The Sun. — London, England, 1814-02-01 00:00:00

11I1'011TANT OFFICIAL DOUAI ENT. The following Mhnifesto, published by Prince ScHwIRTZENSERG at the same time with his Pro clatiiption to the Swiss, may be considered as the Official Reply of the _Allies to the Tirades of BUONAPARTE 011 ClIC.SUbjeCt of the Neutrality of Switzerland : _ _ In the. eyes of the world, it is perhaps a sufficient - justifies' tion of this step that it is neceisarily connected with an on- dertakingof acknowledged justice and utility ; and yet the 4Thed Sov.?reigns would not have been decided by this consi- • deration, weighty - as it is, had Si';itterland been capable of enforcing a fair and strict But withbut the possession of real independence, real neu trality cannot pos . sibly subsist. The pretended nentrality of a State not -merely influenced, but actuallY,goveraed by a . foreign power, is for itself a word without meaning, for its neighbours a two-edged sword, and to him only by whose retters it is shackled, an important advantage over his oppo nents and a secure medium of promotir; his plans. If,there fore,in a war the express and 'sole object of which is to re duce a mischievous preponderance within proper limits, this illegitimate neutrality is converted into a bulwark for that preponderance, anti an obstacle to those whose exertions arc directed to the establishment of a Vetter order of things, it ought no more to be Suffered to exist than the parent stock of the evil itself, whiCh it serves to shelter and to defend. _ _ _ The history of this important country, which, flourishing in pristine purity and beauty, was for many ages an orna ment to Europe, exhibits during the last fifteen years no thing but a long series of violence, by means of which the Aulers of Revolutionary France have subverted its venerable constitution, overthrow its liberty and prosperity, armed its peaceful citizens one against another in our quarrels, plots . dered the treasures collected by their industry, wrested from it. on all sides portions of its territory, and trample'? under foot its Most sacred rights. After Switzerland bad expe ronceeevery hind of misery and disgrace which the cruelty of her oppressors was capable of devising; W after she had lost, together withbor western and southern, frontier provinces, every barrier of her independence, and, together with her laws, her property,. her national institutions, the simplicity and generou's sentiments of her children likewise the power of resistance, a form of government was forced upon her, its 1803, by the name of an Act of Mediation, a term so vague as scarcely to admit of explanation. This constitution, it was alleged, was to put a period to her sufferings; hot in fact, as it completed and sealed her political insignificance, it merely paved the way to greater evils in the sequel, and had it not been for the late fortunate turn of affairs, would earlier or later have plunged her into titter ruin s This form of Government was exclusively calculated to give a solid and permanent for s en to the Freifch dominion over Switzerland, which had hitherto been exercised with lawless and often tyrannic sway, and to impart to it a shadow of legi timate authority. The etrength and tboresources which she might yet have retainad, were required to be devoted to the service of France; the will of the French Emperor was to be ber law; ho other neighbotring State could reckon upon the slightest favour, if the fear of offending France stood in tha way. No resistance to the demands of that Power, not evee when, as in commercial prohibitions, the supply of articles of primary necessity was cut off; no measure capable of coun teracting, in a manner however remote, the 'influence of this foreign arbiter; no loud tomplaint, no public expression of the most just resentment was allowed. Switzerland, though nominally a distinct body politic, was nevertheless in every essential point, though with some slight remains of jts peculiar forms, a mere province of the French Empire. Under such circumstances, every political measure adopted by the Helvetic Confederacy, whatever might be the imme diate occasion of it, could not fail to bear the stamp of the foreign master front whom itreceived its original impulse and direction. A declaration of neutrality springing from such a sell loses all legal claim to the appellation with which it adorns itself. In regard to the preponderait power, it is, at a time when the latter is vanquisfied, a favour Of greater im portance than a formal participation in itt operations; for it must be obvious on the most superficial view, that it would be suffered only so long as this "tower derives adyautage from it, and annihilated as speedily as it was calle.j into existence.