The Sun. — London, England, 1814-03-22 00:00:00

:C! i 1 rtis )11 daY the g; ,**l 'At o.' lie ork 1 ,4 1 ) IS distaneetisi evenink, bad every appear'ance of a lag of Truct-." l'arliaraent met yesterday, and, with the ex ception of a . very inconsiderate motion made uy 14°r(1 °SSULSTON , and a N o ti ce res p ec ti n g the '' P kx , Ett's. Address on the subject of the Cathhlic Question, nothing' worthy-of• record occurred.— On the. latter point Mr. ABBOTT is strong in the admiration andsn'rport of his country,' and May k ugh to scorn his 'carping opponents. A Vote on account Of the Army Estimates is to /s e . taboo by Ministers. A derided proof of the trlquhility of the exiting relations of the Country. news of yesterday, at least, administered 11() '•e fvod to the hopes than to the fears . ive ex ' 11r "'ed• The Victorious movements.of the British under Lord WELLINGTON lace been more l'aidd than the, diplomatic movements under Lord CAsT L ,,,, ItAn and the accounts of the taking ilf) nrdea ux have preceded the accounts (we ex- : P c 'et, yet dread to hear) of tlri~ signature of Preli , Inh ' a rkes Peace with BUONAPARTE., The - bare aPP'eheasion of this once desii-able conclusion, 'ea tie, has, won d er f u l t o say, l owered the Public ' .b "ndct. anti 0:a minm does not maintain the high' Nee ; t had trevionsly attstined. \W " have .Freleil Papers to' the 18th inclu 've Ft,daV) : they. are remarkably, very t"alartialov, haiTen of all informtion. The 111() t vitally important affairs of Peace and of IV "r are transacting, and upon both alitte do the public Orgaas of the French 'Government 111 'hitain a profound silence. Were we not de,, I)l 'esled with the apprehension that negocia-- .ti° as are tending to a' compromise with the sarper—were Our. spirits not falling iinto de-. 'aPandenev at the proSpect of the estkibtishment B uoNAPArern upon the Th•rone of the Bout /°N% we should augur very favourably from f bvsterious taciturnity. We should. juppose tha t a force bad been interposed between 'the C ' lrs ican himself, and Paris, which cut :):r his e°4laiunications - 7 that while he by a forced . la • a '"h relieved' Rheims, the indefatigable 13Lt:- egEa had occupied the nearer line" of SOASSOIIS, and that large bodies of C o s sac k s i n t erven i ng be ta his C ap i ta l an d hi s Army, kept up across b t-le Ma rne a desultory but destructive i n t ercoirse _ etwe ea the Veteran and Prince SCHWARTZEN-. asaß o. tilt we have no m i n d for th t. ese speculations at r reSen The principle on which the Allies h:,ive `tteederl, and,. are proceeding, has become too 4 Ic lent to ad m i t:a doubt or warrant a hope.— li t ' s ttia has carri e d M ediation instead of War to Fates of Paris---7-and the !melting do c t r i nes o f the French RevolUtion are apparently on the eve I bein g *lie crowned with their sur es t t r i ump h , i n ' degradation of all the Sovereigns of Europe th e associAtes of a man black with corrup tic), " and covered with crimes. Well might a in a Morning Paper say this day— ," What would EUrop e b e n e fit b y th e ext i nct i on of BtioNA til"t? T ' t he re s t ora ti on of thee WouttnoNs; . and with them good °l t l times—Lewes de cachets, and the establiihment consoling principle to the people—that the son of a thor descendant of Royal Blo o d, i s i pso f acto ent i t l ed to • °r e i • , su ch pri nc i p l es are worthy of,such a cause.— '4Yel d own with. hereditary Monarchy, and up (‘ ith the popular / tenet of Usurpers, who • pro that they are chosen by the people. What ' i ndeed 4 . ab • , has th e S on o f a Ki ng to re i gn over tD ' leas, who, if they are only allowed the libevy i ths e for th ems el ves, can elect the cleverest reru n • in the country to reign. over them ~jphy, ,Toz4 PAINE s a id thi s (only much _better) 0 : 14 ago Ar e a bili t i es here d itary ? said be; .r 1 ,, 5 ) 0 "tale nts g o by. descent, ? so, the post of ,„ ti; Laureat e m i g h t b e made rectilinear as in- 4:l"slrciS Y as the post of .King. PAIN was an jibes t and political enthusiast wLen these qua were recommendations to a numerous ~ci(l t i Y of m en ; bU t t h at any