The Sun.
London, England, 1803-05-11 00:00:00

,LCINDON, MAY 11, 1803,

LITTLE doubt Can exist that Lord WHITWORTH
)eft Pails ) ezitvriLty. We have already given our
Readers reason to bLlieve that positive orders were
sent by Mr. SYLVESTRR on Saturday evening, for
hi 3 Lordship to come home, unless a full assent
were given by the French Government to ..ur
maw!, which seems highly improbable, and is not
at all expetted here. It is useless to disguise the v_
nerd feeling in the higher Political Circles, that War
is inevitable..—By to-morrow, we expect}, we shall
hear of Lord WHITWORTH being on his way home.

Our Letters.from Plymouth state, that on Sunday
night the hottest Press yet known took place at
alai Port. Four Sloops 'of War were lying in Ply-
mouth.,Sound ready to sail with Dispatches; and on
the evening of that day one of them, the khrgi.4Al4,
sailed to the Westward with sealed Orders.
We learn, that. last. night the Packet for Lord
WHITWORTH usually transmitted thrr.lugh the Post.
. Office by. the French Mail, was not sent for trans.
mission.. There can be no doubt of hiA Lordship
having left Paris yesterday, If not o' Monday
•

So much arc the minds of 11tinisteit made up
urcpt the, cAuestion of \Val th4t we ttn,kistand the

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whole of the Correspondence between them and I
French Government is already printed, ready tube
distributed to the Members of both Houses, as
promptly as possible after Majesty's Message is
delivered, and the Official Documents ordered to
be laid upon the Tables of the two Houses of Par.
liament.. It is very volUminous, consisting of up-
wards of thirty folio sheets. It cannot fail to be
highly interesting. •
The UttlniSt activity pretails in making wsrlike,
a. •
preparations, and fortunately, now, in a quarter
where increased exertion was particularly necessarY• .•
4k. hot press,
.and from all Proteetions, is now tali•
ing plate in all our Sea Ports, and it is hoped that .
Men (without whom our Ships are of no use), may
be procured, in a sufficient number, to send, with
promptitude,' a strong Squadron to Sea. Admiral
CORNWALL IS will 'command the Channel Fleet,
Lord KEITH in the North Sea, and Lord NELsort
in the Mediterranean. Three more able :Admirals
never hoisted a Flag. We hope that their exertions,
in the cause of their Country, will not be datnptcl
by that want of harmony and confidence, which, •
for the last twelve months, have uitfottunately
vaded that Department, on -which the Country
most essentially relies, not only -for the ioppor..l
itsA
PHA;
inaomu
er
n, tba
ruyt
lonf Independe nwcee
brienl,iieSifeec,tti
about
to be instituted, which will no doubt, be the means ;,
of its being publicly known to what causes these ,
Misfortunes are to be imputed, and to Whit degree 1,
they exist. This Inquiry, we understand, will be
!,
set
,on foot by a Member of the House of Commons):
whole Charatier places him above the imputation of
Party motives in making it, and whose talents ate .
fully equal to the management of a business so gralo'
and important.
From what we have. already stated of the liea4s
of the British Ultimatum, and the renewed
propositions of the French Government, it
ing
sufficiently apparent that Malta is the great r
upon which every thing turns.. We• required, we
understand, that we should keep it for Five, or ac,
cording to other accounts we have heard, for Spvta !
Years. This the CHIEF CONSUL positively refused.
Wemight keep it One, but with a stipulation tha
his
t
we should evacuate it at the end of that time.
but
T ,
would be convenient enough for BoNnvitt-re,
very ruinous to us. It will be near a year bell°
he is "read to renew his designs upon EgyPt,
a
throllgh that upon India and we should Imo 1110
,
expense of, keeping Malta till he is ready ; and then
resign it to hiidominion ; for we are oov fujir
tisfied, that, evacuate it rzybeil 'we 13(::,,Aa
PARTE rtaill gain immediate parestion 1
m .2
ilde
Upon this ground our I\.'litlistry bale a,
made
stand; it is fortunately not too late to r
reten
firm and" successful one, Upon our tion
Astata, it is obvious that the safety, of our
indi:
Dominions- depends. We have thus a National
Jett to pursue ; but with the French the case is ct)r
• eSt
different' The People of. France have no 1.06-
in Malta--it cannot extend their co or
conduce in any shape, to their National weilare
to
security—they will therefore be plunge,' agaill in, n
a War, because the personal ambition of the niblis
who happens to be their Ruler is, thwarted,
and
private enmity 7against the commercial prosrrl.l
of this Country is curbed. This is acopious r
and we shall probably resume it, for the henefir,
so much of our own Countrymen, as for that of 1_1.:
People. mmerce, .0r
of France. In the degraded -state of the r`itl
licPrpess in that Country, they can learn of
`h
oleic own situation, and the promulgation of 'IN •
vf
is ever conducive to: the general it:ine's
v
mankind.
We have been favoured with some Private Leti
octant
rers from France, which afford much and ialP
• r icitis •
information. A general dislike to a \‘l . •
niton
England. pervades that Country, with, the '4.°l iii
-
of the Army, who are eager and ciarnOrolls ilt)vre
The hopes of the Royalists too tar r
otn v' La
the idea of War. We have seen a letter-
c°ll.,ns
rende'e, of the date of the 2d inst. Which
the following Paragraph
Id I,tei
"Two respeebble,ablesand faithful Royalists 41:1" w4c..
amongst us, with letters from our unfortunate 110 tO
SAW. Great otrers have been made and his !)31-011
renounce their right to the Throne of their Aneestor.i.oui
vour of the Usurper, but they have been iejeaal*
coming dignity ; and should a War break out between
state
Zvi
land and Bos APA art, and Louis XVII 1.. riot bc
tlt
Prigmer, (as many of us think he ifi) he has rornisca,
the other membeis of the Bonito N rantily, to come
ttis:lo
us to command, and to rise or tall-with us it
the
fro
Royalty. Our King has lately had otters of servic4oven
more than twenty Republican Generalc ; some r th/!.itracd
in the confidence of. the Costs of. himsel t ; di. Zr 'the
with his condud, they have prornisett to ardwcr„l
Corps they command, and to bring them over to .10"
St -ndard of Royalty." •
.ronoite
y 4
All these things seem to prove ti c
,„, -ta
mar-- ,
War; for however he may strive to
the CH IE F CO NSU L in forcing
have no doubt It
this
pear the Paressors, we ceoloos
be found that our Ministers have in,tde n
1" c
with view to thevrcicrVation u

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