The Sun. — London, England, 1814-03-10 00:00:00

proteirol rat# *l6 #rayra ) fiveyvirere titA *llO v 'ed to ,t,e , .v pl,ni'cly their joy 'en the birth-days of 'their be;cp,ed .So.-ereigns. Forced by the French - to illinni;iate taeir. houses fhr• the unhappy peace of Tilsit, they were forbidden to do the same on the' hittliday their King. Many arrestations to Dlact for infringing this ordinance, and the Di - • - ector of the Thiaire was confined .several 'ays for bavi arranged an indistinct allusion, in a ballet, to the happy day. 'these %were,ns ,, lenees committed by Erench ofii, ers in t!,cir p;Lbtic character : the insolence:l)f Many, - as individuals, was equally disgusting. It world lead too' to.mention instance of insolence, public and - domestic; bdt two ludi tro,,,, instances of the latter will give an udequ'ate Idea them although truth obli ,, es• ti) ts that there were many who behaved in a crcik- - able manner, and were sensible of the unple,4alit office they had to perforth. Gen. Dot senile, who.died some time ago at Pa ris, whilst.at Berlin, desired from the lady of the house, every day, amongst other things, six bot tles of eau de Cologne, to be used after his bath. He demanded also a large sheet to wrap himself in 5 and as none in the house were large enough, two were sewed together. But this did not please the geniaal ; the seam, he said, injured his skin, Mid he complained that no French general had ever been 59,i11-treated as he was. Geo. Verges, who was billeted at the.botise of a geutleman of the first distinction, was often upon. the point of fighting his host, upon the sub ject of some dish or another at table. Ho,one day asked.to this gentleman's.table,several Save- . dish calkers, who were returning from their cap tivity in France ; and he took au opportunity of assuring them, in the ,preSence of the master of the house atuhof his..lady, that they did tioA ; dine with them, but with him, as lie was now master tie house by right of conquest. .rinding hotter wine in-some other gentlemen's houses, where he was asked to dinner with his host, he told the latter, in his Gascon•diidect, before fill! whole company, that this was to he called wine, " mais que le sien eloit oi,zre, trouble" " that his was sour and cloudy"--and that he ought to take example - from his friends." DUTCH POLITICAL CONSTITUTION. " THE HAGUE, M. 3, 1814. " We, WILLIAM, by the Grace of God, Prince of Oraitge Nassau, Sovereign Prince of the United Netherlands, &c. To dll to whom these,pre- sews come, greeting ! " Invited to.the Sovereignty of these States by your confidence and your attachment, we from'the first declared, that we would undertake the same only under the guarantee of a wise constitution, which might secure your freedom against all pos lihle abuses ; and we . lave ever since continued to feel the necessity thereof. " We regarded it, therefore, as one of the first ePO most sacred of our duties, to summon together some men 'of consideration, and to charge them with the weighty task of establishing a funda menol code, built upon your manners, your habits, and corresponding to the wants of the present time. " They cheerfully took upon themselves this office, performed it with zeal, and have submitted to us the fru:ts of their uninterrupted labours. After a careful examination of'this work, we have given it our approbation. But this does not satisfy our heart.. it respects the concerns of the whole Netherlands. The whole .Dutch people must be rer_ , ognised in this important work. That people must receive the strongest possible assur ance, that their dearest interests are sufficiently attended to therein ; that religion, as the foun tain of all good, 'is thereby honoured and main tained, and religious \ freedom disturbed by. no thing of temporal concerns, but secured in the most ample manner ; that the education of youth, and the spread of scientific knowledge, shall be attended to by the Government, and freed from all those vexatious regulations which oppress the genius and subdue the spirit; that personal free dom shall no longer be an empty name, and de pendent on the caprices of a suspicious and crafty police ; that an impartial administration of jus tice, guided by fixed principles, secure to every man his property ; that commerce, agriculture, and manufactures he no longer obstructed, but "lave free course, like rich springs of public and ?thaw pr'ospe'rity ; that, therefore, no restraint be imposed' on the domestic econo my of the higher and lower classev , of the state, but that they be conformable .to the ge neral laws and the general. Government : that the movements of the general Government be not palsied by top great a zeal for local inte rests, hut rather receive from it an additionaliim- . pulse ; that the general laws, by means of an har moniouscd-operation of the two principal branches of the Government be founded on the true inte rests