The Sun. — London, England, 1814-02-17 00:00:00

o c ; ' 3 to be partially felt by the inhabit trtts. fi r. this si tuatio n a great battle scerlis to' be as de ii'able for BUONAPA kiE as for the Alliet, who ar o • - naturally anNions to rea:h Paris. Jieport still dwells On the battles of the 10th 411(1 1 I th, but there have been no further arrivals either to confirm or negative these accounti:" - It w as , • stated, on the authority of a letter frOm Ply that SouLT had marched for Paris, foi l°. ' ve `' by Lord WELLINGTON. This, we need ; ''4 ; ree lY say, is at present only the gift of local labitation and a nanie to airy nothing. The ru 17011r is evidently founded on the ment i on i n t h e Papers of the arrival of divisions from t ip= army of Spain. Our correspondence to-day, later date, does not notice this town-made wttee. E lb e Morning Paper to which we alluded yester w i .11 our remarks upon the expediency of Peace Ivi t h -ounsi,st.•kirrE, has this day bestowed npou ys a (blhiOU S CORapillnellt, and while absolving T H „. SUN from the interested and improper mo te'which it charges to those Journals it climes r) call the Slaves or the interminable War Fac ti,n ' Imputes our qnalified support of the same oetrines to a want of information. Now, though arc, as may be belii:ved, willing enough to - "it the tribute to our sincerity and integrity, Ive are not equally pleased with being set down am o n g the ignorant, even with reference to a kibieet upon which it would not. be going t o , far to say, that all the Journals in the ti et "otioli s possess Very nearly the same intorma -13 viz. n one b u t what their own sagacity sup -11 e3' sup- We have always ridiculed the idea of giv t:r.the private conferences of Monarchs, the his-' nf secret dispatches, the minutes of Cabinet Ccill eils, the deliberations of Ministers of State, I C conferences of Ambassadors, and other (l ocuments, • all equally authentic, easy' of ottl Position, and unsusceptible of contradiction. S n f. 4 r, We'd, from having dived into such &o -14(1 4rearm, we have been contented . With laying to : 4 e the p u blic, .as early as possible, real in- t ation ; an d we ma y, without b oa sti ng , asser t, h ,n t l ju. this respect we have not - been behind any Leulporary publication.--To the inventions of th e sort above alluded to, however able and ' ll- ‘vritten, we shave even been 'unkind t `) refuse admittance into Otir.colunins : there to, e. w e , are sure we stand acquitteal () . f any at 11Dt to mislead our Country. It is curiouvalso to "ve, that with the very pen which accuses f .. 4° th e \ t being gifted with superior information, rut in the Morning Post assumes that the Li les Which we published yesterday are from Rh oft sgeial authority, thus defeating his own ar it • ent ; for surely if our data are so well-founded, ho t Probable that our reasoning' upon 'them riv be so darkling, and if these Queries are de ed f' . rell 'ow th e fi rst sources o f informAtion, we will s i . t . ttire to assert, that they are the only political i ssu 3 poss esse d o f th a t we i g ht w hi c h h a v e , yet t , ed from t h e press upon t h e v i ta ll y i mportan t of th e pending negociations. ha v 'n't . thus a little cleared our way, we have m t l b thi e t° deny one other assumption on the part of wr iter, viz. that we had acknowledged our t e ':?: i tion to negociation with BUONAPARTE had t 4 v ehement or ill-advised, and were disposed It , ret ract from our opinions. By reperusing our e e , tt la i -ne nts he will perceive that we renewed the 'it 'nance of these ()Pinions, and 'only set our v erist „Ilrright in a mistaken notion, formed with- , o n ore'rereuce to . what we had previously written le gull d q ~ t ject, that we had condemned the con an4t'f our Government without good grounds, I',„ \v : v bile. all the proceedings of the Allied la ' ls if Congress were yet unknown to 'us. t 4 s 41 4 n 'l , er we stated, what we now repeat, )4 °4 argument has ever been this. NAPOLEON 41) '‘P , Te is an unprincipled wretch, who; in il t 1, l . tl ealirws with, o ther States, has only run o , j , Dr ee ,: i i a career of treachery and blood, so as