The Sun.
London, England, 1803-12-16 00:00:00

HOUSE OF PEERS.

THURSDAY, DECFNIBER lg.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN,

SIR,

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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

THE Royal Assent was given,, by Commission,
to the M.slt Tax Bill, the Place and Pension Duty,
the Irish Habeas Corpus Suspension, the Irish Mar.
tial Law, the Seamen's•Desertion, the Bank Re.
ritrietion, the British Sugar Bounty Drawback, the
Irish Provisiorr Import, the Irish Oats Distilla.
lion, the Small ,Notes, the East India Bonds Duty,
the Annual Indemnity, the Curates' Relief, and the
Portugal Wines Bonding Bills,
The Lords Commissioners were, the LORD CHAN-
eEpLOR; the Earl of Rost,u4, and Lord WAr.stNc.
11AM, •

•-After some routine and private business. was dis-
positt
Mr. VA NSITTART, accompanied by several Mem.
;,cfs, brought up from the House of Commonsjthe
Volunteer Corps Regulation Bill.
The Bill was forthwith read a first time : and,
on the Motion of Lord WALstigottAm, ordered to
be printed;
His Lordship toolethe opportunity to state, that
should the Prints be' on the Table to-morrow, it
was 'his intention then to in for the second read-
ing of the Bill.
Adjourned till to-morrow.

HOUSE OF COMMONS,
THUItSDAY, DEC. 15.
THE House was summoned to the House ofTeers
by the I.l,her. of the
,Black RA, On its return the
SPEAKER. stated, that the Royal Assent had been
iven, by Commission, to the Irish Habeas Corpus
bucpension Bill,.the Irish Martial Law Bill, and se.
vcral other Bills.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
rise to move, that the House should at its rising
adjourn to Monday next. He wished, however,
to stare, that early after the Recess he intended to
move for the appointment of a Committee to inquire
into the causes of the differences between the Cot.
ton Ivlannfadoters and their Workmen ; and also
for a Committee to inquire into the differences be-
tween the Duties on Malt in England, and on Beer
and Bigg in Scotland.
The Motion was then agreed 'to, anti the Com.
mimes of Supply and Ways and Means fixed for to.
morrow, having been postponed to Monday, the
House adjourned at four o'clock till Monday.

PERMIT me, through the channel of your Paper,
to convey to those who direft the defensive opera.
tions of War, the very great apprehensions I am
tinder respeCting the consequences that will attend
the first alarm of Invasion. The Beacons, we are
told, are to be lighted all round the CoaSt, 'so that
the alarm will. be general from Norfolk to Kent,
and from thence to Devonshire, and no tine will be
at all able to judge where the Enemy is lands&
and of course every one will conclude he is at his
own door. The confusion and distress will be be.

you! expression dreadful, and the loss to the Public
very great indeed, as well as to individuals. To
obviate this, I shonld TOSt that only two Beacons
bhouil be lighted on the Coast, one on each side of
the line of the Enemy's binding place, which would
be sufficient to give notice to the interior country,
and point out to them the ex ii spot where he was
making, the attempt. And these two Beacons
should take the alarm, nut nne from the other,
but each from his own knowledge of the fart only.
As to the Interior Country, they may light as many
Beacons as they please, without the like dauber
from the 'alarm ;..because when the, 'lnhabitants
know there arei7thirty or forty miles between them
and the Enemy, thiy will nut be in such a hurry
to while.
Sir,
Your humble Servant,
Dec. 8, 1803. ; CAUTION.

&SPIV ID.
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PRICV; OF STOCKS,
THIS DAY AT TWILLYI O'CLOCK.
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LONDON: DECEMBER i 6, 1803.

AT the ruomnit our Paper was abaut to be put
to VMS,' the two liamksrgla Mails due, arrived.
By an article from rienaa of the 3oth ult. we learn
that advice had been received there, that the Aug.
trian Garrison iii the Fortress of Oberhass, near
Passau, had been expelled by a Bavarian Detach-
ment of superior force. On the Oth fits IMrs.
tc i Al. MAJESTY issued orders for the Troops on the
BaVarian Frontiers, together with others from 80..
iternia and Austria, amounting to 12,000 Caval»
ry, and twenty-seven Battalions of Infantry, to ad.
vance against the Bavarians.

