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itons, and an ident:ty of intea -1141 t:; is to Saxony .for more than, loti a c'crit ary,,,i_if s ,r the King of PrusSia to take an Ovantvgp of those ties, and contkrt them into chains, be, ought,. at least, to have menaced Saxony, to have covered her with soldiers, and, in a word, to have irnifatedßuoisi}i Pa" af-' flies a`tonntry with' his alliance. •Prussia was so far from adopting such me:laureg, that she Quist submit to the eternal reproach of not having suffi ciently attended to the defence cif her Ally,-'and /of having left Saion'y opp . n, to all the Inmalts of her enemy. it must he confessed that .this is. raper a novel triode of „kubjeaing her neighbours to her • pleasure. BuoFAnaTE, then, could have no expeaation of misleading any one, when, in 1806, lie declared that Saxony was enslaved since he was _Well aware of the. impossibility of deceiving a sitlaio soul in a cir , cumstance so notoriously untrue. But he knew - the eharaaer of the Eleaor of Saxony, arid was deSirous of paving the way for his defeaion and submission, I?y"l2enevolently and timely furnishing hint with an aNlogy, a pretext, for pre3erving iris political exist- enee at the price of. his honour and his duties. Ibis Prince, of a meek and peaceable disposition, is gifted with a passive and tranvil speciesiof wis dom, admirable for other, ages, and for other. men than those with whom we are condemned to A century ago, he would have made an excellent Prince as the world is now circumstanced, he can • only be,deemod a weak and timid Sovereign, en dued with all the courage of the most perfea eignation ! Nothing of this had escaped Buo RI , and. it • was therefore for the Ele4nr alone teat this ridicu lous fable of the slavery of Saxony, ,was invented and propagated. „ . . This fiction, however, it became necessary to maintain to the Last, and the Legi,btiG..l/00,Y wa•;, thovjore, to 1?.1.- toll tint Saxopy " had been .en ... , • franchised Let us now this " enfranchiSernent-" has .been effeCted. the ,EleAer o Sa.xony has becn to roceie , ,a.crowit from the hands of hint who the his nephew.; suppuse , !!;.nt( - ) have this V011111taliiy; Mirl o!" his own what title shall ;lie give :Thu all from so 1:4u1 a Cfitll(.'. be w 1,4 1"01.I., 10 .iji:copt wltat diet' becoraes " i" Ewt:::):1.1.1y, upon, the firit diSniembertnent of*Ger- ciwkly'declared that "7 hiscon-' hi,-.11 to receive, and h isitieliumion's tt; any then, he ilit3lloW ACCt.'t)t-. t:;t ,h - y.niniotis of hi, most intiniato . AllY, it bicArnel a v.:Aion wileth....l it was a voluntary a:t; 311(1, if this be answered inlhe affirmative, ~ vll•,tt are A.ve to wv.lerst:iii , l by his ",conseiettec ?" BA lie is MAI . ktio,vii to be truly auds.sincerely pious : h tlicii cOmpeli , :l to receive the 4p )tl', of mil in thi3 Wiiere 13 his " Toicily, lie r-tu set in 1 805 and 1800 to bdermie th • Clafed-ration. of the Itilinct t in 180 7 ; , it !• By thii• aloao tie ii , t t r it io r . )OA , . 01 ;L:)‘..)NATA lan, "Chief ata• Pro ie,:tor" oi' Ina C.)ol4,:dt:r.iti,)n. 11, :then, he - has . aor Opted in:l io 7, ' am he rt6e:;ted I Rod; where is his tiopendene'e ?" Atf.t if hu has r.lone it arliis oiVit froe st ill, he-ItaCtiten kitc4irkgly,place‘.lhitrisellander the dependence of BooNtit#A.ftiP..; fop no"one can be , itiorant. of 'what is Itleal,t by. the i)roteciion' such 'a Tyrant. .:; ' ;Finirthly, .The'gift of the ,Duchy of WithstAr)anri • Censtitfation - Which the Elec.lor has accepted for . t h a t state, nuces4rily render the Kink of Saxony. -the F r n'erny of Prt.,..l:,i‘t, I),:ustria, and , itti 3 