The Sun. — London, England, 1806-09-23 00:00:00

FROM THE FRENCH PAPERS. PARIS, SEPT. 15.—Some circumstances, which there was no reason to eipea, have operated to delay the return of the Grand Army, and have, in consequence, defered the period of the : Fetes, which were announced for the beginning of 06tober.— (Mortiteur). The exhibition of the piEtures of the. Louvre com mences this day . ; that of the produas of Industry is fix - ed - for the bath insi. Marshals DANOU4T, AUGEREAU, and Nat, have obtained permission to come to Paris to pass a few days. His Majesty has given orders in his Household respeeling - the journey which he intends to make a - hunt the middle of Autumn to Brussels, and, per haps, to Holland. A part of his equerries, and some detachments of the guard, have set out before-hand. It is thought . that in a few days his Majesty will ' e proc'eal to Fontainbleau. The Conservative'Senatd held on Saturday an Ex traordinary Sitting. 'M. DE LUCCTIESINI has not yet quitted.Paris. Accounts from Brussels state, that for several days • carriages laden with ammunition have passed though that city. They took the.road to Maestriclit. SEPTEMBER 1 7. We:have received the melan choly intelligence of the death of Mr. Fox.—(lll9- titettr). • SEPTEMBER 18.--From the Bank; of the Thames to the borders of the Neva a . kind 9f warring epi delny has seized all the .togrnalists. It would seem that their voice is gping to raise armies, as Deucalion made men', by throwing stones behind him. They fortn magazines, they recruit whole .battalions, they have plans of campaign ready traced out : some of ,them already braid crowns, and M. KOTZEBUE pre .ludes, they say,-by inve&ive to hymns of .viEtory. To the paroxisms of this warring fever,, the death ,of Mr. Fox cannot fail to add a degree of heat, al though. England is to be pitied if the decease of a. Minister is to bring about a' revolution in the man-' ner of weighing her interests. Mr. Fox died with out it being known what he could do for the good of his Country-., We are well aware that the autho rity of his name may now be made use of to exeuse fresh political blunders and prepare new misfortunes, foi-Europe—but upon all occasions, whatever may he the appearances, one should wait for bas to judge 'of men.' We are all liable to be mistaken in proba bilities. , • • The crisis which Europe has just experienced could not be terminated without political convul sions, from which she must reap great advantage for her tranquillity. She may be looked upon as in the last stage of the disorder which English influ-• trice bad brought upon her. The erection of several new Kingdoms, the abolition of feudal anarchy, the dissolution of the Germanic Empire, 'however neces sary they may have been to the future prosperity of Germany, have certinly met with secret obstacles t:) be surmounted, or given rise to hopes to be re 'pressed: These who were to fall, have resisted-- Oose who wished. to aggrandize themselves have made demonstrations of power measured by the extent of their pretensions. A Confederation simi .lar to the one of the Rhine has appeared to be form ing for the pUrPose of binding in the same fa'sces the Powers of the North-4ut it is, still in the secrecy of Cabinets. The military dispositions:which are spoken of are doubtless conne&ed with this objeet—htit the cause should be known before the etred be decided 'upon. . Two of the Northern Powers have for these six months exhibited a singular•show. They haveas sembled their armies ' • the soldiers of the one see the colours flying of the' other they occupy by turns the same territory without firing a shot : it is onlythe bulletins of the king of Sweden that have apprised us of being in a state of ',warfare. If the hope of au .a.riangetnent conformable to the situa tion of the general affairs has so long held the swords Suspended, we must praise such humane senti-. meats, and believe that Sovereigns would.reflea still more et - e they detC:rmined to attack a more for midable Enemy, and to stake / the existence of their subje6ls. Shorild this equivocal attitude conceal a secret combination, a clandestine accord with the 'Enemy of France, and further designs against the: general Peace of the Continent, we cannot bUt pity . those who have engaged in them. But, for their . lionbur,• we by no means thijlk so. If the Nego— tiation with which M. D'Ortarat was chargedi was intended for a scene of some great political comedy, the den6ueinent of it must no doubt be more dismal than . .tbe. farce, may have been ridiculous. Those who wish to gain time have to do with an Enemy who is not apt to lose his. 