A Courier had been sent off from Vienna to. Mu-
OA. All the Foreign Ministers at the former
place sent off Couriers to their respeOive Courts
with this important intelligence.
An Article from the Batiks of thr Mayne of the
ioht, says, that by Letters from Vienna it ap.
pears that that Capital would become the centre of
important Negotiations. The Court of N,.%ertna, in
colijunaton with Prussia and Russia, Itas offered int

mediation, and presented a new plan of peace. To
this article very little credit is to he attached.
The malignant fever at Malaga was upon the
decline.

An article by these Mails, dated from the Hague,
December „,states that the Expedition against
England will now be deferred till th Spring.

YESTERDAY evening Dutch Papers were received
in Town, by which we are put in possession of the
Paris news of the 3d December. The accounts are
still continued from all quarters, of the immense
preparations that. are making for the 'lnvasion, of
the marching of Tioops, and of putting Vessels in
requisition. The FIRST CONSUL was expefted
very shortly to leave Paris, for the purpose of ac.
celeratingthe: preparations, or perhaps of superb!).
tending die-Embarkation.
These Papers do not furnish us with any addi.
tional information respelling the differences which
are said to subsist between Russia and France.
Count MARCOFF has probably before this quitted
Paris : it was remarked when he presented his Let.
ters of recall, that he confined himself strialy to
the communication which etiquette obliged him to
make, without interchanging the slightest personal
civility with the First Consul.

The Capture of the Squadron under Admiral
Lt Not, still remains a subjeCt of doubt, although
the intellipnce has been in some degree confirmed
by reports brought by the AurpicioNs, Captain
BARKER, which sailed from Calcutta on the 26th
of May. In her passage home she fell in with an
American Vessel, the Mate of which stated, that
he was actually present when Admiral RA►NIER
took possession of the French Ships in Pondicherry
Roads.

The Gazette of last night announces Abe capture
of a French Armed Lugger from St. Domingo, by
the Roadicca Frigate. The accounts which the
Crew'gave of the .situation of the ill ated French
Army which the First Consul, with his usual hu.
minify, has devoted to destrudion in St. Domingo,
are really dreadful—We say devoted to.destruflion,
because nothing but the most positive-orders from
the French Government, _could induce General Ro.
CHAMItEAII to persist in resistance, without the
slightest hope of success, and without the remotest
prospea of relief. •

His Majesty's Ship Gannetairived on the t zth
inst. at,F4mouth front Lisbon, after a passage of
twelve days. .She is said to have brought Dispatches
of considerable importance, probably relative to the
part which France will compel Portugal to take
against Ibis Country. At Lisbon it was considered
as certain that Spain would be forced to declare
War against Great Britain, and the accounts which
we have received from Gibraltar, of the arming in
the Spanish Ports, seem to confirm that opinion.

A Dublin Mail of the loth arrived this morning,
but its contents are uninteresting.
This morning arrived a Mail from the Leeward
Islands, brought to Faltnouth by the Lai Arabella
Packet, in ihirry-three days.
It is understood that Major.chneral BAUM is
exchanged for one of the French Generals returning
to France. We hope that in consequence, that ex-
cellent Officer will be immediately employed.
The House of Commons yesterday adjourned• to
Monday, on which day or Tuesday Parliament will
probably adjourn for the Christmas Recess.
The idea of erecting a Beacon on the Cathedral
at York, is given up ; instead of which it is, we
understand, to be fixed • upon Severus's Hill, near
Aycomb. _ _

Letters and Papers from Cork, of the 7th Ins.tant,
receivediyesterdayr state, that very strung works
are immediately to he eredtd along the shoic of
Bantry Harbour. Several Engineer Officers have
already surveyed the ground.
There were on the 4th, five sail of the line in
Beerhaven, and Admiral CALI3IIIt was hourly ex.
petted in the Prince of 'Pales, with the firitannia,
Goliath, Defiance, and Phintagotec.

The Night Goard4 of several Volunteer Corps
have been put a stop to for the present : the Royal
Westminster and the Prince of Wales's Volunteers
have already suspended the performance of that duty.
The Thanks of the DireCtors of the respective
Fire-Offices, have been reed to the different Volun-
teer Corps who rendered assistance at the late dread.
ful tire in Frith-street.

We are'sorry to state, that Captain MANSR 1,, of
His Majesty's Ship ihvebanter, lately received a
violent contusion on the head by the fall of a block
from the mast-head. It is hoped, however, that
no serious consequencp will ensue.
On Saturday last, while a large fleet of light
colliers were conning into Sunderland harbour
with the wind at South, and a heavy'sea on, many
of them, to' the number of at least eighteen, were
driven, by means of the- heavy swell, on the
North side of the 'harbour, where they sustaine4
considerable damage By their beating on the
shore in this situation, and coining in courigi
with each others rigging, several lost their masts
and bowsprits, and the brig Aatrea was totally
distrusted. The sloop William of Suntierlaorl,
loaded with potatoes and apples, was driven on'
shore behiod the north pier, and it is feared will:
be 4 mat wreck. The above *hips within the •
harbour were, however, all got of on Sunday
morning's tide! ericept the bin TwQ 4441'4;4,
liyhtch remained there on Monday.

