The Sun.
London, England, 1809-01-17 00:00:00

ME APPROACHING SEASON.

Every species of preparatiOn is now making. r ,
the approaching 'season of FASIIiO.N, and Such p
par4utis as Oaf AUCNSIU7S could never have dreamt .
of. Flf)6.,l,ittist up lobe seen only once or twice
in bale a year, annd-then converted bit° places of pub-
lk entert liamlint. What was in former days a On-
quet is now a speaacle, and hospitality little more
than the temporary gratification of die eye and ear.; '-
The exercise of the understanding is suspendrd along
with the social enjoyments .of friendship an 4 cop*
.versmion ; but Ample provision is made for the extes.•
nail senses, which are dazzled with ligrtur opprosE,
ed with noise.

In former days, an cnterlainmeal, witicrk
plenty, liberality, and convivial enjoyments were,
consulted, could be got up with, no. other ar•
tangemenk th n employed the attention of the
cock and the- tut/cr. Tim house was never:
furled Ilpsideldown, nor abandoned to th,t whim*
of fluor painters, lamp=lighters, and Awl/is. The
I;aine edifice that the family was suffi—
cient for tW. gaols ; temporary erection-4 tentabortor
magnihcence, and temporary d Strtithon there not
necessary io procure respect ; for ;here was I hen 110
rivlsoip in seeming prodigality ; no etiort io produce
a greateiletl tiy, the jezvesi means; alid the host and
hoktesi had tile conscious set Iskettott at having main•
tained the honours of rank and hospitality, w!tirout
being obliged to count t t number of coach panfiels
that were troken, or of ladies win) fainted.

this tunes are altered, and we have nu Very seri-
ous obj. dioti to the alteration, although we have
thus 31,th.d it. \V are a commerci.ilnation, ant, the
quid pro quo has passed from the East to the West
end of tite Town. -II Modem entertainment costs
but little, that little is ot athantage to the patties
employed. Nay, new bales are created, and pfide
and profits of patronage are exteaded. From the
Loran-lighter, who shows Ins taste in balloons and.
festoons, to the historian of a rout who records its
splendours, and immortalizes the
,names of the inm
viied ; 'from- the artist who paints landscape's on the
floors, to the 410 w-street Officer who inspects cha"
ratters ta ; a new race, of useful men in so-
ciety is c.reatcd, new efforts of genius are encoktr+
aged, anti money is circulated through avenues aim,
never occurred to the author of " Wealth OS
Nations." Numerous hands are employed to:Sidon.,
for the decrease of /wads and hearts, and' it all
cold, cerzinonious, and shori•lived, it is. alsv ,sphrtl"
did, magnificent; and FAsu los ABL E.

t`,EDINBLIRGH,.).Ax. 14.

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MCA COURT OF jUsTICIARY.:
• •r&
Yesterd4' :tine on the. trial of Thomas Neilson,
late ,'ervalit '4O. Lieutenant-Colonel WAuenoPE, or
the Edinburgh. Militia,' tor opening, by Meilll4 of a
skeleton key, the drawer of his master, and stealing
money, &c. theietiotn. . The Prisoner pliNick"a
GUilty, and•the Jury having returned ttNif vertliti.
accordingiy, the Cum t sentenced him to. be transport-
pd beyond seas fur life. • '
111 Jury distAnuted the money allowed theta 10
th,.. ditrereht Charities. . ..

