The Sun. — London, England, 1807-09-05 00:00:00

EDITOR, ~' ArTr.7t,'o that-• has Passed respecting the last .Elettion, and the dispute between Sir FIANCES BURDETT; your Readers disposed to turn from the subject with it 'ought not to be a matter even of to the Phblic in general, and much-less ors of Westminster. It is very evident of the late struggle for the retire ' • :t City, and - the degrading squabbles it, that the Electors have become 7, f .• •.- 'who were utterly unworthy of their Speak not in reference to Lord COCH• is:a spirited Officer, and for his profes , ~ .Xert:ons deserves the respect of his Country. IViLng to draw Mr. PAULL from the obscu . 0 which be has sunk, and from which it is - • J int• Jo., to his credit that he ever arose, but it lahcholy consideration that, in these times, .!ouiti have be€a in the. power of such a man to orb;ware of a great and opulent City and wough it cont.iins so many. high and respeet- • •nlk. charaCters, none of them should have had zeal sod ooriotis,h enough to step forward and save it disgrace. But whatever ni'y be the demerits OF MT. PAU LL,,it does not appear that he committed any thing that should have deprived him of the con fidence and attachment of. the Burdett Faction, and stii; less that it should have exposed him to their rancorous persecution. T.), attack commenced in the Newspai.ers on Mr. PA uLL, by Holism Towta, was extraor:thvary eve!, for lam, though through the whole of his public life he has been notorious for flying iu the I.we ut his connections, and for the virulence of his abuse against those with whom he has appeared to be teusued in private amity as well as political consideration. It only remains, to put thedast seal of. disgrace to his character, that he ah . ould - treat Sir 'FRANCIS Bt'RDETT in' the same Manner as he has so n'any of his former friends, and it would be no more than what the Baronet might naturally expea, if he were as poor as JonJon i * WicitEs was in the zenith of his popularity, or if hiS mind were not formed of those materials which are easily . Moulded by the hand of interested subtle- PATILL's late unwieldy Pamphlet has at least the merit of recording the artifices and false hood of those who pretend to personal hen= and • public spirit. He has fairly proved that he was the viaim of unmerited-persecution on the part of the 11 URDETT1TES, led on by their veteran . Corritnander HORN TOOKE, and has left them nothing to urge in defence of themsehfes. for thus deserting and slandering; a man who,.at the time when they abaci dotiea him, was certainly as much entitled to their . eiteem and support as when lie appeared to be most in their favour. Indeed it is evident that the ad erse faaion, have nothing to urge in vindication of I temselyes by th e i r tota l s il ence un d er a ll h i s c h arges. , ~ i itempt is a very convenient expedient for de tcd but they cannot avail themselves of ,t commodious feeling on the present oecasion, ••od therefore this silence may be considered.as some , 3t .- in - t heir favour, as it seems to !thew that they poFiess impudence equal to their depravity, indt..ed it may be inferred that they think it longer possible for them to impose upon the judgment, and abandon the attempt in de .. Stair. But what must the Eleetors.of Westmin ster think of themselVes when they felled upon . the deception they haVe suffered; and on the charac-• , ter of the men by whom they have been delUded It is really , a shocking c on sid era ti o n, th a t m enace d as we are, by the most formidable enemy that ever assailed us, the, people of Westniinster, instead of • looking around them fur meh of vittue, wiscilii, • and public spirit, should fall an easy prey to the schemes of hackneyed craft and the violence of po litical adventurers.. Let them at leait'take warning by the disgrace which has fallen ou them, and . whenever another opportunity offers, delegate their • tights to men who are superior to factious cabal and despicable cunning. Such men may be found in this Country, if in any part of the world, and if the people in general were to exercise that good sense which has always been the charaCteristic of English men, though it may be overborne for a time, no part of the United Kingdom Would ever be ensnared by the tricks of any artful old Knave to confer their choice On any young misguided Dupe. PIALIUS. Yesterday a number of spectators assembled on Epping Forest, to witness the long•expeCted race for too guineas, between Mr. GOODCHILD'S Lady Warwick and Mr. MI LES'S Little Bobby, which was won by the latter, leaving the former several yards behind. The knowing ones taken in. The 18th Regiment of. Light Dragoons, command ed by the Hon. Colonel STEWAR T , will be reviewed at Rumford on Thursday next, by his Royal High ness the Commander in thief, after which a sump tuous entertainment will be given to the Officers. The Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, and the Earl of HAttaiNoTort, the Commander in Chief, are shortly to take a tour round the Coast of that part of the United Kingdom, to inspect the Fortifications, and see that they are put in the best possible state of de. fence. Sir FRANCIS BURDETT, for the improvement of his health, is going to hisnestate in Derbyshire. Th e Baronet will doubtless derive from every place but Wimbledon,a general improvement. We have frequently of late had occasion to notiee the hostile inclination Of Russia towards this country. Upon this subjeEt we yesterday received the follow- Mg communication, which, in the present juncture, will not bp deemed unimportant. " EDINBURGH, SEPT. I.