The Sun. — London, England, 1802-10-14 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR. SIR, HAVING seen in your Paper of yesterday, an ac count of a romantic marriage, supposed to be •cele brated by the Hon. Col. ALEXANDER HOPE, with a young woman of inferior rank in life, at the church of Loren, near Keswick, on the zd inst. and at the conclusion of the account, you impress your Readers with the idea of the authenticity of the marriage ; I think it right to acquaint you that Colonel ALEX ANDER HOPE, 'the Gentleman alluded to, has been abroad the whole surhmer, and, by very late ac counts, was at Vienna ; I must desire, therefore, you will contradict the said marriage in your next Paper, and assert, that the person who called him z)elf Col. ALEXANDER HOPE, must be an impostor. Yours, &c. CL.2tham, oa. CHARLES HOPE. ARRIVED -- French o - - Hamburgh 0 - PRICE OF STOCKS, THIS DAY AT T‘IrELVIL O'CLOCK. Ccnsols. - 68 i I Onimum THE SUN. 40LEM QUID DICELIE f . AI-SULT AUDEAT LONDON, OCTOBER 14, 13oz. WE received this morning the Aloniteur of the loth inst. It is wholly silent with respeet to Switzer/and, but we fear that, notwithstanding, the French Government is actively enough em ployed in measures against that unhappy Country. We should hope that there is yet spirit and energy enough to be found in some quartet of Europe, to oppose this monstrous aggression on the put of France ; and we must confess that we feel so much for the Honour of our own Country, that we hope that energy and spirit will be found ti reside here. It would be becoming the high charaeler of this Country for moderation and justice, and we hope likewise for firmness and spirit, to interpose in behalf of the brave and virtuous Scvl,s.F. It is a measure which we are confident would meet with the warm applause and }teary support of the whole British People, who, though they may anxiously wish to preserve Peace, are not tlispo::ed to be calm Speaators of the most atrocious a& of oppression and injustice that has yet stailed tile melancholy Annals of Europe. '.this is a subje on which we shall take every opportunity of enlarging. It is interesting to the feelings of Humanity- 7 -it appears to us ro be assuming an importance that involves the fate of every Country whie4 . still can boast of a remnant of Independence. On the 27th of last month, a grand Te De :m was chaunted at Turk:, in celebration of the Re-union of Piedmont t..) the French Republic, at which Gene , ral JOURDAN assisted. The French Papers arc anxious to make the world believe that Commerce is returning to the Ports of France and Belgium ; but we may be per mitted, we hope, to doubt the truth of such intelli gence. It is neve; under a Despotic Government that Commerce, and the Wealth and Proisperity which it generates, are most likely to be found. The Funds are 53. So. Yesterday morning His Royal Highness the DoKE Of YORE: inspdaed the First Battalion of the First Regiment of Guards, and also the First Battalion of the Second Regiment ; and also the Soldiers who had enlisted to serve only during the War. The DITZE Stray attended by the Aide-de-Campsa. His Royal Highness particularly inquired whether any of them had wives 4nd families, and those who had, were immediately discharged. - Yester k lay a Court of Direetors was held at the Ent India House, when Captain ARCHIBALD HAMILTON w s as sworn into the Command of the Bombay Castle, destined to Bombay and China, in the room of Capt. JOHN HA.tur LToN, who has re signed.—The Court adjourned _Rt six o'clock till this day. In case the Marquis WELLESLEY should have embarked before the express lately sent out to Calcutta should arrive, Mr. G. H. BA.R.LoI,v will be the Governor General. The number of English Troops at the Cape of Good Hope, which will he Sf nt on to, India by the Ships lately' dispatched, amounts, according to a let ter lately received from Cape Town, to 5000 men. The Oth Native Xegiment, under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel' IVIARt.ty, which for some time past has been stationed-in the district of Gan_ jam, and by the Madras Government ordered to re turn to Bengal, arrived at Juggernaut On the 15th of April, on its march to Bengal. Lady BICr.ERTOt:I is immediately going out to tier husband Admiral Sir Rlcti/ k a.D BICE,EKTUN, 'stationed in the Mediterranean. On Tuesday sennight Mr. WICKHAM and Suite 'e ft Publin on a tour to the 'Southward of Ireland. e was accompanied by Sir EowAttp LITTLE. 