The Sun. — London, England, 1806-11-04 00:00:00

NEW PARLIAMEXT. MEMBER 3 RETURNED. CnipPENHANt-- , James Maitland, Esq. ; Charles Brook, Esq. LYNN—Right Hon. Lord Walpole ; Sir Martin Brown Folkes. 13.1TH—Lotd John Thynne ; John Palmer, Esq. BARNSTAPLE—Lord Ebrington ; William Tayler, Esq. HIGHAM FERRERS—F. F. Foljambe, Esq. PRESTON—Lord Stanley ; Mr. Horrocks. PENRYN -- Sir Christopher Hawkins ; Henry Swann, Esq. PETERBOROUGH—Feench Lawrance, Esq. ; Right Hon. William Elliott. PoRTAW/TlT—Admiral Markham ; Sir Thomas TRURO—Capt. Levison Gower ; John Lemon, Esq. BciDmirr---Wm. Wingfield, Esq. ; Davies Giddy, Esq. CARLISLE—John Christian Curweu, Esq. ; 'Wal ter Spencer Stanhope, Esq. EVESHAM--William Manning, Esq.; Humphrey nowarth, Esq. Luutow—i-Lord Viscount Clive ; Hon. Robert Clive. LEOMMSTEE--Sir John Lubbock ; Henry• Bon ham, Esq. RETFORD—Zen. Charles Craufurd ; Thomas Hu gban, Esq. BEVERLEY—T. H. Wharton, Esq. ; Lieut. Gen. v yse. • • ROCHESTER -- t, Esq. - DOVER— -- son; ,Esq. H2TDcrx--Gbneral Johnstone; Anthony Browne, . . Calcraft, Esq.; Bar- Jenkinson, Esq.; John Jack- • CONTESTED ELECTIONS. Dovziv—Close of Poll—Jenkinsou 153 ), - eleaed Jackson 137 Trevanton 71 -ROCllESTER.—rcalcraft 529 elethd. Barnett -35 t 6 , 5 • • - Sir S. Smith 34 712 ,Fre6Llieti polled: . ISlorwic —Feliowes 804 Smith 793 Patterson 1115 SouTswAßK.—State of the Poll at 12 o'clock to day : Sir - - 1664 Mr. THOR N TOO - - - 1518 Mr. TIERNEY - - - 1304 WESTMINSTER ELECTION.—State of the Poll a one o'clock to-day : Mr. PAULG 52 t Sir S. How) • -- 425 Mr. - SHERIDAN -- /91 WESTMINSTER EL.EcTION: , . On the conclusion of the Poll yesterday, at the WeStminster 'Eleaton, Mr. SIIERIDAN came for ward to address the people, but with difficulty-ob tained a hearing, amidst the clamours of many per sons in the mob, who were obviously hired to op pose him. His speech, short as it was, wa3 strong and pointed. It was the language of a man not to te brow-beaten from his purpose. He observed it was a bad cause that, could not bear hearing. 'He said, he should address himself particularly to those Wlio had insulted him ever since the Eleaion began, •deaaring he was sure they were not sincere in their hostility to him ; asserting that no man who really Toyed liberty, and was attached to the Tights of the people, could be'an enemy to him, who had so long and so resolutely fiiuglit • their battles. He par ticularly. referred to the chief Spokesman of the mob before the Hustings, - but with each good huinour, totwithstanding all the course and virulent abuse that had been heaped upon him, as -induced most of them 'to ". govern their roaring throats,- and grumble" approbation. He.concluded with saying, 'that he might be beaten, but he could not be frightened ; that he would persevere to the last, and would readily meet his competitor in any way in which he dared to come forward. Sir SAMUEL HOOD followed, and expressed his thanks for, the support he had that day received, and doubted not it would be effeEtual in the end. Mr. P‘tul.T.. also made his acknowledgments, and confidently predi&ed an ultimate triumph to his pretensions.—The scene was altog€ther of so Bear garden a description, that if such men as those who supported Mr. PAULL, or at least clamoured in his cause, were to gain the ascendant in this Country, our Legislators would be taken from. St. Giles's and Hockley in the Hole. The proceedings at the Hustings in Covent-Gar den this day were by no means so riotous, at least in their commencement, as those which yesterday dis graced flu, .netropolis.—Arnong the persons station ed with the Candidates, Colonel FULLARTON appear ed, with a view it was thought to support the charges in his very extraordinary advertisermnt against Sir SAMUEL Hoon. Accordingly one of the Mob Orators informed the crowd that such was the Colonel's intention. Colonel Feu,mtwor,r, how ever, had not said any thing upon the subject when we left the Hustings, and we hope his silence proceeded from a' refletiion that a matter, which, by his own account, is to be heard before one of the awful Tribunals of Law, should not be in troduced in such a place, nor the sacred cause of Justice be debased byiele6tioneering competitions. It is no less remarkable. than true, that JOSITUA ALBiNSON, a resident of Denton, near Manchester, who had been quite blind for the last twelve years, had, a short time ago, suddenly and unexpeEledly, his ocular faculty restored to him, without any means whatever having been used fot the purpose;, and the old man is now in good health and spirits, thankfully enjoying the blessing which kind Plvvi 4enoe btu thus bestowed upon Win., ~' :r "~r' PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE. BREMEN, Ocr. 17. THE destiny of Prussia is now decided.