The Sun.
London, England, 1804-01-06 00:00:00

TO THE KING.

7P,E,

HEN the affairs of a Nation are distraCled,
t, private people are, by the spirit of the Law,
" jas7ified in stepping a little out of their sphere."
—such is the recorded opinion of one of our ablest
and most illustrious Statesmen—That the existing
circumstances of the British Empire are in their
nature calculated to inspire confidence, or soothe
-"apprehension, no one will be hardy enough to
''apprehension,
the storm which loursis pregnant
with mischief—that the crisis is abundant in (bi-
fenity, and the result of our exertions uncer_
tain, the Public feeling unequivocally testifies—l
shall not therefore I trust be deemed too presump_
thous, Sire, if, afting upon such high authority,. I
o erszep the line of common usage, or too bold, if,
breaking the bonds that would hind me down to my
allotted station in life, I prostrate myselt at the
foot of the Throne, and call upon the Father of his
PeOple to rescue from peril, and shelter from im-
pending evil, the sacred birth, right of his Children.
The enter-prize, intrigue and capability of the
Eniimy to
.whom we are opposed in the present
eventful War, appear to me never to have been duly
appreciated. • We have passed slightly over the
immense resources which afford facilities to a mind
ever aaive in their distribution, and unremitting
in its attention towards the attempt at our extinction
its a great People, whilst we have been satisfied with
P ttradualdevelopement of those which we possess to
oppose it—Rather has our pride been gratified by a
contemptuous survey of the preparations making
againsdus, than our judgment convinced by a dispas-
sionate investigation of their nature and extent, and
the proportion our means of counteraction bear to-
- wards them—Thus, much must be left to chance ;
aod, when the All of Britain worth possessing is im-
'plicate(' in the question ; when the perfeilion of Re-
ligious, Moral, Civil, and Political Institutes is the
sacrifice to a failure of our exertions, can we leave
aught to the hazard of the die ?—Can we, though
the chances may he calculated as much in our favour
as the hostile Usurper admitted them to be, dare
we trust to the operation of Fortune.(fickle and
most to be dreaded when most apparently propi-
tious) upon an event where success may be ensured,
and our safety placed beyond the controul of chance ?
--It is not from half measures, temporising policy,
or tardy economy, that this result will spring—We
are not to look into remote precedent or black letter
authority for the suggestion of rules and principles
of polttiCal aaion in a period like the present—The
mind ofGoeernment should relied the spirit and tem-
per of the times, and find in every passing event an
antic ote to its deleterious efFeas.—A question hence
arises which, I trust, I do not trespass beyond the
- hanntlary discre:ioo, no less than AffeCtion and Loy-
alty to your Majesty, has prescribed, in pressing for-
ward—l feel the delicacy of the ground upon which
I tread, and will pass over it as lightly as possible—
{ shall not- trace the effeas of systematic concession
and periodical temerity, which have added fuel to
the devouring flame of Wats—thrown a most lessen-
tial portion of the Empire within the grasp of the
Enemy, and cut off from your 3.k/Ljesty the Here-
