The Sun. — London, England, 1807-01-15 00:00:00

E ON-4 P. 'RTE. The following statement has hem given to the Public and boweier extravagant the conduct of the F t en c h Usurper may appear in it, yet the known violence of his temper, and his mortal hatred against this Country , render it by no means incredible, though we cannot pretend to vouch for its au thenticity any further than as to the reje&ion of the appeal to him made by the Deputies twin Itlamburgh The Accounts' from liamturgh give the most distressing details of the fate of that City, and a most curious account—for the truth of which we can Vouch—of the reception the Deputies frdm that City experienced from ,BONAPARTE. He refused even to recei‘e the and• treated them with the utmost rigour and contempt. He told ..,them, that he conceived the measures he had taken wer e the only means of forcing GREAT 131111'AI:4, to make Peace ; and that, therefore, nothing should induce hull to departfrom them. In vain theV told him that Thirty Houses tied already failed in -flam lurgh, in consequence of those measures. His un feeling answer was" So MUCH THE BETTER, j7l - as it will ruin many more than that num ler in ENGLAND they told him, that- a per severance in theSe measures would reduce the whole City- of Hamburgh to Bankruptcy !—His.answer was agate—" So MUCH THE BETTER. then you will not le able to carry on your Commercial Intercourse 12 4 ,h Great Britain !" Against this brutal exultation they Ventured to oppose the dreadful effects which would arise from the whole commerce of the world being stopped !—His reply was—" I wish it to 011ie to this pitch.,, that there should be no commerce at The land only shall be tilled, and there shall only le ardiange of linen against cattle, and if grain against cloth !—THE FOURTH CENTURY MUST BE kEvti,•ED before the world can be reduced to its pro- Per state !" kit, said he knew he should be called a CALLGULA and a NERo—he cared not for it. He allowed that his own sea-ports would be ruined — but he could not help it. He declared that the teputations which' he knew were on the road to him from Nantz, Bo4deaux, tic. &C. with re- Monstrances against his pecrce against th e ,Eng lish, should nog be admitted into his presenee,"— Atter repeatedly calling Hamburgh—" Une vine 4ngloise,' he concluded with these remarkable and Lever-to-be-forgotten t.vords—` 6 ENGLAND MUST BE IIumBLED, AND DEALT WITH IN A VERY DIFFERENT 4 IANNEIt FROM THAT IN WHICH SHE HITHERTO IlLa BEEN TREATED !--itussia and Prussia are at war with me, but upon fair and very different grounds —my condutt to them is therefore very dif ferent front that to England. Have I not Berlin in tny•possession—and have I iniii6ted on that, city the smallest injury Was not every thing in my Power ?-11/ere not the men, women, and children at Thy fiet, and might t not have sold them as slaves? I have not done It yet, hut, mark: my words, IT MAY VET COME TO rAssi" - Yezterday, at twelve o'clock, the ROYAL FAMILY t'riv t .d at the'QuEEN's Palace; in their travelling earriag-vs, from Windsor, e s c o rted by a party of the Light Horse. Soon after Her MAJRiTY, Princesses LiZABETH, MARY, SOPHIA, and AMELIA, went to St.. James's Palace, and honoured Lady CHARLOTTE FtNcil xitll a visit, at. her apartments. At two ' 4 'l4 . lek His MAJESTY held a private Levee, which 'as attended The Archbishop of CanteCoury._ The I..rd Tile Ears Marshal of England. The Lord Prosiant of the Council. The. Lord Privy Seal. The First Lord of the Treasury. The Chancellor of the Exchequer. The Secretaries of State for the Home and Foreign De- PartmentS. The First Lord of the Admiralty. •I he Master General of the Ordnance. The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. The fudge Advocate The Duke of Richmond. Earls—Fitz Pomfret, and Portailington. Lords—Ponsonby and Heathfield. Sirs E. Berry, G. Osborne, and I-I Jones. The Sheriffs of London and .Middlesex. Admiral Crindali. . Messrs. Stratton and Favek&ner. • The following had the honour of being presented to HIS MAJESTY. His G race the Duke of Norfolk, Earl Mrrshal England, °Y Earl Spencer, upon Isis being appointed Lori Lieutenant ?Y. the County or Sussex. Ills Gnice carried his superb Staff o t 0 like. _ _ _ Sir Harsurd loßes, upon his return from Bagdad, by Vis- Sount Lord l'unsonby, by Earl Fitzwilliam, Upon