The Sun.
London, England, 1803-03-14 00:00:00

LONDON, .111 A R,C-H. jq., 1803.

DISPATCHES were yesterday received from Lord
WHITWORTH at Paris, but nothing definitive is yet
come. , A Messenger also arrived from Malta,' but
brought nothing of importance.
The utmost a4livity prevails in the Dock.yards.
The Artificers work double tides, and were like-
wise at work all yesterday in that of Portsmouth.

Tara morning arrived a Mai/ from Holland.

Letters front Constantinople state, that twelve
French Commercial Commissioners, destined for
different parts of the Turkish Empire, had arrived
there, in the Squadron which brought thither Gene.
rat BRUNE and his Suite. These Commissioners,
it is added, have been already acknowledged by the
Porte, and will immediately set out for the several
places of their destination.
Lord ELGIN sailed , from Constantinople in
the night of the 16th of January, and it is
stated, that a Salute of seventeen guns having
been fired from the Frigate in which he took
his departure, it excited a general alarm in that
City, where Cannon are never fired in the night,
except in the case of some great calamity or in.
surredion. The Re Is Err ENDS is said to have
made a formal complaint on this subjeft to Mr.
STRATTON, the British Minister Plenipotentiary.

The same accounts state, that though an official
notice had been given by Lord Et.c Ix, of the in-
tended evacuation of Egypt by the British Troops,
yet it was not expected to take place for three or
four months,. that is to say, not until the Convert-
tionwith the Beys has been carried into died.
Several Corps of French Troops in Italy are stated
to be in motion, and about to march for different
Ports on the Mediterranean. Troops from the Italian
Republic are embarking it Genoa for Sr: Domingo.
The KING of SARDINIA is still reported to have
ceded that Island to Great _Britain, for twenty mil-
lions of Florins.

tvitav fresh Question that becomes a matter of
discussion in the House of Commons, presents a ne w
occasion for the display of the good Sense, the Spirit,
and Magnanimity of its Members, with scarcely an
exception. The justness of t 1 is observation will be
readily admitted by, all who have observed the late.
gunge that has been used there throughout the whole
of the last weel-, and perhaps, particularly in the
Debate on Friday, when a Motion was made to add
x o,aoo Seamen to our Navy.

We have used the phrase of " with scarcely an
exception ;" perhaps it might be more accurate to
have said, " with very few." Did we feel ourselves
warranted in commenting freely on the Speeches,
which the courtesy of the House allows to be reported
in the Public Journals, we. might, perhaps, take the
liberty of expressing our surprize, that any Members
who have reposed for two years implicit confidence
in a Government, from which they are said now
to declare, all the abilities of the Country to be
excluded, should all at once discover, that it is at
present entitled to none ; and that others, who ob.
jea to a vote .fot to,o'oo Seamen on the ground of
want of information, should, in the same breath,
avow their readiness to vote more than double that
number. As to any symptoms of rancorous oppo„
sition, in whatever quarter it may appear, no
,Go-
vernment, anti no,Cause, was ever yet injured by it.
It is easily seen through, and correaly.estimat ed by
the Public.

Whatever may be the issue of the pending Nego.
tiation, backed as it is by formidable preparations,
the ground seems to be laid by some individuals for
imputing misconduct and criminality to Ministers
in either case. If PeaCe should happily he Pre.
served, it will be urged, that it might have
'been preserved without exciting this unneces_
sary alarm, and without imposing on the Coun-
try .the expence which the Armament already
or&retl, anti in part prepared, cannot fail to
occasion. If a, renewal of the War should
be the result, the charge against Administra-
tion will be, that their forbearance has been too
great, that the point might, and ought to have been
sooner brought to an issue ; or possibly these new
admirers of the BkoiNgs of Pence. may torn- short
round, 'anti-•t Clare to an astonished. Public their
Ainidri, that the causes of its interruption, what.
e4r they may prove to be, were wholly inadequate.
.4Even for so gross and palpable a contradiffion of
conduit, and of departure trent and abandonment of
all Political Principle, the Palk mind seems to be al.

ready not a little prepared. For ourselves, we are not
willing to conceive such shameless inconsistency pos.
siblc flatly man to whom charader can he an °Ned,
till we may actually witness it. It would indeed loosen
all affiatice in honourable motive, which a generous
Vublic is usually disposed to attribute to some at
least of their political leaders ; and might even
affeec the 'credit of those, who are utterly incapable
of such an abuse of their confidence.

