The Sun. — London, England, 1817-12-15 00:00:00

"iiiik\lDEßS AND DUTCH MAILS. ' .. Pland,rs and Dutch Mails arrived last night. he Parrs by theM contain a mutilated fetter 'from litywNrAiurs to LAS CASAS, which will be found ammrgst the following extracts BRUSSELS, DEC. letter from Alit in of the 26th Nov. contains the following passage:— " Th e .. Princess of %Vales received yesterday. by a Courier di spa tthed from . London, the deplor able news of the death 01 her beloved daughter the hilicess'Cliariotte. This cruel event made such a proton n i l impression upon her, that she - tainted away several times StICCOSiVeIV." BRUSSELS, DEC. B.—One of our 3011111:03 has published sonic letters of Count •Casas, the fit st addressed to Lord Sidmonth i and a second to Li: rd 11011eind. These letters are corroborated by the following : ‘‘ Ali the public Paper: gave at the time erroneous accounts of the reasons of my departure from Longwood. The follow mg will e - tahlisli the truth : " MN' I , LAIL CouNT Las CAsAs,—My heart sensibly feels what put experience. Torn from me sixteen or seventqen days ago, you have been confined au secret, without bent: permitted to receive any information about me, or to com municate with any person whatever, either French or English, and even destitute of a servant of your own choice. " tour conduct at tit. Helena has been like your life— honourable and without reproach ; 1 take pleasure in telling you so.—[Here three-fourths of the letter are wanting.] " Your company was necessary to me ; you alone could speak and understand English. How many nights have you passed with me in my illness. However, I advise vou, and if needful, I order you, to require the Governor of this Island to send you to the Continent. He cannot reinse this, basing no power over you, hut by your voluntary enusent, which ha,s placed you under his authority. My heart will rejoice to Inow that vou are on the way to happier countries. .Whether you go to England, or whether you return to your country, forget the recollection of the ills which bare been made to suffer. Boast of the fidelity which Vetl have shewn to me, and of the entire alllction which I hear you. " If you should one day see my wife and my son, salute them (rnabrassez-lcse), fur 111. n: than two years I have un news of them, either directly or indirectly * * * * [Three lines are here wanting]. However, comfort vourse!f and console my friends. My body, it is true, is in the power of my enemies ; their rage forgets nothing that can satiate their revenge ; they kill flat by inches ills ;ar tout mortrir e coups if epiitgle); but Providence is too just, I am - esisiltle of it, to .grout this to continue long in the midst of this e,m liming- climate, deprived of every thing that sappotts life aaaa* *.—[Here three lines are wanting.] " As there is every reason to believe that you will not be l'Olittt2 , l to come before your departure, receive my em braces, the assurances of my esteem, and of my friendship, he happy, " Your affectionate, " Longwood, Dec. Isla. NAPOLEON." The local authority detained at St. Helena the mi4inftl o. thin letter, and allowed only that part to he communicated which is found here. It is said that several Officers ou half-pay have received hiders to repair to the Texel to make part of an expedition for the Island of Java. The birth-day of his Royal Highness the P; ince of Orange was kept at Brussels with every demon •tration of joy. The whole city was illuminated. Ills Royal Highness is still at Brussels.---(These papers make no mention of the Count de Gilltz ) Baussues, Dec. 6.—Duke B , ,ruard of Saxe Weimar, Major-General in the service of the Nip:: of the Netherlands, arrived here yestctday ; los° several Russians of distinctign horn Peters burg!). BRUSSELS, DEC. B.—Letters from Batavia of the mouth of June, which have been re ceived within these few days, represent in no favourable light the state of our Colonies ill the East Indies. At Batavia they expected sOOll to recei ee numerous Tel of troops from Eur.pe. This unfortunate circumstance (says the Ghent Journal) makes us sensible of all the perfidy of the precaution of England, which, by depriving us of the Cape, has not kit us any point to touch at between this Kingdom and the Sunda Islands. 'flee possession of this colony in Africa would enable us to send speedy succours to the East Indies, but our generous protectors have left us only what they can easily take back from us N% henever they please, because they have placed Hs 01 a situation in which it is impossible to de fend them. tiaGuE, DEC. 4.