The Sun.
London, England, 1811-02-15 00:00:00

NAVAL NEWS.

PLYMOUTH, Fen. 13.—Sailed this day the Lap.
wing Revenue cutter, Capt. FRAZSR, Oiith the came
extra ship, tram Bombay, last Irani Cork, under
convoy fa- the River.

Also sailed the Charles hired armed brig, with a
fleet of transports and tnerchanitnen under convoy
for the Dawns, consisting of about 40 sail. Among
them are the following vessels, viz.
William, Gilchrist ; the American vessel Victory, Rich ;
Orb, Hill ; ZEolus, Sendry ; Robert and Mary, Richards;
the American ship Washington, Grigg; Adventure, tiol
land ; Eliza, Bridgeman; and the Supply naval. transport,
for London,

DEAL, Fen. 14.—Came down from the River
the Castle Eden, and Metcalf, East Indiamen, :for
Madras and Bengal.
FIVE o'CLoca..—Tbe whole of the outward
bound are getting under weigh.

PoIiTSMOUTif, FRB. I 4,—Ar rived the Mapper
from a cruize; Ellen trathport from Cork ; Lord
CoUirtgivoud, di to, from Lisbon, with the loss of
her main-wait.

• Yesterday the !mid Mayor,. about twelve o'clock,
attended by Mr. Alderman Combe, Mr. Alderman
Thoma 4 Smith, Mr. Alderman Domville,
Alderman Wood, and Mr.. Alderman Maoay, the
Aotorder, Sheriffs, and City Otfle‘n-s, together with
a considerable number' of Commoners, went trom
Guildhall to Carlton House, and presented the
tollo.ving' Address to his ,Royal flightless the
Prince of WALas, as. Regent 01 the United King-
dein.

TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF WALES,
REGENT OF TII,B UNITED KINGDoNI OF GREAT
BRITAIN AND IRELAND,.
The Putiful and Lo)aliAddress of the .Lord Mayor,
Aldermen, and Commons of the City or London, in
Common Council assembled.

MAY IX PLEASE YOUR BoYAL HIGHNESS,
We the I.lord Mayor, Alder.nent and Commons
of the City of London, in Common Council assem-
bled, most humbly approach your Royal Highness
with the warmest assurances of affectionate attach-
ment to your Royal Person, and unshaken adhe.
rence to those sacred principles which seated your
Family...upon the Throne of the Realm, fully con-
vioced that those principles afford the beet security
to the honour and dignity of the Sovereign, and the
rights and interehts of the people.
Whilst we offer to your Royal Highness our sin-
cere condolence upon the severe visitation with,
which it has pleased Divine Providence to aillitt our
111051 gracious Sovereign, %%filch. has occasioned a
suspension of the Royal Funttions,..it is with heart-
felt consolation, that in conmion with all ranks of
our fellow-sobieds, we behold in the person of
your Royal Highness, a Prince highly ennoved.and
eunneittly qualified to,exercisothe Regal Datiesi. a
Prince who has so greatly emit:wed himself to the
People by his moderation-and forbearance on various
trying oceisiuns, and toe attachment be has so uni-
formly shewn to their Rights and Liberties.
Had indeed the desire and expettation of the
United Kingdom been realised, by.vesting in yoUr
Royal Highness the full powers of the Executive
Authority, we ,hould have had just cause tor eon-,
gratulation, confident as we ff,ll.lhat those .powers
would have been wisely and beneficially exercised to
enable us to meet the extraopdinary exigencies of so
perilous a crisis.
•
•

- Deeply impressed With a sense of the many and
'great difficulties which, with powers so 'kilned,
your Royal Highness. must have to encounter in the
discharge el duties so arduoui, and ,feeling towards
your Royal HighneSs" the fullness of that loyal affec-
tion which in deeds as well as words we have so long
demonstrated toss Ards your Royal Father and Fa.
ably, we would fain have forborne to cloud the
dawn of our intercourse with your Royal'Highness,
by even a glance at our grievances, manifold and
weighty es they are—but duty to our Sovereign,
duty to onr country, the example of our forefather's,
justice Co posterity, the tame and the safety of our
Kingd)m,. all, with voice imperious, forbid us to
dis'..,uise our thoughts or to smother our feelings.
Far be ii :trots us, insulted as the Corporation of
this auciarii (and, 'at all former times, respected)
City has recently been,
,by the Servants of the
Crown, tar be it from us to indulge in complaints
of grievances peculiar to ourselVes, teddy and willing
as we are to share in all the necessary burdens and
all ihe dangers of our country. is of general
griev;encesz,••••grievaocestierely felt in all ranks of life,
of accumulated and e.er accumulating taxation,
rendered doubly grievous by the oppressive mode of
exaetion, and of the increased and increasing distress
and misery therefrom, arising out of the improvi•
dent expenditure of the immense Millis thus wrung
from industry Bed labour—uf the waite of life and ut
treasure, mu ill-contrived and ill conducted expedi-
tions—uf the attempts which for many years past,
and especially within the last three years, have been
made, and with but too much auccess, to crush
public liberty in all its branches, and-especially the
of. freely discussing the conduct or public
men, and the nature and tendency of public urea-
SOWS.
Can we refrain from humbly expressing our corn-
plaints, when we have seen those Ministers who
have so !Ong usurped the Royal Authority ;g
and who, it is now discovered, have by praetisin the
most criinivalsdeception upon the Parliament, and
the People carried on the Government during his M
nfl
ajcity's former
.incapacity, exerting their
iu•
ence
to degrade the Kingly
office—when we have
seen 111CLIStitTS adopted evincing the most unfound-
ed jealousy and mistrust of your Royal Highness--
when we have seen the Prerogatives of the, Crown
curtailed and withheld—when we" have seen a new
Estauterico ta
establishedlstiitigakii2wwheittlieavvl me
have ,
highly dangerous
seen' pcm er,
influence., and embluntent, thus set apart to con-
trout and embarrass the Executive Gosernment at a
time of such unprecedented difficulty; when all the