The Sun. — London, England, 1804-12-22 00:00:00

ALIA al 1 'Wry. kprivate Letter fionnYaris of the 4th inst; eon._ lain.. the following particulars " I have, with daculty, procured permission to be present at the ceremony in Notre Dime of BONAPARTE'S Corona don. A friend introduced me as one of the Depu. ties of the Department of and I occupied a place Convenient to obserie anti see every thing; and I can assure you I never have read of, or seen, any.public fete where less content anti satisfadion prevailed. BONAPARTE Was pale and sulky, watch. ing with an anxious and suspicious eye all persons approaching him ; and, though surrounded hy his most trusty slaves, started often at the foot of the altar, as well as when seated upon the throne, as if iroM apprehension of the secret' presence of some revengeful or hired assassin, or from the irresistible pangs of a guilty conscience. He sent General Douse twice to the Cardinal CAPE ARA, and to the , Pope, to hasten the ceremony, with an impatient look, which indicated his great uneasiness and trouble ; and when, after a space of five hours, the, Procession left the Church, General Mu RAT received another message, to be particular in not permitting strangers to approach the imperial carriages, which had an escort more numerous th in the coach which carried the unfortunate Louts XVI. to the scaffold. Madame BONAPARTE never cedsed to have her eyes fixed upon her husband, and several times, putting het handk er chi e f to her face, seemed, or, I believe, rather wished the spedators to suppose, that she cried from tenderness or affeition.— , Ba- NAPARTE spoke to her three i times in an angry t o ne, because she did not perform her part exotity as r iodated by the Grand Master of the Ceremony, Secont, or because she was not quick enough in • prrf rming it. BoNAPARTF's brothers were proud of their precedence, insolent in their manners, 'and acrd as a kind of police ministers, in this Church; as their Aids.de-camp were continually employed in carrying messages.to the military, to place or displace persons from their seats, or to turn out Iluistt who,Were not dressed well enough, and therefore . , or for some other cause, si.)Epti3nuf. Or disagreeable. I3uNAPARTS's sisters appeared to mind little else htit to admire their. rich and elegant - dresses, and tit court, or rather command, the ad. mitatton of other,. They seemed the most satisfied of the whole family, and exhibired themsels with the same boldness in the Chinch, as report says, two of them have formerly duce on the Stage. The Pope, when in Notre Dame, as when in the Thuillery, surpassed all others in weaknesi, mean. ness, and servility, and would, with the same beetle subm ssion, have cr 'sorted BONAPARTE the' Pr, , vidence of Europe, as an Emperor of the French. Those who placed the - tiara on the head of. this weak and ignorant P.,ntifT, did as much harm 14 , as those who tore tair the crown of Louts IV!. did to Monarchy. With the superstitious de votion of a friar, he is as little acquainted with the true interest of religion and of mankind as a re. tithe. He is, as all other weak characters, good, because he is tint under the necessity of being had to promote his-view s . Without ambition, he k fund of power, and, without any .passion for pleasure, fond of !thews and processions. He has the pue rile vanity to wish to be considered as having received nie gift of languages since his devotion to the_ Vicariate of Christ. Wishing to answcr in the language he is addressed, he commits the most ,lidieulnus blunders. When the Senate complimented him, he began tootnsiver in French, which caused even the Senators to. smile, notwithstanding the gravity of the occasion ; but he was obliged to finish it in Italian. In a few Words, the only phee he is fit to occ u py, w i t h out danger to society, is that of a Superior of a convent. He has already met with several insults from BONAPARTE, that +would he resented by a, man of sense ; but which now prove, that he is well known to the Corsican, who re gards him as his first slave, with whose rank he Intends to enslave the Catholic States, and tyran nize consciences. From Bavaria, Saxony, Wt ar. phalia, and other parts of Germany, several hun dred Priests and Friars had obtained permission from Press VII. to salute him here, arni to receive his blessing; but BosrAearte ordered Foi.