to e the possibility of any reliance being i n el opon obligations into which 'he may enter tb e th eir 'our of his. necessity, however sacred in trat ure• His hatred against Great Britain is i ce Is ‘ li sed and implacable. An agreement which • ttises , fz )te tllni on a powerful. throne cannot there be gi,. e • Politically desirable, and it is moreover to kits 'lll6r eoliurn to crime, and • sanctify the most, 0 tr. \ l , 4‘, 8 guilt. With these considerations a1.,10 . , 10 their view, we, have seen our Minister . t into negoeiatioqs with this person, aml,we z 'id Lord LIVERPOOL is a Juan without re ll' ' lel ' the world, Lordr it ..,ASTLEREAGII bears the In a :P it ted Character of a 'perfect Gentleman and th e °F honou r ; Lord SIDMOUTH, as a man of 11 4 P iutest. morality, r an k s among th e ,most es ' hle . ti n the nat i on ; Lord PATIIVEST Th er reputation—ttiese are the chief ads N ye c l the Crow n , an d they have made them-:' tLe 3 Tel Ponsible for the Act of treating' with Preseut Auger of France and his Ageuts. They eatitiot: hare come to , this decL , iati out unanswerable and cogent. .reasons—they must have'felt; as every • lamest . and good man feels, indignant acid disgusted at the idea of holding intercourse with these infamous persons ; but a paramount sense of public duty has com pelled them to'sacrifice their private sentiments on the altar of their country's welfare. We lament , - the necessity Of the case, but it they had.no other alternative before them than that oreither entering into negociation, or of uniting Europe in a Con tinental Peace against us—a peace, too, founded on opinion, and not, as before, upon com pulsion, then, -we confess, that we cannot conceive it possible that any Minister of Eng land should dare to involve the nation in such a struggle, without previously trying the effect of a Congress to settle a general PacificatioiL Such are, and have ever been, our opinions. To them we . shall immovably adhere, for they are founded on the sincerest conviction that nothing but the most imperious motives could have ac tuated our Government to adopt the line it has taken, and. upon a very painful sense of the de gradation, and, we will add, moral laxity, in volved in the measure of entering into bonds of amity with so vile and criminal a gang of sue cesSttil Ruffians as BUONAPARTE and his myr midons. 'We have only to add, as an Observatiln appli cable to the conduct of the Allies, that the hoist ing of the White Cdckade coidd scarcely be ex pected when they themselves put an extinguisher upon the manifestation of any wish of this sort on the part of the people of France, by the way in which they conducted iheinselves towards the Usurper—for while they treated him as a,rightful Sovereign,• they virtually treated such of his sub• jects as Might rise against him as Traitors, and exposed them, in the issue of a compromise, to suffer tae punishment of Treason ! Yesterday, about three o'clock, the Earl of LIVERPOOL had a long interview with tilt: PRINCE REGENT, at Carlton House. Yesterday morning the Earl of LIVERPOOL had a long interview with Earl .13ATHunsT, 'at his Office. Viscount SIDMOUTII, and ~the CNASCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, had interviews with the Earl of Yesterday ViSCOMIt MELVILLE held a Levee at the Admiralty, which vas but thinly attended by Officers. • The Austrian Minister had along interview with Mr. HAMILTON, the Under Secretary of State, on Tuesday. Yesterday the Caii net Ministers dined with the Earl of ,HAttitow=3v, at his house in Grosvenor square, ' • Yesterday morning Sir THOMAS TYRWHITT, after having an interview with.the PRINCE RE-' GENT and the Earl of LIVERPOOL, lett town for Windsor, to Wait upon 'her MAJESTY with a Coin mission,- with which he was entrusted by her Royal Daughter, the Queen of WIRTEMBERG. Sir THOmas came from Stutgard, the residence of the Queen of WIRTEMBERG, %Own he came to Eng land, where he had been for some time on a visit to her Majesty of WIRTEMBERG. • •• • The Princess CHARLOTTE took an airing yes terday from three to four o'clock,'attended' by MSS KNIGHT. The Marquis of BUCKINGHAM is arrived at