Yestqrchy the Priocess of WALIzo, the Ducimoi
of BRUNSWICK, the. Dukes ot Conan:m.oo.HD, SUS..
SEX, dial CAMBLUDGE, med with their tv.Luevrtei

an.l tilt i'iil:,.eft-tiEs. At. six o'clock, the l'ititscuss
and the lltic;,es4 ~.1 Bautowicx. set off (.41 their re*
torn to .Blackheath. . .
We alinoA pity !fie Opposition Writers on the
subject of Lord Nlottta. 'l,:ey have always pea*
fes?ecl the highest admiration tor the talents ot the
Noble Lord, aid the utmost contilenee in his judg-
ment—but his sentitnents on the Portugal Conven*
tion so little agree with their Own, that they would
be reduced ;to a most vexatious diletno.a indeed if
they 'bad ii-.;t the consolation of believing., that I
though h.- itftati CYieer, and has had the advantage
ot t,i.perivote. he falls much below theiii,elves M .
knowledge 0' the subjed, and can only be right in,
acting on their principles, and in supportio&thiCt
opini.iliS upon all occasion...
BUONAPARTE, it Wein', is BtlXloo%
_to prove the
antiquity of his falsity, and That it. was of Spartail.i,i, .'
origin. Tit:. Spaitansf it is well known, did nor 4;
consider theft.as a crime, if it were so demi:4'oo,4Y Ti'''('„Al
performed as to elude detection. It is et ident, 'bi . 'l
the conduct of the French Ituler•toivards other 41

countries, that he ret,tins some port of the character
of his stipitosed ; but while he plunder'
without lin/nation. or meal, he k superior 'to t. 14
weakness of attempting to, conceal nig enorotiol
robberies, dud rulter considers them as the fiir. re*
su,t of militaqi iteloisin, however titioifluliiig 104
have been the Slates that f:111 victims to his rapacity•
'The receipts of Drury I,tur ThOlire-haVe beel'
very great for seine weeks past, and *have bred
much increased Mice the appearance. ut the new 0)"
tnedy of Man end (Wife, which se,!ini to tiecotel
more and inure atirttaive, mai& the repulsive sot°
of the Weather.
A. new ()nem is in rehearsal at Drtiry-laug)4
Theatre, whiCh is attributed to Mr. WAR°, ilia
Gentleman who married Miss LINLE.V, sister ut t`le
late .Mrs, Suattionts.-/sA 13tiAm it
and _l3lsfori
~-
seetns,-have witted powers in contivMug 41P4'w
for this piece.
MtAittiNt, who was engaged at the Opera
House for the present season, nas been •tli,ralsse'LL
because, as; it is said,• he accomp tnieti QATit,s)ll
in tivr niustcal expedition to belaod, &c.' Ti'014"11:-
,batui CATAlstiii, in COllstllitthCe Of ilit) PlO3 its.
sigued for this dismission, has at:Utility
five belitirrek pounds to NIiAitTINI as a coniPeolw'
two. Sutlx:lnt action d'aserv,ls to be recorded fur,
•
hiantager of the Opera House has recently ad•
vanced thesalaries of all~ he Pertormers in the Of'
chestra ot'thm pitac,', without ail sofick,ation on their
part. Tins Circtaii,tithee has affordet,i great sattstaud
lion to the Inns-moos of the otho. I heittrest AY They
conceive that it win kadto aritnitlraugtattntariun'
Roast, one of the itteit Ing-nwrils.th our S olP*
tois and who is a of this COUOtry) thutigh 114
nttet e; i,
ilit,,,.l.oltioltlttesoplttatticileeiedrtwiillielsietni,iuerhyasortect‘tenitri,yi er stieu
vcit'ucod :
w.
An accoun'ltleol,PtileleCgli:uricellk.
:Hulk Mr. Cows snit Seven °tiler Uentioncl).:
'(roil3l, to Nuve,l7, id08:--ri13,1 hires, f
'3tlo it.traiti/es, 103, rabbits, 3() Wood'
.
cQcks4 wood-pitieons., and nye atoPet

tll ttORICAL LECIII.4I.

OF 1111.
CAMPAIGN 'OF BUONAPARTI: IN I I'ALY,
.‘
1N TI.IIEYLU s 1766-AND .1797.

