The Sun.
London, England, 1806-12-27 00:00:00

1-lero descend. to the murder of a private citizen,
PALN.I.TOUSSAII4T,,PICHEGRU,WHIGHT, &C. had
rendered such things familiar. To recapitulate this
man's various ag-gressions. and violations' •Nroutil be
endless. He is permitted by Providence to be a
scourge to Mankind, to his own nation as well as

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TO THE EDITOR. OF THE SUN.

QUau§que tandem abutere noon patientia ?
c. iN

• IT -grieved me, nav More, it vexed me,: to bear
scene persons; whose-judgments in general -are to be
e.steemed,approVe the reasonings and applaud the
style of M. TAI.LEYRAND'S two Official-Reports of
the 2‘,2d November. .o.ltheir_style of cdmposition,
I profess myself by no me,ans a.competent judge ;
but of their int rinsir., jOstice every man of plain un-
der-4m ding and common memory may form a very
•
,adegnate opinton.. As,the Reports are official; our
Statesmen will probably. reply to them in an able
and proper manner ; but as there •arp many men in
our Nation who are biassed • by whatever has, last
Impressed -their minds, and who are partial to the
c',ittiOns of men of their own medio6-ity, ,to such
men I would beg leave, Arough your Paper, to
n'aie the following remarks, the more especially as
an iralividtiat- can assume a,tore unlimited mode:of
e7;pressiOn than might be coKreEt in any official do-

others. •
As soon as France began to feel her strength, and
supposed herself capable of intimidating other Stites;
did 'she not; regardless of all rights of naitons, yid-
vance it as,a prineiple,tio.t all wno were not for her
were against- her, and should 'be a6tedt by accord-
ingly ?, Did she not invite ts; anarchy and 'confusion
the Suhje&S of all other States who supposed them-,
selves aggrieved e and did she not promise to assist
them to the very snbversionOf all existing Govern-
ments ? The" 'Minister of this nation, who to-6k an
early part in its revolution, who has since gone hand
in hand in its atrocities, tells oos of the Rights of
Nations, and endeavonrS to Make us appear btir-
baroos. He says, :" According to-the views 0-Eng-
land, it was not enbUgh to seize noon private pro-
perty, and oppress innocent and peaceable
indtvi-
duals, but remaining far behind the nations of the.
.Continent, who had advahced beyond her in eivi-
lization, and from whom she' had-receivectall the
benefits of their i'nprovements, she formed the
senseless project "of possessing these benefitS alone,•
and to: 'deprive every other nation of them." This
.*
-statement of M. TALLEYRAND is nett-her just .nor
The'Ela -is otherwiSe ; and if we are be-
hind the Continent in any art, it is only in ,the art of
dissimulation. -On the Continent Englishmen' in'
general are esteemed, Sometimes, indeed, 'they
may be called-the haughty Islanders-=a distine,tion
. trust they may always have occasion to b remarked
for. Hitherto we have sustained our rank as
a nation, and individually, whenever 'called on,
nett only prondly,„ but justly. Yet let 'us not
imitate the French in boasiitig, though it would
; be 'an absolute iujus-tiee to those brave- men who
fought in' Egypt, and* at .the Pisins Of Maida,
they did- not only equal, but suroasS; their antago-
nists,in what they esteem 'their natiohal forte, Mili-
tary prowess.' With such proofs -as these, and our
acknowledged‘naval soperiority, I repeat it, it vexes
.me-to hear some of my Comttrymen 'despond, *and
others exalt the French (ihara'Aerheynnd *what it me-
. ritro Let us consider thein as a most formidable Ltsne,
to , and even rate- them at the. uttn6st-point. Let us
not suppose that English gold can*always have the
el-ea it has had herezolore, of moving the_Conti-
hental-Powers—Titnes arc cl:anged—we must triiq
to ourselves 0n1y... If any, that have been our
Allies -can come fora and to assist in the strug-
gle for all that can be dear ,to them and us,
let us gladly embrace them, and give them every,
snpport ; but still be mindtiahthat Britain will only.
he great-while her dWri sOnS" upkdd ht r; that we'
have means most ample to convince not only BONA-
PARTE,but the whole Fiench Nation and their adhe-
rents, that the fulminating Bloc:I:ado proceeding
from the pen of the Prince of Beneento, of the
: British Isles, can be in reality returned on the whale
; Continent, if necessary, by attaattal British Navy.
When Nations have -so far lost their, liberty-that
they cannot resist ardestruCtiv Tyrant, they are cer-
taitd to be pitied; but France is not to-be held in
that point of view, and I. have little' doubt, if 80,
NAPARTS and TALLEYHA.ND no longer existed, their
systeni and policy Would be pUrsued by their succes-
sors. Under that impression, who can say there
is' injustice in adopting the -law of retaliation, and
that it would not be right to make thd French/No:
Lion feel part of those
.miseries which. they have
principally - centributed JO 'bring on other estates ?
When. the Sins" of all ;Nations have been sufficiently
punished, the Great 'Nation' may then experience a
reverse of fortune, and 'be obliged to take the Rhine
as her boundary. The' Moniteur, as an Official
Paper, may be condneled under the dire6tion, but
not- the pen, of Morti. 'Evt,cr,vRAND, theretbre I
cannot attribute to hint that taPure of 'what I should
esteem ...;00,1 style, so evident that Paper tit,
the
e6th of Nevember. In the-'observations on the
DOclaration -of His Britannic Majesty, the second
paragraph coannenees with, It is false:" In ano-
ther part, " 'They dare to assert;" and, least these -
sayings may not be 'sufficiently impressive, it con-
chides with saying, f‘ Theonly °hie& in view was
to break them Negotiations) by.all means of lying
and bad faith."--jo any of my Countrymen who
may admire-French politehess, I submit this lan-
guage,, atid believe not one of them would patiently
bear a similar indig-nity:btiered to them personally
front any Frencinnan whatsoever., No,* their na-
tional pride and honourable feellni,,ls. would quickly
resent, it. . Our Country is insulted and threatened.
It is a part of ourselves,' and, to most of us,ltrustoas
precious as our Eves. -Let us, therefore, not despond,
but rouse our natural Strength, andconvince the world
that Groat Britain, united, is. able to. oppose -every
dancer and insult, "and that those haughty lA:hinders
Will bear through *ev'ery region, in spite of French
prowess and snpposedi superior taCtics, the. cli4rac-
ter- of viaoribivi, brave; generous; and, if they Please
to add it, proud Britons...' ••