ditary Continental Possessions of your Illustrious
Idouse—l waive all these, Sire, and centre my
inquiries in one small focus—they will not even
seek to prove whether the condua of your Ma-
jesty's Servants be good or evil, but only generally,
whether they are the best possible—not to under-
rate their talents or disparage their resources, how-
ever disinclined to congratulate the Country upon
either, hut to ascertain whether the criterion of
political excellence and deliberative wisdom, the
supreme powers of diplomatic experience and legis-
lative science—the prominent virtues and exalted •
patriotism of the Empire arc to be found merged
and aggregated in that body of men who hold tide
sacred charge of -Government in this most perilous
and awful crisis—lf this be not effirmatively an.
swered, how shall we be judged by a Posterity de-
prived of the blessings which have been delivered
into our hands in charge for them—when, they find,
that in the day- of darkness and tribulation, when
clouds obscured the horizon, and doubt was the
precursor of every coming event, our readiest re_ •
source's were disregarded, .and our best means con-
temned ; that we excluded our ablest Generals from a
Campaign in which every thing sacred was staked ;
where the alternative declared itself, that we were
to continue tint great and independent subjects of
the hest of Kings, under a Constitution that rivals
the models of Utopian Theorists, or become the
subjugated Slaves of an imperious Despot, who had
reserved us for the last sacrifice to his hate, that he
rni'seht the more securely glut on his revenge, and
:immolate our Liberties at the shrine of his ambi-
tion ?—Perish the thought, which never, never
can he realized—for the Father will listen to
the Prayer of !iii Children, and ere it be too
late, renovate his Councils with those talents,
and invigorate them with those principles, which
may meet the premeditated attack upon the
Country and Constitution, with becoming confidence
;Ind assured success—We have no ordinary Foe to
deal w ith—lf a People are to meet a crisis man.
fully, they must be made aware of the difficulties
they have to encounter, and the disadvantages under
which they labour. How swill the false and assumed
prowess which is built upon the contempt of an
tenemy sink and be annihilated by the slightest re_
verse of fortune, whilst the man who feels that his
dearest hopes are threatened in the conflict, will be
doubly armed by reason, and the just estimate of
the sake for which he contends. Those who look
danger boldly in the face will have half gained the
nettle, before the deluded hordes of men, unprepared
for the near.approachingconflift, will be able to take
their ground. The war-whoop is raised against our
KING, our Country, and our Constitution, and our
All devoted to destruaion by a Foe, whose resources I
are as vast as his designs are unbounded, and whose
success has hitherto been commensurate with the
rashness of his enterprise—lt is not by common ,
minds or ordinary talents that such an opponent can
be kept in check, much less successfully counteraa-
eil—Chance of accident may favour us, but they have
flyer deserted him. It may be our lot to reverse
the destinies of him who has hitherto been the
spoiled Child of Fortune ; hut, if we fail, our pre-
sumption will be chastised by a fate our very Ene.

