The Sun.
London, England, 1809-01-18 00:00:00

tt,'L THE PRENCti

(1111014 t THE CENTINELA
,PRANCESt3,I •
" The experienal,of all ages does not permit us
to believe that the French wig be weary of the fa-
lives and dangers of the field. Tkike a Fretichtrian
,Weeping front his father's cottage, he will return to
it singing and Vattlfting. Tittle is no hope that the
justice of our cause will nuke hint relax. War ap-
pears to be his element, and there needs ho object
to fight.tor. At one time he yields his life to crown
Kinggii. at another to dethrone them ; .to day for
li-
berty, for despotism. He goes into the
field like the war-horse, Aum the trumpet rouses;
the Christian Knight bestrides him, and he rushes
furiotisly upon the Moor. His master is pierced .by.
a spear, the Moor mounts upon his back, and he
willifigly obeys the rein of the Mahometan.
is not thus exactly with the leaders. To-day

they eat on wooden trenchers, and to-morrow dis 7.
&tin the silver service with .which they are hum,bly
attended ; yesterday they were lost amid the base
crowd, tO-day' they are raised to the, summit of
glory,*and riot in the luxury and wealth which their
apine haw colleaed.

If you ask the French. why they submit to the
depotisni of Bnonaparte, they will tell you, to
avoid the' horiors of another revolution. 1 hey are
tired, they say, of shedding the blood of their sons,
brpthers, and parents; and, at the same time, with
'a characteristic inconsistency, they d...liver'up these
sante sons, brothers,.and parents,' that a million of
youths may tie slaughtered afar froM their country,
not for the glory or defence of the nation, for no
one attacks it, hut to satiate. the greedy ambition of
a fortnnat?, adventurer, win) first brought France
under his yoke to be the instrument of subjugating
other nations." -" Let us never, my
countrymen, forget that a Frenchman is an unde-
finable animal ; he preaches virtue, and does not
praaise it--humanity, and he does not know ik—be
wishes for peace, and seeks after war—and pulls
down with one. hand what the other had raised.—
Frenchmen were the leaders and preachers of the
crusades to the Holy Land, .and they were the first
to render these expeditions ridiculous in their writ-

ings. They were the founders of the Qrder of
Knights Templars, and they abolished she -Order'
with inhuman cruelty. They established also the
Order of St. John of Jerusalem, and during, their
revolution persecuted it, till Buonaparte wrested
Malta from the Knights, that it might fall into the
hands of the English. Among. them, the Order of
the Catthusians, arose, in the chastisement. of their

idle talk and clamour; and, as• they are ever on
extremes, they produced the Order. of La Trippe,
to coma their gluttony. In a Council at. Clertuoi.t

was instituted the commemoration of the.deeeased,
and now they pray as little for the dead asAlt2
1:66, bled the Pontifical Chair ire gome, and de-
tended the patrimony of St. Peter; and now.. they
laugh alike at St. Peter and the Pope, and strip liim
of his possessions, the inaefitance of ten c..aturies.
A Freuelanim has the spirit a d the docility of the
horse, which, with the same patience and content-
ment, anew); himself to lie mounted by Trajan and
Napoleten."

Last week a tneeting of persons interested in the
establiShmeut of. a rail-mad through the forest of
Dean. from Lidney to Lidbrook„ was held in Here.
ford, when it appeared that the proposed line would
open a direa communication between Lidney
.and
Lidbrook,through a large portion of forest aboUnd-
ing-with coal, and hitherto very little explored. The
consent of the Crown to the proposed rneast.re warp
signified in letter from Lord GLtNnERVZe, as Sur-
veyor-Generalof the Woods and Forests, and the
necessary steps will be taken immediately for obtain;
Mg au Aa of Parliament.

