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BERLIN PAPERS. RTH ER EXTRA:::TS...--(ORIGINAL). THE GRAND 4UKF- pr FRANKFORT. Among the phenomena of the day, there are some which acquire peculiar- interest, when it ; is considered that the present contest may justly be termed a holy war; inasmuch as its object -is to exalt lam and right on the ruins of craft and des potism., The flight-of the Grand Duke of Frank , fort to Constance is one of those subjects that is particularly deserving - of attention; Wlkile the oth - er Princes of the German,F.mpire, (the King of tVestplialia is of „ course out of the.question),, partly joined the cause of national independence previously to the battle of Leipsig, and partly availed themselves of fhe first favourable oppor tunity to throw themselves inut the arms of the Allies,the Grand Puke of Frankfort is the only one who seeks safety in flight, who renounces the in signia of the ducal dignity, and resumes ,a cha racter which he had relinquished. His motives for this conduct cannot. but - originate entirely with himself. - Descended from one of the most ancient fa milies of Genitally, which for ages has been par ticularly distinguished by its. Emperors, Chatles Theodore' was always ambitious to shine.. Vain snd anmhitious, but feeling at the same time that glory was not made for him, he courted fame in every possible way. Inconstant, without solid in struction, more disposed ro take advantage of time favourable moment than . to •cominand it, he.be- Niged only , in.outward appearance to the German nation 3 - his whole, character -was entirely French. He- can best tell by what means lie contrived, in 1802, to exalt himself from the rank of a Co adjutor toi that of. Arch-Chancellor of the Em pire, by the removal of others. None but himself could have accomplished this. As a spiritual Prince without provision, he connected biinself the More closely with France, and what occurred in. 1806 Was the consequence of his instigations.— Thus it was reserved for a Dalhorg to spew the. House of Austria that the ties which had hitherto . ensured; the independence of Germany were burst. asunder. From this period he - wavered as Pri mate between the Pope, and the French Emperor , bat yet he rgtmmiqed the hope ; that, as Napoleon's principal instrument in regard 'to Germany,' he, , suoimiu yet be able to act an important part. De ceived in this expectation, because, the Act of Confederation of time Rhine was received by Buonaparte merely as an act of submission from the German Princes; he probably repented his precipitation ; - but it was :now too late. Wilkmn - in 1809, the abolition. of the temporal power of the Pope rendered a change in his former condition indispensably necessary,- he who was already sunk so low in the public opinion, was ciilled upon to perform no very - enviable part, renounce, at the age of ,sixty-six,.. the dignity. of Primate, and to assume the rank of a temporal Grand Duke, in order that a French Princeanight be his successor. Fortune had now Loured out the vial_ of his vengeance upon his head; hated and despised, he could spend time re mainder of his life, to no other purpose than to collect treasures for his family., Nevertheless; he had not .yet experienced the worst. In the course of the present year,• feeling that he bad no friend, no protector in 'Germany, he privately quitted that country, resigniimg the grand ducal dignity, which he could no longer retain, in favour of a reoch Prince, •at the very moment which termi nated the domniniOn of Napoleon in Germany. The more political conduct ought to have :had of a'religions character—ant of this character ( it was absolutely destitute—the more he involved , himself as a 'German Prince in inconsistencies; till at length he perceived that his part was acted for e.: - er. • He was no hypocrite, but still less was he a Spiritual, PrineeivhO had the smallest senee of the' dignity of his functions.. What eVer advantages Germany . may derive from this war, she Will . gain against the will of CHARLES TREODORE, to w,tiOni we certainly do •no in- justice, .if we consider him as a tool em ployed by fate to bring about brtter state of things, not oilty for Gcrplany, but for all Europe. , • ArutlvLD-2 Bremen, 1 - Holland, I Dublin. Du!-:—I Malta, 4 Gotteaburglf, 1 Gut;;L:s:.'y, I Jersey, 2 Waterford: ErIPUAN7,-•Holiday at the _Exchequer, Bank, and South Sea House; ' - HIGH WATER AT LOI'CION BRIDGE TO-! 4 .IORROW. Morning, 5 minutes after 3. I Evening, 31. aainittes after '3. THE SUN. --•••+-..._.,.