—Buti.).- PARTE, with that dexterous policy which he never fails to shew upon every emergency, is af feaing to treat the North of Germany with wonder ful generosity ; though every body roust know, that he is only anointing their necks to bear with more ease, and greater resignation, the Gallic yoke with which lie is preparing to wreath them. Saxony and Brunswick are declared neutral, and the EleEtorate of Hanover is ordered to be spared as much as the natural consequences of War will ad mit of. I am this Moment informed that the Prus sians have quitted Nieuburgh, and are on their March to Hameln. In all likelihood that fortress may be defended for some time; but as the commu;- nication is entirely cut off, the Commander must aCt upon his own authority, and, considering the chapter of accidents, it is hardly to be supposed he will hazard much resistafice, knowing, as he must, that no efforts he can make will prove ultimately successful. The scattered remains of the Prussian Army are assembling at Stettin, where it is said his Majesty has fled to, to await the sentence of his old friend, who modestly requires Magdeburgh, Hameln, &c, as vouchers for the sincerity of some propositions which the Marquis LuccuEsim has been sent with to the French head-quarters. . BONAPARTE has or dered his Troops to pay for every thing in hard cash. General DAENDELS is arrived here yesterday even ing from Holland : wliat his mission may be is not yet known ; however, I.don't.suspedle comes,to: give us Any money.. P. S. I am sure you will. forgive my,Letter, sfat ing the success of the :Prussian Army . ou . the' 17th. Certain lam many Letters hate reached . 1.-16 ,- land si tci the same import. .Even /30NAPARTE's partiaqi here believed it, on accomyt of its being so circuni-: stantially detailed, and from so many quarters: THE HAMBURGII MAILS. HANOVER, OCT: 26.—This morning Gen. N. NO-. BDLSDORY passed through this city for Harnburgh. Several French .parties <entered the , Bailiwick .of &hart - a - is; but, upon . a representation being made to their Commandant, restitution of what had been taken was immediately made the Officers gave the inhabitants money, and excused. themselves on the, pretence of being ignorant that the territory belong-• ed to Hanover. . . Magdebnrgh has been invested by thi, French for some days past-=they have already entered Biel feld ; and as the Prince of HOHENLOEJE and the Duke of WEt.IAIt have between 40 and 50,000 men under them in the neighbourhood, it is thought that an adion mug take place in a.few days. DORSTEN, OCT. 23.—The March of troops through this vicinitylias been incessant for some days past ; and . the advanced , guard of the Army of the North, it is said, hits already entered 'Munster, at which place, it is supposed, the King Of Holland will fix - his head-quarters. Yesterday a regiment Of Dutch. cavalry returned to Holland. These Provinces have I. been obliged ib supply the Army-with many neces- It saries. Several posts have either failed entirely, or come in unusually late, owing to the hostilities. Neither of those from Berlin, or Holland which were due yesterday evening, have yet arrived. WESTPHALIA, OCT. 27.—Gen. DAENDgLS, who I has entered Westphalia, fixed his head-quarters at I Leer. OSNABRUCK, OCT..25.—The French have taken possession of the. Prussian villages, .but have not yet entered upon the frontiers of the Bishoprick.. We flatter ourselves that the Hanoverian territory will be excused, as the Prussians have no troops in Os nabruck. MUHLHAVSEN, OCT. 23.—The corps under the Duke of SAXE-WEIMAR, near 20,000 strong, took no part in the affair of the 14th, but afterwards rc treated towards Tangermunde. Heiligeustadt ;s not yet in the'hands of the French, whose Grand Army has passed the ,Elbe, and marched towards STETTIN, OCT. 25.—A . Courier has just arrived, and brought very satisfaaory accounts from Berlin. LAUENBERG, OCT. 27.