— In respect to the Potentates who arc desirous *fretting a period to the convulsion, and miseries of the world, it is hot an injudicious attempt to obstruct the progress of the most benevolent and laudable-of enterprizes, and consequently a hostile step, not only against the Allied Sovereigns, but against the interests, the wants, the ardent wishes and anxious expectations of the whole 'population Of Europe. In regard to Switzerland herself, the best construction that can be put upon it is, that in order to avoid a temporary burden, and a few momentary sacrifices, she would maintain her late poll—, lical relations that is, doom herself to a continued privation of all that is dearest to mankind, to perpetual tutelage, to everlasting slavery. In this light appears the act of neutrality, even admitting fhe position (which however, there is nettling to jostify) that Switzerland implieitely submitted to the, resolution of the diet' of Zurich, and that only one sentiment and one opinion pervaded the chiefs of all the different cantons, respecting a. measure of such equivocal expediency.. The ancient Swiss national character must hale been extinguished to the very last spark before such unanimity could possibly prevail; and the Act of Neutrality is completely stripped of its legitimate consequence, if the authorities by which it is to be maintain ed and carried into exteution rel.ise their aequiescenee its it. In a constitution so irregularly (earned and so loosely put to gether, as that which the French Act of Mediation entailed upon Switzerlend, the opposition of a single canton in an affair of such momentinu3t even have been coesidered as an immediate step towards a faetiout dieolutiois of the whole Confederacy : for the moment the states, before independent, but linked together by this constitution, deem themselves justified and srrong enough-to protest sagain , t the resolutions of the Diet, the federative system formed by France is at an end. The Allied Sovereigns consider the entry of their troops into Switzerland, not only as a measure inseparahle'from the general plan of operations, but also as a preparation for those steps by which the future fate of this interesting country must be decided. It is their object to place Switzerland in regard to her foreign relations, on the - same free and Advan tagevus footing, upon whi.ll she stood prior to the revolu tionary convulsions. The perfect independence of this coun try, the most essential requisite far its own prosperity is at the same time one of the first pnlitical wants of the whole comifiunity of European Stoles. With this independence, the present -of thin:,;s, in which Switzerland is reduced from a free cnnfedqrazion of independent repnblics to a degraded, imbecile, and suffering instrument of French dominatilin, is totally incompatible. • When this evil is radically corrected, when thejnlegrity of the Swiss territory accortlie , z . to its an cient limits on all sides is restorer!, and Switzerland is placed in such a, situation as to enable her to re-model her future federative system in whatever form she may herself think fit, without resivet to foreign influence—then will the Allied Powers consider their work as accomplished. .The internal -constitution and legislation of each indivnlual Canton, and - the establishment of their reciprocal relations, is a purely 'national concern of-the Swiss, which must he committed with perfect confidence to their own justice and discretion. Actuated by these sentiments, the Allied Sovereigns pledge themselves, whenever the moment for negociating a general Peace shall arrive, to their whole attention' and vigi lance to the - interest of the Swiss nation, and to consider no Treaty as satisfactory in which the condition of Swit zerland shall not be regulated_upcn the principles here laid down, in which it shall -tiot/ be pertnalenly secured, and ac knowledged and guaranteed by all the Eniopcan Fvwers., AMERICAN. PAPERS. [FURTHER iXTRA.CT3.I Wilkinson and his army left tile.Brithh,‘ shoru of the river, and crossed over ,to the A inericau side near St. ItegiS% on Friday last.. What new road to Montreal he is ping to find out now, we -.cannot tell; but to Montreal be must; come, " in obedience to the orders of his Government." _Some people say, .that the reason why 'General Wilkinson did not come: down - at once and attack Montreal, is that Colonel Morrison seemed to be driving him down. The General, no doubt, brave ; .but, like Sir John Falstaff, he is deter-, mined not to be ‘.‘ brave ❑pou corapidskya." Extract from Gen.' FlAtutip:c's Dispatch; dated Detroit, Oct: 6. ltilg. - " On the day of the action, six pieces of brass artillery were taken, and two, iron 24-pounders the day before. Several others were discovered in ihe zr e , and cu be easily procurM. 01' brass' pieces, three are the trophies of.the revolutionary war ; they were taken at Saratoga , and York, and surrendered by General Hull. The number of small arms taken by us, and destroyed by the enemy, must amount to upwards of five thousand —most of them hatrbeen ours, and taken by the enemy at the suri;ender of Detroit, at the river Ra sin, and Colonel Dudley's 'defeat. I believe the enemy retain no other .military trophy of their victories than the standard of the 4th reglinent.