rnies must weep ever whilst they intik}, and a won.
dering world will lift up its hands against our teme-
rity, in disdaining to resort to those means for our
salvation, which could alone ensure it beyond the
caprice of chance—in neglecting those advantages
which can never be wanting in a Country, fertile in
talent, and charaderized by sound and wholesome
judgment.
Think, Sire, would the principles of Government
which are at present pursued, have been sufficiently
' powerful to have checked the easuriez of Jacobinism
Would such a system have strangled the Hydra Revo.
lotion in its birth, and stripped the sanguinary Mon-
ster of the false and luring trappings it had assumed
Would such measures, creeping out of each other,
and smuggling themselves into anion, have rallied
a People round the Throne when the storm began
to lour, and have opposed (with a vigour beyond.
precedent, and with a success which never could
have been ensured, had that vigour been less) the
innovating and undermining system of the Times ?
No, Sire, I have no hesitation to affirm, that had
the Servants of the Crown been wavering, unset-
tled, and unsystematic; had they pursued an objeCt
one day, which was to be renounced the next—had
they adopted half measures, or been guided by half
principles, the land of our Fathers would have been
involved in the common fate of subjugated Europe ;
—nor should we, at this moment, upon our own
shores, have had to await the outward attacks of
the Enemy—That storm was weathered—Pray
Heaven we may ride this out as well !—lt is not
necessary to call to your MAJESTY'S recolleetion the
misconduct of a former Administration, to whose
devious system the loss of the American Colonies
is attributable. The great Lord CHATHAM, lucid
and profound, saw their fatal aberration, and wain.
ed them of its effeas—He not only foretold the re.
suit of their projeds if carried into died, but point-
ed out the mode of correding them. It requires
little ingenuity to note the points of similitude be.
tween the unintelligible Negotiations at Paris—the
feeble attempt to obtain a shadow—the barren rock
of Lampedosa ! with that strange and imbecile te.
naciousness which led the first promoters of the
American War, when compelled to repeal the Co-
lonial Duties, to determine on retaining one to save
appearances ! Who can at this hour doubt, that had
the Duty upon Tea been repealed with the other
Imposts, America would still have acknowledged
the Sovereignty of the Mother Country ? Who will
deny, that the Cession of the insignificant Rock of
Lampedosa to this Country, would have averted
the present War ? Both Administrations grounded
their comind upon the same principles—Each dread-
ed the reproach of weakness—and each made a
stand (without reference to the Interests of the
State, but for the purpose of Individual defence) at
one point—The one involved us in a Contest that
severed the Colonies for ever from England : the
other has plunged us also into a War, the effects of
which, who, among the sons of men shall presume
to calculate ? What mind, great or prospeEtive as
it may be, shall dare to set boundaries to the re.
kindled flame of this exterminating conflia ?
In spite of the recorded Declaration of the first
and most exalted talents of the Country, all the
measures were followed up with unceasing perse.
verance, which threw the Colonies into a state of
Rebellion, whilst Ministers smiled (even as Mini.
sters smile now) at the Impotent attempt of our re-
fraftory Children to throw off their leading-string,
and separate themselves from the Mother Country.
The Nation was taught to believe that we were
fully prepared to meet and crush the Rebels in
arms ; and whatever might he the shades of opinion
with resped to the policy or humanity of the con.
dud of Administration, the People were satisfied
that our means of enforcing obedience were more
than adequate to the exigency. The speeches of
the Ministerial Adherents and Partizans were as
replete with confidence as any we hear under the
present too similar circumstances; and the Noble
Lord at the hesd of the Naval Department, publicly
stated in his place in the House, that the War Esta-
blishment, however low, was amply sufficient for
the reduttion of the Colonies to obedience: he even
contemned them as an undisciplined Horde, formed
by Nature so as to facilitate their own defeat by an
attempt to defend themselves. In 1774. the Ali.
nister himself declared his confident reliance upon
the effeft of the newly-made Asls against America,
and felt convinced that they were competent to
humble the whole Continent to the very. dust.
Yet, alas ! what are the fruits of this vain boast-
ing What the result of this inflated confidence ?
Where are we to look, Sire, for the Colonies thus
alienated from your MAJESTY'S Crown ? Where is
the Ruin that was to lay the pretensions of our Re-
bellious Fellow-Citizens low, and thus humble the
Continent to the dust ? To what has this foresight
—this hold system of assertion tended ? To the
establishment of a most powerful Republic upon the
ashes of our glory, which bids fair to rival us in
the first objeds of our national importance, and
whose alliance is courted, and friendship conciliated,
by the leading Powers of Europe.—When Lord
CHATHAM proposed the Bill for " Settling the
" Troubles in America, and for asserting the Su-
" preme Legislative Authority and Superintending
" Power of Great Britain over the Colonies," he
was charged by Ministers with impetuosity._
The great and comprehensive view which he had
taken of the subject, was not to be communi-
cated to men who reasoned upon a more confined
scale, and whose ads were circumscribed by the very
narrowness of their perception. The promptitude
of which his powerful mind enforced the necessity,
was considered and treated by them as rash and
headstrong. He reproached the leading Men in Go-
vernment with the blindness of their condua, pre.
dided the loss of America, and concluded in these
remarkable words :—" If Ministers thus persevere
in missadvising and misleading the KING, I will not
say that they can alienate the affeaions of the Sub_
jea from his Crown, hut I will affirm, that they
will mike the Crown not worth his wearing—l will I
not say that the KING is betrayed, but I will pro- I
nounce that the Kingdom is undone."—The effects I
of Amputation upon the habits of a Patient MS,
ever be considered doubtful and hazardous. If a
skilful Vraditioner perceive, by his superior insight
into the charafter and symptoms of the Disease, d
mean whereby the risk of the operation may be I
avoided—and the opinion of this man be SCOute:i