‘, QUIS DICCRE FALSUM AUDEA'f ? LONDON, THURSDAY, J/INUARY- 6, 181 4: The most important intelligecice which we yes terday exchisively communicated in a late .Sec(lnd Edition is fully cOnfli;ined'hy the mass of French Papersto the Ist inst. which precede this notice.. To these vitally interesting documents we will, without preface,. call the attention of our Readers, rikluch we have heard of a new era in this Coun ry—these Papers present us with the view of a new eva in France. Thebrag-gard presumption of thy 'Tyrant has sunk into despondency, and the spew 7-• of bravery he, puts on is only the valour of , de , spair, We hear no more ,of the destinies of Na tions being dependant upon his will ; of Britain's . heini: made a Larld '' intolerable to live in," nor even of the Russians Leing driven back to their own frightful climate—no ! the hourofgasconading and taunting' and 'insulting. is past, and the hour of witilotlnne, at dejection, arid, we trust, of retri bution 114 S i .4frived, Jlis " Majesty" (13uuNA FARTE) has, at last learnt, as Count LA . CPPP.DE in- ' forms us, to " believe that power is strengthened by being limited, and' thatthe art of favouring the happiness of the people is the chief policy of Kings."--And how has be been taught thistruth by- being deprived of the ability to extend his power ! How Ita - • this conviction come upon him % by the determination of the people no longer to be made sacrifices to his infernal policy ! But this assertion is• false ; BUONAPARTE neither has learnt, nor is susceptible of learning the lesson of mo ([ration. ,He will yet exert himself to the utmost to preserve what he can of his lawless dominion, and it is only when violence is no longer possible to him, that he Will resort to intrigue, in the hope of disarMing and .disuniting adversaries against whom he is incompetent to contend, and seizing hereafter (as BERTIHEICS intercepted letter ad vised) a more favourable moment to revenge him self : for present hutniliations. Among the many official • Documents which these Papers 'present are several of the utmost consequence to all EnrOpe, and especially to this country, of 'which the little mention that is made only proves that the. hatred of the Tyrant teivards us is undiminished. By an Inperial Decree of the 26th ult. the whole of France is placed under ; a measure against which we are not disposed to rail with so, much of passion as some of our contemporaries. It is indeed a horrible act of despotism :—it subjects 'France to a number. of uucontrouled Tyrants instead of one, and gives to every District its Buo- NAPARTE. But almbst all countries when invaded are placed under ►iiartial law, and France will feel this only the less, as the people of that nation have for years groaned udder a system not a whit more tolerable. We even doubt that the minor Tv ra►i.ts, _taken collectively, will provee-as great a curse as the single Despot We do not, however, mean to deny that extraordinary . and unexampled powers to afflict the people are delegated to these Ruffian Tools of the Master Ruffian. The next document is the Report of the Special Committee, to which was referred the papers com prehending the history of the Negociations be tween BUONAPARTE and the Allies. As was to be expected from the constitution of that body, it enters entirely into the views of the Usurper.' It appears that on the 18th August, when he found that all the arts of his'Envoys could no lortger avail at Prague, he proposed to renew the Nego ciations, pendcate;ite, but this was overruled—the consequent hostilities and glorious battle of Leip sick entirely altered the relative situation of the par= The -supplications of a Baron ST. AthtiAN ensue, and it appears, that it was to a verbal con►- munication of bases and pre4iminaries (a convel nient form for the intrigues of such an Unprin cipled negociator) that BUONAPA4TE, said he ad hered. This verbal recital of , terms was made by the Austrian and Russian Ministers, :In the pre sence of Lord ABER'EEN, and nitieh stress is tics. put upon the latter circumstance, in order td impute some delays which afterwords occurred to. the intervention of England. BUONAPARTE'S lan guage about adhering to the preliminaries, being as little understood by our Allies as by . ourselves, MARET, 'on the 2d Dec. wrote explicitly to explain what his'Master meant., but evidently leaving the matter as indefinite as before, by alluding gene rally to the verbal bases, aril not specifying what they were ; "so that the turn of negociations, denial or concession, rvould . be Made to hinge,altogether upon the understanding of M.de ST. AGNAN. This explication was received at Frankfort on thesth,.and remained unanswered to the 10th, when Count . METTERNicit wrote as it would-seem in a pacific tone, but the.eonclusion of his letter again fills the Tyrant wie:h apprehenjOn and dismay, for " he announces,. that before the negoeiations are opened, it is necessary to confer about them with theßeport) can be no other than. the.Engnili:lsfolti• tWrAill- , - bassador was present at the conversation of which M. de ST. <AG NAN had been witness. We do not • desire to excite distrust ; we relate." This remarkable paragraph not only strews the feverish desire of BUONAPA . RTE for peace, since every hour it is postponed is of personal danger to .him, but alsp that the most cordial union exists among all the Allies, and that every hope of being able to detach them from each other, and play one interest off against another in separate negocia tion must be relinquished. 