“:tre to write to the Prefeds on the Frontiers to stop every Foreign Clergyman, and, though provided. with .a written pass-Iron) the POPE, to carry them to the other side of the Rhine. " But to stop this interruption of the occurrences. at Notre Dame, the Constituted Authorities there seemed not muc!oolore at their case than the Stave. reign they had made ; they were as glad_when every • thing was over as he was himself; a rumour being citcul a t e d, t h at t h e Military Deputies had proposed to suspend these Authorities until a Peace, and con. fee upon BONAPARTE .the Legislative as well as, the Execntive Authority. The military mernwho formed most of the spedators, were as noisy in the Church acthey would have been in a camp. Though they had their . places assigned to them, they introduced. themselves every where, even in the gallery occupied by tbe Members of the Foreign Diplomatic Corps, saying NAtioo EON was their Emperor, and they, therefore, had more right to see his Coronation than any body else. BONAPARTE, his brothers, and General MURAT, observed these irregularities, but either dared not, or would not interfere. The Foreign. princes, and Diplomatic Agents, with the exception of half a dozen, who, on account o f the length of the Cereon.ny, or from the heat, fell fast asleep, were more attentive to the noise of the Officers and Sol. dices, than to the prayers or mummery (404 Pots and the Clergy, having heard the same rumounas the Constituted Authorities, anti were trembling lest the first signal to a civil war should be given in the church. Terror, uneasiness, and suspicion, had eveti extended to the fetnale part of the audience, on e of whom, in sonic iew wards addressed to me, gave a hiletably good dr,ctiption of the situation of uii partite on that remarkable day, in saying: " it n'y a pas de fete, art I s cosur west pas!" M.jrsty's Ptivt. Council have ordered, that 4n Y Perboo wh o may h e loun d to h ave eva d e d t h e law:„f Iv anramtime, which are necessar m ily enfibrced 4All ' ligirkost strianesis, should immediately be r e o seeute,l to cony idion, that they mil' buffer the vere si renal!) , of the btiittittj viz. Death ivitienut kencnt of Clergy. S'4 A aw.g.....4.• 4.4 4,11 IL, 4-0 .1%.1111. • TRIALS FOR PERJURY. ICantinuation of the: interesting Prereedinzs of the Meet , ing at the Crown and Anchor Tavern, en Wednesday, from our Paper at yesterday.] Mr. ROWLES,---." I rise, Sir, tosecond all the Re. solutions just read, 'but I cannot satisfy . my . mind by a silent approbation of them. Feeling so deeply interested as I do in the cause which it is the ob. jra of this Meeting to espouse and promote, I hope I shall be permitted to say a few words on the very important occasion which brings us to. gether. J cannot help congratulating this Meeting on the great and important events which have taken place . siece we assembled last, as Freeholders of the County of Middlesex, On that occasion a very clear anti able statement of the Proceedings at the two last Middlesex EleCtions, was made 6y the Chairman ; a statement, which exhibited the cha. tatteristic featores of truth ; but as oriall political tubjeCts,. prejudices are supposed to operate upon the human mind, it is satisfatiory to know, that this statement has been fully confirmed by the trials which have lately taken place. The faels which transpired upon those trials, and even those parts of the evidence 'which have been 'read from the Chair, prove that a most extensive and com. plicated system of perjury existed at the last Elec tion. Having already gone so far, in order to, bring that system to light, and its authors and agents to punishment, I think we shall not bs sa tisfied to stop where we now are. I am for taking a leaf out of our enemies' book. Although I ter_, tainly do not approve of their principles* or their praaices, yet there are some points in which I think they are worthy of our imitation. They never stop half way, they never are discouraged by difficulties ; and whenever they have gained an advantage, they follow it up with the greatest spi. tit and effect. I am for imitating their =dun in these respects, and for following up the advantages which have already crowned our exertions. You have stated, Sir, very properly, the difficulties which stand in our way in bringing forward the persons who have been guilty of perjury , at ahe