—The appeal to public opi nion, and to the States General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, in favour of the proscribed French, against those who proscribe them, by Messrs. Courtois Lemaire, and Gttyet, who resided 17 months at Brussels, under the guarantee of the 4th article of the fundamental law ; and also the pamphlet which bears the title of " Petitions pre sented and distributed to the Members of the Se cond Chamber of the States General, by Messrs. Guyer and Courtois Lemaire, exiled trom the Kingdom of the Netherlands, in contempt of the 4tl► article of the fundamental law, followed by their protest." People are extremely anxious to see tinder what point of view the Committee will consider these two Petitions, and the report which it will make upon them. Dec. 7.—The work of Messrs. Courtois Le rnaire and Guyer, " Appeal," &c. as well as their petition, alter being addressed to the Second Chamber of the States-General, are now sent to the First. The Editor has prefixed to these peti tions a letter to Cotint Thiennes, Plesident of the First Chamber. We hardly kno.v how to charac terise this epHtle. BRUSSELS, DEC. 6.-1\10)in tlrese tew days we have seen a great many Russian, English, and German couriers pass through here, mostly going to London or coming from it ; a great many couriers from Paris and the grand head-quarters have likewise passed through. This leads to sup. pose that most important negociations arc on toot between several .Powers, which opinion is con firmed by letters from France. FRENCH PAPERS. PARES, Dcc. 1 l.—Yesterday his Majesty held a Council of Ministers, which sat front one o'clock till five. All the Ministers were present. The Projet of . Law on Education continuing to be discussed in the Council of State, it is supposed it will be presented to the Chamber of Deputies before the Budget. One individual in the Department of Allier has destroyed upwards of 100 wolves, by setting traps for them. It is stated from Aix-la-Chapelle, that M. de las Casas, accutnpallied by his sun, tied tweive years, at rivet! there tlie . t'd init. anti let Out the next day for German y. *if here is still a report of a new - Congress of Sovereigns, who are ta aAetuble in the mouth of July or Anrust, and who are to adopt important measures for the maintenance and consolidation of the legitimate and constittational order of Europe, and for the repression of what still remains of re volutionary spirit amongst certain malcontents. The King of Bavaria has appointed the Prince de Lenchtenherg 'and d'Eichtett (Prince Eugene); Colonel Proprietor of the Gth Bavarian Regiment of Light Horse, in garrison at Nmendtivg. Tl►e Officers of tl►e regiment celebrated this appoint mew by a fAte., There was no public Sitting of the Chambvr of Deputies either yesterday or 'the preceding thly. The Committee on the Vrojet respectia4 the Con cordat, sat on both days, as well as other Con►- lntttues. DRESTWN, Nov. `29.—The termination of the disputeS between Saxony and Prussia is not so near as Was supposed some weeks since. New dif ficulties have arisen, which perplex the operations of the Commissioners. The affairs are so compli cated, that they cannot be soon arranged. There is still to discuss the right of possession to up yards of sixty villages, ‘vhich are claimed by both parties. . . FRANKFORT, Dec. 3.—The question relative to the est abli6bwent of Representeive Constit►►tions in all the States of the Germanic Confederation, has beet► brought before the Diet by one of it 3 Members, who lays it down as a principle, that the complete development of the interior urga nizati,Jil Ought to precede the adoption of mea sures of safety with respect to foreign powers. 'Ellis proposition, it is said, was made in one of the late co►fide„tial confe►enres. Musticu, Dec. 3.---4 he Concordat between tire Pope and the King of Bavaria has just been pub lished here ; airs' the King is to nominate to the Sees, and the Pope to give institutions. • RostE, Nov. 26.—The melancholy intelligence of the death of the Princess Ciarlotte of Eng land arrived here on Saturday night last. LUCC. , Nov. 25.—Possession was formally taken yesterday of this principality ; in the name of the Spanish Infanta Maria Louisa (Queen of Etr•u_tria.). Manure, Nov. 27.