The Sun. — London, England, 1802-01-07 00:00:00

LONDON, JANUARY 7, zBoz. THE Extr4l of a Letter from Do. , Ezer; which we gave in our Paper of yesterday,. has excited much speculation' and conversation throughout the Metro, polis. We have before announced to our Readers, that we had received intelligence of the formation and workings of a strong P-aity against the present Government of France; but all the circumstances which had reached us, we-conceived-it this moment 'of Negotiation,. to with-hold from the .Public. For the reality of the , circumstances related in . that Extra6l, "wc do ‘n i o't Presunie- to pledge our. selves, but it came to us through so respeelable a chabnel, that we could r.ot think ourselves justified in withholding it from the Public. - That a powerful Confederacy has . for some time past been th..-arting the present Administra tion of 11'ra/ice, .is a 'fact, notorious and uncle.., niaLle. The Jaeoliins, .and the original Repu blican Party, better known under the name of sotines, have viewed, with a jealous and malignant . . eve, every .measure of imperial power which has marked the eondita of the First Consul, since his accession to supreme . outhority. But, it was not to be espeied, that . a combination would ripen into: held, an abscilute dominion over the tary force" pf the Relublio.. The p dc:idertitym in the moral rilicy of that-obtioiryy is the -restoration of a Jells,. ofiti;t:',-,:; and it car?' nOt - be denied, that 4 3 01tAP4's:rE has el feCted more towards the attainment of this prin_ ciple than all the preceding-despots of France, who, under the abused name of Liberty, have scourged and tormented-mankind. It is impolitic, therefore, to reason from the absolute dominion of the Coxsut. against a principle which every friend to Social'Order trust respett. In the praCtical operations of Such. a Government as France, it is unfair, if not unjust, to form our determinatiOnof what is right or wrong, from the uniform experience of Established Govern 'ments. He has every thing to 'do, whereas, the objetl of his kedecessors Was.to undo every thing. Hence,. we cannot view without a consi4rable portion of regret, any attempt to invalidate and subvert a Government, which, at least, in she. ab sence- of Ancient Monarchy, promises security to Europe, and repose-to France. There are some circumstances in the article from Dover, which induce us to-hope that the intelligence may not be true. First, we have reason to believe that General MORE AU is at this time resident - at his country seat, near Strasburg ;. Secondly, ALEX ANDER BERTHIER, the friend, the, confidant. of BONAPARTE ) , is not a likely person to•invplvehith self either in a conspiracy against the FIRST CON-, SUL, or- to desire the subversion of a Government, on the existence of which, the ascendancy of 'his great talents-Must ever give him a paramount supe riority. The names of two such charaaers as Ge. • neral MOREAU and BERTH tEtt therefore seem, at first sight, to cast a cloud of darkness over our in. telligence. But, on the other hand, if we reflex on_ the nature and 'effeas of all Revolutionary Govern. ments t if we recall to our minds the dissoluticin of :every social tie from 4heferv'or of party and the vio lence of faaion ; truths ,illustrated in every period of the history of man ; and above all, if we con. eider what deviations from probity, what stran g e .occurrences in the general order of things have al_,. ready taken place in that unhapil nation, we most not•be surprised at any thing we hear, or any thing we see. That Generals MASSENA and BERNADOTTE may be implicated in a' Cwspiracy against the existing Government, is a matter which we are not un willing to assent to, But, we cannot avoid hesie taring, before we give implicit faith to the arrest of Genera'! MOREAU, who, although reduced on the Half-pay List, by the Dire&ory, in conse quence of his suppose&connivance at Pic' motto's Conspiracy, was recalled by the voice of the Army, and enjoys beyond all men , their confidence and esteem. If, therefore, the news of hiq arrest be well founded (though from what has reached us we shall not be surpr4ed. at the faa) we _feel no hesitation in avowing that ,BotgApAa r F. has " set his life upon a cast, and will stand the hazard of the die." — For MOR EAU is confessedly the greatest General, and perhaps the greatest man in, France, and is adored by that very power through whose aid the First Consul has hitherto maintained his uneontrouled and