'This consideration will doubtless restrain their impatience ; and upon weighing all ale interests, we shall not believe the Warac cries of our brethren before we hear the thunder of battlt.S. .... NAPLE..;, Aj.rG. 2.9.—The English bave attempted 'a descent in. The . .i.‘farsh of I\l9ndragone, but 'they were repulsed by tbp inhabitant 4. ROME, AUG. jo . .—Tl)is morning, at half" past - one, "a shock of an earthquake was felt, which for tunately caused ho accident here, but has done con siderable dai,nage in other parts of the Pontifical States. At Villetri, the Palace and the 'Cathedral have greatly suffered. The,church of Our Saviotir, two Chapels, two other C,hurches, and several houses ;were thrown down, At Frascati, Zagiaroli and genii, much damage was doge; the Convent of the observance was destroyed, and the Church opened four parts. At Aricia a Church was thrown 'down ; and at I'viarinO several hoilses • were much damaged;, maw,: of the inhabitants wounded, and some - - . BP:1; N E, SEPT. 7.—We have received inforina-. tion, two days since, of, a dreadful accident which has. de,tro)cd several 'villages in the canton - of Schweitz, siivate between the lakes of Zug and Lau , ,v.rtz. M. M. FR EU DEN.REICH and CEILAT.. IT , Direaors of the Mines, set out yesterday even circltr of Government, to give aid. The ~ , viog are the details of this'clisaster, the most tir,.,l:!fni recorded in'the Annals of.SWitzelland : , f Oa Tuesday, the 2cl of September, at five in the evening,.the KnipPenbuhl Rock, which formed the summit of Mount llosenburgh, was.on'a sud 7 f i,ri detached from its situation, and at the same time part of the . mountain, of sevgral feet in thick ; ;, pess,..on the western side, and about 8( . ) feet its thicix,es; or 41e east side, gave way and fell into the valley which separates/the lake of Zug from that r;f Lattwertz, overwhelming the whole of the villages of Goldan, Reethan, Bussingen, 'Fluzloch, three parts of that of Lauwertz, and some houses in the village of Stein. The fall of one part of the moon, tain into the lake of Lauwertz, about a fourth part of which is up, caused such an agitation in the waters of the lake, that they overthrew a number of houses, chapels, mills, fire. - along the southern shore of the lake ; amongst others the mill of Lauwertz, where fifteen persons were killed and buried in the ruins of the bUildings, all the parts of which were dispersed with such violence that the. founda tion only remains. This mill was situated 50 or 60 feet above the level of the lake.. • " The waters also beat against the village of See ven, situate at the extremity of the lake, and de stroyed some hOuses. Two persons were killed. In the villages ,overwhelmed, not an individual escaped. Upwards of 1000 persons have been the viuims of this disaster. A society of travellers, 13 in number, were on the road from Arth to Sch weitz : nine who walked first perished ; the other four, who were about 40 paces distant, escaped. Those who were killed were, M. M. RODOLPH JENNER, of Brestenburgh ; Col. VICTOR STEIGNER, of Berne ; CHARLES MAY, of Ruth ; Doetor LUDWIG, of Ar bon, in Thurgovia ; Mademoiselle DIESBACH, of Berthoud; Madame DiEstActr, of Watteville ;. Madame FRANKHAUSER, of Berthoud ; and two guides, of Arth. Five minutes sufficed to complete this disaster. " Ai Schwertz, some persons ,heard the noise, and saw at 'a distance the vapour which covered the place.where the accident happened, and which was carried towards Zug, on tho opposite side, with a strong'tsulphurous stnell; The falling of the moun tain, extended from the summit to the opposite side, beyond the lake, a distance of three leagues. from north to south, and a league and a quarter from west to east. There is nothing notv to be seen but me lancholy ruins, through the whole of that Country which presented - the richest communes in the can- 1 _ton of, Schweitz, inhabited by a brave and taitliftil people. Only thirty persons remain out of this- in teresting population. " Several circumstances attending thiS everkt are very remarkable. Enormous masses of rock were carried through the air to