The Sun. — London, England, 1806-02-27 00:00:00

Z.! NES , sayyD urON, THE COLLARsor q DUG' !!IiOIIAD LOST 11 wAY. My Name is . Tßunat : life I trudge away , like, my. MaSter, f.niust trudge . to clay, Beyond the limits of our last retreat, Warn only iipoWs . i.i'lle-and I Allan meet.. N. B. Take pie to - • .It hiS been obserVed of America,' that she is at present in a whimsical' situation : while she is bit terly cOmplaining of • the injury she receives ftorn Great Britain, her own condriet is the' subject of complaint from Great Britain, France, and Spain. A man named Oboe,. has, it seems been brought to the bar, and convi&ed of stealing. The fellow, though a, thief of note; is evidently 'a bad Per frrnzer.; • - Mr. LEWIS, the dramatic Author, has recently 'produced a Tragedy under the title of Adelgitha, 'which rs soon to be brought forwapi at• ,Drury lane Theatre It is 'not only-to have the support of the best Performers of that .Theatre, but- the aid, also of Master BETTY,. in: a • part purposely adapted to his• time of life. Mr. CUMBERGANi'S new play, which is forth coming at CoVent-Garden Theatre, - is said to be written in the styled the ancient English Drama \lists ; .and though it is . 'thieflpof the Comic kind, the language is in Metre:- As this style has long been in distuatude, it'rnay :tve, 'all the Charm or novelty, .and that is no sinall - recOmmendation in the present state of public. taae: - The 4th Dragoon Guards have got their route for Manchester and Liverpool, from Edinburgh. They are to be replaced at Edinburgh by the tst Dra 'goons.. I Dutt.—On Sunday morning a duel was fought in the Marquis of ABERCORN'S.Park, at Stanmore, be tween Capt. BARRY, formerly of the Ist Dragoons, and Capt. CommlNGs,' of the sth Dragoons ; when, after , exchanging two shots each, .the Seconds sue teeded in - bringing.about a reconciliation. Mutual apologiestook place, and the affair terminated to the Honour of both parties, who a6ted with thr greatest coolness, steadiness, and determination throughout. The following Letter from 'an Officer in Sir JAMES CRAIG'S Expedition, gives some account of the movements of that armament, of Which hitherto the Fublic have heard but little : ' • ".Castell a - Maro. Naplei Bay, Nov. 29, iSog. .c We sailed from Malta the 3d of this month, . with about 10,000 men under Sir h.:yin - CRAIG, the different Corps in the highest larder imaginable. On the 7th we joined the 13.ussian Convoy off Sicily, baying about 14,000 land Troops on board. The whole then steered for the Bay Of Naples, in which we arrived after a most tedious passage of 143 days. We exneaed to find the City and Country both oc cupied by the French Army under Gen. Sr. CYR, And measures were accordingly pre-concerted on our parts to force our landing, and to dislodge them. On our arrival, however, we found that the Enemy had abandoned their positions upon the information of Our approath, and had already re-passed the frontier, go that instead.of an hostile receptbn. we .had to ex- Tea the wannest welcome. . " The Russian division's were landed at the Mole of Naples, and are quartered in 'and about that City. The British Troops were disembarked . the day after our arrival at Castell a Mare, by Sir Jonx, STUART, under whose immediate coMmand we.are pow cantoned at this place, at Torre del Greco, and at 'other places . in different direaions throughout the `ll eighbourheod. " Sir J. CRAIG is established at Naples ; and, as it is understood that he is to have a general com mand among•the Allied :Forces At' large, Sir Joutsr - STLIART Will remain principal in command of the 33ritish Coltimn. As we are almost all of us here Egyptian' Regiments; we hive* already seen his promptitude and abilities so gallantly and successfully . exerted, that we have every possible confidende in • our Leader. , • `;, " The striaest discipline has been enjoined to, and is Observed 'by the Troops. The Inhabitants in Consequence treat us with' great tokenS of affeaion. Thei? regard, however,- is much increased by a cit. , ' emustance Which they were- not much accustomed to meet with from their late French - Proteoi6rs—they ' are paid for whatever theY furnish. 