In the Debate to which we have been referring,
it was well argugd by those, with whose opinions
we are very little in the habit of coinciding, that
even should the War be renewed, the propriety,and
merit of the Treaty of Amiens cannot in the smallest
degree 'be atfe6ted by such an event. This is a
large chapter ; and abundant arguments might be
adduced, in our opinion unanswerable ones, to main.
min the truth of that proposition. At a future
time these may be stated : at present it might
possibly prove superfluous. From the same quarter
we were glad to observe-expressions of an earnest
wish for the preservation of Peace coupled with an
explicit. Avowal, that a War could not be otherwise
than justifiable, the objed of which was to maintain
our honour, and to preserve, our rank amongst the
other Powers of Europe.
On the .flagitious coadutt of some of our cotem-
porary Journals, during the last few days, we for-
bear at present to enter Into a detailed comment.
Their barefaced inconsistenoies and,contradiaions
shall, however, ere lung, be fully exposed. We
cannot, indeed, have felt the smallest surprise that
one Paper, which on the signiture of the Prelimi.
naries bitterly criminated.His Majesty's Advisers
for the previous secrecy which had been obiterved
on that occasion, should condemn it with equal as.
perity on another, where the observance' of ii was
certainly no less important, The, fat is, that at
either peiiod it has felt a little sore at the disclosure
of its own folly and ignorance. In September, 1801,
it had avowed its decided opinion of the improbabi-
lity of the restoration of Peace; and in March, 1803,
it had drawn the most pacific inferences from the lan.
guage of the French Government, and of the FIRST
CawsuL himself., In thelatter instance, indeed, its
prophetic wisdom has not yet been absolutely dig.
proved ; and we very anxiously hope that the result
may still afford it what it may chuse to constder as
a ground for triumph. When this journalist gravely
tells us, " that Hit Majesty's Mi,rifteri birve in.'
curra a deep rt,vottibility," he tells us only a
truism, which the Minister himself has been the
foremost to avow, and from which we believe he
will shew no disposition to shrink. No symptom of
uneasiness under so heavy a' load has been betrayed,
nor can its pressure (whatever may be the degree of
anxiety) be very severely felt, where, there is the
" mens sib; conscia ran." As to the old story of
incapacity and inexperience, so elaborately urged
by another well-waning Journal, it is really too
silly to deserve notioe.

We cannot conclude without noticing with pride
and satisfaction the little congruity between the lan.
' guage ind tone of these Papers, and of those Mem.
bets ot Parliament whose views they may be intend.
ed to promote. They have hitherto had the magna.
nimity to disclaim every personal consideration,
when the vital interests of their Country seemed to
be at stake. We are speaking only of the ?resent
period. ,Mr. Fox is now again resuming his sta.
lion 'as the God of Political Idolatry to one .comsitt.
eat Editor, who, not two months ago, devoted
whole Columns, clay after day, to the most bitter
and pointed
,attacks upon him. Whether he may
be best pleased with abuse or panegyric from such
a Weather.cocie quarter, we do not pretend to con-
jedure : but we do know to which a true Patriot
ought to give a decided preldence.

Yesterday morning Tit EI R MAJ ESTI F.S and the
PR INC ESSIS attended Divine Service in the private
Chapel, Buckingham-hoose, which was' performed
by the Rev. Dr. Mos,.

, • .
After one o'clockthe PRINCEsSES ELIZABETH,
MARY, and SoitHIA, attended, by Lady CHAR.
LUTTE WYNNE, wok an airing' in a carriage and
.four, escorted by a party of Light Horse, in the
neighbourhood of Kennington, and returned through
Hyde Park to Buckingham.bnuse to dinner.
The KING will hold a Levee at St. James's on
Wednesday next.
His Royal Highness the DUKR of CUlvtliltitLAND
dined yesterday with TlitRIR MAJEsTIRs at the
Queen's Houle. This day His Royal Highness pro.
cecded to join. his Regiment, the ;sth Light Dra.
goons, at Worcester. His Royal Highness will
sleep to.night at Chipping Norton, and will arrive
at Worcester tomorrow.