1,14 t the glo rious determination of the AllieS to' act in con cert for the general good is further evinced, and the terror of NAPOLEON further excited by the declaration of Frankfort. " This declaration (we arc informed) is of a nature unusual in the diplO-: macy of Kings." • Why should it be otherwise in an affair in which a .Pretender to Royalty is one of the parties ? and truly does the unfortnnia4. port continue to say— " It is no longer to Kipgs the:met - les that they expl4in theirsric;vances anti send their manifestoes it is to the people that they address them—and from what motive do they adopt such a new method of proceedings ? It is to separate the cause of the people from that of their governors, though the inte rest of society has every where united them. May not this example be fatal ?" We hope it will ! We hope such is the precise meaning and purport of their declaration. We hope the , people of France will see . that their cause is separate from that of their Governors. But, gracious heaven, how must these slavishly impe rial tenets. be relished by the Republicans `of France ! No appeal to the People, 'forsooth . Why, who has suffered but the People ? Whohave a right to be consulted but the-People ?' By what power (since the jure divino has been given up) do any of these Sovereigns treat at all but as the: Representatives of the People ? It is the cause of the People, and not the cause of Kings, or would.: be Kings, that is at issue; and no Monarch living holds his Crown by any other tenure than his Coronation Oath, to consult their security and happiness alone, in all his actions.—But. the people's minds, agitated by all the diseases of pride, are averse to bending under the, au thority which protects _them, while it represses their audacity," To what age of liberty and freedom have we lived to hear this from French lips—to hear this daring insult to popular feel ings, this outrageous denial of all popular rights ! Go, ye Democrats and Jacobins of Britain, and worship your idol, BUONAPARTE ! BUONAPARTE, who has not deserved well of the people, but who " merits the gratitude of Kings"—" because by re-establishing the Throne of France he has_ clos ed up the crater of the volcano which threatened them all." - That is, because to gratify his insatiate ambition he usurped a throne, and stopped the &wings of the Revolutionary volcano, to pour ai more fierce. and overwhelming- flood of ' lava against every throne and nation, from the exhaustless crater of his own boundless desires—his unextinguishable rapacity' for .universal " dominion. As for the debt •of gratitude due to him by Kings, let the Royal House of BOURBON, thinned by many murders ; let its Royal Relative of Spain; seized and inprisoned ; let the Kings of SARDINIA and of SICILY ; let the POPE ; let all the Sovereigns of Europe pay it as their con sciences, from personal "experience, dictate. - 'There is one paragraph which touches-us with some uneasiness, _not that we are . mistrustful, of our Allies; put where such vital interests are at stake, nature cannot resist the feelings of extreme anxiety. The passage to which we allude is the following : er It must not he dissembled that in certain re spects this extraordinary Manifesto is in a mode , nite tone." Moderation to France or to BuoNA-: PARTE ? If the former, it is good; if the latter evil. Moderation to BcONAPARTE is injurious to mankind —kindness to such a wretch, enmity against their species, and a wanton sacrifice of the welfare, now and hereafter, of tl.t it subjects, who have en abled them to conquer an attitude whence they can dispense justice to the Universe. It is in- , sinuated, however, that this moderate tone is-af fected as a-diplomatic artifice. For once we are the advocates forartifice ; we hopeit may be so, and that there, is no truth iii - the fact that the boundary of the Rhine has been oEered to the Usurper. We must hastily pass over the villanv involved in all the common-place generalities with which these speeches abound. The pardon due to all nations for abuses.of power, because all nations 'have erred—the cant about BUONA PARTE's being fatigued with bloodshed (now that he can cause no more to be spilled), and his (the Demon's) wish to be hereafter surrounded only with images of public felicily—the pitiful lament ations that " Empires, like individuals, have their i4yz of mourninc. and of prosperity.: is is' in great exigencies that great nations shMv themselves," will pass no longer current. Why these truisms?'—let France put the question home to herself particularly--why are the present Or days of mourning Because she has'not cleansed herself fiom the plague which infests her—because she. has not destroyed the poison which infects her cu p of :joy, and happiness because she has not dragged BUONAPARTE, the sole source of all her woes, to the scaffold of ~RoaEsruutiE. They will not, as they are told, fight for their dear country."