The Sun. — London, England, 1814-03-23 00:00:00

1 11 , a 3 lost fertil e provinces of Prance ahis mercy who rf :neither remorse nor pity . ; that the massacres 41 " Vendee may be outdone by the fiercer and. rr te relentless atrocities'of an exasperated fiend ? t : ti re i 3 no good p r i nc i p l e i n man that does not tve 4il n again s t t h e b are probability of such an Ilt-stliere is no heart so callous, from that of ;4"trian Monarch to that of the veriest Dutch zi ,,ni", but it must beat high to preclude the pus of any danger arriving at Abe - do - or of e w se lnYal and virtuous subjects ng With extreme anxiety for th e develope tellt, of the elect - which the advance and victory g Or d N, and the revolution in pro 4rLs the South an d W es t o f F rance, w ill pro oae tott tile Continent, we shall not at present h o -te u pon , this i n te res ti ng t o pi c .' W e h ave , Ilever,in itntlnotating t:etc interim, gre a t pl easure i n cor statement in a Morning Paper, de atthe 'even prio r to t h e d ec i s i ve b attle of Orthies 4 11at ations' had reached the Duke D'ANoot!- i 4 "In Bourd eau X, an d doner principal tow,ns te the So ut h of Ft ance, expreSsing•their desire to 11 t urn to t h eir allegiance the moment the ap-, : 14ch of a Br m itish force should secure the -gaiustlite a • • execution by the Tyrant's Satel 1, and that, i nsor d er to b e rea d y to ta k e a d- . 0 9 . el panied ilta ge of v these good dispo s iti o ns, the Duke, ac by Count DANAS, a I%lilitary Officer eillinence, had proceeded towards the head 4rirters at St. i Sever, where he 'mils expected on 3(1 instant. We have every reason to sup-- II : le i that he would go from thence to Bour- L t e4u ''' as soon as the proper arrangements could made for'his reception. The first part of this intelligence was commu" t ar ed in a private letter, , and known to Ministers tht (1 9s ogo. We trust it has therefore retarded th i mature of terms with the Corsican, and that h nlie w e y es t er d a y expresse d w ill b e rea li ze d , ti " ngland an d E uro p e save d f rom the degrada ,\°ll a nd guilt and danger of an alliance with ° LECIIIN.7 PAIONAPARTE. eg us e Gazette Extraordinary, to which We have t ' t ' a t e Pleasu re i n referring our Readers, conta i ns w 'MI bst ance of two Dispatches from Lord tLLING T O N, dated Aire, the 13th and 14th Souvr has retired along the foot they Ivi th Yrennees, in ord"r to eff e ct a junction fas i Su cRET, w h o , w ith a b out ten thousand men tv, tit ' s evacuated Catalonia iii the last f ''‘ehrttary. This junction had partially ffeet at Couches, near the source of the ti our. . 'IA WELLINGTON is far advanced to ii s il°llll of this force, and will probably turn to I ght i n pu r s u i t o f them, .while a portion of at tr ,„ Q ar "oPs proceed to protect the Loyalists on the e „ °4ll e. In Bourd eau k, hunelrel boxes of se gi!tel arms have been prod uce d, an d w ill s p e edily Iter in the hands of true Frenchmen and patriotic U 'u.jec ts, desperate from the oppression of an e tll iPer, and committed with heart ainl soul to lestoration of their legitimate Sovereign. f 11 Y Dutch Papers we learn that the important °l.ti.e Priso ss of C ustr in h as cap i tu l ate d ; the garr i son "I's of war. 'Bruges had been _entered and ' ?-In dered by the Enemy ; and from Naarden a °l.ti e bad been made! We are astonished at the l ~ e ~ sibil 'tY of such things in Holland at this date. Great reinforcements are pOuring into France to (very direction Span ‘ ,.l "rapers mention that Generals HART PE -I 'd Poo( were wounded in the battle of-the 27:h, 41"1 another General and 3000 men killed. They izlculat e the prisoners. at 900; but the greatest le duction o f the Enemy's force has arisen from (leaertion. leech Papers of the 19th (Saturday) furnish us 4ai a few ext rac t s. Th ey are i mportant, as the , 11 of tine the F rench F unds to that date proves that e of at Chatillon remained rinfinished, d, therefore; that affairs are retrievable. There 4 a confused and indistinct mention of a battle,. and .the entran ce o f t h e F renc h i nto Cha -40/1 ; s • If any considerable action has been .