The Sun.
London, England, 1809-12-28 00:00:00

MINES.

" Tua mines conceal riches., which without indus-
try would remain buried. in the earth:., A regulation
w Ole wines, positive and -clear, will be completed
in the course of your Session; means for deriving
flout it the earliesLberiefits are.prePared. France
p ~,,,,csses a great numbei of valuable coal mines,
stcure us from all fear of ever-wanting fuel.—
Mines of copper, lead,.and silver, are now working ;
otters are objeas of search and experiment.

COMMERCE.
" Commerce is employed generally in deriving the
greatest Possible adVant ,be front the produOs of agri-
culture and laiAir.. Ours undotibtedly suffers from
the extraoldinary state of. affairs, which forming as
it were two masses, one of the continent Ol'Euroe,
the other of the Seas, and the.couu.tries,tromL;which
thuie seas divide us; leaves them w,ithou. atily pet-
rnitted communication. ~r Never theies,„ tfin,hotile
consuinptioc, in which a much larger number ornidi7
viduals participate, since plenty (I' ui'sance). is known
to classes hitherto strangers to iti and our ct.rnexions
with our neighbours maintain
.a: great activity in a
trade of barter. Our connexions. with the United
States of . America are suspended ;-but formed by
Tnutual wants, they soon resume their course..:—
Lyons beholds the pro4erity of her manutactuFes
revive, and receives the orders of Germany,
and the Interior .iNtAples tarnishes us cotton, which
her soil daily produces with increasing abundance,
and which diminish the more distant importations.

FINANGS.S. •r:
" The connection of commerce with .public credit
will naturally lead your attention m'aphunomenou,
which strikes us less at present, because each year
re-procduces it ; the exattnehs of all payments with-
out new contributions, IA ithout loans, without anti-
cipations, and in the midst of a war for which, at
any other time, the most extraordinary efforts would
have appeared below what such enterprizes requtreo;
the admtrab►e effect of the simplicity of ipnngs and
movements of a vigorous order, and ►he-exactness of
calculathms, into which his Majesty has not dis-
dained to enter himself. The register of lauded
property is cont,nued ; its adv.intages are found in
the sub-partition of a great number of cantons and
communes; we shall soon derive from it the gene-
ral ametioraLion of the laiid-tax, and the just pro-
onion of the contribution to the produas.

ADMINISTRATIONS OF'Tfl INTERIOI ►ND JUSTICE.

" The administration of the Interior in t spg, has
followed the same progrcss as in the preceding years.
Order and tranquility have been maintained; justice
tias been promptly and equitably administered ; the
name of the Emperor has been blessed in the bosom
of families, rendered happy by interior:peace. The
Departments of Tuscany bait received the benefits
of general organization.

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RELIGIOUS WOUSHIP.- --•
" The Government, in its respect for consciences,
has not deviated trom the line which it had traced out
to itself. Its principles with respect to reiigion have
had their application this year, as in the preceding.
' [The conciusion of the article on Religion, which is prin.,
cipally a philippic. against the ktope, is devoid of uiterest.]

WAR.

This subject is introduced by a recapitulation of
thz I.‘ prnmerdidif to. Madrid, the expulsion of the
English, and the attempt of the Emperor of Austria
to penetrate into the French territory through Ba-
varia at the head of 600,000 men,, the rais:ng of
which is described as " the prodigious and jniracu-
lot.s qllect of Paper Money."
" The Emperor left Paris on the 28th, without
guards, without equipage, and without troops; his
armies, hastily assembled from the different parts of
GeunanY, felt astonished at unlOreseen aggression,
and at the multitude of enemies who surrounded
them on all sides. Ratisbon had been taken, with
one of the finest regiments of the army ; but the .
news of his -Majesty's .arrival reached the troops
and flew through ail the ranks. The Emperor hay- ,
ing, -by his -accustorped mcuueuvres-,. separated two
corps of the enemy's army, beat them on the
20th, near Ahensberg. On the 21st, he marched
against Landshut, rendered himself master of that.
town, and of the bridge across the Titer, 'the head-
quarters and central point of the enemy's opera-
tions ; intercepted by this movement, the commu-
nication of the enemy's army, and took his bag-
'gage, his pontons, and his- hoSpitals. On, the
22d, he n:arched to Echtmlbt, turned
_the left of
the Archduke Charles's 'army, reduced to:. four corps
by the separation of the two others, routed that
army, took 30,000 prisoners, with 100 pieces of
cannon, and in the ,same evening arrived in the
plain of Ratisbon, where he rested in the head,
quarters of Prince Charlei. On the23d, he close-
pursued the enemy, destroyed the Austrian horse,
and took Ratisbon, and the 12,000 men whom ,the
enemy had left in that place. In forty-eight hours,
the Austrian army, struck, as it were, .by a thun-
der-bolt, saw its tate decided. pi. six corps, which
composed it, each 50,000 strong, five were already
defeated, reduced to half, their number, and sepa-
rated from e,:ch other. The remains' of 'the four
corps were driven to, the Danube, and the two
others to the Inn, without bridges; -magazines, and
Without hospitals. The rumour of these _disasters
soon reached the ears of the Sovereign of Austria,