The Sun. — London, England, 1807-01-10 00:00:00

ST.4TE PATEIZ. HIS MAJESTY THE KING OF PRUSSIA AS INSERTED BY AUTHORITY IN THE GAZETTE OF KONLGSBERC, OF THE IST or DECVSBER. " The-battle of the 14th of Oilober, notwith standing the courageous efforts of his Majesty's Artnies, has been so unfortunate for the Prussian arms, that the road to the capital, and even to the very heart of his Majesty's dominions, has been left Open to the. enemy ; the king was, therefore, in duced to offer terms for an Armistice, of which he had every reason, to expea a cordial acceptance on the part of the enemy, as in the midst of the battle he received a letter from the Emperor NAPOLEON full of friendly expressions but to this offer of an Armistice the door of ,acceptance was shut, unless t he 4. King consented, 'the basis of a Peace, to cer tain sacrifices incoOpatible with his honour and dig n i ty ,. " The King, w h o saw t h e f u ll extent an d magni 'W e of the misfortunes and dangers which una , Voidably surrounded his faithful subleas, preferred an it nmediate and certain tranquillity to the remote and uncertain prospe& of the return of the fortune of war in his favour; his Majesty, therefore, iturne. however great they might be, as were compatible with the interests of his Throne, and accordingly sent the Minister of State, the Marquis Luccitzs syst, as early as the sth of OCtober, with ample diplomatic powers, to the head-quarters of the Em peror and King NAPOLEON. " The sacrifices which the King had agreed to, cin receiving the first dispatches from the Marquis business, (to whom, in o rder t o acce l erate t h e his Majesty had sent Major-General Zits- Thow), were so adequate to the advantages which the ene— my by fortune of a single day, had gained, that so early as the 30th of OtStober they were re '3l3e6lively acknowledged, and received as the basis o f a Treaty for Peace, by the Plenipotentiary, the L _Grand M ars h a l o f t h e Palace, D u itoc : upon this .oasis the Peace itself was tb have been concluded Without delay ; and the King, on his own part, took all the necessary measures to provide that those con ditions of Peace should be punctually fulfilled im- Mediately after the signing of the Pr e limin ar i e i thereof. The Emperor NAPOLEON, on the contra r y, refused to put a stop to hostilities, and allowed his Ar m y not only to enjoy the advantages they al ready possessed, but to proceeCia acquiring-new conquests ; and even all the priavinces of the nig on the Oder and the Warta, destitate_of garrisons, Were inundated with French troops; and thus these.. defenceless provinces' felt all. the horrats of. war as. . tvell as the capital. " At the hearl.4partersef the Zoaperbr, ere= four days after the acteptance.of the conditions ofEeace, a seditious Proclamation was printed,.publishegi,mrl distributed, tending to produce'an insurreetien or. disturb ances and rebellion among the subj e a s of his iajesty in South Prussia. Wherever the enemy's troops could find their way, the property of the King was taken possession of, the Royal treasures were seized, and it was attempted to seduce- the servants of his Majesty from their lawful allegi ance, and an oath was even tendered to them, Whereby they were required to swear fealty to the .` r Those fats created a suspicion that the Em- P`'lor was not serious in his intention of concluding a Peace upon the basis already understood by th e Plen ipotentiaries of both nations. The unceasing, but ineffeetual endeavours of the Plenipotentiaries of the king mit to break off entirely the thread of COM - ibun ication between the two belligerent Powers,prov ed clearly to his Majesty that this suspicion was.,.vell grounded,—.more pat titularly as the positive decla rali"n, " That the Emperor, knowing the situa• tion in which Prussia has been placed since the unfortunate battle of the I 4th, must take advantage of that situation fot' the conclusion of his Peace with England and Russia," leaves no doubt remaining with respe& to the intentions . of France. " After this the formally concluded basis for Peace was entirely set aside, and instead of it an Armistice was proposed on the part of the French, at the very moment when it . was thought that the bags of a definitive Peace had beeif settled, and