°ll ght in. this ,direction, . it must have been l' g ai nst the Austrians. On' the Allied right, it 13 st ated, ft:Oro Soissons, that so' late as the 17th P,r 'ucHEß was held in check -on the road to La6 n ; but an article in a minor Journal- of the 15th acknowledges that Compeigne, to the west of 4 issons, and nearer Paris by the Sculls road, had been attacked by the Cossacks. There is an angry. Prc,clatnation by SOULT, directed against Lord I ' V ELLItIoIo N and' the • insurrection in France. :eithe r of them are to be so put doWn. The Editor of Tfl,E SUN EN - ening Newspaper (S .Y S the Conductor of a new Whig Organ, in tended for the illumination of the population of Staffordshire) having ' seen a Staffordshire I.Wer cloy of the sth inst.' has pretended to reply to some of the observations of`Mr. TQLLETT, at the late Public Dinner ; al,d to doubt tke respecta bility o' the Meeting, because there were so few Peers present ! He would judge of Staffordshire, by the vicinity of London. He ought to know that the commanding respectability of a commer cial county consisted of an independent gentry: We have tradesmen in Staffordshire who could purchase half a dozen of the fluttering Nobiliq who hover about Bond-strcct and the Opera 'House." As the lucubrations, in this provincial Journal appear to he ably met and counteracted by well informed Writers, in papers circulated in the same sphere, and especially in the Macclesfield courier, nd a Newcastle Print, it.is scarcely necessary for ,us to notice the above paragraph. But as we had intimated an .intention of returning to the subject of the attempt to establish Whiggish orgies, and inculcate Whiggish principles, and promote Whi l ggish electioneering, and other party purposes, in this populous and dis tinguished County,— in which intention we still continue,—we may be excused for no ticing, in the first place, this lame allusion to Our 'preceding observations. We are not, so il liberal as ever to have entertained the opinion (and consequently could not have expressed it), that the persons-who composed the Meeting in the Staffor dshire-hall were wanting in respectability. With their private characters or consideration we had nothing to do, and it was only their public exhibition of ribald revelry, and public dissemination .of pious folly, that provoked our animadversions.— We will take the adversary's word- for it, that rich tradesmen and wealthy gentlemen supplier( to this assemblage the evident deficiency of titled rank and dignified nobility.. Such men are in deed the strength and ornament of a free country. 1314 how came they to attain this weight and in-, fluence in society ? Their very condition refutes the , whole tenour ofsheir arguments. Under the ad ministration of Mr. PITT, and the Successors act ing upon the principles of Mr. PITT, have they attained the consideration they now claim, while with ungrateful slander they arraign the memory of the man to whose glorious perseverance, con stancy, and talents, they owe their elevation and all they possess. We cannot allow any set of men thus to blow hot and cold, like the Satyr in the fable. We hold it to be ludicrous and absurd in these Patriots to mention the happy circumstances in which the Country is placed, as affording them the fittest opportunity for meeting to rejoice in her pros perity, and When they have met, to consume the tithe iif s declamhtory railing about hardships and -miseries which exist only in their own imaginations. We hold it to be ludicrous and absurd in them to vituperate- against the system which, during the last thirty years, (with very short intermission) has given them their wealth and consequence; and made Staffordshire, what they describe it, a great eomthercial County. The state of the whole Empire, however, its internal resources, its exter nal power, its commerce, •its possessions, its cha racter and rank in the scale of nations, at this hour,- compared with what it was at the close -of the American War, %when Mr. PITT came into Office, with the revenues ,of the country not equal to a peace Establishment, with its com merce .nearly annihilated, and with its popula tion depressed and disheartened, furnishes the best answer and refutation to the ponderous ora tions of Mr. TOLLET, the pithy remarks of Lord CREWE, the professions 'of faith of Sir R.LAWLEY i and all the arguments of all the Whigs (not a very numerous body) in Staffordshire. Their eulogies on Mr. Fox, and assertions of the disinterestedness of Mr. LEACH, we have, no . inclination to combat. The Coalitions with Lord Nosurst, in his early,. and Lord GRENVILLE, in his later lite, prove that the former had no feeling for office.