The Sun.
London, England, 1814-07-09 00:00:00

DUTCH MAIL.

ense bins before the Eternal, Tribunal, of having. ►
profesSed the frightful system of Atheism ; for if
he was an Atheist, it- was the fault of those infit-
mous Courtiers whose low. flatteries and wicked
seductions had taught him to believe that there
existed no Supernatural Power before whom he
was to humble himself. They made a god of hint ;
- and how could Napoleou possess Jbe humility of a
true Christian ? I pray to God to forgive him for
that excess of infatuation ; for I attest that he is.
innocent uf all the follies and extravagancies which
are said to be committed in his name.
I declare, that during the time I reigned over
France I employed all the ascendancy I had gained
leover the mind of Napoleon, in endeavouring to
restrain him from the numerous acts of injustice
s‘, hich his Ministers adVised
,him to commit. F
.often had the happiness to succeed. But could I
myself be secure against their odious intrigues ?
1 was then carried away by the torrent—my pre-
sence became troublesome to the Emperor—my
advice displeased him—and at last I the mis-
fortune and the disgrace of beholding mysclt for
ever separated from a man whom I loved most of
all others on earth; from one who was indebted to
me for his glory and his elevation. Oh ! perfidious
Courtiers, it is to you that France owes all hers
misfortunes. The establishment of a durable dy-
nasty was the pretext for that cruel affront which
I sulfated in being divorced ; but .experience suffi-
ciently proVes that it proceeded from other causes.
" I swear before my God,S'aud the Royal Family
of the Bourbons, that I am entilely innocent _of
the death of the Duke D'Eughien. France, per-
haps, is already acquainted with the effNts which ,
I made to save that unfo?sunate Prince ; they
were fruitless ; and that is one of the most afflict-
iug sorrows which I, shall carry with me to the
grave. I wish that posterity may do justice to
the pithy of my intentions. I venture to recom-
mend to the love of Frenchmen, try son Eugene,
. and the Queen Hortense. Since the dreadful dis-
grace of their .Protector, they should have been
every thing that was valuable to me, and the only
consolation of ray declining years ; but God did
not permit it : Eugene Napoleon stands with-
out reproach in. the eyes of his country and. the
Bourbons. Loaded with honours and benefits by
Napoleon, be was bound 6y gratitude to defend
his cause ; as a military man he could not aban-
don his colours- ; as a Viceroy, he could not
abandon the States entrusted to his -government.
Alt ! if ever valour and heroism were able to gain
for a warrior the esteem, of his country, what
Frenchman deserves it more than my Son !
He has even forgot all the great interests of
his glory, to direct his cares to the unhappy lot
of his mother. Twenty times hag' he moistened
with his tears my. dying eyelids ! 0 France,
France ! it is on the very bed of death that Jose-
phine supplicates thee to esteem and cherish her
Hortense and her Eugene. Although they were
hostile-to the cause of thy legitimate Kings, they
are still worthy of the Bourbons and of thee.
Ali I if my regards 'could ever again be turned
towards him whom I so much loved, whom Europe
has so-much reason to detest ; if my! voice, now al-
most extinguished, could reach his ears, what bitter
repentance would I not excite in his soul !—What
tears would 1 make him shed ! He,should be afflict-
ed by my just reproaches ; the veil of error should
no longer cover his eyes ; 1 would have pointed
out to him the fate of that interesting Princess'
to whom he had sacrificed me, and whom, in her
turn, he made the victim of his cursed ambition ;
I would have pointed out the fate of that dear
child, that King of Rome, for whom he was-pre-
paring such glorious destinies. These representa-
tions must have shaken his resolution, and melted
his heait: What do I say ? In his obscure re-
treat he suffers all the-tOrtures of so cruel a sepa-
ration—he experiences, in his turn, the miseries
which suffered when he cast me away from his
heart ! Is the loss of his crown his greatest mis-
fortune ? No ! no !—He is deprived of a wife-7-of
a son—whom lie ought to adore. I forgive him,
then, for all the agonies which he made me suffer,
either intentionally or unintentionally—for all the
calamities of which I have been personally the
victim. I pray that the august Marie Louise may
ask, on the part of her spouse, the pardon of those
Sovereigns ,whom he-offended, and particularly of
all France, which, until the moment of his fall,
was ignorant of a great part of his faults. A laew
day has begun to shine in France. Europe, 'at
last, behblds the accomplishment of what she
wished for during so many- years—a durable
Peace.
I implore God to protect the reign of the
Limn-bons, and render it eternal as their, memory.
Since he has permitted the dynasty of Napoleon
to be for ever destroyed, it cannot be his will that
France should be afflicted by new.dangers and new
misfortunes. Blood has been too long shed. The
Bourbons, as legitimate Sovereigns, resume their
imprescriptible rights. My latest breath is em-
ployed in prayers for their happiness, and the,pro-
sperity of their people.
" 1 have uniformly endeavoured to do some
good. In this; however, I claim no merit, fur I
folloa ed bat the feelings of nature and the dic-
tates of my heart, in assisting the distressed ;
if 1 fear daath, it is because it Must deprive me
oflbe sweetest pleasures of life, by 'separating pie
front my adopted children.
" I bequeath the enjoyment of my property to
the unfortunate families whose names will be given
by my Steward to my beloved Hostense. She,
in conjunction with my son, Eugene Napoleon, is
entrusted with the care of discharging my debt to
them. All the unhappy whom lam compelled to
abandon are sacred pledges which I confide t
their protection. 'J hey will cleVote themselves to
this object so dear to my heart. They have just
sworn it in my arms. 1 die happy I,
" The Empress JOSEPHINE."

