The Sun. — London, England, 1802-11-10 00:00:00

eciY re io as the me- C3l. as 00 1 5 tO cca.. CORN EXCHANGE, Nov. zo. LI "INt many samples unsold of Monday's sup. kornethi n g Y> caused a heavy sale of this article, at terms less ; Barley is in brisk demand and }s e rfth e p e ; the Malt trade is rather dull ; Rape seed ab et ; Pease are rather less; and in Beans no ter d asu the ti() n ; our supply of Oats is very Consider ible, oe, middling quaiities are at more moderate pricv., u at last.; fine Poia n d s co n t i nue d ear ; Flour clearly Wheat 445 a 2S a 6s 'ad 1 : 11 ?V tt° 5 7 a 5 8. 6d - 5 2:s a 5 1; 6;1 ' ( ' t • ‘--" S 3 7S 0 1 Le g ' . :3: ,J lis a - 3 4 6's tl4e:au :Nips a °(1.1 "h Erv , azs a i ti s 6d I "* n?:nrr4 Tick Beans -29 s a 33s od Oats -14 s a 195 a 235 od Poland ditto 245 a 23s bd Rape Seed 321 a 341 per last Fine Flour -45 s a 49s cd Second do. - gns a 455 od . . '.: l , 4l .ersiglay the 'LoitO MAYOR, before setting off' e 'P'll--- -he procession, ordered the price of Bread to °ntinue the same as last week. rkn eln P lidaY morning bills were stuck up in Glas:. iLoffering to recruits a bounty' of five guineas. for t 92d Regiment of Foot, at present lying in .Chrracks. Thi s will a pp ear the more striking,. r iti " e n k it is 'understood' that. the 92d was within the s banilli-er of Regiments which were to have been di (Gra as soon as possible after the, late Peace.— gsgo/ti Papers.) I°l,Vrhursday last job's Kin: removed himself by ' e44 Corpus froni.Netvgate to the Fleet Prison. d; . Pakry,"P4te of great importance has taken place . at andl-:,ubetween the Managers of the OPera-Comique, Prese-i,N3sian Theatrical Agent. It :has been re ,ile pl ed to the Dramatic Plenipo, that Mademoi_lt tva;`ll4,lB, being engaged at the Comic Opera,_,er fronc, Unhandsome in him to attempt .to seduce . li ta_ bli st ,alti Con•ferences were in consequence middlees tutir '- "' in which it was resolved that a _ ret: s hould be taken —that Miss PaiLLis sh A ould . bk lt n t° her engagement in Paris, but that N I ' 1) ,„.,ilc be hould continue his route to Russia, where ' ll ssi a „ u t „ e Passed from Brigade. to Brigade. . 'file e sts nf:4;utarnatic Agent, full of zeal for the inte - 6e nt to rhe Theatre of Petersburgh, would only con, :CZ Miss PHlLLis's return upon this condition.. 2ti l d te ;illative has resumed its operations at Paris, la st w w° zil en who had been guilty of Murder, were Twte,k slecapitated' hy the National blade. . lished,°ashiowtl,l, Gentlemen have recently pub to sendn IlitiVertisement requiring their Creditors t. 11( 4, H, II tbeir accounts. This measure, we doll') tire - x } '"e geditors have so often 4opted without ' tl r L ' t ueY will only consider the invitation as a Ill ereAza„ , ~ y 'Th e '. ciagfro,tc. as h 4 vi P n ain ti n _ c g at Rouen, representing aIoGEN.Eti hi ghly i s . 'xed his choice o n BoNApARTE ? .. was . site thanconsistent; as nothing can. be more oppo- NI th n t he principles Ie ei , of the Stoic Philosopher l l i i Za e m o f f e : ll 2 Chief Consul. The first th o u ht p niori a j f rame` of a .iub,, dominion enou.,, .. whole of PQ"Ce too . 4nle---the last thinks the . wu oircuaLcrib d c a spaee. S. opg LORD DAY. and in6t END red , jnef 51 14 !bi g eve-4 )r) A ra, 2PI tie' r 11 0 te re . o' of gc he ) 0 0.- ,a; .49 0r/‘ g ill f ; 11C ° Y es ; Po e svo s ov er roof' s4Flits solemnity on the installation of Chief Ma.. : rate of London for the ensuing year, was yester day honcured with the presence of -the first People . of Distinttion. Among the company present were the Right. Hon. the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Secretaries of State, the Danish and Swedish 14 "' 0 Yb, Lord Chief Baron MACDONALD, Viscount t ooO, L or i P E L H AM, and several of the Members W.