The Sun. — London, England, 1802-01-04 00:00:00

PARIS, Dic; • THE Commandant 91 Paris .has given pl.;b1::.-no tice, thai all Officers and Soldiers who have come to-Paris upon furloughs, shall exchange elitix Billets t)f . Leave for Cards ofSafety, which shall be delivered .to them by .the Etat-Majdr. ThOsewho negled• to tonform to this regulation will be liable to arrest. The news of the Peace, which was carried to Seliegta - b - the Corvette La Cap-ie./ix, has been re ceived in:ihat Colony with as much joy and enthu siasm as' it occasioned amongst the Inhabitants of this Metropolis. Letters from Petershurgb announce, that the Chief OF Brigade, CAUL INCOURT, had an audience of IMPERIAL MAJESTY on' the- t9th Noventber (old stile). • . . We daily receive froria the interior, the most . inundations. Letters ac counts respe ai ng the late.mundations. Letters from Arles state, that they have had 38 days of continual rain. If the waters which cover the Distrifi of La Camargue do not speedily subside, there is every reason, to apprehend that not less than 24 : 3 *,000 sheep will perish for want of food : they? are at present shut up in stables, . The resignations of several. Bishops have been received, amongst others, of the Cardinal Arch bisbop of DiI4LINES, the Bishop of Totit,, FERDI :;Ar,D Prince dell —oil AN i GUEMENEE Archbiihop of CAMBRAY, and CLEMENT VINCESLARS DE , SAX!; Prince -ktiy a l - of Poland, Archbishop EleEior of Treves, and Bishop and Prince of AUgsburgi Lyons, DEC. 22.--;Great preparation's are mak. ng here for the holding of the Cisalpine Assembly, and the 'arrival of the First Consul: The Hotel de 'Ville, One of the finest edifices in Europe, for the m a,lest/f of its 'froi:t, the 'beauty - of . its vestibule, stairca§e3l-11 gate,' an d the spaciousness of its sa loons; is to.-take the name of the Palace of Govern. men!. It is repairitig with the utmost rapidity, to . rende r it ‘(,orthy of this name. The .• n Prefeft h as issued a Proclamation, by which he makes, the following, dispositions The Gentlarmegand the Cavalry are to he placed at certain distances from Lyons to Taxan, on the road to Paris. Thv same disposition to be made from Lyons to Villa Franche . At the approach of the First Consul, the Geu_ darmes tvho are . Placed at the greatest distance; will give the word; which will be borne from post to post with the utmost celerity,. till it reaches Lyons, where his arrival will be announced by a triple --- distiratge of cannon. Ar this signal all the Constituted Authorities arid Public Funaionaries, in grand costume, will repair without delay to the Palace of the Government s -and from thenc e proceed to meet the First Consul.. A Triumphal Arch will be raised over the Stone Bridge, through •which the Procession will pass to the Palac e of the Government. On the day of the First Consul's entry into Lyons, the Triumphal Arch will be illuminated, as well as the house s of the inhabitants. There are arrived at the present moment, 425 Deputies of the Cisalpine Republic, and 20 PrefeEs. The Chief of the French Government is exped. ed with tht‘, arnestness and impatie nce w hiCh i s due to his 'wisd om a n d hi s viaories ; to the d'eace which he has atchieVed, and to his splendid renown 'IIIA,-Ttic.l6.—Frorn what has transpired dof the last Dispatches from Paris, e Cam of M. PHILIP eNztr., are assured they were in sub_ stance, that th- COR 11 • t- en deavours ma d e by t h e M arqu i s %.ALLIS en to induc e the First Consul to desist fro m fixing the of - "ldenity Of the G RAND D UKE "EvSCANY T ni to ind e in German y, a nd instead of th a t, • • I nnifY him in Italy, have proved fruitless ;, the First Consul having declared that he will, not depart from the stria execution of the Treaty of Lunev ;11c. It will become , however, an objets ,of seriou s consideration at AiifieNs, and .an endeavoUr • will yet be made to change the' Indemnity a the CRAND DUKE. • The communications between our Cabinet and the nt . • h her Powers of Europe, and particularly with the Fren c h of t h e Gov ernment, are so frequent, that out great n um b er of Couriers attached to the Court, there is not one to be found here at the pre_ sent moment. TURIN, DEC. I Z.—Our Troops are already in. corpor a ted with the French Army; and what still more induces u s With France, that to beli eve t h e reports o f our U n i on the French language is n ow taught in a 11,014 School's, in order to render it corn_ Then thEOUghOUrPiednCni. RONIE, DEC. 5•.