nnlemned, it is but fair to infer that the loss
of the member or limb is wantonly incurred, and
that the recovery of the Patient may be considered
as a boon from Heaven, or the result of a sound Con-
stitution. That the Country is Rot yet ruined, as
predieted by the Great CHATHAM, we may thank
Heaven—that we may not be on the verge of de-
struftion, God only knows. He foretold the first
consequence of the criminal folly of Ministers, and
America is for ever lost Perhaps the efFeCts of our
Colonial Separation have not yet been duly felt, but
to a speculative mind much matter appears to be
afloat arising from that event, abundant in mischief,
as extensive in its dissemination.

ADOLPHUS.

MAILS.

DUI.
Hamburg!) 5

THE SUN.

SOLEM QVIS DICHLE TALSUM 4WDLAT

LONDON, JANU4RY 6,1804.

OUR Letter from Deal of this morning, furnishes
us with the very pleasing intelligence of the result
of the firing which was heard in the S. E. quarter,
off the French Coast on Wednesday morning. It
proceeded from an attack made by the Archer Gun_
Brig, commanded by Lieutenant SHERRI; P, assist-
ed by the Boats of the ImmortaThj, upon Five Sail
of French Gun-Vessels that had come out of Calais
the preceding evening, with the intention of pass-
ing along shore off Boulogne, the whole of which
were captured. Our Readers will find a descrip.
tion of these vessels in our Deal Letter.
By another account we learn, that they are loaded
with Gin for the French Army, and Timber for
building small Craft, and are fitted up as Horse_
ships, with thirty Soldiers on board each. The
immortaiiti and Archer were left in duce of seve-
ral others.

The hopes of the French Army must, we think,
soon be converted into apprehension and despair,
when they see one English Gun.brig, with two or
three small boats, making prize of some of their
largest vessels,
as we suppose these may be, the
moment they make their appearance beyond the
mouth of their own Harbours.
Another Ship, the Minotaur, of
74 guns, has
sailed from Cawsand Bay to reinforce Admiral
CORNWALLIS. The rest of the Ships will im-
mediately follow.

WE this morning received a llnniteur and some
Dutch Papers, but not of later dates than those
already noticed by us. The Moniteur, speaking of
the Shannon, which was wrecked near Cape 43
Hogue sometime ago, says she is a
superb Vessel,
almost new, having only been launched about
four months. It is only by our misfortunes that
the French can make a boast of any naval acqui-
sition.
A Letter from Plorence, of the ad ult. states,
that the French Troops in the Eastern part of the
Kingdom of Naples had not made any movement
which indicated an approaching enterprize. They
consisted of from 35 to 36,000 men, all of the
same Nation, the Italian Corps having entirely
quitted them.
Accounts from Paris of the i6th tilt. in the leer.
den Gazette, state that the Army encamped at St.
Omens consisted of 70,0c-'o men, and that /00,000
were cantoned along the shore from .ecu!ogne to
Ostend. 7000 men were, it is stated, to march from
Hanover to the French Coast, and the Troos
in Switzerland were to receive the same
destinationp.
The neighbouring Departments having been much
harassed by requisitions to provide for the wants of
these Troops, the First Consul had ordered the Mi.
nister at War to authorize the payment of the sums
due, and to assure those Communes which bad been
subjeded to requisitions, that such demands should
not be renewed.

From Lausanne of the 9th ult. we learn, that or.
tiers had been given for all the French Troops in
Switzerland to evacuate that Country, and march
to the Coast.

A Consul from the United States of America has
been recognized at Petersburgh, who is the first
Public Agent sent to that Court by the United
States.