We understand that there is no doubt but that
the Call of the House will be inforced on Thursday,
if there should be an insufficient number of IVlern-
ben present to ballot for two Committees..
Sir WXLLIASI PULTENEY'S Speech in the House
of commons on Friday last, made a great impres.
sion, and 'is very highly spoken bf. When such
high British Spirit animates the bosom of an aged
Senator, to what adegree may it not be expected to
bear in the breasts of our youthful Warriors, should
the circumstances of the Country call it into adion!
We understand the battalion of the Guards doing
du:y at Wl:whetter is ordered to 4oudon,

THE DUTCH MAIL.

CONSTANTINOPLE, Fee. J.

Tae retinue of the French Ambassador, General
BRUNEN who has arrived here, and had a conference
with the REIS EFFENDI, after which he had a
formal audience ut entry of .the GRAND Slotla,
consists of sixty persons, among whom are several
Interpreters. Inithe same Squadron with this suite
have likewise arrived twelve persons, whom the
Government has sent as Commercial Commissioners
to the different provinces of Turkey, and who have
been already acknowledged by the Porte in that
capacity, and will immediately set out for the
several places of their destination.
Lord ELGIN has gone on board an English Fri.
gate, in which he will return to London. Though
he has given official notice of the withdlawing of
the English Troops from Egypt, the Turks do not
expert that this will take place for three or four
months; that is to say, not till the Couventica
with the Beys has been carried into drat.

JANUARY zs.
Lord ELGIN left this City on the 56th.! without
having seen the French Ambassador, General
BRUNEI who arrived here on, the 9th. A short
time before his departure,he notified to the Mem'
bets of the Diplomatic Corps resident here, that
Mr. STRATTON would condua the English agars al
Minister Plenipotentiary till further orders. Thil
Note was dated back, and with some others, wss
addressed to the late French Chargide-Mirat
Citizen RUFFINI and not to General BRIMS.

When. l'ord &Gm sailed from this Harbour,
which was in the night, he fired a Salute of 17
Guns, which occasioned a
general alarm here, SP
Cannon are never fired here in the night, eiteell la
the case of some great calamity or insurreitioni
The Re is EFFINDI had previously requested Lag
&Gm to omit the ceremony of a Salute at US
departure, and has now delivered to Mr. STAATTOSO
note of complaint and remonstrance on the pubic&

The Porte has this day appointed Hoiza
tewnr, a man of very prepossessing manners, ito
Ambassador to Paris.

On the nth, General TAMARA, had his asdience
of leave of the GLAND Stoxioz.

SALZBURG, Eta. :7.

Ott the :ph inst. Baron CRVMPJPIN, Env(
Extraordlusrpand Minister Plenipotentiary of .114,
Imperial Ylajeity- in Switzerland, as also Coutiik;
sioner Plenipotentiary for taking civil poisestio'
of the'PrincipalitieiorSolithrg, Pawns, Eirhsidti;
and Iterchteltgadesr, arrived in this ;its An 11'
joicings are forbidden by a positive drder I only a
part of the Austrian Battalion of Stein will parade
with music playing and Colours flying. To.dar
two Proclamations will Ix made by the Commis.
any of Police, accompanied by two trumietesi and
ten men of the City Cavalry ; one by which our late
Sovereign releases his Subjeas from their duty and
allegiance, and the other by which His Royal High-
ness the GRANO Duxe of TVICANY takes poses'
sion of the Archbishopric of Saiaburg.

GENOA, rza. zi.

ACCOUNTS from Rome, of the sth inst. say that
an English Courier from London had passed through
that City on his way to Naples. We also kW
from Bologna, of the date of
.the 13th, that a French
Commissary, preceded by a Courier, had passed,
in great hasty through that City for Florence.
The latter accounts likewise add, that a French
ha-brigade from Modena had arrived it Bologna, .1
and tha.t, as it was said, several Corps of French
Troops in Italy were in motion, and about to march
for different ports on the Mediterranean.

Besides the Polish Corps, Troops from the Itsl/10
Republic are embarking at Genoa for St. Domingo.
The sum for which the KINO of SALO! NIA hi°
ceded the bland of Sardinia to England, is Pitt
to be twenty millions of florins.

BRUSSELS, Fax. 20

Two Transports with 800 men have this dr/.
sailed for St. Domktigo. Six ether Transports,
with TrooPs, will immediately follow.
The French Mirkister of Marine is expeeted sg
Dunkirk, to hasten the sailing of the Expedition to
St. Domixv.

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