—A Sloop has this mo ment arrived at Leith from St. Petersburgh, left it 4th August. Capt. WILSON, the Master, reports, that when he left St. Petersburgh every thing looked like. war ; the English were frequently hissed in the streets by the Russians • that the specie that had ar rived from Britain, Lor d i GOWER bad ordered to be re-shipped. ,On his arrival at Elsineur, be was not permitted to go ashore; and at five A.M. on the 15th, the Fleet all got under way, by signal from the Admiral,, .both Men of War and Transports; that pt this time the Danish' Guard-ship was coming into Elsineur Roads, as a ptize to a British Frigate. The firing that was hcard the preceding day by Capt. SWORD, of the Charlotte, was the scaling of the guns. Very few British Ships remained at St. Pe tersburgh when Capt. WILSON left it; and hemp &eight had got up to 61. 6s.per A, Cateehism has lately been published under the sanairin of the French Giwerhment, for the use of the Churches in the French Empire. Notwith standing BONAPARTE'S liberality with respeCt to religious opinions, all the old and most objeCtionable Doctrines of the Roman Catholic Church are re newed in' this Work. The infallibility of. the Church of Ronie is asserted, and her right to grant indul gencia, and 'enforce confesiOns is tuaintained. In the enumeration of moral duties, great fairness and precision are manifest as far as the :Catechist pro ceeds ; but we are presented with only one side of the picture; the obligations of inferiors to superiors are minutel y detailed, but not a word is added'op the obligations . of superiors, towards interiors. In the Lesson on the 4th (our sth) Commandment; the pupil is taught the duties which he owes to Princes in general, and to NAPOLEON in particular : but nothing is addressed in the catechism to the yching Princes of the new Dynasty. This part of the composition- is so curious, as expressive of the flattery with which the Church endeavours to ingra tiate herself into the good graces of her ew pro tietior, that we shall transcribe it : . I Q. What are the duties of Christians in regard - to . the Princes - who govern them, and, in particular, what are our duties towards NAPOLEON the First, our Emperor ? A. Christians owe to the Princes who govern them, and we owe in particular to NAPOLEON the First, our Emperor, love, respe&, obedience, fide. lily, military service, and the tributei ordained for the presecvation and the defence of the Empire and of his Throue ; besides, we owe hi:a fervent prayers for his safety, and for the temporal and spiritual prosperity of the State. Q. Why are we bound to all these duties towards our Emperor ? A. First, because God, who creates empires, and who distributes them according to his will, tu load ing our Emperor with favours, whether in pece or war, has established him our 'Sovereign, has made him the minister of his power, and his image on earth. To isonour and serve our Emperor is there fore to serve God himself. Secondly, because our Lord Jesus Christ, as well by ins doctrine as by his example, has himself taught us what we owe to our Sovereign; he was born under obedience to the de cree of Caesar Augustus; he payed the tribute pre scribed; and in the-lame manner as he has com manded to render to God what belongs to God, he bas also commanded to render to Caesar what belongs to Cam. Q. Are there not particular motives which ought to attach us more strongly to NAPOLBON the First, our Emperor ? A. Yes ; for he it is whom God has raised up kn difficult circumstances to re-establish the publid worship of our fathers' holy religion, and to be the protector of it ; he has restored and presertied public order by his profound and aCtive wisdom ; he de fends the State by his powerful arm, and is become the anointed of the Lord by the consecration which he has .received from the Chief Pontiff, Head of the Universal Church. Q. What are we to think of those who should fail in their duty towards the Emperor? A. According to St. Paul, the Apostle, they would resist the order established by God himself, and would render themselves worthy of eternal damnation. A poor unbeneficed Clergyman, being in want of a dinner; bethought himself of paying a visit to Lambeth Palke, where it was, in the days of the