The Sun.
London, England, 1814-01-18 00:00:00

Berne.

The Government of Bermne was clissolved on the
23d. The Great Council has resigned its autho-
rity to the Government which existed in 1798.
The act of mediation has been declared annulled,
with respect to what concerns Berne, and the
authorities and the subaltern officers released from
their oath. On the same day the Great and Lit
tle Council 'of the City and Republic of Berne
caused to be published, that the ancient Consti-
tution was re-established in all its parts, and have
ordered the Cantons of Vaud and Argovia to give
up to
,the -offiCers commissioned by Berne, the
eh+•sts, arsenals, and magazines.

-It appears, that in the conferences which his
Iligh►►ess the Prince Primate had, during his stay
at Lucerne, with the Pope's Nuncio, the difficul-
ties relative to •the affairs of the Bishopric of Con-
stance hae been removed in a satisfactory man-
tier.

BERNE, Dmc. 26.—The following. are the acts
which have' been published here relative to the
changes 'hich have taken place in our Govern-

mein :

" 1. We, the Avoyer, the Little and Great Council of the
Canton of Berne make 4nown :—Considering that the Allied
Powers bave not acknowledged the neutrality of Switzerland,
but that their trows have entered the territory of the Can-
ton with a great superiority of force, that the Allied Sove-
reigns have formally declared to his Excellency the Umlaut-
man of Switzerland., that the Act of Mediation, and its con
sequences, were incompatible with their grand object; which
seal the deliverance of the people.' and the liberty of the
Swiss nation ; considering, in fine, that by it the ancient Can-
ton of 'Berne, and its legitimate Government, overturned
solely by a foreign Power, re-enter into all their ancient
tight; we have resolved and ordained,
• " 1. The Act of Mediation of-the sear 1803, so far as con,
terns the Canton of-Berne, is suppressed.
",c2. We the Great Council chosen in'virtue of this act,
and forming the first actual magistracy of the Canton of
Berne, abdicate by these'presents our authority, and resign
it 'into the hands of the Avoyer, the Council, and Burgesses-
of the City•and Republic of Berne, as. being the legitimate
Sovereign of the country, who, before the period of the over'-
throW of our state, governed for centuries, with as much
success as glory, the free state of Berne. In consequence -al!
the authorities of the city and the country are .released from-
the oaths which they have talent, and summoned to resume
immediatelf, with the ancient government which re-enters
into activity, viz. the Avoyer, the Councils, and Burgesses of
the t ity and Republic of Berne, the relations which united
m the to us, and which are now lissolved, and to transfer to
them, ,as to their 'future Sovereigns, 'the confidence which
they had placed in us. On quitting our functions we find in
our consciences the consoling testimony, that in difficult
times, aud under unfavourable circninstances, "we have fill-
filed, with the greatest fidelity roar duties to our country.
" May Providence, which has hitherto so evidently pro-
tected deign to continue its support to our dear country
and grant its benediction to a Government which enters into
its fonctipps in circumstances so si critical.
" Given at Berne in our Great Assembly of the Council,
DeceTber 22, 1813." •
DARMSTADT., b4.N.2.-=Tlie following has been
rublished here
" According to the declared will Of the High
Allied. Powers, and the Conventions -concluded
'with them, his. Serene Highness the Grand
Dakelour gracious sovereign, is to remain in pos-
sesssion, and preserve the rights of, sovereignty
over his actual States, without being troubled in
any manner •in them. In consequence; the sub-
jects or inhabitants of the Grand Duchy, who,
blinded by the presumption of a change. in the re-
latidns..of Government, endeavour in any manner
to withdraw from their duties and the established
order, as has happened in some places, though few
in number,.. must . expect to be considered as dis-
turbers of the public peace, and punished, with all
the rigours of the law.
" The PRIVATE MINISTER of the Grand
Duchy of Hesse.
" Darmstadt, Dec. 31,1813."

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF CHANCERY, MONDAY, JAN. 17, 1814.

/TAYLOR V. LADY ANTRIM AND OTHERS.

This was a motion made. by Sir SAM. Rorittt,vr,
followed on the same side by Mr. LEActi and Mr.
HAYES, for the plaintiff, and opposed by Mr.
HATrr and Mr. BELL, on behalf of the defen-
dants.

It was an anplication op the part of Lady
Frances Vane Tempest, an infant, the daughter
and heiress of the late .Sir henry Vane Tempest,
Bart. through her
,next friend, Mr. Michael An-
gelo Taylor,- the husband of the infant's maternal
'stmt.; praying that Mr. Whitton, an eminent and
respectable Solicitor, long concerned for the fa-'
may -he removed from the office of Re-
ceiver of theo-Estates and ,Colliery of the deceased,
to which he had been 'appointed on the death of
Sir Henry Vane Tempest, by the Master to whom
the cause stood referred.

The ground of removal was not any imputation
against Mr. Whitton, but the 'incompatibility of
the two offices of family solicitor and receiver in
one and the same person. . Lady Antrim, an in-
eumbraneer upon her deceased husband's estates,
by i rem-charge of fifteen hundred pounds a-year,
end one of the testamentary guardians of the in-
fant,'in common with Mr. Taylor and others, op,
posed the applicati6n most strenuously ; while
Mr. Whitton expressed indifference up'on the sub-
ject, except as to a sense of feeling.
The cause of the application being so much li-
tigated-, was some difference between the mother
and aunt of the child, as to the future Mode of
educating het...-.
The VICE-CHANCELLOR consented to read the
pleadings and affidavits, as desired by the defen-
dant's Counsel, but expressed his, decided opinion
in lavoln--uf, the application,_as.no circumstances
apnrared to take the case out of the general rule:
tidzinent respited.