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D - Ivr3)-1 St. Sebastian, 1 Guernsey, 1 Jers e y, 2 Dubli n . —I2 E-23 Guttenbuigh, 1 Holland, 3 Waterford. Consols.. PRICE OF STOCKS Tff! U%Y Al TWELVE O'CLOCK. 82f Omni= 101 10 11 Iv • • • • •AIER A• I LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. ninilites after 12. f Eyouing, 50 minutes after 12. THE SUN. SOLEM QUIS DICERE nu.sum AuDEAT? LONDON, FRIDAY, APRIL 1, 1914. 11ENCII PAPERS.—RAPID FALL OF THE FRENCH ~,lINDS.—CORROBORATION OF THE RUPTCItE OF 411 E NEGOCIATIONS.—DEFECTION OF BUONA t PARTE'S TROOPS, &c. &c. &c. Pari s Papers to the 2titli ult. (last Saturday) ha ve reached Town, and furnish us with a few . ‘ e : ctr acts, important only from their unimportance. Pr e have reason to believe, that Papers of the 26 th have also arrived, at least Letters of that clktte have been received. One of the Minor Pa pers of the last-mentioned date contains a cu 11')us article, namely, a sort of implied recog l'itien of the independance of Holland.. This indi .reet ackno w l e d gment i s f ound in a paragraph which 'Matine es the intended marriage of the fleredi tarY Prince of ORANGE, son of the Sovereign of 1411 atirl, to the Princess CHARLOTTE Of WALES. 41 Ie arrival and departure of the English Mes • erl 4ers, too, is mentioned in these Papers with grea t minuteness and all the " pomp of circum ist'lnee," evidently with- the view of keepi ng a li ve ' t hopes of peace in the breasts of the peo- Pie ti • This alone ought to convince us of irnpolicy of carrying on any longer :a farce (for such it now is) o f negocia -144 et Chatillon, which we are firmly per yea contributes mo re th an a ll other causes A 2 together, to prevent that rising in France kb would at once h ur l th e D espo t to hi s ori "1/41 insignificance. rtlr regard to these French papers,. either the 4 14 118i an Editors are uninfo rme d o f th e s i tuat i on u nztApAarz, or they are not permitted t o ;Inthunicate what they do know. Whichever ithese is the case, the conclusion to be drawn s host favourable to our hopes. It the Usurper b e cu l t °lf from Paris, then, mus t hi s mili tary career ti n : 4 Nved in the utmost p e ril, an d th e Philis bit:i3 ar e upon the mo d ern S amson o f Jaco re,sril• If, on th e ot h er h an d, h e can free l y con -I:P°l'd with the C a pit a l, and has not done any li g upo n w hi c h he dare even trump up a false (la't to delude the wretched inhabitants of ; 411c ei then must his aff a i rs b e i n a st ill more des :ate state th an wou ld a tt ac h t o t he f ormer suppo ttiOhl• F tr or if environed by foes, he mi g ht, by a for :late soke break through their toils, and for a 1 1 14e nt parti a lly re t r i eve his f a lli ng f or t unes : b ut if i s - ° ely opposed to one part of the Allied Army, and oll red tteed to passive operatioos, there is nothing i a ea rth th at can i nterpose to save h i m from h i s Zitahle doWyfal. • p a 4 ' 41 some i nt i mat i ons t h rown out i n t h ese we should not be surprized to hear that )1e Grand Allied A rm y h a d aga i n a d vance d f rom li 4LBu r - Aub e , in co-operation with Marshal tf Llic "a, als o marching upon the Capital by a e I\jar ne• If so, this is the first time that Carultaneous movement of this nature has N ell at tempted. Meanwhile, Paris is harass almost all sides, and Must suffer dread -1.4! !ram want of supplies. Still they are are manu- L tri 6 Pikes miisquets, &c. These, we trust, 'He likely to be used against the Tyrant than Palest the Allies. S o e _ rs potekt ha ve we be come on the side of Flan by 5,0r14,:kt even Li s l e has been insulted at its gates ° 0 the con f e d erate troops. ( 01 ,_ epoch writte n t h us f ar when we received the `u ‘'ing from •; tDect. , s tatetnent with which we set out, re.. % it : I g the m ore recent arrival of French Papers. 'lea ders will h o ld i n m i n d , that the 27th was tArlday., " LLOYD'S, Twelve o 'Cl oc k. tb " l?re " 1 ) Pape rs to t h e 28th are just come in ; t al:e underhtnod to contain no information as ° stat e o f the Armies. it is said that 800- IL l Tt has b a d a horse shot under him, and th at Th e it le complains o f t h e d efection of his troops. ?t ie Negoti at i ons, it isunderstood, AR E COM -I"ELY AT AN Enna and the low price of, the Punds (Forty-four) sanctions this report. Tz. strange story is afloat respecting Lord CAS d .48Aq}./ ; it i s sa id that BUONAPARTE has OT : re(l pi et a rm i s , to Paris. Dispatches v e bee n received from IN Lord WELLINGTON, but their contents have not yet transpired here. A let et fro m an Officer of high rank in his Lordship's trin t , the .1, r eceived a few dayS ago, states, that from most accurate estimate he could form, the de trtien from SOULT'S Army, after the battle of Orthi es,exceeded 16,000 men,and that universal was the cry for the restoration of the BouanoNs, that ninety-nine persons outof every hundred whom he conversed with, declared that nothing short of the complete annihilation of BUONAPARTE would satisfy them ; and they ttlasted, that as the Duke D'AtioouLEmz had been brought amongst them by the English, he would receive their most cor dial assistance and co-operation. " The Funds are a little better—tbe annexed is nearly the price : Ornnium for Payment 10, 11k, 1 lb " Consols, 62, 624, " 5 per Cents, 901, 91, " Exchequer Bills, ss. dis. " India Bonds, 2s. 3s. dis." Upon the above we shall only observe, that we consider nearly the whole as entitled to credit. If we have any doubts, it is on the subject of the Compulsion of our Ambassador—but there is no crime too in t famous for BUONAPARTE tO Commit.