The Sun.
London, England, 1814-02-01 00:00:00

LONDON,
TUESDAY, FEARUARY 1, 1814.

We have private intelligence from France
which exceeds all we . have yet received, in the
description .of the apathy in some parts, and the
dismay in otherS, ,with -which, the approaching
crisis is viewed. With respect to commercial
and pecuniary affairs, one of our letters represents
them 'as perfectly at a stand. There is no bu-
siness done in France beyond the mere retail
of necessaries, and as for loans of money, they
are altogether impracticable. The bankruptcy
with which the fievolutionary Government paid
the National. Debt, is considered as on the eve of
repetition, -under aggravated eircUrnstances, as the
Imperial Swindler is a greater adept in yillany
than even the Worthies of the Convent ion. And
besides, the public Creditors are more numerous
in Prance than on the fOrmer occasion, for all the
debt now due is internal ; whereas, at the time we
have alluded to, Genoa, Switzerland, and other
,States, were the chief holders of French Stock..

By an arrival yesterday from Passages, there
are private accounts from the Army two clays later
than Lord WELLINGTON'S dispatches. Upon the
authority of these it is mentioned, that a gene-ral
attack upon the Enemy's positions •Ivas. in con-
templation, and that every preparation ha% ing
been made, the execution of this important enter-
prize was only deferred in consequeuce of the un-
favourable state of the weather. The Provinces
on both sides of the Pyrenees are subject to
almost incessant rains during the winter months
when the humidity of the atmosphere attracted
by this lofty range of mountains, is not fixed
in icy fetters by the action of frost. s great
fall of wet had rendered the roads nearly impas-
sable since the beginning of
.January, and neces-
sarily confined ale operations •of bath armies.—
The late actions which the French Papers have
magnified into importance, in order to throw
a gleam of sunshine over the gloom of their Mas-
ter's affairs were nothing more than petty skir-
mishes. MINA, as we noticed yesterday, in con-
sequence of the superiority of force brought
to bear upon the point to which be had been
brought up with his Spaniards, viz. the right
of the sillied Force had fallen back after some
inconsiderable actions. Upon the 16t1 and
17th, we understand, there were several af-
fairs
.of posts. There are no accounts of the ar-
rival of the Duke d'Aziootmerde, but it is said
that, three French Officers, one of them of consi-
derable rank, bad, within a short period, aban-
doned the service of the Tyrant, and come over

tti Lord CVELLINGTON, in the hope, no doubt, of
meeting their Prince, and placing themselves under
his command.- If 'such is, the course pursued by
persons' actually in the service, and receiving the
pay of the Usurper, what .may we not ex-
pect from the lOvalty am! patriotism of the
naafis of- the French Nation, who are not
linked to him by ties of any kind, if we ex-
cept the bond of slavish impositions ? We re-
joice to hear from all quarters, that in so far as it,
has yet been possible to acertain the sentiment of
the People, it is decidedly in favour of .their exiled
Princes, and in hostility to the vile Interloper
who has stolen and disgraced their diadem, and
misgoverned and despoiled their Country. And
how can it be otioarwise ? The glare and glitter
ofeonquests,as well as the dread of new revolutions,
reconciled Frenchmen to. their fate. To obtain the
former, they submitted to every exaction, and to
avoid the latter, they shed more blood than it would
have•cost them. But now that there is a prospect of
a change being effected without any great convul-
Sion, and when it, is evident, beyond dispute, that
this change must lighten their burthens, and bet-
ter their condition internally and externally, there
can he no doubt but that the • people will be anxi-
ous to avail themselves of the favourable opportu'
pity. The gratification of national vanityooo, for
triumphs and conquests is at an end, and in the
hour of adversity • men . begin to look into the-
voids and losses of wealth, of friends, of child-
ren, at the expellee of which they had during
their intoxication* purchased thes'e empty enjoy-
ments. • The Ft2ench mother in vain looks to her
hearth for those dear images of their sire with
n hick it was once surrounded—they and their%
sire have nerishedin the deserts of Muscovy.—
In vain do the aged and infirm
,cast their dim
eyes around., in the hope of recognizing those,
who, in the course of • nature, would have
been the props of their declining yearstbey
have fallen in the bloody field of Leipsig. The
betrothed of the expectant bride, the stay of the
unprotected female,, the friend of the orphan
and the widoWs, all are swept away to fill the
last ranks of a merciless conscription, and to
bleed in the cause of a base-born, upstart, and a •
Usurper. Surely then it is not within, the
limits of possibility that what is left of the vigour
of French population can he attached to Buolla-•
PARTE—Let but the Allied Sovereigns of Europe
speak out, and maintain no longer a dOubtful and
disheartening silence. We do not ask them to
impose a Abnarch upon the nation, hilt we de-
sire that the free choice may
,be fairly offered—
then if they forgive the author of all their suffer-
ings, " may God forgive them roo."