—Lord ESSEX could perhaps, if report speaks truth, supply-the next Meeting with Notes and Commentaries upon the latter ! A Correspondent writes us—" I have just seen some Dutchmen - from Ternense but they bring, nothing fresh., They really believed, as did we, that Paris Was taken by BLUCHER. - The Cossacks at Ghent made a feast in !lotionr of the event." The QUEEN and two of the Princesses are ex pected in town this day.• In the evening they will dine with the PRINCE REGENT. • Yesterday the Duke of YORK held a Levee at his Otiice in the Horse Guards. Among thOse-on his Royal Highness's list who had interviews wpre— Lieut. Gen. Sir G. Broomhead,,Lieut. General Drummond, Lieut:Gen. Morshead, General Norton, Major-General Dis ney, Major-General Airey, Lieut. tienerat Ferguson, Lord George Beresford, Earl of .Aboyhe, &c. Yesterday the Duke of YoRK, Earls BATIIIIRET and _LIVERPOOL, had audiences of the k iNcl HE- GENT at Carlton-house. Accounts haVe, it is said, been received from Friince, notwithstanding all the vigilance of the Government, stating, that from Paris and other places which were likely to be visited by the Al lied Armies, property to a great amount, consist ing of plate, jewels, money, pictures, and other portable articles, had been removed to Brest, which was considered the only depot that would be perfectly secure. NAVAL Nt CVS. - PLYMOUTH, MARGE 1. , -.-Arrived the truth§ transport from Passages ; brings an account of the Gleaner ketch ; and about twenty sail of trans ports, whiCh• were lost near St. Jean de Luz on, the 2d inst. in a heavy gale r f wind at N. Came in the HalcyOn, a French national brig of war, of 18 guns and 126 men, prize to his Majes ty's ship -Ajax. Arrived the ClaPence and Ajax men of war from a cruize ; Lynx, with disßatches , from Spain ; Constant gun-brig fiom ditto ; Nis bet sloop of war from a cruize. • Sailed the Sy belle frigate for the Coast of France.—Wind South. FALMOUTH, MARCH 20.—Arrived the Princess , Elizabeth packet, with a mail from Passages, in five days, and the Princess Charlotte from ditto, - with a mail, in three days. • No Messenger or Officer came over in - the Princess Charlotte; but her Captain (Wiirrn) has set off express f,r London with dispatches, said to be of importance. Wind S. P. S. Ten P. M.—Since writing the above, I have learnt that several vessels were lost at St. Jean de Luz, and other parts of the toast in that neighbourhood, on the Ist irsitant. Among them are the following; viz.—Gleaner ketch—crew saved ; the Fox, BnowAmii—ditto; Friendship, • BARRETT-crew. lost. The following are tranS ports : —lO4, one man drowned ; ISI, crew saved ; D. crew saved ; C. Y. crew saved ; B.Y. crew saved ;F. crew saved ;I. S. crew saved; crew supposed to be lost. —The convoy un der his Majesty's brig Clinker, which sailed from hence 'about three weeks since, arrived 'Safe at Passages. PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 22.—Arrived the Zephyr sloop of war from Plymouth.—Wind S. E. DEAL, MARCH 22.—Came down from the River the General Von Yorek and the Charlotte, and 're main with . his Majesty's ships as per last.— Wind S. . The Hoop, BOULERSTEIN, from St. Maas Sinys to Lisbon, was taken on Monday last, near Calais;by a French privateer. Five other priva teers were in sight. The following Letter has been received by Mr. Muabocif, Chairman of the Committee of Mer chants trading to -Madeira, in answer to au ap plication respecting a Convoy to that Island " Admiralty Office,.March 21, 1814. " Sin—Haying laid before nly Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty your letter of the 19th inst. relative to the West i India Convoy n April next being directed to call ai the .Island of Madeirat I have their Lordships' commands to ac quaint you, that the convoys for, the West Indies are all or dered to touch at that Island to see in and call out the trade, but not to anchor. I'ara, Sir, your very humble servant. W. MOILER. " DUMAS MULIDACH,, Esq. Chairman of 'Madeira• Merobnfits, - 28, Eruad struet-place, New Bruad-street." .The department pf Leman is; ,we, are well as sured, entirely de'oted to the, BOURBON Cause. 