prodigious distances. The rocks, in falling,drew with them immense masses of earth, of from ten to eighty feet in thickness ; and num bers of these masses; totether with large block's of flint stone, were thrown on the opposite shore, to the height of from eighty to one hundred feet. One can scarcely believe' ones eyes while witnessing these phenomena. Every instant houses are seen, some forced on one side,- others cut in two and separated at great distances ; and others carried rnore . than a quarter of a league froM their foundations. " The Lake of Lau wertz has lost about a guar- . ter.of its - extent ; but its recovered part is filled at present by, the waters of , several brooks which no longer flow. That rich plain, which was so beau tiful, now presents a mountain of near 100 feet in . height, of a league and a half in length, and as much in breadth. " Mount Rosenberg bears E. N. E. from Arth. It is" its western part which 'has fallen down ; that which was on the side of Arth, after descending di rea towards its base, was soddenly thrown to the east, and thus Arth, Zug, and all that side of the 'bake were szwed. The thickness of the mass car ried down appeared to be two feet on the western side, and upwards ,of 150 on the•east side. The Knippenbuhl seemed to have announced this mis fortune so early as the year 1774, when it detached. itself from the mass of the monantain. The. Isle of" .Schwanau, 'elevated on a rack in the middle of the Lake, experienced also some damage, particularly its church. The good Hermit was fortunately at Ein siqdlen. The 'long road of the Lake is broken in a thousand place-3. " Succours have been sent with the greatest promptitude.•• Six hundred workmen from Zug and Schweitz have gone to the banks of the Lake of Lauwertz, particularly to the mouth of the Seeven, This small river was so obstruaed by ruins of all descriptions—.wood, trees, houses, &c. that without prompt assistance the safety of all the houses below Schweitz to Brunnen would have been menaced. " One man had the good fortune to withdraw in time under grOund; with his. servant and a child which he held in his arms., In one house near Arth is still' living a poor.man who hid both his thighs broken. During the search which has already been made, twenty persons have been discovered dead at the entrance of the village of Goldau, men, women, and children—some haying their arms, others their heads, others their legs separated from their bodies, and the bodies some cut in half. We have coasted along the foot of the Riga, where the greatest part of thoSe who survived this catastrophe took refuge— alas ! not more than thirty. ,An old man whom we met, said to its —" I had sons, daughters, and a great number of grand children . : I had a wife and other relations-4 alone remain." A little girl said—" I have no longer father or mother, brothers or sisters." A woman had lost, her mother, — husband, brothers, sisters, and five children. " The village of Goldau and Rcethen, consisting of. lib &uses ; that. of Busingen, df 126 ; and that of Huzloch, have totally disappeared, Of LauWertz, Which lost 125 houses, there remains ten buildings, all much damaged. Stein has lost two houses and several stables, which were in great numbers in all these- villages. " P. S, Twenty-years since GeneraI , PFTFFER pre dieted this catastrophe, from the knowledge which he had of the nature of the mountain. A Professor Of Schweitz said that above Spletzflue was a sea of Wafer, which bad undermined the, rock for several years, and that below•there- was a cavern of great depth, where the waters were engulphed. The quantity of water which has fallen during the pre ceding years has hastened this catastrophe, and the rains of some weeks past -have decided it." DRESDEN, SEPT. 4.—M. DE GOTE has taken his departure from this Court, much discontented. Our Eletior has deplored that he will not refuse to Maintain his relations with Prussia as they are at present; but, that before he entered into any new engagement, he would wish to know the extent of it—that what had been proposed to him was of thi.t greatest importance to his House, it being no less than the Sovereignty of Saxony—but that teorn tho moment lie should unite himself with Prussia, for sl4ch an object, ire should cease to have a will of h 4 Own---he must renounce the guarantee which , arose out of 'the sy§lern.of Europe,- and his-tenitorivs be-' come merely a Prussian Province—that he 'had not armed, nor would he arm-=that he had nothing to fear from France, who had declared to hitt' that she would recognize the Sovereignty of his States— that, she would exaa nothing .front him—and that she would leave him to act in whatever manner was suitable - to the interests of his House and . -his Country—that he had the best understanding with Austria, and his other neighbours—and that an arma ment on his part.would only . be an useless expence to Saxony. CARLSRUHE, SEPT. 10.