The Sun.
London, England, 1813-12-23 00:00:00

[MOM A MORNING PAPER.]

LEIPSIC, DEC. 2.—The Russian General Ba-
ron Thielmann has published, in s German pa-
per, his justification for having quitted the Saxon
to enter the Russian service. It appears from
it, that prior to the period when the King of
Saxony was in the hereditary Austrian States,
that Monarch bad actually concluded a Con-
vention, in pursuance of which he gave Gene-
ral Thielmaun, then charged with the command
of the fortress of Tongan, an order, signed with
his own band, to maintain with the greatest zeal
the independence of that fortress, and to declare,
in all events, it should not be opened but by or-
der of the King, and in concert with his Majesty
the Emperor of Austria. This letter was dated
Ratisbon, April 19 ; its contents were confirmed
by a second letter, dated Prague, May 3, 1813 ;
which besides bore, that in, case the fortune of
war brought back the French troops on the banks
of the Elbe, the conduct, of the Commandant of
Torgau should continue the same, nor should he
then open the gates-of that fortress to the French.
On the 20th of May, General Thielniann received
an absolute order tram the King to give up Tor-
gall unconditionally to Franee, and to unite the
Saxon troops to, the 7th corps. Upon thhi,- L.
neral Thielrnann left flip:Ay-nut and .entered Cis
of Russia.

DUSSELDOI.IF; Dim. R.'

ORDU4ANCE E OEN@RAU ea traillsv

• MENT OF THE GRAND DUCHY OF littitO•
4.‘ The high Allied Powers, constantly occupied, with the
important and firm resolution of delivering .Germany from
the ynhe which it has hitherto borne, wish only to employ
the force of the countries conquered by their arms for that
single object, towards which all heart, eq Per Many urvani-
mously aspire.
" For this purpose they have established fox tbc govern-
ment of the conquered 'countries, a general department of
administration, which they hare entrusted td the mulersigned
Minister of State, Ilarerrde Stein' Knight of the Order of
functions St. Andrew, whose functions shall have fur object to employ
the resources of the different countries, in the execution of this
military and political plan. Governors-General will he ap-
pointed, who will form the principal authorities, the cen-
tral point of the whole civil and military administration. Fi-
delity and firm attachment are expected, on the part of the
inhabitants, to that cause which all just-thinking men have
already embraced; and that they wilt punctually obey the or-
dinances which the supreme department of Administration,
and tbc Governor-General, shall issue. This submission is
a duty doubly hindingon the old authorities of the conquered
countries. They will take an engagetnent thereto by a parti-
cular oath, of which the formula shall he submitted to them,
or renounce their functions,and thus declare then:selves hos,:
the to the good cause. ' " Baron 1)E STEIN,
Lcipsic, Oct.. 23, 1813.
In consequence of the above ordinance, the undersigned
state Councillor of. his Majesty the Emperor of Russia has
keen charged with the organization and provisional direction
flat
the general' government of the Grand Diteby of Berg.—
•kbat government embraces all the territory which formed part
of the Duchy prior to the formation of the 32d military divi-
sion of %he French Empire ; with the exception, nevertheless,
of ail OK. districts. which formerly made part of the Prussian
states, 4114 which re-enter immediately under the sovereignty
of the King. of Prussia.
In ass:ln:mg 'the provisional direction of all the civil and
military,atiairs of tOis general government, established by t
itigh Allied Powers, ; require the inhabitants nut to acknow-
ledge any other anthai-ity, but to obey it alOne. Knowing the
good spirit of this coontry, distinguished for the loyalty, .4de-
lity, and industry of its inhabitants, I confidently expect that
they will co-operate with as much zeal as energy in the deliver-
;ince of (lemony, which is the tole and important object of the
victorious Powers. Let all linitcst men rally arnmul„ijiG, to
contribute by their efforts to this, great and salutary resuh..
(Signed) JUSTUS GRUNER. •
Dusseldorf, Noe, 25.; PrOvisiontil Giivertitir4;eneral

FAA K , DE.c. I 1.---The limperor of Au-
stria departed this morning between six Arid seven.
o'clock. 116 Majesty takes Wortzburgh in his
way, in order to have an interview with the
Grand Duke. • Prince Mette.rnichi departs to-
morrow.