1A.14:5. 1 , Sir JOHN IVIAcARTVEY, and Mr. GRIP -We Understand *Mr. W 4 C a is sincere.. ardently following up the reforms in the ces Mr.4a 3(.7, anti we hcartily W.PII .NT 4 VA! L, NEWS. FALMOUTH; Ovr. ARRIVED the li/a/singham Packet, Ro BAITS, in, six days, with Mail from LisbOrt—Passengers by her are, Messrs. JENKINS and HAR'i'NEY, and Lieu tenant SHEAKNIAN, of the :31 Regiment of Foot- The Prince Adolphus was lying at Lisbon, and expeaed to sail the toth inst. with Mails for England.. The Prince if Wales Packet was going in over the Bar as the g r a hillg ban; cache out. Arrived His Majesty'3 Ship Gaitnet ) of IS guns, from a Crui-Le ; the Brig Dia/lt7, WALLER, ,with provisions from Cork. . - en Friday last pit in here, the Transport Ship Lady Juliana, Capt. CHAPMAN, from Cork for Deptford. On Thursday night last she struck on the Wolf Rock ; the weather being remarkably fine, they were fortunate enough to reach this Harbour ; had it blown the least. wind, she must inevitably have sunk. On her arrival here, she was making five feet water an .hour. She will be obliged to be repaired before she can proCeed to the Eastward. Arrived this day the American Ship Dart, Capt. PECK, from Norfolk, with 1614 barrels of flour for a market, twenty-s;:ven days passage; the Jarman, TONKIN, from Plymouth ; the James and Ann, MICHELL, from ditto ; tile Endeavour, PERty, from Swansea; and the Brig Salter, Capt. PopPLE \YELL, from Oporto, with wines, for Guernsey, &c. , Sailed the Ni CO_ or. AN, the Mirti, AL L AN, and the C/ausina, THOtuAs, on a Cruize against the Smugglers ; the Brig Emmeline, Captain SEDGMONT, for St. Ives, to load fish for the Medi terranean. ; the Landon, MARTIN, for Teignmouth; the Hope, FELLOWSHIP, for Cork ; the William and Jane, 12.ARTs, with copper ore, ere, for Swansea ; and the Three Brotherc, WESTCOTE, for Liverpool. put back this evening, the Nimble Cutter, Coc.. LAN, from a Cruize. The Packets with Mails hr America, West In dies? and Lisbon, are detained by contrary winds. M a~LS. DUE 2 - : S Disc PORTS AZOUTII, Ocr. 13. AXRIVED the Robert and Sarah, CARmw s from Malag,a; and is under quarantine. DEAL, Oc•r. T 3• SAILED this morning for Indie, the East India Company's Ships Ocean, Castle -Edell, Lord Dun can, and Henry Addington, in company with the whole of the outward-bound. The Court ,Martial on the late Purser of L 7 Renard, of 2A. guns, Capt. CATILCART, finished on Saturday, at Plymouth, on board the Centaur, of 74. guns, Rear-Admiral DACRES. The charges against him being fully proved, of misapplying the allowance of necessary money, &c. the Court -ad judged him to be dismissed His Majesty's Ship La Renard. The Shipwrights and Artificers which were put as additional gangs on board the, ilib'ernia, of izo guns, now building in Harnoaze, on Monday last completed what is considered the heaviest part of the work, viz. the flooring her lower gun deck, and getting in her beams; many sot;ud and valuable beams and timbers of La Commerce de Marseilles, lately broke up, will be usefully converted by Mi. TUCKER, Master Ship Builder at Plymouth Dock yard, to the service of ships now repairing in the different docks here ; a new regulation, and of great saving in the expenditure of ship timber in the present scarcity. The Mars, of 74 guns, lately and accidentally hogged in, being taken out of dock to make room for the Commerce de Marseilles, broken up, is now in a fair state of repair, and will, by the attention of the Master Builder, be soon as firm as a rock. The Alliance, (late Porteus) fr:)m Jamaica to Liverpool, with a valuable cargo (consisting of 554 hhds. 25 tierces 31bs. sugar ; 4 hhds. 139 puncheons rum, so casks r Jibs. coffee, 3 tons logwood, 3 casks 3 bags pimento, r puncheon of santa, zs pipes r butt 5 hhds. wine) was, on the evening of Tuesday se'nnight, unfortunately driven on Moat Bank, nearly opposite Fawley Island, in Morecambe Bay, and immediately sunk ; she had previously struck nn Hilps Ford, where she unshipped her rudder, and. became unmanageable. The Vessel has gone to pieces, and her cargo lost, except a part of the .rum and wine, which, has been cast upon the coast of Heysham, Poulton, and as high as Arnside Point. Fifty-three puncheons rum, i z pipes 2 hhds. wine, had been - brought - to the Custom House, at Lancas ter on Friday 6e'nnight, and it is hoped more of the cargo will be picked up on the coast, and restored to the Owners. The crew saved their lives by taking to the Boat. On Monday last, the t ith inst. as Lady ED WARP BENTINCK was returning from Penshurst on horseback, with a Party, her horse unfortunately stumbled, in consequence of which accident, her right thigh was broken at a small distance from the knee. Assistance being immediately procured, her Lidyship was conveyed to the 'house of her Father, R Lex Alto Cuma t, Auth. Esq. at Tunbridge Wells, and we are happy to hear, that she is in as favoura ble 'a state as can be ctcpeded. Mr. JONES made a bet of six hundred guineas at Gloucester, at one o'clock on Tuesday morning, that within three hours he would set off in his own carriage for town pot .; , and perform the journey in ten bpurs and a half.; he won . with vase in less th;tn trine hours.—Tlle di4tance too miles TM SWISS. THERE is no Man, whatever his Political Sen timents may have been, however enthusiastic be may have been in his admiration of French Princi ples andof French Rulers, but must 'have looked with horror at the whole of the condud of France to ward Switzerland. If there were a People upon earth that had claims to the eternal Gratitude of France,, it was the unfortunate Swiss. When France was assailed, on almost every side, by a Combination of Powers, such as Europe never before witnessed ; when her Armies were flying before their Oppo nents ; when Verdun and Thionville had opened their gates; and even Paris was trembling for its security, did Switzerland then violate her Trea ties with France ? No.—She persevered, notwith standing the very strong solicitations of other Powers. She persevered, almost singly, in her Neu trality, and that too at a period whet - eller feelings must have been deeply wounded by the cowardly massacre of that gallant Band of Swiss who re mained faithful to the unfortunate Louts, when he, was attacked by one part of his Subjeas, and aban doned by the other.. Such condud on the part of Switzerland, if it could not obtain her the Friend ship, ought at least to have secured her from the En:nity of France—it ought to have saved her from unpro oked attack—it ought to have saved her from those Scenes of Plunder, Devastation, and Massacre, which she has since undergone, and which Europe has - viewed with indignation and horror.—lt has been said by some, with a view to palliate (for to defend is impossible) the conf,lud of France, that Switzerland was necessary to her, 'as a Military Post.—Admitting then, fora moment, that France, in order to obtain a Military Position, was justified in spreading Desolation peer the TerL ritory of her most ancient and most faithful Ally ; admitting the Justice of that,ma,xim,.‘vhiCh is every day aded upon on the Continent of Europe, that the rights of the Weak are not to be put in cOnipee tition with the convenience of the Strong ;''''still we expeded, that when the• Cause ceased, the Effect would not continue . ; we did hope that when by a General Peace, Switzerland was no longer conve nient to France as a Military Tosition, that she would have been suffered, plundered, exhausted, and desOlated as she was, to.h - ave 'co:Men - plated her calamities in tranquillity. But "in this we have been unfortunately deceived : wherever the Power of France has extended, it has left marks not easily to be effaced. Switzerland, like other parts of Europe,. was destined to have ri New Constitution from the inexhaustible Manufadory at Paris, and without any regatd to the Prejudices, the Customs, or the Feelings of the People, this •Constitution was forced upon them; for as to the farce which was played, of collecting the Votes of the People, it is too ridiculous to deserve notice. . The moment the People of Switzerland were enabled, by the removal of the French Troops, to speak their sentiments, they rose, and with a de_ gree of unanimity and rapidity unexampled almost in history, they drove out those miserable French hirelings, who insulted and disgraced them under the name of Governors, and 9 again asserted their Independence. After such a convincing proof of the National Sentiment, we did hope tkat France, not from Principle, but from Shame—not from a sense of Justice, but from an apprehension of rousing_ the