The Sun. — London, England, 1807-09-12 00:00:00

REitEcTIONs (Ceintityl,4l from nue' l'Jper of Yeiterdtzy.) If the King of Prussia had stood alone after the defeat of Jena; if, without friends, without Allies, he had courageously struggled (as he has done) with a victorious enemy, to the very gates of Mewol ; .and if, when he reached the extreme verge of his Empire, he had hesitated between an inevitable political death, and a shameful existence, dependent ~. on the will of his'conqueror; if, thus situated, he )3iid filially decided on accepting:the conditions im"- posed on him by the fourth of the Treaty of Tilsit, who. would.have dared to condemn him ? . • The age in which we live sees no successor but 'GUSTAVUS to that King of whom MONTESCL VlEti wrote * I an acquainted with nol.hing so Magnanimous as the,resolution which was taken by Lows XIV. to bury himself under the ruins of his throne rather than accept of terms to which a King ''ought not to listen. He had a soul too proud to de . scend more low than his misfortunes had sunk him And he -was not to learn that courage may sometimes ..re-establish a throne, but infamy never." Such charaders as these are no longer to be found; the maxims which they adopted are grown obs . oletc and unfashionable in mode:mi times ; and the his taey of the age in which Loots XIV. furnished Nings with this important lesson, is already become, in the eyes of our contemporaries, the history of the ..fabulous period of Europe ! .iThat the King of Prussia, therefdre, should •... ac cept the o p press i ve an d _deg ra ding law - o f the Con-.. qUeror, ought, in no ways, to appear surprising to modern EL;rope. ",BONA }'ARTE was at the gates of Memel," will be always a peremptory answer, to which our age, at least, haS forfeited all right to re ply. But, if the King of Prussia was driven from his dominions, his Ally, . the Emperor of Russia', had.' scarcely reached the exterior boundary of his im niense Empire, in his letreat from the battle of Friedland. Numerous reinforcement s were hasten- . rug to his assistance; from every quarter of his inter. minable dominions 7 AtexA:lonit I. way still foUr . hundred miles in advance from that Narva where PETER I. vanquished by the King of Sweden, only spoke of his defeat as " a useful lesson of his brother CHARLES !" It was, then, the Emperor' of-,Russia alone who should have defended his Ally, the King of Prussia, and acquitted himself at Tilsit of the ir3ignanimous promises which he made to him, when, after the violory of the Russians at Eyhiu, engaged him to reje& the tarns of Peace which BONAPARTE, the conquered, offered to FREDERICK WILLIAM, the. Conqueror. The intrepid condat of the King of Prussia, in rejeaing those' terms, his noble confidence, in his powerful Ally, gave him a right to reckon for ever on the engagements of the Emperor of Russia. — Europe has seer) how these engagements were ful filled.by the Treaty of Tilsit ! The name orPru , sia is effaced from the list of Powers, since she can no longer boast Of a, real independence. Prussia can neither defend herself from the French, nor proted her ancient Allies-Haley are annihilated! * GreatACSS'and Dc4.:thle of the Rollins, chap: v: or THE. PF,ACE BETWEEN' RUSSIA AN:b Hitherto; we have only .considered, as vve pro= posed, ..n,”e six Articles with a reference to the dis grebe in . which, according to the hyP6theSislof 130t4A• PARTE, they must infallibly .plunge the Sovereign who accepted them. We shall now proceed to ex amine them with a view to the dangers with which they threaten the Continent, and in this new light they will strike the astonished mind with an equal degree of terror and indignation. In enumerating the Articles of the' Treaty of Til sit, we, purposely passed over the XlVth, which cedes to Low's BONAPARTE, King of Holland, the. Lordship of Yever, in West . Friesland ; because, upon refleelion, we did not find it of so debasing a nature as it appeared at the first glance. Yever is the patrimony of the inimortal CATHERINE 'II. It occurred to us, therefore, that it was a kind of ha.: mage to the memory:of that great Princess for Ruisia to fling away her patrimony on, thessaine day, and in the same instrument which formed 'the Treaty of Peace,,at Tilsit. It was an a6t of justice : nothing,. surely, of CATIi BRINE the Great ought to be found with Russia on the day of signing the Treaty of Tilsit. We now proceed to the Treaty. To leave with out means of defence the Power which was the Most interested in the preservation of Germany; to destroy thp Allies most intimately connetaed with ber by their contiguity; to place the one which is not dismembered, in a positiOn no less, alarming to her than to the rest of guiope,' by the envenomed gift of the Duchy of Warsaw ; to depriv, her of every means of repelling liciAilities,,and consequently to leave her exposed to.every kind of outrage,- after baying despoiled her of all the ,specie which she possessed . : such is the real state in which the king-, door of Prussia' is left by the fourth Article of the Treaty of Tilsit !