
men Mails of the Bth are yet detained here, as also
those that were received yesterday, in consequence
of insttudions from the Postmaster-General, end
they are not to be forwarded till further orders.
The Inns are 6111 of Passengers going to the don-
tinent, who are, prevented embarking in any other
vessel than a Packer, on account of the Embargo yet
subsisting. A neutral vessel arrived this morning
front Rotterdam, bound to London, and from some
passengers that were landed, we cannot learn that
any iptelligence had been received at Rotterdam on
Thursday last, the day they left that place, of either
Bremen, Cuxhaven, or liatnbrui, being• in posses-
sion of the French Troops.

The Prussian Hoy the be Irrou Annah Capt. W.
H. BOERMA, with butter, from Rotterdam fig Lon.
don, is detained and sent to this port by t►,c Adder
Gun.Veasel; and the Seveu rrienden, of Pad euburg,
from the same place to London, with butter, is de.
tained at this port by Lieut. HATES, of the Agpes.
sor Gun-Vessel.

A camp of three Regiments is immediately to be
formed near this Town.

PooLE, JOIE 12.—Ofi the Harbour the 5111474
and Polly American Brig, THomAs ELDRF.n,
master, from Havre, in ballast, bound to Lisbon.
By, her we learn, that the preparations at that
Port, of warlike nature, are but trifling, and that
the people in general expeti that the present, contest
will be but of a short continuance.

The Prince George, of 98 guns, is ordered to be
prepared for service at Portsmouth►, and -Captain
CURRY to Act in her.

Admiral BEIRKELTY is shortly to hoi: t 114,
to join the Channel Fleet.

Captain WALD EOFF is appointed to the Impress
Service at Poole, vice O'Nlitt.t..
Vice. Admiral Sir ROGER CV TI s, late Comman.
der iti.Chief at the Cape of. Good Hope, arrived in
Town on Saturday, and attended the Admiralty.
Sir S, SMITH haS sailed from the Suffollc'eoast to
telloie &finical Inuit N aom.ouott, off G)ree.. The
,Itoehoe, with some sr: miller Vesseli, were on Wed.
nesday off Dunkirk.

Tl►e Naval. Signal Posts art all te.establishing
alo►ng the coasts Lieut. N. CORE LLIS is appoint.
ed to Brach," ilrad Station, and Lieut. ',BERRY to
that at Braditvell, in Essex.

Captain W. Com t ro is appointed Captain of His
Majesty's Ship Privco of Wales, hearing the Flag of
Sir R. CALUY R ; and Capt. JOHN. TAYLOR ;Vln.
etisLL, appointed Regulating- Captain of the Im-
press Service at Exeter, vice Cum INp •
It has been in contemplation to render the harbour
of. Abeideen capable of receiving Frigates : the ex.
pence nas estimated at 40,0001. This scheme, iow.
ever, we belietie, was connected with the plan for
rendering Cromarty Hay a Naval Station, and has,
for the present at least, shared the same fate.

A considerable number of men belonging to the
Ordinary, and labourers In the different Dock-yards,
who have served on board King's ships, have with-
in these few days been rewarded for their past scr.
vices, with the Out-pension of Greenwich Hospital.

O►t Friday the Musical Society, called the. Mr-
mock:, under the patronaite of His Royal Highness
the Pa INC WAL as, dined together at MARrtN.
om.E's, in Bond street. At seven o'clock the corn-
pany sat down to a most sumptuous dinner, the
Marquis of Lou in the Chair. ' The Par Nog ho.
noured the meeting with his presence, and sat on
the Chairman's right hand.

AS Miss WILLS, daughter of Mr•Lt.g, ,of
Golden.stra re, was returning last week from France,
she was stopped at Calais. All her papers and let.
tern were taken from her, sealed up, and sent to
Paris, as well as those of her female onmpanions.—.
The Ladies were. then set at liberty, and allowed to
return to England.'

The weather in Switzerland has been extremely
cold for several weeks, and much injury has been
reeeived. in consequenet by the Vines and Fruit.
trees. The Mountains sie covered with an equal
quantity. of snow as at Christmas.
A Paper of yesterday asserted that Mr, driett
had been discharged, art was at large on-Saturday.
This is not true ; and indeed no discharge could
take place at present, in the eircumstanCis an which
he stands. It is expected, however, - that owing to
some incorreftness in the proceedings, or the insuf.
ficiency of the Lsw respecting his case, he will be
brought up for trial next Sessions, and be then dia,:
chaiged;

A few' days since a Gypsey iortune.teller went
to the house of a person near Grantham, and find-
ing his wife at home, persuaded her that she would
prodtWe a thousand pounds, if the latter would con,
sent to be locked in the cellar while she performzd
her incantations; to tr4ticJt the simple wqinan
Scnti ng , the fortune-tenet:decal-Ted a
,Fl, note
and a -nuatigr of -silver spoons.

Sr; A' OFF IC

1:.U.1, ',Act T,WO, :A.

Wit stop die Cress to state, that
_fits 1114jr,sTY
was sent for from 'Windsor this • Morning by Ex.
press. He arrived in Tawn at Twelve o'clock,
and a Council was imtnediately held. It was ru-
.J
Moored that the French IVlessenger !Lid troughs
over Propositions for Peate: The business must
certainly be of insportanc; Flat would bring the
KING to Town so suddenly: ,