The Sun.
London, England, 1804-06-28 00:00:00

firm this not improbable intelligence "It is now
reported, that the Court of Vienna is labouring to
bring about a pacification, and that its mediation
has been requested by one of the Belligerent
Powers."

From Leghorn they write, that an English Flag
of Truce is arrived there, with dispatches for the
Court of Florence, whither they were immediately
conveyed.

COMPIEGNE, 28TH PEAR lAL.—The Emperor
arrived at Compiegne at eleven o'clock on Saturday
night. This morning at three o'clock he was on
horseback, and manoeuvred the Dragoons of the
Camp on foot till noon. In the evening he receiv-
ed the Constituted Authorities, visited the School of
Arts and Manufdatires, and, mounted on horseback,
manceuvied the Cavalry till night.—Moniteur.
From the New Merthast of the 23d June.—lt is
confidently said that the KING of PRUSSIA has re-
solved to recognize BONAPARTE, Emperor of the
French, and that new Credentials have been sent to
the Marquis of LUCCHESINI at Paris.

The German Papers say, that a fourth Kingdom
is about to arise in Italy :. that Luc* EN BONA.
PARTE is ro be created Grand Dub of Parma, and
Kingly Regent of that part of Italy not comprehend.
ed under Naples, Sardinin, and Etruria, and that he
will keep his residence at Rome ; that the Pope is to
resign his high Office, and spend the remainder
of his life in religious devotions ; that the Eccle-
siastical will be converted into a Temporal State, of
which the Brother of the French Emperor will be
the Head.

The Hamburgh Mail due on Wednesday se'n.
night, arrived this day at noon. The following is
the only article of intelligence which it brings :
VIENNA, Posit 6.—The Conferences between
the Minister of State, Count COBENT;EL, and the
Envoys from the different Powers, are now less
frequent than ever. Our Court remains firm to its
System of Neutrality, and will enter into no new
Alliances.

On the Bth instant, at four o'cloc: in the morn-
ing, the EMPRESS of GERMANY was safely. delivered
elan Arch Dutchess.

A report was circulated yesterday, that the Eng.
fish Prisoners in France, we mean those detained at
the commencement of the War, had been set at li.
berry, and had received permission to return to
England. We have not been able to trace this ru.
mour to any authentic source, and we arc ,not in-
clined to give it much credit.

LAST night the Defence Bill was read a third
time, and passed, with scarcely any opposition ; and
thus all the hopes of the heterogeneous Coalition
have vanished " into thin air." The Paper de.
voted to the Party, has, to do it justice, spared
.
no exertions during the contest, to keep up the
spirits of its friends. First, they were told that
it was impossible that Mr. PITT could carry
the Bill against the formidable Opposition he
had to encounter in the House of Commons ;
and the friends of the Minister were informed, in
comfidence, that he himself gm/shed to be left in a mi.
nority. Unfortunately, hoWever, Mr. PITT'S friends
did not take the hint which was so kindly given, and
the Bill was carried by a considerable majority. Re.
course was next had to the memorable and ingenious
appeal to the delicacy and feelings of the Irish Mem-
bers ; but all in vain ; and the Bill 'was read a third
time and passed in the Commons with scarcely a
struggle.—Still, however, the Party did not despond,
and the most confident prediftions were announced,
that the defeat in the Commons would be compen-
sated by victory in the Lords ; but here they were
doomed to suffer a still more severe disappoint-
ment, for the Bill was carried by a Majority, un.
precedented, we believe, in the Annals of Parlia-
ment. Such repeated and galling defeats may na.
turally be supposed to have ruffled the temper of
the Party to whom we allude; but we did not ima.
gine that their passion would have hurried them
quite so far, as to make them say, " Under these
circumstances" (that is, the Bill having met with
the approbation of 154 Peers and 265 Members of
the House of Commons), " wti cannot suppose that
the Biil will be attempted to be carried into exe.

cution."