A Dublix Mail of the zd arrived this morning,
barren of intelligence.
His MAJESTY did not go to Kew yesterday, on
account of the heavy fall of snow,

Yesterday the DUKE of CLAR ENCE visited THEIR
MAIESTIE,,

Last night TVEIR MAJESTIES had a Sele4l Party.
Among the company were the Dutchess of LEEDS,
Generals MANnEtts and DEBUDIE, Lords ST. HE-
LEN'S, RADsiorEi SUDLEY, and HARCOURT; La-
dies NIANspIEI.D, CARDIGAN, and C. WALDE.
GRAVE ; Mrs. ih. STANHOPE, and Mrs.L.DAMER.
, On Wednesaay the Countess of lIARD.I:4:7on
iv;iitcd upon if RR MAJESTY %s itil a co;,y of the
ScNnon preachq by the Rev. Zttopßß, at

!Zanelagh, on Tuesday, at the presentation 6f thr
Colours to the Queen's Volunteers.
The same day Princess SOPHIA of GLotrcErrza,
, Ladies SLIGO, AYLE3BURY, and NEALE, visited
HER MAJeSTY.
The Duke of NORFOLK, who has been enter..
taining a numerous party of his friends at Home
Lacy, quits that place next week for Arundel Cas...
tle, where the rites of old English hospitality wit/
of course be renewed.
We hear that the I-km. Wf.i. ELLIOT. and Mr.
GARTHSHORE, have resigned their seats at the;
Board of Admiralty ; and that the former will be
succeeded by Colonel Wm. LENiON,, aid the latter
isy Capt. Sir HARRY BURRARD NEALRe
Major-General HE wo ILL and BrigadieteGenerg
Lord CRAVEN, we understand, leave their Distat
in Yorkshire in a few days. They will be succeed.
ed by Major-General PHIPPS.
Yesterday the Second Regiment of Loyal London
Volunteers had a field day in the ground belong.
tug to the East India Company ; their Grenadiers
and Light Company, for the first time, wore their
new caps, which are very handsome, and add much
to the appearance of the Regiment. This Regiment
is now, in every respea, fit for aBual service. They
are provided with great coats, haversacks, canteensp
and every other article requisite for a soldier to take
the field. Their firing yesterday was excellent, and
when altogether, make a very military appearance.
Yesterday the PRINCE of \VAL ss's Corps had t
field-day in Hyde Park, under the orders of Majoe
Sir WALrEtt STIRLING. They fired eight rounds
with great precision, and their general conduct was
such as to call forth the highest encomiums from
Colonel Jrxxitrsort, the Inspettor of the Distriet„
who happened to be present on the occasion.

Yesterday the Loyal Britons paraded at theie
drill.ground, early in the morning, and marched,
under a heavy fall of snow, to Muswell Hill, near
Highgate, where they had a grand field.d,ty, and
performed various manoeuvres, entirely to the saris-
faction of their Colonel.

The Bloomsbury and Inns of Court Corps mug.
tered yesterday morning at nine o'clock in their
ground, agreeably to orders to march to Finchley,
for the purpose of having a sham fight. The wea..
ther being very severe and a heavy fall of snow at
the time, the Colonel proposed to defer it until
Thursday next, unless it met the wish of the
Corps to proceed, when every man immediately
declared his readiness, and dirsired to march. The
Corps skirmished across the fields, leaving Copen-
hagen-house on the right. There the French party
took post behind a thick hedge, and a very severe
fire commenced. The English advanced close to the
hedge, when, unfortunately, Mr. B. one of the Corps,
received the contents of a musket in his face ; and,
it is feared, he will lose the sight of both eyes. He
was taken to Cupenhagen.house, and left there un..
der the care of Mr. WATSON, a Medical Gentleman
belonging to the Corps.