strong authority, The contest . ,. therefore is at issue. One or the other masr fall ) and we are of opinion that the First Consul and not MottgAv will be the vidirn of this unhappy storm, THE Trial of the Mutineers came an yesterday at Spithead, but in consequence of an order of the Court, the Proceedings are . not to be published till the Trials are over. The Hamburgh Mail which became due yester day is not yet arrived. Yesterday being the. Feast of the Epiphany, commonly called Twelfth Day, Hi s MAJESTY'S Fral,l;iT44lBC and My rr h, was offering of Gold, made at the Ch'apel R6H, St. James's, by the Bi s h o p of LONDON and 111 C Marquis of SALISBURY, as Lord Chamberlain to firs MAJESTY. • The usual orders for the invitation of the Nobi lity, by HER MAJESTY, to dance Minuets in the Ballroom, at St. Jarnes t go the 18th inst. the. day on which, according to Court Etiquette, the Queen's Birth-day is celebrated, Were yesterday issued, Another Detachment of the Guards marched in to Poriman Barracks about tivo o'clock yesterday, afternoon. The 42d Regiment, ever heretofore distinguish ed for its gallantry,. has, acquired immortal glory by its decisive victory over, and complete_annihila. tion of the French Regiment arrogantly denominated brivincib/e; a title which, were it consistent with the true estimate of human nature which. Britons are, taught by their. Religion to make, would now ju3tly belong to the glorious 4.2 d. Mr. AxERBL,to, ' a Swedish Gentleman, who heTonzed to the Swedish En - .:)assy at Constantinople, f i nd ,tlicreby had an opportunity to make a literary, tour - in several parts-of the Levant, is now dili gently employed in examining the treasures in the. National Library Ott Paris, especially the numerous: Coptic ManusZtripes.: Before the reitn of - King HENRY the First, oar. halfpence and ..'fat' , ,,things were. square ; in - the coin ing of them' tirey ecre-struck almost 'through across, 'so as to be easily,dividd into , That Mo narch was the first..who ordered them to, be made round. The The .sales, of, ,wheat yesterday, at 'Mark-Lane; were very , dull, at IStrAilfs rrices,.sand no,altera-' lion in the other articles. " NAVAL NEWS. DEAL, JAN. 6. His Majesty's Ship ave/yi,se/sailea this morning for Chatham, to be paid off. The Ships Cantors; framer Castle, , and Thames, in corning down -last night, anchored in the Gull Strewn, where . they - now remain. SHEERNESS, JAN. 6. THIS day arrived His Majesty's Ship Oveusse/, of 64 - gthis,:;lrid Eugenie. Sloop,; of t 8 uns, from the Downs. - Yesterday a Court of . Direetors- was held at the East'lndia House, when Brigade-Major CUNNJ NG HAM, ,of the Royal East India Volunteers, was appointed Inspedor of Military Stores to the Com pany:. The ship Neptune, of t 200 tons, Captain MAT- Tligvcr SFENs, was taken up for China dire}. Captain ANDREW' HANNAY, Of - the Marquis Of Ely,. St. Helena and China, and CHARLE S E L TON PR ESCOTTi Of the Ainqvick Caitle, for MAdFas and China, took leave. • • Advises from Madras, sated t3eh*August,-state, that the DOver Castle, Asia, Cbarlon, Dltie of Montrose, Calcutta, Walpole, and Sir "Stephen Lush . vigton, were dispatched to Bengal the tith of that month. The Prince:: Charlotte and Lord Murlow arrived at Madras from England on that day. The ships Hindostan, Hope, Boddanz, and Ad miral Gardner, were to be dispatched on the 14th of August for China. The Earl Howe, outward bound, separated from the fleet on the 6th August, to proceed . ro B.engai. The. Prevon, Capt. IVIAIRttAy, and 'the Henry DleadaS, Capt. CARROTI-lERS, rounded the Cape Of Good Rope, outward_bound for. Bengal, on the isth of July, and got to St. Augustine's Bay on the 3d of,Augu-st, Thg Christmas Ball given by HER MAJESTY, last Friday at Windsor, was not merely for Children, bur most of the Nobility in the neighbourhood were invited. The Children l previous to' the dance, were shewn into a room, fitted up as a Fair, where there were several lots of toys, which were given away as presentsl Then followed the dance, and afterwards a supper. As soon as they were gone, ,there was a Ball for the Nobility. The %Wok was condpaed under the man.:igernent of the PRINCESS ELIZABETH. Mr. DAvlsoN, of 'St. James's square, gave a grand dinner yesterday to several Noblemen and Gentlemen.—Mr. NEPEAN and Mr. ANTROBUS' were of the .party. 