The Sun.
London, England, 1803-04-25 00:00:00

LO:: DON, APRIL 25, 1803.

Tti E Paris Papers of the zoth, and the two pre_
ceding days, arrived on Saturday at so late an hour,
that we were unable •to make any ExtraCts from
them ; we have therefore this day seledled the most
material articles which they. contain. The ,Papers
of the list arrived this morning.—lt appears from
the Moniteur, that Mons. de BUSY having failed
in his endeavours 'to persuade Sir ALEXANDER
BALL to evacuate Malta, applied to the French
Minister resident there for his interference. Gene.
• ral VIAL accordingly addressed a long letter to
Sir A. BALL upon the subjeCt, and amore curious
specimen of diplomatic reasoning •we believe was
never exhibited. He appears, however, to have a
little more regard to truth than the Direaor of the
.M:oniteur ; for though he' acknowledges that the.
Great Powers of Europe were to guarantee the Inde.
pendence of Malta, yet he does not venture to assert
. what was stated in the Official Paper of the French
Government, viz. that Russia and Prussia had acted.
ed to the Guarantee. Rut Gen. VIAL makes up for
the'want of hardihood in his assertions, by the un-
common iogenuity of his reasoning. He admits
that the Independence of Malta was stipulated .for
. in the Treaty of Amiens, and he acknowledges
that that Independence was to he guaranteed by
the Great Powers of Europe. Having conceded
these two points, it would puzzle a man of ordinary
talents to extricate himself from the difficulty in
which such concessions naturally placed him ; but
the''French General, without any hesitation, con-
tends that no importance is to be annexed to the
Guarantee of the Great Powers of Europe ; that they
were aprely requested to undertake the office as a
mark of pouteaesr, which they were at liberty•to
refuse, if tliey, thought paper, and therefore the
Island ought without further delay to he. given
up. The answer of Sir A. 'BALL to this irgenious
produCtion is not given, bu: we may venture to pre.
dift -that he was not convinced by General V
reasoning.

The Mcwiteur appears to be extremely oirended at
a paragraph which appeared in THIS PAPER, star.
ing, that Mow. de. Busy, the Lieutenant to the
new Grand Master of Malta, was a Frenehman.
This asieetian the Moniteur declares to, be completely
false: M.'Busy, it is said, was born in some town
in the Papal Durainio' ns, but the name of the town
is •by some" unfottuttate 'accident omitted. How_
cerr, to convert this Gentleman completely into an
hiS name is changed, and he is no longer
MOnsieur Busy, but Signer Buzi. Some censures
wri the English Journalists then follow, and they
are tepresenteci as reasoning with , the smile good
faith as the Wolf and the Lamb in the Fable. KN.
ing' stumbled upon this unlucky comparison, the
Maniteur proceeds to add, that the French are
not the Lamb which is to be,devoured. Now, as
there arc but two beats mentioned in the Fable,
and if' France is not the Lamb, it requires no great
powers of dedulion to discover by which beast the
Maa;teur conceives her to be most naturally refire.
served.

The French Fund; are s 3. Os.

This morning arrived a Mail from New. York
and Halifax, brought to. Fa:inouth by the Queen
Charlotte Packet, 'in-17 days froin Halifax..

Or. Saturday morning, soon atter breakfast, Hts
NlAjesTv, attend:Ll by General Gwyw, left
"Windsor for Brick-bridge, where Tits MAJESTY
Prriveti alto-ut eleven o'clock, On the arrival or
Idtc IVlAJk.vry, the Eirl of, SANow ICH gave tlire,c.
tions for the deer to be turned out for the day's
tlivrrsion, -At starting, the deer r,in with great
swiftness toward,' the Bill and Bear, and made
thtough Lord Bitii,VnttooKE's Park, m.;king to
thelett of i,awrence Waltham, and through the in.
6,,,ttres to the right of TWycet, and crossed the
L fill road, but soon made a double .back, and was
Ruskliam Leak Church, which is
iirt,..en miles from Windsor, after a very
!,;0,4 ion of above an hour. In the course of
nionbcra of the oliortamen were thrown

,Litti.ty morning Het; MAIRSTY, RIO the PR IN-
C.i NUGIATA., ELIZADETH, and MARY, at.
1., by Lady Climt.LoTTE WYNNE and Mrs.
.cook in airing to Frogmore. The Nita.
Sum and'AMPI,I.A, attended by General
}-lAitcutritT and Mrs. HARcouvr• reluk an airing
un :seback in Windior Great Palk.

