The Sun.
London, England, 1803-05-31 00:00:00

LONDOIy,..AI AY .31, 1803,

Wt have this day the satiiraftion of announcing
the. capture of a French Frigate, said to be on het
passage frOm the West Indies. She was taken' on

Saturday morning by the Fleet under the command

of Admiral CORNWALLIS. The Hazard Sloop of
War (the'repoit of the capture of Which ii thus hap.
pily proved- to have been unfounded) arrived on
•Sunday at Plymouth. with Dispatches from Ad.
miral CoaNwALLts, by whom she was detached
for this purpose at four o'clock on Saturday
morning. Before she had left the •fleet, however,
the French Frigate hove in sight, and by noon she
was taken. We think it not at all improbable that
this Frigatemarbe the forerunner of the' French
6v:iron from St. Domingo.
We are glad to perceive by our Dover Letter,
that the 4balland Packet arrived yestesday that
I.*:,rt from Calais, with Dispatches from M. M E

r; Atm, the French Commissary at the latter place.

We have reason to hope that'the Packets detained
there will lie liberated, `and that we may receive
the French Mails, as a French Packet dropped into
Calais goad on Sunday, and. was only prevented
froni coming over by contrary winds. We hope

likewise, that the irascihle of the Chief Consul
will so far subsi,le as to permit the English, so
'violently and unjustly detained in France, to return
fa their native Country,
The other :Evening Papers copied from an ill-in-
formed:Morning Paper. of yesrtrday, an account of
.......15.14,ia10r ar tho, 11 (m... havitur
to cantr ;Ana thi4 slaterriCnt.. No account has yet
reached rill:). Country of such a violence having been
coinalited in Holland; and yesterday Mr. BASI-
IA co the Messenger, sailed from Harwich with
)iTatches foF Mr. Livrptr, in a Flag of Truce.

WE believe there is now hardly one dissentient
,voice to the Opinion, that the Poonments which
Lave beers produced to the Public, most clearly and
fully prove, that the Government a France haye
been ktuated by a spirit so hostile to the interests
of this Country, that Peace could not have been
*maintained witb.hrinour, dignity; or safety; The
British Nation was told, in a Paper published in Tbe
gonittar of the 2901 of oElober last, • that France
had no connexion with 4issilmil, but bj the
of 4vaees, and thatethey must have Me ,whole Treaty
Af Ant;enl. To this we first say, that they
wanted the execution of the hirer of the
Treaty of Arniens against us, while they were
-violating its spirit i but next we must observe, that
while they denied to 1/$ the execution of soave of
the distinct Articles of that Treaty favourable to
•rfr, they imist upon, the execution of those Articles
.which are favoorable to ikeo, If they desire the
witple Treaty of Amiens, why, we ask, was no
payment ever made at* the stint) ativanced foe their
Prisoners of War, according to distinet agreement ?
Why Waif Opt the Sequestration rsmoVed from Bri.
Lisle Property ip France ? But to representations,
upon they and many other points, the only answer
was, t' Clye usjklaita or, in other words, " Give
q$ all that you are bound to give us under the
Treaty of Amiens, and then we will tell you how
much of the Ankles which remain unsettled on
our part, it suits us to fulfil,"

What Englislunan can look at the transactions of
r 4 towards us since the Treaty of Amiens,
without tieing convinced that a superiority was
assumed, and an insolence acted upon, which it was
impossible to hear. Our Representation 9 were some-
fiales tre4ted with insult, at other times were
unnoticed—the most friendly overtures on our part
were met by a6ls of oppression ana injustice—our
iShipa were c4ptured upon the most trivial pre_
texts, and no refit-es., was obtained upon repeat-
cti an!ig-'46(in either to the Courts of Law,
u:r to tint tiuvernmen:; but in the midst of this
Eundlizt and atter an avowal by the Fir*t conso,

that hit Ojea vat Egypt, and before the Stipula.
dons of the Treaty of Amiens respthing Malta
are carried, into eff.:4l, he tells Us we must either
give him Malta, or wt must have War. 114-o man
eip doubt, under such circumstances, who is the
Aggressor in the' Contest.