each new advantage gained in the interim by the French, now increased the severity of the demands made Upon Prussia. " After having indulged themselves in so many illusory hopes, the Plenipotentiaries of the King at l ast thought themselves justified to conclude, on the 16th of November, the Armistice hereafter in ' ktted verbatim, in order to put a stop to the con tinually increasing demands of the Enemy. This document was accompanied by the official De claration of the Imperial Minister for Foreign M.. TALLEYRAND, Prince of Benevento, t he contents of w hi c h. p rove more c l ear l y t h an any ;Ping that had gone betbre,.that Prussia would only flatter herself in vain if she cherished the most dis• tar t hope of a secure or la s ting P eace , notwithstand .the unheard of sacrifices which the Armistice im -I)o,ed upon her. L '" But if the King himself had even indul ge d suc h c - 'mile, it was no' longer in his power t o f u lfil t h ose e jliclitio ns in that Armistice with r egar d to the re-. ty u , r4 Of the Russian Armies, because as the French during the Negotiation had advanced even to ? istula, his Majesty was not in a s it ua ti on to S‘f)l) t he march of the Russian Armie s , w h en t h e i r `v ll frontiers - were menaced by the enemy. Thus 11° Choice was left to the King ; he was obliged to ref use his r a tifi ca ti on o f t h e A rm i st i ce w hi c h the '-/rand Marshal DUROC brought to his head-quarters at Osterode, on the 22d of November. " If any alternative remained, it-was one that 41 plied the accomplishing of impossibilities, viz. to Invite the Cabinets of St. James and St. Peters burgh t o un i te with his Majesty, and agree upon the. oasis of a Negotiation with the EMperor Narolzom for a general Peace. " This has been done, and though there were t utit feeble hopes of the success of such an at- T e lc T e , yet th e Ki ng did not -recall. the. Marquis RESSIN,I. from the head -quarters o f th e E m - P e tw and King. Dunn the time that the King was thus ex sT,u'ing Q all the .resour ces i n hiS power to .stop the i e ddiug of hum an bl oo d, h e. was nevertheless bu __r? occupied i n th e b r i ng i ng forward all the means Y resistance which God. has given him. \Airia4 the fortress t s, provided vtith ample means 'of defence, sitct as time of Stettin; tuslriir, deburgh, &c. have been delivered up to the Enemy in a most scandalous manner by their respeetive • Commanders ; the other fortresses of the Cot:11111:r, particularly thoseon _the Banks of the Vistula, hairy been now put in the best possible state edefebce, and entrusted to the command Of brave 'zinc! 1101104- able Officers. The rest of the marching re;gintents; which were quartered or encamped near the ViStula and Warta, shall he united with the numerous. well disciplined and brave army brought to the assistatice of the King by his true friend and faiththl Ally the Emperor ALLKAN4MR. " While these .united troops attack the Emmy, a new and numerous Army, which is began to he colle6ted, well disciplined, and equipped for 'war, shall follow their fellow soldiers to the-field of glory. Above all, the King relies on the support of that people who gloriously fought the battles of the Seven Years' War, against almost all Europe, and Who did not despond nor waver in their allegiance to their Monarch, even when the Capital, and the greatest part of the Kingdom, were in the posses sion of the .Enemy ; his Majesty lookS with con fidence to the support of that people, who, upon that occasion, in the midst .of unheard of perils and ca lamities, evinced an energy and firmness which has merited the applause df the present age, and secured them that of future generations. " At the present moment there are even greater! calls upon our energies than there were at the period of the above calamities. We now struggle 'for all that is dear and honourable to us as a na tion, or sacred to humanity. .To preserve the in dependence and existence of the nation alone, the King took up arms : this the I.;:tion, nay, the whole world, -knows ; and the. Enemy will not be able to deceive the people by the phantom of a pre tended coalition, of the existence of which he cannot produce the least evidence. " In her former struggles in the Seven Years' War, Prussia stood alone, or