'Advices from St. Petersburg ta• the 18th ult. state, that the two younger bi others of the EM PEROR, the Grand Dukes NICOLAI and MICHAEL had • taken their departure'trom thence to join the Russian Army. Letters from Bourdeaux say, that our troops are living in the most splendid style of luxury. They say, that they drink the finest claret at 20d. per bottle, It is said that there were above 200 vessels of various descriptions in the port of Bourdeaux an river Garonne ; but what number of them may have belonged to the transatlantic worshippers of NAPOLEON. 'we have not yet learnt. We trust that they will be found tolerably numerous, and that our new Allies, the Bordelai's, will give a faithful account, not only of the ships, but of the cargoes, which, though landed and warehoused, may con tinue in great part American property, and as such, ought to form the booty of our brave sol .diers and their Spanish and Portuguese comrades. This circumstance will perhapS afford an useful warning .to the other American merchants who have kept their property at home. It will at least teach them to doubt the omniscience of their political oracle, Mr. JAMES -MADISON. It is stated that a Treaty Of Alliance his been entered into between Austria, Prussia, Russia, and England,. for twenty years, by which. the High Contrscting'Powcrs bind themselves, in the event of a Treaty of Peace with France,' to pre-, serve the balance of power in Europe, and to pro tect each . other in. their - territor;al possessions, which at such peace may be under the dominion of each power; and for the purpoSe of guarantee-, ing, the same, the High Contracting Parties on . tile Continent bind themselves when called, npOn, to have ready to take the field, 150,000 men each, within a given, term.; England to.assist the Allies as speedily as possible with five millions of rnoney;' This is Peace at a War expence. The stories in the French Papers respecting the pretty little King of Rome, are indicative .not only of his Majesty having cut his teeth, so as to be able to articulate distinctly ; but it proves the military propensity of his heart. One paper in forms us of a charming engraving, in which. a child is seen in the act of praying" his little hands held up—the mixed sweetness and dignity_ of his countenance," (we copy the ‘vords of the French Papers) and besides the insignia of the Le gion of Honour sh..w the infant to be of exalted and illustrious rank—the King of ROME—at the bottom of the engraving are these words, " 1 pray for my papa and for my counzry." Surely none of our readers can contemplate these charm ing traits, these tales of the nursery, without being deeprY affected We are glad to learn that Lord MARCH was much better according to the last accounts. The Present Mayor of Bourdeaux is said to De a Mr. LYNCH, of Irish 4xtractioa. SECOiIi tilttio:Sl OP,VEsitttaiAl2, SUN OrritE,ta..o o i ti()(3 , :; 'i►t following Bull tin has just .!d iVAIt D EPAaTMENT. howning-strett; Attird4 422 i IS i 4. ." Dispatches have been received from Lord WELLINGTON, dated Aire, the 14th inst. 'The uncotnmonly'severe tainsi. and the'rnot'e= , nient of SOULT'S Army toWards Tarbes had in duced Lord WELLINGTON to halt the mairt body of the Allied FOrces' between Pau (which is occupied by part of Sir 11. Flit.r.'s corps) and Aire—But his Lordship detached a body of Troops under Marshal Beatsrottn to Bonrdcaux, Which City he entered on the I th 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 TUE WHITE COCKADE, and LOUDLY and spontaneously declared their desire to sup port the HOUSE of BOURBON." •We Lail this glorious news, and hope that"this manifestation of the disposition of the French People may not be too late to save France anal Europe from, the humiliation of acknowledging the usurping Despot.' IVINDSOR, MARCH 22. Sunday being a remarkably fine day, we are, happy tQ say that her MAJESTY, accompanied by the Princesses AUGUSTA and MARY, attended t,y- Lady C. DANER, took an airing in a