- Administr at i on . • The Lord Mayor was attended by the Sheriffs of London, and Alderman BOYDELL, (as Father of the City) proceeded after the Lord Mayor. Aldermen MAC ADL EY. AINSL EY," WATSON, CU , I f IS, LE IGHTON, C ("ERO the RECORDER, COMMON SERI EANT, • &c. were present at Guild. • • -The 'dinner was served sup in the first stile ; Mr. ANGEL concluded the entertainment. , The table frames were elegantly decorated ; the Chief Magi strate's were thrown (en parterre), -and the table, f rames exhibited rural and pieturesque views. The blessings of A-dee were represented by d display of th e weapons of War being reversed ; Agriculture and industry were seen joining hand-in-hand. At the head of the principal table, where his Lord. 811 '13 sat, there was :a grand Temple in the Eastern stile. The following Toasts were 'drank after dinner : v. ": he Lord and Lady . Mayoress drink to you all in a lovin& . ',4atut bid )•ou hearty welcome. • - .Z he Church arid King. • 13 Cn a l e m 9"een Prince and Princess of Wales, Duke and Pr, 5" 91 Vork, and the rest of the Royal Family. The ' A -41 Y to the City flare ondon, and the Trade thereof. After the • — nliY and Navy of at Britain. first toast. Dignum and a Mr. Gibbons s ung, God save the King, accompanied by the band, :ifnen sung:lchor us. After thesecond toast, the same. tire nde d ßule Britannia. The Ladies re_ wh from t a bl e a b out a quarter b e f ore n i ne o ' c l oc k , en the following toasts 'were drank with three times three, =The Lord Mayo r (given - by the late Lord Mayor). late Lord I+;layor - (given by the present Lord Mayor). e Chancellor of the Exchequer. The se Gentlemen severally returned thanks in %b ort .i lyropriate speeches. si,V,lghtlion. William Pitt, and bet ter h ea lth to him. Th i 'ney Smith., .11 7 e dikincr was. served up by Messrs. BIRCH and zid , did much credit to those Gentlemen. MAYOR ESS went to the banquet in a et e C4trio4e, the ornaments of which were most gar • T he man in s armour was dispensed with. T h e carriages of the lace LORD MAYOR, Alder_ flan Cohsss, and Sir SIDNEY SMITH, were drawn al ong by the mob. General ANDREOSSI, the French Ambassador, "as invited, hut did not attend, not yet having been Presented to His MAJESTY, „The all opened at a quarter before ten, with a .7 1n uet by His Excellency the Swedish Ambas :adclorand Miis PRICE. Country dances follow. ‘ co they suffered a , tempotary interruption in exnstquence of several Ladies fainting, from the ine" thatf heat and pressure. • Two were carried out covered st ate into the Hall, where they soon re. the. Above a hundred Ladies left the room at 643 e from fear of a similar fate. PRANCE. [We have peen favoured with some very ebpious, and at the same time interesting Observations, made by a Gentleman who has lately returned from a Tour to France. These we shall present to our Readers, exactly as we have re ceived them ; tor though some' of them may not be new, they are made ha a very sensible and entertaining manner. SIR, TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. ko7don, Nov. 6, JBo2. I am recently returned from France, ,through Holland. If the condition of the inhabitant's is more wretched than it was under the old regime, they carefully avoid every expression indicating the state in which the Revolution, and late changes of po litical systems, have placed society. In towns, villages, and inns, in the conversation of all ranks, you in vain look for the chearfulness of independent, free spirits, the open and unrestrained expression of the blessings of liberty, or the manly avowal of the generous sentiments of freedom. In lieu of this, you are forced to mark the cautious silence, the gloomy despondency, and the guarded manner that pervades society. If a conversation of apolitical tendency is introduced by the Traveller, he is lis tened to with attention and avidity, and his audi. ence look round, and regard each other with a mingled expression, strongly depleted in their coun tenances, of approbation, of a repressed . wish to speak, and of a mutual distrust of each other. When referred to in a manner that unavoidably urges the saying of something on the subjed proposed, and never discussed, the answer generally-received, ac companied with an expressive shrug of the shoul ders, is; " Monsieur, ce sont des choses qu'effec tivernent, je n'entends pas, et vu je ne m'y mCie jamais." In travelling from town to town; such will be the result of every conversation, that even distantly has politics for its objea. A concatenated system of espionage is said "to pervade the entire extent of the vast Eopire of France, .and the Ruler of the Great Nation, like a.spider in the centre of her