The Sun.
London, England, 1803-11-17 00:00:00

CITY Lzearr HORSE.

YIIIIIIDAY morning between nine and ten
o'clock, the Regiment of City Light Horse muster.
ed at their head-quarters, the top of Gray's.lnn.
lane, for the purpose of being individually impeded
by Col. JENKI MON. The orders given on the occa.
sion were, that no member would be permitted with.
sent himself, on any account whatever, except by
special permission of the Colonel, or illness. The
members were to be provided with every thing ne.
cessary fur actual service. The six Troops of Horse
mustered with their great coats in white cases.
behind them, and their haversacks. The three
Troops of clisthounted, who ate to aa as Riflemen
to the Regiment, repaired first to the orderly-roam,
where they were furnished with a necessary leather-
bag, or portmanteau, and instruEled by Serjeants,
attending for the purpose, to sling them on their
:backs, with leather straps, in a soldier-like manner..
They were then mustered, in the Riding-house, to
the number of 230 ; the six Horse Troops mustered
in their field, at the back of the Foundling-Hospi.
tali to the number of about 490.

About eleven o'clock Col. jittrismsott arrived.
He was met at the top of Gray's.lnn Lane by Co.
lonel HERRies, the Commander of the Regiment,
who co ndudied him into the field. The Colonels
passed each rank, and inspelcd them in front and
rear. Colonel JENKINION then took his stand,
near the entrance of the field, and the Horse passed
him in single file, with their swords presented,
slow time, with a banct of six trumpets, ;playing a
grand march. The three dismounted troops then
followed, with 4 h4od_of. Ngle.horns,. with their
swords in their right hands leaning on their shoul.
dcrs, and their rifle.pietes in their left hands.

The rifle.piece used is upon a new construftiou,
invented by a Mcmher of the Corps. The improve-
ment is to fix the sword upon the piece, to answer
the end of a bayonet, 'which it does effeanaliy, he.
ing an Inch and a half longer, reckoning from the
butt of the piece, than the common soldiers' muss
kets. The weight of the rifle-piece and sword
fixed is under toib. the gun weighs 7th. the length
of the rifle barrel is two and a half feet.

On Tuesday the Buckinghamshire Cavalry, corn.
mantled by Lord GRENVILLE, had a grand Field.
day in Stoke Park, when his Lordship gave orders
for the. Corps to hold themselves in readiness to
march on the shortest notice.

The Royal Westminster Volunteers are to he
inspe4ted by Lieutenant-Colonel JarlKlNsors to-
morrow in the Lower Mews.

