The Sun.
London, England, 1803-04-11 00:00:00

LONDON, APRIL rx, 18n3.

EY the Dide of Y 0,4 Packet, wliieh arrived at
Falmouth on Friday last in ten days from Lithn,
we learn that the greatest al.= existed amongst
the Portuguese Merchants, at the probability of War
between this Country and France. It was there
reported, that the French Squadron, under the com-
mand of Admiral 'Allots, in place of sailing for
the East Indies, as was given out, had gone to take
possession of the Brarils.

Wr received yesterday the Paris Papers of :the
6th, and this morning those of the 7th inst. The
illoniteur of the 7th contains the. Official Correspond-
ence between Mr. De BU', who was sent by
the new GRAND MASTER of Malta to demand the
restoration of the Island, and Sir ALEXANDER
UALL. The for►ner contends that all the Condi.
'ions stipulated in the Treaty of Amiens respeeting.
the Island of Malta being fulfilled, it ought to be
immediately giVen up. to the GR,AND. M4STflit
and makes a formal demand for that .purpose.
To this demand Sir AtexAvoitst BALL replies,
that as some Of the Powers who were so guarantee
the Independence of Malta, have not yet acceded'
to that -measure, he cannot consent to give up ;tile
bland until be receives special instrunions fronrhis
Government for that purpose. Here the Cares.

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pontletice ends ; but there iq an Official Paragraph in
the Motriteur, stating that the EMPERORS of GER.
MANY and RUSSIA had some time ago consented to
guarantee the Independence of Malta ; that the
only 'Power who had not consented was Prussia;
Gut, that under the present circumstances, His Pit us.
ASSAti MAJESTY had thought proper to concur in the
guarawee. If the latter part of this 'statement be
true, the objett of auttoc's Embassy to Berlin is
fully explained.

The people of Sw;tzerland appear to be extremely
ungratefil for the blessings which the parental
kindness of the First 'Consul hai bestowed ripen
themi. fir they have been in a state of Insurreaion
ever since he resented them to tratquilliy. A dis.
urbanCe of a very setioto—nature took place at
Brilte (in the 27th ult. The Helvetic `froops sallied
out of the }barrack,, and attacked and fired upon the
French Patroles, but they were at length over.,
poWered, and compeltc.Ll to retreat ; and the 'French
Papers add, that their art ears having been paid,
order is again restored.

Letters fromßrim(ls state, that great numbers
of french Troops are marching towards Rolland,
aticl that appearances were so hostile, that many of
the .Ertglish who were at 'the h aguer Ainiterdam,
and Rotterdam, have lett the BazaVian Republic.
Some of the Paris Papers contain a particular
account of the Review which took place PriSun.,
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the 341. The number of Troops Colleted was
greater that: usual, and the Review lasted five
hours.

Letters from Hambrarsh state, that a paragraph
has been inserted in the Hamburg!, Carrerpondenten,
by order of the FettsT Cofist) 1., declaring What he
was before repotted to have stated, that in the event
bf a War between this Country and France, he will
recognize no Powek otherwise than as an Ally or
an Enemy. it is stated upon the same authority,
that General BoURNONVILI.g, the French Ambas-
sador at Madrid, has demanded, supplies of men and
Money from l lis Catholic Wjesey, in ease hostilities
iCeVas also reported, bad
sk,tod com,lr!nce. Prussia,
"gaged, in the event of Vv aT,
:to occupy with her
Trotips the bunks of the 476 r 4s.far as Cuxhaven,
and the whole Eleaorate of I lanovcr. The same
letters .express mach appreheniitm that in case hosti.
cities sh tuld break out, Ifamburgb anti its territory
Will he ncppied by 1 rench Prussian Troops, in
noer. ini)rtycilt the int:4,0144m of 13riti:,11
fa:l,lrea into that part of f3ermany.

freinh Vutitis have Tiscni o 5 high 3s 55. 70,

gJoittday morning, in eansequinet of itt ralnittg,
the RO:I-AL FAMILY did not: go 'Atit till abont:tivo
Whet the rain abated,i, His MAJESTY,
attended by General GWYNN; took a shan't-We in
Windsor Grear Park.- •
Yesterday morning • the ,ROYAL FAMILY, at.
tended by General GWYNN, the- flonourable.Wm.
PR-let, Lady CAROL IN E-DORMER , and Mrsg- I)st,tx,
..went to the. Chapel Royal, in the Castle, where
the Blsl-101 of NOR W ICH preached one of the finest
Sermons we eVerTheard, from the first- Epistle of
Corinthians,, ksth Chap. and - the.43th and 14tH
Verses., . , „
" But-if there is no Resurreaion of the Dent!, then is
" nct risen
" Andit Christ be not risen, then is our preaching
and our faith is also vain."