SELF CRUCIFIXION.--The Pqmphleteer, lately
published, has exhibited to the world the most
marvellous instance of religious enthusiasm ever
Jet recorded. It is the narrative of a poor and
ignornt man deliberately inflicting on himself the
tortures of crucifixion, with a-cooluess, ingenuity,
and courage, almost unparalleled in the annals of
superstition. A Plate is prefixed to the Pamphlet,
representing the unhappy man, as he contrived to
exhibit himself to the view of the Venetian public.
We rife(' war Roadors t• flat detailed particulars,

We have just received French Papers of the 6th.
In a Sitting of :he Deputies on the preceding (lay; the
Ministers of the Crown, L'Abbe de "NIONTESQUIOU
and Count de BLACAS, were introduced,. and after
a long speech from the former, explanatory of his
MAJESTY'S views of the subject, the Piqict of o
Law respecting the• Liberty of the Press was pre-
sented to . the Chamber from - the Crown. It pro-
poses the exercise of .a previous censorship upon

all works of less then thirty leaves, (those above
that number to be published freely), and if two
Censors are of opinion that they are inflamatory
libels, or likely to disturb the public tranquillity,
&c. they, are to be suppressed. A Commission of
three Peers and three Deputies are to he annually
appointed as a Court of Appeal ; and, if they so
determine it, the order for suppressing a work
may be abrogated. Journals and periodical nub-
lications cannot appear without authority from
the KING. Clandestine Printing-houses shall be
destroyed, and' their Proprietors punished by a
fine of, 10,000 francs, and six months imprison-
ment. The law is to be re-considered at the end

o► three years.' .
The orhrr articles are more in detail, and there
is nothing else of consequence in these Papers.

We give some further Extracts from the French
Papers received vesterrlay, but have no room for
comment, further than to express OUT warmest ap-
probation of the motion relating to the Liberty of
the Press.

There is a curious Paper handing about, pur-
porting to be :JOSEPHINE'S Will. She appears :o
have been a very humane and good-natured old
Lady, who assumed the: Ernprese
the Abbess might have • been a more appropriate
title.

The Establishment of the Princess of WALES
came under consideration in the Commons last
night, and, agreeably to her Royal Highness's
request, as advised by FOLLY (vide Lord ELLEN-
BOROUGH'S Nomenclature), the annual allowance
was fi)ked at 35,000/. instead of 50,000/. as ori-
ginally proposed and agreed to. There is a little
vulgar proverb about throwing out a sprat to catch
aherring.—The PRINCESS herself did not think of
this—FoLLY did ; and the sprat, we apprehend, is
as large as any herring that may be caught by it.
The 0. P's.
,who spoke on this occasion, assert
that they, honest men ! never thought of money,
though they knew Parliament could interfere in no
other way; they only wanted a reLognition that "the
Princes; of WALES was under theprotectionof the
House of Commons"—the whole House ! ! Wehad
supposed that every subject in the Realm enjoyed
this protection, without pledges, but these Wise-
acres knew better; and, in truth. some assur-
ance of the kind is necessary, for those who have
Champions, like FOLLY, to take up their canse on
any ground, and make even an " indignity" of-
fered to them a ground for',Parliamentary inter-
ference, as FOLLY has declared he will do !

On Monday, the 27th of June, we stated, with
much regret, that the efforts of the traitorous
Junta (in'treland), at whose misdeeds we had
often expressed our indignation, had been too
successful in sowing disaffection over several dis-
tricts in that troubled and unhappy land," andwe
lament to observe, that the atrocious acts of
these leagued miscreants ham now • become so
fearfully and bloodily apparent, as to call for the
most vigorous measures „on the part of the
Government to repress and punish -them.—
The Irish Papers are _ stained with details
of outrages -and murders, which mark Ire-
land as the most depraved Country upon the
face of the Earth. The Savages of the wildest
Islands of the Southern Hemisphere, or the in-
terior of Africa, where the influence of a burn-
ing sun inflames the human passions to madness,
furnish no parallel to the barbarities and hellish
deeds perpetrated by these fiends. Are these the
fruits of Catholicism If so, Heaven defend us
from giving any further licence to its encroach-

zueuts.