cement : , • .
In the first paragraph of M. TALLEVAAND'S Re-
port, he-expresses derision at a Coalition by which.
more than i ,00,000 persons are said to have already
lost their lives. .This event is. too serious ti) be'de-
rided ; what various rn:series. must many of these
unhappy persons have undergone prior to their final
diso!ution ?—a Frenchman Only could write derid•

ingty on.such
• In his next' paragraph he says, " it was hoped
that sticcC,sive separate Treaties would' lead- to ,a
general, honourable; and sectsre- Peace,'" It was
French policy to treat soparately 'With each,State, and .
to how out the olive branch to one whilst it was plun
the g,-
da•,.,er into another; to thavoid-efatal eneets.,
n 3
of which, each State hoped, by. Westing and mating
cont:essions thik, devastating -Power, to torn from
then, elfts those horrid cruelties they S:l\‘•
their ip2i,shbours. But ho.v,delusive have beet! such
hopes'. a Treaty ofilqtsive and defensive subsisted be-
tween France, and Prussia :. while Austria was:,con••,
tendiug with the French Tower it ,was respeCted by
them but no sooner was Austria.
overcome, and her
empire over Germany ai:tiolve4, than Prussia be-
came the viCtina of her credulity in trusting to the:
faith of a Power whose ambition is universal, and
one that disregardS all ties when dominion is•the ob-
jea, and they find therns:elves. capable of attaining •
its by. an}' tneabs however unwarrantable.
•
To pursue LLEYB AND.through each 'passage
=would exceed the limits of a' Newspaper
.and my
abilities ; but.l cannot, refrain from -admiring the
--smooth .complitnent bf. an insinuating. Courtier
where he says,' " a general code. shah be adopted
which shall be conforpable to the dignity of
all 'crowned' heads.".• 4'4 heads that now wear
crowns did not obtain them by similar, means;
but it Nt',3s 'worthy. of this Ministex and his Mo-
narch to endeavour to impress on :mankind. that
crowns conveyed equal dignity ; but. in then',,
as' in every .other sphere, • there are gradations,
i
I mean not n extent 'of empire, but in the attri-
bute-5 of a crown---justice •and mercy. It is., very
discernable how little regard this Prince of BENE-
VENTO_ pays to a crown it not.pow•-erfully sppported,
when, in his correspOtakeuctr (No. -he says,
•• " Sweden does ,not deserve tube mentioned." Vet
this man talks of the rights of Nations, and of re-
gard for the properties of indiiidnals ;.,but
his Emperor have given
.c_onvincing proofs [IOW much
thew Bare appreciated:either. place him before
his Emperor, for, certainly, he first was, a, great,
man ; nor will I withhold from BoNArART,E his due
praise. He has rendered himself the inost conspi7
cueus man,.oi this globe, and I will give him that
full weed of flattery; 'which I may with honesty
afford him, by saying—as ALEXANDER was, BONA-
RT t is—but no farther shall he ever have, my
good. report. If ever the word humanity drop
front his pen, let Jaffa be.recolle&ed-7when he and
hislihtister nutrition the partition 'of Poland, let
theist reine'fither the Provinces annexed to France in
Louts the XVl's tiMe.:—,but since the dismemlser-
Mein of that KingdoM has taken place within our
own day, I can quote what is .Written on the subjea•
by the Great'FßEDEatc, who was .one of its par-
takers :
Les trois Cours fixerent la Prise de possession au
premier jour du mois de Sept, 1775. Nous ne you-
lons 'pas detailler ici les droits ces' trois puissances:
Il'falloit des con;onaures singuliers pour amener les