The Hampstead Volunteers were yesterday in_
Speded by COL DALRIPMPI:E, the Impeding Offi-
cer of the Distrid. • The day was very unfavour-
able, but the. Corps notwithstanding made a very
respedable appearance.
Yesterday morning. the Third Regiment of Loyal
London Volunteers was inspeded in St. Paul's Ca.
thedral by Ltrutenant.ColonelHAß NAGE ,vho paid
the Corps that commendation wnich its excellent
state Of disei.dine deserved., The name of every
Member present was taken down, and a report will
be made thereof ,to the Commander in Chief. As
the orders for attendance Isere peremptory, the
eff•Ctive strength of the Corps is considered as ascer.
tanned by yesterday's Muster.
On Sunday next the R Spelthorne Legion,
commanded by His Royal
,titeltness the DUX P. Of
C LAR FNM will have•iifi'll ,fi.st heid.day on A.ll.
ford Common, prev ions to their receiving their
- Colours.from His Royal Highness the PRINCE of
WALES. 'the DUKE 01 CLAIt!NCIt is it
in hi• exertions to perfect t discipline ot the Corps.
On Friday last the Green wio Volunteer. met by
appointment in their Drill Ground, inij,ining the
Qieen's House, in the Park, to ret•eive their Colours,
,which were intended to have been presented in per.
ion by their former Patroness, Viscountess Hoots; •
' but her Ladyship being slightly indisposed, and the
weather proving unpropitious, Colonel CAMPBELL
became her proxy, made a very appropriate Address,
and ctindaded the ceremony (which took place in the
Painted Hall of the Hospital) in a manner . highly
creditable to himself, and much to the sat istattion of
all present. The Regiment, consisting of near boo
strong, including Officers, &c. &c. were formed in
an oblong square, when the Colours passed through
in slow time, and were saluted by the Corps in
a remedial and soldier.like manner. The Colours
being lodged, the Corps were dismissed, with a pre-
vious invitation to return and fall in with itlr arms
only, and match to the East Dining-hall, and pap..
take of a plain but substantial dinner, provided at
the expence of their Officers ; and after much real
service had been gone through on the Surbin and
I.lolQck, with a proportionate allowance of por.
ter, a bottle of wine was introduced between two
Privates. On the KING'S health being given by
the Colonel, the bursts of applause, which continued
for many minutes, were unexampled and gratifying in
the extreme. At ball past five the drum beat to
tams, as a signal to fall in, when the attest prompt
attention and good humour were observed, and the
, Corpi dismissed with order anti discipline.
All the Gentlemen belonging to the West Kent
Yeoman Cavalry, commanded by Lord BO NV, now
in London, &c. received orders yesterday morning
to repair to their respective Parades at Tunbridge
Wells and its vicinity, in order to be ready to march
at a minute's notice, and to be provided with every.
.necessary equipment suitable for the occasion.
About thirteen hundred of the Guards and Militia
are every day 'employed on the works, which are of
considerable extent, beginning at Gillingham Fort
on the Medway, considerably to the right of 13,0'utp,
ton • they arecontintied.till they join the old works at
the Magazine on the high ground above the Barracks,
where a horn work is added to strengthen that point.
The lines from thence are carrying on down the hill
at the Chatham side to the Old Duck, where a Fort
is to be ereded and bridge of pontoons--if Occasion
should require it, to be thrown' from that point to
the opposite shore. The lines embrace from Gilling.
ham Fort to the Old Dock, the town of Brompron,
the Dock yards, the Barracks and tlr.t Church. On
the opposite shore redoubts are to be thrown up at
Frinsbory Village and the Quarry, •
de:l2:rer ketirivl-rearrkMidor wsa'
e!viiisctncoinbk,t: veoahradchreecs,ehiivresanoorw.
I fitting out at Chatham, -

EDINBURGH, Nov. i 1..

COUNTY OF PERTH.

- - -
Ott Tuesday last a County Meeting was held at
Perth, His Grace the Duke of ATHoLE, Lord Lieu-
tenant, in the Chair, which was most respeetably-
attended. The Earl of BaEADALTS NNe, who hae.•
not been present at any of the County Meetings
since his arrival in Scotland before, addressed
the Chair at considerable length. He stated, that
the Volunteer Force of that County was by much
too small ; that himself, as well as others, bad
made offers of Vohanteer Corps, to which, for,
tuontlit, no answer bad been given ; that at last
they were refused, while others had been accepted
which certainly could have no preferable title ; and
he attributed it entirely to the Lord Lieutenant.
The Duke of A-rnoLE justified' himself with
warmth, from the charges thaz were brought against
him. If the Volunteer Force of the County was too
email, he said that 10.initlry had atone to answer
for that. Lord 1311i,ADALUANeS. name had been
at the top of his list of those who were to command
Volunteer -Battalions, and it was the system which
Government bad adopted that had prevented them
from being embodied. He spurned the refiellions,
which had been thrown on himself, as he was
con-
scious of their injustice.
,Viscount Mvt,vr I-LE said, he stood in the. same.
predicament with the Noble Earl. Not that he
had had the. presumption to ''propose raising a
Corps, buche had been so. pressingly 'milted by
• a body of soo meti in Stratherne, to take their
command, that he bari. transmitted their offer., ggi
the Lord Lieutenant,
,although he was thus
plac.,
lug himself in a situation for Which he was On'
fitted both by his habits and, this time of 100'1
This Corps was among the number of those that
had
been refused; but he had good, reason, to know that
the Duke could not be blamed for the refusal either •
of this, or the NobleYorl's offer. He could assure
hire, that in many private conversations with tbe
Duke, he had heard His.Graccexrress his wish that
Lord BREADALBAN offer abouid be accepted*

