The Sun.
London, England, 1803-05-21 00:00:00

LONDON, MAY 21, IEO3.

A very important ConVersation took place last
night in both Housei of Parliament, on the subject
of the Papers respeeling the Negotiation. In the
House of Commons much importimt information
was given by Lord HAWSB 111: r. It does
appear that a Messenger overtook Lord WHIT.
wOrrit after he had left 'Paris, with a Proposition
in a very imoffiCial forhvof a nature which could'
not be attended to ; and he likewise distinaly stat.
ed; that neither Mr. TALBOT bad been left in
Paris, nor M. PORTALIS in London, with any view
to a renewal of Negotiation, but merely to take
care of Papers
,belonging to their respective Eta«
hassles; and Mr. TALBOT very principally for the
purpose of affording proteelion to such English as
have not yet been able to ctuit France.

In our Paper of Thursday and yesterday our
Readets found the important Papers laid before 'Par.
liament relative ,to the Negotiation between this
Country and France. They contain a:great mass
of matter the most interesting, perhapN, that ever
was submitted to the People of this Country ; and
the perusal of them, and of fits MAIr t 's Decla-
ration, can excite but one sentiment in the tnind-of
every man attached to the Honour or the Interests
of the Country—a sentiment of regret, but at the
sante time of Indignation against the unjust proceed.
ings of the GovernMent of France. It is evident
that a conciliatory disposition on the part of France
towards this Country, never has existed front the
Signature of the Treaty of Arnim ; while, on the
other hand, in the hopes of still retaining Peace,
His Majesty's Ministers appear to have shewn a
disposition but too conciliatory. We have always
contended that it was necessary, at the.,time of the
Treaty of Amiens, to try the ea-per:meta iv' Peace;
but surely the experiment had been tried, long be.
fore all had taken place which is detailed in the 131.0.
CeediflgS to which, we refer.

The Nation must be animated to a sense of its
Wrong-u._and there 4lit) man with a British ilearc

in his bosom, who fines not feel d►em deeply at the
',resent moment. Moderation and Forbearance are
words which do not belong .to the transaelion to
which we allude. Can any man peruse the Corres-

pondence, and not feel for the wounded Honour and
bignity of his Country ? The Government of
France appears to have thought that His Majesty's
Ministers were disposed to 'subMit—it encroached
upon this presumption, and has, at last, pushed its
pretensions too far. People may wish that Minis-
ters had brought the Negotiation to a point at much
earlier stages, but no man can doubt that they have
gone far enough for the maintenance of Peace. But
in proportion as they have conceder!, in that pro-
portion must the Spirit of the People be roused
against France, when they see that Concession, in.
stead of conciliating, only produced new Indig.

So far from throwing blame upon Ministers for
the retention of Malta, we think the most difficult
part of their justification is that which relates to
•periods prior to the discussions respeaing that Is.
land. We not only approve of its retention, but
we wish also that they had retained some other of
our Conquests, because a hostile and inveterate 4is.
position was evidently manifested on the part of
France towards this Country, previous to the
Orders being sent out for the Cession of several
of them. Whatever afforded evidence of that
'hostile disposition, demanded distina explana.
lion and satisfaEtion, and the Cessions to be
made under the Treaty of Amiens, should have been
with7held till, such explanations had been given.
We refer particularly to the sequestration having
been continued upon British propbrty, without re-
dress or satisladory answers given to the Repre.
sentations of His Majesty's Ministers—the send-
,
ing secretly Military °Pert under the pretended
charatter of Commercial Agents, to the Ports of this
Country and Ireland—the insulting demand to re.
strain the Liberty of the Press, and to abandon the
Emigrants who had taken refuge in our Land—
,• the annexation of Parma, Piacenza, and .Elba 'to
the French Republic, and the violation of the lode-
Fender= Of Sev;tzeriand.
Upon these, and many other point's, we shall
hereafter have to enlarge, We think it due to our.
selves, however, to observe, that there are none
of the topics contained iu the Papers laid before
Parliament, upon which we did not give, at the
time they arose, the most accurate information to
our Readers, and they will all be found to have been
commented upon in our former Numbers, some 'of
, them at least six months ago. We were amongst
those who wished for the preservation of Peace, if
it could have been preserved with safety. A peru.
sal of the Official Correspondence will convince
every man that it could not, and we have now to
call upon the Nation to maintain that Honour and
Dignity in War, which we were not suffered to
preserve in Peace.
Even Mr. Fox will hardly find an opening in
the peruSal of the Official Correspondence, for fur.
ther submission, or for the renewal of a Negotia-
tion which has been but too long protratled. Yet
it is still said, that he talks of the possibility of
preserving Peace, and severely condemns His Ma-
jesty's Ministers But we shall hem.. his opinions
shortly more distinaly from his own lips. As to
eny chance now of returning to a state of Peace,
every hour renders it less probable. The Media.
tion of Russia, certainly the most powerful Me.
diator, is much talked off;—but is it likely, alter
ell that has passed, that the Ft RST CoRsU L will
abandon Malta P Will he accede'to the last Projet
proposed to him by our Ministers ; and, above all,
will he discontinue that tone of arrogant and in. •
Gutting superiority, incompatible with Peace he.
twcen the two Nations, and which has, perhaps,
more than any other circumstaece, led to the lire.
sent crisis