—Our Gazette gives a list of Rebel Chiefs and soldiers who, up to the 6th of March last, hall presented themselves to the re spective Commandants of tire Royal forces in the district of Mechauacau, in Mexico, to take the benefit of the Amnesty published by the Viceroy, It comprises 3'..! individuals, of whom one calls hi►nself Lieut eitant-Getiera I, two Lieutenant-Co lonels, three Captains, four Sab-Lieoteoants, one Serjeant, 19 Soldiers, the Secretary of one of the Chiefs, and one individual in a ci•il employ. Lleven transports destined to convey 3500 men to Sooth America are ready in the port of Cadiz. The provisions are on board, bot it. is not stated when the troops are to be embarked, nor what vessels of war are to convoy them. It is not known either what General is to command the expedition. Csni, Nov. 17.—The Russian Ambassador at Dur court has been here tur scone days past, where I►e is waititig for the Russan squadron, which his Majesty the Emperor Alexander has ceded to Spain, upon conditions which remain as yet un known. To this squadron will be added, a vessel the ling of 74 guns, one of 64, and MO large frigates, the equipm;:nt of whicl► is nearly cons pleted. Besides the troops which will be em barked on board of them, with at tiller y and am munition, three or four hundred Officers have solicited to accompany the expedition, to serve as volunteer!, till they can be employed in our South American possessions. From Moscow, Nov. 10, it is stated,—" Tire flattering reception that our Persian Embassy has experienced holds out to ITS the brightest pro spects. It appears, that our Ambassador, Yer inaloti, has gained the affections of Feth Aly Sella!). We learn that the Persian Monarch has allowed -the establishment of ussian Consulships in tire principal cities of his empire ; and permitted the Russians, on paying a slight duty, to trade in his dominions, and to have a passage through them to India. IVe have every reason to hope that the manufactures of our Southern Provinces will be admitted under favout•- able conditions. The report that Feth Aly Sella!) is said do have requested gut interview with the Emperor of Russia, and the meeting of an Asia tic Congress, at Astracar►, in the Spring, to which the Grano) Sultan of Constantinople is to be-in vited, for the purpose of reeinlating the political and commercial regulations between the Christian and Mahometan Powers, requires further con firmation." ONLY ONE DAY TO DRAW-NEU' SATURDAY.- FOUR PRIZES OF 'rwENTV THOUSAND voimws, &c. IN TLIF, WHEEL. TO CORR ESPON DENT'';. Our Protrslant Readers, and we desire no other, except fur the !impose of Rrfornialivp, will learn with pleasure that LA:srHANc's Fourth i,etter will appear Tu-morrow. THEATR t t. REGISTE R. Perf;irmed on Saturday Nit;ht. THE.ATRE ROYAL. DRURT-i, NE.—;First ' Outwitted at last : Principal Characters by Mr. H. Johnqon and Mks Byrne. After which, Cl►sATni:ltuv.tt,('urENT-GtßrAtf..-r-Gity Mannering Henry Bertram, :Mr. Braham; Lucy Bertram, Mips Stephens. After which, Husband* and ‘Viee*. FATAL DUEL. , ISLE OF WIGIIT, DEC. 13.--On Wednesday last an Invest was taken at the allphin Inn, in West Cowes, bef o re TrtoNtAs SEWELL, Fosi Co roner of the Isle of Wight, on the view of the body of a Gentleman of the name of John Sut ton, wiio was killed in a duel, in Northwood Palk, that morning. It appeared in evidence, that the deceased was one of the passengers about to proceed to St. Thomas's, in the ship Grace, lying in Cowes Roads ; that on the preced- ing evening the deceased, a Major Lockyer, a Mr. Itedesdale, and a Mr. Hand, and other pas sengers, were in cotnpany toget her at the Dolphin; that Major Lockyer took offence at sotue ex pressions made use of by the deceased, and, in consequence, challenged hint. The parties t the next morning, Mr. Redesdale attending as second to Major Lockyer, and Mr. Hand as se cond to the deceased. Major Lockyer, only, fired at the appointed signal; the ball entered the deceased's body, between the third and fourth ribs on the right side, passed through the ven tricle on the heart, lodged in the integuments on the left side, and occasioned, of course, instant death. The principal and seconds immediately lied. The Jury, without hesitation, returned a verdict of Wilful Murder against Major Lockyer and ,Messrs. Itedesdale and Hand, and the Coro ner issued Iris warrant for tilcir apprehension,— Mr. Hand was apprehended (by Allen, the New port Constable) at Portsmouth, on Thursday. The others are sti!i at large, We received yesterday the Paris Papers of Thursday last, and this morning those of Friday. IVe give extracts from the former in another co lut»n. The expected Congress