A NEW AU St% 'HAN ARMY nnwit:s IN THE
.711t01..
The.il4ol!:tht events whk.h are morneqtarily
taking place , have noty for some days, allowed room
for the con ti :uuation of the History of BUeNnPARTIt'S
Lillian Can faaign. Our Readers may be assured that
we have not abandoned the design of laying it before
them. We consider it as one Of the.ninst mterest-
41)00'u:talents that was ever given to the Public,
and we are persuaded that its appearance was nlever
'mere neCessarv, nor promised greater advantages
than at present.-. It is now, more than ever, im-
portant to spew that BUONAPARTE was a Lai, a thief,
and a murderer from the beginning. That his dbjeEt
' was universal tyranny, and his means perfidy, seduc-
lion, and a most mutton and horrible waste of hu-
luau blood. That his victories (6 despite of his flat-;.
aerers, the. Opposition Writers), are less due to his
own talents as a soldier, 'than Mille itubectlfity and
'treachery of those who oppose him, and that when
..he has been met by spirit and integrity, he has
' • either been' repulsed, or, if successful, gained his
end by:sacrifices infinitely outvaluing the object, and
which none bat a monster of inhumanity would
have wade.
Besides this, it is of the most serious conic-
. quence that the sources of history should be clear.
pains are taken by the Jacobins of this
Country, in Reviews, Registers, &c, to suppress the
enormities of BUONArnIcTE, and keep his disgraces
out of sight we are therefore aiding the cause of
truth, and promoting' the present and future in=
Wrests of mankind, by furnishing the bluest his-
torian with authentic, documents for estimating the
charaCter and talents of a brutal tyrant, who, with-
out one virtue, Witheitti one aniiabla or engaging
quality,end without one passion but
like the raging of the tiger, drives him eternally from
• victim to viCtitn, to satiate his thirst of [lnman
Las been stupidly elevated into a' great man, and,
with unparallelled adulation, placed above Caligula
and Nero.
It has been asked by the Conduaors of a truly
respectable and rational Work, why we do not give
the name of the author ? The question is not put
witlythe' usual judgment of those Gentlemen.—
RoW can we give it with safety,?, We have already
declared that he is a person of rank and. honour, and
4 General Officer in the service of a German Plume;
personally obnoxious to EtiONAPAUTS for his loyalty,
and who, having escaped from slut great prison-
house,, the Continent, to this happy Country, the
only spot in Europe where truth can be spoken or
written, has seized the opportunity to give an au-
:, theistic narrative of facts which). passed under his owu
eye, and which have been perverted by a horde of
• scribblers, for the detestable purpose of raising
trophies to the Corsican, on the ruins of all that is
dear to mankind.
But this excellent person does not mead to reside
. among us forester ; his dearest wish is to revisit the
land of his fathers, and to lay his bones with theirs.
'Could he do this, if his name were made public ?
Is there a Prince on the
Continent that can proted
any of his subjeCts, or that *would dale to refuse the
head of his most faithful adherent to the meanest
satellite of BUoNAPnItTIi ? laid.not the Emperor of
Austria give up the' anchor Of '‘_‘. The Romans in
'Greece)" Have the free Cities of Germany already
fogotten the unfortuaite PALM ? Could the King of
Prtrsaia prevent the murder of his own Officers, for
not celebrating the birth-day of 'a fiend in human
shape ?' • 411c1,cati. the miserable ALextiwzga, who
is barely suffered to walk about, like MosTrausaA,
in golden chains, free 'himself from the hateful
•
sight oft he erittinig. murderer, CAULINCOUItT,WIIO
is destined one day to execkitioner ?. IS any
thing better known than that tiogNA‘ kinta; 'has a
professed poisontr in leis pay at every Court on the
Continent, to take off those whom it may net suit
bis purpose to assassinate in public ?—.And yet we
are thoughtleisly called Upon to supply his diabolical
rancour with 414,1110 R. RS of sacrificing another victim
Ty have said this, is sinticient We return to the
contipuatiou ortis history. . •