coming to his title. His Grace the Duke of Richmond, upon corning to his bile . , by Earl Spencer. His Grac6 deliveicel to His Majesty the Order of the Garter word by the late Duke. sir Edward Berry, by Ir. T. Grenville, upon his being Created a Baronet. • Admiral G rindall, upon his promotion, by M Cf. G renvil le. Mr. Stratton, upon his being appointed w an-Embassy to we;le n , by Viscount Howick. Mes sr s. mil es ant i B ranscomb; 'the Sheriffs Of London and liddlesex. by Earl . Spencer. Earl of Portarlington, by Earl Fitzwilliam, upon his being a PPltoted to the command of the 4th Genitan Squadron. His MAJESTY held a Privy Council, at which his Grace - the Duke of NORFOLK was introduced, and 'liworn in Lord Lieutenant of the Coiliity of Sussex. His MAJESTY was pleased to Jiret the Archbi abop of CANTERI3II4tY to prepare a Form of Prayer I ' c m - a General. Fast, to be held the latter end of next The LORD CHANCELLOR, Earls SPENCER and 4 EY ; Lords GRENVILLE and Howicx Mr. T. ' I TR RNviL LE , and Mr. BOND, the Judge Advocate,. Plivat e audiences of His MAJESTY ; the latter • ~,".!`" befor e His MAJESTY the Proceedings of several - Courts Martial. Ord ers have w i t hi n a f ew d ays b een _ received at w cil. wieh from the East India Company, for 20,000 pieces of fine camblets. An event has happened at Bath recently, uncoat, 27 " A - young genteel girl, of German parentage, a dress -maker by - trade, has fascinated a respe6table Geutie,nau s 0 muclz that he has married her ! • The vanquished 'swain possesses near 40001. per annum ! _ Sittings app o i nte d i n Middl esex an d L on d on , be fore Sir Jamas MANSFIELD, Kut. Lord Chief Jus ttCe of his Majesty's Court of \ Common- Pleas, at estminster, in and afttr Hilary Term,lBo7 IM TERM. MID DLESIX. Saturday, - lan. 24 I Zoncl2,Y* - Thu :ay , -2 9 ! • • tl.ruay, F IKLY, •- - Feb. 61 S.uurday, LONDON. - Jan. 26 - -3! - J . cb, 7 Fr, '.y t AFTER TERM. Feb. 13 Saturdiy, Feb. 14 8.47.TLt tF JE [FROM A GERMAN PUBLICATION.] ADDITIONAL ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE lIISTOUY OP THE 14TH OF OCTOBER, THE EVENTS OF WHICII HAVE BEEN SO UNFORTUNATE FOR THE FRITS- SIAN MONARCHY. A late Paris Journal accompanied the description. of the Battle of Jena with the following reflections :==- Grand all& awful tru'thQ once more arise from this beginning of - the War, and the following are, per haps, the conclusions that ought to be drawn from these 'truths ; that in the present age there is only one people truly skilled and powerful in the art of war-==because they" have invented a new system of -4 , artilre, of which'other. Nations have never had any conception ; that'such is the superiority of the mi litary talents of .that extraordinary Genius who con duds the Armies - of France, that every one must be impressed with the continually increasing con . viaion,.that Europe will require to be regenerated as well as France before she can cope with the latter. The reflections of another observer go further.— " It was neither a want of patriotism, nor a want of personal bravery (he remarks), that so rapidly de livered Prussia into the 'hands of the invincible Na poleon ;- but it was a deep-rooted germ of destrue tiori in the Prussian States, which was visible in the Army as well asllsew here, viz. a catching at fri volities and trifles and this root of the evil may be ascribed to some old reasons, often suspe6ted by many, but never publicly told. The all-penetrating mind of a Frederick 11. directing ail its energies to one sole objea, was wanting; and the place of such an' energetic mind was but ill supplied by the ac knowledged • uprightness, ' benevolence, and firm condu6t of the present noble King of 'Prussia. So i far, therefore, as the strict spirit of discipline iecul e cated by the system of. Frederick was in modern times regarded as pedantry—so far, in some pro vinces at least, did discipline degenerate into the . ceremonies of a drawing-room, and - the administra tion of the finances into a system of embezzlement : thus was the old warlike , spirit of the Army de-; stroyed, and seduced froth the observance of what was essential to its very -existence. - Whoever is.ac quainted with the Prussi4p State, will certainly see with vexation an edifice undermined that once con tained so much excellence, and which might so ea