The Sun.
London, England, 1814-01-06 00:00:00

NAVAL NEWS.

'CORK, DEC. 31.—The convoy which 'have
passed this harbour on Tuesday,. was the .hoint-
wbrd-bound West India fleet, under convoy of his
Majesty's ships Marlborough, Espiegle, and
Peruvian. They sailed from St. Thomas's the
12th of November. The Peruvian saw the ships
up St. George's Channel to Dublin, Belfast, and
the Clyde. The Venus took charg4 of the vessels
to Bristol and Liverpool. The \Vest India fleet,
that sailed hence the 27th of October, under con-
voy' of his Majesty's ship Leonidas, arrived safe stt
Barbadoes.—Yesterday evening his Majesty's
ships Marlborough and Espiegle, with twelve
of the homeward bound \Vest Indiamen, put into
this harbour.

DEAL, J.N. s.—Arrived his Majesty's- ships
Norge and Defender from the RoompOt and the
Hydra from Holland...

PLYMOUTH, JAN. 4.—Arrived the Indus, 74,
from the EastwaPil ; a French chasse mar4e, with
wine and brandy, cut out by the boats of there-
legrapb schooner, near Nantz , and the Rover
brig of war, with about 30 sail of transports

from Passages.

FALMOUTH, JAN.3.--Arrived his Majesty's ship
Perseus from Lisbon, having on board the em-
bassy from Morocco. Sailed the Macliarel schooner
with dispatches'for Passages. The East India and
'other conv,)ys passed this port this afternoon.

HARWICH, JAN. 5. Arrived the Auckland
packet with a mail and passengers, by the way of
Cuxhaven ; Lord Duncan packet, with a mail,•by
,• -
the way of Heligoland ; and the Lady Francis
packet, with a mail and passengers from Holland ;
also Jarrived a schuyt with passengers from Hol-
land.

PORTSMOUTH, JAN. s.—Arrived- his Majesty's
ships Savage and Cordelia, with a large fleet front
the Downs.

Yesterday a Court of Directors was hell at the
East India Hous,e, when the, following Con►-.
manders took leave of the Court previous to de-
parting for their respective destinations, viz.
Capt. PATERS9N, Castle Huntley, for Madras, Prince of
Wales Island and China. _ . .

.. _..... _ .
. • Captain W. 11.11AanYmAN, Astell ; Captain W. GELSTON,
' Europe; Captain H. P. Tnemt:NtiEEßE, Asia; for Madras and
Bengal. • ..
Capt.Jons PYKE was sworn into the command of the ship
Plicenix, consigned to Bengal direct. . .

BEASTLY REVENGE.—Last week a melancholy
accident occurred in the, barony of Tulla. A
butcher, after 114'iI1g knocked down a cow,
leaped across its neck for the purpose of drawing
the blood, when the animal gave a sudden start,
and the knife which the ill-fated man held in his
hand was plunged into the bottom of his belly,
and he expired in a few minutes.

BERLIN PAPERS.

RTH ER EXTRA:::TS...--(ORIGINAL).

THE GRAND 4UKF- pr FRANKFORT.

Among the phenomena of the day, there are
some which acquire peculiar- interest, when it; is
considered that the present contest may justly be
termed a holy war; inasmuch as its object -is to
exalt lam and right on the ruins of craft and des-
potism., The flight-of the Grand Duke of Frank,
fort to Constance is one of those subjects that is
particularly deserving- of attention; Wlkile the
oth-er Princes of the German,F.mpire, (the King
of tVestplialia is of
„course out of the.question),,
partly joined the cause of national independence
previously to the battle of Leipsig, and partly
availed themselves of fhe first favourable oppor-
tunity to throw themselves inut the arms of the
Allies,the Grand Puke of Frankfort is the only one
who seeks safety in flight, who renounces the in-
signia of the ducal dignity, and resumes ,a cha-
racter which he had relinquished. His motives
for this conduct cannot. but- originate entirely
with himself. -