All the infantry of the Russian Guard assembled
here, and in our vicinity, puts itself in march to.
morrow. It is believed that Fiel►l<-Marshal
Blucher wilt establish his bead-quarters here.
Geopral Count Wrede arrived at Carlsrtihe on
the t9th.

The Duke of Saxe-Weimar departed from hence
yesterday. That Prince u ill immediately take
the command of the Saxon army, The Mike of
8:P.4-Coburg h 4,4 also departed.
The army under the orders of the Crown Prince
has occupiel Lubeck.
Accordi.ng to accounts from Italy, the head-
,
quarters of the Austrian hriuy were on the tith at
Vicenza. qeneral Fenner bad recovered of his
wounds, and romped the command of the ad-
vanced guard.
RATMiON? DEC! B.—A part of the reserve bat-
talion of Itavarian infantry, which was here, yes-
terday began its march for the Upper Itnifitt. The
passage of Austrian convoys for the llW..js
al-
nu,st continual.

1) c. depats of tnigirAos-
trim) Regiments Lurie left us tills raornitii to jivitk

army.—] 60 caissons, taken from the French,
arrived here yesterday. Several corps of cavalry,
belonging to the army which besieged Dresden,
have already arrived at Hoff. Through that town
there passed, on the sth, a train of artillery, sup-
posed to be destined for the siege of- the citadel of
Erturth.

CLAGENFURTII, Nov 24.—The garrison of the
castle of Trent; consisting of one Major, 14 Offi-
cers, and iBO privates, arrived here on the 16th.
It is to be conveyed to the interior of Austria.—
A great number of deserters are frequently pass-
ing. through here, who generally enter the service.
BERLIN, Nov. 24.—The capitulation of Stettin
was signed on the 22d. That fortress is to be
given up to oir troops on the sth of December,
with all ita dependencies. The garrison wilt
ground their arms on the glacis, and be conveyed
beyond the Vistula. The French non-combatants,
surgeons, commissaries, &c. are nut to be consi-
dered as prisoners of war.
ASCU AFFENBURGII, DEC. B.—The head-quarters
at Count Barclay de 'Folly, Commander in Chief
of the Russian army, departed to-day from hence.
FRANKFORT, Dec. 10.—Prinee Sett wartzenberg,
the Commander in Chief, set out from hence last
night. The Archduke Constantine departed this
morning. The cavalry of the Russian guards is
in motion for its destination.

PRAGUE, Dec. 4.---Our Gazette, after commu-
nicating the &luaus Cansulturn, -of the 26th of
Notember, adds the following reflections :

44 If the new levy of 300,600 men be, as there
is no reason to doubt, exclusive of that of 280,000
men, ordered by the decree of the 11th of October
last, the total number of men raised in France,
during the year 1813 alone, amounts to 1,140,000,
of whom one half, ut least, has been annihilated,
dispersed, or taken prisoners—in short, lost to
France,

" The French nation can hardly be plunged
into such blindness, or reduced to such shivery,
as not to ask on all sides, why these immense pre-
parations ? Where is the imminent danger that
renders necessary such measures of defeyee ? Does
a spirit of madness, or the mania of conqttest,
possess all the Sovereigns leagued against us, as
well as the nations whom they govern ? Or wish
they to • take vengeance npon.us. for .all the mis-
chief' which we have been compelled to do them ?
In short, 'must we shed the remainder of ow
blood, and expose ourselves to lose our last
strength, in ,oriler to ward oil a destructive peace,
which would hring along with it our dishonour
and ruin