beer-drinking Britons, a custom, from time imme morial, to keep an open table for Casual visitants. — After he had dined, being rather dissatisfied because the servant who supplied him with vi6tuals had en tirely forgotten)tis drink, he desired the favour of pen, ink, and I per, when he wrote .the following lines fur his Grace's perusal : kiscis in disco Mini datur, AU Archipisco. Po sed non ponatur, Quia non niihi Albtre datur. The Prelate, after reading the paper, sent for the writer, and desired a translation, which was imme diately given They sent me fish Ina dish From the Archbish. Op is omitted here Because there was no beer. With this conceit his Grace was so well pleased, that he bob-towed a good living upon its author. The Hon, and Reverend Dr. PELHAM was, on Monday, enthroned Bishop of Exeter. His proxy on that occasion was tile. Rev. J. P. FISHER, D. D. Archdeacon of Barnstaple. And on the next day his Lordship was installed Archdeacon, treasurer, and Prebend of Exeter. A circumstance of singular interest occurred on Sunday se'nnight, at Horncastle.— , A son of Mr. Moore, of that plate, joiner, was bathing in the Rain, which runs into the town, and having swam to the deepest part of the river, suddenly sunk, in the presence of several persons. As he did not rise again to the surface, it was supposed he had got entangled with some weeds, and a young man stand ing on the bank plunged into the water to extricate him. This secotxl person, however, had scarcely reached the spot where young Moore sunk, than he himself also disappeared. Two or three minutes of the most painful suspence to the witnesses of this scene elapsed, when a young man named Race (a son of Mr. Race, tailor, of Liorncastle) threw him self into the river, and after diving about for a mi nate, successively brought up the two drowning men in his arms—first the person who had nearly perished in an humane attempt to assist a fellow creature • and secondly . Mr. Moores son, who was quite ex hausted, and had become black in the face from suffocation, but speedily recovered. Some days ago one of the Mail Coaches from Welsh Pool to Shrewshurt was overturned, about nine miles from the former place, by which accident three outside passengers were precipitated with great violence from the roof, and four who were in the inside received a violent shock; one of the former, a female, was much bruised, and though at first much danger was apprehended, she is now in a fair way of recovery. This accident, we must in justice to the driver state, did not arise from arty negligence on his part, but from doe of the springs of the coach giving way. JACENr COUNTRY: .rTranslaied ftwil a, German Paniytilet, piiblished iti Berlin in tSof,- , • The Sound is to the North, what the straits of Gibraltar are to the South of Europe, arid - Elsineur and Helsingburgh may be called the Northern Pillars of Hercules. It forms the. cominuniCation between the North Sea and the Baltic. Thu Sound is two miles and a - half broad tit the narrowest part, where the sandbanks on the Da nish, and the Scheeren rocks on the Swedish coast, confine the channel so much, that the men of War, of great draft of water, can only pass one Act the other. The . Panes have, from this circumstance; been enabled ,establish a toll, which brings in a considerable' sum, all Ships that pass Elsineur being ohliged to pay this duty. FUrther to the Eastward, particularly near Copen hagen, the Sound Widens ; but still there is scarcely room for vessels td mancetwre or fight, and the flotilla defending it might receive great support from the batteries ashore. Zealand, the largest of the Danish Islands, is about 160 miles len& and 120 broad. The chief produce is barley, oats, and wheat. The pasture lands are very good. There are extensive woods of oak and beech, and the lakes abound with fish. The best harbour is that of Copenhagen;the metropolis and royal re sidence, built on the opposite side of the Strait, be tween Zealand and the Island of Arnak, and Cele brated for its excellent port, and its convenient situa tion for,trade. The city 'has a noble appearance from the sea, and is about two miles in length, and about one and a half in breadth, and six miles in circumference. Some writers estimate the number of inhabitants at 85,000, others 100,000. In many of the streets the canals are deep enough to admit large ships to come close to the warehouses, a circumstance of the greatest convenience to the merchants. There is an University of some import ance (founded in 1478, by Christian the First, un der the sanction of Pope Sextus IV.), an Academy for Artillery and Naval Cadets, a Society of Natu ral History, 'an Academy for Painting, Royal Socie ties of Sciences, Belles Lettres, and Surgery, a Ve terinary School, a Royal Library, containing about 100,000 volumes, - besides a large one belonging to the' University, about 50 Hospitals and Poor-houses, a very spacious Exchange, and a fine Arsenal.