The Sun.
London, England, 1807-01-27 00:00:00

FOPLEIGAT iIv7II,LIGENC2:;

ViEl4riA; 3.-ITne negotiations bettiPeeii
Court and that of Prance seeiii to proceed,,iVitt}
hasty steps; and we cherish the
,hope Aire ati4
More that they will
M.
cOnie, to the Wished (*tir
ciinelbsion. Since M. Niur.ifiesduitiu arrived here;,
several Cabinet COUncils 4aVe been held; at all of
%Old) the EMperOr has been present.
Weara E.!siured that the Austrian i‘fmarchy
be diVided into three GovernmentS. In
.G:slicia
new Civil and Military AdministratiOn is to.be eSta-
bliShed, Hungary is to retain its present constitt4,
Con, • Upper and Lower Austria are tO beak the
appellation of the First Government. The second is
to be formed out of Bohemia, Noravia; and Silesia
and the third, out OfStyria,Carinthia, theFribUl,itc.
CiERNI GEORGES, it is said, has taken poSsessiotx
of Belgrade in the name of the Emperor of Russia.
HA.G6E, JAN. 20.—We learn that a number of
families, from Leyden, wild have lost their effeas;
are lodged in the Palace' here, and are plentiftilly
provided at his Majesty's expence.

The vacancy in. the DireStion.pf the Fait indid
House is likely to produce one of `the severest com-
petitions, that ever was known OD a similar occasion..
Every one of the parties, it is conadeot of
success.

The new Coniedy of Assignation, which is forth-
coming at Drury-lane Theatre, is the produ,4l
A/1;1;s Las, Author that -excellent- mix; ere of
pathos and humour The Chapter of Accidents.
The title of Mr. ALLINGEIANT'S new farce, which
has been some time in rehearsal at Covent Garden
Theatre, and of which the report is very favoural:,,le,
is to be The Widow's Choice:

During the representation of the new Pantomime,
- last night, at Covent-garden Theatre, a bottle carne
. from the first gallery into the pit, and severe;y
wounded a Gentleman in that place. ,A considerable
- disturbance naturally arose, and the audience in ge- ,
neral vehemently called for the Manager.- They
were informed that the Manager was not in
Theatre, but that immediate endeavours should be
made to• secure the offender. Soon after Mr. FAR.
LEY, with great zeal, and at the
,suggestion of his
own-feelings, offered fifty pounds, in the names of
the Proprietors, for the discovery of the' man who
had been guilty of such wanton barbarity. The
offender was soon secured, and deposited in the
watch-house. The Gentleman who suffered .was
taken out in a lamentable condition, for chirurgical
assistance, his wound profusely bleeding.
The man, whose name we understand, is Davis,
was this day brought before the Bow-street Magi-
strates. Mr. ANDREWS, the Surgeon, could not venture
to say that the Gentleman was out of danger, and
therefore the offender was remanded for re-eliamina-
tion. The Gentleman is Mr. SHEPHERD, of Mill-
bank. It does not, however, appear that Davis was
so much guilty of malice as of wanton nengence.
Early yesterday morning CARL'MEAL and PEARRS,
two of the Bow-street Officers, arrived in town from
Holyhead, with a man in custody, charged with hav-
ing committed forgery to a very considerable-amount
upon the Bank of England. He wasidetected in Ire-
land, and sent to Holyhead, where be was -kept in
custody till the Officers arrived to brint him to Lon-
don.

The violent storms which have blown during last
week have done considerable damage on the Northern
coast of Cornwall. The Brig Sally, of Liverpool,
MORTMER Master, which had been captured on her
passage from BarbadoAs by a Spanish Ship of War,
and retaken by the 41cmene Frigate, went on .more
on Thursday last, near Padstow. Her materials have
been saved, but it is supposed the Vessel will go to
pieces.

BONAPARTE is likely to illustrate the old remark,
that truth dares not approach tyrants. He and his
armies are held in such detestation in all the con-
quered and controlled countries, that if he should
experience a reverse of fortune, he rosy expect a
general insurreEtion-on his retreat. Yet none of his
myrmidons can presume to give him the least hint
ofa danger that so nearly concerns themselves also.