public writer should Nl ,'`'n them now, when all the horrors of • to • 14 :h they are calculated to be the root are no-, , 411. , anw.proven, exc i tes at once our surp ,. ize, v " indignation. Th e loyal and patriotic Ediu,r .N : t th e • a per in que s ti on, am id the avocations Iltr i c:b occupy the Conductor of a daily Journal, IliselYsuffered thi s monstrous *agraph to escape liisvigilaaec and will join ap , with us in expressing abhorrence of the principle it inculcates. tat .Preliminaries of Peace will be-signed at tot ` li 'llou on the a r r i va l o f Mr. R OBINSON, we have . ail ) ! ti me') r eason to fear. Our, 'Ministers will A lly aft er l ay the case before - the Count r y. s u 41 th e i r w armest friends, 'we council th eo this sti e " rnii m t "re ; for he deceifes Ahem, wh o ventures to s c 1p that Peace Wit II I3UONAPARTE is populuir 4 ,, r eat Bri ta i n. We are aware of the difficulty tiLltendant upon this great question.• We know at Le,aratbe arguments upon it have, not yet been s u i x _ra,adthat the decisionTagainst it is the re -111 alone. e e rea soning on the other side is (undoubtedly of great force In the controversy, we Lave taken ,ncrshall maintain, the middle course. Js there a Man who loathes the idea of P eace with BiroNA-= PARTE, our breasts acknowledge. the niose•fer 7 vent congeniality of feeling ! Is .There a man who considers Peace with BUONAPARTE as a na: tional stigma and a Moral degradation, so to the extent do we ! On the other hand, tUere is a length- to which we caoot allOW' even our passions to carry tis. If 'the only 'al ternative between 'the, Peace of Chatillon and the continuance of Wiy, waS, that if we ad 'hered to the latter course, it xvould have insulated England from the politics of Europe, and trans ferred to us the Odium at present undividedly at tached to France, of being the sole ,cause of the sufferings . of humanity—then we ur i c compelled to acknowledge, that the situation of this country must have been felt as imperative upon our Ministers to submt to the former. Painful as was the sacrifice, they have (if we are correct in our statement) done their duty, 'and upon be noble consciousness of that feeling, must appeal to their country for &continuation of that almost un?versal supp - ort which all their measures, have hitherto received from the population of these realms., Upon the contents of the French Papers we have little to offer. The execution of loyal an d patriotic Fren c hp ren at Rh e i ms and Chavignon is a galling subject.. Would to God ! the Allied Sovereigns had entertained another view of the internal state of France,. and then these murders, had their actors dared to perpetrate them, would have been avenged. The flippant' folly about Ash-Wednesday 'and the- King of ROME, is too contemptible foV anitnadversion, and even for notice, were •it not that it bespeaks an. affectation (at least) of vase on the part of our Enemy. AUGEREAU'S letter of the l2th, from Villafranca, demonstrates the efficacy of 111 Aricnt's movement, and corroborates the fact of the de feat of the French. Instead of entering GenevA, they, seem hardly able to d'efenti Lyons. The•expectation of the QuEEN`and some of the Princesses coming to town to-morrow remained yesterday uncontraditted, and they are to dine witri the PRINCE REGENT at Carlton-house: The Duke of YORK transacted military business yesterday with the Pitt Nos REGENT at Carlton— house. There is a notion, that among3t the number of marriages to be expected, may be reckoned - one between the Duke of CLARENCE and the beautiful widow, the Duchess of “i.DEtsthURG. Yesterday 'afternoon, after the cessation of the rain, the Princess CHARLOTTE took a rb/c in Hyde Park, attended by Miss KNIC;HT, anti re turned to Warwick House' - to dinner 'a little be fore six o'clock•. Major FREEMANTLE, who brougbtthellispatches from the Marquis Of WELLINorox early on Sunday morning, brought dispatches for the Duke of YORK with duplicates of those be brdught to Earl BATHURST. Saint Sever., from whence Lord A r ELLINGTOti dares his dispatches, is the capital:of one of_the districts of the department