-- Among other excellent manufaatories, one of beauti ful porcelains, established and carried on by F. H. MULLER, .an apothecary, deserves particular notice. The round tower of the church of the Holy Trinity is reckoned a master-piece of architeaure ; it was built after a design of the celebrated astronomer, CHRISTIAN LONGOMONTANUS. It is 160 feet high, and 60 feet in diameter, and the entrance is a spi ral arch, so strong and spacious, as to admit a coach to ascend to the top, an experiment which the CZAR PATER THE ,GREAT is said to have made in 1716. Copenhagen enjoys the privileges of a free port; and carries on a considerable trade. In 1768, upwardsof 3800 ships entered inwards, and about 3700 cleared outwards. That Copenhagen is a place of great strength, both by nature and art, is evident' from the three long and bloody sieges it sustained under FREDERICK 1. CHRISTIAN 111. and FREDERICK 111, though the fortifications were then by no. means in the state they now are. As the town of Christian-haven, built on the Isle of Amak, is generally comprehended with Copenhagen, this isl a nd may be noticed here. It is seventeen miles in length, by seven broad, and has a communica, tion with the city by means of two bridges. The soil is uncommonly rich, and the island is considered as the garden and dairy of Copenhagen, to which the Atnakers bring for sale all kinds of vegetables, milk, butter, 'and cheese, in great quantities. Of the Danish towns within the Sound, the next in point of importance is Elsineur, Milt on the de clivity of a mountain, direCtly opposite to Helsing burgh, on the Swedish coast.. It contains from five to bix thousand inhabitants, who derive great benefit from the number of people passing through the town from Sweden to different .parts of Denmark, and still more in consequence of the toll that is levied 'from all vessels passing the Sound, on which amount, each of the nations trading to the Baltic Usually have a Consul established here . CHRIS TIAN 11. had an intention of ceding the town to the Dutch, but the inhabitants refused to comply with the order.. To•the south of Elsineur is the important fortress of Cronenbursh, begun by FREDRUCK. II in 1677, and finished in 1686. - The fortifications are in the best order, and the guns command the Sound, which is here not more than a mile and a half over, for Men of War dare not keep near the Swedish shore, on ac count oftho shoals. The most important Islands in the Sound are. Ist, Antall, which has been already described. 2d. Salt hohn, a small Island belonging to the Danes, where thereare excellent quarries of lime -stone, free-stone, and marble. This island is uninhabited, being over flowed in winter. 3d. Huen, or Wien, a fertile island, formerly an appendage of Zealand, but anneied to the Swedish crown at the peace of Rotzchild. It was bestowed by FREDBRICK the Ild. on, TYCHO DB BRAM, the celebrated astronomer, for the term of his life. Moen, the . Island off which Lord ROSLYN ar rived on the 14th, with the troops froM Stralsund, is a fertile Island, situate in the Sound, welly op posite Wisbeck, the little bay in which the troops etfe6led a landing on the 16th. It was granted to Sweden by the treaty of Rosehild, in the year itS s. —lt is about eight thousand one hundred and sixty paces in Circumference, and at a distance has the appearance of a high mountain. The Island was granted by FREIDRRICK 11. King of Denmark, to Tycho BURL the celebrated Astronomer, with a castle, called 'Uranienburgh, crated for the pur pose of making astronomical observations, in which he resided upwards of twenty years. The whole island tontains but one parish or village, consisting of about five houses. It is about five leagues north of Copenhagen. Kiiige 15;y, in which the division of troops from Stralsund anchored on the toth, it a bay of Zealand, stretching youth west from Copenhagen. HOLSTRIN.—Tfiis little province is rendered so interesting by being the only neutral frontier of the Continent on the North, and stands in so close a conneetion with our Continental intercourse, that the following circninatances will by found worthy . . the point of being seized by the Frencii.•:;l4ar shal Morerizn, who it will be recolleCted, wai then at Lubee, had received orders to take possessien bf this country. His army was to have been. livid , ed into three columns; one.'Was to'enter at Altona, and March down the right iho're of the •Elhe, towardi Tonningen ; another to go direaly from Lubec, to Kiel ; and a third was to take the high road, which cuts the province in „halves, and leads .to burgh. The Military . stationed at. Altona had or ders to retreat into Schleswick : and, it is said, that but for want of a good military situation in Holstein the whole of this Country (with the exception, of Course, of Gluckstadt) would have been abandoned to its fate. But the Eyder, which . separmeti Hol stein from Schleswick, furnishes a good position. The Fortress of itend&hurgh is very strong; at.,t Kiel Was the head-quarters of the Hereditary Prince. The military force which the Danes would have op- . posed to the French amounted to about 30,000 men ; but, within two days of the execution of this,plan, the order was-countermanded, and MORTIER ed into Pomerania, a land less produetive, but nearer the' scene Of a6tion.