last I eleelion, and I beg to state my decided opinion, that independently of those difficulties, it, is not my wish to bring forward any very great number of those persons for puniihment. The jUstice of the Country would not be satisfied by infliCting ven. geance' on those poor low deluded wretches who had been made 'the instruments 'in the hands of others. It is not to he supposed' that such persons would come forward spontaneously 'to perjure them, selves for any Candidate. When we see puppets move, we know ehat they are moved by wires, and t h at t h e re ate hands which aired those wires, al. though both wires and hands may be invisible ; hut here it appears, that they are not invisible ; the evidence on the trials point out pretty clearly the wires and 4nm: of the hands which move them ; and, therefore, though I conceive the guilt of these poor wretches to be very great, and that it is in. dispensably necessary to make some examples, to prevent others from listening in future to instiga. tions of this kind, yet I think public justice calls loudly, for punishment in a higher quarter. The receiver is certainly worse than the thief, and the sober net is far more guilty that) the suborned; and , I think it is due to these poor wretchei themselves, that justice should not stop with them, but should 1 ascend to the polluted 'Source• whence the tempta. tion leis been derived. The most cogent and im. odious motives 'call upon us not to stop here, but • to exert all our zeal and energy 'to give an affec. !mil check to this nefarious system. The cause in which we are engaged, is not, as has been truly said in one of the - Resolutions, a mete eledion. contest ; it is a national concern, 'involving the dearest interests of the Country,prilitical and It is not local or partial;"i't does not effect the, County of Middlesex only;' Cornwall is as deeply interested in it as Middlesex. It does not con cern Freeholders alone-; all the inhabitants of the county, and of the kingdom, have an bitterest in it, in Many respects ai• deep as the Freeholders of Middlesex theMselves. Sir,' we have long been accustomed to consider bribery at an eleClion as a ' mortal sin against the Constitution, and very properly, since it pollutes the sources whence our constitutional privileges flow. The Legislature, sensible of the evils which must attend such an offence, have endeavoured by the best means in their power to restrain it. But, Sir, was there ever such gross and complicated bribery, as at the two last Middlesex Elections Bribery, however, in. deed, was not the worst of the practices which there prevailed : Bribery stalked hand in hand with perjury ; these crimes were associaaed Loge. then, not only to overthrow the eleitive franchises of the Freeholders of Middlesex, but to overwhelm all eleetive rights whatever ; and to introduce, what our moderninnovators . , have been desirims of establishing—the Revolutionary System of universal suffrage. Sir, i am sure it would be unbecoming for me to expatiate on the enormity of one Of the crimes to which I have been alluding. The moral feelings of every person present, and of every per. son whose mind is not perverted, must shudder . at the very Mention of the abominable offence of pet. jury. Every person, indeed, who exercises his reason upim the subject!, besides being shocked at the impiety of this crime, 'besides being filled with horror on seeing a fellow.creature call' down the "engeanee of the Almighty on his guilty head, must see, that if this crime were to become familiar, if an oath were to lose its sanftity, our laws would lose their efficacy, our tribunals of justice, instead of ',torching the innocent, would only expose'thern to be the victims of perjury, and no man's life or property would be /safe. I trust, therefore, Sir, that ,when such 'interests are at stake, interest, which involve whatever is dear to society at large, 'and to every man as. an individual, the Freeholders of Middlesex will not be. the men to flitch from such a Cause; but that they will follow up the ad. vantages already obtained, until it can be said with as much confidence as any thing of this kind can • admit of, that the Country-is safe from .such roc .tices in future. I . beg pardon, Sir, for urging any further consideration as an • inducement to pro. ► cerd in such a cause, but I cannot refrain from