—A con s id era bl e b o d y o fF renc h I)ragoons passed through this City to-day, on their , march from Naple s s .to France. We receive from every quarter the most distressing accounts of the damages done by the late hurricanes. The walls of - Pecchis have been in part blown down.— At Terracino, several vessels have been wrecked, and the Coast's of the kingdom of Nage.; present scen2s still more deplorable. • - • riclihcth Sr..l !JO:4 I NCO is in 'a- state-or compete revfht. I The insurreCtion of the 131rIcki. ,setins' to vie with the early scenes of the French Revoldtion. Its jeft is to massatre every European on, the tilipcL - It will be seen from the follOWing Letter; that the Clief of the Insurgents, whose objet - v as to overthrow Toussnin is Government; has been taken prisoner. A postscript to the Jette.A. , : of .the 3Oth of October mentions, that about, fiff 7l i-P 3 n bypdred of the insurgents had been shot or arcisi'ned l _ Ail about sixty white people had been murdd*dP ri) ' l7 CAPE PkANColB;4oalit;tl-13qt. " Amidst a scene of murder and'rObbiry; you will not expert I. can be .very particular in. my. remarks. Without any pteface I will inform you, that yesterday morning the present Commander (a black .man), received -Official advice, that an Army of revolted Negroes had encamped a few leagues without the gates,. their intention being to march to the City, and fire it in several places, and massacre the Whites, and those Blacks in'power r Immediately the houses and stores were closed,•,and the drums beat to arms ; the women and children running to . and fro in wild confusion, presented 'a sight nor' to be described': 3000 Troops were under arms in .a few minutes, and the General in person headed a party .of. horse. • The Dragoons finally ''a - arched, or rather flew, to meet the Enemy, and our anxiety to be sure was great to hear from them. We waited until tea at night,' when they returned almost dead with fatigue,. it raining' in torrents the whole day, and the weather uncommonly hot. They came up with a part of the Enemy five leagues from hence, and charging upon'them, took a few priso ners, and brought them in ; -they saw 600 encamped. Those taken will soon be executed.; but this is but the beginning of trouble, for to-day again the drums are beating, and no business doing. God only knows how it will terminate. I wish it was possi ble. to get off. I can. obtain 'but little information from any Frenaman ; a general panic ~has seized them all, and no one speaks loud enough..to be. heard. The country presents a scene of unheard_ of Murder. Tile insurgents yesterday - Massacred a number.of Whites, among whom were:several women and old men. An express has just gone to General .IVloy ss, who is at Fort Liberty, to march with his Troops to form a junetion with General Ca RISTOPHER• fnmething 4e c isivd will soon take place." • " Ten o'Clock. " The Artillery and Part of the Infantry have marched. Accounts from the Enemy are so va.: tious that we cannot ascertain the number nor dis cipline of his army. A number of the. inhabitants lodged on board of the American vessels last night ; they-were obliged to go off privately and in a tre mendous rain. ' Sleep is a stranger to my eyes; we were shut uplri a small room last night, every mo ment expeting something dreadful. To-night will will be the same. Every night since I have been here, murder has been committed, and, shocking to relate, I have seen human entrails carried about upon the bayonets of the inhuman Negro soldiers." " Monday Morning. " As yet we are safe, thank God. Last even ing a body of Troops marched out with provisions sufficient for several days, and their bread upon their bayonets. The sight was novel, and not un pleasing. An embargo has been laid upon all ves sels in port." . . " Tuesday Morning. " At two o'clock this morning the Chief of the Insurgents was brought in a prisoner and lodged in gaol. He is fettered in a cruel manner, and his cries are heard a long distance. Ingenuity is at work, contriving torments for this poor wretch. It ,is said, four horses will be employed to draw him in quarters. His name is FLARILL, and his obje& was to overthrow the Government of TOUSSAINT. " Our ears are momentarily pained with accounts of shocking murders committed in the Country.