‘ The Treaty of Tilsit has left the kin Of PausiiX but two chances to run---either to enrol himself among the slaves of 80244.PAECiE, becorn6 one of his Prefects in Germany, and patiently wait in Vs train, amidst otitrages of every kind, for the de= stru6tion of some autient, or new-made. Power Germany, to obtain a fragMent of the wreck, till the fatal clay which-shall terminate his existence for ever—or else to gather conrage from the ttcess of his despair, to take advantage of the horror with which the tyrant has filled, all Germany, and to put every thing once more to the hazard ; seeing that the remnant of his existence is a thousand time's worse'than death itself. These two 'chances are pregnant with equal daft gers,to Ruisia and to Europe. Europe would see the consummation of her slavery; and Russia would find herself deprived of her natural barrier : she would then be left alone, to' defend herself against an Enemy who might attack her with' all the forces of France ) combined with those of the Countries whigh she has successively enslaved: The existence of the Confederation of the Rhine is .destruaive of all Political Power in Germany, be . - cause this Confederation is not a Political League, but an Association of Usurpers. It is not a System which forms the bond of it, but a Conspiracy; form ed by crime, and for the advantage of crimel It Must either be destroyeci, or it will survive the exist ence of all legitimate POWer in Germany. One sole means, placed by the side of this pest, was capable of 'arresting its ravages ; this was the COnfederation of the North,. formed by all ,the 'Powers*Of the North of Germany, under the pro - 4 teetion of Ressia and England ; and this means the Treity of Tilsit has utterly destroyed, by sane tioninglhe' fain of the . King of Prussia, Is this PrinCe in 'a situation . to. propose A ny other alliance thin that Of his misfurtunes) And has not the'Em peror of Russia, by immolating the King of PrasSia, taught the Northern Powers the Arne vat& of his prote6tion, and the ,eventeatprice of his alliance ! Posterity, amazed and terrified at the calamities which this Treaty has infliCted on Europe, will la bour to discover what unaccountable motive could possibly determine AL . EXAUbliit I. to idt his hand to the Decree for its Dissolution.—lt is ours to shew what posterity will learn. (To 6, toPainued.) DnaLtts, SEPT. 7.--The late heavy and continued fall of rain, there is too much reason to fear, has occasioned some .of the must disaStrous circhni stances, hut nothing can exceed the shocking catas trophe which it is our painful duty to relate. Yes terday. the flood on the flat grounds, about the vil lage 9f Chapelizod, were - at their height, and -sur mounted even /he battlementS of the bridge. . At this tithe a hackney-coach, with in,ide...Pa.ssen gers, male and female, and, as we have been in formed, one child,. through the temerity of the dri ver,' attempted to pass the bridge, when, shocking to relate, the coach and passengers were.carried by the violence of the flood completely over the parapet wall ! the coach Uppt and instantly filled, where there must have been at least fifteen feet of water, and all miserably perished. Priv,atelettets from! Dublin, dated the 7th instant, giVe,the following account of an extraordinary fall of rain in that, city ;—" it commenc e d ra i n i ng on day last, and continued for 48 hours without in aermission, and had not entirely ceased until Mon day morning. The 'floods in consequence, -.have • been most ter.rific, and have done great Injury.— Every boar brought fresh accounts frotwthe coun try ,of new diSastera. The Royal Canal burst. near Maynooth, and overflowed the couetry to a consi derable. extent." .-Another 'Letter says—" Several stage coaches have been swept away by the flocids, and the passengers drowned, . The,storm on Satur day, was the greatest that I remember. Three large trees in the New Gardens, Rutland-square, have been torn up by the roots, and' several chininies in , 'the city have been blown down.' In consequence of incessant heavy rain from nine o 'clock on Saturday night last, till eight o'clock ou Sunday night, the River Clyde, at Glasgow, rose to a greater height than it has attained since the new .Bridge Was carried off, near twelve years ago. The whole* the Bridgegate was flooded, and the Water advanced a considerable way Up Jamaica -street, the Stockwell, and , the Salt-Market. The'bridges being inaccessible by toot passengers, carts regularly plyed at the toot of Jamaica-street and Stock well. , Two arches of the - new bridge over the Clyde near Ha milton, on the road betwixt that to - wit and Edin burgh,fell on Sunday ; and the damage &one to the harvest on the law grounds' along, the`' River Most have been very great, as large quantities of corn and hay,. and some'cattle, have : floated past that city.