re. marking, that it is through the want of such ester. SWI3S ( 45 the Gouty "lave lately made, sad, nor, are aetcrillinect ro persevers rt . '', about two YeirS i go, thaeWe are reduced to the necessity. of exerting . ourselves at present . If the perjury which tvas caromitted at the PeCtion in t Sox, and which . ch!clar:3, by the highest authority, to haye been carried to a most awful and alarmiog extent, b, en fillowed up in _ the manner we h,ive already followed up that which took place at the last efec. tine., I think I am not presumptuous in saying, that . the dreadful scenes whiCh we. lately witnessed would not have occurred. , 'but see the consequence of suffering guilt to be attended with impunity. Perjury was unpunished at the former eleClion ; the conSequinee is, that at another ele4ion it was practised to a greatly increased ratio, notwith standing.the very important difference between the two eleetions, in respect to the chsrader of the Returning Officers. For, although, at the latter, they were men of uprightness and integrity, vet they could not protect the rights of the Freeholders of Middlesex, and could scarcely prevent the re turn from being again obtained by systematic per. jury. I trust, that what has taken place, and par. ticularly the consideration; that the second, mis. chief has been principally (swing to' the first having passed with impunity, will operate as a. deciaive reason with the Freeholders of Middlesex, to do every thing in their poWer to prevent its ever oc curriig again. It was observed, Sir, that one of the witnesses on the late . trials fell into a cOntradic,, tion, which tended very much to discredit him ; but I think it is material to observe,..that the Lord Chief Jestice, in sumtrang,.up an . ,trial, far from expressing an opinion that this witness was undeserving of credit, observed, that excepting in the circumstance in which he cOntradiEted himself, no other part of his evidence was broken in upon.. Indeed, it is manifest, that with tire above excep. don, his evidence was substantially confirmed, by other witnesses ` ; but had* this witness been out of the way, there was complete evidence to satisfy t he Juty of the guilt of the Defendant, and the case would have stood extremely well without his dence. I think it also material to notice, that the question on which' the difficulty arose was wholly., irrelevant to the cause, anti did not at all 3%41 the guilt or innocence of the Defendant" Mr. TIIOItNTON.--." I happen to have the part before me, to which the Gentleman alludes, and I will read it :—Lord ELLENBOROuGH says, ‘ Ido not think that by any other circumstance in the cause he is broken in upon. ; I believe there exists a doubt whether the witness meant to say what was supposed he said, he had written she whole of the paper which he had in his, hand. The Cotinsel asking him, what was the paper he had'in hips hand; he was obliged to produCe it, and he affirmed, that he had written the whole*of it except the part that . , Was rubbed put.. It did appear, ort,inspeetion, that it was in the hand.writingof two persons, but tha t . no part was rubbed out. A doubt does seem to ex. ist, which the Learned Judge. himself suggeated,.. whether he meant to, say, the wbolo that was writ., ten upon the paper" was written hint s or oply : that part wlpch was Clridcrlqy his owobaott.terit. ing tbia, hoWever, Was wholly irrelevant : cause, and it cannot be supposed:that i the,atitra, , diftion arose at all from the suggestion u 1 other c per. sons, ---Tile several Resolutiotis Were'7.trie*plo,4,4l4‘ , carrictr unoimously. Mr. BENNITT auggested; could not distinilly hear, whitht,e,it, Waufkilot i tie, desirable that the PrbieciitiOna ,sboula,,lie„ciirried by the' ATTOAKEY,GENERAL I , go behalf ofesche Crown.' Mr. Bowt.eq..—" I am itire, „should GS:, disposed to pay ,every attention to the suggestiFtnti l of the Gentleman who has just spoken, but I. earls.; not coincide with him on the present occasion. „Ad.:, though I do not deny that it ,is,;4;casise„whi , ch serves the attention both of Or GOVernturnt and she . , Country, and that the ATTORNE,i4lt4Eitni,:ottigl4,, with great propriety take up . tfieSePtosecutione,,, yet I think they could Oothe taken tip ,with so much effect as they will heir ihey'are instituted the spirit .of the County. It behoves the quinsy of Middle'sex, to vindicate ita rights, and while•it does, Chia kind Of aCtion and reabion will be rtes mid; it will derive fresh energy rrom its exer. Lions. We have heard a great .tleal of the outraged rights,of the Freeholders of Middlesex : the litre trials prove, indeed, that the rights of. the coUnty of Middlesex have been grossly outraged ;. but appears, that it is by the very parry complaining: fi _that those outrages have been committed: it is the„ poor innocent larlihs that made the outcry,. who now turn out to be the criminds.