in this City • .
A trial,af the Night
. .
,This morning we had a considerable fall of snow
and neighbourhood,
c_e•Lara,stan,d,
dayl evening at eight o'clock. The atmosphere was
Signals Wag made on Saturq
arrived
s atopn
Dundee,
the
ee c Castle,
iii) t
.C.Foarsgtoo::l;ien;
eekthaerriii•
Hill, Ste. weredistinet and brilliant,
WARREN, of th
.e Royal Navy, to take the comma!`
1,
of the Sea 'Fent:o)les in the County of Angus. Il
is assisted by Cipt. FORNE 14, Li —.eattenant, KEL 1.1;"
HAMILTON, Mid STEVENSON. 'Cain, WitagEN.:ll
to reside at Duntlee, which of course will he Heal',
quarters. Capt..'llistigNELL is gone to N 10611,04"
and Lieut. KELLY to Arbroath.
On Thursday lait the 3d curt. the last division of
the Berwickshire Militia arrived at Perth, WI/
mantled by the Earl of Home, and are by fat' the
best disciplined Militia •Tro:ips that have been tn
that place. The Aberdeenshire RegnnenC is
kei•
pected in a kw days ; and, as •it is very unliely
t bat • the excellent Cavalry Barracks will be left iong
ave
.thq
untrnanted, the streets of Perth will soon h
appearance of a garrison.
the Volunteers
ri"„" Forfar, on Sltur I.av se'onightt
I , b•illot,
OT rortarshire, ;;ceepted•in Fine' tiry, • •)} ' , '
for their interior rank. The were drawn in Me
following order :
Rank. Stteort4,
Place. ammalt.krs. Ist cops, lit)
ittk,,:ahi Lieut 4.\01. cnivill, 533
M"trowt Lieut. .Col. Gardner, id do. tie
Fort:ir, d do.
Al.ijor Don, 3 4eo.
Dundee, Lieut -Col. Rdidoch, 4th "4' 4.0
Ditto, Lieut.-Cul. li.ly hie, sth do.
.---.
1;zo
Total,
Same of the vessels that clmoO'fied the outward.
hound Rk ... 13,l tic 111
.e ~.t. slut sailed lately, Under onvoy
havce been
of the Prince of Wales, Capt. MUR KAY ' with
ohliged to put back. .1k Fleet having .ntet.
contrary winilq, ep,irateil from the Convoy, theo
the Fingais a Leith. m•Vicmt, has arrived in
_IUTTO'N, KIS put
Yrith, and the johns, of Leith. 1
into one of the N-qthern Ports. ' As the Priv? 0/
Wales has not returned, it is supposed she has pro.
ceeded with a part of the Convoy.
Q 3 Friday the 4,11 curt. William Crichton was
'seal, purOlant t°
executed in front of the. tolbooth,
His condo
was,
his sentence, for sheep-stealing.
in every rt!spcAff, penitent, and hii flrtitucle "fibr .e. _
of Christianity in th,ef
an encellent proof of the efficacy
awful hour of 'death. 11.. was. turned off about hal;
past two, aid apparently had little pain in dylnigie'
as no convulsion was visible. We understa"cuon.
was formerly a e(msit!::rable larrnzt, and his
nexions are extremely respeulable. ,
,

