The Sun.
London, England, 1804-10-12 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

I think you will agree with me, that the Public
are entitled to some information respeaing the
'links voted by the Corporation of Londtm to Lon!
NetiOu which be so severely and justly remarks
upon.

It strudk me that the merit of Admirate, Co P.N.
WALLIS ,and. THORN B ROUGH, with the brave Of.:
ficeri and Men serving under them, tin hmrd, the
Fleets which had been employed tinting the inost
tempestuous be bon blockading the Ports of France
and iol 401 , ileherVed the tit:inks of the City of
London:
hat I Might be covreft in'what Idid, I waited
opim Mt..ll7lAasnEY., at the Admiralty, who very
readily ftsnris4,c~~ me with the names and titles of
the Officers served under those galiant Admi.

Yr; hen I brought forward my Motion in the Court
of Com Mon Council, Mr. Alderman Cu aTis thought
at to Move; what he termed gm ameament to my
Motion, that Admiral NE Lson, and
.the Officers
• serving 'under him, might be included. This he
did without knowing (as it appears) who served
um! r. that brave man. I will make no comment,
but 511411 feel myself obliged by your inserting in
your Paper Allis explanation,

SIR,
Y►►ur most obedient Servomr,
SAM.. DIXON.

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MAILS.

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THE SUN.

SOLLIt QUia DlCtat TALSUhI ,AUDEAT

L 0 N D 0 N,

PRII)AY, OCTOS'EIt IZ, 1804.

Tait morning arrived a Mail from Jamaica;
Brought to Fatmouth by the Prince Adolphus Packc r,
in 34 ctiyi. By this Mail 'we have received the
Jamaica Papers' to the 2,1 ultimo, from which we
have extracted the not ingesting articles.—We
arc happy to state that the bland is in perfca
health.

Maxtor' the caution of Government has prevent.
ed any thing from:transpiring that could furnish the
Opposition Writers with any data upon which they
might build a probable hypothesis resPeifing the
present posture of affairs between this Country and
Spain, yet those Writers are as confident in their
fteroniegr as if they were in the secrets of the Cabi.
net. If conlidetace, however, were their only fault,
we might leaVe them to the contempt they de.
serve but their virulence is equal to their pre
sumption, and for want of fans they daily resort
to the most raneorons abuse: Without knowing a
syllable of the matter, the Chief Engine of Party
says, thv Spain would have given " the must
faCtory explanation of the Aemaerellrr, had it been
asked in that decaroui and respetful manner which
one Nation owes to another." • This assertion, we
will venture to say, is as much at variance with truth
as it.is with decency. Whativer •xplanations have
been required of Spain by the British Government,
have been made with the decision which ought to
characterize the measures of a great Country like
that of Britain ; but they have been required with
British liberality. Our Rulers well know the hu_
miliated state to which Spain is reduced, and they
feel for the degrading dependence of a country that
once held a high rank among Nations. Far from
addressing Spain,'as the OppoSition Writers insinu.
ate, in " a tone which indicates a determination to
quarrel," and which " even the humiliated and de.
graded spirit niche Spanish Court must answer with
It ghtinefs," we have reason to believe that the
expostulations of our Government have shewn a
temper of forbearance 'and moderation l and that
though Spain may have been obliged to pause and
hesitate, under the contrmil of em insolent and re.,
sistless ,Usurper, she is fully sensible of the friendly
wishes of Great Britain, and would be heartily
if she had independence enough to justify her enter-
ing into the most intimate connexions with this
Coen try.

Bot, toshew the absurd incons:stencietiof the Op.
prldtion WritM, they tell us that at the pteseni
moment the state of the Spanish " Naval and Mi
city Force is so miserably reduced, that it does not
amount to any thing like what a PeaceZtailis'
mew fouev en so secondary a Power as Spain ought
to be." Can it then he stipposed-that our Ministry,
who are as well aCquainted With the Naval anti
'hail condition of Spain as those Writers, would use
tht:lllllgUhge 'of insult to ber in such a time of dis.
treis, when even the faintest exprehsion: of she
wilibei of such a powerful' State as Great Britain
ratilfhave a decisive operation upon her feelings,
though an apprehension o French resentment might
Obit het it cuhmar ;host itcHngs ?—c-An it be

supposed too that even admitting we should so far
have deserted our national charaaer for gefieious.
compassion as to address Spain with a total,dim.
gard of that. decorous and (eipeetful manner
.w'hich
one Nation owes to another, that Spain, whose 461
has been broken under the yoke of France, and
whose Naval and-Military Force is represented as be-
low even a Peacellstablishment, would venture to an.
ewer Great Britain with haughtiness ? The whole is
a fallacious assumption of Opposition malevolence.
The British Government has seen with commisera-
tion the condition of Spain, and has extended its
concern to the full limits of a liberal ,forbearance ;
but when it finds the ascendancy of its most deadly
foe over the Councils of the Spanish Court is
prompting it to rouse from its slavish torpor, only
to become an a&ive agent against us in the hands of
that deadly foe, it is time indeed to suspend the
feelings of compassion, and to adopt those measures
which National Safety, National Dignity, and Na-
tional Honour demand.