web, soon feels, in the inmost recesses of Sr. Cloud, the slightest impression on the circumfer ence of the system he has so artfully wove. The liberty of silence on interdieted subjeds, seems to be that alone which is thoroughly understOod. Whether the present Chief, and-the species of Con stitution he has been pleased to cstablCli, are gene rally acceptable, cannot be ascertained from lan guage. A negative mode of assent must be deduced from silence alone. No positive proof exists. The fulsome adulation of-a few, either influenced by fear, or gained over by largesses, cannot form* any criterion of the repressed sentiments of thirty mil lions of inhabitants. No stronger proof can be adduted.of this total want of the Freedom of Speech, and what that Speech would express were it free, than thatin Hol_ land, now, for a time at least, relieved from the. usurped grasp of France, The utmost latitude of po litical conversation is given into, and 'the measures of the French Republic, past and present, are treated with a degree of virulence and acrimony that knows no bounds. In approaching. the Metropolis of re.: generated France, the guarded concealment of sen.: timents becomes more striking. Here, when opi_ mons indicatory of freedom of remark are proffered, you are stared at, and 'afterwards carefully shunned, as .a being whose acqu.!intance and conversation may be attended with dangerous consequences. The people in the upper spheres of life, converse as well as they can on suhjeas of general literature, studi_ ously avoiding Whatever reflects, even distantly, on the political state of France. Public places, new performers, the gl ory an d gre a tness o f the Chief Consul, the exploits of the French Arms, and the power of the Republic,, are themes they dwell on with Much apparent satisfadion, because unattended with danger in the discussion. The people in the higher stations in life have attained to power, and have acquired property through the casualties of a Revolution, ,dreadful and bloody beyond any re corded in the annals of history. A great majority Swinishmarity of these,have rise n f rom , t h e d regs o f the 'Multitude, into opulence, station, and .official im portance, on the ruins of the. Nobility and Gentry, guillotined, exiled, or starving' in obscurity in Paris, whither many have been permitted to return, to see their former possessions in the hands of those whom crime, or the chances of the Revolution, have placed on the top the wheel. They are, in general, such whose education has not been liberal; and whose habits and conversation strongly characterize the stations they formerly occupied, and from which their good fortune has suddenly elevated theM to stations of pre-eminence and importance under the new Monarchical Republic. That there are among them - men whose . talents, knowledge, and litetature, would do honour to any country, cannot be for a moment denied. .The high finished elegance. of manners, the winning and fascinating politeness and urbanity, the ease of conversation that not un frequently ,supplied even the place of information, are no longer to be looked for ; they died With the Monarchy, and are past and gone, like a tale that has been told. Affeded republican austerity, de_ void of polish or interest, is the melancholy sub stitute that remains. Flow long this order of things will endure, is known only to that Being alone, who, to baffle human wisdom, and for, certain purposes, generally of punishment, permits' such extraordi nary events as we have lately witnessed to come to pass. C onsc i ous. t h at manners of this description are ill calculated to conciliate' foreigners accustomed to walk in fashionable' circles, and especially the English, they are averse to holding intercourse with them, from feeling embarrassed, and the full force Of the upstart situation into which the various turns of the revolutionary wheel have thrown them. The ancient Nobility, who have been graciously permitted to return and starve in ..Fidai4;'eXisting barely in unfurnished corners of th@kr-once cent, but now plundered houses, at aShamed,from a painful recollection of past splendour, to' receive visits from their English friends, whose gene rosity and beneficence to French , Emigres will be mentioned in the page of History, and men tioned with honour. An intimate sense of re ligion and morality, after the efforts made by the Revolution to destroy every trace of them, cannot be .expeded to be speedily entertained.