coach aw►rl four through Maidenhead. Her Royal Highness the Princess ELIZABETH, with her attetidants, walked • down td FrOgrnore: The evening being fine. for the first time, the sth, regiment's band played many favourite -. tunes in the Long Walk, which was well attended with coMpany. This; band lemains here, and will play in the Long Walk every Sun , day evening ifthe weather permits. This morning her MAJESTY and the Princesses ELIZABETH- and MARY 'took an airing to Frog 'more. Princess AUGUSTA, attended by General MANTgEtts and Mr. BROOK TAYLOR, took an.airiul on horseback in Windsor`Great Park.' Lady Ross , . LYN attended in the carriage. Lord COCHRANE • has published along letter in the Ncwspapers,of this day, in vindication of his characte'r, 'against the allegations or suppositions of the Stock Exchange, relative to his imputed Connection with the late atrocious fraud His Lordship's statement is supported by the affida vits of three of 'his servants, , importing that the dress . of the Officer who called at his Lordship's house on the day of the imposition different from that.-in which the pretended Colonel Dv ,- BOURCi . appeared, as described by the' Police Of ficer•, hackney-coachman, and others. There are two other 'affidavits, one from the person said to have sold the French coin on a draft from his - Le crt!tip, denying that -cirettmstar f e ; and the o'er !'rom a manufacturer, stating, that his Lord ship vias at his house on the morning when the fraud was carried into effect. It will be s,ren. 'by our Parliamentary Report, that Mr. COCHRANE JOUNSTONE has toad; soleirm declaration of his •hrising had no partici pation in, or previous knowledge of, the late scandalous fraud on the Stock Exchange awl repeated his.promise to publish a refutation of the calumnies against him. We are happy to hear that his Grace the Duke of RUTLAND has appointed the Rev. GEoRGE CRABBE to the living of Trowbridge, void by the resignation of Mr. BERESFORD. CITY .BUSlNESS.—Yesterday a Court of Alder men was 'bad at Guildhall, at which the LORD MAYOr presided, there being present 19 Aldermen and the City Officers. The Court ordered, that the Lord Bishop of Ely, and the Rev. Ir. Hodg son, Archdeacon of St. Alban's, be requested' to preach the Spiral Sermons on Easter Monday and Tuesday, at Christ - Church, in Newgate-street, before the Governors of Christ Hospital. Several Brokers were admitted and sworn, and several Coal Undertakers were licensed. Mr. Thowi Wadd was. elected Surgeon of the 2ompters, in the room.of Mr. Luke Hodgson, deceased. Mess. ,Cook, and Laing, were appoiirtdd Coal Meters; and Mes'srs. Paxton, Rolls, Smart, All din, Pownall, and Parker, Were appointed Corn Meters, and were severally sworn into office for fuur years; in trust fdr the City, in case they should so long continue Members of the Court of Common Council. Upwards of 7,500 punces of gold was sworn to as foreign, previous to ex portation. CORN-EXCHANGE, MARCH 23.—We bad -no ' fresh arrivals this 'morning, but what was left from Monday Was quite equal to the demand. 1 7 h , . sales in- the different kinds of Grain being exceed ingly dull, any few sales made were at the last quoted prices, r as they remain nominally n 5 on Monday: . • bavebeen rather diirerted`byobserving, that an article from.our NRWSPAPERIANA, No. 6, re specting a Gretna-Green marriage, which was so lemnized in the last century, has been copied into *most of the London Tand Provincial papers, us a faithful narrative of an hymenial union on ibe 11th ultimo 11—(Nottingharn Gazette.) Saturday night, or early on Sunday morning, • the dwelling-house of . MCSSrS,.GEORGESTEvEwsoti and Sons, in Bow-lane, Cheapside, was broke Open and robbed of'3oo pieces of Bandana silk handkerchiefs, 25 pieces of figured sarsnet, 4' pieces of silver tissue, six dozen of gossamer nets and cotton cord, to the amount of about 8001. with which the thieves' got clear off. In the Collection of Pictures which will he brought to, the hammer on Thursday, by Hoc- GARY and PaILLIPS, is a painting by TENrras, most charming production of that celebrated mas ter, supposed to he worth 1000 guineas ; in short. • (here is not a single Picture in the Collection but will gratify the Cognd,centi.