—The intelligence of the refusal of the Emperor of Russia to ratify the Treaty of Peace concluded at Paris on the 20th July, has produced here, as it has in all the South of Germany, the most unpleasant sensations. We are informed that all the Russian. Ministers accredited in Ger many hawk about a paper transmitted to them from St. Petersburgh, in which the Court of Russia en deavours to justify the impolitic step which it has adopted. It now appe4rs that the return of the Grand Army to Prance will not take place . yet. This, we are induced to believe from the great number oeCouriers who pass through this coun4 try; and from many other circumstances. This in telligence was so much the more unexpeeted," fifteen days etude the marchl,of the depots and .I.* inforcements from the Left.' tank of the Rhine had entirely ceased, as well as the transport ()lam munition and artillery. We .saw even - pals on the military roads, detachments of Cavalry and Infan try,• and convalescents returning to France; the Artillery had also began to rove towards the Rhine, as well as a great number of carriages laden with ammunition. As to any thing further r if we may:believe the in telligence circulated here, the present cuujnndure of affairs in Europe will only, accelerate the sur , render of the. Provinces and States which' the Princes of the Confederation ate to acquire. It is ; believed that this surreflder will be immediately Leffeaed. . Private letters from' Switzerland.' deny: the report which had been circulated of that' Country being, about to accede to, the 'Confederation of the Afiine.. They assert that it never was in . Contemplation, and that no'Communication.had been Made to the I..anda 7 , man, 'or to the Govermbent of the Cantens relative. to any. such projea.- . • ••' . CA S SRI.; SEPT. 2.,—The Court ofTerlin has fled to our Ele&or, to follotv its „movements, and put his troops on march. Our Ele&or signified to the King of Prussia, that he - saw no motive for these movelmnts, that if they were directed against Rus sia, our Court could not:take part,. having no subje& of complaint against Russia ; that if . qiey were occa sioned by any supposed assembling of troops on the part of Austria, either in Bohemia or in Silesia, our Court had still less reason to occupy itself. -With thepallt being known that the reports of, troops being thus assembled, were unfounded, Austria be ing only occupied with the arrangement of her Own affhirs, and having no wish to seek 'a quarrel with any State ; that if they were intended to guard against Sweden, our Court could not intermeddle, not having any thing to do with the quarrel between Prussia and Sweden ; lastly, that if these movements were' di're&ed against F r ance, it was still more suit able to us to remain neuter, that Power having de clared to our Eleelor; that it would leave him per fectly tree and Independent, to fake whatever part he.chose, and we certainly having no -- subjda Of complaint against France. Our Prince added, that, he; being besides in • the 'van, he could not but in treat the King'of Prussia to allow him to . remain neuter, and pre; erne. its tranquillity. , Attached as we may be to Prussia, and devoted as we may be to her political system, it is - impossible not to be astonished at a great armament, which can not be explained, and which in 'every point of view is entirely useless. General RUCHEL,. who is looked upon as the Don Quixotte of all these preparations, .and some hall dreds of young Prussian Officers, of whom he is the chief, wish to seek adventures, in order to better their lot, and imagine themselves to be ,great soldiers, because at the Parade at Potsdam they know how to defile like machines, and to remain immoveable for_ hours. These are the persons who agitate the Court and the City. It wereto be wished that they