of the State ; that the finances, and the arming of the people, the main pillars of the body politic, be placed in that central point, upon which the greatest and most invaluable privilege of every free people,—their independaiwe,—may be firmly fixed. Which of yon can doubt of this truth, after the terrible experience you have had,of d foreign tyranny, _which acknowledged no right when it wanted aleans for its own maintenance by violence, whei tiglte4 ; of Lit tihtlet the ttiott . oppressive yoke that ever tras imposed slime the Spanish tinter ? " Now at least you the true value of those preCious rights for which our fathers sa , . crificed their property and blood ; of that happi ness which they bequeathed to their,descendants ao,d which we saw lost through the adversity of the dives " Following, therefore, and deriving.enconl ragement from their 'example, it becomes my duty, in imitation of those whose name•l bear, and whose Memory I honour, to restorz that which .is lost : it is your duty to support me therein With all your efforts, that under the bless ing of Divine Providence, who summons us to this' .task, we may leave our beloved country completely recononered and re-established to our childten.- " In order to be enabled to judge whether the constitutional code thus framed, as before stated, be a means of attaining the above great object, we have thought it right that the said code be submitted fOr maturer consideration, to a mune rous assembly of persons, the Most considerable and best qtyilifie4 among you. " We have for that purpose appointed. a special commission, who are to choose, .out of a nu merous list' given in to us, six hundred persons, in due . proportion to the population of each of the now existing departments. . . "Bondured with/ your confidence, they shall, on the 28th of this ►nonth; assemble in the metro polis of Amsterdam, to come to a determination !upon this weighty business. " They shall, in like manner, Nrith the letter of convocation, receive the plan of the constitution, that they may be able to prep4re their .decision thereon with maturity an►! calmness o► delibera 'don ; and, for the more effectual "attainment of this object, a copy of the same shall be sent to each member previously. "And as it is of the first importance that these Members be possessed of the general :confiilence, we order that a list of the persons chose► for each department be made public,. and that to all the inhabitants of the same, being housekeepers, an opportunity shall be afforded, by signing his name without any other addition, in a register which shall lie open in each canton for eight days, to disapprove of any such person br persons as he may deem unqualified. ! "No inhabitant is deprived of this right, with the exception of domestic servants, valets; bank rupts, persons in a state of non-age, or under accusation. When it shall appear to us, from the sum ming up of the registers, that the majority are sa tisfied with the persons thus submitted to their election, we shall consider them as the represen tativcs of the whole Dutch people, call them to gether, appear in the midst of them, and salute them as constituting the great assembly, repre senting the United Netherlands. They shall then commence their labours in freedOm and give us an account of 'their progress by a committee appointed to that effect ; and as soon as the adoption of the constitutional code is the result of their deliberations, weshall make the necessary'arrangements .for taking the oath pre scribed.to us by the constitution with all due so lemnity, in the midst of the assembly, and after that be installed instate. In the adoption of these measures, worthy countrymen, you must feel convinced, that the welfare of our beloved country is my first and only object ; that your interests and , mine are the same ; and how can they be more manifestly promoted, than by the introduction of constitu tional rules, in which you will find the guarantee of your dearest rights? They will furnish me with the advantage of conducting, on fixed principles, the charge and responsibility of GoVernment, as sisted by the best and most intelligent of the citi zens; and will secure to me the continuance of that affection, the expressions of which rejoice my heart, animate my courage, lighten my bur then, and bind me ,and my house for ever to our regenerated country. Given at the Hague this 2d of I\larch, 1814, and of our reign tie Ist' (Signed) " WILLIAM. "By command, A. IL FALCK, Secretary of State." , ROTTERDAM, MAncn s.