The Sun. — London, England, 1816-12-26 00:00:00

Fit EN,CH PAPERS, [Ruck d@a THIS MORNIN.G.3 Fiats, Dec. 4 22....-The mortal remain' bf Ales times Adelaide artd Victoire of France have been disembarked at Toulon, whence they will be 'car. ?led to St. Denis. We Are assured that orders have been expedited from the i‘linister of the In terior, to render all the honours due to the . ..rank of these unfortunate Princesaes. The Bishop of 31oulins, 'the Citrate Of TOtiloti, and the Abb4 Iti accompany the protessit4o, which will be at St.l)eitis on the 20th of January. • The Prior of the . Great Convent of Mont• St. Dernard, M. Morith, is dead at Nlartigny. lie was known to many travellers in Europe. He has left interesting collections of natural history sod nwiquitics. The ntlts commenced their - Noviciate at Genoa on the 1 ith of November. Some ancient Fathers of this older have resumed the 'titbit. Au altercation irate on the Ifitit of this month at the Groat Theatre of 'Nantes., between the and Actors.• One of the latter, prowl of his ta• lent, was guilty of a sally which might have pro tiuced lit* try consequences tor hint. Upon this occasion the 141avor of Nantes has forbidden for the fature,aoy Collognial,intescourse between the public and the performers. CilAiklTlElt OF M.PUTICS. SkTTING OF Tin; 2IST. Although no public sitting hod beett announced, tit Tribunes Were opened at the termination of a long Secret Committee relating to the proposition of General Ernouf Upon the Adwmistration of the Colonies. Their Excellencies the Minister of Marine and the Ittteriorkevre present, and remained in the Hall when the Sitting became permatient: After reading the proces.verbal of the day be fore yesterday, a number at 'Petitions were gone Into, of no interest to the British Reader. The President then fixed the next hitting tor /Monday next, at 12 precisely, in tvitich will be considered the two Projects of Law 'relating to the absent Sr.ldiers and Ecclesiastical Unnations. PkrEitSVIRGII, Nov. 23,—After fre q uent Va. t • rimi,nrs of ternperature, the , frost Is, at" last fixed, anti it has frozen for three successive days. The N e va is coveted with a`thickice. VIENN A , DEC. 15..--GOVCllitllellt has that it was impossible in the distressing circum stances Of the State to repeal tor 1817, the it - p6sts which were laid on last year. cAruk , DF4-;•?..-4-.We - tisnie . nan the moh,t extra ordinary weather here for some ti►ue. On the sante day we have had the Oppressive heat of smu ttier; a storm, accompanied with lightning, Haider, and toil :and in the evening, it sharp . ~eold, with Sakes of snow, just as if it were the Month of Janunry.in Siberia. We have 'tad some shocks of an earthquake in the direction of the North. Orders ItaVe been given for public prayers in all tl►e churches ; the host has been noised; the relicts of St. Stidget hare bvencarrie4 in procession; and the ecclesiastics have recom wended 'strict observance of fast daring the Advent. kENCH FUNDS. b per Cents. 116 f. $Cc. Ilauk Action' .•..11651. FRENCH' HOUSEBREAKERS. • A Pacts Journalist, atter announcing the trial of a baud of uineteen housebreakers, remarks, that though the multiplicity of offences, notwithstand ing all the vigilance of the Police, may form a just cause of regret, yet it is not calculated to excite much snrprise, if it he considered that Paris is a city where 30,000 persona' awoke every 'sunning without knowing bow they were to procure a breakfast. But the most dangerous class of thieves were those who combined for the purpose of carrying on their depredations- with the wester security and effect. By this means they executed robberies which it would be impossible for an individual to attempt, - and turned the pro duce of them to account without leaving any traces by which they might be discovered. They had their leaders, their - laws, and their organization so skilfully combined, as not even to be destroyed by the imprisonment or condemnation of those who directed the gang. From the bottom of a prison they still Issued their orders, were obeyed, and received a share in the plunder. Among a great number of facts , going to support this asser tion, the writer mentions the following, 'which occurred to a Paris advocate, who had lung practised in the •Courts of Criminal Justice The Wife of this advoCate, ow coming out of the reydeau Theatre, perceived that a large cut lied been:made- in the bottom other bag, through which her purse, scent-box, tooth-pick