of Sovereigns is again mentioned in them, and it is said the 1 1 .10- Dwells will adopt important measures for the maintenance and consolidation of the legitimate and constitutional order of Europe, and - tor the suppression of what still remains of Revolutionary spirit amongst certain malcontents, If we are to believe an article quoted from Moscow, the Russians have obtained iwportalit commercial privileges in P:rsia. The following are Extracts from the Journals of Friday : CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES, Mc. 11. '' Illy discussion ~ tas opened on the Projet re specting the Press. " The Baron Martin de Garay, in a long speech, Opposed the Prtjet As Anconstitutioual, and concluded by declaring 4'o intention to vote for its rejection. " Joiiivet supported the Projet on the ground of exisiing vircutnstances rendering it 'ne- Ile reserved himself with respect to the amendotento. cesiarv. " M. Ginith opposed the Projet. " The Keeper of the Seals, in an extempore re ply, maintained, that the Prnjet was au ameliora tion of the existing system of Legislation. " The discussion ‘s as adjourned till to-morrow. " Pam, DEC. 12.—Thezinting of the Budget is actively proceeding, auTh it will probably be presented to the Chamber of Deputies early in the next week. " The 7th ult. ti►e Minister of the Interior is sued a new invitation to tl►e Pt elects to take ►uea sures for the severe repression of vagrancy and Inendeity, and the relief of the indigent. " The Journal de Toulouse of the 611 inst• states, that the Chamber of Council of the Civil 'fribunal of Rhodez had pronounced on the pro cedure against the Dame Clarissa Enjalrand Manson. This Lady has been put in accusation, and is to be tried before the .Cour Royale of Montpaier. " The report of authority having ben given for die importation of Rum is untrue.. " lIVII PER CENTS. " Wedne , cty 03f. 7.5 c. " Thursday G3 f. c. " V(ENNA, Nov. 30.—The grand fete of the Order of the Golden Fleece, ‘vhich was to have been celebrated yesterday, has been postponed account of the mourning for the Pt ineess Char lotte of England. " According to the nature of the orders sent from hence to Prague, it is supposed ti,at the stay of the Court in Bohemia will he of some duration, It is probable even that it will be prolonged till next August, the period fixed for the meeting of the Emperors of Austria and Russia„ the kiog ot Prussia, and several other Sovereigns. it may easily be conceived how much the public atten tion is fixed upon the 01 , iceti and re s ults o f t hi s new Congress." New York Papers to the 22d November artived this morning.. FRom MARTINIQUE.—.k Latter, dated a.t St. Picrres, Oct. 27, was received yesterday by tt respectable mercantile house in this City, of which the following is an Extract : " Weavail ourselves of this opportunity to inform that our puns are on the eve of being opened o your Flag on . t . he same terms as formerly, and link proper to note the same for your guidance." [OFFICIA L.] City Caz•ette Offer, Chetrleston, Nov. 10. INDI A N Np,ws.—We learn by nu Officer of the Army, who An ivee .town on St n;41.17 lest, dirret (ruin Fort Ilawkins, that Lostiiitits t;re expected tinfnetliately to brcak tint ijettii.;eo our ::: 1 the the Seminole Indians. Uetreral GAisrs, tci I, lad . force, took up the Una c f March from Fort gomery, on the Alabama, :o rim S;:ott, Flint hirer, about the 27th ult., ‘vt, joined by about iSfti) Creek Itidirm Wei would make his Army, including Regulars : Aitti' tia, and Indians, amount to about 2,500. 'Pi' Seminoles rae said to have in the field I,;.) warriors. General JA'cKsos anti Si,T it 13 ex' pected would join Ge al GAIN ES at Yu/ t Scott i the OiiicEr above alluded to W 23 dispatched hes its rocure lour field-pieces for the Expeo tion, and will return immediately. We lenru that General GArsEs made a demand upon ti4Bl SeMinoles fur the murderers of seven Whites : they refused, and in reply stated, that our peopl4 had killed ten of their tribe, and demanded the balance to be given up to them, as the only cow ditiou on which they would make peace. The General made no further reply, but immediately put his troops in motion to operate against them, DREADFUL H URRIC AN E. (From the Comvsercial difivertizer of N 0?,.. 20.) From Captain Williams, of the brig Louisa, from Antigua,. we learn, that a dreadful hurri cane arose on the 2lst. tilt. in the %Vest Indies, the violence of which was particularly felt at St. Lucie, Barbadoes, Dominique, and St. Vincent's, where considerable damage was sustained by the shipping and estates generally. At St. Louis the gale was More particularly severe.