The Sun. — London, England, 1814-01-11 00:00:00

1:oe' aaj Persons who obtainNl the news; and 'who,. " no win4 that these'apers were .not of a pacific t etide ncv, kept them secret till the assertion that o l eY Were so, an d that the French Funds bad risen 5 Per cent. enabled them to raise Ortinium to 18, 111 el, in tr u th, th e ir i n f o r ma tion extended to the 1, 4.1 that the intelligence was warlike, and that the French Funds had fallen 5 per. cent. iag , l Under such circumstances, our Readers will re ' bow difficult it is always to steer clear of de xon and at the same time furnish the most re t`t news. We desire, therefore, to he perused with ccireat, that what we affirm we know of our leiv" ma, be relied on with the most implicit ' ° aAdelice, and what sr p state as reports, resting " the authority of others, must be construed . \ti th a reference to, and stand or fall by that au- The rutnour we mentioned yesterday has been of a number to all the Morning Papers. i -ue it s saki that BLIONAPART2 had shot.him "--hv another that MARIA LOUISA bad found mea ns to a cq uaint her father that the King of c ' l lE was a little impostor, and no son of a third, that the Corsican had fled tunnats—by a fourth, that he had pro t'"ded to join in army which he has some 11'4"e or other, andthat the disturbances arose .41.ter ,lei from Paris. We submit th e s e I.s or t he f!hoice of our Readers--they are all upon al to authentiefty, and every mail may pre adds th at W•hich he likes best—for our parts, we r e to the death Of BUONAPARIE, reckless a gtlt ;li~ Jt kitch P ~~i ' P, ~~~~, X 74 ~ I tsar ,<<``' 3 l to) I f o r4 l l AO. iitte l t C tO tbj G ~~~~ . • i c r:e° ) ' ,IC al t(l' „II I ° rot, 6 061 ,G gil ilt)ii 10( 11 i r pfc co"' xQ ,50 v it tbe i s tte iti 5 at V ruz ,ll° li 011 Jo t ' do lIC III til3 L o o.l ,cf t ' • full rJ c i‘s' 1 0115 a t:t 4 }ce ll 50 115 tar, ,,e iie l )cg' /O le it 1' la yl pRINcE ALEGEN •T is expected in townnto trVesterday morning the Pulse of Yor,E, after t anSa eting military business at Tort; 1)- House, af e, t he post bad arrived, left town for Windsor, a visit t o the•QuEEN, to report to her MA.TES tI t he proceedinv at lielvoir Castle, on the ' " lsteninff , of the Marquis of GRANBY, to whom b ler MAJusTY did the honour of standing sponsor ver " concerned to say Princess SOPHIN• is onich indisposed. th e ntllilre nee has been received from Paris by "f Kiyonne, that several persons of dis minn 11,1( 1 been thrown into prison in conse til t ence of taisiug lti secret measures to undermine e Govern me .We have - reason to b e li eve, t h at t h e i nten d e d ti,il ,i rture from this country of MONSIEUR and the T~n k e De. BERRI is'suspended for the present.— 111)1:1vate letters from Cadiz, of a recent date, 1 -ern mn, that all thoughts of Lord WELLINGTON'S Stqrlin,(2; his command were happily at an end. „ u i eHE T, it is certain, had left the army of Bar- T' for some appointment in France. hr`'is Majesty's sh'p Cossack, Captain STANPF,LI., ; 11et1 a t Gibraltar on the 15th ult. after landing /;,.." I , l 'N MURRAY at Valencia. Captain STAN tri th wis been appointed by Sir EDWARD PELLEW I.4 ‘kr "1" "ml of a squadron, to cruize between el ,v4l'a Point and Cape de Gat, for the•purpose .„A.. 4 q 1 n.; the ens, ern entrance of the Straits. " entn, -)e uburgh letter of Dec. 31, asserts that 1: ‘, 110 .s consented to the alienation of the The, ' x ‘urwav in full sovereignty to Sweden. Lord \''‘,e, is a report 'row Sicily that MURAT upCi the orn 14 :NTINCK had bad a ' meetiog, in which 111 t 'r prupo sed terms on which he was ove no the cause of BUONAPARTE. Oa:! r eps :rum - I . 'dtruno state, tha: they were in (1' 7xPectatioti of the Neapolitan ports being l' Z v' ' . ! .. t • () any ship with neutral colours. 