case, and a small gold watch, had been softly made to drop, probably into a bat. Her husband, who had 7 - epaired to one of thi - prisons, where he wets toe . mcdiately surrounded by a tribe of clients : lie Aold them with much displ'ea - sure of the robbery on his %vile*" Alt Sir," all one of the leaders, '' pardon the mistake; doubtless the Man'who ' played this bid joke had tot the liontme to know ',Madame. -As to yon, Sir," addressing the Adm cate, " be assured that nothing shall be neglect ed to give you a proof of our esteem anti grati tilde' The Advocate departed, tolerably cheered by his Client's promises. Next morning a person bronglet R packet addressed to his wife, and con taining all she had hitt the evening before, except ing the tootli-pick case. A setter accompanying the packet repeested Aladame to accept the excuses of a novice who bal . given her a ionment'semeasi ness, and to satisfy ,herself by a search whether she was not mistaken in stating the tootle-pick case to be one of the trinkets she had lost. In fact the Lady afterwardsfound it he her work-bag." The writer then mentions one Delzeve, who had been brought to justice s as oue of the most fa mous of these nocturnal depredate); 11. The 114811 jugglers, says this writer, the French jtegglers,the rope-dancers, the most intrepid vaulters on the slack-rope, were mere novices and poltroons beside him. With our spring he used to vault to the shelf nf a first story,and lie could throw almost to any height a cord with"' hook at the end of it, by MOMS of which he contrived, to mount. Ties following feat would appear a fable, it not supported by, twine roils witnesses, • and certified by the registers of the Coneiergerie': the walls surrounding the court of that Flinn ore from 50 to 6U feet high, and at the top are garnished with chew nit-de (rise, 'whose points bend downwards. Having succeeded in eluding the vigilance of his keepers, ho at night-fall make the prisoners turn its to emir, rooms, Delzeve, retreating to an angle of the wall, without. the aid of any instrument, sup. porting himself merely against the two walls, and by some inconceivable movententof his feet and elbows, mounted to the iron spikes. Ic seized one of them at its extremity, and balanced himself till the moment whets he thought lie could give himself sufficient impulsive force. Then making a spring be threw himself over the chevaux-de-frise upon the roof of an adjoining b O lge, and succeeded he making his escape. One of his companions,. less adroit, leaving tried the same experiment, fell, and was dashed' to pieces oil the pavement of the prison. There is none of the present gang who equal Deteeve they only resemble him in th . O:Mears of escalade. Woe to noose who are Iniprirdent enough to leave their windows open duriug the night ; they expose themselves to a visit wleith often costs them dear. A ladder of cords, or even a single cord with a hook at the etid . of it, Oro Atn with dexterity, enables the plunderer to mount, and the chaniner of the sleeper is sometimes strip ped' befoe e his sleep is interrupted. To avoid the Inconvenience of loading their pockets with tat packet of cords, in the reucounters which they are liable to, and which might excite suspicion, they hare devised an easy mode of open* the small niches in which the cords for suspending the lamps are enclosed. They cut them, and form a ladder on the spot. The gang, who are now in the liands'of jus tice, stand accused of leaving, in the course of the year, conuncitteti, or of being accouiplices In, a vast number of robberies In tlitreyeot 'quartets, particularly in the Hotel de Guinea Hotel tie Ca - roman, Seminary of St. Sulpice, Hoteli Perigord, &c. An honest fripperer, in die Pauburg_St. Ger main, received the pillage produced by the expe ditions of the corps. The Police had been long on the ,watch fur these gentlemen, when one of the chiefs, failing in. that fidelity which men of honotir might to maintain with each other, most. shamefully refused to give to one of Isis associates the reward of his labour; The latter, offended by this ungentlemanly conduct, lighted the match, and the whole mine was speetlily exploded. The train of connexion which had subsisted between an infinite number of robberies com menced in different quarters of Paris was diet) discovered, but in other respects the affair was only extraordinary for the boldness and ingemtity with whiCh some of the depredations had. been executed. At' the hotel de