The Sun.
London, England, 1803-06-13 00:00:00

7'O THE EDITOR OF TEE SUN.

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YU[T are requested to insert the following Stanzas
in your Paper, on account, not of their having any
claim to poetical merit, but of their expressing
those sentiments of honest .indignation, which (it
is presumed) are felt by every Bri► 03, at the inso_
knee and arrogance of the First Consul or France.

ram, Sir, your humble Servant,
Oxford, May x 3, 1803.

" Bow, Britons, bow the haughty hid ;
" Bend, Briton!, bend the stubborn knee;
" Own your ancient virtue fled,
" Ant know not that ye once were free.
" Think not as your Fathers thought ;
" Speak no more as Britons ought;
" Al nomore the Briton's part,
" i ill valiant hand, and honest heart ;
" What indignation bids you feel,
4' Dare not, dare not to,reveal.
" Thu' Justice sharpen dare not grasp the lance.
" Nor single-handed tempt.the power of France.

" Me Holland, Italy obey :
" Her breast with Many a war-wound gor'd,
44 And-crush'd beneath my iron sway,
" Me Helvetia owns her Lord.
" Boast not then your Fleets, that sweep
" The Eastern and the Western deep ;
" Boast not then your sea-wash'd Land,
" Rampart-girt by Nature's hand ;
" Fleets and billows stay not me,
" Then bow the head and bend the knee.
4. Britons, no more your rival ranks advance,
" Nor sing,k-handcxl dare to cape with France."

Yes! as our Albion's root.bound oak
Stoops to the tempest, we will bow
- Yes ! we will bend, as the tall rock
Mocking the wave that chairs below I
Now by foe Sable Prince, imbrued
Once and again in Gallic blood;
By the laurels that 'entwine,
liAltay, thy helm, and WILLI/04, thine;
By our Chiefs on Nilus' tide,
Him who triumphld, him who died;.
By him, whom Aeon's turrets raise
To lion-hearted lit ena.an's praise ;
Yes ! we will stiliour rival ranks advance,
And single-handed brave the might of France.
Come thim, come, thou COnsul.King !
Launch thy Navies, arm thy Host;
And, beneath Night's fav'ring wing,
- Thy banner plant op,England's coat.
'COme '! but hope not to return.
Here other thoughts thou soon shalt learn;
Shalt feel, that Britons still may claim
The honours of the British Name;
Can fearless still maintain their stand
On British, aeon Syrian land,
Still rise superior io the Sonsot Chance, .
Still single-handed crush the pride of France.

A Morning Paper of Monday last endeavours to
justify the Admiralty for the want of timber and
stores in the Dock Yards, by asserting, that it is the
duty of the Navy Board to provide tisem. Formerly
it was so, and every thing went on with System
and regularity; hut since the Admiralty have thought
proper, and that is only under the present Mord, to
take every thing under their own diredioa, con-
fussion, mismanagement, acid disguit have succeeded.
The Admiralty wanted timber, and Were obliged
to send to Holland for it. When the Contraftor
had agreed for the quantity, they sent him orders
that -they did not (want so much. Ws W they cannot
get any:
The 'Admiralty ordered the Navy Board to con.
tray with Hul,“1411.1 to rig clic ships in the River.
They "rested all the riggers, and then ordered the
Navy, Board to find some other person.. Mr. HUFF.
HAM IS 'the only man of notein the rigging line,
AlthoUgb •we have been at half haetilities with
'France since Odober last, in the month of Arra
7040 beds were wanting fur, the Navy : fifty thou.
sand ton of timber to repair the ships out of con-
dition awl complete those building. , The Marines
reduced from 59,000 to t z,OOO, , and the Dock.
yards so lessened in number of ,handi, that the
convi6s were employed ar Portsmouth to fit out
the' ships. ,

The Navy Board have ever proved themselves
Men of business, and had they been left to them.
'okra, no causes of 'complaint would have existed.
The Comptroller (Sir AMOR EW- HAMOND) is a
man of talents, method, at►d system ; •but the Ad-
miralty having taken all power from the Navy
Board, the responsibility rests with them.
After the Peace of r 783, Sir CHARLES MrODLE.
TON, who was then Comptroller, began by repair.
ing the Navy. In the year 1790, when the dis.
pute with Spain broke out, the Navy Board pre.
seined a list to the Admiralty of 96 sail of the Line
in complete rendition ►". or sea, besidts.fifties, frigates,
&c. and stores, timber, &c. in the Dock Yards to
the amount of one million in value. On the 7th of
April the, arming began ; on the loth of August
our force was as follows :

cj the Litre.
With Lord HOWE at Seas ' 31
With Lord Ifoon:in the'Downs, for the
Baltic, to a4sis t the King Of SWED 19
Sailed with Admiral COKNtsli to the
West Indies, 6
In port, and nearly ready, - 14 •

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Thus, in little more than four months, we had a
most powerful force. At present only ra months
after paying off the. Navy, we have, since the 7th
of March, been able to send 14. sail of the. Line off
Breit, and two or three abroad, What might hive
been the consequence to the Trade, and political
existence of this Country, had France been pre-
pared

CHANC Lot's Prizes ar Oxford have been
adjudged to rue Rev. DANIEL WI Lsort,, B. A. of
St. Edmund Hall, for the English Essay on Coqiurrel