The Sun. — London, England, 1812-11-05 00:00:00

thi - oki‘ni..§ i . ;T IRAN CE. . The recent events. In .Paris give 'a. new interest to all inforTi:ljon respecting the -sources of dis 7 content in the french empire. - T he following clOcument, though of s.;nie standing, Wirt threw much light on this important subject.. It touches on two great causes of complaint ; the one of an. ecclesiastical, the other of a financial nature. Buonaparte's disputet with the Rope were buried in considerable obscurity : we only kneW in gene ral, that his holiness continued firm is his deter urination to'resist,complini!ce with the mandates of his Lay master, and that a considerable schism in the Gallican Church was the consequence. In like manner, it became difficult, to 'penetrate the raystery of ibe. Reports on the French Finances. They exhibited a 'labyrinth of calculations, and great apparent contradiction in their resnits.• On both these subjects the subjoined statements will be found tolerably distinct and intelligible, and vire. have reason to be fully satisfied of their au thenticity. • OFFICIAL REPORT FROM PARIS, SUBJOINED TO A DISPATCH OF ******, TRANSMITTED FROM ******, 1811 :- • ,Since the union ofßome to the French Empire, all the fruits of the Concendat have been lost. In spite of the care taken by Government to keep the secret, yet, in-the course of dine, the details of this event have made their Nvay into the provinces. At length, the departments of the west, of Belgium, and of the south, became acquainted, thaethe Pope, torn from his palace ; transferred to different places, and lastly, guarded with strictness at Savona, op posed an invincible resistance to all the changes effected by the Emperor, and obstinately refnsed canonical, institution to the Bishops recently ap-. pointed.; Prom that time consciences have begun. to be-troubled. In Poitou, in a part of Brittany; of Maine and Anjou, and, especially, wherever the war ot La Vendee has left traces and recollect Lions, a species of schism has arisen. The cowl ' lry.people would no;longer acknowledge the priests who were shut to them ; they even insulted them in the churches. The Government believed that the ancient chiefs of La Vendee spread this spirit of revolt, and banished them from their native • laud. Madame De -la Roche Jaquelin has been exiled to Grenoble. TheDolbees, the Beauehamps, and the Beakinionts, have been compelled to quit 'the country ; which is not, however, on that ac . count, more quiet or contented. In Beighirn the priests themselves, have excited the greatest opposition: At Raremond, at Massayk, at Tirle mont, and in every part of the_ country, they have refused to repeat the prayers for the Emperor.--- In many places it was necessary to employ force, and arrest a great number of ecclesiastics - . The' public mind has become dissaffected ; and from Luxemburg to Antwerp the people shew a disposi 7 , tion- adverse to Government. Things were in this state when an.unforeseen evert augmented the fer • mentation. Cardinal Fesch, not chbosing to cept the Archbishopric of Paris, because he was canonically instituted to that of Lyons, and was certain, he should not he so to the former See, -the Emperor nominated .Cardinal Maury ; and at the same time named the Bishop of Rennes to the ArchbishopricofFlorence,andtheßishop of NanteS, M.Duvoisin, to the Archbishopric of Aix. The Pope • not only refused to grant canonical investiture, but he also fulminated a, Bull 'against M. d'Os . mond, which contained the most hilarious ex 7 press;hns 'against the Emperor. It was not difficult to circulate this Bull amongst those priests who were attached to the Pope. The Bishop of Nantes, esteemed as the light of the Gallican church, refused to quit his 'see; and the Emperor's &unless gave way to that of a-Bishop. M.Duvoisin maintained a guarded silence ; but M. D'Osinond. and Cardinal • Maury having accepted their nothinations, there was a great sensation in the Chapter of _Parg, The Abbe d'Astres, Vicar-General, having a copy of the Bull, communicated .it to several of his brethren, M. de Portalis, son of the ancient Minister of Public Winship, Counsellor of State, and Director ot the Library, learned that the Bull was in the hands Of,M. d'Astres, hi: near relation; -it is even said that it was read at his house before' seven. or eight persons. 