— They pay Reli4ion at least the homage of not in- lieightng against I.hr diviriC prEtepfs, and regard her as an engine of Government to work on the feelings of the pnpleu The French charaler has tindeilone a Consider:. able change. The flippancy, frivolity and petulance of the petit traitre, have given way so a gravity, a thoughtfulness, and teadines, formerly unknoWn to the charader. The state of terror, Nnxiety, a n d alarm, attendant on a t en years Revolution, has. el feeted this change in the national marinets A lo quacitY beyond the p_qwer of any Reyblution to destroy, still remains. <`Excepting in Egypt, the singular goodfortune of the preSent Ruler has sur mounted every opposing obstacle; and he attained to power at a time favourable to his'views, when the people, wearied out and fatigued with scenes of blood and horror, were ready to submit to any man whose Government promised a cessation from a dreadful state of constant terror, alarm and devasta tion. The manners of the citizens of Paris, are ob liging, orderly and regular. A riot in the streets, or : a drunken person, are very seldom to be seen. Strangers are treated with attention, and plain po liteness, while they abstain from political .discus sions. The streets are safe and quiet at all hours of the night ; the police is carried on entirely by Corps de Gardes, stationed at regular distances ; twelve or fifteen thousand regular troops could be assembled, on any one point, in half an hour. The National Guards have been disarmed, and Contri. hute in money what they formerly did in personal services. In the South of France, robberies are committed ; in the North they, are prevented by the perpetual vigilance of patroles. Soldiers are placed at all the Theatres, and public places of re sort, these regulate the successive entrance of the spedators, and the arrival and departure of car riages. Every seat in a Theatre pays a tax to Government; the amount of this tax is specified on a board fixed up at the entrance. Provisions and wines are cheap, but the English soon fithl that French dishes and wines want the solidity and strength they have been accustomed to. In manufac tures of every description, porcelaine, and painted paper excepted, they are, and ever will be far behind us. Their boasted purcelaine of Sevres, is so extremely dear, as to be of more spew than public utility. Taking London and Paris in a general point of view, there is more of architeCturai appearance in 'the loftylto4lses of the latter than of. the former., The narrowness of the streets of Pa ris, and the filth of the houses, in general, will be proverbial while it exists as a City. The light, elegant neatness of our det;nrations aa furniture, forms a striking contrast to the Parisian style. The accounts of the- nudity of French women have been exaggerated : Cyprian's and l)etnireps there, are cer tainly least adorned, when adorned the most ; but the French Ladles aft., in general, covered, though, in many instances, thinly. The middle aril lower orders are perfeEtly correain . point of dress.: The French 'Ladies have le ss e m bon.point' than their neighbours,. hence the features of the - figure tell readily to the eye. They deem our fair C , mntry. women over.clothed, and remark respeJing them, with a freedom of conversation not very commend. able, '' qu'il est impossible de faire le pcche inortel a travers tint de mousseline." The appellation of Citoyen and Citoyenne, is almost entirely laid aside, and the former m,:dei of address, are again in use. .1. asked a Cordonnier who was fitting on ti pair of shoes, the cause of this change—he answered; " c'est l'usage," but unexpeCtedly added, " mais au fond c'est un titre Cres excellent." I took every opportunity of conversing with mi litary men. An intelligent Soldier who had served under the Monarchy, and who hid been at the fatal Battle of Marengo, gave it as his decided opinion, that the Auszriatis lost the vidary after gaining it, by weakening their central, and pursuing too eager ly with their wings. DEsAix's Column unexped ly came up at the moment, and passing through the centre, turned the fortune of the day. Such was the chance that decided the fate of a great part of the Continent of Europe. BONAPARTE ,is sensible how much he owes to DtisArx, anal is going to chew his gratitude to his.