PERCY TENANTRY. —On Saturday last, nine
companies of the Infantry, and three troops or Ca.
valry, of the Percy Tenantry, commanded by Earl
PERCY, were inspeEtea by Lieut.-Col. }ERR, in
the parks adjoining Alnwick Castle. The'rapld
progress which this fine body of men have made
during the short period of their being drilled-:•-their
steadiness, and the promptitude with which then
went through the manoeuvres or a Rifle Corps, en.
titled them to the warm approbation they received
from the Inspeeting Officer. The noble Doke, on
this occasion, entertained the Officers with a magni-
ficent dinner in the Castle, to which seventy Ladies
and Gentlemen sat down in the ancient hall of the
PERCYS, where the happy conviviality of the day
was highly encreased, by beholding the present race
of Northumbrians no way abated in their spirit and
attachment to the gallant descendant of the Noble
Family ; hut enlisting under his banners, with de-
termined resolution to defend and preserve all that
could endear life from a most inveterate and malig.
pant foe. Every individual attached to the Corps
was plentifully regaled, by order of his Grace, at
the different Inns in Alnwick while it is s
most proud display of loyalty and patriotism in an
individual to raise, clothe, and accoutre upwards of
fifteen hundred of his own tenants, all of them must
be animated with uncommon ardour to follow such
a young Nobleman as Earl PARCY, whose first in.
troduCtion among them has been to be placed at
their head, and share equally with them in dangers,
death, or vklory I
Thursday se'nnight, the Cumberland Loyal-Leath
Ward Volunteers, comprising the divisions of Dale_
main, Longwathby, Kirkoswald4 and Hesket, were
inspeded at Penrith, by Colonel HA R R Ti, (in num-
ber about- seven hundred) who was pleased to ex-
press his entire approbation of the steadiness and
soldier-like appearance of the whole Corps, while
under arms, and of their competency, from the
manoeuvres they went through, of completing the:

Last week the Northumberland Militia, (Far.
tered at South Shields anti Monkwearmouth, were
inspeaed by Lieut.-Gen. Sir H. DALRYMPLE, who
expressed, in the highest terms, his approbation of
the discipline of th:it Regimenr, and desired it to
be inserted in the orderly books.

Wednesday se'nnight the Chester-le.streer
Vo-
lunteer Infantry were inspeded by Sir H. DAL..
RYNIPLE, Bart. Commander in Chief of the Dis..
tria; who was pleatied to express his entire appro-
bation of the state of their discipline. The Corps
were on adual duty, and had the important charge
of the great depot of stores near.Chester.le.street.
On Thursday the Right Hon. the Ea! of SCAR.
BOROUGH, and several Gentlemen of die first re.,
spedability, honoured the Officers with their com-
pany to their mess dinner at the King's Head Inn,
where the day was spent in the greatest cordiality.
The Earl of SCARBOROUGH gave a grand enter-
tainment on Saturday last to the Officers of the
Chester Volunteers, and a great number of Ladies
and Gentlemen in the neighbourhood of Lumley
Castle.

On Sunday last the Chester-le-street Volunteers
Were relieved from permanent duty, by a detach-
ment of the Northumberland Militia.
Yeiterday se'onight the Royal Chester VoIon"
teers offered their services to do garrison riuty•
I l',a.e rot yet beet, c;,ned ' inns

IVAYA L NEWS.

11)2„c, JAN. 5.—Sailed the Leda on a cruize off
B)111.,,g11e ; Bloodhound and Locust, for Dungeness;
and Curlew, for Sheerness.
The cannonading mentioned in yesterday's Let.
ter, proved to be from the Immortaliri Frigate and
Archer Gun-brig, who early yesterday morning
fell in with five Sail of Gun-vessels between Boo-
kgne and Calais. They came out of Calais the
.evenirz before, bound to Boulogne. The lovnor-
taliti manned all her Boats, which with the Archer
attacked them, and captured the whole of them.
They. consist of one Prussian Hoy, two Doggers,
One very large Lugger, and one small Cutter.
They are arrived in the. Dawns. They all.have
Troops on board, but what number we cannot learn
in time for the Post.
In the Downs—the Monarch, Utrecht, Perseus, Harpy,
• Starling, Mariner, and Basilisk.