1 "1 "; ., kt.: letter from Schanffhausen mentions e e!itire openness of Switzerland to the AllTes, but! the hearty welcome with which they have % t ell r;Teived not only in that country but by the oa the left of the Rhine. A Gentleman Who quitted IHantbnrgh on•the 4 th ult. says, that 27,000 inhabitants ,in the r")le have been turned out of the place, and that mixed himself with the rest as a pauper, to ef- . . f eet his escape. The number of inhabitants now ‘ . .tt, • . ng . ' a tnT is about 60,000, or about one half the i n e g' ll ar popul a ti on . S ome o f the Pr i nc i pal build -"" are converted into purveying-houses for the tb "Ps, and the churches into stables. A few of P le aure houses without the walls have been rh - standhig, to he used astemporary hospitals.— t , i,„,ry Of the citizens was extreme. e 'ieral STRodox , oFF watched Harburgh, and thLt,ninticated with General WORONZOFF across 4t , : t by Blankenese and Stade. DAVOUST was af r , e ; ,," °Y some of the prisoners .to be excessively sti'l'e of th e populace. It is impossible to de bt: le the he which all the people aboutllarti- ANg t 4 , entertain for DAVOUST j and innumerable b rot le stories whiCh they relate of his avarice and eel ` a kitY• The Dutch gunners had secretly spilt neals:t °f the large guns, in consequence of which th t ; hot French gunners were permitted to do thi : 'ln th e works ; t h ey were bi vouac k e d u pon g i j i ., l4lll Parts, and neither the inhabitants nor the . were permitt-d to ascend them. "e i nhabitants were daily quitting. Hamburgh i,,,,, grea t number s ; an d it was t hought, that there n, la "t less than 50,000 who were not able to 1110 - ur , the prescribed stock of necessaries for six m utak the for want of money, and the e r e opule n t f rom the want of provisions in the p,.: 4ll bunrh oo d, w hi ch had 'been scoured by 43 i 101 commissioners and donaniers for -the use uP the garrison. The Engliih flotilla was expected the Elbe with great anxiety and if it did not 3:fte,it Was th oug h t :t h at some R uss ia n chas i,lts wo u ld h e put on hoar: Blankenese boats, ""rder to clit'ar the rive r o f F renc h gun-boats. 4 ,1 1 P to the • 16th ult. the English, in Lower had a free communication with - Altona, vvi n . eh w as then consificreil es a neutral town, in -'a nes h a d only 1 , 11 0 the t nem v h a d star , irted no troops. The about 120 c,; i atlry, and a bur her in ti t ?. town. Itillaoitants had shut ' 41,1 1E gates Against the French. . lib' ! NAVAL NEWS. HARWICH ; JAN. 10.—Ariived his Majesty's Ship Bruiser, Lieut. Plum with WALSH the Messenger, and a Naval Lieutenant, both ‘vlth dispatches. Also arrived the following trail:limit from Holland, Retrieve, Tyne; Kingston, Fame, Albeory, Hannah, William; Elizabeth, aad the Fides. DEAL, JAN. 10.—Came 'dOwn from the River the Quebec packet for Corunna, and the Amelia, Wilson, and Matilda, the two latter with Spanish troops, and sailed, under convoy of the Swan cut ter, for Portsmouth. Arrived his Majesty'S ship Poictiers from Portsmouth, and sailed for Sheer ness ; Active hired cutter with dispatches from Admiral 'i r ottuG, in the Roompot. PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 10.—Arrived his Majesty's ship Savage, and the Weymouth store-ship, from the Downs. The former sailed again on a cruise. FALMOUTH, JAN. 8.-- 7 -Arrived his Majesty's ship Fylla, 22 guns, Capt. SHEPHERD, from a cruise, and has sailed again. Sailed the Duke of Kent packet with a mail for Passages. LOSSES AND CAPTURES FiCONI LLOYD'S BOOKS OF 10TH INSTANT. The Aurora, Cope, from Dover to St. Sebastian's ; Two Friends, Sew•el, from Gibraltar to London; Fox, Cook, from Malta to Ditto; Lightning, Riddel, from St. Michael's to Ditto ; and six other vessels, .were taken and destroyed be,. tw•ecn the 4th and 16th ult. by the Pallas and Circe French frigates. The Seringapatam, Stayers, and the New Zealander and Charlton, Harerow, of London, were taken round Cape Horn, by the Essex American frigate; the latter given up to the crew. The Ewe, Cops, front London to Sicily, is taken by two Fre.icli frigates and two corvettes, and carried into Algiers. The Capti:iii and Supercargo made slaves. The Chance, Reid, for Loado❑ to the Baltic, has been taken, retaken, and carried into Ystadt. The Duck, Sully, from Newfoundland to Plymouth, has been captured by the Pallas and Circe Frenoh rrigates, atv+ Rouen up to the cry xs of nine , which they 11:1 , 1 captured. The Duck arrived at Scilly on the , ;:h inst. The Industry, Wanderwards, from Rotterdam to lf.enn.l.) was totally lost on the sth instant on the ent..7 of tiotland.