— They were not magnanimotis 61'0114110 bring that of the 41st regiment' into the field, or it would have been taken." ' • Perhaps General flarrison may pick up, out of the river, the brass guns bearing the folio' tug in scriptions. They must be well. known in. the United States, particularly to _those who were in Hull's army. "La Bruittle. 'Strasburf,r, 17C0." „ • " Seurage. Strasburg, 1",'60." NV.l3owen,fccit, 1755. Surrendered by the Conrention of S'aratoga, Oct.-17, 1777." " Gilpin, /Frit, 1762. Taken from the Gertnans at Ben nington." If these guns arc not to be found in the River, We guess they akay•be .seen in the Castle Yard 'of Quebec, lying alongside of five other.brass gun's' of American manufacture.—(Quebec Gaz.) MAILS. AunlvCl3--4 Dublin. Due—: Lisbon, 1 Malta, 6 Gotten- burgh, 5 Heligoland PRICE OF STC CRS. TFITS !).NY AT TWF.LVF n'et,neg:' Cons. 6tiit J 11-1 Ann. .67i 67 I Oninium SO Milli WATER AT,LONI)ON 131111)GE TO-MOOROW% Morning, 6 miliates after 12.1 tvediug, 31 minutes after 12 ta_J • SOLE:g UV'S DICERS FALSUM AUDEAT ? LONDON, TUESDAY, FEARUARY 1, 1814. We have private intelligence from France which exceeds all we . have yet received, in the description . of the apathy in some parts, and the dismay in otherS, ,with -which , the approaching crisis is viewed. With respect to commercial and pecuniary affairs, one of our letters represents them 'as perfectly at a stand. There is no bu siness done in France beyond the mere retail of necessaries, and as for loans of money, they are altogether impracticable. The bankruptcy with which the fievolutionary Government paid the National . Debt, is considered as on the eve of repetition, - under aggravated eircUrnstances, as the Imperial Swindler is a greater adept in yillany than even the Worthies of the Convent ion. And besides, the public Creditors are more numerous in Prance than on the fOrmer occasion, for all the debt now due is internal ; whereas, at the time we have alluded to, Genoa, Switzerland, and other ,States, were the chief holders of French Stock.. By an arrival yesterday from Passages, there are private accounts from the Army two clays later than Lord WELLINGTON'S dispatches. Upon the authority of these it is mentioned, that a gene - ral attack upon the Enemy's positions •Ivas . in con templation, and that every preparation ha% ing been made, the execution of this important enter prize was only deferred in consequeuce of the un favourable state of the weather. The Provinces on both sides of the Pyrenees are subject to almost incessant rains during the winter months when the humidity of the atmosphere attracted by this lofty range of mountains, is not fixed in icy fetters by the action of frost. s great fall of wet had rendered the roads nearly impas sable since the beginning of . January, and neces sarily confined ale operations •of bath armies.— The late actions which the French Papers have magnified into importance, in order to throw a gleam of sunshine over the gloom of their Mas ter's affairs were nothing more than petty skir mishes. MINA, as we noticed yesterday, in con sequence of the superiority of force brought to bear upon the point to which be had been brought up with his Spaniards, viz. the right of the sillied Force had fallen back after some inconsiderable actions. Upon the 16t1 and 17th, we understand, there were several af fairs . of posts. There are no accounts of the ar rival of the Duke d'Aziootmerde, but it is said that , three French Officers, one of them of consi derable rank, bad, within a short period, aban doned the service of the Tyrant, and come over tti Lord CVELLINGTON, in the hope, no doubt, of meeting their Prince, and placing themselves under his command.- If 'such is, the course pursued by persons' actually in the service, and receiving the pay of the Usurper, what .may we not ex pect from the lOvalty am! patriotism of the naafis of- the French Nation, who are not linked to him by ties of any kind, if we ex cept the bond of slavish impositions ? We re joice to hear from all quarters, that in so far as it, has yet been possible to acertain the sentiment of the People, it is decidedly in favour of .their exiled Princes, and in hostility to the vile Interloper who has stolen and disgraced their diadem, a n d misgoverned and despoiled their Country. And how can it be otioarwise ? The glare and glitter ofeonquests,as well as the dread of new revolutions, reconciled Frenchmen to. their fate. To obtain the former, they submitted to every exaction, and to avoid the latter, they shed more blood than it would have•cost them. But now that there is a prospect of a change being effected without any great convul- Sion, and when it, is evident, beyond dispute, that this change must lighten their burthens, and bet ter their condition internally and externally, there can he no doubt but that the • people will be anxi ous to avail themselves of the favourable opportu' pity. The gratification of national vanityooo, for triumphs and conquests is at an end, and in the hour of adversity • men . begin to look into the voids and losses of wealth, of friends, of child ren, at the expellee of which they had during their intoxication* purchased thes'e empty enjoy ments. • The Ft 2 ench mother in vain looks to her hearth for those dear images of their sire with n hick it was once surrounded—they and their% sire have nerishedin the deserts of Muscovy.