The Sun.
London, England, 1803-02-23 00:00:00

BANKRUPTCY ENLARGED.

April 9. John Kemp, of Mark-lane, London, wine. :per.
chant, at ten, at Guildhall.
BANKRUP TS. .
john Reddish, now or late of Sutton, Chester, cotton-faelor,
to surrender March to, tt, and April 5, at eleven, at the
Pied Bull Inn, Chester. Attorney, Mr. Lecke, Chester.
Samuel James, of Saint Philip and acob, Gloucestershire,
pawnbroker, March 7,8, and April 5, at ten, at the White
Hart Inn, Bristol. Attorney, Mr. Lowrance, Bristol.

DIVIDENDS. -
March John Hill, of Maidstone, glass-seller, at eleven,
at the Dudley's Arms Inn, Dudley.
April a. Robert Carter, of Witham, Essex, linen-draper,
at ten, at Guildhall.
March r 5. David Hopwood, now or late of Union-street,
Saint Nlary-le-lione, grocer, at tcn, at Guildhall.
March 15. Joseph Grainge, of Uxbridge, broker, at-ten, at
G ultriliall.
March tn. Thomas Manson, of Tokenhouse-Yard, mer-
chant and insurer, at ten, at Guildhall.
March 15. William Potter, of Bath, upholder, at one, at
the Write Lion Inn, Bath.
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March 15. Henry Penn the younger, late of Cosbrook,
Stattiirdshire, worsted and wool len-yarh manufacturer.
'John Russell, Edward Russell, ‘Villiain Hartland, and Thoi.
Williams, now or late of Worcester, merchants.
Thomas Johnson, of Kidderminster, grocer.
Henry Barrowclough, of Manchester, porter-dealer.

ARRIVED.

MAILS.

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THE SUN.

SOLILI4 QUIS PALoum AUDIAT ?

LONDON, FEBRUARY 23, 1803.

Tests morning Eight Ilamburgh Mail: reached
Town, viz. those of the zise, 25th, and 28th of
January, and of the Ist, 4th, Bth, i ith, and tstlt
of the presetit month. The Intelligence which they
bring has been generally. anticipted by our com-
munications atom

ty an article from Tr enice, it appears that a very
curious repnrt had been circulated there, of a bloody
Engagement off Sardinia between the English and
French Squadrons, in which the former are stated
to have gained the advantage. That such would
have been the result, we can have little doubt, had
an Action taken place; but it is hardly necessary
for us to say, that the replrt is in the highest de.

gree absurd.
An article from Mentz, of the Bth inst. states,
that notice had been transmitted to General LAvAs-
seult, of the intention of the FIRST CONSUL to ac-
complish very speedily his long.intended visit to
Belgium and the Rhine.
From Frankfort we learn, that the last of the
French Troops on the right side of the Rhine were
immediately to evacuate the Brisgau.
Accounts from Switzerland state, that France
agrees to observe the old stipulations, by which no
Swiss Troops in French pay can be sent to serve in
Foreign Countries.
Accounts from several quarters of Italy, of Janu.
ary zzd, say, it is now confirmed that the new KING
of SARDINIA will not at present take possession of
his Kingdom, but that he has concluded a Conven-

Lion, by which he cedes it with all its annexed
claims to England, and that to this nothing is
wanting but the reciprocal ratification, and the con-
firmation of the English Parliament. The English
Fleet now cruizitig off the Island of Sardinia is said

to he stationed there with a reference to these ne.
gotiations, in consequence of which English Cou.
riers are frequently arriving at Rome. The coo-
ditions on which this Cession is made, these ac.
counts add, are probably very advantageous to the
KING of SARDINIA, since he has refuse'a the sum of
six millions, with a yearly appanage for life of one
million, offered by another Power.

We this morning received the Moviteur of -the
18th instant. None of the other Paris Journals
have arrived for some days. The Paper which we
have received, however, is wholly barren of intel.
ligence, which leads us to regret the detention of
the others the less.
The French Funds were on the 17th, at 59. 70.

AT the moment our Paper was about to be put
to Press, we received the Moniteur of the Igth,
and our other Sets of Papers. They contain nothing

of importance.