— , Crew saved. The Bee, Green, of Yir:r,outh, Ilden with coils, sunk• off Lowestoft•, 6nm-tied. The Progre,., fr,nn Petersburgh to . London, is ; lot, on the (?reel.--Part of the cargo saved. Thu Golawitian, from .Tamaiel f.r Eng . - lard, put into New Bedford, 17th August, in distress The frog Cuxhayen to London, pat itro Kola, leaky. NAVAL APPOINTMENTS. .Admiral Sir Alexander Cochrane, K. B. to he Commander in Chief at Halifax, in the room of Admiral Sir J. B. War ren, ordered home.—Capt. Jo%nstone to the command of the Scarborough, 7 , 1, the tlag.ship of Rear-Admiral Ferrier, the Text;.--Lient. Oliver, of the Sultan, 74, promoted to the rack of Comtn.indel--Capt. Christian t'' the command of the Leveret sloop, in Voseley Bay —Capt. Bowden to the Gut.- go 9 ; Lieut. N. Duff to be Flag-Lieutenant to Sir A. Coch rane ; Lieutenants M. Wrayford, N. Lock, S. Maihon, and Roberts,G. Asia.; J. Moffatt, Myrtle ; W. Jacobs, and H. Searle, Bulwark ; H. Bird, Elephant; C. Hearle, Nemesis; lion. G. Trefittis, Ethalbu ; H. Davis, Sealtorse ; Lieuten . aut.% W. Marhfy, Pilch, itowden, R. Fiunis, are promoted to the rank of Commanders.—Messrs. H. T. Lancaster, J. H. Bellasas, G. syme. IL. Broth, and S. W•dpie, ate- prtnaotod to the rank of Lieutenant. DISTRIBUTI OF PRIZE-MONEY. Tartar, for the Ounmerce, on thg- 14th at N 0.41, Norfolk-street. Recalls every T and Friday. NV'riting, for the Friends, pa the 11th lust. lteealls to No. 23, Norfolk-street, Strand, ever r Tues4 l l.y and Friday. Pyrasuus,44e the loweratrice oo hoard at Plymouth,' *n the 15th init. Recalls at Ni.. 22, Norfolk-street. Rota, :or toe Young 1 - I.►lkar. Recalls at No. 15, Surrey street, Strand. The West India fleet, consisting of upwards of 160 sail, sailed from Cork on the 6th inst. under convoy of the Leviathan MRII of war, Ister 16- gate, and Echo sloop of war, acid were joined, off Cork Harbour, by about 40 sail more, front Li verpool and Brutal. • The Rover stoop of war, upon whose arrival so many pieces of exclusive intelligence were fur nished to several papers, is thus announced in the .Plymouth Telegraph:—" The Rover sloop of war, with several transports, having on board the. re-:. twining German soldiers front Passages, arrived - here on Tuesday last, after long and tempestu ous voyage. The Rover has brought no intelli gence of a recent date, as has been erroneously stated in several Papers. The appearance of these troops is martial ; hut their Frenchified dress, immense mustachios, and bushel caps, excite no little sur prise among the inhabitants." On Tuesday, John hoops, Purser's. Steward of his Majesty's ship Poictiers, was tried by a Court Martial, at Portsmouth, for desertion, and for taking with him money and shawls, the property of the seamen of that ship, which bail been in trusted to hint for the sake of safety. The Court .schtenced the prisoner to receive 500 lashes, in any port the Poictiers may be ordered to, and in such a manner as the Admiral commanding may think proper. It appearing that the notes in his possession were the same he received for the doubloons, the Court ordered that the seamen who had been robbed should be reimbursed. The'whole of the Officers and privates behing ing to the Buckinghamshire regiment of Militia have volunteered for Holland, and the quota al lowed by law will proceed in a few days for em barkation. They will he accompanied by their Noble Commander, the Marquis, in their intend ed services. • Among'the prisoners which arrived at Plymouth from Pampeluna, there were 40 women, in so wretched a, state, that they were wholly destitute of the appropriate dress of their sex, and were altogether in the most extreme wretchedness.