'Every exertion 13 making by Sir J. CRAI G, as well as by our Am bassador at this Court, to ptocure the .necessary sup plies of horseis,..waggons, ikc: for our future move tnertm, and in the course:of a.very few days we ex pea that our. Cavalry as well .as Our Artillery will be completely rnontited. •.. •. •.' .. • " General LAscy, En:glislanlan bylirth) who commands the Iltissian Troops;- and - Sir J. CRAIG are to be at the head -of. the Allied., Forces. of the whole kingdom, incluaing,tho Neapolitans." The'followirig staernent will shew the variation in the Bank of E..nglanci . Stock. f-r the last twenty Tears-- . - • 4 Jan. 1786 igi ... 2:Jan.,, r 7.97 r 371 4-1.037 151 . ' f . 77 -....- r7 §B rib , 5 - - -- -. 1 7 8 8 1 5 8 i • - 5.,-•"3-99 237 . la- 1 7 e 9 1 7 4 13 `" ~-- 1,,,,, 1 5it 9 "____",„ ,E 3 i 3 ---- ant 167 3- i 79: 186 ~. „ 9 ----- 18•,2 187 i 36- 279 - z Zoli '• , 1 --- Iqo3 186 • 0' - 1;9;- 1 / 6 ' -•' .: 9 7" -- 15 , 4 1 4ei ' - 16- '794 ICI - - le 77" --. 780 j 164 i • • 3 ---- 1795 , 1,50. •. 6 - 18.6 1 -"-' 2 -----..,. '1 79 6 167 . 2o Feb'Feb. :87)6 uo 3 i On 111 , ;:iday evening died suddenly, at. his houSe Aear FlArnpstead, the - eccentric Joe Davis, known by the .4ipellation . 'of the -- Bost - of, Haverstoek hill. The Public are well accOdiiiied with the cha -ra*r aid eccentricities of this; huge man, whose ‘caricaturobas long figured in the windows of most of the print-shops in the metropPli;. He used to offer copious libations to pacithw.e#ly in the morn ' invand continue in 'a state of inebriation the Whole of the day : it was in these his happy moments that he amused his company by his eccentricities, clad in a gorgeous Court dress. 'HiY'houie-- was fre . ., queritel by 'strangers of *all ,descriPtipns, whom cu-% riosity led-thither i-and 'it Was not uncorninon to see the carriages of Nobletitert and 'Gentry drawn up at the door, ior the 'visitants to gr4lify their curiosity with a view of the celebrated host. ,He died as he lead lived, in the antis of the Yolly God, for having. spent anothei of his happy - days, he At 'night threw himself prostrate 1n the bar ; , and such' being no no-.' elty ; be r.rnained there until bed-time, when he 1 '",l h ibltild to be a-co. - 'ke. - ' ' 1 PRESENT STATE CF EUROPE. TWE DANGERS AND ADVANTAGES OF THE PRESENT STATE• OF EUROPE, IMPARTIALLY CONSIDERED BY FRED. GENT?., KNIGHT OF THE ORDER - OF THE POLAR STAR, , &C..&C. a -While our heart is whole, it willfind means, or make them. The Public must never be regarded as incural?le."--d3oR . Kt. EUROPE ,resounds 'with lamentations from one end to the othere — upOn the melancholy results of a War, from the condu& and issue of which she anxi otrily expected her emancipation and her Safety.--- These lamentations have their excuse. -The misfor tunes . that haee .called them forth are misfortunes Of no CorriniOn cast—they have struck us with the rapidity; and - overwhelmed us with the irresistible force of thunder. The War is at'an end—the Ar mies disbanded—a disastrous Peace concluded, when the news of that great common undertaking against the common Oppressor of Nations had scarcely time to reach the different extremities of Europe.. Most unquestionably, in order to a successful struggle against, great public calamities, we should' begin by thoroughly knowing and. thoroughly feeling them: But in fillies such -as those in which welive, every moment is so precious, that we,are not allowed the pause of an instant for the'centemplation of our misfortunes. We must forthwith s examine what re-. sources they have,left - us ; we must bind over the , present moment and its sad train of gloomy re flexions, that. we: may dive into futurity, and _grasp with the vigour of a courageouS hope the last cOirr! , binatiens that still present themselves to the mind, 'for upholding and avenging the sacred cause of -the expiring liberty of Europe. It is my intention in' this place to prove, upon a fair .comparison and just balance of the real losses which that cause has sus tained from the r esu lt of a disastrous campaign, with the advantages it has just acquired by the changes wrought in the general, system of politics, and the greater part of which advantages may be secured, to it, that our present situation is, without question, • preferable to that in which we were placed from the Peace of Luueville till the month of September, 1805. . But let us first examine the extent and nature of our losses. We shall not at present dwell upon those ordinary and momentary losses in theivand money, the recolle6tion of which is so transient, which time soon repairs, and which are scarce taken inso, account in the progress of a strife upon which the rate