'co the arrangement proposed in the last un-
OffiCi;ll Communication of the French Govern.
mein, our Ministers evidently could give no .ac.
quiescence, as these -places belong to an—lnde.
pendent Sove!eign, and the Whole proposition,
indeed, was so clearly- meant to gain time, that it
was unworthy of being lbs. one moment enter.
tabled. We have said for the last month, that the
l'egotiation was protraded by the French Qovern-
ment merely for the purpoe of maturing its Plans,
isnd consolidating its means of making an un-
presion upon this Country. It has likewise been
anxious to save itself as muck as possible in those
points in which it was itself the most vulnerable.
We have before stated, from sources of information
peculiar to ourselves, that orders bad been sent to
St. De/nit/go, for the Fleet and remnant of the Army
to return immediately to Europe, and that it was
.a part of those orders; if it did not make the Freneb
Cciast before the tstqft h May, to keep to the
Southward, and get into a Spanish Port, Tile
vessel that tprried out. these orders has re-
turned to lira; in ten weeks from the time
she ;eft that rtst, The 'very trimsroissiort of

such —Orders, which took place on the 12th of
March, proves, among many other things, the pre.
determination in the mind of the CHIEF CONSUL
for War, while he was amusing us with the shew of
Negotiation, which. he never meant should have a
pacific issue. There is no one aEl,' indeed, of this
extraordinary man, ever since the Treaty of //mien:,
that does riot evince a most inveterate enmity to
this Country, wholly incompatible with a decent
observance of the relations of Peace and Amity.

We refer to our Port Letters for very important,
and at the sa:ne time very distressing news, par-
ticularly that. from Brest, stated in our Plymouth
Letter.

Lord NELSON sailed yesterday in the 11;elory
,from Spithead: He steers for Admiral CORN.
wm,Lis's Peet off' Breit, from whence he pro.
ceeds for the Mediterranean.

We received this morning the Path Papers of
the 18th inst. It appears that strong hopes of the
restoration of Peace are still entertained in Paris,
though we cannot discover from what source those
hopes are derived.
The First Consul had a long interview with the
Deputation of the Tribunate that waiteel upon him
on Monday, and he gave them particular details of
the nature and progress of the Negotiation with
England. In the Sitting of the Legislative Body
on Monday? a Deputation of Twenty.four Members
were ordered to wait upon the First Consul.
The report of Russia having offered her Media.
tion, is renewed. It i 0 said that the Ets.tvltßOK has
offered to guarantee the independence of Malia, and
to garrison it with his troops, until England and
France can agree upon a definitive artangetnent upon
the subjea.
Letters from the Hague state, that the French
Troops in the Batavian Republic are to be aug.
merited to 80,000 men, and that they are to be
'commanded by General VICTOR. The English
Squadrons continue to cruize off the Texcl and the
Meuse, but they do not stop any Ships coming in
or going out.

l),putatiorvof the Empire having at length
terminated its labours, was. dissolved on the loth
instant.-:—The French Funds are p. 23.

This morning arrived a Mad from Holland, and
two from Harnbagh.
According to Intelligence from Vienna, 40,000
Austrian Troops are to he detached to Italy, to
cover the Frontiers of Dalmatia, htria, and the
"Venetian Territory.
The French Army in the neighbourhood of
',usage,/ is stated to be daily augmenting. Great
movements have been also observed amongst the
Prussian Troops in Westphalia.
The accounts from /MO repeat, that a French
and Italian Army is assembling on the frontiers of
the Papal States.
An Envoy Extraordinary from the Landiurtman
of Switzerland to the First Consul, has set out from
thence for Paris. His mission is suppo'sed to relate
to a desire expressed by th::' First Consul for the
formation of some Swiss Regiments.
Letters from Stockhoba, confirm the intelligence of
ihe disputes between Russia and Sweden having been
amicably terminated.