%ern9ry in the, shape of a projeded Magnificent ,MOnumenr. In order to draw something out of the old Soldier, I ironically praised their liberty, saying what was fael, that no tuch formerly exi s t e d. 171 e remarked, "Ma fois, c'est unliberte hien trisre." (To be cm:lima) 114iVI B UR GH; OCT. 25. • THE Senate - has this day appointed Mr. WIL LIAM.. BRANDT, Partner of the House of BRANDT, RODDE, and Co. at Archangel,- to be Hataro' Consul at that . A ccording to private advices from Paris, a printed letter has got' into circulation in that City, Written by a ContraCtor of the. name of . PIGNER who loudly complains of the embarrassments under which he labours, from the want of punauality- on the part of Government ; and who accuses -BONAPARTE himself of having broke the promise which he had given him. Eve!) , endeavour has been exerted to buy up the copies ; but, it was thought prudent 'not to institute any proceeding against the. , author, lest the Service in which he was employed should tail; or any tlarm be spread amongst the other Con traiftorS. The following Anecdote, which is given in a French Paper, may, prthaps,apply, this day, to se veral ui our Readers, East of Temple. Bar. M. CAREL, President of the Parliament of Rouen, a huge eater, being on his death-bed, sent for a Priest--". Father," says he to him, " my Confes sion will be short—l have only been guilty of indi gestiow." There has been for some time a great bustle in Petetsburgh about the fprmation of a plan for an Academy in that . City. ,This is not to be wonder edat, as the plan has been drawn up by a, Mr. Fuss. The multitude, of beggar's in our streets are said be beyond conception; how then does it happen that they so rapidly increc4c • The wheat sowing has hitherto been so highly favoured by PrUvidence, that it is calculated, the consumption of seed will, in consequence, be one third less' than in 'ordinary seasons. A saving of no inconsiderable importance to the community. :LAW REPORT'', COURT OF KING's BENCH, Nov . 9 THE‘KING, ON THE PROSECUTION OF JOIN: BACON, WM. MILES. ERSKIE moved for a , Writ of'Ctrtiorar; , , to remove an Indithnent from the Sessions into this Court, on an Affidavit •which stated, - that an .Atli :n was brought in the Court of Common l'eas,:for De •famation against a person of the vatne oftLoa Defamation, Mr..ERSKTNE said, of the ;trost - ti - -ssL• graceful -nature: this -case-coming on to be tried, was referred to the arbitration of Mr. Wm. Miles, who aivarded to the PlaintiTin tharaaion.,:the sum of 3501, which, ME.'EnSKINE.said, was very mo derate, considering the nature of the Defamation ; in consequence of this, Bacon was called on to pay the.money ; he refused it, and moved the Court of Common Pleas to set the Award aside hearing of that Motion, Mr. Miles-did that, .which, if the present Motion was unsu-xessful, Afhltrators would be slow in doing in future--te made an davit in support of his Award ; and he . re the Court would not fail to observe, that an Arbitrator was to be considered as a Judge, in a tribunal, the au thority- of which, • their Lordships' would Support, from a sense of its value in -the adjustment •of dis. pates between Individuals, who made choice of that forum. -Bacon still persisting in his refusal to com ply with the Award, in the same spirit asioefore, resisted the Award, •indiaed this . A rbitrator, Mr.