A ),TRNI, AUSTRZAt/ ARR/VHS IN Tug TYROL,

The Cabioet of Vienna determined at length to
send reinforcements to UEAVLEAL/18 army, or rather
to send a new army, commanded by Marshal
Wultarsaa. This army nobly 'signalized its en-
trance into •aainn, and in a way whitgi cost the
'rent h very, dear. BouturAwra himself ad-
mits W have sustained, a reverse, • Ci-
tizen Direetors:" ...This is all he says; btit
this, in the inntith of IuowAPARTE: signiaes
eery thing. " We have sustained a rePerSc." It
is clear that he pronounced this word with great re-.
luEtancc ; -and h‘, therefore, 11:itetis to indemnify:
himself by adding, " Sot. already viaory begins tm
'cunt) to our stand;ud,'-' and -he dwells at great
lutigth un. the 't,i4haries winch he boasts to hays

gainel: three page's iiethuely, suffice to cutitail'i
In proportion as he is laconic on his reverse; he is
diffuse and' exaggerati've 'on his success. It is ow..
duty ricr supply the deftc.;. of his !actinism, and to
er'tplattr, the nature of this '7'n 1; MC which was a de-
feat d'fra to complete rout ! • ,L
• ,
The aripyOf WonmsEtt amounted to nearly forty
thousand men, including the ciAlt:y, which were
of no service to him in the difficult country where
he meditated his first attack. BUONAI'AItTCB forces
were very much more Mitnerous; for, eKpating the'
• arrival of the evemieS array; lite had strengthened
himself with 'a moiety of the troops chartered in
the neighbourhood of,_Maiitea; as well as tith all
those camps, which, eneamped in different
were not. absolutely necessary for their proteEtion.
On the 29th of July; Wonrasia presented him-
self unexpeetelly, at. break of day, before. the
French line, and attacked it on all points. This
line vitas piotetled• by very numerous batteries,
which rendeVed it truly formidable. If. the ;attack'
was brisk, the defence was Vigorous for seVetal
hours; during which the cannonade ts as kept up ire
both sides. At length the Austrian General forced
the entrenchinents : the contest was then earriedsvo
with the bayonet, and' the carnage was teirilile,
Thedisorder, confusion, and terror was• So great tit
the French army, that it was no longer possible to
recognize " the terrible column of the bridge of
Lodi," or the " intrepid grenadiers of the passage of
the •Mincio." All these heroes gave way, and fled
with the utmost precipitation: the Austrians pur-
sued there furiously, killed au amaZing nuinber, and
did But; give over till the night absolutely constrained
,
the:M;
WurtMsart took almost the v hole of their Art it-
lery, and made eight bilious:lnd prisoners. The
number of anti "wounded far exceeded this,
insomuch that the inhabitants of the country were
employed two whole -days and nights in homing
the bodies. We did not lose quite three thousand
men in killed, wowid,ql, and' prisoners. This is
the atttun which BUoNAPAaTH modestly calls. a
rev4r.te, and which Weamsca had a right to win a
.it;.
great and glorious victory.

But this was not all. During the attack on the
French line, the post of Salo was also attacked by
an Austrian flotilla; dispatched froin the banks of
the Trent by, the Like of Garda ; while another
small detachment of ilnee thousand,roeu fell upon
Brescia; both these places surrendered, and the two
garrisons were made prisoners of War.
There was yet more and what must. have af-
forded still greater pleasure to Wuumstia : namely,
that on the following day he saw the eneniy
pelted to abandon 'the siege of Mantua, and leave
behind them the grand park of artillery, and im-
mense magazines of every kind. whol,;01 this
he ordered to be conveyed into the city without de-
-lay, and he levelled and blew up all the batteries
which had been raised by the French. for its annoy-
ance-and destration.