With regard to the observations made in the
Paper in question respeding the number of Peers
created and promoted during Mr. Pm's Admini-
stration, we do not think it consistent with the re.
sped we owe to 'that branch of the Legislature, to
enter into a discussion upon such a Subjed ;' in point
of fad, however, sixteen Peers who were creatrd'or
promoted during Mr. Purt's Administration, voted
against the Bill,

Yesterday morning, about ten o'clock, THEIR.
MA J ESTI ES and the PR INC ESSES arrived al' the.
Queen's House, from Kew. .1“ a short time alter,
Mr. PITT had an audience of Ells MAJESTY, which
continued for a considerable time,

. , . . .
About two o'clock His MAolsTif 116.1 a Levee,
which was attended Wy,their Exceliencies,the
RICAN, SPANISH, IMPERIAL, FORTIIatEE, HA.
NoVERIAN, anti RUSSIAN Ambassadors '; Count
STAHEEMBERG; Barons LENTHE Mu! NOLCCFN;
the LORD CHANCELLOR,. the CHANCELLOR Of 14:
EXCHEQUER, the three gECRETARIES of STATE,
The JUDGE MARTIAL and ADVOCATE GENERAL,
the RECORDER of LONDON;
Dukes—Portland and Montrose.

Earls—Chatham, Westmoriami, Camden, Macclesfield,
Winchilsea, Dartmouth, anti Chesterfield.
Lords-St. Helen's, Harrowby, Pelham, Flawkesbury, C.
Somerset, Castlereagh, Amherst, and Mulgrave.
Sirs—C. Morgan, H. B. Neale, and C., Cotterell.
Messrs.—Drummond, Arbuthnot, rawkener, and Core.

The Levee closed about a quarter past three,
when a Cabinet Council was held.

fits MAJESTY then held a Privy Council, for the
purpose of receiving the RECORDER'S Report of 16
convids under sentence of death.

After the Council had closed, Lord CHARLES
SOMERSET had the honour to kiss His MAJESTY'S
hand, on his being appointed Joint Paymaster of
the Forces, in the room of the Right Hon. THOMAS
STE ELF.

Mr. DRUMMOND had an audience of His MA.
JESTY, for the first time since his arrival from Con-
stantinople. Mr. ARBUTtiNOT also had an audi-
ence, and took leave of His MAJESTY, previous to
his goirig to Constantinople.
Lord PR:I.HAM had an athiience of His MAJESTY,
and resigned his Gold Stick of Office, as Captain of
the Yeomen of the Guirds.

Earl MACCLESFIELD had an audience of HIS MA-
JESTY, and resigned his appointment as Lord of the
Bebehamber, when HIS MAJESTY was pleased to
appoint his Lordship Captain of the Yeomen of the
Guards, in the room of Lord PELHAM.
Lord AMHEItiT had the honour to kiss His MA
JESTY'b hand, on his being appointed a Lord of the
Bedchamber.

At six o'clock the Royal Family left the Queen's
House for Kew.

Yesterday about one o'clock HER MAJESTY and
thePRINCESSES honoured Lady CHARLOTTP FINCH
with a visit, and returned to the Queen's House at
half past three.
On Monday evening HIS MAJESTY, accompa-
nied by the PaiNcEss AmEt. lA, took an airing on
horseback through Harrow. HER MAJESTY, and
the other PRINCESSES, followed in two open car.
riages. The youngsGentlemen of the School of that
place, came out from the different boarding-houses,
and paid their respects to His MAJESTY, who very
condescendingly conversed with several of them,
particularly the Duke of DORSET. On the Royal
Par), leaving the town, the young Gentlemen fol-
lowed them for a considerable distance, and gave
repeated huzzas.
His MAJESTY, we are happy to say, is in as
good health as he has enjoyed for many years. Pre.
parations are making for his going to Weymouth.
Major-General SMITii has been appointed, by
His Majesty, to the Staff in India. He proceeds
in the Baring.
By advices received yesterday from Commodore.,
Lord WILLIAM STUART, offOstend, we learn, that in
the afternoon of the 233, twenty-five of the enemy's
sein ventured along shore from Flushing. As it
was- then low water, the Frigates could not get near
them, but the smaller vessels were sent in to engage
them, which they did, and maintained a running fight
to Ostend; but little damage was done on either side.
The flying artillery of the euenny followed along she
beach, and kept up a constant and heavy fire; two
shelli came on board the Rattler, one of which fell
on her quarter-deck, but without doing injury to
any body : as the fuzee of the other continued to
burn, it was thro'wo overboard before it could burst.
One Sditty't run on shore, but was got off in the
night. The Enemy have in the harbour of Flush-
ing one Frigate, and in the Roads two Schooners and
one Brig. This is their whole force there at present.

Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at' the
Eastindia House, when Captain J. H. PELLY was
sworn into the command of the-United Kingdom, for
Madras and Bengal, and took leave. Captain AD.
DIRLEY was sworn into the command of the De.
vayner. The Ship Skelton Castle, of 580 tons, was
taken up for four voyages, and consigned to Bom-
bay she is ordered to be afloat July 7, and to sail
from Gravesend August 7.—The Court adjourned
at six, o'clock till Wednesday next.

It is stated in a Paper of this morning, after
first throwing out some insinuations against Mr.
PITT, because an Administration on a broader basis.
had not been appointed, that it is imputable to Mr
Fox himself, that a stronger Arnioistration was not
formed, because he m,atte an appointment to wait
on Mr. PITT, to consider of the best means of
forming an Administration out of all Parties ; and
afterwards, not only negleeted the appointinent,
but sent no excuse. Almost the whole of this.
statement is incorreft. Mr. PITT, as we before
stated, used every exertion to tbrm an
ministration embracing all the talents of the •'
Country, and succeeded in removing every ob-
stacle, except the objection to Mr. Fox himself;
and with respet to him, Mi. PITT did every thing
but make the admission of that Gentleman into Ad-
ministration the sine qua non of his own corning into
office. The insuperable objeelion to Mr. Fox being
known, his friends declined forming a part of the
Administration without him. Under these circurn..
stances, the intended meeting between Mr. PITT and
him did' not take place,
.but we never heard the•
slightest imputation of incivility or ncgleet against
Mr. Fox for his conduet on that occasion.
It is invidiously observed, on the restoration of
Lord AstHERST to his office as a Lord ,of the Bed.
chamber, that " it does seem that Mr. PITT, when
he pleases, can remove personal objeetions." In
answer to this splenetic effusion of disappointed
Party, it may be said, that Lord AMHERST never
aeled in suck a manner, or uttered.such sentiments,
as rendered it proper to efface his name from the
list of Privy Councillors, and tirade him unwurthy'',
of the confidence of his Sovereign.
Yesterday evening the Bionmobnry and Lincoln's
Inn Association, and the Prince Wm. Frederick's
Volunteers, were irispeeled by Lieutenant-Colonel
ill'". The former were inspected in their.
own ground, and the latter in the 'Toxopholite
Ground, near Go%ver.strcet, Bedford.sqnare.

N.A! V 2f Pl b.ki

PLYmautti, Jtir:t tel.--Saiied tre
iDlB'c guns, to join the Chaimel Fieet:
Arrived the Santa Marzaretta Frigate, from a
L.ruize ; also the Maria illargat-ita, Cirt. PARR,
r and the Mrnefahl, C6l)t. WALEIERG, from Nut way,
with timber for this Port.

PORTSMOUTH, lUNE Z7.-Arrived the General
boil,. Cutter, (coin Guernsey ; and Alegara
ship, from Seaford.
Sailed the Belle Pi:Cl:et, fur the East Indies.

SHEERNESS, JUNE27.--Sailed the Vulture Armed
Ship, an a Cutter, with 31 Sail inder convoy, for
the !Baltic.

Convoys for the Bahia and Tonningen are ahe
appointed to sail froni the Nore on the 2d July.

DEAL, JUNE 27.--Sailed the Goodwill Lighter,
with 13oats from the King's Yard for Sheerness.
.Arrived the Yarmouth Lighter, with stores for
the yardi.from Deptford.
Arrived the Duke of Montrose, J. PATERSON, and
Worcester, C.Woo,n, East India Ships, fro►a the
River, and sailed for Portsmouth.

BOXING.