Descended from one of the most ancient fa-
milies of Genitally, which for ages has been par-
ticularly distinguished by its. Emperors, Chatles
Theodore' was always ambitious to shine.. Vain
snd anmhitious, but feeling at the same time that
glory was not made for him, he courted fame in
every possible way. Inconstant, without solid in-
struction, more disposed ro take advantage of time
favourable moment than. to •cominand it, he.be-
Niged only,in.outward appearance to the German
nation 3- his whole, character -was entirely French.
He- can best tell by what means lie contrived, in
1802, to exalt himself from the rank of a Co-
adjutor toi that of. Arch-Chancellor of the Em-
pire, by the removal of others. None but himself
could have accomplished this. As a spiritual
Prince without provision, he connected biinself the
More closely with France, and what occurred in.
1806 Was the consequence of his instigations.—
Thus it was reserved for a Dalhorg to spew the.
House of Austria that the ties which had hitherto.
ensured; the independence of Germany were burst.
asunder. From this period he- wavered as Pri-
mate between the Pope, and the French Emperor ,
bat yet he rgtmmiqed the hope; that, as Napoleon's
principal instrument in regard 'to Germany,' he,
,
suoimiu yet be able to act an important part. De-
ceived in this expectation, because, the Act of
Confederation of time Rhine was received by
Buonaparte merely as an act of submission from
the German Princes; he probably repented his
precipitation ; - but it was :now too late. Wilkmn
-in 1809, the abolition. of the temporal power
of the Pope rendered a change in his former
condition indispensably necessary,- he who was
already sunk so low in the public opinion, was
ciilled upon to perform no very -enviable part,
renounce, at the age of
,sixty-six,.. the
dignity. of Primate, and to assume the rank of a
temporal Grand Duke, in order that a French
Princeanight be his successor. Fortune had now
Loured out the vial_ of his vengeance upon his
head; hated and despised, he could spend time re-
mainder of his life, to no other purpose than to
collect treasures for his family., Nevertheless; he
had not .yet experienced the worst. In the course
of the present year,• feeling that he bad no friend,
no protector in 'Germany, he privately quitted
that country, resigniimg the grand ducal dignity,
which he could no longer retain, in favour of a
reoch Prince, •at the very moment which termi-
nated the domniniOn of Napoleon in Germany.
The more political conduct ought to have
:had of a'religions character—ant of this character
(it was absolutely destitute—the more he involved
,
himself as a 'German Prince in inconsistencies;
till at length he perceived that his part was acted
for e.:-er. • He was no hypocrite, but still less

was he a Spiritual, PrineeivhO had the smallest
senee of the' dignity of his functions.. What-
eVer advantages Germany. may derive from this
war, she Will
.gain against the will of CHARLES
TREODORE, to w,tiOni we certainly do •no in-

justice, .if we consider him as a tool em-
ployed by fate to bring about brtter state of
things, not oilty for Gcrplany, but for all Europe.

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ArutlvLD-2 Bremen, 1 -Holland, I Dublin. Du!-:—I Malta,
4 Gotteaburglf, 1 Gut;;L:s:.'y, I Jersey, 2 Waterford:

ErIPUAN7,-•Holiday at the _Exchequer, Bank, and South
Sea House;

' -HIGH WATER AT LOI'CION BRIDGE TO-!4.IORROW.
Morning, 5 minutes after 3. I Evening, 31. aainittes after '3.

THE SUN.

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QUIS DICCRE FALSUM AUDEA'f ?

LONDON,
THURSDAY, J/INUARY- 6, 181 4:

The most important intelligecice which we yes-
terday exchisively communicated in a late
.Sec(lnd
Edition is fully cOnfli;ined'hy the mass of French
Papersto the Ist inst. which precede this notice..
To these vitally interesting documents we will,
without preface,. call the attention of our Readers,

rikluch we have heard of a new era in this Coun-
ry—these Papers present us with the view of a new
eva in France. Thebrag-gard presumption of thy

'Tyrant has sunk into despondency, and the spew
7-• of bravery he, puts on is only the valour of, de,
spair, We hear no more ,of the destinies of Na-
tions being dependant upon his will ; of Britain's
.heini: made a Larld '' intolerable to live in," nor
even of the Russians Leing driven back to their own
frightful climate—no ! the hourofgasconading and
taunting' and 'insulting. is past, and the hour of
witilotlnne, at dejection, arid, we trust, of retri-
bution 114 S i.4frived, Jlis " Majesty" (13uuNA-

