The Sun.
London, England, 1804-02-11 00:00:00

tended by the Countess of, CARDICAN, took 01
airing in a coach and four, attended by a party of
the Light Horse, on the Harrow Road.
PRINCESSES MARY, SOPHIA, and AMELIA, took
an airing on the Fulham Road.
Yesterday about one o'clock, Mr. ADDINGTO/
had an audience of His MAJESTY fur a considerable
time.

Nis goYal..Highness.the DIZICE_ of Y. WM held yes'
terday his Military Levee at the Horse Gua.rds•
Several General Officers were present, who atter-
wards assisted at a Council, as did Lord HortAltp,
Mr. YoRKE, and the SECRETARY at WAR.'

Yesterday their Graces the Duke and Dutchesi
of BEDFORD arrived at their, house in Stable.yar4
St. James's,. from Woburn, in consequence of Lady
WILLIAM RUSSELL being dangerously ill.
Yesterday Lord SOMERS arrived at his house jtl
Cavendish-square, from his seat in Herefordshire.
An Official Letter. has been addressed by the Se'
CRETARY Of STATE to the LORDS LIEUTENANTS°
Counties: First, with a view to compel the Clerk
of the several Sub-division Meetings to remit id
: their respedive Paymasters such sums of monef
as, in the way of Bounties,. are due to those wil°
have engaged as Substitutes in the Army of Reserve
and the Militia ; and secondly, to enforce the coals
pletion of the deficiencies in the Militia and the Arnii,
of Reserve ; and in order to obtain these importanl
purposes, it is the decided intention of Governineng;
to put into immediate execution those provisions CE
the law which will enforce, in the most effeau4
manner, the completion of the levies for which did,
Legislature has provided.
Some French and Dutch Papers came to liana.
yesterday, but their contents are not so late as the
accounts before received.

Wednesday last came on the Eleaion of a Meal'
bet of Parliament for the Borough of Wallingford/
in the room of Sir FRANCIS SYKEss Bart. deceased;
when at the close of the Poll the numbers were, f°
GALWAY Mitts, Esq. x4l ; for MOSES XIMEISBSf
Esq. 18. The former was accordingly decl44
duly eleded.
The following Gentlemen have been called roff#
degree of Barristers at Law, by the HonourablOt
ciety of Lincoln's Inn, viz. JoHN Tlioßt4l°
Fat;. and JOHN HERMAN MERIVALE, Esq.
fa
Lord DUDLEY and J. SCOT; Esq. M.` F•
• bp,
Worcester, have sent four boats load of coal to
distributed amongst the poor Freemen and their g,„
milks of that City.

es Ittlauviel t beenimmediately
at the battetY
gienfor a barrack and 01;
gPaazuplin,irgienitHoi:bnldertiess, to accommodate two offiCers
forty. four men, for manning the guns at that ?oti,
The foundations are already marked out., •
The Merchants of Greenock and Port Glasel
Et lately
hreisal
ripdecsthoi
iti
pioosnnieiendsc
witchi
ieetnhPt
articlesr itvo ysClliopt:snocnaisritr,riuvcciotnmie)lifaion:i nalacti;;;
under the Orders ,of Council relative to Quark es ta,
The Council has in consequence given dire6lo°'
obviate the inconvenience. • • - •
Shi?
At the conclusion of the late War, cerraitr, is
Owners in this Town received very advarto hap,
offers from Dutch Houses for Vessels to bqr:nff,
tered, in under to proceed to Batavia tO - 7
home the property so long accumulated then
and which the Dutch' Shipping, ruined by 1l;
~
contest, was unable to carry. It is clear that noa:,
thing could be more advantageous than the ecjila
tra.Cl proposed, if the Carrying Trade be .go.g,
Objet of regard to a Commercial Nation, and Oti:goi,
seems more pettedly innocent in a political "rot;
The Gentlemen to whom the offers were made, 146,
ever, deemed it advisable,to wait on Mr. ADDll,ti
Tort, and state to him the circumstances, request,l4
to know whether any objeCtion to the undero,bo
coulki be stated on the part of His Majesty's 1;(01,'
vermeil% Mr. ADDINGTON received the depatat'w
with his usual-complacency, and he perfeetly con'ri
red with them in thinking that, if the Dutch •!
s 4
to charter ships to carry their commerce of Both,
to Europe, it was desirable that the profits -ot, ; rtl
adventure should come to England, irtsleadof rot)
to increase the capital of America, Denmark lion
SWeden. Nay, he expressed uncommon exaly,a.
at the idea that the Dutch, once the carriers 6`ilipir
rope, were now obliged to apply to England for eh,
and contemplated the acquisition of the CgPflo
Trade, as an additional source of prosp-aritrot 1q
consequence of the encouragement thus hel'o' flit
them, the- Ship Owners chartered their vesseisvt otcl
Dutch, and they went out to India under the
colours, and with Dutch Papers, to exec°
agreement.
. On the breaking out of the War, those Genfle fec
who had waited cm Mr. ADDINGTON, began '",„
rty•
some alarm, lest their Ships carrying Dutch pro fed,. •
should be condeinned if they happened tube capt°
They had not, we believe, a doubt of the 10/.1,110;
and integrity of the Dutch Merchants, in eol..e.„„11
_ships had, reached Dutch Ports. They wishaf`cea to 1
that their own countrymen-might not be 5"; t
make Prize of British ships'-engaged• W;13.1)10
first Minister had deemed not only a fie
laudable undertaking. Mr. ADDINGTON agl.ties
mired them protection against this probable u" ro.
In fact, a good many of the Ships in thes-1011;
cumstances have been captured. Their cargoes iso'
been condemned as lawful prize. The
the Bottoms again applied to the Minister, tor) 1,01
ing him of what had passed, and representing toich
their situation, although ading on ptincipleg a cop'
he had fully sanctioned. The persons who bit
vit to
versed with Mr. A. have adualiy made affiat.asotie
what passed in the conference with him, in stw the
as we have stated: The validity of the prize ;:1-0
ships, however, was to come on as a quot os ftl
Dation Commons, and Mr. A.- went so feu; (toto
stay proceedings on that point. Far,- Itoweve,;,.llP
giving them that protection he had promised, , " to
since given it as his advice to the Ship-Ole:fag;
make the best compromise they can with ! 003 e
tors, promising at he same time to use his
in their favour with the latter, but inforatillgoca
that their Ships would infallibly be cootie°
the suit proceeded. to the
These fads require no comment. PTOPertle cite
amount of 60030001
• is now depending on ill