Gateman, for'eXanieles one of the prisoners contrived to get,' whir the cloud of night, even into the chamber of the Countess of Ceramist), approached, her bed, awl finding her asleep, took, out the pins which tasteued the curtains, drew them, anti without awaking her ladyship, obtained possestion of a veoy fine watch which was hanging at the bead of her bed. He continned , his reconnoissance in the other apartments, when one of the servants per ceiving, from his chamber the there was a light in the passage, rose and, discoveredinhe robber, who, on. finding he was noticed, •fled, and suc ceeded in tailspin. • The immense quantit, of property stolen, con sisting of watches, clocks, candelabra, mattreSset, bolsters, feather-beds, &c. was all brought into the Court, which now has somewhat the appear ance of a warehouse to be let. • The brst robber who underwent 'lnterrogate ries is a young man, but a youth of experience, and the whole of whose attempts were master `elioits, He frankly explained how he stripped an apartment, the window of which lie . found ()Pen. " I carried away," said he, " some chandeliers, ear-rings, a conch-bed, &c," The email era afford ed some amusement to the assembly. Other re velations which took place seemed to alftird cots sidesable interest to certain auditors, who, for their particular - instruction, never' fail to at , tend such investigations, The robber continued to detail with a very edifying candour • a 'number of circumstances * which some may think added nothing to his glory : but there is a manner of viewing every thing and this wortity,gentleman did not blitbh for his profession, tie never spoke of other thieves hut with respect he always used the phrases " my club city Colleagues." MI the youths in his neighbour= hood, he ‘aid, were well ittformed of the,eit cont.. stances he stated. A fine educution indeed, and an excellent eulogy on the youths of that quarter ! The President asked, Whether the youths he alit4l to belonged to Isis club ? He answered, '4 yds." This affair, which will cinuhticss occupy the Court several 'clays, comes on ltgaia to-morrow. GENERAL MINA'S EXYEDITIPN.—We'IIarC COU vers'ed with n. Geotleman Cho arrived at Norfolk Oil last Toeiday evening, the sth instat'sr, in . 20 dais front Pbrt-au-Prince." This,Gentlemati states himself to have embark - ed at Baltimore, as an of.. firer under the Spanish Patriot General Mina. The vessels which composed the exPedition con sisted of the ship Caledonia arid a schooner. On hoard of the Caledonia, in which our informant was, there were about 100 who bad embarked in the cause of Spanish patriotism : lust 3-foorths of the above 100 hail all the rank of officers of dif ferent grades.. General Mina Alai! made ample promises to them of giving regular pay for their services from tine to time ; but not a dollar had been advanced to any One of the party *hest 'our informant.canie away. The cause which he assignS for leaving General Mina was sickness, having been attacked with a violent fever immediately upon Ilk landing at Port-ail-Prince. He however mentions, that nearly one' half of the whole number had also forsaken Mina, some trusts sickness, some from disgust, aud others froin' fatigue, and hail em barked fits the United States in different vessels for their respective homes. Our informant is a native of Ireland, a young man• of genteel appear ance, and well acquainted with several of the Irish houses in Baltimore and Norfolk. 'He states, that most of Mina's party were young men like himself, entirely unacquainted with milt tart affairs, end who had engaged' with the Spaniard from the novelty of the sChemey from a desire of seeing the world, and actuated by the ambition of signalizing themselves in the cause of freedom—a passion so natural to the minds at youth. • The narrative of our informant' was expressed in language of such • simplicity, that it was impossible not to give credit to every sentiment be uttered. It was the narrative of one who' had evidently vo lunteered with the warmescentbusissm, And with the most sanguine hopes nt success ; but unit qttainted with the world, and ignorant of the hard ships of a military lite.