—From Goes we learn, that on the 2d a heavy cannonade was beard there, occasioned by the entrance into the Scheldt of two ships of war of 50 guns, one English and the other Russian, anti which were fired upon from the batteries of Flushing, Both the ships went ,aground, but the' Russian soon floated : armed boats had been sent to lighten the .P)glish vessel, which was.still aground, though out of the reach of the, cannon. ' We lean; from Breda, that o' the 3d, 1600 A Contemporary Journal has published the Letter, which will be found in a subsequent column, purporting to be from Count D'EscAes„ the at-. tendant upon MONSIEUR, of the genuineness of which we see no reason to douht, and never. did_ we experience greater satisfaction than in acknow ledging its authenticity, for it strikes the last prop from under the tottering - fabric raised by the fac tious and Jacobin supporters of BUONAPARTB and the new Dynasty.—Vok populi, • vox Dei, they have told us,—the people of France, yea, the whole people cleave to the Hero under whose glorious, yet mild, under whose splendid, yet be neficent sway they have achieved. such mighty triumphs abroad, and enjoyed such unheard of fe— licity at home. There is not a voice raised tor the BOURBONS : the present generation have no in terest in them: the youthful know them not, and - the aged detest them. Base Sophisters ! Could not Hiqtory teach them that the . loyalty ,of an entire nation is not to be Whelmedin 'oblivion, even by twenty years of slavery—that the patriot ism of a whole people is not to be subverted; even by the grinding of the most diabolical despotism throughout the term of one generation. In every.. French. town where the Brother of the murdered Monarch has shown himself, he has been hailed with transports of enthusiasm, as the harbinger of better times. The return of the Dove bearing theliving sign . of the cessation of, universal des6-, lation, was not more joyful to those who had so long been the 'victims of. the raging elements, than has been the auspicious return of their Sovereign's brother to the inhabitants of France. They too, have felt the horrors of the storm ; the tempest which has roll ed over Europe, had recoiled on their heads ;' their's was the portion of apparently irremediable sorrow and hopeless misery : When a deScendant of Sr. LOUIS - appeared among them, - and like the' • inspired prophet of an elder age, was received as the Fore-runner of peace and happiness to come. Of peace and. happiness .the more dear because un expected ; of . restoration to the._ great la.mily of civilized man ; • of emancipation from the bitterest tyranny that ever oppressed a country, withered its . strength and. slaughtered its population . ; in fine, of the revival of the social system, the over throw of crime and usurpation, and the re-estn lishment of- " THE GOOD OLD CAUSE." . Well might the old, the women,, the children, extasy about the Prince, and shed tears of ' gratis tude and rejoicing, while they strove to kiss the, very hem of his garments. NVell might they shout `.` Long hive our King ! God save thellourbons !": It is long since any real feeling of joy hag reached their hearts—their hearts, which they truly say, are all that the Monster his left them to 'Offer it the shrine of loyalty. around the districts where the Prince baa been, the people have demonstrated their attach" ment, and demanded arms to encounter the Bd rersaries of their lawful King. Every place de sires to surrender' to Loins XVIII.; and nOW at last has. arrived the solution of that grand j)nlit►- cal question, Which it has been our lot Most ear' nestly anti . devotedly to espouse on the side which these events prove to hate been the best founded fact, as it ever was the noblest, the most tat,00 64. the most honourable, and the mrist moral., It has been argued that the Allies had no rig lit to interfere in the domestic arrangements 14 France. i'Ve denied this proposition to the ex' tent it was carried. In private lite, it our resi deuce was placed next door to a i•eceptack 1° 1. thieves, or to a Bagnio, whose midnight brawls and disorderly practices .2ndang,ered the safety of our property and 'lives, we - would cAll in tae strong arm of the late to. abate the Ho:sauce, ;ilid confine our worthless neighboarS with n limits coo' sistent wit!) the weal of the better description 0 1 the community. So it is witti nations as with mill vh das. The whole worlit is conet - rned in the re'. pression .of a combination of Pirates Or a (1 0 " vernment of Scoundrels, Neith whose uncontrottV • cd proCeedings the security 9t other ,p0..‘0.5 cannot co-exist. It was , thus th,it the ciples . of the French re%:olution were 'round of ‘var for all the other po.vcrs ° t. Ehrope ; and the interference in the internal rt.‘"*. lations of other kingdoms is not only de:ensV e, but it is the bounden and indispeuSible very Nation On earth. 'By an internal regii' l-- tion America would rob Britain of a right v•Ca necessary to our continuan:.e as a grear and therefore alone are we at war, mid justly war with America. In the same degree, it th e : avowed principle's 'of the Ruler France,' and his erection of a military DeSpiaisin nP° l) --' these principles, are hostile to 'the tratigu il 7. lit= and ' independance of England,— Itiv's i4 ! Prusia, Austrif‘ ; then have England, ;idol"' Prussia, and Austria an undoubted.right, fu e On the surest and broadet of all laws, t hat " t selflreseryation, to dictate, if the success ottbc it : arms 'put it in their power, and. arrange the . 