Indignation of all Mankind, would not again have ventured to interfere ; but those who look for rectitude of condud from France, upon whatever group.' they build their opinion, will find themselves almost invariably disappointed, We confess we have viewed the last Proelani,ltion of the French Government, relative to Switzerland, with , astonishment and indignation, If . she had boldly said, " Switzerland is convenient as -a Mili tary Post, and we will annex it -to the Great Nation," it would have .been unjust and wicked ; yet circumstances ;night kive.jus6ficd a submission to it ; but the cool sneering insolence, the haughty supercilious arrogance of this last Proclamation, would provoke the resistance of the most timid, and it will, we trust, rouse the great Powers of Europe from the lethargy into which they appear to have fallen, and induce them, by powerful interposition, to rescue Switzerland from the Tyranny of French Protedion, and to put a stop to a System of Ag gression, a submission to which has tarnished the Honour, and nearly destroyed the Independence of Europe. Mr. ROBSON, we understand,• is not the only person who has taken umbrage •at the French Ar tists comparing the physiognomy of Mr. ERSKINE to that of DEMOSTFIENES.—Mr. JONES, we are as. sured,' is perfealy indignant on the occasion—he professes not to take 'the lead' in the Cicirellian School:—let either Mr. ERSKINE, Or Mr.130)3- SON take the lead in that School, he cares not ; hitt for any thing DFmosTHENtc, he asserts, no man in England can compete with himself. Messrs. ERSKINE, CURRAN and MACKINTOSIf t the Papers say, have been presented at the Consular Court. BONAPARTE was deceived, however, if he supposed them to be English Barristers. A Gentlethan htely returned from Germany, of great intelligence and observation, reports, that the EMPEROR has at this time, an Army of Three Hundred Thousand Men, better disciplined and more completely organized, than at any time during the We have heard of the Funds rising and falling, but we are informed by the Times, that the Ffench Funds are come over. We are the more astonished at this absurdity in that Paper, as its intimate ac quaintance with the Funds was never doubted. A Gendarme lately at Paris having violently beaten his horse, and mounting him the next day, the horse took an opportunity to throw him off, and bite him in a horrible manner. The Gendarme would • have been killed by the horse, had it not been for the interference of several persons who happened to be near the spot. Hitherto we have heard only of two species of Balloons, viz. Air Balloonr, and .Fire Balloon; ; but Mr. BARZ',ET is entitled to the honour of being cOnsidered as the Inventor of Ee4rtb Balloonr, which certainly have the merit of beinf the safe 4 of all.: THE THEATRE. Drto) Law. THE WEST INDIAN. ~9 THE part of Major O' Flaherty was last nigh: performed by Mr. Heat DINGE, from the Theatre at Philadelphia. Mr. HARDINGE is a well made good-looking man. In his figure and voice he resembles BARRY. MORE, and in his face he is somewhat like Hot,- MAN. His deportment is easy, and he supported the charaler tolerably well, but with no evidence of superior merit. As fay as we could venture to judge of hit. general powers from his performance of an indivi. dual charaler, we should conceive that humour iF= not one of his chief merits. The blunders of thc Major, while they proceed from a benevolent heart, are expressed with a kind - of facetious absurdity, .but they came like cold matter-of:fad from Ms. I.l4anttiGE., and did not make much impression o: the risible feelings of the . audience. Mr. HARDINGE seems not to be defective in thi• accent of the charaaer,-but was certainki not equally successful in its diverting naivete. - There was a plain simplicity, ,howeVer, in his manner that in dicated good sense, and his aaing was not at all, debased by . the clabciratc attempts in . be comical, which generally mark the afting of those who are new to the London Stage. , The reception of the audience was throughout faVourable to his perform. auce. Dli - yER. had his usual spirit , and activity in Bel. tour, with somewhat . lesS of, tha(velucity which prevents a due discrimination.: If he were .not so diredl); =to address his side.siie'ec hc; anti "soliloquies to _tbs i. .ayki aaing would 'appear more pro bable,i: _Bat there is,so much Are