— Only a few miles from this place, a few . days3go, whole families were cut off in the most barbaq c lus manner. I expet4 the Embargo will be taker, oft to-morrow." " oe - i. 2 9 , Twelve o'Clok at Night. " In the course of this day the streets have been strewed with dead bodies, Avhich are suffered to putrify without removal. Another Chief of the Insurgents is taken ; but the danger is not so great from without as within. The Generals have been fired at, and one of their Aids-de-Camp was last night killed by the side of his Chief. Last night again the alarm was spread that the Cape was on fire. To-day General CHRISTOPHER, with his own hand, cut off the heads of two men, and left them among heaps of dead in the public squares." " 0306er 30, iBor. " Business has commenced here, though not without much difficulty; confidence is not restored, and the inhabitants think themselves not safe.— Executions of the criminals are hourly taking place, and we as often hear pf their cruel murders ; scarcely a White is left in the part of the Coun try where they marched. The plans of the Insur gents were well arranged : they had appointed all their officers, and assigned to them their different stations. This city was the first ()Ned of their in tended plan, and I assure you it had nearly succeed ed. We should have immediately fallen vietims to their brutal rage. TOUSSAINT and DESSALINES are now in the vicinity ;. the latter with a powerful army. The fears of the people are by no means subsided." Some objection, we understand, has been , stafied by the French Eitecutive to the free circulation of British Journals in France. The publications of this country are deemed to speak with too mach freedom of the Consular Government,' and it is 'pro. bably suspeeted might disclose circumstances as to the political state of the Republic, which the 'Re -publican press dares not promulgate.. There has been, a.serious riot at Hamburgh, in consequence of. the, master carpenters not agreeing to an advance of wages demanded by their work. Men. Three persons were killed. It was sup pressed by the guard, who arrested 60 individuals, and put them in prison. ~.... •", - t PIT E OPERA .- r. ,. r;ni's~fn,;,iarket. nit Comic-Opera of-A:Wind Via l s - reptated.-at this Theatre. On-Saturday evening - , and produced an - increased et:FM; frdrn the greater perfection -of the Performers-in their several parts. The. Overatre'of thiS Piece; which, we had wit an opportunitk. of hearing on the first night, is a brilliant and highly finished compositions' ',Vigor's VIGA. nxt's Cavatina, and the fine Trio, seem the fa, vourites of the Aucttence;, We remarked some ju. dicious curtailnienkkiit the recitative. PARISOT was„ as usual, the. Goddess of the Dance. In addition to her Terpsichorman elegance, we may venture to pronounce her military move ments in the - Manuel Exercise to thefull as perfea as any Volunteer corps in the kingdom. :The Entertainment concluded at a good hour, half past eleven, and the House was graced by all we know of-Fashion in town, although feeling a little the influence of the adjournment of Parliament, and the elfeas_of Christmas Holidays in the country. THE THEATRE. Covent-Garden. As You Like It, ont. of the most pleasing Comic Works of its immortal. Author, was represented on Saturday last at this Theatre. CooxE performed .the part of Jaques, for the first time. He deli. vexed, the text with energy, but was not' altogether so successful in this character as in most of the parrs whicla be had previously assumed. The pensive ; dignity and sarcastic humour were not sufficiently rominent, and though .he will lose no ground by his japer, he will certainly acquire.by it no aug. mentation of fame. Miss MURRAY appeared for the first time .in Rosalind, which she supported with more airy spi rit than we expe6ted, but did not reach •the high_ wrought humour, and elegant vivacity of the charac ter. She was most applauded for her manner of giving the Cuckoo Song, hut in our opinion she was least successful t in . that, respe6i. Her deportment towards Orlando was much.too free. To Orlando, who supposed her"to be a` man, such liberties ought to have appeared disktisting, and to the Audience, who knew she was a woman, too forward, not to use a harsher, though a more appropriate term. Miss IVluititAy is so unexceptionable and amiable a charaaer in private life, that we have the less he sitation in animadverting on so glaring and so'gross a misconception. BLANCHARD gave more than usual effeft to the little part of William, and Ml's. MATTOCKS was admirably rustic in Audrey. The part.of Celia re quires rather higher' manners than those of Mrs. BEvEat.Ey, who, however, performed it with evident good sense. KNIGur was a much better representative of Touchstone than we expefte.d. He gave it with broad comic effeel, but without extra-' vagance. The Patomime is much improved since its first representation, and is evidently a great holiday favourite. The Lord Lieutenant of Ireland has intimated to the Commissioners of the