should come in Onto& with a battalion which Had heard nothing of all these Wonders of military i„m moveability, when they would' receive a corre&ion which would doubtless be very useful to them, and would teach them the difference which 'subsists between an army of parade, and .thee veteran bat talions of CESAR. Our old. soldiers, such 'its BRUNS WICK, MO LI;ENDORFF, and X A LE.REUTH, .run to arms in pure obedience tcrthe orders which they re- ceive, and without comprehending any thing of these strange projeas. •. The Kitco of PRUSSIA 'doubtless put an 'end to the business, by discovering the petty projeas of all these petty agitators, and by sending the Chiefs to ;.; )andau. . • FRANKFORT, SEPT. B.—According to . a letter from Jassy, dated the Q4th of August, the milithry.prepara tions:of the Russians and the movements of their Troops on the Dniester, which.it appears 'to be their intention •to pass, cause much inquietude ir3 the Country. It is thought that their design is to invade Wallachia and .Moldavia, in case the Peace with France should not be ratified; This fear has'been augmented in consequence of the arrival at Jassy of a Russian Major-General, who was proceeding to Constantinople, and who circulated the report that the Peace would nor, be ratified. The movements of the Russians on the Dniester seem; however, to have for their obje& to . keep the Turks in check, and prevent them from failing with all their Forces on the Servians, with whom Russia constantly keeps tip_an understanding. It is worthy of remark that Russia, in menacing the Turkish Provinces by thepfe sence of an Army of 100,000 men, is anxious at the same time that no inquietude should be caused on the side of Poland, and by a&ing liberally to'ob tain..the good graces of Possia, .who, through the intercession of Russia, hP.s obtained an entrance into the Black Sea for her Merchant Vessels. It is still said, that Russia is negotiating for Peace with Persia. FRANKFORT, SEPT. Q. —Yesterday evening the eanuon announced the ceremony appointed to take place this day. Similar discharges were repeated this muming. About ten, the Members of the Senate, the CoNges of Nine , and Fifty Lone, assembled in the gre4t 4 4 4 cif Barter, whero soon afterwards at rived M. M. DE' ROT And DE HICiii3TETN, from his Royal Highness the Prince Pritta:e. The surrender of our City was made by . M. L.I.MBERT, Commissioner from his Majesty the Emperor of the French and King of Italy. The p.m's verbal of the taking possession having been signed, the Baron D'ALBINt, Minister of State to his Royal Highness the Prince Primate r produced his-powers--.-- -His Ex cellency has continued provisionally the Civil Autho rities and Administrations in the exercise of their funaions. In the midst of the Sittincr, after the Speech delivered ,by M. LAMBERT, the "Hall re sounded with cries - of Vive L'Etnpereur Napoleon, Vive le Prince Primate.' Marshal AUGEREAU received yesterday a 'Courier from Paris. • Reports of war have since that been renewed. The - Eleaor,al Prince of HESSE has quitted Hanau, with all his Court. The haste with which he packed up his effea,s,' and the care which he took to carry off what }vas most valuable, seem to indicate that the Court . of Hesse, whose intimate connexion with that of Prussia is known, fears that 'warwill imme , diately break out:- _ _ FRANKFORT, SEPT. 6.:---,The Grand Army under the command of Prince ALEX. BEwrniErt, Minister of War, whose head-quarters are still established at Munich and Ulm; is now composed of the follow inc.- Corps :• A 1. The Corps of Marshal AUGEREAU (head-quar ter at Frankfort). It occupies the two Banks of the. Main.; • these.on the Lahn extends on the left, to the borders of the Seig, and, on the right, to those of the Necker. Part of these troops are can toned on the frontiers of the Principality of Wurtz . burgh. . . The Corps of Marhal BERNADOTTE (head luarters at Anspach). It oecnpiei the Margraviate .of Anspach, the City Of Nuremberg and its territory, and the Principality of Bamberg. 3. The Corps of 'Marshal . iNlowrira (head-quar ters at Bischafftheim). It occupies the Western part of the Circle of Franconia, 'comprising the Principa lity of. Wurt 7,burgli, and the States of the Grand Master of the Teutonic. Order. The Corps of Marshal DAvousT (head-quar ters atbeffingen). ; • It occapies the whole of Lower Sw.abia, on the left Bank of the Danube,- as.also the Principality of Eidhstet. 