The Sun.
London, England, 1801-01-28 00:00:00

SMh'II TO AONAPARik.

THE following Leder is given in the Courier
de Londrts of last authentic. It has eel.,
tainly hitherto been unpublished
" Temple, Sib ltfareht 170.
" CITIZEN GENERAL,

" Though I have not the honour of being per-
sonally known ft) you, we had tie honour of e?c-
changing Several cannon-ballS together at Tou,
loi4 which is the way of !establishing an ac.:
qiihintanie among Military M'en, and I hope that
my situation as Piiioner at. War will entitle me to.
yotit immediate attention .was taken after an
obstinate adion,'and my Conquerors overwhehn
ed, me with kindness, and prdthisett, aecord-
ing to general usage, return ,use my Sword;
nevertheless. I .have been confinea for
twenty-two months, with a degree of rigour
very unusual even fin condemned persons, and
that too in a Country where professions of gene-
rosity and of attachment to prikiples are =de—
in a Country where all rigour, which is not ne-
cessary to secure the per:am of a Prisoner, is se-
verely reprehended by the Law.
" They impute it to me as a crime, -that I
obeyed the orders of my Commanders. They
reproach me particularly with the affair of Tou-
lon, though they have since received, in a friend.
ly manner, three of the persons who signed the
orders Which I executed. Yon cannot approve
of this vengeance, which they exercise against
an individual, and I addieSs myself to your con-
fidence, begging you to put an end to ibis perse-
cution. You have rob elevated a soul not to per-
ceive on which side the superiority rests, between
a patient ViEtim and a pitiless Oppressor. You
will feel that the National' Honour is interested
in not crushing a disarmed and conquered Ene-
thy under the weight of a resentment, founded
perhaps upon the exagerated reports of weak
men, who have deceived the Government by re-
presenting me as a dangerous Monster, in 'order
to justify either their fears or their cruelty.—
I am ready to enter into an explanation of all the
fables which have been invented respeding me
daring the time I have been deprived of 'the means
of refuting them, not doubting'but that a simple
-Statenient: of Falls, would convince - you that I
isave done •no More than a French Soldier would
.ha :'e done in my place. • •

f! in thus. pleading. My cause, I plead that of
all rho. French Officers in England, who will Aid-
fer by retaliation, since the French Government
has cst.thlished it as a principle, that an Oilio:r
may be pani.lied for obeying the orders of his
Superior.
1‘ The Commander in Chief • of the Army of
England, must feel himself interested in
operating towards putting an end to such a sys.
rein, which would expose his brethren in Arms
to useless sufferings, and which would give rise
to feelings foreign to the Military eharader. I
do not limit my request to a. mere mitigation of
my fate. Your Countrymen in prison await, with
impatience, no doubt, the Honour of serving
tinder a General who is the favourite of ViOory.
It is in the same manner natural, that an English
Prisoner should be ardently desirous, of. serving
against him, and of defending his Country, Agaimt
such valiant Munnies. •

(Signed)

«W. FiIDNEY

To this Letter no reply was given. BON
PARI E on reading it said, " if he were my:Pri.
soner I would do him justice, but it seems they
wish to make a viaim of him." BAR RAI declar.
ed one day, when speakingof Sir SIDNEY SMIIH,
that it would be better to shoot him than to treat
him in that manner.

We saw on Monday several. Papers consider-
ing it •
as certain that the ICING of PausSlA
had taken an aftive and • decided part .in the
Northern Confederacy, because it was, stated,
in the lifoniteur, that his Minister at Peter:.
burgh had, Ott the t7th December, acceded to
the., Treaty ,which was concluded ,on the pre.
ceding day between the three Maritime Powers
of the North. The Afemitear asserts it : It is
,an Official Journal ; therefore it is true. Such is,
with very little to the credit of their sagacity,
the. reasoning of some of our Cotemporaties.
A small degree of attention might have been
sufficient to have made them sensible that
the Muiteur is citify Official as to the public ads
of the Government; which it is the first to pub-,
lish; and ink to the intelligence ueder the Paris
head. In other respals this Paper, like all Others,
tcopiie the Ar t iehis limb the Foreign Journals,
without pretending, to giie them as Official.—
That Of whith Speak relative ti? the Treaty
in citiesticini• and to the accession of Prussia to it,
was from Ptirrshurghsand not froth Poi.c, and
was given merely as an i.sctrad 'from a -Foreign
Paper. Here, however; it has been considered
as affording a solid basis foi reasoning and belief.
The case 'has been. nearly the same with re-
speA to the 'Troops which florrArAit re is said
to be assembling on the. Coast of 'Norma/ay,
Blittattyi and Gasr.ny: We knciw for certain
that these ProVinees, and those that are: in the
neighbourhood bf them; are at :;this . moment
almost wholly deititute of Troops:- The French
Government could not assemble a great number'
of Troops in these Provinces; without drawing
thern from the Antics in Germany and Italy; and
that they will not dtr well a Continental Peare
Is finally eonelnded, Which will not be the work
of a day. Nevertheleas, how many; 'because it
has been stated in the Frenelv Papers; that
Troops ,are to be assembled., there, have taken
it for granted that they Were aetually 'assembled,
as if by magic i—lnconsiderate credulity is as
fatal to Nations; as kis disgraceful to individuals.
IlosAyA.ats begins to manifest Some anxiety
arith resped tai the distresses. -of the Army of
Egypt and in-brder to induce the French Me:.
chants to specalatt with greater alacrity in sup-,
plying is wants, -the Consulate offers a premintri
.of. 4o per cent. ad cithreet on any.tjuantity of
tvineg brandy, oil add soap,,euported from France
to that Cointry before the tit of April wzxt. •