of the human race dire&ly and immediately depends. The losses we have now to consider, are those that powerfully bear upon the great problem of the day, which diminish our means of resistance, while they increase those of the common enemy. In considering things in- this point of view, we first behold Russia, that vast basis, that body of 'reserve of all our combined operations, and we find ,that she stands now exaetly in the same p os t ure o f strength' as she stood before the War; that her frornierS, that her power, that her resources remain the same, and that the reverses she may have experienced, far from having tended to enfeeble her, will rather contribute, by giving her a- truer insight into her real ‘ intel-ests, and by leading her to a correction of • whatever may be defeelive in her military sytem, to enable her to Come down again _into the ay ena witll_ ranch greater energy, with tar more preponderating etfeCt. • We find that the real position of Prussia has suf fered nothing from the late events ; that she 'has sustained no sort of loss ; and that if she succeeds, through the Medium of negotiation, in rescuing th'e North of Germany from the scourge of a French Army, by which it has hitherto been oppressed and devoured; Prussia will even have absolutely gained by a war, in which no doubt she might, and ought, to have taken an infinitely more active part. We see, in fine; that England in no respe& what ever is less competent for the struggle, nor is she now more perilously situated than she was previ ous'to this Continental Campaign should even her implacable foe resume that menacing attitude by Which, without being able seriously to affe(t, he had perhaps, for two -, years, fretted and fatigued her, 'the interval of repose she has enjoyed must in some measure have proved of advantage ; we find, that called upon again to watch. the Airnaments of - France, such has been 'her good fortune,- - that without even taking into account the fruiti of a most splendid viaory, gained amidst, the - disasters - of the Continent, she has not to regret the loss of a single Ship of the I s ine, of a single Battalion of Troops, no, not any one instrument of defence—while her chief means, her incomparable public spirit, will only kindle and glow more - keenly; from, the very necessity of standing forth alone, to stem the tor rent of the Tyrant's fury. It ,is then only, Austria that has suffered any ma terial losses. She is' indeed deprived of those ad vanced posts which she before possessed towards the Rhine and Switzerland : she is deprived of two of her best provinces,, one of which stood like a great Citadel, covering all the western part of her territory;' she has been compelled to bend to the conqueror; and to consent to the aggrandizement of those very neighbours whom she has more .than. ever reason to consider as blind - instruments determined on her. destruaion. These' certainly are very real calamities, both for Austria and for the common cause. But, that their extent may not be exaggerated, th at t h ey may be estimated at their just amount, it is proper we should compare thent with the condition in which that Power was left after the Truce, called the Peace of Presbtirgh, with that 'in which she was 01m:el since 1801. The Treaty of Luneville had dug a grave for the Austrian Monarchy, which continually threatened to devour her. This Treaty, by placing - Italy, Switzerland, and the whole of the . Southern part of Oermany at the, disposal of BoNArARTE, drew round the Austrian Possessions a formidable circle; which began at Verona, and ended at Egra :• be yond that circle all was France. The.events which follo'wed the Treaty of Luneville 'only served .to ex tricate the mortal poison which constituted its es sence—the same causes which led to that execrable Treaty; viz. 'a general. want of decision and of union among the Great Powers, and the extinction of all public spirit in Europe, prevented the Court of Vienna troin resisting the new usurpations to which it continually gave birth. She was, therefore, con demned to beheld the German .Empire parcelled cut, as suited •the caprice of France ; Switzerland ravaged by the Troops, and finally subjugated by the decrees of the successors of REWBLLL i Pied mont incorporated with France ; Parma and Pia cencia invaded ; the Kingdom Of Naples ?gala oc- cupied by the French Soldiery ; the German Ter-. :ritory - was most daringly violated, but violated with impunity ; and as the oily answer to the , murmurs excited by these atrocities throughout Europe, the man, that committed their was. decorated With - the title of Emperor : in fine, Lombardy, without the 'consent ()fatly one Power, was ereded into a Kingdom of Italy ; and the State of Genda declared French Territory. She was condemned to behold theie unexampled, unprincipled enterprizes succeed each other with' a - frightful rapidity, without being able, even for a moment, to arrest their course.