'Yesterday - evening the usual Mails were made up at the General Post office, for Jamaica and the Leeward Islands,, and for New-York dire t. The Packets appointed to convoy them are the Peielope, Capt. WILSON, for the West Indies, and the Lady Arabella, Capt. PORTEUS, for America, both now at Falmouth. G YLDENP ALM, the Secretary to the gener a l Com, missariat of •Trade at Paris, is aga in appoi nte d Secretary of Legation to the - English Court, vice Von SCHALON. Mr. RANDLE JACI;SON has resigned his office of Advocate -General of Madras. ' • The lucrative , office of Payinauer'nf the S eamen a t the India-House, worth nor less than. socol. sol g iC il, i . t i e n d g f i ° t r t * o one a_year, has been very strongly f ir st; th—e were some thoughts of of the oldest Diredors ; next, it was intimated that a Gentleman in the Board of Controul Office would be glad of it. But it is now fixed that Mr. CHAT:, FIELD, the Deputy Paymaster, 'shall 'Ave the ap . pointment. , from Madras, with a valu3- . 4, , bl chaer : e a f ience on this great National the first ship returned out of sixteen er obje4t.. . . .. , . Letters were received last week over-land from Bombay, dated, at that Presidency on the zoth of August, which ,speak in confident terms of the death of the KING of CAB UL, who died early in the month of April, while on an Expedition to Can. dahar, TIMM ApDAL.LA possessed great dominions extending Westkvard to the neighbour. hood. of the City bf Tershish, including Pershore, Ghizni, Gaur, • Scistan and Korasan,"a- traet'not less than six hundred,. and fifty miles in length. • AHME D As nALLA, the father of the above, and founder of Candahar, was originally the Chief ()fan Afghan tribe named Abdal (whence the name Abdalla), .who was stript of his country by NA D I It, SH /VI, and' compelled to join the Persian army in 5739. On the death of NADIR, he suddenly appeared among his former sub_ je6tS, and erected for himself a considerable kingdom in the Eastern part of Persia, adding to it most of, the Provinces to the West of the Indus, which had been ceded by the MOCur, to NADIR. SHAH. It is stared that several Chiefs who composed ZEMALIft SHAH'S Army at the time of his•entering fiindostan, and were active in the subsequent undettaking against the Seiks at Lahore, had assembled at Candahar for the -purpose of assisting in a Revolution said to be in agitation. The King, some months .prior to his death, concluded a Treaty offensive and defensive with the'geik Govetnment. A Telescope, of the value of eleven thousand pounds sterling,'. has just been shipped in the River for the Royal ,Observatory at Madrid. It was made under the direCtion of Mr. HERktikLL,. and it fills so many packages 'as to freight the whole of a small ship. Another Telescope is also about to be com pleted. under *the same direaion, tor the . Academy of Sciences at St. Petersburgh. 'lt will cost about five thousand pounds. ' •- - kAn.eminent German Physician has discovered a new valuable property in the cow.pox... Some of those wlio•have been inoculated with it having been Afrerwgrds-attacked by the scartet fever, had it with circumstances of extraordinary mildness. PUBLIC :1770N CF LAW PROCEED/YG. IT has lately become a question, whether the p6b lication in NewspaPers- of the Proceedings of Courts of justice is sandioned, by the: Law--and whether such publication tends -to the benefit or the pejo.. diee of Society.—We shall.- conform to the deci. -sionSOf those whose peculiar prOyince it from their offi2ial situations, to Consider subjeds of alis nature but while The question is in agitation, we lcel it Or duty to make some remarks .upon it. The pure adminisrration of our LaWs 'has been al 'waYs•Considered as one of the most striking proofs ~of the excellence of our .Government. • It is' nfq re fleaion upon the judges of the Land•to sa that the publicity of all our Judicial Proceedings as tally contributed to proel uce this tired. Our .:' Courts. of Law are open, and any person May hear _what passes ;, and if any person may hear, can it be said that he may not communicate what he hear 4, :either verbally, or by writing.? This SUrelk- cannot ' be•maintained—lf ' the Law had forbidden - the pub lication of Law Reports, the decisions of important Cases,'Which very -:decisions. constitute, upon vari dus points, the Law• itself, could not have been • preserved ; for it is . nonsense to say, thata Report. ' of a Law Proceeding may be legally published in a Folio•Volutrie,'bu' t not in a Newspaper. • , But the more important point to be considered is, Whether these Publications tend to good ; , for if not, 'they ought certainly to be suppres3cd. Upon this view,of,the-subjea, it atiriears- to -us,- thak,if. the • publication be impartial; it must be tisefill•-•;-1t may be true that every person oug h t to k now the , pf his Country,• and in criminal' cases it is just. that • judges should aet upon this maxi m , but the. conti nual .