---According to some ac counts, the French have marched into Prenzlow. They entered Brunswick on the 25th. General WAKTANSLUEN is at Magdeburgh with 12,000 men. TRIZSTE, OCT. 6,,--The French troops are daily returning from Ragusa, Dalmatia, and Istria, into the Friuli.. The_ Russians are still in possession of Cataro ; and the Austrians, under General BELLE, GARDE, are encamped upon the Islands of Curzola and Lessina. Private letters from Naples mention the calamitous situation of that country. Letters from Inspruck state, that the French troops from the Friuli are expeEted to pass that way, to join the Army in Saxony. FROM THE INK, OCT. 11.,--As General HILAIRE is ordered from Brannan, with the garrison, to join the Grand Army, it is probable that this place will be occupied by the Bavarians, under Gen. SEBIEN. FROM SAXONY, OCT. 23.—The French have is sued an order at Leipsic, for all the English proper , ty to be delivered up within four days. On the 17th inst. a Convention of Ne,utrality was agreed upon between France and Saxony, in came quence of which the Saxon Troops are to be with drawn from the Prussian Armies. The French con tinue to march towards Wittenberg and Torgau. LEMBERG,' SEPT. 27.—Travellprs from Warsaw assure us, that on the 13th inst. 12,000 Russian troops passed through Warsaw, and were immediate ly followed by a train of provision waggons, &c. Extra& of a private Letter from Hamburgh, Oft. 28 :—" The French Troops have occupied the territory of the Duke of BRUNSWICK: the Duke is de, mrted, and will arrive here to-morrow morniag." Ocr. are Without aot further official accounts from Berlin respeeting the battle of Auerstadt ; all we know is, that on the .( - _3d inst. the Frenchhadrotentered that City; their Prussian Majesties, with Count RAUGWITZ, were at Custrin on the esth. Prince HomENLotin, in cc njunCtion with the corps under the Duke of . SAXIt WEIMAR, had collected a force of between 40 and 50,000 men near Magdeburgh, where a second bat tle was expeEtedto take place. BONAPARTE'S held. quarters ire said to have been. at Dessau as late'as the 24th. The Divisions under Prince MURAT and Marshals SOULT and NEY were close to Magdebiirgh, and summoned that place to surrender. . Some accounts state, that the Prussian Arnu.had retired across th'e Oder, after breaking down all the bridges. The scarcity of provisions in the EleCorate of Brandenburgh was so great that it. was thought the French wouht be obliged to retreat *again : the stores found in the Prussian magazines they carried with them in waggons. The Duke of nauNswicx. has made an able retreat with 10,000 men, and • • joined the Duke of SAXE WEMAR. FRONTIERS OF SAXONY, OCT.. 2 1 .—The head quarters of the French Army is at Dessau ; it is not known whether the Emperor SiniOLEois there; it is certain that the next day after the battle his head quarters were at Jena. The Saxon trUops have left the Pry:Ulan Army. ' We are positively assured that from 40 to 56,ncio men have already been assembled between liruns Wick and Makdeburgh; it is supposed that •tt.e en virons of these towns will be the theatre of the next battle. ' The Duke Of 13atiNsWICm has Setif ttS:the*Mid;• quarters of the French fit DeUati 'to ., S'olie,kt the Neutrality of his St and has blitainea It is said, that a colUmn of RUssian troops has arrived at Warsaw. BANKS OF THE ObEEt, OCT. 25.--.-;TW Frepch. were not yet .!t Berlin an:the (23d of this month. The Emperor NAPOLEON went, on the-1601 of (Y:4. in the evening, with his Guards from .1:e113 -to Wein - iar and slept there in the palace. Their Majesties. the King and Queen, and Cotint thvGwirzy are at cliStr.lll. The greater part of the bridges over the Oder have been takeriur.. 13'ANO Or the ELBE, OCT. 27.--Aecording' tQ• Elie accounts of travellers, a great number, of Frqnc.:.l. • Trocps had been continually passing through that city since .trie 18th, who Were , )i . l;ipaily on their march.' for Wittenburgh and Torg-an, at which lat ter place there will be a camp of from twelve to fourteen thOnsand men. Another considerable Corps Will be stationed near 'Dessau. We are informed, by.ikivices from Leipsic, that the , Etn, peror NAPOLEON has established his head-quarters at Wittenbnrili. Other accounts which likewise appear to_ be relied.on, say, thattbe Emperor•of the French set out on the 16th in the evening, accom panied by his guard, frotnlena for Weimar, and