at 'vast without any material assistance from any other Power. She then stood up against the first Powers in Europe. in the present struggle she can reckon upon the assistance of the powerful and magnanimous • ALEXIINDIAI ) who, with his whole strength, stands forward for the preservation of Prussia. Prusiia in this great strug gle has only one interest in common with Russia— both will stand and fall together. With such an intimate union of both Powers in such a holy struggle against an Enemy whose success has raised him m such a giddy height that he knows no limits to his Career, the issue of the struggle cannot long remain doubtful. " Perseverance in danger, according to the glorious example of our forefathers, can, and will, alone lead on to victory !" Nete.follows. the Armistice concluded at Charlottenburgh, on the tfith of November, !Sob, between Marquis Luc. chr4sini and General Zastrow, on the part of PrutAa, and Marshal Duroc, on the part of France, as given in ottr raper of the fi I tit of Decemba..) NOTE O 1 Cl/ARLES MAURICE TALLEyIZAND, PRINCE OP BE NEVENTO, DELIVERED IN AFTER Tin: ABOVE AR- 11IISTICE WAS SIGNED. " The Undersigned Minister for Foreign Affairs has received hii Imperial and Royal Mesty's com mands to declare to their Excellencies the Marquis LUCCHESSINI and the General VON ZAsTitow, ,Ple nipotentiaries of his Majesty the King of Prussia, as follows " Four Coalitions, of which the last has brought on the present war, were formed against France-rail four have been conquered: the victories willeh his Imperial and Royal Majesty. has gained over them, have stubjetied under his power very extensive do minions. Thrice. has Fran 'e, aauated by a mode ration unexampled in history - , determined to give back the whole, or at least the greatest part, of her conquests, and_ has re-established Princes upon their thrones, without any gre . at ditninution of that power which they had forfeited in consequence of the Em peror's victories. 11 Although the Emperor has thrice aeted in this manner, yet is he willing once more to display his extraordinary moderation, though it might 'pro duce, before the lapse of ten years, even a. Fifth Coalition. " In the course of those continually-renewed wars, France, Spain, and Holland, have lost their Colonies. 'lt is natural, it is just, that those coun tries which, by the laws of war, have come into the possession of the Emperor, should serve as com pensations for those Colonies. tut the most ma terial injury which the Fourth Coalition, has done to France is, that the Portc has lost its indepeidence. Wallachia and Mdldavia wert governed by two men who were justly deposed by the Porte 3 but she has been forced to reinstate .them in their dignities by the threats of Russia.; and those coneesstonA on the. part of the Porte may be reckoned as 36,1ual con quests by Russia ; if, therefore, the total indepen dence of the Porte ought to be a chief point to France, his Majesty the Emperor Would lose the greatest advantage of his victories if he were not to obtain the guarantee of the future independence of that Power. His Imperial Majesty therefore cannot its the least consent to the restoration of the conquered territories which..the chance of arms has placed al his power, before the .Ottoman Porte shall be re instated in the plenitude of all its rights over \Val lachia and Moldavia, and that its absolute indepen dence shall be recognized and guaranteed. , • " The Undersigned has the honour to renew to their Excellencies the Marquis LUCCHESINI and Major-General ZASTROW the assurances of his high consideration. " CH. MAUR. TALI,EYRAND, " Prince of Benevento." " Berlin, Noveinter 16, 180(1." The following truly noble ad took place in the neighbourhood of Worcester a few dais ago !