Another grand pigeon-match between the two-
disputants, Messrs. King, the Keeper, ttnd Street,
took. pine yesterday, •in the neighboMhood •of
of •twenty-one birds, nineteen of which
Mr. Street killed, and' bet his antagonist by one.
This matob was for fifty :,iiineas a Side—King bai,
ing beat his aditersary for a similar sum last week.
A hard pitched battlt was fought on .Monday at
Hensley Common, near Shaftesbury, for a subscrip-
tion purse of 50 guincaq, between Wood, Captain
Haidy'S coachman, who kit a-great provincial battle
a month Since, and James Ellis, from Kingsland,
which place has produced Crib, and other boxers,
the combatants contended for the purse 4) minuteq,
when Wood was declared the vi&tor. He was the
favourite throughout, hut' the -fight was obstinately
maintained to the last.

Mother elopethent took place from the neigh-
bourhood ofj(ingston, on the same evening that the
Dragoon Captain ran,'aWay with the Minor. Au
Officer I,itts also the gallant iu the second'airair,
be wa an Officer of the Customs. His prize %us
not equal to that of his brother Officer, his charmer
being the wife of a dealer in grocery and hardware,
40. years of age,: whom the husband wets fortunate
enough to find yesterday in Duke-street, Manche's-
ter-square. The Lady was so eculiarly attached to
her, paramour, that her enraged husband gut.posties-
siou of her'.again by force, aided by the interfe-
rence of the polii:e ; and 701.. the wife had furnished
herself': with were returned to her husband,

CUM CON, IN. SCOTLAND.—The inhabitants, of
the Northern part of the island are zealously imitating
the more refined and fashionable Manners of Lon-
don. A few weeks ago, a shopkeeper: in Edinburgh
having,accidentally stepped into his wife's dressing
closet,. found daux from a Mr. 11—, a
youthl\il barrister, fixing a place of mooing with
lite Lady. Proper measures _were instantly taken
by the husband for the detrains) of the enamoured
pair, who were caught in a very critical situatirin.—
An maims of divorce is about to commence, and the
frail lair one means to recinninate, as she says
her floix puts wits only a just retaliation,--•
The law of Scotland admits total divorces for Mill-
tery, the shopkeeper, therefore, will get quit Of his
'faithless rib at comvaratively small etspence;
Sir W. W: WykrrF., Bart. has publicly announced
the-prizes he intends giving for time encouragement
of agriculture in North Wales, &c. ;at the annual

shew 01' cattle and sheep, at Wyonstay, in Septem-
ber next ; they consist of silver cups for iha best
P shep, cattle, and pigs, with rewards to the
l°lbest' i4'2
plloughtneit.
Tito Loan MAYOTi-8 late dinner, ball, and suppe.,
formed the most spendid civic gala that the 111. to-
sion-licuse WS _known for many years.- His
4,uraship liberally rletoted f2OOOl. tor this festive
eimertainment of the, City nt Lnntinn_

'LA REPORT.

COURT CIIANCERV; (AN,. [5,

HEIRS OF DABBER' DIZO.ASE.3.
A sadltr in London; of the name of Barber; liAd
an only son, vliw went out -to the East4ndies, where
lie resided A long
.time, and having accumulated A'
srery lato fortune, returned to this country, in A bad
state of health, and dkd at a hotel in the Adelphi;
about a week atler his arrival. He had no corre-
spondence with his reiAtions'in this Country, and it
was totally unknown who were his heirs, alter
advertisements in the Gazette, certain persons ap-
peared, claiming, to be his' heirs both by the father's
and Mother's side:

The LORD. CHANCELLOR direeted three severarts;. -
sues to be tried at the last Worcester AssiteS,lto dc=
termlpe whp were the right heirs ; and at that time
a short account of the circumstances of the case.ap-
peared in most'of the "Newspapers.. The Jury then
decided in favoUr of ceriain persons of ttie name of.
Lin wiche,. resi'dint in Shropshire.; but, on the part
of severni other :persons who were thus' excluded
from the succession, a Petition was presented, pray-
ing that his Lordship would be pleased to order a
new

The. prayer of the Petition VVIls supported at great
length by Sir S. Hamill), acrd by Mr. Daunce, Mr.
Serjeant Manley, and Mr. Abbot, who, at the trial
at Worcester, had been Counsel for the present Pe
titioners. Mr. Alexander and Mr.' Jarvis were
heard on the other side, when the Lord' Chancell..r
delayed farther proceedings in the cause till Pri.;ny
test. •