es)irits a
,ce point- et les reunir pour ce partage par
laquehle seuletnent on pouvoit 'eviter tine guerre ge-
nerale."
In fa& His Majesty candidly acknowledges there
'svas-rio ricl?ht in the division, but that it was resorted
•
tows the Only means of avoiding much blOodshed:—
'The motive was humane. The Poles had alWays
been a giddy People, subjeiit to perpetual changes
and great internal dissetnions, freciuently:embroiling
ofher States.: But .what, has :Polar,cl to say to this
country ? England took no portion of it 3'-nor
if was politic; could she have , prevented its prti-
lion. But France to mention this, 'and talk of
fife InfraCtion of the rights of either nations or bll- - -
viduals, is. entirely ant of place. By what right, hat The inhabitants 9f Spioilltelds have for six Weeks'
that of power, was Spain compellect to declare war back had their attention drawn to a 'collie:it between
against• En,gbind ? :By what riglit,,but that of power, j two societies of change-ringers (Die Senior arill7llit:-
is'slie still, contrary to her best interests, obliged to nior Societies 7of CuMberland Youths), for ihe'first
contitnie it ? wtrat righthas a• new Constitution 'j Peal of Steadthan Grandsire Cinques; on the peal of
6t.ep forced on Switzerland ? a new.lng•on Italy ? 12..fiells; at Christchurch, each taking theft turn-;
atitithcr on Holland'? By what •right; but that the • Jimiors% weekly day on-Mondays ; and the Se-
power, is Portugal compelled to.pay exorbitantly for Mors on Saturdays. • The, Junior Society took the
freedom from those fetters With, whielt'sheis daily lead, and completely brought rontid an' zibStr:l.6.l`of a'
threatened to be shiekled, if not totally
.divested of ve,li Steadesians. Grandsire Cinques, tont:::og
het rink as to Slate ?-• In short,
,by.w hat right, but 50:86' Ohanges,lin the time 'of .three limit ' and 55
that Hof power, most tyrannically exerted,-bas this minutes, :on-Monday the 15th instaut,-by men
self-created Emperor disposed: _Of •Germanic Pro- oniv, and ConduLied by Mr. John Noonan ; and on
V'ruccs,enQmies., neutrals, and eveti.-.of his nominal Saturby • last, the outh.inst. the Senior-Society of
friends,,and'shUilled then .according to his with Cumberland YouthS ascended' . the steeple of 'Christ:
ttid ? How uid France viOlate- the, law' .of na-; chnroh, and in ,our hours and mintitc:; comi)tote-
t,cis iii attempting to seize Sir T. Ru,BOLD ?, Sow is brourrht -round: ilso an abstr,ia of a peal' of Stead-
\sere the laws of nations violated in retaining as . man Grandsir,6•Cinq;aes,-containing fi334 changes;
iivitioners of .War, at -Verduns those Englishmen; the peal was.cOnditted by nu. Gl.'ol* Gios4, and
bo, Ira a•moMent of tranquillity, .W•ent to visit 01,4. rung by I " metr: only,, notwithstanc-liiig the tenor
C-intrt of the renowned BONAPARTV. !--,-Birt)ill'ißDS • 44 ,cwt. uul tnetal. This c(intest ended harnioni-
e.cn respe(t. rights of .hospitality, •anct in-that oust)-; the Junior SoCiety bein' highly delighted by
point of view these...persons'ought.to haVe been con- ringin lite first peal, in that method, on thoie
si•lored. Did.sBoNAPAICTE =Stilt laW, either and-the Senior Society equally ple:lscd by ringing the
liuman or divine', when he ordered the assassination t;reatest number' of changes in that dialail: method
0 the buke P'ENonEts for his military trial was them. The - Whole peal on 12 'bells contains
)(aing else. By.what law of .riations did thas great 479,601;606 than es: •
?!:)