3lg; W e all :knOvie-thAt he Wes oldie(' King. , of. Boland in . i7gl"; -he is now matle . DakeOfPOland, with a Coastitittion twhich 10ad3,.. in the most diteet manner, lto . that of 171). :,Who does not sett the obje4t of thioi , or the . k • • , point at which IitfUNAPIRTI3 Wpne9 ro-iirrlrm Ia it of hi 3 own freu will that the Eleaor cif Saltony.bas aCcaptvd tin envenomed present, which , readers hirn the iconrgo of his' neiglitionvs; . tind- the ; .instrument of t Ito tYrant of 'Eni.otiti Q ui*. ; :.it cannot he; prineiples. and.:l,i chat - ad:l:c 'ate . Well known and there it...;-vcr existed - a rit.)re:cruel : Troof 0/4:T4.11.1cm:0 than this inetarnorphosis the . -lileatir Saxony. into a revolntionary tic.ittginto ah t tinr , of air . rchy and rebelliett7! Such is the political lit.crt*r:whidt 131TONAPAILTH . has .gi,yen rQ .Sisotiy, - and aucli is tlia-ntainter untch has !' enfranphise:i her Iron} s i a - very theie is yet an- 'timlre....gliett in 11113 the; -Sfiettch wortleour 1:1401.1Se of Saxony ha 3 ,recmiereil it i -the word fr tio4st;" _cOmprelitlids a:I tfik .of a family, and, Ott this respeCt . „ he Ir.; , " 1 n dl'v i R far, atleasf, aft.rogaids , one of iinlividual3,3 but. it ivay bO a(),..thted tt.:s 04'4 fu,la i r O ciperiei i n L o f airy but G0..1 acid lyr , own heart. ft is i.way., hat 13 T.,,r 0 N vAwrE ~.4. ,4 '. N sylvf.;, J on decrificing the Princess Atioosn, daughter of „the: Deal) - to - Rost`. APAllah: The Pritreesi . '`, ref - Luc. ' ap ared-, . terrible to ,Ater t . a 11 itseV Orr 4 ts ' , 61' s#ll a isgrace,,,liit, indod,4he made : O ; - irtos t .! . - noble . use of her independence !, But I doubt . rn04. 1, ! whether it was of this that BUONAPARTEi meant tfi!i liMiTriThrTe - litsTlirtbltir --- 7 - 211,dliii - Ciiifiatlice - Sub 7 jeet has naturally led me to-speak orthor4infamotts 'uniOns which the Tyrant forces the Princes, his slaves, ~ , .. tocontrad. with t he individuals of. hii fancily, .I must 4eelp,easQ fora moment . , and. give vent %r that: in- dignation' which . has too long , and too cruelly' Weigh edsapon my heart, . , . ': This age; ."sehOrrible for prodigies .of every kind . of crime, li.is given birth to One nulteard-of and un-' : kno \Nil till now. In all times there have tieep Tyrants, LTsurpers, and fierce' and, rapacions Con-; querors. In the days of barbarism, the death of vanquished Princes ',sometimes followed, close upon their defeat : the Romans chained them to' the wheels of their triumphal cars, but at the close of this. - intolerable humiliation, they indulged . them with a, speedy death. It was reserved for this ago, 'andtbr the subtle and malicious Tyrant of this age,, to outgo all those who preceded hiM, by branding hi's victims with an indelible, an inexpiable Mark of, opprobium, ,and by compelling , them to 'live after be had thus dishonoured them! Not content with ..,. dethroning 'kingS,. yith rendering them :his acctmi plices, with forcing them to rob and strip each other, and, covered With those shameful : tatters, dropping. with blood, and penetrated with ignominy, compel's ling them to wear on t h e i r b reasts the' effigy of their Tyrant, suspended . to a ribbon dyed in the blobd of their Subje - Os i—Not content with all this, he seeks • to.pollute their dearest bloOd by the impute inft4ion of his own, and threatens•them with those disgrace- ful alliances, in order that -their shame May be beyond the remedy of chance ottime, and. the re' , ninibrance of it, like licit torments, at. once ter- rible and eternal . ! ' ' • 'This dreadful species of punishment was unknown in the annals of 'history, and could