NAVAL NEWS.

Firm the LONDON:G/I?ETTR,-Dc:. IS, ISO 3.

Admiralty Odfre, December 15, 1803.

Copy of at Letter from the lion. William Cornwallis,
Admiral of—the Blue, &c. to Sir Evan Netean,
Bart. dated7ff Ushant, the lotb instant.

• I have the Ironour to enclose, which you will be
pleased to communicate to the Lords Commissioners
Of the- Admiralty, a letter to me from Captain
land, of the Boadicea, giving an account of his
having captured, on the z,}►h of. last month, the
French National Lugger Le •\rancour, commanded
by Monsieur Bigot, Lieutenant de VaisSeau, who
wa3 charged with Dispatches from St. Domingo fur
France. I have the honour to be, &C.
W. CORN WALLIS.
His Majesty's 81,ip Boadicea at Sea,
November zs, 1803.

I have the honour to inform ybu, that last night,
Cape Finiiierre bearing N. F. distance eight
leagues, His., Majesty's ship under my command
captured the French National Lugger Le Vautour,
commanded' by Monsieur Bigot, Lieutenant de
Vaisseau, forty.thrce days from St. Domingo, hay.
ing a Commissarie de Marine on board charged
with Dispatches from General gochambeau at Cape
Francois. She is a very fast sailing vessel, cop_
pered, and pierced for sixteen guns, bad twelve
six.pounders mounted, ten of which were thrown
overboard in chase, and ninety.two men on board.
I have the honour to be, &c.
J. MAITLAND.
Hon. Admiral Cornwallis, &c. &c. &c.

FALmovirtt, Dec. 13.—Arrived this day the
Lady Arabella Packet, PORMIS, with Mails from
the Leeward Islands, and is gone into quarantine.

His Majesty's Brig Gannet, of 8 guns, Captain
BASS, arrived yesterday from Lisbon, after a pas-
sage of t 2 days. She is said to hive brought some
important Dispatches, with which Capt. BAst went
otrexpress immediately on his landing. • The Town.
the,nd and Wahingham Packets were arrived at Lis-
bon with Mails, and the former was expefted to
sail from thence for Falmouth about eight days after
the. Sloop of War.,—Passengers per the Gannet are,
DONALD CAMP ELL, and --- LB ESTER, ESq.
and Mr. 13IntocKe.

Sailed the tkim!rican Ship Alexander, Captain
Mimics KING, vViiit.tobacco, hit from- Norco!k-TOr.
London. This Ship spoke on her passage, the sth
inst. 20 leagues S. W. of Scilly, Le Brave, of 32
guns, and a (late Krieg George Packet) French Ship
Privateer, of 18 guns, in company ; they had been
out some titne,.and had captured a Guineaman and
a small Brig.

Also sailed the American Ship Kihvon, Captain
JOHN STEVENS, with tobacco, for Dunkirk. 'On
Sunday last, while lying in quarantine, this Ship
was struck with lightning, which knocked down
eight men (none• of which were injured) and did
some little damage to her mainmast.

The Ship Pelican, Capt. WILLtAst BROAD, for
Smyrna, which sailed on the 7th inst. in hopes of
overtaking the Convoy, which passed the same day
for the Mediterranean, has put back, not being
enabled to meet them.

Sailed the Portuguese Brig Potwar, Capt. Vim-
CP.NT DR GREDAOZE, with woollen, lirc. from
Havre for Lisbon.

The Earl Stexcer Packet, from Jamaica, was this
day released, and came down the harbour from
quarantine.

Passed this Port this evening, the American Ship
Govertior Strong, Capt. CLACK, in 34 days from
Alexandria, with 57s hogsheads tobacco, and pro.
ceeded on for Rotterdam. On the r ith inst. a few
leagues west of Scilly, saw 26 sail, most of which
were of the Line, standing to tlie Southward.

When His Majesty's Ship Gannet left Lisbon,
a War bet Ween Spain and this Country was thought
to be inevitable.
Passengers per Lady Arabella Packet—Lieut..
Colonel PAKINIIAM ; Captain* FOY, BLACK and
BEATTIE ; Messrs. BEAR, MACNAMARA. and BRAD.
MAW.