- i nc re ase of, our-Statute Book, and the - constant.. Variation' which must be•made upon Subjeets of Ci il .Rights, from,thc . magpitudeand lure of the concerns of a great Commercial Coun try, mciers it almost impossible, .even for a Lawyer in great practice, to follow, accurately, ;ill the changes and- novelties which are introauced—and there are very few persons `put-of that prpfession, • who affeCt, .from Our I,aw Books, to be thoroughly acquainted with them. Wehave always consider- 1 ed the Reports of - Law CAses.a s • t h e y ar i se , 23 hi g hl l interesting tP, indiviclu.als„, because they furnish 4 knowledge which they have no other ready means* 'of acquiring;' 'and if these Reporti have premix! , 'gated the Law of the Land, 'which Cannot be doubt , •ed, they have been greatly useful- t o t h e C omm d.. na• • .._. y: It is 'Arue that tbis praCtiee of publishing dailY Law reports; 14-x-e,very other tending generally La good, may be abused, and we could point • out in stances in which we• think .it has sometimes been prejualeial. The publication of the examination; at EQW.street i - and-144 - -Other Polige.:o"ffices,. may pos4l4 2 _in spme,..instanev, 'prejudice agawst chose who are th e isu * .Sjed of those examiA , . nations; and in CicrirCases A 4ijury ,may be alone by publishing a part .only .of the judicial' proceeding'. The case of the 'Plaintiff frequently appears eery strong,' till it as answered by the -},defendant ; to die—farmer without the latter- would b; evidently tp .glye 4 false colour, and . would 13 $ # doiltfro.tS If:: o n this rtc& - Ctu' it he contended_ that . the Publisher authOrieLl'' or, licensc4 . by the ;Judge, thiswaulo be to. create a. - power, not Lnger,o,o t s . 'get-L.0 131 ' ly. in the • hanciS , of the present Judges, .b 4 which might, by• Other roil, and, in other' times, .b° cOnVerteirto 'the worst ofiurposes, and - renclei' wholesOnie-notoriety of. the Pralice and Decision; of our' onrts;'of The co/tea 5;0(0 mentOf the cvbol,e Caxe,- we Cannot think,:can sibly do harin.in any . instance ; and though we have, no. objeffion to 'any . reg,nlation (if anY such call bq tlevisc&consistently with .the liberty we now, -enjoy this:taped), yet we . trust we shall not see:thil useful species of Informa.tion suppressed„.the coal' munication of Which we are co,nfideni'has been, upon the whole, highly beneficial to the general.lnteroc, .ocSociety • t . The Puke of 'BE opoito, Lord PAGET, and LOO P JOHN THYN,Nk, have vebeen for some day s . orvaLviti; to Lord CHOLMONDELEY, at Boughtort. On Mop' day last these Noblemen, with four atiore in cool; pany, making eight shooters in all, went out, an' had the greatest day's sport that has ever beet ) known in Norfolk. They killed.altogether 1 6 i hares,' 42 pheasants, 5 rabbits, 2- woodcock s , an z partridges ; *and all this notwithstanding the ,woods had been beat five times.this season before. WILL of the late General BATIFURsT.—TIie 65 ' tate of Clarendon for life to his brother, and - the ° in fee to the second son of the late FELTON VEY, Esq. whose. Lady (Miss- ELWELL, now Mrs' FREMANTLE) was niece to the General : the estate at Lainston to the elder`-son of Mr. FELTON HMV 'YEY ; about i 2,0001. in legacies ; the residue of hi s ;personal,: property, one-third.. to Sir JOHN lVfoly sHiAri, one-third to ,the children of:.Mr..ALO, THISTLETHWAYTE, and one-third to the ehildre' of Mr. FELTON HARVEY . : it is calculated thes e / legacies will amount to about zo i oool. each. TWELFTH NI G HT.—The - City was far m o te splendid last flight in :the - exhibition of Twelft h Cakes, than the West End of the Town: tiircti in Cornhill shone particularly 'resplendent.., I the back of the shop appeared a, beautiful' - tra r r s sparency from Shakespeare's MidsuMmer Dream, representing the King and Oneen enthrone` ; ', attended by courtiers. In the f oreg io un d. a dressed clOwn was on the bended knee, in the ae, l % . pretenting an e n o rmous twe lf t h ca k e covere d devices applicable to the subject. In the f Ol. of the shop was a long range of frarne.svotl ct c : about three feet high, rep re senting the attepa°, consequences of Peace, with.nidallions of the 1 0 % and. Bonaparte. On th e r i g h t s id e a pp eare d t` l 3 British Flag, and u n d er , a me d a lli on w i t h t h e %07r " Hawkesbury." On the •,left side, the Tri - - c f loured Flag and " Otto." The cake s w ere. t i' vered with swans, &c.