sily once more have retrieved its ancient dignity and consistency, if the Heads of the Empire had under stood the prognostics of the times, and had been willing to submit to afew necessary reforms. A reform was particularly requisite in that part of the military system which excluded from all promotion in the Army the most learned,and enlightened mem bers of society, viz. the higher classes of the citi zens not of the rank of Nobility ; and it is re markable, that an order issued in France similar to that which appeared in Prussia' some years ago, per mitting the Nobility alone to he promoted, preceded the disturbances in the Army which - ended in the breaking out of the Revolution." Those who are well informed or. the subjeA as-, sure us, that Prince Louis Ferdinand ofd Prussia, the night before the battle of Simile:tit, he r which he fell, foretold to several of his confidential friends the fate of the, Prussian Army-. The ,councils of Co lonel Von Pfuhl were never • listened to from the beginning. • _ Three orincipai error*. probably hurled the Prus sian Army into the guipb of destrudione The first was an ineonceivabie disregard of any thing like a regular plan, and an. heedless security. Only a . feW hussars were stationed in. the Thuringer woods and hills, the passes and ,fastnesses of which could have been insurmountably defended against the most su perior force in the world by a few cannon and sharp shoOters. It is incredible, but nevertheless true, that - the Prussian Generals left all the most im -portant passes on the Saal unoccupied ; and when ',this was remarked by some Saxon Engineers, they were laughed at, as if no enemy could come there. The Prussians had almost no reconnoitring parties; and they never .siispeded that the Emperor of the French, with his main body, had advanced within a few miles of them. How differently vas the,,Emperof Napoleon suP.• plied in this resped ; and how far superior was he in.point of vigilance 'and aaiVity ! When he had fixed his head-quarters at Auma, early in the morn ing two prisoners were brought in who had been seized as spies. It soon appeared, however, that they were very honest men, as in their answers they completely coincided with each other. The Prussian patroles allowed themselves to be cheated by thee most (riding appearances. An Officer commanding a body of horse, which was sent out from the Royal Camp towards Naumburgh to reconnoitre, returned without going to Nautn burgh, because when half way he learned from a traveller.that they knew nothing of the. French at Naumburgh. From such extraordinary security - no other consequences could follow.. The second grand error. was the unaccountable negleet of- every means for securing subsistence for an army of 140,000 men. There were indeed large magazines stored up in Hoff, Zwickau, Naumburgh, and Weissenfels, but they were left without any protection, and soon rendered completely inacces sible to the army. which they were intended to supply. They became a welcome booty to the French, who by turning the Prussian army cut them off from all their magazines. On the 11th of OCtober, the day after the ruinous affiiir near Saalburgb, the whole Prussian army altered their former position ;They concentrated themselves into a camp near Weimar, and placed themselves in such a position, that they were under. the necessity of either' fighting or starving. The barren country of Weimar was in no condition, neither was it by any means prepared, to subsist this army along with its appen dages. There was no bread, no brandy, no beer for the soldiers, and no fodder for the horses. Every thing in Weimar was completely devoured during the two days the. camp remained in the line front Weimar to Jena and Aueivadt. A supply of brandy and meal came, indeed, the day before the battle, bnt it was too late, for the greateSt part of it fell into the hands of the French. As on the. i ith and 12th of October nothing. was provided, the soldier was forced to 'take whatever he' could get. Not only all the vegetables in gardens or in fields, either above or below ground, were stolen, but aif the villages were stripped, even the stables and cow bouees were broken into, the cattle driven out, and the unthreshed corn thrawa before teen norms . . ,a, Prussian General,- who is nOw dead. of his WbiihdS a had, indeed, made