Only be put. in , :praEtice in this age,' and on the Princes whom this age has given us. A centurysooner, and we.should ha -seen the Tragedy of Virginias renewed, and fatheri pluirge'thtir . daggers into the bosoms of their own daughters, to preserve them from pollution • and disgrace ! Our ancestors were hbt,"philbsophers enough to submit to such infamies.: - now,, Alas! these abominable unions, which conneet all , the croWried he!itls of Eurono with the' obscUre and most guilty'firtAY 6f . ilie me and the ridi . culous . of Tyrants, are 'among the ordinary means of his system; of which the . two leading maxims are--L.". I3.;grade and destroy !" For the degradation, his i: - ,. , ;ertibus malignity cdnld . devise nothing more comi,l , te, more ditrable;Hmore , irritating for the people, or more criminal for their. Riders. It is but too evident,. that When :a King voluntarily, precipi iates'himself jute' a leathsoMe Slough of this kind, his destrn&io'n is :at the mercy of , hinvvho, while ', he - dishonours - his viaitni effe,inally extinguishes.. every Spark of interest WhiCh his 'misery might else -hue excited: '. - • • ' ' With the Kingspi:EUrcipe,,BuoNArmiTg imitates (lie coruh6t .01 TIBERIUS towards the Romatt vir gius. He gives them. up to he violated by the co:nmon executioner before he conduas them . Co the scaffold ! Would to heaven .that my 4caders had'the curl osity to revolve in their own minds all that remains to us of the transaaions of mankind since history first opened her instrueitive page !—They would end nothing to be compared. to this horrible ; tyradny,.but ‘ that of the Minotaur, to which Athens was annnally obliged to send six of her nobleatViriins to be slaugh- tered :—ther were; indeed, slaughtered; but that "was all. T see him, .and to die,' was at once the • punishment, and the term:nation of PaniOailent. Yet 'etten then there arose a Tugsetto,and the mon. .ster ceased to afpia the earth ! In this age the' cru:.-Itiezi .44 real, and the TnEsgusus are beings of fable or imagination, The labyrinth of ; the l'huil leries yet ekpefts its vikaimsi-and it will not expel them in vztin while' there remains a Princess .in.ger-: * . • . Lit is with much pleasure th at we resume the foregoing , .•valuable.. Artielei which comes front' the tulle rnasterly Winer to whont we were indebted for the. profound Re_ . fl, - .‘ditins'oa the Trcabr of Tilsit. Zharaaer nAPA it r too Will knoi.vit to the tWerlct 'in his Military c,Ap.mity, anti thew iinpertant eorruntnucations will, tend to mankind what he is - as' a 'Politieien, 4a4 what all tates rniast inipea. it they are deceived by his machina. , , . 77 - 7 . nxTrutur or ,A LETTER VIIONI A LIEUTENANT OF THE CORPS (TUE 95TH REGIMENT) TO HIS PRO- 1 TRUE IN ! rtIOLANO, DATED 11 . 0NTE VIDEO, THE 15TLI ,CLY, 1807. t,inc - t. , I last *tote you from St. Helena, bave 3:::petientied siltficient ti 4 z 1 nikrge, ui 40 . We arrivod Video on the 14th of Jetty, and l'ol)nd it in u possession of the f , ngliih.'..Gefier:ll Vlo;::::;,tx: . ;4;: and Suite kid ids() tit'c.iit the sa . ifie .eatne out CO' I incler Glier, ant with the express iiit(.'otion of pa. , c_ef:Qi:l;. - 11:1:42,txliati:ly with the tfooin the;i •a3sembl . cd'a:,.,: wit f. .11,115ettos Ayres. We-weighed anchor .on the 26th i"... cast it agaiß9n the.47th Z. Colaukt p . oppo mit iji: es AyreC - 'On (he 20Th we y dis'elmba&-• ;!,tt .;k* --- k , een 8 auhtiouin ritlmbet), meetintiio 0p ,t.r45-0 until tlic j„4, / i whetlwe came wit4l4: eight i,:rni 4;)l•BuenoS'Ayrei, uponwhich •day*ifie * rifle • and the light coMpanies, of the different regiments attacked and took nine pieces of.cannotk and drove the troops inta.lia§ttos,AYies. ' . • '.