—Such a state of things must necessarily lead to a speedy fait; and if Austria did not find either within herself, of in some ,great political combination,' the -courage and the means of upsetting it altOgether,. , from that, moment her sentence of death was irrevo-' cably passed. Such- was the situation of the 'Austrian Mo narchy,when it took' up 'antis against • Fratice . ; . •and such, with scarcely any difference, is its situation at • present. ' The fact is, that Austria, reduced to the state in - which she was left by the. - Treaty of Luneville, could. no more exist liclbrethatiafter the result of he r late reverses. These reverses have, it is true, added somewhat to the dangers by which she was before beset ; but 'what matters a-degree more .or less of danger to him, who already, whithersoever he turned 'his eyes,could only discover the approaches of death ? . 7 =4:ler defensive system is materially impaired by 4,10' loss-of the Tyrol; and if she could relapse into the error of entrusting her safety to, a defensive War, the heart of her Possessions would be broken in • upon eight days sooner through the effeds of:that loss; but it has long since been acknow ledged, that Austria could no longer be saved by a defensive War, and that her salvation rested, wholly upon the success of some grand aggres sive operations, by which she could be enabled to break her chains, and affed direetly the strength of her Enemy.- The Main point, there fore, to be decided' is, whether such an operation be much more difficult at present than it was six months ago. By considering that question under its three principal aspeds,- we shall easily be convinced,, that the chief resources of the Monarchy remain nearly the same, since the main spring of these nisources . did not exist in the Tyrol, or in the Venetian States; that her military position considered as an obstacle to an aggressive enterprise acTainst?ranee, is not es= Sentially altered.; and that her political or federative position is so much' improved, that it we compare what she has gained in ,this resped, with what she has lost in regard to her military* p os iti o n, w h at s h e has gained WTild: preponderate-. • • We are hence:naturally led to speak,.of the adVan= tages which the cause of general independence at present enjoys; notwithstanding the calamitous Ca tastrophe of the War. Europe (we always allude to that part of Eu rope which remained uns u bd ue d by the French)--Europe Was, during : the four years that succeeded the Peace of Luneville, what She had been during the painful period which prepared and produced that Peace : an incoherent mass of .scattered and.jarrin g e l ements, rather than a d u ly organ4ed body, united and moved by the laws of a common interest. England was completely insulated from ate _Continent, who seemed as regardless of the War, of the awful War which she waged with France, as of the quarrel she was at the same time engaged in with Scindia or Holkar. Austria, bent beneath the yoke, did not even dare to fix, her eyes on the prosped of a mutual ly proteating 'alliance, and trembled at the idea of raising any apprehension in the Tyrant's mind, that, she seriously cherished any hope of arising from her fall. Russia, carried away by the desire of co-operating in the new s arrangements of Germany, still more powerfully carried away by the unremitting anxiety of her Sovereign to lay the foundation of a.solid and durable Peace, and by the illusions with which Bo- NAPARTE contrived to beguile his pure and noble soul, seemed to forget ,for a time, that there can be nd Peace with the ever renascent necessities of a Government unjust in its nature, and with. the phrenzy of a delirious ambition ; and thus second-, ed. - in some degree the projects of that Govern ment, while resistingthem, only and at best by their silence. Prussia in fine, wedded - by a long overweening - habit of insulation and political