— In vain do the aged and infirm ,cast their dim eyes around., in the hope of recognizing those, who, in the course of • nature, would have been the props of their declining yearstbey have fallen in the bloody field of Leipsig. The betrothed of the expectant bride, the stay of the unprotected female,, the friend of the orphan and the widoWs, all are swept away to fill the last ranks of a merciless conscription, and to bleed in the cause of a base-born, upstart, and a • Usurper. Surely then it is not within , the limits of possibility that what is left of the vigour of French population can he attached to Buolla-• PARTE—Let but the Allied Sovereigns of Europe speak out, and maintain no longer a dOubtful and disheartening silence. We do not ask them to impose a Abnarch upon the nation, hilt we de sire that the free choice may ,be fairly offered— then if they forgive the author of all their suffer ings, " may God forgive them roo." A number Of-repints obtain . circulation at this critical period—Such as deserve even the slightest notice, will be found aMong our common para graphs, for which, as they are copied from various sources, we arc not responsible any further than as the mere rumours of the day. When I'Ve can attach any weight tt, • these matters, we of course give them a place in the record of those opinions and facts for which the Conductor of a Public Journal 'is 'held in some mea sure answerable to his Readers. To-day; not withstanding the multiplicity of flucttlating re, Ports, we have none which •we think' of sue-, ficient probability to Ivima'nt our dwelling upon them as authentic or even decent specula tion The landing of the Duke DE BERRI on the Norman shore .appears to be a prem'ature.anti cipation of an revolt which is expected—there is something envious in the 'letter which we . have extracted from, a .Sunday Paper,, and which evidently alludes to: similar anticipations on the . opposite coast. There are some fabrications about MURAT, of whose motions all that is known will be found in THE Sus of yesterday. Dispatches, we understand, were this morning received at the Admiralty from Admiral TyLtut, , at the Cape of -GOod Hope, but we do not bear that they were of any importance. All the Mails clue yesterday have arrived, and all those due this morning have likewise arrived, except the following, viz. Birmingham, Exeter, and 'Taunton. The PRINCE REGEwr Will hold a Privy Council, &c. on Friday. The Prince de Co DE rectivedletters yesterday from the Duke de 13E1m. There is a report of CAULAINCOURT having re ceived his passports, and proceeded; not to the head-gnarters of the Allied Armies, but to Basle. Yesterday the JUDGE ADVOCATE had a long andience of the PRINCE REGENT at Carlton- House, and took his Royal Highness's commands upon the proceedings of several Courts Martial. An Officer 'has arrived with, the packet from Passages, who left the army two days subsequent to the date of the dispatches. A skirmish had taken place between the advanced posts, in which' the Allies-had dispersed the enemy, but nothing of cousequcne bad occurred. MISCSLLANEOUS. BREAD.—This day the LORD MAYOrt, after ih• ....sl)ecting the D t real-weighers' returns, ordered the price of Bread for the ensuing week to rcurai,o. with'ont alteration A Gi.-:•.•letnan who left the Dutch coast on Tues day last, locutions, that Cologne had been, taken posisessu of by the Allies. Bois-le-Due and Maest - fieht are' not In their occupation, .as alleged in the Dutch papers; •He further states, that the affairs of Government at the Hague are now ad ministered :i•Pgith more regularity than heretofore, that the organization. of the army is better eon ducted, and that skeleton regiments, are formed for 3(t ; 000 men. .1t was 'asserted ' yesterday, .that the Spanish Cortes had agreed to recognise King F•Ennt.,..Nl)'4 separate treaty with lin owArmt•rl: ; hut, we consider this report as too incredible to merit attention. Among the new on 'Change, too, it was said that letters had been received from New York, coo firming the imposition of an Embargo, with the concurrence of both HouSes of Congress. The Dateli Papers contain a report of forty per-. sons of distinction, Members 'of the Legislative Body, or of the Senate, having been arrested by order of guoNAvARTE. On the. 16th the llead-iptarters of General ST• PatHsi' was ',at _Malmedy. A Declaration, in the name of dip Allied Powers, was delivered on the 2d of January, to the Swiss Diet, containing an assurance that no Peace sha be made with P).ance unless -ali the territories which Switzerland has lost since 1798, be restor ed ; and that the ancient Constitution, and 'also 1 n dependence of the Cantons, shall he guaranteed by the said Powers,. in any treaty which may he concluded.. - PARIS.