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GERAIAN PAPERS. EiRO3I THE CORRESPONDENT, OCT. 16.1 In reading the Proclamations of the Russian Governors, the, burlesque prayers of their Golden. Mouth (Chrys6ston), and the details of all the snperstitious ceremonies with which they endea vour to indame.the fanaticism of the people, we recollect they employed .the - same means when Charles XII. who would have overthrown the throne of the Czars, had he possessed as much foresight and bravery as courge, when he con tended with an handful of Europeans against the united forces of their empire. The modern.farce of St. Sirge, and of the workers of miracles, may be compared to the ancient comeq of St. Nicho las. Voltaire has transmitted to ns the public prayers which they addressed to the patron of Russia, after the battle of Narva. :—" 0 thou, who art our perpetual comforter in all our adver sities, great St. Nicholas, infinitely - powerful, by, what sins Inive e' o Lieu ,16.1 thee in (stir sacrifices, genuflexions, reverences, and thanksgivings, that thou bast thus abandoned us ? We 'lave im plored thy assistance against these terrible, in solent,,,enraged, dreadful, untameable destroyers, who (like lions and bears who have lost their young) have attacked, terrified, wounded, and slain by thousands, us who are thy people. As it is impossible this could have happened without sorcery and enchantment, we supplicate thee, 0 great St. Nicholas, to be our champion anctstan - dard hearer, to deliver us from this crowd of sor cerers,•and to drive them far from our frontiers, vtith that recompence which.is their due. In comparing this prayer with the' letter which the Archbishop of Moscow addressed to the-Em peror, in sending him the image of St. Sirge, we must confess that reason has made little progress among the Russians. ' • 'ln place . of defending the New Jerusalem, the R‘bsians burned it ; andßastopehin, whose name will be ever detested, has not feared to avow the death of 30,000, of his countrymen, who were wounded in the field of honour. '116.e is in that crime a character of ferocity at which the imagi nation revolts. rrlie savages inhabiting t4e Aluerican forests burn their enemies, but they Will. never deliVer to tin. flames their own warriors. It is reserved fora RUSSiatI. to . give the 'World the first s example of so foul a deed. • Let us.suppose for an instant that victory could have been unfaithful to the courage of our Soldiers, and the genius of their august chief,' and - we Shill do ourselves a violence in considering the misfor-; tunes. to which Lurope would have become the prey. What massacres ! what ravages ! what fires ! what excesses of every kind would not the barbarians have committed, who destroy their own country, who set their houses and cities on fire when tl•ey dare no longer defend, them .! Wl.at rivers of blood would have .been spilt in Vienna, Warsaw, Berlin, or. Paris, by the man who could set MoScow on fire ; burn thirty thou sand of the bravest soldiers of his master,woundcd in battles for their defenCe; and exposed to ruin, without any necessity, a population of 300,000 souls. Thanks to the progress of understanding, thanks to the great genius who governs us, and with us defends the great family of civilized nu-. tions. The devastating torrent is arrested in its course, and wilt no more pass the boundary erect ed by victory. Yes, we repeat— it, Europe is eared.. Never was victory more glorious or more useful. Never did nations "owe greater thanks givings to the Eternal Arbitraror of destinies. EXTRACT OF A PRIVATE LETTER FROM MOSCOW, DATED SEPT. 17. "I seize th 3 first moment of tranquility, from tile scene of 'desolation, of which I have at the same time been the witness and victim, to write to you.. ; - - " Established for, 20::yeats in Russia, I had, like all foreigners, who are neither musicians nor dancers, nor men millinees, nor teachers of lan •guages, sufferod . all. the effects of the jealous, overbearing,. interested character, of the Rnssian merchants. But althotigh frequently robbed by fraudulent debtors, despoiled by speculators, over reached by attornies, .1 