— The letter from Lord WELLINGTON'S Army de serves implicit credit, as it is derived from one of the most distinguished and able Generals in the British service. He says " NOTHING CAN PRE VENT THE SUCCESS OP THE BOURBONS." We have continued this day our exclusive Ex tracts from German Papers, among which will be found a very dreadful estimate, of the sacrifice of human lives to which the ambition of her accursed Ruler has doomed France for the List two years. One million three hundred thousand Frenchmen have been raised by the conscription in that time ; and if we look at the existing state of the. Enemy's force preceding 1812 and now, we may say ALL THAT NUMBER HAVE PERISHED No country can support, no people can endure such exhaustion and wretchedness. 'We are happy to learn from Frankfort, that all the differences among the Swiss Cantons are ar ranged, and that these brave mountaineers are on the eve of heartily joining the Coannon Cause. Some of our contemporaries amuse themselves, and their readers, with fancying terms of peace offered and rejected at Chatillon. For ourselves, we profess never to hear from places whence there are no arrivals. Yesterday some further accounts reached us from Holland. Another attempt has been made by the garrison of Antwerp to plunder the adja cent country, hi a situation not within the cir cuit of the besieging forces. The brave peasantry successfully repelled the .attack, and as a mark of confidence for their spirit a.nd enterprize, they have been provided with arms, and are in progress of organization. It was reported yesterday that Rennes, the capital of Brittany, has declared for the DOUR-. BONS, and hoisted the white cockade. Princess CHARLOTTE, attended by the Duchess of LEEDS, visited her MAJESTY and the PRIN CESSES at the QUEEN'S Palace. Yesterday the Earl of LIVERPOOL and Viscount SIDMOUTH had audiences of the PRIgCE REGENT. Considerable failures arc apprehended, in eon quence of the rapid depression of the Funds. One house, but not of the first consequence, was yes terday dcclared in a state of embhrhsstnent. A Naval Gentleman, who was lately liberated by the Cossacks, says, be had been a prisoner for ten years ; but upon being removed front one derta to another, he had been liberated by a party of Cossacks ; and through many towns in France and French Flanders which he passed, and particularly the town of Sedan, where the manu factory for making the best black cloth is carried on, and .where upwards of 10 millions of francs worth of cloth, were hid in the different caves, he says the general cry was for the BOURBONS ; and that when any of BUONAPARTE'S military left the towns, it was the determination of the inhabi tants to defend them against re-occupation by the troops of the tyrant." The Earl of AYLESBURY, says a Morning Pa per, we are concerned to state, is too danger ously ill for the probability of his recovery. Lieutenant-Colonel Baron OF. MONTALEMBERT, Permanent Assistant Quarter Master General, is ordered to join the army under the command of Lord WM. BENTINCK. The Baron takes his de parture in a very few days, by the way of Holland. It appears from the German papers that the daughter of the brave Hetman PLATow, whose existence has been denied by the omniscient Edi tors of some of our English Journals, 'has been for some time resident at Basle. SUGARS.—The price of this article is already on the decline, and, from the large importation ex pected in May next, must then fall considerably. A claim has been made by the husband of Mrs. BISHOP (who was killed lately in consequence of the fall of a Louse at Glasgow, as formerly stated), against the proprietor of the building, for 13001. on account of the loss of his wife. The receipts, on Tuesday evening, for the relief of the relatives of the killed and wounded on board the Eurotas, amounted to more than 501. at the Plymouth Theatre. COLONEL DE BOURGIL-The Sub-Committee of the Stock Exchange get. on piece=meal in their discovery of this gentleman—they have got his -hat and his coat ; they Want nothing now but his whiskers and—him-self. Baron DE, EERENGER has also, it ,appears, the name of RANDOM. however, he bad any con nection ‘vitli thy StOck-jobbing Hoax, it is evident that he did. not