The Sun. — London, England, 1807-02-12 00:00:00

'rom the Pi?EIVCII and DUTall PAPERS. i i PAM, JAN. V.—Letters froth Warsaw, of file 7th of January, announce that his Majesty the Em peror was still there at that period ; whilst - other letter , from Berlin of the toth assert, Char he was exi.ecied every moment in that. capitlloaf, Prussia., FONTANES has just been continued in the dignity of President of the LegislatiWtOdy by his Majesty the Emperor. The following - v*l4lle .lettet from his Majesty the Emperor. and King-' to the Bishops of the Empire.: 111orrsiEuR L'EvEarE OF The new suc cesses which our Armies have gained on the banks Of the Bug and Narew, where in five days they routed the Russian Army, took its artillery, bitg.gage, and a gjeat number of prisoners, and 'obliged it to eva • cnate N all the important posts in which it was en trenchel, induce us to desire that . our people would . offer up thanks to Heaven, in order that it may con tinue to be favourable to us, and that the God of Armies may second our just enterprizes,—Aie:objea of .wtlich is to procure for our people a sokicl.lod lasting Peace, which the genius of evil may not disturb. This letter being for no othei"pisrpOse, - %le intreat God, Monsieur l'Eveque, to keep.you in 4is holy protesStion. . , From our Imperial Camp of Pultusk,' the 31st of December, 1806. (Signed) NAPOLEON. The Minister of Worship, POR r Ala s. (Moniteur.) to execution of the orders of his Majesty, cone tained in his letter written from his Imperial . Camp of Pultusk; of the 31st of December, 1806, to the Bishops of the Empire, his Eminence the Cardinal Archbishop of Paris waited on his Serene Highness the Prince Archchancellor of the Empire, to concert With him for the execution of his Majesty's 'orders. It it in consequence deterti'iined, that the Te Deem Shall be sung in the Metropolitan Church, on Sun day the 25th instant, precisely at twelve o'clock ; And that the same ceremony shall be observed as in the Pe Deans chaunted thanksgiving forthe itorable battle of Jena. Several mercantile houses of Hungary }rave en. tered into cOntiads for furnishing great quantities Witte to the French Army in Poland. ' The small distance from Upper Hungary to Cracow, by Gali tia, will render the 'conveyance of these wines very e as„y. At Cracow they wil l be embarked on the Yisro a. The Ilfoniteur of January $.5, gives the proceed ings of the English House of Commons at the open- - ing of the new Parliament ; and stating, that Mr. LAIA, who moved the Address, said that the Peace of Amiens afforded time to the Nation "--totake breath and recruit its strength," ob s erves in •a Note.: "‘-" Peace to France as well es England was only a truce. rt was wished to give confidence to our commerce ) to induce us to trust to the sea ailiundred tuillions of French property, and afterwards, as after the Peace of Amiens, a Mess age similar to that of the 7th of March would have declared, that the 'rench Ports were full of Armaments ; that the de *cent was ready to be made and that consequent. ly it was necessary to seizo our Ships and Captains. Principles more Nlachiavelian could never be avow ed with greater effrontery. It was hoped that a text application of them might be made with jar , . Primly. Bet the times are much changed ; Peace l'ulkht perhaps be concluded, and two years after rds, commissions might be secretly issued to seize pi our trading vessels ; but immediately all the Eng lish, men, women, and children, in • France, Hol land, Italy, Old and Nevi Spain, in three-fourths of . Utope, would be made prisoners, in reprisal for the 'nen, women, and children detained in our .trtAlipg 2 l'essels. All the magazines of English mercbaddize,, or property of any kind, would be- seized-.' This IsYstem of reprisals is our right„ and can alone give us security. We must oppose force to force,:pwrgy to energy, and even injpstice to injustice, since by employing such weapons England has 'foiact r is to have recourse to them. The times when she overawed the Cabinet of Versailles are long since past." On the expression. of the same Speaker, 'that " England had no iefluence on the determination of Prussia ;" it is observed in another note—“ To What purport then were the conferences of the Eng lish Ministers with M. JACOB! ? They, had told France that they wished to have Hanover. France . eluded the question ; but in eluding it she, in:Koine rneasure,s;gnified that Prussia bad not fulfilled the con ditions to which she had aubscribed that that . prtiVince Might be secured to her. She did not email her ster—shedid not shut t heEibe or theWeser. No soon et had the Cabinet of London perceived what Might be th e result, than Alley intimated their own con jeaures to the Court of Prussia, to animate it against France. And yet it is asserted . in Parliament, that the English Government.has not in the least influ enced the determination of Prussia." On the observation in the same speech, that " ree lying on the justice of cur cause, and on the invin. cible valour of our forces by sea and land, we may hope in a short time to bring our enemy to pacific dispositions," there is the following note " There is no necessity fur so many resources to bring your enemy to pacific dispositions ; nothing is necessary but moderation 'and justice. Your Ministry should be‘guided by the ideas . of that great man whom you have lost, and whose loss alone has been more fatal to England than all the misfortunes she had ,before experienced ; of that great mast, to whose memory you have not eretied_any monument, lxibose has not been treated with a munificence woithy of the nation ; of that great man, in Erne, .who, 'had' he lived a year longer, would have saved Prussia and England, and given peace to Europe." Le Marsouin Privateer, of St. Maloes, has brought into one of our ports, the Laster, of Pool, burden 170 tow, with a cargo consisting of 165 tons of salt ash, from Newfoundland, with one cannon on board, and a crew of 11 men ; and also , the Jeri cho, of 209 tons, from Halifax to London,. laden with sugar, cocoa, skins, medicines, maltogag, &c. of eight 12 and is-pounders, and a crcwAtig men. ,2t , !i . - Le Spectiateur Privateer, of the same pt/11-, bas Made two prizes one of which, laden ‘416..5a1t fish, is arrived, and news i&expeeked of the -second. Le Giene.ur Privateer, l►kewise of St. MaloeS„ . has 1 - ought into one of our harbours an Eiiglish vessel ltttittii with coals. The head-quarters pf Marshal MOR-TIR, which were at Anclant on . the 17th December, were .re moved-to Friedland, in the country of Strelitz, on the-loth instant ; and it appears that this corps is destined for Berlin. • THE PRINCE - OF PEACE.---Ttie King ,of Spain by his late Rescript confers on the PRINCE of PEAck; • the. same powers and rights, which, under the. titles of Generalissimo, Captain and Governor- General of the Seas, orAdmiral-General, were en joyed by Doli juANT of ASTUR lA, she son of Don : CARLOS I. the second Don JUAN of ASTURIA, the son of Don PlittalP IV. and the Infante Dols - Pm- P, uncle and father•in-law to his present•Aljestyi with the additional title, aho enjoyed by Don. PHILIP, of Protector of the Maritime Commerce of his Subje6ts throughout all his doMinions. His Majesty, after technically describing the extent •of the authority thus conferred on his favourite, pro= ceeds in the following terms " In all these respe&s you are empowered to give: and communicate whatsoever orders you may deem proper for my Royal Service, which' being signed with your hand, or by the Secretary of the Admiralty, must be 'pundually obeyed and executed by all . persons, without except iot t, to whom they shall be addressed. I further declare, that as well in order to maintain the brilliant lustre of the exalted dignity of Generalissimo of my Armies, and Admk ral-General of my Maritime Forces in all my domi nions, as on account of your extraordinary merits and services, and your most singular personal quali ties, you are of right, and by my cernmand, in writ - ing and speaking, to be styled « Most Serene High ness," and fo possess all the prerogatives, honours, imMunities, and franchises, belonging to that ele vated title. Finally I order and command all my Counsels, Chanceries, Audiences, ,and the other Tribunals of my Kingdoms, my , Viceroys, Captaini , General, the