". But all people of sense throughout that Mo-
narchy would answer unanimously,—there is not
the least foundation for all this. Our self-stiled
enemies, •who, are not so in reality, have taken
up arms not to oppress, despoil, or tyrannise over
others : they fight for their own independence,
which it is their grand object to recover. What
possible motive could induce them despicably to
renounce their . own principles, and expose their
own enterprise to danger, by seeking to domineer
over their neighbours ? Vengeance is as little the
motive which animates them. Have we not been
their companions in misfortune ? Did not the vex-
ations, the calamities which every where follow-
ed our, steps, press with double'
sveirt.'.t on our-
saives ) :And do we not participate their wishes
for defiverance and tranquility, though we cannot
manifest them in the same manner ? Thus the
only consideration which could justify the 'sacri-
fices at this moment demanded of us, and the
danger of total ruin". to which we are exposed,
would te, that the peace proposed to us must
bring with it still greater calamities, must com-
promise the national honour, and destroy our
welfare and security.
" The lakt of these blessings is for ever gone
rimmed to us by our own stressgth, by the means
of defence furnished us both by nature and art,
by our national spirit, and by our military means.
Our safety has not only been seriously endangered
at any time, but it cannot be augmented by con-
quests, by distant possessions, Ism. by extending
despotic sway over foreign nations. Such pre-
tended advantagts, by producing endless- wars,
can only harass, weaken, and exhaust us. The
moment France shall re-enter her true and just
limits, she will become strong and unassailable;
the internal stiength of no state in Europe will
exceed her's, and no attack will place her in
danger.
Our welfare, is sufficiently secured by our
• geographical Situation ; by the extent and ferti-
lity of our country. ; by our industry, our arts,
and the perfection of our social institutions. It
has been severely shaken by a long succession of
wars, undertaken from caprice,, ruinous in them-
selves,, and useless to us. Bitt a peace, whatever
it may be, provided it renew the ancient relations
of commerce and friendship whieti united us to all
our neighbours, that it open anew the seas to our
commerce, and restore to the industry.and inge-
nuity of our nation its ancient stimulus, will 40011,
iii the bosom of reviving industry, wake us forget
our false grandeur, as well as the real misfortunes
with which it was accompanied.
" As to our national honour, it cannot be im-
paieed by a peace which shall only set bounds to
our injustice. If our military honour only con-
sists in our alone gaining battles its Europe, in
never suffering any military glory but our own,
and in never being boom it has long been lost
beyond redemption. Should we even gain as
many new victories as intimes past, the opinion
of our invincibility. exists no longer. Nothing can
efface our defeats in Spain, our retreats front Russia
and Germany ; the battles of Salamanca and Vit-
toria, of Smolensk and of Leipsic ; but no poll-
tical arrangement can thyrive us of what is truly
solid and indisputable in our military glory.
Such, doubtless, must be the language of all
just and enlightened men in France. Is the Eru-
peror Napoleon alone, then, to be allowed to
place his glory in the misery of the world, and the
stibmission of all neighbouring states to his will ?
He says, ' a dishonoured throne, and a
crown without glory, would be to him insupport-
able.' By what right does he wish to escape that
imaginary humiliation, by prolonging a state of
things which tends to degrade all the thrones and
all the crowns in Europe What right has he to
think himself humbled and degraded, by only be-
ing compelled to renounce the power of dis-
gracing, humbling, and destroying, 1141 that sur-
rounds h i"

SECOND EDITION•

SUN-OFFICE, Two o'CLocK.

We have just heard that Lord CASTLEREAGH is
on the eve of his departure for Frankfort, es-Ple-
nipotentiary from Great Britain to treat.tor Peace,
We were aware that important dispatches arrived:
from Holland yesterday, the nature of AIWA
NC
could not ascertain. We now learn that tbq
contained his Lordship's Passports. No alteration
in the Administration is intended during his bort!.
ship's absence.
New Omnium has risen to 15 per cent.

is said, that the accounts of the first Went
the Legislative Body have arrived in Town'.
that the tone of BUONAPARTE is tnuch lowerski.
and that the whole tenor of the proceedings
is of a very pacific nature. We make no *At
the bumbled Despot will be glad to secure even
a degraded Throne and a Crown without dig.
nity" by accepting of terns very, very ModeOte'
when compared with his former pretellsinss'
This is an awful moment—the future destini °t
Europe depends as much on the pon of the Neg°'"
ciator, as ever it did on the Soldier's invord •