'The Corps of Marshal NET, (head,quarters at Memminn). It occupies the whole dr Uppe Swabia, upon-the right Bank of the Danube, to the frontiers of Switzerland, tlie',Ver4lberg, and the Tyrol. - - 6. The Corps of Marshal Souvr (head-quarters -at Passau). It occupies the whole of Lower Bavaria, the Principality of Passau, the Fortress of Brant'4u, and the Upper Palatinate, - 7. -The Corps of Cavalry,. which are now attached the different other Corps of the Army, are no .longer under the orders of any particular chief. 8. The Corps of Marshal 4FEBVRE, the head quarters of which are ' established . at Augsburgh, forms a kind of Corps of -Reserve. • • Letters from the borders of the Lech assert, that the march of . the Troops, to return-to France, will shortly take place. But on the borders of the Rhine., it. is generally thought that the stay of the Grand Army in. Germany will be prolonged some time far ther. We shall soon receive more positive news upon these different destinations. AUGSBURGIi, SEZT.B.—:Letters from Venice state* that they labour yyith inconceivable celerity in the Dock-yard of that City, lin construeiing new Ships of the Line and ether Vessels of War of all descrip tions. The Fr&ich have transported thither their a(tivity, and in a short time there will be assembled in the Port -a Fleet sufficiently resPeCTable to keep within bounds the English and their Allies. The Cornmerce of Venice is no longer in that state of stagnation in which it was a short time since. Al though the English have declared Venice to be in 4 state of blockade, and although this. declaration, notified in all the ports of the Adriatic Sea, has spread great consternation; it is, however, true, thitta in point of fad,. the commerce of that place 14 not interrupted, and it is a lung time since any English Vessel has been seen in the Venetian 'Seas. • 'rho merchants and speculators profit by this, and ever" day are seen to enter or depart a number of met'- chant Vessels.- - AUGSBURGiI; Sgrr. 10, 7 -The day before yester day there again passed through this city Woo Aus trians, Prisoners' of War, on their return boalPs escorted by Bavarian troops. • ; OT. PETERSBURGH, AUG. 22. The Chevalley D:p h iLi ev sd e i r, disgraced., he aced.repHroeaciled v is to with be sent He a intoto exile. oed What, t with the usual powers, and precious to his departure the Emperor ALEXANDER, during an audience of three hours', gave him particular i ns truclions. Irk the Council also which pronounced his disgrace, the Emperor heSitated a long time before he delivered himself up to what we call here the. English fattion- KURAKIN, ROMANZOW, those persons, in short , who. are of' the most consideration, and who are the most worthy to exercise some influence in Council, likewise hold sentiments favourable, towards M. D'OUBRIL and his mission. The levy of 120,000 men,' which is talked of in eeouses' of Eur o p e thelate Ukase, is one of those inventions which may serve to amuse the .coff is for us a great business to raise 00,000 P]eb to re cruit our Army. When one reads t he Ukase of a levy of 120,000 men in order to raise the n umber of troops to 600,000, whilst it is known t hat we have not so many as 180,000 troos, one cann ot help -h. It smiling at the boast, which reveals tog evidently the gross snare laid out for the credulity of fo:- reigners, who, not knowing-fiussia, ma y be thus caught. The writers of the Ukase-i.eeuld-onii have hit upon this ridiculous phrase in order t o cude-a-, your to make it public that we have a n army of 600,000 men. It would be much bet ter to displaY this innumerable army in the field, but unfOrth tunately this kind of demonstration' is pot to MK. taste. The population of our Empir e is known province by provinceit is not •sufficient to ex-, - plore the riches of some part of bur soil, alid place at a distance the' weakness of our .comense de serts. If we have sit hundred thousan d troops; how, s happens it that France, the greatest a nd the r r n r o l u t populbus, nation in Europe, has not more has, ce . GOO.OOO men which %Ire certainly have not , Fran :and . nas shewn Europe that she can send ti-si-x.tbs of them beyond her frontiers; whilst , with the efforts of Several armies, and with the must a ctive recruit ing; for three years, we can scarcely eetxlir ourlc*ss"