'Portalis, a man weak, • . pious, • and attachedcto religion, did not dare to • inform the Emperor; of that circumstance. The pc Nice was acquainted with the circulatibn of the Bull, by the whispers of the priests ; and the Ern - peror, furious at the conduct of Portalis, after' having treated the Abbe d'Astres very harshly; on New Year's Day, before the Chapter, and before 800 persons, caused him 'to be arrested, and con veyed to Vincennes. Portalis, treated still worse before the Council of State, was exiled to the dis tance of 40 leagues from Paris ; his secretary, the. Abbe Guerard, was arrested ; and' the Abbe Tournefort, his relation, met with the same rigour. Other well-known priests are cited, as well as. M. De Mons, Bishop of Pay; in the south of, France.. Cardinal de Pietro, ancient Secretary bf the Briefs, and exiled -to Dijon, ,was brought to Paris by the gees (Parities, and interrogated by the Police. In a word, to complete this sort of revolution, the Emper or has appointed to the direction of the li brary M. de Pommereuil, who makes a profession of Atheism, and who detests the religion of Christ; • otherwise, a man of spirit and resolation e a good minister, a former General of Artillery, very ac tive and adroit; but no more restrained by • moral than by' religious scruples. 'lt is im possible. to express the astonishment caused by such a choice. It 'announced a complete :re action. Persons who are attached to refl.— gion, and their number is very great, elc-, pect4ieW persecutions . Already several females Of illustrious name, amongst oth'ers Madame De Sayecourt, are exiled. It' is asserted that the Abbe d'Astres will be brought to a trial. The ge neral result of this. affair must necessarily render More perplexed and difficult, the circumstances in Which Government finds itself relatively, to the priests, and to twenty-eight millions of Catholic'. The affair is still more serious; as the Protestant`.; of Languedoc and Alsace,' on various accounts, are almost equally discontented. The Pastor o • Militiamen has been arrested, on the deni:Jul. Of the Prefect of the Higher Rhine. The eireitia tion of several documents, which were pubilsifed in Alsace, on the subject of Church mattersOnts i beeJ. dso stopped. In a word, if • these general eeee edispositiOns of abnost the whole population of "Pj France—more ardent and seditious in one district, than anotbfr; but equally pervading,cvety part- 7 - are not the .sourei. , , i)f. imminent peril, it Is; ~at least, cert..;.in, that they greatly embarrasri qnVern ment; and Considerably increase.the diffictiltielejf raising the imposts and ,conscriptions ; and they mist be regarded as the causes, More o 1 less dis tant, of agitation and debility. I , The situation of commerce and of th , e . litnces is the secoridobject which at present,gives Mica siness to Government. _ It is possible„ that the , violent ineaSures lately taken against the English commerce may hereafter lead to its•destruction ; but it is certain, that at . this moment tiny effect the ruin of that of France, The shock which has distressed the principal 'places of Germany; and of the North, has been felt at Paris much inure than 'was expected. To prevent the disasters Which would have crushed the first houses of the capital, Government has lent 1,500,000 francs to Jouston Ravel, who was on the eve .of suspend ing his payments. It has destined ten millions to sustain the wholesale commerce of grocery, which is principally founded on.colonial commodities.-- These , measures have retarded the crisis ; but the evil is the same at botom; because Government is inexorable when itdemands repayment ; and be cause commerce has no longer its old meanS of profit and reproduction : therefore, the efficient houses, which are liable to withstand the pressUre of the- times, pay their debts and leave off busi ness. The others struggle, only to prolong their agonies. _ The Emperor holds a Council of Commerce every week 5 . but the fiscal system, which always . prevails in it, prevents every hope of amelioratiLn in future. Thus all improvement of the State is postponed till the epocha of a maritiine peace. Iti4 - ,be mean time, several manufacturing- cities, such as Lille and Rouen, still maintain their con sequence ; but the great maritime cities, such as Bourdeaux; Marseilles, and Nantes, have lost' the third of their population, and the discontent in there is excessive. Government troubles itself very little about the matter, if this state of things has no influence on the finances ; but, notwith standing their apparent prosperity, the moment Of pressure is not, perhaps, very distant. For these three years past, instead of drawing 20,000, men, and 40 millions, from Spain, by the aid of an -- ambassador and a d ozen cou rtiers, France is obliged to maintain - and pay, on the other side of the Pyrennees, 250,000 men, who cost her at least 150 millions a year. The gulph, which at Once swallows her population and her treasure, is not yet about to close ; and the Emperor, who has said more , than once, that Sp a i n was no t wort h an hundred discharges :of cannon, ,is neVertheless too far advanced to withdraW.. The contributions of Austria, Prussia . , and of the States of the Con federation of the. Rhine, are almost exhausted. France, then, will . shortly be reduced to her own resources. It is difficult to impose more on land, ,and to augment the military contributions. A so lemn promise was given, to diminish them ; .and yet in one ye ar th e y ‘:nave