• The rollowin 0. are Os cmiten" of
.e in GI
Dutch s 1 ii vh ich arrived this ;doming :--
baCss'an;l7r-I,rl‘Alc'rE. NI;o'sj111:11E, 2eBn7bz(tPrkr:l:;aAbTisvt::(l.);;leor GEo'fitgelzi,b:l:l-
- Other Plenipotentiaries of the Allied Powers
.11 ire 01:
lowed. On Sundae they all bad au audience of the King, t°
vrede
take leave-, after which they din,ed with his Majesty a, -
otter
ricsherg. I-1;s Majesty has given these Commissioners a letsr,
from 11. M. to Prince Cu RISTIAN and to the People of
nev)
way; also an Order to all persrms in oflice, natives of
mark', reneWing the Orders already given by leis Nfaies"tri
They have likewise charted themselves with par:tic:ill:lr Ori-:;•r;
front the Bing to tilt Commandants of the Fortrdsses
way.---(l,cytten Courant, o u4u •ti
f3RCSSELS, JULY N.lgociations between 'Vilers,
and Emiland will shortly conin,ence at G.ient, under the ''l[4"
diation of Russia. It is said no English troops ale bc a •
risoned there while they last. v /?..Pa
Lord LI-vrnacti and Gen. MURRAY, as also onr
tics, are returned from .Englaod. The former, it is 510"...3;
brought orders to Gen. VI.NCLNT to. eoutimue fonctiv
Governor of Belgium as far as the Maese.—(llaarkw
rant, yid!, 5.) tot
Majesty the E;uperor ALEXA NDE arrae • d at Itrat'
dam ou,the 3d.

COMMERCIAL FAILURES'