-- (' " Oa - ill:LS.4th; the Grand Army came up, and Jan- the sth the meditated attack took place, the ',Success of whiclx,, ere the arrival of this, you will ' have leprovr Disastrous as was the issue.ofthe•ba ,siness, we . (the rife corps) feel proudly" conscious that Wa•can ;lay clahn.to the applause of our country for Navin done ()lir duty. •Some ,part of this corps was hotly "engaged every day from - the 3d, and whatever'couldt . be .achieved by human alour and exertion,- was effected by us. On the 4th, LW() COM.' panics, Major NoacoTT's2l9.il GAO : . 0' H A.RA'.S i SUS tallied their posit ilie . whole of the day, aighist the ferocious attack of 2000 •of the Picked trou t i of the enemy, and foiced them to retire to their entrphch ments : I hid the honour:of being a Volunteer with the former company.. 'lnc destro6tion ori the .61,1),' . as you will see by the returns, was dreadful on our. !part, and, for the time, homer work was never done." MAILS. AR/CV/ID—I Cottenburgh, Waterford. Li bon, I Dabl i n, Waterford. • PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY Art wyn,Lv s 0%; LaCK. COUSOIS . 6z Y UIIIITIUITI par, pr. THE SUN. 601E14 . $ll . lll FP.LtUht AVOKAT .LONDOW, SitTURDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1.807. This morniivr'.l Mail from Gottenburgh arrived. The account . of the. CroWn Prince having refused to ratify the •Capitukition of Copenhagen is repeted in the most.p6Sitive manner : it 'is even Said that - the Prince 'refusecl . to look • at . the terms which 'hero' agreed upon. We are ate loss to account for this • . candba of the'Prince upon every principle of policy or good sinsec., The °Capitulation which was coneity.kl' by °CI).PLYISIt.i , :' was a matter of - absolute n‘lesSity, not of Ch'oice. If the botubardment had been eon tinued,sortte days longer, the i.vhole'City must have been deetroyed; and the unfortunate Inhabitants buried in its,rui e nsi If Lord CA'f }IC Alq had deter miited to carry the City byassault, General - PEYAIAN., positively declares that he haslnot the meanS of oppos ing any efreaual resistance. In this situation, where. te:iistance , was , hopeless, where there was not even a poiSibility of relief, a very tityearable Capitulation was granted , : Indeed, in the,opinion of many Pet : ' sons, the stipulation to evacuate Zealand in six week® was a conceagion which ought not to have been made. Under these circumstances, the Prince thinks proper to withhold his assent to this Capitulation ; and if he shciald persist in that determination, the evacuation of Zealand will become a question of etcpediency, and nut a matter .•of agreement.. It is stated in the ALIO, tliat inCoPetthageti were immense; we shall be happy to find this state ment confirmed, because some 01, the Le.tters,which we have seen state, that the quantity of Public Stores was not so great as waseitpeeled. - Thesame Letters, how ever,,inite, that there was ln.the Minds of in a great quantity of Naval. Stoles, whicn had been purehased , un account of the French :and Dutch Governments:At - Allow Stores were really Enemy's .propuily, of . ootarie they- will. he, seized 3 . should, they .turn out to Ge , the , property sof the, sons in whose possession' they were tumid, they will of course be PiarEhi44‘ l " by:(34: Cf:) rti . IEIII . . - Th e ' re p or t o f the •eapture.of Flekoe, in Njr‘iniy,' is confirmed. , • , The. Letters, from St. Petersburgh contina.,;:tJ tat that the Russians in general are dissatisfied with. : Treaty ; and,the 'Nobles, it 'is 5a,:.41, , have offered