egotism, clinging with .a blind pertinaCity - to old inveterate antipathies, of which the-total change the iflairs of t Eurcpe had undergone ilionld have extinjuished even, the re collection fearing perhaps those very Powers whose cause had beeome her own, on .the very account. of the injury she had done them by her long inactivity, and Considering moreover her connexi o n w ith F rance ' as 'the only or the surest, means of acquiring, from time to time, some transient. advantages, consoli dated and extended those connexions, even at the sacrifice of all her dignity, by allowing a French Army to sit down at her Frontier, and give the law to those to whom P russ i a had so repeatedly pro mised, and held out her powerful protection. . Such is the situation in which we stood, when the unchecked strides of BONAPARTE, and, his con-. tinually increasing insolence, .awakened at once all the Cabinets, and impressed upon their minds the indispensible necessity of a change of - system .and of principles. This Political Revolution took its rise at the close of the year 1804; but its &eats because manifest only about the month of August, 1805, The disdainful and offensive manner in which the Passports granted to 11.1. Nov - ositazori , were re- turned, and the audaciousness with which they were annulled by the invasiqn of Genoa, were the signals Which announced to Europe that she must soon arouze from her long slumbers./ (To be continued ) • * We should not, however, in this estimation, overlook the acquisition of Saltzburgh, an acgoisi,iou which , even in a daellive point of view, ought cover Of the advantage be taken of it) a great portion of what alas been lost by the ces. sion of the Tyrol. The boXing match between Dan Mendoza and Harry Lee is fixed on to take place in threa.weeks. Mendoza, who is the only first-rate'bruisa of the old school in existence, bad retired for Imlay years, and never . would again have ent ere d th e li sts , h a d not the, present challenge been given him. Harry .I,ee is also one of the tribe of Israel, known more as a trainer and good setter-to-than a bruiser. The whole of the stakes for which they are to contend are deposited; very great odds . are betted GA Men• doza. FROM ft DUT i at PATERS. . , Thozatt, Ptn. 1 Frankfort Papers are Oita silent fespefting the circumstances. in which that City is placed - in consequence of the contributioti imposed by the French Army. It appears that it is not thought proper to indulge in any . con_ie6tures oxi that subje&. The French Army iti this quarter consists of the Division of AUGEREAU, the Batavian Troops, and the Garrison of Mentz. These Troops occupy the Countries on the Maine, and extend to the Rhine and the Rhinegau. They are receiving reinforcements by the arrival of CorPs from Moraviai and besides the Division of General LAVAL, which, before' the adjustment of the differences between. Prussia and - France; formed a part of the Army of the North on the Frontiers of Holland, and atter wards returned towards Strasburg'', has received orders to march to the Banks of the Maine. STUTGARDT, FEB. 7.—We are assured that the Crowned Princes of Bavaria, Wirtemburgh, and Baden, will very soon form matrimonial connexions. Measures have been. adupted here, to guard 'against the contagious distemper which prevails in several parts of Germany. Its origin was attributed to the Russian prisoners, but the Physicians who have re- , ported upon it, say it is a kind of nervous .fever, which is . comtrion at this : season, and Ncthich has been augmented by scarcity, and the evils attendant on a state of warfare. •iu - toa, it,is faund ih pads of Suabia and, Franconia in which the Russians never were. • PAM'S, Fan. AL—This day the Emperor, accorn 'Dallied by the Arch-Chancellor. and . Minioter for Foreign Affairs, inspeaed the Imperial Lyceum. When the Prefea of the Seine and Oise, with the Deputies from Versailles, had an audience of the Emperor, they supplicated His Majesty' to cast a faVoUrable eye on a place once so flourishing. The Emperor answered, that he had a'ready given orders for restoring the chateau of Versailles to its former splendour, to accoMplish which great sums Were necessary but that he was desirous to reside for. some time in the finest Palace in the World. At the Grand Mllitary . Fetival which is' to be given on th e 0 5t h of M ay,, and the following days; all the manufaelures of the French Empire will be