Whatever may be the issue of our present Nego.
tiations with Spain, we know that Ministers have
concluded themselves with a due mixture of modera.
ation and firmness, and whenever the history of the
transatlion is submitted to the world at large, it
will prove the malice of their opponents, and testify
their own wisdom and liberality. A little time
will develope these matters; and in the interim the
Opposition WriterS, by their impudent assertions,
and ridiculous, suppositions, are only preparing for*
themselves an additional load of mortification and.
disgrace.

Dispatches received at the Admiralty state, that
the Enemy have in the Harbour of Dunkirk about
40 Sdil of Armed Ships, ()eating .pendants, some, of
then (about r 9 or 2o) are.tioder- Dutch Colours.
'There is likewise a number.of small craft.

Lord G. L. GOWER left town yesterday after.
noon to embark, at Yarmouth, on his Embassy to
the Court of :it. Petersburgh ; he was accompanied
by the Hon: Mr. PONWNBY, son of Lord BF.SBO.
ROUGH, as Private Secretary ; and Mr. Rots, for.
fumy Srervtary to the Earl of MALMESISURYp ac-
companies him as Secretary of Legation. Messrs.
VICK, and ROFFe attend his Lordship as Messen.
gers.

The Dukt of Yoi had an interview yesterday
with Lord G. L. 'GOWER, previous to his, Lord.
ship's setting out for Russia. His Lordship sails
in the Amethyst Frigate, which is to bring back Sir
B, WARREN.

Mr. Purr is gone from Piltney commit to Vey.
Mouth, upon a visit to His. MAJe,Ty, from whence
he will accompany the Roy,i.t. FAMILY to the seat
of the Eat! of 1:1•:RCI-IiisTsit. •

Lord CHATHAM'S Birth-113y was celebrated on
Miinilay with great splen'h at the New London
Tavern, Cheapside, by the Gentlemen of the Board
of Ordnance.

A Pilot Brat from Heligoland was spoken with.
lait Saturday, by our Cruizers blockading the Elbe
and ihe.Wescr. . By stress of weather it had been
forced to take shelter, at Bremerley, in the latter
rivet. According to the report's of the Pilot, the
sufferings. of the inhabitants in the Eleftorate of
Hanoveuare still greater than they have been re..
presented in the Newspapers : the French being
now actively, employed in carrying away this year's
harvest, and dbrising of it at liasnburgh, Bremen,
and even in Hollatid, so that a limine is inevitable,
should they not be relieved from other Countrieti
All gold and silver coins have already been sent to
France.; nothing but copper is in circulation; and
the people are. entirely ruined by the enormous re.
quisitions and contributions extorted by BostnrAtit''s
Satellites. Far from pitying these wretched people,
the French Cirminitrsaries have ordered military exe.
cution every where ; and not only the cattle, but
the furniture and kitchen utensils ha've,been seized,
and transported h waggons to Holland,' to be, sold
there, as 1)01 moneit is left in Hanover for buyers.
Several insurreetions have taken plaCe ; but
.they
have been of no use, except to procure the French
new opportunities to add murder to, plunder.—
Three inhabitants of Neuenhoosen were shot on
Wednesday sennight,' accused .of preaching setii.
Lion. The same day several of the Peasants, at
and near Bretnerley, were pia_ into requisition for
assisting to build a Signal Towei In the neighbour.
hood,; General BeaNADOTIR having ordered twelve
Signal, rowers to he conatruded,in,twelve different
Bailiwicks of Hanover, and to 'be armed with Rome
guns, to'serve as a rallying point for the French,
Troops, in case of a general rising of the Hanove.
rians against- their tyrants, or in case the Elettorate
should be invaded by fOreign foes:. The. French
report, 1113 E BONAPAItiIIi intends, in Cit&C of a.con-
'tinental War, to order a Conscription of all young
men,. from fifteen, to twenty.six, in Hanover, and
that they are to be sent to France, and incorporated
with hio Army uron rite Coast. A number of young
men, therefore, quit their Country, notwithstanding
the severity of BONM'ART a's Police Agents and Gins
di Arras with regard to Passes. Three young Hano.
verians were concealedon board the Pilot Boar, who
intended to go to Hokum to enlist in the German Le.,
gion..in the British Service, but who entered into the.
Marines on board our Frigates. Theseyoung men
declare, that if. their Countrymen were at liberty to
folloW their inclinations, England wouy in' a month
raise an Army of so,ooo men atnong them; such is
their detektarioniot the French, and the misery to
which they are reduced. They confirmed the above
particulars, and added, :that within a fortnight, se.,
vela! thousiind Mose French Troops had arrived
in Hanoeer frOm Holland,, together with a flume.
roua Train of Artillery, Ammunition WaggOns,
4c, They say that the French Troops on the Banks
of the Weser, from the sea to ~the City of Brem,en,
jrmuunc only
„to 700 men, fur the delince of 16 strung'
Batteries.