Wishing, as we do, to animate the People of this
Country to a sense of the injuries and insults with,
which they were attempted to l'!! borne down, and
wishing also to excite a spirit of honourable resent.
ment against such condat on the part of Franci, it
is our anxious wish, to comment as little as possible
• upon the contfuEt of Ministers in -the course of the
late Negotiation. There arc, however, some parts
of that conduel, which we profess not to be able to
understand. We applaud every. fair endeavour for
the preservation of Peace; but we cannot approve
'of, meeting alts of injus‘tice, and of violation of
Treaty, with submission, much less with civility.
We wish many points of importance had been brought
to an issue, which seem to have been forgotten as
others arose. 'We wish the cession of the Cate
had not been made under the circumstances which
existed at the time the orders were given for its
evacuation ;—we wish more firmness had been shown
at early periods, and that the determination for War
(as it appeared by the King'it Message) had not been
so sudden. Indeed there are many points in the con.
duet of the Negotiation which we cannot approve,
but thinking, as Ise do, that there is just 'cause
of War, we feel it to be a stronger duty to entlea-
your to unite the Country against the Enemy, than
to run the risk of slackening the efforts of the
People, by dwelling upon the mismanagement of
those who could not have altogether avoided' the
Contest, but who, if they could not have avoided
it, might certainly at least have brought it on at
an earlier and more advantageous period. •
We are convinced that His Majesty's Ministers.
Will give full effea to the Mediation of poufs,
if Russia be fairly disposed to mediate ; but after
all we have seen, the independent, of Malta cannot
satisfy us. We must • have security for the Inte.
grity of the Turkish Empire, and for the tranquil.
lily of our Possessions in the East Indies : if we
do not preserve the integrity of the Turkish Empire
against. France, we shall not preserve the' Integrity
of our own. If the Mediation fail, our exertions
cannot be too active. We must exped great burthens,
but we must submit to th'em chearfully ; if in
the Taxes to be imposed, there is a fair and just
consideration of the means of different classes, we
must not look too closely into minor difficulties.
Whether the system of Taxation to be adopted be
Mr. VANSITTA. RT, we shall most cordially support
it, if it appear fairly calculated to meet its objets.
Nothing we shall so much objeft to, as putting off
the evil day, and not spewing Ourselves ready, with
pecuniary resources, to encounter all the difficulties
of our iIIeSCIIT situation.

In a subsequent column will be found, a copy of
a Pruelamation issued by His MAJESTY, at Hanover,
on the 16th inst. It declares that His 'Majesty, in
his capacity of a State of the Empire, will preserve
the strictest neutrality ; but as from the ob.
vious movements of the French Troops in Holland,
there is a probability of His Majesty's German
States beinz exposed to danger, it commands an ac-
count to be taken of all the Inhabitants of these
States, capable of bearing arms, and calls upon them,
in the strongest terms, for unanimity, in the Defence
of their Country, in the event of any such attack.

t very important Memorial which we laid yes.
terday before our Readers, has excited in the Me.
tropolis a great deal of conversation, anti we have
no doubt would be regarded with equal attention
in every part of the British Empire. 'lt setves
very materially to elucidate the conduet of TAL.
LtYKAND at several periods of the Negotiation;
and a reference to the Papers laid before Parliament,
satisfaaorily establishes its authenticity, were not
'ts own internal accidence fully sufficient for that

purpoSc.

The two Conversations between Lord WHrr.
woßnt and BONAPARTE, Must have produced, in
every mind, the same impreshion. The former of
them, that of which his Lordship gives an account,
in his Letter of the 21st of February, contains the
most incontrovertible Evidence of what were the
CHIEF CoNstws disposition and intention in his
cooler moments ; the latter that of the 13th of
March, proves to os how little effetl, prudence,
or even the common rules of civilized life have in
restraining him when under the control of that
disposition. The arguments contained in TALLEY-
ttAtio's Memorial appear, wit Cannot but ackrow_
ledge with regret, too well founded in many in.
stances; and if the CHIEf CONSVL bad possessed
that capacious view of the future, with which his
admirers in this Country have suppr4ed him ro
gifted, could hardly Nye failed to produce ~r,tfrril.
(41 him, Ha jsly, however, far grigkildi I

pears to want temper, as much as be wants ptinel.
pie; and this has furnished us with an antidote to
the subtle poison which TALLEYRAND was endea.
souring to administer to us in the shape of Peace.