PLYMOUTH, JAN. 4..—This morning a fire was
discovered to have taken place amongst the cargo
of the Ship Weinburg, of this Port, Capt. EvANs,
laden with brandy, wine, cotton, madder root, &c.
laying in liamoaze, bound to London. It was per.
c'eLv-eit. first by the great quantity of smoke which
issued from the-fore scuttles. The ship being near
the Salvador del Ma:do, Admiral CoLrors' Flag
Ship, she was cut a.drifr, and placed nearer the
West Mud, in order to prevent her sinking in
deep water when scu:tled ; a Gun-brig lying
near her, the Commander was desired to fire into
her, which he did four times, but the Ves.
Eel soon after drifting on the mud, it proved of
little benefit : the hatches and every part of the
Ship have been stopped up, to prevent the air corn-
ing to the cargo, but the smoke still increases, and
there is reason to fear the fire will butst out in the
course of a kw hours; it is supposed to have been
occasioned by the heating of the madder root. The
Wem6urg is quite a new Ship, and has a cargo
valued at not less than 10,0001.
Sailed the Minotaur, of 74. guns) to join the
Channel Fleet.
Arrived the Admiral Nehon, Capt. LETTON,
from Newfoundland, bound to Dartmouth, with
fish and oil.

In addition to the Naval Force already appointed
for the defence of the Humber and the Wash, we
understand that five of the vessels taken up for Go-
vernment service by the East India Company, sailed
last week for the same station. Two of them are
to he moored oft Lynn, and the other three in the
mouth I.f the Humber.
In Ireland, at present, the best troops are station-
ed along the Coast 3, particularly the Western and
Northern parts. The centre of the kingdom, Ath-
lone, is made the chief depOt for arms, and is to be
the residence of the Com►:mander in Chief in future,
instead of Dublin.
Mr. GREATH FAD, of Shields, has launched and
cent off for Whitehaven, a Lifeboat for the use of
that harbour and neighbouring coast. It is a very
handsome twelve-oared boat, 3o feet long,- and nine
broad, and weighs upwards of a ton and a half.

The last division of the 53d (Army of Reserve)
arrived at Newcastle 'on Friday, On their route fur
frcm tt hence they are expeded to be or-
dered fun'lreland. Each man has been provided
%iith no leis than so rounds of ball cartridge.
Yesterday se'nnight the last division of the 9tst
left Berwick for Sunderland. They are to be re.
Placed by, the Fifeshire Militia,
.the first division
which marched into the Barracks - there that
afternoon.
- •
On W
ittßsTocednesday se'nnight Sir CARNABY HAG.
viewed! bes 'Troop of Yeomanry Cavalry were re-
y Colonel CAR
press K, of Shepperton, who ex-
and pressed his entire approbation of their discipline,
appearance, in the most flattering terms.
It is calculated in France
ping of the present war , that since the begin-
, in all te ricipal tnercan,
tile places, two thousand
six hunhdrep and
d sixtY-tw°
bankruptcies have taken place,
FORTIVICAT!ON OY TfiE RIVER SIIANNC)!/.-
71'he line of Fortification on the Shannon, extending
from Athlone towards Proturnna is nearly completed ;
the works at Athlone consist of a considerable en-
t,:iate (called Fort Geo
ed rge) of stve ;:actions, conned-
cur,'•ains, and flanked by three enclosed re-
doubts.
On the heights
,above Shannon bridge, ereeted
;,I',,a twocel-tariatte, supported by an enclosedis redoubt,
river. strong batteries on the opposite side of the
The ford
clf Keelo,ue and Nleelick are defended
by three strong and
ecbmatrtanding field works ; and
at Banagher a small peotaganal work, called Fort
Eliza, sustained by two circular towers, has been
considered suificient for the defence of this impo.rt_
ant post : from hence down the river are several
field works, connesc.led with the General line_ of de-
fence of the Shannon.
Three miles in the rear of Shannon
in a central bridge, and
position for acing upon this line, are
ctonstruded the Camps—thest consist of four squares,
of which two, viz. Hardwicke and Cathcart_squares
are finished ; each square is capable of accommodat-
ing I 2.00 men and Officers. The scite of these bar.
racks has been singularly well chosen, having the
Grand Canal in front, the river Brusna in the rear,
on the right ilink is the Shannon, and on the left the
great road leading into Connaught. These works •
have been construded by Lieut. Cof.FISHSR, of the
Royal Engineers, and have been executed under the
immediate diredion and superintendance of Li t.
DE BUTTS, of that COll3.