and origina'rity in his mfiririer, that'we - shall not4well.on little errors; since those very ettorss, in a great measure, are the result of an animation which setvliim much above the dull formalitrloo common on oui'St2o - o e. Mrs. MoVNT,OI4,- for the first;timei' performed. the prt. of Lo4isaThedley, and she performed it _with feeling and delicacy. , The Comedy went off very well, but the' house did not overflow, On Sunday morning a duel took place near the Serpentine River, in Hyde Park; between Captain p--, son of Sir P--, and an East India Gentleman, whose name we have not yet learned, in consequence of a quarrel at the Theatre the pre, ceding evening. The parties, wiqi their seconds, met between 5 and 6 next morning. The distance being measured„only 7 paces, and the usual ceremo nies performed, the chance of the first fire fell or. Capt. P. when the East-India Gentleman received the ball of, his antagonist on the button of his rigl;; sleeve', it perforated the sleeve to.the elbow, grazing the skin, and, passing rhroug4 tile. lap of his cog, came out between the two hip buttons, without the Gentlemen sustaining any further injury. He fired his pistol into the water ; the ..econtis immediatelf interfered, an qmicable adjustment to: kp,,,ce, and the parties quitted the ground, well ssatisfied with the concluft of both Gentlemen, and the: happy ter,* urination of the affair. The name of at OD El's new Comic - Opera, is 1 0 be Family Quarrel;. It may, howcv:zr, br TVs' tioned, whether Fam;lj fe4,idi are not too se.-ioo* for the Comic Drama. So many Candidates have o;Tered themselves tC) the Haymarket., Theatre, that the Manager it obliged, it seems, to ;mower them cn masse. The Comic Play_Wrighrs of i the present day, pair so litle regard to the Realities of Life and Nature; froth which all Dramatic Portraits ought ro be de' rived, that they are rather to he considered Farce Mongers, than legitimate Authors. Fs Et.v" ING Mentioned such Writers in his day by the lye dicrous appellation Of Eri.iertainma:Lth. The term Pic.A7c has been brought into sa much disgrace, that it is now introduced in peg,' ale-hoirses, the windows of which invite passengei 9 , to Pic.Nic supperi 'of tripe, cow„heels,• and hal a- la-mode. Mr. WEsT, the President of the Royal Aeade' my, has just-returned from Paris, -where he was re' ceived with very flattering marks of attention b/f the. CHIEF CONSUL.. Mr. WEST presented one his best Historical Sketches to the Grand Exhibv tion in the French Capital, The Apollo of Belvidere, now at Paris, is pro s e flounced the most perfea representation of th male figure. • The Peiius de Illedic;s, who is at pre' sent on her journey to France, has the same reptlt 3 ; tion respecting female proportions. From all eve have beard of the present race of French Sculpt * though in possession of these inestimable p e rfrc' tions .of form, they are not likely to encourage tbi breed. NoßnicoTE will he able to profit by his late robbery, for the Ruffian made so strong an impte-6.1 sion upon his mind, that be will serve as an 'rabic model in the memory of the Artist, °li 3 _ 4ubjeas of Historical or Poetical atrocity. ,•11 It has been observed as a proof that the F ter r ; Women are not so profligate as those in this try, that few French CLyprialls are to be fouw fi , our streets. But the remark. is convertible ill 0 ( your of our Countrywomen, for as few , of thew , the same description, are probably to be food the streets of Paris. tt Oi Lieutenant. Colonel CONNOR, of the COY E . ( ) Cork Militia, does not owe his late promoti°l. o . the very desirable Office of Colleaor of the C toms of the Port of Cork,. to his reltu'ions b; P t he Lord LoNGUEVILLE, as has been imagined 0 1, Gentleman in question has long been Agent far t ‘of Manager of the 'Duke of DevoNsHlßE' s g lf 01 estates in Ireland, and resides in the C aSt- i be Lismore, a fine old scat, which he holds °, l rac e Duke.—The family conneaions between his 'ep and the Earl of SHANNON, First Lord of t he , f ort , sury in Ireland, are generally known.—M c, r• s NoR'S. relationship to Lord L. if any exi sl , 4o l , merely this :—his brother, the late ROGER ;this Esq. married a' sister of his Lordshio couple are some years dead, their issue are of known ROGER and ARTHUR O'CONNOR , W becoming Pat -RIOTS, thought 'proper 1 0 heir names tQ O'CoNxoi., ,~'~-_ -'