41°. ‘ ; vernment of France, experience having , the rule utiderwhich that, country has ken 1 1 1 4. for the last twenty years, is ipcomPatible welfare of their, respective peoples. / Upon this subje c t i t may not b e t° ' mark, that it n - ever struck our Patriots, our IViltP and friends ut popular .iuttioritv, tliktt the r' _ . Lion of 'the claims of tile r.)oUkik3Oli ~, ter and hoist their Stan,iard in France,. wi s , the part of the`Allies, an interference wi - t" privileges or the People. -- The Bouy."BoNs leatt, as good alight to say . ive will put otir tunes to the•test by an appeal to the People, a ce our Subjects, without asking the leave Of 1111/ Sovereign living ) , as BIJOIsiAPARTF. kid to tISSer the inviolability of his dominion over t he peol )l4 ' of France The refusal expe . rieneeil by the lick)' ch ,J. Princes,.. by. which their appeal .•tvas, pr . ec!" ll ' . troth operating, was a direct measure of inleti c , V ence in the internal regulation. of France. one, kowever; exclaimed. againit it, and we tr - the BoURBONs will in the end have no cati 3cto regret the tardy justice %Odell they have .receive°' The report of the defeat of J3noNAPARTE in ° letter from Deal of yesterday, has assumed c 4)l`. sistency under the improving pcns-of some o' Contemporaries. Th ere i s h o W e .: cr n o Oh' foundation for -it than we yesterday counnanic`v ted. Many other rumours. are also in eirchtlitin. That PLATUFF had reached Ver, , :tiiles- -t.° , Antwerp had surrendered—that Osiena fts taken. and the whole coast open to commto"c" lions from the Allies—and thk Dunkirk, - 51 : 11 ' 1' &c. were :approached by the. bravo .'" ) , 1 sacks, are among the number. Most happY 5 1)4 we be to find them all correct; but GovcriO es 'i • a:l c have not yet received any such inteliigeocc , thergfore we fear they are at present,prenuttLire', From the Dutch Papers vie extract the tion tei ttive to the New'Constitution. important and satisfactory Docipnent. it is, said that the Empress. of RvsstA 0 eve•Of visiting this country. We know Ir t what authority the runiour.rests, but private -let, ters certainly aumiunce that such is her i!l!l jc 0 Majesty's intention, amd even go so fl te 11 1°- to name part of her suite. The . Noble and Jo. trio,s Ren o vator of Europe, A LE XANDBI'' 11. %be' also, it is Armed, be expected- Englaud • warlike toils have been crowned w_tif thee just reward. • • tvi til Yesterday the' eub - net Ministers tline c yi 'Viscount MimvILLE, .it his honSe thc talky. Vreinibmen Were expected there, who had been made prisoners between Aluns and Valenciennes. FIIANKToRT, FEB. 23..:—Accoi ding to the latest aceo4nts received here from Italy, the Old Castle of Verona, oil the I I th,iustant, surrender,3l to the Att,Ariani. The battle of • the Btl► was followed by another 'engagement ou the next day, but they had neither of thentany result of consequence. DussswonF, Fr.B. 25.—Sloce thy 11th iust. the fortresses olLuxemburg and Thionville have been blockaded. 'A part of the Electoral lies sian troops 'compose the besieging force. Ge neral .Dornberg commands before time first, and General Muller befpre the last. The troops which were engaged before against- Thionville have been suddenly withdrawn to strengthen the Allied armies. BRED:, FEB. 25.---Two Proclamations have been issued by the Allies, and sent into Antwerp. Ire.object of the .one is to instigate the inhabi tants tit rise upon the enemy, in order to prevent the bombardment of their city; the. other is to the military, and toe garrison is Warned against any obstinate resistance, which would insure their being sent into Siberia on the reduction of the place. It was accompanied - by an offei of free pardon it they. assisted in the designs of the Allies. BitussELS, 24.—From Ostend we that the - number of the garrison is 12..0, and tnat peat preparations had been Iltdde for the ti,lence of the place, by deepening - and opening the 'dykes, by collecting provisions, aad by contribUtions on the inhabitants in the neighbouring districts..--- Persons fioin that vicinity state that the whole country round Ostend is under water, and that the peasants are so much enraged at this circum stance, that 4000 of than have armed themselves, and have compelled the enemy,to keep clase•With in the walls. DUE-1 Malta, 17 Gpttenburgli, l ildigoland, 1 Holland, Watcrturii. PI ICI. STC::KS THIS DAY A 1 I ''7l . I.V T. O'CLOCK. Consols 71 V F . '7i man wATER ...vr LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Mornintr, 3 minateb after 5. Evening, 40 minute* after F - E1 TNT .17.4 U) • stmEm utits DlcvAit FILSIJ.NI (11/EA - LONDON, THURS DAY, 31,1 • RCH 10, 1814.