,Isere then is the just explication of the word
noose, wtaicli BuoNA.PARTE-employed it) his offic►a
report to 'the Directory ! It ineant, that he had
beenltnnvletely beaten; but, on the other hand,
when he boasts that he has ohtained'a vidory, it is

far from following that the word is always to be
taken in its ordinary acceptation. In the Reports
of •Buot.:ApArtra, it freqtni.ntly signifies nothing
more than a slight advantoge which his vanity loves
to ag&rt,dize; and more frequently still, an ad-
vomge equivalent to a"defeat by the immense sicri.,
ft.' tof lives 'which it has cost him.
Ofieral relleetion is applicable to all the &ll-
letinsilooNspnaTa has published froM the moment
he entered Italy, to the last Which he composed on
the frontiers of 'Russia.,
• ;Lie) seevninwed.l

Thelrtincess of DAsKew, who w.is so great a
favourite with the Empress CATuAitiNE, of 'Russia,
and who visited England and Ireland some years
since, by the Empress's desire,' now resides in Mos-
cow, where she lives to the inost'splendid style, sur-
rounded by ail her relations. This Lady, when in
üblin, war. habited in the Russian costume, and al-
ways wore a belt, with a dagger. The only heart of
her dress that Was lumininu, was that of her head,
on which stie wore a tnund calf, with :t quilled lace
border, and a great nu unity of diamonds. She was
also decorated with the the insignia Of sevvral
OtdOES, COOICIFeiI MI her hy her Royal Mistress,
Whose picture, set in diamonds, was placed at her.
breast. A yoUng Irish Lady, Who had -resided five
years with the Princess in Russia, and who was re-
iturning to her native country loathed With looney
and presents, was lately shipwreeked in the Golf of
Finland., and lived for thirty days muter the hospit-
able roof of a Finland fisherman, where she .was
treated with the greatest kindness ; from Whence
she went to Sweden, acid there took her passage to_
Scotland, on her way tri her ita ,ye land, Wlwre she
has probably arrived by this time.
A rencontre of a curious nature is about to take'
place between Richman, the Riack, and a Mill' ; the
fernier is' to be .armed with a quarter-61A, :toil the
haS been for some time io training, to
),moke coin as savage as possible, h to Meet thi 011-
tagonist unmuzzled, and quite ad ritree.
, 'keepers are 'to be at hood in ease Bruin slumildbug
• lyb a2loselY. 4. he man.h is. for tine hundred guineas ;
'atid comiderahle. bets are already laid. 'Die trains
briile is the favourite of the two ! •

JOS i:;lin 1:3110 N.-1 Pil RrE :.:;-:' G c{! , :LE :'( it -Y111; :

In litying„Abe Olowing co:nntunication hefwe nur Headers,
we ,i,,trt it neeessitty to 05,t,:r,e, t:; it w;.: Owe very Intte
ty_itaiti.e upon the :it:COra:j Oil,OlC 1431eilit'llt. Itis by ;to
tne.titi tikciy.tbat loseith tvoti ti risk ho suovef
tterson sr, tar as to .o.:Lonip.itty 11 Lb; ati V. 40 of
tie i rcuctr Army .
EXTRACT oy A LiaTtit raom ix.Antz.To, iAN. 15.
" lteing iteoaMted. with Getreitil LtIrEVR.E in
-Paris, I waited on hint this venifig, and alter re.,
mailing with him about ten inini;llefi, a person dreht
as a servant entered the room ; upon iseying woritnger,
he appeared Cottlpsed, and turned W 4.!;.1Vd the roam.
A 'thought htruch .•me, that he Jeheibled josratit
IiUONAPARTE, .%1101111 had seen
.whsle in Paris.
therefore resolved to follow him ; and wishing the
General good tuornMg, I followed him down stairs,
and accosting him hi French, he turned round, and
thereby gave me a hill view of his countenance;
whioh I itninc,liately recognised to be the ci-dwant
king'of Spain. I conitl hardly-restrain my joy, but
prudence prevailed, and. lea% ing the bowie kt t !IGLU
any suspicion, 1 hastened to inform you of it.
" l'our's, sincerely, ''
J. C.,,