Apprehensions are entertained in Holland, of a
War between the Bey of Tripoli and the Batavian
Republic.

Yesterday morning, about nine o'clock, His
MAJESTY left town for Windsor. tier MA.j MY'
and the Put t,:c asses MARY, AUGUSTA, ELI hA.
urnt, and Am et.' A, left town about twelve o'clock,
The PR INC ESS Sum lA, fiom indisposition, did
not leave town.

Yesterday the knights of the Bath who were
installed on Thursday gave' a grand (entertainment
to His Royal Highness the DUICeII of YORK, Grand
Master, of the Order, at the ThatChed.liouse
vern in St. Tames's Street. 'The tlinnei was the
most sumptuous possible, and the wines various•and
rich.

We understand that M. PORTALISI. the French
Secretary to the late Embassy,. left town yesterday
morning at.sivo'clock. • _

General Alluittosyi, we believe, quitted
.this:
Country with great regret. It is but justice to
him to say, that his cotOud while "here' recom-
mended him to the high estimation of all ranks and
.
deKription3 of people.
The Duke of ilEnvotkp and the Dutchess of
GORDON, with her daughter, are on 'their return
home. They were at Al)eville the night Lord
WH I Two RT H crossed the channel.

Lord Wrt TTWORTII and the Dutchess of Dortsre
stopped .at Chantilly cm tl:e Right they left Paris,
on the Friday night they kept at Amiens, and
reached Calais on Saturday evening.
Every person ctoncurs'in their* admiration of the
dignity and grace with which the DUKE of YORK
went through, on Thutsday, the ceremony of the
Installation. 1112 Chapel ,cxhibitecl ong of the
.grandest sights imaginable.
m4erstand that a regulation has been made
at-the House of cainrn mh, by which wa,:gers
will not, on 'Monday, or tiPon any future.ttecastun,
bc_,.altniiced into the Gallery before four cot:lock.
• catoill Lott two, of the ',Royal Navy, pee.
sewed to His 1\444841'T WOucactiyhypy, OIC
liol t/IPlfiikt

NAVAL NEW.

' PLYMOUTH, MAY r9.—Early this morning arrived here
the Dutch Ship Vrow Constantia, Capt. Tu. NET sksz,
laden with a very valuable Cargo of Coffee, Sugar, Cotton,
Bcc. from Surinam, bound to Amsterdam : sailed on the 23d
March, and was detained yesterday morning about ro leagues
S. W. of the Edystone, by the Doris Frigate, 0f:36 gun;,
Capt. Ps ARSON, belonging to the Channel Fleet. On the
preceding day the Doris fell in with a large French West
I ndiaman, richly. laden, from Tobago, but not being then
apprized that Hostilities had commenced, she was sutrered
to proceed.

A Seaman is arrived here who left Brest ten days since ; he
states that a great many English Seamen, as well as Ship-
wrights, are at that Port ; the latter consisting chiefly of
those discharged from our Dock-yards, who are allowed by
the French Government Two Guineas per week, for wages.
and lodgings free of expence.

Sailed the Galgo and Hunter Sloops of War, to the West-
ward. , •

DEAL, MAY zo.—Came down from the River His Ma-
jesty's •Sloop Kite, with Rear-Admiral Sir jAmts Swu-
mAa tz on board, and sailed through the Downs for Ports-
mouth.

Sailed His Majesty's Ship Gelykheid, to join Rear.
Admiral Tilos. NBOROUGH off Gorce ; and the Archer Gun-
vessel on a Cruize.

A. large Dutch Ship was this morning sent in by the
Cruizcrs from this Station ; but her name and destination
have not transpired.

HARWICH, MAY 20.—The Prince of Wales Packet,
Captain ANTHONY DEANE, arrived this morning from Hel-
voetsluys, with the Dutch Mail, and upwards of twenty
passengers. The King George, Capt. SANTER, and the Prince
of Wales, Capt. I-Ixn a , also arrived from Cuxhaven,
with the liambro' and Bremen Mails. These Packets left
Cuxhaven on Tuesday last; the Diana, Capt. STEwART,
was then going in, and His Majesty's Ship La Constance
had arrived to Convoy the English ships now loaded at Hain.
burgh to England.

PORTSMOUTH, MAY 2o.—This morning, at ten
o'cloCk, Admiral Lord NELsoN embarked from the Sally_
port, and proceeded to his Ship the Vidory, and at noon
he got under-weigh, and is now clear off the Wight, with a
breeze from the North East.—His Lordship hi gone to sea
without his stock of wine, though it was almost hourly ex_
petted from Guernsey : his private convenience is always
subservient to his zeal for the public service. Ills Lord-
ship touches the Grand Fleet under Admiral Coa.NwALL:s,
and, if necessary, leaves the Vidory with him, and moves
into the Ainphion Frigate for the Mediterranean, where
he wilt be Chief in Command.