shoot at random; but aimed di. rectly at the mark, u&1 wade a good hit. JACK KETCH, it 16 said, has resigned his kigh qllice, being, of course, naturally averse t 9 a bu siness ill, which matters are held in =pence.. SECOND EDITION. SUN-OFFICE, HALF-PAST ONE O'CLOCK. OFFICIAL I3ULLETIN. DISF.I7CHES FROM LORD WELLINGTON. " WAR DEPARTMENT, DOWNING-STREET, APRI L 1. " Dispatches have been received from the Marquess of WELLINGTON, dated Tarbes, March 20. The Enemy collected his forces at Conchez on the 13th, but on the 15th be retired to Lem- beg, leaving outposts towards the former place. "Ld WELLINGTON having been joined by detach ed troops and his reserves of cavalry, moved on the 18th instant against the French army. Marshal SOULT retreated before the Allies to Vic Bay- gorey and Tarbes, A strong rear-guard attempt ed to make a stand near the former town, upon the 19th, but were driven through it in_ a gallant manner by the 3d division. " SmuLT assembled his forces on the morning of the 20th,. in a position of which the town of Tarbes formed a part. Lord WELLINGTON marched, in two columns to attack this position, from which the Enemy retreated in all directions, after having suffered much loss from the attacks made by the Sixth and Light Divisions, which distinguished themselves. " Lord WELLINGTON states, that the loss of the Allies in these affairs has been inconsiderable, and he has not transmitted any returns. His H Lordship's army encamped on the night of the 20th on the Larzet and the Larroz." THIRD EDITION. We have seen a Private Letter, of a very recent date, from a well-informed person in Paris, from which the following is an Extract : " Nothing, my Friend, can exceed the distress and misery to which this City is reduced. Con sternation and despair reign in every quarter ; and the wretchedness we endure is only surpassed by the. apprehension of still greater evil's. From being a starved, our only prospect is to become a sacked City, unless, which God grant,. some fortunate event arises to redeem us from the abyss into which we have been plunged. " The populace have long spoken very freely on the. affairs of the Government. In order to sooth them and allay the ferment in the public mind, NAPOLEON has declared, that the terms of Peace offeed to him by the Allies were so humiliating that it was impossible to accept of them. Notwithstanding this, he thought it his duty to send them to the Senate for their consi- deration:' We have also at this moment seen another let- ter frotn' the opposite coast--from BOULOGNE. —lt mentions that the head Quarters of 800- NAPARTE ' were on the 24th at Vatry, about one third of the way from Chalons, on the Marne, to Arcis stir Aube. That an action had taken place, i❑ which the French, '' Coquin toujours heureux," bad a horse killed under him. This affair is not, however, spoken of as a general battle, but as of minor importance. From this we may fairly infer that the enemy was defeated. A Great BATTLE was immediately expected to take place. It is said that BUONA.PARTE had since arriv ed at St. Dizier, and was continuing to advance. —St. Dizier is fifteen miles south-east from Vitry, and above 30 cast from Vatry. As BLUC HER Was also advancing from Rheims, it is evident that his force must beinterposed between BUONAPARTE and Paris. What the Tyrant's object is in thus leaving the Capital open it is impossible for us, in the present state of our information, to de termine. AUGEREAU, reinforced by the Catalonian Army, was at Chalons-sur-Saone. This is a great way from Geneact It would be a most remarkable manceuvre were BuotqApARTE • and AUGEREALT . to endeavour to form a junction in the rear of the Allied Armies —between them and the Rhine. It is also, in this Letter, confidently said that the Congreess at chatillop would inevitably ter minate on the 28th. Another very considerable failure on the Stock Exchange was declared this morning. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS, THURSDAY, MARCH 31. The Legal Quays Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be committed to-morrow. The Writs of Assistance Bill was committed, and reporte,.!. CLERGY PENALTIES. The Archbishop of CANTERBURY moved the se cond reading of the Clergy Penalties Bill, stating that the enactment was to continue for a month longer for the suspension of proceedings against the Clergy for non-residence. The Bill was read a. second time, and or !wed to be cominitted to-morrow. - The ACirtpiis of LAN - snowNE asked; whether it was the intention to state to-morrow the grounds upon which this Bill rested. The Archbishop of . CANTERnURY, stated, that he had, conf - luded that the grounds were already before their .Lordships. This was merely the con.