Portsmouth, to take the command orhis battalion of Provisional Militia, at Hadar Barracks. The mission of the Count Ds VIEL CASTEL from the Crown Prince of SWEDEN to Lord WEL LINGTON is superseded. That Gentleman, who is still in London, is not to proceed to . Lord WEL LINGTON'S head-quarters. Letters to the 4th instant have reached town front Bremen. They state, that reinforcements of Russians and Prussians,.to the number 0f.45,000, were marching through that place to join their brethren in arms in France. Thereovere present . at Bremen, Generals TETTENBORN,.WORONZOFF, GELATIN, and several 'other Officers of. distinc tion. Two thousand British troops had arrived at Bremen from Lubeck, after a severe march.— AA consultation had been recently held amongst the principal Officers, as to the propriety of storm-. ing• llamburgh. It was expected 'to. cost the Allies at least 6000_ Men. Whether the measure will be prdefeeded on or .not, is not ascertained.; hut the hospitals are preparing for a number of wounded. . According to letters of the latest date by the Fair American, the Commissioners.appointed on the part of the United States to negotiate for the adjustment of the differences with Britain, were to sail from New York, so ai to arrive early in April at Gottenburgh, where the negociations are to be carried on. Mr. DoN6 is appointed Consul of the United States for Gottenburgh and its depen dencies. Lit arrived in town on Monday, and is the bearer of dispatches front. his Government. Yesterday the Lords of . the Council met at the Council Chamber, Whitehall, .to hear and deter- . Mine Prize, Appeals, at which the Judge of the Admiralty, the Vice-Chancellor, the Judge of the Arches - Court, and Sir WILLIAM WYNNF;, presided. .The Court rose a little' before four o'clock, and ...adjourned till Saturday. We sotikie time ago Mentioned the report of a Court of Inquiry having been appointed by the CoMmander in ,Chief, to consider the cases of two Lictitenants who bad been prisoners of war in France, but had recently effected their escape-- The result *of the inquiry has been, it is said, that _these Officers have been found guilty of a breach of their parole of honour, and they•have been ac cordingly sentenced to .return to confinement in France, by the first cartel. POtTli V. tr r o r n paahrwvAts r'arodtes.l VERSES, Siipposetto be Wr4tti by the Editor of the • Newt paper, during his solitary abode in ' Prison: beiog ijr.raphnise of the Verges supposed to be written by ALExAN DER BEu:ink, dating his solitary abOtle• in the Island of Juan Fernandez. By IVILLIAN/ co•wra, I am a tenant of nine feet by four, My title no lawyer denies, From.the ceiling.quite down to the floor, lam hyd of the spiders and flies. Oh, Justice ! how awkward it is TO lie grip'd by thy terrible squad! I did but indulge in a quiz, And the unil iave have sent we to quad. • Dear scandal is out of myreach, I must pass my dull. utprninics alone Never hear Mr. make aspeecli, Nor get audicucefor one of my own! The people, provOkingly quiet, My fate with inditierence see; They are sOunacciistoni'd to riot,' Their tameuess is shocking to me. Personality, libel, and lie, Ye sUppurts of our Jacobin train, If I had but the courage to try, . HoW soon I would sport you again ! My ranklings I then might assuage By renewing my efforts to vex, By profaning the rev'rence of age, And attacking the Weakness of sex. A libel ! what treasure untold Resides in that dear little word, More rich than the silver andiold Which' the Bank is reported to hoard! But the Bench have no bowels for pity, . No stomach for high-seasoyd leavin„ And, though we be never §'o••witty, They trim us when judgment is given. O ye, who were present in Court, In pity courey to me here Some well-nianutactur'd report, Of a Lady ) a Piince, or a Peer. Do My writings continue to tell ? • - Does the public attend to my lines? 0 say that my Newspapers sell, • • Though the mOney 'must go for my fines! How fleet is the growth of a fib The astonishing speed of its flight Outstrips the less mischievous squib Let off on a holiday night. 