The Sun.
London, England, 1804-05-25 00:00:00

EXCLUSION.

WHENEVER. we hear a term misapplied for bad
purposes, we feel it to be our duty to expose the
fallacy. The Friends of Lord GRENV ILL E and of
Mr. Fox are complaining at this moment of being
excluded. If they are excluded, they have ex.
eluded themselves. Will they deny the King's
Prerogative, which gives him the right to choose his
own Ministers ? No, they admit the Prerogative, but
they deny the right to exercise it. We shall ever
say, that upon this occasion Mr. Fox himself acted
a fair and honourable part. He did every thing
that depended upon him to induce his Friends to pur.
sue a different course ; and we have little doubt that
he would have been much better satisfied, had they
followed his advice. He thought probably, that it
was at least decent to allow time to wipe away
prejudices, if prejudices were entertained against
him ; and he had too much good sense not to
know, that his situation as a Minister of the
Crown, would not only be more desirable to him-
self, but more beneficial to the Country, if he ob-
tained that situation with the good-will of his
Master, instead of obtaining it by force and con.
pulsion. If di,. ohje& of Mr. Fox's friends really
be to render him an efficient Minister, we will ycn_
tore to affirm, that the line they have taken must
tend to counteract their own purpose.
Upon this occasion, the name of the PRINCE
of WALES has been used so injuriously to
himself, that we cannot refrain from offering an
observation upon it. He is said to have joined the
Opposition, the objet of which is evidently to
compel His MAJESTY to take Servants against his
own choice. What I a Prince, the Heir-Apparent
to the Throne, set the example of forcing an Ad-
ministration upon a King ! ! Impossible. He may
think more highly of Mr. Fox than of Mr. PITT,
or of Mr. PITT than of Mr. Fox, but we never
will believe, until it is proved indisputably, that he
will lend himself to force either, or both, upon his
Father. Whenever he comes to the Throne, it is not
too much to presume, that he would like to have his
own cl;oice rather than to be deprived of it ; and
we cannot believe that he will wish hereafter to be
told, when he attempts to choose his own Servants,
that such a choice is no part of his Prerogative,
and that in the year 'Sq., he was a party to a plan
to force an Administration upon the KING against
his will. These consideration 4 and many more
which we could add, induce us to say confidently,
that the name of the PRINCE has been used unfairly,
and'much to his disadvantage.

American Papers to the 25th ult. inclusive are
received. They contain the tollowing particulars,
relative to the operations of the Enemy's Squadron
in the East Indies

BOSTON, APR IL 21.--'s Captain MYRICK,who
arrived here yesterday from Batavia, in the Ship
Indus, informs, that a French Squadron of one 74,
two Frigates, and the Corvette Berceau (probably
that commanded by Admiral Li Noi,), sailed from
Batavia the Bth December ; which, previous to the
arrival of the Indus, had destroyed he English pep-
per magazines at Bencoolen (on the island of Suma.
tray, to the amount, it was said, of from 15 to
20,000 picots :--and that the same Squadron had
captured an English Ship at Bencoolen, with a
valuable cargo of Calcdtta and Madras goods, and
sent her to the Isle of France.

APRIL 25.-" By a fresh arrival from the Isle
of France, we have a confirmation of the destruc-
tion, by the French Squadron under Admiral LI.
NOIs, of the English depot of pepper in Bencoolen,
and that the English have received possession of
Pondicherry, and its Dependencies, on the Coast of
Coromandel. The stations of the British Squadrons
are on the Coast of Malabar and Coromandel. The
British Forc.! in the Indian Seas, under Admiral
RAINIER, is composed of Six Sail of the Line, three
So, and 44 gun ships, nine Frigates, and nine Sloops
of War.

" The latest accounts of the Dutch and French
Squadrons in the Indian Seas state, that they had
divided their forces ; one part of which had sailed
for Batavia, and the other for Bmnbay River.
" The French Admiral ',mots only left rso
men in possession of Pondicherry, who cou:d offer
but little resistance to the British force which went
against and re-took it."
A Botany Bay Paper of Sept. 18, had brought a
particular account of the loss of His Majesty's
armed Vessels the Porpoise and Cato, upon Wreck
Reef. They had previously struck upon a sand
hank, in about z 3. 7 S. lat. and 155. 48 E. long.
Accounts from Aux Cayes, dated March iB,
from an American, state as follows :—" On our
passage we met With several Privateers, and some
we were obliged to fight our way through. The
Blacks here still continue to kill all the French
whites, men, women and children. Yesterday they
picked up 75 of these unfortunate people, and last
night the whole of. them were massacred. No white
person of. any nation dare be seen out after seven
o'clock in the evening. Three days ago a French
Privateer ran ashore, a small distance from this
F ch
plirsaecnoew;ntlelexeßculaicioknsecro.mpelled the French Captain to
hang his whole crew, 6o in number, and then to be
h
The French have instruaed
the Blacks in lessons of blood, and they have proved
apt scholars. Since this last assassination, the
have sworn to take all vessels trading with
the Blacks, and to put their crows to death.- One
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