--7-A Nobleman riding over one of his farms, was met by a tenant in mourning ; and inquiring into the -cause, was•informed that he had lost his eldest son, whose life .was in an estate he held under his Lord, ship. The Nobleman, after Condoling with his tenant, passed on without further observation ; 'but, to the surprise of the. latter, on the morrow he was ➢resented with a new lease, substituting the life of .his youngest son, only eight years of age, for that of the deceased-, without taking any fine for renewal or raising the rent. ,ANECDOTES' OF The Emperor NAroLno,r rises early in the morn ing, for he sleeps very little, not more than three or four hours a ,night. . Atter having taken his sof fOe, of Which be is very fond, as he never drinks le , s titan thirty cups a day, made Very strong; he goes to his hath„the water of which is mired With some medical, preparation, to cure the effects of the impu rity of his blood, which is visible upon his skin. As he never can be a ihothont'idle, and makes the most of his time, he is attended by a per . son who under stands the English language perfeBly, and has the ability of translating* it with Out itesitatiod into Freneh. fie; therefore, read's the News papers to tbe,Emperor, as if he had a French paper in his han,ts. This he calls his hour of amusement, and somet imes laughs at the abs'urdity and ignorance of the English writers, as lie - calls their contents. The person who reads to him .is instruOted not to pass by ;pity expressions, or to soften them ; he must read zs: he meets th;,ln ; fig he likes to know what the Enemy thinks and writes of him. After having bathed, he dresses himself and goes to his chamber where he has always some'one to at tend him, his Ministers or Officers have the prefer ence, next . his. private Secretary. He is called - at the hour of dinner, and but half an hour is occupied with that meal, for lie eats very littles and has all most never any appetite, on account of the 4hantity of coffee which he drinks from to time. In the afternoon he is as buV as in the Morning, but alloWs himself, sometiMes thrice a week, an hour to go to some theatre or other ; but it is never known when.he goes, or which theatre he means to visit ; he very seldom knows it himself till dinnet time, when he inquires for the different' plays which are io be given in the. night. The Empress accom panies him always ; she is fond of him, And. he is very much attached to her. He is always attended by itosTAs, a Mameluke, who is very much attached to him. .He was a com mon man, whose - family and . relations suffered great= 'yin Egypt ; BONAPARTE, when in that 'Country, took a fancy to him, and, after Itaing proved 'his fidelity, employed him in his service ;• he- raised him from time to time, and he is now , a COlonel. He is not only with him every where in. the day time, hut in the night he is the nearest to his per son; Madame BoNAPARTE does not sleep, with him. RosTAs sleeps baize the door Of his bedchamber, so that it is impossible it can be opened without dis turbing hith. When .he is upon his post, the Em peror thinks himself safe ; for he relies more upon this Mameluke than upon. all the pages, guards, and watchmen, that are placed in the different avenues to his bed-room. ISAAC RErn, Esq.—lt is with much regret that we- mention the death of this very respectable lite rary veteran. , He, died on Monday morning, at a very advanced age, in Staple's Inn, Holborn. He was perhaps better acquainted with English Litera ture than any of his contomporaries,.and particularly with dramatic works. Ilia annotations On SEIAK- SrI'ARE, of whose works he revisvd~ several edi tion;, are always marked by plain good sense and knowledge. Ile led a very , retired and sedentary life, but he freely enjoyed the society .of his friends ; and though he never took an active part in . conversation, yet upon a Jeference to his judo- . went and experience ,he readily gave his opinion, .which was generally brief, but uniformly just and satisfaelor*y. He was remarkably simple in his ha, bits.; and as a proof of the easy quietness of his tem-. per, he was always, upon good terms with the late, Mr. STEEVENS, his brother, Commentator upon our great Dramatic Bard. His nioral:;; were uniti-n. peachable, and be was friendly and benevolent ; but though meek and reserved in his habits, his spirit roused with indignation upon every instatce of meanness or depravity.