it a, maxim to per-Mit. the tiea- . santa' horses,, cows, sheep, „and proviSitinS; to he earlled - off, and-The-country striiiped to an extent of three or four - leagues, that the enemy, might find•nb thing left. • . . , The third and moat detisive, error lay ila the false calculations that ,were made reapeding the movements of the enemy, and the untbrumate choice of positions. The Prussian army lost title al Erfurth ; and when the French first began to surround the Thuringer Wood, the Prtissians busily employed themselves at the head-quarters at Er turth, with the extravagant project of falling. upon the French army in the rear, at Frankfort, urtz burgh,-and Bamberg. The position of the Prussian army on the Left Bank of the Saal was in 'every re speCt disadvantageous. Thereby the road to the capital, and to the chief fortresses* (the' protection of which ought to have, been the, first objeal), as well as the whole Eleoorate of Saanny, was•thrown open. By this position the ainry•was also cut off from their retreat to Magdeburgh, ' after the battle, and they were forced to march in a crooked line by Erfurth towards the Elbe, while the French follow , ed themin a dire& line, and anticipated every ad-- vantageous position. The re - serve, under the Corra 7 mand of theyrince of Wirtemburgh, was posted, without any objett, at Halle, in place of its keeping the corps of Marshal Ney' from fiilling upon the rear of the main army. . . Those btflwarks of the Prussian Monarchy, the most important fortresses, whi. 11 would hare greatly obstrueled the progress of the ia - eoeh Army, were in an untenable condition and with :t provisions; and in the event that the battle was to have been lost there was no place of asseMbling made known — no rallying point fixed upon. The discomfited corps therefore retired in quite difl'erent- direEtions, and were almost all made prisoners,. , On the_ decisive day, the 14th of 06tober, the left wing was not formed in the same line, nor united with the centre. This want of unity had this ef fed—that two separate,and distinct battles were fought at one and the same moment, and upon ground not very extensive. • After the Duke of Brunswick was wounded there was no•CoMmander in Chief ; to direst the Prussian Army. The carps fought singly, without plan, and without - concert,. and many regiments did not engage 'at alt r .very, little of the strength or position of the Enemy was known. _The Saxons, whofatight On the left wing, generally assertaa hat on the day of the battle they either received no orders at all from the OffiCers nil,- der whose command they were, ,or that the orders they did receive were such as could not have been executed. They were goOn obliged to deliver up their remaining ammunition to the Prussians, and they lost their cannon when the retreat began, in consequence of having no cavalry 'to cover them. Lastly, the Prussian Army was detained and hin dered in its flight by the' crowd of waggons and' horses, and their unusually great quantity of bag gage. , This complete overthrow and destruffion was not owing, however, to any want of bravery. That the Prussians, under - all these difficulties, fought with courage and perseverance, is testified by the French themselves. ~ The vitiorious Emperor Napoleon conduEted the 1 events of the lath of October with steadiness and the keenest prudence. He lodged the tight before thiS eventful day in the Castle of :ena, diad, on the 1 following morning, as is asserted at Jena, he re connoitred from the top of the old " observatdry (commonly called the Fox Tower), the opposite heights on the road to Weimar, and witnessed the bloody battle that took place between the . French that were marching through the Mublenthal and the Saxons 'and • Prussians posted on ,the Sneckenberg. Not far from this spot is the chain of sandy hillocks; which present, as it were, ,a Steep wall on the heights of the Saal. There is here a : coppice, known through the whole neighbourhood by the name of the Rauhthales, a place ,celebrated in the annals of the Jena Muses, on account of the :combats that .used formerly to take place between the Students at that spot. : This is the pass which the'Enaperor Na poleon fortified so strongly, and in such a *Masterly manner a with heavy cannon,, and Which is spoken so highly of in all the official