—Fight they may, but if they do, it will be for the Corsican, who drives them with whips of scorpions through oceans of blood, Let them:be told this distinctly let the, BOURBON flag be unfiirled, anti with it a pledge that its su periority will restore them their 300,000 children in Russia aud.England, and peace with Europe, a , 41 - our lives to it, the life of BUONAPARTE' ,not be long in the way of the repose of the world. So much for documents—a few words as to can - cpnArm the intelliaence of ,ye 4.-, teisday.—Prance bas been invaded by an army of upwards. of 150,000 of the Allies. They crossed the Rhine between Basle - and Rheinfeld,t, and while one diVisien pressed down the left Bank to . Colmar, another has pushed south to the valley 01 , Donbs,- in the direction of Dijon. Alehce and Francbe Compte must be over-run—in vain may th e _ Tyrant howl for armed ,men from Normandy—th e Y are wanted in Beam, whe're, as we learn, the jai' mortal WELLINGTON is advancing into the inte - , rior. But they have no liking to the deed—thet will bail the conquerors as their deliverers, aid the White Flag at last give them presage of rest ration to their rank - among Nations, and .th e fellowship of mankind. We have much yet to say, but tiale and space are both against 'us to-day; Further' and important Dutch Papers arrive d this morning; Viand added to"the Bremen and . , ligolarid news of the morning.' There are tvc o Proclamations from -Gen. BELI:EGARBE and 014 Eavarian General (too long for insertion) wilic 4 . have, we rejoice to say, restored tranquility to ti' e Tyrol.—The .suburbs of Hamburgh have - bee p ' destroyed. The invasion of Brabant, in Pe e ' .begun--=-the Allies from Breda, having mgc l ': ed forward as the advance of W'rNzlNGEam os. ' army. - The Lower Rhine will soon 'be pni' by a large invading army. The Armistice 0 :1' Denmark is prolonged . tothe sth inst. Ths: o. lowing are;the principal articles—the rest wilk found under the usual held. " The advice's from I nspruck, of the 14th, Pl ell' • tf tibn, that the foregoing Proclamation has- go; the people's minds in the Tyrol. " The • insurgents are separating, and retail' peaceably to their own hoMes, and we may tb e l o fore consider this insurrection as totally quell` (Bremen Paper, Dec. 27.) " BLANCIigNSU DEC: 26.—A1l the suburt)." .1\ , Hainhurgh were.burnt yestenTay evening, a•- n ' housp in ilamburg-henberg, near Altona, be burnt this.afternoon. The Armistice bas prolongeil till the sth of January. A Coto' ot sinner for Holstein, has been appointed bY CrOivn - Trinee." SEC 0 NI) 117_41)ITIO.,1' SUN-OFFICE, HALE-FAST ONE OFFICIAL BULLETIN. 0 1, • The Allies had crossed the Rhine 011 ); 20th ; their whole arrangements WOLlici 'Of " Arrangements had been made with the CANTON'S ;- and the ,Allies have pledged to replace'Switzerland in the same state ° f TEGRITY AND' INDEPENDENCE AS EEFOA- completed before tile sth of jahuttcy FRENCH' REVOLUTIO.N. 15 ' ' " The Army- now A in. operation against - 00( 1 00 , and Franche Conit4 was dpwaLls of 2- ,tio ti' i-nen There are no accounts of any l ' i ' • The siege of Huningen was- begun. 0 11 f''Goxerninent have received letters of ib c o , from Sir THOMAS GRAHAM, containing no o ' f ol l "Tire last Dispatches from Lord WELO tl l ite 4 were dated the 26th ult. his Lordship ,that SOULT had halted his'Artny behind th e , Gave, with his left resting npots Reishorde. THI EDITIOr‘' SUN-OFFICE, Two 0-' l ' t to' Sir THOMAS GRAHAM mentions in hi s lie 4f tu , that .Two ENTIRE BATTALIONS Of j"" -3 , 0 0 1 : TROOPS HAD COME OVER TO THE ALLIE S ' to g'; General VON Butow, who hau sent ther tl :4 o l silt the Siege of Gorcum, in the V II ' : which there were two other Battalion s (3f. s' .til Ho banters, who, it was thought, miihefo' example of their countrymen. ()lithium has risen to 15. ISt The Princess CHARLOTTE h completes "" ill . • year to-morrow. , 0 5 i , 5 01 THE CONTRAST ; Or, the Continentalsr": 0 5 ‘5 , British System.—The Continental System 0.,,1i0i1> destruction of . trade, the subjuaation of . 1v :01 1. 0 1 military conscriptions, and uni;*-crsal dou''''',,i) ti „ ,„ The British System guarantees the ”r° re , I.W:-' connzierce, the prosperity of nations, eq` . .i;il ;:;• and universal liberty. This i s our poi'Lli,l',.,, teat ; but there is also a p a rt o f ()t o , rinLo' c .;,ii '',', tens, which 'd t this moment claims the ' 2(: ' l to e) 0 tendon of every rank in such ty, We all u '' ,iiis of Drawiug of; the State LOttzu,' ‘vhich b c „ . 7 .%)ft ° Tuesday the 18th, and presents an aloP le- for the risk of a mere trifle. BIRTH. piano°. r4iCeale' On Monday, at his Lordship's house in the Countess of Galloway, of a sou. 3 01 Dl , ocel," Wil t :, 0 - . , On Monday after a painfu D l ill lED es the late Thomas Streta, Esq. of n Kn s " mi . s. St rc i Ei litsbridg e ' ,` deservedly lamented. ,l , 7 3. If ••• ... . . - , - 7 ti , st ol LONDON • Printed by J. B. UAItSTAIBS, - 6 , u ' o t ? S l ' i r ti f' buildliigs ; and published by W. A. 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