exhibited. The' Minister of the Interior has written to all the Prefeas to forward specimens of the arts andrnanufakaures in their respe6tive departments, and has allotted 60,0,00 franes for defraying the ex peaces of this part of the plan. The 5 per Cent. Consols are at 62i. Letters have been received at Glasgow, from Dus seldortf, dated the 17th inst. by which it appears, that' the French are determined to' seize British ma nufaaures through every part cif Bavaria. A French Custom-house Officer, with a number of assistants,. had reached -Desselidorif on the sth, and in-: sisted on examining and taking away books and letters belonging, to the Merchants, and wished to seize British goods, although no prohibition. against them had then been made in that country. It is farther stated, that a large waggon was seized by - French Officers on the road 'near Basle on the territory of the Elector of Baden. The Officers opened the packages; and took with them Al British twtnufa&ured goods... . While .the French were in posseSsion of Pres, burgh, when. all the other inhabitants of copse quence anxiously sought, retirement and conceal-.. ment, Baron THUGUT, with an energy worthy of his rank and reputation, and in defiance of the animo sity which the Enemy were suppo!ed to enter tain against him, caused the following Inscrip tion to be affixed, in large litters, to the front of his house : The Residence of Baron THUGUT.'-r. The French smiled at this proof of his resolution, but their respea .for him' was not in the least dinii fished by the circumstance. The house of Mrs. Ingham,. in 'Charlotte -street, Rathbone-place, was broken into about a fortnight since, but the thieves were alarmed, and tied, with out effecting their purpose. The attack on the property was renewed during the night of Aesday, by three villains, who got over the area-railing, and' forced their way through the kitchen window. A lad,' who slept in the kitchen, they topk up stairs with them to prevent his giving an alarm, and atter steal ing all the light articlestheycould get at, theyescaped with their booty. A person wh o was l ur ki ng about . the street is i n custody, on suspicion of being an ac cessary to.the burglary. Yesterday se'nnight, about nine o'clock, a Most daring robbery was committed in the house of Mr. Preston, at Warbleton, in Sussex, by three auda cious villains, two of whom, the door having beet) opened to them, walked deliberately into the par lour, • armed with pistols (whilst the other kept gdard without), and demanded the money which they knew to be in the house. Mr. Preston made some resistance; but after receiving several blows, Which occasioned a considerable loss of blood, he thoUght it best to submit, andled the villains to the escrutoire, where his notes, Scc.weredepoSited, and which they took, to the amount of upwards of 701. They next went with Mr. Preston into the cellar, drank some_ beer, which they declared d—d bad, and ordered him . to get better against their next visit. They then took a bottle of brandy, wished him a good night, and departed, with as much apparent care lessneSs as. they had entered. During the time the thieves were within a servant-maid found means to get out, and was proceeding, with much diligence, to'alarm the neighbours; but she was stopped and secured by the man stationed without doors, till his companions had joined him; when she was permitted to re-enter her n3astees,.house., Yesterday et;'nnight, as some fisherwomen were gathering bait on the rocks near the mouth of the Tweed, they found the body of a new-born male infant. - 'A coroner's Inquest was held, and gave in a Verdi& of ll7ilfut Murder agdinst some person or persons unknown. NQ circumstances at that time appeared to lead to the discovery of the perpetra tor; but on the Saturday following, suspicions were entertained against a young woman of the town, commonly' called G'rters. Gown, when sh e was ap . On Tuesday se'nnight Mr, Donaldson, of Wind mill-hill, near Berwick, .a Member 'of the North Durham Yeomanry. Cavalry, had desired his servant to prepare his sword, pistols, and accoutrements, -for the next day's drill; when a lad of 15 (son of one of hi s hind s ) unluckily came into the kitchen;and tak ing up one of the pistols- which lay. on the table, presented it in jest at one of the maid-servants, pre tending to shoot her, when uefortunatelyth e pistol being loaded, treat off,•arid killed her oh the spot.