--, Two Lides, the wives of gallant Officers attach ed to the navy, with the most humane and ready consideration, immediately set on foot a subserip tion, and the result bus answered so well to the benevolent intentions of the ami.thle movers, that the unhappy •sufferus have been amply secured f;'ow 'lle inclemency of the season, and put in ••a coizthtioa of comparative comturt. MEDITERRANEAN FLEET. EXTRACT: OF • A LETTER FRO:A 'ON BOARD tits MA JEsTY.'S sat RESISTANCE ON QUAIL‘NTINE). DATED PLYNOTII, JAN 6, 1814. Before We left our station, in the Adriatic,' the Fialianniti And Wcazle had been sent to Zara, to assist the Austrians in expelling the Fiend) froni that strum; hold. The Bacchante and Sa racen,. at the Bocca tl; Cattaro, had taken 20(1 French troops, and above 400 Croats had desert . - ed from the French cause ; six t Litn-boats have also been .taken;there. •The Cattaro was 'closely be wieged,,,otid many thousand Montenegrians were itssiSting against the French. An expedition had been fitted out by Admiral Freemantle and Gen. Nugent, - at Tri es te, against Ragusa. The troops would he aided.hy Col. Robertson and 500 troors from Lissa. Capt. C. Rowley, of the Eagle,: was to command the naval part of the force. By the latest accounts from Venice, a g eneral insurrec• lion was expected there against the French party, whose force tncre u.is about 4,004 troops, and the Viceroy's army in the neighbourhood; but the latter was composed chiefly of Italians, who desert in hundreds. The three line-of-battle ships at Venice had taken out their gnus, for the pur pose of moving up towards the town. to keep the disposition of the city in check. The exertions of the seamen and marines of our squadron, to assist our Ally (the Austrians), had been uapre cedenteilly great. They had constantly to con tend with heavy rains, bad weather, and heavy surf, in landing all descriptions of stores. The %%Janie of the Illyrian Provinces, with the ener getic assistance of our ships of war, will soon be under the Austrian flag : the cordiality of the two nations is beyond all fortuer instanees.—Count Nugent (who is an Irishman by birth), was or dered to co-operate with Admiral Freemantle in all that he did. Ali the male inhabitants in Istria, Croatia, and Dalmatia, were joining the Austrian standard in thousands, a nd demanding arms ; vast ntunber of w.iich had been sent front Zinte , in the Eagle and Mermaid, by General Campbell, tun: at the request of Count Nugent. Upon the • fall of Ragusa and the Bocca di Cattaro, which was momentarily expected, Admiral Freemantle wauld _return to England in the Eagle. Trade • may he satta expected to take its wonted course a Trieste, the presence of the French had greatly impoverished. The carriages of the mer alone,• ,count Med to amount to ninety, tv, re reduced to five. " 7i'he isl a nd of Lisa, from the Continent opoied, will become comparatively depo 0-lated, Coffee at Trieste is half a dollar per lb. produce and English goods are in great de.nand there, being wanted for Germany, Hun gary, And Bohemia. " Several merchants had already 'arrived at Trieste, from Vienna, to purchase English goods, &c. The Archduke Nlaximilian, with his brother Francis (brothers of the Empress of Austria), had Arrived at Fiume, front Lissa,' in the Eagle, with the Archduchess, daughter of the King of Salali nia, on their way to Vienna. TheArchilnke Max imilian was several days on board the Milford, at Fium " The gallant retreat made by Count Nugent, on a recent attack made upon him by the whole Trench force, had saved the town from being plundered ; they staid only two hours.; the inha bitants became greatly alarmed at the thought of being again under French domination. - The Aus trians and our shioping took up the strong posi tion of Poi', in Istria. whence the French had been expelled by a force, •principally Croats, headed by a Priest. All the necessaries of life are remarkably cheap at Trieste—beef only three pence halfpenny per pound; turkies three and four for a dollar." "There are fire thousand Poles at Sedan, animated with the best spirit."..