een increased by a fifth. The produce of inlposts which strike directly at . commerce, such as the stamp duties, necessarily diminishes With the inferior activity of trade ; and it was necessary to have recourse to indirect con tributions. Tobacco was, in consequence, with drawn from the fanners* of it, and delivered over to the Exchequer. The preamble of the decree does not dissemble, that the duties, at first very moderate, might be augmented progressively, ac cording to the wants of, Government, which, in the case of . peace, .of , maritime war only, or of war at once both continental , and maritime, are eStimated,at 600,800, and 1100 millions of francs. The Emperor wishes to be certain in these three suppositions of making the receipt equal to the expenditure : of course, he reckons neither on the speedy conclusion of the Spanish war, nor of the duration of public tranquility in Europe ; and what makes his financial situation more apparent, as well as that of his empire, is, that with a xeve nue ,of nearly a thousand millions—victorious over all Europe—master of Holland, the Hause Towns, of Venice, Genoa, and all-powerful in Switzerland, his GoVernment could .not raise. a voluntary loan of. 10 millions. All his embarraSs ments; nevertheless, would be quickly surmount , ed, if it were not for the great cause of inquie tude, of chagrin, and expense, which is that of Spain and Portugal. Although the Spaniards, formed into large armies, are almost aiwdys beaten, these pretended victories do not assist the French. Their general situation is always nearly the same. Pal-Tram making „any progress on the minds of the inhabitants, they daily more, disgust them ; and the Cortes assembled at the Isle of Leon hold all Spain in a state of revolution. * Entrepreneurs. 3UONAPARTE'S presence in Moscow, remote from his capital and resources, may, perhaps, give sonic interest to the following statement of distances : they are the direct distances, as the crow flies, mathematically calculated from the lon gitudes and latitudes, and reduced to statute• miles of 691 to a degree : From Mo n scow to Miles. 1567 . 15(31 19/9 Cadiz Valencia Naples ...... CapeSpartovento,the South point of Ca- 1601 labria. London Paris Bayonne Fronitteiscow to . Miles. Vienna . Constantinople Bagdad ' ' - Ispahan Delhi .. 2722 . Bombay Calcutta ' 3456 Pain' • • 3616 PAVEMENT.--Notwithstanding the repeated complaints which have:been made respecting . the condition of the Pavement in all parts of the me tropolis, the persons whose duty it is to remove the evil seem utterly callous to reproof. Even under the eve of Government, where the District Surveyors might be expected to be a little more on the aleil,. the same negligence appears. The 'lflag stones between the Horse. Guards and t e Trea sury have for many weeks bee n i n a l o se and broken state, but not the least- notice h4s, been taken by those to whom the care of the streets is , . , committed. • ~ The.terms upon which Mr. BETTY has been en gaged at Covent-Garden Theatre, are 50/. each night for twelve. performances before Christmas, , and at the same rate for twelve . nights after that period. He is besides to have a benefit fiee of all expences, KEITBLE, AND YOUNG,. . . . . -.AS persons 'whO ,frequent the:Theatres nave ,raised a senseless clamour on the word. a r ches, we:Are, induced to adopt the tollowing letter from another channel, in order to .just;ify 4 pronuncia tion AN:bich has been the cause of so. much un 7 merited censure. We shall take an early oppor tunity of citing further exaMples to prove that the 'l,.toicl Was always used as a dissyllable: " In faith lie is a worthy Gentleman.;. " Exceedingly well read, and iirOtited " In strange conceilinents I" HENRY 1. .:11R. EDITOR, , As a lover of the Stage,.and a n en th us i as ti c ad mirer of SHAKESP2ARE, I have ventured to trespass upon your attention, from a wish to preserve the propriety of thy, one, and the purity of the othei% The matter I 'propose to touch upon, is that well known passage in the Tempost, which some time since, in consequence of Mr. KF:MBLE:S adherence to a novel pronunciation, occasioned no little con fusion in the critical world. The lines I allude to are these : I'll rack thee with old cramps, Fill all thy bones wit'i aclies, Make the roar, That beasts shall tremble at thy din. Mr. KEME LE pronounced this disputed word aches, as a dissllabie, catches, and the metre evi dently requirei this pronunciation, or the line be coMes deficient by half a foot. It is trite, .that by. the interpolation of the conjunction and, — and make thee roar, — the hiatus, which occurs to a modern car, may be . filled up, the sense preserved, and the expression improVed. But if it is shewn, by the practice of comemporary and succeeding Poets, that this dis syllabical pronunciation enjoys unobjectionable authority, 1 think the candid and the just must admit their opposition to be fOunded in