--- , (Petersburgh BUFFALO, NOV. I`l,—Marshal Grouchy and suite, oullieir retorts from the Niagara Falls, last week; visited the Seneca accompanied by several Gentlemen of this village. • New YORK, Nov. 25,—Coogress meet at Washingtoo City on the 21 of December. FILoAd THEKitIOSTON U. C. GAZETTE. - _ " Ma. EptToti,—On taking up the"Netv York Spectator of the 16th inst. I observed a paragraph (avowedly copied into that Palter from the Water toWn American ,idcocate) to the following effect : " It is stated, that about the Ist inst. a BritiA deserterfrout Kingston passed through Sacker's Harbour, and was soon' parstred by three t armed English Officers, who overtook and pursued hint at Henderson. While the Officers were,conduct mg their prisoner hack to Kingston, a number of ship-carpenters' and other cititent of Sacker's Harbour interfered, and effected 11:s escape'," Now, Sir, the facts to which the above have allusion, are as follow : " Two otrtari, belonging to the 70th regiment, stationed at Kingston, were sent over by me t Sacker's Harbour; not armed, nor with the,view of seizing a deserter, but . . as private gentlemen in pursuit, of a . villain, .who had committed the most daring robbery out his master, and io whose' detection and punishment every upright citizen, of every nation, ought to have telt alike interested. The sitid two gentlemen applied' in a regular manner to the Civil Magistrate (paying the re quired fees), in order to the culprit's being committed to prison, in the full eonfideuce that the Atuericao laws would' deal justly by the offender ; but, with regret do I publish to the world, that the Civil Magistrate of that Sec tion of the United States, atter receiving the pri soner into his custody, and being paid for his trouble, had the effrontery of winking at his escape, followingup his duplicity by the degrad ing iseknowlelguonit that the prisoner's sescoe was effected by the daring violence, of a lawless mob. Thus. Mr, Editor, -by similar• statements as the one inserted in the dmerican Advocate, are r ancorous feelings excited, :tool jett- Inns sospitions begat, in the minds of the subjects ofthe two nations, who have the stroagest pos sible incentives_ to reciprocal good °dices niid d ura bl e f r i en d,bip.—Your _obedient servant, THOMAS EVANS. Lieut.-CO, Cum. 70th Itekt.",. ~r ta a.--.i3etween , three and four o'clock yester (lay h m eniug, a . fire broke out at the house ot Mr. Daly, the sign of 'the Canterbury Armi, Lower Lambeth. A number .of persons had been keening Christmas 1.4.1 e, and they remained in the house when the flames were seen bursting out of the bar, which projected into the street. For tunately Alley all escaped utilunt; but the flames spread so - rapidly;' that Dlr.•Daly saved very little of his property. The whole of his citildren's clothes Were burnt . , and be was compelled to buy covering for them after their removal. It was not known yesterday bow the fire originated. The alarm anti confusion which prevailed Marsh when the fire was first eiiscovered cannot. be de scribed. The" nhabitants are all pool laborious people,, and as the ancient buildings, )vhich have been' standitig more than 'two hundred years, were threatened with total destiuction . ,. every one was afraid of losing his Wile he flames soon re duced Mr. Daly's house to ruin, and the devOnr. lug column of fire had darted through the lath and plaster walls of the adjoining house, occu pied by Mr. Field, a wax-chandler, when the en gines arrived and checked the fury. o► the con flagration. Mrs. Field, whose accouchement oc curred about three weeks since, was carried out in blankets, aid ii cunsegaentlyttuw iu a.state•oi danget occasioned 'by the. fright. Her maid Ser. mit had scarcely time to quit her bed, the flames having seized the curtains. Forth:had)/ a quick supply of water enabled the firenteo to extin guish the fire before eight o'clock, anti tg) save half of Mr. Field's -premises. The public-house is entirely destroyed, ,and the damage, indepen ; deat of Mr, Feild's house, is veil: considerable. N - rcirrrs;--1 ""ranie, I %Vat erfek,.. land, GutteubutBll; l Cit:egnsry And Jer6 %' 1 IS'Aftrfutd. STEPtir.s.