Paving and other Boards, and to most others holding Sinecure Places in Ire land, that their duty in Parliament being incon sistent with the due attendance of their offices, it was necessary that they should immediately resign their seats in either the one or the other. Mr. PAR ELL having declined to contest the le gislative seat of his lame..zed father, the Hon. W. W. POLE, brother of the Marquis of Wt•L LESL EY, has been returned without opposition for the Queen's County, whose good opinion he has for some years cultivated with distinguished success. It is mentioned, that eight of the Black Regi ments' are to be reduced; the remaining four, toge ther with the ordinary number of European Troops, being for the present. deemed competent to the ser vice of the Islands. .. The conjitgal alienation which has lately taken place in the famil y' •of a venerable pillar of the Church, is said to , be one of the most aggravated cases of the kind ever heard of. The person who has ensnared the affedions of the wife, was the par ticular friend of the husband, and the opportunity which this friendship afforded has been abused with most detestable perfidy. It was yesterday reported that MUNDEN, the Aaor, had on Saturday last fallen a- vittim to the disorder which has lately disabled him from pro_ fessionat duty. We are very glad to find that this report is without foundation, as the loss of such an excellent Performer would be a severe blow to the Stage, and a great diminution of " the public stock of harmless pleasure." Singular Reports have of late prevailed among the fashionable circles relative to VESTLIS the cele brated Dancer, who was said to he engaged at the English Opera for this season.—He has for some days been missed in France; and a letter from Paris, of .the date of the 28th of December, men tions his having left that Cicyfour days before, for this Country : and yet we can venture to assert, from good authority, that he is not at present in England. On Tuesday an undertaking of considerable mag nitude was crowned with complete success, at Mr. SMITH'S Yard, 1 4 imehouse.hole.—The Dominica West-Indiaman, 400 tons, was hove up out of the wa ter on an inclined plane:prepared for the purpose, of iBo feet length and to - feet 'wide; at right angles, to the surface of the water { oppoiite. The Domi nica had been in dock in . order to put two planks under her bottom, one on each side of the keel, to correspond with that on shore, _ which she was to be hove up on. The . preparations - for this great undertaking were grand, and shelved much skill and judgment : at one o'clock the ropes were at tached to the ship, and the persons engaged for the occasion were placed. at their, several stations. As soot as the power applied began to al, the ship appeared to arise out of the water, till she was high and dry on the launch, amidst the acclamations of upwards of 4000. persons assembled as spettators. The ship is cut in half, and. is to be lengthened zo feet in midihips. STE t-riaf f1 4 LDREA'S t's inic t uit,us practice has ef la te becorac36-Vofy o;•evalent," thit.it is tiii:q . Saiy die Police .should be . particularly -get e i apprehending mad bringing to justice the-perpetrators' of this As 'the Public tnay riot be icq "aainted with ond. method • commonly adopted. by, ;these pests of so-' ciety to carry their 'we conceive it .oar . dtitYto'telaie.a circumstance which occurred a.few days since' in the Str,and, in -hopes that. parents — and guardians Will tiarti_ cularly tircumspett, over their -charge . N..vit'en _any amusements arc going forward -in iii,i . itie4hbour, hood to attract their children's novice: - 'A Gen tleman had the curiosity- to stop ankf 'attend to. :some Miisicins; who..werelilaying. iri al)ye street. in the Strand ; a great tiffany- othersiiketise as gem-Bled, among whom,- as usual, werelil the children in the neighhourliond ; ufier, staving some time, . he perc,eived.. a genteel motherly -lacking woman take particukr = notice of .a well-dressed child in the crOwd--stispeAing her intentions were bad, he detertnined to ":observe her condud.— The irifarii; for it Was. selircely . four :,tears old, followed tilt band to the, Adelphi, where the wo man succeeded in getting the child from the crowd into a private place, and had actually begun to strip its clothers .the Gentleman. came up and seized hold of her,‘,.With an intention of bringing her to justice ; but unfortunately, during rile stri n g.: _gle, the: child Screarned,dreadfully, and the worrrao Madelier,escape. On Tuesday last His Royal Highness MoNsrrett of ,FILiNCE, arrived at the Abbey of Holyrood. House from London. A.geueral and : numerous Meeting of the Printers and Booksellers has been .held at the Crown. and Anchor Tavern, in the , StrandWfm..LANEy Esq. in the Chair = when Mr. Wm.WooDFALIi WAS.elea. l:l:See ' retilr'yy•atlCl WM. OTR.IDGE, ESCI.