ONE of the most severe fights took place on Tam,
day, that has been witnessed since the meinor,ble
battle between Johnson and Big Ben. Ni;.e her of
the combatants had entered the lists hef le, though
they -were known to possess great skill; i.nd were
equally desirous to display it. One of them was
John Ward, son of the celebrated bruiser of that name;
and the other Tom Belcher, younger brother to' a
pugilist of still greater celebrity. By way of eocu-
ragetnent, a purse of so guineas was subscribed; to be
divided between them according to their respeftivc
merits. On Monday night, at eleven o'clock, it
was agreed that the 'combatants were to decid
the contest in Tothilfields on the following day;
At two o'clock they accordingly met, atterld-
ed by their Seconds and Bottle. holders, &c. On
stripping, the odds were six to four on the side
of Belcher, and many bets .were.made. They-both
set to- in a masterly style, and displayed great sci..
enee. Ward. made the two first blows at his oppo_
nent's body, which took considerable effect: they
were given with such violence, that had they been.
placed where they were intended, the battle would
have been finished.- Belcher, however, soon rallied,
when some desperate blows ensued on both sides;
and the round finished with even betting.
From the first to the .eighth round was one con.
tinkled scene of hard fighting, each party endeavour-
ing to make good his hits without ever orce
ing from a blow. The odds were six to fur on
Belcher again, Young:Belcher adopted the m nner -
and stile of his brother, and hit as straight as a dart
with his left hand, whilst his opponent fought like, .4
lion, and disdained to. give way.
• For several rounds after the eighth, Ward's btiws
were so forcible and well.diretted, that they 'be.
came irresistible, and he had apparently the advan.
Cage : but from the supposed bottom of youns,t
cher,.the betting was still even. About this pc..
riod Belcher began to be in reality so weak and ex_
hatisted, that he tell twice without receiving a blow.
To the seventeenth round Ward seemed to possess
the advantage, if there was any, and had put in many
very desperate body blows. Belcher continued to
fight with equal spirit, but fought all at. the head,
by which means Ile had considerably injured Ward's
eyes, which were much swelled.

The 17th round was fought with desperation.—
Belcher's strength seemed to be reel uited ; he charg-
ed his mode of fighting, and threw in several body
blows. Ward persevered with urd.unted spirit to
the end of the round, which was long ; but, after
falling with his opi,onent, he did not appear to rise
with the same alacrity.
The 18th round was another severe trial, in which
both the combatants seemed determined to t
all the strength and vigour they had left. Ward,
appeared very faint ; but he st. tidy stood his
ground, and received such violent blows on his
eyes, already much cut, that they were now entire-
ly closed up. Though his sight was nearly gore,
he requested to try another round, in whic% he
was completely worsted ; and his friends, perceiv
ing there were no hopes of success, carried him off
the ground almOst a.lifeiess corpse.
. The nineteen rounds were fought in thirty-three
minutes and an half. &veral persons of distinction
were present.

. .
Qtr ICIC appeared like a Theatrical-Evergreen on
Tuesday last at Covent Garden Theatre, and gave
as much spirit' to the Jew, in The Duenna as he did
near thirty years ago, on the first appearance ofth.t
popular Operp.
We are happy to find, that, according to letter*
received from. Liverpool yesterday, Mr. &stay-
molts is pronounced to be out of danger, J 1.4.1 that
no doubt is entertained of his speedy Tecovery'froro
the effea of his wound. . .

Yesterday afternoon, a Gentleman was found, in
Queen Anne-street East, in a :.gate-of
and conveyed to the Middlesex Himpitai, whel.e
still remains. His cravat is marked R. C. riot.
He has a goki watch,, some Lank Nwes, and two
keys; the name of Clark is written in his shoes.
He was dressed in a-black coat and waistcoat, arid
cotton pantaloons. He has a scar under the lett pw,
and appears to be about the age of 35.
Yesterday the RECORDER amide. a ftEpO;t to HiS
MAJESTY Of the prisoners under sen death
in Newgate, when Providence Hansard,
~for
ously forging and, uttering, and publishing as MC,
knowing it co be forged, an order IT the rayin:nt
017411. in the name of John Richard Riplel,•wi,
intent to defraud ABRAHAM RoBARTS and Co. W:l3
ordered for execution on I.,orsday nrxr.
The. man who sustained a dfcadho injtiry,
near W 001%% ich, is still HI, it-g, but there are very
little hopes entertained of his recovery.