of the Landes. It is nine miles N. E. of. Mont Marsan, and w.as taken in 1295 by a body of English troops; under the command of .1 OHN' DE BRETAGNE, cart of RICH MOND, -nephew of Our First EDWARD. . . It may perhaps be deemed ludicrous to state, that the Plenipotentiaries at Chat Won .vcre com pelled to be satisfied with snort couurtons, but it 'is really said, that it was 'difficult to prociire a pro per supply of common viands for themselves aud suite. General MURRAY has arrived at Brussels from the head-quarters of the Allies, to inspect the troops raised in Belgium.. The Officers appoint ed by the Duke of SAX E WEIMAR• to organize the troops . , have been-so assiduous, that a corps of nearly 9000 men has been, already raised, and rendered tit to march. A Proclamation was issued at Copenhagen on the 10th instant, directing the cessation of all 'hostile measures against England, .RusSia, Prus sia, Sweden, and. the Duke of MECNLCNBE.RG, iit consequence of Peace havii4t, been - concluded with those Powers, and ordering a General Thanksgiving. Between :;60 and 600 Italians, who, were among the 'prisoners of war confined at 6,reenlaw and Penny-colic, were last week brought to Fllinburiih, having been released inconsequence of the recent change of afftirs in that quarter of the late French empire. Ten thousand stand of arms, and three millions of Mali-cartridges, with an immense, quantity of eldtbing,•from the depot at New-Passage, Dock, v,-ere shipped last week for. the use of Lord WEI.- LI NGTON'S army. The Spanish Ambassador yesterday gave an elegant entertainment at his house in Grafton street. The Baron D'Eaot..Es, having reduced three garrisons by means of a cypher,_ seems well cal culated to cut soinefigitre in history. BREAD.--This day it • was ordered, at a Court of Aldermen, that an advance of Old. in the guar tern loaf of Wheaten should take place for the en suing week. -Saturday a Meeting of the Roman. Catholies of 'this county took place at the, Chapel in this town. The Chair was taken about one o'clock by DANIEL O'CONNELL, Esq. of Kilgory. Some resolutions were moved by Counsellor (j'CONNELL, OM which several Gentlemen endeavoured to express their opinions, but were most shamefully prevented ; the meeth - rg was all Col),psit>u and tumult.-- '(Clare Journal.) EZX ;ND 'ED Ti 0 N.. [OFFICIAL.]-ENTRANCE INTO DOUR ixt DEAIIX; THE BOURBON CAUSE ES 161th.ED BY THE PEOPLE. Sth\T OFFICE, Two O'CLOCK. The following Bulletin ha's just be issued WAR DEPARTMENT. Downing .street, .I.raix'h 22, 1814. " Dispatches have been" received from Lor WELLINGTON, dated Aire, the 14th inst. " The uncommonly severe rains; and the move ment of SOULT'S Army towards Tarbes had in duced Lord IVELLINGTON to halt the maiu body of the Allied Torces. - between Pau (which is occupied by part of Sir 11. ITILL's corps) and Airc—But his Lordship detached a body of Troops under Marshal BERESFORD to Bourdeaux, whic!: City he entered on the 12th Instant. " The Allied Troops were received with every expression of joy and attachment. " The Insignia of the existing Government were torn down by the Inhabitants, wHo UNIVERSALLY HOISTED THE. WHITE COCKADE, and LOUDLY :Ind spontaneously deelarvil their desire to sup port the HousE of Bounnorr." We hail this gloriops news, and hope that . this manifestation-of the disposition of the French People may not be too late to save France and • Europe froin the humiliation of acknoMedgitik the usurpiug Despot. NAVAL NEWS: DOVER, Matt cn 21 boat which I wrote 'to you about - last night, and which at a distance every one supposed to be a Flag of Truce, turned. out to be a French' fishing-b Oat, laden with shot end shells, 'and hound to Havre-de-Gr'ace, cap timed by the Pigmy schooner; and the English colours being hoisted over the French, induced a belief that she bad a Messenger ou board front France. DEAL, MARCH 21,---Arrived the Cordelia and Rosario sloopg of war, the Pigmy schooner and Swin.cutter,ffom off the Coast ofTl:ance. Sailed the Leveret sloop of war for the Scheldt.—Wind S. IV. PORTSMOUTH, MAncH 21.