— A young man in a boat near the Clyde Iron Works, and a young Man at Peat Bog, attempting to se cure some of the floating grain, unfortunately last their lives. Amongst the most remarkable circumstances which have occurred, during the plresent shooting season, may be reckoned the foHowing the Ist inst. Mr. G. AUSTIN LIM Mr. S. FOSTER, accompanied lay Sir JAMES KNOWLES, went Over the manor of Fobsey Magnus, in Cornwall; and killed in the course of the day the enormous number of 43 braced birds. The former Gentleman had one shot at a woodcock, which he winged, but from the dryness of the co ver the dogs would not hunt it. In addition to his 13 brace of partridge*, Mr. AUSTIN killed five hares and a ,water-rail.-- 7 4nd what renders the circum stance more extraordinary is, that both Mr. AUSTIN and Mr. FosTto shoot in speaacles., The disputed race for the King's plate en Monday, 'in the !ast York Meeting, between Mr. AIIILLISICS colt, Ludes. All, and the Earl of STRATNNIMiE . B b. tidy, by. Sir Peter Teazle, is decided hi favour of Mr. MeLLlstt. POLICE . . ng . ,LW , S r%, T h u rs d ay e'veni ca. drgi • Palmer, a sorter of letterg in the General Po'v- Office, was brought by Anthaiiy aed Adkins t?efore ReAo, E,q. charged on stispiCiiin of stealing .a 491. Rink of 'England note, .from a letter, in the Post-Office, and Joseph Inwan, Charged with re . cei tug the same, knowing it to have been stolen. it appeared that a letter was put into the Post Office, in London, with a 401. BAtik note direOed to a person at Oakhampton, on.the 6th.of 'August, and in the dde course of the Post itiatight to have arrived at that place on the 7th, but it has never come to hand. Information of the cireum- Stance was given at the PtistAittice, and the Ageno of the Office gent a description of the 401. note to the Bank. On examination of the books, it was discoveied that the note had been paid into the Bank, on the 7th of August, and six 51. and two 21: note 4 had been given in exchange far it. Exertions were made in ‘nin to trace out ,the' person who had paid the 401. note into the Bank, p ccording to the name and direction written Itpon it. At length, within these few days, on examining 'the indorse ment, and the hand writing of all the sorters on duty 'on the sth of. August, suspicion fell upon the Prisoner ; in consequence of which, Mr. Parkins, the Solicitor to the Post-Office, and the Officers, went to his lodging, in TOok's-ceurt, Ctirsitor-street, and after interrogating him, &c. they seized his papers, and took him into custody. The prisoner Inman was with him, whom they likewise took into custody and it appeared that .tbree k of the 51.. notes" which had been paid "by the' Bank,' in ex- change for the 401. he paid to Mr. Stevenson, in the Strand, Palmer declared his innocence in the most'pesitive terms;and signed the account he gave - with a great deal of composure. - The'account Inman gave of himself, and the pos session of the '5l: notes, Was ratuer.extraordinary.--- He stated, that on the ad or 4th of August, betweel& between six and seven &Clock 'in the morning; as he Was on his way to Covent-Garden Market to pur chase-some vegetables, in Burlington-Gardens, be tween the pump and ..theentratice t 6; ;the Albany,. he picked up a twisted piece of palm „which he' stip posed, contained thread or tapir, but 6it opening it he discovered four 51. Bank notes, three of which he paid to Mr. Stevenson. He said he had knewn Palmer about a year and a half, that he is a poor man,.with a - wife and fatally, and that when he. was foimd, in Palmer's apartment, he was there merely for the purpose of taking up a green cloth to clean it. Mr. Parkins told him ,that.,it was impossible his account could be true, ag he said that he found the notes on the qd or , 4th. of August, whereai they were not issued from the Bank till the 7th; the poor man, 'hoWever, persisted in the correctness of his statement, and signed it in writing, with great firm ness. He was committed for fbrther examination to New Prison, Clerken well, and Palmer 'Was Com mittedto.the House of Correaion. John lbertson, one of the notorious piekpocyets, belonging to Ityland's daring gang, was charged with stealing two pocket-books and their contents, the property of some person unknown. It appeared, that on Tuesday afternoon, a Gentleman, who know,i some of the g,angS of pickpockets from their daring condua daily in the street, was *sin through Holborn, when be observed the Prisoner and several others, well knewn to him as pick pockets; following a Country Gentleman, which