TM QUEEN': BALL, AT BUCKINGHAALIWUSE.

One of the most magnificent Balls ever given by
HER MAJESTY, took place on Thursday evening.
The company began to assemble as early as eight
o'clock. About half after eight o'clock the IN INCE
Of WALES, Dutcss of YORK and CLARENCE, ar-
rived. At half after nine 1116 whole of the com.
pany being assembled, the dances commenced with
a dance called for by PRINCESS AUGUSTA. Her
Royal Highness opened the Ball -with the Duke of
SomeRSET. Next followed
Duke of Rutland, - - Princess Mary.
Marquis of Worcester, . Princess Sophia.
Marquis of Lome - - Princess Amelia.
Earl of Aboyne - Princess Sophia of Gloucester.
Lord Villiers, . Lady
.Sarah Fane.
Lord Fitzharris Lady Mary Thynne.
Lord Lovaine, . Lady C. Paget.
Lord Macdonald - Lady A. M. Stanhope.
Lord Charles Somerset, - Lady NI. Bentinck.
Lord Charles Bentinck . Lady C. Cadogan.
Lord Stopford - Lady C. Stewart.
Captain Legge of the Navy, Lady Percy.
Lord Mark her, - - Lady C. lenkinson.
Lord lames Murray - Lady F. Somerset.
•
Lord Edward Somerset, - • Lady C. Thynne.
Captain Pierrepont, (Navy) Lady C. Murray.
Captain Upton, - - Lady C. Greville.
Mr. Townshend, - Lady G. C'Vcil.
Mr. Cadogan, Lady M. Fitzroy.
In the third dance the Duke of GORDON (who
had been for some time in conversation with Their
MAJESTIES) desired to know the name of it, and
on being told Sir David Hunter Blair, laid down
'his bat and sword and joined the nimble throng,
having the honour of the eldest Lady THYNNE for
a partner. The fourth dance, Mrs. Gardner a troop,
was called for by PRINCESS MARY; and the fifth,
make ye be fain iofidlow me, by the PR INC ESS
SOPH lA. At the conclusion of the latter, the corn.
pany adjourned to supper,- it being then half after
one o'clock.

The supper was, as usual, a very sumptuous one.
The tables were ornamented with every fanciful de.
vice in frame work, which the ingenuity of art and-
nature could furnish. About two hundred and fifty
covers were laid, and about that number sat
doWn at table. At half after two the ball recom.
menced, with The. Zodiac Waltz,' at the request of
the PRINCE of WALES, anti another dance which
followed concluded the ball at four o'clock.—
The PRINCESSIIS danced the whole night, which is
very unusual. Their MAJESTIES were in high
health and spirits, and conversed with their visitors
with their usual condescension. •
Every. apartment in the QUEEN'S Palace was ap.
propriated for the entertainment and accommodation
of the visitors. The Ballroom was most superbly
illuminated, ; The sofas in this room are of white
velvet, beautifully painted by Her Royal Highness
the PRINCESS ELIZABETH. The decorations of
the supper tables consisted of naval flags and tro-
phies, triumphal arches, and appropriate ornaments.
This was the latest party ever known at the
Queen's Hciuse. Their MAJESTIES did not retire
until the clock struck four ;'and the, company fol.
1014,0 as soon as their carriages could get up.
The first dance hati,pcocceiled but a short time,
when,the Marquis of Lox NE was taken so extremely
ill, .that-he was obliged to retire.

The Amethyst .Frigate, Captain CAMPBELL; is
Ordered to sail immediately fur Hambuigh, to bring
over His Royal Highness the Doke of CAMBRIDGE,
and Prince WILLIAM of GLOUCESTER.
The Council for Prizes,- at Paris, have declared
as legal prizes. the English ship taken by
the intrepid, and the Porc4ee.t3ken by the Bellows
privateer in the East. Indiei.

Thursday evening was married by Special Li..
cencet Captain' Sir Wm. tANI Bot.ToN, of the
Rgyid Navy, an proxy to Vi,:count NELSON at the
Instaliation, 'to Miss CAMIE R,l NE BOLTON, daub..
ter of TtionsAs Bot.ioi, Isq. of Cranwicit, in
Norfv.)lls4 an 4 Niece to Viscpoin NtooN,