'then, who would not vamp up a fudge, When he knows how it helps off his papefs; Were it not—that rthe thought of the Jtitlgj Overcasts him, and giveS hitn the vapours? But Coati= has got his discharg,c— The,beast is let loose from his cover; Like him I shall yet be at large,. When a couple of years,shall be over: For law roust our liberty give, ThOugh law for a while may retard it : Even Pshall obtain it, who lice By sappi:lg the bulWarks that guard it. T H EAT RE. We, have, seldom witnessed a more spirited re vival than in the Comedy of tflid Oats, which was again represented laSt night at Drury-lane Thea- , tre before a Nery numerous . audience The cha racters throughout have been appropriated jndi eiously.. ELLISTON is gradually throwing off the stiffness and formality Which hung over, his comic. •efforts, and he gave last night' a very animated .support to the part of Rover. .BANNISTER is'wisely retreating into parts suited.to his time of life, and his John Dory, is a proof that lie can be as success , ful as he used to be in more juvenile characters'. Mrs. GLovEtt,:s Lod, ,e/mgranth is a speciaven of 'good sense, feeling, amdpropriety, highly credit able to .her talents. 'The Comedy had,. besides, the strong support of ~MUND.E.N,' KNIGHT, and DOWTON, and excited throughout much applause. It was followed by a new ballet, founded- on the Opera of The Padlock, entitled, Lorenzo and Leo nora, composed. by W. llyaNE. The incidents were tolerably . well preserved, hut, they would hardly have been intelligible; lithe original piece were not So familiar to the public.. The ballet' was well supported by the exertions . of. Young BYRNE, Miss Smyrn,.and the rest.of the capering corps. KEMBLE'S engagement, we understand, cop- . chides this week, and early in the next he de parts 'for Edinburgh. He has full reason to •be satisfied with the reception which he experienced from .the Public, and the Public have eqUal reason to be satified with the rich and classical treat which his talents afforded theni. His Brutes last night, at . Covent-Garden, was as attractive as - at the beginning of his engagement, and be displayed the same judgment, dignity, and feel ing, as on all former occasions. • • The North Lincoln, 2d Royal Lancashire,, and Wiltshire Regiments of Militia, now in Scotland, arc under order to march for Ireland. Yesterday an, elderly Gentlerna.n, genteelly nreis ed, with a gold watch and seals, a one-pound note, and six three-shilling pieces in his pocket, was , taken our of the Serpentine river, in Hyde=p . ark, into which, it is supposed he. had thrown himself the same morning. 'EPISCOPAL ANECDOTE.;--A Clergyman in the County of N-----, having neglected to obtain his License for Non-Residence, was desired by his Dio,- cesan to assign his reasons for the omission, which he did very briefly, by .saying he had utterly-for gotten it, when the Reverend Prelate inquired whether he had also forgotten his Game License, which was answered in the negative. A new Novel, from the pen of Lady MottaAN, so well known to our readers by the name of Miss OWENSON, will be published the I st March. It is called "0' Donnel," and is, thefirst National Work she has composed since the publication or her beautiful Tale of " The Wild Irish Girl," which justly laid the foundation of her literary fame. N - 81/15, LOSS Of lIIVArgFOr.p ANO SANCIr ItA-StSI36IIN WITH :I C . 3 - OPS ON iltiAßlj POP iiiiitAND: 1 11ARNVIOFty VEt. 16..,._ :11e Beitsforil ttAllSpOrti a0 . P14 troops from the Dooins Holland, s-r•itally lost 'o'n the Haakt Said ; onhl 4::frersotts saved, The Nancy transport (marked W.) Pc-rTtr, "Master, is tc,tally lost on the same sand, v.rrl on board perished. The Albion paAet, Captain MAY, has return ed leaky from , off 'Gottenburgb, whither she was bound with - a mail, as she could not get in tot the ice ; sbChoweve-r ; put her MB on hoard another hr packet, Of that ptn DEAL, 16.—Canre down from , the Rive.., and sailed to the :Westward, the Astell East India-, man, for Madras and Bengal, and the Castle • .Htintly 'for China. Sailed his Majesty's ships Dictator. and Regulus 'for the Nore. Arrived the Folkstone• hired 'ginned lugger with dispatches from the fleei'fn' the RoOtnnot. Also arrived th'e Nancy, Retreat; Ceres, Richltd, and Resolution transports, from,Holland. 