• .The reason of this change was the battle dt Pultusk, which the French still aired icy • mention as a viaory, but which, in tad, first madd BONAPARTE sensible of the magnitude and difficulty of his enterprize, and compelled him to adopt rsea • sures. of precaution and decency. But What had nearly taken plate before, may at last happen. COWLS, SErr. 4. The late fine weather has caused more compnn? to resort hither than usual, and at present our town is quite full : among many other tatuilies of disi inc lion, we have Lord and Lady FITZIiAIiKIS, Lady TURNER, Sir 44U* AOMILLY, Sir NAtiIANIEf, DANCR, Mr. ALI,INGLIAM, &C. Company of Comedians _play here occasionally, their bead-quarters being at Newport, in this Wand, and they meet with considerable success. Mademoiselle ALIMBLLI has been. giving Concerts, in which she has been distinguished for her pQrformatice on the Harp. ISLANDS OF SCILLY, Auo. 26.---Yeateiday a pri vate soldier belonging to the 2d battalion of Royal Veterans, of the name of Thomas Price, having, in the course of the day, drank a great quantity of spi— ritous liquors, towards the evening became so entire ly insensible, and intoxicated therewith, as to be altogether incapable of going to his barracks; in consequence he - was taken thither by a party of his comrades, but all 'respiration soon after be, came suspended. Two eminent Gentlemen of the , Faculty used their utmost exertions to restore ani mal life, but without effeet. The Paris Papers contain the advertisement of a werk, entitled, the " History of all the Orders of Chivalry, from the institution of • that of 'Malta, in 1113, to the Royal Order of Holland, in •1806.", This reminds us of " SOLOMON'S History of ,Plants, from the lofty Cedar of Libanui to'the lowest moss upon the wall." DUBLIN, SEPT. t.,-On Sunday, after a Week's duration, ended Donnybrook Fair, and it has been observed with pleasure, that the conduct Of the fre quenters of that theatre of popular enjoyment, here tofore a scene of inebriety and riot, has been this season .peaceable .and orderly to a degree which evinced improved. manners in the lower order of satiety. With a disposition thus ameliorated, tll9 assemblage of the people must be surveyed with pleasure, and none but a misanthrope could resist those agreeable s ensat i ons which arise from seeing a multitude happy by periodical relaxation, from toil. About a week since, information was received at the Secretary of State's Office, from Exeter, that a Frenchman had been taken into custody Under sus picious circumstances that he was.a spy. Mr. Rann, the Magistrate,' in consequence, sent Limbrick, the Bow -street Officer, to bring him to London. On the Officer's arrival, in town with him, and an in vestigation taking place, be proved to be a lunatic, who had broke out. of Middlesex' Hospital. The Continental Crowned Heads are to receive to - farther addition to their number in the person of the Archduke of Wtra.rzatraon (the Uncle of the Ern. , peror of Austria) who is to be created King of Fran- conia. .A Morning Paper speaks of " the dear delights of Margate." We conceive, however,-that Margate pleasures have no exclusive right to the epithet, but that it is at present equally applicable to the amuse• clients of every other watering place in the kingdom. It appears that in the reign'of HENRY the THIRD Women officiated as Mates at Ftmerals—till it was found they could not keep silence. Died, at Winchester, on the e2d ult. JA tae Rt. vxas, Esq. in the 87th year of hitt age. . , A battle took place at five o'clock yesterday after noon, in a field near Paddington Gravel Pits, for *o guineas a side, between 7 homes Wall, n reputed pugilist, and a Bristol Man, who is only in lus no viciate. Thomas Jones seconded the, Bristol man, and Bob Clark seconded Wall, and Ryan was his , bottle-holder. The Bristol man came into the ring in good spit; il , bets were five to, two in his favour before stripA7.,—ln the fi r s t' r o u n d h e s h ewe d a great deal e,,..1:51ence; after good sparring on both sides, he gave his antagdnist a well direaed blow under the left, ear, which brought him to the ground. however, in the 15th and IGth rounds, the odds changed in favour of Wall. They fought 34 severe rounds, in 40 minutes, when Wall was carried out of the ring by his friends, and brought back a quarter of an hour afterwards, when they wished him to begin ag a i n ; b u t t hi s was not suf fered by the party belonging to the Bristol man. LOTTERY ON' THE NEW PLAN. . , . 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