A letter has been received this morning from a
most respectable Gentleman in GuernseY) by
;a
Merchant in the City, stating, that the Courier. brig
had just arrived there front Passages, in eight 'l'll'
bringing the important intelligence of Lord Wz"
LANGTON having attacked SOULT, and after three.
days hard fighting, on the 9th, lath and Oat
completely defeated hitn ; that his L"dshiP
left ten thousand men to mask Da
his "4 rn"' and
had marched with the remainder of
Bourdeaux. It is also stated, that four regime
composed chiefly of Dutchmen, hud gone °ref

the Allied Army.
Most sincerely do e hope this glorious inte!:
w
gence may lie confirmed to its fullest extat. "4
can only vouch for the genuineness of the letter.
We understand that an account has just bel3
ta
received, announcing the capture cf an MneriC

Chinaman.
—...........-P--.-
By Letters from St. lielena of the 15th
Octo.
scr, accounts are received that the Georgiana sua
Atlantic, which had been capured by the
American frigate, Were fitted out Its er018411_;
and sent to the Gallipagos in smash 1
the Charlton. and Nest .Zealand vrhalers, islilc
it ...was feared they would capture. 114
?refit' ttleri iv 1:0J it, Pr..o liwilosed 1.4 toroval,-ei.
IttOre South Sea men.
'the liiciispeoible was at Tombay.
A packet is. arrived from Lisbon
the Moil 4.
be up to-Inors
THIRD EDIrrION• .
..........
PREL/MINOARIES Or Prat , • -
AGREED- UPON.

SUN-OFFICE, VFW o'COCI
ir
We are pow positively informed, of the —I ,
from PMiS of the Proceedings of thit I,9th, ilto,
following most important passage is re 2014
US from BUONAPARTIVS Speech :---
R.
1 have ACCEPTED the PRELIMJNA
of the ALLIES, fur the sake of the Emtnisl/
the Futhcrs and Children of the Fuson Poer4
N G N 1 10th th
WE
on
an advantagell. over Apra

Lord CASTLEREAGH sets off to-mono"?'
18 Per
ortmittiu has rapidly risen to 17 an

cent.

DUTCH PAPERS.
Brunswick. Oels, ..„_,...
. .
- [Furthei Lai-rat:is ] Are of
HAnyst, Dec. 16.—His Highness'
the Pu7-60$
Who yesterday arrived bercirior
England, departed this day on his route $
Brunswick, where his Highness will raise a 421.
of cavalry, for the purpose of joining with it ,
Prussian army. Yesterday and the day beferew
number of English troops landed at Se
beire'X
This evening we expect here a number of Put
who bad been prisoners pi' war in Englatutd fol.
Moue, DEC. 16.—We hasten to lay the
lowing Decree before the Public :
as risk/
Sr. cLottn NO. --) .4
Art. 1. From this date all payment* dues upon aceoo"pe
the Public Debt, &c.-of Holland, Illyria, the Hanseatifo.
partment, and the Department of La Lifr, , ,re,..?„?,:ileififer
I. Also the further discharge of all Civil And ga" '--•
ded.
'ions in the said Departments and lands Is suspen to
3. All that is dne from our Ministers in those DerZort
and lands, named in the Ist Article, for PAY 111;_th, ..,731, fOr
-bounties, reptsitiOns, Writ* /te. of whatever AID -- de
any service in the said Departments, swot ate be stiop,in
40 01,1
4. No exception to this Decree shall ‘134 allotted
account, without our, personal approbation. . . OOP
HAMILUM, Dike. 17.... Letters from Mil #
Mid 1/1
of the 15th inst. say, that many clescilers - .
ore that want
rived there from Wesel, 'who all rep ter was
begins to prevail in that tiqtrees., Deventeforin•
still in the hands of the French, but it was
hoed to
ed that the garrison was already iliwiliil,oo.
1200 min. In Arnheim, it was said Wit. 1.
.. O
gusin, was still occuied by the French,
,el",oe
garrison was said top be very inconsiderabl.eli; coo.
march of Prussian troops through Ainh'l_ll,oo.
tinned, and they had there a numerous giu

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