they continued to do till begot to the ;gateway of an inn where was turning ind.vhen ht y surrounded hustled him, and be saw one of them take his pocket-book out of his coat pocket, the villain put it under his arm behind him, alid it .was taken by another of the gang, and they all made off; the Gentleman w,atehed them, into' a public- , house its Gate-stfeet, no dottbt to examine their booty, and then went elf with all speed to Bow•;street to give information of what; he had seen. Limberick and Blackman in consequence, went to the public-house, where they found the Prisoner and several other pickpockets, but there was no thing of a suspicious nature found upon any of them but the Prisoner, and on him was foUnd two pocket books, oue of .thorn with some valuable papers, sop. posed to have been lost between the Royal Exchange and St. Bartholomew few days since; the other is a small red book, supposed to be the one stolen from. the Country Gentleman in Holborn it contained, two 51; Petersfieltl Bank notes, fire 11. Bank of England notes, two guineas, NA) half guineas, three Seven-shilling pieces, and six shillings, He was committed for further examination, when it was expeeled the Gentleman will attend. MANStotc-House.--The Officers of the Custom house. haOng filed an infornaatiOn egainst a person of the name of Webster, Captain of the Ship Pigihpa, from Lisbon, for penalties to the amount cat three times the value of some bottles of Wine which had been run on shore by him without having paid the duty, the case was this day heard before the Lord Mayor. . , An Officer of the name of Davis, and a Waterman employed under him, stated, that on thelith of June, while they were on ditty at Coxe's Wharf, - where the Defendant's Ship lay, ,they observed a large bas brought from on board the Vigilant; tttid the Oil); cer Suspeeting from the great care displayed by the Defendant, ,who was himself on shore, in elevating it to the wharf, the tide being then out, that the bag contained something which the Defendant was afraid might break, ordeVed his mai to search' the bag. The Defendant at first said, that it contained nothine i but dirty linen ; but on the Offi c e r 's. de s irin g l e is men to make the i seareh, he said it was oni, s , a bottle or two of wine belonging to the Owner.,,,' The Officer said he was bound to seize it, as thefi e f en d. ant had run it from on board the Ship, His:men accordingly searched the bag, iu wl'Xch, having founiften bottles of Port wine, they l'ldged the bag and its contents in the Custom-bote4. Tho c l a i m now made by them was for 51. As. ',being three tinies the value-of the ten bottles of po.A. The Defepdant, 'and- a Part ',caner Of the vessel who attended along with hitr,, and whose property the wine was, denied all htvawledge of the wits:ac tion, but imputed it entirely to the fault of boy Who waited on them, - teh t ian they saspekled or hav ing formerly robbed l'item of wine, and who, it would appear bad hviended to appropriate the ten bottles inluestion own use. The Loan Maxott, however; conceiving - the atd• mission of the tfrefendant himself, made to Davis, the Offlaer, previous to the search, as si ffident evi • attnce of his knowleclg-e that the bag containedwine; which'Was inconsistent with the present defence; ordered the fall penalty to be inflicted, the Protirietors of the clothes, which h.vd_boen seized along Will) rho wino, to apply :It thy: Custom-liciuto for resawtion Of them. A young man who said. his name was glpnes, but whose real name the Officers said they knew ta be Mitchell, was brough before the Lord Mayor, on a. charge o followin'g t‘ti) different Gentlemon yes• terday afternoon r from Temple-lane, to the Temple, and from the Temple again up Temple-lane, look. ing in their pockets, he being known to bea cotn= ,nod thief. The Officer MI6 apprehended him stated the 1 I6fi and;almost every:. Officer in the Courtrecoguized hint as a known charaCter, who had been more than. once sent to the tender, and returned as being in a constant suite of disease. - - ' The LORD MAYOn ordered the Prisoner to be sent to Bridewell for a mdnth and to be flogged. ibis Lordship also ordered:, that a silver watca, with a chain and two gold aegis, one of which fild a cyphet upon it, found on the Prisoner, should be kept by ,the Officer till the period of his confinement was pired, that, if the property of any other person, they might be claimed, Gumnift‘u..