7 —Wind N. t. POIerSMOUTH' f :FEI3, 16 —Arrived yesterday and to-day several ships from: the Downs, to join the, West India convoy, which sailed from St., ilelen's Roads at day-light, this morning, protected by hilt ATajestY's ships GloticeSter, Rota, Carnation, and Hydra—the latter a store-ship. 'Arrived his Majesty's ship Fyll:t from the Westward. Sailed the Erebus frigate for Passage, with specie.-- Wind N. PLYMOVTiti .FEB. 15.,—Came in the. Ilia* man of war frdm'''fi cruise, Ja'Ouse sloop of war froth Cork, and Oe Swinger gun 7 lirig from Torbay. Sailed the Queen Charlotte, of 110 guns, for off Brest. —Wind East. FALMOUTH, FEB. 11-Arrived the Berry tle,: PHILLIPS, from , London far Teneriffe, and the Font Friends, - from LOndon. 'Sailed the. Pelicanj.)lS guns, Captain . MANsiL, on a cruise; blike'a Kent packet (2), for Lisbon; Lady Arabella ditto, for Pasivre • Walsingham• ditto for Passage ; Queen Charlotte ditto, for Corunna and Cadiz; Swiftsure ditto, for Halifax ; Hinch inbrOke ditto, tor the Windward Islands; and the Snake ditto, for Surinam-Lail. with mails,— Wind E. N. E. light breezes and clear weather. GUERNSEY, FEB. 13:—This day arrived the Mary: Scout, Captain FREDERICK WHITE, front Southampton, bringing the welcome and official details of,the defeat of BUONAPARTE by the brave Bt.:TY:nen, in dispatches from Government to Ge neral Sir.TOEIN DOYLE. This indefatigable Com mander, on arriving in Gtternsey Roads, fired a Royal sakcte, and the ors Was receved with the ,gr, 7 ateit tokens of exultation by every description of peOple. CAUTION TO MASTERS OF MERCHANTMEN.--Mr. NEWLANDS, Master 'of the Coquette, of Gla!goW, sailed from 'St. Thomas's on the 12th February : , 1813, undei' convoy of his Mde.ty's ship Kan garoo, and'ran•away from the fleet. The . Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty instituted a prOm sedition atgainSt him for the offence, and be has been sentenced' - to a month's imprisonment in the wh'ere he is nonr.confined. Rear-Admiralll4.r..cocm lvas to sail on Si turtley in the_ Queen Charlotte, for off Brest, to relieve the Ville de Paris. The Illustrious, 74, Capt. SKENF, has heeri pairl off; the Benbow, Capt. PEARSON, has part of her crew. The ships that will be dispatched from the East India House tti,morrovr, instead of Saturday, arc the Winche,4Fa and Marquis 'of Huntiv, for Ma dras and China ; Royal Charlotte And Surat Cas tle, Batavia, and China ; Castle Huntly, Madras, Prince of . Wales's and . China ; Glattou, St. He tena and China ; and Astell, Europe and Asia, Madras and Bengal. SPANISH AMERICA. The following is a communication from the Mississippi, adverting to the state of affairs in that part of Spanish America, the fate of which is likely to determine the future situation of all the colonies dependent; on the same power,:— " NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 27 " By the vessel from Vera Cruz which arrived here on Tuesday, several letters have been received in this city, and we have been favoured with the perusal of one, of them, containing the following particulars : " The insurrection never had, even in the days of HIDALGO, assumed a character equal)? formi dable and decisive. The insurgents have at length seized on Acapulco, one of the finest ports of the Pacific Ocean, and perhaps the only safe harbour in Mexico. It ►s.eminently situated for commerce with the East, and was once faMous for its an nual galloons to Manilla. " It appears .that Moantos, after• having se cured his* posts the Southern Provinces, and organized a powerful army, found Euffi ciently strong to detach several corps to intercept the communication.between Vera Cruz . and Mexi co. The artny'which blockaded a va!aable con voy in the . fortress of Perote, at the departure of the abOve vessel, was estimated at'7o,oW then. " perote is 95 miles from Vera Cruz. Appre hensions were entertained for the capital, is no news from thence had been received for some time at Vera Cruz. N. B. We have just learnt that San Bras, port in the Paiific Ocean, near Acapulco, has also fallen into the hands of the Insurgents:"