.FiOM the.Castie 'the ROYAL FAMILY went to
Frogmore. The day being remarkably fine, the
ROYAL. FAMILY were expetted to walk, on the Ter_
race in the- evening, for the first-time this season.
Windsor Was full of company yesterday.
Yesterday Her. Royal Highness the PRINCESS
MARY had divine ServiCe performed at the Queen's
House, by the Rev,. Mr. KRYSALLi after which her
Royal Highness went out airing for near two
His Royal -Highness. the DUKE of GLoucsstsx
paid a-visit at the Queen's House.
Yesterday Divine Service was performed at the
Chapel Royal, St. James's, by the Rev. Father in
God the Lord Bishop of LlNtattilcF..
On Monday last die 4.oth Regiment was reviewed
on Southsea Common, by Gen. Sir 6. OSBORN, Lan. -
their Colonel. And on Wednesday the ist was re_.
viewed onthe same:ground, by deo. Wit ITELOCKE:.
These Reiiments respediveiy made a fine app.earance,.
and executed their. manoeuvres in a'very exact and:
soldierlike manner.
Each Corps of Gosport olunteeri have made-an-
offer .oitheir services. to Government•
. , •
. This day the LORD iViAvog,
.Sheriffs, and Al-
dermen,- attended .by the City Qtfiecrsi went in,
state from the Mansion-House, Preceded by the.
Bluecoat Children, to Christ...Clwrch,
.Newgate-;
Street, where they heard Divine Service.'„ and a'
Sermon by the Bishop of-CIaSTE,It ; after whic% an
elegant Dinner and Ball will be given by. Ilis,Liad-
ship at the Mansion-House, to which several of the
Nobility .have been. invited. T,
The.-English'Minister at the Hague, lately gave
an entertainment to the French Minister, to Conc.: -
rals VICTOR and BERTHIBR, and to the principal
Officers, Civil and Military, who -are to embirk for
Louisiana.

On the 28th of last month, a masked ball Was
given at the Court of Copenhagen; in honour-a Ills
Royal Highness Pa !Nee WI t.L. tAtroft.Lni3Okstta,
which was arranged and 'concluded with the giCa test
splendour and taste. His.MajeSty the KiNG aDr
MARK appeared in a domino, and a • Her
Royal Highness thePR IN'CisS MAR r A 'was wiNotit a
mask... Immediately after the entrance of PRINCE
WILLIAM of GLOITCESTEIt; who came along with.
the KING and PaINCEsi Rairki.;".a.iitimber of the
'Nobility, in the dress of ancient Knights, mitred
with military music, and then the dancing` com-
menced. • The English Prince wore the dress of a
Knight., Among other charafters, 'the buicliess of
AUGERSTRNBIIRo appeared in that of a Priestess of
the Temple. The Ball lasted till half past six' in the
morning. Personi of all descriptions, withciut.any
regard to rank, were invited. '
PRINc it WILLIAM was to have set out from Co.,
penhagen on the 4th of April to Hainhorgh, and.
from:thence to England.,
New_ Yolk. Paperi and ;Letters to the :3.1 of
March, have been received, at which "period Me
Preside& had issued orders,- parsuarit to the 'Reso-
lutions of the,Senate, for 'assembling the 'of
the United States. In the Kentucky,
Tenesyte, and.
Mississippi States,.the embodying proceeded with
uncommon activity. It dues not appeal by, these
Papers -that Mr. ,MoNoE, who had • been,norni-
Bated to the .Expostulatory Mission to Madrid.and
Parisvhad, at their latest date, left Washington.
By the official returns at the American Secretary
of State, it appears That the President's late Report
on the 'subjet of Finance was greatly erroneous,
and that instead of an increased Revenue, there was
in the last quarter a diminution from the amount of
the one-preceding, of no less than 1,098,761 dol-
lars ; that the deficiency was still greater cotnpai.
Mg it with the•corregponding quarter in the pre.
ceding year, and that a yet further defalcation was
to be expeded In the succeeding quarter. '
It' is reported, and believed by many in America,
01:,t France obtained the Cession of Louisiana. by Q
diplomatic. trick.--LuctliN BONAPARTE, they say,
read to the Spanish King one Treaty, and then pre.
sented another for his signature.
•
The shutting.of the Port of New Orleans against
the Americans, is no longer considhed.as an at of
the Spanish qivernment, but as originating in the
enforcement of France.' 'This impression has been
established by a recent order, prohibiting all inter.
course between the United States and Louisiana, at
a period when Spain, having ceded the Province,
could not hope to derive any. possible advantage
from the measure.

The Corporation of New York has ordered, that
after the sth ult. if any dog be found at large in
any part of the City, the owner shall be fined as
dollars.

During a thunder-storm at Gloucester, in Ame-
rica, on the Bth of February, the lightning struck
and penetrated a rock of great magnitude, and
shivered it to atoms : it removed another, of about
3o tons weight, from its bed ; and afterwards, se_
pawing into five several branches, although nearly
in the same direflion, ploughed up the ground until
they reached the bank of a sheet of water, at the
edge of which they all abruptly terminated, with.
out leaving any traces of their further progress.--
The noise and shock occasioned by the explosion of
the rock, were very great, and perceived at a consi-
derable distance from the spot.

On Saturday as the Chester Mail earning to Lon.
don was passing through earner, the letter bags were
stolen, containing a great quantity of bills of various
descriptions. The thieves were 6Q extremely
,ex-
rrt, that they took all the letters out, and sunk;
the bags in a pond by tho weight 91 bricks yut into
them,

,1 OAS.

I'o RTSMOUTH,- APRIL 10.

Dreaarmoregbt has this evening made Si‘val
for sailing for Cawsancl Bar', the Rendezvous of the
„mem*, .-- •• -- "- "
Atrived the ship4billa and. inn, from Leg.
Jactr94_,P,pd nihukttsain for Strindgitte Cteek,

t Sailed the Cakatta, MAXWELL,' for India;
Danish Easl Ndiarnan . idm;ra/ Chapman, Qv ILL IN;
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for Copenhagen ; * ,ind Mary, WHITE, for St.
Petersburgh.
Sailed the-Amt:or:el Frigate, ,fa' r Wey mou th). and
A.
Dietoik. It.l DDELL, for Grenada, in ballast?:..4.,
A rri v ed—the,-Ortnu, MATH°, from London lot
Botany s:,y," iiith'Settlers. • . .