—So much for Jacobin . mOdesty. 1 beg leave, Sir, to observe, ,that it is of great importance that Out Resolutions should be , made as generally known as . possible, and as $P9n..., 1 .t5; possible, thronghOtat the COuntry. I date say,,, that ; every Gentleman will use his effarts to promoc7alie n , Subscription among conoeftions, and in his . neighbourhood. As this 4is an universal concern,, it may, perhaps, be the roust natural, as well att, the Most elf - caul mode 'of accomplishing our 0bj,;4 4 (a liberal Subscription), to subscribe small SUMS, five or ten guineas, or 'eveo Icisver, from one guinea to ten, for who would hesitate ,to contribute some. thing to secure the Country against a repetition,of such pra6lices as have token place storing the', two last Middlesex Efetttions alai to have it under, stood, that there is no point of lionUtir about the amount, but that every one feeling himself to, ,he interested, may contribute what he thinks ptoper, , —A number of aniall streams will furnish a very large one, snifiCienr, I doubt oot, to carry. Our Vessel prosperously through ail her , diffn;ulties.- a - Enough has been said, 1 hope, to shrew that this is not the cause of the Freeholders only, but of the Copyholders, the Leaseholders, anti,iosiced of every individual, of whatever rank or degree. l . l , Mr. THOR NT,nl. 7 -" A Circular Letter may ,be sent round to every Freeholder, and we filial) trust to every Gentleman to nrocute ithscroptions , in his parish or neighbourhood.". Several Gentlemen offered to p rocure Sobscrip. tions in their own neighboullood.. Tkinks were unanimously voted to Mr. Titoilmrozi t tor hil dud in tin Chair.—Adjourned. On Wednesday night some villains found mean, to enter the house Of Mrs. ROWOOTHAM, Charles. street. Soho.square, and stole 4 copper and a qua». , city of l inen. NyWittnif, DP.T. /Sp.—LW night, at Ii o'clock, a. m )5t dreadful fire br , ,ke out in the house of Mr. jua. linen. draper, k the M srker.place, which burned with incredible fury, and consinuri. cated to a house below, which were in one blaze be. fore tw,-Ive o'clock. The wind, providentially, was N. N. E. and moderate ; for had it been S. W. and b!oan hard, nothing short ola miraculous interference could have saved the whole place, of near 6o lantise, from being totally consumed, being mostly old build. ings in front, with workshops, slaughter.hothes, and old built warehouses in the centre, with one or two exceptions, at the back of each house. The drum* heat to arms; the picquets of the Royal Cornwall I,t Battalion; and the Princess of Wales's Blttalion of Plyin null Volunteers, were soon on their posts. At two A. M. the fire raged with uncommon fury, and, to add to the' misfortune, the water way frozen ; but by greafexertions the stream of the town reservoir was forced down. By this time all ranks of pe t yle were alert and naive on the occasion : the engines of the Dock.yard, Royal Hospital, Vitfivalling Royal Exchange, Sun, and Phoenix Fire and 'the private engine of Lleut..Colonel Hawker, with those of the. Mayor and Commonalty, began to play, as water by this time rushed down tho' it still froze hard, and played with great energy and force. Still the flames , raged backwards to Mr. Nfirthente's ; 'Mr. Nnrrington's, lien. eastward; and Mr.aibbs's, silversmith, the') ')ele Inn, the extensive warehouser, full of butter, &c. of Mr. Harvey, west. ward ; . and from the strange confoirnity of the various buildingi, the risque was run of many valuable lives being Inst in,pulling down the different pretnistN. and pushing through the windows the pipes of the enginei to' get the fire under. Near ten children, of different housei consumed and damaged, were taken out in blankets, ad, wih the book, paers, oral writings of the-un n fortunate t sufferers, wish other valuables, were conveyed to site Goilhall, opened