-Mr. .ABED' ti cuitetc.tion of books, which.were chiefly English, is I)erhaps the most extensive that any private individual ever pos sessed, and he had recently made arrangements for disposing of great part of it. His death will be la mented by many friends, but particularly by a selea few who formed. a Club of t'hich he had long been Presi dent, and which cOlisists of some of the most re speaable charaaers in, this Metropolis. Mr. REED, many years ago, published " 'The illographia Dra matics," founded upon " b'aker's Companion to the Play-house." The biographical department of this Work is the result of diligent inquiry, and is written with the true spirit of candour ; and his striaures.on the produeliOns of the English Dr. ma display sound judgineot and correct taste: Mr. REE D condmited The European Magazine for many years, but disposed of his property in it a _few months ago, and relinquished all literary pursuits of 'an aaive nature. LITERATURE.—The Society of Antiquaries are, it seems, preparing a work for publication relative to Gloucester Cathedral. Mr. SOTHEBY, whose learning and poetical talents are well known by his Translation of VIRGIL'S • Georgics, and many other works, is busy upon an Epic Poem, of which SAUL is to be the ELM. The Veteran CUMBERLAND, it/ • ColljUlldioll with Sir JAMES BLAND Be ItGESS, is en gaged upon an Epic Poem taken from Sacred Histo ry, the title of which is to be the Ercdiad: Much may be expeaed from such a coalition of talents.— The venerable BISHOP of Dam' ottE,.to whom Eng lish Literature is so much indebted, as he led the way for the, recovery of many reliques of ancient genius, is preparing an edition of the Poems of SURREY, one of our early Poets, whose works well deserve to be secured from oblivion by the taste and judgment of this estimable and learned Prelate, who will doubtless render them additionally va luable by historical notes and critical illustrations. The Persian Romance of illijnoun and Leila, the Arabian Prtrarch and Laura, will shottly make its appearance in a new edition of Romances by Mr. D'lsaAELt. Two editions of these Romances have appeared in America, and are elegant specimens of the American Press. The plates that accompany them skew that the Arts begin to be domiciliated in a country to which, at no distant period, they were strangers. Such is the progress of Taste ! The Songs of Awl and liftli% are resounded in the Savannahs of the West !—More Curiosities of Literature arc also expotted from Mr. D'lsnAew, in which many events of history are to .be introduced, not more in terestina, to' Cate Politician than to the Philosopher and the Man of l'aste U E3TMI2,T fE 4 SEss Qivs. GUILDHALV, tllrG-STltalfe Fy= Sp(Ai*. 1.1-AIXWAIt+ ING, XStt. AND ,A itellekr Or iiAnigls-A4t; JAri. 6. kiehry hlusg'rove &id" NAM S t ud irit *4'e in cliaed for an astauir, grid' AkelT imprisohing James . Noakes. The Prosecutor; petty ()Meer in the Ar tillery, came to Gosiatut-oa rhe'ath_ of ch - lober r in search of his wife i ygio hat' elot;ed Iron) him, and he found her under the:pttitiaion-Of the Defendant . Musgrove, in Nteihirtattriktreet:. Objedions wer e made by Musgrove to deliverirrg the wile over to the husband, who; after having bees assaulted by hit* sdakieded in getting her into the street, where *II-. grove; id order again to get possession of the' wite, charged the husband with being a deserter, rind he was !edged in confinement on that charge': Sutton, at whose house the wife was found, merely assisted in ridding himself of the parties, and he was Ac quitted. Musgrove was found Guilty.--Judgment respited. • Henry Bell, High, Constable of the Holborn DI. vision, was found Quilty of an Assault on Bradley; another Constable.. ‘ This assault was committed whilst the partied were on duty, at ,the time of Lord Percy having. been .eletied for Westminster; and refreshment was given to the populace at Northumberlan c t-house. The 'Defendant give the Prosecutor a violent thrust, with his staff, and on. being remonstrated with, -he related the same with increased fury-, by which Bradley was severely hurt —the Defendant was ordered to pay a tine of twenty shillings.. FRIDAY, JAN. 9. The only trial *orthy of notice-'this day.was that of a man of respe6table appearance, Duuiel Tarneri upon an indiametit for uttering seditious Words. From the evidence of a man named Daniel Hoe wood, formerly a 'corporal in the. Shropshire Militia, it appeared that the witness, was, oh the evening Of the 54th- Ult. drinking at a public-house called the • Lemon-tree, in the Haymarket, in company with two Gentian soldiers, both brothers, named Straw back; that the