General and Subaltern Officers of thts Fleet, and all myriVlatitime Forces; and all other per sons, of whatsoever title, rank, pre4ethinence, and dignity in my dominions, to attend to, obey, and execute your orders, in every thing that relates to my service, 'and to the execution of your Odice, • paying the same resped to you as •tU myself in per.. son', and assisting you with their 'advice and aid, whenever , you require the same ; and that as often as you shall Judge it fit, and necessary, you shall receive from the Ministers and Officers of Marine, such information and detailed reports as you may require, in order to -ascertain the state of the whole, and thereupon to take such measures as • you may deem proper." it has. been inferred from the extraordinary pow ers thus conferred on a Person whose origin is ob -genre, and who is beheld with much jealousy by the ancient nobility of Spain; that a more important measure is in agitation, and that the mission of • &AURA RNOIS, the French Senator, to Madrid, is - possibly connected with an intention to set asi-le the. Prince of ASTURIAS, and declate the PRINCE o? PzrACL heir to the Spanish Monarchy. Such a tned Sure, however, never would be endured in Spain,., unless it wete the effect of a Revolution brought about by the power of France in a more summary manner.. • We are happy to hear, that a Commercial Treaty is now upon the tapis between this Country and Russia, by which the produce of our Colonies, not withstanding all the vengeful efforts of BONAPARTE f is likely to have an extensive and ready market. No thing, certainly, could be better judged at such a moment as the present ; and while Ministers employ their attention on objects so salutary and beneficial, they will be entitled to the thanks of the country. Mr. BELL, who lately. gave his evidence at the Old Bailey, in consequence of a burglary commit ted in his premises on the Edgeware Road, died on Friday last, at that place. This is the person who made a very distinguished figure in the metropolis so long ago as the year 1750, and spread consterna tion and terror all over the Kingdom, by prediEting that London would soon be entirely swallowed up in an earthquake. He Was then one of his Majes ty's Lfe Guards, and afterwards' kept a hosier's shop upon Holboni Hill, for many years. He was always 3 pro, found Politician, and after the French Revolution, his notions, it is said, became rather too strongly allied to the doEtrines which led to that lamentable event. THE CHIEF Jusrict of the Common Pleas has, not been able to attend the Court during the present Term, a circumstance that is doubly a matter of regret as the venerable Magistrate discharges the duties of his important office with firmness as well as urbanity, and as his chara&er in private life is deservedly held in the highest estimation. • The late General PEOLI had a pension of 20001. a year—a munificent proof of the respet, of the British Government for valour exerted in the noblest cause, a resistance of foreign oppression. The Ge neral lived in a liberal and hospitabie manner, but hai been able to leave considerable property_to some of his relations in Italy. Spain was never in so perilous, as well as so de grading a state as at the present moment, when it has reason to fear that it shall fall .a vialim to force •or treachery ; yet in the midst of all its trouble the PRINCE OINACE is investel with new powers, and denominated " Serene Highness." ~'dNllGrl~'T% QCs aotirief' teiiviteer, of bit:ll(4k, • C'apta'n P. 6es:tuft, has .re-talten front' the English a Hum- _ burghese three-masted Vessel; laden with upwards of i X tNI •• • • . . VNII AND CONTROUL THE SEVERAL tniscnts 800 casks 'of wine, 175 pipes brandy, * and a ; • - - quantity of dried fruit, syrup, and corks. Ths • 'OF THE PUBLIC EXPENDITURE. Vessel bad been stopped and taken possession of by L' Aimabk English Frigate, at the entrance of the Elbe, and the Commander had put on board her an English Officer and six Sailors, with a written order to take her as soon as possible into an English Port ; it was in this situation that the Hamburgher, after beating about sea for 40 days, was fallen in with and taken by - Le Courier, who brought her into Flushing on the 12th instant. FRANKFORT, .JAN. 28.