to raise . and maintain eOO,OOO filen at their o an ex pence. Tnti morning Mr. PARSONS, tlie - Messdnger, ar rived at Mr. CANN/NG'S (Nice, in Downing-street : be bas been. a very long time upon his journey; be left Vienna about the , middle %of August, and was obliged to come round by vi'ay '.The following is a Copy. of the General Orders 'issued to the British Troops . In Sicily, by General • Fox; on his resigning „the comtnaod of that gallant ,Artny to Sir JOLIN I\lOO4E. ,klemi 7 quarteq, Messina, Aug, z,, do;. ,: Grim:km, oRDERS— , PAROLE LISBON. His Mijesty having been Pleased to'direa that his Forces, serving , in the Mediterranean,. should be placed in the hands of.l.ieUtenant. General Sir john Moore, the latter will assume the command of ?hi Army to-morrow. G.eobtal Eox. cannot quit the Charge•of such'an army 'with. out the dqopeit regret, nor without, testifying the satisfatlion he has felt from tht! good- tOnclud and zeal shown in every ttrik of it, both OttLers and men ; and he is most certain, that whchever they maybcealled'upcin, they Will,sfiew them selves fully equal to their former, exertions at Alaida,..ant4.l) tha 'known bravery and diicipline Sol diers , . - lie begs pvticularly to return, his most grateful that k; and acknowledgments to' the General Officers and Ilcads or' Pepartments, for the assistance .he has at all times recOved fttnn them, and for the alacrity with which every part of the service hal been carried on. . The General feels perteitly ]sappy in leaving the command qt . Ito Army in the hands of .such a oucciAsori -whose *nom" nict - h..i and abilities it would he avedlessfor tiftzt to eitutnemtg. (Sstied) • - CA..Y.P1i.14, Robt. Wim G4ldiner, Ald-d:, Camp. • corr. vntifiGl-1 • •. GOTTiNBI7RGH, SLTT, 25.—Our Copenbageft business a very unfinished state. lam told, - tron:cgool authority, that 'the Crown , Prince wilt xrr, not even 100 at the Capitulation ;.and as he refuses . Ift...rattly that our forces will. got evacuate Zialand so soon as'iv,.xpee'led. The stores found in the Dock -yard are immense; it is said that 4p, of, : our -Vessels•Ae!laclenwitk-sail. cloth milk.. The Al4n of:War' are kaden like Mer- chantmeu. . The taisians arc most discontedted With the Peace, anti the report which we had some time ship% of the Noblei having ofnred to maintain At. their thin exp.!nce 200,060, men in the field, seems to be conBrin 1. • WejiaVo tal k : . on Flekoe, in Norway;by storm ; the ,Harbour is a 'very: flue; one, andvery. safe' for our Ships to shatter blowing up the Fortifications ( !wbipotcatiieutenant and four men. The Messenger arrived yesterday . from Vienna; but.he isrings.no news. • PETERSITURC4I, ,AUG. Court Ga zette contaius. the Report, pf Connt QUDOWITSC U , :General. of Foot, fisted Came, on the_ Banks. of the- River Arratrichie, the ,‘..totls ofJune, the substance of which is as followa : —General Count Gu - nowrr soil, having received - intelligence that the Seraskier of ; lirycurn, Jussvv ' TAcif4, was marching witlya con siderable ,force. against , Howtay, ftOntkers . , was occupied but .by a, very •striall force .under Major-General ReyWnTAsow, he put' himself in motion to defeat the above purpose; but-could not arrive there sufficiently in 'dine, 'on accOutit'Of a clitficulttmarch whichlse had to make over alclsalor-of.l\lountaios, and Which obliged hint to allow his-..troops'tWo' days rest., In *lie mean time JUSSI.7f• 13.41CL1A attacked Major-Gilet e al REFWET*r. 46iV, with parr of his Corps, but was repulsed by thqf 9eneral; ^ith the' losS : 0 . f . .cw0 killed. J tis - suv I'Acna.; ho ' wever, nimlitated another attack, in expeaation of being-reitifOrCed by fresh troops - before :Count GUDOW.II'SCU'i arrival, which took: place thre ' e days after. . - .The 'Count took a potion with Corps, ten !worsts -.from the EnemY,. 