Llifr REl'Ohl%

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, J

if °ARE .1);, 4LL/N.

M
INE iTIOV*Cd Cara Rule to spew cause
why there shdaila tint be a new Trial in ibis Case;
It was. an AtliOn for Criminal Conversation be-
tween the Defendant and the Plaintiff's Wife,
the Circumstances of which are already before the
Peblie. The grounds Linen wnkh this motion
was made were twiati:d,that the evidenCe of a
Gentleman, of the came of was stOpt by,
the Lord Chief justice, when he. was' going' PS
describe the agitatiee it, wl.,eh found Mrs..
Hoare, and what aoi let ye to Mr: Hoere
just before Mrs: Hoare went aiv,:y •11.orn her
hand's house, by it would have appeared
that the 94.14 of her going from home; as agreed
tipon•lietween her husliaoil and bet, was to " gnt
to her uncle; Mr. Cook ;" and thatit was Upon
that conditiOn, and,that condition only, that Mr.
Hoare consented to her going from his'house. at
all ; whereas, by Stopping that evidence short)
and preventing biS telling that part of the Case,
it appeared as if 'Mr. Hoare had 'consented that
his ivite should fly into the arms of her Adulte»
rer—than which nothing was more distant frona;
the Plaintiff's thought ; it was true. that she did
meet the Defendant; and that they had been
gether since, lint that was by no consent of
Hoare. The next point upou a mis-direelion
of the. Noble And Learned
_ledge, to the jury in
point of Law. lie had the highest respeei that
.could be entertained, as iedted every body .had,
for the learning and judgment, as well as inte.. '
'grity, of the Lord chief- justice, 40; he sub.
mitted that the direCtion given by his Lordship,.
that the jury Ought to find a verdi& for the De.
fendant was contrary to Lay; and he contended,
that after the AdUltery waiprovedoiething,shot;
of an a&ual and corrupt consent to that Adulte,
ry, on the part of the Plaintiff, could take away
his right to a verdit:t. . .
The cases quoted by his. Lordship were those
of Theophilus Gibber, :tad Esten,' against 'the
Duke of Hamilton. They bore no reseMblance
to the-present. In the first, the Plantiff was' the
pander of his.wile's lust, for he provided pillows:'
for the bed in which the adultery was cOmmitted. •
In 'the second,' the .husband had executed Articles
of Separation, in which there was girt otiire!,s
•Ciatisei allowing his wire to. live in adultery wlth
any body ;'upon which, it had been said, that she
was a loose fish, anti any bodysmightehate bar»
pooped her:---but here there was no consent what-
,•ever on the pare of the Plaintiff; for his cote;cot to
the.going away of his wife from his house was for.
the eStpress purpose ;of her going to 'wrikle '
'that she afterwards went to the Defendant was no
fault of the Plaintiff, but was the common enis. '
fortune of all the .parties ; and therefore he sub.
mitred whatever effetcl aR the circumstances of the
case tnipt have on the quantum ofdamages which
the Plaintiff, ought; to have) they did not*- go in
destruction of hi'.3 right of anion ; for which rea-
sons he humbly submitted that the direftion of
the Nobleandlearned judge to •the jury to find
a Verdi & for the Defendant; and which they fol.
lowed, ,was contrary to Law. He added) - how.
ever, that his Lordship, and eves the Catietel
fur the' Defendant,. had spoken in the;mtist'hand.
-sonic manner of the;charader end general conduit
of the Plaintiff, Mr. Hoare,
,a tidib that view of
'the matter a new trial Was necessary bat there
- was another consideration that moved him to take
the . courte he new piirsued I as the case . now
stood, he could not apply to Patliament for that
relief which, in its justice) it is in the habit of
administering to parties injured by conjugal
infidelity with the present Verdict agamit him.
'Lord Ketsvotsee—Take a Rule to shew cause.