FARTE) has, at last learnt, as Count LA.CPPP.DE in- '
forms us, to " believe that power is strengthened
by being limited, and' thatthe art of favouring the
happiness of the people is the chief policy of
Kings."--And how has be been taught thistruth
by- being deprived of the ability to extend his
power ! How Ita-• this conviction come upon him %
by the determination of the people no longer to
be made sacrifices to his infernal policy ! But this
assertion is• false ; BUONAPARTE neither has learnt,
nor is susceptible of learning the lesson of mo-
([ration.
,He will yet exert himself to the utmost
to preserve what he can of his lawless dominion,
and it is only when violence is no longer possible
to him, that he Will resort to intrigue, in the hope
of disarMing and .disuniting adversaries against
whom he is incompetent to contend, and seizing
hereafter (as BERTIHEICS intercepted letter ad-
vised) a more favourable moment to revenge him-
self :for present hutniliations.

Among the many official • Documents which
these Papers 'present are several of the utmost
consequence to all EnrOpe, and especially to this
country, of 'which the little mention that is made
only proves that the. hatred of the Tyrant teivards
us is undiminished. By an Inperial Decree of
the 26th ult. the whole of France is placed under
; a measure against which we are
not disposed to rail with so, much of passion
as some of our contemporaries. It is indeed
a horrible act of despotism :—it subjects 'France
to a number. of uucontrouled Tyrants instead
of one, and gives to every District its Buo-
NAPARTE. But almbst all countries when invaded
are placed under ►iiartial law, and France will feel
this only the less, as the people of that nation have
for years groaned udder a system not a whit more
tolerable. We even doubt that the minor Tv-
ra►i.ts,
_taken collectively, will provee-as great a-
curse as the single Despot We do not, however,
mean to deny that extraordinary.and unexampled
powers to afflict the people are delegated to these
Ruffian Tools of the Master Ruffian.

The next document is the Report of the Special
Committee, to which was referred the papers com-
prehending the history of the Negociations be-
tween BUONAPARTE and the Allies. As was to be
expected from the constitution of that body, it
enters entirely into the views of the Usurper.' It
appears that on the 18th August, when he found
that all the arts of his'Envoys could no lortger
avail at Prague, he proposed to renew the Nego-
ciations, pendcate;ite, but this was overruled—the
consequent hostilities and glorious battle of Leip-
sick entirely altered the relative situation of the par=
The -supplications of a Baron ST. AthtiAN
ensue, and it appears, that it was to a verbal con►-
munication of bases and pre4iminaries (a convel
nient form for the intrigues of such an Unprin-
cipled negociator) that BUONAPA4TE, said he ad-
hered. This verbal recital of , terms was made by
the Austrian and Russian Ministers, :In the pre-
sence of Lord ABER'EEN, and nitieh stress is

tics.

put upon the latter circumstance, in order td
impute some delays which afterwords occurred to.
the intervention of England. BUONAPARTE'S lan-
guage about adhering to the preliminaries, being
as little understood by our Allies as by.ourselves,
MARET, 'on the 2d Dec. wrote explicitly to explain
what his'Master meant., but evidently leaving the
matter as indefinite as before, by alluding gene-
rally to the verbal bases, aril not specifying what
they were ; "so that the turn of negociations, denial
or concession, rvould.be Made to hinge,altogether
upon the understanding of M.de ST. AGNAN. This
explication was received at Frankfort on thesth,.and
remained unanswered to the 10th, when Count.
METTERNicit wrote as it would-seem in a pacific
tone, but the.eonclusion of his letter again fills
the Tyrant wie:h apprehenjOn and dismay, for
" he announces,. that before the negoeiations are
opened, it is necessary to confer about them with
theßeport) can
be no other than. the.Engnili:lsfolti• tWrAill-,-
bassador was present at the conversation of which
M. de ST. <AG NAN had been witness. We do not
•
desire to excite distrust ; we relate."
This remarkable paragraph not only strews the
feverish desire of BUONAPA.RTE for peace, since
every hour it is postponed is of personal danger to
.him, but alsp that the most cordial union exists
among all the Allies, and that every hope of being
able to detach them from each other, and play one
interest off against another in separate negocia-
tion must be relinquished. 1,14 t the glo-
rious determination of the AllieS to' act in con-
cert for the general good is further evinced, and
the terror of NAPOLEON further excited by the
declaration of Frankfort. " This declaration (we
arc informed) is of a nature unusual in the diplO-:
macy of Kings." • Why should it be otherwise in
an affair in which a
.Pretender to Royalty is one
of the parties ? and truly does the unfortnnia4.