—The Emperor staid at Pultusk from the 28th December to the Ist ofJann-: ary, and has inspeeied the whole surrounding cowl- . try. The RussianS were still retreating 'with preci pitation. .Forage.and provisions are extremely scarce in..those parts which have been the scene of.a6tion. FrAmauaGft, JANT-27.—Mat Shal BRUNE is arrived here,• and has caused:to he announced, that on the part of • his Majesty the Emperor of the French and King of Italy, he has been appointed Governor of the -Haase Towns. It is an important matter, when a Committee for the Reform of Abuses is appointed, to look to the persons of whom it is ,compoSed, for every thing f.lepends on the character of the Gentlemen seleded for the purpose. It is only necessary to read the, following names to be satisfied that the foll ow i ng i s not a Committee TOr delusion, but for honest ser vice. Ordered, That a toraMittee be appointed to ex - - amine and consider what Regulations and Checks have been established in 'order to controul the seve ral branches of the Public Expenditure in Great Bri tain- and Ireland, and how fa'r the same have been effectual, and what further measures can be adopted for reducing any parts of the said Expenditure, or diminishing the amount of SalarieS ancl ErnOltithenti, without detriment to the Public Service. Lurd H. Petty t Lord Marshani Sir - H. Mildmay J Mr. Bankei Mr. Horner Mr. S. Bourne Mr. Sharp Mr. Whitbread • Mr. Lamb Mr. W. Herbert • Mr. H.-Thornton Mr. Bicidulph' Lord A. Hamiltint Mr. Gibs Lord Mahon Mr. W. Cavendish Mr. Brogan Mr. T. Baring Mr. Fawkes Mr. Western Mr. N. Calvert Mr. Ald. Combe, - . They are authorised to send for Persons, Papers, and RecOrds—to report Observations and Opinions. Five are to be a Quorum—and they are to sit not withstanding an adjournment. ACHES. the following Letter from a beinleman who haS made the English language his particular stiidy, .and Who has long been preparing a, work in that language for the pubhc, will, wesconbeive, set the question at rest, and put an end to the - clatuUurs of vulgar ig norance. TO-THE EDITOR OF 'TIE SUN. SIR, rt is indisputably true, that the word aches *as anciently a dissyllable, and that Mr. KEMBLE IS jus tified in using it as such, in the passage alluded to in the Play of The Tempesl, for there can be neither tnelody nor harmony in the verse without it, The proper ofthography is Ac/i, Our. Aches, and the proper pronunciation "itch, plur. 'ltches. • . And G zu.,l A wore a velvet mastick patch Upon her temples, when no tooth did ach. Bp. Halle' s Satires, S. I. As no man of his own self catche's 1 he itch, or amorous French acbes ; So no man does himself convince, By his own doilrine, of his sins. ,Butlet's fludi4. Pt. 3. e. 2'. Ch sounded tch, cannot have the sound of k, but some ignorant critic,. imagining, the cit to be the Greek hard k, substituted that letter for the double consonant, aid the word has since taken a new or thography, and new prolation. Your correspondent, who has addressed you under the signature of Metre, has been as unfortunate in his attempt to inexculpate Mr. KEMBLE, as in miscopying the evidence he has .adduced from SWIFT. The word aches he has used as a monosyllable. A coming shower your shooting corns presage, Old ocher will throb, your hollt;w tooth will rage. Swf 's Descri pion of a City Shcruirr. The follotting Authors confirm the pronunCiation of Mr. KENIDLE— Age! Acidrsi and incessant jealutasy, Scorn'd poverty, and powerless lust be thine. . Sir ram. Daveriiinr's Distresses, A. 4. s. 1. . , Old Sinners have all points • th' compass in their bones and joints, And, by their pangs and Achrs, find AU turns and changes of the wind. Butler's tfudiGras, Pt. 3, c. 2, 1. 