—Holiday et tht flank, Exchcluer.E us t India and south Sca Huui u wATF.n. Al' LoNnoN BRIDGE To-moitn.,w. Is.nsiutites after S. j Evening, 40 ittnitite, Anti 6., THE SUN. Ito 1.015 DICEHE rA4sU)I AVul:tt t LONDON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 26, ISM We Lave made a few extracts from the Paris Papers of Sunday and Monday last, received this morning, but they are devoid of all interest. The American Papers which [arrived yesterday . to the 27th ult., furnish a.few paragraphs for a preceding column, but bring no news of conse quence. One of them contains an extract of a letter from St. Bartholomew's dated Oct. 29, and stating, that a dreadful fever then raged at Gua daloupe, of which great numbers of people daily died. It was reported to have beet) broughtfrous Malta, and was called " the black fever." The Congo sloop of war and Dorothy mins port arrived at Hibbs the latter evil of October. The Ceptain and all the principal Officers, except the Master, 'died on' the coast of Africa, having been 120 miles higher op the river than any other vessel. Many different accounts are given respecting the erops.ot'wheat, &c. the,' A m erican Papers treat which we collect that they are but of En+ tiling qualities, and . it is ascertained that the erupt of Indian corn had failed. Cotton had produced. • an average crop,,,but the quality Yery.indiffereut , being of unusually short staple. . , , ...- The trial of the American Msjor4i'eneral GAINE - S has closed, 'and the General was.boisour ably Acquitted on all the charges and specifica tines:- The acquittal has been approved, and the Conic Martial dissolved by the President. :Eke Cowl, in giving its decision; pronounced most of the charges to he frivolous,' and all of then) de. stitute of support or foundation. , Tints has ter. minated a trial which has cost ate United States. from fitly to, a ,hundred thousand dollars! The charges related principally to his report at the aile rstions before Fort Erie, and of the battle at that Fort, in August, 1814. • A Courier from Vienna. itr said to an art l "- f p r a o t i c it h es relative Naples of t t o ls e a 7N(l4,ie 1, to (el liivaevieedbisstytsighleit A D , v i e s: rican Envoy 'in Russia, on the subject of die Claim(lit s ectu,, without a l ,llxy S tates ttubs upon the Neapt'lit~.t ranged. A Russian squadron is expected in the Mediterranean. The story of America haviog mantled the the cession of a Neapolitan putt,duels demand was indignantly rejected, is •repeated. An article from Bolin 10410, that the Prott". Cant Church of Prussia is on the eve of being re. modelled. Among the Petitions to the French Chamber Of Deputies, presented on Saturday , was one froth:iik Sub-Lieutenant, EDouaan ANT o i sts, who Mittel' that he did not know who his parents were, ltut supposed lmL belonged to the' noose of Larubatleii Upon this ground he prayed ..the Chamber to in , . terest itself in procuring his promotion, but the Chamber only laughed, and passed to the Order 411 the Day. At Montreal, on the 9th Otitis°, a severe shock of an earthquake was felt, and on t h e IGO, ano ther smart shock of about thirty sectnids duration. The Duke of ,Vottx- yesterday Morning in spected the First Regiment of Foot Guards, an the Parade in St. James's Park. On this °co. *ion' the men appeared in their .new cloathing his Royal Highness wore his regiMentals as CO* Inuel,'and looked ',uncommtinly well. His Roy** fligliness walked from his residence near the Stable-yard to the parade, attended by one ,of leis ' Aid-de-Camps, and was cheered op his w a y by the populace ; on appearing in the trout of the.litte• the band immediately struck up the anthem of • God save the Kinc," during the playing of which many of the,spectators stood tmeot_ered.. The report that the Irish Militia Scads are to be employed'ai a polit eis again revived, and in a Attarter that there is no doubt but that the humid. t ion :will take place. - • A detachment, consisting of sixty privates and a number pt . sub,wen, Officers of the 21 battalion 'of the 30th regiment, arrived in Cork, from Tralee, on Wednes.tay, to embark to join Otte ~St battalion in India, The LORD MAYORhas relingaisbed the plan 0 1 receiving sub. , ictiptions at the, Mansion-house fur the sale of manufactured, silks atilt shawls, and has recommended Ladies to apply to their re* • spective tradesmen 'as the brit FnetillS of encow+i raging the silk trade. N:t. PLATT is ?Ain confined to his bed the swelling is abated, and he is considerable better , liatonToN, Db.c. 25.--Chriitinas Day was R . priately observed by the brave 51st regiment 0I infantry. The Officers considered an arrange• . mein indispeu.able, that all the men should IWO roast beet and plumb podding. This rt:gimeat„ went to the Parish Church, and afterwards t'"" rye , ' themselves with the .customary conviViali:y of the day. 1-hr AI Aissry having Veen most gra ci p asiY, 'pleased:to permit the elegant IVorkon Seril" titre Genealogy" to be published, tinder her M%." 'SESTYIS particuiar patronage, it will he mod)" , a i ( !'' general sale its the course Of tov dais ,Itt NO. ."J Strand.