port continue to say—
" It is no longer to Kipgs the:met-les that they
expl4in theirsric;vances anti send their manifestoes

it is to the people that they address them—and from
what motive do they adopt such a new method of

proceedings ? It is to separate the cause of the
people from that of their governors, though the inte-
rest of society has every where united them. May
not this example be fatal ?"
We hope it will ! We hope such is the precise
meaning and purport of their declaration. We
hope the, people of France will see.that their cause
is separate from that of their Governors. But,
gracious heaven, how must these slavishly impe-
rial tenets. be relished by the Republicans `of
France ! No appeal to the People, 'forsooth.
Why, who has suffered but the People ? Whohave
a right to be consulted but the-People ?' By what
power (since the jure divino has been given up)
do any of these Sovereigns treat at all but as the:
Representatives of the People ? It is the cause of
the People, and not the cause of Kings, or would.:
be Kings, that is at issue; and no Monarch living
holds his Crown by any other tenure than his
Coronation Oath, to consult their security and
happiness alone, in all his actions.—But. the
people's minds, agitated by all the diseases
of pride, are averse to bending under the, au-
thority which protects
_them, while it represses
their audacity," To what age of liberty and
freedom have we lived to hear this from French
lips—to hear this daring insult to popular feel-
ings, this outrageous denial of all popular rights !
Go, ye Democrats and Jacobins of Britain, and
worship your idol, BUONAPARTE ! BUONAPARTE,
who has not deserved well of the people, but who
" merits the gratitude of Kings"—" because by
re-establishing the Throne of France he has_ clos-
ed up the crater of the volcano which threatened
them all."

- That is, because to gratify his insatiate ambition
he usurped a throne, and stopped the &wings of
the Revolutionary volcano, to pour ai more fierce.
and overwhelming- flood of ' lava against every
throne and nation, from the exhaustless crater of
his own boundless desires—his unextinguishable
rapacity' for .universal " dominion. As for the
debt •of gratitude due to him by Kings, let
the Royal House of BOURBON, thinned by
many murders ; let its Royal Relative of Spain;
seized and inprisoned ; let the Kings of
SARDINIA and of SICILY; let the POPE ; let all-
the Sovereigns of Europe pay it as their con-
sciences, from personal "experience, dictate. -
'There is one paragraph which touches-us with
some uneasiness,
_not that we are. mistrustful, of
our Allies; put where such vital interests are at
stake, nature cannot resist the feelings of extreme
anxiety. The passage to which we allude is the
following :
er It must not he dissembled that in certain re-
spects this extraordinary Manifesto is in a mode-
, nite tone." Moderation to France or to BuoNA-:
PARTE ? If the former, it is good; if the latter evil.
Moderation to BcONAPARTE is injurious to mankind
—kindness to such a wretch, enmity against their
species, and a wanton sacrifice of the welfare,
now and hereafter, of tl.t it subjects, who have en-
abled them to conquer an attitude whence they
can dispense justice to the Universe. It is in-,
sinuated, however, that this moderate tone is-af-
fected as a-diplomatic artifice. For once we are
the advocates forartifice ; we hopeit may be so,
and that there, is no truth iii -the fact that the
boundary of the Rhine has been oEered to the
Usurper.