Ye .refthiy morning THEIR MAJE.',T,IRS And the
PitlnCE4sEi, :uterided by General GwYtt, Equerry
in Wolfing, General 1-lAttcouler, the Honourable
L.ldy WYNNII)
Mrs. Dicmc, and the Hun Vittr,Ltfl Pima,

tended Divine Service at Sr. Genrge's Chapel, mere
an excellent sermon was preached by Dr. Mime,
Canon in Residence, from the 3,l chapter of
lossians, and the zoth verse, "Children obey lour
parents in ail things, for this is well pleasing into
the Lord."

The QUEEN will hold a Drawing-Room at St.
James's on Thursday next.
The PR INC ESS of `VALES was expeßed•at RUM.
gate on Saturday evening : part of Her Royal Hgh-
ness's household has been there for some days. •

Lord CARk I NCTON had a party at I ligh Vy.
combe, on Wednesday last, consisting of Mr. P.TT,
Mr. LONG, and some other of his friends.

, Lord CHOLMONDELE r and Family were expeled
to quit Paris yesterday for London.
Yesterday the BT9IIOP of LONDON held an °Ai-
nation at the Chapel Royal, St. James's, after wlich
a very excellent Sermon was preached by the Pev.
Dr. MADAN, from the zd chapter of St. Luke, tnd
the z9th and three following verses.
On Saturday was held a Board of Appeals, at the
Privy Council Office ; at which were present, Ilis
Grace the Duke of PORTLAND, the MASTER of Mc
RoLLs, &C.

A 'very material reduction has taken place at
Lloyd's, in the Rates of Insurance of Vessels against
all risques generally, the premiums being now stick
as are usual in periods of confirmed peace. The charge
on a vessel from London to any Port of the Chanrtl,
or on the Western Coast, is one-fifth less than a week
ago to the Southern or Eastern Ports of Ireland, it
has been reduced from a guinea and a half to 25
shillings ; to the Western and Northern Ports, from
two and a half to two guineas ; to Calais, Boulogne,
Dieppe, &c. from two guineas to 205. ; to the Ports
of the Sound and Baltic, from two guineas to 3os. ;
:o Madeira, from two guineas to 40S. ; on the India
Company's ships, from five to four guineas ; on
other British ships to India, six to four ; and on
those hound to Africa, and theme to the West In.
dies, &c. from ro to 61.
Amt-York Papers to the 22d of Mareh arrived on
Saturday : one of .them, under eye Philadelphia,
contains the following article: gg Capt. OAKFORD,
of the Susannah, from Rouen, is the bearer of Pis.
patches from our Minister at Paris. It appears that
Mr. LIV/NGSTON IS dissatisfied with• his situation.
He commands none of the respect. and deference due
to the station of a Minister from an enlightened anti
great nation. This dissatisfaaion, we understand,
has induced him to solicit a speedy recall."
Bermuda Papers were received on Saturday to the
gth March inclusive : the Leander, of go guns ;
Cambrian, of 40 ; lEolni, of 32 ; Pheaia#t of 18 ;
and Lilly, of 16, were there at that date. The
/Edur arrived the preceding Wednesday from Ja.
maica, with a detachment of the 7th regiment ;
and the Lilly on Monday, from Antigua, where
she was new masted and refitted after the Decem-
ber gale, in which it was feared she had foundered.
We are sorry to learn, however, that Lieutenant
WALLER and Dr. O'BuRN died at Antigua, sup.
posed from the effeasof the great fatigue they en.
" countered on that occasion, and that the master of
the sloop was left' dangerously ill at St. John's.
The Rattan frigate was in atmpton Roads on the
2oth ult. The Andromacke, early in March, ar-
rived at New Providence, from Bermuda.

Considerable emigration has taken place from
Bermuda to Turk's Island, upwards of four hun.
dred persons are reported to have removed thither
from the parishes of Somerset, Port Royal and
Heron Bay. Fresh provisions were much wanted
at Bermuda.

Saturday the arrival, off Portsmouth, of the
Thom, and ;Palmer Caitle, from Bombay and China,
and the Tellithery, ham) Bengal, under convoy of
His Majesty's Sloop Peva:l4 was announced at
the India-House. The Lady Jane Dundas and Wai.
thamstow are hourly expetted, having sailed from
St. Helena the loth March.