- Miles, .for Perjury, a lled ge d b y Baco n to h a v e b een committed. by Mr. Miles, in the Affidavit he made in support of his Award. Here the CHIEF JUSTICE asked where :the Bill of Indiament was found ? Mr. ERSKINE said, it was at Clerkenwell Seg slims. Mr. Miles, he said, wis a very respenable man in trade : it was stated that this was a maiici rus Prosecution, and instituted with a view of in timidating the party, and that rather than this Gen tleman should appear in Court, upon his trial, the Whole of this money will given up. Mr. Ea SK tNE observed, that if any case cnuld be removed on -,c ,count of its extraordinary circumstances, this was that case; for unless Arbitrators received encoura , .:e_ ment, there would be an end of Arbitrations altoge ther. Lord' ELL FNEOROUGH said, " I incline to this application more on the last groUnd you'have stared, Mr. EasmtvE, than that which just preceded In order 'to induce men to take opin them the cha ratfter of Arbitrators, it is proper to protth 'them ; and, as it is stated, thatsthe proceeding is injurious .ro the• Arbitrator, we should grant this Motion; but it is on the ground of prorcaing this C:ntle_ man, in the character 'of Arbitrator, that we put the case into a course of being tried ,in the most solemn manner. As.to the-grounctolinconvenience, in exposing this GontleMan to stand at the bar of a Court of Justice, it is a subject which we cannot take into consideration, because that is the situation in. which the Law would place him, and, therefore, the Court would not gran: this Motion on that ground. , But we assent to the Motion on 'the other ground." INdotion granted. DUNCAN v. REEVES. Mr. MARROW moved for a Rule fo shew Cause why the Defendaot should not be discharged on fil. ing Common Bail.: this he moved on an Affidavit, which stated, that the Defendant had a situation at one of the Theatres, and lodged at the house of the Plaintiff. Some disputes arose between the parties, and the Plaintiff caused the Def - ..ndant•to be appre hended on a charge of picking hiS pocket, which was entirely without foundation, and the Defendant was discharged, and the matter was supposed to be abandoned, :but from advice, which was not the bek, the Defendant commenced an action against the Plaintiff, and that gave birth to the present suit,, which was an Aftion of Troyer, for that the De fendant had taken, and detained, and kept in.his possession, a desk with certain Deeds, .5.7 c. of the Value ',of five hundred pounds, upon which the- Defendant had been under the necessity of giving bail to the Sheriff; but it would be itripcAs:ble for him to procure two persons to justify in the sum of - moo!. ; for men of such property did not like to hazard it in a Suit . on behalf of a man who was poor; so that, if he was put to'the common cot:r;c of justifying bail, before he could procure his freedom, he must go to jail, - and that would be his absolute ruin, for he would Jose his situation. On , application to the party, he said " it was an Adion brought because the Defendant - had brought ,one against him ;" the truth was, it was brolight to make the Parties cry '' quits," as the vulgar phrase was. The Plaintiftin the A&ion said the Defendant had got the key—" How have ytur' arrested the man for 50001. ?" He said, " If chuse to call this desk an article worth roool. von ,have, no remedy, if I arrest you for it, but to find bail." • This was the case here, and this w4' properly - called Spunging.house Law :—he belicd, the affidavit was taken from the precedent of ;as Humpiiry Tristram. Potter, who arrested a . per.ion in an Adiott of Troyer for a piece of furnitdce of the value (to hirn) of 5001. which turned out after wards to be an E. 0. table, which was most fit for the fire in which it was cc,nsumed. This practice was alarming, and would be the absolute ruin cif this poor man, unless there was some remedy for it.— • Here Mr. GARROW read over the Affidavit, and contended that it was not sufficient to hold the Defendant to bail ; but the Court held it to be sufficient, and observed, that the Motion would not be_ assented to; for discharging the Defendant 'on filing comarOn bail would be to 'try the merits of the Cause —a practice which the Court of King's Bench disavowed, but hinted that the Court nii3ht possibly assist the Defendant in arvoher way; which_ was with a Rule, calling on the Plaintiff to shew cause why, upon depositing in Court the key the lodging, and thereby delivering up posses sion of the articles, for the conversion of which the Adion was brought, the Defendant should not be discharged.; bat this must be moved upon a Special Affidavit. Mr. GARRow said, he would take care lo avail his Client of this kind suggestion, and soon came prepared with popes materials beim ;he Court,