• Treasnrer. As. this is a cause in which the whol e B o dy o f Venders of Paper are interested—and when it can be made appear that the Revenue will not be dimi nished, .but that the Cominerce in this branch will, by this means, be extended, we have no dOubt that their. Memorial will be attended to—oria'rnea.: sure which so materially tends to the Public Good. An over-land Dispatch was received at the India. House ow Thursday. By this conveyance we learn, that a very considerable body of the Panjahurl Courchy Poligar's Troops, after the surrender of the Fort, descended into the Plains of Tinnevilly, where they were opposed by nearly an equal num.: ber OfCol. Actin w's.Forcett. The former consist ed, chiefly of Pikemen, who,. finding their retreat into thejunglescut off', by a line drawn from. North to South, and flanked ,by heavy Artillery, endea. voured to force a pass in face of cannon loaded with grape, and concentrating their force to that parti— cular point, are stated to haveperformed,prodigies of valour.'. The shock .Was sustained by the British and Sepoys with their accustomeTbravery; and do the.issue the Enemy - were rotited, lea -ving the Etcc of theic c onntry for several cossi covered with their slain. An .. qlicer who was in this .eng ag e men t, and who has ':had many years experience in Indian warfare, declares that he never. witnese a conflia so arduously contested. • -,.'• The average Price of .Sugar, computed from the returns. made for the week ending ,the -30th day of December !Sot, is FQrty-thive Shill;llgs and Teu Pence. Three Farthings per hundred weight. On the 29th of last month was married at St. Nicholas Chnreh, in Durham, by the _Rev. Mr. BRITTON, FRANcrS JOHNSON, Esq. of Gray's Inn, to Miss HETHERINGTON ' of Durham, daughter of RICHARD HETHERINGTON ' ESCI. Of Tortola. Married by Special License, on Saturday the ad inst. by the Rev. GEORGE HENRY GLASSE ' , THOMAS MYERS, Esq. of Park Place, St. James's, to the Right Hon. Lady MARY CATHERINE NE.. vILL, at the house of her grandfather, JOHN Ro- BlrlsoN, Esq. of Wyke-House, Sion-hill. On Monday two Excise Officers, attended by two Soldiers, seized six horses and five carts, laden with spirits and tobacco, atCawston Woodrow, and were conveying them to Norwich, when they were overtaken and attacked at Horseford, by upWards of thirty armed Smugglers. One Soldier was shot in the fitce, the other id the shoulder. Several of the smugglers were severely wounded, and two of them are since dead. Last Friday afternoon, as an honest sailor was coming out of Somerset House, where he had been to receive some wages, he was accosted by a sharper, who inquired of him the 'name of a person he said was his brother on board the same ship. The sailor knowing a person the inquirer mentioned, they en tered into a conversation, when - presently- a confe derate dropped a pocket-book . near Temple Bar i which was picked up by the, sharper, when on open ing it a sparkling cross was in it, with a receipt to the amount of Sol. He chewed as it were some disinterestedness to the _sailor, offering him to go equal shares in the prize. Having arrived at East Smithfield, they went to a public-house, when .the 'credulous sailor gave the sharper ten pounds, and his note of hand for the remainder of his share,--- , After the rogue was gone, the sailor went to a Silversmith, who valued the cross at los. 6d. On Thursday the Coroner's Jury sat on the body of an unfortunate woman, who threW herself out of the window of her lodgings, in Greek -street, to avoid the Bailiffs, who were about to arrest her, and brought in their verdia accidental death. - It appeared that -A° the deceased, on hearing the Officers .on the stairs, had imagined she could drop from her,,back-win- , • dow into the yard, without hurting herself, and • by , that means make her escape. 'Accordingly she put herself out of the window, still hold ing by the frame-work, when, is supposed, she recolleEled that she must fail into. an area behind the house, which was much below the yard, and therefore endeavoured to get back, screaming'all.the • while in the most piteous way, till her strength be_ ing exhausted, she fell down, and received two violent bloWs, the one on the hack .part of her . bead, and the other on her temple, -which occa sioned instant death, She had nut a brake* in the fa tl. -