—Crowds of people asserab' c early in the forenoon, to view this exhibition:" • . The Good Intent, .Salter, from Petersburg 0 ~ Lisbon, is, lost on the coast of flolland. The. Jupiter, froth Hamburg 'for Ants . v .-011?' is Lost on the coast of Holland. TO THE .EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR, A Zit-Agra - ph appeared. in yOur F`aper,of Thursday. last, statitt the relative Proportions of the Pay ,1-ialf-pay must have been meant) of the Army arid Navy to be.as•follows ; • • Per - Day. Rank with Army. Per Deli , . •s. d. s et. .tieutenant -- r - 3 o - - • 5 6 Commanders = - 6 e n4jors - • 7 .• 6 Post Captains, uncle; 3 yrs A o Lieutenant-Colonels 9 6 Post Captains, af tek dito 6 b- Colonels - o .Nu~y.. 7,chi Statement ,is. s erroneous in almost every ,par ticnlar, and, Oiould ' therefore he coi-reded. The relative proportion of the - Half:pay in 'the Army .and .Na v 101 . oty . s : Per Pay. . Ar my . - :.- Pe Day.. 1. s. d. . . I. s.- d. Admirals - ---1 is o General, ' No! -pity Vice-Admirals - I 5 d Lieut t -General? li for these Rear-ar-Achni; - als ' - o 17 6 MajOr-aenerat ) 'Ranks. Post Captains (30 of the . oldest) -•- aro o Colonels - Ditto, the next 5o - o 3 o Lieut:-Colonels .Ditto, the rest -' a 6 o __ Commanders - - - Navy. - 0 12 0 - 0 86 o 6 o Majors - o 7 6 ? Capt.-Lieutenants o 3 o o 3 or Lica. in the Guards ) Captains - S ° 5 ° Lieutenants The obvious •tendency of the statement now car. -reaed, - is to sheW that' the Half-pay of the Navy is too small, comparing it ''with' the corresPonding Rank in the Army. .That it may be too small, I, shall admit. That it may become more, I wish. But that they haye a greater claim to it th'an the Army, from acompariSon of .the Half:pay allotted to the respective-Ranks in both Services, and other ciectonitances, I,deny.„ To .notice only .the first and most prominent Rank pointed out in the State- Anent-alluded to, vii. that of Lieutenant in the Navy, and Captain in the Army : I believe I am . not very incorrca in saying, that when the rank of Captain in the Army was given to Lieutenants in' the . 1 4 .1‘i vy, whenaCting 'ashore with the Army, i(was intended, in rtse(l, as a Mark of -favour and encouragement, not as a plea for eXpeaing likewise the Half-pay of a Captain in the Army, without considering the great difference in the chance of Prize-money, and in expence attending the services. of these two class of Officers, from their nature, or the lengthOf time by .which they are. usually ac, quired (putting purchase out of the question), and judging of their acquisition , b,` , service alone, which is the only fair cri t eri on to j u d ge b y . Thi s w ill be evident from the length of service requisite: to acquire rank if the Artillery, 'Engineer, and Ma rine Forces, where service alone can procure it. The commission of a Lieutenant in the Navy is his fist in the Service, frotti' the situation of Mid: Shipman corresponding with of Volunteer or Cadet in - the Army. A Captain in the Army has the previous CoMmissions of Ensign, or..zd Lieute nant, Lieutenant, and Captain,Lieutenant, to serve for, before acquiring the rank of captain.—Lieute /tants of . the Guards and Captain-Lieotenants of the Army have; like the Lieutenants of the Navy, the rank of .Captain in the Army, but they have not on that account the Ualf.pay of Captains in the Army : the conclusion' is obvious.- I do not'mean to infer from this, that the Half_ pay of the Navy . 'should not be augmented. The great increase in the expence of every necessary of life, renders such a measure only just and proper ; but I would not have it brought about at the expellee of another Service equally- meritorious, and no less needful of it, .by holding out that Service 'as already provided for in a more ample manner than the Navy—this too, by an inaccurate anti unfair com:. parative Statement of the'Half.pay of their respec live Ranks, as they stand, at present. . •- Your oot to is f( Solem ?nis dicerefaltum audeat e' Presuming that your impartiality i s equal t o y our truth, I have no doubt of yourgiving thisa place in Your Paper, and thus afford me 'an opportunity of being correaed, if I am wrong. Dec. 30. VERUS. THE SUN. 111,LIM QUIS DICIRI ALcum Ar:DlAr?