error, and continued in ignorance.. The first example I shall adduce is extracted from the Knight of thu Burning Pestle, a burlesque comedy, by BEAUMONT and FLETCHER. Or meets with aches in the bone, Or catarrhs, or griping stone. Again, in the Humorous Lieutenant Corn. by do. the good old spou,, , re had suck'd my youth/ dry, And left some of hii royal aches in tuy bones. Again, in Valentinian, Tray;. by do. our ' bodies Laden with scars and aches, and ill lodgings, Heats, and perpetual wants, &c. Again, in MASSINGER'S ciittrdictit. Poverty, old age, and aches of all season,-- Again, in a Very. Woman, ,Conn. by do. Dry him, and beat him, flesh and bone, to powder; And that kills scabsanil aches of all climates. Another instance occurs in BUTLER'S Midi bras, p. 2, canto 2. • • • • No man of his own self catches The itch, or amorous French ache:s; Again, idem, p. 3. canto 1. The natural effects of love, As other dames and aches prove. Again, idem, p. 3. canto 2. Can by their ngs and aches find All turns and changes of the wind,— Again, • Feel iSang,s and aches of state, turns And levolutiOns hi their corns ; 7 AOin, in one of _DRYDEN'S Epistles, Must then cid three-legg'd gn!v-heards, with their gout, Catarrhs, rheums, aches, live three ages out? Again, in. Dean SwirT's Prognosticarwit of a Showcr A coming shower your shooting corns presage, Old aches throb, your hollow tooth will rage. From all these examples, in la Bich I have been purposely diffuse, it is evident that the word aches cannot be uttered but as a dissyllable, without violating the requisite harmony of the verse. Thus much for the pronunciation of ache plurally. I shall 'now consider the' subject in another light, and endeavour to prove from the same source of illustration, that ache, in the singular, number, was optionally pronounced witch. 'So in' SH A n- SPEARE'S Much Ado about Nothiv, a. 3. s. 4. . BEATRICE.— By my troth, I am exceeding ill ho ! MARGARET.-For a hawk, - a. liotse, or a liusbailu? BEA 'FRI CE.—For the letter that be ins them . • As Dr. JOHNSON justly observes, the jest is a poor one, but it iS SHAKESPEARE'S. The curious Reader who wishes for amplification, will find a note on this passage worth consulting, in Mr. STEEVENS'S edition of 1792. Again, in SPENSER'S Shepherd's Calendar.-- , ,elu, gust. • . Tell Perigot, what shall be the game: • .• - 'Wherefore with mine thou dare thy music match? . Or been thy bag-pipes rent far out of frame? Or bath the cra.np thy joints betiumb'd with ach? Again, in Bishop HALL'S Satires, Sellia wore a velvet masticli-patch Upon her temples, when no tooth did ache.— The above examples arc, perhaps, sufficient to bear out the peculiarity, for which Mr. KErili.t has been so loudly condemned. What then must be the sentiments we should entertain of an au dience, who, without deliberation, without in quiry, have vociferously censdred the first per former of the day, for avoiding an impropriety, which his less able successor has been honoured with three distinct peals of applause for retain ing ? If an Actor's exertions are to be thus Cramped, if his erudition is to be considered as " a thing of nought," and his researches are to be bounded by the judgment of every shilling auditor, farewell, a ion , farewell " to taste and,genius : let KEMBLE sink into Grizzle, and LISTON play Hamlet. I am, Mr. Editor, Your obedient servant, E. BELLCHAMBERS. Southampton-ro, Rtissel-,44uare. :Yesterday afternoon a Coroner's Inquest was held before Anthony Gell, Esq. at the King's Head public-house, Pimlico, on the bodies of Mary Ann Taylor and her sister Sarah 'Taylor.— It appeared in evidenCe, that the deceased resided in Charles -court, Strand, and that on the night of last week, When the dreadful storm happened, whilst they were in bed in an upper apartment, the chimney was blown down, and through the upon the bed iti which they lay. In con sequence of the severe bruises they received, they were-carried to the Westn►instet Infirmary, where .until Tuesday evening they remained in excruci ating pain, and then died within a short period of each other Verdict, Accidental Death. LAW REPORT. COURT OF CHANCLIIY, Ncv. 4. . The LonD CHANCIML9R Conti:thing ill, the MASTER of the 11.0L.1.0 fc)r his Lordship. No case of public interes occurred. COME OF KING'S BENCH, Nov. 2'. BORCHARDT ALLNUTT This was an action upon a policy of . insurance on the ship Die Tungend,, at ,ond from Gotten- burgh to Rostock anY port or ports in-the tic - , at a premium of 25 guineas, to return 10 for convoy or arrival. The firSt letter, ordering the insurance, from the- plaintiff's agent at Gotten bur&b; teas dated - Augnst 9, .1810 5 , but some mismiderstanding having . arisen as to.the intentions to inspre, another letter wag writ ten on the 20th, stating that. the Captain liar* pro ceeded to sea with the laSt:conyoy, but on account of eontraryv.ipds, was still cinizing, in the Belt. It appeared, that the ship