If our Readers will take the trouble to review
the Negotiation, they will see in the moderation of
the ei-it'tveint BISHor of A UTUN, the close adherence
to his own principles which has ever distinguished
that Politician, whether his objed has been to lull
Foreign Powers into supineness, or to extort money
from them. It will be seen, that at the first discussion
of any topic with Lord WnITWOITH, he lends him-
self more favourably to the propositions of his Lord-
ship, than he does at any period after he has once
conversed with BoLtraart upon them. One in.
stance (not to fatigue our Readers with endless
references to the great mass of Papers) is to be
found in the Dispatches by Lord WHITWORTH of
the 7th and gth April. In the former it is stated,
that TALLEYRAND, in order to avoid the odium of
&BASTIAN l'S Report, had gone so far as to Call in
question the authenticity of the Monitcur. Lord
WHITWORTH begins his Letter of the gth by saying,
" In my conversation yesterday with M. de 'FAL-
L TRANI), 7i found him, after he had tens the FIRST
CONSUL, mote disposed to comtett the substance of
the Note which I had presented the day before,
than to afford any further explanation." The same
spirit will be found throughout. If we can sup-
pose the French Minister to have been ignorant of
the detail of the conversation of the 17th of Feb.
he could never have been ignorant of the disposition
of the man who bore a part in it ; and yet ro the
last moment we find him full of hopes, which, with
the knowledge of the motives In which those hopes
originated, furnished us by the Memorial, we can.
not doubt were sincere. We find him at the end
saying, " Pal encore de Otepir ;1 of what ? Of
convincing the CHs 15P.CON4JIL. that it would ulti-
mately be, not for the happiness of mankind, (for
on that subjeft, we believe TAZLETRAND 2S in-
different as the Corsican himself) but for the in-
terest of France, that this fraetious Despot should
control his ill-humour for a few yeats.

Late on Sunday night,
MAsON anti DONALD-
SON, the Messengers, were sent with disp;(tches to
His MAJESTY at Windsor.
Yesterday' morning soon` after breakfast His
MAJFSTY, attended by Generals IlAr,coußr and
GAATH, and Major DEsuitow, took an airing on
horseback 'through Eton and beyond Salt-hill, where
His MAJESTY met the 3d division of the Stafford.
shire Militia, command,:dby Col. SNEYD, on their
march from High Wycomb to Windsor. The divi-
sion halted and saluted Hrs MAJESTY; they then
continued their march to Windsor, headed by His
There were•upwards of t too of the men.
fits MAJESTY afterwards rode in the Great
Park, and returned to the Lodge soon after two
o'clock. •
A requisition was sent to the LORD MAYoR on
Friday, signed by several Common Councilmen, re.
questing his Lordship to convene a Meeting for the
purpose of addressing His MAJESTY on the State of
Public Affairs, and in support of the War. The.
LORD MAYOR has accordingly fixed it for to..mot.
row.

Yesterday morning at eleven o'clock, His Ma.
jesty's 13th Regiment of Light Dragoons was
inspeCted on Ashford Common by His Royal High-
ness the DUKE of CUMtJERLAND and Lieutenant.
General Gwyrustr. The Regiment went through
their various manoeuvres both on foot and horse-
back in a superior stile of excellence, and re.
ceived the thanks and approbation of His Royal
Highness, and General Gwywive; the Inspetting
General ; and notwithstanding the rapidity of each
movement, no accident happened.
Yesterday morning the Fifteenth Regiment of
Light Dragoons marched through London, on their
route from Worcester to. Dover. •

The 26th and 4.zd regiments, now in Scotland,
are ordered to be ready for embarkation.
The North Gloucester Militia, commanded by
Major AYI.I, and the South Gloucester, coin-
mantled by Colonel , WALL, have marched into
Portsmouth and Portsza ; and the Worcester Mili-
: tia, Major Nest., are arrived at Gosport.
The military movements in the North are very
brisk. The Northumberland Militia arrived. List
week at Newcastle from Alnwick ;• • the first and se-
cond divisions of the Durham Militia from Barnard
Castle, have marched into Sunderland. The Cum.
berland Militia are on their route for Liverpool, to
embark for Ireland.
The Town of Kirkcaldy have offered a bounty of
Five Guineas, over and above all other bounties, to
every person within the parish who shall volunta-
rily enter into His Majesty's Navy.
It is reported that ail offer has been made by a
Northern Province of Ireland, to raise for the ser-
vice of Government, a disposeable force of .to,ooo
men, while such a perinanent armed force will he
provided for their own immediate defence, as may
hurl defiance at the power of machinations of any
enemy.

We learn, through the medium of a Private COM-
munication, that 22 Privateers have been fitted out
from 'different Ports of 'France to cruize in the
Sound, for the expre4s purpose of capturing the
British vessels etnployed in the Baltic 'Trask, and
carrying them into Norway, We hope, that -Go.
vernment will take sufficient precautions to prevent
the intended system of depredation from being
eartied into ea t% it will he recollected, that at
the coinmencemenr of the last War, British pro-
perty tg, the amount of rrveral millions sterling wax
cap( tired in that tplarlfr it) the sarr,c tr.trreq, 3:1;1
c.ittied int- Not's,„i'•