-(Fiench Puprrslt INIPROMPTITS. Ah, liosv! you'll never, do all that you can, Us• five thousand Pules in a single Sedan. BONY sends his degenerate Poles to Sedan, Like their Master, to do all the mischief they cab; Such objects at once of our horror and scuff; 'Tis hop :d when they't e there will be soon carried of S TA mPoitti, JAN. Royal Highness the Duke of YoaK passed through here from the Earl of WINCHELSLA'S, at one o'clock this maiming, fo r Londo'n. 'His Royal highness the PRINUE REGENT will leave Burleigh-on-t&-Hill to-mor row morning, for the seat of Lord MELBOURNE, Brocket Hall. Horses have been ordered for his ROYAL. HIGHNESS, to be. at Casterton, two miles trom hence, at eleven o'clock. His ROYALHIGH• NESS received the congratulations of the Nobi lity, Clergy, and' Gentry, &c. on Saturday, at Lord WINCHELSEA'S, and the Royal Presence was hailed inthe same loyal manner as had been de monstrated during the tour of tke illustrious PRINCE, by all ranks. At this auspicious conjuncture of public events, the mind nat n recurs to the situation of this country at the commencement of the present con:. test with the Ruler of France. In July 1803, BnottikeAu're, with his choicest legions, forming an army of upwards of one hundred and fifty thou sand men, was encamped on the heights of Bou logne, menacing this kingdom with an immediate invasion. At that critical moment, the Patriotic Fund was established, and by the Contributions of the public, it has been enabled for ten years lo animate our Forces by sea a n ti land, and to ad minister Comfort and consolation to upwards of 16,000 individuals, sufferers in the gloriou& con flict. We cannot therefore, but . encourage the pleasing. hope, that by the Collections made in the differ nt Churches on the day of Thanksgiving, the Committee for managing that,lnceitution, will be enabled to continue their benevolent exertion towArds every object requiring it, both in the Army and Navy. - In consequence of the frequent disturbances bt‘lween the French independent companies lately arrived from America, and the other foreign troops stationed at ,Lymington depot, it has been thought expedient to remove the former—they have mottlingly been - embarked for Portsmouth. THE CATHOLICK BOARD. 4, When rog es fall out," &c. " lue proverb is somewhat mus.ty."—StIAKESPEA We copy the following portri;ture of the , C,a. tholick B•)ard from its pan e gy r i s t ni l ol.gan The Dublin Emning Post. This '' Angost Body " could not have its character drawn by any better acquainted with it thin this superlative N.!Wfv. p iper, who •e anger •is excited by the rescission of Dr. DitoraGooLe's Luton's vote;and reprehen sion of his no less famous speech-. It required no extraordinary powers of 'divina tion to oresee, that thelate very childish and very cowardly Vote of the Catholic Board, as it has excited ihe disgust of rational men, - who nave been the 34vocHtes of the cause, and Nvho have even defended the conduct of the Board, would call forth the sarcasm and ridicule, such as they are, of the enemies of Emancipation, as .veil as the hired maligners - of the MemberS who distinguish them selves in what are called the Debates of the Body. It was easy to foresee, that a few miseraok and rotten common-places about liberali .ty—coannon places as flat and as flimsy as those which the Incipient sponters use in the Historical. Sockty of the College—common-places which no man of an original mind—no man who bad the faculty of - thinking, would condescend to employ—it was easy, we say, to foresee, that all this fustian and folly, instead of setting op the character of ;the .Bositcl" with our Protestant'Fellotthjects," would have the effect of rendering the Board, as far as the Board is concerned, an object of unnii-s tigated contempt. We say as far as the Board .. is concerned, for, to the honour of - that kody, which The Evening Post, at least, never will de sert, we can state, that the Vote was carried by .an obstreperous hurley-burley of voices, like some of the questions in the Jacob . n Club, when de cency, and propriety, and reason were lost in the war of vulgar acclamation. lint the Public out of doors, those not acquaint en with the machine of the Body, those who re gard it as containing five