had succeeded in forming a solid house, and amassing a dcctnt fortune; alas ! the fruits of twentyyears labours have been lost in, an hour—the incendiarieS have destroyed • the , greater.part of my warehouSes„ and 1 should •w ‘ ith , my family Inive found thyself :\i'lthelit an home,,without.asylum, if the Fren'eli troops had, not arrested the progress of the 'flames which_ threatened my house. The ferocious -joy with `Which_men having nothing to lose, set fire to-the 'Gernfan SlObode, which was. to Moscow what the 'suburb - St. • Antoine is to Paris, did not appear -wonderful 'to those who knew the hatred with which every .Russian is animated against those • foreigners to whom Russia owes her rough zatiOn. But will it be believed that these incen diaries evincedulmost the:same pleasure in burn ing the houses of: their own conlitrynacir ? This fact, of which I was a witness, may perhaps;be 'explained, by adulating that those who burned Moscow were sure of riot being blamed fOr,it at St. Petersburgh. . "*For a length of time, 1 have observed the symptoms of that envious ,rivalship which existed between the old and new capital of the Empire: • . Moscow, rather anAsiatielhan Eliropean city, preserved the principles of barbarity and ferocity,. which have tilled the history of: ilassia with so many bloody'deeds. It was at Moscow where all those ancient families collected, who have always' a dislike to the reigning ; it was there that all courtiers in disgrace threw them _ selves' into the arms 'of the discontented . ; it was there that tho;e Conspiracies were .forined:ydlich so frequently precipitated the Sovereig4 of Rus sia from their thrones. .. _ . " Without the antipathy. -of the greater 'part :of the inen - in place arid Twerp the frightful pro jeet. of burn big. that commercial and inannfactuir;- :: ing city, containing . 300,000 inlnibitants, tvoniti :never have bi.! - en 'thought of. But if any intrig - rier has been 'able to make:the Court of Petersburgh • believe, that by. burning - the be, - it, city in the em pire, they Would demonstrate that that city was winecessarl to the prosiTerity c.. the state, an it ~~i LONDON: I'rmted by '1'11()M kti WOOD, 'of Irv. 35, M"Lidertliane, Livei,t-gamen: '11) :41,171.11e SUN . OkVICE, No. 112, itrant', wlatue Advertisements, Orders fu . . ItaVing'''.nilssed . Way,. he ridl hr9n:l,l:t'intu some house by a man, vim had promised to ac-= - •company him after -partaking of some refresh ments, and, Who, in probability, : had taken away the sheet and dropped it near Inin, the rest being a fabrication. The Jury found him gitiltij, and it turned out afterwards that -he was blind of oiie eye' 'only, and that he could see perfectly well - With the other. Several miller. unimportant eases vPere -tried, - hardly , 7orth mentioning. • The followingwere convicted of felony, Lydia Nunnely and Ann llaslain, fot stealing quantity of silk handkerchiefs, the, property of Jeremiah Beach ;' Caroline Marshall, for stealing apron,,, 8:c. the property of Sraa;t Layton ; Ileary Chapman. for stealing two bearf.r hats, the ,property of Thomas Hogg ; Daniel licardoq, iod stealing a pair of half-boots, the property of John Gibbons:; 1, illiani Janniugs, for stealing goods- value 9s.' Gd: the property. of William Davis; George Barber, for kealiiig a haiiker , chief, the property of - Edward Macda\vall, jun.; Marraret j(irk ; and Eleanor Bryan, for steal iiq goods and Bank notes, valtie 2s. 9d: the-property of Frederiek from, 'his. Jierson ; Patrick St. .Ledger, .for stealing a quantity of canvass Of I:trillium Neale, and William Brice, for receiving the same, knowing it to have been-. stolen ,Mary Lewis, for stealing a shift and petticoat, the property Of Patrick crane; John flopley, for-coining the . current .copper coin of this realm called halfpence ; John-Hyde, for steal ing seven pounds weight of tobacco, the property of hiS Majesty ; James Hankinson, for embezzling divers tuns of money, the ; property of his em plOyers, Messrs. - Hale acid Co. ‘Three Were Convicted of MisdemcTuors; Wood, •fo- , : obtai;-,ing gc.y)ds ness - c , •7. Poyndcr -and Hobson, by false pretences; 1M1:11.7 . Black, for perjury ; ,and Tho Mas Rusteli, for ob taining goods under false pretences. • MIDDLESEX' SPECIAL SESSIONS, , it.wl 7 '. J. A 'Special Court was held this day, pursuant to appointment, ~hen Mr. GURNEY, on the, part of the parishioners and inhabitants of the Liberty of Saffron-hill, ap pealed figainst the accounts of expenditure by their Overseer. The recital of the facts watt most er.traDrdinary, and 'the cause of complaints altogether was most singular ; stiffice it to say, that' the person, in his capacity of overseer, had surcharged the district with 247/. in a few months, ii•hih he this day did'not satisfactorily, account for. - The Court unanimously ordered that be should refund the same, and that he should pay the costs attending this application. • insion so StrAngd will soon be dirsiptited, *lien the ruin of the Moscow merchants is followed by that of all the cointnercial places in Russia. " Some people assert that they saw among the incendiaries a certtlin number. of Cossacks. The hatred of that nation against the city of Moscow: in particular, is well known to'. all .travellers. — Some 'Englisly travellers, who, in 1802, I.Vent through the Cossack country in c.. t rriages made at Moscow, were saluted- with the cry of " Mos hoglee Canqille," Canaille de Illocow. _We are evert assured that many hordes of Cossack ; s have returned to. their. homeS laden' with ..hoots they took from the unfortunate. inhabitants of , MOs cow. That which is most temarkOle h. 4, that the evening previous to the arrival of the French; the .peopla of Moscow still bEilievedlite Ittissians vic torious. The'Governor had inspired siren terror, that Whoever would have dared to expresoa doubt 'on this subject, would have been given up to the fury of the people. A rich Jew banker, who de manded a passport to proceed ',to Twer with his most precious effects, was, dragged to prison amidst the hisses of a ferocious multitude." • OLD BAILEY. fi 'ITItSDAY, NOV. 5. John .I.:binsoit was indicted for burglariously en tering a dwelling-house in Camden-toWn, and stealing therefrom a large copper vessel and some linen. It happened that on the morning after the robbery, a person who was - making hay, beard a strange noise • behind a hedge near him, and was tempted to see from whence .it proceeded, when he discoveredlhe prisoner breaking to pieces a copper vessel with a hatchet. The top 61 the vessel, and some linen, were lying on-the ground near libn. 'rhe man's. suspicions were innnedi_z.ly raised, and he told the-.prisoner, that„ be beiieved he had:not come - honestly by those 'goods, and that, in 'consequence he should; ,o with Upon which the prisonerdropt the hatchzt. 'and leaving all the alqicles behind him, ran away as• fast as he could. The haymaker, however, nr sned, and succeeded in sechring him, when the prisoner begged hard to be let loose, saying, that he had a wife and family, and that he 4.1 - 1 - ew'lre Would be hanged or transported. • prosecutor and his wife proVed the ,arti cles to he tlicir'propttv, and the . Jury found the prisoner Guilty .of stealing, but..nOt of the bur glary, Esther Dodd 'was indicted for -stealing a gold watch, the property of John Dempster, in hiS dwelling-house -It appeared by the evidence of the prosecutor, that the• prisoner had been a lodger in the . house where he and his mother lived, but was alloWed to come familiarly into their apartments. On the Ist: of October, his mother fell dangerouslyill„ and : died on the 3d. He went to an undertaker to proVide for her funeral, and on his retnrn, - missed his watch, which he had left in his room. A nurse, who attended. the sick lady,• proved her having found the prisoner in the room.where the watch had heen left. She said she. had come for some hot water to mei; a ikez....elf some tea; lrich the witness gave her, and shortly after missed the watch ; sho told the circumstance to the.prose, cutor, who happened to come in that instant with the undertaker. • • A woman proved that the prisoner had i prevailed on her to pawn the watch, which she said she had received as a remuneration for her trouble in at tending a dying lady. • The