—A number of the juvenile gang of pickpockets, now in custody, underwent privateexa minations.. From what has beets already discovered ()Nils business, it promises in the long-run to exid. bit a more extendod scene of villainy than wasaat first imagined. From the proceedings of this day, several persons of mature years,' both male and female, seem to be implicated. The various parties were ordered to be brought up again .on Welnesday. James Dearing, who had been- brought up oh a former day, charged on the oath of out: of-tile Offi cers, with having had iris hands ,in other persOns pockets, at Bartholomew Fair, he being, at the same time, a suspicious characler, anti who, at the request 'of Mr. BARRY, his Counsel, was then remanded to this day, Or the double purpose of allowing the Offi cers to adduci;.auy thing they Might t;iiiik material against the Prisoner, and atrqrding the Priso h er,an. opportunity of yin:fie:sting, his'cliaraaler, MO again brought up. . Mr. - BAnav said, he was convinced the worthy Alderman would feel more pleasure in ohderving that the person,. however he. roigut 'tbrinerly have been Suspeded; could now prove that he possessed a. eharaCter above exception, than he would iu ing deserVed punishment on twenty . persons. From the evidence which he was ready to it4kluce, the worthy. Alderman must be ~c onvinced, if. his Client was ever of the character ripresetfled by the Officers, ho -110.1 V• stood in the for Mer of these two situations. He must, however, be excused for again arguing that it Was nOnnanswerable p4,‘of cif that a person had Once been accused of a crime, par ticularly when, it appeared that latterly no attempt was made to bring it. home to him. A Gentleman of respeclability,. who has resided for the last eighteen years in King-stretot, Cheapside, gave the Prisoner an excellent onaracter, represent ing him as having, for several years past, been par ticularly attentive to InsineSs, frugal, and industrious. Another Gentleman also , attended h the. earlier part of the day, who would have given him a similar charaEter, but who eunkl not sit out the private exa minations. Under these circumstances; Mr. Aidefthan Ptti&- sep ordered the Prisoner to be diScharged i having previously cautioned . the Officers not to take per sons of whose charaaer they were not well aware ►nto custody, unless the evidence ofil4e;r criminal intention, at the moment, W LIS ' cutbriletly ,apparent. O , I I T.EN-8(11: . I .lui‘—l r esterday. Dan. Pearce and W. Rurk,t wo wed-known charataers . - on t lie river Thames, being observed by the Offieersin the act of ming the crafts of the ro.ds, were pursued by them in boats. The Officers came tlp with them after a long chase oil I,tioas's Wharf, at• I 4 and having boarded the Vessel, took the crew ri,onoli. They were examitied'before r; and Mr. Coc - -. cantons., and were convicted as well. for.the eitals as in the penalty of 40 shillings each, and costs un-, der the Barn Boat Mt. The, boat as It waft 'the first convklion only, was not ordered to be bornt.., Pnamt-Oi.vick, Wriasutti4rdmr.—Y csterday Sdrrah Purrier was fully cotpmitred for trial, charged with going•into the house of Mr. Arch4, , r, in Old, street-square, and stealing a silver watch and a gold ring, • PU BLI C 01 : 1' IC. , A tyw r.....;Yesterapy, [lan nah Trßaor, Sullivan, alias Connell, undement cx 7 amination as a common utterer ofcounterfeit gold and silver for several years past, and, who has for tt long time eluded tits vigilance Oifteeri. She wa s so.guarded, that it appo:trui: ( ‘to he . almost impossible to detea her. About rnontils since she took small shop in Greenbar;tc, W‘ipping, a roller of • oysters and greens, ';,.here she supplied near seventy harrow- 'women w . ,th change. Being susp(...cled,:he removed to itiugait!-lane, Vvrdpping. It was ;d -ieted belbre the Magistrates, by per!,uns who gave evidence r ap;mSt her, that OW sold such base. coin* in t - 411 tY 3' S 'a common artick of trade. 'flat Solicitor of the N fi ,,int attended opon the, occasion. he was fulir i',onuititted for trial. 'FinE.---Thursday =rain°. about one o'clock,the garden house of Joutr Ottn, Esq. of Walimn Orden, was discovered to-be on fire, and raged so furiously, that in a short period the whole fiibrie was levelled to the &round. Mr. Wuire, the head gardener, whO wai . accustomed to, sleep on the premises, un fortunately perished its the flames. A part of the body was found, the extremities of which were li. terally burnt to a cinder. Attachvd to the building was a stable, 'Wherein Was a valuable horse, which also fell a vitlim to the'fUry of this lamentable con tlagration. Holland the stria m easures ta k en in Holland to prevent the iorportation of British Mero ettondise, incre'ead.be no doubt that the whey haveldways a sharp eye to their private good, would be very glad to smuggle in a few tln),lsands of 'Pickets in our pi . esent inwroved Lottery Scheme, as time' plan has certainly the. broadest baittoin oi that thelottcry annali can'imtatice. The harvest, with very few . exception.t, i s Haw completed with more abundant crops, kaised itj a shorter time, in bettei.'eptalition, and at less tApe nce than it has been for many preceding years.