on . . the 17th, in the evening, :for Naumburgh. No contributions have been levied :on the city of Leipsic since the entry of the French. All the churches'and public edifices at itatim bbrgh are tilled with the wounded, and the solders are still employed on the field of battle in burying the dead. 1. . • )34UNSWICIC,, OCT. 25. —•-M. VON MurtcH rtAtisart is gone from this city to the French head• quarters in §. ) liony . and Count VON SCHULEN BURGH to the y ;-head-quarters of Marshal Sott LT near .Magdeburgh, to treat for the neutrality of our territory. Favourable assurances have already been received from the latter. A French Courier has arrived,here to-day.k INSPRUCK, OCT., t4;—.-If - no COLltitOzOrderS 21T-. rive, the Corps of . General. SEERns, in Friuli, con sisting of 10,000 Men, is expected soon .to march• • ,through this city on its way to join' the Grand Army iu Saxony. The towns people have already received orders to procure. plenty of provisions... BVSIBERG, OCT. tg.-On the 17th instant ad vice was rec,ived here by a Courier, that a battle had taken place on the.i4th in the environs of Jena, which tetminated to the disadvantage of the Prus sians. As to the events which . happened prior to that dav, we have learnt that General TAUENZIEN, on leaving ,Hoff; had been forced to abandon a. con siderable magazine, which fell into the hands of the French. His reheat was cut off, and he had no choice but to surrender prisoner, or cut his way through the Enemy. He chose the latter, and was beaten,. by the French advanced guard under the command of the Grand Duke of BERG : his whole Corps was taken by the French between Gerau and Zeist. in the mean time the French Grand Army forced- , the passage of the Saal, and ex tended itself on the 1 oth from Saalburgh to Auma, towards Neustadt, on the Orla.---From the gth to the 11th the corps of Marshal SOULT and' NEY traversed Hoff, and on the 13th and 14th the Prussian magazine which was in the latter town was conveyed in several hundred waggons to the French Army. ULM, OCT. 15.—The French General of Division, Domtnol,vst:Y, a wail of distinguished military ta lents, passed to-day through this city. He made the long journey from the Province of Abruzzo, in the kingdom of Naples, to Ulm, in eight days. He is going to the French head-quarters, inconsequence of orders from the Emperor NAPOLEON to repair thither immediately. POI? niE SUN. EDITOR', As I have always inland you to be a fiFru,suji.;: porter cif true constitutional principles, I doubt not that you will readily give place to a fevi/ob.i - vations reiapeding the conduct and the opinions of Sir FRASCIS BURDETT. This Gentleman virtually maintains, that no man ought to be a Member of Parliament who holds an office conneaed with the. Government of the Country. A more absard4pi.. Mon never was broached ; and though there is no reason to think highly of the understanding or Sit FIWWIS, yet it must rexcite surprise that he could . utter a sentiment so very ridiculous. I should be glad to ask Sir,FßANcis—if he thinks that situations should be conferred on men only knowti by their property, .or men not known at all I In( the former case, men would not in general be dis posed to undertake offices that demand talents and labour; and in - the latter case, what could be ino:e absurd than to invest men with situations, who, not being known, cannot be presumed to be above temptation by their property, or capable of render ing service to the Public by their abilities Toe persona • who may be most properly employed for the advantage of the State, are those wbo are known to the Public by their public virtue and their ta- . lents ; and where can they have a better opportn.- nit) , •of manifesting both titan in their legislative chara&ers ?. • Si? • FioNcts perhaps may thi..k - that men would skew their - a4iiiiies with most ad- . • • vantage in harangues at public Meetings in Tavern, or addresses to a mob ! • When". by the sentiments men utter and uni ormly Maintain in support of the Constitution and the. Country, and by the display of great talents in ex.; posing - and resisting measures likely to be injuriouW to either, they have excited the esteem and admira-;.. tion of the people, it would be strange indeed, if such men should, -by their public virtue, and evi dent talents, be precluded from an opportunlty more . effeaually serving the Public by a zealous; vigilant, and able discharge of official duty.