Prisoner came, into the room about a o'clock, and sat by himself. One of the Germans gave as a toast to his compartitn4, " Bonapatte's check-strings ;" meaning the British Navy, wh ich he and they drank. But the Prisoner said he would not drink it; adding, thaf Bonaparte was the universal friend of mankindi and wishing success to his.: ens wherever he went in any part of the world, More wood, who, as well as his companions, was astonish-. ed at such a declaration, broke si;ence, and said to the prisoner,-" Sir, it is impossible you van be serious in what you say." Prisoner answered he was serious, and would repeat it over and over agaie ; and he d;ii accordingly drink the toast three or four times, in a glass of shrub, which was the only liquor served to him while in the room., Horwood .and his- compa nions began to reprobate such language, as unbecom ing any matt but a traitor to His country ; insisted ork the Prisoner's iluittin , the room; a 4 Unfit to he in their company, and lord him he ought to be tdken up and punisned for nttcring such words. The landlord came in, and endeavoured. to restore order, and toi persuade the Prisoner to go to bed ; but he would not ; and the other parlies immediately took mea sures to have him sece,reLt for the night in St. James's Nvatch,bauw. He was next day brought before the Magistrates; awl Committed to prison. Phis • evideltee was supported by the testimony of the two btelhers and the landlord ofthe Lemon treei The Prisoner, in his defrnce, brought four repu table witnesses to his character, one of whom was 'Mr. Morris, a respectable \Vine Merchant, of King streeti Westminster, who said he had known slit Prisoner and his family for above ten years, and ne ver before heard his loyalty itnpcached. He said he knew the Prisbner to be au ingenious artist, ;.ed never heard any thing prejudicial to his character, except. that be 'was sometimes rather addided to Bacchanalian rites. Mr. MAISWAItt e NG summed up the evidence to the . Jury, and left it fur them to decide, whether, from the character they had heard of the Prisoner, coupled with the fads proved, they thought the words really uttered by the Prisoner were .with a seditious intent,, or whether they were not rather the result of a silly and obstinate spirit of opposition, in• one of those ridiculous disputes, about politics that so frequently .occur between such men in their ale 7 house meetings. The Jury in4tantly acquitted the Prisoner. ATOIDER HIGLER's-LANE. UmoN-HALL..--Yesterday the two persons eharg ed with murder were again brought up for a private examination. 'lnn Wilson, alias Young, charged on suspicion of being concerned in the murder. of Aim Webb, alias - Winterflood, in Higler's-lane, was first examined. She replied to the questions with great 'appearance of frankness and simplicity. Her first tale went to something very , near an admission of the fails stated in the informiltion on which the Officer had appre hended her, which was in substiince as That on the night the foul deed was committed, the Prisoner, in company with another girl, and a man named neither of whom are in custody,. met with the deceased in. a state of 'intoxication : she was condudted to a certain place, not at present to be named; and there, after a slight quarrel, blowy passed, which ended in what caused her death. The body was then said, for the sako of to have been put into a sack, and -carried down in, the mutilated . state to, the plaCe wh ere i t was 'f ound. This is the main substance of the first part of the business. All knowledge of this the Prisoner now denies, and varies, in fat, most materially fronkher first examination. A number of witnesses, called in separately, and kept entirely apart, chiefly of the prostitute class, were yesterday examined ; lite" More transpirtql than from (e evidence, who deposed , -by way o f corroboratipt, to the tan of seeing some person s taking down a sack, just where the body was founci, about two in the morning.—ln this ,state of tainty, as to positive proof, the case re;nains at p.rt:- sent ; and in expedation of further testihm;ny, was remanded fir another - hearing. MuRDErt or OLD MATTHEWS.—foIin Lraqu'un was again examined on this charge, and again remeitic4,,, in the absence of an essenti a l witness.