hundred Catholic Gen tlemen, including the Catholic Hierarchy, can not he blamed; nay, it was natural that they should visit upon the whole Body the scorn which we must reluctantly admit, the supporters of the Vote in question (unanimous) have so •amply merited. Yet nothing can be more unjust. In that Board there are many pure spirited and man- . ly minds, with Irish hearts, and views only to Irish good, who hold hypocrisy in sovereign dis dain. These . men arc not the clamoreis of the Body, the exclusive and noisy Patrons of that bastard banding, which every eourtezan and libertine in the Land Call Liberality ; the • daily. Orators, who fatigue the public ear, even ad nauseant, with • their owl: mighty deeds .in the service of their Country.—quite otherwise ! They are most of them silent Members—but they are firm and principled. - They are not political gladi ators who fence for theamhlic sport—w ho - roaionly governed in their movements by the plaudits of the million, who give up a principle or a position, and assume it,;as it may suit the convenience of the hour ; who, provided they the in the front of the arena, care very little which side of,the ques tion they support—in short, the majority, the great, the rsspectable majority.—the men who really govern those who _appear to,Jead the Body, are not formed of - such Cameleon sta., of such unsubstantial wordiness, as•the Public too often, the Lord knows have reason to suspect. For our own parts, we have supported the Board, and shall continue our support, because we know that there is a spirit in it, which atones 'for the absurdity of its Members, and which, on all great occasions, will he found superior to the paltry politics and private views, to the factious follies or miserable vanity of any of its compo nent parts. But thong , The Evening Post has been employed in repelling the slanders of the Castle Press against the Board, as well as- in exposing the hollowness of its pretended friends —though it has fought all its battles, when the Board itself was not able to fight them— though it has stood in .the breach between the Board and' the Govermilent, it. suffered for• its romantic chivalry—while the Patriots laughed at its sutlerings—though it lia.,•hitherto taken the Board under its protection—for, after all their talking, and voting, and resolving, what would the Board be without the Post? It aoes not follow, as some of our Correspondents seem to in timate, that we should defend the Board, even in its aberrations front dignity and reason.— Do the Gentlemen, who make this modest prof posal, really,imagine that we are the hired ad vocates of the. Board ? Do they really imagine, as the CaStle Papers swear, that we are in the pay of the Body ? that their 'will is our will; and their opinion ours ) DO they imagine that the Gentlemen pt this establishment feel thetu selves inferior in consideration to any Member of the Board, except the titled Members=—Or that, in point of talent and public spirjt, they do not feel . themselves at least equal to the veriest egotist of the Catholic Body), Where is the man amongst them that would have exposed his purse and person for the cause ?, if this be .their opinion, it is high time the public should be disabused., We,have supported the Catholic Board. hitherto;because the Catholic Board, in our opi nion, hoe' hitherto acted with spirit and good sense. . Having acted with neither good sense nor spirit on the late occasion, they miscalculate very miserably upon our want of both, if they suppose that we should run with the torrent, and echo the driftless trash of the declaimers. For the sake of the holy (cause of freedom in' which 'we are en, , 0 ou , ed we wish to take both out of the hands of thOse who set up an exclusive claim to honesty and patriotism. BREAD.—This day the LORD MAYOR, after in specting the Mealweighers returns, ordered that an advance of three farthings in' the price of a quarters loaf should take place on Thursday not. Yesterday being Plough Monday, the Court of Aldermen was occupied in swearing in the Con stables of the City of London.