We must hastily pass over the villanv
involved in all the common-place generalities
with which these speeches abound. The pardon
due to all nations for abuses.of power, because
all nations 'have erred—the cant about BUONA-
PARTE's being fatigued with bloodshed (now that
he can cause no more to be spilled), and his (the
Demon's) wish to be hereafter surrounded only
with images of public felicily—the pitiful lament-
ations that " Empires, like individuals, have
their i4yz of mourninc. and of prosperity.: is
is' in great exigencies that great nations shMv
themselves," will pass no longer current. Why
these truisms?'—let France put the question home to
herself particularly--why are the present Or days
of mourning Because she has'not cleansed herself
fiom the plague which infests her—because she.
has not destroyed the poison which infects her
cup of :joy, and happiness because she has
not dragged BUONAPARTE, the sole source of
all her woes, to the scaffold of ~RoaEsruutiE.
They will not, as they are told, fight for their
dear country."—Fight they may, but if they
do, it will be for the Corsican, who drives them
with whips of scorpions through oceans of blood,
Let them:be told this distinctly let the, BOURBON
flag be unfiirled, anti with it a pledge that its su-
periority will restore them their 300,000 children
in Russia aud.England, and peace with Europe,
a,41-our lives to it, the life of BUONAPARTE'
,not be long in the way of the repose of the world.
So much for documents—a few words as to
can-cpnArm the intelliaence of ,ye 4.-,

teisday.—Prance bas been invaded by an army of
upwards. of 150,000 of the Allies. They crossed
the Rhine between Basle -and Rheinfeld,t, and
while one diVisien pressed down the left Bank to.
Colmar, another has pushed south to the valley 01,
Donbs,- in the direction of Dijon. Alehce and
Francbe Compte must be over-run—in vain may the
_ Tyrant howl for armed ,men from Normandy—theY
are wanted in Beam, whe're, as we learn, the jai'
mortal WELLINGTON is advancing into the inte-,
rior. But they have no liking to the deed—thet
will bail the conquerors as their deliverers, aid
the White Flag at last give them presage of rest
ration to their rank -among Nations, and .the
fellowship of mankind.
We have much yet to say, but tiale and space
are both against 'us to-day;

Further' and important Dutch Papers arrived
this morning; Viand added to"the Bremen and
. ,
ligolarid news of the morning.' There are tvco
Proclamations from -Gen. BELI:EGARBE and 014
Eavarian General (too long for insertion) wilic4
.have, we rejoice to say, restored tranquility to ti'e
Tyrol.—The .suburbs of Hamburgh have- beep'
destroyed. The invasion of Brabant, in Pee'
.begun--=-the Allies from Breda, having mgcl':
ed forward as the advance of W'rNzlNGEamos.'
army. - The Lower Rhine will soon 'be pni'
by a large invading army. The Armistice 0:1'
Denmark is prolonged
.tothe sth inst. Ths:
o.
lowing are;the principal articles—the rest wilk
found under the usual held.
" The advice's from I nspruck, of the 14th, Plell'
• tf
tibn, that the foregoing Proclamation has- go;
the people's minds in the Tyrol.
" The• insurgents are separating, and retail'
peaceably to their own hoMes, and we may tbelo
fore consider this insurrection as totally quell`

(Bremen Paper, Dec. 27.)
" BLANCIigNSU DEC: 26.—A1l the suburt)."

.1\ ,
Hainhurgh were.burnt yestenTay evening, a•-n
'
housp in ilamburg-henberg, near Altona,
be burnt this.afternoon. The Armistice bas
prolongeil till the sth of January. A Coto'ot
sinner for Holstein, has been appointed bY
CrOivn-Trinee."
SEC 0 NI) 117_41)ITIO.,1'

SUN-OFFICE, HALE-FAST ONE

OFFICIAL BULLETIN. 01,
•
The Allies had crossed the Rhine 011 );
20th ; their whole arrangements WOLlici 'Of

" Arrangements had been made with the
CANTON'S ;- and the
,Allies have pledged
to replace'Switzerland in the same state °f
TEGRITY AND' INDEPENDENCE AS EEFOA-

completed before tile sth of jahuttcy

FRENCH' REVOLUTIO.N.

15' '
" The Army- now A
in. operation against - 00(1
00,
and Franche Conit4 was dpwaLls of 2-,tioti'
i-nen There are no accounts of any l'i' •

The siege of Huningen was- begun. 011
f''Goxerninent have received letters of ibco,
from Sir THOMAS GRAHAM, containing no
o'foll
"Tire last Dispatches from Lord WELOtllite4
were dated the 26th ult. his Lordship
,that SOULT had halted his'Artny behind the,
Gave, with his left resting npots Reishorde.