, ..
. . ..
iferoay,
Sir SIONRY SMITH arrived ill town Ye-- .
for the purpose of having an interview
Lords of the Admiralty, previons to his
with the
ptoceeding . .
again to the-Enemy's Co.ist. In a few deIYS bill
Squadron svill he stationed off Flushing. 1 of
A.comPany of Artillery, under the common ~
Cal''i• Drtit, are novv.ois their, route for H 44
oile witn,
.four light 6-Thunder brass guns, and two 5-1 'l,,
howitzers, intended r
as a reiniOccement to the esin'
park of artillery.
The Lieutenancy of the West Riding, of isrotig4;
shire, and of the City and County of the Ctit lot
:1(orl; luve fixed Upon three places of rendezvous
011 the Troops'in the R din to assemble at i cloto
of Invasion. They have also orderedAhmatake lo waggons
'
'con"3:j other
.og Troops be instruaed, not to nger ,
stages than 'twelve miles, then to return tor
Trclopg, -so that . there may be a continual moVe.:
inept ;. and have, recontmeodeci Platforms to bc,fiiteei
upon these carriages, the bodies of -which are ina.,,
dequate to contain a nu,inber.of men, 8:aeon!! are
alsd ordefei to he crated in situations to be point
e,l out for'tha.t purpw.
The Earl. of. Flrs, according to the Novyarr
amunts, is employed in iNsptaing the Volunteer.a.s
of 11?ntL We Wish, for the sake of this Patio; •
Nobletiian, 'that the report was well founded, but
Oluckily lie has long been /labeled with a disold.er
in his eyes, whi.ch will pot perinit him to enjoy he,
pleasing. Srtficte of our Gallant Defenders. P!' ,
Piring i.,r the Foe of this_ Country and a ciYilig‘.l
Life. . a
.
,

BLOCKADE OF THE ELBE AND iPIESER.