A number Of-repints obtain. circulation at this
critical period—Such as deserve even the slightest
notice, will be found aMong our common para-
graphs, for which, as they are copied from various
sources, we arc not responsible any further than
as the mere rumours of the day. When I'Ve can
attach any weight tt, • these matters, we of
course give them a place in the record of those
opinions and facts for which the Conductor
of a Public Journal 'is 'held in some mea-
sure answerable to his Readers. To-day; not-
withstanding the multiplicity of flucttlating re,
Ports, we have none which •we think' of sue-,
ficient probability to Ivima'nt our dwelling
upon them as authentic or even decent specula-
tion The landing of the Duke DE BERRI on the
Norman shore
.appears to be a prem'ature.anti-
cipation of an revolt which is expected—there is
something envious in the 'letter which we.
have extracted from, a .Sunday Paper,, and which
evidently alludes to: similar anticipations on the.
opposite coast. There are some fabrications about
MURAT, of whose motions all that is known will
be found in THE Sus of yesterday.

Dispatches, we understand, were this morning
received at the Admiralty from Admiral TyLtut,
,at the Cape of -GOod Hope, but we do not bear
that they were of any importance.

All the Mails clue yesterday have arrived, and
all those due this morning have likewise arrived,
except the following, viz. Birmingham, Exeter,
and 'Taunton.

The PRINCE REGEwr Will hold a Privy Council,
&c. on Friday.
The Prince de Co DE rectivedletters yesterday
from the Duke de 13E1m.

There is a report of CAULAINCOURT having re-
ceived his passports, and proceeded; not to the
head-gnarters of the Allied Armies, but to Basle.

Yesterday the JUDGE ADVOCATE had a long
andience of the PRINCE REGENT at Carlton-
House, and took his Royal Highness's commands
upon the proceedings of several Courts Martial.
An Officer 'has arrived with, the packet from
Passages, who left the army two days subsequent
to the date of the dispatches. A skirmish had
taken place between the advanced posts, in which'
the Allies-had dispersed the enemy, but nothing
of cousequcne bad occurred.

MISCSLLANEOUS.
BREAD.—This day the LORD MAYOrt, after ih•

....sl)ecting the Dtreal-weighers' returns, ordered the
price of Bread for the ensuing week to rcurai,o.

with'ont alteration

A Gi.-:•.•letnan who left the Dutch coast on Tues-
day last, locutions, that Cologne had been, taken
posisessu of by the Allies. Bois-le-Due and
Maest-fieht are' not In their occupation,
.as alleged
in the Dutch papers; •He further states, that the
affairs of Government at the Hague are now ad-
ministered :i•Pgith more regularity than heretofore,
that the organization. of the army is better eon-
ducted, and that skeleton regiments, are formed
for 3(t;000 men.
.1t was 'asserted ' yesterday, .that the Spanish
Cortes had agreed to recognise King F•Ennt.,..Nl)'4
separate treaty with lin owArmt•rl: ; hut, we consider
this report as too incredible to merit attention.
Among the new on 'Change, too, it was said that
letters had been received from New York, coo-
firming the imposition of an Embargo, with the
concurrence of both HouSes of Congress.

The Dateli Papers contain a report of forty per-.
sons of distinction, Members 'of the Legislative
Body, or of the Senate, having been arrested by
order of guoNAvARTE.

On the. 16th the llead-iptarters of General ST•
PatHsi' was ',at
_Malmedy.
A Declaration, in the name of dip Allied Powers,
was delivered on the 2d of January, to the Swiss
Diet, containing an assurance that no Peace sha
be made with P).ance unless -ali the territories
which Switzerland has lost since 1798, be restor-
ed ; and that the ancient Constitution, and 'also
1 n dependence of the Cantons, shall he guaranteed
by the said Powers,. in any treaty which may he
concluded.. -