DEAL, Dec. ts.—Sailed last night the SulAr
Bomb, for Dungeness; and the Ha►py Stoop on a
Cruize.

The thiited Kingdom East India Ship, parted her
cables last night in a heavy gale of wind at East,
and drove on board the Fury Bomb; carried away
her bowsprit, by which she pitched away her fore
and mainmast and mizen.top-mast, and she is now
riding in the Downs, with her mizethmast only
standing. The Unitary Kingdom is riding under
the Break with only one anchor; a Deal Boat has
beer. launched at a very great risk, with an anchor
in, to go to her assistance.

In theVuwns—the Monarch, Utrecht, Euryalus. Leda,
Champion, Squirrel, L'Amaranthe, Lynx, Dins, bury,
Hecla;7lvvfskl, tutu, Zebra aust Cunthel.

Li v EurooL, DEc. iz.—The Elts
from Riga for this Pon, sailed on the atst alt. from
Elsineur, under convoy of the Clyde Frigate,
.and
parted in a violent gale of wind on the z zd on the
aamu evening struck on a reef of rocks near Man dal,
in Norway, when the Vessel went to pieces, and
only the Captain saved. The SI/air:tear, Et,/
':i9l4) (Nat the "Me Pl4,ce for this tort, was like.

wise lost a: the same rime—the ercw.tvere all savel
The Rachael, ELL 1 tiON, from Honduras to London,
was captured the zd inst. by the Corvette Valliant,
of 24. guns and 300 men, in lat. 49. to. long. 1 I. 01
and exile:led to he in But:Mean): that day.. The
Snow Afargev and Mary, Caott3Y, from hence for,
Cork, put into Milford in a violent
gale of wind,
after a very severe passage. The MUMllirili et.
GgEEN, from Poole to this Port,..is put_ into
mouth with the loss of her maintop-tnast. The-,
Balance, HIPLEIt, and Borne, from lience•'
far Lobeck,..have passed the Sound. The St. 41104::
Morric;-, had ninety Negroes on board at the
Catneroons, the yth June, and expkt%:d to leave
coast in about three weeks or a month. The Kies.
Bell, LITTLE, from Africa, at,Surinam, and seized
here. ' The Crescent, HAI- es, frcm Africa and
PAtbadoes at Jamaica. The Brook, Tupi;.Eß• from
ditto and ditto at ditto, after beating off a large
Schooner Privateer, full of men, off the West eriti
of Hispaniola. The Mars, WI LSUN, from St. Tho-
mas, at Lancaster, spoke the jahrh, KING; of Os
Port, from Africa at Bahamas.

HIGH COURT OF ADMIRALTY•

Tt; ES DAY the Right Hon. Sir WM. SCOTT pro..
ceeded to the adjudication of the following cases of
Ships and Cargoes :
The Wenskap, ,-- Deck Master.—This chip was
sailing under Danish 'colours.- with a cargo of salt. TO
Court in this ease snored the ship and cargo as claimed.
Prussianria nd sccollniori.rs—,
war
ahocal I, .Iyolaosrtusar.i—Janlidisisvlaiispsesairilectedotriincire
ground of a breach of blot:lade. -The Court restored the
.
ship and cargo, as claimed. ' .
Nossa Sen hen da Adjuda, --• Do Amok, Master.—Thls
was a Portuguese ship..which was also ierzed on the ground
of breach of -blockade. The Court in this case restored the ,
ship, but re
.erred the consideration of the cargo.
Fortuna, -- Ekedahl, Master.—
.is was a Swedish
Vessel, with a cargo of various artii:iit hound on a voyage 4
from Rouen to Elsuteur, and wachbrouglit in on the ground
of breaking the Blockade of Havre." " 'rite Court
the Captors
in this case I
restored the ship and cargo as claithed, but gave
their full exp. ‘i )--, - -
Resolution,ences Shapleigh, Master.4he ship am., cargo
were restored in this CAW, except* small part that was claim-
of AS Spanish property, which went to further proof, and a
part that was condemned as French property. The Court' .
also decreed freight and expences of the Neutral Master to 170
a charge upon the cargo.
The Vigilante
claFimrieedndass AAdmveenritenaren, —...... Paddock, Master.—The ship
and cargo (claimed as American property) were restored 11l
thiS case, but the Court allowed the Captors their expo
The Fame, ntaler, Master, —This ship was also
longing
gyatgeo
tfhreotn
property. Ship restored.
sailing under Bremen colours, laden with a cargo of rob.lor:
i ------- Harjers, piaster.--This ship ''""
Owner aCa
dalMe lais"t et: thereof,ilremci: . andT ilesic cCrYQUrgh°ll:
this case condemned the ship, together with tlijSocial the
°film:
adjudication of the rest of the cargo. , this case
L'Union, Chauvin, Master.—The Court in ~,,of
restored a parcel of goods as claimed.' Several other Ga'4o
the like description were also disposed of by the Cinirti '
it adjourned till tomorrow.

