The Sun.
London, England, 1803-04-07 00:00:00

seize him.

The iTpoit bf a Contagious Disorder prevailing
at Prank art, has been officially untrAiaed the
Magistrates of that City.
The Official joorrali i.v gi-inT the text of the
• ti % '
Calitulation gthoted 1y ste s.n.yisn Commandant
at the Cap if qqa jive, -to the Troops sent
by Hollaild to take. possession of thacColonr,
according to, tllC terms or the Treafy, makes
only one remark, whteh is this, A CAPITULA,
TION ax TINLE OF PEACE. observation pre-
vents the necessity of entering into any detail, to
spew every one Com. the proceedipga_orthe English
Government, ,smith respea p a friendly Nation, are
odious and tyrannicA.--(C;pien Francais.) .
HAGUE; Atacit z 5 •
report is in circulation,
that our government has applied to one of the firs;
Powers of the North, to obtain pertnission to lire_
serve a state biNeutrality, in case of a War be.
tween France anti Lig14,1,1.

It was stated a few days ?go, that the Texe/-was
Flicked up, by an English t.iquatiron this report
caused the Funds to WI 2 per Cent. but the next'
day it was discovered to k false.
STUTGA RD, MARCH 2:5•.--•-ACtOlding to Letters
from Bade, a great number of French Troops are.
exhaled to 'march from the interior of FrJrice to
the Southern porti of Italy. The greater part of
the French Troops in SWifzerland, will ptobably
be sent there also. The "situation, of affairs be-
tween Feance and Englaild
,induces the Fit%q Corisul
to assemble considerable' forces in the Southern parts
of Italy. •

131tUSSECS, NIARCH 3l.—Accordipg to the last
letters from Pat r, which may be considered as
official, the First ConsUl will arrive : in this city
about the zsth or 26th cf the month; 'and -fresh
Orders have been given to hasten the preparations-
for his reception. .
The ad Battalion of the 76ih. Demi.brigade,
which was in garrison at !Sialines, has received,
unexpeaedly, orders to March' to AnteiOerp. It has
already set out for that place, %Oleic it will receive
further orders as to its ulterior destination.
The City.of Az:twerp. has deterinined to present
to Mad. Bor.l.rattie a Diamona Aigrette of great
value and beauty ; and a Fete is to be given to the
First Consul on the qrheldt, which will surpass in
magnificence any thing, ever seen in Belgium. At,
Marixer,they are nod;' at work,in preparing a splendid
Robe of Lace for Mad. BONAPIITE. Several Let,'
ters trim the Banks of the Rhine,' state that an in-
tertiew will pOsitivbly 'take place. between the
KING of PRE/bSIA anti ~the First Consul at Dhss-a_
do rf; •

Yesterday morning, at ',ten minutes past ten
o'clock, died, at ,hia house in :I"iccadilly, in the
74th year. of his age, ahe Right Hon. Sir WILLIAM,
HAMILTON, K. B. &c. He was taken.ill about a
lostnight,ago he'retained his facultieslto the tat,,•
and expired without a groan.7—Sir WtwaNt.was
a man of most extraordinary enclowmentic wind his
memory will be dear to the literary,world-by.the in.
defatigable exertions which he nude through life ,
to- add to our stock of knowledge, and . 4,rnotlels
in the fine arts, His,whOe, :life, indeed, .was de.
voted to studies •conneeled with the ,Arts, and he
made ev.ery,interest coot; ibute, to the:passion of his
soul, He was the foster.brother ut his present ,
MA JESTy, which laid
stlie foundation of that gra-
cious attachment 'aid friendship with which 'he was
honoured tiy the Kt N 9 through the %Auk of hiS
public set V ice. _fly that' immediate protedion:he•
procured the favourite appointment'of Minister at
the
,Court of Naples, which he enkiye,t, with the
uni.,Aetrupted approbation of the two Courts, .for,
yeats, and which he would not chimp
for more :uerative situations : during all this tune,
we need-not enumerate the zealous and successful
eir.,,rts that he made in bringing to light the buried
treasures of Antiquity ; and in promoting a.. just
and correa tasty Artsi. by. making known in
his works the specimens of The pure and chaste stile
of the classic mra that he h"J'd discovered., He
was !Telly adive anti .succesaful in the duties of
his appointment. He maintained the most' perfect
harmony between the tts:o Courtsott a i4riod when
it required all his influence amid address to counter.
aft the deSigns. of those who had an ~interest in a
breach of the amity that so happily subsisted. And
the 'English Nobility anti Gentry who travelled
into Italy, ipeak with the warmest. acknowledge:.
moots of the splendid hospitality, with which.he re.
presented his Sovereign. About twelve years ago,
he married Lady' HAMILTON, and •never, was union.
produttiverof more petfea felicity. The anxious
solicitude, the unwearied attentions,
the dOltielitlC,
duties, joined,to the uncommon talents and mom-
plishinents of Lady HAMILTON, were the sources
of the purest happiness to them_ both, as, well as
of delight to the circle in" which they lived. Sir
SVILLIAM derived from his .LadY, in his last. ill.
ness, all the consolations of which life was suscep.
tible, and he at length, without a struggle or a
sigh, breathed his last breath in her arms.'.
Lord ,NaLsoN attended the, dying -moments of
his friend Str.Wtwats HAtat.VroN witbsthe most
affeelionate assticinityi-anJ.was Yrasvnt when. he cx.
I Fired.