The Motions that were %nude last night in both
Houses of Parliament, for Addresses of Congratula.
lion to fits MAJVSTY, on his late happy escape
from the atrocious designs of Traitors, who have
paid the forfeit of their lives for their horrible ma.
chinations against the most virtuous Monarch that
ever adorned a Throne, cannot but afford high gra-
tification to the Loyal People of Britain. This
example, so properly held forth by the two
Legislative Branches of our Constitution, will
doubtless be followed by all Public Bodies in
the United Kingdom. Yet happy as the people
must be in knowing, that their righteous Sovereign
has been preserved from the dreadful machinations
of Traitors ; and cordially as they must unite with
the Representative Bodies, in their Congratulations
to the Throne on this occasion, it is evident, that
this happy escape of their beloved KING, is a sub.
jeft of congratulation to themselves, for, if it had
been possible for those dreadful machinations to
have been carried into effeCt, the whole Empire must
have become a acene of confusion, massacre, and
min.—The superintending care of Providence has
exempted us from those horrors, and the wretches
who had them in contemplation have suffered the
punishment due to their crimes. Hence we may
trust, that Treason will no longer hope to efFeCt its
horrible purpose ; an awful warning is held forth to
those who are urged by ambition, or corrupted by
revolutionary doarines, and we may now expett to
see our Rulers proceed firmly and vigorously in pro.
mating the' Interest and Honour of the Empire,
without having their attention 'drawn aside by
the arts of domestic enemies. We cannot con.
clnde these obscrvations without exulting in
that pure administration of Justice, which marks
the judicial proceedings of this Country. The men
who meditated the execrable designs which have
been so happily frustrated, have had every possible
advantage which they could derive from the aid of
able Counsel—they have been tried by an impartial
Jury of their countrymen, and conviCted upon the
clearest and most indisputable evidence. The
Leader was even suffered to address the surrounding
multitude in his last moments, which, instead of
employing in an acknowledgment of his guilt, as
the only atonement he could maice to his Country,
.he ended in hardened impenitence and conscious
falsehood ! !

There will not be any Drawing Room at Saint
James's to-morrow, as at first intended.
Di Elf/ MAjEsTtES anti the PR INC ES3RS, did not
leave Windsor yesterday as expeeted, on account of
Ilia MAI ESTIC being indisposed with a cold.

NAVAL NEWS,

FALMOUTH, Fan, 20.

SAILED the Chesterfield Packet, for the Leema3
Islands ; and Wahinzham Packet, for I.ibbon."

DEAL, FED. 2.Z•

ARRIVED His Majesty's Ships Intrepid, Le
Ch 'one, and Virginit, from the Westward, ao:i
sailed through for the River.
Arrived from the Note, and sailed through for
Portsmouth, the Acasto Frigate.
•
The wind having shifted to the S.W. the out-
ward.boUnd Ships which sailed yesterday have all
put back: and remain.

On Friday a very particulx order arrived from

the Admiralty Board,to the Admiral of Plymouth,
and was communicated to the different Captains
of His Majesty's Ships and Vessels at that Port,
viz. that in future no young Gentlemen of the
Royal Navy in the Channel, North Seas, Bay
of Biscay, Straits, Coast of Africa, Newfound.
land, Halifax, •or the West Indies, having served
six years according to the usual routine or the
Service, shall be confirmed as a Lieutenant until he
bath been in England, and examined by the. Com.
missioners of His Majesty's Navy at Somerset
House. This regulation does not extend to those
serving in the East Indies or Cape of Good. Hope.
Great exertions are making at Plymouth to pro.
cure volunteer Seamen for the following Ships, get.
ting ready for sea at that Port, viz. Bpadicria, of
44 gunS,Capt. MAITLAND ; Arenasis, of 32 guns,
Capt. R. Sobs ERv ILLE ; COUragrUX, of 74 guns,
Capt. J. HAttov ; Pscart, gun.brtg, and Am/ow,
of 14 guns, and NiNible, of 14 guns, Capt. T.
INN is. Posting bills with various offers of en-
couragement, are stuck up at all the places where
seamen resort.