DISTRIBUTION OF PKIZE MONEY•

A distribution will
The
be made to the Crews of the fondroy-
aLut,
Corso,.fur
Audacious, Alexander, Success, and
Nio Lorso'llor the. capture of the Ville de Marseilles,
ta!
- 13, Barnard's inn, Holborn, on Thursday, the 9
.11
Instant, to the Parties, and on the fallowing day to thzir
A ttornies.
01.1.0.111.11011101.0.•
F;S:a rd Frigate, with a Fleet under Con.
"Y from Lisbon, are arrived off Lymington.
Letters from GibraPar of the dates of the 4th
and 7th of November, received in town yesterday,
"ate, that several Line of Battle Ships were getting
ready as fast as possible at Carthage.na, to join
- • -t Cadiz.

Squadron which is to be fitted out a.
many contradiaory statements have been made
with respea to preparations in the Spanish Ports,
that it it difficult to ascertain the truth. If Ships
of War are really preparing for Sea in the Ports of
Spain, there can lat no doubt whatever as to their
'bjeas as they must necessarily be at the disposal
of France.
A Boat belonging to His Majesty's Ship Print's, ,
if Or
"ge, under the command of Lieutenant As.
"Its" a ear e Ship 00
, of that Ship, emplOyed for procuring sea
the Noretand, which they iMmediately made
and found to be the Ardor, of London, from the
rest Indies, laden with sugar. ogee' s
%
placed in the most perilous situation by the negli
g
men, on
,the 20 oaober observed for,
ence or. ignorance of their pilot, having but. t!SP,
feet water round her, where she lay from nine
o'clock in the morning
.till five in the afternoon.
fortunately with little wird ; fa had it happened. to, .
must have been the consequence : she was at five'
blow but a mackarel breeze, inevitable destruelton
with much exertion, anti the assi,tance of anotherf
boat under the diredion of Lieutenant Lan't.sss/e
the same Ship, got off, put. -in a fair ""Y' ithig
Orange, received a Letter from Mr.
Master wished a more fOrtunate,terrninati°," o'd, -0
anti no more thought of, until I:e Vi 'lf '
b_ I cx, of Coopers.row,
voyage,
thanks,. through him, jollitb-e13;;:ii:
afterwards Captain RoGEtts, of the, Prflu I:
la r, couched in the handsomest
London, Owner
upon_ him for fifty guineas, tetinsit.tuarltditen:
to his Officers for their
turns and requesting Ca ,twin Rocca' woe draw
802110 Crews ; an adtai voluntary' geriCrOSitylinhist
licitcd, and unlooked for, which reiteaS Ole htens..
honour on Mr. BR ADDICK, diSpillyiqthe ge7,-„t
anti truly noble sentiments of ,a Brittsh Mercua-;,.
while it tends to convince aOrlirave Tars, th4'ith
steady Ind honest performance. 1
Ps their duty, w. i ,
stria attention tO the cOmmapdf:of their Sup
ert°":
to distribute to
0,
TaY very unexpededly givitlierc a Prizt, Oen a
the Buoy of the Nore.
. :.

..........--...................
.r, A mast daring robbery was committed at the
he was leaning
Earl of PETERSOROUGH's'hOttic in Portman-1400i
early yesterday morning. Tice first person Ih°
discovered it, was a -watchman, who accidental',
found the area gate open; about seven o'clock• !.
served the
.fitrW..an-d passage doors open, °rid
which_ he gaVe thi'alarn ; the butler immediately
after appear and went into the pantry with the
his dory; , on looking further, he ab• •
watchman, when it was found that all the silVer
plate, consisting of dishes,. a:large tea.pot, a Vain;
City of forks, spoons, and other things, of the Yal9.
of 2001. were stolen. It is supposed that the tiller
got in by taking a pane of glass from a window 101.
the side of the street door, through vliich they.co
0.
trivet! to remove the bolts arid other fasten" i
Nothing has yet tran•pireil to lead to a Malian 9
the persons concerned in this robbery,
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