---Be sides,. human virtue apt to waver, and when [nett are placed by official,, situation in • a state of pecu niary easy, they have 'an additional motive for doing their duty, in the force of self-interest, which must . surely operate as strongly in iu 'in - ! ) . people to keep •a kobd T in , ga s to obtain one; ,an.i the best means forpreservino good situation is by diligent ly • and- iaitlifolly t 'discharging its funaions.—ln • what sehOol'Sir FkANdts has acquired his know of- human nature I know not ; but in sup 'posing 'thatmex"are ito•undergo the toil of parka , rnentary diaty,• without the fair and 'honest prospect Of being invested with those Offices in the Stare which afford a gratification to a laudable ambition; . it 4 well as to reasonable hopes of personal advantage;. ; lyre skews that he is wholly ignorant of mankind, as they appear in the records of history, and to the • refiedion of • every person. capable of reflaaion..- , -* The motives" of Sir::•Fkaucfs are therefOre visi. ovary in 'their nature, and-very mischievous in their tendency. He would have all the respon-. sible Offices. of the State Withheld' from those who have shown • fair pretensions .to them, .and he would .have them be4towed upon those who for aught he or the • public know, are wholly un qualified to assume them. Sir'FaA•rtcts has natu rally excited surprise'by his silence, when he had .op portunities which celled upon'him fOrsonie testimony in favour of the late Mr.' Fun, and he has availed himself of other "opportunities to throw indecent refleaions upon Mr. Fox's memory.: It may be. inferred then, that Mr. Fox tost the favour of Sir FRANCIS the moment he obtained a plaCe in the Government of this Country 5 yet Sir FliAticts has often, in and out of Parliament, declared that no+ thing could save the: Country but the appointment of Mr. Fox and his Party to the Posts •of Admini stration. Thus Sir FRANCIS is involved in a mesh of difficulties and absurdities, framed by himself, and he exhibits the melancholy example of a man. who has lost a great part of his fortune, and brought a stigma of gross inconsistency upon his public cua raeter, without deriving the least benefit from experience in the enlargement of his mind, or tha reforrnation of his principles. DETECTOR. CITY OF LONDON ELECTION At the close of the Poll themumbers stood as foil yesterday, at three o'clock, Lord Mayor - - - fgl4 Alderman Curtis - 1717 Alderman Price - - 1779 Mr. Atkins . . .. .. 251 Alderman Combo - '753 Mr. Hankey - - . 14S The Crier of the Court informed the Livery, that two of the Candidates had not appeared during the day, and consequently upwards of fifty Liverymet had signed a Requisition addressed to the four Alder men who stood foremost on the Poll. This Re quisition was to advise, that, to save trouble to the Candidates and Liverymen, the Poll should continue open the limited number of days (till Friday next) ;' and those of the Livery who chose to vote might come forward spontaneously, without any solicita tion on the part of the four Candidates to whom it was addressed, and the Poll Clerks would regularly attend. - Mr. DixoN seconded the Requisiiion.- The four successful Candidates approved of the Requisi tion, and it was decided that, though the contest Was at an end, 'the Books should remain open for unso licited votes until Friday. TALLETRAND, the ci-devrint Bishop, in order to prove his- attachment to the Roman Catholic reli gion, has lately abolished nineteen convents. The Members of those Institutions, male and female, are, it seems, to have pensions assigned to them; but those unfortunate people must hold their sub sistence upon a very precarious tenure in the present state of things. The French Journals say, that when BOUtkl'Alltg left the Capital in order to join his Armies, to disturbance arose, but that the place remained in a state of tranquillity. The truth is, that the people of Paris are kept in such excellent order by their Military Proteelors, that no disturbance can arise without a certainty of ruin to those who assist in it. Nor is thii vigilant protection by the military co: . fined .to Paris, for upon all subje&s that relate to public affairs, the people throughout the Empire observe " a death-like silence, and a dread repose." ~.