A. B.

REPORT: -! 7 ; •

COURT OF KIN C; IJENCF!,

COOI V. TODD.
TrtE Plaintiff was the landlord of tf housc::l;SWot7
minstcr, which he ici.to the Defendai:t on.l'e.ase for'
21:ye.ars in I 802-. At the" time of 'the of
the lease it' was understood by the
was the intention of 'the Defendant, - together with.
partner, to use the house as a coal 'warebonie,',
and as it was found .thatit was not one of the-trades..
which were forbidden by the.covenants of the lease,
the hudlord assented to it. - • •

the Dendants opened their coal Warehouse, and"
laid the whole of the ground or ti.r4t floor into•a:
warehouse .for that ,purpose, " and ,shored it nil with''
'props:frOm.below, but-from the' piling .up of the
coals against the walls, or some 'other cause, -the
party-wall gave way, and the house fell down, to-
gether with some neighboqring'honSes: The -fail
was so sudden,Artt there appearing to tine a crack in
the wall, and the house to give Way;.a carpenter was
called to shore: it up,. Niilfen,-Upon'seing it /it eight
-O'clock in the evening, hesaittit w6uld not fall that
night, and he .would• c-xi Me. and do the 'job in the.'
morning, but at eleven o'clock at night the whole
,give Way, and fellto the giohird.,
The Plitintiti now brought his atclien against the
Defendant. for, so, negligently laying. his -?coals, that
there4•the house -was tlirown,down..
Alter INlr. GAattoW had called several Niritoesses,
• Lord ..41..teNaottouon .that as the Praintiff
knew the purpose .for winch the house was 'to be
u,ed, and it did- not appear by the evidence ,that the
coalS were pled in a manner .unttsual.in thattrade, or
in too, large quaotities, he could .notjuaintain his
adion, for he had given leave to do what was done.
• Plaintiff nOnsuited.
, lI.kr.VEY V. MARTIN'.

The Plaintiff, a Itlerthatit, resided at Guernsey,
and had been in the habit k
Of taking bills Of'one ti
di I`.chelli-ray.T
n upon. the Defendant, who.resided
at Cormack, hi Cornwall. The, bill, was, dated
the I.3th (4. March, tsos, payable .at three'
months to Plaintiff or order, for I.BGI. 19s.
and transmitted ,in 'a letter to the, Defendant,
with an indorsettnt to lNlessrs.:Dobree, of Lon-
don. Tile Defendant :kePt it some time, when
the Plaintiff wrote to hint; saying, that although,
his keeping the bell was equivalent to an accept- "
ay.= in law., it was not the s'ame.to him in fl6t, for,
until accepted,. D. and- Co. .would not credit his ac-
cuunt.With it. the Bill was presented
to the Defl.ndant Notary at Falmouth, the Bill
was then over and the Defendant said that he
•1 had kept it, 1!:;:e intendcd to accept it.by wilting,but he thought.t all the same, as lie meant to have
paid it when d:.le. T.,. Bill Was then ;protested for
non-payment. Finding that the protest was. for