407. When in the bleatei's marrow aches breed, And putrid fevers on his spirits teed ; it wilt be good t'avert the raging pain, By opening in his foot the beating vein. Ogldyls' Virg. B.ok 3. From the• above citations, it Appears, .that KEI4BLE is exculpated in pronouncing the word as a dissyllable, but convicted of an impropriety in pro lating it—a-kes. I am, Sir, your's, &c. JOHN PYTCHES. GrOtoti House, .Feb. ;. • Mrs. BILLtNGTON, it seems,. perseveres in de ' dining all Engagements for the present Season 3 Mrs. MoUNI'AIN . is therefore to take her station at the Concert of Ancient Music. • CATAL:.:NI seems to have more sense -than most of her admirers, as she ha 4 modestly expressed her sur prise that so much fuss should have been made abbut her in this . country. Rout has resumed the Management of the Elin , burgh Theatre, which has a very respe&able Com pany, and is warmly patronized by the public. His chief Tragic Hero is Mr. MEGGETT, who, accord ing to all accounts, is an A&or of no ordinary talents. It is somewhat whimsical that an Attorney's An ewer in a recent cause before the House of Peers, which consisted of seven thousand seven hundred and SRI fiitios, should nevertheless have been deeme) by the Plaintiff's Counsel insufficient ! The late Mr. ISAAC REED left a very valuable Li brary, chiefly consisting of English Books. He re quested that it might be arranged. by Mr. TODD, the accurate and erudite Annotator of SPENCER and Mu. Torr, who has readily undertaken the friendly task. The Meeting of the Committee of SHIP OWNERS, in. order to Pitition Parliament' for the extinaion of the War Taxes upon the tonnage of Ships and Ves sels of Great Britain, after the termination of the present war, may he considered as somewhat early, unless the Members of that Committee are gifted with the power of second sight, and can perceive the near approaches of Peace, amidst all the clouds and tempests that disturb every part of the civitized world, and prevent a ray of hope from reaching those who Possess the ordinary faculties of mankind. lIIRTti.—On Tuesday, at his house in Lincoln's inn-fieldi, the Lady of TuomAs PCiaGiiINE C ouß . T&SAY, Esq. of a Daughter. CURIOUS CI USE. Lords Of the . PAvy ._;ouncii held a Court or Appeal, on Tuesday, at the COOtii,ofgee; hall, which its attonded by the LOI . ID . I 9 RESIDENT, Sir JOHN ANSTRUHER, Mr. Barnuftsi,,ani;lMre TREVOR. An appeal front the Court of Madras, of considerable importance, came on to be beard, in which Rungay Pillay, a native and inhabitant of that place, was the Appellant) and the East India Corn-. pally Respondents... • •t • , The substance of the' Cane, as stated by the So& itcia'Ott-GEsteasr. and another Barrister, was, that in the year 1 atm, Mr. Jackson, an Agent of the Com.. ,pany - ,- employed the Appellant to colic& dues, &c. froM some INabobs, due to the Company; and Mr; JaCkson /mint , procured several favours to Le, granted,to . a Nabob, the latter gave two sums, at different tithes,' to the Appellant, as, presents to Mr. Jackson, amounting to 1,000 pagodas, which the Appellant paid 'to Mr. Jackson, who, in a short tinieafter, sailed for England. The circu a ,ce 'coming to the knowledge of the Board of Revenue and fresideht . of the Council; they summoned the Appellant to appear before . thefit, and to par the pagodas which he had received' froth the Nabob into their hands, for the use of the East India Coln pany. The Appellant, at this time, was extremely ill, and could not attend the summons. He sent a written answer, stating, that he was not a registered Dubash In the Company'S service; that he was merely employed by Mr. Jackson, to whom alone he was accoainable, and to whom he had given all the presents Which he had received from tilts Nabob for him.. The PreiiOnt and Board - of Revenue were not satisfied with this, and sent some of the Company's Phy s i c i ans 't o ascertain the state of hit health. They reported that the, journey from his residence -to the Board might endanger his life ; yet this did not avail, and he wa forced to appear; when he persisted in his statement, that he had re ceived none of the presents for himself.. The Board and Cohhcil, in consequence, , ordered him to swear to the truth of this, which he hesitated to do, being conscious` of his. ineecence s and an oath in the Elihdoo religien being administered with a great num her of religious ceremonies, anuel man in that coun try who, is not helieved_ without an oath having a stigma attached to him, through like, as it is con