pawnbroker's ticket , vas produced,' as also the watchi'which was 'identified by the prosecu tor, and the prisoner Wag folladgUitti7o , John Marriot ,and George Lee, were indicted fOr feloniously and btirglaricoisly forcing and entering" the dwelling house of Richard. George, and,steal ing therefrom - - severatarticies, his property., Mr. Richard George, butcher, ,Great, Chapel-: street, Soho, stated, that on Sunday, the 18th. of October; he ha , l gone to church with'his family, and, on, his return, found-that, his house had been broken open, his chest . of drawer& attempted to he -broken,'and the handles wrenched ; several arti ,cles of his property were thisplaeed, as if 'preparing to -he conveyed away. William Locke; , who' had been left in care of the house, had heard some' piople knock - at the door, on which he-looked out of the windo* sa Marriot and another man standing at the dtmr, who immediately ran away down Chapei-street. Shortly after 'he- was alarmed by the noise of a key being put in the lock of .the street dbor ; he was greatly alarmed and went into the Shop, Where he found several articles, tkie property of his master, taken froM their usual places ; almost at the same moment he saw two men rush out of the parlour; open the street-door, and run away ; he pursued--,-nev6k hySt sight of Narriot, and se cured him ; his, companion escaped. On Mar. , riot were found several skeleton, keys. A man identified. the person of Eee as the man who was-running with Mai riot. Lee was acquitted totally ; and Marriot was ac quitted of the binglary, the actual stealing, which is necessary,t6.,ol4titute . a_ burglary in the day time, not being sufficiently proVed against 'him-; but he was ,detained to .be tried at' the next Quar ter ,Sessions„ for the forcible entry, as a misde meanor, acid - the parties hound over to prosecute. William.Kerilr, a man apparently blind,•was dieted for stealing a 'sheet and three caips, in the dwelling-house,of,John Singers. The prosecutor stated, that,he kept a lodging house, -and that the prisoner came one evening to his house wills one of his female lodgers,. of whom he supposed he was an acquaintance. Onhis go- ink; out,' the witness's daughter perceived a part of the sheet hanging from under hii Waistcoat, and challenged him with the tl:eft ; aipon which prisoner knocked her down; and ran away ! Witness, however, pursued kits, and, after sonic trouble, carne. up with him, when prisoner brew the sheet from about his waist, and iris it- into witness's face, making use of most infaro.:.)u!) . lan guage. .The prosecutor's daughter corroborated this tes timony. • • • Th e - prisoner put . in a.writien deft:nee, prOtest ing his innocenee,,,, saying, that he liad . loSt' his sight in Egypt, where lie had served, and that BIRTHS. )111 . ,11614A .by NVILLIAM..ARMI4 SCILIPPS, Soutk :11,01ton-street, Grosvenor-equate,lr. the Paper, Ltaers for the Editor, Vic. (post must be addressed. On the 2d..in3t. Mrs. Bon'4es, the Laily of Meyrickßanlies, of•Nlin3tatiley4iall, i.aacashire, of a 50,.. Ou the ,3d. iu t. in Dee:tidy-square, tho Hon. Mrs. Law rence. Sulivan, of a Son. M ACRIED. On ,Wecluesdav laSt, at Woking-, "near -.Guildford, Thomas • :Charlez Flornyoid, of Ilaule.y CasV.e, r.sq...son of. Thomas 1-11rnyold,.of tla;..lEmore Park; in the County of Worcester, Esq. to 'Miss Bridg,et Y . :au Weston, yonogest. - daughter of John Web.he Weston, of Sutton-place, in the Cki6nty of Sur 7Yesteillv, at Mary-le-bone Church, Mr. Kynaston Moody, of_Pall-Mail, to Misilvapirv, of the same street.. On Friday last, at .Nottim7liam, Charlotte Octavio, daugh ter of ± . ..d‘.yard Swaau,..Esq Mayor, to Mr. Alfred Lowe. DEED, • • On :Sunday, at Kennington, Mr. Watson, of the Borough, aged 6•2 years. _ On Tugs ::y last, in the 68th year of her age,:Henrietta , . wife of William Orme, Esq. of Dulwich Ciumon. Yesterdq morning, at Woodford, Mr. Edmund Godsell, Lower.Thaines-street. - • HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-\IORItOW• Morning, 56 - minutes after 3. I Evening, 13 n►inutes after .4' 1 t i. POLICE. MANslcg-go,usE.