non-payment, and Lc.;t or boti-acceptanee,
Sir V. GIB:1,s asset► ed to the PliAintiff's tatiog a
verdict—Dafb)ges 101. ties. 4d.: and interest.
, this ca:m it wits sonic time made a question,.•
whether (in Iccopit,g of the 1-ill
~was tantamount to
an ac`ceptanee:, but it appearing that the Detendadt
said he intended to have-pale it when doe, that..
point becatn,.. immaterial. In order to &oew that
keeping a bill 16r a long time .Wa's an acceptance, Mr.
LIKE Alt. PULLEINI cited Chitty on Bills of
Exchange, .Saccia, a tiffeign writer, and also .Ste-
vens4n, a nit-rchant, wlto ..‘vrote on bills of exchange
iti _t 764.
:Lord.,Ei.r.p.sronouGli a!so referred to his. owin
note, of. a nisi pries' case before Lord' KENYO,
Trimmer .v.-Oddie,,, and Mr. PABI<E referred td.the'
case of Dorriens v. Bentinch, in P.s2st's'l,teports.

• ntnEERT 117. WARREN.
Plaintiff' sold Ilarbadoei sugars to the Defend;
ant; by 'public -sale of Messi-S: BlaA and Kernble, •
who stated the-conditioos to be, that therwere to be:.
taken with ail faults- and &leas Whatsoever' :' a
sample, howevo.-, was prodticed. at: the sale, and
dra tvn about' it roonths'befre by 'tithe proper Offi-
cer of the AV est in din Dock Company. .
It. appeared, that owing to the impbssibility•of ob-•
taining accuri,'te samples of stigars from the Decks,
the i).laintiffs had, deterinitied alWays to sell without
warranting against any faultS, and not to' sell by
sample, except as above.
The Defendant contended that the sugars' were
rocky and footy, and 'he therefore refused to take'
them, and warehoused them,' and sent the Plaintiff
notice. It has also shewn, that the Plaintiff and
other persons :some-occasions allowed de-
dukcitiong, because the sugars, did nit answer.. the
satnple. ;The Plaintiff now brought his. action for
the price of the goods.
Lord ELLEN WSROUGa hew that this was a sale
without warranty that the sample was produced not
to constitute a ;:ale by sample, for then it should be a
Sample of the cOmmodity, perfeEtly exalt at the time
When the sale was made, and not driven six months
before, and any failure would.make the sale void, Here
it was also proved that the merchants had come to this
mode of sale: On account of the impossibility of pro-
curing a perfet sample: He Said; he had no doubt
of the law 1f this case, and if 'II.Ir.PAR KE, for the De-
fendant, thought be, could support the contrary opi-
nion, it would bebe-st to move for a new trial, or
have a bill of exceptions.. His Lordship being con-
fident of the law, i\Ir.PARKE did not go to 'the' Jury,
and there was a—Verdi& for the Plaintiff.

. •

Ani Inquisition •Was taken on Wednesday,at Bin.
field'Orove, near Sunning-hill, on the..,body of !Miss
StJiTt.r., a yocig Lady; o.venty-five years of. age,
who ,Was shot by a your man incantiondv annii •
.iitg himself with a loaded gun. The deceased, who
WjS on a visit at the tot of .a friena where the sad
accident befel her, was at needle-work. in a parlonr,
adjoining- a kitchiii where fire-arms, were kept.—.
The young Centlumen who belotigri.l,to'lhe house
took a lu.i ed piece" Ofr a 'rack, and- one of them
jocaiely po.inted it at tir& deceased, and 1?y some
means it went oil', had mbrtally wounded lier.---Ver-
diat Accidental 'Death, •

Wednesday, the celebrated Mrs. Barrington was
'brought, to 'Onion-04 yolice-otace, in the Borout h,.
charged wirh"reb(ing a C:irpeoter, of:Stockwell, at
late hour on Tuesday night, of a guinea and six shil-
ling,s, in the Borono.- One of the sh'illings being
very curiously marked, and the exa& sun of which
the Prosecutor had been robbed, being found on her,
she wa's fully committed for trial.