sidered that he, has, undergone a kind of purgation. The Appellant was, in consequence, cast into prison ; - when, after some time, he paid the pagodas; and, because he still: persisted that. Mr, Jackson had the pagodas, he was obliged to undergo the degrad' tug religious superstithjus cerethenies of an oath, and swear disgrace to . himself. After this was corw. plied ,with, he was still detained, in consequence of a letter, from' Mr . . Lushingtop, who succeeded Mr. Jackson, stating, if, the Appellaot. was liberated, persons would :not be. so trilling to come forward to make complaints agaihst him, as if be was in con finement, The Appellant made - another Appeal against the,Board of ReVenue. He was.employed by a person to make out his genealogy, to give him a title to large principality and estate; ,which he did according to lass employer's direakon, and which en abled him to get possession of the principality and estate. His employer rewarded him with a present of 1000 pagodas. It turned out that the gettealogy was not correa ; but this was not proved by any legal evidence, but merely on the report of Mr. Raven shaW, who had his account . from the man who wanted to dispossess the possessor. For this the Board of Revenue had thought :proper to assume a power, ,and fine him 2500 pagodas, charging him with having been guilty of immoral conctuta.-- He then brought the case before the .Court at Madras ; but the poor oppressed, Appellant had no chance there, fur every Counsel was, retained against him. The Court, however, remitted the fine of 2500 pagodas, which had been infli&ed by the Board of Revenue ; considering it illegal ; but re fused to interfere in the, affair of, the Presents, con siderieg them to spring out of an illegal transadion, and likewise refused costs. The SoLitton-GBNRHAL, on behalf of the Ap pellant, contended, that admitting the transaionst to be illegal, the Board of Revenue could not pos sibly havelany. thing to do with them. SirJottx ArtrrauTnEx asked,- if a highwayman could be robbed ?: The SOLICITOR GENERAL replied, certainly. One robber could not take the property that another had been stealing, Without being guilty of the same of fence. The Learned Gentleman concluded %vitt' praying their Lordships to order the immense sums that had been extorted from the Appellant by the Board of Revenue ; with interest, the costs in India, and the 'costs of this appeal; to be restored to him. Sir JOliN AN . srauTnEß said, .that the Lord:Pre sident himself, and all the Lords present, considered this an application of very great importance ; for his part, he had but lately come from Itidia, and he never heard of such coodua as that represented to have been pradised by the Board of Revenue, as they could not possibly possess any more power than any indifferent person passing in the street ; it W::3 - therefore their wish to be in pc,ssession of all the original proceedings, and every document relating to the business, to peruse them before t they. came to a decision ; and adjourned hearing the Attorney-Ge neral, for the East India Company, to a future day. The following dreadful accident happened on Tuesday se'nnight, at Sandhurst,, in Kent :—Two boys, sons of a labouring man, named Sevus, being left alohe, in the absence of their mother, amused themselves by throwing shavings on the tire, which soon blazed, and communicated the flame to- the clothes of the youngest, about four years old, which his brother, in attempting to blow out with the bellows, so increased, that the poor child was soon enveloped hi the lanes, and in that situation discovered by a miller, Who casually called at the house with his grist, and who lost no time in his endeavours to extinguish the fire--which, by the help of water from the kennel, he at length a complished—but not till the littl e su ff erer was so miserably burnt, that 4e expired in . great .agony soon attr. Llst week a poor man at Tarvin, neat Chester, in . endeavouring to lift. up a shovel with dung, d:- u pp e d down and expired immediately : and a wan at A. 5 .11- tun, in the same party!:, was found dead on Sa turday se"nnight, ,supposed to have been tr;z2n to death.