- titillation of a 'bill brought in during the earlier part of the session, to suspend certain prOccedings at Jaw against some of the Clergy for non-resi dence, till it. could be ascertained whether some further ultimate relief ought not to be given to ' the Church. • Lord LAUDERDALE moved, that certain ac counts which had been presented relative to the amount of Lank -notes in circuletion, &c. be printed for the use of the Members of that House. Ordered .—A Adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS. Mr. Sheriff MAG:iAY present(d a Petition from -the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, a►ul Commoners of the City of London, in Council assembled, pray ing (as the time for receiving private petitions for Bills was past), that they might have leave to present a Petition for a. Bill to widen the street called St. Martin-le-Grand, and hoping that the expences of such alteration would be provided for by the House, in such way as it might think. proper. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, if any sum were demanded from the Treasury far the purposs mentioned, it would be necessary that there should be some investigation into all the circumstances of the case. The alteration proposed was one which would be a great orna meteto the. city, and bighly.advantageous to its trade. Mr. Sheriff MAGNAY then presented the Peti tion for a Bill to widen and improve St. Martin le-Grand. The Petition was referred to a Com r mittee. GqLD COIN BILL The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER moved tit* second reading of the Gold Coin Bill. Lord FOLKSTONE (lid not. expect that what he could say would have any influence ; but he could not help repeating, that all the experience as to the operation of the Bill fully justified the.theo 7 retical views which had before its enactment beca exhibited on the subject. Sir JOHN NEWPORT did not know any gpod ef fect which had resulted from the metisore, but the evil which it meant to remedy went 0,11 atig,, mentedly„ The ,fact was, that in Ireland there was an enactment directly in opposition to this; Bill; it forbade any man to talte less than the current price for a guinea, which was there 11. 2s. 9d. ; to that a man would now be punished for taking, more, and also for taking less, than the value. This was a species of legislation which had no precedent, except in the legislature of Massachussetts-Bay. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER could see no contradiction in telling the Public_ that they might give an exact fixed value for a thing, but that they must not give more or less—(Fear !) The Bill was then read a second time, and or 'tiered to be committ,ll to-morrow. EAST INDIA SHIPPING The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, that as Gentlemen would probably wish to have fur ther information before they debated this subject, he would at present merely give an outline of his intention. It was the opinion of those who d;- rected his Majesty's Councils, .that . it would be improper to extend to the East India shipping'all the benefits and privileges with which British ships were invested : it was, therefore, his inten tion to permit ships built in the East 'lndies to be registered for China • and for Great Britain, but not for general foreign trade. In other respects, it was thought proper that these ships should be subject to the same restriction as other ships not British. Leave was then given to bring in the,Bill. Mr. Alderman ArrxiNs observed, that the ship ping interest was of great magnitude, and deserv ed the most serious consideration of the House. For this reason, be thought that all the informa tion which could be procured should be laid be fore the House. He should move, therefore, for the number of ships built by the merchants dur ing the last three years : there was also another paper which. had formerly been laid before the House after the battle of Camperdown, by which it appeared, that in that engagement-several mer chant ships had been taken into the line, and had mounted from 64 to 70 guns. • Mr. PRoTHiRoz agreed with the Hon. Alder• man, that on a subject of such importance us. the shipping interest of the country, no measure should be taken till the fullest information was obtained. The CHANCELLOR Of the EXCHEQUER thought the request of the two precediuir speakers highly reasonable • and he conceived that th e best Inc thod of effcting the object in view would be to appoint a Select Committee as soon as possible, where any information which any Gentleman could give would be readily received. General GASCOIGNE suggested, that the Com mittee could have nothing to do till some papers were produced. • The CHANCELLOR Of the EXCHEQUER said, that there was already a large mass of papers ' , and the Committee might with great propciety discuss what further papers would be necessary for their decision. The motion for the papers was then agreed to. CLERGY RESIDENCE . BILL. Mr.i3ATnoRIT moved the second rea3ing of the Clergy Residence Bill. Mr. W. WYNNE said that he b a d b e e n desired by Mr. Wright to present a petition, to the House,