accounts of the Wig' tie. It is incomprehensible to the slightest observer • how this place was not occupied by the Prussians' and yet it was strongly 'recommended to them by the Saxon Officer of Engineers, Lehman, who knew the ground well. So far was, this care lessness carried, that the out-posts, consisting of Prussians and Saaons, which were drivenin- by the French from Jena to Carnburgh, in consequence , of the above pass being ,left open, had no know ledge whatever of what was going on within a league of them. .. The Journal de Paris informs us, that a young Prussian Adjutant,, who was taken prisoner in the battle of Jena,. ascribes the unfortunate issue of that battle to the neglect of the superior Officers among the Prussians, in net occupying in good time the narrow passes of Kosen. Marshal Davoust anti- . cipated , them,'-and eleven successive attacks after wards made against him could not drive him out of these passes. • Besides this, the rapidity of the evolutions of the French Army astonished the *Prus sian Generals. In every manoeuvre attempted by the latter they were anticipated. What, - hOwever, most surprised this Officer was, the French Artil lery., The most courageous soldiers could not ap proach the showers of balls which preceded the march of the columns without trembling. . The re giment of Larisch, for example, was above two thousand men strong, and in a few minutes only one hundred and fifty_ men were left . standing, having been stationed opposite to a battery of eight field-pieces. Yesterday morning a young man of the name of Porter, lately from Bath, undertook for live guineaS to go on foot from Moorgate Cotfee 7 house to the sign of the Blue-Coat-Boy, and back again in 25 minutes, the distance being three miles. He started at seven o'clock ; arrived at the Blue-Coat-Boy at ten minutes past seven, and returned to Moorgate Coffee-house at . 22 minutes past seven, so that he won by three' minutes, . Singular instance y'Speed.,--Phendmenon, which started on MOnday last o❑ the Huntingdon road; against the famous Manchester mare, trotted ten miles within 41 minutes, a month since. MARLDOROUG'-STREgt.--I. r nt.t!rday Levy .41cr. , tiger; and b:ppint, the two Jews :.030 iitOod char,, , cI with defrandlog Mr. Long; at the Hotel in 11; , :er-• street; kind otho4 .underwentanothereaiiiinadbn; It. has been already_stateci:in .what, manner the'fr:iud was commitiO on Mr. Long; who; lt_appeared at this e:ominntibn,, was, imposed on more easily by the appeayatiLe' of h respeaable man; whbm Long knew, being at the time in their company. acid who appeared to be forwarding the "iiipposcd mission, in . procuring apartments for the . Russian. Nobles AO. much talked of by the Prironer Morti -gen. Mr. Monksfield, co'nelmattn to the of Cambridge, accompanied the Prisoners to the Hotel. The. Prisoner Mortigen-calledet his house, and asked to'see his son, who had been at Hanover with tLe Duke of Cambridge, stating that he had just lett that place. He had kept a public hduse in Hanover ,at the time the-Duke of Cambridge was there, and he was consequently known to the servants of the. Duke. •The coachman received the Prisoner as a friendly visitor- to his son. He-informed the coach man of the expe&ed arrival of the Russian Nobles, and asked him to condua him •to Long's Hotel, where he said he was about to orovide fbr their ar- rival... The coachman assented,without suspeOing his visitor; and fiom the Prisoner being in sULII company, -Mr. L. did not anticipate a frad • Another chargq was preferred against the f'risOner by a Gentleman from Edinburgh, with w hom .the Prisoner- Mortigen formed a speedy acquaintance, as the Gentleman was ,coming up the .London He represented hiunselfaS a courier ; belonging to the Secretary of State's Office. By assuming a fictitious charaEter, and other. artful designs, he obtained from the. Gentleman three guineas. A landlord in -Puteherhall-lane, Newgate-street appelred to have suffered most by the fraudulent conduit ©f Mortigen, who occasionally slept at his house. He used to call himself an Interpreter to the British Government; who was also:eMploycd to fur nish money from Government to different foreigners. He used to talk of his transaaions with Mr. Gold smid ; and one evening he went in baste to the landlord, and requested the loan of 21' guineas, for the immediate convezi . ience of some TUrks who hag! . arrived, as the banking4louses. to which he had ac cess were shut, .and be would return the money the, next morning. The monti was advanced, otd a supper was ordered. by the Prisoner to be ready . at ten o'clock for the Turks, but neither Jew nor Turks were seen. Some other frat,d!