44 6 wersts from Ffautay, to allow the troops sotne regt, • bnrleconnoitrecl in the meats time tile Enemy's • Canip, yliich was pitched on the . 'opposite banks of t'lle civet- Arpaikai, worsts froinnaniay ; and 1,3 v.,. observed that' the Enemy was fortifring the fronb of Isis camp with : batteries and entreachmrsts, be reconnoitred tivice with strong parties, froth 1 . 4 miles in front _.of.A.lie . camp,. in ordcr to 'draw his attention to that point, and , Make liim - believe that: - it Wts- inipaion to cress , the ,river and attack him in front.. But in the night between the 17th and i qth. Count Gbno-. ws'rsch tharched,l6 wersts down the hanks of the river, turned the enemy's c•Jiiip,: and , attacf<ed him in - the' rear. After seven hours hard' -fighting, the eneinv, although four. times stronger,- was corn - Pe34 .ts - ? ; abandon his 'ctimps,. and retreat -to alio:. ther s- prisition; five - ,versts . 'distant, - where he - was . also attacked' a,l4colppletely defeated,' having thus , .bcen'isbliged:tb'Jlibandon two samps,s 7 arkr : leave , consideuble 'pirtor bis .artillery the hands of the RiissiatisY TwOve hundred Persians, who wero .posted 36 wer:-,tF.- from Gen. Count (..kt/DOWITSckt:S . „ gci rp s . detacbed :;everal panics. to observe, from the niiiVinfint.s of, tile' cotiten4ing par tll4.TCQn:iii:.7.r&l the SeraF..kier ..1116%;OF PAcit4 Its rars-'"e'ltelletit-Cosiimander; and t.1144y, therefore,': wit ,.l,3x;.lgi,Us 4:1.1411:41.41.141.11.4 1 ,1 t. v.i th the, ut mkti6u. CUOlit acquainted with, this - , , , oy„spise,r, beils• 'the en: 1n 9I tiF:t:: : ;„ who occOpittl with his troops •a'-neighbour in 'nfighbonr poJt, and BAn ACHAN soil CO 1 4\1Uri.A., in. Iropv'i"tivit ;the' r :the above uneKt)eci4 "(l • e o v r i4 ire ti l l y ey .6 ' u b s if p C e ?b n i d d p co e t r l j c t l i t o u i l i e s. an, 1 .4 n trary,casc, it wa OLIDowITSCH'S ititeoQ ll to 4.11 his Wb6le furci :agsinst those Cusps; arid • dL feiit them before the Te ' rks should b. 'able'to The loss of the Rossiaus- is inconsiderable it con - Ot&e tr rs;and, t 2 rank and " tile: killed, - and: - Lteutenant , :pcnesar UASt.tw - ; O2licers; 41Id Of.; rank - and ' file - wounde . d. Tlieesioiny's less, - in killed only,' exceeds .1,000 men.w.;—(Siuchhohn , Sept. .Qi!) EGYPT,? --EX. trad.pf a Letter from n Srjeant itt the 62d IZeginleiit, to his frfends in Glasgow,. daw..l Alexandria, Nth Janet 1807.—" Messina was a pa radise in comparison to this place—all around .appearii a desolite pafchjd up moor, - without a:v t egetable,, , pr even a tuft of grass growintlupon it.--nothing but . the dry. burning sand, ..no springq of watt-r .for many milos— . —what water wegct` we , aro obliged bu and -that but very bad. .'flacz 2154. 3181-1 - 35th) 7 81 11 ' D - 2:llolle;s,Chasseurs Briusuniques,a conwanyot:artil lel. Iwo troOps of_ the 2Ut h Lisht Dragoons, al - .1 0 1 . .4111e1/t•i i besides ours, wilien are. 111)W ilrgUrrigOtt ;' and alter the overflowing of the which will ti k place ott the 1,7t1h of Ib is roJoth, we. shad make another att.ICI; On Rosettri• The:Cs i tiet Getteral.Ot the 'grabs, ‘vtio tight agahl ,4 ihu4l,Th4s oil our side came , into Alexi.iticiria yet4er day... the' 0 1 13111 body of. his troovi about three "I"lfuttet hence. Ile was salwest on Ins en;rancet by rill<riariitlns on the hatry. fle rev iovj the brigade of our troop his evutiing,-‘vilichCOLliists tlit: 31- L ittlil GRd regittivolf,"