Several cli•eadful events have recently happened
from mad dogs, particularly to a farmer's man and
boy at London Colney, in liertibrdshire, too shock-
ing to particularize. At St. Alban's, one shilling is
paid for every dug killed in that town and ne,ighbour-
hood.

BOxils7G.—Two men, of the names of Gibson and
Jones, the former of whom is a huntsman, and the
latter a navigator,, met in a field near Heston, Mid-
dlesex., yesterday morning, to fight a pitched battle
for 30 guineas, the match having been made on Tues-
day last. The combatants were above the common
stature, and were not deficient in courage or bottom,
whiCh was manifested after a severe battle of an hour
and a half. Before they had fought ten minutes, they
exhibited such marks of heavy blows as were scarcely
ever witnessed, and at the expiration of half an hour,
Gibson was completely blind. He was lanced, and
the contest was renewed with increased'vigour, un-
til Jones was unable to stand ; it was not until then
that he resigned the palm of victory. There was
very little shifting to avoid blows, for (unlike scien-
tific bruisers) they stood and exchanged hits until
one was knocked down. Each was alternately the
favourite, and until the battle was decided, the vic-
tory was doubtful.

DESSALINES, in his last moments, manifested as
much cowardice as his Government displayed brit.-
talky and tyranny;—When he found that a division
of his army was drawn up in array against him, in-
stead,
,as he had flattered himself, of being assem-
bled to receive him with joy and loyalty, he leaped
from his horse and ran into a cane plantation, and,
the better to conceal himself, lay down on his face;
the soldiers who followed him plunged their bayonets
through his body, and pinned him to the earth.

UNION HALL.--Ann Wilson, the young girl who
is in custody for the murder of Ann Webb, at Nig-
gler's-lane, was again examined yesterday.—From
what has transpired great light has been thrown
upon this hitherto mysterious transaaion.

The Ticket, No. 19Mo, drawn yesterday a Prize
of 1,0001. was sold by SWIFT and Co. No. 11, Poul-
try, and No. 12, Charing-cross, by whom also No.
21,295, drawn the first day a Prize of 10,0001. was
sold in a whole Ticket to a Gentlema❑ who after-
wards divided it into Shares.

VREADFUL CATASTROPHE AT LEYDEN.

To the account of this dreadful calamity, given in
our Paper of yesterday, we have now tu'add the fol-
lowing particulars •
Son [EDAM, JAN. 20.--We learn, with horror and
.astonishment, that the most magnificent part of
I.eyden has been the scene of a niost terrific explo-
sion. It seems that a Vessel laden with t o,ooolbs.
weight of gunpowder, from Amsterdam, destined for
Delft, and then lying in the Rapenburg
by somnnwans took fire„ and instantaneoUsly blew
up, destroying all the houses in the vicinity of the
canal, and occasioning the premature death of some
litmdreds of the inhabitants.
v.' . miontied, by eye-witnesses, that
scarcely a single house or building has escaped' with-
out damage; and that on the Rapenbufg;*here the
dep. ..t.occurred, the honses, to a large ex-
tent, are levelled with the ground. At the:. awful
moment, many families were sitting at dinner with
their friends, and thus precipitated into eternity ;
lathers, Mothers, children, servants, all were rapidly,
hurried to one protni-cuoiis_grave.. Husbands have
lost their consorts and their offspring', and wives
their husbands *4 theirsires.' Of 't!ie number of
the dead- various conjeEttires have been formed ;