by order of J'. , Whiteford, Esq. Deptity ToWri Clerk, and Other places of safe ty,—Abou t f mr, A.M. the fire. stibsided, but in half an hour broke out in Mr. Gibbs's house again. Some exertion wa4 cessary, at'every person was quite exhausted ; Mt. Elliot, Mayor, Capt. Marvin, with a Lieutenant of the Im,irtneux, Col. Ha wker s Langmead,' Majo r Hoot, Capt. .131rdwood, Mr. Whiteford, Messrs. Fuges, merchants; Mr; SWero, the }lilt: swain of the Virtu tlling.Otliee ; Nb!sieri„ fUtons,' Mr. Rowe, &c. and all rue cnioo wol.k.ers, puiletf dokVn theftiof of .Mr. Gihlasts h, use, and by that means,' ffagged and tired 'RS 0+:011- were, extin. guished the ;flames.—The damage is estimated 'at severed tlinnskii'dtr. An elt',gant 11,11 was given on Wetlneslty even. ing ICy . the of the Brig hie of GotrAS at Cbalka.6, in ' 4 a - tr.itipor . iiry h0);,;,,i 2; er e n c ,l f or t h e purpose. , 1111;g con,: gran tent of, th o .1 4 ;nretlatn:n:.:ni.. A inlst SJl)per, con. sisting of all 'the tletic.icis of the season, was sCrv. ed tWt, , e"o'clock.. The COinpany sep a r a ted . tOith seetning regrq between five Ind Nix o ' clock the inornhig, highly ph.tasci with the p iliteneos anti urbaniti.9f the (.)flicers. All the Families o f di s . rtnetliOnin tirie ritighnotitlfund *ere present. Balls are, we understand, to be continued weekly d 1 ring the Winter. ; 501pc time ago we stated the very sad accident whichhad befallen Col. IVIAte, who commands at Itasca : Barra,cks, near Portsmouth ; we now heat that tig . Colonelis greatly recovered—hut his left arm, which was fradurea in live diir:rent place's, Was amputated by . Mr. WRYMOUTIi. Surgeon, at , lortsea, in presence at Dr. Ku, the Assistant In. spe . Otor of Hospitals in that ,thstria, What re n d e r s this misfortune particularly severe upon the Colonel is, that he had previously been deprived in a great. measure of the use of his right arm, in consequence• of a severe wound he received when a Litutcliant in the Light Infantry Company of the 4.3,1 Itegitnent, . on the Heights of Brooklyne, in the aElion of the 27th. August, 1776, near New York, in North America.. . Lui,r4rtnt,, who . se.arriVal we lately mentioned, is preparing a Balloon for an aerial voyage in spring. j; will l ,the. largest :ever made in England, ro 'consist orzOo yards of silk, and intended to.carry up five persons, Upon his third voyage, he will descend with a parachute, in A way never before attempted. . . Accounts from an Officer on board the Phalan' Frigate, dated Bencoolen, August 7th, state, that the ainfort %mate Major DAV ts 5,, who commanded the Detachment which was surrounded by the natives of F.:eylon some time sincc,drags on a miserable eoce as a menial servant ,to the KIND Of CANDY, AleirtiVotl of his tongue and tars, and otherwise bar. barougly mutilated ; .and that the P4itton, Tremerg. dour, Lanculler, anti Terpsichote, were jusi about 10 sail , to Bata*iii, in pursuit of Admiral LI No Is. it was rather singular , that the:late worthy Al. dermsn BOYoSLL should live just long enough tea see the Slialtspeare-LUrtery disposed of, for on 'the day he paid the debt to nature,' not a Ticket re.. 'twined unsold . ; and from the. rage that seems for the Tickets' in the present .State Llttery, it is highly probable not a Ticker will he left fur sale when the. Wheel goes round. Thtirsby tvvia . few boys, of pugilistic celebrity, fought a pitched: battle on Tower Hill. They were of the -true • Mendoza school, and wero.attended by their seconds, and bottle.holders, lljce blscigsard; of a more mature' growth. They fought fur an hout , and. ten minutes, during which time they .lived 37 rounds, displaying uncommon 'kill and bottom.— Bets' were iri favour of Levy, the younger buy, hut hisadveleary,,young Solomona, having made a very' severe hit, the last round, he •• was declared the con., queror 1 but in the moment of . exilltation, a press• gang most 'opportunely sent young Solomon' on— board the tender, and picked up son very useful hands among the crowd crllletted. Late on Thursday night, or early yesterday morning, the lock of the shop door belonging to Mr. Horslin, a poulterer in Clare -court, Clare. marker, was picked, and his shop was robbed of 241, fowls, z $ widgeons, and 7 turkeys. The thieves cleaved clear off with their booty, and there is not at present - soy clue by which they car, be found out