THE Commercial inconvenience, and the mis-
conceived political tendency of this measure are
now generally admitted by Men of Candour and
lotcliigence, that to such it is as impossible as it is.
unnecessary to address a single new argument—but,
115 in the present contest, there are immense num.
bers of well.disposed. men who have more of the
,fire of Enthusiasm than of the light of Information,
and who `are fully satisfied witltany display of Na.
things! Force, without inquiring into the correctness
with which that force is employed ; it is to the in.
tentions of such gcind men that the tribute of ex.
planation is due.—With reaped to the Commercial
'efreas of this measure, it is palpable to•every man
- inhusiness, that, at a moment when the Trade of
this Country with Italy, France,' and Holland, is
totally intertliaed,
.and the intercourse with Spain
o
and Portugal rests n
-so precarious a basis, that no
prudent English Mer Chant would hazard any ad-.
venture for his own account to tho‘e Countries, at
such a period, it certainly would, have been wise to
have cherished the only prktieable channels of inter.
course with the•Conrinent which remained; of these
the principal were col,fesiedly the rivers Elbe and:
Weser—through these . channels the Ctinitnetce of
this Country might have been pursbed with the
greatest adivity, and without any interruption in
neutral vessels*.—The stagnation 'of business pro-
duced by the measure under notice, has brought
general emb*rrassnient on most of the Commercial.
TOWS of chi': Courtrv, and total ruin on several
NianufBcturnit and "trading Houses of the first re:,
speetability.. \Vold it nor have been easy for
English Vessels to have assumed the mantle of .neu-
•trality, anti is not the System of this Citivernment,
in the case before: us, somewhat like detarbying, or,
at best, jeopardizing the Tree of Comtnerce for the,
take of the bar 4 ,t —These observations' apply to
trade in gereral, but with respect to Manufactured
Goods, the measure wider consideration rends "ab-
solutely to raise a Tax on. British, ManufaCtures,
and offer a Bounty on rival establishments tan the
Continent.---It is well,koown, that in many parts
t 1 Germany; and particularly in Berlin, there are
marmfadories in almost every branch
practised in this Country, of course every new dif-•
litulty imposed on the introduction of British is an
kneouragement .to these' foreign manulanuros.—
The motive fur the measure, drawn frOm the
eretext of annoying the Enemy, is founded in
•tallacy. The French have nu Interest in the
question—they, -have compelled the Hanovefrians
io supply theix.
,Army, without any promise, or
hale of •yayrnenr; If thii en....,r,igernent is more
in consequence of the blockade of the Elbe,
31 oppresses Ills Majecy's Hanoverian Subjeas,
• Om Ministers sifted to cherish; in short, in a
tomMercial view., the only voice that will be rais..
Od is that of the City of Hatuburgh,
,which too,
feeble to he heard, and' by diverting the wonted
Channel of trade from that City, the Interest of
the Northern Powets.in its neutrality is much di.
Minished, and conbequently the English FaCtory,
sand many vcty ioyortant, indiVidual Estatilishments
there, are eXposed to the greater chance of French
talacity,....These are some of the 'Commercial El.
••;- re" 3,. Of the measure..;-•As to its Political Effeels,
the utsts and,perhaps4the most exceptionable, flows
irons its tone anti manner-When-the integrity of
the bermst, Empire was infradled by the occupa..
' Con of Hanover, the Guaranteeing Powera should
. have been first called upon, by a solemn remon.
btrance to restore it, and, only on failure of redress
bYlemonstrance, force should have been resorted
tu—instead of which, the same i..7ouriers that car.
Situ the Remonstrances to the ditrerent Courts; car.
tied also the Notification of the BliNkatle, and thus.
the Force of Great Britain is immediately applied
toga auhjeCt in which, 'a few duys beftire it was
C,flicially, that Great Britain,_nor her King as
King of Great Britain, had no kind of interest, +.
• ••4—Then the Countries of. the 'North were madelo
feel the naval force of this Country, of which they,
were always extretnzly jealous, at the very innocent
when the only hope this Government had-Of con.
ciliating an alliance in that quarter was, in,leading
them to forget the posyer .of this Country, and in.
creasing as much as, possible..thiir apprehensions of
French aggrandizeinent.—The prompt and violent,.
ttianrter of establishing 'this blockade, not only re.
, volted the Cabinets of the North., but alienated from
this 'Couritry the public opinion of that vicinity, and
much facilitated the' ascendancy the Ereoch are
seeking to acoolre—tke revolutionary effeas of
which are not, perhaps, Vety distant.—The language
of the Frtnukt at Hambuigh,•' on .the news of the
blocklide Was, that if they could diffite the measures
tel the British .Ninistry, they could not be. more
promotive of their ,views, and 'that they should
thenceforth study to gain that opinion which Eng-
land was certainly losing-4E :should be known,
that, besides' the 'distress produced in 'the middling
and higher clashes by the blockade,
,there ate in ,
Hamburgh alone, upwards of twelve thousand
liigivermen, and other labourers conneaed with
• business,, who are entirely beggared by its suspen.
Ilion, and it should be recolleited that this descrip.
tion.of men do not trace out the mediate and remote
.causes may justify a public measure
to refined States Men, but deliver themselves up to
feelings of desperation towards that Power that
immediately oppresses them.; the cooperation of
these men, wish a proportionate number of disaffect-
ed in other places in the vicinity, will go far to aid
any Praiteis of Reform, which, the French may have
contemplation: On thrOther haati, had this Go.
rernment -put no check to the'impatience and im.,
betuosity natural to Frenchmen, it is certain, that
*fore this time, they would have committed some
aggression whiCh would have awakened the apa-
thetic.Couneils, and excited the general feeling of
that Country against them.
All bloCkaeles- have a retrosptelive .and ruinous
operation on the commerce 'Of distant and unapprized
" Some striking instances'ot The' reipeit the Ftench were
elisposed to strew to Ncul rat Flags, occurred. between the
occupation of Hanover and the blockade of the Elbe, two
Within the Writer's knowledge ; the. Port Mary, Captain
Collins, and the, Joseph, Capt. Sallie, hoth richly laden ,it
Hull, with nauutheitiredgoods,avowedis bhlppeti for British
account were &uttered to puss, uninteriiiptod at Stade, up to
Hainburgii.
See the reasons of Mitiistty for relut,ing to ratify. the
Ilartoseriars C:apitulation.

f
nrierala—An nistinee fottria a shade of
. .
°brawn, and of no light tint, against the measure
under consideration—,-There cannot be a more neutral
commerce than that between- the United States of.
America and Hamburgh; this commerce, without
any previous notice, is distorted from its course by
an unforeseen measure .of hostility—this, joined to
the other complicated restrielions on their trade,
must produce extensive individual distress, and tend'
to irritate the public mind in that Country.-
/ .
As the meeting of ParliaMent is at hand, the
Leaders of the Opposition will, as usual, prefer their
various articles of impeachment against Ministers ;
this important subjet will, no doubt, form a pro.
minent item in their bill of censure.--I therefore
resign its management to those who have infinitely
more leisure, 'ability and influence, and am satisfied
with having proved myself at least,
A WEL,L-WISHER TO lIANIBURCII
• AND ITS TRADE.