—,—Yesterday, Soleinton , Solo mons, who some days since. underwent an exan& nation befog:? the LORD charged with having taken a 5a note in trade, which had been stolen from the banking-house of Robarts andto. It appeared that the note was, traced to Solo mons. Mr. Robarts attended with his' Attor ney, - who, asked Solomons many, questions, but his', answers . w ere I very unsatisfactory. He' Was attended by his Solicitor, who told the Loan MAyoii that hiS client had received the note in course of business; and had no right to remember whom lie had taken it from, as it was a good note. This, his Lordship said,,:_was not doing business like a tradesman, and he ought to lose the note .for his carelesness„ if he could not find the - person .from whom he took' it, and should make no order for its„being, returned. Soloinons said he should immediately SO for it. Two- men of the names of. 611P/is and Phillips, were charged by two of the dity, Patroles, as pickpockets,. and .ere remanded for'fiirthe'c exa mination. • GuiLDnALt..Drinkttater,the officer, brought per Son of the niu4e of: jeuilaws'bef6re the Sitting Alderman, on a charge of having in his possession a number of st:ani notes, made in . imitation of Bank Notes. The.'officer knowing the piisoner to be a person who had been: accuStoined to 'deal is .such articles, and seeing him - go into the Pitt's Head, in Fleet-street, thought., it his duty to watch him, and also to put the landlOrd on his guard, against imposture. He saw the prisoner, while ia , the public,house, take out his pocket-.! book, and look over a number Of. notet which lie had there deposited.' • He selected one, which he gaVe to the* landlord, and which proved to he a real note. The -officer,._ however, searched hiM,, and, in his'pockt , t4)ook, a number of notes were found, all of which were discovered to. be sham or' Fleet note's. • A person who attjided as Attorney for the Prisoner, contended : that 'there was no crime in tbeprisoner or any other man, having s telt notes in-his possession. Mr. Fitzpatrick, the clerk, said, by an Act passed in the htst Session of Parliament, thiS was made an offence punishable. by tranSportation. The prisoner Wll6 ordered to be rciianded till to-moi.row. Bow-sTREi7.- 7 -Yesterday 'Charles Matthews, a eharaeter, was brought 'before Mr. Biamt, the Sitting Magistrate, .cha*d being a rogueitnd vagabond: . L4cl,.the pate oi:, stated, that he Was passing through Lan -acre, on Wednes.day •alrout eleven o'clock,' when he met the prisoner and another man, whom. he . kiww to - he thieves 5 he pulled." his hat. -over Lis Ace, and other Wise disghised himself and followed He heard one .of them say to the - :other ; 'we must make haste,,hrtha house-will be over; tlean• - t;ovent , -garden Theatre. They proceeeed to the Bow-street entrance of Covent-garden Pleatre, where filid in g the doors closed, they proceeded speed towards Pruty-lane Theatre, and wen they got to Brydges-street entrance the chilliany wa just beginning to conic' out, he heard.ofe of the thieve's say to the hater, " if Lack is liwe (mean-' ing the witness) be will know me," aid they s e w prated, he' continuing to keep his eyo. and a close watch on the prisoner. He observed sins attempt to rob several gentltitnPli; `a:•zi si -- :Tds,b2 - g• be is I,;(..ked the'pocket of an old ( - ;entleinap, The prisoner regpesteLf kiln to let him go, as:ktiirig him there vva3 . done, an:? it be no good to the On searubig hinii a rair of sek , _:ars foiled of him, which no doubt. Were uscd to cot pecker..' • The prioner, td his own-statemE‘nt, could not give any aerotwt how he bad got his living since last August. Mr. pinNik. convicted the prisoner as a rogue and vagaboA. HALL.-eltaries hreniy White , l Lirfinp.:ht before:T. - EVANCE, Eq. on an informa -1 • tion charging hint with being concerned in oarry- Ling on a private still. it appeared from the state ,melt of A . V - ells, an Excise 0111,:xr,,fliat having ref information that a private stilt , vrai at work': on the pvtimise.s, he Went to a house- called iington 'Cottage,. on .the Ilandsworth road, conip.Anied-- t:itark, an(4.her Excise: Officer, 1 - where iaa back'robrn they found a stiii,, ahOut 1.00 gallons of wash in a state of fecruentation, and lour e - itilons of spirits.. The defeioant and his wife wet at dinner in an add' ining rootn, and I a nettle of spirits, -similar to that in the still-room ; was found there—there ;:sere no other persons oa -the pre mixes, except an infant child. . . - defenktnt denied having anyknovViedge of the still, and said he was OA the,premikes.for tint putpose ofpainting tits douse. Httwas convicted in the penalty of 36!)