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Acv itistar..ci2 of suicide occurred yesterday, of zrl
e*ltraOrdinar.,• most laMentable kind. Mr. HA.B.:
GOO, partner in the linine
and whOleSale haberdashers; in •Ro9d,'
iane, Fenelinrch-siteet,menipted`6 period tG
his otistenee,- at hi 3 StoclAroker's, Mr. Ct. K'S;
in Princes.tmeet, cloe.to- the 'Bank: Fol. several
days it had been obserYe4; that lie was,
verymelan_
and a—partictilar .wildneas about his .eyet- .
wth., noticed. Yesterday he rose soddenly from dirt
tier, v:ent out to take a walk, it was -supposed.':
lie went to his S'ock'-broker's as above, wtwe' he
cow: cried. fcr sorme time with Mrs. Ct. Et x : but
while left alone, he: kegiritr into 2 small a-partmen.
tal;int frolti riff the dei. the Clerk's penknife, with' ,
Whleh'fte.'eur hreitit' in- a most deliberate ant
determined manner, cueing, and, hacking it wiri
resolution that could -Anse .anlifromAnsaniry. , He
was heard to groan,; il.tiviTte 47tioiSei.atid.Ctt koinl
ro* thecloset,'he').coa,r4i-ouild and :Woo*
streaming from his throar.';'. This was, about half '
past two o'`elOck. The fail" transpifed; and a con-
CZul-se of people instantly assembled round the' dotiFir
Two Sargeons• were sent for, who sewed. up the
' .
He remained alive and sensible last night, but •
so weak forn lois'afblood, and a cut in the wind-
' pipe; that 'very little hopes were entertained of
recovery. • It is supposed' Mrs HAI3Gdb4D
tedthii deed in consequence of losses in the funds;
His partners and friends do not believe` he ever'
seeculifted in the Funds, and impute his conduit to
a fit of He Is supposed tobe" Worth so
or 30,0ct01. and certainly any losses he may have
sustained cannot, hare affededliisTortune, though
they may have depressed lA'spirits. He has heere
long in hnsiness, is sixty-siit'yettrs of tige, and has
three children---:onekettro rtitighters married. i lis
condut't is mote to
lie 'imputed to a melancholy state_
of mind than any 'other misfortune.