—All the vessels in that port were entirelY lost ; the Government house was blown demo, end all within its walk, comprising the t4oiferno: . , his lady, and child, his staff, secretaries, servants, &c. •amonnting in all to about 50 pet'sois, were buried in its rtriinS. Not one survived the dreadrUl catastrophe. And still inure horrible to iclate, the officers and soldiers' barracks were by the same pitiless blast demolished, and all within them it the time, about "200 souk, were preei!:icated into , eternity ; and the estates of the-Island rendered a. heap of Some of the particulars of the datneges at Bar badoes were stated je our last. Capt. IV. doe's not furnish any thing in addition theteto. At Dominique nearly the whole town was in undated, anti the destruction of property immeese. Some few lives were lost. Tice Island nearly de solated. ad not learn that any vessels were I,st. At Martinique about 50 sail of vessels were driven net to sea from St. Pierces. grit elp:,llrf Americans, and hating no ballast, provisions, or other necessaries for. a voyage, have probably, been lost. Only one of the above vessels been heard of, (a French ship, which got into ' l 6 , r. Eustatia).—The estates here also were greatly d maged. At St. Vincent's, ten snit of vessels WeLIE ota shore, and were, nearly all lou. c a pt a i n Williams could not with certainty recapitulate all the. horrors which marked thic awful. visitation : at Dominique and S:iint Vin cents, as well as Saint Lucie, the devastatioa was so Complete aS to amount ahnost to it aniliila tion. It will be many yea's, at 'cast, before those Islands can be restored to their fornicr nlition. A schooner from Philadelphia, bound to St. Bar tholomews with wine and brandy, ‘vas lust on fli. , .rhada Reef, the .crew and part of the cargo, saved. It was reported at Antigua, that his liajesty's ship ./intelope, of 50 guns, Hear-Admiral Harvey. was lost in the gale. She sailed t:rotu Figiou Island for Barhadoes the night lireviou► t:) the gals. If any doubts could arise as to the nei,essity be Allied Troops remaining in prance, those doubts ought to be removed by Ivbat has recently occurred in that Country. It is well observed, ia an-article dated Berlin, that " the Boonapartist Marshal and the Bourbon Minister of %Var havi4 placed the French Army in a fighting condition,. This army declares, through the medium of Om KING, clad in a General's utliforw, that the obli gations entered into by France cannot be fulfilled,. and that new negOciations must be opened." Poor Louts ! he must adopt even_ a dress, to please his Ministry, that ill becomes hi: infirm state ; but what is worse, he is to be employed as Ott mouth-piece of sentiments in violation of solemn, engagements to the Allied Powers ! For this _ . . purpose, then, is the Army of Fraisce to be aug..,, mented, and with these menaces before them, it is foolishly tumoured that the Allied Power 3 are to. withdraw . their Troop, tu order to allow a Ficrich Military Banditti to spread devastation and horroi over their respective (lotnioions ! ! It is perfectly ludicrous to find The Horning Chronicle asserting, that letters, dated Madrid And Cadiz, are fabricated in Portland-Place. How many letters from South America, from Paris, and from various parts of Eutope, have been fabricated in the Strand 3 In tact, The Chronicle is so noto rious for this secies of inventive Correspondence, that the public can now place no confidence any of its forcr,n intelligenef!, unless they eo:.7ts: t hrough the medium of foreign Journals, and iz - ,,that: Case The Chronicle generalry extracts those ;krricleik only which willfavour its own views. lE,.%engrauting that the letters to which The Chronicle alludei were really fabrications in Portland Place, surely it hard in The Chronicle not to allow others the pri 7; viiege, which sii4ml4qtly, exerttise;( MM LS. Annivun-1 Franee, 2 Flanders, 1 GutttObni - gb, 1 Guernsey and Jersey, 1 I)tildiu, 1 Guernsey and Jersey, I Dlibin]. PRICE OF SfOCKS nits DAV AT TWELVE n'ELgiCit. . per Cent. Red....... 821 831 India Builds pr, 4 per Cents. ...99411 Each. 8i115...11)5. 20s. pr, Bank L. Ann 21 1-16th Cons. for Account•...B.li 84! HIGH WATER. AT LONDON BRIDGE TO \IORRO\V. Morning, 32 minutes after 8. f Evening, 57 minutes after 8 THE SUN. SOLEM Qujs DU:ERE FALSUM ALIDEAT LONDON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1317.