._ and costs. • ITArroN' -GARDEN.--- I Yestei-day . Jane Gray and 'Mary mother. datiL4liter, sere ante in the CI - tarter-House,' were "charged . at this Office 'with robbinT Charter-J.:louse of a quantityof book, table and ;.it`' er linen, - with knives and fOrks,.l2,:c. the propci;ty of the InstitiftiOn.• •A quantity of the•goods was found upon the prisoners, together with a number of. duplicates; of various articles promed, some of :which have been traced to the 'pawnbrokers, Und others are expected so to be. The prioners Were . remanded for farthei:exa mination on A future . day. Fifteen licenses have been obtained troin France, allowing the import4tion of cottoil Italy. The ships - . Rados :and Lord Keith were spoken with °if Cape. le.Galles on the Ist of August; on their voyage to India, all well. CORONER'S IsauESTs.----An Ingnest was held on Wednesday laSt at Homerton,- on the body of Sarah Lecnard. The deceased : was the wife of a. gardener, and, it. appeared, had been sAject to tits of.mental derawy t' cruent. , She left ber...no.• on the morning of the 3d instant, and , wandered into the fields and marshes. Th,e nezt day she .VV4:4 found drowned in the River Lea, where her body was first discovered by some. Wrgemen.-- Ncrdict, Found firowned. Other Inquest:was held on the same ev . u;ng, at the Marquis of Granby,' Viliiers,-street, in the. Strand, on the body of --- Greenwood, a tailor, residing in Carnaby-street, Carnaby,market. ;Ippeal.ed that the:deceased had left his home, and been absent for two days, and . , ..on the evening . Of Tuesday last, he came to the above public-boas:.!, where be fen into company_witli a Curpcnal Jeii kins, a Recruiting Officer of the East India Com pany's service, by whom he was at the.same tine enlisted , 'Others joining in company, they'drinik.. very freely, whin the deceased : became, much in toxicated,' and was 'put to bed in a garret, the Oar of which was locked upon him. In the course of the night he got, out of a three-pair-uf stairs window, and scrambled along the roof, as a person in 'another house' beard him, and 'sever:U loOSe bricks falling, in Consequenee of his. hOldjUL; 1..; them. Whether he fell from the roof; or con trived to slide- claWn by means of leaden pipe.% conimunicating, or by what process he descended is uncertain. The next morning, between three and four o'clock, a cry of f.`.Murder !".-waS hea.rd in the Griffin, .Coffee..-house, in the passage of which the deetased was found lying. When asked how - he came there, h said it was the d---d , watchman who brought him. complained . of feeling extremely ill,' and was laid by the fire side till eight o'clock, when he was -carried baa, the - Marquis of Granby, and put to bed. He ex pired about ten o'clock, but no external,"mar!i, though several bruises appeared) could justify the supposition thathehad fallen from the top of ti r house.—Verdict, Vied from the,,Vects 4t, cation. * . " Last week a Midshipman,, in passing thou it Ca:bridge; stopped at the Pit:herd to tale son refreshment., when. he inadvertently disco- Vered to the company bejoined, that he butt 451. shout him. On.quitting the house in the evening, having to cross a hridge, he was there attacked-by six felbws, who cut oil his pockets, and endea voured to thrOw hi-mover into the river ; . he, how ever; Ciug to the battlements, until one; of the :fellows with a stick struck his angers so hard that he let go his hold ; being it r,witainer, he made for strirn , ,t,stel.?s nigh at band,—,,vhich the ruffians ob serving, ran to rneet-hini; and plunged him back' into the- Water: he then swam to a ne3,glllJouril sluice, and made his escape.---I , 'our of the men are already in custody. .