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many ~ersons have been dug out, and others are
known to lie •still in the ruins. Among the dead
are. several of the . most respe6able families in the
city, _and many strangers then on visits. Property
to a large amount has been lost, great part.of which
irreeo+erubly ; and many of the necessaries of life
spoiled by the showers of broken glass which filled
the shops and apartments. •
The King, on hearing of the accident, instantly re-
paired thither in person, after having ordered the
guards an,: lire-engines to follow. He remained the
whole night in the streets, not without shedding
teak's of commiseration and assisting in person to re-
co\e, release those who lay buried in the ruins,
and encouraged others by rewards, to exert them-
lves in the `glorious work of humanity. Previ-
ions, money, artificers, every thing has since been
sent •rthn the Hague and other cities, to comfort and
relieve the wretched sufferers. A few have had
wonderful escapes ; while others, on the point of
bciug re-cueU, while blessing Providence to their
preservation, while promising rewards for their de-
liverer:, were crushed to death by the sudden fall-
ing of beams imperceptibly resting
,on or withheld
by ob,tz cies .which had been removed.. Close to the
vessel which blew up lay a yacht, on hoard of which
were from 15 to 20 persons, not a vestige of whom
was to be found. The cause of this dreadful catas-
trophe no one can either ascertain or -conje6ture.,—
The quantity of powder on board is estimated at
about 10,000 lb: weight, which was fatally and un-
accountably confided to the care of two young men,
`brothers, and a servant man.
Two Profssors of the University are stated to
have been killed, and several other persons in that
celebrated seminary. it being fortunately Vacation.,
gieat numbers of ;the Students were absent ;, of
those who were present, many are said to have

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escaped. - .
His Majesty has empolterod the Magistrates of
this Unfortunote•city to make a-general collection
throughout the whole kingdom ; atld ordered that
_lOO,OOO guilders out' of the Treasury be left to the
disposi tionof the Minister Of the HotnepepartMent,
for relieving the - most pressing necessities of the
poor, and those who have lost their all.
• Several persons have' hen taken out alive from
under the ruins; but some expired 'almost imme-
diately afterwards.` Great numbers stilt lie buried,
the rubbish forming such vast heaps, that a'conSider-
able time will be required to clear them. After the
explosion, which was awfAl in the extreme, several
fires bloke out by the scattering of the lighted turf.
and-coal in the hearths-; and this calamity unfortu-
nately drew off for a while the attention of the Citi-
zerl to their suffering fellow-creatures, pining and la-
nmting beneath the ruins of their habitations, but
shortly before.. the seat of hilarity and of social-in-
tercourse. • _ _ _

&Jewish School suffered t onsiderablyi sixteen
atildren in it are said to have lost their lives. A
Charity School near it net the same fate. =Dead.
bodies ,ofchildren, near the spot, are discovered from
time to time. Fifty childr,en at a Boarding school
narrowly escaped.by the collision of two walls which
supported the beams and roof; two, however, -were
crushed to death, and a third died shortly afterwards
its its.father's arms. Those who were saved, rushed
into the court=yard, where they were shortly after-
wards joined by their eager but trembling parents,
and there ensued a scene of tenderness which may
be imagined, but cannot be described. Some say
that+ the University- is nearly destroyed;and that the
Synagogue is reduced to ashes. Of the yes.-
se]; on board of which were the
,owner's two sons
and a servant, not an atom is visible.

have received advice, that BONAPARTE'S
health has been so much, impaired by the fatigue
and anxiety to which he has of late been exposed,
as to impress his-Medical Attendants with the most
serious apprehensions for his safety. He has for
some time laboured under a dropsical complaint ;
and, contrary to the advice of his Physicians, per-
sists in a prOftise use of opium. He also drinks -.ex-
cessive quantities of coffee without either -sugar
or cream—a practice which is supposed to have
contributed to that languor and debility which occa-
sionally oppress hirn in such a degree as to render
him incapable of any-ordinaiy exertion; -
•-The following melancholy event happened on
Thursday last on the Edgeware-road, near Padding-
ton :—A tax-cart, in which were two women, came
in contaa: with a hay cart that had no driver near,
by which it was overturned ; one of the women was
killed on- the spot, and' the other had an arm broken.
The Ticket No. 23,8.15, as First-drawn yesterday
entitled to. Ten Thousand Pounds; was 'sold at
Zlessrs. tnzard, Burne, and Co.'s Office, Royal
Exchange, in one Fourth, one Eighth, and ten Six-
teenth Shares. 24,490, the First-drawn Tic=
ket in the present Lottery, entitled to 20,0201. and
No._ 34-6, adwn oti the,22d instant a Prize of 50001.
were also sold'in Shares at the above Office. Tickets
and-Shares-continue. on Sale, warranted undrawn.
The First-drawn on Wednesday 4th February, will
by entitled to 30,0001:
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