was detained 17 days in the Belt, and was captured before the insur ance was - effected, which was on the Ist of Sep tember. The Consul at Gottenburgh knew of the capture on the 23d of August ; but it was not generally known till the 2Gth; anti it was impos ,ible that this could be communicated by the packet, which s a il e d f rom G otten b nrg h t o Lon don on the 23d, for that was sealed on.thc 20th, and it took seven days to convey a letter from'the former plaee to the latter. The defence was, that the voyage insured, being only one of four osr five • days, if the Underwriters had known that the ship had sailed so long before, -nobody would-have touched the policy. Information of ,that circum=- stance 'ought to be given to .tat defendant, and then he hdght have exercised Lis judgment and. made inquiries. L,t rd ELLENBO4OUGIi left it to the Jury to say, whethe...under the circumstances, that communi cation was necessary to have been tai .de. Ordina rily, an assured was not bound to communicate the time of a - ship sailing; hut here it was for the Jury to say,wh ether thedelay did not materially increase the risk. Upon the first letter the insurance was not effected, and the Underwriters were not to stiffer by the blunders of the plaintiff's agents. By the second letter; information vas communicated that the ship had sailed with the last convoy.— Now Mr. Gibson (the special , Juryman) had do formed the Court, that it might nave been ascer tained at Lloyd's, when that convoy sailed. was detained by contrary winds,—that tendered the risk doubtful; and then she was cruising in the Belt. It was for the Jury.to say whether this letter ought to have been shown to the defendant. The Jury, however, found their verdict for plaintiff. SAME v. COPE, This case followed the event of the last. OLD BAILEY. WEDNESDAY, NOV. 4. • Sarah Boyer i:rid Sari.th Grimes, were indicted for violently assaulting John Lowin on the 22d of Sept. putting bim in fear, of his life, and forcibly taking from his person, against his will, in the house ofJohn Hawkins, a silk handkerchief, four 1 /. Bank of England notes, c•ae - 51. note, and some silver. • John Lowin, the prosecutor, .stated, that he was in the farming' line, and lived at his brother's, in Wells-street, Oxford-street. Going home oa the night specified in the inditMent, and the streets'being very 'slippery, he fell down in Ox ford -street, by which he was much hurt, as also completely besmeared with mud. TwO women, 'who afterwards proved to be ~the two prisoners, came up thhim,observing,thathehad tallenin the mud, and asking hint if ,he was. hurt ? to which he answered in the affirmative. When Sarah. Boyer, told him she had a room hard h and it he would go with them they would take care of him and clean his clothes, which he consented to do. On their arrival into the lodgings, the prisoners asked for something to drink, and witness gave them one shilling and sixpence, with which the prisoner Grimes procured souse porter and some gin, of which he partook. In the mean time he had begun to strip hiroelf at their desire, that.' they might clean his clothes he had also taken off,his small-clothes, when the prisoner Grimes took him by the legs and threw hiM down, when they put out the candle, and went away with the property mentioned in th,e indictment, locking the door after them. Witness thus'remained a' pri- , soner till morning, and wits released by the land lord.. It was then day-light John Hawkins, - the landlord, found prisoner as alsready described, in a front rooir of his house, let to Sarah Boyer, and Aaused her to be appre hentled.c He knew 'Sarah Grimes to ,be an inti mate acquaintance of her's. The prosecutor, Lowin, Was perfectly sober. • John Baxter, the watchman, who apprehem!ed the prisoners, 'proved, that they were identified by the prosecutor among many other women.-- , '.Grimes denied 'then any knowledge of business, and Sarah Borer said, that, they had taken the prosecutor .to her lodgings to clean him, and that he was completely drunk, having spent that evening four three shilling , pieces in liqtior at Hawkins's. .This was, however, contradicted by Hawkins' and both prisoners were found Mary Harris vas indicted for stealing privately in the shop of Mr. 'Andrew, some, pieces of rib bon, his property; • value SS. The Jury, at the recommendation of the Judge (the COMiIION-SERJEANT), acquitted her of the capital part of the indictment, and found her guilty of stealing, but not privately. She is an old offender : . and. the COMMON SElt- JEANT observed, that the Court should take care she should have no more opportunities to offend in that way in this vountry.. Frances Sage, a young woman of interesting appearance, and notAuite seventeen by her own, declaration, was indicted for privately stealing a gold ring and two seals, the property of Boykett Jarman, jeweller, No. 25, in the Strand, in his shop, and of the value of four pounds.—