—Safled his Majesty's ship Achille for off Cherburgh, and the Urgent gua-brig on a cruize. Yesterday his Majesty's ship Confounder was released from quarantine.— Wind S. E. FALMOUTH; MARCH 19. Arrived the Lady Mary P4;lhain packet from the Brazils, in ten weoks. Sailed the Lady .tVabella packet, a mail for Passages.—Wind HARWICH, -MARCH .20.—Sailed the Earl Lei cester packet for lieligniand,. and the Auckland packet for liolland—both with mails and passen gers.,--Wind S. GRAVFSEND, ManciT , 21.—Sailed the Wexford . East Indianian, C4t. BARNAttp, fur the Downs. Naval. ArrotrmENTs.—Capt, Frederic Warren to the Clarjnce, vice Captain Vansittart, ill; Capt. Devonshire to the Sceptre (coaling home from America) ; Capt. C. Ross to the Albion (flag-ship toA , lmiralCockburn) ; Capt. Forrest / of the Cyane, in reward I,4r,his spirited conduct at the capture of the two French frigates, by Admiral Durham, is appointed to the Sybillc ; Capt. Falcon'to the Oyane; Capt. Urry Johnson to the Tonnant, during the absence of Lord Cochrane in Lon don, on the subject c,f the recent S,tock-johbing‘rephrt ; Hon Capt. Maude, of the Nemesis, to the rank of Post-Captain; Capt. E. Donnie, to the Atlas. AN ACROSTIC ON THE REGAL NAMES OF THE DYNASTY NAPOLEON. AP 0 L EON +-4 0 ACHIM 0 1. :7 4 - 4IE R O N IM US - '7! > 0 Z P })3l 0U I S The suicide at Stafford, supposed ,to be Mr. liot,RoYD,. turns Out to be a Mr..Wittowr, for merly of Manchester.. . MELANCHOLY ActibENT.-On Sunday'last., 4 brother and sister were playing; upon the ice upon a pit in Little, 13Dltan,- when the brother 'fell in, and the sister, in Ramping to save him, also perished. • . , . , We congratulate the 19vers of the Inunorotis OFI the appearance of two new works :—One is enti tled A Sentimental Journey' through Margate and Hastings, by, Dr. COMPARATIVE, jun. ; the other is called The .School for Good Living, or, a Literary and Historical Essay on. the European Kit chel, beginning with . Cadmus the Cook and King, and ending With the union of Cookery and Che mistry. THE THEATRE. We have reason to congratulate the Public on the competition which has been excited by the in troduction of Mr. KEAN on the Loadon boards, as it has awakened 'a spirit of emuiatiou which prothises, and has indeed produced, iot increase of excellence in the higher Members of the thea trid'al profesSion. This effect was observable last. week in Mr. - YouNG's appearance in Ric - hard, at Covent-Garden Theatre, and last night in his assumption of Hamlet. To the merit of ••his Ri chard-we have already borne a very favourable • testimony; and we are fully win - ran:ed. in speak ing still wore favourably of his Hamlet, • bemuse • it_demands higher and. more varied quai•ties.than are necessary for the other character, difficult as. it is to sustain it with appropriate abili•y. With oat enteringsinto comparisons, we may fairly say, that the Hamlet of last night was one of the most masterly exhibitions of the modern stage. It was "• Well digested!' throughout, and in. de portment was various, dignified, and impressive.. —Perhaps ,we might offer some reasonable objec 7 tions to particular passages, but we shall not stoop to so invidious a task. We feel more pleasure in recording the beauties, and they were observable in Hdinlet's conduct' during the first appearance of the Ghost in the subsequent scene, where the spirit reveals the cause of his deatte, in the melancholy which' pervaded the character, arising .f . rom the murder of his father, the degradation of his mother, and the elevation of his atrocious uncle. All these passages re ceived a due colouring; and were finished with admirable precision. The scene with Ophelie was a masterly proof of address, for, while he gave into that vehemence which was necessary to your the suspicion of his madness, it was blend ed. with occasional touches of tenderness, that in dicated his attachment to her, and the reluctance with which he rendered her subservient to his pur pose. The soliloquies were given with dignified -energy ;'butperhaps in the closet scene Mr. YOUNG chiefly distinguished , himself. Here he. " spoke daggers ;" but amidst all the merited censure which Gertrude deserved, he maintained