PARIS.—It is said, on the. best authprity, that'
• BuoNAPARTE removed almost every causefor
prehension from the inhabitants before his depar-
ture: From the bankers he took all their specie;
from the bakers all the flour lie wanted for his'
.army; and from every man who had a horse all
the necessary supplies for his cavalry ; so that the
state of Paris now is the most- tranquil possible:—
not a cairiage_to pc seen disturbing.the streets-4
but the inhabitants, who are left enjoying the Most
peaceful domestic comforts within their owri
houses, and as they are not permitted to hear
any intelligence, they have a right to conclude,
that ." no news is good news," and enjoy it ac-
cordingly.
CommerciatspeCulation,in all its blanches, has
been. uncommonly 'active in Liverpol since the
battle of Lefipsic, and ,espicially Since the passage
of the .Iq.hine by the Allied Powers. Theopeubig
of all the ports of the L'entinent, the prospect of
a speedy pacification with France, and the cow'
tinned hostiiiTy of Arncricrt; have caused a gradual
and -steady advance in almbst all articles of Wej
Indian and American produce.,

Air article from .1.411151;111; in the Dutch parrs,"
•
says " that' LOUIS B.UONAPARTE, 1.:E4.01•Ct
Switzerhtnd for Frilnce, delivered in a protest t°
the Government or the Canton of Vaud; on 11%4'
subject-of tire late events in 1.101.:an:1, containing
a reservation of his _elainis to -*e.crown of tiu(c
country, and requesting the above Government to
place it in their arehi%es, or to send it to the 'Lan-
darnman of Switzerland."

The-Empress Louisa, it is sah!, wished to cow
fer a pension of fifty pounds a-gear up`on'an oh!
infirm Bishop in poriibus, aged 84, but that she
could tint do it withont, writing for BuoNar.,ls
permission.
We understand rnemoriai lias bear
up from Hull, to the Lords of the treasury
vesting that measures may be adopted I;,r aseer"
wining the fitness of Hull to he included in the
number of those whence. trade may be allowed t4'
be carried on with the East Indies, under the lot°
act of, parliament fOr regulating the East int"
Company's •
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At Contester Quarter-S6sions, a bill' oF
(tic:uncut was found by the Grand 'July il!aiasf
Isaac Marsden,. as printer and publisher of a poel.„'s
called " The Guild," for a libel on WiLet‘F)
SMITH, Eig. one of the Alagistrates for the P.
rough .—At the same Sessions, a bill ,of iudirt;
meat was also found by, the Grand Jury
'Mr. John Badge, for a libel and misdemean
sending to the present Mayor a gibbet itteosed
the case which should have contained the nric'.
belonging to the Curpor,ition. Both indict ne°.
are removed by. certiorari into the Court of Kiog
Bench, for trial at the next Clachnorkl
sizes.—(Cambridge Chronicle).
Dr. 11. .011U3LEY EMERY,. Surgeon to tVI
Forces, is appointed from the British
Staff in the Peninsula, to be Senior Staff Sure'''•
it Flynt nu t
Dr. DL!NII,4,IIK; or the'Ruyal Hospital at 11"5;
far, is appointed PhySician to the Fleet, under ti`e
command of Sir ALEXANLER ColfilANu, or'
American stivion.
On Friday week, J. HAGGER, game-keeper
T-nos,..TuousteL, Dig. of Riddlesworth,
folk, killed an eagle, which is, in length, frofn tt;
point of the beak to tbe end of the tail, three,fee,,
the breadth, when the wings are extended, is
ven feet one inch, and it weighs.9ll). •
Iwo Ostriches were landed on Tuesdiiv at Fort,
mouth from the Perseus. They Were ;ff 0',;•
from the parbary coast by Captain
The finest bird stands eight feet bit*-
One night, during the late froSt, a 'chic:l'e
board the Joseph and Ann, of Boston, lying to (`::1
Thames, and in the act of rtimma,zing a box ,f
clothes belonging to is 1:1(1 in the ship, onothcf:;,
the crew, a youth, called Irish .le:wily, being
eel with a cutlass, made a push at' the rolibef
the dark, and which passed thrciugh
Verdict, Justifiable Homicide.
Sunday sennight as two men were drivill?"o
'number of pigs over tie Ouse, at I.lowdendike, t:rd r
ice proved weak, and broke, and 3'
drowned. Howdendikc and 11t.11 Ferry hat' r'ijr
been frozen over, to admit a passage across,
26 years before. • •
During the last few days, a great nuttu'e::,,
Golden Maids were, picked Ud on Brighton Ye:' qtr
.and sold at good prices., They; goat on shore.(l'li,e
blind, a state to which they are reduced I"?..f.,fcr
snow; and it is • a fact well known, that'
heavy falls, these fish arc always thus fnaliu
great abundance.
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