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We have fallen upon the most awfol t;''''
th"
ire s
commercial and pecuniary distress that fat ,
many yeais. have been known in this par',.
°be '
e't
kingdom. Public credit and confidenee'i, l°e 'la
shaken to their very foundation, by the fillijivc l'
sb '
the last. ten days, of some of the most nos—er e
C
Banking-houses in Lincolnshire, and i'Ll 8:111::'.
other counties connected with the firtits lila,: of
The failures at Boston, the immediate c'ku" is'
tot'
most severe f‘l?..-in. . s, are yet more cal
iia
felt in the. e*.° naive - ruin /brought on by tile° '
ed P:
district, to ~.kell the alarm they- occasion- 01
E
IT"
spread. The greats bankin,, e• establishEne'l I
i
BELLAIRS and Sun, in this
.town (Stainforw)' (n
lit't
up, after an hour and- a half's run, on M''''`l. 00
'
the utter amazement of , every body -9. t“ g, e.
day, , that of Messrs. ED JVARDS and 11.0treoicii,r..
Stamford and Uppingham, also stoPpedivq: it
The batik•of BELLAIRS, SON, and. AVELEY,4OSO'
cesfer, failed on Tuesday ; and that of fedaes"
BELLAIRS, SON, and-Co. at Derby, on 1;1,3 it:
day. Of course' great alarm has been excift' $lll
all these places--; but we do not know 0
other failures. istr e 59
-
In the quarter which gave birth to this'l oce
the extent of the visitation-, it is hoped, i 5,, IV,
tained.. Ail the' banks at Boston, eNeereitel
NARD'S and SHEATH'S, continued to pay 1:ito,
day morning (and have not at any monle",`,,yi '
ped payment) ; the run seemed for some kiepr.
have subsided there, and the most respects"„cli P.
sons and opulent traders in that town, as :,t.c,Pai
at Spalding, florncastle, Louth, Alford;,tiot)ll,s
come forward and expressed their conv`,`"e bs'frl 1
the stability' of the remaining banks:--1: iil'v
of Messrs. J OHNSON 'and EATON, of Ste!'ili:(7, pdv.t,
of JOHNSON, EATON, and EALAND, at 1,%;,•1:1;•'''31.34
continue...to pay ; and it is hoped the Poi," iit "".
-wl►i,ll (A.,,..vti.5, akfa-f.i. 4,t ..., e iii,.,
?fly... e.. 2..
~. ot;s'
cease. • WO'
- On Tuesday the following notification
tn''.'
lisped by halm-bill-in Stamford :----• . , fellc 1:1!
" Me.l.,srs.l3ellairs and Son desire most resl4",t M1;014'
form the Public, that they intend to l'eson'jiStail'
ments on or before Friday morning 'Ho"' bf"
i 1 1)11' l'
. Titevia?,,,l al y 5, 014." re( , f 0
This, which had in some-degree restf'„,- thc' •
composure, was unhappily succeeded '''' k .
lowing,:--- ctd 6'
--eq' f 0 if
" Messrs. lellairs anti Son having bad an e: 0.10"e',01(,-
appointment in not receiving a supply- °' ~ tlic"„ i','
cient to answer fel/demands upon them, thin!` „at% iti
bound, in equal justice to all their credit"lloo'
sume their payments in pursuance' of pfi"'
tention'ye.sterday.—Stamliffd,eth .1-x IY. i c fo or a'
Messrs. SHEATEt, of Boston, boi"e' ii, ra(
cipal banking concerns at Boston, .Line°,o,elll''s
by, and Wisbech, (with partners in the I
ccoaPo,:e,
towns) had agencies on th?ir 0" r hd ,r,
,
thirteen other towns ; and,: it is said • 7,2 fat
paper to the amount of 500,0001.---Lii'c°' . ,'1
......--- ,01/i, ,
- te '-i'lO
Yesterday morning Mr. COavisoar-,_telies
Messenger, arrived ip 'town with (631'3
1 s'e',,
Paris. - ••,•ro ~,
- -pi l`". cli.
A Mail from the Leeward Islands ‘
Itenn
eui•
terday mOrning. . The letters by it. f*',,,, ot oc
tl:,eir
the Islands were .healthy. The ginr!ed ,vitb
gence: from Europe has been recehl. 1
... . . . Ceti Co 4
greatest satisfaction. .
16 1, thee r",
Yesterday, soon after one o'c--- e"the •=i',,„el
DE LA CH ARTRE was introduced t 9 - - LSS- ,iiii
by LOrd CASI.* .1 4ef
REGE NT at Carlton-house
_.
....fi mial-401,,i
as Secretary of' State for rorelF, istaoc to'l
• conducted by Mr. CHESTER,. the Alsi „. (coin. p',
.of the Ceremonies, as the -A mbass
X.%taa,f-liititi.
Most Christian Majesty Louis i. leis 1.
cellen) e
cy had „a' private. audience t_cciee:,',scs
Highness, and was most graciously 1, ~e
./ t.
Earl BATE-11.111ST had an audience of r"
, ej
Pte..; ir..:ZT . . • ,5,6 Li 11,7,41,,
'Yesterday the Prince of I\l°(7sL'iteas' Ell//
IT4rsluai ELUCEPER visited the Pars 1 tip /,
pill;Nhce.ED.RuEliGeEoNfT.,.SvLxtEerl(.lla.rEyi.m.4 .*'"litcli
308e,4i
Lo,e•rr tareit
'Thursday the Princess CHAT' i, St. Jr;isli
Divine Service at the Chapel 13.61'.°.terea,,101
Palace. her Royal Highness e" / Grans
BRUDENEL'S private apartments:u6l.l„...- Tli.'l,olit'
GRAND Patti' i." TO HAMPTO:iI C('
~,,---,A: the d 019.,
the Duke of MoNTRosE, as Mot?' , at Pvl 1.,
r itertairr'nen'' ... 00 0,,
gave yesterday a grand 'n ~,:yreereeP, ;e:i lc
ton Court, to the- IlltistriniV-:-,- . Ili; ;',./L.'.). taye
England, whom he invited' fo st-Li:.tiog. 00'0014'
fine Stud of horses. Afterf insi) 'd..lsistiog ~,f.:,
, - ll•lirtY, C'Di LIS°, Li'
Royal Establishment, the -•
~d \Ver.- Ir. ,
Dukes of YottN, CANBEinCig% a': Atistridistl,,‘
BLUCHER, PLAToFF, thC 11.115513„id tile .ration.,
li°,!(
sian and other Ambassadrs, ant!
_I sation.,:rtot..o
guished military eharaet.,..:.s c r 't:tal, I'l, titol,
•bee in the cape .
~, to
.e 0
happily blended toget ,
Ilt nroeniL .1 o.e.
.of a sumptuous Earerta;fline r
,t, thy)," .
The ,
fele a Jr.
„Of DrurY- 0/1"6- ,i 0
tblytistioleccNasoibolne.l),
, a ~r ,
'Mr. SPRING, the fiaxlieepes , ,ve 1,. ,
ce • rear 013' ! oil" sfs.
tre, who is '' clear in his g- , i very 140
tentive servant of the public! II:, ~;1454e,11
:4:nose 1,,,,
uke,
audience, and among. others,
:.,
• the 'Duke of WEI,LING-I:vs•
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