—It is said, on the. best authprity, that' • BuoNAPARTE removed almost every causefor prehension from the inhabitants before his depar ture: From the bankers he took all their specie; from the bakers all the flour lie wanted for his' .army; and from every man who had a horse all the necessary supplies for his cavalry ; so that the state of Paris now is the most- tranquil possible : — not a cairiage_to pc seen disturbing.the streets -4 but the inhabitants, who are left enjoying the Most peaceful domestic comforts within their owri houses, and as they are not permitted to hear any intelligence, they have a right to conclude , that ." no news is good news," and enjoy it ac cordingly. CommerciatspeCulation,in all its blanches, has been . uncommonly 'active in Liverpol since the battle of Lefipsic, and ,espicially Since the passage of the .Iq.hine by the Allied Powers. Theopeubig of all the ports of the L'entinent, the prospect of a speedy pacification with France, and the cow' ti nne d hostiiiTy of Arncricrt ; have caused a gradual and -steady advance in almbst all articles of Wej Indian and American produce., Air article from .1.411151;111; in the Dutch parrs , " • says " that' LOUIS B . UONAPARTE, 1 .:E4 . 01•Ct Switzerhtnd for Frilnce, delivered in a protest t° the Government or the Canton of V au d; on 11% 4 ' subject-of tire late events in 1.101.:an:1, containing a reservation of his _elainis to - *e.crown of tiu( c country, and requesting the above Government to place it in their arehi%es, or to sen d i t to t h e 'Lan darnman of Switzerland." The-Empress Louisa, it is sah!, wished to cow fer a pension of fifty pounds a-gear up`on'an oh! infirm Bishop in poriibus, aged 84, but that she could tint do it withont, writing for BuoNar., ls permission. We understand rnemoriai lias bear up from Hull, to the Lords of the treasury vesting that measures may be adopted I; , r aseer" wining the fitness of Hull to he included in th e number of those whence . trade may be allowed t 4 ' be carried on with the East Indies, under the lot ° act of, parliament fOr regulating the East int" Company's • _ _ _ At Contester Quarter-S6sions, a bill' oF (tic:uncut was found by the Grand 'July il!aias f Isaac Marsden,. as printer and publisher of a poe l . „' s called " The Guild," for a libel on W iL et‘F) SMITH, Eig. one of the Alagistrates for the P . rough .—At the same Sessions, a bill ,of i u dirt; meat was also found by, the Grand Jury 'Mr. John Badge, for a libel and misdemean sending to the present Mayor a gibbet itteosed the case which should have contained the n ric' . belonging to the Curpor,ition. Both indict n e° . are removed by. certiorari into the Court of Kiog Bench, for trial at the next Clachnorkl sizes.—(Cambridge Chronicle). Dr. 11. .011U3LEY EMERY,. Surgeon to tV I Forces, is appointed from the British Staff in the Peninsula, to be Senior Staff Sure'''• it Flynt nu t Dr. DL!NII,4,IIK; or the'Ruyal Hospital at 11" 5 ; far, is appointed PhySician to the Fleet, under ti` e command of Sir ALEXANLER ColfilANu, or' American stivion. On Friday week, J. HAGGER, game-keeper T-nos,..TuousteL, Dig. of Riddlesworth, folk, killed an eagle, which is, in length, frofn t t ; point of the beak to tbe end of the tail, three,fee,, the breadth, when the wings are extended, is ven feet one inch, and it weighs.9ll). • Iwo Ostriches we re l an ded on Tuesdiiv at Fort, mouth from the Pe rseus . Th e y Were ;ff 0' , ;• from the parbary coast by Captain The finest bird stands eight feet bit*- One night, during the late froSt, a 'chic:l'e board the Joseph and Ann, of Boston, lying to ( ` : :1 Thames, and in the act of rtimma , zing a box ,f clothes belonging to is 1:1(1 in the ship, onothcf : ;, the crew, a youth, called Irish .le:wily, being eel with a cutlass, made a push at' the rolibef the dark, and which passed thrciugh Verdict, Justifiable Homicide. Sunday sennight as two men were drivil l ?"o 'number of pigs over tie Ouse, at I . lowdendike, t:rd r ice proved weak, and broke, and 3' drowned. Howdendikc and 11t . 11 Ferry hat' r ' ij r been frozen over, to admit a passage across, 26 years before. • • During the last few days, a grea t nuttu'e::,, Golden Maids were, picked Ud on Brighton Ye:' qtr .and sold at good pric e s., They; goat on shore. ( l' l i,e blind, a state to which th e y ar e red uce d I "? . . f ., fc r snow; and it is • a fact well known, that' heavy falls, these fish arc always thus fnaliu great abundance. • I I I 1 . 0) !! , .!. 11 j J~~~ a 3 i l ~0, Rktr arts 't~ii~ .~,`