the tenderness and duty, of a son. He was particu larly excellent in this scene on, the re-appearance ' of the Ghost, and in his awe-strAck and per severing attention till its departure. The whole was most warmly and justly ap plauded by a very numerous audience. We oughE.,. •also to notice his, merit in the scene of the muck drama, in - which he agreeably varied playfulness with .ophelia, with .a rigorous attention to the, operations of that drama on die guilty conscience - of the King. Sit is with much pleasure, also, that we have to mention the • excellence of another Performer in this fine - -aan interesting drama Miss STEP HENS made her first appearance in.Oplre lie, and gave as just and as affecting a representa tion of the character as we ever attended. In the dialogue she was critically correct, and there was. a gentleness, a simplicity, and a pathos, in her whole performance, that entitled he to almola as much credit as an Actress as' she has deservedly obtained as a Singer. The original melodies were given in thetruest style of affecting simplicity; and here we wish to have-;‘topped, but we cannot forbear • from joining with many of the audience, and. some of our contemporaries, in condemning the intro duction of the old song of Mad Bess.. It is indeed ,a masterly composition of one of our old and best musicians, but it is of a character totally different from the wild melodies' which tradition has air . nexed to the madness of Ophe/iq ;' and it is, be sides, a roost improper interpolation of one of the ,finest productions" of the greatest ,dramatic Bard that ever existed. Much as we admire the composition, and the pathetic manner in which it was sung last night, yet we. must enter our strong' protest against its repeti tion in this play, not only because it is a measure improper in itself, entirely destructive of. the unity of a finely drawn character; but because, we tear, that. it may expose the Pei former to some un pleasant marks of displeasure for its introduction. DRUAY-LANE.---Mr. KEAN, with unabated at traction, perrormed the part of Eichar There was a prodigious audience, and he repaid their solicitu4ie to see him by a very evident improve ment in his performance. As the Covent-Garden Managers hare thought proper to order Miss STEPHENS. to introduce Mad Bess in . ophelia,those of Drury-Lane might, with equal propriety, dire& Mr. KLAN, WllO is said . to be a good singer, to introduce " My lodging is on the cold ground," in one of the scenes of Hantkt. The Covent Garden Managers might then retort, by making Mr. You'r:G, whose musical skill is well known, to do the same; and then would commence the reign'ot rational com petition. Since the extraordinary success of Mr. KEAN, varimrs . informations have ,reached the London Managers frbin the dramatic purveyors in the country. One writes word . " he has got an ex tpart nta4, to do the young . art comedy, and for fops and lovers ;" and another, "'that he is about to engage a young girl for the nurses, who has a singular squeak in her voice, and looks like - his grandmother. • A Play is to be performed at the Plymouth Dock Theatre, : under the patronage Of the _gallant Captain Pinx..t,tmoßE, for the benefit of the wi dows and orphans of the, brave men:who fell in the late memorable contest between the Eurotas and Clorinde,,an4 rhe wives and children of those who.were wounded on the same occ4sion._ Lord GRENVILI.II; as Chancellor, has dawn .up :a protest against what' he deems the poetical points in the late presented.arfdrdAddress, niticli is handed about, and wherein his Lordship states his doubts of the sincerity of this courtly tribute, Itot in metre, but in pretty plain pose. Three birds, of the 'kind called Sea Pie, the Hceniatopus Ostraleguk of LIN:AA:us, were last week shot on the hanks of the Thames near this town, They ,are common on most sea coasts, and feed on oysterS and other shell fish, but are rarely .seen in this part of the country.—(Reading , Paper.): Tuesday a haddock was sold in the fislimarket of this city (Edinburgh) forl3k fid.whiCh weighed I 1 lb. and a quarter. it was the largest ever seen here.