The Sun.
London, England, 1809-12-16 00:00:00

THEI PERSIIIN EMBASSY.

'His Excellency (the Persian Ambassador received
a complimentary visit from his:l.Ljesty's Ministers
on -Wednesday. •
According to the etiquette of the Persian co,irt,
his 'Excellency cannot go out, or chew himself in
he-,has been• introduced to' the King,
wHich ceremony will take plaue.on-Wednesday next-,
when his Excellency will make his formal entry at
the Quern', Palace with Eastern splendour. , His
Excellency's mission, at such a time as the present,
;oust be considered of infinite importance. It is .the
fullest proof of 'the triumph of British reEtitude .and
British interests -over the -machinations
.of Buona-
parte, in the very place, where. he took particular
pains', and at first, ..with some. appearance of suc-
cess,. to form a nursery of .political :intrigue and mi,
liiary t7ower for the destruction of the. British empire'
in India.
. .
There are few things the
.intelligence of which
wouligive more pain to Buonaparte, than• that such
an Entnaisy should be sent to our gracious Sovereign,
in preference to him. In aping his " great prede-
cessors," :as be calls them, upon the Throne of
France, he no doubt flatttred himsellthat he, like
Louis XlVth, in the plenitude of Ins power,-and be-
fore the brilliant and overbearing, conquest with
which his reign commenced was checked by a
liam and a Marlborough, would have seen an Am-
hissador come spontaneously from this same C.,urt
of Persia, to prostrate himself before his great-
, pess, and to compliment him upon .his victories.
How great rousube the mortification of the " Con-
queror," tn.find that such an Ambassador is sent, not
to 'do homage to his dazzling crimes, but to pay re.
speti•to the: unimposing virtues "of: George 111.
—bat the Mortification- of Buonaparte must be still
• greater, as this Embassy...must' prove to. him how
vain and„impraiSticable his schemes for the destruct.
tion of ourships,- colenieS,-and commerce, are con-
sidered by those whose simplicity he wished to.de-
hide into a -cq-oper,ation and instrumentality in the
exectition of his designs. Tile .Most simple of men
camderire :from a plain °fad:. declui-t ions which are
sufficient to overturn the most • artful and imposing
representations of diplbmatie uing: We believe it
was the very same King of Pepiiathat had.been seunced
by a French Ambassador to send the complimentary
nlishion to Louis XIV.'Who said to the Frenchman,
" You tell tne your Master has conquered all Hol-
land, and: .destroyed its wealth and power; but how
does_ it haippett, notwithstanding, that note --ships
arrive every year at Ormus, ,from the sin„ie port of
Amsterdam, than have arlived.from the WholeErm=
pirAt the great Monarch, your *Master, since the
discovery of the passage to the Eastern-seas?"' This
observation was unanswerable ; and by a similar
, comparison between the trade of 'Britain and of
France .(it any French trade there is) to'the Persian
Gulph. at' the ' present ntoMent, the present Sove-
reign of Persia.could, at once see the falsehood and
the'rniSchievous desigir7of the artful representations
which the Senator Doulcet ,Pontecoulant, and Ge-
. neral Gardanne, certainly did not fail to make of
the tiiurnpha of Buonaparte over Britain, and the
advantages the Persian Empire mustoderive front cul-
tivating the friendship of the Great-- Nmlpoleon.

THE LAWYEit DISAPPOINTED OF tii,s
days ago a person of ,genteel .appearance came to the
house of Mr Trueman, innkeeper, in Gateshead,
where. he announced his intention of staying a "short
time, and delitered into the. landlord's possession a
trunk of 44 valuable property." fluting his stay he
represented himself as,a gentleman of the long 'robe,
and mentioned several charaaers, of the profession
in the neighboullti;Oil, with whonshe preteUtied to
be intimately acquainted ; but unfortunately for him, •
as the servant was making his'bed one morning, she
found a pick-lock, which naturally created suspicion,
and pot the persons of the house on their guard.-
On Wednesday last he gave notice of hii intention
to depart early next morning, discharged his bill
with the greatest promptness and received-possession
of his trunk. In the evening he was observed by
the servant to go easily up stairs and enter a room
where there was much property, and on- the girl as-
cending to discover what 'he wascabont, she found
the door locked. Mrs. T. however, on- being in-
'formed, found ineans,in enter the room, ,v..,hen the 1
gentleman lawyer was discovered in his proper avo-
cation, 'viz. that of attempting to enter a large chest,
where there was considerable property. What is
much to be lamented,' in the confusion he effeaed
his eseape, without a • hat, and in, slippers, leaving
behind him a pair ocboots, and 'his valuable trunk,
which was found to *contain part of an old sack and
two linken pantiles.
A most daring attempt at ,robbery was made on
the eveninvof Wednesday se'nnight, at CoOtehill,
'in the county of Cavan., As Mr. Coote; Mr. W.
Lees; - iqua two other Gentlemen were sitting after
dinner in the parlour, they were suddenly alarmed
by the discharge Of-a pistol, which lodged a ball in
the ceiling, and was immediately followed by the
entry of two armed ruffians, with blacked faces. The
Gentlemen : sprung uii, and Mr. Lees, by- a well-
.
aimed blow, brought one of the ruffians to the floor.
The other, 'rushing forward with a drawn sword to
assist his c.,:mpanion,"was treated in the same man-
ner, and both of them being secured, were sent oft
t next morning, under a guard, to the county 'gaol. It
appears that they had information of a large sum of
money which one of the company had received that
morning, and hyped, by a sudden effort, to make it
their plunder. •
A young lady, .of the name of. Trediway, was
burnt in so shocking a manner on Wednesday even-
ing, in Berwick-street, that she died yesterday, after
lingering 48 hours, in' excruciating agony. The
catastrophe was occasioned .by Miss T. setting'fire
to her bed-furniture while reading, and in her anxiety
• to extinguish the flames she Tell a victim. Her aunt
was the first person who came to her assistance,
who was also burnt in so bad a rmanner as to tender
her insensible.
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Au infuriated bullock committed great outrages
yesterday. morning in Cow-Cross. He had originally
been over-driven, and he made an attack on two
genteel wo►nen, one of whom was tossed several
feet dr the ground, and dangerously injured by the
fall. The other lady escaped the fury of the ani-
mal by prostrating herself on the stones. The ani-
mal was, at-lengih penned in Smithfield.