The Warner Cattle sailed from St. Helena rsth
MaTch, 'spoke a Dane the same day,
.which sailed
from Bombay the 23(1 December, whence the corn.
'with,- Sir Edward llaghes, and Earl St. Vincent,
were to sail the 28th, The Sprightly, whaler,
arrived at St. Helena zth March ; and the Royal
George, homeward.bound, was to sail from thence
on the r6th March.

A Letter from Gibraltar, dated April it says,
" The Dragon Man of War arrived here last night,
in eleven days, from Malta, and sails for England
this morning. None of the Troops from Egypt
had arrived when the Dragon sailed ; but by a
vessel.from Aboukir Bay, they were toll that the
Army was to embark on the Ist of March.. His
Royal Highness the Governor sails kom this on the
toth of April, in the Anrazon Frigate, to the great
regret of all the inhabitants. They have sub-
scribed twelve hundred guineas to present him with
a diamond star, as a smhil, tribute of their afitltion
and gratitude. The-Expediriotr and All;gaior, with
the zd Battalion of ROyals on board; tailed ibr
England this day." .
Yestertlay, at the MArquis CourwAtt,ti's, in
Burlington-street,. the Lady of Lord. Viscourit,
Bawdy was safely delivered of a Daughter.

, To-morrow a Court of Aldermen will be held at
Guildhall, to sweat into Office JOsErit Bust-How,
Esq. Comptroller of the Chamber, in the room of
,P. W. Caowritez, Esq. lately deceased, and to
ele4 a Keeper of the Poultry Compter, in the room
of Mr- JOHN TEAGUE, deceased. Ills Lordship
will proceed to business at twelve o'clock.
The Aberdeenshire and Fifeshire Fencibles have
at length been disbanied at Naas and Kilkenny, A
week previous to the order, permission was given
to the men to enlist into the Regulars, 'and .on the
day of reduaion about rso of the Fifeshire did
Some days since, in digging for' the
.foundation
of a house in the new. buildings, tiLbe called Skin.
ner:stteet, Snow.hill, eleven guineas, and six half
guineas, of the reigns of Charles IL; fames 11. and
William 11J. a Louis d'Or of Louis 11, drnoidore,
24, shillings of Chailes LI and two of James I, were
found by the workmen.
The Senator GR EGO T RE, who Was lately in Eng.
land, has set out from Paris for Hollaqd to make Ob.
servations upon the manners, the commet4, anti
the airiculture of the inhabitants.

NAV4L
NEWS.

PLYMOUTH, APRIL 23.

Tat Mars and Spartiate, of 7¢ guns each, went
out of Harbour this morning, and anchored in Caw-
sand Bay.

Arrived the American ship Elizabeth, Captain
DELARNO, laden with cotton, &c. from Charles-
town, put in for orders ; also the schooner Lard
Neltog, of this Port, Capt. CROWTE, from Messi.
na, with oil, &c. seveniieeti days from Gibraltar.

Arrived the Ringmore, Captain PALK, laden with
provisions, from Waterford bound to Newfound-
land, put in to refit, having sprung a leak,at sea.
Passed by, La Prevoyante armed Store-Ship,
Capt. W. BROWN, laden with hemp, from Fiume,
for Portsmouth.

Sailed the Brig Cultivator, Capt. PERCY, from
Malaga, for London ; and the Neptune, Capt.
DENNING, from Oporto far Exeter.
The Prussian Galliot Morning Star, Capt. E. S.
MALLER, which put into this Port some time since
in distress, on her voyage from Bourdeaux to Am.
sterdam, laden with wine, having been re.fitted and
about to proceed on her voyage, in turning out of
Catwater this morning, missed stays, and ran on
the rocks of Mount Batten, where she remains,
but hopes are entertained, if the weather proves
moderate, that she will be got of.
Arrived the Town:bend ReVenue Bdg, from Ire.
land.

P.S. The Prussian Galliot Morninr Star, has
just been got off, and towed into Harbour, with
two feet water in her hold.

PORTSMOUTH, Aral'. 24.

Hts Majesty's Ships Dragon, Alligator, and
Prevoyante, on their passage from Gibraltar to
England, on the Bth instant, fell in with two
French Line of Baffle Ships, 'off' Cape St. Vincent's,
standing to the southward ; one of them bore a
Rear.Admital's Flag, and the other a Broad Pen.
dant. Upon their discovering the British Ships,
they hauled their wind to the westward.