• , ;CO)'p thefollowing from a Paper of this
morning
Du FL.—Yesterday evening a duel, of most se..
rious consequences, took . One at Chalk Farm.
- About six o'clock two Gentlemen alighted from-
two.hackney -coaehes,,.at, Chalk
into .an adjbiniog :field, each followed by a set..
vent- with a.•.sioalt :box. . These,conteined pistols.
The .patties took. their 'ground, at• about twelve
paces distance, and 'both :fire& together. At, tlie
first fire one 1:11, and the other 'was wounded
in, the belly, supposcdAnorrely ; but be was- able
to:walk off the field, aid go away in his
.hackney,
coach. • He
.who felt is
.a tail lian4A3ree Scotsman.
COlonel.in the G.ua ids... Ile %vas cat rieti into Chalk.
Farm Douse.. • His name we could not learn,
.The
other is, Col , of the t tiaras, as, we undet.
stand ; bust we must he excused from meotiOoillg,.
wines, or. farther.paticalars, till we are more accu.
rately:infornitelati , . •
In ;case of .a :war betWcen this Country and
Fraiice, we've extremely likely to have the Ame-
ricans as. our allies., in consequence of the condua
towards them of the-• Consular Government respeti.:
in4Lortifiona.
flit French, it is said, have irtiptirtedetincri. the
Peace, ten thcetsand roes of ilemip.froni Petersbuigh
this article, preps rly replied, plight be of great use
to that Nation. •
The liforriteur of -Friday last,' adverrieg ..to the
Convention settled by the British and o:at:avian
Troops at the Cape, '•confents itself with the
lowing brief aeostrophe,. ". A CAPITtitATION
IN TIME of. PEACE!! !" in.answer to this pith)
exclamation, If iMiy be :said--In time of .Peace
Fiance annexed' .4,viirmort to its'ovv.n territories 1 fat
time of Peace Franee compelled. Ehreabrettieirt td
capitulate ! in time of- Prace. France:, first in vaded
S.ivilzerlrthzi I in ip'z of Peace France again in;
vaded that unoffehtliog country I' -iv time of 'Peen*
KINQ. SARDANIIS.) Was obliged ti give up.
Pie'chitont I' .111 cane !treats France obliged the
GRAND -DUKE Of "I:U.SCANY to leave his coantry
be timeßf .Pence Box Aemyre ,surprizecl Malta and.
conquered. J y z !'..ln. time of Peace Bpaio Was
forced to rAitiquisli Lost;?inual, 'three of Peace
France *took possession, of Parma -and Placcrizalf
tune. of" Peace the Island of .Alb r was
France! Itt-t.ime of Pew Holland aed Sevitterriavd
were occupled J)y. French ..Troops! la.l;rne of
Peace ;Genoa, Venice, ttind Sarpv were attacked,
conquered, and plundered I Amy other events of
the same kind 'might be not iced among .the llpstile
operations of in time of Peace, but these
will suffice at present, as 4n 'enswer to the cut=
hatie apt)! tr aphe of that chronicle of his to/it: t rut h,
T
Loid 1111::_vit.t.e.was chosen, on Tuesday seen.:
night,,,Gover:lne of the. Bank of Scotland, The
Duke 0111-The-raose., ;via the Earls of KELLiy,
LAUDERDALE, 1)ALIIOUSI Et and GLdiicow., were
at the same time chosen Extraordinary. Dirdlors.'
The Solicitor-General 'hai given an opinion---
" That persons ballotted or inrolled itythe Militia,
before, any order for embodying or calling' the same
into atc,luel service, are not entitled to any allow.
.ante under the tizti Sedion of the Militia' Ad'
lately passed."
Died on Sunday, the 3d inst. at Wildicor, after
a few days .ilknass, most sincerely and deservedly,
lamented, the Rev. JOHN J. ANSON BROMW,ICIrit
Chaplain to the 38th Regiment, and upwards .of 40
years Vicar of Poshall, Staffordshire.,
iinnrrah Davis, conviaed at the Essex Assizes,
some years,singe, tor robbing a Drover of-1100h at
the 'Three Ikalabits at Ilford, by taking his clothes
Crum under his pillow, is now the principal farmer
at. Bolas) Bay continues a single woman, not.
• withstanding the ce:tek,c4 of her charns, anti bet
beitig the first female fonvid landed in that New
World. .
MANseort-tiouso..—Yesterday Mrs. Levy, Red.
Mali' and Battman, had,lMother hearing befere
tllr
Loaf) NC,yott, relative to Miss Levy's children;
Nothing transpired in addition to what has been al.
featly laid before the Public,' except that the Over.
seers and Cl.uraliwartiens of Ahlgate Parish attend.
ed to give cognizance to carry on the prosecution.
The three Prisoners. were fully committed; and
Naral9n, • the .reptied father, gave bail for his ap.
pearance.`