-; were entered into against Mortigen. The Prisone:s Were, col inn fortrial, and the parties bound over to trbsecute; PUBLIC-OFFICE, WHITEGIIAPEL.---Otl, Tuesday . evetiing' . -James Harding, Richard Mears, •Aomas Hayes, and Robert Cooke, alias Seahrovke, , were charged before the Sitting Magistrate, with stea,;dg. Nit, horses and a cart, belonging. to Mr. James Briant, Carman in East • Smithfield, value 1061.1. loaded with.bartlla to the value of •801. which were sold in Shoreditch to a person unknown., Several person's deposed having seen the_ Prisobers coaduet ing themselves id a N.ery. suspicious .manner en the evening of the robbery. The Carman, who is among the number of the Prisoners, was committed with the rest toVenate for Wal. The following extraordinary: circumstance took place laSt week at Hereford, in the execution of which the depredator displayed Tconsiderable degree of ingenuity, and every attempt to trace him has been ineffeetnal.—A man came to an inn, in Broad street, in that city, and professed himself a dealer in im.zig , gled tea ; from his general condita he soon acquired the good graces of die landlord, had 'con stantly a party of frzends to breakfast, dine, and sup with him, and gave his entertainments in a dashinp; style. Soon after Ms arrival, two. bags of teacinne by the coach, ter which the landlord paid earriag4, and the gentleman wanting a pair `*}f shoes, his good= natured host waited with him on a shoemake, - -, whom they, procured them, the innkeeper being .I ROsi_ble, for the payment. At the end of. about ; rtittren days, when a score of between six and en pounds had been run up at the inn, a par chaser was obtained for the tea, and paid the smug gler pounds in part ; and by his desire the 'dealer took his bargain to the house of a friend for *him; being afraid of encountering the Argus eyes of 'the Excise at his own. After the merchant had de livered his goods, he Met one of his new friends, from whom he requested the loan of a new silk ,band , 7 kerChief he had round his neck., which was, readily lent hitt), and he then walked off in the new shoes with,it i and has not since been heard of.. On open ing the bags, they each contained a little fine tea on the top, the rest was sand. On the second or third day of the fellow's arrival, a watchmaker from the Hay, in Breconshire, who partook of his convivial entertainments, became anxious be should buy a watch 'of him, to which his friend kindly accebed, on condition that he should wear it a Lew days in order to, ascertain how would go, previous to_pay ment ; it is almoSt superfluous to state, the watch went with him. On the evening of yesterday se'nnight, about nine o'clock, a house which was lately taken for Miss BYNG (sister to the Member of Parliament), in Charles-street, Berkeley-square,was robbed of a very large chest full of linen, supposed to be ~ orth up wards of tool. The chest mas nearly '490 pounds weight, and must have taken two or three men to manage it. . The servant who Was in the care of the house had chained the street-door across, and gone out through the area. On his return there was not the smallest marks of violence upon any door or window, but the chest was gone and the street-door was unchained, so that it is imagined the entrance must have been-made by means of a skeleton key down the area, and the thieves let "themselves out at . the street-door, as if they belonged to the house. The following Paragraph is extra4ed from. The Liverpool Saturday Advertiser of the instant " It is with the sincerest pleasure we have to an nounce to the inhabitants of this town. and Mariners and others particularly whose concerns may lead them to hot and unwholsome climates, that the Di `re6tors of the - Institution for the Sale of the YET, LOW FEVER REMEDY have opened a Warebonse in Castle-street, Liverpool', .similar to the elegant one they. have established at Charing-Cross, near the Admiralty, London, for the Sale of the above :11- valuable Medicine.".